Raven stood, tapping her foot to the beat of the radio, of which had been left on in the confusion.
'What's taking him so long?' She impatiently thought to herself. 'I mean, I know he was wearing some alien rag, but come on!' Raven sighed. With nothing better to do, she began listening to the radio DJ.
"Well, that was 'Toxic' by Britney Spears here on Mix105. Up next we have out number one hit this week, 'Ordinary' by Train. This song was used in the movie 'Spiderman 2', now in theaters. Lets get the party started!"
Whose eyes am I behind
I don't recognize anything that I see
Whose skin is this design
I don't want this to be the way that you see me
I don't understand anything anymore
In this world that I'm tired of
Is taking me right up these walls
That I climb up
To get to your story
It's anything but ordinary
And when the world is on its knees with me its fine
And when I come to the rescue I get nothing but left behind
Everybody seems to be getting what they need with mine
'Cause your what I need so very but im anything but ordinary
Can you save me from this world of mine
Before I get myself arrested with this expectation
You are the one look what you've done
What have you done?
This is not some kind of joke
You're just a kid
You weren't ready for what you did
And when the world is on its knees with me its fine
And when I come to the rescue I do it for you time after time
Everybody seems to be getting what they need with mine
'Cause you what I need so very but im anything but ordinary
I think im trying to save the world from you
You've been saving me too
We could just stay in and save each other
Im anything but ordinary
(ordinary)
Im anything but ordinary
(ordinary)
Robin also was listening to the Radio as he pulled on his mask and brushed his hair. 'Perfect song for today.' He thought, trying to pull the black mop on his head back into place. 'You know, with all the hair gel I got, you think this would be easy.'
Unfortunately for Boy Wonder, Robin tugged on his hair a little to hard, and with a noise like a sigh, his hair fell into a Mad Mod style all over his face.
"!#$%&!!!!!!!!" Robin swore quite loudly.
"Hello Ringo." Raven said from the doorway. Robin jumped and shreiked like a 2 year old. "Sure took you so long to Beatle-ize your hair, I bet that will go well with Starfire."
"What does that mean?!" Robin said, turning red.
"You should wear that to the wedding."
"I'M NOT GETTING MARRIED!"
"You sure?" Raven said, turning and walking back into the living room, leaving her leader standing bewildered holding a brush.
Click Went Robin's brain. He started for the door, and waving the brush, he said;
"Hey, HEY! Raven, wait up! I need help with my hair!"
Robin ran faster, with Raven ignoring him. "RAVEN!" Robin yelled. "she turned around on her heel, "What?" She asked annoyed.
"I need help. on two matters. one-"
"one would be with your hair, and the other is how you're going to break my best friends heart, and leave her stranded in the middle of space?" Raven answered sarcastically.
"Wha-" "Don't 'WHAT' me! you know what you should do, and if you don't, I will no longer respect you as a leader, OR a human!" She seethed.
the boys starred wide eyed at the normally calm friend, as she took the brush from Robin's hand and pulled it through his mess of hair.
"OWW! STOP!!" Robin cried, holding his head in pain, as he ripped the brush from her hand and ran to the ship.
He jumped into the driver's seat and started tawords where starfire was last.
What looked like a wormhole opening fairly far away spewed forth something, but it seemed to be invisible.
"Well, they must be worried, or they have a plan. I've never seen them come in cloaked under any condition like this." Pyro said.
He recieved a transmission from the R.N.F.S Samson, the cloaked ship. They were worried. If Pyro wanted to run an attack on the ship, they wouldn't object, just stay back as reserve.
Starfire stepped through the door into the dropship, Kimiko motioned too follow. She led Starfire up too a door. She looked at Starfire than pressed a button on the intercom. "This is Kimiko.... I am here too bring The Boss his guest." A mechanical voice responded, "Vice indentification confirmed... you are cleared too enter, good day Miss Jones." The door opened and Kimiko stepped in and too the side. Starfire walked in and heard the door slide shut behind her.
Sitting in front of them, behind a desk, his face hidden in the shadows was The Boss. Starfire asked innocently and calmly, "May I inquire why I am here?" She asked. The Boss smile... it wasnt a mean smile, it wasnt a cold smile, it was a smile someone got when they think somethings a bit humorous. "Ah... Starfire." He said, "So calm on the outside, yet so confused on the in... Well I have some news for you Starfire... I can see your MIND! I can read your thoughts." He paused, "Ah... Slade... one of our clients, yes he purchased some of our technology. He hurt you? Than he must be punished... I will gladly kill him myself for hurting you." Those last words rung in her head... What was The Boss implying? The Boss smiled, "I will let you figure that out. But for now... enjoy the ride back too Earth." And with that there was a shudder as the Dropship was ejected from the Frigate, its engines turned on, and it began too soar towards Earth.
Robin started the engine on Silverfire's ship, and the computer began it's countdown. Just as the 1 faded from the intercom, the engines fired.
