Hello boys and girls and welcome to chapter eighteen of The New Teen Titans. Well once again I'm sorry for the wait but I'd be sorry for the wait if it was only a day. School really seems like its been dragging on lately and it feels like it's been years. Well anyway on to reviews. Mortal Guardian, to quote Alakazam, "it's not really the Hall of 'Like'," she definitely is not after Beast Lad for any reason then the one we already know though now that you mention it that is an added bonus. Oh and Mr. D 91 you should have received your e-mail by now. Alright well this chapter is not another love triangle arch as I just did two of those but it will be about the girls with a main focus more on Black Bird. The boys will get their turns too but not till I get this arch over with. Anyway hope you enjoy chapter eighteen of The New Teen Titans.
Chapter 18: Girls Night Out: Part 1
In a holding cell many miles below the earth the Original Titans slept where they had been sleeping for the past few months. Waiting for someone to come and save them had taken it's toll on Dick but he was having a peaceful sleep with his wife in one of the three beds along the walls of the cell. But the person across from him was currently awake, sitting on his bed as his mechanical mind raced between random subjects that always linked to one thing.
"Hey Vic?" came a whisper in the dark causing the cybernetic man to look over to the bed across from the glass of the holding cell. There was Gar lying against the wall with his arm around his wife, Raven, "what are you doing up?"
"I could ask you the same thing?" Vic said as he glanced down at the sleeping Raven who wasn't really famous for her happy morning attitude.
"Oh she sleeps like a baby," Gar said as he tightened his arm around her and she smiled slightly as he did, snuggling closer to him, "don't tell her I said that though."
"Yeah well I'm just worrying," Vic said as he looked away from his long time friend and out into the hallway just outside of the cells walls.
"We all miss our families man," Gar said as his voice went serious once he realized just what his friend was thinking about so late at night.
"Yeah I know but it's just…" Vic said as he paused trying to find a way to word his next sentence without offending his friend, "you have Raven and Dick has Kory but with me…Mina isn't here and I have no idea what's happing with her or our daughter."
"I understand man," Gar said as he watched Vic stand and walk towards the glass wall of the holding cell, "but come on they cant have it as bad as we did."
"At least one thing I know is there relationships are better then ours were," Vick said as he chuckled slightly, the conversation becoming more light.
Gar laughed as he said, "oh yeah, there is no way they can be as messed up as ours were."
Meanwhile at Titan Tower. "I cant believe we both like the same guy," Android shouted as she banged her head on to the kitchen table and covered it with her hands. Due to the tension between the wand and cannon wielding Titans and the fact they none of the girls had gotten any closer to snagging their dream guys they had decided to call an early morning meeting. Well Black Bird had decided to call a meeting and she dragged Android and Alakazam along by their ears. She had it in the morning for the soul reason that all the guys, even Mystic, slept in unless there was an emergency.
"I cant believe two people like my brother," Black Bird said in a monotone as she sipped her tea, letting the heat drift up into her nostrils.
"What's not to like?" Alakazam said earning a glance from Android, "I mean he's smart, funny strong, and really cute," Alakazam said as she melted into the table.
This caused Black Bird to cough as she put her hand to her mouth and was able to gag out, "I think I just threw up a little in my mouth."
Android completely ignored this statement and moved right to fighting with her 'former' best friend, "What do you know about him? I've known him since we were both little and you've only known him for a couple of weeks."
"Yeah, but with me it was love at first site,"Alakazam said as she got right up into Android's face as she taunted, "I did pick him out of a whole crowd of people."
"Oh please," Android said as she waved her hand to disregard the statement, "the spotlight guy picked him out of the crowd."
"Hello," Alakazam said as she snapped her fingers and the room went dark except for a spotlight around her, "I am the spotlight guy."
"You know what I think?" Black Bird said as the light lifted off of Alakazam. Both the girls looked at her and Black Bird took it as a signal to start as she said, sipping her tea, "I think you guys have been friends way too long to ruin it over a guy especially my brother, and you can at least pull off a friendly fight instead of the screaming matches you guys have been having as of late."
"Yeah well why should we listen to you anyway?" Android said as she didn't want to listen to Black Bird's thoughts on the issue as she preferred screaming matches.
"Yeah you still cant get through a conversation with Rave without st-st-stuttering," Alakazam mocked as she joined forces with Android again to take on Black Bird.
Black Bird just gave them both a stern look and didn't say a word, but the exploding mug in her hand and swarms of black locus flying out from the sink got her point across. She was very sensitive about her nervous stutter. But the locus quickly disappeared when her super hearing picked up someone coming down the hall. "Did you hear that?" Black Bird asked as the angry look dropped completely off her face.
"Hear what?" Android asked though she was quickly answered by the arrival of both Beast Lad and Rave.
"You think your so great because you beat me at Ultra Racers 4 but what till I pop in Kong Fu Expert 12," Rave said as both him and Beast Lad headed right for the coach without even looking in the girls direction. They only noticed the three girls sitting at the table after the had both jumped over the back of the coach into their first and second player positions.
