CHAPTER TWO:
Hero Rising
JUMP CITY WAS FULL of crime and criminals. Everywhere you looked you'd see a mugging, a gang fight, usually with knives, and sometimes with guns, and even children would witness rape in parks, alleys, and even a few rare occasions in the middle of a class, when a gang member would go after a teacher in her early twenties.
One young man was determined to fix that, and had been training with a professional for a year. He found his chance later that night, when a group of thugs broke into a bank during night hours.
There were five of them, dressed casually, walking into the bank like normal civilians. One of them pulled out a pistol and shot twice into the ceiling to get the attention of the tellers.
A few of the women screamed at the gun shot, and ducked down behind the counter. "Alright, if everyone cooperates this will end without the janitors cleaning any blood," said the thug. "We've only come to make a deposit for Brother Blood, which will require the emptying of the vault."
As one of the tellers walked back to open the vault, they all heard the shattering of a window. When everyone turned, a man stood, there, glaring at the thug. "You know, a deposit is putting money into the bank, not the other way around."
The thug raised his gun and aimed at the man. "Piss off," he said before shooting three rounds at the man. He hit him in the chest each time, but the man stayed in the same position. The other thugs raised their automatic weapons, aimed and fired. The man jumped out of the window, tossing a hook onto a light. He swung down on the end of the string, and kicked the first thug in the chest, knocking him to the ground.
When the man dislodged from the string, another thug swung the front end of his machine gun at him. He caught it, pulled it toward him, and punched the man in the jaw, making him release the gun. Then he swung the gun over, hitting another thug on the head knocking him out.
The man then threw the gun down, and went after another thug. The thug aimed his gun up, but the man batted it away with his hand, used his knee to kick the thug in the stomach, then punched him in the face with each hand.
After the thug fell unconscious, then the other two thugs went after the man. One threw a punch, but the man blocked it, kneed the thug in the stomach, turned and punched the other, then stepped in between the two, and elbowed them both in the head at the same time, knocking both of them out.
When the bank tellers stood up, they got a good look at the man. He wore a fully black suit, with outlines of where the mans chest and abs were, a black mask, and a giant R engraved on the front. The R, however, had a flame-like design on the bottom of each vertical line.
"Thank you, good sir," said one of the male tellers.
"What do we call you?" asked a female teller.
"Call me Robin," said the man, before grabbing his string, which pulled ham back up to the window.
Robin's real name is Dick Grayson. He grew up in Gotham City, and saw all the crime that went threw its streets. He also heard that Jump City was in worse condition, so he trained with the masked vigilante known as Batman, who trained him in combat, and gadget use. He even showed him how to build some gadgets, which Dick spent the last few months creating.
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After backing his semi-truck up to the loading dock, a man, who worked for Brother Blood, went to help load 50 tons of cocaine, which Blood would resell for money to finish a project that has been worked on for the past two years.
Some of the workers stopped when they saw the shadow of something fly overhead. It looked like a bird but was much larger. Not being able to identify the creature, they just shrugged and went back to work.
Out of nowhere, a worker was lashed on the leg by something. He fell over, bleeding from the wound, which was located just above his ankle. Another worker feared something was up, and went for a weapons locker located in a bathroom. But he was stopped when a giant tail swung and nailed him in the stomach. He flew back and smashed into a stack of pallets, making them fall over. A few other workers pulled out hand guns and shot at the spot the tail was, but hit nothing but the cinder-block wall.
When they stopped shooting, a small mouse walked out in front of one of the workers. The worker wanted a little fun, so he aimed the gun at the mouse. But just before he pulled the trigger, the mouse turned into a gorilla, did a hand stand and kicked the thug onto one of the bag stacks that was on the forklift. Then the gorilla turned into a kangaroo and smacked a worker to the ground with a swipe of his tail. Then, while balancing on his tail, kicked a worker through the tin wall, with his gigantic feet.
Some other workers started shooting at him with some hand guns, so the kangaroo then turned into a snake, and slithered around all the gunshots. Then when he got within inches of the workers, he transformed back into a gorilla, and bashed all the workers on the head with his huge fists.
This move ended the fight, with 11 unconscious workers lying on the ground. The gorilla then turned into a pterodactyl and flew away from the sight, when he heard the police sirens coming.
When the pterodactyl landed on a tall apartment complex, it turned back into a human boy, only aged at 12 years. He had skin that was the color of a tree leaf in early spring, and his ears were pointed like an elf's from Santa's workshop. He wore black suit, with a purple triangle on the front, which was wide at the top, and decreased in size on the way down. He called himself, Beast Boy.