CH29: Turning Tides

As the Titans charged at Ternion, Cyborg and Raven stayed back as support. The half man shot off his cannons while Raven used her powers to launch several vehicles which exploded on impact. This seemed to piss off the monster instead of helping us out. The ground troops, me included, were getting bombarded with the electrically charged plasma tentacles. Several of them wrapped themselves around Jinx and Robin and shot them into the air. My ex-leader was caught on a nearby rooftop by Kid Flash, and Starfire snagged the boy wonder midair.

Ternion buried its hands in the ground and lifted up a massive piece of asphalt which he threw in my general direction. I dodged to the left and evaded the enormous mass whilst slashing at the monster's knee joints. After he was brought down to the ground, Starfire buried him into the pavement when she landed directly on top of him. A massive crater was now in the middle of the access road between the warehouses and facilities.

From the dust came a goopy frog-like tongue that snatched Beast Boy. It retracted back into Ternion's mouth and began to envelop itself in an electrical shield, shocking the poor Titan inside.

"It has Beast Boy!" Shouted Raven.

Robin threw concussion grenades at the monster which were blocked by the electrical shield. Kid Flash ran to the warehouse which we tussled in and brought back in his speed stream several gallons of water which he propelled right at Ternion.

(ZAP)

The shield short circuited giving the morpher inside enough time to get his bearings and shape shift into something big, like an elephant. Ternion spit out the oversized Titan unable to confine him inside any longer due to the sheer size of the beast.

"That was disgusting." Beast Boy said as he morphed back into human form.

"We're not stopping this thing." Raven said as she helped the green Titan back up.

"We need to short circuit the control chip like last time. But I can't get to it if it's on guard with its tentacles. Kyd Wykkyd and Beast Boy, distract Ternion. Jinx, embed him into the ground again. Cyborg, Kid Flash, Starfire, and Raven, get ready to unleash hell on him. Titans Go!"

I warped several meters off to the side of the monster.

'Hey ugly!' I doubt it could even read my thought projection but trash talking was part of the fun of any fight. All four of its arms came flying my way as they elongated to make short of the distance between us. I teleported several times evading every single one of its appendages. Beast Boy in cheetah form was avoiding the tentacles from Ternion's back every so often turning into something small like a mouse of bat when he ran out of breathing room. Out of the corner of my eye I saw Robin getting comfortable on a nearby rooftop as we were keeping the monster distracted.

"Go Jinx!"

The sorceress' eyes glowed pink and several blasts of hexes made their way along the road towards Ternion. The ground split right underneath the beast and he was shin deep in the asphalt.

"You four know what to do!." Robin yelled from up above.

Kid Flash started circling his arm at super speed and unleashed a tornado blast while Cyborg stuck with his usual plasma blasters.

"Azerath, Metrion, Zinthos!" Raven unleashed hell as she shot a pure magic blast and Starfire used her star beams from her eyes. All four attacks hit Ternion head on and launched him into a building facedown. Robin shot his grapple and swung down to where the monster had fallen. He quickly got on his back with the short circuiting device in his hand.

"I have to be quick." Robin then placed the device where the control chip was located and instantly the monster began to short out violently. The initial jolt of electricity sent Robin flying back hitting the ground hard.

We all noticed the electrical shield envelop the beast again but this time it was pulsing, discharging a bolt of electricity with each interval. After the third strike of energy hitting a nearby facility, we knew something was wrong.

"What's happening?" Beast Boy asked.

"Cyborg?" Robin inquired.

After a few seconds of silence the tin man responded.

"My scanners indicate that the electrical discharge is in an endless loop due to the shield. It must have been triggered when the short circuiting device was planted. It will keep building up energy discharging a little at a time until it's too much to contain. When that point comes, it will cause a massive explosion."

"How could this have happened?" Jinx asked.

"Slade. He must have know we would try the same approach to take Ternion down and set a trap. My guess is that the control chip was also a bomb designed to feed off of Overload's energy and Plasmus' toxicity once triggered with Robin's device."

"How big of an explosion are we talking about." Kid Flash asked.

"At the rate the energy is increasing, large enough to take out this whole waterfront, and the surrounding buildings." Cyborg responded.

"How much time do we have?" Starfire asked worried.

"Seconds. We need to get this thing as far away from us as possible."

"Kyd Wykkyd, can you teleport that thing away from here?" Robin basically demanded.

'Not with the discharges of electricity. It will disrupt my teleportation mid warp if that keeps up.'

"Can you do it if the energy is contained?"

'A mass that size… I will have to teleport with it.'

"Oh no, we are not going through this again." Raven said worryingly.

'I'll be fine. You just have to contain the energy long enough for me to teleport it over the ocean. Once I'm out of warp, I'll teleport right back.'

Raven looked worried and I understood why. Last time the Titans were threatened with a bomb it almost cost one of us our lives.

"We don't have time. Do it now!" The leader shouted.

Raven gave me a worried look that told me to be careful before her eyes turned white. A black shield surrounded Ternion and the energy was contained. I flew into action and flew around the massive beast in circles all the while my cape got longer to the point where I could envelop it. I wrapped around Ternion like a snake suffocating its prey and took the whole monster with me.

I came out of warp over the waterfront a good distance from the warehouse district and let the monster fall into the ocean. Steam began to immediately rise and the electrical current spread through the water like lightning across a dark stormy sky. I was in the process of pulling my cowl over myself to teleport when the explosion went off creating a monumental tidal wave. I was trapped by the undertow when the wave started and I writhed in pain as I felt the surge of electricity channel itself through my body. I was tossing and turning as I was being propelled by the mass of water. Raven was so going to kill me for this.

I woke up on a rooftop and I was drenched. I coughed up some water and observed the surroundings. Everything was wet and most of the buildings in the warehouse district were damaged. Where was my team? What happened to the Titans? I stood up made my way to the other side of the roof near an emergency exit only to see a girl overlooking the waterfront.

She wore a blue turtleneck, red tank top, blue skirt, and had gorgeous ivory wings. My heart stopped. I haven't seen her in quite a while.

'It can't be…'

I inched closer before her voice caught me off guard.

"It's ironic don't you think? Once upon a time your very existence was devoted to obliterating the Titans for what they did to you. Imagine my surprise when I found out you became one of them."

'Angel?'

She turned around quickly and grabbed me by the neck, lifted me off the ground, and started choking me.

"No Kyd. Not Angel. Not the Angel you remember anyways. Father was right you know, you're going to pay dearly for betraying us."

'Ra..vager.' I struggled.

"I'm touched, you do remember me." She smirked evilly. The crazy psycho in my ex-girlfriend's body was going to kill me. I struggled against her grip to no avail as she literally squeezed the life out of me.