The vast chamber was silent. Save, of course, for the massive, grinding gears. He had always been fascinated by gears, even since he was a small child. The way they just clicked together and spun in perfect harmony. The satisfaction that came from putting all those gears and screws and bolts into their proper places and get them all working. The only thing that was more satisfying was incorporating new gears into the works. At first glance, the system is so vast that it couldn't possibly fit any more. In truth, you could. You just have to know where that odd gear belongs.

"You've done well." he said. "Your training has progressed quicker than I thought. You have even more potential than I dared to dream."

"Thanks. So…..we ready to start phase two?"

"Indeed." he replied.

"If things are gonna heat up as much as I think, I'm gonna need a crew to back me up."

"I know just the people for the job." he said. "Some old acquaintances that I hired to run an errand once. I know where you can find them."

"What if they don't want in?"

"You're a charismatic individual. I trust that you can sway them to our cause."

"Alright. Just a heads-up, though. Next move is gonna be loud."

"…..I'm counting on it."

…

One Week Later…

…..

*RIIIIING!*

And with the end-of-day bell, Spring Break had officially begun for the students of Dakota Union High School. Virgil Hawkins and Richie Foley were just two faces amongst the hundreds that poured out of the school's gates, eager to begin a whole week off. While the other students were no doubt planning vacations, Virgil and Richie had more humble plans: Continue to safeguard the city of Dakota from crime as superheroes Static and Gear. Not terribly different from the norm, except this time they could do it without worrying about class or homework for the next week, which was vacation enough for them.

Not that Dakota really needed that much safeguarding, truth be told. Ever since the Big Bang cure was sprayed across the city, things had been fairly quiet. Almost boring, really. Turns out, a sudden decrease in supervillains does wonders for a city's crime rate. With all the meta-human criminals gone, that just left the regular ones, which were little match for Static or Gear, as well as She-Bang and Rubberband Man. With four superheroes on patrol and no supervillains around to level the playing field, major crimes in the city had taken a sharp decline, most criminals being too scared of Static and his allies to do much more than spray graffiti and gamble on the street. In fact, the last survey showed that Dakota currently had a lower rate of major crime than even Metropolis, the lowest it's been in over twenty years. Citizens were calling it a new golden age.

All the better for Virgil. Without the need to fight foes as dangerous as Bang Babies, he was free to kick back, watch TV, play video games, gorge himself on junk food, and stop the occasional petty crime.

"Yo boys." Shenice Vale greeted her two friends as she approached. "We still for the party at Richie's?"

"You know it." Richie replied. "The first night of Spring Break shall be dedicated to pizza and Monster Hunter."

"Er, I'm gonna have to bow out of that one." Virgil replied. "I mean, I'll gladly chow down on pizza, but I'm gonna have to skip the Monster Hunter."

"Aw, I thought you had Jaggi armor ready to go." Richie replied.

"Yeah, and it was a pain to get it." Virgil explained. "Sorry Rich. The monsters are cool and all, but I just couldn't get into it. Too much grinding and button-mashing."

"What?!" Shenice yelped. "Button-mashing?! Clearly, you never bothered to memorize a monster's every single twitch or read up on the best damage spots to- "

"Woah woah there, Shenice." Richie said as he deliberately positioned himself between his two friends. He turned to Virgil. "Word to the wise, NEVER call Monster Hunter a button-masher in front of Shenice. She's a switch-axe user so…..yeah."

"Ooookay." Virgil replied, pretending to half-understand what Shenice just ranted about. "Guess I'll just trade in the game tomorrow, maybe make back a little extra scratch. Maybe we could play Halo?"

"Ugh." Shenice replied with a roll of her eyes. "I tried to tell Richie he was wasting his time trying to broaden your horizons. Admit it Virgil; you can't stand a game that requires you to think."

"Whatever, hunter girl." Virgil replied as he threw up his hands in defeat.

"Okay, so!" Richie interjected, eager to move on from two gamers strangling each other over different tastes. "We all head to the warehouse, suit up, go on patrol, and meet back up at my place at seven. Don't forget your shock voxes in case you encounter something worse than your garden variety purse snatcher, and everything should go pretty smoothly."

…..

Soon after reaching the abandoned gas station they all used as a base of operations, Virgil, Richie and Shenice became Static, Gear, and She-Bang respectively. Gear divided the city into thirds, assigned a third to each of the heroes and thus they set out. Rubberband Man was absent, as he was recording a new album out of state, but he promised that he'd be back in town by Monday so he could spend Spring Break with Sharon.

