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"NIGHTMARE" - MOTHER MAE-EYE IS ON THE LOOSE AND IT'S UP TO THE TITANS TO STOP HER, BUT THEIR TASK PROVES DIFFICULT WHEN THEIR WORST NIGHTMARES COME TO LIFE.
"NIGHTMARE"
The night sky covered Jump City like a blanket printed with stars. Beast Boy pulled his blanket around him tighter as he slept peacefully. His blue curtains flapped madly due to the night breeze and a dark figure hovered by his bed side with glowing pink eyes. The figure waved it's hand making tiny sparkles appear that looked like glitter. These sparkles engulfed the figures form, turning it into a yellow cloud of dust which made it's way inside Beast Boy's ear.
Beast Boy laughed gleefully as Cyborg bowed down before him and presented a dinner platter topped with tofu hotdogs.
Cyborg, who was dressed as a servant with a green patched up shirt, looked up at Beast Boy. "Will that be all your majesty?"
Beast Boy waved his hand. "Yes, that will be all servant," Beast Boy laughed again and fingered the gold crown on his head. "It's good to be king."
Beast Boy sighed with content and picked up his feet and rested them on the table. He was dressed in a black and purple garb which matched his red cape that fell to the floor due to it's length. Beast Boy fingered the many necklaces hanging from his neck, drawing circles around the many gems and diamonds.
"This bores me," he droned. He snapped his fingers. "Where is my entertainment?"
Suddenly Robin and Starfire ran into the room, bowing before him. Starfire was dressed in her regular style of uniform but only it was green and she had black and green painted marks on her cheeks. Robin was dressed as Cyborg was with a green patched up shirt only he had black pants and his regular steel-toed boots with his black mask present on his face.
"Entertain me," Beast Boy ordered. "Fight."
Robin and Starfire looked at each other and quickly jumped away, creating a distance between them. Starfire's eyes and hands began to glow green. Robin looked around for a weapon. He spotted a sphere on the wall. He quickly grabbed it, kicking off the pointy side of the weapon and making himself a makeshift bo-staff. With a roar Robin launched himself at Starfire and she shot up into the sky to dodge him. While the two of them battled someone tapped Beast Boy's shoulder. He turned his head and smiled.
"Raven! Finally, I thought you would keep me waiting all day."
"And why would I do that my handsome king?" she said seductively as she sat besides him, running her fingers through his hair and placing a soft kiss on his cheek.
Beast Boy sighed with delight and closed his eyes. "Life is sweet. Isn't it, Raven?... Raven?" Beast Boy opened his eyes to see that everyone was gone from his throne room. He suddenly felt a chill and he rubbed his arm. "Where is everyone?"
There was a sudden crack in the wall and Beast Boy rose a brow as the crack grew until the wall broke down into tiny pieces causing dust to rise into the air.
Beast Boy's eyes flew open in shock.
An army of evil robot monkeys marched their way into Beast Boy's throne room. Beast Boy shrieked in fear and turned around, ready to make a run for it, only to realize he was surrounded. One monkey approached Beast Boy, holding a box in it's hands.
Beast Boy fell to his knees, his hands folded as he pleaded with evil robot. "Please... no... anything but that..."
The evil robot monkey opened the box to reveal a chicken leg.
Beast Boy screamed in fear as the monkey aimed the piece of meat at his mouth.
Beast Boy woke up with a jolt panting. He clutched his bed sheets and looked around nervously as if wanting to confirm his safety. He sighed and fell back onto his bed.
"What a weird nightmare. I'll never be able to get back to sleep now."
Two seconds later since after Beast Boy said those words he fell back asleep snoring loudly and drooling.
-
The sun shined brightly above Titans tower and one by one each Titan walked into the common room to greet the new day. Beast Boy was the last to awaken and when he did he went straight to the couch. He yawned and stretched out. The others couldn't help but notice the dark circles under his eyes.
"Hey, Beast Boy," began Cyborg. "Are you okay man? You seem tired."
"Yes. You appear to have your eyes bagged." said Starfire.
"That's bags under your eyes, Starfire." corrected Raven before she blew on her morning tea.
"I'm alright guys," Beast Boy assured them. "I just didn't sleep well last night. I kept having this bad dream and--"
The alarm began to ring loudly, cutting off the rest of Beast Boy's sentence.
Robin ran to the computer. "Trouble!"
The Titans got to the scene of the crime within minutes. They all got into battle positions; Robin had a handful of birdarangs in his hand, Starfire was hovering by his side with starbolts shining brightly, Cyborg had his sonic cannon ready, Raven floated by his side with her eyes glowing and Beast Boy was in the form of a tiger.
