Here it is, don't say I never do anything for you people. Despite the under whelming response to this story I've been feverishly working away at a final chapter. IF I get a better reader response this time I'll be writing a sequel, I may do a couple of little filler chapters to tie up a few loose ends. These will be like epilogues to the first story and will be giving serious hints at what happens in the next story. Please R&R, then e-mail me ) and tell me to get off my ass and write some more, then look at my website at www.anotherworld.gq.nu and then I might write some more! But please do tell me what you honestly think, I need feedback like a pregnant woman needs marmite on her eggs!
Titans Reborn: Part Five
Suddenly all the consoles on the bridge of the Gordanian flagship began to flash with a red message in the native Gordanian language, Beast Boy whirled around and his eyes flicked from soldier to soldier. He wondered whether he'd blown his cover, but the red signal seemed to be the attack signal. The commander was shouting gibberish at his lieutenants and pointing as he barked out his orders. Beast Boy saw this confusion as a brilliant opportunity to leave the bridge and try to find Raven and Kid Flash and so scuttled out back into the alien corridor and into what appeared to be a broom cupboard, he stood in the small cramped area and closed the door behind him before morphing back to his human form. He flipped out his communicator and called Robin.
Back at Titans' Tower Robin was sat in the kitchen watching Starfire eat, gobbling down all of the three pizzas Cyborg had ordered, as none of them could cook. He smiled and his eyes softened a little under his mask as Kory looked up at him.
"What did you say this was called again?"
"Pizza," Robin replied, "you like it?"
"Tamaranians have 50% less taste buds on average than humans, I like most things," Kory replied jovially, "but yes this is especially good."
"Good," Robin said not thinking when suddenly a realisation came upon him, "I don't even want to know how you knew that," suddenly his communicator beeped, "Robin, go ahead."
"Hey its Beast Boy here," the communicator screen was completely dark.
"Where are you?" Robin replied.
"The Mothership dude," Beast Boy replied flicking on a small torch, "the janitor's closet to be exact. It reeks of alien bleach in here man."
"Where are Raven and Kid Flash?"
"They got captured," Beast Boy replied guiltily, "I need your help up here man, you gotta come up and get us. Now way would we all get out alive otherwise."
"Affirmative, see you soon," Robin flipped the communicator closed and stood up and started towards the door. Wonder Girl entered the kitchen and saw Robin about to leave.
"Where are you going?" she asked.
"The Gordanian ship, the others are in trouble," Robin replied picking up his utility belt from a nearby chair and fastening his cape to his shoulders, "you and Tsunami stay here and protect Starfire, I'll gather the rest of us and we'll go up to the ship."
"Okay boss," Wonder Girl replied, it was easy for her to take orders from Robin as he was so much cleverer than her. He was the Batman's protégé for God's sake, and he was the worlds greatest detective, not exactly short on experience.
"Wait!" Starfire shouted after Robin, "I wish to help."
"I won't risk you being recaptured," Robin replied succinctly, "you're staying here in the safety of the Tower."
"That ship has weapons which could reduce this structure to ashes," Starfire replied just as bluntly, "and I know my way around it. And if you try and leave me behind I'll just follow you."
"Well it looks like we're all going," Wonder Girl said smiling, Robin's face hardened for a moment then returned to its usual stoic expression.
"I won't force you to stay," Robin said as he left the room, opening his communicator, "Beast Boy."
In the dark tiny cupboard Beast Boy's communicator beeped cheerfully and he jumped out of his skin, "Robin?" he asked the face on the other end of the transmission.
"I need you to get them to land the ship, not all of us can fly and we're all coming to get you," Robin said quickly as he walked to gather the others, "you've got about thirty minutes."
"Thanks Rob," Beast Boy said as he switched off his torch and morphed back into a Gordanian. He closed his communicator and nervously opened the door into the corridor. When he peeked out he couldn't see any other Gordanians and so he scuttled out and in the general direction of the back of the ship, where he presumed its engines would be.
