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Chapter Two – Obligatory Misunderstanding
"…do-huh?". Mettle stopped and looked around, surprised. Nobody spoke for a few moments. Finally, Striker broke the silence.
"This doesn't look like Dr. Pym's lab", he muttered. Indeed, the lab had apparently disappeared, and been replaced with a small, square room, constructed out of a solid looking metal. The walls were lined with small safes, and one side of the room was dominated by a huge door.
"This is a bank vault", Finesse frowned. "Presumably we were sent through one of Dr. Pym's dimensional doors. But I don't know why he had one connected to a bank vault. And I thought he'd retired the technology after the Sinister Six hijacked it in Paris, anyway". Reptil rapped his knuckles on the door.
"Anyone have an idea on how to get out of here?" he asked.
Finesse stepped forwards. "Some vaults have a security camera inside them, but I don't see one in here. Unless there's a concealed camera, it's possible that nobody knows we're here. We'd have to wait until someone tried to use this vault, and we have no idea how long that could take. So I suggest we break out and explain ourselves to the authorities afterwards. If we get in touch with the Academy, Dr. Pym should be able to sort this out". The others nodded.
"Reptil. This is what you need to do…"
Meanwhile, outside the vault, two security guards were watching the five heroes via a hidden surveillance camera.
"Looks like the HIVE are breaking into the bank again", one of them remarked, bored. The other looked a little closer at the screen.
"No, these are new guys. I don't recognize any of them."
"Whatever. Send out some guards and put the alert out to the Titans. Let's just hope they don't cause too much damage this time".
It was at exactly that moment that a triceratops smashed into the vault door like a battering ram.
"Titans, alert! Somebody's breaking into the bank!" Robin shouted, running into the lounge, where the other four titans had been relaxing. He brought up the security camera footage from the bank.
"Oh, awesome! They have a dinosaur!" Beast Boy exclaimed. Cyborg frowned.
"Do we know who they are? Dudes don't look familiar. New HIVE recruits, maybe?"
Robin nodded and rewinded the video a few seconds. "-get in touch with the Academy, Dr. Pym should be able to sort this out-".
"They mention the Academy, so I assume so. This 'Doctor Pym' person may be the new headmaster, now that Brother Blood is out of the picture. We'll need to get some information out of them after we stop them. Now, Titans, Go!" At that the team jumped up as one and charged off towards the bank.
"Alright, one more should force the door open", Finesse said, after inspecting the now thoroughly dented vault door. Reptil nodded and thudded into the door one final time, causing it to fly open with a crash and knock aside several of the security guards who had been arrayed on the other side of the door. Most of the others panicked and raised their weapons. The students stepped out slowly, hands in the air.
"This is all just a misunderstanding", Reptil said, slowly. "We're not here to-"
Then the guards caught side of Mettle.
"Aaaaaauugh! There's a monster in here!"
"Oh my god! Shoot it! SHOOT IT!"
Panicking, the guards fired their weapons straight at Mettle. The blasts didn't actually hurt him, but they launched him back into the vault with a crash.
"You $%#ERS!" Hazmat roared, rounding on them. Reptil swore as she launched herself forward and started blasting away at the guards.
"Striker! Get back there and see if Mettle's alright! Finesse, we need to calm everybody down! And see if you can get in touch with the Academy-"
"The Academy won't be getting you out of this!" called a new voice. Reptil, Striker and Finesse turned to look at the speaker: a teenager dressed in red and green, with a black and yellow cape. He was crouched down holding a staff and was clearly prepared to fight them. Striker just laughed.
"Hey! Nice costume!" he shouted. "Does it come in men's sizes?" The teenager muttered something under his breath.
"Titans! Take them down!" he called, and suddenly all hell broke loose.
"Titans! Take them down!" called Robin. The four unknown criminals were taken by surprise as Raven teleported in behind them with the other three members of the team and launched a surprise attack. Raven and Starfire flew at the girl in the radiation suit, Beast Boy turned into a bull and charged the Hispanic teenager, and Cyborg charged the guy dressed in the lightning costume. Robin leapt at the remaining girl, staff outstretched; but to his surprise she easily flipped back and avoided him. She smiled at him.
"Let's see what you can do, then", she said, before leaping at him and kneeing him in the face.
Reptil leapt out of the way as a green bull charged past him and crashed into the wall. Snorting, it turned back at him and pawed the ground.
"Uh, easy, boy", Reptil said, backing off with his hands outstretched. "I don't want to hurt you". The bull narrowed its eyes and snorted again, before transforming into a raptor and snarling. Reptil paused, and then grinned. "Alright then", he said, and transformed into a tyrannosaur. "Let's do it your way". The raptor looked suitably shocked, and turned into a little green kid.
"Dude, you're like me? No way! Hey, have you ever seen the third Jurassic Park movie?" Taken by surprise by the odd question, Reptil paused, then shook his head. The green kid grinned, baring his teeth. "Then this is gonna go right over your head", he said, before transforming into a Spinosaurus and charging.
"You will be stopping with the fighting now!" Starfire called to the girl in the yellow suit, floating before her with a starbolt glowing in each fist.
