Bird Brain Ch 1
A/N - Wow! NHM still is alive? She still writes stories? Hell yes I do. Good to be back. I really like this idea, but it's still in development, so if you have a genuinely awesome idea, shoot it over in a review! :) Thanks for reading! R&R
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The ground around Cyborg's feet darkened as the car came flying at him. Cyborg leapt away, landing on his chest with a grunt.
"Oof! Great, now he's throwing cars at us," Cyborg grumbled, glaring at the laughing Cinderblock.
"Cyborg!" Robin yelled over the sound of crunching metal, "Are you alright?"
"Just great, Robin," Cyborg responded, getting up.
Robin and Cyborg's heads turned as the sound of Starfire's yell neared.
"Hraah!" She flew up and punched Cinderblock's rock head hard. He toppled over; time seemed to slow as he fell. He thudded in the middle of the city street loudly with a grunt.
"Move out of the way!" Raven levitated a black sedan, ready to strike. "Rock head's not the only one who can throw cars." She hefted the vehicle at him at full force.
Cinderblock had just started to pick himself back up when he took a sedan to the face. The impact of the car not only pushed him back down to the ground, it shoved him backwards into a red fire hydrant. Suddenly water spewed out of the top, adding to the already tumultuous mess.
Beast Boy, who was standing by the hydrant, shrieked. "Aaah! Water!"
Raven landed on the ground beside him, her heavy blue cloak fluttering nicely behind her.
"So you're totally fine with a two ton rock monster flying at you, but you scream like a little girl when you get wet?" she asked with a raised eyebrow.
"I don't like spontaneous wetness."
"Uh, guys?" Cyborg yelled at the two.
Raven quickly turned around only to be picked up in a giant concrete hand. "Let me go!" she growled, struggling against the great crushing force. She looked down at Beast Boy. "Well don't just stand there, do something!"
"On it!" Beast Boy promptly morphed into an ankylosaurus and swung his tail fiercely at the back of Cinderblock's knees. Cinderblock moaned as he fell forwards. His left arm smashed onto the ground and released Raven, who tumbled out of his grasp.
"Way to almost kill me!" she complained.
"You're welcome!" Beast Boy had reverted to his human self. His stupid, normal self.
Hearing a loud groan, Raven turned her head over her left shoulder to see Cinderblock slowly rise to his gigantic feet.
"Man, he just won't quit!" Cyborg complained, charging his sonic cannon.
"Yes, he is quite persistent. What is it that he is after?" Starfire agreed, also readying her flashy green starbolts at her hands.
"What ever it is," answered Robin, who was perched on top of the overturned sedan, "he won't get it. Titans go!"
Robin leapt at Cinderblock first, chucking numerous explosive discs at him. A few went off in Cinderblock's face. He clutched his flat face with his large hands and roared as loudly as his stone vocal cords could produce noise. Cinderblock then glared at Robin with a burning fury, grabbed his arm, and swung the Titan behind him, harshly dislocating Robin's left shoulder.
"Aaah!" Robin howled in pain as he heard the loud, sickening pop coming from his shoulder. He soon found himself released and flying through the air at top speed. His trajectory took him…directly through an office building. Less than a full second later, Robin reemerged from the far side of the building and hit the ground, lying motionless.
"Robin!" Raven turned to the other Titans. "Can you guys handle Cinderblock? I have to go check on Robin."
"Yeah, we got it!" Cyborg yelled, shooting his sonic cannon at Cinderblock with a perfectly aimed shot.
Raven nodded and quickly flew toward the building, swiftly evading a punch from Cinderblock on the way there. She flew around the building that Robin's body had blasted a pretty big hole through. Broken glass and rubble sat at her feet. The legs of an office chair stuck out halfway out of a shattered window on the ground floor.
"Robin?" she called, looking around. He was nowhere to be found. "Robin!" she yelled, more desperately this time. No response.
Raven could hear the sounds of her teammates kicking Cinderblock's stone cold butt. They seemed to be doing absolutely fine, unlike her. She began to worry.
Using her telekinetic powers, Raven manipulated the piles of rubble and debris, moving them aside in hopes of finding her team's leader alive beneath it all.
"Come on, come on," Raven sighed anxiously, rapidly sifting through multiple piles at a time. "Robin, you have to be in here somewhere…"
Meanwhile, back with the other Titans, Starfire was rapidly throwing a flurry of starbolts at Cinderblock, the green energy exploding brightly.
