Chapter 2- night flight

(I would like to note that this is a storyline based off of another one and any similarities are probably not in your head)

The events of that evening, including the fireworks, over, the Titans and families had settled down to bed. It was usually a tight squeeze as most of the bedrooms had been built for one, but no one really minded. All the kids stayed in two rooms, boys in Bobby's, girls in Starfire's old one.

The girls were doing what girls usually do at sleepovers, talking about boys.

"Ryan is SOOOO cute!" squealed Barbie, staring dreamily off into the pink walls, remembering earlier that evening during the fireworks. Her sister rolled her eyes, but on the inside she was bursting to punch Barbie's face in, as she too liked the Jr. Changeling.

"Shhh." Darcy, who had been sitting near the door, put a finger up to her lips and pointed at the door. "Hear that?" she whispered. They listened hard and could hear footsteps coming from outside the door, and moving off down the hall.

"Let's go see." Barbie said, standing up and moving out the door, the others following.

They crept along the dark hall, Barbie and Darcy floating and Becky on tip-toe. They came to a corner and could hear muffled voices coming from behind it. Barbie raised a hand with three fingers up. She began to put them down, counting to their attack. She swung her arm forward and the girls launched their attack to face none other than the three boys, also in attack positions.

"Ryan," said Barbie, the blue orbs in her hands dying away. "What are you doing?"

"We heard someone outside our door and came to investigate." He said.

"Great minds think alike I suppose." said Bobby. Just then they heard a scream from somewhere behind them.

"Mom!" shouted the three Grayson children.

"Come on!" said Barbie. "Let's go!" The "team" moved off down the hall.

They rounded a corner and narrowly avoided a door that came exploding out of the wall, followed closely by a beam of green light.

"Starfire!" they heard Nightwing yell. They ran toward the door to find the two heroes locked in combat with a very large, powerful looking robot.

"Dad!" yelled Barbie, to alert her parents to their presence.

"Kids! Get out of here! Go get the others!" he shouted. The other teens scattered, off to retrieve their parents, but Barbie, Bruce and Becky remained, rooted to the spot.

"Get out!" Nightwing repeated, now being picked up by the robot. Starfire hit it from behind with her eye beams and it fell forward, but caught itself, Nightwing still clutched in its fist. It made to grab her, but was hit by beams of blue and green light from the doorway. The robot turned to face the children, Nightwing now unconscious in its hand. It held out the free one, a ball of red light now charging up in his palm. The teens' eyes grew wide as it hit them, knocking them back into the wall, and the three of them collapsed into a heap.

"Mom." Barbie choked out, as, through slits in her un-focusing eyes, she saw the robot grab her mother and take off into the night just before everything went black.

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"Barbie?"

She sat up groggily, clutching her head in her hand.

"Wh-what happened?" she stammered. "Where are your guys' parents?"

The slightly green face in front of her fell.

"Gone. They're all gone."

She stood, her head clearing. The other teens were all around her, and had apparently moved her and her siblings to the main room. As she looked around the big screen monitor flicked on behind them.

"Hello." Came a cool voice. They turned to see a man on the screen whom none of them recognized. Behind him were their parents, guarded by what looked like 3 other teenagers.

"Who are you and what do you want with our parents?" Barbie demanded.

"Impatient I see. Like father like daughter." Barbie scowled. "Well, as you asked, my name is Thayer, and as for what I want with your parents," he smiled, "that is for me to know and you to find out. I thought I'd give you a jump start into this hero biz you all find so very appealing. Goodbye, new titans." And the screen went black.

"New titans, what does he mean, new titans?" asked Bruce.

"Isn't that obvious?" Said Darcy, "He wants us to take our parents place, and be the new teen titans."

"Sweet, I've wanted to do this forever!" said Ryan.

"Hold on a sec," said Bobby. "We don't even have superhero names, or costumes, and we've definitely never used our powers to fight villains."

"So let's start now!" Becky. "I'll be Sparrow, the girls whose only powers are her mind and butt kicking martial arts!" she smiled.

"I'll be Bolt." Said Bruce. "For my uh star bolts, that I never want to be called that again, and short burst of flight."

"I guess I'll be Nightstar." Said Barbie. "Nightwing, Starfire, Nightstar."

"Shifter." said Ryan with a hint of swagger in his voice.

"Buzz is the name." said Bobby. Every one looked at Darcy.

"Uh, I guess Darkwater sounds ok." She said.

"Sweet," said Shifter. "It's settled then. And Nightstar should be our leader."

"What!" Sparrow burst out.

"Well, she's the oldest, has great leadership qualities, and she's practically Robin." He finished and smiled at her. She blushed, and Sparrow fumed.

"Okay," she said. "Now I'm assuming we all actually got costumes behind our parent's backs." Everyone smiled sheepishly and nodded.

"Awesome. Then first training session is tomorrow, 0-900." She said more leader like.

"Aye, Aye, capitian." Said the twins in unison, saluting their sister sarcasticly, spinning on their heels, and marching off.

"Left, left, left, right, left." Their voices trailed off down the hall. Nightstar glared after them, and the rest of the group trailed off to bed, each heading to their favorite room in the tower. Buzz would keep his own room, Darkwater would take Raven's, Shifter Beast boys, Sparrow Starfire's, Bolt would take Robin's, and Nightstar would take Terra's.

A/N: SO the team gets their first taste of action in the next chapter! Stay tuned, ahead is a gradually better story and a series of plot twists that will keep you guessing at the end! New characters in next chapter. Review, it's such a pretty purple button!

STL