Okay, before we start this story let me just say that this my first attempt ever at a war story of this magnitude. The original characters I have worked with for a very long time, but this is the first time they are actually going to be meeting the Titans. Also they are are the only ones owned by me in this entire story. The Titans are not owned by me, but the Raptors and Mutants are! So If I catch anyone trying to steal them I wll hunt you down and say bad things about you to people.
Here's the quick summary. The Titans are enjoying a relaxing day in Jump City when a bunch of Paratroopers invade. They city is uickly put under seige and martial law is established. The Titans must now stop this invasion with the help of an army of anti-terrorists warriors as they try to calm the situation. But can they get along with this foreign miltary's soldiers and rules of engagement?
Edit: Fixed so it looks nicerUnder Seige
Chapter 1: The Red Dawn comes in the Afternoon
Jump City, 2007, 12:34 in the afternoon, the local pizza parlour.
When lunch time comes for the residents of a giant T shaped tower they have pretty much two options. The first is let Starfire cook more of her Alien food and second is to go out for Pizza. Pretty much everyone chooses the latter. Starfire never seems to mind as long as she is able to choose any topping she wishes. So in truth everyone wins.
For the Titans things were getting rather quiet in the city. They were pretty much thankful for this. Ever since the defeat of the Brotherhood of Evil and that strange Robot shapeshifting thing about a month ago things weren't really to hectic. Which suited the Titans fine. Especially Beastboy, who needed sometime to get over a certain blonde girl not really wanting to remember him. Cyborg also wanted to wax and work onthe T-Car, so he was pretty much pleased with it too.
Robin, however, had gone into brooding mode. Although this time around he wasn't as obssessive he was still constantly telling the team to prepare for anything. Ever since Beastboy returned in the nick of time to help them defeat the strange robot that attacked them and told about his encounter with the Sladebot, he began thinking about when and where Slade would strike next and he also wished that he had more back-up then just the five original members of the team. He secretly wished that he could have gotten the other Teen heroes to start working more proactively with them. He was kinda hoping for his own version of the Justice League if you will. Unfortunately everyone pretty much went back to their respective world regions and only called once in a while to see how things were hanging. Maybe he'd get another chance at the Reunion they had planned for the anniversary of the defeat of the Brotherhood next year. Robin's thoughts however were soon interuppted by the petty squabble of Cyborg and Beastboy as they argued about their choice of food toppings.
"Meat!"
"Veggie!"
"Meat!"
"Veggie!"
"Meat!"
"Veggie!"
Of course Raven was the first to attempt to shut the up,
"Can't you two just order a half and half?" She screamed
"This isn't about fairness Rae, this is about proving which topping is better." Cyborg told her
"And one day I shall win the debate." Beastboy proclaimed
"The debate so far consits of you two idiots exchanging the same two words over and over again." Raven pointed out "Its the same thing every day. Can't you two just give it up?"
Cyborg and Beastboy thought it over a second and continued their "Debate"
"Meat!"
"Veggie!"
Raven could only moan
""You tried," She thought as she rubbed her forehead "let no one say you didn't try. Face it Raven you are surrounded by imbeciles."
Starfire was too busy to bother herself with any of this. She was desperately trying to decide what would go good with Mustard on her pizza. Would it be the French Fires or the Hot Dogs. She decided to rely on the opnion of the only person that knew more about the topping of the Earth food then she did.
"Robin, may I inquire as to which topping goes best with the mustard?"
"Star, most people on Earth don't really eat Pizza with mustard anyway. So I'm not really sure."
"They do not?" Star said confused "Why do they not? Have they simply never tried?"
"Um, yeah pretty much."
"Oh, then I shall make it my endeavour to make all residents of this planet try it then." She then turned to the other Titans "Friends! I implore you all to eat your pizza with the delicious Earth substance known as Mustard!"
The others just looked at her like they wished to throw up. That was when the Pizza showed up and Star immediately grabbed a slice and poured a mountain od Mustard upon it. She then shoved it in front of Robin's face.
"Friend Robin, would you like to be the first to try?"
Robin immediately started to rack his mind. How to get out of this problem without hurting Star's feelings. Which is practically impossible since her people are the most emotion race in the galaxy. (Considering that their powers are goverened by their emotions) It turned out Robin didn't have to think up a plan, for something showed up for him. It was the sound of airplane engines, hundreds of them. Robin as well as the other Titans looked up to see exactly what was going on. Their answer was several hundred cargo airplanes, all of their engines blarring were flying right over thier heads.
