Disclaimer: I don't own the Teen Titans. I only own the plot and the original characters.
Time after Eternity
Chapter 1
The man sprinted, exerting all his available reserves, running through the rocky shores desperately trying to escape the oncoming fire. The deeply soaked clothing just made it more difficult to move fluidly, but the man refused to give up. It was necessary to reach the Titans in time; the truth had to be revealed to them, for the entire future relied upon it. The stranger moved onward, seeing the gigantic T in a distance, the pitch black sky lit up with small fires, beams and explosions on the roof. "Crap! There is a battle happening? This is very bad timing!" The man thought as his clothing singed from the red-hot beam fire. He looked back and still saw the three floating sphere droids keeping up the hot pursuit.
The young man was too busy focusing on the pursuers when one of his feet got caught in a rocky gap and was slammed forward onto his face. "Shit!" screamed the man, trying to recover from his fall, only to be flown a couple feet towards the water by a plasma beam blowing up the ground near his body. The man stood up, swaying back and forth trying to regain whatever his rattled senses, when his heart stopped a moment. He confronted face to face with the robotic attackers, defenseless, and shivered weakly from the inevitable. With one last breath he whispered, "I am failed you."
A scolding-hot beam shot out and disintegrated the nerves present in the shoulder blade area. The sheer strength of the laser knocked the boy off balance but was lucky no major organs were hit. Now frantic for a way to survive, the man looked behind and saw the unforgiving black waters of oblivion. He still kept his attention to the robots, touching the mystifying circular trinket clamped upon his wrist, "Maybe the water will slow them down. It might give me enough time to activate the astral reflex."
The robots began to close in near him, and after glancing back at the water one more time, he leaped towards the gigantic pool of the unknown, narrowly missing the phasers bursting through the water. Though injured, the man prayed that his legs would carry him to freedom. But by the way those robots effortlessly moved in the water, it would be a hard task indeed.
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"Titans move!" commanded the masked teen, blocking the aimed volley shots with his cape. After Robin blocked them, he only had a few seconds to rest when a hulking brown charging mass of muscle attempted to bash his skull into pieces. Robin evaded to the side, and executed a jumping spinning roundhouse kick to Mammoth's jaw.
The behemoth staggered back for a second and growled in defiance, only to have his irises shocked with a flying flash disc to the face. "ARGH!" Robin screamed, retracting the titanium staff and instantly stabbed, swung, and bashed straight at the large attacker. Mammoth retreated backwards, blocking every shot, looking at team mate Jinx who was very busy with Raven, and saw Gizmo having a shoot out with metal man. Wincing from Robin's talented onslaught, the large attacker growled, "Gizmo! A little cover fire would help, idiot!"
Gizmo's stress level was through the roof, "Alright you pit sniffer! Shut the hell up for a second!" Four robotic legs sprung out of his backpack drive, and swiftly moved towards Robin, shooting a twin stream of laser blasts. Robin responded with an elegant back flip evasion tactic, followed by throwing an explosive disk which erupted in mid-contact.
Mammoth used this opportunity to shoulder ram the distracted titan, when out of nowhere his efforts were thwarted by an unknown long heeled foot in his face. The attack continued by a crushing punch to the lungs, and ended by a point blank blast of green heat to the chest. Mammoth's body went tumbling right into Gizmo, but the little evil genius cleverly retracted the metal spider legs and switched to the jet pack, which avoided impact.
Starfire's green eyes glowed like a nuclear reactor, "It would be a good idea to surrender. I wish not to hurt you badly, but if you act more hostile, I will have to open an unhealthy, bad can of kicking your ass!"
Robin smirked and shook his head at the alien goddess. It is funny how well she is picking up the Earthling lingo, but didn't know whether that was a good or bad thing. Sure, it was bad when Star decided to watch Pulp Fiction and started using a list of four letter words that would drain the color of any mother's face, but then again it felt good that she was willing to learn and apply the knowledge of American culture. Oh well, Robin will have to talk about it later, right after throwing out the three teenage trespassers.
