Author's Note: Hey guys *waves* what's up? Well, we officially have only two (well three kinda) more episodes to go and we will be done season seven! Woah! So yeah…I'm expecting to finish season seven either this Friday (which is tomorrow) or Saturday…or Sunday so I guess we'll see how it goes. Now, let us continue!
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Summary: After rescuing both of the teams, the teams must now figure out what the real plan of Master of Disguise is. But during the battle and the saving, the Master of Disguise escaped and has now fled. The team must find the villain before it's too late.
Chapter 11: Master of Disguises Part 2
Huntress and Beast Boy gasped at the prisoners that were just revealed to them.
"No way…" Beast Boy breathed.
Huntress widened her eyes even more when she found out the state of the group. Angered, she shouted.
"What did you do to him!?" she shouted. "He's just a boy!"
If the man doesn't have the mask, she would've seen a cold expressionless face.
"Just a boy? I think you and I both know that he isn't just a boy. It is true, however. Right now you see him as a normal twelve-looking boy to a human eye. But in reality, he has another secret identity otherwise known as Iron Steel." the man spoke.
"You still had no right to treat him like that!" the girl growled.
Sensing that some trouble was going to come, Beast Boy whispered. "Cool it."
Huntress gave a deathly stare at the evil man, her breathing became heavy and her blood was starting to boil with anger. Eventually, though, she took Beast Boy's advice and calmed down.
As Beast Boy was staring into the cell of his friends, he couldn't help but to stare at the shadow that was casting down at something. It looked like it was covering…but what?
"What's in the shadow part?" Beast Boy asked, motioning his head to the uncovered part. "You revealed everything but that."
The man sighed. "For a Titan, you sure do ask a lot of questions."
The green one narrowed his eyes.
"But if you insist. I think you might find this one very interesting."
Just like that, the shadow vanished and as the shadow was being uncovered, Beast Boy's eyes widened even more.
"No…" he gasped with shock.
It can't be…
Quick flashes of images of the explosions and the smoke were implanted into his mind.
"Starfire?" he whispered.
Indeed it was.
Except she didn't looked like how she used to be. She was torn and battered and there were some scratches here and there—probably from the flying pieces of the airplane which she destroyed.
"Starfire!" he shouted.
He started to get up but he found it difficult.
"Hey genius, we're tied up. Remember?" Huntress reminded him.
"But how…?" he trailed off, unable to speak.
"It seems as though when she attacked our airplanes, she just managed to escape the blow in time. However, us being clever, one of our men captured her and towed her away, hence faking her death. Unfortunately, in that process though, we did lose a few of our men."
Beast Boy closed his eyes. He still couldn't believe that she was actually here…alive…tied up but alive nonetheless.
But there was one thing which the green boy was still curious about.
What was his real plan?
"There's something you're not telling us." he replied. "What's your real plan?"
As soon as he asked that, it felt as though time had stopped. The air suddenly became intense and the silence was deadly.
The man sighed. "Well, since you are about to die, I suppose telling the plan wouldn't hurt…You see, young green one, my plan is to create a massive nuclear bomb…massive enough that would destroy the whole planet."
The two gasped.
"And how are you supposed to do that?" Huntress growled.
"Since I didn't want anyone—but my men—to know, we agreed to use upon a word…like a secret code that goes by the name of spáthi. In order to move on with the plan, we set out to Sahara Desert since we had a lair but who would've thought that we would be discovered by a bunch of meddlesome insects?"
Beast Boy gave out a sneer. "Guess your so called lair isn't so secret."
"No it wasn't. And so I had to act fast if I wanted my plan to succeed. I used my powers—which I'm sure you know what it does by now—and had my men to send you fools far away from the lair. Even though, what I thought you all had your memories lost, I still couldn't risk it. We had to move out and set our path to this old castle-like building." the man gave out another deep sigh. "When I thought it was safe, I began to set out my plan. However, when one of my men told me that there was an intruder, needless to say, I was shocked."
He then looked at Huntress who narrowed her eyes.
"And that was when you came in. I thought I had captured every single one of you but I didn't. It looks like I had underestimated you."
"Yeah, clearly." Huntress spoke.
