I look down worriedly at my hypnotized friend as he inches his way across the tiled floor like and inch worm.
"Mad Mods hypnoscreens. We can't snap him out of it. We've tried everything."
"Did you try this?" Cyborg asks. He reaches down, picks BeastBoy up by the collar of his shirt, and belches loudly in his ear. For a moment nothing happens.
"Ahhh ha ha! Nice one! Ahhh ha ha!"
Beast Boys suddenly stops laughing and frowns. He confused gaze passes over each of us. He spots me and freezes like he's seen a ghost. "Hanna!" he cries horrified that I have seen him covered in drool. Frantically, BeastBoy wipes the thick coat of droop off of his chin. I smile at his childness demeanor.
"Wonderful! Now we need only to find an exit!"
"Or just keep blasting till we make one!" Asserts Cyborg as he turns his bionic arm into a canon.
"Easy!" Interjects Robin. "Last thing I smashed tried to smash me back. I'm shure this whole place is booby-trapped.
BeastBoy wipes the last remains of drool from the front his uniform. "Then how are we suppose to get out?" he asks.
"We're not." Raven declares. "Dont you get it? Mad Mods just gonna keep messing with us untill..."
"We mess with him!" exclaims Robin. "That cane of his controls everything in here. We take the cane,"
"We take control," Adds Cyborg
"And take him down!" finishes BeastBoy. "Oh i'll find him! That demented dofuss has never hypnotized me again!"
I sense the all to familiar presence of lingering eyes. "Come on!" exclaimed a person with a British accent. I spin around and the Titansfollow suit. Standing before us is a man. He is tall and bony to the point that his knobby bonded protrude against his clothing. He wears a red sweater, tight white pants, and pointy black shoes. An Ascot of the Britain flag is skillfully tied around his neck. He balances the cane mentioned by the Titans skillfully in his wrinkly grey hands. "Your in my world my duckies. You can't win."
With supprising speed, The old man then turns and runs off down a hallway.
"Titans! Go!" Robin shouts.
Together bound after Mad Mod; chasing him down hallways, and up endless sets of stairs. Like a piece of wet soap, several times the old man slips right between our fingers and mysteriously vanishes from sight. Baffled, we look around.
"Where? What the?! He was just here a second ago! Where'd he go?" I state baffled.
I open a random door and hit my a wave of salt water. The water soaks my clothing and im left standing in the hallway sopping wet.
"UGHHHH! THIS IS RIDICULOUS!" I scream. I untangle a string of seaweed from my hair and throw it to the ground.
"Um guys?" shouts BeastBoy from the opposite end of the hallway. "You might want to see this."
We hussel over to the door BeastBoy holds open for us. In the door is a hallway, and on the far side of the hallway is ... what seems to be, a reall tropical island. Birds fly in the sky and palm trees sway in the ocean breeze. I take a deep breath in recognize the familiar scent of salt and sand. Bitter sweat memories of the Titans Tower come back to me and I find myself smiling.
"Woa!"
"Is that what I think it is?" asks BB.
"One way to find out." says Robin.
We walk towards the beautiful scenery.
"Looks like the real deal." states Cyborg.
The smell of the ocean grows stronger and stronger with each step. Birds chirp and I convinced its the real thing. anxious to get out of Mad Mods fun house, we pick up the pace. None of us realize its an illusion untill its to late. In the split of a minute all five of us fall over a ledge in the flooring. I free fall through a dark tunnel for several moments before I painfully make contact with the solid ground. Our bodies make a 'thump' sound as we land on top of each other.
I roll off of StarFire's legs. "Ok." I groan weakly. "That hurt." I rest my head on the floor for several seconds in attempt to stop the sudden sence of vertigo. The spinning stops, and I shakingly get up. I look around and frown.
Robin growls and slams his fist on the ground. "Are you kidding me!" he shouts angrily. "Right back where we started!"
I give BeastBoy a hand and pull him to his feet. He and I look around bewildered. Once again, we're in the large library where I originally found the Titans. Mad Mod stands on the balcony that overlooks the library. He smirks down upon us knowingly. "Of corse you are my duckies." Mad mod stabs the ground with his cane and suddenly is floating in the air onto of a tile of the flooring. "Class is over. And you lot haven't learned a thing." he scolds as he rests his cain behind his head. "As a failing garde for each blueming one of ya," the bottom of the flooring tile turns white and a giant red F glows on the bottom. The doors behind me slam shut and I jump startled. "you'll have to repeat the entire session." He breaks into a evil cackle that makes me want to shower and suddenly the walls of the room turn into swirlling hipnoscreens.
