Ok, so here is chapter 2! This chapter contains some fighting scenes (not too much, yet), etc. I have tons of ideas for this story, hopefully you'll enjoy it.
Disclaimer: I don't own Teen Titans, and probably never will.
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Chapter 2: Trouble Arises
"Ok, guys, we have to go to the Jump City Rock Museum. That's where the trouble supposedly is." Robin said after all the Titans regrouped. "A prized gem has been stolen, and it looks like it is going to cause quite an uproar."
After his briefing, the Titans hopped in the T-Car and zoomed off for the museum. Upon their arrival, the Titans found the entrance to the museum completely destroyed. It looked as though something large had charged right through the doors.
"Doesn't look good." Raven commented after she saw the scene. "Hey, look at this stuff on the ground, looks familiar." The dark witch pointed towards the ground near the entrance, where small pieces of purple sludge were scattered. "It could only be one thing..."
"Plasmus." Robin finished. "Obviously, whatever he's stolen must be important. C'mon, let's have a look inside and see what was exactly stolen."
The Titans walked into the museum, and it didn't look too good inside either. The entire floor was covered with broken glass that shattered from the exhibit windows. Also, there were some more piles of sludge all over the walls, floor, and around the main pedestal that once held the museum's rarest jewel, the Gem of Chaos. As soon as the museum's caretaker saw the Titans, he quickly ran up to them, being careful to avoid any broken glass.
"You must help us! Some purple sludge... thing came in here and destroyed every exhibit." the nervous caretaker said to Robin. "He stole the Gem of Chaos, and that's worth at least a billion dollars!"
"Don't worry, we'll find out who did this crime." (though the Titans already knew it was Plasmus) Robin replied. And with that, the caretaker thanked them and ran off to the police to start complaining.
"I don't get it, why would Plasmus want that gem? I mean, he can't exactly walk into a jeweler shop and sell it, can he?" Terra questioned.
"No, there is something strange about that gem. I'm not sure either what Plasmus would want but..." Robin stopped talking as he realized that the floor started to rumble. "Ok, looks like we'll find out soon enough!"
A giant crack formed in the center of the floor, and the sewage pipes below the museum burst, letting go a flow of sewer water. As if things couldn't get worse, Plasmus jumped out of the crack. However, Plasmus didn't look just purple and slime covered anymore. His usual violet color was now replaced with a laser green color, and apparently there was acid now covering him instead of sludge. With a load roar, he threw a punch at the group of Titans.
"Titans, go!" Robin shouted his well known phrase as the Titans all jumped out of the way.
"Man, and I thought Plasmus was already bad enough!" Beastboy exclaimed as he dodged an acid ball shot by the creature.
Raven used her dark powers to raise all the broken pieces of glass and threw them like arrows at Plasmus. The glass flew right into its throat, and he yelled out in pain. However, just when the Titans thought they had defeated Plasmus again, he surprised them all and blasted the broken glass back at the Titans, this time with apparently poisonous slime at the tips. Raven once again used her powers to form a shield that blocked the pieces flying at her. Robin threw some of his freezing discs (A/N: is that what the disks are called?) to deflect the glass flying at him while Starfire threw lightning to help block the larger ones. Cyborg, Beastboy, and Terra managed to dive out of the way and avoid the glass flying at them.
Seeing his opportunity, Cyborg bounced back on his feet and fired his sonic cannon at Plasmus, who failed to block the shot and got thrown back at least ten feet.
"Yeah, all right!" Cyborg exclaimed with happiness. "Who's the master now, sludge ball? Heh heh!"
However, Cyborg's happiness faded away as Plasmus now jumped up in the air and started shooting acid balls at random. Cyborg managed to blast away anything that came his way, while still firing shots at Plasmus. Starfire was already busy blocking the acid balls that came her way, but she neglected to notice that the ground beneath her was already starting to crumble away into the sewer water below it. Robin, noticing this, used his moves to dodge anything that Plasmus shot, and managed to push Starfire out of the way as the ground collapsed.
"You ok, Star?" Robin asked Starfire with care in his voice.
Starfire looked at him and smiled sweetly. "Yes, I am undamaged. Thank you for pushing me out of the way; I would probably have been killed!" Robin smiled back and helped her up. The both of them then resumed fighting Plasmus.
