New Guy Naga

Author's Note: Everything in "Italics" will be thought, people on TV, and/or writing, just so you know

You may get some new questions in this chapter. ;)


Chapter 2: Return

It'd been two days since Naga's attack, and people were trying to forget that he ever existed. The bank was being reconstructed and the roads were being re-tarred. Robin was trying to find out anything he could about their new addition to the wanted list. He wasn't obssessing over it like he did with Slade. He didn't find many leads (actually he didn't find any leads at all), so he decided to just wait until Naga's next attack, if there would be a next attack. They already made a new strategy for the next time they met the snake kid; they would attack him all at once to overwhelm any defenses he might have. Raven would use her astral raven form, Cyborg would attack with both sonic cannons and anything else in his arsenal, and do the sonic boom with Robin if necessary, Starfire would go full out Tamaranian warrior, and Beast Boy would try something new (he had been practicing turning into alien creatures since their return from Starfire's false wedding).

On the rooftop of a skyscraper Naga sits watching as the numerous humans come and go.

"Ugghh... Don't they make you sick just watching them" an angry voice out of six other voices had said.

"Why do you dislike the humans so much Inferno?" a calm voice asked.

"Yeah they're a lot of fun to mess with," added someone who was clearly trying to supress laughter.

Inferno answered the question directed at him: "because, dear Marina, the humans have done nothing but ruin the Earth, even you can't deny the choking oil they put into the seas."

Marina simply stated "I will not turn a blind eye to what they've caused, but I will not always look on the negative side of things like you do, and Airheart, it's not polite to 'mess with someone' the way you do."

(Cut scene to go to Naga's mind where he is with six figures: Darkvolt, a midnight-black dragon the size of a car; Inferno, a red, human-sized beast that looks like a humanoid-form of a chupacabra (look it up on Google Images or use this link, wiki/Chupacabra, you'll know what I mean.); Sub-Terror, a creature that looked like Shukaku from Naruto, only with four scorpion legs, five eyes on a cat-like head, a scorpion's tail, and two diamonds coming out of his shoulders (bizarre isn't it ;P); Frostbite, a giant, snowy blue werewolf with icicles growing on his back; Marina, a blue, truck sized lobster; and Airheart a 12 foot tall, grey falcon.)

(Cut scene back to Naga on the building conversing with the six beings through thought)

"It is funny to see them scatter in every direction whenever you blow up a hydrant," Naga admitted to Airheart.

"They're pathetic," Inferno cut in.

"They just need time to develop," Marina claimed

"They've had 200,000 years to develop and they still haven't gotten past their own moon," Inferno retorted.

"Would both of you SHUT UP!" Naga and Darkvolt screamed at the same time.

"Whenever you guys fight I always end up with a headache, cut it out ok," Naga scolded.

"We apologize for causing you discomfort Naga," said Marina as she tried to soothe the rage that she and Inferno had caused him.

"It's ok; just keep it down," said Naga as he reassured the voices in his head.

"You know Airheart, I think I'll try your sense of humor; and don't worry Marina I'm not going to 'hurt' anyone," Naga thought as he got up and got ready to cause some panic.


Titans Tower in the Afternoon

The Titans come into the living room after a day of training.

"Yo, Rob, don't you think it's about time we upgraded the obstacle courses and the training equipment," Cyborg asked his spikey haired leader.

"Yeah Cyborg, the courses are becoming way to easy, and the gym equipment is a little outdated," Robin told his metallic friend as everyone sat down at the couch. Robin was the first to get to the remote so he would decide what they watched, soon though, one of those annoying "Breaking News," reports came on. Unfortunately, the report was on every other channel, so the Titans could do nothing but wait it out. This report however, immediately caught the young heroes attention.

