Too Much Red: New Nemesis

By: Pakkrat

Chapter 4: A New Nemesis?

Note: Hey ladies and gents! You must be wondering where Raven and Robert/Red start having some romantic down time? How about… now! That and we have the appearance of the newest evil, an evil far beyond that of even Akaige! I think you all will understand why this is called "New Nemesis" pretty soon. I do not own Teen Titans or anything of copyrighted design. I do take my credit for the Kagejin and Akaige, along with Bata-Boom and some other characters here and again.

Okay, Rasco time to… why am I flying? "Ah! Help!"

Rasco slams into a wall through the magic spells Pakku casts. Pakku simply floats high in the air keeping most from taking him. With this aerial advantage Pakku unleashes a mix of energy blasts and energy tosses to the younger heroes. Pakku was skilled in magic not warfare and any damage to his body meant a great deal of pain. It was a way of keeping him from becoming too powerful. Chimera, the blue boy of metamorphosis glares his eyes and teeth before jumping and then leaping off a wall. Chimera starts changing into a snake with a humanoid face, a Naga. Pakku is occupied so the Naga gets close, but a second before it can latch on Pakku disappears and reappears in a black smoke, grabbing the Naga's tail and then swinging it overhead. Chimera screams in each twirl before being tossed into Hexadecimal who grabs Chimera, "Oh… I feel… izzy…"

"Don't you mean dizzy?"

"That too…"

Pakkurath is laughing at the foolish attempt not noticing a young girl flying up behind him. Her energy star bolts glowing in her hands she fires one forward and Pakku is taken by it. Falling in a spiral Pakku lands on the ground to push up and be knocked down from Saber.

"Looks like we win!"

"Win?" Pakku smirks under the heel on his head forcing his face in the ground, "You have yet to truly begin children." And with that a large sparkle of energy rises over Pakku's hand and arm to his head and up Saber. Saber pulls back to now have Pakku float up and lay a palm on her head, and the palm charges to fire a strong blast tossing Saber to the side.

The other five teenagers run to Saber helping her up. Pakku begins to chuckle to himself and Roth looks up "Don't laugh at her!"

"I'm not laughing at her… I'm laughing at all of you!"

The teenagers rush Pakku as the parents watch. Cyborg sighs until he hears the doors opening to the arena, "Hey, toad-lancers!" The teens look to uncle Gizmo who tosses a suitcase, "A gift from your uncle!"

The suitcase slams to the ground and opens next to Nova; she blinks but sees some wrist-bands with her name under them. She grabs them and puts them on, Pakku roars and readies to attack but Nova looks back and charges her starbolts. "Hey!" Nova looks and Giz is smiling, "Put your hands like a staff weapon! I know your dad taught you how to use them!"

Nova does roll her hands like that and her bolts make the bands glow and soon, her bolts become a bow-staff of energy? "What is this?"

Pakku floats to a halt, "What the…" and then he's smacked in the jaw from an energy staff end. Nova begins a flurry of staff strikes to Pakku's face, chest, and shoulders backing him away from the other tools. The teens run over and check it out. Hex gets a set of shades, "Um, what are these?"

"Shades that also can see through most materials and analyzes energy and heat around you. Your dad and I always thought those hexes might be more useful if you could see everything around you."

"Oh…" Hex clicks a button on his brim and the shades change color, "Hey that is kind of neat."

"Sure, so what do I get? Super mega ultra guns?"

Gizmo looks at Chimera blankly, "No… Rasco, you do get something interesting." Gizmo tosses a belt and Rasco blinks, "That allows you to turn into that demon form quicker, and better yet it should cause your energy to be easier to use."

"Really that might just be interesting."

"Saber, I have something for you too." Giz holds up a leash which was a black strap with a strange pendant, "You know how your skills are fairly useful but sometimes you can't get close, right? Well this pendant has a cloaking ability kind of like the old Red X outfit once I finish some more work the clothing should go invisible too."

