Hey everyone thanks for the great reviews!!!!!!!! SO here is chap 5.
Disclaimer: I don't own the Teen Titans but hey I own this story. Yeah, that doesn't really help the hurt.
Chapter 5: We Have to Work Together
Kori slammed the door to her hotel room behind her. She mumbled angrily to herself as she took off her boots and threw them angrily on the bed. She and Daredevil had left just as soon as the cops got there. They went to a hotel and rented rooms. Kori refused to speak to Matt and left him alone in the lobby. She took off her shirt and threw it down. She was about to take off her pants just as Matt barged in.
" What the hell is wrong with you? Why are you mad at me?" he asked.
" Why would you think I was mad at you?" Kori said turning to face him.
" Well you took the key and ran off ,but not before yelling asshole."
" Oh! You think that you can just make conversation with anyone don't you?" she said angrily.
" Wait a second, hold on. You're mad at me for talking with the Titans?" he asked.
" Yup. I mean you just talked to them like they were good friends!" she yelled.
" If you didn't want me to speak to them then why didn't you tell me?"
" Because……."
" Because……why?" Matt asked.
" I used to be one and it ended badly." Kori said looking down.
"Oh. I'm sorry I didn't know." He said hugging her. She hugged back.
" I sorry I'm just stressed." Kori whispered in his ear.
" It's ok." Matt whispered back.
Kori pulled away. " I'm sorry to ruin our moment but I have to talk to Raven." she said pointing at the door.
Matt turned to see Raven leaning against the door way. Raven had followed Matt upstairs and had stood in the doorway watching the fight between Kori, who was in her red push-up bra, and Matt. Matt smiled a little embarrassed.
" Well I'm just going to go and see where that tracker ended up. See you." He said and left the room.
Kori slipped on a purple tank top and sweat pants. She turned to Raven who had been patiently waiting on a chair by the window. Kori sat down in the chair opposite her.
" How did you find me?" Kori asked Raven.
Raven smiled. " I've always known that you were in New York."
Kori was taken aback, "Wait you've known were I've been?"
" Yeah, about a year after you left I was full of worry so I hired a privet investigator to find you. He did and I knew were safe."
Kori leaned back in her chair. "How much did you find out?"
" Just that you changed your name to Kori Anders and worked at a place called Doceys Market and your address. I'm sorry I know you didn't want anyone to know where you were but I had to make sure."
Kori waved her hand. "It's okay. My fault anyways ,I should've called you at least to let you know that I was okay. Does anyone else know?"
Raven shook her head. " I didn't tell the others. So how have you been?"
" I've been fine. I live in a nice apartment and have good friends and a good job. You?"
" Same old, same old nothing has really changed with me." Raven sort of lied.
" I'm sorry. What I said to Daredevil ,or Matt, wasn't true of course you're my friend Raven. I just didn't want him talking to….."
" Nightwing." Raven finished.
" Yeah."
" I get it. Are you still sad?" Raven said quietly.
" Kind-of. Tonight when I saw him I was just filled with anger."
" I know I felt it. But you didn't let on." Raven said.
" Yeah I'm a great actor." Kori said dully.
" Look Kori. We all need to work together."
" NO! NO way am I going to work with him." Kori yelled.
" We know what Crytpicus stole and you know his location. We can help each other or would you rather be stuck here in Jump City longer than you need to be?"
" Fine. We'll work together. But don't expect me to stay after cause I'm not going to. My life is in New York City now." Kori said sternly.
Raven smiled a sad smile. " Okay. But this time will you at least call?"
Kori felt a sadness for Raven. " Yeah this time I will."
Raven raised an eyebrow and said, " So you and Daredevil are you dating?"
" Well….kind of….well….sort of. Kinda-sort of." Kori said stuttering..
Raven nodded. " I think I, in some strange way, got that." Kori smiled and gave Raven a hug. Raven resisted and just patted Kori on the back.
" I've missed you Raven."
"And I you Kori." They sat talking for a little while longer when Daredevil burst in wearing his suit.
" I've got his location!" he yelled.
