I'm here with a story! And it going to have Action! Comedy! Drama!...and some romance. ;) This will also introduce my OC, who may be of interest... Anyway! Lets kick this off!
"Wildcards"
Chapter 1: Rude Awakening
Things on the inside of the large alphabet-shaped building known as the 'T Tower' could only be described as... dysfunctional. For the last three months it has been full of mishaps, squabbles and a lot of 'Harrumphing!' just to add to the strategics. It all started with Robin the Boy Blunder who started to make rather rash decisions that would leave everlasting affects on his fellow Titans.
"But Robin! Why would you make such a harsh decision?!"
The Tamaranian princess was devastated to here that her boyfriend of three months, twenty five days, seven hours, and twenty three minutes was halting their relationship.
"I am sorry about this Starfire, I truly am. But I cannot ignore the fact that having an open relationship whilst being a superhero can make you or me a high profile target for super villains. I am doing this to keep us safe."
Robin tried to reason with the fuming alien, but it was proving difficult.
"I do not find this to be the greatest of excuses Robin. On my planet, this would be deemed a cowards way out of a relationship."
Robin slightly twitched at the word 'Coward' but he kept his composure.
"OK, I understand why your upset. But this for your own good Star. I don't want us to become vulnerable and open to attack by favoritism."
Robin looked around the common room to which the other male Titans sat on the sofa. From the looks their faces, they weren't frilled about this either. His eyes eventually came back to Starfire who was glaring at him. She then turned around and stormed out of the room. As she left , tears started welling in her eyes.
"A real boyfriend would die for his beloved." She muttered quietly to herself.
Robin heaved out a long sigh. "That was really hard for me." He looked at Cyborg who shook his head in disappointment.
"Man. I can't believe your doing this. It took you three Years to finally open up to her."
"I know. But I also know that its best for us. Its the right thing to do." He confirmed.
This time Beast Boy spoke.
"Dude. Its more like the dumbest thing you could do and coming from me, that's saying something." Robin just rubbed his temple and dismissed the green boy's remark.
"She'll eventually understand. I just want to protect her." Beast Boy stood up with his arms crossed.
"By braking her heart? Yeah that's really looking out for her dude." He mocked. Robin narrowed his eyes and just wanted to be left alone.
"I'm going to look at some leads. I'll be in the evidence room." He brushed passed the two Titans and left the room.
"Trust me man. Your making a mistake." Cyborg called out to him as the door slid shut. The remaining two Titans looked at each other, unsure of what to make of their masked leaders rather sudden yet absurd decision. After an minute of awkward silence the changeling spoke
"Well... now that all the dramas over. Wanna play the Gamestation?" He grinned. Cyborg smirked back.
"Aw yeah! and your so going down grass stain!"
"Bring it on chrome dome!"
He jumped over the back of the sofa and switched on the console. Two minutes into the game and already things were getting intense. Their heads were glued to screen and were currently shoulder to shoulder.
"Your not gonna pass me! Your not gonna pass me! Your not... ya passed me!" Cyborg paused in shock.
"I totally did Dude!" The changeling cheered.
"Oh no you don't!"
He began to nudge the green teen in the ribs who retaliated by shoulder barging him. It soon became a pushing match to try an eliminate the others attention. Beast Boy raised his right leg to kick Cyborg away but in doing so he kicked Cyborgs arm which activated his sonic cannon. Cyborgs eyes widened as his left hand became his cannon which not only cost him the race but was now charging up to fire.
"YO! YOU ACTIVATED MY CANNON!" Cyborg yelled in a panic.
"I didn't mean to! It was accident!" Beast Boy stared at his robotic friend as his cannon started firing at the TV. Instantly blowing it up.
"Dude! Turn it off!" The green teen took cover behind the back of the sofa.
"I CAN'T! IT'S JAMMED!"
