Titans Island
It had been over a month and a half since Blaze had come to Jump, and in that time, he had proven himself worthy of the name Titan, receiving his own com-unit, and a custom made super-suit as well as his own room in the tower. And time and again he became the "go to guy" for single handedly dealing with problems when there where too many action zones for just the other six Titans.
Still, Robin wanted to see his team, his friends, reach even higher levels of readiness, so on this day, he had called a full battle training day for the young heroes…
"Here's how we'll do it, we go one on one, then two on two and then three on three…" Robin looked at the others, and Beast Boy raised his hand; "But… There are seven of us… How do we decide who sits out?" Robin sighed; he hadn't forgotten that Argent had gone back to Australia, and Speedy had yet to call him back about coming over from Steel City for some fun and training…
"That's easy; just add one more…" Everyone turned to face the new, yet familiar voice and no sooner had that happened then Beast Boy's jaw hit the ground, Starfire knocked Cyborg and Robin over flying to the newcomer and Raven blinked a few times as Mystic and Blaze stood there shocked speechless… "TERRA!" Beast Boy and Starfire yelled simultaneously as the slender geomancer smiled and held out her arms to hug them both, "BB! Star!" The bronze skinned alien pulled the slim blond haired girl into a massive hug; "H-h-hiya' S-s-tarf-f-fire… Korry! Air!"
The Tamaranian princess released the poor girl and smiled a sunbeam at her as the green changeling pulled her into a slightly awkward side hug, "Hiya Gar, thanks for not busting my lungs…" He laughed; "You're back! I knew you'd come back! How was high school?" Terra rolled her light blue eyes; "Boring as all hell… But I guess it drove me sane… I remember who I am now… and… everything else…" she sighed lightly and bowed her head; "I just wanted to apologize to you guys… I know you've already forgiven me, but… well, I want to do this the right way…" She raised her head and then pulled out her old Titans communicator and held it up to Robin; "I'm sorry I betrayed the Titans… I was stupid and scared and let my selfishness get in the way… And I put the team in danger…" She bowed her head slowly, "Please forgive me…"
Robin looked back to his teammates and, receiving a nod from the original four, he turned back to Terra and smiled; "It's like you said: We've already forgiven you… Terra welcome back to the Titans." the willowy framed girl started and looked up at the masked and armored boy; "W-what?" Raven stepped up and held out her hand; "You heard him… Welcome back." A slight smile passed over Raven's lips as Terra shook her hand and smiled, "Thank you Raven." Blaze cleared his throat and smiled coyly, his baby blue eyes flashing slightly; "Um, hate to break up the mush-fest here… But ah…I believe that introductions are in order?" Robin chuckled lightly; "Yeah thanks for the reminder… Terra, meet the newest members of Titans west, first, my friend, and former teammate from back in Gotham, Mystic." Mystic held out her hand and smiled slightly, her domino mask flexing with her face; "Hello Terra, it's nice to finally meet you." Terra nodded, "Same… Funny thing though, Birdie never mentioned you when I was on the team…" Robin winced slightly then gestured to Blaze; "And here's the newest member, an amazing fire bender, the most selfless person you'll ever meet, and a guy who seems to have more power in one finger than the rest of us combined, meet Blaze." The fury canine-ish boy smiled; "Wow, it's nice to meet you." Terra arched her eyebrow as they shook hands; "Umm k'… A werewolf… that's… Wow, that's all kinds of cool!" "Well we like to think so." Cyborg said as he walked over and hugged Terra lightly. She smiled up at him, "Hey Cy, how are you doin'?" The cybernetic teen smiled lightly; "I'm still doin' th' do… It's good to see you…" Mystic, Raven and Blaze, being the only mind readers of the group, noticed the slight emotion in Cyborg's voice was deeper than it seemed on the surface. "Um, I'm an Anthro-wolf…" Terra blinked, "Oh, okay… I guess there's a difference right?" Blaze nodded, but didn't offer anything. Robin however was back to business; "This is great, now we can go four on four! I think a teamed elimination type match might be best; I'll get the Titan mainframe to randomly pick the teams while Cyborg sets the training computer up for a standard run followed by an open battle." Everyone agreed to this and went about helping Robin and Cyborg get everything ready…
"Okay," Robin said as everyone stood in the shade of the tower, looking over the training grounds, "You all understand that there will be no fatal blows or moves used right?" Everyone nodded there understanding; "Okay, here are the teams the mainframe put together: Team A will be me, Starfire, Mystic and Raven, and team B will be Cyborg, Beast Boy, Terra and Blaze…" Robin thought it funny that the mainframe had put him with most of the Titans West, girls, and as such, Terra with most of the boys, still, he had used a random match up program without any modifiers' so it was all fair. "Let's take five minuets and get some game plans set up." Cyborg said as everyone gathered around their team leaders.
