Flashing Lights and Sounds
By Jedi-and
Disclaimer: I do not own the TT, nor do I own Mr. Noel Collins, but I DO own some of my own characters.
Authors note: Welcome to the first instalment of Flashing Lights and Sounds. Which is a serious story. Why say that? Well, I hadn't written one in a while so I found myself unchallenged and losing the literary skills I had built up with some of my fics. And so here we start with another fic, of (hopefully) gigantic proportions and with any luck it will be liked. This is in between the events of the author Legend Maker's fics so read all of them, especially Black and White.
One last thing. I've heard of a rumour of a blonde hair Titan that became Beast Boy's girlfriend, or at least the best pair. Sorry but I don't know who she is, nor do I frankly care. I'm English, which means we won't get any new information until several months after the States.
But enjoy anyway.
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Chapter 1: Price of Heroism.
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Behold Jump City, a fairly nice place to live, and yet riddled with crime and hate, as per any place where humans lived. From this city came a group who claimed to be their saviours, a group of teenaged heroes whose birthright, origins, training and/or just their ability to be in the wrong place at the wrong time had given them unique and (dare I say) special gifts. And no, these gifts were not the kind you might get on your birthday. Something higher, stranger. Powers beyond the imagination. One that seemed to tear holes in every crime and villain that was unfortunate enough to come across them.
They call themselves Titans, after the beings that spawned the Roman gods, and as self-serving as it sounds it makes sense, as they have not been beaten. Beaten to a pulp at times, but not beaten. Champions and defenders, and unlike their nameksake, they have even beaten gods.
But what set them apart even more was despite all this, many remained down to Earth. Even on the quiet evenings you could see someone from this illustrious squad of the underage roaming the streets.
"Why me?"
Then again, it may not be by choice. As we can see, one of them is already out and about on a mission. A great mission! Far more important than tracking down a villain, far more important than finding clues for a case. Oh yes, even far more important than bringing down another bad guy. This mission is at the top of the Titans list of important things. It was...
"Three pepperoni, two anchovy, one with LOTS of tofu, two cheese, a Hawaiian and a few bottles of cola, to go Al. Oh and don't forget the Mustard jars..."
Pizza.
"Right-O Beast boy."
We know this child's face. It was the famous green skinned wonder that was the changeling Beast boy, AKA Garfield Logan, able to change in to every animal that had ever existed, and even some that may not, including mythical creatures like the Minotaur, Griffons and Chimeras. It was a useful talent, in battle and others. Beast Boy remembered the time he and Starfire went to a party as Medusa, Gar being the hair of course.
Tonight was Pizza night. Unable to decided what to have each night the Titans worked up a set schedule. Mondays was Pizza, Tuesdays was Chinese, Wednesday was fast food (their equivalent to McDonald's), Thursday was Meat Night, Friday was Home Cooking (though the Titans tended to be scarce on this day when Starfire's turn rolled around), Saturday was breakfast night (Author's Note: I have to admit, I have had breakfast at dinner time. What, you haven't? Weirdos) and Sunday was Contest Night, in which whoever was drawn out of the hat won the chance for their favourite meal or restaurant. Seeing as this was Monday, it happened to be Pizza Night.
I believe I had mentioned the magical hat, a hat with all their names in. As mentioned, it was used for Sunday, but it was also used by the Titans to decide who was going to go pick up certain orders of food. The hat belonged to Garfield Logan, or Gar as he preferred. Strangely, the owner of the hat had not been picked to go collect food for at least a few months now, and since this kind of luck seemed rather suspect, the newest member of the Titans, a teenager by the name of Noel Collins, AKA Savior, rigged the hat drawing and replaced ALL the names in the hat with Gar's name. While he had been doing so, he realized that Beast Boy indeed possessed no such luck: he had rigged it so that he would never be chosen by making sure none of the pieces of paper had his name on them.
Got to love Karma.
