Legal Tender: I have ABSOLUTLY NOTHING TO DO WITH TEEN TITAN'S! I DIDNT MAKE THEM..I DIDNT DRAW THEM OR WRIGHT THEIR STORY LINES. but this fic is mine and so are my characters that i created for this story.
Chapter One:The Big Bang
Cyborg: "I DONT BELIEVE IT!"
Robin: "That's to bad, but i really did just beat you."
WINNER! blinked on the huge screen as it replayed robins car pass the finish line in The Tourismo Grande 9. This match had set Robin up with the new high score, beating Cyborgs top score by only four points. with Raven drinking tea at the table, Beastboy literally drooling in awe, and Starfire applauding at the amazingly close victory, robin placed down the terms of his victory.
Robin: "So, how does a weeks worth of dishes sound Cyborg?"
A clunk could be heard as Cyborgs jaw dropped and his eyes opened wide.
Cyborg: "AAAH! I demand a rematch!"
Robin looked at Cyborg with a sharp grin
Robin: "Sorry, but all bets are final."
Cyborg: "How about if the loser gets TWO weeks of dishes."
Cyborg sealed the deal by giving robin a look as if to say , are you afraid? Robin reacted as anticipated, loosing the smile and thought for a second before they both grabbed the controllers and turned to face the TV. CONTINUE...3...2...1...START!
Beastboy: "Hey! i was supposed to play the winner!"
Cyborg: "Yea, and you will...but a winner hasn't been decided yet, so just sit tight and ..HEY!"
Robins car side swiped Cyborgs, forcing Cyborg to spin out and lose the current lead. Beastboy turned into a bloodhound and curled up next to the gamestation, guaranteeing his place as next in line. Starfire, walked into the kitchen and opened the refrigerator. She angled her arms around the blue furry food and grabbed a cherry soda, only using a slight amount of force to pry it off of the pale blue, sticky drawer. Starfire popped it opened and took a small sip.
Starfire: "Ahhh, one's cheering of the videogames causes thirst,is that rightRaven?"
Without even lowering the tea cup from her lips or opening her eyes, Raven replied to Starfire
Raven: "...Sure."
It was final the final lap of the race, Robin and Cyborg raced neck to neck. Sweat beaded and dripped off of Robins forehead, Cyborgs teeth ground together, Starfire was clutching the soda can close to her as she watched in amazement. Even Raven could be seen peeking with one eye. A silence fell over all of the titans that inspired the resting Beastboy to lift one of his ears slightly to hear the outcome of the race. All focus was directed to the screen in the last few seconds from the finish line, then outside the window, a towering explosion and thunderous boom shook the town. The shock wave flicked off the electricity for a moment, ending the game about two seconds before a winner could be announced. the titans all arose and stood awe struck at the explosion.
Starfire: "Oh my!"
Beastboy: "Whoa..this is defiantly not good."
Raven: "It was right next to the old power plant."
Cyborg turned and looked at Robin.
Cyborg: "To be continued?"
Robin nodded his head and turned around to face all the others.
Robin: "Titans, Go!"
Beastboy in the form of a pterodactyl, fallowed Raven and Starfire while Robin and Cyborg raced to the scene. Starfire, Beastboy and Raven arrived first to see at least half of the police department parked outside the old power plant. It was rather large plant, close to the size of a hospital. Oddly enough however, the only shooting came from the small one story main office on the front of the building. The painfully loud repeating blasts of guns echoed out of the two small boarded up windows on both sides of the main entrance as the police had to seek refuge behind their cruisers. The three titans landed on the street in front of the power plant in awe of the mayhem. Starfires communicator went off, it was Robin.
Robin: "Star, do a quick check of the blast site, make sure no one was injured."
Starfire: "Understood."
Star flew off and helped the fire fighters search for any one that may have been around the building.
Beastboy: "Whoa! these guys have some crazy firepower."
Raven: "..."
Beastboy: "Uhm..Raven, you with me here."
Raven: "There's something wrong in there."
Beastboy: "Uh, yeah. The armed goons pinning down the cops seems a little off to me."
Ravens eyes shifted to Beastboy causing him to sweat just a little. The momentary awkwardness was broken by Robin and Cyborg as they pulled up next to Raven and Beastboy.
Cyborg: "What are we up against?"
Robin looking through his binoculars began to list of the details to take into account.
Robin: "It looks like two men in the windows aided by military grade fully automatic machine guns. possibly a terrorist group, they wont go down without a fight."
Cyborg: "Got it."
Beastboy: "Great."
Raven: "No."
Robin, Beastboy and Cyborg all looked at Raven with puzzled expressions.
Robin: "What's Wrong Raven?"
Raven looking at the old power plant, was obviously concentrating hard.
Raven: "The people shooting, they had nothing to do with the explosion, they are afraid and confused. They may have fired first but they are not terrorists...they are simply hiding something.."
