Chapter 31: Enter the Metro Man, and the TRUE Story of Rasputin, holy servant to the Tzars.
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The space ship had arriven early. Blackfire watched it as it left, seething in anger. Starfire had taken Beast Boy with her, and while she had allowed him to go she still wasnt happy about it. She watched it dissapear from the rooftop, and stayed up top longer than the others. Thirty minutes after it left she was still there, alone, save for Kali who was hidden in the shaddows.
Slowly at first her anger began to melt, into sadness. Somehow, even now, she didnt feel like she had won. She was next in line for the throne now, so why didnt she feel good? She wiped away a few tears. She wanted Beast Boy now. "Curse her!" She growled. "She took him!" She knew it wasnt true. The voice of reason in her head told her she could have gone as well, or asked him not to go herself. Why couldnt she let this go?
"Why? Why does it still feel like she's won?" She demanded out loud. She let herself fall to her knees, and thinking she was alone allowed pent up tears to fall. "Why don't they like me? WHY?" She screamed. More tears fell, somehow she just knew her parrents still wouldnt favor her. She let her anger build and come to a point, and found herself reduced to a growling, snarling animal on the roof. She saw red, and her eyes glowed a dangerous purple. Why was it she felt best when she was angry? Why was it, that in this state of such anger she felt more at peace? She gathered her energy into a gigantic bolt and fired it into the night sky and allowed herself to collapse on the ground, spent and breathing heavilly. "Why, why, why?" She felt a hand on her shoulder, and paniced. How dare someone sneak up on her in this state. She turned and punched at whoever was behind her, and her hand colided with the abdomen of Kali. She snarled at the vampire, new anger giving her greater strength. Kali just looked down at her, the punch had not hurt in the least.
"You struck me..." Kali said absent mindedly. She rose an eyebrow at the alien, waiting for an explanation.
"Damn you, DAMN YOU! THIS IS YOUR FAULT!" Blackfire yelled. The familiar state of primal rage taking her again.
"Is it?" Kali snickered. "How is anything my fault?" She removed Blackfires hand from her effortlessly. "I've done nothing to you."
Blackfire reeled back for another punch. "Dont lie to me! She's won again!" She let her fists fly, this time aiming for Kali's face. Kali blocked it with her forearm and made no move to counter. Blackfire went to kick her in the side but the vampire jumped back out of her reach. "You did this! I'll kill you!"
"Gotta catch me first kid." Kali laughed. Blackfire fired a bolt at her and she caught it, and allowed the energy to fizzle in her hand. Kali stood still, watching her hand with feigned interest as Blackfire flew at her. The enraged tamaranian kicked her in the neck with her shin, but Kali still didnt move or feel pain. She looked up at Blackfire. "Does this make you feel better, blaming me? Or do you just want to fight?"
"Die!" Blackfire fired off a short volley of bolts in the vampires face, and the area became clouded with dust. She set down and watched, waiting for the dust to clear and reveal the smoking corpse of her enemy.
"If its a fight you want, I suppose I can give you that." Kali taunted from the dust cloud. Blackfire growled and flew high into the air, Kali in pursuit. Blackfire stopped suddenly and pointed her hands downward, thinking Kali was far enough below to fire a round off at her. She was wrong. The vampire was indeed very close. "Gotcha." Kali said, grabbing Blackfire in a bear hug.
"Let me go! LET ME GO!" Blackfire screamed. She fired her eyebolts into Kali's chest, but to no effect. She screamed first in frustration, but then in pain as Kali began to squeeze the life out of her. She felt her ribs compressing, and she couldnt breathe. She heard several little 'pops' as her ribs began to crack and she began to cry harder. This was it, she was going to die at the hands of this monster. Her world began to get cloudy, but Kali let go and Blackfire began to fall from the sky.
"Why do you fight me?" Kali asked the dazed alien, falling at the same rate to keep up with her.
"I hate you!" Blackfire spat, and her descent began to slow. "I'll kill you!" Blackfire screamed when searing pain ripped through her arm. She looked at it to see Kali's fingernairs digging in, quite deep. Her dark blood seeping out. Kali let her go, and kicked her hard into the roof of the tower. Blackfire landed in a heap of pain and tangled limbs, coughing for breath. She dragged herself to her feet and looked up to see Kali.
"I'm going to kill you Blackfire. I can stand you no longer." Kali's voice was dead serious, and Blackfire began to feel true fear.
