Ambush

Disclaimer: I do not own Teen Titans but I do own Element and all other characters I create.


The T car was driving towards the scene of the disturbance, Element was flying slightly above it, talking to Cyborg. "So tell me about these three guys in the H.I.V.E. group."

"Okay, man. First, there's Jinx, she's the leader of the other two. She's a kind of sorceress, not like Raven, of course, Jinx kind of controls these wave like pieces of energy. You're going to have to watch out for her, she's tricky. Next, there's Gizmo, he's, well... I think I should say this all at once. He's small, annoying, name calling, and very sneaky, you're going to have to watch your back around him."

"Let me guess, judging by the name and his description, he's a mechanical whiz, right?"

"Yep. Okay, the last guy is Mammoth, he's..."

"Wait," Element interrupted. "Let me guess, he's trickier than the other two."

"Are you kidding." Cyborg started to laugh. "That guy's an IDIOT! A rock is smarter than him!" After his laughter had cooled down he continued. "But, he is strong, extremely strong, so if I were you I'd attack from a distance."

"Okay, I think I have all the info I need on them, wait, I just remembered something, what's their battle strategy?"

"Well, each time they fight they always do this thing they call attack form alpha, which is bullshit because they don't seem to do anything the same each time, just attack. In case you're wondering they don't really gang up on one person, unless there's only one or two left, they separate and attack different people."

"Thanks for the info." After a while of driving and flying Element sighed. "Man, this brings back memories, remember last time I was here and we rushed off and fought Control Freak?"

"You mean we rushed and you fought him, man that was great, just seeing you take that fat ass down so quickly."

"Yeah." He chuckled a little. "This seems just like it, rushing off, except of course it's day time. God, I missed those times, hanging out with you guys."

"You were only withus for like, what, two weeks?"

"Uh," his head tilted. "A little less, but all the same those were great times."

"Yep, can't argue with that. Okay, guys, we should be at the scene in five minutes. We should..."

BOOM! The T car went flying straight up into the air as something exploded from under it, Element was able to fly to the side fast enough so he didn't get hit. When the car started to come back down it was slammed in the side by what looked like purple energy waves, sending it flying to the side. When it hit the ground the car was picked up one more time, this time by the huge brute of Mammoth, and thrown all the way to the other side of the street, where it landed in a heap, almost destroyed, seeming to hang on by mere threads.

Element just stood there, floating in midair, watching as the car sat there, beaten. Mammoth walked to the center of the street where Jinx and Gizmo now stood, watching Element as he floated slowly to the ground, mouth slightly open, and started to walk towards the car.

Jinx stepped forward. "Just so you know, that wouldn't do anything, they all should be knocked out, some of them might even need to go to the hospital. If so I hope it's that bitch Raven, she deserves anything she got."

With this Element slowly turned to face her, his head down so they couldn't see his eyes. He was stiff, unmoving, his arms hung at his sides. "Don't you dare insult Raven." His voice was a cold, a little bit above a whisper, but even so it traveled all up the street so that H.I.V.E. could hear it like it was right next to them.

The pack on Gizmo's back sprouted four long, spider like legs, which lifted him up until he was slightly above Mammoth's height. In his annoying voice he started to taunt Element. "We'll insult that snot-eater all we want, what are you going to do about it, snot brain?"

"Yeah," Mammoth budded in. "There's no way a puny person like you can beat us."

Element started to fume, not much, but still noticeable. He started to shake, his hands turned into fists.

Jinx let out a laugh and started to talk in a mock scared voice. "Oh no, he's angry, we better watch out. Oh come on!" She snapped out of it, her voice being replaced by a mocking laughter. "There's three of us, and only one of you, not even one of the Titans could beat us."

Element let out a shout of pure rage, sending his head back and arms folded up to his sides. A wind started to swirl around, not heavy, but still very breezy. His body was covered in the light-energy, which spouted up like a pillar of flame.

The members of H.I.V.E. took a step back at seeing this view of pure rage and power. "Uh," Mammoth scratched his head. "I think we might need a few more than three people."

