Disclaimer: I don't own the Teen Titans, just the plot and some original characters.
Jump City.
A thriving city on the west coast.
Ranked one of the highest income cities in all of the U.S. rivaling New York, Metropolis or even Gotham city. It earns hundreds of millions of dollars annually. This growth has long attracted businessmen far and wide from all-over America and elsewhere around the world eager to cash in on the ever-climbing economy. And not just big rich guys are attracted to this place, the little people as well, of all races, looking for jobs to support their assorted families making Jump city also one of the most populated cities in the world.
All these people simply, casually going to work, going home, playing with their kids, going to school, building, driving, doing whatever.
Simply living.
But more than these people are attracted by the booming profit from this city. There are other people. People who steal and take whatever they want. People who destroy and wreak havoc on the masses of innocents.
People other people call criminals.
They want in on the money too after all. And they're willing to do anything and everything to get it no matter the cost and whom it is costing.
The are evil and must be stopped.
But fortunately for the people of Jump city there is another kind of people. People who fight crime and protect the innocent. People who defend peace, justice and morals of society.
People other people call heroes
The Teen Titans
Robin. Apprentice of The Batman. Trained in many various forms martial arts and close quarter combat to reach peak physical strength, stamina, and agility. Armed with an arsenal of hi-tech gadgets and weaponry. Gifted with superior intellect and cunning rivaled by none. He is a veritable one-man army.
Starfire. Warrior Princess from the planet Tamaran. Possessing natural physical abilities equivalent to a hundred times that of an ordinary human and at the same is capable of flight. An ability to generate bioethiric energy pulses and projects such energies to foes makes her a very formidable ally.
Cyborg. Half man, half machine. The perfect blend of Biology and Technology pushing the human potential to its absolute limit. Super strength and unlimited power backed by the most advanced technology developed by man. A tower of human triumph fighting for justice.
Raven. Sorceress and daughter of the demon Trigon. Knowledgeable in the black arts of magic. Possessing emphatic abilities to read people's emotions coupled by astounding telekinesis to bend and break surrounding objects at a mere thought.
Beast Boy. Green skinned animorph. Can transform his entire anatomy into that any organism that ever existed on Earth. Harnessing the raw carnal and animalistic prowess of Mother Nature itself. A foe not to be underestimated.
Together they protect Jump City and all it's inhabitants from all forms of evil threatening to pollute the peace with chaos and corruption.
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CRASH!
The Roscher Bank, east district of Jump city
The doors explode inward and crash inside the first floor lobby of the building. Most people knocked away by the shockwave to the far wall. Others duck and hide behind desk and counters. Slowly they take a glance at what was once the front door of the bank now a gaping hole in the wall and at the center was huge outstretched fist. People gasp in horror at the recognition of the perpetrator as he pulls his hand back and casually walk in.
The once tranquil morning air is disturbed by the breaking in of an all too infamous criminal, a giant of a man standing over fifteen feet tall. He wore some kind of high-tech suit colored mostly in bright industrial red that artificially enhances his over-all strength and size with the exception of his own head that was barely half the width of one of his cybernetic hands.
Adonis
"Alright ya'll, you know the drill!" He bellows to the horrified crowd cowering in his shadow. "All the money in bags, NOW! Before I decide I need to work on my boxing technique."
Not wanting to argue, or end up as paste, the tellers quickly started stuffing cash in moneybags. Adonis makes a gesture with on hand and everybody began tossing the bags filled with cash at his feet.
"Hahahahaha, like taking candy from a baby HAHA! " Adonis laughed out loud.
"Hold it right there, Adonis!"
Adonis whips his head around to look at the broken entrance he created just a while ago. There stood Robin with his arms crossed taking a pose as it seemed. Next to either side of him was Cyborg and Beast Boy in tense stances of their own. Behind the boys the figures of Starfire and Raven floated a few feet of the ground.
"Heh! And speakin' of babies." Adonis turns completely around to face the teens "you're a lot earlier than I expected birdie boy!"
"Maybe for you we are…" said Robin "but you sowed up just in time."
"Eh?"
