Alrighty then, here is the next chappy. Very actiony, oh yeah.

SR09

WITH THE TITANS

Richard, Raven, Gar, Victor and Maria all stood around a huge crater of collapsed rock. They looked down, confused about what had happened. Raven kneeled down, looking throughout the rubble.

"This is where the trail ends. Kori should-" her eyes widened.

"Raven?" Gar kneeled next to her, placing a hand on her shoulder. "What's wrong?" he asked warily. Richard looked at Raven seriously.

"K…Kori. She's down there. Her breathing is slow, I can sense it. We need to find her!" Raven's eye changed black as she lifted her arms, causing two black energy encased boulders to rise into the air and be thrown a few feet away. The others jumped into the crater and started digging through the rocks, searching for any signs of life. Richard felt tears build up in his eyes as he picked up a large rock and tossed it aside.

Kori…Please be in here, alive. Please… he thought as he lifted another rock. Please! He stood up and looked around. He ran over to another pile of rocks and began digging. Kori…hang in there for me.

"I found something!" Maria called out. Richard jolted up and over to Maria. "I think it's her, someone lift this boulder up, quick!" Richard looked at the rock Maria pointed at and wrapped his arms around the boulder. He slowly lifted it up, before tossing it to his side. He looked down, seeing a slightly burned pant leg that was covered in dry dirt. Richard used his hands to dig through the rocks.

"Kori! Kori!" he called, still digging. Maria and the others stood around him as he dug, sad looks on their faces. "Kori, please be okay!" Richard's finger nails began to bleed as he kept digging. He suddenly stopped, seeing Kori's face covered in mud. She looked lifeless. Richard wrapped his arms around her body, pulling her close to him. Her hand fell limp at her side, but something was strange about it. Her palm was glowing with a light green flame. Richard examined it. "What is that?" he asked the others.

"It's…beautiful" Maria said, tilting her head. "But how's Kori?" her hands were together in front of her as her face looked hopeful. Richard leaned his head to the side as he laid his ear be Kori's heart. He blinked slowly, trying to listen. A few seconds went by.

"I…I don't hear anything-" he said sadly, still listening. Maria shook her head.

"She has to be alive! Her powers…" she looked back at Kori's glowing palm. "She just has to be! Raven, can't you-"

"No, I can't do anything. I can't even tell if she is dead or alive. Her powers seem to be channeling me out somehow. There's nothing I can do."

"No...there has to be something! Something to-"

"Maria!" Richard yelled, looking at her. Maria jumped a little by Richard's raised voice and looked down sadly.

"I'm sorry…I just…can't believe she's…dead"

"No that's just it. She's alive!" he exclaimed. The other's faces lit up.

"Alive!" Marian shouted.

"It's a miracle!" Gar cheered as Raven sighed in relief.

"Hell yeah it's a miracle" Victor agreed.

"She's alive…" he looked down at Kori's face, seeing her nose twitch. She's…asleep…he chuckled to himself. "Just asleep…" thank you god, thank you… he held Kori close.

WITH ICY

Dark Crystal smirked as she giggled on the inside.

"To kill me huh? Isn't that a treat? But there just one little problem with your conjecture Angel." Dark Crystal teased.

"What's the problem?" Icy's fists powered up white.

"I won't die so easily!" she yelled as an aura of red energy blasted from the bottom of her feet up, causing her hair to flow straight up. Icy jumped back, anger written on her face. Dark Crystal laughed as her hair changed form brown to black, and the shakra on her forehead began to shine red. Her eyes filled with hatred as they changed from their crimson to glowing black. The crystal that withheld her now had cracks running along it with red energy streaming out. Dark Crystal suddenly kicked her legs free, followed by breaking her arms and the rest of her body free. She grinned as she looked at Icy. "The real battle has just begun!" Dark Crystal lifted one hand in the air as the left the other one at her side. Her palms faced opposite as she shifted both her arms to her sides. She began t move them in small circular motions. At first they were slow, but they suddenly moved faster and faster until it looked like her arms were red vortexes at her sides. Dark Crystal suddenly stopped moving her arms, but the red energy had kept spinning. She pointed her fingers at the energy flowed to their tips, forming two disks. A handle formed as she grabbed them, now having a spinning disk of energy in each hand. Dark Crystal smirked at Icy. "Here I come" she disappeared. An aura of white glowed around Icy as she looked around. She flicked her wrists at her sides, extending the belts. She jumped back hearing a drill noise, whipping her belts in front of her. Icy and Dark Crystal kept appearing a disappearing all around the room as sparks or red and white lit up. Icy appeared in front of a wall and suddenly flew up as Dark Crystal came into scene with her spinning disk and sliced the wall, missing Icy. She flew up after Icy, leaving a huge, smoking gash in the white wall. Icy quickly grabbed the other end of her belt, pulling it tight and in front of her as Dark Crystal struck it. They pushed on each other before Icy kicked her leg up, hitting Dark Crystal in the side if the head. Dark Crystal flew a few feet before stopping. She snarled as she charged again. Icy clapped her hands twice, the second time keeping the together for a second before slowly separating them as sparks of white and light blue shot from one hand to the other. She separated her hands to the width of her shoulders. She looked at the sparks and breathed in before blowing a cold wind on them. A huge puff of dry ice smoke clouded around Icy as Dark Crystal came in wielding the two spinning discs. "I got you!"

