Salve!!!! Here comes another chapter!!!! Wow, I am doing great!!! Helps that I have nothing to do and Oliver keeps on me. Not sure how long I can keep this up; my break is coming to an end soon. It is still a ways off but still. Plus that last chapter didn't end how I originally planned. I just loved that cliffy and decided to end it there. Plus by taking the rest of that chap and adding it to this one, it makes it longer!!! That makes Oliver happy!!!! So here you will get some surprises……..what are they you might ask??? All I'm going to say is read to find out!!!!!!
Disclamor: Do I own the Teen Titans……….No, I do not own the Teen Titans!!!!
Do You Wanna Join The Team???
"Oh, my head," said Pop Girl slowly coming to wake. "What happen?"
She slowly opens her eyes and looks around. She looks down to see metal restraints on her wrists and ankles. She begins to remember everything that had just happened. She quickly jerks her head up worried about her team. She looks to her right and sees Crash, Nightshade, and Wishmaker. She then looks to her left and sees Luna, Chrystal, and Random Girl. They are all in the same type of chair and restraints she is in. She lets out a sigh of relief just knowing they were safe but drops her head feeling bad that she got them into this mess. A tear slowly rolls down her face.
"Don't cry Pop Girl," said Crash starting to wake up. "We will get out of this."
Pop Girl quickly jerks her head up with surprise, she had no idea anyone else was awake.
"Oh I didn't realize anyone else was awake," said Pop Girl shaking the tears away, trying to be the strong leader she believes she needs to be. "I'm sooooooo sorry I got us all into this. When we arrived I just knew something was wrong but I couldn't place what. Now we are caught and it's all my fault."
"Don't be," said Chrystal looking at Pop Girl, "It's not your fault."
"Yea," said Luna smiling at Pop Girl, "We are proud to have a leader like you!"
"Pop Girl," said Wishmaker looking at the restraints, "We have been in bigger trouble than this at our house. Don't we always get out of those?"
"We sure do Wishmaker," said Random Girl, "And we will get out of this too!!!"
"Besides, it be no fun if we didn't get into situations like this," said Nightshade.
"Oh guys, yall are too nice," said Pop Girl the tears about to fall again. She quickly shakes them away still remaining strong.
"Awwww, what a touching moment, too bad I have to ruin it," comes a voice from the screen in front of them.
The whole team jerks their heads toward the screen to see who is speaking to them. The screen is very dark but the team can tell there is a face on it. The face is covered with a red mask and all that can be seen is one eye. Even though they don't have much to go on, the face is a face that they would never forget.
"SLADE!" said the whole team together.
"Where are the Teen Titans!" demanded Pop Girl, her face showing a completely different expression than a couple of minutes ago. The tears were gone and in their place is a strong fierce face.
"Pop Girl, Pop Girl, no need to be hasty," said Slade in the same voice he always uses. "If you don't want me to hurt the Teen Titans then you will all behave."
The screen then changes from Slade's face to a different room with no lights on.
"You want to know where the Teen Titans are, they are safe and sound in this room," came Slade's voice. He then snaps his fingers.
Five lights come on; one light on Robin, one on Cyborg, one on Starfire, one on Beastboy, and one on Raven. Each of the Titans are tied down to a bed with three restraints. One restrain is across their chest. Another is around their waist and wrists. The last is across their feet. This is to ensure that if they awake, they will be unable to move or use their powers. Not only were each of the Titans tied down, but they had a mask on each of their faces. Attached to each mask is a hose that goes off somewhere off the screen.
"What have you done to them?" asked Random Girl, "TEEN TITANS! WAKE UP!!"
"That won't work," said Slade the screen returning to his face. "Those masks on their face with the hoses keep them asleep. Each of their hoses are attached to a container of sleeping gas. The Teen Titans will be asleep forever."
"We will never do anything for you Slade!" screams Luna at the screen.
"Yea!" screams everyone else except Pop Girl.
"Well, it seems everyone agrees with you but your fearless learder," says Slade.
"I do agree with them!" shouts Pop Girl not looking up at Slade. "But, I also know we need to keep the Teen Titans in mind. We cannot let you harm them! We are all on the same side! We have to save them, Just what do you want from us Slade?"
"You will figure out in due time, in due time," said Slade.
The screen then goes black. Slade was gone, and so was their only lead to where the Teen Titans are.
"SLADE!" screams Pop Girl at the black screen.
The next thing the team knows the wrist and ankle restraints open releasing everyone. Then a whole bunch of Slade's robots jump down and surround the team. The team jumps out of their seats and stand in a circle, facing all the robots.
"Alright team, Looks like they have us out numbered," said Pop Girl trying to count how many robots there exactly were. "We can still take them!"
Everyone agreed with her, shaking their heads up and down.
