A/N: In case this wasn't already evident, chapters are alternating. Odd-numbered chapters will be the New Teen Titans while even-numbered chapters will be the adults. I liked the way this chapter turned out…
A/N 2: I want to thank everyone who read and reviewed both of these stories, and everyone who will to come. I really couldn't have gotten this far without you guys.
TT2Within minutes, the Titans were on the roads of Jump City and on their way to whoop some bad-guy booty. Hawk was riding on his motorcycle (which Moonfire was convinced he did NOT have a license for, but kept mum anyways), with Moonfire flying next to him carrying Danny. On his other side Sara and Clara were both flying, their eyes respectively glowing yellow-white and black. For a rubber-man, Taku was very lightweight, allowing Sara to carry him without hassle.
"Ok, it looks like we have a robbery downtown," Kyle told them, as they took a turn into the worst part of town. "Chase Bank."
When Hawk skidded to a halt in front of the bank, it looked as normal as could be. No one was running from it screaming. No one was jogging out, wildly slinging bags of money about. Nothing was exploding.
"Hold on!" Clara hissed as Hawk moved to run inside. "Ratingo Nubia," she whispered, holding out her hand towards a small rat that had scurried towards a nearby garbage can. Almost instantly, the rat began to follow her hand movements. It slipped inside, under a crack in the door. Clara closed her eyes and stood like this for just a few moments, before reopening her eyes and touching down to the ground. Her eyes resumed their normal hazel. "There are two with knives and one with a gun, and three unarmed."
"Let me go in first," Taku stepped up selflessly. "I'm impervious to bullets."
"Ok, disarm the one with the gun. We can take down the two with knives," Hawk told Taku. "Right?"
The other four murmured in agreement. "Ok. This should only take a second."
Taku jogged towards the door and flung it open, before slipping modestly inside.
"What the-?" one of the robbers started.
"One of the Teen Titans," the criminal with the gun sneered. "Y'know I have six bullets in here. One for you and each of your little teammates."
"Well, use 'em all on me," Taku dared him. "Go ahead."
The criminal sneered as Taku strutted forward, people cowering on the ground watching him with fearful eyes. "You insolent child!" the criminal snarled, his finger poised on the trigger. "Let's see how you like this." He pulled the trigger and the bullet bounced off of Taku and indented itself into the wall, whizzing just past the criminal's ear. "What the-?" The criminal shot again, aiming for his head, and this time Taku caught the bullet in his teeth and spat it out onto the floor.
"Ese nino! El esta el Diablo!" a Hispanic man exclaimed in a Spanish tongue.
"No, I'm just a RUBBER-MAN!" He replied, his arm darting forward to rip the gun from the man's hand. In an instant, the rest of the Titans sprung forward into the bank. Taku handed the gun to Moonfire, who was standing right next to him. She easily twisted it into a knot and threw it to the side.
"Now who wants to get taken down by a bunch of teenagers first?" Hawk asked. "Titans, GO!"
Immediately, each teenager took to a different criminal. Taku took one with a knife, as did Moonfire. Clara, Sara, and Danny took the three unarmed. Hawk took the supposed ringleader, the one who had the gun.
Hawk retracted his bo-staff as the man tried to kick him. He held it in front of him, pushing his foot away. He swiped at his feet, but the man jumped over it and punched him. Hawk cracked his chin and made sure all his teeth were intact before jumping back up. A bright starbolt momentarily attracted the man's attention, leaving Hawk to punch him in the nose, kick him in the gut, and swipe his bo-staff at his feet to knock him over. Hawk darted forward and held his bo-staff over the man's chest, preventing him from getting up.
The man just spat in his face.
Ew.
Hawk cringed and wiped the spit from his face, before taking out two bird-a-rangs and sticking them on either side of the shirt on the man's torso, pinning him to the ground. Then, he made sure all the rest of his teammates were doing fine before beginning to usher innocent victims from the potential battlefield.
