Revelations

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Element walked into the kitchen with his book bags looking exhausted. Robin and the other Titans ran over to him, looking worried. "What happened?"

Element looked at him quizzically. "How do you know something happened?"

Robin had a look like it was obvious. "For one thing, you're exhausted, and for another, not even Raven stays out that long just to get books."

He sighed, "Yeah, well, sorry about being suspicious."

"You were?"

"Yeah, not let me tell you what happened, on my way out of the bookstore I was attacked."

As soon as he said this everyone had a look of shock on their face. Cyborg piped up. "Yo, man, by who?"

"Cinderblock."

Robin's face went stone cold, everyone looked at him worriedly, even Element. "I know that he works for Slade, but I have no idea why he attacked me."

Robin's voice was one of pure seriousness and hatred. "How'd it happen?"

"As soon as I left the store, and I mean the first foot I stepped out, Cinderblock was right in front of me and punched me right through the doors. Good thing for me that was the only punch he got in." He suddenly got a look on his face like he just remembered something. "Oh, the guys checking him when I turned him in found this." He handed Robin a circular device with the location of the city with a blinking circle with an S in it.

Robin and Cyborg looked at it with a look of exasperation on their face. "It's a kind of tracker, it should say where Slade is."

"But, that's good right?" Element had a puzzled look on his face.

"No, Slade did the same thing with me once before," Robin said regrettably. "It's a trap, he lured me to it before and because of that…."

Cyborg put a hand on his shoulder. "We all forgive you, Robin, stop acting like you failed."

Robin looked at him with a look of apology and then left the room. Cyborg stepped forward. "Sorry about him, his anger has made him mess up before and he hates the act. Don't worry, though, he probably went back to his room to try and find out where Slade might be."

Element had a look of exasperation on his face. "I think I'll go join him, I have an idea and I want to check out some things to see if it might work. See ya later." He set his bags down at the end of the couch and followed Robin to his room.


Element walked into Robin's room, softly closing the door. Robin was sitting at his desk, hands on his head, going over everything he had but obviously not taking anything in. "What do you want?"

"Well, we are working on finding Slade together."

"And look where that got us, you couldn't even get close to where he was."

Element got a look of anger on his face for a second, then settled into his regular look. "My guess was as good as any, and besides, I don't see you making any progress."

"Go away."

Element held his hand up, pretending to look at his nails, putting a knowing look on his face. ""Fine then, I guess you don't want to know my idea on where Slade is, then."

Robin's head turned so fast it looked like it would have popped out of his socket. "You know something?"

"I think I know something, but it's a pretty good guess none the less."

"What is it?"

"The tracker." He pointed at the thing in Robin's hand. "It gave me an idea, you said Slade did this before?"

"Yeah, so?"

"He doesn't usually do the same thing twice."

"Are you saying that this is where he is, because I don't think so, he used this on you, not me, he expected you to fall for it."

"That's not what I'm getting at, I'm talking about where he is."

"So, of course he'd never keep the same hideout."

"Yes, but it's where the hideout is."

"Huh?"

"Before he had it in a building on land, then he had it underneath it, I think that his next hideout is above it."

"How do you know?"

"For one thing I don't think anyone else would have looked there. And it completely explains the crime scenes, they are extremely far apart, so no central location, that means that he can easily move around."

Robin looked at him with awe on his face. "I think you might just have something." He pulled out his communicator. "Cyborg, can you get some probes in the sky, we need to see if there's anything up there."

"What do you mean?"

"I'll explain later when we go out for pizza. We need to celebrate."

"Pizza! All right! I'll tell the others. What are we celebrating?"

"I think that we have an idea where Slade is."


The Titans sat down at the table of the pizza place, already arguing over what kind of pizza to get.

"Man, we got to get meat."

"I don't see how you people eat that stuff, let's go for a veggie pizza."

"How about pickles and mustard." Starfire happily piped in. For a while everyone just stared at her, then started again. After about five minutes, Element leaned in to talk to Raven. "Is it always like this?"

She just stared ahead with a bored look on her face. "Yep, now you see why we only do this when celebrating."

After about fifteen more minutes of this, Element just stuck up this hands. "Okay, that's it." He cleared his voice so he could be heard above the noise. "Quit!" Everyone stopped and looked at him. "This is ridiculous, it takes longer for you to chose a pizza than it takes to eat it. I have an idea on what we can do, okay? Now hear me out, cheese pizza."

Everyone opened their mouths to start to complain. "Hey, I said here me out, now I know it doesn't have the things you like, but it also doesn't have things you don't like. Cyborg, it may not have meat, but at least it doesn't have veggies. Beast Boy, it may not have veggies, but at least it doesn't have meat. Everyone okay on this?"

All of the Titans got an interested look on their face and nodded their heads. "Good, now we can order." He raised his hand. "Waiter!"

Suddenly a blast of electricity came from the side, hitting Raven and making all other Titans get to their feet. In the street was Overload and Plasmas, behind them was a large group of Slade's robots. Overload had his hand-like thing extended, it was obvious that he just fired. Cyborg looked at them all exasperatedly. "Man, we were just about to order!"

"Overload don't care, Overload sent by Slade to destroy Titans and Element."

Robin took out his Bo staff, obviously ready to fight. "It's you who'll be destroyed. You'll learn not to interrupt us during pizza. Titans, go!" As soon as he said this, everyone leapt forward, except for Raven, who was still unconscious from the attack, and Element, who was still sitting in the chair with his hand partially raised, a look of shock plastered on his face as he looked at where Raven lay.

Overload raised both of his hands over his head, about to unleash a devastating attack. "Overload destr..." Element's hand shot out at alarming speed, making a flinging motion. Suddenly a very long, narrow, and obviously sharpicicle appeared stuck right in Overload's eye piece. His electric body disappeared and the chip/face fell to the ground, shattering as it hit.

