EP 1 : The Amazing High Seas Adventures of Captain Mumbo! or...Five ways to drown a Kitten.
"AND NOW! For my next trick, I will make this ring disappear!" The gray-haired magician placed the ring on his palm and in a few twists of his hand, it vanished right in front of the woman's eyes. Gasps were heard throughout the deck of the ship as the ring magically vanished.
Then came the applause.
"Thank you Thank you! You've been a lovely audience!" The Magician smiled, enjoying every second of it, this was his life, his profession, and he never dreamt of getting sick of show biz. He was grateful for this job, his second chance. He had received his parole, which had allowed him to get back to where he had started, back to earning a decent and honest living.
Perhaps this was the best way after all.
The magician then leaned towards the woman, whose ring was still missing.
"Don't worry madam, you'll get your ring back, this is my third time doing this trick and I've lost what? Two rings?"
The crowd burst into laughter, and a look of shock ran deep over the woman's face, but without another snap of a finger, the ring appeared back in his hand. A look of relief poured onto her face.
"Let's give this lovely assistant a big hand!" The magician shouted, and already the members of the audience, mostly little kids, stood up and cheered. The magician smiled, delighted that his tricks were pleasing his audience…until…..
"BORRRRING!" The voice of a little girl droned on in the corner, somehow droning out the applause that the magician was receiving. "You call that a trick? My grandma can do a better job. Come on! Let's see some real magic! I know its all fake." A girl shouted in a high annoying voice. The Magician turned his attention to the corner, where a young lady and her friends stood.
The Magician was taken aback by this young lady, who did she think she is?
"My young lady, you must be mistaken, this is all very real. Don't you believe in magic?"
"Pfft, yeah right." The young girl stood up and walked up to the stage, and the magician suddenly realized that she wasn't so 'little' at all. She wasn't a child like the most of his audience, but a teenager, a rather spoiled looking one at that. Indeed, she looked even more spoiled with that dress of hers, not to mention her friends too.
"I can see through all your tricks, I thought you were supposed to be entertaining me. I didn't plan on spending any of my precious summer vacation being bored to death by an old moldy magician." The young woman asserted herself quite quickly, climbing the stage and staring down the poor magician.
"Please miss, there are children here, why can't you just sit back and enjoy the show like everyone else is?"
"Because it's not real!" The lady screamed impatiently, and with a flick of her arm quickly stole the magician's hat.
"See? He's hiding all the stuff in his hat!" And sure enough, with a few shakes, a flock of doves flew out. Soon afterward, the young lady pulled the Magician's sleeves up, revealing a huge stash of hidden cards.
"Who do you think you are?" The magician, feeling humiliated as the audience bursted out laughing, asked indignantly.
"The name's Kitten," She said as if it was a boast. "and next time you decide to take up MY precious summer vacation time, try doing something entertaining for a change! Like drop your pants!"
The crowd began laughing now, along with the Kitten's teenage friends, all of them laughing at his expense.
With a grumble, the magician swiped back his hat. The children in the crowd, seeing that their magician was a fake, suddenly made disappointed groans, while Kitten and her teenage friends laughed at him.
The Magician, deciding his show was ruined, gave a sad look on his face and quietly took his suitcase of magic tricks and walked behind a door backstage. She could insult anything, heck, he tolerated the personal attacks, but insulting the wonders of magic? That was it, he would show her.
He closed the door, giving the girl an angry glare, reaching into his suitcase to pull out a new wand.
Kitten however, having too much fun at the expense of others, decided to follow the magician even as he disappeared behind the door.
"Hey! Come back! I'm not finished with you yet."
Before she even reached the handle however, the door suddenly exploded in a violent rush of wind. The children screamed as a giant tornado engulfed the deck, streams of silk, confetti and flowers poured out of the tornado and rained onto the deck, as if someone had exploded a giant piñata.
Spinning out of the tornado, to the surprise of a Kitten, was a new Magician. A green faced one with white hair and a mask similar to Robin's.
