FULL SUMMARY: The first generation of the Teen Titans have moved on with their lives, and initiated six new members by the names of Kyle, Kimi, Taku, Danny, Sara, and Clara. The adults go through the stresses of steady jobs, wedding planning, childbirth, making choices, meddling sisters, meeting the in-laws, love affairs, and stifling the urge to rip their hair out. As all this goes on, the Teens and the heroes of the New Teen Titans are having their own problems as well; get ready for crushes, rejections, love triangles, sibling rivalry, tears, teenage angst, unexpected surprises, accidents, lies, parties, shadowy pasts, ghost stories, and Taku burning the Tofu.
Pairings: RobStar(Blackfire) BBRae(Terra) CyBeeJinx SaraKyleClara ClaraTaku KimiDanny and possibly others.
Disclaimer: I do not own the Teen Titans. I do own a kick-ass black shirt with the Teen Titans on it.
A/N: I hope you enjoy. This is expected (by me) to be much better than Moonfire. And I am so sorry if there are any typing errors in this chapter. It was thirteen pages and I am way too lazy to read over it all.
TT2Takes place the day after Moonfire ends
Kimi sat diligently on the couch, watching the ferocious battle roaring on between Danny and Taku. And by ferocious battle, she meant Mega Monkeys seven in the living room on the window-sized TV.
"You are so going down…Turner," Danny grunted, pressing repeatedly on his game controller.
"The fascination of video games played by guys. One thing I will never understand," Kimi groaned as she crossed her legs and rested them on the coffee table. Suddenly, her feet were surrounded in a white light and, of their own accord, fell back to the ground.
"Mantas Retinar," Sara chanted. "Keep your feet off that table," she told Kimi from behind, her hand outstretched and her eyes glowing yellowish-white before turning back to normal. "I just cleaned that."
Kimi rolled her eyes and smiled. "Sara, what time is it?"
"Eleven fifty-five. And Clara's still not up," Sara replied dryly.
"We have training in five minutes, so go wake her butt up," Kimi told her, turning around on the couch to rest her arm on the back and make eye contact with Sara. "Nice way to use your powers, by the way."
Sara smiled brightly and did a small curtsy as her sister came stumbling into the room. "Wake whose butt up?" She was dressed in a pair of black and red sleeping pants and a black wifebeater and had obviously just stumbled out of bed. She rubbed her eyes.
"Your butt!" her sister exclaimed. "Do you realize it's twelve; almost training time!"
"Wow. I actually hauled my ass out of bed before one? Sweet," Clara responded, grabbing a green apple from a bowl on the counter and taking a considerably large chunk out of it.
"Not sweet. We have training in…" Sara checked her watch as she trailed off. "Three minutes. Go get dressed."
Moonfire raised her eyebrows at Sara and hid a huge smile. "In case your wondering, she's always this anal retentive," Clara told her.
"Go!" Sara ordered, pointing her finger towards the door. Clara sighed and left the room. "The only time I can ever get her to listen to me is when I act anal-retentive," Sara told her. "Really, I'm not." A few moments silence. "What did I say about feet on the coffee table!"
Danny sighed as Sara did the same thing for him as she did for Kimi. "We better go get ready for training. Knowing Kyle, he's already down there."
The four shrugged and went to change into their uniforms to get ready for their first day of training.
At exactly twelve, the six met on the grounds where Cyborg had shown them to use the training course. The six sat up near the controls, each dressed in their uniforms.
Moonfire's uniform was her traditional Tamaranian uniform.
Danny's was a long-sleeved black spandex shirt, paired with cargo pants, a black belt and steel-toed shoes. On his hands was a pair of heavy-duty gloves, brown in color, but faded slightly to almost match his pants.
Kyle's get-up was a short-sleeved blue spandex shirt with a black 'H' emblazoned across the chest, with a black belt and blue pants. He, too, had black steel-toed shoes, and a pair of glossy black gloves. Kyle also had a mask that looked like wings across his face, pinched at the bridge of his nose and coming up to rest at his temples. As well, he had a black cape almost exactly like Robin's around his neck and resting just above the H on his shirt.
