I don't own the teen titans but pudding is tasty so I guess that makes up for it
Chapter 4 it's all smoke and mirrors
Tomb and Tapestry had spent the last week at T-tower the titans giving them the best hospitality and treatment they had ever received. Tomb had just finished applying his salve to Kaiser's wounds Raven had fallen asleep next to him as she had for every night of the previous week, and Tomb as he had done out of kindness for the past week put a blanket on her. It was still early about four in the morning the time Tomb usually woke up unlike his brother Tapestry he hadn't yet got accustomed to being able to sleep a full 8 hours or more but because of the withering he couldn't leave the building till his brother got up. So Tomb jogged laps around the roof till about 6 am then went to the gym which no matter how many times he went there he was always amazed at how much equipment it had. The first thing tomb used was Cyborg's weight set being careful to put it back when he was done then he went for a quick swim, followed by 20 minutes with a punching bag and body weights ,about 300 lbs. worth, it was now about 8 am and Tomb had barely broken a sweat but he was assuredly winded. He took off the Body weights which landed with a thud and went to the kitchen to eat breakfast there he was met by Robin and his brother who had just gotten up by the looks of it.
"So do you ever take off your mask?" Tapestry asked Robin.
"Some times… Oh hey Tomb" Robin said as he noticed Tomb come in.
"Morning Robin hey bro you ready for our early morning work out?" Tomb said,
"I already jogged for an hour at 7 where have you been?" Tapestry retorted.
"Oh I was in the gym doing some weight training" Tomb replied drawing a curious look from Robin,
"When exactly do you to wake up?" Robin inquired.
"I get up at about 3 or 4" Tomb said as he set up the espresso machine
"I like to sleep in so I usually get up at 5 or 6" Tapestry said as he stood up and turned toward the kitchen.
"Wow and I thought I got up early" Robin said slightly surprised at how little sleep the brothers ran on. Tomb was now making an omelet and asked Robin if he wanted any,
"Sure I'll have some" he replied.
As they ate there omelet they sat and talked small talk mostly but soon Robin maneuvered the conversation to where they were talking about there respective pasts Robin gave away almost nothing but the brothers had realized Robin's ruse and rather then diverting the conversation another way they told him everything they could about there past.
Tomb was the first to speak,
"To under stand our past and purpose we have to give you a bit of back story on the organization that spawned us were not at liberty to give out all the details mostly cause weren't privy to them but we'll tell you what we can." Tapestry then cut in,
"It all started a few millennia ago during one of the Peloponnesian wars. A battalion of Spartan solders had been attempting to out flank a group of Athenians by having a local guide lead them through a long winding mountain pass, but the guide was loyal to Athens and led the Spartans deep into the wilderness," Tomb then interjected,
"… Where when they discovered the trick the guide had played they slaughtered him. They then collected their wits and broke camp for the night, but when they awoke the next day they found them selves not in a valley forest as they had been but on a high bluff near a cave." Tomb took a bite of his omelet and a sip of espresso while his brother continued the tale.
"Fearlessly the Spartan commander entered the cave entered the cave alone assuming the involvement of the goods in their dilemma. In the cave he met the three Fates Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos." Tomb then spoke while his brother ate,
"The three fates gave him a task of collecting as many divine artifacts as he could they gave him a kind of list they also gave him a jar of there own blood to loose at a later date,
After this they told him that he and his troops could never again return to Sparta and would have to travel the globe, take foreign wives and learn the military and mystic ways of all the people they encountered. Also the Fates decreed that they could never settle down and must always be on the move unless the Fates contacted his band and told them otherwise," Tomb said as he finished off his espresso. After a few moments of silence Tapestry then spoke up,
"We are the end result of that entire journey. In the womb the blood of the fates, water of the River Styx, dragon's blood, and countless other things were injected into our mother and throughout her pregnancy she was exposed to multiple magical rituals and she was kept inside a building built from the ground up to focus any number of arcane and divine energies every room a magic circle and everything was completely Feng Shue."
"Yeah they went all out on us then when we were born we got a personal trainer and protector and spent every day of our lives in constant training didn't matter if we were sick hurt or on the verge of collapse we trained both mind and body from the time we could crawl till a year ago when we were told to go out and learn the ways of the world." Tomb said.
Robin sat speech less for a moment because he never expected them to give up that much information about them selves so willingly, but before he could ask any more the other Titans had woken up and were coming into the room.