Kori, or Twilight stood, " Where?"
" It's at a club on 47th street. I think it's called Devil's Hitch ."
Raven stood and sighed. "It's a local hangout for villains, we've been wanting to bust them for sometime but have no proof of any illegal activity."
" Well lets go stop him and after you can tell us what he stole and we'll tell you what we know about him." Twilight said.
" I'll go get the others." Raven said walking out the door, "we'll meet you there."
"Others?" Daredevil asked.
"Yeah guess we're working with the Titans wither I want to or not." Twilight said.
"Actually you're going to have to do something. Because we're going to need a distraction to get to Crytpicus." Dardevil said with a smile on his face.
" What distraction?" Twilight said with one eyebrow up. Daredevil laughed as he told her his plan.
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Twilights motorcycle pulled up to Devils Hitch. Daredevils car pulled up beside her. He got off and so did she. They nodded towards each other as Twilight went up the stairs leading into the club and Daredevil went up the ladder leading to the roof.
Daredevil landed on the roof and saw four other people. He walked to them and they turned.
" Hey where's Twilight?" Cyborg asked.
" She's in the club. The club is covered with Crytpicus guards. I have a plan. When she causes the distraction Beastboy and Cyborg will go and help her. Me, Raven, and Nightwing will go get Crytpicus."
" I like it." Beastboy said. The others nodded.
" But Crytpicus isn't here, his assent is." Nightwing said nodding at the skylight they were all standing at.
" Jacobs. Should've known. I'll explain later." Daredevil said They all crowed around the skylight, but no one inside could see them.
" I don't see her." Raven said.
" There she is." Daredevil said pointing. They all looked. Twilight was descending down the stairs to the dance floor. She was now wearing low blue hip huggers. A red halter top that had long sleeves that were wide at the end. Her hair was up in a curly pony-tail. She wore sunglasses to cover her eyes.
" Damn!" Beastboy yelled but he shut up as he got the death glare from Nightwing. Nightwing looked down upon Twilight. He loved her so much. He just wanted to go and tell her how he felt and wrap her up in his arms. He wanted it to be the way it used to be before he broke her heart.
" So you two dating?" Cyborg asked Daredevil. Nightwing looked at Daredevil also wanting to hear the answer.
" Well….kind of….well….sort of. Kinda -sort of." Daredevil stuttered . Nightwing smiled and looked down at Twilight, who was now making her way to the bar. So they're not officially dating. Maybe there's still a chance. Maybe I can still make it up to her. He kept looking admiringly at Twilight. Raven noticed this and smiled.
" Your lucky guy. You get to do it with her." Beastboy said and Raven hit him.
" Actually I'm blind." Daredevil smiled.
"Oh, sorry." Beastboy said quickly.
" It's okay." Daredevil said.
" You lucky blind bastard." said Cyborg. " You put all us guys who can see to shame. To shay, to shay."
Daredevil laughed, " Yeah I'm lucky."
" If were done talking about how hot Twilight is can we get back to the plan." Raven said in her normal voice. Nightwing sighed. Daredevil was a good guy.
" Oh, here," Daredevil said taking out a microphone, "We can hear everything she's saying and she can hear us too." He turned it on. " Twilight can you hear me?"
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Meanwhile below in the club……..
"Twilight can you hear me?" she heard Daredevil say through a little microphone in her ear. She was wearing one too on her necklace.
"Yeah I can." she whispered. The Titans and Daredevil heard her. " I'm going to cause the distraction right now." She sat down at the bar next to a man she knew worked for Crytpicus. He was slightly fat man who wore a black suit with a tie and sunglasses.
" Hey cutie. How you doin'?" The man said while obviously checking Twilight out. Nightwing heard this and was about to pull his bo-staff out against the pervert when Raven touched his hand. And mouthed "no".
" Well I could use a drink." Twilight smiled turning to him.
He guy smiled. " Why yes my lady. Bartender two shots please. My name is Marty." The bartender poured the shots and handed it to them. " Cheers!" Marty said.
