Summary: Follow the adventures of Slack, Red, Lightlad, Tag, Blizkid and Sev members of the newly organized Teen Titans H.C defending Hallow City from the perilous dangers it faces day-in-day-out. They'll have to face an assorted array of villains including, A psychotic gang lead by a team of super powered teens, a deadly bounty hunter with a mysterious link to one of the Titans, a bloodthirsty werewolf willing to turn any one in his way into a midnight snack, and a multi billion dollar genetics corporation that's not all that it seems, to name a few. But their most dangerous threats come from facing and overcoming each others assorted pasts as a team. Expect tons of guest appearances by the original Titans as well as other D.C. Comics heroes and villains.
Welcome back Bro's and Ho's (No dis-respek to the playa's out there) The Captains back in action with a chapter that, while lacking a severe quantity of action, has a hefty, hearty, serving of kickassery and should impress none-the-less (And I do hope you're impressed).
Now I know last chapter I said this chapter would be about the To-Be-Titans chatting about their sad miserable lives prior to becoming heroes, but the chapter turned out way too long (twelve and a half pages too long) so I'm breaking it up into two different chapters, the second of which is entitled Terminal Times. Now for what's really important, rambling.
Like in previous chapters I'm going to write down what's on my mind first, so if you don't enjoy when I do this (Though I personally don't understand why you wouldn't) I'd suggest not reading the next two dozen or so paragraphs (But please continue reading the story).
First off, I'd like to give a big thanks to Splint who saved this story from the point of extinction (All of you who read this should take the time and thank him personally) as he was the only one of the thirty something readers who actual REVIEWED, but, on a more serious note, I'd still like to take the time to thank my readers as they are, after all, the ones who really keep the story on the site (So, thanks to all of you, please don't feel pressured to review (But do so out of the kindness of you're heart).)
Secondly, Like I mentioned earlier, this is part one of a two part chapter, I apologize for the shortness and inconvenience of it and how it kind of ends on a crap sentence but I'll make up for both next chapter which is reaching the eight thousand word mark.
Thirdly, The real action in this Action/Adventure/Humour/Romance/Drama/Genre Smashingly Awesome hybrid should start to begin around chapter five. The action will be heavy and intense (Don't take my word for it? Read the reviews) so make sure you have your favourite 'pump up' tune playing while you read. As for the other catagories mentioned above, I'd say there are some slight hints at possible romances in this chapter and the next and of course like always tons of humour to keep you laughing throughout the chapter.
Finally a disclaimer: I still don't own any of the 'Official' The Teen Titans or any D.C. comics characters or places. What I do own are the heroes of this story, Slack, Red, Lightlad, Tag, Blizkid and Sev, The plot of this story (though that might be debatable) and of course a fat cat named Quinn.
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Chapter 3 And The Teams Are...
Back in the auditorium of the Meeting Building several dozen heroes sat, once again, in the large velvet chairs, busily chatting amongst themselves, like they had done before, as they patiently awaited further instruction from their leader. Heroes constantly emerged into the room, flocking in like sheep, entering through the large opening doors, and, slowly, began to occupy the remaining seats. Many of the heroes began taking up seats beside freinds, wheter they were freinds from before the meeting or friends they had made during it.
Sitting in the thirteenth seat, in the third row from the stage, was non other than Slack. She was wearing a relatively cleaner costume, as apposed to the one she had worn during, and after, her workout, having just came from the showers where she had both showered and gotten dressed in a fresh costume.
The showers were located in the large multipurpose girls washroom, multipurpose meaning it held a great deal of utilities that included, individual marble showers, a clean and fully functional bathroom, personal lockers with extra costumes for the heroes and even a full purpose day Spa, something that the boy's bathroom couldn't boast.
Unknown to Slack, Tag was sitting almost directly behind her, the 'almost' reffering to the fact that she sat two rows behind Slack. Having cleaned herself up from the various twigs and sticks that had clung to her costume. After she'd left the garden, Tag had spent the remainder of her time chatting with various heroes, all male, who all shared one common trait, they all were more than happy to flirt with her while they struck up conversation, though she didn't return the flirt with any of them, she thought it was cute that they tried so desperately to hit on her, but found herself unable to recouperate the feelings they held towards her, as she was still holding out for 'That special someone'.
Tag was now busilly chatting with a hero beside her, said hero was Throwback, a large, muscular, teen who was at least a year or so older than she was. He was dressed in a steryo-typical, Austrailian Outback styled costume, and like his costume would imply, spoke with a thick Australian garb.
