Summary: Follow the adventures of Slack, Red, Lightlad, Tag, Blizkid and Sev members of the newly organized Teen Titans H.C defending Hallow City from the perilous dangers it faces day-in-day-out. They'll have to face an assorted array of villains including, A psychotic gang of street toughs led by a group of super powered teens, a deadly bounty hunter with a mysterious link to one of the Titans, a bloodthirsty werewolf willing to turn any one in his way into a midnight snack, and a multi billion dollar genetics corporation that's not all that it seems to name a few. But their most dangerous threats come from facing and overcoming each others assorted pasts as a team. Expect tons of guest appearances by the original Titans as well as other D.C. Comics heroes and villains.
Captain J.T. Wolfe (The Captain for short) here. After abandoning my last story due to a complete lack of original ideas (I'll admit working with a story I came up with in a half an hour wasn't that great of an idea to start with) I decided to start a completely (Or to my understanding) original story, centered around completely original places, heroes, villains and even, dare I say it, Plots (Which isn't to say I won't take old plots and give 'em a "Captain" twist you'll find out what I mean later).
Before I begin I want to get a few things straight, first off this isn't going to be exactly like the show, there will be more "Young adult" oriented situations, strong violence, killing and cursing to name a few, so if your easily offended by the word "Asshat", hate to see strong violence or be forced to read about mild blood and gut's I'd steer clear of this one. All in all I'd say it wouldn't be worse than a typical T-rated video game (T means 'Teen' for the ten of you out there who don't play video games), your average Rap "Song" or a normal episode of any 14-A rated TV Show (Sorry, us Cannuks don't have you're American rating system)
The second thing, I'm using the info from the show, not the comics, so I don't want you whining to me about things that don't add up with the comics, cause it's all made up baby, but if I made a mistake (which does happen, only rarely mind you) Please use proper grammar and polite conversing to tell me about my mistake, don't just write "Omg, that's not how it happened LOLZ" cause I'll just ignore you, which will make you feel like stomped out crap. If you do find any mistakes write something like "Dear Captain, I would like to inform you of your mistake, (insert problem here)..." and so forth.
Thirdly I'm not a big fan of fluff (Mostly because I grew up in a household where The Hills have Eyes and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre were 'family' movies and Freddy Krueger and Jason were my childhood heroes...but enough about my failed childhood) so don't expect a lot of cute bunnies and kittens popping up to often in the story, if your lucky I'll let there be some in later chapters but it's mostly going to be a straight forward Action/Adventure story with tons of humour, a truck load of Drama and an equal amount of romance in later chapters.
Fourthly (And hopefully lastly...is that a word, do people say "lastly", in real life?...sorry A.D.D.'s acting up again) I'm taking lessons from hit T.V. shows like Lost and...More Lost so expect tons of chapters that focus more on developing a characters...well character, if you're not a fan of Character Focused Drama's, then this might not be the story for you (I'm not saying that it'll all be a bunch of drama crap, There's a great deal of action in here, trust me. All I'm sayin is the focus on action won't be as great as the focus on drama...so if you can't live with that knowledge...well, like I said, this might not be the story for you)
Also I apologize in advance for any spelling or grammatical errors, I'm using WordPad until I can borrow Microsoft Word from my friend, so if you come across any try to ignore them and just keep reading, if I get Microsoft word I promise (with both fingers crossed) that the next chapter should be next to perfect in the word and language department, again, any misspellings or mistakes word related are all my fault but please try and read this with a grain of salt (Not literally).
Now for a quick legend of what wonders you'll find in this story.
(-)'s: Authors Notes for example (My feet have five toes)
Italic: Flashbacks, prologues and emphasised words. For Example (Three weeks ago, Robin walked outside only to realize he was in someone's crappy Legend Example) or ("We ain't goin' no where bitch")
'..': Thoughts. For Example ('Damn it's hot out' Nameless example character thought to himself.)
"..": talking. For Example ("This is a talking symbol" Nameless example character said)
Finally, a disclaimer: I don't own the Teen Titans, The Justice League, The Watchtower or any use of the above names or places, (Sadly) all those rights belong to D.C. comics. So please DC save you're lawyers a trip up north and accept my apologies for using you're characters in this story.