The man shook his head. "I should've double-checked but it is all in the past. So, I sent my men to have your team to be in prison…which is where they are right now as you can see." he paused. "However, they did put up a good fight. Since I thought all my troubles are gone, I went back to my work. And well…I suppose you can figure it out the rest."
As he was talking, the guard started to walk around which made Beast Boy notice it.
Beast Boy smirked. "Guess your secret code isn't a secret as you thought it was."
The man glared at the boy under his mask. "I had the code to be all hushed up." he walked in a half circle and paused. "But did you know what I found after? I found you!" he snarled, his face leaning closer to him.
"It must've been tough to think that everything was going so smoothly only to be ruined." he smirked. He eyed the guard who slowly took out his blade while he also felt the rope starting to become loose. The enemy glared but Beast Boy felt it. "But if there's anything I had learned…is that you guys aren't so bright. Huntress, now!"
The minute he shouted out, Huntress broke free of the rope and performed a kick, striking the ninja upwards. The foe flew backwards, making his back hit a wall. Beast Boy acted quickly by swiftly making a punch in attempt to hit the masked man but the enemy moved to the side, letting the fist (which nearly brushed past by him an inch) to move away.
He then grabbed Beast Boy's arm and made a kick at his stomach, causing him collide against the wall. The two rejoined, having both of their backs touching each other. Just then, the room was suddenly filled with more ninjas who were holding sharp looking weapons.
"Yeah, there's no way we can beat them." Beast Boy said with eyes wide.
Huntress gave a glance at him. "Try to be a little positive."
"Alright, we're positive that we're going to be defeated."
Huntress rolled her eyes.
"Hey well take a look at this way…at least they don't have any weapons that aren't more deadly than what they currently have." he replied, giving a sheepish laugh.
And as if to make things worse, some of the ninjas pulled out scary-looking dangerous weapons, making the two be slightly paled.
"You just had to say it, didn't you?" Huntress asked.
"So…fight?"
She smirked. "Fight."
And the two gave out a charging yell.
It was chaos.
There were sounds of clashing swords or roars from a tiger or a lion, all attacking the enemies that surrounded the room. However, as the chaos ensued, this made the perfect opportunity for the Master of Disguise to move out. So, he waited for a perfect chance and when he saw it, he walked towards the exit and vanished out of sight.
Huntress pushed back the enemy with her two swords before she kicked him in the stomach. She then swung her swords this way and that, blocking the darts or the ninja stars that were headed her way. As she was fighting off the flying weapons, she didn't see the oncoming weapon.
So, the ninja waited for a perfect time and when that time came, he threw the stars that were heading directly to her wrists.
"Argh!" she exclaimed, feeling her two swords falling out of her grip.
Because of that, more opponents came in and started to surround her. It wasn't until then that a green tiger came into the view and took out some of the foes. He snarled at them but the more they fought back, the more it began to be futile.
Eventually, the two found themselves touching each other's back once again. Beast Boy looked at the villains before he blinked. Curiously, he turned his head to the side and gave a dumb-founded look.
Huntress narrowed her eyes, having her weapons ready and she stared at the ninjas. Noticing that someone was giving her a look—minus the ninjas—she found out that Beast Boy was looking at her, dumb-founded.
"What?" she asked, raising an eyebrow.
"You're going to fight the enemies with…a pair of hand-made fans?" he exclaimed.
She quirked an eyebrow. "Hey, things aren't always what they seem, y'know!"
Beast Boy gave out an exasperated sigh. "We are so doomed."
And they charged once again.
After a few grunts, being collided with the wall three times in a row, and a lot of fighting with the "hand-made fans" (Beast Boy was actually impressed with it but didn't showed it), the two found themselves in the middle of the battlefield in their fighting stances.
But something was different.
At last, they had won.
Every single bad guy were knocked out-cold, being scattered all over the room. The two didn't move a muscle to make sure that it was actually clear. Once it was, they both breathed out a sigh of relief.
"Way to stay alive out there," she grinned.
"You too." he said. "Now let's unfree our friends."
Nodding, Huntress walked towards a wall and started to move her hands against it…only to have Beast Boy staring oddly at her.
"What?" she questioned.
"Uh…what exactly are you doing?"
"Freeing our friends." she told him.
