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Chapter 10: Final Showdown (Part II)
Downtown Jump city looked like a war zone, cars tipped over, stores burning and bent lamp posts greeted the Titans as they walked deeper and deeper into the downtown section of the city.
"Man, someone did a number on the city this time" noted Red-X
"I agree friend Re..." Starfire didn't even finish her sentence and was blasted to a nearby skyscraper by a purple blast of energy
"Hello sister dearest, missed me?" asked Blackfire with a false sweet tone, her eyes glowing purple and a devilish smile on her lips
"And me?" came a patronizing voice. Raven was blown to the asphalt road by a large snake, made of solid concrete. Terra stood on top of a stone pillar, gloating at Raven who was getting up, shaking her cloak to clean it from tiny rocks which stuck to it.
"Terran" said Raven coldly
"Raven" replied Terra
"Traitor"
"Witch"
Beast Boy was trying to fend off numerous attacks launched by everything surrounding him, Control Freak used his new and improved remote to command each and every inanimate object to attack the shape shifter. Drops of sweat dipped from his forehead and chin and he was breathing heavily, fending off mail boxes, lamp posts and even pieces of garbage was a hard job and Beast Boy couldn't keep up.
Both Robin and Red-X helped Cyborg attack Warp when a loud explosion was heard and smoke filled the battlefield. Slade and the three Ghost agents walked out of the smoke.
"Like the old saying" started Slade "If you want something done right, do it yourself" he threw a grenade towards the Titans and they were all blown back
"Dude, there's too many of them" Beast Boy sounded absolutely frightened
"No there aren't. we'll each have to take on one of them" said Robin
"Terra's mine" announced Raven, her eyes burning with rage
"I'll take Control Freak" said Beast Boy
"Warp is so going down" noted Cyborg
"I shall engage combat with my sister Blackfire" Starfire's voice had a spite of anger in it
"When I'll be through with Slade, he'll be begging for mercy" Red-X prepared to charge at Slade when Robin waved his hand in front of his face
"Slade is my adversary" he announced. Red-X looked at the three assassins "Leftovers are just fine with us, right guys?" he turned towards Jinx and Gizmo; they both nodded and prepared to fight.
"TEEN TITANS GO!" screamed Robin. They all charged into battle
"So...we meet again Raven" teased Terra, wanting to make her opponent lose control
"It appears so Terra" Raven's voice sounded colder than ever, it even lacked that bit of sarcasm which was so normal to hear in her voice
"Oh, C'mon Rae, aren't you getting a little angry? I mean, with me betraying you and all?" Terra threw some mud on Raven's cloak. Raven did get angry, but she concealed her feelings inside her, restraining herself from losing control like last time, at the factory, when she first fought Terra, when she lost. "LOSE", That word was burned to the back of her mind and her urge to let loose her full powers itched with each and every word that came out of Terra's mouth
"Let me loose Raven, you know I can take her" said a voice in Raven's mind, that voice was Anger, who was trying to take her revenge on Terra
"No way Anger. You're staying put, you made me lose last time" commanded Raven
"Sweet child, you are mistaking me for another. I am not Anger, oh no...I am an emotion strong ten times more than the puny red-cloaked menace" replied the voice
"Oh yeah? Well then, who are you?" inquired Raven
"Why child, I, am Vengeance" said the voice. Raven did notice it was different from Anger's voice. Vengeance sounded colder and more evil.
"No, I can't let you. You might hurt my friends"
"Hurt your friends? Why will do such a thing? Raven, sweet girl, do not mistake me for one of your father's minions. I am an emotion created by the fiery need for revenge you have towards Trigon for making you what you are. Please, let me take over and rid us of that blonde trouble maker" Vengeance sounded convincing, but Raven knew better, or at least she thought she did
"No, it's too risky. Sorry" came her reply
"Are you done talking to yourself?" muttered Terra. She threw a rock at Raven, causing the dark girl to take a dive towards the asphalt again. "What have you been doing? Meditating? Jeez, if you keep meditating through battles it's no wonder you're such a loser" teased Terra
"Do me and the rest of the world a favor Terra, shut up" replied the Goth
"Why? am I making you angry Raven? Rae Rae? Ravy-Poo? Beast Boy told all about your little mood trouble and I think that-"
"Don't you dare involve Beast Boy in this!" screamed Raven, her eyes starting to show a light shade of red
"Oh, I'm sorry, did I hit a nerve there? Well, I guess I shouldn't tell you we went on a date and oh, had some fun. He told me he never had such fun with any of his teammates, you hear that Raven? A-N-Y. oh and you want to know something else he told me? He said he loves me Raven"
"Liar!" Boomed Raven's voice. The pillar Terra stood on and two buildings on its left and right were surrounded by black negative energy and then collapsed, leaving a large cloud of dust at there former locations, rubble and pieces of twisted metal and broken glass pooped out of the cloud
"Vengeance! Are you still here?" boomed a voice in Raven's head
"Ready and waiting" Came the cold voice's reply
"Finish her off. I don't want you to kill her, just make her suffer in the worst way you can imagine. Can you do that?"
