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Another preface for you guys to enjoy, which I strongly suggest you read. I apologize in advance for anyone who is disgusted by Mary Sue characters; I, myself, hate them with a passion. For those of you who will attempt to hunt for my head after reading this chapter, please bare with me on this. There is a method behind my madness, and this is only a means to an end.

So, here is the next installment of Catalyst. Please don't yell. x.x;

- Hybrid

P.S., Doesn't the auto-formatting in this place suck? Pissing me off so much. Can't even use a damned tab key to make indents.

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And when we were children, staying at the arch-duke's,
My cousin's, he took me out on a sled,
And I was frightened. He said, Marie,
Marie, hold on tight. And down we went.

- The Waste Land, by T.S. Eliot

Chapter 2

"So, you're saying that something really freakin' strong just made its way into Jump City?" Beast Boy asks, sitting up on the couch.

After Raven had made her entrance, they all had moved to the living room. Cyborg was now fully awake and was sitting against an arm of the couch. Robin was standing next to a window while Star was resting against the back of the couch. Raven simply stood near the middle of the semi-circular couch.

"Yes." Raven replied.

"Well, don't that just beat all?" Cyborg philosophically and rhetorically asks the air.

"Could you tell if the force was evil or not?" Robin asked, sounding serious.

"No. I could not tell at this range." Raven replies again.

"Perhaps we could greet this individual? There is the chance that he or she may be of the good kind." Star said. It wasn't a bad idea to her. Too often have they had to fight against people who were just bad for, seemingly, no reason. They needed someone strong and nice for a change.

"When we are out for patrol, we'll look for this person." Robin states, looking out the window at the city. "Is there anything else you can tell us?"

"This person... Has a purpose in mind." Raven says, knowing that it sounded like it didn't help at all. "She is searching... Hunting for something.."

"She?" Beast Boy asks? "Maybe she's good lookin'."

"You and me both!" Cyborg says, laughing and giving BB a high-five. Both of them shared the thought of some heroine in a tight-fitting suit. Everyone else just looked at them silently for a few moments.

"... That doesn't matter right now. I want to make sure that the City is safe." Robin states.

"If she's all that strong, why haven't any of the buildings blown up yet?" Beast Boy points outside to the city, seeing that it still moved along like it would on a normal day. Moments later, an explosion happens in the streets. The alarm then goes almost a moment after the explosion happens, and BB is suddenly pinned by the hexing stares of everyone else in the room.

Robin, after staring BB down for that moment, yells, "Titans! Move out!"

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"You cannot esssssssscape me, misssssssssss." The creature buzzed out over towards the figure. His wings had fully extended and the stingers in his forearms were gleaming in the sun. Pushing off from the ground, he hovered in midair.

"Dream on, Wasp." The womanly figure exclaimed to the hovering insect. Moments after she did say that, a car lifted off from the ground and launched itself in Hive's direction.

The bug person simply gave the front of the car an uppercut, knocking it into the air and onto its back. "Thessssssse tricksssssss of yoursssssss won't work on me!" Wasp laughed back to the woman.

Pulling down her hood, you could see the long golden hair she had with deep, blue wells for eyes and soft features running down the rest of her face. She gave a competitive smirk. "I bet I can." The sidewalk than curled up underneith Wasp, quickly wrapping around him like a ribbon and squeezing hard.

"AHH! Noo!" Wasp yelled out for a moment, before flexing his insectoid muscles and bursting out from the concrete. "I could ussssssse ssssssssome back-up!" He yelled.

"No worries! I heard you!" Said a voice from on top of a roof. The person up there was clad in a black, 50's style suit, with a red napkin in the breast pocket and a red tie overtop of a red undershirt.

The woman looked up to that person before grinning as well. "Horror Crusader. You're looking well."

"Not as well as you're going to hurt, Doll Face." HC said in a smug tone, before pointing his hand at the ground in front of the woman. "Ladies and Gentlemen, give a warm round of applause to our favourite serial killer–" A beam shoots down at that spot, creating a pillar of red light. In that pillar, a figure could be seen forming. "-- Jason Voorhees."

The seemingly undead hulking mass that was Jason Voorhees stepped out from the pillar. The torn hockey mask stared down at the woman in front of him, as his hand continued to grip the blood-dried machetti that he used on dozens of other victims.

The woman just laughed. "That's all you can do? I'm getting bored already." She says, before pointing her hand up at the killer. In an instant, a gigantic golden beam shot out of it, consuming the killer in it, and drove him back against a building where an explosion ensued, the very one that the Titans had seen. As the smoke cleared, Jason Voorhees was actually gone. The only thing that was left was the arm holding the machetti and a whole lot of stunned silence.

