Well here is the second chapter, please read and review. Hopefully you'll now understand a bit of the backstory of my OC's original universe. The Raptor's origin will be revealed in a later chapter. But I'll let you guess for now at it for now.
Edit: Fixed up so you can understand the Martial law thing better.
Chapter 2: I Are Raptor
A different mood was in the air when the Titans came back to their tower. And how could it not be, considering over a dozen unknown Raptor soldiers were scurring around the place. Captain Recon annouced that he was now using their tower as a base right when they arrived and now his soldiers were unloading all kinds of equipment into the tower. The Titans were trying to peice together what exactly was going on. Recon hadn't told them much except for the fact that the city they had always protected was under martial law. Robin wanted answers and he was going to get them out of the good Captain. Recon was busy looking at a detailed map of the city in the kitchen when Robin approached him.
"Excuse me Recon." Robin began.
"I'm busy at the moment." Recon said not turning around "Is this important?"
"Yes it is. No offence Captain, but in the last half hour you've flown into my city, blown up a few armoured cars that were chasing us, proclaimed we were under martial law and occupied Titans Tower. 'My' Team's tower."
"Your base is the most technologically advanced emplacement around here. If there was someplace nearby with an intruder alert system and built like a fortress I would have set up there."
"My point is I'd like for you to explain what is going on exactly." Robin announced
"I already told you, your city is now in a state of emergency." Recon explained "We warned the US government about the forthcoming invasion of these Mutants and they asked us to try and hold them off while they prepare their army to step foot in the city itself. I'm afraid since the communitcations have been cut off between us and City Hall they have no real say in the matter. I can only assume the worst fo them.
"Not that," Robin told him"I want to know who is attacking Jump City and exactly why you came over here to stop them."
Finally Recon turned to face him
"I suppose you deserve an explanation." He said "Gather you team and meet me in your living room. I'll fill you in on everything."
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Beastboy wasn't really enjoying this day so far. First he fell out of his bed and landed on his face. Next he lost another round of video games to Cyborg who always gloated over every victory for days on end. Then just when he was about to enjoy some pizza a bunch of gun totting lizard creatures jump down from the sky and try to kill him and his friends. Now some Raptor was going through his junk in his room. Grunting something about how bored he was and how he was hoping to find something to do. Beastboy gringed at the thought of the dinosaur getting his claws on his comics. He'll probably rip them to shreads. Now Beastboy would have said something, but he had seen movies with his species of Dinosaur in them and he did not want to re-enact the film's final scenes. So he was standing outside his room with the door open waiting for something to call the Raptor away. He probably would have been there all day had Raven not shown up.
"What exactly are you doing?" she asked
"There's one of those dino-things in my room and he's going through my stuff."
"So just tell him to get out, its what I do whenever someone invades my privacy."
"Yeah but this guy is...well, just listen." Beastboy led Raven up to the door and they both peered in. The Raptor had his head stuck half way down under the bed.
"Bad enough I have to stay with a bunch of Human Teenagers," He spoke with a raspy voice "now my gameboy batteries die. Worthless piece a crap. How come Roger got a PSP, where did he get that money? Bet he asked mom for it. Little dumbwad, how'd he get out his egg anyway? Come on this green dude has to have something mind numbing to do."
"He seems nice." Raven whispered sarcastically to Beastboy.
"Tell me about it." Beastboy whispered back "First couple of minutes he went on over and over about how the Red Sox were the worst team ever. Then he was complaining about his high school days. Pounded my dresser a couple of times in frustration too."
The two stopped talking when the Raptor started up again.
"Doesn't this green guy clean up under his bed? EW! Is that a sandwhich? What is this stuff in it? 'Sniff-Snif' Oh sweet mike, tofu! This dude is a freaking hippie! Man, at least that goth chick's room was clean, its like a damn landfill in here."
Raven was immediately set off by the last comment. Raven pulled the Raptor out from under the bed and levitated him upside down in the air with her powers.
