1Author's Note: Here it is, the long-awaited chapter 6. Uh, sorry it took so long? Hopefully it won't take another year for Chapter 7 ;; (actually I plan on starting in on it after I post this). Unfortunately, there's not a whole lot of romance in this chapter, it's more action oriented. I'm not really sure how good I am at writing action, so feedback would be much appreciated. Sargent Snow is kinda a lame-ass villain. I mean, let's be honest, this isn't Shakespeare here. I hope to finish off this in another 3 chapters.
I also wanna say a HUGE thank you to everyone who has reviewed this story. The reviews make me smile, even the crazy incoherent ones. :)
Disclaimer: If Teen Titans DID belong to me, it probably wouldn't be pretty. So let's all be glad it doesn't, shall we?
Chapter 6: "The Lights Are Turned Way Down Low"
Crack!
Robin and Starfire sprang apart as the common room, previously bathed in a soft pink glow from all the colored Christmas lights, was plunged into pitch black. Still clinging to one another, they surveyed the room as their eyes adjusted to the new darkness.
"What the heck was that?" Robin asked rhetorically of Starfire's anxiously glowing eyes. They froze, holding their breaths as they heard an ominous series of creaks and footfalls from the corridor outside of the room.
Robin and Starfire poised themselves for attack as the door was manually pulled open. They were instantly blinded by a bright white light.
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Cyborg walked down the hallway toward the common room, deep in thought. "well that could have gone much worse," he reasoned. "She could have killed me. At least she liked the present..." As if it was punctuating his thoughts, with a pop and a fizzle, the hallways lights flickered and then went out, and the robotic teen found himself surrounded only by the faint blue and red glow that he himself was emanating.
"Hmm, must have blown the fuses with all those darn lights." He turned on his extra search light and pried the disfunctioning automatic doors to the common room open.
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"Auggh!!" Starfire yelped. "Robin! I am unable to see!"
Quickly, Cyborg turned to the side so that his light was not shining directly on his two friends. Blushing slightly, he quickly uttered an embarrassed "oops," before there was yet another interruption in the form of a loud creak and a series of metallic thumping noises.
The three Titans looked around in the dim light. "Is it just me, or did it just get a lot colder in here?" Robin cautiously asked no one in particular. Cyborg's sensors as well as a thick layer of frost on the large front windows confirmed it.
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Standing in the dark, Beast Boy slowly became aware he was still gripping Raven's wrist. Quickly he let go as though it had burned him. "Maybe that was a sign," he thought as he remembered what he had been about to say before the lights went out.
"Ugh, what now?" Raven complained. It was impossible to see anything, and she found the whole situation extremely frustrating. She could still feel a tingle on her wrist where beast Boy had grabbed her, and was momentarily glad for the darkness hiding her flushed face.
"I guess we should find the others."
"Yeah," Beast Boy was reluctant to throw away this convenient opportunity with Raven in the dark. However, it was starting to get chilly in the hallway and he thought maybe he could find something in the kitchen to warm himself up.
As if reading his mind Raven exhaled deeply, folding her arms up in order to restore some feeling to her frozen fingertips. "Why is it so cold?"
"Heat must have turned off too..." They walked past a small window in the hallway, which provided a tiny alleviation from the pitch darkness. Beast Boy looked over at Raven, whose face was bathed soft blue, which only served to make her already pale skin appear even more ghostlike. At times like these, he wondered if she would disappear.
Raven, choosing to ignore the fact that Beast Boy was now intently gazing at her face, instead observed that the hallway was coated in a layer of frost. She exhaled again and saw her breath in a puff of smoke. She had a very bad feeling about this.
"Someone's here. And I don't think it's Satna Claus."
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Starfire noticed the trickle of water under the door first, then tugged on Robin's cape, pointing wordlessly as the trickle became a stream.
"Sargent Snow!" the Boy Wonder hissed as he gestured to Cyborg, cuing him to prepare his sonic cannon. The puddle of water that had formed at the doorway was beginning to solidify, forming into their snowy adversary.
With a deep malicious laugh, Sargent Snow stood before the Titans, and the room they were in instantly became like an arctic tundra. Snow whorled around their feet as the three sprung into action. "Titans Go!"
Starfire flew into the air, assaulting the mutant snowman with as many starbolts as she could produce, while Cyborg Simultaneously attempted to get a good shot with his canon.
For a large snowman , he moved fairly quickly around the room, deflecting all of the starbolts with his shields of ice. Robin moved in for a direct physical assault. He somersaulted into the air and delivered a direct kick to the snowman's gut. He was horrified to discover his leg had become lodged within Sargent Snow's body, and it was becoming colder by the minute. He struggled, pulling with all his might to dislodge it.
"Robin!" Starfire flew up behind him, and helped pull, taking advantage of the close range to shoot green blasts of energy directly into his face. The snow monster merely laughed again, and with a thrust, launched Robin across the room, taking Starfire with him. The two landed in a heap, and Robin looked with horror at his leg encased in a thick block of ice.
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"The door is frozen shut!" Raven spoke in a voice that was slightly more panicky than she liked. The two had run the rest of the way down to the common room, where they could hear the obvious sounds of a battle raging within.
"Leave it to me baby," Beast Boy grinned impishly as he shape shifted into a wooly mammoth and charged the door. It easily burst open, and Raven pulled up her hood and covered her face with her arm as shards of ice splintered everywhere.
The scene they came upon was chaotic at best. The room was covered in mounds of snow, and Robin and Starfire were still crouched in a corner of the room, trying to thaw out his leg.
"Guys, hold Frosty down so I can get a clean shot!" Cyborg shouted. Raven obliged, focusing her concentration and enveloping the snowman in a sheath of black energy. Once Cyborg gave her the signal, he released it and he fired his sonic cannon at full blast. "Got 'im!" He cheered. Indeed, the snowman had been dissolved into nothing more than a pile of snow. However, the battle wasn't over yet.
"Uh, is snow supposed to bubble?" Beast boy asked, reverting to his normal form. Indeed, the snow was bubbling up into hundreds of the miniature snowballs that they had encountered earlier in the week. soon the room was filled with them, each one giggling, as if mocking their superhero adversaries. Raven, Starfire, Beast Boy and Cyborg got to work chasing them down, trying unsuccessfully to diminish their numbers.
"This does not seem to be working," Starfire huffed. Robin, having nearly recovered use of his right leg, got a desperate idea and began searching through his utility belt. Finding the mini-bomb, he pulled the fuse and threw it into the adjacent corner. The explosion was small, but generated a decent amount of heat. the Snowball mutants began to quickly dissipate as Robin stood and released another bomb.
"But I can't just blow them all up, otherwise I'll blow us all up too..." he thought. They all seemed to be migrating out of the room, like a flood of rats abandoning a sinking ship. "If only we knew more about them..." He scanned the room quickly and grabbed a convenient spare containment unit off the kitchen counter as he ran after the flood.
"Robin!" Cyborg shouted. "They're going away?" As the last few snowballs evacuated the room, Robin took a flying dive and trapped one in the contained he had grabbed, sealing the lid.
"Gotcha, you little..."
Random End Note: I would like to dedicate this chapter to Mountain Dew and Parliament. They are my vices. Also, having finally seen some Terra episodes, I am reminded of Avril Lavigne. Why does she have to go and make things so complicated?