Chapter 4: The Soldiers of Mutentica
Major Rash was happy to no longer be in the middle of a fire fight, but he didn't seem to show it. He was too busy trying to figure out the current situtation from what little Recon could tell him.
"So in lamens turns sir," Recon said as he summed everything up "we pretty much have a huge problem on our hands. The National Guard is on their way right now but I don't think that they or us are equipped for the situation. We'll need reinforcements."
"How long until you get them exactly?" Rash asked
"A few hours," Recon admited "until then the best we can do is contain the situation."
Robin was the first one to suggest an idea.
"What if we find this Karvisko?" He asked "The mutants would have to surrender right?"
"That pretty much the plan kid." Rash told the young superhero "Problem is we just don't know exactly where he is."
"There's so much Mutant activity in the city he could be anywhere." Recon explained
"Maybe I can find out." Cyborg offered "The Titans supercomputer can pretty much detect a crime wherever it might happen. If you give me a few minutes I can pin point the most likely place where he might be."
"How exactly?" Recon asked
"Well I just locate their big HQ and destroy. It should be where the most Mutants are concentrated. Give me a second." Cyborg began to work his magic on the computer.
"I appreciate this Cyborg." Recon told him "Normally we'd have our Satelites do the work like this for us but we barely even know where to start."
"I should have the list narrowed down in a few minutes just hang."
That when Rash's cell phone rang.
"Excuse me." He said as he opened the phone. "Hello?...Yes Mr. President...I'm fine...Recon saved me and so did the Titans...Yes we are already assesing the situation...Thats good...Understandable...Sir right now we really just need reinforcements...I see...Uh huh...Okay...We'll hold out till then...I know you're worried, so am I...Listen all we can do now is wait you just have to keep the politics under control...Okay, talk to you then...stay frosty." Rash then hang up
"What is it sir?" Recon asked
"Well you'll get your reinforcements by nightfall and because of this whole insurgency the US President isn't just sending in the National Guard, Rage has told me that he's sending in the regular army as well, but we have a bigger problem." He told them
"What?" Robin asked
"News crews, they want to know exactly what is going on." Rash explained "We are going to have reporters coming in here with those US soldiers and when that happens we're all going to be on public TV. And if I know terrorists they are just going to love that."
"They have the right to know sir." said Recon
"Knowing about how we're controling the situation is fine. I just don't want the terrorists to use them as a showcase for their actions." Rash elaborated "The last thing we need is a headline about Mutants killing civies. It might as well be a call to hatred, damging relations between Mutentica and the United States. Allowing Karvisko to undermine the democratic leadership of the country."
"We won't let that happen." Robin exclaimed pounding is fists together
"Damn right we won't." Recon assurred him "I've already sent helicopters out to signal the city's residents to stay indoors and remain calm. If they don't get in the way of 'The Red Path' insurgents, the Mutants can't hurt them."
"Good start." said Rash
Suddenly Cyborg spoke up
"I got it!" He shouted "There's a large amount of Mutant activity at the footbbal stadium downtown."
"What are they doing?" Robin asked
"I don't know," Said Cyborg "but it looks like they got the place surrounded and closed off pretty good."
"Robin," said Recon "gather your other teamates here in 15 minutes while me and the Major go over a plan of attack."
"Will do." Robin saluted
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"Bull." Reige exclaimed to Beastboy
Reige and him were outside with Snipe in the Raptorian encampment they had set up on the roack shoreline.
"Its true!" Beastboy exclaimed "Raven's father was a crazy four eyed demon that destroyed the whole world and we saved it. She went all super charged and totally wiped her dad's face off the earth."
"I would remembered the world being blown up." Reige told him
"I'm told you," Beastboy said frustratedly "everyone turned to stone so no one really knows what happened except for us."
"Pft," Reige grunted "next you'll tell me that space Tofu almost destroyed the Earth but you stopped them with a motorbike."
"It was a moped actually."
"Snipe," Reige called over to his brother "do you believe this green hippie?"
"Not anymore outlandish then some of your tales Reige." Snipe said dispondiantly
"And I am not a Hippie." Beastboy reminded Reige
"Whatever tofu muncher." Reige said rolling his eyes "At least I never make up stories about girls hugging me."
"I'm telling you, she totally hugged me." Beastboy assured "It wasn't a dream, I swear! I checked. I pinched myself a lot of times!"
"Oh really." Reige said as he smiled snisterly suddenly "Hey goth chick, did little green hippie here hug you?"
Beastboy froze and he slowly turned around to see Raven standing over him.
"How long have you been there?" He asked
"Long enough to here you talking about private moments."
"I was just..." He couldn't get a word in edge wise as Raven had already turned and left. "Oh Rae, come on! I'm sorry, I was just making small talk!" Beastboy ran after her
"HA!" Reige scoffed "Little stupid hippie tofu muncher, that oughta teach him to make up crap about demons and alien freaks."
