Part two everyone! Next update shall be the last for this chapter oohhh so exciting! I hope that my readers enjoy this; man it's so difficult to rewrite the episode and make everything corrispond to my characters and the original script. Anywho, now we're on to the seperated fights, which took forever to write. My eyes hurt from staring at the screen for so long. And, as always, I would love to thank Harleen Quinzell, Heathen Requiem, and Bert the Nomad for being my favourite reviewers and friends!
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Terrance rubbed his arm, the ice pack causing his arm to sting. He removed his shirt and dabbed softly at the bruises, his hair messily falling past his nose and blocking his vision even more. He brushed it away in an annoyed manner as the fight came to his head for the third time since had arrived back at the lair.
Slade had said nothing, but merely kept his back to him and stared at the recordings as Terrance silently made his way to his room and locked the door, his limp minor now after the exercise of walking.
He had walked into his room, still angry at letting Beast Babe go just like that and he knew that Slade was not pleased at all about the lack of deaths. As soon as he sat down he noticed the ice pack and first aid kit on his desk. He also noticed that Slade had smashed his mirror out of anger. So he just sat down and began fixing himself up, seeing as that's what Slade wanted him to do.
Dabbing at the cuts, he remembered everything he had said, done, seen, and felt. He had said the nicest things he could while he was thinking the meanest, and it had nearly killed him. He had done most horrible things to his friends, but they weren't friends anymore, now that they had attacked him like that. He had seen his friends charge at them, attack him, forget everything that they had, but he didn't care, for he had done the same. He had felt the anger, and fury, the pleasure as his fist made contact with Beast Babe's pretty face, and he smiled greedily of how he would have another chance to do so again before he finished her off.
But he also thought about how he had let that pretty face just walk away, even though she was right there. He thought about how he could've gotten her from behind with a nice little goodbye spike instead of letting her just turn and run. In anger, he pounded the shattered glass, and to his surprise, his gloves didn't tear.
Shrugging the minor pain off he wrapped the ice bag around his hand just as Slade knocked on his door, and he placed the bag on his bed, ignoring the water droplets as they wetted his sheets. He stood up straight and kept his eyes on the wall; he knew that if he made eye contact he would see nothing but anger and disappointment in his master's eye.
'Enter,' Terrance said, signaling that Slade wouldn't catch him in an awkward situation or anything like it. Slade opened the door and stepped in, his fists clenched. Well that's a good sign, Terrance thought to himself, and Slade narrowed his eye, like he had heard the mind comment.
'Apprentice, why did you fail today?' Slade asked Terrance like he was a maturing child, and he sighed.
'I failed because I didn't fight hard enough then let Beast Babe get away,' he answered in a monotone, and Slade nodded.
'Exactly. Now what can we do to fix this for the next and final battle?' Terrance closed his eyes for a moment as he thought.
'I won't hold back and destroy them the best I can,' he replied, and, before he could help it: 'But I don't know why I let her get away! I could've gotten her, I know I could've, but instead I thought that it just wasn't the time!' He expected to be hit for talking this way, but instead Slade spoke.
'But you still let her just walk away,' Slade said calmly, and Terrance felt his patience start to slip away.
'Yes I know that but –' he began, and this time he felt a strong fist make contact with his face.
'You let her just walk away, just like you did when we had her cornered in the House of Mirrors. You let me deal with her, instead of helping your master, and because of that she was able to go back to her tower and tell all the others everything. It's all because of your little affections for her that you allow her to leave everytime, and this needs to change. And if you won't change for me, then maybe you'll change for yourself.'
Terrance began to shake a little as Slade approached him, his fists still clenched, his voice sounding frighteningly calm. He gulped as Slade walked around behind him, and when Slade didn't say anything else, he braced for the worst and ended up with a fist to his back. Terrance flew forward and crashed into his dresser mirror, shards flying all around him, his head turned at just the right angle to avoid the pieces arriving at his face. Groaning, he fell to the ground, his outfit ripped already, and Slade picked him up, holding him about a foot away from his mask.