"With pleasure" shot the voice. Raven felt her body being consumed by dark energies. On the outside, again, the black flames engulfed her and when they stopped, Raven was wearing a black cloak with a red V on her hood, her eyes were demonically red and that fiendish smile on her lips.
"Ahh...Terra, I wanted to see you for ages" Said Vengeance while launching a black bolt of energy towards the blonde earth shaker. Direct hit, Terra flew towards the ground and rolled to a somewhat impressive cartwheel
"What are you talking about Raven? You just saw me two seconds ago" spat Terra
"Raven? oh no, no, no Terra, I'm not Raven. I'm Vengeance" another burst of energy hit Terra, this time she was knocked to the ground
"Well I don't care who you are, DIE!" Terra launched a barrage of razor sharp rocks towards Vengeance, who incased herself in a black energy field which absorbed the onslaught
"My turn" Vengeance's hand was surrounded by black energy and five long spikes appeared where her fingers should be "Time to kick it up a notch Terra" the five spikes were launched towards her(A/N: to realize what the hell I'm talking about watch "Betrayal" and see the way Raven kills one of the Slade-bots). Terra lifted a wall of stone but the spikes cut through it like a hot knife through butter, it was a direct hit, two hit her legs, two hit her hands and one went through the heart. To Terra's surprise, it didn't hurt "Ha!" she snarled "It didn't even hurt!"
"It wasn't supposed to..." Vengeance opened her palm and inside it, a black figure of Terra appeared "But this will" she closed her palm and Terra collapsed to the ground, screaming in pain, black energy surging from her body "Hurts, doesn't it?" teased Vengeance, she held that Terra's figure with three fingers, two on her stomach and one on her back "Now...let's see if we can make you any skinnier" she grinned and pushed her fingers together. Terra writhed in pain as the black energy crackled from her stomach and back, she screamed her lungs out and Vengeance was enjoying every minute of it
"I surrender Raven! I surrender!" pleaded Terra, Tears of pain in her eyes
"Surrender, why? The fun is just beginning" grinned Vengeance "Oh and one more thing, who's in control now?" she again closed her palm and again, Terra screamed
Starfire groaned in pain as she hit the ground, "If I take another of these attacks I'll be as fried as the inside of a walderbacklebeatle on a 5th anniversary at Tamaran. Sister or not, I must fight back" Starfire gulped at even the mere thought of this action. Fighting your own relatives is a major crime at Tamaran and would cost you your permission to live there, but Blackfire didn't care, she ran from Tamaran willingly, hoping to never come back.
"Blackfire, I am sorry" said Starfire, sadness was clear in her voice
"Why? Why are you sorry Starfire? You didn't do anything to me" Blackfire sounded confused, she stopped her series of attacks and came down to her sister
"I am sorry for the way you have become, though I do not understand why you have turned so evil, I am still sorry for I feel that I had contributed to your state"
"WHAT?!" roared the black-haired Tamaranian "You think that YOU made me what I am? That is so you, always making yourself the center of attention, but not this time sis, I made me into what I am and now, since you are my sister, I'm giving you three seconds to put up a fight"
"No K'atie, you are my sister and I will not fight you" declared Starfire. That made Blackfire hesitate, no one called her that name since she was 13, when she ran from Tamaran, but her evil nature grasped her again
"Good" she said while powering up another star burst "Then killing you will be much easier than I thought"
She bombarded Starfire with starbursts, but always kept an eye for an incoming starbolt or star-vision attack but they never came. She finished her vicious barrage of energy and waited until the smoke cleared out, when it did she saw her younger sister, standing in the middle of the scorched earth, her costume smoking from the starbursts hits but she didn't move, she just stood still with a sad "Just finish this" look on her face. Blackfire screamed with frustration and let out another barrage, this time it was bigger. Again, the smoke cleared out and again, Starfire just stood there, she looked like she was going to give up but she still stood there, waiting for this nightmarish battle to end
"WHY WON'T YOU FIGHT ME?!" Screamed Blackfire as she dove down, punching Starfire with her alien strength and knocking her through some walls, but Starfire still stood there, with that sad look on her face, she sighed and razed her head towards her sister "Are you done?" she said "If not, then come here and, as the humans say, take me out. Without you K'atie, my sister, I have no reason to keep on fighting. By all means, finish me off"
Blackfire approached her, Starfire noticed that the evil grin started fading away
"Why won't you fight me?! Fight me! Fight me! Fight me! Fight me!" with every "Fight me", she slapped Starfire, again, and again, and again, and again but Starfire just stood there, with her cheeks red and swollen, still looking at Blackfire. The black-haired Tamaranian's eyes welled up with tears, she raised her fists and hammered them against Starfire's shoulders, over and over and over again. Blackfire started sobbing, her voice filled with sadness "I'm sorry K'ory! I'm so sorry!" she cried for a very long time through which Starfire was constantly hugging her. She suddenly started singing something in Tamaranian, it immediately caught Blackfire's attention and she raised her head towards her sister's "Just like mommy used to sing to us K'ory" said Blackfire
"Yes, it is quite alike our mommy's songs" replied Starfire
"Um, Star...I mean K'ory, I'm sorry for....well everything I did to you, it's just that-"
"There, there" Starfire placed her fingers on her sister's lips "I have forgiven you for a long time now sister, I was just wondering how long will it take you to realize that, now, let us go, I am afraid friend Raven is about to do something that is too evil for her mind to comprehend" and with that, the two flew towards another section of the downtown area.
