Battle of Jump city Grocery

Ragna opens his eyes from the flash of light and looks around. He expects to see Hazama and everyone else. What he sees, however, is a shelf of produce. A quick glance around shows him his place—a grocery store. Most of the people there are on the ground, hiding their heads. Taking a peek around the shelf, he finds that the store is being robbed by a bunch of kids.

"Great," he whispers to himself. "How do I get into these things?" Ragna wonders if the universe loved to put him into situations like this as he watches the robbers from where he hid.

The five of them go on, looting the cash registers and taking valuables from people as quickly as they could. A kid with one eye scans the place for other valuables. A smaller kid with spider-like legs extending from his backpack holds jewelry in his hands. A huge mammoth-like boy hauls a safe out of a room with the help of a few clones of another kid in a red jumpsuit. By the front door is a kid in black, just watching and making sure no one escapes. None of them seem to notice that someone was watching them, not until the one-eyed boy observes Ragna, the guy hiding behind the shelf.

"Hey, someone is hiding over there," he says, his eye adjusting to see better.
The boy with the spider backpack looks up at the jetpack-wearing Cyclops kid. "What is it, See-more?"

"A man with a huge sword on his back, Gizmo," See-more replies back to his leader.
Gizmo smiles before turning his attention towards the shelves. "Mammoth, Billy Numerous, Kyd Wykkyd—Let's get this fool!"

While he commands his teammates, the huge teen, known as Mammoth, drops the safe onto one of Billy-clone's feet, making him yell painfully. Kyd looks on from the doorway as a few more clones head to the door.

Ragna curses under his breath and steps out of his place behind the shelf. He grips the handle of his blade. With a glare at the teenage thieves, Ragna takes a stance.
"Look, I'm really not in the mood for this, so just let me go on out or else!"

They laugh at Ragna's threat while converging onto his location. Ragna sighs a bit as the robbers form a circle around him. They look ready to jump him. "Never the easy way," Ragna says quietly, readying himself for the first attack.

Mammoth, being the first to break the circle and attack Ragna with his fists, is also the first to fall backwards from a dark fist to his face. The group watches in shock of the attack from their decaying circle. They all jump him at once. Billy-after-Billy grabs onto him and tries to hold him down. Kyd moves in to give him a few blows. Ragna, flinging the Billy-clones left and right from his jacket, manages to block Kyd's blows. Mammoth slowly lifts himself to his feet and runs right at the white-haired man, ready to pound him though the floor.

Ragna, seeing Mammoth coming at him, releases a blast of energy, knocking everyone away. He then dodges a fist from Mammoth and a few laser shots from See-more. Having to jump back behind a pair of shelves, he gets ready to retaliate. Ragna jumps onto the shelf, knocking over jars of peppers, pickles, and olives. The smell of vinegar fills the air. He then jumps at See-more.

"Gauntlet Hades!" Ragna yells out, sending a dark claw at the one-eyed boy before delivering a kick to his chest. The kick sends the one-eyed boy though a few hanging signs before he comes to a rest in the wall. Ragna lands near a group of Billys and crashes his sword down on the ground, sending a spray of concert rubble at the group, hitting and knocking them out. Ragna then turns and dodges plasma bolts from Gizmo. Mammoth attempts to charge him again. Quickly, as the Mammoth of a teenager comes to hit him, Ragna raises his sword. It glows with a dark red aura and knocks his foe into the air with him following.

"Inferno Divider!" Ragna yells as he hits the huge teen a few more times before kicking him in the head, sending the mammoth back to the ground. In mid-air, Ragna turns to Kyd, who teleports close by him when he falls back. Ragna got on his sword. With the bloody aura's help he propels himself toward the shocked fighter.

"Belies Edge," Ragna shouts. The sword collides into Kyd, knocking him into a slump on the floor. Ragna gets up and faces his final opponent.

Gizmo's palms shook in fear. Except for a few times, he never saw anyone defeat the five of them so quickly. He starts to back away from Ragna a bit, firing blasts at him. As he does, the shoppers in the vicinity scurry away towards the shelves, looking for cover.

"Eat this, Snothead!" Gizmo yells at Ragna in fearful defiance.

Ragna stands his ground and takes an authoritative position. He notices Gizmo's shots seem to be erratic so most would never even come close to him. He also sees that every one of the innocent bystanders had retreated to the back of the store, watching the fight—some watching in fear, others in envy. He smirks. Nothing stands in his way when he charges up his next attack.

"Carnage…" Ragna says slowly before jolting towards gizmo in a blinding speed, slamming his bloody aura hand into him. Gizmo did not have a chance to dodge or block the first blow. Ragna lets out another cry. "…Scissors!"

Two aura spikes follow the ramming of Ragna's sword into Gizmo's torso. The blow sends him flying into the ceiling lights. The lights break before bouncing back down. Gizmo hits the ground with the force of a ricocheting bullet. Ragna puts his sword into its place on his back before walking up to the defeated Gizmo. When he reaches Gizmo's body, he puts his foot on top of the fallen kid. He starts to say something, but a new group of powered teens burst into the grocery store.

"Titans! Go-…?!"