"You went in my room!" She screamed
"Um..." the Raptor started, slightly less mouthy then before. "whoops."
"It's bad enough that you invade Beastboy's privacy," Raven said "but mine!"
"Yeah you tell him Rae." Beastboy shouted
"Beastboy not now." Raven said briefly turning her head to face Beastboy then back to the Raptor. "Don't you know how to act when you're in someone else's house?"
"Techinically this is a tower." The Raptor added.
Raven released the Raptor and let him fall to the ground, he landed right on his head.
"Now who exactly are you and why are you going through our stuff?" Raven asked
"Geez, fine. Don't need to get all violent and junk." The Raptor said dusting himself off and scracthing his striped head along with the three feathers on top of it. "I'm Reige Turagut of the Raptorian Armed forces. I was going through your crap because I couldn't find a decent thing to do around here. Then my brother Rack just told me to go find something to do or stop complaining. So I was all fine, and I stormed off and started looking through everyone's rooms. While I was in yours I found this freaky looking mirror and this talking book in a chest. He was really annoying, kept asking who I was and telling me this boring crap about him and dragons so I dropped him on his spine once or twice."
Raven was emotionally disturbed. In the short time Reige had been looking he had stumbled onto her meditation mirror/portal to her mind and Malchior's book which was still locked in her chest. She knew he probably didn't go into her mind and she was happy Reige didn't let Malchior out. It had taken her days for her and Herald to track him down in Herald's diemension and re-seal him. She didn't want her hard work undone by a Raptor with boredom streak.
"Dude, you really shouldn't be messing with Raven's stuff." Beastboy informed "Believe me it bad news."
"I'm more worried about your crap ya green hippie," Reige shouted back "I mean what kind of person eats tofu sandwhiches?"
"Hey, I'm not a hippie!"
"Yeah right. Bet you have a stash of drugs too."
"Why I oughta..."
Raven stopped Beastboy from doing anything stupid and confronted Reige herself.
"Is it really nesscary to berate someone for their choice of food?" she asked
"Does it look like I care?" Reige asked
"You sir are a very rude reptile. Even Beastboy has better manners then you."
"That's a compliment right Rae?" Beastboy asked.
"Oh you sound like my brothers." Reige interjected "Always telling me to be nice and crap to everyone. If it weren't for the fact that mom made us promise not to kill one another when we joined the army I would have probably done it already."
"Are you always like this?" Raven asked
"Hell, I'm like this 24/7." Reige told her "If I don't get pissed off liked this I've had a dull day. If those damn Red Sox win, I punch a couple of their fans to make myself feel better. The fast food restaurant doesn't get my order right, I shove the damn burger back in the guy's face. If someone says a crack about New York City, I whack them with a Baseball bat. Problem solved."
"Dude, have you ever considered anger management?" Beastboy asked
"Good question." Raven added
"I hate that class, I spit on it." And Reige spat on the ground once he said this.
"Are you done?" Raven asked, hoping the Raptor would leave at last.
"Yeah, I'm done." Reige said "You humans are boring anyway. I need a beer."
With that Reige exited Beastboy's room and made his way to the kitchen. Raven and Beastboy were glad to be rid of him.
"Well that was a interesting encounter." said Raven.
"That dude has some major issues." Beastboy said to himself "Thanks for getting him to leave before he found my comics Rae."
"Anytime, you know about my personal stance on privacy. Besides, I'd talk back to a creep like that anyday."
It was then that another Raptor with bushy Feathers covering his head came down the hall and looked at them from the open doorway.
"Say, have you two seen a raspy voiced Raptor with anger problems?"
"You mean Reige?" Raven asked
"Yeah him"
"Dude just came in here looking through my stuff," Beastboy told the Raptor "we had a talk with him and he stormed off trying to find a beer."
"Oh god," The Raptor said shaking his head "I'm real sorry. I'm Rack his older Brother. Please don't hold a grudge against him, he's not good at making first impressions."