"LET'S GO!!!" shouts Pop Girl, "FOR THE TEEN TITANS!!!"
The team quickly separates and begins to fight. Pop Girl turns into a rhinoceros and runs straight though the robots in front of her. She tosses her head back and forth, smashing her horn through as many robots as she can. Robots start jumping on her back so she changes back into her human self. She then begins to constantly change from one animal to another. This prevents the robots from jumping on her and they never know what to expect. Crash pulls out a blaster and begins blasting through robots. This blaster is like a blaster Cyborg would use. Nightshade creates a black zone around about twenty robots. When he removes the black zone, all the robots are smashed to pieces. Random Girl and Wishmaker were both fighting hand to hand combat. Finally Random Girl wishes for a couple of blasters just like Crash's. Wishmaker grants her wish and they begins blasting too. Even thought the lights are on and no one can tell, Random Girl is glowing the she is fighting. If you look closely enough you can see a hint of green coming from her skin. Luna kept changing from wolf form to human. In her wolf form she would claw and bite robots into millions of pieces. In her human form she would use her sword to slash robots until they were unable to work. Chrystal was creating force fields to protect herself. She also uses her invisibility to trick the robots as she punches and kicks them. No matter how many robots the team seems to defeat, more and more come in to replace them.
"I have an idea, Wishmaker, I wish all the robots were gone," shouts Pop Girl.
None of the robots went away though. Wishmaker could not hear Pop Girl's wish. Since he was unable to hear her, his powers were not able to work. All Pop Girl could think of was how they were going to get out of this. She just has to figure out a plan. She just has to. When it seems like the robots will never stop appearing, Crash blasts robots after robots and they stopped appearing.
"YES!" said Crash, "They are running out of numbers."
Pop Girl is having the same success as Crash. She looks around and sees that her whole team is having the same success. She soon realizes something is wrong. She quickly shreds the robot running towards her with the claws of the grizzly bear she has changed into. She looks and starts taking role. She sees Crash, Chrystal, Nightshade, Random Girl, and Wishmaker. Luna is nowhere to be seen. Then she realizes. There is a circle of robots on the other side of the living room. She just knows Luna is in the center of it. She realizes that she can't finish the robots around her and make it to Luna to help. She looks for who is closest to Luna. Nightshade appears from his dark bubble, finishing off the last of robots around him.
"Nightshade!" shouts Pop Girl from the other side of the room, "Luna needs help!"
Nightshade turns and sees the wall of robots blocking Luna. He quickly runs and creates a couple of dark bubbles around some of the robots that were fighting Luna. He works as fast as he can but can't seem to get rid of the robots.
"Watch out!" comes a new voice.
Nightshade quickly jumps out of the way as a wave of water smashes into robots, creating a path to Luna. Nightshade looks at what the water wave created and sees Luna on the ground. Before he can run to help her, another wave goes along the same path. Riding on top of the wave was a boy decked out in blue. He looks to be around the same age as the team. He lands right in front of Luna. He then has the wave wrap around his arms, creating a whip. He quickly flicks the water from side to side, slashing through the robots as if they were butter. Eventually all the robots are gone.
"Wow, what a workout," said Random Girl walking to where Luna and the stranger are.
Pop Girl, Crash, Chrystal, Wishmaker, and Nightshade each make their way to where Luna and the stranger are.
"Are you ok?" asks the stranger bending down to help Luna up.
Luna is a little shaken up. When she goes to stand up, her feet begin to collapse beneath her weight. She begins to wince in pain. A robot had slashed her leg and blood could be seen dripping from it.
"Luna, don't move," said Pop Girl running to her fallen team mate's side. "The scratch seems pretty deep. We need to wrap this up and get Luna some help or else this could be real bad."
"Here, let me help," said the stranger. He moves his hand and water comes flying into it, forming a bubble. He then holds the water over Luna's cut. He begins to slowly move his hand in little circles. The water lights up and covers the cuts.
"Wow," said Luna watching the stranger as he tends to her leg.
"There, how is that?" asks the stranger moving his hand away from her leg. The water disappears as he moves his hand way.
"It's great! I would never know the cut was there. Thank you sooo…………" Luna finally looks up at the stranger. She pauses mid sentence, distracted by his good looks and charm. Even though he was wearing a mask over his eyes, she could see everything in them. She is mesmerized and doesn't ever want to look away. He gives her his hand and helps pull her up to her feet. Still she cannot take her eyes off him.
"Luna," said Nightshade a little bit abruptly.
With all her strength, Luna tears her eyes away from this masked stranger. She then remembers that they are not alone.
"That was amazing," said Pop Girl still staring at Luna's now healed leg. "How did you do that?"