'Apprentice, you are going to train every waking minute with me until I think you're ready to fight those girls again-'
'There's two guys with them,' Terrance said as his head lolled to the side, and Slade pushed him back into the mirror.
'Don't talk back to me,' Slade growled, and continued. 'As I said, after you change meet me in the training room, and I'll try and get you ready.' Terrance panicked and quickly thought up an excuse, not wanting to train with Slade after he failed so greatly; it would just be Slade's excuse to beat the shit out of him until he had an idea for what to do with the Titans North.
'Master, please, I don't need training. I just made one mistake; they were all together; maybe if I attacked them if they were all separated then maybe I'd be able to take them down easily. Please, reconsider,' he pleaded, and Slade let him fall to his feet.
'What an excellent idea. In fact, I've used this on Terra to help her destroy the Titans,' Slade told him, and Terrance sighed heavily, his heart going back into his chest and out of his throat. 'Apprentice, while I retrieve some old friends, I want you to train with some of my commando robots to prepare you. The final battle always has to be worth watching doesn't it?' Terrance nodded as he stood back up, and Slade left.
It was then he showed the pain. He fell to his knees, hugging his stinging arms, the pains on his chest hurting even more as his arms touched the ripped flesh. He closed his eyes tightly, trying to block out these unpleasant feelings, and thought about his choice, just like he had even since he showed up on Slade's 'doorstep', freezing and soaked from the rain, blood staining his clothes from his final mistake.
He had been desperate for control, for someone who understood him, and so far Slade had been the only one, but it was his promises that had kept him bound to his master. His promise of finding Terra, of control, of understanding, and then there was the 'bonus' he received after he did something right. Terrance never really enjoyed this; he found it rather against what he had always thought, but in some way he always ended up giving in and enjoying himself as best he could, even though he wished for someone else. He shuddered as he thought about the reward he would receive when he finished off the Titans North, but pushed the thoughts out of his mind and changed into something he could practice with. He didn't have much time, and for all he knew, Slade's friends could've arrived by the time he stepped into the hall.
It was quiet now, except for the occasional clinking of shards in a small bowl. Crow leaned against a wall with Dean, their eyes closed, their arms crossed. Moonfire nestled in Craig's arms as he glared at the wall, and she sighed again, her heart crushed. Beast Babe paced back and forth, her mind racing. Sparky sat down on one chair, then another, then at the table, then flew, then sat back down, too nerve-wrecked to properly think anywhere like she normally could. Gypsie sat alone on a bench, plucking small rock shards from her precious glass eye necklace, tossing them angrily into the bowl that rested on the table in front of her. Everyone's mind was racing, but Gypsie was the first to speak.
'I should've taken his head off when I had the chance,' she growled, and Crow continued.
'I should've destroyed him with every bit of power I've got,' she snarled, and Dean spoke next.
'I shouldn't have gone so easy on the bastard,' he swore, and Moonfire raised her quivering voice.
'I let him attack me. I let him fool me so easily again,' she moaned, and Craig held her close as she cried a little.
'I never should have let him hurt my friends like that. I should've killed him before he got a chance to attack,' Craig said to his friends, and Sparky stopped moving around and faced her team.
'But why would he attack? I thought he was our friend? But now that he's not, why couldn't we kill him? Why did we just let him attack us like that? Why couldn't we lay even a finger on him, like we can on any other villain?' Sparky asked, and Beast Babe stopped pacing.
'Because Sparky, he's not just some other villain that we can just fight. He's Terrance. He was a Titans North. He was… our friend.' She had planned on saying, 'My friend,' but stuck to saying our, even though he meant more to her than anything in the world. She bit her lip and felt her body tense as Crow relied with rather cruel words.
'That sonofabitch was never our friend, let alone yours. He was a spy for Slade, who trained him and allowed him to take over his life so that he could kill us. He's evil, and nothing can change it, but like we care, cause the bastard always has been and always will be.' Craig and Dean flinched like she had been attacking them with her words instead of Terrance, and Beast Babe stomped over, her eyes brimming with tears.
