Poor Twisted Me Chapter 16
Ozzy again! Sorry it took so long, but when I went on vacation to Texas, I brought a floppy disk with my writing with me so I could update from there. I get there, and you know what I find? Two computers, only one has room for a floppy disk. The other? Didn't have Microsoft Word, which is what I write my stories on. Safe to say, I was fairly peeved. I did manage to write a poem and start a new Danny Phantom fic, though, by using Wordpad. That was hard enough
By the way, this chapter is dedicated to ScarletAngel68, 'cause she helped me revise this chapter! Thanks a bunch!
Okay, I think I'll answer reviews now.
Kestrel- Yes, I did make BB an idiot like that on purpose. See, on one hand, I could have Izevm surrender or get killed, then start a whole new plot arc, or have Izevm win and lengthen this one out a lot more. In the end, I chose the latter, since my real goal is to get this story past 100,000 words, and a longer anything is usually my choice. Matter of fact, I'm thinking about revising chapter four to make the hunt for Raven's emotions more detailed. I still haven't decided on that, though. Wow, did I get off-topic. I tend to do that
Exiled-Knight- Truth be told, I looked that Latin excerpt up online. I can only speak Spanish, but I wanted something that would make the whole scene more ominous, yet sound awesomely awesome at the same time. So I settled for Latin Muahaha! I get a plate of cookies!
PrincessCat- Hey, more cookies! Thanks for warning me, but I went just north of the Mexican border, so there wasn't a lot of rain.
ScarletAngel68- Yes, I am mean! Muahaha. Have I told you I loved you today? In a non-stalking type of way? Actually, as for Izevm not destroying the Titans, I kind of forgot about that bit. My bad I'll have to remember to fix that. Anyways, about Beast Boy's lack of good judgment, same thing that I said to Kestrel. Hell, I just don't want to write the explanation all over again The climax is coming soon! Heh, climax. I'm actually going to split this story into three semi-related parts, or acts. The second one is probably going to focus more on romance and humor, not to mention a lot more appearances by Fallen Cherub. You get to see more of Ben The third one is going to be about a certain villain's return from hell...not going to say whom! That's how evil I am.
Moezy-chan- Hey, I'm writing, kill the motor, Motörhead. Which is a totally kick-ass band, by the way.
StArRy1233- Hi! Glad you like my story and my ridiculously big words!
Mrs. Myxztipik- No, this is not in the future, but Izevm took over Jump City. As for his motives, you'll see
LivingImpaired- Ah, so that's how you can be living impaired. I understand now
Krystal Lily Black- Trust me, there will be a lot more twists to come. I'm a twisty writer. Oo that didn't come out right.
Snea- Yay! Have fun at Ocean City! By the way, Cyborg's "monkey balls" phrase I got from this cop in South Park who always says that.
Cd lover- Oo Chill, okay? I'm updating.
The new person- Sorry, I don't intend on having Speedy making any appearances.
On with the story!
The Titans stood confused under the burning red and black sky, desperately trying to make heads or tails of what the hell happened. With not much success, regrettably.
Beast Boy stared off into the abyss of their former city, with an expression that rang of both weighty trepidation and bafflement. He could hear Robin and Raven arguing, but he lost himself in the alien surroundings. Soon the arguments diminished into mere irritations, then faded to black entirely as he let the harsh words wash over him noncommittally.
Raven was at the end of her wits, probably from a terrible provocation that took a great toll on her nerves. Thus, she found her retorts becoming more and more irate with each passing moment.
Starfire was still burying her head in Robin's shoulder, seeking camaraderie. That, or trying to keep from looking at those grossly large spider webs that somehow reminded her of Fang, which in turn reminded her of Kitten. As we all know, Kitten equals bad.
Robin, sharing Raven's lack of serenity, vented his stockpiling indignation by arguing with the Azareth. He knew that wasn't smart, but hell, he didn't care. Waking up and finding your home destroyed allowed some room for anger.