"Terra and Blaze are the ones we'll need to pay the most attention to." Robin said as his three teammates looked from him to the other team and back, "Raven, Mystic, you two will have to contain Blaze and keep Terra busy, you can't let either of them get any momentum, especially Blaze, he's fast enough to keep up with Kid Flash so you'll need to get to him first…" he looked at Starfire; "Star, you'll help me with Cyborg and Beast Boy." The nodded her understanding.
On the other side of the field, Cyborg was thinking along the same lines; "Raven or Mystic will most likely go for Blaze, so you need to be on you're A game man, Beast Boy, you'll help me keep Mystic and Robin busy while Terra finds a way to "ground" Starfire." Cyborg grinned at his pun while Terra rolled her eyes; "Oh like I've never heard that before… Will do tin man." Cyborg nodded and held out his hand; "Okay y'all, keep moving, watch each other's backs and stay loose…" Team B put their hands in and pumped them up then down and hollered: "Titans!" as Team A stretched and loosened up.
"Are you all ready?" Robin asked as the teams lined up; "Born ready fearless leader." Blaze quipped as a loud speaker started the count down: "3… 2… 1… Start!"
Instantly Raven shot dark ebony tendrils of her soul self at Blaze, trying to grab him, which he countered by dodging and blocking with bursts of his blue flames, as Mystic tossed a few stun disks at Terra who blocked with dirt covered hands, "You'll have to do better than THAT Raven…" Blaze quipped as he suddenly dashed into the middle of the arena where Cyborg had gotten into a grappling match with Starfire and Robin had was trying to deal with a green chimpanzee who was mocking him by chattering something that sounded like a butchered "Titans go!" as he jumped and leaped just out of the masked boy's reach…
Raven flew into the air to try to get a clear line of sight on the fury blue-gray blur, but then a clod of dirt hit her in the side of the head; "Think fast!" Terra streaked by on a boulder, dragging Mystic by her cape with a large dirt claw, "LET ME GO YOU DIRT FLINGING CHEAT!" hollered Mystic as she tried to block Terra's kinetic powers and failed, "Oh…" Raven didn't even get to finish her thought, much less voice it as Mystic plowed into her midriff knocking both girls silly. Terra caught the mind reading telekinetic duo in a dirt baseball glove, and dropped them off to the side of the field; "Now girls, I want you to know that you did your best and that's all that—OOFF!" Terra was tackled by Robin who had given up chasing Beast Boy, who was now trying to help Cyborg hold Starfire down, "Galrfot HA'shhil andh' oorft!" the Tamaranian princess was shouting and shoving Cyborg back even as Beast Boy turned into a Brontosaurus and pushed on his metal friends back… "Man Starfare! What did you eat this morning?" The orange skinned girl suddenly paused and thought a moment; "I had waffles with the honey mustard and mint frosting."
