Ok so this is going to be my first Teen Titans chapter story. It's probably not going to be extremely good so I apologize for that ahead of time. Oh and if some of the characters seem OOC then I'm sorry for that too. This idea was bugging me so I had to write it down.
Disclaimer: I do not and never have owned Teen Titans or any character that you have seen before.
Chapter 1
It was raining pretty badly outside and the Titans were all gathered in the main room hanging out since suspiciously for the past 3 days no alerts had come up.
"Ok I have a good one for you Cyborg, how do you get out of a building with no windows and no doors with only a mirror and a table?" Beast Boy asks Cyborg. The two had been doing riddles and mind games for the past hour.
"Um, let's see, only a mirror and a table?" Cyborg asks.
"Yup!" Beast Boy answers. Cyborg looks deep in thought.
"Friend Beast Boy, these riddles, how do they work?" Starfire asks curiously. She had been watching the two go back and forth for the entire hour with great interest.
"It's kinda hard to explain Star." Beast Boy says rubbing the back of his head with his hand.
"Oh." Starfire says sadly.
"Star, riddles are word games and mind games that are used to test the human ability to solve puzzles." Robin says to the alien girl, she immediately perks up.
"Oh I see, they are puzzles that you speak instead of do." Robin nods at the answers and goes back to the newspaper he was doing.
"Ugh! I give up! What's the answer BB?" Cyborg says after five minutes.
"Raven do you want to try?" Beast Boy asks the girl with purple hair in a blue cloak who was currently reading.
"No." She replies monotonously.
"How about you Robin, you know you want to try!" Beast boy asks his leader. Robin sighs and puts down the newspaper.
"Fine."
"You know the riddle right?" BB asks. Robin nods.
"The answer is, you go to the mirror you see was you saw, you take the saw, cut the table in half, two halves make a whole and you get out." Robin says without effort. This gets him some weird looks from his teammates.
"Wow, man how did you figure that out?" Cyborg asks.
"It was an easy riddle." Robin says quickly, he didn't want the team to connect riddles with Gotham.
"Ok well then solve this one, I am the beginning of the end, and the end of time and space. I am essential to creation, and I surround every place. What am I?" Beast boy asks grinning; no way would Robin ever figure that out. Robin just sighs and shakes his head.
"The letter e, End, timE, space, Every place. Again Beast Boy another easy riddle." Robin says sounding bored.
"Oh yea! Well then you give a riddle if you're so good at them." Beast Boy says sounding annoyed.
"Very well then. What always runs but never walks, often murmurs, never talks, has a bed but never sleeps, has a mouth but never eats?" The team immediately begins talking to each other trying to figure out the answer, even Raven joined in.
"Well on my home planet there is a creature that Robin described just like that." Starfire says hesitantly.
"Uh Star, Robin doesn't know what animals live on your planet so how could he do a riddle about one?" Beast Boy says to the redhead.
"Oh right! Silly me!" Starfire says blushing. Robin of course goes back to reading the newspaper and filling out the crossword puzzle that he had been working on. He had already finished the hard Sudoko puzzle so now all that was left was the crossword.
"How could someone not eat, that's impossible?" Cyborg says annoyed.
"I believe we are overlooking this." Raven says a few minutes later.
"Need a hint?" Robin asks the huddled group of teens.
"NO!" They shout, Robin recoils smirking slightly. They would come to him shortly. One hour later to be exact.
"Ok I give up, what's the answer?" Beast Boy says.
"Are you sure?" Robin asks sounding worried.
"Yes man! Tell us the answer, it's killing me!" Cyborg says.
"But Cyborg how could the answer be killing you, it is not real." Starfire says sounding worried.
"Forget it Star." He answers.
"Oh it was a metaphor no?" Beast Boy face palms himself and Raven sighs.
"Well?" She asks.
"The answer is a river." Robin answers while writing on the newspaper. Beast Boy walks over and grabs the paper out of Robin's hands and looks at it.
"DUDE! You finished the advanced sudoko and the hard crossword puzzle! I can't even finish the easy sudoko!" Robin glares at Beast Boy and grabs the paper back.
"Yes I finished it so?" He asks testily.
"Just that's just wow." Beast Boy says.
"Robin how do you know all these riddles?" Raven asks curious to find out more about the team's leader who was still a mystery.
