Bounty Hunter - Teen Titans (No. 5)

Dog Hunt

3rd POV:

The moon is full on a quiet night; a distant flash erupts the peace as a red and yellow alien spacecraft zooms across the night sky, it cuts a path straight through the clouds, cruising over Jump City Bay and heads straight for the urban centre. As it passes over the bridge and Titans Tower, the wake of its passage throws up a wall of water.

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In an alleyway, several dogs nose through the trash in search of something to eat, but they cut off their search barking angrily at the passing vessel, which sets course for the mountains outside the city. It gives a quick dive behind a ridge putting the spacecraft out of view, it crashes, and a cloud of smoke marks the hard landing, within the haze, a red-eyed silhouette rears up and leaps clearing landing nearby. It is a green dog, appears with its tongue hanging out.

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At Titans Tower, the following day, inside, Cyborg is tuning up the engine of the T-Car, with the acetylene torch built into his finger, as Beast Boy, as a lizard scuttles up the side of a storage container and reaches the ceiling. He hangs there, upside down, as he surveys Cyborg hard at work when he lands on the mechanic's arm, who bugs out. "Wha-? Whoa!" Cyborg exclaims as he tumbles backwards, throwing Beast Boy against the container, and both tumble to the floor, with Cyborg's tools and parts scattering everywhere and Beast Boy returning to human form. Cyborg's face goes bright red as he sees Beast Boy in front of him out of anger and growls in rage. "BEAST BOY!" He rages out at the green bean.

"Heh... guess I shoulda knocked first." Beast Boy mutters as Cyborg starts gathering up the items he dropped. "So what's up, Cyborg? Working on your car? Bet you could use a few extra hands." He morphs into a squid picking up a blow torch.

"Nah, I can handle it. 'Side, some of these tools are kinda-" Cyborg tells him but stops as Beast Boy turns back to human form.

"Ohh! What's this do?" Beast Boy asks his friend; Cyborg looks over at him dropping all the equipment again with a panicked little stutter, as Beast Boy flicks the blow torch to life which emits a small flare of fire. The action makes Cyborg scream as a dense cloud of smoke; once it clears a good portion of the T-Car bodywork is singed badly, Cyborg snorts furiously at his green friend. "Oops... heh." Beast Boy blushes as he begins to sweat.

"Maybe you should go help somebody else." Cyborg snaps at him, and Beast Boy takes the hint and runs off out of the garage.

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On the ground level of the Tower, on the island's shores Robin uses the man-shaped cutouts as targets as they pop up, he strikes open, after another, destroying them as he goes into a fast run, breaking three more with various kung fu moves. As he goes for the next target, Beast Boy pops up at the last second as Robin flings himself at the cutout. "Hey, Robin." Beast Boy greets him, but his face goes slack as he realises what's coming his way, too late, as he takes the full force of the hit sending him tumbling high and far and he peels himself halfway up, and Robin helps him stand back up. "Need a workout buddy?" He asks his friend.

"Sorry, Beast Boy. But this is really more of a solo thing. You okay?" Robin asks in concern for his green friend.

"Awesome." Beast Boy mutters and sulks away back into the Tower.

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Inside Raven's dark room, she and Starfire are inside floating cross-legged just above the floor; their eyes closed in front of a crystal ball. "Azarath Metrion Zinthos..." Raven chants and Starfire pops one of her eyes open glancing across from her to Raven.

"Tell me, Raven, does it always take so long to contact the spirit world?" She asks her purple-clad friend.

"Not always, Starfire, but it does require intense focus," Raven tells her as they hold their hands out towards the crystal ball. "Absolute quiet and-" When suddenly Beast Boy's head appears within the crystal ball.