CLANG

She felt her body being pushed back. Her eyes widened as she saw a white crystal blade shine out of the smoke, followed by Icy's glowing arms. She heard a grunt as the blade pull back, and suddenly push forward with intense strength; enough to knock Dark Crystal into the wall behind her. Dark Crystal ricocheted off the white wall and fit the ground, hard. Her spinning disks dissipated in her hands. Icy stood before her, her hands gripping her blade tightly. Dark Crystal shook as she stood up. "What is that?" she asked, staring at the blade. Icy looked at it as she floated down to the ground.

"Oh this? This is my blade of crystal tears. I developed it about a year after I thought I killed you." Dark Crystal reached for her blade at her side.

"Well, we shall see whose blade is the strongest." She pulled it out, and held her blade straight out to her side before bringing it back in front of her and gripping it with her other hand. Icy moved one of her legs back, ready to launch at Dark Crystal; her blade began to glow light blue on the inside with a white aura on the outside. A blast of energy shot up from Dark Crystal's blade followed by a flow of red energy. It surrounded her body as her shakra shined. "This is going to end here Angel!" she yelled, a deeper voice was behind her normal one. She flew forward, blasting the concrete behind her into a bundle. Icy prepared herself as Dark Crystal came in with a swipe.

CLANG CLANG CLANG CLANG

Over and over again their blades clashed throughout the white room ass they disappeared and reappeared all over the place. There was a blast of light in the center of the room. The two separated to opposite ends before colliding the center once more.

TITANS

The titans and Maria walked down the tunnel, looking for a new outlet.

"So, how far till we reach the end?" Maria asked Victor, who has his cybernetic arm showing and seemed to be analyzing the tunnel as they walked.

"Looks like another 10 minutes at the pace we're going I-" the tunnel started shaking.

"What's going on?" Gar yelled over the rumbling as he covered his head with his hands.

I don't know, it looks like someone is causing the earthquakes! It's not natural from my readings" Vic answered. Richard was carrying Kori on his back. Her head leaned on his shoulder as her eyes stayed shut.

"We need to hurry up and find whoever is causing this before this cave collapses on us!" Richard informed the others.

"Right" the others said in unison. Just then, Kori's eyes stirred. Richard paused.

"Kori?" he said to her. The rumbling stopped. Kori's eyes opened slowly as she sat her head up.

"W…where am I?" she questioned sleepily. Richard smiled.

"You're with us. We found you in a collapsed part of the tunnel back there." She jumped down from Richard's back.

"Where's Charm?" she looked around.

"Charm?" questioned Raven.

"Charm works with Dark Crystal. We were battling when all of sudden everything went white. We were blown away from the center and all I remember was hearing her scream." She looked down. Maria walked over to her and hugged her.

"You defeated her Kori, that's all. You're here now, alive. That's all that matters." She released her with a smile. Kori smiled back, but her smile faded when another rupture came. "Where is that coming from?" she asked the others.

"Somewhere deep in the tunnel. We were just heading there now." Victor told her. Kori suddenly took off towards the tunnel exit. The others followed.

"Kori, where are you going?" Richard called after her.

"That's not just anyone causing the earthquakes, it's Icy. She's fighting Dark Crystal!" she called back, now flying through the air. The others looked at each other.

"Icy, causing this?"

ICY

"Why (clang) won't (clang) you (clang) give (clang) up!" CLANG! Dark Crystal yelled between hits. Icy smirked as she blocked the attacks.

"Because, I hate you!" she answered angrily as she was pushed back by a wall. She flipped back on the wall and kicked off with her feet, giving herself an extra boost as she flew at Dark Crystal. Dark Crystal jumped into the air and flew at Icy with her battle cry.

Whoosh!

They passed right by each other. Icy landed on one knee with her blade over her shoulder; looking ahead of her as Dark Crystal landed standing up; her blade hanging at her side as she looked down. Icy suddenly placed a hand over her right arm as Dark Crystal limped over a bit, gripping the left side of her ribs in pain. She removed her hand, only to see deep red blood dripping down. She looked at herself, seeing a gash in her side. She gritted her teeth in pain and frustration as she turned around, looking at Icy. She noticed that Icy's blade had blood along its side. She breathed.

