holt! cried out the lead security guard,him and four othere guards stood before a man dressed in a black leather jacket that went down to his knees,with a hood pulled over his head making it impossible to see his face, he was only about 5.6 and from what they could see he was thin,they would'ent have bin intimidated by him they had see much scarier things in Jump City except he had blown open the main gates to the inteck research center without braking his had only walked up to the gate raised his had and what only the guards could describe as a red electrical charge came from his hand blowing the gates off there hinges and sending then flying into the courtyard. after this display of power the guards understandably felt rather small, with there handguns and body armer that was not much better then hockey pads.
but the lead guard raised his gun atleast hoping to stall him untill the cities guardiens the teen titans could get there, the othere guards followed him raising there guns at the intruder, as they prepared to fire,the man raised his hand again and before the guards could react the same strange red electricity shot forth from his hand destroying there firearms and incapacitating all five guards.
barely giving the guards a glance before continuing his march to the research center unimpeded, after entering the research center and walking down a few hallways he entered a large room just outside the vault where most if not all of intecks main research projects were hold.
inteck was one of the largest research and develepment centers in the united states just below starlabs, there most valuable and dangeres develepments were held in the vault,a large steel door similar to that of a bank vault door. it was nearly six inches thick an impossing barrier to say the least, but nothing to him raising his hands electricity fire from them almost rapping themselves around the vault door ripping it from its hinges and setting it down next to the doorway where it once stood.
examining the inside of the vault as he entered it he saw a large squere room three of the walls were covered with safes each about a feet wide and six inches or so long, he look over them carefully looking for a specific one. after a short search he found the one he was looking for, he considdered using his powers to blow the safe open but desided to be a little more suddell, walking up to the safe he placed his hand on it sencing that it was electronicly locked.
this is to ease, he said with confidenc.
with a small electrical pulse from his hand he deactivated the the safe he reached inside and pulled out a small box, looking down at it in his hand with a small smile on his face
he slid it into a pocket inside his jacket.
steping outside the vault he was surprised by three green energy bolts headed toward him, quickly charging his hands with his power smacked them away. his hands still burning from the impact he look up and saw a girl with long red hair and green eyes, he immediately recognised her as Starfire one of the teen titans. the rest of the titans stood below her robin standing just a few yards away from him,starfire landed next to Robin on his right side, Raven and Beastboy on his left Cyborg walked up next to Starfire. they were standing on a large walkway below them was a storage area filled with large boxes, crates and large steel drums that looked to be filled with either something nun to healthy or explosive.
the teen titans I was wondering when you would show up, this is my third robbery in your city the other two you didn't evan bother to show up, I was beginning to wonder if you were just a myth, he said still hiding his face under his hood.
give back whatever you stole and give your self up! said Robin
I would love to but unfortunately I can't. he said pulling down his hood finally reveling his face. you see my employer is paying me alot of money for this job.
the titans were alittle surprised to see that the person that had eluded them for close to two weeks now looked to be barely eighteen. he had short brown hair with blue eyes with a small scar on his eyebrow. the titans were used to guys like Cinderblock or Killermoth not that his age made any difference they had taken down thieves much younger then him just look at they themselve were eighteen well all except Beastboy he was seventeen. but it was'ent his age that caught there attenshion it was his skill. at such an age he had stayed one step ahead of was the first time that they had bin able to catch him in the act the othere two robberies, he had bin long go before they had gotten there. it seemed now that he was daring them to catch him, something they were more them willing to oblishe.
and I have no intension in surrendering,he said.
reaching for the vault door that he had pulled off before the red energy surged from his hand rapping around the large door and hurling it at the titans. moving quickly Raven used her powers to first stoping it and then throwing it back at the large door coming straight back at him he fired a blast of his power deflecting the door sending it over the walkway and cruching severel crates.
impressive, he said surprised at the amount of power he had to use to brake Ravens grip on the door.
recovering quickly he fired another energy blast at them.
