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Howdy y'all! Thanks for all the reviews! Here is chapter 3!
Disclaimer: I don't own Teen Titans and I don't own the Eminem song Like Toy Soldiers (even though there will be no pieces of the song in this chapter) however I do own my Robin plushie! I finally got one! It is so cute and I like to hug it and squeeze it and kiss it! Yaaaay!
On with the show…
Like Toy Soldiers
Chapter 3Alex yawned grumpily and got up from his bed. It was 3:00 in the morning but his parents were making so much noise in their room he couldn't sleep. Whoever's idea it was out of 20 bedrooms in the whole mansion to give Alex the one right next to his parents was an idiot. Alex put his clothes on and walked downstairs for a 3 AM snack.
Alex poured himself a cup of milk and set it down on the table and went to get some cookies from the cupboard. As he opened the box of Chips Ahoy cookies the…doorbell rang.
'What idiot rings the doorbell at 3 AM?' Alex thought as he opened the door. A woman about his parent's age stood at the door. She had purple hair and a piercing on her forehead kind of like Doug's. She wore black pants and a black shirt.
"Uhm…may I help you?" Alex asked
"Is this the Grayson residence?" The woman asked
"Uhm yeah" Alex answered pondering why someone wouldn't know it was the Grayson residence. It was only like the biggest mansion in the whole city.
"May I talk to your parents?"
"It's kinda late…" Alex said really not wanting to go into his parent's room right then.
"It's urgent"
"Can I take a message?"
The lady lifted one eyebrow "I need to speak with Star- I mean Kori and Richard"
"All right but if they yell at me for 'waking them up' it's your fault lady" Alex said even though he hardly thought his parents were sleeping.
Alex shakily knocked on his parent's door. No response. Just as he was about to knock again his father answered "What is it Alex?"
"There's someone at the door that says they need to talk to you" Alex answered
"Tell them we'll be down in a few minutes," His mother answered
Alex walked downstairs. The creepy lady was sitting down at the kitchen table.
"They'll be down in a few minutes," Alex answered
"How old are you?" The lady asked
"Uhm 12…" Alex said
"Really? I thought you'd be younger," the lady said pondering this
"No…last time I checked I was 12"
Raven narrowed her eyes as the boy impatiently tapped his fingers on the table. When Starfire and Robin left Starfire hadn't been pregnant…or had she been?
Garfield is going to puke when I tell him Starfire and Robin are multi-billionaires now Raven thought
Alex glanced over and saw his parents down the hall. His father and mother came in and "Alex please leave the room" his father said
"Fine with me" Alex said jumping out of his seat. He had a cave to explore.
Alex gently pulled the sugar bowl and the closet shot backwards, the hole appeared and again Alex yelled as he fell and toppled down the ramp and landed on the hard floor. He pulled up a seat and popped a DVD into the computer.
"It's Titan review on today's news and today's Teen Titans interview subject is Cyborg! Please Cyborg, tell us some stuff about how life is at Titans tower" An announcer person on the DVD said
"We're just normal Teenagers ya know and that's about it. We play video games and eat pizza and sometimes we train for battles. That's all" This 'Cyborg' said.
"Why is he part robot?" Alex whispered to himself
The interview went on about three more minutes and then the DVD fizzled again, this time a girl with purple hair appeared on the screen…
"It's the same lady that came over today! Except she looks younger…" Alex whispered
"So Raven tell us about who you think the most annoying person on your team is"
"Beastboy. Hands down"
"Oh? The tabloids seem to have spotted you and Beastboy at the pizza place on a date"
Raven blushed "Never believe what you read in a tabloid"
Alex watched as the interview went on. Obviously this Raven was or at least had been a member of this 'Teen Titans' whatever they were. But how did she know his parents? The DVD fizzled again and a girl of about 21 appeared on screen. But this wasn't just any girl of 21 this was… "MOM?" Alex whispered loudly in shock as he saw his mother, wearing a purple mini skirt and purple top. Alex squinted hard at the fine print; the news copyright date of interview filming was May 2010, a week after the interview of this Raven person. 2010 had been the year his parents had gotten married. He had been born in 2011, which meant his mother must have left the team before he was born…
"So Starfire tell us, with your marriage to fellow team mate Robin coming up in just a few weeks, how do you think it will affect the team?"