"You do realise that you inadverdently confirmed that he was telling the truth about him and Raven hugging by her reaction." Snipe told Reige
Reige thought about what Snipe had just said over in his mind. The gears eventually turned and he came to one inevitable conclusion.
"Ah damn, he got that close to the goth chick!" Reige exclaimed "How is that possible?"
"Probably the ears." Snipe joked
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Raven had almost fully retreated to her room when Beastboy finally caught up to her. She asked herself why exactly did she slow down? She should have known Beastboy would have been persistant enough to follow her. She decided to just not look at him.
"Rae please, let me explain." He pleaded
"I don't wanna hear it."
"But there is real good reason for all of this." He assured
"I'm sure there is," She snapped still not lookiing at him "you just happen to like sharing all our secrets with total strangers don't you? Perhaps you wanted them to think you were a great macho superhero and that you had a million girlfriends. Cause if that is why you liked sharing that private moment with Reige as well as revealing my family heritage then I totally understand"
"No you don't understand..." Beastboy was unable to finish however because Raven turned on him with a rather angry face.
"I completely understand. You're an immature child who will do anything to get attention even if it means telling people secrets about their friends! How many others did you tell already? Do you have web site called 'Raven's Secrets' on the net somewhere? Is it a hobby for you to act like an insensitive jerk all the time?"
Beastboy, now cowering in fear, tried to get his side of the story out.
"It isn't like that, Rae. Honest, I didn't mean to say anything important, but you see...I wasn't bragging or anything, it was just well...I..."
"Well what?" Raven asked, still rather annoyed
"Reige was making cracks about you being a goth a stuff." Beastboy explained "So I thought that if I told him why you were like you were he would stop making fun of you."
"That explains why you spurt out my family history, but why the hug?"
"Reige called you an unfeeling pale faced ice queen as one of his insults." Beastboy answered "So I him about that to, you know, prove he was wrong."
Raven calmed down, a little, he wasn't bragging or trying to show off he was actually trying to defend her. She was happy he wasn't being selfish, but that didn't make her less angry at him.
"My life isn't just an open book you can read to random people Beastboy. Next time you think about defending try not to use private moments between us okay."
"I'm sorry Raven," Beastboy omited lowering his head "its just that I didn't know what to use. So I just said the first things that came to my mind and usually, I guess, that isn't a good idea."
"And that hug was one of the things that popped into your mind why?" She asked
Beastboy needed to quickly think of what to say next. If he said the wrong thing Raven would probably never speak to him again or she would probably just kill him. Either way, this was one of those moments that he needed to think hard about. But he was unable to think of anything else but one answer.
"Because it was special to me." He replied
Raven just stood there for a moment, making sure she had heard him correctly. She thought she sould say something that would at least make Beastboy seem less nervous around her for the rest of the day, for it was apparent that he was waiting to see what her reaction was.
"Well," She now said with a monotone and more normal face "I'm glad that it was special for you to expierennce."
"Yeah, so...we...you know...good?" Beasstboy asked
"I guess. But no more stories okay."
"Sure, deal."
It was at this time that Robin showed up in the hallway and called the two Titans over to the living room.
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The mission plan was simple. The Raptors would surround the Stadium while the Titans and several other sqauds broke in and took down all of the Mutant soldiers inside. Hopefully the success of the operation would relieve some of the pressure that the city was now in. Reports of Mutant terrorist activity were coming from everywhere. If the Stadium was where most of them were amassing in strength then maybe retaking it would disorient them somewhat. The operation started as two Raptorian armoured vehicles opened fire on the Stadium entrances, destroying the guard stations there. After that the Raptors had surrounded the area from all sides. Now they needed to go in and clean the place out. The Titans had entered through the second ticket terminal.
"Okay everyone," said Robin "I suggest we split up and help the Raptors that are in here clear this place out. If you run into trouble call someone over to help you."
The other Titans nodded in approval and split up.
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Cyborg had made his way to the locker rooms of the stadium. As he entered he scanned the area with his sensors, nothing. This was getting discouraging He heard distant sporadic gunfire from other parts of the stadium but so far didn't encouter anything himself. With any luck everyone else was already getting action.
"Maybe I picked the quiet part of the building." he thought
Suddenly a punch to his back allerted him otherwise. Lifting himself off the ground he turned to face his attacker. A rather tall mutant with a somewhat long neck stood over him. His snout look somewhat beak-like in appearance and along with his two arms he had four additional limbs, tentacles to be more precise, sticking out of his trenchcoat. His helmet in the meantime seemed to be barely sticking on. It was floppying from side to side as the mutant moved his head. He would almost look comical if he wasn't trying to kill Cyborg.
