A/N (09.04.14): This chapter has been edited and altered as of today.

Chapter 9 has arrived! And this episode may be a bit boring…I'm not really sure if you guys will like it or not but I tried hard and I did my best to make it as much of the two birds interacting in this one as possible. I added much more in the episode then the creators put it. So just please don't throw this aside!

Disclaimer: I do not own the Titans or Thunder and Lightning.

Chapter 8: Forces of Nature

Outside upon Jump City a storm was raging on, but inside the Titans Tower it was warm and peaceful. Not to mention that Beast Boy was hatching up his latest plan to get back at Cyborg. He snickered to himself as he set up his last finishing touches.

"What are you doing?" a monotone voice said from nowhere, startling Beast Boy as he lost control of the balloon in his hands almost. He looked up to see it was Raven and sighed. "Please tell me that this is not another ridiculous prank," Raven almost begged him. Beast Boy grinned.

"Ok, it's not a ridiculous prank. It's a brilliant one," he told her with a laugh as she rolled her eyes. "All right check it out."

"Remember how Cy put red die in my shampoo and I turned brown for two days? Well sister, it's payback time," He informed her as he began showing her his 'masterpiece'. "I give you the "Beast Boy Insta – Lube 9000"! See, when Chrome Dome steps around the corner, his foot tugs the string, the string trips the lever, the lever releases the mother of all rubber bands, which sends a balloon full of motor oil flying right at him, and GUSH! Pretty clever, huh?"

After a couple of seconds of her just staring at him she answered, "You're a genius."

"It's just a little good, clean, dirty fun," he reassured her just as they heard the door open from the other hall. Beast Boy grinned and pulled Raven around the corner where he was going to watch. "Here he comes."

"I don't think –" Raven started as she sensed someone other Beast Boy expected, but he hushed her. "But what if –" she tried again, only be shushed once more. She sighed.

"Why are we hiding?" a new voice asked. Beast Boy was about to shush once again when he realized it wasn't Raven who spoke and screamed when he saw Cyborg kneeling beside Raven.

"Cyborg! You can't be Cyborg!" Beast Boy shrieked, "if you're here, then –"

A squeal was heard from ahead and the trio's eyes widened, everyone looking ahead to see Starfire on the ground, face and hair covered in motor oil. The others rushed to her side, watching as she tried to blink a few times to open her eyes. She frowned.

"You ok?" Cyborg asked her.

"This is punishment? I did something wrong?" she asked slowly, puzzled.

"No, you didn't," Raven spoke up, glaring at Beast Boy. "He did."

"Star it was… you weren't supposed to… I…" he kept trying to say as he looked at her confused face. He tried lightening the mood. "Just remember to change that every 3000 miles." Starfire did not find it funny though as she jumped up on her feet, towering over him now as her emotions got the best of her.

"On my planet we have a name for those who do such horrible things. You are a… a… KLORBAG BARBLERNELK!" Starfire cried at the top of her lungs, eyes glowing green.

"I'm a what bag?" Beast Boy asked.

"You heard the lady," Cyborg said.

"You are sucha klorbag," Raven added, putting her two cents in.

"Come on you guys can't anybody take a joke?" the green boy asked.

Just then there was a crackle of thunder and lightning, lighting up the dark hallway and illuminated the four teens.

"Titans," Robin said from the other side of the hall, appearing suddenly. "Trouble."

On the bridge, a strip of lightning suddenly came down in front of a truck, making him stop quickly and veer off on the side. In the middle of the road now were two teenagers, one blue, representing thunder, the other yellow, the human form of lightning.

"May we have fun here, brother?" Thunder asked. Lightning smiled.

"Of COURSE!" Lightning said, making electricity appear between his hands. "We are Thunder and Lightning. We may do whatever we please!" He shot out his power to the cords of the bridge. "Now brother, I command the sparks to dance!" he laughed as he watched.

"Amusing. Now listen as I make music," the other told his brother. Thunder clapped his hands together and many blue rings flew out across the bridge. They both laughed together.

"Hate to break it to you," Robin's voice interrupted them as they saw the five teens standing on top of the truck. "But you guys have a lousy sense of humor. This ends now."

