Who Needs The League? (Titans Unlimited)

Episode 1 of the first season of Teen Titans Unlimited. Following a string of related assassinations of foreign dignitaries, Robin, Red Arrow and Kid Flash track down the KGBeast in order to stop the issue at it's source. On their way, the trio run into Wonder Girl and Aqualad, who are also looking to stop this string of assassinations. This marks the origin of the Teen Titans, a teenage crime fighting force.

Cast

 * Nick Robinson as Robin/Dick Grayson
 * Ty Simpkins as Kid Flash/Wally West
 * Tye Sheridan as Red Arrow/Roy Harper
 * Courtney Eaton as Wonder Girl/Donna Troy
 * Drew Van Acker as Aqualad/Garth
 * Florian Munteanu as KGBeast/Anatoli Knyazev
 * Brianne Tju as Ravager/Rose Wilson
 * Samira Wiley as Jinx

Story
The episode begins with 6 armed agents dressed in Bee-like costumes chasing a man in a hallway. They corner the man, nearly about to kill him, but Robin drops down on one agent, throwing his gun at another agent’s face. Red Arrow shoots a gas arrow at the ground, piercing two other agents in the shoulder in the process. Robin clicks on his headset

Robin

KF, now!

Kid Flash runs in and gets the man out of the situation, coming back to knock all the agents back against a wall. The agents look up at the trio, who are triumphant.

Agent

Kids?

Robin

Who do you work for.

Red Arrow

And hurry up with it, the Batman shtick gets old fast.

Kid Flash

Not supposed to let the bad guys hear that dude. We have to intimidate them.

Robin

Will you guys- ugh whatever.

Robin knocks the guard out and looks in his pocket.

Robin

Red Arrow, Kid Flash go check on Mr. Abdallah. I’ll find our mystery employer.

They walk towards the man, while Robin looks in the wallet. It says his name is Marvin Perez, and that the ID was from Fayetteville, Arkansas.

Robin

Arkansas, huh? What are you doing all the way out here.

Robin looks in his mini computer to search up the name.

Kid Flash

Robin, get over here!

Robin runs over to the trio and Abdullah.

Robin

What is it?

Red Arrow

Mr. Abdullah here has a message for us

Mr. Abdullah

Skip town! Leave!

Robin

Why?

Mr. Abdullah

The terminator! He won’t leave you alive!

Robin

Who’s the terminator?

Mr. Abdullah

He-

Suddenly, Mr. Abdullah is shot through the head. The trio look out the window and a lone sniper rifle. Robin is shocked.

* TITLE CARD*

Robin

Kid Flash, go-

Kid Flash

Way ahead of you.

Kid Flash runs over to the building where the gun was at.

Kid Flash

Nothing here!

Suddenly, a bomb goes off. Kid Flash is able to slow the moment down enough for him to notice the bomb exploding, and is able to evacuate the entire building.

Kid Flash

You guys stay here, I’ll-

BOOM! The building begins to crumble.

Robin

KF? Are you okay?

Kid Flash

I’m fine, I got the building out.

Red Arrow

Our guy is still on the loose, let’s speed this up.

Kid Flash

Got it. (To audience) I called the paramedics, they’ll be here in a flash. Till then, sit tight.

Little Girl

Thank you Flash boy!

Kid Flash

No, it’s- (sigh). Kid Flash.

Kid Flash runs back to Robin and Red Arrow.

Robin

Spread out, he couldn’t have gotten too far. I’ll take north, Roy will take south. Wally you got wherever we don’t. Spread out.

Robin jumps out of the window and grapples away.

Red Arrow

I can’t lie. It’s pretty damn cool when he does that.

Kid Flash

I’d say. He can’t run as fast as me, though. Matter fact, don’t think you can either.

Kid Flash zooms out of the building.

Red Arrow

Showoff.

Red Arrow launches a grapple arrow and leaves.

Robin is running on rooftops and grappling, looking for his man.

Robin

Update, has anybody found the assailant?

Kid Flash is running in and out of buildings looking for the shooter.

Kid Flash

Not yet. Still looking. Whoops, sorry miss.

Red Arrow

I’m looking at an Apache Helicopter right now. Not usual air traffic for Jump City.

Robin

Find out what’s going on.

Red Arrow

You got it.

Red Arrow shoots a grapple arrow at the bottom of the helicopter, and ziplines in the backseat.

Red Arrow

What’s going on here?

