Hello boys and girls and welcome to chapter six. Now this chapter will introduce the last of The New Teen Titans. You all seem to have your own ideas as to who the new characters will be but I'm not going to say a word. I mean the chapter is just a few sentences away so it's not like you'll never know. As well the old Titans will barely be appearing as this is a story about the New Teen Titans so now the focus will be purely on them. Finally I could have probably called this story Adventure of The New Teen Titans because after this chapter I'm treating this just like the show, every group of chapters will have a different storyline that will connect at the end. Speaking of the story maybe I should get to it, so here without further ado is chapter six of The New Teen Titans.
Chapter 6: New Recruits
Jump City is a beautiful place to live and to work. It's free of most if not all forms of crime and was the home to the original Teen Titans. Their Tower still stands in the middle of the city's harbour as a testament to their greatness and as a famous tourist attraction. But the city became a not so happy place today when the Titans long thought dead enemy Slade attacked, and more attacks are bound to follow. Luckily a new team of Titans have taken up residence in the Tower and are the new protectors of Jump City. But these New Teen Titans are not protecting Jump City right now, right now they're standing outside a theatre.
"Why are we here again?" Beast Lad asked as he looked up at the old style theatre that had in its headline in large block letters, 'Come See Alakazam the Amazing Magician!'
"I told you," Android said as the team approached the box-office to buy tickets, "this is where the girl I told you about works."
"How do you know this girl anyway?" Black Bird asked as she bought tickets for the team from the overly cheery girl at the box-office.
"My dad took me on patrol a few times when I was younger and one of the times this theatre was being threatened," Android explained as they crossed through the lobby, "we've been friends every since."
"That still doesn't explain why we're here," Beast Lad said putting emphasis on the word 'here' as the team made their way into the half full room. It was a basic theatre with rows of chairs going up and a balcony on ether side of the stage. The stage itself now had red curtains pulled across it and some noise was coming from behind the curtain as people prepared. "Can we not get backstage or something?"
"Weren't you listing," Android said as the team took a seat in the third row, they sat with Android at the end, then Beast Lad, then Black Bird and finally Rave, "me and her are best friends. I have a permanent backstage pass. I just think that this act can show you why she should be a Titan."
"Yeah Beast Lad, why don't you just sit back and enjoy the show," Rave said as he put his arm down on the armrest to find Black Bird's hand was already there. Both blushed and pulled their hands away instantly, Black Bird blushed so hard that the popcorn machine in the lobby overheated and sent a flood of popcorn everywhere.
"Quiet, it's starting," Android said as she hushed her team mates as the sound of trumpets began to fill the quieting theatre.
The curtains opened after the trumpet music finished revealing a beautiful girl who had her arms extended and her head up. She was very beautiful as said and tall, she wore a full magician's costume with a tale-jacket, bowtie, white gloves and a top hat sat upon her head. The getup showed off her curves perfectly and she gave off an aurora of greatness. But there were some odd things about her that added both to her beauty and mystique. She had beautiful long flowing snow-white hair and her skin was light blue.
"Ladies and gentlemen," she said with a smooth sounding voice as she turned her head down to face the audience, "my name is Alakazam." She took off her hat and did a bow with it as the theatre cheered. "And I am a magician," she tipped the opening of her hat towards the audience and dozens of doves flew from it. The crowd cheered again and Alakazam placed her hat back on her head.
"Now today's show will be short due to the recent attack on our fair city," Alakazam said as she paced the stage, "but I will need a volunteer," a spotlight began to move through the audience. It stopped on Beast Lad and he looked around as the team all smiled at him. He shook his head no and Alakazam took off her hat and held it to her chest as she pouted, "oh come on, please," she said bating her eyelashes. Beast Lad shook his head again and Alakazam smiled, "oh well," she said as she shrugged her shoulders and reached into her hat. She pulled her hand out and as she did she brought Beast Lad with her, making him disappeared from his seat and appeared on stage.
Black Bird began to stand as she thought her brother was in danger but Android put a hand on her shoulder and pushed her back down into her seat, "don't panic," she said as she laughed slightly.
"So, what's your name cutie?" Alakazam asked as she draped her arm around Beast Lad and played with a piece of his hair, making him extremely nervous. In the crowd, for some reason, Android felt a slight spark of emotion in her stomach as she looked up at her friend. She couldn't place it but it couldn't be jealousy, right?
