51 DCU/MCU Fan-fiction 5 - The Tale of Gecko

DCU

Plot: A ninja has just left his village for reasons unknown as he made his way to Jump city where events unfold putting all his skills to the test as he will make friends, enemys, and even find love.

Pairing: OCxRaven

In the late evening hooded figure was seen walking through Jump City, he seemed a little out of place in the city as the few people out at this hour were stareing at him wondering why he was wearing a brown tattered cloak, and...was that a sword pokeing out of the corner of his cloak? A grumbleing noise came from the cloaked figure's stomach signaling that he was hungry.

"Excuse me?" The hooded figure asked in a polite tone to a passing woman

"Uh yes?" The brown haired woman said in an unsure tone

"Do you know where the nearest restaurant is?" The hooded figure asked

"Oh its just a couple blocks down, its shaped like a pizza so you can't miss it." The brown haired woman answered, he was so polite!

"Thank you, miss." The hooded figure bowed to the brown haired woman suprising her, he then walked in the direction that the woman pointed out

As the hooded figure heard a distinct sound he looked up and saw what seemed to be a green meteor hurtle towards where the restaurant was and a green mushroom like cloud formed when the meteor struck the ground. The hooded figure turned to the now frozen woman.

"You might want to get away from the vicinity for now..." The hooded said and this startled the woman in to acting as she ran away

"Now, lets see whats going on over there..." The hooded figure muttered as he ran towards the pizzarea at a fast pace

(Center of Jump)

While at the center of the city a green haze rose from a raised crater infront of a popular pizza joint in which was in one of the city's plazas, the haze cleared it reavealed a girl who had strange orange skin and long auburn hair. But the strangest were her eyes as they were glowing neon green, that was the first thing that pierced through the haze as it cleared.

On her face she wore a sort of M-shaped face guard that sort of traced her jaw, around her neck she had a broach set in a silver pauldron like guard just above her chest. She wore silver shoulder pads, and her arms, stomach, and thighs were covered in purplish segmented body armor. She also had on a black form fiting tank top that stopped just above where her stomach would be,a black skirt with a silver belt, and black thigh length boots with silver trim and soles. She also seemed to have a bulky white and black-trimmed device locked onto her forearms leaving her elbows free, the two matching cylinders held in place by a bolt between the two sides, and at the front were connected by a U-shaped hinge of dark grey metal with a red-armored bolt.

"Slopforn ivortmat!" she growled as she slid down the stone slabs. "Slopforn! Ond gudshik zerrole!" she growled in some alien language, holding her forearms at them while the people gathered backed away seeming to think that the restraint was a sort of weapon. (I'm winging it with the language here...)

One of the people gathered, in his fear, snapped a picture with his camera, the flash causing the girl to back up and shield her eyes. Now angered, a battle cry escaped her as she swung out her resrained arms in a rampage that freaked the people around her out and they started to run away as she made a new crater in the ground.

This was the scene that the hooded figure came to as he took in the girl smashing verious objects with her restraints, trying to break them off.

"Such strength..." The hooded figure muttered as he saw the ease in which the girl smashed the things that should take a person three times her size to break. The hooded figure was standing atop a nearby building, it was unseen how he got there.

"Why is she so enraged?" The figure asked himself as the people ontop of the pizza shaped building watched the chaos

The figure watched as the green-eyed girl seemed to struggle with her restraints, only to slump forward in defeat. She then perked up a moment later and jumped up next to the support beam that held the pizza joint's balcony aloft and smashed her cuffs against the side of it, plaster sent flying and people knocked out of their seats.

"X'hal! Yark! Mesnef!" she cursed as she swung her restraints into the support column with each curse, warping it with each swing until the pizza slice-shaped balcony broke off entirely, a few civilians left hanging off the edges for standing too close.

"Kuso!" The figure cursed in a different language as he lept off the building and in an impressive show of agility, ran down the side of it and jumped off onto the balcony. He then grabbed the nearest pedestrian and pulled him back onto the balcony. He then repeated the action with the others, who then leapt back into the main building in a panic scrambaling to get away. The figure then looked back over the balcony and saw that the girl was about to take a fourth swing at the abused pillar, only for the sound of metal meeting metal to reach his ears a dual-tone grey bird-like projectile struck the girl in her right temple. Following the direction in which the projectile was thrown and spotted who most likely had thrown it standing atop a car.