And Now After Much Delay On My Behalf, It Is My Great Honour to Bring You The First (Of Many) Chapters In This Epic Story...
Chapter 1: Three Months
Prologue
Three Months, that was the estimated time since they-the legendary: Teen Titans-along with The Titans East and nearly twenty Honorary Titans had defeated The Brotherhood of Evil, a group of super villains bent on world domination, as all villains of their calibre tend to be.
During this time The Titans had lain witness to many changes , for starters the city they were deemed to be protecting was at the time a mass of tarnished buildings and rubble, but that quickly changed when the Titans and Honorary Titans helped rebuild all that was once lost. Robin was amazed at how well the Honorary Titans had bonded, it seemed like they were a large family, which was what he had wanted ever since he had first organized the Titans.
He and Bruce had been like father and son, but like most kids and their parents they'd fought regularly, only here it was more than a fight for the car key's, or staying out late, theirs were usually fights over the loss of a criminal due to "Robins carelessness" or "Sloppiness" as Bruce often yelled.
Robin's constant fights with Bruce, plus his longing to get away from him and just go solo were two of the many driving factors for his leave of absence from Gotham City and Batman, a move which, unlikely as it may have been, had helped kick-start the Teen Titans. He owed a lot more than he could repay to Bruce, had Bruce been a softer guy, or a more devoted father figure, he probably would never have met the Titans let alone become their leader.
At one point he and Bruce had regularly communicated, but now with Robin being the leader of what was considered the largest superhero organization on the planet Earth-with the Justice League's Watchtower being located in space-and Bruce having joined the Justice League, the two rarely talked, something he took to heart, but like most of his problems tucked away deep inside himself.
The second thing to change, were the teams members. After hearing of Terra's 'Condition' Cyborg took it upon himself to find a cure for her supposed 'Amnesia' as Beast Boy had put it, this was, after all for his best friend. But halfway through his search Beastboy confronted him and told him plainly to "Give up", which, at first shocked Cyborg, as well as the rest of the team, though he later went on to explain to him and the others that if Terra wanted this life he wouldn't be selfish and interfere with it. His new boast of maturity surprised everyone, even Raven, who could hardly believe he'd thought of it, let alone said it. But than again it seemed like all the Titans had matured in their own ways.
Robin finally, to Speedy, Mas and Menos great disappointment, gathered up the courage to ask Starfire out on a date, though this came with a fairly surprising result as, at first Starfire misunderstood the term "Going out" and thought that they were to run away together which she flatly rejected, then when Raven, who seemed to be overjoyed by this new social development, explained the term to her she gladly accepted. The happy and very much in love couple would be celebrating their two month anniversary sometime in the next week. This was something that Robin talked about with great pride, as, in his own words, it wasn't every day you found that 'special someone'.
As for Raven, The others found that she seemed to daze off every time Beastboy was present, which surprised them, as, the only other time Raven had ever dazed off was at her short-term crush over everybody's favourite water loving teen: Aqualad, and since she'd confessed she no longer had any interest in him, this confused the team even further. Robin suspected something, but decided it was best to leave it and see what happened, though, if he left it for too long the opportunity to help with the two might be lost.
Also during this time a distressed goodbye was given to both Mas and Menos. Both teens were called back to their home country of Guatemala, due to the tragic passing of a relative and both had no choice but to stay there to help get there family back on there feet after the terrible loss, though they both made a promise to someday return to Steel City after all these things were resolved, and continue heroing, something Robin condoned and wished would happen sooner than later.
The Third event was the cause of much planning and even more frustration, during the three months the Titans had met more than ten new heroes, all of whom were given Honorary Titan status, this toppled with the fact that there were already at least fifteen other honorary Titans-Not including the three 'Pre-teen Titans' Tommy, Teether and Melvin, who would be living with the Titans in Jump City-with no where to go, forced Robin to come up with his latest plan, he along with public contractors were building multiple Titan towers throughout the U.S.A. each one in a city with a high crime rate and no heroes.
Currently Robin was holding a meeting for all Legitimate and honorary Titans in the newly built Titans Meeting Building. A building in the middle of Jump City's National Park, which was easily accessible by all Titans, this being the main driving factor of its construction.
