Night of the Bandit (Titans)

 

This is what happens when we let you pick the film, Harmon Metamorphi said after having finished watched in a bored manner. Man, that film sucked, the only reason Meta had not fallen to sleep was to make sure it would get better, but it didn't so Meta's time was wasted. He looked to his teammates to see if either of them shared his poor opinion of the movie.

Yang was next to Hotwire on the couch, an eyebrow raised. "...This is what you americans call horror?" She shook her head slowly. "Next time I'll pick some quality Japanese programming for you kids. Daddy clearly dunno what he's doing." She and Hotwire were still co leaders right? Yeah, she was just gonna go with that. Mommy and Daddy was more comical anyway. She looked at the scene unfolding and raised an eyebrow. "See, our cultures have a VERY different idea of why spirits exist. Ours always want revenge, ya know? Some get pushed down wells because they wouldn't marry a tyrant, others are tortured remnants of Hiroshima. But ours are cooler than...this crap."

Jenny sat at the end of the cough eyes wide as she wore her hood up hugging a pillow as she watched the movie. Her pointy ears lowered like a frightened cats as she shivered sitting on the couch and was the only one not mocking the movie. The girl had never seen really any horror movies, or any movies for that matter before and like the kids of the 80s thought, she thought this was one scary movie with great quality pictures and acting.

"Hey, to be fair, I haven't seen this movie since I was like 10. It was much scarier back then." He said before turning to Meta and saying "Yeah, you get the pick next Thursday" He said scratching his head and walking towards the panel to turn off the movie and put the viewing screen back in it's regular mode.

He hadn't even turned around when yang made her comment. Daddy? Was that really necessary? He blushed a slight bit, but quickly shoo'd it away as he turned around and listened to the rest of her commentary. "I get it I get it."

Meta smirked at Yang's rantings on how superior Japanese horror was and how she should give them some to watch Sounds good, momma he noticed Harmon getting slightly embarrassed at Yang's comment which made Meta smile a little bit, but he didn't say anything to further his leader's embarrassment. He noticed that Jenny was shivering in her little corner of the couch next to Meta, he discreetly leaned in and whispered to her so that hopefully the others wouldn't notice and whispered so he wouldn't be heard Hey, are you alright? You seem scared

Jenny flailed shouting when he whispered to her accidentally slapping Meta with her hand when she flailed and threw the pillow into the air. She the blinked and blushed a bit when she noticed she was the only one who had been scared by the movie, and that she just hit Meta. "Yeah I'm fine sorry for hitting you...." she mumbled looking down a bit.

Hotwire looked back over his shoulder. Jenny? Jenny of all people was scared by this? Jenny, who had been through death, horror, and tragedy was scared by a cheesy 80's movie? That was unexpected. Very unexpected. Hotwire sat back down next to her.

"Don't worry about it. Scary movies aren't for everyone." Hotwire leaned back. "So lets all just relax... and... do something else..."

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An armored car slipped down the streets of midtown. It was a routine run as far as armored car runs went. Well, at least the route was routine. They were carrying some expensive antique rings to the jump city historical even at the jump city museum. They were prepared for any kind of attacker.

"Car number 2841, currently reaching the halfway checkpoint. ETA 15 minutes." The driver said. Pressing a button on the inside that adjusted the rear-view mirror. Just in time to see a dot of purple approaching. "What the?" He said starting to speed up as the light at his intersection turned green. The light approached and the driver realized this could mean pretty much one thing in this city.

He smashed a button that would send a distress signal if he didn't put a small device into a small keyhole within 60 seconds. As he looked out the side, he saw it... a man on horseback, pistol drawn, and as pale as death. Before he could even step on the gas any further, the man fired two shots. The bullets phased straight through the bulletproof glass. Oxymoron right?

The man yelled in pain as he veered off the road into a building. The two armed guards in the back were immediately on their feet and facing the door, prepared to open fire on anyone who tried to bust in. If only the had been looking behind them. The ghostly figure walked right through the back of the armored car and fired onto them as well. Within 30 seconds, they were all incapacitated by the searing pain coursing through their bodies.

