The Teen Titans stared at the two people standing before them, Richard and Violet, Robin and Ghost. Only for the first time in Titan History, their fearless leader, their Robin, had removed his mask. The Boy Wonder was gone and in his place was this teenage boy, hand in hand with his girlfriend.
Violet looked at the Titans and tried to work out their feelings, Cyborg looked astounded, he would probably have no problems with them dating but Beast Boy and Starfire looked as though this was the greatest thing since sliced bread (or mustard in Starfire's case) and Raven? Well she looked like Raven, cold, emotionless and indifferent to all that happened. Violet shook herself as Starfire pounced, "Oh friends this is such a memorable occasion, this should be celebrated with a traditional Tamaranian Pudding of Happiness." Starfire would have kept talking if Raven had not sealed her mouth shut with a sudden blast of black telekinesis. "forgive me if I'm wrong but isn't this against the Rules?" Everyone looked at Beast Boy who continued, "When we all first joined we agreed to never tell each other about our pasts, our families or anything like that in case one of us were captured and interrogated." Everyone nodded then Richard spoke, "Violet and I decided to tell each other so that we as Richard and Violet can have a relatioship while Robin and Ghost remain prfessiononal crime fighters. We told you guys so that you'd know what was going on when we disappeared." Cyborg nodded, "One question, who wants pizza?"
A group of six teenagers sat around a table at the Pizza Café grinning. The largest of the group was speaking, "And I said, dude, nothing you shoot at me can kill me, I'm already dead. And then I pulled open the trench coat and lifted the hat to reveal my new skins. He was shitting himself in terror!" The group laughed as Victor Stone finished his story, "What about you Gar? Got any funny stories for us?"
The smallest member of the group simpered, "About all I can tell you is that I once acted in a Sci-Fi TV series. I was the morphing technical officer (AN: Is that right, Garfield was the tech officer during his acting days?) for some Star Trek rippoff." Garfield, aka Beast Boy, closed his eyes waiting for the expected laughter. After a moment of silence Garfield opened one eye a crack to see the others looking at him with admiration in their eyes, "Gar that is really cool, none of us have been in TV shows except maybe the News."
Gar chuckled and turned to Koriandr, " What about you Kory, tell us a it about yourself. Koriandr smiled and said, "On Tamaran I am a princess and a war veteran, I was a prisoner in the last Gordonian war that occurred on Tamaran, after escaping myself and several others found ourselves fighting our way to the capital to deliver secret imformation regarding the Gordonian fleet in orbit above our planet. After delivering the information I set out to find my beloved sister only to find her conversing with the enemy, leading them through the catacombs of our beloved city. I confronted her and displayed her as the traitor she was. But even through all this I still loved her, hoping that mt love would some day bring her back to the side of good." Kory finished her story to see her friends looking at her smiling, "You'll never change Kory."
The six teens, Richard Grayson, Violet Parr, Raven Ross, Victor Stone Garfield Logan and Koriandr walked through Jump City happily chatting and enjoying the sights as civilians not Super Heroes. Stepping around a corner the six friends stopped in horror, a building was burning, surrounded by fire trucks and police along with a huge croud. Richard reached into his chest pocket and pulled out his eye mask, putting it one Robin turned to see the other Titans all doing similar things, Ghost was pulling costumes out of Violet's backpack, Cyborg was removing the last of Victor's clothing reveiling Cyborg's titanium skin, Raven was puling her robe on over her black sweater and black denim jeans and Beast Boy was morphing into various animals shaking off the powder he'd used to hide his emerald skin. Smiling Robin tore his shirt open in a classic SuperMan style showing his Robin uniform. Springing into action the Titans took to the sky.
In the building people fought desperately for an escape, trying to find some nonexistent hole in shich to reach the fresh, safe air outside. One the top floor two little girls screamed frantically for help, hoping someone would find them before the building collapsed. One of them, Emily the oldest, ran to the door to try and open finding that something was blocking it from opening, ready to give up the girls saw the one thing they wanted too more than anything else on earth, Ghost had landed on the roof.
Ghost looked at the two girls and smiled, "It's ok, I'm here to help, lets get that door open and get out of here." The girls nodded and ran to get behind Ghost. Ghost frowned at the door and turned the knob, it wasn't locked, it just wouldn't open. Sighing Ghost backed up and rushed at the door shoulder first. "Ouch! That hurt." Ghost looked at the door and stepped as close as she could without actually touching it. When she was close enough, Ghost fired up a force field, cutting a hole in the wall where it touched it. Smiling Ghost pushed the circle out of the hole and lifted the two girls out behind her. Rushing down to the steps Ghost lifted both girls up and positioned them one on each hip. Rushing down the stairs Ghost activated the tracking beacon on her Utility Belt so the other Titans could find her. When they reached the second floor Ghost met an immeasurable wall of flame, smiling grimly, Ghost formed a force field and rushed through the flame. Ghost stopped when the stair case collapsed before her, trapping them on the second floor. Looking down at the two girls Ghost realized that she would have to hurry before the smoke killed them all. Forming another field Ghost filteredas much smoke out as possible, leaving the breathable oxygen inside. Preparing herself Ghost got ready to jump down to the ground floor when the floor she was standing on collapsed, bring the entire building down with it.