Mother Mae-eye laughed loudly, her hands on her stomach. She ceased with her laughing to glare at the Titans. "You Titan brats won't spoil my plans this time," she hissed, clutching her magical spoon. "This time I have a secret weapon."
"We'll see about that," Robin growled. "Titans, go!"
The team didn't need to be told twice and they sprung into action, charging at Mother Mae-eye. She laughed like a witch and spun her spoon around, engulfing herself in a yellow sparkle and disappearing. The Titans stopped in their tracks, their eyes darting all around them.
"Oh man," Cyborg groaned. "Where'd she go?"
"I think we have bigger problems." droned Raven as she pointed ahead of them.
Beast Boy screamed and pulled at his hair. "Evil robot monkeys!"
Robin cast a skeptical glace at Beast Boy before turning his head towards the army approaching him and his team. "I don't care what these things are," Robin said. "Titans, g--oof!"
One monkey tackled Robin to the ground before he could say another word.
Starfire gasped, her eyes filled with worry. "Robin!"
The monkey that tackled Robin pulled out a chicken leg and shoved it into Robin's mouth, pushing it up and down as if it was brushing Robin's teeth.
A swarm of monkey's jumped on the Titan boys trying to force feed them chicken. Beast Boy shrieked and ran away, trying to avoid the meat while Cyborg embraced it with open arms. Robin was merely trying to fight the swarm off. From the sky Raven and Starfire watched the whole scene.
Raven rolled her eyes. "This is pointless."
Using her powers Raven snatched up all of the robot monkeys and ripped them to shreds. When she was done a pile of broken robot monkeys laid in the street, but it didn't stay that way for long. The robot monkeys slowly began to disintegrate into a pile of yellow dust that was similar to sand. Robin kneeled down to the pile of yellow dust and picked up some of it in his hand, narrowing his eyes.
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The reporters surrounded him and he became surrounded by paparazzi who asked him numerous questions and snapped photos of him. Cyborg flexed his human arm and grinned out at the crowd.
"Cyborg! Cyborg!" called one reporter. "What do you plan to do now that you've won five gold medals?"
Cyborg, who was a normal human wearing a blue and white track suit, smirked proudly. "I think I'll just like to settle down with my beautiful girlfriend. Bumblebee," he extended his hand towards a shocked Bumblebee who stood silently to the side out of view from the cameras. "Won't you join me here on stage?"
Bumblebee smiled and shyly walked on stage to stand by her boyfriend's side. She kissed his cheek and held his hand.
"Can we take a picture for the front page, Cyborg?" asked one reporter with a camera in hand.
"Of course," Cyborg smiled. "Just be sure to catch my good side."
The reporters laughed and raised their cameras, ready to take the photo. Cyborg and Bumblebee posed fro the cameras. Before the reporters could make the shot a huge figure loomed over the stage casting it's shadow over the crowd.
Cyborg turned his head and gasped in horror.
Standing before him with the height that could rival a dinosaur was a over grown tofu waffle with stick arms and white gloves. It had stick legs and clown shoes that were red. Although it didn't have a face Cyborg could tell the waffle was looking at his direction. The tofu waffle reached down it's hand and snatched up Bumblebee.
"Bumblebee!" Cyborg cried, desperately trying to reach her in time before she could be carried away. Before he could get to her the tofu waffle swatted him away as if he was a fly. The hit sent him flying into a fruit cart. Cyborg clutched his throbbing head. He could hear someone screaming his name over and over again.
"Cyborg! Cyborg!" Robin banged on Cyborg's door.
Cyborg sat up abruptly, looking down at his desk. He didn't realize he fell asleep until just now. Cyborg quickly went to his door and opened it to see Robin standing there.
Robin's eyes narrowed. "It's Mother Mae-eye."
Nothing else needed to be said before the Titans were out the door and heading towards the crime scene. Raven, Beast Boy and Starfire took the sky while Robin and Cyborg rode their vehicles.
"What do you suppose Mother Mae-eye is after this time?" Starfire asked as she flew in the middle of Cyborg's car and Robin's motorcycle.
"I don't know, Starfire," Robin said grimly. "But this is her second attack in two days."
The Titans came to a stop and took a look at their surroundings. Cars were broken and windows were nothing more but shattered glass.
Beast Boy shifted back to human form. "Hey guys, look at this!" he yelled, pointing at a large footprint in the ground. "What do you think did this?"
