Author's Note: Hey guys! Here's to another chapter! A much quicker one ah ha! I just saw Inside Out and my Gawd, I bawled my eyes out T_T it was a good movie too! I totally recommend it! Now, without further ado, I give you this chapter!
Shout Outs: Thanks to ar1992 for favoring the story. Thanks to RubytheRed for following and favoring season six. Thanks to ilovelemonsandlimes for reviewing. Thanks to Ravenext for following the story. Thanks to MarissaKeye for following the story. Thanks to teentitans2201999 for favoring the story.
Summary: The Titans wakes up one day only to find themselves in a complete mess. It's almost as though everything was turned upside down. They woke up only to find themselves that their roles have been reversed. The Heroes are suddenly the bad guys and the bad guys are suddenly…heroes? What is going on?
Chapter 2: Heroes and Villains
Robin gave out a gasp as his eyes flew wide open. He tried to move but he found himself unable to do so.
"What the—"he looked down only to see himself tied up. However, he expected to be on the floor but he was wrong since he saw that they were away from the floor. That made him to figure out that they were tied up from a pole's ledge.
He was right.
He looked up and saw that there was a string that was tied around a ledge from the pole and the rest of the string was tied around the group.
Eventually, the rest of the Titans began to wake up as well, finding themselves in the same situation. They all struggled to get loose but found unable to do so.
"Uh am I the only one who doesn't know what happened?" Beast Boy asked, wearing a confused look.
"Ah so my favorite Heroes had finally woken up!" a voice alerted them. "I'm glad that you did since it was rather getting boring."
The shadows that were on the figure eventually faded away since the person was walking forwards. The enemy bore a top hat, a purple tail coat with green pants and gray gloves. Grinning, the odd person grabbed what it looked like a microphone and spoke to it.
"Well now my fellow citizens of Jump City!" he began.
Robin raised an eyebrow and looked down to discover a large crowd surrounding them. It was indeed the citizens of Jump City but they were all wearing…scared looks?
Robin blinked.
This doesn't make any sense.
"I have collected the bad guys and now they shall be brought to justice!" the speaker replied, wearing a malicious grin.
TT
The group all had their eyes wide.
"Say what?!" Cy exclaimed.
"Are we not the good guys anymore?" Star asked, being confused.
What just happened?
"This doesn't make any sense." Raven responded, staring at the speaker.
The crowd cheered, delighted that the "bad guys" have been captured. Upon hearing voice, the horrible villain waltzed his way to a machine and stood on what it looked like a stand that lifted upwards.
"Why of course it makes sense, dearie. You are no longer the Heroes." he grinned. "I am!"
"Wha?" Beast Boy quizzed, still being confused.
The villain sighed. "How many times do I have to repeat myself? You see my dearies, the citizens simply doesn't trust you anymore! They think that you're up to no good!" he exclaimed, gleefully.
"What? That's absurd! We have saved the city countless of times! Why are they suddenly afraid of us?" Cyborg replied, being peeved. "We are the good guys! You hear me! The good guys!"
The villain just simply grinned. "Not anymore. In their eyes, they see you as villains and in their eyes, they see me as a Hero!" he cackled.
Robin growled. "Trust me, Rift. When we find out how to reverse this, you will be big trouble!"
"Oooh, such an empty threat." he mocked. "But anyways…" he then brought the stand away from the Titans. "I would love to chat and all but I got autographs to sign!" he giggled madly.
The stand was then brought down to the ground so that the villain can grab the speaker.
"Well then, citizens of Jump City! I bring you the punishment of the villains!" he replied, wearing a dark look.
Upon hearing a sound, the Titans looked (well, some of them had to craned their necks in order to see what was going on) to the right and gasped. The threatening machine was coming closer to them and acting quickly, Robin sneakily pulled out a birdarang and started to cut the rope.
He narrowed his eyes as the device was coming closer to closer and nearly at the last minute, the rope was finally cut through which made the Titans to break free. They fell down just as the machine snapped the upper part of the rope.
Eyes wide, the villain turned around and gasped.
"What?"
"We're not going down without a fight." Robin announced.
Cyborg and Robin then got together and shouted out the command.
"Teen Titans, go!"
Starfire first threw a starbolt that was aiming towards the villain. However, the enemy jumped backwards in the air to avoid the attack. Because of the leap, the starbolt struck the ground instead. Quirking an eyebrow, Rift was about to make an attack until Beast Boy (who was in the form of a Ram) rammed into him from the side.
That caused the enemy to fly sideways before he landed on the ground.
"Hmph. Pesky little Titans." he muttered after getting up. He then brushed the dust of his sleeve.
Robin narrowed his eyes and behind him, Cyborg grinned.
"I got the sonic if you got the boom." he responded and that made Robin to grin.