"Get away from me you monster!" Blackfire tried to kick her, but Kali reached out and blocked the kick, and punched Blackfire in the solarplexus at the same time. Blackfire fell to the ground again, the air forced from her lungs. Blackfire began to cry harder as she gasped for breath. She was forced to look up when Kali grabbed her roughly by the chin. Blackfire tried to speak, but Kali held her gaze and she felt frozen. She couldnt move as Kali's hand came into her vision, and a delicate looking fingernail traced her jaw line down to her neck, and further down to her heart. Blackfire whimpered when Kali laid a hand flat against her chest, feeling her heartbeat. She broke her gaze and Kali leaned in close to her, and spoke into her ear.
"I feel your heart beating. Its strong now." Kali purred. "In a few minutes, its not going to beat anymore, I'm going to stop it, I'm going to pull it out of you." Kali shifted her head and allowed her lips to come in contact with Blackfires neck. "Or, maybe I should drain you." She kissed the spot above the jugular, and purred as Blackfire whimpered and shook in fear. "Fly, fly as fast as you can, because when I catch you-." She paused, and licked the line up her neck where her jugular was. "-you will die." She opened her mouth and took a portion of Blackfires neck in a delicate kiss, applying a touch of suction. She smiled, and stood up. "Fly now, and die Blackfire."
Blackfire did as she was told, and in tears, shaking with such fear she didnt know was possible took off of the roof. She flew away from the ocean, out into the desert. She cried, and screamed in fear as she pushed herself harder than she ever had before. All the way she felt Kali not far behind, and a few times she felt her breath on her neck. She pushed her power to dangerous limits, such an extent that a prolonged stay in this state could cost her her life. "Please." She begged as she flew, in between desperate sobs. "Please dont!" She begged hysterically. Behind her she was only answered by cruel laughter. Blackfire flew on, draining the last of her energy stores. She screamed and tried to muster more power, tried to stay in the air, but to no avail. She hit the ground still trying to fly and gain altitude and kicked up dust as she skidded to a halt. This was it, she had used the very last of her power. She could no longer move an inch, she tried feebly to get up, but could not even get her fingers to respond she was so weak.
"I'm dissapointed Blackfire." Kalis taunting voice came to her ears, and though she was too weak to move a finger her body still managed to shake in fear. "I thought you would get further, put up more of a fight."
Blackfire, at the angle that she was laying on the ground could see Kali's boots approaching her. "Please dont kill me, please dont." She begged, her voice barely a whisper. The sand bit into her arms injury, stinging. Kali's boots came to rest just before her eyes, and Blackfire fought to keep controll over her bladder.
Kali smiled, and using a foot rolled Blackfire onto her back. She looked down at the girl, smilling like the chesire cat. "I gave you a chance." She said as she sat down next to the helpless alien. "You rejected it." She laid down and draped her cape over Blackfire, laying down in the process and looking her in the eyes. Blackfire was atwitter with fear. Kali brushed some sand from her forehead, and kissed it. She laid her hand over Blackfires heart. It was beating fast and bordering on eratic. Kali watched as Blackfire withdrew, tried to leave the situation and take refuge in her mind. She smiled, she had no intention of killing the girl. She was experimenting, trying to bleed her of everything she had, to see what was left when there was no more. She had found what she wanted. When left with nothing, defensless and about to die Blackfire became blank. She didnt give up, nor did she fight. It was almost like she stopped caring.
She couldnt cry anymore, she lacked the strength for even that. The calming scent of lavender flooded her senses, and calmed her a small bit. It saddened her that the source of the smell was about to kill her. She opened her mouth to speak but found she couldnt. A finger pressed against her lips silenced her. She opened her eyes, thinking this was going to be her last second alive, only to find Kali leaning in, close to her.
"Its alright. Its done." Kali leaned in closer and pressed her lips against her neck gently, trailing little kisses up her jaw line, and planting a small kiss on her lips. Blackfire made no noise of protest. "I'm not going to kill you Blackfire."
Her tamaranian metabolism worked overtime to restore her strength, and her fingers flexed in the sand as she regained some of it. She knew she had the strength now to try and push the vampire away, but she didnt care anymore. She felt like something in her had snapped, she felt differant. She didnt care that Kali had just kissed her again, she didnt care that she had just been played with, suddenly she didnt care that her sister was superior. She felt like she should say something, but couldnt think of what to say. She turned her head in the sand, and looked out over the dessert away from Kali. "I dont hate you, I-" She was cut off when Kali moved them to a rock closeby. Kali sat with her back against it and sat Blackfire in her lap. She folded her cape around them, and rested her chin on the girls shoulder.
"Do you want to be one of us?"
