So . . . steamy!
Enjoy!
P.S. Sorry if it gets confusing with the name changes. Just refer back to the groups and the key at the end if you really get mixed up. And I can also now make more dirty jokes because of my forced M rating!
Chapter 5
"You Cannot Escape From This"
Jinx:
Ugh, whatever Blackfire saw in my brother was beyond me. I watched Red X steal a few glances at her throughout the whole meeting and to be honest, it was really starting to get on my nerves. Blackfire had come back in the room last night, flustered, and refused to give us an answer as to why, but I had a feeling. I peeked my head out the door just to catch Red X closing his and immediately my eyes narrowed, pink sparks coming from my fingers, but I brushed it off a few seconds later. After Raven and Starfire left for bed I had the urge to confront Blackfire, but she seemed in no mood to speak. Eventually I let it drop, but my brother had better get his thoughts straight soon, or he was going to get a little talking to.
I immediately raised my hand, "I'm up to go."
Others raised their hand after me, Blackfire, Raven, Kid Flash, Beast Boy, and by that time we had five people. Beast Boy and I would be in charge, but I knew the area better then him, so it would mainly be me leading.
"This is now you're permanent group," Robin said. "Three for the next one, so the numbers will vary. Whose going?"
Argent, Red X, and the Harold were in it.
"Four this time. I'll be in this one."
Cyborg, Bumblebee, Starfire were added to the group.
The rest of the groups were Kole, Jericho, and Speedy. Gizmo, Mammoth, See-More, and Aqualad, an all boys group. I stopped paying attention until Robin ordered my group (now named Group 1) were to construct our alibi and go into town, in an hour. Cyborg had created a holo-ring for me, since I know was well known and couldn't just pass as someone who had dyed their hair. I was curious as to what he had designed for all of us and we went off to alter our uniforms and hand-me-down clothes we had kept from when we'd use to live here.
Blackfire and Raven went with me while Kid Flash and Beast Boy went into his room, to slip on the rings. Blackfire was handed her colored box, the exact color as the flicker of her powers that we had seen. Raven had her dark purple box and my pink one while Beast Boy got his green one and Kid Flash his yellow one with the red lightning bolt on it. I made a crack at that, in which he stuck his tongue out at me, before heading off with clothes for us to mix-and-match with.
Raven turned into Sparrow, and told us to call her as much. She'd turned back into Sparrow Roth. Which was a good thing, because it would be pretty suspicious if we went with the same last names we normally had. I slipped my ring on and my eyes widened when I looked in the mirror.
My hair was down, and a blood red, like dye and black streaks running through my hair. I still looked relatively the same, but I now had more of a figure and my eyes were blue. A few freckles were splattered across my face and I now had a normal skin tone. All in all though, the minor changes made me look like a completely different person. I was once again Jade Hexin, and we'd never told the Titans about those fake names we had before we joined them, so no one could question that.
"Blackfire, you'll need a fake name." I pointed out to her, "Slip your ring on so I can see and make a name for you that'll match your appearance."
Blackfire slipped the ring on and it was a great difference. She was now normal toned, black haired, and had green eyes. Her eyebrows were now normal and yet she had gotten a little bit of a hair styling, since it was now curly. Blackfire still had that 'don't mess with me quality' that she'd stuck too, and so I thought.
The name popped into my head just as she finished examining herself.
"Flaim Anders." I said. "You are now Flaim Anders."
Raven smirked, "Welcome to the society of Fake Identities."
Blackfire, still in her metal suit, now seemed very out of place in it, though her envied body proportions had remained the same, she didn't look normal. She looked like those wanna-be's who were constantly dressing and trying to act like us.
I dug through our clothes and tossed her a red shirt with black shorts. "Go put those on."
She caught them and went into the bathroom in my room, coming out a few minutes later. Raven and I had chosen from our old clothes. She had a blue tank top and vest with dark pants while I wore a pair of jeans and a white, large t-shirts that you wore a belt with (which I did). We'd already changed, not looking. When Blackfire came out, we were all ready.
"How do I look?" She asked, spinning for us. We gave her a thumbs up before heading outside to meet the boys.
Everyone was getting ready, fake identities prepared.