Starfire landed next to Robin forming a circle
Robin: "Any one hurt Star."
Starfire: "No, I could not find any injured pedestrians amongst thepile of the rubble."
Robin: "Good. Ok, here's the plan."
Inside the plant
Two of the inhabitants talk nervously among themselves between burst of firing at the police to keep them at bay. Both looking out of separate windows, one was wearing a white lab coat with the name Frank on it, the other had Charlie on his coat and a thick pair of plastic rim glasses.
Frank: "Hey Charlie, what the hell is going on?"
Bursts of fire spit out of Franks window.
Charlie: "Frank...for the third time, SHUT UP! I don't know already. All I know is that that stupid plastic crap hole next door went 'boom'."
As Charlie fired out of his designated window, a police officers bullet nicked the side off the window sending drywall on top of Charlie scaring him enough to duck out of sight for a moment.
Charlie: "CRAP!"
Frank: "If I find the idiot that blew that building up."
Charlie: "Face it Frank, you wont. A bomb went off and we will either die or go to prison."
Frank: "Great words of encouragement there Charles."
Charlie: "...Never call me that...(sigh)...of all the days."
Frank: "Yeah tell me about it."
Frank shot a few more rounds out the window.
Frank: "Just when we were going do dispose of that...'mistake'."
Charlie: "Ha..."
Ricochet bullets flew threw the window scaring both Frank and Charlie having them jump onto the ground. The two heavily armed window guards sat bellow the windows for a couple minutes to catch their breath and wait for their hearts to slow to the average speed and to return to their chests from their throats. After a moment the two couldn't help but to chuckle nervously after their close call. The laughter stopped though, as soon as they heard the sound of concrete breaking and the police cheering.
Frank: "What the..."
THUD! The small office building shook and light stopped shining through the windows above Frank and Charlie. The two dumbfounded shooters stared at each other in silence...slowly raising to their knees, they saw that achunk of street waslevitatedagainst the windows and seemed to be covered in darkness. The silence of the room was broken by a voice from behind the basement door to their left called out.
Basement voice: "Hey! What the heck was that? The ground was shacking."
Charlie: "Umm, you guy might want to get up here, I think something bad might happen!"
The basement door opened and let five more armed men in lab coats stepped out of the basement. Leading them was a bearded man with the name Alex on his coat.
Alex: "Define, something bad."
Charlie: "The uhh, street is blocking our sight and the cops are, well, cheering."
Alex: "You think, the Titans?"
Frank: "Oh no, oh no, oh no."
Charlie: "Shut up Frank. Do you guys hear that?"
A rumbling sound and Heavy shaking grew larger and louder by the second until Beastboy in the form of a rhino rammed the door off its hinges, sending it across the room. Alex was the fist to taste the furry of a flying door as it toppled him and the other men in lab coats back down the stairs into the basement. Frank and Charlie jumped to their feet and aimed their guns at Beastboy. At that very moment, Starfire flew in carrying Robin and turned towards the gun wielding guards and flung Robin in their general direction. Frank screamed like a three year old girl. Robin extended both legs kicking them both square in the jaw, knocking them unconscious before they could pull the trigger. Cyborg and Raven ran in next ready for a fight.
Cyborg: "Two of em? That's it? Oh man, to easy!"
Beastboy: "Not done yet dude, I think I may have, kinda, accidentally, sorta knocked a few guys down the stairs."
Beastboy ended his statement with a large toothy grin and a slight chuckle. Cyborg looked at Beastboy with a confused expression.
Cyborg: "You don't know if you knocked people down the stairs? They could have been hostages man."
Beastboy: "I know, I'm sorry."
Robin: "Alright, we'll go down and investigate."
Raven: "The Basement...that's where it is."
Robin: "Where what is."
Raven: "I cant tell yet, but the ones who fell down the stairs don't want us near it."
Beastboy: "They don't? So that means they aren't hostages! Score, I guess I didn't do to shabby, aye Cyborg?"
Beastboy grew a smile that was so wide it hurt to look at as he got closer to Cyborg. Cyborg, trying to ignore Beast boy looked the other way. Starfire happily applauded Beastboys accidental good work.
Starfire: "Very well done Beastboy! Yes, good battle."
Cyborg: "Yeah, good job.."
Beastboy beamed with victorious pride.
Cyborg: "..Sloppy, but it worked."
Beastboys ears flopped down similar to a donkeys as his pride fluttered away.
Robin: "Alright Titans, lets go."
Beastboy: "Sure, I'll lead the way on this one."
As Beastboy flipped the light switch, nothing happened.
Beastboy: "Uhm, second thought. Hey Cy, you got all the built in gadgets, so why not take the lead with your flash light."
Cyborg: "Sure..just don't accidentally knock me down the stairs too."
Beastboy: "Cy, that's so not funny...are you listening Cyborg?"
