Hello new readers, welcome to my new story. This was a cartoon from my childhood, and I thought it would be neat to write about it. I don't have much to say other than that. Nice and brief.
Chapter 1: Origins
There were a few clouds in the night sky. The sounds of sirens filling the air as emergency vehicles sped down the different streets of Jump City. Not many people were out, but that didn't bother Dante.
Anyone who looked at the teen would not look twice. A leather jacket that darkened his face; nothing but his eyes and jaws showed through the darkness. If you looked closely, a design that one would see as a tattoo. He wore basics jeans that were not too tight, but also not baggy. His shoes were just basic shoes, a gray color that drew no interest.
This was no ordinary teen though, for he had gifts. Well, he doesn't consider them gifts. Anyone who knew of his 'gifts' would be drawn away. You may be asking: 'what are they?' He has most of the abilities that a living weapon would have. The ability to heal any wound, to rip the turret off the body of a tank with ease and jump hundreds of feet into the air, and speed that would allow him to run up walls of skyscrapers. His agility was unmatched by anyone.
That wasn't the part that would freak people out though. He has the abilities akin to that of Prototype's Alex Mercer. He could wield his own claws, blades, clubs and whatnot that could cut through anything and near indestructible.
Dante looked down to the ground as a couple walked past him. Based on his past experiences with people, he does not want them to interact with him. He had been designed for one task, to kill. He escaped that life narrowly and only wants to provide positive change. He has not gotten that chance, yet.
Dante heard the couple gasp to themselves and he looked up. A green ball of fire steaked across the heavens and landed somewhere more in town. There was an explosion of green at where the object had landed. Without arousing the suspicion of those around him, Dante made his way into an alley before jumping up to the roofs of the buildings around him. He made with haste towards where the light had landed.
Regardless of what other's felt about him, he was going to provide assistance if this was a threat. He jumped from roof to roof, enjoying the night air as he sailed between buildings. He finally made it to what looked like the center of the city, and there was quite the interaction going on. Broken cars and open flames littered the street, and the balcony over a pizza place was being held up by a bent bar.
There was a duel going on between two people around his age. The guy had black, spiked hair and was wearing a red, green, black, and yellow outfit… wait, that was Robin. Dante looked on in disbelief. He spoke to himself as other noises of the fight went on. "Robin? This is not his City."
The other individual was a girl with fiery, red hair. Her eyes glowed green, she wore what seemed to be some kind of armor and a crown, face thingy. She had cuffs that were covering her hands indicating that she was some kind of prisoner.
Robin threw a smoke bomb at her while he did a flip over her. He looked at her with a glare as she seemed to be unaffected. Dante looked on and went wide eyed when she kicked up a car with her foot. 'Ok, I need to stop her from doing anymore damage.'
Dante jumped down just as she kicked the car at Robin and it flew right over him. Before it could make it much further, Dante used his body to block the car from flying into the buildings behind him. 'Damn, she must be close to as strong as I am.' He landed on the car that was fucked up. Robin and the girl looked on with surprise at his arrival, and Dante took this to his advantage, and rushed the girl and kicked her a few hundred feet back.
As intimidation, the metahuman turned his arms into claws. They were mostly black with red here and there, spikes protruded from them and the claws were like knives the shined from the flames that were set earlier. He looked back to the boy wonder, and he looked at Dante as he froze. "Are you going to just stand there or are you going to help containing her."
Dante looked forward once again see the red-head fly forward at him and punch him backwards. He skidded a far way as his head slightly rung from the punch. He looked up to see Robin deliver a mighty strike with his staff for it to only shatter. He looked on with surprise as the girl spoke, "Zota."
'Well, I guess that confirms she is either very exotic, or she is an alien.' Dante was about to rush forward to assist Robin when a green ram struck the alien to the side and change into some green, humanoid person. Dante approached the duo as the green one was speaking to Robin with a salute. "Ex-Doom Patrol Member Beast Boy, sir. How can I help…" He then went wide eyed. "Wowsers, you're Robin, aren't you, sir?"
Robin gave the changling a serious look, "Well, you can start by not calling me 'sir'."
Dante spoke up, "What has happened here to result in you guys attacking each other?" He changed his arms back into, well, his arms. Beast Boy looked on to him with amazement.
"I don't know, but I am determined to find out." He punched his hand.
