Darker Days


Hey, I have a question. How hard is it to play a simple video game with a group of friends? Eh, not too hard. Well, here's a better question for you. How hard is it to play a video game when you are sucked into it and forced to fight for your life in a world that is unknown to any of you? Pretty dang hard.


Disclaimer: I do not own the Teen Titan's.


Note: May be kind of slow at first, but after this chapter, things really pick up.

Chapter 2 - Logged In

Each teen stared at the screen and watched as their characters were taken from the character selection page to inside the game itself. While each gamer sat in their own rooms, they watched as the intro to their game did an overview of one city after another, flipping over to different types of superheroes and villains that were shown to let them know what they would be getting into.

Finally, the screen stopped and their characters stood, all in the same stop, as they finally finish entering the game.

Richard pressed the up arrow on his key board and watched as his character took a few steps forward. Releasing the up arrow, he used the left arrow key to turn his guy around so he could catch a glimpse of his other friends.

Kori, Garfield, Victor, and Rachael all did similar movements, but in different directions. Now each character stood in a semi looking circle, wanting to observe each other's characters.

"Robin, huh?" Garfield asked, looking over the hero.

Richard's character, Robin, stood between the height of Victor's and Garfield's characters, much like in real life. His hair was spiked and a dark color, similar to his own. His blue eyes were covered in an eye mask which gave him a mysterious look. With the editor the game allowed him to use, he made his character consisted of green tights with black steel-toed boots, a green short-sleeved shirt underneath a red armored vest with a yellow "R" over his left pectoral muscle, along with a yellow utility belt and a black cape that had a yellow interior.

"I think I look cooler." Victor said, a cocky tone in his voice. The others glanced at his character, Cyborg, who stood the tallest in the group. His taller, dark skinned body was mostly made of what appeared to be metal and machine parts. Clicking a button on his keyboard, he watched as Cyborg brought his arm up and his arm transformed into a canon. "Sweet! Cool moves and looks like me for the most part. Win, win."

"Yeah, looks like you. Tall and bald." Garfield laughed.

"You're one to joke. You're green." Rachael said, annoyance clear in her voice.

Garfield's guy, Beast Boy, stood the smallest of all the computer characters, just about the same height as Rachael's girl. He had messy hair and wore a one piece body suit that was purple other than the black arms and legs. His boots were steel toed like Robin, but were purple. To finish off his looks, his ears pointed like some type of animal and his skin was green. A single fang pointed up from his lower mouth and stuck out, just over his upper lip which gave off some type of animal look.

Garfield shrugged as he confessed, "I think I look awesome."

Rachael rolled her eyes.

"I can tell that your character represents you well." Kori said, looking over her female friends choice of creations.

"I agree Rachael. You look so alike." Richard said.

Rachael's character, Raven, stood there, her cloak blowing in the computer generated wind within the game. Her black leotard was barely noticed under the long purple cloak. A small diamond looking gem sat in the middle of her forehead. Rachael couldn't help but notice how well she managed to perfect her girls hair. Exactly like her own, but computerized.

"Hm." was all Rachael said, in slight thought until she heard Richard's voice.

"Kori, you look... Well, your character looks really nice."

Kori looked her girl over and smiled, "Why thank you!" Her character, Starfire, stood tall, much like herself in person. Her hair was long, just past her mid back. Shore wore long purple boots that went to her thighs. To complement the boots, Starfire had on a purple mini skirt and a purple shirt that showed her midriff. Finally she had a silver armor belt on, metal arm braces, and an armor brace that went up her neck.

To finish everything off, her eyes shined a bright green; even the whites of her eyes were a light green and everyone could tell that her character was not from Earth.

"So, now that we are all here, now what?"

"Well, let's check out what we can do. Seems like there's Jump City, Gotham, Steel, and more. I don't want to be in Gotham though." Richard state, looking at the green to see what there was.

Victor shrugged, "Let's stay in Jump."

Everyone chorused an agreement and to work they went.

