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A HIVE Team StoryThe HIVE Team (and the Teen Titans) In…
"Crossed Paths"
Chapter Three
Titans Tower: Main Room
Thankfully they were all bunched up when the police arrived. Krystal was able to easily teleport the group out of there. Gizmo rubbed his bald head.
Gizmo: Someone want to tell me what the hell that was all about?
Krystal: Well, I've got the ability to teleport. I do this by…
Red X: HE MEANS…why the police tried to arrest us.
Krystal shrugged. Well, she was all set to tell them how it worked, but they made her stop. Sighing, Red X went on.
Red X: …I think we're in some sort of alternate universe. A universe where WE are the bad guys.
Inertia: That's something I'd expect Krystal to say…
Krystal: It's something I wanted to say, Double D.
Inertia: …I think she's talking to you.
Blackfire rolled her eyes. Stupid boob jokes…she hated boob jokes.
Blackfire: Smart ass. …and I'm bigger then that.
Krystal: …
Krystal burst out laughing.
Krystal: I get it! Double D! That's great! I love boob jokes!
Mammoth: You love boobs period…
Krystal: Dollar sign, ampersand, semi colon asterisk.
Mammoth: The hell was that?
Krystal: Swearing in long hand.
Red X smacked her forehead.
Red X: Is no one else going to think about the moral implications of what I just said?!
Gizmo: How do you know we're in another universe? It could be global mind control.
Yeah, that sounds so much more plausible, doesn't it?
Red X: That girl in the helmet. It's ME under there. …and she's missing an eye.
Krystal: Hmm…eye patches are the sign of evil twins…but did she have a goatee?
Subway Hide-out: Titan Universe
Krystal (the other one) was jumping up and down excitedly in front of Blackfire (also the other one).
Krystal: I saw it! I was buying candy at Ms Goverstein's store!
Ms Goverstein was a somewhat senile old woman that never seemed to realize that her best customer (Krystal) was killing her other customers and using their money to buy candy. Blackfire remained on the couch, sprawled out and flipping channels on TV.
Blackfire: (dull) You don't say.
Krystal: I DO say! I say do I do! I saw US fighting!
Blackfire: …what, like in the future?
Krystal: Nah, nah…like alternate universe. See, you was wearing different clothes and I wasn't vaporizing stuff.
Blackfire raised an eyebrow, sitting up. Krystal was prone to leaps of logic…not hallucinations.
Blackfire: Are you sure?
Krystal: Absolutely positively affirminatorily yesitudily. Saw it with me own three eyes, but lost the third on the way home. And Mammoth was there and Gizmo and some fast guy and Jinx and Red X. OH! And Jinx had a ponytail and Red X had boobies.
Blackfire frowned, rubbing her chin.
Blackfire: …boobies, eh? Hmm…I had heard Red X was a woman…but the Titans busted her knee. She couldn't be out and about yet.
Krystal: Well, they seem to be all…super heroish. Let's go bust some heads until they show up…THEN KILL THEM BIG AND GOOD!
Krystal shrieked with maniacal laughter. Blackfire shoved a cookie into her mouth.
Blackfire: Shush, honey.
Krystal: (mouthful) Mmm…peanut butter chips…
That taken care of, Blackfire sat back to think. An imposter, huh? That wouldn't do at all. Blackfire had an image to uphold, after all. She couldn't let her bitch of a sister think she had gone soft. Obviously she was unaware that Starfire wasn't around. In any case, Blackfire wouldn't stand for her image being tainted…and she had a feeling others wouldn't either. Digging into her pocket, she pulled out a HIVE communicator. Krystal had demanded to become back-up members about three weeks prior. She opened it up and hit some buttons.
Blackfire: Jinx? It's Blackfire. Oh, good, good, yourself? That's nice. Look, I've got some very interesting news.
HIVE Tower: Main Room
A huge black bird formed in the middle of the room before dispersing, allowing the Titans to be freed from it. Raven sighed.
Raven: Shade…you don't try to fight the cops.
Shade: I didn't…
Raven: You were going to. I know you.
Beast Boy was close to tearing his hair out.
Beast Boy: DUDE! What the f is going on? First Aqualad has gone all evil…
Starfire: Or is being mind controlled.
Beast Boy gave her a look before continuing.
Beast Boy: OR is being mind controlled…then the people freak out when they get saved by us…now the cops are after us? What the hell, man?!
Terra: Are we, like, in another universe or something?
Shade snorted.
Shade: That's so stupid…
Robin: That's exactly what's going on.
Terra: Well, I was only…wait, what?! It is?!
Raven: …they were afraid of us. Mortally afraid. I've never felt so much terror from a group of people. Most of them were praying the bridge finished them off before we could reach them. …as Sci-fi as it sounds, I have to agree with Robin.
Beast Boy: Oh, good one Cy!
Cyborg: What? It wasn't MY fault!
All the Titans turned to face him, glaring daggers. He rubbed the back of his head.
Cyborg: Oh…yeah, it was, wasn't it? …uh…I'll work on fixing it.
Starfire: Please do. I would be most thrilled to be gone before the occupants of this tower return.
Titan H.Q.: Main Room
Starfire and Robin were making out on the couch (the evil ones, obviously…no, not the evil couch, the evil Starfire and Robin). As they did, Starfire's leg pressed the button for the TV remote, clicking it on.
Reporter: And in a strange turn of events, the murderous teen group known as the Teen Titans defeated Aqualad as he attempted to destroy a crowded bridge…
Starfire froze in mid-kiss, her tongue half out of her mouth.
Starfire: …what did she just say?
Getting off each other, the pair turned their attention to the television set.
Reporter: Witnesses say that not only did the usually psychopathic villains drive Aqualad and his squids away, but they were instrumental in getting everyone off the bridge and holding it up long enough for the rescue to be implemented.
Robin: STAR! That's my hand!
Starfire let go of what she had started to crush in her rage, moving to something else. Well, now they had to get up to turn the TV off. The remote was in pieces.
Rescued Woman: I couldn't believe my eyes. The red haired one gave me my son back without so much as a threat. In fact, she seemed hurt by the fact I was afraid of her. Like I had hurt her feelings or something.
Starfire: H…hurt my…hurt my FEELINGS?! You take that back this instant!
Robin: Star, it's a television set…
Starfire: I AM VENTING, ROBIN!
…right…Robin decided to let her vent without his comments.
Starfire: Robin…we will find these imposters…and we will break them into pieces.
Robin: Um…you got it.
Starfire: How dare…how dare they…?
She was really upset…and he doubted the others would take it well either.
END PART THREE
