Prologue: Calling All Titans
Attention! Calling all Titans! All Titan members please listen! If you can hear this, please return to Jump City! We've been overrun by crime! WE NEED YOU! If you can help us please report to the Cyberwave Industry HQ building. Calling all Titans!
A young woman stood on a grey hillside, practicing the new spells she had learned. She was currently in the dimension Kalazeth – she had been travelling the dimensions ever since the disbandment of the Teen Titans five years ago. Her long, navy purple hair flowed gently in the wind, her blue eyes were strained in concentration. "Kalazeth Metranas Ezelforeth Kamanan Terivoid ZINTHOS!" she recited, a black light surrounding her grey skin. Her hair blew wildly around her as the magic worked its way through her body and became tangible.
The magic disappeared with a "poof" as one of the pockets on her belt began buzzing, a pocket in which the contents had been dormant for over five years. Her Titan Communicator was buzzing. She took it out of her pocket and looked at it. Her eyebrows puckered as she opened it; the distress signal button was blinking a purple color (the purple was her own color as far as the team went; orange for Starfire, blue for Cyborg, red for Nightwing, and green for BeastBoy). Her eyes widened. The signal had to have come from Titan Tower, the codes weren't anywhere else. Subconsciously, she sat cross-legged and began levitating. She then pressed the button, allowing the message to play:
Raven, now 22, closed her communicator and put it back in the case-pocket. She then began meditating, chanting, "Azarath Metrion Zinthos...Carazon Rakashas Enderez...Vaserix Endrien Azararth...Jump City!" A black portal opened up and she stepped through it, and the portal took her to the entrance of Jump City.
He was standing on the top of a building, tracking a villain he'd been after for months. It was dark and silent, so he was being very careful not to make and sounds. He narrowed his masked eyes on the target. It was of utmost importance that –
Nightwing jumped as a buzz went through his pocket. He fell backwards, onto his butt. The villain heard and bolted from the scene. Nightwing growled. "This had better be damn important," he muttered under his breath. He pulled out his old Titan Communicator. The distress button was flashing red. He listened to the message and sighed. It seemed that, no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't abandon his old life. She would have gotten the same message… she would be there. And now he had to face the music.
There wasn't much that he could do with his life other than mess around with technology. He'd always had a fascination with tech, but when he became half-robot, it turned from fascination to real life. He'd had to learn how to live a whole new way. He would always be glad he'd had the Titans to help.
Cyborg was in his workshop, working on a new project for his company, CyTech. After the Titans disbanded five years ago, he hadn't really known what to do with his life. He'd decided to stick with what he knew: technology. And so he had built CyTech. The products ranged from household appliances to home security to virus protection. Sure, he had become rich. But money could never replace his friends.
A blue light began flashing, along with a buzzing sound. Cyborg got up from his desk and walked over to a box that had his old things in it. His Titan communicator was sitting on top, which was the cause of the commotion. He smiled at the thought of returning home.
In a small candy shop, a tall red-head served people sweets. All day long she got to see people smiling about receiving chocolates and lollipops and cookies and other human sweets. She never got tired of seeing someone happy. She missed being completely happy.
It was just about closing time, so Starfire locked up her shop and went upstairs to her apartment. She'd never left Jump City. She'd wanted to stay close to her first Earth-home. To where she'd met her first love, who had been her first… everything.
No sooner had she reached her room than an orange light flashed, accompanied by the sound of vibration on wood. She went over to her nightstand and picked up her Titan communicator. It had been silent for five years. Five years with little to no contact with her friends. A message came with the distress signal. She listened and nodded to no one in particular. "I will leave in the first thing of the morning," she said, once again to no one. She still didn't quite have the grasp of English.
The forest was peaceful and serene where a green owl perched on top of a tall sequoia tree. It spread its wings and flew towards the cliffs, where a cave was hidden. As it reached the ledge where the cave sat, it morphed into a human form. His body took its original shape back, and he walked into his cave. He'd lived here for about a year, and before that he'd lived in another forest. It was all too easy to survive in the wild. There was no longer any challenge.
Since Beast Boy had defeated Slade, nothing seemed hard anymore. He'd taken down Robin's biggest rival, whom they had all tried to capture or kill for years before, in no longer than twenty minutes. He sighed, remembering the days when he would wake up to tofu waffles and Cyborg trying to get him to eat 'real' waffles. The days when Starfire's antics were a regular thing and did not faze the Titans at all. The days when Robin would obsess over Slade, and the days when Raven would blow everyone off to meditate or read. Those were the days.
As he wandered deeper into his home, he noticed a flashing green light. His eyebrows drew together as he walked over to where he kept his old keepsakes. His Titan Communicator was going off with the distress signal. His eyes widened, his heart began to race. He hadn't realized how much he'd missed Jump City until that moment. When he listened to the message, he quickly packed up all he cared about – a few things he'd picked up from the forest, his bag of keepsakes – and strapped them to his back. He morphed into a pterodactyl and flew off towards Jump City. Towards home.