"A hell of a lot more." The side doors of the battered car were suddenly covered in darkness, ripping them from their hinges. The Titans got out, traveling to the middle of the road, except Cyborg, who was standing over the car. "My car, my beautiful car! Why are you always getting wrecked! First Overload, then Terra, now this! Oh there's going to be hell to pay!"

The wind calmed down and the light-energy surrounding Element disappeared as he gazed at the uninjured Raven walking out of the car. He rushed over to her and wrapped his arms around her body, slightly panting as relief washed over him. After a while he let go and held her out at arms length. "Are you alright?"

"A little dizzy but I think I'll be fine."

Element smiled warmly as he heard this and let go, once more facing the group of H.I.V.E. He punched his right hand into his left and cracked both sides of his neck, saying the two words that everyone was thinking. "Payback time." He stepped back a little while the members of H.I.V.E. started to shake a little so that the Titans could easily hear him. "Okay, here's the deal, Cyborg and Beast Boy, you take Mammoth, Robin and Star, you take Gizmo, me and Raven will take Jinx."

Cyborg piped up. "Hey, why can't I get Gizmo."

"I have my reasons, just do what I say and we should be fine, just think of how Mammoth threw your car, okay?" He turned to Robin. "You okay with this?"

"Yeah, let's do this." Robin punched the air and shouted out his favorite two words. "Titans, go!"

Everyone rushed forward to take on the group of three, who stood in a group with Jinx ahead of the other two. "Attack form alpha." They jumped out to meet the Titans, who seemed to choose their opponents for them. Cyborg and Beast Boy turned towards Mammoth, Robin and Starfire intercepted Gizmo, and Element and Raven charged for Jinx.

Beast Boy met Mammoth head on as a wildebeest, unfortunately Mammoth grabbed his horns before he hit him and threw Beast Boy over to the wall of a building. Before he hit Beast Boy turned into a bird and circled around. Mammoth looked on in disappointment, hoping to have seen the green kid hit the wall. He looked over to where Cyborg stood and narrowly dodged a sonic beam, he went down to the ground as Cyborg came rushing forward.

The two met with locking hands, trying to push the other back, Cyborg had the upper hand as Mammoth was crouched the ground, but he was slowly getting pushed back as Mammoth's strength started to take control. After a few seconds the roles were reversed, Cyborg on the ground and Mammoth standing over him. It looked like Mammoth would crush him until he stumbled forward, being hit in the back from a kick from Beast Boy in kangaroo form.

Cyborg took advantage from this and started pounding on Mammoth, landing punch after punch as he started to get up. It didn't last, though, as Mammoth threw a punch which sent Cyborg flying threw the air, landing him a good twenty or so feet from Mammoth.

Mammoth turned around to find Beast Boy turned into a, well, mammoth. He charged forward again towards Mammoth, the person, who threw another punch at Beast Boy, making him stop and sway a little, dizzy from the blow. Mammoth then grabbed the trunk and heaved Beast Boy over his shoulders to go flying towards Cyborg. In the air Beast Boy was able to get his thoughts straight enough so that he turned into an armadillo and rolled up.

Cyborg caught Beast Boy in the air and held him up. "Ready for the Beast Boy blitz?" The armadillo head appeared out of the ball and nodded up and down. When the head went back inside Cyborg rushed forward a little and threw Beast Boy at Mammoth. When in the air for a third time Beast Boy changed once more, this time into a rhino, and went flying head first towards Mammoth.

This time, unlike the other two, Mammoth wasn't able to catch Beast Boy, and was taken head on, sending him sliding back a few meters. After regaining his composure Mammoth grabbed onto the sides of the still pushing Beast Boy, stopping him and trying to hurl him once again. Before he could even lift him Mammoth was hit square in the face by a sonic beam and sent flying back.

After getting up Mammoth once again faced his attackers, watching as Cyborg actually vaulted over Beast Boy and rushed towards Mammoth once again. This time, when he got to him, he didn't get baited into grabbing the hands but automatically went to punching Mammoth, hitting him square in the face. As he continued attacking the body Mammoth threw punch after punch, continually missing the moving body of Cyborg. After a while Mammoth thought Cyborg made a mistake as he sent a kick at his head and was caught by Mammoths hand. Of course, it was obvious it wasn't a mistake as a slot moved from the bottom of Cyborg's foot and a small sonic beam hit Mammoth straight in the face, sending him stumbling back.