"I dont know."
"I like you Blackfire, why won't you change?"
Blackfire went lax in her lap. "Theres other things I want in life."
"You'd be strong as your sister again."
Blackfire thought about it for a few minutes. "I dont care anymore, she wins. I cant do this anymore."
Kali placed a hand on Blackfires exposed stomach, and traced circles around her navel with her fingernails. "Thats good."
"I dont care what happens anymore. Kali, I want to hate you but I don't."
"Good."
Kalis fingers felt good, and Blackfire flushed. She knew what she wanted now, but it was... Wrong. She felt nervous, giddy. She wondered what was going to happen in the next few minutes, and in the back of her mind wished Kali would do more. She didnt dare think more, and refused to beg for pleasure, but decided that if Kali made any more of an advance, she would not resist. Gods above, it felt good. She felt shamed, and a little dirty, but excited at the same time. "I dont care what happens to me." She said, trying to hint at what she wanted. She wondered if Kali had brainwashed her, or was using mind control but didnt care. She wanted something bad enough to make her cry.
Kali put her lips against her neck and bit gently, massaging the skin with her teeth. She continued making circles with her fingers. As her fingers traveled below her navel she felt Blackfire suck her stomach in slightly and smiled. She lowered her fingers to the hem of the skirt, and put her fingernails beneath it. Blackfire sucked in a lungfull of air, and held it. Kali's other hand found its way above her heart, and a frightened moan escaped the aliens lips. "I can stop." Offered Kali.
Blackfire felt ready to cry, again. She did not want Kali to stop, but didnt want to tell her to continue, that was like begging. Her heartbeat sped up, and a differant kind of fear gripped her. She opened her mouth and her lips trembled. "Dont stop." She said.
"Blackfire, what do you want in life?"
"I dont know anymore." She tried to think of Beast Boy, of how wrong what she was doing was. She failed miserably in stopping herself. "Why did you do this Kali?"
Kali withdrew her hands from the hem of Blackfires skirt, and pretended not to hear the dissapointed sounding moan this caused. "You needed it. You were angry, you did attack me first, and I thought you could use an all out fight to survive." Kali found the injury she caused on her arm and wiped the sand out of it. She refreshed the injury, poking it slightly with her nails and brought her finger out, coated with the aliens blood. She made a show of licking it off and Blackfire watched, fascinated.
"Why are you doing this? I feel like im being..." She trailed off, looking for the right word.
"Seduced? Its like that for us all. This just now, Blackfire, my creator did the same thing. He chased me through the woods like a scared rabbit to see what I had left when I collapsed. Your feeling what I felt seven hundred years ago, before I changed. You want it, you know you do." Kali said in a calm, soothing voice.
"I don't want to live off of other people, thats not what I want."
"Is it really wrong?" Kali stood up, still holding Blackfire. With one arm around her, to support her, she reached up and made a small slice in her own neck. Blackfire struggled a little, but more with herself than Kali as her mouth was guided over the wound. She allowed Blackfire to taste the blood, just slightly. "Its time to put you to bed, Blackfire." She said when she pulled her away, the girl was falling asleep quickly.
"Alright guys." Robin said to the remaining members of the team, Raven and Cyborg. "We need to fill in the gaps left by BB and Star, and I want us to go through these old applications for membership." He held up a tall stack of papers. "We can sort through them tonight, and then call a few guys up tomorrow."
"Ey, yeah. But arent BB n Star comin back?" Asked Cyborg.
"Yes. But we might need help while there gone, we could have a serious power shortage here."
"He's right." Agreed Raven.
"And we need to find whoever attacked Jinx, appearantly she has an evil sister." Robin divided the stacks into three smaller ones for sorting. Cyborg snickered next to him.
"Eviler you mean, right?"
Robin sighed. "Yeah, something like that. Listen, guys. I know its been a long day, but we gotta get on this now. Jinx actually asked me to find whoever did that to her, so its important that we do."
Raven began flipping through a few pages. Lets see, the Frenchman, Bratwurst man, Geo-Metro driver.." Robin all of these..."
"Suck." Finished Cyborg, who was encountering similar names. "Look at this guy, his power is that he drives a Geo Metro 3 cylinder car, and saves the enviroment, what the hell?"
"He must have applied twice..." Said Robin, who had a copy of his application.
"Three times..."
"What a waste of paper."
"Alright, next." Said Robin, tossing away the metro paper. "I've got one for... lets see..." He picked one up and blew some dust off of it. "Damn, we shoulda accepted SuperGirls while we had the chance." He moaned.
