DISCLAIMER: Don't own Titans, never had.
CHAPTER 7
SUNGLASSES AT NIGHT
Thunder and Lightning looked at their one shared communicator, checking the time. Beast Boy and Kole had said to meet them at the gas station at approximately one o'clock in the morning. The brothers of course were so surprised at the said hour that Lightning felt to complain, but Thunder patiently obliged at the request.
"Brother it is 1:15 o'clock," the yellow-haired twin complained, "they haven't come, and they were the ones to ask us to be here."
"Brother, patience." Thunder gave him a calm look. "They'll be here."
It was 2:00 now.
"Brother, we've got to go." Lightning stood up. "If they don't show up, they'll just have to contact us sometime today."
Before Thunder could object to the idea a voice came from the ceiling.
"Why leavin' the party so soon?"
The Storm Twins looked up and saw two people. A girl with light brown hair in shades, and a boy with blonde hair in shades.
"Who're you odd ones?" The brothers asked in unison.
The guy and girl laughed and jumped down from where they were. They had come from the vent.
"You guys really don't know who we are?" The blonde boy asked. "Wait, we need to take off our shades."
The incognito pair took off took off their sunglasses.
"Now do you know who we are?" Asked the pink haired girl.
Thunder and Lightning exchanged looks.
They both knew they looked awfully familiar...and then they realized at the same time that the odd pair were wearing holo rings, and they remembered that all the Titans had been sent those grey rings that made them look...normal, that is.
"Diamond Girl," Lighting said smirking. "Haha!"
" Little Green One," Thunder said sounding unsure of himself. "You look different."
"About time," said Gar mimicking Cyborg. "We need your help."
"And you guys did bring your rings," Kole said slowly, "right?"
Lightning rolled his eyes and took the grey object from Thunder who'd kept hold of them since he was prone to losing such items.
Thunder hesitated when about to put on the ring, and questioned the two. "We aren't to be hurt, are we?"
Gar and Kole reassured him and his brother that they wouldn't be hurt, burned, suffering from any trauma or side effects, nor will they lose their powers. They would transform to where they looked more human and less meta human, and their powers would work in a different sort of way. That would be all that would come into effect.
"If I lose my powers..." Lightning looked at Beast Boy threateningly. "Just pray you'll wake up with Lightning speed."
Gar laughed. "We swear, these rings won't harm you, you'll only look different!"
Brother I pray that these lackeys are right.
I know Brother, but we must trust them since they are our teammates.
Alright...
Done with using their psychic link they put on the rings.
"Wow," Kole laughed, "you guys look...cute."
"What's that supposed to mean?" Lighting asked annoyingly, "Brother we look stupid!"
Actually, they both looked pretty attractive.
Lightning's hair was more so blonde, blonder than Gar's locks. His hair was matted down, his eyes appeared to look as if he had eyeliner on in some punk rock kind of way, and his eyes were a dark color. You could barely see freckles across his nose.
Thunder's hair was a dark black but his hair was styled somewhat curled, his skin was rather fair, and his eyes were a dark blue but when a deep set of emotion would come through to him, they would sparkle. He as well, had freckles on the bridge of his nose but they appeared more visible than his brother's. Thus his features were more harder and able-bodied than Lightning's considering he possessed the super power of strength.
"We do Brother?" Thunder sounded worried. "Little Green One, Diamond Girl, is it true?"
"No, no," Kole immediately reassured once more, "you guys look more easy on the eyes. But you need to get out of these ridiculous costumes."
Lightning rolled his eyes and Thunder nodded meekly.
"Okay, Gar lets take them to the thrift store."
-/-/-/
"Okay, you two make sure these fit," Kole said to the brothers as she handed them each a leather jacket that looked to be their size. "Gar and I are gonna find some shoes and sunglasses for ya, sound peachy?"
"Sour."
"Sounds good."
"Okay." Kole turned around and walked to where Gar was. He was over in the section where old records, tapes, and CDs were. He seemed to be looking at a specific one that caught his eye.
"You like this sort of stuff?" Kole asked picking up a Rumours album by Fleetwood Mac. "I like her pose."
"Huh?" Gar said, he had been distracted. "What were you saying Kole?"
"Nothing, nothing...what CD are you looking at?"
Gar held up the CD. It was the album First Offense by Corey Hart.
"Epic or what? This dude's awesome!"
Kole smiled. "Fine, put it on then." She pointed towards a CD player in the back of the room in the far corner. Gar smiling without realization, started moving towards the CD player in a mid paced fashion but before he even made it. Something caught his ear. He heard the rhythm to What Makes You Different, Makes You Beautiful by the Backstreet Boys being played on guitar.
Turning to his left, in one of the rows he saw a boy with curly blonde hair similar to Lightning's shade sitting down and playing to someone; a girl whom looked quite familiar. The guy was serenading to her, although the guy wasn't singing. Gar couldn't speak badly of how the guy played though, because he played...Quite beautifully. He stood there until the guy was done picking his last note and then made his way towards the CD player. When Gar got there, he could tell it hadn't been used in eons.
Therefore after putting the CD in he turned the volume up to where it was at a reasonable level. The first song beginning—Sunglasses at Night—he tapped his hand on his jeans matching the tempo of the rhythm, and was satisfied with what he was hearing.
"80's like..." Cooed Kole standing beside him.
"Yeah, best decade ever!"
The duo then started belting out the lyrics to Sunglasses at night, being silly and such. Then all at once they both put their backs together and their shades on when together they sung "Don't mess around with the guy in shades, oh no." Gar sporting an air guitar and Kole dawning pretend drums; the duo was quite a show.
Thunder and Lightning were watching in disbelief far away from the coupling.
"Brother, are they hyper?" Asked Thunder who was—believe it or not—embarrassed. "Are we gonna be kicked out?"