"My guess would be that." Raven said as she looked towards the sky.
Beast Boy gasped in delight. "It's my dream come true!"
"And it's my nightmare." Cyborg muttered as he looked at the giant tofu waffle that was terrorizing the streets of Jump City.
Using it's hand, the tofu waffle smacked a helicopter that was flying around it towards the ground.
"Titans, go!" Robin bellowed.
Starfire was the first to respond. She quickly flew towards the falling helicopter and caught it in her hands. Using her super strength she was able to bring the helicopter down safely while the others fought the enemy. The giant breakfast easily slapped Robin, Raven and Cyborg away but Beast Boy was a different story. The changeling changed into a T-Rex and took a bite out of crime. Literally. Using his jaws Beast Boy bit onto the waffle and yanked off a large piece of it's body. No sooner than he did that the broken body of the waffle dissolved into a giant pile of yellow dust. Beast Boy quickly switched to human form and wiped his tongue.
"EWW!" he stomped his feet as if he was having a temper tantrum. "That was the worst tofu waffle ever!"
Robin kneeled down before the pile of yellow dust and took out a sample tube.
"Robin?" Cyborg questioned. "What are you doing?"
"I'm taking a sample," Robin replied. "I have a feeling that this stuff matches the sample I took from yesterday's crime scene."
"So you think they're connected?"
"That's my guess, but I want to be sure."
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The living room of Titans Tower was filled with complete silence as the main computer began to analyze the two samples of dust found at both crime scenes. Robin and Cyborg watched the scene with focused eyes, their attention completely set on their work. The other occupants in the living room at this moment included Starfire who was giggling softly at Beast Boy's antics while he played with Silkie in the form of a kitten. The two were playfully battling it out for a ball of yarn, so far Silkie was the successful one. The computer screen began to blink blue, a sign that the two samples were one of a kind.
"Alright, so we know that this stuff is the same," Cyborg said. "But the scan confirmed it's not from any Earth elements. So just what is this stuff anyways?"
"Magic." Raven droned as she walked into the room holding a book which was tucked between her arm and her chest.
"That explains why our enemies were so... imaginative," Robin said. "But it still doesn't help us figure out where it came from."
"Not necessarily," Raven said as she opened the book in her hand. "I've looked around through some of my books that have different magic powders listed. There's a good chance I can find out where this stuff comes from and it's effects."
"Good luck with that," Beast Boy said after shifting to human form. "This powder just popped up like how those evil robot monkeys popped out from nowhere in my nightmare."
Robin glazed over at Beast Boy. "What did you just say?"
"What, about my nightmare?" Beast Boy asked. Robin nodded his head yes. "Well, I've seen those things before in my dreams. They always seem to interrupt right when Ra--" Beast Boy stopped himself from saying anymore and his cheeks took the color of a cherry hue.
"Come to think of it," Cyborg began, putting a hand to his chin in thought. "I've seen that giant waffle we fought today in my nightmare too."
"So you two saw those things in your dreams and you're only letting us know now?" Raven asked darkly. Cyborg and Beast Boy chuckled nervously. Raven slapped her forehead. "Idiots."
"That's it!"
The Titans cast confused glances towards Robin.
"What is 'it', Robin?" Starfire asked.
"The secret weapon Mother Mae-eye told us about," Robin explained. "It must be the powder. She's using it to get inside our dreams and bring our nightmares to life."
"Is that even possible?" Beast Boy asked.
"I believe Robin's assumption is correct," said Starfire. "Mother Mae-eye's powers have shown no bounds."
"Yeah," said Cyborg in agreement. "Like that time she turned the tower into a giant ginger bread house and locked Star in a fairytale book."
"But how do we stop her when she's using our dreams against us?" asked Starfire.
"Easy," Raven said with a tiny smirk. "We use a spell."
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The Titans were considerably quiet as they slowly stepped inside Raven's room. The empath had allowed them into her room with a promise that they wouldn't touch anything at all. They all agreed and as they were walking into Raven's room the door shut behind Cyborg, locking Beast Boy out who was standing behind the metal man.
Beast Boy huffed. "Fine! Have your top secret meeting without me, I don't care. I'm gonna go play video games." With his head held high Beast Boy walked away.
"That wasn't very nice, Raven." Cyborg said with a slight chuckle.
