Author's Note: The names I used for the teachers are names of the voice actors of the Teen Titans. Hynden Walch is the voice actress for Starfire and Greg Cipes is the voice actor for Beast Boy. Other names, such as Khary Payton (Cyborg), Tara Strong (Raven), and Ashely Johnson (Terra), may show up. The name of the school is named after Robin's voice actor, Scott Menville, and I believe another teacher is named after Glen Murakami.
Teen Titans: If I never knew you
Chapter Two
Previously:
The alarm in the Tower went off. Red lights began to flash and the window that seemed only to be a window turned into a screen. On screen was a map with a moving, blinking red dot and a second later, a picture popped up.
"Who's that?" questioned Courtney.
"I don't know, but she's trouble." Robin murmured. "Courtney, you say there. We'll be back—Titans, Go!"
Courtney turned to the screen and wondered if she could watch the fight. She moved over to where Robin had been standing and found the keyboard controls. She pressed a few keys, typed in some commands, and the screen went blank.
"Oh boy."
After seconds of thinking she had crashed the computer, the screen lit up again. Courtney watched a dark figure cause panic and destruction.
"Something tells me you aren't the ordinary gardener." Robin said as Starfire dropped him on the roof of a building.
A rock knocked Starfire out of the air. A second one flew for Robin. The first thought in everyone's head was, "Terra?" But that thought dissipated as soon as the tree uprooted themselves and began to line up. Someone sat atop the tree in the middle front. She was the classic blonde with blue eyes. Her strapless dress was a clean white with a green sash. The dress draped over her legs and covered her leather sandals. Golden bangles dangled on her wrists and a simple gold chain rounded her neck.
"Haha, gardener. How funny." She giggled. "No. My name is Kaia. I was born from the earth, and the earth is at my command."
With a lazy swing of her arm, the tree's roared in unison and began to attack. The normally stiff braches became extendable, flexible, and deadly. They thrashed, tossed, and smashed everything it could get to.
"Titans, go!" Robin yelled as he jumped off the building and dug a Bird-A-Rang into the tree he landed on. The tree, not to happy with it's new passenger, flung Robin off. Another tree wrapped a branch around Starfire and slammed her into the pavement. Having her arm bound to her sides, Starfire sliced the branch with Starbolts from her eyes.
But that didn't work because the plant regenerated. Raven was getting rather annoyed with the trees. "Stop manipulating these trees and fight us yourself."
"Manipulating? The trees?" Kaia giggled. "I am not doing anything. All I have done is granted the trees movement, movement and a mind of their own. They are doing to you what your kind has done unto them." She raised both arms into the air, kicked her feet, and cackled.
"People are horrible to animals but you don't see me leading the United Animals Against Humans Association," said Beast Boy as he jumped away from a lashing branch.
Cyborg suggested they go for the roots after having severed uncountable branches. All the Bird-A-Rangs, black/blue/green energy changed course and moved to the roots. But that didn't cut it right; the trees were still moving.
Meanwhile back at the Tower, Courtney watched the fight as she researched. She only looked at the computer screen when she needed to click or read something, other than that; she was focused on the action. From what she was seeing, the Titans weren't faring too well. She turned back to the computer for a few minutes to read something. When she returned her eyes to the fight, the Titans weren't struggling anymore.
Robin had accidentally pulled out an energy disk on accident, having run out of Bird-A-Rangs, which blew up on contacts as it always did. The tree caught fire from the sparks and disintegrated to ash. The Titans watched with grins growing wider by the second on their faces. Kaia didn't notice the blazing spectacle and went on encouraging the trees.
"It's over isn't it?" Raven smirked.
"Yup, it's over," answered Beast Boy.
Robin whipped out a few more energy disks. "Titans, you know what to do! Burn them down!"
Kaia finally tuned in but what could she do? At first she watched the five Titans burn down what essentially was her. She was furious and started to think of a way to stop the fire that was rapidly consuming the trees. She bashed the fire hydrants with rocks until they exploded with water but that only helped the trees close to the hydrants.
"Give it up man," Cyborg said as he torched a tree, "You're through."