"Well, I have control over water. Water does what I ask. I can use it as a weapon, to travel, and to heal," said the masked strangerl not taking his eyes off Luna. He finally turns his gaze off her and looks at Pop Girl. "That is how I was able to heal her leg."
"That's real impressive," said Pop Girl, taking her eyes off Luna's leg and looking at the stranger. "How can we ever thank you……..ummmmmm"
"Azul," said the masked stranger, giving a little bow. "And there is no need to thank me, just helping out a pretty girl and her friends."
"Wow, Azul, how fitting," said Random Girl laughing a little. "Did you know Azul means blue in Spanish?"
"Ummm…..yes," said Azul with a confused look on his face.
"Well, Thank You Azul," said Pop Girl, "who knows what would have happened to Luna if you didn't show up."
"And there has to be something we could do," Luna jumped in, almost cutting Pop Girl off. She then begins to look around. "Are you alone?"
"Yes, I have no team like you do," said Azul, "I believed something was wrong when the Teen Titans weren't stopping the crime. I came to see what was wrong. Showed up and found yall fighting, thought you might need some help so I jumped in. Oh, don't worry, I took care of the crime that was happening while the Teen Titans were gone before I came here."
"Awwww……..thats so sad! Hey Pop Girl, that's how we can thank him!" said Luna quickly turning to face her, "Why don't we let Azul join our team!! It's sad he has no team, I'm sure we can find room on ours!"
"Luna," said Pop Girl, pulling her to her side. "Think you should talk to me about it before saying something like that."
"Sorry," said Luna putting her puppy eyes on, "It's just I know how much we care about each other, plus he did save me."
"Alright," said Pop Girl never being able to turn Luna down when she uses her puppy eyes, "BUT we have to discuss it as a team."
"Ummm…..excuse us," said Pop Girl turning towards Azul. She then waves for her team to circle. Everyone circles around and wraps their arms around the person next to them. They are basically doing a group huddle.
"Ok, so what do yall think about letting Azul join the team," said Pop Girl. "We are a team so this should be a team decision."
"I think we should!" said Luna before anyone could answer.
"I think we get that," said Wishmaker, "Well I'm not really sure. He did save Luna."
"That is true," said Chrystal, "Without him showing up we might have lost Luna forever."
"I do like the fact that he can heal," said Pop Girl, "We really could use a healer, just in case something like this happens again."
"True," said Random Girl.
"Well," said Nightshade, "I don't think we should let him in. I mean we don't really know this guy. Just cause he comes riding in on a wave to save the day doesn't mean he should be allowed to join."
"He does have a point," said Crash, "But then again, I do agree that having a healer would be very nice."
"Alright, let's put it to a vote," said Pop Girl, "I say we let Azul in temporarily but if one thing goes wrong, he is out. We need his healing abilities."
"I want him!!" said Luna, "I mean I want him on the team."
"I say we let him in," said Wishmaker.
"I agree," said Chrystal.
"All good for me," said Crash.
"Sí," said Random Girl.
"I say No," said Nightshade.
"Well it seems to me we have six yeses and one no," said Pop Girl, "He gets an invite."
The team then breaks apart and stands straight up, turning to look at Azul. Azul is standing the same way he was before, staring at the team while they deliberated. He had created a water ball and was tossing it between his hands. When the team broke apart and turned toward him, he has the water evaporate into the air.
"We have talked amongst ourselves and decided as a team," said Pop Girl walking towards Azul, "We would like to offer you a spot on the team. It is the least we can do after you saved Luna. I don't know what we would have done without her."
"No," said Azul shaking his head, "I couldn't possibly accept that. I wouldn't want to invade yalls space.
"You wouldn't be invading!" said Luna jumping around Pop Girl, stopping right next to her. "We would really like having you on our team. Besides, you have a pretty sweet power, and smile, and……….never mind!"
"Are you sure yall don't mind," said Azul looking past Pop Girl and Luna at the other team members.
"We don't mind at all," said Random Girl, "A new member would just be !"
"Yea," said Chrystal smiling, "Like Pop Girl said, you saved Luna and this is our way of thanking you."
Crash and Wishmaker were nodding their heads in agreement. When Azul looks at Nightshade, Nightshade crosses his arms and turns his back towards Azul. Azul frowns a little. Pop Girl sees Azul frown and turns to see why. She then glares at Nighshade and shakes her head slightly.
"Don't worry about Nightshade," said Pop Girl turning back towards Azul, "You have to warm up to him."
"Well," said Azul, "Since it seems like yall won't take no for an answer, I'll be happy to join yall's team. Traveling alone is getting a little lonely."
"YES!!!" screams Luna jumping up and down, her hair turning blonde.
