Chapter 4 Redux!
Revised! Re Written! Re Dialoged! Extra Scenes and additional Fights! My directors cut Special edition! Not that you'll be able to find the original... Hehehe...
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Super-Bizarre!
Titans Tower.
"Ouch!" Tyler complained as he tried to sit up, he was still in the sick bay after two days. Thankfully, Robin let up on his rapid fire questions, and had allowed the boy to rest, it had been two days of nothing but sitting around and waiting to get healed, he looked out the window to see the sun rising
"If you had remained conscious, you'd be healed already." A familiar voice says, as Chamie appears in Tyler's field of vision. Her clothing was more casual than usual, but still tasteful.
"Sorry, thats the first fight I've ever lost."
"Well, you won, but barely, and it's only the third fight you've ever been in! You always kept even the sliver of strength you've had the last few years in check."
"I always was a little too nice." Tyler scratches the back of his head as he smiles.. "Ouch!" He wimpers.
Chamie moves close to the boy, and whispers in his ear, "Wake up Tyler, you have more to learn..."
Tyler's eyes snap open, and he realizes that he was dreaming... maybe... He sits up, and realizes he is in no pain. At all. Not even post-healed pain. No pain in his wrists, and he could breathe! Wow! He could breathe easier than he ever had, his normally strained eyes felt perfect, he could even pick out tiny details... "What did you do to me? And does it come in pill form? My parents have been pressuring me to get glasses, but now... Wow!" He looked into a nearby mirror and beheld a clear and clean face... "what the heck? No one goes to bed mutilated and wakes up Mel Gibson... except thats what actually happened to him..."
"Your welcome..." Tyler heard Chamie's voice whisper.
"I want to know how-"
"A side effect of the healing magic, I usually put too much energy into it."
"Better than new huh? How can I repay-"
"Train here, get stronger, gain experience, learn all you can, your here right? May as well get stronger." Chamie finally appears before Tyler, her hands glowing with a blue aura, but she seems exhausted.
"Are you okay?" Tyler asks, Chamie wouldn't look him in the eye.
"I over exerted myself, I just need some rest."
"Are you going to pop up like this whenever you want? Or do I need to call for you?"
"I'm a strong girl, I only appear when I feel like it."
"Right.." Tyler blinks his eyes, and Chamie is gone... "Oi! Robin! Can I get started on that training!"
Three Days later...
"So, hows he doing?" Cyborg asks Robin as they watch Tyler (who has a book shaped mark on his head) on the monitor. Tyler is reading a book that he borrowed from Raven, and by borrowed I mean after he caught it with his head he wouldn't give it back. It was a book of simple magic. Very simple.
"Raven said his talent for magic is almost zero." Robin replies, "But he insists he can do it. Given enough time."
"I meant with.. you know.."
"Your asking if I trust him?" Robin lifts an eyebrow.
"Yeah.."
"He hasn't asked about any secrets, and he does nothing but train, eat, and sleep." Robin lists like a military report. "His friend spends most of her time with Starfire... and." Robin stretches out the last word.
"And?" Raven joins the conversation.
"He wouldn't give me his last name. Or even a birth place."
"Maybe he's paranoid like you are." Raven coldly breathes. Just as Tyler lays back against his seat letting his arms relax at his sides.
"I managed to take his finger prints, and he doesn't come up on any records."
"So he's not a criminal... Why are we still investigating him?" Raven asks.
"I mean no records at all. We know nothing about him... and apparently, neither does anyone else." Robin firmly states.
"Maybe he's really just lookin' to get trained by the greatest heroes in the world." Cyborg theorizes, getting a strange look from the other two. "Well we are!"
"Cyborg's bragging aside-"
Raven cuts herself off as Tyler closes the book shut, and breathes a meditation spell...
"Huh, nothin... I don't have the patience for meditation... but I really want to learn magic!" Tyler says to himself...
"He talks to himself?" Raven tilts her head just a touch to her left.
It's this exact moment that the alarm goes off. "time for a test run." Tyler breathes.
"Down-town." Robin says as he moves for the door.
Downtown...
"Bizarro destroy city! Because me HERO!" a disproportionate creature wearing a purple and pink version of Superman's costume roars, his blocky grey skin blocks the bullets of the nearby police force as he picks up a parked car, and moves to throw it across the torn asphalt into a nearby bakery, which has already been emptied.
"Okay, he's new." Raven says,
"he's a little far from his usual hangout though." Cyborg adds as he steps into the creature's view.
"We'll just just have to show him who's in charge!" Beast Boy punches his left palm as he starts stretching out.
"Let us kick the butt!" Starfire agrees.
"Are you ready Mana?" Tyler asks Dark Magician Girl. Who nods in agreement.