This building was built solely for the purpose of holding meetings with the growing number of Titans; much like The Watchtower was built for housing all the Heroes who worked with The Justice League.
More than thirty heroes and heroines were gathered in the auditorium of the Titans Meeting Building, the large white building that was placed in the middle of the Jump City Park. The heroes and heroines sat on large comfortable chairs that faced opposite a large white wall with a large metal stage attached to the bottom of it and a small wooden podium located directly in the middle of the stage.
Each hero sat ripe with anticipation as to what they'd been summoned for, there were dozens of rumours flying around the room, one such rumour was that heroes might be either, promoted to the rank of Teen Titan, another was that, based on the events of the past few weeks, certain members might be 'fired' from being a Teen Titan, a fate, which for some, seemed worse than death, the final, and most popular rumour spreading around the room, thanks largely in part to a noisy Kid Flash who took the opportunity to spread it like wildfire-was that the Brotherhood of Evil had been resurrected from it's icy grave and reassumed their quest for world domination, this rumour excited many of the newer recruits who had yet to get a taste of 'real' action, as most recruits were looked at as 'weak' and were disallowed to join in on any of the Titans missions.
The auditorium the teens sat in was a large, mostly white room nearly sixty feet wide and forty feet high. The ceiling held several large, bright, florescent lights, as well as contained several dozen speakers across the walls, aside from the speakers along the walls, there were also several pictures painted on them, these included pictures of the five main Titans-Robin, Starfire, Raven, Beastboy and Cyborg-in heroic poses which were sprawled across the furthest right wall. The left wall held a mural of all the Titans and Honorary Titans in equally heroic poses. This mural held plenty of unpainted space that was to be left for the heroes who would be joining into their ranks later. The plan was to eventually have a wall sized mural of all existing members of the Titans, that future generations of Titans could admire and look up to.
As The Titans and Honorary Titans busied themselves with bickering and rambling with one another, talking about what was going on, who they thought would make good couples amongst the there ranks and most importantly when they could eat, the Titans, or rather Titans East, sat in the back of the auditorium, patiently awaiting their superiors instructions, or rather Bumblebee and Aqualad sat patiently, Speedy, on the other hand, sat twitchily and nervously in his seat.
"I swear if I have to wait one more minute" Speedy whined. One of the biggest differences between him and Robin was the fact that Speedy seemed to have A.D.D when it came to paying attention to something important like a mission briefing, whereas Robin was a straight forward, no distractions kind of guy, the kind of guy who could sit for the duration of a three hour movie without moving so much as once.
"Chill out" Aqualad said trying to calm Speedy down, the two had over time become some what good friends ever since Speedy apologized for 'The fist taco incident', an incident which, like various other incidents, had helped to strengthen their friendly relationship.
"Chill out? we've been here since like six" Speedy said in an irritated tone as he tapped his fingers on his wrist watch which displayed 6:05 with a bright green neon glow, Aqualad sighed and rolled his eyes.
Suddenly the lights dimmed and a bright light shone on the stage as Robin walked to the podium. The room was suddenly filled with cheers and whistles, onstage Robin turned a slight colour of red, something that rarely happened to him.
"Ahem" he spoke into the mike, his voice boomed through the several speakers aligned on the walls and ceiling filling the room with the sound of his voice, several members of the audience covered their ears with their hands in an attempt to delude the pain that his voice over the speakers caused.
"FREEBIRD!" Someone in the audience shouted which received a few immature snickers from the crowd; onstage Robin looked less than amused at this display of immaturity, he'd really expected The Teen Titans, who, for some, no longer needed the label of Teen due to their age, to act a little more maturely.
"Now that that's over-" Robin said, he waited a second then went on "-I've called this meeting to tell you all about our new plan" Robin said emphasizing the word 'our' because, as much as he'd like it to have been his own idea, he hadn't entirely came up with the idea himself. He'd gotten the inspiration for building multiple towers across the country from Starfire who said at one point during a recent trip to Gotham City, something along the lines of "Friend Robin would it not be great for there to be friends like us in every city?".
