Teen Titans
Chapter 1: Hero's
"Raven!"
I jolt awake. I'm in my room. It was just a dream. Raven's fine. I think.
As the leader of the Teen Titans I have to make sure they all stay safe. I jump up and walk into the hall.
I reach Raven's door. Taking a deep breath I knock. She doesn't answer.
"Raven?" I whisper. I hear someone moving around in there. My hearts beating fast, what if its not Raven, what of someone's in there.
Just as I am about to open the door, it slides open. Raven looks at me with sleepy eyes.
"Is something wrong?" She asks. I just look at her for a moment. I'm glad she's ok, but, the dream was so real- "Everything's fine," I say. "Just making sure you're alright," Her eyes get wide.
"Why wouldn't I be?" She asks. I know I'll have to explain. "Robin?" she says with worry. "Uh, I don't know, I just thought something might be wrong, you're awfully quiet," That was lame.
"That's because it's nighttime, everyone's sleeping, so yes it's quiet," She says. I'm an idiot, why did I say that. "I think you're over tired, go back to bed," She slides her door closed and I sigh.
I walk back to my room and go to sleep.
...
"Good morning Robin!" Starfire lights up as I walk into the room. I smile at her. "Morning," I walk to the fridge and open it up. Then Raven walks in. I wonder if she still remembers what happened last night.
There isn't a very good chance she forgot, but I still hope.
"Did you sleep well last night Robin?" She knows. I sigh. "Yes, and you?" I ask pretending I don't remember. But somehow I think she knows I do remember.
"Pretty good," She smiles. I go back to looking in the fridge for something to eat.
"Hey! Robin!" I hear Cyborg yell from the living room. I close the fridge and walk over. "What is it?" I ask looking at the computer screen he's sitting in front of.
"Trouble," He says. "Someone broke into this bank here last night," Cyborg points to the city bank in the center of town. "Who is it?" I ask.
"That's the thing," Cyborg wheels his chair around to face me. "I've never seen him before," He turns back and clicks a link and a video pulls up. "I tapped into the security cameras and this is what I saw,"
The safe room is quiet. Then a bomb explodes. A man in black comes running in. He puts something on the main vault and then hides in a corner. The vault door blasts open and he rushes in. "And look," Cyborg pauses the video just as the man is escaping.
"He didn't touch any money he just took this," He closes the video link and pulls up a picture of a green pig-like figurine. "Hmm," I ponder this. A new criminal in town, comes and steals a little figurine. The question is why.
"Do we know where he went?" I ask. "Well, the outside cameras show him jump in a car an head east," I think a minute. "We need to know what he's planning, what is that figurine made of?" I ask.
"I did some research and I found this,"
Cyborg pulls up a picture of a newspaper article. I begin reading it aloud as the others walk into the room.
"'Meteor lands just outside Jump City' a meteor?" I ask. "Yeah, and after examining it scientists found green crystal-like things on the inside," Cyborg says and pulls up a picture of a giant rock that's cut open revealing the green crystal he spoke of.
"They auctioned it off in sections, a Chinese man bought the biggest section and made several of these statuettes, after he died the figurines disappeared and started showing up in different places around the world, there are two of them here in Jump City, and at least 27 more in the world,"
"Are they valuable like diamond and other precious stones?" I ask. "Yeah, they're real expensive," Cyborg says.
"Then he'll probably want to sell them on the black market," I get a plan. "We check every black market and catch him in the act," I say. Cyborg gets a weird look. "What?" I say.
"Well, I'd have to go on an illegal website to check for all the black markets in Jump City," He says.
"It's ok, it's for a good cause, also, see if you can find out where this other figurine is located," I say as I head out.
"Where are you going?" Starfire asks. "To the scene of the crime, to pick up any clues," I step in the elevator and the door closes.
...
"I'd just like to have a look around," I say to the guard. "Ok kid, go ahead," He stands aside and I walk into the bank.
First thing is to figure out how he slipped the bombs past security. I take a look around. When you walk through the doors strait ahead is the main desk where you wait in line to do whatever it is you came for. To the left is an office, next to that is a hallway, I walk over and look in. At the back wall is a bathroom, and along the sides are more offices.
I walk back to my spot at the door. To the right, against the wall are some chairs and a table with a plant, on the far right wall is a large room with glass for walls. But it's dark. The shades are down. I walk over and have a look inside.
This must be a conference room, there's a large oval table with chairs all around. In the corner is a door. It's just a closet though, there's another door that leads to the main vault. It looks like it had a pretty good lock and security code, but the door lays sideways because of the bomb. I step inside, as I do I hear the crunch of debris under my foot. The whole rooms a mess. Pieces of the walls lay everywhere and the vault door is busted.
I walk over. It looks like it was made of steal, and painted gold, but now it was stripped of the paint and dented in many places.
What kind of explosives did he use on this thing? And why would he steal the statue to sell it when he could've just taken the money and not gone through all the trouble of finding a black market and all the waiting? Maybe he has some other purpose for the figurine.
But what could it be? Maybe he was the grandson of the old Chinese man who made them and they were just sentimental to him. That seemed unlikely.
So what was it? Something flickered in the corner. I walk over I see what it is.
A small round metal thing. "Looks like our culprit left something behind," I say as I grab it. It has a hole in the center, like a ring. Around the edging are words.
'Die Legende von Masse'
I'm not sure what that means. But I'll have to find out. I put the disk in my belt pocket and continue searching.
...
"Robin?" I look up to see Starfire standing in the doorway of my room.
"Yes?" She looks away and rubs her arm nervously. "I-I am worried," She says. "Why are you worried?" I get up from my desk and walk over to her.
"All the others have gone to see that the second statuette is not stolen," She says. Her beautiful green eyes have on a pleading look. "And that worries you?" I ask with a smile.
"You are here alone," She looks deeply into my eyes. "What if someone breaks in, would you like to go with them to the Jade Quan?" I laugh a little and put my hands on her shoulders.
"First of all, I'm not alone," I say. "You're here," She smiles a little. "Second, no ones gonna break in, we've got a good security system, and besides I'm a good fighter, and third, I've got to stay here and work on this disk clue," She nods.
"I shall stay," She smiles proudly. I walk back to my desk and she follows. "I need to get on the computer and see what language this is written in," I say. "Would you run down to the basement and get the LTD?" Starfire nods and flies away.
Sometimes I wish I could fly.
I walk to the living room and get the computer ready. Starfire quickly comes in with the LTD. "
"Robin?"
"Yes?"
"I have never known before, what does LTD mean?" I plug in the LTD and then explain. "It stands for Language Translation Device," She gets a look of wow and says, "Brilliant,"
It's done loading so I open the file. "Alright, it's searching for which language this is written in." I wait patiently. Finally it's discovered.
Die Legende von Masse translated means-
I read the screen. Suddenly the screen goes blank. "What-" The electricity goes crazy. Lights are flashing the screen is going nuts.
I jump out of the chair and push Starfire back. "Robin what is happening?" She asks frightened. "I don't know!" I yell above the electrical noises.
The tower begins to shake. I don't know what's going on. Quick as a flash I pull Starfire down and cover us with my cape. The roof caves in and I feel it hit my back. We're buried.