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 Three: Lights, Camera, Let's Make A Movie – The Director's Cut Edition!

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How Cyborg had single handedly, overnight gotten an entire film crew to arrive in Jump City on the Titan'' behalf.

How Starfire had flown across the city limits and had found the scraggly, damaged director that her team's episode had…wrought onto his artistic psyche.

How Raven and Beast boy had put together some amazing sets and backdrops in an effort to be of more help and to get the location…

Right downtown??? In their city AND THE TOWER WAS A PART OF THIS INDIE FILM??

" Titans !!"

Dick tapped his foot as his allies came to him, eyes bright and with wonder over the magic their good deed might bring.

Not of the lawsuits, petitions and God knows what else Batman might bring to Dick's attention should this all go global!

"We decided on a movie that we…. ehem…. could make happen…. So?" Dick took in a breath, before losing his last wit.

" HOW DID THIS HAPPEN???"

"Chillax, dude! I got it all figured out!" Cy reassured with a smile to his now stressed-out captain.

"We shoot the scenes here in the tower and make em' short and sweet. This guy obviously isn't gonna sell us out. I can go an –

"No. We can't risk any secrets we have getting leaked outside; we'd risk making our home a global hot spot for –

"But, Robin." Raven butt in. "These people are already here. We can keep the tower's doors and secrets behind them very, secure. This isn't for the whole movie, anyway. It's a documentary about us stopping villains in the city." She explained. "The tower and all of us sitting on the sofa in the first scene…" She read over the script. A single packet in her hands, "Are only for the introduction –

"Like those "against drunk - driving" films we saw in middle school." BB chimed in. "That was so nineties…" He chuckled.

"On my home world, such events in the home were said to bring a declaration of peace and war between those who visited one another – yet the idea of homes being safe places to keep secrets is also truly important." Starfire coined in, Robin nodding by her sentiment. "Which is why we can't have the shot done here. I'm sorry, Titans…but we –

"What is one shot gonna do when they can't help getting' booby trapped by my tech? It's our tower!" Cy argued. "You don't have to sweat it much anyway. They are all just normal –

"Was that box of the Puppet King's delivery not reason to reconsider inviting in "horses as the gifts?" Starfire asked, Cy's face now in a dreary, frustrated frown.

"Or the fact that Terra befriended us and found out the tower's secret codes to hand over to Slade." Raven deadpanned, feeling the guilt as well-set in.

"Or Control Freak!" Bb joined in too. "He was here too many times already, or Lar –

"Which is why only fellow Titans or verified super heroes are allowed inside the tower." Dick crossed his arms, thankful for reason winning out over Cy's artistic flare and that indie writer's perpetuated ploy to invade their privacy for a quick sale.

"The jury's out. There's your verdict. Tell everyone to –

"Oh my! The over - all construction is amazing!"

Cy flipped around and Dick's masked eyes sagged.

"Oh no…" BB saw what he didn't want to see.

"Who. Is that?" Raven didn't know clowns outside of the circus tent but…

Was that director's camera person… blind in one eye?

"Ah! The stars of our big hit!!" The cheery kook came over nearly in a pirouette.

"Freak alert!" Bb squealed softly, boxed by Raven to shut his trap.

"Hello…" The camera man beside the kook was a bit odd. Too stoic in his personality and…. Dick couldn't put his finger on it.

Familiar, in a word.

"Greetings!" Starfire tried to smooth over her friends' demeanors with her own.

"Welcome to our home; are you not the looking the part!" She smirked by how the man could have blushed. Buttering him up to lower his guard.

~ Suck up...~

Slade would have rolled his eyes to the Tameranean's save, so could also have Robin.

"Ah, how silly of me…. I'm Mr. Brad Cooper. The stand - in director to this lovely production."

Oh, Wade was killing it. Slade had to give him credit. With that mask on, he looked less like a war victim and naturally where he should be.

Center stage.

The goof of said operation. This immortal…. funny man. Which meant Slade was the smart one in this scenario...

"The Mr. Cooper has not gotten to meet my dear friends." She ushered them to see eye to eye on things.

"The Titans are most excited to be a part of this movie you are to "the shoot." She beamed at Robin, who could have wilted, yet cleared his aching throat.