"You've robbed four other banks for the past week all of them here in the eastern district of town. It was obvious you were gonna take this place next" said Robin smirking slightly.
"Wow, now that is some goooood detective work Boy Blunder." Adonis drools monotonously.
At this point Robin's smirk fades.
"Dude, just quit already!" Beast Boy states with a sense of pride. "We've been through this already before. And you lost!"
"What! You think I wasn't expecting you brats!" Adonis takes a fighting stance. "I may be the muscular type but I'm no dunce. I've had a lot of upgrades I prepared specially for you punks. Lemme show ya!"
He thrusts his right hand forward. The hand flipped backwards into a compartment in the top of the wrist while at the same time is replaced by what looked like a six-barreled gatling cannon that flipped from the underside of the wrist.
The Titans' eyes bulge out
"Surprised?" Adonis grins widely.
"Titans, MOVE!" called out Robin just as Adonis starts firing his gatling arm.
The Titans ran/flew in all different directions to avoid being hit by the storm of ammunition. Adonis holds down the trigger, as it seemed to keep firing and follows Robin's trail first.
Robin runs parallel to the wall right of the entrance and notices the trail of bullets following him. He quickly thinks of a strategy and bolts up the wall, Adonis's fire following suite. Robin reaches to his utility belt, retrieves his grappling hook, and fires it at the ceiling. He flies upward on the line holding his grappler on one hand and using the other to throw smoke pellets in Adonis's face exploding on impact.
"Yaaarghh!" Adonis is forced to stop firing as the smoke paints his vision gray. He tries to make out anything in the smog but sees only a bright, green entity heading his way at the speed of sound and plow into his chest with the force of a bullet train.
"OOF!" "RRrrrrggghhh!"
Adonis emerges out of the fog being shoved Starfire all the way to the opposite wall of the lobby. They crash, making a side ways crater on the wall and a huge dust cloud. Starfire lifts off Adonis and hovers some few feet above him.
"Cease your criminal acts immediately on this facility Adonis!" Starfire orders out "Surrender and we may make lighter your consequential punishment. What is your say?"
A giant fist comes at her from the dust cloud. Starfire's eyes grow wide and she blocks with her arms at the last second.
"Oooff!" Starfire is thrown back a bit and lands on the floor on her knee, a bit stunned.
"Two words: Eat Lead!" Adonis lifts his gatling arm and aims at Starfire
"Azerath, Metrion, Zinthos!"
A black energy field appears around Starfire blocking every bullet being fired at her.
"Huh?" Adonis looks to the side and sees Raven floating nearby…along with two large desks that were telekinetically hanging in the air just behind her.
Raven's eyes flash ebony and she throws a hand in the direction of Adonis. One of the floating desk shoots towards Adonis at break-neck speed.
Adonis sees it coming and jumps away from the wall at the last second as the flying desk impacts and explodes into splinters
Adonis rolls to a stop at the center of the lobby. He looks to Raven who was now sending the second desk his way like a rocket. Adonis stands his ground and backhands the desk to pieces with his untransformed left hand.
"Ughh!" The desk explodes to smithereens from the cybernetic hand. "Your gonna pay for that"
Adonis returns Raven's tactic by grabbing a nearby desk and flinging it at her. Raven dodges to the side and her sight follows the desk until it hits the back wall. She darts her eyes back in Adonis' direction only to see a few more airborne office furniture flying her way.
Raven hurriedly flies backward till she reaches the back wall. She makes a portal on the wall and disappears into it just as the furniture makes impact. Adonis surveys the impact to any sign of the dark sorceress.
In doing so he is off-guard to a green-skinned tiger pouncing him from behind.
"ROARRR!"
"ArrrGGhhh!" The green tiger latches to the struggling Adonis from behind, claws digging into ho armor leaving huge scratch marks while also biting and nibbling at his helmeted head. Adonis fails around maddeningly in attempting to get rid of the animorph.
"Get off my back you stupid little--raarrrgGGHH!" Adonis grabs Beast Boy by his feline neck and hurls him overhead and away from his person. Tiger Beast Boy transforms back to his elf form in time to hit and roll on the floor some several feet away.
