A/N: Usual Disclaimer I own noting in this story, got it! Next I'm rating this Mature for future content and some language.
Ok here's the deal the Titans are going into high school for super heroes. Pairings will be found out as the story goes on, also you will noticed I have a lot of crossovers in this so if you are wondering I don't own them either, thank you.
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Chapter 1: First day
The alarm clock blaring in his ear told him to get his ass out of bed if he wanted to catch the bus to school. Richard sat up on his bed and stretched his arms out and rubbed the sleep away from his eyes. " Damn first days suck." He yawned as he made the way to his shower and turned on the scalding hot water. Standing there letting the hot water run over his back Richard thought about what awaited him at HHS (Hero High School), the type of people that would be in his classes, if he would make any friends, the only people that he could consider friends were some of his old squad mates and the only one left was Jack Masters (Red X if your wondering).
Life was hard for Rich with his parents gone and being adopted into a top secret military program that only a few people know about. The program took kids that had no families and adopted them to train as an elite strike force, but not only did they train them they also did a little genetic tampering, increasing their metabolism, strength, and mental capabilities to maximum. Rich and Jack were on the best team when the Columbian drug lord found out about the strike and captured and killed everyone except Jack and Rich who barely made it out alive, Rich has a long scar down the middle of his chest from the incident, when they found him and Jack, Rich's torso was drenched in blood while his arms were clean, that's where Jack gave him his nickname 'Robin' cause he looked like a red breasted robin.
Turning the shower off he stepped out and dried himself off before he dressed. " Lets see, first day of school what should I wear?" he asked himself before he picked out a pair of black combat boots polished to perfection, some green cargo pants just a little baggy, a black T-shirt that had 'Special Forces' on it in yellow letters, over the top of that he wore a black hooded sweat shirt. Stopping in the mirror he looked at himself. He saw an average kid with black hair and cool gray eyes looking back at him. As he walked out of his apartment he put on a pair of black sunglasses and locked his door. As he walked down the stairs he looked at his watch and noticed that if he didn't move it he was going to miss the bus and that was something he could do. So he jumped down the middle opening of the staircase, which was about four levels and ran out the door.
The bus was about a block away and heading at his corner. When it reached him and he got on he knew he was on the right bus. Some of the kids were floating a couple of school items in the air while other were doing various activates with their powers. ' Huh power users.' He thought as he took a seat towards the back of the bus. At the next stop he noticed a couple girls get on along with an old friend of his.
" Yo Robin man." Jack yelled and waved to him. Rich just waved him over to him and shifted his book bag to make room for him.
" So they let you out too?" Rich asked.
" Yeah, they said I need to get a little socializing so I don't stick out too much when undercover. Personally I think it's cause you asked to get out." Jack said in a low tone so that no one would over hear them. Years of training in the military made both of them suspicious of unfamiliar faces. " But hey why fight the system when now I can look at all the hot chicks were going to go to school with." He said optimistically.
" Well you know why they ordered me to do this." Rich said deadpan as usual.
" Yeah and for good reason. You take thing to seriously man you need to loosen up." Jack said with a smile trying to cheer up his friend and old squad mate.
Rich just nodded and the ride continued. A couple of stops later Rich noticed a couple of girls get on. One was a tall red head, bright green eyes, wearing a lot of pink, I mean a lot of it everything was pink from her shirt to her backpack. The next girl was a little shorter, blond, wearing khaki cargo pants, black baby T-shirt, gloves, and a pair of goggles. The last girl caught his attention the most. She had the whole Goth look, lots of black and very pail but what caught his attention was her eyes and hair, and they were violet, unusual but not unheard of. ' Man is everyone here a power user besides Jack and me?' Rich asked himself as the bus started on the highway.
" Alright everyone pay attention. I'm going to lay down some ground rules first, Now all of you know where your going but as for actually getting there we need to go 'off road a little'" and as they were nearing what is a dead end of the highway the bus driver engaged a group of hidden rockets on the bus and they launched into the sky.
