Teen Titans Fan Fiction

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Italics: Individual thoughts and recollections.

SACRIFICE

The Teen Titans have deployed to face a familiar opponent. As they approach the battle, something sinister seems to have entered Jump City. What new plot has started to unfold against the Teen Titans?

Chapter 2 - An Alliance Formed

Dr. Light was rather enjoying himself on this day. The thrill of stealing money always seemed to keep him coming back for more. He loved his research with light and would do anything and go through anybody to keep it. He stuffed a few more books of $50,000 into his bag and hoped out. This should be enough to keep me going a bit longer.

The delivery truck was on its right side. Dr. Light had somehow managed to cause it to flip 90 degrees. Walking away without a care in the world, he threw the bag of money behind him on his back. A small red and yellow birdarang soared and cut the bag at the top, causing the entire load to fall to the ground. Dr. Light looked behind him to see what had happened. The money was all on the ground and his bag was essentially ruined.

"Dr. Light! You are under arrest for committing a bank robbery! Put your hands in the air and surrender!" a familiar voice rang out.

Dr. Light looked up at the van. The Teen Titans were all there, Robin was standing pointing his finger at him. Starfire's eyes and hands were glowing with green, Raven's dark powers started to coarse through her own body, Cyborg's arm was transformed into his sonic cannon and Beast Boy had taken the form of a green lion.

"Ha! As if I'd ever turn myself in without a fight!" Dr. Light echoed those words as he concentrated his suit's power and shot powerful light blasts at the Teen Titans.

"Titans, Go!" Robin shouted and all 5 of them took off in separate directions, each one able to avoid Dr. Light's initial attack.

Robin charged first. Reaching into his yellow utility belt, he pulled out a small metallic pole. This extended to the size of a bo-staff, a very useful device. Bringing his hands to one side of the staff, he raised both arms and swung it down vertically on Dr. Light. Dr. Light put up a light barrier which stopped Robin's attack right there. He shot two more blasts at Robin, one at his head, the other at the ground beneath him. Robin was able to avoid the first blast, and back flipped out of the way of the second.

With his barrier still up, Cyborg fired several sonic blasts at Dr. Light's barrier. Each one seemed to have no effect, so Dr. Light clapped his hands together and slammed the ground, causing a crack in the street to charge towards Cyborg. Beast Boy had changed into a Pterodactyl, and Cyborg grabbed onto its feet as both flew upward.

Robin reached into his utility belt again. Pulling out several small discs, he first shouted out "Starfire, now!!!" and then threw them all towards Dr. Light's barrier. Starfire seemed to have gotten the hint as she concentrated her starbolts in both hands together and then fired towards Dr. Light's barrier. Her blast hit first followed by the disc barrage of Robin's that had a cumulative effect. Slowly, but surely, Dr. Light's barrier was gone.

Noticing his now impending situation, Dr. Light shouted, "It will take much more than that to defeat me so easily!!!" He raised his hands up one last time to attack.

"Remember me, Dr. Light?" Raven had appeared behind him. Her dark powers illuminating, she had caused herself to look more terrifying than before. It was a simple trick she had learned while developing her powers, but it was something Dr. Light never had appreciated.

Running towards Robin faster than any normal human being could and dropping down on his knees, he begged, "Please, please, please, I'll turn myself in, just keep that girl away from me!"

Dr. Light quivered at Robin's feet as Robin reached into his utility belt for some handcuffs. He was taking out Dr. Light's power supply as Beast Boy flew Cyborg over to them.

Cyborg had just touched down, "Well, that was anti-climatic, don't you think?" he asked as he folded both arms onto his hips.

Beast Boy changed back into his normal form. "Yeah, but at least we're done here. I'm beat, let's get back home, they're supposed to be airing a sneak preview for that new Samurai movie later on."

Robin looked up at his team. He had just finished handcuffing Dr. Light. He looked up at all of his team members and finally spoke, "I'll wait here for the authorities to get here. There's no need for 5 of us to be here, so I'll see you all back at home."

