Hello boys and girls and welcome to chapter sixteen of The New Teen Titans. Well as I said the chapters are getting further apart because of school but this chapter I had trouble with anyway just for the writing part so sorry if it seemed a bit too long. Well I'll get to those reviews of yours now if I may. Mr. D 91 I can't tell you who's going to get Beast Lad as you probably guessed but yeah I did make up the other origins. I just wanted to find a way to tie them all to Slade since he was the person they worked for and seemed to have a dynamic that at one time could have been friendship. Oh and Valda you need to think more highly of that character because she really is going to have a very important role to play. Here, I'll give you a clue since it's still going to be awhile till you see her, If I every write a spin-off to this, she will be one of the main characters. Anyway those were the only two reviewers that asked questions but thanks to the rest of you reviewers and here is chapter sixteen of The New Teen Titans.
Chapter 16: Sparks: End
Cinderblock, Overload and Plasmus. At one time those three were Slade's greatest and most loyal henchmen. They fought many battles for him and always ether disappeared or didn't know what to do when he was gone. But if you're your willing to die for some one then one day you will. In the final battle between the Titans and Slade they were the final obstacle in the Titans way. In the end they could not stop the death of their master, one couldn't even stop his one death. Two lived on though, even if one was in a deep slumber, but that deep sleep was over.
"Help Me," came the low pitch and strained voice of Plasmus as he looked up at the Titans, half of his face melting into the gooey liquid that was Plasmus. As soon as that happened the Titans took a collective gasp and all jumped back and went into attack positions. Plasmus rolled on the ground as he melted into a monster but as the human part of him was turning to goo the goo part was turning back to normal.
"Um shouldn't he be killing us by now?" Beast Lad asked as he lowered his attack stance, watching a villain roll around on the ground wasn't really threatening after all.
"It must be the medicine we gave him," came the voice of the scientist that Overload had knocked out. He ran over to Rave and continued with his explanation of Plasmus's state, "we couldn't cure him completely of the Plasmus sickness but we were able to make him fight it."
"So what? He's fighting it now?" Rave said as he took his attention from Plasmus which was probably a bad idea. Just as Rave finished talking to the scientist Plasmus stood up by making his legs melt and then reform under him in a standing position. He was still made of the muddy substance but it was more solid then it used to be and his arm as well as the quarter of his face holding his left eye and a part of his chest were still human. He raised his none human arm and it shot out, a steam of purple muck hitting Rave head on. He flew back and hit the wall hard, leaving a dent and falling to the ground when Plasmus withdrew his arm.
"Yeah, I think it's safe to say he's losing that fight," Alakazam said as she looked back at Rave who moaned as he struggled to push himself off the ground.
"Not for long," Black Bird said as her eyes began to glow white with energy and the bits of chair she had threw at Overload became engulfed once again in black magic. "Azarath Arella Azar!" she shouted as the bits of chair launched towards Plasmus at light speed. They all hit him and stretched the parts of his body they hit back but they eventually absorbed into him, and for every inch he absorbed he grew that much.
"Great, you've taught him how he can grow in this state," The scientist said from beside Beast Lad as he slapped his hand to his forehead in disbelief.
"You're not helping!" Beast Lad shouted right into the scientist's face. Just as he did this Plasmus extended his arm again and hit Beast Lad with a stream of muck that sent him right back to the wall. Unlike with Rave though Plasmus held this attack as the mucky liquid rushed at Beast Lad and ploughed him into the wall. This was good for Beast Lad though who with a burst of black magic turned into a sailfish and began to swim against the stream of muck towards Plasmus's body. He finally reached it and swam right into Plasmus's chest and closed his eyes as with another burst of magic he turned into an elephant. Plasmus's entire body splattered everywhere. Luckily Black Bird was able to protect herself, the scientist and the recently recovered Rave with a shield of black magic. As she did that Android raised the forearm of her arm that wasn't a cannon and a blue energy shield extended from it. Mystic protected himself and Alakazam who stood behind him with his cloak leaving Beast Lad standing there covered in muck.