"It will not affect the team in any way. Robin and myself will always be Titan's along with our friends"
"Starfire? Why did the interviewer call mom Starfire? Her name is Kori… and Robin? Mom was never married before Dad so that means…" Alex trailed off as he looked back at the screen
"Okay. This week we are also interviewing Robin! Tell us Robin, with Slade missing, the HIVE defeated, Mumbo in an asylum, and Johnny Rancid locked up tight in jail, do you think the Titans will have much left to do?"
"The Titans will always have a duty. There will be plenty of villains and we'll be here to take 'em down" Alex looked at the screen in shock again. Although this Robin wore a mask it was most clearly his father. Alex glanced behind and saw the costumes in the cases. The outfit his father, Robin wore was in one case and the purple mini skirt was the outfit his mother had been wearing. It seemed as if his parents, that dude Cyborg, that creepy Raven, and that green guy from the DVD he had seen earlier he assumed to be Beastboy were all part of…a super hero team. But how? And why hadn't his parents told him? Why weren't they still super heroes? How were they super heroes? Confused, Alex popped in another DVD.
"Okay Dudes! I am so going to blackmail all my friends with this tape! First let's see what Robin and Starfire are up to!" Beastboy was sanding in front of a camera and then ran down the hallway and opened a door about an inch just so he could stick the camera in a drop. Alex felt like barfing. His parents looked about 18 in this and they were...making out.
"Dude I could sell this for millions! Now onto Cyborg!" Beastboy exclaimed running down the hall and opening a door slightly to a garage.
"My car is so cool! It's so cool! Oh yeah, oh yeah!" Cyborg sang as he polished a car and Beastboy laughed
"Cool! Now onto Raven" Beastboy said running down some always and prying open a door slightly. Raven seemed to be meditating.
"Ah she does that all the time…I'm gonna go back and film some more of Robin and Starfire blackmail!" Beastboy said running back up to the room where his parents where but was stopped in the hallway.
"BEASTBOY YOU SNRAFBLAT! YOU HAVE BEEN FILMING EVERYONE IN THE TOWER!" his mother yelled
"YOU HAVE 'TILL THE COUNT OF FIVE TO SMASH THAT DVD BEASTBOY!" his father yelled as he tackled Beastboy and the started wrestling him
"OKAY I SURRNDER!" Beastboy shouted as the DVD fizzled out
Alex stared at the screen. His parents were keeping so much from him. His father had told him that he had lived as Bruce's ward all his life, barely ever leaving Gotham. His mother had told him she lived with a guardian in a city slightly north of Gotham. They were all a bunch of lies. They never wanted Alex to know that. But know he did. He felt his eyes glowing with anger and his hands glowed green again…
"Raven for the last time, this is our life now, we're not Robin and Starfire anymore we're Richard and Kori and that's what we're going to be" Richard snapped angrily
"But Slade is back. Beastboy and me can't take him alone. Trust me, I don't want to go back to super heroeing again either but I am" Raven said
"Please friend Raven, we have not seen you in years, perhaps we could not discuss Slade for a few minutes and perhaps do the 'catching up' with each other" Kori smiled but then frowned, feeling her odd way of speech that she had trained herself not to use so Alex wouldn't get suspicious coming back from it being the first time that she had seen one of their titan friends in years.
"Sure. Wanna tell me how your son is twelve if you weren't pregnant when you left?" Raven asked
"She was pregnant" Richard muttered
"So Raven how are you in contact with friend Beastboy?"
"He's my husband" Raven answered
Richard and Kori glanced at each other and then broke into a fit of laughter, collapsing in each other's arms in hysterics.