His power was that of a 'Super boomerang', a prototype weapon which held the uncanny ability to cut through any substance known to man, be it metal, wood, steel, silver, iron and so forth, with it's secondary power being that the 'Super Boomerang' always found it's way back to him.
Two rows behind and three seats to the left of Tag sat Lightlad, who sat in his seat with great comfort, sitting with his both of his feet kicked up and gently relaxed on the empty chair in front of him, with Jericho and Herald sitting to the left of him, having befriended the two earlier.
As he lay back in his seat and eagerly watching the stage, he felt a strong kick hit his chair, knocking him forwards slightly. At first he ignored it, figuring it must have been an accident, it wasn't like anyone would purposefully kick his chair, then he felt the foot strike his chair, again and again and again, finally, after the thirteenth kick he'd had it. Spinning around in his seat he turned around, only to come face-to-face with an overly cheerful Speedy who sat in the seat behind him, a large, chesire-cat like smile on his face as his left foot repeatedly slammed into Lightlad's chair.
"Can I help you?" Lightlad asked casually, 'No need for theatrics, he was probably just moving or something ' he thought to himself.
"Your in my way Lightboy" Speedy said kicking his chair again, Lightlad frowned thinking of multiple way's this could go depending on how he handled it, though, he had to say, in his mind, each one of his thoughts ended off with one of the two getting hurt, he tried to ignore that thought and attempted to continue on with his, so far, peaceful regime.
"It's Lightlad first off and secondly if you wanna keep that foot I'd suggest not kicking my seat" he said, Speedy's eyes, or rather his mask, lifted up on his face as he flashed Lightlad an overly zealous, and at the same time, extremely taunting smile.
"Is that a threat?" he asked in an annoyingly over-exadurated tone, reminisant of a bratty childs' voice, Lightlad glarred, angrily, at him for a slight second before answering his question.
"It's not a Valentine" he said in a annoying tone of voice reministant of the one Speedy had used on him. Speedy's smile waned, slightly, before brightining up to the look he'd held seconds prior.
"Whatever...Lightboy" he said getting up in his seat, purposefully slaming his pelvis into the chair, shaking it violently, and moving towards where the rest of his team were seated.
Lightlad stared at him for a minute, all the while thinking about what a jerk he was in contrast to Jericho and Herald, he hoped dessperatly that the rest of his team wasn't going to be like Speedy was, otherwise he might as well hand in his comunicator right now and save himself the trouble. He sighed quietly to himself before taking a seat back in his chair, hoping for a bright outcome.
As the remaining members of the group began to slowly finish coming in and finding their seats, the light to the room began to dim, like they'd done before, though, this time, everyone in the audiance kept quiet instead of rambling like they'd done before, each one having expelled the remainder of their energy durign the 'recess' and now fully willing to hear whose team they would be placed on.
Slowly Robin's head emerged from the side of the stage, before he began to walk onto the stage, this action gathered the rooms attention as they immediately exploded in an uproar of shouts, hoot's and applause. Robin smiled, though only momentarilly as just as quickly as he'd smiled he began to silence the group with his hands before standing on the same podium he had stood on before, though, this time he drew a pen from a drawer underneath the podium and pointed it at the crowd, he started bobbing it from head to head while he counted to himself.
"Twenty Nine...Thirty...Thirty One...Thirty Two...Thirty Three..." he paused, something was wrong, but he didn't know exactly what that something was. Glancing down at the small paper he held in his hand revealed the problem, he was counting thirty three heroes located in the room, but there were thirty five on the list, thirty five in total, which meant that there were two people missing from the crowd, why? He asked himself, Why did something always have to go wrong?
He lowered his head towards the small microphone and tapped it's shiny silver head twice, filling the room with a loud mechanical "Pudd-pudd", forcing several heroes to cover their ears, finally, after along period of silenceness, allowing the room to get adjusted, he began to speak into the mike.
"Has any one seen-" he paused to look at his communicator that showed the names of all the heroes in the vicinity, he noted that two names were highlighted in red, meaning they weren't within a ten foot radius of the room, he read the names out loud "-Red and Blizkid?".
Suddenly, as if on que by forces greater than the ones present, the exit doors swung open, illuminating the room with the bright golden glow of the sun. Several heroes squinted their eyes as they gazed at the two figures who entered the room fashionably late. The figures happening to be none other than Blizkid and Red, both of whom walked towards the group like nothing had happened.
