Batman's Greatest Fear
The tunnels in the meteor were dark, dark enough that even the most illuminate object would fade sooner or later. Although seeming dark Batman never took notice to the dark, he actually like the light more, but in order for him to fight crime and keep people safe he needed to use the cover of Darkness.
"I need to find were I am" He said to himself "Then find the Titans, but if I know Nightwing he has them standing waiting for me to fid them"
Batman continued to walk and found nothing. He was actually getting kind of worried, the Titans were like family to him, he was after all the one who put them together and watched after them. Superman put him in charge of watching over them, but he knew they were fine. Then he heard a voice.
"Ah, this is marvelous" It said Batman turned from side to side and saw nothing.
" Who's there?" He yelled. Then the walls glowed red and the voice spoke again.
"The others were able to beat my beings but you are a mystery, I just recently sensed you and already feel much less fear inside you that those other 7." It said calmly.
"I didn't ask why you found me, I asked who you were now are you going to tell me or do I have to find you!" Batman yelled. He was very frustrated. He had been walking around for hours with no light or anything and this voice was only pissing him off even more.
"I am an entity who feeds off fear, I found this rock and was bound to it, now lets see what I can feed of you" It said.
"If you can't find any fear I wouldn't be surprised, after years of living in Gothem I have learned to conceal my fear and never let it out." Batman said sort of cockily.
"You are correct, finding a fear in you is most difficult, but you are wrong about never letting it out. I have found your worst fear, and it's time you met it, Face to Face." The voice said. With that the walls glowed a little brighter then Batman sensed something behind him. He turned and saw the shadows on the ground collecting and forming into a dark figure. As he moved closer Batman's eyes widened as he saw the creature take a definite form. There in the dark hallway of the meteor Batman stared at his worse fear, the figure looked exactly like… him.
"Okay Titans, which way did each of use come out of." Nightwing asked his team. Each member pointed out the way they walked before they meet with their fellow team members. Electro, Starfire, and Reese pointed left. Raven and Changeling pointed right and Nightwing and Cyborg pointed to the back of the cavern.
"Well that was helpful, there are still two exits left" Raven said as she pointed forward. And indeed there were 2 exits left, which one was the right one was the Titans main question.
"Well lets do this the old fashion way" said Changeling. Everybody gave him a confused look as he picked which door they should go out of.
"An what way is that?" Reese asked.
Changeling smiled and said "Enee Meene Minee Mo catch a tig…"
"WHAT" Cyborg yelled. "That's your old fashion way!" As Cyborg stopped yelling he prepared to strangle Changeling but was interrupted.
"We have to find a way out soon or we'll never find Batman." Starfire said. She looked at Nightwing as he typed something on his communicator.
"This meteor may be full of caves and tunnels, but it's not very big, one of those leads to Batman and the way out, the other, I'm not sure." Nightwing announced.
"Well we have to pick one, I say left" Electro suggested
"No we have to go right" Changeling protested.
" Get the damn crust out of your eyes the way is always left." Cyborg said.
"Oh sure choose the opposite way that Changeling chose just because you got in an argument" Raven said with a little sarcasm
"That's not the reason, I just thing left is the right way to go" Cyborg yelled as he and Raven gave each other death glares. The Titans started yelling and bickering with one another. Then one voice popped out above all
"QUITE" Starfire yelled in frustration. And instantly out of her usual perky cheerful character she said "We are going right and if anybody disagrees I'm going to kick their ass" she said. She then turned and started walking toward the right exit, the Titans looked at each other kind of scared and amazed, and then followed her.
As the Titans got closer to the exit they heard a rock fall from the ceiling. It hit Electro on the head.
"Ow, what the…" before he could even finish his sentence a figure jumped from the ceiling and stood up. It was Slade.
"Titans I'm surprised you found each other" Slade said calmly. The Titans looked at him with hatred and confusion.
"Slade how did you come back, I shoved a fucking sword threw your stomach" Nightwing yelled.
"I told you, myself and my fellow fear creatures are not real beings, but the shadows in your mind come to life, you can't kill us, just immobilize us, and quite frankly once you do we become stronger." Slade said with a grin behind his dark mask. Nightwing took a step forward.
"I took care of you once, I'll do it again!" He yelled. Slade stared at him then laughed evilly.
"Well while you do that your friends can have some fun with my friends" Slade said holding his arms out wide. 3 creatures then dropped from the ceiling and behind Slade. Then the red illuminated walls showed the Titans what they were dealing with.
