Part 3: The First Mission
by Cerulean Leader
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"Azarath Metrion Zinthos!" Raven yelled as she soared up into the air, her eyes glowing white and her hands surrounded by a black aura. Her cloak flowed up like a pair of wings as she used her telekinetic powers to lift up a large boulder to throw at the person they were facing. The villain moved out of the way, shrieking in fear as they dived to dodge the boulder. He quickly stood up and began running again.
Cyborg was running forward with his left hand holding onto his right arm, which he had changed into his Sonic Cannon, aiming for a good shot at the person. The person in question just laughed, holding a black remote in his hand as he spun with his brown jacket following, clicking a button on a poster of a new horror movie that was showing at the movies. "Let's see if you can handle this, Titans!"
"Come back here, you lazy lump!" Cyborg yelled, shooting the blue, sonic energy out of his arm at the person.
"Control Freak, freeze!" Green Beast(1) yelled, as the couch potato villain just laughed at the green shapeshifter. The hero who was formally known as Beast Boy had now grown taller, but was still shorter than the guys on their team. His jaw had hardened, his hair now combed back and spiked up still and he had filled out slightly. His personality hadn't changed much; he was still his goofy and clumsy self, but he had matured over the years.
Cyborg hadn't changed much either, he was still versing Changeling at videogames, and he had begun to rust slightly, but other than that, he was fne. He had begun to create new technology that would permanently make him look like a normal human on the outside without the rings, though he would have to change back to his normal robot self when he wanted to use his senses or his weapons. He was now married to Bumblebee, or now also known as Karen Stone, and they were really happy together.
Starfire was hovering above them with a glare on her usually gentle features. She had changed a lot too. She had revealed her Tamaranean name to her friends and team members, who called her Kori now as well as Star or Starfire, and she had filled out quite nicely as well. She had kept her thin figure, even after having her and Roy's children, Ty and Caitlin. Her costume now consisted off a purple, one-shoulder leotard with silver lining, similar to her old armor, a purple skirt, and her long, purple boots. Her hair had grown past her waist, still straight and silky. "Control Freak, do not move anywhere, please!"
Control Freak glanced up at the alien, grinning mischeviously as he moved his foot an inch. Starfire's jaw gritted, her eyes glowing green as she readied her right hand back that was holding a bright starbolt.
The character in the poster, a large piece of black goo with one eyeball began to slobber around slowly. It looked a bit like Plasmus, but it was much bigger.
Raven flew to levitate herself next to her alien friend. "Is Nightwing joining us soon so he can help us be victorious in this battle, Raven?" Starfire whispered, quickly shooting a starbolt as Control Freak began running again, laughing like a maniac.
"He should be here soon. Hope managed to convince him to let her come." Raven replied, yelling her mantra as she levitated a heavy building in the air to help Cyborg who had been trying to hold out first. He nodded at her in thanks, and let out a large grunt as he swung the square building at the black goo thing who let out a shriek.
Lapsae levitated herself up towards the second story of a house on one of the local streets. The window she flying up too was shut, but the glass showed that someone was moving about the room. Also, the light was on. She quickly tapped her knuckles against the wooden window pane, and the figure inside walked to the window.
"Hope!" the figure gasped when the girl removed her mask. "What are you doing here?" he asked. He then scanned her costume, and raised an eyebrow. "What are you wearing?"
She just laughed at her friend in response. "Hey, Ty," she greeted with a smile. She hovered outside the window while Ty stood aside to let her in, but she shook her head in response, moving to the side and motioning for him to come outside. "No, we're going to go with everyone on a mission to take down Control Freak. He's running havoc down near the video game store, so get your gear on!"
Ty's tan features, turned into a worried frown, his green eyes narrowed towards Lapsae's face. His auburn hair covered his eyes as he thought on what to do. He was seriously considering going along, but his mother would definitely not be happy if she found out that he had gone patrolling without her or his father. "I don't know, Hope, where's your dad?"
"He's waiting over there." she answered, turning around and gesturing to a tall man clad in a black and blue suit with a domino mask covering his eyes. His unruly hair was spiked up, and he was standing still with his arms folded, leaning against the fence with a bored expression on his face. "He's totally cool with it... sort of."
"You mean he isn't?"
"Mum made him let us come. So, are you in or not?" she asked in an annoyed tone, folding her arms in a similar fashion to Nightwing who was still standing in front of the house.
"Alright, just give me a minute to get changed!" he sighed, shutting his window and closing the curtains. Lapsae floated down beside Nightwing, who straightened up at the sight of his daughter.
"Is he coming?"
"Yeah, just give him a minute."
