Hello everyone! I'm back with another chapter for Revenge of Momorose. This chapter is mostly made up of fight sequences, so I hope you all enjoy! Our next chapter will be the last one for the story, but this won't be the final story in the series. I'm planning on doing another after this, so stay tuned for that info on my profile once the story is complete.
Please enjoy!
Vav Girl stared up at the S.T.A.R. Labs sign uneasily. She was standing in front of the Old S.T.A.R. Labs building, and she was the only one standing in front of it. Gorilla Grodd and his army were usually there and at Centinneal Park, roaming around and attempting to turn the humans into gorillas. But as Vav Girl stood before the building, she was alone. There were no gorillas around at all. Pushing away the uneasy feeling, Vav Girl walked up to the building, keeping a careful eye out for either gorillas or Momorose. As she scaled the walls of the building, she climbed all the way to the top, finding her enemy on the other side of the rooftop.
"I'm surprised you saw my message," Momorose said to the girl. "I expected Superman to keep you locked up."
"I wasn't going to back down from it," Vav Girl responded. "I'm here, so you have to let the heroes go. That was the deal you made."
"And why do you think I would do that?" Momorose questioned condescendingly. "I never gave you my word; I simply threatened you into appearing before me."
"You'll do it because you'll stick to your word," Vav Girl replied. "You're a woman of your words, and you always have been. You don't say things that you don't mean. So you'll let them go because you agreed to face me, not them."
Momorose studied her opponent for a few moments before closing her eyes and letting a tiny sigh escape her lips.
"You're very naive," she commented. "However, you are correct. I already released the heroes that I captured; though if they survived or not is none of our concern."
Vav Girl's body chilled when she heard the last statement, and she opened her mouth to question its meaning. She didn't ask the question, however, because Momorose was flying towards her. Vav Girl dodged to the side and tried to kick the passing villainess, but Momorose had been anticipating the attack and merely reached out her hand and caught Vav Girl's ankle. The heroine attempted to send an energy blast at Momorose to make her let go, but the villainess was faster and she slammed Vav Girl onto the rooftop. Not hesitating for a moment, Momorose made her staff appear in her hand and brought it down towards Vav Girl.
Pushing away her pain, the teenager kicked Momorose in the stomach and managed to push the woman away from her. Vav Girl rolled to the side and stood up, shooting at the villainess. One of the blasts managed to hit her target in the shoulder, but the other shots were deflected by the staff. The gadget user then threw out a tiny device, but Vav Girl moved out of the way before it could reach her. She had learned from her two previous encounters to dodge everything that was thrown at her by the woman.
"Dodging won't save you," Momorose announced to the girl. "It'll only delay your death."
Vav Girl kept her mouth shut, not at all sure on how she'd respond to her statements. She knew going into the fight that Momorose had every intent on killing her, she just didn't want to admit it out loud. Momorose didn't really expect a response and simply flew at Vav Girl, forming a device in her free hand. Vav Girl jumped to the side once more, but hadn't realized that she had been too close to the side. Instead of being on solid ground, she was over the edge and falling off the building. She quickly latched herself onto the side of the building, but an electrical current surged through her body, making her cry out in pain and release her hold on the building once more. Her freefall was stopped when a hand wrapped itself around her wrist and pulled her upwards. For a fleeting moment, Vav Girl thought it was Techvi who had come to assist her, but she looked up and found that it was Momorose pulling her higher and higher into the air. The teenager raised her hand at the woman, intending to send an energy blast, but Momorose released the young girl and Vav Girl was sent falling to the ground. She landed on the conrete just in front of the building's entrance, the impact making a dent in the concrete.
Pain shot through Vav Girl, making her cringe and whimper out in pain as the injuries that had still been healing became aggravated. She attempted to get up, but Momorose's boot on her chest pushed her down painfully and kept her there. The woman just glared down at Vav Girl, her staff pointed at Vav Girl's heart.
"So weak," Momorose snarled down at her opponent. "It's a wonder you're a favorite of Superman's."
"I'm not a favorite!" Vav Girl snapped. "He doesn't even know I exist!"
Vav Girl wasn't entirely sure why she had said that. Maybe she had just been upset by Momorose calling her weak and needed to clarify that with the woman. Her answer, however, caused Momorose to step off of the girl and step back. While her face was controlled, there was a spark of curiosity in the woman's eyes.
"Explain yourself," Momorose replied.
"He doesn't...no one on the Watchtower pays me any attention," Vav Girl admitted, forcing herself to sit up. "To them I'm just a little kid playing dress up. They don't think I can help out even though the Teen Titans started off at a younger age then me. They just push me away...they tell me to stay out of fights or missions and to go train with the dummies."
"But you've been rescued twice now," Momorose pointed out.
"Luck maybe?" Vav Girl responded. "My mom always said I was a lucky kid."
