Ch.5 Strike: Strike: Downtown
"Robin this is Raven, Starfire and I are going to the residential district to help Commissioner Spooner."
"Ok Raven hurry, we only have around 21 minutes remaining."
Robin pulled the cycle over to the side.
"Scan of surrounding area complete. A large collection of plastic residue has been detected in Northeast sector of district." The female voice stated.
"Computer show a map of the city, with the area of the plastic explosive was detected."
"Processing, Processing, Processing complete." A holographic map of the downtown area appeared in the middle of the R-Cycle's body. It zoomed into a tall skyscraper with 3 distinct letters on it. EJN.
A beat.
"Beast Boy the bomb is located in the EJN building, start searching from the top down, I will start from the bottom in the parking garage."
"Computer engage GPS to the EJN building." Robin straddled the cycle and sped off.
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SWOOSH T-Tip
Beast Boy landed in the open window on the top floor.
"Ahh!" A small secretary walked into the room shocked to see anyone.
Beast Boy looked up. "You wouldn't happen to have seen any big blinking bundles or really heavy boxes?"
"…..uh….shipping is two floors down."
"Thanks." Beast Boy ran from the room, heading for the elevator. He started jamming the buttons.
"The elevator doesn't work."
"Figures." Beast Boy ran towards the stair well going down two floors.
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Robin turned the corner and gunned it. VVVRRRMMMMM
HONK HONK
He ended up in traffic. "Oh come on."
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Beast Boy ran down the hall looking for shipping.
"104,105…106… Shipping bingo." He dashed inside the room.
All around the room and in the center of it were rows and rows of boxes.
"Um… may I help you." Beast Boy turned and there standing by a photocopier was an UPS worker.
"Ya I need to know where all the boxes of shipments that way around 100 pounds are."
The 'brown' man walked over to a shelf. "These 13 right here are all this building has right now."
Beast Boy ran forward to one of the boxes and started tearing at the top. He started pulling the tape up…, and it ripped off. Beast Boy turned towards the UPS worker.
"You wouldn't happen to have a really big pair of scissors would you?"
"Um… yeah I do, just what is it you're looking for?"
Beast Boy leaned forward. " There's a bomb in the building, and I think it might be in a box!"
"We scan all boxes above 50 pounds with x-ray and bomb-sniffing dogs."
So you mean there isn't a single bit of chance that the bomb might be in the boxes."
"I'm positive, otherwise we can get in major trouble."
Beast Boy reached for his communicator.
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"Robin that scan thingy wouldn't happen to be able to tell us exactly where it is can it? This building has like 70 floors!"
"Beast Boy quit whining, according to the computer its somewhere near the bottom ten floors or the basement areas." Robin pocketed the communicator and drove through the weaving traffic. A quarter mile up the road the EJN building stood proud.
Robin started tapping the handle. VRROOOM VRROOOOM he started revving the engine. "I give up." He flipped a switch on the R-Cycles side. The R foot rests on both side popped open.
PPPPSSSSSSSHHHHH
The R-Cycles jet boosters started lifting it up two feet above the car. Robin increased the gas and it slowly lurched forward. He added more pressure to the throttle and it started speeding over the cars.
He reached 30 mph and a truck quickly approached. He swerved to the side and over the sidewalk. Gently landing it outside the EJN building, parking garage. He turned the cycle into the parking garage and went to the bottom floor.
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Beast Boy ran down the flight of stairs 67…66…65…64.
He sighed in frustration and morphed into a blue jay. He went to the small space in the center of the stairwell and free fell.
54…48…35…25…12.
Beast Boy landed on the railing. Ran down to flight of stairs and ran through the tenth floor door.
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"Good morning, I'm Kathy Stewarts here with Elizabeth Alderman, who is currently running for the title of Jump City major. Today on Jump City Debate we will talk about the Teen Titans." Kathy a middle aged blond hair show host sat comfortably in her chair, and turned towards Elizabeth.
"Elizabeth, you say that the Titans are one of the worst things to happen to this city. Why do you feel this way?"
"Just call me Eliza. Haven't you ever noticed that the Titans seem to leave behind more wreckage than the criminals do. I have a clip if you would play it."
A clip started flashing in the TV in the back of the set. It showed the Titans chasing down Fang as he runs on top of building sides. Robin fired some shots from the R-Cycle, missing he hits the building side and chunks littler the ground. Starfire swoops around in the air and fire a volley of Starbolts, they to miss and destroy more buildings. The same similar thing happened to Cyborg and Raven.
"The items that this "Fang" stole were valued only at 450, the wreckage done by the Titans that's shown on this video totaled 1230 dollars. Multiple times in Metropolis Superman has punched villains through walls, office buildings, powers line, you name it he probably punched some one through it. Its not just the Titans, vigilantes and so called super heroes tend to do more damage than the villains themselves."
"That may be true in some cases, but on multiple times the Titans, although causing damage, reduced the damage that was eminent. On count less times the Titans have stopped Slade, Cinderblock and multiple other villains."
