Poor Twisted Me Chapter 14

Hi again! Ozzy here. Sorry it took so long to update! My computer crashed, so I couldn't write for a couple days, then I had to go to the Junior Olympics for track. I almost had my record for the 1500 broken. But the guy didn't get it! Ha! I win! But one of my relay teams got disqualified because of some gay rule about cutting in...and we had first place too. That really sucks ass, doesn't it? But school's finally out! Freedom! But I'm going to Texas in a couple days to visit my grandma. I guess I can try to update from there...

I found a new muse! Wahoo! I feel like going on a writing spree!

Anyways, review answering time!

Moezy-chan- Yeah, a lot of the Teen Titans fics lately have been pretty sub par. Too bad...I guess I'll have to save everyone! I'm hurrying, I'm hurrying...

Kestrel- I still can't believe you had a tree fall on your house! I want a tree to fall on my house...heehee. If you think there was a lot going on in the last chapter, wait until you see this one and the next...you'll never guess who Deep Throat is.

Bold Achilles- (Looks up from your review) Hee. Actually, I'd prefer lambs to goats Yes, iPods are the best! I made it my goal to have every genre and sub genre of rock and metal in mine...and so far all I'm missing is forest metal. Not like it's common anyway... Rock on! m/

LivingImpaired- Hey, you're living impaired? Is that even possible? And I'm writing, kill the motor

Snea- Don't worry, this story is far from done. I want to try to get this story past 100,000 words if I can...

Darkfire- whoa, I wasn't expecting color-changing roses...I don't know what color to ask for now...ah screw it. Don't hunt me down! If you hunt me down, then I can't update!

On with the story!


Starfire looked around in search of an exit, but could see nothing but craggy walls of stone stretching as far as her line of sight would go. Every time she saw a single corridor ending, it would split into five more, and each of those would split again. Each wall was covered in letters that must be encrypted or something, since she could not make out any legible words. After a closer look, she saw the following letters written upon the wall:

"Incito endo polis, praemoneo tu, tu nunc itio excedo vita procella proveutus, tu satius cello abusque corpusculum aestus fulguris endo polus diverti domuscus in prep scruta, diverti gentis in prep argilla, radior mens mentis putescere."

She of course had no idea how to read it, let alone know what it meant.

She grabbed onto Robin's arm and nuzzled into his chest. Robin reached his arm around her shoulders and held her closer.

Raven looked around and said, "Okay...anybody have any ideas on how to get out of here?"

Beast Boy and Cyborg both shook their heads vigorously. Robin and Starfire didn't seem to hear her.

Raven sighed and sat down, thinking. Beast Boy put his hands on top of his heads and paced anxiously. Cyborg pulled out his sonic cannon and cockily said, "Why don't we just blast our way out of here?"

Robin reached out a hand to protest, but before he could utter a word, Cyborg has begun to blast the lined partitions.

BOOM! BOOM! His blasts hit the walls with great force, and the resulting sound echoed throughout the maze. Raven flinched from her seat in reflex, and Robin covered his ears from the noise. A large cloud of smoke arose from his blasts, but upon clearing, not a single scratch could be seen.

Cyborg sighed and said, "I guess we're SOL then."

They sat in absolute silence for God knows how long. The sounds of Beast Boy's shuffling feet began to bug Robin, and soon he yelled to Beast Boy, "Will you knock it off and sit still?!"

The green shape shifter held his hands up and sat down quickly. He shook his head and said, "Robin, chill a little, will you?" Robin glared daggers at him and flipped him off.

Starfire whimpered slightly and dug herself deeper into Robin. Robin's frustration at Beast Boy was waning, but the anxiety in the atmosphere was taking its toll on his nerves.

Cyborg seemed almost angry with himself. Robin saw this, and pondered it for a period. He came up with various reasons as to why, ranging from the absence of Carmen to frustration at getting trapped here in the first place.

Just as the disquiet seemed at its peak, Raven got up from her seat on the floor and said, "I think I know where to start."

Beast Boy eagerly whipped his head around and asked, "Yeah?"

Raven nodded and said, "If you take it from a logical point of view, this will make perfect sense. If we follow one side of the walls, we will eventually find the exit. Understand?"

Beast Boy didn't get it, but he nodded anyway. His logic wasn't exactly Harvardesque.

Cyborg sighed and nodded as well. Robin and Starfire broke from their embrace and conformed. Raven walked over to the nearest wall, placed a hand onto it, and began walking. Beast Boy shrugged and began following her, Cyborg tailing closely behind. The hybrid stopped for a minute and placed a loose wrench he had in his pocket onto the ground, to mark where they had begun. Robin and Starfire seemed kind of sluggish in their movements, however. About a minute of walking passed, and they were a good twenty yards behind their comrades. Raven yelled at them to hurry up, and they jogged quickly to catch up.