Onstage Robin shuffled his papers on his desk and cleared his throat, he was quite nervous and it showed on his face, which was enveloped in a large red blush, which made him look like he had an overly large rash across his face, though this couldn't be seen from offstage.
Using his left hand, he opened a drawer attached to the podium and pulled out a small laser pointer; he cleared his throat before speaking.
"Gentlemen if you would be so kind?" He asked as a large flat screen TV, nearly half the size of a movie theatre screen, was wheeled in by the duo of Cyborg and a large green tinted gorilla.
The two heroes pushed the TV into the middle of the stage before being stopped by Robin, who gave them a thumb's up, the signal allowing them the knowledge that it was placed perfectly. Both Cyborg and the gorilla took a break and relaxed on the TV, the gorilla stretched its arms in the air for a slight second before slowly reverting back into its original state, changing back into Beast Boy.
A few girls' screams of "He's so cute" could be heard causing Beast Boy's face change from a light green to a deep red, before he began scratching the back of his neck with his arm, attempting to hide his obvious discomfort, and embarrassment at their comment.
Behind the curtains of the stage, Raven, who had been watching the stage since the start of the show, felt a jealous blush quickly rush to her face. She raised her hood over her head in an attempt to hide it and silently walked off the stage.
Starfire, who had been busy staring at Robin, noticed her friend attempting to vacate the premises and chased after her in an attempt to find out why her friend was trying to leave when the 'show' had only just started.
"Friend Raven, where are you going?" she asked in her usually naive but caring voice, Raven tried harder to hide her blush, if there was one thing she didn't want it was any one to find out about her crush on Beastboy.
"I'm just going to...visit the garden" she lied, her face betraying what she'd just said as it held a nervous, jittery, look to it, Starfire was prepared to say something but before she could voice her statement, she saw her friend disappear in a large 'cloud' of darkness.
Starfire sighed to herself and returned her gaze to where it had been previously, on her boyfriend.
Back on stage an aggravated Robin stood getting more and more furious with each interruption that the crowd felt the need to make. He hadn't planned on the future defenders of America, and possibly the entire world, to act so immaturely and bratty. He was just about to quit his speech and leave them when he realized that by doing that he'd be sinking to their level, and that's what people like Speedy wanted him to do, no, he wouldn't do that, he wouldn't quit. Instead he put on a big smile, took a deep breath and began to continue his speech.
"Moving on" he said clearing his throat once again, this time to make sure they understood he was serious and several members looked like they understood he was, some even straightened themselves out in there chairs. "Cyborg if you could be so kind?"
Cyborg drew a white and blue remote from a small opening in his arm and aimed it at the T.V. before pressing down on the large red button located in the middle of the remote. The T.V. turned on to reveal a large, fully coloured, rotating globe. Several members of the audience engaged in a low pitched "Ooooooh's" followed by a series of equally low pitched "Aaaaaaaaah's".
As if he were expecting this Robin smiled and continued with his speech, which upset a large duration of the crowd, who'd expected him to burst a vain with their last charade.
"Now this is Earth" he said aiming the laser pointer at the globe. Pressing down on the small red button on it's flat surface, he armed the device, which shot out a bright blast of red light, that hit the tip of the globe, striking directly on a small name which read "Gotham City"
"No duh!" A member of the audience shouted, responding to the statement he'd made earlier. Like several times before, this immature act received a few equally immature snickers from the audience, all of which went without any attention from Robin, who, like he had done several times before, ignored the comment, and instead, gave Cyborg a head nod.
Cyborg pushed his finger down on a second button on the remote, this one a small blue button, an action which caused the view on the T.V. to zoom in at a rapid pace, zooming in past a series of digital clouds and onto the image of North America
"Now this is a colour coded map of the United States" Robin said, as the camera finished zooming in on the map, which displayed the entire country in a series of flashy, eye catching, colours.
There were three main coloured sections on the map, a light green area that took up a large section of the map, a light yellow area that took up a medium sized portion of it and a dark red that took up only a small fraction, there were also several blinking 'T's' located in different area's along the map, the majority of the 'T's' were placed on yellow area's, with two of the 'T's' located on a green area and only one on a red area.
