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Sorry, I haven't updated in a while. I've been busy with school starting and everything. I'm pretty sure the updates are going to get a little slower, but it's not like I updated regularly before anyway. Thanks to everyone who's reviewed so far!
Chapter 13: Discoveries
The being stood up and the Titans' eyes widened as they saw that the being was no longer a combination of their friends. It was now a terrifying monster, made from their combined personal demons.
Lightning flashed from a small window near the roof, as if to add to the frightening sight.
The Frightful Combiner laughed maniacally at the birth of his monster.
Before the monster could do anything, the Combiner sprung forward, still laughing. He quickly snapped something around the monster's neck. It was an electric collar.
"Now, come! We will start our reign at once!" commanded the Combiner.
The monster paid no heed to the Combiner and instead glared menacingly around the room.
"I said, COME!" Frank yelled, pressing a button on a small remote in his hand. The monster jumped as a small electric shock ran through its body. It quickly did what the Combiner told it to do and he jumped on its large and furry back.
"Not a chance! Titans, GO!" exclaimed Robin. The three Titans ran forwards to attack.
"Fluffy, get rid of them," the Combiner said calmly.
The cat immediately pounced on Starfire, who was closest. The young Tameranian's eyes began to glow neon green and beams of light shot from her eyes, throwing Fluffy a couple feet away. Fluffy turned to continue its attack on Starfire.
Seeing this, Robin and Cyborg turned to help Starfire.
"Go!" she called, dodging a clawed paw "I can handle this. You must stop the Frightful Combiner!"
Cyborg and Robin turned back to face the Combiner and his monster. Reluctantly, the Frightful Combiner slid off the back of his monster.
Robin ran forwards, brandishing his bo-staff. The metal stick was about to hit the monster squarely on the nose, when suddenly it stopped. Confused, Robin looked at the end of his staff to see that the end closest to the monster was encased in black. Before he could react, Robin felt the staff shift in his hands and hit him in the nose, instead of the intended target. The pain in his nose caused his eyes to water and he didn't notice when a thick tendril of energy wrapped itself around his ankles before pulling him off his feet and tossing him away.
Cyborg quickly jumped in. While the monster was watching Robin fly away, Cyborg shot his sonic cannon. The beam of blue light almost hit its target, but the monster turned. Right before the attack could hit it, the monster disappeared. Cyborg's eyes widened and he glanced around in confusion. Slowly his eyes lowered to the ground in front of him. There was a small black-ish colored mouse looking up at him with four red eyes. Cyborg lifted his heavy boot and tried stepping on the rodent, but before his foot could come in contact with the monster-in-disguise, the mouse surrounded itself in a black force field.
Cyborg jumped back and the force field disappeared. Shifting back into its previous form, the monster lashed out with its claws. Before it could strike, Robin jumped onto its back. He forced the monster away from Cyborg by using his bo-staff to put the monster in a chokehold.
As the monster tried to free its airway by pulling the staff away from Robin, Cyborg shot a sonic cannon at its stomach. The attack didn't hurt the monster, but it did surprise it so much, that it bent forwards fast enough to swing Robin over its head, so that the Boy Wonder was now hanging onto his bo-staff like a trapeze artist. The monster held the staff in its clawed hands for a second, before tossing Robin into Cyborg. Cyborg caught the lighter boy easily and they both jumped onto the monster.
Their combined weight caused the monster to stumble a bit. They both threw furious punches at the monster. Just when they thought they were finally winning, They flew backwards, with a force strong enough to make them fly across the room to where Starfire and Fluffy were still fighting. The monster had forced them off with its powers.
Starfire and Fluffy had been wrestling, with Fluffy on top, when Robin and Cyborg flew towards them. Cyborg flew into Fluffy with enough force that the metal man and the hellcat continued to fly into the small window near the roof. The glass shattered and they both fell onto the ground. Luckily, all the glass had hit Fluffy, who was closest to the window.
Robin had fell onto Starfire.
They both turned to check on Cyborg and watched as he picked himself up from the glass, mostly unharmed.
"He's gone!" cried Alice, who had been hiding under a nearby table. "He got away!"
