Been awhile. Too much class work. Too much class work. Lol, anyway guess what? Teen Titans X has just hit 20 reviews! Yay, I'm so proud of myself and I'm so happy I got fans who are so supportive. Of course that makes me bit nervous cause now I got to try to keep them happy and make sure my work keeps getting better. When no one knew me it was alright if I messed up cause no one cared lol. Anyway thank you all my fans and supporters. Here's looking to 50 reviews someday lol. Oh, in case anyone get's confused during the fight scene all the battles are occuring simultaneously. It's implied, but Ijustwant to be safeand notlose anyone there.
Count R.P.Orlok: Thank you for the continued support. The action is at the end and next chapter will actually begin with a good old fashion mauling. (And I do mean old lol) Actually it should be up soon too. Later.
Delirium24: In regards to Raven's scar, yes and no. Sango has kind of like a large puncture wound in the middle of her back. (Not really sure. Only seen it once I think) Raven's scar is more of a diagonal slash. Just imagine a '\' symbol and you get the idea.
Grievous Shaker: No, Khalid isn't Homaculi though his powers are slightly based off Full Metal Alchemist, but it's not alchemy. There's a chapter later on that explains it more it depth. And of course I'm aiming for a threesome relationship. Why else would I try to make a strong friendship between Jinx and Raven? Lol
PHAOE: Thanks that means a lot. Like I said I'm not use to angst and drama so I'm glad people liked it and Jinx just seemed like the type who wore pink underwear. Lol
Deathwish911: Will do.
Takashi Roiji: Thanks, I'm glad you like it. There will be occasional anime references and soon even some crossovers. I like your suggestion for Khalid's costume. I have a thing for trench coats especially since I myself wear one. There will be an occasional cat fight later on, but nothing like Aeka and Ryoko from the Tenchi series.
Luhism: Thank you and congrads on being my first anonymous reviewer. Yes, I now accept anonymous reviews. Anyway, I'll try not to disappoint.
Anyway, long chapter so be gentle please. I hope you all like it.
Teen Titans X
Written by: Juggalomalice
Chapter 6: The Morning Joy. The Evening Pain
Khalid awoke with a slight start. The pain he felt in his dream still surged through his chest threatening to rip his very being apart at its seams. He had forgotten how painful that experience was. Yet despite the pain a foreign expression appeared on his face. One that he had not had in almost a year since the last time he had this dream. He slowly traced the expression on his face. His lip curled slightly upward in a half-smile. Having seen her face, even if it was just in a dream, had awoken that small shred of emotional happiness that he still retained.
He stood up out of his bed wearing a pair of loose pants and no shirt exposing his sickly pale upper body which had a number of scars on it. He walked over to the single window in his room and pulled aside the black curtains he had put up to reveal the huge bay area and the rather breath taking sight of Jump City. She was out there somewhere. Close by in this very city. He knew it. All he had to do now was find her. That was not a promising thought though. He knew how impossible that girl was to find and he only hoped his exposure as a member of the Teen Titans would make her aware of his presence in the city and prompt her to look for him too.
He hoped. He almost felt like laughing at himself or perhaps slapping himself for allowing himself to think like that. He had stopped hoping ages ago. It did nothing but prompt a false sense of security which was always shattered. The small smile on his face slowly faded as the white haired apath slowly remembered the cruel fate his existence spawned. "Maybe it'll be different this time." He caught himself thinking.
He glanced around his now fully furnished room that almost two weeks ago was nothing more than a large white cubicle. Though now it looked like a messy white cubicle. The bed and small white stand with a lamp on it was part of the default furnishings. Aside from that there were two large book shelves against the wall where the door was that were each packed with many books of both the new, classic, and almost ancient origins. Aside from a small pile of books that didn't fit on the shelf there was a small oaken drawer that sat some what across from his bed that held some of his smaller or more useless garments. The main and only attention getter of the room was a set of feudal samurai armor that stood on a stand in the corner of the room. It looked like any other set of armor you might find in a museum except for the helmet. It was a batter and beaten helmet covered in blood with a large puncture in the side like a sharp object had been jammed through it with two curved decorative demon horns that curved forward and around the forehead region. For a moment Khalid found himself lost in thought till an abrupt knock on his door woke him from his own mind.