"Teen Titans, GO!" Robin commands!
The boy wonder pulls out a small piece of Kryptonite, but as soon as he hits Bizzaro, it is simply absorbed by the creature...
"What!" Robin says before having to dodge a blind strike from Bizarro, narrowly escaping the creature's attack.
"Bizzaro is HERO! Why do children attack Bizzaro!"
"he absorbed the kryptonite?" Robin asks...
"Robin has Kryptonite?" Tyler yells in an exasperated voice.
"I'm prepared for anything!" Robin says, right before he dodges a blast of freeze-vision...
"Right..." Tyler says, reminding himself that Robin being as prepared as Batman, would be in the job description.
"Azarath Metrion Zinthos!" Raven grasps Bizzaro with her magic, holding him in place, as Starfire moves in and lands a series of Star-bolt infused punches.
Cyborg then followed, lifting his fist he landed a crushing blow on Bizarro's head.
And by crushing, I mean Cyborg's arm crumpled like paper...
"Cyborg!" Beast Boy called out, quickly jumping up in his friend's place to attack as well with his gorilla fist, but his ape screams fill the air, quickly turning back into the shouts of a bruised boy.
"I've got this! DARK MAGIC ATTACK!" Mana calls out, a blast of purple energy bursts from her staff as she points it at Bizzaro-
"Ka-boom!"
The explosion caused by the attack nearly came close to Tyler's face, "Impressive." a much more trained voice comes from Bizzaro now. "I'll have to remember to avoid that. Looks like your new friends are already getting the hang of our battles, Robin."
Cyborg is hastily trying to fix his own arm, and Raven tries to heal Beast Boy's.
Robin was on his feet, ready to attack again.
"Who could give you this kind of power Slade, who are you working for!" he demands.
"Let's just say, I've acquired some new allies..." Slade's voice emits from Bizarro's mouth, "think you can beat me when I control someone as powerful as Superman?"
"Shoot, what can I do..." Tyler breathes, if he used Crocodile's sand powers, he'd be frozen or turned to glass, if he used Luffy, he might not be able to do any damage, but maybe... "Activate Spell," the Titans and Mana turn to him as the same magic aura pulsates from Tyler's body... "Meteor of Destruction!"
Silence...
"Was something supposed to happen?" Raven asks...
Tyler's face turned red at that, where was the meteor? Did he need to say please?
"Well actually..."
It was then that he saw a tiny black spec in the bright mid-day sky... slowly increasing in size, until finally.
"I'm not standing here!" Tyler turned from Bizarro and ran at his top speed. The titans all cautiously backed off, as-
"WHAM!" The meteor slammed into Bizarro, crushing him...
Except that the meteor simply crumbled upon impact with Bizarro.
"Great. Nothin for that." Tyler complains, before quickly rolling away from a blast of Ice-vision from Bizzaro.
"Magic affects Kryptonian's the same way as humans." Robin motions to Mana and Raven.
"But Bizarro's powers are reversed, he absorbed the Kryptonite... and the Dark Magic-" Tyler is interrupted by-
"AZERATH METRION ZINTHOS!" Raven uses pure dark magic to attack the creature, but with Slade's mind and technique behind Bizarro's speed, he was able to dodge the attack, and is soon in Raven's face, fist moving for a strong attack.
But instead the fist connected with Tyler's face, sending him flying into one of the burning buildings.
Raven found herself perfectly fine, standing where Tyler should have been. "What?"
"Shift trap-magic, congratulations, your not dead." Tyler groans as he crawls to the nearby stairs, pushing himself up, and walking to a hole that used to be the wall.
"well... are you having fun yet?" A quiet voice says to Tyler, who looks around wildly to see who it belonged too...
But no one was there... "Wow, I really hit my head hard didn't I?"
"You don't have the power to win this... but someone else does..."
"Superman is the obvious choice..." Tyler breathes as he ignores the voice in his head. "but I'm all we got, so slightly-super Tyler will have to be enough." He looks down the building to see the titans (and Mana) fighting the creature.
"Great. Stupid fear of falling... how am I supposed to..." reaching to his pocket, Tyler looks through his cards... "Duh." Tyler smiled to himself. "Activate trap, Staunch Defender!" he holds the card out in front of him as he pours his energy into it.
The Bizarro-Slade team looked up at Tyler as he smiled to himself. "You first!" with swiftness... Bizzaro was soon in front of Tyler, his fist headed for his face.
"A Hero Emerges!" Tyler announces, as he begins to dig for another card... but he realizes... "Shoot, I only brought a few to begin with, the rest are at the Tower!" As Bizzaro/Slade began to destroy the surrounding stone of the parking building. Tyler barely ducks down and hides behind a black truck. "Help. Someone." He whispers. But who would be able too? He heard the sound of flickering flames and a car being thrown out through the same wall made by him earlier.
