Chapter 10
Destruction
Disclaimer: We all know I don't own Teen Titans. If I did then you'd be watching this, not reading it.
Robin and Star-Fire were trailing Madame Rouge when they noticed she had stopped. they watched as she entered a very dark, and well hidden cave. They entered as carefully as possible, walking together, close together, holding hands.
"heh, you're right, we won't lose each other in the dark if we hold... hands. T-that was a wonderful idea... robin..." Star-fire said meekly. She was glad it was so dark, she didn't want him to see her blush this much.
After almost half an hour of running through the cave they reached the end. There was a door...aaand then there wasn't. They looked around and it was just a bunch of mirrors, all around... nothing but reflection all over. Robin was looking around, thinking of the enemies possible plans, counters for those plans, and how he can win the day... star-fire, on the other hand, was so giddy, her sweetness would give you diabetes.
"On my home planet this is what we do for marriage ceremonies! This is so beautiful! I can't beleive this! Look at the frames! oh my, robi..." She was shocked for a second as she remembered who was right behind her... and they held hands... and she... Suddenly star-fire becomes absolutely red from remembering what she did before that! She turned around and robin was kind of red in the face aswell.
"Oh... you don't say... thats really... fascinating, star-fire! um... (idiot) ...would... you like to walk... together... again? (...smoooth)" Robin said... barely.
Star-fire was already there, her hands wrapped around his arm. A small jump from robin and he was ready to walk. together. with Star-Fire. Through a maze of mirrors. Which signifies marriage. to Star-Fire. Madame Rouge seemed to have a soft spot for romance, because she watched the young couple walking together, unharmed.
"So these marriage ceremonies... anything else special about them?" Robin barely had the coruage to say.
Star-Fire smiled a little bit and said "Well... When the couple to be are walking down the Mirrors of Truth, they are to hold hands the entire way to signify, they are both true to one another. Then at the end, they must fight the dreadid Glarb-boost-shu, pass the Maze of Loyalty, then they are ready to share their first... kiss." At the end of the explanation, she was a little embarassed, but couldn't help but think of Robin in that light...
After watching them for some time, Madame Rouge rushed a head and waited at the final stage of defense.
"Hello love birds!" Robin and Star-fire got into defensive positions when they heard her voice... then they saw her... thats when a wall suddenly shot up behind them, blocking the way they came in. they were trapped. After the door had shut, they heard a loud sound, it seemed to be an electric generator because suddenly, all the mirrors were moving at a fast rate. They were all seperated for a few cycles, when it stopped, there were two star-fires.
'Oh come on! this cheap trick again!' Robin thought as he stared at them both... It took him only a few seconds before he had a large smile on his face.
"Madame Rouge! you've made this far too simple!" Robin walked towards the two of them, neither could tell which one he was walking towards... Robin still had a small smile on his face as he had already picked. he walked up to one of the star-fires and he grabbed her by the shoulders.. then after closing his eyes... and coming closer, he softly kissed... Star-Fire.
"How... how did you know?" Star-Fire barely whispered.
"No one can replace you" Robin looked towards the Madame Rouge and asked "Why didn't you attack us on the way here, or now?"
Madame Rouge had this smile on her face, a warm smile. "I know love when i see it... i won't interfere with it. I've been needing a vacation for awhile anyway."
After a few awkward looks towards each other, Robin and Star-Fire couldn't help but agree with her statement... Infact, they had almost forgotten how close they were until they saw Madame Rouge walking away. Walking away feeling a bit less evil that day...
"I can't believe we ended up at an indoor jungle! Not that there wasn't enough of it outside, or anything, these guys just had to bring in!" Raven thought as she was already annoyed by the constant heat and humidity. But she couldn't help but smile a bit as she noticed how happy beast boy was. She couldn't help but love noticing the animal in him. He was happier than ever to be out of the city, and on this mission.
Suddenly, Monsieur Mallah jumps out and launches a surprise attack on raven. She barely dodges his attack, but was grabbed by his foot...hand... thing. She wasn't even able to recover as he grabbed her and started laughing. "What do you plan to do now, Beast Boy?" After hitting Raven one more time, he throws her to the ground, unconcious. He had this smug look on his face, like he was proud of doing what he did to Raven.
Beast boy didn't like this one bit... "ROOOOOAAARR!" Suddenly he couldn't control himself, his entire body showed "Panic". He tried to control himself deep down inside, but it was too much. His anger was taking over, he couldn't help but feel his baser instincts taking over. He had started changing. Slowly at first, and you could barely tell what form he was taking. After seconds he was shifting into so many beasts in just a few seconds... some mixing... some staying.
