"Teen Titans! Welcome to Titans Academy!" A young woman with scarlet hair and a pleasant face was standing in the middle of the school's massive foyer. The Teen Titans stood apprehensively looking around the room. It was very clean, with sparkling marble floors and a high ceiling. The walls were mostly glass windows, looking out into the school's various courtyards.
"My name is Ruby," the woman continued, "I work as the secretary for your headmaster, you can meet him later. In the meantime, how about a tour?" She smiled brightly as the team nodded their heads. Starfire beamed with excitement. "Let's see here…" Ruby examined the wooden clipboard she was holding, "I have, Robin, Raven, Beast Boy, Cyborg, and Starfire. Great, looks like you all made it!"
"How do you know our names?" Robin asked.
"We know lots about you kids. The Justice League sent over your files so we could build a school based on your skills and powers!" Ruby said, she was still smiling brightly at them, "Well, let's get started, I'm sure you are all anxious to see your friends and fellow students." The team didn't argue and they set off on their tour.
"Titan Academy has the tightest security possible. We have state of the art alarms and all the windows and doors are bullet and power proof." She gave them a little wink. "The campus is surrounded by a force field invisible to the naked eye. We also have a lock down system in place that will seal the doors and windows with impenetrable metal bars if anything out of the ordinary happens. Oh! And don't worry about breaking anything." Ruby paused next to a table with a glass vase on it, "everything is shatterproof." She pushed the vase onto the floor and it bounced away, still in tact.
"That seems like a lot of security for a school." Cyborg said.
"We don't want any bad guys tracking you down and getting in the way of your studies. The security is to keep them out and keep you lot safe." Ruby took pause next to a big metal door.
"Or to keep us in." Robin said under his breath. Raven hit him on the back of the head.
"So if there are no bad guys and everything is shatter proof, how are we going to get better at fighting?" Beast Boy asked, the team nodded in agreement.
"Perfect timing Beast Boy. I was just about to show you!" Ruby replied. She opened the big metal door before her, and the team looked in. They were rather confused, it seemed to them to just be a big white room. "This…" Ruby ushered them in and sealed the door behind them, "is our fight simulation room!" She walked over to a control table on the far right side. "This is where your team will come to train together. You can make the room appear however you want. The control board is programed to respond to which ever team is using the room. It will then simulate your city and your known enemies." She pressed the power button. "Robin, if you would join me please." She gestured to Robin and he walked over to her. "The control board responds to each team leader's hand prints. Give it a try Robin." Robin placed his hand on the designated pad, and to his amazement the room transformed into the main street of Jump City. He looked back down at the control pad and a long list of situations and enemies appeared before him. He scrolled through the list until he found what he was looking for.
"Welcome. Teen. Titans. Please. Standby. For. Simulation." The room's robotic voice spoke to them. Suddenly, as though being teleported to them, the H.I.V.E Five appeared.
"The simulation is highly realistic! Our holograms are built to withstand anything." Ruby said. "Go ahead and try it out." She added, nodding to Star. Starfire powered up one of her fists and threw a bolt of green energy at the holographic Gizmo, it nailed him in the chest and Gizmo was thrown backwards as though he had really been hit.
"All right!" Cyborg yelled "This is so cool!" Ruby powered down the simulation and brought the team back into the hallway.
"You'll have a designated time in your school schedule where you can use that room, and there are infinite possibilities you can practice on." Ruby was now leading them down the hallway. "The school is set up in two main sections. We are currently walking through our academic section. You'll have to take an array of physical classes and history based classes while you are here." She led them past various classrooms that looked like they belonged in a typical high school, and past more unique classrooms, obviously build to cater to certain powers. There was a room full of targets, one dimly lit room full of yoga mats, and a gym. "We also have a highly realistic obstacle course, built to challenge each individual member of your team." Ruby said leading them past a room full of different platforms and moving parts. "It's important to remember that while the obstacle courses and simulations are fake, they can still cause injuries so be careful. You'll have to work just as hard in them as you would in a real fight to keep from getting hurt." Robin looked around at his team. Raven looked unenthused as always. Cyborg was eyeing up the robotics in a room they were standing close to. Beast Boy had a dazed look on his face, his stomach grumbled loudly. Starfire on the other hand was smiling like Robin had never seen her smile before. She looked abuzz with energy and excitement and every room Ruby took them past seemed to catch her attention and excite her even more. Seeing all the training rooms and equipment seemed to placate Robin, he was excited to have so many resources for training at his fingertips, and he was already starting to wonder how he could get some of this stuff into T Tower.
