Teen Titans
You think I own the Teen Titans? You're crazy! I wouldn't have to put it on if I was the owner of something so cool!
In other words, please don't sue me, I own nothing.
Actually, in this chapter and following chapters, I own my characters.
Not anybody else's, though.
Chapter 13:
Kage Games: Robin
"Well now!" Sana's voice said as the world became light once again. "That's much better!" The room which they were in now was not really a room at all, but seemed to be the sky with a glass floor. There were stars shining above them and a three cornered moon hanging above them all. It was the most beautiful place that Robin had ever seen, but he was now too focused on his next task to enjoy the scenery.
"Final Match. Robin verses the nameless evil, Kage." Hayama said, as if he didn't care.
"This will be the tie-breaker, people! This match will determine who goes home with the cash and who gets fed to the rabid squirrels!" Sana said in a very dramatic voice.
"What cash? What rabid squirrels?" Hayama asked, sweatdrop showing in his tone.
"How should I know, Hayama? That's what the card says!" Sana's voice shrugged. As the referees seemed to be completely out of sight, she proclaimed, "Final Battle Commence!"
Robin finally spotted his opponent, who was seated in the far corner of the arena. When Sana announced the start of the battle, she elegantly stood and allowed the cape that she had been wearing to fall to the ground. Robin waited for her, so he could read her moves better. Since he had never had any experience dealing with this type of person, it was better, he thought, to find out all he could.
"It will not work, Timothy Drake." Kage pulled her gloves up her arm and didn't even bother looking as he flinched at his real name. The name that the animators seemed to have forgotten that he ever had. "I will not kill you that simply, though I could."
"Okay," He decided, "I'll go for it!" He rushed at Kage, while throwing some batarangs the other direction in case she dodged. They halted in mid-air about six feet in front of her, suddenly whipping around her back and turning into thick vines of steel that encased Robin. The glass arena started bending and seemed to be jell-o as he tried to fight off the vines.
"I wasn't ready yet." Kage said calmly. "I wanted my outfit described first." As she stood there, she was wearing leather pants with high heeled boots that stopped mid-calf. Of course everything that she was wearing was completely black and left no room for error. Her shirt was silk with half inch sleeves and a collar that stood up. She was also wearing gloves that almost met her sleeves and had her hair tied back in a high ponytail, leaving her long black hair free to sway in the wind. As well as reflective sunglasses, she was wearing several pieces of intricately carved silver jewelry. "That's better." She said as the floor returned to normal and Robin was released. "You may now attack if you so choose."
Robin stood there for seconds, trying to figure out how would be the best way to attack and even more so, to defeat her. His friends' lives were on the line and he needed to defeat this evil to get them home and protect the world. Try as he might, he couldn't come up with anything.
"Problem, Robin dear?" Kage asked slyly as she stood calmly waiting for him to attack. As Robin fought it out in his head, he still couldn't see a way of winning. He had just watched The Matrix series the other day and if she was really as powerful as Neo was, bending the very world to her will, he stood no chance.
"But I have to try!" He shouted suddenly, rushing at her in frustration. This time the floor did not give way, but Kage just stood there and grinned at him as he tried to hit her. Not matter how fast he moved, she seemed to be a step a head of him, not even bothering to make snide comments. She did not attack, but side-stepped every kick, punch or hit that he tried. Soon he slowed, noting that his body was growing weak from the length of the fight.
"This fight has gone on for half an hour! The limit is up!" Sana's voice said, excitedly, "That means whoever gets in the first hit wins!"
"No, no, no…" Kage grinned up at the announcers, "My world, my rules. This fight is to the death, my dears."
Robin took that chance while her back was turned to deliver a kick to her neck with all the force that he could muster. He silently celebrated when he felt it connect and saw Kage fall to the ground, groaning. She turned her head slightly to him.
"Just kidding." She winked and suddenly was behind him. "That wasn't very polite. Although if I wanted you to be polite, I wouldn't have brought you here, would I? Good child." She didn't move, but Robin felt the force of his own kick connecting with his own neck. He flipped and rolled on the ground, regaining his footing almost instantly. She smiled again. A cold smile.
He dove at her, using every trick in the book and a few that were forbidden. Nothing worked again. Of course not. She had let him get one kick in and thought that was enough hope for the boy to have.
"After all, being a Mazoku, I want you to have just enough hope that it hurts that much worse when you realize that you have none." She knew this was the reason, but did not bother speaking it. At times, she slowed just enough that he thought he would almost have her. He never landed another kick and soon hours, perhaps days had passed and Robin was on the point of collapsing. Finally he stood across from her, who was still grinning without a drop of perspiration, and spoke.
"I won't fight you anymore. This is stupid. It's your world and I don't have a chance, so why even try?" He said, going against every instinct that he had. She tilted her head in curiosity, still grinning.
"Are you giving up? The great leader of the Teen Titans?" She asked, almost laughing.
"I don't see any other choice. I'm not even getting close to you. There's nothing I can do." He said, solemnly.
