Chapter 14

Metropolis

A female news reporter looked through the open door of a news copter high above the city and reported to the live camera as some sort of battle was taking place below on the ground as citizens were running for their lives from the newly constructed building that had been attacked, "This is Angela Chen reporting live from the site of a massive battle between the Justice League and a group of what can only be described as super-villains calling themselves the Legion of Doom. Reports state that earlier, the Legion launched a surprise attack on the Leagues 'Hall of Justice'."

Lex Luther was in a high tech battle suit pinning Superman down with his robotic foot, Superman then grabbed onto the foot and flipped him off as he then started spinning him around and around before letting and threw him in the air. He then leapt up and punched him right into the ground.

Batman was dodging the punches of Solomon Grundy, Wonder Woman dodged and blocked the scratches with her metal arm cuffs of Cheetah, she then tried to punch her but Cheetah grabbed her by her shoulders and flipped her over where she landed gracefully back on the ground and ready to fight her again.

Weather Wizard floated in the sky and started firing lightning bolts at Flash who was using his super speed to run up the side of a building and dodging the attack, as he landed on the roof of the building he started spinning his arms very fast and created two tornados which hit Weather Wizard dead on and started spinning him around and around in circles.

He got out of the tornados and then took control of them and sent them right for Flash.

Meanwhile Superman punched Luther and sent him crashing into a building, he then flew over and landed hard right on him.

Luther smirked and asked sarcastically, "Is this any way to treat your guests, Superman?"

"Seeing as how you crashed the part, I'd consider us even" Superman replied with a glare.

Luther suddenly punched Superman and sent him flying through the roof and into the sky, he then activated his suits jets and flew after him and punched him again in the stomach twice and then grabbed him by his cape and spun him around a few times before throwing him right into the already damaged Hall of Justice building.

Cheetah snarled as she charged right at Wonder Woman and then tried to deliver a punch but she dodged it, she continued to dodge her oncoming strikes until Cheetah jumped over her and started running into a parking lot. Wonder Woman chased after her.

Civilians ran as Toymaster set his large toy planes and started firing at them, they ducked as the planes flew over them and were luckily not hit by any of the shots. Toymaster was about to send the planes down to attack them again when suddenly a portal appeared behind him and a robotic hand grabbed his arm.

Cyborg fully stepped out of the portal as it disappeared and continued to hold Toymaster's arm as he struggled and asked, "What happened Toymaster? Did mama kick you out of the basement?"

Toymaster however smirked and then closed his fist which glowed red for a second, the large toy planes suddenly flew down and charged at Cyborg. As one of them hit Cyborg dead on he was forced to let go of Toymaster, he held on as the plane drove him into the ground, Cyborg then used his blaster and destroyed the plane and it exploded.

Batman continued to dodge the cars that Solomon was throwing at him. Grundy then shouted as he charged at Batman, "GRUNDY SMASH!"

Batman ran between the gap of the building's belonging to Metropolis Electrical plant and then stopped at the fence, he then stood and watched as Solomon charged right for him and then at the last second jumped out of the way and Solomon crashed right through the fence and landed right on top of the one of the power machines.

He screamed in pain as he was electrocuted by thousands of volts of electricity and then….

BOOOM!

Batman covered his face with his cape as debris flew everywhere, the smoke cleared and just when he fought his fight with Solomon was over, he pulled him out of the wreckage. Batman got ready to fight but when Solomon walked out of there he suddenly said weakly, "Grundy sleep….now"

He suddenly collapsed in front of him and fell unconscious as sparks of electricity fizzled on his body. Batman then activated his communicator and asked, "Robin report. How's crowd control?"

Three civilians were running from the danger but then stopped when suddenly a batarang was flung at their feet and it let off a small explosion. They looked up at the building to see Damian Wayne also known as Robin standing on the building in his Robin suit with his arms crossed.

He said nothing and merely gestured for them to go the other way which they obeyed. Robin then replied to Batman, "Well at hand father. As predicted, they respond like contemptible sheep"

Batman said nothing and merely nodded.

Meanwhile Wonder Woman continued to look for Cheetah in the dimly lit parking lot as she called out, "Surrender Cheetah. This doesn't have to end in violence"

She pulled out her lasso out and got ready, unaware that Cheetah was standing on the pipe behind her waiting for her chance to strike. Letting off a roar she leapt right for her, Wonder Woman however moved out of the way just as she tried to attack, she tried to grab her with the lasso but Cheetah dodged and started striking back.

