Hello boys and girls and welcome to chapter seven of The New Teen Titans, or, chapter one of The Adventures of The New Teen Titans. So alright this is going to be the start of the whole separate plots all revolving around the new Titans so this will be fun. This first little story is going to be based loosely on the first episode of Teen Titans and as the story moves along you'll notice a couple of plots based on past episodes. Well now that I got those bits of info out of the way I'll respond to a few reviews. I'm glad to see you all liked last chapter and were all good and shocked by the Mammoth and Jinx thing, really I think they're an underused couple. Oh and just because it will never fully be brought up in the story Mystic's powers are similar to his mother and father's. He can cast any number of different spells and such in a similar way to Raven and Black Bird, the two things that come naturally to him though are his jinx hexes and super strength. Oh and his jinx hexes come out a dark red instead of his mom's pink shaded ones. Anwen, I have the perfect place for Ember and it's an important part in the story it's just not coming for a long time so sorry but it's going to be great trust me. Oh and finally if you guys would like me to give bios on a character then just ask what character and I'll put a full bio under my author's note. Speaking of, this is the longest note I've written so for those who bother to read these sorry for the wait but here's chapter seven of The New Teen Titans. Sorry this chapter was removed by accident, Mr. D 91 and InkBlotted Chakra sorry your reviews were great. Once again I'm sorry and once again here is chapter seven, please review.
Chapter 7: Rivals: Part 1
H.I.V.E. Academy was founded in 1981 to train meta-humans in the use of their multiple powers and abilities. Though this was the public purpose of the school its true meaning was to train super-elite soldiers for hire. They turned away those who wished to do something else with their powers and got rid of anyone who changed their mind during training. With a strict set of guidelines the school thrived before being revealed for what it is by the then current Titans in 2001. Since that moment they continued to operate secretly before being completely destroyed by the Titans in 2007 as their last stand before breaking up. But in 2012 the school was rebuilt and has since returned to its superhuman training. In fact now six years later its top students are going against the sons and daughters of the ones who original destroyed their fair school.
"Give it up Gadget, we have you out numbered," Rave shouted as the team all stood in front of the technology loving super villain. The street they stood on was deserted and they had already backed Gadget up against a wall, waiting for him to surrender. In spite of his father's size and lack of hair Gadget was a normal sized teenager with a full head of messed up blond hair that a pair of goggles rested on. He had on a dark green bodysuit and a pair of dark green steel toed boots. Across his chest were two black straps that held on his backpack and crisscrossed to form an X on his chest. On these straps were pockets for smaller gadgets. His backpack was used for the larger ones as could be told by the helicopter blades sticking out of it that was lifting him a little into the air.
"Do you now?" Gadget said, his voice less nasally then his father's, he pressed a button on his wrist device and said into it, "back up time."
Suddenly three other teens came out behind the Titans in their own unique ways. The first was a guy who appeared as a vibrating blur and with a weird shifting sound before becoming solid. Well he was shifting a girl came over the top of a building by stretching up and over the five story structure. Before finally the last girl came jumping down from atop a building and landed in a position ready to pounce. "Who are you guys?" Beast Lad asked as he looked at the group of meta-humans.
"Role call guys," Gadget said as he flew over the Titans heads to hover above the other teens.
"Name's Shift," The one who had appeared as a blur said in a British accent as he began to prove his point by shifting to different places around the two teams randomly. He wore an all black bodysuit that had red strips going up and down his legs and arms, which caused a cool effect when he shifted. He wore black boots that had red along the bottom and covering the heel. He wore a cowl that met a pair of black goggles that had red lenses. On his hands he wore a pair of brass knuckles and he was smiling a large smile at the confused Titans.
"Stretch," the girl who had come over the building said as she remained with her body stretched out so that she towered over everyone including Mystic. She wore a purple bodysuit that had a white strip going up the middle. She had long brown hair that went down to her waist and stretched with her. On her hip was a large lopsided belt that had a very large S symbol in its buckle.
