Two of a Kind
CHAPTER 8: "Blast Him!"
Continuing from chapter 7…
"Where. THE heck. WERE YOU GUYS?!" Logan demanded the second the troop returned from their scouting expedition, flailing his arms at them as they walked into the Main Room. "You were gone for, like, EVER!! Did you find the creepers?!"
"Yes, we found them, Logan." Robin was still laughing lightly as he walked in the room, Adia sitting still in his supportive arms. "But they got away. Even through Raven's magic."
"Oh, I see." Logan raised an eyebrow at them. "So are we just gonna - "
"TURN of GameStation and boot up the computer." Raven said as she walked in, her face pink and her hair mussed from the wind of flying as fast at a speed that is generally not advised for one without wind protection. "We've got to track them."
Logan snorted. "Raven, you look like a -"
"BOOT IT UP!"
The green boy blinked, but snickered as he turned away, walking casually toward the computer.
Robin laughed again. "I'm sorry you didn't see that building, Raven. But you know you really should be watching your path instead of trying to distract me."
"Okay, so I had to fly through a couple windows. I did NOT crash!" Raven insisted immediately, pointing a finger in the boy's face furiously. "YOU were the one cutting through all the semis and zooming down ALLEYWAYS! Weren't you even WORRIED that you might kill someone...or YOURSELF?!"
"Yeah." The other dark-haired boy shrugged. "But more importantly..." He laughed, "...getting you lost!"
"I was not LOST!" Raven charged at Robin in the next instant, tackling him to the ground and making a point of mussing up his hair as much as possible. "THERE!! HOW'RE YOU GONNA GEL THAT, GENIUS?!"
Adia sighed, shaking her head and walking over to go boot up the computer.
Robin fought Raven with as much energy he could muster up through his side-aching laughter - he just could not control it! Half the time he was just playfully clawing at Raven weakly, his eyes shut tight in his total guy-laugh that he seemingly could not contain for the very life of him.
And Raven continued to do everything she could to win her side of the fight in the match, letting out a laugh or shout of success due to the fact that Robin wasn't really fighting...and the two of them continued to wrestle regardless of whatever else was going on.
"Oh my gawsh, they're so CUTE!!" Aphy squealed from her place on the couch, of course the hopeless romantic of the situation. "Eeeehoohooo!"
"Seriously, Aphy." Logan gave her a look, passing by and sadly turning off the GameStation. "Eros, don't let her do that. I'll die. Seriously."
"Pfft." Eros scoffed, not looking up from his dark book. "She does that if two frickin' pigeons fly fly next to each other..."
"All right, let's see..." Adia murmured to herself from the computer screen, starting to type a few things in despite the noise in the background. "Kury and Razz...let's see where you are..."
She pressed the enter key, and a screen depicting a map of the city abruptly showed up...and right smack in the center of the map were two red, blinking dots.
"The center of the city..." Andy walked up behind his fellow white-blond Titan. "...what're they doin' there, Adia?"
"Apparently, heading out of the city." Adia replied, sitting back in her chair and glancing at the Texan Titan. "They don't intend to stay, that's for sure."
"Do we gotta get 'em?" Andy asked, folding his arms across his tucked-in, long-sleeved white shirt. "An' catch 'em?"
"That would be up to our leader." Adia commented, raising an eyebrow and smiling knowingly back at the place where the ruckus was still going on. "If he lives through this..."
Andy laughed, slapping his thigh. "Well, I'll be! They're so cute when they fight like that..."
Adia glanced at him. "That they are." She said, turning around and facing the computer again. "Let's just hope they make it out unscathed."
Andy smiled and shook his head as he turned back in Adia's direction. "So what'd you propose we do?"
"Wait." Adia said, looking at the screen carefully...and discreetly noting something else that was yet to take place among those streets. "We'll either come to them, or we'll meet up with them eventually..."
"Oh?" The Texan Titan stepped forward, placing a hand on the other girl's shoulder. "What's that mean?"
Adia didn't respond. She was looking very carefully at the map again...and then suddenly reached out, pointing to a spot near the two blinking dots. "That's what I mean."
And sure enough. There on the map, steadily growing inside and shining a deeper red (meaning danger)...was a villian dot blinking "PLASMUS".