"It says here that I can build things. If we are going to play this game for a while, I'll check out how to built a headquarters. What do you think?" Victor asked, making his large Cyborg character turn around, searching for a place to start building.

"First, we need a cool name!" Garfield said, his voice a little too loud for a gothic girls taste.

Rachael, still not having moved, simply crossed her arms over her chest. "Garfield."

"Yes?"

"Shut up."

"Actually, Rachael, he's right." Richard said, kind of nervous by the feeling he had. He knew that Rachael was probably wanting to kill him right now.

Kori thought for a few minutes and finally asked, "How about Teen Titans?"

After a few minutes of no one saying anything, one at a time each one of her friends accepted the title.

"Good job Kor." Richard said, making Robin face Starfire.

"Check this out!"

Garfield grinned as he pressed a button on his keyboard. Suddenly his character morphed, growing bigger and bigger until finally he stopped. "I'm a T-Rex! This so totally rocks..."

Each one of the friends took time to look up their characters abilities and history, even changing some of it to better suit their interest. Kori, already finished going over the only three abilities she had, checked out some personal information on herself.

"I am from a planet called Tamaran. I know only Tamaranean as a language?" She questioned in the end. Typing out some words in her chat box to another random online player, she frowned when the player simply walked away, stating that he had no clue what she had said.

"Whatever you said Kori, it came out in strange symbols and letters." Garfield said, trying to understand it.

Kori sighed, "Great, way to go Kori... Last time I choose a random place of Origin..."

Suddenly a box popped up on each players screen.

"Everyone, click accept." Richard said, having sent them all something. Each one clicked the large 'accept' button and noticed that there were four heads that popped up under their own characters in small boxes in the upper left hand side of the screen. Similar to their own, two bars were next to each box that held the picture of the characters.

"Now we are all in a group, or Party or whatever it is called." Richard said, still not fully knowing the actual terms. "I was reading the manual to this game and it says here that we can form what's called 'Guilds'. An organization of peoples with similar interest and goals. Right now, we are in a party and can see each other's health, magic, or stamina bars."

"A guild must be where we call ourselves the Teen Titans."

Rachael finally led her character away from the others while they talked. She found herself going down a dark alley where she didn't expect to see anyone, other than the cat she watched rush away on the screen. Suddenly she caught sight of something. A character in the game appeared, leaning against a wall. Walking over to him, she right clicked on him when she saw the large exclamation mark above his head. Suddenly a large box pulled up and read;

Marcus Hall

'Wow, Raven! It's an honor to meet you! I'm Marcus, and you're, well... Raven! Heh... Excuse me, I'm a little nervous. I'm a big fan. Anyways... I hear about some guy who is making this computer program. After people get the program, they just disappear... Can you stop him? I'm sure the Mayor will pay greatly.'

Required Party Number: 1

Objective: Find man, stop him, and get the computer program. See Mayor Weston when finished.

Awards: 58 Experience

Accept or Decline?

"Hey guys, are you all interested in this, uh... Mission?" Rachael asked, not sure how to word anything. Clicking the share button, she let the others in her group see the same thing she saw, but their names replaced hers.

"Why not?" Richard said.

Moving the mouse to the accept button, each one of them clicked it.

Richard frowned as his lights flickered. He looked at his desk, near his large queen sized bed, and watched as the light bulb went on and off. Suddenly the house began to shake. The Wayne mansion shook aggressively and Richard cursed as he tried to stand and fell, almost ripping his headphones out of the computer.

Richard heard a scream come from Kori and he began to worry. "Kori! Are you okay?!"

"It's an Earthquake!" Garfield shouted.

Richard stood up, barely able to stand as the mansion continued to shake violently. To catch himself, Richard leaned forward and caught himself by using the computer desk to balance him. Looking at the blank computer screen, he opened his mouth to speak until he felt dizzy. Suddenly he felt a weak fatigue feeling take over him and the final thing he heard was the yells and screams from his friends through his headphones before he found himself in darkness.