Deep Throat waved his hand horizontally, alternating different hands every two waves. A poof of blood-red gas arose from the space in the air where he had been waving. The anonymous entity began muttering almost incoherently.

"Sjumbito irgo hexfi tivdelt," he mumbled. As the words escaped his lips, the cloud of smoke began taking the shape of a perfect sphere.

"Uwemu ulwidolq wygow acksa," he repeated, the volume of his voice increasing. The sphere grew in size and became translucent, like a floating ball of red water.

"Show me the Teen Titans," he said, his raspy voice returning to normal volume. The ball of smoke made a sound evocative of a snake hissing. The surface became opaque and distorted, like the surface of a pond after a rock was thrown in. The distorted shapes began to take form, and it only took a couple of seconds for the images of the Teen Titans to appear with perfect reception. They appeared to be on a steady route.

Deep Throat chuckled roughly, his gruff voice reverberating against the walls that surrounded him.

"I think I'll have some fun before destroying them," he said before raising his right hand up, which began glowing yellow. A loud rumbled was heard from the labyrinth below him as he rearranged the maze, the walls altering to his will.


Robin's patience was running thin after the end of their first hour in the maze. It was all the epitome of repetition. Starfire was still clinging to his arm, as if she was afraid to let him go. Robin didn't care; in fact, her touch made his fear ebb away. If anything, he was afraid to let her go.

A loud reverberating shake could be heard from far off, then gained volume with each passing second until the ground underneath their very feet was shaking with passion. Beast Boy stumbled into the walls from the shockwaves and was almost knocked off his feet, but Raven grabbed his hand and held him up. Cyborg shook slightly but maintained a steady balance. Robin and Starfire were clinging to each other so tightly hardly anything could knock them down.

The quakes resided, and the Titans all sighed with relief. They resumed walking, but after a couple minutes, Beast Boy had a thought pop into his head.

He scratched his head. "Um, this is just a random thought, but don't we know someone who can move rock and cause earthquakes?" he said, not wanting to say her name aloud.

His friends all stopped walking and looked at him, and then glanced at each other before saying, "No, it can't be...can it?"

Beast Boy shrugged and said, "Just thinking aloud."

They continued walking, not wanting to believe that Beast Boy was right. There was no way in hell she could still be alive.

Two long, dreary hours passed. Two hours of monotonous walking, frustrating silence, and fearful anxiety passed before the group came upon a very familiar room.

Cyborg scratched his head, piqued by the familiarity of this particular corridor. He shrugged it off, but stopped when he saw a wrench laying on the ground.

"Guys, we've definitely been here before. I remember putting that wrench here to mark where we started!" Cyborg yelled with frustration. Starfire looked around, and saw that he was right. The same inscription on the wall that she had seen before was there. Raven looked at him blankly, although inside her rage was dying to get out. Beast Boy yelled loudly and punched the side of the wall. Which was pretty stupid, considering the hardness of the rock.

"Ow! Shit, that hurt!" Beast Boy yelled, his knuckles red and cut from his hit. Raven rolled her eyes and said, "That's why you don't punch a stone wall, Beast Boy."

Robin groaned and slapped his forehead.

"You're telling me we have NO WAY OUT?!" Robin yelled, his frustration taking hold of him. Raven turned to him and said, "Hey, it's not my fault! It's common logic that if you follow one side of a maze, you'll find the exit eventually!"

"There's something wrong with your logic then!"

Starfire whimpered again and threw her arms around Robin.

"Please, stop fighting! It only makes everything worse!" the Tamaran yelled, her eyes beginning to well with tears. Robin's anger dissipated, as it always did when Star acted this way. He couldn't help it; he did love her to death, after all. He hugged her back and said, "You're right, Star."

Raven sighed and thrust her back against the wall.

"We're never going to get out of here, are we?" Beast Boy said softly, and sat down next to her.

Raven lowered herself to his level and rested her head on his shoulder.

"I don't know, Beast Boy."


A large school of fish swam by peacefully. The ocean floor was beautiful, covered with coral and flourishing sea creatures of all ends of the spectrum.

A very handsome boy swam by, visiting outside of Atlantis for a nice change of pace. His name was Aqualad.

Aqualad sighed at the beauty of the wildlife before him. The schools of fish, the random shark swimming gracefully along, all of it spoke to him with their elegance.

The boy noticed something peculiar nestled in the coral, something that wasn't there before.

"Some tourist probably dropped a pair of binoculars or something," he said to himself. Still, he swam over out of curiosity. Stuck in between a strand of coral and sea anemones was probably the strangest looking creature he had ever seen. It was leathery and redolent of a wolf, save its leathery skin and monstrously large claws and teeth. Aqualad saw no rise of the chest that signaled breathing, and assumed it was dead. However, it had sort of a magnetic presence, and Aqualad found himself swimming closer to have a closer look.

