Hello boys and girls and welcome to chapter three of The New Teen Titans. Well you guys seem to be enjoying it but I'd like it if more of you reviewed but oh well I take what I get. Well this chapter is the last one introducing one of the old Titan's kids, Cyborg's and Mina's daughter. If you don't know who Mina is she was a character from my Teen Titan Pregnancies story who Cyborg was dating from around the middle on. Sorry I don't mean to try and get you to read that story but I'm just trying to stay in the little Teen Titan pocket universe I made. Oh and before I begin just to remind you Vic is Cyborg. Well that's all I have to say all the rest will be said in this chapter, so without further ado, chapter three of The New Teen Titans.
Chapter 3: Revolutions
In the middle of the Jump City harbour there is a building shaped like a giant T. This building was once occupied by the protectors of Jump City, the Teen Titans. Ever since they defected most of the villains in the town including the most ruthless, Slade, they settled down. They continued to fight crime but they also began to have kids at what most would agree was a much too young age. But after awhile they quit all together and went their separate ways. Now only one stays behind to continue protecting the more then safe city. But right now, he's busy.
"OW! Dad!" screamed a teenage girl sitting in a chair. She was tall and beautiful and almost looked like anyone you'd see on the street but there was something very different about her. She was completely covered in what appeared to be a very shiny metal, probably platinum. Her hair, that went down to her waist, was made of the same metal but was formed into thick wires that were mixed in with tubes full of a dark blue liquid. The same liquid ran through many visible tubes all over her body. There were tubes running from her palm, up the inside of her arm, down her side and down her legs on both sides of her body. The same tubes ran from the back of her hands, up the outside of her arm, up her neck and then going up from her jaw line to her eyes that were the same blue colour with a black pupil in the middle of them. The man behind her, who was her 'father' was tightening in a loose bolt.
"Sorry Baby," Vic said as he pushed apart her hair and flipped out a small control panel that was safely hidden underneath. Vic had only changed the slightest bit around the eyes and he let his hair grow just a bit on the half of his skull that wasn't robotic. Vic began to push buttons as he said, "I forgot to turn off your pain inhibitors."
"Please Dad, can you not call it that?" the girl sighed as she rolled her robotic eyes, "you know how I feel about all those robot terms."
"Fine Annie," Vic said as he wished he never gave her the ability to roll her eyes, "what would you like me to call them then?"
"I don't know, just tell me you're turning off my owie maker like you used to do when I was five," Annie said as she lowered her head.
"Would you really like that more?" Vic laughed as he finished with the bolt and then pushed more buttons before flipping the panel back up into his daughter's back.
"No," Annie said as she slumped her shoulders, "but at least try to come up with something creative."
"Fine, I'll try," Vic said as he stood up from the kneeling position he was in in order to access the control panel. "Well you inspect-," Vic stopped as he noticed his daughter's look and then finished, "I mean check-up is over."
"Finally," Annie said as she stood up and stretched with a loud yarn and a mechanical clicking sound.
"Watch out or you'll pop a cog," Vic laughed as he lead the way down the hall out of the sickbay and towards the living room.
"All done?" a woman sitting down in front of the TV asked in a monotone.
"Yup Mina I'd give her another seven hundred miles," Vic said as he went over and kissed his wife and flipped on the TV. Mina had grown in height and had developed from the geek with fuzzy hair teenager into a beautiful woman. Her hair was still long but no longer fuzzy and she had grown in most of the places she used to hide behind books. Vic turned to the news and sat back not noticing his daughter's look.
"Thanks for trying," Annie said with sarcasm rolling off her tongue like venom after her father's comment.
"Annie you usually have no problem with all this," Vic said as he turned around and looked over the couch to see Annie holding herself with her head down. "What's wrong?" Vic asked with concern as he and Mina both got up and went over to comfort their daughter.
"Dad, you programmed me to feel, and think, and be just like an ordinary human," Annie said as she hugged her mother as tears began to fall down her face, "but that's just it. You programmed me!" Annie turned from her mother's embrace to face her father as she wiped away her tears and yelled, "these aren't even real tears."
