"We're all gonna die!"

CLANG. CLANG. CLANG.

The "giant robots" terrorizing citizens were not actually giant, more so larger than life, but they still looked menacing enough to pack a serious punch. One was stomping its stocky feet around trying to crush people, albeit only getting asphalt in the process. The second was punching into the glass of buildings, reaching inside, and pulling stuff out (it was probably money. Always was in stories.)

Windflyer was first to the scene, lowering himself gently to the uneven surface and looking at the robots incredulously. Raven followed him next, appearing in a dark aura. Beast Boy, carrying Cyborg in the form of an eagle, dropped his cargo then switched to a human and went down himself. Finally, a blushing Starfire came down with a dramatically unemotional Robin.

"Vahki?"

Robin frowned. "What?"

"Law robots. They used to watch over Metru Nui before Teridax snapped… I can't help but be reminded of them."

"Whoever's controlling these probably has the same intentions," Cyborg remarked.

"To cause chaos?" Windflyer smiled grimly. "Yeah. Um… I'll take on… that one," he said, pointing to the stomper, "and you guys can take on… whichever one you'd like to… eh…"

"You've never led before, have you?"

"No… Uh. Go!"

Then they were off, trying to topple the robots before they caused anymore damage. Windflyer rose up to the stomper and slashed at it, metal clanging each time it reacted. The robot was forced back on every hit, but it did not seem to be falling. Starfire took over for him and used her starbolts to weaken him; eventually, the metal outer plating was soft enough to be punched through. She stood on the robot's body and pulled out its circuits with a yell, sparking as she did so.

"Um- is that not a tiiny bit dangerous?"

"No worries. I will destroy them before they do any more damage." Starfire began to burn the robot's processor, allowing Cyborg to take a shot with his blaster and disable the thing. It began to fall to the ground, but the robotic man had no trouble holding it up, letting the metal corpse stay for a moment before dropping it with a thud.

Robin and Beast Boy took on the second robot, the Boy Wonder jumping up and banging on its plating with his bo staff. When this did not impair him, he pulled out a birdarang (a type of batarang he had once begged Batman to make,) swung hard, and threw it into the monstrosity's head. It made its mark, surprisingly enough, but it would not fall. Robin deftly climbed onto the robot to get to the birdarang, but the metal was too slippery and he kept falling; thankfully, Beast Boy picked up the slack by turning into a T-rex, picking Robin up, and crushing the thing himself. As the sparking remains crumbled to the ground, he demorphed, still carrying Robin, and smiled.

The Boy Wonder was not too thrilled, however. "Jeez, talk about bringing a mountain to a molehill!"

"Dude! I took it out!"

"More like annihilated it, if you ask me," Robin grumbled. "Listen, Beast Boy, you've got to keep from using such overpowered animals. If you're not careful and don't think things through we might get-"

SPARK.

"That."

Starfire gasped. "Friends? Did we not defeat the robots?"

"No." Windflyer sighed. "I think… they're still on, so we might need to disable them first-"

"Man," Cyborg shouted, "we need to disable them now!"

"It's too dangerous," Robin said. "The whole thing could explode. Windflyer is right. Best to call on someone more capable to help."

"But I wasn't-"

Shoop!

A small note had flown into his mask, rendering him unable to see. Windflyer groaned and pulled it away from him, eyes widening at its contents.

"Uh… brothers and sisters?" he asked. "Anyone know a guy who uses an orange and black emblem? 'Cause I'm pretty much sunk."

Robin frowned, taking the note. "Let me see." He sighed. "I don't know anyone with that symbol either. And telling us 'hello' doesn't seem helpful at all."

"Surely that is not a… nice gesture?" Starfire asked.

"It's not helpful at all, dude," Beast Boy said.

"If it's implying that he made the robots," Cyborg mused, "then why would he set them off on us just to say hello-"

Fzzzzzzzz.

Windflyer panicked. "Oh, Karz. What do we do?"

"I don't think we'll have any time to get all this debris away," Robin said. "Are- the Justice League back, Beast Boy?"

Fzzzzzzzz.

"No, dude! They were just on TV this morning!"

Robin scowled. "Great. I'm just going to call them…"

Shoop.

Another note, this time in in his face. He took it off and scowled harder. "'Don't. This is your destiny, Robin.' What's that supposed to mean?"

Ssssssssssss.

"Uh, friends? Might we want to the... get out of here first?"

"We have to keep the city alive! It'd be humiliating for it to just be destroyed!"

"But there is nothing we can do-"

BOOOOM!