Beast Boy didn't break from his military-esque stance and speech, "Well, let me just say that it is a real honor to be-"
He was interrupted by Robin who was spoke to him, but Dante's eyes were drawn to the girl lift the bus ready to throw it at them. He was getting in ready position to catch it when Beast Boy yanked him out of the way. Another figure jumped out of the shadows and caught the bus that was careening through the air.
The person was large in stature, sporting a grey hoodie, gloves, and black pants. If you looked closely, you could make out the red eye from the shadow his hood casted on his face. "YO! Who is here messing up my neighborhood?!"
Dante got to his feet as Beast Boy answered his question. "She started it." He pointed onward to the alien who was slowly approaching them all. With a ton of effort, she swung he cuffs down and shook the ground. The brace covering her hands fell away as she aimed onward at the group with green, glowing hands.
Dante spoke to himself, "Oh, shit." He ducked behind a shield that projected from his arm as she began to fire on the group. The moment after the explosion ceased, the group of four heroes charged her as she began a barrage of starblasts aimed at them. The surrounding area took massive damage as they missed their mark. Dante stuck with the group as to not become a sole target of her attack.
The group hid behind a bus as the alien was taking a break from her attack. The large figure spoke up, "Girl's gonna wreck the who city."
Robin, "I won't let her. I won't lose this fight."
Dante looked at Robin with a scowl, "You mean WE are not going to let her and we won't lose this fight. We are in this together, now."
Robin didn't say anything else as the group charged out to engage once again. Only, an apparition of a giant raven blocked their way.
"Maybe fighting isn't the answer." We all turned around to see a girl in a blue cloak. She gave them an uninterested look. Dante eased himself into a less aggressive stance just like the rest of the group.
"She is right. This girl will not give up the fight. We must try something else." The girl looked away as she slowly put down her barrier. The alien's hands were releasing stem from all the heat they caused.
Robin spoke up. "I have an idea for that, just stand down."
"What? You think you the boss or somethin'?" Dante pulled back the large figure before he decided to start a fight. The figure looked back at him with a glare which gave Dante a look at his face. 'Huh, must be some kind of cyborg.' Dante shook his head at the cyborg.
"Just give me a chance." Robin began to walk forward towards the hostile girl. As he was about five feet away, the girl stood up and advanced on the boy wonder. He hands glowed like before, but she didn't shoot yet.
"Guckta." She seemed like she wasn't interested in any bullshit.
To the groups relief, Robin seemed to try and be nonthreatening. "Easy, my name is Robin, and I don't want to hurt you. I am just here to help." He seemed to be trying to pull something out of his belt after he said this. Dante tensed at what may unfold here.
"Guckta. Guckta Buhalgna." She approached closer to Robin when he pulled out something that would free her from her binds.
"It's Okay. Look." He showed it to her, but there were no other movements. Even the other teens didn't dare to move, afraid of retaliation from the alien.
He approached to free her from her binds, and she seemed to relax and let him. Her eyes went from a glowing green to something that looked close to human. Other than the fact that they were green, of course.
Her binds fell to the ground as she rubbed her wrists. "There, now maybe we can be-" He was cut shorts with a kiss being laid upon his lips from the alien girl.
Dante's eyes went wide at this display, Robin seemed just as surprised that the action. As fast as it had started, it ended with the girl pushing him back to the ground. She spoke up, and this time Dante and the others could understand. "If you wish to not be destroyed, you will leave me alone." She shot into the sky leaving everyone speechless.
After a few seconds, Beast Boy spoke to the cyborg. "Soooo… I'm Beast Boy, who are you?"
The man, or machine if you want to view him as that, didn't respond to Beast Boy. Dante looked around thinking, 'these guys need to lighten up.'
Beast Boy turned his attention to Dante, who had no intention in giving up his name. He already knew that the green one was going to ask him about it. "What about you?"
"Apex. Just call me Apex." The was the name he was given when he was created, why not use it now.
"Cool." There was not chatter amongst the heroes. The only sounds that could be heard was the open flames that still burned at the shell of some cars and a bus.
The cyborg spoke up, "Well, whoever she was, the girl sure knows how to make an impression."
Dante, or Apex as he shall be called, just grunted in agreement while Beast Boy's was more verbal. "I think we made a pretty good impression. Crazy space girl's gone, the city's saved, mission accomplished. Right, sir?"
Robin looked at the changling stonily, "Seriously, stop calling me that."
