The Living Terror
By Johannes "Damaramu" Cats
Before we begin, the Teen Titans are copyright to DC Comics/Marv Wolfman/Peter David and the Death Knight, Dreadlord, Lich, Crypt Lord, Dark Ranger and Pit Lord are all copyright to Blizzard Entertainment.
Chapter 2: Dracula Incarnate
Four days had passed since the events that took place at downtown. Ever since then, the Teen Titans had been trying to get any information they could out of them.
"What have we got so far?" asked Robin.
"Well...all we have so far is a sample of that venom the overgrown bug shot at Cyborg." said Raven. Robin demanded the sample, and Raven gave it to him. Robin took the sample to his room and began to research the venomous substance.
"Hmm...it has a very corrosive chemical in it...but, I don't see a poison that can be harmful to anybody. If that guy really wanted to hurt Cyborg, why didn't he shoot a poisonous substance?" asked a very curious Robin, mainly to himself. As he continued to research it, Starfire came into his room.
"Robin, you have been in there for a long amount of time. I wish for you to spend time in the living room!" said Starfire, becoming impatient by the second.
"Give me some time, Star. It's not like I am researching Slade." said a slightly annoyed Robin. Starfire stormed off, letting Robin's door close behind her. Robin watched his door for a minute, then continued to look for more information about these three warriors; it could not escape his mind.
Meanwhile, at the prison, the five undead warriors were plotting their next move.
"Darkscythe, Iceblade and Typhis...excellent job with the fight against the Titans. But, our presence is not yet truly felt. Our next move will be a post-attack. Eventually, the Titans will face somebody other than us. I don't care whom it is, but after they are done with him, her or it... one of us will make our move. That somebody is you, Balnazzar" said the man with the trenchcoat.
The winged, vampiric demon got up and said "Very well. I shall not disappoint you!" at that moment, Balnazzar left the prison, and hid in the shadows of the city...waiting for his moment to strike.
Back at Titans Tower, Cyborg was lifting his "REALLY big" weights to prepare for more butt kicking. He then gazed at his left arm and began to remember the fight with Typhis.
"Well, my arm is repaired. But, I can't help but think...what if he shoots that venom at my power cell? Gah! Why should I be worrying? I'll just have to predict him and make him pay for whatever mistake he'll make." said a pumped-up Cyborg. Before he could continue lifting weights, Robin called him to the living room.
"What's happenin'?" asked Cyborg.
"Well, that substance that was shot at your arm was not poisonous. Just an "acid" of sorts." Robin said.
"Huh. Well, I guess he was going easy on me. I can tell ya this, though: I am NOT gonna go easy on him next time we meet!" said Cyborg, who was still angry over the incident. At that moment, the alarms went off in the Tower. Starfire, Beast Boy and Raven entered the room shortly after.
"What's the situation?" asked Raven.
Robin powered on the monitor.
"Looks like Control Freak. Apparently, the couch potato found himself a new remote. Titans, GO!" Robin shouted. The Titans stormed out of the Tower shortly thereafter.
Control Freak was at the local mall wreaking all kinds of havoc he could. Crowds fled the mall in panic, and the local police force had their hands full with Control Freak's beasts.
"This mall is useless to me! Nobody has any Warp Trek movies or Outer Space Wars action figures!" whined Control Freak as he took control of anything near him with his remote; planters, lampposts, benches and even letters of nearby store signs fell victim to his control.
The police forces were trying their best to prevent Control Freak from doing any damage. Flashbangs, pistol fire, and other gadgets were no good. The police forces eventually fled the mall as well after the beasts began to attack them.
"This is no good! Fall back!" yelled the squad commander. After they retreated, the Titans entered the mall and confronted Control Freak.
"We meet again, Titans! And this time, there will be no sequel!" screeched Control Freak. At that moment, he commanded planter beasts to attack the Titans.
Cyborg readied his sonic cannon and fired it towards two of the planter beasts. They shattered instantly. Cyborg then disposed of the other three planter beasts by simply punching them a few times.
"Hey, geek boy! I hope you can do better than this, because I'm not even breakin' a sweat!" Cyborg taunted.
