Teen Titans: New Villain Wanted

Teen Titans: The Message

Robin quickly thought fast, "Raven quickly put out the flames, Beastboy search the bank for any injured, Cyborg and Starfire... we are finding who is responsible." Raven quickly took control of the money and brought it down to the ground and pulled out a Fire Hydrant from the ground. She put the money over the spraying sprout of the broken hydrant. By the time all the fire was stopped, half the money was incinerated and unuseable. 

Beastboy ran into the bank, finding workers and citizens tied up and blind folded. He untied the rope and asked the workers what happened. All the workers had a similar story... A smoke filled the room and then they couldn't remeber anything after that. He noticed that the cameras were taken from the ceiling. He walked out of the bank when everyone was okay. 

Robin searched some alleys, while Cyborg tried to find strange movement with his heat detector on his arm, and Starfire was searching for any strange behavior from a bird's eye view. But after 30 minutes, they found nothing and headed back to the bank. They met up with Raven and Beastboy and exchanged their stories. 

Robin said, "We better check the computer hard drives anyway, maybe the criminal was clumsy enough to leave us a clue." 

Beastboy said, "The cameras are busted, I doubt we will get any footage. All witnesses have been gased out, they don't remember a thing."

Robin walked into the bank, "We have to try."

The team walked into the bank with him and the manager pointed out the computer where all the video feed was sent. Cyborg sat down and accessed the computer; he emailed all of the information to himself. 

He stood up and said, "It would be better if we analyzed this back at the tower." 

The Titans walked to the car and soon enough they were back at the tower examining the video. The video started with a smoke pellet rolling into the bank. They checked every camera to see if they could get a glimpse of who threw it, but nothing.  The video continued with complete darkness and then the video was stopped abruptly.

Robin said determined, "Play the videos in slow motion." 

Cyborg pressed a few buttons and all five videos played in different screens at half their speeds. The same thing, a pellet, looked homemade was rolled in the middle of the bank, smoke went off, and coughing was heard. Then a strange white flash occurred in every video and then the smoke carried on until the video was cut off. 

The team thought in confusion for a minute until Raven said, "Stop at the white flash."

Cyborg pressed more buttons and the screen showed a white screen with one word on each screen. The words on the five screens made the sentence: Jumpcity's therapy is now over.  

Beastboy said confused, "What in the world? This couldn't be for us."

Robin said, "Who else would it be for?"

Beastboy shrugged, "Another villain?"

Robin said, "No... I don't think a villain would leave message in a bank's computer."

Raven shook her head hearing Beastboy's stupidity. Cyborg then asked, "Then who would leave us this message?" 

Starfire said, "Control Freak? He can control these computers."

Robin said, "He wouldn't just burn money for no reason." 

Cyborg asked, "Who would be crazy enough to just burn money?"

Robin narrowed his eyes and said, "Slade."

Raven said worried about Robin, "He left remember." 

Robin said agitated, "He could have come back." 

Beastboy yawned, "I say we go to sleep and let whoever this is come to us." 

Robin said annoyed, "You don't realize what is happening here... This villain wanted us to see what was on that video. He obvioulsy altered the video so we could see those words. Everything on that video was shown because he wanted it to be seen. How can we just sleep that away. This villain is currently in complete control."

Raven sighed, "I hate to say this, but Beastboy is right. We are given nothing to work with." 

Cyborg said, "Yeah, even if it was Slade, we have beat him before." Then Cyborg and Beastboy started walking to their room

Robin sighed and said, "Fine." 

The team left the living room and all but one slept away the confusion of what happened. After an hour of Robin's struggles to fall asleep, he gave up knowing Slade's voice would not leave him alone. Robin walked to the garage and got on his motorcycle, the R-Cycle, and drove through Jumpcity. He found himself watching the bank from a nearby building. He wondered why someone would just burn money; deep in thought he did not notice the grenade that rolled right next to him. Robin jumped up when he heard it go off and smoked dispersed everywhere.

Robin searched through the smoke and saw a fist coming his way, he tried to dodge it but it was too late. He fell to the ground and the attacker lifted him; he struggling, searching for the face of the attacker but the smoke was too dense. Robin felt something being taken from his utility belt and then he was dropped. Robin pulling out his bo staff, and thought about running; then he realized he was on top of a building. Escaping will be impossible without clearly the smoke, so Robin started twirling his bo staff. The smoke started to clear, but Robin heard another grenade go off and a yellow fog was now filling the air. Robin started coughing, his vision began to fail. He covered his mouth with his arm, trying to prevent the yellow fumes to enter his body, but he was stuck in the middle of the fog. His lungs choked for air as he fell to his knees. After a few seconds of trying to fight the gas, he dazed into unconsciousness.