Sara was clothed in a white skirt with a silver belt slightly tilted around her waist, with a long white sleeved shirt with a silver 'S' glittering across her chest. Her shirt came down to her hands and hooked over her thumb, with an 'S' on the back of each hand. On her feet was a pair of silver ballet slippers. Sara had a silvery cape flowing just to her knees, her hood pushed down and a silver broach holding it together.
Clara was clothed contrary her sister. Her legs were covered in black spandex that went down to only mid-calf, with a dark purple skirt over said spandex. Her shirt was exactly like Sara's, except a 'C' instead of an 'S'. As well, her shirt was black and the letters were a same deep purple as her skirt. On her feet was a pair of black combat boots. Clara also wore a hooded dark purple cape resting on her shoulders and flowing behind her, coming down to her knees.
And Taku's outfit was the most interesting of all. He was clothed in a green spandex shirt that only went until the middle of his forearms. Beneath his shirt was a silver belt, and a pair of green spandex pants that only stretched to mid-calf. This was paired, weirdly enough, with a pair of silver steel-toed boots.
"Interesting outfit," Clara had noted when they all met.
"Hey, I need an outfit that can stretch like I can," he replied. As he finished saying this, he twisted his torso around three times and stopped to look back at Clara, before unraveling quickly. "Cool huh?"
Clara rolled her eyes. Taku smirked slightly, before stretching his arm over to Kimi to tap her shoulder. She turned around, to see a hand waving at her, but no owner. She cocked her head and furrowed her brow, but followed the arm to its owner. "Hi Taku!" she responded with a grin. "Weirdo."
He smiled back and laughed, withdrawing his arm.
"Ok, the Original Titans have made a course for each of us, specific to our powers. I wanted to run each of us through our own course, then do some more individual training up in the gym, and then do some strategy planning," Kyle told them, taking the head seat at the control box. Sara sat on one side of him, while Clara sat on the other, next to Taku. Kimi sat next to Sara, and on the end next to Kimi was Danny. "Let's see…Kimi, you want to go first?" Kyle asked. "Seeing as you, Danny, and I are the only ones with formal superhero training."
"I'd love to go first," Kimi replied jubilantly, bouncing up and pulling on her armbands. "I haven't used this specific training program yet…I've just trained in the gym with my mom. This is sure to be fun."
Kimi stood at the start line, cracking her neck and stretching her limbs. She then tested two starbolts and her eyebeams, her eyes continuing to glow midnight blue thereafter. "Moonfire's fight sequence initiated. Good luck Kimi! Three…two…one…GO!"
Suddenly, two machines rose from the ground and started spewing electric disks at her. She shot starbolt after starbolt, but they still kept coming. Kimi ran forward, still shooting starbolts, but accidentally missed one and was hit. Dazed and confused on the ground, her teammates began to worry.
"Do you want me to stop?" Kyle yelled.
"I'm fine!" Kimi yelled back, flying up and returning to her feet, before running between the two machines. They ended up blasting each other. Kimi smiled triumphantly as she ran forward.
Another machine shot up, spewing out three large round disks. They hovered in the air slightly, before beginning to shoot what looked like replicas of her starbolts at her. Kimi flitted around, avoiding each of the bolts. Kimi darted to the first one, sticking a hand in it and ripping out its mechanisms. It immediately fell to the ground, useless. Kimi then grabbed another disk and held it in front of her. The last disk threw one of its bolts at the disk in front of her, and it immediately made a small explosion and fell to the ground, also useless. Kimi then flew to the last one and ripped its mechanisms out as well. It was deemed useless.
"Yes!" Danny yelled, as the rest of her teammates cheered her on with garbled shouts. "Go Kimi!"
Kimi smiled to herself as she flew forward. Suddenly, a large metal cylinder sprung from the ground and hit Kimi as she was flying, directly in the gut. Moonfire groaned as she hit the hard, jagged ground and nursed her sore abdomen. Within moments, though, she had regained her senses and got back up, just as another cylinder popped up below her. She quickly flew up and dodged it, as well as dodging the six more that popped from the ground in her flight's path.