They saw that behind Slade was the Gibborim, The Tentacle Monster, and the huge Yurbion. The Titans looked in horror as 4 of their greatest fears teamed up to stop them from getting out of the cavern.
"That can't be good, I just took care of the Gibborim" Electro said.
"Ah, the Yurbion, but how Reese crushed him" Starfire screamed Raven and Changeling took at a look at the other creature and looked extremely surprised.
"What, Raven and I finished that dude off, I mean I took a giant bite out of him no way he can still be moving." Changeling yelled. Raven had a look of fear on her face but stood her ground.
"Now then Titans, if you want to get to my master and your friend, you must defeat all of us." Slade said. Also the voice added.
"And this time, if my minions die, they stay dead". Slade and the other creatures had a look of utter surprise in their eyes.
"What" Slade yelled
"I'm testing whether or not your good to me, if you can't beat them you don't deserve to guard me after all this." The voice said.
"And what happen to your other guards" Yelled Reese.
"They died over time, 1000 years actually. Soon though your fears will live on, long after you are gone." It said. "Now Attack" The voice yelled. The walls glowed brighter as the fears charged.
"Titans, GO" Nightwing shouted heroically. The Titans paired up 2 Titans vs. 1 fear and they attacked.
Batman watched as the other Batman watched him.
"So you're my greatest fear." Batman said. Watching his doppelganger he slowly moved forward.
"Yes, I am, since we are both the same person this will be interesting" the other Batman. The Real Batman got angry since his fear referred to them as the same person.
"You aren't me, and you never will be, there is only one Bruce Wayne, one Batman, and in this case only one of us is real. And I assure you, I will come out on top." The real Batman said angrily.
"We'll just see about that now won't we" the other Batman said cockily. Then he took another step forward and ran toward Batman at a great charge. (Now in this part you have to pay close attention or you will forget which Batman is which)
Batman braced for contact as the other Batman threw a round house kick into his block. Batman slid back but not far enough for after the other Batman attacked him he struck back with a punch to the ribs. This hurt the other Batman and he fell to the ground only to bounce back up and throw a bat-a-rang at the other Batman. He countered with his own bat-a-rang and threw it. The two collided and exploded in the middle. Batman then ran up to the other and one and attacked with a series of kicks and punches. The other Batman did the same. He first blocked the others punch and returned his own only to have it blacked and a kick smack him in the face. Then the other Batman ducked from his counterparts attack only to get up and be face to face with his adversaries fist. He was punched backwards and then attacked again by a series of ice disks. He dodged quickly and ran towards the wall. Running up it he threw 3 exploding bat-a-rangs. They exploded right next to the other Batman. As the smoke cleared, 2 bat-a-rangs and a freeze disk flew out. The other Batman's eyes widened as he saw the deadly weapons fly at him. He quickly dodged again and realized that the bat-a-rangs were heat seekers. The ice disk exploded where he was and froze the walls and floor. Batman ran quickly as the bat-a-rangs came ever closer slipping one the ice often. He came to a sliding stop and raised his arms. He then released the steel claws in his gloves and prepared to defend himself. The bat-a-rangs got close enough and with 3 quick swipes they flew behind him and fell into pieces before exploding.
The smoke then cleared to reveal Batman standing there his cape wrapped around him like Raven's cloak does. He looked up and saw the other Batman in the same position.
"Is that all you got" Said one Batman.
"Not even close, but since your so eager here I come" said the other Batman as he charged then through some punches.
They were quickly blocked and countered as one of the Batmans was pushed back. The other quickly attacked. He landed several punched and kicks on his counterpart. Then he jumped back as the other Batman recovered his fighting stance. Then he charged and attacked. He punched low and landed his fist in the other Batman's stomach. He quickly countered with a punch to the others spine. The lower Batman smashed into the ground and then stood on his hands and mule kicked the other Batman. Then the other Batman threw a electro disk but it failed because the other Batman lifted his arm and shot his grapple hook into the ceiling raising high into the air. High enough to evade the attack. Then he swung over and tried to kick the other Batman again but missed. Then the other Batman picked up his legs and swung his enemy in a circle, then he threw him into the wall still covered in ice. The previously thrown Batman got up and took out a small device, then activated it.
"Try to get away from this" He said throwing the device next to the other Batman. Then he hid under his cape and the device exploded with massive force right next to the other Batman.