The team starts to walk over to Azul to welcome him to the team. Luna is the first there and she gives him a big hug. Azul stands there a little surprised but then hugs Luna back. When Luna finally backs off, she begins to introduce the team.
As her team is welcoming Azul, Pop Girl begins to look around the room. She just now got to realizing that the lights were on in the Tower. She figures Slade knew they were coming so he turned off the power to make sure they didn't see the robots that had captured them. She also realizes that the metal shields that were covering the windows when they had arrived were raised. It is now night time.
"That's odd," said Pop Girl walking towards the window.
"What's odd?" asks Crystal walking up behind Pop Girl. Pop Girl jumps because she did not hear Crystal walking up behind her.
"Oh, it's just that the windows are uncovered. I think Slade knew we would be coming here. Why would he suspect us to be coming here," said Pop Girl, "I mean there are many other teams out there but he wanted us. Why?"
"Good question," said Crystal, "Guess we will just have to wait and find out."
"That has me worried," said Pop Girl staring at the ground.
Pop Girl then turns and starts walking back to where her team was talking to Azul.
"Ok team, I don't think standing around here will accomplish anything," said Pop Girl, "I say we head back home and begin planning for anything. I have a feeling we might be getting some visitors soon. Plus we need to get our new team mate settled in at home. Hey Crash, think you could add another seat to the ship when we get home?"
"I can do anything," said Crash pointing to himself, "Just don't put me on a time limit or anything because I have a feeling I will have to make a lot of parts for this."
Everyone agrees and starts making their way up the stairs to the roof where the ship is parked. Pop Girl stops right at the bottom of the stairs. She turns and takes one last look around the room. She doesn't know why, but she has a feeling something or someone was watching all that just happen. She surveys the room from left to right, hoping for any sign. She is about to turn and head up the stairs when something catches her eye. There is this one spot in a corner. She wasn't sure but it almost looks like there is a shadow on the ground but no one is there.
"Pop Girl, are you coming?" said Wishmaker peaking around the corner to see Pop Girl at the bottom of the stairs.
"Yea, I'm coming," said Pop Girl turning her head to face Wishmaker, "Just taking one last look around."
She turns back to the corner where she thinks she saw the shadow, but the shadow is gone.
"Guess I was seeing things," said Pop Girl to herself.
She turns around and quickly heads up the stairs, taking them two at a time. She runs up to roof and quickly runs through the doors before Crash can close them on her. She takes her seat and prepares to take over steering if she needed to. All the team takes their seats as Crash starts the ship. Azul is sitting in the temporary seat Luna was all too happy to wish up for him. It was located right in between Luna and Nightshade. Random Girl hits in the directions back home and Crash sends the ship flying home.
Back at the Tower
The living room was just like the team had left it, destroyed yet undisturbed. The only thing that was different was a shadow moving across the floor. Pop Girl wasn't crazy when she saw the shadow in the corner. Someone was watching them. She had been invisible, standing in that corner through everything; the confrontation of Slade and the team, the fight, the whole Azul thing, everything. The shadow continues to move until it is right in front of the TV. Then a person appears right in the center of the room. The TV turns on and Slade is on the screen again.
"Well Copy Cat," said Slade staring at Copy Cat, "I assume everything went as plan?"
"Yes sir," said Copy Cat with an evil grin, "They didn't suspect a thing. Thank you so much for letting me do this job. Touching Crystal while she was asleep and copying her powers so I could be invisible and not get caught was genius."
"Yes," said Slade, "You got the microphone into one of their backpacks with no problem during the fight?"
"Piece of cake," said Copy Cat, "I was able to slash Luna's leg without her knowing, she fell to the ground and I slipped the microphone into the backpack. Since I used my claws and didn't touch her with my skin, I kept Chrystal's power. I almost got caught when that water boy showed up and Pop Girl almost caught me right at the end. Sure she would be the one to notice a shadow, but I don't think she suspects a thing since I moved."
"Water Boy," asks Slade, "There is no water boy on this team."
"Oh, he is now a part of the team. I believe his name was Water, Aqua, maybe Azul……something like that. They just let him in. He saved that disgusting wolf girl Luna by healing my lovely scratch on her leg. I don't like him very much, HE ALMOST GOT ME WET! Cats don't like water!!" ranted Copy Cat, but Slade has stopped listening after she mentioned them letting the new water boy in.
"This is not a part of the plan," said Slade turning away from the TV. "Copy Cat, get back here, looks like we will have to change a few parts to our plan."
The screen goes black.
There you have another chapter!!! So how was it??? I hope yall like the new hero!!!! Especially you Oliver!!! Hmmm…….what is Slade planning??? What does he want from this new team??? And any other questions yall might be asking about the story. Looks like yall will just have to reading to find out. And I will have to keep typing so yall can read to find out…….better get to work!!!!