'You have no fucking idea what the hell you're talking about okay bitch!' she screamed, and Crow narrowed her eyes angrily. 'I know that he's made mistakes okay? I was there when he betrayed us! He may have attacked us but he's not –'
'Beast Babe just shut up. He totaled my car. To me, that's pretty evil,' Gypsie interrupted seriously, and Beast Babe grabbed the table in front of her and flung it across the room with an angry yell where it crashed again a wall and smashed into pieces.
'Gypsie this isn't a fucking joke! I knew Terrance better than any of you, better than anyone! I know his mistakes, I know every horrible things he's ever done; he trusted me with that. I know how messed up he is, how his life is, but he's definitely not evil. Trust him for that. We can't just end this and give up.' Beast Babe turned her head to the side as she cried softly. Gypsie felt guilty for putting her car in front of a person. Moonfire, Craig and Dean were thinking over how badly they wanted to kill him for his betrayal when it was Beast Babe he had betrayed all this time. Crow let he guard down for a moment before regaining her hatred and frowned at the sad green girl. But Sparky wasn't moved.
'Beast Babe, how can you say such things? He is working for Slade,' she said slowly and cruelly, and Beast Babe turned to her, not caring about the tears.
'Sure Sparky, and when your precious Robin was working for Slade they just gave up on him too,' Beast Babe spat, but Sparky didn't even flinch. She had known about Robin working for Slade since the day she knew about Robin, but the news always got to her.
'He's not my precious Robin,' was her answer, and Beast Babe began to give up on her team when suddenly Sparky continued. 'But he'll get one last chance to prove himself. Only one. Titans North, we have to try and break the grip Slade has on him. We have to try and get Terrance back before its too late,' she told them, and the alarm went off. Red lights lit up the rooms as Moonfire stood up from Craig's lap and got her starbolts ready.
'It is Terrance. It is trouble,' she said solemnly, and they headed for whatever mode of transportation they had left.
Terrance floated around the city and looked down on it while it was still good. He didn't mind that it was cold, or that he was up in the air about a hundred feet. What bothered him was the fact that Slade's 'old friends', weren't friends at all; they were monsters. Well, that's what he called them. One was a giant person made of rock, called Cinderblock, who had round red eyes and couldn't talk properly, which he found rather annoying. Another was a large body made of electricity, whose mind was a red and black computer chip with a face, or so it looked like. He also couldn't talk properly, but it wasn't enough to hide the creepiness of Overload. The last one was a disgusting person hidden beneath about 200 pounds of purplish goo with several green eyes, and the ability to make a guy hurl. He was Plasmus. They all obeyed Slade, especially with the help of the neural remotes that he was told to put on each of their 'chests', if that's what you could call them. Terrance was not out here watching the city because his job for the moment had been completed; take the villains to their fighting locations. Overload was supposed to go to the electricity place, while Plasmus went to the chemical plant, and Cinderblock to the quarry. Everyone was waiting patiently as Terrance shivered and looked back down to the streets. Nothing yet. He groaned and sat down on his rock platform, breaking off a piece of rock and tossing it up and down with his right hand as he stared out to the waters. They shimmered beautifully in the light and he smirked.
'They won't be shimmering when I fill the bay with dirt and rocks,' he muttered to himself, and Slade came in on his earpeice.
'Apprentice, the Titans North are approaching their destinations. Sparky, Moonfire and Craig are heading for the quarry; Gypsie, Beast Babe and Dean are arriving at the chemical plant and Crow has decided to go alone to defeat Overload. This should be a simple task for you, now that they are all split up,' Slade said as Terrance took in his information, then nodded.
'Just what I was thinking,' he replied as he headed for Crow; she would be the first to take down, and how he was anticipating their meeting.
Crow arrived at the electricity place and immediately heard the worried screams of the workers inside. She was then thankful for the villain info sheets Robin sent them. Taking in a deep breath, she pulled on her hood and turned into her soul self: a white crow, which is quite impossible when you think about it. She morphed into the room to find Overload inside, and seen that his picture was nothing compared to the real thing. She instantly considered calling over Dean. But instead, she thought up a cheesy punchline to keep from losing her cool.