And so, the green super hero was standing in the best Pizzeria in town, freezing cold and rather annoyed. Why couldn't it be Starfire? Or maybe Raven, they can both fly without having to change into a form that wasn't well equipped for cold weather. But then again, both would probably be with their partners, their "true loves" and they wouldn't want to be fetching food when they could be kissing, or worse, doing something mature. Like conversing.
But even as Gar stewed, and our imaginations pondered what Tim Drake and Kory Anders and Noel Collins and Raven might be doing, fate is winding up again. The ever elusive butterfly effect would soon be coming in to play. You know the one, right? If a butterfly flapped its wings in America, a hurricane would happen in England or some nonsense like that.
Yes, nonsense.
Maybe.
Now everything seemed as normal as could be, even if you're only five foot three with green skin staring down a well-dressed man waiting for your surprisingly large (and strange) order. Or at least that was the general feeling at any rate for the citizens of Jump city. Seeing Beast Boy, or indeed ANY of the Titans was almost commonplace, and although it was a worthwhile event, they did appear often enough so that the charm had worn a bit thin.
"It will be a few moments Sir. Please take a seat." Replied Al's son (who is Al? Then again, maybe we should not enquire, some fans of CGI may expect a rousing answer of "WHAT?"), a well dressed business man who was soon to take over the business.
Beast Boy sat, not minding the wait (though he still minded the fetching. He could turn INTO dogs, he wasn't one!). Then again, as long as he could get some food in him, and as long as Cyborg and the others didn't complain, he would survive. And his mental process would have begun dwelling on more on recent events had not something happened outside.
A clanging. An all too familiar sound of clanging. A very specific clang and that was a metal dustbin kind of clang.
To be utterly specific, a metal dustbin against someone kind of clang.
Beast Boy shot forth from his seat and sprinted outside to see what looked like a two on one contest. Strangely, the one was winning. The two were a man and a woman, around the Titans' age, setting up for an attack. The woman was dressed in large shoulder pads with black gaps with purple writing inside them, and each written character looked strange and mythical. Her costume also consisted of a swimsuit much like Raven's, but with a pattern on it split with a stripe down the middle, across her waist. Her hair had a centre parting and the rest was done up in to two braids that flowed back together to form one. She probably had other clothing on, but it being dark at the moment it was hard any more details.
The man was slightly easier to distinguish, as he wore what looked like a sleeveless long coat with the image of wings on the back and shoulders, embossed and highly detailed. Or at least that would have been what Beast Boy would have seen had the darkness made it too hard to tell. His hair was covered by what seemed to be a bandana, but the exact colour was (again) hard to make out.
The final guy, the one against the two, was hidden in shadow even more then the previous two, but one thing did catch the eyes of Beast Boy, and that was the glint coming from the claws of the assailant. They were silver talons, with two sharp fingers and a claw like thumb, each intersection overlapping into another to form two viscous hands...
And then something happened. The final figure's eyes opened, glowing a distinct colour of blue, a dark and almost sinister blue.
A gasp escaped Beast Boy, as he wondered if an old foe of the Titans had somehow returned from the dead, but no sooner than he had finished his surprised noise then the partners turned.
"Titans!" The young woman called. The man next to her got ready to attack, but Beast Boy barely noticed. There was something in her eyes, those bright red eyes of hers. As cliché as it sounds, their eyes met and a strange change seemed to happen in Beast Boy. They were tough eyes, far too tough for her age, but as tough as they were, there seemed to be something behind them.
He didn't have the chance to find out as she pulled the man away as he started towards Beast Boy, and both jumped out of sight. The man with the dark blue's head shot upwards and paused, watching, and Beast Boy figured now was as good a time as nay to call for backup, as he pulled out his communicator.
"Beast Boy to Robin! We have trouble." He said into it.
"Where are you?"
"Al's Pizza house! And hurry, will ya?" He shouted, staring down the vicious eyes as they turned back in his direction.
"Starfire's in the area, stay with what the trouble is and we'll be there shortly!" Their fearless leader called, and almost as if on cue, the figure suddenly jumped up, all the way to the top of the building...