"Riiighttt…"
She gave out a puff of sigh. As she was talking, her hand still glided across the smooth cold wall. "Look, if the enemy had captured our friends, he wouldn't make this easy, now would he? He would have to make it hard…by probably implanting a button switch somewhere hidden against these walls…ah ha!"
After feeling a lump in the wall, there was a sudden click followed by a clang. Beast Boy looked to the prison cells and saw that the doors were opening. As soon as the doors were wide opened, the chains that were on their friends were suddenly let loose, making the prisoners fall down at the ground.
Beast Boy ran towards the out-cold Robin and started to shake him.
"Robin…Robin, wake up!" he exclaimed, shaking him. "Robin, come on!"
After a few shakes, the boy wonder gave out a groan much to Beast Boy's delight. Eventually, his eyes started to flicker open but at first, his vision was a bit hazy and slowly but surely, it began to clear up.
Giving out another groan, Robin pushed himself up while placing a hand at his forehead.
"Beast Boy…?" he gave out a wince as though he felt a headache coming in. The minute he looked up, sudden flashbacks zoomed into his mind. At once, he got up. "Where is he?"
Knowing who he was talking about, Beast Boy got up and looked at the fierce-looking face before he looked away.
"He…got away."
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Robin's eyes widened.
"…Got away?" he echoed. "How!?"
Beast Boy, who currently had his arms across his chest and never left his gaze from the floor, spoke.
"I don't know!" he slightly shouted.
However, he widened his eyes slightly and looked back at the out-cold enemies.
Everything started to make sense.
"Of course…" he muttered. "Ugh, how could I been so stupid?!"
"Hey…take it easy. We didn't know." Huntress replied, carrying a twelve year old boy who still seemed to be unconscious.
Robin raised one of his eyebrows. "Didn't know what?"
Beast Boy gave a glance at Huntress who gave a slight nod. He sighed, extending his hand out so that Robin could see the knocked out ninjas.
"They were merely distractions…the Master of Disguise made us fight them so that he can use that time to escape." he told him.
Robin was silent for a while but he in the end spoke.
"Alright. Let's help the others."
"Wait…" his voice stopped the leader. "There's something else you should know."
Robin turned to the side and stared at him. "What?"
Beast Boy bit his lip. "It's Starfire…she…uh…she's alive."
Robin widened his eyes with shock and disbelief.
"What? Are you serious? How?"
"I know you're probably thinking I'm crazy but you know how there was the explosion in the sky, right?" a nod. "Well, when she attacked the airplanes, she just managed to escape the blow in time. But one of the Kamikaze soldiers captured her and took her, hence faking her death." as if to prove his point, Beast Boy extended his hand out to show what it looked like a person who was laying on the ground.
Robin's eyes dilated even more. "Star…fire?" he croaked.
Swiftly, he ran towards her and dropped on his knees once he reached beside her. Since Robin went to Starfire, Beast Boy went towards Raven and Cy.
"Cy?" he gently shook him. "Raven?"
It was a while before there was any kind of sudden movements. In the end, a groan came from the empath and she flickered her eyes open before she pushed herself up. She placed a hand at the side of her forehead.
"Ugh…that hurts…" she muttered.
Sensing that something was near her, she turned around and saw Beast Boy.
"Raven!" the green one exclaimed, jumping on her to give a hug.
Raven quirked an eyebrow and gave out a sigh. "Quit it."
"Ugh…I felt like I got hit by a bus." Cy announced.
Beast Boy let go of her and grinned. "Welcome back, buddy."
The empath took a look at her surroundings until she spoke.
"Where's Robin?"
"Uh…well…he's kinda with Starfire." he answered.
The two dilated their eyes.
"What? Star's alive? How? Are you sure?" Cy bombarded the green Titan with questions.
"Yes I'm sure. She's alive. I'm telling the truth." he then turned to face Raven. "You know I'm telling the truth and I can prove it."
Beast Boy jerked his head back, indicating to have them look behind him. It was a bit hard to see since there were still shadows covering the part so the two squinted their eyes until they saw a red piece of hair on the ground.
"No way…" Cy said. "Oh man."
"But I thought the explosion…well…"
"Yeah about that." he rubbed his neck. "How about I just tell everyone as soon as we rejoin as a group?"
Going with that idea, the three Titans (Huntress went back to her team) walked towards their leader. Noting the shadows, Robin looked up and saw them.