'So, Overload is it? Well, ever know what happens when the lights go out?' she asked, and readied her powers. Overload growled and shot his arm at her, which she blocked with a big bright circular shield. She pushed the shield forwards far enough until it hit the villain in the face and he fell back. Not giving him a chance, she shot a few bolts of energy at him, but he recalled himself and twisted and turned, avoiding every attack until he changed into pure energy and sank into the ground. Crow looked around nervously and didn't notice the villain rematerialize behind her. He took one shot and sent her flying, her voice echoing off the empty room. Angrily, she maneuvered upright and readied her powers at such a degree that it almost hurt her own hands. With a sinister cry, she yelled out her incantation and placed up the biggest shield of her life, blocking everything out of view as Overload shot at her.
Gypsie, Beast Babe and Dean reached the chemical plant with caution, not knowing what awaited them. Dean went in first, then signaled for the girls to join. Dean pulled out a pocket flashlight and lit up the room as they walked around, searching for Plasmus. Both girls jumped as Dean's voice reached their ears.
'Okay, now remember everything Robin told us about this guy in the info sheets. First off, it likes to chow down on goop, so keep an eye out around the tubes of chemicals. Next, it spits acid, so when it attacks makes sure to keep your reflexes handy.' Dean stressed out the last word as he tripped over a cord and toppled over, with Gypsie and Beast Babe there to catch him before he reached the ground. He straightened himself as Beast Babe heard a noise, and they moved on, Beast Babe lingering as she studied a particular tube of chemicals. Getting a little creeped out she ran to catch up with the other two when they heard a sound; a kind of submerged screech, when suddenly the lid of the tube popped off and they all turned to find Plasmus erupt from the tube, screaming hideously. Beast Babe screamed and clung to Gypsie as she and Dean warmed up their powers, but she soon found herself running as Plasmus leaned back then lurched forward, spitting out a mouthful of burning acid right at Gypsie. She watched as her friends dipped and ducked and dodged the disgusting liquid until they reached Beast Babe's hiding place, and Gypsie shakily spoke.
'Holy shit that thing almost hit me,' she murmured, and Beast Babe felt her serious emotions take over her cowardly ones.
'Forget that let's just kill this bitch and move on to Terrance,' she snarled, and Dean was proud of her determination. She morphed out her wings and flew, Gypsie and Dean following after her, and they all shot at him until a large hole was formed right in the middle of his chest. Gypsie and Dean, being too close to split up, both shot through the hole and landed behind him, and they expected Beast Babe to join them when Plasmus turned around, reveling the poor girl trapped inside one of his center eyes. Beast Babe held her breath and pushed worriedly at the outer surface at a mad attempt to get free, but when she couldn't she closed her eyes and began to morph. Dean covered Gypsie's head as Beast Babe broke free as a tyrannosaurus rex and jumped down into her friend's arms. Gypsie looked into her arms and seen Beast Babe rub her head. All three of them looked up as Plasmus let out a screaming roar and attacked.
Sparky, Moonfire and Craig rushed to the quarry as fast as they could, hoping that no one had gotten hurt, only to find Cinderblock just trashing things. Sparky tensed up, and, without thinking, threw an electric disk at the back of the villain's head, only to have him turns, spot the three, and angrily cry out in his deep voice. The three spilt up as Cinderblock lifted up a large dump truck and chucked it as hard as he could at Sparky, who just missed the truck by flying fiercely into the air and zooming in towards him with a kick to the head. Sparky touched down to the top of a truck they watched Cinderblock shake his head like a dog would to wear off the effect, and he began to charge at her when she jumped back into the air to reveal Moonfire flying at him, starbolts ready. Craig patted his girlfriend on the back as Cinderblock skidded about 20 feet back before crashing into a parked crane. They all got ready as the crane's load, a pile of girders, swung dangerously back and forth until the contents spilled all over him. Angrily, he stood up, flinging the girders every which way, and plucked the crane arm from its position and swung it angrily in the two lovers' direction. Craig raised his arms and melted away a piece of the arm just as it came close to hitting their heads, and while they were preoccupied with breathing normally he swatted Craig away and into a pile of rocks and grabbed Moonfire, holding her up to his annoyed face. Moonfire took one look at the injured Craig and felt her anger reach its maximum. Her eyes glowing their brightest, she struggled for a moment before bringing her right leg back and swinging it forward, aiming a kick at his face, the force breaking her free of his grasp. But obviously the attack must've been used on him before for he blocked her foot with his hands. Sparky then pounced and threw a disc right in Cinderblock's face, the explosion leaving his eyes seeing only bright spots. He was so out of it that he didn't notice Sparky as she kicked his face again, then time knocking him completely over. She floated over to a truck and crouched down in a ready position as Craig and Moonfire lowered behind her.