"Who the heck do you think you are you stupid magician?" Kitten shouted angrily, suddenly realizing that the breeze had ruined her hairdo, which she had spent all morning doing.
"That's Captain Mumbo to you kiddies!" He laughed even more. "Now get ready for a high seas voyage you'll never forget!" He ended that last sentence with a dark grin.
The green skinned magician laughed maniacally, and with a wave of his wand, wrapped up Kitten and her gang in silken ropes. The audience, alarmed by this, suddenly broke into a panic and began to flee.
(Fade to song)
When
there's trouble you know who to call
Teen
Titans!
From
their tower, they can see it all
Teen
Titans!
When
there's evil on the attack
You
can rest knowing they got your back
'Cuz
when the world needs heroes on patrol
Teen
Titans GO!
With
their superpowers they unite
Teen
Titans!
Never
met a villain that they liked
Teen
Titans!
They've
got the bad guys on the run
They
never stop 'till the job gets done
'Cuz
when the world is losin' all control
Teen
Titans GO!
1..
2.. 3.. 4.. Go!
Teen
Titans!
The sun was at high noon on a beautiful summer day. The waters of Jump City's bay glistened brilliantly, and city's seaside was bathed in glowing warmth. Waves crashed into the beaches, a cool refreshing white that seemed to line the entire shoreline.
"Whoooo! Cowabunga dudes!" Beast Boy shouted, water skiing behind the T-sub, which was plowing full speed above the waves.
"Think you can hold on B?" Cyborg shouted back from the cockpit.
"Give me your best shot Cy." Beast Boy grinned, transforming into an octopus and gripping the bar with all his tentacles.
"Don't say I didn't warn ya. Boo-Yah!" As if on cue, twin rocket boosters emerged from the rear of the T sub. The engines quickly sprung to life, throwing back a gigantic spray of water into Beast Boy's face.
Transforming back into a human, Beast Boy found that both his skis were gone, and that his feet were not even touching the surface of the water.
There was no time to think, all he could do was hold on for dear life. The changling shouted above the roar of the engines and the spray of the waves. "Cyborg…I think you should….slow downnnnnn!"
"What? Sorry B, can't hear you." Cyborg cupped his ear innocently, and the T sub, with the screaming Beast Boy pulling behind, made another pass around Titan's tower, sending waves crashing onto the beach.
Starfire and Robin meanwhile, paid no attention to Beast Boy's plight. Instead, they focused on a good ole fashioned game of beach volleyball. (in their normal clothes of course )
"Oh come on Raven! Won't you join us in volleying the ball?" Starfire shouted as she blocked another spike by Robin.
"Tempting. But no." Raven didn't even open her eyes as she meditated under the protection of a beach umbrella.
"Then perhaps you can help us in constructing our system of fortifications in the sand?"
"I'm sure you can manage without me." Raven replied laconically.
"But Raven, it is the season of Summer! The most joyous period known to Earth people! Surely there must be some enjoyment which you can find during this time?"
"Yea, it's called peace, quiet, tranquility." She replied, slightly annoyed.
Before star could reply however, another sound cut through the air.
"Look out DUUUDES!"
Raven looked up and saw an odd sight, a green dot that was quickly growing bigger in the sky. She barely had time to react as Beast Boy plowed into the sand, throwing up a wall of sand that buried Raven and her umbrella.
"Why do I bother…." Raven sighed, then levitated her umbrella out of the sand pile and brushed the dirt off her cape.
"Oh no! Our friend is stuck!" Starfire pointed with concern at Beast Boy, whose head was bobbed down in the sand like an ostrich.
Taking Beast Boy by the foot, and firmly placing her feet against the sand, the Tamaranian pulled, and the green titan was freed in no time.
"Pleh!" Beast boy spat out some sand. "Remind me next time not to let Cyborg drive." The Green Titan sat down on the beach, furiously trying to rub the sand out of his hair.
