Chapter 1
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A teen grudgingly opened his eyes. He was covered in mud and in the middle of the forest. He looked up at the stars overhead and tried to get a feel for what time of night it was. The moon was out directly overhead and shining bright, giving him a fair bit of light to see with.
Sitting up, the teen scratched the back of his head. As he did this, he saw what looked like a lot of light coming from the west. A settlement probably. Maybe a place he could get cleaned up at.
He also had a fair amount of back pain set in. The pain was excruciating for the teen, but not enough to prevent him from what he needed to do.
The teen was dressed in a rather normal set of clothing. Starting at his feet he wore a pair of heavy-duty, black, and very worn combat boots. Under those boots were a pair of white, moisture-wicking socks. His pants were a pair of standard blue jeans, although they were torn and rather dirty. Moving up to his torso, the teen wore a sleek black jacket and a white tee shirt with a purple eagle on the chest with its wings spread in an ancient roman style. Both the jacket and the shirt had a long tear down the middle of the back. To cover this, the teen wore a backpack full of an assortment of things. Moving to his hands, the teen wore black gloves that only covered a third of the finger on each hand except for the ring finger. Because the teen didn't have either of his ring fingers, he had cut that off and sewed it closed. On his head, the teen wore a black cavalier hat with a large purple feather. The hat was flat all around his head and was the only thing on the teen that didn't look like it belonged in the trash.
Taking off his backpack, the teen delved into one of the side pockets and pulled out a small plastic Ziploc bag that contained a mixture of herbs and in black sharpie had 'Health Mix' written on it.
Opening up the bag the teen then began his process for consuming food. Opening his mouth, the teen then let his stomach come outside of his body, connected by the intestines and muscles, the stomach revealed itself to be a three-pronged organ. The lower two prongs were rounded off and more mean for grabbing while the upper one had a long six-inch talon on the end of it, much like an eagle's.
Diving into the baggie, the stomach ejected digestive enzymes from the talon. This liquified the mixture of herbs and allowed the teen to drink the mixture, again through the talon, like a long straw. And as soon as he was finished, his stomach then retreated into his mouth and back into its place inside his body.
It wasn't long after this that the pain in his back subdued to a tolerable level.
Seeing no other real option, he picked himself up and began the hike towards the settlement. It didn't take him long to cover the distance as the ground was easy to traverse despite the mud.
Once there, the teen stopped and looked up at a road sign illuminated by light about forty meters away from where he was.
Jump City.
An interesting name for an interesting place. The teen had never been to a city before! The thought of going to one excited him.
However, just as he was about to take off and begin exploring the land, something in the sky caught his eye. He looked up and watched as what looked like a shooting star falling out of the sky and towards the city.
Never being one to let the opportunity of adventure and discovery elude him, the teen, with a smile on his face, hurried towards the place where the star crashed.
However, the young teen was stopped in his tracks when a group of people went running. The teen was quick to dive behind some garbage cans as he waited for them to pass, which they did rather quickly.
Suddenly the teen had second thoughts about what he was doing. He had no idea that there were people here. His previous experiences with people had never been good ones. It usually ended up with him in a fight and either kicking butt or getting his handed to him.
Despite this, the teen was a good fighter. He knew he could take care of himself, as he had been doing so for a long time. However, when his push turned into their shove, the teen was also completely fine with retreating and/or hiding. And if all else failed, he had a handful of tricks up his sleeve that had never failed him.
Collecting himself, the teen decided to push on into the city tards the crash site. It didn't take him long to reach it and take a look at the situation in front of himself, which confused him greatly.
The teen was looking at four people, three males one female. It looked like the female was taking the three males head-on in a fight. Which the teen found odd since rarely saw people fighting each other. They always were after him.
Regardless, the teen could tell that the female was not good news. She raised her hands and began firing green orbs of energy at the trio as they rushed for cover. When they did, the teen observed her then fly over their cover and target them, causing them all to scramble.
The teen, never one to shy away from a fight he thought he could win, decided to test himself against the flying female.
Drawing his flare gun out of his backpack, he loaded in what he called a 'bounce fire flare' and took aim. The flying female paused in the air for a prolonged moment as she had her sights set on the one dressed in green, red, yellow and black.
With the target less than twenty meters away from him, the flare found its mark and hit her in the left arm, just barely missing her hair.
The flare hit her and bounced towards the ground, continued to burn on its way down. Luckily for the teen who had fired the flare, due to his extensive efforts to modify the flares to make them more useful in combat paid off.
When the flare hit the flying girl, it spewed out a small vial of gasoline designed to spray outwards upon contact with the target. From there, the flare would light the gas on fire and leave a nasty burn mark.
The female cried out in pain as she was quick to turn her sights to the teen who had fired it. As she looked down on him, he was already loading another, deadlier flare, into his one-shot flare gun. One he called 'sticky explosive flare.'
The female was quick to put out the flames on the back of her arm as a popped fire hydrant nearby made fire a less than effective tool.