'Sparky, why is he continuing to do the fighting?' Moonfire asked, and Craig answered, the pain in his arm fading slightly.
'I dunno. He's just really persistent for some reason.'
'But why, that's what I want to know. Look around; there's nothing to capture or to steal. There's absolutely nothing! Why in the hell would Slade send him here anyways?' she asked, and Cinderblock steadied himself. With an angry scream, he charged and punched the truck just as they scattered.
Crow was having better luck now. She just didn't know how to finish this guy off. Overload cornered her, and she looked around for some inspiration when she remembered Robin's note: 'Defeat him with water!' Quickly she reached for the wall and found every water pipe in the room with her powers. In a moment all the pipes had burst from the wall and had pointed at the large villain, who cowered before its foe. The pipes shot water at him, shrinking him down until there was only the chip left. Crow left the pipes to hang and spew water as she stepped cautiously up to the chip, and found it fitting to interrogate it.
'Alright, what is the reason you're here?' She didn't notice the brown sludge that began to emerge from the pipes. 'Why did Slade –' she began, when a large amount shot in her direction, pushing her against the wall. She rubbed the mud out of her eyes using her powers to see an all to familiar figure walking calmly towards her, the mud flying away from his shoes so that he wouldn't get dirty.
'God you're just so stupid,' Terrance snickered as he stopped, and Crow felt the anger coming back. 'Decoy. Ever hear of it? Slade and I, we had to distract you guys, get you cowards out of the safety of your little home, out of your hiding place.' Crow leaned forward menacingly as she warmed up her powers.
'Terrance,' she snarled.
'Crow,' he said calmly, like he was addressing her a hello.
'You're a lying bastard traitor,' she spat, and Terrance's eyes began to glow.
'Well you're a witch bitch,' he shot back, and Crow sprang up into the air, Terrance following suit on a muddy wave. He jumped free of the muck and flew at Crow, who flew back a little. He swung twice at her head, first with the right fist then the left, only to have her grab his shoulders and send a ferocious kick to his face. Terrance fell back, landing on his back in the mud, his body sinking into it. With a shuddering gasp for air Terrance surfaced, his entire body now also covered in mud, his eyes glowing their bright yellow colour.
Now rather pissed off, Terrance raised a column of mud to give a him a start, and as soon as he was close enough he let out a yell and tackles Crow, forcing her down where he kept both of them under. The mud settled uneasily for a moment before Terrance stood up and pulled Crow's head up by the hair with a laugh. He got his fist ready to punch her when she swung her arm and caused his knees to collapse. Falling back a few feet, Terrance sat up as best he could before Crow jumped over to him, her hands tight on his arms as she forced him under in an attempt to drown him. Crow waited for a moment as she seen the air bubbles die down, only to have a particular one grow and grow until it carried her off the ground. She cried out in shock as the extremely large bubble burst, sending her flying backwards. She felt the mud touch her back and she lifted into the air before she hit it too much and looked back to the place where she had held down Terrance. He was alive, and extremely pissed off to boot.