Cyborg tried desperately to stop it from hitting anything electrical in the room, only for it to fire at a fuse box on the kitchen wall. After a few more shots his cannon finally stopped. Beast boy emerged from under the sofa as a mouse before morphing back to human. They both looked around at the various holes in the walls and ceiling.
The smell of smoke brought their attention to the burning fuse box and the static of electricity that was now spreading throughout the main electric system. There was a sudden large vibration which lasted about ten seconds before...
CLUNK!
All the lights went out.
"Oh crud." They said in usion.
On the other side of the Tower. Raven sat alone in her room in a deep meditation.
"Azarath... Metrion... Zynthos... Azarath... Metrion... Zynthos..." She Chanted peacefully. She had recently used a lot of power from yesterdays fight with plazmus and had requested the other Titans that she was Not to be disturbed for the rest of the day. She continued her mantra.
"Azarath... Metrion... Zynthos... Azarath.. Metrion... Zy-"
RUMBLE! RUMBLE! RUMBLE!
Her concentration was shattered as her whole room began to violently shake. Her eyes snapped open and she gasped as various objects began to bump and crash to the floor. Jumping of her bed she caste her black magic at her bedside lamp that was thrown at her. She directed it to the ground and turned, only to see her chest of draws sliding towards her. It caught on the carpet and tipped, landed in front of her and she stumbled backwards, slamming her head against her large bookcase.
The sudden shock and pain caused her magic to misfire and spread throughout her room. She slumped down against the bookcase as the rumbling continued. A large number of books fell of the shelves. One book bounced of her head and landed discreetly under the nearside corner of her bed. After what felt like an eternity the mini earthquake finally subsided. She eased herself, surveying damage to her room.
"What just hap-" Her sentence was cut-off as her room went pitch black.
"Great... just... great."
She marched out of her room, rubbing the back of her head to ease the pain. After her door closed, some of her left over magic found its way to the discarded book under her bed and the moment it made contact, it started to glow. Suddenly it sprung open. Then a black aura began to emerge out of a page. It was now a spiraling black cloud which began to float aimlessly around Raven's room. Floating over the other books and over to her closet, it phased through the door and flew around her cloaks.
It turned up and through a ventilation shaft. Bypassing through several storage rooms, the gym and the evidence room until it found Beast Boy's room. It glided over his empty pizza boxes, video games and his CD Collection until it left under his door. Cyborg's room was its next destination and it slid under his door and flew around his computers, workbench and spare parts. Eventually it returned to the hallway continued its tour of the T Tower.
Making its way to Starfire's room who's door was wide open. It proceeded to fly across her souvenirs and other unique items from Tamaran. Flying back into the corridor and headed for the remaining Titans room.
Robin opened his door and stepped cautiously into the darkness. He was then taken of guard by a bright green star-bolt that illuminated the hallway. He turned around to see Starfire who had a stale look on her face.
"Starfire? whats happening?" Robin looked concerned. Starfire who was still hung-up about earlier walked ahead of him.
"I do not know Robin. I was hoping you would be having the answer." She replied in a distant voice. Robin sighed as the walked towards the Common Room.
The main door slid open to revel a very dimly lit room as Cyborg was extinguishing the burnt fuse box. Beast boy was sitting by a line of small battery powered lamps he had placed on the back of the sofa. He looked up at the sound of the door opening to see his fearless leader and a rather distressed Tamarailian.
"Oh... hey guys."
The changeling with a fake smile announced as his robotic friend quickly had think up of what to say to their leader about the unexpected blackout.
"Hey Rob!" Cyborg quickly smiled. Robin looked between the two Titans before continuing.
"OK... what happened here? And why did the whole tower shake?" He asked in a calm manner. Beast Boy looked at Cyborg who looked back at him.
"Err... well it turns out that... we were..." Beast Boy Boy began to say.
"We were hacked!" Cyborg swiftly saved him by finishing his sentence.
"Hacked?!" Robin was taken back by this.
