Hello boys and girls and welcome, finally, to chapter twenty-one of The New Teen Titans. Now first off I am so very sorry for how late this chapter is. I started a new semester in school, and had a birthday, and had writers block, and I was sick, and the stars just aligned to make it absolutely impossible to write this chapter. But it's here now and I think it might be the longest chapter I have ever written. So thank you StarfireK, Mr. D 91, Valda, and Neko Saphira for your reviews and here is chapter twenty-two of The New Teen Titans.
Chapter 21: Girls Night Out: End
"So explain exactly how this is going to work?" Red X asked as she got out of the aptly named T-2 car. She stood in a dark alley between two large buildings where the car had been parked. All around them the town was in complete blackness except for the many small fires around town and the gang of slowly dividing lights who were ready to seek out and destroy the Titans.
"Listen, Porcelain Doll said that they changed the city with some bomb thing, right?" Black Bird asked and waited for the rest of the team to nod before continuing, "well she changed what disappears with that gun by using a dial so we should be able to reverse the bomb so it brings back the guys easily."
"Wait, wait, wait," Android said as she stepped forward with her arms raised and her head bowed, eyes closed as she shook her head, "Just who would be doing this 'reversing'."
"Well you would, I mean it must not be that hard," Black Bird said with a shrug, "just flip a switch or something."
"Yeah sure maybe if I had a complex understanding of all aspects of the mechanics," Android said as her eyes went wide with stress when she realized how important she was to this plan of Black Bird's.
"Yes that's why you're not going to be there," Black Bird said earning herself a collective strange look from all the girls present. "You'll be going to the company that makes the weapon and hacking into their database and then telling me how to rewire the bomb."
"Well what company would that be?" Alakazam asked as she moved around to the other side of the car, away from the rest of the group.
"Only one place in town makes that kind of weapon and that's Star Labs: Alpha Weapon Program Facilities." Black Bird got another strange look from the group and then blushed as she stutter, "I was reading some files to try an impress Rave." The team moaned as they watched their friend go from fearless leader to bubbly teenager in four seconds flat.
"Anyway," Red X said to snap Black Bird out of her thoughts, "so we're splitting into two groups then?"
"Yes," Black Bird said shaking herself and getting back to the plan she was kind of making as she went along. "You're going to go with Android and Alakazam is going to come with me to the centre of town."
"Won't they be guarding that place?" Alakazam asked as she rounded the car and came back to the group, "I mean they'll be expecting us to do something like this, right?"
"Yes well we're going to have to fight some of them off but if we can get the guys back the Baby Dolls will scatter. Then we can worn the other city's that have bombs in them and everything will be back to normal in a matter of hours," Black Bird finished, letting out a sigh as she waited for responses to her plan.
"Alright," Red X said after a minute of silence, "then what you want me to do with this then?" the thief said as she held up the trigger she had stolen and spun it on the tip of her finger.
"Keep it with you," Black Bird said which gained her a suspicious look from Red X as if to say, 'you trust me?', "It would be safest with you and if they can't get it then we don't have to worry about any of the other bombs. Alright then everything settled?" Black Bird asked and let loose a sign when she got nods in return, "lets go then."
"We'll contact you on my com-link when we get to the lab," Android said as Black Bird floated up towards the top of a building and turned to face the rest of the team.
"Alright," Black Bird said as she waited for Alakazam to join her in the air, "don't steal anything," the Titan added glancing down at Red X.
"I'll try,' Red X said sarcastically as she rubbed her foot on the ground and looked down with her hands behind her back like a embarrassed child.
"Right," Black Bird said, rolling her eyes as Alakazam ran up to her on a staircase made of playing cards which disappeared behind her. "Here's hoping this works," Black Bird said turning around and disappearing into the night. Alakazam turned and gave a short nod to the other girls before following suit on her surfboard like playing card.
"Let's get to that building then," Android said as she and Red X looked down from where they had just watched their allies leave from. Android climbed into the front seat and Red X slide across the roof getting in the passenger side. Android began to start up her car and turned curiously to Red X and asked, "hey, it true that you like Rave?"
"Nah," Red X said with a little chuckle as she relaxed in her seat, "that's just something I said to get under Black Bird's skin. Actually it be kind of weird if I liked him."
Android raised a mechanical eyebrow and was going to ask why but she had already put her foot on the gas and was zooming off towards the weapons company. Two lines of blue light following behind her as she sped through the city streets.