Cyborg was the only one who still had the sagacity to look for either someone alive or someplace where Izevm might be. So far he was having no luck, his entire vision polluted with gargantuan cobwebs.
They had tried to look for Titans Tower, but instead found an empty carcass of concrete and steel. And to confirm Cyborg's worst fears, Carmen was not there. Izevm had not spared her.
After a couple minutes of furious brainstorming, Cyborg had thought up of a provoking question that still stumped them all- "Why did Izevm destroy every thing EXCEPT us?"
They came up with several theories, none of which fit. There was the possibility that Izevm still needed them, but then that left query to why he had left Fenrir to kill them. Then there was the chance that he had thrown them into the future, but that didn't explain the red and black sky. So the question was still unanswered.
Cyborg grew frustrated with his continuous failures to find anything, and stormed off towards a big hill off towards the side. The conflicting Robin and Raven didn't notice this, but Starfire did. She let go of Robin and ran over to Cyborg.
"Cyborg, what is the matter?" the Tamaran asked with her institutional naïveté. Cyborg grew frustrated and yelled back, "What does it look like?! My home has been destroyed, my girlfriend has been killed, and I don't know how to get the fucker who did it!"
Starfire shrunk back, not willing to test him. Instead, she sat down, her eyes slowly welling with tears. Cyborg ignored her and stormed off.
Upon reaching the peak of the hill, however, he saw a spectacle that made him scream with relief.
"Guys! BB! Raven! Starfire! Robin! Come here!" The hybrid yelled. Beast Boy snapped out of his possessive reverie to run over to his comrade, while Robin and Raven stopped their fighting to head over to the hill. Starfire as well, picked herself up and went to see what the tumult was about.
As she reached the summit of the prominence, she indeed saw what Cyborg meant. From their previous standpoint, it was impossible to see it, but from her view atop the hill it stuck out like a sore thumb.
About a quarter-mile away from their position sat a large building that was a good hundred feet tall. Its appearance very similar to a cathedral, except it was entirely jet-black except for the doors, windows, and scattered spires. There was one large door that seemed about ten or fifteen feet high, and upon its center was a brilliant golden emblem of a very intricate, and very creepy, symbol. Almost like a satanic version of St. Edwards Cathedral, it had analogous decorative windows adorning the front of it. But instead of depicting angels or Jesus, it showed fiendish creatures and eerie demons sporting gruesome war paraphernalia like severed heads on a pike.
Cyborg turned to his comrades and said, "Never seen that before. Anyone else think that bastard Izevm's hiding in there?"
Everyone agreed unanimously. Robin began walking forward and said, "Let's go."
After about thirty seconds of walking, to their great surprise, they found a grungy old man sitting with his hat down, like he was asleep. He wore tattered, grimy clothes that spoke of homelessness.
Robin instinctively ran over to the man and yelled, "Excuse me! Sir!"
The old man looked up and began laughing.
"You ugly," the old man said with a heavily accented voice. He went on cackling insanely, like it was the funniest thing in the world. Robin rolled his eyes and said, "Sir?"
"No, man. Sheeeeit, you ugly."
Robin groaned and scratched his head impatiently. He was about to give up and leave this old man. The masked leader turned his back and began walking.
"You almost as ugly as those otha folks that comed by here."
Robin whipped around and faced the man. "What other folks?!"
The old man laughed again and said, "Those reeeel ugly folks. They reeeeel reeeeel ugly. You ugly, but they ugly ugly."
"Gee, thanks," Robin said dryly.
"Danny be telling ye more, but Danny need somethin' in reeeturn." With that, he made a motion with his fingers that evidently signified money. Robin sighed, but decided he could use this guy. He dug his hand into his pocket and pulled out a five-dollar bill, placing it onto the old man's hand. The senior made a strange noise, sort of like a cross between an "Hmph!" and an "Ack!"
"Five dollahs be all? Sheeeit, you be cheap."
Robin grabbed the man by his collar and lifted him up in a very threatening way. The old man kicked his legs, then started cracking up again.
