Chapter 3

Calling All Titans (again)

The next morning, Beastboy and Cyborg started fighting over whether to have real eggs and bacon or tofu. Batgirl laughed at their argument. Her arm had healed well and was now only wrapped up in gauze. Starfire was floating about looking for something that was out of sight. Raven was reading a book and would often look up only to glare at BB and Cy. Robin came in and sat down beside Batgirl.

"So, what's for breakfast?" he asked.

"Right now, I don't know," Batgirl said. Just then, the warning light flashed and alarm went off. Robin opened his communicator.

"Trouble, Titans go!" he ordered. They all sprang up and headed out. Batgirl sat still and looked down at her hands. "All of us," Robin called back. Batgirl smiled and sprang after them.

Everyone hurried along into town where they found Jonny Rancid causing mayhem on the street.

"That's right, run away. Run away from Jonny Rancid!" he roared. As he laughed, Robin tossed one of his boomerangs at him and he turned.

"Rancid, you're under arrest," Robin said.

"You'll have to catch me first, bird boy," Rancid said. Laughing, he leapt on his bike and road away.

"Titans, go!" Robin shouted. Starfire, Raven and Beastboy took off, flying while Cyborg hopped in his car and Robin and Batgirl on Robin's bike to pursue.

"Well, well, well, bird boy's got a bird friend. Can she keep up?" Rancid asked. Batgirl grimaced.

"Drive close to the buildings, Robin. I'll show him how I can keep up," she said. Robin did as she said and she leapt off, swinging herself onto the roof and hurried along.

"She moves fast," Cyborg said.

"Never mind that, let's cut him off," Robin said. With the T-car on one side and Robin on the other, they got on either side of Rancid. He laughed and pulled away. Raven and Starfire moved in front of him then and tried as a team to take him down, but he dodged easily and they ran into Cyborg and Robin. Beastboy landed in front as a giant T-Rex and tried to block him, but he jumped over too easily. Rancid turned around on his bike and laughed.

"You just can't keep up with Jonny Rancid!" he said. Without waiting for a reply he drove off.

"No," Robin said.

"Wait, where's Batgirl?" Starfire asked. As it turns out, Batgirl had gotten ahead of Rancid when he turned around to gloat. She now stood on the building in front of him waiting for him to get closer. It wasn't a long wait. She tossed her lasso with the two metal balls on each end and tied him up. Batgirl then used her grappling hook to swing down and take him off his bike.

"How's that for keeping up? And by the way, I'm a bat, not bird," she said. The others ran over to her.

"Nice job," Beastboy said.

"I believe this belongs to you," she said, tossing Rancid down. Robin smiled.

"Good job. Okay, let's bring him in and then get back to the Tower," he said. With another bad guy in jail, the Teen Titans stopped in for doughnuts before heading back to Titan's Tower. Robin got on the computer – after grabbing a doughnut – and started looking for the location of all other Titans. In the background, everyone, except Raven had started fighting over who would get the last doughnut. As they argued, new faces started to appear, starting with the Titans East.

"Titans East reporting for duty," Bumblebee said, as she led her team in. Batgirl had won over the last doughnut allowing Cyborg to stand up and greet the team he had led for a time.

"Hey Bee, how's everybody?" he asked.

"Why not ask them yourself?" Bee asked. Aqualad and Speedy walked in next, followed by Más and Menos who sped in and immediately started speaking in Spanish.

"Hola, estamos de vuelta. ¿Qué nos piden? ¿Hay problemas? ¿Quién es este?" they said stopping in front of Batgirl. She looked very confused.

"Don't worry, they only speak Spanish," Aqualad said, standing beside her.

"Uh, now I wish I'd paid more attention in Spanish Class," Batgirl said.

"Don't we all? I'm Aqualad by the way," he said, shaking her hand. "This is Más and Menos, Speedy and Bumblebee."

"Hola, I'm Batgirl," she said.

"Hey, aren't you supposed to be in Gotham?" Speedy asked. Batgirl shifted at the question.

"We'll have Batgirl explain why she's here when the others get here," Robin said.

"The sooner the better," Kid Flash said, walking into the room. Batgirl looked at him suspiciously but shook her head. Alone, in pairs and teams, all the Titans gathered together at the original Titan's Tower and were all introduced to Batgirl who said she'd probably forget most of their names. When Robin finally called everyone away from their socializing, hands were raised as questions were asked.

"So what's this meeting about, Robin?" Red Star asked in his Russian accent.

"Is the job really so big that you need all of us?" Argent asked. Robin nodded.

"All of you have met Batgirl. She came to us three weeks ago by accident. She was being chased by some odd robots, but that's beside the point. She came looking for help because the biggest super hero league has been beaten," he said.

"You mean the Justice League?" Hot Spot asked.

"I heard about that," Pantha said.

"So, let me get this straight; you want us to go there and help the greatest super hero league in the world because they couldn't do it?" Speedy asked. "If they couldn't do it, what makes you think we can? Most of us were sidekicks to some of their members."

"He's got a point," Aqualad said.

"Ya, we're only kids," Jinx agreed. Jinx wasn't the most popular because she had ties to the H.I.V.E Five, but since she'd started dating Kid Flash, she'd become a Titan.

"We might be, but because some of us have been sidekicks gives us an obligation to help our old mentors," Batgirl said.

"Nos dará la oportunidad de probarnos a nosotros mismos," Menos said. Everyone looked confused.

"He said it'd give us a chance to prove ourselves," Bumblebee said. "And I agree."

"You speak Spanish?" Herald asked.

"Being leader of Titans East means I kind of have to," Bee said.

"And we won't be alone. Superman didn't just send me out to get help, he sent some of his team into hiding to take care of the wounded and plan the next attack," Batgirl said.

"If we're all agreed, we'll move out now. Titans, we've got a team to save," Robin said. So the journey begins.