Electro
Part 2
Raven awoke in her bed, and she felt as if something was not right. She got out of bed and went into the living room. No one was there. It was still slightly dark outside, and the overcast only aided the effect. She looked at the nearest clock to find that it was 6:02 a.m. She did not know why, but something was definitely not right. There was a pause, a few seconds passed with absolutely no movement at all, and suddenly, CRASH! The window in front of Raven shattered as three large men in red and black burst through it. She immediately recognized them as Fire Starters. She quickly moved back as they stood straight, and readied for an attack. The three warriors ran forward, the middle one ran straight at Raven while the other two ran symmetrical directions outward to either side. Raven jumped over the first, flipping over him and spinning to face him. She did not land, but instead hovered a few feet above the ground.
"Azarath, Metrion, Zinthos!" She sent the couch flying at him, knocking him to the ground. She did not notice, however, the other two who had turned inward forming a diamond pattern as they closed in on her. They grabbed her arms and flung her against the wall with incredible force. She hit the wall hard, and it cracked from the impact, but she had created a barrier between herself and the wall, reducing the damage done to her. She then pushed off the wall as it crumbled behind her, and before the pieces hit the ground, she had caught them with her powers and sent them flying at the two men. Both of them took the hits dead on, and each stumbled backward, but did not loose balance. Suddenly, Raven was hit from the left side by the first one, who had recovered from her attack. He pinned her to the ground with one massive arm, and the other two came to his side. Raven looked up at them, defenseless, as all three of them raised their arms, pointing their hands at her, and began to glow red. She shut her eyes, bracing herself for the three blasts of red hot energy, but before they could be fired, another blast hit the one on the right, knocking him into the others and sending the three of them flying into the wall on the left. It was Cyborg. Raven looked up to see him, as well as Robin, Starfire, and Beast Boy standing at her side.
"Titans, GO!" Robin rushed at the Fire Starters at full speed, ready to throw three charge disks. Just as he reached them, he jumped into a back flip, tossing the disks just as Starfire hit them with a large star bolt. The combined force of the star bolt and the explosion of the disks sent the three men flying straight threw the wall.
"Raven, you ok?" asked Robin.
"Yes, I'm fine." She replied.
"LOOK OUT!" shouted Beast Boy as one of the Fire Starters came running through the hole in the wall straight at Starfire. She evaded him, and flew into the air while launching a volley of star bolts at him. He dodged three of the shots and took the rest in the back, but they seemed to just impact on him with no affect. He turned to face her, and Robin jumped in front of her, brandishing his bow staff. Just then the other two broke through the wall, making two more holes. One of them tackled Cyborg, while the other lunged at Beast Boy and Raven. Beast Boy quickly turned into a bird and flew out of the way, and Raven dodged to the side, narrowly escaping the assault. Cyborg got to his feet and braced for another attack by the one who tackled him. He jumped over the Fire Starter as he lunged forward, and doing a flip spin, Cyborg blasted the man with his sonic cannon in mid air.
"These guys don't know when to quit." he said as the man quickly recovered from the blast without showing much fatigue.
"We have to concentrate our attacks and bring them down one at a time." Raven said.
"Good idea." Robin replied.
The titans formed up in a line and rushed at the closest Fire Starter. Robin threw six explosive discs as Cyborg and Starfire both blasted them at the man, and Raven flung every loose object she could find at him. Beast Boy had taken the form of a gorilla and readied himself in case the man was not finished off by the others. As the dust cleared they saw their victory, but immediately turned on the next two, who were already rushing at them. Beast Boy quickly smashed the first oncoming enemy with his massive gorilla arm. As the man flew backward from Beast Boy's attack, he was hit by several star bolts and a beam from the sonic cannon. Raven and Robin were already on the last one, Raven flung more debris and furniture at the last foe, as Robin threw all of his remaining explosive disks and his birdarangs at the same time. They hit the man and sent him backward, only to be hit from behind by another sonic blast and beams from Starfire's eyes. The titans looked around the room, catching their breath.
"We did it." said Robin.
Starfire shouted, "We are VICTORIOUS!"
"Dude, look at our living room!" exclaimed Beast Boy. The room was a disaster. All the furniture was lying around, upside down or in pieces. The wall had three large holes in it. The front window was shattered and the rain was soaking the carpet near the broken glass.
"Well, we better start cleaning it up" said Robin, and they all began cleaning the room.
Once the room was straightened up, and the window was covered by a few boards, they all sat down on the remaining bit of furniture to take a break.
"How did they know where to find us?" Robin asked. "They couldn't have just stumbled onto the tower; they obviously came to take us out."
"Yes, and they nearly were successful." added Starfire.
"Jeez, I thought one was bad." said Cyborg. "How many of them do you think there are?"
"There is an entire army." Raven said in an exhausted voice.
"An entire army!?" asked Beast Boy.
"How did you find that out?" Robin asked.
"I spoke with Electro, the one who was there last night. He told me what they are. They are called Fire Starters; they were enemies of Electro's people in the Chaos Realm."
"I thought all of them were wiped out." said Cyborg.
"They were, but these are new ones, created by a man named Scyris. He is after the stones Electro took last night. He wants to make a new Chaos Realm."
"You heard all this from this Electro guy?" asked Robin.
"Yes."
"I told you not to trust him. He must have been working for this Scyris, or maybe he is the one who sent them, but he obviously is the reason these Fire Starters are here."
"NO!" Raven yelled, and her eyes turned red. "Don't tell me who to trust! I know what I am doing!"
"Do you? We have all been deceived before. You of all people should know not to trust someone so easily. We don't want this to be another Ter…"
"SHUT UP!" Raven quickly flew out of the room.
"How dare you!" shouted Beast boy, seeming just as angry as Raven. "How DARE you say that! HOW DARE YOU USE TERRA AGAINST HER!" and he stormed out of the room, leaving even more depression behind.
"I fear that was not a good choice of words, Robin." Star said sadly.
"Yeah, that was major harsh" added Cyborg.
"No! I won't let this team be endangered again by someone we know nothing about." Robin replied. "After what happened with Terra, we can't afford to put any trust in anyone we don't know. Especially not some dark cloaked freak claiming to be the sole survivor of some chaotic realm!"
"Robin, why do you say such hurtful things?" said Starfire, with tears collecting in her eyelids. "Everyone deserves a chance, and Raven is not one to give trust where it is not deserved."
"Oh, really? So should we just forget about Malchior?" He replied, with ferocity.
"You are going too far, man. Stop it right there!" answered Cyborg.
"I… I'm sorry, but I don't have much trust left to give. I can't let someone get close to us just to destroy us. I won't take that chance again." Robin said, and he looked at Starfire, who was holding back her tears. "I am sorry Starfire."
"It will be… alright." She replied in a soft voice.
"Lets get some rest, we'll figure this out in the morning, and hopefully BB and Raven will have cooled off by then." said Cyborg. The three of them went to bed in hopes that Cyborg's words were true.
To be continued.