"Glad you could make it" Robin stated, sarcasm heavy in his tone, watching as the two heroes approached the valley of seats, each with a pair of eyes locked on the duo. Blizkid's face light up in a embarrassed blush, which, almost, made Robin wish he could take back his comment, the 'almost' due, in part, to the fact that Red's face stayed perfectly normal, if not a little too happy, without so much as a hint of embarrassment showing on it.
"Be glad we made it at all Traffic Light" Red said in a tone dark enough to make even the most macho of men shutter. Onstage Robin glarred daggers at him, he wasn't used to being treated like this, especially by a fresh-off-the-presses recruit, but then again, Red was much different then the other heroes who filled the seats before him.
At first he'd shown little to no concern for others, heroes or civillians alike, which, when presented with the typical "I'd give my life to save someone else" rule that applied to the other heroes, seemed almost good enough a reason for Robin to boot him out of the entire Titan community, and it wasn't like he would have been without reason, Red swore, constantly, refused aid from other heroes and had worse of an attitude problem than Speedy, Red X and Johnny Rancid combined, but, what had stopped him from kicking Red out was his sheer dedication he had to bringing villians to justice. The first mission he'd seen Red carry out was a phenominal test of strenght, during which Red had taken a tremendous amount of pain, including a bullet to the thigh, which later required several stitches, a stab wound to the chest and being rammed and almost run over by a truck, all of which he did to bring a gas station robber to justice.
Soon after the mission's success, and the praise he'd received apon it's completion, he had began to warm up to the others, though, he still kept his distance from the other more 'heroey' heroes both physically and attitude wise.
As a mandatory requirement he, along with all the other heroes in the building, had gotten his mind probed by Raven as part of the stress test that would help decide if certain heroes could face the risks of being a hero, part of the test she ran involved dipping into certain times in the heroes past when he or she had faced serious risks and how they responded to them, from the little of his history she'd seen she knew right away to stray far from him and his mind. Later going on to describe what she'd seen as making her life seem like a Disney film, though the specifics of what she'd seen she kept secret, it was still obvious that Red had been through some serious trauma's in his life.
In recognition of this Robin shrugged the insult off and went on with his speech as both Red and Blizkid took their seats in the back row, several heroes watched Red with observing stares, glaring both angrily and worriedly at him, but, apon him discovering their stares, quickly focused their attention back to Robin onstage.
"Ahem. Now that everyone's here I can begin, but before I do I want to get one thing out of the way, the teams were decided professionally and reflect the way you act as a group so don't be disappointed if your not put on a team with your best friend or someone you lik-" before he could finish his sentence he was cut off by a voice in the back row.
"Get to the point" Kid Flash shouted from the back row, Robin gave him a frown of disapproval, ever since Kid Flash had joined Robin was sceptical of him, he was a great hero no doubt but he feared that his relationship with Jinx could become a disaster if she ever, for what ever reason decided to rejoin the Hive.
While the remainder of the Titans had welcomed her into their ranks, several with open arms, He and, oddly enough, Raven still distrusted her, Raven's reason, he imagined, must have been for more personal reasons of which he could think of two occasions when she'd 'invaded' her privacy, one of which was Jinx's invasion of her living quarters, when she, along with the other members of the H.I.V.E. recruits had broken into, and taken over, the Titan's Tower.
Robin's mistrust, on the other hand, was due to the fact that he knew of the lure of evil and just how tempting doing the wrong thing could be, he'd learnt that the hard way when he disguised himself as the villianous theif Red X, as well as his breif stint as Slade's apprentice, both of which he still had nightmares about.
Robin was getting annoyed at being constantly interrupted and it showed on his face, his mask was burrowed deep into his face in angry expression, he slowly tapped his pen on the small podium while glaring, angrily, directly at Kid Flash who sat with a cocky smile on his face.
Robin suddenly felt a surge of anger course through his body, the fact that Kid Flash wasn't taking it seriously was enough to make him imagine leaping off the stage and rushing Kid Flash out of the room, suppressing that idea he continued on with his speach, leaning down and speaking into the mike.
"If I could continue?" he asked, Kid Flash gave him a thumbs up and Robin felt a vein in his head enlarge, once again he suppressed the urge to denounce Kid Flash the right to being in the building, concealed his anger and continued his speech.
