Flaring Tempers I

Alarms blare as a gargantuan stone figure bursts through the high-density steel blast door at the front of the facility's gate.

A large, man? By the name of Cinderblock bursts through, stomping harshly into the ground, knocking over the approaching guards as he stomps further into the facility.

"Ya know, Cinderblock, normally the bad guys break out of jail." A shadowy figure quips.

"And I can think of 5 good reasons why you don't want to break in." Another figure responds leaping into the center of the room.

"1!" A young boy leaps from the rafters of the open area of the prison, revealing a masked, lithe black-haired boy, with a black and gold cloak, red vest, green undershirt, tights, and gloves. Coupled with heavy-duty boots and a utility belt. Before taking up his position in the center.

"2!" A beautiful, tall, and green-eyed in the most literal sense, girl with silky, burgundy hair. With a purple crop top, skirt, thigh-high boots, metal reinforced necklace, bracers, and belt, with an encrusted jewel inside. Flies down.

"3!" A green-furred, black-striped tiger leaps forward, before morphing into a green-skinned, short young man, with a purple and black unitard and metal utility belt.

"4!" A mysterious ashen-skinned girl, wearing a black long-sleeved leotard, purple hooded cloak, and boots, with a golden looped belt, floats her way down.

"5!" A giant of a man, with a broad chest and bald head, plated in blue, black, and titanium, leaps down. His piercing red left eye, honed in on the prison breaker.

The group of teens takes up position in the center of the prison space to block Cinderblock from going any further.

"No matter how you do the math it all adds up to you going down. So are going to go quietly?" The first boy to go down asks, before the last asks.

"Or is this gonna get loud?" With a smirk of confidence.

Cinderblock growls in response before charging into the teens.

"Titans! Go!" The first boy shouts, causing the team to get into position around Cinderblock.

The 1st boy attempts to keep Cinderblock off balance with martial arts, while the 5th uses his raw strength to go toe to toe with the stone behemoth. The young green boy transforms into a hawk to attack Cinderblock's eyes, while the burgundy hair girl fires lasers from her hands and the purple cloaked girl uses some dark energy to mold the prison floor in such a way as to limit Cinderblock's movements. All of which does little to hinder Cinderblock's advance even when the green boy turns into a tyrannosaurus rex. After being knocked back once more, the first and last boy devises a plan.

"Want to give this guy the sonic boom?" The black-haired boy asks.

"I got the sonic if you got the boom?" He responds with a smile as his right hand transforms into a sonic cannon, as he calls out to Cinderblock, "Yo, rock head!" And begins charging down the corridor Cinderblock ran down. Jumping just out of sync with the first boy as their feet get caught mid-air causing both of their attacks to miss Cinderblock and in fact knock away their teammates giving Cinderblock ample time to begin a prison riot by smashing through all the prison walls.

Once the team of teenage titans recovered from this mishap, they had already been surrounded by escaping prisoners and had no choice but to focus on restraining them, while Cinderblock broke into a restricted level of the prison to grab a sleeping man who was floating in a giant insulated tub of water.

After detaining all the escapees the green boy squats down and jokes, "Jailbreak? I don't see any jailbreak."

"None of us would have seen one if Cyborg hadn't messed up!" The black-haired boy remarks to the last.

"Me?! I messed up nothing! You got in my way!" Cyborg shouts back before turning around.

"You were too far forward and Cinderblock got away because of it!" The black-haired boy growls back.

"You sayin' this is my fault?!" Cyborg turns to shout at the black-haired boy's face.

"Want me to say it again?" He replies, not backing down an inch despite Cyborg towering over him.

As sparks begin to fly, the burgundy-haired girl steps in, "Stop! No more mean talking!" Getting the two to turn away from each other as the green boy chimes in.

"Yeah, if you two are gonna fight we need time to sell tickets."

The purple hooded girl approaches, pulling down her hood to reveal purple shoulder-length hair, purple eyes, and a red gem on her forehead, saying, "Cinderblock escaped, no amount of yelling will change that. So stop acting like idiots and let's go home." She says in slight annoyance.

Cyborg and the black-haired boy huff at one another before walking away from one another, only for the black-haired boy to say, "Loser." And Cyborg to say, "Jerk." Under their breaths reigniting the conflict once more.

"What did you say?!" They both called back to each other.

"You have a problem, Tin Man?!" The boy shouts at Cyborg.

"Yeah! It's 4 feet tall and smells like cheap hair gel!" Cyborg shouts back with a smirk.

"Well, you're an oversized klutz and your feet smell like motor oil!" The black-haired boy quips back.

"You're bossy! You're rude! Ya got no taste in music!" Cyborg rattles back.

"I don't even know why you're on this team!" The black-haired boy shouts.

"That makes two of us! I quit!" Cyborg shouts before storming off, leaving the team in stunned silence.