Chapter 1: Psy

Who am I? Well, there's an interesting story. Well, I won't start at the very beginning, but I will start where my identity changed. You see, I'm an 18 year old named Sam. I have dark hair and I'm kind of muscularly thin, but not skinny thin. I guess I dress kind of preppy. But that's not really important. So, here we go.

Fade into song

When there's trouble you know who to call

TEEN TITANS

From their tower they can see it all

TEEN TITANS

When there's evil on the attack

You can rest knowing they've got your back

'Cuz when the world needs heroes on patrol

TEEN TITANS...GO!

With they're super-powers they unite

TEEN TITANS

Never met a villain that they liked

TEEN TITANS

They got the bad guys on the run

They'll never stop 'til the job gets done

And when the world is losing all control

TEEN TITANS...GO!

1...2...3...4...GO TEEN TITANS!

Fade out of song

"What's the matter Sam? You seem upset," my dad had asked. We were on vacation, but it didn't really feel like one.

"Nothing, I'm fine," I replied.

Of course I'm upset, I thought. I've been in a coma for the last year. Let's recap; I was kidnapped for a month and a half by Bedlam to take part in his plan to take over a country called Markovia with his evil werewolf army because he sensed that I had psychic abilities. Well during the middle of the night, his flunky, Sage, came and took me to a secret lab to train my psi abilities. It was some special program set up by Bedlam to train any person they sensed had psychic possibilities to their highest ability in a one-week, extreme training session to be used as a weapon for his sick plot to take over Markovia by making me control an army of werewolves. Well, the two other captives and I broke free, and while I was fighting a final battle with Sage, my memory was erased when our powers collided. She lost all sanity, and I went into comatose without a single memory of this event.

Well now, a year later, I'm finally out of my coma. And, as you can probably imagine, I didn't feel rested at all. I felt even more exhausted. I still didn't remember anything of what happened before my coma. I remembered before the kidnapping, and that's it. But, I felt something pricking at the back of my mind, but I couldn't exactly remember what it was. And, it was as we were getting ready to leave the hospital, I heard a voice in my head, not my head voice, but a voice of a person I didn't know. That voice kept taunting me, teasing me of the memory that I couldn't remember. It kept prying, asking if I could remember. I didn't...

Hours after we had left the hospital, I sat at home on my bed. The thought still haunted me that there was something I needed to remember but couldn't. So I concentrated. I blocked out everything and concentrated hard. Things started to come back to me. There were explosions, purple and blue glows, the sensation of flying, and things moving around this giant room without being physically touched, a battle scene with four other teenagers that had strange powers too. And then a maniacal laugh that brought it all together. All of a sudden I remembered everything. I remembered all the training, how I was stronger than any of Bedlam's scientists imagined. And how they decided I was too powerful and they needed to get rid of me after I, the other captives, Emerald and Wolfgang, and the Markovian Prince and Princess Bryon and Terra formed the Titans Europe to take down Bedlam. But his plans to get rid of us failed, and his death was brought about. Yes! I also remembered that in my attempt to attack Sage my powers backfired and erased my memory, but it didn't go deep enough. I remembered every detail.

I suddenly snapped out of this horrifying vision and realized that I wasn't an ordinary teenage guy anymore. I had powers beyond many people's imagination. I could fly, create psi shields, psi balls, create psychic pulses that would knock anything out of my path in a 200 meter area, and I could move things 100 times my size with a single thought! I could destroy the world with powers like this, but that wasn't my purpose. My purpose was to stop horrible people like Bedlam, Sage, and those scientists from doing this sort of thing to others. It was then I decided to save the world, not destroy it. I was no longer Sam, average teen. I am Psy, teen hero.

I remembered hearing from Terra about a group of teen heroes called the Teen Titans, and went to search them out, to see if they needed any help, or another member on their team. I searched high and low to find anyone who had heard of them. I finally found a store owner in a small suburb, a few miles from Gotham City, who said the Teen Titans lived in a giant tower shaped like a letter "T" on a small island a few miles from there. I obviously found it with no problem. I mean a giant letter "T" isn't very hard to locate.

Well, I reached the giant metal doors and was about to ring the bell when I noticed my reflection in the doors. I was dirty, tired, and messy, my clothes were torn and ragged and I didn't have any sort of super hero uniform to my name. I'll admit I didn't look like the kind of person to be asking to join a team of super heroes. I was just about to turn around and leave when the doors opened and a girl around 18 in a dark cloak with pallid skin and dark hair stepped out.

"So, were you gonna ring the bell, or just stand there all day?" the girl asked in a raspy sort of voice.