Static smiled as he waved back to all the Dakota citizens who waved up at the young superhero. With crime in the city at record lows, Static found these patrols to be much more relaxing and even pleasant than they used to be. Granted, he had always found it enjoyable, flying through the air and performing tricks for the adulating crowd, but there was always a tension in the air. A small fear in the back of his head that a Bang Baby was about to spring up and cause mayhem. That tension was gone now, which meant that Static could now fully enjoy himself as he flew through the city.

*BOOM!*

Or not.

Static pulled on his saucer to slow himself down and bring himself about. It was an explosion. It was pretty far off in the distance, so it wasn't that loud, but it was the kind of explosion Static had learned to recognize from over a year of being a superhero. It was the 'supervillain breaking and entering in style' kind of explosion. It was then that he saw a pillar of smoke rise out of Dakota's industrial district. Specifically, one of the buildings owned by Alva Industries.

The company that created the mutagenic gas known as 'The Big Bang.'

Static felt a shiver go down his spine as he instantly feared the worst. As he sped off, he reached into his pocket and fished out his shock vox. "Gear. It's Static. We've got problems."

"Big ones?" Richie asked.

"Big ones." Virgil replied. "There's been an explosion at Alva Industries. I think someone's breaking in."

"…..You sure it's a break-in?" Richie replied after a pause. "Could've just been an accident."

"Then I should probably help out." Static said. "Either way, I gotta check it out. I'll call you and She-Bang if I need back up."

"We'll be standing by." Richie replied. "Over and out."

It didn't take long for Virgil to arrive on the scene. Alarms were blaring from inside the building, which Static accessed via the gigantic hole blasted into the side. Alva employees were running out of the building in a panic, but on-site security was doing a good-enough job getting everyone out, leaving Static free to investigate the source. He was in a massive chamber full of pipes, large silos, and other miscellaneous machinery, as well as the odd computer console here and there. Unfortunately, it didn't take the superhero very long to find the source of the explosion.

Unfortunately, because the cause now was absolutely supervillains, and flamboyantly dressed ones at that. A big tall hairy dude wearing big boots and black spandex, a skinny dude in a red jumpsuit, a guy with a helmet that made it look like he only had one big eye, a kid that was wearing something between a Batman and a Dracula costume, and finally a bald toddler wearing goggles and black pajamas. They were all standing in front of a large vault door.

"Yeesh." Static replied as he winced. "Never thought I'd miss Hotstreak or Ebon. Say what you want, but at least they had some decent fashion sense."

"It's that Static Shock feller!" the one in red shouted. Static rolled his eyes. Why do people always get that wrong?

"Get him!" the toddler shouted. Static could see now that he was typing on some kind of handheld key pad, but that was all he could see as the other four guys rushed him. The big guy was up first as he leapt high into the air and tried to bring his fists down on the teen. Static nimbly dodged it in mid-air though. However, the one-eyed one started shooting lasers at him from said one eye, forcing Static to run.

"Gear! I need back up!" Static shouted into his shock vox. "It's a supervillain break-in and I'm outnumbered!"

One of the lasers nicked Static's saucer enough to send him off balance and fall onto the floor. He rolled as he hit the floor and reoriented himself back onto his feet. He found himself staring down the one in the red jumpsuit. "How outnumbered are you?" Gear asked over the vox.

The red-clad villain then…..split. Into two. Then four. Then eight. And finally sixteen.

"I'm way outnumbered." Static replied.

"Hang in there! She-Bang and I are on the way!" Gear assured before signing off.

"Dog-pile on the super-zero!" One of the red guys cried out in a thick southern accent. The clones yee-hawed as they all jumped and dog-piled on top of Static, multiplying even more to make sure he was well and truly crushed under their combined weight. However, beams of white shone through the pile, which promptly exploded, sending clones everywhere. Static was wreathed in an electromagnetic aura, lightning bolts flying from his hands as he held them out and balled them into fists. He smirked as even his eyes seemed to glow with electrical energy.

Though he would be hesitant to admit it to anyone, even to himself, part of him had missed intense fights like these.

It was then that he felt a kick in his back. Grunting in pain, Static lashed out with a static bolt, but the target….teleported away, to on top of some kind of machine. It was the vampire kid! Static fired another static bolt, but the vampire ported away again, and again and again as Static tried to get a beat on him. It was then that Static got an idea. He ceased his assault, allowing the vampire to teleport closer and charge in for a punch. As the batkid closed in, Static reached into his coat pocket for some wire.