Wonder woman kept dodging her attacks but she managed to leap onto her and scratched her deeply on her back. She screamed in pain as Cheetah then jumped off her and kicked her away, before she could get away Wonder Woman threw the lasso and grabbed her by her feet and pulled her back down slamming her right into a car and knocking her unconscious.

Superman struggled against Lex Luther as he used the jets on his back to push Superman back. Superman then said, "You're smarter than this Luther"

Luther however pushed harder as Superman kneeled down to his knees. Luther then said, "Your kind attracts their kind. I'm simply an innocent industrialist caught in the middle"

Superman smirked and said, "I bet"

He suddenly shot a laser beam and started cutting into his suit, he stopped and then pulled the arms right off and the entire battle suit fell apart leaving Luther powerless and weapon less as he fell to the ground.

Luther sat up and sneered, "You'll pay for this"

"Knowing you, it's insured" Superman said.

Weather Wizard started throwing hail the size of large rocks straight for Flash, but Flash went so fast he climbed up the hail stones and before Weather Wizard knew it, he grabbed his staff off him and his wild weather stopped.

"Beep, beep" Flash said with a smirk as Weather Wizard lost his power and the tornado he was flying on disappeared and he started plummeting to the ground.

Flash however zoomed down and caught him before he could hit the pavement and allowed him to roll out of his arms. Weather Wizard stood up and covered his face in defence as he pleaded, "Not in the face!"

Flash shrugged and said, "Whatever you say"

He then started delivering dozens of punches in his chest and stomach using his super speed and then Weather Wizard groaned and fell to the ground unconscious.

Cyborg destroyed the last of the planes with his blaster and almost caused Toymaster to fall out of his control platform.

"Playtime's over, Toymaster" Cyborg said as he kept his blaster aimed at Toymaster.

"But I enjoy a good game and I always win" Toymaster said as he control panel opened up and started firing missiles at him.

Cyborg dodged out of the way and hid behind a pillar as more missiles were thrown, he then changed his weapon on his arm and came out of hiding and fired several cables at the control panel, it sent off an electrical surge and hit Toymaster as well causing him to scream as he was electrocuted. The control panel fell out of the sky and hit the ground, Toymaster fell out of it and groaned in pain.

Cyborg walked over and removed his remote gloved and crushed them within his cybotic hands, the League then gathered around and Cyborg then said, "Good work team. Too bad the others had to miss the fun"

"Yeah. Slackers" Flash said with a chuckle.

Behind them Weather Wizard managed to stand up with his hand cuffed behind his back and started running away, Flash turned and saw him running and said, "We got a runner"

As Weather Wizard ran, he was unaware that some sort of red and black shadow followed him as he headed into an alley way. The shadow suddenly appeared before him and he screamed in fear as the shadow suddenly revealed four red eyes and the shadow suddenly dived inside him through his mouth.

Flash caught up and gave him a look as he said, "Come on Wizard, don't make hit you again"

Wizard said nothing but just stood there with his back turned. Flash then asked, "Uh Wiz?"

Wizard suddenly turned around to reveal his skin was now red and he had four eyes on his face instead of two. He then spoke in a demonic voice as he broke free of his cuffs and floated in the air, "Azarath calls, the child must answer. The hour of his rising is at hand"

"Oh boy" Flash said as he started getting a bad feeling.

Superman landed behind him Flash and then said as he charged for Wizard, "I got this"

Robin stood in the streets keeping an eye on the running crowds, he suddenly heard the sound of crashing and turned just in time to see Superman get thrown right through a window of a building and heading right towards him. He quickly jumped out of the way just as Superman crashed right into the road and created a huge crater.

Superman groaned in pain as he sat up and wiped the blood off his nose. He then asked in complete shock through his communicator, "What the hell did he hit me with?"

Flash looked and saw they still had Wizard's staff and answered completely baffled, "Himself, apparently"

Storm clouds started forming in the sky above where Wizard was floating and red streaks of lightning flashed as he roared in anger and then a red tornado started forming around him. Cyborg then said, "He's not using any tech"

"It's magic" Wonder Woman confirmed.

