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Chapter 6: Striking Again

The Teen Titans arrived to a scene quite similar to the last time. People were running away, some sporting wounds, and a strange creature was attacking anything that moved. The store was much busier than the electronics store and throngs of people were still pushing to get outside.

The masked man stood calmly in the middle of the pandemonium, watching as everyone panicked.

"Testing out your newest monster?" Robin's voice drifted over the screamingcivilians.

"It's not a monster… it's a masterpiece. I call him, Fluffy." Replied the man, smirking as the Titans prepared to attack him. Before any of them could move towards him, however, the new creature jumped towards them.

'Fluffy' was just as strangely horrifying as the last one. It had the body of one of the mountain lions that were common on the outskirts of Jump City, but bat-like wings sprouted from its shoulders. Unsheathing its deadly claws and unfurling its wings as far as they went.

Robin ran towards Fluffy, bo-staff drawn. The large feline lifted itself on its hind legs, using its wings for balance. As Robin's staff swung at its head, it caught the metal bar with its sharp teeth. Moving its head back and forth, the creature ripped the staff from Robin's hands, throwing Robin across the room at the same time. Using her powers, Raven caught him before he crashed into the wall.

Starfire immediately threw starbolts at Fluffy. The brightness seemed to confuse it, sending the cat spinning into a large shelf containing big bags of animal food.

It stood up quickly and turned back towards Starfire. Realizing that the light had had a negative effect on the creature, Starfire threw more green bolts at it. This time Fluffy closed his eyes, before he could be blinded by the light, and flew into the air. Starfire's attack missed the now flying creature and Fluffy let out a piercing screech.

Taking advantage of Fluffy's closed eyes, Cyborg aimed his sonic cannon at it. It let out another screech and moved out of the way, just missing the blast. Using tendrils of her power, Raven picked up a board that had fallen off the food shelf and threw it towards Fluffy. Fluffy cried again and moved slightly, causing the board fly harmlessly passed.

"How does it know where everything is when it's eyes are closed?" complained Robin as the feline dodged several of his freeze disks. The monster let out another loud call. Beast Boy's ears perked up with sudden realization.

"Echolocation!" he exclaimed. "He's using echolocation! Like a bat!"

"So is it a cat or a bat?" asked Cyborg, firing several more sonic cannons. His attack hit the cat/bat and it fell to the ground.

"Who cares?" replied Raven, using her powers to pick up a thick leather leash and wrapping it tightly around Fluffy.

Fluffy easily snapped the restraints and ran towards Raven. Robin stopped its attack by kicking it in its gut. Fluffy was tossed back, landing on its wings. It let out a high-pitched cry of pain. As it struggled to roll itself off its wings, Beast Boy charged towards it as a green ram. Beast Boy's horns knocked the wind out of the creature, causing it to slump forwards.

As it tried to regain its breath, Beast Boy took advantage of its slumped posture by turning into a raptor and biting on its left wing.

Crying out in pain and furry, Fluffy twisted its body and used one of its powerful back legs and its tail to throw Beast Boy away.

Robin ran towards Fluffy, re-armed with his bo-staff and swung, this time hitting Fluffy on the head before it could react. Robin swung his staff rapidly, hitting the creature in the neck, shoulders, and the base of its wings.

As Robin raised his bo-staff to hit its head again, Fluffy used its tail to pull the staff out of Robin's hands and threw it to the other side of the room. Undeterred, Robin continued his attack with punches and kicks. Fluffy howled in pain and pushed Robin away with terrifying momentum by using its wings and powerful limbs. Robin flew onto the wall behind the counter, and immediately passed out from a small animal tranquilizer that had been put on display behind the counter.

Cyborg ran towards Fluffy with his fist in the air, ready to left-hook the cat-like monster. Before he could throw his punch, however, Fluffy pounced on the hybrid. He landed flat on his back with Fluffy sitting on top of him, claws ready to scratch. Using his legs, Cyborg tossed the feline off of him. He stood up and turned to see that Fluffy had landed on all fours and was running towards him. He powered up his sonic cannon and aimed but before he could shoot, the creature used one of its powerful claws to throw Cyborg headfirst into several shelves. His cannon went off as he flew through the air towards Starfire, who had been flying to his aid. Cyborg was rendered unconscious and his attack hit Starfire, who fell to the ground.