Control Freak retreated towards access to the upper level of the mall. He feigned defeat, but then yelled "Ha! You fools! You fell for it!" at that point, Control freak took control of a nearby escalator. The escalator burst out of it's stair holdings, and slithered like a snake, facing Cyborg. Control Freak ordered the rest of his beasts attack the rest of the Titans.
Robin was blocking the downward strikes of the bench beasts. The bench beasts were very aggressive, and showed no signs of halting their assault. Robin back hand-springed out of the way of the benches, and threw a handful of electric disks. The disks hit the bench beasts and because of their metal armrests and legs, they became electrocuted. Afterwards, the bench beasts fell onto the ground.
Raven took on the lamppost beasts. She threw many small objects, like a package of cards or a block of tile at the lamppost beasts. The beasts took the hits of each of these items, but appeared to not be fazed by each of them. Raven scrambled to think of a plan, and ran to a nearby sales cart and hid behind it. The lamppost beasts began to destroy the sales cart she was hiding behind, and Raven rolled out of the way of their assault. The beasts appeared to be distracted from smashing the cart into pieces. So, Raven took her opportunity and quickly slashed at the beasts with her dark magic. The beasts fell in two, and were taken care of. Raven then ran to help a fellow teammate in need.
Beast Boy was taking on the letters of the nearby "Joe's Steak Shack". The letters all flew at BB in an attempt to tackle him. BB tried to deflect them, but got dog piled by the letters. Beast Boy proceeded to morph into a gorilla and forced all the letters off of him. BB then slammed the ground and caused the ground to rip up, tossing some letters into the air. BB then morphed into a wooly mammoth and gored a few letters with his tusks. All the letters regrouped and formed into the shape of a human. BB rolled his eyes, and morphed into an ankylosaurus. With one great tail swipe, he shattered the human shape of the letters and caused the letters themselves to shatter into pieces. BB morphed back into human form and ran towards any other beasts.
Starfire proceeded to have a dogfight with a few stereo system beasts. The beasts proceeded to launch harmonic resonances at her, which made Star hold her ears in an attempt to make the terrible noise stop. This caused Star to plummet to the ground, and land inside of a fountain. After becoming drenched, Star got up out of the water as her eyes glowed green with anger. She then fired many starbolts at the stereo system beasts; the starbolts had deadly accuracy and disposed of the beasts with each shot. Star flew out of the fountain to help other Titans.
Cyborg took on the escalator beast. He fired his sonic cannon multiple times at the snake-like escalator, but it did not faze it. The escalator beast slammed Cyborg to the ground, and proceeded to wrap around him. Cyborg had trouble breaking free, as the escalator beast made his grip even tighter. Robin ran towards Cyborg and threw a freezing disc at the beast. The beast froze instantly, and Cyborg broke free of the beasts' grip. This caused the beast to shatter.
Control Freak was astonished, and began to find more stuff to control. Thinking quickly, Robin threw a disc at Control Freak. The disc hit Control Freak's hand, and he dropped the remote. Robin threw a grappling hook towards his remote, and snagged it. Robin pulled the remote towards him, and broke it in two. Control Freak screamed out a "Nooo!" as his life and joy: his remote was broken. Robin then grabbed him by the scruff and said
"At least you get out of the house. But, we're taking you in." Robin growled.
"GAH! I'll get you one day, Titans! You'll see!" screamed a desperate Control Freak.
Unbeknownst to the Titans or Control Freak, Balnazzar was in the shadows of the mall watching the whole thing.
"Heh-heh-heh...my time is now..." said Balnazzar. Balnazzar broke the glass leading to the roof, and leaped up onto the roof.
The police threw Control Freak into the paddy wagon and closed it. Afterwards, the squad entered their vehicles. But, the squad commander needed a word with the Titans.
"Good work, Teen Titans. We could not have done it without you." the squad commander said. Robin expressed his condolences, as did the rest of the Titans. But, up on the roof, Balnazzar was about to leap off and make his move. An evil grin formed on his face; he was eager to make his move.
"Titans, how did you know how to take care of Control Freak? I mean...we try our best but we just can't—Agh!!" at that moment, Balnazzar leaped off of the roof of the mall and landed behind the squad commander. Balnazzar bit into the commander's neck quite harshly and began to suck his blood. The Titans watched in horror as they were seeing the squad commander become very thin by the second, as result of his blood being drained. 3 more seconds, Balnazzar removed his mouth and threw the squad commander—who was now drained completely of his lifeblood—onto the pavement.