"Way to get up, Kimi!" Sara called, pumping her fist in the air. "C'mon, you can do it!"
Kimi touched down on the ground as her objective was in sight. Two machines popped from the ground again, each with two large metal tentacles. "Shit," she cursed as one of them wrapped around her. They each kept latching onto her, until she was completely covered.
Her team watched in awe as all of a sudden the tentacles began bulging outwards. Kimi was surrounded in a midnight blue light, her form merely a black silhouette in the middle of this ball of light, as the tentacles were severed from the machine and thrown every which way. Kimi left the machines steaming and useless.
She was panting, trying to catch her breath, as it had been denied her as the tentacles had crushed her lungs. Before long, Kimi was flying again for her target; the finish line. Within moments, Kimi had crossed the finish line.
"Yes! Go Kimi!" someone shouted as she hunched over and caught her breath, before wiping the sweat from her brow. Kimi smiled triumphantly as she bent back up, wrapping her arms around her bare stomach that was still sore from getting smacked. She deftly made her way towards the stands, where her teammates were still cheering her on.
"Way to be tough, Kim!" Taku told her with a toothy smile.
"Thanks man," Kimi groaned back as she took her seat next to Kyle and Danny, still nursing her stomach.
"One minute forty-nine seconds!" Kyle told her, as Kimi smiled softly.
"You ok, Moon?" Danny asked, lightly taking her hand and pulling her arm off of her gut. Kimi hissed in pain as Danny lightly ran his fingers over it. "Damn. You already have a nice bruise shining." Kimi hissed again as Danny lightly applied pressure. "We should probably get some ice to constrict your blood vessels."
"I'll be fine, I don't need ice," Kimi groaned, sitting up in her chair and just now realizing that everyone was watching.
"Now, where have I heard that before?" Danny asked her, a clueless façade spread across his features.
Kimi lolled her head back before bringing her gaze to meet his again. "Seventh grade. Lacrosse game. Hit in the shin. You said you didn't need ice and it ended up broken and worse than it could've been."
"Now you see how being stubborn can hurt?" Danny asked her, smirking triumphantly.
Kimi rolled her eyes. "Kimi's right," Sara started, having just appeared next to her. "She doesn't need an ice pack." Sara pulled Danny's hands off of her stomach and closed her eyes. Her hands began to glow white as she rested them over the bruise. "Martana Kiannar." Kimi could feel the pain literally evaporate from her gut as the once-large bruise was now reduced to nothing but slight redness.
"Oh man, thanks," Kimi told her as Sara took her seat again. She patted her stomach, which was only lightly stinging. "Nice."
"Your welcome," Sara told her, leaning back in her seat. "S'what I do."
"Now that we are all done with that and Kimi is feeling ok," Kyle started, looking at Kimi briefly. "Danny, you want to go next?"
"I'd love to," Danny stated, standing up and readjusting the gloves on his hands. Kimi reached up and gave him a kiss on the cheek for good luck. Danny blushed lightly as the rest of his teammates chuckled. He stepped down from the behind the controls and made his way towards the starting line. Before him, a shallow pond stretching between the start and finish lines on either side of the course materialized, leaving a straight path of jagged earth before him.
"Danny's fight sequence initiated. Good luck, Dan!" Kyle called as Danny rubbed his palms on his thighs. He stretched out a bit and cracked his joints. "Three…two…one….GO!"
Danny started running towards his goal, when almost immediately a fire sprang up in his path, stopping him short. Danny centered his power, before squatting before the fire and spreading his arms wide in one fluid motion. The fire spread, creating a pathway for him.
His next task was only four steps away, an automated machine that began shooting arrows at him. Danny easily streamed water from the shallow ponds on either side of him. They met in the center, forming a protective wall in front of him. He breathed over them, turning the water to ice. The barricade protected him from the ten arrows that the machine shot before he used his mind to incinerate it.
"Yea Danny! Way to use your mind!" Kimi cheered as the rest of his teammates also cheered him on.
