Teen
Titans

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A Fan Fiction

Chapter One: Falling Stars That Shine So Bright

For the first time in a while, Robin had managed to wrangle control of the giant TV away from the hands of Cyborg and Beast Boy, to watch the local news. A comet was passing by the planet for the first time in 150 years, and this is a once in a lifetime chance for Robin. Thiswas something hewasNOT going to miss, even if he had to drag the others along with him, but they seemed fairly interested in this too. After all, this comet is quite a bit different from any other.

"It has been recently discovered that there may be two parts to this comet. Photos indicate that the second part could be an object picked up along it's journey around the Solar System, and as you can see, the part seems to be a shiny red color, and it also appears to be oval shaped..." The news anchor went on. Robin thought for a moment, then abruptly left the room. He went to another room in the Tower, housing the supercomputer. With a few deft keystrokes he brought up a web site with several pictures of the comet. He picked out a few images, and ran a photo enhancer program, trying to see what it was that was attached to the comet.

"I have a feeling this might not be too good..." He said quietly to himself. Robin was interrupted by someone entering the room.

"Robin? Why did you leave the room so quickly?"

"Something on that comet caught my eye, And I don't think it's supposed to be there." Robin replied.

"Man, I never thought the tail would leave a mess on the windshield,"

Something interrupted the CD player, "Perhaps you should have put that into consideration before latching on to a comet. It could have been easier to knock an asteroid out of orbit and latch on to that," the speakers emitted.

"And risk some government throwing nukes at us? I don't think so."

"How can you be so sure that they can even make nukes?"

"You didn't notice the Moon, did you?"

"Why?"

"There was some construction going on there, and I thought I saw something that looked like a cannon of some sort. Either that, or they have aliens planning to take over the Earth with an orbiting firebase."

"Did anyone ever tell you that you think of odd things?"

"Not until you did. Now if you don't mind, could you put the tunes back on? We still have three hours'till theseparation point."

"Fine." Then the CD played unpaused. The person then pulled out a telescope and looked towards the planet.

"Odd, They have what looks like a docking pylon out on an island not too far from one of the main landmasses. That'll be our destination. It looks a bit small, though..."

What was attached to the comet is supposed to be a 1970 Plymouth Superbird, but it wasn't. Hand-built from the ground up for racing, it merely looked like one. This time it was modified for interplanetary travel. It was carrying it's own shield system, as well as propulsion, air, and offensive weapons. The person in the driver's seat is known mostly by his nickname, 'Pyro'. The one he was conversing with just so happened to be the A.I. of the car. To some, it is simply known as 'Bird'. Pyro cut off the CD player and asked Bird if they could receive radio signals from the planet.

"No, not yet. You're gonna have to wait until we get closer."

"Can you get anything at all?"

"Yes, but it's all jumbled and useless, mostly static."

"Ok, then... I'm gonna take a nap, wake me before we hit the atmosphere."

"Got it."

"It's just like in issue #312! They send on in advance to scout out the forces, then the main army comes in and wipes us all out and feeds on the empty buildings!" Beast boy said somewhat excitedly, but with a gloomy tone at the end.

"Umm, Beast boy?"

"What?"

"That's a comic book, remember?" Robin chided.

"But it even says they come in on comets! It's all in here! Even their weaknesses!

Much later, it is close to the time when the comet will swing by the Earth's atmosphere, and all of the Titans were on the roof of Titan Tower to see it.

At the same time...

THUMP!

"What! I'm awake! Huh, what?"

"We have successfully separated, Pyro. The comet is beginning to enter the atmosphere."

"Okay, stay with it, let's make it look like part of it came off."

"Yes, Pyro. What should I do in case I am questioned by one of the natives?"

"Be HAL 9000 if you want. if this is supposedly Earth, they should remembera movie like that."

The computer altered it's voice to be like that of the one in the movie.

"Just try not to eat anyone, okay?" Pyro added.

"I'm sorry, but I can't do that, Pyro." That made him laugh.

"Seriously, though. The last thing we need is the police force on us because they found humanoid grease spots."

"Yes, Pyro."

The Titans were watching the comet streak by, burning the same color as Starfire's eyes, as Robin noted to her under his voice. Then they noticed something falling away from it, just a solid red fireball going lower and lower until it suddenly disappeared.

"Isn't that a meteor, or whatever they call it?" Beast Boy asked.

"Jeez, That was rough! It's been a long time since I've gone through an atmosphere as thick as this one." Pyro said, a little shaken up.

"I think that knocked a spark plug wire loose!" Bird said, sounding annoyed.

"Okay then, lets head to that pylon, all right?"

"Changing course-" Pyro interrupted the A.I., "Wait, let me have the controls for a while, okay?"