"Did someone call me?" Cyborg, parking the T sub just on the Beach, observed the whole scene while managing to keep a straight face. "You did say give 'give me your best shot'" The android whistled innocently.
"Is everyone alright here?" Robin, having just reached the group asked. "You look pretty beat Beast Boy."
Before Beast Boy could even reply however, a red light began beeping on each of the Titans' belts.
"Looks like Trouble." Cyborg said seriously.
Robin took the communicator from his belt, and stared at the small screen. With a nod he quickly snapped it shut and placed it back on his belt. "Titans, Go!"
Screaming passengers ran all over the deck, tripping and fall over each other, running from a gigantic wave of bunny dolls, ticker tape, confetti and bouncy red balls. Explosions of confetti rained all over the place, and the children laughed, reaching for them as they fell in the air before their parents carried them away with them.
"Leaving so soon folks?" Mumbo said gleefully. "Why leave? When there's time for an encore!"
A band of red, yellow, and blue silk suddenly wrapped around the doorway, forcing the audience back onto deck.
"Time for some helping hands wouldn't you say?" Mumbo took off his hat, sprouting about a dozen oversize gloves that were as big as a man. Each glove ran towards the crowd, almost scooping them into one place on the cruise ship.
The captain did not notice the screams, and was very surprised to find two gigantic white gloves fly up to the ship's bridge and punch through the window.
"What the-" The captain barely had time to protest as the gloves tied him up and bagged him in a sack. One glove tied the captain and his crew up while the other took the wheel, steering the ship out to sea.
Back down on deck, Mumbo placed his hat back on with relish, and then turned to the audience. "Now I know you'll all enjoy the next act as much as me. We'll now see if Kittens truly do land on their feet."
He waved his hand toward the side of the ship, and a long wooden plank sprouted from the ship, extending at least fifteen feet out into the open sea.
"Who wants to be my lovely assistant?" Mumbo grinned, then turned around to face Kitten and her spoiled friends tied up in rope and silk. "How about you my dear?"
The rope around kitten suddenly sprung to life, dragging her towards Mumbo.
"Let me go you creep! Do you know who I am? I'm -!" She was cut off as the silk wrapped around her mouth.
"Ya ya, one spoiled brat, I heard it the first time kid." Mumbo said in a tired voice, then turned back with a smile to his audience. "Now remember kids, don't try this trick at home."
With a protesting muffled scream, Kitten found herself floating in the air, place squarely on the plank.
"So kid, how's that for real magic eh?" Mumbo laughed again, his top hat then transformed into a cockade hat of a naval captain.
Kitten grumbled, somehow biting off the silk that tied her mouth. "Are you kidding? How do I know you aren't controlling this stuff with a remote?"
"Can a remote do this!" Mumbo flashed his wand again, and this time sharks appeared in the waters below the plank, their fins circling the waters below Kitten.
"You probably installed all of this stuff before we got on. Now untie me or I'll get daddy to-" A muzzle appeared in front of Kitten's face now, and magically strapped itself onto her, before she could struggle out of it, a lock put the finishing touches on and clamped it in place.
Mumbo sighed, wiping his face with an exaggerated sweat drop. "Everybody's a critic."
The villain sighed, but suddenly cheered up again. "Oh well! Let's get on with the show!." A saw magically appeared above the plank, and began cutting, to Kitten's horror.
"Maybe a nice dip can cool you down." Mumbo laughed again, and watched as the plank collapsed, sending a screaming Kitten falling down into the cold sea.
Mumbo, delighted that he was rid of that pest, turned his back and eagerly awaited the sound of a splash. But to his surprise, there was nothing.
"Eh?" The madcap Magician wondered out loud as he peered over the railing. "Now where did my assistant run off to? WAAAH!" This last imprecation was due to the fact that he saw the sole of a boot coming straight at him. The resulting kick in the face sent him flying back onto the stage.
Robin and the rest of the titans climbed onto the deck, the boy wonder holding the dazed Kitten in his arms.
As Kitten woke up, her eyes widened.
