"San Francisco?" Yuri raised an eyebrow, "Why?"
"You met Starfire and Gar the other day right, they're getting ready to create a team and I think you could give it a shot." Wally opened the door.
"No way, absolutely not."
Yuri rejected Wally's offer without even thinking about it, "I told you a long time ago, I didn't want to be a superhero."
"But you did do heroic acts, why are you so resistant to being a superhero? You're already a superhero!" Wally asked, puzzled.
"I don't want to babysit a bunch of brats, Wally." Yuri deadpanned at him while saying that matter-of-factly
"... At your age, someone else babysitting you is more like it." Wally spat those words.
"Well, even if you really don't want to join the Teen Titans, you can still go to San Francisco for a bit, just to gain some insight." Wally waved his hand and said.
Yuri just rolled his eyes as he focused on the road while saying: "Save it, Wally, there are so many teenagers with superpowers all over the world, there are many who want to join the Teen Titans, why do you have to focus on me, and as far as I know, didn't you leave the team a long time ago? Why are you acting as an intermediary now?"
"Then you're going to miss out on too many good things ..." Wally said with a sudden narrowing of his eyes and a bitchy grin.
"San Francisco is a beautiful city, the beaches there are full of hot bikini babes, maybe you'll even get a romantic and hot encounter, you'll regret it for the rest of your life if you don't visit."
"Hey, is it really okay for you to say that to a sixteen year old minor?" The corner of Yuri's eye kept twitching.
"Sixteen isn't young, I've been with Kane when I was fourteen, do you want to know how old we were when we had our first time? It's best you don't know or I'm afraid you'll get an inferiority complex."
Wally said in a tone that irritated the hell out of Yuri.
"...." Yuri was silent for a moment, then pulled out his mobile phone and said, "I'm going to tell Linda that you still miss your first love to this day."
"Shit! You can't do that! Linda will kill me!" Wally desperately took the phone from Yuri's hand, and in that moment, he even activated his power.
"Did I ever tell you not to just grab my phone?" Yuri asked kindly.
"What? Oww!"
Before Wally could react, his hand that was holding Yuri's phone was suddenly hit with a sharp pain like an electric shock, instantly paralysing his entire arm.
"Looks like it's gone, sorry haha."
Yuri took back his mobile phone with a bad smile on his face, "In order to prevent someone from stealing or snatching my mobile phone, I have configured an electric shock module on my mobile phone, as long as a fingerprint other than mine touches the top, an electric current will be released immediately, a normal person would have already been electrocuted to unconsciousness by now, and in your case, your arm should just be paralysed for a minute or so."
"Yuri, this behaviour of yours really resembles someone I know." Wally stared at Yuri for a long time before speaking.
"Who?"
"Someone who is very gloomy and makes people afraid to get close." Wally shook his arm and said.
"Enough about that, are you really not going to visit the Titan Tower?" Wally asked, still undeterred. He was really determined to make Yuri join the Teen Titans.
"Hmph," Yuri sneered, "I'd rather starve to death and jump off an eighteen-story building than wipe the arse of a bunch of brats."
Wally looked deeply at Yuri, and finally sighed, saying, "Since you've already made up your mind, I won't force you, it's a pity that I thought you'd be interested in researching aliens and superhumans ..."
Yuri's ears twitched and his eyes kept flickering as he said, "What did you just say?"
"Nothing, just regretting that the co-operation between Titan Tower and the San Francisco branch of Star Labs is coming to an end due to the lack of real technician in the Starfire team."
Wally put on a pompous expression and let out a sigh.
"Oh yeah, the San Francisco branch of Star Labs is specialised in alien and superhuman physiology, and there are also numerous products of alien technology stored there, including Apokoliptian, Tamaran ... and many others."
"Fuck!" Yuri cursed, "Tell me more details."
Wally hemmed and hawed and explained directly, "Initially when we relocated the Titan Tower to San Francisco, Cyborg was also a member of the Titans, you may not be familiar with Cyborg, after all, he's the one who appears the least often in the League."
It was strange to say that as the founder of the Justice League and one of the seven titans, Cyborg should have been a superstar figure in the limelight, but in reality, his fame was instead exceedingly low.
Compared to the Justice League's Cyborg, the Teen Titans' Cyborg is probably more widely known.
"To put it simply, Cyborg accepted a commission from the San Francisco branch of Star Labs to help them complete some complex research and calculations, and in return, Titan Tower was given free access to Star Labs' equipment and technology."
"But Cyborg left the team a long time ago, the alliance needed him to act as an information hub, and even though Cyborg left, Star Labs didn't cancel their partnership with the Teen Titans."
Yuri nodded in understanding and asked tentatively, "So you want me to take over where Cyborg used to be and assist Star Labs with their research?"
"That's right, you can transform into all sorts of strange aliens, and you also have a lot of unknown alien technology, there is no better candidate than you." Wally affirmed Yuri's idea.
"And ...." Wally turned his words and said, "Starfire wants to let Bart join the Teen Titans, at the same time Bart himself is very willing to do so, but you know that Bart is not mature enough in heart, and I'm worried what will happen because of that."
"I see, you want me to be Bart's nanny."
Yuri drifted off.
Wally: "..."
Yuri fell into a deep thought, Star Labs specializes in metahuman and extraterrestrial technology division, the vast majority of the equipment and technology is free and open for use, it's really a bit tempting....
But he had clearly refused so firmly before, if he suddenly changed his mind, what about his pride?
But if he refused the opportunity to cooperate with Star Labs, it would again make Yuri feel like he would lose at least a hundred million
"Ahem, Wally, it's not that I'm not willing to be a Titan, after all, I also fight for justice, but you know my standard of living, so poor that I can barely afford to eat, so ...."
Star Labs was willing to open up its equipment and technology for free, which was already quite a generous payment, it was impossible to give Yuri an extra salary.
"I thought you were worried about something, so it's this."
Wally couldn't help but say, "The Justice League has a special superhero fund to finance the normal life of the League members, which you can understand as paying out salaries, although only full members and alternates of the Justice League can receive this funding."
"But the Teen Titans can be seen as a branch organisation of the Justice League, so they can also receive generous funding, and the amount is not explicitly defined, as long as you don't squander too much money at once, you basically don't have to worry about money in your whole life, but of course, if you don't lack money per se, you can also not receive funding."
Yuri's expression was solemn as he sat up straight and solemnly asked, "When can I leave?"
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A/N: Yuri joining the Titans?! Stay tuned to see what happens next. Give your stones as well while you're waiting.
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