The robots exploded. The chasses went up in flames, dousing everything in their path. The shockwave was immense, and rippled outwards immediately, threatening to knock the team down. A shard of metal went straight for the team's face-

"Azarath metrion ZINTHOS!"

Blip. Raven had put up a shield for them. Phew.

Windflyer sighed in relief. "Thank you, magic-sister, but don't you think that was a bit… late-game?"

"No. I just waited for my turn."

"But you weren't even there-"

"It was useless to fight," Raven intoned. "The robots were going to explode either way."

"How would you know?" Cyborg asked. "Don't tell me you've got-"

He froze. "Magical precognition powers. Oh."

"That doesn't explain the note," Robin said.

Windflyer thought this over. "Probably somebody wanting to play a trick on you…"

"Like the Joker? He wouldn't do that. My rogues gallery has always been more upfront."

"Rogues… gallery?"

"The villains I fight."

"Perhaps somebody knew of your arrival and wanted to greet you?"

"Perhaps," Robin mused. "But I don't see why."

"Maybe he wanted to-" Beast Boy's eyes widened. "Dudes! TV crew!"

It was true- a crew from KJMP-TV had arrived in the area, excitedly carrying microphones and camera. Everyone groaned. They'd been deluged with a lot of interviews last night, and this was only going to make things worse…

"Wait," the female reporter panted, "don't go! I'm Sasha Tomlinson for Jump City at 1 and I'd like to get a few words with you lot!"

"A few words?" Cyborg muttered. "Make that a thousand."

Robin smiled sadly. "Sorry, ma'am, but we've just had lunch and we'd really like to do our own thing…"

"But your fangirls!"

Oh, god. There weren't as many as there had been previously, given the uneven terrain and the robots scaring everyone off, but lo and behold, legions of them had arrived behind the news team and were clamouring to meet the group.

"Oh."

"Does this sort of idolization occur often, friend Robin?" Starfire asked.

"No, Star," he answered. "Only happens with me because people think I'm a hunk."

"And you are!" Sasha beamed. "All right, fans. We're here live with the superheroic teens that stopped the Gordanian invasion last night… and has just shocked the populace by doing it again!" She calmed herself down, breathing rapidly. "Well, not on the same scale. They just went off and defeated some rampaging robots, really. Still, though… quite the accomplishment for a group that hasn't really asserted themselves yet! What do you say to this, Robin?"

"Um… thanks? I really don't have anything to say about this."

"What about your teammates? Changeling?"

"Beast Boy. And I gotta say, dudes," he said, shoving his face into the camera, "it was my prowess that helped us smash open those robots. They didn't stand a chance-"

"Okay, that's enough. Mister…"

"Cyborg. I think we did pretty dang good!"

"Er… miss-"

"Raven."

Sasha frowned. "Yes. Do you have any comments?"

"No."

"None?"

"No."

"Seriously, none at all?"

"Quit it, I don't."

"Come on, don't you guys have SOMETHING interesting? Those robots were titanic! Surely they took some effort to beat."

Windflyer glared, looking at the fangirls. "If we had anything to say, chronicler-sister, we would've called you."

"But you're an alien, right? You're new to Earth!" She forced the microphone into his face, the Toa flinching. "How does it feel?"

"Not… too different, actually. A bit like Metru Nui and New Atero being shoved into a blender and metallicized."

"No culture shock? No quirky events? Nothing?"

"That's all Starfire's problem."

The Tamaranean blushed. "Ehehe… greetings."

Sasha waltzed over to here. "You find anything cool here? Like the sights? Have your eyes set on…" here she smiled evilly… "Robin?"

"Oh please, do not infer that! I have no desire to do the wooing at the moment."

"But I saw you… I mean…" She moaned, pulling at her curly red hair. "Uuugh! You guys don't have anything interesting at ALL! Can you at LEAST tell me if you plan to stay here?"

The team looked at each other. Originally they'd been unsure on what to do, Robin intending to strike out in Jump and let the others decide on a place to stay, but now that she'd brought it up…

Cyborg smiled. "We did kind of work well together."

"And this city seems to need a protector," Windflyer said.

"I would be happy to stay," Starfire said, beaming. "But I do not know if it would benefit us to the labour together."

Beast Boy grinned. "Strength in numbers, dude."

"I'm okay with it," Robin said. "Seems… I still need the help." Everyone turned to Raven.

"What." she spat.

"Do you wanna live in Jump? With… us?"

"I have no opinion on the matter."

"Don't you have some idea?"

"No. Not in the slightest."