Just as the freak was in range, Static held up his hands, which were tangled up in a web of wire and gave it some juice. The wires glowed with all the intensity of a lightbulb, minus the bulb, right in the villain's face. The Nova Burst - an oldie, but a goodie. It stunned the vampire long enough for Static to fire a static bolt, hitting the loyal hot topic customer square in the chest and sending him flying across the room.

"RRRRAAAAAAAAAARRRRRGH!"

That shout, accompanied by the thunderous footsteps, could only mean that it was the big guy's turn now. Static wheeled around and fired a static bolt at him…

Which didn't seem to affect him in the least. He grinned a toothy grin at him, and…..were those fangs? Oooooh, Static suddenly had a bad feeling. He fired another static bolt, but this one missed the hulking dude entirely. "Ha! Missed, shrimp!" he retorted in a low, gravelly voice.

"Look up." Static replied. The brute abided….

And saw a large metal crate that Static was holding up with his electrokinesis. Static slammed it on top of the big guy…

But then he caught it, and tossed it aside. "Nice try, but you're gonna hafta-"

*THWOP!*

And in came She-Bang hitting him right across the jaw with her patented double kick. The brute flew across the room and landed flat on his back. Static winced. THAT had to hurt. He's pretty sure he saw some spittle and a tooth fly out of the dude's mouth right there. Another victim of She-Bang's deadly foot size.

"Am I late?" She-Bang asked as she faced down the behemoth. The big guy eventually got up and spat out another tooth before glaring angrily at She-Bang, growling like an animal as he did so. The red villain took a spot next to him and multiplied into a sufficient fighting force.

"You're right on time." Static replied as he saw the vampire and the cyclops glaring at him, the latter's eye starting to glow. His fists glowed with electromagnetic power as the two heroes took off to fight their respective villains.

The vampire teleported right in front of Static and engaged him in fisticuffs. It became immediately clear that Static was outmatched by the vampire, as hand-to-hand combat wasn't his forté. He generated an electromagnetic pulse from his body, which knocked the vampire away. He fired a static bolt at his saucer to retrieve it. He needed to get back into the air to get back the advantage. It came to him and he hopped on seconds before the cyclops fired another laser at him. Static circled the cyclops as the one-eyed villain turned a dial on his helmet, switching his eye from green to yellow. Static fired a static bolt at him….

Which was deflected by a bubble shield formed around the villain. "Catch!" the cyclops yelled as he smacked the side of his helmet, launching the bubble at Static like a projectile. Static yelped in alarm as he dodged out of the way of the massive bubble, which exploded upon contact with the far wall.

Static felt someone bear-hug him from behind. A look over his shoulder revealed it was the vampire again. He must have teleported behind him. His gloved hands shot up to his neck and head, which made Static fear the worst. The hero instantly pumped hundreds of volts through his whole body to shock the dude off. The vampire was quick this time as he teleported away just in time, only to teleport back to kick Static off the saucer and back onto the floor. The cyclops grinned at him as he switched his eye back to green, which began to glow ominously. The vampire teleported next to him and wore a smirk. "We got you now, suckah!" the cyclops giggled maniacally.

It was then that a cluster of small explosions went off around the cyclops, knocking him back and making the vampire teleport away. Gear landed nearby, turning off his jet blades and throwing another round of zap caps at the two villains before turning back to Static. "You okay?" he asked.

"Yeah." Static replied as he got back up. "Been a while since I fought legit supervillains. Little bit rusty."

"I'll deal with these two." Gear said. "But the munchkin just cracked open the vault and headed inside. You need to catch up with him."

"On it." Static said as he hopped back onto his saucer and sped off to the vault. A cursory glance below revealed that She-Bang was holding her own just fine against the big guy and the Blue Collar Comedy Tour. She was smacking around red-spandex rednecks with a big long pipe in between laying a hurting on that muscled mullet. Content that his friends could hold their own a little while longer, Static flew off into the vault to find the toddler.

The vault was massive, with shelves upon shelves of beakers and vials filled with chemicals of every possible color. He eventually spotted the toddler…..wearing a jetpack? What? Anyway, he was floating in the air, aided by a jetpack, and searching through beakers. "Bingo!" he said as he held up a large beaker full of glittery, purple fluid. Purple like…..

The Big Bang! Static thought to himself. The last time someone tried to steal that stuff, it was to recreate the Big Bang and make more Bang Babies. No way he was going to let these freaks put Dakota through THAT nightmare again. "Yo! Pint-size!" he hollered at the short villain. The kid turned around and glared Static down as the latter's fists were wreathed in orbs of electrical power. "Drop the juice!"

