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Abashed Enchanters, Part 3

The 2nd Teen Titans Fanscript – Fanfic Adaptation

By RavenStar

Author's Note: The plot for Abashed Enchanters is as follows: Jinx defects to the Titans, quickly quelling thoughts that she's trying to subvert them, and soon becomes a powerful new addition and friend to the group. But when an unexpected attraction starts forming between her and Raven, both girls find themselves confused over their feelings and emotions - and Cyborg finds himself needing a more efficient circuit breaker for his jealousy fuse.


ACT TWO

Lightning flashed upon the dark clouds over Jump City's Old District, illuminating a building by the waterfront pier. The building was nothing more than a huge, egregiously over-glorified, dilapidated old wooden shed. All the spots where windows used to be had been boarded up for some time. Thunder cackled, deafeningly loud.


Inside the building, it was just as bare bones as it looked outside. All dust and wood; almost completely vacant. The only things barely worth noting were a few cardboard boxes and some big wooden crates.

Yet, oddly, Overload was in the building, wreaking havoc upon the place, clearly searching for something in particular. A familiar voice interrupted his fun.

"I find it odd that you would be here with the weather as horrible as it is."

Overload turned. Starfire floated in front of him, defiant. She narrowed her glare. "Do you wish defeat?"

Overload charged, sending a barrage of electricity attacks ahead of him. She dodged them as they came, taking her time in charging up her starbolts. Just as Overload reached her, she turned and blasted a huge hole in the roof above him.

The rain poured in.

Overload was too focused on the rubble from the falling pieces of roof to get out of from under the hole fast enough. The rain hit him, immediately immobilizing him. He shrunk - until all that was left of him was his mainframe chip.

Starfire picked up the chip and put it in a nearby cardboard box. She sealed the box up with bit of starbolt energy. She stood up and took out her communicator. "I have defeated Overload."

Robin's voice came through. "Good work, Starfire."

"However, Robin, I must admit that my battle with him was entirely too brief – I fearthat I have just walked into a tra-"

Like dominoes at Mach 10, all the boards over the windows of the building smashed to splinters in rapid succession. Lightning flashed as through the now-"open" windows peered creatures that were not human. They had hideous green scaly faces with red eyes, and their heads were covered partially by shiny yellow armour.

Starfire gasped. Thunder crackled.

"Starfire?" Robin asked over the communicator. "STARFIRE! What's going on?"

With a low, heavy, pulsating hum, a light washed over the hole in the roof of the building - and over Starfire. She was surrounded. She frantically searched for a way to get out.

There was none. So she decided to make one.

A small spaceship over the roof of the building veered out of the way as Starfire blasted out of it in a shower of wooden splinters. She zipped away from the alien creatures that surrounded the building. They zoomed into the air after her. She sped up. She screamed frantically into the communicator.

"GORDANIAN BOUNTY HUNTERS!"

"Starfire! Hang in there!" yelled Robin. "Head for my position as FAST as you can! We just might be able to divert them into distracting Cinderblock and Plasmus!"

"I shall try as best I can!" the Tamaranean girl replied.

She looked behind her.

The Gordanian Bounty Hunters were closing in.

She SHRIEKED and increased her speed.


Inside Raven's mind, Slade walked down the path in front of him quite quickly. He looked around at the bright colors of this place. "Hmm...It would appear I've walked into a greeting card."

A laugh rang out behind him. He spun around to find the pink-clothed Raven standing there. "That was actually pretty funny, Mister!"

He immediately lunged at her - but once again, she dodged his punch. Slade proceeded to nearly go into a fury of attacks, but he still failed to deliver a single blow. As they "fought," they moved down the path. "How long are we going to be doing this, Mister Bad Man? This is fun!" She giggled like she had inhaled laughing gas.

Slade was indignant. "May I ask how you've been able to dodge every single one of my attacks?"

Sounding like a toddler, she replied, "You're a bad man. You're not nice. You can't touch me until you're nice. You have to be nice, Mister Bad Man!"

Slade glared. "I don't do nice."

"Suit yourself, then!" She ran off down the path again, laughing all the way until she seemed to disappear on the horizon.

"Hey! Get back here!" Slade chased after her - and ran through the second gate.

Back where I started. Slade looked back at the gate. "Well... Guess I'll be walking again."

He started to walk - then stopped again. Raven was in front of him – only now she was wearing grey and looked like she was about cry a storm. Slade looked at her. "Weren't you just laughing and wearing pink?" he asked her.

She took one look at him, then turned and bolted down the path in fear.

"Hey! Answer my question, witch!" Slade ran after her - and slammed into the wall of a maze that shot up out of the ground around him. He got up, grunting in pain. "Charming welcoming committee - huh?" From the corner of his eye, he caught Raven peeking out at him from around a corner, visibly shaking with fright. "I don't bite," he told her.