"Breaking News. About two days ago, police forces in Thailand made numerous arrests of illegal animal smugglers in the JJ Market, but that's not the strange part. The strange part is that this help seems to have come from nowhere. This all began two days ago when the police recieved an anonymous call and arrived at a seemingly normal store. Now police in Thailand are not allowed to investigate stores that are closed off to the public, but oddly enough this store literally had the doors wide open. (Cut to image of police entering an open store). Once inside the police found the body of the stores proprietor, paralyzed in the middle of the store with a gun in his hand, suggesting he was injured in a fight. (Cut scene to body of the man lying stiff on the floor). However, the only marks indicating a struggle are the burn marks around his chest, suggesting he accidentally electrocuted himself. Along with the body the police found a back room filled with endangered Bengal Tiger cubs, and a chart showing that they would be scheduled for slaughter and have their pelts sold. (Cut to Titans living room where Beast Boy is enraged that someone would hurt any animals especially rare tiger cubs, and Starfire who was just mad anyone would hurt a creature so adorable. The other Titans are upset by this news but hide it better). The police also find a note that says, and I quote, "To the police, search the filing cabinets in the back office to find out more about what's been going on here. And make sure these animals are put back into their proper habitat," with no hint as to who had left the note. Upon searching the filing cabinets thoroughly the local law enforcements learn of the suppliers and buyers of the endangered species sold throughout the entire JJ Market. With this much incriminating evidence the police forces are given the power to search any suspicious stores regardless if they're opened or not. However, the attacker has of yet to be discovered, there is even debate on whether or not it was intentional, accidental, or even attempted suicide. Some people believe it was possibly an overzealous animal liberation activist. If the case truly is attempted murder, then it is a matter of human law vs. morality. We now return you to your regularly scheduled program."

The news report ended and the usually aired cooking program comes back on.

"I say that if they ever find the dude who attacked that guy, they should thank him for what he did," said Beast Boy breaking the silence that followed the news report. The three Titans that didn't show their anger, looked at him with shock that their most laid back member actually approved of the person's death.

"I agree with friend Beast Boy," Starfire interjected. "On my world the slaughter of the young and innocent is one of the most atrocious acts, and one of the most unforgivable," she added.

Robin broke the second awkward pause with, "I'm not saying that what the animal smugglers did wasn't wrong but still, the guy should've at least been tied up, not electrocuted." To diffuse the tension, Cyborg suggested that they go out for pizza.

Pizza Restaurant Downtown

The Titans are sitting down at their usual table on top of the roof with a large pizza that is a mix of: regular, meat-lovers, vegetarian, mushroom, and mustered-coated (you can guess who that's for). After almost an hour the teen superheroes finish their food, payed the bill, and headed out to the T-Car when an explosion at a jewelery store puts them into hero mode. Walking out of the store with their usual smug faces, came the H.I.V.E. Five: Angel, See-More, Gizmo, Mammoth, Kyd Wykkyd, and Billy Numerous (Gotcha. You thought it was Naga ;P). The heroes and villains didn't even exchange unpleasantries, as they already had a feeling about how this would turn out. What the Titans didn't expect was for the H.I.V.E.'s new toys.

Since Jinx was no longer part of the H.I.V.E., Angel became the groups new leader, and she and her comrades had with them some rather deadly gauntlets (gloves), and enhanced visors. When Robin tried thowing a few exploding discs, a group of Billy Numerous' had caught them with their gauntlets, which absorbed the explosion and shot deadly green energy beems which turned the road they were standing on into liquid tar.

Kyd Wykkyd teleported in front of the startled heroes and used his gauntlets to hurl several empty cars at the Titans. "Cyborg what's up with those devices," Raven asked.

After analyzing the pair of gloves and visor of each ciminal, he came back with his recordings.

"It seems that their gloves give them energy beam projection, electromagnetic manipulation, and their visors give them the same capabilities as my cybernetic eye."

"Cyborg you should get out of here," Robin ordered his best friend.

"Don't even argue about it dude. With those magnet gloves you're in real danger," Beast Boy urged, not wanting anything to happen to his big brother, remembering how worried he was after the fight in the junkyard against the Amazing Mumbo. But before Cyborg could get away Gizmo, while using his new toy, grabbed Cyborg and smashed him up, down, and across the street. "Take this ya' jackass," shouted Gizmo (after they were thawed out from being frozen by the Titans, Gizmo decided to update his use of profanity).

