Truthiness

[Gaunt]

This whole thing had been a wash. It should have been a straightforward job, just taking some little whatsit from a private collection. The deposit had come through fine, the guy's finances had checked out, it should have been an open and shut burglary. Then the mark had raised a big fuss, and the Titans had started investigating. That, he could handle. Gaunt had been doing this long enough to not leave many traces behind. He'd brought the loot, and the client hadn't wanted to pay. Tried to spring a trap. Had some guys shoot him, so at least he'd gotten a laugh out of the whole thing.

Now Gaunt felt himself in quite a pickle. He was walking around with a fist-sized iron idol hidden only by a cardboard box, near the scene where he'd just taken chunks out of a warehouse fighting off some cheap goons. A rented warehouse, no less. He grumbled to himself, sending a quick text back to HQ. They'd have to scrub the financial records for this. Cops and heroes would be there soon, and then some awkward questions would follow. Sooner or later they'd find the connection if something wasn't done.

Speaking of heroes, he'd have to get a move on. They'd be canvassing the area soon, looking for the cause of the disturbance. Gaunt focused for a moment, trying to fade from sight. His image flickered, but didn't vanish like it usually did. He frowned, trying again. Same result. "What in the holy hell?" Now that he thought of it, he could feel something emanating from the box, messing with his head a bit. It hadn't been doing that before, how'd that get started? Well, he'd have to hope for the best. Maybe he could just walk home normally. Sure, lots of people profiled ugly supers, but maybe he could get through.

It seemed like the world was conspiring against him tonight. He heard a familiar set of footsteps ahead, heavy footfalls he'd heard once before. That dopey giant Titan who'd hassled him at the docks a while back. She hadn't trusted him then, but he'd bluffed his way through. He just hoped he could do it again. Gaunt kept on his poker face, walking steadily onwards toward the nearest tunnel entrance.

[Feathers]

Kimber L. Fowl was suppose to be on a girls night out with good friend, Kaie. Running a double life as civilian by day and superhero by night. Does take a lot of your time and drive you to become a little moody, grumpy and stressful at time. And what better cure and solution to this depression madness? A time out with a good friend while bitching with one another about one those horrid days you have. 

But as the saying goes, crime never sleeps.

She was on high alert when she heard the familiar sound in the air. A police siren echoing no far where the ladies had their dinner. They both exchange looks before exiting the restaurant casually. Well, properly Kaie would stick like a sore thumb due to her size. But, she makes a good distraction as Kimber L. Fowl quickly change into her uniform, which she has safety pack in her car for cases like this. Assuming as her alter ego, Silverwing. 

Joining Kaie a few seconds later. Yes, she takes pride in changing into her uniform in a flash and yes it takes a lot practice to do so. She took out her communicator and called the nearest Titan in the area to inform the situation. They both still consider junior and rookies. By 'Robin Rules', they needed to report in whenever they were on superhero duty.

"Calling all Titans! This is Silverwing. I'm with Kaie and, we spotted trouble down town with police siren and everything. We gonna look into it to see if the authorities needs our assistance. Over and out..." She says before taking a seat on Kaie shoulder. Shoulder riding her. Okay, that kinda sounds better in her head. 

[Gaunt]

Kaie

The titanic Titan was torn about this. On the one hand, it wasn't often she saw much action as a Titan. She was more there for deterrent than response. Criminals could hear her coming a mile away, and nobody wanted to start trouble when Rumble came rumbling through. A bit of action could do her some good. On the other hand, she had really been looking forward to girls' night out. Now she had to stand guard while Kimber ducked aside to change. Luckily she changed super fast, that was a talent Kaie would have to master. Then again, what would the point be? There wouldn't be anywhere big enough to hide while she changed. Better to just go into action in her civvies.

Silverwing took a seat on her shoulder, and the two of them headed off. The sirens were from one of the shadier parts of town, an industrial district with lots of vacant warehouses. Classic criminal turf. Once her fellow heroine was done calling it in, Kaie turned her head to her. "Any idea what all this is about?" It had to be something pretty big, but they hadn't passed any cops going slow enough to fill them in. Maybe the more experienced Titan had heard some things. Kaie looked ahead again, rounding a corner and seeing a familiar bony face. "You!"

Mr. Gaunt

He could tell before she rounded the corner that there was another Titan there. Well, probably another. She seemed to be talking to someone, and he was pretty sure he'd heard another voice. Could have just been their little communicator things, but it sounded like someone was actually there. He hadn't expected it to be another familiar face. Silverwing, the Titan who'd been captured alongside him a while back, was riding on the giant's shoulder.