"Last time he was in my room he broke my mirror," Raven said absently as she ran her index finger along the spines of her books. "You should he grateful that I even allowed you in here. Found it." she said as she pulled out a book from the shelf. Raven opened the book and flipped through the pages until finding the one page she was looking for. She presented the open page to her teammates. "This page list the spell known as re'ver'i. It's used to pull someone into their deepest nightmare."
"I see," Starfire said in understanding. "Mother Mae-eye will be drawn to the nightmare."
Raven nodded. "But that's not all. Re'ver'i gives the user a conscious state of mind. The user will be able to fight their nightmare willingly."
"Which means they'll be able to fight Mother Mae-eye." Cyborg concluded.
Raven nodded once again. "Once Mother Mae-eye is defeated her spell will backfire, sending her out of the person's mind."
"Where we'll be waiting to catch her." Robin said with a smirk.
"There's just one problem," Raven said softly, her eyes downcast. "... One of us will have to play as bait."
The others froze.
Raven sighed. "I have to preform the spell since I'm the only one who can. And Cyborg and Beast Boy were already targeted by Mother Mae-eye, which means--"
"It's either me or Starfire." Robin said, his eyes narrowed. He growled and punched his fist into the palm of his hand. The idea that Mother Mae-eye would be fishing around in his mind trying to discover his deepest darkest fear sickened him. But there was no other choice in the manner, he was the leader. It was his responsibility.
Starfire stood silently to the side, watching the torment play across Robin's face. Even though he had a mask on Starfire could tell how much this was affecting him. She couldn't bear to watch him suffer.
"Alright," Robin began. "I'll do I--"
"I'll do it." Starfire said strongly. The others turned towards her with shocked expressions, slightly surprised by her willingness to accept a burden like this.
Robin opened his mouth to protest. "Starfire--"
"I have overcome Mother Mae-eye more than once. I am sure this time will be no exception."
"Star, that's not what I'm worried about," Robin said softly. "Are you absolutely sure you want to do this?"
"Yes, Robin," Starfire said with determined eyes. "I am sure."
-
The night sky had fully covered Jump City and the Titans were ready to put their plan into action. The Titan boys were in the security room, their eyes fixed on the numerous screens that had video footage of what was occurring in each room of Titans Tower. Normally the cameras connected to the rooms of the Titans were shut off as to respect each others privacy but today was an exception. The camera connecting to Starfire's room would be turned on so the Titans would know when Mother Mae-eye arrived.
The form of a black raven screeched into the room and Raven appeared. She pulled down her hood and spoke. "Starfire's asleep. The spell should be taking course at any minute now."
Cyborg nodded and pushed the button that turned on Starfire's camera. A image appeared on screen of a sleeping Starfire in bed.
Beast Boy plopped himself down on a wheely-chair in the room and yawned. "How much longer is this gonna take?"
"We haven't even been here for five minutes." Robin said, giving Beast Boy a cold stare.
"Hey guys," Cyborg said, grabbing everyone's attention. "We got something."
On screen a figure stood silently in the shadows in Starfire's room. The figure slowly stepped away from the shadows to reveal Mother Mae-eye. Mother Mae-eye smirked wickedly at the sleeping Tamaranian before waving her hand and creating a yellow sparkle.
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A droplet of water fell from the cracks of the roof and landed on the Tamaranian's forehead. Starfire's eyebrows furrowed together and she slowly blinked open her eyes. She sat up straight and took in her surrounding. She was in the middle of a hallway that seemed to go on forever. It was dark and cold yet oddly familiar to her eyes.
There was a buzzing sound coming from down the hallway and Starfire felt drawn to follow it. As she walked down the hallway the buzzing got louder but a new sound had joined it. Laughing and crying. A sick feeling came over Starfire and her mind told her to run away, far away, but her feet continued to move.
She was soon met by a door. On the other side she could hear the buzzing of a machine being used and someone's cries of pain.
Starfire pushed the heavy metal door open.
What was on the other side nearly brought her to tears.
The eyes of a monster looked at her, halting it's experiment to gaze over at her. Green scaley skin and black beady eyes. A darker shade of green which was in the form of a 't' was on the creature's forehead and outlined it's eyes. It's fleshy lips curled into a smirk and revealed it's perfect teeth. Dressed in nothing more than a neck-guard and a royal purple garb that covered it's entire body was the terrifying creature known as a Psion.
A little Tamaranian girl panted from the exhaustion she was being put through. Her arms and legs were trapped in overly large handcuffs that connected to numerous wires and a large generator. Two wires with a circular end was pressed against both her temples.
The scene before Starfire was a blast from the past and her worst nightmare.
She stepped back in fear before finally turning around, ready to make a run for it. Before she could she bumped into someone.
