The Iron-Fisted Rulers of Jump
Chapter One: Where the path's begin to split.
Prologue
Jump City Prison. One of the most secure prisons in the state. Very, very few break-outs happen in this place. Tonight however someone is breaking in. Smoke pours from the outerwall and shattered from entrance, and if that isn't enough, also from a spot on the bridge that leads to the complex. Klaxons and sirens blare. Three guards run it through the entrance, guards 1, 3 and 8.
"Code red! Cellblock Nine! Move out!" Guard number 1 cries with much alarm. If they let this happen, They would have his head- quite possibly for dinner. The other two followed his orders and Guard One brang up the rear. They run for a short distance then slow down so they're walking, weapons ready for what may come. "Main yard secure." He breathed in relief.
A huge mass was thrown in front of them, rolling a bit. "There she is!" Guard Three, also known as "Captain Obvious", pointed out loudly. They advanced on it.
"She'll free the he- criminals!" Guard 8 said, altering his sentence before he said treason. The leveled their weapons at the freedom fighter.
"Fire!" Guard one cried out. Their target has already bashed a large hole through the wall of the cellblock and is on the way in—she threw part of the torn-out section at them. Seen from the back, this creature was at least ten feet tall, very blocky, and appears to be built entirely of concrete. We have just met the heroine Cinderblock, known by friends as Cindy. Laser blasts from the guards strike the edges of the hole she has made, while a few connect with her back and others fly past. She turns to them, revealing an equally blocky face with small red eyes. The shots are having no discernible effect on her. Voicing a grating roar, she raises one massive foot and stomps the ground; this produces a long fissure that throws debris and dust into the three guards' faces to spoil their aim
Cinderblock continued to inside the cellblock. She was moving as fast as she could, but froze at the voices which rang ominously through the air.
"You know, ugly bitch, most of you stupid rebels break out of jail." Beast girl sneered. Her blue halter top and skirt lined with yellow went nicely with her forest green hair and skin.
"Hehe, I can think of-heh- five hilariously excellent reason why you don't-heh- want to break into our-hah- jail." A girl with an unnatural grin, blond hair in an 80's hairstyle with much hairspray said through snorts of laughter. Her clothes consisted of a green tank top with two eyes on her chest and a creepy grin on her stomach. Her pants were black and yellow and her boots red Ugg boots. Her red bra straps were out enticingly. A belt was on her hips stylishly tilted down. A small chain ending with a grinning charm went with a metal crooked collar.
This girl, Giggles, let out a sharp laugh and jumped across the floor, landing in a crouch. "Heh, one!" She called.
A boy with a Mohawk flies over to Giggles, landing next to him with hands glowing with green energy. "Two!" RedStar calls, his baggy jeans showing off his grey boxers and his short yellow shirt displaying his rock-hard abs. He had a metal band around his neck and the word "Death" tattooed on his left arm.
A green tiger lunges to the two. When she comes down, she's back to her human form, Beast Girl. "Three!" She declared, tossing back her hair.
Crow drops down, his hands exuding black energy. Red eyes glow from the shadows of his hood. Four red eyes. All of him, except for this, his pale lower face and hands is covered in his navy blue hood and cloak. "Four!" His dry voice called, ready for combat.
Cybourne, the shapely cyborg jumps in. She yelled "Five!" with a smirk on her face, cornrow braids flying back.
The Titans, cruel rulers of Jump City, stand ready for battle now.
"No matter how you do the math, it all-heh- adds up to you going down. Hah, math. I crack myself up! So, are you going to go quietly…" the giggling girl looked to Cybourne.
"…Or is this going to get loud?" Cybourne completed. Cinderblock roared her fury and barreled towards them.
"Titans! Go!" Giggles called to the rest of them. They charge, BG becoming a hawk, flying behind Crow and RedStar. Yelling their battle cries, the five villains and the oversized hero hurtle towards one another.
Act One
Giggles lands a solid kick to their enemy, staggering Cinderblock. Cinderblock turns around just in time for two starbolts in the back, courtesy of RedStar. Cybourne aims a right hook, and although old Cindy caught it, she is still driven back by the impact.
Beast Girl dove in, raking her talons across the concrete foe time and again, Cinderblock running away to escape the merciless Beast. Crow puts himself in her path, levitating a section of the floor, tilting it up until it stands vertical. He rose up and out of danger mere secounds before Cinderblock smashes through the concrete to the other side. Giggles, Cybourne and RedStar rush him.
A giant backhand leaves only RedStar still going, Cybourne and Giggles being slammed to the ground. RedStar tosses a few starbolts before being grabbed in the two ginormous hands and getting pulled in to be face-to-face with Cinderblock. He smirked. "Sorry Beeswax-"
"Honey!" Corrected Beast Girl with an eye roll.
