Disclaimer :I don't own the Teen Titans, but I do own Jack Shoreshooter. So don't you use that character, unless of course you talk to me first.


To Cuiasodo: Actually, I'm a native Spanish speaker, so my English grammar it's not what you can call perfect either. I do what I can with it. About describing, I wrote this first two chapters too fast, expect a bit more body on the next, although I think firmly, that a extended description distract you from the action.


"We shouldn't have let him come in" Cyborg complained later that night while everyone sat at the living room to check out on their wounds. "He attacked us without reason! That doesn't make much sense for someone who needed our help."

"Yeah" Robin agreed. "But it wasn't against us; he was going for Raven…" Everybody stared at her, as she laid down on one of the sofa to rest her head.

"I don't know him." She said shortly. "He just took a look at me and went wild. If you ask me, he's just nuts."

"I don't think he is a mad man, perhaps he is only…" Starfire stopped talking as the alarm on the medical room warned about hostile nature. She, Robin and the Beast Boy took a look on the monitor. The young man was kept on the small medical room, covered in bandages and tied up to the steel table, yet still struggling to get out. "…only lost."

"I'll go check it out" Robin said as he went near the ladder leading down tower. "Keep an eye on the monitor in case I need help."

"We will cover your back." Cyborg said. Robin disappeared as he went downstairs.

As he got nearer to the medical rooms floor, the more shouting and noise was heard. By when he was one floor apart from then room where the young man was kept, the sound of his screams where so hard he couldn't hear his own footsteps.

"Let me go!" he shouted. "If I cant get out of here soon Ill blow your heads off! Come and get me if you're so brave! What is it! You afraid after the beating I gave you on the beach!"

"That hurt" Robin said as he entered the (by now almost destroyed) medical room. "But not that much."

The only part of the young man's body that was not tied to the table, was his left foot, which he managed let free by slipping his foot out of his untied shoo. And just with a free foot, he had grabbed a chair, knocked down the small robotic guard, and destroyed half of the room's medical equipment.

"You shouldn't let chairs in a room with me." The young man joked. "I like smashing them on the walls."

"I noticed. May I sit?" The young man gave Robin an aggressive look, then lowered the chair on his ankle and put it on the floor. Robin sat down on the folded steel chair, and looked at the young man sharply. "Why did you attack us?"

"You must be joking!" the young man laughed. "Fist you blow me off and then you say I attack you?"

"You where the one who attacked raven on the beach while she tried to help you!" Robin stood up in anger.

"She was trying to help me?" the young man said mocking. "That Virzen friend of yours wanted to rip my head off!"

"Vir…what?"

"Oh! And now you're going to tell me you don't know anything about your beauty caring friend do you? Well know this; you don't get Jack Shoreshooter down so easy. Eh?"

"Well, Jack, or whatever is your name, you should know this;Raven it's not your enemy, neither of us is. Unless you're a criminal of course…"

"So you're like the local "Super Hero Team"?" Jack said calmly.

"Yeah" Jack though of it for a moment, then said:

"Take me see her."

When Robin and him came upstairs, the Titans where waiting for them rather anxiously, with their weapons on lock for Jack…

"Hey, calm down" Jack said to Cyborg. "I won't kick your ass until later, maybe…"

Robin made a gesture, Cyborg lowered his sonic wave-canyon, and Starfire also disappeared her energy rays. Jack saw through the room, apart from Cyborg and Starfire in front of him, he couldn't see anyone else, until…

"Yo, careful!" BB had dived from the ceiling in a bat shape, scratching Jack.

"Take this funny hair!" he yelled anxiously.

Jack grabbed one of his wings and slammed him into the wall. Knocking BB out.

"He started." He apologized to Robin.

"Don't worry" Robin said. Jack continued looking the room with his eyes, then, he saw her, lying down on the sofa.

"You" he said shortly. "Come near."

Raven merely heard what Jack ordered between two cushions she held over her head to try to ignore her headache, but she raised her hood and stood up. Jack was looking her with a gaze that mixed hate and expectation, and still, he just waited for her to come near.

"What do you want?" she said standing still.

"Come near" Jack repeated. She walked slowly, still stunned by the fight; used the sofa to help her keep on foot, yet tumbled down; Starfire helped her stand up and helped her to walk until she was in front of Jack.

Jack looked at her sharply.

"Let's see" he said. Raven felt her headache go worse, she lowered her head, and Jack passed his hand under her hood and trough her hair and before she could react he had lifted her hood.

All the other Titans stood shocked; waiting for what they knew was going to happen, as Raven gave a death glare to Jack and went really angry. Jack just kept playing with her purple hair.

"Nah." Jack said. "You're definitely prettier than those Virzen bastards…"

"How dare you!" She said really pissed off. "Azerath, Metrion…Ouch!"

"A headache eh?" Jack laughed. "Let me handle it" Once again, he held his hands over her head, this time in a circular shape; he closed his eyes and focused… A black smoke came out of Ravens head, through the circle and vanished in the air. Suddenly the headache had gone; Raven raised her look and look into Jacks eyes, almost smiling.