"I'm Beast Lad," he said as he grabbed his throat, shocked to find his voice was amplified.
Alakazam smiled slightly before turning to the crowd and saying, "ladies and gentlemen, one of the savours of our city," The crowd cheered much louder then they had before and the spotlight appeared again on the other Titans this time. The Titans waved and the crowd cheered before eventually settling down when the spotlight went off the Titans. "So you can change into animals I hear?" Alakazam said as she smiled at Beast Lad.
"Ah yes I can," Beast Lad said as some of his nervousness left him when Alakazam removed her arm.
"I bet you that I can copy your powers," Alakazam said as a wand popped up out of her sleeve and she grasped it in her hand, "would you like to see that?"
Beast Lad didn't know what to say to that and shuffled slightly as he tried to decide as the audience cheered him on and eventually he said, "sure."
She smiled and pointed her wand at him before saying, "presto change-o!" and Beast Lad changed into a cat without his regular burst of magic. "See I can turn you into animals too," she said stretching the word 'you' as she smiled. She turned to talk to the audience but when she opened her mouth to talk she was interrupted when Beast Lad broke the spell and turned back to normal with his regular burst of magic this time. He crossed his arms and tapped his foot on the ground making the audience laugh and snicker. Alakazam turned to him with shock and smiled a wide genuine smile before turning back to the audience and saying, "in that case lets move on to the grand finale then."
Suddenly a box appeared around Beast Lad and repositioned him so that he was lying down and only his head stuck out. A saw then appeared out of nowhere and began to float in midair and cut down the middle of the box. "You should feel a slight bit of pain," Alakazam said jokingly as Beast Lad began to panic, "but that should be taken care of by death," the crowd erupted in laughter and the saw suddenly stopped. She moved behind it and grabbed the handle before giving it one last push. Beast Lad then went flying out of the box and shot up into the rafters as he began to make the sound and look like a big balloon losing air.
The crowd gasped and the Titans all instantly stood and got into attack positions before Alakazam raised her hands in defence. "No worries," She said as she tapped the air with her wand and a box with a door on the front appeared with a puff of smoke. She gabbed the handle on the box and opened it to find Black Bird, "Oops, wrong twin," Alakazam said closing the box. She spun the box around and tapped it before opening the box once more, this time nothing was there. She put her finger to her chin in thought as she went inside of the box to inspect it but then the door closed on its own and the box spun again. The box opened one last time and Beast Lad stumbled out.
"Wow," he said simple in amazement as he looked out at the crowd who erupted with loud applause. A spotlight then appeared on Beast Lad's seat to show that Alakazam was now standing on it as she bowed and the audience continued to applaud loudly.
She appeared back up an stage as Beast Lad reappeared back to his seat all with a puff of smoke as she continued to take her bow as the curtains closed. The people began to file out of the theatre as Beast Lad felt his head after the strange experience. "Come on guys," Android said as she lead the Titans behind the stage through a door that said personnel only. The went into a room that had a picture of Alakazam's face in a star and at her makeup table sat Alakazam minus her jacket which hung on a chair nearby. It was a basic dressing room with a couch and makeup table along with a couple of chairs and some pictures up on the wall, some of which included Android.
"Annie!" Alakazam shouted as she ran up and hugged her long time friend.
"Alley!" Android said as she returned the hug.
"I guess I should be calling you Android now, little miss Teen Titan," Alakazam said as she smiled at her friend proudly.
"Speaking of I'd like you to meet some people," Android said as she left the hug and moved over to the team. "This is Rave," Android said as Rave extended his hand and shook Alakazam's, "this is Black Bird," she said as she moved down the line of Titans to Black Bird who just nodded. "Oh and you already met her brother Beast Lad," Alakazam smiled brightly as she shook Beast Lad's hand.
"How could I forget this cutie?" Alakazam said which made both Black Bird and Android growl before stopping and raising an eyebrow at each other. Alakazam took the cue to put up her hands and back away slowly as she smiled nervously.
"Guys, this is Alakazam," Android said as she finished her introduction, "what do you think?"
"She's…bluer then I thought she'd be?" Beast Lad said nervously.
"Well you're greener then I thought a guy with a grey mom would be," Alakazam said as she laughed slightly. "So what are you guys doing here anyway?" Alakazam asked as she sat back down at her makeup table, "besides to see my amazing show."
