Dr. Light cackled with glee as he exited the bank holding two duffle bags full of cash.
"Thank you very much for your cooperation," he said wickedly as he briefly turned back to the terrified citizens still inside. "We'll have to do this again sometime."
The sound of sirens alerted the doctor to the police force's arrival. He turned just in time to see three cruisers pull up outside the bank in dramatic fashion. Two officers each exited the cars and took aim.
"Freeze! Don't move! Put you hands behind you head," were the cries he heard as the sound of hammers clicking into place filled the environment.
"Gentlemen, Gentlemen, please," said Light in mock sincerity. "You would dare threaten the life of a fellow human being? For shame. I think it's about time you…saw the light."
Upon finishing his speech, a sudden flash of ultra bright light emanated from the good doctor, filling the immediate area and blinding the police officers.
Doctor Light laughed in triumph as the helpless men and women stumbled about grasping at air and crying out for help. With another evil laugh, the doctor raised his hand, took aim and, with several light blasts, obliterated the cruisers.
"Fools!" He barked. "No one can stop Dr. Light."
"You can't be serious," said a voice from above.
Doctor Light craned his neck upward in surprise to see the Titans perched on the rooftop above him. Nightwing stood poised with a look of determination on his masked face while Cyborg and Beast Boy stood on either side of him. After flying the blinded officers to safety, Starfire and Raven then took their respective places along side the rest of the team.
"You people again?" Moaned Light. "Don't you ever take a vacation?"
"He's got a point, dude," said Beast Boy turning to Nightwing and getting only a look of disapproval in response.
"I'm just saying is all."
After leaping down from the rooftop, The Titans began closing in on Light.
"You will return what you stole," said Starfire, eyes glowing bright in anticipation.
"We can do this the easy way or the hard way," said Nightwing.
"Which also happens to be the fun way," added Cyborg while cracking his metallic knuckles. "So, by all means feel free to pick that one."
To The Titan's surprise, Doctor Light began laughing.
"Foolish Titans," he spat. "What makes you think I've come alone?"
Nightwing's senses suddenly went on full alert as he realized they had walked into an ambush.
"Titan's, look out," he yelled. The group leapt in all different directions as a sound blast came from above smashed into the ground, turning the pavement into rubble.
Recollecting themselves, the Titans heard a throaty cackle echoing throughout the environment.
"Sorry there, mates," said a raspy voice with a thick English accent. "You pulled the trigger of my love gun."
As the dust cleared The Titans looked up and were able to spot the hovering form of Punk Rocket and his super powered guitar.
"Great. You again," bemoaned Raven.
The punk laughed.
"That's not all, Sunshine. Don't you know? No great musician ever makes an appearance with out a little hired muscle."
Right on cue, the wall of a building directly below the floating punk was obliterated, revealing none other than the Titan's old standby villain: Cinderblock.
Nightwing looked around at the three criminals preparing themselves for combat and knew there was only one thing to say.
"Titans, go!"
Instantly the city block was filled with chaos as both sides paired up and began trading blows back and forth. Raven flew straight for Dr. Light as Nightwing and Starfire confronted Cinderblock, leaving Cyborg and Beast Boy to take on Punk Rocket.
Starfire rained star bolts down on Cinderblock's hulking form as Nightwing delivered several calculated strikes with his staff. The behemoth only shook these attacks off and after uprooting a lamppost began an assault of his own, attempting to smash Nightwing into oblivion.
With incredible grace and agility, Nightwing easily avoided every one of the giant's attacks. Starfire, seeing her love in trouble, flew head long at Cinderblock and began pummeling him with lefts and rights. Several cracks began appearing in the stone golem's face as the Tameranean pounded away.
Cinderblock seemed just about to go off his feet when he grabbed Starfire by her trim waist and callously threw her through the wall of a building, making sizable hole. With a murderous intent, the monster approached her still form only to be rocked in the back by several explosions. He turned around just in time to catch an explosion in the face, courtesy of Nightwing's exploding birdarang.