The two started to run to the sides so that they can have a liftoff in order to be in the air to perform the attack. Once they were in the air, Robin threw out his disk while Cyborg blasted his cannon at the same time.
The blue streak collided with the disk, causing an explosion. Because of the explosion, it made the villain to be struck from it due to the shockwave and he slammed his back against a streetlight.
He groaned, falling to his knees. Before he could even get up, Robin pulled at the scruff of his shirt, bringing him closer.
"Game's over, Rift. Now change everything back the way it was!" Robin commanded.
"Sorry kid. Ain't doing it." he smirked.
Frustrated, Robin slammed Rift against a nearby wall.
"Fine. Then I guess being in jail for twenty five years will change your mind."
Rift narrowed his eyes. "Be demanding all you want, Robin but you're never going to get the answers from me! And besides, look behind you! You're only making it worse for yourself and for your friends…you guys are just as bad as the villains."
Grinning wickedly, Rift stuck his hand out to the side so that to indicate for the Titans to look behind them. Eyes still narrowed, Robin roughly let go of him and turned around. He had eyes wide as he saw the scene.
Some of the people were walking away from them, being in fear while the others just stood, staring at them.
Whispers were heard among the crowd while the villain was cackling, clearly enjoying the scene.
Angered, Robin whirled around and once again slammed the villain against the wall.
"I swear to you. After everything is back to normal, you will pay."
"That's a nice threat, boy. But just one flaw. How are you going to stop me if you can't reverse what has been done?"
With that, Rift suddenly vanished in purple smoke which caused Robin to hold nothing.
:(/\):
A sound that sounded like a kick was heard and it was clearly made out of anger.
"I don't believe this!" Robin raged as he just kicked a kitchen's lower cabinet.
"Chill man. Everything's going to be fine." Cyborg replied.
Fists clenched, Robin marched towards the half robot. "Everything in Jump City is in chaos and has been reversed. Does that look alright to you?"
Silence.
"Well!?" he demanded.
"You might want to lower your tone." Cyborg responded, dangerously.
Instantly sensing that an argument was going to come, Raven quickly stepped in between them as she pushed them apart.
"Arguing isn't going to help anything. What we need to do is to make a plan on how to reverse everything back." the empath told them.
Giving a one last glare, Robin backed down.
"It's just that after everything we had done…after everything we fought for…everything's going down in a waste and we don't even have an explanation. Why are we suddenly the bad guys?"
"That's the question we all want to know." Raven replied. "There's no point in fighting since that will only make it worse…makes us worse. We need to figure out how we got into this mess and from there, we can strike Rift."
"Great plan and all but I don't remember a thing." Beast Boy replied.
"Not surprising considering how small your brain is." Raven remarked, making the green one to scowl.
Rolling his eyes, Cyborg had his attention to Star.
"What about you, Star? Do you remember anything?"
She shook her head. "I too do not seem to have the recollection of the memory."
Raven sighed. "Well there goes that plan." she paused. "I'll go to my room to look into my books for anything that can help us with this…situation."
Robin nodded. "Alright. The rest of us will stay here and monitor the screen."
:(/\):
How am I supposed to help if I don't even know what I'm looking for? Raven thought as the pages of the levitating books were turning.
She was currently looking through five books at a time.
None of us remembers what had happened and how we got ourselves in this mess. This is really bizarre.
And with that thought in her head, the fellow Titan resumed her search, hoping that she could find something useful.
:(/\):
"I don't believe it!" Cy raged. "After hours of searching, we found nothing. NOTHING!" he exclaimed, furiously.
"And people told me that I had anger management issues." Robin replied, with his arms being crossed over his chest.
"Well uh…you kinda do." Beast Boy said, only to have a glare from Robin.
Just then, the door of the living room got opened before it got closed. It got the Titans' attention though they only gave out confused look since they saw no one…
"You guys left the door to be on automatic?" Cy asked, only to earn shaking heads.
"Did you find anything?"
The sudden voice made the group to jump with startle while at the same time, Star and Beast Boy gave out a startle yell.
"Okay, you know what…" Beast Boy muttered, walking out of the living room and soon came back.
The only difference is that he appeared to be holding something in his hand. He walked up to the sneaky empath and took out the object so that he could place it around her neck. Raven raised an eyebrow as she looked at the item that was a bell with a string. She then gave a look at Beast Boy.
"So I know when you are coming in."
Irritated, Raven encased the item with her magic so that it was off her neck and made the bell to hit Beast Boy at the side of his forehead. The bell chimed a little while the green one was rubbing the side of his forehead.
"So, being back on business…"
Robin shook his head. "No we didn't find anything useful. I just want to know how he managed to reverse our roles."
"This villain is quite the troublemaker, yes?"
