Chapter 9. Fwee I'm on a roll!
The rest of the titans minus Aqualad and Aidan were sitting together on the u-shaped couch that was the center piece of their high-tech living room. Nobody was talking, they all just sat, worried about their two missing teammates. After searching the entire tower several times, they had given up hope that they were still in the tower.
Robin sat with his arms crossed next to Raven, who sat with her legs crossed, trying desperately to meditate. Her face was scrunched up and contorted in concentration. She sighed loudly and unwrapped her legs. She mimicked Robin and sat with her arms crossed.
A loud explosion came from downtown, and several of the titans jumped in surprise.
"Aidan!" Raven exclaimed. The team members' faces developed hopeful looks as they piled into the t-car or took off into the air.
They had reached their destination, and Raven's prediction was right; Aidan was there. The tiny red-head stood solemnly, looking at the ground, surrounded by flames.
"Aidan! What are you doing?" Robin yelled. Aidan slowly lifted her head up; her eyes glowed red. Terra gulped; she recognized the expression on Aidan's face. It was the same expression that Terra wore when Slade had gained complete control over her.
"Run," Aidan said quietly, looking at the team.
"What?" Robin said.
"Run!" Aidan yelled, as her arm thrust forward and threw a fistful of fire at them.
"Aidan, stop!" Terra yelled. "You can fight it!"
"You don't understand!" Aidan yelled back.
"Yes I do," Terra yelled, jumping on a rock and riding towards the red-head. She jumped off of it and tackled Aidan. Terra grabbed her by the shoulders and shook her.
"You can fight it, Aidan. You have to!" She said. Aidan's eyes, now their normal color, teared.
"Terra…" she started. "I…he has Aqualad." Terra's blue eyes widened.
"He…what?" she said in disbelief. Terra shook her head. "I understand." Terra nodded bravely. "But listen to me. You have to fight back." Aidan nodded back. She winked at her quickly.
"I…ooooh," Terra said, understanding what Aidan had in mind completely. Aidan grinned, and then shot a burst of fire at Terra from her eyes. Terra blasted back, but Aidan controlled the fire so that Terra didn't get badly hurt.
Back at the Tower…
Terra was explaining Aidan's plot to the rest of the team.
"She luring him into a false sense of security…this chick's tough, I can tell," she started, standing in front of the couch with her arms crossed. "I know she can take Slade down…she just needs to wait for the right moment. She needs to make him trust her. And by attacking us, that's what she's doing." Terra explained. Robin nodded grimly.
"I understand," he said. The rest of the team nodded in agreement. "So when she attacks us, don't hold back, team. We need it to be convincing."
"I don't wanna hurt her!" Beast Boy chimed in.
Raven smirked, "You know she could kick your ass any day." Beast Boy laughed nervously and then looked down.
"Yeah I know," he said sadly.
Some of the team chuckled quietly.
"I just hope she's ok…Aqualad too," Speedy chimed in. He was sitting with his arm around Starfire, who was starring sadly at the ground.
"They will be…I promise," Robin said. Bumble Bee nodded.
"I don't know Aidan very well…but she seems smart enough, I'm sure she knows what she's doing. And honestly…she kicks ass," Bee said. Raven and Terra smirked.
"She is good," Terra said, sounding slightly jealous. Raven nodded.
"Whenever all this is over with, she should definitely join the team," Robin said. "I was going to ask her to join tonight actually." He finished, sounding sad. Raven looked at him with sympathy and put a hand on his shoulder.
Cyborg was pacing the living room.
"I just hope she knows what she's dealing with," he said, shaking his head.
"She does…she's smart. I just hope Slade knows what he's dealing with," Terra said bravely. Robin smirked. "If I can take him down, she can do it twice as easily." The blonde finished, plopping down on the couch next to BB. He grinned and put his arm around her shoulders. Terra sighed and rested her head on his shoulder.
"She'll be fine," Raven said, sounding certain.
"But what about Aqualad?" Starfire said, speaking at last.
"He'll be ok…I hope," Bee said, with a grim expression.
Without any warning, a fireball flew through one of the giant glass windows of the Titans' living room, causing the team to jump up in surprise and arm themselves with either weapons or powers.
"Aidan…" Raven whispered. Sure enough, there she was. Aidan looked terrified at what she had just done.
