Middle Earth: Unleashed
AUTHOR'S NOTE: I just wanted to say thanks to the people who reviewed for taking the time to read and review my story and to help me improve it. Also, for everyone that read this story before the 21st of March, the first chapter has been revised. Because I can't use technology to save my life, I uploaded wrong and chopped off half of chapter 1, which is why it ended on such an abrupt note. So please re-read chapter 1, as the events that are there now are crucial to the rest of the plot. Also, as I've previously mentioned I'm technologically stupid and have come across a problem. I've read many great stories recently and I wanted to review them, but when I pressed the review button, it said at the bottom of the screen 'a pop up window was blocked'. Can anyone tell me why this keeps happening? Thanks. I hope you enjoy chapter 4.
Disclaimer: I still don't own Teen Titans or Lord of the Rings and never will. I also don't own the board game Monopoly, the Austin Powers movies (this chapter's title is a take-off of the title), Easy Bake Oven or Grease.
Chapter 4: The Spy Who Gagged Me
Cyborg cleared the remnants of their lunch of the table. He had been left alone with the Middle-Earthiens, something that he wasn't exactly comfortable with. Robin had retreated to his room, probably to obsess about Slade, as usual. Beastboy had snuck off with Merry and Pippin, doing something that Cyborg suspected that Raven would not be happy about. Starfire had gone to "the mall of shopping" to stock up on hair products and makeup and quite possibly Legolas action figures. Raven had also gone to her room, but that was normal. Oddly, as Cyborg noted, Gollum had disappeared as well. He had probably gone to try and drown himself in the toilet or something. Or so Cyborg thought.
"Well…how's life back in Middle-Earth?" asked Cyborg, trying to make conversation with the odd looking characters from a beloved book series.
Everyone seemed to take this as a rhetorical question, because he didn't receive an answer. Gandalf was talking seriously to Aragorn, Legolas was trying with little luck to braid Gimli's beard and Sam was daydreaming about Rosie Cotton. Everyone else was starring into space. Cyborg reminded himself to kill his friends for leaving him alone with these psychopaths.
But as much as Cyborg wanted to get the hell away from here, he knew it was up to him to keep this Fellowship of nutcases entertained, so they wouldn't go crazy and trash his house. "Er…how about a game of Monopoly?" he suggested.
Robin had bought this game a long time ago, but the Titans hadn't played for
awhile.
"Monopoly…is this some kind of duel?" Boromir asked, confused.
"Can you eat it?" Merry piped up.
"No. It's a game you play, for fun" explained Cyborg, slowly.
" Okay! Let's play!" shouted Sam, and Cyborg went to go get the game.
Meanwhile….
Slade impatiently drummed his fingers on the table. He was getting rather bored.
He was hungry too. What was taking Sauron so long?
Sauron was in the kitchen of a five-star hotel just south of Jump City. He was in his true form, the way he looked before Isildur chopped his finger off and he turned to dust. Apparently, though on Middle-Earth he could only remain in the form of a lidless eye, but on our earth those rules didn't apply. Who knew?
Sauron was having a blast here on earth. He had been to three different night clubs in the past two days, watched the Austin Powers movies forty-six times each and had went to go see a musical production of Grease. Right now, he was humming "Grease Lightning" while putting on his pink, fluffy oven mitts to take his sprinkle-covered cookies out of his bran-new Easy Bake Oven. Life was great.
He brought the cookies and two glasses of milk to the table. Slade eyed the cookies evilly. Rainbow sprinkles weren't really his thing. He took a cookie anyway. Slade was practically squirming in his seat. He couldn't wait to start taking over some worlds. Unfortunately, his partner in crime, the Dark Lord Sauron, the cruelest, evilest being in Middle-Earth, wanted to play with his Easy Bake Oven and sing songs from old musicals. Shudder. Slade had a thing against musicals. They were so…unnatural.
"So Sauron, how is our evil plan for obliterating the Titans and the Fellowship and dominating all life going?" asked Slade, hoping to get Sauron back to their primary focus: demolishing Middle Earth and earth.
Sauron momentarily stopped mentally congratulating himself on cookies well done. An evil grin spread across his sprinkle and frosting covered mouth. "Excellent. Our spy reports daily" he said.
Slade choked on his delicious cookie. "Spy? What spy? You never told me about a spy!" He threw the remainder of his cookie at Sauron's helmet covered head. What a waste of a cookie. "We're supposed to be working to destroy all together, you blundering dolt! How could you do this to me? Why I oughta…" Slade stopped. Curiosity had gotten the better of him.
"Who's the spy?" Slade asked, calmly.
"Just a friend. One who goes by the name of Gollum."
Back at Titan's Tower…
Raven stared with utmost loathing at the ugly blue creature in her doorway. She was drenched, had a huge headache and was still really peeved at the author for the remarks she made about her and Beastboy last chapter. This was definitely not the best time for her worst enemy of the week to be knocking on her door.
" I am going to count to three. If you are not out of my sight in three seconds I am going to make you wish you were never born" Raven said slowly to Gollum. He grinned at her.
"Shhh…precious. We says that we don't likeses this girl much. We says that it is time for it to go away, yes. Too suspicious, it is, causes trouble. It must go." Gollum revealed a glowing purple ball from behind his back. He lifted it up and pointed it in Raven's direction. Suddenly, she was all tied up and had a piece of cloth in her mouth to keep her from yelling for help.
"Bye bye, precious" Gollum said sweetly. He raised the mystical sphere once again and Raven disappeared.
Gollum chuckled to himself. "What can we do now, precious?" he said out loud. "No cruel girl to say mean things to Smeagol any more! Time for Smeagol to have some fun, yes precious." He jumped up and down on Raven's bed, and grabbed one of her pillows. Then, he ran down the hall to Robin's room.
Robin was sitting at a desk in his dimly lit room, writing furiously. He stared at his collection of crime-related newspapers each one mysteriously linking to Slade. None of them held the answer to this question: Where was Slade now? He knew the destruction Slade could cause all on his own, but now he had his buddy Sauron in it with him. He pounded his head against the desk.
Wham! A pillow smacked Robin right across the face. He saw little Slades running around in a circle around his head. When his eyes focused again, they rested on all little blue guy rolling around on the floor with laughter. Robin whipped out his retractable bo-staff. Gollum stopped laughing for a moment, and held out his purple magical sphere. Just like Raven had been, Robin was immediately tied up and his mouth was stuffed with a gag as well. He flopped to the ground like a fish out of the water. Gollum left the room, slyly. Beating up on superheroes was fun.
Raven opened her eyes, warily. Where was she? She looked around, and did not see anything familiar. She noticed the faint smell of home baked cookies in the air. "That stupid Gollum, she thought, when I get my hands on him I'm gonna…" Her thoughts were interrupted by a loud "A-hem". She sat up, still tied up like a sausage. Her eyes widened as she saw the two figures that were staring at her.
The two people that now held her captive.
Sauron and Slade.
Oh joy.
A cliffie! Yay! Next chapter, we get to hear a bit more from Cyborg as he attempts to play Monopoly with the Fellowship, and Beastboy, Starfire, Merry and Pippin will be back in the story. We'll see if Robin can get himself untied…poor guy. Also, Gollum continues his rampage through the tower, and we'll learn about his cool purple ball thing…no it's not a palantir. And we'll see how Raven gets along with Slade and Sauron. Now press the pretty review button on the left hand side of your computer. Yes that's right….press it…it calls to you.