"So," The Mutant spoke in a rather thick and husky Russian accent "this is the great Cyborg of the Teen Titans. One of the best Jump City and America itself has to offer."
"Got that right tentacle boy." Cyborg boasted "Now who are you?"
"I am Lieutenant Sergey, of the Mutentican Armed Forces, loyal member of the communist party and the last living thing you shall ever see!" The Mutant lunged a tentacle at Cyborg but he managed to dodge it at the last second.
"Nice try, but you can't stop me that easily." said Cyborg arming his Sonic Cannon.
Sergey only put his hands and tentacles up.
"As you can see I am unarmed, where is this American sense of honour I heard so much about?"
"Okay, fine you want a fair fight you asked for it." said Cyborg
Cyborg powered down his sonic cannon and lifted a nearby locker over his head. He then threw the locker straight at Sergey who simply caught it with his tentacles and ripped it apart. Sergey then latched one of his tentalce onto Cyborg and slammed him into a wall. Cyborg repayed the Mutant in kind by grabbing the still wrapped around tentacle and swinging Sergey into a row of lockers.
"You are strong American," The Mutant spoke as his tentacle retracted back to him "but you are still no match for me. I have you out armed as it were."
"Oh ha ha, very funny. And I thought BB's puns were bad."
Sergey used his tentacles to wrench a nearby bench out of the floor and broke it in half. He swung the two pieces at a now charging Cyborg who was unable to dodge them but still kept going slamming right into the mutant and knocking clean into a wall. Cyborg now had him by the neck.
"Gotcha now."
"Correction Capitalist," Sergey sputerred "It is I who have you."
Cyborg looked down at his feet and saw two tentacles coiled around them. Cyborg was lifted right off the ground and was now being held procariously in mid-air.
"Put me down!" He shouted
"As you wish." said Sergey and then he flung Cyborg through a wall and into the locker room showers. Cyborg got to his feet and turned to face Sergey as he walked through the brand new hole in the wall. "No normal human can face me alone and your only half a human Comrade. Give up now and perhaps I shall allow you to live."
"Fat Chance." Cyborg shouted back
"You Americans never give up do you?"
"Not in my vocabulary." Cyborg shouted charging head on at the reptile and punching him square in the jaw.
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Raven moved through the dark corridors of the Stadium's staff halls. Making sure to move very carefully through the area. She didn't know what to expect. She did not see anything or hear anything, but she sensed something. A presence that was watching her, following her, immitating her every move. What's more she sensed it was hungry, for what she could not tell. One thing was certain, it was at this moment right above her. She slowly inched another step before turning around and unleashing a blast of black magic from her hand. Whatever it was fell to the ground in a heap.
"Who are you?" She demanded
The creature got up and shook its head. Finally Raven got a good look at her would be assailant. A mutant with a officer's hat stood before her, in place of a trenchcoat was an officer's uniform torn at the sleeves. The Mutant had a somewhat short snout and a strange leatherly nose. He also appeared to have fangs coming down from his upper mouth and two large ears coming out the sides of his head. But the most shocking feature was that he had wing for arms, bat wings.
"I am Colonel Vlad Aleksander my dear girl." He said with a bow, tucking one of his arms under his body
"Charmed I'm sure," Raven said in her usual sarcastic tone "so are yougoing to come quietly or what?"
The Mutant stood tall and resumed his previous position
"I do not desire to be taken prisoner by you American," He said "but there is something I want from you?"
"Which would be?" Raven wondered
"Your blood!"
The Mutant barred his fangs and charged at Raven who phased ointo the ground below causing the Colonel to run straight into a wall. When Raven returned she had a pretty good idea what kind of bat this Mutant was fused with.
"This day just keeps getting weirder and weirder." She thought
The Colonel got to his feet and turned to Raven
"Oh please," He began "I have come so far. I had sucked the blood of prisoner of wars when I invaded the Raptor's island. Since then I've been underground trying to avoid the war crimes tribunal of the UN. I have longed since my last drink to again taste the blood of this Western world. And to partake my first sip from that of a beautiful young American such as yourself would be ever so delightful."
"And I thought Slade was perverted," said Raven "you're just down right mental."
"Enough talk! Give me your blood!"
The Mutant charged again and was shot back by a blast of magic from Raven. She looked around for something to throw before the Mutant got back up. She spotted an over head airduct above the Mutant now lying on the ground trying to rise.
"Azarath Metrion Zinthos!"
With a mutter of her mantra the airduct collapsed and it fell on top of the mutant sending him through the floor. Raven went over to the hole to see what had become of him and was met with a surprise as the Mutant flew back up. Realizing she couldn't take him in this closed space she levitated into the air and flew away as fast as she could while Vlad chased after her.
