Titans meet the elementals
A cloaked figure loomed in the dark shadows of an alleyway staring at the humongous "T" shaped tower. He pulled out a cigarette and lit it from an unknown source.
"I spose that's where I'm headin'".
He stepped out from the shadows into the midday sun
"Couldn't hurt, after all, they are just a bunch of kids new to the game".
He continued walking on his path toward the tower, but he is interrupted by a stranger wielding a dagger accompanied by 3 other men. It was blatantly obvious that this man didn't want to make any light conversation.
"Hey kid!"
The mugger definitely had about 3 other guys with him. All wielding blunt objects of some kind. They all had an obvious bloodlust I their eyes.
"I suggest if you have anything to give, it would be wise to give it to me now"
The stranger eyed down the group of all the muggers. He grew a toothless grin across his face. His eyes started to blow with a black luminescence.
"Well if yall got anything……. you'd better bring it."
"Alright kid if that's the way its gonna be…. TIME TO MEET YOUR MAKER"
With that the muggers rushed the stranger getting ready to slam him into the ground. The stranger burst into flames before and before they could get to him he grabbed the boss and broke his arm off. The arm disintegrated in his hands as the mugger stared at his bloody little nub. The others looked at the stranger in awe while switching back to their boss who at the moment was still squirming in his own blood.
"If yall really want to die… I suggest you attack."
The muggers rushed him, but no sooner than when they did that he punched a hole through the second mugger with his beating heart still in his hand.
"Your kind of scum doesn't deserve to live." he looked at the other two and said,"Oh and by the way, my name is scorch, and welcome to my furnace."
He opened up his palm and a huge vortex of flames came out from his hand and incinerated the group almost immediately leaving no trace or evidence of his murder, or as he would like to put it, cleansing. He picked his cigarette box out of his pocket and lit another one.
"Danmit, I hate it when they make me drop my cigarette."
Scorch continued on his path as the sun was rising on his shoulders. Looking ahead at his shadow.
"Well it looks like its going to be a good day."
AT THE TOWER
Their leader stepped out into the kitchen to the alarm that had woken them all up from their sleep…. some not so soundly. Raven had woken up with a certain green human peaking at her while she was sleeping in the nude. She had almost killed him in a fit.
"Uuhhh Raven….."
"What?" she said in a low menacing growl.
"Sorry bout that, this morning, couldn't help it" he said with a laugh.
"YOU BASTARD WHAT DO YOU MEAN COULDN'T HELP IT!"
All of a sudden the milk blew up in the fridge covering everything in there in white frothiness. Robin had been witnessing the whole argument while cyborg and star were busy sleeping on the table.
"I know its early Titans sorry bout the interruption…" he said looking around the table.
"Interruption nuthin I was in the middle of an excellent dream. Haven't I told yall when you see my leg up in the air like this." Cyborg lifted his leg up like he was about to kick something." not to wake me up?"
"Hah yah but there was a serious disturbance in Downtown" Robin pointed to a location on the map," there some people witnessed some strange lights coming from an ally and a strange figure walking from the incident"
"Well then... it seems we got a problem on our hands" Raven said getting ready for a fight.
"No shit smartass." Beast boy said with a smirk.
"Shut the hell up." Said raven then getting them into a heated argument over who knows what.
"Friends we should be fighting the enemy not each other." Starfire said trying to pass out mustard to everyone.
"Comon Titans we gotta go lets move!"
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"Well then, I suppose this should be a good of enough ummmmmm trap I guess, ah fuck I knew I shoulda finished school oh well".
Scorch looked up at the huge flaming building.
"Yep this looks really nice". He said smiling at his own mischievous creation. "OOOOOOOOhhh yah, they should be here any..."
FLING FLING FLING FLING. Four shiny green bolts were shot at the feet of the perpetrator. He jumped back quickly enough to avoid that but not the sonic cannon blast that followed. WHAM!. Scorch flew into his own flaming building.
"O SHIT WE KILLED HIM". Beast boy said with his jaw dropping to the concrete below.
"Uuuuuhhh my bad yall." Cyborg said as he shrugged.
"My Bad? Is all you have to say? Jesus Christ you killed someone!" Robin said grinding his teeth together.
He was interrupted by a huge explosion coming from the building. In its wake stood the so called dead man. It looked as if he had turned into a fiery human. His hair was burning wildly and the rest of his body was on fire. He didn't look like Hotspot but he did have fire all around him.
"Haha, you kids got me, but," he exploded into fire," I wont let it happen again."
"Who are you." Robin said raising an eyebrow.
"Ha ha ha ha brother of hotspot." Beast boy said while holding his gut trying to keep from crappin in his pants.
"Good one kid, but I think yall should listen to me." Before he said the Titans had already jumped him.
Robin had launched two birdarangs at him which had incinerated before they even got 6 feet away from him. Robin gawked at the flaming human which stood before him wondering (how the hell did he do that?). Starfire had hurled a string of starbolts while Scorch was avoiding them like he was playing dodgeball.
"By the way I don't think I introduced myself". He looked at starfire. "My name…. is Scorch and I really need to speak to you."
The Titans weren't paying any attention as they launched another attack. Beastboy had turned into a Tyrannosaurus rex. He charged at Scorch with his jaw wide open ready to bite down on to the flaming human, but instead he was silenced with an uppercut to the jaw. Beastboy fell silent to the ground. Raven and Cyborg were both staring at what he just did.
"Cyborg there is no possible way he can be that strong, right?" she said while staring at the downed Beastboy.
"I don't know Rae, the dude is on fire."