"Is it over then?" Rave asked as everyone lowered their shields and Beast Lad tried to brush the substance off his hands and onto his shirt which was already covered in the stuff as well, so he was basically trying to rub mud off on more mud.
"I hope so cause this is just wrong," Beast Lad said as he tried to flick the stuff off his hands and unto the ground. As it hit the ground though it began to move to a location near the middle of the room. It all moved off of Beast Lad as well and from every were else in the room that it had landed. Eventually there was a large pile of the gooey stuff in the middle of the room and the Titans all got into attack position. Once all of plasmas was in that pile Plasmus morphed back to the semi-human form her was in, the human parts turning from muck into bone and skin the second they he reformed.
"Oh this is going to be a long day," Alakazam said as Plasmus shot out his arm and split it in two so that he could engulfed both the desk and what was left of the tube he was held in. Both absorbed into him and he grew to a height of at least ten feet. He then let lose a yell as the eye that was human looked around panicky. The quarter of his head that was human being reduced to just the area around the eye as the chest part and his lower arm and hand all became absorbed into the purple gunk as well.
"We've got to knock him out!" Rave shouted as he took to the air and did a spin into a flying drop kick that was going to hit Plasmus right where his human eye was. Right before he hit though Plasmus shifted the eye so that it was above his nonhuman eye. Rave landed in the gooey substance that made up Plasmus and Plasmus just turned his head sharply to fling Rave from him and onto the ground nearby.
"Easier said then done," Beast Lad said as Black Bird helped Rave up.
"At least he doesn't have anything else to absorb," Android said but just as she said this Plasmus broke through the wall and began to move towards town as the Titans watched on in shook.
"Great, you jinxed it," Black Bird said as she ran after Plasmus.
"Titans Go!" Rave said as he waited for the girls and Mystic to run out through the hole Plasmus had made before himself turning to leave.
"Hey wait a second," the scientist said as Rave stopped to see the scientist standing over the unconscious Overload, "what am I suppose to do with him."
"Put him in a holding area and see if you cant get that chip out of his head," Rave said as he took to the air after his team and Plasmus.
"And make sure you don't electrocute yourself," Beast Lad added as he ran after the team and took a running jump, turning into a crow in midair to catch up.
When Beast Lad did catch up he flew high into the air to stay away from Plasmus as he looked down with his literal birds eye view. As Plasmas slowly moved towards town Android and Mystic ran along ether side of him, Android firing as many sonic balls as she could running side ways and Mystic hitting trees with hexes to make them fall into Plasmus's path. Meanwhile in the air Black Bird, Alakazam and Rave sent rave-bolts, spells and different black magic animals at the liquidating Plasmus. But the spells, hexes and sonic balls showed no affects on him, the black magic animals just sunk into him and disappeared and the trees didn't get in his way instead he absorbed them. By the time he was within city limits he had grown to at least twenty feet and the only struggling human piece left was that one eye which now rested in his forehead. His humanoid looking state still remained though as he had yet to convert fully back to his Plasmus form.
"I don't think this is working," Android yelled up to her team mates as they stopped their assault on Plasmus when they realized it was doing no good.
"What gave you that clue?" Alakazam asked sarcastically as she flew over to the side of Plasmus Android was running along.
"He was having an easy time fighting it off when there was less of him," Rave shouted out as his plan began to emerge in all their minds without him having to say it.
"It also made it a lot easier for us to fight him," Beast Lad added as Plasmus reached the city limits and instantly shrieks were heard from the people in town as they began to run away.
"Just contain as much as that muck as you can," Rave yelled as he swooped down and grabbed a garbage can. He then flew along side Plasmus and filled the garbage can with as much as Plasmus as he could and then slammed the lid on top and welded it shut with beams from his eyes so that the goo could not rejoin with Plasmus. "Lets keep this stuff as far away from Plasmus as we can afford," Rave said as he threw the can to Android.
"Alright," Android shouted as she clicked her heals and flew off as others got the plan and started looking for containers. Black Bird collected as much as she could using a ball of black magic as everyone else played interference, Plasmus having figured out what they were trying to do. He sent blasts of himself at everyone but they were all able to avoid them. As they were all doing this Beast Lad ran in as an elephant and sucked up as much of Plasmus as he could through his trunk. That was before Plasmus noticed this and sent a stream of gunk from his leg that hit Beast Lad back through a brick wall. The people inside the office Beast Lad landed in all screamed and began to evacuate as Beast Lad turned back to normally after hitting the ground.