Saber puts it on and looks before pushing on the centers and turning her body invisible but clothes still showed up. "Hm, this doesn't seem to help much." The next thing her shirt is rolling up and falling to the ground.

"Hey! I'm sorry but that's not okay!" Hex grabs his shades and takes them off, "I can still see her!"

"Oh? Then why did you stop looking?" Saber giggles as Hex glares to the clothes soon lying on the ground. "There's some things I don't want to see." Hex yelps from as smack over the head, "Okay, I'm sorry!"

"You better be!"

"Roth I have something for you too." Gizmo hands over a red jewel, "You remember your mom's Chakra? Well this will work the same except you can wear it over your neck! This way your own powers can be kept in check more often."

"Gee thanks." She was being sarcastic, "What ever would I have done without your help?"

"So Uncle Giz! What did I get, huh, huh?"

"Um… well…" Gizmo coughs, "I kind of was running late so I left your gift in my office." Chimera gasps with his mouth on the ground hanging, "Hey! I promise next time I'll bring it back to you!"

Pakkurath floats up to the roof and blasts Nova to the ground, "Enough of this crap! I'm not going to be beaten by a bunch of snot nosed brats with petty toys!"

Gizmo looks up and nods, "Okay, good luck kids I think we really pissed him off." Giz runs out closing the door. Chimera pouts, "I wanted a cool toy…"

Hex turns on his shades and shifts through to see a lot of heat over Pakku, "Hm… is that a…" Hex smiles as he fires his hexes on the ceiling and they ripple across. Pakku glares until the hexes meet over his head and steam fires through the roof. Pakkurath is coughing and falling to the ground.

Roth floats over and screams, "Azerath Metrion Zinthos!" and her hands fire the blasts of her energy into Pakku slamming him up against one of those pillars. Pakku glares and fires his own beam with his one arm pushing back Roth's attack. Nova screams as she swings her star-staff into Pakku's chest and then charging more energy the staff fires plowing Pakku through the pillar. Roth smirks as she screams and the pillar that had broken part now launches many pieces after Pakku.

Pakku stops falling back and sees the rubble. Tossing his arm up the rubble halts in its tracks and straining Pakku finally plows the many pieces back at the two girls. They scream until a blue ball like creature with tons of eyes and one large eye above its mouth pops up. The creature is called a Beholder, and firing its eyes with strange beams the many pieces of rubble start to explode. The Beholder is growling and snarling, but it was actually Chimera saying, 'Oh yeah, who needs a toy? Not me, I'm too good for my own good!'

Pakku snarls charging his one hand again but he feels a grip on his back, "Damn it!" he backhands something invisible and then rushes grabbing them. Saber moans, "Oh… that feels good…"

Pakku blushes and floats back letting go, "Wha… what?" he then feels something leap off a pillar and on him anchoring him down into the ground hard. The invisible Saber leaps back next to Rasco who asks "What did he do?"

"He grabbed my shoulder."

"Oh? I thought he grabbed your…"

"My what?" she's giggling and Rasco grins to her, "You are a very bad girl." Rasco tries his device and in a moment his coat and clothes seem to shake and his flesh is replaced with a strange ethereal energy. Rasco looks to where Pakku has now stumbled over to, that hanging pillar from before is right above him! "Okay, let's see if the energy control works!" Rasco charges his hands together and with a scream he fires the energy into the broken pillar making it creak and then fall. Pakku looks up startled before being crushed under the pillar.

After the smoke clears Pakkarath looks at his wrist and touches a button, "Brother?"

"I'm a little… busy…"

"Well?" Pakka shrugs, "Did they pass?"

"…Were you watching me get crushed?"

"Yes."

"Well, genius, there's your answer!"

Pakka coughs a little before screaming to the monitors and the kids "Guess what kids! You pass!"

The Beholder is bobbing up and down, 'Oh yeah now I'm so good I'm too good for everyone's good!' The Beholder flings an eye up, 'High eye!' but he hits something invisible. Saber blinks as she's now visible, "Huh? What happened?"

