CyberTech Worlds Clash

Chapter XLIV

New Titans

She stood alone on the sidewalk. She was wearing a black leather bodysuit, up over her neck, and a black belt slanted around her waist with the CyberTech logo as a buckle, and MPF shoulder patches. She wore specially designed skin-tight gloves, and a black mask over her eyes and forehead, bridging over her nose. Then over her right ear was a small arrowhead device with a deep purple, almost black glow.

Her boots were thick and chunky at the same time as being slim line and running with shin guards up her knees. It fit her body in all the right places, showing off her curves, muscles, and over her small bust, with a large black leather pouch with many zip pockets attached to her belt and strapped tight around her left thigh.

Her dark black hair was long to her waist tied back out of her eyes by a black hairband and tied around the small of her back by a black tie to keep it from blowing everywhere. She had landed on the road in a crouch, looking highly annoyed as she cracked to the concrete, and people were screaming and running while she stood straight while the jet overhead had materialised out of nowhere and crashed into the side of a building, shattering and splashing glass everywhere.

The black-haired girl had cuts and burns on her tan skin that were healing over before people's eyes, if they stayed near long enough to notice. She only let out a few coughs as she stood straight, and flexed out a few clinks in her neck as she nonchalantly caught another girl in her arms, bridles style while she had been flailing and whaling in panic.

"Err, thanks, Ex; that was a close one," she muttered embarrassingly while her breathing was deep and shallow, her cheeks a dark red as the cold girl placed her on her feet.

The new girl was a contrast compared with the black-haired girl. Her hair was dark too, but short and ruffled, and her skin was extremely pale. She was wearing a long black coat left open with twin yellow strips down the sleeves and MPF on her shoulders with black body armour over her larger bust. She was wearing black armoured short shorts with a yellow CyberTech belt around her hips with armoured boots up her shins with twin yellow strips and dark yellow gloves. She was wearing some mirrored ski like goggle/sunglasses over her forehead with mask around her dark brown eyes.

X23 looked over to the taller girl and rolled her eyes with a soft and quiet sigh, it was obvious she was annoyed as their jet finally fell from the building and smashed down behind them with a boom, neither looked. Neither of them wanted to take responsibility for that if they could help it.

"Jubilee… next time, fly higher," Ex said so quietly that if Jubilee hadn't gotten used to her either never speaking, or speaking so quiet she would have never understood what she was saying, even though they both have comm.-link systems with their Focus for communications with base or each other. Jubilee tapped her Focus as it glowed yellow over her right ear, but that wouldn't help.

"Hey, it wasn't my fault that someone let this building jump out at us," she retorted, pouting. "That's probably the first time someone has said that with real conviction," she laughed sheepishly. "Anyway, it doesn't look like we hit anyone… I could have been killed… we can't all be semi-immortal… where's…" she said looking around as they saw some police cruisers with ambulances and fire trucks blasting towards them.

However, they did take notice of the sirens blazing across the street of a huge building, which they didn't take note of because the alarm could have been set off by their crash, but the large bearded man rushing out holding two huge holdalls followed by a bald-headed midget boy with mechanical spider legged backpack were their first indicators that all was not normal.

Then after them, a silver/grey pale-skinned goth girl swaggered out looking mildly bored and looking to the crashed remains of the jet with some amusement. She had bright pink hair that was in the shape of devil horns but slanted out slightly at the top with purple ties. Her eyes were like a cat's, with the pupils a thin, long line, and her eye colour was a brilliant pink. She also had light pink cheeks, in elongated triangles pointed forwards.

She was wearing a purple/black dress down over her small butt with jagged edges as it ended quite high up her thighs, and a low circle round cut mini poncho like collar down her upper arms, and not quite covering her small chest, with an upside down V cut in the front. She had a thin purple belt at her waist, and long stockings hiding any skin with wide black and purple strips, with black/purple boots with high soles giving her some extra height, and last a black collar around her thin neck with an oval purple charm hanging off it.

"Hey, Ex, I think that's a bank," Jubilee pointed out as they looked to the huge Jump City Bank sign above the huge doors the three were exiting, towards a large yellow open four-by-four off-roader truck. "It looks like those jerks were robbing the bank when we hit the building, and now they're going to get away with it," she said angrily clenching her fists.

X23 just nodded coldly as she was already heading across the street, which caused Jubilee to start as she hurried to keep up. They walked around the yellow 4X4 and caused the thieves to come to a halt looking surprised.

"Hey, get out of the way!" the bald one demanded in annoyance. "That's our car, unless you want trouble…" he trailed off as two long metal claws sliced out from between the knuckles of X23's right hand before they sliced through the 4X4's front right tire, deflating it.

"Whoa, a worse version of you, Jinx," he said laughing nervously at the pink haired girl while she just glared at him rolling her eyes.

"Idiot, Gizmo, she just broke our ride," she replied quietly as a small smile lit her lips. "I'll take care of her; you both take the other new Titan."

