1Taskforce Titans
Chapter One
"Punching Bags"
AR: Hi. Here starts the training. Enjoy. Side note: I'm kinda writing this with Shining Asta.
SA: And I'm severely irritable right now because I had to rewrite this chapter because this computer sucks. Big time. The chapter may not be as long as I wanted, but it'll still be good. Hopefully. Oh, and if you were wondering, I did everything passed the first scene break.
I made up the Celarin Dragon Species. The Mexican Amphithere, Behemoth, and Frost Dragon are actual legends.
When Raven opened her eyes, she saw a strange sight. Before the three of them was a replica of Stonehenge in front of a house and green fields as far as she could see. "Where are we?"
Pendragon smirked. "My house. It's a little messy, but it gets the job done. This will be your home for the duration of your stay." he walked to the middle of the Stonehenge replica and sat down. He motioned for the others to do the same. "The other two are late." he looked at their confused expressions and sighed. "I have this thing about training less than three people. Where is he?" after waiting for about six minutes he sighed. "Voco Necro."
In front of them appeared this teen with short black hair and brown eyes. He wore black kendo robes with a skull on the back and gauntlets made of an unknown metal. Raven noticed that the one on the right had a obsidian ring on it. "Yeah?"
Pendragon smiled. "Now that we're all here, let's introduce ourselves. You're likes, dislikes, hobbies, dream for the future and favorite tool. Any volunteers?" after a minute of waiting he sighed. "Vincent, why don't you go first?"
The cloaked figure lifted his hood. "My name is Koumori Vincent. My likes are training and bettering my style. My dislike are those who prey on the weak and my clan. My dream for the future is to be the best warrior alive. My favorite tool is the sword."
'He seems so much like Robin. Except for the sword and clan bit.' thought Raven.
"Alright, Karasu-san, you're next." said Pendragon
Raven said, "My name is Raven Roth. I have no like nor dislikes. My hobbies are meditation and reading. My dream for the future is not in my hands."
'Hmm. Interesting. I must remember that.' thought Vincent.
Pendragon grinned. "Alright Necro. Your turn."
Necro scoffed. "My name is not important. Just call me Necro. My likes and dislikes are death and life, life and death. My only hobby is training. And my ambition, kill the one who killed my sister."
A red haired girl ran up to them very quickly. "I'm late, late, late, late, late!" she skidded to a stop and sighed. "Sorry! It took forever for Ralph to fix the plumbing."
Vincent noticed her hair was dripping. She wore a trench coat, short shorts, fingerless gloves and a halter top. Vincent guessed that she had to be like, sixteen. Pendragon smiled. "Your just in time, Bet. You know the routine."
"My names Jean Patricia. I like food. I dislike when something blows up in my face. My hobby is sleight of hand tricks. My favorite tool are playing cards. My dream of the future is to be the Queen of Thieves." said Bet.
Necro said, "Listen, old man. Either you explain why I'm out here instead of practicing, or I kill you all."
'Someone clearly needs therapy.' thought Raven.
Pendragon started laughing. Once he stopped, the grin was still there. "That's what I like about you. Knowing what you want. Though, we'll have to work on your anger. You're out here because I'm going to answer why you're all here." he sighed and grew serious. "Once, long ago, my father and his rival fought. Many casualties amounted. My father gained the upper hand by sealing his rival into a pocket dimension where she is released every thousand years. She will awaken in three Earth months."
Vincent asked, "Who is she?"
"Morgen Le Fey." said Pendragon.
Raven and Necro both raised an eyebrow. Raven in her deadpan manner, Necro with something resembling fear on his face. "You mean you want us to fight a general of Trigon? You're expecting a miracle. How was your father able to fight her?"
"Quite simply, really. They were equals." said Pendragon.
Bet asked, "so, that would make your father...?"
"Merlin the Wizard." said Pendragon.
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At Titan's Tower, the remaining Titans were reading their notes. Robin looked at his with particular annoyance and confusion.
"What... the heck?" he asked.
"What is it, man? All mine is is a list of mythical creatures and how to train to stay in larger forms for longer periods of time. Which I've already done. I can stay as a Dragon for several minutes, which is plenty of time to take down any bad guy." Beastboy said.
"I don't even need mine. It just tells me how to be more precise with my strength. I've been able to control my strength since a few years ago, when I became Cyborg." Cyborg put in.
"My Starbolts are considerably harder to control, but I'm sure with training, I'll be able to... what would describe it...?" Starfire asked, trailing off.
"You'd be able to push the safety button." Beastboy said.
"What he means is, you'd be able to prepare a Starbolt, or probably a Novabolt, without worrying about actually firing it." Robin explained, still baffled by the notes Pendragon gave him.