Enraged, Cinderblock charged the young man, intending to tear him to pieces. Nightwing again managed to avoid all of Cinderblocks strikes, but it was becoming apparent that nothing he did was causing any significant damage to the brute. Just then an idea came to him. Avoiding another strike, he back flipped several times over until he ended up alongside where Starfire was recollecting herself.
"Star, I have an idea, but you'll have to keep him busy. Can you do that?"
Starfire nodded in determination. Nightwing couldn't help letting a smile slip at the sight of her bravery.
"Alright," he said. "Now give me a boost."
Without another word, Starfire clutched Nightwing around the waist and effortlessly threw him high up into the air. She then resumed pummeling Cinderblock with star bolts.
Ignoring the energy blasts exploding against his body, Cinderblock charged at Starfire and brought his fists down upon her in a vicious double axe handle.
Starfire seeing the blow coming, raised her arms and crossed them over her head just in time to block the strike. However, Cinderblocks assault did not end there and as he raised his massive stone mitts and once again brought them crashing down on the red haired woman. Over and over again his fist's crashed down on Starfire. Each time she managed to block the attack, but with each blow she could feel that much more of her strength leave her. Eventually Cinderblock's strike was going to get through.
Fortunately for Starfire, the stone behemoth had forgotten all about Nightwing. Soaring down from the sky on his suit's built in glider wings he landed on top of Cinderblocks massive shoulders and shoved an explosive right into the giants gaping mouth.
Without wasting a second, the black clad hero flipped down to the ground, snatched a weakened Starfire in his arms and dashed to safety just as the explosion went off in the giant Cinderblock's mouth.
With smoke rising up through the corners of his smoldering jaw, the beast teetered slightly before falling to the ground in a heap.
"You okay, Star?" Nightwing asked after watching Cinderblock fall.
He was somewhat surprised when he suddenly felt the woman from Tameran's lips against his own.
"Always," she replied with a smile.
Punk Rocket soared through the air on his flying V guitar as Cyborg attempted to blast the be-pierced man with his sonic cannon. Every attack; however, met only air as Rocket effortlessly avoided shot after shot.
"You're going to have to do better then that, metal head, if you're going to stop me."
The punk's arrogant taunt was short lived as he failed to notice a green flying squirrel soar up to him and attach itself to his face. The mohawked man spat muffled curses as the squirrel sunk it's claws into his face, refusing to let go.
Seeing Rocket distracted, Cyborg once again took aim and fired his canon. Rocket pried the squirrel off his face and tossed him away just in time to see the blast coming. Too late to dodge, he snatched his guitar up in his hands and quickly struck a chord, sending out an energy blast that cancelled out the oncoming attack.
"Nice try, mate," he sneered. "But Punk Rocket don't go down so easy."
Gripping his guitar like a bat, the silver haired punk soared downward at an incredible speed.
"Here comes the pain." He shouted and struck Cyborg viciously in the head, disorienting him. The punk then landed on his feet and struck the biomechanical man with another blast from his guitar, knocking him onto his back.
A rumbling from behind him alerted Punk Rocket to a rhinoceros shifted Beast Boy charging the so-called musician with reckless abandon. Rocket effortlessly avoided Beast Boy's attack by simply taking off once more into the sky. Beast Boy however would not give up so easily.
Transforming into a humming bird, the changeling pursued the guitar-wielding villain. Once close enough, he became a massive gorilla and attacked Rocket with a mighty swing of his paw. Rocket narrowly avoided the attack before striking the changeling with a sound blast, sending him slamming into the ground.
Grinning wickedly, Punk Rocket descended to the ground.
"Is that all you got? How pathetic," he laughed, raising up into the air to make his escape.
"Hey, Rocket"
The punk turned just in time to narrowly dodge an attack from Cyborg's arm canon.
"Where you going?" The Titan shouted. "I didn't hear no bell."
