HANNA'S POV
"Goodness is killing you going to take all day?"
Robin grabs the banana out of my hand and smiles.
"Why? You buzzy?"
I look over Robins lean defined body and smirks. "Oh, I'm not complaining."
I grab a knife off of the desk and lung at Robin.
Raven disarm me with a single thought and sends the knife flying under the couch.
"If you were in a hurry you could of killed me at the harbor." Robin points out smugly.
I look at Robin and put on my best wounded face I can muster. "But we only just met. I'm a sociopath, I'm not rude."
I spin around once again and swipe my silver revolver off the counter. I point the gun at Boy Wonders forehead. Several of the children in the room yell and turn away in anticipation of what will happen to their leader. I smile and pull back the trigger.
The gun clicks but does not fire. I pull the trigger back three more times and still nothing happens. I look down at the gun in my hand confused. The clipping was missing.
I look up at Robin and find him smirking smugly. He blows imaginary smoke from the clipping he removed.
I purse my lips together and throw the empty gun on the floor. I glare at the leader of the Teen Titans and shake my head.
BeastBoy comes from behind Robin and let's out a desperate cry. "Your not a sociopath. Why . . . why would she be?"
I smirk and begin to circle the raven haired teen. "Oh children pay attention. I was trained unconditionally for one purpose. I was born to destroy Jump City. Even if that means taking you lot down with it."
"No, listen to us!" shouts Robin. "We're your friends. Remember? We protected you from PrimaTech and helped you rescue your family. You lived with us for five months. You need help, your being mind controlled."
I run at Robin and catch him by surprise. I take a hold of his utility belt and pull his body against mine. His body goes ridged as our noses practically touch. I smile. I find it amusing that this powerless teenager was the leader of the Titans. He has no super powers and yet, he manages to be feared by so many.
"Your making a big mistake. You don't want do this. We're your friends." He says earnestly. "You're my friend too."
My smile widens. "I'm all yours honey." I kiss the teen on his lips playfully.
Robin ignores the kiss. "Only Hanna can call me that."
"And who's Hanna?"
"An old friend of mine."
"Stupid name."
I release my hold on Robins yellow belt and run to the side of the museum. I grab a hold of side glass window and lean out of the broken window. I look out over jump city and smile. Butterflies flutter in my stomach.
"Look at that!" I exclaim. "Jump City! A city just awaiting my arrival." I sigh contently and lean back into the tower to look at super-powered kids inside.
"Omegas, StarFire, Cyborg, Beast Boy, Raven, don't follow me. And yes, that is a warning."
Robin scoffs. "No warning for me then?"
I smile. "No need my love. The deed is done. And so are you."
Robin smiles smugly and takes a step towards me. He stumbles, gasps, and grabs his chest. StarFire flies to his side.
"Robin what is the matter?" she questions.
Robin staggers into a crooked standing position and looks up at me through his mask. "What...what have you done!? Hanna!" The boy falls to the ground on his hands and knees and wheezes. StarFire and Cyborg are at his side in an instant.
"Oh Hanna, Hanna, Hanna. More than a friend I think."
Jayden and Danny put their arms under Robins armpits and help him to his feet. Boy Wonder looks at me and I can see the paleness that has crept into his complexion.
"What have you done?!" Robin shouts. He cries out in pain and his legs give out from underneath him.
I smile. "It was never going to be a gun for you Robin. The boy of wonders. The boy who understands every type of warfare but, and perhaps the cruelest..."
Robins eyes widen. He wipes his lips with his green gloved hand and stares at his fingers with wide eyes. Knowing he's been poisoned, I smile and blow him a kiss. "Kiss kiss." I say and jump out the window.
"Robin! What is wrong? What has she done?" demands StarFire.
Robin fights gravity and uses objects around him to try to stand by himself. "Shes poisoned me. But I'm fine." Robin groans and sucks in a quick deep breath as he tries to mask his pain. His legs fail to support his body and Danny and Jayden have to put their backs into holding him upright. "Well no...I'm dying." he confesses between clenched teeth. "Pftttt...But I've got a plan."
