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2: Systems Crash
Slade walked out of the dust with his neck tilted at a wrong angle. With a loud crunch, the villain put wrenched his neck back into place as he continued walking, coming to a halt in front of Raven, his hands clasped behind his back once more. "You know, you shouldn't make this difficult, my dear Raven," he spoke softly.
Cyborg ran at Slade, his cannon fully charged as he yelled "How's this for easy?" trying to land a hit on Slade's back and to release his blast at point blank range.
Slade swatted him away with a burst of flames from his right arm, sending Cyborg to the ground crashing with his arm smoldering and unconscious to boot.
Raven's eyes filled with anger as she chanted "Azarath Metrion Zinthos!" Robin's R-cycle hovered into the sky, encased inside a bubble of black magic and hurtled at the villain.
"Noooo…." Robin yelled as he watched his R-cycle get sliced in half with a flick of Slade's hands and after a few seconds explode. Robin got mad. He rushed at Slade, intent on beating him when another beam of flames appeared in front of him.
Starfire grabbed Robin, spiriting away to safety just in the nick of time. She flew at Slade, Robin at her side as she launched out a volley of her starbolts which were joined by a couple of Robin's freeze discs. Slade laughed as he encased himself in a bubble of fire, not noticing that Raven was behind him with a floating pillar until it struck him. The force of the blow was enough to send him out of the dome of flames and into the path of the starbolts and freeze discs.
Slade seemed to freeze, his body encased inside a solid block of ice before it began to glow red and it turned to nothing but a wisp of steam as it evaporated. "You've made the ice stronger, yet as you see, it cannot hold me." Slade said mockingly as Starfire launched herself at him.
"You shouldn't just run in head first, my dear," Slade said before moving out of the way at the last minute and bringing his elbow on her neck, not bothering to watch as the alien girl crumpled to the ground unconscious.
Robin had launched himself at Slade, managing to get within striking range as Starfire was elbowed to the ground. Slade laughed as he parried Robin's strikes and caught Robin in the ribs with a punishing blow that brought the kid wonder to his knees; he followed the strike with a kick to the head that sent Robin's body flying away from him.
Raven watched as the last of her friends fell to the ground as Slade strode over to her.
"Now, now, don't look at me like that. I warned you not to make this difficult," Slade said as he stepped in front of her again.
He reached over to her, trying to place his right hand on her shoulder when Raven suddenly gave him a menacing growl.
"You shouldn't have done that," Raven said, her eyes now glowing red as a second pair appeared. She pulled Slade inside a dome of black magic, trying to crush him as she slammed him against the ground repeatedly. After several minutes, she collapsed to her knees as exhaustion pulled at her eyes offering her the embrace of unconsciousness.
Slade slowly got up, wrenching dislocated body parts back into place before walking over to Raven one more time. "It'll take more than that to stop, Raven," he said in a fake, jovial voice.
He reached out to grab her by the shoulders when something collided with his head, the momentum serving to send him crashing to the ground.
"She's not yours Slade, I told you already," A familiar metallic voice sounded.
Raven looked around as quick as she could, trying to find the owner of the voice.
Slade got up from the ground, almost spitting in anger as he watched Red X appear in front of Raven. "I remember telling you to do your piece, yet here you are being counter productive," Slade's voice had a menacing chill as he focused his one eye at X.
"You're doing everything the wrong way, you imbecile," X snapped at Slade, before turning back to Raven, quickly examining her for wounds. "You're not hurt, good," X sighed as he spoke those words before standing up and turning back to Slade.
"Just get the fuck out of here and I'll deal with the rest," X told him.
"No, it is you that should have left," Slade answered before lashing out with a beam of fire. X remained in front of Raven, unable to move without leaving her open to the attack. The attack seemed to slow in X's eyes before suddenly coming to a halt a few millimeters away from his mask.
A loud roaring voice spoke "Fool, you are in position to ruin everything, halt!"