Fallowing behind Cyborg and Beastboy, Robin with his usual blank expression, Starfire smiling at the Two leading titans, and guarding the rear was Raven. With every step, Raven felt more and more as if she were being pulled down the stairs. Nearing the bottom of the staircase, a light from a torch shined on the unconscious men Beastboy had sent down the stairs. Robin inspected the pile of criminals and made sure they were all fine.
Robin: "Looks like they are all pretty much out of it."
Robin began slapping cuffs on their hands until the light Cyborg supplied moved away from what Robin was doing.
Robin: "Hey, Cyborg. Can i get a little light, im not done yet."
Cyborg: "Look at this."
The Titans all Shifted their attention to the wall where Cyborgs light was. Strange writing and symbols were graffitied on the wall. The only one who seemed to recognize it at all was Raven.
Raven: "They are a cult."
Robin: "What could they be hiding."
Raven: "It doesn't say, but whatever it is, its close...I can feel it."
The Titans finished restrain the small mountain of what looked to be lab technicians and walked down the rest of the stairs. The stairs led to a small room with a leaky ceiling, cracked walls and an old cement floor. On their left was a single door, a large red pentagram accompanied by the same odd writing from the wall was drawn on the door. Robin approached the door but not get it to budge.
Robin: "What's with this door."
Starfire: "Might it be locked."
Robin: "There's not even a lock to pick, just a handle..star, give it a try."
Starfire: "Very well."
Starfire could not even crack the door opened
Cyborg: "hey door master, give it a knock."
Beastboy: "No way dude, you forget I've already knocked a door down today...with my head."
Cyborg: "Fine, I'll do it. Step aside guys."
Cyborg fired a sonic blast, but it did nothing more than make a lightshow.
Cyborg: "Man! It didn't do nothing."
Raven: "Let me try."
Cyborg: "Good Luck."
Raven placed her hand on the door and almost instantly, the red image on the door reacted. The ink began to boil on the door and drip off. After the symbol became unrecognizable, the door fell flat sending a cloud of dust into the air.
Beastboy: "Wow, nice job Raven."
Raven: "...thanks"
Elderly Man: "Very nice job indeed."
All the Titans looked to the right end of this dark room and saw a dark figure standing next to the wall.
Robin: "Star, Cyborg."
Starfire: "Right"
Cyborg: "Right!"
Starfire and Cyborg shined lights down the room. At the far end of the room stood a man that looked about seventy five or so. Short white hair, lab coat, a smile, and a detonator in his left hand.
Robin: "You, you destroyed the factory next door"
Elderly Man: "Guilty. but im guilty of far worse things that overshadow today's little activities."
As the elderly man finished speaking he pointed to his right . Cyborgs light crossed the room passing a desk and some steel cabinets, then it found a wood crate next to an occupied operation table. The light moved up to expose a young man strapped down with metal restraints and a bloody cloth bag over his face. His shirt was missing, showing all the whiplash marks, bruises, and burns that covered his arms, chest, and stomach. All the Titans ran over to check on the victim on the table except for Cyborg who ran over towards the elderly man and picked him up by the shirt.
Cyborg: "WHAT THE HELL DID YOU DO TO HIM?"
Elderly Man: "Me? why, all I've done to him is feed him and be his friend...oh, and ive made him his clothes as he outgrew them."
Cyborg: "Outgrew! How long has he been down here."
Elderly Man: "We obtained him seven years back. He was only nine.
Cyborg: "WHAT"
Elderly Man: "It's his birthday today, looks like a good turn out for his party."
As the Elderly Man stated this he looked in Robins direction. As Robin saw this, he approached him and Cyborg as the others broke the restraints.
Robin: "Explain now"
Elderly Man: "You make it sound as though im uncooperative. I haven't lied once, nor have i tried to run"
Cyborg: "Not that you could run."
Robin: "Less nonsence, more explaining."
Elderly Man: "I never agreed with this. A child that young, just lost his parents, it wasn't right. But i was afraid to stand up against the TRUTH."
Robin: "What truth."
Elderly Man: "TRUTH, the group who abducted and experimented on that boy. They placed me in charge of his care, taking the Fathers role in a sense. I never hurt him, im not sick like them at the foot of the stairs. They couldn't learn anymore from him, and they couldn't control his power so, they where going to dispose of him today."
Beastboy from the by the battered young man: "Dispose! does this TRUTH respect life at all?"
The room fell silent as Cyborg set the Elderly Man back on the ground.
Cyborg: "Why blow up the building"
Elderly Man: "I couldn't let them kill him...he's my only friend. So I took steps to expose TRUTH and to get you down here Titans. Think of the explosion as a big loud whistle to get your attention, looks like it worked. TRUTH belongs in jail, and Corry needs the guidance only you can give him on how to use his strengths correctly."
On the table the young man named Corry moved.
Starfire: "Robin, he has awakened!"
Corry: "...Please...listen to him...listen to..."
A silence fell on the room as none of the Titans knew what to do. To be continued.