Chapter 2: Powerful
He waddled towards the stairs, not knowing if it was more embarrassing to shift back and have to talk to her as a human or her witnessing the inevitable falling down the stairs he would do while trying to waddle them. He decided to take the route that would only hurt his pride as opposed to both his pride and himself. He quickly formed back into a human. With a monotone voice, and a shocked look in her eyes, Raven piped up.
"I don't understand what you and Kori have against clothes." She mumbled while looking away, a little hint of red beginning to flush her cheeks. She had seen him like this plenty of times. Both of her teammates seemed to be allergic to clothes a lot of the time. Dick seems to care a lot more now that Kori happens to be his girlfriend. There has been a significant decrease in simply forgoing a towel after a shower because she preferred "air drying". Garfield was never really the one to walk about naked, but when you live with someone for years, and they have a tendency to forget to throw on pajamas or a uniform before joining you for breakfast it tends to stop phasing you. This time, however, she felt something inside her. Something she couldn't explain. Something powerful that was already going to throw her off.
Garfield looked down and suddenly realized that he was completely naked. Not thinking about the fact that he hadn't put on his uniform under the clothes he had worn to explore the city that afternoon once he went through his last comic book. He blushed deeply, thankful that she still wasn't looking, though Raven could feel the embarrassment oozing off of him. She had never felt that whenever he would do that before, which made her curious. He always seemed like he was completely fine with being naked up until about 2 months ago. After that, for some reason, he was guaranteed to not come out without sweats and a t-shirt on at the least. She had figured that Robin had talked to him about it, but she didn't know why that would be causing him to feel so embarrassed.
"He quickly morphed into a rabbit and hopped down the stairs. Hoping to make it to the elevator before she could get there so they weren't trapped in that tiny metal box after that had just happened. He jumped up and grabbed the elevator button, praying that she wouldn't make it down, but knowing that she would. The elevator betrayed him and appeared just as Raven got to the bottom of the stairs, allowing her to walk right in and stand next to her rabbit teammate.
"What was that about with the penguin?" She asked, looking down at Garfield. Her voice remained in one pitch and her face stony, but her eyes gave away that she still found it a little funny.
"I have no clue." The bunny answered after some deliberation. The empath could tell that he wasn't being one hundred percent honest with her and that really bothered her. She had no idea why, however. Recently, his powers had been going haywire. He had no idea what was doing it, but he knew he needed to control it. Random transformations were not going to be something that he would enjoy or that should be happening.
"Maybe you should go to the med-bay." Raven stated. She looked straight ahead. The metal was somehow fascinating her. Anything to keep from looking down at her teammate yet. "I'm sure that it's something that I can get under control." He said stubbornly. Raven didn't feel like arguing with the young shapeshifter. They went their separate ways once they reached their rooms at the end of the hall. Right across from each other. Raven slipped past the door and quickly shut it, smiling to herself. She then felt anger bubble up inside of her. Slowly trying to stomp out the pink emotion that had overtaken herself, no matter how powerful it seemed. She could feel things being lifted and about to shatter, turning her room into a war zone at any moment. She quickly climbed onto her bed, crossed her legs, and whispered 3 words. "Azarath, Metrion, Zinthos." She repeated time and time again trying to find her center. once she couldn't, she realized that this was going to have to be solved with a trip into Nevermore. The place that Raven tried to avoid as much as possible. She was to enter her own mind and she didn't know for sure what she was going to find.