The Titan of FLCL CH.2
After the Tower repairs were completed the Titans decided to take a well deserved break. They concluded that the best way to do this was to visit the Boardwalk Amusement Park. Starfire and Robin had headed off to hang out together while Cyborg and Beast Boy threw rings at bottles determined to win Raven a prize since she had said there was no way they could do it. What they had failed to notice was that she had wandered off with Jaac after they had blown ten dollars. Jaac was walking around the boardwalk with Raven a few steps behind him. She had taken up his offer of company for two reasons. The main reason was that Jaac was a mystery wrapped in an enigma, he was almost completely unknown and other than a few scant details he had told the others he was still very much unknown. The other reason was that Jaac seemed more in line with Raven's interests, or at least she thought he was. Jaac seemed detached and didn't seem to enjoy hanging out with the other Titans for too long. He enjoyed solitude mostly because he was used to being alone by now, but he loved having a home again. Jaac came to a stop in front of a shooting gallery and a grin tugged at the corner of his mouth as he turned to Raven.
"Hey I bet I could get you a prize." Jaac said as Raven rolled her eyes and put a fist on her hip.
"Yeah that's what Beast Boy and Cyborg said 20 dollars ago." Raven replied.
"Yeah but the game they're playing is incredibly hard when you don't have the skill to aim correctly."
"Oh and you do?" Raven asked not believing one word.
"Sure I bet I could get you a prize in one try." Jaac said a devious little plan hatching in his head.
"Oh really?" Raven said slightly intrigued. "And what do I get when you lose?"
"IF I lose we can go to your favorite bookstore and I'll buy you whatever you want." Jaac said, "But if I win you'll have to… well we'll see hmm?"
No one knew WHERE Jaac got all the money he had but he always seemed to have a lot of it and Raven had been hoping to buy a couple books that had come out this month. Raven bit her lip and weighed her options, she knew carnival games like this one were notorious for being rigged. But she was also weary of Jaac's prize, for all she knew it could be something perverted or worse. Deciding to throw caution to the wind she extended her hand. Jaac smiled and took her hand and shook it.
"Alrighty then." Jaac said and turned to the stall and laid a couple dollars on the counter.
The vendor took the money and handed Jaac a beaten up old rifle and pressed a button. Targets shaped like small bulls eye's started to spring up and with a movement so fast Raven lost sight of the barrel of the gun for a moment Jaac aimed and fired. A clang rang out as the target was hit dead center, Raven blinked in surprise as the target fell. Jaac was like a machine, each time a target popped up it fell almost a quarter second later. Finally a buzzing sound was heard and the attendant stood there slack jawed as Jaac handed him the rifle. Reaching over the counter Jaac grabbed a decent-sized plushie and turned on his heel. Raven stood there in shock as Jaac handed her the plushie and walked past her with a grin a mile wide on his face. Raven shook herself out of her shock and looked down and noticed that the plush was shaped and colored to look like a cutesy kind of mummy with an X for the left eye.
She looked at plush for a moment more before she turned and jogged after Jaac. After catching up with him she grabbed his arm and he stopped and turned to her.
"Yes?" Jaac asked.
"H-How did you do that?" Raven asked the toy clutched in her right hand.
Jaac smiled mischievously and lifted a finger to his ear.
"I could hear the targets before they popped up." Jaac said, "The release mechanism for the targets has a very distinct sound."
Raven's mouth opened and closed wordlessly as she looked up at Jaac.
"Y-you cheated!" She finally managed to choke out.
"Oh? When did you say I couldn't do that?" Jaac asked his left eye brow quirked.
Once again Raven was left without a response other than to growl and raise her hood. She stalked off subtly sending the plush through a portal in her cape which led to her bedroom. Jaac chuckled and walked after her and they ended up back with Cyborg and Beastboy eventually. They were still struggling with the bottle game when Robin landed next to the four heroes.
"Titans trouble!" Robin said as he turned on his heel.
"Where's Starfire?" Cyborg asked.
"That's the trouble," Robin stated as he ran towards the end of the dock the others right behind him.
The others came to a halt as a streak of green came rushing towards them from offshore. It materialized into Starfire who was being pursued by what looked like a flying pink octopus with only four tentacles. A tentacle shot out towards Starfire who dodged to the side and shot a few star bolts at it which seemed to do no visible damage.
"No more chasing now please!" Starfire said as she continued to fly away.