"Roger."
"Looks like we are done here, I appreciate the help." He started to walk away from the group not looking back.
The mage spoke with no feeling in her voice, "You're going to track down the alien?" Her face gave off no emotion.
"I have to find out if she is a threat." Apex started to walk up behind Robin because he would probably need backup while the cyborg said something else about 'another kiss'. Probably had to do with Robin.
Beast Boy caught up with Robin as well, "Hey, sir- uh- I mean Robin, do you maybe-"
Robin cut him off before he could continue. "Sorry, I just went solo. I'm not really looking to join a team."
This stopped Apex from continuing because he was not really driven to 'hang out' with anyone. He was going to find this girl alone. He seemed to have the greatest chance at survival, anyways. "What about you? What are you going to do?"
Apex looked at the smaller, green teen. "I'm not really the connecting type. You don't really want me as a friend anyways…" Apex left while Beast Boy was rejected by the other teens as well. That was, until he heard the cyborg drop his hood and turn around to the changling.
"There! Take a good, long look! I had an accident and now I'm a monster, alright. A cyborg." Apex stopped right in his tracks and looked at the half-man-half-machine. 'A monster? He doesn't even know what a monster is and can do.'
"Cyborg? Coooooooool. You're like Robotman 2.0." He seemed to check him out at all angles. Cyborg was slightly surprised by this, but Apex tuned it out when he saw a giant, alien ship approaching the coastline from over the city. It took a second for the other teens to see it as well.
A projectile was dropped from the bottom of the ship and landing on a small island off the coast. Cyborg looked over to where it landed. "Looks like space girl has friends."
"Or enemies." This startled Apex since he didn't even hear Robin return from wherever he was going.
The object began to project a giant image of a lizardman. "People of Earth, we come to your planet to hunt an escaped prisoner, a very dangerous prisoner. Do not interfere, and we will leave your city with only minimal damage. But if you attempt to assist her, your destruction will be absolute." With that, the hologram of the grotesque lizard faded, and the ship started to open allowing some of the aliens to board.
"That is a big ship," Cyborg said with little emotion showing through his hood.
"And those are some scary looking aliens." Beast Boy followed up. Apex looked between the green teen and the aliens leaving the ship. He was wondering how the changling was able to see that far…
The hooded girl moved up a little to put in her own thought, "They told us not to interfere."
"I am starting to think that she isn't the one that we should be worried about." Apex looked on as the swarm started to approach the city.
Apex looked over to Robin, and he already knew that the teen was planning on chasing down the girl. Cyborg had to confirm that. "You are still going after her, aren't you?"
"Can we come, too?" Apex smiled a little at the rest of the group when he looked on Robin. He was hoping that the boy wonder would want to team up. This was the farthest in any form of interaction in a long time, and he did not want to lose it for a while.
"If we are going to find this girl, it is best that we stick together." Apex hoped his words swayed Robin.
"I suppose I could team up, just this once." We all had traces of a smile on our faces as we began to walk away. That would be true, except for one, cloaked figure. She seemed to look down at the ground a little.
Apex turned around, "Aren't you coming?" The others seemed to notice when he spoke to her.
She spoke in her usual monotoned voice, "I'm not the hero type. Trust me, if you knew who I really am, you wouldn't want me around." She turned around to face the other way.
Apex put a hand on her shoulder, "I can see that is not true. I am the one who doesn't look like the hero type. So, come with us, prove yourself wrong."
She seemed to have a small smile at this. Apex continued to ask, "So… What is your name if you don't mind me asking."
"It's Raven. Don't worry about telling me yours, I already heard." Apex smiled and nodded.
They continued on their way when Beast Boy spoke to Apex, "You are dressed weird for a hero. And you claw ability was really cool… and creepy."
Apex looked at him with a raise brow. "I don't consider myself a hero, and thanks, but also not?" He really didn't know how to respond. He guesses that he is alright with the comment.
They had ended up in an alley. A few of the aliens tracking the girl were making a mess before they split off into the night sky. Robin turned back to the group, "Alright, we need some way to track-"
He was cut off by Raven, "She's near." Everyone was mildly confused at how she could possibly know. Apex chuckled a little. "I can sense things." Raven seemed slightly nervous when saying this.
Beast Boy changed into a Bloodhound to try and find her scent. Cyborg showed his arm when fiddling with it, "There's a sonic analyzer build into my arm. If she is around, I will hear it."
