Disclaimer: I don't own teen titans or any other superheroes mentioned.
Authors note: I recently got a question about how much this is based on the actual Teen titans comic and cartoon. Basically, I looked at the original comic from the 80's, and I'm using it as framework for this story. Basically, I'm taking the main events of each characters life before they joined, and writing my own interpretation of just how it happened. There might be a few things missing or added, but I am doing my best to stay true to the original story. However, I am also writing in the mindset of the cartoon that is showing right now. The cartoon is mostly accurate to the comics, but in some places it isn't. I think this is to stop the watchers from getting depressed, because the original comic was very sad in some places. An example of this is the fact that in the comic, Starfire had been married twice before Robin, and was also enslaved at some point. I just can't bear to write about that! She's too cute to write about as a slave! Ahem. Anyway, I'm doing what the cartoon is doing. I'm basing it off the comics, but I'm interpreting it in different ways, so that it's less cheesy, and less depressing.
Victor and Raven stood in the alley which had as of late become their meeting place. Neither of them spoke, though this was mainly due to the fact that Victor was a bit creeped out by Raven, who was now floating in mid air meditating. He finally caught sight of two figures entering the alleyway.
"Hey guys, what's up?" He waved, then looked at Robin. "Hey, you okay?" Robin simply shook his head while Garfield looked sheepish. "Never…again." Robin muttered. "Hey" Victor replied, concerned. "What happened?" Robin looked up. If he hadn't been wearing his mask, the bags under his eyes would have been obvious. "You really just don't want to know." He recalled the night before.
FLASHBACK
"Well" said Robin as he showed Garfield in. "This is my apartment." Garfield looked around. "Pretty neat. So you have this place to yourself?" "Yeah" Robin replied. Suddenly a small growling sound was heard. Garfield grinned and said "Uh…sorry to bother you, but, you don't by any chance have anything to eat around her? I'm starved!" Robin shrugged. "Yeah, what you in the mood for, I got hot dogs, pizza, some other stuff…what's wrong?" Garfield had suddenly turned a little greener than he normally was. "Eh, sorry, forgot to mention." he said. "You see, I'm a vegetarian. I've been most of the things that people eat. Do you have anything else?" Robin frowned and looked around the kitchen. "Letsee…Tomato sauce, olives, some canned corn. Pickles, Baked beans…" He looked up. "Any of that sound good to you?" Garfield grinned. "Oh yeah! Baked beans are one of my favorites." He scratched his head. "I had 'em once with the guys who I was staying with. They didn't let me have them again though. I wonder why." Robin shrugged. "Well, anyway, the microwave is there, help yourself."
PRESENT
Victor looked at Garfield. "Just what did you do to him?" At that moment a thunderous blast of flatulence echoed down the alley. Garfield simply grinned and said. "Musical fruit" "Yeah." Robin replied. "And the band was playing all night with the volume cranked to the max."
"Anyway…" Garfield said, looking for the best way to change the subject. "Anybody find anything?" Raven nodded. "There's an island in the middle of the bay" she said. "No one's using it. Might be a good place to build a base." Robin frowned. "Isn't that a bit obvious?" "Yeah, but that's not necessarily a bad thing" replied Victor. "Since we're doing this full time, no real reason to hide it. Besides. It'll probably decrease crime in the city if they know that it's there in the first place. Robin nodded. "That could be true. In any case, I actually have something I need to do right now. If no one else has anything to report, I think we should keep looking."
LATER
Robin locked the door to his apartment, and then made sure that no one was listening in the rooms next to his. He then pulled out a communicator and clicked it on. The face of Bruce Wayne appeared on the screen. "So Robin." He said. "How's the town?" Robin shrugged. "Pretty much the same as Gotham. Though, it looks like I'm going to have help on this." Wayne raised an eyebrow. "Really? And I thought you were all about independence. But then, that's beside the point really. In what form does this help come?" "Long story" replied Robin. "Suffice to say that there are three other people around my age with…unique abilities. For once, they're using them for good, rather than evil." Wayne nodded. "Interesting. You seem to have yourself a team. Have a name yet?" Robin shook his head. "No, can't really think of anything good." Wayne shrugged. "Well, you'll think of something." Robin nodded. "Anything new?" "Actually" his mentor replied. "Yes. Something very unusual. As you know, one of Wayne Corporation's areas of production is in satellites. Well, one of ours picked up something different."
Robin frowned. "Like what?" "You see" Wayne continued. "This particular satellite is geared towards scanning things that are entering the earths atmosphere, usually meteors and other debris. It picked up something yesterday that isn't normal. There was an object, about the size of a human entering the atmosphere. The odd thing was, it continued at the same speed through the atmosphere as it did when it was traveling through space. To top it off, it had a green trail behind it." Robin frowned. "Really. And it wasn't John Stewart?" Wayne shook his head. "No, it wasn't the Green Lantern. The fact is though, it was headed towards your area. We haven't received any reports of an object like that landing. Maybe it just burned up in the atmosphere, but still, keep an ear out for anything unusual." Robin nodded. "Alright. I'll keep you updated."