"Fine, But did you notice the meteor shower that was following the comet? I think we caused that."

"No matter, lets just keep going."

"I am sensing several humanoids on top of the tower. One human, one of unknown origin, another of unknown origin, A human that seems to have undergone dramatic changes in his DNA, and a partial human robot. I sense high power levels coming from the two females of the group."

"Interesting... but you are calling it a tower now?"

"Yes. the building has nothing related to docking equipment."

"Okay then. lets just take a closer look then."

The craft slowed down, and turned to the direction of Titan Tower. Still retaining a fairly high speed, they went by the Tower. all four watched the craft speed by, then turn towards the city.

It flew along above the city, then turned down and landed by a storage company. Pyro hopped out, then pressed a fewbuttons on his watch. He appearance then changed to a human form. He reached back into his craft and pulled out a huge sword and stuck it onto his back at an angle, the handle over his right shoulder. there was no sheath, but it was held there somehow. He then walked into the office and asked about renting some space.

"What size are you thinking of, sir?"

"Enough to store two cars."

"What, you rich or something? Well, if you have the money, I have the space. Garage 20. Here are the keys. The rent'll be 120 dollars per month. I'll need forty up front first, though." Pyro then gave him the money he demanded, and the man gave him the keys."

"Thank you, sir."

Pyro then went to his craft and pulled it in, flipping it on it's side to fit through the doorway. Several hours later, he came out of the garage alone and walked off into the night.

Several weeks later, the Titans finally got a call. They arrived at the scene fairly quickly to meet their opponents, the three top members of the Hive, Back and better than before, so they said. they fought for fifteen minutes or so, and things weren't going too well for the titans.

"This is so bad, It's not even funny!" Beast Boy said shortly before getting thrown several blocks away by Gizmo. At this point, Robin was barely standing, Raven was unconscious, Cyborg had lost an arm, and Starfire had been stuck to a wall, jinxed heavily by Jinx herself.

"Now it's time to make you pay for what you did to us! Shouted Gizmo, raising a now sharpened robotic leg above Raven.

"I'm sorry, but I won't let you do that, Gizmo. Slade sent me here to tell you something."

"What is it?" Jinx asked.

"You've been replaced." said the man sitting on the fender of the red Superbird. "I believe one of you has something that Slade wants. Just give it to me now, and there wont be any bloodshed. Resist, and the consequences could be bad for your health. Slade himself has authorized me to use any force necessary to retrieve what he wants."

"Forget you!" Gizmo said. He then tuned back to Raven. "It's too bad... We could have owned the Prom." Then he brought the leg down full force, only to strike the broad side of Pyro's blade.

"What the? It should have went right through that!" Gizmo almost yelled. He was in shock over the fact that the one leg he had micro-sharpened was stopped by that oversized knife.

"If you are really with Slade, you would've let me finish her!" Now Gizmo was shouting.

"Slade didn't say anything about helping you kill anyone. He just told me to find you three and retrieve the chip." Pyro said calmly. He angled the sword slightly, and then the blade split in halfseveninches, but neither half falling off. Then, without touching any part of it, the machine gun inside the blade fired into the wall, several bullets ricocheting into one ofthe joints of themechanical leg, causing it to fall off. Pyro then closed the blade by thought, and proceeded to cut off the rest of the mechanical legs, leaving Gizmo relatively helpless. Then a small machine gun sprouted from Gizmo's back.

"You know what? I have a gun too!" Gizmo said, the laughed.

"No you don't." Pyro said calmly.

"What!" Gizmo looked behind him, and the gun was gone. Then he noticed the blade coming right at him, spinning like a boomerang. Gizmo dropped to the ground prone. Pyro reached up and caught the blade one handed. Then he kicked him intoMammoth. Pyro then looked over at Robin and said, "Hey! You in the cape! Get your Cyborg there fixed, then find your green friend! I'll Take care of the girls for you!" Robin stood there, then regained his bearings and limped over to Cyborg, attempting to get him going again. Pyro then turned towards Jinx, who was now hovering, pink bolts of electricity spiking around her. Her eyes were glowing, and she was smiling an evil grin. Then she said the final word. Pyro recognized it immediately. Being the more magic oriented member of his family, He knew more and could do much more than his late father, but both possessed the equal ability to conjure, control and change fire to whatever their hearts desired. He knew this certain hex quite well. Then he noticed thehex holding Starfire up against the wall.

"Raven! NOOOO!" Starfire yelled at the top of her lungs He turned to the unconscious goth, and saw what was happening.Pink bolts were very audibly cracking around Raven, and her body was jerking from them. Pyro knew exactly the perfect counter-curse for this.