The bald little one let out a war cry, firing blast towards the two titans. Star took to the skies and let out her own rain of fiery terror, while the leader looked back to the evenly matched Raven/ Jinx confrontation, and decided to give assistance.
Gizmo skillfully dodged all of Star's attacks, "You must be this intelligent to hit me! Something you don't have Star-wench!" Taunting was not the best option, for a tunnel of sonic pain just happened to greet him directly.
Cyborg applauded the beam's success, "Ouch! Someone call the doctor because I must be sick with it! Booya!"
For a moment the green eyed beauty instantly forgot about the ongoing battle, "Is the sickness really bad that you need assistance from a doctor friend Cyborg?"
The half man, metal individual sweat dropped, "No Star it is a meaning of impress… Look out!"
Both team members moved out the way from the incoming mini-rockets splashing flames near the ground. Gritting his teeth, and keeping his aim stable, Cyborg followed up a defensive roll with another sound blast. Gizmo attempted to fly off, except a jade beam struck the thruster from the side, preventing the escape. Without any way to escape, he braced for impact being burned by the blue blast of doom. The HIVE opponent remained unconscious on the Titan roof floor.
Cyborg nodded in approval to Star's assistance, when suddenly he noticed the hulking beast rising from the previous damage. A green mouse perched on top of Cyborg's shoulder waiting for the plan to commence. The robotic friend nodded towards both the green animal and Star, rushing forward with his fist retracted back, ready to bring the large beast to his knees. The emerald rodent hopped off the shoulder and dashed behind the running individual. Mammoth snarled at the robot, charging for a moment then pounced aggressively upon his attacker. As Mammoth prepared for contact, Cyborg loudly screeched, "Starfire! Now!"
Starfire plunged downward from the air in a speed that could be described by naked eyes as a "purple blur." The saber tooth-like beast watched helplessly as his opponent was carried away by the flying girl, and could only let out a mid gasp, seeing a gigantic T-Rex materialize out of nowhere.
"Oomph!" cried Mammoth, feeling the once-thought extinct reptile swing his iron-skin tail, whacking him with the force of 100 large big rig trucks. The dinosaur reverted back to the humorous Beast boy. He stood with his arms crossed arrogantly, "Ouch that had to hurt. But hey, look at the bright side, at least the dinosaur wasn't purple."
Meanwhile Jinx executed a ballet of spin kicks, blocks, defensive grappling, and hand strikes that kept both Raven and the boy wonder at bay. The pink haired petite sorceress was losing momentum fast; she fired out a hex bolt from her fingers that caused the ground to fissure into distractions. She was confused when for some reason the two attackers stopped their efforts, theorizing that a plan is currently being thought up.
The slim fate-bending mage narrowed her cotton candy eyes, listening to the leader's voice, "Give it up Jinx. You should have known from the beginning that this break-in plan was only destined to fail. I can give you 5 reasons why, but your friends seem to already know them."
Jinx's eyes widen in shock, seeing her comrades lying on the floor, wincing in pain. She didn't want to believe the HIVE was defeated; another defeat would bring dire consequences. It must have been bad luck because the plan seemed perfect in the beginning: the shut down of the security grid, the smoke bombs thrown in for confusion purposes, and disarm the Titans before they can comprehend anything.
For only a few minutes, they would take the data disk and mission accomplished. However, this was far from easy. She and the others were flabbergasted as the Titans' strategic movements outclassed their own battle tactics. Though Jinx refused to admit it, she knew that this was going to be a bad experience.
Jinx twirled in a circle shooting out pink waves to prevent the five from closing in, "I will not go quietly! The only way you will do that is when I am six feet under!" She immediately leaped in the air, executing a mid-air spin kick that caught Robin in the shoulder. The leader dropped his staff and rolled backwards from the blow. Jinx ignored the other Titans and started to take another shot at Robin, when her arm was entirely encased with black energy; the arm jerked back spontaneously, slamming the pink femme fatale hard on her face.