"Annie," Vic said as he hugged her close allowing her to cry on his shoulder, "I thought you were ok with being fully robotic? Vic pulled away slightly to look into his daughter's eyes, "if I had the ability to have children normally I would have, but none of them would have turned out as good as you have."
"But at least they'd be real," Annie said as she got a hold of herself and stopped crying, "at least they'd really be your children and not your creation."
"Annie," Mina said very sincerely making her daughter face her, "when I married your father I fully embraced that he couldn't have children, that didn't stop me from loving him. Just because you're a robot doesn't stop me from loving you ether."
"But Mom, I'm not even really yours," Annie said as her voice cracked a little.
"Yes you are," Mina said as she pulled her daughter into a hug, "your father combined the traits you would have gotten from me and the ones you would have gotten from him into you. He made you able to learn and started you off as a blank slate so that we were the ones who raised you and not your programming. Just because you were designed and built over two years and not born in nine months doesn't stop you from being real and you are our only daughter and are most definitely ours." Mina smiled at her daughter as she wiped away the tear her daughter got from hearing her little speech.
"Thanks Mom," Annie said as she gave her mother a short hug, "and Dad I'm sorry-" Annie cut herself off though as she saw the look in her father's eyes as he watched the news.
A reporter was standing in front of a police barricade set up in front of an apartment building as police walked in and out of the front door. "Today in Bludhaven, Dick Grayson, famed adopted son of Bruce Wayne and C.E.O of the Bludhaven branch of Wayne Industries was kidnapped along with his wife and child." Annie looked at her father who was watching the TV intensively and she could almost see his brain working to figure this out. The reporter went on to talk about how the wall of the apartment was blown out and how it was done fourteen stories up on the side of the building facing a four lane highway.
"What do you think Dad?" Annie asked as she saw her father working it out in his head.
"I don't know," Vic said as he rubbed his jaw, "but no common kidnapper could take on Nightwing and Starfire."
"And no one can get through our security system undetected," Mina said calmly as she stood by the security monitor.
"What?" Vic said as he got up and went over to look at the security monitor with her.
"Something's coming," Mina said as Vic saw that indeed something was approaching, fast.
"Mom," Annie said with just enough fear to get her father and mother to look at her. The wall behind her began to glow red as a strange sound like something powering up came from behind it.
"Annie! Get own," Vic yelled as he pushed his daughter to the ground just as the wall behind her exploded sending pieces everywhere. A small chunk hit Mina in the forehead knocking her out as a large piece fell onto Annie's leg. Behind the wall stood one of the robots with his arm still extended and the orb still glowing red.
"Dad!" Annie shouted as she lifted the ten ton piece of wall off her leg with ease, but the leg was crushed and would need to be repaired.
"Stay down," Vic said as he was already recovered and was standing with his cannon out powered up to full and aimed at the robot. There was a loud flash and a bang as the cannon fired but when it was over the robot still stood as another one had used its hand to block the blast. Its red orb glowed blue after absorbing the blast. Vic's eyes went huge as the robot pointed its palm at him and this time the flash was twice as big and the bang was deafening.
"Dad!" Annie shouted as dust filled the room. When it began to clear Annie saw her father still struggling to stand as the two robots stood over him. One of them turned down its palm and a cable with a grapple at the end shot out of its wrist and connected to Vic's back as thousands of bolts of electricity surged through the cable into him. He let out a long howl as he was knocked unconscious and the robots picked him up and began to leave.
"Give me back my Dad!" Annie shouted as she turned her arm into a cannon similar to her father's only more slender. She fired a ball of sonic energy at the back of the robot not holding her father, sending it to the ground. It struggled to get up as smoke drifted up from its back and the other one just turned its hand down and fired the same cable at Annie. It hit her in the forehead and she screamed as it shocked her. Before she went unconscious though she turned down her own wrist and a wire shot from her and plugged itself into the back of the robot's head she had knocked over. Series of ones and zeros went up and down her eyes as information went from the robot to her. She lost consciousness though when the robot ripped the wire out from the back of its head and both of the robots left as if nothing had happened.
