chapter 9

Cherry was pacing anxiously while Conan attempted to fix her laptop, but it seemed hard for even him to go over.


"This is a really stubborn computer..." Conan muttered, having trouble.


"Come on, man, I thought you were a genius!" Cherry glanced at him.


"I am, but this computer is taking a lot longer to fix than I thought." Conan said before he finally was able to fix it.


"Guuhh..." Cherry groaned.


"Who's Raymond?" Dot noticed something on the screen and squinted her eyes to take a look.


"None of your business!" Cherry gasped and stood in front of the screen, clicking something, and making whatever Dot saw disappear.


"Okay, okay, whatever." Dot giggled.


"Sorry about that..." Cherry said to Conan before jumping down and going back to a spot, she looked like she was losing sanity without her laptop in her possession, but to her surprise, the rest of the information she had was blocked off.


"Uh-Oh." Conan muttered.


"Uh-Oh?" Cherry repeated. "What do you mean 'uh-oh'? Why 'uh-oh'? WHAT'S GOING ON!?"


"It seems while the computer had that glitching problem, the security system got to add in more firewalls." Conan said.


"NO!" Cherry pulled on her hair. "This is worse than no WiFi connections avaliable!"


"Then I guess this means we'll have to figure out the rest ourselves." Lucky said.


"Yeah." Patch added.


"But what about my computer!?" Cherry sounded like she was going to lose her mind.


"It's clear from all viruses." Conan said.


"So get on the internet!" Cherry urged.


"I'll try." Conan told her.


Forte gently stroked Cherry's back in an attempt to relax her. Cherry breathed shallowly and slowly shut her eyes as she tried to relax.


"That's it," Forte smiled. "Calm down."


"You know I need my technology..." Cherry said softly to him.


"Yes, I know, but you need to stay calm." Forte said.


Cherry glanced up at him and put her head against his chest. "Why do you care so much about me?"


"I just do and I don't want anyone to cause you any pain." Forte frowned.


"You're a mystery alright..." Cherry said distantly.


Forte gently stroked her hair behind her ear like many men did with girls they were in love with, but said nothing of it.


"It's almost like someone doesn't want us to know too much about Brushogun." Conan muttered as he continued to fiddle with Cherry's laptop.


"Yeah and I think it might be the same man that's in charge of the Japanese police force." Patch growled.


"Patch?" Cherry looked down.


Colette came over to the Dalmatian puppy's side. "I agree... We have a feeling that commander's up to something!"


"Then I think it's time that some of us do some investigating." Lucky said.


"Noble of you, Lucky," Patch gave a nod. "Like a true doggy detective."


"Elementary!" Dot randomly added and put on a detective cap with a pipe that blew bubbles and not smoke to feel like a true detective, she always loved playing pretend and had a wild imagination.


"But there's no way we'll find anything back at his office, it's probably guarded, so we'll have to go and find the Titans." Patch said.


Conan closed the laptop and handed it back to Cherry. "I heard they all split up to go their own ways."


Cherry thanked him, taking her laptop back in her arm. "Maybe we should split up too to find them all easier and faster."


"Agreed." Patch nodded.


"How are you all gonna do this then?" Conan asked.


"We'll have to split up to different areas of the city to find each of them." Lucky said.


"I'll go with you." Forte said to Cherry. "Just to keep you safe..."


"Whatever..." Cherry shrugged that off. "Dot, I think you should do with the dogs."


"Okay." Dot said.


"I'm sure Atticus and Mo have at least found one of the Titans..." Cherry shrugged.


"Yeah and I'm sure they're perfectly safe." Forte smiled.


Patch and Colette went one way, Cherry and Forte went another, and Dot and Lucky took another way.


"Want some help?" Conan asked them since he was a detective and all.


"Sure, we could use all the help we can get." Patch said.


"I better go with you for security." Conan told Dot.


"Okay." Dot nodded to him.


With that, they all split up to look for the Teen Titans they had come with on this trip in Tokyo. Unknown to any of them, this would not be easy.


Cherry and Forte walked one way and looked all around as they walked through town.


"You don't happen to speak or read Japanese, do you?" Cherry asked the court composer who spoke French and English.


"Not that I know of, why?" Forte asked.


