Author's note: This won't be usual, but I wanted to do one just for now.
Hello, my first TT fanfic, and im must say I'm very excited. Anyway, this story is just based off what's gone through my head using DC comic characters, so no ownership. Speaking of DC comics, I'm going to be using a LOT of their characters, some even from the New 52. So if I mention someone you don't know, do a quick google search. These guys are interesting.
I also know a lot of you are looking for romance. Oh, there's romance all right, but there is gunna be a lot more. Family issues included and secret identities included. It's not going to be fast paced, and well, no promises. I'm going to try something different. It's up to you if you like it. I'd appreciate a review letting me know what you think.
Thanks for reading! Now, the story.
~Mundane Life~
Red X glided through the shadows into an alleyway. In the distance, a dog barked riotously, and a car's engine revved somewhere nearby. He was suffering from a abysmal, mind-numbing disease that had been plaguing him for the last couple of weeks consistently.
Boredom.
Yes, he could go on a heist right now. He could race his motorcycle through the streets for entertainment. He could slip into a bank vault and make some easy cash. He could even go down to the docks and strip the loading boats for what their worth while the sailors got drunk. He was Red X after all, master thief, shadow in the night. He could do whatever he wanted. He was a free spirit. No worries in the world.
Well, apart from the Titans.
He wasn't truly worried about them. They always were more off a nuisance than of a road block for him. Every so often they were a great source of entertainment, principally when Red X succeeded in getting beneath Bird Boy's feathers.
He soundlessly ascended to the roof of a tall brick building. At the top, he saw a black and white cat sitting on the edge, looking just as bored as he was. The cat looked at him with big blue eyes as he stood up straight and stared down the quiet streets of jump city.
"You too, huh?" He says to the cat. It just quietly stares him down until the cat elects Red X is no threat and begins licking it paws.
It wasn't that Red X had begun disliking messing with the Titans, nor of larceny. It was just the routine had become so…mundane. When he had left Gotham city and his past life behind, he had come here for two very specific reasons. One of them had been to put some color in his life. No matter how much Batman preached that "the World is Black and White and we've picked the right side" shit, he knew it wasn't like that. But now it seemed like he couldn't get away from the clear cut picture. He needed to find something off the painting easel, something beyond the boundaries the superhero-assholes set, something that wasn't defined as good or bad.
Absolutely anything.
He made a frustrated sigh and turned to leave. Suddenly, there was a deafening crash from the boulevard. The cat hissed and shot of the ledge and down the fire exit. Red X glanced down into the street. The first thing he sees is Bird Boy's motorcycle racing down the street. Behind him, Cinderblock races after the motor cycle, causing colossal footprints in the road and the building Red X was standing on shudder.
Above cinderblock, Red X sees the very attractive alien and a green pterodactyl carrying the giant robot chasing the giant oath from above. Starfire is throwing her green starbolts at Cinderblock's head while Cyborg blasts him from behind.
Robins swerve's his cycle to face Cinderblock, who was now slowing down from the attacks from behind, kicking up a line of street dust in its wake.
Robin yelled something inaudible to Red X. He was ready to leave but about thirty feet above robin, a black hole opened. Out of it came the purple-haired sorceress, another member of the tot team.
Raven.
Red X had never really paid her much mind. Flirting with Bird Boy's love interest was usually more fun. But tonight she had caught his eye. Her hood was down, and the long purple hair she sported started to float as her lips moved and the dark power surrounded her fists.
Red X couldn't stop himself from pondering the reasons behind why the sorcerous took orders from Feather Brain. Her power and strength were no secret, and the media and many villains on the streets of Jump had deemed her the strongest of all titans. What happened with Dr. Light had been no secret to the city, and it was enough to strike fear in the hearts of any 'evil-doers'. She could lead the Titans, hands down. Hell, she could probably take over the world. Why have someone tell her what to do and how to use her strength?
Cinderblock let out an angry yell and raced forward. Raven created a large dark shield protecting her and Boy Wonder from Cinderblock's heat of moment attack. Raven then blasted him with what seemed like an overdose of black magic that threw him a hundred feet back.