"Oh, my land!" Andy stepped back. "He's comin' after them?!"
"He's coming after the city." Adia said, standing up and moving away from the computer. "And they just HAPPEN to be right in the middle of it." She walked over to the front of the room, where Raven had finally released Robin, and both had just gotten to their feet. "Robin, it looks like we have a Plasmus attack to attend to."
"Really?" Robin nodded, straightening himself out, a slight laugh still hanging on the end of his voice. "Where's he at?"
"In the center of town. And apparently he's about to meet up with two power-people he's never met before." Adia responded, a very knowing look on her face as she said so.
"Brilliant."
Razz stared up in a fairly vertical manner at the huge...enormous...gigantic...towering... dripping...slimy...disgusting form of Plasmus himself. "This. SUCKS."
"Eeeeeeeeeww..." Kury backed away from a drop of purple goo laying on the ground in front of her. "...now THAT'S just SICK..." She turned over to Razz helplessly, "...what do we do, Razz?"
"Scream." Razz said simply.
At that moment, Plasmus gave a warbling hollar and bent down right toward them - people of Jump City in the background running for their lives as the two girls stood there - while Razz and Kury stood right in the shadow of the gigant MOUTH coming toward them.
Razz sighed. "Yeah, prob'ly should do that." She cleared her throat.
"GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
AAAAAARRRRGGGGGHHHHH!!"
Poor Plasmus found himself sloshing back a few paces with the impact of a noise loud enough to be mistaken for a sonic boom - and Razz turned immediately to Kury afterward. "Do something. ANYTHING. Get it out of our path!"
Kury scrambled out of her sound-proof box as quickly as she could and stood up straight. She only had to think for one second after Razz's command before rapidly pulling out a large sheet of wrinkled paper and sketching something to the best of her ability in ten seconds.
She briefly blew extra strands of blond hair out of her blue eyes as she ripped "Balooninator 3000" right out of the sheet. The large gun-like tool looked like a bazooka with a helium bubble on the side.
"HERE GOES NOTHIN'!!" Kury screamed before falling backwards with the impact of the blast.
Poor Plasmus received the blow, but seemed frozen on the spot. However, it took only seconds afterward for the large 'zit' to begin to raise slooowwwllllyyyy above ground level. Within minutes, the giant monster was a building's height above the ground, making his way to the clouds like a monstrous balloon.
Razz's head and eyes slowly followed the monster upward. "Not bad." She commented, nodding in consideration and looking over at Kury. "That's one of your better ones."
Kury smiled brightly at the compliment, bouncing on her toes and clasping her hands behind her back. "Thanks!"
"Yeah. Now let's get out of here." Razz said, turning around and starting to push Kury in the opposite direction - but that was right before a monstrous BOOMING sound was heard above their heads...
...followed by another half, BOOMING, half SPLATTING sound of Plasmus himself falling from the sky, and landing SPLAT on the street RIGHT in front of them again.
And now. He was PISSED.
"Oh...shit..." Kury muttered weakly, her eyes as wide as coconuts on her tan face. "...Razz...!!"
"Okay. Run." The other girl said immediately.
Kury didn't need that repeated. She took off as in the opposite direction as fast as her feet could carry her only a second later - checking back once or twice to make sure Razz wasn't, like, sacrificing herself or something...
But she needn't have worried. For Razz was exactly one pace behind her - though she seemed to be heading in a very DIRECT direction as they ran through the city...since Plasmus, as a matter of fact, had begun to give chase. RIGHT after them.
"Okay, we're gonna lose him." The dark-haired girl said swiftly, glancing sideways at Kury as they ran, turning a corner sharply around a building. "And if that doesn't work, we blast im'. Got it?"
"Uh...uh...GOT IT!" Kury finally caught on between breaths, tracing Razz's racing footprints half a pace behind her. "I'm right behind you! GO!"
The two girls continued to race down the street...but things didn't look good. Not necessarily because they couldn't get away...but because as Plasmus was chasing them, he was wrecking a LOT of the city.
"Great. Where are those TITANS when you need em'?!" Razz growled as they rounded another corner...and there, she stopped. She looked over at Kury. "This is not helping. We've got to blast 'im."
"Good idea!" Kury nodded, leaning against a wall in exhaustion. "Go 'head!!"
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