"Call me Bobcat," purred the last of them as she bared her fangs at the Titans. She wore the least of the four teens having only a white tank top that had three cat scratches across the chest and a pair of Daisy Dukes with a hole cut out for her tail. She was covered in spotted reddish-brown fur that was all over her body. Her tale was short and her tufted cat ears were located on the top of her head, mixed in with her long reddish-brown hair. Her stance was very catlike and her yellow cat eyes had a gleam of something feral in them.
"I would say something like 'and we're your worst nightmare' but that just sounds corny," Gadget laughed as the Titans looked on at The New H.I.V.E.
Rave was the first to recover from the small shock of meeting the apposing team as he gnawed his teeth and shouted out, "Titans Go!"
Gadget smiled as the Titans ran at them before shouting, "H.I.V.E, attack pattern beta-five!" the team of villains scattered and the Titans all attacked the place the villains were only to connect with thin air.
"Where'd they go?" Alakazam asked as she looked around to find the team had just disappeared.
"I don't know-" Beast Lad began but was cut off as with a shifting sound Shift appeared out of nowhere and wrapped his arms around Beast Lad's neck before disappearing.
"Beast Lad! Android shouted as the team all looked around again and Black Bird and Rave took to the sky.
"I cant see him-" Rave began as Shift once again appeared in the air and put a hand on both Black Bird and Rave making all three of them shift away.
"Ok this is starting to get a Twilight Zone feel to it," Alakazam said as she backed up against Android as Mystic nodded in agreement silently. Just then though Shift appeared for the last time grabbing the girls and shifting away.
"Well looks like it's just you and me old buddy," Gadget said from behind Mystic as he lowered himself to the ground with his arms crossed. When he got low enough four spider legs shot out from the backpack and Gadget became suspended from them putting him at even height with Mystic.
"Gadget," Mystic sighed as he looked at the teen genius, "you should have stayed at the orphanage, you could have done so much good. Instead you followed a darker path and that will one day be your undoing," Mystic said as he shook his head.
"I did what my father wanted me to do, don't blame me if your parents went soft in the end," Gadget said as he raised the front two spider legs in front of himself in an attack stance.
"But my parents are still alive because of it," Mystic said as he stared down Gadget and the intelligent villain eyes got a look of sorrow in them for a brief second.
"That's it, it's on," Gadget growled as he put his goggles on and began to charge Mystic at full speed. Meanwhile Beast Lad was standing up miles away from where he had just been.
Beast Lad had been dropped from a few inches up in the air and was now standing with his hand on his head as he was dizzy from the trip he had taken. "What just happened? Beast Lad asked as he looked at his surroundings. He appeared to be in a tropical rain forest with large trees and vines and a pool of water that had a smile waterfall trickling down a rock. The only reason Beast Lad didn't think he had been taking to Africa was the steep stone walls on the outside of the jungle. Beast Lad looked up to see about two stories up where some bars that people were starting to gather around. "I thought I stopped having this nightmare?" Beast Lad smiled as he put his hands on his hips.
Beast Lad stopped smiling as he heard laughter from behind him that echoed through the artificially environment. "This isn't a nightmare, though it's close enough," came the purring voice of Bobcat from somewhere up in the trees. "Shift couldn't make it all the way to Africa but this will do just as well," she said followed by her dark unnerving laugh.
"Right, well I'll be leaving now," Beast Lad said as he turned around only to be blocked by Bobcat as she jumped down and landed so close in front of him there noses were almost touching.
"But you only just got here," Bobcat said as she advanced on Beast Lad making him stumble backwards before tripping and falling backwards in front of her. "I'm sure my friends would be so disappointed."
"Friends?" Beast Lad said as he gulped loudly. Suddenly five leopards appeared from out of the forest including one right behind Beast Lad. Beast Lad quickly picked himself up off the ground and quickly backed away from the big cat.
He backed up right into Bobcat who just stood still and whispered, "I'd run if I were you."
Across town, above some buildings Rave and Black Bird floated in the air as they both put their hands to their heads as they felt dizzy. "Where did we go?" Rave asked as he looked around.