Mystery Assailant

Fool!

He shoots at Red Arrow with wrist cannons, which Red is barely dodging.

Red Arrow

If you wanted some privacy, you could’ve just not shot a foreign dignitary and blown up a building.

Mystery Assailant

Do you crave death, boy? Then I come bearing gifts.

He ends up getting in the backseat and struggling with Roy, pushing him out of the helicopter. In freefall, Roy shoots a tracker arrow on the helicopter, and grapples away to safety. He barrel rolls on the top of a building.

Red Arrow

Our mystery man is getting away. Not to worry though, planted a tracker on his chopper.

Robin

Good work Roy. We’ll analyze back at base, meet you all there.

The trio arrive at the HQ that they’ve been using: an old abandoned WayneTech building.

Robin

First things first, let’s get an ID on the perp. Roy?

Red Arrow

Bigger Russian guy. He had wrist cannons, but he prefers hand to hand. He could’ve just shot me instead of getting in the back and fighting me.He had a full face mask on too, black with red around the eyes.

Robin

Russian? Full face mask and wrist cannons.. I know a guy that fits the description.

Robin pulls up a profile on the HQ computer.

Robin

Anatoli Knyazev, known by his contacts as the KGBeast, pun intended. Had a few run-ins with him early on in my career with Batman.

Kid Flash

KGBeast? As in the KGB? He knows that’s been defunct for years right

Robin

It’s supposed to be ironic. Guess we’ve got a comedian on our hands.

Kid Flash

So what’s his aim? He’s not just killing to kill right?

Robin

He’s a gun for hire, most likely working for somebody. Plus, he never was the sharpest knife. Still though, he was dangerous enough to give Batman a run for his money, we need to be careful about this.

Red Arrow

How do we go about this?

Robin

Simple. We follow the bread trail.

Robin looks at the GPS tracker on the screen.

In the helicopter, KGBeast is getting ready to jump out.

KGBeast

Get rid of the helicopter, it is no doubt being tracked.

Helicopter Pilot

Where should we get rid of it?

KGBeast

I don’t care.

KGBeast jumps out onto a nearby parking garage, getting his gear ready for his next kill. He stands and brings out his sniper, aiming at a window nearby with a man in it. As he pulls the trigger, it is suddenly blocked off by a bracelet. Enter: Wonder Girl, who’s just blocked the bullet with her bracelet.

KGBeast

More children.

A water funnel appears by the parking garage, lifting Aqualad up to their level.

Aqualad

Yeah, more children. How’s it going Donna?

Wonder Girl

I’ve been worse.

KGBeast

I tire of this.

KGBeast focuses his fire on Donna, attempts to go in for a punch and is stopped by Aqualad’s water. Aqualad struggles to hold him back.

Aqualad

He’s… he’s strong!

KGBeast

Cybernetic engineering… much stronger..

KGBeast successfully breaks free

KGBeast

Then what you are capable of boy.

As KGBeast begins to step towards Garth, he gets hit with a smoke arrow. KF then swarms KGBeast with punches, until KGBeast catches him with a punch. Robin lands nearby.

Kid Flash

Ouch.

Robin

Kid Flash, your leg!

Kid Flash looks down, and sees three microbombs on his boot. It explodes and cryofreezes his leg.

Kid Flash

AGGGH! Jesus!

KGBeast

Not fast enough, were you little speedster?

A birdarang slashes KGBeast across the face, he looks up at Robin who threw them. In a fit of rage he charges Robin, who does a flip over his head.

Robin

Wonder Girl, Aqualad, sandwich!

Donna rushes KGBeast from the back while Garth funnels water directly at his front. Red Arrow shoots the weakened KGBeast in his knee with a new trick arrow: Glue. KGBeast is stuck to the ground.

Wonder Girl

Really? A glue arrow?

Red Arrow

Why not? I have lots of spare time to make em. You know, you could help occupy that tim-

Robin

Can we make sure the bad guy is down before we flirt with each other?

Robin ties KGBeast up with some grappling rope and unmasks him.

Robin

Who are you working for?

KGBeast spits at him.

Robin

That’s just gross.

Robin punches him in the face and knocks him out.

Aqualad

Was that necessary? Didn’t he have some answers?

Robin

Nah, the guy clearly doesn’t wanna be here. Besides, I have a pretty good idea already.

All five of them meet at the same base, Kid Flash is nursing his wounds by the computer, the rest look at Robin searching through a database.

