Sorry it took so long to update, I've been busy with life at the moment. Now that I have me time, I can go write more of this. The weekend is coming up so I'll be able to write a few more chapters. And if I'm lucky, school will be cancelled tomorrow bringing me more time to write. So on with the chap...
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" Um, can't we solve this without fighting?" Beast Boy whined
" What's the matter? Afraid of me... Garfield!?" The real Lori mocked
" Stop that!" He cringed
" Don't worry, Green. I'll make sure your name isn't Garfield when I write it on your tombstone and bury ya!"
" You won't have to! I'm gonna keep living while you rot in prison!"
" Getting mad, elf? I hope Santa doesn't fire you from Santa's workshop after all the sick days you'll take after I'm done wiping the floor with ya."
Beast Boy literally snarled and morphed into a tiger. Lori pointed at the two teens and signalled a few of her clones to attack, after all, she wanted to spare her hair. The first wave of her drones lined up in front of their creator and took defensive stances. So far it was two on two. As one stepped forward to attack, Beast Boy pounced at the clone and swung his mighty clawed paw at it, making it stumble. Beast Boy figured the clones were tougher than the normal human and changed into an elephant. He earthquaked his way over to the clone he hit and constricted her with his trunk. It screamed from the tightening of Beast Boy's grasp and in reaction, dug her nails in his skin. He sounded his trumpeting call and dropped his victim back on the ground to inspect for damage. Of course there was none, it just stung a lot. He stopped looking like a big baby and changed into a bull. He snorted and stomped his hoof while the Lori clone prepared to fight again.
Across the room, another Lori clone faced off against Raven. There was nothing in the room but a table to levitate at the copy so she have to fight her the old fashioned way. The psychotic blonde sprinted and leapt into the air to do a spin kick aimed at Raven's head. She merely ducked and spun around to swing a fist to it's spine, and the clone sneered when it was attacked. It rotated and swung a fist, slamming Raven in the jaw. The purple-haired girl shook it off and used her dark energy to send the clone flying into the nearby wall. She hovered over to her fallen victim and saw she was unconscious. That impact didn't look too powerful, but Raven assumed it did the job as she turned to help out her green friend. Boy was she wrong. The clone leapt to it's feet, tapped Raven on the shoulder, and punched her square in the face all within a few short seconds. Then, it hooked Raven's cape and used her other hand to put a choking grip to her throat. Raven almost had a panic attack as the clone shoved her into the wall. It was just like before when her father had tried to choke her to death. Once again, she was trapped in the same situation.
Beast Boy almost had the clone down for the count, but not without getting a few cuts and bruised from it's sharply filed nails. After beating it to the ground, it layed gasping for air. To do such a thing, he tackled the duplicate and then attacked her as a gorilla. The clones seemed to regenerate quickly after fighting so he had to figure out a way to stop them permanently. Not much he could do now to figure it out. He changed into a falcon and soared as far as the ceiling went before morphing into an armadillo and curling into a ball to cannonball straight down on her unprotected head. And his aim was right on target. The blonde ceased to move while Beast Boy turned away to seek another opponent. But all he saw way Raven fighting for air as a clone strangled her.
" Raven!" He called
Just as he was about to play hero, the clone he had defeated grabbed his foot, causing him to fall head first into the floor. He tried to drag himself from the duplicate's grasp but he had no avail. By the time he did get free, it would probably be too little too late. But he wasn't willing to give up so easily. He fought to get free, shifting to any animal he could think of. There had to be some way to escape.
As her companion struggled to get free, Raven was pretty much trying to obtain the same thing. Why couldn't she get free? She could defeat the clone easily. Was it because her situation reminded her of her father's attempt to kill her a meagre 2 weeks ago? That she feared her father? That she feared the pain he brought her all her life? Raven looked ready to explode. He's weak, he can't kill her, he can't even find her. Why should she fear him? She may... No... Can destroy him. She opened her eyes as the sharp white glow startled the copy. Never again would she cower to the likes of her father. He may have tortured her all these years without her retaliating, but that was no more. She would fight back this time.