Hex and Chimera look over in daze mode, 'Wow… right now I like having 50 some eyes.'

Saber blinks but then looks down, screaming she runs behind a pillar, "Someone get me my clothes!"

Roth and Nova are giggling when Rasco turns off his powers and pulls off his coat tossing it next to the pillar, "There you go Saber."

Saber tugs the coat over and reappears with it wrapped tightly around her blushing. "Thanks Ras… maybe I should give you a private show." She's purring into him as she rubs up on his side, Rasco sighs as this happens. "Um… thanks for the offer."

Mammoth is wide eyed as Kitten is shaking Beast Boy like crazy, "My baby girl…"

"Hey! What the hell did I do?"

Kitten's eyes are burning, "You raised a pervert for a son!"

With that Beast Boy is tossed through a wall, "Well… she looks good?"

Mammoth grabs Kitten and pushes her to the side, "Excuse me honey…" he coughs, and rolling up his sleeve, "What the hell did you say you troll?"

Pakkarath shakes his head as the scene escalates, "Things never change do they?"

Raven sighs before hearing Robert chuckle, "No, they don't."

The teens are all making jokes not noticing the pillar rolling off Pakku. He glares, and with a large flash Pakku and the kids disappear. Pakka looks out, "Where the hell did they go?"

"That's what we want to know!"

Pakka is paling and turning around to the many angry stares on him, "Oh… boy…"

The coliseum has many fighting over something new. A ball, or rather the head of Gaikotsu screaming as it is kicked again, "Sir! I'm sorry!"

"I have to admit Karage. That is an interesting sport, Soccer. The way they kick the arrogant if not idiotic Gaikotsu's hollowed out head from one net to the other makes me so pleased!"

"Master!" Gaikotsu roars up as he's kicked into the air, "It was just one little mud fight!"

"Perhaps! But now my favorite coliseum is muddy and I'll be damned… again… before I let my minions get dirty in a fight in their own coliseum! Until that mud is dirt once more you and these demons will play the Soccer!"

"That might take hours!"

"Your point Gaikotsu?" and the head bounces into a net and the demons cheer to the score. "That will teach him if he ever actually learns that is." Akaige sits up and prepares to leave, "Watch the game I have business to take care of."

"What business is that?" Karage looks worried, "Is it for Tiamat?"

"No this is my own business Karage just keep enjoying the game. Sometimes," Akaige shakes his head, "I feel there is a disturbance in my plans like something is coming that should not be."

Karage watches him leave and lowers her head. Then remembering the ritual she leaves to the throne room, Gaikotsu rolls in the air, "Hey! What about me!"

The teens look around kind of confused. Pakkurath floats over holding his jaw and rubbing it. "Little brats really have shown more than what I thought you could."

There is a slight bit of laughter and the teens look to a feminine figure is silver coated armor. She has a set of dragon like wings, and she merely smiles on the whole group with her small horns and dragon tail moving wit her slow flutter. She had blonde hair and blue eyes and was very beautiful, "So these are the kids Pakku? The ones you told me about and you think might be able to help with Akaige?" She squats over on her stomach with her hands on her waist, "I don't know they really don't seem that strong."

Pakkurath shrugs and makes to leave "Tell them what you wish and then send them back! I have no time for these matters."

"Pakku! I want to talk to you afterwards!" Pakkurath snarls and the woman does a bow of her head, "Pardon me, my name is Pixie."

"Pixie?" all the teens give side head tosses, "Um…"

"What? It's a name! Oh, don't act like that just because I have a name like that I'm one of the most…" she sniffles and covers her eyes, "The most… recognized… Ah-ha!"

Pakkurath grabs his face saying "Pixie, they didn't mean it that way please stop crying!" He then hears her instantly stop and smiling she flutters over to him, "Oh great the freak's going to talk to me!"

"Thanks Pakku! You're a nice guy no matter what the others say!" She hugs Pakku and he starts trying to pry free, "I'm going to tell Bahamut right away how nice you were!"