"Thanks." Raven said.

"Oh, don't worr…" A black wave of black energy slammed Jack to the wall behind him before he could finish.

"You owed me that one" Raven said. Then she hit him in the face. "And that was for touching my hair"

"Well, I suppose I deserved it…" Jack admitted

"Well, you two had your little chat already, now we want answers" Cyborg demanded.

"Yeah, like, who are you?" BB said smelling his still strong fried fish smell.

"You can call me Jack Shoreshooter, I'm a sailor, mercenary who it's been hunted since three weeks ago by some creatures called Virzen."

"Why?" Starfire said timidly.

"Well lets just say that…" a strong swirling sound came from outside the tower, on the living room window two large, peacock like spaceships floated lighting the room with their blinding flashlights pointing at Jack and the Titans. "Ask them yourself."

"Earthlings, we must warn you, you keep a dangerous Nightmare inside of this building, we ask you to cooperate by handing him to us, he is cruel and really dangerous, please cooperate." The voice inside the ship was a male clear loud voice.

The Titans looked at jack suspiciously. He seemed to be a criminal after all.

"That part of the "mercenary" sounds like trouble to me." Cyborg said.

"Look, I can explain it, let's go somewhere they can see us." Jack said quickly.

"The roof, fallow me" Robin said as everyone went upstairs to the roof, where the Virzen ships had already landed.

Off the three ships, came three figures, wearing white long cloaks. As they step on the ground they took the cloaks off their faces, they where, a male handsome man, and two beautiful females, with light blue skin, smooth multicolor eyes and long pointy ears. The male figure stepped forward and looked at Jack despise fully.

"Uh? Did Jack say Raven was prettier than these chicks?" BB said as he stared at the two beautiful Virzen pilots "because well from my point of view…"

"What are you suggesting?" Raven muttered angrily. BB just bit his tongue and fell quiet.

"Shoreshooter" The male Virzen muttered.

"Bastards!" Jack shouted. "What have you done to my people!"

"They might be all killed by now Nightmare" the male figure said. "But we cannot know that because you destroyed our ship!"

"Hey! It wasn't me, these kids blew us!" Jack complained as he pointed Starfire and Cyborg.

"What the…?" Cyborg complained.

"We fell off this morning, our ships steel got all stuck up and you blow it apart. Remember?"

"Oh don't worry; I stole that ship anyway…"

"From our headquarters Nightmare!" one of the female figures argued.

"Enough!" The male Virzen shouted. "Jack Shoreshooter, King of Nightmares, you have broken our most important rule and must pay with your life! Now surrender to us!"

"What crimes has he committed?" Robin asked the Virzen.

"Nothing your law can understand" The male Virzen continued. "We, the Virzen, are keepers of everything that's beautiful in this galaxy. We protect everything that's worth it and destroy the ugly dross from every world. When we passed by Mr. Shoreshooters world, we didn't notice anything wrong, until, we saw them, Nightmares, horrible beasts, ferocious, bloody beings that must be eradicated at all cost!"

"That's nonsense!" Jack complained loudly. "You kill beings not just because they are bad, but because of the appearance! Maybe Nightmares are ferocious, but they do not have a choice!"

An uncomfortable silence fell when Jack suddenly stopped talking, he took a look at the Titans, waiting for him to continue, and the Virzen, waiting to see how he meant to explain them the situation.

"I'm a Nightmare" he said. "Nightmare I was born, and as Nightmare I live, I cannot change it, nor try to hide it. But that's no reason, to call someone a freak, monster, atrocity or condemn him to death because of it!" he turned back at the Titans, and looked, quite shocked in their eyes how some of them understood what he meant.

"We don't care if you can change it or not, you're an atrocity, and must be exterminated for good. And if your not goanna let us work, well have to fight!" The male Virzen ran from over the other side of the roof, and got from under his cloak what seemed like a laser shotgun. He stood a few feet from them waiting for them, to make their move.

"So be it!" Jack said, and then grabbed the air as he looked for his saber. "My saber! Where is it!"

"Uh… we left it downstairs." BB said shamefully.

"Damn! Oh well, there's no time for that now" Jack went on battle pose. Then he gave a bitter look to the Titans. "If you're going to fight me too I don't respond for my actions, although you helped me…"

"I will help you" Raven said shortly. "I don't like freak haters…"

"If there going to bug you off for being weird they're goanna have to deal with us weirdoes." BB said as he and Cyborg came to join battle.

"Titans Go!" Robin shouted, as he and Starfire joined the others, everyone divided in three pairs and attacked each of the Virzen.

BB and Starfire took on the left Virzen female pilot.

"I don't want to hurt you" BB said in a "charming" tone "so why don't we settle this down there with…"

The Virzen got a laser shotgun like her partners out of her cloak and shot at BB, he managed to avoid by inches. Starfire shot two energy rays from her hands to the Virzens chest.

"They don't seem to want to talk Beast Boy" she said. "We will have to stop them by force." She shot again, this time the Virzen dodged it and shot back at BB, that transformed into a gorilla was charging against her.