"Khalid you up yet? It's 9AM." The voice of Jinx said as it floated through his door. Khalid glanced at the small digital clock on table next to his bed and indeed it read 9AM. He had over slept by an hour. "Well I'm coming in so you better be decent." The pink spell caster said while the voice of Raven was heard in protest to Jinx's choice of action, but Jinx was never one to fully think her actions out. The door slid open and Jinx walked in with her standard bright morning smile a medium sized box in her hand followed by Raven. "Sorry for barging in on you like this Khalid but his package arrived for you and… whoa." Jinx said as she stopped suddenly almost causing Raven to bump into her from behind who, upon seeing what Jinx was speaking of, also gave a some what shocked expression.
Both girls had never seen Khalid topless and for one they did not expect him to be so built and two they did not expect him to have so many scars. A number of scars layered his body. Most seemed to be of the kind caused by bladed weapons, but a few seemed smaller and looked like they pierced the skin. Khalid stared back unsure of what the two girls were staring at.
"Yes?" Khalid asked as he opened his closet and pulled out a dark blue t-shirt.
"Oh, uh package." Jinx said in a somewhat goofy manner as she held out the box toward Khalid.
"Thank you." He said in a manner that didn't really portray thanks, but that was normal for him. He looked at the box and the postage on it. To Nicholas Rodriguez it read. It was from a prominent antique shop in New York called Eternal Time. "Speak of the devil." He said more to himself than his two guests. It was normal for Khalid to receive mail. Since that day he had used the phone he had been receiving packages just about every other day from antique shops from around the world.
Raven eyed him suspiciously like she did every time he got mail. Since the arrival of his first parcel the empath's detective instinct had gone into overdrive. Though over the years Khalid had become rather good at dodging questions he was not use to having such a perceptive interrogator as Raven hounding him with both subtle and direct questions almost everyday. He was glad that the first box contained books and that Raven was an advent reader. He had managed to somewhat bribe the girl with some of his books that she had not read yet in exchange for peace from her desire to know the truth, but at the rate she read in another week or two she will have read through his whole collection he currently had.
"So what's in it this time?" Raven asked curious of what other surprises the white haired martial artist had in store.
"Perhaps my most important possession if you must know." He answered in his empty voice. He peeled back the tape and slowly opened the box to reveal tightly packed layers of newspaper and packaging foam. Over half the box seemed to be foam or paper as Khalid seemed to forever dig through the box till about half way down he stopped and pulled out a small white oaken music box less the half the size of the original box.
The music box had a well kept white luster for just being wood that reminded the girls slightly of ivory.
"A music box?" Raven said in a quizzical manner, "I must admit I wasn't expecting that."
"This world has holds a great many mysteries that we never expect." Khalid mused as he gave the small metal key on the back of the box a few cracks. He then carefully set the box down and opened it. The mysterious soft music flowed from the box and filled the room with its trance like sound. It was a quite melody that portrayed both emptiness and sorrow, but with a small hint of hope in the end. The kind of music you would listen to as you questioned all of life's hardships. As the music played the girls noticed that the figurine in the box was not that of a ballerina or fairy princess like many other music boxes, but of a young girl with pale skin, a stoic expression and with white hair and kimono. She looked almost like a young female version of Khalid with the same empty expression and similarity of physical appearances which was uncanny. Also the girl did not dance like other figurines to the music. Instead she held a small silver mirror in her hands which gave of an amazing display of colors when looked into.
"How does it do that?" Jinx asked perplexed but fascinated by the box.
"The figurine is actually hollow and the mirror is nothing more than a glass window. Inside on the spinning rods are several small prism crystals that rotate and refract light which creates the rainbow display you see before you." He explained
"That's pretty ingenious." Raven complimented in her stale voice.
"Thank you" came Khalid's empty reply though it carried a small sense of pride this time. "Now if you two would excuse me I really must properly change." And with that the cold apath shooed the two girls out of his room.
The two girls regarded each other as the faint music from the box still lightly spilled out from behind the closed door.
"The more I try to figure that guy out the more questions I end up with." Raven mused to herself.
"I don't know why you're so obsessed. He's pretty nice when you get to know him." Jinx said on the white haired apath's defense.
"You're always defending him." Raven remarked as she turned around and walked off slightly irritated.
"Well what can I say? He really is nice to me." Jinx said as she followed her violet haired friend.
"Maybe he likes you." Raven teased
"Naw, he says he had a younger sister around my age and that I remind him of her. That's all."