Jinx slowly recovered from the throw, fuming directly at the calm, uninterested Raven. She always hated Raven for some apparent reason. Before confronting the Titans, any person involved in magic were crushed when fighting against her. Ever since her hex magic was outmatched by the manipulative energies of Raven, the cat-eyed sorceress' confidence shattered into dust. She no longer was considered the best of the best. Even if Jinx refused to admit it, the truth was clear: she contracted the jealously disease.
Jinx smirked, deciding that it is time to even the lopsided playing field. With her palm open and aiming for the sky, an eerie light-crimson glow emitted from her finger tips. She stared directly at the goth girl's amethyst orbs, "I didn't know you needed your boyfriend to hurt me?"
Everyone's eyes popped out their sockets hearing that remark. A certain raging red head was first to scream, "ROBIN is not her Boyfriend you ZOLWORG TUBECK PLIXING ZARBMARKER!"
Silence between the players.
Jinx was first to speak, "Whatever is the case, I know I already lost, but…" an extremely bright wave shot up in the night sky, striking the cloud present at the moment. Quickly, more clouds decided to meet up with the cursed one, and combined together until the large object hovered over the entire tower plus island, completely eclipsing the stars above. Everyone just stared in astonishment when the cloud let out a menacing growl, followed by a thundering clap.
Raven flew unfazed, staring at the pink girl, knowing exactly what she wanted, and unfortunately for the hex princess, she was more than obliged to give it to her: the eternal suffering of oblivion. "Jinx you attacked me at a bad time." Raven's eyes flickered red for a moment; the entire day didn't really go the way she wanted. Combining Beast Boy's incessant argument with Cyborg, followed by Robin's yelling in order to stop the previous argument, and finally adding in Starfire's constant pleading to "hang out," the dark girl had more than enough stress to release upon her enemy.
She floated down onto the ground, only a foot away from Jinx, and didn't even flinch when droplets of water started to fall from the lingering thundercloud. Soon, the drops became unstoppable, invading torrents that soaked everyone. Jinx finally continued, "If I am going down, I'll take you with me." Her eyes suddenly flashed hot pink, and suddenly, a bolt of lightning swiped down for a second; the destructive strength behind the bolt caused the concrete to melt and burst into flames. Raven winced from the bright light, and felt the unbearable heat touching her skin. She looked around and started to flare her hands with obsidian energy.
The Titans called over to Raven, only to have their efforts stopped by another close call lightning strike. The crew started to run towards their friend again, when they were stopped by Robin, "Stop! Jinx will strike us down for sure if we try to help her. Raven can take down Jinx. If anything looks bad, we will wait until Jinx is too distracted to notice us, then we attack. But right now, she is more than focused to fight."
Beast Boy slammed his fists on the wet ground, "Damn! Cy, can't you hit her with a long distance shot?"
Cyborg changed his arm into the sonic cannon, and was able to fire, but a flash of light exploded near his feet.
Jinx glared at the faraway Titans, proceeding to look back at the cloaked girl.
Raven was worried about her friends doing anything foolish so she reassured them, "Idiots! The rain cloud is under her control! Don't worry; I'll handle this bitch personally!"
The other members gawked at Raven because she never used such language before. They finally decided that it was better to watch over the two other fallen enemies and sit out of this confrontation. As they retreated back carefully, Cyborg raised his metal arm and smacked the green elf boy on the side of the head, "What did you do to Raven this time? The same old "water balloon surprise" trick again?"
Beast Boy retorted, "Dude, I didn't do anything! Maybe it's that time of the month for Raven or something!"
The entire group blushed from BB's comments. There was no need for translation here. Even Starfire knew the implications behind that sentence. What was more embarrassing was hearing Jinx laugh frantically from far away. It seems that Beast Boy forgot to keep his voice down. They looked at their friend Raven, and practically saw black flames rise behind her. As the battle was about to begin, only one thing was certain: after the fight, the next event is Beast Boy's funeral.
Author's Note: Constructive Criticism accepted. Please review if you want.