StarFire switches places with Danny and supports Robins body. Fear is plastered across her face and it's presence is obvious to everyone in the room. "What plan?" she demands.
Robin moans. "Not dying." He forces his legs to support his own weight and manages to stand up right. "See? Fine." He groans and stumbles into the wall which he uses for support.
Cyborg scans Robin with his medical scanner. "Scanning him." he says. A heart rate monitor pops up on a small holographic screen and Cyborg frowns. "He's defiantly dying alright."
StarFire glares at Cyborg. "No he is not! He can't be!"
Cyborg folds down his medical device. "Ok what do we do! How do we help you?" he asks Robin.
Robin rummages in his utility belt and hands BeastBoy a small electronic devise. BeastBoy turns the devise on and looks at it confused as it lights up.
"Follow her. Follow Hanna! We can't let her hurt anyone. And we can't let anyone hurt her."
Without hesitation, BeastBoy runs to the broken glass window and jumps out. As he falls from the museum window he throws the tracker high into the air and transforms into a hawk. He catches the devise in his talons and flys away.
Holly, Danny, Madison, Logan, Tyler, Alex, and Jayden exchange a nervous glance.
Robin looks up a them and upon finding them still standing around, waves them on.
"Go! You need to stop her!"
Reluctantly, the teens leave the room with the Cyborg and and Raven. Leaving StarFire and Alex behind to look over Robin.
**** THIRD PERSON POV ****
BeastBoy lands on the street sidewalk and transforms back into his human form. Civilians run down the street and scream. A mother holding her crying baby runs with her head and arms wrapped around her infant. Her skirt flutters in the wind as she dashes for safety.
BeastBoy takes of running towards the threat.
He looks around and spots Hanna further ahead breaking the windows of stores and shops with blasts of light.
The sight makes the young shapeshifter sick. This is not the Hanna he knows and loves. This being is someone else.
Hanna spots the changeling in the corner of her eye and turns around to face him. She smiles and blasts and apartment building above his head. Thankfully, the apartment complex had been vacated long ago.
The streets are empty now besides for Hanna and BeastBoy. BeastBoy raises his hands to show he means no harm and takes a step towards Hanna.
Hanna blasts another ray of light at a restaurant window. The glass shatters and innocents inside scream and run out.
"Hanna, I don't want to fight you! I just want to help! Please Hanna! I'm your friend!"
Hanna frowns and shoots a bakery nearby. An alarm goes of as thick black smoke begins to accumulate the inside the store. Once again innocent civilians scream in terror.
"That's it! I hate to do this to you Hanna but you leave me no choice."
BeastBoy turns into an Ox and paws at the ground. He charges at Hanna. She remains grounded - waiting. For several moments BeastBoys thinks he is actually going to hit her but at the last moment she jumps to the side of BeastBoy and grabs his horns. With surprising strength she directs the bulls head to the left and down to the ground by firmly grabbing its horns.
The bull turns back into BeastBoy and Hanna maintains her hold. With his head pined down, BeastBoy looks up at Hanna in the corner of his eye. "Hanna," he pleads "come on I know your in there. Don't do this. Look at what your doing. Look at all the people your hurting.
Hanna takes her eyes off the changeling and glances up for the briefest of moments. The bakery across the street is now engulfed in flames. Thick billows of smoke pore out of the windows and the baker stares at his burning bakery from a distance clutching his wife and child. The grown man has tears running down his face.
Hanna loosens her grip on BeastBoys neck and stares at the family.
"Come on Hanna! Fight it! You've never let anyone tell you what to do! Don't start now!"
Hanna lets go of BeastBoy nearly completely and sits on the back of her heels in a trance like state. She watches the family and a small amount of blood trickles out of her nose.
She looks at BeastBoy blankly and doubles over in pain clutching her head. She moans and looks back up at the changeling. She frowns and lights up her hands. BeastBoy looks fearfully at Hanna and scoots backwards until his back hits a flat vertical surface.
Hanna gets to her feet and towers over the green child. She spreads her arms up over her head. The two balls of light in Hanna's hands tun to two balls of fire and cause Hanna's face to glow red.
'Fire? But . . . Thats Logan's ability?' the changeling thinks to to himself.