"Yeah, she's with the JL now huh?"
"Theres one here fot Bat-Kid, and a picture, look." Said Raven. She passed the folder off to Robin, who looked skeptical.
"Its a freakin kid wearing Batman pajamas."
"Alright... Theres 'The Frenchman'. He's got metta human powers." She offered and handed him the application.
"Super human strength, and bullet proof skin. Also has the ability to wear any color berret and make it look good..." Robin moaned, was this the best they had? "Alright, put it in the 'possible' pile. The folder and application was stuck in the possible pile.
"Hey I found one." Said Cyborg. "Tarzana, daughter of the original Tarzan. Look what she's wearin!" Robin handed the picture to Robin, but Raven snatched it away and looked at it.
"No, no way." Raven tore up the picture.
"But she was wearing a loin cloth."
"Exactly, no way."
"Oh, here's an interesting one." Robin said, trying to contain his laughter. "German man, with the power to invade france and most of europe. I like him, but we don't invade france often enough to really need him." Robin put the paper away. "We could make him an honnorary titan."
"We could also invade france more often." Laughed Cyborg.
"Don't Joke, the only remotely good one we've found yet is 'The Frenchman'." Raven grumbled and kept sifting through her pile.
"What about him." Robin said, offering a look at the application in his hands to the others. "He seems okay, he's the 'Soaring Eagle'. Says here he's a direct male descendant from Sitting Bull."
"Says he has the power of... Pushing white men off his lands? Okay, no." Cyborg sighed and picked a random paper out of his pile. "Okay, I got... Another Geo Metro man! Thats it! I'm trackin this loser down, and pulling his engine, and transmission out of his hood."
"Good idea."
"I have one for a 'Boa Constrictor', he's a kid from new york who..." Raven trailed off and turned a little pale. "Says he constricts his enemies to death before devouring them."
"The world is so full of weirdos."
Cyborg held up another application for his friends. "Her names Seductra and she-"
"NO!"
"NO!"
Cyborg put it away and grumbled. He missed Beast Boy already. "If BB were here he woulda voted for her."
"I've got one for a Block Samson." Said Robin. "Says hes a regular human with a bowie knife, and a knack for killing ninjas, frog men, spies, and... everything with it. Look at this guy, he actually has a license to kill!" Robin threw the application down on the table for the others to see.
"Says he's the most brutal person any governments ever hired, and that just using him in battle is considered an atrocity of war." Cyborg finished reading the application. "Dude, Robin, this guys nuts. How about if we start finding ourselves surrounded by armies of ninjas, we call him?" Cyborg put it in the 'in case of ninja emergency call:' pile.
"Fairy...Princess man?" Robin held up the next application from his pile. "Has the power to spread love, peace, and pixxie dust, and likes to prance along in fields of flowers." Robin tore it up and looked at his teammates. "What the hell is wrong with people today?" He put the scraps of the paper in the 'For good comic relief call:' pile.
Raven began to growl, and shredded an application in her hands with her powers. The others looked at her, awaiting an explanation and she blushed. "Another for metro-man."
"This guys so gona get it." Mumbled Cyborg. "I'll see you guys later, I'm gonna go pay metro man a visit." Cyborg stomped out after reading metro mans address, already thinking of the evil things he would do to the mans car. He would have loved to use Robins car, with the jump button he could park on the damned thing, and when the sheer weight of the mustang was done crushing up the metro he could throw it in the trunk and drive off. No, he had a better idea even, but it would require fitting a snow plow to his own car.
Raven and Robin continued sorting through the pile of applications together. The sounds of frustrated groans and curses filled the room. Robin picked one up and looked at it. "Oh for the love of... Look at this."
Raven raised an eyebrow and took the application from it. "Swinger kid?"
"Look at the powers..." Robin said, pinching his nose.
Raven looked under powers and her eyes went wide. "Whoa! The power to swing both ways, wear tight leather, and dish out spankings..." Raven let herself trail off, afraid to read any further. "Maybe... Maybe we should just start taking new apps?"
"No, theres gotta be one more good one in here." Robin scanned through the pile desperately, trying his hardest to find one good applicant. "AHA! Got one!"
"What?"
"I found one." Robin looked up happily. "The youngest green lantern yet!"
"Name?"
"Doesnt say, but she's part of the lantern corps. You know, I'm surprised we didnt find this app sooner, I mean, we were alright with five members, but how can you refuse a green lantern?"
"Contact information?"
"Yeah, here we go..." Robin scanned the application for a phone number, address, anything, but there was nothing. Dead end, he thought. "Nope, back to searching."
