Double the Trouble
Disclaimer: I do not own Teen Titans, but I do own Element and all other characters that I create.
It was night, again, and the Titans were lurking outside of the H.I.V.E. building. Robin, Starfire, Beast Boy, and Raven were quiet as Element and Cyborg talked about what they'd do. Element was repeating the plan while Cyborg was giving "directions" into H.I.V.E..
"Okay, when we get in the building, we sneak around until we find Blood, then we bring him down. Once he's taken care of business, we can take out all the other people in H.I.V.E.. I know..." he interrupted as Beast Boy opened his mouth, "it's not really well devised, but I didn't have a lot of time, and sometimes the simplest plan is the best. Cyborg, where's the best place to get in?"
Cyborg looked at his arm to get some readings. "From what I can see on this and what I remember when I went undercover, the best place is... there." He pointed to one of the octagonal "windows" on the building.
"Good." He waved his hand over the ground a little, causing a small platform to raise, big enough for a few people to stand on. He turned to Robin. "You and Cyborg hop on top of this, I don't want to make any noise when entering, in case someone might hear."
Robin and Cyborg carefully stepped on the platform, where some of the stone wrapped around their feet so that they didn't fall off. With that the rest of the Titans silently flew off, slowly heading for the "window" that Cyborg had indicated before. Once there Cyborg started to lean forward with his small blowtorch so he could cut the window off. Element extended a hand and whispered. "Wait, they might be able to hear it, let me." With that Element extended his hand and placed it on the "window." At first it didn't look like anything was happening, until the edges started to glow a dull red and the "window" fell off.
Raven caught it with her dark powers before it hit the ground so that it didn't make any noise. After all of the Titans entered Raven put the "window" back in it's place while Element sealed it up again.
Cyborg raised his hand to motion the others to stop. "Okay, we're in, now all we need to do is find Blood. I'd say the best place that would be is in his room, I'll lead so that you guys know where to go." With that he continued to gingerly step forward so that no one would be able to hear. The other Titans followed, with Element right behind Cyborg, Robin behind him, Beast Boy in the back, and Starfire and Raven in the middle.
After a long time of walking and turning corners that they couldn't possibly remember on the way back, Cyborg raised his hand once more. "We're coming upon the arena, I think the best thing to do is just fly across, just so you guys know."
They continued forward once more until they came upon the two doors that opened up into the arena. Slowly, Cyborg started to push them open, but stopped as soon as he heard a small squeak. Gingerly, he moved his hands towards the hinges, pouring a small amount of oil over each from his finger. After testing the sound, Cyborg once again opened the doors, this time fully. Cyborg covered his eyes at the brightness of the lights. "That's odd, the lights shouldn't be..." Then he noticed the people.
The whole arena was lit up, almost all of the seats watching were filled with students. The Titans were standing at one edge of the arena, looking into the pit, while on the other end stood Blazer, shining arms crossed.
"It's about time you guys got here, it's been so boring having to wait for you. If you're looking for Blood you might as well turn around, I mean you're not getting by me and my friends." He motioned to the filled up seats around him. "You might as well try and destroy a train that's speeding towards you, I mean no one can do it... well, almost no one." He pretended to dust something off his chest and examine his hand.
Element chuckled. "Yeah right, you may have two of those things but you still aren't that strong."
Blazer looked up. "Oh no? Well, if you're so confident, then why don't me and you meet down in the arena?"
"Fine," Element crossed his arms. "I wanted you all to myself anyway." He jumped off of the edge and started to float down to the ground, while Blazer just jumped, landing on one knee with his hands supporting him. As soon as Element landed Blazer stood up, hands in a fighting position.
"Before we start, what do you think of my little gifts?" A grin appeared on his face.
"What do you mean, we already talked about your two stupid arms before."
"Oh no, I'm not talking about those," he started to laugh a little. "I'm talking about the these."
That's when Element noticed that over the guy's robotic arms on his wrists were what looked like red and white wrist bands, except that they seemed mechanical. Cyborg leaned over the edge of the arena and yelled down. "Be careful, man, those things increase his power, I should know, I used one of them once!"
After craning his neck to look at Cyborg Element took a look back towards Blazer, who had already started typing in the air. "How bad could it be?" Once he saw the small laser cannons appear out of Blazer's arms, Element summoned a circular shield with his light energy and held it out in front of him.
The cannons fired, sending not a wave of missiles like before, but bigger beams of energy that converged into one big force heading straight towards Element. His eyes widened as he realized how strong that blast would be. "Holy shit." He made the shield bigger and hid his whole body behind it to block the blast. When it hit the shield it pushed Element back at the speed at which it was moving, making his back slam against the wall.