Hanna's nose bleeds heavily and trickles down her face and onto the pavement. She pulls back her arm and is just about to launch the ball of fire at BeastBoy when theres a loud deep noise and she's struck by an invisible force. Hanna flies several yards backwards and crashes into the side of a volkswagen beetle.
BeastBoy looks to his left and finds Danny running to him. He lends BeastBoy a hand and helps him to his feet.
"Are you ok?" he asks.
BeastBoy nods his head and looks at Hanna who is just starting to come to her senses. "Hanna's fighting for control. I was just starting to get through to her when. I lost her."
Danny nods his head understandingly. "Mind control can force a person to do many things. But when it comes to murder - the human instincts are to strong."
"So your saying that Hanna can hurt us but she can't kill us?"
Hanna attempts to blast the boys with a ray of light but she staggers and misses by several feet.
"Ya."
BeastBoy frowns. "How can we snap Hanna out of it?"
Hanna screams in anger and charges at the two boys. She forms a whip in each of her hands and snaps them threateningly. Neither willing to fight, Danny and BeastBoy back away from Hanna. Danny pulses and a wave of sound collides with Hannas whip with a CRACK.
"Hey! Need a hand?!"
BeastBoy looks back and spots Logan, Holly, Jayden, Tyler, Madison, Cyborg, and Raven running their sides.
Hanna lashes out at BeastBoy and manages to slice him right above his eyebrow. He yelps and backs up several paces as he holds his face in his hands.
Raven wraps her dark magic around the knob to a newspaper stand and yanks the handle open. From there she uses her magic and throws the paper in Hanna's face. Hanna swats at the papers iritated.
"What happened to Hanna's nose?" questions Holly. "You didn't punch her did you?"
Blood runs down both of Hanna's nostrils and Hanna wipes it away with the back of her hand.
BeastBoy sakes his head. "No. It's Hanna. She's fighting for control."
Hanna blasts several nearby buildings in a fit of rage and leaves them with gaping holes several feet in diameter. Civilians who were hiding in the buildings run out of their homes and sprint for a different form of cover.
Hanna sees the civilians and lights up her hands to attack.
Left no other choice, Jayden points at Hanna with her pointer finger and shoots a ball of electricity directly at Hanna. Hanna stops blasting holes into buildings and catches the ball of energy in her stomach. She grunts and - with a tromendous amount of effort - whips the ball back at the Titans and Omegas. The Teens jump out of the way and watch as the lightning ball crashes into an abandoned car.
The Titans and Omegas look at Hanna with gaping mouths. "SHE CAN CONTROLL ELECTRICITY!" scream Jayden "BUT . . . THAT'S MY GIG!"
BeastBoy looks at Hanna who furious but yet at the same time . . . close to tears. "Earlier Hanna summoned fire." he states "Could it be possible that maybe . . . Hanna has all of you powers?"
The Omegas look at Hanna shocked as all the puzzle peices click into place.
"Well . . . only one way to see."
Tyler uses his power and takes off running towards Hanna. He's so fast that to the normal human eye, he takes the form of a blurr. Tyler pulls Hanna's blue hood over her head and pushes her from behind befor backing away.
Hanna stumbles forward and regains her balance. She spins around and snarls at Tyler who stands in the middle of the street looking wired and excited.
"Hanna!" he yells.
Hanna rolls her eyes "Your as quick as ever!"
Tyler places his hands on his hips. "Ya? Well . . . your not really all there!"
"Oh! Nice try! If you had another minute you could have come up with a better comeback."
Tyler looks at Hanna unamused. "Ya well, if youahead another minute you would have realized that I'm stalling. HOLLY NOW!"
On Tyler's cue Holly mentally attacks Hanna. She grabs her from behind and places her hand on Hanna's temple. Hanna bucks but Holly holds tight and manages toknock Hanna unconscious.
The teens run to Hanna and and gather around her.
"Does someone smell something burning?" asks Tyler.
Confident that Hanna is unconscious, Holly rolls Hanna on her back and reveals a scorcher mark on the stomach section of her sweatshirt. The plastic material in the sweater has turned brown and black and in some spots, has burned away completely.