"Honey, you're not really my type." RedStar completed, breaking her hold and kicking her back against the wall with a loud smack. The green hawk of BG is heard and she swoops in once more, hitting the ground as a T-Rex. Cinderblock stands right before the charge of the dinosaur, pushing him back with one left hook.
"Trigon, Metrion-" Crow cuts off with a gasp as he notices a large shadow falling over him. He looks up seeing a large green dinosaur falling onto him. BG yelled in panic, switching to human form and falling onto of Crow like a ton of bricks. She got off quickly, standing over Crow. Crow grits his teeth in ill-disguised fury when he realizes that if her looks up he can see up her skirt. He got an eye full before getting up.
"You know, the forecast did call for raining dinosaurs with a chance of water." Beast said sheepishly, rubbing the back of her neck. Crow glared, then shrugged. The panty shot had been all he really needed in way of apology. BG shrugged and headed away from the smirking half-demon. Cinderblock thought that the time might be right to leave, and so started to cross the area. Giggles jumped onto her back, attempting to place Cinderblock in a headlock. Stumbling, Cinderblock tore a girder from the wall, a large chunk of concrete falling as well.
"Thrashin' around will only make me holder tighter bitch!" Cried Giggles, clinging to the stone behemoth. Cinderblock raised the girder over her shoulder, attempting to knock the giggling menace off. Luckily for the Girl Wonder, she leaps off at just the right time, laughing herself sick at the brainless block of stone smashing herself in the head.
Cybourne looked speculatively at another girder. "Now, there's an idea…" she mused. Cybourne ripped it free, metal feet pounding the sidewalk as she charged at Cinderblock. Each swings their respective girders at one another. Cybourne seems to be winning for a bit, right before Cindy clocks Cybourne, sending the metal girl skidding across the floor. RedStar floats down, scowling at the large stone woman. Cinderblock gets ready to attack the punk alien, but RedStar moves faster, a green starbolt melting the girder in her hands. She grunted in surprise.
"How eloquent." Commented Crow as RedStar sniggered. Cinderblock grunted and runs as fast as her heavy stone legs would carry her, heading farther into the jail. Cybourne was still flat on her back, but a helping hand from Giggles, laughing at Crow's comment; she gets up and dusts off herself.
"Why don't we-heh-give the sweetheart the Sonic Boom." Giggles suggested. "Heh, sweetheart. I'm hilarious." She muttered under her breath.
Cybourne grinned and converted her arm to the sonic cannon. "I got the sonic, if you got the boom." She said with a wink. That sent Giggles off into gales of laughter.
The other three regroup and begin down the corridor their little rebel ran down.
Over with Cindy, she was trying to find someone, anyone. The Titans needed to be stood up to. She froze at the sound of a chilling voice.
"Yo, Rockbitch!" Cybourne called out, mocking evident in her voice.
Cindy turned with a wince and saw, to her horror, Giggles and Cybourne running straight at her.
They went off to different sides, going up the walls. They jumped towards each other as the sonic cannon warmed up. They clasp hand, and in a matrix-like way, time seems to stop. Cybourne shoots the cannon and Giggles threw an explosive disk at Cinderblock. Cinderblock went down and Crow used his powers to put her into a special containment cell. "Trigon, Metrion, Animus!" Cybourne and Giggles fell to the ground gracefully.
The imprisoned heroes moaned from their cells. They had wanted freedom so much. Some glared at these monsters. These horrible beasts. The Titans.
RedStar grinned. "Glorious. We have won our battle. Shall we go obtain pizza, from the place with the chick of much hotness?"
"The hot chick." Beast Girl corrected, shaking his head. "Honestly, you queer."
"I am not strange!" RedStar flared up angrily.
"Wanna bet?" Muttered Crow. Sparks flew from all three before they smirked and turned away, each thinking they had won the battle.
"Let's go get the pizza and harass the girl again, then." Said Cybourne. They all nodded and headed off.
0o0
Slade shook her head at the scene. She had a blindfold over one eye. The large screen showed a still frame of the Ruthless Ones bickering. "Well, Cindy. Looks like you failed. And they're still just teenagers. Teenagers, yet so horrible." She sighed and took a sip of coffee. The brunette needed it. She wore a white blouse and black slacks. She was Officer Slade, one of the few who resisted the Dark Rulers.
ActTwo
Slade pressed a button and a new screen came up. A school crest. Odd. She was looking for a group of heroes that hired out. Did she press the wrong button? Whatever the case. The field was hexagonal, black and white checkered with a gold border. A large H is superimposed on it in gold script; across the bottom is a white banner bearing the letters "H.A.E.Y.P." Behind the crest, a square corridor could be seen with yellow walls, ceilings and floor marked in a honeycomb pattern.
A young female voice begins to narrate. Perhaps she'll clear things up.