She cowered still. "You don't like me. I know you don't like me."

"Come now - what gave you that idea?" Slade asked.

"You tried to destroy us. You destroyed Terra. You want to destroy Jinx."

"Jinx doesn't like you. She's only interested in Cyborg."

That hit her like a shockwave. "Jinx – doesn't like me?"


In another section of the Old District, Cinderblock was wreaking havoc at a landfill strewn with old, rusty machinery and even older construction vehicles.

"Shouldn't you be after more than just old car parts, Cinderblock?"

Cinderblock turned. Robin stood there, bo staff in hand. "I'd say you need to go to the compactor - just like the trash you are."

Cinderblock roared and charged him.

Robin turned and BOLTED down the road. "I've got Cinderblock on the run!" he said into his communicator. "Gotcha," Beast Boy's voice crackled back


In yet another building in another section of the Old District, Plasmus enjoyed a good amount of toxic barrel drinks.

"Why do you keep drinking that stuff when you know it's bad for you?"

Plasmus turned. Beast Boy stood there. "Seriously. You need help, Plasmus."

Plasmus shrieked and charged at him. Beast Boy turned and ran, too - leading Plasmus out of the building.

"Plasmus is comin' after me!" he yelled into his communicator.

"Head for these coordinates!" Robin's voice crackled in response.

The coordinates appeared on the communicator. "Got it!" replied Beast Boy.


Mammoth slammed into the wall of Slade's new underground cavern, the result of a Cyborg punch.

In front of Mammoth, with a new set of metallic wings, Gizmo dodged another purple energy lightning attack from Jinx, which ripped up the vacant ground it hit into rock and clay shrapnel. "Hah!" Gizmo taunted. "Missed-AHH!" Before Gizmo could start to gloat, the still-airborne pieces Jinx sent up were engulfed in dark energy and sent tearing through his new metallic wings like bullets through cheesecloth.

"Looks like a hit to me!" Cyborg said in observance. Mammoth promptly walloped him from behind. "OOF!" Cyborg went down hard, face first.

"CYBORG!" Jinx yelled.

"JINX! BEHIND YOU!" Raven screamed.

"Huh" Jinx turned. "AHH!" she cried as Gizmo's new spider suit legs trapped her. Raven's eyes went wide. Gizmo stood over the "captured" Jinx. Mammoth held a struggling Cyborg hostage. They both manically grinned at Raven. "Come and get 'em!" Mammoth catcalled her.

Raven glared, but didn't move. Something was wrong.

She clenched her fist. But didn't move.

After moment, her fist started shaking. She started gritting her teeth.

"What - ya' scared of us now?" Mammoth asked the non-moving Raven.

Raven clenched her other fist.


Robin ran down 1st Street in the Old District, chased by Cinderblock.

"AHHHHH!"


Raven's other fist started shaking.


Beast Boy ran from Plasmus down 5th Street in the Old District.

"AHHHHH!"


Raven started to growl, and gritted her teeth a bit more.

Mammoth and Gizmo looked at each other, sensing something.


Starfire's fleed the Gordanian Bounty Hunters as fast as she could fly.

"EEEEEE!"


Robin, Beast Boy, and Starfire began to come at a heads at the middle of the intersection up ahead of them.


Jinx looked at Raven through the trap of Gizmo's spider suit legs. The two girls' eyes met.

Raven's eyes suddenly turned red—


The Gordanian Bounty Hunters fired their weapons just as all three of the Titans and their pursuing villains converged—


Raven let out a war cry and streaked across the cavern so fast Mammoth and Gizmo never registered it - and delivered a roundhouse kick to their faces - sending the villains out cold.


KEE-RASH! Cinderblock, Plasmus, and the Gordanian Bounty Hunters smashed into each other - Starfire grabbing Robin and Beast Boy turning into an eagle as they flew away up into the air to escape the explosion from the Gordanian's weapons.


Raven stood over the knocked-out Gizmo and Mammoth, glaring them, still in quite a furious state.

Jinx finally found a hex that shattered the grip of the spider legs. She broke free and ran to Raven. She put her hands on Raven's shoulder to calm her down.

"Jinx...do you like me?" Raven asked her timidly.

"Huh?" Jinx answered. "Of course I do." Noticing something, she leaned in towards Raven. "What is it?"

Raven suddenly seemed to snap back to her usual normal self. She put her hand to her head, partially in anguish. "It's Slade - he's getting closer. We have to find the mirror - NOW!"

"What we do when Apeman and Boltface wake up, find us gone, but the mirror still here?" asked Cyborg. "Even they'll be able to put two and two together soon and jump in it after us!"

"That's why we're going back to the Tower first before we go after Slade," said Raven.

Jinx nodded, picked up the mirror - and Raven teleported them all out.

TO BE CONTINUED...

END ACT THREE