The ship moved up about 20 feet from the ground, when a jolt ripped trough the ship, sending Robin flying from the captains chair onto the ground.
"Ughh..." Robin held a lump on his head from the impact to the hard metal floor. Looking at the veiwscreen, he noticed that a glowing black force was holding him down to the ground.
The engines died. As the ship fell to the ground, making a clattering noise, Robin felt wightless. Then he fell on the metal floor again.
Raven, Cyborg, Beast Boy, and Silverfire clambered in through the hatch.
"You weren't going to leave without us, were you?" Cyborg said, a small smile playing across his face.
Robin looked at Raven, who slightly blushed and turned her head away. "I'm only coming because they're coming." She said, angrilly.
"Dude," Beast Boy said, "What happened to your hair?"
The dropship moved towards the Earths surface snakily. Starfire watched as the outside began too turn red as they reentered the atmosphere.
A loud noise filled the room. "Excuse me for a moment." The Bosses chair turned and faced a large screen that had descended from the roof. A middle aged American looked back and smiled. "Mr Boss... how pleasent it is too see you!" The Boss rolled his eyes. "Get on with it Azula." The man frowned and then started on, "Yes well we have found something that will make you very happy... and we expect too be rewarded for it." The camera moved too show a stone figure... Starfire gasped, The Bosses eyes widened in shock and then faded into a smile. "Is that Organic Ground Supremecy 01 codename 'Terra'?""Yes I believe it is sir.""Good you will be rewarded 150 million dollars... send the stone figure too my labs and we can begin a stone reversal process immediatly." The screen turned off and The Boss turned around too face a wide-eyed Starfire. The Boss frowned, "What?"
Starfire opened her mouth to reply when there was a thud on the roof. The Boss looked up, "What the hell?!?!" The ship skidded to a stop. A few minutes later, the door to the room was dented once, twice, and the third time it flew across the room. (I can have my own character, right?) A tall girl stood in the doorway. She had very pale yellow hair that flowed to her waist and pale yellow eyes. She had an orange tint to her skin and was hovering an inch or two off the ground. She was dressed in a yellow top and gloves like Starfire's, except the stone was a yellowy-white. Her lower half had on black boots that were knee high and a pair of shorts similiar to Terra's. "Sugah, I would advise you ta let Kory go before I gut ya."
The ship's sensors went off, and Pyro was suprised to see what had happened to the dropship. The cloaking device on board was rather rudimentary, and he thanked the gods for not letting them notice him flying right behind it. Using the diversion to his advantage, he pressed several buttons, and the lower wings straightened out. He flew the ship to the top, and used magnetic clamps to attack his ship onto it.
"They can try and overpower my exaust, but they can't overpower the jump drive!" Pyro said to himself. He started trying to push the dropship into a different direction.
"Defensive systems online."
"Oxygen tanks at maximum."
"Engines, activated."
"Titans, LAUNCH!"
The ship took off from the tower into outer space. After the team had cleared the outer atmosphere, BB once again inquired: "So, Robin, what happened to your doo?"
"GRRRR..."
As they started towards where starfire was last, Beast Boy spotted the book under the seat.
"OHHH! COOOL! what's this?!" He asked. holding the courtship book up.
"Well, well, well... I dont know who you are." The Boss said standing up and walking out of the shadows, pausing too put his gas mask on before he ecited the shadows, "But I do know that you are not going too leave here alive..." The Boss raised his hand. It was surrounded by a blue aura and the mysterious girl was lifted off the ground. "Telekineses is very useful... am I right?" And then he through the girl into the wall REALLY hard causing a dent. He walked up over too the girl and lifted her off the ground by her throat. Then the slammed her into the wall and began punching.
"You picked the wrong girl ta pick on, sugah." A bolt of yellow-white light hit him in the chest, throwing him across the room. She floated out from the dent in the wall. Her face was hardly bruised. "Picking on a Tamaranean-demon girl is not a good idea." A barrage of bolts hit The Boss. "Especially not Moonbeam."
"Umm...BB, That's a courtship book. from Star's planet." Robin answered, not moving his eyes.
"Oh, wow. dude do ya have to read this before you get married to her?" Cyborg asked, gaining a deathglare from Robin.
" I'M NOT GETTING MARRIED TO HER!!!" Robin screamed.
"could you find another time to fight?" Raven asked, using her powers to shut the boys' mouths. "We got something on raidar." She finished, pointing to a red dot on a small screen.
"Demon... eh?" The Boss said calmly, "I would advise you too stop calling me 'Sugah'... it really annoys me and just sounds wrong." The Boss smiled, "How about some pyrokenises?" The Boss raised his hand which erupted into flames. With a twirl he sent a wall of fire at Moonbeam. It didnt kill or even hurt her but it occupied her long enough for The Boss too make it too the intercom and request a team of androids. 9 androids entered armed with cross bows with anti-power collars.
