Chapter 4: Expect the Unexpected

Warp pushed off a giant piece of plaster off of him. He got up weakly, dusting himself off, breathing rapidly. He placed his hands on his knees trying to catch his breath. He looked around at his surroundings. Mostly everything in the exhibit had been destroyed. He saw Robin and Starfire on one end lying down on the ground weak and unconscious. Cyborg was a frozen statue of ice on the other corner. And then where the balcony had fallen from his tremendous laser attack that had hopefully hit the other two Titans. He began to press the regulator again. Nothing happened; the regulator had cracked if flickered every time he pressed it. Warp began to lose his patience.

"Infernal thing!" he cursed under his breath. He flicked open a miniature flame torch on his utility glove trying to repair the damage regulator. He paused for a moment and heard whimpering echoing through the exhibit. He smirked evilly, he had succeeded in half of his mission, he thought. The crying sounded from a man, one very sad and grieving man, he almost pitied that man, almost, but Warp concentrated on the task at hand to try and fix his regulator to get back to his own time. One more spark flew up and the regulator began to glow back into working order. He flicked the torch back under his glove and stood up. A short twist of the device and the glow began to brighten. He looked up and smirked.

"Ah, yes, back in working order, now I must make my leave," he said, he pressed the regulator and opened up another worm hole to leave to go forward in time. The beams glowed around the brim of the hole, Warp took small steps into the hole, back to his time. But he stopped short, as if he had forgotten something, "but before I do make my grand escape," he turned around and aimed his thermo blaster at Starfire, who was still weakened on the floor next to Robin, "this is for your interference,"

The blaster started to glow, but before the fire was shot an angered green tiger suddenly attacked from the side. Warp was stunned, the tiger had him pinned on the floor and the laser fired up shooting nothing but the air. He struggled to get the large animal off of him, but the tiger was too determined and upset to move. The tiger-formed Garfield pounced trying to bite him, but Warp deflected with a wave of a hand and knocked the tiger off of him landing on his back on the floor. The tiger transformed back into human form. His breath was raging, more like he was growling rather than breathing, he was sweating furiously; he looked up at Warp. Garfield had a very angered look in his eyes, his brows were furrowed his pupils were narrowed, but they were full of hurt and pain of loss. Warp got up to face the challenge that kept him from leaving, he was ready. He kept his ground as the green man in front of him began to speak.

"You're not going anywhere or any time, you will pay for this!" growled Garfield. His voice was cracked from his crying before, but that would not stop him from threatening. Warp looked back at Garfield and a smile crept up on his face. Warp's response confused him; he began to laugh at him.

"Ah, your pitiful threat amuses me," Warp said in his cold voice. This only brought more pain and anger to Garfield, he was laughing at him, and so he attacked again forming into a gorilla. Garfield smashed his fists down on Warp, but Warp suddenly disappeared and reappeared two feet in front of Gar dodging his attack. Warp threw one of his exploding discs at him; the disc sent the giant gorilla across the exhibit crashing down into another clock display. He morphed back into human form and started to groan in pain but he still kept his angered expression. Warp stood on the other end of the exhibit. He lowered his guard, he could tell that Gar was weakened from the emotion running through his mind. Now was the time to have a little fun, Warp wanted to play with his heart.

"I was not expecting this to happen," he said walking slowly forward to the green man, Garfield looked up to listen, "I thought you wouldn't have the heart to attack me, I was expecting you would be still mourning over your lost lover," Garfield started to grind his teeth, "but then again I was not expecting that you would still be alive,"

Garfield stopped.

"What?"

Warp smiled, he had his full attention now. He continued on.

"I was hoping you would have taken the laser shot. The loss of your life would have made my vengeance so much sweeter," he cooed, "I would have expected her to do something drastic," he pointed to where Raven laid, "seeing your dead rotting corpse on the ground, it definitely would be more of a show. I believe she would have cried herself into a coma and maybe, die of a broken heart," Warp could tell that he was pushing Garfield's buttons pretty hard, which was precisely what he wanted. Garfield started clenching his fists together, sweating out his frustration and pain, as he listened on unwillingly, "Between the two of you, I'd say she was the weaker one,"

"Raven is never weak!"

Warp chuckled.

"Is? You are still living in the past, I believe you meant was," he said, Garfield began to growl in the lower part of his throat. He was sweating profusely for this villain was mocking him.

"It seemed her life and her emotions revolved around only one thing, your love for her. Once it had been broken, her world would have come crashing down and she would no longer find the will to live. I would assume she would have gone suicidal just so she would be with you. Now, don't tell me that isn't weak," Garfield's blood began to boil, his rage was creeping up inside of him, "I guess it is no matter now, she's gone; lost in the past, and seeing you in your pain is plenty satisfying for me,"

Garfield had lost his patience and his control. He jumped up and formed into a powerful lion with the lust to kill in his eyes. Warp dodged the attack and fired his blaster. Garfield quickly morphed into a hummingbird and flew up into the air. Warp had lost track of him, so he started blasting in random places where he thought he might be. But suddenly, the smoke from the blasts began to clear and a huge elephant came crashing down. Warp gasped, but quickly moved out of the way to attack again. Garfield morphed into a bull and began to ram him against the wall to crush him. Warp was ready and deflected using his blue shield to block the beast. The green bull backed away shaking away the throbbing pain in his head. Warp had the chance and blasted his thermo blaster, but Garfield dodged it. Warp tried his shock ray, and caught him in a direct hit, but he transformed into a turtle before the shot was fired. The attack brought him into another clock display next to a particular valuable clock. The turtle morphed back into human form, weakened lying on the floor, breathing hard on his knees and his gloved hands clutched together tightly up against the cold tiled floors. Tears started streaming on his face, he felt as if he was defeated. He lowered his head onto the floor, his tears staining his cheeks. Warp lowered his arm, and stared down the weak Titan walloping in his defeat. He nodded in satisfaction.

