Many thanks to all of my reviewers, I see people really like my story and boy, it makes me feel good!
Maybe I should try writing a disclaimer thingy...O.K here goes.
Disclaimer: I don't own any of the Teen Titans (If I did, I'd have Raven as my wife long ago) if anything, the Teen Titans own me! And you points at unsuspecting figure and you! points at a girl who's eating lunch and all of you!!! Muahahahahahaha!!!
RavenOnline's mom: RavenOnline! Did you remember to take your medications today?
RavenOnline: hits the pause button on his Winamp 'Fraid not mommy!
Dudes, you don't wonna know what she did to me after she found out I stayed 'till 2:30 A.M on the last chapter. Let's just put it like this: remember "Nevermore"? (What's the matter? Afraid of the dark?). Well...it was worse! Way worse!
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Anyway, chapter 7: Power surge.
"Man, I don't understand why are you so stressed up" muttered Cyborg. Behind him, Beast Boy was shouting things like "Gun it!" and "Put the pedal to the metal!
"Dawg, relax! It's just 3:25, we have thirty five more minutes to get there!" Cyborg sounded irritated and his grip on the steering wheel got tightened
"Yeah...umm...dude" mumbled Happy "Just kick back and umm...chill...yo yo?" that alone was enough to put a smile on everyone's faces. Cyborg freed one hand from the steering wheel and stroked Happy's hood "You're gettin' there home girl, you're gettin' there" he said with a caring big-brother-like voice.
The car pulled to a stop in front of city hall. The Titans climbed out of the car and noticed city hall looked a little different, lots of colorful ribbons were placed over the normally white building and street performers sang, danced and mimed in front of a rather bored crowd. But, on the front of city hall laid the main attraction, a large stage, with two guitars, a set of drums and two microphones on it. The Titans snuck into the building and to their luck; they were not detected by the hordes of adoring fans. Inside, they saw mayor Tilton talking to the two most important persons in the Teen Titans public relations, the Japanese singers PuffyAmiYummy Ami and PuffyAmiYummy Yummy. Robin approached the three
"...as I was saying, you'll get thirty grand for the show plus a hundred for each autograph you sign okay?" Mayor Tilton was obviously interested in his own money rather than the money that will be collected in the fund raiser
"I already told your people we'll do it for free, it's an important cause. Me and the girls made up our minds" said a manly voice. A Japanese man, wearing leather pants, a red and yellow flames T-shirt, a leather jacket and black sunglasses got up and approached the three. It was Guitar Wolf, the PuffyAmiYummi's guest guitar player. It took about five seconds before they noticed Robin, who was sitting on a brown leather chair, staring at them.
"Robin! Didn't see you there sport! Come here!" Tilton put his hand over Robin's shoulder and held him tight while turning towards the window. Robin's eyes closed as a blinding white flash came from outside the room, he saw a newspaper reporter, about his age, sneak out of the bushes in front of the building and run towards his bicycle. Robin realized this was a publicity stunt and freed himself from Tilton's grab.
"So...what can I do you for?" asked Tilton with a fake smile on his face
"Actually, I'm not here to see you, I'm here to see" Robin turned towards the PuffyAmiYummis "Them"
"Pleasure to meet you" said Robin when he kissed the girls' hands, they both blushed and giggled "And you" he shook Guitar Wolf's hand and even though Robin was pretty muscular, he did notice Guitar Wolf had a pretty firm grip.
"Okay" started Yummi while trying to make the red slip out of her face "What can WE do for you?"
"It's actually very simple" Robin sounded pretty embarrassed for asking this "You're here to sing our theme song right?" they nodded "Well" he giggled "I was kinda wondering if...we can sing it"
The three huddled and came with an answer about 5 minutes later. Ami approached Robin "Well, we discussed it and we will let you sing the theme song, under one condition"
"Well what is it?" inquired Robin; he was beginning to look concerned
"Well, it's actually more like two conditions, one: you'll let Guitar Wolf do the background music and two: you'll let me and Yummy sing the second verse"
"Second verse? What are you talking about?" Robin sounded confused "I didn't know there's a second verse"
"Oh, I forgot to mention it, we were working on a longer version of your theme song for about 3 months and this fund raiser looks like the best place to release it" Ami blushed again and began scratching the back of her head
"Um...okay I guess" mumbled Robin
"Oh thank you thank you thank you!" screamed Ami and hugged The Boy Wonder who immediately blushed and turned back.