"Ugh! Dude! That hurt!" Beast Boy stated as he got up rubbing his head, glaring at Adonis.
"Man when I'm done with ya, your gonna--!"
"Yo! Muscle Boy!"
"Huh?" Adonis looks to his left just in time to be hooked a number of times in the face by a charging Cyborg. "Yagh !-- Yagh! -- YarrgghhHH!"
"AGH!" The impacts sends Adonis stumbling backwards. An opportunity Beast Boy takes advantage of.
Beast Boy transforms into a gorilla and makes for the dazed villain. He grabs Adonis' right gatling hand in his left hand and begin to squeeze hard bending the multiple barrels inward while with Adonis' face in his right palm.
"Daaagh!" "ROAARR!"
Adonis makes a blind grab for Beast Boy's arm. He gets lucky and throws Beast Boy over his shoulder forcing him to let go of his face and gatling arm.
Beast Boy flips in mid air, land on a crouch in elf form, facing Adonis who glares angrily and aims his gatling arm…only to find out it's been rendered useless by Beast Boy's gorilla grip. Beast boy smirks amusedly at his dumbfounded foe.
"YaaarrrggHHH!" Robin swings downward and kicks Adonis in the face knocking him backwards a bit. Robin then flips backwards while throwing a couple of explosive birdarangs in Adonis' direction. This was followed up by some starbolts courtesy of Starfire plus a blast from Cyborg's sonic cannon. All three attacks met their marks causing Adonis to completely fall over backwards.
The three Titans regrouped to where Beast Boy landed taking a fighting stance. Raven soon appeared behind them from a dark portal and hovers at ready.
"Yo man, just do what B.B. said earlier and quit while yer ahead! Or gotta a head!" said Cyborg with a smirk of confidence on his face.
"Your little work-out is over Adonis!" followed up Robin similarly smirking "it's time for you to cool-down."
"Indeed it would be your best option to surrender." Said Starfire preparing a starbolt in each hand.
"Dude, game over." said Beast Boy
"Aaarrrrgh!" Adonis gets back to his feet "You think you punks have won--?" He stretches his arms sideward and heaves his chest outward. Panels on his cybernetic abs and chest open up to reveal assorted missiles and gatling cannons that were hidden under his armor. Then more rocket launch pods popped out of his shoulders, waist, thighs, and even ankles. "--Think AGAIN!"
All the Titans sweatdroped except for Raven who simply raises an eyebrow.
"I said I prepared for you guys getting in my way – " the weapons all over Adonis' body began to glow to life " – and I'm gonna prove it!"
"I seriously don't think you want to do that." Raven says out of the blue monotonously.
"LIKE HELL I DON'T!" he begins to fire his weapons.
"Azerath, Metrion, ZINTHOS!" Raven's eyes glow as she throws her hands forward.
Just as Adonis fires all of his munitions, a dark ebony sphere surrounds him. The launched weaponry impacts with the inner wall of the sphere and backfires on the spheres center. Adonis' eyes bulge.
"NnnooooOOO! ---"
BOOOOM
All the force of the explosions is contained within the sphere of black energy.
The Titans look onward curiously at the scene as well as several other people who were hiding and taking cover.
…
Raven now relaxes her arms and her eyes stop glowing. The black energy sphere disappears releasing dust and smoke. Adonis stands awkwardly, his eye swirling around.
"Mommy, I don't wanna go to school today…" he drools. His armor then spontaneously falls apart. Adonis falls face first to floor around pieces of his dismantled armor. Unconscious.
A moment of silence passes.
…
Then.
"Yahhoooo!"
"Woo Hooo!"
"They did it!"
"Go Titans, GO!"
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It was now almost noon as many police cars and SWAT vans park outside the Roscher bank in the aftermath of Adonis' attempted robbery. Curious crowds stand behind police barricades looking at the scene. A couple of news helicopters fly overhead.
Police and SWAT officers come out of the bank hauling with them a handcuffed, much shorter Adonis missing his body armor. A few more officers come out carrying out boxes containing random broken pieces of said armor with the word 'Evidence' tagged on the side of each box. Then a whole bunch of random people, some escorted by police and medics, start filing out.