Mother Mae-eye laughed cruelly. "So this is what haunts your dreams at night. How very interesting."
Starfire glared at her.
"Your nightmare belongs to me now!" Mother Mae-eye said as she raised her hands and shot out a yellow blast of energy. Starfire quickly ducked and the blast just barely missed her. Starfire quickly turned her head and saw the blast wasn't an attack at all, the blast was absorbing the dream. Mother Mae-eye withdrew her hands once the room was empty and only her and Starfire remained.
Mother Mae-eye smirked. "Well, I got what I came here for," Mother Mae-eye snapped her fingers and a giant floating spoon appeared. Mother Mae-eye jumped on it. "So long brat!"
Mother Mae-eye began to fly away laughing but she was quickly stopped by one of Starfire's starbolts. The starbolt was a direct hit and it knocked Mother Mae-eye off of her spoon and sent her tumbling towards the floor where she had a very hard landing.
Starfire stood standing strongly, a fierce expression on her face. Her starbolts were burning brightly and her eyes were glowing.
"You will not be getting away so easily!" Starfire yelled angrily and she shot out her own energy blast.
"Think again brat!" Mother Mae-eye snapped back and she shot out a ray of her pink magic.
The two powers collided, neither one backing down.
Mother Mae-eye smirked. "Maybe it's time I called in some assistance."
Starfire's eyes widened.
Two Psions appeared standing on either side of Mother Mae-eye. They were identical and their cold eyes were fixed on Starfire.
Mother Mae-eye laughed. "Your fear makes me stronger. You can't win!"
Mother Mae-eye's magic increased in strength and Starfire could feel herself being pushed back.
Starfire could feel her body being strained and her arms began to feel tired. A seed of doubt had been planted and she began to think that she couldn't do this, that Mother Mae-eye was too much for her. Starfire could feel herself wanting to give up.
"Don't give up." said a soft voice.
Starfire's eyes widened as she felt strong arms wrap around her waist and hold her close. She could feel a warm breath on her ear. Starfire turned her head away and looked to the side. She was pleasantly surprised to see who was holding her.
"You can do this, Starfire," Robin said softly. "I know you can."
"Robin." Starfire breathed out his name in adoration and she nodded at him, turning her attention back to the battle. Focusing all of her power Starfire began to push Mother Mae-eye back.
"What?" Mother Mae-eye gasped in shock as her own attack was pushed back at her with a powerful starbolt to boot.
With a scream the witch was gone, as were the Psions by her side.
Starfire sighed with relief. Her knees gave out from under her and she began to fall. She never hit the ground, Robin caught her in his arms before she did.
Starfire smiled up at him. "Robin..."
He smiled in return before leaning in close...
Starfire's eyes flew open and she stood up abruptly. No sooner than she stood up she was encased in a tight hug by the Boy Wonder himself. Robin pulled away but kept his hands on her shoulders.
"Are you okay?" he asked.
"Yeah," Beast Boy chipped in. "We were all worried about you."
Starfire nodded. "I am fine." she assured them.
"Can't say the same for Mother Mae-eye though," Cyborg said with a smirk, pointing towards Mother Mae-eye who was encased in a bubble made from Raven's powers and unconscious. "Nice work, Star."
"Cyborg and I will take Mother Mae-eye to jail." Raven said.
"Raven," Starfire began. "I was--"
"Don't worry about it, Starfire," Raven said. "I already have a spell waiting for Mother Mae-eye that will erase any knowledge she has from your dream."
Starfire nodded in understanding, extremely thankful towards Raven right now.
"Well," Beast Boy said as she stretched his arms above his head. "Since that's all done and taken care of I'm gonna head on back to bed."
"You ready to go, Raven?" Cyborg asked. The empath nodded and engulfed herself, Cyborg and Mother Mae-eye in her raven form, disappearing from the room.
Beast Boy walked out of the room leaving Robin and Starfire all alone.
"Um, Star, about your dream...," Robin began hesitantly, rubbing the back of his neck. "I'm sorry you had to fight Mother Mae-eye alone. I wish I could have helped you."
Starfire reached out her hand and grasped Robin's hand in her own. He blushed a little but Starfire merely smiled at him.
"Robin, you helped me more than you know."
Robin gave her a questioning look, curious as to what she meant by that and rose brow. Starfire giggled and stood up to her feet, pulling Robin up as well and pulling him gently towards the door.
"Come," Starfire said cheerfully. "Let us partake in the midnight snacks."
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