Everyone was screaming except Rich, Jack and to Rich's surprise the hot Goth chick a few seats in front of them. This intrigued Rich to the point that he didn't notice Jack asking him a question.
" Hey Rich," he said before tapping him on the shoulder snapping him out of his trance.
" What?"
" I asked how many do you think are power usurers?" Jack said again trying to figure out why Rich zoned out.
" All of them." He said bluntly.
" Really," Jack asked shocked, " I'm not so sure I think there are a couple like us."
" No one is like us Jack, no one." Rich said at almost a whisper but Jack heard it.
" Yeah I guess your right. Anyways if there were others like us we wouldn't be unique now would we?"
" Right" Rich smirked and they went on talking about what they were expecting school to be like when they arrived at school. (Now I'm not going to describe what the school looks like but if you've seen Sky High pretty much like that.) As they got off the bus they were ushered over to the main steps where one of the seniors gathered them up and told them to go straight to the gym for evaluation. Most of the kids groaned as that meant they were going to see what you can do and place you in your classes. Both Rich and Jack did care because it couldn't be nearly as hard as there past training and evaluations. The whole time Rich couldn't shake his interest in the Goth girl from the bus, feeling someone watching her she turned her head to see who it was when she locked eyes with Rich. The two stared at each other for a moment and then broke the gaze as they walked to the gym.
Upon arriving they were greeted by a man they could only assume was there to evaluate them on there powers. The man spoke very loudly.
" Ok everyone I'm Coach Boomer and I will be evaluating your powers or abilities for those of you with out them. Now when I point to you, you'll come up her and show me what you have, if you don't have any powers you'll run the obstacle course, I will then take a few notes and make my recommendation for your class schedule now I'll start with you." And he pointed to the red headed girl for Rich noticed on the bus. She walked up to the platform the instructor was standing on and he asked her, her name.
" Kori Anderson"
" What's your power?"
" I can fly, throw energy and have super strength." She answered energetically.
" Ok show me." And she proceeded first she flew around the room and threw a couple balls of energy at the walls leaving scorch marks. Once she was done coach Boomer made some notes and went on. Next was a green kid, kind of scrawny but a little toned
" Name and ability."
" Garfield Logan, and I'm a shape shifter."
" Show me." And he proceeded to shift into different animals big, small, medium almost every animal in existence as well as some others like dinosaurs. Coach Boomer made some notes and went on to the next one. For the next couple of hours he saw people that were super strong, one could shout a web from his wrists, on could breath under water and talk with marine life with his mind, they even had a cyborg in the group. Before they new it, it was lunch time. At lunch all the freshmen sat together and then it was back to the gym.
The second round was on its way. All Rich noticed was that they were all power usurers and that kind of upset him, whether it was some weird power or magic Rich couldn't get over the fact that Jack and him would get looked at differently, as outcasts but his years of training pushed it out of his mind, all of a sudden there were only three students left to be evaluated Rich, Jack and the Goth girl that Rich kept stealing glances at while the evaluations were going on.
When Coach Boomer called her next, Rich looked around and noticed that everyone that was done with the evaluation was on one side of the gym while the three of them were left by themselves. The girl walked up to the platform and went thought the usual routine
" Name and powers?"
" Raven Roth and I am a magic user." She said monotone.
" Show me."
She proceeded to lift him up after enveloping him in black energy after she said a mantra and moved him around the room before setting him back down in the same spot she picked him up from. The crowd of people clapped at the display, none of them thought to try anything on the instructor and the bold move shocked everyone.
After regaining his composure he pointed to Jack next. He walked up to the platform and the usual happened.
" Name and powers."
" Masters, Jack and none."
" Really," Boomer cocked an eyebrow and went to activate the obstacle course; " I want you to run it in five minutes. Go."
