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Teen Titans Practice Run

Who: The Teen Titans
When: Thursday Night, April 5th, 8:00pm.
Where: Titans' Headquarters in the Warehouse in Sector 11.
Summary: First team building exercise!
Warnings: Possible language.

Red Robin had gone and split the group into pairs. They'd have to learn to work with another person before they could figure out how to work as a team. So, analyzing their strengths and weaknesses, he'd picked a pretty good match for everyone.

And by match, that meant everyone was paired with their total opposite, except for one team that was going to be a threesome, since one of their members was not going to be a fighter, but more of a medic.

The Groups:

Mugetsu and Superboy and Cambion {Christina Nickson and Superboy and Kurosaki Ichigo)
Ikol and Oathkeeper (Loki and Sora)
Squinky and Imagine Breaker (Guybrush Threepwood and Kamijou Touma)
White Justice and Darkbeat (Momo Himori and Joe Fieldman)
Peregrinus and Grim Couture (Jack Kelly and Kanaya Maryam)
Blood Rose and Kusunoki Masashige (Amy Sorel and Yosuke Hanamura)
Occupational Hazard and Neophyte (Hiccup and Terezi Pyrope)
Sugar Plum and Red Robin (Ahiru and Tim Drake)

There will be four stations throughout this exercise, with everyone rotating between the warehouse, the docks, a sector ll alleyway, and the Titans' headquarters. There will be three different robots to fight, depending on where your team decides to go.

If they go down to the docks, the robots look like this. The tentacle hands will reach out through the water, and you need to destroy them in any way you can. Cutting them off might do the job, or, might not. The objective is to press the red button in the middle of it's body.

If they go to the warehouse, they can see that parts of the floor are covered in spider robots. These shoot little lasers at you from their eyes, and it's hard to reach them all in one go.

If they go down to any alleyway in Sector 11, they'll find that these robots ready to attack from the shadows. While these robots don't move as fast as the others, they make up for that in how heavy and guarded they can be.

And, lastly, once everyone has worked through the three courses, they can come on up to the Titan's Headquarters, sit back on one of the couches, eat some pizza, drink some soda, and just chill and hang out.

Tim does want to meet with each of you individually,. but don't worry! It's all good. He'll address any issues or concerns one on one.

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Maybe if I try and break the sensor-

[ he shouts aloud in thought, tucking up into a forward roll to dodge the arm, but wincing as some of the splintered wood jams into his hand - a stupid way to get hurt, but that's what tweezers are for.

Better thanbeing crushed up by the arm, anyway, and Soul Eater glows with an aura of malice, thrust forward between the bound arms, toward the heart if the machine. ]

Darkbeat! [Hinamori shouts in horror. Fast as she can, she's got another binding around that arm. Oh, I hope he's not hurt...

Soul Eater just barely misses the blinking red light in the center of the machine (which, on closer inspection, also seems to be a button one can simply press) and lodges just to the side of it, slicing through easy-to-cut electrical cables and wires and getting stuck in the twisting, tearing metal.

Water and electricity are not such a good combo, though. Sparks fly around the area Soul Eater's become lodged in, and shocks crackle over the surface of the machine.]

[Hinamori's reaction is just more horror. No, no, no, this can't be happening...]

[Oh. Oh, that doesn't occur to him until the device is already crackling with live electricity, prickling in purple flares like tiny bits of lightning ( or like that time Roxas put a foil-wrapped burrito in the microwave!)

...Or that time he was thrown back across the floor, limbs twitching, by a horrible blond with a cruel laugh.

Either memory is enough incentive to drop the blade immediately, the immediate loss of contact sending it dissolving back into the rage of his heart, evaporating in another cloud of black. Joe scrambles to his feet and hauls himself up on a pier post by one arm, watching the machine thrash and snap at itself.]

