Disclaimer: I do not own Teen Titans or anything from this story except maybe the plot. Do dreams give me copyright privileges? or does all that stuff belong to the King of Dreams? Well whatever. I don't own Teen Titans, yet again. wOOts for the start of the story.
Laaaaaaadies and gentlemen: May I have the pleasure of presentinggggggg: (drum rolls)
TheStory from a Random Dream! (a.k.a. A Light Shineth in the Darkness)
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The alarm in Titans Tower went off and Robin jumped to his computer terminal to see exactly what the disturbance was. His forehead creased with confusion as he read the report. "Dude, what's up?" Beast Boy asked.
Robin frowned as he swiveled his chair around. "Well, it's Dr. Light again but I'm kinda cloudy on what he's doing down in the warehouse district. Apparently he's in an alleyway but not trying to enter any of the warehouses. He's just kind of stalking around from what I can tell."
"Maybe he's looking for something, man. But what he's doing really isn't important," Cyborg spoke up. "He's there and for all we know he's got some heist planned. We've gotta get to him quick."
"Friend Cyborg is correct. We must catch the Doctor of Light. That is our job, no?" Starfire saw the matter in black and white.
"Let's hurry and get this over with," Raven agreed with Cyborg. "I want to get back to my book."
"Alright then," Robin said, still perplexed but willing to follow routine, "Let's move out. TITANS, GO!"
When the teenagers arrived in the warehouse district everything appeared quiet, like any normal night. "Split up and scope out trouble. If you find Dr. Light give the rest of us a call. No heroic rushes or solitary attacks alright? We have no idea what his motives are so we have to be extra careful," Robin whispered, looking pointedly at Raven. She rolled her eyes but refrained from retorting. Everyone split up to look for Doctor Light.
In rat form Beast Boy slipped into the sewers to check underground. He scurried down the dank, foul-smelling tunnels, searching for a scent of the pompous villain. Difficult though it was to smell anything but garbage down there, BB kept trying, even asking other rats if they had seen anyone suspicious. None of them had, although they warned to him to stay away from the east end of the branching sewer system as a rather large crocodile lived down there. Beast Boy thanked them and got out of the sewers. After reporting to Robin, he shapeshifted to a large green hawk and began to fly a grid pattern to find anything unusual.
Starfire had taken to the air from the beginning. Using a glowing starbolt, she chased shadows away from corners and searched the dark rooftops. Her zigzagging path occasionally crossed over Robin or Cyborg but she didn't find anything, not even a bum sleeping on one of the rooftop grates. Disappointed she radioed the all-clear to Robin and began another search pattern.
Cyborg, meanwhile, checked the doors of all the warehouses, making sure that no one had forcefully entered any of them. Reassured, he began to check the trucks in the nearby trucklot for proper identification and accounting for all the cargo. He made sure that nothing was missing and that every truck that was supposed to be there was. Sighing, he radioed in and began a search pattern through the darkened pathways between the warehouses, heading towards a rendezvous point that Robin had designated.
Robin crept through the dark pathways, patrolling from the shadows and investigating abnormalities. Every once in a while he'd pause and hold absolutely still, just listening for the sounds of his teammates patrolling, nighttime sounds, and anything out of place. During one of these pauses he distinctly heard loud wheezing, like someone was really out of shape. Getting the direction and fixing the location in his mind, Robin sprinted towards the sound. It seemed to get louder and he followed it through a maze of alleyways.
After a while he lost it. He was alone in a fairly large clearing and had absolutely no idea where he was for a moment. Then he reoriented himself and realized that this was exactly where he had started. "Argh!" he exclaimed quietly and pounded his fist into his hand. He heard an amused laugh and whirled to see the swish of a black cloak in the darkness. He bounded into the shadows hoping that whoever was there didn't notice him. He jumped onto the roof and tracked the figure running down the paths. In one of the courtyardish places, Robin's target stepped out of the shadows into the pale moonlight and raised a hand glowing with light. Robin could definitely see the man's face now. It was Doctor Light. He sent a quiet signal to the others, telling them that he had found the doctor and to follow when they could, and took off after his prey again.
Starfire, Cyborg, and Beast Boy joined Robin in his rooftop pursuit soon. He hand-signaled the situation to them. As far as he could tell, Dr. Light was looking for something. He hadn't tried to enter any of the warehouses yet and he really seemed to have no plan to. He was just running around the paths aimlessly, as if he was lost. Robin had tracked him past the same open space four times in the past twenty minutes. Just then Dr. Light stopped and raised his hand glowing with light once again and stared intently into a globe of light which appeared over his hand.
Robin and the other three Titans crouched on the roof and Robin whispered, "He keeps doing that. I have no idea if it's helping him locate whatever he's looking for or what but he usually stays like that for a couple of minutes. You all obviously didn't find anything on patrol. You all radioed in except for Raven. Raven, why didn't you- hey, where is Raven?" Nobody knew but just then they heard a yell from farther in the maze. Immediately Dr. Light sped off in the direction of the yell and the Titans followed him silently.
