The West Wind
Chapter 1
Starfire determinedly shot a rapid succession of starbolts at the oversized beating heart as Beast Boy rammed it in the form of a t-rex.
"Stop Cardiac!" Robin yelled as he sent a bird-a-rang at the center of the heart.
It exploded sending Cardiac tumbling to the ground. Raven took this opportunity to use her energy to sever the dangerous, mechanical arms from the monster.
The large organ lay in the middle of the street beating slowly, surrounded by the mess it created. The Titans walked over to Cardiac and looked down on it.
"Wow, we made a mess," Beast Boy said examining the scene.
There were uprooted trees, overturned cars, and shards of glass all over the street from broken shop windows.
"Sure did," Cyborg uttered inspecting a badly damaged car.
Then the Titans could hear the sirens of police trucks, and 3 trucks parked a few yards away from the scene. A man stepped out of one of them, followed by his cadets.
"Good job again Titans," the man nodded at Robin.
"Anytime, sir," Robin said, "Cyborg, you want to give these men a hand?"
Cyborg walked over to the Cardiac and lifted him above his head. He and the five other men began trying to place the odd villain in the back of the truck.
The head policeman turned to Robin and said, "Our street maintenance people went on strike. They claim we use them too often…"
Robin looked sheepish and muttered, "Oh ha sorry about that sir…"
"Anyways, do you think you guys could handle this mess on your own for today?"
"Yes, uh, of course sir," The Boy Blunder scratched the back of his head.
"Great, thank you team," The policeman turned and walked to his truck before adding, "Oh and your allowance is coming next week."
Robin gave him a curt salute as he drove off. Then he turned to Raven, Starfire, and Beast Boy who were talking quietly. Cyborg came to stand next to him.
"Alright team, we have to clean up," Robin said matter-o-factly.
"That is not our job," Raven stated dully.
"It is today; apparently the city is sick of cleaning up after us." Cyborg cut in.
"That is rude," Starfire pouted.
"Yeah! Without us there wouldn't be a city. Jeez, they're just too lazy to do anything," the green boy waved his arms in the air.
"I wouldn't really be talking, Beast Boy," Raven teased.
Beast Boy stuck his tongue out at her, and she just rolled her eyes.
"Well we have to today, so lets get started." Robin said somewhat reluctantly.
They are the Teen Titans, and cleaning isn't usually a teenager's forte.
The team turned towards the mess and just looked at it for a couple of seconds.
"Okay let's start," Robin said, but he didn't move.
A few more seconds.
"No really we have to start."
A few more seconds.
"Guys…"
A few more seconds.
"…."
"Maybe if we just stare at it, it will clean itself," Beast Boy suggested.
"Right, because that is how things work," Raven said sarcastically.
Suddenly, a huge gust of wind came racing past them and they had trouble keeping their footing. But then they saw that the wind was picking up the shards of glass, putting the trees back in their holes, and turning cars back over. The current carried all the glass and debris in a strange, but pretty pattern into the nearest dumpster. The street was spotless.
The Titans stood bewildered. They sat staring at the road for a solid minute.
"HA!" Beast Boy shouted breaking the silence.
"What the heck?" Raven murmured.
"I was right, Raven!" Beast Boy bragged.
"I believe I am confused. Is this some kind of earth happening?" Star said looking around at her friends.
"Um… No… Star," Robin responded kind of to himself.
"Hey, we don't have to clean up; I'm not gonna question it," Cyborg hollered, "let's go."
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Back at the tower, Robin and Cyborg were intensely playing Ninjas vs. Aliens II in the living room and Beast Boy was waiting to play the winner. Raven was in her room and Starfire was watching the boy's shenanigans quietly on the couch.
"Haha! Take that!" Robin shouted, rising a little off the couch.
"Oh no you don't!" Cyborg stuck his tongue out in concentration and leaned forward, "Ah!"
"Hey!"
"Haha."
"Shut it."
"Not fair!"
'Totally fair!"
"You're gonna lose!"
"Nuh-uh!" Robin yelled, they were both standing now, "HA! I WIN!"
