Disclaimer: I do not own the Teen Titans or any villains affiliated with them. I only own my characters, which are as follows: Wicca (Kali), Delusion (Dylanne), Cronos (Finn), Ink (Ira), Phalanx (Gabriel), Sekhmet (Rajani), Geno-Maxx, Fear, Loathing, Omega, and Sixth. Those are the ones in this chapter. I accept flames about MY STORY, not the topic. Thank you, dirty-witch, for bringing this problem to my attention oh-so-gracefully. >
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Wicca had no time to attack Sixth. She was too busy keeping him out of her mind. While she struggled with his mental assaults, he used his other powers to send energy waves, blasts, and whatever was lying around her way. She dodged some of what he threw at her, but most of it did hit her. And there was no one available to help her.
Ink was grappling with a mind controlled Rajani, courtesy of Loathing. Phalanx (all four of him), was lashing wildly out at some unseen terror while Fear stood nearby, manipulating the boy's mind and laughing. Delusion was giving Geno-Maxx one of her infamous death-glares, locking him inside an illusion, keeping him away from Wicca. If he got control of her, they were dead. She also kept Magnon busy with a separate illusion. Cronos was grappling with Omega, who kept cutting right through the bubbles of frozen or accelerated time he put the villain in.
At last, Omega knocked Cronos out with a strong mental blast. The boy fell forward and hit the pavement with a nasty-sounding 'CRACK'. His head bounced back up off the blacktop an inch or two, then hit it again.
Delusion saw him go down.
"Cronos!" she screamed, losing her grip on her illusions. A second later she had them back up, along with another, less-complex illusion around Omega. She raced to the fallen Cronos and crouched beside him. Turning him over, she found a very grave-looking gash on the ten-year-old's forehead. Knowing she had no expertise in that area, she turned her head and scanned her teammates.
Kali crashed to the ground as an energy blast from Sixth slammed into her. She kept her eyes shut tight, tensing, waiting for another. A second later, she realized she didn't feel his mental attacks battering her shields anymore. She opened her eyes and immediately found Delusion. Her friend was on the ground, holding a limp and bleeding Cronos on her lap. Delusion had her eyes shut and a strained look on her face. Kali also saw four bad guys attacking nothing but air. Determining that it was Delusion's doing that kept the criminals fooled, she went to her teammate and took the injured youth in her arms.
Looking Cronos over, Kali quickly made her diagnosis. He'd had received a severe head trauma and possibly a concussion.
"C-can you h-h-heal 'im?" Delusion gasped, teeth gritted over the effort of keeping up four large-scale illusions going on people who were fighting them, all at the same time.
"Yes, but I need time." Kali looked up at her friend. "Can you give me that?" Delusion was sweating bullets and looked very very very tense.
"I dunno!" she wailed. "Wic-ca, they f-fighting, me! I can't hold th-is-" Delusion's eyes sprang open and she gasped. "Shit!"
Looking up, Kali saw Magnon, Sixth, Omega, and Geno-Maxx staring at them.
"The bunnies!" Geno-Maxx said dazedly. "Where'd the bunnies go?" The other three villains growled their annoyance at their idiotic companion. Then, at the same time, Magnon and Omega shot blasts of energy at Wicca, Delusion, and Cronos. Delusion squeaked and ducked; Kali shielded the unconscious Cronos with her body as the huge energy wave ripped through the air above them. A moment later, another wave of energy, this time from Sixth, crashed into the trio, sending them flying backward.
They felt as if they'd hit something hard and shattered it. A blinding light exploded around them, and when it disappeared, Delusion, Cronos, and Wicca were nowhere to be seen.
The SS2 stared.
"What the h-?" Magnon began. He was cut off by someone hitting him in the back of the head, knocking him out. Rajani, now freed of the mind control by the distracted Loathing, rushed at Geno-Maxx. The rest of her team was able to attack the villains without too much trouble, as the element of surprise was theirs now. The battle quickly turned in their favor, and within twenty minutes they had rendered each and every member of the Society of Sin 2 unconscious.
Ink, Sekhmet, and Phalanx all stared at the empty space where the other team had been a while ago.
