The original Teen Titans were holding a meeting in their mountain headquarters. In attendance were Speedy, Wondergirl and Aqualad.
"We're missing 40% of our team," said Speedy, "Kid Flash didn't feel up to being with us anymore. He used to think he had his voice down Pat in 1967, but then he decided that he sounded too much like the Atom to be fighting crime with other teenagers."
"At least we know he's regularly patrolling Blue Valley and Central City with the Flash," said Wondergirl, "I'm more worried about the disappearance of our fearless leader."
"I've searched the seas all around Gotham City with no success, and you two have tried the town. We just don't know where he is," said Aqualad.
"If he's not on land or sea, and the Justice League can't account for him anywhere else on earth, maybe we need to look in outer space," said Wondergirl."
"I'm sure we do, but first we need to throw a membership drive," said Speedy, "I'll have my mentor pay for an advertisement to be run in newspapers right across the country advertising auditions for new members.
"That's a great idea," said Aqualad, "Maybe teenage groups will think of holding auditions for new super heroes many years from now."
Soon the auditions were held at the Teen Titans' mountain headquarters.
"Are you two together?" asked Wondergirl, noticing that two somewhat alien looking super heroes were both dressed in purple and pink with yellow initials on their chests.
"Yes. We're Zan and Jayna, the Wondertwins," said Zan.
"What can you do?" asked Speedy.
"It's quicker to show you," said Jayna, "Wondertwin powers activate … shape of a female Fleagle!"
With that the teenaged girl suddenly turned into a creature that resembled the female counterpart of the Banana Splits member known as Fleagle.
"Does that work if you don't say 'Wondertwin powers activate'?" asked Aqualad.
"I don't know. We've never sacrificed the dramatic effect in order to find out," said Zan, "Form of a beautiful ice calliope."
Zan took on the form of a musical device, which Fleaglette Jayna used to play the song "That's the drippy part of you," as Zan began to melt in the middle of the midsummer heat.
"Quick. Somebody put a bucket under him!" said Wondergirl.
Aqualad volunteered, knowing that the proximity to icy water was good for his life expectancy. Soon Zan had completely melted, and dripped into the bucket. Aqualad put the bucket of water on the table beside the monitor console, after Jayna had deactivated her power.
Zan had decided to see if his power would deactivate, so that he could resume his human form, if he didn't say 'Wondertwin powers deactivate.' It would be useful knowledge, whether or not it helped him gain membership in the Teen Titans. By the time he'd convinced himself that it wasn't going to work, Jayna could not be found to assist him, as she was busy chatting to one of the other applicants named Multil Man.
The Impossibles had come to add their ranks to the Teen Titans.
"What can you do?" asked Speedy, as Coilman prepared to try for the team too.
"I play and sing much more contemporary songs than you'd hear on a calliope," said Coil Man.
"No Coily!" shouted out Multiman, "They meant, what can you do in your Impossible Impossibles identity, not your Singing Impossibles Identity."
Coil man picked up a nearby duster and elongated his body up to the roof, keeping his feet on the ground. He was able to dust the otherwise unreachable roof of Titans Lair in record time.
"As you can see, my power makes me a natural choice for SPRING cleaning your headquarters," said Coil Man.
"Not bad," said Speedy, "But we already use Amazon Cleaning Services. Donna got us a good deal. Who's next? How about you, young lady. What's your name?"
"I'm Wendy," said the junior Super Friend.
"And what super powers do you have?" asked Aqualad.
"None," said Wendy.
"Then why should we admit you to the Titans?" asked Wondergirl.
"Because I've worked for a while with your missing leader Robin, when he's taken sabbaticals from Titan duties to help as a Super Friend. I can get us access to the Bat vehicles not currently in use, and we could use their ability to home in on the transmitter in Robin's utility belt," said Wendy.
"Can you get us to the Batrocket?" asked Speedy, "We're hoping to take our new team into space to search for Robin."
"It's as good as done," said Wendy.
"You're on the team," said Speedy.
In the mean time the third Impossible named Fluid Man was practicing his transformation into water, while waiting for his turn to come up. As luck would have it, he fell into the bucket containing Zan the Wondertwin, who was still unable to reverse his transformation. The two were mixed together uncontrollably, and were unable to separate. Now Fluid Man was as helpless as Zan to reform himself. Neither of them could even simulate vocal cord sounds and speak in that form anymore.
Multiman demonstrated his power of extending into several duplicates of himself.
"Rejected," said Speedy, "We've got an imbalance in the genders of our members already, which has had me competing with Kid Flash and Robin and our visitors Hawk and Dove for Wonderdoll's attentions, until I finally won her over. The last thing we want is a guy who can turn into too many guys."
Among the other waiting applicants were the Teen Angels: Brenda, Taffy and Deedee. At this point they had not yet discovered the frozen Captain Caveman from prehistoric times, who was still frozen in a cave. (He had fled Bedrock in embarrassment after Wilma Flintstone and Betty Rubble had been unable to print a retraction of The Daily Granite's claim that Captain Caveman had somehow married and fathered a child named Cavey Junior way back when Fred Flintstone and Barney Rubble were kids. His wife had eventually resurfaced to take on full custody of Cavey Junior, while Captain Caveman froze for centuries and centuries. But the results of that would not be discovered for a couple of years longer). So for now, the three Teen Angels had no super hero partner to work with and hoped to join the Teen Titans.
