Issue#9 Wonderboy with Wonder Girl and Superboy.

Wonder Girl flew between two monsters and smashed their heads together, causing a loud boom. The monsters twitched then collapsed on the floor. Five more jumped her back forming a tiny pile. Wonder Girl stood with the pile and opened her arms like she was stretching sending the monsters flying in opposite directions. She lassoed the closest monster and spun him into another straight into the ground creating a tiny crater. Wonder Girl concentrated on the fact that these monsters were trying to hurt an innocent person. She became angry and golden lightning soared from her lasso shocking the two monsters connected to it. Wonder Girl retracted her lasso and went after the three remaining monsters attacking her.

Superboy flew directly above the monsters attacking him. He flew so high they didn't bother jumping after him, they just stared and snarled. Superboy sarcastically smiled and waved before shooting feet first into the crowd of monsters. The monsters tried to move out of the way but only moved far enough to avoid a direct hit.

The impact shot the monsters in random directions. Superboy shot three in the air with his heat vision making the monsters yelp in pain before crashing into the ground. The remaining four cautiously approached Superboy. He took a step and the monsters jumped back. Superboy sneered and vanished. He appeared behind the monster furthest away, wound his leg back and kicked it just like a football. The other monsters watched their comrade fly over head until it was out of site. Superboy held his right hand forward and motioned the rest of the monsters to come at him. The three roared furiously and sprang after Superboy. He half smiled and cocked his fist back, ready to end the fight.

Titus immediately threw his lasso at Stephan but he disappeared before it reached him. In an instant he reappeared directly behind Titus. Luckily he anticipated Stephan's apparently favorite technique. Stephan went in for the same punch as before, but Titus bent over completely dodging his attack. Stephan's eye's widened in shock. Titus took this opportunity to lock Stephan's arm with his left leaving his chest wide open. Titus punched right in the center of his armored chest, but only with a small portion of his strength.

Titus was certain that man that killed his father was controlling Stephan and didn't want to hurt his friend if he could avoid it. That's why he must have chose Stephan, but Titus still didn't understand why that cloaked figure was messing with him at all. Stephan kicked Titus in his hip separating the lock Titus had on him. He pointed his flaming black arm at Titus and instantly shot thousands of little black flaming bullets.

Titus began deflecting the bullets with ease making sure to angle his gauntlets so they deflected the bullets into the sky to not interrupt Wonder Girl and Superboy's fight. Stephan became more angry and sent out a barrage of bullets ten fold. Titus managed to keep deflecting the flaming bullets, but he could no longer control were he wanted them to go shredding the parking lot and mall. If Stephan kept this up Titus was worried he might get seriously injured or killed.

Suddenly Titus disappeared from Stephan's sight. Stephan scanned the area but had no luck spotting him. Stephan cautiously took a few steps before Titus burst through the ground behind Stephan. He began to turn to attack Titus once again, but Titus already had his upper body lassoed. The black flame engulfing his arm immediately vanished. Stephan struggled to get free but he had no chance without his strength.

'I hop ethis gu y doe sn't hur t me. Idid n't mea' nto hurt anyo ne. I h ave n o ide a wh ats go ing on. So omeone ple as e fin daw ay toh elp m e.' Titus heard Stephan's voice in his mind. He knew all his powers and his lasso's ability, but he had no idea his lasso allowed him to hear a persons thoughts.

Stephan continued to try to get free but his efforts were futile. From the tone of Stephan's thoughts he sound afraid timid, but his body was furiously trying to break free and attack Titus. 'Iw ish Ico ul dask the m to sa ve me. Howa m I supp ose dto get m ybo dy bac k.' After hearing Stephan's thought's Titus came to the conclusion that Stephan was aware of what he was doing, but was completely out of control of his body, meaning if Titus could dispel whatever was in Stephan's body he would return back to normal.

Titus casually approached Stephan still keeping him tightly lassoed, and placed his left hand in front of Stephan's forehead. 'Pl ease do n't kill met his isn 't m yfau lt. It w as t hat thin gin t he blac k cl oak. DA M hi m. I' m gon na di e be caus e o f hi m.'

"Please calm down. I'm not going to hurt you, I promise. I just want to help." Titus tried to reassure Stephan as much as possible.

'H e canr ead my m ind? Tha nk Go d I' ll b e oka y. Ple ase hu r ry, Id on't wan t to hu rt an y on e els e.'

"Don't worry, as long as your in my lasso your powers won't work. I won't let you hurt anyone else. Just try to calm down. I'm pretty sure I can help you." Stephan's mind immediately went blank. Titus called on the god Serqet's healing abilities generating a silver ankh between Titus' hand and Stephan's forehead. Titus sent his spiritual energy through the ankh and into Stephan's body. Stephan's black eyes began to glow bright silver. Titus could feel the infection in Stephan's entire body. It was chaos magic..