"Well we want you to join us," Rave said with a smile. Alakazam just stopped moving and turned her head slightly as she raised an eyebrow at the teens.
"Join you in what?" she asked as she slipped on her jacket and stood.
"Um the Titans," Rave said as he scratched the back of his head, he didn't think it would be this hard to recruit someone.
Alakazam laughed slightly before putting a hand on Rave's shoulder, "good one stiff," she laughed which made Rave briefly attempted to loosen up a bit. "I mean what would I bring to your team."
"Well you powers are amazing," Rave said as he tried to find ways to get her to join, "and you use them a lot better then your father did."
"Excuse me? My father?" Alakazam asked as she raised an eyebrow at the leader of the Titans and began to get very defensive.
"Or uncle or something," Rave said as he became very nervous from the look Alakazam was giving him, "I don't know how you're related to Mumbo Jumbo."
"What makes you think I'm related to Mumbo Jumbo?" Alakazam said as she put her hands on her hips and gave him a look.
"Well I just figure with the blue and the wand and all," Rave stuttered as he smiled nervously and scratched the back of his head again.
"Maybe you shouldn't assume things then," Alakazam said as she shook her head at him, "who says I didn't find these things? Or stole them?" Rave opened his mouth to respond but couldn't find any words to say.
"Forget that," Android said as she stepped in front of Rave, "come on, please join."
"Well?" Alakazam said as she thought for a second, "sure I'll join," the team let out a sigh of relief but tightened back up when Alakazam said, "but on one condition." She paused and the team looked at each other before shaking their heads yes, "you need one more person."
It only took about fifteen minutes to fly to the other side of town but the show had taken up a lot of time and the sun was now setting on the New Teen Titans first day. They found themselves at the end of the day outside a building that had a sign in front that read 'Jump City Orphanage.' Behind the orphanage was a small playground and this was where Alakazam stopped walking and pointed out towards the horizon.
"There he is guys," she said as she turned her head towards the Titans but kept pointing out towards the horizon. The sun was now level with the ground so all they could see was a few children playing on a jungle gym and a large rock that only appeared as black shadows against the light.
"What, one of the kids?" Beast Lad asked as he put his hand in front of his eyes in an effort to see better.
"No," Alakazam said simple as she smiled and turned her head back towards the sun. "Hey! Big guy!" She yelled before putting her fingers in her mouth and let louse a loud whistle. To the Titans shock what they thought was a large rock began to stand and the children all ran over to the gym as whoever it was began to walk towards the Titans. As he got closer the Titans had to look up until he was standing right in front of them standing at least ten feet tall.
"What do you want?" he asked in a deep monotone. His voice was booming but it remained a sort of gentle sound as well. He wore a large brown cloak with a hood that covered his whole face except for his mouth. The cloak was held together by a clasp on his neck that had a large M in it. With the cloak opened in the front you could see that as well as being tall he was very muscular as showed by the tight black shirt he wore and similar black pants.
"Um, hi," Rave said as he put out his hand out to shake the giants, "I'm Rave."
"Hello," he said in that deep monotone as he covered almost all of Rave's hand with his huge one and when he shook it he shook Rave's entire body as well, "call me Mystic."
"I think I'll let Alakazam take it from here," Rave said as he took a step back from Mystic. He wasn't afraid of him but he wasn't sure what his huge mysterious person could do and he didn't want to have to find out first hand.
"Right," Alakazam said as she clasped her hands together and faced the Titan, "this is my good friend Mystic: protector of all orphanages and foster homes of Jump City." she smiled brightly and Mystic removed his hood. His face was slender but well defined and he had normal length red hair that was in a slightly messed up style from the hood. But the most shocking thing about Mystic's face was his piercing blue eyes.
"That sound's like an honourable cause," Black Bird said as she looked up at Mystic.
"Thank you," Mystic said bowing his head slightly as he put his hood back up, "and that's is why I will not join your team." Mystic then turned and began to slowly walk back towards the play set.
"Hey wait," Rave said as he caught up with Mystic and had to fly up to put his hand on Mystic's large shoulder, "how'd you know that's what we were going to ask?"
"Simple guess," Mystic said as he turned his head to face Rave, "but I still can not join you. My work is far too important."