Beast Boy, Cyborg, Raven all nodded and proceeded to walk towards Cyborg's T-car. Beast Boy was asking if he could drive as their voices started to tail off. Raven smacked Beast Boy upside his head as the three drifted from Robin's line of sight.

Starfire had flown up to the highest building on the street. Far enough so that people on the street couldn't see her, but close enough where she could still observe. As much as she trusted Robin and his word, she still worried about him. This was her way of showing that he was truly never alone.

Roughly 5 minutes passed before police cars had arrived. Robin handed Dr. Light over to the police. "Thanks again for everything, Robin, you're really starting to make your own legend, not just following in his footsteps."

Robin didn't say a word, he just nodded, turned around, and started to walk away.

The two police officers were now conversing with each other. "Man, why do all the freaks and weirdos have to come to our city?"

"Get over it, this way better than Gotham or Metropolis. In Gotham, the bad guys aren't just bad, they're also a bit crazy. I'd take Dr. Light here over Two-Face, the Riddler or the Joker any day of the week."

"Yeah, you've got a point there."

Robin clenched his right fist...hard. He didn't like admitting it, but they did have a point. The villains in his city did not compare to some of those he had fought in his tenure while in Gotham. The only one close to it was Slade, and he had never been able to catch him. Putting on his helmet, he got onto his bike. Revving his engine, he thought. I'm still in his shadow... And with that he sped off towards the tower, with two green eyes watching over him.

Meanwhile, in an abandoned factory not too far away...

Multiple televisions were set up on the wall. On each screen, fights of the Teen Titans were shown against their many opponents in battle. A man in his mask gazed on it, watching each one intently. He wrote several things down on occasion, but allowed the video to play back in real time, and if he missed something, he'd rewind and slow the image to see if he had missed anything. He sat down in his half amused, he was trying to figure out why some of his plans ended up in failure. The titans were indeed strong, but he was smarter than they were. He knew they had weaknesses, he was writing down how many times each titan attacked with another titan to form a team attack. On his notepad he wrote a few more things down. On it, he read it back to himself.

Robin - primarily teams with Starfire and occasionally Cyborg.

usually attacks alone, leaving himself to his own physical and mental capabilities

Strengths - mind and martial arts abilities

Weaknesses - his loyalty and faith in his friends, very protective of Starfire. Endanger the life of a teammate to gain advantage.

Cyborg - teams with Raven and Beast Boy when he changes forms

uses his sonic cannon, hand to hand combat is non-threatening

Strengths - technological achievements

Weaknesses - he is a cyborg, runs on batteries and power cells. Drag out battle to win individually.

Starfire - teams with almost every team member

physical strength is superb, but slow and undisciplined.

Strengths - starbolts and ability to fly almost makes her a worthy adversary.

Weaknesses - Scares easily. Implement fear into her body to gain advantage. More protective of Robin than vice-versa.

Raven - teams with cyborg for lifts into the air as well as aerial attacks with Starfire

strength comes from her dark magical powers

Strengths - calm and composed, emotions are usually under control

Weaknesses - Flashing blinding light causes her to lose control. One or two solid blows following this ensures victory.

Beast Boy - teams with mainly Cyborg, otherwise usually attacks alone

strength comes from his animals, close to power absolute, the ability to withstand almost any attack

Strengths - his animal forms cause confusion and causes changes to strategy quickly

Weaknesses - Low self-esteem. Use glue to stop and eliminate him from the picture of a battle (Side note: see data on origins of Robin's Red X)

Notes of these followed suit along with team strengths and weaknesses, as well as relationships between the individuals. It was amazing to see what people did when they are together and fight. They reveal much more than they would want anyone to know, if someone was smart about it, like he was, he could see it and take advantage of it. He wrote down one more line, saying only The keys to personal failures results always in the unknown variable or unpredictability of a situation.

"Personally, I prefer watching myself on the boob tube doing something rather fantastic, maniacally evil or funny! But hey, everyone's gotta have a hobby." a voice he didn't recognize had shouted.