The rest of the Titans were waiting for Robin back at the mayor's room, they all drew a sigh of relief when they saw him enter the room with a smile on his face
"Friend Robin, does your smile mean that the singers who have strange names have allowed us to sing our theme song?" Asked Starfire, eyes full of hope
"Yes star, it does" noted The Boy Wonder. Both Starfire and Happy jumped and squealed with joy. It took about ten more minutes until Ami and Yummy finished giving the Titans a singing crash course and then the walked out to the stage. The moment they got up there, Cyborg, being the loudest one, grabbed one of the microphones and screamed "Hello Jump cityyyyyy, can I hear you make some noooooise!!!!!" the crowd screamed with excitement, which only gave Cyborg another ego boost "I can't hear ya'll!!!" the crowd screamed even louder, which made Starfire cover her ears.
"Now I know ya'll came here to hear the totally awesome Puffys sing our theme song, but, 'cuz we decided they're too good for ya'll, you'll just have to deal with our sour notes, ARE YOU READY???" once again, the crowd screamed. Cyborg turned around towards Guitar Wolf, who was giving his guitar a final fine tuning "HIT IT WOLFY!" he yelled. Guitar Wolf gave him a two fingered salute and started playing. All the Titans formed a line and stood at the front of the stage, they all looked pretty stressed, after a few seconds, it was their time to sing
Robin: "When there's trouble you know who to call..." they all circled the microphone "Teen Titans!"
Starfire: "From their tower they can see it all..."
All: "Teen Titans!"
Happy: "When there's Evil on the attack..."
Beast Boy: "You can rest knowing they got your back"
Cyborg: " 'cuz when the world is losing all control..."
All: "Teen Titans...GO!"
Guitar Wolf toyed with his guitar a little, giving the all-so-familiar sounds of the Teen Titans theme song.
Robin: "With their superpowers they unite..."
All: "Teen Titans!"
Starfire: "Never were a villain's best delights..."
All: "Teen Titans!"
Beast Boy & Happy: "They got the bad guys on the run, they never stop 'till the job gets done, cuz when the world is losing all control..."
All: "Teen Titans...GO!"
The front of the stage turned into bright white as 7 spark launchers were activated, that event triggered two other events: Guitar Wolf rocked out on his guitar and a second, smaller stage came out behind the Teen titans. The Puffys showed up, dressed up as Starfire and Raven. The combination of their voice, which was familiar to all the Teen Titans' fans, sounded through the huge speakers
"If you're heart is black you can and escape
But you'll be captured by their team
You can run but there won't be any doubt
You'll get busted by their teaaaaaaaam....yes by their teaaaaaaaaaam!"
The Titans once again formed the circle and sang "T-E-E-N-- T-I-T-A-N-S Teen Titans let's go!" the repeated that about five times while Guitar Wolf's notes became louder and louder, he pumped up the volume and rocked his soul on the instrument. Ami and Yummy joined the Titans at the front of the stage and they all sang together
"When there's trouble you know who to call...
Teen Titans!
From their tower they can see it all...
Teen Titans!
When there's evil on the attack, you can rest knowing they got your back, 'cause when the world is here out of all control...
Teen Titans...GO!