"The first team located in-" Robin began his speech while members of the audience silently prayed for Robin to read their names and allow them the chance to be on the teams they so desperatly wished to be on.
Name after name the teams were slowly read by Robin as groups of five slowly arose in their seats and made their way to the stage, once onstage each hero received a handshake from each original Titan, who all stood onstage behind Robin, their plane tickets from Robin, as well as a handshake from him, and then hurried back to their seats, almost all of whom were red faced from being onstage in front of so many people, few could keep straight faces and one hero even laughed so hard he fell over on stage and had to be helped up by Cyborg.
As Robin read the twenty ninth name off the list he smiled to himself, he only had one more team left and he could get back to what really mattered, spending time with Starfire and his friends, no more world wide missions, no more hectic planning, sleepless nights and most of all no more Brotherhood Of Evil, life was good for him.
"Finally last but not least we have Team Six: The Titan's H.C., Located in Hallow City, Michigan, I'd like to call Slack, Lightlad, Red, Sev, Tag and Blizkid to the stage". Robin spoke into the mike, this time his voice no longer carried the semi-bored tone it had before, and instead it was replaced by a cheery optimistic and almost childlike voice.
Slowly the five figures rose, each one with a different emotion plastered on their face, for Slack it was a nervous blush, for Lightlad a shy smile, Tag an optimistic, cheerful smile, Sev a cocky smirk, Blizkid a casual, if not slightly shy and nervous, smile and for Red it was an arrogant frown.
The figures made their way to the stage, stopping every now and then to shake hands with their friends or complete strangers, it was amazing how many people seemed to forget Lightlad's past, look him in the eye and congratulate him, this gave him an extra boost of confidence that he carried with him all the way to the stage.
Once they made it onstage Robin approached the six heroes and smiled.
"Slack-" he said, motioning for her to step forwards, which she did, taking several small steps forward. "-you'll act as a team leader, your skills in a time of desperation have shown that you would make a perfect leader for a team such as this"
Behind her four of the five figures clapped their hands together and cheered her on, the only one not clapping being Red who stood with his arms crossed over his chest, but he still had a congratulating smile on his face, Slack's face turned entirely red and, while shying her shoulders upright, attempting to hide her blush, gratuitously accepted her handshake from Robin.
She walked towards the other figures on the stage, all of whom stood smiling at her, she felt her heart beat increase and felt her face flush up with a nervous blush, though none of the heroes seemed to notice this, or if they did, made little mention of it, she stopped suddenly and gazed at the four teens awaiting her hand shake, each with a kind smile on there faces, she swallowed her fear and took the remaining steps toward the group.
"Congratulations friend Slack you have been chosen to lead your team to victory. I hope you are as great of a leader as Robin is" Starfire said, her cheery voice a pitch higher than usual while reffering to Robin. She shook Slack's hand gently and Slack, in response to this, smiled and walked over to Cyborg, who towered over her by at least a foot .
"Nice job Slack" he said as he shook her hand, Slack smiled politely and walked over to where Beast Boy stood, his usual and comical toothy grin plastered on his face.
"Ya...you rule Slack" Beast Boy said-agreeing with his freinds comment-while shaking her hand, he tried making a joke but his mouth was covered by a dark black aura that Slack knew came from Raven, she stared at the dark sorceress who gave her a friendly smile before speaking.
"I'm glad your leading the team I wouldn't trust any one else" Raven said shaking her hand with the hand she wasn't using to hold Beast boy's mouth shut.
The next person to receive his hand shake was Lightlad, who took all his steps and made all his moves with a level of dramatic flair. Starfire offered him a word of Tamarian advice which had to do with eating six meals a day and making sure he wore clean clothes on a daily basis and getting rest early to fend off "Bites from the bugs of the bed", Lightlad looked confused but played along with both of Cyborg and Beast Boy's assistance and pretended like he understood. Soon after he approached Cyborg who gave him a friendly suggestion about which room he thought would be perfect for him, Beast Boy made a knock-knock joke about an elephant and a ice cream machine that lacked a punch line.
Finally, after much delay on his behalf, he came face to face with Raven.It was hard staring the young woman who caused his family as well as himsef, so much trouble and pain, in the face.