"OOOO Robbie Poo! I knew it! You've come to save me and get back together!"
"Um…..actually, we didn't even know you were on the ship. Also, we were NEVER together."
Kitten gave a dreamy sigh. "Oh don't worry Robbie Poo, I'm willing to forgive you for last time if you just-."
"For the last time, He's not your Robbie Poo!" Starfire growled at the spoiled girl, her eyes blazing with green rage. "And are you not suppose to be in jail?"
"Oh, Daddy was kind enough to take my prison sentence and add to his. Anything to get his precious daughter out of that nasty old jail." Kitten said boastingly.
"Gee," Beast Boy whispered to Cyborg. "I can't imagine why?" Both titans began thinking about Killer Moth, who was probably enjoying his first nag-free day in the slammer.
"What's wrong?" Kitten said tauntingly. "Jealous because you know that Robbie poo and I make the perfect cou-"
Robin unceremoniously dropped Kitten onto the deck before she finished. Kitten gave an exaggerated scream as she landed, and to Starfire's delight, began crying out because her dress got wet.
Robin meanwhile, focused on the real villain that stood on the stage.
"Ah! If it isn't my favourite audience! The Teen Titans!" Mumbo put his hat back on, and pulled his sleeves up as if he were getting ready for a fist fight.
"Mumbo." Robin replied in a serious tone. "Didn't they release you for good behaviour? I see that didn't last."
"Show Biz was calling to me! Besides Robin, don't be so quick to judge. I'm just bringing a little excitement on this floating rust bucket. In fact, let's get this show started shall we? Mumbo Jumbo!" With a flick of a wand, Mumbo sent a bright stream of magic at the five titans.
"Titans! Go!" Robin shouted, and the five superheroes instantly fanned out. Dodging the strings of silk that tried to grab the Titans.
"Show's over Mumbo." The boy wonder said as he landed just in front of the magician, his bo staff already out and ready to swipe the villain off his feet.
"If only i had a nickel for every time i heard you say that." Mumbo said gleefully. "Oh wait! I do!"
The Magician took off his hat, and out poured a gigantic wave of coins that stopped robin right in his tracks, sweeping him away until he hit the railing of the ship. The wave was so enormous that the floor was barely visible underneath the ocean of nickels. Eventually however, they all flowed overboard, leaving a dazed Robin hanging on the railing.
Beast Boy attacked next, transforming into an elephant and charging the magician. Mumbo however, just stretched his legs to an almost impossible length and let the green titan pass harmlessly underneath him.
The elephant stopped dead in its tracks, but before Beast Boy could turn, he found Mumbo was next to his face.
"This
one's going to be tricky." Mumbo grinned as he began pulling back
his sleeves. Before Beast Boy could do anything, the Magician had
stuck his full arm into his ear.
Beast
Boy's face twitched as he felt the Magician's arm probe his
earlobe, every movement causing extreme discomfort to
him.
Eventually, the Magician pulled out a giant coin from Beast Boy's ear, crushing the green Titan under its heavy weight. Mumbo gave another laugh, jumping up to avoid a blast of starbolts and black magic from the Raven and Starfire.
Beast Boy meanwhile, transformed back into a human, trapped under the giant coin, he gave a dazed groan. "Oooh man….did anyone get the number of that truck?"
"Eat this!" Cyborg charged his cannon and fired a blue sonic blast straight at Mumbo.
"If you insist!" The magician laughed, taking off his hat and holding it towards Cyborg as if he were trying to catch the beam.
The hat suddenly grew however, growing large enough to suck up Cyborg's energy beam into its hole.
"Huh?" Cyborg remarked with confusion, and watched as the hat began to make chewing sounds, gurgling and moving at the same time. Then suddenly the hat contracted and spat the beam back out at the android, knocking him back to the railing.
"Must have been a little too spicy." Mumbo cackled, putting his hat back on.
The villain turned, and saw that Robin was heading straight towards him with a dive kick.