"Okay, Danny be helpin'. They was his reeeely ugly guy. I mean ugly ugly."
"Yes, I think we've established that," Robin said irritably. The old man cackled again and said, "He be talkin' to hisself all crazy-like about some master and how him's gonna be pleased w' he." He laughed yet again and made a swirling motion around his ear. "They be crazy, I tell ye."
Robin raised an eyebrow and let the man go. Robin began walking off, when he heard the old man shout out to him.
"Hey, masky boy, one otha thing!"
Robin turned around and said, "What?"
"They ugly."
Izevm anxiously waited, standing in front of a large, sinister looking mirror that was a good couple feet taller than him and twice as wide. The Azareth looked out of the window of the highest room of the building, where he was located, hoping to kill time while he waited for his tryst.
Almost on cue, he heard a loud whooshing sound come from the mirror. He turned his head and saw the mirror become enshrouded in a swirling red cloud, rotating around like windmill. The cloud tightened and shrunk, and eventually transformed into a shadowed head eclipsed by the dark. Izevm turned and faced the mirror to salute the face that stood before him.
"Greetings, master. All is going as planned. I await your next command," Izevm said with a tone redolent of a boot camp enrollee. The face chuckled with a monstrously deep and raspy voice, all the time staying enshrouded in the darkness, concealing his identity from even the narrator of this story.
"Excellent. Rest easy for now. Soon I will be able to assume a form of this dimension. When that happens, I will give you your next orders. Until then, any and all disturbances are to be taken care of quickly and painfully. That is all," the anonymous head said before dissipating into a cloud of scarlet smoke again, and then receding entirely.
Izevm walked over to a lavish chair that garlanded the center rear of the room and sat down, preparing to relax. He looked over to his left and idly touched an orb resting on a pedestal and grinned maliciously.
All of a sudden, he was struck with a searing pain that coursed through his head. He yelled out in pain, but as soon as it came, it left. Izevm regained his composure and grinned evilly.
"I see I have some things to tie up."
"Okay, this place is seriously creeping me out," Cyborg said as he thrust the doors of the cathedral open. He wasn't alone in his thinking; the others wholeheartedly agreed.
The doors made way for a very long hallway, which curved off to the right. What was really eerie were the large, wooden, life-sized puppets that hung from the ceiling like a man at the gallows. The heads were crude, as they were merely X's for eyes and a frowning mouth. Like something from a horror movie, most of them held knives or other weapons in their wood hands. But the worst part? The weapons were tipped red with dried blood.
Oh, yeah. Very scary.
Starfire let out a "Yipe!" and ran over to Robin, clinging to his arm tightly, looking for comfort.
"Robin, I do not like this place at all. It gives me the bumps of goose," Starfire said, not one to suppress her opinions. Robin held her closer and gave her a peck on the top of her head.
"It's okay, Star. I won't let anyone hurt you."
Beast Boy thought about the song "Master of Puppets" by his favorite band and considered cracking a joke, but a soft rustling behind him diverted his attention. He snapped his head around, but saw nothing. He vigilantly turned back around, but as soon as he did, he heard it again. Again, he whipped around neurotically, but there was nothing but those ominous marionettes.
Cyborg noticed his paranoia, and nudged him to get his attention. "Beast Boy, calm yourself. Nothing to be scared of. There's nothing in here but those creepy puppets...with weapons...that have blood on them...on second thought, never mind," the hybrid said, his attempts to cheer failing.
Beast Boy flashed a thumbs-up and sarcastically said, "Gee, thanks."
"Ah, it seems my dear Teen Titans have survived! Too bad," a loud and rasping voice yelled out from above them. The team all turned their heads up to see none other than Izevm hovering indolently above them. Raven growled, her top lip curling upward in a sign of consummate hatred. All the others were, safe to say, not exactly happy.
"You! You fucking bastard! What have you done!?" Cyborg yelled with fury. Izevm only laughed softly before replying.
