Anyone besides me think Terry's had a lot of guest appearances?
Chapter 8: Final Fight
The Titans Tower was quiet and dark. It was one in the morning and, with the exceptions of Robin and Firebird, everyone was asleep. The two teens mentioned were looking at the monitor. Before she left, Arella put a camera bug inside the warehouse and now the two leaders were scanning the place while conversing with the future Batman on a speaker.
"Their's no denying it," Firebird said pressing some buttons, "This is definitely Timezone's hiding place."
"Where is it?" Robin asked. Firebird brought up a map, a light was blinking near the top of the screen.
"There." The half-tamaranean pointed out. "Just a few miles off of Metropolis."
"Guess I'm going there." Terry's voice came over the speaker.
"Alright, we'll meet you at the warehouse."
"Forget it; Timezone's my villain, besides you'll only get in the way."
"Hey, we agreed we'd help each other…"
The Dark Knight interrupted her by pretending to make static sounds, "Sorry…can't…hear…static…loser…" and cut off the transmission. Firebird's vein started to anime pop in annoyance.
"That jerk!" She shouted slamming her fist on the keypad. "Just because he's Batman he thinks he's better than everyone!"
"I still can't believe there's a new Batman in the future." Robin said, "Though he isn't exactly what I expected."
"I don't care what he says, we're going after Timezone."
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The team of Titans reached the warehouse within an hour. They entered and began to explore the place.
"Dude, this place is creepy." Changer said looking around the area.
"Tell me about it. Looks like something out of a horror film." Beast Boy added taking notice of half built time droids.
"Whoa!" Cyborg gasped, "Yo, guys, check this out." The gang went over to the Cyborg and looked at what he found, a large ring with a control panel next to it. Cyberwasp went up to the control panel.
"What is it?" Archie asked in wonder.
Cyberwasp plugged a few cables from his arm into the panel. He read same things on it. "It's a time-vortex." He answered with excitement.
"What's a time-vortex?" The two green shape shifters asked simultaneously.
"A time machine." Arella bluntly answered.
"That means with this-"Robin started.
"-We'll be able to get you guys back home." Firebird finished floating up to the ring.
"So how does it work?" Circuit asked.
"Still trying to figure that out." Cyberwasp answered. They waited for a few moments. Archie heard footsteps coming towards the entrance. "Someone's coming." She said
"Quick hide."
Everyone hid, whether it was behind boxes, inactive time-droids, or in the air. The doors opened and several of Timezone's robot lackeys entered caring some kind of detonator, and of course Timezone himself came in.
"That's a chronotron detonator." Robin said immediately recognizing the weapon.
"What's that?" Firebird asked.
"A dangerous bomb that, when activated can permanently stop time."
Firebird's eyes widened, but she kept quiet so they could listen in on their enemy's conversation.
"Since I failed to destroy the Titans in combat, it's time I took more…stealthy actions." The time-traveling villain said. "Re-wire the detonator," he ordered the time-droids, "set it so it only affects the island their tower's on. We'll freeze them in suspended animation while I continue my plan."
"Sorry not gonna happen." Timezone looked up in time to receive a fist in his face from the future Batman.
Timezone was knocked into a pile of boxes. The Titans came out of their hiding places.
"When did you get here?" Firebird asked.
"A lot earlier than you kids."
Firebird opened her mouth to say something, but before she could Timezone got out of the pile of boxes.
"Argh! A minor setback, nothing I can't handle." HE pressed a button on his gauntlet and several time-droids appeared. "Take care of them for me."
The time droids surrounded the group of ten. Firebird and Robin took out their bo-staffs. "Titans go!" They shouted and charged forward.
Firebird basked a time droid in the head then thrust the staff behind her into another droids chest. She then used it to pole-vault into the air, dropping the staff, and threw firebolts at several droids. She then landed, grabbed the staff and swung it under the droids feet. Some were tripped, but most of them were smart enough to jump in the air.