' In five minutes this it going to be a cake walk Jack thought as he did a slow jog through the whole course which took him exactly five minutes to complete. After he walked back to the platform Coach Boomer wrote down his notes and then asked Rich to come up and display his ability.
" Name and powers?"
" Grayson, Richard and none." He said deadpan holding his hands behind his back.
" Fine run the course in at least five minutes," while Rich got into position he heard Jack yell to him.
" Smoke it Rob!" Rich just smirked and threw off his hooded sweatshirt and prepared himself for a quick run. When he took of the sweatshirt every girl that was watching (all of them) started to swoon over his physique the T-shirt he was wearing showed his defined abs and chiseled arms. Every girl including Raven was starting to drool when the coach said.
" Go." Was all he heard when he broke off into a sprint that made everyone except Jack drops their jaws in amazement. Rich was moving smoothly through the tires and up the ropes in no time and was at the finish line in a minute flat. The crowed was silent for a moment and broke out in a roar of celebration. Coach Boomer just looked at him and asked, " You sure you don't have powers?" and Rich just glared back at him, the glare set a shiver of fear down the coach's back and Rich went to stand next Jack.
" Well since we are done you can go into the cafeteria and converse until the end of school. Dismissed."
As the group of super powered teens started into the cafeteria a few of them walked over to Rich and Jack.
Kori, Victor, Gar, Terra, Raven and Jinx walked over and sat down in front of Rich and Jack. Kori being the bold one started to speak first.
" Hello new friend I am Kori Anderson. Will you be my friend? What is your favorite color? Do you like ice cream? How were you able to run the course so fast?" and with every question her face got closer to Rich's while Rich just looked at the table as not to scare her with the look on his face but enough was enough. Rich lifted he head and gave a death glare to everyone opposite him and they leaned back as to not anger him further. Before they knew it they moved down to the end of the table and quietly conversed about what just transpired.
" Dude do you think he could lighten up a bit I mean it's the first day of school and all. Geez" Gar said when his had brushed the blonde geomancers both parties blushed and went back to the conversation.
" Yes he did scare me a lot" Kori said in a very uncharacteristic sorrowed voice, " I didn't even get an answer to them."
" Well maybe you need to slow down a bit when asking them Kori" the pink haired sorceress shot back.
" Maybe he just wants some space," Raven said glancing back to Rich and Jack at the other end of the table. Raven's eyes would shift from Rich's face to he body and blush a bit at the thoughts that were entering her head. Terra never missed an opportunity to tease Raven and she wasn't going to start now.
" You know Rae if you keep staring your going to burn out your eyes," she joked earning a death glare and a deep cherry colored blush from the violet haired sorceress.
" Shut up Terra I know you were drooling over him too," she shot back.
" You're right. Any girl would have to be blind or a lesbian not to drool over him. He's one fine piece of ass" she winked at Raven furthering her blush.
" Hey guys do you even remember their names?" Victor asked.
" The taller one said his name was Jack Masters, and she dark haired one was Richard Grayson" Raven said pulling out a book from her backpack.
At the other end of the table Jack was talking to Rich, " Man why did you have to do that? She's a hottie" Jack exclaimed giving Rich a sideways glance, which Rich returned but he was far scarier.
" Stop thinking with your dick will you. It's getting on my nerves." Rich said coldly and pulled a book out of his back and read until the school day was over.
" Finally the first day is done!" Jack said as he stretched out his back, " man I can't wait to get these classes started tomorrow can you? " he asked Rich but Rich just gave him a small nod and walked to the bus.
Rich and Jack were the first kids on the bus so the decided to sit in the back and try to be away from people, however news it seemed traveled like a swarm of locusts and soon everyone was a buzz about this kid who blow through the obstacle course in a minute flat. Every kid who wasn't there was talking about it and wanted to talk to this new hot shot. Raven, Kori and friends saw Rich and Jack and went to sit down next to them. Taking up all the seats surrounding the duo Kori was going to start her usual round of 20 questions when Raven just placed a hand on her shoulder and gave her a look as to say ' Don't over do it' so Kori took a couple of deep breaths and turned to face Rich and Jack again.