Robin nodded again at Cyborg, Cyborg responded to this nod by giving him a thumb's up before pressing down on another button on the remote, this time the button brought to life a small legend, which prompted on the screen, the legend read:
Green: Small Crime Rate.
Yellow: Medium Crime Rate.
Red: Large Crime Rate.
Green Teams: Team 2 and 5.
Yellow Teams: Teams 3, 4 and 6
Red Teams: Team 1.
"As you can see from the legend, the green symbolizes little to no crime, the yellow symbolizes a medium crime rate and red indicates a high crime rate, the teams were strategically placed arou-" Robin said before he was interrupted by Speedy shouting "What's this all about?" as loud as he could, doing his best to irritate Robin. Robin who was easily angered by this took a deep breath in, trying his hardest to keep his calm and said as calmly as he could "-well if you could keep calm Speedy I can explain".
"Now the T's symbolize Titan Towers, each one has been strategically placed on this map, each one placed according to the rate of crime, seeing as how there are some where between 25 to 30 members not including the kids" Robin said referring to Teether, Tommy and Melvin, all of whom would be staying with the Titans in Jump City,
"I've divided you up into groups based on your individual skills and powers as well as how each one of you deal with crime. The teams are currently completed, but in need of minor alterations, which means, until those alterations are made, you will all be taking a break, in which time you're free to get lunch from the cafeteria, use the weight room for training, visit the garden, spar in the sparing ring or use any of the buildings other utilities, just don't go out of ear-shot of this building, your break begins now, make sure to keep your communicators on so we can contact you when the teams are made"
As soon as Robin was done the crowd quickly got up and out of their seats, each and every member heading for the doors, leaving Robin and the other 'Primary' Titans behind.
Content with his speech, which he found to be inspiration himself, Robin made his way to the back of the stage where Starfire was waiting patiently with a large smile on her face.
"Boy-friend Robin that was a most inspirational speech" she said as she wrapped her arms around his body, giving him one of her 'famous' bone crushing hugs. Robin's bones instantly cracked and his face immediately fell from a happy smile to a pain filled frown.
"Star...can't breathe" was all he managed to say before his chest, and the rest of his body, deflated like a balloon in her arms. Starfire giggled, innocently, and dropped him to the floor, his body crashing onto the floor harder than she'd planned for it to have, which she felt guilty for.
"I am sorry friend" she said helping him up to his feet, he was still extremely woozy and his body was spiralling in a dizzy fashion.
"Yo Rob, nice speech there man!" Cyborg said giving him a 'friendly' back slap, though, much like Starfire's earlier hug, his backslap had created somewhat unexpected results. Instead of filling Robin with a sense of pride the like he'd planned for it to have, the slap knocked the wind out of him and causing him to fall, once again, to the floor.
"Whoops guess I don't know my own strength" he said as he flexed his mechanical arms before bending over, and, with Starfire's assistance, helping Robin up to his feet.
"I don't feel so well" Robin said in an uneasy tone as he was raised to his feet, the duo of Starfire and Cyborg held him for a slight second, allowing him time to regain both his stamina and his posture, before releasing him.
"You don't look so good either" Beast Boy said, emerging in front of Robin from behind the trio, his face holding its signature toothy grin.
"You never look good grass stain" Cyborg shot at him in a joking manner, though Beast Boy seemed to have taken it more offensively than intended as, at the remark, Beast Boy childishly stuck his tongue out at Cyborg and muttered "At least I'm not a big ugly machine" under his breath.
"What was that?" Cyborg asked in an irritated tone, Beast Boy noted both the angered look he held in his human eye and the tone of his voice and planned his next move accordingly.
"I said..Maybe I should go get washing...detergent" he said sheepishly, Cyborg's frown increased, he wasn't buying what Beast Boy was selling and he knew it. Beast Boy gave another of his signature grins before rushing towards the exit at a speed that could rival Kid Flash's.
"You'd better run" Cyborg shouted at him as he started chasing after him, though, as soon as he was sure Beast Boy was far enough away that he wouldn't bother the three of them, he stopped chasing after him and turned around, heading back to the duo of friends he'd left behind.
