Here's the actual story update. Just a word of warning, though. This chapter will probably be either really short, really bad, or both, because I'm pressed for time on this one. Got to get back to the summer reading project I'm supposed to do, since it's for a really long book. -.-
Okay, so just try to enjoy this as much as possible, and sorry if there are tons of mistakes or a boring plot, because as I said earlier...I'm busy.
Going to try page breaks out in this chapter. Don't judge the chapter title
Chapter 9- Snakes in the City
Beast Boy hummed the Teen Titans theme song. As always, he was incredibly cheerful, incredibly hyper, and incredibly oblivious to the severity of the situation. Raven's eye twitched, and she balled her hands into fists, struggling to withhold the urge to slam them into Beast Boy's green face. Robin flashed her a grin, silently granting his permission. Raven returned it, and whipped around, hammering her knuckles into Beast Boy's forehead. He paused, mid-song, to express his pain.
"They've got the bad guys on th- OW!"
Raven smirked beneath her hood, and leaned in, menacingly hissing, "What did we say about singing?"
Beast Boy scratched his hair, his forehead still throbbing. "Um...no Bieber Fever...cuz we're not Beliebers?"
Raven facepalmed, and shot up from the ground, her eyes flaming. "No singing when we're doing important things!"
"But then I can't sing."
"Exactly," crowed the rest of the team.
They headed down the street, with Starfire and Raven flying, Cyborg and Robin walking, and Beast Boy padding along as a cheetah, occasionally morphing back to human to groan in exhaustion. All of them held their weapon of choice at the ready. Slowly, Titans Tower receded into the distance.
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On the opposite side of Jump City, two villains slunk down the streets. One slithered, and the other crawled. Apparently, T'irance had developed a fondness for his ability to sprout spider legs. Behind them, a tide of snakes rolled out of the warehouse, completely coating the sidewalk.
"You know, T'irance, it's a beautiful day to watch our enemies die," Cobra hissed.
T'irance agreed halfheartedly, his mind wandering elsewhere.
"What's with you?" his companion hissed, edging closer to him.
Putting on an evil smirk to hide his discomfort, T'irance slyly replied, "Nothing, mistress. Only picturing the blood of my enemies staining the ground. And that Starfire...she will die this time."
Cobra narrowed her eyes. "This time? She is already dead! The venom made sure of that! Unless you know something I don't."
T'irance quickly thought of a lie. "I...received a vision that she somehow survived. Perhaps it is the aftereffects of my spending so much time with her so long ago."
When Cobra still appeared suspicious, he continued, "It has happened before. They are vague visions, but from them, I can see enough."
Cobra sighed resignedly. "We can discuss that later. I suppose we have a bigger problem."
Four figures emerged from the distance. The snake-woman checked them off in her head. Robin? Check. Raven? Check. Beast Boy? Check. Cyborg? Check. Starfire? Missing. With a grin, she turned to T'irance.
"As you can see, my little doubter, the venom has already taken effect. She is surely d-"
Cobra hissed, her eyes widening, as she slithered away from her previous location, just in time to evade a powerful green laser. Apparently T'irance was some sort of prophet when it came to the alien princess. Starbolts rained down on the wave of snakes, so Cobra immediately directed the left flank of snakes to sprout wings and begin their aerial attack on the girl. Raven caught a glimpse of the snakes shooting into the air, and flew to her friend's defense. Starfire, too focused on blasting the snakes on the ground, had failed to notice the mutant cobras rising into the air next to her. It also came as a shock when a black energy shield folded itself around them, just in time to block the wave of cobras ready to attack them.
"Starfire! We need to press the snakes back to somewhere farther away from here! If their little friends on the ground see us swatting them down, they might come up here as reinforcements. Let's go!"
Raven forced the black shield against the snakes, sending the first few rows of cobras tumbling into the rest. Sweat beaded her porcelain forehead, so Starfire came to assist.
"Fear not, friend Raven! We will do the handle of this!"
Once the snakes were a few streets back, Raven turned to Starfire.
"Spread them out! Make sure they can't attack us as a group, or we're dead."
Starfire nodded her affirmation, and she blasted starbolts into the approaching cloud of flying cobras. Hissing, the cloud split apart into hundreds of small, poisonous mutant reptiles. Grinning, Starfire flew past individual cobras, blasting them all with her powerful eye lasers. Meanwhile, Raven conjured a ball of crackling black energy, and encasing the snakes in it, she manipulated it to pass through the rest of the snakes, also enveloping them inside. Starfire turned to see the massive, floating hamster ball of snakes, and she blasted it with her eyes.