Red Arrow

Just got confirmation from the JCPD, KGBeast is being held in their cells and awaits expedition back to Russia.

Robin

Good job Red Arrow..

Aqualad

So what are you guys, like some team?

Kid Flash

Yeah, we call ourselves the Young Justice League!

Wonder Girl

Young Justice.. That’s not a bit on the nose?

Robin

KF came up with it, it’s a working title.

Red Arrow

You guys a team too? Your own little dynamic duo?

Aqualad

Yeah you could say that. We help each other with cases like these from time to time.

Red Arrow

So you two like.. Close?

Robin

Wait, how did you guys know KGBeast would be there?

Wonder Girl

We’ve been tracking him since he assassinated a foreign politician at an Amazonian peace summit.

Aqualad

To pull that off infront of 32 Amazonians? He had to be taken down.

Robin

You know, I think we’re working on the same thing.

Kid Flash

Hey! It wouldn’t hurt for all of us to work on the case together!

Kid Flash gets up too quick and aggravates the injury.

Kid Flash

Aghhh!

Red Arrow

Careful speed for brains, that’s frostbite. Happened to anybody else we’d be missing a limb. Speedsters.

Kid Flash

Whatever, I like laying down anyways.

Robin

KF had a point though, if we all worked together on this we’d find the mastermind far faster. We could stop it at it’s source.

Aqualad

Like a team? Of sidekicks?

Red Arrow, Robin, Kid Flash

We’re not sidekicks.

Aqualad

Jesus! Noted.

Wonder Girl

You know, I’d like that. But we’d need a better name than the Young Justice League.

Kid Flash

The Teen Team?

Robin

I like the teen.. We need something to show that we’re unstoppable. You can’t beat us.

Wonder Girl

Like the Titans of Myth.

Robin

You’re on to something. We’ll keep workshopping later, but I think I’ve found a match on our guy. The sniper that KGBeast used for his assasination attempts came from one place, the mountains of Tibet. Most notably used by the League of Assassins.

Red Arrow

Jesus! Those guys are bad news. Way bad news.

Robin

Doesn’t exactly get better. Before Mr. Abdullah died, he said the Terminator would find us.

Kid Flash

Like the movies?

Robin

No, like the assassin. Only one paid assassin I know goes by that name and has a link to the League of Assassins. Deathstroke the Terminator, otherwise known as Slade Wilson.

His face is displayed on the screen.

Wonder Girl

We could take him.

Robin

Don’t get too cocky. The only contract he’s ever failed to fulfill was a bounty on Batman’s head. He’s been given 4,782 contracts. He is the most efficient bounty hunter, possibly the most efficient anything to exist. We need. To proceed. With caution.

The team sits in silence in the HQ.

Meanwhile, officers have locked up KGBeast in his cell.

KGBeast

Silly Americans.. These metal bars will not hold me for long.

Cop

Long enough to haul ya ass back to Russia.

KGBeast

Haha! You are funny. Shamefully, your time to die will likely coincide with my release.. Which is imminent.

Cop

Yeah buddy? How imminent?

KGBeast

Oh.. I’d say now.

A hole is blown through a wall, and the cops aim their guns at the explosion. Jinx and Ravager come through the hole, and all the cops guns are jammed.

Jinx

None of you remembered to reload your weapons? How unfortunate.

Some cops run away, others remain to guard the cell

Cop

Whatever you do, don’t leave the cell!

Ravager

Stay back Jinx, I’ve got this one.

Ravager puts her sword away, and simply steps up to the crowd of seven police officers, fist fighting them all. She dodges each strike with perfect accuracy, and every hit she delivers kills an officer. The last cop doesn’t die though, he’s on the ground as Ravager points her sword to his face.

Ravager

Last words?

Cop

Fu-

Ravager jams the sword through his head.

Ravager

I was only joking, no need to be so literal.

KGBeast

If you are done speaking to the dead..

Ravager

I haven’t missed you at all Anatoli.

KGBeast

Did I hurt daddy’s little girl in her feelings?

Ravager

I should leave you here.

Ravager sets the detonation on the door, blowing it up. KGBeast walks out, and Ravager slashes his cuffs.

KGBeast

A little close.

Ravager

The next time I have a sword pointed to you, I’ll be more accurate.

They all walk out of the hole and climb up a helicopter ladder, and fly away.

Episode End.