(2. Bank heist)
(Insert Teen Titans Theme Song. Language: Japanese.)
The Titans where speeding along the road as Robin explained the situation. "Mumbo's trying to rob the bank...again." As they pulled up to the bank, they could see the mad magician typing rapidly at one of the computers inside.
The Titans readied themselves for battle as they rushed into the bank. A few people where tied up in a corner, but otherwise the bank was deserted. Mumbo turned to greet them. "Well, well, well! If it isn't my old stage helpers, the Teen Titans, back for a reunion act!"
"Sorry, Mumbo," Robin replied as he pulled out a birdarang, "but we're not interested in becoming your 'Titanimals' again. We're here to give you a show stopper." "Yeah." Terra added. "And what would you have turned me into anyway? A dove?"
As Mumbo considered this, Terra knocked the wind out of him with a rock to the gut. "I knew you couldn't resist planning for another show." she said with a smile. Mumbo replied in a winded voice "A magician must always be one step ahead of his audience, my dear."
He smiled and pointed his wand at them. A blast of sparkles shot towards them, but it was nothing the Titans hadn't fought before. They dodged, and the statue in front of the bank was trapped in a strait-jacket. Several more blasts followed, but since the Titans where all attacking from different angles it was hard to hit them all. However, he was pretty agile for his age and simply threw himself on the floor, thereby avoiding their attacks.
He leaped to his feet, twirled his cape around his body, and vanished. The Titans stared in surprise. "Well that's a new trick." Raven commented. Beast Boy sniffed around in the form of a bloodhound while Cyborg scanned the room. Robin threw a few birdarang that cut the ropes off the captives. The other Titans stayed at the ready, while being careful to keep the exit blocked.
Beast Boy yelped in surprise as a gloved hand appeared and poked him in the eyes. The Titans focused on that point, but none of their attacks seemed to hit anything. Then they heard laughter from the second floor. "Come on!" Robin yelled. "Raven! You and Starfire cover the upper windows." The rest of the team headed up the stairs, being watchful for any hidden traps. Fighting Mumbo was always an unpredictable experience.
When they got to the top of the stairs and entered the bank manager's office, they found the magician visible and waiting. He waved his wand and the grandfather clock behind Robin turned into a saw-you-in-half-trick box and closed around him. It didn't help him get any calmer when an umbrella close by turned into a saw and began floating toward him!
Cyborg and Beast Boy, who was now a leopard, charged at Mumbo, but he just said "Going down!" and the floor under them opened like a stage trap-door.
Now the only one left was Terra. She shot her rocks at Mumbo, but he simply turned them into juggling balls. "Um. A little help here, Terra!" She turned and saw that the floating saw was getting pretty close to Robin. Noticing a stone paper-weight on the desk, she hurled it with her powers, breaking the saw's blade in half and turning it back into a broken umbrella.
She turned and saw (with her eyes, not the tool) that Mumbo was running for the door. She kicked some of the fallen juggling balls in his direction and he slipped on them, tumbling down the stairs. Terra freed Robin and they took off after him. They found Mumbo lying at the bottom of the stairs with stars whirling around his head. Cyborg and Beast Boy where standing across from them dusting themselves off, thus surrounding him.
Robin squirted Mumbo with his own flower to bring him around, and at the same time he removed the wand from his hand. Mumbo coughed and stood up. Seeing that he was surrounded, he looked at Robin pleadingly. "I don't suppose that we could just forget about this whole thing?" He raised his hand to snap his fingers, intending to actually cause them to 'forget about this whole thing'. Before he could however, Beast Boy became a squid and restrained him while Robin broke his wand.
But instead of reverting to an old man, he shrunk into a Mumbo sock puppet! The Titans stared at it in shock. This wasn't Mumbo!
Then they heard a cackle of laughter from the computers area. There was a flash of red cloth and the real Mumbo appeared. "Well, that assistant was certainly handy." Before they could recover in time to stop him, he picked up a pencil on the desk which transformed into his wand. He shot off some magic at the lights above there heads and they turned into top hats that shot rose peddles that covered the Titans in a great pile.
Mumbo gave one last comment. "Sorry, Titans. I've enjoyed our little games, but frankly, it can't be afforded any more." Just as the Titans emerged from the pile of flower peddles Mumbo pointed the wand at the ground and vanished in a cloud of smoke.
So there's chapter two! Two down, I don't know how many more to go! Hope you guys enjoyed it! Please Review.
P.S. I need suggestions on what job Beast Boy should get. If you could PM me with suggestions that would be great! Maybe...a DJ?