Howdy y'all! Thank you all for the reviews! Here is chapter 6!
Disclaimer: I don't own Teen Titans, Eminem, or Batman. However I do own the full set of Teen Titans plushies! YAAY!
On with the show….
Like Toy Soldiers
Chapter 6
"OWWW!" the scream echoed through the Steele city batcave, but this time it wasn't Alex.
"Okay 'Xander, you got me" Becky panted as Alex released his grasp on her. It was amazing what 4 days of rigorous training could do to one's fighting technique. Alex smiled and reached for his water bottle, sweat pouring down his face. It didn't make sense though. He could see it. Becky's muscles were bigger than his. She was the one who had been training her whole life. So now why was he the stronger one?
"Good work Alex. Becky may I speak to Alex alone for a second?" Bruce asked
Becky nodded and smirked as Alex gulped. A talk with Bruce? If he survived it would be the sign of the apocalypse.
"Dead man walking" Becky whispered in Alex's ear.
"Becky just go" Bruce said, frustrated.
Becky ran out of the batcave, never stopping once.
"Alex, I bet you're wondering why you're stronger than Becky, even though by all things rational she should still be able to kick your butt all the way back to Gotham city" Bruce said. Alex nodded "Well there's one thing you have to take into account. When you're a super hero, nothing goes the rational way. Alex, I'm going to tell you something that you won't believe, but it's the whole truth. You ready?"
Alex nodded. Over the past two weeks his life had been crazy enough. One more bit of crazy news would never hurt…
It was early morning in Gotham city, the sun just rising. You'd think that Kori would still be asleep. That's what she wanted to think too. Sadly though she was quiet nauseous, quite hungry, and puking her guts out. Fine for the moment Kori inched back to bed expecting to find her husband still sound asleep. No such luck
"You have morning sickness," He chanted in a singsong voice
"No I do not! I probably just have a little…food poisoning that's all" Kori replied as Richard wrapped his arms around her
"Suuuuuure. That's what you said before Alex was born too"
"I am not by any means pregnant! I am feeling much better now anyways"
"Are you sure?"
Kori nodded "positive. In fact, I will prove it to you"
Richard liked the sound of that "Mmm seems like someone wants to go back to bed"
Kori shook her head and giggled "No, not right now. Just close your eyes and I'll take you down there"
Kori led her husband downstairs, too the china cabinet and turned the sugar bowl at an exact 20 degrees so the stairs would come out. She walked him down the steps, turned on the sparing ring light and smiled.
"You may open your eyes now love" She said
Richard kept his eyes closed and breathed deeply "don't need to. We're in the batcave, no?"
Kori nodded as he opened his eyes "Ready to spar Robin?"
"You bet Star. The only thing is I have a strict rule about sparring against pregnant woman, especially when the child is mine"
"For the last time I am not pregnant! Now let's spar okay?"
"Okay love. I just warn you that this 32-year-old can still throw a good punch"
"As can this 32-year-old still knock you out with a Starbolt"…
"I'm WHAT?" Alex yelled
"Tamerainien. You aren't human Alex" Bruce replied
Alex look shocked for a second and then laughed, "Hah I get it, you're just trying to scare me! Ha ha, very funny Grandpa"
"This isn't a joke Alex. You're mother is the rightful heir to the throne of Tameran. When you were born it was speculated that you'd be half human and half tamerainien but the tamerainien chromosomes overrode the human ones. That's why you're stronger, that's why you have powers"
Alex sat down and put his head in his hands "Another secret. Another lie. How long did they plan to keep all this shit from me huh?"
Bruce narrowed his eyes "Watch your language Alexander. They did this for your safety. So you could grow up to be normal"
Alex headed towards the door "Yeah well…look I need to be alone right now" He stormed off towards the dock. Becky came into the room and Bruce glared at her "I know, I know, I should go after him. Rebecca Kaylee Gordon off to deal with the psycho yet again " Becky stated heading towards the dock.
The sun shined on the dock. Becky sat down next to Alex.
