Who you gonna Call? Teen Titans!
Chapter 1: When There's Trouble
Red lights flashed inside Titans Tower as the alarm sounded. "Titans, trouble, let's go!" exclaimed Robin. Each member snapped to it, Cyborg swallowed his Bacon, Lettuce, Tomato, turkey, roast beef, quadruple decker club sandwich with avocado & Swiss Cheese whole. Beast boy Hesitantly turned off the gamestation (He was about to break CY's high score), Raven teleported to the garage (Villains annoyed her, villains that disturbed her meditation really annoyed her), Starfire was the last to go. She had spent the day watching Robin monitor the city, wishing that he would take a moment to give a quick acknowledgement to her. Since Tokyo they had gone on a few dates, but she wished they were a little more frequent, or that he was more involved mentally when they did.
The T-Car shot out of the tunnel that connected the Island they lived on, to the mainland.
The nightclub's main light were on even though the colored light were still flashing, people screamed as chairs flip over in the air violently and the glass bottles behind the bar exploded everywhere leaving a few bystanders with some deep cuts. A poor waitress cowered in the corner as a man in what had to be his mid-40's wearing a purple leisure suite started dancing toward her. Or at least she thought that he was a man before she noticed that half his face was missing, in its place were purple bones. The woman meekly told the disco stud to stay away, but he continued to strut and shuffle towards her. Inch by inch he danced until he stood directly in front of her, he opened what was left of his mouth and screamed one word "DAAAAANNNNNCCCCCCEE!" as his howl rang out his face morphed from mostly human to totally inhuman. His nose was long and rounded like you would find on a wolf, his hair had become long and mangled, his teeth became long, and fang-like, and curved inward, finally his eyes became as black as the sunglasses that had covered them moments ago.
The waitress was horrified at what stood before her and nearly passed out. The creature reached now half hand/half paw out toward her and asked again "DANNNCCCCCCEEEEE!""No!" cried the waitress as loud as she could, hoping it would make this nightmare she was trapped in end. Unfortunately it did not and the creature started to reach for her throat when…
"Excuse me, mind if we cut in?" said Robin confidently as the rest of the Titans stood with him. The creature yelled in disapproval. "Titans Go!" shouted Robin as he leapt into action, taking the point position for the team. He trusted his team, and knew they were all capable in a fight, but Starfire, Without her he knew he would be as empty and heartbroken as that last night under the big top.
Robin landed next to the creature and took a swing at it with his bo-staff. The blow had no effect; actually the blow had gone right through the creature almost as if it wasn't even there. Not letting any of his surprise show the boy wonder followed up with another swing of his staff and a roundhouse kick combo, which had had the same result as before. It was almost as if he was hitting air or vapor. Whatever this enemy was it sure didn't hit like vapor as it sent Robin flying into Cyborg. "Robin!" Starfire cried out as she looked back. She had been helping the waitress up to her feet and guiding to the closest exit when she heard the collision of her teammates. In anger the Tamarainian princess blasted a star bolt at the creature, however again the attack sailed right through the creature and worst it hit Beast Boy, who had turned into a cheetah and tried to pounce on the mysterious enemy. Distracted by her errant attack Starfire didn't see the huge speaker flying at her until it smacked in the back.
Seeing enough Raven chanted her mantra, "Azarath Metrion Zinthos!" with that a piece of her soul-self flew out at the creature. Surprisingly this actually seemed to hurt the creature, and sent it reeling a few steps back. However what Raven failed to notice was that another enemy had come up from the floor behind her. This one lacked form except for that it was big, round, had arms, and was a bright red from top to bottom. The big red wrapped his arms around Raven, Trapping her arms underneath his. She struggled to break free but something was wrong, the more she fought the weaker she became and the stronger his grip got. Soon she was out of steam and trying fumble together an idea that might get her free. She could feel her strength leaving her, her eyes were getting too heavy to keep open and if she didn't act quickly she might never open them again. She looked around, her friends were still down, she knew she was trouble with no way out. Further and further from consciousness started to fade, till something caught her attention. A loud, heavy, thudding noise came from the roof above. After it went away it was quiet at first, but soon came another, and another, more. The noise got louder and louder and more erratic in its rhythm until just as swiftly as it came, it was gone. It was quiet for a moment, when out of nowhere the skylight that was once a solid piece of glass, lay in thousands of shards on the floor.
