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Teen Titans Go!

A Mimic's Story

Hi! My name is Andrew; I'm around 20 something years old with dark shoulder length hair and a goatee. I live in Idaho, aaaand… I'm starting to sound like a personal ad.

Anyway! Moving on!

I'm a comic book fan, a big one, always have been. As big a comic fan as I am I'm also a Sci-Fi fan, and watch the occasional cartoon (none of the kiddy stuff though, of course!), but all that didn't come close to preparing me for what happened one Tuesday evening. I also had no idea how large and far reaching the repercussions would be.

So lets set things for you shall we?

I work at a department store in shoes, actually shoes and accessories just got combined into one department, but they're on opposite sides of the store. Heh! Now THAT'S been fun! Crap I hate this place like no other, and to think I've been here for over 2 years. Go, figure!

At the time all this started for me, I was on my 30 minute lunch over at the gas station on the left corner of the parking complex. I'm about as far away from my job as I can get without getting in my car and driving somewhere. I'm over there just getting a couple of sodas, as I often do. It's a good lunch, good food, good music (once I get back to my car that is), and a nice breeze blowing outside. Unfortunately the cosmic law of most good things is that they end, and all too soon.

"Uh, dude. You work at that store over there, right?" The clerk asks.

"Huh? Oh, Yeah, The rotting cesspool you mean!" I say coldly as I chuckle to myself.

"Uh, you might wanna turn around. Somthin's goin on out there!" The clerk says staring out the right window.

I look out the window and try to see what he's staring at. On the other side of the parking lot, approximately where the gas station would be if it were to the right instead of the left, is a tire station. This tire station is a fairly large one, and I see a lot of the employees outside looking toward my department store. They all look like they're about to start running away, like a madman's gonna chase them or somethin.

"What the…?" I start out the door.

"Hey man, be careful! And tell me what's goin on!" The clerk says as I leave the gas station.

"What could they be looking at…?" I say to myself as I leave the gas station and start to cross the parking lot.

It's headed into the evening and not the brightest time of day, but it's not dark yet either. I can see lights of some sort flashing on the far side of the department store, different color lights. I see that the tire station employees have started running in the opposite direction now. As I continue to walk across the parking lot I can now hear some odd sounds. What I heard kinda sounded like gunshots or small explosions, but they didn't sound quite normal, almost Sci-Fi.

BA-KOOOM

A giant explosion rocks the ground.

"WHOA! What the heck was that?" I say to myself.

"Hey Man! You remember what they said about curiosity and the cat right?" The clerk yells at me. I guess he came out of the gas station for a better look.

"Right! Good thing I'm not a cat! I'll be careful!" I yell back.

Despite what the clerk says I begin to run toward the store. All the while I'm running there is one word continuously pounding in my skull…MEOW!

I got about six yards from the front door when a bunch of people came barreling out those doors. Most of those people who came out of the store were running, and all of them either looked scared or confused.

"Hey, drew, don't go in there man! Its nuts in there!" A.J stops to tell me.

A.J. works in the back of the store in the baby department. The baby department is fairly near to mine. I'm wondering why A.J was at the front of the store to begin with. I guess he was probably doing a carry out for a customer.

"What's going on?" I stop and ask.

"I don't know. All I do know is that all of a sudden the Linens gift pad blows up and this rock guy comes sliding across the floor taking out the crystal. Dude, seriously! DON'T GO IN THERE!" A.J. replies frantically. That's not like him.

When you go in the front doors to the department store I work at, to your left will be about eight registers, beyond that starts Linens with the crystal section and then the gift pad. Linens continue on the left wall for about three fourths of the store and that is where the baby department, or Baby Depot, starts.

The noises I heard earlier I can now hear quite clearly coming from inside the store. Obviously those noises are much louder. I can also hear a greater variety of noises. Yup, definitely Sci-Fi type stuff.

"A 'rock' guy? WHAT?" I say, stunned. "I gotta see this!"

"NO MAN! DON'T DO IT!" A.J. yells. I've all ready left the conversation and sprinted into the store. I rush through the front doors and turn to my left and go into Accessories.

Curse my morbid curiosity, I'm gonna be meeting all those cats REAL soon! Heh, always did like cats.

