Katatz stumbled out of his pod. Weary from the crash landing, the Arcanian hero-to-be dropped to the ground. Unlike the earth on his home world, this ground felt like a continuous slab of smoothened out stone. That was not the only difference he noticed upon his arrival to this alien world called Earth. The gravity seemed light. The air was rich and oxygenic, though tainted with waste that rendered the atmosphere impure. But with these realizations, Katatz made his way to his feet and sighed.
'At least I know I can survive here…' Katatz thought to himself, 'But… where am I?'
"ALIEN!" A voice shot out from the crowd that formed ever since Katatz's escape pod crashed into their city. Upon the shout, the crowd quickly scattered, and Katatz was left scratching their head.
"The dwellers of this planet are quite irrational…" Katatz realized as he walked away from the crash site.
The Arcanian set foot on the sidewalks and continued his travel. He took in the surroundings with hungry eyes.
"This planet's architecture is astounding. The people here must value appearances," Katatz said to himself as he gazed at the concrete structures he walked by. However, his focus was too much on the architecture and not enough on the pedestrians he consistently bumped into. Far too often he found himself pardoning the Earthlings, whom they responded by acting as if nothing happened.
'Too bad that the dwellers of this planet are not nearly as nice as the structures they have constructed,' the Arcanian thought, 'And when I got out of my pod, they were terrified of me, but now they do not recognize me. Well, I do look like the people of this planet…"
"BANK ROBBERY!" Another voice exclaimed through the crowds.
"These people and their outbursts…" Katatz said to himself.
"We need the police here!"
"What the fuck are those oinkers gonna do? We need the Titans!"
'This planet also has police? Judging from these outbursts, their police force must not have the strength required to apprehend whatever evil plagues this "bank",' Katatz thought as he approached one of the humans, "Excuse me, can you tell me where this 'bank' is located?"
"What are you, an out-of-towner?" The person responded.
"Yes, I recently crash-landed onto this planet, but that is unimportant. If your 'bank' is in need of assistance, I can do no good if I do not know where it is located," Katatz replied.
"You're weird, kid, but the bank's right in front of your face. Speaking of being in people's faces, OUT OF MY WAY!" The pedestrian exclaimed as he forced himself past Katatz. The Arcanian entered the bank, where he was greeted by a foul odor.
"Rancid…" Katatz said as he blocked off his nose.
More people were scrambling to escape the crime scene, but their escape was troubled by the brown clouds of noxious gas clouding everybody's vision, and forcing them to run into walls trying to find the exit. Katatz looked through the smog to find another teenage boy holding up a bank teller. The other boy was dressed in light-brown tights with dark brown gloves, boots, and shoulder pads.
"Alright. Give me your money! Unless you want Malodor to unleash enough odor in here to melt your nose straight off your face!" The other boy known as Malodor demanded.
"I hate to interrupt, but your intimidation really stinks," Katatz taunted, causing Malodor to turn his attention to the alien.
Through all of his induced smog, Malodor could not get a good look at the person interrupting his robbery. Through a motion in his hands, he retracted his foul odors. The people still trapped in the bank got a good breath of air and scrambled to the exit as Malodor made eye contact with Katatz.
"Who the fuck are you supposed to be? A wannabe Titan who failed the initiation?" Malodor wisecracked.
"Wannabe? I AM a titan." Katatz said as he powered up, generating a white flaming aura.
"Nice special effects…" Malodor satirized as he shot a stream of odor from his palm towards the Arcanian. The odor engulfed the boy, but it did little else. Malodor stood back dumbfounded. "You must have a nose of steel…"
"No. I just choose not to use my nose to breathe," Katatz explained. "Your manner of attack involves incapacitating your opponents through means of stench. But for those who do not smell, the attack is useless."
"Not bad. You can get around my odor attacks. But are you willing to bet that the other people here can?" Malodor questioned.
Katatz phased out and appeared behind Malodor and said, "They will not need to, because we are going to take this fight outside…" and followed up with a powerful kick that forced the foul villain through the exit. Katatz followed. On the hard, outside concrete, Malodor lifted himself off the ground as Katatz entered his fighting stance.
"Out here, your gaseous attacks are useless. Surrender, or prepare for battle," Katatz threatened.
"I came here to get some quick money; not to surrender to some wannabe Titan!" Malodor exclaimed.
"Someone call for Titans?" A voice was heard from above as five different individuals touched ground. One that was cybernetic; Cyborg. Another one with green skin; Beast Boy. A female in a violet-blue cloak; Raven. Another girl dressed in purple; Starfire. And the supposed leader wearing red and green tights and wielding dual nightsticks; Robin.
"I thought something was rotten at the bank, and here you are." Robin said.
"Ack… the REAL Titans. Oh well, can't catch what you can't see!" Malodor exclaimed as he masked himself in gaseous form, rendering him invisible.
"He has vanished…" Starfire inquired.
"Not really. Malodor's just using masking himself. My sensors will see right through his invisibility," Cyborg assured his teammates, "Already found him."
As Cyborg was about to make his attack on the cloaked Malodor, Katatz rushed in with amazing speed and delivered a flying kick to the manipulator of gas, disabling the cloak and revealing Malodor.
"How… how did you… find me?" Malodor weakly asked.
"How did that guy find him! He was invisible, and you don't just see invisible people!" Beast Boy flailed.
"Heh… that's an easy question, Malodor." Katatz said to the fallen criminal, "I sniffed you out…"
"Son of a…" Malodor was interrupted by his own unconsciousness. Malodor dropped to the ground as Katatz took a step back.
"Malodor… you will come to regret your attempted theft when this civilization's police arrive to pass their judgement on you," Katatz solemnly said down to the defeated villain.
As Katatz resumed marveling the structures of Earth, the Titans huddled with each other.
"Lemme guess, this guy got your memo about auditions to join the Titans," Beast Boy sarcastically said to Robin.
"No. I honestly have no idea who this guy is. His motivations or even his name!" Robin responded.
"All we know is that he's not from around here. You hear how he talked to Malodor? Too formal to be Earthling," Raven added.
"Think he might have something to do with that space pod that crashed in the city a couple minutes ago?" Cyborg asked.
Cyborg's question sparked a response of "Yes" from the Arcanian. "That was mine."
"That saves us an investigation…" Robin said.
"Well, all of this not fighting crime is making me work up an appetite. Anyone up for pizza?" Beast Boy asked.
"Wondrous idea! Let us celebrate our recent victory with the eating of the pie of pizza!" Starfire joyously exclaimed.
'Sounds like she's not from around here, either,' Katatz thought to himself.
"Your travels must've made you hungry, too," Robin said to Katatz, "And we're going out for some good pizza; the best in the town. You wanna come along?"
"Very well. I don't know this planet very well. Over our meal, you might be able to answer some questions I have about your home world, uh… I don't recall getting your name." Katatz responded.
"I'm Robin. Collectively, we're the Teen Titans," The Boy Wonder replied.
'Teen Titans. So that is what Malodor meant when he referred to me as a wannabe Titan,' Katatz thought, 'He must have thought I was in allegiance with Robin's clan.'
"As for your name?" Robin asked.
"I am Katatz," The Arcanian replied.
"Well, Katatz, I'll tell you all you need to know about Earth."
Katatz's eyes widened. 'Earth! This is the fabled planet Earth?'
