Chapter 1: Father and Son Bonding Time
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The streets of Jump City were alive with the sounds of screaming people and screeching tires as Johnny Rancid, the crazed biker, tore down the streets on his black motorcycle and he was being chased by non other than the Teen Titans. He cackled madly as he turned around on his motorcycle, saw the Teen Titans perusing him, pulled out his pistol from its holster, and opened fire. That day Raven and Beastboy were off tracking down Killer Moth, who had recently escaped from prison. So it was just Robin on his R-Cycle, Cyborg in his beloved T-Car, and Starfire flying above them. As the psychopathic biker continued to fire wildly at the Titans he scratched the side of the T-Car as well as taking out one of its rear-view mirrors. Robin had to turn of his communicator to avoid hearing the stream of curses between the many "It'll buff right out" and "I can not believe he hurt my baby". He hoped that Starfire had too turned off her communicator. One of his main goals in life was to keep the naive alien as innocent as possible. Just then a random shot from Rancid's pistol hit Starfire square in the chest and she fell from the sky.
"Starfire!" yelled the Boy Wonder as he and Cyborg stopped to help her. Robin became torn with his want to go after Rancid and make him pay for what he did, and his want to make sure Starfire would be okay. Robin being in a state of distress and glued to his R-Cycle, Cyborg was the first to get to Starfire. He gave the strange alien the once over with his eyes turned to Robin a yelled "You'd better catch up with Rancid and make him pay for what he did to my car!" Robin gave him a look that would've frozen lava and Cyborg quickly amended himself and said, "Make him pay for what he did to Starfire too!" Robin still looked worried about Starfire's condition so Cyborg added, "She'll be okay! JUST GO!"
With that Robin revved the engine of the R-Cycle and shot off after the villain. It took a while but he was finally able to catch up with Johnny. At this time Rancid heard the R-Cycle's engine looked around to see Robin and then began to taunt him. "Oh, did I hit your wittle girlfriend? I did, didn't I? Well you know what, Birdie Boy? That's exactly what I wanted to do! Hahahahaha!"
"Well, that's not very nice of you! Hyaaaa!"
Johnny Rancid turned around just in time to meet the fist of a glowing-green-eyed, angry Starfire. He was launched off of his motorcycle and landed in a dumpster in a nearby alleyway. His motorcycle, without its rider, flipped on its side and skidded to a halt right in front of a puppy that was scared stiff. Robin, happy to see that Starfire was okay, ran up to her and gave her a huge bear hug, leaving her gasping for breath, which isn't a normal occurrence. The dust cloud made the puppy unable to be seen. Starfire, being her kind and gentle self, was worried about the puppy. So she flew into the dust cloud, and came out with the puppy after about thirty seconds.
When she came out she had a confused look on her face. After she put the puppy down and watched it as it ran away, she turned to Robin and asked, "I saw the strangest thing happen in the cloud of dust. One moment the walk of side was white then the sidewalk that the little dog was standing on became yellow. Is that a normal earth custom for your sidewalks to change color like that?" The Boy Wonder's sweat dropped and he responded, "Under these circumstances Star, I believe it's understandable."
"I shall take the criminal Johnny Rancid to prison for you," said a bright, but still slightly confused Starfire, "just wait here until I return, alright? Then maybe we can go to the pizza parlor for a pizza with mint frosting and mustard!" Robin's sweat dropped again and he replied, "Sure Star."
The Boy Wonder watched the love of his life until she flew out of sight carrying the dumpster that still held the unconscious form of Johnny Rancid. Robin turned around and started to walk back towards his R-Cycle. He was about half way to his motorcycle when there was a bright flash of blue light from behind him. He quickly turned, was in a fighting position, and had three exploding throwing disks out before he realized that there were a pile of teens in the middle of the street where he had just been. But what really got his attention was when one of the teens stood up. The teen was a boy with black hair and a mask just like his own. What the... thought Robin that boy looks just like me! They were even the same height!
Robin, being his old paranoid self, automatically thought that this boy must be a clone of him and has been sent by Slade or another super-villain to destroy the Boy Wonder. When he thought of this he thought of Starfire taking Rancid to jail and how she would return later. Robin would have to defeat his "clone" and it's friends before she returned. If he didn't she might get hurt, and he wasn't going to allow that to happen. So he yelled at his new, and slightly dazed, opponent and yelled, "I don't care who you are or who sent you but it'll take a lot more than you to defeat me!" He quickly put away the disks, pulled out his bo staff, and charged the doppelganger. His opponent, surprised by the suddenness and ferocity of the attack, pulled out an identical bo staff, and began to match Robin's attacks blow for blow. Whoever sent him must have made him study my fighting technique thought Robin. Robin suddenly remembered the combo that he had created recently. He hadn't even had a chance to use it in battle yet so there would be no way for his opponent to know it. He spun around in a right roundhouse kick, and the doppelganger blocked it! He ducked down, spun around the other way with him holding his bo staff like a bat and tried to sweep out his opponent's legs, but it missed as the "clone" jumped clear even before Robin was spun half around! The doppelganger looked surprised at his opponent's choice of attack and questioned, "Only two people could have taught you that! Who are you!"?
Just then one of the "clone's" teammates decided to stop the fighting. Her eyes began to glow blue and a blue aura enveloped he body. Robin found himself lifted up into the air alongside his opponent and unable to move as though an invisible hand had wrapped around him. From what he could see, it looked as though his forgotten opponent was in the same situation. "ESP! No! I can take him!" called out the floating figure of Robin's opponent, with a note of pain barely distinguishable in his voice.
At this time Starfire flew up after returning Johnny Rancid to jail. She saw the floating form of Robin and, knowing full and well that Robin could not fly, called out, "Robin are you all right?". The four teens on the ground turned around at the sound of her voice and, with the teen identified as ESP's concentration broken, the two floating form fell to the ground. Starfire quickly flew to Robin, who was in a kneeling position because he was weak from the fall and trying to get up, and asked anxiously, "All you all right Robin?". Robin looked up into the worried emerald eyes of Starfire and replied, "You have to get out of here now. Go Star, please."
Just then, Robin saw out of the corner of his eye that his opponent was begging to get up. Robin labored up and placed himself in front of Starfire to hide her from his doppelganger's view, which didn't do much good because she is a good foot taller than he is. Robin's opponent looked up and when he saw Starfire looking over the top of Robin's head he gasped and said, "Mom!"
Robin stared at his opponent and then at Starfire and yelled in a very shrill voice that was almost a squeak, "MOM!"