[Well, so much for staying put. White Justice rushes immediately down the pier towards him, helping him up even if he doesn't need it.] Are you alright? I can heal you—

[She's interrupted by the angry thrash of the machine and she whirls to face it. This... this thing hurt her friend and hell if she's going to let it live after that. She starts chanting a long, complicated incantantion, concentration written all over her face. There's an immense feeling of pressure in the air as she releases her spiritual energy into a large blue blast that spreads out, envelops the robot, and explodes, completely obliterating the machine into tiny pieces of shrapnel. A shield goes up almost immediately between the two of them and the explosion, preventing them from being sliced by the flying pieces of metal.]

[At least, until an arm reaches out from directly behind them to snatch White Justice around the waist and hoist her into the air.] Uwaah! [Say hello to Robot Number Two!]

Yeah, yeah, it's just a chunk of wood, I'll pick it out later, it's f-

[He's mid-reassuring her when she begins her spell, eyes going wide as the blue explosion reflects in them. Woah. Cool! So she does have really powerful magic!

He's caught breathless in admiration for a long moment, until there's a shriek at his side and he whirls to see the second bot snatching at her.

Oh, not on his watch-] No you're not! [He springs, Soul Eater returning to his hand in a flash and coming down furiously on another metal joint. causing the claw hands to release.]

[White Justice falls a bit, but skids into a tense, alert landing nonetheless.] Th-thank you, Darkbeat. [She smiles, though her eyes stay fixed on the robot.]

[She dodges another grab from the arm.] I guess I can make short work of these— [She stops, noticing the red button on this one, since it's much closer. Her brow wrinkles.] That's odd, I wonder what... [She carefully lines up her fingers with the button.] Hadō Number 1: Thrust! [A small force comes from her fingers and impacts against the button. The entire machine goes still, whirring arms falling silent.]

[She doesn't know what she was expecting, but her face freezes in surprise.] Huh.

So it's like an off button...

[He considers, coming up alongside her, still standing at alert as he skims the dark water below for any red lights, or something worse-]

We should still be careful for regular monsters around here too- we're lucky, that we haven't run into any yet...

[He looks over Darwin's Darkness Guide frequently, but has never really paid much mind to the creatures that inhabit the waterfront areas.]. Ucgh... Smells like rotten fish around here. Yuck.

Well, I suppose that makes sense, if they're practice dummies. They'd have an off button somewhere.

[She hadn't even been thinking about the other monsters. She chided herself inwardly. Though she hadn't been here that long, and often forgot that night here was more than just darkness, overlooking a major aspect in a battle plan like that was dangerous. The water is still, and there don't appear to be any more threats—for the moment—so she turns to Darkbeat.] Here, let me see your hand.

[She doesn't respond to the comment about the smell, although she can smell it too. It's distracting, and disgusting, and has been since they arrived, but she can't let something like that get in the way of doing a good job.]

[He sighs, turning his palm to her, and showing where several splintered slivers of wood have jammed in past the skin- it doesn't hurt, really...but he dreads having to pick them all out.]

I guess I should add some kind of tougher gloves to my costume.

[White Justice inspects his hand, a concerned look on her face.] That's not a bad idea... perhaps I should have gloves too. I suppose that's the point of a practice exercise, to learn these sorts of things.

[She frowns. Her healing magic would increase his rate of healing dramatically, but she thinks that maybe they should get the splinters out before healing the skin. Which is going to take time.]

[Time they don't have. Because two more robots are rising slowly out of the water towards the two of them.]

Yeah... I thought it would be enough just to-

[He's glancing away distractedly, not wanting to look down at his hand, just glad it's not the one he has to close over his sword, and happy he doesn't need to grasp it with both, like Sora's keyblade.

The little red lights alert him, just as much as the soft noise of disturbance in the water, claws dribbling.]

Oh hey, White Justice, heads up!

[White Justice looks up quickly. Her eyes go wide and she grabs Darkbeat's arm, careful to grab his wrist above the injured hand, pulling him behind her protectively.]