"Sweet Kage! Get to the point Pixie! I can't have these kids gone for too long!" Pixie lets Pakku go and he instinctively tries brushing away the touch. Pixie flutters over to the kids and smiles kind of sickeningly, sweetly. Rasco by now has kind of turned away as Roth nudges him he turns to her and groans turning back to the girl. Chimera has kept his eyes on her the whole time, and with a little drool Hex wipes away that drool and sort of shakes his friend to reality. Saber and Nova are trying to figure out where they are.

"Ahem!" Pixie smiles but the most of them seem to be out of it, "HEY!" the kids look up at her and she simply smiles. "Thank you! As I mentioned I am Pixie and I am one of assistants of Bahamut, holistic dragon of the heavenly planes. I have a message that Bahamut wishes for you to assist in an up-coming battle depending on your outcome in the battle with Akaige and Malebolgia!"

The kids blink but now Pakku floats over, "Malebolgia? What the hell does he have to do with this?"

"You don't know? Gee you actually don't know! That is so funny!"

Roth walks over between them, "What is going on here?"

Pixie looks at Roth smiling, "Oh! Right, I forgot." She coughs and returns to the teens, "You see the war between good and evil has been going on for, oh, I guess since there was good and evil. Bahamut and Tiamat have been waging war with one another for a long time well, kind of more like a rivalry and stuff. Anyway, the war is going to really heat up and so Bahamut has sent several of his most trusted minions," she giggles pointing to herself, "That would be me, to find warriors who can show some skill and ability. So, like, maybe you all would like to help?"

The six young heroes kind of give mixed looks. Rasco looks over and snorts, "We'll think about it. I wouldn't hold my breath though."

Pixie pouts a little but Chimera, in his human form, grabs her around the shoulders saying "Hey, either way I'll be willing to help you out no matter what!"

"Really? Oh thank you!" she hugs Chimera making him turn red and melting in her arms. Saber shakes her head saying "What is up with that guy?"

"He is very irregular with some females of great attraction, I notice greatly influenced by the blonde variation."

"Oh… he's a pervert and a looser." Roth giggles along with the other girls while Hex rubs the back of his neck next to Chimera the puddle, "You know this really doesn't look right."

"Humana…Humana?"

"Right… that too."

Pakkurath looks to the teenagers and shakes his head, "Look, this is a lot to hear why don't you go back and have some fun at the arcade or something! I'll stick round here and talk to my friend."

"Hey! That sounds like a great idea! We can all splurge as new Teen Titans!"

"Yeah, I bet we get a discount as Teen Titans!" Hex and Chimera high-five but Rasco smacks them over the head, "Hey! We can't go around advertising who we are!"

Pakkurath flings his arm and the kids disappear. He then turns to Pixie, "What is this about Malebolgia?"

"Well, it seems Malebolgia and Akaige have been in a sort of rivalry since something called Soul Edge. Akaige destroyed the sword while Malebolgia wanted it for his own power. Worse yet, their fight has only progressed and resources say Malebolgia may be trying to attack this world you are affiliated with. If you thought having Akaige was bad enough, think about Malebolgia as the second worst thing that could happen."

"Just great." Pakkurath shakes his head in his hand, "When the hell am I going to get a break? Now we don't just have Akaige, we have a new nemesis."

The kids appear in the training room where Pakkarath sat with six bruised eyes, "Where were you?"

"Pakku took us to see a friend of his whom we never knew he had! Then, he rewarded our working of diligence with time to the arcade!"

"He did? Humph, I guess I'm the one that has to watch you all now." Pakka looks around as the teens give him a glare, "Hey! I just got beat up by ten of the most powerful people on this green earth! I don't want any lip from you little brats! Now come on let's get going to this… whatever it was you mentioned."

Pakka turns but has a spitball his his head, turning around Chimera smiles wide hiding a straw behind his back. "I hate this…"

Raven walks into their home sighing, "I don't know about this Robert." She then sees rose petals on the floor, "What is this?"