Meanwhile, at the other side of the Titans pool, Raven and Cyborg had an easier time fighting.

"Azerath, Metrion, Zinthos!" Raven lifted the Virzen pilot's cloak with her powers, but the pilot managed to slip out of it and fall to the floor, where Cyborg waited her with his canyon ready to fire.

"Give up, I don't want to shoot." He said calmly, the Virzen let her rifle down on the floor and held her hands up ion sign of rendition.

Virzen are not quite good warriors, but the male Virzen pilot was a retired sharpshooter, and he used his shotgun with an amazing ability, and in the pair of minutes Robin, Jack and him had been fighting he had shot them quite a lot of times, and they hadn't even got close to him. After hitting Jack in the chest with a stunning-blast, he rolled in the floor and waited kneeled for Robin or him to move.

"Any ideas how to beat him?" Robin said, he was also covered in scratches made by the shotgun.

"Not much… well, perhaps." Jack said as he smiled in a wicked way. "Maybe we should give him Nightmares, shouldn't we?"

Robin looked at him without anything to say. Jack stood on position to attack, but remained immobile, as if he was preparing for something… The Virzen looked at what he was doing and entered in panic, grabbed his shotgun and blew a lethal charge of plasma at Jack, he just moved his left hand, ads though as he was slashing the air, and something, invisible, blocked and turned the shot out of sight. Jack continued on his pose, feet firmly on the ground, one fist near his hip, and the other one stretched out towards the Virzen, which was adjusting his shotgun frenetically, expecting for something to happen before he was prepared.

Robin stood at Jacks side just looking at the scene; he was waiting for something to happen too. Jack held his open palm towards the paranoiac Virzen, as his shotgun charged up slowly. He closed his hand, as though he was catching something, and the Virzen was suddenly trapped, it was as if Jack had grabbed him with an enormous hand, he lifted him up. With his other hand he "took off" the Virzens shotgun. Robin saw how Jack just seemed to use an invisible doll to manipulate the Virzen.

"Think you can jump that high?" Jack asked, the Virzen floated about nine feet high in the air; Robin took some impulse and jumped as high as he could, made a spin and hit the Virzen with a strong kick, the man fell to the ground feeling painfully how some of his bones collapsed. "Now, that's high mate..."

"How do you do that?" Robin asked. Jack just smiled in a wicked way, without watching him.

"It is an extension of my body…" he said, as he saw Robin didn't understand this he explained. "I've got two selves, a human one, and a Nightmare one. What I do…"

He reached his hand out and "pressed" the Virzen towards the ground with anger.

"…What I do its reach my Nightmare un-corporeal self and use it as an invisible weapon. It's hard to understand but..."

"It's great!" Robin exclaimed.

"Yeah… it's good you like it… I appreciate you don't treat me like a monster…" He had a strange look, between melancholy, and at the same time, hate for the Virzen he was watching try to escape from his invisible claw.

"Don't worry, most of us… well, you see the Beast Boy, Raven, even Cyborg… people don't look at them normally… that's why I think…" Robin stopped as the Virzen Starfire and Beast Boy where fighting crashed on her ship and it fell from the roof. Star flew down and rescued her as Raven picked up the falling ship. "They understand you…"

"That's why I never became a superhero…"Jack laughed as he got near the Virzen and grabbed the shotgun that was only a few meters from him. "…you have to say long heroic speeches and you can't do this…"

He pointed the shotgun at the Virzens forehead, still having him trapped by his claw. Still, the Virzen didn't show any fear for dying, he closed his big multicolor eyes and prepared to die when… the shotgun has covered in a black veil and turned apart before it shoot. Raven came along with the other titans using her powers to grab the shotgun out of Jacks hands.

"What are you doing? They are my prey! You can't steal my write to exterminate my enemies!" Jack complained.

"You have no right to kill them either, perhaps their law is wrong, but that doesn't give you the right to take their lives!" Starfire said bravely.

"It's not our stile Jack, and as long as you're on our tower, you fallow our rules…" Robin said.

"Fine" Jack said letting the Virzen free from his claw. "But you better make sure they are well locked!"

"Earthling, I must warn you of your mistake. You don't know what you're getting yourself into…" the Virzen warned them as they where being taken into a jail car, tied up and with their ships under custody. "… I will laugh in jail when the Nightmares are released in this town."

"No Nightmares will be relesed in this town as long as I am here" Jack said. The prison guards closed the door and drove away. "Well, I guess Ill be going too, I need to find a place to stay at this city. Since you blew the metal box which was the remaining of my ship. Well, thanks Titans, see you later!"

"Wait" Raven said silently but clearly. Jack stopped and turned around.

"Jack, I don't know if I can trust you…" Robin said seriously. Then smiled and shook hands with him. "But I know I talk for everyone when I say you are welcome to stay at the T Tower as long as you need."

Jack nodded gratefully.


Note: Jack Shoreshooter it's my character, if you want to use him on a fict or whatever please contact me first, be descent and respect author rights. Wait for updates soon. R&R, R&R, R&R…