Disclaimer: I absolutely do not own the Teen Titans show nor the fictional crime fighting group, nor the songs mentioned in the chapter. Goes to rightful owners. Trust me.

A THUNDER AND LIGHTNING AU STORY

CHAPTER 4

Walking through the alley neighborhood we were in, we started doing something we loved to do which was "play".

My brother and I could get annoying.

if you considered off-key singing, drumming on trashcans with broken pipes, and throwing rocks at buildings and windows annoying, then yeah, go ahead yell at us. But why ruin our fun?!

So we were doing all of those things. We were crooning Take on Me by Aha, and then we switched off to Hotel California. We were halfway through In the Air Tonight when a couple of teens suddenly appeared around us.

They were all clad in their PJs as if they were woken from didn't look happy either, rather grumpy if you tell me.

Tavis and I quickly stopped "playing."

"You realize," said the guy who was giving us a hard glare, his eyes covered in shades. "That people actually go to sleep this time of night?!"

We shrugged and smirked at them. Like we gave a popsicle stick if people actually woke up dancing and singing every morning. Whatever helped them get through it was all that mattered.

"You all are not very nice." Said the girl who looked like the girl Donna fought, but different at the same time. Instead she had auburn hair, emerald eyes, and utterly tan skin that would match an orange contrast to dark hair, and dark eyes like Koma had.

"Come on ya'll, you really think disturbing the peace and quiet is good?" Said the guy who was able-bodied and had a very strong build that rivaled mine. I was going to say something but as usual Lightning spoke up for both of us which I didn't mine.

"Sure," replied Tavis with one of his loose snide grins. "But we're just going to go back to our 'playing'. Right brother?" He looked at me, I nodded. "Yes, brother." I agreed.

"You two do know we have the right to arrest you?" said another girl, she seemed a little creepy considering I couldn't see her appearance in the dark like I could see the others. It was as if she were invisible. Her voice wasn't really a great add in to her seemly dark appearance; her voice monotone and emotionless.

"Look brother, they really think we believe they can arrest us." Tavis laughed and I chuckled, you know I had to agree with my brother there, these group of teens would really adjourn the fact thinking they can arrest us. However I stopped laughing. Could they really arrest us?

Tavis continued laughing until the one in shades said something.

"Fine, if you want it that way we do have the right to arrest you." I looked at Tavis whom seemed bursting with annoyance. Nervously staring at the group of teens Tavis and I did what we thought was best, and to tell you the truth I didn't like how they were messing with our "playing."

Doing what I did best I started out for the one in the group of teens who hadn't said anything.

"OKay, c'mon dudes we aren't here to arrest you. We just want you guys to stay quiet for the neighborhood and all..." I guess he could see I wasn't buying what he was saying, 'cause I kept trying to give him a punch which for some reason I didn't feel the right to do. He really did seem like he didn't want to fight, so I stopped for a moment.

Tavis on the other-hand was fighting the creepy one. She was trying to kick him but he kept shielding and blocking every kick she threw at him. I smiled at that scene for a moment until the buff one that "rivaled my strength" came at me with a sucker punch. I groaned as I got up and somehow I knew the one with the green hair whom was trying to convince me, didn't have me totally convinced.

For a while there, brother and I were winning but our fighting came to halt soon after the green one talked to me. "Why are you guys doing this?"

"You ruined are playing," I replied, aiming a punch at him, however he dodged it with ease while still trying to talk to me. "All you guys are doing is fighting us for no reason, dude if you guys played somewhere different maybe not around a neighborhood, it would've worked out more."

I sighed and didn't say anything for a while. He did have a point, maybe if Tavis and I fought somewhere else maybe things would've worked out for the better. Looking at Tavis-who was still fighting, but this time it was the stern one with the shades. "Brother," he said staring at me, "fight him!"

The green one didn't' say anything, he just gave me a look. Sighing again I stopped doing what I was doing and looked at my brother again, and he was still tussling with the raven haired dude.

"Look," I said to the green haired dude defeatedly, "You and your friends don't have to be wet blankets. If anything, you guys should go to that house a couple blocks away that has this loudass party goin' on."

"My names Gar jus' to let ya know." He held out his hand to me. "And my friends and I don't live in that neighborhood. We do neighborhood watch here. We honestly don't mean to be wet blankets, we jus' don't like trouble in our neighborhood."

In some messed up sort of way I actually wanted to agree with Gar, but shoot. Tavis was still trying to fight, and he was sort of having a problem. Especially when that auburn girl was about to come up behind him and kick him somewhere I'd hate to be kicked. So what I did was take ahold of my brother by the arm and drag him away from the group of neighborhood watchers.