"Oh, hey girls," Beast Lad said as he looked over the back of the coach, "thought we get an early start on video games before morning training."
"We didn't interrupt you? did we?" Rave asked as he popped in a game disk and waited for it to load on the big screen.
"Um," Alakazam dragged on as she searched for an excuse before she was saved when the alarm went off interrupting the game before it could even load.
"Every time I get comfortable," Beast Lad moaned as he threw down his controller and flopped back on the coach.
"Somebody get Mystic," Rave said as he on the other hand instantly jumped into action to spite the time, "trouble downtown."
Meanwhile downtown the mayor of Jump City was giving a speech about the needs for heroes in the industrious town. Gail Simone was a good mayor and was only in her second year but had already made an impact on the community. She was not the disturbance. The disturbance was laying on a roof hidden in-between two larger buildings with a sniper rifle trained right at the mayor's head.
She was a beautiful looking women in spite of her crazy muttering and she was trying to get a perfect shot on the mayor. She wore a skin-tight black jumpsuit that went all the way up her neck and had a long zipper running down from there to right below her stomach. There were some long gashes in the jumpsuit and underneath were long scars with stitches in them. Her face also looked beautiful with delicate soft features and rosy checks but a few hideous features took away from this. Her large, wide and dead eyes were filled with insanity and looked like they were being held open by unseen clamps as she never blinked. Her hair though long, blond and beautiful was receding from her forehead. There were also lines drawn all over her face like the ones used by plastic surgeon's, under her eyes, around her mouth, along her jaw line. Some of these lines even had scars around them like she had tried to perform the surgery herself. It almost looked like her face was cracking.
"You think you're so special," the women said in silky smooth voice full of insanity as her hands shook as she gripped the rifles handle. "Just because you're young, beautiful and successful," she muttered as the shacking made it nearly impossible to get a perfect shot, "but I'll show you. I'll show everyone. I will kill anyone prettier then me!"
"Lady," came a voice from behind her making her jerk her head around to see the source. There stood the Titans in attack positions as Beast Lad finished his sentence, "that is a really, really long list.
"Foolish child!" She yelled as she quickly got up and turned around keeping a hand on the sniper rifle and extended her arms to aim it at the Titans. Rave was quick enough to whip a rave-bolt at the muzzle of the gun and melting it making the rifle useless. She turned the gun to see the damage and growled as Rave finally realized who she was.
"Wait…Doll?" Rave said in disbelief as she reached down to her ankle where there was a hostel for a handgun which she pulled out.
"You know her," Alakazam asked as she raised an eyebrow at her leader as she simultaneously tensed up from having the gun pointed at her.
"She operates in Gotham," Rave said as he stared down the insane women, "calls herself The Porcelain Doll." Rave glanced to the two building on ether side of them as he finished his explanation, "she made a few trips down to Bludhaven and my dad took her on. If she's here then she isn't the one we have to worry about."
"Good job," Doll said as she chuckled and raised her arm, snapping her fingers to signal some hidden force. Just then all the windows going up two stories in both of the buildings surrounding the one the Titans stood on filled with beautiful women holding different guns in their delicate hands. They all looked different but they all wore wigs of golden locks and had a lot of blush on their cheeks. The noise of a hundred guns being cocked simultaneously filled the air as Porcelain Doll lowered her arm to point at the Titans. "Baby Dolls," she said to her gang as they all aimed for the Titans heads, "fire!"
The sound of gun shots was heard for miles around as The Dolls unloaded on the Titans. Black Bird was fast enough to get up a shield around the Titans but the damage had been done, Porcelain Doll had her distraction. The crowd below that had been listening to the mayor screamed and began to scatter in all directions. Black Bird dropped the shield exhausted when all of the guns were empty and the female gang members began to reload. Mystic covered as he stepped in front of Black Bird when she fell to her knees. He sent out hexes which caused the guns to backfire.
"Alakazam, Android," Raved yelled as the door to the roof was knocked down and girls ran though and surrounded the Titans, "help Mystic with the girls in the windows." It was then he saw Porcelain Doll jump off the roof, grabbing a pipe on the way down she slowed her fall and hit the ground looking forward at the clear path she had to the mayor. "Beast Lad!" Rave shouted.
"Already on it," Beat Lad said as he jumped off the roof and turned into a pigeon as he avoided fire from the vixens on the roof. The magically charged changeling beat Porcelain Doll to the mayor and turned back to normal in front of the frightened women. Porcelain Doll reached him and he stuck out his arms and he stood between them. "I don't want to hurt her," Beast Lad said trying to talk down the insane women.
"Too bad," Doll growled as she knocked Beast Lad out with the handle of her gun and pushed him out of the way. She knocked down the mayor and pointed the gun right at the leaders head as she smiled a crooked smile. Bang!
