A Moment too Late
Disclaimer: I do not own the Teen Titans
A/N: I'm so sorry that I haven't updated in a while! I've been pretty busy with school and stuff. Well anyways hope you enjoy this chapter!
Chapter 3: Love hurts, a lot
Robin reluctantly followed Starfire to the garage. "Alright, who is it?" he asked jumping on his motorcycle. He jammed his helmet on his head and took off.
"It's well…" he heard Cyborg's hesitant voice in his ear.
"Cyborg who is it?" Robin asked rather roughly.
"It's – Cinderblock" Raven interrupted.
"Well that's not too bad"
"That's not all, turn left Cyborg, there's also Dr.Light, Control Freak, Slade and Red X." Raven finished.
'Perfect' Robin thought, 'Slade and Red X together.'
The team stopped in front of an abandon warehouse. Starfire landed gracefully on the ground next to Robin, who had already taken off his helmet. Cyborg, Raven, and Beastboy stepped out of the car and looked around like the other two. There was nothing there. Nothing was broken, no were doors forced opened, not even a speck of dust out of place. Above, a horrible screeching sound echoed loudly. Robin guessed that it was metal scratching metal. "Well… that's not suspicious." Raven commented.
Robin turned to face his knowing that he would be met with faces eager for his plan. The thing was he didn't have one. "Robin?" an alien asked almost panicking "What will we do?"
"Alright" his face was set with determination. "Everyone, work together." They just stared at him with a readable expression. Every face had a look a clear disbelief.
"We've kinda figured that much out by ourselves. Please do NOT tell me that that was your brilliant plan." the dark bird stated plainly.
"Well… yes." he told the team truthfully. If Raven possessed Star's eyebeams, Robin would be a burnt bird. Cyborg, sensing the tension between the two at the moment, interpreted.
"Sorry to interrupt your friendly death argument but we've got a little problem on the roof."
Now everyone turned their looks of disbelief to Cyborg.
"You have a plan, yes?" Starfire asked rather eager.
"Um… yeah! Okay guys we each take up the criminal that deals with the same kinda things that we do. So I'll battle old light freak, BB you'll take Control dude, Raven you'll be dueling with bricks for brains," the two nodded in agreement "Star you'll take on treasure marker and Robin you'll take on your obsession." Everyone was nodding now though Robin looked like he was going to kill someone. The tin man hoped he would take his anger out in the unfolding battle.
"Got it?" Robin continued without waiting for an answer "Titans go!"
Beastboy lifted Cyborg up towards the top of the warehouse. Raven simply levitated along behind the two so that left Star to fly Robin up. When Robin reached the roof, the battle was already underway. Beastboy was fighting with Control Freak, Raven was battling with Cinderblock, and Cyborg was taking it on Dr. Light. Red X and Slade were attempting to brake open a vent. Robin went off and locked himself in mortal combat. Star sighed and began her fight with Red X.
Starfire was completely unaware of how everyone else was doing. She focused all of her attention on the man in front of her.
"Hey cutie, did you miss me?" Red X teased.
Starfire's eyes lit up neon green and she prepared to launch herself at the man not but 2 yards away.
"I'll take that as a no then"
Star let out a scream in pure furry "You galfreag!" Her hands produced green blots of energy and she shot them at X. Red X did three back flips and dodged every starbolt that she flung at him. He landed behind a box of crates and hit his belt. He quickly faded off of the roof. Star only got angrirer when she saw that she had missed her target. (She didn't know that he had disappeared yet.) She produced one enormous ball of energy and hurled it at the crates. The wood caught fire and gave the area an eerie green glow.
Star gave the pile of soldering look of satisfaction. Her hands lost their jade disks and her large eyes turned back to normal. She placed her hands on her hips and thought 'Good. He could not possibly get out of that, Robin will be very thrilled!' Suddenly she was hit with an incredible force and was knocked to the ground. Pain shot through her fragile frame. X stepped of her with a still smoking silver ray gun.
"You like it? Just stole it from down stairs. Glad to know it works." He patted the ray gun, which now hung from his side. Star winced as she tried to move. Everything hurt. It hurt to move, to lift her head and even breathe.
"The Enteral58 is a very dangerous weapon in the hands of those who don't know how to use it." X continued "So don't worry, I know how to use it. Oh yeah, once your hit with it, the light particles form tiny nano bugs that seep through your skin and start to tear you apart from the inside out. It's a long and painful process really. You'll pass out soon from your body working hard to fight it off. Though it only gets stronger if you fight back." He laughed mechanically and walked away.
Star laid there on her stomach, eyes brimming with tears. Even though it caused her a ton of pain she lifted her head to see how the love of her life was faring. 'After all' she thought 'this might be the last thing I will ever see.' A tear made its way down her sun kissed skin and she started to mentally beat herself up. 'You mustn't thing such things. You will live and one day Robin will be yours.' She watched the battle ahead of her and noticed that Robin wasn't doing so hot either.
Robin was kneeling in front of Slade panting. In his right hand he held his bow staff and his left hand was clutching his right side. The bow staff was shorter and the ends were smoking. Slade had been throwing explosive disks and Robin used his bow staff to block the attacks. For what seemed like years in Stars eyes, Robin finally rose and stared to circle Slade. Out of the corner of her eye she saw something move.
Red X. He was waiting for the opportune moment to strike. X watched as Robin stood and began to circle Slade. He did some quick calculations and began to run forward. The X's on his gloves formed into X blades and he charged even faster.
Star let out a gasp of surprise. X was running towards an unsuspecting Robin. Star guessed that the odds were in her favor seeing as she was closer, Starfire stood, ignoring the searing pain that raced over her body. She ran at X's target, Robin.
He stopped circling Slade across from where he was standing before. His back was now straight ahead from X. Only two more feet and Robin was going to be flying towards Heaven.
Starfire got to Robin and the world was put in slow motion. She pushed Robin out of the way just as X got there. But just because she was in Robin's place didn't mean that the two villains were going to hold back. While she was still pushing bird boy out of the way, Red X whipped the two spinning blade across her exposed abdomen. Right after that Slade's fist collided with her head, causing her to lose consciousness just before she met the ground.
A/N: okay well another chappie is done! Yay me! So was it okay? I'm not at all good at battle scenes so please forgive me! If you're wondering why Slade never attacked Robin or Robin Slade its cuz Slade was talking to Robin about becoming his apprentice so Robin was going to attack until Star pushed him out of the way. Oh, Red X didn't use his belt to go in the building before cuz Slade said that wasn't necessary k? I gotta make it work with the story…. anyway hoped you enjoyed it if so please review