"Can't we call in an honnorary titan?" Raven asked, getting impatient.
Robin scoffed. "Come on, you know as well as I do we do that we give out communicators as a nicety, I can't think of anyone I'd wanna call in from that list."
"Aqualad?"
"Hell no, too cocky."
"Speedy?"
"Hate the bastard, can't freaking stand him."
"Why?"
"I dont know, I just do."
"Thats real matture. Wildebeast?"
"He smells as bad as he looks."
"Flame thrower?"
"Like a sauna around the guy."
Raven sighed. "How about... The thunder and lightening brothers?"
"Possible, you know, that might just work." Robin said, rubbing his chin. "The Frenchman, and Thunder, and Lightening. Yeah, that works."
Cyborg had finished mounting the snow plow onto his car, and had dressed up in a gorilla suit. He now drove towards the address of Geo-Metro man. He stopped his car down the street and got out, and approached the green, ugly, underpowered, small, pathetic Geo-Metro. What he saw on the back bumper scared, him. Bumper stickers, dozens. One stated 'why have 8 when 3 will do?' Another said 'Say no to big cars, say yes to saving the world'. Various other stickers promoted green peace, saving the wales, and anti oil tanker things. Cyborg shook his head. Then, he saw the most despicable of all bumper stickers. Its large red lettes mocked him, infuriated him.
'Who ever needed a fast car?'
Cyborg let out a howl, and ran up to the front door. He was about to knock on it, or knock it down, when he heard the knob opening. He dashed back and hid behind the small car, which he outweighed two to one. 'Guy, I am about to be the 600 pound gorilla in the corner of your life, he thought. He laughed to himself inside the gorilla suit, and watched as geo metro man came out his front door. Cyborgs jaw dropped. The man was wearing a cape, which was no more than a bed sheet, and a mask he suspected was drawn on with a sharpie marker, and his spandex suit was torn in many places.
"It is time for I, Geo-Metro man, to save the world simply by driving my car!" He yelled. Around him Cyborg heard several neighbors cursing, going 'he's at it again', and 'I'm calling the cops, I mean it this time!'. Cyborg shook his head, and decided to get this goons attention.
"Ooh ooh ooh." He said, in a thick voice making himself sound like a gorilla. He jumped up and down a few times, to draw attention. It worked, metro man came running.
"Wow! A gorilla, mother natures perfect human!" Gorilla's are not humans, Cyborg thought, but he was not done. "Gorillas are the best, there like what people were before they became evil oil using, baby seal clubbing monsters!"
Cyborg didnt think a gorilla would think twice of stepping on a baby seal, but decided it was now time to start having fun. He plopped down in back of the metro, and began peeling off bumper stickers, and eating them. "Ooh ooh ooh!" He yelled.
"No! Those are not banana's, I'll get you a banana! Wait right there!" Cyborg peeled off a 'George Bush is an echo Hittler' sticker, and tossed it away, he could only stomach so much. He broke the back bumper off of the car just as the man was coming back outside, waving a bundle of bananas.
"OOH OOH OOH!" Yelled Cybog as the man approached.
"NO! Not my bumper! My beautiful stickers! Here, have banana's I keep extra ones just in case a monkey comes to visit!" He offered Cyborg a banana, and Cyborg promptly shoved it up the tailpipe, much to the dismay of metro man. As he tried to pry the banana out of the tailpipe Cyborg sat back and began peeling the hard plastic from the bumpers metal frame.
"NO! Bad gorilla! Go wreck an SUV, those are your real enemies!"
"OOH OOH OOH!" Cyborg put down the bumper, and got up.
"Yes, yes, go my animal friend, and wreak devastation on the real enemies!" Instead, Cyborg picked the bumper back up and smashed it through the back windshield, and the front. Because the car was wider than it was long, it stuck out of both at the same time. Metro man sat down on the sidewalk and began to cry.
"OOH OOH OOH!" Cyborg withdrew the bumper, and held it in both hands, he began to compress it. He didnt even have to try hard, and when he was done it was the size of a shoebox, a womens size four, he thought. He dropped it in metro mans lap, and ran around to the front of the car. Metro man was crying, and began to cry harder, and more hysterically as Cyborg tore off the hood of the car. "OOH OOH OOH!" He yelled, and frisbeed it high into the air towards the bay. A distant splash was heard, and metro man curled up into a fetal position.
Cyborg decided it was time to put the main part of his plan into action. He linked up with his car, and instructed it to drive towards the bay. Down the street it hummed to a start, and drove off. Cyborg grinned wickedly. He ran to metro man, picked him up, and slapped him. Metro man cried even harder.