"Great..." Cherry muttered, she then took out her iPhone and hit her translator app.


"Nice handheld telephone..." Forte said, though he knew exactly where it came from. "Where did you get it?"


"Secret admirer gave it to me..." Cherry muttered as she waited for the app to load.


"I wonder who that could be." Dot giggled.


Cherry rolled her eyes and then the app loaded and she clicked the language program. She then turned on her camera and aligned it to a sign and snapped a picture of it and sent it to the app for a translation.


"So, what does it say?" Forte asked. "And can't you understand the language, especially help from your medallion?"


"I wanna see if my phone works first..." Cherry said, first her computer...


"You children and your technology..." Forte shook his head at her.


"Welcome to the 21st century." Cherry reminded him.


"I just wonder of how you children can be so drawn into those things." Forte groaned.


"I don't know either..." Cherry said as she waited for her phone. "This appears to be the library or a book store."


"In the middle of a creepy area? My kind of place." Forte smiled.


"I like it..." Cherry agreed.


The two of them then went inside the library, hoping that Raven would be there.


The cloaked Titan was indeed in there and appeared to be using her dark matter to come around.


"Raven?" Forte asked hopefully.


The gray-skinned demon girl turned her head. "Someone call my name?"


"So glad we found you." Forte said.


"Raven, where are the others?" Cherry asked.


"Beats me..." Raven shrugged. "I came in to do research."


"About this mysterious villain, right?" Forte asked.


"Yes..." Raven nodded. "Everybody seems suspicious and mysterious of that Brushogun character..."


"Let's hope this library has information about him." Forte said.


"That's what I'm counting on..." Raven said as she seemed to float off to the next bookshelf.


"There are so any books here, it'll take us hours to-" Forte said.


There was a short old man hiding in a dark corner. Raven spotted him and used her magic to summon him. The man came forth to them.


"Oh, um, hello, sir." Forte said, slightly creeped out.


"Welcome to my shop, young travelers," the man greeted. "Looking for something in particular?"


Raven settled her powers down once she saw he was not a threat. "We're trying to find a book about Brushogun, but there's nothing in Fiction or Mythology."


"Is there a Legend section?" Forte asked.


"Actually, there is something you should know," the man replied. "Although few people today believe it, Brushogun was no myth."


This shocked Cherry, Forte, and Raven instantly.


Meanwhile, Patch, Colette, and Lucky ended up on a different street and saw Beast Boy as there seemed to be a swarm of girls after him.


"Whoa! It looks like Beast Boy's been busy." Patch said with widened eyes.


"This must be his dream come true." Colette added.


Beast Boy actually looked nervous as the girls were crowded around him and two of the girls kissed him on the cheeks.


"I think this is more of a nightmare for him." Lucky said.


"Um...heh...okay, ladies, uh, you're all great and I want your phone numbers, but there's this girl I was looking for and it's... Getting kinda hard to breathe in here, so..." Beast Boy struggled from his own personal fan girl flood, he tried to get out so he could breathe, but the girls pulled him right back in and continued to gush over him.


"We might as well help him out." Patch groaned.


"Come on, I'll lead." Lucky walked ahead of the puppies.


Colette and Patch then followed behind. The girls kept attacking and smooching Beast Boy as he kept trying to sprawl out.


"Beast Boy, turn into a fish!" Lucky called.


Beast Boy wasn't sure who said that, but he did just that and slipped out of the girls' grip and flopped across the floor.


"Lucky, what about Beast Boy breathing?" Colette asked.


"Don't worry." Lucky whispered.


Beast Boy changed back into his humanish form. However, five girls glared to the green-skinned boy and blocked the exit.


"Okay, time for a group charge." Patch said to the green-skinned boy.


There were girls in the back who looked ready to fight.


"Let's do this, guys." Beast Boy said to the dogs.


"I'm a girl." Colette growled.


"Whatever." Beast Boy shrugged with an eye roll.


"Let's get out of here." Patch said.


Beast Boy turned into a gorilla and smashed against the wall to make his own exit of the bar. The girls flooded out and kept chasing Beast Boy. Lucky, Patch, and Colette ran too.


"I've heard of hyper fan girls, but this is ridiculous!" Colette gasped as she ran with the others.


"I'm agreeing with you there." Patch said while running.