Starfire flew by her friends the pink octopus in hot pursuit. Turning around faster than her pursuer could she flew back and hovered behind her friends. The octopus turned and shot right at Starfire heedless of the other Titans. Once it got close enough Beastboy leapt forward and turned into an alligator and slammed his jaws shut trying to crush it. The octopus shot through faster than he could close his jaws and continued on. Raven grabbed a nearby hot dog cart with her magic and threw it at the approaching enemy it broke over the head of it having no effect. As it flew by Cyborg he reached out and grabbed its trailing tentacles and pulled it back.
"Don't know what you did to make this thing mad Star but it couldn't hurt to apologize!" Cyborg said as he strained to hold it back from Starfire.
"I am…sorry?" Starfire said hesitantly.
The octopus wrenched itself free from Cyborg's grip and shot at Starfire once more. Robin grabbed his collapsible Bo staff and swung it at the rushing enemy slamming it on the head of approaching octopus. A strange whirring emitted from the monster as it went crashing over the side of the dock and into the water below.
"Sooo….did we just win?" Beast Boy asked.
Jaac suddenly leapt forward and pushed Robin out of the way moments before the octopus burst through the dock and shot at Starfire. Jaac planted his feet and shot a hand forward his fingers curled forward like claws but the octopus kept coming. The octopus impacted with Jaac's hand his fingers sinking through whatever metal it was made out of like a hot knife through butter.
"THUNDERSTRUCK!" Jaac roared.
The octopus shuddered and the screech of metal rang out from its body as giant tears and cracks opened in it before it exploded knocking the other Titans back. They shot to their feet and looked over to the cloud of smoke where Jaac was. Jaac walked out of it a moment later and stopped outside the cloud and blew on his fingers.
"H…How did you do that?" Beast Boy asked
"You ever seen what happens when you inject ultra low frequency sound into a machine?" Jaac asked.
"Uh, no"
Jaac grinned as he walked past Beast Boy.
"Yeah you have." Jaac said.
Beast Boy looked confused for a moment before he looked at the cloud of smoke and it dawned on him.
"Oh…that's pretty brutal." Beast Boy said.
The Titans decided they had had enough fun for one night and decided to head home.
The Next Morning: Jaac's Room
BREEP!
BREEP!
BREEP!
BRE- *crunch*
Jaac grumbled and shook the small clock parts off his hand as he rolled out of bed. Jaac shook his head and stood up bemoaning the loss of his ear plugs. Robin had taken then from him when he had slept through an alarm about a week back. Jaac yawned and slipped on some pants and grabbed some clean clothes as he stepped out into the hallway. Trekking off to the bathroom to perform his daily rituals he tried to shake of the last dregs of sleep as Starfire came floating down the hallway.
"Good morning Friend Jaac is it not a most glorious day?" Starfire chirped as she twirled around a bit to emphasis her point.
Jaac merely grunted in response his pink hair spiked out every which way. Starfire hadn't expected a verbal reply as she knew Jaac wasn't much of a conversationalist until he had a shower. Starfire merely smiled and floated onwards entering her room as Jaac turned into the bathroom and shut the door.
Jaac emerged from the bathroom a short time later his pink hair pulled back into a short pony tail to keep it out of his eyes. Closing the door Jaac adjusted his clothes with a bit of a grimace. After settling into the Tower he had been unable to find an excuse to renege on his deal of going to the mall with Starfire to buy new clothes. Unfortunately, this meant he had to placate the Tamaranian Princess by buying some of the things she picked out.
He was currently wearing a pair of black denim shorts that ended halfway down his shins and a bright yellow t-shirt that hugged him tightly showing off his muscular torso. He had managed to get new shoes as well and was sporting a pair of classic Converse All-Stars. Not that Jaac hated the color yellow, in fact he didn't mind it at all. It's just he figured out early on that when he wore yellow he looked like a walking advertisement for Spring because of his pink hair.
Jaac sighed and shook his head as he made his way to the common room waving at Starfire as she passed by heading for the training room. Jaac walked into the common room a couple moments later, looking around he noticed it was still empty and figured that BB and Cyborg were still sleeping as they were usually glued to the game console already. Hopping over the counter he opened the fridge and perused the inside for food. He heard the door to the common room swoosh open but heard no footsteps to accompany it and figured it was either Raven or Starfire coming to eat and continued his search for food. Grimacing as he pushed a plate of chicken with blue mold on it to the side he yelped as he felt a hand grab his ass and squeeze. Panicking Jaac grabbed the fridge door and swung around ripping the door free with a screech of metal and looked around franticly the fridge door raised in defense of his purity. Jaac felt his heart hammer in his chest as he scanned the room only for a orange face with striking purple eyes and black hair to pop into his face a roguish grin on her face. Jaac jumped back with a strangled cry dropping the door and hitting the wall behind him digging his fingers into the wall. He hung there as he tried to swallow his heart which felt like it had leapt into his throat.