"Who are you?" the spiky-haired teen demanded, his hair most likely swept back by hair gel. He wore tight green pants held up by a yellow segmented belt with numerous compartments and a circular black-trimmed buckle, black boots with metal tips, a red vest with green sleeves and a yellow R over a black circle, a black cape with yellow lining around his neck and shoulders, and had green gloves that stopped just short of his elbows. He wore a black and white domino mask, and was most identifiable by his hero persona, Robin, sidekick of Gotham City's 'Dark Knight', Batman.

"Hmmm that is a strange attire..." The figure muttered not recognising Robin

The girl did not answer Robin and deamed him a threat as she jumped forward and smashed the ground creating a fissure that the figure could feel from the ruined balcony which he quickly got off of. The figure then landed on the ground in a crouch watching the fight escalate, debateing weather to intervene or not...

The alien girl took several swings at Robin, who deftly dodged each swing. Throwing an exploding disk at her after leaping over his shoulder, the three failed to notice the presence of a grey-skinned figure in a dark blue hooded cloak, stopping short of her ankles, she was watching the fight with her amythest colored eyes.

The alien girl suprised Robin by effortlessly tossing a car into the air with her right foot before kicking it with a spin, the spiky-haired sidekick ducking to the ground as the automobile spun end over end, flying several thousand feet before it found home in the side of a building, which made an explosion but the car was still intact confusing the figure.

"Hm. Stronger than she looks," Robin spoke seeing how far the thing flew, turning around only for the alien girl to deck him across the face with a wild double haymaker, sending him rolling across the ground before coming to a stop, just narrowly dodging another double axe handle into the ground which most likely would've powdered every bone in his body.

Quickly whipping out a grey pipe from his belt, he then extended it into a full bo staff, which he brought into the side of the girl's head and sent her flying into the air, her body making a dent on the car in her path. The teen whipped out his bo staff again, only for it to crumble into pieces as though it were made of glass.

"That is suprising..." The figure muttered as he saw this

Wrenching herself free from the vehicle, the orange skinned girl simply cracked her neck to the right with an audible cracking sound all with a smirk on her face. "Zota," she said having hardly felt the hit at all and rushing at the with another overhead swing, only for the figure's eyes to widen under his hood as a green mountain goat suddenly came out of nowhere and blindsided her. What really caught him off guard was that the goat then transformed into a little green-skinned teen.

"So many wonders in the world." The figure said in suprise

"Ex-Doom Patrol member Beast Boy, Sir! How can I help-" he asked with a salute before growing wide eyed. "Wowzers. You're Robin aren't you sir?" he asked. His attire consisted of a purple jumpsuit with black sides encompassing his shoulders and arms, his jumpsuit's pants styled into purple shorts with the rest of his legs black, with a grey belt with a circular buckle, gloves, around his waist and on his hands. His shoes were segmented purple sneakers with black trim and grey soles. On his mask he wore a grey mask with a purple top, leaving only his green face exposed beneath his eyes, which had dark rings around them like a raccoon's, and overly-large pointed ears like an elf's. His looks suprised the figure as he had never seen features like this before.

"Well you can start by not calling me sir," Robin rebuttled, the figure was hidden in the shadow's out of sight, hmmm he must be the serious type...

"Well let me just say that it's a real honor to be-" he said with stars in his eyes as he held his salute.

"Uh, Beast Boy, was it?" he said getting the teen's attention.

"Yes sir?" he asked, Robin pointing him in the general direction of the girl he'd blindsighted. Beast boy's eyes widened as the the alien girl suddenly lifted an entire city bus above her head, sending it flying at the two with a mighty heave. As the two dodged, a large figure jumped into the way of the bus and surprisingly caught it, his feet digging trenches across the ground before he set the vehicle down.

"Yo! Who's here messin' up my neighborhood!" the African-American teen shouted loudly. He was extremely tall and extremely muscular under a pair of black sweat pants, a grey sweat shirt that showed off his massive build, black boots, and dark grey gloves on his hands. His hood was up and the shadow cast by his cowl hid the majority of his upper face, his left eye glowing red surprisingly.

"She started it," Beast boy said pointing to the alien girl as she walked towards them.