It was definitely dead. Aqualad poked it a couple times, taking notice of the numerous tiny fish nibbling away at its flesh, and seeing no visible movement, he turned his back and began swimming away.

The moment he turned his back, however, he heard an extremely violent rushing of the water, like a hurricane. He turned around and saw the creature being uplifted in a whirlwind of swirling water. He could hear chanting around him, although he couldn't see who or what was saying it. All he could hear was something about kicking the Grim Reaper in his sack.

He watched in horror as the body formed a huge bulge in its abdomen, a bulge that got bigger with each increasing second. It gained size until it burst, showering Aqualad with blood and stray bits of organs. Aqualad disgustedly wiped the remains off himself, and then looked to see what had done it.

In the place of the body he found a new and very alive creature, exactly like the dead one. It roared ferociously, and charged through the water towards Aqualad. The Atlantean did not have the reflexes to move out of the way, and thus got a face full of razor sharp claws. Aqualad yelled in pain, and tried to open his eyes, which had been blinded by the cloud of blood erupting from his face. He blindly swam through the water in the direction he thought was away, but ran into the creature again. It snapped its jaws viciously, but missed. Aqualad used his telekinetic powers to call for help, but the creature had already sprouted wings and flown out of the water.

Aqualad started to become dizzy from the loss of blood. As the creature's sight diminished from his, his vision turned black. He was unconscious before he knew what had happened.


Fenrir flew up with all his strength until he had breached the surface of the water and was gliding smoothly in the air. The Atlantean was not his concern, so he did not feel the urge to kill him. What his main concern now was revenge. Not only had the Teen Titans bested him twice, but also he had not even managed to kill one of them. All this only served to fuel his vengeful fury to such an extent that the only thing tiding him over was the faint trace of their smell that Fenrir could detect a mile away. The same trail of scent that would lead him to his prey.

H glided up onto a rock outcropping. Strange. It seemed the trail went straight into a wall and continued past there.

'Fenrir smells enemy. Fenrir follow enemy. Fenrir kill enemy. Enemy not come back this time,' the brusque canine thought to himself before ramming the rock wall repeatedly. It only took a couple brutal hits to knock a fair- sized hole in the wall. Fenrir retracted his wings and jumped in the hole, once again on the trail of his quarry.

'Fenrir kill.'


Cyborg sighed and hung his head. Here he was, stuck in an elaborate and intricate maze with no way out.

'I miss Carmen,' he thought to himself. Dejectedly he sat down next to Raven and sighed.

"I don't suppose you have any more ideas?" the hybrid softly said to Raven. The Azareth shook her head.

"If I did, don't you think I would have said them by now?" she said bitterly.

Cyborg was about to respond when a loud earthquake similar to the last one shook the ground. Instead of raging for minutes on end, like the last one did, it only lasted a few seconds.

Robin looked at Raven with a confused look on his face, although she knew no more than he did. The masked leader shrugged it off and started thinking of ways to get out.

"Robin..." a voice from far off called out. Robin turned his head around and said, "Who said that?"

"I didn't hear anything," Beast Boy said. The green shape shifter looked at his friend and said, "You okay? I think this place is getting to you."

Robin shook his head. "No, I could have sworn I heard somebody call my name."

Starfire held his hand and gently brushed his hair, trying to calm him. It evidently worked, because Robin closed his eyes, laid his head on her should, and said nothing more.

Cyborg was about to comment on the two devotees, but a strident explosion went off before he could say anything. In front of him, a large chunk of the floor had been blown off, and an outsized cloud of smoke and residue covered the whole corridor. Cyborg coughed furiously, the smoke getting into his lungs and eyes. Raven closed her eyes, and shielded Beast Boy with her cape. Robin and Starfire embraced each other tightly to block the smoke.

When the dust and residue cleared, and when Cyborg's hacking ceased, there stood a figure coated in black cloak that completely covered his entire body. The oversized hood covered his entire head and cast a shadow over his face, making him look very much like the Grim Reaper.

The Titans were all very unfamiliar with this new entity, but they all shared the same sinking feeling in their stomachs that told them this guy wasn't here to help.

The figure cackled loudly, his laugh filled with malice and a gruff edge that added to his already intimidating demeanor. He continued laughing maniacally, as if he had heard the funniest joke in the world.

Raven was the first to speak. "Who are you? And what do you want?" the Azareth said nervously, clenching her fists and preparing for a fight. The figure stopped laughing and replied, "You know me very well, Raven."

Raven was shocked. "How do you know my name?"