"Why are you doing this to me? I love you!" Metro man cried. This earned him a harder slap. Cyborg dropped him, and took off down the street. He beckoned metro man to follow him. "You want to show me something? Is someone being mean to a gorilla somewhere?" Metro man jumped behind the wheel of his car, and began to follow Cyborg.
Three minutes later, Cyborg was getting impatient. They were still several blocks away from the bay, and he was only running about ten miles an hour. He heard the tiny metro behind him struggling to keep up, it sounded like it was being red lined. "Man this guys so pathetic." Cyborg said under the gorilla mask. "How sad do you get?" He checked to make sure his car was where he wanted it, it was. Good. Cyborg was glad he had been recording all of this with his cybernetic eye for later viewing, Robin was gonna love this. Cyborg led the metro to a spot right on the bay, at a T intersection. Down the T his car was parked, idling, waiting for his command. He collapsed in the crosswalk, which had been his plan. The metro mans car stopped in the intersection. Cyborg was having trouble containing his laughter. He waited for the metro man to get out and approach him, and he did. Cyborg played dead as the metro man stood above him, his car a few feet away. Up the street the T-Car started to move, and pick up speed.
"Are you alright?" Metro man asked. Suddenly he heard an engine, a big engine, working hard. He remembered his precious little car (or what precious little was left of it) was parked in the intersection. He looked back just in time to see a large SUV looking vehicle with a snow plow on the end of it picking up speed, it looked to be doing over sixty, and heading straight for his car! "NO!" He yelled, and the gigantic car bore down on his. It threw on its brakes, and squeeled into the intersection still moving fast. The snow plow crashed into his car, and launched it into the air, much like a golf club would a golf ball.
"FORE!" Cyborg yelled as he watched. He laughed as the metro flew high into the air, exploded, and fell into the bay a good distance away It sank like a stone to the bottom. "OH YEAH!" He yelled. Next to him, Metro man collapsed to his knees, and began to sob again. "Oh jeez." Cyborg mumbled. "YOU!" He said, picking him up by the bed sheet turned cape. "Thats a no parking zone, move it!"
"But its underwater!" Cried the metro man, unfazed by the fact that he was talking to a gorilla that spoke english. "How will I ever save the world now?" He wailed.
"So learn to swim." Cyborg advised. "In you go!" He tossed the man in after his car, watched him splash, and stayed only long enough to make sure he could swim.
Out in the silent void of space, flying at speeds many times greater than that of light, was Starfires ship. It was a large, luxurious ship, with several rooms, and the very best deffensive and offensive weapons systems tamaranian money could buy, which of course, meant the very best. These systems and weapons were for the sole purpose of protecting the ships cargo, which was normally the royal familly of tamaran, or foreign dignitaries. All of this though, was lost on Beast Boy. As soon as earth was out of sight, he had begun to feel sick. He sat now on the bridge, surrounded by some burlier looking honnor guards. They did not speak english, nor did he speak tamaranian, so they didnt understand what he said when he said he felt sick. The guards were in the process of fixing this now.
"Is he supposed to be that green?" One guard asked another. He held the bowl containing a babble fish. The babble fish, was possibly one of the more complicated life forms in the known -and quite possible unknown- galaxy. It was so complicated in fact, that it was most likely more complicated than anything in all other paralell universes, ranging from one to four dimensions, with time that moves simultaneiously in both directions. It was that complicated, and it had to be for its job.
The babble fish, was natures own home grown universal translater. Its normal habbitat was the inner ear of sentient beings, or as close to the brain cavity as it could get, because it fed off of brainwaves. Once inside ones ear, the fish translated the brainwaves, thought patterns, and other various things in the area into its hosts own brain, and permitted them to understand any language being spoken.
The guard holding the fish approached Beast Boy and held it up, thinking he would know what to do with it. "Uh, thats nice..." Beast Boy said. "But I'm not hungry."
"I dont think he's getting it." One guard said to another. The guards did not have there own fish yet, they wanted to 'install' the green ones first. The guard with the fish attempted to put it in Beast Boys ear, but his hand was slapped away.
"Gross! No way!" The guard tried again, and Beast Boy got up to get away from him, but a second guard grabbed him, and pinned him to the floor.
"Alright, I'll hold him down. You slip him the fish."
Beast Boy screamed like a girl as they put the fish in his ear. He felt it wriggling inside, and moaned. It was beyond gross. Suddenly though, he found he could understand the guards. They had slipped theyre own fish in as they let him up.