"We figured that out on our own." Raven responded
"I'll go talk to him. Again, he's an all around great brother. He just has a few social issues and he's just ticked that he has stay here."
"Why?" Beastboy asked "What wrong with this place?"
"Its not the place, it the people in it." Rack assured "Many Raptors don't think highly of humans."
"How come?" Raven asked
"Its a long and unfortunate story and this isn't really the time to talk about history lessons." said Rack looking away like the subject was something he didn't want to share "For now lets just say that our history with your species hasn't exactly been very delightful. In fact its been kinda violent." Raven and Beastboy simply accepted the Raptor's reason by nodding their heads. "Good, I'll be in the living room if you guys need anything." Then Rack left.
"Well at least these dinos aren't all bad." Beastboy thought.
"As long as they never go back in my room I'm fine with them." said Raven
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Cyborg was down in the garage. It was where he always went after a battle. He wanted to let the T-car get even the tinest of scratches go un-noticed. Which was why he was now under the hood looking to see if anything had been dislodged or knocked around. Thats when a rather chipper Texan accent spoke up behind him.
"Watcha doin'?"
In the surprise Cyborg had hit his head on the Hood of the car trying to turn around and face whoever it was. When he eventually got over the intial shock he saw rather chubby looking Raptor with Sloppy joe in his hand. He was in the same uniform as the rest of his friends but this one was covered in stains.
"Man you shouldn't sneak up on people." Cyborg said rubbing his head
"Oh sorry," The fat reptile replied "I didn' mean notin'. I was just looking around the place to try and meet you guys. I never really meet many superheroes ya know. So I was a wonderin'..." Thats when the Raptor noticed Cyborg's T-Car. "Hey is that your car?"
"Uh, Yeah." Cyborg responded. How exactly did this Raptor miss the fact that there was a car here?
"Cool. I'm usually my brother's designated driver." The Raptor started "I'm like the guy they always get to drive any vehicle we have to use on missions. Say have you ever driven a tank before? I have. Not much actual space for your snacks but its good for crushing cars and junk."
"Okay," said Cyborg wearily. He didn't understand why this Raptor was telling him this. "Um what did you say your name was exactly?"
"Oh shoot, I'm sorry. My name is Roger, Roger Turagut. O' course I don't need to know who you are. You're Cyborg. The robot guy." The Raptor continued munching on his sloppy joe.
"Uh huh, yeah. Um where exactly did you get that sloppy joe?" Cyborg asked
"Oh, its my last sloppy joe ration. You want some?" The Raptor offered cyborg the half eaten and rather drippy sloppy joe.
"Uh no thanks, I already ate." Cyborg told him.
"Alright, it cool." Roger stated as he continued to munch on his sandwhich.
"Say did you say that was a ration pack?" Asked Cyborg
"Uh yeah. It what us army folk eat during breaks. We gots hamburger rations, hot dog rations, deep fried chicken rations, chicken leg, ham and o' course Spam. Cause what army ration roster would be complete without Spam."
"You actually like Spam?" Cyborg asked bewildered that anyone could actually eat that stuff, in his experience it was almost as bad as tofu.
"Yeah everyone likes Spam. Well if not everyone, me at least. My brother do say I can eat anything."
"Yeah I'm sure they do." Cyborg said looking at the Raptor's portly stomach once again.
"Say do you know where the other superhero guys are?" Roger asked "I want to meet who exactly I'm staying with. You know common curtosity and all."
"Well I'm not really sure."
At that moment Starfire floated through the door of the garage.
"Friend Cyborg, do you know where Robin is at the present time?"
"No Star sorry."
Then of course Star noticed Roger.
"Cyborg, please tell me who this new friend is?"
"Oh this is Roger. He's one of those Raptor soldiers you know."
"Hi." Roger waved cheefully.
"Hello please tell, where do you come from? How did you get here? What is your favourite color? Do you wish to be my friend?"