"You'd be surprised how much I know about you. About how much I know about all of you," the figure said with a sharp edge to his voice that chilled each Titan down to their very soul. "Or how else would it have been so easy for me to lure you into my trap?"

Raven growled and said, "Answer me! Who are you!?"

The figure laughed again and said, "I really don't think you need to know. These few minutes before your death should not be wasted on petty knowledge."

"But if you must know, I go by the name...Deep Throat."

"You've got quite an attitude, Deep Throat," Cyborg said as he whipped out his sonic cannon. Deep Throat only chuckled and said, "On the contrary. I am merely doing my life's purpose."

Raven growled again and retorted, "Your life's purpose is to kill innocent people?"

Deep Throat chuckled again. His sense of humor must be overactive or something.

"A typical response from someone as blinded as yourself. Naivety is the ultimate blindfold, Miss Raven. Let me ask you something. What is the purpose of your life?"

Beast Boy suddenly had one of those cliché flashbacks to when Lyrim tried to propagate him into believing his lies.

Raven was surprised by his question. She had never thought about it before, as she had never felt the need or the will to. But now...

"I...don't know," she said softly. Deep Throat began pacing about, like he had nothing better to do.

"A life is not worth living unless it has purpose, Miss Raven. What is your purpose? To save people that will only die eventually? To enjoy yourself when you will eventually die a miserable and lonely death? Death is the ultimate liberation, my friend. Life has taught me that. Life is nothing but misguided failures, but death...the freedom of death is nothing but enlightened rule. And I have made it my purpose in life to lift the people's blindfold that keeps them from knowing this," Deep Throat said before taking another deep breath and continuing,

"You should be one to know. After all, you are the daughter of Trigon."

Raven covered her ears and said, "Stop it! You don't know what the hell you're talking about!"

Deep Throat snapped and roared back, "Oh, quite the opposite! You are destined for nothing but pain and destruction unless you learn this lesson life has taught oh so well! Embrace your heritage, instead of shirking it like the ignorant fool that you have become!"

Beast Boy growled and roared back, "That's enough!" In the blink of an eye, he had transformed into a tiger and leapt at the idling figure, claws outstretched and teeth bared. Deep Throat moved nimbly to the side, so gracefully liquidesque that Beast Boy was stumbling in mid-air to catch up.

Robin yelled his battle cry, "Titans, GO!" and threw a handful of miniature explosives at Deep Throat. Starfire's eyes turned green as she launched a storm of starbolts in the direction of their adversary. The combined effort of Robin and Starfire threw up a large cloud of smoke, which seemed to appear to often these days.

The silhouette of Deep Throat was lost in the impending cloud, so Cyborg had to use his infared sensors to find his target. But when he tried to use them, they could not detect any living creature nearby, save him and his comrades.

"Weird...must be busted," Cyborg said to himself. Raven yelled to him, "Look out!"

"Huh?" the hybrid said, before reflexively ducking. A huge ball of dark energy sailed right above him, just missing his head. It struck the wall in front of him, and imploded with a monstrous explosion that surely would have killed him, had it made contact. Cyborg whipped around and saw Deep Throat standing above him, holding another ball of black energy, aiming it at the hybrid. The cloaked figure chuckled before saying, "Goodbye."

Cyborg closed his eyes, bracing himself for the impact, but it never came. Instead, he heard a gruff yell from the place Deep Throat used to be. The hybrid opened his eyes and saw Starfire standing nearby, holding another handful of starbolts. Cyborg grinned and said, "Thanks, Star."

Starfire smiled and said, "You are most welcome, Cyborg," before turning her attention to Deep Throat, who was still recovering from her attack.

The cloaked figure regained his balance and stood straight, not making a movement. The Titans all stood in battle position, waiting for an attack.

But instead of an attack, Deep Throat just chuckled again. He must have a fetish for it or something.

"Well, this is going to be interesting indeed," he said, still not moving a muscle. Right as he finished his words, a loud crash was heard from the ceiling above them. A large hole in the rock above them had appeared, creating yet another vast cloud of grain and rock. A millisecond before the hole had appeared, a large shape fell through it. The shape landed on the floor and roared ferociously. All of a sudden, it clicked.

It was Fenrir.

"Jesus Christ, this thing just won't die, will it!?" Robin yelled with frustration. He began readying himself for an additional opponent, when he noticed that the cloud of smoke had blown Deep Throat's hood off, leaving his face fully and utterly revealed. The masked leader, along with each and very other Titans, gasped in pure shock.

"No, it can't be...you...you're Deep Throat?"


Yay! Cliffhanger! I'm so evil, aren't I? Okay, so review and tell me what you think! And by the way, I'll bet none of you can guess who Deep Throat is. If anyone does, I'll dedicate the story to you! Although you'll have to share the space with Metallikid...

This is Ozzy Anmudis signing out.