After breakfast the day passed most un-eventfully Beast Boy and Cyborg were doing there usual, by playing some games on the Gamestation, Robin and Tomb were playing chess, and Starfire was talking to Tapestry.
"BOO YA! That's three games in a row BB, giving up yet." Cyborg said as he completely mutilated Beast Boy in a fighting game.
"You have to be cheating." Beast Boy said.
"Don't be jealous that I'm whippin your butt little man." Cyborg said with a big smile on his face.
"Quite Cy I'm trying to playa game here." Robin said as he pondered his next move. Robin then moved in his knight and took Tomb's Bishop. "Check." Robin said with a smile on his face.
"It seems you have fallen into my trap." Tomb said as he took Robin's knight with his rook. "Check."
Robin then shook his head. "Who's fallen into whose trap now?" Robin then took his queen taking the rook. "Check Mate."
"What!" Tomb stared at the board looking at his defeat. "You're good."
"Thank you. I was taught by the best." Robin said as he stood up.
"And then I said Antelope." Tapestry said as he started to laugh. The other's looked over at what Tapestry said and saw that Starfire was laughing as well.
"Antelope that's as funny as when the Globoesproken folldeled the Orbisphat" replied Starfire. Tapestry started to laugh at the comment that Starfire made as everyone just looked at them.
"Does your brother even know what she is talking about?" Robin asked.
"Probably not," Tomb answered.
"Oh Orbisphat that's a good one " said Tapestry having no idea what Starfire said. After they stopped the alarm went off to warn the other Titan's of trouble.
"What the hell is that?" Tomb asked looking around at the flashing red light's.
"That's the alarm it tells us when there's trouble in the city." Cyborg told him. "So what is it Robin." Robin quickly went to the computer hit a few key's and saw that Mumbo Jumbo was in the city practically destroying down town.
"Let's go Titan's, and other guy's."
Robin said as then ran to the T-car. The Titan's were expecting a very annoying battle ahead of them because they knew how annoying Mumbo was, but they had some new friends to help them out so they were ready. The Titans arrived to the city to see Mumbo tapping his hat with his wand as a hill of money was sucked into his hat.
"Stop right there Mumbo."
Robin yelled as the Titans and Tomb and Tapestry stood there ready for a fight.
"Ahh, The Titan's, my favorite audience."
Mumbo said as he put his hat on his head. "I would love to stay for a few tricks, but I simply must be going." With that Mumbo started to run away.
"Titan's Go!" Robin yelled as they chased the tall blue man through the streets. Mumbo turned around when he saw them and took this chance to throw out a few tricks.
"Abra Cabibble!"
Mumbo said as he hit Cyborg with a green shining beam of light and trapped him in a bubble. Robin was able to get close to mumbo and sowng his staff hard, but Mumbo used his magic to make a wall appear and stop the attack, then when Robin jumped over the wall Mumbo was gone. Mumbo appeared on the other side of the wall as Beast Boy turned into a hawk, swooped down and took Mumbo's hat. "I have had enough of your annoying antics." He then used his magic to send a blue beam at Beast Boy trapping him in a golden cage. Beast Boy turned into a hippo and busted out of the cage as Starfire swooped in using her eye lasers. While distracted Beast Boy charged full steam at Mumbo changing into a rhino during the rush, but Mumbo jumped out of the way at the last second narrowly avoiding impalement. Then as Mumbo jumped Tapestry moved his hands in a pulling motion causing Mumbo to fly through the air.
"I have had just about enough of this. ABRA INCARCIA!" Mumbo yelled as giant stone stalagmites flew out of his wands towards the Titans. Tomb quickly jumped in front of the approaching stone spikes taking them all but three to his body. Nothing happened to Tomb as he laughed. The other three then hit a car exploding it and nearly hitting fleeing pedestrians.
"Oh that is it, you can stab the crap out of me all you want, but leave innocent bystanders out of this." Tomb said reaching into his pocket "You want magic I'll show you magic" Tomb then reveled a T-bone steak.
"You still have that thing?" Tapestry said looking at him as the other's wondered why he had a T-bone steak in his coat at all.
"He is an honored warrior; you don't just eat honored warriors." Tomb said as he placed the T-bone on the ground.
"Keep him distracted for a minute guys I got a plan." Tomb then used a rock at scratch a circle on the ground around the steak
"Oh this can't be good" Tapestry said under his breath.
