Titans: Elemental

by B.E.A.T.N

When there's trouble, you know who to call... A retelling of my favorite superhero cartoon, TEEN TITANS, with my own spin on various moments. This story is set in the same universe as the DCAU, an OC added to the team with more later on, certain characters have different fates, and other changes you'll all have to wait to see...

2. Chapter 2

Titans: Elemental

Chapter 2: Titans Go! Part 2

Vic eyes his shredded clothes, "aw man, my suit!"

BB, "so? You look way cooler without it."

Vic, "yeah. Like I'm taking fashion advice from the guy in the goofy mask."

BB, "goofy? My mask is cool. Isn't it? Raven?"

She and Vic shake their heads grimly.

Jack, "way to let him down easy guys."

Obvious sarcasm is obvious.

BB pulls at the bottom edge of his mask, "but…. what about my secret identity?"

Vic has shed his tattered civvies.

Raven, "what secret identity? You're green."

Jack, "no one's gonna recognize you dude."

BB, "uh…. Hmmm…. Uh, uh…. Oh…. Hm…."

He pulls off the headgear, and Dick and Star cross to the other four.

Dick, "this isn't over. Now that we've interfered…."

Starfire, "... Trogaar will strike harder. It is only a matter of-"

On the second half of this, the beams from the island-mounted communicator flash into the sky and Trogaar's static-distorted image towers over the skyline.

They turn to look at the communication.

Trogaar, "fools! The Earth scum were warned. Your insolence will be punished. Your city shall be destroyed!"

As a fearful crowd stares up at the projection, it winks out and the ship sails in. The gun angles itself downward, the broad muzzle glowing at its center, and warms up. At ground level, all six fighters are trying to sort this out.

Raven, "great."

Jack, "my sentiments exactly."

….

The Gordanian ship, ready to fire on any part of Jump City it deems unworthy of staying on the map. It has our heroes dead in its sights.

BB, "so, after trashing a pizza place and a perfectly good video store, now we've managed to make a humongous space gecko mad enough to vaporize our entire town?"

Jack, "it looks that way, huh?"

Vic, "go team."

Star yells at Dick, "all the fault is yours! I commanded you leave me alone, but you insisted upon the being nice!"

Dick, "my fault?! You blast me, you kiss me, but you never stop to mention that they have a gigantic particle weapon?"

Sparks fly between their eyes!

Star, "Nomosguoguomuozog! GUO ZOG!"

Dick, "I CAN'T UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU'RE SAYING!"

BB, "we are doomed! I can't believe I let you talk me into this!"

Vic, "say what?! I was ready to walk before you-"

Jack facepalms as he said, "can we all stop arguing for five seconds!?"

Raven has begun to concentrate as best she can by this time, and now, she speaks up.

Raven, "QUIET!"

Her yell echoes in the silent street and shuts everyone else up very quickly. Four pairs of angry eyes are turned her way for some moments before she comes up with any more words.

Jack however is blushing, and was confused as to why her yelling did that to him.

Raven waves timidly, "hi."

Jack, "we shouldn't be fighting each other. We should be trying to save this city. And this whole thing is no-one's fault. We're in this mess due to coincidence and bravery, and just a tiny bit of idiocy on our end. What matters now, is working together to stop these guys."

Dick, "... Zivel's right. It doesn't matter how we got into this mess. We're in it, and we will get out of it, together."

Star nods in agreement. Vic and Raven do the same. BB's mouth has curved up into the mischievous smile that will become a staple of his over time.

Jack smiles and says, "glad we're all on the same page now."

Dick, "come on. We've got a city to save."

….

At the hovering ship, we see within the gun's pulsating barrel.

A parallel catwalk comes into frame and a contingent of Gordanians rushes along it. After they have cleared out, a large bubble of Raven's black energy rises from the surface and dissipates to expose the six heroes to be within. BB shivers noticeably, not being used to this mode of transport.

BB, "that dark energy stuff gives me the-"

Raven edges closer to give him a slightly annoyed glare.

BB, "uh….", he smiles broadly and gives a thumbs-up, and sweat drop pops off his head, "... I mean, it's cool!"

Jack whispers, "word of advice, never insult a beautiful girl, especially if they can kick your butt."

A nervous little laugh follows this. Now the Gordanians hustle away around another bend and Dick pokes his head out from a doorway.

Dick, "we have to get to the firing controls. There isn't much time."

Star is the first out after him, then BB, Jack and Vic. Raven emerges well behind them all, but does not follow. Tiptoeing as quietly as he can, the changeling throws a look back at her over his shoulder while he follows the gang toward the end of the passage.

Raven closes her eyes and drops her head as if she has just lost all hope.

Vic, "mind telling me why you're always by yourself?"

Jack and Vic stand before her.

Raven, "you heard Beast Boy. I don't exactly fit in."