"Just to be clear, we are only showing off the main room for one shot." He put up a gloved finger to simplify his request. "This room, no where else. All other rooms will be off limits, so please be aware that –

"So serious! He is definitely your leader, girl!"

"I believe his role has been "the" filled and we are most glad to "be the having him!"

The tall brunette camera man with a glass eye tapped the blonde director on the shoulder twice.

"Ok! So, now that introductions are said, boss? Should I go set up?"

Morse coded.

Robin blinked. He still didn't want to upset his team…

But…

"You are lookin' so down, kids! It's gonna be great! Why don't you let my crew set up the scene and get ready for the first take, hum? Your buddy who wrote this masterpiece is letting me work today since he didn't want his…trauma to run him outta here screaming."

"We did freak him out that bad, huh?"

"Was an unnecessary chase around the city with Starfire's flying or your "morphing back and forth" a dozen times going to change his mind?" Raven snorted. "Obviously, he's not going to show."

"I…do feel the guilt…" Starfire brought a hand to her lips with a gasp. "It's ok! He said he needs a day or two and we're gonna be here for like, two whole weeks; shooting this documentary, in your city!"

Robin's eyes got wide. Too wide as Slade dashed out of there.

Having to stifle a laugh by that boy's reaction.

And here, they were only going after Cyborg's tech to send Wade home. Funny he'd give the right role to Wade. This was almost too easy.

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Robin was trying not to hyperventilate himself into the sofa cushions, while Raven used her magic to keep him calm. Starfire spoke to Cyborg, equally as concerned for their leader's mental health.

"Two…. huh.... weeks…. gasp*……In….. here ????"

Dick clenched a set of fingers to his temples, trying not to pass out.

"I said, a low…. gasp*…budget production…. NOT a HOLLYWOOD BLOCKBUSTER ! WHERE IS CYBORG??"

"You are scarin' all the crew off, spike!" Cy shouted back. "It's happening; I got this an' you had better sit back and let that poor guy we messed up get what you said he could."

"But!" Dick protested in a breathless sputter.

"We could ask them to hit the road, but dude…that's so not ok." Bb shook his head, agreeing that the downtrodden directors and unpaid crew who wanted to see some magic happen as well, should not be tested at this point in time.

"If anything goes wrong during this shoot or any other scenes on this set…. we will shut it down." Dick growled at the high and might Steven "Cyborg."

"I got it. We won't let a soul crash this thing. No prob!" Cy threw his hands up. "It'll be a smash hit an' you'll be wishin' you'd trusted me more." He tutted the boy wonder, who was not finding any of this to be lowering his blood pressure.

"And if I'm right?" Dick quirked a quizzical eye brow at the ego – brained tin man.

"I don't just get um' all outta here," Cy said with a roll of his broad shoulders.

"I gotta' to go through any punishment your lil' spikey headed brain can come up with. How's that sound for some real, pay – back?"

"Great." Smirked the twit boy blunder, toothily. "Then, It's a deal. I hope to see you eat those words, real soon."

"I'm not gonna wait for you to gobble up your own, ya whacko."

They shook on it, and for some reason that glint in the boy's eye had Slade to wonder…

How well of a negotiator was Richard John Grayson in full costume as the famous, boy wonder?

Wade had better know how to make the accidents coming, look ideal. If not, he'd be firing that clown to leave him for Cyborg's ultimate challenge.

"And if I win, you let the man show off his movie – AND in the uncut edition…!"

Dick finally had to lose his focus, the camera still on that bewildered young face.

Priceless.

He'd just signed away his entire life sentence in that solid grip.

"Bring in the dancing crustaceans!!" Bb hooted, not caring if Cy and Rob were going to be doing some more bickering later on.

Slade shook his head and watched the heroes in their worst hour.

Oh, yes. This would be televised.

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I'm going to make a few more chapters but honestly? It deserved a fan fiction of its own?? Any polling on a yes or no? this is more a parody and filler ep to me, but Slade loves to screw with others while he also has an ulterior motive to get rid of DP for good. Will Robin's heart give out before the last scene of the indie director's "masterpiece?" Will Wade decide to tick off the kids to get a reaction, just for laughs? Find out! Rolling in….five….!