"You have a point oh well…. DOESN'T MEAN WE CANT FIGHT!" Raven's eyes were glowing Black. She had learned to use her powers without saying Azerath Metrion Zenthos. Her powers weren't any stronger with or without the words so she found it simpler to just not say it. She grabbed Scorch with an ethereal black hand and slammed him into the ground.
"INFERNO!" Scorch exploded once more and walked out of the crater he had created. He had seemed to be in even more flames. Every step he took the ground underneath his feet had melted.
"Well kiddies I guess theres only one way to get your attention. Time to stop playing" He blazed a trail with amazing speed towards raven. He grabbed her arm and twisted it behind her back and put her face into the ground. She winced as the pain was starting to get to her. She could feel that he was way over the temperature that she could handle even with a barrier. The flames were starting to burn her clothes revealing her chest.
He looked at the other Titans with his left hand raised ready to burn her face.
"Well Titans it's time to make a choice, listen to what I have to say or see the flesh burn off her face." He looked at them with a smile.
"YOU WOULDN'T DARE!" Robin snarled as he had a bloodlust in his eye.
"Oh would I?" he looked over his shoulder noticing Cyborg aiming his sonic Cannon so he wouldn't hit Raven. " You see kiddies I have no problem with killing, I don't enjoy it by I don't care either, people come people go, death is as normal as the common cold to me so make a choice or hear her scream."
Raven sweated as Scorch's left hand got even closer to her face. Robin didn't want to listen to a word this asshole had to say. He just wanted to fry his ass. He looked at the rest of the team who were counting on him to make a decision. They had told him before that it didn't matter what decision he made they would always follow him and if he made the wrong decision they'd die, and that would be that.
"Alright…. What do you want?" he gritted his teeth.
"Good choice." He threw Raven back at them. " Take me back to your tower and I'll explain it all"
"Why should we" beastboy said. He had finally woken up from that hit to the jaw.
"Do you want to remember what happened last time kid?"
Beastboy ran behind Robin and shivered. Robin slapped himself in the face with embarrassment. The rest of the team was formed up behind him aswell. Raven still holding her arm from that encounter.
"Shuttup beast boy. Alright we'll take you back to your tower."
"but robin…." Starfire looked at Robin worried.
"Its not like we have a choice. I'll think of something to beat this guy but for now we just have to go with the flow."
"Alright then." Scorch said. "Lets go"
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Back at the Tower
All the Titans were circled around him keeping cautious eyes on him. Scorch couldn't blaim em though. Just a few moments ago he had almost killed one of their teammates, of course he wasn't going to kill her but he had to make them believe him.
"First off, sorry bout that, I had to get you guys to listen." He looked over at Raven. "Please, I'm not to good at this but will you accept my apology?"
She just looked down at her lap. Just moment he was trying to kill her and now he was trying to apologize? Man this guys was weird.
"Ha ha ha ha oh well, it was worth the try right, but back to important matters." He changed his tone to a more serious tone. "I'm here to ask for your help."
Robin looked like he was about to fall out of his seat.
"You said, you want us to help you? Why?"
"Hmmmm lemme explain a little bit more." He paused for a moment closed his eyes. He opened them and said. "Well you see kiddies I'm an elemental."
"A what" Beast boy said with question marks popping all over his head.
"An elemental, a person, or human to control a certain element for eternity."
"Im guessing yours is fire" Raven said sarcastically.
"yah. There are other elementals too. Earth, wind, energy, water, light, dark, and even some more." He looked over at starfire and grinned. She looked away.
"And we were chosen to protect the stability of this planet and any other planet." He lit a cigarette. Robin looked at him.
"No smoking"
"How old are you anyway" Cyborg said looking at him like he was crazy smoking a cigarette at his age. He looked to be at least 18.
"Last time I checked… a few hundred thousand years old." All of the Titans fell right out of their seat.
"Do you really expect us to believe that?" Raven said with a growl.
"Nope" he said with a cigarette still lit. "I'm immortal, you know, protect for E-T-E-R-N-I-T-Y"
"Right, well we didn't think you were serious" Beast boy said with a smile.
"Well I bet you feel dumb" He said with a laugh. Beast boy was over in his seat glaring at Scorch.
"Enough, what do you want our help with?" Robin said interrupting that conversation.
"Well remember those Elementals I was telling you about?" Scorch said while looking at Starfire again but talking to Robin.
"I'm over here, and yah."
"Well they've been sort of kidnapped." He scratched his head and looked at the roof wondering how to explain what was coming next.
"What do you mean sort of?" They all asked quizzically.
"Well they were locked in a eternal vortex of shadows that hold them in different corners of the earth."
"Well how do we get them out.?" Robin asked.
"Well in each of their spots they have a guardian who makes sure whoever gets close enough dies, well I kinda need your help. You see Ive tried and haven't been so successful" He looked at the team and back at Starfire. There was something different about this girl….. and he was liking it. The leader of the team obviously wasn't.
"Alright we'll help."
"WhAt!" they all said together.
"But we hardly even know eachother." Cybord said while he was still trying to figure out the beginning of the elementals explanation.
"Ya but if we don't release these guys the world will be lost in disorder…." Robin was interrupted by the elemental
"More like pure chaos, by the way that is another element, but that's different from all the others its more like a being all in its own."
"Right" Raven said.
"Where do we go first." The leader of the group picked up a control pressed a button and a huge map came out on the projector screen.
"Well I thought we could start with one of my old buddies, his name is Granite. He's the earth elemental. He's about one and a half million years old."
"Well the more I hear this the more it sounds like some sort of cartoon, it doesn't help to just sit around here and talk about it. Lets go rescue this guy." Said the green human finally speaking up.
"Alright then, to the Sahara we go."