Almost instantly BeastBoy returns to his hipnotized state of mind and begins drooling all over himself. He knees go weak underneath him and I scramble to catch his body before he falls on his falls. I wrap my arms under his arm pits and hold his limp body upright. A stream of drool is now running down his chest and pooling on the ground.
"Titans!" Exclaims Robin. "Get that caine."
Each of my teammates let out a battle cry.
I stand like a fool trying desperately to prevent from getting wet from BeastBoys saliva. "Uhh..." say puzzled.
Rockets shoot out of mini mad mod statues and whistle as they streak towards me. Quickly, I tuck BeastBoy under my armpit and form a solid dome shield of light. The missiles crash into the yellow barrier and explode; creating a thick grey plume of smoke. The smoke clears and through it I spot robin running and catching a boost from Cyborg who lifts him high into the air. Robin yells and jumps on top of a flying mini-mad mod statue. He jumps from flying statue to statue with extreme coordination. Off in the distance StarFire blows apart one of the flying objects with a starbolt.
"AHY! No ruff housing! Do I have to seperate you lot?" Mad Mod holds up his cane and presses a button on the top which causes the tiles on the ground to raise up into the air like tall black and white skyscrapers.
I watch as StareFire flies at mock speed at Mad Mod and is cut off by a rising pillar. She attempts to fly around it but to her misfortune she soon finds herself surrounded by a black and white striped wall. Robin cries out in angst as he jumps face first into a quickly escalating tile. And Raven and Cyborg cry out in surprise as the tiles beneath their feet rise. The flooring beneath my feet shifts and I watch in anxiety as BeastBoy and I a lifted up. My face goes hot and despite my attempt to not look down, I look down. My stomach churns and I press my body against the adjacent black wall.
Out of no where im shot at by several Mad-Mod statue heads. They pass by and cirlcle back around for seconds. With a arm still supporting BeastBoy I wave my free arm at the advancing firearms and slice them in half with a yellow blade made entierly of light. My attack dices the statues into halves like a warm knife cuts through butter and the broken fragments of concrete shower down on me from above.
Somewhere higher a bomb detonates and Cyborg falls off the ledge of the tiles. He lands on his back on my tile and grunts.
"A little help here?" I say gesturing to BeastBoy who continues to drool down the frount of his shirt.
Cyborg smiles and jumps up. "You asked for it." he says. Before I have a clue about what hes gonna hes licked his finger and shoved it into my ear; his cold saliva sends a shill running down my sine. I screech like a girl in shock and disgust and frantically jerk away. I rub my ear against my shoulder.
"HAHAHA! AWSOME! BeastBoys crackles!" I release my grip and BB, completely skeeved out, continue to attempt to clean my ear. "AWWW MAN! DUDE! SERIOUSLY?! A WET WILLY?! THATS SOOOO NASTY..."
BB stops laughing and frowns. "Awww man! Not again!"
From down below a giant robot with eight legs and a head of a Mad Mod bot jumps up to our level. It has several friends up above and each time the robots take a giant jump towards us the ground shakes beneath our feet. I light my hands up and me and Cyborg blast away at the one decending on us while BeastBoy turns into a rhino and charges the ones coming up towards us. As a team we blast away every robot untill we'er standing in a pile of nothing but nuts and bolts.
Suddenly, Cyborg yells in pain behind me which is then followed by a 'thump' I turn around just in time to avoid being electrocuted by the small robot that had shocked Cyborg. I blast the machine into a heap of smoldering pieces of melted metal and scurry over to robotic friend. I roll him onto his back and find him alive but passed out. The floor shakes violently bellow my feet and throws me off balance. I stumble backwards and fall over the ledge. I fall onto my bad shoulder and gasp. Though my healing had kicked in, the muscle surrounding the once punctured area was still extremely sore and painful to touch. I suck in a hiss of breath and roll onto my good shoulder. To my left I spot Robin fighting Mad Mad.
"Aww give it a rest knotty. You've all ready lost!" Mad Mod points at something with his cane and I follow Robin gaze as he looks. My stomach knots up into several hundred knots - each one of my friends has been bound and restrained my chairs that seem to suppress their superpowers. Raven, Cyborg, StarFire, and BeastBoy, all struggle against their bonds with desperation. I look back at Mad Mod and Robin and get up to my feet. I can't help Robin because the platform he is on is levitating in the air, but I could shure as hell help.