"I got it!" He heard Starfire yell, the battle continuing behind the boy.
"Anyone, please, help us!" he asks again, his 'a Hero Emerges' card continues to glow. "I'm already here dang-it! Call someone else!" He stands to yell at the card, before Bizzaro /Slade finally heads at him again. "Well, I hope I live long enough to regret this." He closes his eyes as he braces for the concussion.
Bizzaro was already upon him, but seconds before Tyler's skull was cracked by alien super-strength, a blue, gold, and red meteor slammed into Bizzaro, sending him straight down through fifteen levels of concrete and flame.
Opening his eyes, Tyler realizes "I'm not dead... why aren't I dead, not that I'm complaining..."
"Hurry up!" Mana was behind him, and soon dragging him by his arm to the out side, still fifteen floors up.
"Are you insane! You know I can't fly right! Just put me down slowly!"
"Yes, I do know, and of course." Mana answers as they slowly glide downwards.
As his feet touch solid ground, Tyler does something he hadn't for nearly twenty minutes,
He took a breath.
He soon had it knocked out of him as the gold, red and blue meteor from earlier landed on him.
"Not again, can I please stay on my feet for just a few minutes!" Tyler tries to yell, but all anyone would have heard was incoherent muffled sound as he didn't realize his mouth was covered by, something.
"Sorry about that." the meteor said as she pushed herself up, allowing Tyler's eyes to view the world again, and what a sight it was, a young crystal-blue-eyed, girl with long blonde was the mysterious meteor all along. She held herself over Tyler with her arm. She wore what looked like armor from ancient greece. Including a gold head band. "Still not quite used to everything around here yet."
"Not a problem..." Tyler managed to whisper, "I'm still learning too."
"Hey that voice!" The girl said, her face coming closer to Tyler's, who inched back a bit, "your the one that called for help right?"
"Wh-What are you talking-"
"I heard that voice asking for help, so I followed it here."
Explosions can be heard as the Titans continue to fight Bizzaro.
Tyler takes a moment to take all this in, just who was he talking to... her clothes make her look like a stereotypical blonde amazon... but...
"Uhh, right, yes, we seem to have a situation with the creature over there and we could use all the help we can get." Tyler races through his words to fast for him to realize what he is saying, but the girl seems to understand perfectly as she stands up quickly, dusts herself off, and heads for Bizzaro.
"Thats the Tyler I remember. Brave against any warrior but put a cute girl in front of him and he's too shy to do anything, at least until he get's some experience." The same emotionless voice from before says to Tyler.
"Ugh, did I hit my head again?" Tyler asks, shaking himself out of his frozen state. "Better go help." he tries to push himself up, but instead only feels intense pain in his right shoulder. "ouch." He yells as he feels it crack.
"Need a hand?" The emotionless voice asks again.
"Didn't I already get two?" Tyler answers before he slaps himself with his good hand. "Thats right, answer the voice in your head, this is how serial killers get started remember!"
"Tyler!" Chamie appears before the beaten boy. "Give it another shot." With a wave of blue and green energy, Tyler is on his feet, fully healed again.
"Thanks again." Tyler replies. Turning towards the fight. He catches the scene in front of him.
A strong uppercut from the Amazon, a blast of dark magic from Mana, a bolt of black energy from Raven, and a barrage of starbolts from Starfire, and Bizzaro finally seemed to be losing his ground.
"It's too strong..." Tyler does a face palm. "Why didn't I think of that first! Emulation. Rogue!" He roars, dodging the half demon's magic and green-laser-energy from above, Tyler finally lands a hit on the semi-distracted Bizzaro, clasping his hand around his throat. Immediately he could feel Bizzaro's powers flowing into him. Stronger, faster, harder to break. It felt good, if he could have all this power, nothing would be able to...
"NO!" He yelled, jumping back, letting go of Bizzaro, but not before punching him.
"Okay, my turn!" The blonde amazon slams her small but powerful fist into Bizzaro's gut, she immediately follows up with a knee to the face, and finally finishing it with a right hook to his jaw.
"Wow! New girl has got it go-in on!" Cyborg cheers as he finally catches up.
The blonde turned to Tyler. "Not sure why you called me, it seems you could have taken him by yourself." She smiles. "Interesting that his costume looks so much like my cousin Kal's though."
"I can never use that power again." Tyler fell to his knees, "If I do, I'll never stop. That power... I can't let myself crave power, not like that. Not just to have it."
"I don't understand what happened, why did you yell like that?" Raven asks.
"I... don't know, one minute I was thinking about how good his power felt flowing through me, but somehow it was wrong... I'm not sure why, I just can't do that again."
