Teen Titans – Side Stories and After – Snippets; Foxes Upon Foxes and Magical Girls Galore

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Apex Predator in an Urban Jungle - Part One: Dreams Crushed into the Dirt

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A film crew for a "nature in the big city indie film" finds Beastboy's animal side to be a marvel of the animal kingdom and impossible to capture. Will they keep their cool? What are the Titans going to do to the crew's hard work?? Will they end up facing a new foe in the process? Lights, camera -

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~Today; noon time, just past the high hours of the day, the blistering heat of this concrete jungle is a rolling dust trail. We are certainly fortunate that this will not be a short time to identify the prey mammals and predators of our ecosystem. ~

The camera person drew in closer to catch the right angle, the sun bouncing off just so…

~ Oh, look! One of them is approaching… someone carries on through the glare. A… gr…. green? Gor…...illa? Just a moment…~

FIVE MINUTESS LATER.

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~ Yes! The Green Mountain…. wait, wait no. ~

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"Human…. Ah, am I suppose. Let me call the script writer."

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Has to be a fluke... you're jok …. ok, ok!"

THIRTEEN MINUTES AFTER THE CALL.

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~ Technical difficulties, I apologize. Let's return to our subjects for this evening's program. Right, ehem! The "green, ma – wha…wait! Parrot?? Are –

FOUR MINUTES….

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" Cut !! We just shot footage of a green gorilla…. What do you mean keep rolling?? Fine! Angh…On in…. five."

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~The green gorilla is gone, yet in its place we….is that a triceratops!?? Whoa! Oh ok…If we ……. what time?? Fine! ~

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~ KEEP ROLLING!! THE FIGHT FOR LAND AND RESOURCES IS A HUMAN PROBLEM, YET WE ARE SEEING A MAMMAL AND BEAST GO STRAIGHT TO FOR A ROBOT TITAN IN THE WATER, SO YEAH! I LOVE THIS FRICKING PLANET TOO! KEEP ROLLING...OH, OK…. HE'S MADE…. Ah, now we have a few…what? A chimp?? We just shot a gorilla!? HAAH! Sonnova –

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"Pant…pant…. we have to catch up with care, the beast has moved to the air and it won't be back…what now??"

~AAAA! A mammoth! Or, is that –

"Yo! Are you callin' me a freakin' dino?? Come here!"

"Titans! Stop the HIVE!"

~Clashing…...ah, I see…we'll be careful to trudge through…. hehe…the grounds of –

"WAA!"

"Had enough bad luck today, Titans??"

"Are you ready to get lucky, Jinx?"

"Cram it, tin man! I'll slice you down a peg. Turbo chopper arms – style! Eat sushi, wimp – freaks!!"

~Gasp*…when the director said urban…. did he mean Jump City?! That's IT! I, QUIT ! ~

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Raven wasn't sure what the camera crew was up to, but they were all too close to the heroes' fight with the HIVE. Robin frowned and saw as the men and woman on the crew just trembled yet held their all.

"Starfire, Beastboy; can you…get them to safety?" Robin cocked brow. This was just, weird. Everyone usually knew to find shelter when a fight broke out.

Even in this kind of stand -off, the HIVE let the two get the crew out of their faces. Too much publicity. The narrator had to be wetting himself as he pointed and stomped around, throwing a fit.

Bb and Star swept on over to calm the man down. He seemed, somewhat threatened.

"Ah…. dude…easy…We have –

"NO! Get…get away from me…. you…you freaking animal!... You ruined my documentary!" The man whimpered. "You cost me a seat in Hollywood with your shenanigans!"

"Please, friend. Is this "Shen – nanny – gan - some sort of "goal" this poor man speaks of?" She pursed her lips as BB sighed, worn out from his fight with Mammoth, big time. Shaking his head, he had better things to worry about.

"It's just a bunch of gibberish. And I'm not a –

"Stay away!! Waaah -haha – ahh!!"

" Dude!!!" Bb watched as the man ran around him, trying to be more trouble while he'd just gone through a serious mental breakdown.

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"Robin?? I believe we are doing more harm than good. Our fighting is harming the citizens –

"What do you mean? What citizens?" Cy pointed to the fact that the streets were clear as any shoot off in the old west. "Who got hurt?"

"A…man who wanted to join the "woods of holly."

Raven slapped a hand over her face. "Indie film artists….great…" She croaked.

"Happy, ya sappy heroes??" Spat Gizmo as he seemed to still have plenty of energy.

"Us?? You made that big gaping hole in the street! You need to stop or we're taking you back to jail…" Robin warned the HIVE, who rolled their eyes at the angry boy wonder.

"How are ya gonna do that?? We ain't the ones who did it, you helped us." Mammoth was right. Starfire felt a pang in her chest as the Hive members of three just laughed, until Raven magically transported the annoying do - dos back into a portal where their cells were the destination.

"Can we fix this place up and go home, please?" She asked the team, who thought they had on other choice. Raven was angsty, and no one messed with a witch that powerful any day of the week.

"I'm making a quick stop. Don't wait up." Bb turned into a Labrador and went off on his own, all while Starfire decided to watch as his backup. "I shall assist!" She zipped off while the other three heroes felt defeated, even after they'd fixed a good hunk of the road by way of practicality.

Robin frowned and looked down at the ground, retrieving his bo staff. Raven came over and understood their leader's guilt. She had reason to think he'd be stuck in that frame until they'd confronted this new dilemma properly.

"Do you think they'll be able to find the man, Robin?" Raven asked as if a trick question.

"I don't know, but it's not right. I just wish there was something…." A thought brilliantly popped into his brain. "Cy? I'm going to need you and the others to follow my lead, I know how to undo the damage caused to one person by us today."

"How?" Raven and Cy both asked.

"Robin grinned. "Easy, we help that guy to finish his movie. No questions asked."

"A, movie?" Raven's brows rose. Cy just, burst at the plan – since he was also going to lecture their young leader in the process, anyway.

"It's not that easy, but I've been on a couple of commercials," He boasted, " So I think we can try ta' work on it together…but what about Star an' BB?"

"Let them know that we have a plan. Just don't let word out though until we've started shooting that this is going to happen. Can't have anymore distractions."

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However their secrecy, someone had discovered the plan to restart this disgruntled actor's career. Well, would that mean more predators than prey in the Titans' case?

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