"Guys…I'm really sorry about this…"
"We understand," Robin told her. He raised the side of his mouth and winked at her. Aidan's eyebrows rose, and then she smirked and winked back. As the living room slowly caught fire, the titans and Aidan worked as hard as they could to put up a convincing fight scene. Slade's voice came through on Aidan's new communicator.
"What are you doing! Finish them!" he commanded.
"I can't!" Aidan said helplessly, putting up a very good act, "There's too many of them! I'm outnumbered!" She hid in a corner while she said this.
"I gave you an order!" He said, now right behind her, holding up the remote that controlled whether Aqualad lived or died. Aidan jumped at seeing him.
"I-I'm trying!" She said.
"You're not trying nearly hard enough!" He yelled, grabbing her by the shoulders and slamming her against the wall.
Aidan's eyes glowed red with fury.
"I don't take orders from you…not anymore," she said angrily.
Slade's eyes widened. He threw her on the ground and pulled out the remote.
"We had a deal, and you just broke your end of it," he said in monotone, pushing the button that released the deadly gas.
"No!" Aidan yelled, jumping forward onto Slade, knocking him over. The remote landed about ten feet away from him, landing on the ground with a small thud. Robin saw this and lunged forward to grab it. Aidan was furious.
"She's kicking his ass," Cyborg said, in disbelief.
"Woot! Go Aidan!" Bumble Bee said, cheering her on.
Aidan shot a ball of fire at Slade, hitting him squarely in the stomach, knocking him through the glass of one of the windows. She leaned over to see him fall into the ocean with a large splash. Aidan gathered up the flames that were still burning in the living room. Once the fire was gone, Aidan collapsed on the ground in tears. Robin rushed towards her.
"Aidan, its ok, I got the remote…whatever it does…" Robin said, trying to calm her down.
"N-no!" She started, "It's too late…" Aidan sniffed and wiped the tears off her face with the back of her hand.
"Aidan, what does this remote do?" Robin asked calmly.
Aidan just looked at him, and then sobbed into her hands. Robin put a hand on her shoulder, and looked at her sadly. The rest of the team watched from behind, looking at the two of them miserably. A thud sounded on the door, and then again. Robin and Aidan and the rest of the team turned around. They heard another thud, slightly louder. Aidan got up immediately and opened the door, Aqualad collapsed through it, coughing. Aidan screamed and in an attempt to catch him, collapsed on the ground with him, his head on her lap.
She hugged him and looked at the team in disbelief. The rest of them had rushed over to see if he was alright.
"Aqualad?" Aidan said quietly, shaking his shoulder gently. He groaned, and sat up to look at her. Aidan's eyes widened as she smiled. She put her hands on his shoulders to keep him from falling over.
"Hey," he said weakly. Aidan squealed and then hugged him again. Aqualad laughed quietly and hugged her.
"You ok?" she asked, still holding him in a tight embrace.
"Yeah…are you?"
"I-I'm wonderful," Aidan said. Cyborg chuckled.
"Ok…let's get you two lovebirds to the medical bay," he said with a grin. Aidan paid no attention to him and continued to hold onto Aqualad. She giggled.
"How did you get out?" She asked him, breaking their hug and looking into his eyes.
Aqualad laughed, "It wasn't hard at all. There was a drain on the floor, I just broke it and the pressure of the water collapsed the walls." He shrugged. Aidan laughed, and hugged him again. Bumble Bee sighed loudly.
"Come on you two, get a room, children," she said with a smirk.
"…..no," Aqualad said, wrapping his arms around Aidan, embracing her with a deep and passionate kiss, ignoring the wolf whistles from Beast Boy.
This is not over…at least not for now. Suggestions please would be very helpful. I think I'm just going to make Slade be obnoxious and keep coming back but Idk. So anything you might have to say will be appreciated. Much love.
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SBSPFreak1297: Hey thanks for the review. this is awesome, a lot of ppl seem to like my story. It makes me feel warm and fuzzy inside.
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DuplicatePenNameHere: Hahah I used your idea after all! I directly quoted it from your one review. Hehehe. And no, I'm not telepathic, though I wish I was lol. You give good suggestions, btw, so I could use s'more of those, heh.