"Hraaa-AH!" she shouted as she brought her restraints down onto the street, causing a massive quake to send every car bouncing off the ground and debris to be knocked around by the sudden impact. Standing to full height, the alien girl's restraints fell away, or to be more specific, the outer layer, revealing a second set of restrains in light grey with black trim, a bolt down the sides, but this time revealing her hands, which had violet armor on the backs.

Raising her hands and clenching her fists, the girl's hands began to glow the same color as her eyes as she aimed them at the three teens, a long, dual-volley of energy bolts being launched off the ends of her fists towards the three, but the figure then decided that he had seen enough and zipped infront of the three suprising them as he drew a long katana that had a silver blade, a square dark steel guard, and the handle was green with white accents. The hooded teen then seemed to deflect all of her energy bolts with the katana's blade into the ground causing a dust cloud to form, the teens stared with suprise as they saw the skill that the hooded teen had with the Katana. The girl then stopped her assault and the four then ran out of the dust cloud and running at her before splitting off off to hit her front and side flanks. Swinging her arms around, she took aim at each of the four before they circled around, hiding behind a bus as the majority of her shots peppered the city for blocks, mini-explosions going off and causing untold collateral damage. The attack completed, the girl's hands began to give off steam as she slumped forward slightly, the effort having taken a lot out of her.

"Where did you come from?" Robin asked the hooded figure as he was gaining his breath back

"It is not important at the moment, if she is not stopped I fear that she will continue on her rampage." The hooded figure answered in a slight polite tone

"Yeah, the dude has a point there." The large guy in the sweat suit agreed as he leaned on the bus

"I won't let her!" Robin answered as he brought his right fist into his left hand. "I won't lose this fight!" he said as he ran around the side of the bus, only for a massive raven-shaped silhouette of dark energy to suddenly rise out of the ground in front of them, screeching into the air and halting their advance before a new figure materialized from behind them, seemingly out of the shadows themselves.

"Maybe, fighting isn't the answer," a quiet, purple-eyed grey-skinned girl said as she walked towards them. Over her body she wore a dark dark blue cloak that went down to her ankles, a black and gold broach on the left, the cowl of her hood hiding the upper portion of her face, the only other visible part of her being her blue-clad feet.

"...So many wonders..." The hooded figure whispered as he saw the silhouette as it dissolved.

Robin then silently looked at the kneeling girl as her hands still steamed from her attack.

"Stand down." Robin ordered and Beast boy saluted, the sweat suit wearing teen did not seem to like this and voiced his displeasure.

"What, you think your the boss or somthin?" The sweat suit wearing teen asked, angerly raising a fist

"Just give me a chance." Robin said and the sweat suit wearing teen seemed to accept that

"Be careful, she seems to have culture shock, added to that she seems not to understand english." The hooded teen added

Robin nodded at the hooded teen's advice and walked towards the kneeling girl who was panting. The girl then stood up and raised her arms, fists starting to glow green as she took his advance as a threat causing Robin to back up and raise his hands in a calming gesture.

"Easy, my name is Robin, and I just wanna help..." Robin said, while it is true that she may not understand english maybe the tone of his voice will help, as he said this he slowly lowered his left hand to a compartment on his belt.

"Gota, gota buagna!" The alien girl said stepping forward threateningly if Robin took out a weapon, but that did not happen.

"It's ok, look." Robin said showing the lock pick to the girl with a smile

She stared at his endearing smile and faltered, her eyes ceasing to glow, revealing them to be a light green through her sclera, her irises a shade of emerald green. Robin then slowly put his hands on her cuffs, her hands ceaseing their glow as he worked on the cuffs lock. The girl stareing at him as he did so before looking down as her cuffs hit the floor causing Robin to move his foot so as not to get it crushed by them.

"There, now maybe we can be-!" Robin said only for his words to be muffled as the alien girl suddenly pulled him into a kiss by the back of his neck, her eyes closed as Robin's widened behind his mask before she suddenly pushed him away, the surprised former side-kick landing on his ass.

"If you do not wish to be destroyed, then you will leave me alone!" the alien girl suddenly growled out in english before flying away,

"So... I'm Beast Boy. Who're you?" Beast Boy asked everyone as they simply gawked, wanton destruction all abound.

(A few minutes later)

A few minutes after the initial shock of the alien girl's departure, wanton destruction all around, the group broke out of their stupor, the hooded teen speaking first in a confused tone.