"Welcome back." he said, noticing Raven and Cy.
"Same goes for you." Rave then looked down at Star. "How is she?"
"I don't know. It's kind of hard to tell. She may be out-cold still but…"
Without a word, Raven went down to her knees and removed Robin's hands. She then made her hands glow a bluish white and placed them on Starfire.
"I managed to reduce the cuts with my healing powers. She may wake up soon." she told him after a while.
He nodded. "Thanks Rae…"
After a few minutes of rejoining the group, Beast Boy had also mentioned that he was here with another friend of theirs. He introduced Huntress to Raven since she doesn't know her that well.
Eventually, Huntress's team all woke up from being unconscious including the little boy. Noticing that he, too, was injured, Raven started to heal him. Eventually, Starfire woke up and everyone came jumping on her.
"I can't believe you let a small boy join your team…" Raven said.
"Hey! I'm not as small as you think I am!" the boy protested.
Huntress gave out a sheepish look. "It's true. When he gets mad, he gets all scary-like by having glowy eyes and just yeah…heh, in other words, all hell breaks loose."
"So…now since we all rejoined, any idea on how to take down the bad guy?" a slightly deep voice announced.
Raven slightly shivered from the unexpected voice and turned around to see a man who wore a silver-gray suit with a black belt followed by a cape. The hood was in a shape of a hawk; Raven blinked.
"The name's Black Hawk." he replied, extending his hand out.
"Uh, nice to meet you." Raven said, shaking his hand while blushing.
"Since we got the introductions out of the way, we need to focus on what the man's real plan is and how we stop him." Robin responded.
"Well, you guys were his prisoners for a while. Surely, you had heard something." Beast Boy said.
"No, we were all unconscious." Star said.
"Well actually…" Robin started, rubbing his neck sheepishly. "I kinda er…wasn't out-cold. Well, I mean I was then I woke up only to go back being unconscious…"
"Just tell us what you heard…" Raven said.
"Uh, right." he cleared his throat. "According to him, there's a secret word name—"
"Spáthi." Beast Boy said.
Noticing the looks, he spoke. "What? That's how I found out about this lair."
"Yeah…that word…" Robin said, giving him a raised eyebrow. "Anyone know what that means?"
Cy lifted his scanner and got to work. "According to the scanner, spáthi is just a translated Greek name. In English translation, it's real name means Damocles—"
"Which is a high-performance pod that has a long-range laser designator." Black Hawk stated. "It is capable of guiding laser weapons to their extreme range. Now if we are going to find the enemy's new lair, I suggest we head to North." Black Hawk said as he was walking out of the room.
The Titans stared dumb-founded.
"Uh, he knows this because?" Beast Boy asked.
"He used to be an assassin." Blue Bandit replied before following the rest.
The group gave out a gasp.
"I always knew there was something off about him." Beast Boy commented.
Raven gave him a look before she moved forward. "Sure you did."
:(/\):
"Looks like you're right." Robin said, peering out from his hiding spot which was a medium-size rock but it was large enough to cover the whole group.
Huntress looked at the huge fortress-like building and eyed the guards.
"We need to get in the fortress but it's guarded. We need some sort of a disguise." Huntress responded.
Blue Bandit stared before she too peeked out of the spot. She carefully studied the scene until a group of camels with riders had arrived. They all seemed to be going towards the gate.
"And I know just how to get in." she grinned.
:(/\):
The sound of the hooves was heard and the camels were moving in forward. At the back, there were still a couple of camel riders but abruptly, they were being taken out one by one until the camels were without its riders…only to be replaced by the riders. However, they somehow look different…
As soon as they reached the gate, the guard suddenly stopped them. After a long hard stare, the guard finally let them pass and they quietly let out a sigh of relief.
Once safe, the group of riders got off the camels and started to move away from the rest of the riders.
"Whew, I thought that guard would've caught us." Blue Bandit replied.
"Yeah it was a close call. Now, since we're in here, we need to find where he is and stop him." Robin responded.
"Uh, well that's great and all but there's a slight problem…we don't know what his plan is!" Cy said.
Huntress and Beast Boy fidgeted a bit.
"Um actually…" Huntress started.
"We kinda do…"
The group dilated their pupils.