"Good."
Beast Boy finally changed back into his 'normal' self. "I got her trail."
Cyborgs arms stated, "And I can hear her heart beat."
The group all moved out to a movie theater, but there was a giant hole burned into the side of the building. Apex's guess, she was here or had been there. When they went into the building, they were met with an amusing sight. The girl was literally throwing whatever was around into her mouth as if she hadn't eaten in years.
Apex whispered to the mage, who was standing right by him. "That is an interesting way of eating." He got a chuckle for his efforts.
Beast Boy decided to make their presence known, "Uhhh, those taste better without the wrapper."
She stopped her pigging out and got into an aggressive defensive position, with the glowing, green orbs in her hands and glowing eyes. The group took a step back while Robin put his hands up trying to ease the alien. "It's alright. We are friends, remember."
This did not ease the girl at all as she became accusatory. "Friends? Why?" She advanced on the group while the group stepped back. "For what purpose did you free me?" Damn, this girl did not know how to read situations.
"Just… trying to be nice." Robin was slightly nervous at her posturing, as was everyone else.
"Nice? We do not have this word on my planet. Closest it Rutha, weak."
"Well nice means nice." Cyborg was getting irritated, and so was Apex.
Apex finished for Cyborg, "And if you want us to keep being nice, you better tell us why the Lizard King took you prisoner." His voice was cold and straight to the point.
She seemed to settle down as her defenses dropped, much to the satisfaction of the teens. "Not prisoner, I am… prize. The Gordanians deliver me to the Citadel to live out my days as their servant."
The girl in the cloak pitched in, "And the Citadel are…"
"Not. Nice." Apex gave himself a mental high five knowing that the 'Gordanians', as they are called, were going to be the ones that bring the trouble.
"Then you're not going with them. Not if I have anything to say about it." Robin walked up to the alien when he spoke to her.
"Umm, don't you mean we?" The question was never answered when the wall was blown up. The others flew back while Apex blocked the brick and explosion with his massive blade that replaced his arm. The Gordanians were waiting outside the building.
"Seize her." The group smiled at each other as they engaged the enemies. Cyborg when at them with his fists, Beast Boy as a Rhino, and the alien girl taking out a half dozen at a time. Robin wielded his staff and smacked them with insane accuracy while the mage used magic of some kind. Apex cut their spears in half with ease while delivering some nonlethal strikes to their bodies.
The fight was taken outside when the alien flew around chucking plasma orbs at the enemy. She was successful until she was brought to the ground with one of the lizards standing over her threateningly. Apex and Robin saw this and they nodded to each other in a knowing way. Robin shoved one of the Gordanians back while Apex kicked him to the one standing over the girl. They smacked into each other and flew a few hundred feet down the street.
"Nice kick." Apex nodded to Robin in acknowledgment before engaging more lizard people. Meanwhile, Robin turned around and gave a smile to the alien girl. Cyborg seemed to have some trouble when a bunch of blasts took away his clothing. Underneath was his cybernetic body, which Apex thought was cool. This seemed to just piss him off when he took his fighting to the next level.
He was being attacked even more, as he was overwhelmed by the attacks. Beast Boy helped him out while Apex turned his arm into a whip with a menacing blade on the end. He was taking out some of the aliens from the sky by piercing their hides and dragging them to the ground. Raven used a road light to take a few others from the sky.
The lizards seemed to have enough of the fighting as they took off into the night sky. Apex reverted his arm back to its original structure. The red-headed girl spoke, "I believe you expression is… thanks."
Cyborg looked over himself with sadness, "Awww man, my suit."
Beast Boy didn't seem to sad about that as he complimented Cyborg, "So? You look way cooler without it."
Cyborg went in the offensive as he towered over the changling, "Yeah, like I'm taking fashion advice from the guy in the goofy mask."
The green guy seemed really sad by this, "Goofy… My mask is cool. Isn't it? Raven? Apex?"
Raven shook her head no while Apex just smiled at him, "No, it most definitely is not." Apex did not take pity on the small one.
"Ehh, what about my secret identity?" He pulled on the bottom of his mask.
"What secret identity? You're green." Apex nodded at the mage's words.
"Ehhhhh. Mmmmmmmm." He made a few more noises as he couldn't refute her argument. So, he just took off the mask showing off more green, especially his unkempt, green hair.
