Chapter 2 - An "Unknown Allie"
The titans were aproaching the first national bank of Jump City. Starfire, Raven and Beast Boy (who morphed into a falcon) were flying and keeping a steady look out for anything unusual, while Robin and Cyborg, one on the R-Bike and the other one in the T-Car, were paying atention at ground level. They got closer and closer to the scene of the crime and to their astonishment, this time people weren't running away, but they were running towards the bank.
"Guys do you see this?" said Robin who sounded amazed.
"Yeah, something's strange, we gotta hurry and find out what's going on" said Raven.
"Dude, either these people are brainwashed and summoned by an unknown force as zombies or going to kick the bad guys butt them selfs ... or I'm going nutty and never eating tofu with ketchup before I go to sleep ever again" said Beast Boy.
Upon arriving to the scene of the crime the titans rushed into the bank to battle who ever was robing it. They noticed that the front of the bank was blown up so they hurried.
They all entered the main hallway of the bank with Robin out front yelling:
"All right, stand right where you are and drop the ..."
... but he couldn't finish the sentence because there was nobody to stop from comiting any crime, at least somebody who was capable of comiting it beacuse they saw the H.I.V.E FIVE out cold stacked up one over another.
"OK! Now that's totaly strange ... even creepy!" exclaimed Beast Boy who's eyes were as wide as an open window.
"How come the H.I.V.E FIVE are out cold and ready for the takeing? What the heck is happening here anyway?" asked Cyborg who was as baffled about the situation as everybody else.
"Well let's just see how out cold they are!" said Robin who was going toward the stack of villains with his staf and ready to atack at any moment.
"Please, do be cautious!" said Starfire "It most definetly looks like a trap".
Robin was next to the stack of villains and started to poke them with his staf carefully. Nothing happened. He then took their pulse and saw that they weren't dead but indeed out cold. He also noticed another thing, Gizmo was missing, so he asumed he probably flew of before all of this happened.
"I guess we got our work cut out for!" said Raven who didn't show one little sign of being impresed ... after all, she is Raven.
Robin tied up the ciminals togheter with a special made steel rope, so that the police may pick them up when they arrived. He scaned the place and saw that a battle did occur before they got there.
"We have to find someone who can tell us what happened" shouted Robin who seemed annoyed by the fact that he was one step backwards every time.
"I ... I ... th ... th ... think I could help you, if you want to hear me out that is" said a mumbling voice that was coming from under a desk.
Raven removed the desk using her telekinetic powers and revealed a young clerk who was frightened out of her wits.
"You must not be afraid any more, you are surely safe now" said Starfire who kneeled down next to the clerk trying to calm her down.
"Can you tell us what happened here?" asked Robin in a polite and mild way so that the clerk wouldn't feel intimidated in anyway.
"Yes" said the young women "we were all working, when all of the sudden the front door blew of and these villains ataked us and asked for the money in the vault. All of the customers and most of my work mates made it out runing through the back entrance, but I stayed and hide. The villains went over to the vault and the one that was more muscular tore open the door and they started too take the money. I was afraid to run thinking that if they would see me they would hurt me, but I took a chance anyway. I tryed to run out the way in but this little kid with gogles on his bald head jumped in front of me blocking my way. Next thing I know a guy who could multiply himself surrounded me and every thing seemed lost. I panicked and tryed to run but this vampire like looking figure apeared in front of me, grabing me by the arm. They all started to aproach me but just when they were one foot away somebody shouted from the main entrance "Let her go, put down the money and surrender now or else". The villains turned around and laughed at him but in just a split second the big hary-muscular guy was knoked to the ground with a kick to the chin. Next thing I know they all atacked him so I went behind this desk to hide. I didn't see much but I did hear a lot of screams of pain and bangs, and saw different objects being hurled through the air. I thought the good guy was being killed so I took a peek to see what was going on, but to my surprise, the guy who saved me was stacking up the wrong do'ers like balots of hay. He then turned to me and said: "The next time scum like this try to rob the bank push the alarm button for God's sake" and ran off through the back. I was stund and sat down to catch my breath and then you showed up".
The titans didn't know what to say. On one hand the bank was safe and they had an unknown allie on their side, and on the other hand their time reaction was getting worse.
Robin seemed concerned but realised that they got there on time and that probably the 'unknown hero' was just in the neighbourhood when all of this happened and got there faster than they did.
"Do you remember how the guy looked like? Could you describe him?" asked Robin.
The clerk sat up and looked more relaxed.
"Yes" she answerd "He had combat boots similar to yours (pointing at Robins steel-toed footwear), he was wearing camo pants, a black shirt witht the sleeves rolled up and a ski-mask to cover his face. And oh yeah! ... he spoke with an accent".
"Did you observ any unusualnes that could help your description even more?" asked Starfire who seemed to want to find out more about this character just as much as Robin did.
"Come to think about it, apart from his accent, I did see something rather unusuall. You see, when he was fighting off the robers his eyes were blood red, but they didn't glow or anything. He was really furious, I never saw so much hate in somebodys eyes before".
Through the sound of the people who were gathered outside the bank curious of what had happened, Robin heard in the distance police sirens so he decided to head back home and let the officers do their duty.
Back at the tower the titans were trying to digest the situation at hand.
"So what do we know about this guy so far?" started Cyborg.
Robin was walking through the room back and forth puting his thoughts into order.
"Well, for one thing we now have a more accurate description, we know he is not the type that likes publicity or wants to be famous with what he's doing, we know he doesn't talk much but does much, and last ..." Robin stoped walking and looked at his team mates " ... he probably needs some anger management courses".
"Well who ever he is he must be one tough dude knocking out the H.I.V.E. FIVE single handed" replied Cyborg.
Beast Boy jumped up like he was angry or insulted. "Tough? What are you talking about? We faught those loosers lot's of times and beat them, what's so tough about this tough guy?".
"I don't know, maybe the fact that he defeted them alone and knocking them out cold by his self, with no help from others and no gadgets or what-not's makes him so 'tough' " answerd Cyborg.
"But he does not seem to be so ... normal" said Starfire who was leaning against a wall "He did save the bank, and the people, and even the young clerk who was frightened, but he injured the H.I.V.E. FIVE quite badly, and even if they are bad, and try to hurt others, and try to inflict as much pain as they can, we do not give them the same treatment. This 'unknown allie' as you call him almost killed the wrong do'ers. We do not sink to their level, but he almost did. It does not seem right to me".
"I think it was revenge" said Raven.
"What do you mean?" asked Robin who was surprised of Raven's theory.
"Yeah, what ar you talking about ?" said Cyborg, also trying to find out what Raven meant.
"I think he was an ex-H.I.V.E. student who got tired of being bad and turned good, and this was his chance to get back at his former class mates".
"Could be, but we don't know that for sure, we have to wait again and see what happens" said Robin ".. who knowns, maybe next time we'll have more luck finding out who this guy realy is".