Momorose studied the girl for a small while before stepping forward. Vav Girl tensed in fear, but Momorose held out her hand to Vav Girl in a non-threatening manner.
"Come with me and work for Luthor," Momorose proposed. "The Justice League will never recognize you for what you are. They'll keep you weak because they don't want you to become a threat to them; it's why they abandoned me. I was growing too powerful for them so they threw me away. But Luthor will never do that. He will respect your true potential."
Vav Girl stared at the woman who had been, just a minute before, dead set on killing her, and was now offering her the chance to work for Luthor, in disbelief. The young heroine shook her head, never taking her eyes off of Momorose.
"No."
"No?" Momorose questioned, her arm falling to her side.
"No," Vav Girl replied. "No matter how the Justice League ignores me, I'll always be a hero. They don't make me a hero; I make myself one. I want to do good for the world, whether people recognize me for it or not. I was given these powers and I will use them for good."
"So you'd rather die?" Momorose questioned.
"I would, but I won't," Vav Girl replied.
"Oh?" Momorose questioned. "Explain."
"Because if I die, you'll continue to go after heroes and kill them," Vav Girl replied. "So I'm not allowed to die. I'm going to stop you."
Momorose sighed, shaking her head.
"Stupidly foolish," she responded, raising her staff up. "Very well. I gave you a chance to save yourself, but you've instead decided to die. So I'll grant your request, and then kill your friends."
"You won't touch them," Vav Girl threatened, forcing herself onto her feet.
"And you're going to stop me?" Momorose taunted.
"I will," Vav Girl responded. "I won't let you hurt them!"
Vav Girl shot off at her opponent, and Momorose readied a device in her hand. Before Momorose could throw the device, Vav Girl suddenly disappeared from her sight, surprising the gadget user. Momorose looked around in an attempt to spot the girl, before being hit in the back of the head by a piece of rubble. She turned, thinking Vav Girl was there but she found no one. Her attention was drawn away again when she felt a shot from a hand blast hit her in the side. Vav Girl materialized in front of her, and before Momorose could respond, Vav Girl kicked the woman in the stomach. Momorose recovered quickly and wrapped a wire around the teenager's body, sending electrical shocks to the girl that made her cry out in pain.
"That was very tricky," Momorose responded. "I won't let you do that to me again."
"We'll see," Vav Girl replied, forcing herself out of the wire.
Vav Girl winced when she broke out of the wire, feeling her earlier injuries burn. Momorose noticed the wince and quickly flew in, slamming her staff into the girl's body.
"You came to fight me while you're still injured," Momorose pointed out. "You really wanted to die, didn't you?"
"My goal is to stop you at all costs," Vav Girl responded.
"And will you kill me to accomplish this goal?" the villainess questioned.
"I don't want to...but if I have to I will," the heroine replied.
"That's laughable," Momorose scoffed. "You will die, and then I will kill your friends."
"I told you, you won't touch them!" Vav Girl shouted, sending shots from her hands at her opponent.
Momorose dodged the hits, walking over and striking the girl in the head with the edge of her staff. Vav Girl fell to her back, and Momorose stepped on her neck, pressing down to cut of air circulation.
"Do you want to know how I'll kill them?" Momorose questioned. "I'll start with the male since he was very defiant in our last battle. The exobytes gave him control over fire, so I'll drown him. His powers will be useless under water, and so he'll have no other option except to die. The female will be next. She'll be trickier since her powers are not elemental like the boy's. Her powers are more like mine. So for that regard, I will suffocate her. I will build a room to throw her in that will keep her trapped and then remove all of the air from it so that she will die from suffocation."
Momorose leaned in close to Vav Girl, who had tears starting to fall from underneath her eye-mask.
"Can you see their deaths? Can you hear their cries?" Momorose questioned the girl. "You will never get to see or hear them in real life because you're going to die, but can you imagine the pain they will feel? And the fear that they will experience? I'm sure you can."
Vav Girl briefly shut her eyes because she could imagine it; she could imagine the screams from both her teammates both in fear and frustration. She clenched her fists at the images of both her teammates dying, shuddering involuntarily.
"And then I'll find your parents," Momorose continued as an afterthought. "Why should I let them grieve for their dead child for long, when they could just join you?"
Vav Girl's eyes snapped open at Momorose's words, and her resolve strengthened tenfold. Imagining her teammates dying was quite hard as it was, but thinking about her parents dying too was too much for her to handle. Momorose noticed that her enemy's body glowed a bright blue, surprising the woman. Vav Girl was unaware of what was happening to her body and simply focused on glaring at the woman above her.
"I won't let you touch them," she snarled. "I won't let you touch any of them."
The teenager raised both her hands up at Momorose and tiny psychic-projectile spheres shot up at the woman. The villainess hadn't been expecting the attack and so she was thrown off of the girl and sent onto her back. Momorose sat up, a bit surprised by the attack since she didn't recall the girl having that ability. Vav Girl, having struggled to get back on her feet, didn't hesitate to attack again. She released her psychic resonance that pushed Momorose back even further and stunned her. The teenager then shot at Momorose, sending the woman onto the ground.