Gaunt scowled up at the two of them. "Oh, you again. Here to harass me for walking while funny-lookin again?" That had done well for him last time they'd met. As long as he kept up some plausible deniability, he could keep throwing accusations at them until they felt awkward enough to leave him alone. Hell, if he was lucky, Silverwing would vouch for him. He'd helped the both of them last time they'd met. Gaunt was just hoping this metal thingamajig didn't have any more surprises, he could feel a pull from the box.

[Feathers]

"No idea! Lets go over there and ask them..." Silverwing reply and all their question was answer when she spotted a familiar ugly bald vampire, Gaunt! 
She has an unpleasant memory being kidnapped along side him, puking, along of puking and to be rescue by a  convict like him, was a nightmare. It hurts even more now it meant she owes him a favor. She hasn't reveal that embarrassment to anyone. Not even, her good friend Kaie. 

Trigger by the unhappy memory. Her first instinct was to yell.

"YOU!" Silverwing say in unison with Kaie. Leaving them both stun and confuse.
"You know him?" Both asked one another together before they both turn to look at him.
"Cut to the chase! What are you doing here?" Then she notices something in his arm 

Police squad car near by and by luck Gaunt turns up to be near by. Coincidence anyone?  This Titans don't think so. Jumping off from Kaie shoulder. Landing safely on the ground with the help of her silver disk. She walks up to Gaunt before crossing her arm. 

"I'm guessing you have something to do with that..." She pointed behind her back with some police squad cars passing behind them with their siren wailing across the street. 

[Gaunt]

Kaie

Tonight was full of surprises. If Silverwing had mentioned knowing this guy before, Kaie couldn't remember it. Just how many Titans had run into this guy? Kaie was even more suspicious of him now. He had to be up to something if he was running across so many Titans. Maybe he was spying on them and still laying low. Maybe he'd finally been caught! That would explain all the sirens. Well, not quite caught, but exposed. If only there were some police around who could fill them in on things.

Silverwing hopped down to confront the man, and Kaie stood with her arms folded. There wasn't really too much she could do right now, not unless the guy tried to pull something. Kaie was pretty much a purely physical Titan. Kimber was the smart one in their duo, she could handle the talking. Kaie just had to stand there and look menacing. And not mess anything up, of course. She was keeping her mouth shut for now, just in case.

Mr. Gaunt

She was pretty demanding. Gaunt just glowered at Silverwing. Apparently, she wasn't going to go easy on him. "I'm heading home." He'd been tempted to just refuse to answer or brush off the question, but Gaunt knew that being confrontational would only get them more riled up. At least this way he could answer without giving any real information. "Any real reason you're stopping me, or just cuz I'm kinda funny-looking?" He wondered if that would work as well on Silverwing as it had on the giant last time. The big girl probably had some personal experience with that, whereas Silverwing was more used to blending in.

Gaunt let out a sigh. There wasn't too much point in hiding everything. If Silverwing went to the crime scene, she'd recognize his style. She'd seen it before during their daring escape. Might was well give a little information. "Some goons tried to ambush me, shot me up a bit. You've seen how that turns out." Gaunt tucked the package under his arm, pulling out a cigarette and lighting it. He was probably going to be here a little while. "Don't like having my time wasted with questions so I took my leave afterwards." Even if he were legally alive, all the red tape would keep him busy until after sunup. Human bureaucracy moved too slowly, even for immortals.

[Feathers]

"Really?!" 

Silverwing gave him a sarcasm reply and a look. She was the last people judge people on how they looks. She has silver colour hair. A known a guy (who she has puppy-love-crush with) who is a clone whose father form indestructible alien from space. And her best friend is a giantess. Who was she to judge? 

Listening closely his 'suppose story'. She took mental note. Gathering information that she might need to use later in her investigation. Comparing notes with the police reports. As soon as he ended his story telling. She felt something rather off of his story. There was something he wasn't telling them. She also notices something in his body language. Like, how he held the box in his arm? Rather close to him? A common behaviour people who do. If they had something valuable or something to hide. 

"So, why were they shooting at you in the first place? You must gotten them really piss to get them raining bullets on you...Really piss..." Noticing the bullets hole on his leather jacket. Lots of it. "Okay, Saint Nos. If you are telling us the truth, then you wouldn't mind us. Taking a look at that package you have with you?" She looks at him "Come, Mr. Nos. Hand it over. The sooner we do this. The sooner all of us can go our merry ways...and forget this ever happen..." She didn't want to end up. Giving him another advantage. A debt, like owing her life to him in the past.