"I believe my work here is done," he said. Garfield mumbled something under his tired breath, "I beg your pardon? Did you say something?" Garfield looked up at the chromed villain. His lips curled into a smirk, but he was still breathing hard.

"I said…I don't think you'll leave…without this," Garfield held up the Clock of Eternity weakly. Warp's face fell, he completely forgot. But before he could protest, Garfield, out of desperation,gathered up as much strength as he could, lifted up the Clock of Eternity high above his head. He gave a yell and smashed it onto the ground, creating a smashing sound that echoed through the room, and shattered the clock into nothing but useless clock parts.

"Now, we've both lost something we valued deeply," he said weakly lowering back to the ground to catch his breath again, that last attack did a number on him. Garfield looked down at what was left of the Clock, feeling like he had won and avenged Raven's life in some small way, he felt a small rise of relief forming inside of him, but he still felt hurt. But his relief was cut short, by Warp's laughter again. He looked straight up at the villain, he was still in hysterics.

"Foolish man!" he said, "Do you not realize who you are dealing with?"

Garfield just looked on.

"I am Warp. I have complete control over the space time continuum. And you simply destroying the clock did nothing but added a little more work effort from me. I shall travel back more into the past, and retrieve it again. You cannot win, no matter what you try,"

He turned to where his back faced Garfield. He shifted his regulator slightly to the left to allow him to open a warp hole that would send him to the past. He pressed his regulator again and the warp hole formed in front of him. Garfield once again felt defeated, he couldn't stop the tears streaming down his face. Warp turned around again to Garfield hearing his weeping.

"Good bye, Titan, say hello to your lover in the after life for me," he teased harshly, he turned to the warp hole and began to walk inside. Garfield shot up using all the strength he had, roared at the villain, quickly morphing into a tiger and attacked Warp. He caught the time traveler under his sharp claws pushing him into the wind of the hole. Warp tried to push him off so the hole wouldn't suck him in too. But too late, the warp hole sucked both of them inside and quickly closed, leaving the exhibit in nothing but deadly cold silence.

Garfield swiped his claws at the fiend inside the time loop they were floating in. Warp quickly dodged, but could not use his weapons while he was time traveling, so he was at disadvantage. Garfield morphed back into human to speak.

"Did you think you were going to get away that easily!" he shouted and morphing into a gorilla to smash him. Warp could only deflect, "You knocked out my teammates!" Warp tried to punch him, but Garfield ducked and punched him back. Warp blocked it with his glove, Gar was too angry to worry about the pain in his hand, "You frozed my best friend!" he transformed half of his arm into a claw and slashed some of his armor, Warp gasped at the attack, "you murdered MY WIFE!"

Garfield took tried to take another slash out of him, but Warp caught his hand. He smirked again and got close to his face.

"With time on my side, I can do it again," he whispered. Garfield was shaking; his animal instincts took over him. He transformed into a tiger again, catching Warp off guard that he let go of his paw. Garfield in all his fury slashed down at the regulator ripping it off his chest and hanging down by its wires.

"No!" shouted Warp. This caused the suit to give off an electric discharged that affected both Warp and Garfield. The two started to grimace in pain as the regulator glowed furiously and then in a blaze of light, both lost their grip of each other and were blasted back in opposite directions. Garfield lost sight of Warp, but he couldn't see with all the light flashing in his eyes. He tried to shield them to see what was happening, but suddenly, he hit something hard from behind, if felt like a thick brick wall. It hit his head hard and he fell forward into something soft yet gritty. The smell was horrible, Garfield tried to focus his vision, but everything was dark and dank.

He sat up wearily, he heard something coming from behind, it was muffled, but it sounded an attack. More like a phrase, a certain phrase that caught his ear immediately. It was almost like a…spell casting.

"Raven? ...Gah!" he shouted as he fell forward into the gritty goo and hit his head on something metal. Then, he was jerked down and he felt like he was floating, but hit something hard beneath. It started to slow down and he heard something muffled again.

"Titans…go!"

"What the--? Whoa!" he thought the ride had stopped, but he felt the place, wherever he was, was spinning and spinning out of control. It made him dizzy but then felt like he was thrown across a football field, he closed his eyes and braced himself for impact. He started turning along with the foul smelling goo below him, he hit his head several times on the metal, and the place was very small. One more hit of the metal made him lose conciousness. The movement suddenly stopped and the metal part thatGarfield was leaning up against suddenly opened allowing him to fall forward along with the mess that he was in. Garfield heard more mumbling words, it sounded like…himself.

"Guys! Over here! Look!"

"He needs help, let's get him to the infirmary,"