"Um… I am just good a riddles." Robin says quickly, this draws suspicious looks from his teammates who knew that he was lying.
"Oh really?" Beast Boy draws out the really making it obvious that he was being sarcastic.
"Yes." Robin says point blankly.
"Lire! Come on dude, you can trust us. I mean if it's some embarrassing secret we won't tell!" Beast Boy whines. Robin sighs.
"I do trust you, but I don't want to talk about it." With that Robin gets up and leaves the room. The team watches him leave and looks at each other.
"Great going BB, you just got Robin mad at us." Cyborg yells.
"I'm not MAD and I can HEAR you guys!" Robin says from the doorway, and the entire team jumps with shock.
"How did you do that silent sneaking up thingy-ma-hoosit?" Beast Boy asks their stony leader.
"Robin please, we did not mean to offend you with the question asking game." Starfire says flying up to Robin and putting a hand on his shoulder.
"I know Star. I just don't want to-" An alarm goes off and the Titans rush to the consol to see what the disturbance was. "Titans break in at the toy factory." Robin shouts, the Titans immediately rush into action.
BREAKLINE…..
"Drop the toys and FREEZE." Robin shouts to the hidden figure. The Titans immediately light up their various powers and surround the figure.
"How about a little game instead. If I win I don't go to jail, if you win you can hand me over to the cops fair and square." The figure says smoothly.
"That voice, I recognize it." Robin says in an afterthought.
"Well Titans do you agree to my terms?" The figure asks. The team looks at their leader who seemed lost in thought.
"Robin?" Raven asks snapping their leader back to reality.
"Fine Riddler, but no double cross or I'll be forced to bring you back the hard way." Robin growls. The team was shocked at Robin's change in attitude.
"How did you know the guy's name?" Beast Boy asks.
"Uh, lucky guess." Robin says.
"Here are the rules, pick one person to answer my riddles and they only get one shot, same rule applies to me. Are you ready?" The team looks confused, riddles, what was this guy playing at.
"Robin you go, you are better at this than any of us." Cyborg says solemnly. Robin nods slowly and steps forwards.
"Give it your best shot Riddler." The shadowy figure steps out into the light donning a green hat purple mask and jacket with green pants and a tie with a question mark on it.
"Very well my turn first. I never was, am always to be. No one ever saw me, nor ever will. And yet I am the confidence of all, To live and to breathe on this terrestrial ball. What am I?" The team gasps, this was a hard question surely Robin wouldn't figure it out. Robin just laughs and the team gives him a weird look.
"You're going easy on me Riddler; the answer is tomorrow or the future." Riddler nods at Robin.
"Very good Boy Wonder, I have missed your cocky attitude since only you and the Bat are equals to my intellect. It is your turn."
"What is in seasons, seconds, centuries and minutes but not decades, years, or days?" The team was amazed at their leader's ability to come up with these riddles off hand.
"The letter –n." Riddler answers right away. "The person who makes it, sells it. The person who buys it never uses it and the person who uses it doesn't know they are. What is it?" Robin frowns at this and the team begins to worry.
"A. Coffin." Robin answers in a soft yet deadly sounding tone. "What English word has three consecutive double letters?"
"That's not a riddle!" Riddler cries out angrily.
"Yes it is. You never said what type of riddle it had to be." Robin replies curtly.
"No fair! You used my own game against me!" Robin smirks at this.
"Do you have the answer or not!"
"No." Robin at this runs forwards and quickly handcuffs Riddler. He turns towards the team.
"We are taking him back to the tower, I will arrange for someone to pick him up at the edge of town." The team gives their leader a weird look.
"But why?" Starfire asks.
"This is not a Jump villain, he doesn't belong in our jail. So I'm sending him back to where he belongs." Robin say this while shaking Riddler a little bit.
"Dude, he was in our city, let the police handle it so we don't have to watch him!" Beast Boy objects.
"Head back to the tower, I will be back in a few hours." With that Robin with the Riddler in tow disappear into the nighttime leaving the Titans very confused.
Ok how was that? I know it wasn't very good, but hey it's my first chapter story for Teen Titans. Oh and the answer to Robin's riddle is either bookkeeper or woollen (W could be a double U) Review please!