Cinderblock reared up and stomped on the ground, sending visible vibrations through the concrete. Various car alarms went off, including the one of the black sedan that Raven had thrown. Glass in nearby stores and buildings shattered in a progressive line down the street. People started screaming. The situation was just getting worse and worse.
"Whoa!" Cyborg toppled over, accidentally firing his loaded sonic cannon. The misaligned shot missed Cinderblock and hit Starfire instead.
"Eeep!" she shrieked as she felt the energy hit her.
"Alright, up to me!" Beast Boy shouted, having been in the air when Cinderblock had caused a minor earthquake. He changed into a bull and charged at the monster, striking him straight in the gut.
Cinderblock moaned and collapsed, falling unconscious as his head hit the concrete ground, at last, defeated.
Changing back, Beast Boy exclaimed, "Yeah! Bull's eye!"
"Aside from BB's bad jokes, everyone alright?" Cyborg asked, getting up from the ground.
Starfire walked up beside him. "Yes, I am alright."
Beast Boy shot the other two Titans a cheerful thumbs-up.
"But where is Raven?" asked Starfire, looking around briefly.
Beast Boy pointed at the gaping hole in the nearby office building. "She said she was checking on Robin, who made this gnarly hole." He approached the building front and extended his foot, taking a step.
"Whoa, no." Cyborg pulled the scruff of Beast Boy's collar. "We do not just walk through buildings with big holes in them. Robin could have easily broken some columns in there."
"But please, friends," said Starfire, "we must hurry."
"Right. Let's go around."
The three Titans ran around the building to see pile after pile of broken glass, metal, and concrete. In the midst of it all, stood Raven.
Hearing her teammates, Raven turned and approached them, a stern and clearly concerned look on her face.
"I have searched everywhere in the building's proximity and I still have not found Robin."
"People do not just disappear! He has to be here somewhere…" Starfire flipped over a nearby car with ease.
Cyborg shook his head. "Well I don't know about you guys, but I hate déjà vu."
Starfire returned to the group and said, "Well we cannot just stand here, we must look for Robin!"
Cyborg sighed, responding, "Man, what is this, the third time this has happened? Like I said, really hate—"
Raven put up her hand, signaling Cyborg to stop talking. Her gaze was set on something lying in the corner of her vision. Something black and yellow.
She slowly walked over and bent down to pick it up. The other Titans followed suit. It was Robin's communicator.
"No…" Raven's word was a whisper.
She turned the communicator over. On the underside, some writing caught her attention. It was very precisely carved into the device. The strokes were methodical, very clean and neat, but clearly hand-done. The rest of the Titans surrounded her, peering over he shoulders to read what was written.
Your search stops here. This time, he doesn't have a choice
Beast Boy squinted and leaned forward, pointing at something red above the word "stops".
"Hey, what's that?"
Raven's eyes widened instantly.
"Get back!" she yelled, quickly backing up.
"What? Why?" No one answered the shape shifter's question as Cyborg jumped back, pulling Beast Boy with him.
Raven threw the communicator straight up into the air. Immediately after, she raised a tall, cylindrical barrier around the communicator and the space around it. Milliseconds later, the communicator exploded powerfully, the energy rattling against Raven's black energy. The force of the explosion cracked the top of the energy wall, the explosion's strength immense. A second later, it was over. Raven lowered the worn barrier, breathing heavily.
"So, what do you make of that?" she asked, although already anticipating the answer.
Cyborg took a step forward. "Only one person comes to mind. And he's got Robin."
Robin awoke to total darkness, his body lying on a cold floor. He turned his head upwards. He cringed as pain shot up his neck.
"Gah…must have taken a nasty hit when I crashed into that building…"
He wiggled each muscle he could to see if anything was severely injured or broken. As he rolled his shoulders, an intense shooting pain overwhelmed his senses. It felt as if his shoulder had been in a searing blue fire for minutes. He thought, "I'll have Raven heal that later…wait…Raven…what…?"
With little strength, he rolled onto his right side. His head throbbed, his body threatened to allow him to pass out again, and it was cold. Colder than it should have been if he was outside.
"Wh—where am I?" he asked, closing his tired eyes and putting a hand to his cold forehead.
An eerie yet quite familiar voice answered him. "Look who's awoken from his little nap. What can I say, Robin, welcome back."
The person slowly approached Robin, the footsteps coming closer and closer. That was the last thing Robin saw before his eyelids started feeling heavier and heavier, and his vision faded to black.
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