Vic puts his hand on her shoulder, "he's green, half of me is metal, Jack has a staff and can shoot fire and ice outta his hands, and she's from space. You fit in just fine."

The message seems to strike the right chord, and she allows him to ease her off along the passage after the others.

Jack smiles at Raven and says, "I didn't fit in where I came from. My magic frightened people. You're not alone Raven."

Raven smiles and blushes at Jack.

Now Dick and Star stop at another corner. Dick looks past it quickly.

Starfire, "I bring you... Apology."

Dick turns to her.

Dick, "don't worry about it. I'm sorry I yelled, too."

Starfire, " you are…. Nice. On my world, only my k'norfka has shown me such kindness."

Dick, "well, things are different here."

The area around them seems to grow pink as they look upon one another. She blushes a bit before the passage fades into view behind her, exposing the rest of the crew. BB's next words startle her out of the reverie.

BB, "uh, guys", he points past Starfire, "I think they know we're here."

A squad of charging troops, and rather angry ones at that, find them!

Vic, Jack and Raven are at the rear; they have turned to face back the way they came, and another Gordanian leaps into view with a screech.

….

At the exterior of the ship as the weapon warms up. Graphs light up to mar the rising power levels at the control panel; after they have topped out, two crewmen are manning the helm on the bridge. Several others are partially in view in the background. After adjusting the controls, one of these two turns in his seat to address this area.

The Gordanian, "Lord Trogaar!"

We see the throne turned away.

The Gordanian, "the weapon has reached full power."

Now the chair begins to swivel around, and a close-up shows Trogaar seated in it.

Trogaar, "then begin the firing sequence."

The helmsmen do so. We see a schematic of the ship; the graphics fade away and are replaced by a circle of characters in the crew's language, with another one at the center. The peripheral marks begin to disappear one by one, starting at the top and working counterclockwise; this is the countdown timer.

Trogaar, "the Earth scum shall learn….", he stands up, "... It takes more than six juvenile heroes to defy the mighty Lord Trogaar!"

We see behind him and tilt up to frame the observation windows in front. The weapon's barrel points straight ahead from here, and rings of light flick on from the base forward. Back to Trogaar, smiling grimly at the destruction he is about to unleash, we see soldiers guarding him. An instant later, the door directly behind him is blown inward with terrific force and a screenful of smoke, which clears to show a close-up of Dick.

Dick, "we're not six heroes. We're one team."

The others all stand together.

Trogaar ditches his triumphant smile in favor of an enraged growl, and in a twinkling every spare deckhand is on the move.

Dick leads the charge for his side, yelling out, "TEAM! GO!"

Dick gets in the first hit, a flying kick that nearly snaps a scaly neck. Vic slams both fists to the floor, throwing out a sheet of energy to blast others off their feet; next, BB, as a kangaroo, kicks two in the gut full force. Star delivers a supercharged uppercut that sends her enemy crashing to the deck.

Jack starts shooting fireballs at his attackers as fast and as hard as he could!

BB turns human, but then he turns back into a marsupial, just in time to kick one Gordanian away and lash another with his heavy tail, then becomes himself again. Trogaar leaps in close, smashing both arms against the deck close enough to send him flying backward with a yell. The only thing that stops his momentum is an inconveniently placed wall; he slides down it and ends up on the floor in a heap.

Here comes the Gordanian lord again, roaring and all set to beat him to a pulp, but Raven pops up from the floor and throws up a small shield. One punch after another whumps into it as she backs up slowly toward the wall and her knees buckle, and he finally batters through the defense and prepares to flatten them both.

Jack runs at him and tries to hit him with his staff, yelling in anger, but is punched away and is forced to deal with more of the soldiers that were attacking, using his powers to shoot fire and ice from his hands!

Trogaar turns back to Raven to smash her, but once again, he is foiled, this time by Dick's leap onto his shoulders; the surprise attack leaves Trogaar stumbling backward past an underling who has locked up with Vic. After some moments, Dick is wrenched free and hurled across the deck; he manages to turn the tumble into a flip and land in a crouch.

It takes him only a fraction of a second to leap back into the fray and deliver a crushing left jab that rocks Trogaar off his feet. Even before the latter can hit the floor, he is bashed in a different direction by a steel-soled spin kick, and Dick instantly starts into a new move for the coup de grace. Now it is his turn to be caught out when the massive hands wrap themselves around his midsection, and he is hurled past Star into the far wall behind the captain's chair. She voices a shocked gasp upon catching sight of him.

Starfire, "NightWing!"

No time to worry about him further, for the snarling Trogaar is on his way across the deck toward her. Warming up as she lifts off, she lets go with a string of shots that tears into the deck on the way toward him. He is lost under the glare and smoke for a moment, but leaps out of it intact and madder than ever and bears her to the floor. That giant hand lifts her high and slams her down again; she struggles to break his hold for a moment, then squeezes off a body-blow starbolt that forces him to drop her.

