Chapter four
Note:I do not own the Teen Titans, but I do own Malicki, steal him or disguise him under a different name and I'll stalk your eternal soul!! I also own Antoine. He's just kinda there for like two seconds, but...ooooo well!!
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Note: Chapter two fix job!!! The crime is not at the pizza place, it at some 'abandoned' warehouse on the outskirts of town, by the ocean. Yes...
Note:Sorry it took so long to update. I had a brain fart, then things...happened...
Onward!!
The man's name was Antoine. He was dressed in tight leathers and very stealthy. A mask covered most of his face and he spoke in a distinguished French accent. A well-known thief in the south. What he was doing in Jump City was another question. One that was to be delayed. He had been caught by a pedestrian as he slunk in the warehouse, weapon in hand.
The Teen Titans, minus the gothic telekinetic girl, had come quickly to the site. "Antoine..." Robin said loudly to the thief as he crouched down to got the object. He looked up to see the Titans, armed and ready for a fight.
"Titans." He gave a solemn nod. "I am terribly sorry to have met you like this, but I assure you, if you want this back..." he held up a small green laser. It was created by a scientist by the name of Doctor Planin. He was a bizarre man, but very skilled. The laser in Antoine's hand was his latest invention. A compact laser powerful enough to melt ice in .2 seconds. Or go through a four foot concrete wall with ease.
"...I'm not giving in without a fight." He tilted his head slimly and stared at them. "Deal?"
"If you insist," Robin told him, then shouted, "Titans bring him down!" He threw an exploding disk at him while Starfire flew above him, green light coming out of her eyes.
Antoine avoided the disks and shot the laser at Star before the light reached him. The Tamaran girl yelped, darting quickly out of the way. She landed on the ground with a thud yards away from them. But got up quickly and fired star-bolts his way. Of course, he avoided them easily.
He smirked, "Is this all you can give?" Beast Boy, in the form of a ram, came up from behind him smashing him against a wall. Antoine twitched and tried to get away, but Beast Boy planted his feet and refused to move. Moving slowly, Antoine turned on the laser and fired it at the ceiling. The ceiling collapsed above them and the shifter turned back into a human, fleeing from the site. Antoine also slipped away in time.
"Didn't think you had me yet, did you?" He asked him with a smile. He looked down at the laser, stroking it. "Thank you Planin," he said to himself. A black bubble appeared around the southern theft. A the fright of anti-gravity, he began to yell, but the black form muted these yells.
Raven, Beast Boy thought as he stared at the thief. Antoine was lifted a bit into the air and was slammed into a wall. Beast Boy scanned the air, but found Raven on the ground about twenty yards away. "Raven!! You did it!" He looked at the unconscious Antoine in delight. But a black form surrounded the laser and she brought it back into her hands.
"Raven you're here," Robin said a bit surprised at her actions.
She stepped out of the shadows, a man at her side. Beast Boy was the first to react, "Who is that? And what are you wearing?!" Her usual blue and purple attire had been changed. Her cape was over her head but it was red. So was the outline of her leotard. He gasped. She looked exactly like her 'angry personality' when Cyborg and himself found their way into her mind.
She inspected the laser, bringing her hand across its black surface like Antoine had done. But she ignored the green shape-shifter all together. "Yo Raven!" Beast Boy yelled, getting frustrated at her.
"Thank you for the laser," came the man at her side. "You saved us lots of hassle."
"Us?" Robin repeated.
"Oh," He looked up at them, a bright grin on his face. "Did I say that?"
Raven glanced at her partner with a smirk. Planin's laser was flipped around in her hands, moments later she handed him the laser saying, "It's the real deal."
"What is going on?!" Beast Boy wasn't getting it.
"You may call me Malicki, it'll be a name you'll remember," he told the Titans. "Raven is with me now." He told Beast Boy as he babbled away. But as he said that last comment, the shifter froze, his jaw dropped down. Malicki nodded once, "Indeed, right love?"
She looked up at him and smiled, signaling the answer.
"Love??!!" Beast Boy was flaming.
"Raven, come back here. Give us the laser, " Robin told her, holding out his gloved hand to her. She raised an eyebrow. Malicki lit the flame in his hand and threw it at Robin. Robin couldn't react quick enough and fell over.
"ROBIN!!" Starfire screeched coming to his side. She kept an eye on the two while she reached down to help him.
"Raven, what are you doing?" Cyborg asked her, "Are you really working with this jerk?"
"Yes," she said in her monotone voice. Black power began to form around her hands, "And I'll show you!" She telepathically picked up a crate and threw it at the Titans. They scattered for protection.
"Come on!" Malicki yelled. "Or are you too afraid to fight us?" He smiled and let two balls of black and blue flame appear around his hands. This prepared the Titans plus Robin for battle. If they had to fight Raven, they would.
"Azarath Metrion Zinthos!" Raven shouted, creating a black platform around her partner's feet, lifting him up. With eyes now white, she allowed Malicki to fly above her former friends, fighting them.
She saw Starfire trying to come up behind him. He shot a fireball at her. She saw Robin readying himself to throw a couple birdarangs at him. Beast Boy and Cyborg came up together while Cyborg fired his laser cannon.
"Raven!!"
Out of the daze she was in, Malicki's voice came to her. She raised her hands lifting up more crates throwing them as a diversion while she drew Malicki away from the Titans. Once on the ground, Malicki looked into her violet eyes. "Your turn. Are you sure you want this, you seem...sad."
Raven looked straight back into his red eyes, "I made a deal. I'm sticking to it." And she flew up, a large dumpster coming along for the ride.
"You're still attached to your friends," she remembered Malicki telling her. He stood in front of her and put his hands on her shoulders. "Are you sure you want to go now?"
"You were right, they ignored me. I'm angry, this is the perfect time."
Malicki smiled, "Then lets go."
Raven nodded and followed him out.
So what if they were her friends? They weren't her friends any longer. They ignored her all the time and now she was with Malicki. Malicki... He was nice. Well as nice as a thief and a murderer could be. He gave her a second choice. Raven had refused. He tried to warn her, but she didn't listen. Now he wanted her to fight her friends and win. And she would.
She flung the dumpster at Robin and Starfire. This made her smile again. That was...fun... For so long she was fighting the good fight. Not anymore. She picked up Cyborg with her mind, spun him in circles and sent him in Beast Boy's direction. Strike! It was fun. Come with me, and I'll show you a world you'll love. That's what Malicki had said to her. And he was right. She was beginning to love this world.
M-m-M
Malicki leaned against a wall away from the fight, hidden in the dark shadows. His bright scarlet eyes were following his partner in utter delight. At first he was wondering if it was a bad idea to bring a Titan into his group, knowing she might very well betray them. But Raven... he watched her pick up Antoine, who was still unconscious, and fling him at Robin, laughing as they both fell into the water. Raven was different. She was enjoying this.
So was he. He smiled, remembering a stanza from 'The Raven'. With a low voice he began to recite it as he watched the battle:
"Presently my soul grew stronger; hesitating then no longer,
"Sir," said I, "or Madam, truly your forgiveness I implore;
But the fact is I was napping, and so gently you came rapping,
And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door,
That I scarce was sure I heard you"—here I opened wide the door; —
Darkness there and nothing more
Deep into the darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing,
Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortals ever dared to dream before
..."
