Sorry it's another short one, but I hope you like it! I don't own Teen Titans.


Ms. Fantoccini sighed, pushing open the door to her small apartment. Her day had been a long one, and she worried for the new people added to the zoo.

She scuttled into her cramped kitchen and poured herself a glass of water, sipping at the cool liquid as she walked over to her bedroom and climbed onto the web that ran throughout the room. She climbed to the middle of the web, diagonal to the floor and settled there, finishing off her water. Once she was done with the glass she set it on the floor and climbed to the top of her web in the corner of her room. Tugging at a few strands of silk at a time, she began to play a tune, a lullaby she had remembered from her very brief childhood on her planet.

She stopped playing and waited a moment. And a moment more. Sitting there for almost a whole minute, not daring to move for fear of hitting another string. Finally, the computer responded and the room pulsed a low purple once. The wall beside where she was resting, just under the ceiling, slid open to reveal a small passageway barely big enough for the Spindress to squeeze into.

Ms. Fantoccini dropped to the floor of the tiny, hidden room and sighed. The room was dark, lit only by the steady white-blue of a television picking up the news from a nearby planet. There were tables and shelves lining the walls covered in books and papers and useless knick-knacks. Pictures of different creatures residing in the zoo were pinned to a corkboard off to the side, short descriptions beneath each photo listing their name, age, species, and usefulness.

Scuttling over to a small worktable she picked up one of the two little, plastic communicators she had there and flipped open the top. Static filled the room as the screen jumped with grey and white snow.

". . .beas. . .oy. . . . c. . .m. . .b. . .st boy," a message struggled to get through.

The Spindress turned the communicator off and picked up the second one. Taking off the back of both, she replaced wires and broken chips from one with the other. Turing the now-complete one back on she watched the screen boot back up from black to black-blue. A small white light appeared in the center and blinked. It drew itself up into a line and typed out a short message.

Password:


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