"Dawg, stand in one place so I can pound ya!" yelled Cyborg out of frustration. Warp was constantly teleporting and dodging Cyborg's attacks.
"Fine" muttered the mechanical man "You want war? You got it!" he fired up his sonic cannon and started blasting away at his surroundings, Warp fought hard to dodge the numerous blasts of sonic energy but was eventually hit by one. He crashed on the floor, smoke and sparks coming out of his belt
"You have destroyed my teleporter! How dare you destroy my teleporter?" screamed Warp. The futuristic villain did not count on that to happen, without his belt, there was no source of energy to power up neither his suit nor his weapon systems. Cyborg fired again, but Warp had a plan, he removed the casing from the middle of his belt and jumped forward, the sonic blast hit the belt and, to Warp's luck, was absorbed into it. Lines of blue energy appeared on his suit and he grinned at Cyborg, who in response frowned and cursed under his breath
"Now it gets interesting" he said and tried to teleport, instead, a blue portal opened and Warp was sucked into it, Cyborg noticed he was also pulled into the vortex, like he was dragged by an invisible force of some sort
"Warp!" he screamed "You crazy pain in the a....AHHHHHHH!!!!"
They were teleported into some jungle; high trees covered the skies and thick undergrowth was on the ground. A distinctive smell of animals and the sound of birds were heard, but those were sounds Cyborg had never heard, those were no normal birds, he knew that, he heard those bird cries somewhere but he just couldn't put his finger on it
"Don't you want to know when are we?" asked Warp
"Yeah, that would help a lot dawg" answered Cyborg
"Well too bad!" screamed the villain "I can't tell you because you busted my suit! I can't tell where we are or when we are, just PERFECT!"
"Well" said Cyborg while sitting on a rock "I hope you'll find a way to fix it cause I still need to bust your butt back into jail" when he sat down, he noticed the rock was surprisingly hot. Warp's expression changed into sheer horror, his eyes widened and his mouth was opened but no sound came out of it
"T...T...T...T...T" he said while pointing at Cyborg
"What? What is it man?" shouted the android
"T-Rex! Run for your lives!" screamed the time surfer as he turned back and sprinted like all hell was after him.
"T..." Cyborg turned around and faced a mouth filled with razor sharp teeth. The dinosaur roared, Cyborg felt the warmth of its breath, and the smell of it to.
"This is so not cool!" he said while sprinting after Warp. They came to the end of the path, 300 ft. of sheer cliff
"Great" muttered Cyborg "T-Rex on one side and a kamikaze dive on the other. Ok Warp, you call it"
Without hesitation, Warp jumped off the cliff, Cyborg after him. When they reached about 30 ft. to the ground they suddenly vanished and fell face down on an island of some sort.
"Well, at least I know what year are we in, it's 1945" noted Warp "Hey metal head, check this out" he pointed at a plane flying towards them, B-29 was written on it's tail and near his cockpit was a graffiti which said ANOLA GAY
"Wait a sec" hummed Cyborg "ANOLA GAY, 1945, B-29. Why does it look familiar?" he rubbed his chin and then, seconds later screamed at Warp "FADE US OUT NOW! WE NEED TO SCRAM! C'MON!" Warp pressed some buttons on his belt, but nothing happened "It still needs power" he shouted back. The plane rose up and dropped a single bomb
"Oh man, we are SO dead" said Cyborg. The bomb hit the ground a kilometer away from them and a huge explosion roared, they both looked back and saw two things, the huge mushroom cloud created by a nuclear bomb and the rising sand coming towards them, and it was the shockwave.
"Well" said Cyborg "It was nice to know ya Warp"
The shockwave hit them and they were blown off into a blue vortex, right into Jump city's jail
"Well what do you know, I'm the first cyborg that stood a nuclear bomb" mocked Cyborg
"You're the first cyborg period" Said Warp before being sent to his prison cell.
