This here is one of the toughest chapters I ever worked on. The Titans and
LM crashed the meeting. Now they must fight in order to find the location
of the Alterer. Will they survive against six gangs?
Eighteenth Chapter Notes
I put names of the two samurai swords from the game Soul Calibur 2. I'm adding a mix of fight scenes from different movies, including the Matrix trilogy. Some parts could be violent so bear with me.
Disclaimer: I don't own the fight scenes.
Warning: This could get messy.
Chapter 18: Party Crashers
Two guards waited at the wooden doors outside the meeting. Just then, something in the dark was walking towards them. When it came to the light, it was LM walking to the doors.
Guard 4: No way.
Guard 5: Holy shit, it can't be.
LM continued to walk towards the doors when one of the guards blocked it.
Guard 4: Oh, now I see. You are now ready to die.
LM: I need to speak with your boss. You could either let me in the easy way, or the hard way.
Guard 4: The only way you getting through those doors, is over my dead body.
The guard pointed his gun at LM's forehead.
LM: Why do you people always pick the hard way?
LM did a jump flip kick to knock off the pistol. He then did hand to hand combat on the guard. The other guard immediately took out his pistol but it was knocked off by a birdarang. He looked at what threw that birdarang and saw Robin rushing towards him. Robin did a series of punches on the guard and finished him by jumping over him and tossed him straight into a wall. LM continued fighting with the other guard until the guard did a straight fist at LM. LM blocked it, grabbed the guard's fist, and twisted it like a pretzel. He finished the guard by jumping up with his arms wide open and his legs bended and gave a hard kick to the guard's gut. The guard flew straight to the wooden doors, and got smashed through them. LM walked through the doors and saw Raven standing there, still alive, and the gangs and Merovingian were staring at him. The Titans then walked through the doors one by one and stood there in a line with LM in the middle.
LM: Is this a private party, or can anybody join in?
Merovingian looked at LM and had that evil smirk on his face.
Merovingian: Well, well, well. The successor of Neo has returned. Comment allez-vous? Are you here to terminate me again, LM? (evil laughter) Tell me, how many bullets are in that shotgun of yours? Oh I don't know, but I don't care. Perhaps I should see for myself.
LM: I'm not here to listen to your shit Merv, I'm only here to talk.
Merovingian: Talk? I see. Is this about the Alterer?
LM: Yes, it is. And if you don't tell me, I'm going to let the Teen Titans whoop your ass.
Merovingian: The Teen Titans?
Merovingain looked at the Titans wearing different outfits.
Merovingian: (soft laughter) Isn't this a surprise, the Teen Titans in the flesh. Permettez-moi de me presenter. I am Merovingian; this is my beloved wife Persephone.
Robin: We already know who you are.
Starfire: And LM told us a lot about you.
Merovingian: Really? Well what did my adversary said about me?
Starfire: He said that you're an evil man.
Merovingian: Evil? Ah mademoiselle, I'm not evil, I'm just doing what's right.
Robin: And when you're working with Slade, that counts as evil.
Slade: (on the screen) Robin, I'm surprised at you. After what I taught you when you were my apprentice, you spit it in my face. And by the way you look, I see you pulled all the stops.
Robin: Don't make this difficult. I was once you're apprentice because you forced me. I won't let you do it the same thing all over again.
Slade: (on the screen) You got guts boy. Luckily, I can change all that.
Slade then looked at Terra and saw her eyes filled with rage.
Slade: (on the screen) Terra, so glad to see you again.
Terra: Don't give me that warm welcome crap Slade. I thought I killed you at the volcano two months ago.
Slade: (on the screen) And so you did Terra. But you forgot one thing about me; I'm always a step ahead. You see the real reason you came to me is that have to control your powers. You never wanted to be my apprentice and I knew you would betray me. So I decided to bring one of my robotic doubles to the volcano in case you turned your back on me. I guess I was right all along.
Terra: I should've known.
LM: (looking at Terra) Hey Terra, hate to end this so called family reunion, but we have a mission to handle. (looking at Merovingian) Now Merovingian, why this relationship with Slade?
Merovingian: It's quite simple LM. You see, there's something in this business we like to call, Causality. Action reaction, cause and effect. I give Slade the parts for the Alterer, he creates it, and in return, we get 50/50 of the Matrix, along with a couple supporters that share our vision.
LM: You're a bastard.
Merovingian: Oh, bastard is such a strong word LM, I prefer to be called a genius. Now I know you like to follow orders, so I'm going to make this as clear as possible. Run to your commander from Zion, and tell him that their time is up.
LM: Not until you answer me one more question. I could tell that Slade has the Alterer, now where is it?
Merovingian: So this is what it's all about. You want to destroy my creation, is it?
LM: It's not your creation Merv. That device is 01's property and you stole it.
Slade: (on the screen) Hmm... This is interesting. Merovingian, I'll let you have a little fun with your enemy and the Titans. I'm going to make the final checks on our device.
Merovingian: We monsieur Slade, I'll teach them respect.
Slade: (on the screen) And Robin, if you and your friends survive his wrath, who knows. I'll make all of you into my apprentices. Good luck.
And with that, the projector screen went blank as Slade disappeared.
Robin: Slade!
One member of each gang and the vampire guard slowly approached the team holding different rifles.
Merovingian: Well, since you won't follow my order, you leave me with no other choice. When you go to heaven and see your teacher, tell him that Merovingian sent you.
He snapped his fingers and all the members loaded their rifles and pointed the Titans and LM.
Beast Boy: This won't end well.
All the Titans ducked down but LM stood with his hand held up in front of members. The members started to fire on the team but the bullets seemed to stop halfway from them. Robin and the rest of the Titans looked up and saw LM stopping the bullets with his bear hand. Once all the rifles were out of ammo, LM dropped his hand and, at the same time, the bullets dropped to the ground. All the Titans were speechless.
Robin: (in thought) How did he do that?