"Screams like a girl." One commented.
"I do not!"
"You did too. Now-" Said the other guard. "Whats wrong with you boy? Your not acting right."
Beast Boy remembered he had not been feeling well, and the short struggle with the guards had made things worse. He got back up into his seat and held his head in his hands. "I dont feel good."
"Why?"
"Car sick."
"Huh?"
"Space sick." Beast Boy corrected himself. The guards looked at each other, and he knew they were going to make fun of him, so he turned and looked out the window.
"You know thats making it worse." One guard told him.
"What are Starfire and Jinx doing?"
Starfire and Jinx were several decks below, in a royal suite, and Jinx was not happy. She stood before Starfire, wearing traditional tamaranian clothing, much like Starfires. She looked herself over in a mirror, and realized she looked as naked as she felt. "You've gotta be kidding me." She said.
"It is expected of you."
"First a babbling fish in the ear, now this... Outfit. I dont like it."
Starfire sighed. "Jinx please."
Jinx sighed, and tried to tug her top down over her stomach, needless to say it wouldnt work without revealing more elsewhere. She growled, and wondered where in the hell Starfire had hidden her normal clothes while she was changing. It would turn out they were drifting through space a few light years behind, but Jinx didnt know this. "I'm going to get you back for this, you know that right?"
"Yes."
"I'll make you pay."
"I know."
"When we get back to earth, your ass is mine."
Starfire laughed. "Alright."
"Your not even taking me seriously, are you?" Jinx asked, slightly annoyed.
"Nope." Starfire beamed.
"You know, there was a time where you titans actually feared me. Have I lost my claws and fangs or something?"
"No Jinx, of course not." Starfire reassured her. "You are most frightening, but times have changed." Starfire grabbed her in a hug. "We are no longer enemies." Jinx relaxed in her grip. Starfire lowered her voice, and nipped at Jinx's neck. "And my fangs are bigger than yours now." She joked.
"You at least get a cape. I feel naked like this."
"I think it looks good on you."
"Your not getting it. I dont like wearing this."
"It matters not for now, you need to rest more. We have to sleep, because tomorrow we will be busy."
Jinx looked at herself in one of the rooms many mirrors and sighed. Starfire was right. Even after a hot shower, a good meal, and alot of caffeine, she looked like hell. She had dark circles under her eyes, and scratching her scalp she was sure there was still some blood yet to be scrubbed out. A good eight, nine, or thirty hours of sleep would do her good, but having been clinically dead earlier she was not quite in the state of mind for sleep. "Think those guys will get her?" She asked.
Starfire bit her lip. "I am not sure. One person is difficult to find among millions."
Jinx sighed, she didnt want the person who had actually killed her to get away. She wanted to return the favor. She wished she had not had to leave earth, wanting time to go back to explore the labs that created her, rifle through files, maybe break a few noses to find out if someone had made her a sister. It made her angry to think she wasnt one of a kind anymore, her powers not quite as unique as she would like. Then, something hit Jinx. What if, just by chance, she was never supposed to be one of a kind. What if, the girl who had attacked her had been the first? Nope, never, not acceptable. It couldnt be, Jinx refused to allow herself to believe that. She had been made to be perfect, she had been made to be powerfull, exotic, smart, but, she still had to wonder. What if she was all of these things because an imperfect one was made first?
Starfire untied her cape and set it on one of the bedposts. She pulled off her boots and sat on the edge of the bed. "Come to bed Jinx." She patted the spot next to her and began to undress.
"Starfire?"
Starfire removed her top and looked up, tossing the garment carelessly to a corner of the room. "Yes?"
"Have you ever fought someone with powers similar to mine?" Jinx asked. It wasnt likely that someone with powers like hers would live in the city long before stabbing her without drawing attention from the titans.
"No, of course not."
That made her feel better. Jinx began to undress herself. "Alright. What are the next few days gonna be like? I don't want this to be hard Starfire, I dont feel like I can deal with something hard."
"It will be alright, I am more likely to be..." Starfire looked for the right word. "Pressured."
"Okay."
"After the ceremony we are going to travel to several planets, reafirming diplomatic ties."
"Will that be fun?"
"We will go planet to planet, meet with diplomats and kings, and be made most comfortable, and receive offerings, and gifts."
Jinx climed on the bed, and rose an eyebrow at the mention of gifts. "Sounds good, tweedle-dumb tagging along for that too?"
"Who?"
"Green guy."
"Oh, yes. Beast Boy will be present, unless he wants to go home."
