Chapter 1: Enter Titans
Flash forward to the here and now, a mysterious youth is walking into the town where the Teen Titans have set up shop. The youth was a brown-haired, blue-eyed guy about six feet tall who wore glasses, a gray-on-navy blue t-shirt, gauntlets, a black vest, dark gray sweatpants and brown leather boots, had a tattoo of the Chinese symbol of fire on his right arm and carried a sword on his back, but no shield. There was also a bracelet on his left arm. As he strolled into town, he grabbed a man, dragged him into an alley and requested to speak to him.
"P-pl-please, take my money! Just don't hurt me," the man groveled.
"I don't want your money, I want information. I intend you talk, because I won't ask this nicely twice. Tell me where I would find the Teen Titans," the boy asked.
"T-the Teen Ti-ti-titans? They only show up when trouble's happening! Now please let me go," pleaded the man.
"Thank you. You have been most helpful. I can do trouble," the boy replied. He released the man and walked out of the alley. Just then, a man in a black suit with a light bulb printed on it came into his sight (sound familiar?). The youth turned his head and placed his fingers on his eyeglasses. Very small words appeared on his glasses.
"Hmm…Dr. Light, I presume? I believe this would qualify as trouble," the boy stated. "He should lead me to the Titans. Then, they can provide me with what I require."
So the youth trailed the not-so-good doctor to a bank. He proceeded in allowing the villain to rob the bank, but only until a familiar battle cry went out.
"TITANS, GO!"
Who else would show up but the Teen Titans? Starfire charged forward and attempted to knock Light into the far wall, but Light blasted her with a beam from his bracer. Beast Boy turned in to a pterodactyl and flew over Light. Light attempted to blast the changeling, but Beast Boy evaded Light's blasts and Cyborg took pleasure in knocking Light into the vault.
"Boo-yah! Get up from that, lightweight," the man-machine gloated.
"If you insist," Doc L. stated.
A beam of light flew at Cy, knocking him clear out of the bank and into a streetlight. Raven showed up behind Light and disabled his gauntlets, but caught his light generators in the face. She was out cold. Robin drew his battle staff and started attacking, pushing the doctor towards the vault. Thinking quickly, Light generated some light pellets and tossed them in Robin's eyes. Temporarily blinded, Robin stumbled back a few steps and Light knocked him clear through a window. But seeing as how he was so preoccupied with the boy wonder (or in this case, boy blunder), he didn't know Beast Boy, who had transformed into a snake, was right under his feet. The green one turned into a bronco and wildly bucked Light like he was in a rodeo. Light was clever, and when he was bucked off, he blasted the clever changeling with a blast from his light generators.
"These are the mighty Teen Titans? You are pathetic," Doc Light gloated.
"Now hold up, 3-watt," an unfamiliar voice called out.
"Who is this? Another brat? Well, if you want to stand before me, be my guest! Five or six, it makes no difference," Light said cockily.
Light fired a beam of light at the youth, but a wall of fire flared up right in front of him!
"Wh-what is this? Who are you?" Light said nervously.
"Who am I? Your worst nightmare," the youth replied. Suddenly, a fireball materialized in his left hand! "Pyres…INFERNO," he shouted as a stream of fire flew from his hand! He scorched Light in the arms with the stream and started throwing fireballs at Light. The youth hammered Light with four or five fireballs, then drew his sword and seemed to explode! Another explosion occurred behind Light, and as he turned around, the youth seemed to slash him many times.
"Uhhhuhhhh…..ohh," muttered the villain as he passed out.
"Humph, pathetic," the youth scoffed. He walked into the vault and checked on Raven. "Hmm, unconscious," he muttered. The raised his thumb, pinky and middle finger and called out, "PHOENIX REVIVAL!" He and Raven were covered with a red/orange aura. Within ten seconds, she started to stir.
"Nnnngh, what happened?" the dark girl queried.
"You were blasted by Dr. Light and knocked out. I revived you," the youth replied. Raven placed her arm around the youth's neck and the twosome walked out of the bank to check on the others. By this time, everyone was outside.
"Raven, what happened? Who is that?" Beast Boy asked.
"Yeah, who are you?" Raven added.
"Oh, I'm terribly sorry. I haven't introduced myself. How rude of me," the youth said apologetically.