Merovingian was getting more pissed off then ever.
Merovingian: O.K. so Neo taught you well. Kill them.
The few members dropped their rifles while the members of the Skinz, the Innocentz, and the Crazy 88 took out a machete knife, a hammer, and a samurai sword. LM removed strap around his body and loaded his XM1014 shotgun.
LM: Get ready Titans; this is going to be one hell of a ride.
All the Titans snapped out of their trance and positioned themselves for battle.
Robin: Teen Titans, GO!
Six members and the vampire guard attacked the team. Robin was fighting a Skinz member holding a machete knife, Starfire's battling one of the Smileys, Cyborg is dooking out with a member from Anarchy 99, Raven fought against Funboy, Beast Boy avoids an Innocentz member holding a hammer, Terra brought the action to member of the Crazy 88, and LM fighting off the vampire guard. LM punched the vampire guard in the face and shot him in the chest with his shotgun. Robin hit the Skinz member in the gut and finished it with a knee strike to the chin, leaving the member unconscious. Starfire jumped over the Smileys member and shot her eye beams to the back of his head. Cyborg knocked the Anarchy 99 member out by twisting the members arm, and elbow dropped him to the neck. Raven levitated Funboy and threw him to an outside window, sending him down to the concrete ground. Beast Boy ducked down the hammer swing from an Innocentz member and morphed into a snake. He bit the member's leg and left the member paralyzed. Terra, however, is having trouble with the member of the Crazy 88. The member was wielding his sword at Terra, but she quickly dodged each slash until she tripped and fell. The Crazy 88 member was about to strike down on Terra until his head got shot out by a weapon. Terra looked at her left and saw LM holding the shotgun.
LM: You're O.K.?
Terra, who was shaking in fear, gave a small nod.
LM: Good. (looking at Merovingian) Merovingian, this is getting way old, way fast. I only want an answer.
Merovingian: And you are starting to lose my patience. Gentlemen, whoever kills off LM and the Titans first will be part of my own personal army.
Johnny Mo: Sounds good to me.
Just like that, they all took out their weapons. Even their leaders stood up took their weapons out.
Starfire: (getting nervous) Perhaps we should leave before we become bodies of decapitation.
LM: No, we stay here and fight.
Robin: Let me guess, another challenge for you?
LM: You could say that. (reloaded his shotgun) Let's rock!
LM and the Titans charged forward and attacked all the gangs. Robin and Cyborg teamed up to take on a Smileys member holding a meat cleaver and a Skinz member holding a pistol. The Skinz member started to fire on Cyborg, but Cyborg's armor underneath his coat bounced the bullets off him. Robin took his Bo Staff out of his utility belt and block off meat cleaver that the Smileys member was swinging. After a couple of attempted blocks, Robin used his staff to jab the Smileys member in the gut, then took the meat cleaver and struck the member in the shoulder. The Skinz member continued firing on Cyborg until his pistol ran empty. Cyborg immediately brought his hard metal fist to the member's face, knocking him out cold. Starfire fought off an Innocentz member until the member dodged her last punch. He stood behind her, took some wire out of his pocket, and started to choke up Starfire's neck.
Innocentz 1: Got air little girl?
Starfire: (getting choked) I'm sorry to disappoint you, but I'm stronger then I LOOK!
Starfire lifted her knee and gave the member a hard low blow. She broke free from the wire and blast a star bolt at the member's chest, sending him flying straight to a pillar. Beast Boy changed into a gorilla and was handling a member from Anarchy 99. The member was holding a switchblade knife and was striking Beast Boy left to right. Beast Boy was able to lift the member and snapped his spine in two with a hard knee drive. Terra's fighting off another Smileys member until the member shoved Terra down to the floor and pointed a pistol at her.
Smileys 1: Any last words, blonde?
Terra: Yes. Going down.
Terra's hands started to glow as the floor around the Smileys member started to crack around him. The ground ripped open and the member started to fall down to the ground. Raven was busy with a member of the Skinz but she got kicked in the back by Tin Tin, one of the T-Birds.
Tin Tin: You wanna play games black bird?
Tin Tin gave another kick in the Raven's gut. Raven, who's in pain, crawled away from Tin Tin.
Tin Tin: Allow me to introduce you to a few of my friends. (took out four blades for each hand) We never miss.
Tin Tin threw the blades at Raven, but Raven used her telekinesis powers to stop all the blades. She turned them around and pointed them at Tin Tin.
Tin Tin: Shit!
Tin Tin started to run, but Raven send the blades back to Tin Tin, stabbing him in the back. Raven looked at the lifeless body with an emotionless smirk on her face.
Raven: You're right, they never miss.
Meanwhile, LM was busy taking shots off anything that moves towards him. He used his shotgun to take down a Skinz member, an Anarchy 99 member, and a Smileys member. Then an Innocentz member came out of nowhere and used his sickle knife to slice LM's shotgun in half. The member laughed at LM, but LM retaliated by using the broken shotgun as a weapon. He gave a few kicks and used the one half of the shotgun to give off the final blow to the member's head. He looked at the shotgun and and was disappointed.
LM: I hope Kill Switch has a warranty on this.
LM dropped the broken gun and looked at the weapons display where he saw the Masamune samurai sword. However, he also saw T-Bird behind the weapons display holding a pistol as well.
T-Bird: You're going to pay for what you did to Funboy and Tin Tin.
T-Bird pointed his pistol and started firing. LM quickly ran and took out his Mac 11 out of his weaponry belt. He ran up to a wall, jumped on and off, and fired his Mac 11 upside down, putting bullet holes through T-Bird. LM landed on the ground, put the Mac 11 away, and approached the weaponry display. He picked up the Masamune sword and removed the covering of it. He then looked at two members of the Crazy 88, holding their samurai swords.
LM: Who's first?
