Roman Sionis, A.K.A Black Mask overlooked the production of small arms weaponry in an off the grid warehouse, on the outskirts of Jump City. He planned to sell off the weapons to various gangs across the states, hoping to make a vast fortune from the distribution.
"Hey Boss!" A tall henchman approached the masked mobster, who looked over his shoulder. He turned around to face his lacky.
"Have we got a deal with Falcone?" Roman asked, taking out a cigarette.
"He wants them delivered to Bludhaven instead of Gotham, less chance of being intercepted by Penguin, and you know who."
Sionis smiled at the good news. "Outstanding. Any other good news?" He took out a silver lighter, igniting his cigarette.
The henchman nodded. "Dent's happy to give you sixteen million big ones."
"I knew he couldn't resist." He breathed in, then puffed out smoke with a dark smile. "Another few more transactions, and we'll have every gang under our little thumb!"
"I don't mean to crash the party boss." A smaller henchman entered the room. "But you sure we're safe here?"
Black Mask gave a serious look. "What? You really think the Bat would come all this way to Jump City? Get a grip Rocky."
The henchman stuttered out, "W-W-What about that other group? The one that the Robin kid was in?" Sionis bursted into laughter, the taller henchman joining in.
"Are you kidding me? Boy wonder and his little band of freakshows?" Roman tossed away his cigarette, marching towards the shaking lacky.
"Those punks haven't been around for months! Jump City is ours for the taking." The head mobster took out a large combat knife, simply to scare his henchman.
"Relax you little sissy, there's nothing worth crapping yourself over the junior Justice League-" The conversation was interuppted by a loud scream, sending everyone into alert.
Black Mask grabbed one of the guard's walkie talkies, yelling into it. "What's the damn problem! Talk to me!"
"A big ass bear just threw James around like a ragdoll! Dudes out cold!"
"Well shoot the damn thing!"
"I-It's vanished! The big bastard vanished!"
"Bears don't just vanish out of thin air! FIND IT."
Without warning, all the lights went off inside the warehouse, the henchman went into panic mode, grabbing their flashlights.
"Someone's toying with us! Everyone spread out and find the bastard, got it!?" A guard shouted, earning grunts of acknowledgment.
Black Mask angrily shouted to the handheld device, "WHERE'S THE DAMN BEAR?"
"Boss, bears don't just shut off the power. Something else is in here, and it ain't the fricken Bat!" A guard responded, fear taking over him.
Without warning, the lights begun to flicker rapidly. Dread overtook the majority of the henchmen. Then, another ear piercing scream was heard, everyone dashed towards the source. The men found one of their own, curled into a fetal position, crying and muttering something.
"It w-w-was living shadows. . ." The guards couldn't make sense of the situation, first a bear, and now living shadows?
Black Mask shouted again, "GIVE ME A DAMN SITREP!!"
"One of our guys is just lying here all shakey, keeps muttering about living shadows!" The radio was suddenly replaced with static, the sound grew louder.
"Talk to me! Who is messing with us!?" Roman shouted again, the static suddenly stopped.
Then from the walkie talkie, came an unfamiliar voice. A woman's voice sung a haunting melody.
"Twinkle twinkle little star. . ." Cold shivers were felt all around at the sound of her voice.
"How I wonder what you are. . ."
"What the hell is going on?" The tall henchman asked, loading a clip into his assualt rifle, the voice continued to sing.
"Up above the world so high. . ."
Sionis gestured to his men to follow him to the main area of the warehouse, gathering the remaining men.
"Ain't this Scarecrow's doing?" One guard said, sweating anxiously.
"You think he's turned good guy?" Another asked, only for Roman to shout in response.
"This isn't Scarecrow! It's just some punk who thinks they're scary! SHOW YOURSELF!!" He received no answer. . .
Just the haunting rendition of a child's nursery song.
"Like a diamond in the sky. . ." Then there was nothing but silence. One guard pissed himself at the sound of the voice, trembling with fear.
Tension rose high as the remaining group formed a circle, their weapons pointing in every direction.
"Whoever you are! You don't scare me." Black Mask called out, drawing his pistol. "Nothing scares Black Mask!!"
"Yet you're pissing yourself Sionis." A male voice called out, a dark chuckle could be heard.
Their first instance was to open fire at the large stack of wooden boxes which towered over them. A hailstorm of bullets tore through the wood without an issue.
"HOLD YOUR DAMN FIRE." Roman commanded his men to stop firing, noticing that there was no body behind the crates. Fraustration only grew worse as they could not make sense of their situation. The voice called out again.
"Wow you guys couldn't shoot fish in a barrel." The cocky laughter sent Roman over the edge.
"SHUT UP AND SHOW YOURSELF!!!"
He was only met with silence. Then without warning, the lights suddenly switched back on, temporarily blinding the group of men. As they rubbed their eyes, their sight were fixated on the group above them, five familiar faces looked down from the stack of crates, each smiling at their enemies.
"You. . ." Black Mask pointed to the young man before him, recognising the blue bird on his chest.
"When I heard you were snooping around Jump, I felt the need to show you what happens when you and your pansy parade decide to cause trouble." Nightwing cracked his knuckles, grinning away.
Starfire's eyes begun to glow as she channled her starbolts, Raven's eyes turned pure white, with a menacing smirk, Cyborg smiled as he set his sonic cannon to stun mode, and Beast Boy morphed to a tiger, growling with excitement.
"GET THEM!!" Black Mask yelled at the top his lungs, his men eagerly setting their weapons on the group above. Nightwing only smiled at the enemies below, ready to give Black Mask the ass whooping of a lifetime.
He then uttered the famous words, the words he hadn't used for a longtime.
"Titans Go!!"
And so the Titans sprung into action, just like old times.
End Of Chapter One: Titans Reunited
Author's Notes:
A new Titans story for all to read. It serves as a bigger sequel to Your Hidden Angel, with the introduction being based off a fan made comic strip featuring the older Titans going toe to toe with Black Mask.
This will also serve as an introduction to a new original character: Blackstar, whose origin will be explained as we go through the story.
Couples are BBRAE, ROBSTAR (OR NIGHTSTAR), CYSARAH, FLINX, and potential OC x OC in the future.