"You what!?" Robin nearly yelled only to have Raven's hands to cover his mouth. She gave him a glare and told him to shut up.
"I'm sorry! It just sort of slipped my mind from all of the stuff that had been happening." Beast Boy replied.
The group minus Huntress shook their heads.
Robin paused. "Wait…how did you know what his plan is?"
"Oh that…well, he kinda told us." seeing the looks, Beast Boy started to explain. "When Huntress and I were being captured, he told us since we were about to die and all, he might as well tell us. But anyways, his plan is to create a massive nuclear bomb that will destroy this whole planet."
"And how is he going to do that?" Starfire quizzed.
"I'm guessing he's going to use a some sort of satellite to do it…" he scratched his head. "Um he didn't exactly told us the "how part"."
"But there is just one problem," Raven started.
Knowing where this was going in, Cyborg jumped in.
"If he's planning to destroy the whole planet with a simple satellite, wouldn't he die in the explosion as well?"
Beast Boy stared at him. "Hey, I only told you what he told us. But if I were him—which I'm not—I would probably have another back up plan to get away from the explosion on time. Probably like a secret hide out in space or something."
"And suddenly everything got a whole lot complicated." Raven spoke.
"That doesn't matter for now. Right now, we need to figure out how to stop him." Robin said.
"Well why don't we all split up? My group can go to the bottom of the fortress to see if we can dig up something while your group can follow the riders and see what is the meeting about." the small boy pointed it out.
Silence.
"You know…that actually sounds a great idea." Black Hawk stated.
"Right. Now come on…"
As soon as they started to walk, a sudden voice spoke.
"Hey you!"
The group gave out a gasp and paused. Beast Boy gulped and turned around to face one of the guards.
"Uh…m-me?"
"Yeah. Where do you think you're going? You and your cronies are supposed to be heading out towards the main square. There's a meeting being held there." he told them.
"Uh…right! Right. Of course. We will uh get going."
The guard gave a one last look at him before he took off, giving the group a chance to breath out a sigh of relief.
"That was a close call."
:(/\):
"My friends…we are all here to be gathered for a very special meeting. Today is the day where we will blow this planet up and end our misery. For many years, we have been out casted for what we were and now we can finally have our revenge on these humans."
The crowd cheered.
Just as he was about to speak, a guard unexpectedly came up to him and he whispered in his ear. The Titans all stared at the guard while Robin studied the man who had his eyes narrowed. As though he felt that someone was staring at him (minus his men), the man looked up and stared right through the group.
After the stare, the man said something inaudible.
"You think he knows?" Beast Boy replied, quietly.
Robin didn't say anything.
The dangerous man closed his eyes and spoke out.
"Friends…we just received a message telling us that there are intruders within these walls that disguise as one of us."
There were gasps and murmurs.
"If anyone had seen them, report to me…now."
The crowd suddenly went quiet. The man raised one of his eyebrows and extended his hand out in a dramatic way.
"You five!"
The group widened their eyes.
"Uh…yes?" Robin said after getting the nudges.
"Come down…now!"
He hesitated but if they wanted to still at least try to keep a low profile then they might as well do it. Robin nudged Starfire who slightly pushed Cyborg to indicate to get a move on.
Once at the main ground, the man continued his talking.
"Tell me…have you seen anything unusual within these walls?" he asked, holding a dangerous tone in his voice. His back was facing them.
"Uh…no…there wasn't anything unusual…sir."
The man gave a soft chuckle. "Trust can be so easily gained but yet it can be so easily be broken. It takes a while for a person to have that trust…isn't that right…Robin?"
At once, the crowd in the stand got into their fighting position and noises that sounded like guns being activated were heard. The whole place was surrounded with guards.
Because of this, the team instantly got into their fighting position.
"You may be wise enough to fool one of my men but you can't fool me. I am Iwao Takahashi, the Master of Disguises."
Just then, the door that leads to the main square—which they are in right now—got opened only to reveal several of shadows. The four guards roughly shoved the other intruders to their knees.
"Your plan failed."
A/N: Alright…I think I'm going to end it here…14 pages is long enough, eh? It was supposed to be into two parts but now it ended up being 3. I mean I could go on and on and on but I fear that I may lose you so yeah! And as for the word Damocles, if you're still confused about that, I suggest you search it up. See you!