From the space where the glass was once suspended, Four ropes unraveled themselves to the floor. Raven thought she must have been hallucinating from the exhaustion as four men wearing backpacks repelled down them. The backpacks were strange as they had flashing lights on them as well as what looked like a vacuum hose at the end. The foursome reached for the hoses in unison, and quickly flicked a switch that made the packs whirr and hum. They turned and surveyed the area, "Spangler there are a lot of civilians here." Said the one wearing a pair of what looked like night vision goggles. "Noted Ray, Vankman try not to get us sued." Replied the one with a pair of bifocals and a pompadour. "Hey come on, whose gonna keep Lois working if we don't make a mess every once in awhile?" said the one with thinning hair, his attitude and demeanor didn't seem to fit with the other two, he seemed less proper, a lot more laid back. "I love Lois, but whose gonna pay his legal fees if no one will hire us?" said the fourth member, a black man who seemed like carried a demeanor that struck a balance between the other three, the name Zeddemore was on his uniform.
The Creature snarled at in them in detest. "I think we have a fan here boys." Said Vankman. The purple beast charged at the overall clad quartet, but Ray and Winston fired a pair of proton beams in its direction. The Creature just avoided of orange light wrapped in what looked like blue lightning at the last possible moment, leaving the area scorched and chared around the Creature. Winston fired a stream of his own as Ray and Egon cut off thiers, wrapping around this ghastly thing, effectively binding him. It tried to break free, but Ray shot a second stream that kept him from breaking loose. With his partner tied up Big Red released Raven and started launching various chairs, table ends, and all manner of debris. Vankman fired his stream at the rampaging monster, binding him as well. "Egon, the trap!" ordered Ray, Spangler undid from his belt a rectangular box marked with electrical tape, with a long wire that connected to a foot pedal. The trap rolled to the middle of the room as the monsters were dragged towards it. Ray, Winston, and Vankman hovered the creature and Big Red over the box while Egon stomped on the peddle, the room fill with a bright white light that came from the trap. "I'm closing the trap… Now!" The group turned off their beams as the monsters were sucked into the trap, soon the only noise in the room was a small beeping that came from the trap.
"Are you kids alright?" said Ray as he and his team helped the titans to their feet. "We're fine but who are you? And what were those things we fought?" "One was a class six full torso apparition, while the other was a class five conduit." Said Spangler Dryly as he waved around his PKE meter to make sure there weren't any more ghost hanging around "umm… dude what's a class five full Toro appreciation?" asked Beast Boy. "Plain and simply kid, their ghost." Said Winston trying to get Beast Boy to stop scratching his head. "Pray tell good sirs, if these monsters we fought were ghost then how did you stop them?" Asked Starfire "Yes. Do tell." Followed Raven with her monotone voice.
"Well that's what we do." Chimed in Vankman "We're the few, the proud, The Ghostbusters. And we'd love to sit and chat but we have to pay the mayor of Jump City a little visit." "The Mayor? What business do you have with The Mayor?" Asked Cyborg. "It seems that recently there has been a surge in Psychokinetic Activity in the area and the mayor wants us to see what we can do about it." Replied Ray. "Psychoconwhoserwits what?!" said a very confused Beast Boy who was now having Mad Mod eyes after hearing a word that big. "It means ghost kid, do yourself a favor and try to focus on more pressing issues, like how to get the green ink off your face." Said Vankman
"Ghostbusters huh. Well I guess as long as you're doing a public service we have no problem here." Said Robin as he extended his hand. "Yeah sure no problem, now why don't you kids get home? It's probably past your bedtime." Said Vankman. "I need to talk to you right now." Whispered Egon as he pulled Peter aside. "Watch the treads Egon, we pay for this outta pocket." Joked Vankman. "Peter something worries me." Said Egon with a tone that conveyed his concern. "What is it, did the DJ not take your request?" replied Vankman making light of things as usual. "Peter I am getting higher than normal PKE readings." Said Egon, his face as stone cold serious as ever. "We got extra traps don't we?" said Peter, his own worry starting to show. "You don't get it Peter, the readings peak in one place." Egon replied. "Where?" asked Peter, now wondering what had Egon so worked up as they were well versed in catching ghost, so only something big could be the reason Spangler would pull him aside like this.
"Over there." Egon pointed to a young woman with a blue cape and hood over a black leotard. The Titans own Raven.
TO BE CONTIUED