The crowd roared with excitement and the Titans took a bow. When they got up, Starfire noticed two streaks of light, approaching the clouds
"Oh hurray! They are launching the works of fire in our honor!" she again squealed
"Nope, their heat signature is too big for fireworks star" Cyborg took another look at one of the streaks "It's an AGM-69, it's all good"
They all looked at him with their mouths wide open "And what is an AGM-69 Mr. smarty circuits?" asked Beast Boy with an offended tone
"Oh, just an air-ground missile, no biggie..." it took Cyborg a few seconds to realize what he was saying "AIR GROUND MISSILE?!" he slapped his head and morphed his arm into the mighty sonic cannon. Both he and Starfire blasted the first one into bits of bolts and scrap metal but the other missile was still heading towards the stage, Cyborg loaded another sonic blast and Starfire had two more starbolts at stand by but to their surprise, they saw that the missile was surrounded by black flames, it crushed into itself like an empty can of pop. On the right side of the stage, Happy was breathing heavily, that was obviously a big effort to her. Just then, a very familiar and annoying voice came to their ears
"Hello pit-sniffers! Ready for a music lesson H.I.V.E style?" Gizmo took a dive, his machine guns spewing bullets towards the Titans
"Take cover!" Screamed Robin. He ducked down, rolled to the side and threw one his explosive discs towards the vertically challenged villain. Gizmo took a direct hit to his left wing and it caught fire. He came spinning towards the crowd but pulled up again
"Nanobot repair team you lousy diaper eaters!" he chuckled as he turned to make another attack run. His laughing was interrupted by a volley of green bursts coming from behind him; the starbolts hit his backpack and forced him down. He came back up with an angry look on his face "So it's a dogfight you want eh? Well I'll just let you know that I was the Lethal Skies champion twenty times in a row!" he smiled to himself with pride and then frowned when he noticed no one was actually listening to him. The back of the stage suddenly broke down and Jinx and Mammoth showed up. Cyborg, Robin and Beast Boy came after Mammoth, forgetting that Happy wasn't the real Raven
"I'll crush you like bugs!" roared Mammoth
"Think again loser!" teased Beast Boy. Mammoth suddenly faced a T-Rex who had a "So who's the bug now?" look on his face. The Dinosaur roared and Mammoth took a few steps back, just to get hit by a sonic blast and a barrage of explosive discs "Like I always say" hummed Cyborg "I always got the sonic of you got the boom" it was an easy win for them, but for Happy, things looked a bit different
"So...what's up with your outfit Raven? A new fashion statement?" teased Jinx, her eyes glowing purple
"Why must I tell this to everyone? I'm not Raven! My name is Happy! H-A-P-P-Y happy! See?" snapped Happy
"Well I don't care what your name is, you're going down anyway!" Jinx launched a purple ripple towards Happy
"Well that's not very...OWWWW!!!" Happy was blasted back a few meters into a pile of crates. Jinx walked calmly after her, a fiendish smile on her lips
Happy got up and again, tried to talk to Jinx "You're making me angry" she said, breathing heavy breaths "You won't like me when I'm angry"
"Why?" teased Jinx "Are you easier to kill when you're angry?" she blasted Happy again, this time she flew into a wall and smacked her head on it
"That's it! I tried to be nice but noooooo.... You have to attack me, well; don't say I didn't warn you!" Happy's eyes glowed red and jinx was surrounded by a black force field
"Hey what the..." Jinx's head was smacked into a wall, and then into the floor, she fell unconscious. Her body lifted up again and was blasted with a black energy ball, that blow woke up Jinx and she stood on her knees and elbows, coughing. Happy stepped closer and closer to Jinx, her hand was replaced with a square black glove that instead of fingers, had five long spikes "Who is killing who now Jinx?" teased Happy and had one of the spikes close to her neck, Jinx gulped and closed her eyes, waiting for the blow. Happy's eyes closed for a second, when she opened them, they were in normal color again, the black energy surrounding her hand disappeared and she let Jinx go. Jinx dropped on the floor, got up with a terrified look on her face, her mouth opened but no voice came out, it took her about half a minute before she screamed "RETREAT!!!" at the top of her voice. The three fled with their lives and back at the stage, all the Titans looked at Happy, but none of them spoke. Robin was the first to break the silence "Happy...what did you do? How did you do that?" it took some time before Happy's answer came
"I...I D...D...Don't know Robin" she looked more scared than Jinx, she was shaking and shivering "I j...just don't know..."