"Oh well I just figured with all the time you spend with him…" Raven said unsure of how to phrase her response
"That I liked him?" Jinx finished for her, "No, he just tends to listen to me and gives me advice every now and then is all. Anyway I thought you liked him. You know since you seem so obsessed with him." She clarified.
"WHAT! Why does everyone think that!"
"I don't know. He just seems like your type is all."
Raven glared at her former nemesis, "Jinx here is a tip, never try to play match-maker. You look too hard into things."
"Oh, well if I may change the topic for a brief moment, but have you noticed anything odd about X recently? He's been kind of avoiding me. Did I make him mad or something?" Jinx asked with a very distressed expression on her face.
"Well it's not just you. He's been rather elusive with me too. I think he's just been overly busy. Now that Cyborg is gone he's assumed the role of technician as well." The empath deduced, but she was just as worried about her leader's well being.
The two girls held a light conversation as they randomly wandered the halls heading to no specific location when they suddenly heard X's anger voice echo down the hall.
"BEAST BOY!"
: Wish there was a better way of making scene changes:
Red X was up early today. He had a lot of work to do especially since he had received a new security system upgrade. He was reading the new manual as he walked down the halls checking performance ratings at various portions of the tower. Usually it was Cyborg who did these things but since he wasn't here X assumed the duty of technician as well. It wasn't that hard. X was just as smart if not smarter than his cybernetic enhanced friend. It was just easier for Cyborg due to his ability to interface with the system. He was on his way to a circuit panel in this hall to check the efficiency when his foot got caught on something.
It was strange. Almost like a trip-wire, but why would there be a trip-wire in the tower. He wasn't really paying attention either since he was busy learning the ups and downs of the new system. As such he ignored the slight whizzing sound he heard in the air. At least he tried to it became slightly louder. Finally his common sense understood what his danger sense was trying to communicate to him. How stupid could he be? He spun around to confirm, but it was too late. If only he was paying more attention. The arrow stuck him right in-between his forehead and he felt himself knocked back by the force of the blow.
"What happened?" He asked himself as he opened his eyes momentary after he was hit by the projectile and rubbed his forehead. He felt the wooden shaft with his hand followed it where it connected with him. It wasn't a normal arrow, but a suction-cup arrow that was sticking out of his forehead. He sat up confused and as he did a small ball fell from opposite end of the arrow and burst open to reveal a banner like message which read: Pink Haired Bimbo
X gave a low growl. Apparently he had tripped on one of the prank traps that Beast Boy and Jinx randomly set around the tower. X had expected to gag war to end when Cyborg left the team, but shortly after Beast Boy got more familiar with Jinx Gag War II began.
Jinx was an accomplished jokester just like Beast Boy and once Beast Boy realized the potential of Jinx's power over luck and circumstances had in the realm of practical jokes it became bad news for everyone else. The two would occasionally play jokes on not only each other, but everyone else in the tower. No one was safe and the fact that they would set booby traps randomly around the tower for the other was bad news too.
"BEAST BOY!" he yelled angrily down the hall, "You better be hiding because I am so going to kill you if I find you." He threatened. He stormed down the hall in hopes of finding the green changeling and was so mad he forgot to remove the arrow from his forehead. "Beast Boy!" he yelled again as he turned sharply down a hall and bumped into someone. "Hey watch where you're going." X angrily stated not caring for who had run into.
"My apologies X. I didn't see you there." Came Khalid's empty voice from behind the cover of an aged book. He lowered his book and looked at his new team leader and blankly pointed at the arrow. "Pink Haired Bimbo? No offense, but that's a poor way to get Jinx's attention." He dryly said.
X stared at the indifferent young man. Khalid was wearing what appeared to be a black trench coat, blue shirt, black pants and a pair of boots. X wasn't sure how to answer Khalid's comment especially since he wasn't sure if Khalid was being sarcastic or not and he never really was. With Raven you could tell when she was being sarcastic or telling a joke even if her voice remained leveled. With Khalid it always sounded like he was serious.
"No, I'm not trying to get Jinx's attention. I just walked into one of Beast Boy's booby traps is all." X explained.
"Oh?" Khalid said now with a slight confused expression, "So you mean to tell me you are not trying to court the young lady?"
"Court? Who the hell still talks like that?" X asked confused by Khalid's choice of old fashion words.
"Was my choice of words wrong?"