"He's more than just a troublemaker, Star. He's just a horrible villain that likes to make our lives miserable." Cy grumbled.
Just then, the alarm went on. Robin quickly typed away on the keyboard and after he found out, he shouted.
"Titans, go!"
:(/\):
The villain breathed out fresh air. "Ah what a glorious moment! I had finally achieved what I had wanted to do for so long. And now that it is, I'm free to do whatever I want!" Rift laughed.
"I wouldn't be so sure about that." Robin responded. "Titans, go!"
Furious, Rift shot out his attack though the Titans leaped into the air to avoid them. The minute Robin was in front of the villain, he started to throw punches at him but Rift blocked them. The two looked equally matched but it didn't last long since objects like mailbox flew towards the enemy who leaped into the air to dodge it.
Once he was on his own two feet, Rift threw out a dart that raced towards Raven. She slightly moved to the side, letting the dart to brush past by her hair. However, the dart's pointy side managed to only cut a few strands of her hair. Gasping, Raven narrowed her eyes and chucked yet another object at the villain.
Out from the side, the familiar sonic beam blasted Rift at the side so he got thrown to the side and skidded down to the ground. He didn't had the time to get up since another starbolt was thrown in his way, sending him to fly backwards and he got smashed at a nearby wall.
Groaning, Rift clumsy stood up while the Titans surrounded him.
"Hmph. Pesky little kids. Don't know when to quit." he growled before he threw out his arms to the side.
Beams of sound waves came out of his hands and started to destroy everything in his path. He laughed as the glasses from the buildings' windows rained down.
"When it rains, it pours!" he shouted.
The Titans collapsed to their knees as though to protect themselves from the raining shards of glass though Robin looked at the maniac before he hurled out his birdarang.
The birdarang flew into the air and it struck painfully at Rift's hand. He gave out a screech, forcing him to halt his attack.
"That hurts!" he screamed, pulling out the birdarang.
Not losing a second, the leader started to charge at the opponent though the enemy leaped into the air to avoid him. Rift then landed in front of a store that looked like it was closed since there was a sign that was once hung from the door's glass window.
Seeing that Cyborg was close to him, the half robot started to charge towards him.
Yes…walk right into a trap! Rift thought as he gleamed in madness.
Just as Cyborg was about to tackle him, Rift jumped through the open door which made Cyborg to halt. As soon as Rift disappeared, there was a sudden boom that came from the inside.
Acting quickly, Robin took out his grappling hook that tied around Cy and he pulled him out (with the help of Starfire) of the way, just as the whole store blown up. Since, most of them were in the range of the shockwave, they got thrown back while Robin threw his cape over him so that the small debris didn't hit his head.
After the falling rocks, smoke came out of the store.
"Everyone okay?" Robin coughed.
One by one, the Titans got up which made it clear that they were okay. Just then, sirens started to come and soon, police cars were pulled into the view. The polices came out of their cars while the main leader of the police held a loudspeaker in his hand.
"Raise your hands in the air and don't move."
Raven narrowed her eyes. "It was a set up."
Robin looked at the police before he ordered a command. "Fall back."
With that, he threw several smoke pellets at the policemen who coughed from the smoke that covered them. He then threw one more in front of them.
Eventually, the smoke was cleared only to reveal that the Titans were gone.
:(/\):
"In other news, there was a ruckus at Downtown Street that was caused by the Titans. The police said that no one was injured but they aren't sure of where the Titans are currently hiding."
"Humph. Rubbish." Cyborg muttered. "Dude, we gotta catch that villain before he does anything else."
"We know but what we don't know if he had survived the explosion. I bet he probably escaped at the last minute." Robin responded.
Cyborg blinked as he had his eyes wide open. "Hey guys, I think you might wanna check this out."
The group shortly joined Cyborg and they all turned their gaze to the TV.
"Those Titans are more dangerous than we thought. I was just lucky that I escaped from the store in which they had placed a bomb. They fought me—I had to defend myself…and then they threw me in…"
"What?!" Beast Boy screeched. "That is so not true!"
Raven gave him a look before she crossed her arms over her chest. "I told you it was a set up."
"That mad man must be stopped!" Star shouted.
"Mind shutting down the TV?" Robin asked, glaring at the villain who pretended to be hurt.
"So…any bright ideas on how to stop him?" the empath asked.
Robin seemed to be thinking in a deep thought. "There is going to be a conference at the main square tonight, right?"
"Uh…yeah." Cy answered.
Robin grinned. "Then we're just going to have to continue to play at his game."
:(/\):
At the main square, thousands of people gathered at a stand that consisted of highly important people.
"…and I promise that I will continue to fight against these horrible villains. I will not stop until my city is safe." the speaker responded.
The crowd cheered as some whistled.