Taku watched as the man tried to stab him, but it merely dug deeper into his body. "What the-?" Taku, a grin on his face, tore the knife from the man's hand, before sticking it into his belt.
"Now if you don't mind…" Taku wrapped his arm five times around the criminal, before reeling it back, sending him spinning across the bank, taking out the man Danny was fighting in the process. "C'mon Danny, let's get these people out of here."
And the two left to do so.
"You want to dance?" Moonfire asked the man before him, who was baring a rather large knife. "Let's dance."
The man thrust his knife forward, as Moonfire snapped to the side to dodge it only barely. He thrust it out again, as Moonfire darted it again. It ended up slicing her uniform, and leaving a thin trail of blood near her ribcage.
"Shit," Moonfire cursed, pressing her palm to the wounded area and drawing blood. She barely felt it, though. The Tamaranian sense of feeling was not nearly as delicate as a human's. It was only a slight sting to her, while it could leave any of her teammates (besides Taku, of course) down for the count.
The man tried to stab her, but Moonfire easily and deftly caught the blade in her hands and twisted it out of his. Moonfire stuffed the knife in the hem of her skirt, feeling the cool blade against her hip.
"Que-?" the man started, but Moonfire had lunged forward, grabbed him by the front of his shirt and lifted him off the ground. Her eyes began to glow midnight blue as she fueled up a particularly dangerous starbolt and blasted him right in the face. The man landed several feet away, groaning, but getting up anyways. Moonfire fueled up another starbolt, and hit him again. She flew up and towards him, before hitting him with another starbolt. He was finally unconscious.
"Silly little girl…" the man trailed off.
"Silly…Little?" Clara asked. Her eye began to twitch violently. "Oh you'll pay for that one you dirty rotten scoundrel!" Clara felt magic begin to burst through her veins. A spell formed in her mind as it played upon her lips. The man came forward and tried to punch her, but failed. "Cesarion Nepar!" she shouted, performing a shielding charm to save herself from a bloody nose.
The man howled in pain as his fist came in contact with a shield stronger than a brick wall. "You-"
"Makaron Necralix Petar!" Clara yelled, watching as the man was suddenly stopped in his tracks, frozen. He was literally frozen to the bone, staring in wonder at Clara. She smirked triumphantly. "That's what you get for calling me a silly little girl," Clara jeered. She turned to see how her sister was faring, to see her criminal had escaped her.
Moonfire skidded to a halt before the door, where he was running towards, and blocked it off. "You'll have to get through me, first!" she yelled at him. He pulled a switchblade from his pocket with the hand that wasn't carrying a bag stuffed with cash and jewels.
Moonfire's eyes bugged slightly, but then she narrowed them. Using her starbolts and putting her hands behind her back, Moonfire was able to create one large enough to blast the door open and back up farther. They went out into the street, where a crowd of people had gathered. The criminal tried to stab Moonfire, but she easily dodged it while stepping backwards. Hawk came up behind him and kicked him in the back, forcing him to the ground. He dropped his knife and it flew several feet away.
Danny came from behind Hawk and forced his knee into the man's back, both hands encased in flames. "You even think of moving and you'll be friend from head to toe," he hissed.
"Yes!" Hawk exclaimed, giving Moonfire a high-five. "Nice work, team." Soon enough, the police had come to take the situation from there. "Now let's go home."
Hawk climbed onto the back of his motorcycle, while Sara and Clara hovered next to him and Moonfire hovered on the other side. "We've got a score to settle anyways," Danny announced, eyeing Moonfire dangerously. "Mooney's going down."
"That's what you think."
