A/N: Hey, everyone, this is a story I decided to write randomly, so it's probably not that great, but I do try. So, on with the introductions!
Sky: First up, there is Robin, the not so great leader of the Teen Titans!
Robin: What do you mean by that? I'm a great leader! I even have a utility belt!
Sky: Yeah, sure, whatever… Next up, Cyborg, the half man, half machine, mechanic and computer dude of the Teen Titans!
Cyborg: You aren't that great of a leader, Robin. You're no Batman.
Robin: You shut up! I'm an awesome leader!
Cyborg: You did not just tell me to shut up!
Robin: Well I just did, and I have a utility belt, so I am a great leader!
Cyborg: I'll change that! -Snatches the utility belt and whips Robin with it-
Beast Boy (from out of nowhere): He's right, Robin! You're not that good of a leader! I think I would do a much better job than you could ever do! Right Cyborg?
-Silence and cricket chirping-
Beast Boy: Right?
Sky: Ah, one of the lesser members of the Teen Titans… Beast Boy… He's the 'Comic Relief' Titan…
Beast Boy: Lesser?
Sky: Let's move on, shall we? The next Titan is Raven! The mysterious moody chick from Azarath!
Raven: Moody? You asshole.
Sky: And last, but not least… Starfire, the perky Tamaranian who drinks mustard and cooks weird looking conglomerations!
Starfire: Please, friend Raven, what is a 'conglomeration'?
Raven: -Rolls her eyes- Starfire, I think he just insulted your cooking.
Starfire: Nonsense! I do not believe that friend Sky would dare do something that would result in me removing his Blorthrax by using brutal force! -Glares at Sky-
Sky: -Gulps- Uh… The Blorthrax is… Uh… Sorry Star! -Runs off- Enjoy the story! Oh and:
Disclaimer: I do not own Teen Titans or anything like that!
Chapter One: Obstacles and Raven
It was a seemingly quiet day in Titans Tower when there was a loud eruption in the kitchen.
"What's the trouble team!" Naturally, it was Robin who rushed to the scene first, followed by two other team members.
"Everything's under control!" The obviously distressed voice of Beast Boy could be heard, his face covered in black ash.
"I told you that no good would come from cooking that Tofu crap!" Cyborg was smiling from ear to ear maliciously. "Bet you wish you had some bacon right now, huh?"
Beast Boy squeaked "No way! Meat is murder, don't you know?!"
Robin stepped in. "It doesn't matter who eats what, what does matter is whose cleaning up this mess." Robin, being satisfied with the point he made left the room before they elected him to clean the mess.
Beast Boy, knowing he would have to clean up the mess, made a dash for the door. "Not it!" He yelled.
Cyborg caught him by the hair and brought him up to face him. "Not so fast BB!" Cyborg put him down and walked out of the kitchen.
In the TV room Starfire and Raven were already watching TV. Well, Raven was reading a book and Starfire was asking a million questions a minute about what she was watching. "Raven, why must the man hop on one leg while he is being pelted with eggs?" Raven looked over her book "Well, Star. It's really complicated. Guys are idiots." She said.
The doorbell suddenly rang. "I'll get it!" Beast Boy ran to the door but Raven simply flew over and answered it. Beast Boy drooped and went back to cleaning up the kitchen.
"Hello?" Raven questioned almost accusingly in her stoic voice at the sight infront of her.
When she opened the door there stood a boy about her height, with slightly past shoulder length disco green hair, which covered his left eye, a jewel in the center of his forehead similar to Raven's, save for the color, which matched his green locks. And covering his eyes, were a pair of dark sunglasses. He was wearing a leather jacket over a plain white t-shirt and a pair of fitted black ripped jeans.
Raven cocked an eyebrow in justified suspicion. "Er… Wait here. Robin! Can you come down here, please?" She shut the door in the visitor's face and a few moments later Robin opened it again.
"Uh…" Robin was, for once, speechless. The visitor coughed, snapping him back to reality. "Uh… May I help you?" Robin said unsure of his words.
The visitor smiled "I hope so… May I come in?" The visitor had a calm, nearly stoic voice, that possessed what Robin could only assume was a slightly foreign lilt to it.
"Oh, of course!" Robin showed him to the couch. "Sit down, please!" The visitor sat across from Robin watching his every move through his dark sunglasses. "So, why are you here?" He was still unsure of his words.
"I'm here to join the Titans." The visitor stated simply, as if applying to be a Titan was as simple as applying for a job at a fast food restaurant.
Robin blinked "Uh… Well do you have any powers or special abilities?" He asked, trying to take their strange guest seriously.
The visitor simply smirked and removed his sunglasses. "Yes, and I believe you'll find my abilities quite interesting…" The second Robin made eye contact with him he gasped "Let's keep me wanting to join our little secret, alright?" He winked and put his dark shades back on. "I want to get more acquainted with the rest of the team first… Oh, and by the way, I'm called Skylar."