"This isn't over. Now that we have interfered-" Robin didn't get to finish what he said when the alien spoke up.
"Trogar will strike harder. It is only a matter of-" Once again, someone didn't get to finish what they were going to say before they were interrupted.
"Fools! The Earth scrum were warned. Your insolence will be punished. Your city shall. Be. Destroyed." The hologram of the Lizard King dissipated while their ship began to fly back over the city. They aimed their massive particle cannon down at the city.
Raven said one word. "Great."
Apex, while still looking up, responded, "I agree. We are fucked."
No one moved as they were still trying to figure out a plan. "So, after trashing the pizza place and a perfectly good video store, now we have managed to make a humungous space gecko mad enough to vaporize our entire town."
Cyborg deadpanned, "Go team."
Apex, "Yep."
It wasn't even after a second when the blame game started. The alien girl started, "All the fault is yours. I commanded you leave alone but you insisted on the being nice." Her head seemed to grow from Apex's point of view as she shouted at Robin.
"My fault!? You blast me, you kiss me, but you never stop to mention that they have a gigantic particle weapon!" A little bit of tension was going on as a red charge was going between their heads.
As they shouted, Beast Boy seemed to want to start a shouting match with Cyborg. "We are doomed! I can't believe that I let you talk me into this." Ummmm, what? They didn't even know each other for that long of time.
"Say what! I was ready to walk-" Raven was rubbing her temples as she was surprised Apex was just standing their irritated. He looked over to her and saw she was in a similar state.
He had enough, "QUIET!" He pulled down his hood to reveal the rest of his face along with the shortish, blond hair spiked forward in a messy way. Everyone went silent. He needed to get their attention, so he had to show them the seriousness on his own face. "Bickering will get us nowhere except death. We started this together, we are going to finish this together." There was a sharpness to each of his words to put emphasis on what he was trying to convey.
Robin stepped forward. "He's right. It doesn't matter how we got into this mess. We're in it, and we will get out of it, together."
Everyone nodded in understanding. "Come on, we've got a city to save."
Apex looked to their de facto leader. "So, what is the plan, chief."
The group was teleported into the giant ship with the help of Raven, who used her teleportation to get the group to the ship. It seems that there were massive preparations going on to blow up the city. Guards were running down the hall, some beam in the hall made sounds as if it were charging up.
The black ball that encased the group faded away while Beast Boy shivered. "Uhhhhhhhh, that dark energy stuff gives me the-"
He noticed that Raven was looking at him with her usual, emotionless look. "Uhhh, I mean, it's cool." He gave her thumbs up when saying this trying not piss her off.
Apex just shrugged at Beast Boy, "I thought is was calming." He looked around the halls to see what could be coming along with Robin.
Robin whispered, "We have to get to the firing controls. There isn't much time." He lead the group while the alien followed right behind him. Cyborg and Apex looked around to see that Raven was not following.
Cyborg broke her thoughts, "Mind telling me why you're always by yourself."
"You heard the kid, I don't exactly fit in." Cyborg smiled slightly at this while Apex stepped up.
"He's green, half of Cyborg is metal, she's from space, and I'm basically a monster. You fit in juuuust fine." He pointed at Beast Boy, Cyborg, the alien girl, and himself as he gave those descriptions respectively. He made a sweeping motion for her to lead ahead of the two teens.
Meanwhile ahead, Robin was still sneaking about with the alien in tow. She broke the silence, "I bring you a-apology." She had trouble speaking some of the words as she said this.
"Don't worry about it. I'm sorry I yelled, too."
"And again, you are nice. On my world, only my Kanorphga has shown me such kindness." She had a small smile as she spoke to the spiked-haired teen.
"Well, things are different here." There was a moment of silence as they just looked at one another. The alien girl blushed under his gaze.
That moment was shattered with Beast Boy pointing ahead of them, "Ummm, guys? I think they know we're here." The lizard guards surrounded the group from the front and the back.
Apex drew out a claw for one arm and a blade for the other when getting into his ready position. "Haven't they learned."
In the control room, the weapon could be seen getting ready to fire. Many of the Gordanians were working at their posts in trying to keep the ship operational. One of the beasts turned around to face his leader, who was larger than the rest of the lizards. "Lord Trogar, the weapon has reached full power."
