Hello boys and girls and welcome to chapter five of The New Teen Titans. I must say that this is shaping up to be a really good story even if not many people are reviewing, but hey what are you going to do. Little fun fact, I came up with the idea for this story before Teen Titan Pregnancies but when I realised the twins and Bruce were the same age I couldn't get the idea of Raven and Starfire pregnant out of my head so I had to write that. Well anyway, TameTerra infidel means someone who does not believe in the most dominant religion so since Slade doesn't follow Trigon he thought of Slade as an infidel. Oh and finally Mr. D 91 I'm not going to say much about Gloor but he will have a part in the story, speaking of lets get to that story shall we. So here without further ado is chapter five of The New Teen Titans.
Chapter 5: The Good Fight
"Dude I think you said 'Titans Go' a bit early," Beast Lad said dryly as he and the rest of The New Teen Titans flew towards Jump City at top speeds. They were making better time then when they had flown to the Logan's home but it had still been an hour since they left and they were just now approaching the city.
"We're almost there," Rave said as his cape whisked in the air behind him. They had only just entered the city limits and slowed down to observe the damage to the city. A few buildings were toppled, a couple of fires were being put out by firefighters around town and everyone was being terrorized by those robots and demon dogs. Nothing looked too bad though and all the damage seemed to be leading to the middle of town so that was where the Titans went.
"Well, the partisan sons and daughters have arrived," Slade said evilly in his new voice as the Titans got their first look at him. He was floating in the air on a cloud made of black magic and he had on a slightly bigger costume but the claws still stuck out from his gloves. He hadn't changed his helmet so the mask was still cracked around his antlers and the evil red eye still showed though. "I knew the Titans wouldn't have many children but somehow I expected more then this," Slade said as he looked at the teens landing on the ground, "and shouldn't you be younger? I guess that's what happens when you put teenagers alone in a tower," Slade laughed, his laugh made everyone cringe as it was a horrible combination of Slade and Trigon's laugh.
"What happened to you?" Black Bird asked. He didn't look like how her parents had described him and some of his features looked like what her mother had told her about her grandfather that and there was no way they could leave out that voice. "Aren't you Slade?" she asked as she looked into that evil red eye.
"Yes and so much more," Slade smiled as he floated higher into the air and released dogs and robots from the cloud. The dogs all began to run at the Titans and the robots advanced on them, "attack!" Slade yelled.
Black Bird yelled and put up her arms in defence as one of the dogs jumped at her. A snake came from her hands and wrapped around the dog and began crushing it making it fall from the air and yelp before disappearing with a puff of smoke. Black Bird looked at her hands and smiled as she began to send out more snakes and hawks to grab and attack the dogs and robots, "this is easy."
"Yeah I know what you mean," Android said as a robot approached her at zombie speeds and she simple blew its head off with her sonic cannon. "It's almost too easy," she said blowing a whole through two of the robots chests at once.
"Are you complaining?" Rave said with a grin as he flew through the chest of one robot before smashing the heads of two others together.
"Really though," Beast Lad joked before turning into a pterodactyl and grabbing two dogs in his talons, crushing them until they puffed out of existence.
"Well you see, the robots are old and the dogs are new," Slade said as he once again lowered his cloud to ground level, "but my powers only grows with every moment." Slade closed his eyes and extended his hands making a building on ether side of him glow black before crumbling to the ground all to make his point.
"Well lets stop that right now, Black Bird come on!" Beast Lad shouted as he and Black Bird jumped at Slade. Beast Lad once again turned into a pterodactyl and swooped down towards Slade as Black Bird launched a large boa constrictor at his face.
"I suppose you are my grandchildren now?" Slade said as he used one hand to deflect the snake and the other to grab Beast Lad from the air and absorb the black magic from him. Beast Lad turned back to normally and went limp as Slade chuckled and said "its a pity your powers don't work on me or you may have been a challenge." He then threw Beast Lad at Black Bird and she had no time to brace herself before the twins crashed into each other.
As he smiled at his easy win he was hit by a ball of sonic energy making him wince as he grabbed his chest. "No magic here," Android said as she fired two more sonic balls at Slade which he easily moved his cloud to avoid, "and defiantly no relation."
"That's right," Slade said as he laughed at Android, "robots aren't related to anything. Unless you count computer chips as relatives?" Slade laughed loudly as Android got very mad.
"Be quiet," she shouted as she jumped at Slade using her rockets to reach him on his cloud as she drew back a hand to punch him.
"Wrong move," Slade said darkly as he caught her fist and punched her in the chest, hitting her so hard that her arm stayed in his hand as the rest of her went flying to the ground. "I must say I really did expect more," Slade said as he threw the arm over to where Android lay and wiped his hand on his shirt.