"No one gives orders to Thunder and Lightning. Taste my power!" Lightning declared as he shot electricity out on the truck. The Titans all jumped out of the way and began attacking.

Starfire took after Lightning quickly as they jumped from car to car, exchanging powers at the other. Finally Starfire was hit and knocked off of a car, falling beside it. Cyborg past her too quickly as he pursued Thunder, punching at one another. Finally Thunder charged up his power on his hand and punched Cyborg all the way back.

Robin jumped in and attacked Thunder. The blue teenager was on a cloud and throwing blasts at the Boy Wonder, Robin continuously jumping out of the way to avoid them. He then swung on a cord from the bridge and jumped over Thunder, kicking him back and throwing him off his cloud so they were both on the same level.

Lightning threw bolts at Raven. She flew out of the way of them all though and then came down and kicked him with one leg back, yet he did not fall. She continuously kicked him back with that leg as he protected himself with a shield of his power, neither letting up. Finally he threw power at her when she stopped and blasted her back, throwing her into Robin who had just been knocked back as well by Thunder, the two grabbing onto each other to keep from falling down.

"Whoa, easy there, Grace," Robin said as he held Raven's arms tightly as she gripped his shoulders, the two settlings themselves and looking up at one another. Raven shot him a look as she let go off him.

"Thanks for the support," she shot back before flying up with Starfire.

Beast Boy came from behind the yellow teen in the form of a panda and threw his massive arms around him, trapping him. Lightning disposed of him quickly though as he electrocuted Beast Boy by charging up, breaking free from his grasp. Thunder then came up to Beast Boy.

"Your powers of the animal are impressive green one, rise so we may do battle," he said this as his hands began to glow blue, eager. Beast Boy looked up at him.

"Why are you doing this?" he asked Thunder.

"Because it is unsporty to attack an unready opponent," Thunder replied.

"No, why are you wrecking everything?" Beast Boy asked again.

Thunder's face turned thoughtful. "It is amusing., he said slowly.

"Do they look amused?" Beast Boy questioned as he threw his hand in the direction where the scared people were, cowering behind their ruined cars.

Lightning came besides Thunder and blasted the changeling back with a grin on his face, letting him speak no further. "Ah, the thrill of victory. Come Thunder, we shall seek more amusement!"

Thunder and Lightning smiled as they both took off, leaving their encounter new friends behind. Beast Boy emerged just in time to see them go, Starfire flying over by him and the others.

"That was a shock," he said with a small smile. Starfire stuck her nose in the air and flew on the other side of him by the others. "I'm guessing you're still mad."

"Ok team," Robin said as they regrouped. "We have to find those guys before they do anymore damage. Cyborg, you take the south side, Raven and I'll take downtown while Beast Boy and Starfire scan from the skies."

"Um, maybe Cyborg should come with me instead," Beast Boy offered when he saw the look on Star's face.

"Cyborg can't fly," Robin pointed out.

"Oh, yea," Beast Boy said. Cyborg approached them right before they all left.

"Have a nice trip my little klorbag," he told Beast Boy with a grin.

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Thunder and Lightning flew down in the center of a large open area with a big building in front of them. They scanned the area and Lightning smiled.

"We can make much mischief here," he commented as he threw a bolt at a large concrete ball and it started rolling around the sidewalk, hitting an array of domino like cement blocks that fell down as well in a chain reaction. "Brother! Did you see what I-" Lightning started but then stopped when he saw the look on Thunder's face. "Something troubles you?"

"The green one's words. He says our fun is… wrong," Thunder explained.

Lightning laughed. "Wrong? He speaks nonsense brother. How could such amusement be wrong? The fun is only beginning." And with that the two walked off to find more 'fun'.

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Starfire and Beast Boy were flying through the skies in silence when they saw the destruction that the brothers had left behind. They flew down.

"Either they were just here, or this is the ugliest modern art I've ever seen," Beast Boy said with a grin. Starfire merely surveyed the damage.

"You are not funny. You are a klorbag barblernelk," She reminded him as she walked away.