"Can we force him to?"
Starfire moaned. "Jinx. Please do not be hostile towards him. He will surely want to visit these planets and see alien animals."
"Alright." Jinx laid down, Starfire next to her. She shivvered, and her lover clutched her close. The worries of the day subsided slightly. She closed her eyes and relaxed in Starfires arms. "I love you Starfire." She felt Starfires lips against her own, and Starfire squeezed her a bit.
"I love you too, whatever is comming, we will be ready for it." Starfire closed her eyes, the familiar feeling of sleep overtaking her already washing over her. She felt nervous about confronting her parents, and what the next few days held, but she felt good about it.
Jinx felt a curious sensation. For some reason, her eyes, they did not wish to stay closed. That was weird, hadnt she just felt tired a moment before? "I'm not tired." She declared, her eyes springing open. "Lets go do something."
Starfire groaned. Did Jinx's sudden burst of energy have something to do with the four bottles of 'Jolt Cola' her team mates had poured down the girls throat? What did '4X caffeine' mean? Starfire would soon find out that it meant a fairly sleepless night.
Kali felt excited as she laid Blackfire down to bed. The girl was still awake, but just barely. The thing that excited Kali was that Blackfire was acting in a craven manner. She was trying to pull her down into the bed with her, not wanting to be seperated. Kali didnt think it would be three days before Blackfire changed her mind, and gave the girl what she wanted. She laid down on the bed, and Blackfire practically clambored atop of her, desperate to be close. Yes, this one was acting like a new born vampire before she was even changed. Kali smiled as the tamaranian made herself comfortable and drifted off to sleep.
Kali felt good about this, and imagined in her head what the vampire community would think when 'mother Kali' made one of her own. She had been ridiculed, from time to time, for taking in strayes. Why save the abandoned if the ones who created them didn't find them worth saving? Some would argue. They didnt think it was Kali's place to take in the dark children of others. The few that had had the gall to say this to her had spent the rest of the week re-growing fangs, and sometimes the rest of theyre teeth. Kali chuckled, and wondered what she had done with the necklaces she had made from all the liberated bicuspids. Many a vampire had looked forlorn, imasculated, and distraught when they saw her sporting the necklaces made of theyre former chompers, which they had not willingly given up.
On one occasion, a newly toothless vampire had gotten some friends, and tried to get his teeth, and hers, back. After this, Kali thought she would have to open up a jewelery store to sell all her pretty necklacess. Oh yes, now she remembered, she had given them to a friend of hers, a russian named Rasputin. An odd, holly man. Not the monster disney portrayed him as.
He had mashed them up into powder, and drank them in a tea every month. She frowned. It had done him alot of good. When the Tzars enemies tried to kill him they poisoned him, to no affect, then they beat him, to no affect, and then they shot him, and he kept going. Finally they had had to wrap him in a rug and drown him in the river. Yes, those teeth tea's had given him some unearthly vitality, but it had not ended there, oh no. After his 'body' had been pulled from the river, he still had not been dead as everyone suspected. They burried him, but a day after Kali visited the grave, low and behold, there was Rasputin, six feet under, yelling his head off, demanding to be let out. She shuddered at the memory, she had never heard such a colorfull, or long stream of russian curse words, suggesting such vile things she would rather not remember them.
Kali laughed, enjoying the memory of these events. She did not dwell on the past often, but this was fun. She remembered the look on Rasputins face when she had let him out.
"I told you, told you, teeth tea good, make me strong!" He had bellowed, and stumbled away as if drunk.
She was sure that the crazy old codger was still running about somewhere in russia. Every few years she heard of a vampire complaining, claiming a foul russian man had actually asked for a few teeth, or of a new vampire, while seperated from its creator being attacked, and having its teeth pulled. It was enough to make her laugh, and sleep with her mouth closed.
Alright, thats it for this chapter. I felt the need to hate upon geo metros and pinko-commies. Next chap will be about BB, Jinx, and Star, so dont worry, I haven't forgotten them. You just know, I mean, do I even have to say it? I'm gonna have all sorts of fun with 'The Frenchman'. You have no idea as to the kind of fun we're gonna have with him. Its just gonna be nuts! I hope you liked this chap, now leave a review, or be a shmuck, you don't wanna be a shmuck do you? Oh, and one more thing... KALI DOES NOT LIKE THE FRENCH! No one does really, except of course the french. Never heard a turd tell another turd that it stank, have you? Now, if you all review, I PROMISE a quick update, with humor you just wont believe. (though I think this chapter was pretty funny)