Cyborg let out a battle cry as he aimed a punch at Control Freak, Green Beast changing into a tiger as he roared, bounding at Control Freak, who in return let out a girlish shriek in fright, and eventually got hit by Cyborg's metal fist. Raven and Starfire were surrounding the giant black goo, Starfire shooting large quantities of starbolts and Raven aiming sharp tendrils of her power at it.
"You guys have started the party without me?" asked Nightwing as he grinned at his friends.
"Friend Nightwing!" Starfire cheered, clapping her hands in delight as Raven grinned at her husband. She flew over quickly, pecking his cheek, nodding a greeting to the two children who were standing beside him and then flew off, dragging Starfire with her before she could notice her son.
Cyborg and Green Beast paused for a moment to grin at them, giving them the thumbs-up signal before the green hero morphed into a T-Rex as he chased after Control Freak, Cyborg right on his tail.
"Alright, you two, you don't want to attract to much attention. I'd prefer it if both of you go towards Cy and Gar to take down the couch potato," he said, spitting out the villain's name in disgust. "I'm going to go and help your mother's take down... whatever that is." With that, he let out his usual, carefree smile and somersaulted into the air, using his grappling hook to let him swing from the building as he threw four freeze discs at the giant lump. "We need to give this thing a name, guys!"
"It has a name!" Green Beast yelled back, temporarily changing back into his human form. "It's called 'The Terror Lump'!"
"What an original name," Raven drawled sarcastically, her eyes glowing white once more. Starfire's glowed green, and then she grabbed one of Raven's hands, using the swirling combination they had come up with years back when they were still fighting the Brotherhood of Evil. A tornado like drill of green and black swirled towards the frozen, black lump, the icy surface shattering like glass.
Lapsae and Ty, who hadn't figured out a name for himself yet, both flew up to assist Green Beast and Cyborg. Ty, who was now dressed in pair of brown cargo pants, steel toe boots a red and black t-shirt, a domino mask and grey fingerles gloves began to shoot a number of yellow starbolts at Control Freak. The pathetic villain shrieked again, holding his backside as the starbolts began to singe his clothes. "Hey, hey! If it isn't mini-Star!" Cyborg yelled with a grin, holding up his hand as Ty flew past and hi-fived him.
"Hey, Cyborg!" he greeted with a smile on his face. Green Beast hi-fived him as well.
"So, you guys ready to click Control Freak's butt?" the green shapeshifter asked with a goofy grin, changing into a wolf. He bounded off with Ty right on his tail, dragging Lapsae along with him, who had her eyes glowing white as she lifted up a street lamp, using it like a golf club to hit Control Freak into the air. She hadn't mastered her telekinetic powers yet, and could only lift things that were about the size of a fully grown man, unlike Raven who had the ability to lift things heavier than a building. Raven didn't even have a limit to her power.
Cyborg aimed his Sonic Cannon at Control Freak again.
The Terror Lump was similar to Plasmus was in many ways. Had the creators of the black thing based it off Plasmus, maybe? Even with their most powerful combination attack, Starfire and Raven could not defeat it. It just re-created a smaller but more powerful version of it's original self. It grunted as it lunged towards Raven who then flew up higher in order to dodge, making a platform so her husband could be aim aerial attacks more easily.
"Star, send a starbolt onto this!" Nightwing yelled, throwing an explosion disc towards the Terror Lump. Starfire followed her leader's order's, throwing a powerful starbolt at it. "Rae, control it! Push it to the centre core!"
Raven nodded, and crossed her legs in a lotus position, yelling her mantra as a black version of her self flowed out of her body and struggled to push the disc/starbolt into the Terror Lump. With great difficulty, Raven's soul-self managed to push it in and flew back towards Raven. Starfire grabbed both of her teammates hands and flew as fast as she could as a beeping sound went off.
With another yell, a mix of orange and black was flying across the sky, as the Terror Lump began to grow a bubble as the explosion grey inside of it. Soon, the lump disappeared, black goo dropping into the concrete, covering Raven and Nightwing's legs in it. Starfire managed to swiftly avoid it hitting her.
"Glorious! We have kicked the butt of the... thing!" Starfire cheered with glee, clapping her hands. Raven teleported herself and then reappeared so the black goo was off her body.
"Yeah, but you didn't get covered in that black stuff." Nightwing said with a whine. Raven moved it away and onto the road so Nightwing could clean up. "But good work, guys! C'mon, let's go help the others." With that, he got his bo-staff and sprinted over to where the other's were.
Ty and Cyborg were shooting at Control Freak while Green Beast chased after him in ostrich form, clucking as he moved. Lapsae was throwing small boulders to participate. Starfire and Raven hovered out to the side, and Raven held her husband back. Soon, Cyborg and Green Beast moved towards the other team members to let the younger heroes defeat the couch potato.