They were soon back at the tower, walking through the hallways of their new home. "That was a great first run, especially since none of us have actually trained together," Kyle commented offhandedly as they approached the living room door. "And I suppose a few of you want to change out of your clothes, for thanks to Sara and Clara, we don't need to be dressed 24/7 in case of a spur-of-the-moment thing. They have a spell that can dress us instantly, amazing enough as that sounds. Anyways, I-"
But Kyle was cut off by the loudest girlish squeal he had ever heard in his life. He rubbed his ears, making sure his drums hadn't burst, as he watched Kimi fly up to a rather large red and purple figure in front of the five teenagers. "GALFORE!" Kimi squealed. Hugging him tightly. "Hezneran cuat nerka lee gorgon!"
"Kimiand'r! Yo norka mart la tineer!" Galfore boomed in response, hugging his young Trungorf close.
"Uh…" Taku started, rather articulately if I may say so myself. "Is anyone else slightly weirded out by this?"
"Just a tad," Kyle responded, raising an eyebrow in question. "Uh…Kimi if you don't mind, who is this?"
Kimi blushed as she pulled away, her hand still a little pinprick on Galfore's large arm. "This is my Knorfka Galfore. He had raised me when I was very little, and I have not seen him for four Earth years, since I was last on Tamaran."
"Oh right…" Danny reminisced. "When you told everyone you moved to Florida for a year."
"Yea," Kimi stated, blushing lightly again. "That was a good year."
"We thought we'd surprise you," Richard started as his head popped out from behind the couch and he walked around to face his daughter, who was levitating high in the air.
"Yea, Galfore just got in this morning," Kori stated, floating up and over the couch. "We thought you might want to see him."
"Of course I would want to see him!" Kimi exclaimed, hugging him again. "Ooh I missed you Galfore!" Kiimi pulled away and jubilantly watched him smile, creating wrinkles in the corners of his eyes.
"And I have missed you, princess Moonfire." Galfore bowed slightly.
"How are things on Tamaran?" Kimi asked, as her friends dispersed throughout the room. Taku went to sit on the couch, as Clara and Sara went to watch Kyle and Danny begin a video game, leaving Kimi to her conversations.
"Things are most peaceful. There are no ongoing feuds with other planets and all of our people are getting along famously. There has not been civil war in thirty-nine years," Galfore told her. "My, how you have grown."
Kimi blushed a light hue of pink, which was barely perceptible on her tanned skin. "Thank you, Galfore."
"I'm sorry to break up such a beautiful reunion," Kori started sadly, watching her daughter with beaming pride. "But we really need to motor home. I promised Gar we'd listen to his first broadcast on AlternaRadio. It starts at seven."
"Damn," Richard cursed. "I really wanted a play-by-play on how the Titans took out those robbers."
"Maybe tomorrow," Kori told him.
"Uh ma?" Kimi asked. "Before you leave, I need to talk to you." Kori furrowed her brow at her daughter, who looked rather nervous. Kimi took her mom's wrist and led her out into the hall. "Mom, I know you love me," Kimi started, taking a deep breath. "I know your obsessive about things, and want to see me everyday to make sure I'm ok. But mom-you have a wedding to plan, and a fiancée that you have missed fourteen years with because of me. I-I really wouldn't mind maybe just a call everyday or something. I know you have things you need to do, and I respect that. You should probably spend more time with him, seeing as you haven't seen him in fourteen years as of two months ago, than spend time with me who you have spent your whole life with."
Kori smiled softly at her daughter. "Kimi that is so selfless and sweet."
"And of course I love him too much for you to let you spending more time with me than him come between you two," Kimi chuckled. Kori looked a little lost for a moment. "Yea, I know, I don't make any sense."
"I knew I love you for a reason," Kori joked, giving her daughter a tight alien-strength hug. "I'll call tomorrow. I promise."
"Ok mom." Kimi and Kori were about to go back into the living room, when Kimi stopped abruptly. "And ma?"
"Yea Kimi?" Kori asked innocently.
"Please don't make the bridesmaid's dressed pink. I think both Raven and I will have to personally slaughter you. No offense," Kimi told her.