Danny disposed of the now unfrozen water and deposited it back into the pond. Danny surged forward, before accidentally stepping into an opened crack into ground. He brought forward a large chunk of Earth and clung to it as he pulled himself up and out of the crack. He jumped off and threw the rock to the side as he began on towards the finish line, which was now in sight.
A machine popped up and before Danny even bothered to see what it could do, pulled another piece of Earth from the ground and shot it directly into the machine. It buzzed softly for a few moments before beginning to smoke and exploding. Danny was knocked to the ground. With unexpected alacrity, Danny scrambled up and started again towards the finish line, which was a line of fire. While running, Danny spread his arms wide and created another rift in the line of fire, running straight through it and right over the finish line.
"Yes! Nice Danny! Two minutes and two seconds!" Kyle yelled from the controls.
"Way to go Danny!" Taku yelled as Danny started up there, wiping the sweat form his brow with his forearm.
"Nice, Dan," Kimi breathed as he sat next to her, leaning over to whisper in his ear. She gave him a short kiss on the lips and smiled at him, before leaning back in her own seat. Danny grinned, touching his lips, before crossing his arms in front of his chest.
"Taku! You're up next!" Kyle told his teammate, pressing buttons on the control panel and looking up. "You ready?"
"As I'll ever be, mate," Taku responded with a toothy grin, in his slightly Australian accent.
Taking his spot at the start line, he stretched out his limbs (literally!). He stretched his arms the length of the start line, then stretched his legs so he was eight feet compared to his normal 5' 7" stature.
"Taku's fight sequence initiated! Good luck Taku!" Kyle called from the controls.
Taku looked up and saw Clara glancing at him with disinterest. He quickly winked at her, but she merely rolled her eyes and averted her gaze.
"Three…two…one…GO!"
Taku immediately burst forward. Within milliseconds, a large metal wall had popped up, spanning the entire course and going at least twenty feet up. Taku stopped short, before aiming his hand up and stretching his arm until he got a hold on the top. Quickly retracting his arm, he was flung up and over the wall. For an easy landing, he stretched out his legs and planted them firmly on the ground. He stumbled slightly, before retracting his legs and continuing to run on.
"Nice Taku!" Kimi yelped.
"Way to go!" Danny yelled.
"Wooh," Clara murmured disinterestedly. Taku rolled his eyes.
Suddenly, a machine popped up from the ground and began spewing arrows. Taku bent his waist to the side, letting an arrow barely skim his torso. He did this about four more times, before he stretched out his torso, letting the arrow hit it dead-on.
And what the rest of his teammates saw shocked them.
The arrow went straight into Taku's gut, making an indent in his back, before it bounced off of him, snapped back, and was sent flying towards the ocean. "Whoa," Kyle breathed. "Nice Taku!"
Taku smiled triumphantly as he pressed onward. Cylinders began to pop up from the ground, obscuring his way, but he would quickly stretch around them. The last obstacle was a crevice that opened up in the ground, a seemingly endless hole, that Taku fell right into. Before he could fall too far, he shot a hand up to the top and sprung himself back up and onto the ground. He groaned a little from impact and nursed an aching rib, but was quickly up and going for the finish line. He crossed it with ease.
"Yea Taku!" Kyle called. "Way to go! One minute and fifty-four seconds!"
"Yes!" Taku hissed under his breath, doing an inward victory dance. He made his way back up to the stands.
"Nice job, rubber boy," Clara admitted gruffly, her combat boots crossed on the console in front of her.
"Thank you," he replied sweetly, taking his seat next to her.
"Yea, way to stretch Mikey!" Danny told him. Danny stretched out his arm for a high five, and Taku stretched behind the backs of Kyle, Sara, Clara and Kimi's heads to return the gesture.
"Clara, you're up!" Kyle told her. She pulled her feet off of the console, before trudging towards the start line.
"Good luck Clara!" Sara exclaimed jubilantly. Clara smiled softly at her sister. She was really the only person she smiled for. Clara knew that Sara, for her sake, always kept on a joyful façade. At least one of them had to be happy, with all the horrible things that had happened in their lives.
"Thanks Sara," Clara responded, taking her position at the starting line.
