As it happened leaping through a pane glass window with open wounds is a bad idea now sporting glass shards all over her person, he tumbled into a chinese grocery, knocking over a few shelves as he stumbled in the dark taking half a second to gain his bearings three long rows of shelves stocked to the brim with odds and ends, the back counter covered in lotto ticket and ciggies, leaping behind the counter he grabbed up a partially full box of cigars from the humidor, as he closed the door he spotted a discarded baseball bat resting against the wall near the cash register, with a slight grin he grabbed it up before charging for the rear exit, just as he touched the door handle, he felt the precognitive twitch that half felt half heard sense that tells you something is off, instictivly he lept to the right, straight through a display case, and clear of a pile of shelves that violently crashed against the portal to freedom, glancing back he spotted the dark figure of the sorceress floating serenely in the air before the grocery's broken window a frown of concentration on her face as the green changling flickered into existance beside her, "give up you can't escape" commanded the goth, "dude you are sooo busted" her green companion chortled, the squeel of tires just behind the duo and the sudden appearance of a strange blue and white car completed the scene, the borg stepping out of the drivers side and standing to his full impressive height, he smirked the human protions of his face seemed to curl into the expression, glancing left and right finding only balls and the doors of a stand up cooler in the corner Lunatic sighed "as first nights off campus go, i have to say this could have gone alot worse" the Trio of heroes passed a glance at each other confusion evident on thier faces.
Lunatic decided that trying to take on a magician, a shape shifter who could become most any sort of creature imaginable, and a full conversion cyborg with nothing but a louis ville slugger and a box of fine cigars would probably be less than successful, still the banter gave him enough time to get his bearings within the store, "Robin we got him cornered at Yum Kim's chinese grocery" said the blue and white borg into his left arm, "thanks for the heads up we'll be there soon Robin out" crackled back over the communicator as the faint strains of police sirens started to cry out over the din of the city, thumping the bat against his shoulder Lunatic grinned widely and with a cheery salute, whirled around lashing out with his right leg and knocking down the wall behind him in an explosion of timber and gyprock, before darting through the cloud of debris and into the back room and out the fire exit into the alley beyond.
"Cyborg to Robin, he's on the move again" sighed the eldest Titan in frustration "what is with this guy?" he exclaimed annoyed as he raced for the T-car to continue the pursuit, Beast boy knelt down extending his gloved fingers to the dark splash on the side walk the white fabric comming away crimson, "I don't think he'll be running too much longer" he whispered unhappily, pale grey fingers alighted upon his shoulders comfortingly before the purple cloaked empath lifted off the ground and took to the sky once more to continue the pursuit, with a final glance back at the destroyed store Beastboy became a raven once more and took to the air, following the sorceress.
Lunatic's entrance into the alley could be described as less than graceful crashing through the heavy wooden door at breaknecks speeds tore it from its hinges and sent it careening into the opposite wall of the alleyway a quick glance left and right confirmed the vacancy of the back street and the presence of a dozen good hiding places, head reeling from bloodloss and clutching his prize in a death grip he staggered to the left of the doorway back the way he came counting the dumpsters as he jogged when he reached the fifth he opened the lid and lept inside closing it after him landing in a pile of cardboard and loose shredded paper, grinning at his good fortune he sprawled out and spent a few moments catching his breath before closing his eyes and initiated his healing trance.
The large green floppy faced bloodhound wuffed quietly to the figures behind him pointing(you've seen dogs do it before dont lie!) to the dumpster which was adorned with a red smear on its front, "I still cant believe he doubled back" muttered Cyborg as he leveled his sonic cannon at the dumpster, "I can't beleive he didnt get farther than a hundred yards from the store" murmured the empath her eyes glowing beneath her hood, a few droplets of rain pattered against the lids of the dumpsters and trashcans as the sound of the R-cycle could be heard whinning its way down the street likely tracking the signal of the communicators, "Alright come outta the dumpster nice and slow and we can have you in a comfortable jail cell for a couple years" called Cyborg firmly, Beastboy returned to is usual form and glanced back at Cy "what makes you think he can even hear you he was bleeding pretty bad *before* he ran across half the city and kicked down a wall" with that Raven reached out with her power and yanked open the dumpster lid and rose higher into the air to get a better vantage not chancing getting in reach of the baseball bat, the moment the lids crashed open Lunatic's armored form exploaded from the dumpster, using the edge of the opening to get better leverage he vaulted from the trash recpeticle and easily fifteen feet into the air straight for the airbourne sorceress, Raven reacted with barely a thought placing a thick wall of utter blackness betwixt her and the oncomming attack stopping the blow dead, only to be startled as thier assailant used her barier as a launching point for a second leap onto a nearby fire escape on the opposite side of the alley begining his hell mell run up the metal stairs towards the roof. "I don't think he's bleeding out" drawled cyborg needlessly as he launched a grapnel line at the rooftop and launched himself upwards with his high speed winch, Beastboy rolled his eyes then squeeked as he felt himself lifted from the ground upon a disk of black energy.