"But they just can't seem to get the job done." cackled Balnazzar, as he was finishing the commander's sentence. Balnazzar then said "Ah! Tasty...it has been a few days since I quenched my thirst".
Robin and the other Titans were horrified at what they had witnessed. Robin, trying to get a hold of himself yelled "What the hell are you?!" The other Titans were too stunned to even utter a word.
The winged, vampiric demon replied.
"I am called Balnazzar. And what you saw was just a—taste—heh-heh...of what's to come!" At that moment, Balnazzar extended his claws and swiped at the Titans. Robin ducked and punched at his chest. But, Balnazzar's armor is too strong to even be dented. After Robin's failed attempt, Balnazzar used a strong backhand attack to send Robin flying 8 feet before hitting the ground.
Starfire was frightened, and could not concentrate. She fired starbolts, but each one missed.
"I guess target practice hasn't paid off yet?" Balnazzar asked, smirking. Balnazzar then jerked his right hand back and yelled "Carrion Swarm!!" he swiped his hand towards Starfire, and a big flock of carrion bats to swarm around Starfire. As they bats flew around Star, biting and clawing her, she became ever more fearful.
Raven tried throwing lampposts and vehicles at Balnazzar, but he just evaded them by flying into the air. As Raven was trying to find other objects, Balnazzar flew directly down at her and grabbed her by the arm. Once he did, he flew right back into the air. Raven tried desperately to make him let go; swipes of dark magic, punches, kicks, anything she could...but it did not stop him.
"Stop it, wench! It doesn't matter if you make me lose my grip, because one way or the other you are going back to solid GROUND!" Balnazzar yelled, and after he said this, he threw Raven down to the ground with great force. Raven was flying towards the ground so fast, she could not engage flight. After a few seconds, Raven collided into a parked vehicle. Struggling to move out of the now destroyed vehicle, Raven was incapacitated for the moment.
Cyborg rushed at Balnazzar, with a fist extended. Balnazzar saw this raging bull of a man and waved both his arms in the air, as if casting a spell. Shortly thereafter, Cyborg felt extremely drowsy. "Ugh...what's happening...to...me...agh.." Cyborg fell asleep before he could even strike at Balnazzar. "Sweet nightmares" Balnazzar whispered menacingly.
Beast Boy morphed into an elephant and charged directly at Balnazzar. Balnazzar saw BB and leaped onto his back. Balnazzar began to claw at BB's back repeatedly. BB roared in pain and morphed into a gorilla. Balnazzar fell off of BB due to the sudden change and was slightly disoriented. BB swiped at Balnazzar with strong punches, but Balnazzar dodged each attack. Balnazzar then struck BB with the long, curved horns on his head. BB flew slightly into the air before falling back down. Balnazzar approached the downed Beast Boy--who had now reverted to human form--and lifted him by the neck. At that moment, Robin intervened and struck Balnazzar in the side with a flying kick, thus causing Balnazzar to drop Beast Boy.
Robin engaged Balnazzar and gave him a few punches and kicks. Balnazzar took each of these hits, and stumbled around a bit. Balnazzar became increasingly angry as Robin began to continue his assault of punches and kicks. Using a quick palm strike, Balnazzar made Robin stumble back and hold his chest a bit in pain. Taking the opportunity presented to him, Balnazzar's right hand filled with demonic electricity. He then launched his right arm forward as a red bolt of electricity shot at Robin. The bolt hit Robin's chest, and Robin flew back 15 feet before slamming through the entrance doors of the mall. Robin's body pulsed with electricity as he struggled greatly to get up, trying to fight the convulsions caused by the magic.
Starfire disposed of the bats with a starbolt shockwave, and flew up towards Balnazzar.
"You are a vile, demonic being...and I will be the one to stop you!" Star yelled as she powered up a starbolt to it's maximum power.
Balnazzar snorted.