Kyle, who sat at the head of the controls, pressed a few buttons before it showed the countdown. "Clara's fight sequence initiated. Good luck, Clara!"
Clara stretched out her limbs and cracked her wrists. "Hawkas Menuit," she whispered softly, and was floating in the air just inches above the ground. Her eyes were glowing black, as they normally did whenever she used her magic.
"Three…two…one…GO!"
Clara began to fly with easiness and agility.
"Her powers are so cool," Kimi commented, as they watched her dodge several targets and form objects to hit them back. "Sara's too, since they're basically the same."
Sara smiled with glistening white teeth. "You should've seen Clara's face when our parents told us," Sara told them with a slight melancholy chuckle. "Nearly fainted."
No one pried any farther than that, as they watched Clara with interest. She had dodged targets that had shot from the ground. She was now watching a machine pop out from the ground and send waves of electric black energy at her. Clara reacted quickly, using a spell to create a pink swirling shield in midair to deflect them.
Before long, the machine had worn itself out. "Cisarion Nepar," Clara hissed, and the shield had disappeared in itself.
"Way to go Clara!" Sara cheered her sister on. "Way to use your shielding charm!"
They watched in awe as Clara finished the course and touched back down on the ground. She took a deep breath, before smirking slightly and walking back up to the controls. Her eyes returned to their normal hazel.
"Nice job Clara," Kyle informed her, a half-smile fancying his features. "Two minutes and three seconds."
"Nice magic, there, Clara," Danny complimented.
"Yea, way to move, girl!" Sara told her.
"Great run," Taku said, as she leaned back in her seat and crossed her legs on top of the console again.
"All in a day's work."
"Ok," Kyle started, clapping his hands together. "Sara, up next. Let's see if you can top your sibling's performance."
Sara smiled, jumping up from her seat. "Hawkas Menuit," she whispered, before floating up and over the controls to take her place at the starting line.
"Sara's fight sequence initiated. Good luck Sara!" Kyle yelled.
"Good luck Sare!" Clara yelled.
Sara smiled softly. The support of her sister as the only thing that made her get up in the morning. She knew this sounded silly, but if it weren't for her sister, she would be Clara's exact replica. She smiled for the sake of her sister. She smiled, to hide the pain that overtook her every night as she cried herself to sleep. Clara was all that kept Sara smiling.
"Three…two…one…GO!"
Sara began to fly forward with the same easiness and agility of her sister, as machines began to pop up in front of her.
"Your sister is really quick-witted," Taku mentioned to Clara as they watched her easily dodge a few electric disks and use a shielding charm against them.
"Something you're not," Clara responded with a sneer.
"What is it with you and responding to everything I say with an insult?" Taku asked exasperatedly. "God, if I'm trying to be nice I'd hate to see what you do to someone's who's a real asshole."
"I threatened him by using an Unforgivable on them," Clara lied.
"Dude, you can do Harry Potter spells?"
"It was a joke!" Clara exclaimed, rolling her eyes and crossing her arms stubbornly over her chest.
Clara watched as Sara did a straddling jump over a cylinder that had spiraled out of the ground and flew over the finish line.
"Nice Sara! One minute and forty-four seconds! You beat Kimi's time!" Kyle yelled.
Taku whooped. "Way to go Sara!"
"Nice job Sare-Bear," Clara told her once she had taken her seat between Kyle and her sister.
"Ok…since I've already gone through my training program before you all arrived," Kyle started, while Danny muttered an inaudible 'I told you' to Kimi. "Let's go into the gym and get a bit more individual training done in there, before we start strategy planning."
Five faces looked to each other before murmuring and nodding in agreement, and soon they were beginning their trek up to the gym.
"Ok, so I guess we're going to be training for a good hour or two," Kyle told them as they entered the tower and made their way for the elevator. "Then strategy planning will consist of action plans, transportation means, what we can do in certain situations, and et cetera."
"Sounds good," Sara said, walking next to him, with Clara on his other side. Taku, Kimi, and Danny were walking just behind them.
"Danny, have you talked to Lily lately?" Kimi asked, referring to a good friend of theirs.