Two of the members approached LM and start swinging their swords. LM blocked the attacks and did some Japanese like maneuvers on the Crazy 88 members. He immediately sliced one member's hand with the sword off, then slashed the other member in the chest. Heading back to Robin, he was taking care of an Anarchy 99 member holding two axes in each hand. The member threw the first axe but Robin dodged it. He quickly looks behind him and saw Cyborg battling out a Crazy 88 member.
Robin: Cyborg look out!
Cyborg ducked down and at the same time, the axe penetrated trough the Crazy 88 member's face. The Anarchy 99 member threw another axe but Robin caught it and threw it back to that member, giving him a splitting headache, literally. Terra took cover behind a pillar from shotgun shots from an Innocentz member and a Smileys member. She quickly used her powers to collapse part of a ceiling and crushed the two members. Starfire assisted Beast Boy in dealing with a Skinz member holding a steel bat and a T-Birds member, Skank, holding a rusted blade. The Skinz member swung his bat at the alien girl, but Starfire flew and dodged each swing. Skank went after Beast Boy, but Beast Boy morphed into a bat and did some swift flying to avoid Skank's blade. Starfire charged up her star bolts and fired at the steel bat the Skinz member was holding, making the member let go of the hot bat. She lifted her leg and gave a hard kick the member in the chin. Skank continued to strike a fast moving Beast Boy, but Beast Boy flew up, morphed into a tiger, and pounced on Skank, ripping him to shreds. Raven was blocking off the physical punches of another Innocentz member with her magic. The member gave a Raven a real hard kick in the stomach. Raven went to the ground, feeling pain, as the Innocentz member took out his sickle and approached her.
Raven: Don't come any closer.
Innocentz 2: What's the matter, afraid of being dissected?
All of a sudden, Raven's eyes turned bright blood red as a black aurora appeared in front of the Innocentz member. A dark talon came out of the black wall and grabbed the Innocentz member. It slowly pulled the member into the portal.
Innocentz 2: What are you doing? You crazy bitch! Let me go!
Raven: (evil voice) What's the matter, afraid of being eaten alive?
The member got sucked into the portal, and his scream faded away. The portal disappeared and Raven went back to her emotionless self.
Raven: This is what happens when you mess with my emotions.
LM was handling members from left to right when he saw Johnny Mo in front of him holding a long bamboo staff. Johnny Mo charged up to LM and did a number of strikes with his staff, but LM blocked it off with his sword. LM was going to make a clean cut to Johnny's head, but Johnny blocked it with his staff. He then opened his staff, revealing a Shamshir samurai sword. Johnny did a quick swing, but LM jumped back. He did manage to get out of the way, but when he look down, he saw his black tie cut in half. He looked up at Johnny and saw a wicked smile on his face as he positioned his sword for battle. LM removed the cut tie off his red buttoned shirt and positioned his own sword. At the same time, they started performing their battle of sword swinging mayhem on each other. After the attempts of swings and blocks, LM managed strike his sword and cut Johnny's own tie. Johnny looked down at his cut tie then looked at LM with pure anger.
LM: Touché...
They continued their battle a number of high and low moves. Johnny tried a hard swing to the waist, but LM bent back and Johnny's sword missed by an inch. LM retaliated by stabbing Johnny in the gut. Johnny Mo dropped his sword and fell to his knees in pain.
Johnny Mo: Shit, not again.
LM finished off Johnny by slicing his head off, letting the blood squirt from his neck. Merovingian looked at the battle and knows that it's not going too well. He decided to do only thing he can do.
Merovingian: Looks like it's time to go. Come my love.
Merovingian grabbed Persephone by the arm and headed to the exit. LM was a little busy, but he made a quick look and saw Merovingian, Persephone, the Trainman, Cain, and Abel left the same way they enter. LM knows that if they leave, he'll never know where the Alterer is. LM was about to follow him but he heard Robin's voice.
Robin: LM, look out behind you!
LM turned around and struck his sword on a Smileys member. Another member from Anarchy 99 came up from behind LM holding a meat cleaver, but Robin jumped on and off the table and kicked that member in the face.
Robin: Are you O.K.?
LM: Yeah, but Merovingian's getting away. I'm going after him! Think you guys can finish cleaning house?
Robin: Not a problem.
LM picked up Johnny Mo's samurai sword and headed to the exit. He used both swords to slice up Baby Face, a Crazy 88 member, and an Anarchy 99 member. Bloody Face saw LM heading for the exit and pointed his UZI sub- machine gun at LM. Cyborg came behind of Bloody Face and tried to grab the UZI. Bloody Face opened fire but only hit money and beer bottles on the table and the lights on the ceiling. Cyborg twisted Bloody Face's wrist and punched him hard in the gut. Outside the meeting, Merovingian, Persephone, the Trainman, Cain, and Abel were walking on the catwalk above the crowd.
LM: Merovingian!
The Frenchman turned around and saw LM walking towards them holding two swords in each hand.
LM: We're not finished here!
Merovingian: The boy never learns. Cain!
Cain: Yes sir.
Cain stepped forward while the rest of them continued walking down the catwalk. Cain took out two Sais from his vest and held it on each hand. LM stood there with his swords waiting for the right moment to attack.
LM: Get out of the way Cain, if you know what's good for you.
Cain: I will as soon as I kill you.
With that said, Cain approached LM, spinning his Sais around. LM attempted to block the Sais with his swords high and low. Together, they perform unimaginable skills with each other by jumping up and down and swung their weapons at each other. Cain used his Sias to strike down at LM, but LM jumped on the poles of the catwalk and jumped up, seconds before Cain brought down his Sais. LM went over Cain and landed right behind him. Cain turned around and was about to attack, but LM surprised Cain, used Johnny Mo's sword to penetrate Cain's gut, and kicked him off the catwalk. Cain plummeted down to the stage landed on the sound system, causing it to explode and sparks were flying. Everyone in the club started to panic.
Fan: Run!