Meanwhile in Jump City Park the other two femme fatale wondered down a path leading to the centre of the large park. Once marked off by a clearing with a large tree in the middle surrounded by benches. The tree was now gone after the battle with Professor Chaos had destroyed it but the clearing was still there. Alakazam and Black Bird hid behind some trees just far enough in the shadows that they could still make each other out. About six spotlights were set up in a circle along the outside of the clearing. They lit the park brighter then if it was day but in-between them and along every trail leading up to this area it was pitch black. Baby Dolls walked all around this area, some emerging from the blackness of the paths in pairs. It was amazing the two Titans hadn't been spotted but there in the middle of the clearing was the bomb. Concededly smaller then they had imagined but still dangerous. They needed a plan.
"What do we do now?" Alakazam asked on a breath almost too quiet to hear even with Black Bird's increased hearing.
"I don't know," Black Bird said equally as quiet as she began to bite one of her nails nervously.
"What!" Alakazam said in a slightly louder whisper that caused Black Bird to lift a finger to her lips and give the magician a stern look. "What do you mean you don't have a plan?" Alakazam said going quiet again.
"I didn't think we'd get this far?" Black Bird said after searching her mind for an answer.
Alakazam stopped herself from screaming but the look on her face said it all, "well if you don't make something up I'm go-humph!" Suddenly two hands had come out and wrapped themselves around Alakazam's and Black Bird's heads, pulling them further into the darkness.
"You trying to get us killed?" said an oddly familiar feral voice as two Baby Doll's walked by on the path Android and Black Bird had been standing in. The hands unwrapped themselves and both girls looked up with a gasp at the people who had saved them. Stretch and Bobcat of the H.I.V.E.
"What are you guys doing here?" Black Bird asked as she tried to stand taller in front of the two female villains.
"We're kind of missing two of our members," Bobcat said with a hiss.
"Guy with a techno filled backpack and a dude with an accent," Stretch said as she stretched her arms into the outline of the two missing villains before snapping them back to her side.
"Well we're missing some team-mates too," Black Bird said as she glanced over at Alakazam and said, "I'm going to see how it's going on Android's end," receiving a strong nod from Alakazam she took out her communicator.
With a flip of a switch Android appeared on the screen announcing, "Android here."
"How's it going on your end?" Black Bird asked as she looked up to see glances being exchanged between Alakazam and the H.I.V.E. girls.
"Pretty good, we ran into some problems," Android said as behind her a Baby Doll ran by and ran right into a dropkick from Red X sending her to the ground as Red X flipped back to her feet before hitting the ground. "They're all taken care of," Android said with a smile, "we'll head up to a higher floor and I'll try to find a master computer or some kind of database."
"Great, we'll hold down base here and wait for you until we're forced to attack," Black Bird said with a smile that quickly faded as Alakazam tugged on her cloak.
"Ah, leader girl," she said in a normal speaking voice as she looked between the trees towards the clearing where the H.I.V.E. girls were attacking a group of Baby Dolls. Bobcat was jumping on one as Stretch hit two with some stretched out punches.
Black Bird closed her eyes and sighed as with a strained voice she said, "I got to go," before shutting the communicator off. "We have to help them don't we?" Black Bird said as she opened her eyes looking at Alakazam who gave her a nod with an almost sad expression.
Bobcat meanwhile was running around the clearing on all fours, her eyes filled with a feral rage as she dodged bullets. She jumped into the air and landed on a Doll's shoulders jumping off them and sending her to the ground as she landed on two other girls. They both collapsed under her as one of her feet hit them and she brought up a clawed hand to strike one of them when her ear twitched from hearing a familiar sound.
"Azarath Arella Azar!" Bobcat snapped her head around and saw Black Bird with her arms raised, hands glowing black. She then slowly looked behind her where a Doll had been sneaking up on her. The gangster's gun glowed black and was yanked from her hand and then into her face, knocking her out. The feral villain stared back at Black Bird and then started running towards her on all fours. Jumping when she got near to the Titan making her close her eyes in shock but then open them just in time to see Bobcat on top of a Doll and bringing her fist down upon her mouth. Both girls nodded at each other and established an unspoken truce before turning to take on more Dolls.
Meanwhile Alakazam cast a spell and turned two of the girls guns into snakes causing them to shriek and drop their weapons, which slithered away. Stretch followed this up by stretching her arms along the ground and bringing them up into two uppercuts, sending the two Dolls into the air. "You should really consider our side of things," Stretch said with a smile as she looked over at Alakazam, "we got dental."
Alakazam just gave her a weird look and held her wand up, firing off a spell right over Stretch's shoulder, "just pay attention." she said pointing behind her at the Baby Doll frozen in ice.
The grouping continued to destroy the gang of Baby Doll's actually working quite well as a team as some of the Doll's fled. "Only a couple left," Bobcat purred as she tackled a Doll to the ground and was about to slash her throat when a black magic covered her hand. She looked up to see Black Bird shacking her head no. She growled and moaned out, "heroes."