Raven had received the signal as she rounded a bend in the maze of paths. She had quickly located Robin's position and began to sprint down the alleyway she was on. As she rounded a corner onto the next pathway, she crashed into someone. "Oof!" said a girl's voice as Raven and the girl both fell, knocked over by the impact. "Sorry! Get away from here quick! He's coming and he's mad! I don't know what he's going to do! Oh god, just run please!" the girl gasped at a startled Raven as they both hurriedly picked themselves of the ground. She whirled around and sprinted away, calling over her shoulder. "Run!" Raven had no intention of doing that. She followed the girl at a safe distance, feeling both curious and slightly protective of the obviously upset girl. After all, she knew what it was like to have someone mad at you, really mad and unable to control their anger.
The girl ran in a relatively straight line, only occasionally taking one of the many twists between the warehouses. Raven had little trouble following or evading any glances the girl threw over her shoulder. Suddenly Raven's communicator crackled loudly and the girl whirled around, startled. But she saw no one. The blue-cloaked empath had jumped onto the roof of a nearby warehouse. "Raven, come in! Where are you?" Robin's voice spoke from the closed communicator. "Raven!" Sighing, she flipped the lid open and Robin's image appeared, managing to look both concerned and exasperated. "I'm here," she said quietly. "What do you want? I was in the middle of something."
"Why didn't you report in yet? I found Dr. Light and the rest of us are following him. Where-"
Raven cut him off. "I found a girl. She's terrified and I followed her to see what was wrong. But thanks to you, I lost her. The communicator alerted her to my presence and I had to hide. I'm going to try to find her trail again. Maybe she has something to do with my good friend Dr. Light." She shut off her communicator and began her pursuit.
Completely astounded, Robin nearly shouted at his communicator. Getting his temper under control, he merely shoved it back into his belt, rather than exploding and throwing it down on the roof. Starfire, Beast Boy, and Cyborg stared at their leader, wondering what had just happened. They could only hear Robin's side of the conversation. Under their combined stares, he slowly straightened up and said, "She's thinks she has found someone who needs her help. She shut off her communicator and I have no idea where she is." A small twitch in his eye and the clenching of his jaw betrayed his frustration. "Meanwhile we have to continue our search for Dr. Light." He exhaled as slowly as he could, that is not very, and looked at his teammates, trying to radiate calm control. "So let's go."
Cyborg examined his face closely and then glanced wryly over at Starfire and Beast Boy before slowly and quietly clapping his hands together, applauding. "Very good, Robin. I almost believed that you weren't seriously ticked off at Raven for a sec. But, it's obvious, man, you need to calm down." He grinned at his friend. "Come on, admit it. You're ticked off and need to calm down. Just take a breather alright?"
Robin stared at him. "No, I am not ticked off and we can't take a breather, Cy! We need to follow Dr. Light and find Raven. We have to go! Let's move, team!" He turned to leap off but couldn't considering that Cyborg had him by the cape and his expression said that it wouldn't be released until Robin had sat down for a minute. "Dude, Dr. Light's right there," Beast Boy said, pointing to the villain just standing in the center of the path once again. "He's been like that for the past coupla minutes. You really need to snap back to reality here!" "Yes, friend Robin! You need to rest. Sit!" Starfire was adamant and Robin couldn't argue with her when she got that steely look in her emerald-green eyes. He sat.
"But what about Raven?" He tried not to pant. Now that he was sitting he could admit, at least to himself, that he was a little tired. "She's turned off her communicator and she never told me where she was. Just that some girl was scared and she was going to follow her. How are we supposed to-" He trailed off at the enormous grin on Cyborg's face. Beast Boy also sported a face-splitter. "Can I tell him, Cy? Please, please, pleeeeease?" For good effect he shifted to a small dog with enormous eyes and whimpered pleadingly at the big man. Cy grinned even wider and nodded. Beast Boy reverted to human form and began to speak really fast in his excitement. "The-communicators-have-locators-in-'em-and-so-we-can-find-Raven-even-if-she's-got-hers-turned-off-because-that's-the-way-Cy-designed-'em! But I helped put them together!" he finished proudly.
Robin just stared at him, wondering where he learned to talk so fast, until the meaning of what he had said sunk in. Robin's eyes narrowed behind his mask and he turned to Cyborg. "Is that true? All the stuff Beast Boy said? You can find Raven even though she's run off and turned her communicator off?" Cyborg nodded, still grinning and opened a panel on his cybernetic arm. "Yeah, no problem. According to my sensors, she's not so far from here. Heading almost due west in fact." He pointed.
"Okay, so we can find Raven. That still leaves the problem of Dr. Light," Robin mused. "I guess we could split up. Star and Beast Boy can go after Raven while Cy and I keep after Dr. Light. Or maybe just Star to go after Raven- What is it Starfire?" he asked Star who had been trying to get his attention for a minute or so. "Robin, you wanted to go after the Doctor of Light, no?" she asked. "Yeah, Star. That's what I'm trying to figure out. Why?" "Because he just left, going that way." she said, pointing west. "The same way Raven is. Could we not just follow him and possibly find Raven as well without splitting up?"
Robin whirled around and took off over the rooftops. "I guess that means 'yes'" Beast Boy commented as he shifted to monkey form and loped off across the roofs after Robin. Cyborg dropped to the pathways, looking at his tracking device and following Robin's path on the ground. Starfire flew after her friends, puzzled by strange Earth customs like not answering reasonable questions but perfectly willing to adjust to her chosen planet's customs.
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END OF CHAPTER ONE
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