Cyborg jumped straight up into the air as Beast Boy ran under him in the form of a triceratops and landed on Beast Boy's back. As they charged forward Cyborg sent another sonic beam at Mammoth, which caught him in the chest and sent him into a wall of a building. They weren't through, though, as Beast Boy continued his charge and ran straight into Mammoth, sending him deeper into the wall and making a huge dent in it.

Cyborg grabbed at Mammoth's arm and whipped him around, suddenly hitting him in the chest with his right hand, which was in sonic cannon mode, and shot a beam at him at the same time, which sent him flying into the air. While in midair Beast Boy flew up in the shape of a pterodactyl and grabbed Mammoth's shoulders, flipping him over so that he slammed into the middle of the street, actually making a small crater about the size of his body.

As Robin and Starfire intercepted Gizmo, he struck out with one of his robotic legs at Starfire, who dodged in the air and flew behind him. While trying to turn around to face the alien girl Robin pulled a boomerang and sent it flying at Gizmo. As it flew it took out the first two legs on the left of Gizmo, making him tip over. "Hey, you stupid..." He couldn't continue as the boomerang came around and cut off his other two legs. Robin caught it as Gizmo fell to the ground, or, almost to the ground, as a small helicopter grew from the pack on his back and he was sent into the air once more.

He was about to get to his original height until Starfire shot some star bolts into his back, destroying the helicopter and actually sending him to the ground this time. He got a little shakily to his feet and took out a circular metal device, one of his bombs. "Damn snot munchers, munch this." He brought back his hand to throw the explosive as Starfire shot her eye bolts at his hand, blowing the bomb up and engulfing Gizmo in a small cloud.

When the smoke was cleared Gizmo was stumbling a little back and forth, dizzy from the blast. Robin rushed forward and took out his Bo staff, swinging it in an uppercut and sending Gizmo flying into the air to land next to Mammoth on the street.

As Element and Raven flew towards Jinx, Jinx shot her purple energy waves straight at them. The pair were easily able to dodge the shots, moving in a crossing pattern and floating in the air like they were standing up. Element called up a wall of water in front of him, his arm held up, palm towards the wall's back. "Icicle assault."

A shower of small icicles erupted from the wall and flew towards Jinx, who did cartwheels backwards to dodge them and shot her waves from her hands while she was facing the icicles to destroy the ones that got close. Once the icicles and wall were gone and Jinx stopped her cartwheels Element dropped from his position in the air to land on the ground with his left arm behind his back and his right hand flat on the ground, his knees were bent and his head was bowed. As soon as he hit, the earth slightly shook and the ground underneath him buckled, rocks were sent flying into midair from the impact.

They didn't return to the ground, however, as Raven spread her arms out, chanting. "Azerath, Metrion, Zinthos!" The rocks were surrounded in darkness and flung towards the standing Jinx. In response to the attack, Jinx sent forth many bursts of waves, destroying many rocks, but not all. One of them got through and hit her in the stomach, making her keel slightly over, before she could respond another one came and hit her in the face, knocking her down.

She rose up, a little shaky, her hand over her face, she removed it to stare at the one who hit her. "Bitch!" Both of her hands were sent up and back down to be level with Raven, the energy waves were sent towards her once again, but this time they joined and created one big wave.

Raven brought her hands up to and called forth a huge blast of dark energy, which met Jinx's wave, creating a power struggle. At first it started to go back and forth, then it got a little more even, until there wasn't any movement at all. Element watched from his point of the ground, which was a little unsettling since he was right under Raven, meaning he was right under the power struggle. He held his arms straight out, his hands right next to each other as the fingers formed a diamond shape. A burst of wind was sent from his body to go soaring towards Jinx, making her stumble a little, which in turn made her lose some concentration which made Raven's blast over take Jinx's. The dark blast literally covered Jinx's wave and continued on to hit Jinx head on, sending her flying back.