TITANS MOVE! yelled Robin.
they quickly scattered, the blast nocking them off there feet cyborg being the first to recover pulled up his sonic cannon and began firing trying to cover his still recovering teemmates. firing several shots at his apponent only to watch him form a shield from his energy. Cyborg watched as his sonic blast hit the shield and did nothing Cyborg quickly tried to think of a plan B. but before he was able to he was hit by a energy blast sent by there new enemy knocking him off his feet and over the side of the walkway reaching up at the last minute Cyborg manages to grab onto the side of the walkway. seeing her friend clinging to the side of the walkway starfire quickly flew over to him and began to try and help him.
By this time the other titans had recovered Raven fired a blast of telekinetic energy at him followed quickly by Robin throwing three explosive discs both hitting the shield he still had up at the same time causing a large cloud of dust and smoke to fly up from the explosion. both Robin and Raven waited to see if there efforts had made a difference but when the smoke cleared there enemies shield was still standing seamingly unscathed. Beastboy moving quickly past Robin and Raven transforming into an elephant and began to charge the young thief at full this he fired three shots of energy just ahead of Beastboy and blowing a hole in the walkway seeing this Beastboy tride despritly to stop just managing to do so only a two inches from the hole. but unfortunately do to his significant weight as an elephent the part of the walkway he was standing on already damage from the energy blast gave way and as Beastboy began to fall he transformed back in to himselfe. but before he could transform into a bird a piece of metal from the walkway slamed into his head knocking him unconscious. Raven seeing what had happened quickly flew off the walkway, grabbing him by his arms Raven flew Beastboy over to the farend of the walkway setting him down on she began to examin his had a large cut on his forehead which was bleading badly quickly she began to heal him a blue ora flowed from her hands hearing several loud explosions behinder her she hoped that Starfire and Cyborg had recoverd and could help Robin. because she could'ent leave Beastboy side he needed her help more then anyone right a few secencs Beastboys wound was healed, Raven who had bin kneeling over him fell back sitting on the floor feeling drained, looking down at Beastboy he seemed to be recovering quickly a huge feeling a relief wash over her knowing he was okay. turning back to see how her other friends were doing she saw that Starfire and Cyborg had indeed rejoind the fight. Robin was on the ground but he seemed okay probable just got the wind knocked out of him, Starfire was at his side helping him up while Cyborg covered them Raven turned her gaze to the man they had bin fighting.
he seemed to have no injuries on him at all if she didn't know any better she would have thought he was invisible, Raven watch as her friends threw every thing that they had at him but he seened to take it and come back stronger. but as she looked closer she notest that the he was breathing rather heavy they had'ent touched him but maybe the cost from using his powers was draining him dry.
Just then Raven felt a hand on her shoulder she quickly turned her head to see Beastboy kneeling beside her with a look of concern on his face.
Raven are you okay? asked Beastboy
Raven realized she had bin breathing heavily for the past few minates.
Im fine, she said out of breath,help me up.
he grabed her arm and gently pulled her up, after she was on her feet he let go of her as soon as he did Raven began to wobble and fall over,quickly beastboy grabed her arm and pulled it around his neck and snaked his right arm around her waste pulling her up again. Raven felt alittle unconfortable being so close to him, and his arm around her waste wasn't making things any easier, Beastboy on the other hand was feeling pritty good about her beinging so close to him a small smile on his into her eyes he had lost track of what was going on the only thing on his mind was that Raven was in his arms. but another large blast brought both of them back to reality.
we have to help them, said Raven.
I have to help them You need to rest, said Beastboy
Im fine, pulling way from him to stand on her own, look he's getting weaker maybe if we all try and hit him at once it will be to much for him to handle.
Beastboy looked over at the young man there friends were fighting and saw she was right he looked to be getting fatigued.
we need to tell Robin, said Raven
i'll go tell him you try and rest for a minate, Beastboy said seeing that she was still alittle wobbly he hope she would take his advise but knowing she wouldn't stay out of the fight any longer then she had to.
fine go tell Robin i'll stay back here for a few secencs, said Raven
Beastboy reluctantly left Raven and began runing to find Robin, finding him trying to distract there enemy while Starfire and Cyborg tride to outflank him but it wasn't going well he seemed to have eyes on the back of his head ignoring Robin and blasting Starfire and Cyborg away from him.
Robin! Beastboy called.
Robin with a look of frustration on his face turned his head to Beastboy.