"That's true but it doesn't remove the fact, if the Titans weren't here than many of the villians, who are purely trying to defeat the Titans wouldn't be located in this city."
"I'm sorry, but we must go to a commercial break now, we will be back in a few minutes."
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Robin drove down the garage that was already packed with several vehicles. He parked the R-Cycle and started walking around the garage, checking under every vehicle.
Finding nothing on the cars on this level he went up one level. He again checked all the vehicles and started heading to the next level.
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"Welcome back to Jump City Debate. If your just now joining us we are here with Elizabeth Alderman who is running for Mayor. Today we are talking about the Teen Titans, and heroism overall."
"I have noticed on several occasions some of the Titans are extremely rude. The one in the blue cloak is always very quiet, and dark. The metallic one is strangely loud but seems to some degree the matures one besides Robin. The strange green one -
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Beast Boy ran through the rooms checking in all the corners. Then he ran through another door, little did he know it had a red light indicating LIVE.
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"- is just generally rude over all." Beast Boy ran through the room and started searching everywhere. He searched the props in the back, he searched the directors area. He searched the camera getting his face fully in the camera.
He ran onto the stage and started searching the set. He searched under the table, the couch, and the rug.
He turned towards Kathy, "You wouldn't happen to see any large whitish packages would you?"
Elizabeth stood up. "How dare you barge in here and start asking questions. As you can see this is what I was talking about."
"I will take that as a no…." Beast boy ran through the room heading for the fifth floor.
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Robin reached ground level and once again checked every where. Once done he went around the perimeter of the building. He walked around checking all the plants and all the other areas.
He headed for the alleyway to the side of the building.
Control Freak and Puppet King stood at the end of the blocked off alley. Control Freak knelt down and placed something on the ground. While Puppet King held a large package with C4 written on it.
SCWISH! CL-CLANG
An expertly thrown Birdaring landed on the ground cautiously close to Puppet King.
Control Freak looked down the alley as Robin started running towards them.
"You won't ruin this episode Robin." Control Freak pulled out his trademark remote and zapped a dumpster, it roared to life and shuffled over to Robin. Snapping its lid up and down, vomiting out piles of trash.
Control Freak re-aimed and shot another zap at the ground. The object on the ground grew in size and started whining like a jet engine.
Robin tossed two explosive disk and hit the dumpster just as the lid closed, and it exploded leaving a smoking heap of metal.
The object grew and grew until it started taking the shape of a Millennium Falcon.
Control Freak ran inside the 'toy' and started to push a series of buttons that thanks to watching Star Wars so many times started lifting off.
The giant craft started lifting into the air and slowly hovered. Robin reached for his communicator. "Beast Boy the bomb is out side, Control Freak and Puppet King have it in some sort of space ship."
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Beast Boy ran…yet again down the stair well. He came bursting out side into the alley and ran right into Robin. "Ouch." Beast Boy scratched his head and looked towards the space ship.
"Dude that's a Millennium Falcon."
"NO it isn't, this is a Corellian Stock Light Freighter model YT-1300." Control Freaks voice boomed over the alley. The ship slowly rose.
SWHOOOSH CLANK
Robin fired a grappling hook and started pulling himself up to the ship.
Beast Boy became a pterodactyl and screeched his was up towards the top of the craft. He landed and became elf again. He started rubbing the surface of the ship.
The Falcon rose above the building and started moving forwards, the controls changed directions and started heading towards the Titans Tower.
Robin reached the bottom of the ship and whipped out two Birdarings, and started stabbing them into the hull and climbed to the top of the craft.
Robin took out an explosive disk and threw it at the gun turret next to the cockpit.
BOOOM
A small hole appeared in the craft. Beast Boy became a mouse and crawled inside the hole. The Falcon climbed over the buildings and reached open water. Beast Boy started chewing and chewing at the different wires, the started to spark and the craft lost altitude as it dipped down into the ocean. Beast Boy landed in the dinner area of the craft and went to a hatch he opened it and Robin climbed in.
They walked up to the cockpit, Robin punched Control Freak in the gut, knocking the potato out. The puppet Beast Boy walked over to Puppet King grabbed his wire and wrapped them all around his limbs. Robin walked up to the C4 pulled out two wires and the timer clicked off at 13:00 minutes.
"Beast Boy hurry and go to the subway to help Cyborg and Equinox. I'm going to help the girls, after you give me a lift."
They climbed out on top as the craft started sinking with Control Freak and Puppet king. Beast Boy turned into a pterodactyl dropping Robin and the criminals off at the banks of the bay.
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I flew around hopelessly lost. "Jefferson, where in the world is Jefferson."
I sighed and landed near Main Street. There were some metal grates and I picked one up, jumped in and landed on the subways. I started hovering down the length of the tunnel, I have to find and help those cops. I turned a corner and.
POW!
A gunshot hit the wall right next to my chest.
A/N
Oh yeah, my first two thousand word chapter, might not be much to you, but I'm mucho proud. Later.