"I...um...well you see..." I stammered.

She raised one of her eyebrows in an inquisitive look. "Yes?" she asked.

"Well, I was going to but...wait a second," I said. "How did you know I was here?"

"I'm telepathic," she stated. "I could sense your presence."

"Oh wow!" I said. "Me too! Hi, my name is Psy, and you are?"

"Raven," she said. "You said you're telepathic, what are you doing here?"

"I'm actually psychic, but yeah, telepathy is one of my gifts," I replied. "I came to talk to the Teen Titans. I wanted to know if they needed anyone else on the team."

"Why don't you come in," Raven invited. "I'll call everyone else down and we'll talk about everything."

A few minutes later I found myself on a huge sofa waiting for Raven to get back with everyone. While I waited, I took in my surroundings. Besides the sofa, there was a gigantic window with a view of the whole city in front of the sofa, a small kitchen, and a few other chairs. It was a huge room, but it still seemed cozy.

A minute or so later, a small group of teens came in. First, there was a teenage boy with spiky, black hair, wearing a green and red uniform with a cape. He looked around 18 years old. He was closely followed by a young girl around the same age with dark red hair, and semi-orange skin tone. She was wearing strange clothes like none I'd ever seen before. Following these two were two guys who were sort of fighting over something. The first was a tall cyborg-like person who was part African American. He looked around 19. And the second was a green guy who looked around 16. Following the rest of the group was Raven.

"So, you're Psy?" the spiky haired guy asked.

"Yes, and you?" I asked back.

"I'm Robin, and this is Starfire," he indicated to the orangish girl, "Cyborg," obviously to the cyborg, "Beast Boy," pointing to the green guy, "and you've already met Raven."

"Wow, it's totally great to meet you all!" I said excitedly. "I've heard of you, but I never thought I'd actually meet you."

"Raven mentioned you want to join the Titans," Robin said. "I'm glad you do, but we need to know why you want to join the team. What are your abilities? How did you found out about us? And if you have any previous experience with your powers."

"Wow, why such in depth questions?" I asked.

"Because," Starfire replied, "we have had people join the Titans before and...," she trailed off.

"And she was only here to spy on us and find our every weakness and all our flaws, to report back to a maniac so they could try and destroy us," Cyborg finished.

"Doesn't anyone remember that in the end Terra gave her life for us?" Beast Boy yelled defensively. "And how she came back to us and helped us with everything before she had to go back to her country with her brother?" At this statement I noticed pain not only on Beast Boy's face, but on Raven's too.

Terra and Bryon were part of the Teen Titans? I asked myself. Maybe that's how they knew so much about the Titans, and how to form and lead a good team.

"Of course we do Beast Boy, but we also remember what she did before that," Robin said trying to calm down Beast Boy.

"You see Psy, the reason we ask in depth questions is because we all became emotionally attached to Terra," Raven said explaining it to me. "We trusted her and gave her everything, but she betrayed us. She did however gain our trust back when she used her powers to destroy Slade, our worst enemy who she had been working for. In return though, her victory petrified her in stone."

"I see," I replied, "So Terra was a part of this team at one point?"

"Yes she was, but her and her brother Prince Bryon were called back to their home country of Markovia to fix a problem with some maniac called Bedlam," said Robin. "Anyway, about those questions!"

So over the next hour or so, I explained who I was, where I'd come from, how I'd come across my powers, and just what my powers were. They all seemed pretty impressed with what I was telling them.

"I don't know about everyone else," Robin said, "but I'm ready to see you in action out on the obstacle course!"

"That is a glorious idea!" Starfire stated. "Cyborg and I shall go and ready the computer."

"This is gonna be great!" said Cyborg enthusiastically as he and Starfire headed outside.

"Hey! Wait up!" yelled Beast Boy. He quickly morphed into a cheetah and ran outside.

"Come on outside," Robin said. He went out. I was about to follow when Raven stopped me.

"So, this is your final test. You nervous?" she asked as if this question was a test in its own.

"Not if you're there I won't be," I said, with a wink. I grabbed her hand and ran outside laughing with her close behind, a shocked look on her face.

The obstacle course was not only challenging, but fun too. I did very well on it, and became the newest member of the Teen Titans. The first few nights at Titans Tower, I stayed in Beast Boy's room on the bottom bunk, while he took the top. But after about a week, the rest of the Titans surprised me with my own room, and my own costume, or "uniform." It was a very big room, nice and open and a nice, huge, bed. My uniform was also very cool. It was form fitting, which made it very easy to move around in.

