Jump City, Police Headquarters
The entire precinct was abuzz with activity, something Thomas Blake was all familiar with in working officially in this city; now owning the rank of Commissioner of the entire police force, the former anti-hero of a past generation, was now seeing a new upsurge in superheroes.
He's seen the rise of Batman and Superman and their Justice League, during his years as a forty year old man; he had hung up his own vigilante persona years ago during his early thirties and went legit into the police force, and now he's in his fifties.
He was busting criminal faces in with his own hands in his prime, tossed the likes of Monsieur Mallah through a window during a covert operation of dealing with the big league villains for a time; but now, he was a greying haired man, but had enough fire in him to keep chugging along to put criminals behind bars.
Right now, he needed to start issuing out orders to the people under his command.
Phone Calls filled the precinct from concerned citizens, "Someone, give me anything, what we got, what's going on, I want our people out there yesterday handling his alien invasion!" he barked out, a deep and grouchy tone.
As Commissioner Blake strode through the main room of where police would write down police reports at their desks, his lieutenant Li Yun, a woman of asian descent, ran up to join him as they rushed in unison towards the commander center of the precinct, "Commissioner, I just got the report in, one ship was followed by another, before chaos broke out from the latter ship that chased the former one."
The commissioner grunted in annoyance, as he was followed by his lieutenant into the command center, where people were seated and working around the clock to dol out directions for the police of everything happening in real time; several monitors were displayed on the far wall, all were large and showed wide live footage of various angles of the two ships hovering in the air.
Blake's eyes narrowed as he looked at the one ship that was smoking, and was being held in place by that alien resident Buu. The local super powered alien to Jump City was far from a normal hero by many standards, the little pink guy was usually in the vicinity whenever he dealt with crime, before he went on his way to mind his own business.
Which was fine with Blake, his police force could handle petty crime to anything else short of super villains…but he had a gut feeling this single event was going to start something new, he's been around the block long enough to know when shit started and a new era began.
Afterall, there's that Hive Academy that he's been trying to hunt down and find, then there were various supervillains the likes of Plasmus and Cinderblock popped their heads into the mix of crime in his city.
Then there is the fact that Robin of all sidekicks popped into his neighborhood not but a few hours ago, saying he split from Batman to become his own hero in his own making; it was ironic, really, seeing Bruce's protege come to his city. One of the few reasons he let the little firecracker set up shop in his city, was that he still owed Bruce a few favors.
He'd have to call Bruce up, and see what the hell happened over in Gotham between the two; but he was not complaining, the little shit Robin was already doling out justice in a very heavy-handed fashion.
That purse snatcher was a repeated offender of multiple crimes, and now that fucker found out what happens when your faced against not a cop, but a trained Hero…with a severe case of something that Blake couldn't pin down.
Then there was the attempted robbery at a grocery store, with Majin Buu present there before Robin dealt with the escaping criminals.
He's still remembering the footage of Buu just casually blasted the guns apart, before the criminals booked it outside, only to be dealt with by Robin. It was one thing to be a dumbass to try and rob a grocery store where the police force wields laser guns, it was another to forget that there was a possibility that the residential pink alien would be in the vicinity.
It was one of the reasons why Metropolis was statistically low on its petty crime, you had damn Superman in the city. Gotham wasn't any better, since you also had to look out for not stepping on the toes of the crime boss families operations or god forbid the villains of Batman. Sure, petty crime still existed in those cities, but you had to be some sort of different idiot to try your luck in those cities.
"Sir, look!" Lieutenant Yun shouted beside him, earning his attention to look at the screens more directly, and there, on one of the screens, Buu had just now turned the entire ship he was holding up into one big chocolate ship, "I…I think it's cracking!" she said in worry.
Commissioner Blake frowned as he watched the live feed of the newly turned chocolate ship break under its own weight, showing it was hollow with caramel inside and marshmallow bits strewn throughout the cascading waterfall-like stream of slowly descending caramel.
Blake cursed inwardly, "Oh you have got to be shitting me." he groused, "Did that idiot forget how physics work! He should have just turned into solid chocolate…wait, why did he even do that in the first place!?" He grouched with an annoyed scowl, he couldn't help but reach up and irritatingly scratched at the back of his head.
One of the workers turned in his chair to look up at Blake with a hapless shrug, "Could be worse, sir, that ship could have been filled with something toxic for all we know, before he turned it all into chocolate and caramel!" He offered a small smile at the end.
Black grunted back, and crossed his arms, "Yeah, but we don't know that!"
After that, the commissioner began issuing out orders of getting his police force out to help defend the citizens from the aliens exiting the second ship. "And get our hazmat boys on the line, tell them a heavy clean up is due!" he added.
Another of his workers spoke as the woman held her piece to her ear, "Just getting in calls, sir-" she turned in her chair to look at her boss, "Besides Robin and Buu, more heroes are popping up helping defend the city, as well as two alien girls from the first ship that entered into the city's airspace."
Blake gestured for her to do her job, "Bring me up the footage of them!" he barked out in a commanding tone.
"Sir!" she relayed, before she turned back in her chair and began typing into her computer keyboard.