Soon, Control Freak was on the ground with his eyes swirling while he grunted in dizziness. His clothes and hair were singed, smoke was floating off his body and a smashed remote lay beside him. Nightwing walked forward and glared. "Your pathetic days as a villain are over, Control Freak." he said as Cyborg lifted him up.
Starfire glanced towards her son and gasped. "Ty! Why are you here in combat?"
"I came with Hope and Richard! Did you see, mum? Hope and I totally kicked Control Freak's butt!" he cheered, grinning at his mother.
"It was my idea for him to come, Kori." Lapsae explained with a smile.
"Please, let me know first if you are to participate." Starfire said, hugging her son. "Congratulations on your victory!"
"C'mon, y'all! Who wants pizza? BB's buying!" Cyborg said, motioning towards the pizza shop around the corner.
"Yay- Hey!" Green Beast whined. "Cyborg!"
Raven shook her head and smiled. Some things never changed.
"Hey, Hope! Are you going tonight with Timmy and me patrolling?" Ty whispered to his friend during their English class. They were in the seventh grade at Jump City Junior High, and the teacher was writing on the blackboard so she wouldn't notice if the people were talking.
"Definitely! Have you chosen a name for yourself yet?" she questioned with a curious gaze.
"No.."
"Maybe... Bolt Boy?"
"No!"
"Well, choose one!"
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"You guys!" yelled a voice as a girl with red hair, onyx coloured eyes with a pair of goggles on her head(2) ran down the hallway to catch up with Ty and Hope. The duo were just heading out of their third period class to head to lunch. At the sound of the voice, they both turned, smiled and then grunted when she jumped on their shoulders. Atlanta was Hope's godsister, and also the daughter of Wally and Artemis West.
"Hey, Atlanta." Ty greeted with a grin.
"Lati!" Hope cheered, swinging an arm around her speedster friend's shoulder. "Did you see us on the news with the other Titans?"
"Yeah, I saw! Nicely done, guys!"
"Thanks, Lati." Ty replied. "So, what's up? Where are you headed now?"
"My locker and then lunch. You two want to sit with me and Benson(3) at lunch?"
"Sure. We'll meet you there after we put our stuff away." Ty said. Atlanta nodded, and began to skip down the hall. Hope looked at her friend and couldn't but try and hold back a laugh, stiffling a giggle as she as well turned the opposing way to her own locker as Ty followed her with a smile on her face.
"Look at the stuff they dumped on us today." Atlanta whined as she pouted, slamming her tray down on the table as she sat down, obviously disappoined that the menu wasn't a tasty meal.
Benson smirked beside his friend as he munched on a slice of pepperoni pizza. "Typical Lati." he smirked with his mouth full of food. Benson was the son of Victor, or Cyborg, and Karen, or Bumblebee. He was tall for his age, he loved playing sports. His hair was pretty short and curly like his mother's, and was slightly muscly. "By the way, nice battle yesterday, guys! Dad was showing me after he came home."
"Yeah, I think we did okay." Hope agreed, glancing over at her best friend.
"You know, now that Hope is allowed to go patrolling, we should make our own team." Ty said casually, taking a sip of his can of lemonade, not noticing Hope who was raising an eyebrow at him.
"That's a great idea." Atlanta said excitedly.
"But we don't have identity names yet." Benson pointed out, Atlanta's expression turning into an annoyed frown at their friend's statement.
"We can think of them later though, right?"
"Right!"
A/N: Il finito! I hope you enjoyed My Father's Pride. I wrote the extra part at the end, a semi-sequal to it in case I wanted to write a one-shot or another chapter story with those characters. I own all four of the children (Hope, Ty, Atlanta and Benson), so please don't steal them. If you would like to borrow them for one of your stories, please inbox me.
So, how did you like it? I'm actually okay with it, I liked how I ended it. I know there was a reviewer who wanted me to put in another chapter (shout-out to midnightbat! I want to apologize for not continuing this... T_T Sorry!), but I liked the ending of how I did it. It's sort of like a cliff-hanger but a proper ending at the same time, I guess. :3
(1) Green Beast is Beast Boy, if you hadn't picked up on that. In the comics, after he drops the BB name, he becomes Changeling, but I really hate the name. So, one of my friend's came up with Green Beast for me. :)
(2) So, I decided to introduce my new OC's. I know this story is focused on Hope, but she's got to have friends, right? So, Atlanta West is the daughter of Wally West and Artemis Crock from Young Justice, so that was a little cross-over bit in it.
(3) Benson Stone - son of Cyborg and Bumblebee. Don't question it, I reckon Cy would be a great dad. ^_^
The names from the comics and perhaps a little background information from them as well are the only references I will be using with my version of the future.
Word Count: 2,734
Please review. :) No flames, please. CONSTRUCTIVE CRITISISM IS ALLOWED.
~CL