She got me…and in a pretty good pace too. But I'm not going to stop. I will keep going! Dark Crystal thought as she took a step forward. Icy slowly stood up and turned around, gripping her arm where Dark Crystal had nipped her. Her hand was glowing white over the wound, healing it. Dark Crystal took a step back. What?!? She can heal herself? Icy removed her hand, showing where her sleeve was ripped, but no scar was there. She regained her composure as she threw her blade in the air above her. She left her hand in the air as the blade sparkled light blue. A white light shined as it seemed to grow length wise. She smirked at the blade as it came down a she caught it with her hand. She brought it down in front of her and turned her wrist sideways as the light dimmed, revealing that the blade had changed into pure white staff with light blue crystal ice spears at the ends. She span it like a tambourine in her fingers as it sparkled. She moved it to her side and halted it. "Oh, so you learned a new trick have we?" Dark Crystal smirked "You're not the only one." She brought her blade in front of her and let it go, it staying in the air. Dark Crystal then put her palms together as she closed her eyes. After a second, her eyes opened red and she separated her hands. She lifted up on hand held it over her levitating blade and flicked the middle of it. The sound of a bell came from her flick as the blade glowed and split in two. She grabbed the two swords at their ends and flipped them in her hands once before gripping them tightly. She smirked as she hit the two blades together. Their friction created red sparks that now surrounded the two hand blades. She held one blade in front of her face while the other was strongly at her side. Icy grabbed her staff with both hands and span it over her head as she charged at Dark Crystal, the two blue crystals at each end shined. Dark Crystal blocked the attack and ducked down, jabbing one knife up. Icy tossed her staff high behind her and flipped back, kicking the incoming blade out of Dark Crystal's hand. Dark Crystal watched the knife as it flew up and over behind her, stabbing into the wall. Icy landed on her feet as she caught her staff, spinning it to the side. Just then she heard her name in the distance.

"ANGEL!!" it was Kori, she was alive. Icy stayed in her battle stanz, keeping an eye on Dark Crystal. Kori came running through the tunnel entrance, halting a few feet away from the two battling women.

"Kori, get back! This is too dangerous…she's too dangerous. I don't want you guys to get caught up in this" she said over to them, still looking angrily at Dark Crystal. Kori stepped back just as the others cane rushing in behind her. They halted as they saw Kori.

"Kori, what's-" Richard was cut off.

"Stay back" Kori held her hand out in front of them. Her eyes looked over at Icy. "We will do as you wish and stay here. Do what you want." She looked down. "We'll be watching." The others were confused.

"Okay," Richard sighed. "Icy, we'll let you take care of this. It's your battle, you win it." The others nodded in agreement with Richard. Icy smirked.

"Gracias, leave it to me. I will finish this" her eyes powered up light blue. Dark Crystal started laughing hysterically.

"Please, your friends won't even live to see what happens to our match." Icy took a step forward, her staff in hand.

"Why is that? Tell me!" she demanded. Dark Crystal smirked.

"Because of this." She snapped her fingers, and the room suddenly started to erupt. The titans and Icy looked at the floor as they felt something under it rotating. Icy gritted her teeth and shot a glare at Dark Crystal.

"What is it Angelina?" she demanded again. She suddenly heard a scream from the entrance. She whirled around, feeling a wind sensation pulling her back. Her eyes widened in horror as she saw a huge black hole sitting there, and her friends gone. Her face turned angry as she looked back at Dark Crystal. "You…"

"What; just killed all of your worthless friends? Yes, I did. With the same technique that I almost kill you with last time." She grinned.

"The black hole of death…" she looked back at the hole. Tears began to roll down her face, but then turned into a smirk as she charged at Dark Crystal. "You'll pay for this!" she screamed, her staff glowing blue. Dark Crystal raised her palm over to her knife that was stuck in the wall. It began to shake before it popped out and returned to her. She focused back on Icy, blocking an incoming blow from the staff. "You think I'll give up just because you sucked my friends into a black hole? Think again!" She started moving fast, and Dark Crystal was having a hard time keeping up. Icy jumped up, spinning around before she swung the staff at Dark Crystal's head. She dodged it barely. She was lucky she did, because she could hear the wind literally being sliced. Icy came down, kicking her heel down towards the top of Dark Crystal's head. She rolled left as Icy's foot missed. Her foot struck the ground, leaving a cracking hole. She glared at Dark Crystal, who was sweating like crazy.

How the heck did she speed up so quickly? If she would have hit me…I don't even want to know. I need to, ah! She jumped back; Icy's staff hit the ground where she was. Think of something! Icy charged at Dark Crystal again. Dark Crystal looked around; her eyes widened. She was trapped in the corner of the room. She took a knife and threw it at Icy, who knocked it behind her with her staff. Dark Crystal gritted her teeth in anger as she threw her last knife. Icy caught it as she still charged at Dark Crystal. Icy suddenly disappeared. Dark Crystal looked around. "Where are you!" she called out, a little worried.

"Right here" her eyes widened as she looked down by her feet, where Icy was ducked down. She suddenly felt a shock of pain in her chest. She gasped for air as she slowly reached her hand to her heart, where she felt her own knife forced in. Icy stood up, smirking at Dark Crystal as she powered down. Dark Crystal fell to her knees as her hair and eyes changed back to normal.

"How did you…do that?" her hand trembled by the blade in her heart. Icy nudged her head behind her. Dark Crystal looked, and her eyes widened. There stood Kori with her hand out in front of her as if she had just thrown something, and the other titans standing behind her. "I…don't understand"

"It's simple really" Icy began as she walked over to the titans. "The good guys always win." Blood dripped down the corner of Dark Crystal's mouth as she grunted in pain.

"I…" her eyes began to close as she felt her body weaken. "I…" she breathed in slowly before falling over on her side. "Lost…"