What I see when I get in the store and turn around absolutely floors me. Never would I have ever expected this in my wildest dreams.

Standing in the now destroyed gift pad are the Teen Titans, Cinderblock and some Slade-bots (that's what I call 'em). Not the comic Teen Titans, but the latest cartoon series Teen Titans. Like it makes a big difference. IT'S THE TEEN TITANS, MAN!

"Th-th-th-this can't be happening! A smile spreads a crossed my face. "Wow…cool!" I whisper.

Beast Boy, Starfire, and Raven are fighting Cinderblock in the gift pad. Cyborg is pounding on the remaining Slade-bots throughout isle ways in Linens heading toward Baby Depot. And…and I don't actually see Robin, or Slade. If he's even here.

Beast Boy changes into a T-Rex and charges Cinderblock. Cinderblock grabs BB by the head (slamming his mouth shut) and lifts him in the air. Cinderblock then throws him over his shoulder straight into Starfire who was circling Cinderblock firing her starbolts at him.

"Owe, that musta hurt! Shoulda charged low. Man, It'd be cool if I could help out." I say to myself.

And as crazy as wanting to go up against a giant man-like concrete bruiser and a virtual horde (well, kinda. Cyborg's really good at what he does) of lethal high-tech androids, I've always wanted super powers so I could do just that. Weird huh? But a cool type weird.

Raven, floating above the registers, uses her powers to charge several dozen shards of crystal and sends them speeding at Cinderblock. Looks like she made those shards explosive. Most of the shards hit Cinderblock, those that don't make basketball sized craters. Cinderblock seams to be dazed, but only dazed and not for long.

While BB, Star, and Raven give it another try (which includes Star throwing a rhino BB & Raven ripping up the registers to throw) I see a portion of the wall above Linens cave outwards. And out come Robin and Slade struggling as they fall from about eight feet up.

"Whoa, nice!" I say. This is better then watching them on TV. "Man, if they keep this up there won't be a sto-"

Raven is thrown though one the stacked tables I'm hiding behind and slams into me. We both go skidding further into Accessories. I never thought all the frilly stuff sold in that department would hurt SO much!

"Uhnn! Hey, you Ok?" I quickly brush myself off, get up and get over to Raven.

"Uh…Yeah." She was just getting up with her hand to her head. "I'm gasp …I'm F-fine." She holds my gaze as I help her up.

She just stands there looking at me for a bit. "Um, I think your friends need you, not to tell you how to be a hero or anything." I smile.

MAN! How could I say something SO STUPID!

"Oh… Um, right!" I could have sworn I saw a bit of red on Raven's checks as she flips up her hood. "Thanks!" Raven flies off to rejoin BB and Star who are still fighting Cinderblock.

"Nnnah! Man, maybe that lunch-o-mine didn't sit so well with me!" My stomach just began to feel like I just went on a roller coaster one to many times.

I look back up to see BB (as a gorilla) and Cinderblock with they're hands locked trying to outmuscle each other and wrestle the other to the ground. Star is providing air support for BB. A new wave of Slade-bots has arrived and Raven is helping Cyborg deal with them. Robin and Slade are battling though the Men's Department. Punch after punch, kick after kick, block after block, I'm looking at moves I've never even seen before. Trust me, I've seen plenty of Kung-Fu movies to know dozens of moves, can't do any of them, but I've seen 'em.

"Ah, man! I gotta do SOMETHING!"I say.

BB and Star continue to fight Cinderblock, and they're… losing?

I look over to Raven and Cyborg. They're losing to? Well, Raven's losing but… Cyborg… isn't?

I look to Robin, their fight is getting closer but they're still pretty evenly matched.

"Um… ooookay… now THIS is odd!" I say. "Um, Yeah. Comic book characters show up at your work to play pin the tail on the super buddy and you're nuts enough to say something ELSE is odd. Yup, brainiac move there bright-eyes!

"AHHHHGG!"

All of a sudden it's like my brains on fire, like molten knives are being shoved trough my skull. But thankfully only for a few seconds. I've never felt pain like that! Not just that, but my stomach feels like its trying to climb up my throat. That only lasts a few seconds to. When that passes and I can stand again the pain is quickly replaced by dizziness. I take a quick look around.

"What the…? Oh crap!"