"Rethink your strategy. Because I have a LOT more tricks up my sleeve." He said as he shot his hand forward, a bolt of telekinesis hit Star, and she was halted, floating in the air in suspended animation. Balnazzar's eyes began to glow a crimson red as he formed an evil smile. Starfire grunted a bit in pain, than began to scream in pain as something was being forced out of her with Balnazzar's telekinesis. A moment later, a trail of red mist slowly came out of Star's neck. Balnazzar laughed an evil laugh as he trailed the red mist toward his hand.
Robin saw this in horror. And ignored his injuries, and rushed towards Balnazzar like a madman. Robin leaped up and kicked Balnazzar in the head extremely hard, thus dispelling his hold on Star. The blood of which Balnazzar forced out, was quickly returned to Star. But, Starfire was knocked unconscious because of the extreme pain caused with the blood extraction.
Balnazzar fell down holding the side of his head. After groaning a bit, he got up and said, "It's been fun Titans, but I've got bigger things ahead of me. And if you think this is the final time you'll see me, then think again; for I will be an event in your lives. Now, have some fun with these minions, if you will..." Balnazzar said as he summoned up 5 skeleton warriors, and flew away.
Robin was extremely angry at everything that went down, and shattered the skeletons with a throw of five mini-bombs. He rushed to Star and repeatedly asked if her if she was all right. Star woke up a few moments later, her eyes full of fear and pain.
"Robin? What...what happened here?" Starfire appeared to forget the events of which took place. Robin smiled in relief and said, "Nothing Star, just an error with Control Freak. Now, let's get back to the Tower".
Beast Boy woke Cyborg up, and Raven got off of the destroyed vehicle, still in pain.
"Where's that winged freak?!" Cyborg yelled, well beyond agitation.
"He's gone. Now let's get back to Titans Tower. We had a very...rough day." Robin said, his voice unusually soft and strained. The Titans then went back to the Tower.
Balnazzar arrived at the prison, where the man with the trenchcoat greeted him with a standing ovation.
"Outstanding performance, Balnazzar! But, this is only the beginning. We need to plot our next move. Come, you should rest and regain your strength." Balnazzar and the man with the trenchcoat entered the prison shortly thereafter.
Lord Darkscythe asked the man with the trenchcoat, "What is our next move?" the man with the trenchcoat replied, "We'll attack the Titans head on...all of us. And our name shall be feared!"
By Johannes "Damaramu" Cats
Before we begin, the Teen Titans are copyright to DC Comics/Marv Wolfman/Peter David and the Death Knight, Dreadlord, Lich, Crypt Lord, Dark Ranger and Pit Lord are all copyright to Blizzard Entertainment.
Chapter 2: Dracula Incarnate
Four days had passed since the events that took place at downtown. Ever since then, the Teen Titans had been trying to get any information they could out of them.
"What have we got so far?" asked Robin.
"Well...all we have so far is a sample of that venom the overgrown bug shot at Cyborg." said Raven. Robin demanded the sample, and Raven gave it to him. Robin took the sample to his room and began to research the venomous substance.
"Hmm...it has a very corrosive chemical in it...but, I don't see a poison that can be harmful to anybody. If that guy really wanted to hurt Cyborg, why didn't he shoot a poisonous substance?" asked a very curious Robin, mainly to himself. As he continued to research it, Starfire came into his room.
"Robin, you have been in there for a long amount of time. I wish for you to spend time in the living room!" said Starfire, becoming impatient by the second.
"Give me some time, Star. It's not like I am researching Slade." said a slightly annoyed Robin. Starfire stormed off, letting Robin's door close behind her. Robin watched his door for a minute, then continued to look for more information about these three warriors; it could not escape his mind.
Meanwhile, at the prison, the five undead warriors were plotting their next move.
"Darkscythe, Iceblade and Typhis...excellent job with the fight against the Titans. But, our presence is not yet truly felt. Our next move will be a post-attack. Eventually, the Titans will face somebody other than us. I don't care whom it is, but after they are done with him, her or it... one of us will make our move. That somebody is you, Balnazzar" said the man with the trenchcoat.
The winged, vampiric demon got up and said "Very well. I shall not disappoint you!" at that moment, Balnazzar left the prison, and hid in the shadows of the city...waiting for his moment to strike.
Back at Titans Tower, Cyborg was lifting his "REALLY big" weights to prepare for more butt kicking. He then gazed at his left arm and began to remember the fight with Typhis.