Beast Mode
The Beast suddenly bolted towards him. The only one in the room who caused so much anger. His speed was amazing! Even flash would have trouble keeping up with this speed. Monsieur Mallah ran as fast as he possibly could. Not that it mattered. He was experiencing sheer terror of this monster he had no comprehention of. The Beast barely lobbed a swipe at him, and the destructive force was instantly felt. In just one weak lob, almost the entire forest was gone! The only bit resembling what was once there was anything behind that swipe. Luckily Raven was behind it.
Before Monsieur Mallah was able to even comprehend the power of the strike, he was sent flying. He had barely escaped the attack by being mere inches away from the "destruction line" as he thought of it. He saw how much damage it did, and there was no way he could fight against this...
After running for cover, another attack came. stronger than the last! The whole mountain shook! rock falling all around. Monsieur Mallah knew only one solution to this. RUN! The Beast was already winding up for another hit, this one looked even worse than the last. When suddenly, it completely stopped... At this point, the target had gotten away.
Raven woke up and after gaining her focus back, she looked around... she couldn't believe the scene she was witnessing. Monsieur Mallah running for his life, the entire mountain feels like its about to crumble... and then... a clearly distraught beast boy.. her heart broke as she saw him in such a form... she didn't know what had happened while she was out. it couldn't be good.. she slowly floated towards him, being a bit cautious. she didn't know if he would even recognize her.. she was directly infront oh him. the most dangerous place anyone could possibly be after the last 2 minor attacks.
"Beast boy! It's me! Raven... If you're in there, please! come back!"
The Beast was winding up for a powerful attack... but suddenly... it stopped... something inside of it was twitching.
"He knows!" Raven said with hope in her voice. She moved closer towards him... he started backing away slowly at first... raven saw him growling slightly, she knew he was the most dangerous person in the world right now... but she knew this beast was a dear, dear friend... she could sense him. He was always so warm, and energetic. He was always in a happy mood, trying to make the best of every single day, and being as nice and endearing as he always does. and then ...she kissed the very tip of his nose.
"...kodak moment..." This small voice inside of the beast could be heard. After that he seemed like he was deflating. Becoming more and more recognizable as time past. Beast Boy came back.
"woah... what hap-" Beast boy couldn't even collect the situation before he was embraced by Raven. Tears pouring out of her eyes, she was so happy he was okay! Thats all she wanted in the whole world at that moment. After awhile raven describe his super speed, epic size, and brute strength.
"Wow... You mean i did all this?" Beast boy said in revulsion, not pride. He didn't know what to think... he just held raven close to him. he knew he could have easily... no, he doesn't want to think of that.
"Well... i guess we should get going, huh?" Beast boy said with a nervous smile. he knew this was something he had to deal with, but he still had the mission. "I'm fine, promise!" Raven wiped her tears away, and continued on their mission together. they opened the door.
Flash was a little creeped out at the door that was modeled after the face of a particularly creepy looking clown... Jynx wasn't interested in looking at it at all as it flew off its hinges and far far away... twing...
"Hey Jynx! You do understand we have to CAPTURE gizmo, heh, heh, right?" Flash was a little nervous. The closer they got to the mountain, the less responsive she was being.
"I know... I just really want this mission to be over" Jynx smiled as she kissed flash on the cheek. "I'm okay though, promise!"
There were a lot of cutesy unicorns all over... she was blushing as flash let out a small giggle.
"...never pictured you as a unicorn type of person. I thiiink i remember saying that once before" Jynx was bright red as she heard Flash teasing her. "oh! forget that you did that! gaw! i destroyed my whole room thanks to you! ...then again... i'm much happier with my new one..." Flash was as red as jynx was just awhile ago. then she started laughing "red is a good color on you!"
"OH MY GOD! WILL YOU FREAKS STOP BEING ALL LOVEY DOVEY WHEN YOU'RE FIGHTING ME!"
"oh... yeah... you" They both said in unenthused unison. Gizmo didn't like that very much.
"AAAHHH!" Gizmo threw everything he had at them; lazers, missles, bullets, he even shot a nerf gun. Every single one of these attack were stop by Jynx. She smirked as she walked up to him with a devilish grin. she was looking pretty damn scarey at that point. She grabbed him by the collar and held him up.
"Look how weak you are... look at how much you held me back... how does it feel to know you're just a pip-squeak?" Jynx was enjoying so much... she was getting rid of all this pent up rage... blew the entrance open like it was nothing. she threw him into the chamber in a small, but 'comfortable' cage and walked in with flash walking behind. He was kind of glad to be out of her way at this point... but he couldn't help but feel proud of her... together, they made a love together that could overcome so many obstacles.
