HEWO! Yah...I'm a little giddy. I just finished Breaking Dawn from the Twilight series. It's a little annoying. But anyways...
TTNG: New Team
Chapter 18: Flashbacks: Part Two
Percy raced down the highway passing a Porche, Lexus, Lincoln and a Mercedes. The cops didn't pull him over for obvious reasons. I mean really. Would you pull over a super hero (shut up Gotham City Police Department)? Well, they did yell out the car window "SLOW DOWN DUDE!". Well, if you think think the traffic distracted him, you'd be voted off the island. He was completely concentrated on the deductive reasoning that was on the map. So far, Clown Boy had attacked a hospital, a bank, and the police station. They hadn't been blown up (thanks to the current Boy Wonder, but no one knew that).
OK. So far he's been to a hospital, a bank, and the police station. Both of them help people, and they show authority. Authority. He's always had a problem with that. He also has a problem with leaders. Well, I'm not in Washington DC, so it's not the White House. So what's the closest thing to that in Seattle? Not really much of any thing. Hmm...everything seems to be going further and further south. So that means-Aw man! I have to go to Olympia?! Calm down Bauer. You're not letting Clown Boy get away this time. Not again. I'll go to Mexico if I have to!
At that, he got off at the exit to Olympia.
"Ari, where did that thing come from?" Sun asked as Arachne pulled a sheet off of her own motorcycle.
"Dad. He felt guilty of missing Pete and mines birthday, so I got this." she smiled. Crow smirked.
"Then why do you always ride with Percy?" he asked in a teasing tone. Everyone tried to suppress a laugh. Ari glared.
"Shut up." she snapped. That was the end of the teasing. They had a fairly large will to live. They all had their own methods of travel. Tim (now in his Traffic Light costume) had the R-Cycle, Beth rode with Tim, Ari had her Harley Davidson, Crow, Sunny, and LB could fly, and Hex drove his car. He didn't want to get run over. So they took off.
"Ari, are you sur this is accurate?! He's been in the same spot for an hour!" LB called down to her.
"Maybe we were lucky and he got a flat!" she yelled back. LB shook her head. This was never going to work. How long did it take to fix a flat tire?
"We're almost there! He must have missed the exit!" Ari called to everyone. They traveled another mile, and then they got to where the tracker lead them. There was nothing there, but Ari heard a familiar beeping sound, and groaned. She picked up the tracker.
"Well this is depressing." Beth muttered. Ari picked up a note.
"He left this. 'Nice try Ari. It won't work. -Percy'." she read. Then she threw it accross the road. Crow closed his eyes, andstarted floating.
"What're you doing?' Sun asked concerned.
"I'm going into his mind. My mom did it once with your dad." he murmured. He fell silent, but Percy's mind was far from silent.
...
"Percy, stop this! You're scaring us!"
"Crow? What're you doing in here? Ever heard of privacy?"
"Yes I have. But that's not the point. You know who's even more scared than we are?"
"Who?"
"Arachne."
"..."
"She's worried about you P. Your not the only one here who has lost your mother. LB lost her mom three years ago. But you don't see her freaking out like a maniac."
"Her mom wasn't murdered by a phycopath."
"No, but that doesn't mean she doesn't know how you feel."
"Get out Bird Boy."
"Fine."
...
"Well, someones in a bad mood." Crow said. Tim's eyes widened.
"How mad was he?" he asked urgently. Crow thought for a brief moment.
"You know how Samara from The Ring wanted to kill all humanity?" he asked. They all shuddered.
"Uh-huh." Ari muttered, blushing at a memory.
"Well, take that, and multiply it by two." Crow explained. Tim and Beth gasped, while Hex looked concerned.
"I'm not good at math." he murmured. Crow slapped his forehead. Tim and Bethany exchanged glances.
"We've gotta find him soon! If he's as mad as you say he is, then even the smallest thing will set him off. He's like a time bomb right now. And I mean that literally." Tim explained to a shocked Titans Seattle.
"What do you mean?" Ari asked him.