"How true. Very well, we're done playing." She said, finally actually walking over to him. She raised her hand and put it in his face. "Bye-bye, Robbie."
As he felt and saw that the very molecules in his existence were fading, he felt such utter disappointment that he couldn't stand it. He drove a kick into her stomach.
"I won't let you win!" He shouted, his strength still gone, but determination seeping out. She stood up, clutching her stomach, confusion a mask on her face.
"You…?" She couldn't even begin to formulate the words to question how he had been able to do such a thing. Suddenly, as if a light had come on, she smirked, grinned, and began laughing. In a moment, she again grew quiet and turned her malicious face to the left. "Is that so, Aibou? You don't wish me to destroy the little leader?"
The girl in the bathrobe and straw hat was standing, looking stern on the edge of the arena. Her yellow sun glasses were pushed low on her nose as she stared at the two.
"He was trying. The least you could do is give him an equal ground to fight you on." She said in a cold tone, much the same as Kage's. "Determination may not make you a winner here, but I happen to like Robin. Even if we're mortal enemies here, he's Batman's apprentice. That makes him tolerable. Therefore, you must give him a fighting chance."
"Who are you?" Robin asked, slowly not getting the picture. Kage snickered again in an almost insane manner.
"Feh, Aibou, you can't make me do anything! You went and hid away from the world and left me in charge, remember? That means I can do anything I want to. And you can't stop me." She turned back to Robin and instantly the floor beneath him gave way. As he fell to the earth, something strange happened and he began flying.
"What?" He asked, getting more confused by the second. Even if it weren't for the crimson colored wings that had sprouted from his back, it would still be odd. Kage glared at her partner from where she was and in front of Robin a hurricane shot up out of nowhere. He tumbled around in midair, trying to fight the currents, when he saw that there was a hole through the middle that he could fly through. In an instant, he was struck by a humungous bolt of lightning, but it was rerouted and zapped the city's power plant instead.
"Will you knock it off! I'm getting sick of this!" Kage shouted as the sky shook in anger and the ground began breaking, lava shooting up in geysers all around Robin.
"Why don't you make me?!" The Aibou said coldly as Robin was suddenly transported to her side as a cool wind began and it started snowing heavily. Kage turned absolutely rancid as her eyes grew wild and she began to chant weird things as the world grew strangely dark. Odd colored lightning cracked across the sky. Aibou ignored this as she created a small bubble around the two of them and bent down by Robin, who was sitting on the floor. "So, why are you guys here? Not to deal with her, I'm hoping. If so, it's apparent that you don't have a chance."
"We came to get her… you… whoever to stop going insane, so that the city and world won't be destroyed! Raven said that we needed to stop your… her… whoever's shadow spirit." Robin answered, trying to recall exactly what Raven had told them.
"That would be Kage." Aibou nodded, looking over at the insane shadow spirit. "Listen, I can handle her, it's no biggie, but that won't stop the hole in the sky from completely destroying this mind. Something had to have brought this all on, or else she wouldn't have that kind of power."
"Didn't she say that it was because you gave her control?" Robin said, promptly shifting the blame from him. Aibou's eyes narrowed.
"Can't help you. Sorry." She stood up suddenly and the bubble that had been protecting them evaporated from around them. A bolt of pink lightning zapped five inches in front of Robin and he spoke hurriedly.
"Maybe it was my fault!" He agreed as she turned slowly back to him and a few more bolts of lightning were diverted from him.
"Go on." She said calmly.
"I said that I wanted to kick her… you… whoever off the team, because of all the trouble that we have to go through every day with those stupid plants and you… she… whoever went insane." Robin admitted, "Maybe it was a bit harsh. I'm just really sick of all the garbage that we have to go through every day. And that attitude of yours doesn't help!"
"I have a bad attitude?" Aibou looked at him curiously, "Yes, I do. You try being possessed by a shadow spirit and see how you fare. Then all the junk in here and you wonder why? Most people just have filing cabinets. I have a city and a half! Not to mention the countryside and all the others!" She took a breath, "However that is no excuse. As I recall, we have been trying somewhat to avoid you, because you hate our guts. I'm sorry that we ever got in your way."
"Don't apologize to that loser!" Kage shouted, no, shrieked in rage. "After all that! After --- 'Pick up your clothes! Wash your dishes! Make your bed! Do your homework!'……Wait, that might have been my parents…. The point is that he hates us! We shouldn't have to do anything besides kill the slime!"
"How true, Kage, but we will do nothing of the sort. In fact, we are going to release them and return them to their world." Aibou said calmly, "We shall die without any inconvenience to anyone."
"Very well." Kage spoke in a yielding tone, as she swore beneath her breath. The other Teen Titans appeared before Robin, all alive and well. "There's the door. Use it."
In front of them a huge door constructed mainly of white marble, but fashioned with other colors of marble that were strewn through it in designs that made no real pictures. The door opened with a flash of light and before anyone could say anything, they were enveloped in it.
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