"Now, we have a very important guest here—"
Before the speaker could even finish his sentence, a sudden explosion came which alerted them including Rift who got up from his seat.
"Looks like the party is just getting started."
Eyes wide with shock, Rift howled. "NO!"
"If you don't mind, we're here to claim what has been ours." Robin announced.
"So if I were you, I'd better start screaming." Cyborg threatened him, turning his hand into a sonic cannon.
"What's the matter? Cat got your tongue?" Raven sneered.
Angered, Rift screamed. "NO! You guys are supposed to be in jail!"
Smirking, Robin replied. "Ever heard of a close breakout?"
Furious, Rift took out several small bomb-like objects and threw it at the Titans.
"Titans, go!"
Everyone leaped into the air to move out of the way. The attack exploded to the spot where they once stood. Turning around, Rift quickly criss crossed his hands so that ninja-like darts came out, acting like a weapon in order to block the blow that came from Robin's staff.
"This is my time to shine! I won't let you guys ruin it!" he seethed, struggling to push Robin back.
"I don't think we have made it clear." Robin said. "We are the Titans and we always win."
With that, Robin pushed the villain back though the enemy reacted quickly since he ducked down to do a foot sweep in attempt to bring Robin down. Seeing this, Robin jumped into the air to perform a backflip before he landed on his own two feet.
After Robin shortly joined the group, Beast Boy eyed an object that caught his attention.
"What does this do?" he asked, extending his long arm in order to reach the round object.
Unknowingly, the minute Beast Boy touched the middle circle, the thing began to beep which caused the group to gasp. Panicking, the green one chucked it into the air with the help of Raven since she threw it even further up into the air from her powers.
Way up high, the disk then exploded like fireworks.
"Oops. How terrible of me. I should've been more careful." Beast Boy responded.
Robin secretly grinned.
"Really Beast Boy. If you want an explosion, you gotta do it right. Like this." Cy then grabbed a nearby bus by the front before he lifted into the air (he had some struggle with it). He then threw it though it was away from the crowd so that no one could get hurt and the bus crashed into an old building that looked like it was about to collapse anyway.
"Oh dear me. How clumsy of me." Cy said.
Robin then gave a glance at Rift who seemed to be twitching.
"You fools!" he snarled. "You're all doing it wrong! This is the proper way to do it!"
With that, Rift jumped into the air with his two ninja-like darts ready in hand. He spun around before he unleashed his weapons that flew straight towards a store. It then got stuck at the wall of the store which eventually triggered yet another explosion. Right after that, he stuck out his arms and the same waves from before came so that it started to destroy all the glass of the windows while it also managed to destroy some parts of the building.
The crowd went into a panic mode as they all screamed, running away from the scene.
Raven gasped as she saw a gigantic piece of the building was falling right at a mother and a child. The mother was covering her child who whimpered in fear.
"Azarath Metrion Zinthos!" she screamed and soon the boulder was encased in dark magic and was thrown away.
It was lucky for Raven since it was at the nearly last minute.
Meanwhile, Rift was laughing like a maniac while Robin had his eyes wide. Swiftly, he took out his grappling hook which grabbed hold of a nearby pole and he swung himself towards a young boy who seemed to be frozen in fear.
At the right time, Robin grabbed the boy by his waist and swung him to safety. The spot where the little boy once stood, the falling rock fell at the spot which send small rocks since it crashed down. Robin used his cape to shield the boy so that he wouldn't be hurt by them.
After that was done, the small boy ran away towards his mother. However, as soon as he left, Robin looked up and quickly leaped backwards to avoid yet another falling rock.
He then shortly joined the group who all stared at the villain.
"Too bad you playing the Hero didn't last very long." Robin spoke.
Tearing his gaze away, Rift looked at the Titans before he looked at the scattered crowd and the nearly demolished street.
All over the place, people slowly peeked out of their hiding spots so they could see what was going on. Rift then looked the other way to see that the Important people were backing away from him.
He had his eyes wide with shock and anger.
"No…no… he shook his head, furiously.
Robin narrowed his eyes. "Game over."
"NO!" he howled.
:(/\):
"Ahh, it sure is nice being the good guys again." Beast Boy responded, staring at the scene that contained the policemen.
"You said it."
They all stared at the villain who got thrown into the prison truck while muttering. Once he was thrown inside, he spoke.
"I will break out of this prison. And once I do, I'll get my revenge on them! And all of the villains will get their happy endings! AHAHAHAHA!" he laughed insanely as the prison truck drove away.
A/N: …yet, another difficult chapter to write. Ugh, I don't know why these two chapters are suddenly becoming hard to write. Hopefully, the further chapters won't be that difficult to write. I did, however, had fun writing it ah ha ^^ see you next time!