" Yup. I'm going to need this." Twilight whispered so that only the Titans and Daredevil could hear. And then she drank the shot in one gulp.
" So you wanna go have some fun?" Marty, who was obviously drunk said moving his hand down to her but.
Twilights eyebrow raised and Nightwing fumed with anger. " I suggest you remove your hand from my ass….Marty."
" No I don't think I will." Marty smiled. " So what's your name pretty lady."
A smile came over Twilights face and she leaned in and whispered into his ear. " I'magoingna."
"I'magoingna. Now that's a strange name. So it's I'magoingna What?" Marty asked as his grip tightened on her butt.
Twilight whispered into his ear once more as she moved her hand down to his wrist, but he didn't notice. " I'magoingna KICK YOUR ASS!!!" she yelled. Marty screamed in pain as his wrist was twisted and was snapped. Twilight flipped him over her shoulder and he crashed into the glass bottles and mirror behind the counter.
" Next time I say get your hand off my ass. I mean get your hand off my ass!" she yelled at Marty who moaned and fell unconscious. Other guards who noticed this happening rushed out into the open firing their guns. Twilight ducked the first one and instead it hit the bartender. She back flipped and landed in the middle of the club. People started screaming and running. One guard rushed Twilight. But she ducked and punched him on the nose, and it started bleeding. Then she pushed him into a pole and knocked him out.
" Beastboy and Cyborg go!" Daredevil yelled. The two crashed through the skylight and landed next to Twilight and started fighting the guards.
"Our turn!" Nightwing yelled. He, Daredevil, and Raven jumped into the club and went to the back room where the Titans had seen Jacobs walk into earlier. Nightwing kicked it down and they walked into the room. No one was there.
"Where is he?" Daredevil asked to no one in particular.
Raven walked over to a table where a box and a note was. She picked up the note and read it, " Too late." Her eyebrows raised as she opened the lid to the box. In the box was a bomb. " It's a bomb! Get out!" Raven yelled.
All three ran out of the room to go get their friends. Raven grabbed Beastboy, who was a monkey jumping in mid air, and put him in a black bubble.
" Hey!" He said changing back into human form.
" We're going!" she yelled.
" Cyborg there's a bomb. We got to go!" Daredevil yelled. Cyborg finished shooting a guy and started running towards the door but then turned noticing that Daredevil wasn't with him.
" Daredevil! Man we got to go!" yelled Cyborg.
" No! I can't find Twilight!" Daredevil yelled. Nightwing who was behind Daredevil looked around. Twilight was no where to be seen. Then he looked upstairs at a balcony . Twilight was engaged in battle with a guard.
" Daredevil go! I'll get her!" Nightwing yelled. Daredevil nodded and ran out with Cyborg. Nightwing knew he didn't have much time. He used his pulley (I didn't know what it was called sue me!) and it latched to the balcony. He pulled himself up. When he landed he used his bird-o ring to knock out the guy Twilight was fighting out from behind.
" Hey!" She yelled.
" We got to go!" he yelled.
" What what's going on!?" she yelled back. Just then a loud ringing sounded. The bomb was going to go off.
" Shit!" he yelled. He ran towards Twilight and pulling her close to him ,covered her by putting his arms around her waist, and putting a hand over her head and bringing it into his shoulder. The bomb went off and a fire ball came towards them. Nightwing pushed Twilight and himself out a window just before the huge ball of fire hit them. They fell two stories and as they fell Nightwing turned them so that he hit the ground first. They hit. And there was silence.
Twilight raised her head up and moaned. " Ow." She looked around and remembered what happened. She looked down on a unconscious Nightwing whom she was on top of, his arms still around her from when he covered her.
" Oh, my God! Nightwing!" she screamed. She got of him and checked his breathing. He wasn't breathing! " No, listen to me Nightwing!" she yelled. She reached down opened his mouth to give him CPR. She blew into his mouth and pushed down on his chest. Still no breathing. She blew again and pushed down on his chest. Still no breathe. " No! Come on, come on!" She blew again and pushed his chest. He coughed and gasped for air.