The girl in front of him laughed and clapped her hands as she floated up towards him. Jaac noticed she looked remarkably like Starfire, she was even dressed similarly and had the same orangish skin. She had on a black top and skirt as well as a similar brooch and thigh high boots. The main difference was that while Starfire showed a some skin this girl was wearing some sort of interlocking armor. It was all over the parts of her body not covered by clothe along with bracers on her forearms leaving only her hands and face exposed. The strange girl came to a stop in front of Jaac and leaned in with a strange look on her face as she looked Jaac up and down.
"Not bad," She mumbled as she floated from side to side trying to get a good look at Jaac.
Jaac let go and pressed off the wall hard, leaping over the girl. Twisting in the air he landed with a thud on the table on the other side of the room and brought his hands up in loose fists as he eyed her warily.
"Who are you?" Jaac asked as he cursed the fact he left his guitar in his room.
The girl quirked her eyebrow and floated over with that same smile on her face, a strange look in her eyes.
"My name is Blackfire," She said as she floated over and came to a stop in front of Jaac. "I'm looking for my little sister Starfire, I heard she might be here. And who might you be?"
"My name is none of your concern" Jaac replied. "And yeah we have a Starfire here but how can I know you're related to her?"
Blackfire laughed and swept in close to Jaac before he could react, batted his hands away and grabbed the front of his shirt. Bringing her face very close to his she smiled looked deep into Jaac's yellow eyes.
"Ooh, I like you!" Blackfire whispered, "You know what a Tamaranian can do and yet you're ready to fight me to protect my poor little waif of a sister… I find that recklessness very attractive in a male."
Jaac's scooted back until he hit the edge of the table, suddenly he heard the door swoosh open and in came the rest of the Titans talking animatedly.
Jaac groaned internally as the talking came to an abrupt halt as they spotted the trashed fridge the holes in the wall from where he hand dug in his fingers and finally the pair of teens apparently, from their point of view, making out on the table. They stared at the spectacle for a moment before Cyborg wolf whistled and Beast Boy shifted into an actual wolf and howled along with him.
Blackfire turned around bumping Jaac a bit leaving him teetering on the edge of the table. Suddenly, a figure broke from the Titans and streaked over to Jaac grabbing him before he fell off the table. It was Starfire and she had a concerned look on her face as she helped Jaac down. She then turned to Blackfire and said in an angry voice.
"Shame on you sister being so forward with the boys of this planet!" Starfire scolded Blackfire only giggled.
"I apologize little sister but I couldn't help myself," Blackfire said as her feet hit the ground, "Your little friend over there is much cuter than any boy I have seen in a long time. I lost myself for a moment."
"Sister?" Robin echoed as he looked at Blackfire.
"Yes, please Friends allow me to introduce my big sister Blackfire," Starfire said as she motioned at her sister, "What are you doing in this sector sister last I heard you were halfway across the galaxy."
"What? I can't visit my cute little sister and her friends?" Blackfire said mock hurt in her voice. "And I even brought you a gift."
As Jaac watched she walked over until she was in front of Starfire and reaching into her top she pulled out a rather large green jewel attached to a length of ribbon and handed it to Starfire.
Starfire gaped at it before she grabbed it and hugged her sister tightly squealing happily.
"Oh, my goodness a Centari Moon Diamond I can't believe it!" Starfire gushed as she slipped it onto her neck. "Where ever did you get it?"
"The Moon of Centari of course," Blackfire responded as she smiled at her sister.
Gliding over to show her friends she didn't notice Blackfire look down at Jaac and give him a smoldering look before turning to go introduce herself to Starfire's companions.
Jaac blushed a bit and eyed Blackfire warily as she floated away. He didn't know what it was but something about her really rubbed him the wrong way, not to mention the assault on his person a moment ago. Jaac's eyes glazed over as he thought back to what happened. Shaking his head he snapped out of his stupor and stood up and attempted to slink out of the room undetected. Unfortunately, Starfire ruined his plan.