Starfire flew up and struggled fly out of the way as the cat ran towards her, claws ready. Beast Boy and Raven moved to help her before the feline could attack, but didn't do anything in time. Fluffy pounced at her in midair and Starfire was sent crashing into the display case behind the counter and her skin was punctured by one of the larger tranquilizers, causing her to pass out next to Robin.

Fluffy turned around to face Beast Boy and Raven whom were both preparing to fight. Raven picked up half of on of the shelves Cyborg had crashed into and threw it towards the creature. Fluffy easily jumped over it and flew towards Raven. Raven blocked its attack with a shield of dark energy and tried to push Fluffy away.

As Fluffy swiped in vain at the force field, Beast Boy changed into a pterodactyl and tackled it.

Fluffy turned and faced Beast Boy who continued to continued to tackle it, slowly moving it to the ground. Once it was on all fours, Beast Boy turned onto an alligator and chomped down on its right wing. He moved his body back and forth, pulling at the leathery wing. Fluffy screeched and clamped its jaw around Beast Boy's tail. The changeling's mouth opened in surprise and the feline pulled its wings away from Beast Boy and scratched its claws down his back. Growling in anger and pain, the alligator changed into a turtle. Realizing that its scratches were no longer having any affect, Fluffy flipped turtle Beast Boy onto his back and slid him across the floor like a hockey puck. Unable to stop himself he fell into a metal cage that was quickly closed and locked.

The masked man looked down at Beast Boy and smirked. He looked up in surprise when a large creature, surrounded by a black bubble flew into one of the cages around Beast Boy's.

"Thanks for the idea." Said Raven, her eyes white and her hands glowing with energy. Using her powers she wrapped the man up with more of the leather leashes. He made no move to escape.

"Hmm…" he said mockingly "It's almost as if capturing the green one gave you enough motivation to take down my precious Fluffy."

"You have bad taste in pets." Said Raven, deliberately ignoring his comment.

"I'm quite serious." Continued the man calmly. "I know you could have done this earlier."

"The idea never crossed my mind." The empath growled. He gave her another of his infuriating smirks.

"Excuses, excuses." He chided. "I'm sure you could have figured it out earlier, but it's almost as if seeing your green friend in a cage made you… angry."

Raven growled angrily. The man continued.

"You didn't react when Robin and Starfire were hit with tranquilizers, or when Cyborg passed out."

"I didn't know about the cages." She growled.

"Well now you're just lying. You can't have missed them; the shelf you picked up was lying right in front of them."

"I was concentra-" she began, but he cut her off.

"You know, I'm starting to wonder what would happen if something happened to the little shape-shifter."

Before Raven could stop him, the villain kicked the cage. The nearly unconscious boy groaned in pain as he flopped around his large metal cage.

"Stop it." Raven whispered menacingly. The man kicked again.

"Stop it." She repeated a bit louder. He kicked even harder. Beast Boy gasped as his bruised body hit the sides of the cage.

"I said STOP IT!" Raven barked. She sent a wave of her power towards the man, binding his legs tighter and sending him flying into a wall. He looked up and smiled weakly.

"Such power. But you have more, don't you, Raven?" She didn't answer. "Yes, you do, and you know how much destruction it could cause if it got out of control…" he trailed off.

"What is the point of this?" she growled.

"Nothing."

He sat in silence for a moment as she turned her back and picked up the store phone. He stayed silent as she called the police and asked them to pick him up. When she turned around he was gone. Spinning around she desperately searched the store but the was no sign of him.

"Clean up on isle two." His voice floated over the trashed store. His voice came from all sides and she spun around, trying to find the source of his voice.

"Where are you?" she called out. Her eyes searched the mostly empty building.

"Don't bother looking, I'm not in the store." He said smugly.

"How did you get away?" she called out angrily.

"I suppose there's no harm in sharing my little escape secret. I used one of my creations."

"What?" she growled.