"Now we are in the living section of the school." Ruby said as she opened another door. This section of the school looked much more homey than the other. The floors were carpeted and the walls were painted a calming gray color. "This is where you will sleep, eat, and spend time with your fellow classmates. We have a large dining hall that serves anything you could dream of, and as much as you can eat." Beast Boy and Cyborg gave each other a joyous look. "If you follow me, I'll show you to your rooms." They followed Ruby down a series of hallways, doors and up a few flights of stairs. Finally, Ruby stopped them in front of large double doors. She opened them up and they followed her into a common room space. There was a large flat screen TV with a game station, a few vending machines, a makeshift kitchen area with a microwave and tea kettle, and a card table, ping pong table, and pool table. "The dorms are separated by gender, down that hallway..." Ruby pointed to the left, "are the boy's dorms, and down that hallway," She pointed to the right, "are the girl's dorms. Of course you are allowed to visit each other's dorms if you wish." She left the boys in the common room while she showed the girls to their dorm first. The boys didn't seem to mind; they were too busy fawning over the game station to care.
Ruby led Star and Raven through the door on the right. It opened up into what looked like a tiny apartment, but without the kitchen. There was another smaller common room here with a few couches and five doors leading off of it.
"You'll all have your own separate rooms. There is also a bathroom." Ruby pointed to the door closest to them. "Your bedrooms are built so they mimic the ones you had at home, and they have your names on the doors. Go ahead and get settled, I'll show the boys to their room. Meet me in the common room in 15 minutes. I have one final thing I need to give you." Ruby said before heading back for the boys.
Raven and Star looked around. They quickly found their rooms next to each other on the left side of the dorm. Before going in they checked the names on the left side to see who they would be living with, Bumble Bee and Argent. Starfire squealed loudly and Raven rolled her eyes.
Meanwhile, Ruby showed they boys to their side of the room. It was the same as the girls, only a bit bigger, there were six doors instead of five. Three of the doors on the left side said, Robin, Beast Boy, and Cyborg. The other three read bathroom, Speedy, and Aqualad. Ruby gave the boys the same speech she gave the girls, and soon led them back out into the common room. Raven and Star were seated on the couch waiting for them.
"The rest of your classmates will be arriving shortly. There are more students on other floors of course. I need to give you one last thing." She reached into the handbag she had been carrying and pulled out five silver communicators with a large TA etched on the front. She handed one to each member of the team. "You'll use these to get in contact with your classmates, teachers and me." Robin flipped open his communicator and saw a long list of people he could call, some of which were names he didn't recognize, he assumed those were their teachers. "All you have to do is click someone's name and you can send them either a text or a voice message. They are a little bit like cellphones but without all the fancy extra bits. Plus, they should be able to snap in place of your old communicators." The team shed their old red communicators and added their new silver ones to their outfits. "I'll leave you to get settled. First day of classes start tomorrow!" Ruby said before leaving them alone. The team gathered on the couch.
"It doesn't seem to bad here." Cyborg said.
"Yes! It seems most excellent." Starfire hummed.
"I don't know. Don't you think Ruby seemed a bit too cheerful, and how do they know everything about us? Down to our room layouts?" Robin said. He was pacing in front of the team, thinking hard.
"Come on Robin! You don't trust anyone; Ruby was just trying to make us feel at home. I'm sure there's nothing to worry about. She even said the Justice League told them everything." Beast Boy was already powering up the game device has he said this. He threw a controller to Cyborg. Raven rolled her eyes and sulked to the corner where there was a large shelf of books, she picked one up and settled into a chair. Cyborg and Beast Boy were soon back to their usual routine, screaming at each other over the racing game they were playing. Star turned her attention to Robin. He was still pacing, his brow furrowed.
"Robin, please come and sit. There is nothing to worry about. We can watch Beast Boy and Cyborg partake in their game playing." She gave her one of her warmest smiles. He tried to shake away his thoughts as he nodded his head and joined her on the couch.
Pretty soon, their roommates were arriving. Starfire threw her arms around Argent and Bumblebee, gushing about how they would be living together and thankful to have someone who might partake in the girly activities Raven hated. Speedy and Robin shook hands, Robin could already feel his competitive side coming out at the sight of his old friend. Cyborg gave Bumblebee a small slightly embarrassed smile. Raven did not move from her spot by the bookshelf, but gave the newcomers a nod of hello. The friends settled into the common room to talk about their upcoming classes, and what everyone thought of the school. Speedy and Robin discussed the simulation room, and which strategies would be best to use for it. Bee seemed most excited for the obstacle course, and Aqualad said that Ruby mentioned a swimming pool. Despite his hesitations about the academy and Ruby, Robin was glad to have his team and his friends in one place again.
A/N Hey all! I just wanted to let you know that I put up an official poll on my profile about who this fanfic should feature: Robin x Raven or Robin x Star. Please go over there and vote! I'm going to leave it up for a little bit, probably until chapter 5 or 6. I really want to cater to you guys! So please vote! And please leave a review it really helps out! Follow to get alerts when new chapters come out!