"Lord Trigon, the human interrupted the task that you set me to do," Slade answered as he fell to one knee.
"Leave the human alone and return back before I destroy you for your incompetence," Trigon's voice rumbled and Slade rose up to his feet before disappearing in a burst of flames.
X slid the x-blades back into his gloves before turning back to Raven, helping her to her feet. "Are you alright?" he asked, his voice changer off once again.
"Yes, He didn't even try attacking me," Raven answered, looking around at her unconscious friends.
"I'm glad you're alright then," X said as he pulled out a small band aid from a compartment in the belt and placed it on a small nick on raven's hand. He held her hand for several seconds after that before remembering to let it go.
Raven blushed and lowered her gaze as she muttered "Thanks for… helping me," giving X reason to smile under his mask.
"Aww… how cute, a thief and a titan getting all gooey together," the obnoxious voice of Johnny Rancid reached their ears. They quickly turned around to face him. On either side of him stood one of his usual robotic creations, a huge t-rex to the right and a huge bull-dog on the left.
"What the hell do you want, Rancid?" X hissed, his voice changer back on as he stood in front of Raven protectively.
"Just here to pay the titans a little visit," Rancid replied, stepping forward.
"Get the fuck out of here," X yelled, launching a kick at Rancid, catching him in the side of the head and knocking him to the floor.
Johnny picked himself up, spitting blood on the asphalt as he said "Oh, that's it, you're dead." Both his mechanical creations lumbered towards X, who simply stood his ground.
"Wow, now that's a lot of moving scrap," he commented.
Rancid growled at him, following his robots. A pair of rockets came streaking through the air, colliding with the robots and reducing them to nothing but scrap.
Raven watched as two men dressed in black suits and long dusters appeared, sunglasses snug around their faces as they observed their handy work, the smoking rocket launchers pointing to the ground.
"Thanks boys, but Rancid is mine," X said, giving a small wave at the two men before running at Johnny. He punched him twice in the ribs, before crouching down and then jumping up as his uppercut put the criminal into the air. He walked back to Raven as Johnny's unconscious form hit the ground.
Raven saw the two suit clad men drop the launchers, which hit the floor with a clatter; X turned and gave a wave to a red haired man, apparently the leader, because he turned around and with a wave of his hand, they both disappeared into an alley.
"Who were they?" Raven asked.
"Friends of mine," X responded. He walked over to where the unconscious Robin lay, nudging him in the ribs with the tip of his boot, earning himself a load groan. After a few minutes, he slowly started to come around so Red X turned back to Raven.
"Now that your buddies are awake, I'll take my leave," he told her giving a elegant bow before he righted himself and tapped the button on the belt. Raven watched as he disappeared in a blur before turning to Robin, who slowly pulled himself up to his feet.
"Raven, where's Slade?" he asked, holding his arm to his side, where his ribs were giving him a sharp poke.
"Slade's gone," Raven answered as she walked over to Cyborg, proceeding to examine him for substantial damage.
"What do you mean gone? Where'd he go?" Robin asked a little forcefully as Raven started up Cyborg.
"He left and I don't know where he went," Raven snapped back as she pressed the last key that booted Cyborg up.
"Whoa, what hit me?" Cyborg asked as he stifled a groan. He saw his slagged hand and immediately remembered how it happened as he said "Bastard got me good."
Beast Boy slowly pulled himself together, sitting on the ground with a hand on his head and the other holding his nose to try to stem the flow of blood. "Aww… dude, ow I'm dunna need a nose nob!" (Now I'm gonna need a nose job!) he yelled.
Cyborg walked over to Starfire, gently trying to rouse her "Star… hey Star, wake up," he said shaking her shoulder. He looked up to Robin and said "It's no good, she's out cold."
Robin clenched his teeth, walking over to Raven and in the process spotted an unconscious Johnny Rancid.
"Why'd Slade leave?" he asked, then he asked "How'd he get here?" motioning towards Rancid.