"Bro!" I yelled sternly and patiently. "We should stop."

He immediately shoved himself away from me and gave me a pissed off look. "You're gonna give 'em the f_king upperhand! What the Hell?"

I roll my eyes. "Yeah, you know we're better than this. Lets jus' be cool and go somewhere else."

I start to grab his hand again, but you know what Tavis did. He hit me. The hit could've been considered a punch.

So basically this is what the fight was like:

Me: Bro, listen!

Tavis:...(punching me in the arm)

Me: Bro, you gotta listen. You know Mom and Dad wouldn't like what you're doing!"

Tavis:(punching me in the face)

Me:...

So, yeah. I was trying to tell Tavis something and get though to him, and Gar and his cronies were watching us make fools of ourselves. It was embrassing and ironic.

Eventually my brother did come to his senses, and he apologized to me. Heck yeah. He NEEDED too. He should be glad I've learned to control my temper. Or the neighborhood watch would've needed to take us to the hospital.

"You guys done now?" Askedthe raven haired dude(I would later on find out his name was Richard Grayson who was son of Bruce Wayne when I'd read the newspaper) "Because you guys could kiss and make up and go somewhere else."

I swear Tavis would've said something about his meaness, but I think we both understood that he was probably just grumpy since we had woken him up as well as his friends in the middle of the night, and it was pretty late. But still, he had a peice of plywood up his butt.

I only learned the names of Richard and Gar. I never did get the two girls names, but ah, maybe I wasn't worried about them and I only wanted Tavis and I to get outta here.

Therefore we left and went to the lake that was badly polluted and located by the gas station where we always ate our grub at.

And it pains me to tell you reader that we were to only be bothered of our playing again. Yet I don't know why in the heck that would be. Sure, we were throwing wrappers.. old bottles, maybe Tavis peed in the lake but it's not like anyone saw us. Considering how late in the night it did get.

Guess I was wrong.

"WHAT DO YOU GUYS THINK YOU'RE DOING!" A guy in a scuba diving outfit yelled angrily as he ran over to us.

Tavis and I immediately threw our hands up in defense. Because I'd about thrown a bag of dog feces I found into the lake. And Tavis had at the right moment zipped up.

"Hi?" I managed to have escape from my lips, trying not to react intimidated by this guy. "We were doin' nothin'!"

He crossed his arms. "Doing nothing, eh? I saw you guys messing with my lake, I could sense it."

What?

Sense the lake?

This guy sounded like a lunatic if you asked me.

"So you're like a fish boy, or somethin'?" I asked with geunine curiosity.

Yet, I don't think he thought my question as genuine because he went into this hour long rant or lecture about being eco friendly, and what harm is being done to water and oceans, and... I'd kinda spaced out at times, honestly.

"If you're so worried about the lake Merman," challenged Tavis, "then why won't you live in it? Give us a break."

"Give you guys a break?! The guy threw his hands up in exasperation. "You guys were doing horrible things to this lake. You're glad my club members weren't here with me, or your butts would've been on the line!"

Tavis snorted. "Okaaaay."

"I could call the cops."

"What would be the complaint?" Tavis then held an imaginary phone up to his ear and did an imitaion of the tree huggers voice. "'Uh, yeah. Police needs to come down here, 'cause I could SENSE some boys doin' harm to my pretty, beautiful, gorgeous lake, so yeah. They need to be arrested, like- now'."

I laughed. When my brother did BS like that, I couldn't help but laugh. My brother was more verbal, and I was more physical. That is how we balanced each other out.

Hey, I wasn't saying my brother could fight. He could hold his own for awhile, but I couldn't talk trash to save my life.

The tree hugger closed his eyes briefly and tightened his fist while looking up at the sky. Obviously trying to release some anger. "I'm going to call the cops. And you'll see who'll be laughing then. You guys will be sorry."

Tavis and I looked at each other before running away from the weird water dude. We didn't want anything on our record, and we kinda knew he wasn't bluffing so. Let's be fair.

And while we ran from the dude I begin to realize some things. Like, how our style of playing and having fun probably didn't guarantee everyone's happiness, uh, we were probably a bit too rowdy at times, Tavis probably shouldn't talk so much, we probably shouldn't act so arrogant. I don't know what else because that's all I'll say.

I guess 'playing' is illegal. As well as entering some bar that we probably shouldn't have walked inside of.

This is when we made a new foe.

A/N: Guess who the lake dude is? As well as the five sleepy teens who interuptted Gan and Tavis's play time? Anyway, if you care to review, have an idea who's appearing in the next chapter?