The Titans were having a hard enough time fighting their new, more powerful fears. Electro and Reese were fighting the Gibborim, Starfire and Cyborg were fighting the Yurbion, Raven and Changeling were fighting the Tentacle monster, and Nightwing was fighting Slade.
"Take this" yelled Cyborg as he shot his sonic cannon at the Yurbion. It growled in fury as it was blasted with the cannon. Starfire was flying and blasting starbolts to try and distract it while Cyborg used different maneuvers to attack it.
Starfire yelled as green starbolts erupted from her hands and exploded on the Yurbion's back. The creature then turned around and grabbed Starfire with one of it's huge hands. Star struggled to get out as the Yurbion began to squeeze ignoring Cyborg's attacks.
"Starfire no" Yelled Cyborg. As Starfire screamed in pain Cyborg decided to take this up to a whole new level. He first shot his shoulder missiles. The missiles exploded on contact causing the Yurbion to loose it's grip on Starfire. Then Cyborg did something he thought he would never have to do. First he turned his right arm into his normal Sonic Cannon, then he turned his left arm into another Cannon. This cannon was longer and had a small gap going down the middle of it. (it looks a little like Samus' cannon from Metroid Prime only it's blue and has all the little things on it like Cyborg's Sonic Cannon). Cyborg aimed the cannon and it started to charge with red energy, then he fired it. The blast was red with a little orange in it, it also had yellow sonic rings unlike Cyborg's other arm which has blue. Cyborg shot his new cannon at the Yurbion and it screamed in pain.
Starfire watched from the air as her friend blasted a red beam at the creature she feared most, then he shot his sonic cannon at the same time. The Yurbion backed up as it screamed in pain. Cyborg then launched the last of his shoulder missles and they along with the two beams made the Yurbion fall backwards. Cyborg stopped blasting and fell on one knee to rest, firing those blasts at the same time had taken it out of him.
"Starfire now" he yelled. Starfire nodded and blasted her starbolts into the face of the Yurbion then as It tried to get up blasted one solid beam from her eyes. The beam blasted threw the chest of the creature, and killed it.
"Cyborg" Starfire yelled in concern. "Are you, alright" She asked He looked up at her and grinned.
"Yeh, I'm okay, you know I thought I would never have a chance to use my new bad ass cannon" Cyborg said happily. Starfire looked at him confused.
"what was that new weapon of yours" She asked.
"I call it my Atomic cannon, it uses the atoms in the air as a power source, along with my self as a power source." He said getting up using Starfire as a sort of crutch since he was still feeling weak. They watched as the others faced their fears.
Changeling was smacked back against a wall as Raven was being held in one of the Wicked Scary creature's tentacles. Changeling got back up to see that the creature was laughing at him.
"You put her down" he yelled. The creature just cackled even more. This got Changeling really pissed.
"Le me go" Raven said. "Azerath Metriom Zinthos" She chanted. The ground below the creature then erupted and cracked. The creature quickly let her go and used it's tentacles to grab a hold of some stalactites and lift itself off the crumbling ground. It roared in delight as Changeling turned in a mammoth and smashed it into a wall. The Creature got up and snarled at Changeling then quickly realized that it wanted Raven, not this green, worthless, nitwit. So it used it's tentacles and wrapped I them around the green mammoth. Then quickly lifted it up and threw it into the hole Raven had made earlier. Changeling turned into a hawk and tried to fly out but the hole closed, curtsey of the creature.
"No Changeling" Raven yelled. "You ass hole, you die!" Raven yelled her eyes now Red with anger. She used her powers to throw everything she could see at the creature, who took every once of it. Raven was getting tired, so instead of throwing something she blasted the creature with black energy. First it screeched in pain, then it smiled and threw a tentacle at Raven. She quickly returned to normal when she came to the realization she was being picked up by a large slimy tentacle.
"Let me go, or you'll be sorry" She threatened. The creature just laughed as it brought Raven closer to it's mouth. Then it took out it's long slimy tongue and stroked it across Raven's cheek in what the monster thought of a passionate lick. "Ugh" Raven said as the slimy tongue rubbed against her cheek several times before making it's way down the collar of her leotard. It licked her breast then wrapped around it and squeezed it. Raven was feeling completely disgusted by this point. The monster then put it's tongue back in its mouth when it heard a sound behind him. Changeling stood there fuming, he had watched the whole thing and he was about to explode.
