Ataraxia Praeteritum, Perdidit Futurum

Chapter 21: Shockwaves Part: 2

"C'mon, c'mon," Robin said to himself as he was kneeling down next to a wall console. A small handheld device was in his hand as its wiring connected with exposed wires protruded from a broken panel beside the LCD screen.

Currently Raven and I were keeping watch as he continued to hack his way into the door. An awkward silence had developed between us. Raven didn't seem to mind, the last thing she probably wanted to do was talk to me.

"We're in!" Robin said as the doors began to open.

Both of us ran over to him by the time the doors opened and we all rushed in.

To our surprise, only one person was standing there, Brother Blood. Currently, he had his back turned to us.

"Why hello, there Titans." He said as he turned around.

He tilted his head slightly at me, "Well aren't you new here, and you might be?"

I stood there in a defiant and ready stance, never breaking eye contact "The names Terra."

He smiled, "Well, allow me to introduce myself…"

With that, a red energy blast came racing towards us. Raven instinctively put up a barrier to protect us and as soon as that was down Blood came in close.

He went after Robin first, his skill more than a match for the Boy Wonder. As they tangled both of us prepared to join the fight, but a searing pain suddenly ran through my left arm. The pain was intense, so much so that I was quickly forced to the ground. The pain felt as if someone took acid and poured it on my shoulder.

Raven had quickly put up a shield around us as the H.I.V.E. guards started to swarm the bridge. She then took it upon herself to inspect the wound. "How bad it?" I asked.

With Raven behind me I couldn't see her expression, but upon hearing her voice, I knew it wasn't pretty.

"I honestly don't know, when we get back to the tower we'll know." She said

She moved the shield so that I could get behind cover, a command console seemed to do just fine.

"You stay there, I'll deal with the guards."

"I can still fight!" I protested

She shook her head "You'll only get in the way, stay here, that's final"

With that, she took off to fight the growing number of HIVE guards. On the other side of the room Robin was still fighting Brother Blood, and from the looks of it, he wasn't doing so well.

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I deep thud was heard as I stumbled forward, my knee keeping me from completely falling on my face. A quick hand rested on my chest to keep me from falling. Why did this body have to be so damn fragile?

I looked up to see Aqualad looking at me with concern on his face.

I gritted my teeth, and slowly stood up. "The generator should be right up here."

Looking over to where Starfire was I noticed she was simply standing in front of a doorway.

As Aqualad supported me, we made our way over there to see what she was looking at.

"Star, are you ok?" I asked, but then I noticed that down the hallway was the generator.

Recalling memories of us nearly being crushed I started to think of a better way to handle the situation, luckily Starfire already had one.

"This this generator of fields shall no longer stand in our path!" She yelled out as she charged up a Starbolt.

"Starfire no!" I cried out, we didn't know how the machine would react, but I was too late as she sent the energy flying.

As the two energies connected the machine burst into flames, a tremendous explosion rocked the entire room,

Unfortunately, there was only one way for that entire fireball to escape, and that was through us.

"MOVE!" I shouted and threw then down away from the blast, I also hit the deck, the impact causing me to groan in pain.

But as soon as it came it went. Slowly we got back to our feet, the previous danger forgotten.

Suddenly another large explosion rocked the underwater station, this one not originating by us.

I looked over at Aqualad. "Shouldn't we continue on?" I asked.

A swift nod was all I got in return as we began our journey to the center of the base.

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The pain was incredible, even with adrenaline coursing throughout my body, my shoulder still bleeding with a ferocity that I had never seen before.

I had torn some fabric from a downed H.I.V.E. guard and wrapped it around my wound, as I sat here behind cover I couldn't help but realize the sheer volume of yellow beams that went right above my head.

I could peak around my shelter, out to see how Raven and Robin both worked together and it was flawless.

It was as if two dancers who had two distinctly different styles of dancing intertwined but kept up a flawless performance. If it weren't so deadly it might be beautiful.

As Robin tired, both of them would switch opponents, Raven fought Brother Blood and Robin fought the guards. I tried to be of some use, bits of rock would randomly pick off outer lying guards.