"Just do me a favor, okay?" Alex asked turning to Becky
"Sure. What?" Becky asked. In a second Alex had his lips on hers and she pulled away abruptly
"NEVER again 'Xander NEVER AGAIN!" She yelled pushing him into the icy cold water of Steele city harbor. Becky stormed into the mansion.
"How did your talk with Alex go Becky?" Bruce asked
Becky grabbed him by the collar "next time he's feeling depressed YOU GO TALK TO HIM!" Becky yelled, letting go of his collar and storming off to her room.
"So c…c…cold" Alex shivered coming into the room, freezing wet
Alfred came into the room and sighed "Come along master Alexander, I'll go heat up the tub for you"
"Th…that would be…g…. g…great" Alex shivered as Bruce wrapped a towel around his shoulders
"I don't know what you did to upset her but don't do it again" Bruce said
Alex nodded, shivering "Don't worry I won't"
On the other side of Steele city harbor the Titans east tower lay amuck. Bits of paneling had fallen into the harbor; the windows were covered with dust and dirt. The inside was even more filled with dust and debris. Bumblebee placed her hand on the wall to the main room.
"Sad, isn't it?" Bumblebee asked solemnly
Speedy nodded "Yeah"
"Si" Answered Mas, his twin missing. In the last fight with Brother blood, blood had captured Menos and no one had seen him since. The three were in their thirties, well Mas was still in his late twenties. Aqualad had moved back to Atlantis. Mas was a DJ for a Spanish radio station. Speedy worked as a trainer at a gym. Bumblebee was a scientist in the Steele city branch of Wayne enterprises. The titans east were no more.
"It doesn't have to be sad," A mysterious dark figure said, leaning up against the crumbling walls.
"Doug how in hell did you get here?" Speedy asked grabbing the mysterious boy by the collar
Doug shrugged and smiled "I teleported"
"Right" Bumblebee said looking around, figuring Raven and Beastboy were somewhere near
"What? Is that answer not good enough for you? Or would you like 'I just flew in from Gotham city and boy are my arms tired'?" Doug asked
"Whatever. What do you want numskull?" Speedy asked
"I, the most brilliant Douglas Mattathias Loganus, or otherwise known as 'the artist formally known as Doug', or just plain Doug Mathew Logan, bring to you a plan that can reunite the Titans forever!" Doug exclaimed
"Does this plan entail dangerous bombs ad threatening people again?" Bumblebee asked
"No! Well not much…all we need to do is convince the Grayson's to join again, and if they don't agree by will they will by force!"
"For the last time in 10 years GO AWAY DOUG!" Speedy, Bumblebee, and even Mas (though in Spanish) yelled
"Fine be that way" Doug pouted, teleporting back to Gotham city.
"That kid has serious problems" Speedy and Bumblebee said in unison.
"Si" agreed Mas "si"
Richard had Kori pinned to the floor. "8…9…" he counted. Right before he could get to the winning 10 Kori sprang up and kicked him in to the wall.
"I surrender " Richard admitted, hopping to his feet and kissing his wife "You always win sparring. It shows I'm old. I can't even win against a pregnant woman"
Kori crossed her arms "Don't make me say it"
"Say what?" Richard asked
"What I've been saying all morning. I am not by any means-" Kori was cut off by a flashing red light and a beeping noise in the batcave.
"Burglar alert. Burglar alert in east Gotham city." The computer said
"I thought Bruce turned off the alert ages ago!" Kori said over the beeping
Richard nodded "We must have activated it when we were sparring" he ran over to the computer and turned off the beeping and the light.
"Seems there are some burglars steeling some stuff from Derek Wyatt's jewelry store in east Gotham" he said clicking some buttons
"Robin love, are you thinking what I'm thinking?" Kori asked with a smiled
"If it entails beating the crap out of those burglars and becoming Robin and Starfire one last time, then yes" he beamed pressing the buttons to open the costume cases. There sat the Robin costume, the Starfire costume, and their old communicators. They both smiled and took their costumes.