It had a black silhouette standing there. In the second picture, it showed fire burning the figure. Then, in the third picture, the figure had the Redbird Armor (as they had dubbed it) on, and had taken flight. So Robin was supposed to burn himself? Robin shook his head, sorely confused.
Starfire looked at the notes and lit up. "That looks like the Burning Restoration of the Fee Niks of the White Moon of Phyree!" She said.
"So Pendragon put alien genes in me?" Robin asked, mildly confused.
"I have heard often of alien experimenting on humans, trying to put in powers. It's been rumored that that's where all the superheroes' powers come from, minus those who are actually aliens." Starfire said.
"Dude! I knew it! My great grandfather wasn't crazy!" Beastboy shouted.
"This is the part where Raven replies: 'Considering you, he probably was'." Cyborg said, beaming.
"Jerk." Beastboy muttered.
"Well, we should try. It takes three seconds for fire to do damage, and we could always push you in the ocean, if necessary." Cyborg said, now directing his attention to Robin.
"...You're not helping." Robin replied.
"I'm not here to." Cyborg shot back, smiling.
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Robin stood outside, a fire set up by a flamethrower Cyborg had built (He didn't put EVERY gadget in him, after all!) ready to fry him. He thought of the puns Beastboy and Cyborg would probably use during the Burning Restoration thingy.
He took a breath, and stepped into the fire. When he put his foot in the fire, the Phoenix Armor materialized around the area in the fire. He stepped all the way into the fire and he fully energized the Redbird Armor without actually mentally calling it up. The sword he had, typically a red fire, was now white hot and the other Titans backed away, trying to protect themselves from the heat.
Robin smirked, "White fire. This fire could melt the sun, just about."
Robin stepped back out of the fire and the Redbird Armor disappeared, but he felt he could call it up in an instant and might not be exhausted for a while.
Then the Titan's Communicators all blared loudly. Robin activated his and noticed that four villains were attacking at once, noticing that the attacks had to be coordinated and planned. Possibly Slade, but he was fairly sure that after the Brotherhood's defeat at Prague that the villains would be underground, recovering and most likely not even thinking of attacking Jump City at this point. Surely Slade was in the same boat...?
"Cyborg, you take Atlas. Beastboy, you get Adonis. Starfire, Dr. Light. I'll take on Ternion and stall him long enough for one of you three to come help me." Robin ordered.
The Titans all nodded and shot off for the assigned enemy in their own typical methods of transport. I'll let you figure it out. Oh, and Ternion is Cinderblock, Plasmius, and Overload combined, as seen in Aftershock, Pt. 2. Just so you'd know.
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Cyborg shot out of the T-Car about 100 yards away from Atlas' position and took off running for the big bot.
"Hey! Megaman! Eat this!" Cyborg quipped, lancing out a foot that connected with the back of Atlas' left knee, sending several gears and pieces of metal flying. "OW! I'm gonna have to get better guards..."
Atlas turned around with one jacked-up leg, but still managed to throw a swing at Cyborg, which knocked him back into a building. The big bot then held up an arm that fired off several shots.
"You are a Megaman rip-off!" Cyborg mocked, rolling, ducking, diving, jumping, running, and dodging out of the way of the blasts.
"Shut UP you weakling! You pushed your limits last time fighting me, this time you'll lose miserably!" Atlas roared, firing off several missiles.
"How in the name of Cybertron did you learn to fix yourself and change your weapons?" Cyborg asked.
"...You'd be amazed how many ...For Dummies books there are." Atlas replied, shooting off several flame bombs.
"Clearly." Cyborg said, shrugging.
Cyborg leapt up fairly high using his new leg strength, and when he reached Atlas, he swung his arm as hard as could towards him. The result was him spiraling into Atlas' torso, shattering it. Atlas smiled, bringing up both his arms, which turned into odd guns and shot out webs that pinned Cyborg to the ground. A shock went through him that caused incredible pain.
"ARGH! I'll! Get! YOU! BACK!" Cyborg roared, thrashing about, trying to get the web off of him.
"I don't think so, Cyb- I thought something was different about you. No matter. I, Atlas, shall still claim VICTORY!" Atlas declared, his web-shooters turning into actual guns.
Cyborg finally ripped the webbing apart and smashed the ground, causing the ground to shake and Atlas to fall. A large chunk of concrete also came up, which Cyborg smashed against Atlas' torso.
"Let's just leave it at... I got bionics." Cyborg said, tearing Atlas' head off to give to the police.
After he did so, he headed off for Robin and Ternion.