"You ass hole, nobody, I repeat NO BODY does that to Raven… except me" He yelled. The creature just laughed and licked her again. She groaned in disgust as it did. By this point Changeling broke. "That's it" he yelled.
Changeling then turned into a ram and charged forward. He smashed into the Tentacle creature causing it to fall over releasing Raven.
"Raven!" He yelled happily. "Are you okay, what did he do to you" Changeling asked.
"Nothing, except, well you know" She said. "Thank god your okay" She said hugging him. Changeling was about to pull Raven into a kiss but then they were interrupted by the creature. It got up and roaring so loud everyone could hear it.
"We can continue this later, we have to take care of him first" Changeling said referring to the monster.
"Fine, but I get to kill him, I mean it was my body he was defying." Raven said with an evil smile.
" Okay then, lets get started" Changeling said changing into a gorilla. Raven took to the air and blasted several waves of dark energy at the Tentacle monster. As the blasts hit it Changeling roared and head butted the creature. It fell back but caught itself, then it turned to Changeling and charged forward. First it wrapped it's tentacles around Changeling's arms, legs, waist, and neck and it still had one more tentacle free. Changeling then reverted back to his normal self and screamed in pain as the creature started to pull on his limbs and squeeze his neck.
"Raven help" He yelled as the creature laughed that horrid laugh.
"Changeling No, Azerath Metriom Zinthos" Raven chanted. The ground then shook and two large rock hands exploded out of the ground. Raven concentrated her hardest and made the hands grab the creature. As they did the creature dropped Changeling on the ground and screamed in pain as all of it's bones were slowly crushed under the hands pressure. Changeling watched as his very dark girlfriend squeezed the final amount of life out of the creature and crushed it into a disfigured mass of arms and tentacles. Raven then released his mind from the hands and levitated back down to the ground.
"Raven, that was amazing, I had no idea you could do things like that!" Changeling exclaimed happily.
"Changeling, your okay right" Raven asked concerned. She hadn't even put down her hood yet.
"um, I guess, I mean it's not every day you…" he was cut off by Raven kissing him. She smiled slightly as she pulled away. "Well now I feel a lot better" he said happily.
"Good" She said smiling. Raven and Changeling looked over to see Reese and Electro fighting another monster. "Should we help them"
"Na, Electro and Reese can take care of that thing easily, we should probably get over to Star and Cy" Changeling said as he pointed to Starfire and Cyborg. He was wrong though, Electro and Reese could have really used the help.
"damn it, this thing is even more powerful than before" Electro said backing away from the Gibborim. Reese looked at him and saw he really did have fear in his eyes.
"I have a question, nobody really knows what a Gibborim really looks like, you told me so." She said
"Yeh, and" He said telling her to go on.
"Well if nobody knows what they look like then why is this one in so much detail, I mean it's like you've actually seen one" Reese finished. They both then dodged a blast of fire that came from the Gibborim.
"Well this particular Gibborim comes from a comic called Runaways I read a few weeks ago" Electro said charging his electricity. "And until I read that I didn't know what they looked like, but I was afraid of them" He finished.
Reese nodded and yelled "Look out" She pushed Electro out of the way as the Gibborim blasted a fire blast at them. "We'll talk later but for now lets go" She said charging. Electro agreed and took to the air.
The Gibborim watched as both Electro and Reese prepared for an attack. Electro blasted his electric blast and Reese hurled rocks and sand at the Gibborim. It backed away as it was bombarded the it inhaled and blasted a large flame blast. Electro watched in horror as the blast smashed him into the wall. It was getting way to hot so he blasted a large electric blast. The flame blast deflected and exploded on the wall.
"Nobody turns me into a human barbeque" Electro said blasting electricity at the six fingered monster. The Gibborim jumped in the air and dodged the attack then before Electro realized it the Gibborim was above him. It smashed him below it's feet and into the ground. The Gibborim smiled in success until it heard, "Get your smelly ass feet off me!" Electro yelled. Then a large electric blast came from under the Gibborim and blasted him into the air. Reese then threw a bolder at it and knocked the Gibborim a good distance away.
"Take that" Reese yelled as she ran over to Electro who was trying to get out of the crater the Gibborim had created. "Are you okay" She asked.
