Chapter fourteen: Light Show
The Titans were all lazing around. Nothing was happening and their prisoner was still in his cell, doing nothing. It was a rather slow and boring day. No one was even watching TV as there was nothing on. Not even Robin was insisting on everyone training.
"Anyone know something to do?" Cyborg said.
"We could see who can spit into that cup first." Beastboy suggested.
Cyborg spit once without trying and made it.
"You win." Beastboy concluded.
"Where are the bad guys at? Is it bad guy vacation day?" Robin cried.
"You're ruining the silence." Raven said.
"OH! I know what we may do…" Starfire began.
"If it is anything from your planet, or that takes us off ours, forget it." Beastboy interrupted.
"Never mind" Starfire finished.
Jason sat on the edge of the couch pulling and pushing a game controller with his electricity.
"I got an idea," Jason said, "Lets go to the beach."
Everyone remained silent.
"Ok fine, let's sit here some more."
"I have an idea!" Terra yelled, "Let's go to the beach!"
"YEAH!" Everyone cheered in unison.
Jason remained still and perplexed.
"What just happened?" Jason said to himself.
"You shouldn't talk to yourself. Someone might think you're crazy." Raven said as she passed by him.
As everyone made it into their rooms to change clothes and prepare to go to the beach, the alarm went off.
"Ahhhhhhh!" everyone groaned.
Everyone was now huddled around the main computer in the living room, looking at the data.
"Huh? It's, right outside the tower? Well uhhhh… Titan's GO!" Robin said.
Everyone ran out the front door. Straight ahead of them stood their adversary.
"Dr. Light, again? Doesn't this guy ever take a hint?" Beastboy said.
"Doesn't matter, he's going down just like every other time." Robin said.
"Now now children. There's no reason you should be picking on an old man." Dr. Light said, "How about someone your size? Little Light, get them."
Nothing happened. The Titans relaxed and looked onward with boredom. Dr. Light turned around.
"Well, what are you waiting for?" he said, facing a little girl behind him.
"They haven't done anything yet." Little Light said.
The titans stood in place, unsure what to make of this. Dr. Light walked over to his accomplice and said a few words. The only thing audible was, "GOT IT?" Then Dr. Light walked back over.
He cleared his throat, "As I was saying. Little Light, get them!" Dr. Light yelled.
Still baffled, the titans narrowly missed two powerful beams of energy flying right at them.
"Raven, Star, Terra, get Dr. Light. Cyborg, Spark, Beastboy, lets get the girl!" Robin yelled.
Everyone took off.
Dr. Light was firing his beams into the air at the flying titans, barely missing. One beam scored a direct hit on Terra's boulder. She quickly recovered however and continued on. Meanwhile, Robin and Cyborg were dodging beams coming from the girl as they closed range on her. Beast boy was a hummingbird and flying at the girl almost unseen. Jason was lagging behind as he charged forward.
Robin threw a boomerang at Little Light, who promptly blasted it out of the sky. Beastboy was now a Rhinoceros, charging the girl. He was stopped dead in his tracks as two beams landed in the middle of his head, throwing him back and leaving a small burn. Cyborg was now up close to the girl, but was also blasted back by a few beams to the chest. As Jason readied a charged bolt, the girls eyes glowed bright and she looked directly in Jason's eyes, blinding him with a flash of light.
"How are we getting our butts kicked by a little girl?" Beastboy complained.
"Looks like the girls aren't having any better luck." Robin said.
Raven attempted to swallow Dr. Light in a dark void, but he was wise to her tricks and countered. Next, Starfire was throwing star bolts, landing a few blows but seemed not to be phasing Dr. Light, who threw a bolt back at the alien girl. Terra tried to get in close with a large rock shield, but had no luck as it too was blasted away.
"We're not getting anywhere like this." Jason stated. "Let's switch it up. Star, Raven, Terra, get the girl, everyone else let's go!"
Everyone struggled to change pace so quick, but Terra and Cyborg were the first to transition to their new target. Terra knocked Little Light to the ground by pulling the ground from under her and Cyborg used his sonic cannon to blow Dr. Light away.
"Nice call Spark." Robin cheered as he proceeded to face Dr. Light.
"Whoa!" Jason cried as Dr. Light split, making copies of himself.
Jason immediately consulted his mask.
Dr. Light; able to manipulate light sources, creating dangerous beams and able to bend or even remove light entirely, also has been known to create images of himself and bend the light around him to make himself invisible.
"Great" he said as he picked a target and threw electricity at it.
"Who are you and why do you aid the Doctor of Light?" Starfire asked the girl, not wanting to harm her.
"Now's not the time Star, we're getting our butts kicked." Raven said.
"Perhaps we need not fight though?" Starfire pleaded.