Across the many screens, Blake watched with his arms crossed, of live feed as well as from various new networks showing A Cyborg, A green skinned teen that turned into animals, two girls that conjured up magic; one girl used some black stuff that sent vehicles flying after they were covered in the black spells, and the other girl with pink hair was using some sort of pink energy that caused the alien invaders to receive some sort of bad luck by the looks of it.
Beside those four teen kids, you had the two alien girls, Robin and Buu, all of which were addressing the issue of the alien invasion by fighting back at the aliens.
'Not the sort of night I was expecting, when I woke up today…' Blake inwardly mused, as he rubbed at his chin, feeling the stubbles of his beard, having yet to shave his face clean.
Before long, Blake watched footage of Buu flying off into the alien ship, followed shortly after by that black haired alien girl; before long, the rest of the teens followed shortly into the ship via their own way of getting into the ship.
His eyes caught the small image of some figure getting launched out of the ship, before it landed in the river. "I will say this much, this entire fiasco would have been worse, if those teen heroes weren't here…" He mused with a dry tone, it would have been harder to repel the aliens, before anyone from the Justice League arrived.
By happenstance, every superhero teen was within the city to be ready to help, something he'd have to get into contact with Robin and thank the little shits for.
Having Buu already was helpful, but having a full team to address the entire city was better in dealing with bigger problems that his men couldn't completely deal with.
In a matter of less than an hour, the entire alien invasion was dealt with, thanks to the superhero teens. A load of his shoulders, to be sure.
Blake and everyone else in the command room, watched and witnessed the ship itself that was still in the air, get carried off in the direction of the moon, right after everyone exited before Buu carried it off into space, "...But why?" Blake whispered to himself with his brows furrowed forward, and his hand cupping his chin, "What, does that little pink alien want a ship of his own, and wants to use the moon as a parking spot?" He somewhat joked to himself in a mutter.
His lieutenant spoke up beside him, having overheard his mutterings, "Think of it this way, sir, the US government might have closed down this city, just to seize it for its technology, if none of those alien girls claimed it." Yun whispered to him in a warning way.
"True…" Blake muttered with an annoyed look.
After that, Commissioner Blake began issuing out orders to get his police force out helping people in any possible leftover danger, as well as take down any straggling aliens that were left behind. "And someone, get me the hazmat force on the line, we got-"
"Sir! We got activity from Buu doing something about his mess!" Another one of his workers shouted, earning Blake's attention back to the monitors, showing live footage of Buu himself, in the form of a streetsweeper, sucking up and eating all the Caramel.
"..." Blake had no words for the method the alien was using to clean up his mess, Blake's own mouth opened and shut, before he sighed and rubbed his palm against his face and dragged it down beside him, giving the monitor showing a street cleaner Buu a flat look, "Not the worse method." he muttered.
It was better than using that magic of his, and turning all that caramel into water to wash off into the river leading out into the sea. Blake's eyes caught the images of the other monitors, showing off the other teen helping get people around the clock in the aftermath. "Hmm…not a bad start for these little upstarts." he mused under his breath,
Majin Buu
Hours later
While it was getting into the late hours mark of the night, nearing midnight, the city itself was still abuzz with activity after the recent incident; you'd be probably fortunate or now to have slept past the entire alien invasion, but for the people that experience and seen it all happen, many were outside talking about their experience with their neighbors among the apartment buildings.
Business were still open offering late night services, but most of them did regardless before the alien invasion ever occurred; you had the stores that were open twenty four seven, and then you had the fast food restaurants that offered serving food well into the early hours of the next day before they closed down for the night shift staff to clean up and prepare the place for the breakfast hours workers.
Currently, after having eaten up my mess of caramel and two more bathroom breaks throughout it all, Cyborg had just suggested everyone celebrate at the corner pizza joint, once everyone rejoined back up.
While in the background, the ambient city noise echoed around us, Starfire spoke up with a curious look on her face, before she smiled in excitement as she looked at Cyborg, "I almost forgot of Earth's culinary cuisine, during me and my sister's journey here!" she remarked, while she palmed her fist, "I had a curious thought what your planet's food would be like!" she smiled with a giggle.
Blackfire sighed a bit with her arms crossed, and spoke with a flat look while giving her sister a sideways glance, "I'll admit, the thought has passed my own mind as well." She looked to begrudgingly admit, before she glanced off to the sides, "Though I do wonder, if Earth's spice's are used well, or if at all." she mused.
I was curious myself what Tamaran food was like, not to mention the rest of the universe's culinary cuisine; humans have built empires on spice trade, to countries being well known for their signature dishes and types of food. One does simply conquer a nation on an empty stomach afterall.
Beast Boy spoke with a toothy grin, "Nah, that's just the Brits that don't use their spices!" He puffed his chest out with pride, "Here in America, we use all sorts of spices to flavor our food!" he proudly stated with his fists against his sides.
…oh yeah, I almost forgot that one episode with Mad Mod it in, Beast Boy was particularly vocal on America kicking Britain's butt in the American Revolution, if I remember right.