"Hacked?" Starfire looked confused.
"Hacked?" A third, monotone voice entered the room. The spiky haired boy and red headed alien turned to see a very annoyed looking empath behind them.
"Yeah... hacked!" Beast Boy quickly caught on to Cyborg's plan.
"What kind of hacker can cause an earthquake?" Raven was skeptical with his answer.
"The same type of hacker that can cause a blackout and whoever it was completely fried our system." Cyborg stated in a professional manner. Robin looked bewildered.
"Ohh kayy... will you be able to get a trace of this hacker?" Cyborg sighed and shook his head.
"I doubt it. Whoever did this was heavily skilled and knew how to cover their tracks with only the most advanced technology " He almost smirked at his hidden boasting.
Beast Boy rolled his eyes as Raven eyed both of them.
Robin sighed and turned to leave. "I'll go down and start up the backup generator, hopefully it survived the hack."
Starfire waited after he'd gone and spoke to her friends.
"Friend Beast Boy, please may I take one of you're small lights of the source to put in my bedroom. I do not wish to sleep in the complete darkness." She shifted uncomfortably at her request.
"Sure Star, help yourself." Beast Boy smiled happily as she came down and took one of the lamps.
"Thank you friend. I wish you pleasant snorbogs." She retreated out of the room leaving Raven who still looked sore at the two boys.
"OK, I'll leave you two to fix this mess." She turned to leave. Beast Boy looked over and smiled at his robotic friend who looked back at him relived.
He then heard a suddenly blow of wind and was surprised to see Raven standing right in front of him.
"But just to clarify." She spoke in a very low voice.
"Who ever did this disturbed my meditation, at the Worst of all times and when I find whoever is responsible for this, I can assure they will experience the most agonizing pain know to this universe. Got it?!"
She snapped her head to the right at Cyborg who quickly put his hands up in defense.
"Alright! Alright! we got it. Gez... just chill Raven." Cyborg tried to repel the mean empaths wrath. She swiftly turned away and glided out of the room. As soon as the door slid shut Cyborg let out a long sigh of relief.
"Man. That was too close." He glanced over to see Beast Boy who looked zoned out. "Err... B? You okay?" The green teen then shook out of his stance and looked at Cyborg.
"Dude... why? Why does she always pick on me?!" His face had a hurt expression.
"B, She was mad at both of us. I was shaking on the inside as well." Cyborg looked at his best friend who was now looking even more depressed.
"What I mean is when ever something goes wrong. I get most of the blame from her. Even when I don't deserve it!" He sat down on the sofa with his arms crossed and looked glum. Cyborg walk over to his friend and sat down next to him.
"Look B. Raven has... big, complicated issues and sometimes... Well she probably doesn't mean what she says... at least not all the time." He smiled awkwardly at his friend.
"Yeah, but that's no excuse to use me as target practice or a scapegoat to blame everything on! I'm sick and tired of it!" He covered his face with his gloves in defeat. Cyborg sighed again.
"I know B. Lets just be glade they didn't see what happened to the walls and the TV. It wouldn't take a genius to know that it was my sonic cannon." Beast Boy nodded and got up to help cleanup their mess.
Floating through the open doorway of Robin's bedroom. The dark aura explored his weapons collection, various masks and hair jell products before leaving out through an open window. It sailed out into the nigh sky and across the open bay that was illuminated by the fall moon.
It descended onto a quiet, rocky shore where the aura suddenly began to change shape. It slowly started to take form of that of a human. It was about the same size as Robin with an average sized build. A head soon formed on its shoulders and after a few brief seconds. Two bright white eyes formed on its face, followed by a mouth... which smiled.
"Heh, heh, heh." The mysterious, new to earth figure chuckled and inhaled a deep breath.
"Fresh air. Its good to back and livin'."
The figure looked up at the city and observed its new environment.
"Well, this is new. Guess its time for some sight seein'."
It smirked and advanced towards the city.