"Not really, you just don't hear anyone say it like that anymore."
"Then what should I have said?"
"You should tell me if you've seen Beast Boy is what you should say."
"Oh I guess you're still a little peeved about that prank. It's not the first time though. If it annoys you than why do you allow them to continue?"
"Because I figure it's just their way of living. Just because we're super heroes doesn't mean we can't enjoy life or at least try. The pranks only bother me when they happen to me, understand?"
"Maybe." Khalid simply answered as he brought his book back to his face and walked past X as he again put the world on ignore. The action would have been very rude and cold had Khalid not tripped on an unseen force. He fell forward and broke into a small tumble so he wouldn't land flat on his face. As he landed he spun around quickly on his heels as he stood up ready to face whatever unseen opponent had caused him to fall only to hear a low whiz sound as an invisible force smacked him on the forehead knocking him on his back.
As Khalid sat up X noticed that he too now had a similar suction arrow stuck on his forehead. The small ball at the end burst open to disclose a similar banner message like the on X's arrow except this one read 'Green Furry Retard'.
"Understand now?" X asked in an 'I told you so' voice.
Khalid stood up and simply nodded in agreement before he took a deep breath and shouted, "Jinx".
Jinx turned her head in full attention now at hearing her name being yelled out by Khalid. His voice didn't sound anger though. Much like everything else he said there was no hint of emotion in his voice. So that lead Jinx to believe that there were only two situations in which Khalid would call her;
He was in trouble. (That seemed highly unlikely to her.) or
She was in trouble. (This seemed very likely to her)
"You're in for it now." Raven dryly remarked as she followed Jinx who had now broken into a light jog to see what the commotion was.
As the two closed in on where the yelling had originated they began to hear the sound of laughter or more specifically Beast Boy's laughter. As they drew closer they saw the Beast Boy rolling on the floor almost crying from his hooting. The reason for this didn't become apparent till they finally turned the corner only to see perhaps one of the most contradictory sights they had ever seen.
Before them stood the two darkest and perhaps most dangerous members of the team with goofy joke arrows stuck on their foreheads each with an insult that wasn't meant for them. The sight was funny, but it was just the whole situation that sold the real laughs. Red X and Khalid were the last people you expect to get hit by the traps yet here they were wearing the silly display. It was a hilarious and refreshing sight in that it reminded everyone in the fact that these two were still very much human. Humans who at the moment looked very ridicules.
Jinx had now joined Beast Boy on the floor in laughter. Even Raven, though much more composed than her allies, was giving an audible chuckle. X was beginning to regret having yelled for he wouldn't have to put up with this kind of ridicule if he had stayed quite. He wanted to say something. Even yell at them. Anything, so long as he wouldn't feel so embarrassed, but seeing everyone together, with a former enemy at that, laughing and enjoying themselves was a nice scene for him. It was the most laughter he had heard in the tower in a long time and he didn't want to ruin it for some reason. Even if it was at the cost of his dignity.
Khalid was staring blankly at the trio of giggling teenagers. He wasn't mad. In all honestly he had stopped caring. The joke was played and he fell for it. Nothing else could be done. He pulled the arrow off his forehead and dropped it the ground leaving a bright red circular mark on his pale face as he walked off towards the commons room. He had a good feeling that the obituaries would report a strange death this morning.
Jinx and Beast Boy were now standing up though each one was holding their sides from all the laughing they had done. Jinx glanced up at X to see him struggling with the arrow on his head as she read the dangling message. She placed her hands on her hips and closed her eyes.
"For your information I'm no bimbo." She said to Beast Boy regarding the arrows comment.
"Yeah, well I'm not retard." Beast Boy said as he gave a proud pose.
"You are to me." Raven remarked more to herself than to anyone else, but loud enough to be heard anyway.
"I don't care what any of you are." X nearly shouted in an irritated voice as he pulled the arrow on his head that refused to budge, "Just get this thing off of me."
"Oh well that may be a problem." Beast Boy said innocently, "You see, I kind of put super glue on it."
"Are you crazy?" Jinx yelled in his ear, "Are you trying to ruin my perfect face?"
"Girl it was ruined the moment you put your makeup on." Beast Boy playfully retorted. In all honestly Beast Boy thought Jinx looked rather pretty with or without her makeup, but he was purposely trying to rattle her cage and like any other girl Jinx was overly sensitive about her appearance. Well his comment didn't rattle Jinx's cage, but full blown banged on it.
