Keith: As always thank you to all those who reviewed and my apologies for not updating for a while. I've been enjoying Final Fantasy Tactics.
Hotspot: …Fat headed idiot…
Keith's anger begins to rise as he holds a bucket of water in front of him menacingly
Hotspot: Heh heh…um…I meant that you don't own Teen Titans?
Keith: That's what I thought you said.
West City
Ever since he had competed in the tournament of heroes Hotspot had wanted to find The Master of Games in order to pay him back for using him for his own personal gain. In hopes of finding him, Hotspot had gone back to his hometown of West City and took it upon himself to interrogate every villain he brought down in hopes of finding any leads as to the whereabouts of his former captor. So far every convict he had put in jail had been unaware of the existence let alone the whereabouts of the Master, but that didn't seem to deter Hotspot's search whatsoever. Perhaps this was due to his hotheaded tendencies, perhaps it was because of his damaged ego, or perhaps it was simply because he had a fetish for bringing megalomaniacal ego driven psychopaths to justice. No matter what the reason, Hotspot had been patrolling West City for a few months coming up empty until one day he ran across an all too familiar face as he went on his daily patrol of the city.
After searching through nearly half of the city Hotspot feared that today would be yet another loss until he caught word of a robbery from some punks he scared off that were vandalzing a building as he searched through the streets for criminals. It seemed that Dr. Light had escaped from the Jump City prison and had decided to seek out fortune in a town that seemed to have no vigilantes, which would make it rather easy to get away with any crimes he might commit. Unfortunately he hadn't taken Hotspot into account which, in Hotspot's mind, would be his downfall.
"No one stops Dr. Light! Submit to my might by handing over all of your money and I might consider letting you live!" Dr. Light rambled egotistically clearly believing that there was no way the Titans could find him all the way out here.
"Um…here you go Mr. Dr. Light, sir." The bank employee responded while he stared at the ground and handed him all the contents he had retrieved from the vault hoping he would merely take it and leave without hurting anybody.
"Foolish human, nobody patronizes the awesome Dr. Light!" the villain retorted to this timid statement clearly looking for a fight "Especially now that no one can stop me!" Just as he had finished making his remark somebody tapped Dr. Light on the shoulder lightly and waited for him to turn around.
"Then I guess you can just call me no one." Hotspot stated cooly as Dr. Light turned around only to be met with a rush of flames that sent him flying into the adjacent wall.
"Ow… what the heck! That seriously hurt…um...I mean…no one dares attack Dr. Light! Prepare to meet your doom!" Dr. Light said as he quickly tried to regain his composure and get to his feet. Hotspot couldn't help but drop to his knees laughing at how pathetic the villain seemed to be after only enduring one attack. "Hey what are you laughing at match head! No one mocks Dr. Light" Dr. Light roared out as he sent a blast of light energy at Hotspot missing…badly.
"Holy crap…how did you even manage to get this far?" Hotspot chuckled as he got to his feet and into a fighting stance.
"Shut up hothead!" Dr. Light said trying to seem intimidating by making a clever statement about his opponent. Unfortunately he hadn't been watching where he was going when he leaped at his opponent so Hotspot merely side stepped out of the way so that the Dr. would end up careening into the door which Hotspot had locked on his way in to make sure that no one would accidentally walk into the bank and get injured. "Ow…" Dr. Light mumbled as he rubbed his head and tried to get to his feet but wound up only managing to get to his knees.
"Dang…I just can't resist..." Hotspot mumbled under his breath as he reached over, took Dr. Light pants, pulled them back a little, and gave him his patented 'Flaming Atomic Wedgie'. This got Dr. Light really angry as he got to his feet and put out the fire so that his head wouldn't get scorched.
"No more playing around Pyromaniac! This ends now!" Dr. Light, roared out as he threw a ball of light energy at Hotspot that exploded on impact sending him face first into into the ground. Dr. Light followed this up with several light energy blasts to Hotspot's back that severely injured him and prevented him from getting up and fighting back.
"Ha ha ha! Who's in control now! As I believe the Kid's say today…Booyoh! I'm getting all jiggly up in the hizzo blasting your ponk butt into the ground. Oh yeah who's the guy! Who is your parent! Who Dat! What now? THROW DOWN!" Dr. Light rambled out attempting to sound 'cool' but, due to how badly he messed up all of the slang he used, only looking like that much more of a bumbling idiot.