"Sure I am, the Gibborim just made me want to kill it even more" he said grinning. Reese smiled and helped him up and then they started their second attack on the six fingered creature. Electro Started off by blasting 2 bolts of electric power from his eyes. They struck the Gibborim with great force as it screeched in pain, then it blasted a huge flame from it's hands. Electro braced for impact but Reese got in the way. Her eyes glowed blue and a blue outline formed around the flame blast. Then at the last second Reese made the blast fire upward and back at the Gibborim. Electro added to the attack and blasted one of the most powerful electric blasts he had done in a while, It didn't top the one he used to kill the first Gibborim though. The blast of fire and electricity consumed the Gibborim and killed it in an instant, but not before it shot another blast and hit Reese. Reese was thrown back against a wall in extreme pain. The Gibborim had died and Electro focus all his attention on Reese.
"Reese are you okay" Electro asked. He ran over to her and kneeled beside her. She didn't look to good. Her eyes were closed. "Reese, Reese, come on wake up, you can't die on me" He said worried.
"Of coarse I won't, I'm to stubborn to die now" Reese said as she opened her eyes. What happen next took her by complete surprise, Electro hugged her in and embrace that made her melt on the inside. She blushed fiery red.
"Thank god, Reese we have to help Nightwing" Electro said after he let her go, he was blushing also. "Lets go" He said getting up. She nodded and got up as well.
Nightwing was having enough trouble with Slade, he had become more powerful than ever and was kicking Nightwing's ass.
"Is that all you got" Slade taunted (I don't feel like talking about Nightwing's fight cause I want to get this chapter over with so just understand Nightwing is pretty much getting his ass whooped) Slade walked closer to the almost collapsed Nightwing.
"Stay away" Nightwing yelled. Slade didn't stop walking.
"No, I will kill you and you can't do a thing about it." Slade said.
"No, but my friends can" Nightwing yelled. After uttering these words a starbolt came from behind Slade and exploded on his back.
"What, but the creatures" Slade said as he stared into the faces of the other Titans.
"Taken care of, and your next" Cyborg said. The other smiled as they awaited Nightwing's command. Nightwing himself used a little of his strength to jump over Slade and land in front of his team.
"Titans, Attack" He yelled and the Titans complied. Slade tried to get away but couldn't, he was doomed. Starfire blasted her starbolts and hit Slade directly. Cyborg used his sonic cannon and pushed Slade back, then Electro electrocuted Slade. Reese threw several rocks at him and Changeling turned into a Stegosaurus and smashed him into the floor. Raven blasted him with her black energy and finally Nightwing kicked him in the face and smashed Slade against the wall. "Titans finish him off" Nightwing yelled. The Titans then combined their attacks. Starfire blasted a solid Starbolt beam, Cyborg blasted his Atomic Cannon, Electro blasted an electric blast, Raven attacked with a black beam, Reese threw a bolder, Changeling threw a rock, and finally Nightwing threw exploding disks. All the attacks mixed and hit Slade with a very, very, explosive result. The blast was so big it knocked the Titans on their backs. When they got up Slade was no more, he was hardly even there, Slade had been almost completely ripped apart.
"Boo Ya" Cyborg yelled as the other Titans congratulated themselves.
"Titans lets go, we have to find Batman" Nightwing said as all the Titans followed him into the tunnel they had been fighting to get into. All 7 of them ran into it not knowing what to expect.
As the smoke cleared the Batman who had thrown the exploding ball got up from under his cape. He smiled in success at having beaten his foe. The smile quickly turned into a frown, as he saw a dark figure standing in the smoke. It was the other Batman.
"Thought you could get rid of me that easily" He said to his counterpart.
"No, I just thought it would slow you down." The other said angrily. He was about to charge to when he heard footsteps.
"Titans this way" said a voice. Both Batmans looked towards one of the tunnels and saw 7 people run out, the Titans.
"Whoa, what the hell" Cyborg said
"Watch your language" Both Batmans yelled.
"Okay what's going on here" Electro yelled. He other looked about as confused.
" He's an imposter, my greatest fear" Said one Batman pointing to the other.
"What you're actually going to believe that, he's the imposter, listen to me" The other said. Both Batmans gave each other death glares.
"Well which ones which" asked Raven. The other Titans shrugged.
"Don't know, but if we don't pick the right one, we might as well jump into space because the evil Batman could kill all of us." Nightwing said worried. The Titans looked at each other then the Batmans. Which one was the real one, the decision could very well be the last they ever made, and if they chose wrong who knows what would happen.