Slowly the sensations began to come back to her. A slight general buzz from the electric shock came first, then a cold metal feeling against her back, and finally the squeezing of a gloved hand on hers. She felt a little more energised and opened her eyes slowly to the dim lighting of the alien prison, the first thing she saw when she awoke was Kid Flash's anxious face looking straight at hers. For a moment her eyes glazed over a little and softened like she was about to smile, and then just as the corners of her mouth went up and the first flash of her white teeth peeked out from between her thin lips she reigned herself in and her face became its usual blank slate.
"Oh my God Raven you're okay!" Kid Flash said obviously overjoyed, "I thought I was going to lose you."
"Save it, we've got to get out of here," Raven replied as she sat up on the slab, unwittingly she had placed her face achingly close to Kid Flash's. She could feel his hot breath on her cool skin, just then she felt an irresistible force pulling her to him. It was like they both had incredibly powerful magnets in their heads and they were pulling each other closer and closer. Her lips parted unconsciously and he responded in kind she closed her eyes and leant that last centimetre so that their lips finally touched, and it was like a bolt of lightning shot through her. Her whole body felt so much more alive. The hairs on the back of her neck stood up, her heart beat a thousand times every second and her skin reddened with the passion of the kiss.
"Hey!" Beast Boy's voice shouted through the door, "you in there guys?"
The guilty parties separated quickly and somewhat reluctantly, although Raven stood and went to the door, "Beast Boy? Can you get us out?"
"You know you guys aren't the only prisoners," Beats Boy said as he unlocked the cell, "they kidnapped loads of other super-humans, must be using them for research." The door opened and Beast Boy looked in to see both his team-mates looking slightly guilty and flustered, "Dude, no way…" he said looking at the enormous smile that appeared on Kid Flash's face.
Raven stormed past Beast Boy and out into the main room of the brig. There were several other cells, and as far as her powers could tell all the prisoners were super-humans from the Metropolis area. She heard a consistent pounding sound from the last cell and went over to it, unlocking it and opening the door. It's occupant stumbled out and slammed into Raven as they both landed on the floor, lying on top of one another.
Superboy stood up quickly and held his hand out in apology, but Kid Flash sped round and picked Raven up before she had the chance to accept, "Taken buddy," Flash said quietly.
Raven groaned and rolled her eyes before ignoring them both and opening the cell next to Superboy's.
"Take it easy Flash, I'm more of a blondes guy anyway," Superboy replied still holding his hands up passively.
"I'm totally agreeing with you there man," Beast Boy said as he unlocked one of the cells, "blondes are so much hotter-" he stopped suddenly when he opened the cell door to see a beautiful girl with long blonde hair sat on the bed in the cell. She turned her pretty blue eyes towards him and smiled.
"Glad you think so," she stood up and gave him a peck on the cheek, "thanks for rescuing me."
"No problem," Beast Boy replied distractedly, "I'm Beast Boy, I didn't catch your name."
"Probably because I didn't throw it," the blonde replied coyly before joining the other released prisoners in the middle of the room. Beast Boy's eyes followed her but his body stayed exactly still, hand still on the door handle to the cell.
Robin stood on a rooftop next to Metropolis Central Park with one foot on the cornice of the building, his fellow Teen Titans stood behind him waiting. All they needed was for the Gordanian ship to land and they could begin their rescue attempt, and hopefully they could do enough damage for the Gordanians to consider Starfire and Earth a lost cause. Then as he stood there looking up at the sky, the giant cloud that he knew housed the Gordanian ship started to fall to the ground.
"Hey, it's coming down," Cyborg shouted, drawing the attention of the rest of the team, "I guess Beast Boy did it."
"No," Robin said quietly as he looked through his binoculars, "he got some help."
