Okay, part Two of the prologue then we're ready for the story to begin! yeah! Woo!
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Google translate was used for Mas and Menos and I think it's what i'm sticking with b/c I don't take spanish (I haven't in three years) and I'm in German. So yeah.
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Roxy looked at the words that Mr. Rodriguez had written on the whiteboard. 'More or less, yes I can?' She repeated inside of her head. 'It's kind of weird, but then again, it's Spanish. It's complicated.' She quickly wrote the words down and shut the pink cat notebook, sighing in relief that the day was almost over. She could just taste the breeze of outside; she could just feel the freedom when she walked out those front doors.
There were three minutes left until the final bell would ring and then Roxy would be free for a while. She'd hang out in the park alone for an hour or two, possibly take a stroll around the small town with Jane, and finally head off home to do that endless sea of homework or procrastinate it by playing videogames. It was Friday anyway; she could do it tomorrow or something.
"I hope I never meet a person who speaks fluent Spanish." she whispered as she stuck the notebook in her backpack. "I sound like an idiot whenever I try to speak it. And I every time i try to speak it, my tongue occasionally makes this clicking sound and it's really embarrassing." She didn't understand why she could have taken French like Rose or German like Jake. There was even a freaking Korean language class, but Roxy turned it down. Jade, on the other hand, didn't think twice about it. She said it sounded fun.
Roxy didn't understand why she chose such a basic language class. According to Rose, almost every high school in America had Spanish. It was incredibly common. Somehow the Spanish language had wrapped Roxy's attention in an unbreakable rope and she couldn't explain it.
"I bet Dora speaks better Spanish than I do. Wouldn't surprise me."
She looked at all the classmates that were huddling by the door while she was still at her desk. None of them she really knew and most of them were jerks to her. There were ones that were kind too. Those were the ones she liked. But they didn't like talking as much as she did.
Roxy had one of the bad students as a science lab partner just last week and she was one of the worst individuals that she had the misfortune to ever encounter.
Roxy didn't even bother to memorize her name, she didn't deserve her respect with the way she had treated her when they were partners. They were supposed to make a presentation on an element of the periodic table. The girl had chosen neon, which was rather convenient.
It was supposed to be easy, what with Roxy having some knowledge of the element, but it wasn't easy. It all trailed down to the young Lalonde doing most of the work and feeling a bit stupid for not telling the teacher that her partner preferred to chit-chat with one of the other groups than with her. She instead started shouting at her when the project was over and received a detention for rowdy and disruptive behavior to the student. Hopefully that brat got her punishment too, or Roxy would be even more angry.
"Children, please do not huddle in front of the door." Mr. Rodriguez scolded, shooing the small pack of juniors to their desks. "Sit and wait for the bell. This is the last time I am going to say this. Please do not stand in front of the door."
The children groaned and reached for a container of cell phones on the teacher's desk, but Mr. Rodriguez pulled it away. "And do not reach for your phones until the bell rings." The children groaned again, returning to their seats, one of them was whispering that the teacher was a douche or something.
"Jeez, they're a sour bunch." Roxy rolled her eyes and slipped her backpack straps over her shoulders. She looked up at the clock that hung above the whiteboard. One more minute to go.
Roxy sighed again. "I just wanna go home and see Frigglish..."
BRRRIIINNNNGGG!
Steel City.
A busy city with an extremely high crime rate. It was right up there on the charts with Jump City, Metropolis, and Gotham City. It was bitter cold most of the time and was usually clouded with grey skies due from the factories that were on all day. It was fall right now and the few trees that laid in the park were changing the color of their leaves. The temperature was slowly starting to decrease more and more with each and every day.
Under a seaside cliff on the east side of the city rested a giant T shaped building. It was plated in gray and blue metal and had a shine to it whenever the sun was out. Three teenagers and two children lived alone in that place, each of them possessing a special gift or skill.
The only female of the team and leader, Bumblebee, was working on a new data file for the computer in the main room while Aqualad was on dish duty in the kitchen. The two children, Mas and Menos, were playing the gamestation 3 in the main room and Speedy was combing his bright orange hair. Everything was quiet and all was bliss, which was rare for Steel City.
"Real quiet today, huh?" Speedy muttered, running the comb through his hair for the seventeenth time.
"Was until you started talking." Bumblebee smirked, clicking on a bunch of boxes and reading and typing up a lot of numbers. Speedy rolled his eyes under his domino mask and continued to comb his hair.
"Esto es tan raro." A young voice piped up.
"Así que no les gusta nuestra ciudad para ser tranquilo y calmado." Mas agreed, not looking up from the racing game he was playing with his slightly younger brother, Menos. "Tal vez los chicos malos están teniendo un día lento?"
"That could be the case." Bumblebee nodded, still typing up the file. "Most of the bad guys we fought are all frozen up anyway."
"But some of them got away." Aqualad added, storing the new clean set of dishes in the cabinet. "Si. La verde gato chica de. Speedy estaba peleando ella una vez y ella se escapó." Menos spoke, mashing the buttons rapidly, trying to catch up to his brother's car.
"And the other ones, ones who weren't involved with the Brotherhood. Just like Cheshire, they're out there somewhere." Bumblebee sighed. "But what I don't get it why they aren't causing any havoc like they used to."
"Maybe they finally understood that they can't keep down the Teen Titans." Speedy muttered, resting his feet on the table. "They'd know better than to take us down."
"Or they could be planning something." Aqualad suggested, relieved that he was finally done with the dishes. "It wouldn't be a surprise really."
"Pero eso sería una estupidez." the twins spoke in unison, setting up for another race on their game. "Ellos saben mejor que hacer que intentar de nuevo!"
"But at first you don't succeed, you try again and again." Bumblebee countered, hitting one final key on the keyboard. She smiled to herself as she installed the new file to the encryption keys of the tower. "Encryption keys reset." The female automatic voice droned. "Code randomized to seven new digits. Defense mechanisms at 100%."
"Okay, ops are reset and everything's all up to date." She stated, getting up from her chair and stretching her arms. "Finally got it finished."
"Don't understand why we still need to reset them every other month or so, not like Blood's coming out of prison anytime soon." Speedy argued, tucking the comb into his pocket. "I mean, I know it's better to be safe or sorry but really? Every two or three months?"
"We still can't risk another attack like that." Bumblebee began, rolling her eyes at the young archer. "It has been almost a year since Blood and a few months since the Brotherhood, but safety is our number one job. We need to keep ourselves safe if we want to keep saving this city."
"And we eat on that table; it's not a footrest, Legolas." She scolded.
Speedy rolled his eyes once more. "Okay, mom." He grumbled, still not taking his feet off of the table.
A young man sat inside of his massive computer den, smiling wide You could hear muffled sounds of the Doctor Who theme playing in the distance. A TV screen was on, blaring images of the popular BBC show. There were multiple computer screens, each of them focusing on different rooms of different buildings. The main screen was zooming in on a familiar T-shaped structure.
"Those Titans East think that they're so cool." He snickered, typing rapidly on his keyboard. "But I'll show them."
He pushed one final button on his keyboard and his grin grew wider.
"Nobody messes with Control Freak."
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