Uncanny Titans East

Chapter 7: Deadly Dates

By

The Uncanny R-Man

Disclaimer- All familiar characters belong to DC.

Steel City Theatre-

'Titans East, GO!'

Titans East leapt in to attack Granny Goodness and her Female Furies.

Back on the stage, Barda smirked to herself and cracked her knuckles in preparation.

'And to think I said this trip to Steel City was going to be boring.'

Barda pressed a button on her belt to activate her Mother Box, which in turn conjured her battle armour.

Mr Miracle watched in wonder as his wife leapt into battle.

'You just gonna stand there and let yer wife take all the credit?' Oberon, Mr Miracle's assistant, joked.

'I know better than to interrupt Barda having fun.' Mr Miracle quipped back. 'But then again, I have been meaning to give Granny some payback ever since she kidnapped you.' (1)

'Give her one fer me, Scott.' Oberon nodded.

Mr Miracle gave his friend a jaunty salute and activated his Aero-Discs, flying off to fight.

'Room for a small one?' Scott quipped as he blasted the vampiric Female Fury known as Bloody Mary with a laser beam from his hand.

'Hssss. I'll tear out your heart for that!' Bloody Mary hissed as she leapt at her prey.

'Don't you dare lay a hand on my husband, witch!' Barda yelled as she clobbered the blood-sucking woman on the head with her Mega-Rod. Bloody Mary fell to the ground with a grunt.

'Are you all right, my darling?' Barda asked concernedly.

'I am always fine with you by my side, dear.' Mr Miracle smiled thankfully.

Nearby, a weaponless Speedy was having problems of his own with Lashina. The Female Fury had her electro-whip wrapped around his neck and was beginning to choke him.

'You Earthlings are too weak.' Lashina sneered as she began to crush the young archer's windpipe. 'It's a pity. I thought you heroes were supposed to be fierce warriors.'

'We're not just any warriors...' Speedy croaked. 'We're Titans East. Oh, and another thing? You really shouldn't threaten me like that. Donna is very protective.'

Lashina was about to reply when Donna flew straight at her, smashing the whip-toting Female Fury straight through the theatre wall.

Speedy gasped for breath as he finally pulled the whip from around his throat.

'Heh. That's my girl.' Speedy grinned as he lashed out with the whip and caught one of the rafters above his head, before swinging forwards and taking out Artemis with a nasty kick to the face.

'Whelp!' Artemis growled as she wiped blood from her lip. 'Your combat skills cannot save you from my Warwolves!'

'We'll just see about that.' Speedy retorted as he cracked his stolen electro-whip. The warwolves cowered in fear at the sound of the electro-whip cracking. 'It seems your pets aren't so keen on tearing me to shreds now that I have Lashina's electro-whip. Heh. It's better than a rolled up newspaper.'

The Tower-

Back at the home of Titans East, Aqualad and Dolphin had their own problems. Some loser called Ocean Master had attacked the Tower with a load of giant mutant lobster creatures.

'I am Ocean Master! I demand that you come out and face me!' Ocean Master yelled as he blasted the sky with a beam of energy from his trident.

'Didn't your mother ever tell you to say please?' Aqualad quipped as he ran out of the Tower with Dolphin close behind him.

'I have not been sent to deal with you, child.' Ocean Master sneered down from his place atop one of his lobster creatures. 'I am here for the girl.'

Aqualad narrowed his eyes in suspicion. He recognised something about Ocean Master.

'Uncle Orm...?' Aqualad frowned slightly. 'Is that you?'

'My name is Ocean Master now!' Ocean Master retorted. 'You should do well to remember it!'

Aqualad suddenly doubled over in a fit of laughter.

'BWA-HA-HAAAA! You should see what you look like! Hee-hee. You look like a complete tool! A-heh. Just wait until I tell Arthur!'

'SILENCE!'

Ocean Master blasted Aqualad with his energy trident.

'GARTH!' Dolphin screamed in horror. 'You monster! You'll pay for that!'

Ocean Master just laughed out loud at his opponent's threats.

'What could you possibly do to hurt me, girl?' Ocean Master snorted. 'I can control the very ocean itself!'

'I think you're forgetting who my mother is, Orm...' Dolphin growled, her eyes starting to glow ominously. 'Now I'm going to show you what it's like to find yourself up against a true Mistress of the Sea...!'