"You still have one more Titan to go," Rave said as he walked up to where Slade stood on his cloud.
"Oh look, a carbon copy of Robin," Slade said as he looked Rave up and down. He pretended to yawn before saying, "quit unoriginal."
"I'm not my father," Rave growled as he floated up into the air and charged up his hands with two rave-bolts.
"Perhaps an imperfect copy," Slade laughed as Rave grew more angry. Instead of just throwing a rave-bolt Rave instead charged at Slade and punched him in the jaw as sparks flew from the impact as he kept his hands charged. Slade fell from his cloud and felt his jaw as he smiled under his mask, "or perhaps not?" Slade then flicked out his hand making robots and demon dogs arise around him and Rave making a circle and separating him from the other now awakening Titans.
"What are you doing?" Rave asked as he looked around at the backs of all the dogs and robots and floated down to the ground with his hands still charged.
"Quite simple I want to see if you are as good a fighter as you suggest," Slade said as he floated into a standing position using his magic. Slade then cracked his neck and got into a fighting position as he waved Rave over. Rave didn't waste any time as the two soon began to fight rapidly each one sending and blocking punches so that nether one of them hit. "You really should try to speed up you kicks," Slade said as he was fighting much less effortlessly then Rave was.
"Stop trying to distract me," Rave growled as he sent a high kick at Slade which he easily avoided by leaning back at an impossible angle and swooping back up.
"Merely a suggesting," Slade said as he took a step away from Rave before starting the fight up again. The fight continued as Slade began to back up as Rave sent angry punch after punch at him. Sparks were bouncing off of Slade's arms every time he would block a punch and it was then that Rave noticed that every time Slade took a step back the entire circle would move.
"Enough!" Rave shouted as he took up into the air and began to send rave-bolt after rave-bolt at Slade. Slade easily avoided each on though by doing simple flips and sidesteps.
"Now I thought that we were at an agreement not to use our powers," Slade said as he looked up at Rave before engulfing his own hands in flames, "but since you started." Slade then began to fire fireballs up at Rave. Rave avoided them just as Slade had only by swooping and weaving in the air as the balls of fire flew past him.
"I didn't make any agreement with you," Rave said as he glared down at the faceless Slade. Rave then sent out a blast of blue energy from his eyes aimed for Slade but Slade sent out a beam of red energy from his eye at the same time. The two attacks met at an angle in midair and fought for dominance as Slade fired up and Rave fired down. Finally after a few seconds there was a backlash and an explosion that caused both opponents to fall to the ground and that destroyed the minions around them.
"Rave!" Black Bird shouted as she stopped fighting a robot and quickly ran to Rave who had just dropped to the ground. She propped up his head as he quickly woke up and the others gathered around him. Their care for their fallen leader was cut off though by Slade's laughter.
They looked over to see Slade standing there with his hand covering his eye as the mask was cracking from the backlash, "we can both consider this a win." He then began to laugh again as a black hole opened up under him and he began to sink into it.
"Get him!" Rave said as he held his head. Beast Lad and Android both ran at him but by the time they got there he was already gone and the hole closed. The team then looked around to see that all the remaining robots and dogs were doing the same as they all sunk into the ground. "come on guys," Rave said as he stood with a little help from Black Bird, "lets head back to the Tower."
They all began to walk back slowly but as they rounded the corner they were suddenly attacked by a wave of questions from news reporters. There were too many to hear every one and all the questions seemed to combine into one confusing mess of noise. "Stop!" Beast Lad shouted and all the news reporters instantly went silent, "wow I didn't think that would work," Beast Lad said a bit amazed at himself before pointing at a reporter and saying, "what's your question?"
"Hello, Summer Gleason, from the Jump City Daily Planet," the middle-aged news reporter said before asking her question, "is it safe to assume that you are now the 'New Teen Titans' and the protectors of our city."
The other news reporters all leaned in as a few of them flashed pictures before Rave said with a smile, "yes we're The New Teen Titans and we're here to help." Dozens of flashes went off and more questions were asked before the team took to the air and flew to wherever they were needed, to protect their city.
Meanwhile in Slade's underground fortress the Old Titans were all sitting on the floor of their new holding cell. It was a plain white room with high ceilings and one of the walls was made of glass that showed into a hallway. The room was a perfectly square accept for the rectangular cut out parts of the three normal walls that were made for three beds. The bed on the wall opposite the glass was currently occupied by Raven as she was in a meditative trance so that she could heal herself. Everything was covered in weird writing and symbols including the table in the centre of the room as well as the deck of cards that laid on it. That table was where the rest of the Titans all sat looking defeated.