The shield disappeared as soon as the beam did, luckily for Element, and Element fell off the wall, where there was a dent where you could see he hit, and hit the ground. He pushed off the ground and got himself to his feet, planning on what he would have to do to beat this guy. Okay, like Cyborg said, those things are increasing his power, I'm going to have to destroy each one, then I'll have to deal with him alone. I'm definitely going to have to do a light-force style, but what?
His thoughts were interrupted as Blazer fired again, this time doing a kind of uppercut with the beams, now separated, creating a kind of ditch on the ground as it traveled to Element. Element turned around and planted his feet on the wall, making rock climb over them so that they would stick. He started to run up the wall as the beams chased behind him. Once he was at the top Element pushed off from the wall and dodged the beams. He started spinning in midair, his arms outstretched, there was a white light coming from each palm, but because of his speed you couldn't tell what shape it was. As he started to fall, Element shouted out. "Light-force style, Rave Master!" A flash of light went through the area, making everyone cover their eyes. As soon as it cleared, Element was no longer in the air but standing on the ground. His hands were on top of a big sword made of light energy sticking in the ground, there was light energy covering his hair in a spiky style that fell around his head, and over his shirt was an unzipped jacket whose sleeves only came to a length that of a t-shirt.
Blazer sneered. "What, is that supposed to impress me? Like you're going to beat me with just a sword." He raised his arms again and once again fired, the beams converged like the first time.
Element raised the sword above his head. "Rune Save!" He slashed down at the huge force of energy right in front of him, destroying it like it was paper.
"What the... how could you..." that's when he noticed that the sword looked different, the blade had many grooves in it on both sides, and it had markings.
Element chuckled. "You obviously have never read the Rave Master manga before, this is the decaforce sword, it has many forms. This one, for example, is called Rune Save, it's able to cut things that can't actually be cut, you're lasers, for example." He raised the sword so that it was laying horizontally in the air, the flat sides of it positioned up and down. "This next one's another favorite of mine, Silfarion!" Element disappeared as the sword changed once more.
Blazer clutched his chest and knelt down in pain, Element stood a few feet behind him, sword raised to the side. When Blazer stood back up, he took his hand off his chest and uncovered the many cuts that appeared there. His face was covered in confusion. "How..."
"As should be obvious, this sword allows me to move at incredible speed, although the bad thing is the strikes aren't that strong, but it still works." He disappeared once more.
Blazer pointed both arms at the ground and fired, creating an explosion. Element appeared once more, but this time it was sailing backwards through the air and landing on the ground. Blazer put on a mocking grin. "It might not have been what I was trying to do, but it still works."
Element stood back up, speaking to himself. "Why, oh why, did this sword have to make me as light as it?"
The cannons in Blazer's arms returned back as he started typing once more. "So, you want to play sword games, huh? Well, if you want sword games, I'll give you sword games!" The energy swords that he had used before appeared once more in his hands, but this time they were bigger than before due to the power boost from the things on his wrist. Blazer blasted forward towards Element, the two swords at his sides.
Element disappeared with Silfarion again, but not before Blazer put his swords in front of him and started to spin them like windmills at incredible speed. Element appeared again behind him, clutching his shoulder. Okay, I'm going to need a new strategy. He stood up and turned to face Blazer, arms held wide out with Silfarion in his right hand, and shouted out. "Blue Crimson!" The sword once again changed shape, but this time a second sword, identical to the first, appeared also in his other hand, making him have two swords instead of one.
Blazer jumped forward once again, but this time being met in the middle by Element. The swords clashed and Element was pushed back a little. Even though this happened Element came on strong, continually attacking with his swords. He slashed, he parried, he dodged, he did intricate combinations that against a regular person (with regular sized swords) would have been cut to pieces. But even through all of this Element was continually pushed back, his swords never landed a hit. Blazer looked confident at this, attacking and waiting until Element made a mistake so that he could finally shove his swords right through his body. Then it happened.
Element swung both of his swords up high, planning to bring them both crashing down over Blazer's head, or at least shove his swords back a little. Blazer took his opportunity and thrust his swords low to Elements midsection, trying to stab his swords all the way through him. Element quickly saw his mistake and swung both swords down, barely stopping Blazer just in time, and locked his swords up with his in a cross.
A grin appeared on Blazer's face as he tried to power out of the lock, while Element gritted his teeth in focus as he tried with all his strength to keep the lock stable. Element started to shake as the swords gradually inched apart and Blazer's swords got a little closer. With a burst of strength Element crossed his swords once more and got the lock back completely in place. I need to do something, fast, otherwise this hold will brake and I'll probably be skewered. What to do, what to do. Wait, I've got it. Element swung both of his blades in the direction Blazer was trying to make them go and broke the lock, at the same time Element jumped back to get away from Blazer and his swords.