Windflyer frowned. "She's right, Robin-brother. I have no idea where we'd live, who we'd fight… what we'd do."

"Well… living arrangements could be done up pretty quickly. We'd probably be fighting criminals and supervillains and the like. As for what we'd do…"

Robin pointed to the screaming fangirls, all proclaiming their gratefulness.

"You can expect that to happen a lot more."

"So we'd be stars again?" That seemed great- the Toa had always enjoyed saving and receiving affection from the Matoran, and if last night were any indication, it would occur to a larger degree. So… this was pretty much his dream job. Onua was right. He smiled. "Cool."

Raven scowled. "I… don't know. What if- I'm too dangerous?"

"We'd work things out," Robin said. "Together."

She stayed hard for a moment; then, as the others slowly nodded, she slightly smiled. "Sure."

Beast Boy whooped and put up a fist, which everyone gladly returned.

"So we're decided?"

"Right," everyone said.

Robin nodded and turned to Sasha. "We will. The city's in good hands now."

The reporter squealed and moved to hug him, being stopped by Raven. "Wow…" she panted, "that's great! You guys have a name?"

Cyborg raised an eyebrow. "A name?"

"Yeah! You know… the Legion of Superheroes, the Justice League, Young Justice, the Suicide Squad… can't go around without one. People'll have to call you by something."

Nobody seemed to know. Finally, Windflyer said, "The Toa Ha… oh, wait, that's taken. How about the Toa Mangai… karz, that one is too." He raised a hand. "Oh! The Toa Rua sounds good! Or Faxon! Or Hau-"

Everyone looked at the Toa funnily. "What? A Toa team needs a good name."

"Preferably something that doesn't confuse the heck out of casuals," Raven deadpanned.

"Fine. What about…" His eyes lit up. "The Toa Titans? You know, since chronicler-sister mentioned those robots were titanic!"

Robin smiled. "That's a good one, but I don't think people will know about that either… Young Titans? Young Justice just with Titans. Kid Titans?"

"Hero Titans?" Cyborg added.

"I'm gonna go with the Best Titans," Beast Boy said. "Since we're the best and all-"

"Oh! Friends!"

All eyes were on Starfire now.

"It took me the while to figure out, but since we are all merely teenagers, doing titanic things, might we not call ourselves… the Teen Titans?"

"That's actually…" Robin grinned. "I like it!"

"Sounds pretty good," Cyborg said while smirking.

Beast Boy hopped around, changing into a frog. "Works for me!"

"Cool, why not."

Windflyer was the last one, and he hung on the thought before nodding. "It's a bit weird… but I'll live. Teen Titans it is then."

Sasha radiated with pride, basking in the screams of fangirls. "All right! So this it it! The Teen Titans have just decided to form, becoming the new heroes of Jump! I'm so excited I could punch a baby!"

"Waaah!" "See? I just did!"

The newly formed Titans looked upon their supporters and smiled. Each was not entirely happy, battling with strife, but they all knew, clear as daylight, that they had arrived.

"T-E-E-N! T-I-T-A-N-S! T-E-E-N! T-I-T-A-N-S!"

Cyborg elbowed Raven. "Had any thoughts of leaving?"

She smiled. "No. I guess… I didn't."

"Well," he said, "I'm pretty happy about that. Nice to meet you, guys."

"I'm Sasha Tomlinson from Jump City at 1, here with the NEW Teen Titans, signing out! Adios, fans, and hope you can see these guys in action later on."

Water.

Water!

There was water all around them! Where were they?

She coughed, gagging at the salty taste in her mouth. Oh. The ocean. Right.

And that meant they had to get out.

"Gresh," she said, under her breath, "we have to get to the surface!"

"Eh? We can't. We're trapped under rubble."

The Glatorian tried to move, but he was right. A piece of rock had pinned them down.

"No," she said. "I can't just die down here."

"You did." Gresh frowned. "The explosion, remember?"

No. That couldn't have happened. "I…"

He shrugged. "Sorry, Kiina."

"No."

"Them's the breaks."

"No."

"Time to give it up and rest."

"NOOOOOOOOOO!"

She woke up, panting. Now where were they?

"Ah, you're awake."

Reaching for her trident, the Tajunan tried to attack only to find that it was gone. Again.

"Gordanians?" She snarled. "Don't try anything suspicious."

"Alas," the voice said, emerging from the shadows. "I only want to talk." He had a red eye, strange hair, and a robe.

She protected herself instinctively. "No. Don't."

"I only want to talk."

"You want to kill me!"

