"What do you mean 'he has a partner'?" hissed Robin as he walked closer to his friends sitting on the couch in the main room of Titan's tower. It was clear that he was not happy with the news.
"Some guy named Bloodshed." Answered Cyborg still gazing at the television screen even though it wasn't walking about Slade any more. "Ever heard of him?"
"No." answered Robin. He walked behind the couch behind where Starfire was sitting. "Did they show what the guy looks like?'
"No. But it did describe what he looks like. He has some kind of black costume with armor on it, my guess would be like Slade's costume only black and he has a black mask that covers his whole face with a line of red." Cyborg turned to Robin. "That's all we know."
"That is not true." Stafire turned her pretty face towards Robin and smiled. "The lady from the station of television also said that the Bloodshed was from the city of Monrovia."
"Monrovia." Said Robin deep in thought.
He had heard of the city before. In fact he remembered visiting there once. When he lived with Bruce, Bruce had a meeting there concerning Wayne Enterprise and brought Robin along with him. Robin was young at the time but he remembered the city being large and full of life. During the day it was a normal happy town, had restaurants, schools, parks, and shops, but at night it looked identical to Gotham City, only minus the smog and cold weather. Monrovia was always warm and crisp feeling.
Thinking back on the experience he didn't remember any Bloodshed or any mask villains for that fact. But then again he was young and stuck inside a classy hotel room waiting impatiently for his guardian to return home so he didn't remember much about the city.
Why was someone from that city coming to team up with Slade about four or so hours away?
"Alright, so this guy has teamed up with Slade." Robin made more of a statement then a question, his team nodded anyway. "Alright, I want you all to find anything you can on Monrovia, on Bloodshed, on what they might be after, and anything related to what were up against. Anything, magazines, Internet, books, anything!"
"Got it." Said Cyborg. He stood and marched to the computer room.
"I'll get a news paper or something." Said Raven in a hollow voice. It was easy to see that she was slightly unnerved by the whole thing. She still hadn't gotten over the last time she met up with Slade. She rather not think about the whole thing. She floated away out the door.
"Umm…I'll find something." Said Beast Boy and marched out the door leaving Robin and Starfire.
"Robin?" said Star softly standing up to face her leader.
"I'm fine." Said Robin shortly and turned. He was stopped by a warm hand touch his shoulder.
She was his personal alien slash guardian angel. Why did she have to be so sweet and perfect? Why couldn't she be just a friend? Make things a lot easier. But then again he wouldn't trade her in for the world. He loved her a lot, if not as a girlfriend then as a friend, a best friend. He was able to tell her thing that no one else knew about. Sometimes he didn't even have to say anything, she magically knew everything. It was scary sometimes but reassuring, gave him a safe feeling.
Robin sighed. "I'll be okay, Star."
"I am still worried for you, Robin." She said softly. Her voice was soothing and sweet. "Please, do not push yourself or make it so that you are unhealthy or in danger. I could not bare it."
"Starfire I-" he rounded to her with sad eyes.
Too late, she was already flying out the door.
Why did she always do this to him? Make him feel guilty then right when he was about to open up and say sorry she didn't give him the chance. Now she must think he was some kind of heartless jerk. Damn.
Lowering his head to the ground he walked to his room with thoughts of Starfire. The second he was safe in his room and the doors closed he slammed his fist into the wall screaming out in rage.
SLADE WAS BACK!
SlamSLADE HAD TEAMED UP.
SlamAND STARFIRE WAS MAD AT HIM!
SlamAnd the last blow to the wall Robin felt a stinging pain run through his hand and jump to each of fingers. Pulling away from wall Robin gazed at his hand. Around the knuckle splats of dark green (darker then the original color) were slowly forming.
Pulling off his glove he saw fresh blood seep out of his skin and run slowly down his hand.
In confusion he looked up at the wall and saw that he had, stupidly, been hitting the part of the wall that a nail was hanging out of. His fist must have gotten cut.
Letting out a swam of curs words he walked to the bathroom and bandaged his hand. Then went strait to his laptop that had been a gift from his mentor last Christmas, and waited for it to boot up.