The visitor currently referred to as Skylar stood up. "I'm hungry… While I'm out would you assemble the team so I can meet them?"
Robin simply nodded as all the information sunk in, still in half shock from his eyes. "Wait!" Robin stopped his in his tracks. "Where are you going, Skylar?" Robin tried out the name for the first time.
Skylar smiled "I heard that there's a sweet pizza joint not too far away. I thought I'd check it out." He stated calmly. "I'll be back in half an hour… or whatever…" With that he gave a backward wave and walked out the door, leaving behind a trail of mystery and one dumbfounded Robin. Robin walked up the stairs to gather the team, just as Skylar requested.
Skylar sat at a table eating his pizza in peace, when all of a sudden he felt an impact hit his shoulder. Skylar looked up, but all he saw was a bunch of immature jerks throwing food at him, the initial impact was a milkshake that had hit him.
"Hey, greenie, what's up with your hair? It looks like, like grass!" All the guys at the table laughed at their friend's joke.
Skylar growled, trying to ignore them but they persisted and eventually it became too much for him to handle. Skylar sighed and picked up a rock.
Skylar lounged the rock at one of the guy's forehead hitting him right in the center of his eyes, thus knocking him unconscious. The other guy's looked at Skylar in horror more afraid of the malicious smirk he held on his face than the fact that he had knocked their friend out. Skylar stood up from the table without paying when one of the waitresses called to him.
"Wait! You forgot to pay, sir!" The girl, around the age of 18 said.
Skylar sweat dropped as he suddenly broke into a run. "Two crimes in the last five minutes! How am I ever gonna be able to live with good guys?" The waitress had stop chasing him a while back, but he was in a hurry to get back to the Tower before he kept the team waiting.
Skylar, having arrived at the Tower, yet again, rang the doorbell. Skylar grumbled, the milkshake had started to dry and was becoming sticky on his jacket. "Stupid jerks…"
This time Robin came to the door first "Skylar… Wow you're back… I thought you had run away." Robin smiled and Skylar smiled back
"You wish! I'm not that easy to get rid of!" Robin opened the door to reveal the other four Titans staring back at him.
Skylar blinked, looking at all of them individually.
"Uh…" Robin cut in before he could talk "Don't you want to sit down with the rest of us?"
Skylar smiled a bit nervously. "Sure, why not…" Skylar sat down at the far end of the couch away from everybody else.
Robin was the first to speak "Well, team this Skylar. He's here to visit for a while."
Raven was the second to speak "What do you mean by 'visit'?" She asked, not liking the idea of a stranger staying in the tower.
Before Robin could answer, Skylar cut in. "Well, it's funny actually. My home was destroyed by the one you know as Slade and I've gathered some information that you guy's may find essential to taking Slade down. Unfortunately my memories have been compacted into the back of my mind by Slade, so I need your guy's help get them out…"
Robin gave Skylar the 'nice save, man' look, but Skylar gave him the 'I'm serious look'. Robin rose an eyebrow in shock and surprise.
Robin coughed "Well, until then I think Skylar should get more acquainted with the team."
Skylar grinned "So who should I get acquainted with first?" He asked, taking off his sticky jacket and placing it on his lap.
Robin spoke first "I think I should introduce myself first. As you most likely already know, I'm Robin the leader of the Titans, and I used to be Batman's sidekick and I study the martial arts. Now it's your turn Cyborg." Robin pointed to Cyborg.
Cyborg held his hand out to Skylar who shook it "The name's Cy and I'm the mechanic slash video game Guru. Your turn BB." Beast Boy glared at Cyborg "My name's Beast boy, and I'm the true video game Guru here! Oh yeah and I'm a Shape shifter! Your turn Star!" Skylar listened intently mentally noting every detail of their introductions. Raven and Starfire's introductions passed by him too soon.
Starfire had offered him a large range of Tamaranian food's that he declined, convincing her that he had eaten already. His arms were crushed to his body because of the hug, and instead of answering any of her many questions he simply went limp and passed out from a lack of oxygen.
About half an hour later, Skylar woke up dizzy. He looked up and screamed due to the fact that one Tamaranian had surprised him by looming over him. He was on the couch and the rest of the Titans were training. "Hey… Starfire, was it?" He blinked, trying to make the room stop spinning.
"Yes, and I am overjoyed that you can recall my name after we have only met once!"
Skylar sat up and scratched the back of his head. He saw that his leather jacket was now cleaned and folded neatly on the coffee table beside him. "So the rest of the Titans are training?" Starfire nodded and Skylar spoke again "Well, then why aren't you out there with them?" He put his beloved jacket back on and smiled at Starfire in thanks.
Starfire blushed lightly. "Er, I volunteered to take care of you because I was the one who caused your ailment."
"Oh. That's cool, I guess. So, how does it feel to be a Teen Titan, Starfire?" Skylar asked, trying to start a conversation.
