*Authors Note - I do not own any of the Teen Titans, DC characters or the Grand Theft Auto Cities. I do however own Quake, my Original Character.
Also - 'This is Thinking' - "This is Talking"
Chapter 9 - Vengeance
Jinx POV
This was a Mexican Standoff if there ever was one, only with two people instead of three. I was hiding behind some broken asphalt that had been uplifted when Quake made his "grand entrance" Neither made a move, because they each knew that the other would get the upper hand.
Regardless of this Quake made the first move and launched a beam attack at Madame Rouge. She countered by leaping towards him and almost hitting him with her fist, narrowly dodging it. He landed behind her and landed 3 punches; right, left, right. All connected with her and there was so much force behind each punch, he was mad about something. Was it - no, he couldn't be, but he might be doing this as revenge for the torture.
He then connected both of his fists in an overhead punch directly to her head, yelling out "Stay Still!".
He knocked her back several feet, when she finally stood up she said, "Impressive, now lets see how vell you can adapt." At this she reached up with her flexible arm and grabbed a sign from on the front of one of the buildings nearby and threw it at him. He dodged this as well, though it was a near miss.
He retorted to Madame Rouge saying "Nice Try."
Madame Rouge tried a change in tactics, trying for a ranged assault. She leapt into the air and threw her flexible arm towards Quake. He grabbed it out of midair and pulled her towards him. He then punched her in the face as soon as she was close enough and sent her back several feet.
She was dazed, but on her feet and Quake then grabbed her by her head, tilted it (and her upper torso) forward and gave her a right uppercut to the gut, jumped about a foot in the air, spun a 360, and threw a left at her head. He also yelled out "Dumb-mother-fucker!", which surprised me.
I didn't think he swore that badly. I mean I head him say a couple of curse words, but nothing that bad. She fell down to the ground but got right back up, obviously tired.
Madame Rouge changed her tactics again, this time trying a brute force approach.
She turned her fists into a hammer and a mace, saying, "Vell now you've just pissed me off."
She lunged towards him with the hammer, which connected with his gut. He stumbled back a bit and collapsed down onto one knee, it was obvious he hadn't fully healed. Madame Rouge took this opportunity to close the distance between the two of them. She brought her mace hand overhead and brought it down on him.
He dodged at the last second landing behind her, saying, "Now I know you're just trying to make me mad." He then grabbed her with his left hand, jumped back over her spinning his body 180 degrees, landed, turned to his right and threw Madame Rouge behind him.
As he did this he taunted her saying "Too slow!"
As she got up Quake taunted her further saying, "Show me what you got Rouge!" This pushed her over the edge, and she jumped in the air and tried to punch Quake with her right fist.
He blocked her fist with his left forearm and gave her an uppercut to the jaw. She stumbled backwards, very woozy and not thinking clearly.
She tried to throw a flexible arm attack towards him. He caught it and pulled her towards him to the point where she was behind him, and he turned and gave her an overhead punch with the back of his right hand.
Next she turned both her arms into hammers, leapt into the air and brought them down on him. He deflected them with his forearms, grabbed her arms right below where the hammers were, pulled down on her arms and gave her a swift knee to her jaw.
Madame Rouge stumbled backwards at this and fell to the ground. Quake walked over towards her, knelt down and grabbed her by the front of her outfit. He raised his right fist in the air, was he going to kill Madame Rouge?
No, he-he couldn't, he was a hero. But with everything he's gone through in the past few days I really wouldn't blame him. I couldn't watch this. As his back was turned to me, I ran as fast as I could.
I got maybe 200 feet away when I heard an earth shattering punch hitting concrete. I gasped out loud. He did it, he killed her and I knew I was next.
Quakes POV
I lifted Madame Rouge up by her outfit. I raised my right fist in the air. Hatred filling me up, not for what she did to me but for what she did to Jinx before I intervened. It would be so easy to end it, and Jinx wouldn't have to endure anything like that ever again.
I threw my fist towards Madame Rouge's face as fast as I could. The sound of flesh hitting the concrete echoed all around.
But it wasn't Madame Rouge's flesh that hit the ground. She looked to the right of her face and saw that I had missed her face by a few inches. My fist was about 6-8 inches into the ground, and Rouge had a shocked look on her face.
I said to her, "I want you to remember this Rouge, I want you to remember that I had your life in my hands and I chose not to end your life. I am and will always be a better person than you." and with that she passed out.
I let go of her and she collapsed on the ground. She would be picked up by the police later and Jinx would be safe from her...Jinx? In all the excitement I'd forgotten about her. Where'd she get off to?
Guess I'd have to use my Sonar to find her. I concentrated hard and sent out a pulse to try and find her. The return pulse came back a few hundred feet away. She wasn't far away.
Jinx POV
I ran up the nearest building I could find, an old condemned structure that had old rotten floorboards. I ran as fast as I could and didn't realize I had made my was up to the roof. I walked over to the edge of the building. It would be easy and swift, unlike the fate that awaited me if Quake caught me. But I couldn't do it, I wanted to live not to end my life. I stepped away from the edge when I heard a voice behind me, "There you are."
Oooo, what's going to happen? Sorry to leave everyone in suspense, but the next chapter will be up soon.
Next chapter - Just A Jinx