"Help?" Wonder Girl asked curiously, Robin passed her his binoculars wordlessly and she took a look up at the ship. Through the binoculars she could see Superboy and a couple of other super-humans pushing down on the ship's hull, forcing it to land.
Robin smiled and shouted to the rest of the Titans, "Titans, go!"
The ship ran aground roughly in a large open area of Metropolis' Central Park, leaving a burnt crater from the flames of the engines. Wonder Girl was first on the scene from the second Titans team and she landed next to Superboy on the ship's hull.
"Nice job," Wonder Girl said with a smile, "I thought you were grounded?"
"These green crab dudes got me involved in this," Superboy replied cracking his knuckles, "I owe their asses a kicking."
Wonder Girl peeled back a plate from the hull to expose an internal corridor of the ship, inside there were a group of Gordanian soldiers who all looked up through the large hole she'd just made.
"Ladies first," Superboy said gesturing to the hole.
Wonder Girl shoved him in before leaping in herself, "But Superboys just before," she said with a giggle before wading in with her fists flying.
Superboy had made a little headway in the few seconds that she'd taken to jump down, already four Gordanians had been floored and the remaining five or six were trying to escape. Wonder Girl flew up and over them to land in front of them, they raised their small laser pistols and fired but she deflected them ably with her bracelets before whipping out her legs in an immensely powerful roundhouse kick that floored three soldiers before laying into the remaining two, smashing their heads together with enough force to knock them both unconscious.
"Wow, you actually did that," Superboy said smiling, "I saw people smack two heads together on TV but never thought you could actually do it."
"It's a gift," Wonder Girl said nonchalantly before flying through the metal doors at the end of the corridor.
"Hey leave some for me!" Superboy shouted as he flew after her.
Beast Boy and the blonde girl had been separated from the group and were running through the lower decks of the ship, they were completely lost and the blonde girl was starting to look scared.
Beast Boy looked around cautiously to see that no aliens had followed them, then pulled the blonde into a small room similar to the one he'd been hidden in earlier that day, "You okay?"
"Yeah I guess so," the blonde replied looking down at her feet, "I'm just a little tired from all the running. I'm so useless in here, my powers aren't any good until we get outside."
"Well I think I can arrange that," Beast Boy said with a smile, he pushed open the door to find a small group of Gordanians running toward him shouting in their gibberish alien language, "stay behind me," Beast Boy said putting himself in front of the blonde girl as a shield.
"We can't defeat them," she whispered in his ear, "lets run."
He turned to her with a mischievous smile, "I thought you were tired of running," he said before turning back to face the fast approaching alien soldiers. Suddenly his body stretched out into a gargantuan green gorilla and he beat his chest and roared deafeningly before charging toward the aliens. His huge green hairy fists flew into the group of soldiers, and when the dust cleared Beast Boy once again stood there with his mischievous smile.
"Impressive," the blonde said coyly, "but how are you going to get us out of here?"
"Piggyback."
"Piggyback?" the blonde replied quizzically before climbing onto Beast Boy's shoulders. She felt the green flesh underneath her begin to shift form again and in a moment she was sat astride a huge green rhinoceros.
"Hold on," the rhinoceros said before lowering its nose and charging through the wall, bursting clear through the wall into a large open chamber with a large glowing orb in the centre, gathered around the orb were a large group of what appeared to be Gordanian engineers. The green rhino that was Beast Boy raised what passed for its eyebrows, "Wow, dude…"
Robin and the other Titans were fighting fiercely in the shuttle bay, and they were wining easily. Cyborg was laying down covering fire with his arm cannon, Arsenal was firing incendiary arrows into the advancing troops, and Robin was laying into the enemy with flurries of effortless martial arts moves. Finishing off the last member of a shuttle crew Robin looked around to check out how the rest of his team was doing, he noticed that he couldn't see Tsunami and shouted over to Arsenal.
"Roy! Where's Tsunami?"