Raven looked at him for a few moments and answered "Slade was called away, and as for Rancid, he tried to take us out of the picture while we were down." A few moments later, Raven enveloped Starfire in a cocoon of black energy, pulling it into the portal she opened to the Tower.
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Several hours later, Raven sat on the roof of the tower meditating. Having received almost no wounds in the battle, she used the time to contemplate on the events that occurred. 'Slade said something about being counter productive, but what did he mean?' she asked herself, levitating a couple of inches higher than normal.
But before she could think on the subject further, a voice shocked her out of her trance. "My Raven, you are well, are you not?"
Raven turned towards the speaker, revulsion filling her tongue as she said "Get away from me, Slade!" as she shifted herself into a combat stance.
"Have you forgotten, my dear, we have unfinished business," Slade casually responded as he stepped closer.
Raven raised her hands, beginning her chant "Azarath Me-" but she was cut off as for the second time in the day, a large red x shuriken collided with Slade's head.
"Get the hell away from her, exile scum!" Red X stood a few feet away from them both, his hands at the ready to launch more projectiles.
"Again you interrupt, boy, but this time is the last!" Slade said as he took a step towards X. Before he could finish taking a second, two more blades embedded themselves into the ground in front of him.
Two more figures appeared next to Red X. The first, a woman with ice blue hair, her cobalt eyes blazing cold in an otherwise beautiful face; a long black upside down cross marking below her right eye. Her clothing consisted of tight black leather pants with a matching pair of black boots; wearing a long sleeve black blouse covered by a mesh shirt, which in turn was covered by a black vest. She held two more crosses in her hands, the long parts sharpened into blades as she took up a position to Red X's right.
On the left now stood a man with red hair spiked to the side, his eyes both covered by a metal plated bandana. He wore a tight blue t-shirt with a white vest closed over it, dark blue pants, a pair of white gloves and white boots to finish the ensemble. He held a double edged sword shaped like an extended triangle made of a strange glowing green material with a white hilt, which was in his hand.
"Make your move, exile and I guarantee that even your employer won't be able to save you," the male spoke with a deep voice, his grip tightening around the sword hilt.
"Hmm… I see that you cannot face me without your caretakers making an appearance," Slade said with a small chuckle. Before he could make a decision on attacking or leaving, an alarm sounded making his decision for him. "It seems like I have to take my leave," Slade informed Raven before disappearing in a burst of flames.
As X and his allies moved closer to the edge of the tower to make their escape, Robin appeared, sliding to a halt with his quarter staff in hand "Hold it there, X!" he yelled.
"Sorry, but you didn't say simon says," X answered with a laugh before leaping off the tower roof, closely followed by his friends.
Robin ran to the edge, trying to catch sight of them before walking back muttering darkly.
Raven tried to make her escape, heading to her room when Robin called out "Raven we need to talk!" effectively pinning her there.
Raven stopped and looked back over her shoulder, "Can we talk about this later?" she asked.
"No, we need to talk about this now," Robin answered as he walked forward. "What the hell was Red X doing here and why didn't you sound the alarm?"
Raven looked at him, her eyes seemed to burn as she stared the boy wonder down.
"He's a criminal, why didn't you try capturing him," Robin asked again, this time a hint of frustration reached his voice.
Raven continued staring him down before turning around disappearing into a portal created by her magic.
"Damn it Raven, what aren't you telling us?" Robin muttered before putting away his weapon and heading to bed.
A/N: Yep and there goes another episode in V.O.T.R., yeah. Now I gotta say, thanks to those that reviewed and I hope to see them again in the next episode. Yeah.
"Just go," points at a random location – Orange Flavored Death.
"Go where?" – Me, AegisX
"To the Batcave," – O.F.D
"What?" – AGX
"Or would you rather go to Neverland Ranch?" – O.F.D
"I think I'll drop by and see what batman's doing" muttering, knees shaking in fear. - AGX.