"Oh that was bad idea," Beast Lad said as he held his stomach which was grumbling loudly. He then picked up into the air and rocketed towards Plasmus his stomach being sucked into Plasmus's leg. "Oh that was a very bad idea."
"Beast Lad!' Android shouted out as she returned from taking that garbage can to a police officer nearby. When she returned Black Bird took the opportunity to leave with her ball full of Plasmus as Beast Lad continued to get sucked in to him. But right then Beast Lad turned into a fish, getting all of the muck out of his system as he did. He began to swim out as quick as he could and shot out of the side of Plasmus, turning to human in midair covered in purple muck. He had swarm blind though and ended up coming out of Plasmus's chest which was still a good height above the ground. He was unconscious from lake of oxygen after being inside for too long and was plummeting towards the quickly approaching ground.
Android was about to fly in for the save but was stopped when Alakazam swooped in instead and caught Beast Lad on her card. Alakazam slowed once she caught Beast Lad and Android watched secretly as Alakazam kneeled down on her card and bushed hair from Beast Lad's face whispering, "thank god your safe," when she thought no one could hear. Android did though and she frowned at this display of affection from her friend towards the boy she liked. But she couldn't think of that now as she just then remembered she was in a fight when she just nearly avoided a blast from Plasmus which caused her to crash into the ground.
"Are you alright Android?" Rave shouted out when he realized a member of his team was hurt.
"Yeah I think so," Android said as she looked to see that her knee was scrapped so badly that she could see the wires beneath but luckily the nano-bots that healed her when she was hurt worked double time to visible start healing her knee.
"Then watch out next time," Rave said no longer worried about his friend but once again worried about the fight.
That was when Black Bird returned, having left her black magic bubble full of Plasmus in the park where kids were currently pocking it with sticks. "I'm not sure this is working fast enough," she yelled out as she came back into the fight. It really wasn't working ether. They were getting rid of a lot of Plasmus but Plasmus had doubled his efforts to absorb things once he noticed what the Titans were doing.
"I think you're right," Rave said as he flew away from the fight to see what was going on. Black Bird was looking at him for an answer while Android was firing balls of sonic energy up at Plasmus from the ground to try and keep him away from absorbable things. Alakazam was setting Beast Lad down on a building nearby before rejoining and Mystic was closing off a garbage bin which he had filled with goo and was now throwing to the top of a five story building nearby. He then looked to see that Plasmus had only shrunk a few feet but the human eye on his forehead had expanded a small bit and that was all Rave needed. "Guys, I got a new idea," Rave shouted putting all the attention on him so that he could explain his plan, "Mystic get into that building," he said pointing to the building Beast Lad had gone through as an elephant, "everyone else, follow my lead."
With that said he charged up his hands and sent two rave-bolts at the back of Plasmus. Plasmus tuned his head and growled at the teen but instead of being intimidated Rave sent two more rave bolts into Plasmus's eyes. Plasmus yelled as he brought his hands up to his eyes and the other Titans all followed suit. Android sending sonic balls at Plasmus as Alakazam sent simple exploding spells as Black Bird sent waves of birds at Plasmus to attack his eyes. Plasmus kept trying to get away or swipe the attacking teens our of the air but they kept moving out of the way and continuing their non-stop barrage of attacks. Eventually they all moved so that Plasmus's only option was to go inside the building that Mystic had just ran into. Plasmus had to turn completely amorphous to do this though and now looked like a face ridding a giant purple wave with that human eye still in the centre of his forehead. There in between two support beams was Mystic with his cloak covering him. That was when Plasmus fingered out what the Titans were doing and tried to speed up to drown him but it was too late as he raised his arms and looked up saying silently, "sorry," before firing two hexes at the support beams. The support beams began to crumble and Plasmus's human eye went wide as the building collapsed.