Lastly, a SWAT officer and five costumed teens come out. Cheers immediately erupt from the on looking crowd.
"Thanks a bunch Titans." Said the SWAT officer, "We've been trying to nail this guy for past three days and suffered a lot of injuries on our men, and you guys take him down in five minutes. Now that's kickass!"
"It's cool sergeant," replied Robin "we just do what we can for the people"
"Well a big thanks anyway, see ya around." With that the officer leaves the Titans in front of the bank to themselves.
"Wellllll, that went smoother than I expected." Said Cyborg as he stretched his arms.
"Yes' today's engagement was 'a portion of baked pastry'," agrees Starfire, smiling.
"Um…its 'piece of cake' Star," Raven monotonously corrects her verbally challenged companion.
"Oh…my badness"
"Upgrades, shmupgrades!" Beast Boy exclaims loudly "The dude is a loser no matter he thinks he's got!"
"Well now that everything's settled down," says Robin "what else do you guys wanna do?"
"It's gettin' close to noon ya'll," interjects Cyborg "waddaya say we get some grub."
"Yeah dude, I vote that!" says Beast Boy.
"So do I!" Starfire agrees gleefully.
"Sure, whatever…" said Raven in her usual tone.
"Alright, the pizza place it is then…" Robin decides for everyone.
"Boo-ya!" Cyborg exclaims.
Cyborg flips open a panel in his arm and pushes a button inside. Seconds later, the mechanical marvel that is the T-car pulls up by the front side of the building
"All aboard y'all!" calls out Cyborg. They all walk towards the vehicle. As Raven makes her way to the T-car she suddenly pauses. Her eyes grow wider either in surprise or curiosity. Her eyes dart up to search for something, though she didn't know what exactly to search for.
"Yo Rea, let's move girl!" Cyborg calls out from the driver side window. Ravens eyes dart back down. The rest of the Titans were now seated inside the T-car waiting for Raven to join them.
She dismisses the feeling for now and proceeds to enter the T-car. They all take their respective seats inside the T-car and drive off leaving the scene behind for the police to secure
Meanwhile unbeknownst to the Titans, the police, and to all who reside on the street, two lonely figures, one taller than the other by a foot and a half, stand on the edge of the roof of the building across the street from the bank. Both hooded figures have their respective features hidden completely with large, baggy, hooded over-coats that covered them from head to toe, laden with pockets and belt straps. They stare at the leaving T-car. When it went out of sight their eyes dart back to the scene several stories bellow.
"This is an unexpected complication…" the taller stated under the hood of his coat, his voice that of a young male as it seemed.
"Yeah, totally screws up the plan," the shorter said, this time voicing of a young female.
"No way we're getting in that safe deposit today."
"tsk…"
A ringing sound emanates from the male figure. He reaches his hand in one of the many pockets on his wardrobe to retrieve a ringing cellphone. He answers the caller.
"Yeah?"
"…"
"How'd ya know?"
"…"
The male looks up and spots the news helicopters focused on the scene below them.
"Oh yea… I see…" replies the male to the phone.
"…"
"I understand…"
"…"
"Will do." He terminates the call and pockets away his phone.
"What did he say?" Asked the female.
"Like I said were not getting anything done today. We go back."
"I see…"
"…Don't cry."
"I'm not crying!" her voice slightly stuttering.
"We'll get another chance, let's be patient."
"…all right."
"C'mon, lets go…"
The two turn away from the scene and start walking away. Once they reach the edge of the building, they leap…a distance of thirty feet onto the next building and land unhindered on the roof. They get up immediately and sprint to opposite edge then jump again to the next structure. They do so repeatedly, speedily making their way south.
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The pizza place downtown. A popular venue for most people in the area to dine on something Italian every once and a while. With a menu consisting of a variety of assorted pizza toppings for the customer to choose, there is something for everyone.
Well, almost everyone.
"Dude, how many times do I have to tell you Cy!" Beast Boy growls to his metallic friend from across the table were they sat, a big vein pulsing on his fore head, "I don't eat meat!"