Black Bird was about to answer but then realized she was alone with Rave which caused her to stutter, "I-I-I'm not sure," she finally got out just as Stretch stretched up onto the roof top across from the two floating teens.
"Come on, lets go," Stretch said as she rolled up her sleeves, "I'm not going to draw this out with some speech," she then lunged at the Titans with her fist stretched out to attack. The two Titans scattered but the fists stretched after them forcing Rave to punch the fist out of the way and for Black Bird to engulf the fist in black magic and throw it back at the sender.
"For a person who stretches you're to the point," Rave said as he charged up his hands with two rave-bolts.
"I try," Stretch said as she went to attack but a large gorilla made of black magic stopped her.
"Azarath Arella Azar!" Black Bird shouted making the gorilla send a punch right at Stretch's jaw sending her body stretching miles away. Black Bird lowered herself to the roof top and the gorilla disappeared as Rave came over to her.
"That was quick," Rave said as he and Black Bird then took off towards where Stretch had went too. The quickest fight having ended a few miles away, on the beach another was about to begin.
Android and Alakazam stood as they looked around the crowded beach as the beach-goers around them began to run away as Shift appeared in front of the two female heroes.
"Hello," Shift said as the beach cleared out around the teens, "Thought I handle you two beautiful ladies myself."
"Guess again," Android said as she raised her sonic cannon and launched a ball of sonic energy at him. It missed and went sailing off across the harbour though as Shift had disappeared too quickly.
"Nice try," Shift said from behind Android as he once again used his teleporting, "but you'll have to move a bit faster then that."
"I got him!" Alakazam shouted as she took out her wand and pointed it at the teleporting teen, but he once again shifted and her spell instead hit Android turning her into a robotic bunny. "Sorry about that An-d," Alakazam said as she turned her friend back to her normal form.
"You girls sure you know what you're doing?" Shift said as he appeared in a lawn chair and pretended to yawn. Alakazam sent another spell at him but he quickly shifted away only to have a ball of sonic energy fired at his new location which he blocked with the chair he had taken with him.
"Impressive," Android said as her cannon still smoked, "but not good enough."
"Oh come on that was smooth," Shift said as he threw the chair away.
"That may be but your reaction time is still a bit slow," with that Alakazam charged him from the side without warning and threw them both into the deep water. Shift began to struggle as he couldn't hold his breath but he quickly got loose from Alakazam's grip and teleported back to the beach. He appeared a few inches above the beach with all the water that had been around him and it all collapsed to the ground as he gasped for breath. Alakazam appeared as well with a poof of smoke but she was completely dry.
"Well that was fun," Alakazam said as Android walked over to Shift and put her cannon to his face as she began to charge it. He looked up and smiled as he grabbed her arm and teleported. He moved so that her arm was pointed right at Alakazam and fired sending her flying backwards.
"Alakazam!" Android shouted as she elbowed Shift in the side. He let go and she then picked him up and threw him as far as she could but he teleported away in midair.
"Where'd he go?" Alakazam asked as she recovered. Suddenly there was an explosion somewhere in town that both the girls heard.
"I got a feeling where," Android said as she activated her jets as Alakazam made a playing card expend so she could hop on it like a flying surfboard. Both girls then took off towards town.
Back at the zoo Beast Lad was swinging from tree to tree as different monkeys and apes as cats jumped at him from all angles. He finally got to the cage and turned into a gorilla to leap at the bars only to find that Bobcat had just jumped onto the bars. She stood on the extremely small ledge the bars gave her with ease as she extended the claws on one of her hands. It was two late for Beast Lad to do anything so he took a sharp set of claws to the face and began to plummet towards the ground.
"Why wont you just take your punishment like a good little boy?" Bobcat asked as she jumped down from the bars and landed on her feet. Beast Lad turned back to his normal form and put his hand up to the cat scratch on his face.
"I'm not going down without a fight," Beast Lad said as he stood and cracked his back as he faced Bobcat.