Everyone left the club in a hurry, screaming to move. Vampire guards looked up and saw LM on the catwalk. Half the guards went up to the catwalk while the other half was at the ground firing their G36 Rifles. LM started to run to avoid the gun shots and took out a grenade out of his belt. He threw it down to the guards at the ground floor and within seconds the grenade blew up, causing the guards to fly all over the club. LM quickly took out his Mac 11 and pointed it to the guards up the catwalk. He focused his targets, jumped up, and fired on the guards bringing them back to the ground floor. LM was heading to the doors that Merovingian exited when he saw one final guard pointed the rifle at him. LM threw his sword up in the air, did a number of somersaults, and jumped off the catwalk, high enough to grab the sword. The guard was about to fire but LM grabbed his sword and did one clean cut through the guard. LM landed in front of the doors and went through them while, at the same time, the guard got split in half from the waist. Back at the meeting room, the Titans were busy fighting off the rest of the gang members. Robin threw a birdarang at a Smileys member's chest, Starfire shot a star bolt at Yorgi that crashes him through a window, Cyborg blasted his sonic cannon at an Innocentz member, Terra and Raven teamed up and crushed a Skinz member with two stone slabs, and Beast Boy, in Lion mode, was ripping up a member of the Crazy 88. Mr. Killer was standing in back of the broken doors holding two MP5 sub-machine guns.
Mr. Killer: See you all in Hell you teenage FREAKS!
Mr. Killer fired his MP5's at the team putting bullet holes through the walls. Raven formed black walls to protect the team from the bullets. Robin took out two birdarangs out and threw them at the guns. They connected to Mr. Killer's hands and made him dropped the guns, allowing the team to move forward and attack Mr. Killer. Mr. Killer took out two Kamas out and made quick strikes on the Titans. Robin took out his Bo Staff and blocked the Kamas left to right. While Mr. Killer was distracted, Starfire fired her star bolts and shot out the two Kamas. Cyborg came in, lifted Mr. Killer up in the air, and threw him out the window, sending him down to the ground floor of the club. They thought that were finished with the meeting, but the final Crazy 88 member was slowly came behind them. All the Titans turned around and were prepared for battle, but what they saw is a 12 year old boy holding a sword and was shaking. Robin swung his staff around and knocked the sword off the kid's hand. The kid immediately got scared as Starfire picked him up and spanked him in the ass a couple of times.
Starfire: This is what you get for joining a gang and playing with swords mister. Go home and think about what you've done.
The kid got out of the meeting room crying his eyes out. The Titans looked around the meeting, noticing everything destroyed, gang members either unconscious or dead, and blood splattered everywhere.
Beast Boy: Well, I guess it's a first time for everything. Right Robin?
Robin: Yeah, for once your right Beast Boy. Sometimes you have to sacrifice everything in order to- Oh shit!
Raven: What?
Robin: LM, he's chasing after Merovingian. We have to find him before he gets into any trouble. Titans go!
All the Titans headed to where Merovingian exited followed the number of bodies that LM attacked. Meanwhile, Merovingian, Persephone, the Trainman, and Abel walked down a dark hallway, which led to two steel doors where two guards were guarding. Abel took a key out of his vest pocket and inserted the key through the keyhole of the doors. When Abel opened them up, they all entered the main hall of the Chateau with two circular staircases, a few statues, and a number of weapons on the walls. Merovingian thought he got away from LM when he heard his voice again.
LM: Going somewhere Merv?
Merovingian turned around and saw LM holding the Masamune sword drenched in blood. Two vampire guards loaded their rifles but the Frenchman stopped them there.
Merovingian: Do you ever get tired of chasing me LM?
LM: Well since you're a nescience to the Matrix, I have no other choice. Besides, you still haven't answered my question yet. So where is the Alterer?
Merovigian: That's for me to know, and you to find out. Abel, dispose of this wrench.
Abel: Yes sir.
Abel jumped up to the stairs and grabbed a shield and a sword with three points at the end. He jumped down and was battle ready. LM positioned himself for battle as Abel charged towards him. They swing their swords as sparks flew out off them. LM tried to strike his sword to Abel, but Abel's shield was covering his body. LM avoided Abel's swings and blocked off Abel's sword with his sword. LM broke off the block and attacked Abel, but Abel blocked the sword off with his shield. Abel swung his sword low, but LM jumped away from it. LM decided to attack him at the weakest point, his feet. After a couple of strikes and blocks, Abel made a quick swing to LM's head. LM ducked down, did a break dancing move, and cut off both of Abel's feet. Abel fell down as the blood gushed out of his legs. LM got up and used his sword to strike down on Abel's heart. Merovingian looked at the battle in disgust.
Merovingian: Dammit it's so hard to find good help these days.
LM looked up at Merovingian but was interrupted by a voice.
Beast Boy: LM.
LM looked behind him and saw the Titans coming towards him.
Cyborg: Your all right man?
LM: Never better. (looking at Merovingian) Now Merovingian, one final chance. Where is the Alterer?
Merovingian: I'm not going to tell you anything. But mock my words boy, and mock them well. I have survived your predecessors, I have survived your savior, and I will survive you.
Merovingian walked away as the guards closed the doors. LM ran to the doors as fast as he could, but it was too late. The doors closed and LM opened them up again, but instead of a Chateau, it was a storage room filled with ladders, tools, and other types of equipment. LM released all his anger out and attacked anything he sees in the storage room.
Robin: LM, please control yourself.
Starfire: Yes LM, please don't be angry. We are victorious.
LM slowly walked up to the Titans and punched a hole through the wall.
LM: Slade has the device and we don't know where it is. Does that count as a victory to YOU?
LM, still filled with anger, walked away from the Titans.
Beast Boy: What's his deal?
Robin: I don't know but we better follow him before he brings down the whole club.
The Titans followed LM, hoping to calm LM's nerves.
French Dictionary
comment allez-vous? – How are you? Permettez-moi de me presenter. – Allow me to introduce myself. Mademoiselle – miss Monsieur - mister
Well, it's been a long chapter, but it was worth it. If you like this chapter or have a few problems with it, please review.
