9/20/06
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"So you're really leaving then?" Beast Boy said as he and Kerri walked threw the hall.
"Yep." She answered without stopping. So far, neither her or Robin had spoken about earlier that morning.
"I know! How about you stay 'till lunch. We'll all go get some pizza." He insisted. Kerri just shook her head.
"I have places to go, and I'd prefer if I don't have to travel at nightfall." She refused.
"Please!" Beast Boy begged. He turned into a small puppy and gave the unresistant puppy-dog-pout. He could see the look on her face showing that she wanted to say 'yes' to that face, but she also didn't want to. She was about to say something when the alarms started going off. Beast Boy turned back to himself and looked at the blinking light on his belt.
"Come on!" He said dragging her behind him to the main room. The other four titans were by the computer already as Kerri set her pack down on the couch.
"What is it?" Beast Boy asked running up behind Robin.
"Slade..." He said with hatred in his voice.
"Who?" Kerri asked stepping forward looking at the screen.
"Bad guy." Beast Boy explained to her quickly. She nodded with a slight understanding.
"Come on! Let's go!" He shouted as he and the others started running towards the door. Kerri watched as each titan passed her. Beast Boy stopped before leaving the room.
"Do you want come?" He asked. Kerri looked at him. She realized that if she did go she wouldn't be leaving at the time she planned, but that didn't stop her from smiling and following them.
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"I think we've been here before..." Beast Boy observed as the team walked through the corridor. Robin had explained everything he knew in the T-car. It was a robbery in a science facility. The report he got mentioned a disk that carried top secret blue prints. The had a hunch that Slade was after the blueprints, and that they were for some sort of weapon. Robin predicted that it would only be Slade's robots too.
"I think Slade was here a few months ago, as well as today." Cyborg looked around the hall.
"I still can not believe that he got what he wanted that time. We couldn't stop the robots and his theft was complete." Starfire mentioned as she flew.
"Apparently, he didn't get everything he was after." Raven had her hood up and just kept walking. She was watching Kerri. The girl made Raven question many things, like now for instance. Before any mention of Slade, she seamed tense. She even looked as if she were trying to stall her leaving earlier that morning at breakfast. Now, there was a sense of calmness around the her. As far as Raven knew, she should be tense now, stalling to get to the scene of the crime.
"Get ready, team." Robin said as the neared a door. Beast Boy turned into an ape, Cyborg got out his sonic cannon, Starefire lit up her hands with her firebolts, Raven simply calmed herself, Robin reached to his utility belt for one of his gadgets, and Kerri gathered the wind around her
The door swished open and the titans ran in. Robin was right. It was only Slade's robots. There was a small table in the middle of the room that was empty. The robots went into action as quick as the titans did. Four of the robots surrounded Kerri, one at each side, and then one in front and one in back. She held her hands up in a fighting possession.
The one in front came at her. She jumped, and did a backflip landing behind the one that was behind her. The robot turned around, but she followed still being behind. This happened until they had made three full circles around. It suddenly turned the other way, hoping to catch her off guard, and punched the thin air. She wasn't there. Kerri had jumped in the air and brought her foot down hard on the robot's head as she landed. A few sparks came from the broken machine. Kerri looked up at the other three robots. She could also see that the other titans were busy with there own robots.
Kerri turned her attention as her problem came for a new attack. There were two this time. She spun her hands in a circular pattern and the wind became strong near her. Suddenly she released the wind and the two were sent flying against the wall. Kerri turned and saw the fourth coming. She ducked down and sent a sweep at it with her leg trying to trip it. Her hair got in her way before she would have tripped it. She didn't see its hand grabbing her and throwing her across the room.
Kerri struggled as she maneuvered herself so that her feet was what headed for the wall. She then gathered the air below her feet. Right before contact with the wall she pushed off her wind and was sent away from the wall. Swiftly, Kerri formed the air into a sphere as she landed sitting on it. She started moving it the second it hit the ground. Meanwhile, the titans have gotten rid of their share of robots. Beast Boy was in ape form now, trying to shake off the robots on him.