"Actually, yea," Danny replied. "I was talking to her on the phone yesterday. I told her about the whole 'us-becoming-Titans' thing and I think she had a heart attack. Don't expect for her to call you for another week, as the shock needs to wear off."
Kimi giggled slightly.
Within another two minutes they were in the gym, each individually beginning to train themselves. Kyle took to the punching bag almost instantly. Sara and Clara took to a battle of wits (which consisted of battling each other with their powers), Kimi took to lifting weights, Danny took to practicing with his elements next to her, while Taku took to stretching out on a set of mats nearby.
"Hey Danny," Moonfire started, breaking only a slight sweat with four hundred pounds on each end of the bar. "Could you come over here a second and help me?"
"What do ya need?" Danny asked, disposing of a fireball in his hand.
Kimi lifted the weight again. "Stand on top of the bench," she told him. He looked at her funny for a moment. "I'm just trying to test my strength." Danny shrugged, before climbing on the same bench she was laying on, a foot on either side of her hips. Kimi pushed up the eight hundred-pound bar.
"What do you want me to do?" he asked, watching her as she suspended the weight in air.
"Hold onto it," she told him. Danny latched onto the bar, his hands on either side of Kimi's. "Now push down as hard as you can. Give me everything you got," she ordered him.
Danny looked a little hesitant, but before long, he had began pushing down on the bar as hard as he could. Kimi seemed able to keep up with him, for the bar had not moved at all. Danny grunted as he gave it everything he got, trying to move the bar. It moved about an inch, before Kimi began pushing it back up.
"C'mon, try a little harder," she joked.
"I think my strength," he grunted. "Is useless against the alien strength of the Princess of Tamaran."
"Princess?" Taku asked from where he was stretching nearby.
"Yea. My mom used to be Princess until she overthrew her sister who was the queen and Grand Ruler. She gave the grand ruler title to my Knorfka Galfore, but remained the title of Queen, making me, her one and only offspring, princess of Tamaran," Kimi explained to him as he pushed the bar all the way up and lifted Danny off of his feet.
"Damn!" Danny called out, his toes dangling centimeters above her collarbone. "Let me down! Let me down!"
"As you wish," Kimi told him, letting his feet touch the bench on either side of her. Danny jumped off the bench and took a seat on it when Kimi had sat up. She straddled it and leaned back against Danny's side. "I can't bench nearly as much as my mom can, but I'm getting there. I'm almost as good as her at harnessing the power of my starbolts, though."
"Hey…" Danny started, a wicked smile crossing his features. "Kimi, what do you say to a little spar. Y'know? Boyfriend vs. girlfriend?"
Kimi whipped her head around to meet his gaze, both eyebrows rising. "Sounds interesting enough," she supposed. "But how bout we put a little wager on it."
"Loser has to be winner's slave for a week," Danny replied smugly, crossing his arms over his chest.
"Oh, this'll be fun," Taku stated.
"Deal," Kimi told him, standing up and lending him a hand. She pulled him up and relinquished his hand, before sticking it out again for a handshake.
"Kiss on it," he told her, giving her a short peck on the lips.
"Even better," Kimi told him. "And don't forget, this week includes my birthday in three days. I already have plans cooked up for what you can do then…" Kimi trailed off evilly, smirking to herself.
"Or think what I can make you do on your birthday," Danny told her, taking her hand and leading her to the sparring mats.
"Yo guys!" Taku called. "Danny and Kimi are gonna fight. You gotta see this!"
Clara and Sara bounded to the sparring mats, as well as Kyle. Kimi cracked her joints and fueled up her starbolts, her eyes glowing a dangerous midnight blue. "Didn't your momma tell ya never to play with fire? You might get burnt," Danny jeered.
"Oh, I'm not gonna be the one getting burnt," Moonfire replied in a jeer.
Suddenly, the room began flashing red and a loud alarm began to blare.
"Damn!" Kimi shouted, hating to miss her chance to whoop Danny's butt. Kyle smirked slightly.
"Trouble," Sara breathed.
"Teen Titans, GO!"
TT2