Robin, Gizmo, and Cyborg created out ID's one at a time. They digitally changed the color of our shirts, some removing extra layers so it wasn't immediately obvious we were wearing the same outfits. They were made into school ID's, like we were on a field trip, and with extra money from our bank accounts (which we'd wiped out and shoved into the old account the Titans hadn't been told we'd used before joining us, untouched for over a year now), we'd rented a bus to get us there, no questions asked.
We were prepared.
"Group 1!" Robin called. We took our cards immediately after being called. "Jinx- Jade Hexin. Beast Boy- Garfield Logan. Raven- Sparrow Roth. Blackfire- Flaim Anders. Kid Flash- Wally West."
"Wally?" I asked, brow rising as he came to stand next to me. "Where'd you get that?"
"Oh shut up," He grumbled, sticking his tongue out at me. "Its generic, and no one will think 'superhero' with a name like Wally."
I shrugged. True enough.
"Group 2! Argent- Elicia Regent. Red X- Redge Alexander. The Harold- Henry Milton."
"Group 3! Cyborg- Victor Stone. Bumblebee- Maria Lee. Starfire- Kori Anders. Robin- Richard Grayson."
"Group 4! Kole- Kim Hexin." Kole had decided to change her fake name, because it would be way too obvious and so she could be my sister, since Cyborg had gotten so used to us calling each other siblings he'd made her digital appearance look a lot like mine. She was the only one. "Jericho- Jared Cropper. Speedy- Sid Denison."
"Group 5! Gizmo- Eugene Nelson. Mammoth- Thommas Othrip. See-More- Sid Moris. Aqualad- Eric Sanders."
"Group 6! Mas- Mitch Lopez. Menos- Mark Lopez. Red Star- Reed Stevens."
And that was it. Everybody else was left behind, not at the castle, in different quadrants. But that was enough for a class field trip. Red Star was going to be teacher, because he was older then us, and it would be supposedly for learning how to handle your money, but us 'teenagers' would be using it for an obvious shopping opportunity. That would be the thing we'd tell the store clerks.
"Alright, each group has a team leader." Robin began. "Jinx, Red X, Cyborg, Kole, Gizmo, and Red Star, you're team leaders, because you have the most knowledge in your groups, and Red Star, you're the teacher for the new kids, and your excuse for sticking with them is they don't speak English very well, got it?" He nodded. "Good. I want everyone to work out a background with their groups. How they became friends, blah blah blah."
"And also," Cyborg cut in. "If anyone recognizes any of us, we're from Star City high. And if anyone recognizes our old clique, Aqualad, Gizmo, and you too, Raven, however short of a time you were out in public with us when we were villains, you tell them we're still friends, just drifted to hang out with other people."
We all nodded.
"Alright split up ya crud-munchers," Gizmo snapped, when no one moved, his identity in hand as he walked to his group.
Kid Flash, Raven, Blackfire, Beast Boy and I sat in a circle, just like everyone else was doing.
"So, Wally, you and Jade are dating," Raven began.
"And I'm just the fifth wheel," Blackfire teased, adding her piece. "Because Sparrow and Garfield are dating too, right?"
"Jade!" Kole called, running over to me. Everyone was already practicing memorizing other peoples names. She stopped in front of me, kneeling. "I already talked to Redge and we agreed that we should be step-siblings, since we're so used to it, so you can call him your step-brother, okay?"
I nodded, "Good idea."
"Thanks." She hurried back over to her group, calling, "Later, sis!" over her shoulder.
I turned back to 'Flaim'. "So, then, I'm trying to hook you up with my step-brother." I told her, grinning evilly.
She laughed, "Got it."
Raven- er, Sparrow:
An hour later our bus arrived and we got on board, Red Star ordering us around like the teacher he was pretending to be, talking to the bus driver about how rowdy teenagers were now and things adults said. It surprised me how easy he was about this.
Beast Boy, or, Garfield rather, had his arm around my person, which was Sparrow. I was already getting into character and smiling at him, but placing my 'don't-screw-with-me' look on my face. Flaim was screwing with us, making remarks about when we were going to have kids and things, telling both of us to get rooms.