As soon as Titus felt no more Chaos magic in Stephan he returned his own energy to his body through the ankh. When his energy completely returned the ankh disappeared. This was more exhausting then Titus expected and his energy dramatically depleted, but he was still functional. Stephan's armor cracked into hundreds of pieces then disintegrated into black sand. His eyes returned to normal before he started to collapse.

Titus caught him before he fell gently undoing his lasso. Titus felt his pulse and was relieved it was normal. He must have been exhausted fighting with the chaos magic. Wonder Girl and Superboy now done with their fights glided in next to Titus.

"Is he okay?" Titus could sense Wonder Girl was sincerely worried.

"He's fine, he's just unconscious. I cured his body of the chaos magic that was controlling him so he's back to normal. How did you guys manage against those monsters.

"Not a problem. At the end of the fight they just all turned into black sand." Titus glanced behind Wonder Girl and saw small mounds of black sand scattered everywhere. Titus also examined Wonder Girl and Superboy and they looked completely untouched.

"Thank you very much for saving me." Wonder Girl and Superboy nodded. The sound of an alarm began to go off in Wonder Girl's pocket.

"That must be the others." Wonder Girl opened her communicator.

"Wonder Girl were in trouble. I hope your not still wrapped up because we need you and Superboy now!" Titus could here the commotion in the back ground filled with screams and explosions. He wished he could volunteer his help but he was way to exhausted to do any good.

"Be there in three." Wonder Girl put away her communicator. "Superboy go ahead and meet with the others. I'll take Stephan home." Titus immediately hand Stephan to Wonder Girl. "Are you gonna be okay?" Wonder Girl had her attention on Titus' injuries.

"Yeah I'll be fine. They should heal completely on there own in a bit."

"Good." Wonder Girl and Superboy began to levitate.

"Thank you guys again for saving me. I really do appreciate it." Superboy smiled at Titus and Titus felt his heart melt. Since Titus wasn't caught in the action anymore he noticed how handsome and dashing Superboy was. Wonder Girl flipped her hair out of her face before she spoke.

"You were very brave today, Wonderboy." Titus' eyes widened in shock, but before he could respond Wonder Girl and Superboy were off. Titus let out a slight smile, and he watched as they flew off into the glorious night sky.

Titus felt relieved that the fight was finally over. He examined his cloths only to see they got thrashed in the fight. A minute went by and, a news van skid into the parking lot. Titus definably didn't want to be seen by the news so he soared in the sky with the strength he had left back to his home.

Titus flew in through his window and deactivated his armor causing it to disperse into silver light. Everything was a little surreal for him, but at least he was finally starting to understand his situation.

Because of his knowledge of superheroes he knew what was controlling Stephan, chaos magic. The same magic used by a lot of notorious villains. Heavy hitters like Captain Marvel, Doctor Fate, and Zatanna usually deal with disruptions caused by chaos magic. It's extremely dangerous, powerful and unpredictable. Titus also got a glimpse of a person in a black cloak that forced Stephan to use the Chaos magic. It had to be the same person. How many people wear giant black cloaks.

For whatever reason this person was trying to force Titus to fight his friends, and Titus had a strong feeling Stephan wouldn't be the last. Titus couldn't stand the thought of having to fight another friend. What if he couldn't help them next time. He already lost his Dad. He didn't want to have to deal with a pain like that again.

Mid thought Titus felt his phone vibrate. He was surprised it didn't completely crumble during the fight. He put his thoughts on hold to check his messages. Titus felt it vibrate a couple of times during the fight but couldn't answer for obvious reasons. Titus had seven missed calls from Jordan, and three text demanding to know where he was, and if he was okay. He was going to have to come up with a really good excuse but he wasn't to worried. He continued to scroll through the messages and saw something he forgot during the fight. It was a two missed calls from James. He missed their date.

He sent Titus a text that read 'You must be busy.' Titus felt his heart drop. He looked at the time and it was 10:08pm. He was supposed to be ready by seven. Titus felt like the biggest Jackass in the world for standing James up, but he had no choice. All he could do was hope he accepted an apology and would give Titus a chance to make it up to him.

Today turned out pretty to be pretty enlightening for Titus. First, he knew Wonder Girl must go to his school and possibly Superboy. Second, He needed to find a way to help his friends before they became more involved and third. He had to go to a silk screening store tomorrow.

Titus changed into some underwear and went into his back yard to smoke a cigarette. After coming up with the excuse that 'I got caught in the rush of people fleeing. I tried to call but my phone got knocked down. A man that worked at Hot Topic found it and called my house so I could get it the next day.' When Titus thought it out he felt like it sound kind of to coincidental, but it was the best he could come up with. Frustrated Titus flicked his cigarette butt into the trash and returned to his room. Titus collapsed in his bed and quickly went to sleep. Tomorrow he had a lot of work to do.

AUTHOR NOTES: Wonderboy's lasso's ability to read peoples minds was inspired from Sookie's telepathic powers from True Blood. Later he will get better with this ability and use it more like Sookie. He'll also learn how to Glamour people like the vampires from True Blood.