"Hm? I don't know!" Robert is smiling a little as she follows the trail upstairs. "I did remember to lock the door, I mean I ran into the house and checked after you left remember!"

Raven raises a brow when she enters the bedroom, "What is all this…" she then feels a set of arms roll around her waist. A moan escaped when he kissed her sensitive neck, "Robert…"

"The kids are away, we have the place all to ourselves…" he moves his head to the other side and kisses her neck again after brushing some hair out of the way, "We deserve a little… adult time."

"Um… yeah well…" She smiles as his hand brushes the top of her dress, "Lock the doors, and turn on some music! I'll burn the incense!"

"Booyah!"

Beast Boy sits down on the sofa smiling as Bumble Bee sits and cuddles up to him. "So, you sure about letting our son join on that team?"

"Why not? They should be okay and all… right?"

"Sure! They have us to teach them the ropes." Beast Boy rubs his chest with his nails, "Not to mention our son sure has some skills he inherited from his pops."

"That and his arrogance."

Beast boy smiles as he pulls Bumble Bee tightly to his side, "Yeah you sure he didn't get that from his mother?"

The two chuckles together laying there with each other, "Garth… you think he's going to be okay?"

"Yes honey Bee."

The door rings, a blonde haired man waits in a nice gray suit. "My daughter and her husband will be so surprised…" the door opens and Kitten looks at her father in a black leather dominatrix outfit, and Mammoth on a leash behind her, "Oh! Daddy!"

"…." Killer Moth turns around walking to his car, turning the keys he drives off. Kitten blinks, "What was that all about?"

"Eh, some people are just weird sweet-heart."

"Who gave you permission to talk dog?"

Cyborg and Jinx went with a normal night out eating at a restaurant. Cyborg sees her rubs his hand, "I wish…" Cyborg sighs a little as Jinx notices, "I wish I could feel your hands."

Jinx smiles on him and raises her hand to his cheek, "You can feel them here." She then lays the hand on his heart, "You feel my love here too, right?"

"Yes but… you know what I mean honey." He smirks, "I wish I could hold you and we both know I'm holding you."

"Victor, you're such a sweet-heart." She giggles and he hears the waiter asking for their orders.

Robin, or Nightwing, sits in an office all alone. He has a bottle of liquor and a shot glass. With a deep sigh Nightwing looks at the picture of Starfire and thinks back to their wedding… "Damn it… why can't it always be a storybook ending?"

He takes a snort of the alcoholic beverage and sighs deeper into his depression. In space an orange skinned Tameranian sits with a similar picture of a young man and her, "Oh… Robin…"

The arcade has six young teens running around and playing games. Rasco and Roth play a zombie-shooter, Saber and Chimera try a game of dance revolution, as Hex is being cheered on by Nova in a game of virtual-boxing. Pakkarath has himself hiding in the corner with a long brim hat watching the kids stay safe.

At the other end of the room sits a small fat man with blue paint on his face, his twisted smile wide on the kids. His eyes are red, and burn with the fires of hell. He has two tuffs of gray pointing out from the bald top of his head. A cup of water is laid on the table and in the rippling water he looks down seeing the form of his true self. A red, bug-eyed demon with three horns curving from the side of his jaw and the top of his head. "Gee, I look so pretty tonight!" The Clown laughs to himself a little and looks back to the kids, "I wonder if maybe I can trick that filthy Hell spawn to get these kids… I guess I should check with Malebolgia if maybe he wants that."

The clown laughs to himself lowly again and no one notices him sort of disappear in a raging flame. For tonight the kids play and enjoy themselves. Tomorrow they may not be so fortunate.

Note: Evening ladies and gents! Who here ever read the Batman/Spawn crossover comics? Well, neither did I but I heard about it! So when I started thinking of demons to have Akaige fight it gave me the perfect inspiration. So now that there is a new nemesis, how will it affect the parents, the teenagers, and the Kagejin? Read and find out! More twists to come my friends!