His father's first encounter with the dark sorceress had left him in a mental institution for six months, which not only permanantly scared Lightlad, but had caused his mother, who had already neglected him, to become so wracked with guilt that she began to drown her sorrows in alcohol, quickly becoming an alcoholic. Soon after his mothers new found love for alcohal he learned that his parents were getting a divorce, a by-product of his fathers second arrest. The divorce tore through his family like a knife forced Lightlad to live with a foster family as neither of his two were properly able to care for him.
Though he'd never mentioned his history to Raven or even Robin for the matter, Raven had learned enough of it from the mandatory mind read and felt sorry for him, she felt responsible for it and couldn't help but feel a slight twinge of guilt every time he crossed her path, but Lightlad was like Beastboy and could easily hide his pain behind a wall of funny jokes and wisecracks.
"I'm sorry for all the trouble I caused you" she said softly as she shook his hand.
"I'll bet" was all Lightlad said before letting go of her hand and returning to the rest of the team, Raven felt her stomach cool down with the freezing pain of guilt and tried to hide it, but, try as she may, she couldn't help hide the fact that she truly felt sorry for Lightlad.
Next came an overjoyed Tag who shared a cheery and lengthy conversation with Starfire regarding mustard, hot dogs, pet grooming and cough syrup, all of which seemed random to any one but the two, Cyborg gave her a friendly pat on the back, Beastboy had yet another knock-knock joke for her this one being worse than the other and made both Cyborg and Raven cringe, Tag smiled and gave a slight chuckle before walking over to Raven who gave her a "Congrats" and shook her hand.
After Tag came Sev, Starfire congratulated him and he just barely escaped having to sit through a twelve hour Tamarian congratulation dance, after Starfire came Cyborg who told Sev how to install the security system as well as what room had the best access to the power grid, after Cyborg came Beastboy who had a hand buzzer on his hand which backfired when he shook hands with Sev's metallic hand sending two dozen volts back into his hand and making his hair poof up into a afro, both Cyborg and Sev laughed at this and Raven showed concern for Beastboy as he grabbed his now smoking hand, finally he approached Raven who quickly tried to hide her concern by making a witty comment
"Congratulations you made an immature, childish, imp look bad, it must have taken a lot" Raven said in a lame attempt to cover up her obvious concern for Beastboy, Sev smiled, the sort of smile that said "I know exactly what you're thinking"
"It's what I do best" he said letting go of her hand and returning to the back of the line.
Blizkid shyly walked towards Starfire, he could hardly stare her in the eye he was so nervous, but Starfire quickly grabbed the younger boy into a friendly hug causing him to light up like a Christmas tree, the crowd erupted in a cheer which only added to his blush, On stage Robin looked a little jealous at Blizkid but quickly shook it off.
After Starfire let go of Blizkid his next stop was Cyborg, Cyborg congratulated him and ruffled his hair, Blizkid smiled and went moved towards Beastboy who gave him a friendly thumps up, next came Raven who gave him a gentle smile which he returned before scurrying off to the rest of the team.
Last up was Red, he walked over to Starfire and shook her hand, there were no optimistic comments or hugs from her, just a simple hand shake and a forced smile from both.
Next was Cyborg who gave him a firm handshake and pat on the shoulder, though the two hadn't been the best of friends, they had shared somewhat of a bond, due, mostly, in part for the fact that the two shared the same curse, an appreance that would never be accepted by the entire world.
After shaking hands with Cyborg, Red moved on to Beast Boy who when Red tried to give him a handshake drew his hand back, Red tilted his head sideways and gave him an un-amused smile, Beast Boy gave a cheeky chuckle before actually shaking his hand, finally he approached Raven who kept a stern face the entire time, she gave him a polite smile and shook his hand.
After Red had returned to the rest of the team, Robin walked towards the team and handed each member a small blue envelope with "Oceanic Airlines" printed neatly on the front of the envelope with a picture of a white airplane underneath it. The inside of the envelope held each member's plane tickets, which held their name, current city, destination, seat number, gate number, airline they would be traveling on, departure time and lastly there flight number.
Each member either held or hid away their tickets and used the free hand to shake Robin's gloved hand or put there tickets away and shook his hand, Robin smiled as he finished shaking Red's hand and walked back to the wooden podium, and he leaned his head towards the mike and spoke into it.