"Yeah, come on Mammoth, she isn't much," Gizmo said, smirking smugly. "Where the Titan's find you two anyway…? I didn't know they were recruiting anyone for this city, though, I get why that moron Robin would want the dark and moody one; it fits with his image."

"Back off slime-ball…!" Jubilee said in annoyance.

He just snorted out as his eyes scanned over the wreckage as the firefighters were trying to put it out while paramedics were seeing to injuries. "I take it you're the morons that crash over there; we should thank you for making our jobs easier."

Jubilee ground her teeth already annoyed by this guy while X23 growled as she moved forward, Jinx pushing passed her teammates too.

"This is Jubilee to the Peak, come in," she said over her comm. and waited a moment while the bad guys looked confused. "Umm… Winter, come in please!? Spring? Err… Summer? Coronel Fury?" she asked the last hoping for more silence.

However, she didn't get a response from the Peak or MPF, but her call was answered. "This is Watch Tower, yo… how's it going?" she asked happily.

"Umm… who are Mammoth, Gizmo, and Jinx; of…" she looked to the bank again. "Jump City…?" she asked even though she didn't know Watch Tower, or Watcher personally, she knew she was the AI aboard this worlds space station.

"Oh, let's see here, Jinx has bad luck powers, Mammoth strength, and Gizmo… well gadgets and highly dangerous tech," she answered sounding board at the thought. "They're pretty low-level criminals really… well Mammoth and Gizmo are, Jinx can be dangerous, and she isn't stupid like Mammoth or an egotistical moron like Gizmo. I've just been in communications with the Titans, they were already on route, but you should have those guys in a police van by then."

"Got it," she said as she blasted Gizmo, knocking him flailing straight back into the bank with a squeal as she fried him with her rainbow lightning power. Mammoth dropped his bags and charged her but crashed down as she blinded him with her power, and he cried out grabbing at his face.

Jinx fired a pink strike of energy, but Ex dodged and flipped out of the way, her claws retracting before she pushed up on her hands and returned to her feet before shooting forward. She near punched the pink haired girl in the face, but she slid to the side and struck back, but X caught her hit and smashed her in the gut causing her to whimper out in pain before swinging back as it felt like she was hit with a metal bar.

Gizmo was just pulling himself up, shaking off the numbing effect of the electricity, and glaring at the scared people still tied up in the bank when he went flying with a cry of pain as he was kicked in the face, blood spilling from his lips and mouth, straight out of the doors. He went crashing down the stairs, bumping down with little cries of pain, banging his head on the last step, and knocking him out.

Jinx jumped back from X23 while Mammoth was getting up and rubbing his face to look up the steps as she stepped out looking mildly annoyed and sheepish. She had loose and wavy bubble-gum pink hair that hung loose down between her shoulder blades, held out of her eyes by a yellow headband. She was wearing a body hugging black armoured suit with yellow over her chest, crutch and back round like a leotard that didn't go over her shoulders or arms, yellow boots up to her knees, and forearm gauntlets with black gloves.

She had colourful twin bug-like wings on her back with piecing black wide eyes and pointed frayed ears on the side of her head, with black panted lips on her pale skin with dark eyeliner too. She had on a yellow belt tight to her waist and hips with the CT cog buckle, and attached to the belt and strapped to her right thigh was a holster holding what looks like the handle of a silver sword with a small bit going down like a tiny blade but not quite.

"Sorry I'm late, girls," she said sheepishly. "I got lost in this new city, but Watcher gave me some directions," she finished with a shrug.

"Trust you, Pixie," Jubilee said in relief. "I was starting to think something bad happened to you when we crashed."

"Now it looks like they're outnumbered," Pixie said with a grin.

"Not by much," Jinx retorted only to pale seconds later as a huge black bird-like shadow pulled open to reveal the members of the Titans. "Oh, dam," she muttered as she was soon in cuffs with her team and shoved into the back of a police truck, sulking.

"Whoa, hey, three girls!" the green boy said excitedly. "I'm Beast Boy," he introduced himself blushing. "This is Robin, Cyborg, Raven, and Starfire, we're the Teen Titans!"

"Oh, umm… hi," Jubilee said nervously. "I'm Jubilee, these are my teammates X-Twenty-Three and Pixie," she said pointing them out in turn, even though it's certainly obvious which was which.

"I'm team leader," the boy in green, red, and yellow said eyeing them.

"Oh, right, I'm team leader, too," Pixie quickly said with a shrug.

"O-kay," Robin said before quickly continuing. "Watcher says we're to take you in, so I hope you don't hold us back while you're a part of the team."

Jubilee snorted a laugh. "Maybe you'll be holding us back, we do pretty well for ourselves. So, don't get too cocky!"

"Don't mind him," Raven said coolly. "He says that to everyone."

"He does, but it is nice to be greeting you all!" the orange girl, Starfire sneak hugged both Pixie and Jubilee before going to do the same to X23 but stopped quickly at her look that promised an immediate and painful mutilation, so Starfire pulled to a stop looking nervous. "You should meet Raven, you won't get along," she said pulling her cool blue-cloaked friend in between them.