Raven, with her hood now down, spoke with a dry tone, "Yeah, just don't go overboard on the saturated fat food America uses." She chimed in, "Expect the use of heavy oil in fried food." she added.
Robin was the one to look at everyone with a critical gaze behind that domino mask of his, "I don't know why you insist on this pizza party…" he began to say with a frown, before smirking afterwards, "But I can't deny I'm feeling the hankering for some pepperoni pizza." he mused.
I kinda feel like he was channeling his inner Batman in that first half, before his teen self won through with his gut.
It was Jinx that spoke next while giving me a look, "What about you? You ate all that caramel and marshmallow stuff, um…you think you got the appetite for it?" she asked, with a raised brow.
I shot a look back at Jinx with a shrug, I wasn't feeling full at all, after that third bathroom break, "Buu's feeling need to eat something savory, Buu wants eat pizza with jalapenos." I was really craving something spicy after all, after devouring so much sugar.
It was honestly surreal at the moment to interact with the whole Teen Titan's team, plus two extra.
"Wait." Starfire piped up, expression confusion on her face, "What about the money for this pizza? Sister and I did not bring any currency, and I highly doubt your Earth converts Tamaranean currency if we did, since it is the Backwater planet!" she pointed out with concern on her face.
Figuring I'd help foot the bill, I held my hand out and popped a golden apple out from the palm of my hand, "Would pizza join take gold?" I proposed, if not, I had enough money on my debit card.
"Dude!" Beast boy said as he popped in beside me and looked at the apple up close with a shining look, "Where'd you find a golden apple!?"
Heh Gold plus apple equals gapple…or is it that one apple variety that looks like an apple, but tastes like a grape? I think then it'd be called a grapple.
I gave Beast Boy a sideways look and smirked a bit, "Buu turned apple pure gold with Buu's magic!" I proudly stated, before making Beast boy suddenly frown.
Robin spoke aloud while giving me an unsure look, "Um…first off, I don't think restaurants take gold for exchange of services, second, I don't think it's wise to turn stuff into gold willy nilly." he said while looking at me.
Cyborg spoke next while he looked at me as well, "Wait, you're the one that turned an entire cow gold?" He shouted in surprise, "I thought my pops was just yanking my chain when he came home that one time and told me that story!?"
I looked back at Cyborg, giving him a hapless shrug, keeping the golden apple still on my palm, before it was snatched by Jinx to look at closer, followed by the others as it was passed around, "Buu turned cow back to normal afterwards, Buu needed to get familiar with Buu's self and powers, after long nap." I nodded at myself.
Robin was the last one to inspect the golden apple, before he tossed it back at me, to which I caught it, and spoke up, "Look, I'll foot the bill, I still have enough money to cover a year's worth of food." Robin spoke assuredly.
I absorbed the golden apple back through my palm for later sale, while Beast Boy chimed back to Robin with a gleam in his eye and smile, "Ooh, Let me guess! It's leftover Batman money that your mentor gave you as allowance, before you left Gotham!"
Robin didn't say anything for a second, before he sighed a bit with a twitching eye, "Right." he stated with a bit of a grumble.
Cyborg spoke as he clapped his hands with a smirk, "Well, whatever the case is, I'll chip in as well! We can talk about making an official team during dinner!" he thumbed at himself and gestured at Beast Boy, "Heck, me and BB were just talking about starting a team together as heroes, but since we have more heroes on hand, we can start our own Justice League team of sorts!"
Jinx spoke at the moment with a rather rueful smirk, "Just don't be calling it Tartarus, it still feels like an organization."
Okay, I know I'm not an aficionado of DC lore, but I do remember reading something from somewhere about that name being a thing for villains that were the enemies of the Teen Titans.
I chimed in, deciding to help just give the name out, "Buu suggests going by Teen Titans, Tartarus sound evil."
"See!?" Jinx gestured with a smirk at me with her hand, while looking at Cyborg, a conversation must have taken place previously, for her to express that way, "Told you Tartarus sounds evil!" She remarked, earning a nod from Cyborg.
Raven spoke while eyeing me, "Teen Titans, huh?" She mused on the name.
Cyborg smiled as he spoke, while he gestured for everyone to follow him to the pizza joint in the distance, "Alright, sounds like a plan! Come on, I got a cybernetic stomach, but my taste buds are hankering for some triple meat combo supreme pizza!"
I followed Cyborg, with the rest of everyone. It was really surreal to be amongst cartoon characters that were now real to me, but I've now met Victor before he started his hero career as Cyborg. He, like anyone else in this group, was someone with their own lives to live.
Everyone starts from somewhere, in their hero origins, and it was cool to see Victor grow into his Cyborg hero status; going from unsure how to cope with being in his new body, to outright getting out to being himself, not minding the fact that he no longer had most of his human parts.
…wait, if Fat Buu had healing powers, would that apply for me as well? If so, would Victor want his body healed back to its former status, or would he actually embrace his cybernetics, it was after all what granted him the opportunity to become a superhero.
A question for another time, I should practice the ability if I have it, before I bring the subject matter up with Victor.