"Come on Star you can't stay mad forever. Do I have to do the face, you know you can't resist the face," he told her as he turned into a kitten at her feet. He meowed and smiled up at her with big eyes. She peered down at him, 'hmpfed', and then continued to walk on. Beast Boy turned back into a human, eyes wide. "She resisted the face!" he said, speechless. "Come on Star just please talk to me this is no fun!"

"Wrong again, green one," a voice said as Lightning came down, followed by Thunder. They blasted at the two teens as they began to run away. They continued this for a while; Beast Boy changing into animals and attacking Thunder while he blasted at him. Starfire and Lightning were back and forth with their blasts and neither let up.

"I don't want to fight you," Beast Boy suddenly said as he had rammed the blue teen into the wall. "And I don't think you want to hurt me."

"Pain does not amuse us," Thunder told him.

"Could have fooled me. Keep playing rough, and innocent people will start getting hurt," Beast Boy said to him.

Suddenly out of nowhere, cement chunks fell everywhere, presumably from the constant back and forth thunder and lightning strikes. When the dust cleared and the two teen boys could see, neither saw the Titans they had just been fighting. Thunder and Lightning stared wide - eyed as they saw what they had done.

"Any signs yet Raven?" Robin asked her as she finally opened her eyes. She had been trying to get a track to see if she could find where Beast Boy or Star were but couldn't pick up anything. They had already gotten Cyborg and wanted the team to regroup.

"Nothing, Robin. I can't locate where they are," she said worriedly.

"They should be okay. Starfire can handle herself. I don't know about Beast Boy but…" Cy was saying thoughtfully.

"They'll be fine, I'm sure. We'll find them soon enough," Raven told her leader confidently as she put a reassuring hand on his shoulder. He nodded his head in agreement as the three teens made their way back, Cyborg running on the ground while Raven gripped onto Robin's hands as they flew.

"Your gifts are your own. Who are they to tell you how to use them?" an old man in a red robe and circular straw hat was telling them. Thunder and Lightning looked him over.

"And who are you that commands us?" Lightning asked.

"I am but a humble old man, that has the power from nature just like yourselves. Come with me, and do as much destruction as you please."

"Yes! More fun!" Lightning declared with glee.

"But, will we hurt the innocent?" Thunder asked suddenly.

"The green one has poisoned your mind brother! Let us go." Lightning said to Thunder as the two followed the old man from the sight they'd just fought the two Titans at. Just then, Beast Boy crawled out from under the rubble as a spider. He then turned into a human and started panicking.

"STAR!" he shouted at the top of his lungs as he began to scamper down to the ground and pull boulders out in hopes of finding his friend. "Where are you? Give me a sign here! You have to be all right ok? Cause I… it was just a joke you know? Back at the Tower and – I'm sorry," he finally said, stopping his search. "I never said it but I'm really really sorry. It was supposed to be funny, and you could have been hurt and… I'm a total klorbag," he finished.

Suddenly a shadow cast over his slump form and he turned around.

"STARFIRE!" he yelled with happiness at the sight of his smiling red – haired friend. He turned into a kitten and jumped into her awaiting arms, snuggling up against her. She giggled.

"I am glad you are unharmed as well." He jumped out of her arms, turning back into a human and going on his knees.

"I am so sorry. You've got to forgive me," he begged her. She put her hands on his shoulders, pulling him back up to standing.

"I already have," she reassured him. "Now those evil brothers must be made to apologize."

"I don't really think they're evil. I think they're just like me," Beast Boy told her.

Starfire smiled softly at his words. "Then let us go find the others and track them both down."

Lightning and Thunder stared up and gapped at what they had just unintentionally created from their 'fun.'

"Rise," the old man said. The flaming monster that stood stories tall obeyed. It roared. "Burn, fire! Burn it all!" the old man ordered, motioning to where the forest got thinner and opened up to Jump City.

"Didn't anyone ever tell you? Play with fire, and you're going to get burned," Robin said as the whole team stood in front the monster, finally having appeared to the scene. It roared at them and threw a long arm of fire towards the group. They all jumped out of the way and then got back up. Robin looked up and gasped when he saw it continue to walk, realizing everything in its path was burning down as it made its way to an unsuspecting Jump.