This voice echoed from behind him. How is it possible that someone got in here and I didn't detect them? The alarm didn't even detect anything...

"Oh come now, metal mouth, you can't expect everyone to fall into that nasty little trap of yours. Personally, it's a bit too dark in here, I would've used some padded walls to make myself feel at home." the visitor had spoken up a bit. His footsteps were being heard as he slowly walked closer to his host.

"I'm not accustomed to having visitors, especially your kind. Give me a good reason why I shouldn't break you where you stand." the host was now standing. He had turned to face his special guest.

"Oh come on now Sladey poo, we can have tons of fun together! After all this, you can do lots of things to Boy Wonder over there but there is something I know that you never will" the man stepped into a dim light. He was wearing a purple suit and two larger sized men were behind him. He was wearing red lipstick and ever strand of hair on his head was green and styled to stand straight up.

"Besides, I was getting bored of Gotham for a while and decided it would be hilarious to torture Bat Boy Jr. here. You can think of me as a special consultant. Me, your wonderful neighborhood friendly Joker!!!!" the man, now identifying himself as the Joker, echoed a laugh that filled the entire factory itself.

"And why would I even consider letting you help me?" Slade stood up from his chair and walked over in front of the Joker. His fists were closed and his arms were beside him. If he needed to, he could crush them all.

"Because all mighty masked and stupid one. I've decided to have a change in heart. Rather than torturing the citizens of Gotham and dealing with Bats, I've decided it would more fun to have a vacation and try it here!!!" Joker was smiling again. "I know your future employers will be pleased. I even want to help you get rid of the little birdie bat too. After all, if I can't beat the bat, then beating the little brat works just as well to me. Then I can be all happy and fuzzy and kill everyone I see who never laughs at my jokes!!!!"

"How were you aware of my dealings with the Titans?" Slade was now interested in how his clowned fool knew so much.

The Joker pushed his index finger and thumb next to one another and dragged it across his mouth, signifying he wouldn't talk.

"I wouldn't tell you even if you were the holy poop himself!" Joker shouted as he raised both arms and bowed. He did a backwards cross, perhaps he was only making fun of the religion.

"It's the Pope." Slade corrected him. He didn't like being around stupid and ignorant people. Joker's methods and technique's were indeed ingenious, but he was far too obsessed with the caped crusader in Gotham. In a way, Joker and himself had something very fundamental in common. They both were fascinated by the heroes of the night.

"Tomato, potato. Oh all right." Joker put his whole hand next to one side of his mouth, this was the universal signal for I'm only going to tell you. "Word is on the underground, that there's this individual who's been dealing with the bat's little brat. He's never been caught and nobody seems to know who he is, but the wonderfully annoying boy wonder and his legion of super dorks always seem to beat him. Now, what would you say if I could give you something that would guarantee you beating the little birdie into the ground while barely lifting a finger?"

Slade's left eye squinted. His dealings were private and always confidential. Most of the people who still knew of his existence were either dead or soon to be. However, what the Joker was offering was enticing, he was having a bit more trouble finding work since his dealings with the Titans. This would help ensure his grip hold. Besides, if nothing else, he could learn far more from watching Joker's methods up close and personal.

"I believe we can come to some sort of arrangement. I happen to have an idea as it were. What do you have to offer?" Slade crossed his arms, waiting for a response.

Joker laughed hard once again. "Oh metal mouth, if you only could see your face right now...Oh wait, that's right, you can't!!! hahahahaha!!!"

Slade was starting to get impatient. He was being serious and wanting to discuss business, and the Joker was making jokes and mocking him where he stood.

"Of course I have something planned. Let's not forget, the leader of the Teen Toddlers is still a teenager with raging hormones. Personally, I wouldn't mind losing 30 years myself, but this will do nicely!!!!" Joker turned around. "Oh Groggy...Froggy!!!! Bring me the device and blueprints!"

The two large men nodded and walked up to their boss. They both handed him what he had asked for before Joker continued, "Here's what my idea is..."