"She hung back," he said whilst loading a clip of bolts into his crossbow, readying himself for more close quarters fighting, "stayed outside to stop any escaping aliens from getting to the city, her powers are pretty useless in here anyway."
Just then Starfire joined the battle, she'd been waiting in the background for the last few minutes readying herself mentally for the fight and she'd come up blasting. Huge arcs of green laser erupted from her eyes stunning waves of enemy troops and explosive bolts from her hands took care of the gun turrets protecting the rear door. She flew in at phenomenal speed and picked up one of the shuttles with her bare hands, hurling it at the sealed rear door that led into the ship. The door was burst open and she flew into the hole she'd made, going so fast she seemed almost to be a blur. A few seconds later her head popped round the door and she raised one of her eyebrows and called quizzically after the rest of the group, "Coming?"
Raven, Kid Flash and their group of ex-prisoners rushed through the hole in the wall that Beast Boy had made leading to the engine room. Raven landed next to the blonde girl and Kid Flash sped around the room to check for any hidden aliens, Beast Boy was in the form of a large gorilla again as he held up one of the alien engineers by his uniform.
"You speak English crabby?" he shouted at it.
The alien replied in the gibberish that was its language.
Beast Boy dropped the alien to the floor and raised a gargantuan fist but Raven flew in between them, "That's not going to help any. Let me handle this," she said before turning and placing one hand on the alien's forehead, its black eyes glazed over before opening wide then slowly closing as he slumped to the floor, "we convinced them to leave. They've set the self-destruct and are trying to escape in small shuttles dotted around the ship, they'll be rescued from orbit within the hour."
"Raven, did I hear you say they set the self destruct?" Wonder Girl interjected as she and Superboy landed next to them followed closely by the rest of the super-human prisoners, the ones that had helped land the ship.
"Yes," Raven replied stoically, "we need to stop the countdown somehow."
"Or maybe we don't," Superboy said smiling at his revelation, "maybe we can do what we did before, but in reverse. Let the ship detonate harmlessly in the atmosphere, Superman does it all the time so its gotta work."
"Sounds like a plan," Wonder Girl said cutting in before Raven could say the same, she turned and spoke quickly to Beats Boy, "get all the people who can't help off the ship. You've got two minutes."
"I suggest you be a bit quicker than that," Raven said, "the self-destruct has only got five minutes left."
"Run! Everybody out of the ship now!" Beast Boy shouted, flicking the blonde girl up onto his back and morphing into a rhinoceros again. Charging into the wall and through it with all the others in tow. Wonder Girl flipped open her communicator.
"Robin," she said as the boy wonder's face came up on the little screen, "get out now. The ship's about to explode and we're going to throw it into the atmosphere."
"Will do, Robin out," Robin replied, flipping closed the communicator and putting it back in his utility belt with his free hand, jabbing his fist into the neck of one of the Gordanians with his other, "Titans, we've got to get off this crate now!" he shouted.
All the Titans turned round and started to run back to the shuttle bay except Starfire. Robin ran up to her as she was laying into a clearly unconscious Gordanian, "Where is he? Where's that sadistic Emperor of yours?" she shouted.
"He's unconscious Kory," Robin said putting a friendly hand on her shoulder, "we have to go. Otherwise we'll get caught by the explosion."
Kory turned to Robin with tears of rage and sorrow and relief in her eyes, "I…" she stumbled for words, "Thank you Robin, lets get going."
"Don't worry Kory," Robin smiled warmly, "I'll look out for you."
"You," she again stumbled for her words, "you are the kindest person I've met in over eight years, and I am severely in your debt."
Robin and Starfire started out of the ship, "I'm a hero, helping's what I do."
Outside the ship a small crowd of super-human prisoners and Titans had gathered. Wonder Girl hovered slightly above them and was calling out to all of them, "Okay, every one with super-strength and flight come over here, everyone else stay back," some of the crowd began to take off and join Wonder Girl in the air, "okay, we're going to carry this thing up into the atmosphere and let it blow up there, everybody okay with this plan?"