"What is your brother going to do with that?" Robin said while narrowly avoiding more stone spikes.
"Just trust him guys his 'plans' always work out in the end "Tapestry said as he yanked on some fate strings deflecting more stone spikes away from Beast Boy and then with a few more quick pulls turning there momentum back at Mumbo.
Mumbo then created a wall to block his returned stone spikes,
"Good trick I think I'll give you a hand" Mumbo said as he flicked his wand causing several large white gloves to jump out and dog pile on top of Tapestry. Cyborg and star fire began blasting them off of Tapestry While Beast Boy turned into a T-rex and charged at Mumbo and Robin several bird-arangs at Mumbo.
Meanwhile Tomb had been chanting softly and moving his hands in precise patterns through the air over the Steak his chant then stop and he shouted "Return to life once given now given again!" Black energy suffused the steak and then the steak Kipped up turned around and seemed to salute Tomb.
"At ease solder "Tomb said to the steak he then quickly expanded the circle on the ground adding all number of ruins and magical symbols he then began another low chant in a spidery harsh language that no one could identify. At this time Tapestry had gotten free of the magically created hands and was now frantically pulling the fate strings in order to keep them away from the rest of the Titans. Then Tomb Finished his chant and the ground seemed to shake slightly as an infernal black light seemed to pour forth from the ground inside the circle then it stopped and in place of a Steak there was now a 5 story tall snake like monster with eyes of black fire and long ropy arms that ended in sharp bone claws. The thing oozed thin blood from its skinless body of knotted muscles and bone fragments, it opened its 'mouth' of long bone shards and let forth an infernal sound that was much akin to a metal bus being ripped in half and in the middle of its forehead was a single T-bone.
"Every body this is the advanced from of the T-bone steak I made it my self his name is Charles now Charles say hello to everyone" Tomb said as the meat monster shrieked again. The fighting had stopped as everyone there stood dumbfounded at the monstrosity before them then Tapestry spoke up
"Ok I can understand you making a large meat monster but why name it Charles?"
"Couldn't think of anything else and a name makes it easier for me to summon him again" Tomb replied.
"Dude that's not normal" Beast boy said pointing at Charles
"Isn't that I bit like the pot calling the kettle black Mr. shape changer" Tomb said
"Hey my powers are totally different from making what ever the heck that thing is." Beast boy responded.
"Do you think that I the great Mumbo would be fooled by such a cheap trick well your mistaken "Mumbo said as he flicked his wand creating more stone spikes and throwing them at Charles. Charles easily avoided them and then leapt at Mumbo quickly circling around him and beginning to constrict his cool slick coils around Mumbo so that he couldn't move.
"You see un like your magic which is cheap parlor tricks consisting of likttle omre that smoke and mirriors my magic is real and it is powerful " Tomb said
"Alright I give up stop this thing!" Mumbo screamed.
"Ok Bro i think hes learned his lesson you can let him go now " Tapestry said to Tomb
Then Tomb spoke
"Alright let him go Charles I think he's beat" at that point Charles Vanished in a flash of black energy leaving a very blood soaked Mumbo behind.
Then as the Police were arresting Mumbo Robin approached the twins
"You guys did a good job today"
The tow brothers spoke at once
"Really we thought we were getting in the way"
"Not at all with a bit of team training I'm sure you guys won't feel like that at all" Robin replied
"About that it's nice and all that we met you but…"Tomb began to say
"…Being part of a team is not really our thing plus you know too much about us and we don't want to endanger you guys" Tapestry finished
"Well if you ever change your minds or need some help use these" Robin said handing Tomb and Tapestry each a communicator.
"Thanks!" they responded in unison.
"Well see you guys around I guess" Tomb said to the Titans
"The Time you spent was most wonderful and enlightning " Starfire said giving the Boys good buy huggs
"I still think your weird but your ok in my book " Beast boy Said as he shook the brothers hands
"I know you been using my weight set But its cool "Cyborg said to Tomb "and You still owe me a remach in super fighters four "Cyborg said to Tapestry
"Alright next time we meet its on" Tapestry replied
"You guys Know where to find us so drop in any time" Robin said shaking the brothers hands.
And with they each went their seprate ways for now any ways.
Sorry for not updating in a while I was busy with holiday stuff then I was sick then I had writers block but I'm gonna try to update more often also please review and happy new year all