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Chapter 2
After returning to the Tower everybody went off to do their usual activity, Beast Boy and Cyborg played video games, Raven read a book, Robin did research on criminals on the loose, and Starfire went to find new Tamaranian recipes to cook for her friends.
"How do ya like that green bean! I don't know why you keep dragging you butt back, cause I keep kicking it every time!" Cyborg celebrated another yet another win.
Beast Boy just sat there hunched over with a look of utter defeat for a second or two. After letting out a sigh he got up and stretched.
"Guess your right, so I'll let you play solo for a while I…" he paused for a second thinking of what else there was to do. Then he thought of his second favorite past time. "…Go bug Raven!" he said and marched out the room to go find the reclusive member and bombard her with annoying questions.
Meanwhile Robin was typing away on the computer mainframe looking at criminal profiles. Starfire walked up behind him.
"Friend Robin, what might it be that you are doing?" she asked in her innocent tone.
"I was thinking about what Cyborg said earlier, about how we keep putting criminals in jail but they keep breaking out. Then we have to repeat the same process of catching and re-catching the same guys over and over again." he mused. "Maybe he's right, maybe we need to oversee tighter security measures at the prison." He said looking at the screen.
"You need not worry, we have always been victorious in battle and these bad men always end back where they belong." she said.
"Yeah, I suppose your right." he replied as he got up from the computer. "You know what, I need some cheering up, lets all go-"
He was cut short by yet another alarm.
"Aw man, now what." Cyorg complained as he got up from the couch.
"Robbery downtown" Robin said looking at the computer screen.
"Some people just never learn." replied Raven as she entered the room.
"Ok, we got a job to do. Titans, Go!" but before he got the last word out Robin realized that he was the last one standing in the room. Shrugging, he ran for the door behind everybody else.
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Rush hour traffic was a pain. What made it even worse was when you needed to get somewhere in a hurry. It was already dark out and people seemed to care less if there was a white and blue sports car behind them with a seven foot tall, half robot with a bad case of road rage honking at them.
"Hey granny! He's letting you merge, move it!" he yelled out the window while honking on the horn.
"You know, its times like these that I wish the officials would at least be kind enough to let us have a siren" Raven droned out.
"Were wasting time, Cyborg, you'll have to stay with the car and make your way through traffic. Raven, Starfire, Beast Boy, we'll go by air." Robin said.
"Aw, comon! You can't leave me stuck like this." Cyborg protested.
"Sorry Cyborg, but there's no time to loose." He said as Stafrire lifted him into the air and the four sped off downtown.
"Stupid (grumble) greasy haired (grumble) know it all." Cyborg mumbled to himself as he hunched over the wheel.
The rest of the team flew over the traffic and on to the site of the crime, a pawn store on the east end of the city. The Titans had been called there because the police had taken automatic weapons fire when they approached the scene. When the Titans arrived however, it looked like the police had everything under control and all was normal. The area was taped off and the two criminals were over in a corner. That was when it seemed that everything was not normal. The criminals had paramedics all around them as they screamed in pain. Robin walked over to one of the police officers.
"What happened here?" Robin asked.
"Good question, I was hoping you could tell us." the officer responded. "After we had the area blocked off and heard that you were on the way, we heard some gunfire. When we approached the scene we found these two guys bloodied up like you see them now."
Robin took a closer look at the arrested criminals. They were just run of the mill thieves, but they both had sub-machine guns. That was not the strangest thing though, the strangest thing was paramedics were treating them both because one had a gunshot wound and the other had his left arm chopped off.
It was at this time that Cyborg finally arrived and ran over to the group.
"You finished without me! I always get left out of the…" he trailed off as he looked at the injured crooks. "What'd you do!" he looked in disbelief at the rest of the team.
"Calm down, it wasn't us." Raven said.
"We don't know who it was either." the police officer said. "The bad guys here keep saying something about the Second Horseman of the Apocalypse or some gibberish like that."
"So what you're saying is…" Beast Boy looked like he was deep in thought. "The rapture is upon us! Quick we must all go bow before the wrath of God!" he started to run off before Raven grabbed him by collar and threw him down on the ground.
"No idiot, its probably just some weirdo on a horse trying to be a hero." Raven said.
"Yeah but no hero would leave his victims like this." Robin said as he gestured towards the two being loaded into an ambulance.
"Who ever it was, he must be one tough amigo. Between these two we count forty rounds that they fired off at their attacker and not a single trace of blood that is not their own. Plus…" the police officer took a bag from another officer. It contained four spent bullet casings. "Their attacker uses a H&K 45., not to uncommon but a bit more unusual than your standard mill 9mm pistol. Oh yeah, we also found hoof prints so they were right about the horseman part."
Robin looked around him. "Whoever he is, he cannot be allowed to act with this level of mercilessness. I'm not going to make him a top priority, but we'll be sure to keep our eyes open."
The rest of the Titans nodded in agreement and they all headed for the T-Car.
"Since were all out, lets get some grub. How's pizza sound?" Cyborg suggested.
"Yes, we shall take part in the consumption of the round doughy food." Starfire said clapping her hands.
"I suppose a little grub couldn't hurt." Robin agreed as they all climbed into the car and drove off.
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He watched as the car drove off into the night. Now he knew their policy on his kind of justice. It was amazing they got anything done in this city with such soft spines. Maybe all the crooks were just as soft as them, he thought for a second. He shrugged deciding it didn't really matter, he would show the scum of the city what true justice was like, and he was sure everybody would soon take notice, both good and bad.
He thought about snooping around the city some more, maybe even continuing his surveillance of these Teen "Titans" that they called themselves. He decided against it and stretching, decided to turn in for the evening. He needed to plot out a strategy before his inevitable confrontation with the group. He was in no hurry to meet them, but he knew it was going to happen sooner or latter and he wanted to be prepared.
He was walking off when a thought occurred to him. It made him stop in his tracks and a smile formed on his lips. On second thought, some pizza would really hit the spot right now, he thought to himself.