"Ooooo! You ruined her sweater! Hanna's going to kill you!"
Jayden socks Tyler on the arm. "We have bigger things to worry about than Hanna's favorite sweater."
Holly sits down next to Hanna and rests Hanna's head on her lap. Hanna's nose continues to heavily bleed but now it runs down her cheek.
"So how are we gonna free Hanna?" asks Cyborg. "I mean its not like she's just gonna snap out of it when she wakes up. Right?"
Raven kneels next to Hanna. "I should be able to break the connection. But whoever is controlling Hanna might reestablish the connection as soon as I break it."
Raven walks around Hanna's legs and kneels to the side of her unconscious figure. She places her pale hands on both sides of Hanna's temples and chants Azaroth Metron Zinthose several times under her breath. She stops and nothing happens. Raven looks up at us.
"Now all we do is wait."
**** Hanna's POV ****
I wake up groggy and with a splitting headache. The room I'm in is is dark - besides for a few colored flashing lights - and uncomfortably chilly. I lift my head up to look around but the pain is to much to bare. I'm hit buy a wave of and forced to lay my head back down.
I have no idea where I am and for some strange reason, I don't quite care. Maybe it's because I'm tired. Or maybe it's because of my throbbing migraine. But to be completely honest, if my life depended on it I don't think I could do much of anything besides sit here.
I turn my head to the side and slowly open my eyes. I lay the for several moments staring into the darkness tuning to the dark figures in the room. There is one shape in particular that I focused on. I study the long skinny shape for several minutes and listen to its breathing. A sinking feeling forms in my stomach and I'm afraid to find out what it is.
I sit up and there's a rattling nose. I move my hand and hear the noise once again. I touch my left wrist and find a cool mettle chain attached to a tight leather bracelet.
I touch my other wrist and find that wrist is leashed by chains too. I begin to panic. My heart rate speeds up and I'm hyperventilating. I attempt to get out of the bed but I find my ankles chained to the rails of the bed.
I'm suddenly paying more attention to my surroundings. The machine in the corner of the room makes a frantic blipping noise which I speculate is a heart monitor. The glowing number in the dark reads 150 and it continues to climb.
I yank against my restrains frantically and pull against the leashes. I buck in my bed and find my torso loosely restrained. I'm kicking the side rails with all the strength I can muster when suddenly the door to the room flies open and the light are turned on.
The lights are blinding and I momentarily stop fighting my restraints. I burry my face as best as I can into the hospital cot and squeeze my eyes shut. The florescent lights manage to penetrate through my eyelids and I find my migraine returning.
I hear several pairs of feet walk into the room and I hear the sound of someone shutting the door.
A smooth hand is placed on my skin and I attempt desperately to squirm away from it. "Hanna. Hanna honey. You need to calm down. Everything's ok. Just relax."
The beeping noise of the heart monitor slow down slightly even though I'm still freaking out. I quit fighting against my restrains and lay in the bed exhausted.
"Where...where am I?!" I stammer.
Holly makes soothing noises and strokes my arm.
"Your in the Titans medical bay. You've been unconscious for several hours."
Someone in the room dims the lighting to the point where it no longer hurts my head. I look around the room and find Alex, Holly, StarFire, BeastBoy, Raven and Cyborg in the room looking at me with concerned faces.
"What's the last thing you remember Hanna?"
I sit up and lean my back against the cool wall. I don't know when but at some point I must have taken my hoodie off. I look at my chained hands and sigh.
"Are these really necessary?" I ask gesturing to the restraints.
They look at me somberly and nod their heads.
"Hanna what do you remember?" repeats Cyborg.
I look at my hands and think.
"I don't know. I don't remember anything."
My friends exchange worried glances.
"Why? Did I do something?"
By the look on my friends faces I come to the conclusion that I indeed did do something. And I have a gut feeling that that somethings not good.
I study my friends faces and it suddenly occurs to me.
"Hey, wheres Robin and StarFire?"
Madison stifles a sob and covers her mouth. I'm totally confused. And worried.
"Can you take these restraints off of me?" I ask quietly.