"And how many times do I have to tell you B.B.!" retorts Cyborg "Pepperoni ain't meat!"
"Yeah it is!"
"No it ain't!"
"Yeah it is!"
"No it ain't!"
"It is!"
"It ain't!"
"It is!"
"It ain't!"
"Is!"
"Ain't!"
"Is!"
"Ain't!"
"May I suggest French fries, potato chips, and a helping of jellybeans?" Starfire suddenly interrupts.
The two arguing teens stop to stare at her.
"Star…" said Beast Boy.
"Not everything on the menu is a topping…" completes Cyborg.
"Oh…sorry, I have forgotten" She blushes and sweatdrops.
The two boys resume their argument loudly.
On the other side of the table Robin sighs in frustration. His eyes wander a bit and eventually lands on Raven, who was sitting quietly looking into space with a blank stare amidst the noise of the arguing boys. An unusual situation, as far as unusual goes regarding Raven anyway.
"Something wrong Raven?" Robin asked.
Raven breaks out of her trance to answer him. "No, its okay Robin."
"I've known you long enough to know that every time you say that there is something bothering you Raven. That and all the incidents in the Titans' past where you said that everything is -- "
"Alright, already!" says an annoyed Raven at Robin's facts.
"Well?"
"The bank, after the incident with Adonis and we were outside, I felt some kind of presence new to me."
"Did you find the source?"
"No."
"But did you sense anything evil about that presence?"
"No evil per say but I did feel something akin to…" her voice trails.
"Felt what, Raven?" asked Robin now completely curios.
"…Loneliness…"
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The southeastern docks, Jump City's more industrial area.
Here is where most the city's line of goods comes in. Almost on a daily basis, up to a hundred cargo ships, the size of skyscrapers turned on their side, come to dock carrying tons of cargo, whether it be food, office material, furniture or a century's worth of toilet paper, to feed the hungry market of the vastly growing economy of Jump City.
But it's not all regular business here.
On the southern most part of the dock, in an abandoned warehouse, two familiar hooded figures walk amongst the dusty floor through a narrow corridor the exist solely because of the high stacks of rusting aluminum cargo boxes acting as walls if anything. Though the stacks of cargo boxes make an 'avenue' every few tens of feet, the two make a straight path to the opposite end of the warehouse were a seemingly solid concrete wall rest.
The taller of the two takes out small pen-like device, points it to the wall, and presses a button
Then a seven-foot tall, six-foot wide section of the concrete lifts upward on two hydraulic arms revealing a small dimly lit compartment big enough for about four or five people. But for now two will suffice.
The two enter the compartment and open a hidden panel on the metallic wall. The push a single button out of many others. The concrete slab closes down sealing the whole compartment.
The two stand calmly unaffected as a descending motion is felt. A few moments later the door opens and the two walk out… into a vast room as wide as a football field (not American football, the international kind) and the ceiling was about three stories above the floor. Along the walls perpendicular to the wall with the elevator door the two figures exited from were an assortment of computer stations and assorted electronics, some are turned on, most others simply collecting dust. But the sight to behold was on the far opposite wall were a giant glowing computer screen surrounded be several smaller ones overlook a huge console filled with all sorts of keyboards. And in front of the gigantic computer station was a solitary chair almost ten feet high. The two figures walk towards the spot unhindered.
"So, your finally back…" came a voice from the high chair. A raspy voice one can only describe as that of one who's probably lived close to a century
"We couldn't go ahead with the break-in as planned," said the male hooded figure "there were…'constrictions'."
"Yes I know," the senior's voice said as the chair spun around to reveal the source. A very, very old man, almost complete bald save for a few white strands at the side of his head which had more wrinkles and freckles than the gods themselves would care to count. Two puffy pinkish eyes under a bushy white unibrow gives way to a nose so big and sharp it could sink ships. His colorless lips open to show rotten teeth as yellow as a hundred-year-old newspaper coupled by a chin that can piers armor. He is dressed in a simple white jumpsuit exposing two hands, which look like bones wrapped haphazardly with aged skin. "But, of course, we won't let that stop our plans won't we?"