"I may be new to this country, but that was not normal no?" The hooded figure asked slowly, which gained the attention of the rest of the group

"No, it isn't..." The grey-skinned girl answered wondering which country he was from.

"Well, whoever she was, the girl knows how to make an impression," the African teen stated as the hooded teen nodded agreeing with him...

"I think we made a pretty good impression," Beast Boy said with a grin. "Crazy space girl's gone, the city's saved. Mission accomplished. Right sir?" he asked Robin.

"Seriously. Stop calling me that," he asked flatly

"Roger," Beast Boy said giving a rigid salute.

"Looks like we're done here. I appreciate the help," Robin said walking down the street.

"You're going to track down the alien?" the grey-skinned girl asked.

"I have to find out whether or not she's a threat," the spiky-haired teen said as he left

"...More like find out if she'll give him another kiss..." The large teen said silently as the Hooded teen stood there, confused at what to do...

Beast boy then ran off after Robin. "Hey sir, uh, I mean, Robin. Do you maybe-"

"Sorry, I just went solo. I'm not really looking to join a team," the Boy Wonder said flatly before walking off.

"Need a sidekick?" the green-skinned boy asked scratching the back of his head before turning around. "You guys wanna get a pizza?" he then asked the other three animatedly.

"I shouldn't..." the cloaked girl said walking away, this left him to go after The hooded teen and the large african teen

"What about you?" Beast boy asked the hooded teen

"Um...what does pizza taste like?" The hooded figure asked confused as Beast boy's eyes widened and he suddenly grabbed his wrist suprising him as he pulled him after the sweat suited teen

"You have not lived my friend!" Beast boy said animated as they followed the Large teen "You'll have loads of fun with us! We can play video game-" He was interupted when they both bumped into the teen's back as he stopped

"There! Take a good long look!" he shouted pulling away his hood, revealing the left side of his face down to his jaw to be covered in grey metal, the top of the left side of his head, the side of his right, and the left side of his neck inset with dark and light blue mechanical parts. "I had an accident, and now I'm a monster alright. A cyborg."

"Cyborg? Cool! You're like Robot Man 2.0!" Beast Boy said happily looking the teen over from multiple angles as the hooded teen stared amazed by the teen.

"There are so many wonders in this country!" The hooded teen said excitedly, suprising Cyborg

"You guys are weird little dudes you know that?" he asked flatly.

"Hehe. You called us dudes," the green teen returned with a smile. "Okay, so... see you later. Right, dude?" he said as the cyborg pulled his hood up and started walking away. A few seconds later however, a massive silhouette moved through the sky, causing Beast Boy to call out "DUUUDE!" loudly as the red and orange-trimmed ship of alien origin flew over the city towards the island in the center of the bay. The hooded teen was stunned into silence as his brain cranked to a halt as he saw this...

Shortly after the alien ship had shown up, a large orange-armored torch the size of the Statue of Liberty's was jettisoned onto the island in the center of Jump City Bay.

"Looks like space girl has friends." Cyborg said as he saw this

"Or enemys..." Robin said as he walked up next to the hooded teen as he shook his head to clear the cobwebs...

After touching down, a massive hologram, so large you could see it from every point in the city was a giant, ugly, reptilian fish-like alien covered in dark green scales and off-gold armor.

"...That is the ugliest thing I have ever seen..." The hooded teen said as the others agreed with him

"People of earth." It started "We come to your planet in search of an escaped prisoner, a very dangerous prisoner."

"Do not interfere, and we will leave your city with only minimal damage." It continued "But, if you attempt to assist her...your destruction will be absolute." then the hologram ended

"Thats a big ship..." Cyborg said as the torch seemed to open to reveal more of the ugly aliens

"And those are some scarey looking aliens..." Beast boy said as they took off on bat shaped wings

"Ugly too..." The hooded teen added

"They told us not to interfere..." The grey-skinned girl said

"Your still going after her?" The hooded teen stated rather then asked as Robin nodded

"Can we come too?" Beast boy asked excitedly

"...I suppose I could team up, just this once."Robin answered smiling which caused the rest to smile back and follow, but the grey-skinned girl hung back unsure...

"You in?" Robin asked as he noticed that she hung back

"...I'm not the hero type." The grey-skinned girl said turning away "Trust me, if you knew what I really am, you wouldn't want me around..."

That statement caused the hooded teen to frown under his hood as he recognised what she was feeling, loneliness... He then toutched the girl's shoulder suprising her.