Back at Titans Tower

It was already lunch time and Beast Boy was snacking on some new Tofu chips. Raven had retreated to her room and Cyborg was uploading data on the mainframe computer. Robin walked in and headed for the kitchen. "Has anyone seen Starfire and Raven?"

"Raven went to her room and Starfire's not back yet, we thought she was with you, man." Cyborg had just finished uploading, and was walking to greet his friend.

"No, she wasn't." Robin reached up into the cabinet, pulled down a glass and poured himself a glass of water. He was halfway through it when Starfire walked in carrying a large dog food sized bag. It was apparently food for Silkie, her little slimy moth pet, a spoil from their encounter with Kitten and her father, the Moth King. In both arms while carrying this, several bags were about to break from her grip, but Robin and Cyborg each offered a hand for her. They set the bags down on the counter before they spoke again to Starfire.

"Friends!!! I have learned about a festival of happiness. There will be music, the games, and rides of amusement there. Will any of you care to join me in the experience of 'hanging out' later?" Starfire set her large food bag down as she asked. There was indeed a festival, a small flyer advertising the Gotham City's carnival extravaganza was pasted on the dog food. Cyborg's human eyebrow lifted a bit. He had an idea.

"Sorry, Star, B.B. and I were going to battle it out in this new game we got. We kept pushing it back and set the date for today. Isn't that right, B.?" Cyborg's elbow nudged Beast Boy hard in his shoulder. Beast Boy was almost knocked over, but he stood up and straightened himself out before he spoke.

"We are? But we totally thrashed that game last wee..." Beast Boy saw Cyborg's eye as if he were trying to tell him something. "Oh, that game, yeah, sorry Star, I'm so gonna beat Cyborg down today!" Beast Boy winked over at Cyborg as he finished speaking. The two were holding back smiles as Robin finally spoke up.

"I never heard anything about it." Robin recalled his memory, but as hard as he tried, he never remembered hearing anything about it. Robin may not have played video games as much s the other two, but he still enjoyed the thrill of victory in a game as much as the next guy.

"Don't worry about it. Why don't you go down to the park with Star? I'm sure its safe to say Raven wouldn't wanna go. We've got things covered here, you don't want her to go alone do you?" Cyborg was winking at Robin now.

It was at this point that Robin knew what was going on. It hadn't been that long since their incident in Tokyo. Things were still a bit hectic and neither had gotten much time alone together since they got back to Jump City. Villains from Jump City had taken somewhat of an advantage even though the Titan's East was there. It had taken some time to re-establish that the town belonged to the Teen Titans, and no form of criminal action would be accepted here. Robin thought to himself for just a second, then he turned to Starfire before speaking up.

"Starfire?" Robin was starting to blush. He never had officially done what he was about to do, but he felt that now was probably the time. He couldn't keep putting it off forever.

"Yes?" Starfire turned to face him. Whether or not she knew what was going on was something only she knew.

"Would you...would you..." Robin swallowed and exhaled. This is harder than I thought.

"Would I what, Robin?" Starfire was also blushing now. They were each having a hard time looking at each other now.

"Would you...go to the festival...you know...with me?" Sweat was dripping from Robin's forehead now. He braced himself for whatever was coming next. He wasn't sure what her answer would be, but had a grave fear of something else.

"Oh Robin!!!" Starfire had grabbed him and squeezed ... hard. "I would be most delighted if you joined me!"

I knew she couldn't hug me without crushing my bones... Struggling for air Robin exhaled, "Great. could you let up? I think my arms are starting to break."

As Starfire set Robin back down onto the ground, Cyborg and Beast Boy smiled to each other. Cyborg put his right arm behind his back and opened his palms. Beast Boy walked around him and slapped it with his other. They had just set up the two meant for each other since the day they met. It had taken them long enough, but the time was indeed finally upon them.

Robin finally asks Starfire out to a date. Slade has a new ally. What possible dangers now lurk as sharks start to gather at sea?

Next time: Chapter 2: The Date.

Robin and Starfire's date. Things are going great until a disturbing sight. You won't wanna miss it!