With Beast Boy following. Though the one thing in his mind, as well as his task, was 'easier said than done'. But he managed.
Now out of the dark alleyway, via the lights on the roof, as well as the moon, Beast Boy finally got a good look at the figure. He appeared male, and starting at his head he wore a large brimmed red hat, much like the ones Crocodile Dundee might wear, but it wasn't made of leather, and it also had a white band around the top rather than a set of crocodile's teeth. His hair seemed a whitish colour, or at least a pale blue. It also appeared to be spiky, but not as spiky as the ears that shot out from his head. Some might have related the spiky ears to that of the fantasy figurer the elf, but these did not look nice enough: they had almost a demonic property to them, going out and back rather than up and in.
Onto what he wore. It seemed to be some sort of suit, a strange design. He had a cape strapped to the shoulders via two large buckles. His suit itself was a dark red with white and black patterns on them; swirls and vine like strands that forged a shape on his back. Details Beast Boy could not provide, as the wind that was blowing cold, the same one that had frozen him as he had come to the restaurant, had suddenly subsided causing his cape to obscure the shape again. The cape was tattered at the bottom: It had obviously been dragged across the floor, but it was still a cape that was worth owning as the rest of it was thick and full, though dark. The trousers matched his suit as his feet matched his clawed hands. They had two metallic talons out front, though no thumb talon, but the design was similar enough.
And we are back to the head, specifically the glowing eyes, the eyes that are focused above him at the young and just arrived Miss Starfire. Her own eyes were glowing green, and same colored energy exploded into being on her hands.
Mr. Suitclaw didn't much seem to fancy her arrival though. A growl and an incoherent roar later, and the man had jumped up, slashing with his talons. This seemed to touch a nerve in Star, as her face shifted a little, going from relatively calm to battle-ready aggressive. Charging up the bolts in her hands, she swung down and fired, but Mr. Suitclaw was quicker, and dodged every shot Star made, much to the surprise of the alien girl.
"I didn't know they were that quick..." She commented before she dodged the retaliatory slashes of the man.
"Didn't know who was what? Star?" Gar asked, wondering what she meant or even if she had said what he thought she what she said. He changed into a bull and rushed in at full speed, but Mr. Suitclaw just jumped, ignoring Gar totally as he pressed his attack against Starfire. Beast Boy had the lovely experience of charging into and then recovering from the shock of hitting a vent at full pelt, and he looked up at Mr. Suitclaw in indignation.
"Hey! What am I? Chopped liver?" He asked, changing into a bear and rushing back into the battle. Again he missed, and again he was ignored. "Dude, this has gone beyond funny."
"You need more for a laugh nowadays?" a voice said, and Beast Boy looked up into the smiling face of Cyborg.
"Because when we're through with him, he'll be one funny sight." Robin called, landing next to him. To complete the group, Raven appeared from the shadows, bringing her other half, Savior.
"Anyone we know?" the white haired teenager asked.
"Star might, I don't."
"Great. Going in blind. I LOVE improv." Savior said sarcastically.
And then they all charged. Savior slashed out with the Shimmer, the rope- shaped energy he commanded, slicing at the figure. Unfortunately, Mr. Suitclaw saw it just in time and dodged by jumping back. He grabbed one strand, slicing it with his claws, and Savior fell to the ground in a fit of pain, as he always did when the Shimmer was cut. That was the problem with metahuman talents linked to your nervous system.
"Okay, they're sharp..." Cyborg said softly, charging his sonic cannon, but trying to get a clear shot was harder than it looked because Robin and Beast Boy had also run into the fray. Robin extended his staff and slammed it down at Mr. Suitclaw, but the figure caught it and responded with a mean left hook that sent Robin into Beast Boy. The suited male had no sooner acquired his new weapon then he threw it as hard as he could into Starfire. Well that was clearly his plan, had it not been stopped by Raven's shield. The figure paused in a state of slight shock, and that was his first mistake as he was soon blasted by Cyborg off the edge of the building, a new expression on his face: pain. "HA! Booya mother...lucker!" Cyborg said, biting off the cruder version of the word. The Titans tried their best not to swear in front of Starfire, as she did not understand the curses, nor could she use them right.