"So you're sure none of our blasts will work on the walls or glass?" Dick asked as he looked at his depressed former team-mates.
"We tried everything we had, man," Vic said as he looked other at Kory who lowered her head at her husband's question.
"The walls are far to strong for our greatest attacks," Kory said as she looked down and closed her eyes in defeat.
"What about Raven's powers?" Dick said as he turned to Gar.
"You saw Raven try herself before going into the trance," Gar said defeated, "Those symbols stop her magic and they're on every inch of this place."
"And the air vet? Cant we make it though there somehow?" Dick said as his voice became more desperate.
"It's all made out of the same stuff as the cell," Vic said as he stood and laid defeated on one of the empty beds. Dick looked at Gar with only one hope left.
"The airs coming out too quickly," Gar said as he rested his head on the table, "anything small enough to fit through the cracks in the vent cant take the wind. Even if I did find a way to get in there's a fan in there that's going too fast for me to get through."
"There is no hope for us to get out," Kory said as she began to weep slightly and hugged her husband close to her as she cried in his shoulder.
"There there," Dick said as he rubbed Kory's back, "there may be no hope of us getting out but there's hope that our children will save us," he said triumphantly.
"Yeah but that could take months maybe even years," Vic said as he sat up in his bed, "what are we suppose to do in the meantime?"
Gar picked up the cards from the table and smiled a lopsided grin as he said, "anybody up for a game of go fish?"
Back at the tower The New Titans were just getting back from their trip around town to help stop the fires and save people from wreckage. They were all still running on the adrenalin they had gotten from the whole thing as well as the new fame they had found. When they got inside they were all laughing and talking about the amazing day they had just had only to find Android's mother Mina standing with suitcases ready to leave.
"Oh Honey, I didn't think you'd be back yet," Mina said in a monotone as she dropped her luggage and gave her daughter a hug, "I saw you on the news, you were so great."
"Mom, what are you doing?" Android asked as she pulled away from the hug slightly to look at her mother who was ready to leave.
"I'm going to go live in the apartment above the store," Mina said as if it was obvious to everyone, "you know I haven't been able to rent it out."
"But why?" Android said distressed as she watched her mother go over and pick up her bags again and headed towards the elevator.
"This is your journey," Mina said simple as she turned around to look at the teens, " and it's all of yours as well. You need to be able to become the Titans and in turn become the adults you are all destined to become. All I would be doing is getting in the way," She sat down and suitcases and Android ran up and hugged her one last time.
"I'll miss you Mom," Android said as a tear fell down her check and all the Titan's looked on at the touching scene.
"I'll miss you too Honey," Mina said as she pulled away and wiped the tear from her daughter's face. With that she picked up her suitcases and left without another word leaving Android there sniffling as she rubbed one of her arms.
"There there," Beast Lad said as he came over and timidly put a hand on Android's back to comfort her. When he did she suddenly tuned around and took him into a big hug as she buried her head into his neck and squeezed him tightly. "Crushing me," Beast Lad squeaked out as he was being hugged by the emotional robot girl.
"Oh, sorry," Android said as she pulled away and blushed a blue shade as Beast Lad blushed as well as he scratched the back of his head all of which made Black Bird giggle.
"So what are we going to do?" Beast Lad asked as he glared at his sister before flopping down in a large chair, "we have a tower all to ourselves."
"A mortal enemy to defeat," Rave added as he cracked his knuckles thinking of Slade.
"Not to mention parents to be saved," Android chimed in as she leaned up against Beast Lad's chair.
"And not nearly enough man power to do it," Black Bird said as she flopped down on the couch.
"What do you mean?" Rave asked as he sat down next to her, a bit too close for her as she blushed and tuned her head away slightly but didn't attempt to move.
"I mean the old Titans had five members and all were trained in the field more then us," she said as she put her hood up to hide the blush that everyone but Rave had spotted. "I mean your dad was trained by Batman and your mom grew up on a warrior planet. My mom came from a demon infested universe and my dad grew up mostly surviving in the jungle. Not to mention that Android's dad was an athlete before the cybernetic enchainment and all we have is training in control from our parents."
"So maybe we need one or two more members?" Rave said as he put his hand on his chin.
"Don't Speedy and Bumblebee have a kid?" Beast Lad asked as he tried to remember the boy he had met at one of the Teen Titan's reunions.
"He's too far away," Rave said as he shook his head, "and besides I think he's already a member of Titans East. No what we need is someone powerful but close, maybe even in the city."
"Wait," Android shouted making everyone look at her, "I know just the girl for the job."