[Gaunt]

Mr. Gaunt

"Hey, you look like an anime character. I look like a Captain Planet villain." A lot of the unusual-looking heroes got all huffy when he threw that accusation at them. To be fair, a lot of them did look kinda weird, but very few looked monstrous. Most of the monstery ones ended up on the villainous end of the scale. Gaunt doubted that was a coincidence. People assume you're a monster, you usually end up acting like one. He'd seen it in his fellow Rats often enough.

Now she was starting to rustle his jimmies. "Because bullets are cheaper than paying me." It was an occupational hazard in his line of work. Every now and then you'd get someone who thought they could just off someone once the job was done. They were always new to the business, and they never stayed in it very long. As a general rule, it was a bad idea to try to kill the people you hired to do your dirty work. They were usually better at that stuff than you.

Gaunt clutched the box closer when Silverwing started demanding to see it. "No, it's mine." He squeezed a bit harder than he should have, starting to warp the cardboard. "Unless you two got warrants and badges stashed around, then you can [REDACTED] right off. Going for a walk isn't probable cause." He was just starting to feel smug when the bottom of the box gave way. A crude, fist-sized iron head clanked down inches from Gaunt's foot. He let out a torrent of profanity, bending down to pick it up. It felt weird this time. Something wasn't quite right in his head.

Kaie

Silverwing seemed used to this guy, but Kaie was getting a little freaked out. From her height, she hadn't been able to see the bulletholes on the dimly-lit street. The giantess had to squint a bit to be able to pick them out. Now that she could see them better, there were a lot. Sure, there were plenty of bulletproof supers, but usually they were either established heroes or villains. Seeing one whose job seemed to be wandering around at night and arguing with heroes was odd, to say the least.

Kaie had to stifle a laugh when the two of them started arguing over the box. The scrawny super looked like a toddler trying to hold onto a toy. Then, without warning, he switched from kindergartener to cheesy TV lawyer. Rumble frowned. She wasn't too clear on the details of superhero law. Robin probably knew, she could ask him next time she was at the Tower. Some heroes did their own investigations, so maybe Gaunt wasn't as safe as he thought.

Then the package broke, and some metal thing fell out. It looked a little familiar. Kaie knelt down to get a closer look while the man hastily grabbed it up. "What is that?" Then she remembered where she'd seen it, a briefing about some stolen art thing. "Hey, isn't that the whatsit we were told to look for?"

[Feathers]

"Ah-ha! I knew it!"

Silverwing pointed at Gaunt. When the cardboard box Mr Nos. was holding torn apart. Dropping an iron antique and it roll between trio. 

"Double AH-HA!"

This time using two hands to point at the guilty Mr Nos. Rubbing it his face. When Kaie pointed out about the iron antique thingy that was reported stolen in the papers and the polices report a few days ago. Within a few days, the case turns cold as the investigation lead to no way. Baffled with no leads and clue to whom or what has stolen the antique idol. As if the iron idol grew tired being a display piece. It got up and left. With a little help of a Vampire who turn himself invisible with a thought. 

"I will be taking this back to the museum. Thank You..."

She say as she reaches down to pick up the idol at the same time with Mr. Nos. It didn't take a rocket science to figure out that. Mr.Nos was about to snatch the idol and make a run for it. Without a second to loose, she move quickly as fast as her human body was capable to. Ending up both party grabbing at each end of the iron idol and started pulling between one another. Like children fighting over the same toy.

"Drop it, Mr.Nos! It's OURS! Let it go and you can get away scout..."

Before she could finish her sentence. The idol started to glow. Creating two orb of light start swirl around the idol. Raising up a few inches from the idol and BAM! It hit both herself and Mr.Nos. And the first escape her mouth was...

"Shit!..." And "I love to watch Slobo undress himself and to get to see all his hardcore abs. Hmmm..." She licked her lips. "I swear I could eat him with a spoon. I even have a picture of him half naked in my phone. I took when he wasn't looking..." 

It took her a few minutes to realize what she has just pervertedly say. 

"OHMYGLOB!" 

She dropped the idol and cover her mouth with her face. Blushing red as a tomato. It was probably a little to late to....

"I didn't mean to say what I say..."

[Gaunt]

Mr. Gaunt

He was pretty thoroughly busted right now. Just an artifact falling out of the box would have been suspicious, but maybe he could have talked his way out of it. But of course, Silverwing had to recognize the damn thing. He knew he could overpower Silverwing, but the giant would be an issue. Most blunt trauma wasn't much trouble for Gaunt, but anything that size had to weigh enough to do some serious damage just by falling on him. He'd have to hope her reflexes were as slow as her wits and just juke her out.