His eyes grew red. Kiina began to feel sleepy- wait, no. She couldn't. She had to stay awake. For Gresh.

"I just want to help."

"No." No… that wasn't going to happen… had to prevent it… wasn't going to…

"I just want to help…"

The late afternoon sun hung over the city, slowly beginning to drop. As the horns of ships permeated the salty sea air, the Teen Titans stood on Haney Island (now christened Titans Island by Mayor Simone, who had thoroughly enjoyed hearing from them,) where Cyborg had promised them a big surprise.

"So it's official?" Windflyer asked. "We're cool with the Turaga?"

"Mayor," Robin said. "And yep, I think she is. I just got the license an hour ago," he continued, holding the small paper up. After the six heroes had decided to form the Titans, they had gone to the police station to take over Robin's efforts to get a permit (although fan demand had forced them over to the Mayor's Office instead.) Once at the Mayor's Office, Sasha had presented the Titans to the leader, Mayor Simone being thrilled to have a saviour. In the blink of an eye, she had signed a brand new license and handed it to them, promising that her legal department would clear any snags later.

"Cool," Beast Boy said. "What'd you guys do here?"

Cyborg grinned. "You know what happened here this morning, when grass stain and I mentioned building a home here?" He gestured to the giant tarp that towered over the island, casting a shadow on the Titans. "Well…"

Cyborg took hold of a string that he had asked Starfire to carry, slowly pulling it away. As it went, the covering gradually fell off of its target, draping over the ground to reveal…

"Ta-daah!"

WOW.

A brand new tower built in black and silver metal and reinforced with glass panels. It soared over the city skyline, a cruise ship bellowing as it passed. The thing looked positively beautiful; what capped it off was that unlike any of the other towers in Jump, it had been shaped like a T, for Teen Titans. Amazing.

The others seemed to echo Windflyer's sentiments. "That's awesome," Beast Boy moaned.

"Absolutely gorgeous," Starfire sighed.

"Whatever," Raven said.

Everyone looked at her. She frowned. "What? It's cool. I just don't care."

Cyborg smiled. "And if you thought that was mind-blowing, wait until you see the inside!"

As the massive sliding doors opened, Windflyer realized he was right. If the outside was an architectural marvel, the interior was a technological one. The walls were dotted with all sorts of panels and lights and lined in a dark grey finish. Many, many rooms filled space, a huge one in the basement. Most significant was a large area near the top of the T, being packed with all sorts of resources such as a kitchen, a massive monitor and a gigantic red semicircular couch.

"Welcome to Titans Tower, home of the Teen Titans," Cyborg said. "Built it myself!"

"That quickly?" Windflyer asked.

"Only took a few hours! The Gordanian craft had a boatload of tech I could use." The man held up a finger as they passed the couch. "Like the TV, for instance! This is the Ops Centre, a place where we'll basically be chillin' out-"

"And detecting calls," Robin added. "Please don't forget that."

"How could I not? You kept taunting me with things the Batcave has that I had to add!" Cyborg shoved himself into the Boy Wonder's face and pouted pleadingly. "Why won't you tell me where it is?"

"The Batcave's location is a secret. This is not."

"Fine."

Beast Boy jumped onto the couch, bouncing up and down. "Dude, how'd you do it?"

Cyborg grinned. "You've gotta be a tech prodigy like me. It's how I built the basement, the training room, the roof, your rooms…"

"Our rooms!"

"Yeah!" He paled upon noticing everyone running. "Wait- they're not done yet! I've been waiting for you to come in and tell me what to add…"

"Screw you!" Lewa yelled from ahead. "I finally have my own room again-"

He stopped frowned. His was just as drab and grey as the rest of the tower. "Oh. Right."

"It is still very glorious that you created this all for us, Cyborg," Starfire said. "I offer my highest thanks."

"Don't mention it!" he returned. "Now we can chill and-"

"Um… Robin?"

Robin narrowed his eyes for a few moments before he smiled. "I guess we can lie low for a while."

Pretty short chapter since not much happens. Next one will be longer again.

1. Once again, I hope that fight scene captured the spirit of the show. (A bit pretentious but surely you get my point.)

2. Kiina is screwed.

3. Hey look, it's Teen Titans: Secret Origins! (I kid, I kid.) That should probably explain what happened in between Go! and Divide and Conquer/Final Exam (and on that note, why do people always start with Final Exam? They usually get the lines and everything down right. Shouldn't they know that it's not supposed to go first?

Also, that is the end of the interstitial. The real episodes start soon... and I guarantee you, they suck...