On his feet in a position that only the best could do, he thrust his right hand forward, a large circle of mud clearing around him. From the tips of the edged mud, rocks were soon formed then shot right in Crow's direction. She hurriedly pulled off a slab of wall and held it in front of her, blocking off the bombardment. With the wall piece of no further use to the wall, Crow shot it at Terrance, who raised his arm, baking a wave of mud to protect himself. The piece crashed into the wave and shattered it, several rocks coming down on him. He raised his hands and clenched his fists in the direction of the rocks, forming them into a large right fist. He punched the air, the fist mimicking him, and Crow let fly a sharp row of her powers, slicing the hand down the middle.
With that out of the way she focused her energy on the large overhead equipment that Overload had materialized from, and began to pull it from its socket. Terrance saw what was coming and baked a rock for him to get away on. He just barely made it is Crow threw the 1000-pound piece of machinery at him, the explosion as the machine hit the ground sending him soaring forward and back into the mud. Crow watched the area with wide eyes, hoping that the explosion had done the trick, for Terrance was no longer in sight. She looked from each corner, to each wall, to the smoking machine, to every inch of the calm surface of mud to see that Terrance must've drown. But behind her the mud thought otherwise as it creeped up the wall and formed a giant hammer. Crow heard the slight noise just as the hammer came crashing down on her head, and she fell into the mud, her skull screaming with pain. Terrance smiled as he surfaced, standing on the rock he had formed, and waited patiently for his opponent to rise. Crow lifted herself to her hands and knees, several thoughts racing through her head, and Terrance smiled at her emotions. Her angry emotions. Everything was going according to plan; he just needed one more sentence to set her off.
'You know, I never really told this to you, but I never thought that it would be possible to hate a girl as I much as I hate you.' Crow rose to her feet, her back hunched forward in a menacing way, her eyes narrowed as she chose her words carefully.
'Well I knew I was damned the day you came into my life. Knowing you was a curse. Your fake charms and sweet talk may have convinced the others, but I never bought your shit for a second,' she hissed, and Terrance paused in wiping the dirt from his right arm.
'Oh come off it. I never bought your shit for a second either. If you knew what I was up to, then why did you never stop me?' Terrance's hand began to glow as the mud on his began to lift from his arm and form a little ball of mud as he cleaned off. He stole a quick glance at Crow and saw with satisfaction that she was becoming very angry indeed. 'Why did you let me live in your own house, and steal all of your little secrets and –'
'SHUT UP!' she shouted, and sent a wave of mud covered in jagged rocks at him. Terrance barely looked over and raised his hand towards the wave, his powers causing it to flow right past him as the last bit of mud lifted from his other arm. Crow's eyes grew as she seen her attack fail, then quickly put up a shield as Terrance sent three ropes made of muck at her. The ropes slithered around the shield and knocked Crow back into the mud, but he didn't need to use them to hold her there; her anger was doing it for him.
'Terrance you're doing well. Remember her weakness. Exploit it until she breaks,' came Slade voice from his earpeice, and Terrance dropped his arm to his side, the ball of mud orbiting his head like a moon around a planet. The rock he was floating on moved forward and closer to where Crow was shaking, and he snickered.
'Oh Crow, am I making you mad? Do you need a time-out? You don't want to get mad do you? You can't afford to get mad, can you? Yes, Beast Babe told me all about your spaz moments, your temper tantrums,' he taunted, and to her surprise he formed the mud ball, which had stopped beside him, into a fair likeness of her head, the face changed into a ferocious snarl. He laughed as he seen that her eyes could not get narrowed any more than they already were.
'I don't need to listen to your ramblings Bastard. The emotion you call anger, I know it has no use for me. It's completely pointless. At least my emotions are under control so I don't lose control.' Terrance ignored the remark as he began to mock her very words right in front of her face.
'Oh blah blah blah Crow. Anger is completely pointless to me,' he said in a childish voice, his hand in the form of a mouth, yakking away at what he was saying, the mud head doing the same, only the features twisted and turned gruesomely until it melted away into nothing. 'And all this time you've been saying that I'm the one who told everyone bullshit.' Crow ran forward angrily, ready to take his head off as she pounced when a large arm made of mud grabbed her by the ankle and she fell face-first back down. 'It's okay Crow you can tell me how badly it stings. But really, what gets to you all this time about what I did? Was it that you fell for my tricks so easily? That I did hurt your team afterall? Was it that everyone prefered the friendly new guy instead of the bitchy witch?' with each sentence he stepped down from his perch and onto little levitated rocks that broke off from the original until his feet touched the newly formed rock leading towards the fallen hero. He leaned down so that they were almost face to face, and used his powers to create a mud shell that was slowly creeping towards her bowed head.