"We know enough." The hooded teen said smiling which made her give a small smile back

A few minutes later as the aliens destroyed most of the things that they came across looking for the girl, the five of them his in a nearby alley watching the aliens as they left to look elsewhere.

"Ok we need some way to track-" Robin said be fore he was cut off, suprisingly it was the quiet grey-skinned girl "She's near."

They all looked at her as she said that, "I can sense things." She muttered shyly

"...Cool." The hooded teen said, this caused her to blush under her hood but it was not seen.

"...You don't get out much do you?" Cyborg asked as the Hooded teen's stance grew embaressed

"Ah I have not seen much outside my village, I am, how you say...a country bumkin..." The hooded teen said in an embaressed tone

"How much of one?" Robin asked with a raised eyebrow

"...I did not know that airplane's existed untill a few weeks ago..." The hooded teen said which suprised the group

"Hang on,I'll see if I can pick up her scent!" Said Beast Boy as he turned into a dog and started to sniff around which suprised the Hooded teen

"How many times will I be suprised today...?" The Hooded teen asked in a defeated tone, the grey-skinned girl patted the taller teen's back sympitheticly

"I think you get used to it after a while..." The grey-skinned girl said to him which made him feel a bit better...

"I have a sonic analyzer in my arm if she's around, I'll hear it." Cyborg said as he pulled back his sleave and looked at it.

"I've got her trail!" Beast boy said as he quickly turned back into a dog again.

"...And I've got her heartbeat!" Cyborg said and they all followed a trail leading to a video store that had a melted hole in the wall...the alien girl was most likely there. And they walked in to see her eating the food in a frenzy with the wrappers still on, then Beast Boy decided to let her know that we were here, "Um those taste better without the wrappers." the alien girl rounding on them with balls of glowing energy in her hands, causing them all to go on guard.

"It's alright. We're friends remember," Robin said trying to placate her, he had spent the most time talking with her, even if it was only a few seconds before being dropped on his ass.

"Friends? Why? For what purpose did you free me?" she asked as she stalked towards the group with glowing hands, the five teens backing away slowly.

"Just trying to be nice!" Robin said awkwardly

"Nice? We do not have this word on my planet closest is Rutha, weak!" She said her glowing eyes narrowing

Cyborg said, "Well around here nice means nice and if you want us to keep being nice than you better tell us why the Lizard King took you prisoner!"

Not prisoner. I am... prize," she said as her hands and eyes ceased glowing as she adopted a saddened pose. "The Gordanians deliver me to the Citadel. To live out my days as their servant."

"And the Citadel are..." the cloaked girl asked, trailing off as she waited for an explanation.

"Not, nice," the girl returned evenly.

"Then you're not going with them. Not if I have anything to say about it," Robin stated giving her a thumbs up.

"I as well, I cannot stand by while someone is used like a trophy..." The hooded teen said evenly with controled anger

Um, don't you mean we?" Beast Boy asked before the side of the building exploded inward, the place being swarmed with reptilian fish-like aliens moments later. At the shout of "Seize her!'", the aliens flew forward, intent on reclaiming their prisoner.

Rushing into battle, the gathered six teens took on their own number of the fish-like aliens. The group's cyborg struck his alien with a double axe handle, Beast Boy transformed into a rhino and sent several flying into the air off the end of his charge, the alien girl decked a dozen or so with a super-powered punch like Superman's, Robin knocked a few away with a kick and another bo staff, while the cloaked girl sent several others flying with her dark powers.

Looking over her shadows, the pale-skinned girl saw the hooded teen surounded on all sides and went to go help but was too late as the aliens stabbed him with their spears making them smirk, but they quickly lost their smirks as all they hit was an empty cloak confusing them. Then a black and green blur dropped out of the air and set an assault of punches and round house kicks the blur then stopped alowing the girl to see his features as he held a beaten alien in his left hand.

He had spiky black hair that went to his chin and some was tied into a pony tail that went to his back, around his neck he had a neon green scarf that covered his mouth. He also had bright green eyes that were slited like a lizard's would be, a scar over his right eye that started above his eyebrow and ended at the middle of his cheek. He had on a black tank top that had two neon green talon marks at his shoulders and his midriff, he also had black bandages around his forearms and left his fingers uncovered. Around his waist he had a black sash belt that had neon green pouches and was tied with a jewel, he had on plain black cargo pants and black steel toed boots, but he also had neon green sort-of wrap that looked like it had something under them.