Cinderblock fell back, straight into a glass office building, tearing the bulk of it down. Red X watched as raven gracefully landed on the ground. The three previous titans who had been in the air followed. Red X noticed Robin looked irate, and it seemed it all concentrated on Raven. She seemed to not care, and shrug him off as sirens were heard in the distance.
Red X turned to leave. The show was over, and he didn't want to be around when the cops showed up. He couldn't help but think Raven would be better off leaving her team. She was too strong to live such a mundane life of a superhero. It might look glamorous, but someone, if not a whole group of people, were always on your ass for something. She was too powerful to reign it all in and be forced to live for the satisfaction of 'saving the day'. He could never believe that someone like her saw the world in black and white.
The dog he heard earlier continued to bark in the distance. Still wondering what he was going to do for the rest of the night, Red X slipped back into the shadows of the alleyway, and disappeared into the darkness.
Break*****
The Titans enter the commons room in the tower. She could feel Robin's readiness to start his lecturing radiate off of him like sunbeams. Raven rolls her eyes. Here it comes.
"Raven," Robin starts. "We should-."
"No, Robin," she blue-penciled his inevitable reprimanding. It was almost four in the morning and Cinderblock had been the third call of the night. She honestly just wasn't in the mood to hear it. "I understand."
"I don't think you do." He crosses his arms, and through his mask her stares her down with harsh intensity.
Starfire stands next to Robin and places her hand on his shoulder. "Please, Robin, do not be so upset with friend Raven. She did defeat the Cinderblock."
Beat Boy nodded in agreement. "Yeah, dude. So what if she destroyed some political office building in the process?"
Robin's glare behind the mask intensified and Cyborg shook his head. "Not helping Grass Stain."
"What makes me angry Raven is that we had a plan, Raven. One that didn't include taking out another capital building." He brushed Starfire's hand off of his shoulder and moseyed up to Raven, stopping only half a foot from her face. Robin had grown about a foot taller over the past year, and anyone else, with his muscles-in-progress rippling under his suite as he glared would be quite intimidating, but it only infuriated Raven more than she had already been this evening. "You need to understand we need to cut down on our damages. City bureaucrats have been on our asses for months. After what happened at city hall the fines were through the roof, and the media-"
Raven cut him off right there. She did not want to hear about the media from Robin. The publicity side of being a superhero was probably the worst of it all, despite what mundane people think, and it was far from glamorous.
"Alright," she hissed through gritted teeth. "It won't happen again. Now drop it." She step aside and strained to move around her leader, but he grabbed her forearm to stop her. Raven was close to the boiling point. It was taking all her will not to shoot him into the glass windows across the commons room.
"No, we are going to talk about this," he insisted.
"Robin, you have… exactly three seconds… to let go of me…" She said it in her usual monotone voice, but there was a slight quiver, one warning of a coming wrath only she could unleash, and she wouldn't hesitate to do so either.
Starfire, Beast Boy and Cyborg both stared in interest and fear, most of it for Robin's life. Raven wasn't joking, and the stare down between the two had cranked the tension past the max. Any more of it and the tower would crumble, leaving nothing but shards of glass in its wake.
Robin stared Raven down, who continued her stance unwavering, expecting him to take the smart road and let go. He thought about the risk, and for a mere split second, he wanted to take her up on the challenge. Then, he took a deep, throaty outbreath and let go.
Raven was more or less dissatisfied with the results. She found herself hoping that maybe Robin would have hung on, and she would be justified in taking out her anger on him.
Everything happens for a reason.
She wrapped herself in her blue cloak, her soulself surrounding her hood as it floated up over her hair, and she gracefully floated up the stairs and left the room without any further words exchanged between her teammates.
Break****
Bumble Bee sat in the recliner Titan's East main room. Wrapped in a yellow and black robe, her hair was up in a messy bun, she could feel her green face cream starting to crack. She was exhausted, and really peeved. She looked at her watch, it was ten minutes until midnight, and Aqualad still hadn't shown up. He'd been gone since dinner, and her small amount of concern had turned into full blown worry mixed with anger. This disappearing act had been happening way to much over the last six months. This had already been the third time in two weeks. Tonight he had even missed a battle with the Scarecrow, and in the process of his absence she'd hit her head during battle. Now she had a bump on her forehead and an insistent headache.