"I think that was a tad bit of overkill Cyborg." Robin said, walking to the edge while rubbing his jaw. With a metal glove on, being hit hurt like hell. At least Mr. Suitclaw hadn't used his namesake, or Robin might have been a lot shorter then he was now.
"So? It got him off our backs didn't it?" Beast Boy countered.
"I suppose." Came Robin's reply.
"All right then, let's grab those Pizzas and go ho-"
Cyborg was cut off as Mr. Suitclaw made his grand return, jumping up and over the group, heading back for his original target: Starfire. This caught the group by surprise: they had not expected him to get up from a 23 story fall.
"Azarath, Metrion, Zinthos!" Raven shouted, throwing bricks at the aggressor. A few caught him, but it only slowed him down, and before she could find more he had already reached Starfire. He pulled out his own staff, this one with a blade on the end, making it more accurately a glaive.
Making a hand gesture that was out of the eye view of the others he attacked, lunging at the young woman with all the strength he had. She managed to block the non-bladed part of Suitclaw's weapon with her arm, dodging away from the follow up swipe. He jumped to catch her in the air, and she dodged again and fired off Star Bolts. Raven on the other hand, was hanging back with the other Titans as she tapped into her empathetic abilities to read the feelings of both parties, though only Mr. Suitclaws' mattered.
"So, what do you get?" Savior asked, looking at her.
"Lost, alone, confused." She replied, her hands under her hood, covering her temples. "But I do not sense an evil intent there. More along the lines of pure animal instinct, of survival, aimed at Starfire."
"Why Star?" Robin asked, concerned for the welfare of his girlfriend.
"That, I can't read." Raven replied, as the two battled on. Mr. Suitclaw drew back for a punch, but it may as well have been phoned in as Star quickly, and effortlessly uppercuted him, knocking him off his feet. Star followed up by firing her Starbolts again, but he rolled out the way and jumped up, Glaive in hand, ready to bring it down onto the skull of Starfire. It was lined up and devastatingly quick, and she could not have escaped in time.
If Cyborg hadn't shot him out of the sky with the sonic cannon at full power. And as bad as that was, the landing was worse, as Mr. Suitclaw went smashing through a wall, which finally rendered him unconscious. Cyborg stepped up and looked down at the fallen being.
"Ya think he's out?"
"For now." Was the reply from behind as all of the Titans conjugated around the fallen enemy.
"I say we take him to the cops and-" Cyborg was saying before he was cut off once again. Star had butted in this time, moving forward and lifting Mr. Suitclaw up from the ground, her normally innocent expression replaced with one of determination.
"What are you doing girl?!" Cyborg replied in indignation.
"I wish to interrogate him myself. We will take him back to Titan Tower."
"WHAT?!" Was the call from the males as Raven raised a brow.
"We WILL take him back to Titan Tower." She repeated as she flew off into the distance. Savior shrugged, and then stepped over to Raven, the two following by portal as the others looked confused.
"Dude, your girlfriend is crazy!" Beast boy yelled at Robin, jumping down to grab the Pizzas that had been waiting for a few minutes now.
"She's going to get us all killed. I can see that now..." Cyborg muttered, and then shrugged as he made his way over to the newly rebuilt T-Car, pulling out the keys to his 'baby' and disarming the security system.
Robin was also wondering what his girlfriend had on her mind, but obviously he wasn't going to know, not just yet.
Not just yet... He thought to himself as he made his way to the car, hearing the curses of Beast Boy being charged triple for the damage done to the roof along with the Pizzas. Price of being a hero I suppose...
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First chapter done! Hurray! Let's hope I can continue, as I mean to go on! But who was the man with the glowing eyes? Or the pair in the alleyway? We may have to wait for those answers...
