Chapter 1: An InterRealityCrossover
"TITANS GO!"
Robin yelled the catchphrase, jumping towards Control Freak. "Don't let him escape into the TV with that device!" Control Freak summoned several monsters with his suped-up remote, filling the room with fighting. Starfire smashed one's jaw, Raven hurled objects at another. Beast Boy crunched a monster in T-rex jaws, Cyborg sonic cannoned a few and Robin slashed at Control Freak. The TV related villain backed into the altering reality technology. "I will triumph!" Freak screamed, smashing the red button on the top. Starfire gasped as a white light overtook the room and a vortex sucked her into the device. "Starfire!"-Robin grabbed her wrist, pulling against the vortex. He felt his feet slipping and Raven latched energy around him, while Cyborg and Beast Boy grabbed onto the body chain. "Grghhh!" Robin's eyes widened as his arm disappeared into the white vortex. In the resemblance of a lost tug-o-war, Raven and then the rest of the Titans were yanked into the unknown. Robin thought, Not again.
Raven's head cleared and took in the surroundings, she was in a cave? with a giant tube attached to the roof? "Yaay, good job Robin on that not opening a portal in reality plan." Raven looked around seeing a white and red costumed kid and "Beast Boy is that you,.. as a monkey?"
The green monkey-man stared confused, "You just popped out of thin air, and do I know you?"
Raven impatiently responded, "We were sucked into the TV world by Control Freak remember? I'm your teammate, Raven."
"Er, noted, but not understood."
Raven stepped forward and a white flash delivered- Beast Boy? The purple dressed green shapeshifter's mouth dropped "Gah!" gaping at the green monkey boy in front of him "who are you!"
"Beast Boy, but WHO ARE YOU?"
Raven covered her shocked face, "I'm getting the feeling I need to intervene."
A white panel opened underneath the two titans and they both fell through, Beast Boy bumping his head against a brick alleyway. Raven waited for his eyes to stop swirling and walked into the street. What was this place now? The tan colored street was lined with various green roof tiled shops in varying degrees of run-down. The people were all dressed similarly in worn frocks and different shades of brown and green. "I'm starting to think green is a theme here."
Beast Boy poked his head from beside her, "Dude! Cool!" He ran off into the town street.
Raven almost slapped her head before telekinesizing Beast Boy back into the alley.
"Raven! What was that for?"
"In case you happened to not notice, the people here aren't green."
"Doesn't mean they won't love me."
Raven deadpanned her voice and eyes "Right. Before I end up stuck here with you we need to find the rest of the team to figure out how to get back to reality."
"Hehe, makes sense" Beast Boy nodded and goofily smiled "find the team." He flipped out his communicator, it didn't work. "These things work in the middle of the Pacific Ocean!" He slowly turned his wide green eyes on Raven, "You know what that means right?" gasping like a fish out of water Beast Boy delivered his exclamation like the plot twist of the century. "WE'VE BEEN DIGITALIZED!"
Raven choose to simply study the area, "So," Beast Boy had unfortunately recovered from his brief shockful silence and of course, interrupted Raven's train of thought. "I have a TV show about me."
"No" Raven responded exasperatedly, correcting him "an alternate form of yourself is part of some TV show." Raven flew to a roof and crouched.
"Killjoy" Beast Boy grumbled. Moving into her personal bubble on the roof he asked "seen them yet?"
Raven studied the street and watched a person holding a large basket turn down their alleyway. "I've been looking for mere seconds" Raven said with undisguised irritation. "But" her eyes narrowing at the teenage boy in the alleyway "I found our information source." She dropped down, covering her face with her hood. "Hello, can you tell me where I am, I'm lost." Raven was pleased when Beast Boy stayed a falcon, then unpleased when he landed on her shoulder. Ignoring the claws, she turned expectantly towards the basket carrying teenager.
"We're in sector 12."
Well that helps Raven sarcastically thought, she continued anyways, "Uh we're travelers." Glancing to her right, "my falcon and I."
The boy eyed her suspiciously "this is the 12th sector of the lower ring of Ba Seng Se."
"That's nice... do you have a map?"
He shook his head and left.
Beast Boy changed back leaving his arm draped on Raven, "maybe we should've tried some form of mental manipulation" he dramatically circled with his right hand.
Raven flicked his arm off with her's and layered on her customary sarcastic voice of annoyance, "You found enough neurons to say a five-syllable word and somehow your first logical solution was mind reading."
Beast Boy puffed with pride, "Yea and that's not the only" he started counting syllables on his fingers, "in-no-va-tive" looking at only four green fingers, "-ly", Raven smirked, "thing that I can do."
"Still can't pick up on sarcasm, can you."
"Sarcasm?..." Beast Boy's eyebrows dropped, "Why do you feel the need to do that?"
Mainly for my own enjoyment, but also slightly for your torture, Raven internally answered.
Suddenly, a blinding white light burst in front of the two dysfunctional teens, Raven covered her eyes, "I am getting tired of this scalding bright light." Raven said in annoyance.
Beast Boy was much more enthusiastic, "Dude! It's Star!"
Raven lowered her hand, "Starfire?"
"Beast Boy! Raven! How good it feels to find familiar faces!"
"Where did you go Star? Raven and I saw my own inter-reality TV show."
"There were these colorful masked people who called themselves superheroes like us, but they were very strange, one was armored in red and gold metal and another was a green monster that nearly smashed me!"