She winced as she heard a crash. Mas and Menos were playing speed tic-tac-toe on the large whiteboard in the room near the windows that out looked into the Chesapeake Bay. Mas had bounced off the board and landed on the light blue counter that held an Bumble Bee's zigzagged pattern vase, which had being a moving gift from her grandmother.
"Mas! Menos!" She yelled, the frustration evident in her voice. "Stop it right now! Do you guys have to destroy everything?"
"Es culpa Menos!" Mas yelled, pointing at Menos.
"No lo es!" Menos yelled back, jumping off the table and getting in Mas's face. "Me empujaste!"
"No, yo no. Estás mintiendo!"
"No, no lo soy!"
"Si, lo eres!"
Really? She thought. "I don't give a rat's foot who started it or who pushed who. Clean up the mess and be quiet!" Her headache had grown ten times worse. She debated asking Boy Wonder for a vacation.
"Todavia es tu culpa," Mas mumbled.
"No, no lo es," Menos grumbled back.
Bumble Bee closed her eyes. "I don't want to hear it."
Just then the sliding doors opened. Bumble Bee popped her head over the recliner and saw with distain that Speedy walked in without Aqualad.
"Guessing you had no luck," she said, looking away.
Speedy walked over to her and shook his head. "Nope, not at all." His eyes swept across the room and noticed the tipped over table and glass all over the floor. "Geez, Mas and Menos, can't you two go a day without breaking something?"
Bumble Bee shifted in her chair and stood up. "That's what I said. Listen, maybe we should-" but she was cut off by the sliding doors opening again. There stood Aqualad, as he silently strolled in the room, a big smile on his face.
"I'm glad you're full of sunshine," Bumble Bee hissed.
Aqualad glanced around the room with his blackened eyes. "Hey, I didn't think you guys would be up this late. Was there a call?" He looked Bumble Bee up and down then smiled. "Don't tell me you're going out there like that." He joked.
"This is no time for joking!" she yelled. "For your information we did have a call earlier. So, do you mind telling us where in the world have you been!" She yelled.
He put his hands up. "Hey, calm down. I didn't know."
Just then, Mas and Menos ran up to Aqualad, eyes twinkling. Mas held a dust pan in his hand, and Menos held a short hand broom. "Senor Aqualad!"
"Hey, Hermanos! Clean up the mess, now!"
Both of them looking quite frightened, they nodded. "Si, Senorita Bumble Bee." They raced off and began cleaning their mess.
Bumble Bee turned her attention back to Aqualad. "This disappearing act needs to stop!" She scolded. "You have a commitment to this team, and the people of this city. This ain't no joke, Aqualad. Take it more seriously or you won't be finding yourself smiling for much longer." With that, Bumble Bee turned and left the commons room.
Aqualad shook his head and smiled at Speedy. "Damn, she's scary when she has that green slime on her face, huh?"
Speedy sighed. "Dude, you really ought to stop. Tonight was rough without you." Aqualad turned and walked into the kitchenette, pulling out a leftover hot dog and starting eating it cold. "And Bee is gunna catch on to what you're up too eventually."
Aqualad glanced and the two short brothers picking up shards of glass. They were bickering and in their own little world. "You haven't said anything, right?"
Speedy shook his head. "Of course not, but I don't want to be involved in this."
Aqualad finished the hot dog and yawned. "It isn't that big of deal."
"It is when you're gone during a battle, or during practice."
"Okay, I won't miss anymore," he turned and headed for the exit.
"Promise?"
Aqualad waved his hand dismissively. "Promise." He disappeared behind the closing doors.
Behind him, Speedy heard a loud crash.
"Mira lo que hiciste!"
"Yo no lo hice! ¡Lo hiciste!"
"No, yo no lo hice!"
"Sí que lo hizo!
Speedy sighed and rubbed his temples. He wondered what Robin would say if he put in for a vacation?
