This is a fanfic about titans south, a team I custom made for a contest. The team consists of Jinx, Jericho, Kid Flash, Thunder and Lightning. This is Brothers, a tale of betrayal and deceit, and my first fancfic so no horrid reviews or anything...the scene starts on a particularly cold night, Thunder has gone out for the evening and the others are in the main room. Lightning is getting ready to leave himself.
Lightning turned to leave. "I guess I'll see you later then." Jinx whipped round, narrowing her eyes suspiciously. "Where are you going then?"
"Out!" Lightning stated with a dismissive wave of his hand.
She sighed. "Out where?"
"Out with friends!"
Kid Flash bursts out with a rude fit of laughter. "Like you ever had friends!" Jericho smiles mirthfully, taking Kid Flash's side, as he usually would in these sorts of situations. They all knew what was coming next, the sarcastic laugh, and the complimentary 'very funny'. The question was whether Jinx or Lightning would supply it. The answer, of course as you would expect, was Lightning, who swivelled round to face the others and bellowed most of it "ha ha, very funny, I do too have friends, and I'm off out with 'em now!" and he stormed out without another word from anybody.
He met Storme at the end of the road. She didn't even try to make herself look good; she just threw on a selection of purple denim and storm cloud shirt and whatever smile she digs out of her sock pile. Her messy blonde hair didn't even look like she had bothered to pull a brush through it once. Lightning sometimes doubted she even owned a hairbrush. He always managed to notice how her hair never fell in front of her ears, just for the sake of showing off her little sparkly lightning shaped earrings. This was his little friend, he couldn't remember quite where he had met her but he liked her, and she liked him more. They're first destination was the fair.
Thunder was in the middle of a cafe, with only two other customers, an old lady who appeared to have died in her seat and a teenage boy carving into his own arm with a pen knife. He typed fast on the laptop laid out before him, number after number, and letter after letter. Tongue poking out of the corner of his mouth in concentration, which was hard to maintain with the pained cries of the teenager, and the ring of a cell phone from behind the counter. But still he plunged on with his unknown work.
Of course, the last people he had expected to see at the Jump City fair would be there nonetheless. It had played out like an extremely annoying but well rehearsed play. They had been walking down the street towards the fair itself, they were holding hands, she was swinging her arms as she walked and he had run out of things to say, so he let her talk on. Pretty soon she too fell silent. They just grinded to a halt there and then...and smiled. Then they were facing each other, close enough to feel the others breath on their face, then...it was ruined! It was a truly magical moment, a once in a lifetime awkward moment, that almost turned into a first kiss. Then Lightning saw him out of the corner of his eye and turned. And Beast-Boy turned and spotted them. He waved and gestured for them to come over there. When they simply stood there, he went over to them.
Half an hour later back at Titans South HQ:
Kid Flash played to win. If he lost to Jericho he had agreed to not only apologise to Lightning(for what he felt was nothing), but he also had to kiss Jinx in front of all the honorary titans, the teen titans themselves AND what remained of the HIVE 5(which has managed to get confusing with my various unwritten fancharacter stories). This really wasn't helped by the fact Jinx was still shouting at him in frustration, but he drowned her out as best he could. Then the inevitable: she happened to screech something he managed to hear: "KID FLASH, ARE YOU EVEN LISTENING TO ME?" he had to reply didn't he? She was asking him a direct question. "Jinx, I'm not completely stupid and neither am I that rude as to ignore you this whole time, I just wasn't replying in an attempt to avoid public humiliation." Turned the last corner of the virtual race track, they were neck and neck, and... "In that case, what did I just say? Y'know before I asked if you were listening?" he busied himself with his game. He didn't have an answer so he was just going to race Jericho down the last stretch...he was just getting ahead of him...and...THE POWER CUT OUT! Jericho leapt to his feet with his arms up as if he had won. Jinx seemed to have the same idea. "Jericho wins by default! Ha ha Flash, pucker up"...he had other things on his mind... "Jinx, I can't see anything, it's pitch black outside and now it's pitch black inside. Go fix the main fuse!"
"Oh yeah, like I don't have better things to do with my time. Go get a candle. And another thing, a little word called 'please' can take you a long way! Plus I don't know HOW to fix the fuses. Only Lightning does. He was the one who set them up in the first place."
Meanwhile, and about half an hour ago, at the fair:
Beast-Boy had walked the remaining length of the road with them, keeping romance at an absolute zero. When they finally got to the fair the other titans spotted them and came right over. Robin was first to speak. "Lightning, didn't expect to see you here. Who's this your with then, aren't you going to introduce me?" he opened his mouth to answer, but Storme got there first. "I would be Storme, and I happen to be his girlfriend!" he had half a mind to jam his hand over her mouth before she could say anything else, another half to blast her there and then. Instead he settled on trying to drag her away, but they're strength was equal and she stood her ground. That's when the teasing started.
"Aww man, that's sweet, that's just sweet!"
"The look on his face!"
"Storme and Lightning sitting in a tree, K I S S I N G"
"C'mon guys, let's leave the 'lovebirds' be"
With every comment came another wave of laughter. Lightning was pretty sure most of these were pathetic cheap shots but that just made it worse. And then Starfire joined in
"You are...together? OH CONGRADULATIONS!" she flies forwards and lifts him in a bone crushing hug
"well, she looks like a fairly good catch, despite clearly never even hearing the word 'hairbrush' before in her life"
"Starfire...get off me...I can't...breathe"
She lets him go and he dusts himself off. This time when he tries to drag her off she comes without argument. And he turned to her taking out his communicator "storme, wait here a minute, I have to make a private call." And he went off down the tiny gap between the ring toss and the merry go round.
Meanwhile at Cindy's, a cafe in the southern parts of Central City:
He clicked send, closed the lid of his laptop, and looked round. The emo teen appeared to of fainted, and the old lady had left. The waitress was outside lighting a fag, and the woman behind the counter was tarting up. He got up and took his leave, a ghost of a smile on his lips, but did not go straight home.
Meanwhile at Titans South HQ, Keystone City:
"Only Lightning does. He was the one who set them up in the first place". Jinx went to the door nonetheless. "I can try, but I'd probably only mess 'em up further." The door wouldn't open. The door was controlled by the power source, and was shut when the power went out. There was something wrong with the source. "hang on...The security panel has a different source..." the security panel told her that the system was off. Someone had entered the deactivation codes. Then the doors were blasted open. They were ambushed and hopelessly outnumbered by men in black full body outfits. The faces had a single bronze circle surrounding them. Then they attacked...