Time for chapter 2, everybody, I know it looks long, but don't be lazy and read it! If I was able to write it, then you must be able to read it! Oh, and don't forget to tell me what ya think in a review! Even if you hate it, review and tell me so, c'mon.
CHAPTER 2: The Diamond in the rough.
"STOP, THIEF!"
The set that we're looking at now is one of the alleys inside Tamaran. Is day again, and the three suns are shining with all their intensity. The quiet of the miserable citizens has been disturbed by a yell coming from somewhere above their heads. As the people looks up from the street, a young man passes running on the roof of a building. When he stops to catch his breath, we're able to see that the boy is actually Robin, but his uniform is different: it looks old, dirty and ragged. He's carrying something, like a package, wrapped in a white rag. Suddenly, Robin turns around, and we're able to see why he was running: he's been chased by no other than Mammoth, though his clothes are also different. Instead of his normal golden and black uniform, he's using a green and silver one, with a metallic badge attached to the right side of his chest. As he runs to catch Robin, he brandishes menacingly a big sword and yells:
"When I finish with you, I'll have your eyes in a jar in my home, street rat!"
"Jeez, all this madness just for this?" Says Robin, looking at the pack in his hands. As Mammoth's sword is about to make contact with his neck, Robin jumps from the roof, throwing the pack into the air while screaming: "Catch it!" apparently to no one in particular. Robin then grabs a rope full of clothes suspended between the building he has just left an another one. The rope breaks, due to the weight of the boy wonder, and Robin finds himself falling again, but not letting go the rope, which is still hanging from one side. In the middle of a rain of clothes, the rope stops Robin's fall, leaving him hanging just a few inches above the floor, making it safe for him to jump.
Meanwhile, the pack continues to fly, falling slowly to the ground. Suddenly, two figures come rushing down the street, following the pack's trail with their eyes. They're Speedy and Aqualad, and they're wearing uniforms similar to the one of Mammoth's.
"I got it!" Says Speedy.
"No, I got it!" Answers Aqualad.
"No! I got it!" Comes a third voice. A pair of metallic fists pops out of nowhere, hitting the two boys in the face and knocking them down. Cyborg then reaches and catches the pack in midair. "I got it, Robin!" He says. He also looks dufferent: the metallic parts of his body are old and rusty, and the blue-glowing glass parts are crashed in some places. Some laughs are heard behind the half-metallic man, and as he turns, he sees a group of women looking at him, apparently amused, at the end of the street.
"Morning, ladies!" Cheers Cyborg, approaching the group.
"You two getting in trouble already?" Comes the answer of a chuckling woman. "Isn't it too early?"
"Trouble? What trouble?" Replies Cyborg. "You're only in trouble if they catch you."
"Then I'm in trouble!" Yells Robin. Cyborg turns to find his friend suspended in midair, grabbed by the shirt by Gizmo, who is suspended by four big, mechanical, spider-like legs coming out of his back. The super genius midget is wearing a green and silver trooper uniform too, but he's also got a general's hat, as well as several badges and medals hanging from his chest. His eyes are covered by huge sunglasses. As he pulls Robin closer, he speaks to him:
"I think you won't be able to run away this time, you dirty thief…"
"Think again!" Yells Cyborg, sending Gizmo flying away with a blast of his cannon.
"Thanks, Cy." Says Robin. "I owe you one."
"Yeah, you owe me… how many, you said? One? One million, more likely."
Suddenly, some grunts interrupt their conversation. Both teens turn around to see that Speedy and Aqualad are already waking up, and they don't look very happy.
"We better chat later!" Suggests Robin, avoiding Aqualad's sword. As he does so, he approaches to an old lady carrying, like if it was a backpack, a huge cylindrical water tank full with fishes. Aqualad strikes again, but he misses Robin's peaky hair for about half an inch, and his sword collides with the tank instead, breaking it, and spreading the fishes down the street. Out of the water, the sea creatures agonize.
"Nooooo, the fishes!" Cries Aqualad. He attacks Robin again, angrier than ever. Out of nowhere, Robin starts singing (maybe he just felt like singing):
"Gotta keep…
One jump ahead of the dead-end…" (He grabs a dead squid and uses it to cap Aqualad.)
Heck, Cyborg starts singing as well:
"One jump ahead of the sword…" (He grabs a swordfish and uses it to disarm Aqualad.)
Robin:
"We steal only what I can't afford!" (He grabs another swordfish and uses it to cut Aqualad's belt. The trooper's pants fall.)
