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The Game Never Ends
End Round One
As a sudden flash of blinding light, girls appeared in the room from which they started. All four glancing around to see who had survived the fights, eyes eager to seek out new opponents.
"All right Wonder!" Batgirl cheered, "I knew you'd turn out."
Wondergirl shrugged, "Wasn't too hard of a fight." She said, her tone burning with self-assurance, "Not after the fights I've been through."
Raven blinked at the two girls as they continued to talk about how indefinitely more experienced they were than the rest of the girls that were lost to round one. Thinking about how insufferable arrogance was, the goth girl turned to Starfire, an unexpressed feeling of delight bracing her senses to see a fellow Titan.
Though, she did think Starfire looked a bit...solemn? The alien girl was seemingly examining the floor, her green eyes remained low and unstaring, as if caught up in a trace-like thought.
"Starfire."
Responding to her name almost inherently, she turned and met the violet eyes of Raven.
"Are you all right"
"Yes, I am fine. But Terra did not make it! Raven, I fear that-"
"So!" Batgirl, once again, interrupted Starfire, "I see you made it through. Nice going on letting the Villains have it."
"I congratulate you as well, but I think perhaps I let Jinx have too much."
Wondergirl smirked, "No, I bet she deserved it. But we really did beat them down didn't we?" She said, taking a look around the room herself, "I mean, not a bad guy left."
"It just goes to show who really are superior." Batgirl said nonchalantly.
"I suppose so," Starfire started, "but I am concerned of what might have happened to the defeated-"
A crackling sound echoed through the room as the Master announced his presence. All four looked up at the high pedestal on which he suddenly appeared.
"Well, played young heroines! You have survived round one!"
"Survived?" Raven stepped forward, her voice cynical and her eyes narrowed.
"Yes, I am wishing to learn of what happened to the defeated-I think perhaps I may have seriously injured my opponent and-"
"Do not fret my dear. Your opponents in battle have been treated with medical response and have been returned home safely."
"How?" Batgirl stepped forward, her masked face now expressing skepticism of that equal to Raven's.
The Master paused to turned his head to her, "As you have seen, I posses powers which allow me to transport myself and others I choose to certain designations I choose." he scanned his gaze over the girls, taking care to meet every single one of their eyes with his, "If you would want to elect to return home with them, you need only say the words-and I will return you home safely as well."
The girls looked around at each other, either to see who was calling it quits or who was staying. Batgirl exchanged a glance with Wondergirl, a silent recognition that neither of the two were leaving. Raven, who was still looking up at the Master was completely still, thinking of reasons not to stay here. She had to admit to herself-beating Cheshire was kinda fun. The last was Starfire, who was looking uncertainly around. The three other turned to look at her, and in a split second she made her decision. Shaking her head 'no' in a noiseless omission to stay.
"I guess we're all staying then." Wondergirl announced, speaking for the group.
"Very good! I am pleased. And now, you must rest. For tomorrow, we begin round two!"
His thundering voice was the last anyone heard before they were teleported away in another flash of white light that overcame the girls.
There was a silence that seemed to overwhelm the boys as they blankly stared at the tv as if waiting for the next episode of their favorite show. After time passed, the boys seemed to realize that round one was really over.
Robin was, naturally, the first to jump to action, "Alight. Now we can get to work on contacting the girls-"
"Enjoying yourselves, young champions?" The voice echoed through the speakers.
Robin's face quickly compressed into an expression of undiluted aggravation as the voice was heard. He spun around faster than anyone else could react, meeting the face of the Master of Games. His fists curled up in anger as soon as he saw the strange interdimentional being.
"Well, maybe a lit-ouch!" Beast Boy was hushed by an elbow to the side from a hard, metallic arm.
"Not at all." Robin quickly recovered over the green teen's interrupted statement.
"Well, then, heroes. Perhaps you will find the game more enjoyable when the second round begins, and all your friend's powers belong to me."