Starfire was laughing on the couch as Robin stood proudly over the displeased Cyborg.
"Better luck next time, bud," Robin grinned at Cyborg and patted him on the back.
"Please, I was just having a bad day."
"Well it's my turn metal butt. Robin, prepare to DIE!" Beast Boy said enthusiastically.
"Yeah right," Robin grinned.
"Actually," Starfire started slowly, "Do you think I could play against Robin, friend Beast Boy?"
All the boys raised their eyebrows.
"Uh, yeah sure Star," Beast Boy said and he handed her the controller.
She smiled at him and sat down gracefully, and calmly on the couch. The Boy Blunder was looking at her nervously, but switched the game on.
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"I have won, correct?" Starfire said.
Robin just looked at her. She had beaten him. Cyborg couldn't even beat him that often.
What made it worse was that she had beaten him so easily. He had been jumping all over the place and she had just sat quietly on the couch criss-cross.
"Star, how'd you learn to play like that?" Robin inquired.
"Oh, I do not know. It is not very hard," Starfire smiled innocently.
Robin pouted.
"Oh do not be embarrassed friend Robin. My people are fast learners."
He scratched the back of his head.
"Well in that case, maybe… you could… teach me sometime?" Robin said quietly, red-faced.
She just beamed, "I would most enjoy that!"
"But I do not think you will be able to defeat me, even then," The girl smile mischievously.
"Oh you're on!" and with that, Robin switched on the game.
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It was now about 1:30 A.M., and everybody was asleep in bed.
Robin and Starfire had spent hours in the virtual world of video game battles, and had retired at about 9:00 to get ready for bed. Everybody else had just lounged around all day doing normal, Titan stuff.
Then a loud ringing vibrated through the tower.
A groan came from each of the slumbering Titans, but as always, Robin was up first and in the Ops, followed closely behind by his team.
After a couple of seconds of typing on the main computer, Robin swiftly turned around and rushed past his team only to mutter in his haste, "Dr. Light" signaling them to follow.
"Oh my favorite," Raven said.
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The Titans arrived on the roof of an electrical power plant in time to see Dr. Light emerge from the door leading down into the factory.
"Ah the Teen Titans, what a lovely surprise…
You're just in time to see my raid of darkness. After taking and harnessing all of the light energy, I will turn off all the power of New York City only to give it to those loyal to me. Imagine what would happen to all those business people who can't provide for themselves without any power. After I take out most of the influential cities of the world, I will achieve world domination!" Dr. Light ranted excitedly.
"And you did this on an electrical factory? How unpredictable," Raven droned sarcastically.
"Shut up!" Dr. Light said harshly, but when Raven gave him a look, he cowered.
"Dude, that is a horrible plan. Who came up with that? A teenage girl writing stories on her laptop?" Cyborg asked.
"For a guy big on brightness, you're kinda dim," Beast boy laughed.
"Why I oughta-!"
"Titans, GO!"
The team sprang into action and dispersed surrounding Dr. Light on the rooftop.
Dr. light turned his attention to Beast Boy. He sent a bolt of electricity at the green teen, who abruptly morphed into a hippopotamus to take the shock. The impact caused the green hippo to slide back, but did not do any damage. Starfire and Cyborg took this distraction to shoot their energy beams at the skinny man. He was able to just barely deflect them with the metal cuffs on his wrists. He then sent strong lightning rods at both of them knocking the two heroes down. Then, an immense current of wind came over the roof seeming to rush at Dr. Light. He almost lost his footing, and Raven took this time to uproot a pipe form the roof and fling it at him. With the wind still going strong, the pipe accelerated a little more and hit him square in the chest. He stumbled backwards, and then Robin flung himself at the unstable villain in a flying sidekick. Another, seemingly perfectly timed gust of strong air picked up, and propelled Robin forward, giving him extra power as he made contact with Dr. Light's face. The man in the black and yellow suit tumbled off the roof, and Raven caught him in a net of black force.
"Nice hit," She said to her leader.
"You too," he nodded, although thinking about the winds currents that helped, "The wind is on our side today I guess."
Coincidence?
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