"Dude, what the heck is that?" Beastboy asked
"Maybe its some kind of airshow." Cyborg thought
"I haven't heard of any air show." Robin stated
Thats when the saw something falling out of the back of the aircrafts. To the Titans they looked like puffy red dots. Robin was the first to come to the obvious conclusion.
"Parachutes?" Robin wondered.
The Titans looked down at each other for a second
"Okay so what are those planes carrying and why are they sending them down to us? Beastboy asked
Suddenly their answer was given. From out of the sky crashing into a table next them was one of the things the parachutes were carrying. It was a paratrooper, and as this one staggered to his feet the Titans got a good look at him. The trooper was wearing a Brown overcoat that covered most of his body. He had helmet with a big red star plastered on the front and a heavy set pair of boots. As for his face, the Titans couldn't make it out because with a full Gas Mask. The trooper looked very out of place considering it was too warm to wear a coat and there was nothing dangerous to worry about breathing in.
"Well there's something you don't see everyday." said Raven cocking her head to one side.
"Um, excuse me." Starfire said to the Trooper as she approached "But who are you and why did you fall from the sky?"
The Trooper responded by taking the sling that was over his shoulder and pulling out an AK-47, which he pointed at Starfire and then cocked. The Titans then had another visitor. As another Paratrooper landed on their Table This one did not stagger around as he pulled out his Pistol and aimed at Cyborg's head. Then this second trooper spoke.
"Surrender or die." He said this in a very heavy set Russian accent.
If Robin had a bad feeling about this before he certainly wasn't happy that he was right. As the Trooper's parachute came over them he ceased the coming darkness and threw a birdrang at their attacker. Knocking him clean to the ground. The first trooper then tried to fire at Starfire but recived a Starbolt that threw him of the building's ledge and onto the street below. Robin had already wrestled the second Trooper to the ground and was tugging at his Gas mask.
"Who they heck are you people?" Robin said as he ripped the mask away. And what he saw forced him off of the trooper. As he stood up and the other Titans saw what Robin saw they could only open their mouths in awe. Their attacker wasn't even human. His face was that of some Lizard with a horn portruding along his snout. They Titans had probably missed it because the overcoat blocked their view but the trooper also had a tail that he was now violently swinging around.
"Dude." Beastboy said "That is so wrong."
The lizard paratrooper roared at them as more of his friends drooped down on the pizza parlour's porch platform and pulle dout their weapons.
"Titans Go!" Robin shouted as the team engaged this new enemy.
Cyborg blasted at the incoming troopers with his Sonic Cannon, one of those hitsknockinga whole squaddown to the street below. Starfire was throwing her Starbolts violently at the troopers as they attempted to shoot her. The ones that hit their mark knocked the soldiers straight through the floor.Thankfully Star was able to avoid their small arms fire with some quick and nimble air dodging. Beastboy was being surrounded by them, but he changed into a Mountain Gorrilla and beat them away. He then grabbed another one by his arms and bent his rifle before he could fire. Beastboy used him as a club to swat the other troopers away. Raven was having an easier time as she simply lifted the guns out of her opponent's hands and crushed them. some ran away, others charged and were quickly blasted back by one of Raven's blasts of black magic. One of them tried to sneak up behind her with a knife. She quickly turned and lifted several chairs and table above her head with her powers.
"Listen, you don't want this." Raven told him "Just put the knife down and crawl into a corner."
The trooper obliged, obviously he was smarter then the others.
Robin's approach was more hands on as he used his staff to knock the trooper upside their heads and causing them to collapse in a heap. Several troopers fired at him once or twice from a far of distance and he had to use his birdarang to knock them out. But just when it seemed like the Titans were winning more soldiers came bounding up the stairs of the pizza place and onto the roof. The quickly surrounded the Titans a drew their Guns. But Robin knew exactly how to fix this problem. The Titans quickly huddled together and waited for Robin.
"Raven! Now!"
And with that order Raven encased them in a dark shield and Robin threw up a small disk just before it closed. The resulting flash was blindin, not mention also extremely loud. When the Titans emerged they saw all the reptillian Troopers wandering around screaming and rubbing their eyes or at least trying to because the Gas masks were blocking them. Apparently, the manufactuers of those things didn't think a flash bomb would work so they hadn't even tried hard enough to make them resistant to light. Nowthey werecrying and clawing at their masks trying to relive the pain. Most of them just collapsed, while others could only prance around half dazed and half in pain.