'Knock it off you bastard,' she said, her words beginning to lose the attack, but gain the anger.
'Or, let's consider this for a moment: was it that, even under that hard outer shell of yours did you really believe that even I would be your friend?' Terrance expected this to finally break her but got the opposite: an extremely angry face looking up at his with four glowing red eyes. Terrance gasped and got up as Crow broke free of her bond, shattering the rock into several large and jagged piece with a evil yell. Her hair flew out of her ponytail – the bun had not lasted since the beginning of their fight - and floated freely around her head, making her seem even more frightening than she already was. Her body had grown to an amazing length, her cloak hiding her body in istelf, and with a piercing yell that sent him back, she gained control over as many things as possible from the room and began throwing them at him.
'You fucker! I actually trusted you! The whole team trusted you! Even your friends! We treated you like our friend, gave you everything you ever wanted and in return you treat your friends like the very dirt you control!' Terrance broke a piece of rock free from the whole and flew back, dogding the rocks, leaning back as a pipe came soaring at his head, jumped out of a rope of the wire that used to guard the side of the walk over head, and even a large computer. He backed away until his back hit the wall, and raised up two large mud arms just in time to stop Crow before she destryoed him. the hands grabbed Crow's neck and began to sqeeze, forcing her back down as several more joined in. Crow was strong, but the arms were stronger, and Terrance stopped for a moment as her words raced through his head. He seen her get pulled farther and farther into the muddy surface and had his doubts for a second, but Slade's voice brought him back to life.
'Finish the girl,' he said, and Terrance regained his uncaring sneer. He lowered his rock until it was on top of the mud and watched Crow as her shoulders went under.
'I'm the one in control now,' he snarled, and Crow let out one gasping breath before her eyes turned back to normal and her head sank under the surface.
Craig whipped off his hat and threw a large ball of fire at Cinderblock and knocked him back. The villain rose unsteadily to his feet as Moonfire and Sparky flew forward at an incredible speed, their powers trailing behind them. With a shout from both of them they delivered a strong power-covered punch to his face, knocking him off the side of the quarry and into the center where he lay without moving. Craig flew down to join the girls as Moonfire rubbed her knuckles.
'At last we have claimed the victory against the Cinderblock,' Moonfire said wearily, and Sparky thrust her fist into the palm of her hand.
'Now we can gather the others and focus on saving Terrance,' she announced, and Moonfire noticed the large boulder that was zooming towards them from high in the sky. She pushed Sparky out of the way and was about to do the same with Craig when he also noticed and prepared to block the attack but it was too much. Sparky looked up from where she had landed to see Moonfire and Craig get smashed by the boulder. Her eyes wide, her throat just barely choking out a gasp, she reached down for her friends as they fell over the edge of the quarry – which was placed on a high cliff overlooking the bay – and into the rocky waters below.
'MOONFIRE! CRAIG!' she shouted, and was about to fly after them when she heard a vicious laugh from behind her. She turned to see Terrance levitate Cinderblock and fly away on him as the couple hit the water and sank far below her reach. Her eyes stinging with tears, Sparky felt fury beyond her limits as she looked after the guy who had just killed her best friend and her boyfriend. It was time to end it.
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Another cliffhanger I'm so evil! Sparky and Terrance's fight should be exciting, shouldn't it? I sure hope so. I'm doing all this for you guys out there. And beware, the nastiness that I mentioned before is also next, so read at your own risk. Seriously. My sis always reads this after I write something new, and as soon as she read the part she screamed. And I laughed at her 'cause she scares so easily. But her friend screamed also so I guess that must mean something... reviews are gladly welcomed! And until next time my friend!
Tiff