The room is quiet as Cyborg obliges and removes my restraints. I rub my wrists and swing my legs over the side of the bed. I look around at my friends and find them looking somberly at the floor. Something's defiantly not right.
Alex takes a seat next to me on the cot and places his hand on my lap.
"Hanna," he says morosely. "You for the past three days you've been under the influence of mind control. You went on a rampage and started destroying the city. We stopped you but..."
My eyes widen. "No. Dear god no! Tell me I didn't!"
Alex looks into my eyes and shakes his head. "No, you didn't. But he's in critical condition."
At that preside moment I loose control of my power and ever electrical devise in the room shorts out. The lights above us pop loudly and several of my friends yelp in surprise. Sparks rain down from above and scorch the white bed sheets. The heart monitor sparks and bursts into flames. Logan swears loudly out of shear surprise and the extinguishes the fire by touching the flames.
I jump off of the bed throw back the curtains that hid Robins cot from view when I was first waking up.
Robin lays on the bed unconscious and before I known it I'm forming two balls of pure light and forcing energy into Robins body. My vision turns yellow and in the dark room my hands and Robins body glow brightly.
I move my hand over Robins heart and he gasps. He looks up at me with wide eyes behind his mask. I stop the healing process and double over exhausted. Bent over, I rest my head on Robins bed and pant heavily. I'm glowing like crazy and my light is illuminating the entire room in a golden hue.
Robins shifts his body and groans. "Hanna?"
I hold up my hand and gesture for Robin to shut up.
I take a few moments to catch my breath and when I finally do I look at Robin exhausted. I stand over his figure and jab my finger into his chest hard. Robin gasps.
"DON'T YOU EVEN THINK ABOUT DYING BOY WONDER! THERES NO DYING ON MY WATCH. NOT WHILE IM BREATHING."
I then turn on my heels and grab Cyborg and Alex's hand in each of mine and pull them to the door.
"Come on! We got a city to fix!"
**** LATER THAT DAY - HANNA'S POV ****
I pound fists with Robin BeastBoy and Cyborg and give Raven and Starfire hugs as my family loads into the two yellow taxi cabs Mr Queen as rented for us to drive home in.
"Well, sorry again for ... well, destroying part of you city." I say sheepishly.
"Don't worry about it man." says Cyborg. "It's not like you were trying to destroy the city."
I let out a deep sigh. "Ya well, anyway..." I state somberly "Give me a call next time you need help. We have to stay in touch. The Omegas aren't really into crime fighting and I miss fighting with you guys."
Robin smirks and nods. "Defiantly. We'll give you a call. Things have been pretty quiet recently but ..."
"We will most certainty give you the call." finishes StarFire.
I place my hand on the cabs door. "Well. I guess it time for me to ..."
"Wait!" exclaims BeastBoy. The Titans look at BeastBoy startled. "Can I ummm . . . Talk to you for a moment?" he rubs the back of his neck. "You know. Like, in private?"
Something occurs to Cyborg who grins smugly. "Come on y'all." he says "Let's give BB and Hanna some space." he winks at BeastBoy who looks at his robotic friend nervously.
I tell the taxi driver to wait a few more minutes and he grumbles. Typical. I shut the door behind me and walk with BeastBoy to the docks.
"Umm so you wanna . . . ummm . . ." BeastBoy looks down at his feet and rubs the back of his neck bashfully. He looks up at me with his young green eyes and searches my face.
"Wanna what?" I ask.
He flashes me a brief smile and shakes his head. "I don't know. . . ahhh . . . ummm . . . " BeastBoy shrugs his shoulders. "We could ahhh . . . or we could do something else. You know . . . we could uh . . ."
A smile spreads across my face as I realize that BeastBoy is trying to ask me out on a date. "Ya." I say.
He looks up at me clearly surprised. He looks at my face and cocks his head to the side. "Ya?"
I nod my head. "Ya ether one." I remark.
A smile spreads across BeastBoys face. "Really?" he asks dazed. The taxi honks its horn and snaps BB out of his shocked trance. "Well . . . ok then. How about a movie next Thursday? And maybe we can get a bite to eat or something . . . "
I kiss BeastBoy on the cheek and interrupt his train of thought. "Pick me up at noon?"
