Sticks and Stones - Chapter 1: Heroic
- Needless Sorrow
Disclaimer: I don't own these characters, yadda, yadda, yadda…
Her name was Terra; it was the only one that she had ever known. Quite possibly, she was a resurrected Tara Markov, a psychopath who had killed herself in the middle of her betrayal of the Teen Titans. After all, she did look a lot like her, and they did share the same powers. But it was still only a "maybe", and "maybes" were hardly ever true.
She wondered how she had gotten herself into this mess. You know, attempting to prevent Cyborgirl from robbing a bank. She wasn't a hero anymore; she had stepped away from that business so long ago… Well, if you count four months as being long. "You do not wanna be doin' this, girl!" Cyborgirl yelled at her. Yeah, she was right. Terra really didn't want to be doing this. She would much rather be at home watching TV or playing some out-dated PS2 games. This was the right thing to do, though, and, despite the fact that she was, uh, retired from the heroing business, it was still her nature to do the right thing.
Terra clenched her fist, and the ground around her began to shake. She gritted her teeth and a huge chunk of the ground flew at Cyborgirl. Cyborgirl dodged out of the way, and her hand morphed into a canon. "I told ya that you did not wanna be doin' this!" She sent a blast of energy flying towards Terra. Terra flew away from it on a large piece of rock. She turned her head. No, she thought, the civilians… She brought up a shield of rock in front of all of the civilians just in time. Surprisingly, it was strong enough to withstand Cyborgirl's blast. Terra clenched both of her fists and pointed towards Cyborgirl, causing a huge chunk of rock to go flying at her. Cyborgirl morphed her canon-hand back into a regular one, and she punched it with her fist. It shattered into hundreds of tiny chunks of rock.
Cyborgirl grunted and pointed her canon arm at Terra. She shot a barrage of blasts at her, and Terra got hit. Terra fell from the sky, only to be saved by another flying rock. After all of these years of practice, she had gotten rather good at saving herself from falling. She bent down on her knees and outstretched her hands towards Cyborgirl. A wave of rocks was sent flying towards Cyborgirl. "Shit," Cyborgirl muttered as she was hit hard and sent into a wall. Not wasting any time, Terra raised her hands into the air, and another wave of rocks rained down on Cyborgirl, knocking her out. Terra took in a deep breath and slowly returned to the ground.
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"Nice job, Terra!" Beastboy yelled. Terra was standing next to a police car, and she had just finished explaining what had happened to a few officers. The Teen Titans had arrived just moments ago to take care of Cyborgirl, only to find out that Terra had done it herself. "…Thanks, Gar…" she said. "So, you wanna rejoin the team?" Beastboy asked. "No. I'm… not a Titan anymore… Hell, I'm not even really a superhero anymore…" "Yeah, but-" "I said 'no', alright?! Now… I've gotta get going…" She flew away on a chunk of rock, not bothering to look back at the Titans. She needed… to start fresh. Yeah, that sounded good. She needed a fresh start; to go somewhere far, far away from here…
Terra flew towards her apartment. It was pretty close to the bank, so it didn't take her too long to get there. She packed a suitcase; she only took the things that she needed, like clothes and a few snacks. Then, she flew away on a chunk of rock, and she would probably never see the Titans ever again.
¨to be continued… possibly¨