"... As much as I'd like to say 'I could have done better,' I'd rather call on some reinforcements." Horror Crusader announced, before clicking a button on his wristband hidden beneath his sleeve.

"Doesn't matter what you send down. My victory is completely assured." The woman said, smirking again and staring back at Wasp, who seemed to recoil just by the look of her.
The Titans were just starting to enter the city at around the same moment a hole in space and time ripped open. Some monstrous mechanical hand gripped outward from the hole and grabbed the edge of it, seeming to push it even more open. Based on the look of the hand, this figure must have been hundreds of feet tall.

"We were saving this for something else, but I figured that Megiddo would love to tango with you." Horror Crusader said, letting out a small laugh from his building perch.

What looked like huge cannons were pushing their way out of the hole as well, followed by a second mechanical hand. As this entered this world, it seemed to grow flesh, shaping and molding before forming into something of demonic descent.

All the while this happened, the woman simply stood there and watched the scene as it happened. Everyone else in the area seemed to be evacuating as fast as they could, while the police kept up a blockade around the surrounding five blocks. They knew from past experience that guns wouldn't help them in this fight.

The cannons pointed themselves at the woman, seeming to glow red for a moment. After steadily growing larger and larger, the glowing conformed itself into a couple of beams which simply drove their way towards the woman. You could tell that the beams were powerful, as they were knocking things away that weren't even in the direct path and tearing up the pavement. The beams struck the woman, engulfing her in an explosion that shook the ground and shattered windows throughout most of the city.

At that point, a green bolt of energy shot out from the side, striking the tear in that fabric of the universe and causing that side to shrink inward. A mechanical-demonic hand pushed it back out, and seemed to turn the hole around to face the new threat. As well, it seemed as though it were starting to pull the rest of itself out. Something that looked ovalish could be seen within the portal, but not that well.

The Titans had arrived as the beam had finished firing and had taken up positions around the tear. Likewise, the other two villains simply disappeared from the scene. Too dangerous to be in the city now.

"Azerath Metrion ZINTHOS!" Raven yelled before her black bolts of telekinesis shot out from her body, seeming to grab at the top and bottom portal as opposed to the sides. As if to make the effect stronger, she brought her hands together in a slapping motion. This caused the tendrils to push the portal down by the middle, making it look like the infinity symbol.

Starfire, seeing her chance again, fires another star-bolt at the spot where the top and bottom edges met, the force of the blast simply fusing them both together and repaired space. What was left were two smaller portals, side-by-side, each one containing one hand and one barrel of the large cannons that were most likely built into the shoulders of that monstrosity.

The cannons looked like they were getting ready to fire again.

"Titans, deflect the shots into the sky!" Robin exclaimed, leaping down in the direct path of the cannons. Everyone else gave their acknowledgement and prepared to do whatever they could.

Like before, the nozzles glowed red and seemed to pulsate larger and larger, before releasing the blast directly at Robin.

From the side, Cyborg shot off his own cannon at maximum while Starfire threw two of her starbolts from the other, hitting the beams in the air so they deflect towards each other, their own gravitational field catching with the other and causing them to entwine into one beam.

Likewise, the beams seemed to turn black as Raven was gathering control of it, but not enough to turn it just yet.

Beast Boy turned himself into a gigantic woolly mammoth and kneeled down behind Robin, as if acting as a wall to let Robin do his thing.

Standing in the direct path of the now black beam, Robin quickly pulled his cape over his body and crouched to the side, so that the cape was used as a shield. The beam hit the polymerized titanium cape as if it hit a mirror, causing it to shoot upward into the sky thanks to the help of Raven's guiding. The force of the beam pushed Robin back against BB, who was trying his hardest not to slide backwards as well. Once the beam was safely up into the sky, she dropped her control of it and looked back to the portal.

Before any of them could celebrate, the creature Horror Crusader called 'Megiddo' had already pulled the portal open larger than it has been before. Most of its arms were pushed out into normal space, gripping the ground as if it were soft grass. The head, looking a combination of green and red, gave off a screech from an unseen mouth and pushed its way into the world.

"... Dude, we're done for." Beast Boy said, turning back into BB behind Robin.

"We're not going down without a fight!" Robin exclaimed, standing up tall with his extended staff in his hand. "Titans, charg–!"

From the smoke of the previous explosion, a huge golden beam shot out. The beam seemed to hit the portal and snap it shut in an instant. Since it closed so quickly, the creature did not have time to get out of the way. The mechanical arms, the fronts of the cannons, and the head dropped to the ground with a hard smash, laying there lifeless as the rest of the body probably was where it started. The woman who shot the beam walked out of the smoke, gently clapping her hands. "Well done, Titans. I knew you could deflect those shots."