Roger was obviously rather nervous at the fact the alein princess was so close to his face.
"Uh, Raptoria, but I've enherited a bit of Texas, I flew on some helicopter, yellow and okay I guess."
And of course, this promted Starfire to go into another one of her bone crushing hugs. This time it encured its wrath upon Roger's rather chubby frame.
"Hello new friend!" Star shouted
"Organs! Exploding!" Roger managed to spit out before colapsing in a heap at Star's release.
Star had apparently forgotten all about Robin and now only wished to please her new friend.
"I must apologise for my hug. Robin and my friends say I do not know my own strength." Starfire said pulling Roger back up Sloppy Joe still in hand. Which he immediately shoved in completely thinking he didn't want Star to make him cough it all back up next time she hugged him. "Allow me to make up for my transgression by offering some traditional Tamarian Glorck."
"Is that food?" Roger asked
"Correct."
"Alrighty then, I'm still hungry anyway."
Star immediately grabbed Roger by his clawey hand and dragged him off. Cyborg simply shook his head.
"Poor guy doesn't know what his stomach is getting itself into."
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Starfire of course was elated that Roger would be trying her home planet's food. She was even more pleased that unlike her friends he wasn't fidgeting or squirming around like most people did when they first saw Glorck. Roger just poked it with his tail once or twice trying to understand exactly what it was.
"So is this thing like jello or somethin'?" He asked
"The proper ingridents are from my home planet." Starfire informed him "I have to make due with what is here on earth. Please enjoy, it is most delicious."
"Well okay, you're the alien." Roger simply stuck his spoon in and scooped out some of the Glorck. As always he immedielty placed it in his mouth and swallowed. Five seconds later after going over the taste left in his jaws he smiled and shoved what was left into his mouth. "Damn, this stuff is good."
"Did I not tell you?"
"You know what could make it better?"
"What?"
"Mustard!"
Starfire gasped "That is what I was thinking!"
"Well great chefs think alike." Then Roger had an idea, which was extremely rare "Hey do you have more of that stuff?"
"Yes." Star responded
"Lets see what we can add to make it even better!" Roger told her
"A wonderful idea!"
"I'll get the Bar-B-Q sauce!" Roger started searching through his army bag on his back for his Bar-B-Q sauce when he noticed a familiar face come through the door. One of his brothers, a tall lanky Raptor with an unusal abnormality, His right eye had been replaced with a scope and his right nostril had a rifle nozzle sticking out of it. In short the Raptor had a sniper rifle fused into his skull and whats more it could work.
"Where in bloody hell have you been Roger?" The raptor said in a slight British accent.
"I've been hanging with my new friend Starfire here!"
"Greetings!" Star said poking her head up and noticing Snipe "Please why is your eye made of glass and a weapon sticking out of your nose?"
"Mission accident, toxic waste, horrible pain, ended up like this." The raptor said in a slightly annoyed voice "You may call me Snipe. Now may I ask what you and Roger are doing exactly."
"I'm helping her with her Glorck creations." Roger told Snipe
"Would you like to be the first to try our Glorck with mustard?" Starfire asking shoving a plate of the stuff in Snipe's face.
"Oh yes, that is exactly how I want to die," he said sarcastically "from tasting alien food with mustard on it."
"I ate it and it was fine." Roger told him
"That is because you have cast iron stomach." Snipe retorted "That and you'll eat anything."
"Oh come on big Brother, just one bite?" Roger coerced
Sniped sighed and took the spoon from Roger. Quickly he scooped some of Star's creation and slipped it into his mouth and swallowed. His facial expression still unchanged he turned to Roger.
"Very well, you were correct. It was quite good. In fact I believe I would like some more please."
"Most wonderful," Starfire clapped "I shall make more Glorck for my new friends."
As Starfire returned to the back to the kitchen to make more food for her two new friends, Snipe and Roger started talking.