"Not a chance, squid head!" the kid yelled back as a rocket launcher appeared from his back (seriously, where was this kid getting all this stuff?) and fired a…..blob or something at Static. He didn't know what it was, just that he was able to dodge it in time.

"Squid head? They're called 'dreadlocks' little man!" Static retorted as he fired a static bolt at the kid. It hit the kid square in the chest…..

And did nothing.

In fact, it made the kid's harness surge with power, prompting a snorting chuckle from the little brat. "Thanks for the super charge, crud-muncher!" he yelled as his rocket launcher fired again. Static could now see that it was goop, and instead of a blob, the launcher was firing a whole stream of the stuff this time. Static tried to dodge but he was too late; the slime hit him and knocked him to the ground. Even worse, it hardened and became like rubber. Static tried to shock his way out but, again, it was like rubber. His powers wouldn't do him any good now.

"Guys! I got the stuff!" the kid shouted as he flew out of the vault. "Let's get out of here! Billy, cover our escape!"

"Can do!" the guy in red shouted as he multiplied ten-fold and sent his clones after She-Bang and Gear. With Static incapacitated and his two partners preoccupied, the pack of villains had the perfect avenue of escape. They left the building and, a minute later, Static could see some kind of weird aerial vehicle lift off into the air; their ride, apparently. Gear was able to break free of the redneck brigade long enough to throw something onto the vehicle's hull, and a minute later, it took off. The clones promptly zipped out of existence.

Their foes gone, She-Bang and Gear walked up to Static, the former trying to tear at the stuff by hand to free the electrokinetic. "What happened?" Gear asked.

"Little guy got away." Static grunted. "They werehere for the chemical that caused the Big Bang. I saw the runt fly off with a beaker of the stuff."

"Oh no…." Gear muttered as he blanched. "Are you sure?"

"Positive." Static answered. "I'd know that shade of purple anywhere."

"I take it party at Richie's is officially cancelled?" She-Bang asked as she pulled off the last of the gunk covering Static and helped him up.

"Looks like it." Static replied. "We gotta get that stuff back before they do anything with it."

"Already ahead of ya." Gear said. "I threw a tracking device on their ride just before they took off. I'll know where they're heading in just a few minutes."

"Okay." Static said. "Let's head back to base and plan our next move from there."

"So much for spring break…." She-Bang sighed.

"Least we still don't have any class." Static said in an attempt at optimism. "I know I wouldn't wanna worry about a book report on top of a second Big Bang."

….

Not gonna lie, it's been a while since I've enjoyed writing a fight scene that much. Seriously, my fingers were just flying across the keys while I had the original Static Shock theme music playing in my head. And believe it or not, I was able to pump out this whole thing in just one sitting!

And yes, dear reader, your eyes do not deceive you. DinoJake is officially entering the realm of Teen Titans fan fiction! Yes, I do feel kinda dirty. But let me explain!

As those of you who follow my tumblr may know, I'm babysitting my six-year-old niece a lot these days. One of her favorites shows is Teen Titans Go! and…the less said about that show, the better. But it did something right. It got me on a Teen Titans kick and, by extension, a DC universe kick. After a while of purusing TT fan fiction, I realized something.

There wasn't really any good Static Shock / Teen Titans crossover fan fiction out there. Least, not anything that caught my interest. This disappointed me, having been a fan of both shows in my early adolescence. And with both shows revolving around teenage superheroes in the DC universe…..come on. The fanfics practically write themselves. So then I thought - "Screw it. I'll write one myself." And as ideas turned into scenes, this bold experiment came to be.

Why do I say experiment? Because I'm gonna do something with this fanfic I've never done before - update it by a fixed schedule. Expect a new chapter every single monday from now until…I burn out, I guess. Why do this? A couple of reasons.

1. Ask any fan of The Last Spartan. I REALLY need to work on pumping out fanfic chapters faster. So I'll be doing this to see if I could even accomplish a fixed schedule.

2. I've only had this idea for the last few weeks or so. It's still fresh in my mind, and therefore exciting. So exciting that I often find myself pumping out an entire chapter in one day. It's a shiny new project so I feel like I'm excited enough to commit to it, at least in the short term. Hell, I'm already up to Chapter 4 of this thing, believe it or not. If I keep writing at this pace, I should be able to stay well ahead of the schedule.

So yeah. Teen Titans / Static Shock crossover fan fiction with a fixed update schedule. Will this work? Only time will tell. Stay tuned.