"That's not going to happen. Listen up, Master," Robin's sneer of the name was far more vehement than the other boys had expected, "we've had enough of your stupid games. Give us back our girls and we won't come after you and destroy you once and for all!"
His voice rose as he finished the sentence, making himself sound almost terrifying.
The rest of the boys took their cue, standing up and gathering around Robin. Cyborg took to his right, with Beast Boy next to him. Speedy flanked on his left, Aqualad stood next to him, all facing the screen with narrowed eyes and hard expressions. Together, the boys formed a line of defense directly opposite to the giant tv. It was as if they were about to attack the screen itself.
"Now I'm giving you one last chance before things get ugly." Robin's voice dropped a volume lower, but no less intense as he continued on with his teeth grit in anger, "Let them go, and we won't be forced to hurt you."
A moment of acute silence suppressed them all as they waited for the villain's answer. The heros took the moment to ready themselves for an attack that would certainly prove unsuccessful, since their opponent was only a screen.
Cyborg stole a fleeting glance towards Robin, wondering if the leader remembered that the Master was protected behind a glass screen and, not to mention the other dimension that separated them from an actual fight. Maybe he was just out of his short little spiked head.
The Master's laughing broke the waiting hush, his booming laugh shook the speakers to the point of which Cyborg feared the vibrations could mean a broken speaker.
"And how do you intend to do that, champion of champions? You forget the only way in our out of this dimension is with my own power!" Those yellow eyes of that monkey-like face narrowed sinisterly as he leaned in closer to the screen.
"And you heed my warning heros. Once I have gain their powers, I will return to your world to finish off the rest of you! I will never cease until I contain all the powers of the young champions! The game will never end, and I will be Master of all dimensions!"
"Then we'll take you down."
The Master smiled evilly, "We shall see heros. But first, do you feeling a bit of bad luck?"
The Master's eyes unexpectedly glowed a light purple, enveloping the entirety of his yellow eyes. The same purple glow suddenly surrounded the screen, bouncing off the edges of the tv.
"MOVE!" Robin yelled out the command.
Before the word even ended, an explosion erupted outward into the room with great heat and force. Glass crashed and fell forward from the screen showering sharp debris down onto the heroes.
Speedy, Cyborg, Aqualad and Beast Boy all leapt for cover behind the couch just in time to avoid the impact of the explosion and the falling shards of glass. Robin was caught by the force of the explosion, and was thrown forward, his front slamming into the couch as his back faced the heat.
As abruptly as the attack had begun, it ended, leaving the boys to peak their head out from behind the safety of the couch and cough as they took into their lungs the remaining plumes of smoke.
When the smoke cleared, the sight was one to make Cyborg shed tears.
The screen was completely destroyed. A great hole was punched through the middle, giving a jagged, but clear view of Jump City. Some glass still hung precariously off the ramparts.
"Robin!" Cyborg rushed to his leader's side and helped him to his feet, "Are you all right man?"
"Yeah." Robin said with a raspy voice.
"Great, Rob!" Beast Boy exclaimed as he recovered out from his safe spot, "You got him angry and blew up our TV! How are we supposed to know who wins now?"
Speedy shot Beast Boy a cynical glance, "Really? That's what you're worried about right now?"
"How did he do that?" Aqualad spoke up as Robin walked over to the now destroyed screen to investigate.
"It looked like he was using Jinx's power. The pun he used has to be proof of it too." Robin said, fixing his eyes on the great hole in the living room as if waiting for the Master himself to come through it.
"Yeah, who knew villains liked to play the cheesy card right before an attack?" Beast Boy said with a grim grin.
"But how did he channel Jinx's power through his dimension into ours?" Cyborg asked in earnest.
"Well, we're just going to have to find out."
"What?" Speedy asked with a sceptic snide, "How can we possibly do that?"
"Well," Robin began in his investigative tone, his eyes narrowing, and his fist closing into a tight ball, "we know that if he can attack us in this dimension from his, then there has to be a way that we can attack him from ours."