"Heads up!" The black haired teen shouted as he threw the alien over her head into another alien that was about to sneak up on her. She nodded at him thankful at the assist before she turned back to what she was doing.

The alien girl flying backwards out of the video rental store and blasting several aliens with her glowing energy attacks before she was sent to the ground. As one of them got ready to shoot her with his spear, Robin quickly swung his alien around into its back and sent it flying, the alien girl smirking as the fight moved outside.

The African teen, after grappling with his and being forced to the ground, rolled out of the way before flipping and landing, only to be pelted with energy attacks. When the smoke cleared, his full form was revealed, showing that only his biceps and the majority of his face were still organic. He had semi-transparent components on his thighs, forearms, and shoulders, while the rest of his body was white and grey with black armor underneath and grey trim separating his body's components. Clearly angered by the loss of his outfit, he leapt at one of the aliens and broke its spear before throwing it into several others.

As the ones not hit continued to fire at him, Beast Boy suddenly transformed into a green-skinned pterodactyl and took to the air. As they were about to get hit the black haired teen suprised them by using an impressive show of agility as he used ninja like moves and drew the katana strapped to his back and quickly slashed at all the aliens spears causing them to implode sending the aliens flying.

"Are you a Ninja!" Beast Boy shouted as he saw the Black haired teens agility.

"Yes, why?" The Black haired one asked confused as he jump kicked another alien with ease

"Awesome!" Beast boy shouted excitedly

To finish the battle, the cloaked girl ripped a lamp pose out of the ground with her powers, which gave it a black aura before she used it to send a few of the aliens flying away and to the ground. Looking up in defeat, the aliens quickly flew off into the night sky, leaving the six teens to get back together after the battle had been done.

"I believe your expression is... thanks," Starfire said, sounding rough at the beginning, but endearing at the end.

Aw man, my suit," the cyborg of the group groaned as he tugged at the tattered remains of his clothing.

"So? You look way cooler without it," Beast Boy said with a grin and a thumbs up.

"Yeah. Like I'm taking fashion advice from the kid in the goofy mask," Cyborg said back at him.

"Goofy? My mask is cool. Isn't it? Raven?" he asked turning to the cloaked girl, her and the cyborg simply shaking their heads. "Is it...Ummmm?" Beast boy asked the Ninja but did not know his name.

"You can call me Gecko, and sorry but it is...goofy." The black haired teen now called Gecko answered

But...But what about my secret identity?" he asked tugging at his mask.

"What secret identity? You're green," Raven quipped flatly

"And you have fangs." Gecko added politely

The green-skinned teen searched for a response only to come up with none, removing his mask revealing a head of short green spiky hair a moment later, his ears normally-proportioned despite what his mask portrayed.

"This isn't over now that we interfered-." Started Robin

Trogaar will strike harder," the alien girl interrupted. "It is only a matter of-" she said only to be interrupted by another hologram appearing in the sky above Jump City.

"FOOLS!" The Alien they thought was Trogaar shouted "The Earth Scum were warned, you're insolence will be punished, you're city shall be... destroyed!" and the hologram ended

The massive alien ship flying over the middle of the city as a massive orange-armored particle beam cannon extended, glowing brightly as it began to charge and caused people to scatter in every direction like scared rodents.

"That...is a large gun..." Gecko said slowly with a slightly slack jaw under his scarf, while Raven only nodded in agreement since it wouldn't be worth it to comment further. Gecko's statement made it clear enough...

So... After trashing the pizza place and a perfectly good video store, now we've managed to make a humongous space gecko mad enough to vaporize our entire town?" Beast Boy asked in shock.

Gecko then coughed a little at that causing Beast boy to look at him apoligeticly.

"Go team..." Cyborg said sarcasticly

"All the fault is yours. I commanded you to leave me alone, but you insisted upon being nice!" the alien girl growled at the spiky-haired teen.

"My fault? You blast me! Kiss me! Yet you fail to mention that they have a giant partical weapon!" Robin demanded as red lightning arced between him and the alien "escapee" as they glared at eachother. Things soon quickly degenerated into childish arguing between Beast Boy and Cyborg, leaving Gecko and Raven watching the pointless bickering. Gecko was confused at what to do, he has never been in this kind of situation before but it turns out he did not need to act...