Eighteenth Chapter Notes
I put names of the two samurai swords from the game Soul Calibur 2. I'm adding a mix of fight scenes from different movies, including the Matrix trilogy. Some parts could be violent so bear with me.
Disclaimer: I don't own the fight scenes.
Warning: This could get messy.
Chapter 18: Party Crashers
Two guards waited at the wooden doors outside the meeting. Just then, something in the dark was walking towards them. When it came to the light, it was LM walking to the doors.
Guard 4: No way.
Guard 5: Holy shit, it can't be.
LM continued to walk towards the doors when one of the guards blocked it.
Guard 4: Oh, now I see. You are now ready to die.
LM: I need to speak with your boss. You could either let me in the easy way, or the hard way.
Guard 4: The only way you getting through those doors, is over my dead body.
The guard pointed his gun at LM's forehead.
LM: Why do you people always pick the hard way?
LM did a jump flip kick to knock off the pistol. He then did hand to hand combat on the guard. The other guard immediately took out his pistol but it was knocked off by a birdarang. He looked at what threw that birdarang and saw Robin rushing towards him. Robin did a series of punches on the guard and finished him by jumping over him and tossed him straight into a wall. LM continued fighting with the other guard until the guard did a straight fist at LM. LM blocked it, grabbed the guard's fist, and twisted it like a pretzel. He finished the guard by jumping up with his arms wide open and his legs bended and gave a hard kick to the guard's gut. The guard flew straight to the wooden doors, and got smashed through them. LM walked through the doors and saw Raven standing there, still alive, and the gangs and Merovingian were staring at him. The Titans then walked through the doors one by one and stood there in a line with LM in the middle.
LM: Is this a private party, or can anybody join in?
Merovingian looked at LM and had that evil smirk on his face.
Merovingian: Well, well, well. The successor of Neo has returned. Comment allez-vous? Are you here to terminate me again, LM? (evil laughter) Tell me, how many bullets are in that shotgun of yours? Oh I don't know, but I don't care. Perhaps I should see for myself.
LM: I'm not here to listen to your shit Merv, I'm only here to talk.
Merovingian: Talk? I see. Is this about the Alterer?
LM: Yes, it is. And if you don't tell me, I'm going to let the Teen Titans whoop your ass.
Merovingian: The Teen Titans?
Merovingain looked at the Titans wearing different outfits.
Merovingian: (soft laughter) Isn't this a surprise, the Teen Titans in the flesh. Permettez-moi de me presenter. I am Merovingian; this is my beloved wife Persephone.
Robin: We already know who you are.
Starfire: And LM told us a lot about you.
Merovingian: Really? Well what did my adversary said about me?
Starfire: He said that you're an evil man.
Merovingian: Evil? Ah mademoiselle, I'm not evil, I'm just doing what's right.
Robin: And when you're working with Slade, that counts as evil.
Slade: (on the screen) Robin, I'm surprised at you. After what I taught you when you were my apprentice, you spit it in my face. And by the way you look, I see you pulled all the stops.
Robin: Don't make this difficult. I was once you're apprentice because you forced me. I won't let you do it the same thing all over again.
Slade: (on the screen) You got guts boy. Luckily, I can change all that.
Slade then looked at Terra and saw her eyes filled with rage.
Slade: (on the screen) Terra, so glad to see you again.
Terra: Don't give me that warm welcome crap Slade. I thought I killed you at the volcano two months ago.
Slade: (on the screen) And so you did Terra. But you forgot one thing about me; I'm always a step ahead. You see the real reason you came to me is that have to control your powers. You never wanted to be my apprentice and I knew you would betray me. So I decided to bring one of my robotic doubles to the volcano in case you turned your back on me. I guess I was right all along.
Terra: I should've known.
LM: (looking at Terra) Hey Terra, hate to end this so called family reunion, but we have a mission to handle. (looking at Merovingian) Now Merovingian, why this relationship with Slade?
Merovingian: It's quite simple LM. You see, there's something in this business we like to call, Causality. Action reaction, cause and effect. I give Slade the parts for the Alterer, he creates it, and in return, we get 50/50 of the Matrix, along with a couple supporters that share our vision.
LM: You're a bastard.
Merovingian: Oh, bastard is such a strong word LM, I prefer to be called a genius. Now I know you like to follow orders, so I'm going to make this as clear as possible. Run to your commander from Zion, and tell him that their time is up.
LM: Not until you answer me one more question. I could tell that Slade has the Alterer, now where is it?
Merovingian: So this is what it's all about. You want to destroy my creation, is it?
LM: It's not your creation Merv. That device is 01's property and you stole it.
Slade: (on the screen) Hmm... This is interesting. Merovingian, I'll let you have a little fun with your enemy and the Titans. I'm going to make the final checks on our device.
Merovingian: We monsieur Slade, I'll teach them respect.
Slade: (on the screen) And Robin, if you and your friends survive his wrath, who knows. I'll make all of you into my apprentices. Good luck.
And with that, the projector screen went blank as Slade disappeared.
Robin: Slade!
One member of each gang and the vampire guard slowly approached the team holding different rifles.
Merovingian: Well, since you won't follow my order, you leave me with no other choice. When you go to heaven and see your teacher, tell him that Merovingian sent you.
He snapped his fingers and all the members loaded their rifles and pointed the Titans and LM.
Beast Boy: This won't end well.
All the Titans ducked down but LM stood with his hand held up in front of members. The members started to fire on the team but the bullets seemed to stop halfway from them. Robin and the rest of the Titans looked up and saw LM stopping the bullets with his bear hand. Once all the rifles were out of ammo, LM dropped his hand and, at the same time, the bullets dropped to the ground. All the Titans were speechless.
Robin: (in thought) How did he do that?
Merovingian was getting more pissed off then ever.
Merovingian: O.K. so Neo taught you well. Kill them.