"What did you say?" Jinx asked in a psychotically evil tone of voice. Her eyes taking on the solid pink color she only got when she was really relied up or really mad. "Why you little green snot nosed brat!" She yelled as she lifted her hand up in an oh so familiar manner. Her palm infused with pinked energy as she threw it at the now fleeing Beast Boy. She quickly gave chase to the fleeing boy as she hurled more insults, bolts of energy and various hexes and curses.
"I don't think he's going to live this time." X pondered to himself.
"I'm sure he will. He'll just need to spend a few days in the med lab." Raven predicted, "Here let me help you with that." She walked over to X and she couldn't help but smile at how silly he looked. No matter what she thought about she couldn't shake the grin off her face. The familiar dark energy surrounded the arrow and with a slight pop pulled it off and dropped it to the ground. Strangely even though X now had the arrow on his head removed he just kept staring at her and it was making her rather self conscious and red around the face.
X watched her and for a moment considered his self rather lucky. The sight of Raven smiling was a rather rare one even when the original team was together yet here she was with a bright smile like she did it every day.
"You know Raven you should smile more often." He said rather nonchalantly as he walked past her.
Raven said nothing on her part. She merely stared at X as he walked on. The blush on her face turning so bright she could past for a skylight.
The rest of the day was rather non-eventful and for the most part the tower was rather cheery and nighttime came a bit faster then anyone expected and the day so far had been rather quiet. Everyone was lounging in the commons. Even X who had finished his maintenance some hours ago. Jinx and Beast Boy seemed to be drawing up concepts for some sort of water balloon catapult. Raven was content reading one of her many books though every time X caught her eye she would light up like a Christmas tree and hide her face behind her book. Even Khalid seemed a bit happier then usual. Well as happy as an unemotional apathetic nihilist could be that is. After a brief review of the paper he had highlight several abnormal deaths and seem rather content in his own way with that.
"Hey since we're all here we should have a good old fashion movie night. We haven't had one of those in a while." Beast Boy exclaimed from his seat next to Jinx
"He's right. It has been awhile and it does sound like a good idea." Raven concurred to everyone's surprise.
"I vote for my personal favorite 'Attack of the Robot Space Ninjas Pt.5'."
"I vote for anything so long as Beast Boy doesn't pick it." Raven remarked as she returned to her aversive attitude towards Beast Boy.
Unfortunately no movie would be picked that night for the tower's alarm went off at that moment. X wasted no time and in an instant was on his feet typing commands onto the main monitor. A map of Jump City appeared as the screen centered itself on a small icon of an 'H' inside an octagon.
"It's the HIVE and they're attacking the Jump City mall." X explained.
Jinx cringed slightly at the sound of her former team. She had hoped never to see her former teammates again, but she knew that was unlikely and now it was simply impossible. For a moment she felt paralyzed and unable to even make rational thought. Was she nervous or was she scared. She didn't know which one or why she felt like that. She just did. She looked at the screen which was predicting her inedible future and found herself feeling rather lost. She had no idea how long she was standing there, but it wasn't till she felt a hand on her shoulder that she finally returned to reality.
Startled she looked over and found X standing beside her. His hand on her shoulder reassuringly. She looked at his flawless skull mask which hid was gorgeous features. Though she couldn't look under that mask she secretly prayed in her heart that he was smiling at her in a supportive manner. She had no idea how right she was at that moment. She gave him a confident smile and nod as she followed the rest of the team who had apparently left sometime ago and she hadn't noticed till now.
Transportation was still a bit awkward for the new team. Cyborg had taken the T-Car with him and though X had made orders for a new mode of transportation it wouldn't be ready for at least another two weeks. Raven was able to levitate so she was covered and Beast Boy's morphing ability allowed him many methods of flight and X had his X-Cycle. That only left Jinx and Khalid without any means of transportation. Thankfully X had some foresight regarding this situation and had discussed the matter with the team just after the day that Khalid and Jinx joined.
