Long time no see, real life issues has kept me away, but I am here once more, and here is the next chapter of it is a human thing.
IT'S A HUMAN THING
Chapter 22
"HAND FULL"
The first thing they felt as they stepped trough the portal was an overwhelming sense of disorientation, followed by a massive rush of speed and then a stop so abrupt that they felt as if there eyes had left there sockets. After that, they had landed gently on a place that was full with darkness, there were some red cracks all around and floating craters but no secure land, it was some kind of dark horrible limbo. Jinx looked around and closed her eyes, she could sense that this place was an inner core of some one, looking at the others she could still see that they were still trying to get there bearings. There little ride had taken its told, lucky for her wonder girl had recovered quite easily and was already up and about looking all around to get a sense of what to do next.
"Any ideas?"
The Amazonian looked at jinx who shakes her head, this place had no up or down, it had no sense of direction or consistency, every thing seem so out of whack.
"No, who ever built this place was not a very stable individual"
"Oh?"
"This place, this whole dimension was fabricated by some one"
Wonder girl cursed silently and shock her head, whom ever did this was unstable and if he or she had created this place than that meant that he or she was powerful, Kid flash zoomed past them and then came back towards them with a grin on his face.
"Powers work fine, how about yours?"
Wonder Girl punched the ground and a small crater formed, jinx sent out a wave of energy and once it hit the ground it immediately cracked, terra smiled and began to move the whole piece of rock they were standing on.
"Don't know about you guys, but this is my kind of place"
Wonder girl and the others shock there heads. The girl didn't seem to understand how difficult this could get, all she seem to care was that all around her there were giant pieces of rock that she could throw around, yet despite terra is lack of concern, they were glad that if trouble did come terra would become most handy in a battle situation.
"So what's the move chief?"
Kid flash looked at wonder girl who took a deep breath, she whished she knew what there next move should be but right now she was lost, there was no sings, not nothing that would indicate were robin was, every thing was just the same as far as the eye could see. All there was was flying boulders, pieces of rock, those red and black surroundings, nothing more, and nothing less.
"Jinx? Got any thing?"
The pink hair girl shock her head, her senses were too overwhelmed to be of any good, there was a presence, a very familiar one covering the whole area. Terra could see that the team was struggling to find a way to get moving and coming up with nothing, deciding to do things her own she decided to start heading straight forwards, smashing boulders and rocks as they went, wonder girl turned towards her and sent her an evil glare.
"What the hell are you doing?!"
Terra grinned at wonder girl is irritated expression ignoring the glare being sent her way.
"Hey, we had to pick were to go right? So might as well go at a straight line"
Wonder girl took a deep breath and closed her eyes, some times terra could be too much, kid flash how ever looked at the destruction Terra was creating and frowned towards her.
"But why are you crashing into other boulders?"
Terra smiled at him and pointed straight ahead.
"I knew we would be noticed!"
Following the finger that was pointing dead ahead they saw four beams of light rushing towards them, whom ever they were they wouldn't be to happy to see them, specially if they were responsible for abducting both raven and robin. Wonder girl looked at the oncoming beams and frowned, this is not how she wanted to start there search, but terra had a point, they had no idea were to start, so it was better to see the enemy coming than search them out.
"Titans prepare for battle!"
Wonder girl ordered.
"SISTER YOU HAVE NO IDEAS HOW TRUE THAT STATEMENT IS!"
The voice that boomed at them came from the four beams of light right before it crashed in front of them, and as the dust settle they could see why it had said those words, Kids flash took a step back and looked at the other four before him.
"No way…"
Jinx clenched her fist and glared at the four figures.
"I knew it…you are doing this aren't you raven"
Wonder girl took a deep breath and stepped in front of the others, this was going to be tougher than she thought.
"So you are behind all this?"
Terra is eyes glowed a bright yellow and jump right next to wonders girl.
"Talk lady, were the hell is robin"
The figures before them smirked, but one walked to the front and glared at the new teen titans.
"You will have to beat us to find that out"
Jinx smiled and cracked her knuckles.
"Bring it on then titans"
Eight figures stood staring at each other, waiting for the first move but none came. Jinx looked at raven and smiled, Wonder girl looked Star fire and mover her head from side to side getting the kinks out of it, Kid flash smiled at the green teen before him with a raised eyebrow, all the while beast boy smiled, while terra smirked at Cyborg.
"TITANS GO!"
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~TITAN'S TOWER~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Wonder woman frowned when superman is punch nearly clipped the side of her head, the man was fast, close to flash is speed, but that was not worrying her. Superman was strong, stronger than her, one good punch from him and she was done, but lucky for her he was sloppy, he had no fighting skill what so over there was no form to his attacks, and it was all punch, punch and brute force. She on the other hand was raised as a warrior, leaning different types of fighting styles all the while enhancing her reflexes and skills as a fighter, this served to counter all the speed and strength the man of steel had. Superman for the most part was getting frustrated, he hadn't landed a solid hit on Diana, all of his punches were either a miss or were being deflected by the woman is bracelets.