The few members dropped their rifles while the members of the Skinz, the Innocentz, and the Crazy 88 took out a machete knife, a hammer, and a samurai sword. LM removed strap around his body and loaded his XM1014 shotgun.
LM: Get ready Titans; this is going to be one hell of a ride.
All the Titans snapped out of their trance and positioned themselves for battle.
Robin: Teen Titans, GO!
Six members and the vampire guard attacked the team. Robin was fighting a Skinz member holding a machete knife, Starfire's battling one of the Smileys, Cyborg is dooking out with a member from Anarchy 99, Raven fought against Funboy, Beast Boy avoids an Innocentz member holding a hammer, Terra brought the action to member of the Crazy 88, and LM fighting off the vampire guard. LM punched the vampire guard in the face and shot him in the chest with his shotgun. Robin hit the Skinz member in the gut and finished it with a knee strike to the chin, leaving the member unconscious. Starfire jumped over the Smileys member and shot her eye beams to the back of his head. Cyborg knocked the Anarchy 99 member out by twisting the members arm, and elbow dropped him to the neck. Raven levitated Funboy and threw him to an outside window, sending him down to the concrete ground. Beast Boy ducked down the hammer swing from an Innocentz member and morphed into a snake. He bit the member's leg and left the member paralyzed. Terra, however, is having trouble with the member of the Crazy 88. The member was wielding his sword at Terra, but she quickly dodged each slash until she tripped and fell. The Crazy 88 member was about to strike down on Terra until his head got shot out by a weapon. Terra looked at her left and saw LM holding the shotgun.
LM: You're O.K.?
Terra, who was shaking in fear, gave a small nod.
LM: Good. (looking at Merovingian) Merovingian, this is getting way old, way fast. I only want an answer.
Merovingian: And you are starting to lose my patience. Gentlemen, whoever kills off LM and the Titans first will be part of my own personal army.
Johnny Mo: Sounds good to me.
Just like that, they all took out their weapons. Even their leaders stood up took their weapons out.
Starfire: (getting nervous) Perhaps we should leave before we become bodies of decapitation.
LM: No, we stay here and fight.
Robin: Let me guess, another challenge for you?
LM: You could say that. (reloaded his shotgun) Let's rock!
LM and the Titans charged forward and attacked all the gangs. Robin and Cyborg teamed up to take on a Smileys member holding a meat cleaver and a Skinz member holding a pistol. The Skinz member started to fire on Cyborg, but Cyborg's armor underneath his coat bounced the bullets off him. Robin took his Bo Staff out of his utility belt and block off meat cleaver that the Smileys member was swinging. After a couple of attempted blocks, Robin used his staff to jab the Smileys member in the gut, then took the meat cleaver and struck the member in the shoulder. The Skinz member continued firing on Cyborg until his pistol ran empty. Cyborg immediately brought his hard metal fist to the member's face, knocking him out cold. Starfire fought off an Innocentz member until the member dodged her last punch. He stood behind her, took some wire out of his pocket, and started to choke up Starfire's neck.
Innocentz 1: Got air little girl?
Starfire: (getting choked) I'm sorry to disappoint you, but I'm stronger then I LOOK!
Starfire lifted her knee and gave the member a hard low blow. She broke free from the wire and blast a star bolt at the member's chest, sending him flying straight to a pillar. Beast Boy changed into a gorilla and was handling a member from Anarchy 99. The member was holding a switchblade knife and was striking Beast Boy left to right. Beast Boy was able to lift the member and snapped his spine in two with a hard knee drive. Terra's fighting off another Smileys member until the member shoved Terra down to the floor and pointed a pistol at her.
Smileys 1: Any last words, blonde?
Terra: Yes. Going down.
Terra's hands started to glow as the floor around the Smileys member started to crack around him. The ground ripped open and the member started to fall down to the ground. Raven was busy with a member of the Skinz but she got kicked in the back by Tin Tin, one of the T-Birds.
Tin Tin: You wanna play games black bird?
Tin Tin gave another kick in the Raven's gut. Raven, who's in pain, crawled away from Tin Tin.
Tin Tin: Allow me to introduce you to a few of my friends. (took out four blades for each hand) We never miss.
Tin Tin threw the blades at Raven, but Raven used her telekinesis powers to stop all the blades. She turned them around and pointed them at Tin Tin.
Tin Tin: Shit!
Tin Tin started to run, but Raven send the blades back to Tin Tin, stabbing him in the back. Raven looked at the lifeless body with an emotionless smirk on her face.
Raven: You're right, they never miss.
Meanwhile, LM was busy taking shots off anything that moves towards him. He used his shotgun to take down a Skinz member, an Anarchy 99 member, and a Smileys member. Then an Innocentz member came out of nowhere and used his sickle knife to slice LM's shotgun in half. The member laughed at LM, but LM retaliated by using the broken shotgun as a weapon. He gave a few kicks and used the one half of the shotgun to give off the final blow to the member's head. He looked at the shotgun and and was disappointed.
LM: I hope Kill Switch has a warranty on this.
LM dropped the broken gun and looked at the weapons display where he saw the Masamune samurai sword. However, he also saw T-Bird behind the weapons display holding a pistol as well.
T-Bird: You're going to pay for what you did to Funboy and Tin Tin.
T-Bird pointed his pistol and started firing. LM quickly ran and took out his Mac 11 out of his weaponry belt. He ran up to a wall, jumped on and off, and fired his Mac 11 upside down, putting bullet holes through T-Bird. LM landed on the ground, put the Mac 11 away, and approached the weaponry display. He picked up the Masamune sword and removed the covering of it. He then looked at two members of the Crazy 88, holding their samurai swords.
LM: Who's first?
Two of the members approached LM and start swinging their swords. LM blocked the attacks and did some Japanese like maneuvers on the Crazy 88 members. He immediately sliced one member's hand with the sword off, then slashed the other member in the chest. Heading back to Robin, he was taking care of an Anarchy 99 member holding two axes in each hand. The member threw the first axe but Robin dodged it. He quickly looks behind him and saw Cyborg battling out a Crazy 88 member.