Robin made up for this by releasing his grappling hook, having it wrap around one of the droids legs. He pulled making it fall faster than the others and whacked it in the head with his staff. The head flew off hitting another droid in the chest. The droid exploded seconds later.
A laser was fired at Robin, but the boy wonder jumped out of the way in time. He threw a bird-a-rang at the droid. It and a bat-a-rang made contact with the droids chest. Robin landed beside Batman. "Thanks."
"Don't thank me yet." The teen bat said directing an elbow strike into a time droid that tried to sneak up behind him.
Another one tried to attack Batman from behind, but Firebird blasted it with a firebolt. "They're just distracting us, we need to go after Timezone!" She turned to Archie, "Can you guys handle everything?"
"No problem, leader girl. Oh heads up!" Archie fired an arrow at a time droid that was gonna attack Firebird. "Like I said, get going!"
"All right, let's go!" Firebird, Robin, and Batman ran after Timezone. Archie watched them go then returned to her fight.
"You, boys ready to rock?" She asked smirking. A dozen droids charged at her. Archie raised her hand in front of her and concentrated. The droids continued to charge forward.
"Hah!" Archie activated her earth based powers and an earth snake came out from the wall behind her. The 'snake' rammed into have a dozen time droids and hit the other side of the warehouse. Archie jumped on the giant pillar that she just created and ran across it firing arrow after arrow at them. One droid fired a laser at the earth structure causing it to crumble beneath her feet. She fell and rolled on the ground a bit.
"Ow…" She murmured placing her hand to her head. A time robot came forward firing its laser. Archie jumped backward to avoid getting hit, but got hit in the leg anyway. Circuit saw this and fired an electric current at the time droid. "You okay?" He asked helping her up.
"Yeah."
Time droids that had pendulum bo-staffs came after Arella.
"Azaraeth, Hezbarak, Mortix!" She used her powers to manipulate the boxes behind her. They went flying at the robots knocking most of them down. The ones that stayed continued to charge at the mystic Titan. She flew to the side revealing Changer and Beast Boy behind her.
Changer turned his hand into tiger claws and slashed the time droids chest. He then thrust his claws into another robot. Beast Boy turned into a triceratops taking at more droids. Cyborg and Cyberwasp got rid of the remaining ones with their sonic cannons.
"Come on; let's give Firebird a hand." Archie ordered and they made there way down the same path the two birds and a bat took.
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Firebird and Batman flew to the other side of the warehouse with Robin running not to far behind them. They arrived on time to see Timezone preparing the chronotron detonator. "If I can't set the thing at the tower, I'll set it for here." He said pressing a few buttons. A timer appeared counting down from five minutes.
"Stop right there!" Robin shouted.
"You're too late." Timezone said, his back turned. "I shall rule the past and the future and do what even Slade could not accomplish. Destroy the Teen Titans."
He turned around and fired a freeze ray at the three teenagers. They jumped out of the way to avoid the attack. Firebird started throwing firebolts which Timezone easily reflected by pressing a button on his gauntlet. The firebolts bounced off some kind of barrier and back at the half-tamaranean. The bolt made a direct hit sending her to the ground. Robin watched her fall than ran at Timezone.
The teen wonder whipped out his bo-staff and slammed it over Timezone's head…or would have if the time-traveling villain hadn't grabbed the bo-staff with his hands and thrown him across the room.
Batman sent a flying kick at Timezone, knocking back several feet. He then followed up with two more punches and an uppercut. Timezone stumbled back and began fiddling with something on his gauntlet.
When Batman tried landing another punch, Timezone activated his 'minute transport' teleporting behind the dark knight. He fired his freeze gun at the Batman, but he jumped out the way and threw a bat-a-rang at the gun only to have it shot out of the air. Timezone aimed his freeze gun at the dark knight, but Firebird tackled him before he could fire it.
The three heroes kept fighting not noticing that the chronotron detonator was counting down to one minute.
Firebird jumped off Timezone after knocking him into the wall and watched him get up.
"It's no good, he's just buying time." She said.
"Question is, why?" Robin wondered
45 seconds…
Batman quickly realized why, "The detonator. He's stalling us to make sure it goes off."