"Urg, though it may not look like it, I believe I have out grown the skirt size on this skirt," Kori said, struggling to fit into the purple mini skirt
"Man these green pants are waaaaaaay to tight on me-was I ever this skinny?" Richard asked. He didn't look any heavier than he had when he was 16; no he still was extremely thin for a man of 32. Age was just taking its affects.
Kori looked down and giggled, "Yes Richard, but all the females in Gotham will enjoy that"
"Yup, and all the males will enjoy that that purple top is 5 sizes to tight on you" He smiled
5 minutes later and much squeezing into much too tight clothes later they were all set and ready to go. Richard jumped on his Redbird motorcycle and strapped his helmet on. Kori started flying towards the scene of the crime.
"Robin paging Star, do you hear me Starfire?" Robin asked over the communicator
Starfire giggled "Loud and clear boss"
"I have the burglars in sight. Can you see 'em?"
"Affirmative"
"Roger that"
"Is one of the burglars names Roger?" Starfire asked, puzzled
Robin sighed "No love, it's radio talk for affirmative or…. never mind let's just get 'em!" Robin leaped off the motorcycle and Starfire flew down to stand next to him. The burglars dropped their bags full of jewelry.
"The Titans!" One of them exclaimed in shock
"Only two of the Titans. We have 5 people. We can take 'em," One of the burglars said running up to Robin, ready to punch him. Robin just blocked the punch and hit him back, into a wall. The other four burglars charged at the two Titans. Starfire hit them all with Starbolts and Robin punched what was left of their self-esteem into a wall, a dumpster, and the back of a '97 pick up truck.
"We can't take 'em! Leave the jewelry and scram boys!" The head burglar proclaimed as they all dropped their bags and ran off into the night.
Robin smiled and picked up the bag and opened it.
"What were they steeling Robin?" Starfire asked
"This is odd. There were so many valuable things in that store and all they stole were worthless, horribly cut emeralds" Robin said examining the small pebble like emeralds
"But why? Can emeralds be used to fuel anything?" Starfire asked
Robin shrugged and closed the bag "I'll investigate it. We're not the super heroes anymore anyways so it really isn't our problem. The only thing that matters is we won"
"Yes we were victorious!" Starfire exclaimed hugging her husband tightly "And as much as I am glad we were victorious, excuse me while I go throw up" Starfire said, flying home. Robin laughed and chased her on the Motorcycle.
"Don't say it Richard" Kori said just as soon as she had finished throwing up, having reached Wayne manor in a matter of seconds.
"Fine. I won't" Richard said with a smile pulling out a sign he had made with markers that said 'you have morning sickness' in big black letters
"For the last time Richard-"
"Let's not get into this argument again. We just kicked super hero butt. I think we should relax" Richard said sitting down and pulling his wife into his lap and turning on the television.
"Alright. But please no watching football games. You know how crazy you get when the Gotham city Bats don't win" Kori said wrapping her arms around him
"Fine" Richard replied flipping channels
"Welcome to Mr. Rogers neighborhood. Today we will learn about telling the truth. Kids should always tell the truth to their parents, and parents should always tell the truth to their kids…"
Richard abruptly flipped the channel. Kori close her eyes and leaned her head on Richard's chest "We could learn a lot from the Mr. Rogers"
Richard nodded and listened to what this new channel was saying
"Welcome to the jewelry channel. Today we will learn about jewelry that can be used to fuel things. First is the emerald. Emeralds can be used to fuel bombs, missiles, and lastly Croniton detonators…"
Richard and Kori looked at each other and then laughed "Nah" they said in unison as Richard flipped the Channel to the football game. This time Kori didn't protest….
To be continued….
Next time: Alex is finishing up his training with Bruce and Becky is still fuming mad. Will Alex ever become a super hero? Will Becky ever forgive him? And meanwhile back in Gotham city, a sinister man hunts for emeralds to power his ultimate evil idea…
Okay y'all well that was chapter 6, please review and I'll try to have 7 up soon!