Naga was sitting in the shadows messing with people by freezing them from the knees down, busting sewer pipes, causing the streets to flood, and throwing the sewer water in people's faces, when he heard an explosion about a block and a half away.

Travelling through the alleys and in the shadows, he saw the Titans in epic combat against what he suspected to be the H.I.V.E. Five. He had heard that this group was nothing but a bunch of petty criminals that normally got their asses kicked by the Titans, but now they actually seemed formidable in holding their own, and even getting the upper hand on the Guardians of Jump City.

The metal man seemed to be getting the main end of the beating, with his right leg magnetically forced off, while the other four had massive burn marks across their bodies. As the six criminals (I never did get why they called themselves the H.I.V.E. Five when there are six of them, not to mention a varying number of Billies), surrounded the heroes for the kill, the flashing neon morality sign inside of him kept screaming "HELP THEM!"

As the delinquent supervillains aimed their gloves, ready to strike the final blow, from out of nowhere, the area around the Titans became encased in a dome made out of diamonds. As the H.I.V.E. Five continually shot at the dome trying to destroy it they noticed a person in a trench coat, sunglasses, and a wide hat, with his right arm stretched out, and the muscles in his fingers straining to keep his construct up.

"So you must be the guy who came and left two days ago," Angel concluded.

"Why are you protecting these bastards? If you're a villain you would help us send them to hell," Gizmo questioned from his spider-legged apparatus.

"I'm not a petty thief like you idiots. I don't steal for my own monitary gain," Naga stated.

As soon as he was finished the H.I.V.E. Five threw a barrage of energy and metal objects at the solo figure, who instead of avoiding the attack, shot multiple bolts of lightning, disrupting the beams course and destroying everything that was thrown at him. Grinning wide enough to reveal his fangs and to make his enemies nervous, he dashed towards the group dodging their attacks, while simultaneously using his ice covered hands to slice through two of Gizmo's mechanical spider legs.

After dodging several energy beams fired by See-More and Kyd Wykkyd, Angel tried to take Naga on in hand-to-hand combat. However, this proved to be a big mistake; Naga quickley avoided Angel's punches, grabbed her by the wrists and increased the pressure, with the intent of breaking them, while hearing her scream bloody murder.

However, while he was causing Angel ever increasing agony, Kyd Wykkyd aimed a shot and caught Naga on the right side of the chest throwing him back several feet. As Naga got up there seemed to be something under the spot where he got hit. It wasn't from the energy beams, because it was only a few inches wide, surrounded by areas of skin that wasn't burned. While all of this was going on the Titans regained consciousness and saw the person that they tried to arrest saving them from oblivion's embrace. They also saw the mark under his shirt, but before any of them could say anything about it, he closed his coat and continued fighting.

Naga now fought with a new primal instinct, breaking any bones he could aim at. When Mammoth ambushed him and sent him going back near the bay, Naga used his water control to make squid-like tentacles form from the water and tried to crush his combatants. Using one of their battle formations, the H.I.V.E. managed to get up close to Naga and simultaneously aimed at his head in an effort to decapitate him. At the last minute Naga was able to form an ice shield over himself, but it wasn't soon enough, as the energy beams, along with Gizmo's personal arsenal had overwhelmed him knocking him back into the bay, seemingly dead. On the water's surface floated Naga's hat and sunglasses, which eventually sank to the sea floor below.

"That was fun wasn't it," Angel concluded, as she and her teammates refocused their attention back onto the Titans, who had been left exposed to attack, when Naga's crystal dome fell when he did.

Prepared to finish what they started, the H.I.V.E. aimed at the Titans; but before they could fire, they were disrupted by an earthquake, and Naga who appeared from out of the ground only without his hat and glasses. Everyone immediatley realised why he wore them.

The hat was used to cover up a very large, loosley curled afro, while the glasses were to cover up a pair of eyes that had blood red iris'. Seeing Naga's fro made the H.I.V.E. Five burst into laughter, despite the crimson eyes that seemed to pierce through you.