It was agreed that one of them would ride with Beast Boy using him kind of as a mount in his pterodactyl form and the other would ride with X on the X-Cycle. Khalid, who was aware of Jinx's feelings for the team leader, was rather insistent on riding with Beast Boy. Giving various reasons and evening claiming that X was a reckless driver and that just because he could heal most wounds didn't mean he wanted to die. Jinx on the other hand was rather ecstatic about the idea of riding the X-Cycle. Jinx was a fast paced girl who was use to doing whatever she wanted and liked traveling fast. The fact that she would be riding with X was a bonus in this case. Raven didn't really like the idea of Jinx being so close to X much though, but by this time trust in Jinx was no longer a real problem and she had no probable cause to stand against the decision.
The Jump City mall was rather close to Titans Tower as such the trip was rather quick especially considering the speeds that were traveling at. Upon arriving the mall looked rather calm. With no obvious signs of destruction the mall looked liked it would any other day, if you ignored the fact that the security doors at the front had been ripped off their hinges.
Inside the mall looked like a war zone. Display windows were shattered; benches flipped over, and carts broken spilling their goods on the floor. In the center was a shattered fountain with its pipes spilling water into the air giving the large room a strange drizzle effect. Standing among the destruction almost like they were waiting for them stood four members of the HIVE Five: Gizmo, Private HIVE, Mammoth, and SEE-More.
"See I told if we wrecked the place enough they would come." Gizmo said in his nasally voice.
"See they brought Little Miss Traitor with them too. So Jinx are you Red X's new bitch? Why else would you be following them around like a dog?" SEE-More asked
"Yeah, I mean what did you have to do to get accepted into their little club? Or should I ask 'who' you have to do?" Gizmo added with a suggestive snicker as he glared at X.
"Shut up both of you! I swear I'm going to enjoy kicking your ass. You have no idea how many times I wanted to beat the shit out of you and now I can." Jinx snapped.
"That's enough Titans G…" X yelled before he was cut off.
"Hold up now. We can't fight now?" Mammoth said in his booming voice.
"And why not?" Raven asked clearly growing impatient with the passing banter.
"Because we haven't introduced everyone yet." Mammoth answered in a mock civilized voice.
"We know who you are and trust me those of us which don't," X said as he cast a quick glance at Khalid, "Really don't care."
"Well you don't know everyone yet." Came a strong female voice from the overhanging second floor.
The Titans looked up as a darken figure performed a rather impressive display of acrobatics and jumped from the railing and landed right in of them. Before them stood a rather tall and busty female with long brown hair wearing something straight out of 'Xena: Warrior Princess'. She wore a tight fitting scale mail shirt with a black breast plate over it as well as a short black armored battle skirt and a pair of scale mail pants similar to her shirt and black armored boots. Lastly she wore what appeared to be a Viking like helmet with decorative wings on the side and she had a large spiked mace and long sword attached to her belt.
"I am Dark Valkyrie!" She proclaimed proudly, "And I shall be the one to destroy you."
"Dark Valkyrie?" Beast Boy said with a puzzled expression, "Sounds like a digimon or something."
"Such impudence!" the warrior women fumed. "HIVE Five, attack!"
"Teen Titans GO!" X yelled in response as the two teams clashed.
Jinx had her sights on beating the living hell out of the tiny boy genius, but when she saw a yellow shield come crashing towards her face like a flying guillotine attack she immediately rolls under it avoid the attack. The shield then curves around like a boomerang and returns the yellow armor clad military man who threw it, Private HIVE.
"Well I wanted to kill Gizmo, but you'll do." Jinx said with a scowl.
"Bring it." the yellow dressed HIVE student provoked as he charged forward at his former leader.
Private HIVE was a rather skilled fighter. Jinx had to admit when it came to physical strength the Private had her beat and it was clear he had a lot of fighting skills yet none of this worried her. Jinx remembered back to her fights with Robin in the past and her more recent practice duels with his new persona Red X and was amazed at how much he had improved. If the Private had a sudden lucky streak and Robin had a flu as well as proclaimed legally blind there would be a chance for him to beat Robin. But if he wasn't as good as X's former self there was no way he was as good as X and as such no way he was better then her. Unfortunately Private HIVE would have to figure this out the hard way. Mainly with a right hook and round house kick.
SEE-More squared off against Raven which for the most part was for the best. Both opponents leaned more towards the ranged side of combat so it came down to who could out shoot the other. Raven throwing random chuck of rubble and the occasional bench which SEE-More agilely dodged or blasted to bits with his eye beams. That which was to big for him to blast to smithereens he would incase with his capture eye beam turning the deadly projectile into a giant jelly like eyeball. The two went back and forth like this for some time and at the rate the fight was progressing at it seemed like they would continue to do it all night.