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Beastboy landed on the ground as a condor then turned into a rhinoceros and charged into Adonis. The mecha-driver turned around and shot out his arm to grab him, but the changeling had already turned into a field mouse, avoiding his grasp.
"Hah! Afraid to fight me, eh little dude? I'd beat yo' punk tail anywho!" Adonis mocked.
Beastboy turned into a Mexican Amphithere (feathery dragon, two wings, two arm claws) and grabbed Adonis from behind, then he flew high into the sky.
"Oh? So this is how you wanna' roll? Well then..." Adonis started, activating his jets.
The fire from it burned Beastboy bad enough for him to let go. When he noticed Adonis had jets now, he transformed into a Celarin Dragon (four wings, two arm claws, two leg claws) and engaged him in battle. Adonis and he grappled, straining to get control over the others momentum. Beastboy smirked, and shot out flames which charred a bit of Adonis' suit and caused him to loosen his grip long enough for Beastboy to shoot downwards and slam Adonis into a building.
"Ah, hell naw!" Adonis shouted, swinging off the building and fly-kicking Beastboy in the chest.
Beastboy was sent rolling through the sky, furiously trying to right himself. It took him about a minute, but he managed it. He spread all four of his wings for support as he launched a massive fireball at Adonis, which almost incinerated him, instead leaving him with 3rd degree burns and no mech-suit. Beastboy flew off for the hospital, Adonis in his claws and gave them instructions to send back to jail when he recovered.
He took off for Ternion and Robin when they wrote down the instructions and had him in the waiting room.
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Starfire was firing Novabolts at Dr. Light at high speed. He was thrashing out light tendrils in a desperate attempt to pin and defeat the Tamaranean. They were interlocked in a battle of light. Starfire flew up and backwards, desperately trying to avoid the blasts. That's when Robin came in... with Ternion in hot pursuit.
Dr. Light laughed, jumping on Ternion's shoulders, assisted by his photokinesis.
"Starfire! I need you to destroy Overload's chip, but first try to get Dr. Light off his back. He might use his photokinetic suit to assist Ternion! GO!" Robin shouted, turning into the Redbird and shooting forward at high speeds.
Ternion shot out an arm that Redbird slashed through with his flaming sword. The horrid tri-beast then blasted out a large bolt of electricity that connected with Redbird, but he laughed it off when it set him ablaze with its heat. The sword turned white and he blasted at Ternion, careful to avoid Starfire, who was dealing with Dr. Light.
Starfire swerved about the light tendrils, trying to get in a shot, but she was just never given the opportunity. Dr. Light grabbed her with a tendril and pulled her to him. He chuckled maliciously and shot out a large tendril which knocked her backwards. A few light blasts connected with her, knocking her unconscious.
She fell towards the ground at a higher and higher rate. Redbird wasn't able to save her, as he was forced to de-energize back into Robin due to the energy loss. Ternion laughed malevolently, then suddenly cut off in a screech when it was mostly frozen over by a Frost Dragon (four leg claws, two wings) flying in with Cyborg on its back.
Ternion's legs were entirely frozen over, but the rest of it was able to move about, clearly stated when it lashed out an arm that grabbed for Beastboy, but missed. Cyborg used Beastboy for a spring board of sorts, kicking off of him to slam into Dr. Light. He only slammed into him at a fraction of his strength, but it was more than enough to knock him off and broke several bones. When they reached the ground, Cyborg knocked him out quickly.
Beastboy turned into a Behemoth, a monstrous beast. He shot out fire that melted the ice and shorted out Overload. He then launched a massive blast that knocked Ternion down and out. Cinderblock was unconscious, as was Plasmius, or the unfortunate soul who became him when conscious.
Beastboy turned back to normal and breathed a sigh of exhaustion. Robin put a hand on his shoulder.
"Good job. I'll radio out a signal to the special forces to pick up Dr. Light, Cinderblock, Plasmius, and Overload. I'll need you to get Starfire in the T-Car and you and Cyborg get back to the Tower. Cyborg will know how to treat her. I'll be back shortly." Robin ordered.
"Sure thing!" Beastboy shouted, already running off.
Robin picked up a small camera from a Slade-Bug he found.
"You leave us alone for once. You've caused us enough pain, Deathstroke."
The Boy Wonder smashed the bug in his hand and let the shrapnel spread to the winds.
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"So you know of my doings in the past, Dick? Well then, you'll know that the hunt has just begun. These new powers are... intriguing. Just as Pendragon is. This could ultimately serve my goals."
Slade Wilson, once called Deathstroke the Terminator, now simply called Deathstroke, turned off the staticky screen and chuckled.
"Oh yes."