"What have I done? I have done no wrong. I have merely followed the path I was fated to. You should too. If you did, at least you would be able to see you pitiful girlfriend in hell," Izevm spat out, his words ringing with derision and contempt.
"Which reminds me," he said before pulling his face inches from Cyborg's and continuing in a whisper that only Cyborg could hear, "I had a grand old time killing her. She was resilient and would not go down as quick as the others. You have good taste. Oh, excuse me; you had good taste."
That was too far. Cyborg roared with unrivaled wrath and shot out his arm to grab Izevm's throat. But when his arm moved, he found himself strangling air. He looked up and saw Izevm wearing that same pompous leer, which only fueled the fire more.
Cyborg whipped out his sonic cannon and aimed it at Izevm, saying, "I swear to God, I'm going to wipe that FUCKING SMIRK OFF YOUR FACE!"
The enraged hybrid fired off dozens of shots, but each missed as Izevm dodged them as nimbly as a cat. When Cyborg's incensed attack ended, he saw the Azareth still hovering, this time right next to one of those disturbing marionettes. Izevm laughed malevolently at the grief-stricken hybrid.
"Testy, aren't we?" he said while he raised his hands over his head.
"I'd love to stay and chat, but I have some unfinished business to take care of."
"Azareth Izevm Destino!" he yelled, his eyes turning jet-black as a blood- red aura surrounded him. He thrust his right hand into the back of a puppet, which instantly glowed the same blood-red color. Its head snapped up and shifted from side to side, like it was searching for something.
Izevm grinned maliciously and spread is arms out wide, awaking each one of the puppets that lie before him. Each one that awoke slowly cut itself from the strings that bound it to the ceiling and turned their attention to the frightened team that stood before them. There was a hell of a lot more of them than they thought.
The evil Azareth cackled maniacally. With a flick of his wrist, he was gone. No sooner had he left, the army of marionettes began slowly advancing on the Teen Titans, moving jerkily and with inelegance.
Cyborg felt his fear slowly escalating into rage. Aiming his sonic cannon at the approaching militia, he fired off a round of his weapon before retreating back to his fellow Titans.
Robin whipped out his Bo-staff and assumed a fighting position, his fear slowly ebbing away as the adrenaline began coursing through his veins. Starfire was still inexorably frightened, but her eyes still began to shine a brilliant emerald shade in preparation for a fight.
A black light began to engulf Raven's hands, readying any needed attack. Beast Boy, however, began trembling and ran over to behind Raven, hiding under her cloak.
"Beast Boy!" Raven yelled. The changeling chuckled nervously and ran out from under her cape. Raven rolled her eyes and said, "Beast Boy, I love you, but you can really be an idiot sometimes. "
Beast Boy grinned weakly, then gulped at the sight of the approaching army. Fortunately, he found his fear receding and becoming replaced by primal instincts. Intuitively, he transformed into a gorilla and roared. With that, he charged at the nearest puppet, drew back his fist, and struck the dummy with all his might. The marionette stumbled back into another one behind him, knocking the two of them into the wall. Another puppet standing next to the one Beast Boy bounded forward and ripped a large gash in the shape shifter's chest with its knife.
Robin yelled out, "Titans, GO!" and leapt on top of the attacking marionette, then leapt off, twirling his staff in mid air. Swinging his staff, he struck a row of puppets horizontally, knocking them all off balance, all the while being airborne.
Beast Boy recovered from his cut and shifted into a t-rex, roaring ferociously. The army was not impeded by this, and continued to advance jerkily.
Starfire flew forward and began blasting away at the front lines like there was no tomorrow. Given the wrong events, there very well might not be. Raven flew up next to her and assisted her by throwing round after round of black energy spheres. All of a sudden, Starfire saw a disembodied knife coming flying towards her. Reflexively, she dove down to dodge it, and successfully did so. But to her great surprise, the knife came spinning back around like a boomerang. She ducked down farther, but the knife still managed to scrape a deep cut in her left arm. Unfortunately, in dodging the knife, she had ducked too low. Another dummy on the front lines whipped a sword out of a sheath and took a swing at the Tamaran, tearing a huge gash in her left leg. Starfire yelled out in pain, clutching her leg in agony.