"Abra!" Alakazam yelled out as she zapped the ground below the feet of a Doll turning it to pudding. She spun her wand around and turned on her toe yelling out, "Kadabra!" making the baggy sweater of one of the three remaining Doll's rap around her like a straight jacket. She then turned all the way around as she spun her wand above her head to face the last two frightened Baby Dolls. Gripping the wand in both hands she yelled out, "Alakazam!" sending a blast behind them at a tree that then began to creak to life, reaching out two arm-like branches it grabbed the girls and squeezed them into unconsciousness. "Well that takes care of that," she said triumphantly turning towards the crowd.
The entry group smiled at her but their smiles disappeared as she glowed blue and then disappeared. Behind her with the gun still smoking smiling a crocked insane smile was Porcelain Doll, "hello ladies."
All Alakazam's spells disappeared as the tree snapped back to its unmoving form and dropped the two girls as others appeared knocked out but otherwise completely unharmed, not in pudding or frozen in ice. None of the girl notice this though as they snapped into action. Bobcat jumped towards Porcelain Doll as her fellow H.I.V.E. member stretched back one of her arms and let it snap like a rubber band towards the psychotic women. But all she did was laugh, firing at Bobcat in the air as she simultaneous sidestepped the rubber fist. As Bobcat disappeared in a blue light Doll grabbed the arm of Stretch before it could go back and forced the gun into it, stretching it out around the muzzle before firing it off again. Stretch's eyes went wide as her arm turned blue and tracked up her body making it to her and causing her to disappear just like Bobcat. All the while Black Bird stood absolutely still, eyes wide.
Porcelain Doll smiled crookedly and them took aim at Black Bird saying simple, "weakness," before firing at Black Bird a fully charged blast. She dived out of the way at the last moment and rolled along the ground as the laser hit a Baby Doll, causing her to disappear. "You think you can beat me," she said sadistically as she fired another blot of blue light at Black Bird who quickly flew into a tree and into the darkness.
Doll ventured into the words after her, the only thing lighting her way being the light from the glowing weapon she held on her shoulder. "You think you're pretty and special," Porcelain Doll said as she heard a rustle in the trees and wiped around, firing off a beam at the tree and lighting it up for a split second, revealing Black Bird running to a different tree. "In reality you're just a weak little girl with a stupid crush," Porcelain Doll laughed as she turned around in the darkness.
"I am not weak," Black Bird said as she appeared behind Porcelain Doll opening her glowing eyes in the dark. She launched her arms forward and a giant raven flew from them towards the wide-eyed villain. It connected with her chest and pushed her though the air, its wings cutting down trees as it went. Porcelain doll was launched back into the clearing when the bird disappeared after hitting the light, like it had hit a barer. The gang leader recovered from her blow and quickly stood as she saw Black Bird's glowing eyes in the darkness. "And Rave is not stupid!" she shouted emerging from the darkness inside a Gorilla made of black magic. Swinging its fist Porcelain Doll could do nothing but take the hit right to her face.
The gorilla disappeared and Black Bird fell to the ground and crawled over to the bomb. Taking out her communicator she got Android on it and asked in a gasp, "do you have the info yet?"
Across town on the top floor of a large high-rise Android sat in a chair, a wire jetting from her wrist into a laptop that was connected to a large server. Behind her Red X silently watched the city's fires being put out as the sun raised over the horizon and on the table in front of her was her com-link. "You sound tired, you ok?" Android asked as ones and zeros once again found themselves racing by her eyes.
"Porcelain Doll attacked," Black Bird said lowering her head and trying to catch her breath, "talk later. Do you have the info?"
"Almost…" Android said as she hurried her search. A eternity of three seconds went by until there was a short beeping noise the numbers disappeared from Android's blue eyes, "got it!" she turned to tell Red X but no one was there, just an open window. Biting her lip she turned back to her temporary leader and said, "it's easy, just open it up and interchange two wires, press go and kaboom! All done."
"Alright but there's a problem," Black Bird said as she opened the bomb up very carefully, "when Doll came she hit some people with that gun and well…one was Alakazam," Black Bird stuttered out nervously.
"That's fine if they built it right there should be a cord in the back of the gun," Android said as numbers filled her eyes again when she started digging for information. "Plug that into the side of the bomb and set the gun to 'reverse' everyone who was hit in the last twenty-four hours will be brought back just like that," she explained with a snap of her fingers.
"Great!" Black Bird said enthusiastically as she did what she was told, "alright now all I need to know is which wires to change," she said with a smile, this was starting to come together.
"Ok this is important," Android said, slowing the speed of her voice, "take the red wire from the right side and the blue from the left side and interchange them."
Black Bird didn't move, she just stared down at the mess of wire and took a large gulp, "ok new problem."