And with that, a large swirling black portal opened behind her and pulled her into the darkness. The clone felt the debauchery burn and tug at her hand as she pulled it away from Raven's throat and pulled it from the portal. She disappeared within and the black hole swirled and shrunk until it was gone from sight. The Lori clone backed away scanning for the half-demon but she was nowhere to be found. And as soon as Beast Boy took advantage of the dumbfounded clone and got free from it's grasp, Black energy gathered in the centre of the room, rising up from the nothingness below in the form of a bird. The ebony matter seeped into the middle of the avian and slowly revealed the form of Raven, who looked as surprised as her comrade. Beast Boy stumbled and ran up to Raven with a million questions.
" Raven!? How did you do that!?" The changeling shouted the question
" I... Don't know?" she replied in confusion
" Grr.... You little whelps!" The real Lori boomed " Of all the kids I babysit, it had to be you two! Curse you and your abilities! Clones, attack them, NOW!!"
The two teens watched as all nine clones closed around them in a circular pattern. Lori sneered and watched the gang up in delight, both would be down for the count while she made away with the money. Beast Boy looked frustrated while Raven contemplated how to get them out of their trap. If only she could figure out how she got out of the death grasp the clone had on her. Then she could get herself and Beast Boy over to the real Lori and try to take down the ring leader. It was pointless, she didn't have a clue how she used it in the first place. It made her wonder what other abilities her demon half kept dormant within her. She snapped back to reality knowing it was pointless and was about to ask Beast Boy for an idea but nothing came out. Maybe it was too late to escape. The circle of fiends enclosed on them, making the teens back into each other. Beast Boy stumbled a little and something fell out of his pouch. As he bent down to pick it up, it's aroma drifted along the room, catching the attention of the clones. They looked freaked out at whatever Beast Boy had in his possession. Raven quickly took notice to their fear, even the look on Lori's face made them fear the object.
" Beast Boy," Raven inquired rapidly " What is that you have in you hand?"
" My portable snack." He remarked, wondering why she wanted to know
" And that would be?"
" My tofu fish and tofu lobster sandwich with tofu egg in the middle, and soy sauce on top!" He praised his Frankenstein of a sandwich
" Ok..."
" TOFU!?" Lori yelled fearfully
" Beast Boy, what ever contraption of a snack you have there has some kind of effect on the clones!" Raven informed
" ... Wha...?"
Raven rolled her eyes and snatched a piece of the poisonous meal and tossed it at the nearest clone. Beast Boy glared at her for her theft but forgave her when he saw the results. The clone started to fume with smoke and screamed louder than the echo of a dying animal. It started to stagger and then fall to the ground, where it slowly faded to a pile of dust and mist. Lori and the other clones looked on in terror as the teens got the advantage.
" They're allergic to tofu?" Beast Boy stared " Dude! That must suck!"
" The point is," Raven notified " Just slab them with your tofu stuff and they'll turn to floor sweepings."
" Ok... That does make things easier. But when I make another one, you have to try it! They're delicious!"
" Maybe when I want to die..." She muttered
" Kid, you don't know what you're doing! Stop!" Lori screamed
Beast Boy changed into a hawk and grabbed the hazard in his taloned claws and flew above the panicking copies. He circled them quickly as he dropped pieces of tofu food on them, making then scream and disintegrate before the eyes of everyone in the room. As weird as it was, Beast Boy was glad to put an end to them. Finally, they had all fallen to the wrath of his mighty tofu and he drifted back to the floor, changing into his human form before landing. Raven observed the piles of dust and wondered if the clones could be brought back, but the look on Lori's face told her otherwise. Beast Boy rejoined his Goth-style friend and acknowledged their next action. They turned to Lori and approached her slowly, Lori however didn't look too thrilled.
" There's no use in making more clones. My tofu will just repel them." Beast Boy told
" And running away isn't going to work either." Raven smirked as she slammed the iron door shut with her dark energy
" You can't ruin this for me! You're both just kids! I can fight you and win!" She growled, eying the gun in Raven's belt
" I don't believe that will happen." The changeling muttered
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Congrats, I'm finally finished. Evil school and a social life held me back, but here ya go, another completed chap. I'm pretty sure I'll have another one up tomorrow seeing how it's a Friday Night and I don't have to go to bed early. So R & R, it puts me in the writing mood, of which I write great chapters.