Beastboy are you okay,asked Robin.
better thanks to Raven,said Beastboy
Robin looked from Beastboy to Raven several feet away seeing her slightly slumped over and breathing heavy, is Raven alright, he asked.
she's fine, Beastboy said hesitantly looking back to her, but she did see something are friend over there seems to be getting weaker.
weaker? Robin asked, he seems to be getting stronger to me, looking back to there enemy seeing him trying to swat starfire away, but thats when he saw what Raven and Beastboy were talking about the look on the young mans face was one of fatigue and even pain maybe calling on his power so much was draining him. quickly Robin formulated a plan looking back to Beastboy.
I've got a plan but we will need Raven.
what do you need me to do, asked Raven suddenly walking up next to Beastboy.
are you shure your alright,asked Beastboy concern in his voice.
Im fine, she said trying her best to sound convincing, but the truth was she still felt alittle weak but she was not going to sit back and watch her friends risk there lives.
alright heres the plan,Robin said.
the young thief had bin fighting the titans for several minutes and he was beginning to feel it, he tried not to show it but using his powers caused him physical pain, the feeling of electricity taring through his body was far from pleasent and he had bin using his powers nonstop since the start of his fight with the titans. and to make matters worse they seemed to be forming a new plan three of the titans had bin talking for a few minutes, and now were spreading the word to Starfire and Cyborg which had bin doing there best to keep him busy dealing with them, and now they were forming up Starfire and Raven began to fly into the air while the other three began to spread out Beastboy in the middle Robin and Byborg on the sides Starfire and Raven in the air just behinde young thief tenist up preparing himself for there attack which came quickly.
Robin, Cyborg and Starfire attacked him first, Cyborg with his sonic cannon, Robin with his exploding discs and starfire with her starbolts. all hitting him at once putting a great amount of stress on him, but as he was doing his best to hold his shield up he felt the deckplating of the walkway he was standing on began to lift up under his feet,looking down he saw a dark telekinetic energe lifting the walkway he could react the deckplating shot upwerds throwing him off his feet and landing on his the wind knocked out of him he did his best to get to his feet as quickly as possible,and as he raised himself to his feet he saw a sonic blast headed toward him. moving to his left to avoid it he saw several explosive discs heading toward him as well forcing him back to his right. with sonic cannon firing to his right and exploding discs to his left he found himself trapped.
as he tried to regain his defencive stance a green humming bird began to fly around his head and being rather anoyning, he started to fire at the bird trying to swat the little anoyence away. but little did he know that Beastboy was only acting as a destraction so that Raven and Starfire could Raven and starfire fired at the same time starfires energy and Ravens telekinetic force almost this the young thief did his best to raise up his shied, but it was to late he was unable to rasie it in time,the small bit he was able to raise was destroyed the explosion throwing him into the the wall behind him with considerable force and landing face down on the floor.
after a few secens of his senses spinning he tried to lift himself up from the floor,but as he did so he found a burning pain in his right side forcing him to fall back to the floor, grabing his side to try and stop the pain he looked up to see the teen titans slowly advase on again he used all his strength to push himself off the floor and onto his feet.
after he managed to get to his feet and doing his best to ignor the pain in his side which he suspected was a broken rib or two, he looked up again to see that the titans to be only a few feet away know that if he did'ent do something quickly he would be taking a long and unpleasent stay at jump city lockup.
surrender we do not wish to fight you,called out Starfire.
No I think not, the young thief wispered.
gathering as much strength as he could he raised his arms above his head and let his powers loose. the red energy shot forth from his arms destroying everything it came into contact with,the titans began to retreat just as one of the foultanks in the room exploded blowing a massive hole in the building and sending the titans flying off the walkway, the titans that could fly quickly saved the ones that couldn't Starfire grabed Robin and began heading to the exit while Beastboy in the form of pterodactyl and Raven grabed Byborg and headed to the exit as well.
before long they were outside in the courtyard watching as the building was engulfed in flames luckelly all the workers had bin evacuated from the building by police and security guards. the building was still being rocked by explosions and eventually collapsed in on its self.
is everone okay, called out Robin
fantastic,Raven said sarcastically
who was that guy, ask Byborg
I don't know but I intend to find out,said Robin with determination in his voice.