"What?" Android asked finally retracting her cord from the computer and moving her wrist in circles like she had a cramp.
"Do you know that most animals can't see colour?" Black Bird said with a shy smile on her face and a little nervous laugh.
"You're kidding?" Android said flatly, "Beast Lad can see colour."
"Yeah well I'm not Beast Lad so can you help me out?" Black Bird said in frustration but she calmed when she realized how stupid she looked yelling at a communicator in an empty park.
"Fine just hold the com-link up and I'll just tell y-" that was all Android got out before the communicator was blown from Black Bird's hand. Her eyes went wide and she wiped her head around to see where the blast had come from.
There Porcelain Doll stood, one arm raised and a small hand gun in it and the over limply at her side as she supported her self mostly on one leg. Her noise was bleeding and bent to one side, her eyes looking a lot more insane then they had already been a twitch finding its way to one. "You broke my noise," she said simple as she stumbled forward with a limp and lazily re-aimed her gun at Black Bird's head.
Black Bird let out a screech and roiled out of the way as the bullet skidded by and put a new hole in her cloak. Acting on impulse she grabbed the gun attached to the bomb and fired it at the insane women making her disappear instantly. Black Bird let loses a sigh but then gasped as she quickly scattered back to the com-link. A large hole went straight through the screen of the device, it was ruined. Black Bird cursed and looked down at the grey mess of wires that made up the bomb in her mind.
"What am I suppose to do," she said racking her brain for answers. Then it came to her, it was brash and may not work but there was no time for Android to get to the park, back up for the defeated Baby Doll's was sure to show. She placed her hands over the bomb and closed her eyes, if she couldn't see the colours with her eyes she would see them with her mind. As her hands began to glow two wires unplugged themselves. Sweat dripped down Black Bird's face as she closed her eyes tighter and bite her lip trying to plug the cords into different plugs. She did so and peeped one eye open just in time to catch the explosion, which blew her back a few feet.
Once the stars left her eyes she opened them to see a few men with their arms wrapped around figures that weren't there, like they had been taking walks with their girlfriends when they disappeared. There was even a teen with spiked hair that was sitting on a bench with his arms wrapped around nothing and his tongue hanging out of his mouth who must have given his girlfriend a scare. They all seemed to click into existence at the same time and looked around confused. That took care of the guys but what about the people hit with the gun. Black Bird got her answer in the form of a scream from above and then a large weight landing on top of her.
"I think there's a problem with that bomb," Alakazam said as she stood up from her friend and helped her up. Everyone in the area looked up when much more screaming came from a series of other girls falling form the sky. Black Bird whipped out her arms and stopped them for a moment before letting them all drop the left over inch to the ground.
"What's going on here?" said a female cop who burst into the park looking around at the men standing around in awe.
"You may want to dispose of that bomb maim," Black Bird said as she looked down and spotted Porcelain Doll crawling along the ground towards her gun. The gun was quickly yanked out of her reach by black magic, which smashed it against a tree. Alakazam then followed it up with a spell that turned the pieces into flowers. "Mind if we take this one?" Black Bird asked as black magic bond and gagged the female mobster.
"Sure," the cop said, still in disbelief of the scene she walked in on. The two girls smiled at each other and found themselves back at the tower in almost no time.
The first thing Alakazam saw was Beast Lad. She made to run towards him with her arms outstretched but she hit a wall named Android. Her face flattened against the metal of Android's chest as the robotic teen smiled and said, "I got here first." All Beast Lad could do was laugh nervously at the two girls.
"Android tells me you took over when we disappeared," Rave said to a Black Bird who was blushing hard enough to make a fire truck jealous, "she tells me you did well."
"Yeah…well…" Black Bird stuttered as she rubbed her toe into the floor, "I brought you something," she said as she dragged Porcelain Doll in front of her.
Rave got down on one knee in front of Porcelain Doll and Black Bird ripped the magic away from her mouth. "What do you want?" Rave asked as the team went quiet around him.
"Why don't you look in my pocket," she spat out at their leader.
Rave silently reached into the insane women's pocket and pulled out a small calling call. It was blank everywhere except for a small set of words on the front which read, 'The Order of Chaos' Rave turned the card again and saw that the words were 3D and when he turned it the image change to the sign of Slade. "Slade," Rave said as he stood and looked at his team-mates.
"Not just Slade," Porcelain Doll said from the floor, "together there are hundreds of us, thousands even. Do you really think you can defeat us? Do you really think that you can find your parents? Do you really think your going to win?"
"We do," Rave said, as he stood a little straighter, "because we're Titans. Up until now we've been looking for our parents almost like it was something to do in our spare time. But not anymore, this Order of Chaos knows something. So from now on we're doubling our efforts and if that means taking out this cult then we will, one by one."