Bruce had the computer costume made for Robin, while it loaded it had a black screen with a red 'R' in the center, a circle moved around the 'R' saying that it was still loading. Finally when the computer was up Robin gazed at his wallpaper, which was a picture of him and his team standing in front of Titan's Tower all smiling, even Raven.
Trying to stay focused and not look at Starfire, he clicked on the 'Internet' 'E' and waited for his homepage to come up. When it did Robin clicked on the 'SEARCH ENGINE" and typed in 'Monrovia City, Information on Bloodshed.'
In an instant he got a bunch of different websites about Bloodshed and Monrovia. The first one had:
MONROVIA INFORMATION: a city in glory. Founder Clint Monrovia….
The second one sounded more promising:
BLOODSHED/ Villain of Monrovia: Bloodshed strikes again! Town frightened. No one knows where he will strike next.
Robin clicked on that one.
There was a webpage that popped up showing a picture of a woman laying dead on the ground with a small child crying over her. Under the picture was 'Little Timmy saw Bloodshed kill his mother by slitting he throat, leaving the boy orphan seeing as he has no father'.
Robin felt his jaw clench. Nothing tore at his heart more then when children had to be around when their parents died. It was bad enough being alive or hearing about it, but watching it! There was nothing that hurt like that, at least in his opinion.
But that was just because he had gone through it as well…
Reading more he found out that Bloodshed larked in the shadows and there were only about four pictures of him in the world. He had never been to jail, though he was wanted in about every state, he seemed to disappear when ever the cops showed up.
He read on how all the people her murdered had the same cause for death, their throats slit but his sword.
What caught Robin's eyes was the paragraph titled 'Justice'.
'Bloodshed was chassed out of town tonight by our local heroes. Make that; heroines. Our girls put on a brave and furious battle. Unfortunately they were not able to catch him, but he has not been sighted in about three weeks now. Looks like he's afraid of super powered teens!" Robin wasn't sure who the reporter was but they were not a good one. He didn't get any information out of that. Looking closer to his screen he gazed at a picture of a tall building. On the rood top two dark figures stood looking down on the town. Robin could tell that the figures were females because their figures were visible. Unfortunately their faces weren't. Under the picture were the words. 'Our Heroes!""Who are you" Robin said to himself.
Despoiler flew high in the air, her eyes fixed on the sky in front of her. She was holding her partner and best friend's hand so that she could hang below her. Thankfully she had gotten used to flying so it wasn't hard to carry a human body and a loaded backpack on her back while she was in the air.
Firestarter twisted her legs as if running in the air; she preferred the ground much more. She always thought that flying would be fun but after experiencing her friend's power she found that she didn't like it too much. But it beat out driving in a car by herself for tow hours.
"So… what are we going to do when we get there?" she shouted against the wind so her friend could hear her.
"Find blood." She answered no even looking down.
"How? We've never been to this city! How do you think we'll find him?"
"We will okay!" snapped Despoiler
"Jeez. Someone has a thong up their ass." Mumbled Fire.
Despoiler let go of her friend but quickly caught her by her wrist before the ground even came to view to the city below. Fire's screams were still ringing in her years as she flew back up to their first height.
"THAT WASN'T FUNNY YOU BITCH!" screamed Fire. "If we were on the ground I would so blast you for that!"
The blonde chuckled "Yeah, yeah, yeah. Do you see that?"
Because Despoiler was unable to point so Fire had to follow her gaze. She saw the blue sky and what looked like to be an ocean in the distance. Squinting her eyes against the ocean sun she could see something growing larger and larger in the distance. It looked like a building but so much different then the ones in Monrovia. It went high up then out on two sides… it looked like-
"Titan's Tower!" She yelled against the wind.
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"What all did you find?" asked Robin walking into the main room again.
"The Bloodshed attacks by night fall when no one can see him." Starfire said forcefully. " Few have ever seen him."
"I got that too." Sighed Robin. He walked over to the circle of friends standing in the small kitchen. Beast Boy was chewing on bit size cookies looking bored. Cyborg was sitting next to him looking at Robin and Raven was leaning against the counter. Star stood next to Robin.