X had broken into a sprint towards Dark Valkyrie, but before he even cleared half the distance to her he felt a strong tug on his cape and in the next instant he was flying. He flew straight into a wall leaving an indention of him self in the stone. X was heavily dazed but before he was able to peel his body off the wall he felt a giant hairy hand wrap round his neck. As his eyes opened and came into focus he saw the large face of Mammoth only a few inches from his own face. He was so close that X was able to smell his breath which had a similar odor to the city landfill.
"So this is the infamous Red X. I have to admit you don't look that tough." Mammoth said with a slight hint of disappointment. "Oh well, once I'm done breaking you in half I think I'll go finish clipping the wings of the little bird girl. You know between you and me I think if I can keep her conscious she would be quite the screamer." He finished with a slight malicious laugh as he brandished his iron claws before X.
"So long as I live you won't ever touch her again." X grunted.
"Oh and what are you going to do about it?" Mammoth asked mockingly.
"This!" X yelled as he lifted his hands up to show that they were crackling with heavy surges of red electricity and then grab Mammoth's massive forearm in a death grip. The electricity was of such voltage that it practically locked Mammoth's muscles preventing him from yelling. Lucky for X one of the many upgrades he did to his suit consisted of a making it fully insulated making him highly resistance to electricity and cold. After a few moments of this torture X ceased the flow of electricity and used his grip on Mammoth's arm as leverage allowing him to give a few shift kicks to Mammoth's head causing the large mutant to let him go.
X wanted to make Mammoth suffer and he wasn't going to let anything get in his way of that. Mammoth shook off the hits he had just taken. Due to his immense strength he had incredible endurance and resilience allowing him quick recovery. He saw X in front of him and threw a powerful punch which X easily countered by gripping his arm and using the momentum of the punch to flip Mammoth over. Then with a twist and pull X easily dislocated Mammoth's arm. Mammoth let out a scream of both anger and pain as he rolled to his side and stood up.
"Are you crazy!" he yelled at the masked figure before him.
"Maybe" X answered calmly before he dashed at Mammoth and landed several kicks to his face and almost a dozen punches to his stomach, ribs, and even kidneys. This wasn't the end of it though. X just wouldn't give up and continued to strike Mammoth with so many combos that it would make video game characters envious. X continued to almost dance around Mammoth and plant punches and kicks on every part of his body from the back of his head to his bare feet. Every now and then just to be evil X would charge his attack with a strong surge of energy that would enter Mammoth's body upon contact. X was no longer acting like a super hero, but more like a dungeon torturer which was good in his book. He was enjoying himself.
Having seen X get sidetracked by Mammoth on his way to Dark Valkyrie, Khalid decided it was up to him to face off with her. He calmly walked up to her almost as if there was not battle going on around him and stood before her with his left hand in her coat pocket and his right hanging loosely on his side. Khalid did not look like a super hero. In fact he looked very normal standing there.
Dark Valkyrie scoffed at him, "Who are you? You look like just some puck goth wannabe they pulled off the street."
"Yes and you look like an Amsterdam prostitute who's full filling a perverts Norse sex fantasy." Khalid calmly replied as he bent down and picked up a broken pipe with his free right hand never once removing his other from his pocket. "Now are we going to fight or are you going to try to nag me to death?"
"Such disrespect and to me of all people. Die you male pig!" She yelled as she pulled up her duel weapons and swung them down at Khalid's head. She was temporary blinded by a bright flash of light of blue and yellow light and as she opened her eyes again only to see her attacks had been blocked by Khalid's pipe. Only it was no longer a pipe but a long spear like weapon that looked of perhaps eastern origin. Khalid lifted his weapon up a bit so that he was able to look his adversary in the eyes.
"I do hope you don't waste my time." He said with a blank expression.
Dark Valkyrie was furious as she again brought her weapons up and attacked with full force and skill. This man's words were devoid of concern or care and that only added salt to her already hurt pride. He was blocking her attacks and using just one hand never moving his other one. He parried, dodged, and countered her best attacks as if they were nothing. She remembered her master and trainer and how he also smirked at her as if not matter what she learned she would always be a child. He never once took her seriously until the day she killed him. That was only day he looked at her with fear. Now she was seeing her dead master's face on this pale man. Laughing at her, taunting her, not once taking her seriously. She raged more at this thought and doubled the ferocity of her attacks but to no avail. Khalid merely pinned her weapons down and looked her in the eye.
