I don't own Calvin and Hobbes or the Teen Titans. The other characters are Neil Gaiman's. Erosgirl- Basically Slade and Calvin/Tracer are two halves of the same person. It's kind of like when Calvin used the Duplicator to give his good side a physical form, only without a mechanical intervention. And as for Death- she'll show up later.
Credit goes to NosMercenary for Hobbes's attack.
"Try it again," Hobbes told Tracer, slicing an apple into two halves. "Okay," Tracer replied. "Deua halvem unitad!"
The apple reformed, perfectly whole. "No magic at the breakfast table!" Robin yelled. Beast Boy picked the apple up and ate it. Robin stared in disbelief. "It won't hurt him," Hobbes reassured the two.
Spell casting, scrying, reading sorcerous books.. the new training was going better than Hobbes could have believed. But he still worried that it wasn't enough. At least Tracer had managed to master the most important spell.
He sat by as Raven, Starfire, and Tracer meditated. The girls sat quietly, and Tracer had taken off his necklace and was running it through his fingers. The alarm went off, startling everybody.
"Who is it this time?" Raven demanded. "It's Slade," Robin said icily. "What's a Slade?" Tracer asked. "Bad guy," Cyborg explained "Really awful bad guy. We've been fighting him for years." "Oh," Tracer replied. Hobbes fought down feelings of dread. Why was he feeling this way? Tracer had fought aliens, helped the Titans in a skirmish with Mumbo, and even helped take out Dr. Light. But he felt that Slade was different.
The Titans raced off to Slade's last known location. As soon as they got there, Hobbes realized why he'd been feeling such dread. Even from here, he could feel Slade's aura. It was colder than Tracer's but fundamentally the same. "Hello, Titans," Slade smiled. "I see you've met my other half. Nice to see you again, Calvin."
Tracer's first thought was, Why does every darn supervillian know my name? First Blackfire, now this Slade guy. I might as well go around wearing a nametag. The next thought that arrived was, just what does he mean by that "other half crack?
Slade lunged toward Tracer, ignoring the other five Titans. Tracer dodged and fired his ray gun. Beast Boy and Hobbes looked at each other and nodded. Beast Boy shifted into tiger form and they pounced at the same time. Slade dodged them. They switched directions and tried another rush. Raven screamed spells, Starfire hurled starbolts, and Cyborg hurled Robin at Slade. Nothing they did could shift Slade's direction.
Finally Slade reached Tracer. "Now," Hobbes yelled, "Use the spell I taught you." Tracer smiled, and grabbed Slade's wrist. "Deua solus halveum, unitad!"
As he intoned the words of the spell, he felt Slade's grip weaken.
The other Titans saw Slade disappear and his armor fell to the ground. Tracer fell unconcious and Cyborg picked him up. Hobbes breathed out a sigh of relief. His master was safe atlast.
"Hobbes?" Robin asked. "Yeah," Hobbes replied. "What did Slade mean when he called Tracer his other 'half?'" Robin asked in an accusing tone. They were heading back to the T-Car in a group. Cyborg had Tracer slung over his shoulder and Starfire and Raven were making sure that he didn't drop their ill teammate.
"He means that my youngest brother is finally restored to his fullpowers," a woman's voice said. She walked out of the darkness. Her physical appearance was that of a young woman, in clothes that made Raven look like a wannabe Goth.
Hobbes trembled. "Lady Death," he finally said,"How wonderful to meet you again." "It's been a while, Robert Gatling," she agreed. "I haven't seen you since the sixteenth century."
Beast Boy was the only one of the Titans crazy enough, or stupid enough to try to contradict them. "You can't be Death," he said. "Why not?" Death inquired, amused. "You're not a skeleton, you don't have a scythe, and you don't have a big black robe on." he pointed out. She snapped her fingers, and changed her appearance. Beast Boy turned into a mouse and hid inside Raven's cape. "Happy now?" Death asked, changing back to her normal form. Beast Boy gave a squeak that probably meant yes.