Once the fire was out, the teen fired an explosive flare at the female. The explosive inside of this one was weak, but more designed to send the flare sparks flying outwards and cause confusion.
The flying girl saw it and quickly blasted it with a green orb that caused it to explode mid-air, closer to the teen who had fired it than he had wanted it too.
With his fast reflexes, the teen quickly ducked back behind cover. Once all of the flames of the explosive flare passed the teen, he quickly peeked back out from the alley and took aim with his reloaded flare gun only to find that the girl was no longer there.
The teen, before he could even react, then took a massive blow to his right side, in the soft part between his ribs and hips. This sent him flying several feet and lose grip of his flare gun.
Hitting the ground hard, the teen didn't let that slow him down and he quickly rolled over towards the direction he had just been sent from and saw the female taking aim at him with her green orbs.
Firing a volley, the teen was quick to react, sitting up and then pushing himself backward in a seated position quickly. However, the female was quick to adjust her aim and landed a hit on him, but it didn't hurt him and he shrugged it off.
Seeing no other option, the teen quickly dropped his backpack and slid over it. From his back extended two black tentacles made out of pure muscle. These were then quick to pick up a nearby car and move it in front of the downed teen to give him a chance to get on his feet.
The female then flew up over the vehicle just as the teen let the tentacles retreat into his back and he retrieved his backpack. She then aimed at him and was about to unleash another volley on the teen when she was taken by surprise as another explosive, one the teen hadn't fired off. This caused her to cover her face and close her eyes and fall to the ground.
"Over here!" The teen heard someone call out.
The teen looked over to see the three he watched fight the girl earlier. They were behind a bus and had been watching him take on the female. Quickly deciding to take his chances, the teen on the ground quickly got up and rushed over to them.
"Thanks, man, we owe ya one." The largest of the three said as the teen joined them.
The teen gave a thumbs-up as he joined the three behind their newfound cover behind the bus.
"Girl's gonna wreck the whole city." The larger teen stated.
"I won't let her." The masked one countered "We'll have to fight her and bring her down!"
The teen was quickly on board with the plan with his newfound allies. The four charged out from behind their cover only to be stopped by a massive black bird that stopped them from moving forward.
"Maybe fighting isn't the answer." A female dressed in a blue cloak said walking out form a different alley.
This caused the masked teen to think for a bit before telling the group to "Stand down."
The teen looked in shock being told to stand down. His eyes went wide and the large teen spoke for him.
"What, you think you da boss or somethin?" He asked in an angry tone.
"Just give me a chance." He ordered.
The teen smiled as he was fairly confident that the masked one was going to get his teeth kicked in by this exceptionally tough female.
The group then watched as the masked teen then approached the downed female. She was quick to raise hostilities with him again, however, he put both of his hands up and somehow managed to calm her down.
Doing quite possibly the dumbest thing the teen had ever seen, the masked person willingly freed the female from her bonds.
"There, now maybe we can-" The masked teen started before getting cut off by the female who pulled him in for a kiss.
The kiss lasted a good five seconds before he was then thrown to the ground.
"If you wish to live, you will leave me alone." She warned before flying away.
The teen blinked a few times before looking at the rest of the group.
"You're gonna go after her, aren't ya?" The big teen asked.
"I have to know if she's a threat." The masked one responded.
"Probably to see if you can get another kiss." The masked teen then grumbled.
"I appreciate the help." The masked teen then said before walking off.
The teen then watched as everyone went their separate directions. Everyone expects the skinny green one.
First, he ran up to the masked teen asking to see if he could tag along with him. When he got rejected, he then went to the blue cloak one and got rejected again.
"What about you?" The green kid asked the teen.
The teen turned away and shook his head.
"Aw, come on!" The green kid insisted "Maybe we can get a pizza or catch a movie!"
While both of these sounded quite interesting to the teen, quite frankly, he needed to bathe. That fight with the female had worked up a sweat, combined with the fact that he hadn't bathed for over twenty-four hours means he needed one bad.
However, fate would not let him get away as it wasn't too long after the teen began walking away that he was drawn back to the skinny green kid when he shouted "DUDE!"
Quickly spinning back, the teen saw a massive, croissant looking thing flying overhead.
The teen then watched as it then flew over to an island and dropped what looked like a massive pen into the ground before projecting what looked like an overgrown gecko above it with a stern warning. Do not interfere with the apparently alien girl.
The teen now really wanted to interfere as he wasn't one to back down from a fight. And whatever these gecko mutant were, he was going to kick their butts or get his kicked. Either way, the teen was more than eager to fight them.
And he wasn't the only one as this stern warning brought the little crew of five back together. And it wasn't long after that, that the big one, skinny green one and masked teen all agreed to work together.
Naturally, the teen was more than happy to tag along. He gave a smile and a vigorous nod of approval and began following the team.
The girl in the blue cloak needed a little bit of convincing before she decided to hop in and join the crew.
"So, what can I call all of you?" The masked teen asked.