"Now that everyone's received their tickets your all free to go and do what you want, now I'd suggest packing, most of you have more than two hours which should be enough for you to get what you need packed, for everything else we'll be sending out delivery trucks with your stuff through-out the next two and a half weeks. Please make sure your not late for your plane because it'll take off with or without you. Lastly when you arrive there should be a specially designed T-Car courtesy of Cyborg parked in the garage of your tower, this will serve as your main purpose vehicle so please don't destroy them unless you know how to fix them, that's all, your all free to go"
With his speech finally over the crowd erupted in cheer, several members could be heard over the crowd chanting "Robin-Robin-Robin", as the team led by Slack headed out the exit doors they barely caught a glimpse of Robin being dragged offstage and tossed up and down by a crowd of heroes.
The newly formed team exited the auditorium as a group and stopped to take a moment to stare at one another, examining the people they would be saving the world with day after day, it was Tag who first made a vouch to introduce her, she walked towards Lightlad, stopped in front of him, smiled and held out her hand.
"I'm Tag, I have the power of teleportation and I'd be honoured if you would be my friend" she said, Lightlad smiled, gently grabbed her hand with his own and shook it.
"I'm Lightlad and I'd be honoured to be your friend Tag" he said, Tag frowned at him and he looked confused.
"You didn't say your power" she said with a smile, Lightlad frowned but noticed the girl's playful frown and rolled his eyes.
"Alright-" he said in an equally playful defeat "-I have the power to wield light into weapons and stuff like that", Tag smiled at him.
"See that wasn't too hard" she said, it was apparent to the others that they were flirting, though it may have been more of a playful flirt it was flirting no doubt.
"Says you" Lightlad said sarcastically, Tag stuck her tongue out at him and moved on to Sev.
"I'm Tag-" she began her verbal exchange with Sev who proved more compliant then Lightlad, smiling the whole time and restraining himself from making any sarcastic comments that might affect the freindship she wished to form. After Sev she made friends with Slack who like Sev was more compliant and much more polite than both of the previous boys , after Slack she made friends with Blizkid who shyly took shook her hand, finally she came to Red who stood almost a foot taller than her, he stood with his arms crossed and a stern look on his face.
"I'm Tag and you are?" She asked him in an innocent and child like tone, which shocked both Sev and Lightlad who looked slightly shocked at her display of bravery towards Red. The duo of Sev and Lightlad found that Red really didn't seem like the kind of guy who you could have a lengthy, if any kind, of conversation with.
"I'm Red" Red said as he shook her hand, both Sev and Lightlad's eyes were wide open by this time, both had different elusions of what Red would do to the girl, seeing as how he was a 'monster' both figured he'd simply act as one, they hadn't expected him to talk, let alone be able to produce sentences, Red turned to them and both quickly turned away and started innocently whistling, Red frowned at the duo.
"So..Slack..erm..boss-" Sev said correcting himself, if there was one thing he didn't want to do it was run afoul of his future boss, at least not right away "-shouldn't we be heading to the airport?".
Slack smiled at his comment, she found it inspiring that her team had such high esteem of her.
"First off you don't have to call me boss or chief or any other title, Slack will do just fine and secondly I think we should pack first...that is if you have anything to pack" she said as she and the others headed towards the large exit doors.
Once the team had exited the building and all stood outside, Sev broke away from the group and took a deep breath of fresh air, he arched his back backwards and stretched his arms; both arms gave a slight 'crack' sound as he stretched them.
"Ahhh" he moaned out in a relieved tone "I haven't been outside all day, just smell that beautiful Spring time air, smells like-" he paused to take a snif of the air and immediately his face became sour "-dog crap".
He glared down at his shoe, to find, much to his horror, that he'd just stepped in a large pile of dog dung, at this his face became even more sour as he immediatly rushed over to a small patch of grass and began rubbing his shoe on it in an attempt to clense it of it's tampered state.
Lightlad, Slack, Tag and Blizkid all held back laughter as they watched Sev continously run his foot back and forth over the pile of grass.
"Aww man, I'm never gonna get these stains out" he said as he finished wiping his shoe off on the grass, the others smiled and Sev smiled too, he had to admit had it happened to anyone else it would have been extremely funny.
"Well..as much as I'd love to stay and chat I really should get packing, see you guy's at the airport in a couple of hours" he said as he headed off in the direction of the parks exit.
The others watched as he headed off in the opposite direction, he stopped at a bus stop and sat down on the bench, as the bus pulled up and stopped he looked back at the group and waved them goodbye before ascending the steps onto the bus.