Robin sighed as the blips on the R-cycle's radar once again started moving, Starfire gliding beside him smiled reassuringly her vibrant green eyes filled with an almost worried look as she glanced at the radar, her motions seemed almost casual as she maintained the R-cycles seventy mile per hour speed with ease, "Friend Robin should I join our friends in the pursuit of this villian? he seems to be of the slippery type" Robin steering his bike between cars with a practiced ease nodded "yeah try to cut him off he's taken to the rooftops and he's fast I'm going to circle around and see if i can block his escape a bit further down" Starfire nodded "be safe" she beemed and took to the sky darting off into the city at just beneath the speed of sound eliciting an unseen but envious grin from her team leader, who gunned his engine leaping into high gear and speeding through the city streets.
"Well" thought Lunatic as he lept from rooftop to roof top maintaining his breakneck run without the bother of blood loss or injured legs, "this is certianly a bit better than the last little jog through the city, now how on earth do i lose these guys?" His internal musings were interupted by a sudden explosion to his left that sent him flying, twisting mid air and rolling with the impact he was on his feet a tick after the blast scanning the rooftops for this new assailant, four points of light beyond the smoking blast point gave him ample evidence as to where the explosive projectile came from, "oh god dammnit" whined Lunatic "can't you people just bug off i mean come on there has to be more dangerous idiots out there than me the only thing I've done tonight is get knocked around by you guys and its getting old really fast", the form of a tall orange skinned and rather attractive girl drifted through the smoke here eyes burning a rather nerve rattling green, her hands sheathed in the same "if this chase has become a bother than surrender and accept your incarceration" commanded the flying orange girl. "Uh is there a second option? cause i really don't have the time to spend sitting around a jail cell, I mean seriously i don't know how long i have to kick around this burb, on that note do you know any brain surgeons?"
The litany of babbling of this strange armored man was providing confused Starfire somewhat, her brow arched in irritation and impatience as she watched her teammates making there way towards her, casting a weather eye on the chattering armored boy before her, the strange metal disks cutting a line down the middle of his head were gaudy even to her eyes, and the armor looked like it belonged in a war zone not the city streets, it further lacked any distictive coloration he had also failed to give a name or some manner with which to address him an unusual occurance, since most villians she had faced seemed to enjoy saying thier own name repeatedly, the twitchy slightly qwirky grin that was stretched across his face however that she was familiar with. Lunatic sighed and tossed the baseball bat end over end into the air catching it by the handle as the weird orange girl waited for her companions to arrive, already calculating the distance between himself and the floating teen he decided that thirty feet was a reasonable distance and hurled himself at her bat raised to strike, she flinched at the sudden movement unable to react as the heavy wooden sporting implement screamed towards her unprotected stomach, the jarring impact on Lunatics end was incredible as he felt the fire hardened wood expload against her midsection sending a shower of splinters everywhere and failing to even phase the alien who swung her glowing fist at his head almost in irritation his powerful swing failing to even move her.
Twitching out of the way of her glowing fist Lunatic took a moment to stare at his handy work, or lack there of, not a scratch not a bump not a bruise hell barely a reaction, unles you count her swinging back but really who wouldnt, though she seemed to take offense at this sudden attack and started tearing shit up, the enraged Tamaranian snarled in fury at the insulting blow and flew at him, her glowing fist cocked back before unleashing a mighty blow, Lunatic flung himself free of the attack rolling to his feet as the orange girl smashed through the room like it was wet paper bursting back into view a moment later, during that moment Lunatic beat a hasty retreat with a loudly cursing Starfire hot on his heels hurling star bolts and insults (mostly in her language), forcing Lunatic to leap, flip, spin, and finally abandon the rooftops in favor of the superior cover provided by the buildings, hurling down to the window ledge of the building across the street in a desperate leap he managed to crash through the window and into an appartment scaring the hell out of the family of three that was currently enjoying the evening news, Lunatic lept over the couch bound trio with a shouted "sorry!" dropping the box of cigars in the mother's lap as he passed over head and darted towards the door the angry orange teen following after pausing a moment to appologise as well, before taking off after the rapidly fleeing boy in armor, crashing through the appartments locked door, nipping up the prybar left beside it as he passed, grinning as the heavy oil treated steel sat more comfortably in his hands he darted to the right making a beeline for the end of the hall his sharp hearing informing him of the orange girls rapid approach, he dropped to the floor sliding and tearing up the aged well trodden carpet with his armor and prybar as the fuming orange girl shot past him at break neck speed, he smashed through the door on his left and made his way through the cluttered appartment beyond finding the window open he sprang nimbly through it as the furious alien appeared in the doorway hurling a bolt of angry green explosive energy after him.