Raven crossed her arms in a look of smugness, turning towards Element. "So, shall we..."

Jinx's hand flew up and shot another wave at the unsuspecting Raven, who was unable to dodge or react with an attack fast enough. Raven put her hands up to cover her face and prepare herself for the blow. After a few seconds without pain she looked to see what had happened and saw a shield hanging in front of her made out of Element's light-energy, it obviously stopped the shot.

Seeing this Jinx threw a scream of rage and stamped her foot on the ground. After this she started to spin around, faster and faster, until it seemed like she was just a blur. Suddenly energy waves shot from her hands to create a circular blast of energy expanding from her spinning body.

Element flew up beside Raven and expanded the shield he created to encompass the both of them, blocking the ever continuing wave of energy. After it seemed like it wouldn't stop, Element poked his head a little from the shield to stare at the spinning girl ahead of them. When he saw an opening, Element took out his hand and pointed a finger at Jinx. A line of fire shot from his hand and hit Jinx in the arm, lighting it on fire and making her stop to try and put out the flame.

The shield Element created shrunk into itself and disappeared, leaving Raven and Element floating together once more. Raven continued. "As I was saying, shall we finish this?"

"Let's"

They both moved so that they were now back to back, Element's left arm and Raven's right were both held up, crossing once so that their hands could meet and intertwine their fingers. A dark energy flowed from Raven down her arm to meet Element's own light energy that flowed from him, when they met in the hands they started to swirl around each other. As soon as all the energy met and Jinx was almost done putting out the fire, Element and Raven shouted out together. "Yin and Yang!"

A huge blast of Element's light-energy surrounded by Raven's dark energy erupted from their hands and headed straight towards Jinx, not even giving her a chance to block or dodge. When it hit she was sent flying a huge distance into the middle of the street with the already lying Mammoth and Gizmo.

As the Titans grouped together once again the members of H.I.V.E. all stood up, breathing deeper than usual, still willing to fight on. Element stepped forward from the Titans. "I'll finish this, I still have a small agenda with these three, don't worry, it'll be quick."

The other Titans took a good number of steps back and to the side, so that they were in no way in the way of Element. The members of H.I.V.E. looked at each other and nodded in an agreement of one final maneuver.

Mammoth slammed his hands on the ground, making it break, while a laser beam appeared on Gizmo's back and shot the ground, making it break. Finally Jinx put her hands on the ground and shot energy waves out, making the crumbling of the road spread. The whole thing headed towards Element, and H.I.V.E. smiled as it looked like they were going to pull it off.

That is, of course, until the crumbling reached Element and seemed to go around him. The area of ground that he was standing on didn't seem to move at all, not even shake, without even a blemish on it. It was floating above the pit that H.I.V.E. created, it looked like what happened was that Element made it so that the blast didn't harm the section of rock he was standing on.

As soon as the blast stopped the street started to rebuild itself, and not just that, when the hole was completely repaired, another one like it appeared around H.I.V.E., with another piece of ground holding them up. It was hard to say if this was out of mercy, or so they wouldn't get away.

It was the latter. Element started signing with his hands, chanting out the ritual. "Wind, earth, fire, water, god give me strength!" The all familiar light-energy cross appeared before Element, who swung his arms and struck it's back with his palm. "Cross of DESTRUCTION!"

The cross was sent flying forward, the size of it increasing the further it went, until it was twice the size of Mammoth. When it hit them they were thrown back over the ridge and slammed into a nearby wall, falling on top of each other, unconscious.

Element wiped his hands against each other. "Okay, it's time to get some answers."


Finally finished, it took me two days to write this, but I was busy on Sunday, so it shouldn't really count. Personally, I think this is one of my best works, it was definitelty worth the time to make, and maybe even my longest chapter, I forgot how long my longest actually was. So, how did you think I do on the Titans fighting, hopefully you should like it, I know Anters will. I know I'm getting you this on Monday, but I'll still only be writing during the weekends, sorry. So, tell me what you guys think of the story all in all, and that's all I have to say. Except for those of you who might be confused about the fight, I went back to the beginning of each battle, so I could get all of the details in. Read and Review!