"$#&%ING BITE ME!" yelled the girl, and blasted Starfire with a wave of energy. It didn't have any effect. "What the &$#%?!" shouted the girl. "God damn it! Five of you bastards and of course I get the one who's immune to %$*&ing radiation! For &%^$&'S sake!". She continued to yell a variety of strange words that Starfire didn't recognize until Raven came up behind her and grabbed her with dark energy, restraining her and blocking out any further sound.
"And I thought I had problems", she muttered. "Star. Go help one of the others. I've got her". Starfire nodded and flew off, thinking. She would have to ask one of the others about those strange words another time.
Cyborg tried to grab the smaller teenager, but he jumped back out of reach and let loose a bolt of lightning at him. The bolt struck one of his arms and dispersed through his metallic body into the floor. The lightning guy frowned.
"Well that's just not fair", he said, and turned to run back into the vault. "Mettle! Get up! Little help here?" Cyborg chased after him.
"Got you now, you little-" he started before he was clotheslined by a truck. Or that's what it felt like, at least. A hulking, red metal guy with a grinning red skull for a face looked down at him.
"Thanks, man", the electric boy said, standing over cyborg with a cocky grin. "This guy isn't really bothered by electricity. Seemed more like your area". The red skull nodded.
"Is everyone else doing okay out there, dude?" he asked. Cyborg noted that he had a surprisingly calm voice and something of a Hawaiian accent, which was a strange contrast to his intimidating appearance. The first guy shrugged.
"Dunno. I'll go help out while you deal with this guy". He ran out the door, electricity crackling in his palms. The red guy looked back down at Cyborg just in time to be thrown back by a shot from his sonic cannon.
"Aright, dude", Cyborg growled as he stood up. "You wanna go? Bring it".
Robin flipped back and threw a pair of his electric disks at the girl. Whoever she was, she was clearly an accomplished martial artist, and she managed to avoid most of his thrown weapons with ease. She darted forwards with a pair of eskrima sticks and Robin brought up his staff to block. Robin frowned. He didn't like how this fight was going. Although he had an edge with his staff's longer reach, the girl fought with a blend of at least half a dozen different fighting styles, several of which he didn't even recognize. What's more, she seemed to be adapting to his techniques much faster than anyone should be able to. Robin leapt forwards with a spinning kick that caught the girl off guard and knocked her back. Before he could take the advantage, though, she returned the exact same move and knocked him back. Robin frowned.
"I learnt that from my old partner. It's part of a technique that he made up. Only a few people should be able to do that. So where did you learn it?" The girl smiled.
"From you", she said. Robin's face hardened.
"Nobody can learn a fighting style like that just by watching".
"I can", she shrugged, with that same slight smile on her face.
Robin growled and threw another disk. The girl didn't even bother to dodge this one, instead throwing one of her weapons to catch it in midair and deflect it. To her surprise, though, instead of electricity, this disk erupted into ice when struck, and shot a freezing blast out towards her. She didn't quite manage to jump back in time and wound up with her legs caught in place in the ice. Robin smirked and walked over to her.
"Now then. Tell me what the HIVE Academy is doing. Why reform after all this time? What's your endgame?". The girl just looked at him blankly. Robin frowned. "Don't play dumb. We heard you talking about the Academy over the security system. What are you doing here? And who is Doctor Pym? The new headmaster?" The girls' eyes widened.
"I suspect that there has been something of a misunderstanding", she said, slowly. "We are in no way affiliated with this… 'HIVE'. We're students from the Avengers Academy". Robin raised an eyebrow.
"'Avengers Academy?' Never heard of you. You the new villains in town? Filling the gap left by the HIVE? 'Cause you came to the wrong city". The girl paused.
"Villains…? No, we aren't villains. We're students of the Avengers. We're training to be heroes. Supposedly". Robin shook his head.
"You're attacking a bank. If you're training to be heroes, you aren't very good at it".
"We aren't attacking. One of Dr. Pym's machines malfunctioned and trapped us in the bank vault. We can put you in touch with them to verify all of this, if it helps". Robin paused. The girl could easily be trying to lie her way out of trouble. Apparently she'd realized the same thing. "If I was lying, I would have come up with a more believable story", she stated plainly. "And I'm sure you're familiar with the Avengers. I'm certain that this can all be sorted out if you get in touch with them". Robin shook his head.
"Never heard of them", he shrugged. "But I'm willing to take enough of your story to let you out. Tell your team to stand down. I'll call mine off. But don't try anything, or I'll knock you straight back down again". He turned away and started to talk into his communicator, so he didn't catch her surprised expression.
"Heroes who've never heard of the Avengers? And he wasn't lying…" Finesse muttered. She leant forward and shattered the ice holding her feet with her remaining eskrima stick, and headed off to deal with her team.
A/N: Sorry this took so long, anyone who's interested! I rewrote it like six or seven times until I was more or less happy with it.
As for when this is in Teen Titans canon, it's after the end of season 5, but before the movie, because it's easier to just discount the movie.
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