"My first 'baby'. I called her Sophia. She's a cross between a mouse and a crab. Fits easily in my pocket and she can cut through leather and metal bindings like butter."

"What are you planning on doing? What are your intentions?"

"Tut, tut. Raven, dear, you're beginning to get a bit nosy. Besides, I can't tell you all my plans. Where's the fun in that?" he chided.

Raven growled on moved towards the corner that she had left him bound in when she called the police. Sitting on ground was a walky-talky with his voice drifting through it.

"Now I really can't talk. I'll talk to you later." And with that the transmission ended.

"So what do we do now?" asked Cyborg. Raven jumped at his voice, not realizing he had woken up.

"I don't know." She answered truthfully.

"Uhh… anyone planning on getting me out of this cage?" Beast Boy whined. "I have a cramp in my leg."

Cyborg chuckled and went over to his cage to release the green boy. Beast Boy flopped out of the cage and stretched his limbs.

A groan came from the corner where Robin and Starfire were lying. Starfire lifted her heavy head and looked at the others.

"Were we victorious?" she asked, looking at them questioningly.

Before any of them could respond, Robin jolted up.

"Oooh… head rush." He moaned, leaning his head gingerly against the wall.

Beast Boy snickered a bit and Starfire looked at Robin in concern.

"I feel like I've been hit by a bus." He mumbled, looking into her green orbs.

"Well, that can happen when humans get a dose of animal tranquilizers." Said Raven sarcastically. She walked over and picked up the needle that had fallen beside him. "'For small and weak rodents'." She read the label.

Beast Boy let out a snort of the laughter he was trying to repress. Raven then picked up the tranquilizer next to Starfire.

"'For large and powerful mammals'." She read. Beast Boy and Cyborg burst out laughing. Robin blushed.

"Yeah, well… she's an alien, her anatomy is different!" he huffed indignantly.

"You just keep telling yourself that." Snickered Cyborg.

Robin was about to reply, but Starfire interrupted their teasing.

"You have still not answered my question." She reminded them "Were we victorious?"

She and Robin looked at their friends expectantly.

Beast Boy and Cyborg abruptly stopped laughing and Raven looked away. Their silence was answer enough. Robin sighed impatiently. He blamed himself, of course. That's just the way he was. In his eyes, if he hadn't let himself pass out from the animal tranquilizers, he might have been able to help them.

Starfire understood what he was thinking and put a comforting hand on his shoulder.

"It was no one's fault." She whispered.

Raven pulled her hood even further down on her head and looked at the ground. She hadn't thought so either, until Starfire had said so. Now she was feeling a bit guilty.

Robin nodded and stood up shakily. "I suppose we should call the police and the store manager."

"Raven already called the cops, I'll just go and call the manager." Said Cyborg, walking towards the phone. Robin nodded his head with approval and turned to the rest of the team.

"Someone needs to tell me exactly what happened." He said sternly.

Raven looked up a bit and told him what had happened, leaving out his taunting. By the time she was done, the police and the manager had arrived.

As the police scanned the area for any hurt people or clues, the Titans talked to the manager.

He was a short and round man. He wore a blue shirt and brown trousers and had a large pin that said, 'Lenny Rounder, Manager.' in bold letters.

"Mr.Rounder, looking around can you see anything important missing?" Robin asked the twitchy man. He gazed across the store and his eyes landed on an empty wall with pegs on it. He walked over and searched the floor around it.

"The collars are missing." He replied. His voice was high and whiny.

"Collars?" Robin repeated dumbly.

"Yes, collars… electric ones. The zoo buys them from us to keep animals under control during feeding and things like that…" he voice trailed off

"Please, around how many of these collars were taken?" asked Starfire.

"Well…" Lenny replied nervously "There were about ten of the milder ones on display, and a large one that gives off more volts than the smaller ones…"

"OK, and you don't see anything else missing?" Robin asked.

Rounder's gaze swept over the store one last time. Finally he shook his head.

"Right. We'll call you later then, to work out how we're going to pay the damage." Said Robin.

Cyborg picked up the cage containing Fluffy and the Titans turned to leave and went home silently.

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