Pyro said a string of words in a strange German-soundinglanguage, andpulled out his sword, twirled it and pointed it at Raven. Then, a white glowing ball spewed for and shot towards her, and a black ball issued out and went for Jinx. The white ball exploded into small bolts and proceeded to fight with the pink bolts, absorbing them and sending them back to Jinx, while the black ball conformed to Jinx's body shape, and then completely absorbed her. Everything around Jinx was darkened somewhat due to the black magic, andthen the pink boltsstarted coursing around her. The blackness then lowered her into the ground, her scream fading out after she disappeared under the ground. The white bolts were slowly lowering Raven to the ground. the bolts cracked for a moment more, then faded away.

"What did you do to Raven? And what is your name?" Starfire asked Pyro, rather suspicious of him.

"Call me Pyro, and I just saved her life, and I am about to release you from that hex. Now please hold still."he replied.Pyro brought his blade around, opened it, and opened fire. Starfire screamed, but stopped after he quit firing. Bits of magical debris were falling from the shots fired, but thehex was mostly intact.

"Hang on... You must be Starfire, right? Well, You might want to close your eyes."

"Why must I close my eyes?"

"Trust me about this, okay?

"But did you not say you were working for Slade?"

"I did say I was, but all he told me was to get the chip from the Hive gang. He didn't mention anything else, so I'm just doing what I would normally do, okay?"

"How can I trust you if you work for Slade?"

"Do you enjoy making this difficult?" Pyro sounded exasperated and impatient. "With or without your approval, I'm setting you free." Pyro then jumped into the air,blasting jet like fire from his feet, flying up in the air to Starfire's level. He starting holding the giant blade by both hands and started swinging at Starfire, thehex blocking the sword from ever coming close. Magical debris rained down from the blows of the blade, and after a few minutes of this, Pyro stopped, backed up, and brought the blade back for one last shot.

"YAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!" Pyro swung with all he had. The blade came in contact with the hex, and explosively shattered it, knocking Pyro back several feet and to the ground. Now released, Starfire flew down to get a better look at Pyro herself.

"So, Tell me, Star, do you all live in that tower on the island over there?" He pointed his thumb over his shoulder, in the direction of the tower.

"Yes, we do."

"That's what I thought. If I were you, I'd head on over there and fill in the others on what happened here, or if you want, you can ride with me and Raven back to the tower.

"I shall ride with you, to guard Raven." Starfire replied. Pyro laughed.

"Did anyone ever tell you that you talk funny? Don't feel bad, I know someone who talks just like you, whenever he speaks English." Pyro tossed over his shoulder as he was walking towards Raven. He scooped her up, and walked to the passenger side of the car, bent down some, and managed to open the door.

"Star, You get in first, you can sit in the back seat. I'll put Raven in the front passenger seat so I can keep an eye on her, make sure there aren't any after effects from the hex."

"That sounds acceptable..." Starfire then managed to work her way into the back bench seat. Pyro gently set Raven down into the passenger seat, closed the door, then went and sat in the driver's seat.

"It's okay, Star, make yourself comfortable, there's plenty of room for you back there, and don't worry, I'm a safe driver." Pyro tried to reassure her as he started the car. It started with a growl, and Starfire jumped.

"This earthvehicle is very loud!" Star said, raising her voice over the din of the engine. Pyro looked over at Star and grinned.

"I know! Doesn't it sound beautiful?" Pyro said. He put the car into gear and slowly started off. He pulled out of the alley and started accelerating slowly, keeping Raven and Starfire in mind. Avoiding potholes caused from the Titans battle with the Hive members, he kept his speed low. Once he got away from the battle area, he started speeding up faster. Ten minutes later, they got to the beach. The Titan Tower could easily be seen from across the water.

"Hang on, Star." Pyro said, then flipped a switch. there was a rough bump, then Pyro started to drive towards the water.

"What are you doing?"

"Crossing the water. We're hovering right now, so it might was well be another road. Not to mention the much smoother ride." Pyro brought it up to speed again and in very little time they were on the solid ground the Titan Tower stood on.

"Well, here we are." Pyro said. He got out, went to the passenger side of the car and opened the door. He picked Raven out out of the car, and let Starfire get out.

"Is there a door somewhere around here we can use?"

"Yes there is. Follow me." Star said, and Pyro followed her. Star found a panel and knocked on it. A voice was heard from the inside.

"Who is it?"

"It is I, Starfire! I bring Raven and a rescuer!"

"Star!" Robin almost jumped through the door.

(Author's note: I've redone this chapter, and noticed how horribly written it was. This was several years ago, and apparently, I'm gonna have to redo all of them. -RageTH)