"Oh I just love an audience full of eager volunteers!" Mumbo laughed, sidestepping out of the way and making a seemingly bottomless hole appear right where he once stood.
Robin cursed, trying to stop him from landing but it was too late. He fell into the hole in the deck, but there was no sound of him hitting the bottom. Moments later however, the boy wonder emerged as the hole began sprouting from the deck, in the form of a cannon.
"Titans off the port bow! FIRE!" Mumbo pulled the string attached to the gun, and Robin was sent flying off into the crow's nest of the ship. "AHHHHhhhhhhh"
"And who ever said the boy wonder wouldn't earn his wings?" The magician laughed, then got blasted from the side by Starfire and Raven.
"Azarath Metrion Zinthos!" Black energy, in the shape of a Raven's claw headed straight for the blue magician, while Starfire let loose a storm of green starbolts.
"Please ladies! One at a time!" Mumbo sidestepped away from the claw, in a sweeping bow, and then let loose a barrage of red explosive sponge balls that met each of Starfire's bolts and exploded in a giant cloud of string and confetti.
The two girls coughed as the smoke obscured their view.
"Raven, can you see Mumbo Jumbo?" Starfire inquired, charging her hands.
"That's MUMBO to you!" The Blue magician shouted through the smoke, "Abra Kadabra!"
The bits of confetti and string around Starfire began coming to life now, spinning her dizzily in a small tornado while tying her up, so that by the time the smoke cleared, Starfire resembled a mummy wrapped in red, blue, and yellow.
"mrmph!" Starfire struggled, falling onto the deck with a loud thud. Raven, having cleared the smoke, fired a black beam at Mumbo while Beast Boy, having freed himself from the coin, ran to help.
"Hocus Pocus!" Mumbo shouted with glee, and suddenly coils of bamboo began wrapping around both Raven and Beast Boy.
"Dude, what the-" Before they even realized it, Both Raven and Beast Boy found their bodies encased in baskets, with only their heads showing above the lids. They both reappeared instantly in front of the Magician, who gave a dark grin. Beast Boy and Raven watched as Mumbo took out two hands of cards in his hands.
"Now now, no need worry Titans, this is all part of the show." Mumbo said reassuringly.
"The unrehearsed part of it that is! Hahahahaha!"
In an instant, the cards vanished in a puff of smoke, each one replaced with a cutlass that glistened menacingly in his hands. A blindfold instantly appeared in front of the villain's grinning face as he prepared to throw them through the baskets.
"GAAAH!" Mumbo gave a high scream as a blue beam hit him in the back, sending him straight past Beast Boy and Raven and through the door into the cruise ship's interior, leaving a nice mumbo-shaped hole on the side of the wall.
The blue magician gave a dizzy groan as he emerged from the hole, and saw the Titans reassembling in front of him. Robin, having just got back from the other end of the ship, was already in front of him, in a combat stance.
It
looked as though the two parties would try at it again, but
then…..
"Hello!
I'm still here! What am I going to do with this dress! I just
bought it!" Kitten complained as she stumbled between the two
groups of combatants. The blond girl was holding the bottom of her
dress up in protest, to show the damage done. Starfire was tempted to
throw her overboard, but luckily Raven intervened.
"Hang it to dry." Raven replied.
The sorceress' eyes glowed black, and with a scream, Kitten found herself hoisted up a flag pole by a black enveloped rope.
"Allow me." Mumbo added with a flick of his magic wand, and soon the muzzle found its way back onto Kitten's face.
"Now where were we?" Mumbo smiled, pointing his wand at the Titans.
"Azarath…Metrion…ZINTHOS!" Raven attacked, and the rails on the side of the ship became engulfed in black magic. The bars flew straight for Mumbo, tying and twisting the Magician until it seemed like a metal snake was squeezing the life out of him.
