Afterburn Part I
Arc II: Repercussions
Chapter 5: CRT
By: mrbeans
Rated: T
"Here's the mail, it never fails, it makes me wanna' wag my tail, when it comes I wanna' wail 'MMMAAAAIIIILLLL!"
El Queso de Maliscioso:
1- Thanks
2- I try
3- You'll find out who it is in this chapter, I think that Cy and Star were done fairly well.
4- Once more, I try. I needed the most middle of nowhere place possible so...Kansas.
5- That's hard when you're trying to be cryptic.
Zaknafian: MUHAHAH I know, I know.
The man who stood in front of Cyborg was very Cy-ish himself. He was tall, black, and his hair was shaved. He conveyed a strong sense of power in his black suit and tie."Who are you?" Cy asked the man inquisitively.
"My name is Elija Washington. I'm the head of field operations and assistant director of CRT." said Washington
"Wait. Assistant director? If you're not in charge, who is?" asked Cyborg, becoming even more confused.
Elija smiled and stepped to the side. Revealing the presence of a short woman who had been standing behind him.
"Hey Cy" said Terra "What's up?"
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Starfire stood in the glass office, starring out at the floor. She sighed deeply.
The door opened and Agent Wellington reentered. "Ma'am, the commander would like to see you now."
Star was lead out of the room down a hallway and down a flight of stairs.
At the bottom they paused for Agent Wellington to open the door with a key card and then walked up to a tall black man.
"Hello Starfire" he said politely "I'm assistant director Elija Washington"
"Where is my friend?" asked Star, unsure of whether or not to trust this man.
"Right this way" said Elija, gesturing for her to come with him, his manners unwavering.
Star was lead down yet another hallway too a door that read "Director Marcov". Star gasped as she was lead into the room.
Terra was sitting behind a black steel desk and Cyborg was sitting in a chair in front of the desk, looking very dazed.
"Terra! You have kidnapped us and brought us to the place of grayness and...!"
"Whoa! STAR!" said Terra moving her hands up and down to try to get Starfire calm. "I didn't kidnap you."
"THEN WHY ARE WE HERE? AND WHY IS FRIEND CYBORG HAVING THE DIZZIES AND..."
"Star, It's OK" said Cyborg, looking slightly less dizzy.
"But.." said Star.
"I need your guys's help." said Terra.
"First" said Cyborg, taking the helm of the S.S. Inquisitive from Starfire "How did you go from being Slade's apprentice, to trapped in stone, to being in charge of some secret government agency?!?!?"
Terra took a deep breath before speaking "You remember a few months ago when BB went around telling everyone I had returned?"
The two Titans nodded.
"Well, after I came back I found out that my powers were gone."
"Then why did you pretend not to know BB?" asked Cy
"You have to understand, my powers never worked the ways yours did. Yours worked and you used them for good and everyone loved you. I didn't have that control so I was, needless to say, less than popular. When I discovered that I no longer had my powers I had a chance at that normal life I never had. BB was a way back to the life I had before that, and I just wanted the normal one."
"A few months after I started 'anew' I got a call from some guy named Jack. I was brought in to CRT and was offered the position of Director, most likely because I had been a good guy for a short period of time."
She leaned back in her chair and took several more deep breaths.
"Ok, so what is this CRT place anyway?" said Cyborg, trying to get as much info as possible.
"CRT stands for Crisis Response Team" said Terra "When the government has a problem that can't attract attention, no offense but you guys tend to do that, we're sent in to deal with it."
"So you're like the Troopers of Tokyo?" asked Starfire.
"Yes, only covert" said Terra.
"So, one last question." said Cy "Why are we here?"
Terra smiled, obviously glad she didn't have to delve in farther into her past. "Do you know this man?" she asked, bringing up several pictures of Control Freak on a projection screen behind her.
"You need help to defeat Control Freak!" exclaimed Cyborg, bursting into laughter.
"We need help because he has help" she said
"Help from who? DR. LIGHT?!?!" said Cyborg continuing his torrent of histarical laughter.
"No" said Terra, laughing herself until she brought up the picture of his help.
A large photo of a man, gun raised appeared on the screen, obviously taken just before he shot out the camera.
Neither Starfire or Cyborg recognized the man at first.
Starfire was first to realize, her eyes widened.
Starring at the screen in brilliant hi-def, was Blackout.
"It seems our old friend Blackout has gotten his hands on a prototype weapon of some kind." said Terra "We need your help to stop it."
"Why us? The whole team would be far better than just us" said Cyborg.
"You were the only two available and we need you guys in particular.
"Why?" asked Starfire
Terra brought up more photos of both villains. "Do you remember when Control Freak built a machine to transport him into television?"
"Yeah" replied Cyborg
"We think he's done it again"
"Then why is he working for Blackout and why does Blackout need a doomsday device?"
"We think Blackout's trying to use his device from television where he can have unchallenged access to people's homes."
"What must we do?" asked Star.
"We need you to to capture Control Freak and bring him back here so we can find out what Blackout's up to" said Elija.
"So" said Terra, crossing her arms "Will you do it?"
Cy looked at Star and then said "When do we leave?"
Phew, another chapter up! For the NO ONE who participated in my trivia last time...
Mace Racer II was a video game from
A) Yin Yang Yo
For this time:
What was the name of John Malcovich's character in Johnny English?
-mrbeans