By Jedi-and
Disclaimer: I do not own the TT, nor do I own Mr. Noel Collins, but I DO own some of my own characters.
Authors note: Welcome to the first instalment of Flashing Lights and Sounds. Which is a serious story. Why say that? Well, I hadn't written one in a while so I found myself unchallenged and losing the literary skills I had built up with some of my fics. And so here we start with another fic, of (hopefully) gigantic proportions and with any luck it will be liked. This is in between the events of the author Legend Maker's fics so read all of them, especially Black and White.
One last thing. I've heard of a rumour of a blonde hair Titan that became Beast Boy's girlfriend, or at least the best pair. Sorry but I don't know who she is, nor do I frankly care. I'm English, which means we won't get any new information until several months after the States.
But enjoy anyway.
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Chapter 1: Price of Heroism.
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Behold Jump City, a fairly nice place to live, and yet riddled with crime and hate, as per any place where humans lived. From this city came a group who claimed to be their saviours, a group of teenaged heroes whose birthright, origins, training and/or just their ability to be in the wrong place at the wrong time had given them unique and (dare I say) special gifts. And no, these gifts were not the kind you might get on your birthday. Something higher, stranger. Powers beyond the imagination. One that seemed to tear holes in every crime and villain that was unfortunate enough to come across them.
They call themselves Titans, after the beings that spawned the Roman gods, and as self-serving as it sounds it makes sense, as they have not been beaten. Beaten to a pulp at times, but not beaten. Champions and defenders, and unlike their nameksake, they have even beaten gods.
But what set them apart even more was despite all this, many remained down to Earth. Even on the quiet evenings you could see someone from this illustrious squad of the underage roaming the streets.
"Why me?"
Then again, it may not be by choice. As we can see, one of them is already out and about on a mission. A great mission! Far more important than tracking down a villain, far more important than finding clues for a case. Oh yes, even far more important than bringing down another bad guy. This mission is at the top of the Titans list of important things. It was...
"Three pepperoni, two anchovy, one with LOTS of tofu, two cheese, a Hawaiian and a few bottles of cola, to go Al. Oh and don't forget the Mustard jars..."
Pizza.
"Right-O Beast boy."
We know this child's face. It was the famous green skinned wonder that was the changeling Beast boy, AKA Garfield Logan, able to change in to every animal that had ever existed, and even some that may not, including mythical creatures like the Minotaur, Griffons and Chimeras. It was a useful talent, in battle and others. Beast Boy remembered the time he and Starfire went to a party as Medusa, Gar being the hair of course.
Tonight was Pizza night. Unable to decided what to have each night the Titans worked up a set schedule. Mondays was Pizza, Tuesdays was Chinese, Wednesday was fast food (their equivalent to McDonald's), Thursday was Meat Night, Friday was Home Cooking (though the Titans tended to be scarce on this day when Starfire's turn rolled around), Saturday was breakfast night (Author's Note: I have to admit, I have had breakfast at dinner time. What, you haven't? Weirdos) and Sunday was Contest Night, in which whoever was drawn out of the hat won the chance for their favourite meal or restaurant. Seeing as this was Monday, it happened to be Pizza Night.
I believe I had mentioned the magical hat, a hat with all their names in. As mentioned, it was used for Sunday, but it was also used by the Titans to decide who was going to go pick up certain orders of food. The hat belonged to Garfield Logan, or Gar as he preferred. Strangely, the owner of the hat had not been picked to go collect food for at least a few months now, and since this kind of luck seemed rather suspect, the newest member of the Titans, a teenager by the name of Noel Collins, AKA Savior, rigged the hat drawing and replaced ALL the names in the hat with Gar's name. While he had been doing so, he realized that Beast Boy indeed possessed no such luck: he had rigged it so that he would never be chosen by making sure none of the pieces of paper had his name on them.
Got to love Karma.