Lord Trogar turned around in his swivel-like chair and addressed his subordinate. He spoke in his grisly voice, "Then begin the firing sequence." The Gordanians began to punch at a bunch of buttons at their leaders' command. The timer that was written in an alien language. "The Earth scum shall learn, it takes more than six juvenile heroes to defy the mighty Lord Trogar!" He stood up when he spoke this. The weapon began to light up.
Before anything else could happen, the doors in the back of the room blew open to show the six heroes on the other side. "We're not six heroes, we're one team."
"And saying that you are 'mighty' is just a delusion of grandeur," Apex taunted at the alien leader.
Lord Trogar roared at the heroes, and his warriors attacked. The young heroes attacked as well.
Each of them going through their own sequence of movers. Robin and Cyborg both fighting with their own fists, Beast Boy taking on the enemy as a kangaroo, the alien girl taking them on with her powered-up fists, and Apex cutting them down with injuries, so they couldn't continue to fight.
Beast Boy was fighting some of them, rapidly changing between his usual form and that of a kangaroo when he was struck in the side. The flew up and hit the side of the ceiling before being caught by Apex by the back of his uniform. Raven came to their aid to by blocking on of them with a conjured shield. Apex looked over to her with a smile, "Thanks for the block." He set down the changling before it looked like Raven was getting overwhelmed. She was laying on the ground waiting for the Gordanian to hit her only for Apex to kick the lizard across the room.
He helped her up by the hand, "Now we are even."
They didn't stop fighting for long when they both engaged the enemy once more. Robin seemed to be having trouble with their leader as he was plucked from the air mid-attack and thrown against the wall.
The alien girl gasped at this display, "Robin!" She through some of her green energy bolts at Trogar as the smoke soon concealed his current state. He soon jumped through the smoke and grabbed her from the air. His hand was able to wrap around her frame easily as she struggled against him. He hit her against the ground a few times before she was able to get a strike on his face.
He recoiled to see the half robotic man charging him, which followed an uppercut to the face. The alien girl assisted him in his strikes as they both seemed to prevail over the lizard king. Well, it only lasted for a while before Trogar regained his bearings and delivered strikes to Cyborg, then the girl, and to them both. It was odd to see how things can change so quickly.
Apex engaged the enraged alien king as he bought time for Robin, Cyborg, and the warrior girl. While that was happening, Robin had to find a way to help them in the battle. His thought, it would be through Cyborg. "Can you rewire that into some sort of weapon?"
"I can try." Just then, Apex was backhanded into a control console on the side of the room, which utterly decimated it. Lord Trogar now had lacerations across his body from his fight with Apex. That didn't stop him from fighting on, though. His warriors were lined up behind him ready to attack the trio.
His attention was brought away from the group of three and to the mage helping the changling when she spoke. "Get away from my friends. Azarath Metrion Zinthos!" The control center experienced an explosion that caused the ship to crash-land into the waters below.
Many of the Gordanians laid around defeated. The group seemed to be mostly unharmed. Apex picked himself up from the control console and approached the mage. "That was pretty effective. Should start with that next time." A small blush appeared on her face from embarrassment until it was broken by the still active Lord Trogar. He towered over Apex, Raven, and Beast Boy. Apex got ready to defend himself and the other two with his blade and claw.
Lord Trogar was Apex's claw and he extended his own close to the same length. He was about to strike until a blue, concussive blaster struck him in the back. Cyborg was behind him with his newly modified arm cannon held up. A little bit of smoke came out the barrel of the blaster.
"Alright, I'm only going to say this once." He smirked. "Boo-ya."
The sun was starting to rise as the group overlooked the city from an island. Not any island, but the one that held the hologram projector. There was a change in the mood as the bad guy was defeated.
"That's quite a view." Raven spoke, also having her hood down for the first time.
Cyborg responded, "Somebody ought to build a house out here."
Beast Boy started to prod Raven from the side as he spoke up. "Yeah, if you like sunshine, and the beach…"
Apex thought it was slightly funny since it was the exact opposite of the mage's personally. She thought so, too, as she let out a small laugh. "You know, you're kinda funny."
He took major pride in this as diamonds showed in his eyes and he became excited. "You think I'm funny. Oh-ho-ho, Dude! I know some jokes."
A bead of sweat rolled down the side of her head as she realized her mistake. Apex laughed at this more than he did as Beast Boy's joke. "I think she is regretting her compliment toward you." He started to walk away from the group without them noticing.