"Surely it's not that bad!" Mana moves to take Tyler's hand hand and help him up, but he shuffles away.
"DON'T!" He yells, "Or I'll drain your power too!" he breathes. "Chamie, help." He then collapses. Energy seems to flow out of his body.
"Tyler?" Mana asks before his senses truly shut off.
Elsewhere in San Francisco.
"See you tomorrow!" a few school girls wave at the street crossing, where they take separate ways. One, young with long blond hair...
She walks to the train station, and gets a ride to the old entertainment district. She reads over her textbook, until the train announced her stop. She gets off.. and walks past several places, until she ends up at a particularly old building, in fact, it's an old run-down theater.
Pushing on the back door, she walks in. The place is surprisingly intact, she walks up a set of stairs to see the vaulted ceiling and seats. The red-wood walls and black cushioned seats a primary indicator of it's classic Broadway set up, with even another two floors of seats above it. Terra strolls behind the massive red curtain and heads to a door labeled 'Back Sta e' the g had somehow been worn away.
"Home sweet home." the girl announces as she walks through the door.
A girl in a perfect-fitting black, open top with a high collar, long black pants, and silver buttons on her top, just enough to cover everything. Her black hair was hidden by what seemed to be a cloak that covered her head and reached behind her body.
"Who are you? The owner of this place?" the blond girl clenches her fist,
"Actually, yes, I am." The girl removes her hood, to reveal... "My name is Chamie. And I want to show you something." Chamie notices the dirt on this girl's shoes moving on it's own as the girl clenches her fists.
"Look, I'm sorry, I'll just leave." She walks towards the bed she was using, but Chamie catches her arm.
"Wait, I won't kick you out, I just want to talk to you, Terra."
"That's not my name!"
"It's the name you were born with."
"Look, just let me go."
"Would you like to see your future?" Chamie asks,
"Yeah right, just let me take my stuff and I'll-"
"Run away, just like you have from everything? I know plenty about you Terra, your just afraid, afraid of what you are, who you are, the things you've done, and what you might still do." Chamie's voice is quiet, and kind.
"Just leave me alone!" The girl pulls out of Chamie's grip. And starts collecting her things.
"You have friends that offered you a better place than this. And they still would, if you would let them." Chamie continues.
"My friends don't know I live here."
"No one, knows your here. But people have been looking." Chamie drops three pieces of metal on a nearby table.
The girl stops for a moment, but doesn't look.
"You can just run, the world is a big place, thats what your good at right? Surviving. It's any creature's number one priority."
"Well, I've been doing better at that lately."
"Yes, your normal life and oh-so-normal home are brilliant."
"Look, I don't know what you want, but I can't give it to you."
"What I want? Do I look like I want anything?"
"Besides to-"
"Don't answer that. It's doesn't matter what I want. What matters, is what you truly care about. This 'normal life' may be the first real decision you've made for yourself. The fact that you live alone like this, proves that your lying, you are Terra, and you deserve better."
"I deserve nothing. I'm just a girl thats made so many mistakes, and taken the wrong turn at every opportunity. "
"This is America my dear girl. The land of second chances! The entire point of this country, is to give people like you, another shot at life!"
"What if I don't want another shot!" She finally turns around, facing Chamie. "I decide if I deserve it! And I don't!"
"No, you do deserve it. You just won't take it. Your just a scared little girl, who won't admit she's afraid of her own feelings, and won't face the consequences of her decisions head on until you've come out on top!" Chamie's voice becomes more aggressive as she talks.
"I just want to have a normal life!"
"Even your own desire scares you! You want to live a normal life, but you live by yourself. I want to help you, and you want to be left alone. But look!" Chamie slams her hands on the table bringing Terra's attention to the metal Chamie had dropped earlier.
Terra looks at them, to see... "Slade..." two of them were the symbol from Slade bot's, the third was a silver 'Z' with foreign symbols on the edge.
"You do remember." Chamie smiles. "He told Beast Boy that you didn't want to remember, Beast Boy has decided to respect your decision now. But, this..." She points to the silver 'Z' "Is Slade's new employer, and they have ordered your capture."
"What?"
"Slade usually acts to further his own ends, but he is also one of the worlds most infamous mercenaries." Chamie continues. "His current mission? The same one as always. Only worse, he's not going after the Teen Titans, He's going after anyone and everyone, that has a 1% chance of stopping his employer. And you're at the top of the list."
"Why?"
"Why? Does he need a reason? Power! Control! Money!"
"I- I DON'T CARE! I want my normal life!"
"Let me show you, what will happen, if you keep going the way you are." Chamie holds out her hand.
"I- I..."
"It's not about the world forgiving you. It's about forgiving yourself."`
Terra slowly places her hand in Chamie's, and the world before her changes...
To be continued...
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