"Well, my arm is repaired. But, I can't help but think...what if he shoots that venom at my power cell? Gah! Why should I be worrying? I'll just have to predict him and make him pay for whatever mistake he'll make." said a pumped-up Cyborg. Before he could continue lifting weights, Robin called him to the living room.
"What's happenin'?" asked Cyborg.
"Well, that substance that was shot at your arm was not poisonous. Just an "acid" of sorts." Robin said.
"Huh. Well, I guess he was going easy on me. I can tell ya this, though: I am NOT gonna go easy on him next time we meet!" said Cyborg, who was still angry over the incident. At that moment, the alarms went off in the Tower. Starfire, Beast Boy and Raven entered the room shortly after.
"What's the situation?" asked Raven.
Robin powered on the monitor.
"Looks like Control Freak. Apparently, the couch potato found himself a new remote. Titans, GO!" Robin shouted. The Titans stormed out of the Tower shortly thereafter.
Control Freak was at the local mall wreaking all kinds of havoc he could. Crowds fled the mall in panic, and the local police force had their hands full with Control Freak's beasts.
"This mall is useless to me! Nobody has any Warp Trek movies or Outer Space Wars action figures!" whined Control Freak as he took control of anything near him with his remote; planters, lampposts, benches and even letters of nearby store signs fell victim to his control.
The police forces were trying their best to prevent Control Freak from doing any damage. Flashbangs, pistol fire, and other gadgets were no good. The police forces eventually fled the mall as well after the beasts began to attack them.
"This is no good! Fall back!" yelled the squad commander. After they retreated, the Titans entered the mall and confronted Control Freak.
"We meet again, Titans! And this time, there will be no sequel!" screeched Control Freak. At that moment, he commanded planter beasts to attack the Titans.
Cyborg readied his sonic cannon and fired it towards two of the planter beasts. They shattered instantly. Cyborg then disposed of the other three planter beasts by simply punching them a few times.
"Hey, geek boy! I hope you can do better than this, because I'm not even breakin' a sweat!" Cyborg taunted.
Control Freak retreated towards access to the upper level of the mall. He feigned defeat, but then yelled "Ha! You fools! You fell for it!" at that point, Control freak took control of a nearby escalator. The escalator burst out of it's stair holdings, and slithered like a snake, facing Cyborg. Control Freak ordered the rest of his beasts attack the rest of the Titans.
Robin was blocking the downward strikes of the bench beasts. The bench beasts were very aggressive, and showed no signs of halting their assault. Robin back hand-springed out of the way of the benches, and threw a handful of electric disks. The disks hit the bench beasts and because of their metal armrests and legs, they became electrocuted. Afterwards, the bench beasts fell onto the ground.
Raven took on the lamppost beasts. She threw many small objects, like a package of cards or a block of tile at the lamppost beasts. The beasts took the hits of each of these items, but appeared to not be fazed by each of them. Raven scrambled to think of a plan, and ran to a nearby sales cart and hid behind it. The lamppost beasts began to destroy the sales cart she was hiding behind, and Raven rolled out of the way of their assault. The beasts appeared to be distracted from smashing the cart into pieces. So, Raven took her opportunity and quickly slashed at the beasts with her dark magic. The beasts fell in two, and were taken care of. Raven then ran to help a fellow teammate in need.
Beast Boy was taking on the letters of the nearby "Joe's Steak Shack". The letters all flew at BB in an attempt to tackle him. BB tried to deflect them, but got dog piled by the letters. Beast Boy proceeded to morph into a gorilla and forced all the letters off of him. BB then slammed the ground and caused the ground to rip up, tossing some letters into the air. BB then morphed into a wooly mammoth and gored a few letters with his tusks. All the letters regrouped and formed into the shape of a human. BB rolled his eyes, and morphed into an ankylosaurus. With one great tail swipe, he shattered the human shape of the letters and caused the letters themselves to shatter into pieces. BB morphed back into human form and ran towards any other beasts.
Starfire proceeded to have a dogfight with a few stereo system beasts. The beasts proceeded to launch harmonic resonances at her, which made Star hold her ears in an attempt to make the terrible noise stop. This caused Star to plummet to the ground, and land inside of a fountain. After becoming drenched, Star got up out of the water as her eyes glowed green with anger. She then fired many starbolts at the stereo system beasts; the starbolts had deadly accuracy and disposed of the beasts with each shot. Star flew out of the fountain to help other Titans.