"Have you seen Reige or Rack at all?" Snipe asked
"I was too busy searching for the superhero dudes." Roger told him "I met Cyborg. He's got this cool looking car! Not too talkative though, probably caught him at a bad time or somethin'."
"Well me and Rack have been looking for Reige ever since he started some stupid quest to get less bored." Snipe informed "He's probably already angered at least two people in this tower. Knowing Reige he probably did something really stupid like open up the Titans' weapons locker or evidence vault."
"He's probably just shootin' bottles with his shotgun." Roger said trying to have faith in what little he could give to his tempermental brother.
"Speak of the devil." Snipe said pointing to the door that Reige had just walked in. "Well Reige have you managed to piss anyone off this time?"
"Oh stuff it Bullets for Brains," Reige snorted "if it weren't for the fact I don't have a decent handheld I wouldn't be bored of this place already."
"Well if you saved up your money for one you'd have one wouldn't you?" Snipe told him
"Your logic is as sharp as always." Reige said rolling his eyes "So what have you been up to?"
"Roger here has been trying to make friends with our hosts." Snipe informed "Unlike you who has probably been going around sneaking into their rooms and trying to steal their stuff."
"Uh...No I haven't." Reige said nervousily trying to avoid eye-contact. The thing he did when he lied, which Snipe immediately recognized
"Oh dear." Snipe thought as he rubbed his temple
Star returned to the table. And looked upon her newest guest and the others with a smile.
"Friends I have made fresh batches of Glorck for all!"
"The hell?" said Reige confused
"Its called Glorck." Roger told him "Try some its awesome."
"Indeed, Roger knows what he is speaking of." Snipe added
"Since when does Roger know anything?" Reige asked quite rudely.
Starfire was surprised someone would speak about their fellow family members this way. Perhaps 'her' sister, but she didn't think others would be like her too.
"Reige! Remember what we talked about?" Snipe reminded
Reige let out a sigh "We don't make fun of Roger's IQ because it builds self-esteem problems." Reige said all of this rather annoyed.
"Good, now try some of Starfire's food. It will be a welcome change for some one who frowns upon other cultures' delights."
"Hey! I eat chinese!" Reige told him
"You know what I mean." Snipe decided to shove the spoonful of Glorck into Reige's mouth himself. Who at first resisted swallowing it but eventually succumed. And took his place at the table.
"More please." Reige asked in defeated voice
Starfire smiled and added another scoop of Glorck for Reige. He may have been rude but she somehow thought that the other brothers all had a good friendship with each other anyway. That was when Rack finally entered. Starfire now looked upon the last of the Turagut brothers as he entered the room
"There you are Reige. I've been looking all over for you."
"I didn't do nothing! I swear!" Reige denied
"You know, thats how he always knows you did something." Snipe informed
"Shut up!" Reige yelled
"Listen Reige," Rack began "as long as we are staying in this tower we are going to treat the Titans with respect and dignity. This includes not going into their rooms and messing with their stuff."
"But Rack, they're humans!" Reige screamed "Annoying stupid humans! Their closest living relatives pick bugs out of each other's hair and eat them!"
"Reige," Rack spoke "as your commanding officer I order to stop using those stupid analogies everytime we talk about this subject. Not everyone in this family still believes in those stupid school ryhmes about humans. Are we clear soldier?" Reige just triddled his claws "I said Are We Clear?" Rack asked with emphasis on each word.
"Yes Sarge." Reige said looking at his feet.
The entire spectacle reminded Starfire of Robin's leadership. And she was happy that Reige, who she surmised to be the rather rude memeber of the family was put in his place. Perhaps this was how they kept their family together.
"Good. Now, what exactly are you three eating?"
"Starfire's delicious Glorck suff from Tamaran." Roger informed
"Its rather good actually." Snipe added
Rack used his claw to taste some it and was rather pleased with the taste.
"Hm, good." Rack complimented as he sat down at the table and awaited Starfire to slide over a bowl.
