Thanks so much all of you! This may not be my most reviewed story but it is definitely my most popular! Thank you all who have ever reviewed and/or favouritised and/or alertised this or any of my other stories! You guys mean so much to me. But there's something that still confuses me a bit, if at least 40 people read my latest chapter when it comes out then why do only about 4 people review it? Please put in a little effort to make me smile today guys (those who have reviewed regularly had been putting in tons). At least do a smiley face in the review. One-liners can make me smile just as much as a 200 word essay :)
"You were running your power supply dry. It was inevitable that you would soon be unable to use them at all…"
"The potion vial's gone!"
If Slade could now live forever, then Robin would have to make it the worst eternity imaginable. He swore revenge and he promised himself that he'd enjoy it.
"So, how did you like your breakfast?"
"I love you - I mean I loved it."
"I love you too."
"He is not immortal at all. When the performance enhancer wore off, the last thing I did before I fainted was I uncorked the vial and replaced some of the liquid with sea water." Smiles appeared amongst the group. "I guessed that the ingredients were all measured out carefully, and my suspicions were soon confirmed when Slade explained about the vial when he came to steal it. The best part is that he now thinks that he is immortal and will take more risks and be more daring-,"
"And fall under a false sense of confidence," Robin interrupted.
"And fall right into our trap," Cyborg finished.
Normality was soon restored to the Titans Tower.
"Neither of you have any personal lives and so you chose to fill in the blank with other peoples'. Loads of people do it. But you shouldn't do it to friends. Or you won't have any," Raven raised her hand to reveal a little black remote, "I'll be taking this with me. Don't. Do it. Again," and having said that, she left the room again.
"Raven's the only one out of them that even cares about anyone but themselves. Well unless things get personal, then they're all ears!"
"I do not even know what that means and I agree with you," Starfire replied angrily.
"For all we know, they could be watching us with a hidden camera right now," he stressed and both Star and Robin looked straight at the camera.
"Oh oh. They're on to us!" Beast Boy cried.
Ok, so a lot more happened in the last chapter. All in all, just to refresh your memories I'll just give it to you straight. Beast Boy played war games with toy soldiers and batman, robin and g.i. joes', a choco chip cookie got involved and then Godzilla came in, Cyborg ate a sandwich dramatically, the 'BD' book turned out to be Beast Boy's diary and it lead BB and Star to have some fluffy moments. Aww… NOW ON WITH THE SHOW!
Hang on just one moment, I'm sorry to say that I personally think that this chapter sucks, I'm very sorry but I tried to rewrite it about 4 times but this is the best I could get :( I'll try to post the next chapter quickly to make up for it.
Surprisingly, with all that happened that day, it was only 3 pm. Robin had promised a training day and so everyone was outside warming up their unique abilities. Starfire was hovering high in the air overjoyed by her flight, Beast Boy was shouting at the wall, Cyborg was staring amusedly at him, Robin was stretching and Raven was meditating quietly in midair.
"What the heck were you doing in my way?" Beast Boy shouted angrily at the wall gesturing madly with his arms, "If you ever think if even crossing my path… oh ho ho, there is gonna be trouble!"
Raven floated down to join Cyborg staring at Beast Boy, "What's up with tweedledumb over there?"
"Little suggestion, don't follow in Beast Boy's footsteps. He runs into walls."
"Thanks, I'll keep that in mind," Raven muttered unenthusiastically.
"Ok everyone, let's get this started," Robin shouted for everyone to hear, especially Starfire who was now quite far out of hearing range of even Beast Boy. But surprisingly, she had heard him and flew down immediately.
"Ok, so, I thought that today we could focus on the basics. When we've got ourselves all stretched out, we could start to think out a plan to bring down Slade. Got it?" In reply, Robin got a wave of nods, "Ok then let's start with a bit of sparring."
"Cool, I'm going first!" Beast Boy cried enthusiastically waving his hard high above his head.
"I'll fight 'im," Cyborg chirped in.
"'K then," said Robin, "You're funeral," he muttered under his breath.
They had barely been in the arena for 2 minutes before Cyborg had BB pinned down. But as an unlikely turn of events, Beast Boy morphed into a kangaroo and booted Cyborg clear out of the ring. Next to fight the winner was Raven who smirked menacingly at Beast Boy as she entered the ring. "Com'on Rae, show me what you got!" Beast Boy egged her on. It didn't intimidate her one bit, if anything, her smirk only grew bigger.
"With pleasure," as soon as Raven got into the ring, Beast Boy had transformed back to the kangaroo form that he only just had a few moments ago. The kangaroo was wearing comical boxing trunks and was swinging his fists and hopping lightly on the spot. Within moments, the kangaroo was being suspended high in the air by the back of his trunks and giving out painful screams as he struggled to get away. Raven was still smirking 20 feet below.
"Ok, ok, I think he's had enough, Raven," Robin wrote something on a sheet of paper and looked up and Beast Boy.
He morphed into a sparrow and feet out from the trunks. He landed square in the middle of the ring. "Hey, Raven, that's hardly fair! I didn't even get a chance to give up the ol' one two!" Beast Boy whined. A pair of trunks fell on top of his head.
