Are you ready? Of course you are. You've been ready for SOOOOO long! It's been unfair for me to keep you waiting, but here it is... The start you've been waiting for. And soon after, the follow up will be coming up. Until then, enjoy yourselves!

Calm was the perfect word that could explain Jump City today; explain Titan's Tower. A debt fully paid, criminals relocked away into the prisons, and a serene weekend resting before them. As the sun glazed behind the arching dawn, the fields of Titan's Tower tinted a golden calm. The Titans had gathered at Titans' West tower like any weekend, but after the ruckus last weekend, everyone enjoyed the simple calm of just lounging about the Tower. Unfortunate how it is that nothing good lasts forever…

Robin, taking the time in the living room to do some last minute checks on the computers while the others had gone their own ways throughout the tower and city, finished his work on the final piece of information and scooted out of his chair. "There we go… All criminals around here are behind bars," Robin commented to himself with a slight grumble. "I just wonder how long it will be until they break out again…" with a heaved sigh, he clicked the monitor off and picked himself up from the chair.

Just as he started towards the left exit of the room, the right door slid open, allowing for Blue Beetle and Rose to walk in. Robin looked over at them curiously, noting that Blue Beetle had his arms filled to the brim with multiple card board boxes while Rose simply had her hands calmly behind her back. Rose skimmed the room over with a stoic yet devious air on her visage, until her eye set on Robin looking to them curiously. Her eye sparked filled with glee before she quickly moved closer to the boy wonder, immediately forcing regret on him that he hadn't left when he had the chance. "Robin! Glad I caught you before you went anywhere," Rose said, quickly cutting off his path of escape with a side step around him.

Despite how much he felt something was wrong about this, Robin worked up a weak smile and shrugged casually. "I wasn't planning on doing anything right now anyway," he lied before peaking over his shoulder at Blue Beetle who was putting his boxes down then looking back to Rose, "so what are you two up to?"

"'Up to'? Robin, that makes it sound like we're doing something bad," laughed Rose, followed by Blue Beetle's chortling chiming in with it, which brought an eerie chill to a still weakly smiling Robin. "We're not 'up to' anything… However we are cooking something up," she corrected Robin.

"Oh, I see the difference…" Robin half groaned, which Rose seemed to not pick up on as she continued on.

"Right. Well, I wanted to propose a little cash endeavor for the Teen Titans," Rose started to pitch, which for the first time since they started talking, got a reaction out of Robin.

"Cash endeavor? But our debts to the city are paid up… no thanks to Kid Flash," at the mention of that name, the three teens partly groaned in unison but quickly brushed it off.

"Yeah, we have… But where does that leave us? Broke, that's where it leaves us," Rose continued on, Blue Beetle nodding in agreement with her as he sat down on one of the boxes he carried in.

Robin gave a confused eye twitch to Rose as he processed that simple statement. "Broke? We're not broke. If we need money, Beast Boy, Speedy, or I could—"

"No, no, no, no," Rose cut in, waving her hands in front of Robin's masked face to stunt his explanation. "Yes, we could always go crying to daddy when we need money. But we're teens; we can make our own money and fend for ourselves, right?"

Robin pondered for a moment with a scratch to the tip of his chin; after but a few moment of thought, though it killed him, he nodded reluctantly. "We are heroes, and we can provide for ourselves… What is it you have in mind?" Robin cursed himself the moment he let those words escape his lips.

Brightness illuminated from Rose's grinning face instantly. As quick as she could, she moved to one of the boxes Blue Beetle brought in and flipped the top open, revealing it to be filled with papers with some print on them. Immediately flapping one in Robin's direction, he grasped it into his gloved hand and examined the paper. Robin's expression slowly became blank and confounded as he read down the paper, which brought Rose to smile along with Blue Beetle. "The island is massive. We could turn it into the biggest and best stage ever," Blue Beetle spoke up, gesturing out to the green fields of the island and rocky coast outside of the main window of the room. "And with some of the Titan's powers and artistic skills, we can make ever better effects and scenery for it."

None of Blue Beetle's reassurance seemed to be sinking into Robin as his dismal expression remained plastered to his face while checking the paper over again. "Come on Robin. If we sell a ticket for forty dollars a piece for cheep seats and ninety dollars for prime seats, we could make a large payload," Rose explained with the slightest tone of aggravation from Robin's lack of support, "then we split the funds equally among the sections of the Teen Titans… What do you say, Robin?"

Finally –if anything with stagnant motion- Robin took his eyes away from the paper and rested it to his side along with his arms. "Your idea is for…" Robin paused for a moment, collecting his thoughts as if it were a choir to even get the words out, "…for us to do… A play?"

Blue Beetle shot to his feet and struck a proud stature where he stood. "Not just any play!" quickly, he dug through the box Rose opened already and pulled a stack of papers stapled together neatly and had the name "Judas Contract" printed on the first page in bold letters. "It's the greatest play ever written, made by the greatest writing minds to ever write a writing."

"…You mean you and Rose?" Robin commented back with a blank tone.

"Not just us, no," Blue Beetle defended as he handed his script to Robin.

"Right… Jericho and Beast Boy helped," Rose pointed out in a matter-of-fact way.

Robin took a moment to look over the first few pages; the characters, their place, some of the dialog, and even a few diagrams of how to set up the stages. And, for once that day, Robin started to give an honest smile. "…This doesn't look all that bad," Robin complemented, which made Blue Beetle and Rose glow with joy, "if you can get the other Titans to agree to do it, you can use the island as you please," giving his final consent of it, he handed the script back and exited the room; leaving the armored teen and the patch wearing girl alone.

"Don't worry Robin!" Rose yelled off after him, long after the steel door had shut behind him. With a joyful yet dark snicker, Rose pulled out another paper from the stack she got the first paper she handed to Robin from and looked it over. Though almost exactly like the original, this one along with everyone after it had bold letters printed on the bottom of them that said "WHOEVER DOES THE BEST GETS THE MOST MONEY FOR THEIR TEAM!". "They'll agree to play… in my play!" Rose chuckled for a moment before noticing Blue Beetle giving her a disappointed shake of his metallic head. "Right… not funny. Good thing I left the comedy of the show to Beast Boy and you…" with that, the two grabbed a few stacks of papers and went their separate ways; both ready to spread the word: Judas Contract plays in a week.

Tell me: was it worth the wait? I doubt it was... None the less, I hope you enjoyed this and will continue to read as the next segments come out. Until then...

What will the play be about?

Who will get what role?

Am I seriously going to put songs in?

See you in the big times

-Overlord-flinx