" My deepest apologies for earlier, allow me to introduce myself and my friends. I am Kori Anderson, this is Raven Roth, Victor Stone, Garfield Logan, Terra Wilson and Jinx Sanderson (I just made that up), " she stopped and waited for his reply.
For a few moments silence was all the heard when Jack spoke up, " Man some times you can be so rude. Sorry about him I'm Jack Masters and this silent but deadly buddy of my is Richard Grayson but he prefers Rich." Jack finished with a smile as he eyed Kori. " So Kori, seeing anyone?" he asked causing her to blush heavily.
" No are you offering?" she replied and blushed deeper.
Jack just gave her a winning smile and turned to Rich, " Man are you going to say anything? You know why were here don't you?"
Rich just looked at Jack and answered coldly, " Yes I remember my orders, but I still think you need to stop thinking with your dick and start using your brain. Why do you think we were but through all of that just so you could be a normal hormonal teenager X?"
Jack was taken back a bit when Rich used his nickname. In the same incident that cause Rich to get his nickname Rich gave Jack the name of Red X from a large X shaped scar that he had down his back. The wound bleed so bad that the very scar tissue is red. Now it was Jack's turn to give him a death glare. The nicknames were meant for privet discussions even though Jack would shout Robin every now and then just to annoy Rich.
As the two were having there little silent discussion the others were just looking at the two of them in confusion. The silence was broken by Victor who said, " Hey Rich…um how about we study together some time. I'm sure I could help you out with anything you need." He asked innocently but that was just a wrong nerve for Rich. He preferred to do things solo whenever possible and never would look to anyone for help unless the situation was dire.
" How do you know I will need help user" Rich spat angrily. ' User' was a slang word for those people that had powers; often it was used as an insult and a bad one at that.
" Hay man I was just trying to help you know." Victor said in his defense.
" And what you assume that since I didn't have any powers that I would need your help with things. The arrogance of you people astonishes me!"
Now by now Rich was close to shouting for the whole bus to here when they got to Rich's stop and he made his way off the bus as if it was filling with a poisoned gas.
" Man what's his problem?" Victor asked rhetorically
" Don't let it get to you. That's just the way he is. He doesn't take handouts and he really doesn't like it when people assume he needs help." Jack said.
" Well since you know him so well tell us about him so we don't piss him off in the future." Jinx asked.
" Well I can't tell you everything but I can tell you this. Life for Rich and myself has not been nice to us. No families grew up under extreme circumstances. Life some times was a literal hell. You see Rich and me aren't your normal kids even by HHS standards. There is just one rule that applies to dealing with Rich. If you ask him something and he doesn't answer right away you won't get one, and prying only makes it worse." Jack said looking at the people around him. Their faces were that of people you see in a movie theater when you look at them and the have that look of amazement on it.
" So why are you his friend?" Terra asked.
" Because we've known each other for a long time now and out of everyone that we use to be with we're the only ones left." Jack said cryptically.
" Ok man were not letting this go until you tell us everything" Victor said looking at Jack with a glare worth of his last name.
" I can't tell you everything without killing you so just back off. Oh here's my stop see you tomorrow guys and Kori," Jack said giving Kori an award-wining smile.
Kori blushed and the others let him get off the bus. That's when the real conversation started.
" Man those guys are an enigma," Victor said
" I bet your just hating it. Not knowing something about them," Gar teased his tall African-American friend.
" Shut it Gar before I turn you into a living grass stain," he shot back angrily.
" Maybe if we leave him alone for a bit he will start talking to us on his own?" Raven said not looking up from her book that she pulled out when Rich started to yell at Victor.
" Come on Rae you think that a guy like that would just start talking to us if we don't push him into it?" Jinx countered.
" That's the problem right there. If we push to hard he might never talk to us and then were would we be?"