"As much as I'd hate to leave you guys I gotta pack too" Lightlad said breaking off from the group, he stood in a field and took a small leap off the ground, once in the air his 'backpack' started to glow a bright yellow glow and a small 'V' shaped flame came out from the bottom of it.
They watched as Lightlad took flight, his 'jetpack' was like nothing any of them had ever seen before, it emitted a yellow glow from the bottom of it as it propelled his body threw the air at break neck speeds, it looked like he could control direction he flew in by moving his body up, down or side to side, he flew towards the city, stopping in the air twenty feet away and forty feet up to wave to them before jetting off again.
The next person to leave was Red, he said his goodbyes to the small group and started walking towards the sidewalk that led out of the park, as he walked out of the park he raised his hood over his head, masking his abnormal facial features and making him look almost normal, had it not been for the tail he would have been able to walk the street completely unnoticed.
"Well...looks like it's just us" Blizkid said to the two older female members of his team, both smiled at him politely before Tag spoke up.
"So where are you staying?" she asked trying to spark a conversation, the question being targeted at both of them.
"I'm staying with a friend downtown" Slack said with a smile; Blizkid smiled and cleared his throat before he spoke
"I'm staying at the tower" he said proudly, both girls smiled at him, it was easy to tell that he was eager to make friends with anyone and everyone, he was like a teddy bear, be it a blue and white teddy bear, but he kept a level of innocence only a child could have, there was no doubt his quiet and shy demeanour was to hide a tragic past.
"Really?...I'm staying there too. You know come to think of it I think I've seen you around the tower" Tag said recalling several times she'd seen the younger boy walk through the hallways, often taking time to chat with other members his age or older.
He was usually talking with the duo of Starfire and Beast Boy, who seemed to relate more with him than other heroes, who usually shunned him politely or avoided him rudely, she was embarrassed to say that she belonged to the first group, shunning him the first time he'd tried to strike up a conversation with her, though, in her defense, it was after a long day of training where all she wanted to do was shower, but still, it felt somewhat aweful at the moment, though she could hardly say he noticed.
"We'll, I'd better get going" Blizkid said as he saw the other heroes all exiting the building, some immediately flew in the air and headed towards different parts of the city, he saw the Titans politely push there way through a crowd of both fans and heroes as they advanced towards the T-car.
"See you later Slack" Blizkid said as he places both of his hands in front of his body, suddenly a large walkway of ice began to form on the sidewalk infront of him, the ice lifting his body off the ground and raising him into the air several dozen feet.
Blizkid now stood on a small, circular patch of ice, which, as he created more ice in front of his body, melted behind him, leaving nothing but a large, soaking puddle behind him. It was interesting for both girls to watch such a young boy wield so much power.
"Sorry Slack but I should be leaving too" Tag said with a frown on her face, she felt bad abandoning her new friend like this, Slack sensed this and gave her a soft smile.
"It's ok, I'll see you at the airport in a couple of hours" Slack said in an attempt to comfort her, Tag's face immediately brightened up, igniting with an extremely large, and almost childlike, smile, which strechted from ear-to-ear.
"Then I'll see you later Slack" She said before blinking her eyes shut, her body dissapearing in a cloud of white smoke, which was slowly begining to vanish.
Slack looked interestingly at the puff of white smoke that had once been her new friend and team-mate, there were definitely things about her team that she'd need time to get used to, this white smoke disappearing act being one of them.
"Yeah, see you later" Slack said as the smoke slowly spread out and eventually disappeared. Frowning to herself at the lack of company she now held, she turned on her heel and headed for her current living quarters.
She was staying with a friend of hers who lived in downtown Jump City, the house was nothing fancy but she was thankful her friend could put up with her. As she headed downtown her mind began to wrap around two seperate ideas, the first was: How she'd say goodbye to her friend, who'd spent the last, God knows how many months letting her live with her, and the second, a thought which brought a smile to her lips, the thought of how much fun she'd have with her new friends, the adventures they'd share togheter. For once in what seemed like a long time things were looking up for her.
Three chapters down hopefully hundreds more to go, but now it's time for the one, the only The Captains trivia.
This chapter originally had a long drama heavy scene featuring Lightlad and his alcoholic mother arguing about how he kept his Lightlad persona a secret from her and how she didn't want him to go down the same path his dad did, but I'm saving that scene for a later chapter focusing on Lightlad.
Next Time: As the team preppares to board their flight to Hallow City they spend some quality time getting to know one another as well as learning to deal with the ups and downs of being a Teen Titan.