Element didn't wait to hit the ground before he called out his next sword. "Blade combination, Silfarion and Blue Crimson!" The two swords that he had in his hands changed, each one turning into the shape of Silfarion. "Freezing Burn!" (Okay, I never do this in my stories, but this time I really think I need to say something so you guys don't get a little confused. What Element just said, Freezing Burn, is the name of his new sword, not the attack he's going to do. And also, in the manga he's not actually able to combine swords like this, but I thought it would be cool for Element to be able to, since he can do anything with his light-force style power. I think that's all I have, wait, one more thing. For those who don't know, the sword-or swords-Blue Crimson aren't just two swords, one of the swords generates fire, so when you slash with it you hit the person with fire also, and the other generates ice, that's all, sorry about the interruption, read on.) Element disappeared, confusing Blazer, until he realized that he was moving at extreme speed like before. Blazer put his swords up in front of him once again and spun them like before, but this time he didn't do it fast enough.
Element appeared behind him again, but this time without any injuries. "Missed me."
The swords topped spinning and Blazer turned around, his hands wide to show his unhurt body, except for the injuries he got in the beginning of the fight, of course. "I don't see why you're bragging, doesn't look like you hit me, either."
A grin crept across Element's face. "Look again."
Blazer looked down, brows arched in confusion, looking over his body, until the machine over his right wrist fell off, split in two. The sword in his right hand shrank back to it's original size, the extra power it was getting being shut off. "No!"
"Yes!" Element disappeared again, appearing behind Blazer with his blades crossed in front of him. More cuts, this time fire and ice lined, appeared on Blazer's body as he bent down in pain. Element put both swords above his head and laid the flat of each blade against the other. "Explosion!" The two blades merged into each other and turned into another one of the sword's many forms. Element turned around and launched himself at Blazer, who had just turned around. He swung the sword up in a slash. "Explosion!" An explosion from the blade's slash sent Blazer flying back.
Blazer shakily got himself back up, a little disoriented from the blast. "I can't believe I want to know this, but what's that sword's name?"
Element chuckled. "I already said it while the blades merged, Explosion. You can guess what it does." He lifted the sword and swung it back to rest on his shoulders.
Blazer ran forward with his swords crossed in front of him. Element swung his blade down from his shoulder when Blazer got close enough. "Explosion!" Another explosion came up, engulfing both of them in a cloud of smoke, although this time Blazer didn't come flying out the end he came in. Blazer burst through the smoke at the other side, swords held out to the side, obviously completing the slash that they were in position for.
After a few seconds the smoke cleared, revealing Element, bent double as he clutched his stomach, his right hand with Explosion on the ground to keep him up. Blazer started to chuckle, it got louder, turning into a laugh, continually growing until he started shouting out his laugh in a maniacal way. He kept laughing and laughing, that it, until his other machine on his left wrist cracked. The laughing stopped as he looked down at the crack, which started to slowly get bigger, branching out, until the whole thing was a network of cracks. Then, it just fell apart, all the pieces fell off and hit the floor with a clinking that sounded like thunder in the silence. The sword on his left hand shrank to it's original size like the one on his right hand before it. Blazer slowly turned around, a look of hate on his face as he stared at the now standing Element, who had a slash across his stomach. He rushed towards him, screaming in hate as he raised his now regular sized swords above him.
Element whipped out his sword and held it horizontally in front of him, the palm on his left hand held on the flat of it's back. "Mel Force!" The sword changed again once more. As soon as it had changed a huge blast of wind in a kind of vortex shot towards Blazer, the force making him stop in his tracks. When it stopped he tried to run towards him again, but found out that he couldn't move.
"What the..."
"That's the power of Mel Force," Element explained. "It shoots a huge blast of wind that instantly freezes whoever it hits, allowing me to do things like this." He jumped forward. "Explosion!" The sword changed once more and hit Blazer head on, sending him flying back.
Blazer got up, looking at his hands as his swords somehow extinguished themselves. With a growl, he raised his arms up and started typing, the laser cannons coming out of the arms again. The mouths of the cannons drew back a little, a light started to grow in each cannon as they charged up. Element waved his hand in front of him, making Blazer sneer in hate. "Waving your hand isn't going to stop me." The lights suddenly flared up as he released.
BOOM! Each little cannon exploded, sending Blazer back and charring both arms in the places each cannon was. Element chuckled, "True, but it will cover your cannons in stone, making them explode when they fire."