Big mistake on Skylar's behalf, because Starfire went in to one big lecture about the importance of protecting the city and how it was her sworn duty to defend the city against evil. Skylar walked out to the training field halfway through her speech.
On the training field Skylar was watching Beast Boy run the obstacle coarse. Skylar walked over to Robin and they started to talk.
Raven, on the other side of the field was trying to hear their conversation, but unfortunately she was out of hearing distance. She then tried to tap into his thoughts they seemed to be... Blocked? Either they were blocked, or he wasn't thinking. She decided to go with the latter. Raven didn't like this visitor, and she didn't trust him as far as she could throw him, which ironically would be pretty far if the situation arose.
"Nice job Beast Boy!" The leader like voice of Robin could be heard from across the field "Hey team, Skylar wants to try out the obstacle coarse. Is that okay?"
Starfire, who had joined them when she realized that Skylar was gone, looked happy. Everyone's faces lit up, except for Raven's.
"That's awesome, Skylar, I didn't know you had powers, too!" Beast Boy squealed in delight.
Skylar, who was already at the starting line, simply smirked as the one lens of his sunglasses, that wasn't covered by his hair, gleamed. He was taking a short coarse the consisted of several attack droids, a sinking sandpit, flaming monkey bars, which were Beast Boys idea, a pool full of alligator droids, and a landmine field. Skylar blinked "I guess with training like this you guys must be ready for anything!"
"Ready… Set…" Robin's voice sounded as Skylar tensed his body. "GO!" Skylar sped off as several attack droids shot lasers at him. Skylar stopped his running and concentrated all his energy and suddenly his whole body erupted with wind circling around him in a cyclone like pattern, throwing his leather jacket dancing in his personal cyclone. The Titans who were watching from the sidelines were in total shock.
"Dude! I've never seen that trick before!" Beast Boy looked on in awe.
Robin smirked somewhat proudly. "That's no trick…"
Raven just raised an eyebrow [iWhat is he?[/i
Skylar shot what seemed to be a ball of wind out of one palm and a ringlet of wind out of the other destroying two droids at once. After that Skylar leapt into the air smashing a droid with his foot and blasting another with a concentrated gale of wind he conjured from above. After destroying all of the droids he caught his jacket from the air and ran to the next challenge: the sinking sand.
Skylar jumped to what he thought was the edge of the sinking sand, but found it to be the middle. As he began to sink, he summoned a whirpool of sand from the bottom of the pit to push him out and to the next challenge.
He eyes the flames warily and while still airborne, rolled up his pant legs so they wouldn't catch fire. When he landed on the bars, there was wind surrounding his feet, so that the flames wouldn't engulf them. He crossed the small canyon as quick as he could, nearly slipping on every bar.
After crossing the 'monkey bars of doom', Skylar dove into a giant pool full of alligator droids. One of the droids bit his hand so Skylar tried his best to shake his hand loose, but the gator held, so he used his windpower to blow it up from the inside. Skylar latched onto another one and simply wrestled with it until it broke.
Then, Skylar did something that surprised all of the watching Titans. When one of the metallic beasts was charging right at him, he simply extended one arm foreward and a split moment before the machine impacted him, he shot a large ocean blue plasma beam straight through it's interior.
Moments later, Skylar emerged from the pool panting. "I'm okay!" He shouted to the other Titans who had been watching from a monitor on the bottom of the pool.
"Wow, Skylar's really doing great! He might actually make it!" Robin exclaimed excitedly. Beast Boy and Cyborg where cheering him on while Starfire and Raven just watched quietly, both of them deep in thought.
Skylar watched his final destination approach as he ran towards it. "The mine field!" Skylar closed his eyes to concentrate. "Humph… They made this too easy!" He smirked. He raised his hand and concentrated as slowly but surely, all of the mines began to lift out of the sand contained in wind. Then, Skylar threw them all up into the sky and began to shoot them with blue plasma. They all exploded in an impressive display, but as Skylar made a mad dash for the finish line, there was remnants of the mines raining down upon him.
Once Skylar had safetly, or at least while still being alive, crossed the finish line he held up the 'Victor' sign with his fingers "Booyah!" Skylar and Cyborg exclaimed in unison.
Raven simply rolled her eyes at the two idiot guy's laughing.
"Dude, You should totally join the team!" Beast Boy exclaimed while hi-fiviing their visiter.
That stopped Raven in her tracks. She turned around and looked Beast Boy in the eye "Over my dead body…" She said it slow and menacingly.
Skylar looked at her smirking "Actually… I would love to join the team!" He gave Raven a challenging glance and walked back to the Tower.
Author's note: Thus I end the first chapter of 'Tell Tale, Can't Stay'. Look out for my next update, which should be soon. And don't forget to REVIEW!
Raven: Glaring Why did you have to go and put yourself in the story?
Sky: So I could torment you. -Runs away- I know I'm gunna get hurt, but it's worth it.