Cyborg took on the escalator beast. He fired his sonic cannon multiple times at the snake-like escalator, but it did not faze it. The escalator beast slammed Cyborg to the ground, and proceeded to wrap around him. Cyborg had trouble breaking free, as the escalator beast made his grip even tighter. Robin ran towards Cyborg and threw a freezing disc at the beast. The beast froze instantly, and Cyborg broke free of the beasts' grip. This caused the beast to shatter.
Control Freak was astonished, and began to find more stuff to control. Thinking quickly, Robin threw a disc at Control Freak. The disc hit Control Freak's hand, and he dropped the remote. Robin threw a grappling hook towards his remote, and snagged it. Robin pulled the remote towards him, and broke it in two. Control Freak screamed out a "Nooo!" as his life and joy: his remote was broken. Robin then grabbed him by the scruff and said
"At least you get out of the house. But, we're taking you in." Robin growled.
"GAH! I'll get you one day, Titans! You'll see!" screamed a desperate Control Freak.
Unbeknownst to the Titans or Control Freak, Balnazzar was in the shadows of the mall watching the whole thing.
"Heh-heh-heh...my time is now..." said Balnazzar. Balnazzar broke the glass leading to the roof, and leaped up onto the roof.
The police threw Control Freak into the paddy wagon and closed it. Afterwards, the squad entered their vehicles. But, the squad commander needed a word with the Titans.
"Good work, Teen Titans. We could not have done it without you." the squad commander said. Robin expressed his condolences, as did the rest of the Titans. But, up on the roof, Balnazzar was about to leap off and make his move. An evil grin formed on his face; he was eager to make his move.
"Titans, how did you know how to take care of Control Freak? I mean...we try our best but we just can't—Agh!!" at that moment, Balnazzar leaped off of the roof of the mall and landed behind the squad commander. Balnazzar bit into the commander's neck quite harshly and began to suck his blood. The Titans watched in horror as they were seeing the squad commander become very thin by the second, as result of his blood being drained. 3 more seconds, Balnazzar removed his mouth and threw the squad commander—who was now drained completely of his lifeblood—onto the pavement.
"But they just can't seem to get the job done." cackled Balnazzar, as he was finishing the commander's sentence. Balnazzar then said "Ah! Tasty...it has been a few days since I quenched my thirst".
Robin and the other Titans were horrified at what they had witnessed. Robin, trying to get a hold of himself yelled "What the hell are you?!" The other Titans were too stunned to even utter a word.
The winged, vampiric demon replied.
"I am called Balnazzar. And what you saw was just a—taste—heh-heh...of what's to come!" At that moment, Balnazzar extended his claws and swiped at the Titans. Robin ducked and punched at his chest. But, Balnazzar's armor is too strong to even be dented. After Robin's failed attempt, Balnazzar used a strong backhand attack to send Robin flying 8 feet before hitting the ground.
Starfire was frightened, and could not concentrate. She fired starbolts, but each one missed.
"I guess target practice hasn't paid off yet?" Balnazzar asked, smirking. Balnazzar then jerked his right hand back and yelled "Carrion Swarm!!" he swiped his hand towards Starfire, and a big flock of carrion bats to swarm around Starfire. As they bats flew around Star, biting and clawing her, she became ever more fearful.
Raven tried throwing lampposts and vehicles at Balnazzar, but he just evaded them by flying into the air. As Raven was trying to find other objects, Balnazzar flew directly down at her and grabbed her by the arm. Once he did, he flew right back into the air. Raven tried desperately to make him let go; swipes of dark magic, punches, kicks, anything she could...but it did not stop him.
"Stop it, wench! It doesn't matter if you make me lose my grip, because one way or the other you are going back to solid GROUND!" Balnazzar yelled, and after he said this, he threw Raven down to the ground with great force. Raven was flying towards the ground so fast, she could not engage flight. After a few seconds, Raven collided into a parked vehicle. Struggling to move out of the now destroyed vehicle, Raven was incapacitated for the moment.