The explosion hurled Lunatic back across the street and straight into the wall of the brick building adjacent, he managed to twist mid air and prevent any grevious injury by landing against the wall feet first turning into an almost lazy mid air somersault as he crashed through the roof of a newsstand.
Beastboy, Raven and Cyborg stood on the rooftop staring down at the destroyed newsstand and the figure currently kicking his way free of the wreckage, "what is with this guy" muttered Beastboy in disbelief, "I don't know" murmured raven calmly "but if we don't stop him he's going to wreck the whole city". Cyborg stared down his augmented left eye panning over the cursing armored form below, "I don't know what his deal is but his heart rate, body tempature are off the chart, if he's human he should be dead right now" Beastboy shruged "I've seen robin do this stuff plenty of times,he's probably some kind of super ninja or something like that Kotaro guy Robin was dealing with way back when" Raven sighed in frustration "we can speculate the hows and whys of the criminal later right now he is trying to get away", at this point Lunatic had shaken off most of the depris, and lept from the wreckage shaking his head, glancing up and seeing the trio on the roof above him and glancing back the glowing eyes of the orange girl still in the appartment he groaned "how many of you people are there?" the roar of the R-cycle drowned out his complain as a black haired boy in a mask lept from the saddle of the bike to land before him, "are you going to come along quietly or am i going to have to bring you in the hard way?"
Scrubbing his hands through his short hair in frustration Lunatic bellowed "ok seriously fuck off I havent even been out here two hours and already I've been blasted, mauled, lept through a window, destroyed a grocery store, hid in a dumpster, been chased up a fire escape, chased across half of this city, and now some guy dressed like he's going to a halloween party pulls up and tells me he's going to bring me in, ugh, ok you know what it was fun, that first bit there with the borg and Billy and P.H. having a little fun and all but I'm getting a little pissed off here" Robin drew his staff and whirled it over his head before taking a fighting stance and grinning cockily "sorry your visit to Jump City has been so frustrating why dont you cool off in a jail cell and collect your thoughts?" and with a battle cry hurled himself at Lunatic stave arcing towards Luney's studded skull with the speed and precision born of long practice and great skill, sadly the blow was caught. Lunatic snatched the stave from a startled robin frowning at him, "are you super durable cause I'd rather not paste a squishy on my first night out if i can avoid it" he examined the staff curiously even as Robin hurled himself towards his opponent lashing out with a speedy round house kick already calculating the next four moves in his head as Lunatic ducked the attack he was startled to find that the "squishy" masked kid had some moves, the round house kick turned into a sweeping kick forcing Lunatic to leap back out of reach, "Star, NOW!" shouted the masked kid before he had even touched the ground he spotted the brilliant green sun rocketing towardshis possition "oh you guys suck" groaned Lunatic as the explosion hurled him down the street and into a lamp post, "Raven!" shouted the masked kid once more, the lamp post turned black and bent around Lunatic's torso holding him firmly in place.
Robin strode over to the bound armored form before him collecting his stave and colapsing it down to a more readily stored length. "Good work team" he smiled up at the other titans a sense of pride filling him as he looked upon the fuming and surprisingly consious form of thier opponent, "anything to say for yourself?" he asked still grinning, "no not really" muttered Lunatic as he eyed the red motor bike, "so what kind of milage does that thing get anyway?" he grinned. Suddenly jerking foreward snapping the lamp post loose from its housing in the sidewalk, the curled at the waist smashing the lamp post upon the now vacant section of sidewalk robin had occupied just a moment before, with a grunt of exertion Lunatic managed to bend the twisted lamp post enough to get free only to hurl himself away as a rain of green suns exploaded all around him, he launched himself back into the wreckage of the newsstand scrabbling about for a moment before finding the discarded prybar and leaping free as a combination of green energy bolts and blasts from the borg's arm cannon reduced what was left of the stand to flaming rubble. Spotting his target Lunatic leapt into the middle of the street hammering the prybar into the edge of the manhole cover nearly blown off his feet by a near miss from an energy bolt, he yanked hard on the bar and the lid burst from its housing sending the fifty pound metal disk spinning into the air end over end like a coin, reaching out he caught he heavy pig iron lid and hurled it frisbee style straight into the masked kid's bike the explosion was quite impressive, actually knocking the masked kid off his feet and buying him the time he needed to drop into the tunnels beneath the city streets.