"The HIVE Academy for Extraordinary Young People is proud to introduce…" In front of the crest comes a hexagon shaped platform, carrying two girls and a male on it. One is a short little girl in a jump suit with blond pigtails and a metal backpack. A pair of goggles are on her forehead and assorted controls are located at chest and waist level. Techno, Slade assumes.
Behind her is a very tall, muscled and well-endowed girl with collar length brown hair. Her sleeveless shirt and pants are black and studded silver bands cross her chest and run around her shoulders. The Muscle, Slade knows.
Off to the right of the two females is a slim, wiry boy of a fair height. He wears black shirt and pants torn at the bottoms on purpose. He had black and blue striped socks wear you could see his legs through the rips and black boots with a small blue rise added a bit more height for him. His shockingly pink hair is bound into two horns, encircled in black metal. Her catlike eyes match her eyes and her skin was an odd blueish-pink shade. There's the leader, Slade thought, her face betraying no emotion.
"..This year's top graduates." The Narrator finished. The three jumped from the platform. The camera filming this video zooms in on the small girl. "Gizma, the girl genius whose intellect can overcome any difficulties that come her way in a unique and stylish fashion." As this is being said the camera goes to a close-up of her chest. Slade knows the filmer is a disturbing male. Gizma presses a button and the camera pulls away as a pair of large metal wings sprout from her back, carrying her into the air. Lasers begin to shoot at her, coming form the wall but she avoids the shots with contemptuous ease. Another button is pressed and a miniature missle launcher comes up between the wings and destroys all the lasers in secounds.
Gizma lands on the platform she and her classmates had been on before, then glided off as two robots step in form portals that opened up in the walls.
The pink haired lad takes her place. "Hex, the stunningly handsome young sorcerer, whose powerful hexes mean bad luck to his enemies." During this line He extended his arms to both sides and did a 360-degree spin, throwing off a wave of energy, forcing several wall panels to loosen and fall down. He leapt off the surface and the panels crash onto the robots heads. Two others had moved in as well and the same happened to them. He effortlessly backflipped down the corridor a short distance.
Three big laser cannons emerge from panels on the floor. The gigantic girl drops into view and bends the barrel of one of them as if it were a gummy worm. "And Mamma, the genetically engineered giantess who's immense strength speaks for itself." As the woman pronounces this, Mamma tears the cannon away and does an Olympic-style hammer toss, bringing up memories of Matilda, and Ms. TrunchBull. The cannon skids across the floor and wrecks the other two. There's a close-up with her and she seems pleased. A robot looms up behind the teenaged hero and catches her in it's huge hands. Gizma jumps onto it's back and attaches a small unit. Gizma jumps free and the robot shuts down, with much smoke exuding from it.
"Well organized, highly trained and combat-equipped…" Mamma threw off the robot, which collapsed into a heap and Gizma landed in a crouch near the camera before running off again. Hex runs to Mamma and springs up just before reaching her; she catches one foot and boosted him into a series of flips that carried him down the corridor.
"…These new HAEYP agents are the perfect fighting force for good." Batteries of lasers emerge from behind the walls and cut loose against Hex, who continued his gymnastic advance. Not one show hits him, but they do hit the other lasers. He landed with his back to the camera, watching their victory then turned his face to the front with a roguish wink.
"And for the right cause, this ideal team can be yours." The video ended, static starting. An elderly man stepped into the office Slade was in. She had a hexagonal gold patch on one sleeve.
"Well, Ms. Slade?" She asked, kindly brown eyes wary of this dedicated heroine.
"Impressive. Truly." Slade said earnestly, nodding. "Yet, robots and obstacle courses can only help so much. These are those cursed cruel brats, Titans." She shook her head, her one eye determined. "My plan required agents who can work in the real world the Titans have enforced. Your school protects them, and molly-coddling might prove to be their downfall."
"I assure you, ma'am these operatives have my every confidence." The Headmistress said stiffly. "I believe in them."
Slade sighs. "Alright. We have a deal. They will be sent after the Titans." The Headmistress nodded and the two women shook hands.
ActThree
The Arrogant Rulers of Jump sat at a pizzeria's deck. The pizzeria was built at the intersection of two streets at 40 degrees.
Crow spoke. "Could we just fucking order something already, you damn whores?" He asked, four red eyes glowing in agitation.
"As long as it's vegetarian!" Beast Girl yelled, crossing her arms under her bosom. Crow rolled his eyes at this attempt to get Crow on her side.
"Come on girl, how can you deny me the ultimate meaty pizza?" Cybourne asked, pointing to a picture of a menu that had twenty seven different types of meat and very little cheese. Beast Girl splutters in anger at the offending picture.
"Dudes, I want a pizza of large with pickles, banananas and the frosting of mint." RedStar said with a smile. The other Titans shudder, remembering when Red force-fed them that pizza. Mental scarring, man, mental scarring. Giggles smile turns painful and more grimace like.