Without another word, Cyborg charged Punk Rocket. Using his guitar as a shield was Rocket's only way to block Cyborg's assault as he leveled several lefts and rights against smaller man in short order. After dodging a punch, Punk Rocket finally managed to pluck a guitar string, forcing Cyborg back a few yards, but not knocking him off his feet.
"Give it up, mate," laughed the punk, raising his guitar over his head and striking a rock pose. "There's no stopping rock and roll."
Punk Rocket's arrogance would once again prove to be his undoing as Beast Boy in hawk form suddenly ripped the young man's guitar from his hands. Carrying the instrument in its talons, the green bird then dropped it into Cyborg's waiting hands.
"It's payback time, Rocket," said Cyborg, strapping on the guitar.
"Don't make me laugh, you stupid git. You don't even know how me guitar works."
Cyborg smiled confidently.
"I don't need no instructions to know how to rock,"(1) he shouted before striking a massive power chord. Unable to withstand the awesome power of his own weapon, the arrogant punk was knocked senseless and left lying on the ground, completely out cold.
"Thank you, ladies and gentlemen, and good night Jump City," shouted Beast Boy jumping up on Cyborg's shoulders and throwing up the metal horns.
The light beams collided uselessly against Raven's energy shields as Dr. Light continued to fire.
"Give up, Light," commanded the empath between attacks. "There's no way you can win."
Ignoring the mage completely, the doctor's light blasts continued.
Wanting to put an end to the fight, Raven encased a lightpost in dark energy and sent it hurdling towards the evil doctor. Drawing an energy sword, Light sliced the light post in two and charged.
Raven threw up energy field after energy field, blocking every one of the doctor's strikes. During his assault, Dr. Light seamlessly drew a second energy sword and intensified his attack.
Sensing herself getting overwhelmed, Raven flew backwards a few yards, giving herself some breathing room.
"Face it, girl," Light sneered as he began a slow march toward Raven. "There is no stopping me this time."
Ignoring the doctor's comments, Raven held out a hand and created a dome of black energy around Light's head. At first Light seemed unimpeded as he continued his march towards Raven, but after a few moments it suddenly became apparent to the doctor that it was getting harder to breath. The doctor's steps slowed and before he knew it he had passed out from lack of oxygen.
"Told you," smirked Raven.
After the action had died down, the police arrived and began locking the villains into restraints, preparing them for transport. After giving his final report and receiving the traditional "What would this city do with out you" speech from the police captain, Nightwing turned and faced his teammates.
"Nice job, everyone," he said proudly.
"Aw yeah," boomed Cyborg. "We came, we saw, we kicked their ass!"
As Raven rolled her eyes at Cyborg's outburst, Beast Boy slid up to her right.
"Hey, Rave, I saw how you schooled Dr. Light back there. That was really incredible," he said, giving her a wink.
Raven was glad that her hood was up because for some reason she was blushing madly.
"Uh, thanks," she replied nervously.
"You know when we get back to the tower we'll have to finish our game."
However, unbeknownst to Raven or any of the Titans, the danger was not quite over. As Doctor Light was about to be loaded into the police van, a spring-loaded energy knife snapped from his sleeve into his waiting hand. Without wasting a second he hurled the weapon in Raven's direction, hoping to take out the bothersome woman while she was distracted.
"RAVEN!" Beast Boy cried out upon seeing the weapon hurdling towards Raven's heart.
Being unable to react fast enough, Beast Boy feared the worst when suddenly a red and blue blur flashed before him and the next thing he knew Superman himself was standing amongst them, holding the light weapon firmly in his hand.
"I didn't want to interrupt you all while you were working, but I figured you wouldn't mind just this once," he said with a confident smile.
For a moment, the Titans could only look on in shock.
"You're…you're Superman," stuttered Cyborg finally.
"And you're Cyborg."
"Ahh! Superman knows my name," yelled Cyborg excitedly.
"What are you doing in Jump City, Superman?" asked Nightwing stepping forward.
"I have an offer for you," he replied with a smile.
Author's Note: (1)A million cookie points to anyone who knows this quote.