Jade laughed when someone hit Wally in the back of the head with a piece of crumpled up paper (God knows where he got it) and turned. I laughed when I saw Eugene with a notebook that he'd gotten from a backpack (which held the sensors that would go off if someone got too close to the hideout, left a message on the answering machine, and a few other things we thought could be useful), nudging Mammoth, who was cracking up. Wally turned in his chair, and the two began shouting threats at each other before Mr. Stevens told them to sit down and be quiet or he was dropping them off here.
It was shocking how easy it was to imagine we were a regular group of High School kids and that Red Star was our teacher. It was also surprising to see how easily our groups had been formed. Red X's, or well, Redge's group were the goth group, Richard's group the popular kids, Kim's groups the 'nice' kids who were bordering on suck-ups, Eugene's group the boys who pretended like they were cool but couldn't get a girl to give them the time of day, and our group the people who were probably . . . active. Flaim looked like a slut, so it could fit. Honestly, I was pretty sure Jinx had already known what kind of group we'd be, and had made her fit the part that she didn't have a boyfriend because she was too busy messing around to hold on to one of the boys she grabbed.
"Hey Sparrow!"
I turned in my seat, obviously irritated and glaring already. It was Kim who'd called me, and she was a suck-up. I felt her emotions to make sure she knew we were just practicing and that her feelings weren't hurt. Thankfully she did, and nobody paid any mind to us.
"Whaddya want, squirt?" I snapped.
Kim played dumb, like she didn't understand the concept of 'mean'. She was a good actor. Years of practice, I remembered. "I just wanted to know where you were going to go shopping. Um, maybe we could hang out-?"
Flaim scoffed beside me. "In your dreams, runt."
It became immediately apparent to everyone that Kim was to be made fun of for her height, since most High School kids were rather cruel to those who didn't fit the exact appearance required: hot, normal sized, skinny, things like that. Kole bit her lip, nervously, settling back down in her chair to be comforted by the deaf kid and the medieval nerd, who thought that since he joined the archery team, he could be the next Robin Hood. In reality, before we'd left, Speedy had created that persona, which was why Kole (Kim) had come up with the idea to be the nerdy, cheerful group that couldn't catch a break. Jericho was deaf, and so people often shouted words at him, since he couldn't here. They had easily come up with their persona for themselves.
"I don't know, Flaim," Maria called, getting into the conversation. "You're starting to run out of boys to screw lately. We're all just kind of waiting for you to start swinging to the girls."
"That's enough you two!" Mr. Stevens snapped.
He was ignored. They were having too much fun.
Flaim smirked, "Sorry sweetie, you're not my type."
A chorus of, "Oohs" erupted in the bus, Eugene and his friends snickering the most.
Blackfire got a high-five from both myself and Jade, Garfield and Wally tightening their grips around our waists.
Wally gave Jade a casual kiss on the cheek, whispering something to her that she giggled at.
"Aw come on Wally, at least let us get off the bus before you and Jade start getting frisky." Richard complained, which people also laughed at.
I snorted. "Oh yeah, you're one to talk. If you're going to call people out on that Dick, at least have the sense to take your hand off of Kori's ass before you say anything. You'd think all your energy belonged to a lower organ with your smarts."
People were absolutely howling now, Mr. Steven's orders still going unnoticed by anyone, or at least we acted like it.
Kori's green eyes narrowed at me as she tossed her red hair over her shoulder. "At least my ass isn't as large as yours. Really, has Garfield already gotten you pregnant? With hips like those, it confuses me."
I was proud of her. You could barely hear her accent, but I had to pretend like I was pissed.
Flaim intervened, smirking. "Say whatever you want, sister dear, but when we get back to Star City, we'll see what happens next time you have Richard over for a late night snack and I decide to wake mommy and daddy up!"
Kori paled, as did Richard, and I marveled at their acting.
"I said that's enough! The next person to talk is getting detention every day after school for a month!" Mr. Stevens shouted, standing and gripping the seat. "Am I clear?"
We all grumbled our acknowledgments, giving him hateful looks.
"Good," and he sat down, talking to the driver again about how teaching teenagers sucked.