"Starfire," she complained with a sigh. "She isn't going to chop you up."

"I wouldn't bet on that," Pixie said with a smile as she hugged X23 from behind leaning on her and pulling her tight into her chest. She continued glaring but didn't so much as twitch in aggression or reaction to the cuddling. "Though, you really should watch out when being mean to her friends, she's such a beautiful and overprotective sister."

"I-I'll remember that," Starfire replied blushing as she hid behind Raven as X23 was still giving her a cold look, her dark eyes scanning her before she brightened a little. "Umm… why don't we show you back to Titan Tower and-and get you settled?"

"Yeah…!" Cyborg agreed quickly. "Before someone tries to charge us for the damage to the building you girls crashed into… or the sidewalk."

"Good idea; let's go…!" Robin agreed as he eyed the police over the road nervously. "It wouldn't be the first time they've tried."

"But we're MPF; they'll get it sorted…" Jubilee began to say but stopped short for a moment as a huge shadow bird swallowed them before pulling back and leaving them in a large room with windows looking out over the bay to one side, a circular couch in front of a giant TV and the other side an open-plan kitchen. "…Out," she finished off her sentence.

"Blah… tried that before," Robin said shrugging. "Apparently this side of the convergence doesn't publicly condone superheroes or some such… well, some states anyway, so it's hard to get the government to pay out any funding. Though, technically, it wasn't your fault that you hit that building, so I guess insurance will pay any damages the government won't fork out for."

"Well, let me show you to your rooms!" Starfire interrupted eagerly as she floated ahead of them and led the way, leaving Robin with Beast Boy, Cyborg and Raven in the communal area.

"So, what do you guys think about this?" Robin asked with a deep sigh. "I mean, I know other heroes are taking in other-world heroes, like Batman taking in that Spider-Man guy, and the Birds taking in that Red Spider girl…"

"Not forgetting others," Raven replied rolling her eyes. "Green Arrow and Black Canary are stuck with these Avengers on the other world."

He nodded in thought. "It's getting so confusing. I half wish the invasion fleet would hurry up so it can be done with, we kick their butts, and everything can start becoming normal again, or at least how normal life can get when you're a Superhero."

"Hey, don't worry bro!" Cyborg said with a grin. "It could be worse, and we could be playing host to some more guys!"

"Yeah," Beast Boy agreed with a grin. "But instead we get three cute girls… well, two, and then that violent one."

Robin rubbed his eyes shaking his head. "It's nothing against them, and they can stay as long as they need. It's more along the world… or should I say worlds changing so much too fast. The worlds are noticing what is going on and things can only get worse. These purest factions aren't just attacking these mutants anymore, but now we have to deal with them shifting over from their world…"

"We've always had to deal with jerks like that," Cyborg said with a grin. "There's always some idiot sprouting off misinformed propaganda and hate, just for hates sake."

"I guess we'll just have to deal with our new lives as they happen," Raven interrupted with a shrug. "And I personally think it will be good to have the extra females around the Tower. It could be good for Starfire to interact with human females more as she hangs out with Supergirl too much, and without Lyra around they both confuse each other over the simplest human things. If it weren't for Seraph, Robin, you wouldn't have gotten anywhere."

"She's not exactly human," Cyborg said with a shake of his head and an odd look.

Beast Boy laughed. "She's more human than some of the girls I've met, but you've just got a crush, and want her technology in more ways than one!" he added, which even caused Raven to smile while he looked totally embarrassed.

Meanwhile, away from the tease-fest that Cyborg had to suffer Starfire was smiling as she led the other teens to the floor where the bedrooms were located, and explaining whose room was whose. She had just gestured to Raven's room at the end of one corridor when she can to another opposite.

"And this is Mana's room," Starfire said happily. "I think she's Raven's new best friend as they're both magical and have much more in common than me and Raven," she sighed dramatically but didn't look as if she was hurt. "I think it is only natural to get along best with people who have many common things in common, more than those who don't, like me and Supergirl are both alien to the Earth but call it home. Anyway, Raven is still my very close friend though."

"Umm… okay, so, where is Mana?" Pixie asked in curiosity.

"Is she in her room?" Jubilee asked looking around as if she'll jump out at them at any moment.

"She's at school silly," she said as if that should be obvious. "She goes to a school where she sleeps there, but she'll come home for Christmas, and the summer holidays," she told them with a wide grin. "Well, come on," she added leading them around a second corner to some more rooms. "You can choose any rooms you want along here, if you like, nobody else uses them. The Titans in Jump City aren't very large in numbers, but the Titans altogether are as large as the Young Justice League, but we're a little more spread out, and more localised."

"Well, thanks, Starfire," Pixie said with a wide smile. "It's so nice of you all to let us stay."

"You are being very welcomed!" she replied smiling happily.

to be continued…