"Stop this Diana, if we keep on like this it will be for nothing!"
"Getting tired?"
She smirked and dodged a left punch all the while countering with a right kick to the man of steel is stomach, which was another advantage she had, superman didn't know how to use kicks in his fights, all he did was punch and punch. Superman was sent flying backwards but managed to stop himself before he collided with an air born hawk girl.
"Careful there! This is the fifth time we almost collided with each other"
"I know I…."
He froze and then looked downwards to were the others were battling, they were in the same predicament they were, they had been cornered. They not only had to watch out for there enemies is attacks but also from each other, fate was already being guided towards green lantern and flash is battling area while Mary Marvel had placed Captain marvel right on the cross fires of Etrigan and Fate is battle. Hawk girl dodge an incoming punch from the Martian but then she noticed what had happened, while she had ducked under the punch the Martian had sent her way superman had not, he had been to close to her and her battle zone and what was worse was the fact that he was distracted.
"Damn it superman!"
"Not so fast!"
When the Martian is huge fist connected with superman the man of steel had taken the full force of the hit and was rushing towards the ground underneath them, hawk girl was about to rush after him but was suddenly staring down the fist of a very happy Amazonian princess. Hawk girl cursed before Diana is fist connected with her solar plexus.
"D-damn"
She coughed and passed out, but instead of slamming into the ground she was caught by one of the Martian is over sized hands. Diana smiled at him and gave him the thumps up, but it was to soon to be celebrating, just as Diana had given his friend the thumps up a massive green hammer came crashing down on her. John had seen what had happened to hawk girl and immediately left his battle with flash to go aid his on and off again girl friend. Batman rushed towards the falling Amazon and managed to catch her before she hit the ground.
"You ok"
"Yeah…but you should have stuck to the plan"
Batman smiled at her and then turned towards the recuperating form of superman, the man couldn't be put down, but lucky for him the plan was turning out better than he had expected it, John is lack of focused had made an opening and now flash and etrigan were double teaming fate while Mary marvel dealt with captain marvel. The Martian man hunter was now at a disadvantage, batman signaled Wonder woman to go aid him much to Diana is annoyance.
"You sure you can handle him?"
"I saw all I needed to see"
"Suit yourself….just be careful"
A small peck on his check and the Amazon took off into the air, superman frowned and was about to follow when he felt something wrapping around him. He frowned when he saw the all too familiar black line that batman used to tie up criminal with.
"Going some were?"
Batman faced him and superman frowned, he was getting tired of dealing with him. Rushing towards Bruce he frowned when the dark knight managed to dodge his punch and counter with a flying kick to the head, superman managed to dodge it but it was to close. Something had happened to him, his battle with Diana had affected him some how and now Bruce was going to take advantage of that.
"You have lost it Bruce; this is getting out of hand end this before some one gets hurt"
Batman frowned when his kicked missed, it seem that the man of steel was not completely drained, superman managed to moved fast enough to send a left hook towards him but was blocked by batman, much to the dark knight is amusement superman froze.
"Back off, and I will"
Taking advantage of the man of steel is temporary frozen stare he grabbed him and managed to flip him over and sent him crashing to the ground, superman frowned when he felt the impact, something was very wrong here, he knew that batman is suit was affecting him but he shouldn't be this slow, nor batman should be this strong.
"Earth is at stake!"
Jumping to his feet Clark rushed away from the dark knight and sent a rush of heat vision towards Bruce, seeing the on coming heat vision batman grabbed his cloak and wrapped himself around it, it wouldn't last long but it would buy him some time.
"So is the life of a teenage girl, I wont have you play god every time a situation get to hard for you to handle"
Superman was stunned at his friend is words, could it be true? Could all of this be because of his inability to handle something he had no control over? Clenching his fist he rushed toward the dark knight with pure fury burning in his veins, how dare he judge him.
"What?!"
The speed at which superman crashed on to him was enough to break bone and batman could already feel two of his ribs giving away and his arm shattered in two places, but he had managed to get the man of steel is attention.
"We formed the justice league to uphold the law and to seek justice, not to impose or pass judgment on some one who is far more powerful than us!"
Superman slammed him against the ground and even though the man of steel could hear batman is ribs give away and his back completely shattered he could not deny the man is words, when had they become judge, jury and executioners all at once? Why couldn't they face this threat like the rest? Why was this so different?
"We might lose…."