"Where'd they go?" Phalanx asked, a very confused look on his face. Ink looked no more enlightened.
"I have no idea." He glanced over at Sekhmet and Phalanx. "But I'm sure Vanth will be able to tell. Let's go, before the NYPD get here." The other two teens nodded, both knowing what would happen if they were found by any branch of the law. None of them wanted to die. With a quick mumble of "reverto", they were returned to their normal clothes and sprinted for the train station, intent of boarding the next and fastest bullet train to San Francisco.
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Kali cautiously opened one eye, then the other. Looking around, she recognized none of their surroundings. Glancing down, she saw that she still held Cronos. Delusion was next to her, looking equally confused. The black-clad illusionist opened her moth to speak, but was interrupted by a deep male voice.
"Who the hell are you kids?" Two pairs of eyes instantaneously swiveled in the direction of the voice. About twenty yards away stood a tall black man wearing an outrageous outfit. He wore a yellow mask with a white skullcap-like thing. Fanning out behind his head and shoulders was a red, crinkled ruff.
"Whatever, I don' care who you are! You dressed like Titans, you're goin' down!" Kali met Delusion's eyes; a spark of understanding passed between the two. Delusion switched her gaze from her friend to the oddly dressed man. Within a fraction of a second, the man was wrapped in an illusion that kept him blind and unmoving. With a nod from her conscious teammate, Kali walked forward. Quickly she drew a circle around the man. Around the edges, she drew the necessary signs and symbols to make a teleportation spell. This one was more complicated that her normal triad and five runes. She wasn't going to ask Delusion to make this guy move so she could make all the interconnecting lines beneath this behemoth.
When she was done, Kali surveyed the man again. Suddenly, something in her mind clicked. Now she remembered where she'd seen this hideous outfit before!
"Delusion!" she called. "This guy- I remember him!" Delusion came over to her, eyebrow raised.
"From where?" she wanted to know.
"The List! He's that one voodoo dude from…" Kali paused, thinking hard. "The 80's, I think." Delusion looked at her in disbelief.
"So, what? You're thinking we're in the 80's somewhere?" Kali nodded.
"I think so." She surveyed the surroundings again. "Somewhere in New York." Delusion looked dumbfounded.
"Perfect," she muttered, staring at the guy within her illusion and Kali's spell in mild disgust. Carefully, she walked over to him and plucked something off his belt. "His doll and poking stylus thing," she explained in response to Kali questioning look. "I remember some things about him now." Kali nodded.
"Ok. Where do I send him?" Delusion considered.
"Jail, maybe?" Kali shrugged.
"Worth a shot. I think I remember where it is, but if he ends up inside a wall somewhere, I'm sure New York'll be better off without 'im."
The two girls stepped away, and Kali awoke the spell, sending the offending voodoo guy away, hopefully to jail. Once that was done, Delusion looked down at the stuff in her hands.
"Wha'do I do with this stuff?"
"Leave it there for a second. I need to take care of Cronos." Kali walked back to where they'd left the blonde and bleeding boy and sat down next to him. Delusion put the doll and stylus down and joined Kali. Just as Kali started drawing a circle in magic around Cronos's wound, Delusion noticed some oddly colored smoke (it was pink) beginning to appear not ten meters from them.
"Kali." She poked her friend. "What'zat?" Kali looked, then paled, recognizing immediately what it was.
"Make us invisible," she ordered. Delusion looked puzzled.
"Why-"
"Just do it!" Kali hissed. "Now!" Shrugging, Delusion complied. She set up an illusion around the three of them, making sure they were completely invisible.
"There. Now why-"
Delusion was cut off by the abrupt appearance of eight people. The pink smoke that accompanied their appearance seemed to have come from a white cloaked woman. Delusion's jaw dropped as she realized who the people were.
"Are they-" Kali hurriedly put her hand over her friend's mouth.
"Yes," she whispered. "The Teen Titans."
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Yay! Another chapter! I got into the 'past' bit now! Ok, the guy Kali and Delusion encountered was Hougan, a voodoo master guy from the comics. His outfit really is bad. He looks freaky, and not on the good way. Anyhoo, I'm proud to have gotten this far!
Peace and Oreos, Onyx