As he backs up cautiously from the one-time prisoner who has turned out to be far more trouble than she is worth, Vic rushes across from a pile of unconscious Gordanians. The bionic right lands a haymaker to the boss' jaw, and the slugger lands in front of Star so both can move in together. Trogaar takes a merciless flurry of high-octane punches to all his sore spots, but even this is not enough to put him out of business. He comes back with a one-two-three combination that sends both aspiring pugilists across the bridge toward the still-prone Dick.

As Vic hits the floor, the panels of the built-in sonic analyzer are jolted open for a moment. Now all three peel themselves up, the circuitry receiving special attention.

Dick, "can you rewire that into some sort of weapon?"

Vic, "I can try."

Before any of them can react, Trogaar and the still-conscious Gordanians have moved to do them in. The lord's savagely grinning as he grabs Jack first by his collar.

But his attention is caught when he hears:

"Get away from my friends! Azarath Metrion Zinthos!"

Her spell causes most of the bridge to disappear in a mighty explosion, after which we see the craft now out of control and plummeting toward Jump City Bay. The waves caused by its splashdown wash over and recede to show only the demolished bridge still above water. As it begins to sink, we cut back to the now-exposed deck, littered with insensate Gordanians.

Dick, Vic, Jack, and Star straighten up as they come into view.

Trogaar gets up as well and whirls to face them.

BB and Raven find themselves in his broad approaching shadow, and he extends the claws on one hand to full length and lifts that hand, all set to disembowel the youths. Once more, though, his masterstroke is stopped cold; in this case, by a brilliant blue-white flash and a ball of blistering fire from behind that connects squarely with his back. Down he goes like a ton of bricks, exposing the other three in the background. Vic's right arm is raised to point straight ahead, its hand replaced by the muzzle of his sonic cannon. Jack is holding his staff with both hands, and catching his breath. Vic was able to rewire, or hotwire, that analyzer into something with quite a bit more kick after all, and Jack tapped into as much of his magic as he could.

Cyborg, "all right, I'm only gonna say this once. Boo-yah!"

Jack, "dang that's a cool one-liner."

...

It's morning now at the bay and the island, with the Gordanian landing craft still dug in. Dick, BB, Vic, Jack, and Raven are on the island's shores. There is no other visible trace of Trogaar's invasion fleet.

Raven, "that's quite a view."

Vic, "somebody oughta build a house out here."

BB, "yeah, if you like sunshine and the beach."

Jack, "I think most people do."

BB's words are aimed at Raven, and he digs an elbow into her side on the end of them.

Raven, "you know, you're kind of funny."

BB has stars in his eyes and his ears perk up, "you think I'm funny? Dude! I know some jokes!"

Those last four words are enough to unnerve her considerably, start a sweat drop sliding down her temple, and set one eyebrow twitching a bit.

Jack starts laughing, which makes Raven blush, since it sounded quite pleasant to her.

Behind the group at a distance, a pair of violet boot plants itself near them.

Starfire, "please."

All turn toward the voice.

Starfire now stands in a cute violet outfit, lavender accents, armband, no crown or under-armor, and a much sunnier disposition.

(Thinka combo of her outfit from the Judas Contract/ Vs Justice League movies and her outfit in the show.)

Starfire, "I look…. Nice?"

Dick steps up.

Dicl, "yes. Uh, I still don't know your name?"

Starfire, "Kori'andr. In your language, it would be, 'Star Fire.'"

Dick, "welcome to Earth, Starfire."

Starfire, "I thank you all for your bravery and help, and I wish to ask permission…. To remain here. Where the people are most strange…. But also most kind."

Dick and Starfire look at one another lovingly, but then both look away, blushing a bit.

Raven, "you don't need our permission."

Dick, "but if you want our friendship, you've got it."

Vic, "guess we could all use some new friends."

Jack, "we can all agree on that."

BB, "besides, we kind of made a good team."

Dick, "I thought we might want to keep in touch", fishes in his belt, "so Vic and I designed these."

On the last word, he holds his hands forth. Spread across the palms are four round yellow devices that are instantly recognizable as communicators; the covers bear no insignia.

BB, Jack, Raven, and Starfire each take one and run an impressed eye over them.

Vic, "made 'em outta my own circuits."

Dicl, "when there's trouble, you know who to call."

Jack, "if we're gonna be a team, we'll need a name."

Dick, "like what?"

BB, "how about the Beast Patrol?"

Raven, "a hard no."

Vic, "Young Justice?"

Dick, "we're all around 18, so we're not exactly young."

Starfire, "the Super Friends?"

Vic, "that's super corny."

Jack, "... The Titans?"

Everyone looked at Jack.