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Before hotwire could say another word, the sirens began to sound. He lurched to his feet, still in civilian garb and with an upward swish of his hand, a map of jump city appeared, with a big red dot where everything was going down.

"Armored Car Robbery in progress. Emergency signal suggests a meta-human assailant. Car contents are a green level priority. Everyone suit up and meet at the teleporter."

Meta probably should have tapped her on the shoulder first so she wouldn't get too surprised, but he had assumed that Jenny would have realised he was there. She certainly taught him a lesson with a mean slap to the face, Meta rubbed his face and chuckled It's no problem, you didn't mean it, if you had meant it then that would have hurt more he patted her on the head and laughed again, to show there were no hard feelings.

Meta started to relax, but before he could get the chance to, sirens rang out loud, Meta immediately sprung into alert, his face taking on the same stern exterior it always did when something serious was going on. Since he didn't have a civillian identity to protect, he just wore normal clothes, meaning that it was just a simple matter of rushing over to the teleporter and waiting for the rest of the team to assemble.

Yang sighed and stood up, popping her back. "Did we inherit the Titan curse where we can't do ANYTHING normal without that siren going off or what?" Clearly she didn't think of this assailant as much of a threat. The team was back together, what could REALLY go wrong? Between her and Hotwire, nothing was going to beat them mentally. Physically the Titans were stronger than ever. It felt good.

After walking into her room, she stepped onto the Ranger display and her suit was quickly assembled around her by the AI running it. Without the hood and mask, she walked herself to the teleporter and sighed. This armor slowed her down. Barely. Small price to pay when you want to be bullet proof, electricity proof and...well...everything proof.

Jenny blushed a bit more when he pat her on the head. Hotwire then sat next to her and she needed a friend to lean on now because of that movie. So jenny then started to lean on hotwire but before she could he jumped up to his feet. Jenny then face planted into the couch as he started to talk "....." Jenny sighed before getting up to her feet running to her room to grab her staff. She then ran to the teleporter to head out with the team.

Hotwire got himself together and was at the teleporter withing 5 minutes. As soon as he was there, he waited for the rest of the team to assemble, and addressed them as their various methods of transport were waiting.

"The teleporter will get us about 5 blocks from where the truck is. Use your communicators for a map." He said taking out his communicator and tapping it. It showed a map of the city, and showed the teleportation point, and the location of the truck. He then placed the communicator back of his belt.

"Metamorphi, change to something light, and Have Energy Warrior carry you." He explained. He then mounted his cycle. The moment he did, the teleportal engaged. "Titans! Go!" He yelled driving into it.

Yang rolled her eyes. "OK wow not like I'm here...or like I can make a plan..." Once the teleporter dropped them into the fight Yang grappled up to a nearby building and walked along the rooftops, now with a better view. The figure going through the truck didn't seem like a huge threat. Just a dude with a gun. She gave him a few different looks with her cowl, and once she hit thermal she stopped. He had no body heat. In fact, he was absolutely freezing cold. She patched into the comms grudgingly. "He's definitely not human. His body is at the most 50 degrees."

Everyone came, all kitted up and ready to go, whereas Meta had nothing but the clothes he had been wearing just a few seconds before, with a cheese stain from the pizza they had earlier that evening. Everyone had to take their own forms of transportation, but Meta kind of had none, so he had to make himself light and hitch a ride with Jenny. He transformed his body to the material of a feather and went on the back of Jenny's bike. Then they rode into the teleporter and straight into action.

Jenny nodded to Hotwire listening to him and ignored Yang's comment knowing that Hotwire knew that to properly asses the issue he had to know what was going on thus they couldn't just waste time there and talk over a plan that might fail because they were expecting something different from what was going on. Jenny put her staff through 2 belt rings of her pants and since Jenny no longer had a bike Meta would then realize why Hotwire needed Meta to get lighter for her. Jenny then had her irises turn light blue and scooped up meta bridal style and flew off with him towards the proper location they needed to go to.