"No, but I think we're not going to be welcomed back here." He saw two familiar Titans, one with purple hair seemed to be heading over here with a not-so-happy face expression.
"Diamond Girl!" Exclaimed Lightning, "Little Green One we need to go!"
He motioned towards the door and to the person who was walking their way. She probably hadn't seen them yet, but she sure did hear the music that was supposedly turned up 'too high.'
At first, Kole and Gar were a bit oblivious but then Gar saw Raven, and Kole had caught a glimpse of a familiar guitar.
Yeah, they were out of here.
Before Raven could recognize any of the Titans they scrammed so rapidly quick they would've made Kid Flash proud.
-/-/-/-
The four Titans in shades were now at Kole's place. Gnarrk was asleep, so they wouldn't in fact wake the Cro-Magnon up. Reason being, Kole told them he was a heavy sleeper and had to wake up on his own account.
They were all huddled around on the hard stone ground in a circle and in the center of them was the weapon Kole and Gar couldn't unlock. They explained to the brothers where they got the weapon and how they got it.
Thunder immediately grabbed the weapon and tried using his super strength to break it into unlocking, but no such luck. Thunder could've potentially broken his hand but thankfully there was luck in that department; he hadn't.
Gar and Kole tried a million passwords. They even tried to break it apart...unscrewing it, they tried a lot of things that did not work as well.
"I don't know what to do anymore!" Groaned Gar in frustration. "It's hopeless."
"Why do you need this contraption of a weapon anyway?" Enquired Lightning impatiently, who felt unaccomplished and frustrated as well. "It seems pretty useless to me."
"Because in order to find out what those men had used this weapon for and why," Gar explained, "we also need to look inside their database which seems to be in here. We just need..." He rubbed his chin in thought trying to figure it out.
"A hacker..." Kole said. "A specific kind of key?"
"No..."
"Electricity?" Tried Thunder.
No..." Gar looked up and a lightbulb came above his head. "That's nada bad idea!"
Kole, Gar, and Thunder exchanged smiles of mutual agreement and turned their heads looking at Lightning.
The yellow haired teen donning his annoyed expression looked suspiciously at his group of teammates. "What?"
"Take off your ring," Kole said quickly.
"What?!" He threw his hands up in exasperation. "Then what was the whole point in putting it on, and changing into these stupid outfits?"
"Brother, just do it!" Thunder scolded, shoving his brother a little.
Lightning sighed and took off his ring. He knew to not easily temper his brother, because he knew Thunder was not the person to piss off. "Now what?"
Gar held up the weapon and held it to him. "Now shock this," - he tapped the device - "let your powers work their zeal."
"But- but I'm gonna demolish it!"
"No you aren't, you're going to solve our problem. Now work your magic!"
So, Lightning begrudgingly did what he was told and the weapon was successfully unlocked.
-/-/-/
Kid Flash smiled in triumph when his girlfriend handed him the potion and the electronic device he'd needed for the plan he'd thought up.
Of course talking Jinx into acting on the plan had taken a couple of kisses and a trip to Hawaii but he knew she would finally give into his idea.
"So, how did you manage to retrieve this?" He asked about the potion, "did you have to join their wizard group?"
Jinx rolled her eyes. "Don't you listen anymore?" She snatched the potion away from him and unscrewed the bottle beginning to show him the components in it. "I used some chemistry techniques by putting different types of ingredients in the water, and I asked a couple of wizards - who are ex hive members when visiting to their coven, to put some magical properties in it."
"So, if we put this in Raven and Beast Boy's food, or let them have a whiff of it," Kid Flash said, "they'll begin to automatically start telling the truth?"
"When they are asked questions," Jinx added. "And you are going to visit Beast Boy, right?"
"And you're going to visit Raven."
He then came to a sudden realization when Jinx nodded in confirmation. "There is only a little bit of this liquid stuff to use, how are we going to use it on them both?"
The young sorceress gave him a look that made him feel rather dumb. "Wally, Raven will detect what's inside the potion, she won't detect the Mendacium Insulator."
"Oh, so this is what this thing is?" Kid Flash inspected the electronically incased object with a face expression of sheer sheepishness. "I thought it was a walkie-talkie. If this is a - whatchamacallit, what does it do then?"
"Well, what it does is when you toggle it towards a person you are in front of or next to - when asking them a question, they'll without hesitation tell the truth. This machine insulates lies, and instead sets the truth free. Here, try it on me."
Kid Flash smiled with pure delight. "Okay, honey bun."
He held the MI to her. "Could you see yourself being married to me in ten years?"
Yeah, the device told the truth alright.
-/-/-
AUTHOR'S NOTE: This is sort of a filler-like chapter but quite important as well. The weapon leads to someone somewhat unexpected and important...so yeah, that's why the weapon is being brought up again. Ooh, KFlinx will question Beast Boy and Raven next chapter.
P.S. Remember to listen to the song "Sunglasses at Night" by Corey Hart
Replies:
bizarrecollector: Thanks for reviewing. And I too like it when stories are sometimes not always focused on the main 5. Because there is needed character from other Titans as well, besides Titans West. I was hoping I was portraying the friendship between Kole and Beast Boy well.
Slytherin- Hunter Of Artemis: Well, now you know what Kid Flash has thought up. Was it expected?
Anyway, Thanks for reviewing. :)
TheFoolOnMelancholyHill: Thanks for practically reviewing every chapter, it is much appreciated.
No, things most likely won't end well on both parts that are having to do with Kole and Beast Boy fake dating. Thanks again.
Guest: Hmm..I don't want to reveal too much, but the romantic pairings *hint hint* are BBRae and Jerikole. So..let that sync in will ya?
Thanks again for Reviewing.