Raven, "I like it. It's kinda like the Greek myth."

Vic, "yeah, I guess we are like modern day Titans."

Starfire, "The Teen Titans?"

Dick, "well, we won't be teens for long, so how about just the Titans?"

The others nodded.

And thus, The Titans were formed that day!

….

We see the island, the waves lapping gently against its shores and the Gordanian craft suggesting the shape of a Tower that will stand so proudly in the future.

….

A few weeks later...

We see a lone tower under construction, various construction bots working on it.

Some had the STAR Labs logo on them, while others had the Wayne Tech logo on it.

Vic and Dick were watching the construction going on.

Dick, "I didn't know you had connections to Star Labs?"

Vic, "my dad works there. He's a big name there in technological advancements. After all, he was the one who built me."

Dick, "I'm sorry. How did-?"

Vic, "there was an accident in the lab. I came because I was angry at dad. I was playing football, and he barely took notice of it. I could've gone pro. If it wasn't for…."

Dick nodded.

Vic, "so, you have connections to Wayne Enterprises?"

Dick, "Wayne sponsors a lot of heroes. He was one of the companies that sponsored the Justice League. I called in a favor, and here we are."

Vic, "heh, I hope the others are getting what they need. Clothes and all that."

Dick shrugged and said, "we won't know until they come back…."

….

The other members of the team were still in their hero clothes.

Starfire is zipping around happily as she sees all of the stores at the mall.

Raven is pinching the bridge of her nose as she watched BB trying to flirt at the food court.

And failing.

Miserably.

Jack was the only one looking at clothes nearby. Civilian clothes for the group. He had been given enough money to buy some from Wayne Enterprise's and STAR Labs, since they were helping the heroes get started.

Jack had found the right clothes for each of them.

For BB, a white hoodie with purple claw mark patterns on the back, and some black pants.

For Starfire, a light purple top that ended at her stomach, a magenta jacket and a purple skirt with matching knee length purple boots.

For Victor, a grey hoodie to replace his old one.

For Dick, a black leather jacket, a red shirt, black pants and sunglasses.

For Raven, a dark purple hoodie with a Raven on the back, (it was a perfect fit for her), a black tank top, black skinny jeans and black boots.

All Jack needed for himself was a new pair of brown pants that weren't torn up, and another blue hoodie identical to his current one; in case it got torn up or anything.

Jack paid for the clothes and walked towards the others.

Jack, "I've got us some civilian clothes."

Raven nodded, "good. We'll stand out a little less when we're in public."

As they stood there, watching as Starfire tried a free sample of mini hotdogs, enjoying the mustard on them more than she should, Jack looked at Raven.

Jack, "ya know, I don't think I've seen you without your hood down?"

Raven, "... you wouldn't like what you see."

Jack, "what makes you say that?"

Raven, "... I'm not as pretty as other girls. Girls like Starfire get the attention. I'm always the girl in the back that no-one talks to."

Jack, "same here. I was always the weird kid that would sit on his own during lunch. No friends. So I'm sure you look better than you think."

Raven wasn't sure, but slowly let her hood down, showing what she looked like. Pale grey skin, a small red gemstone on her forehead, short dark blue hair that framed her face beautifully, and dark blue eyes.

She was looking down and blushing, which only made her look cuter to Jack.

Raven, "well, don't just stare. Say something."

Jack was so stunned, he could only mutter, "beautiful."

Raven blushed even harder, which only made Jack blush as well.

As they blushed, Starfire ran forward and said, "the woman selling the tiny dogs of hotness gave me this bottle of delicious yellow liquid for five Earth dollars!"

Jack said, "uh, Star, that's mustard."

Starfire, "and it is delicious!"

Raven and Jack cringed for a moment before Jack said, "I guess we'd better head back to the Tower, see how it's coming along?"

Raven, "good idea."

As they left, they had to drag BB away as he tried to impress some girls.

Unknown to any of them, a lone figure was watching them from the shadows, a single eye in the dark.

He said, "these Titans…. Let's see what they're made of…."

….

The others returned to the Tower, seeing the construction going along well. In a matter of days, the Tower would be finished.

Luckily, the main lobby was done, so they could sleep down there until their rooms were done being built.

That night, The Titans slept in sleeping bags in the lobby, unaware of the many things they would soon deal with in the near future...

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I added a bit at the end where we see the Titans beginning to build the Tower. The next chapter will be about them getting settled in, and saying hello to a few familiar faces.

I plan to publish a new chapter every Saturday and/or Sunday if I'm on a 2-parter. If it's a single story chapter, only 1 per the weekend.

Also, as quick shout out to Cadence Hopkins, one of my favorite writers on the site due to her amazing Ben 10 stories; Ben's Charmed Life, Hermione's Charmed Life, Bryan's Charmed Life, etc.