Terra now stood close to the crack's edge and summoned a large boulder, hurling it at Plasmus's right leg, hoping to knock him back into the crack. At the same time, Beastboy transformed into a rhinoceros and charged full speed at Plasmus's left leg. Both the boulder and transformed Beastboy collided into Plasmus's legs, sending him flying into the crack. However, after she launched the boulder, Terra was about to fall into the crack with Plasmus as the ground beneath her gave way from the shock of Plamsus's fall.
'Oh no, this looks like the end...' Terra thought as stood on the collapsing ground, too shocked to move. "Ah, help!" Terra yelled out in panic. Suddenly, she felt herself flying through the air. "Huh? What? Am I dead?" Terra asked aloud.
"No, you're alive! I thought that I'd lost you there for a second." a voice said. Terra opened her eyes and found that she was being held by a transformed Beastboy as he flew to solid ground in a flying creature form. He then let her go as he transformed back into his human form. Terra gave him a huge hug after he finished transforming.
"Thank you so much Beastboy!" Terra whispered as she rested her head on Beastboy's shoulder.
"You're welcome. Heh, besides, I would never let you get hurt!" Beastboy whispered, stroking her hair. Terra looked at Beastboy, a small smile on her face.
"Really?" she asked quietly.
"I promise. And this is one promise I won't ever break." Beastboy replied.
The two wished the moment would never end, but another load roar from Plasmus shook them back to reality. Terra gave Beastboy a quick kiss on the cheek, smiled lovingly at him, and ran back to help in the battle. Beastboy finally snapped out of his trance and realized that Plasmus was still alive, so he joined the rest of the Titans shortly.
Plasmus was about to pull himself into a compact form and jump out of the crack again, but was stopped by Cyborg's sonic cannon. Starfire shot beams out of her eyes while Raven magicked some sharp rocks from the exhibits and blasted them at Plasmus's head. Terra used this rare opportunity to command the ground on either side of the crack to close in. Plasmus now realized that he had no chance of winning this battle. He gave one final roar, descended into the sewers below, and ran away. But before he did, a green colored gemstone flew out of him and into Robin's hand. The Titans were quite glad to get rid of Plasmus once again, as he was not the most pleasant villain to be around.
"He's probably going back to Slade again. I can imagine how angry Slade will get when he hears that Plasmus failed again to destroy us, and that he lost the Gem of Chaos!" Robin said with a smirk on his face with examining the Gem of Chaos in his hand..
"Yeah, and now I can finally whoop Beastboy's butt in his own video game!" Cyborg said with excitement in his voice. Robin and Terra had to restrain Beastboy from running up and tackling Cyborg.
"Just you wait..." Beastboy said quietly with a hint of anger in his tone.
"Ok Titans, I guess we are done here. Let's go get something to eat, I'm starved." Robin said.
Just as the Titans were walking out of the museum, the entire building began to rumble. Then two figures burst through the floor and and stood right next to the now sealed crack where Plasmus escaped. The Titans couldn't see them clearly because of the dust coming from the hole where the two figures burst from.
"Uh, who is it now? Jinx? Gismo? Overload?" Cyborg questioned impatiently.
However, the two figures didn't resemble Jinx nor Gismo, not even Overload. As soon as the dust began to clear, the Titans were rather taken back. They apparently never seen these new people before, and Robin assumed they must be working for Slade.
"Well hello there Titans. Nice to meet you." said the first person. He looked about six and a half feet tall, with metal armor all over his body that shone a tint of gold in the sunlight. As a matter of fact, this didn't look like a person at tall. It looked more like a robot, but he spoke in a human voice and not a robotic one. On top of both of his hands were neon blue claws that were about a foot long. His eyes were glowing red, and he didn't seem too friendly looking. He wore a black and silver cape that flew lightly in the breeze.
"My name is Breaker. And my partner here is called Kulex." Breaker said. Kulex was very different from his partner. Kulex was about seven feet tall and had almost no type of armor on, except for the dark navy blue body armor he wore. He had long brown hair that fell to his upper back, and he had a dark brown cloak on with a hood that cast a shadow on his eyes, shielding them from view. In his left hand, he clutched a long, silver sword that looked razor sharp. He spoke in an unforgiving tone.
"Yes, the name is Kulex, and I believe that you have something that we need, Robin." Kulex said in his low, hoarse voice. Robin looked a little nervous since Kulex knew his name without even asking him.