"Oh you," Kori told her daughter, returning to the living room. "Kimi I promise I'll call you tomorrow, ok?" her mother whispered as she gave her one last goodbye hug. "Bye babe."
"Bye Mom," Kimi told her, then moved onto Richard. "Bye dad." Kimi then flew up to look Galfore in the eye and gave him one lat hug. "Bye Galfore."
Galfore gave her one last smile, before the three swept from the living room and started back down to where they parked the car. Of course, Galfore was too large for the car and had to fly.
"Ok, if the adults are gone…" Kyle started, pausing the game and turning around in his seat on the couch to look at Kimi expectantly. "I believe we do have a score to settle between boyfriend and girlfriend."
Kimi smiled wickedly as Danny whipped around to meet her gaze. He raised a single blonde eyebrow. "And now, to the training room!" Taku announced.
Danny and Kimi wasted no time in getting dressed and making their way down to the training room. Their four other teammates were sitting cross-legged next to the rather large and spacious mat, chatting excitedly (except Clara, who was sitting there with a lazy smirk on her face).
Kimi took a stance on the mat, while Danny did the same. Kimi rolled her head around on her neck, cracking it eerily. Danny tested out his elements, before briefly stretching his limbs. Kimi fueled up a starbolt, before letting it dissipate and then turning her eyes midnight blue.
"Rules!" Kyle announced. "Keep it clean. We don't want any injuries. Stay on the mat, and no weapons are to be brought in. First to pin their opponent with a three count wins. Or first knockout wins. Whichever comes first. Loser has to be winner's slave for a week. No exceptions."
Danny smirked indolently, his knees bending and his hands beginning to fire up. "Like I said; play with fire, you're going to get burned."
"I'm not going to be the one getting burned," Kimi retorted.
"Now shake hands." The two did as they were told. Kimi did a short bow, as did Danny. "SPAR!"
The two were both hesitant to make the first move, but it ended up being Kimi. She shot a starbolt at him, a rather light one that would only knock him off his feet. He faced his palms towards the floor and let two bursts of air free from them, shooting him up and over the starbolt.
Danny then shot a line of fire towards her, but she easily fell to the ground to dodge it. Kimi, from her position on the floor, shot a larger starbolt at him, that he also easily dodged with his ability to control air currents.
Kimi was up within a matter of seconds, and ran forward aiming a low kick to knock him off his feet. He jumped over it, aiming a punch, which she easily grabbed and deflected. Kimi shot eyebeams at his shin, which burned through his cargoes and left a slight swelter on his shin.
'Shit!' he inwardly cursed, before creating a small ball of water and using it to cool off the potentially dangerous starbolt she was fuelling up.
"You-" Kimi started, running forward and aiming a high kick. He grabbed her foot and swung it back down, creating a ball of fire that Kimi deflected with a small midnight blue shield. It came back towards Danny, but didn't burn him for he was impervious to fire.
Danny shot another trail of fire at her which hit her head on and sent her back a few feet, with a large scorch mark in the center of her shirt, revealing her black sports bra. He smirked, crossing his arms over his chest.
"You little pervert!" Kimi shouted, darting forward and grabbing his ankle, pulling him down so he landed hard on his back. He groaned, nursing his ribs, as Kimi hooked a foot on either side of his waist. She fueled up two potentially dangerous starbolts, holding them above his head, before kneeling down and straddling his thin waist. She used one hand to support herself up, and the other to dangle her starbolt just above his face. "One…two…"
Suddenly, Danny whipped her around, lying awkwardly upon her, pinning her down. "One…two…"
Kimi used a starbolt to blast him in the chest, sending him up and flying next to her a few feet away. She scrambled up and landed on top of him to pin him down. His eyes were half-lidded, as he lazily watched the blurry figures before his eyes.
"One…two…three. For the next six days, twenty-three hours, fifty-nine minutes and fifty five seconds you are officially my slave."
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