"Just one of the advantages of having extraordinary inhuman powers."
"Ok, Star, you're up next."
Beast Boy got out of the ring muttering indecently under his breath. Starfire replaced him looking very uncertain with what she had to do. Raven remained surefooted and chose not to attack Starfire in the same humiliating method as she had used with Beast Boy. I'll make it easier for Star. After what she's been through, can she still remember how to shoot starbolts? Raven wondered to herself. I'll make the first move, knowing it was always best for the opponent to start the fight. Raven swung her leg at midlevel towards Starfire in one fluid swish. For a fleeting moment she thought it was going to hit and push Starfire back at least a couple of meters. But that moment came and went as quickly as what happened next did.
Starfire had grabbed Raven by the leg and spun her round in a big circle before releasing her into the bands at the far side of the arena. Raven sat up wide-eyed, she certainly hadn't expected that, and by the looks of things, neither had Starfire. She was staring horrorstruck at Raven. Raven got up and shaking her head and blinking hard, almost fell over from her dizziness. She regained herself quickly. Raven flew up about 10meters above the arena, Starfire followed her up there. She hesitantly threw a couple of starbolts, with each one; she grew more and more confident. Raven flew side to side to avoid each one, but it was getting harder as they came at her quicker. Raven noticed a pattern in where each starbolt went and soon found it much easier to avoid them. But suddenly, the bolts stopped coming, looking ahead, Raven saw Starfire drawing up a great big starbolt above her head. She threw it at Raven not giving her much time to draw up a shield, but still enough. Raven closed her eyes tightly until she felt no more force on the shield, so she lowered it, but Starfire was no longer in front of her. Raven gazed around cautiously; she was nowhere to be seen. Doing the clever thing, Raven focused on Starfire's aura. She's right above you. Raven looked up and saw Starfire looking down, seemingly lying down in midair with her back to the sky. Raven then attempted to pull her down with a wave of ebony magic.
She gaped at Starfire, "How did you do that?" she asked slowly under her breath. Her eyes were wide open, she could not believe them. Starfire was hovering above her holding on to the rope of magic. She dived down at a great speed still holding on to the magic rope. Starfire flew around the stunned Raven tying her up with her own spell. She then dived down once more and stopped abruptly to watch Raven comet down to the ground.
Robin, Beast Boy and Cyborg were staring mouth open at her from below. Starfire flew to the ground and helped Raven to her feet.
Starfire had surprised everyone, including herself. Raven's magic had been broken before, but never manipulated. "Raven, I -," Starfire stuttered, "I do not know what happened, are you well?"
"I'm… fine," Raven hesitantly replied. "What- what was that back there?"
Starfire didn't answer before Cyborg cut in, "Ok, Star v Rob, winner take all!"
Raven walked out of the ring sparing Starfire an odd glance before flying over to the sidelines where Beast Boy and Cyborg stood. Raven and Robin exchanged concerned looks before Robin took her place in the arena. "Ok Star, how about we go hand-to-hand?"
Starfire flew down, planted her feet firmly onto the ground and gave Robin a curt little nod.
Robin, unlike Raven, chose not to be polite and make it easier for Starfire, but chose reluctantly to go with his instincts. They both walked around each other neither making the first move. "C'mon already! I'm running outta popcorn!" Beast Boy shouted from the sidelines.
Robin decided to go ahead and start the match. The two went into their battle stances and Starfire braced herself for she knew Robin would make the first move eventually if she didn't. Robin pulled back and readied himself with for a low swinging kick. Starfire saw what he was about to do and got ready to jump and backwards flip, but a voice inside her head interrupted her, be cautious, it told her in an all too familiar voice. Starfire looked again at Robin and in a split second she blocked not a swinging kick as was the first impression but a pair of punches to her stomach area. Robin seemed a little taken aback by his thwarted attempts to trick her, but he didn't let the shock impact his fighting performance, and mentally shook himself out of his trance before Starfire landed a kick to his head. Starfire was doing very well in throwing kicks and punched his way, Robin had already reached the other side of the arena all the while dodging and blocking her attacks but he was inwardly smirking for two reasons; 1, he assumed that her improvement was all his doing and 2; he planned on winning this match. Robin was a proud man, in a way, to him; his pride came before Starfire's. Even though he cared about her more than himself, and needed her very dependently, he could never admit it to her.
Starfire had Robin nearly touching the side of the arena when the same voice stopped her once more; don't get too cocky, it ordered in her head. Starfire braced herself but never gave off the appearance of slowing her offensive, though she did pause. Robin noticed his chance and in one fluid motion, took out his Bo staff, planted it into the ground to propel him forward and up to hit Starfire with both feet at her head. It all came so quickly that he was surprised not to feel his feet make contact with anything rather than Starfire's head in a hit that would probably cause her to black out. Instead, he fell heavily onto her side. Starfire had seen what was coming and swung her leg down against the Bo staff. What happened after that was evident. The words, know what the enemy plans to do next, echoed in Starfire's mind.