They had seen earth turned to ashes; they had seen how every single human turned to stone right before there eyes and the blue planet changed into nothing but burning ash and brimstone, how that demon had simply emerged and changed every thing and how he sent wave after wave of his minions to take over other planets. What was worse was the fact that they could do nothing but watch, all there powers and all they could do was watch from a displaced dimension, one were they had been sent thank to the mystics in the watch tower, a place were they could regroup and find away to defeat the recently unleashed demon.
"We are ready this time, and you have lost"
Batman is words echoed in his head before he saw a kryptonite ring slam into the side of his face sending him to the ground.
"W-what…?"
"Ungh…..You….should have check Diana is bracelets….."
The dark knight smiled and superman frowned, turning towards Diana, he could see the bracelets glowing a faint green color. He had been setup turning towards the dark knight he could see the man struggling to stand up.
"COUGH….You…all of this was because….y-you w-were afraid….but we can….ack…handle trigon this time….ungh…we can….beat him…."
They were all afraid, the demon had caught them off guard and had showed them what would happened if they were to lose, if they were to be defeated, it was a horrible thing to witness and it had showed them that they were not as invincible as they thought they were. That is why they feared raven, why they wanted to stop her, superman closed his eyes and took a deep breath, batman was right, they were doing this because they were afraid that they would be defeated by this demon.
"BATMAN!"
Superman heard the scream and looked at his friend, batman was falling to the ground, his injuries had been too much for him, but before he hit the ground Diana was beside him glaring at superman, the others rushed towards them and were surprised at what they saw.
"Is it over?!"
Diana glares at the man of steel who simply nodded.
"It is"
She picks up batman and rushed him towards the titans is medical area, The Martian man hunter following close, he was the medic after all, soon the others began to pass the man of steel heading towards the titans medical area, soon all that was left on the destroyed roof of the titan is tower was superman and his allies.
"Trigon will come"
Fate looked at the man of steel who simply nodded.
"Are we going to let that happen?!"
John glared at him and superman smiled.
"Yes we are"
Hawk girl shock her head and looked at the destroyed tower.
"Just like that? All of this for nothing?"
Superman nodded and captain marvel smiled.
"So we are finally going to fight the true enemy then?"
Superman smirked, it was time they stop fighting amongst themselves and start preparing for trigon.
"Raven is not the danger here, her father is and unless we get ready we will lose"
The other could only nod in agreement, but even now with every thing that was said and done; the justice league was fractured.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~WITH THE TITANS~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
What ever this place was, it was giving them a boost, there just had to be a reason why they were so blasted strong, while it was true that there powers made them strong, they should not be this strong. Something was wrong, and it had to do with this place. Raven rushed towards jinx and sent a flying punch towards the girl who only dodged and countered with one of her blast; raven was hit dead center and was sent flying backwards hitting the ground. Jinx rushed towards her and was about to finish her off when a dark claw shoot out of the small crater raven had created when impacting the ground and slammed into jinx is body.
Jinx was sent flying into the air, but managed to spin in mid air and straightened herself out just before hitting the ground; just as she landed, she saw raven rushing towards her.
"You are a lot stronger in this place"
Raven glared at jinx and sent a couple of energy blast towards the pink hair girl who jumped and dodged out of the way.
"Maybe you have grown weaker"
Jinx frowned and shakes her head that was not it, this raven was different, she was emotional and reckless, not at all like the raven, she had known.
"You are the one aren't you"
Raven glared harder and rushed towards the smirking girl, if the battle continued to go on like this then jinx would figure every thing out. Meanwhile.
Wonder Girl gritted her teeth in anger, the alien princess was one hell of a challenge, she was as strong as she was and had those blasted energy blast, not only did they come from her eyes but her hands as well. Star fire sent bolt after bolt at the dark hair girl who simply brushed them away with her bracelets, those things bounced her energy as if it was nothing. Wonder girl glared at the girl and cursed her, she was keeping to long-range attacks, a small smile appeared on wonder girl, if she was keeping to long distance attacks than that meant, she had hurt her.
"Are you going to keep running away?"
Star fire glared at the girl and rushed towards her, her eyes flaring up. Wonder girl smiled and rushed towards her, those blast hurt but as long as she blocked them with her bracelets then there was nothing to worry about. Holding off the alien girl is eye beams with her bracelets she smiled when she saw the surprised girl is face.
"GOTCHA!"
What star fire had failed to see was that the Amazon had been blocking her blast with one hand while the other was prepare for a strike, wonder girl had covered herself with her left hand and now her right arm was flying straight towards star fire. Before star fire knew what had happened the Amazon was holding her in a chokehold.
"H-how…."
"Don't worry about that, worry about what happens next"
Wonder girl smirked and then took a dive straight towards the ground below them, star fire is eyes widen and then a huge impact froze the battlefield.
"Some one is not coming out of that one"
Terra smirked and turned towards Cyborg.
"Just like some one is not coming out of this one"
~~~~~Continued…