"That means EVERYTHING, man!" Signs Cyborg as both lawbreaker teens run away. Aqualad, still with the squid on his head, pulls up what he thinks are his pants, but turns out to be a dead shark, and starts hopping up and down trying to follow them. As the remaining troopers join the chase, Cyborg sings again:
"One jump ahead of the law, man!"
Then Robin:
"We know, this is no joke." (They climb up a pile of barrels.)
Cyborg:
"But these guys don't appreciate that we're broke!"
As they reach the top of the pile, they both kick some barrels, which fall and crash on the troopers' heads. The four troopers suddenly find themselves covered in the barrels' contents, the tamarean purple berries known as (insert name here.). Surprisingly enough, they start singing too:
"Burglars! Street rats!
Vandals! Get back!"
Robin and Cyborg jump from the pile of barrels to a wooden platform. Robin looks again at the small pack in his hands:
"It's not much…"
"It's just a snack, guys!" Completes Cyborg. Suddenly, some of Speedy's arrows pass zooming in their direction, but they avoid them easily. Then Mammoth starts shaking the platform back and forth, while the other three troopers sing angrily:
"Rip them open,
take out their eyes!"
Cyborg: "We gotta keep running…"
Robin: "This is going down…"
Both: "And we wanna see another dawn!"
They jump off the platform just a moment before it collapses, then, they go inside a window and land in a bedroom full of beautiful girls in lingerie or pyjamas. Far from being disturbed by the boys' presence, the girls sign:
"It's sad to see those two, real pity!
This time the bottom they have reached!"
While Cyborg starts stuffing his mouth from a table where the girls' breakfast lies, Robin tries to find an exit, but bumps into an ugly, huge, angry woman brandishing a broom.
"This buzzards think they own the city…"Robin:
"We gotta steal to eat,
'till the day we're rich. (He starts pushing Cyborg towards another window.)
Say bye to the ugly b-BLEEP!"
"BYE!" Screams Cyborg as they both jump out of the window. They land above an awning, which stops their fall, and soon the troopers appear, chasing them again. Our lads sing once more.
Robin: "Best friends, we are like brothers…"
Cyborg: "Just you, me and no other…"
Robin: "Together, any challenge we can face!"
As they pass near a fruit stand, Robin grabs a red melon-like fruit from the lower part of a pile. This causes a chain reaction: first the whole pile collapses, then the melons start bouncing down the street towards the troopers, making them trip.
Robin: "There's no time for being lazy…"
Cyborg: "We're always running like crazy…"
Robin: "'Till the day we get out of this rat maze!"
As the troopers start drawing closer to the thieves, both teenagers hide under a cart full of jewels, while their chasers continue running in the same direction. When they are gone, Robin and Cyborg get out from under the cart. Unfortunately, when Cyborg looks at the jewels, his burglar instincts betray him, and he starts stealing the precious stones.
"BURGLAR!" Yells the cart owner.
"MY PRRRECIOUSSS!" Says Cyborg, holding a particularly big diamond.
"CYBORG!" Yells an angry Robin.
"OUTRAGEOUS!" Screams an old lady, looking scandalized.
Cyborg then recovers his right sense, and he and Robin start running again. They turn around a block, only to find themselves surrounded by the troopers.
"Now I think you're overreacting…" Says Robin, looking at the troopers' big swords. Suddenly, a door to his left opens, revealing a fat and ugly lady in a pink sleeping robe. Before Robin can do something, the fat lady embraces him in a breathtaking bear hug, while singing:
"I find danger EXTREMELY arousing!"
Quickly releasing himself from the hug, Robin then grabs Speedy and throws him to the lady, who hugs the angry trooper instead.
Robin "We gotta eat to live…"
Cyborg: "And gotta steal to eat…"
Both: "Otherwise we'd get along!"
"Sure…" Says Aqualad.
"WRONG!" Correct the other three troopers, then the chase begins again. While running, Cyborg spots a waffle cart (sort of like a hot dog cart.) And he quickly grabs a waffle and puts it inside his cannon, ready to fire it at the troopers.
"Look out! He's got a waffle!" Screams Aqualad.
"You moron! We all have waffles!" Replies Gizmo, pulling out a waffle pinched by a fork, and the other troopers do as well. At the sight of this, Cyborg quits his attack plan and runs away. Then, Speedy pulls out his arch and starts throwing not arrows but the waffles, still pinched by forks, and, what do you know, the waffles actually explode when they touch something.