The League then took off and charged straight for Wizard. Just as Wonder Woman was about to enter the tornado, Wizard blasted her back with a powerful lightning blast and crashed her straight into Cyborg.

Flash used his speed to get the civilians out of the way before they could be sucked up by the tornado, a car that had been thrown out of it was about to hit a couple but Batman picked them up as he swung from the building and pulled them out of the way as Superman grabbed the car.

"Get them to safety" Superman ordered. "I'll keep him distracted"

He started flying up to Wizard with the car in his hands, avoiding the ice shards Wizard was throwing at him. He used the car as a shield and then wacked Wizard away with it before letting go of the now damaged vehicle, he then charged right at him and punched him in the face sending him back a few feet.

Superman charged at him again but Wizard blasted him right into the water with a lightning blast. Wizard roared in anger as he shot more lightning in the sky and created a circle.

"Robin, get all civilians inside, do you read me?" Batman said through his communicator.

"I have a more efficient way to keep them safe, father" Robin said as he summoned Batman's jet to the roof he was standing on.

"Robin? Robin I gave you a task" Batman pressed.

Robin however ignored and got inside the jet as he said, "Yes, as a human cattle prod. I'm being under-utilized"

He closed the lid and started driving the jet heading for Wizard as Batman asked, "What's your location?"

"Where I need to be. In the driver's seat" Robin replied as he pushed some buttons. "Between the missile and fuel detonations, I'd estimate at least a three kiloton hit"

The missiles were activated and locked on to their target. Batman then ordered sternly, "Damian stand down"

But Robin ignored Batman and his father watched as he flew over him and said, "Too late now"

He ejected himself out of the jet and Superman watched as the jet flew right past him and hit Wizard dead on and….

BOOOOM!

Wizard screamed as he fell out of the sky, Wonder Woman grabbed him by the waist with her lasso and started pulling him up. She then said as the lasso started glowing, "The lasso compels you to obey my command!"

He roared as a shadow demonic creature suddenly came out of his mouth and disappeared. He fell limp in the rope as he was turned back to normal, the League gathered in front of the Hall of Justice as Wonder Woman landed.

Wizard groaned and held his head in pain as he asked, "What happened?"

"He doesn't know" Superman said as they realised that he doesn't remember ever being possessed.

They all turned at the sound of Robin landing on the ground by a parachute, he unattached himself from the cute and walked over to them as he said, "I thought that would knock the fight out of him"

None of them said anything as Batman walked up to him, not looking happy by the actions Robin displayed. Robin glared back and asked, "What? We got him didn't we?"

"What we have is an empty shell with no answers" Batman scolded. "If you had followed orders and done what you're told, we'd know more"

"Come on, cut him some slack. At least, he was trying to…" Superman started saying but then stopped as he saw Batman's look. He then just said, "Not that I disagree"

Robin scoffed and said, "You buried me in a worthless position to keep me out of the way and I solved the entire problem" Robin snapped.

"This isn't about you. This is about teamwork" Batman retorted back.

"All I see is a lot of ineffectual grandstanding" Robin snapped back. "Which is why I prefer to work alone"

Cyborg scoffed at his behaviour and said, "And my dad thinks I'm difficult"

"Have you ever considered boarding school?" Flash asked but then remained silent as Batman glared.

He then turned his attention back to Robin who glared back, Batman had considered something but after this night he had officially made up his mind

Jump City

Robin kept glaring at the window as Dick Grayson who was currently dressed as Nightwing was driving him in his car to Jump City. Batman had decided to send Robin to be with the Teen Titans in order to learn to be part of a team but he wasn't exactly thrilled of the idea.

"I could've driven myself" Robin muttered.

"After the stunt you pulled? You're lucky to be allowed within 10 feet of a steering wheel" Nightwing said with a smirk as he drove.

"So this is my punishment? Enduring a bunch of school children?" Robin asked sarcastically.

"It's not punishment" Nightwing said. "Hopefully, you'll learn to be part of a team. And they're not children, they're teenagers"

Robin scoffed and continued to glare out the window as he said, "Worse"

"Don't tell me Damian Wayne is afraid of a little socialising" Nightwing challenged.

Robin glared at Nightwing and said, "I'm not afraid of anything. Teammates are a liability"

"Really? Then what am I to you?" Nightwing asked.