Cyborg and Beast Boy both stopped pushing and looked at the girl; "You did?" Cyborg asked as she stood there, "Yes." she then punched the metal teen square in the chest, sending him flying into the green prehistoric Beast Boy's face, knocking them both senseless. "Oh no no NO!" Blaze growled as he dodged a telekinetic blast of dark energy from a pissed off, dirt covered Raven as Mystic charged him throwing a rapid combination of punches, elbows and a few kicks that he took full on; "Hiiyaah!" Mystic shouted as she delivered a savage, telekinetically boosted knee to his ribcage, knocking him back a few steps… Blaze rolled his head around, popping his neck, then he smiled at her; "Care to try again?" It hadn't even fazed him! "AHHYA!" Robin brought his staff down across Blaze's head, bending the titanium weapon in half; the wolf-boy simply shook his head and snorted; "Are you even trying?" Robin gaped; just how tough was Blaze? "Azarath Metrion Zinthos!" Raven launched a large tendril of her soulself at Blaze, and like a blur, he sidestepped it and jumped up into the air and firmly poked Raven's charka stone, forcing her head back and knocking her out cold… "Raven!" Robin and Mystic dashed to where the dark empath was falling and Robin knelt down, and locked his hands together as Mystic jumped into his hands and let him launch her into the air, her wings unfolding as she caught Raven mid-fall… Robin spun on his heel and faced a calm looking Blaze, "Blaze…" The wolf-boy nodded, "She'll be pissed at me for touching her, but she'll be fine." Robin pulled out a pair of titanium knight-sticks and motioned with two fingers for Blaze to bring it. The Angelic lycanthrope tilted his head and smiled; "Are you sure about that Robin?" Blaze suddenly asked from behind the masked boy. Robin bent and kicked behind him then spun and swung at his fur-covered teammate with a rapid fury that blurred his hands and feet, yet he couldn't even connect. "Even if I just took it, you'd wear yourself out long before I'd cave…" Robin grunted; "Who said I was going to take you down?" Blaze ducked as Mystic's foot arced through the air right where his head had been a heartbeat before, "Nice one. But just a tad predictable." The Navy blue clad anthro-wolf flipped to the side next, dodging a trio of stun disks, and a bird-a-rang as Mystic and Robin pressed the attack… "You know," Blaze said as he bobbed and weaved between Mystic's staff and Robin's knight-sticks; "I'd have thought that Starfire would have joined in by now… am I right Korry?" Blaze leaned to one side and reached his hand behind his shoulder and caught the Tamaranian's fist and then rotated at the hips and threw Starfire away with surprising ease. "Why did you wait?" Robin asked as he landed on Blaze's shoulders and jammed his thumb into the Angelic half-breed's neck, looking for a pressure point, "To tell you?" Blaze said as he pried the impressively firm grip off his body, "Yes." the Boy Wonder said as he back flipped away, giving Mystic a clear shot as she put out a burst of red flames at him. Blaze crossed his forearms and blocked the stream of fire, then he took to the air, his long flaming blue spirit wings bursting out and pushing him into the air, where he met a barrage of star-bolts, Blaze held his hand out and drew the green solar fire into a single large ball of energy, which he then absorbed into his hand. "Yummy… I like honey mustard…" Blaze smirked as he dodged and blocked all of Starfire's attacks and then sent her spiraling off into the roof of the tower. "Hey bird-boy! The tower is out of bounds right?" "Yes and so are you…" Blaze turned and faced Mystic, who was hovering, her arms crossed over her dirty uniform, and her eyes glowed a red color that tinted the lenses of her mask a dark pink… Blaze spoke softly; "You can't hurt me remember? I've done nothing that's against the rules Mystic…" She hauled back and gave him a flaming telekinetic fist to the face, popping every knuckle in her fingers and cracking several bones in her wrist as well as finally staggering the cocky celestially spawned boy. "Ow…" she smirked and this time planted an hot armored boot in his gut; "Ooof!" Blaze drifted back, and then righted himself, looking at the slightly disfigured smoldering boot. "MYSTIC! BLAZE! ENOUGH!" Robin shouted up at his teammates, who where floating high above him and the field. Blaze smirked; "You're boyfriend's yelling at us." Mystic dropped her jaw in shock, and her eyes stopped glowing as she hung there in the air staring at Blaze…