Raven shouted, "QUIET!"

They all looked at her, suprised at the outburst from the normaly quiet girl.

"Hi." She said shyly at their stareing.

"Look, it doesn't matter how we got into this mess," Robin said grooming his hair. "We're in it, and we will get out of it. Together," he said rallying the others behind him, each nodding in agreement

"Then lets go we have a city to save afterall." Gecko said in his polite tone

(The spaceship)

A few minutes later inside the spaceship in a hall away from the massive particle weapon, an orb of darkness suddenly rose out of the floor before parting, revealing the six teens as they stepped towards the horizontally-mounted energy condenser, orienting themselves to the ship's design so that they wouldn't walk the wrong way.

"O-o-o-o-ogh..." Beast Boy shivered. "That dark energy stuff gives me the-" he said before suddenly stopping. "I mean, it's cool! Heheh," he said giving two thumbs up, though clearly forced under the grey-skinned girl's soul-piercing gaze.

"I thought that it was intresting..." Gecko said confused, it was indeed very cool so why would Beast boy think it wasn't?

Raven felt that thought and blushed under her cowl, greatful that no one could see...

"The most cliché villans usually are on the bridge." Gecko added as he had read many books.

"Good idea, come on, there isn't much time," he said leading the group down the hall, the alien girl and Beast Boy following him with Cyborg taking up their rear. Gecko noticed Raven had stopped and went over to her.

"Why are you by yourself?" Gecko asked politely

"You heard the kid. I don't exactly fit in," she said flatly

"I don't think so," Gecko said sincerely, he then pulled down his scarf so that she could see his smile"I'm a ninja, he's 80% percent metal," he said pointing to the cyborg. "He's green," he said pointing to Beast Boy. "She's from space," he said pointing to the red-head. "And he dresses like, what was it again...a traffic light, thats it!," he said slowly, figureing out the word as he grinned as he got it, pointing to Robin.

"So you fit in just fine with us misfits." Gecko grinned putting a hand on her shoulder as he got a small giggle out of her at that last statement

At the front, Robin scouted ahead, the alien girl stepping up to him and garnering his attention.

"I bring you, a...pology," she stated solemnly.

"Don't worry about it. I'm sorry I yelled too," Robin returned.

"And again, you are... nice," she returned. "On my planet, only my K'Norfka has shown me such... kindness."

"Well, things are different here," Robin said with a smile, the two of them sharing a rather intimate moment before-

Then Beast Boy said, "Uh guys I think that they know that we're here!" as the Aliens surounded them from the front and the back, the all got in their ready positions

(The Bridge)

"Lord Trogaar. The weapon has reached full power," an Alien said in the bridge to his captain, who turned his chair around to face the soon-to-be-demolished city.

"Then begin the firing sequence," Trogaar ordered, his troops tapping incessantly at the controls, a timer in an obscure alien language slowly counting down counter-clockwise. "The Earth scum shall learn, it takes more than six juvenile heroes, to defy the mighty Lord Trogaar," he said placing his clawed hands on his hips as he got up from his chair. Down the ship's bow, the weapon began charging orange, though the door was blown out behind him a moment later, the six teens walking out of the dust cloud after fighting their way through the swarm of alien warriors.

"We're not six heroes. We're one team," Robin said as Beast Boy, Gecko, and the cyborg stood at his sides, the alien girl and Raven floating in the air before they all charged at the aliens, who charged upon Trogaar's command.

Splitting up, Robin and Gecko, together, flew into a kung fu kick and decked an alien, while Cyborg used the shockwave off his double axe handle to send another two flying. Beast Boy had transformed into a kangaroo and delivered a double kangaroo kick, and the alien girl knocked out another one with a dynamic glowing-fist uppercut. Gecko put his hands in a cross position and yelled "Kai!" and two clones of him stood at his sides as they together closed lined another alien and sweep kicked another as one of his clones landed his feet on its face knocking the alien out. Beast Boy, fighting another two, was caught off guard and send flying into a wall, Raven coming to his defense as an alien ran at him, blocking the attacks with a shield born of dark energy. Robin and the cyborg then began grappling with their own aliens, Gecko then despelled his clones and slamed his knee into another aliens gut causing it to slump over.