Terra was holding her ground, taking blast after blast from the little girl. Raven was now coming from behind, attempting to swallow the girl in a dark orb. With a huge flash of light however, the dark sphere was broken and an explosion of light knocked everyone around and tore a couple of street signs out of the ground.
Beastboy was doing his best to take out all of the mirror images of Dr. Light, but was having little luck. With every image he revealed, two more would pop back up. Jason wasn't having any luck either. Being only images, his electricity wasn't able to jump to the targets, making him nearly useless against the apparitions. All he could do was shoot until he hit his target.
Cyborg and Robin however, were not fooled by the fakes. Robin knew how to tell the real Dr. Light from experience, and Cyborg was able to track him with his cybernetic implants. They faired well against the old man, but were losing ground as Beastboy and Jason's attacks began hitting them. Dr. Light laughed as the team were beating themselves up.
"Beastboy and Spark, go help the girls!" Robin commanded as Beastboy lay on top of him as a giant octopus.
"Right, good idea." Beastboy said as he shifted back and ran off.
Jason followed Beastboy as best he could. Images continued to bombard him, blocking his view. He knew to simply run through them at this point.
"How is this little girl even still going?" Beastboy cried in disbelief.
"It's that suit she's wearing. It's giving her power and probably keeping her going. Distract her and I'll see if I can short it out." Jason said.
"Right"
Raven and Terra Were holding back a beam of light while Starfire was desperately dodging the ones coming for her. Beastboy snuck in as a small fly and changed into a dinosaur when he got close. This caused the girl to panic and commit both of her beams to the large beast, easily blasting it way. Jason meanwhile, came up from behind and grabbed the girl. He then proceeded to shock her.
Jason let the girl go and backed away, thinking she was now helpless. To his surprise, the girl spun around shortly after recovering from the jolt, and blasted him several feet away.
"Well that didn't work!" Beastboy yelled.
"So what do we do now?" Terra asked.
"Robin, we need help!" Raven yelled while Beastboy and Terra flew past her after each took a blow to the chest. Jason remained on the ground, still trying to catch his breath.
Suddenly, the girl paused with a very confused expression on her face.
"Did you say Robin?" the girl asked, "As in, Batman and Robin?"
"Yes, but without the Batman." Raven said, ready to defend herself.
"Wait, so…" she paused, "That means either Robin is bad, or YOU are the good guys."
"Well DUH! What'd you think, Dr. Light was a good guy?" Beastboy blurted out.
"We are not the bad ones. You are, are you not?" Starfire asked.
"Well, he told me he'd help me if I first helped him with some "bad nuisances"."
Jason was now on his feet and making his way toward the girl, hands charged and ready.
"Sparky wait!" Terra cried.
The girl turned just in time to see Jason extending his arm out. Her eyes flashed, blinding him.
"Ah! I can't see!" Jason cried in pain.
"We just have a BIG misunderstanding." Raven said.
In almost an instant, Terra, Raven, Beastboy, and Starfire were behind and to the sides of Dr. Light, with Robin and Cyborg in front.
"Uh oh, Little Light, get them!" Dr. Light yelled.
"You have been extra bad this time Mr. Dr. Light." Starfire said.
"You lied to me!" the girl yelled, stomping her way up to Dr. Light, "You're not a hero! You're a villain!" She had a finger up to Dr. Lights face.
"What, what gives you that crazy notion?" Dr. Light said, shrugging his shoulders and trying to look innocent, "I'm just, ummm…"
Dr. Light was flying through the air as he took a huge blast from the girl's attack.
Robin was quick to apprehend the evil man. Everyone else was now surrounding the girl.
"So you are not the bad guy?" Starfire asked.
"I hope not. I'm really sorry. He told me you were the bad ones." the girl pleaded, "He told me that if I helped him, he would help me save my mother."
"You're mother is in trouble?" Raven asked.
"Well, my step father is really mean. He said he would help me get rid of him."
"Well if you're father is bad enough for you to employ the help of Dr. Light, it might be worth our looking into." Robin said, walking over with the now harmless Dr. Light, "First though, we have to take care of him."
"So, where do you live?" Jason asked.
"A long way from here. In Washington." the girl replied.
"DC? Wow, why did you agree to coming all the way here?" Beastboy exclaimed.
"Not Washington DC, Washington State. Seattle, Washington."
"Ohhhh."
"Well, let's take this guy to jail. After that, we can get you home and see what we can do." Robin said.
"How did you get here by the way?" Jason asked.
"We rode on Dr. Light's light cycle. It's over there."
She pointed at nothing.
"It's hidden right now." the girl said as she walked over and touched something. The light cycle was parked alongside the curb.
"Guess we'll be adding that to our collection." Cyborg said.
"What's your name?" Raven asked.
"Lisa, Lisa Lorane." the girl answered.