Robin saw Starfire's predicament just as the attacking marionette readied itself for another swing. Starfire had begun losing consciousness from loss of blood, and was starting to lose altitude. The masked leader yelled, "Starfire!" With that, he dove forward and tackled the sword-wielding dummy, knocking it into the wall. He drew back his fist and struck the puppet as hard as he could. To his surprise, the head of the dummy popped off and began rolling away. Robin leapt again and grabbed the falling Starfire out of midair just before she fell down into a mob of dummies. Rolling forward, he hopped behind the safety of the other three Titans and laid Starfire down to examine her wounds.
Starfire slowly shifted to look into Robin's face and say, "Robin? Are you alright?"
Robin nodded affectionately and said, "Yes, I'm fine Star. I'm more concerned about you."
Her gashes were pretty deep, and bleeding a whole bunch. Robin tore off a section of his cape and wrapped it around her leg, tying it tightly to impede the blood loss. He squeezed Starfire's hand and said, "Starfire, if anything happens to you or me, I just want you to know that...I love you."
Starfire smiled weakly and said, "I love you too, Robin."
They were interrupted, however, by Cyborg.
"Guys, there's too many of them! Fall back!" the hybrid said with a tone of urgency in his voice as he began to back up, firing off shots of his sonic cannon every few seconds. Robin helped Starfire up off the ground and began running with Cyborg.
Starfire flew back up into the air and began retreating alongside the rest of her comrades. However, the puppets continued to follow, albeit at an agonizingly slow rate. The corridor began curving to the right, like a spiral staircase. Gradually, it began stretching upward with an incline hardly noticeable.
Raven continued to fly along, until she was struck with an idea. Halting in her tracks mid-air, she muttered "Azareth Metrion Zinthos!" Her eyes glowed black, and she raised her hands upward. An area of ceiling about ten yards in front of her also glowed black. She thrust her hands down, bringing the area of ceiling down in synch with her hand movements. The ceiling crumbled and fell down, creating a wall of rocks, blocking the puppets from reaching them. She sighed and drifted back down.
Beast Boy grinned and said, "Nice job Raven!" He began to walk towards her, but she held up a hand, panting.
"I don't think we should be celebrating yet, Beast Boy. If I know Izevm, he'll probably have fifty more traps waiting in the wings," she said. Beast Boy made a face and looked at the corridor that lay before them.
Izevm walked torpidly into his room, walking in front of his large mirror.
"Master?" he said curtly. The mirror glowed a deep shade of black as a new cloud of smoke appeared, this one a light green-blueish. The face of his master appeared, this time not covered in shadows.
"What is it?" the disembodied head said with a tone of irritation in his voice. Izevm gulped and said, "So sorry to interrupt, master, but it seems the Titans are alive and well. I sent the puppets after them, but I doubt they'll do any more than slow them down."
The face looked upward and let out an "Hmmmm" sound.
Izevm swallowed again and said, "Sir?"
"Quiet fool, I'm thinking."
Izevm recoiled and said, "Yes, sir."
After what seemed like an eternity, Izevm's master said, "I think I've got it. Wait until they reach the first door then sic the spiders on them. I doubt they'll handle that. But if for some remote chance that they do, contact me. We'll destroy them some way or another. All it requires is patience."
Izevm grinned and said, "Of course, my master. I should have thought of it myself."
"Izevm?"
"What?"
"Don't kiss ass, okay?"
"Yes sir."
"NO! Swiss cheese is vastly superior to cheddar cheese! How can you even
consider the mere possibility that it isn't??"
"Because, you feeble-minded cretin, it's the plain and unalterable truth,
and you're just too ignorant and bull-headed to see it!"
"There is no way in the world- which, by the way looks like it's finally
ending-"
"A shame, that...."
"Yeah. Anyway, there's no way in the world cheddar is better than Swiss!!"