And so, the green super hero was standing in the best Pizzeria in town, freezing cold and rather annoyed. Why couldn't it be Starfire? Or maybe Raven, they can both fly without having to change into a form that wasn't well equipped for cold weather. But then again, both would probably be with their partners, their "true loves" and they wouldn't want to be fetching food when they could be kissing, or worse, doing something mature. Like conversing.
But even as Gar stewed, and our imaginations pondered what Tim Drake and Kory Anders and Noel Collins and Raven might be doing, fate is winding up again. The ever elusive butterfly effect would soon be coming in to play. You know the one, right? If a butterfly flapped its wings in America, a hurricane would happen in England or some nonsense like that.
Yes, nonsense.
Maybe.
Now everything seemed as normal as could be, even if you're only five foot three with green skin staring down a well-dressed man waiting for your surprisingly large (and strange) order. Or at least that was the general feeling at any rate for the citizens of Jump city. Seeing Beast Boy, or indeed ANY of the Titans was almost commonplace, and although it was a worthwhile event, they did appear often enough so that the charm had worn a bit thin.
"It will be a few moments Sir. Please take a seat." Replied Al's son (who is Al? Then again, maybe we should not enquire, some fans of CGI may expect a rousing answer of "WHAT?"), a well dressed business man who was soon to take over the business.
Beast Boy sat, not minding the wait (though he still minded the fetching. He could turn INTO dogs, he wasn't one!). Then again, as long as he could get some food in him, and as long as Cyborg and the others didn't complain, he would survive. And his mental process would have begun dwelling on more on recent events had not something happened outside.
A clanging. An all too familiar sound of clanging. A very specific clang and that was a metal dustbin kind of clang.
To be utterly specific, a metal dustbin against someone kind of clang.
Beast Boy shot forth from his seat and sprinted outside to see what looked like a two on one contest. Strangely, the one was winning. The two were a man and a woman, around the Titans' age, setting up for an attack. The woman was dressed in large shoulder pads with black gaps with purple writing inside them, and each written character looked strange and mythical. Her costume also consisted of a swimsuit much like Raven's, but with a pattern on it split with a stripe down the middle, across her waist. Her hair had a centre parting and the rest was done up in to two braids that flowed back together to form one. She probably had other clothing on, but it being dark at the moment it was hard any more details.
The man was slightly easier to distinguish, as he wore what looked like a sleeveless long coat with the image of wings on the back and shoulders, embossed and highly detailed. Or at least that would have been what Beast Boy would have seen had the darkness made it too hard to tell. His hair was covered by what seemed to be a bandana, but the exact colour was (again) hard to make out.
The final guy, the one against the two, was hidden in shadow even more then the previous two, but one thing did catch the eyes of Beast Boy, and that was the glint coming from the claws of the assailant. They were silver talons, with two sharp fingers and a claw like thumb, each intersection overlapping into another to form two viscous hands...
And then something happened. The final figure's eyes opened, glowing a distinct colour of blue, a dark and almost sinister blue.
A gasp escaped Beast Boy, as he wondered if an old foe of the Titans had somehow returned from the dead, but no sooner than he had finished his surprised noise then the partners turned.
"Titans!" The young woman called. The man next to her got ready to attack, but Beast Boy barely noticed. There was something in her eyes, those bright red eyes of hers. As cliché as it sounds, their eyes met and a strange change seemed to happen in Beast Boy. They were tough eyes, far too tough for her age, but as tough as they were, there seemed to be something behind them.
He didn't have the chance to find out as she pulled the man away as he started towards Beast Boy, and both jumped out of sight. The man with the dark blue's head shot upwards and paused, watching, and Beast Boy figured now was as good a time as nay to call for backup, as he pulled out his communicator.
"Beast Boy to Robin! We have trouble." He said into it.
"Where are you?"
"Al's Pizza house! And hurry, will ya?" He shouted, staring down the vicious eyes as they turned back in his direction.
"Starfire's in the area, stay with what the trouble is and we'll be there shortly!" Their fearless leader called, and almost as if on cue, the figure suddenly jumped up, all the way to the top of the building...