Dot and Conan walked another way, then looked into a restaurant window and saw that Cyborg was in there and the chefs were giving him foods to eat. They walked inside and cringed at the chef who seemed impatient with Cyborg. "Raw eggs? Devilfish? Pickled sea cucumbers? Cow eyes! Old shoe full of wasabi?!"


Cyborg ate them all and then wiped his mouth eagerly. "What's for dessert?"


"How can you possibly eat all of that?" Conan asked Cyborg.


"Being half-robot has advantages." Cyborg chuckled.


However, the chefs were fed up with Cyborg and they decided to chase him out of the buffet. Cyborg was worried, so he ran out of the restaraunt, screaming. Dot and Conan followed him, just to make sure he wouldn't get caught by the chef.


"What did you do?" Dot asked.


"The sign said 'All You Can Eat' and I can eat a lot!" Cyborg replied.


"I don't think they meant the whole kitchen!" Conan exclaimed.


"Yeah!" Dot added.


"How was I suppose to know?!" Cyborg asked.


Conan, Dot, and Cyborg kept running until they had run into Lucky, Patch, Colette, and Beast Boy.


"Please tell me you three aren't running from some danger too." Patch begged.


"You too?" Dot asked.


"I guess that's a yes." Colette whimpered.


"Who's chasing you?" Cyborg asked.


"Girls!" Beast Boy panicked. "Who's chasing you?"


"Chefs!" Cyborg exclaimed.


"He overdid it with the all you can eat." Conan said.


"Typical..." Beast Boy rolled his eyes at his best friend.


Suddenly, the girls and chefs ganged up together.


"RUN!" Patch called.


"Don't have to tell me twice, kid." Lucky said.


The bloodthirsty chefs and rabid fan girls chased after the two Titans, the human kids, and the dogs. "GET THEM!"


Meanwhile, Starfire was still rather depressed as she traveled with Atticus and Mo to help get her mind off of Robin, at least for a little while.


"Are you sad about something?" a voice asked.


The three turned to see a little girl in a sailor dress with a backpack, looking sweet and innocent.


"Oh, no, I am fine." Starfire reassured her.


The girl looked very curious.


"No, thank you, please, I am sad about nothing and I do not have the boy troubles." Starfire said.


The girl then shrugged and started to walk away. "Okay!"


'Why do I have a sneaky suspicion about that little girl?' Atticus thought to himself.


Mo watched the Tamarian teen girl go and decided to follow. Starfire followed after the little girl who seemed very unsual, even if she was openly curious about the three new guests she just met. Even though he shouldn't leave the love of his life and their Tamarian friend and their little curious friend, Atticus just had to help Robin out, even if it meant that he would get in trouble with the Japanese police force.


"What're you up to?" Mo asked Atticus, knowing he probably had an idea in mind.


"I'm going to break Robin out." Atticus whispered.


"Are you sure?" Mo whispered back.


"I know it's risky and dangerous, but I know Robin's innocent," Atticus insisted. "Don't worry though, things always turn out fine in the end... You keep an eye on Starfire."


Mo nodded. "Okay."


They both kissed before he teleported away to free Robin. Mo had a tear roll down her cheek however as soon as Atticus was gone, but she trusted him and knew he would be just fine.


"Where did Atticus go?" Starfire asked.


"Um, I wouldn't worry about it..." Mo said, deciding to keep Atticus's plan a secret and a surprise for later.


"Are you certain?" Starfire asked.


"Don't worry, Star, I know Atticus, he's got this." Mo relaxed.


"Well, okay then." Starfire said.


Mo walked with Starfire. "Come on, let's have some..." she then deeply gulped, sounding like she was going to die saying her next two words. "Girl talk..."


"Are you sure you want the girl talk?" Starfire asked.


"You look like you could use it..." Mo insisted.


"Well, alright then." Starfire said.


Mo smiled softly and walked with the girl. 'Oh, Atticus, just don't get arrested...' she then thought to herself.


While Mo kept Starfire company, Atticus appeared somewhere close by where Robin was.


"Robin?" Attiucs quietly called. "Robin!" He then ended up in what looked like a jail. "Oh, my..."


"Atticus?" Robin's voice asked.


"Robin!" Atticus's voice grew a little louder, but not too loud where it would alert someone that he was trespassing.