"An unavoidable irritation" Robin snapped rudely and then face the window. His eyes then widened at the sight of the large building shaped like a T up ahead, the home of the Teen Titans.

Titan Tower

Inside the tower at the training room, Jaime or as he was sometimes known as Blue Beetle blasted a hole through the holographic enemy the simulator sent at him with his blaster. He then changed his blaster back into his arm and then dodged a punch from another one, he then punched him in the head and destroyed the hologram and then changed his arm into a shield and blocked a sword strike, and he then changed his other arm into a sword and destroyed that hologram with a slash.

He then blocked some oncoming gunshots from the other holograms, suddenly they were taken out by a few magic beams. Raven, now sixteen, phased through some holograms before blasting them to pieces

She flew through the air as gun shots were fired at her right before her eyes started glowing white. She held out her arm and impaled several holograms with her dark shadow magic. Garfield transformed into a goat and kicked away a few of the holograms before ramming into them with his horns, he then changed into a gorilla and smashed a couple together of the holograms together and then changed into a bear and swiped a couple with his massive paws.

Raven threw a couple of shadow discs at two holograms that charged at her and took them out, one was about to attack her from behind but Garfield changed into a rhino and crushed it causing Raven to jump in fright.

"You were having a nightmare last night" Garfield said in concern. "I was just wondering if everything's…."

Raven cut him off and said, "Look I appreciate your concern, I guess but they're dreams. Just dreams"

She then took to the air and took out the rest of the holograms with a wave blast of her dark magic. Beast boy changed back into his human form and placed his hands on his hips, not realising he was fully naked.

Raven landed and looked at him in shock for a second before looking away and asked, "You know you're naked right?"

Garfield at first was confused but then he looked down at himself, he yelped feeling embarrassed as he did his best to cover himself up and then ran over to where Jaime was holding his uniform for him without looking at him.

Garfield blushed as he grabbed the uniform and put it on and said, "I overslept! I was rushing and I forgot to put on my uniform okay? So I sleep in the nude. So what? Animals are naked. I'm the entire animal kingdom crammed into a single magnificent specimen"

"You're something crammed into something" Raven said which caused Blue Beetle to snicker.

The scarab beetle attached to Jaime's pulsated and yammered in some sort of alien language. Garfield looked at it and asked, "What did that thing just say?"

"It was just laughing at you" Jaime answered.

"Yeah well, butt out bug" Garfield snapped and then flicked at it.

It then pulsated angrily and suddenly sent out it's arms to attack Garfield who screamed and changed into a fly and tried getting away from it as he shouted, "Keep that thing on a leash man!"

"I told you, don't annoy it" Jaime said as he retracted it's arms back.

Starfire then said as she walked up to them, "Jaime's right. That scarab is not a pet. It may be fused to Jaime's spine, but it's not exactly under his control"

"It's like you and your pants" Raven said which earned her an annoyed glare from Garfield.

"That's why Jaime's here. That's why we're all here" Starfire said with a smile. "To help each other control our gifts. Help one another become our best selves"

"Where else are we gonna go? I mean, we're a bunch of freaks, right?" Jaime said.

"Come on Jaime, we're all family. Like the three Amigos" Garfield said.

"Four" Jaime corrected as he gestured to Starfire.

"Five." Starfire then corrected. "We're getting a visitor"

Outside, Nightwing pulled into the driveway at the front of the tower, where they all waited outside ready to meet the newest member of their team. Robin looked at them and just continued to frown as Nightwing said, "Try not to behead anyone"

The lid to the car opened and Nightwing jumped out along with Robin as he carried his bag over his shoulder. Starfire smiled as she shook hands with Nightwing and said, "Nightwing"

"Starfire" He replied.

"It's been a while" She said.

He nodded and said, "I know. You're looking good"

"Yes I am." She answered.

Nightwing then gestured to Damian and introduced him, "This is Damian. The new Robin"

"Welcome Damian" Starfire said.

He said nothing and just started walking towards the doors. "I'll be in my room" He said before pausing to study Raven's attire. The Half Demon couldn't help but sense his hostility towards her

"What's his problem." She asked herself, just before he decided to ignore her

"Would you like to…" Starfire began to offer but then he cut her off

"I think I can manage"

"That is one creepy mocoso" Jaime said once Damian was gone

Raven however said, "No, more like angry and sad at the same time."