A black-haired teen enters the room. He wears a mask and bright tights. He and his team look confused by the sight before them. The new group stares at Ragna, the man in a red jacket and white hair who happens to be standing with one foot on top of Gizmo. Most of the register aisles around them are completely destroyed, except for a few where the bodies of See-more and Kyd hang across. A crater exists somewhat to the side of the front of the store. This is where Billy became buried under a bit of cement. Another concrete crater shows Mammoth's head being stuck in the ground. Most of the destruction from the fight is close to the front of the store.

"Whooooaa!" says a green skinned boy in a purple suit named Beast Boy. He breaks the silence of the group. His eyes widen at the destruction. "Looks like we just missed out," he adds, getting a few odd looks from his teammates, especially Raven.

As soon as he says this, people start heading forward from the back of the store. Their growing cheers come out, but not for normal group. They were for the white- haired man.

Ragna becomes very nervous. He looks around, staring back and forth between each member of the group of weird teenagers. It seems like they came here to stop the five he just beat. Ragna didn't really like being in the spotlight of things, being a wanted criminal of the N.O.L. himself. Ragna, enclosed by a group of praising people, feels a bit claustrophobic.

"Thank you very much!"

"You're a Hero! What do you go by?"

"He's quiet cute."

"Can I have your Autograpth?"

All this and more comes from the crowd trying to get closer and closer to Ragna, invading his personal space. The group by the doors watches as Ragna tries to get out of the group of people.

"Come on, Titans. Lets gather up the Hive five for the police," says the spiky haired teen wearing a mask.

"Right. I'll go get the big guy," says the half robot black guy as he heads to pick up Mammoth. "Hey BB, wanna help?" He turns to the green one.

"Naaw. I'll just dig Billy out," says BB. He transforms into a small green rhino in order to move some of the bigger rubble off of the robber's body.

The boy in a mask heads toward Gizmo, who is at the crowd's edge. He swings a pair of restraints in circles around his fingers. The red-haired girl with full green eyes flies over to the two on Register 12 and picks them up. The fifth member of the group watches from the doors. She wears a purple hood and a blackish tights. They don't cover her arms or legs much. She hovers slightly about the ground, staring at Ragna like there is something odd about him.

The group of teenagers gather the Hive five. Ragna wiggles his way out of the raving group by ducking into them and quickly pushing his way though, leaving them in confusion of where he was at, particularly because several of his new fans were trying to follow him. He is now on his way towards the door. He notices the girl in the cloak watching him. But at the moment, he doesn't care. He just wants to get out of there and find out where he is. As he passes her up, a surge of pain shoots though his right arm. At the same time, the girl winces like she was hit by something and holds her head. Ragna grabs his arm and grips it tightly as the blood-like aura changes around it, pulling in as much dark energy as it can from the surrounding area.

Why now? What in the hell is making the Azure Grimoire act up so much? Ragna thought this quickly as his vision starts to blur.

"S-stop him," the girl in the cloak says. She tries to back away from the hunched over Ragna, the guy whose whole body is being enveloped into the dark aura. The Aura starts to sap away from her. She falls to the ground, shaking a bit violently

"Raven!" Robin yells, turning to the scene. "Cyborg! Stop him!"

Cyborg nods and aims his hand. He turns an arm-cannon towards Ragna. He fires it.
The last Ragna sees is blue light coming at him.

A short figure with cat ears and a sword on his back stands on a high roof near the grocery store. His outline glows red from the neon sign behind him. The cat-like figure looks down even more, putting his hind paw on the edge of the roof, one eye watching Ragna being shot into the parking lot by a blue laser blast.

"That had to hurt," the cat says seemingly to himself. He watches a group of teenagers come out after the blast to check on their target.

"Quite so," says a disembodied voice as a gust of wind smelling of roses swirls behind the Cat. "Though he might have brought such a thing onto himself."

She appears seemingly out of nowhere.

"Maybe, Rachel, but I quite doubt it," says the cat to the vampire, turning towards her. "By the way, any idea where we are now?"

"I'm afraid I could only get the name of this city, Master Jubie," Rachel says calmly. "It seems we are in a city called Jump City and that we are now a part of this world's continuum."

"That doesn't sound good. You mean, we're—"
"That is correct. I do believe Amaterasu is still watching from in the boundary," Rachel answers to his cut off question. "All we can do now is watch and hope."

"I guess so," Jubie says, watching the teenagers pick up Ragna, placing him in a silver-blue car. They drive off. "I guess I'll keep an eye on the lad while exploring the city then. You should do the same, Rachel. Maybe you won't be so bored then."

Jubie teases Rachel a bit before getting ready to go.

"Hmph," snouts Rachel. She wishes she brought Nago or Gii with her to kick or pull like taffy.
"Say hello to Valkenhayn for me," Jubie says to the obviously steaming Rachel. He then jumps from the roof to another lower one, quietly taking off after the car.

Meanwhile, in a crumbled pit of metal and rock rubble, a man in a black suit and fedora stands. He looks at a throne-like chair. "Hmmm. Wonder who sat here."

He takes in his surroundings. Except for the faint glow of electronics shining off the metal and rocks, the place is almost dark. The place is collapsed except for a metal cavern. Hazama sighs, sitting down. "Now how the hell am I to get out of this mess…"

His eyes seem to glow in the darkness.
"No need to worry about that, Hazama," says a dignified voice coming from the darkness. "I have found a way out… and quite a few interesting things here." The voice continues to speak as he steps into the faint light. His golden mask glows in the dim lights.
"Ahhh Relius. Great to see you," Hazama grins as he got up from the throne.