They had had to walk to Titans lair on a hot day and were feeling quite exhausted, as well as hot and sunburnt.
"Who's next"" asked Wonder Girl.
A teenaged boy stepped forward with a dog.
"I am," said the boy.
"Show us what you can do then," said Aqualad.
The boy put his arms up in front of his face, crossed them over, and the existing Titans noticed that he had arm bands on both wrists. He knocked them together, and became a more muscular and taller boy, with a longer hairstyle. The boy then put his hands out in front of him and knocked the bands together again. Waves of coloured light seemed to flow out from the bracelets towards the god, who turned into a lion.
"More people with transformation powers," said Speedy.
"Hey, no fair. I did it first!" said Jayna.
"The transformation is not the power, but merely a means to embrace it," said the boy, "I am Young Samson, and this is my dog Goliath. Between us, we can approximate all of Superman's powers, as we'll proceed to demonstrate."
The next audition was for Deedee, the brightest member of the Teen Angels, who represented the trio and attempted to demonstrate her power of solving mysteries. It was deemed insufficient for membership in the Teen Titans at that time.
Brenda and Taffy came over to join her, each drinking from jugs of cordial they'd made up.
"That looks great," said Deedee.
"I knew it'd be worth bringing cordial powder satchels with us for this trip," said Taffy, finishing the last bit of her jug full of juice, "That's the thirstiest I've ever been."
"I'll go and make mine up too now. Are there any more jugs left?" said Deedee.
"You can take mine," said Brenda, "But you'll have to use tap water. There's none left in the bucket."
"Bucket?" asked Jayna suddenly, "What bucket?"
"The one with the pink lemonade in it. It didn't taste of anything. So I added our cordial.
"PINK lemonade!" said Jayna, "It looks like I won't qualify for membership in the Teen Titans at all now."
"But I saw Fluey headed for that bucket too!" said Multiman,
"Oh dear!" said Brenda, "It looks like we just mixed up Cordialman with a Wondertwist of lime."
"That's a shame," said Wondergirl, "Aqualad, make a memo to be addressed at our next meeting: We need to label our buckets. One for drinking water and the other for transformed applicants for membership."
After viewing a few more try outs, Speedy, Wondergirl and Aqualad conferred and made their decisions.
"Alright, we are now pleased to announce that the new members of the Teen Titans are Wendy and Young Samson, restoring our numbers to five active regular members as before … and apparently one rather necessary dog," said Speedy.
"We never had a chance against them," said Multiman, "I think we should form the Team of Tryout Titans in our own right."
"That could be a precedent for the future too," said Aqualad.
"Great idea, Multy," said Coil Man, "I'll be in it."
"So will I," said Jayna, although I don't know what use I'll be now."
"We'll see you around then," said Aqualad, and watched the newly formed team of rejected applicants leaving, albeit without Zan and Fluid Man.
"Well team, shall we head for the Batrocket?" asked Wondergirl.
"Let's do it," said Speedy, "How are you new members fixed for transport?
"Goliath and I have a motor scooter," said Young Samson.
"I'll fly as usual," said Wonder Girl.
"Wendy and Aqualad can come with me in the Titan Copter," said Speedy, "Wendy can navigate, since she knows the way. The rest of you follow from the ground or air."
Soon the Teen Titans arrived at the Hall of Justice. Wendy let them into the Batrocket's launch silo, and they climbed aboard. Soon they were flying through space, until they came to a planet with purple sky and pink swirls instead of separated clouds.
Suddenly the Batrocket was struck by laser fire.
"How do we fight back?" asked Speedy.
"I barely know how to fly the thing," said Wendy, "Don't ask me how to use the weapons."
"We're in the planet's breathable atmosphere now," said Wondergirl, "Are you up for a touch of mid-air combat, Young Samson?"
"I will be," said Samson and snapped his bracelets together, initializing his Toth-ian transformation into the super powered Samson. He and Wondergirl left their airlock and flew at the attacking spacecraft, which was still firing on the Batrocket. It had a skull and crossbones emblem decorating its hull.
"I wonder if my old enemy Baron Von Skull made it into outer space," said Samson.
"Can you bring him down, while I deflect his laser shots to protect the Batrocket?" asked Wondergirl.
"How can you do that?" asked Samson.
"My bracelets have a different power," said Wondergirl.
"I'll do my best," said Samson, and leaped onto the top of the spacecraft. Wondergirl flew into the path of the laser fire and positioned her Feminum bracelets. The laser fire bounced off and dissipated harmlessly in the air.
Samson tore a hole in the roof and jumped down into the spacecraft. A small man with a helmet and moustache came running away from the control panel, while the other man (with a full beard and helmet too) managed to land the spacecraft in one piece. Through the cockpit they could all see the Batrocket landing close by.