Cyborg rushed at Balnazzar, with a fist extended. Balnazzar saw this raging bull of a man and waved both his arms in the air, as if casting a spell. Shortly thereafter, Cyborg felt extremely drowsy. "Ugh...what's happening...to...me...agh.." Cyborg fell asleep before he could even strike at Balnazzar. "Sweet nightmares" Balnazzar whispered menacingly.
Beast Boy morphed into an elephant and charged directly at Balnazzar. Balnazzar saw BB and leaped onto his back. Balnazzar began to claw at BB's back repeatedly. BB roared in pain and morphed into a gorilla. Balnazzar fell off of BB due to the sudden change and was slightly disoriented. BB swiped at Balnazzar with strong punches, but Balnazzar dodged each attack. Balnazzar then struck BB with the long, curved horns on his head. BB flew slightly into the air before falling back down. Balnazzar approached the downed Beast Boy--who had now reverted to human form--and lifted him by the neck. At that moment, Robin intervened and struck Balnazzar in the side with a flying kick, thus causing Balnazzar to drop Beast Boy.
Robin engaged Balnazzar and gave him a few punches and kicks. Balnazzar took each of these hits, and stumbled around a bit. Balnazzar became increasingly angry as Robin began to continue his assault of punches and kicks. Using a quick palm strike, Balnazzar made Robin stumble back and hold his chest a bit in pain. Taking the opportunity presented to him, Balnazzar's right hand filled with demonic electricity. He then launched his right arm forward as a red bolt of electricity shot at Robin. The bolt hit Robin's chest, and Robin flew back 15 feet before slamming through the entrance doors of the mall. Robin's body pulsed with electricity as he struggled greatly to get up, trying to fight the convulsions caused by the magic.
Starfire disposed of the bats with a starbolt shockwave, and flew up towards Balnazzar.
"You are a vile, demonic being...and I will be the one to stop you!" Star yelled as she powered up a starbolt to it's maximum power.
Balnazzar snorted.
"Rethink your strategy. Because I have a LOT more tricks up my sleeve." He said as he shot his hand forward, a bolt of telekinesis hit Star, and she was halted, floating in the air in suspended animation. Balnazzar's eyes began to glow a crimson red as he formed an evil smile. Starfire grunted a bit in pain, than began to scream in pain as something was being forced out of her with Balnazzar's telekinesis. A moment later, a trail of red mist slowly came out of Star's neck. Balnazzar laughed an evil laugh as he trailed the red mist toward his hand.
Robin saw this in horror. And ignored his injuries, and rushed towards Balnazzar like a madman. Robin leaped up and kicked Balnazzar in the head extremely hard, thus dispelling his hold on Star. The blood of which Balnazzar forced out, was quickly returned to Star. But, Starfire was knocked unconscious because of the extreme pain caused with the blood extraction.
Balnazzar fell down holding the side of his head. After groaning a bit, he got up and said, "It's been fun Titans, but I've got bigger things ahead of me. And if you think this is the final time you'll see me, then think again; for I will be an event in your lives. Now, have some fun with these minions, if you will..." Balnazzar said as he summoned up 5 skeleton warriors, and flew away.
Robin was extremely angry at everything that went down, and shattered the skeletons with a throw of five mini-bombs. He rushed to Star and repeatedly asked if her if she was all right. Star woke up a few moments later, her eyes full of fear and pain.
"Robin? What...what happened here?" Starfire appeared to forget the events of which took place. Robin smiled in relief and said, "Nothing Star, just an error with Control Freak. Now, let's get back to the Tower".
Beast Boy woke Cyborg up, and Raven got off of the destroyed vehicle, still in pain.
"Where's that winged freak?!" Cyborg yelled, well beyond agitation.
"He's gone. Now let's get back to Titans Tower. We had a very...rough day." Robin said, his voice unusually soft and strained. The Titans then went back to the Tower.
Balnazzar arrived at the prison, where the man with the trenchcoat greeted him with a standing ovation.
"Outstanding performance, Balnazzar! But, this is only the beginning. We need to plot our next move. Come, you should rest and regain your strength." Balnazzar and the man with the trenchcoat entered the prison shortly thereafter.
Lord Darkscythe asked the man with the trenchcoat, "What is our next move?" the man with the trenchcoat replied, "We'll attack the Titans head on...all of us. And our name shall be feared!"