When the dark energy combined with Starfire's bright green, the snakes in the ball were completely fried. Almost smugly, the two girls returned to the site of the main battle.
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"HURGGHHHH!"
Cyborg uttered a battle cry as he flung himself into the cobras. As they bit pointlessly at his metal body parts, Cyborg looked at the snakes almost pitifully. Almost sighing, he blasted them all with his sonic cannon, and they crumbled into ashes. Looking around, it appeared that they had all been taken care of.
Nearby, Robin and Beast Boy defeated the last cobras surrounding them.
SImultaneously, the three male Titans scratched imaginary beards, and Robin muttered, "I could've sworn there were more."
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Cobra, T'irance, and their wave of snakes quickly reached Titans Tower. The army of cobras encased the building in a writhing mass, crumpling it with the sheer weight of their numbers. Windows shattered, and the metal frame twisted helplessly under the attack. T'irance peered back at the street where Cyborg, Robin, and Beast Boy stood.
3...2...1…
The figures of Cobra and T'irance retracted back into small pods, flickering as they vanished. The pods beeped, and a flash of light followed. T'irance winced. He could feel the heat of the explosion even from here.
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Robin's gaze flicked up from the smoking cobra corpses littering the road. "It's over, Cobra."
But there was something strange about the two villains in front of him. He slowly inched forward, and just as he was about to touch Cobra's arm, the figures flickered and vanished in a flash of blue light. Robin's eyes widened.
He, Cyborg, and Beast Boy, shouted, "Holograms!"
Beast Boy heard a faint beeping, then narrowed his eyes at the ground where the holograms at vanished. Sure enough, there were two identical black pods. Timers.
He realized too late, that it could only mean one thing. The pods did not just produce holograms. They were bombs.
A violent explosion rocked the ground, and in a flash of light, Beast Boy collapsed to the ground. The last thing he felt before blacking out was the searing heat surrounding him.
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Raven and Starfire were aghast at the sight meeting their eyes. They returned just in time to witness a massive fireball explode from the road their teammates stood on, and when the smoke cleared, all they could see was a scorched depression in the road. Flames licked at the sky from within the depression. And somewhere inside that inferno were…
"Robin, Cyborg, and Beast Boy," whispered Raven.
Instantly, the two girls snapped out of their shock. Starfire, who was incredibly resistant to high temperatures, dove right into the fire. Raven chanted her mantra, and her soul self flew into the fire. The massive black raven caught sight of Robin. Cawing, it enveloped him, and the bird darted out of the flames. An unconscious Robin dropped to the ground next to Beast Boy and Cyborg. Raven rubbed Robin's chest, concern evident in her eyes. Apparently, all three were knocked out. Starfire was horrified.
"Are they...dead?"
Luckily, Raven had been correct in assuming they were knocked out, because when she checked their heartbeats, all three of her friends were still alive.
Exhaling in relief, the mistress of magic healed her friends' burns, also reviving them. Robin shot straight up.
"Where's Cobra?!"
Raven and Starfire turned to each other. With a sickening feeling, they realized what was wrong. If Cobra and T'irance had not truly been with their teammates, then they must have been somewhere else during the explosion. And during a battle with the Teen Titans, villains always targeted the same place.
The five teenage superheroes gasped at the same time. "Titans Tower!"
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The building began to fold downwards. From the top of the T, entire bedrooms came crashing down. At the base of the formerly majestic structure, broken desks, chairs, and beds coated the ground. Cobra laughed evilly as she tossed the prized TV out of the ruined tower…
Only for it to be caught.
A black aura surrounded the falling spellbooks, which had been the courtesy of T'irance. Raven's eyes glowed white-hot as she formed a neat pile of her most prized possession.
She pointed at Cyborg, and said, "It was such a bad idea to throw that TV out. You know that's Cyborg's second baby after his T-car, right?"
Robin smirked. "And right after we defeat you, we're going to need about three million dollars for all this property damage. Hope you've got cash."
The Teen Titans were done bantering. From the murderous looks in their eyes, it was clearly time to get to the butt-kicking.
Robin yelled, "Teen Titans, go!"
So there you go! Chapter 9, and I hope you liked it. Don't forget to review and tell me what you think. I'm thinking there will be either 1,2, or 3 chapters left. (I know. SOOOO specific)
I'll try to update as fast as I can, but that's really not saying anything…
Anyways, I have to go finish my project now, so byeeeeee