"It is most delightful to have met all of you." Starfire smiled "As it is always delightful to meet new friends."
"Well thanks for sharing the grub miss." Said Roger "You can cook for us anytime!"
Starfire beamed yet another smile just as Robin marched through the door with the other Titans.
"Friends, it is good to see you. You must meet my new friends, the Turaguts." She pointed to each of them as she said their names "Roger, Snipe, Reige and Rack."
Reige just looked away as he saw both Raven and Beastboy. Snipe and Rack gave solem salutes and Roger was well...
"Wow, Robin. I've heard all about you?" Roger was practically shaking Robin's hand off "What it like in Gotham? Is it all dark and stuff? Where did you learn kung fu? Cause I'd like to know that stuff. I mean I've seen a lota Ninja movies and all but I always fall on my face."
"Please stop shaking my hand," Robin asked politely "you're crushing it."
"Oh sorry," Roger then went over to Beastboy "Hey Beastboy! You can turn into animals right? You can huh?"
"Uh yes." Beastboy answered
"Can you change into me?"
Beasboy shrugged his shoulders and followed his request. He quickly changed into a Raptor and Roger was basically ecstatic.
"Oh god, this is so cool." As Beastboy changed back Roger went over to Raven "Hey Raven, hi. I like your cloak its all like so dark mysterious. Not only that but it looks cool. The closest I gots to a cloak is a hoodie. But it ain't cool and all."
"Uh Thanks." said Raven bewildred.
"Say I always wanted to know, what that funny looking jewel thing on your head is?" Roger asked "Is it like a fashion statement, something you stole from a powerful wizard? Whats it do?"
"Its a chakra. It helps control my powers."
"Wow, thats pretty cool."
Rack stepped beside his brother and put his hand on his shoulder
"Please excuse my little brother, he usually isn't like this." Rack told the Titans "Its just his first time meeting super heroes and he's a bit over stimulated."
"Its okay," Robin assured "we just don't get many people like him."
"Yeah," Beastboy muttered "extremely friendly people."
"Roger is the one who is good at first impressions." said Rack "He's probably the most polite and good natured Raptor I know."
"Can I have sugar now?" Roger asked
"No Roger," Rack told him "you know what the doctor said."
"Yeah I know," a dissapointed Roger said "When I get over-stimulated the last thing I need is sugar."
"Maybe some herbal tea could help bring him down." Suggested Raven
"Oh boy! I like tea!" Roger said perking up
"Later," said Robin "right now Captain Recon is going to tell us exactly what is going on."
"Very well," Rack complied "come on squad best get to the briefing before the Cap gets all ticked."
The Raptors got up from their seats and walked over to the living room area.
"So who is this Recon dude anyway?" Asked Beastboy
"The most tech savy Raptor in the entire Military." Rack responded.
"He's a master of steatlh and knows everything about technological warfare." Snipe added
"Um," Beastboy said looking at Snipe. "Do you have a sniper rifle in your nose?"
"Toxic waste, Mission gone wrong, horrible pain." Snipe answered nonchalantly
Beastboy's question earned him a nudge from Raven. He supposed he deserved that.
Finally when they were all seated down, Recon laid out the situation.
"Okay," He began "I hate giving history lessons, but since not all of us are familiar with our enemy at the moment I think its only proper to fill you in."
Beastboy raised his hand.
"Is there going to be a quiz or something?" He asked
"No." Recon answered agitated causing Beastboy to shrink back into his seat "Now Robin, the dinosaurs you faced at the Pizza Parlour with your team are called Mutants. They, are like us, Dinosaurs brought back to life by genetic scientists."
"Just like that movie!" Beastboy proclaimed and quickly shut up as the others eye balled him
"Here's the history. After the end of WWII and subsequent faltering of the relationship between the Western powers and the USSR, Moscow issued a project that would hopefully give them the edge over Washington. They planned to create an army of dinosaur warriors from small scraps of genetic DNA samples still left in remote corners of the world. Parts of the arctic, Mongolia, Siberia, even as far as Antarctica and Central America. However many of the DNA samples were incomplete. In order to get an actual clone of a dinosaur to live they would need to complete the missung DNA strands with other more complete DNA strands. Therefore the Russians spliced together genes of other Dinosaurs and living animals with the incomplete samples which created Mutated DNA strands within the creatures themselves."