Our heroes continue running and avoiding the waffles, when suddenly they discover they have entered an alley with a dead-end. Using Robin's bo-staff, they jump above the wall to the other side of the alley, and they eyes get fixed in a sewer entrance, right there in the street. Having the same idea, they lift the lid and then run away, leaving the hole open. The plan works: When they jump above the wall, the troopers fall inside the hole and into the sewer. A few seconds later, another sewer entrance is opened, this time from below, and Gizmo, Mammoth and Speedy get out of it in a rush trying to escape a giant alligator, which Aqualad is riding while waving a cowboy hat and yelling: "HI-O, SILVER! AWAY!"
Robin and Cyborg, who are still running, turn around to see that no one is following them anymore. But, as soon as they stop, Gizmo and Mammoth appear in front of them, yelling and brandishing their swords. Then they try to escape from where they came, but Speedy and Aqualad are coming from that direction. At the last second, Robin pulls out a gun and points it towards the roof of a building, he shoots, and what comes out of the gun is a hook with a rope attached to it. Robin and Cyborg then use the rope to climb up the building, making the troopers collide.
What we're looking now is Robin and Cyborg climbing up the building like if they were in that old 70's 'Batman' show. As they do so, they sing once again:
"One jump ahead of the morons…"
Suddenly, both Aqualad and Speedy appear next to them, climbing up a ladder.
"Burglars!"
Then, Robin uses an explosive disc to destroy the ladder and make them fall.
"One hop ahead of our doom…"
Gizmo appears, flying thanks to a huge airscrew coming out of his back.
"Street rats!"
Cyborg uses his cannon to take him down.
"One trick ahead of disaster…"
Mammoth appears climbing down the building using another rope (for some reason, he's wearing green short pants with suspenders, climbing shoes, and a green hat with a feather).
"Vandals!"
Robin throws his birdarang, which cuts Mammoth's rope, and the trooper falls.
"They're quick-but we're much faster!"
Then, a window opens, and the fat, ugly yet lusty lady from before appears.
"Come back!"
Cyborg kicks the window shut, and he and Robin keep climbing until they reach a window in the top floor. They go through the window, and enter a room with no one there. They quickly go to the only door, but they soon discover that is locked. They turn around, to see that the troopers have also climbed through the window and are running towards them. The boy wonder and his metallic friend then run to another window. When they look down, they realize that it's going to be a big fall…
Cyborg: "There's nothing to do, now…"
Robin: "There's only one way out…"
Both: "All there's left to do is-JUMP!"
Against common sense, they grab a rug from the floor and jump out of the window. The troopers, in an attempt to follow them, fall down and land on top of a pile of crap, a dinosaur-like creature with diarrhea walking away from the scene. As for our friends, they used the rug as a parachute, grabbing each one a side of it, and landed safely in the middle of a lonely alley.
"Boo-yah! We did it, man!" Screams Cyborg, giving a high-five to Robin.
"Yes, indeed!" Says Robin, taking out the package. He opens it, revealing its content to be some sputflinks, the tamarean eggplant-like food. As they are about to start eating, they hear a noise. They both look up only to see two little kids, Mas y Menos, actually, looking for food in a trash can.
"¡Nada!" Screams Menos.
"¡Me lleva!" Replies his twin brother. "¡Nos vamos a morir de hambre, carajo!"
Robin looks at his food, then at the kids, then at Cyborg. Cyborg returns the look, angrily.
"No way, man! " Yells Cyborg. "We went through a lot of trouble just to get this, I'm not giving it away!"
"C'mon, Cy. Are you really gonna let those two poor kids starve?"
Cyborg then looks to the twins, and he gives up. "Oh, fine! Yo, kids!"
Mas y Menos both turn at the same time, looking pleadingly at the package that Cyborg is offering them.
"Grab it" Says the robotic man as the kids approach. "C'mon, grab it, it's food!"
Not knowing what to say, the twins simply grab the package. "Eh… gracias, señor." Mas finally says.
"Yeah, well…" Says Cyborg, patting Mas' head. "Now go before I change my mind, would you?"
"You did the right thing, Cy." Said Robin as the young twins left.
"Yeah, whatever. What are we gonna eat now?"
"I don't know… I suppose we can always steal something else."
"I bet it would be a piece of cake, like the last time. Hey, you heard that?" Said Cyborg. Surely enough, some music was heard, as well as people speaking. Cyborg and Robin started to walk towards the street, to see what was happening.
Phew… Second chapter done! Man, is this a long chapter! My hand hurts. Anyways, REVIEW! I'm not getting your reviews, and if there's people reading this, they should review, or I wont keep it up. By the way, do you know what's the name of those purple berries? I don't remember it… perhaps you can tell me by a review? ;D.