We all turned to those we'd yelled at though, as 'Reed' distracted the driver, mouthing or apologies and 'good jobs' to one another. Although Kid Flash did give Gizmo a teasing threat for throwing paper at him, which Gizmo responded with a 'bring-it-on' gesture. The two sat back in their seats, giggling until Red Star shot them a fake look of irritation, which shut them up quickly. We all high-fived one another on a job well done and I couldn't help but feel satisfied with myself.
We were damn good.
When the bus stopped, we got off, and Reed (Mr. Stevens/Red Star) told him to meet us back here by 5:00p.m. He nodded, driving off and leaving us in the shopping area. I'd never been there, but the other members who had been a part of the criminal team (in our group, Jade) knew it like the back of their hand. Mr. Stevens gave us a reminder that we had to meet him here by 4:45p.m. so we could do a role call and anyone who was caught doing anything inappropriate in the shopping district was going to be in serious trouble. Some people walked by, seeing the bus and automatically knew we were on a field trip, giving one another complaining looks. Other teenagers who had probably skipped school were eying some of us up. Flaim checked a few out herself, biting her lip with a smirk or a wink at them, which they returned eagerly. I nudged her, making her pay attention and any male with a significant other wrapped their arm's possessively yet casually around their girls, giving the boys watching dirty looks. Redge even directed a few nasty scowls towards the gathering group of boys checking out Flaim.
"Alright, get out of my hair," Reed said good naturedly.
He didn't have to tell us twice.
Immediately we dispersed, and Elicia along with Redge and Henry approached us. Our clique wasn't the best of friends with them, but we were cool and there for one another for the random 'I'm-bored-and-my-real-friends-are-unavailable' hang out.
"Mind if we tag along?" Elicia asked Jade. She darted her eyes towards Redge, whose eyes were fixated on the boys still brave enough to continue watching Flaim.
Jade got it and I did too. We we're forcing Redge and Flaim together. Noticing this and taking her eyes off the boys in front of the store, she grinned eagerly, answering for us. "Sure! I know I don't mind."
Glancing at Redge wickedly, he once again focused his attention anywhere but her. She seemed pleased at the reactions she could get out of him and felt no insult whatsoever.
We headed into a store with normal clothes, nothing girly or too goth, but that fine line in between. It was call 'Stare Ahead', which was a weird name, but nobody cared so long as the clothing was okay. A few other people we didn't know were in there, but nobody from our High School was with us.
"Sparrow, you've got to try this on!" Jade said jokingly, pulling up a piece of clothing she knew I would murder her for if we weren't in public at the moment. She glanced at my boyfriend, "Come on Garfield, get her to try it on!"
I snatched it out of her hands. "If it'll shut you up, fine!"
I did, heading into the dressing room. I took one look at myself and rolled my eyes when Jade, seeming to know I was done, began hammering the door with her fist and demanding access into the dressing room. I reluctantly stepped outside and got a small satisfaction in seeing Beast Boy's eyes grow huge.
"Whoa," He said, staring.
I continued to look at them in monotone before saying. "I'm changing back."
"But Sparrow!" Elicia complained, pulling me back out. "You look hot! Huh Henry?"
"I'm staying out of this," he said, pretending to play with his phone. Flaim laughed.
Eventually I pulled out of Elicia's grip and by that time, everyone was trying different things on, which turned it into a fashion show. The clerk, who was a female, seemed entertained, having a good view of our strutting. We were the only ones in the store anyways.
The whole time though, Flaim hadn't tried anything on, though even Redge was forced into it. It took me a minute, but I managed to sneak off and 'put our unwanted clothes away' (the clerk gave me an appreciative look, since we had at least twenty things from all different sections). Using my time, I hurriedly put everything away before finding what I wanted (grabbing a few more things for myself) and draping it over Flaim's head as I returned. She scrambled to get it off and when she did she held it in front of her, surprised.
"You're trying that on." I told her, giving her a smug pat on the shoulder. Everyone watched, shocked they hadn't realized what I had before this time.
There was no way she could disagree and was very literally locked in the dressing room before stepping out in what I'd picked out for her, lucking out on getting the right size.
It was a short, black dress that had the back low and clung to her figure perfectly. I heard Redge swallow hard next to me and I suppressed a laugh.
"Okay, that's hot." I said, uncharacteristically.
She ended up buying it, along with normal clothes that didn't look like she should be standing on a street corner.