"You know you're not as good as you made yourself out to be." he casually remarked.
"Stop toying with me you bastard!" she spat out furiously.
"Very well, but I do warn you." Khalid replied as he pulled his hand out his pocket and placed it on his nagamaki. He spun the weapon with such precision and skill before he trust it forward at her knocking her sword of her hand and stopping mere centimeters from her throat. "I did warn you." He said once more.
Beast Boy was left fighting Gizmo and the little techno child was amazed at how the snot colored boy had improved in his fighting. He was using a combination of physical attacks to throw him off and morphs to avoid his projectiles. He took a quick glance around and saw Raven and SEE-More fighting and it was only a matter of time before SEE-More got over whelmed by the flying rubble. Jinx was toying with Private HIVE like a cat would a mouse before the kill. Mammoth, well Gizmo didn't even want to look at Mammoth. X wasn't just tearing him a new one but a dozen new ones. Dark Valkyrie wasn't even able to land a hit on the new guy. The fight had gotten out of hand and Gizmo had to sadly admit that they were losing. He turned to Beast Boy who had now assumed the form of a gorilla and was now bearing down at him.
"First things first. Gotta stop snot boy from pounding me." Gizmo said to himself as he shot out two missiles with a blue energy like rope between them. The missiles wrapped around Beast Boy like a bolas restraining him resizing itself to fit Beast Boy when he morphed. Gizmo smiled to himself at the success of his weapon, but he knew it was only a temporary solution and sooner or later Beast Boy would break free. "Second, gain points with the hot new boss. Hey whitely!" He yelled as he threw an orb like object at him.
Khalid still had his nagamaki at Dark Valkyrie's neck when he heard someone yell, "Hey whitely!" Khalid had a pretty good guess that it was meant for him. Unless there was another white haired albino in the building that he didn't know about. He cast a sideway glance at were the voice came from to see the short bald kid throw some sort of ball at him. Without much effort on his part Khalid spun around on his heels and slashed the ball open. Yet to his surprise the ball was filled with smaller marble like balls that spilled out and continued on their path towards him. "Smart." Khalid quietly said to himself as he lifted his hand up to shield his face at the on coming marble assault. He was having a bad feeling of what was about to happen as the marbles closed in on him and busted into a bright flash of light before the exploded in his face.
Though the explosions were rather small there were a lot of them. Enough to knock him off his feet. He slowly got on his knees and felt numerous stings like bees as a warm liquid flowed down the left side of his face. He lifted his hand up to his face and felt something poking out of the skin and pulled it out.
"Shrapnel and lots of it." He said as he looked at the metal shard that he held in his hand. "Hmm, someone likes to take advantage of downed opponents." He said without a hint of concern as he dropped the metal shard to see the spiked mace coming at his face from the corner of his eye. There was nothing he could do and he knew it. His weapon had been knocked out of his hand and the shrapnel bomb had distracted him till it was too late. He didn't have time to dodge and there was no point in flinching in fear. The attack would connect no matter what he did right now. "I wonder if it'll hurt. No judging by the size of the weapon it'll be an instant kill." He caught himself thinking.
Suddenly it hit him. Like freight train against a watermelon. "I must admit this is a new feeling." He thought as the mace crashed into his skull bashing his eye and brains in. He felt the spikes on the weapon pierce his brain and practically rip out of him. "Hmm I bet this will look very messy." Was his last thought before the pain entered his brain…
And his world went dark.
End Chapter 6.
Kind of long huh? Hope I did a good job on this. Sorry, I kind of lied about getting back to Mirror Images. I just really want to introduce the new cast member soon. She should enter the cast by chap. 9 hopefully 8. Hmm, there really doesn't seem to be much that needs explaining in this chapter I think.
For Beast Boy fans I'm sorry I made his fight scene so short. Honestly I have a hard time writing fights for Beast Boy. With all that shape changing I just don't think I can accurately portray how he would us it in combat. The constant style changes for each animal makes him rather difficult since you have to consider how he would fight in each form. Unlike others who strengths and abilities are consistent. Hopefully that will improve in the future.
Oh yeah Khalid dying. Well you'll just have to read the next chapter to understand what happens. So no one flip yet ok lol.