" Pushing worked with you didn't it?" Gar said smartly earning a glare from her amethyst hues.
" Yeah it worked but I don't think this guy is going to be like that. You heard Jack if we pry things would only get worse. But if we tone it down a little we might get him out of his shell."
Terra thought it was another good time to tease Raven, " So do you want to get him out of his shell, or cloths."
" Terra!" Raven said blushing furiously at the thought of Rich without his shirt on.
" Just wondering." She said and went back to making small talk with Gar.
" So Kori, what was happening there between you and Jack?" Jinx asks with a fox-like grin.
" Nothing" she blushed and hid her face in her hands.
" Yeah a whole lot of nothing. You could cut the flirting with a dull butter knife."
The ride ended with everyone getting off at the same stop because they all lived so close together. The parted ways and waved good bye and said ' see you tomorrow' but when all was said and done they all had one thought one there minds. Who was Rich Grayson?
When Raven got home her mom and dad were sitting in the kitchen waiting for her to come home from school.
" Mom, Dad I'm home." She yelled walking in the front door.
" Were in the kitchen honey" came the response.
Raven sat down at the table and her parents started questioning her about her day. Raven told them everything including Rich and Jack. When she mentioned Richs last name Raven's dad went to his laptop to check something out. After a few strokes of the keyboard Raven's dad turned the screen so she could see it.
On the screen was a newspaper clipping maybe eight years old that had a picture of a circuses tent and in bold letters it read " Tragedy under the Big Top". As she read the article it stated that a villain killed a well-known family of trapeze performers while trying to rob the circus. Batman who apprehended the villain twenty minutes after the tragedy accrued.
Raven was horrified as to the past she uncovered about her new classmate. Pondering what to say the tomorrow her mom stepped in and told her, " I wouldn't advise confronting him about this Raven. Who knows how he will take it. From what you said he isn't very sociable and this might hurt your chances with him in the future." She said give her daughter a wink.
" Mom! I thought you were going to say out of my head for a while. It's not fair when you read my mind like that." Raven blushed and went to her room.
" Did you do that just to tease her?" her dad Derek asked.
" I would never do that. I didn't even go into her head it was written all over her face that she had an attraction to the boy." Her mother said.
Up in her room Raven sat on her bed trying to read her book but all she could to was thinking about Rich and what he said and the way he acted. In fact it was the way he acted that drove her crazy. She had always had a soft spot for the dark brooding guys but never to this extent. The way he looked and how he acted when Kori was questioning him at the lunch table made her stomach gain a fleet of butterflies circling like a vortex of raw emotion.
Putting the book on her bedside table she thought about what her next move would be to get to know the new guy better. At first she thought at trying to help him with future homework would be the best plan but stopped when she remembered how he reacted to Victor when he suggested it. Trying to come up with another solution she thought that maybe if she got that others to give him a little distance he would see her as a friend and maybe it would blossom into more, at least she was hoping it would.
Lying back on her bed now she looked at her alarm clock and noticed that it was 10:30 already. " Well I guess it will have to wait until tomorrow." She said to herself as she shifted under the covers before finally getting conferrable enough to drift off into a nice dream with Rich talking and eating lunch with her.
Back in Rich's apartment he was doing some exercises before hitting the hay. Currently he was doing handstand pushups. He glanced at his watch and says that it was almost 23:00 and decided to go to sleep. But sleep didn't come easily for him. While he slept memories from his missions would haunt his dreams causing him to wake up in a cold sweet almost every morning at least 15 minutes before his alarm would go off, but tonight he couldn't the image of that Goth girl Raven out of his head. Not caring too much he tried to get some sleep so he could get on with his mission of attending school like normal kids were suppose to do. Even that normal for that HHS.
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A/N: Wheww finally done with the first chapter. I thought it would be a short one but it has a life of it's own. Anyway you know the drill R&R I don't mind flames but don't make them too bad or I'll just write that way to piss you people off. Thanks.