"Dude cool! You got attacked by aliens!"
"I believe it was to be accidental. And you are of Earth, and you are green as well."
"Phssh.." Beast Boy soothed, "it's tech-ni-cal-i-ties"
Raven laughed. Ok, no she didn't, I have a reputation to maintain. But it was close.
"Where are we?" Starfire craned her neck around the alley's wall. Raven and Beast Boy shoved each other to glimpse some commotion at the end of the street.
"What'da think it is?"
"If you were quiet maybe we could find out."
The eavesdropping titans listened in on the incident. It appeared that several residents were being pushed over by red clad people. "Hands behind your heads, the Fire Nation doesn't allow protests."
Starfire gasped as a woman was hit with a pole. Starfire flew out throwing a green starbolt which collided with the red/black (an obviously evil design) dressed, "Zolworg Zarbmarker!"
"Oh snap." Beast Boy covered his mouth and moved close, as if whispering a secret to Raven, "Star only calls anyone a Zolworg Zarbmarker if she's pissed! I would know."
Raven, still looking straight, spread her fingers and pushed Beast Boy's face to arms length. "I never doubted that area of your limited expertise." Raven said with a stoic drawl.
Beast Boy transformed into a falcon and scampered up her arm and onto her shoulder. Raven's eyebrow twitched, grabbed Beast Boy who squaked, and held a certain green falcon by its feet, upside down. He transformed back, landing on his head with a painful "Ouch."
In the street Starfire upturned a rhino and threw it into a second one. A clash of green starbolt overtook a red flame and knocked the last criminal on his evil butt. People started taking up cheers at Starfire's annihilation. Floating above the crowd she smiled, "You are much of the welcome citizens of this town."
"Starfire." Raven said.
"Starfire. Starfire, we need to stay hidden."
"I don't think she can't hear you Raven."
"Starfire!"
Beast Boy grinningly laughed, "Are you allergic to shouting? Here." Beast Boy sucked in an expanse of air, "STAR-FIRE!"
Starfire patted the young child she was talking to on the head and traveled in the direction everyone was now staring at.
"Congratulations." Raven said with an exasperated sense of irritation. "Now everyone knows we're here."
"Hehe." Beast Boy smiled widely and scratched his neck, "RUUUNNNN!"
"Feww." Beast Boy looked around "ok guys I think we're in the clear."
An old woman besides a house door called to the three strangely dressed kids, "You are the girl who fought back there?" the old woman said looking directly at Starfire.
"Yes, and who may you be?"
"I'm a old woman who despises what happened to our kingdom." She grunted moving through her house door, "You three must be new here. Come on in and I can give you a place to stay tonight."
The Titan trio followed the old woman into her house and graciously consumed an exorbitant amount of soup. "You three sleep wherever." The old woman soon left inexplicably.
In suspicion Raven looked around, "Starfire, Beast Boy, get up. We aren't staying here tonight."
Beast Boy started whining, "Why? And who appointed you leader."
"We have no idea where we are and a suspicious old lady just took us in with no explanation.
"Where exactly are we supposed to sleep then?"
"It is true we do not have another venue to reside inside."
Minutes later they were back outside in the same alleyway they began. "We gave up a bed to sleep here!" Beast Boy groaned. Starfire collapsed onto the earth, yawned, and instantly fell asleep. Beast Boy transformed into a dog circled the ground three times and layed next to Raven, who was hovering in meditation. As she drifted off, Raven thought, we need a plan.
Beast Boy felt very comfortable. Laying back in Titan's Tower with a soft pillow under his head… He yelped. His head was resting on Raven's thigh and he somehow transformed back into his human self during his sleep. He crashed into some metal barrels, and the clangs awoke Raven from her slumber.
Raven stared at his guilty face, "What did you do?" She brushed herself off.
"Nothing! Why does everyone suspect me first for everything?" Beast Boy suddenly straightened, "Where's Starfire?"
"I know she went to find a bathroom last night…" Raven flew onto the surrounding roof, eyeing the street below, "She's gone."
"Maybe Star got lost?"
Raven crossed her arms, "Or kidnapped."
Cyborg rubbed his aching head. Remembering the earlier fight, "That couch potato Control Freak has it in for himself." Three shadows walked into the dark red room.
"Well, what do we have here?"
Cyborg focused on the central girl who spoke. She had an evil glint in thin yellow eyes, flanking her was one bored looking girl and another walking on her hands.
She raised a hand and a flame blasted from thin air, "You came with that fool?"
Cyborg jumped up raising and readying his sonic cannon for a fight.
"I don't like being ignored, talk." She commanded, looking interestingly at the sonic cannon which just replaced his robotic arm.
Something is wrong here, Cyborg thought. "I got pulled from my world into the TV." Cyborg collapsed the cannon feeling he got off on the wrong foot and would need their help to get back to reality, especially since they ran into Control Freak. "I need your help, and I'm not your enemy."
"No, but we are."
Cyborg couldn't believe what happened next. Tendrils of lightning followed the girl's fingers into a bolt which collided with his robotics. The last thing he remembered was seeing a pair of shoes as his internal computer went into emergency shutdown.
I have looked into Avatar/Teen Titan crossovers and been overall left disappointed. I set out to create my own, and instead of the two worlds being one for the crossover's purposes, the Titans are fitting into another reality. One where war, bending, and villains lurk. Enjoy. TwistedTwizzler.