"I couldn't use a gas bomb because of the masks," Robin stated "but a flash grenade works just as well."
"I think it worked better." Beastboy commented.
The Titans used this lull in the fighting to escape into the T-Car and drive off. They immediately started trying to solve the question of what exactly had just happened.
"Okay," Cyborg started "Who the heck were those guys and why were they trying to kill us?"
"Better question, why were they giant lizards?" Raven asked.
"Isn't it obvious?" Beastboy said frantically "They're intergalactic space reptiles from another planet sent here to conquer us! They're gonna take us up to their mothership and stick anal probes in us! I don't wanna be probed!"
"As logical as that sounds," Raven said in her usually sarcastic tone "I'm not so sure."
"Raven is correct." Starfire confirmed "I do not recognize them from any race my people have encountered or heard of."
"That and Aliens wouldn't use airplanes." Robin added.
"Oh good point." Beastboy said scratching his head "They would be using space ships with laser that go 'plew-plew!'" Beastboy added to these sound effects by pointing his fingers around like guns. This earned him awkward stares from the Titans as well as annoyed look from Raven. Beastboy looked at her and cautiously pointed his fingers at her "'plew?'" Raven only sighed and leaned back in her seat.
"We need to get back to the tower and find out what exactly is going on." said Robin
"Don't worry. We'll be there in..." but as Cyborg turned the corner he stopped talking.
In front of the Titans was roadblock. Two heavily armoured cars staring down at them. The same retillian troopers with them And as the Titans looked behind them they saw two more.
"Oh crud." Beastboy thought out loud.
"Got a plan?" Cyborg said turning to Robin
"Yeah, just follow my lead."
But before he could get a word of his plan in a missile barreled out of the sky and struck the roadblock in front of them. The Titans looked on in shock.
"Robin, was this part of your plan?" Starfire asked
"Uh, no."
The Titans looked behind them and saw the roadblock behind them explode in another blast.
"Okay weird." Raven commented.
"Its a miracle!" Beastboy shouted "Thank you lord! I'm sorry I skip sunday school that one time."
The Titans got out of the vehicle to find their saviour and saw a black helicopter flying over head. Armed on its sides were some missiles.
"Oh yeah! The Calverly has arrived!" Cyborg shouted.
"But who are they?" Starfire asked.
The chopper flew low and dropped some zip cords down. Out dropped five seven figures, sliding down from the lines, who quickly started to run over to the wreckage. One them started to walk over to the Titans. He, like the bad guys at the pizza place was also not human. The Titans could see that by the fact that he and all the others had tail and stubbing portrudding snouts.
"More lizards?" Beastboy thought.
The creature walking over to them wore a long sloping helmet and had camoflauge make up all over his face. His suit was tight fitting and light brown and carrying what appeared to be a rifle on his back. The suit itself could only be described as not standard military uniform. It appeared to be a special model. This reptile must of been special forces. But for who precisely.
"Sorry for the wait," He said in a voice that confident and stern "we only got the intel an hour ago and we were scrambling to make it here before they gained too much ground. Luckily we found you before they got ya."
"Uh, yeah thanks." Robin said wearily.
"Okay," Beastboy said barging in front of Robin. "Who are you? Why are you a giant talking lizard? And who exactly was trying to kill us?"
The reptile immediately answered.
"My name is Captain Recon of the Raptorian Armed Forces. And I am not a lizard, I am a dinosaur. More specifically a Raptor. And those people whow ere trying to kill you were also dinosaurs, mutant Dinosaurs."
"Huh?" Beastboy said dumbfounded.
"Long story short." Recon stated "Your city is being invaded by a hostile enemy force and your military can't handle this situtation. That's why we got called in. Your city is now under martial law and I'm the one who is going to shove a grenade down these insurgents' throats. As of now your city is a warzone."
The Titans just looked at the Raptor dumbfounded
"This is going to be long day huh?" Beastboy asked.
"What was your first clue?" Said Raven looking at him sarcastically.
Please just review, all shall be explained in the next chapter. Trust me you'll understand where I'm going. I'm just getting you interested first.