" Twilight…." he murmured. Then he closed his eyes once more, but he was breathing. The others rushed over to them.
" We got to get him back to Titans Tower. He has a mild concussion." Cyborg said as he lifted him and put him into the T-car. Twilight got onto her motorcycle and fallowed them back to the tower.
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Nightwing opened his eyes. Everything was fuzzy and a women stood over him.
" Twilight?" He asked.
" No." the woman said. Everything became clearer and he looked at the woman again and saw it was Raven. " Hey." she said.
" Hey. What happened?" Nightwing asked .
" Well. You jumped out a two story building that exploded. And you saved Twilight." Raven answered.
" Oh, my God! Twilight is she okay?" Nightwing asked frightened.
Raven put a hand on Nightwings shoulders, " She's better than great thanks to you. She was worried about you though."
Nightwing was surprised, " She was?"
" Yeah. It was kinda her screams that lead us to you guys. You weren't breathing for a minute." Raven said.
" Oh," Nightwing said slowly, " so was I dead?"
" Actually you were but Twilight brought you back to life. Your lucky she was there and she was lucky you were there." Raven said smiling. " I'm glad you're all right. We all are."
" Is she here?" he asked.
" Actually yeah and she wants to see you. So I'll go get her." Raven said as she walked out of the room. Just as she had gone the door opened and Twilight walked in. She walked over to his bed.
" Hey." she said.
" Hey yourself." he said back.
" So are you okay?" she said looking down trying to avoid eye contact.
" Yeah."
" I want to thank you for saving me. I don't know what would've happened if you hadn't come for me." she said quietly.
" It was no problem. And thank-you for saving me." he said also quietly. Twilight looked up and their eyes met. A inexcusable sexual tenison loomed between them. Twilight looked away.
" The others want to meet in the common room. Are you okay to walk?" Twilight asked .
" I think I am." Nightwing said getting up. Hw walked forward but he had hurt his leg on the fall and he winced as he walked. " Guess it still hurts a little. It will go away in a little while."
" Here let me help you." Twilight said going over to him. She put his left arm over her shoulder and supported some of his weight. Her heart started to beat faster as soon as she touched him.
Oh, no I can't---. I can't love him.
Yes you do. An other voice from with inside her said.
No, no I don't. I'm kind of with Daredevil.
And your point is…….
My point is that this can't happen. He hurt me. I can't trust him!
Just because you can't trust him doesn't mean you can't love him.
I don't. I refuse to listen to your ridiculous acquzations any longer!
Don't lie to me cause I am you and I know how you feel. When he wasn't breathing you felt like your whole world was falling apart. You felt it. You felt your love for him. And when he started breathing again you felt great reflive. You love him admit it!
So what if I do? Huh? This isn't my life! He broke my heart. He hurt me. I refuse to answer loves call! So back off!
It's never too late……..
" Uh, earth to Twilight!" Cyborg yelled. Twilight snapped out of her toughts and relized she was in the common room. " You can put Nightwing down now." Cyborg said. Twilight put nightwing down on the couch. She went over and sat next to Daredevil. She refused to meet Nightwings glance.
" Ok, what's with this Crytpicus guy?" Raven asked.
Twilight chosse to explain. " Dr. Cliton Crytpicus was a well known sicencetist. He owned a cosmetics company called Beauty, you all might be familiar with it, that closed two years ago. Dr. Crytpicus had been working on an anti-ageing formula that would put his company on the map. He finally did create a formula and it was supposed to be a great hit on not only the cosmetics industry but all so the world of science. It was set to lauch after all products were made. He invested everything in it and also used it himself. Sadly, it turns out that one month after the formula is created the acid base of it's foundation becomes too strong and completely dissolves the other ingredients of the formula. Production stopped and it could not be sold. Crytpicus lost all his money and his business. He also lost half of his face because he was the one that found out what happens to the formula after a month. After applying it one morning the acid bruned of the skin on the left side of his face. It even burned out his eye. He survied though only to lose everything. He was angry at the world for turning it's back on him. He tried putting his formula in New York Citys water supply. Lucky Daredevil and I were able to stop him before he did and sent him to prison."