A figure approached behind them showing off a new look. "Please, I look… nice?" The alien girl had a drastic change of attire from before. She no longer wore the headpiece from before, and it showed off her hairstyle a little better. Her clothing was more… revealing of the arms, stomach, and legs since she no longer had the armor. She wore a purple skirt and shirt, forearm guards, and long, purple boots.
Robin was the one to approach the girl and speak up. "I still don't know your name."
"In your language, it would be Star Fire."
"Welcome to Earth, Starfire." Robin smiled.
"I thank you all for your bravery and help. And I wish to ask permission to remain here, where the people are most strange, but also most… kind." She and Robin looked away from one another as they blushed.
Raven spoke while Robin couldn't at the moment, "You don't need our permission."
Robin collected himself once more before speaking up, "But if you want our friendship, you've got it."
Cyborg added, "Guess we could all use new friends."
Beast Boy was the last of the group, minus one, to talk, "Besides, we kinda made a good team."
"I thought we might want to keep in touch, so Cyborg and I designed these." Robin held out come communication devices for everyone to take. One remained, and Robin held on to it to be able to give it to one last hero.
Cyborg added, "Made them out of my own circuits."
"When there is trouble, you know who to call." The group stuck around the island a second before Robin looked at the surroundings. "Have you guys seen Apex. I have a comm for him."
Cyborg, too, looked around. "He was with us a second ago."
They began to look around the island when Robin found Apex looking out at the sunshine while sitting on the beach. "Any reason that you are alone?"
Apex looked around quickly to see that it was Robin. He looked back at the sea when he spoke. "Not really, just thinking about what happened. Crazy night."
"Yeah… By the way, this is for you." He held out the communication device for Apex to take, which he did. "It is so that we can all stay in touch."
"You want to keep in touch? With me?" He was a little baffled. "Did you not see my powers? I am a monster, an untamable weapon."
"That is not what I see. You were a pivotal member of the team." He smiled at Apex.
Apex smiled, "I see that you are becoming more of a team player." Robins smile faded a little bit. Apex continued, "I think that this showed that the city needs us. Not just six separate 'heroes', but as one team, just like you said."
Robin began to think on this as the others began close in on the two. Robin was still in deep thought. Beast Boy spoke up, "Sooooo, anyone want to get some pizza?"
No one got to answer when they were suddenly greeted by a helicopter coming their way. From the seal that was printed on the side, it was the mayor's office. The group wondered what this could be about, probably some thanks for saving the city.
The chopper landed, and the mayor stepped out to greet the teens. "Hello, young heroes. I believe I should begin this by saying thank you for saving our city."
He shook each of our hands before Robin spoke up, "No need for the thanks, we were only doing our duty." The others nodded at the Boy Wonders' response.
"That brings me to my second part, or as I will say, an offer." He waited for the group to respond.
Apex stepped forward, "What offer?"
"We have received countless calls this morning alone requesting we fund a superhero division. So, I want to offer you a chance to protect this city for the foreseeable future."
Apex looked at Robin as if to say, 'looks like I'm not the only one who thinks so'. Robin seemed to be deep in thought as the group looked at him. Everyone trusted his judgement, and they would go along with any decision he made. It wasn't like any of them had somewhere to go, some of them didn't even have homes to live in.
Robin finally piped up, "I think that we all accept." The group nodded to his words.
The mayor grinned at their response. "Terrific! Shall we work out the details, then?"
Robin nodded, and the mayor headed back to the chopper and waited for Robin as he seemed to take up the leadership position. He turned to us before leaving, "I will work out the plans with the mayor. You guy can do what you want for the time being. I will contact you guys when I have finished up."
He turned to leave and entered the chopper where it was to take off and go to city hall. The helicopters rotor noise drifted into the background when Apex spoke up, "Soooo. Pizza you said?" Beast Boy nodded. "I could go for a slice."
Hope you guys liked my take on the origins of the Teen Titans, I remember the good days when this show was running. It was simply fantastic.
If you guys want to know Apex/Dante's abilities, just look up Alex Mercer from Prototype. I wanted a character who had a conflicted self-image, and I liked playing that game so I was like 'what the hell'. I do not own any share in Prototype nor in the Teen Titans franchise.
As for next update, since I am prioritizing another story, I will not update this story as often. It is just an outlet for thought. So until then, Favorite, Follow, and/or Review and I would appreciate it.
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