"He almost blew me up once." he muttered.
"Percy! Wake up! Come on! If you croak I'll be grounded for life!" Tim was shaking his friend like mad. Percy stirred a little, then his eyes opened.
"Ow..." was all he said. He got up and rubbed his head.
"You OK dude?" Tim asked. Percy nodded, right when some guy from the test facility came by, grabbed them, and cleaned the radiation off. Then they got kicked out.
"That was weird." Percy mumbled.
"So what happened in there Percy? What did they do? Dude! Your hand's on fire!" Tim exclaimed pointing to Percy's hand. Percy looked at it, confused.
"That's weird. I don't feel it. I wonder..." Percy was talking to himself now. He clenched his fist, and the fire dispersed. He clenched it again, and it was on fire again.
"Whoa..." Tim muttered. Percy's eyes widened with amazement. Tim looked at his friends face, and saw that his amazement was turned to fury.
"Not only did he kill my mom, now because of him I'm some sort of freak! I'll be exiled, like the X-Men are! I'll get him if it's the last thing I do!" Percy was ranting now. Tim noticed that the fire had spread up his forearm. He took a step back. Then another. And another. Soon enough, Percy was completely engulfed in flames.
"Percy! What's going on?!" Tim called. But Percy couldn't hear him. Well, he kind of could. It was like he was unconscious. He basically was. His only sense was sight, and faint hearing. Percy was ten feet in the air now. Tim was panicked, but his training with the Dark Knight let him calm down and assess the situation. He realized that this was all anger related. All he had to do was calm him down.
"Percy! Listen to me! You could help peple with this! Bruce could train you! You're already a great detective! You solved the Who-Done-It thing in second grade before I did! Just calm down! Remember you said you'd help me say a full sentence to Bethany Gordon? How will you do that if you're a massive ball of fire?!" Tim called.
It was working. Percy was calming down. He started to get down to the ground.
"It's working. Percy, I know you're in there. come on! Help me talk to Beth! I can't even say a full sentence to her without stammering!" Tim said in a normal speaking voice. That last remark was enough to make Percy laugh, and get back to normal.
"Remind me not to get mad, will you?" Percy asked. Tim nodded.
"Sure thing bro." he said. Percy smiled.
"Now, in order to talk to Bethany, you need to talk to her like you talk to me. Only more sensitive..."
Sun snapped her fingers in front of Tim's face.
"Whoa!" he jumped, startled.
"Nice memory dude." Crow was wide eyed. Tim looked at him, then remembered.
"Huh? Oh right. Empath." he said. Crow smiled.
"You couldn't even talk to a girl?" he grinned.
"Shut up." Tim muttered. Beth laughed.
"And he didn't even ask me out 'till we were fourteen." she giggled.
"Yeah, yeah, yeah. Crow, do you know where Percy went?" Ari was a bit anxious. Understatement. Big time.
"Oh yeah! He's headed for Olympia. He thinks 'Clown Boy' is headed for the state house." Crow explained. Before he even finnished the sentence, she was on her bike, headed south. Tim ran to the R-Cycle, only to realized...
"She slashed my tires!" he shouted. Hex made the same discovery.
"Well, call AAA, and we'll carry you! We need to catch up with her." Sun exclaimed. Crow put his hand on her shoulder.
"No. If we all go, he'll get deffensive. If only she goes, she'll have a better chance." he said softly. Tim's mouth dropped, but then he sighed.
"He's right. She has the most influence on him." he realized. They all stared off in the direction of where Ari had gone.
"We're following her, but we'll stay hidden." LB sudjested. Everyone nodded. Sun picked up tim and Beth, while Crow and LB carried Hex.
"Cut down on the Doritos, will you Hex?" LB grunted.
Well, that wasn't SO bad. The 'Percy freaks out' scene wasn't as good as I would have hoped, but other than that, I liked it. But I want YOUR opinions. REVIEW OR I'LL GO INTO A CORNARY. Which is not good at 9:45 pm. Goodnight peoples!