The mayor closed her eyes and only opened them when she realized she wasn't dead. Surrounding her was a shield made of black magic that was being stretched back by the bullet, absorbing it. "Miss Mayor," Black Bird said through clenched teeth as she held the shield, "I would run."
The mayor nodded and took off into a black car which sped off down the road. Black Bird growled again when the major was gone and dropped the shield as she sent out two birds from her sleeve. The sorceress's birds attacked the crazed women's face and she tried to get them off her with no success. She finally grabbed Beast Lad off of the ground and held him with her gun to his temple, "call of your animals or the freak gets it."
"Mark," Black Bird said forgetting to use his codename from the shock of seeing her brother with a gun to his head. Her birds instantly disappeared as she lowered her arms and whispered, "don't hurt him."
"Good choice," Porcelain Doll said as she began to walk backwards towards a row of vans as Black Bird followed with concern. "Call off the attack and get to the vans," the cracked women said into a hidden com link.
"Yes Miss Doll," came the response and the firing stopped as out from the buildings around the van filed out rows of golden locks, followed shortly by the Titans who quickly stopped when they saw their unconscious team-mate in her grasp.
"Beast Lad!" Android and Alakazam shouted out in unison as the both went to lunge at the villainess.
"No," Rave shouted as he put out his arms to stop the girls from rushing in.
"That's right," Doll said as she approached the hot pink convertible that rested in front of the vans. A girl jumped into the drivers seat and Porcelain Doll opened the back door. "See you around Titans," she said as she threw Beast Lad towards the team making them all run to catch him. Meanwhile Porcelain Doll had already jumped into the backseat and the car peeled out followed by the vans.
"What happened?" Beast Lad asked as he came to and looked up at the team as they surrounded him.
"We lost," Rave growled and he watched the vans disappear, "again! What is wrong with us why cant we every be prepared for anything new!"
"Hey this is all my fault," Beast Lad said as he got up with some help from the two girls he still didn't know had a crush on him.
"It doesn't matter," the Titan leader yelled as he waved his arms, "right now we have to figure out what Porcelain Doll is doing here."
"I though she was here to kill the mayor," Black Bird said quietly as she tried not to blush when she looked at Rave but couldn't help it when he looked at her.
"No if she wanted to kill a high level mayor she would of stayed in Gotham, and if she wanted a high level female mayor she could of went to Metropolis, Lois Lane is running for re-election this year. No, this was just something to do in her free time."
"So why is she here then?" Mystic asked with his arms crossed as he looked at the half alien for answers.
Rave had to think about this one but then he got it, "people only come to jump city for two reasons. 1.To see us and 2.For technology. Now she already saw us and she's still here so she must be out to get some tech.
"What kind of device could she need?" Beast Lad asked as he rubbed his head where he had been hit, Android doing a scan with her arm as Alakazam did one with her wand. The two scans messed up the results of both and the girls growled at each other for trying to help.
Rave thought for a second and then said "let's find out."
Hours later, just past dusk long after the Titans had given up trying to find just what piece of technology Porcelain Doll was looking for and settled in for the night, well every one except Rave. In a warehouse on the other side of town the entire Baby Doll gang surrounded one man holding a large case. The entire warehouse was full of women except for a circle around this man and the warehouse was anything but small. The man flinched a little as the tough as nails women stared him down. That's when Porcelain Doll herself emerged and stepped in front of the man who she was considerable taller then. "Do you have it?" she asked as she circled him like a shark.
"Right here," the man chuckled nervously as he tapped the case his head turning as far as it could go and snapping back to see her as she circled.
"Well," the villainess said as she stopped in front of him and crossed her arms behind her back, "show it to me."
"R-r-right," the man said as he put the case down on the ground and undid the two clasp that held it in place. He opened the case to reveal a large gun that had a very wide opening and a small container under it right in front of the trigger, almost like a squirt gun. "Just as you asked The Matter Transporter. Now I know it looks primitive but this is the latest technology," the lone man explained as he handled the large weapon. "It is quite simple to work as well. This dial on the side can be set to different frequencies like inanimate objects, or plants, or cats," the man said pointing to a dial with a keypad around it.
"Could you show us," Doll asked as she waved her hand towards her gang members to show who us were.
"Of course," the man said quickly as he turned on the gun and it made a charging noise, "you see," he aimed the gun at the case and shot a beam of energy at it making it disappear. "It makes the case go away but not your men…ah I mean women," he said trailing it over the women who didn't even flinch as it hit them. "You can reverse it too," he said turning the dial and firing the beam at the ground the case reappearing.
"I'll take it," Porcelain Doll smiled as she took the weapon away from the man and began to fiddle with the dial as she turned around as she began to leave
"Yes well there's still the issue of my payment," the man said as he raised his voice for the first time to the crazed women.
Porcelain Doll smiled as she found the setting she wanted and said, "No there isn't," she then quickly turned and fired the gun at the man making him disappear. "Come now girls," Doll said as she threw the gun to one of her gang members and once again began to walk out of the warehouse, "we have work to do."