Annie systems began to reboot about a half hour later when she woke up to find her mother with a bandage wrapped around her forehead and metal welding gear on as she worked on Annie's leg. "Oh Honey you're up," Mina said with a smile as she flipped down her welders helmet and began to weld her daughter's leg.
"Mom?" Annie said as she got all her senses back, "what are you doing?"
"Oh, just helping the nano-tech along," Mina said as she took off the helmet and threw the welding gear to one side, "there, all done."
Mina stood and helped Annie up as Annie asked, "what happened to Dad?"
"I don't know," Mina said sounding much more depressed then she normally did but then she said hopefully, "but maybe they know?"
Annie looked over to see Bruce, Em and Mark all sitting at the breakfast table as they talked about something she couldn't hear. "How long have they been here?" Annie asked he mother as she looked over at the group.
"Just a few minutes," Mina said as she then went over to clean up the rubble left from the wall as it was normal for her to clean up rubble after fights in the Tower. "They were looking for your dad. They seemed very disappointed when I told them the robots took him."
"A bit different from the kiddie table at the Titan reunions, eh guys?" Annie said as she walked up to the table.
"Annie you're awake," Mark said as he grabbed a chair for her to sit in.
"Did the robots that took Cyborg have a mask that was half orange and half black," Bruce asked to confirm what he already knew.
"Yeah and this weird palm gem thing," Annie said as she held out her hand just like the robot had, "hey what's with using my Dad's codename?"
"We think we know who's behind this but now all our parents are gone and we have no way of finding out where they'll hit next," Mark said as he slumped down in his chair.
"Hey what's stopping us from doing it?" Bruce asked as he stood and held his fist up, "I mean we're the sons and daughters of Jump City's greatest protectors. We've all been trained to use our powers and we're all stronger then our parents. We can take these guys before they even know what hit them."
"You're right," Mark said as he stood up from his chair as well after hearing Bruce's speech, "we could exactly do this."
"Yeah there just after some stupid gem anyway," Annie said as she stood as well.
"Wait! What gem?" Em asked as she walked up to Annie.
"The one the robots guidance system was trying to track down with the Titans being possible targets. I thought you guys knew?" Annie said confused.
"We had no idea that they were after something," Bruce said as he squinted his eyes in thought, trying to figure this out. "Do you know what this gem looks like?"
"Yeah it's diamond shaped, red and one side is flat like…" Annie paused as she tried to find a word.
"Like it was once in someone's forehead?" Em said as her eyes went huge and realisation hit her.
"Not what I was going to say but yeah that could work," Annie said as she put her hand on her hip.
"Mark," Em said as she turned to her brother, "remember when Mom told us that story about what Dad did for her when she was pregnant with us."
"You don't mean?" Mark said as his eyes became just as huge with shook as Em's had when she realised what was up.
"It explains why our parents were attacked first," Em said as more realisations still hit her.
"Mind clueing us in?" Bruce said as he and Annie stood off to the side confused.
"We need to get back to our house," Mark told him as with a burst of black magic two large feathered wings appeared on his back and he took flight.
"We'll explain on the way," Em said as she focused her magic to lift her up into the air beside Mark. The twins both took off out the window at top speed as they began to fly home.
"Come on Annie," Bruce said as he took to the air and chased after them.
Annie clicked her heels making jets shoot from her feet lifting her up into the air but before she went she looked over at her mother questionably, "Mom?"
"Go ahead," Mina said as she smiled at her daughter who then flew out the window after the others leaving her mother to scream after her, "but if you rescue your Father I was still unconscious when you left."
Just then far away, under thousands of layers of dirt and a few hundred miles away from the Jump City limits Vic began to wake up. "What? Where I'm I?" he asked as he looked around the dark room and tried to move but found he was chained to the wall. Suddenly everything came back to him as he struggled to pull off the chains.