"Freaky." said Beastboy, earning him a 'sssh' from the others.
"So whatever became of the project?" Robin asked
"It met with repeated failed attempts and several re-clonings of the same genes leading to even more mutations and abonormalities. Think of it as creating a copy of a copy of a copy and so on. Eventually the project was disbanded after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the island where the research was being done on abandoned. But in their haste to abandon it, the scientists didn't destroy their work. Thousands of mutant dinosaur eggs they thought to be failures. In truth, they were simply dormant and when they hatched an entire new species of dinosaur were born. Some of the Mutants share similarities with other animals, such as cross between a Triceratops and a dog. Other times they have two heads sharing the same body or an extra tail. The combinations are various and seem to be growning each year."
"So why are they attacking us?" Asked Raven
"It happened several years ago after the Mutants had set up their country of Mutentica on their Island home and their leader Gala Stalin, a Half Galamimus, half Celophysis, ordered the invasion of Eastern Europe. Apparently when the Mutants found out why they were created they went straight to work trying to fullfill their 'Destiny' as it seemed. We managed to stop them before they could get a foot hold in Poland and pushed them out. Gala Stalin was killed leading a final assualt on one of our bases there."
"Who destroyed him?" Starfire asked
Recon simply looked over to Snipe, who seemed rather embarrassed.
"I thought he was a Tank commander with that helmet on." He said
"With Gala Stalin dead, The UN had to relegate a new leader to a position of power to keep the country from going into a state of anarchy. Raptoria, thats us, eventually settled for a Allosaurus/Stegosaurus mutant named Stabasaurus.
"Well that's a great name." Raven said sarcastically
"He was really the only one who wanted the job. Looking back on it now, it was a mistake to put him incharge."
"Why?" Cyborg asked "What happened?"
"Stabasaurus had no intention of following the agreements that the UN and Raptoria had set up. He rebuilt his military forces in relative secret and launched an attack on Raptorian soil. Those were dark days for us. President General Rage was almost killed several times. (A/N: No relation to the actual author, I give my internet name as one of my characters all the the time, it makes things easier) Anyway, we eventually turned the tide and kicked the Mutants out of the Carribbean and arrested Stabasaurus for War Crimes in his own office, after a long and grueling battle of course. After that a new leader was voted into office. The country is now run by President Horturcough and Mutentica's now a democratic nation and hasn't gotten involved in major global conflicts since."
"So who are these freaks?" Beastboy asked
"Not everyone wants to forget old Mother Mutentica. The Mutants you fought are members of a rogue army division know as the 37th Paratroop Brigade. Led by a one General Karvisko. Karvisko was former member of the Communist cabinet of Stabasarus and he was even lucky to maintain his rank of General. He didn't like being demoted from Secretary of Defense however. It appears he didn't like losing the old communist ways either. He's brought his entire army over to his side of thinking and now more then 2800 Mutant soldiers are attacking your city. They're now callling themselves 'The Red Path'. And they ain't going to stop until this city is theirs."
"But why us?" Robin asked
"One of two reasons. First is personal. After our country was conquered the 37th was supposed to invade Jump City as part of the Mutant's next phase, conquering America. Fortunately it never came to pass. It appears however that Karvisko wants to complete that mission. The second reason is tactical. A cheif member of the President's cabinet was on his way to a UN summit in New York. His flight was rerouted here and he decided to spend the night. Guess who rerouted the flight?"
"Karvisko." Robin answered
"Correct. He managed to hack into the airport's flight systems and told them that their route had been changed. All flights to New York were later cancelled and our VIP was forced to stay here before he could continue on. We suspect Karvisko had that arranged too."