They all entered at the same time... doors opening... one exploding... The Titans had made their way in and all assembled. Inside was Monsieur Mallah, General Immortus, and cyborg along with hundreds of guards.
"We have you outnumbered. If you were to fight now, it would mean certain doom" said Monsieur Mallah. he was feeling a little confident at the situation he had made up.
"Please... outnumbered? You're outclassed." Robin said with a smirk on his face "Titans! Go!"
Beast boy had already change into an elephant and ran through every guard he could to make it infront of General Immortus. Raven was holding on for dear life as she wrapped a force field around beast boy. Together they were thinning the numbers nicely and about to launch a huge
Jynx was merely swiping large walls of force around as she took out 5 at a time. while she was doing this, flash was running around as fast as he could punching out one after another.
Robin and Star-fire were taking a straight path to Cyborg. When ape dude attacked all out.
They had made it half way through the guards when they scattered away. They ran back towards him and after a few attacks a large boulder had landed between them. After looking up, ape dude and Genereal Immortus knew it wasn't too much longer before the whole place came down. After grabbing their leader, they had escaped from the room. After looking around for themselves, they knew they had no time, they had to make sure Cyborg was okay.
Robin and Star-Fire ran as fast as they could. But then he started to stand up and looked right at them... something was wrong though... something different. They realized their suspisions were just as they dodged a large energy blast.
"Cyborg! We are your dear friends! Why do you shoot at us! Wait! could it be you Madame Rouge?" Star-fire as she trying to resolve this peacefully. Robin watched Cyborgs moves, attacks, and could see it truely was him. He saw something... something wrong... There it is! A control module!
"Star-Fire! Hit the box on his back!" Robin was doing frontal attacks and star-fire distracting him ocassionally, and finally, with his back turned... the module was hit! Cyborg slowly came to and was very low on energy... all he could do was call in the helicoptor that he just barely fixed to come and take them away. This was a good idea, the whole place didn't look too stable. Cracks all along the interior, loose consoles shaken from the wall, rocks all around.
"Theres so many of them! Jynx! Flash! Plan 13!" Flash looked at Jynx with a bit of worry... But he knew they had been training for this. He also knew Robin always had the best idea's, thats why he was their leadr.
"Are you sure? this place looks like its about to fall apart!" Jynx didn't wasn't entirely sure... Buuuuut she had wanted to take the entire place down a little bit. 'Come on, Jynx, you can do this' she thought. As Jynx glowed a bright pink, flash spun around her, making a whirlwind of destruction going towards everything in the room... error signs flashing, sparks, fires, rocks falling. The entire place was coming down.
"Titans! Retreat!" Robin yelled out as he saw the destruction... everyone was running towards the exit, and gizmo was just sitting there, fighting in his cage... trying to escape... jynx saw this. 'just let him die.' jynx was surprised to think. she felt so wrong thinking that... 'we all make mistakes... it's not my right to judge him' Jynx ran over and grabbed him, just before a large boulder land on the cage.
"Come on gizmo! Run!" They all narrowly escaped, they were finally out in the day light. At the very top of the mountain, they stood on a clearing. They could see the mountain starting to implode. Then they saw it... An escape capsule... they were glad... even if they were baddies, they were able to survive. then they thought of their own survival. Suddenly, at the last second, the ship came and picked them up, barely escaping.
"...so... why did you save me?" gizmo said after they were seated and out of danger.
"...i didn't want to be like you. You just wouldn't understand what its been like for the last few months. I'm surrounded by people who love me, and i feel like i can take on the world with them."
"woo! Titan Pride!" Beast Boy wooted.
"So you're saying you improved THAT much because you were a goodie goodie?"
"Yeah, thats the funniest part about it! I never thought in a million years, it would be like this. But honestly, it feels right. I can live my full potential this way."
Flash wrapped his arm around jynx's waist, and gave her a kiss on the cheek. "I absolutely agree." The rest of the titans smiled, clapped, and congratualed jynx on finding her new life.
They had arrived at the level 5 prison, gizmo wasn't resisting in the least. He took his punishment with resolve. But before he left the teen titans flash took him to the side. "Gizmo, people make mistakes, that doesn't make them a bad person. I'll talk to the team for you. Just sit tight and think everything over."
"Yeah. Thanks, Flash. I'll do just that" Gizmo walked away from sight, past the guards, the gates, the doors, the locks, the bars, and everything else keeping him from the outside world, just what he needs to think about anything he wanted.
So yeah... What do you guys think? I already have a plan for the next chapter. Everyone get their sunblock! Vacation time!