" So who's Jacobs?" Beastboy asked.
This time Daredevil spoke up. " Jacobs is Crytpicus personal assant and right hand man. Unfortunately, he wasn't found guilty in court and was set free. I guess he helped Crytpicus escape. Jacbos is a skilled fighter. He'll kick your ass if your not careful."
"Great for us." Cyborg mumbled.
" But that has really nothing to do with what he stole." Nightwing said.
Twilight looked at him. " What did he steal?"
"A gold piece from The Eye of Iris." he answered.
" What's that? I've never heard of it." Daredevil said.
" Nither have we. But luckly I had a book on anicent artifacts." Raven said taking a book out and turning to a page. " It says: The Eye of Iris is said to be an artifact from anicent Mesopaina( sorry if I'm spelling these things wrong) . It was kept in the hands of great kings and it made them all powerful. The Eye of Iris was a device created from pure gold from the earth and a ruby eye was said to be from God himself. Together seprate gold pices made a circle and when the ruby was placed into it, it glowed with the light from the sun. When used it could effect time. The ruler who had the eye was the most powerful being on Earth at the time. But with power also came greed. Once an acient king came to power. He used the eye to do horrible things. Finally this king was defeated in the anicent city of Babylon. The gold circle was separated into four pices and sent to the four corners of the world. The ruby, or the eye, itself was said to have been sent to an acient temple to be kept . The location of this temple was unknown. But it is know for sure that it had been taken off the continent. That's all it says."
" So this eye could effect time. Maybe instead of stoping the effects of time, maybe Crytpicus is effecting time itself." Twilight thought aloud.
" That makes sense. But what would he be planing?" Raven asked.
" I don't know. But if he stole one piece then he must be stealing others too." Beastboy said.
" He's right. He must be putting it together." Cyborg said.
" But why Jump City?" Daredevil asked.
" The book said something about a temple, right? And that the ruby was taken off the continent. What if it was brought here? That would make sense. No one at the time even knew of this continent. No one would ever find it at least not until now." Nightwing said.
" So what your saying is that Crytpicus found it. And it's in Jump City. Okay, but where?"Cyborg asked.
" Kings Mountain." Daredevil said.
" What? How do you know that, man?" Cyborg asked.
" Because, that's were the tracker is now and it was on Crytpicus's hellicopter." Daredevil answered pointing to his locator.
" That doesn't make since. There's nothing on King's Moutain but trees." Raven said.
" Well not above ground." Nightwing said.
" Okay then we're going to King's Mountain. Time to find out what he's going to do and stop this mother fucker." Cyborg said standing up. He and the others walked down to the garage and started getting into their vehicles.
" Nightwing are you okay to ride?" Raven asked.
" Yeah. I'm all better now." Nightwing answered.
" Good. Now King's Mountain is across the bridge. There's three ways up the moutain and we each know where the hellicopter is located, follow that and we'll find Crytpicus. Here's the three teams: Cyborg and Daredevil in my T-car. Raven and Beastboy can take Daredevil's car. And Nightwing and Twilight on motorcycles. We'll all meet there. Remember if anything bad happens one member of each team has a communactor. Titans and other people go!" Cyborg yelled.
They all got on and took off. Nightwing and Twilight were the last ones to go.
" Are you ready?" Nightwing asked.
"If you are." Twilight said back. He nodded. They started their motorcycles and rode off. Somethngs telling me it's going to be a long night. Twilight thought to herself as the mountain came into view.
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Ok that took forever to write! I don't know if that sucked or not. But please no flames and be gentle. Reviews make me write faster!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ok I know I used the thing Jennifer Gardner says on that Alias commerical, but I like that commercial. Yeah, I'm getting all mysticall but I like all different kinds of genres in stories. Okay, in the next Chap all of them will experience different things trying to get up the mountain but in the end will they end up in the same place? And what is Crytpicus up to? I will see ya later. Happy New Year everyone!!!!!!!!!!!
Love ya,
Hailey