The Titans looked to where the monster had been standing just a moment ago and saw that it was gone. A hole in the roof showed how the Combiner and his monster had escaped. They ran towards the hole. They could see the upper level of the warehouse, the hole continued through the other ceiling. No one could see any sign of either the monster or the man who had made the monster.
Robin swore angrily and Cyborg clenched his fists tightly. Starfire just stared, paralyzed, at the holes. Alice stepped forwards, shaking. She wasn't used to all this action.
"That monster was practically invincible. It didn't seem to feel any of our attacks," said Cyborg, amazed and horrified at the same time.
"It's not invincible. It's just Beast Boy and Raven," replied Robin.
"That can not be our friends," said Starfire quietly. Robin turned to her, sadly shaking his head.
"It was them Starfire. We watched as they were made. We saw them combined!" Robin was now shouting at the disbelieving alien, even though he wasn't angry. He was just trying to convince himself that what he was saying was true.
"Just because that monster has our bodies and powers, doesn't mean that it's us," replied a familiarly monotone voice.
Everyone spun around quickly, eyes wide. Standing in between the metal tables, were Raven and Beast Boy.
"Friends!" cried Starfire, rushing towards them. Instead of feeling her body crash into Raven's (who had been slightly closer), Starfire felt her body continue moving until she hit the hard, concrete floor. She turned around and gasped when she saw that she had fallen right through Raven. A shiver ran up the alien's leg and she looked down to see that Raven was standing right in the middle of her legs.
Everyone watched, bug-eyed. This was getting a bit strange. Alice suddenly ran towards the office door that stood beside the machine.
"Will someone PLEASE explain what is going on here?" exclaimed Cyborg, waving his hands in the air.
"Beast Boy and I are here, but out bodies are not," replied Raven, as if it was the most natural thing in the world.
Cyborg nodded thoughtfully.
"Yeah, gonna need a little more than that," he replied.
"The Combiner's machine merged our bodies and powers together, but when I felt our bodies combing, I removed myself from my body-"
"How can you remove yourself from your body? Are you a ghost?" asked Beast Boy.
"No Beast Boy, I am not a ghost," Raven replied.
"So, then how come you can remove yourself from your body?"
I just can," she replied, rolling her eyes. "And if you haven't noticed, I pulled you put of your body too."
"Oh yeah," said Beast Boy sheepishly.
"We can return to our bodies at any time," added Raven.
"Good. We'll need to find some way to use this to our advantage," said Robin authoritatively.
"ARRG!"
Everyone turned to the open office door. Alice was sitting on the ground, surrounded by papers.
"What's up?" asked Cyborg, walking over to the door.
"Look at Fluffy," replied Alice. Everyone turned and saw that Fluffy had changed back into two animals, a small tabby cat and a fruit bat.
"Yeah, so?" questioned Beast Boy.
"So, I'm trying to figure out how they separated. I knew that there was a weakness in their genetic structure that would make them revert back to normal… but I just can't figure it out!" Alice slammed the file she been looking through onto the ground.
Robin looked back at the two small animals, surrounded by glass. Suddenly he was smiled triumphantly.
"I know how what their weakness is!" he told them excitedly. Everyone turned to look at him expectantly. "The Beast threw the first monster, Charlie, out of a window. The glass shattered and the creature changed back. Then when Cleopatra, the snake, trapped Starfire, the shards of glass from the lights fell onto them. And now, after Cyborg and Fluffy flew into the window, Fluffy's turned back into two animals as well!"
Everyone nodded excitedly in understanding. Everyone except Beast Boy, who still looked a bit confused.
"What? The only thing I figured out from all of that was that we broke a lot of glass this week," everyone looked at Beast Boy patiently as they waited for him to figure it out. His eyes widened in surprise.
"Oh! I get it! The broken glass made them change back!" he smiled proudly at 'his' discovery.
"Nothing gets past you," said Raven sarcastically. Beast Boy glared at her and she looked back at him mockingly.
"Now is not the time," Robin interrupted the fight that was sure to commence. "Right now, we need to figure out how we're going to use this information to defeat the Combiner. This is what we need to do…"
There it is! Sorry, it's a bit of a cliffy. Actually, I was concidering ending this chapter when Beast Boy and Raven came back, but I'm not that mean... and it was too short. Lol.
I know the whole glass explination really doesn't make much sense, but when you think about, not much of my story does... so... yeah. Please review :D