The Theatre-

The rest of Titans East, alongside Mr Miracle and Barda, were just mopping up the remaining Female Furies.

Stompa's super-strength proved useless against CM3's strength of Hercules and Jade's green energy powers.

'And i thought the Female Furies were supposed to be all kinds of badass.' Jade smirked as she poked Stompa's unconscious form with the tip of her boot. 'What do you say we take the old bag on, Freddy?'

'It looks like Barda's already taken care of Granny Goodness.' Captain Marvel Junior jerked his thumb in the direction of the defeated Granny Goodness. Barda had wrapped a metal beam around the old woman, subduing her. Mr Miracle had even confiscated Granny's Mother Box to make sure that she couldn't teleport herself away.

'Well, it looks like it's the Slab for these guys.' Donna nodded as she surveyed the defeated Furies. 'It was great working with you, Mr Free.'

Mr Miracle nodded in reply.

'Likewise... Wonder Girl.'

'Oh, I'm not Wonder Girl.' Donna shook her head. 'Just call me Donna.'

'Do you not have a secret identity?' Barda blinked in a puzzled manner. 'I thought most of Earth's heroes did.'

'I never have been good at keeping secrets, I guess.' Donna shrugged. 'It's a pity that we never got to see the end of that trick.'

Mr Miracle rifled around in his pocket and pulled out a small hi-tech-looking box.

'You and your friends did such a grand job of helping us with Granny and the Furies that I think you deserve a reward...'

'Scott...' Barda whispered into her husband's ear. 'Are you sure this is wise?'

'Of course I am, dear.' Mr Miracle whispered back. 'I'm sure that we can trust these young heroes.'

'Is that what I think it is?' Speedy piped up.

'Indeed it is.' Mr Miracle nodded. 'Your very own Mother Box.'

'Ooh. It's so shiny...' Donna's eyes lit up. 'Diana will be so jealous! All she has is her unbreakable lasso and her dumb armour.'

'Just... try to be careful.' Mr Miracle warned the young Amazon. 'If you misuse the Mother Box, there is no telling what may happen. You may even end up transporting yourself to Apokalips.'

Donna's happy smile soon faded.

'Perhaps I'll just use it as a paperweight.'

Back at the Tower-

Aqualad woke up with a groan. The sight that met him was one that he would never thought that he would see. Dolphin was going medieval on Ocean Master. She had torn off one of the lobster creature's arms and was swinging it around like some kind of sword. Ocean Master, on the other hand, had shown himself to be a coward and was cowering like a well... coward.

Unseen by the pair, Aqualad crept forward on his hands and knees and picked up the energy trident that Ocean Master had dropped during the fight. Now it was time for some payback!

'Dolphin! Get down!'

Dolphin didn't bother do ask how Garth had recovered, she just dove out of the way as he opened fire with the energy trident, nailing Ocean Master right in the chest and knocking him into the water.

'Heh. Some Ocean Master he was.' Aqualad snorted in derision.

'Oh Garth, thank Neptune you're okay!' Dolphin cried as she ran up to Aqualad and gave him a great big hug. 'I thought I'd lost you then!'

'I guess I'm just too stubborn to die.' Aqualad chuckled as he wrapped his arms around Dolphin and hugged her back.

Dolphin buried her face into Aqualad's chest with a sob.

'Oh Garth, I'm sorry I've caused you all this trouble. First Black Manta attacks us at the pier, now this... I should never have come here.'

'Hey, there's no need to talk like that.' Aqualad comforted his friend. 'If you never came here, I wouldn't have found the most beautiful girl in all of the seven Seas.'

Dolphin looked up at Garth and wiped her tears away with a hand.

'Do you... do you really mean that?' Dolphin smiled through her tears. 'Do you really think I'm beautiful?'

'I've never been so sure of anything.' Garth reassured her.

'Oh, Garth...' Dolphin tightened her grip on the young Atlantean and planted a loving kiss on his lips. 'I just know that everything will turn out okay now that I'm with you.'

TBC...

Next: Return to Themyscira

Hippolyta calls Donna back home to Paradise Island. The rest of Titans East tag along as well. Unfortunately, a horse riding accident and a hoard of hungry harpies will make the visit a short one...

Author's Notes-

(1)- Granny Goodness kidnapped Oberon in the JLU episode 'The Ties That Bind.'