"I'll drown you in a Venus volcano!" said the little man, pummelling Samson's shin with his fists.
"You can't do that!" said the Captain, "e's not an itty bitty kid. E's that galactic decorator we called to install our skylight in the ship months ago. Them's told us they wouldn't send 'im out until we came up with the deposit, an' we couldn't raise the money without succeedin' in getting' the map from thems bloomin' Space Kidettes. We lost 'em, while we were trackin' 'em to this here planet."
"So why were you firing on us?" asked Samson.
"We wuz so used to firing at the Space Kidettes, that me partner Static's trigger finger just couldn't break 'is 'abit," said the Captain, "I'm Cap'n Skyhook, an' much obliged I am to you for ending me need to be runnin' after them bloomin' Kidettes. We'll be leavin' you now, an' you 'ave me word as a pirate an' a violent man, that I'll neither be givin' you nor them Space Kidettes any more trouble."
Samson left the ship, where his dog Goliath came bounding over to greet him.
"Skyhook was a brilliant pirate, Goliath," said Samson, "But one who used his skills in the pursuit of a skylight. Maybe one day someone will invent a laser armed spaceship that we can all use for blasting litter like Plutonian junk food wrappers off the edges of asteroids."
In the meantime, Wondergirl, Wendy and Speedy had been greeted by four much younger children and a dog.
"I'm Scooter, and this is Snoopy, Countdown, Jenny and our dog Pupstar," said one of the childen, "We're the Space Kidettes."
"Aren't they cute?" said Wondergirl.
"Even more so than the Balloon People that landed in my backyard once, on an early adventure with the Super Friends," said Wendy, "Couldn't you just take them home and put them on the mantelpiece."
"You're not so bad yourself," said Countdown, "Would you care for a cuddle?"
Wendy laughed.
"Why not?" she said, and picked Countdown up and gave him a hug.
"People think, that just because we're kids, we have no more depth or maturity than a cartoon character," said Scooter, "But we're really quite sensitive."
He used his rocket pack to jet upwards, until he was level with Wondergirl's face, and then kissed her cheek.
Wondergirl blushed, and returned the favour.
"Now hold on there a minute, Wonderdoll," said Speedy, "Are you going to cast me off with the slings and arrows of outrageous foresome?"
"Oh don't be jealous, lover," said Wondergirl, "They're just children trying to be friendly."
"I don't know about that," said Wendy, "This one's got definite possibilities in a few years."
"I guess that leaves you and me Jenny," said Snoopy and gave her a hug.
"Look. Captain Skyhook's leaving, just like that," said Jenny, looking over Snoopy's shoulder, "And look who's coming."
Samson had reverted to his non-super form, and was walking towards the gathering of Teen Titans and Space Kidettes.
Goliath came bounding over, still a dog, and instantly made friends with Pupstar.
"Is there anything we can do to thank you for solving our problems with Captain Skyhook and Static?" asked Countdown.
"We came here in search of our original leader," said Speedy, and took out a photograph of Robin, "Have any of you Space Kidettes seen him at all?"
"I'm afraid not," said Scooter.
"Nor me," said Countdown.
"I haven't," said Snoopy.
"Does he have a girlfriend?" asked Jenny.
"Jenny!" said Snoopy.
"Just teasing," giggled Jenny.
"It's just as well neither Goliath nor Pupstar are female," said Aqualad, "I think we'll have to…"
Suddenly Aqualad became very dizzy.
"You've been out of the water too long," said Wondergirl.
"We have to get him to water fast," said Speedy.
"We can take him to the Space Mermaid in our craft," said Jenny, "She's got all the water around her that he'll need."
"Okay. We'll follow in the Batrocket," said Speedy, "Come on, Titans."
"I want to go with Wendy," said Countdown.
"Oh for Pete's sake!" said Speedy.
"I don't mind," said Wendy.
"What about me?" asked Scooter.
"Over my red-" began Speedy.
"Let them come. It'll help make room for Aqualad in their ship," said Wondergirl, "They've got to get him there first. They know the way."
"Oh alright. Let's get going, Titans," said Speedy.
Samson carried Aqualad to the Space Kidettes' craft, and set him down comfortably draped over the seats usually occupied by Scooter and Countdown.
Then the Batrocket took the Teen Titans on a flight which closely followed the Space Kidettes, until they reached the Space Mermaid's territory, and lowered Aqualad in.
After a lengthy swim, Aqualad felt revived enough to return to earth.
"Come and see us again," said Scooter.
"Especially you Wendy," said Countdown."
The Teen Titans bid farewell to the Space Kidettes and flew the Batrocket back to earth. There was only one small problem. They still couldn't find Robin.
"Hi, I'm Lou Scheimer, and this is Bill Hanna. In today's story, Brenda and Taffy learned that mixing cordial with pink lemonade is not only bad for you. It can also be very bad for the pink lemonade. So remember kids, if you see an unfamiliar drink, and you're not sure about it, stop, think, and ask the local super heroes if they're missing any applicants."