Jinx/Jade:
I couldn't believe how much fun we were having with these people and identities that weren't ours. We'd each bought three bags of clothing from three different stores by noon, and we were now heading towards the food shops. We sat outside because it was a surprisingly nice day for February. We were half-way through our meal when Kim came running towards us and I sighed, pretending.
"What do you want, little sister?" I groaned, giving my friends irritated looks. They gave me sympathy expressions back, except for Wally and Flaim, who seemed amused.
She sounded winded, like a person of her frame (without hero training) would if they'd run. "Eugene . . . called me . . . a bad word!" She panted out, clearly upset.
My brow rose and she gave me a quick meaningful look before pretending to be upset again. Immediately my eyes widened and I remember it was Gizmo who had the monitors.
"What'd he say?" I said, making sure I gave her the hint knowing that I knew what she meant.
She seemed relieved that I was listening. "I told him you'd beat him up and he kept calling me a nerd and . . . he called you a slut too! And I said that 'nobody talks about my sister like that' and-."
I pretended to be furious. "He called me what?"
Redge placed a hand on my shoulder, trying to calm me down. I shrugged it off, standing. "Oh his ass is mine, where is he?"
As if on cue, Eugene began coming out of a store, backing away slowly. It seemed one person from every group was with him, advancing on him just as slowly as he moved. I walked over, giving them reassuring looks before I was behind him. He stopped, hearing me and turned.
"Are you running your mouth again you little midget?" I snapped, my hands on my hips.
He began running and Victor, Kim, and I began chasing after him. We zipped past Mark and Mitch, who were with Mr. Stevens at the cafe, and were immediately screamed at to stop. We did and marched, pouting, back towards him.
Red Star lowered his voice and we were the Titans again (or at least back in that state of mind). "Now whats going on?"
"I got a reading on the motion detectors."
"Could it be an animal?" I asked, also in hushed towns.
"I checked it out myself," Cyborg whispered. "Its human, and it looks like there's a few of them. Five, at most but at least three."
"Should we stay here longer then we planned?" Kole asked, worried.
Gizmo shook his head. "If it really is stinkin' Arella's team, they'll be gone by four. She never did plan well, it was all us."
"Good," Kole said, satisfied.
I stepped back, putting on a furious face to Red Star. "Well fine! Give me detention, I don't care. Thanks for letting me know that I can be called a slut around this school and no one will give a damn!"
"What did you say young lady?" Mr. Stevens called after me.
Kim looked nervous, "J-Jade! Wait up!"
I ignored her but she caught up anyways, like the tag-along little sister she was pretending to be.
"What's up?" Garfield asked at once, to anxiously.
Sparrow nudged him, telling him to calm down and he did, the anxious expression disappearing into a casual one once more.
"I got detention." I started, grumbling.
Kim sat next to us, uninvited but not caring. "Eugene said someone broke into his house."
Their eyes widened. I scoffed. "Nobody broke into the house, they just looked around before the alarm went off."
"How many were there?" It was clear from Redge's tone he knew they were still there, as did everyone else.
"Three to five," Kim replied. "But they-."
"Well look what the cat dragged in. Jade Hexin, is that you?"
Whoa, unexpected! Who found them?
Names With Categories:
"Sexually Active Kids (Sluts)"
Jinx- Jade Hexin
Kid Flash- Wally West
Beast Boy- Garfield Logan
Raven- Sparrow Roth
Blackfire- Flaim Anders
"Goths and/or Bad Kids"
Argent- Elicia Regent
Red x- Redge Alexander
The Harold- Henry Milton
"Popular Bitches"
Cyborg- Victor Stone
Bumblebee- Maria Lee
Starfire- Kori Anders
Robin- Richard Grayson
"Nerds and Geeks"
Kole- Kim Hexin
Jericho- Jared Cropper
Speedy- Sid Denison
"Guys Girls Will Never Like"
Gizmo- Eugene Nelson
Mammoth- Thommas Othrip
See-More- Sid Moris
Aqualad- Eric Sanders
"Teacher and Exchange Students"
Red Star- Reed Stevens/Mr. Stevens
Mas- Mitch Lopez
Menos- Mark Lopez