Batman and Firebird ran/flew over to the detonator while Robin continued to fight Timezone.
"Can you stop it?" Firebird asked.
"Doubt it. Hey Wayne, mind giving me a hand here?" Batman said over his comm. link.
'Chronotrons are difficult. It'll take more time than you have to deactivate it.' The old man said.
20 seconds…
Robin kicked Timezone in the chest then looked over, "Hurry!"
15 seconds…
Batman pressed a few dials on the detonator. "Okay now what?"
'Open the lock the power source is in and remove it.'
"How do I open the lock?"
'That, you'll have to figure out on your own."
"Great, thanks."
10 seconds…
Batman looked around the detonator, "No switch."
"No problem." Firebird slammed her fist into the red core thing and pulled out a long tube with a thin glowing blue line in it. The countdown immediately stopped.
"Hey, leader girl." The half-tamaranean turned around when she heard Archie's voice and saw the rest of the team join her. "We're not too late, are we?" The archer girl asked.
"Nope, just in time. By the way, what's this thing?" The leader held up the tube she ripped out.
"That core was specifically designed to power the chronotron detonator." Cyberwasp said then added, "Good thing it's in that tube, because that thing'll freeze anything it touches if it breaks."
Firebird looked at the power source in her hands then smirked, "I think I have an idea."
Meanwhile Robin had just about worn himself out fighting Timezone. He hit the wall and slumped to the ground, gasping for breath. Timezone walked up to him slowly.
"Say, goodbye." He aimed his freeze gun at Robin. Suddenly Arella's aura surrounded it and it was ripped from Timezone's grasp.
"Titans go!" Firebird yelled. On cue Cyborg and Cyberwasp fired their Sonic Cannons. Timezone raised his barrier to block the attacks. Circuit fired a blast of static electricity and Archie shot an arrow. The two attacks combined together and hit Timezone's gauntlet, completely frying it.
Without the gauntlet Timezone's barrier fell and the sonic cannon blasts, along with an attack by Arella, hit Timezone square in the chest. Changer and Beast Boy turned into tigers and clawed at Timezone's "Time Pak' damaging it, causing it to explode on his back.
Finally Firebird threw the power core. Timezone threw Changer off him and Beast Boy flew off by turning into a hawk. The core struck Timezone and it exploded on contact smoke coming up.
"Did it work?" Changer asked to no one. When the smoke cleared it revealed Timezone completely frozen!
"Looks like it did." Arella answered. They looked at their now frozen opponent they just defeated. Firebird then ran over to Robin, who was still on the ground.
"Robin, are you alright?" No response. "Robin! Dad say something!"
"Something." The teen-wonder said.
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Back near the entrance of the warehouse the Titans were fiddling with the Time ring. The only exceptions were Robin and Firebird, who were talking to Batman.
"All right," Firebird said, "Since we're the once that stopped Timezone it's only far that you take him to Gotham City jail."
Batman nodded and pressed something on his utility belt. In an instant the bat mobile appeared.
"You know," Terry started, "We make a pretty good team, you'd be a good side-kick."
"Thanks," Firebird said, "but I'm happy were I am, plus Gotham's pretty far away. I'd rather stay here with my friends and family." She said.
The dark knight shrugged and got in the Bat-mobile. In an instant he was gone.
After several seconds Robin spoke up. "Hey, Firebird, can I ask you something?"
"Sure, what is it?"
Robin paused trying to get the question worded properly in his head before it came out of his mouth. "Uh…why did you call me 'dad'?"
End Chapter 8
Timezone has been defeated, now all that's left is the epilogue, which I should get up pretty quickly. Oh yeah, some reviewers have asked me if Starfire and Raven will appear, yes they appear near the end of the epilogue.
I've also been asked how the Titans children can exsist if they were sent to the future before they had children. I tried to come up with an ansewer for this, but got a headache doing so.
Now I have a question for you, what did you guys think about the episode "Trust"? I liked it and Madam Rouge is now my second favorite villain. 4 stars.