I light up my hand and shoot a ball of light at the cane in an attempt to disarm him. Its a perfect shot and it...passes right through the cane? WHAT? Robin sees this anomaly to and looks down at me. Thats when it hits him.
"The cane isnt real!" he shouts down to me. "Mad Mod is just as fake as everything else in here!"
I frown confused. And then my frown turns into a knowing smirk. "Time for a reality check!" I shout back up to Robin." As quick as a bunny I sprint across the floor the nearest wall. Out of the corner of my eyes I spot several missile armed statues following me in hot pursuete. I jump into a tear in the wall StarFire created and skillfully roll inside. The missiles behind me and launched and explode just outside of the mouth of the hole.
On my hands and knees I crawl around in the body of the building tearing out electrical wires from the walls. The wires spark with electricity and I remind myself not to touch. I pry apart plugs and break any electrical appliances that look important and expensive. My plan works. Outside I hear things exploding and falling from the ceiling. THen, without warning, the sides of the room suddenly roll up like blinds;exposing the entire inside body of the building.
Up ahead an electrical device over heats and explodes; making the familiar hissing sound Tyler's computers often made when they over heat. Someone shout and coughs. "My machines!" exclaims a familiar voice up ahead. I push on and soon find myself in a hallway with a ceiling high enough to stand straight in. Smoke billows out from a nearby hallway which, as I a proch, I find is actually a small room. "That little sprot lot will pay for this..." I watch an old man yell. He has grey discolored skin and a leathery scalp that is bald minus some grey puffs of hair. He looks the same as the Mad Mod from before but about ten years older.
I grab the man by the front of his shirt and pull him up to me as he turns around. He gasps surprise. I glare at the man furiously. My knuckles clench around the thin fabric of his red sweater. Mad Mod readjusts his wire rimmed glasses. "Hello governor!" he smiles sheepishly. "Put a sock in it Mod. Your days of teaching are over and you're looking as about twenty years of detention." Mad Mod winces in response to my threat. I create a pair of handcuffs, spin the old man around and bind his hands together.
With Mad Mods help, the Titans and I find a way out of Mad Mods fun house. I stand on top of the building and take in a deep breath of the cool fresh sea breeze. I've missed the salty smell of the ocean sence leaving the Titans and just now im beginning to realize how much so. "Ah ya this is diffidently the real deal!" exclaims Cyborg as he take a deep breath.
From bellow, Robin throws Mad Mod up onto the roof of the building. He lands on the metal roof with a bang. Robin climbs out of the hole in the roof the building. "School always does seem smaller after you graduate. Doesn't it?"
"Just don't expect me to go to any reunions." scoffs Raven. I smirk and laugh. I missed ravens dry sence of humor. I rub the back of my neck and look around. "So you guys are gonna take Mad Mod to jail?" I ask my friends.
Robin lifts Mad Mod up to his feet and nods his head. "Ya. Want to come?"
Forlornly I shake my head. As much as I want to go, I have to remind myself that I have my family back home wondering where I am. "Na man, I got to get back home. My family doesn't know where I am. They're probably freaking out." I manage a fake smile. Robin and the rest of the Titans frown, sad that im leaving.
"Hanna," states StarFire. "Hanna, if you ever wish to return and fight crime with us, please do not hesitate. We would be delighted."
I smile at her kind offer. "Thanks StarFire. That...means alot." I sigh and crack my knuckles. "Ive missed you guys. I miss being able to train and fight bad guys so much. The others, the Omegas, they've started school like me and they're fitting in beautifully. Logan joined the football team and is being looked at by colleges. Tyler and his speed got him on the track team and has made him captain of the cross-country team. Jayden, well...she's really into theater and shes joined the play. Alex has joined the chess team and has held a hundred average in every class for the past month. Holly is almost always helping out at the human shelter and at the local food pantry. Danny joined every club that helps the enviroment and Madison just naturally fits in. The girls loath her and the boys adore her." I look at my friends earnestly "They really want this."
The Titans nod their heads understandingly. Cyborg looks down at the ground sadly and it strikes me the at some point, he too must have had a school life of his own.
Its BeastBoy who talks first. "What about you? Do you like being normal?" He asks me this like it's a test and not a general question.
I look at him blatantly.
Do I like being normal?
I crack a smile and chuckle - shaking my head all the while.
"Normals overrated."
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