A panicked expression overtook Kaia's face. She began to scream, "No, no! Please give me a—no! Mistress, have merc—" Kaia's body erupted in flames. Nothing could be heard except for pleads of forgiveness and screams of pain. The flames grew bigger for a moment then completely disappeared. All the trees became still and inanimate once again. Beneath the tree that Kaia had been sitting on was a pile of dirt and no more.
"I wouldn't want to be her in a million years." Courtney said to herself as she turned the screen off and returned to tapping away at the keyboard.
"So what do we do with her…it…that...?" asked Beast Boy, who along with the other Titans, was hunched over the pile of dirt.
"I believe we should give her a proper burial!" suggested Starfire.
"How about we put her in a jar and put the jar into the Evidence Room?" said Cyborg.
"You keep calling it her; can you give a pile of dirt a gender?" Raven asked in a puzzled tone.
Courtney heard the doors behind her open and knew the Titans were home. She was just about to greet them when she found a useful piece of information. She bookmarked the page when a sandwich was put before her.
"Hungry?" asked Starfire.
Courtney thought she saw something wiggle.
"It's late Starfire, I should be taking her home," said Robin as she intervened. Courtney let out the breath that she had been holding in. Robin was yanked back by his belt and he turned around to face Beast Boy.
"Dude, think you can introduce me?" whispered the green changeling as he pulled back some hair.
"Robin?" said Courtney
Beast Boy nudged Robin's ribs. Robin glared at his unusually colored friend and the two began to stare down one another. Courtney stepped back and waited for the silent argument to end. She looked from Robin to Beast Boy, then over to the other three Titans.
"So how do you guys fight crime and keep up with homework?" she asked pleasantly.
"We don't." Raven said bluntly.
"Excuse me, what?"
"We don't. None of the bad guys seem to be active," shrugged Cyborg as the turned on his Game Station.
"I'm going now, tell Robin I said bye. See you guys tomorrow," said Courtney.
Once again, Robin could feel his mind slipping away from Mr. Cipes's U.S history lecture. His attention had fallen upon a disgusting piece of tuna that clung to his beard. It had dropped due to the movement of his jaw, from the side of his face to under his chin. As revolting as it was, it was better than the lecture.
A scream interrupted Robin's concentrated observation of the tuna chunk. A girl named Stacy had jumped onto her desk and was pointing at the closed door. Through the little glass window, you could see the hall was filling with water. Robin pulled out his communicator from his belt only to have it snatched out of his hand.
"Robin, you know as well as I do, electronic devices are not allowed in class!" scolded Mr. Cipes.
"Do you not see the water in the hallways!" Robin exclaimed as the gestured toward the door, which was letting in water through the cracks. "I have to call my team and get to the bottom of this!"
Mr. Cipes wagged his finger at Robin. "You are a student in class right now, Robin, not a Teen Titan."
The halls were almost half full now and the classroom was doing no better. Robin looked anxiously at the door and his communicator rang.
"Robin, where are you?" shouted Cyborg's voice.
Robin jumped out of his seat and stole the communicator from his teacher's hand. Mr. Cipes was flabbergasted and only could stutter. The halls were more than half full now, but luckily this class was on the first floor; Robin told everyone to climb out the windows. The other first floor classes were also piling out the windows.
"I can't locate where the water's coming from or who's doing this; there's too much people on the building for me to do a thermal scan," said Cyborg VIA communicator.
"Let me try." Raven said as she landed next to Robin. She sat cross-legged in midair and closed her eyes. "Azarath Metion Zinthos."
The students on the sidewalk stared at Raven. It's not too often you see someone floating around while meditating. The other Titans were busy helping students on the higher grounds get out.
"Ah!" gasped Raven. She threw her head back and gravity pulled her down to the pavement. She stood up with wobbly legs, holding her head in her hands. She mumbled to Robin that she had gotten into the person's mind but was violently shoved out.
"He, or she, is on the roof," grumbled Rave, massaging her temples.
"Did you hear that Titans?" said Robin into his communicator. "He's on the roof."