Gaunt's spidery fingers clamped down on one end of the idol while Silverwing grabbed the other. He had to be careful here. Iron was a softish metal. With his strength, he could damage something like this. Not destroy it, but certainly lower the value. He was about to give a solid tug when glowing orbs came out of the idol. Hoo boy, not more magic. He didn't have enough space to dodge, it hit him full in the chest. "That hurt less than I thought." He was about to comment further when Silverwing started blurting things out, things he didn't necessarily need to know. He wasn't sure who Slobo was, but Silverwing seemed to be perving on the boy. "Look, just hand it over. I don't got time for this, I gotta find a new buyer and I still haven't caught up with MLP on Netflix."

Wait, what? Gaunt lost his grip on the idol, letting it clank to the pavement.

Kaie

Boy, that had escalated quickly. First they'd gotten in a tug-of-war, which was lasting a lot longer than expected. Kaie wasn't sure how strong Silverwing was, but Gaunt was built like those kids in the charity commercials. He looked like a stiff breeze would knock him over, how was he holding his own against a trained heroine? "Need a hand?" Kaie reached out, but didn't touch anything. That metal whatsit was pretty small, she couldn't grip it well without grabbing someone's hand.

Then things started truly goin nutz. There was a bright light, and Kimber started saying some very enlightening things. Kaie couldn't hold back a laugh. "Thas ma girl! Um, can I see that picture later? For science." And then the grumpypants started talking about- did that acronym mean what she thought it did? "Yer a brony?" She would have liked more time to process all this, but they'd both dropped the idol. Now was her chance! Kaie grabbed it off the ground, and as before there was a ball of light. "I have a whole external hard drive of yaoi stuff."

[Feathers]

"NOOO! YOU CAN'T!" Silverwing turn to give her lovely giantness an angry look. "No! I mean that's....that's a lie! Slobo is just a friend. A team mate. A brother..." She gasped when took control over her thoughts again. Blurting out the truth...once more. "It's lie! I mean a lie behind the other lie. I really do like-like Slobo. Problem is, he is just too stupid to see that I care for him-ALOT! I mean I dropped even hint on him. Beside, the concrete wall or something. Then again, I have conflicted feeling about all emotion and...I NEED TO SHUT IT!" Trying so hard to regain her composure after blurting something so off-screen and stupid.

"MAKE IT STOP! No, actually I can stop. I'm so self-center I could take about my emotion all day! ARGH!" Honestly, she feels like digging a grave and bury herself. "Thank x'hal! Slobo is not here to hear this and you dare ever-ever-ever tell Slobo about this. I feel so...so...perverted...." She bury her face to her hands. Well, screw Mr. Nos if he wants to runs away with darn magical-thingamabobs-trophy. She has more important crisis in her hands. Blurting her sick-perverted-secret to a dirty-good-for-nothing-old-man, who can use against one day or something. "My life is doom...." She started sobbing. "WHAT DAMN SORCERY HAS YOU BROUGHT AGAINST...." She froze when she Gaunt mention MLP "As in My Little Pony...." Her face turn bright red not because she was embarrassment. Just that she couldn't hold it together and started laughing. Laughing so hard, no noise came out and laughed her heads off till hurts.

"My...MY....HAHHAHAHA" Did she mention tears too?

[Gaunt]

Gaunt

It was starting to make sense why his invisibility hadn't been working. There was some sort of magic going on here, though he didn't really understand it. Gaunt wasn't the guy to go to for the technical knowledge of magic. The upside was that it was providing one hell of a distraction. If they remembered that he'd stolen the thing, it seemed to have taken a backseat to a variety of embarrassing confessions. The downside was those same confessions. There were some things that Gaunt didn't want to know about the teen superheroes, and more than a few things he didn't want them to know about him.

"It's surprisingly well-written." Gaunt grumbled, keeping an eye on Kaie's hand. She'd held on to the artifact so far, and her hand was big enough to wrap all the way around it. He couldn't get it back until she was distracted somehow, then he could grab the idol and make a break for it. Maybe the LA branch would have an idea of how to contain the thing. It would be pretty inconvenient, cut off from his strongest power and unable to lie. "Don't think that's much of a secret, Biggie. I mean there's pictures of you in a Yaoi Zone shirt. I don't wanna know the real secrets." He turned towards Silverwing. "Also, ew. I'm grabbin the brain bleach as soon as I get home." Gaunt's eyes unfocused for a moment as the idol took control again. "And don't knock the ponies. I really identify with Princess Luna, you know?"