A few seconds into the grapple, the Boy Wonder was sent flying, the alien girl calling his name before one of the aliens rushed her. Fists glowing neon green, she began shucking energy ball as him, only for the alien to rush her and pin her to the ground with its massive hand, then lift her up before doing so again. Before he could do so again, the girl struck him in the face with a glowing fist before the cyborg rushed him and decked him as well, the two striking him another two times with great strength. However, the alien forced them back with a few powerful blows, Cyborg landing on the ground hard, and a few of the plates on his right forearm shifting out of place.

"Can you reconfigure that into some sort of weapon?" Robin asked.

I can try," he said before ducking, Gecko being sent over his head and into the nearby wall by one of the alien's uppercut, said aliens soon surrounding them, only to stop as a soft-spoken voice got their attention from behind.

"Get away from my friends," Reven then said as she helped Beast Boy up. "Azarath, Metrion, ZINTHOS!" she called out as her eyes glowed white within the cowl of her hood, the resulting explosion blowing out the cockpit's roof and canceling the particle weapon's charge, the sudden loss of control causing the ship to crash into the bay.

Getting up a few seconds later, Trogaar walked towards Raven and Beast Boy, his claws extending as he raised his arm to strike them down. In a flash Gecko was infront of Raven and Beast boy with his hand on his sword about to draw it,only for a blue and white-ringed beam to come off Cyborg's arm and strike the alien in the back, causing the alien leader to fall flat on his face, Gecko sighed as he took his hand off his sword.

"Alright, I'm only going to say this once," he said raising his arm, which was now configured into some kind of cannon. "Booya."

(An hour later)

After the battle had ended, with the aliens taking their working shuttles off the planet after their warship was grounded, the six teens found themselves on the coast of the island in the middle of Jump Bay facing the east, the sun rising in the distance. The alien torch had been left behind, clearly only meant for one-time deployment until it was retrieved and re-fitted for future use.

"That's quite a view," Raven said, her hood down revealing purple shoulder-length hair, angular eyebrows, and a red gemstone on her forehead. Her cloak was now hung at her shoulders, revealing a black leotard, black armlets, blue wristbands, and a pair of broaches on the backs of her gloves, while her belt was made of likewise broaches.

"Somebody outta build a house out here," Cyborg stated with crossed arms.

"Yeah. If you like sunshine, and the beach," Beast Boy said tapping Raven with his elbow.

"Hmhm. You know, you're kinda funny," she said with a ghost of a smile.

"I do not get it..." Gecko said scratching his head

"You think I'm funny? Oh-hoho. Dude, I know some jokes!" the greenette said with diamonds in his eyes, the purplette quickly regretting egging him on like she did. Beast boy then turned to Gecko...

"And I'll teach you everything about the world dude, I can even tell you all my jokes!" Beast boy said excitedly

"Your not teaching him anything." Raven stated as she pulled the confused Gecko away from the green skinned boy who pouted, already forseeing the problems that would create...

"Please, I look... nice?" the alien girl asked after stepping forward, revealing an outfit change. Most of her armor had been cast off except for that around her neck and forearms, revealing a fair deal more skin. Her tank top and boots which were silver-trimmed were now purple, and on her right bicep she wore a silver arm band. The M-shaped crest on her forehead was also gone, revealing a pair of small eyebrows that matched her hair, overall really bringing out her eyes and giving her an exotic look.

"I... still don't know your name," Robin stated after taking in the girl's appearance.

"In your language, it would be Star Fire," she said walking towards them.

"Welcome to Earth, Starfire," Robin said with a smile.

"I thank you all for your bravery and help, and I wish to ask permission. To remain here, where the people are most... strange, but also most... kind," Starfire said warmly.

"You don't need our permission," Raven said kindly.

"But if you want our friendship, you've got it," Robin said.

"And we can learn about the culture together." Gecko offered and Starefire smiled at that, glad that she was not alone in her quest to learn more about earth.

"Besides, we kinda made a good team," Beast Boy stated with a smile.

"I thought we might want to keep in touch, so Cyborg and I designed these," he said holding out four circular yellow walkie-talkies, black trim along the bottom, side button, and a black antennae with a red button on the side.

"Made them outta my own circuits," the now-dubbed Cyborg said with crossed arms.

"When there's trouble, you know who to call." Robin stated crossing his arm's with a smile

And that was the start of a new begining...

Chapter End