[Two robots now. Challenging, but not undoable.] I know your secret now— [She fires off two of the Thrust spells she used earlier, one from each hand, aimed at the buttons in the center of the robots. But these robots seem slightly smarter than the last ones, or at least faster. They dodge.]

[And keep coming, fast now, surrounding the pier the two teens are standing on, making long sweeps with their arms and grabbing wildly.]

[So they're not such an easy target after all. Just how many of these practice machines got planted out here?

Joe's eyes dart from robot to robot, shifting just barely out of reach when the arms come up grabbing- there's so many, surrounding them, that it only makes sense to try something that effects the whole area at once.]

Quick! [He gasps over his shoulder at White Justice, waiting for her to secure herself safely before he unleashes his Dark Aura, something not so different from the release of spiritual pressures Momo is used to, but this one is a flood of darkness in the heart, a powerful force of negativity] Get up that shield around yourself again!

Got it! [She erects the barrier around herself, drawing her sword preemptively in case she needs to come out and fight.]

[There's a brief crackle of energy and all goes to blackness- a moment later the boy is visible with his blade plunged into the old wood of the dock, and ground flashes with an outward surge of deadly ultraviolet, rippling into the water and tearing a path of destruction in its wake.]

[The darkness frightens her, but the blast itself leaves her frozen in awe. He's powerful, too.] I-Incredible...

[The robots are easily blown apart by the aura, leaving nothing but floating bits of metal floating quietly in the water.]

[And... checkpoint cleared! (OOC: I have no idea how they're supposed to know when a course is cleared, but we'll say they cleared it!)]

[Letting go of the darkness like that hurts at his chest a little, that icy-swelling feeling that catches in his throat, and makes it heard to steady out his breath for a few moments, but he rises to his feet again with a dangerous sort of glower around the docks.... not even acknowledging his partner at first, or keeping his back to her because he's well aware that power is something some people think less of him for using-

...He quietly reaches for his pocket to grasp one hand loosely around his Soul Gem too, a little worried once more for how much it's filling up. While he trusts his heart is strong, Kyubey's warnings always make him a little anxious.]

Looks like that's all of 'em for now, huh?

[He finally mutters, squinting down at the hand that's gained splinters, and wishing there were streetlights that actually worked out in the darkness.]

[White Justice lets down her shield slowly, all too aware of the darkness still surrounding Darkbeat, and she's not talking about the magic.] Seems that way.

[She approaches, cautiously, and notices him look down at his hand. Immediately, she produces a bright white light in her left hand, casting away all the shadows and illuminating the entire pier.] We should head back to headquarters and get you cleaned up. I'm sorry I didn't do a better job of keeping you from getting hurt; it was my fault for letting that arm get near you.

[He squints with strain at the sudden burst of brightness, shielding his eyes with a nod-]

Put that thing out, [Darkbeat does hiss in sharp warning, however] every monster in five blocks is gonna get angry and come looking for us.

...I'm not mad. Accidents happen. We make a good team.

[Hinamori startles at his hiss, her face frozen in surprise and apology. She's still not used to the workings of the Darkness; she stays inside most nights and when she doesn't, it often catches her off guard to see the buildings so cheery in mid-day decrepit and terrifying by night. But she dims the light to a smaller and softer ivory one.]

I guess we do, don't we? In the end, we got through it all.

[Then she smiles, determined the lighten the mood.] Siren's Port, beware! Your superheroes are on their way! [And a giggle.]

[Joe smiles, he gives a soft but fervant 'heh!' of agreement, since... High Fives might have to be put on hold.

He waves her ahead quickly through, ducking behind a cargo container and standing in front of her to shadow the light before creatures emerge to investigate the previous shock of brightness.]

Yeah. It'll be great- C'mon, lets hurry up and try to be the first back, so we can see how all the others did!

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Teen Titans Practice Run

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d'aw that icon is perfect

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also, robot power-up time! because that's how i roll

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