When the dust cleared all the Titans outside landed in a line and looked at the rubble. "Mystic?" Alakazam whispered as the noise and action of the fight completely disappeared. But then a part of the rubble began to rise and Mystic stood with an unconscious, and human, Plasmus in his arms, both of them covered in dust.
The hopes of the Titans instantly raised as two squad cars came speeding around the corner along with a armoured plated patty wagon especially designed for meta-humans behind it. That's when Beast Lad shot straight up and looked at the toppled building in front of him and then down to the police getting out of their cars and asked scratching his head, "what I miss?"
"Come on guys," Rave said with a smile as Mystic handed the dust covered Plasmus to one of the officers as the other one looked bewildered at the knocked down building, "lets go home."
It took awhile to get home due to the traditional pizza eating as well as the traditional fight other whether or not relish was a type of desert. But once they had all had their pizza and explained the end of the fight to Beast Lad a couple of times they all went home to rest after such a long day. That was except for two Titans who wanted to stay up, Alakazam and Android.
They both just sat around watching TV or other things that they really had no reason in doing besides so they could just stay up for the sake of staying up. The entire time though there was an odd tension coming from Android like she wanted to say something that was on the tip of her tongue but couldn't. It was about to not matter though as Alakazam stood and stretched out in a long yarn before saying, "well I'm going to bed."
"Wait," Android shouted before Alakazam had a chance to leave the room, the thing she had been trying to ask about all night was about to be said. Alakazam turned around with a questioning look on her face and though she didn't show it Android could tell there was a little nervousness there to. "I saw you make that save on Beast Lad during the fight."
"Oh, no need to thank me," Alakazam said relieved as she waved her hand in front of her like it was no big deal.
"I mean after you caught him…you were so gentle…almost out of character…and…well," at this point Android was getting frustrated at herself for all the pauses and stuttering and just blurted out what she wanted to say, "do you like Beast Lad or not?"
Alakazam was a bit shell-shocked after the sudden change in tone and demeanour of Android as well as the bluntness of the question but answered it anyway, "um…I…um…you see," well sort of answered the question. She spent a long time biting her nails down to the finger and then magically growing them so she could chew them again as she tried to fine the right words.
"Well," Android said demandingly as she out her hands on her hips in frustration that showed clearly through her body language.
"I don't know how I feel, ok!" Alakazam yelled shocking Android with just how emotionally she was. Alakazam instantly tried to calm down the most she could so not to turn this into a yelling match that would wake up the entire Tower. "I don't know how I feel ok," she repeated calmly as turned her head down as she was no longer able to look her friend in the eyes. There was a long pause as both the girls considered what the other had said before Alakazam said, "I'm going to bed," and without another word she turned around and left leaving Android alone. The 'little problem' was now a very big one.
Meanwhile downtown a even bigger problem was forming. A patty wagon went speeding towards the meta-human hospital. The car looked like a small iron plated bus and the back was big enough to carry five or six guys but right now their were only two. Five tubes were all lined up, in four of them was a swirling purplish liquid that was all pushed up against the left side of the glass. Then on the left sides of all those tubes in the fifth tube was a conscious Plasmas who was fighting off his none human side as it pounded zombie like on the glass that held him. In front of those tubes was a large device that was shaped like a chair and had a moaning man in it as lots of wires came from the back of the chair and went into the chip in his head that was Overload. But unknown to anyone, there was someone else in the back of that patty wagon.
"Hello," Slade said as he came from the shadows and went right next to Robert who could only turn his head slightly in one direction to see who was taking to him. The efforts to remove the chip followed by having all his energy drained from him along with the electricity had weakened him greatly.
"Who are you?" Robert asked, his voice very weak and his lack of energy causing him to drool a little when he spoke.
"I'm sorry Mister Layfield I'm not talking to you," Slade said as he took a handkerchief and whipped away the drool. "You see I'm talking to the chip in your forehead which doctors could not remove. I have a lot to talk about with that chip and I cant afford telling you any of it," Slade said simple as he chuckled a little in his duel voice. "I can tell you one thing though," Slade said with a smile as he laughed evilly. The patty wagon continued to speed along the road, unaware that it would never reach any jail.