"Nuh-uh..."
(A/N: Thanks a bunch Lisa!)
Beast Boy and Cyborg, of course, were having another one of their completely pointless yet hilarious arguments, just to pass the time and to keep their minds off of the possible dangers that lay ahead. As they continued traversing the lengthy corridor, it became increasingly obvious that they might be here for a while.
It took nearly twenty minutes of walking before Beast Boy stumbled on something. He regained his balance, and then looked to see what it was that caught his foot. To his surprise, he found a trapdoor. Grinning, he called out to his friends, "Hey guys! Look at this!"
"Beast Boy, what is it?" Robin said as he ran over to his friend. Spying the trapdoor, he raised an eyebrow curiously.
"Hmm...interesting," the masked leader said. Beast Boy grinned wider and said, "Well, let's go!"
Raven put a restricting hand on his shoulder and said, "Wait, Beast Boy. We don't know where it'll lead. For all we know, we could be walking straight into a trap."
Beast Boy's grin disappeared. He opened his mouth to argue, but decided against it. He shrugged it off and began walking again.
It only took a couple of minutes for the winding hallway to come to an abrupt end. It seemed to lead to a huge room, probably about fifty feet tall, and just as wide, with a row of sculptures placed in a column that seemed to lead into a large pedestal resting at the rear end of the room. From a distance, they couldn't tell what rested on the pedestal, but there was definitely something there. To their discontent, they could see piles of skeletons littering the room randomly. Starfire began walking nervously around before stumbling over, to her extreme dismay, a human skull.
"Eep!" she screamed, jumping into Robin's arms and throwing her arms around his neck. Robin looked at her funny, and then realized what she was afraid of.
"Robin? I have a bad feeling about this place. We should leave," Starfire said nervously.
"Star, we have to find Izevm. It's the only way to get things back to normal. Besides, it's just a skull." Robin replied coolly as he continued walking down the row of statues towards the pedestal. The team shrugged let Starfire down and began following him cautiously. As they walked, they got this weird feeling that someone was watching them. The tension mounted until Beast Boy could take it no longer, and whipped his head around to look behind him.
"Who's there?!" he yelled, scanning his surroundings like a hawk. He saw nothing.
"Beast Boy, will you calm down? There's nothing to be afraid of!" Raven said with a hint of annoyance in her voice. Beast scoffed and said, "Yeah, that's exactly what Cyborg said right before we met the Puppet Army of Doom back there."
He had a point, but Raven still elected to ignore him and continue to follow Robin.
Robin finally arrived in front of the pedestal to see that upon it lay a very intricate key. He was about to reach out and grab it, when he suddenly heard childish giggling behind him. He turned around, but only saw his teammates.
"Okay, who's making that noise?" he said testily.
"What noise?" Cyborg said nonchalantly. Robin groaned and said, "That annoying laughing noise."
"We weren't making any noise," Beast Boy said. Robin raised an eyebrow suspiciously before walking up to the stand and grabbing the key.
"This could be useful," he said, shoving it into his pocket. He turned around, but to his surprise, found his comrades' faces fixated on something above him.
"What is it?" he said, looking upward and around to see what it was.
"Holy fuck on a Mack truck!" he said when he spied what it was.
Perching on the wall in back wall behind the pedestal was a huge spider, its eyes each about the size of a basketball. Its abdomen was about the size of a Greyhound bus, and its legs were about as thick as a tree, and probably just as long. It had huge fangs that were as long and thick as two baseball bats, each dripping with venom that burned a hole in the floor when it made contact. Instead of the conventional brownish color for spiders, it was a bright red and yellow all over, with black and brown spots scattered throughout, almost like its exoskeleton was made out of lava. It growled a low, thundering growl that shook the cathedral like an earthquake, making chunks of the ceiling fall down and crumble onto the floor. It leapt down from its perch on the wall and roared again at the Titans, spewing venom as it bellowed. The Titans all leapt out of the way, each one avoiding the venom aimed at them. Where the venom had been aimed, large, sizzling apertures appeared in the ground.