With Beast Boy following. Though the one thing in his mind, as well as his task, was 'easier said than done'. But he managed.
Now out of the dark alleyway, via the lights on the roof, as well as the moon, Beast Boy finally got a good look at the figure. He appeared male, and starting at his head he wore a large brimmed red hat, much like the ones Crocodile Dundee might wear, but it wasn't made of leather, and it also had a white band around the top rather than a set of crocodile's teeth. His hair seemed a whitish colour, or at least a pale blue. It also appeared to be spiky, but not as spiky as the ears that shot out from his head. Some might have related the spiky ears to that of the fantasy figurer the elf, but these did not look nice enough: they had almost a demonic property to them, going out and back rather than up and in.
Onto what he wore. It seemed to be some sort of suit, a strange design. He had a cape strapped to the shoulders via two large buckles. His suit itself was a dark red with white and black patterns on them; swirls and vine like strands that forged a shape on his back. Details Beast Boy could not provide, as the wind that was blowing cold, the same one that had frozen him as he had come to the restaurant, had suddenly subsided causing his cape to obscure the shape again. The cape was tattered at the bottom: It had obviously been dragged across the floor, but it was still a cape that was worth owning as the rest of it was thick and full, though dark. The trousers matched his suit as his feet matched his clawed hands. They had two metallic talons out front, though no thumb talon, but the design was similar enough.
And we are back to the head, specifically the glowing eyes, the eyes that are focused above him at the young and just arrived Miss Starfire. Her own eyes were glowing green, and same colored energy exploded into being on her hands.
Mr. Suitclaw didn't much seem to fancy her arrival though. A growl and an incoherent roar later, and the man had jumped up, slashing with his talons. This seemed to touch a nerve in Star, as her face shifted a little, going from relatively calm to battle-ready aggressive. Charging up the bolts in her hands, she swung down and fired, but Mr. Suitclaw was quicker, and dodged every shot Star made, much to the surprise of the alien girl.
"I didn't know they were that quick..." She commented before she dodged the retaliatory slashes of the man.
"Didn't know who was what? Star?" Gar asked, wondering what she meant or even if she had said what he thought she what she said. He changed into a bull and rushed in at full speed, but Mr. Suitclaw just jumped, ignoring Gar totally as he pressed his attack against Starfire. Beast Boy had the lovely experience of charging into and then recovering from the shock of hitting a vent at full pelt, and he looked up at Mr. Suitclaw in indignation.
"Hey! What am I? Chopped liver?" He asked, changing into a bear and rushing back into the battle. Again he missed, and again he was ignored. "Dude, this has gone beyond funny."
"You need more for a laugh nowadays?" a voice said, and Beast Boy looked up into the smiling face of Cyborg.
"Because when we're through with him, he'll be one funny sight." Robin called, landing next to him. To complete the group, Raven appeared from the shadows, bringing her other half, Savior.
"Anyone we know?" the white haired teenager asked.
"Star might, I don't."
"Great. Going in blind. I LOVE improv." Savior said sarcastically.
And then they all charged. Savior slashed out with the Shimmer, the rope- shaped energy he commanded, slicing at the figure. Unfortunately, Mr. Suitclaw saw it just in time and dodged by jumping back. He grabbed one strand, slicing it with his claws, and Savior fell to the ground in a fit of pain, as he always did when the Shimmer was cut. That was the problem with metahuman talents linked to your nervous system.
"Okay, they're sharp..." Cyborg said softly, charging his sonic cannon, but trying to get a clear shot was harder than it looked because Robin and Beast Boy had also run into the fray. Robin extended his staff and slammed it down at Mr. Suitclaw, but the figure caught it and responded with a mean left hook that sent Robin into Beast Boy. The suited male had no sooner acquired his new weapon then he threw it as hard as he could into Starfire. Well that was clearly his plan, had it not been stopped by Raven's shield. The figure paused in a state of slight shock, and that was his first mistake as he was soon blasted by Cyborg off the edge of the building, a new expression on his face: pain. "HA! Booya mother...lucker!" Cyborg said, biting off the cruder version of the word. The Titans tried their best not to swear in front of Starfire, as she did not understand the curses, nor could she use them right.