"Please, that's not even a half minutes work." She barraged the androids with moonbeams and hit the control panels with them too, obliterating them. "Now shut up and fight, sugah."
"sure...- Boss! we got something on radar! An earth ship."
"what? I though I got rid of them!" The boss complained.
Moonbeam took atvantage of his distraction and went after him.
But The Boss wasnt a fool... he knew the old rule of war:Never Turn Your Back On A Foe. Thus he was ready throwing up a phsycic shield protecting him from moonfires power. The Boss lowered the shield grabbed Starfire and Kimiko then prceeded too dissapear... teleport too be specific. "Well...I guess we have to do this the hard way then..." Moonbeam trailed off.
Suddenly, she turned around and grabbed the single gaurd by his collar. "Where are they?!" She demanded. "Like I'd tell you." He replyed smugly.
She slammed him up against the wall. "Now...tell me." She told him. "No." He answered. "Sigh Fine. we'll do this the hard way..." She lit a starbolt.
"Now tell me where they went, or you'll get this starbolt shot up your nose!" She threatened.
"I don't kn-"YES. you do."
"Fine they went...
"What is it?" Beast Boy asked.
"I don't know, but it's big."
"I think it might be 'The bosses' ship." Robin answered, with a determined look on his face.
"greeeat....how do we get to it?" Cyborg commented, adding to Robin's frustrtion.
"Yah...that would be a small problem." Raven answered sarcastically.
"STOP!" Robin yelled, "WE'LL FIGURE IT OUT!!"
"Wow, dude, settle down." Cyborg suggested.
The Gaurd paused... and then said, "Kill me if you want... but I wont tell." "Then I guess I'll just have to do this the hard way." She smiled strangely as her eyes glowed pure yellow. The guard began to feel a strange feeling in his head. After a couple of minutes, he started screaming in pain and then his head exploded. "Thnk you for the information. It will be very useful."
With the sensors telling him what he wanted was no longer there, he dropped the ship and flipped around, hailing the other shi on his side, telling them to get ready for an attack. Re-arming his weapons and sheilding, he made use of the jump drive to get closer to the Boss's ship.
"Why hello there..." Pyro said, under his breath. Moonbeam created a portal and jumped through, landing silently in Pyro's ship right behind him. "He's not there." "How the hell...? Who are you?" Pyro asked.
The Bosses personal space frigate... seeing the dropship stall was going into hyperspace and disappeared into the hyperspace gate which closed and the frigate was on its way... probably too rejoin the rest of the HOA fleet.
In the meantime at CIA headquarters at Washington DC all hell was breaking loose. The Bosses soldiers stormed the place shooting up the joint, when it was all over hundreds of CIA agents and personnel were dead... the vault had been penetrated and a single item was missing... a crate with the words "PROPERTY OF THE U.S GOVERMENT" sketched all over it.
At a Ex-Soviet Missile Base, The boss arrived inside one of the silos... lietterally appearing out of thin air. He began too bark orders too his staff. "GET THE ANTI-POWER AND ANTI HYPERSPACE SHIELD UP!" A Mongolian wearing a cloak walked up too The Boss. "Good day Leonov." The Boss said. "Captian, the ship is gone." said the second in command, his nickname, Nav. The Captain's name was Asir.
"Nav, call for more ships. I have a feeling about this..." Asir said.
"Yes sir. Should I call Pyro and tell him?" Nav asked.
"No doubt he all ready knows. Tell the other ships in the fleet to gather in the Asteroid Belt. We might need them here quickly."
"Yes sir." Nav responded. The captain leaned closer to him, and whispered, "Navarone, you are the most trusted person on this ship to me, and I want to know what you think. What string should we use for the transmission?" Asir asked.
"12, Jack. Might as well have a little fun with them." Nav replied.
"I am Moonbeam. High Priestess of the order of X'Hal. I teleported here. I have come to retrieve the princess." "Oh, wow. Can't help you there." Pyro answered. then added, "she's gone."
"What?! She can't be, she was supposed to be here!" Moonbeam yelled
"I tried to get the dropship, but then she dissappeared.This craft doesn't exactly posess transporters. If it did, would all this be happening?" Pyro said.
"Go ahead, Valhalla Tower," Asir said. The voice from Valhalla Tower responded
"Part of the fleet has entered the asteroid belt, sir. They are gathering around here, and all are cloaked."
"What all are there?" The captain asked.
"A through E-Class ships are here, and two G class vessels. They have been dispatched to Earth as a forwarning ships."
"Why science ships? Those'll be the first to go if they get here?"
"These are the upgraded ones." Valhalla responded. The upgraded ships have enhanced shielding systems, the same kind used to shield planets. On ships that small, the shielding is all but inpentrable. The ships had weak weapon systems, but they were designed to disable anything, to get the ships out of a jam.