"Beast Boy, move!" He heard someone yell. He turned into a snake and slithered a bit away only to turn back into human as he saw Kerri coming. She jumped off her ball of wind as it went flying into the group of robot, breaking a lot of them.
"Alright!" He cheered, "When did you learn to do that?" Kerri just shrugged. She looked to the other titans. Raven was using her magic to throw stuff, Cyborg was punching, Starfire was using her starbolts, and Robin was using his bo-staff to attack. She could also see the robot attacking her before coming. She smiled. Kerri was actually having fun with this.
She ran toward the robot. Beast Boy was about to follow her when he saw that one of the robots she just hit was still functional. He moved back to that one instead. As Kerri dodged the machine's attacks as she tried to figure how to counterattack. The sound of something behind her interrupted her thoughts. Out of the corner of her eye she saw Robin's bo-staff. She could also see Robin, who had dropped it, but didn't really care. Kerri jumped back, dragging it onto her foot with her other foot, then kicking it up to catch it.
The robot threw another punch and she dodged. She then slammed the pole on the machine's head and broke it. She watched the sparks for a small second. When she looked up she saw a robot by the door sneaking off. In its hands, she saw the disk Slade was after. She spun the staff in her hands many times as the wind gathered around it. She finished by slamming it on the ground in front of her. The air followed through to the robot. It broke and the disk fell to the ground.
Kerri made her way towards the disk when she noticed another machine going for it. It so happened that it was closer to it than her. Kerri swiftly swept the floor with the bo-staff, which sent an arc of wind pushing the disk off the ground. Before the wind reached it she was already running as she pole-vaulted off the staff. She had aimed it so that she could push off like before and go strait for the disk. It would have worked too, but there were some tiny problems.
Kerri was lower then she aspect and she sent the disk a bit too high. She was in the air, reaching for the disk. She just about touched when she heard someone yell her name.
"Kerri, look out!" It was Robin. She turned her face to look at him when she saw the ground coming faster than she thought.. She had time for one thing, and one thing only. She used her wind to break her fall. The disk was caught in the wind and was blown away from her. Even worse, towards a robot. Worse than that, a robot close enough to the exit. Kerri sat up in time to see it picking up the disk and taking its leave. Robin, Beast Boy, Cyborg, and Raven ran ahead to retrieve the disk. Beast Boy stopped by Kerri.
"Are you alright?" He asked in concern. He reached out a hand to help her up and she took it.
"Yeah, I'm fine." She answered. Beast Boy smiled and ran to catch up with the team. She followed after him. Robin was closest as he was about to attack. The robot through something at the group and it went off with a cloud blinding their eyesight. It was a big cloud too. The whole team was inside.
"Oh man! I can see a thing!" Cyborg yelled in disappointment. He was about to use his sonic cannon before the smoke came out.
"Stay calm!" Robin's voice called out, "It's only a smoke bomb. Just head for the outside and then we'll me-" He was interrupted by a strong wind blowing away the smoke. It was Kerri.
"Oh yes! Our new friend has assisted us!" Starfire rejoiced.
"Barely..." Kerri replied disappointed, "The disk is gone." She was right. The robot did get away.
"Don't think like that!" Beast Boy's hand landed on her shoulder as he tried to cheer her up, "You almost got it." Kerri managed a small smile as the team left to get back to the tower.
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Wow, sorry it took so long to come out. I got caught in some homework and video games. Also, I didn't know how I was going to describe my fight scene in words. I've never been perfectly good at that type of stuff.
I did just mention that I got stalled on my fight scene. The reason is because I've never written one before. I had it in my mind, but I didn't know how to write it down. It would probably help me if some people could give me some critique. I would really appriciate it since I'm expecting to write more fight scenes later in the story.
You may have noticed, but if you didn't Kerri's attacks would be similar to the Avatar airbending. I even went to YouTube to see the orgins of airbending comercial that used to be on Nickelodien. The airbending inspired my character's powers and so I'm thinking that I'm going to use it as a reference for possible attacks.