Blazer sat up and started typing in the air, what remained of the cannons didn't go back inside his arm but fell off. Four small blades came out of each wrist, spinning around at incredible speed like a saw. Blazer once again jumped forward towards Element, who jumped forward to meet him, shouting out again. "Eisenmeteor!" The sword changed back into the regular, big sword form it was in. Blade and spinning wrist blade clashed, eliciting a spark from Blazer's equipment. Element swung his blade in forms of beautiful swordsmanship, parrying and dodging Blazer's attack. Blazer continually swung and thrust his hands, trying to carve through Element, who just blocked the attack or danced out of the way.
During one attack Blazer punched his right arm towards Element, hoping to hit him with his spinning blades. Element did a little turn around and back flipped over the punch,he slammed the point of his sword down into the cross-works of the spinning the blades, sending the arm crashing down to the ground and destroying the blades on his right hand in the process. After that the tables turned and it was Blazer trying to fend off all of Element's attacks, and not doing it as gracefully as Element had done before.
Element came on in a storm, giving Blazer barely any chance of blocking all the attacks. At times Blazer was only barely able to block an attack, and he was sweating with the effort of all this in no time. After a while Blazer decided to risk something that would hopefully give him the upper hand. So while Element was attacking Blazer carefully typed with his right hand, making sure that Element didn't notice. Finally Element swung his sword in a right to left downward arc, which Blazer was easily able to block. After he blocked and the were close together Blazer swung his right hand upward, releasing a ball of energy towards Element, hitting him in the already injured stomach and sending him back, falling down in the process.
Blazer seized his opportunity and ran towards Element, swing his arm down to try and slam it over his chest and end the fight. Element was quicker, though. As soon as Blazer swung his hand up and brought it down Element took his sword and thrust the point up, connecting with the whirling blades and destroying them like with the right hand.
Blazer stumbled back in disbelief as Element got up, putting the sword tip on the ground and resting over the hilt, taking deep breaths to try and replenish the exhaustion this fight had caused. Blazer raised his hands up and started to type again. "I will not lose to you like before!"
Element arched his brows. "Are you sure about that, because it looks like you're losing."
Blazer completed the type, and out the sides of each wrist two small cylinders came out. At the ends of each cylinder an arch of light shot out and curved over Blazer's fist to connect with the other cylinder. The arch of light started to move up and down over the fist, going to the top and bottom of each wrist. The speed got faster and faster until it all looked like just a small dome of light surrounding Blazer's fist. Blazer ran towards Element, a scream of rage torn from his lips, and swung his right hand towards Element. Element easily jumped over Blazer, who's hand continued the punch and hit the ground, carving a path through it like it was butter. After landing on Blazer's other side, Element swung around and slashed at his back, creating a big cut from shoulder to waist.
Blazer arched his back and screamed in pain, swinging around in the process and trying to strike with his left fist. This time Element jumped back, going all the way to the wall with the help of his powers. He held his sword out in front of him, preparing to strike again. "Blade combination, Silfarion and Explosion!" The sword changed, the blade turning into the thin edged and backwards-but-slightly-thicker-katana shaped blade of Silfarion, but had the jointed crosspiece of Explosion. "Sonic Boom!"
Blazer ran forward, both arms flung back, it would take him a good number of seconds to reach Element at the distance between them, although now that wasn't true for Element. He swung the sword to his side in a stance that would usually follow in a slash. "WINGS OF THE EXPLOSION DRAGON!" He disappeared as his body was sent forward at incredible speed. Suddenly, twelve high speed explosions appeared around the area that Blazer was standing. Element appeared past that point, bowing on one knee with Sonic Boom swung over his back to rest on his shoulders and both hands on the hilt.
There was silence as everyone held their breath to see what would happen next. The smoke finally cleared after what seemed like hours, to reveal Blazer standing. His robotic arms were destroyed, with cracks running in many places, wires poking out, and some parts just missing. Everything seemed to be in slow motion as his body tilted forward, going down to the ground, and hitting with what sounded like an explosion.
Okay, I'm done, finally. That was a great fight, you can not argue with that, I'm not sure if it was as good as Element/Slade, but you have to agree it was definitely up there. Did I do the ending well, with him falling? Hopefully I did. I'd like to ask Supergrl26 (sorry if I spelled it wrong) a question, you said in my last chapter that something was obvious, I just want to know what that something was. How did you guys like his light-force style in this one, it had to be good. If you guys want to learn more about it, like what all the blades looked like, then read the manga, because I'm not going into detail, it's just to difficult for me. Oh, I wanted to ask a question, of all my light-force styles I've had so far, which one did you guys like the best: dragon armor, Spawn, or Rave Master. If you want you could also make suggestions for a new one, I'm not saying I'm out of ideas, because I've still got a good few to go through, but it might be good to get some more in there. So write back, tell me what you thought about the fight, tell me your answer to my light-force style question, and if you have any new ideas for me, please tell. Read and Review!