"Actually I think I have a better idea," a voice called from the non-flying heroes, it was Cyborg, I've got the strength to throw it out into the atmosphere," he shouted, all I need is for you flyers to get it off the ground and help me spin it."
"Spin it?" Superboy asked.
"Yeah, I'll grab one end of the ship and spin it around until I've got enough momentum to launch it into space," Cyborg explained, "I saw Superman do it on TV once."
"Sounds like a plan," Robin said, having just arrived on the scene with Starfire, "lets get moving before this thing goes boom."
Cyborg flexed his fingers a little as a warm up then bent his legs a little to get their hydraulics going then embedded his hands into a strong piece of metal, before giving Superboy a small nod.
Superboy smiled and nodded back before shouting out to the other super-humans who'd volunteered to help, "Everybody, go on three," they all got their grip on the underside of the ship and began to ready themselves to push, "One, two, three!"
The immense mass of the ship began to move, upwards and slowly spinning around the pivot of Cyborg. The it became faster and faster until it was almost a blur travelling at phenomenal speeds, propelled by the super-human teens pushing it. Then Cyborg suddenly let go and the enormous alien flagship flew as if under its own power up into the sky at an impressively fast speed, soon it disappeared from view into the Earth's atmosphere and the Titans sighed with relief. Then suddenly a huge explosion that rivalled the full moon as the brightest light in the sky erupted above them in an enormous flash of light.
A cheer erupted from the assembled crowd of heroes and ex-prisoners as they all whooped and thrust their hands into the air with joy, even Raven had a satisfied smile on her face as she looked up to the sky where the explosion had been.
Beast Boy was stood next to the young blonde and he turned to her rubbing his eyes, "I'm going to be seeing spots for the next month."
"That's bad news," the blonde replied passing him a small folded piece of paper, "I was hoping you'd be seeing me, so I could thank you for rescuing me."
"No I'm okay," Beats Boy said hurriedly, opening the piece of paper to see a phone number written there, "I'll call you tomorrow or something and we can arrange something. You okay to get home alone?"
"I live just around the corner," she waved as she walked off, "see you soon."
Superboy walked up and clapped a hand on Beast Boy's back, "Dude she's pretty calm considering what just happened," then he winked jokingly, "but she's still pretty damn fine."
"Uh huh," beats Boy replied, his brain turned to jelly. Not only was she amazingly beautiful, but she was equally amazingly interested in him, these sort of things just did not happen.
"Anyone who wants to is welcome to come back to Titans Tower," Robin shouted to the assembled crowd, "we've got a little food and some warm beds."
"Does that include me?" Starfire asked tentatively.
Robin smiled affectionately, "Especially you," he extended a hand that held a Titans communicator, "I could get used to you watching my back, you can stay as long as you want."
Starfire smiled wide with glee and planted a huge kiss firmly on Robin's lips, "Thank you so much!"
Robin went bright red, tugged at his collar and coughed a little with nerves and embarrassment as he mumbled something about her not needing to thank him. Everyone laughed and they all set off in the direction of Titans Tower, everyone except Raven who stood alone looking up at the moon.
"They didn't do too badly did they father?" she said to herself, "Maybe they'll even be able to stop you," she closed her eyes and looked down again, "maybe…"
Liked it? THEN TELL ME!! Who is the ravishing blonde? Will Superboy join the team? Will Tsunami have more than two lines next time? All these questions will be answered in the epilogues, which I will write when I get some feedback. Just because I like to tease you all, two of my favourite characters will be making themselves known in the next story. Namely Jericho and Deathstroke!! You keep reading and reviewing and I'll keep writing, sound fair? Oh and sorry in advance for the extremely probable mistakes I made with the throwing of the ship, its all about suspension of disbelief people. I just thought it looked cool in my head, so sue me if its not strictly possible.
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