Robin: Cyborg look out!
Cyborg ducked down and at the same time, the axe penetrated trough the Crazy 88 member's face. The Anarchy 99 member threw another axe but Robin caught it and threw it back to that member, giving him a splitting headache, literally. Terra took cover behind a pillar from shotgun shots from an Innocentz member and a Smileys member. She quickly used her powers to collapse part of a ceiling and crushed the two members. Starfire assisted Beast Boy in dealing with a Skinz member holding a steel bat and a T-Birds member, Skank, holding a rusted blade. The Skinz member swung his bat at the alien girl, but Starfire flew and dodged each swing. Skank went after Beast Boy, but Beast Boy morphed into a bat and did some swift flying to avoid Skank's blade. Starfire charged up her star bolts and fired at the steel bat the Skinz member was holding, making the member let go of the hot bat. She lifted her leg and gave a hard kick the member in the chin. Skank continued to strike a fast moving Beast Boy, but Beast Boy flew up, morphed into a tiger, and pounced on Skank, ripping him to shreds. Raven was blocking off the physical punches of another Innocentz member with her magic. The member gave a Raven a real hard kick in the stomach. Raven went to the ground, feeling pain, as the Innocentz member took out his sickle and approached her.
Raven: Don't come any closer.
Innocentz 2: What's the matter, afraid of being dissected?
All of a sudden, Raven's eyes turned bright blood red as a black aurora appeared in front of the Innocentz member. A dark talon came out of the black wall and grabbed the Innocentz member. It slowly pulled the member into the portal.
Innocentz 2: What are you doing? You crazy bitch! Let me go!
Raven: (evil voice) What's the matter, afraid of being eaten alive?
The member got sucked into the portal, and his scream faded away. The portal disappeared and Raven went back to her emotionless self.
Raven: This is what happens when you mess with my emotions.
LM was handling members from left to right when he saw Johnny Mo in front of him holding a long bamboo staff. Johnny Mo charged up to LM and did a number of strikes with his staff, but LM blocked it off with his sword. LM was going to make a clean cut to Johnny's head, but Johnny blocked it with his staff. He then opened his staff, revealing a Shamshir samurai sword. Johnny did a quick swing, but LM jumped back. He did manage to get out of the way, but when he look down, he saw his black tie cut in half. He looked up at Johnny and saw a wicked smile on his face as he positioned his sword for battle. LM removed the cut tie off his red buttoned shirt and positioned his own sword. At the same time, they started performing their battle of sword swinging mayhem on each other. After the attempts of swings and blocks, LM managed strike his sword and cut Johnny's own tie. Johnny looked down at his cut tie then looked at LM with pure anger.
LM: Touché...
They continued their battle a number of high and low moves. Johnny tried a hard swing to the waist, but LM bent back and Johnny's sword missed by an inch. LM retaliated by stabbing Johnny in the gut. Johnny Mo dropped his sword and fell to his knees in pain.
Johnny Mo: Shit, not again.
LM finished off Johnny by slicing his head off, letting the blood squirt from his neck. Merovingian looked at the battle and knows that it's not going too well. He decided to do only thing he can do.
Merovingian: Looks like it's time to go. Come my love.
Merovingian grabbed Persephone by the arm and headed to the exit. LM was a little busy, but he made a quick look and saw Merovingian, Persephone, the Trainman, Cain, and Abel left the same way they enter. LM knows that if they leave, he'll never know where the Alterer is. LM was about to follow him but he heard Robin's voice.
Robin: LM, look out behind you!
LM turned around and struck his sword on a Smileys member. Another member from Anarchy 99 came up from behind LM holding a meat cleaver, but Robin jumped on and off the table and kicked that member in the face.
Robin: Are you O.K.?
LM: Yeah, but Merovingian's getting away. I'm going after him! Think you guys can finish cleaning house?
Robin: Not a problem.
LM picked up Johnny Mo's samurai sword and headed to the exit. He used both swords to slice up Baby Face, a Crazy 88 member, and an Anarchy 99 member. Bloody Face saw LM heading for the exit and pointed his UZI sub- machine gun at LM. Cyborg came behind of Bloody Face and tried to grab the UZI. Bloody Face opened fire but only hit money and beer bottles on the table and the lights on the ceiling. Cyborg twisted Bloody Face's wrist and punched him hard in the gut. Outside the meeting, Merovingian, Persephone, the Trainman, Cain, and Abel were walking on the catwalk above the crowd.
LM: Merovingian!
The Frenchman turned around and saw LM walking towards them holding two swords in each hand.
LM: We're not finished here!
Merovingian: The boy never learns. Cain!
Cain: Yes sir.
Cain stepped forward while the rest of them continued walking down the catwalk. Cain took out two Sais from his vest and held it on each hand. LM stood there with his swords waiting for the right moment to attack.
LM: Get out of the way Cain, if you know what's good for you.
Cain: I will as soon as I kill you.
With that said, Cain approached LM, spinning his Sais around. LM attempted to block the Sais with his swords high and low. Together, they perform unimaginable skills with each other by jumping up and down and swung their weapons at each other. Cain used his Sias to strike down at LM, but LM jumped on the poles of the catwalk and jumped up, seconds before Cain brought down his Sais. LM went over Cain and landed right behind him. Cain turned around and was about to attack, but LM surprised Cain, used Johnny Mo's sword to penetrate Cain's gut, and kicked him off the catwalk. Cain plummeted down to the stage landed on the sound system, causing it to explode and sparks were flying. Everyone in the club started to panic.
Fan: Run!