"This is not good, this is SOO not good" muttered Gizmo. He, Jinx and Red-X have been fighting the Ghost agents for over two hours and they were getting beaten, hard. It seemed as though the three soldiers didn't get tired because they were still fighting at top shape, whereas Jinx Red-X and himself were getting slower with each and every attack made by the assassins.
"We...can't...give up...now" Said Jinx, she was gasping with every word she took because of the numerous kicks she got to her ribs
"Yeah...she's got a point, we have them right where we want 'em right?" tried Red-X
"Right" Said Gizmo "One more attack and we'll take 'em down"
"TEEN TITANS GO!" screamed Red-X, he ran towards the three and shot 3 solid steel X's at them, their rifles were cut and they stared at Red-X with anger
"Not so smart without your guns eh?" taunted X "Now Jinx!"
"Gladly" Said Jinx. She launched a purple ripple towards the three, turning the ground below their feet into quicksand. The agents grabbed the edges of the road with their gloved hands. They got out, only to be welcomed by a rain of steel dealt by Gizmo's machine guns. One more missile and it was done. The three agents lied on the floor, groaning and moaning with pain. Red-X didn't hesitate for one second, he launched three restraining X's and the three were cuffed like mummies. "Good" he sighed, "Now we can go and help Robin fight...Slade"
They ran across the road and grabbed Beast Boy, who was gloating over Control Freak's broken remote, on their way; they also rallied with Starfire and Blackfire, who had the unconscious Vengeance in their hands. Apparently, they had to knock her out to take her at one piece.
"What happened to Raven?" asked Beast Boy
"She calls herself Vengeance now" replied Starfire
"But she's okay right?" the changeling sounded really concerned
Vengeance opened her eyes "B...Beast Boy?" her violet orbs staring at him
"Yes Raven, I'm here, what is it?" he knelt down to her, their faces millimeters away. Beast Boy could smell Raven, a mixture of sweat and jasmine "Nothing" she said, breathing shallow breaths
"Raven, there's something I...I...I...have to tell you. I...I...l...love you"
"I know BB, I know" she whispered to him. Before Starfire took her to the hospital, he said "Hey Star!"
"Yes Beast Boy? What is it?" answered the Tamaraniam
"Take care of her, please, I beg you" he snuffed his nose, tears welling in his eyes.
"I will Beast Boy, I promise" she replied.
The remaining Titans raced around downtown searching for Robin and Slade. When they found them, they were afraid it was too late, Slade stood, wounded but still standing, over Robin's body. Robin was not dead; he was still awake, writhing in pain because of Slade's boot, which was placed over his chest
"Leave him alone!" shouted Red-X. Slade was surprised to see Robin alter-ego staring at him
"Surprised to see me?" he teased.
"Not at all my dear X, or should I call you Red" replied Slade. He was definitely weak. And Red-X was ready to pummel him to a pile of dust. It was a short battle, a lot shorter than X planned. Slade tried to punch him, but missed horribly, on the other hand, every blow dealt by X found her target. Slade was down, gasping for air "You may have won this time Titans, but the war isn't over" he dropped a smoke bomb and vanished.
"What...that's it?" Wondered Beast Boy and Cyborg
"Weird huh?" said Red-X, arming himself with another batch of X's
"100 percent freaky" added Gizmo, while cleaning one of his machine guns' barrels
"So...what now?" asked Jinx
"Now...We'll go home" said Robin, he got up and was leaning against his bo-staff "We may have won this day, but like Slade said, we just won a battle, the war still wages on".
---The End---
Okay peeps, a couple of words about the story "Friends"
This whole thing started as a joke. See, me and my friend like Teen Titans but there's only one difference: I like Raven and she likes Starfire. Anyways, we were actually called to do a fund raiser and it went horribly. After the fund raiser was over, I got to my friends house and told her I found a Teen Titans fan fiction (Completely random search over the internet came with the result of the "School WOES!" fan fiction if any of you remember it). Anyway, she said I should write a story about Raven and Starfire going on a fund raiser. It was supposed to be a short one shot, but when I started writing, I just couldn't stop. Here, I'm doing it right now, oh god! Must...stop....writing...can't...resist...urge...must...write...like...this.
Whew, saved by the "NUMA, NUMA LEI" thank you O-Zone! Anyways, although this story is over, expect one more chapter:
Chapter 11: Outtakes.
I'd like to thank all of my regular readers (CrazyDeafGirl and Freak Off Her Leash) for supporting me, even when my chapters looked like a low-budget version of Sesame Street. I'll start working on a next story, if you'd like. Share your opinions with me and...can you guess it? Review! Review! Review!
Until Chapter 11...
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