Kaie

Silverwing was having a full-fledged meltdown here. Kaie reached down with her free hand to pat the smaller heroine on the shoulder. "Look, is fine. I won't tell nobody, and who'd believe that creeper if he tried?" She ignored the thief's angry huff at that. "Nobody were recordin that anyway, ya ain't doomed." She was still a bit curious about that picture. Slobo had the typical teen hero build from what she'd seen, and that tended to be a very nice build.

And the revelations kept coming! Kaie burst out laughing, doubling over at Gaunt's newest revelation. "Wait, so ya got a favorite? Like a pony waifu?" Kaie laughed hysterically, stopping only when the magic hit her again. "One time when I were at the beach with Vincent he got stuck in my chest. Best day of me life." The giantess turned bright red, dropping the idol. This thing had to be destroyed.

[Feathers]

Okay, this was getting bizarre and weirded by the seconds. Truth and secrets are spilling out left and right. Some that was better leave aren't say and taken to the to grave. But for some reason, either one of them could stop or even control themselves. Spilling out the truth. Against their better judgement and will. Things was of course was getting out of hand and someone needs to take matters into their own hands before....before Gaunt starts to review. What he would he do when he gets lonely? 

Goosebumps.

"Give me that!" Silverwing quickly snatched the heavy idol from Kaie's fingers. Biting her thumb to draw blood. Since she wasn't really a powerful mage or witches, like Raven and Zantana. Her spell casting would require additional components, likes a certain tools or ingredients. For her case, her blood. Seeing it does contain a small amount of magical property within it.

Drawing a magical symbol on the idol before chanting a magical spell. Sealing the idol funky magic. But something kept bugging her. Distracting her every verse of the incantation of her spell. She had to stop herself. Repeating the incantation over and over again. The last thing, she wanted was to create an explosion or something. If she gets the spells incantation wrong and it backfire onto them. Last time, that happen. She talked gibberish for a week. 

"Heads up!" She shouted. Asking the others to duck. Trying to recast the spell again. The moment the statue started to glow again. Doing the same exact things, before it brought the trio into its truth chaotic chaos mess. And once the idol light started to dims. The weirdest and strangers thing happen...."IT'S MINE!" Silverwing emerald color green eyes started to go ruby red, and started to behave out of character. Behaving rather bizarre and weird. In the scale from 1 to 10. Someone would rate it as a 100. "All mine!" She continued. "First the tri-state area then the world!" Letting an evil eerie conniving laugh. Enough to even put Gaunt to shame. "And none of you can stop me..." She looks back at Kaie and Gaunt before bolting. Making a mad dash down the busy streets. 

"DAIRY QUEENS!" Having no idea why she say that. 

[Gaunt]

Gaunt:

The vampire grimaced at the giant's revelation. These were really not things he wanted to know about teenage superheroes. In hindsight, he really should have looked more into this before agreeing to the job. The whole thing had been a wash from the start. Maybe if he'd had LA research the idol, he wouldn't have agreed to steal it. Why would someone want to kill over this, anyway? Did they know what it did? So far it just seemed like an elaborate magical prank.

Then Silverwing started to take control. "You better know what you're doing, kid." Gaunt stood a good few paces back, letting the heroine work. He didn't want to be in the blast radius if all this backfired. And backfire it did, though not in the way he'd expected. The silver-haired heroine grabbed the idol and bolted, cackling about it being hers. For a moment, he thought the problem had solved itself. Then he realized how bad it would look if an uncontrolled super ran around town with a malfunctioning magical artifact that was supposed to be under his watch. He had to clean up this mess. With a put-upon sigh, the vampire ran after her.

Kaie:

Good, Kimber was taking control! Kaie knelt down to watch. "Think ya can stop it?" Ah, of course she could. Kimber was one of the magical Titans, she knew how to handle this stuff. Besides, anything that involved blood circles had to be powerful magic, right? FMA wouldn't lie to her about that. Kaie looked on, excited for this to be all fixed.

But nope, it had just sent Silverwing power-mad. Kaie was a little surprised to see the thief running after Kimber, but she quickly scurried after. Kimber was a good runner, but the two were catching up fast. Kaie had her long legs, and Gaunt was taking these inhuman leaps, covering an amazing amount of distance. Within moments, they were caught up. Kaie reached down, got a good grip on the idol, then burst out in uncontrollable laughter. "Tri-state area!"