"What's so funny?" Raven asked
"Well Raven it is just that Beastboy is the one you said 'you would not marry if he was the last man on earth,'" Starfire said as she laughed
"I don't know Kori, who knows what happened when we left those two alone in the tower" Richard laughed
"So tell us Raven, do you have any children with Beastboy" Kori said as she laughed, merely thinking of the thought
"Yes in fact I do. He is ten and at least we don't treat him like he is two and keep secrets from him" Raven said
That stopped Richard and Kori's laughing right there
"We're just trying to erase everything of our past. You may want to raise your son as a super hero but we don't want Alex going through the same stuff we did all the time. We don't want Slade coming after him, we don't want him dealing with his powers and all that stuff. We loved being super heroes but we aren't ones anymore Raven. Deal with it" Robin said
"I will" Raven said getting up and leaving
"Got any 5's?" Doug asked as he and his father played a late night game of Go Fish
"Yeah…. hey wait! I just realized something! You can see through the cards with your powers! You've been cheating!" Beastboy, now known as Garfield said
Doug laughed, "That's why I love this game"
"Hey Dad?" Doug asked
"Yeah"
" Can I dye my hair tomorrow, you know so when I go to school I'll be half normal?"
"You're plenty normal. You have the punk look down" Beastboy answered
"Yeah especially with this stupid Slade tattoo he pressed on me. All the teachers will think I'm in a gang or something," Doug said as his father laughed
The door opened to the 3-bedroom apartment that they now lived in and Raven came in (AN: okay I've never written Raven and Beastboy romance as I am a BBterra person usually so if it's not too great bear with me).
"So where do they live?" Beastboy asked coming up and kissing his wife. Raven pointed out the window where you could see the huge Wayne manor.
"WHAT? We live in a cruddy apartment and they live in one of the biggest mansions in the continental united states? How do two people fill up that place? It's huge!" Beastboy exclaimed
"Three people. They have a twelve-year-old son named Alex. And this apartment wouldn't be so 'cruddy' if you'd help me unpack all our stuff" Raven laughed
"I have all my stuff unpacked! Can I hook in my stereo now?" Doug asked. Doug was tall for his age and skinny which made him look like he was in high school. Well, the purple and green hair and tattoo didn't help either.
"Sure" Raven answered. Doug smiled and hooked in his giant stereo and popped in his Green Day CD. American Idiot played at the highest volume.
"DUDE TURN IT DOWN!" Beastboy yelled
"What? I can't hear you!" Doug said back
"I SAID TURN IT DOWN!"
"WHAT?"
"DOUGLAS MATTHEW LOGAN TURN IT DOWN!" Raven yelled
Doug turned the stereo off "Yeesh you didn't have to yell. anyways I'm going to bed. Goodnight"
"So what'd they say?" Beastboy asked wrapping his arms around her.
"Couldn't talk them into it" Raven answered
Beastboy shook his head "So what do they look like now?" Beastboy asked
"Robin looks the same except instead of a mask he has blue eyes. And Starfire still looks not one day older than 21" Raven said
"And you said they have one kid? Yeesh I'd expected those to love birds to have a lots more"
"We only have one" Raven glared
"Well yeah but I at least know why we only have one" Beastboy smiled pulling her into a kiss
"Wow" Alex said staring at the green energy fields on his hands. He shook his hand and they went flying and he was replaced with two more. The two flying bolts however hit the wall and burned it. He looked through. The shiniest car ever sat there, along with a shiny bat shaped airplane and a red and green motorcycle. "They're so…beautiful!" Alex exclaimed hopping onto the red and green motorcycle. It had a big R on it "Must be dad's" Alex said tracing the shiny outline of the buttons on the motorcycle.
"Wicked awesome!" Alex exclaimed running up to the car.
"Retinal scan identifying…. Alexander Thomas Grayson. Access approved…" A computer on the car said
"Sweet!"
"…In four years" The computer finished
"FOUR YEARS? Sure I know I have to be 16 to drive. But who gives a damn?" Alex muttered eyes and hands blazing again as he trudged back to the side of the cave he was previously in. He flipped on the news for a second on the giant TV
"And in today's news…wait…what's happening? I think the joker is in the studio…" A falling pillar crushed the news announcer. A maniacal laugh was heard.
"The Joker… he's a super villain I know that much. And if I've got some super hero genes in me then one day soon I'll kick his bad guy ass!" Alex said happily "Just as soon as I figure out what exactly I hafta do to use these bolt things" Alex said popping in a DVD.
To be continued….
Okay y'all that was chapter 3, please review!
Next time: Alex discovers a training program Alfred made but can he get through the training without killing himself?
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