Robin whipped out a bird-a-rang and tossed it at the spider. The bird-a- rang sailed towards the spider, but only shattered as it made contact with the spider's adamant shell. Growling with frustration, he took out his Bo- staff and jumped towards the spider. He glided through the air until he landed just behind the spider's head. Twirling his staff expertly, he struck the armor of the spider, but to no avail. Upon making contact with the arachnid, his staff cracked in two, the broken half flying through the air.
The spider roared and jumped through the air with astonishing speed and altitude. Landing across the room onto a wall, Robin found himself hanging on for dear life as he dangled precariously from the spider's back. The spider noticed that he hadn't fallen off, and spit a huge wad of venom up at the ceiling. The venom crashed into the roof, making a bunch of rocks fall down. Robin had a choice: either jump down and avoid getting hit and get killed from the jump, or get hit by the rocks, fall down, and get crushed to death under the rocks.
'Choices, choices,' Robin thought to himself.
In the split seconds before the rocks hit him, he decided to take his chances and jump down. Starfire saw his plummet from yards away, and raced over to catch him before he made contact with the ground.
"Robin!" she yelled as she sprinted through the air as fast as she could. Catching him the moment before he hit the ground, she sighed with relief as she flew through the air with him in her arms.
Meanwhile, the other Titans had their hands full. While Robin had been fighting the huge-ass spider, a gigantic army of them began emerging, crawling out from the cracks in the floors until they numbered in the millions. Each one was as big as a gorilla's fist and moved with the speed of a panther.
Cyborg and Raven blasted away at them, but they were just too numerous. With every row that was destroyed, two more advanced further.
"Jesus Christ, where are they all coming from?!" Beast Boy yelled before transforming into a t-rex. Swinging his tail, he managed to effectively crush a few hundred spiders. But no sooner had he done that, a news wave of arachnids advanced, crawling on top of the bodies of the crushed spiders to get on top of Beast Boy. One by one the crawled up his tail until his entire lower body was literally covered in them. Beast Boy shook his tail wildly, making the ridiculously over-sized bugs fly off. The few that held on, however, sank their fangs into the thick skin of the t-rex. Beast Boy roared in pain, the venom slowly making their way towards his nervous system. Fortunately, he had the hindsight to shape shift into an eagle, his smaller form causing the spiders to fall off his less expansive hide.
"Beast Boy! A little help over here!" Cyborg screamed. The changeling looked over and saw that he was inches away from being smothered by the oncoming spiders. Raven had gone over to assist Robin and Starfire fight the mother spider, leaving Cyborg to fend for himself. The hybrid continued to blast away, but the spiders' numbers were still too many. Beast Boy shape shifted into a pterodactyl and glided over to his friend, picking him up with his talons, flying him away safely.
While Beast Boy and Cyborg were fighting the vast onslaught of spiders, Robin, Raven, and Starfire had their hands full staying alive.
"Azareth Metrion Zinthos!" Raven yelled, using her powers to hurl a large boulder at the spider. The stone merely crumbled against its obstinate armor, deteriorating into pebbles and falling harmlessly to the floor. The spider roared at Raven, and then leapt at her from its post on the wall. Raven gasped and instinctively flew up as high as she could in that short span of time, effectively dodging her enemy.
Robin, still in Starfire's arms, got out his freeze disks and hurled a handful of them at the still airborne spider. A few missed and sailed on, but a couple hit their mark. But to his surprise, the disks had no effect. They merely disintegrated against its abdomen, like every other attempt to hurt it. The gigantic spider merely turned its head to look at the pair as it landed on the ground, and then roared ferociously. It then opened its mouth wide, sending a giant fireball out of its mouth and towards them.
Haha! Another cliffhanger! Okay, so review and tell me what you think! Oh, by the way, I'm going to wrestling camp on Sunday, so if there's not another chapter out by then, there won't be until at least Wednesday, which is when I leave
This is Ozzy signing out.