"Nice hair ya' freak," Gizmo shouted.

"Hmph... At least I've got hair," Naga retaliated, which caused Gizmo to turn almost as red as Naga's eyes. Before Gizmo could say anything, however, the atmoskines summoned a tornado to completely surround him and create a maelstrom out of anything that wasn't alive or merged to the ground, including the T-Car. When there was enough debris, Naga forced the tornado at the H.I.V.E., knocking out a group of Billies, See-More, and Mammoth.

When Gizmo, Kyd Wykkyd, some other Billies, and Angel tried to escape, multiple hands made out of stone grabbed them and held them down. Naga then brought out four pillars of earth, placed them over Angel, and made a twisted looking grin that showed his fangs.

Naga then shouted "PILLARS OF JUDGEMENT!," and used them to crush Angel's arms and legs, rendering her unable to move. During the ordeal the Titans were able to pick themselves up and rushed over to their savior/enemy. Soon the police arrived and brought a prison ambulance for Angel, while pointing their guns at the other H.I.V.E. members along with Naga. When they were about to put a pair of power inhibitters on him, Robin told them that they would be holding him in Titans Tower. Whatever surprise Naga had he tried to mask, although he couldn't help but raise an eyebrow. However, instead of just going away, curiousity overtook him, and he decided to see where this would lead.

Back at Titans Tower

When the Titans got back home they led Naga into one of the lower levels, and placed him into one of their "Maximum Priority Containment Cells." Once inside Robin, while using an intercom, told him: "Just so you know, trying to escape won't be a good idea. This holding cell was made with Justice League tech to house criminals as dangerous as the Brotherhood of Evil, and this room is made completely out of petroleum so your geomancing won't be of much use; and..." however, before he could say anything else Naga interrupted saying: "why are you keeping me here? Wouldn't it have been easier to just hand me over to the police, not that I would go."

"Even if we did hand you over, to the local authorities, and even if they had put you into their best cells, it would be safe to assume you could escape," Robin said.

"It's good that you did take me because I would have been sentenced to death if I went with the police," Naga exclaimed. "Why?" asked Beast Boy sensing a secret about to be unravelled. While not saying too much, but while not lying at the same time he told them that he was the one who attacked the store owner in Thailand.

The Titans decided to talk in the hall about what they should do and to get some food, they started to talk about what to do with their guest/captive.

"He'll just escape if we give him to the police," Raven stated.

"Yeah but still it's kinda weird just being in the same area as him, let alone the same building," Cyborg argued.

"I say we keep him," Beast Boy practically shouted. The other four teens new why he would let him stay, but they still had to ask, "Why?"

"Well for one he's really strong, I mean did you see what he did to the H.I.V.E., I mean sure it was unsettling, but really cool." After about ten minutes of debate, Robin decided they would keep him on a sort of probation: Naga would stay in the tower and would only go into town with at least one other Titan, and if he proved to be a trustworthy ally, they would offer him membership into the Teen Titans.

After the five told him about the deal, Robin told Naga he wanted Raven to do a mind sweep of him, to make sure he wasn't working for someone who wanted to see them in coffins. Naga kept objecting to the intrusion, but since he was literally powerless, he had no say in the matter, Raven's signature black astral Raven projection entered his mind, causing his eyes to become purple like hers. At first she was surprised by the mental barriers that she was confronted with, but eventually she got through. Everything she saw inside his mind was clouded and indistinguishable. Eventually she came to a large crystal door, with a large, black snake marked onto it. When she teleported through it, she saw six hazy white silhouettes. However, before she could figure out what they were, she was confronted by a snake made out of dark lightning that was as big as her astral projection. The bird of prey and the legless reptile both fought their hardest; unfortunately for Raven, since she was in Naga's mind, she was much less powerful than in the real world, and she was eventually thrown back into her own body.

As Raven regained consciousness Starfire had come up to her demonic friend and asked her what she had seen. Raven told them that there was no subterfuge, but as soon as they were out of earshot she said, "I think it would be a good idea to keep a really close eye on him."