"How, how did you know my name?" Robin asked.
"That is not important, young fighter. What is important is that you give us that gemstone you hold." Kulex replied in an even lower voice.
"First off, who are you two?" Cyborg asked, daring to step up. "And what the hell do you want with the Gem of Chaos?"
"You do not know of the powers possessed within that particular gem. We ask that all you do is hand it over, and we shall depart." Breaker said calmly in his strange human voice.
"Don't do it Robin..." Starfire whispered in Robin's ear.
"Star, it's okay, I won't give it to him." Robin replied.
"Oh yes you will. Otherwise we'll just have to forcefully take it from you." Kulex said. "And yes, Robin, I can read your mind, so don't even try to conceal any information from us."
The Titans looked uncomfortable after that last statement. However, Robin had other plans.
"No way. You can't have the Gem, you work for Slade, don't you?" Robin inquired with suspicion.
"Slade? No, we work for someone much more powerful then that fool Slade. However, our time is short. We will give you three seconds to hand over the gem." Kulex said, getting a bit frustrated.
"If you work for someone more powerful than Slade, then I guess it means that you must be evil. There is no way you are getting this gem." Robin said, even though he didn't look too hopeful right about now.
"Fine. You made us do this. Breaker, allow me to take care of this. Go back to Lord Firesprite (A/N: Heh, I'm crappy at coming up with names) and tell him we shall have the Gem shortly." Kulex muttered.
"Ok, you got it. We'll be waiting for your arrival." Breaker replied, and with that, he turned a dark blue color and warped away. Kulex now turned to Robin, who was about to ask who Lord Firesprite was.
"Don't ask. You will find out later." Kulex said quickly. "And now, prepare to feel extreme pain." Kulex put on a wicked smile and lifted his free hand into the air. He charged up a blood red energy ball, and without warning, fired it at Robin's chest. It collided in a matter of nanoseconds. Robin was sent flying and landed some fifty feet away. The gem flew right into Kulex's outstretched hand.
"Maybe now you will learn not to mess around with people stronger than you. Stay away from us and you won't get hurt, at least for now anyways." Kulex said, with the gem held tightly in his free hand. Beastboy, courage getting the best of him, ran right up to Kulex.
"Listen here, wizard-boy. Give us the gem back now or face the consequences!" Beastboy voiced. Kulex just chuckled, and struck Beastboy with a vertical swing of his sword, giving him a deep gash on the upper right shoulder. Beastboy collapsed to the floor, and Terra and Raven ran up to him. Kulex then teleported away.
"Ok, he'll pay for that!" Beastboy said through gritted teeth.
Terra just lightly hugged him, hoping not to hurt Beastboy. "Don't ever do that again! You could have got yourself seriously hurt! Who knows what that guy is capable of. Please, don't do that; I couldn't bare loosing you." Terra said with tears in her eyes.
"Sigh, ok, sorry for scaring you like that." Beastboy replied, now looking a bit worse from blood loss. Terra then kissed him on the cheek like she did before and kneeled beside him. Raven, who was now looking rather bored, started to heal Beasboy's wound with her magic.
"There. Just don't do anything extreme with that arm for awhile." Raven said in her monotone voice.
By now Robin had recovered, though he wasn't injured too badly from Kulex's attack, and returned with Starfire and Cyborg to meet up with the other three Titans.
"Damn, he got away with that gem. I still am not too sure as to what the Gem of Chaos does, but let's go back to the Tower and rest from the fight." Robin said. Everyone gladly agreed, and the Titans jumped back into the T-Car, returning to Titans Tower.
No one felt like talking about the fight, the two new villains, nor the Gem of Chaos. They were pretty much completely exhusted. So instead of eating supper, the Titans simply went to their rooms, ready for a nice long rest. On the way to his room, Terra caught up with Beastboy, who was about to ask if she was alright.
"Oh, by the way, thanks again for saving me when we fought Plasmus, BB" Terra said lovingly to Beastboy before hugging him and running off to her room. Beastboy just stood there with hearts in his eyes, again. She giggled after seeing his face and disappeared into her room.
Who exactly is Breaker and Kulex, and who is the mysterious person they work for? Stay tuned for the next chapters!
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Well, there you go. I kinda made this chapter a bit longer, and am hoping the next one will be even longer. But I can't promise anything. xD