"Over here." Robin's voice said.


Atticus went to the source of the voice and found the Boy Wonder himself behind bars. "Man, this is really wrong."


"You're telling me." Robin agreed.


"Don't worry, I'm gonna break you out." Atticus said.


"I'd like nothing more of it, just be careful," Robin warned. "I don't want you trapped here too."


"Don't worry, neither of us are going to be trapped here." Atticus said before taking the metal cage bars off the hinges and tossed it to the wall next to him.


Robin stood up then and came out.


"So... Is that paint?" Atticus asked, still seeing the red splatters on the Boy Wonder's clothes.


"Yes, it is," Robin confirmed. "I was fighting this rogue and a lot of people saw and thought I committed manslaughter like a homicidal maniac."


"Well, we better get out of here and find a way to clear your name," Atticus said. "Which way? A hole through the wall or through the hall, fighting off guards?"


"If we fight some guards, we could take their clothes and go around in disguise." Robin suggested.


"We could also go out and find two suckers and take their clothes while running from the police." Atticus said.


"I don't condone that, but it's our only option, now come on." Robin stealthed with Atticus.


The two kept traveling and luckily, they had not been caught. At least, not yet. They did have to escape by a hole in the wall that Atticus made before making a run for it and then going back to stealth.


Robin helped Atticus out and they moved on. It was quite refreshing to be back on the outside world. The both of them continued on until they saw two biker guys, finding their clothes useful.


"Ready?" Robin asked.


"You know it." Atticus added as they moved out.


Both biker guys were just their size and where that was a good thing. Robin and Atticus looked to each other and then nodded and got ready.


"Hey, look who we got here." The first biker guy asked the second biker guy as soon as he saw the two coming over to them.


"Looks like a couple of weasels." the second biker chuckled.


"Let's teach these two a lesson of what happens when they walk into our turf." The first biker guy said, pounding his right fist into the palm of his left hand.


"Dibs on the scrawny one." the other guy grinned darkly.


"Fine, then I'll have the one with the muscles." The first guy grinned darkly.


Robin and Atticus looked to each other with smirks. The next sounds that were heard were punching and kicking. However, surprisingly enough, the two thug bikers were knocked out in the middle of the ground and Robin and Atticus donned their clothes in order to blend in so Robin wouldn't get caught.


"We look good." Atticus said.


Robin kept his face hidden as he took off his mask and was about to put the sunglasses on. Atticus did the same to make sure they wouldn't be recognized.


Robin slicked his hair and made it look different and adusted the white coat. "Let's move out."


"Agreed." Atticus said before taking the muscle guy's motorcycle.


"Come on, let's go then." Robin nodded to Atticus.


They both then rode off on the motorcycles. Robin and Atticus looked around as they traveled down the Japanese streets.


"Looks like no one is out." Atticus noticed.


"Must be something going on." Robin guessed.


The two found a place to park and parked there as there were other bikers who stood by casually. They look curious of the two guests they had not seen before, but did not approach them.


This allowed Atticus and Robin to visit and go inside the building, going downstairs, to find a bar with several patrons either sitting down to have a drink or playing pool.


"What pleasant place." Atticus said.


The others seemed to deathly stare at them.


"Stay close, I'm getting a bad vibe from these folks." Robin whispered to Atticus.


"I can handle them." Atticus whispered back.


Robin and Atticus came around. A big rough and tough guy turned on his stool and glared to the two young fighters.


"Oh, great, looks like this guy wants to make some trouble." Atticus whispered.


"Make it double." Robin gave a nod.


"If he gives any trouble, let's show him we're not ones to be messed with." Atticus whispered.


The man snarled, looking like he wanted to hurt Robin and Atticus. Robin noticed this and grabbed the man by his arm and flung him out of his stool.


"Wow, nice." Atticus said with a thumb's up.


"It was nuthin'." Robin smirked.


"Just wish I could have flung him." Atticus pouted.


"I'll give you the next one." Robin promised with a chuckle.


"Perfect." Atticus smiled.


Robin lightly chuckled at that.


"Now back to business." Atticus said.


Robin nodded to him and they continued off. The rough and tough guy was now dizzy from being flung. Robin and Atticus glanced to him and moved on.

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