"And this Sister is Friend Jaac. He is the newest of my friends but he is very fun to be around," Starfire said happily her gift seeming to make her forget what had transpired moments ago.
Sighing to himself Jaac turned around and gave a weak smile. Trying to inch back towards the door inconspicuously to continue his escape Jaac suddenly found himself face to face with Blackfire once more.
"Ah so this is the one you mentioned in your last transmission yes?" Blackfire said as she once more examined Jaac.
"What were your abilities again Jaac?" Blackfire purred out.
"I can manipulate sound among other things," Jaac mumbled as he tried to edge away from Blackfire again only to have her match his movements the distance between them never changing.
"Interesting, very interesting," Blackfire said with a roguish grin before whispering so only her could hear, "Maybe I could get a demonstration in a more…private…setting?"
Jaac gulped and leaned back a bit before Blackfire suddenly turned around abruptly.
"Well it's very nice to meet you all!" Blackfire said enthusiastically as she floated over and sat down on the couch, "Although I'm just glad I made it hear in one piece. I almost got sucked into a black hole on the way here."
The other Titans were silent before Robin, Beast Boy and Cyborg rushed over.
"A black hole?" Cyborg said.
"How did you escape?" Robin asked
"Well there I was cruising through the Draconis Nebula when-" Blackfire began before Starfire cut her off.
"But sister that+ Nebula is full of black holes why would you even be there?" Starfire asked.
"Oh but the danger is half the fun little sister." Blackfire responded, "Anyway so I was flying through this Event Horizon when.." Blackfires voice faded away as Jaac dispersed her voice before it reached his ears.
Shaking his head he turned to leave when he noticed Starfire's slightly put out expression. Whistling so only she could hear him he motioned for the door and headed out of the common room Starfire following him a moment later.
After Starfire stepped out Jaac turned and walked down the hallway Starfire figuring out what he wanted followed him. Jaac said nothing until they both walked into his room and the door slid closed.
"So what's the deal with your sister?" Jaac asked quietly.
"What do you mean Friend Jaac?" Starfire asked.
"I mean what is she like?"
"Well she is my older sister and the first in line for the throne of Tamaran-"
"Whoa, whoa, whoa hold the phone." Jaac said turning to Starfire eyes wide. "You're a princess?"
"Oh did I uhm…forget to mention that?" Starfire mumbled sheepishly.
"Uh yeah I'm pretty sure I'd remember something like that." Jaac responded wryly.
"Ah well please do not tell the others Friend Jaac." Starfire pleaded
"Why not?"
"I just… I will tell them when the time is necessary is all I do not want them to treat me differently because of my status."
"I don't think any of us will think any different of you Star. I know I won't, your still the same bubbly Starfire to me." Jaac said, "But very well, I'll keep your secret."
"Oh thank you Friend Jaac," Starfire said hugging her friend tightly.
Jaac simple smiled lightly and wrapped his arms around Starfire's waist and hugged her back. Despite how much Jaac loved his solitude everyone loved a good Starfire hug.
Neither of them noticed the door had been opened slightly or how it slid closed nor the person behind it sneak away a plan formulating in their mind.
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Technique List
Name: Thunderstruck
Type-Close range
Description: Named after the famous song of the same name it utilizes ultra low frequency sound to cause intense vibration. When used at the proper strength it can cause machines to literally shake themselves to pieces. When used on an organic target it can cause massive internal bleeding or at a lower strength; unconsciousness.
Strengths: The strength of this technique lies in its versatility. It can be used on either organic or inorganic targets, even solid rock will shatter under sufficient power from this technique.
Weaknesses: The main weakness of this technique is the time it takes to prepare it. Because it takes the use of ultra low frequency sound waves it takes 30 to 45 seconds to prepare because Jaac has to lower the sound to such an extreme degree. It takes even longer for more powerful versions of the technique up to a minute or more. Weaker versions such as the one that causes unconsciousness require as little as 10 to 15 seconds.
AN.
Behold your new chapter. Sorry it took so long check out my profile for your new update schedule. Also if you haven't voted in the poll go do that now in the fourth chapter I'm gonna drop a couple bombshells and reveal Jaac's superhero name. I have also changed my SN for those of you who care. I don't know why i did i just felt like a change. I'd been soulnin since i've joined so i decided since i'm actually writing now i should have a new sn... a bit late i know but my point remains valid. Anyway expect a double update for this story and for Drunken Bender soon. Its my little present to you guys for having to wait so long.
Ja,
Tenebrosus(formerly Soulnin)