"He's not the only villain from Monrovia." Sid Cyborg. "The city is crawling with them. There's this chick, Spade, no one can stop her. She's a kung-fu master. There's Killjoy who can make you see your worst fears or memory come to life. There's a group of girls called the 'Playing Cards' that's where Spade was originally from. And more."
"You think they might come here and help Bloodshed?" asked robin rubbing his chin.
"I don't know what to think. I've never been to Monrovia."
"I heard of it." Said Beast Boy, mouth still full of cookies. "It's like our city. Villains running around, heroes come save the day. Same old thing."
"And you know this how?" mumbled Raven.
"T.V." he answered shrugging. "See, it does pay off."
"Who are the heroes? I heard of them on the Internet, but it didn't really say anything about them." Robin sat down and looked at his green friend. Maybe Beast Boy could help save the day.
"Two girls. Teens. One has blonde hair the other has like black and different colors dyed into it. "
"What are their names?"
"Ahh….Diso….Freer….I forgot."
"Surprise, Surprise." Raven shook her head at Beat Boy. Beast boy stuck his tongue out at her.
"At least I've heard of them!"
"Alright, Alright!" yelled Robin at his friends. B.B and Raven's arguing got old after a while. 'Look we don't know much so that doesn't really help us. We need to-"
He was cut off by a loud beeping noise. Red light filled the room then turned off, then back on. It was the Titan's alarm.
"Trouble." He hissed.
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"Gross, out dated, oh' I do like this." Said Jinxes as she thrashed a clothing store. She was at one of the racks of clothing pulling out outfits and throwing them over her shoulder. She picked up a black and pink punk dress and stood over the frightened girl behind the counter. "How much? I do believe it's on discount."
The girl nodded her head in fear of jinxes. "It's yours."
"Oh' your so sweet." Teased Jinxes. "Like my new outfit boys?"
Jinxes turned holding the dress in front of her and walked over to the other side of the store where, Gizmo, Mammoth, See-More and Private Hive, were looking for what they wanted to steal.
"Sexy, bumble gum head." Laughed See-More trying on a pair of blue sunglasses.
"Yeah, whatever." Said Gizmo as he flew round her with his jet pack. "Can we go?"
"Not until I get what I came for!" yelled Privet Hive in his military voice. "By the way, nice outfit Jinxes. I expect you to wear it for a private inspection."
"In your dreams.' Jinxes rolled her eyes at the large boy and walled away to find a pair of shoes she liked.
"How long until the titan brats get here?" she asked throwing a pair of Newbalance shoes over her shoulder.
"Not long I'd guess." Answered See-More.
People ran out of the store as fast as they could to get away from the "Hive Five". Knowing that they were trained villains from the Hive Academy. Aurora Night and Saphira Day ran behind a potted plant and watched the group secretly. The two had been stopping for a place to rest when the gang broke in through the window and started to trash the place.
"Who are they?' whispered Saphira to her friend.
"Don't know." Aurora answered back. "Think we should beat them up?"
"Their titan villains."
"So?"
"Not our problem."
"We're here aren't we?" hiss Aurora rounding to her friend. Aurora's hair was slightly messed at the top from her mask.
"But you get mad when others try to take on our villains, what if it's the same thing with the titans?" asked Saphira making her point.
"We'll wait a little for the titans, but if they don't show up there ours."
"Fine."
"Do these match?" Jinxes rounded to the boys holding up a pair of black combat boots.
"How the heck should we know, we guys remember?" yelled Gizmo in his annoying childish voice.
"Sure pinky." Laughed See-more.
"There not for sell." The voice came front of the store.
Turning they saw Robin crossing his arms, behind his the rest of his team.
"TITANS! GO!"
ok, The next chapter will be good because of the fight. If you want to learn more about the Despoiler or Firestarter then go here: http/
too much is said about Firestarter yet, there will be. The comics are slightly mature just to warn you. (Also I don't know how to upload my real drawing of the comics so I used others) (U may recognized nightwing being used a lot…. yeah.) also Monrovia is a real city...