Mumbo reacted with a smile, saying some magic words to conjure more objects onto the field. Soon a chain wrapped around him, followed by a straight Jacket. A wooden box appeared next, suddenly encasing mumbo, before it became locked on with more chains and a lock. The entire box was soon magically lifted into a gigantic steel vault that also appeared, and began filling with cement that was flowing out of a wacky looking portal.
"Er Raven…I didn't know you could do that." Beast Boy scratched his head with confusion.
"I didn't." Raven muttered, then used her magic to tear through the layers of the box until she carved a hole to reveal the wooden box that mumbo had sealed himself in.
The box opened……and the titans found that Mumbo was gone. In his place was a hilarious exaggerated caricature of himself, pointing down to a bomb that was already ticking.
"Aw crud!" Beast Boy shouted as the Titans jumped out of the way. The box exploded soon afterwards into a gigantic maelstrom of confetti and stuffed bunny dolls, which littered the entire deck..
Before the titans could gather themselves in the raining confetti, Mumbo was already running past the heroes with incredible speed.
"HAHA I can't believe I actually considered quitting this job! Hahahahahah!"
His laughter stopped as he saw that he was surrounded once again by the five titans. Cyborg peeled the confetti off his cannon, Raven and Starfire both charged their palms, while Beast Boy was already transformed into a velociraptor.
"Five against one is a little unfair I must say, let's even up the odds shall we?" Mumbo popped out another cannon out of thin air. Changing his hat into that of a pirate and donning an eye patch, the madcap Magician lit the fuse. The Titans, thinking that the cannon was aimed at them, were taken off guard as Mumbo jumped in the air and pushed the barrel of the cannon down onto the ship's deck. The gun exploded, cutting a shot straight through the hull of the ship and into the water.
The passengers screamed as the ship began tipping over, signs that water was flowing fast into the ship's hull.
"Better hurry up Titans, or else you'll all end up in Davy Jones' locker!" The magician laughed, put on a comical pirate hat and ran off in a blazing trail of dust.
"Beast Boy! Starfire! Get these people into the lifeboats! We'll go after Mumbo. Catch up to us when you're done!"
"We'll handle it," Cyborg nodded. "Take care of Mumbo."
"Come on, Beast Boy, Raven, let's go."
And so the three Titans entered the cruise ship, after the madcap Magician.
They found that Mumbo had plowed through several rooms, leaving a hole on the walls of each room.
The three Titans eventually stopped in a huge dimly lit theatre, with an indoor stage and curtains. Robin, Raven, and Beast Boy walked quietly down the aisle, ready for any sudden movements.
It was quiet...too quiet.
Suddenly the room exploded into a bright white light, and the dazed titans watched as Mumbo took a bow on the curtained stage. The sound of clapping hands and cheering were heard, even though the seats in the theatre were empty.
"Thank you! Thank you, you wonderful people. Remember I do encores, matinees and birthdays on the weekends"
"Give it up Mumbo!" Robin pointed at the villain.
"Well if it isn't our star attractions. Let's give them a big hand folks! Mumbo Jumbo!" The magician gave a flick of a wand, puffing himself up in smoke.
"Er…what was that?"
"JUMP!" Robin shouted, pulling Beast Boy away, while Raven phased through the floor. The two titans narrowly avoided a giant slap as a huge white-gloved hand floated above them.
Beast Boy attacked, transforming into a Rhino and charging the hand. The giant glove however, merely caught Beast Boy and threw him onto the second level of seats as if he were a baseball.
"Azarath Metrion Zinthos!" A dark wave of energy headed straight for the hand.
The glove however, simply pointed its index finger at the black magic, mimicking a gun, and with a puff of smoke, Raven's wave of magic transformed into a stream of doves, which swarmed all over Raven..
Robin however, had enough, and two birdarangs quickly cut through the giant glove, deflating it to the disappointment of Mumbo.
"Exit, stage left!" The villain cackled, then zapped an elevator onto the stage and walked into it. Before the other titans could pounce on him, he was already going down into the floor.
"Below us!" Robin shouted, and Raven quickly used her soul bird to send the three titans to the next level of the ship.