"I think that was a tad bit of overkill Cyborg." Robin said, walking to the edge while rubbing his jaw. With a metal glove on, being hit hurt like hell. At least Mr. Suitclaw hadn't used his namesake, or Robin might have been a lot shorter then he was now.
"So? It got him off our backs didn't it?" Beast Boy countered.
"I suppose." Came Robin's reply.
"All right then, let's grab those Pizzas and go ho-"
Cyborg was cut off as Mr. Suitclaw made his grand return, jumping up and over the group, heading back for his original target: Starfire. This caught the group by surprise: they had not expected him to get up from a 23 story fall.
"Azarath, Metrion, Zinthos!" Raven shouted, throwing bricks at the aggressor. A few caught him, but it only slowed him down, and before she could find more he had already reached Starfire. He pulled out his own staff, this one with a blade on the end, making it more accurately a glaive.
Making a hand gesture that was out of the eye view of the others he attacked, lunging at the young woman with all the strength he had. She managed to block the non-bladed part of Suitclaw's weapon with her arm, dodging away from the follow up swipe. He jumped to catch her in the air, and she dodged again and fired off Star Bolts. Raven on the other hand, was hanging back with the other Titans as she tapped into her empathetic abilities to read the feelings of both parties, though only Mr. Suitclaws' mattered.
"So, what do you get?" Savior asked, looking at her.
"Lost, alone, confused." She replied, her hands under her hood, covering her temples. "But I do not sense an evil intent there. More along the lines of pure animal instinct, of survival, aimed at Starfire."
"Why Star?" Robin asked, concerned for the welfare of his girlfriend.
"That, I can't read." Raven replied, as the two battled on. Mr. Suitclaw drew back for a punch, but it may as well have been phoned in as Star quickly, and effortlessly uppercuted him, knocking him off his feet. Star followed up by firing her Starbolts again, but he rolled out the way and jumped up, Glaive in hand, ready to bring it down onto the skull of Starfire. It was lined up and devastatingly quick, and she could not have escaped in time.
If Cyborg hadn't shot him out of the sky with the sonic cannon at full power. And as bad as that was, the landing was worse, as Mr. Suitclaw went smashing through a wall, which finally rendered him unconscious. Cyborg stepped up and looked down at the fallen being.
"Ya think he's out?"
"For now." Was the reply from behind as all of the Titans conjugated around the fallen enemy.
"I say we take him to the cops and-" Cyborg was saying before he was cut off once again. Star had butted in this time, moving forward and lifting Mr. Suitclaw up from the ground, her normally innocent expression replaced with one of determination.
"What are you doing girl?!" Cyborg replied in indignation.
"I wish to interrogate him myself. We will take him back to Titan Tower."
"WHAT?!" Was the call from the males as Raven raised a brow.
"We WILL take him back to Titan Tower." She repeated as she flew off into the distance. Savior shrugged, and then stepped over to Raven, the two following by portal as the others looked confused.
"Dude, your girlfriend is crazy!" Beast boy yelled at Robin, jumping down to grab the Pizzas that had been waiting for a few minutes now.
"She's going to get us all killed. I can see that now..." Cyborg muttered, and then shrugged as he made his way over to the newly rebuilt T-Car, pulling out the keys to his 'baby' and disarming the security system.
Robin was also wondering what his girlfriend had on her mind, but obviously he wasn't going to know, not just yet.
Not just yet... He thought to himself as he made his way to the car, hearing the curses of Beast Boy being charged triple for the damage done to the roof along with the Pizzas. Price of being a hero I suppose...
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First chapter done! Hurray! Let's hope I can continue, as I mean to go on! But who was the man with the glowing eyes? Or the pair in the alleyway? We may have to wait for those answers...