She smiled slightly before looking back at her cats and shouting, "kill him!" she then ran full force at him as her cats advanced as well. Beast Lad quickly turned into a Rhino and flipped her up and over his back and she landed in the pool of water.
"Sorry but I like living," Beast Lad said as Bobcat began to thrash around in the pool of water and Beast Lad grew a pair of wings and began to fly up to the bars. When he got there he turned his arms into gorilla's and began to bend the bars open as the people who had gathered to watch got out of his way. When he had got the bars pried open enough he heard a growling sound and quickly got out of the way just as Bobcat dived at him. She went through the hole he had made but got stuck right at her hips. Beast Lad quickly closed the bars tighter around her and then turned into a small bird and just flew right through the bars.
"I'll get you," Bobcat shouted as she swiped at him but he just stood right out of reach. There was suddenly a loud explosion from town that made everyone stop and look but the two meta-humans were the first to recover.
"See you around," Beast Lad said mockingly as he turned into a pterodactyl and flew off towards the explosion. Bobcat snarled at him as he left but at the same time a wide feral smile crept slowly onto her face.
As all of this was going on Mystic and Gadget were engaged in combat as Gadget had his four spider legs wrapped around Mystic. Mystic reached up and ripped off the two front spider legs with his bare hands making Gadget stumble backwards. Gadget then contracted his spider legs as the helicopter blades shot back out from his pack. "You really think you can beat me with my father's updated devices?" Gadget asked with a sly grin on his face.
"Did your dad make it jinx proof?" Mystic asked as he sent a hex at Gadget that only made him go back a couple of inches.
"Yeah, yeah he did," Gadget said with a short nod as Mystic looked at him confused, "he didn't really get along (or trust) anyone," Gadget said almost regretfully. Whatever regret was their though left him as two guns popped out of the side of his backpack and Mystic had to react quickly.
He spotted a fire hydrant and smiled, "well did he make it water proof too?" he then sent a hex at the fire hydrant and water began to shoot out of the side and hit Gadget head on. Because he was hovering he had no grip and went flying into the side of a building.
"Turn it off," he gurgled out as the water was hitting him in the face and he tried to get air to his lungs. Mystic took his cue to step in front of the fire hydrant and closed it with his bare hands making Gadget fall from the air. His helicopter blades had been broken by the impact so he had to stand on his own two feet and he was already disoriented from the water. He wobbled forward but then Stretch came out of nowhere and crashed into him.
"Lucky punch," she mumbled before collapsing with Gadget still under her.
"Are you done now?" Mystic asked as he came over and knelt down in front of him.
"Not a chance," Gadget shouted as he grabbed something off one of his straps and attached it to Mystic's cloak. It was a round object that had a G symbol in the middle and small pinchers around the side to grab on to clothing or such. The G in the middle began to flash from green to red with a beeping sound and as the flashes and beeping got closer together Mystic eyes went wide. He ripped it off his clothes and threw it away from him. Just at that moment Shift appeared.
"Gadget I-" he quickly stopped talking though as he saw the bomb coming at him and it went off in midair blowing him backwards and knocking him out. Mystic shook his head as he went to see if he was ok and when he found out he was he threw him onto the growing pile of villains making Gadget groan. Just then Black Bird and Rave got back.
"What happened here?" Rave asked as he looked at the groaning villain.
"I think we won," Android shouted as she landed along with Alakazam.
"Wait where's Beast Lad?" Alakazam said a bit franticly as she hopped off her playing card which instantly shrunk back to normal size and went into her front pocket.
"Back from a great victory," Beast Lad said proudly as he changed back to normal in the air and flexed his muscles.
"Good job guys. Come on lets get home then," Rave said as he and the team all took to the air except for Mystic who sat on the back of Alakazam's playing card with his head down.
This all just caused Gadget to laugh as both Stretch and Shift calmly got up off of him and helped him up, "you really think you've won?" Gadget laughed as he looked at his wrist device that was showing a grid with a small beeping signal on it. The whole team began to laugh as Gadget looked up toward the giant T Tower in the middle of the harbour before saying, "we'll have to see about that, now wont we?"