"Good. Very good," the old man from the shadows said. The two brothers looked at one another with fear.

"Brother, what have we done?" Thunder asked, frowning.

The Titans got back up and started charging at the fire monster. "Titans, GO!" Robin shouted to them. He threw some exploding disks at it, attempting to stop it. Raven then flew above Robin, an idea striking as she passed the monster.

"Flames can't spread if they're nothing to burn," she said as her black aura went down the path of the monster and pulled up many trees from the root, laying them aside. Robin grinned.

"Good idea, Raven," Robin complimented. "Beast Boy, Star, help her out," Robin ordered, as the three began getting trees out of the way. Cyborg then jumped in and threw a big sonic blast in front of the monster on the ground, making dirt fly everywhere at it like a wave. The flames seemed extinguished, the others joining to stand together as they waited to see what had happened. When it cleared, he was still up and burning, looking angrier then ever.

Robin then noticed as he looked past the monster there was a man standing there with a grin on his face in a red robe, seeming pleased. He was talking to Thunder and Lightning.

"Go young masters, Fire is your creation. They have no right to destroy your fun."

"Yes, we must fight!" Lightning said with excitement in his voice.

"But brother…" Thunder protested.

"Do not annoy me with your foolish concerns! Come!" Lightning interrupted as he yelled at him. Thunder glared at him uneasily but complied as Lightning made a bolt come down to transport them. The old man grinned, but before he could celebrate, Robin and Raven came flying at him. Robin threw a kick at him and knocked the mighty staff that seemed to have controlled the beast twenty yards away. Raven flew to get it but the old man suddenly made it move and it came back to him. Raven's eyes widened, surprised, before she regained her composure and flew back to Robin's side.

"Robin, we meet at last. And you've brought one of your little friends with you," the man said to him. Robin glared at him at his words.

"Who are you?" Robin asked. The old man did not reply though as he charged at the two teens. Robin and Raven did the same at him.

Robin punched him back and then he ran up and threw another one, only to miss his mark and get hit with the staff the man was still holding. Raven flew down and threw her own roundhouse kick at him, making him fall back on the ground. She went down to hit him again, only he took his staff and pushed her back hard in the stomach with it. Raven winced at the sudden gust of wind that left her as she stumbled back into Robin's arms.

"Wait here, I've got him," Robin reassured her, "I don't want to worry about you, go help the others."

Raven blinked at his words, Robin keeping an eye over at the old man as he tried to ignore at what he'd just let slip out of his mouth. Raven simply and pulled away from him, taking off into the air to aid her friends. Without waiting Robin faced his opponent, reaching out and taking up his bo-staff.

Fire was still walking towards the city by the time Raven got down there and the three Titans were handling the situation best they could.

"Azarath Metrion Zinthos!" Raven cried as black aura came from her hands as a projectile, hitting back the monster. When she drew back he looked extinguished, like charcoal. Raven lowered her hands, looking at the others.

Quickly he regained his flame though and looked straight at Raven. Raven's eyes widened before she could do anything and he shouted out at them, a blast encompassing all around them, hitting her directly on and the others. Raven fell to the ground, Starfire and Cyborg beside her instnatly. Before she got to her feet though they were electrocuted back. veryone looked up to see Lightning and Thunder. While Lightning went after the group of three, Thunder found himself face-to-face with Beast Boy, eyeing him in the form of a tiger.

"Stand aside, green one," Thunder commanded, but he growled loudly, as if saying he wasn't letting him pass to get to his friends or harm anyone again. So instead, they charged at each other. When Beast Boy pinned him down, he transformed back into his human form, interrogating him.

"You might not want to fight me, but then why do you want to destroy homes and hurt innocent people?" he questioned.

"I do not…"

"Then what are you fighting for?" Beast Boy asked again.

"The old one said Lightning and I are unique, better," he explained.

"Gifts don't make you better. It's how you use them that counts," Beast Boy stated back. Thunder pondered this, his eyes softening. He glanced over at his brother. He knew what he had to do.