"How?" Momorose demanded, sitting up and nursing her shoulder.
"You're fighting for yourself Pink Rose; yourself and your revenge," Vav Girl responded before sending off tentacular orbs at her opponent. "I'm fighting for my loved ones. I won't let you hurt them. I won't let you hurt anyone!"
Vav Girl ran at Momorose and threw a giant energy ball at the woman. Momorose caught it in her hands and slid only a little bit from the impact. Vav Girl continued to run at the woman, pulling back her fist so she could punch the woman, but Momorose countered swiftly by hitting Vav Girl in the legs with her staff and then kicking the teenager in the stomach. Vav Girl stumbled backwards, but collected herself quickly and fired at the woman. Two of the four shots managed to hit Momorose, which was a big shock to the villainess. She didn't allow herself to ponder that for long and simply struck back, kicking the heroine up into the air before slamming her back to the ground.
Vav Girl, also not wanting to be bested, grabbed onto a limb of Momorose and pulled the woman down enough for her to fire off three more psychic orbs. The woman stumbled backwards, but was tackled by Vav Girl so that she was on her back. Flattening out a hand, Vav Girl shot projectile-spheres at Momorose, hitting the woman point blank. Momorose felt the pain throughout her body, but forced it to the back of her mind and kicked Vav Girl off of her. Vav Girl sat up, just as Momorose did, and glowed a bright blue. She raised both her hands and fired off two bolts of psychic-electricity at Momorose, making the woman cry out from the pain. When she saw that her enemy wasn't getting off of the ground, Vav Girl forced herself up to her knees and formed a psychic meteor in the sky. When it was completed, she hurled it at the woman. The meteor hit its target as intended, and when the attack disappeared, Vav Girl found Momorose indented into the ground. The teenager limped over to the woman, staring down at the pink-colored villainess.
"I will not lose to you," Momorose growled, forming a device in her hand. "I refuse."
Vav Girl saw the device, and before Momorose could throw it, the heroine took the device and slammed it onto Momorose's chest. An electrical field formed around the villainess and sent electrical shocks through the woman's body. She screamed from the pain, convulsing before the field disappeared. Her glowing pink eyes stared at Vav Girl for a moment before they shut and her breathing slowed. The teenager studied the woman for a long while, before slowly raising her hand up and pointing her palm at the downed woman. Before she could attack, however, a laser blast hit between her feet, sending her flying away from Momorose, landing a few feet away and moaning from the pain of impact.
Vav Girl looked up in surprise, and that surprise turned into fright when she saw Lex Luthor standing beside his fallen protégé in his full-suited armor. The bald man had his arm raised and aimed at her, and she could hear the laser firing up. She had no energy to move, and she didn't think any of her attacks would be strong enough to combat the laser beam that was sure to come. As she thought over her options of escape, a pair of red boots landed in front of her, making her look up at the owner. Surprisingly, and yet not so, Superman stood in front of her, glaring at his long-time enemy. Luthor narrowed his eyes at seeing the alien.
"Interfering are you?" he demanded.
"Only because you forced my hand," Superman responded tightly. "Pi-...Momorose challenged Vav Girl to a battle, and she lost. You have no business stepping in and attacking Vav Girl."
"Is that so?" Luthor challenged.
Superman glared in response, not backing down from the challenge. If Luthor wanted a fight, then that's what he'd get. He had stood on the sidelines while Vav Girl fought against Momorose, but now that Luthor was stepping in, so could Superman. Luthor looked like he was weighing his options, and he finally made a decision when he lowered his arm, his laser cannon powering down as he did so.
"You win this one, Kryptonian," Luthor spat, bending down so he could scoop up the injured woman. "I have more pressing matters to take care of than to wipe the floor with you and that kid." A portal opened behind him, one that he walked into backwards. "Don't expect this in the future."
Superman didn't dignify Luthor's words with a response and simply watched him retreat through the portal, taking the badly injured woman with him. Once the portal was closed, Superman turned his attention to the battered girl on the ground. She was in bad shape, but still alive. He bent down and carefully lifted the girl up, mindful of where she looked to be the most injured. Her brain, understanding that it was finally safe and that the body would not receive any more injuries, shut down and forced Vav Girl into unconsciousness. Her body sagged from the feeling and her head rolled onto Superman's shoulder, revealing her closed eyes for the alien, who looked down at her with a sad smile.
"It's alright V-...Gwen. You won, and we'll get you fixed up," Superman responded, feeling the tell-tale signs of the teleporter on him.
Vav Girl didn't respond to him, and remained unconscious as she and her mentor were teleported off of Earth and to the safety of the Watchtower.
