Hello readers. I'm sorry the update took so long, but with school and all I've been a bit busy.

Disclaimer: I don't own any of the Teen Titans, Slade, or Jump City. The Elementals ('cept Terra) are mine, so no touchy!

Teen Titans: Return of the Elements

Chapter 2:

The Mistress of Metal

Raven smirked at the girl's hackneyed reply.

"You speak of nightmares," Raven said, "but you have no idea what nightmares really are." With that Raven's hands were covered in a black aura and the girl was surrounded by a sphere of darkness. Raven watched impassively as the girl fell to one knee within the sphere her palms placed against the ground.

"Look out," shouted Caelum, breaking her concentration. The sphere disintegrated to show the girl grinning at Raven. Raven turned to admonish Caelum for shouting, but when she did she came face to face with several sewage pipes that had been ripped from underground and now stood poised like snakes about to strike.

"Holy crap," came a shout from about fifty feet to Raven's left. She turned to see Beast Boy gaping at the huge pipes. Raven thought she heard a chuckle, but before she could give it anymore thought, the pipes began to fall. One by one they fell back to the ground. The Titans and Elementals scurrying to avoid being crushed. Large clouds of dust billowed from the points of impact.

"Remember Titans," cried a voice, "I am the Mistress of Metal, and I will be your demise!" As the dust began to clear neither the girl nor the robots remained. Not even the broken parts of the robots were left.

"Dude," said Beast Boy, "what was that?"

"I'm not sure B.B.," said Cyborg.

"I think I have an idea," said Ignis

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"So what's your idea," Robin asked when they arrived back at the Tower.

"Well, whoever that was called themselves the 'Mistress of Metal' so I think they have the power of metal like I have the power of fire," replied Ignis.

"But that's impossible," said Caelum. "That would mean that the girl was an Elemental, and we all know Doc only made five of us."

"How can you be so sure," asked Raven.

"When we got back to the lab, Doc showed us all of his work and research," explained Ventus.

"Then we're right back to where we started," said Beast Boy, "we have no idea what's going on."

"But I know someone who might," said Ventus. His comment was met with stares from everybody in the room.

"Who," asked Cyborg.

"Doc," replied Ventus simply.

"Yeah," said Caelum, his excitement showing, "I could fly back to the lab and ask him. I can check up on his new project as well."

"New project," said the Titans in unison.

"Can't say much 'cause it's a surprise," answered Caelum. And with that he sat back in his seat with his arms crossed over his chest.

"I see," said Robin.

"You should get going," suggested Ignis, "we'll wait here if that's alright."

"Hey, mi Tower es tu Tower," said Beast Boy with a chuckle. They walked down to the Tower entrance and with one final good-bye Caelum took off and headed back to the lab.

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Slade watched as Caelum headed off into the distance. A look of frustration passed over his face. Thankfully, his mask covered it, so he did not show his weakness to his newest creation. He turned to face the pale black haired girl.

"You failed to even harm one of them," he said coldly, "I thought I had trained you better."

"It wasn't fair," whined the girl, "it was eight against one!"

"That's why I gave you the robots you fool," Slade, shouted at her, "they should have kept at least three or four of them distracted."

"Those pieces of junk are completely useless, unless I use them for projectiles," said the girl moving her hand and causing several of the Slade-bots to fly across the room. Slade slapped her across the face.

"Control yourself," he told her sternly, "you forget, perhaps, that I am the one who gave you these powers."

"Well it isn't like you had the original idea in the first place," muttered the girl.

"I'll have no talk like that young lady," said Slade raising his hand again. The girl flinched away from him. "That's better," said Slade shaking his head, "you've got good reason to fear me." He lowered his hand. "You have made me very unhappy."

"How so," asked the girl.

"By deeming yourself the 'Mistress of Metal' you have almost certainly given the Titans a clue about yourself and how you came to be," answered Slade. When the girl gave in a puzzled look he continued. "They now know you're an Elemental. I cannot fool myself into thinking that Robin and the others would be stupid enough to not realize the connection between Aqua's disappearance and your appearance. They've already sent that stupid Sky Elemental to tell Doctor Udiment of your existence.

"My apologies master," said the girl.

"From now on, you will be known as Acero," said Slade.

"Acero?"

"Yes, I don't know Latin, but I did take Spanish in college. Acero is the Spanish word for Steel. I think it suits you quite well."

"Well what are we going to do now," asked Acero.

"We wait for Caelum to return and then we make our next move," responded Slade.

"I can hardly wait master," said Acero with a grin.

"Neither can I."

Hm...so what's going to happen? I personally have no idea yet! Sorry 'bout the shortness.That last bit with Slade was put there mainly make the chapter longer. It also give a couple clues about some stuff.

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