All good things had to come to an end, however. Without any warning an explosion rocked the station, I shifted my weight a little to counteract the shaking, when it finally stopped I looked up

While creating a forcefield to cover his retreat Brother made it to the doorway, blocking it for both us and his own soldiers. Blood smiled from behind it, "Surfs up." He said as he pulled out a detonator from this robes.

With that another explosion rocked the control room, soldiers panicked as water and glass rained down on them, they were easy pickings for the two birds.

They were ready for the tidal wave of water came rushing at them, I, on the other hand, was just getting up from my cover and was completely washed into the surf.

As the salt water entered my wound beneath water I hissed in pain as the feeling of daggers went through my arm. I tried my best to push through the pain, but it was incredible.

I saw Raven coming to help me, she looked much more annoyed than anything else, but as she began to assist me to swim, by this time I saw Robin putting a charge on the doors.

He looked back to us and gave us three fingers, then two, then one. Suddenly I knew what he was doing and braced myself as best as I could.

As the explosives inside went off the shockwave forced into the water came at us. The pressure popped my ears and I felt as if I had dived a few meters below the surface.

However, the water began to flow out and it took us with it. As we were sucked towards the door Raven grabbed onto Robin with dark energy as he had been doing his best to swim over to us.

As we were sucked through the door and finally settled on the floor we all looked at each other, for a few moments no one spoke.

"Let's never do that again," Raven stated.

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The pain had been forgotten, the adrenaline was now pumping through my body as all of us were running through the corridors.

It was hard to reach the central chamber, not because we were lost. No, it was because every time we turned a corner there was another squad of H.I.V.E. soldiers there.

It was starting to wear on Starfire and Aqualad, I was probably pushing myself too hard as well, but years of constant fighting made you believe that you could continue, even when your body screamed at you to stop.

Finally, after what felt like hours of fighting we finally arrived at the door leading to the main chamber.

We all stacked up on the door, with Starfire preparing to charge through personally. However, that wasn't necessary as the door exploded outwards, into her.

Both Aqualad and I dashed to the side of the hallways to only have the door miss us by mere inches. When we broke out of our shock we looked down to find Cyborg sprawled out on top of the door.

Groaning he rubbed his head and got back up and like we weren't even there he charged back into the main chamber. "THAT THE BEST YOU GOT!" he yelled as went.

Starfire pushed the door off her with her own strength and looked at both of us with a confused look.

"Beast Boy, what just happened?"

Both I and Aqualad looked at each other, truth be told we didn't have a clue as to what just happened. However, we all eventually pressed on into the room, only to find it in complete chaos.

The central sonic cannon remained relatively undamaged, but the room itself was trashed. Debris and metal were strewn everywhere and at the center of it all were two combatants.

Cyborg looked completely exhausted, his moves showed little tactical thought and it reminded me of a boxer after going the distance. Blood, on the other hand, looked tired, but still, have a spring in his step, a burning desire to best Cyborg.

Immediately we entered the fight, each of us bringing our own tired, but nimble fighting to the battle. Within minutes Blood was being overpowered, his moves turning more and more defensive.

After a few minutes, I saw one of the doors open, I turned away from Blood to fight what I thought to be H.I.V.E. guards, but instead I saw the faces of the rest of the team.

In those few moments, I stopped fighting, a yell rang throughout the huge room, it reverted off the walls. I turned around to see Cyborg laying on the ground, with his arm torn off.

Brother Blood simply threw the arm he had to the ground and look around "Class dismissed." He said with a smirk as he teleported away.

We all rushed to Cyborg who gritted his teeth but got up, I had seen him with worse injuries, but it didn't make it any less urgent to get him back to the tower.

Suddenly the alarms rang out from the base, the self-destruct had been activated.

We all ran back to the T-Ship, along the way I noticed how Terra was being supported by Raven, as well as the poor patchwork on her shoulder.

It looked like this mission had taken more from the team than originally thought. More than last time and that meant that I was responsible. The team being hurt was because of the changes to the timeline.

And it was all my fault.

Alright, another week another chapter. Hope you enjoyed, did Brother Blood seem better? He seemed like he could do so much more.

Shoutouts!

The Dimensional Reader- yep just say it 13

Be back next week, I had a lot of fun with that one. Hint* release the Beast. If you guys have any knowledge of the chronology of the show you know exactly what's gonna happen.

Until next time