"On the topic of the little green elf...has any one seen Raven?" Cyborg asked, obviously implying the 'relationship' between the two that, for reasons unknown to him or anyone else for the matter, everyone but the two could see.
Robin, too out of breath to speak, just shook his head from side to side, a sign meaning he had no idea where the young empath had traveled too.
"Friend Raven has retired to the garden of meditation" Starfire said recalling her earlier encounter with Raven, though neglecting to mention both the reason and state of mind in which she'd left, though this was due to her naive ness and not in any way a mean spirited act.
Robin smiled, he knew she'd be the first to use the Meditation Garden; he had made it with her in mind. He knew that, in the event that they should ever have to have call an emergency at the Meeting Place it would be best if there was someplace that Raven could meditate, collect her thoughts and regain her own piece of peace and quiet, and since the entire building would most likely be hectic with fright, he knew that the meditation garden was more than a good idea to have installed.
"Well friend shall we not get lunch?" Starfire asked as she grabbed a now no longer winded Robin by the arm and led him down the stairs, she was ready to head out the exit door towards the cafeteria when Robin gently shook off her arm.
"Sorry Star, I really have to finish these teams...but you two go ahead I'll catch up later" Robin said, breaking away from his friends and heading towards a large silver door marked "Robins Office", which, as the name obviously stated, was his own private office in the building, designed exactly to his liking.
"Then I shall see you later?" Starfire asked in a sorrow filled tone, she hated when Robin got into what the others called "Robin Mood's" where he'd ignore anything non-crime, or in this case, hero related and focus solely on that subject. Lately he'd been going into these moods less and less, which was a good sign, as she and the others believed, but the moods still did show up from time to time and each time felt like torture to poor Starfire.
"Sure Star..later I'm free" Robin said happily, for once he had little to worry about and with a low crime rate in Jump City he usually had the day off, hopefully today would be one of the days with no crime, a day where he could just kick back and relax, he liked those days, mostly because he got to spend them with Starfire, but also because they were a sure fire sign that he was winning the war on crime.
"Excellent shall we perhaps see a movie?" Starfire asked with her usual kind and gentle voice, she prayed internally that he'd answer with a "yes", though this was highly unlikely, but, still, if he could she would be more than overjoyed.
"Wouldn't miss it for the world Star" Robin said giving her one of his heart melting smiles, the same kind that he'd given to her time after time in the past, and, she had to say, it still held it's effects, as she found herself become extremely light on her feet.
"All right cut the mushy stuff you two, your gonna make me hurl" Cyborg said interrupting a generally romantic moment between the two, as he, and much more often, Beast Boy tended to do quiet often, more times than was deemed 'accidental'.
Cyborg gently grabbed Starfire by the arm and began dragging her down the hall, heading towards the underground cafeteria.
"See ya later Rob" he called back at Robin as he continued down the hall.
Robin sighed before entering his office, he had a long day ahead of him but at least he had something to look forward to at the end of it.
That's Chapter 1 for ya. Now it's time for The Captains crazy trivia.
Now, for the first of many Trivia
First things first, there are Seven teams in total accounting to about a total of 36 heroes (five on each team plus one for Team six, A.K.A. Team Hallow City or my team) but I assume Robin's not counting his team as a team in the factor, so I'm presenting it as teams 1-6 only, Team one refers to Bumblebee's team which is why hers is the only one in a red area.
This version of the Chapter underwent three (count 'em THREE) different revisions before i thought it was good enough (What can I say, I'm a harsh critic). The first time I had a new character taking the place of Speedy as comic relief, the second was pretty much the same but with the O.C. having a back-story partly introduced in this chapter, and the third with the teams already completed and present in this chapter.
And finally before all of you get mad at me for getting rid of Mas and Menos I'd like to explain why I did the dirty deed. First off I don't speak Spanish and translating it is a hard task (Not that that's the real problem) and Secondly it's got a lot to do with one of my characters back stories (You'll meet her next chapter), so I didn't do it because I'm extremely lazy...that's just half of the reason.
Next Chapter: As Robin prepares to finish creating the last of the teams he questions wheter the members of the final team are as good as he makes them out to be. Meanwhile six heroes go about their lives without the knowledge, that, at the end of the day, they'll be known as The Titans H.C.