Everyone just stopped and watched as Element stood up, a look of cold fury on his face. Plasmas was the first to act, shooting a stream of acid towards him. Element raised his hand and a strong breeze blew towards the acid, sending it back at Plasmas. As soon as it hit Plasmas started to scream in pain, of all things his body was prepared for acid definitely wasn't one of them.

Element raised his left hand in a motion that was usually followed by a backhand. "Slow burn painful enough for you? How about a fast burn!" His hand suddenly ignited in fire, as fast as it appeared it turned a bright white.

Beast Boy leaned towards Robin. "Whoa, did he just turn the fire into that light energy stuff?"

"Worse." Robin gulped. "That's the color fire gets when it's at it's maximum heat."

As soon as Plasmas stopped cowering from the acid he looked up, only to be met by a huge burst of white fire as Element's hand shot forward. The fire engulfed him, and for a few seconds no one cold look from the bright flame. When it stopped everyone looked, only to see in shock that Plasmas wasn't there anymore, he was completely destroyed. All that was left after that was the robots, who even after what they saw still came forward.

A ball of white energy appeared in Element's right hand, it had small things of energy coming from it and it spun clockwise, it looked like a miniature, spinning version of our galaxy. His hand shot upward. "LINE EXPLOSION!" Five beams of light shot from the ball, each hitting a different part of the street in a row. Where each beam hit there was a dome-like explosion. The street shook, the Titans covered their faces, but this time from debris. After that there wasn't a single robot left, just an oval shaped crater as long as the street, parts of building were destroyed.

After this Element just took off and flew back towards Titans tower, the destruction that he caused to his back.


Back at the tower, Element sat on the couch, one hand on his face, a look of confusion plastered on him. Why did I do that? Why'd I get angry? Maybe it was because of the fact that Slade attacked us just when we were celebrating and figured something out. But something inside him told him that wasn't true.

If that's not it then what is it? Let me look back, we were sitting at the table, and we were attacked by Overload and Plasmas. Wait, there's more, Raven gets hit by Overload, after that is when I feel the rage. But why, I mean, we're friends, or at least we should be, and besides, I shouldn't have been that mad.

That same inside feeling he had before spoke up again, but more clearly. You love her.

Element just stood still, silent, thinking. No, that can't be, we're just friends, we meditate together.

Exactly, you two do a lot of things together and have many same interests.

That can be the qualities of good friends.

Hey, I'm yourself, your true feelings, I think that of all people, I should know how you truly feel.

Shut up.

You know you just told yourself to shut up.

Don't try to tell me what to do.

I'm not, only yourself can do that.

But didn't you just say you're me?

I know, I was just messing with you, well, technically, you were just messing with you.

Great, I'm arguing with myself.

Don't make me kick your ass.

What are you going to do? Swing my own footinto my own ass? The tide for confusion has turned.

Technically it hasn't.

Huh?

If you're not confused, I'm not confused, since I'm you.

Let's just stop this, okay? I, you, we, and me are getting confused again. How about we just stick with I love Raven.

Deal.

Deal.

The other Titans got to the door of the room. Robin was about to walk forward when Raven put her hand on his shoulder. "Let me handle this, you guys just leave us, he needs someone that he can actually talk to." Robin nodded, and he and the other Titans left. Raven entered the room and sat down next to Element.

Element looked at her, a smile tugging at his lips, but he didn't let it out. "I'm glad that you're okay."

Raven had an exasperated look on her face. "Don't talk about me, what happened out there, the others told me what you did." He sighed and let his hand drop.

"I guess I just got mad."

"You just got mad?"

"Yeah."

"From what?"

His face was a little worried, it looked like he was arguing with himself, finally, he spoke. "I guess that it was just how Slade's guys showed up when we solved where he was, or where he might be."

"You have to control your emotions." Raven just flat out said. "If that's how mad you get when something like that happens, think how mad you'll get when you meet Slade."

Element seemed to get a little annoyed. "It seems that the other Titans didn't tell you how controlled my anger was, I knew exactly what I was doing."

"But what if you can't control it when you meet Slade? What then?" Her voice raised a little bit more than usual.

"Don't talk to me about controlling emotions, at least I don't have to meditate."

"Well at least I don't burst in fits of rage every now and then."

"Hey, I can easily control my emotions, and even with the rage it's a lot better than you could do."

"You don't know anything about me!" Her voice was now raised to almost a shout.

"I don't need to, you and me are almost exactly alike, except for the fact that you need meditation and I just like it!" His voice was raised to the same level as hers.

"Well here's something we don't have in common, unlike you my father was a demon!"

"Oh yeah, well here's a shocker, SO WAS MINE!" This last part was actually shouted. As soon as he said this Raven's face lit up in shock, and after a while so did Element's, realizing what he just said.

"What?"

Element collapsed on the couch, hand on his head, and he said once more in his regular voice. "So was mine."


Finally, the truth is out, but not the whole truth, Element has a lot of more things to tell. Hope you guys liked the part when he was kind of arguing with himself, I wanted to throw that in for some laughs. In the next chapter his whole past will finally be told, all his secrets, even I can't wait to hear them. This was definitely the longest chapter that I have written so far, I really hope that you guys liked it. Just for those fans that have read my stories close to when I started, it will take a little longer to post each chapter now because of school. The best times for me to write are on the weekends and other days off. But I'll still be writing during the week, just not as fast. That's about all I have to say, so read and review. One more thing, I know it's stupid to say read and review, since you just read it, but I like to do it anyway, sorry if it annoys you. One more thing I just remembered, sorry if I got Plasmas' name wrong, but I forgot what it originally was, and I probably wouldn't know how to spell it correctly, anyway.