"Whose that VIP?" Robin asked
"Major Rash," Recon announced "Senior Advisor to the President and Cheif of the intelligence and Anti-Terrorism bereau."
"Major Rash?" Beastboy chuckled
"You wouldn't be laughing if he was here." Reige told Beastboy "He would chew you up and spit you out. Then he'd do it again. He's also ripped. Works out in the gym everyday, lives in there practically. He's pretty spry for an old guy."
"He was our Boot Camp officer back when we were just recruits." Rack informed
"Yeah that camp was fun." said Roger "We really should set up a reunion for the graduates."
"Roger, do you remember how you almost didn't pass?" Snipe asked
"Well yeah," Roger answered "but it was a great couple of weeks."
"So where is he now?" Robin asked
"Thats the problem, the Major was attacked about a few minutes before we arrived. About the time the Mutants began their infiltration. They launched their trooper planes from their arctic base and flew them all the way down the west coast disguised as public airline flights. Then of course they bailed everything from their planes out and let them crash just a few miles outside of town. They already had some of their ground squads arrive a few weeks ago to prepare for Rash's arrival. The Mutentican government has condemmend the actions of Karvisko and his men, they're givining us full power to do anything to stop them. So there is no danger of an international incident. The Major and his entourage called me a few minutes before we arrived back at the tower. He's being held up in a parking garage with his entourage. I have sent men over there to secure the area until we can properly extract him to this location. But he zone around the area is too hot and I can't land anyone else in there. If we want to get the Major out of there alive we're going to have get him out of there on foot."
"How?" Robin asked
"Here's the plan." Recon said turning to city map behind him where the Titans screen was usually. "Turagut squad, that's Rack and his brothers, will land a few blocks outside the hot zone by Blackhawk. And a Armoured Personal Carrier will meet them at the redezvous point. They'll then proceed to the Parking garage and escort the Major to safety in the carrier. After the Major is safe we can work on getting this city back under order."
"Where do we fit in?" Robin asked
Recon was somewhat surprised to hear this from Robin "Robin," He said "this isn't your average everyday bank robber or sadistic psychopath. This is war. Its dangerous. And these terrorists are highly rained professional soldiers. They'll kill you and not care. They'll go and have their fish and chips a few minutes after they slaughter you. And if we lose you the city will be in more panic then ever."
"This is my city and the Teen Titans have sworn to protect it." said Robin "No matter what."
"You have guts kid, I'll give you that." Recon told him "Fine, those of you who can fly will go with the Turaguts beside their Chopper. Provide them cover. Just because they're on the edge of the hot zone doesn't mean there won't be mutants." Raven, Starfire and Beastboy nodded in compliance "Cyborg and Robin will go with the APC and make sure it gets there safely. Don't hesitate to kill the Mutants, cause they'll do the same to you if they get a chance."
Rack jumped up from the couch.
"Enough with the talk, lets kick us some terrorist butt." He said cocking his submachine gun.
"You have your orders," Recon closed "recover The Major and get back here. I'll be heading there with you on the ground in the APC. Watch each others backs and you'll be okay out there. Gentlemen, get to it."
With that the Raptors and Titans went to their respected designated depature points. Bestboy, Raven and Starfire went to the roof with the Turagut brothers as the Chopper landed and let the Raptors on.
"So you good to go Raven?" Beastboy asked
"I was born ready." Raven responded
"Just be carfeul okay," Beastboy said to her "I don't wanna see anyone get hurt."
"Fear not friends," Starfire assured "we shall be victourious."
"If you're done talking kids," Reige called over from the Chopper that was ready to take off "its time for us to rock this city! Raptorian style!"
Well I hoped you liked it, in the next chapter you'll finally get to see the Raptors in action. for now however, please review.
Edit: To all those who don't know, Ceolophysis and Galamiusus are two different kinds of Dinosaurs. Just letting you know.