"I would hope not," the female hooded figure states.
"Do not be upset child," the senior "this city runs rampant with criminals. Just another uncontrollable factor in our little experiment."
"Its not them that worries me much, but…"
"Oh, you mean the Teen Titans?"
Both figures nod.
"I've briefed you on them already, you two need not worry about them much."
"What is our next move now," inquires the male "Dr. Volkov?"
"Well my boy," the alleged Dr. Volkov replies "this calls for a reformatting of the plan, we can't afford to be off schedule so were gonna have to divide the task more."
"What do you mean doctor?"
"Sakura," Dr. Volkov looks to the shorter female figure "you will lead a strike on the Roscher Bank tommorow once things cool down."
"I understand." Sakura responds.
"Riya," Dr. Volkov now turns to the taller male figure "you proceed as plan on the transport tommorow as well."
"Alright." Riya complies.
"Now both of you get some rest."
Riya and Sakura both nod. Dr. Volkov nods back and turns, chair and all, back to his computer work.
The two younger also turn and make for the elevator. They enter and press a different button and the door closes. As soon as they are gone, the doctor who was now alone stares at his computer screen which showed what seemed like a graphical report on something called: "Project: Maria'. He grins, rotten yellow teeth showing.
"Soon my dear," he mummers "your power will be mine and it would be your own children who would hand me that power. Hehehehehe…"
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The elevator door opens onto a different floor which was really just a long, dimly lit hallway lined with multiple doors leading to who-knows-where. The two march forward quietly.
An intersection comes up. The taller of the two seemingly ignores it while the shorter pauses and looks down the short corridor that lead to a solitary iron door. The taller notices and stops to turn to look at his companion.
"Sakura?" he asks
She remains silent
"…You wanna see her again sis?"
"…Yeah." She responds in a low voice.
"It won't change anything yet."
"I know, I just wanna be reminded. That's all"
"…Alright." Riya makes to walk ahead leaving his sister behind.
Sakura watches him leave until he is out of sight then proceeds to the door she'd been looking at. There is a keypad lock on the door. She enters a code and opens the door.
The room was large, hardly lit, and almost bare at first glance, even in the absence of light one could tell the room was fairly huge, not as big as the were Dr. Volkov may have resided but huge nonetheless. Near what would be the center of the room is a dimly lit control panel. Sakura walks up to this panel, looks at it and pushes a button as if it were routine. Lights flickered to life overhead making the entirety of the room vivsble.
Sakura looks up to see a truly horrendous sight. A huge device rested at the center of the room connected to various assorted cables that littered the floor. Its most prominent feature was a forty foot high cylindrical tube over a dozen feet in diameter. Inside the tube was a huge skinless humanoid figure. Exposed were its muscles, innards, and skeleton were various tubes, hoses and wiring plugged into various spot all over the creatures body as it seemingly hugs with its arms of muscle and bone while it was suspended in a blood-red liquid. A contrastingly large mask of a featureless human face with empty eyeholes that seemingly stare hides the creature's face.
Sakura stares unaffected.
"…Mother."
Her hands reach up and pull back her hood exposing her delicate face filled youthful beauty. Her hair was a fair chestnut color cut short to the length of her neck. Her bangs fall over her left eye leaving only her right eye, which was a leafy green color. Then she brushed off her hair to reveal her left eye, which was an ocean blue color.
"Soon, we'll be able to meet each other," She murmurs softly, "then you, me and Riya can be a family…we can be --- " her voice trails off. Her eyes slowly begin to tear up.
Behind the oblivious girl, leaning on the doorway with his arms crossed was her brother, Riya. His hood also down exposing his youthful, boyishly handsome face and his long platinum hair tied in a ponytail. He looks at his sister with brotherly concern with an ocean blue colored left eye and a leafy green colored right eye.
Author's Note: This is my first fic ever FYI. Any reviews are appreciated. I don't wanna be flamed but constructive criticism is what I really need at the moment. If I get good reviews I may update this story if that's what you all want.