Disclaimer: I disclaim that I own teen titans, or any other superheroes owned by any other people. I think that's what it means, anyway. Thanks for all the reviews, I appreciate it. And again, I apologize, Starfire is coming, just not for a few chapters. I miss her as much as you guys do.
As a city clock struck midnight, Victor once again entered the alleyway where he'd met raven the previous night. Not much had changed. He looked around. Thus far, he saw no sign of her. He shook his head. "Yeah, I ought to be kidding myself. That didn't really happen." But, again, as he'd done many times during that day, he looked at his memory files. They didn't lie. And besides, there was the wall with the cracked bricks. He mentally shuddered. If she could pick up someone like that and slam them hard enough to crack the wall, without even touching them, what else could she do?
"You're here" He nearly jumped out of his skin as the voice of Raven sounded behind him. He turned to find her standing right there. "Aww, jeez! Don't do that!" he grumbled. She ignored this. "Did you find anyone?" "Nah," he replied. "I think that my connection is good though. Did you find anyone?" "You're not going to believe this," she said. "Someone moved town" "And who's that?" He asked.
At that moment he heard someone land behind him. "Raven. This is the person you spoke of…whoa!" Robin's eyes went wide as Victor turned around. Victor almost did a double take as he realized who this was. "Robin? What are you doing here? Aren't you supposed to be in Gotham with Batman?" "Normally yes." Robin replied with a shrug. "But for reasons I can't say right now, he wanted me to stay here." He looked at Victor's massive frame. "Um, I don't mean to be rude, but…is that actually part of you?"
Victor sighed. He was used to this. "Yeah. Long story. So, I guess you're part of this too?" Robin nodded. "Yeah. Apparently, Raven here had the idea that we'd have an easier job cleaning up the city if we grouped together. Is that what you meant?" he asked, looking at Raven. She nodded. "I have other reasons for doing this, but yes, that is what I meant." Robin shrugged again, ignoring a rat that was skittering near them. "I agree. I actually wasn't quite sure how I'd handle the entire city on my own. With three of us working together, this will be a lot less harder." He frowned. That rat was still near them. It wasn't like them to stay near humans this long
From out of nowhere a short figure appeared right next to him. "Dude! This is crazy, I can't believe I'm actually getting to meet the real Robin!" the person said with a massive grin. "I thought I was just gonna be with the tin can and creepy girl here!" Robin was too stunned to say anything. The boy was green with pointy ears, and wearing nothing but some ragged clothes. Garfield moved right up to Victor, who was also too surprised to say anything. "Dude, what are you? Some kinda cyborg?" He knocked on the Victors chest, producing a hollow clanging sound. "What is this thing? You don't by any chance have a microwave in there do you? I'm starved!" He moved on to Raven, whose expression hadn't changed since his appearance. "What's with the long face? Don't you ever smile? And why are you dressed so funny?" "Just, who are you?" she asked, her voice still as dry as ever.
"Who am I?" he said with another huge grin. "Who am I? I'm only the greatest guy in town. I came to help you guys out. The name's Garfield. Garfield Logan." He held out a hand, which Raven ignored. "Great. So, why do you think you can help us? I don't think crooks are going to be afraid of the green pipsqueak" Garfield simply grinned and said, "Check this out! Watch closely!" He immediately turned into a green rat. Then into a dog. Then into a cat. Victor grinned and picked him up by the skin on the back of his neck. "Aww, lookie here, we can have our own shape shifting pet now. Isn't he cute?" Garfield responded by turning into a massive bear, landing on top of Victor with a growl. Victors eye's went wide. "Whoa! Hey dude! Just kidding! I didn't' mean tha- Hey! No! Stop it!" Garfield had at that point given Victor a huge sloppy lick before turning back to a human with a grin.
Robin was at this point laughing quietly to himself as Victor picked himself up and started wiping his face on Ravens cloak, much to her distaste. "Garfield. That's an interesting trick. So you can turn into anything?" "Almost" the green boy replied. "I can turn into anything that's real. Nothing fantasy though. I once tried to turn into a dragon but ended up as one of those little lizards you see at the pet shop. Not cool. But I can turn into dinosaurs! Wanna see?" "No!" Victor exclaimed, not wanting to repeat his previous experience. "We believe you!"
"Well then." said Robin. "There's four of us now. So…to begin, where are we going to stay? I don't think it'll work very well for us to use this back alley as our base." "Dude, don't you have the bat cave or something?" Asked Garfield. Robin shook his head. "That's in gotham, and it belongs to my mentor, not me. Right now I'm living in an apartment." "Well," Replied Victor. "I don't have any ideas right now, but I'm sure I'll think of something." Robin Nodded. "Alright. Next order of business. We need a name. Any ideas?" "Ooh! I know!" Garfield was jumping excitedly. "How about the Fantastic 4?" He was met by silence. "Heh, that's already taken, isn't it?"
Robin rubbed his forehead. "You know what? I think we might be getting ahead of ourselves. I have my gear and everything, and Raven has her powers and outfit, but what about you two guys? There's not really much way that you can hide your identities for normal life." Victor shrugged. "I dunno. I figured we'd be doing this full time. I don't really have a normal life." Garfield Nodded. "Yeah. People tend to freak when they see some green dude." Raven nodded as well. "I look this way all the time. There's no such thing as 'normal' for me. You're the only one here who can leave costume." Robin looked around and sighed. "Yeah. That is true. Well, I say that we go and think this over for a day. I'll contact Batman, see if he has any ideas." He looked at them. "Do you all have a place to stay?" Victor and Raven nodded. "Um…" Garfield said sheepishly. "You don't suppose that I could chill at your place, do you?" Robin looked at him. "I don't know." "PLEEEEEZE!" Garfield begged, turning into a kitten with huge eyes. Robin sighed, not believing he was actually falling for this. "Alright. But you'd better be house trained."