"Oh come on we both know the real reason," Alakazam said as she jumped in front of her giant friend.
"What's that?" Beast Lad asked as both he and Black Bird came around to stand beside Alakazam.
"His parents are in jail because of your parents," Alakazam said as she put her hands on her hips and looked up at Mystic. She was probably the only one who wasn't intimidated by him in some way.
"And who are your parents," Rave asked as he came around to the rest of the team, he got a look from Mystic that made him back away before adding, "if you'd please."
Mystic sighed and lowered his hood again, "You knew them as Jinx and Mammoth," he closed his eyes and paused for a shocked reaction but none came. He looked up to see that they all just kept looking at him like nothing had happened, "aren't you at least surprised."
"Not really, Alakazam told us your parents were villains on the way here," Beast Lad said calmly as he shrugged his shoulders, "we basically guessed Mammoth and Jinx."
"I couldn't even name any other villains who had relationships," Black Bird chimed in as she shared her brother's reaction. Mystic was taken aback by all this as people usually responded quite differently.
The shock must have shown on his face because Rave began to speak, "we don't care about who your parents are, you aren't them just like we aren't our parents. If your mad at our parents for putting yours in jail then you can take it up with them once we rescue them," this got some surprise from Mystic as he like the rest of Jump City didn't know the Titans were missing. "So what do you say?" Rave asked as he put out his hand.
"Mystic looked down at the hand and a shadow of a smile appeared on his face as he put up his hood, "I'm in."
It took a bit longer then it should have for the now finished team of Teen Titans to get back to the tower. Alakazam insisted on celebrating and the rest didn't mind to go out and enjoy their first pizza as a team. Though they had also found out that all those fights over pizza their parents had told them about were true. Black Bird and Beast Lad begin vegetarians since a young age were disgusted by Androids eating habits, taught to her by her Dad. That and everybody was disgusted by Rave's eating habits as he had already made his way through five bottles of mustard and was slathering relish and mayonnaise on his pizza. Alakazam kept insisting on Hawaiian pizza the whole time and Mystic and Black Bird kept complaining that the pizza place didn't have good enough tea.
Eventfully they all got back though with a full stomach and a greater bound. "Ok lets get the room thing sorted out," Rave said as he turned towards Android for an answer.
"Oh!" Android said a bit shocked that Rave wanted her to pick peoples room, though it was logical as she had lived there her entire life. "Well I'll stick with my room and Beast Lad can have his dad's old room and Black Bird will have her mom's?" she turned to the twins to see if they liked this pick.
"Fine with me," Black Bird said as she headed off to find her new room. Beast Lad shrugged his shoulders too as he went off to fix up his room as well.
"Ok, then Rave you can have your dad's old room and Alakazam can take Starfire's," Android said finding it a lot easy to choose rooms, the tower was full of them after all.
"I'm already off to scrub the pink from the walls," Alakazam said as both her and Rave ran off to their new rooms. Leaving Android looking up at the dark Mystic.
"I guess you can take one of the guest room," Android said not wanting to give up her parent's room, "there the same as all the other rooms they just are sort of plain."
"No, it's fine," Mystic said as he began to slowly walk off towards his room, "it gives me more space to customize."
"Great, so that takes care of that," Android said as she began to walk off to her room. But before she even got out of the room a loud alarm went off as the lights began to flash red. She instantly ran over to the keyboard that flipped out beside the large television and began to type things and look up at the big screen as the rest of the team came running back into the main room.
"What's going on?" Rave asked as he was the first to make it back into the main room.
"Look's like someone's attacking downtown," Android said as she read over the information she was being given, "could be Gadget."
"Who's Gadget?" Beast Lad asked Alakazam silently.
"It's Gizmo's son," Alakazam whispered back as Android continued to name off what he was doing downtown.
"Who would marry Gizmo?" Beast Lad asked a bit confused about what kind of person would marry the demented midget.
"I heard he made a female clone of himself," Alakazam said as she watched Beast Lad's disgust as he imagined Gizmo in a blond wig.
"Alright guys," Rave said as he called attention to himself, "the teams all here and I know I already said this, but right now it just feels more right."
"Oh just say the catch phase already," Beast Lad said with a smile as he crossed his arm and rolled his eyes at his leader.
"Alright then," Rave said as he smiled slyly, "Titans Go!"