"Don't bother Cyborg," Said a familiar dark voice from beside him, "the chains have some sort of power dampener." There right beside him hung Dick and beside him was Kory, then Gar and Raven hung on the end.
"Dick-" Vic began but cut himself off when he saw the look on his friends face, "Nightwing, I mean. What's going on here?" Vic asked confused.
"No idea but did you notice those robots face plates?" Dick asked as he turned his head in thought.
"First thing I noticed," Vic said as he nodded his head. Just then the lights turned on blinding the Titans temporarily.
The robots walked in and one went to go stand by the computer as the other stood right in front of them. The one in front of them straightened its posture and its arm sucked into its body, giving it a more human look. It puts its arms behind its back and a weird clicking sound came from it, like the sound a tape recorder makes, before a dark sinister voice said, "hello Titans."
The voice was obviously recorded but that didn't stop Dick from shouting, "Slade!"
"Now I'm sure Robin has shouted out my name in anger by now," Slade said as the robot began to pace in front of them and move its hands just as Slade would. "But I really I'm gone now you see and this is just a simple recording."
"If you can understand me 'robot that looks and sounds identically to the evil Slade' what do you want?" Kory asked.
"I'm sure your wondering what it is that I want," Slade said as he had predicted the Titans every move, "I'm sure you're also wondering why these all powerful robots that single handily defected you were here gathering dust and not fighting you in the first place. Well they've been waiting, waiting for this exact year, in this exacted month, on this exact day to reek my vengeances on you all!" Slade yelled as he laughed coldly, sending chills down the Titan's spines.
"I don't think the robots understand us Starfire," Dick said to his wife, using her codename as he thought the moment called for it. Just then though the robot quickly moved inches in front of Dick's face making him flinch slightly.
"But my focus isn't on you Robin," Slade said coldly as he walked down towards the end of the row of Titans. "It's on you Raven," he said as he ran a cold mechanical finger down her cheek making Gar growl protectively. "Now since you are hearing this recording that means the charka once in your forehead is now gone," Slade said as he poked her forehead to further show his point. " Now I need you to tell me where it is if I'm going to get over this technicality of being dead."
"I'm not telling you," Raven said as she spat in the robots face, the spit slowly ran down its face as the robot showed no reacting to it being there. Instead the faceless mask just stared right at her as that clicking noise filled the dead silent room.
"Well I guess you haven't told me then," Slade's voice came again, "my robots understand quite a number of locations but just in case you did something stupid." the recording stopped as thousands of bolts of electricity ran through Raven's chains shocking her.
"Raven!" Gar shouted as he cringed at the sound of his wife yelling out in pain.
"Now this tape is on a loop so I can do this forever so I'll ask again, where is it Raven?" Slade said darkly.
Raven panted heavily as the chains became the only thing holding her up, "I'm never going to tell you," Raven panted out.
Electricity once again surged through Raven's entire body as it tightened and then went limp when the electricity stopped and Slade repeated, "I'll ask again, where is it Raven?"
"Not telling," Raven panted as her breathing got weaker and her hair hung down in front of her face.
The electricity began again and Raven let out a blood curdling cry as the huge computer screen began to glow black and then exploded. "Wait! Please stop I'll tell you where it is," Gar shouted as the shocking stopped and the robot turned towards him.
"Don't do it, Garfield," Raven said as she began to drift in and out of consciousness.
"I'm sorry Raven but if I don't he'll kill you," Gar said as he lowered his head, "It's in a small box on the book case in The Study."
The robot who wasn't masquerading as Slade instantly began to leave as the one who was made a different clicking sound like it was changing tapes. Slade then said coldly, "thank you…" the robot then began to leave the room but before it did Slade finished, "…Beast Boy." After that the only sound left filling the huge room was Slade's echoing laughter as the lights turned off leaving the Titans alone in the dark.