Central City Mall, October 30th, 1:47pm
Spread throughout the mall, most of the students go about what most teenagers with money in a mall would do…shop tile they drop…
Wondergirl and Cat's Eyes are checking out hundreds of different pairs of shirts, blouses, shirts, jeans, shoes, etc… avoiding those who might look a little oddly as Cat's Eyes (its only been about 30 minutes so far, so you are not to far in the hole yet
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Superboy, Arsenal, Starfire, Batgirl, Robin, and Nightwing are still chatting and finishing up lunch.
Hawk, Dove and Aqualad (who wishes to see 'surface dweller' sports-warriors) head to a sports good store
Argent and Risk have wander off somewhere and have not been seen for a bit, and Impulse is still MIA.
Beast Boy and Terra are off looking for MP-3s and other electronic devices that might catch their fancy
Raven and Cyborg are off at one of the larger national bookstores, not really together, just in the same part of the mall…
All is going well and pretty normal stuff… when Raven feels a sharp pain in here head… she is 'drawn' to a door in the back of the store marked "Employees Only". The door is open and no one is around, and looking in she hears some crying and 'feels' strong emotions of pain and fear. Inside Raven finds two young women, dressed as store employees, lying on the floor bleeding badly onto the floor. Standing over the girls is a wild eye looking man with a knife slowly cutting one of the girl's arms "
That's nice, isn't it pretty? Feel the pain… the cut… the beauty of the blade…"
He seems to hear or sense Raven as she steps around the corner coming onto the screen and he smiles "
Oh a new pretty… good, these are almost done and bored with them now… new pain is good pain is it not pretty?"
Meanwhile, on the other side of the mall…
Superboy feels a sharp pain in his ears, like a whistle being blowing at full blast right next to his ear! It stuns him for a second and then his Super-Hearing starts picking up the noise of silenced gunfire! Here in the mall, down a different wing… he can also hear screams and panic as people start to flee… the noise here in the food court is to loud for anyone else to hear what is going on… but something bad is happening right now… Superboy can still hear the noise… it is directionless but intense.
At about this time, Wondergirl also starts hearing something… a ringing in her ear… that quickly turns painful… it is like someone is using a dentist drill bit on her ear! It spikes quickly and then starts dying down, but she can still hear it. Cat's Eyes starts hearing someone scream… it is a long ways off, but her ears instantly perk up and she is certain that it was a scream, of fear!
For those who can... what are you doing?