"Ow…man…talk about adding insult to injury…I'm getting beaten by some guy who would get his butt kicked in a ghetto…or any highschool...anywhere!" Hotspot mumbled out weakly as he was about to pass out from all the pain caused by the light blasts that Dr. Light had been firing at him.
"It sounds like he thinks he knows how to control the power of light brother!" A voice from around Hotspot stated but due to having his face firmly planted in the ground he couldn't manage to see who was there.
"Well then Lightning, should the three of us show him the true power of elemental forces?" Another male voice rambled out sounding quite confident in his aparrent impending victory over Dr. Light.
"Indeed brother!" Lightning shouted out as Hotspot managed to lift his face out of the ground.
"You guys take down the guy in the pajamas I'll help the guy who got blasted by the pathetic excuse for a villain," A blonde girl ,who Hotspot just noticed, commanded strongly as she helped him to his feet.
Hotspot knew that it was definitely a good thing his face was already fire red or this girl would've seen him blushing at how beautiful he thought she was. As the girl threw Hotspot's arms over her shoulders she walked out of the room just as the two brothers were about to attack Dr. Light the girl brought him outside and set him down against the wall of the bank. "It's a good thing that your shirt is flame resistant" The girl commented lightly as she tried to boost Hotspot's spirits when she noticed that he had his shoulders hunched and his head down clearly indicating something must be wrong "Otherwise that guy would've scorched your shirt." Hotspot couldn't help but laugh at this as he lifted his head getting an even closer look at the girl. "Are you going to be all right? It looks like you took quite a beating," The blonde girl inquired rather concerned about the hero.
Hotspot chuckled at this "I'm not hurt, but I'm a long way from being alright" he stated plainly as he thought over the new feelings he had for this blonde girl who he had met no more than five seconds ago and his ego being damaged yet again.
"Thanks…for your help. If you don't mind my asking, who or what are you guys?" Terra quickly peered inside through the window that led her to use her powers to lift the portion of ground underneath them onto the rooftop. "What did you do that for?" Hotspot asked before seeing a blast of lightning blowing through the spot where they were just a moment ago. "Oh…uh…thanks." Hotspot mumbled out feeling like a stupid idiot for not seeing that coming.
"You're welcome. Anyways, my name is Terra and those two are Thunder and Lightning." Terra said as she pointed at the two figures emerging from the bank with a dazed and beaten Dr. Light "The big one's Thunder and the skinny guy is Lightning." Hotspot glanced down at the two vigilantes with a look of despise seeing them come out of the bank with the villain who he was unable to conquer despite how patheitc he had seemed. "If it's alright with you I'm just going to give you a quick hug to make sure that you don't have any broken ribs or bones and to ensure that nothing is out of place."
Hotspot couldn't believe what he was hearing! He quickly agreed to let her do this and, as she was hugging him, he couldn't help but swoon. "It seems like you're going to be alright…although you lost to Dr. Light over there." Terra pointed at the dazed villain who Thunder was holding onto after cuffing him with yet another one of the cuffs he had with him "You appear to be quite a skilled fighter with your control over fire." Hotspot couldn't help but blush at this as well as he cleared his throat and mumbled out a quick thank you.
"Oh…I almost forgot my name's Hotspot." the fiery hero mentioned as he became quite embarrassed for not introducing himself earlier.
"Well it's nice to meet you Hotspot. I was wondering…have you ever met the Teen Titans?" Hotspot quickly explained that although he hadn't met all of the Titans he had met Beast Boy, Cyborg, and Robin who had made him an honorary Titan. After explaining this, to show that what he said was true, he pulled his Titans communicator out of his pocket and showed it to her. "I know that this is kind of sudden," Terra started not sure whether or not she should ask him to join her team but deciding to go for it "but how would you like to be a full time Titan on the new Titans North branch I'm organizing." Hotspot eyes widened at realizing that he had a chance to become more thoroughly acquainted with Terra and might even manage to find The Master of Games with the help of the Titans North. Understanding all this, he quickly agreed to her proposal fearing that if he were to wait too long it might expire. "Thanks so much Hotspot!" Terra said quite un-humbly as she hugged him in gratitude which cause him to swoon and think of how great it was going to be to become a true Titan.