Robin looked on in horror as the building collapsed, everyone but three people out, one of them his Ghost, his Violet. Beside him Robin could dimly hear the screaming of the parents of the children trapped in the building with Ghost. Robin stood in the one spot for nearly three hours as fire crews battled the blaze, hoping to find the tell tale glow of pink energy signalling that Ghost was alive and fighting. As soon as the building was accessible Robin rushed forward, pushing past people and Titans to reach the destroyed building. Burning himself several times Robin shoved rubble out of his way trying to find even a scrap of fabric to signal that he was close to Ghost. Around him Titans and civilians worked with him lifting and pushing rubble aside to find the fallen Titan and the young girls. After three hours of searching all but Robin had given up of ever seeing the fallen victime again. Eventually Cyborg and Starfire had to combine their efforts to drag him to the camp built nearby and sedate him so he could get some sleep.
Violet opened her eyes and found herself looking up at one of the girlls. Smiling she sat up and looked around, both girls looked ok, despite the obvious bruises, although Ghost felt as if her entire body was about to fall apart, "Do you girls know where we are?" The older girl stepped forward, "I'm sorry Ma'am but we only woke up a few minutes before you. My sister Maria hit her head and hasn't been feeling ok since." Ghost nodded, "She probeably has a concussion, I'll check it in a minute, first I need to work out where we are and how we got here. But before that I need to know what your name is." The girl nodded, "My name is Emily." Ghost nodded and began to examine their surroundings.
Ghost walked around the cavity they were in and felt a sinking sensation in her stomach, this place was appearing more and more like a, "Holding cell, we're not in that building anymore, we've been moved since we passed out." Turning around Ghost stepped up to Maria, "Maria how does your head feel?" Maria looked at her and smiled groggily, "My head still hurts and I feel sick." Ghost nodded, "Maria you have a concussion, you need to lie down and try not to move, here." Ghost pulled her coat off and bundled it up before placing it beneath Maria, "Use this as a pillow. Now I want you to try and get some sleep. I don't think we'll be going anywhere." Maria nodded and lay down.
Ghost stepped up beside Emily, "You should try and get some sleep as well Emily." Emily nodded, "I'll try but I don't think I'll get any." Ghost nodded and led the young girl over to her sleeping sister, "I don't have anything you can use as a pillow, I'm sorry." Emily shrugged, "I don't mind, I'll use my arms." Ghost smiled, "Thatta girl, now get some rest, I'll be right here if you need me."
Robin shot up in the bed clutching at the sheets around him, Violet needed him and he was ASLEEP! Mentally bashing himself Robin got out of the bed, straightened his cape and returned to Ground Zero. Walking over to Raven he asked, "Anything yet Raven?" Raven lowered her hood and shook her head slowly, "I'm sorry Richard but there is no sign of Violet or the two girls who she went to rescue." Robin nodded, fighting to remain on his feet despite the pain in his heart, "What about those girls, how are their parents handling it?" Raven let a lone tear slide down her cheek, "Their father died three years ago, while their mother died today, if their alive, their orphans, both their parents are now dead." Robin nodded and walked towards the smouldering rubble, "Violet where are you?"
Violet looked down at her utilty belt, trying to work out why the Tracking Beacon wasn't working, what she saw wiped away all hope she had, the beacon was broken in half, it's inards destroyed beyond all hope of ever working again. Feeling tears welling up behind her mask, Ghost looked at the sleeping sisters, making sure they were asleep before peeling off her mask, showing her despair filled eyes. Violet wiped the tears away then set to work trying to establish a rudimentary hypothosis as to where they were. After an hour of searching the room, Violet was no cloaser to working out where they were than Beast Boy was of going out with Raven.
Raven lifted huge amounts of rubble with her powers, while Beast Boy crawled through as a much as possible in Spider form. Cyborg and Starfire worked tgether lifting large slabs of cincrete while Robin rushed around beneath, seaching frantically for a sign of the fallen Titan. After almost three hours of searching Robin shouted out for the other Titans to come over. Crowding around Robin showed the Titans a 'S' exactly like the one Robin wore as Slade's apprentice…
Ooooh, another cliff-hanger, Aren't I a bad guy. Thank you to everyone who reviewed I was amazed at how many I got in such a short space of time. Sorry about this chapter being so short, I thought it'd be longer when I did the plot for this chapter. I hope you all enjoy this fic, cause I am. See you all next chapter.