Again, there was more stunned silence.

"... Did she jus' take out that guy without even tryin'?" Cyborg asked, his eyes still wide from the sudden cessation of the fighting.

Raven hovered back down to the ground, as did Starfire. As they started to gather around, Robin stepped forward to approach this person.

She was taller than him by a foot. Her grey cloak hid anything else from vision except for her face and her long golden hair. Before Robin could say anything, she held out a hand to him. "My name is Alexis. Pleasure to meet you, Robin."

Robin, seeing the hand extended to him, blinks and quickly takes it in his hand and shakes. During that time, he noted her unusually strong grip. "Well... What can I say? Welcome to Jump City, Alexis." He says, looking up to the woman with a smile. The other Titans behind him relaxed, seeing that this person really was an ally they could use.

"I think a celebration is in order for our new-found friend. Let us return to the Tower of Titan and gorge on glucose-based nourishment!" Starfire cheerfully announced. Beast Boy, seconded the motion, while Raven simply shrugged and started hovering up into the air.

There was a bit more to the hovering away that people didn't notice. Raven, like she had in the past, felt something odd about this new person. Yes, she was the source of that power, but just who or what could have that kind of power and not be in the spotlight? Surely, they would have heard stories of this fighter, but they barely even know her name. None of this added up, and Raven knew it.

Down below, the other Titans were having an engaged conversation before continuing on behind Raven. Turns out that Alexis could fly as well.

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"Gentlemen, I assume you know why we have called the Exodus Council to order?" Said a shadowy figure on the end of a long table. There were no lights in the room, but they could still see each other's silhouettes.

The Council was a plan implemented shortly after the League of Heroes was formed, but was only in the Jump City region. This was because all the major villains immediately rejected the proposition, since they knew full well that villains do not work easily with each other. As a result, the Council would have only been used for emergency situations. And this situation was indeed a dangerous one.

"Yes. The new threat which appeared in Jump City." Another added. The voice was male, but had an English accent.

"Alexxxissssss." One more added, this voice obviously belonging to Wasp.

"After thorough scanning done by our surveillance devices, I must say that HIVE does not have the capability to handle such a threat." Brother Blood grimly put out onto the table. "Further analysis is needed."

"The challenge is too great to ignore, but with greater challenge there is a greater risk. I cannot lend my services, unfortunately." Said another, while he sat uneasily in the darkness.

"Well, who can defeat this newcomer? Everyone isn't strong enough to do anything! This Alexis is perfect in almost every possible way!" another cried, standing up in the darkness and bringing a fist down on the table.

"... Not everyone."

The heads turned to the opposite side of the table. Sitting there in one of the seats, fingers laced together while his elbows rested on the armrests, the one eye gleaming out through the darkness. "I have not voiced my opinion on the matter."

"Does your opinion really matter that much, Slade? You can't even defeat the Titans, let alone whatever the Hell this thing is!" Someone exclaimed. This person looked to be rotting away, yet remaining alive. Obviously a necromancer of some type.

"I shall defeat Alexis. I guarantee you that." Slade calmly says, not moving from his spot.

"And if you don't?" Asked Brother Blood, sitting back in his seat. "Perhaps your unending string of defeats has gotten to your mind."

Slade's eye turned to the old man and narrowed. "I will win." As if tired enough of the conversation, Slade stood up from his seat. "Within a week... Alexis will cease to exist." Turning, he walks out into the darkness, exiting from the chamber.

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Slade stood on his platform, staring up at the huge screens in front of him. Behind him, the gigantic cogs and gears turned endlessly in the darkness as a physical representation of Slade's never-ceasing mind. On each of the screens were what the remote viewers were seeing from their hidden locations throughout the city, and the Titan Tower. The screen in the middle showed the Titans sitting around in the living room watching television whilst Raven was quietly reading a book. Alexis was not there. Nor was Robin.

Flipping through another screen, it showed empty rooms. Bedrooms, workrooms, the garage, and almost every place where there was a space. After turning to the roof camera, he spotted two people sitting on the ledge. On another screen, a three-dimensional extrapolation of the image showed him that it was Robin and the newcomer, Alexis.

"So, you've broken through." Slade said to himself, staring up at the image of them both sitting there. Right from the meeting, he knew the severity of the problem; this was a problem he could deal with. However, he did not expect something like this to arise so quickly. His hand was pressed; time is against him now. "Pity."
The screen flickered off.