"Uh, listen. No one else really likes that. Okay?" Crow said, rolling his eyes. Red rolled his own eyes, sighing and propping his feet up on the table and leaning back.
Gizma, using her gadgets to spy on this, whispered into her communicator. "Gizma to Hex." Hex is next to a parked motorcycle. It is lavender, with maniacally smiling faces all over it and a G logo. "Begin Phase One." Gizma says.
Hex casually flicks an arm at the motorcycle, causing it to fly into the air, aimed towards a sweet little girl in a pink dress.
The Titans were still arguing when they heard something that made them all freeze and Giggles grin grow enraged. "You lot are-heh- gonna get it! No one touches my bike!" That was her recorded alarm. They stood up, angry that someone would dare touch one of their possessions.
The little girl screeches as the bike flies towards her, before a flash of pink pushes her roughly out of the way. The motorcycle crashes into the ground, totaled.
"Titans! Go!" Giggles yelled, furious. She leapt from the roof, RedStar grabbing her hand until she was low enough to land safely. Cybourne just jumps off, landing without harm and runs towards the bike. Crow levitates quickly over.
Before they reach it however, three people step out in front of it. "You five are going down. The Town will be free!" Hex declared.
The Titans, as one, roll their eyes. "Normally we'd be merciful." Giggles snarled. "BUT YOU CRASHED MY BIKE!" She yelled, all traces of laughter gone.
The battle was short and harsh. It ended up with a sullen Gizma, muttering about scuzz-munching pit-sniffers tied up in the spider-like legs of her contraption and Mamma next to her, knocked out by RedStar. Hex was no where to be found.
"Should we kill them?" Crow asked, a smirk on his face. "Death would become you, my sweets." He crooned to the two. Gizma blanched, and Mamma stayed unconscious.
"No. Let us show them mercy." RedStar said. Gizma eyed him uncertainly. RedStar continued "We will beat them most thoroughly and dump them in jail. We'll find the pink-haired golun later."
The other Titans sighed in disappointment. Then they grinned, cracking their knuckles, pulling out weapons and such. Gizma gulped and closed her eyes as the Titans advanced.
Epilogue
Gizma and Mamma's bloody bodies had been deposited at the jail and Hex hadn't been sighted. They headed back to the Tower.
Cybourne wanted to watch her favourite flick, the one with that uber-hotty who kills off all the people. Miaow. "Where is it?" She yelled, moving junk and tossing it on the ground. The place is a pig sty. "Why is this such a mess? What happened to the maids?" She demanded.
"Oh. They were maids. Oops." Crow smirked. "I used them as human sacrifices."
"Ha! Funny!" Giggles laughed. "But, ha, don't kill anymore workers Crow!" She got out through giggles, shaking her head.
Beast Girl pouted. "I want to watch it. Crow, find it for us?" She asked, giving him the puppy dog look. The eyebrow over two red eyes lifted.
"No." He said and cracked open a book, levitating and reading the gore.
"How could you lose this movie Beast?" Cybourne moaned.
Beast Girl took offense. "Hey! How do you know it was me?"
"Perhaps because you have lost many thing, Friend BG?" RedStar asked, shaking her head.
"And before you ask, heh, like what, we'll point out some things." Giggles said smugly.
"My nail polish," Cybourne said.
"My glovrian slopnarf,"
"My whoopee cushion,"
"My battery,"
"My knife,"
"My staff,"
"ALRIGHT!" Beast Girl yelled. "I got it, I got it."
"Has anyone looked in the DVD player?" Crow asked with a long suffering sigh.
The Titans blinked and rushed over to the player. RedStar pressed Open. They waited as it slowly unveiled…
The movie.
As a whole, the four sweat-dropped.
"This never leaves the room." Giggles proposed.
"Agreed." The rest said. It just wouldn't do to have their loyal subjects hear this.
A/N- Hello all! This is my first some what decent Teen Titan fic. I've worked fairly hard on this, and hope it's passable. This is basically two episodes in one. I will use a few more episodes, just to keep the timeline straight but it will be moving in a different sort of arc and have different stories. This is to show where their paths begin to change.
Also, it has to be noted, these Titans are more powerful. Because they have already taken over the city and put many heroes in jail. They have trained together more and such. Plus, they have no scruples. They're not holding back out of fear of hurting someone.
Also, not everyone will have their genders and alliances changed. For example, Batman is still Batman and he's a vigilante. Joker is still Joker, except he was Giggles mentor. So it will all be a surprise.
For those who are confused;
Raven-Crow
Beast Boy-Beast Girl
Cyborg-Cybourne
Starfire-RedStar
Robin-Giggles
Something else you may want to know, updates won't be that frequent. I'm going to work hard on school year. I will update when I can and I want this to be a quality fic.
Please review!
