10/29/06
Disclaimer: I do not own the titans. Only this fanfiction story plot.
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2. Two Years Later
"What are you up to?" Cyborg asked Robin as he entered to Titan Tower common room. Beast Boy was right behind him and ran to the refrigerator to make tofu-something, Starfire wasn't far behind and Raven was still in her room. Robin was on the main computer.
"Looking into police reports." He answered not looking up, "We've been gone for a while. I was wondering if anything besides that 'thing' has been stirring up trouble." Cyborg walked up to the computer interested.
"Find anything interesting?" He asked looking at the monitor. Robin pressed a button and a picture came up. Who it was, wasn't a simple question. The face was hidden behind a hood. Besides, it wasn't a very good picture anyways. It was dark and you could see much of anything, but there was a dark figure, in a cloak.
"The police have this person on the top of their list. Very little is known of who, or what they are." Robin said. He caught the attention of Beast Boy and Starfire who came and joined them, "He's believed to be responsible for twelve separate disappearances. All the victims are believed to be dead by now." The other titans could tell that Robin was upset by this news.
"How did he get away with it?" Beast Boy asked.
"I don't know." Robin was eyeing the picture.
"What's the scoop on the victims. Any bad relations that could lead to a suspect?" Cyborg asked.
"Nothing." Robin replied, "The twelve people seem to have some sort of connection with this criminal, but nothing for years now."
"Do you suppose that there may be a pattern to the victims hitting as to where he'll go next?" Starfire asked. Robin shook his head.
"He's jumping around. Took someone last week, another couple even a few days ago. There is no lead as to when or where he'll hit next." There was a silence as the titans thought.
"Twelve, huh?" Beast Boys voice interrupted the silence. The other three just sighed. Starfire went back to the kitchen to make her breakfast and Cyborg followed. Beast Boy realized no one was going to say anything more, so he went to go finish making his tofu-something. Robin stayed looking at the data he found. Starfire's voice interrupted his thoughts.
"Please, Robin, do you wish to partake in the feasting of my Shnorloniac breakfast meal?" He turned around to find her with a big smile and holding up a plate of a yellow and green goop. He raised a brow and looked at it closer. It moved.
"Um, thanks for the offer, Star, but I think I'll get my own food." He exited out of the stuff on the computer and headed over to the kitchen to get his breakfast.
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"OK, so this character came out while we were fighting Brother Blood. Why didn't the Titans East try to stop him?" Beast Boy asked grabbing for the last slice of pizza. All five of the titans were at there favorite food joint. They just busted Mumbo Jumbo in a bank robbery attempt and decided to get lunch. The topic of the new criminal popped up when they started to explain to Raven what she missed that morning.
"We gave them a list of what to look out for. He wasn't on it, so they probably didn't notice anything on this case." Cyborg pointed out, "If we knew before we left, they would have surely kept there eye out for it as well." Beast Boy shrugged at this and took a bite out of his cheese pizza.
"It's hard to believe that he hit twelve different civilians in the time we were gone." Raven said, "Are you sure that's what it said?"
"I know that it would be hard for any normal criminal to achieve, but I don't think this guy is normal." Robin answered, "The files I read claimed that he sunk into the ground on sight. That's how they described it at least. Each encounter was too dark too see anything. Most of the reason all the pictures attempted aren't at all very good."
"He likes to strike at night then!" Beast Boy pointed out excited and now sitting up strait.. The others looked at him waiting for an explanation. He hunched over and twiddled with his fingers, now unsure if his outburst was stupid or not, "You know, since it's always too dark to get a good picture."
"That actually makes sense." Cyborg replied.
"The only time I've ever heard you say something smart." Raven added. Beast Boy stood proud at first then reflecting on what Raven said and reacted offended.
"Hey!" He started, "I'm-"
"We have an idea of when his next strike is. We need to keep an eye out for night activity and try to figure out where he's going next." Robin interrupted.
"Then, how do we go about that? You were looking at the reports given all morning and claimed not to see any pattern to the where." Starfire asked.
"We'll figure something out." Robin said. In fact, they didn't get any ideas, they just got lucky when on the look out.
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It was the middle of night. The city at it's moment of silence. Everything seemed asleep except for the few cars that were out at that time of night and certain person that was emerging from the floor of an apartment building. The figure was the same as the one in the photograph found by Robin that morning.
They turned around and faced a door, which would lead to a set of stairs, which would take the person inside the building where the true objective lied. They took one step closer to the door when three flying disks cut off their path, exploding. The cloaked person jumped back in time, landing in a crouch and then stood up. They looked in the direction the disks came from. There stood five teenagers. The one in the middle had his are stretched out hinting that he was the one that threw the disks.
"Titans, go!" He yelled. All of them jumped into action. The girl with red hair and green eyes flew at the figure. Her hands glowing the color of green. The boy who looked youngest, was just plain green. He turned into a rhino and charged. Another guy, who was much taller and part machine, extended his arm which changed into some sort of cannon. Then a girl, covered in a blue cape, started to chant some words unheard by the other cloaked figure. A variety of nearby objects surrounded by a black aura flew in the their direction. The one who called out the battle cry charged at the person.
The figure grabbed the edge of her cape and flew it in the direction of the opposite shoulder. They sunk into the ground instantly. The three that had chosen to charge forward rammed into each other. The objects controlled by the hooded girl hit them as well. Lucky for them, the part machine man didn't fire.
"You must be the Teen Titans. I've heard so much about you." The voice of the shaded person was revealed as they rose from the ground a few yards away from the collision, "I was wondering when you would come out of play." Robin jumped to his feet, followed by Starfire and Beast Boy who had morphed back to normal.
"Who are you?" Robin questioned realizing that this fight would be more than he expected. They chuckled as if the question was slightly funny.
"Some who remember me, would call me Shadow."
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There's chapter two for you. Hope enjoyed it, and don't forget to review on your way to the exit button.