"You can call me Beast Boy!" The skinny green one was quick to respond.
"Um, I guess you can call me Cyborg." The big teen answered.
"Raven." The female in the blue cloak responded.
All eyes then set upon the teen. When he didn't respond the crew stopped and looked at him.
"Well?" The masked teen asked in a calm and kind tone.
The teen then tried his best to act out something.
"Are you mute?" Raven asked.
The teen pointed at her and nodded.
"Mute?" Beast Boy asked, "So like you can't talk at all?"
The teen nodded.
"Can you write?" The masked teen asked.
The teen nodded.
"Here." The masked teen said handing him a small notepad and pen "Write down your name."
The teen then did as instructed.
"Polybius." The masked teen readout loud "I'm Robin."
Polybius then tried to give the masked teen his pen and paperback, but he refused.
"Keep it." Robin said "That's how we'll communicate. You write down something and just hand it off to one of us."
Polybius nodded as the group then pressed forward.
It wasn't long until the group found the alien girl stuffing her face with all sorts of food. And not long after that, the crew found themselves giving ground to her as she aimed those green orbs at them.
After a quick discussion about the term 'nice' and a subsequent finding out that the girl was taken as a slave, this lead the group to agree to stop the alien lizards from taking her back.
And subsequently, the crew found themselves in a fight with the lizard people from another world.
Polybius found himself in a fight with three of them all at the same time. Their gold staffs that fired red orbs weren't very effective against Polybius. Polybius was able to easily avoid any and every shot fired at him.
Digging into his backpack, Polybius drew out his stone ax. The ax was by no means sharp and it acted more like a club than a tool for chopping through wood. But it did make for an effective weapon.
Squaring up with the first one, Polybius was quick to easily doge the thrust from the staff from the first lizard person. Polybsiu then reached up and swung his club and knocked off his feet and out cold.
The other two, upon seeing this, decided to work together and quickly rushed the armed teen. Upon seeing this, Polybius was quick to respond by simply doing a quick side roll out of the path of the two.
Unable to change course, one of them quickly crashed itself into a wall. The other one meanwhile was able to stop itself before they too flew into the wall.
What they were not quick enough to do was prevent themselves from getting clobbered by Polybius, who quickly lunged himself in a jump attack. Hitting the thing hard in the back, the force of the blow caused it to stumble forward. However, the teen stayed close to him and knocked him off his feet next, causing him to hit the ground.
To finish off the lizard creature, Polybius brought the stone club over his hand and came down hard and bashed the lizard creature's face with the club, causing it to lose consciousness.
Polybius turned back to see that the rest of his allies had soundly beaten the lizard creatures. This caused those who hadn't been knocked out to withdraw.
Polybius gave a small fist pump into the air in victory as he turned back to the rest of his team.
"I believe the term is 'thank you.'" The alien girl said.
Polybius gave two thumbs up and a big smile.
"Fools!" The lizard king said.
The lizard douchebag then went on to blab about how he was going to destroy the city. And it wasn't long after that that Polybius found himself inside the giant flying croissant.
The team then navigated their way up to the command bridge where the lizard king was giving orders to fire the weapon. Something which had already been disabled by the group by the time they reached this point.
Polybius once again found himself in a fight with these lizard people. This time, the teen drew out his flare gun in his left hand and his club in his right, Polybius loaded in a 'bounce explosive flare' into his gun. Taking aim at the closest lizard person, Polybius fired his flare gun.
Letting the flare bounce off his chest, the lizard creature laughed at Polybius.
"Is that the best you can do?" The lizard creature taunted.
The flare then proceeded to explode and catch several of the lizard people in its blast. All of them caught on fire as they panicked and withdrew out of the fight.
"Easy Polybius!" Robin shouted, "We don't want to hurt ourselves too!"
Polybius nodded as he put away his flare gun and opted for his stone club. He only needed the one flare because by doing that, Polybius had single-handedly reduced their numbers by half.
The armed teen then took a back seat in the fight, watching his allies to see how they fought and observed them.
The fight dragged on for a while before Raven took things to the next level and blew up the bridge and caused the ship to fall out of the sky, effectively taking care of the rest of the lizard people expect for the lizard king.
Naturally, with said king being so mad about his giant flying croissant, he was about ready to kill Raven when Cyborg intervened at the last minute with his newfound weapon. A sonic cannon that he built into his arm.
"Boyah." Cyborg stated in victory.
By dawn the next day, the crew found themselves on the tiny island, discussing whether or not to form a team.
Cyborg, Robin, Beast Boy and the alien who was called 'Starfire' were all on board with this. Polybius and Raven, however, were apprehensive.
Despite this, Polybius was willing to try something new and agreed to join the new team the four were forming up. And with his submission, Raven too joined in and the Teen Titans were born.
And there you have it! How our hero Polybius met the Titans. Being in the right placer at the right or wrong time. I hope I provided a good escape from your busy day and that you enjoy the rest of it!
Have a good one and hope see you in Chapter 2!