It was a quiet day in Titans Tower. It had been almost six months since the combined effort of all Titans had defeated and froze the Brotherhood of Evil, leaving jump City relatively safe with crime almost non-existent. Now it was light work to ensure its safety often leaving the Titans with little to do.
Currently, the Teen Titans were sat in the tower's main room, watching a clichéd rom-com that Starfire had gleefully selected for the team to watch, much to Raven and Beast Boys' mutual distaste. Cyborg and Robin were both pretending to pay attention, Cyborg thinking of enhancements and upgrades he could give himself, and Robin giving a mental list to himself of criminals he knew were still around.
"Friends," Starfire said to Raven and Beast Boy, clapping her hands excitedly. "Is this not the most wondrous movie you have ever seen?"
"No," Raven deadpanned. "No, it is not."
"Yeah, no offence Star, but I don't think this movie is for me or Rae." Beast Boy added, attempting to rest his head on Raven's shoulder, who pushed him off and rolled her eyes.
"Oh," Starfire replied sadly, slumping into her seat. "Next time it may be better if you pick the movie."
"I'm enjoying it," Robin lied, lacing his hands with Starfire's hand, who perked up immediately at the physical affection. "But maybe we should all do something else after this," he suggested.
The movie ended abruptly when the Tower's crime siren sounded loudly, signalling a villain had been reported.
"Titans, go!" Robin ordered, and the team jumped into action, piling into the T-Car which Cyborg began to drive out of the Tower.
"Who is it?" Cyborg asked as the car sped down the streets.
"Warp," Robin replied, looking at his police communicator.
"Isn't he froze with the rest of the Brotherhood of Evil?" Beast Boy asked confusedly.
Robin nodded. "He is. This is probably him from the future," he theorised.
The teens waited until they arrived, none willing to admit they were grateful for the criminal offering them a sense of excitement.
Cyborg stopped the car, the screech of tires filling the empty road. People in Jump City were used to this kind of event, when a villain arrived they knew to leave the area.
Standing at the end of the road was Warp. Robin's theory was obviously correct, this Warp was far older than the middle-aged version that had been frozen. His forehead was lined with wrinkles and his normally black facial hair was specked with grey. His golden armour glistened in the sunlight, and on his chest was his time manipulation device. Warp smirked menacingly as the Titan's neared. "Greetings Titans," he said.
Robin readied his bo staff for an attack. "We've stopped you before Warp, and we'll stop you again."
Warp laughed, although there was no mirth in is tone. "You have defeated me many times, and you will defeat me many more," he conceded. He pulled out an odd shaped disk that resembled a spider, and attached it to his temporal vortex manipulator. "That is why I have set my sights on other places. Other dimensions and parallel universes will be mine to rule." Warp blasted his dimensional manipulator into the air, a swirling portal appearing with all colours of the spectrum converging into a spiral in the sky.
Robin paused for a moment. On the one hand, letting Warp go meant that they would never have to deal with him again, but it also meant that the team were simply letting another world deal with their problem.
The choice was obvious. "Titans, stop him," he instructed. Robin threw a variety of explosive disks at Warp, while Cyborg fired his sonic cannon at the same spot.
The dimensional manipulator began to fall apart, its pieces soaring through the air into the portal it created.
Raven and Starfire acted next, Starfire fired a starblast from her hands, the green beam striking Warp, while Raven added her own attack, a dark energy construct in the shape of a bird, which circled Starfire's green beam before colliding with Warp.
Warp's manipulator began to crumble, as the portal began to flicker in and out of being. Warp's eyes widened in horror. "You're destabilising the portal," he cried.
"Good," Beast Boy shouted back, before running towards Warp and transforming into a cheetah midway. He slashed the device on Warp's chest, destroying it and allowing the remains to be sucked into the unstable portal.
The portal began to spin rapidly, the colours blurring into a blinding white light, and the Titans had no chance to react before it seemed to explode, forcing them out of their world and into the portal.
Short opening chapter, but please review.
Feel free to suggest any alternate universes the Titans could find themselves in.