Raven and Starfire stared at the monster and, to their dismay, saw it continue heading towards the city with no stopping it in sight.

"Those houses go, the whole city could go. We've gotta stop the fire!" Cyborg told the others.

"How?" Raven asked him, without an answer of what to do.

"Anyway we can," Cyborg responded as the four made their way once again to Fire.

While they were doing this, Thunder and Lightning had initiated fighting and were still at it, blasting each other. Then Lightning blasted him to a wall and Thunder fell to the ground, Lightning towering over him.

"Tell me brother, are we still having fun?" Lightning shook his head. "Observe," Thunder replied as he pointed to Fire's destruction. They saw the four teens dousing his flames with water from anywhere as best they could.

"They too have gifts, but they use them for good, while we waste ours on dangerous fun," Thunder spoke again. "We must help."

"But how?" Lightning asked, softening.

"Together, we have a gift greater," Thunder reminded him as Lightning smiled, transporting them back into the sky. Soon thunder boomed from above, with lightning following. Raven, Starfire, Cyborg and Beast Boy looked up from the monster in front of them that was about to get to the city and to the sky. And then, without another sound, it began to rain, and Fire was reduced to nothing but ash.

All the Titans cheered with the exception of Raven, who smiled. She then remembered Robin, suddenly worried he still wasn't here.

"Let's find Robin," she told them, and the others nodded as they made their way back where they'd come from.

The old man had Robin up against a tree, struggling to breath as he squirmed.

"Robin, is that the best you can do?" he sneered.

Raven came from behind and threw her arm forward, black aura surrounding it as she threw it at the old man, knocking him away with it. Robin dropped to the ground on his knees and then sprang up again, rubbing his neck.

"Thanks, Raven," he told her with a smile, "but I totally had everything under control," he said. She rolled her eyes.

"Just say 'thank you' and be done with it," she insisted. Robin and her both looked then behind them and back to the man getting up. Their eyes widened. They saw his skin gone partially to reveal an orange and black metal mask.

Without giving them time to process what they'd seen, smoke appeared around the man and he was gone, leaving the two birds to stare. Raven's eyes wandered to the ground, about to tell Robin when she saw him already stooping down and picking it up carefully in his gloved hand. On it was the marking of an S.

"We'll figure out more later, Robin," Raven told him, her cape blowing fiercely in the rain and wind surrounding them. He sighed and nodded as turned to see her and the team around him now, heading back to the city. Beast Boy took one more glance up at the sky, smiling at it, knowing Thunder and Lightning finally learned something.

They stood on the edge of the city, a ways away from Titan Tower, watching as the sun peeped out again.

"So, Slade wants to destroy the city? That was him?" Cyborg concluded after Robin and Raven explained the story and he examined the odd disk. "Question is, why."

"I don't know, but I will find out," Robin reassured them. "And he won't get away with it."

Beast Boy nodded and quickly approached Starfire, smiling up at her. "So, am I still a… what bag?"

"No, I believe you are a… Milnip Woserloop," Starfire told him.

"Sweet!" he shouted. "Wait, what's that?"

Starfire giggled as she began to fly towards the Tower. Raven shook her head with a sigh as she took Robin's hands and flew off as well, Cyborg following ahead, waiting for a stunned Beast Boy to catch up so he could transport them over. Beast Boy chased after them eventually, screaming out to Starfire the whole way.

End Chapter

So did you like the major scenes where I added Raven in instead of simply Robin? I am quite proud of that to say the least. :)

Next time…

A day of fun in the park is cut short when Cyborg suddenly freezes like a statue. His power cell is dying. But before Cyborg can get home to fix his power cell, the Titans are called into action. During a wild junkyard battle with the Amazing Mumbo, Cyborg's battery goes dead. While the Titans search the city for Mumbo, Fixit, a strange cybernetic hermit with sinister intentions, finds Cyborg. What's bound to happen?

All right! Mumbo finally comes into play I love Mumbo! He's my absolute favorite blue magician! (Not that I know many…XD)

So please review and tell me what you think.

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