Today, I sit in my room, thinking about everything, but especially Raven. I'm not sure why, but I feel like we have some sort of connection from the first time we met. It's odd. Not like a romantic connection...but something deeper. All of a sudden an alarm goes off.

"Titans, trouble!" Robin yells.

We all run into the briefing room and Robin fills us in on what is going on.

"Cinderblock has escaped from jail," Robin tells us.

"No problem," Cyborg shouts.

"Let's do it," says Beast Boy energetically.

"Let us go kick some butt?" Starfire asks, unsure of herself.

"...Right...," Raven says sarcastically

"All right, my first mission!" I say excitedly.

We all head outside. Robin jumps on his motorcycle and takes off. Beast Boy morphs into a pterodactyl and picks up Cyborg and flies on. And Raven, Starfire, and I take to the sky. As we all reach the place where we got the reading from, I have only one thing to ask.

"Hey guys? What in the world is a Cinderblock?" I ask.

BAM! A giant stone creature breaks through a thick, solid wall of a local bank carrying a safe.

"Never mind..." I conclude.

"Titans, GO!" Robin yells his battle cry.

We all jump into formation. Beast Boy transforms into a flying squirrel and flies onto Cinderblock's face, causing him to drop the safe he's holding. Robin throws some of his exploding discs while Cyborg blasts him with his sonic cannon. The combined explosion sends Cinderblock reeling. Raven and I simultaneously hurl cars at him with our telekinetic powers, while Starfire fires off multiple starbolts. But Cinderblock isn't going to give up without a fight. In one swipe all of us are knocked back into a wall, but I manage to shield myself at the last moment. So while the others are still recuperating, I am ready for more.

I could feel my strength growing as the battle went on, and now I am ready to give Cinderblock my all. I lift Cinderblock off the ground and fly into the sky carrying him with me. I hold him there telekinetically while throwing many psi balls at him rapidly. Then with all my might I use my mind to throw him to the ground. He hits the ground hard and sends a tremor through it, but it's over.

I slowly float back down to earth, and crumple to the ground in physical and mental exhaustion. My fellow Titans crowd around me with looks of concern mixed with fear. I give a weak smile.

"How'd I do?" I ask as I pass out.

As I slowly open my eyes, I realize that I'm back in Titans Tower, in the medical room. My fellow Titans surround me.

"Wonderful," Starfire cries. "You are awake!"

"Uh...how long have I been out?" I ask weakly.

"A couple of hours," Robin states. "How are you feeling?"

"Like a million bucks," I say with a chuckle.

"Booyah!" Cyborg cheers. "Who wants waffles?"

"I'm in," Beast Boys says.

"I wish to partake," Starfire cries. "Please, do you eat waffles with mustard?" she asks as they walk out.

Robin and Raven stay behind, probably to tell me that I'm too powerful, and I'm not able to control my powers enough, and I should go home.

"Psy, we're...we're...," Robin starts.

"We're concerned," Raven finishes.

"I know," I reply quickly. "I...I was so...so stupid to use my powers. I'm not ready. I just can't control them fully. I'm so sorry to endanger you all."

"No! That's not it at all," Robin states defensively.

"We're worried for your physical and mental health," Raven says. "We think you should not go on a mission for a while. Come to combat practice but stay relaxed."

"The stress is a lot to handle at first," Robin states.

"All right, I'll stay. If you really want me?" I look for reassurance.

"Of course," Raven says.

"Are you guys coming or not?" Cyborg yells from the kitchen. The smell of fresh waffles creeps into the room.

Late that night I call home. My mom tells me that everything's ok, but I have a feeling that something's wrong. I can tell in her voice that there's something she isn't telling me. So I tell her that I'm coming home in a few days for a visit. As I hang up, I make plans to leave early the next morning and leave a note that I'll be back in about a week or two.

The next morning, I get up to leave at around 6:00 a.m. I leave a note on the table, and as I'm about to leave, I sense that someone is near. I turn around, and Raven is standing there.

"Where do you think you're going?" she asks.

"I'm going home for a week or two, something isn't right, I can feel it," I reply. "I'll be back, I promise."

"Be careful," Raven says with care in her voice.

"I will," I say. I hug Raven and give her a kiss on the cheek. "I will be back. You be careful too, I care about you, you're like family to me."

"I care about you too," Raven says holding back some tears. "You also feel like my family. I don't want to lose you. I promise that I'll be careful."

As I fly off toward home, I know that Raven and I now share a bond, both in mind, and in heart. But I have my mind now set ahead. For who knows what lies at home. Or what kind of dangers are on the way.