Everyone left the club in a hurry, screaming to move. Vampire guards looked up and saw LM on the catwalk. Half the guards went up to the catwalk while the other half was at the ground firing their G36 Rifles. LM started to run to avoid the gun shots and took out a grenade out of his belt. He threw it down to the guards at the ground floor and within seconds the grenade blew up, causing the guards to fly all over the club. LM quickly took out his Mac 11 and pointed it to the guards up the catwalk. He focused his targets, jumped up, and fired on the guards bringing them back to the ground floor. LM was heading to the doors that Merovingian exited when he saw one final guard pointed the rifle at him. LM threw his sword up in the air, did a number of somersaults, and jumped off the catwalk, high enough to grab the sword. The guard was about to fire but LM grabbed his sword and did one clean cut through the guard. LM landed in front of the doors and went through them while, at the same time, the guard got split in half from the waist. Back at the meeting room, the Titans were busy fighting off the rest of the gang members. Robin threw a birdarang at a Smileys member's chest, Starfire shot a star bolt at Yorgi that crashes him through a window, Cyborg blasted his sonic cannon at an Innocentz member, Terra and Raven teamed up and crushed a Skinz member with two stone slabs, and Beast Boy, in Lion mode, was ripping up a member of the Crazy 88. Mr. Killer was standing in back of the broken doors holding two MP5 sub-machine guns.
Mr. Killer: See you all in Hell you teenage FREAKS!
Mr. Killer fired his MP5's at the team putting bullet holes through the walls. Raven formed black walls to protect the team from the bullets. Robin took out two birdarangs out and threw them at the guns. They connected to Mr. Killer's hands and made him dropped the guns, allowing the team to move forward and attack Mr. Killer. Mr. Killer took out two Kamas out and made quick strikes on the Titans. Robin took out his Bo Staff and blocked the Kamas left to right. While Mr. Killer was distracted, Starfire fired her star bolts and shot out the two Kamas. Cyborg came in, lifted Mr. Killer up in the air, and threw him out the window, sending him down to the ground floor of the club. They thought that were finished with the meeting, but the final Crazy 88 member was slowly came behind them. All the Titans turned around and were prepared for battle, but what they saw is a 12 year old boy holding a sword and was shaking. Robin swung his staff around and knocked the sword off the kid's hand. The kid immediately got scared as Starfire picked him up and spanked him in the ass a couple of times.
Starfire: This is what you get for joining a gang and playing with swords mister. Go home and think about what you've done.
The kid got out of the meeting room crying his eyes out. The Titans looked around the meeting, noticing everything destroyed, gang members either unconscious or dead, and blood splattered everywhere.
Beast Boy: Well, I guess it's a first time for everything. Right Robin?
Robin: Yeah, for once your right Beast Boy. Sometimes you have to sacrifice everything in order to- Oh shit!
Raven: What?
Robin: LM, he's chasing after Merovingian. We have to find him before he gets into any trouble. Titans go!
All the Titans headed to where Merovingian exited followed the number of bodies that LM attacked. Meanwhile, Merovingian, Persephone, the Trainman, and Abel walked down a dark hallway, which led to two steel doors where two guards were guarding. Abel took a key out of his vest pocket and inserted the key through the keyhole of the doors. When Abel opened them up, they all entered the main hall of the Chateau with two circular staircases, a few statues, and a number of weapons on the walls. Merovingian thought he got away from LM when he heard his voice again.
LM: Going somewhere Merv?
Merovingian turned around and saw LM holding the Masamune sword drenched in blood. Two vampire guards loaded their rifles but the Frenchman stopped them there.
Merovingian: Do you ever get tired of chasing me LM?
LM: Well since you're a nescience to the Matrix, I have no other choice. Besides, you still haven't answered my question yet. So where is the Alterer?
Merovigian: That's for me to know, and you to find out. Abel, dispose of this wrench.
Abel: Yes sir.
Abel jumped up to the stairs and grabbed a shield and a sword with three points at the end. He jumped down and was battle ready. LM positioned himself for battle as Abel charged towards him. They swing their swords as sparks flew out off them. LM tried to strike his sword to Abel, but Abel's shield was covering his body. LM avoided Abel's swings and blocked off Abel's sword with his sword. LM broke off the block and attacked Abel, but Abel blocked the sword off with his shield. Abel swung his sword low, but LM jumped away from it. LM decided to attack him at the weakest point, his feet. After a couple of strikes and blocks, Abel made a quick swing to LM's head. LM ducked down, did a break dancing move, and cut off both of Abel's feet. Abel fell down as the blood gushed out of his legs. LM got up and used his sword to strike down on Abel's heart. Merovingian looked at the battle in disgust.
Merovingian: Dammit it's so hard to find good help these days.
LM looked up at Merovingian but was interrupted by a voice.
Beast Boy: LM.
LM looked behind him and saw the Titans coming towards him.
Cyborg: Your all right man?
LM: Never better. (looking at Merovingian) Now Merovingian, one final chance. Where is the Alterer?
Merovingian: I'm not going to tell you anything. But mock my words boy, and mock them well. I have survived your predecessors, I have survived your savior, and I will survive you.
Merovingian walked away as the guards closed the doors. LM ran to the doors as fast as he could, but it was too late. The doors closed and LM opened them up again, but instead of a Chateau, it was a storage room filled with ladders, tools, and other types of equipment. LM released all his anger out and attacked anything he sees in the storage room.
Robin: LM, please control yourself.
Starfire: Yes LM, please don't be angry. We are victorious.
LM slowly walked up to the Titans and punched a hole through the wall.
LM: Slade has the device and we don't know where it is. Does that count as a victory to YOU?
LM, still filled with anger, walked away from the Titans.
Beast Boy: What's his deal?
Robin: I don't know but we better follow him before he brings down the whole club.
The Titans followed LM, hoping to calm LM's nerves.
French Dictionary
comment allez-vous? – How are you? Permettez-moi de me presenter. – Allow me to introduce myself. Mademoiselle – miss Monsieur - mister
Well, it's been a long chapter, but it was worth it. If you like this chapter or have a few problems with it, please review.