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Robin in the meantime had met up with the Turagut brothers who were pinned down by a concession stand in front of them. The Mutants inside were firing practically every two seconds. The Raptors couldn't put their heads up for a moment to even shoot one of them.
"Damn I hate it when the is happens!" Rack lamented
"I have an idea." Robin stated
"Oh yeah the human has an idea." Reige snorted "What is it monkey boy? You gonna waltz out there and fling poo at them?"
Reige recieved a conk on his helmet from Rack for his remark to Robin.
"What did I tell you about relating humans to monkeys?" Rack shouted
Robin ignored the Squabble from the Raptor brothers and used his staff to fling himself into the air. High above the fire zone he tossed a smoke bomb into the concession stand. Unable the to see the Mutants stopped firing.
"Now!" Robin shouted to the Turaguts as he landed
The Turaguts stood up and fired into the smoke laden food stand when all had cleared the Mutants had been dispatched.
"Good job Robin." Rack commented "Sure saved our scaly hides back there."
Reige was too busy grunting something uder his throat when he elbowed by his older brother.
"Yeah, yeah," Reige said "Thanks, ya little hairless ape..." Reige trailed off into some diatribe that could not be decifered and probably included several swear words.
Roger in all the commotion had jumped over to the other side of the concession stand and began to rummage around in the back. He finally stuck his head up and waved around a chicken on a rotisserie spike.
"Good news guys! Its undamaged!" He shouted with glee
"Roger get back here already." Rack ordered
"Just let me get some snacks okay!" He shouted back as he returned to his rummaging
"Always thinking with his stomach he is." Snipe commented
Robin turned to Rack for an update on the situtation
"How are things going?" He asked
"So far we're doing well." Rack informed "But we're having trouble getting to the field and the seats of the place. They seem to have closed off all entrances to it."
"Why?" Robin asked
"Probably hiding something big." Rack told him "Tanks, weapons, maybe a helicopter or two. Whatever it is We gotta get in there."
"I think there is a boarded of entrance to the field down this hallway," said Snipe "Reige here has some explosives that he could use to blow the boards out and get us through."
"I love C4." said Reige hugging a pack of explosives he carried.
This earned him a confused and rather disturbed look from Robin
"Ignore that," Snipe whispered to him "he sleeps with a loaded shotgun."
Roger had jumped back over the the concession stand barrier carrying a box of nachos in one of his hands and two hot dogs in his mouth that he was slowly munching down as well as a soda in his other hand. He mumbled something through his stuffed face that was rather in coherent when a shot rang out and he tumbled over dropping his Nachos and soda and screaming in pain. He clutched his foot yelling at every counter-swear word imaginable.
"Popper Cracky Mother Fudger!" He screamed "My gosh darn foot!"
Snipe ran over to give his little brother first aid while Reige, Robin and Rack turned to see a frilled Dinosaur with four arms holding two assault rifles, a gas mask that only covered his mouth, wearing paratrooper pants and had what appeared to have anttena and insect wings on his back.
"Big mistake mother F'er!" Screamed Reige "That was my little brother!"
Reige fired off a round from his shotgun at the Mutant who scurried behind a pillar in the middle of the walkway. And he literally scurried, like an insect, very fast and quite erractic.
"Come back and fight like man you little son of a bitch!" Reige screamed again
"Snipe how is he?" Rack asked turning back to his two brothers
"Its only a flesh wound he'll be okay." Snipe reported
"Get him to cover." Rack ordered turning back to Reige and Robin "Come one we'll take care of that ass wipe."
Rack, Reige and Robin approached the pillar where the Mutant had ducked behind. When they got to it they found the Mutant gone.
"Where did he go?" Reige asked
Robin looked up and saw the Mutant climbing up the pillar
"There he is!"
Reige and Rack looked up and being less surprised then robin was apparently let fired everything they had at the mutant. But the dinosaur just leapt off the pillar and seemed to fly away with his bug like wings.
"Eat this ya little asshole!" Reige said firing his shotgun at the mutant which landed square in his back and dropped him to the ground twitching
"That was for my brother you little insectoid freak!" Reige shouted in triumph
Robin approached the downed Mutant with his staff drawn and just as he got to it he saw the twitching stop. Robin thought this meant it was dead, but then it's eye's opened
"Psyche!" The mutant shouted tripping the Robin onto his back
The still alive mutant scurried several meters away.
"No freakin' way!" Reige shouted
"Who are what the hell are you?" Rack demanded to know
"When you get to hell Raptorian," The mutant spoke "tell them the Cockroach sent you!"
The mutant flung a grenade at the feet of Robin and scurried away into the hallways. Robin tried to move away in time, but he wasn't fast enough.
"Move ya masked moron!" Reige shouted as he grabbed Robin by his cape and pulled him out of the range of the grenade before it exploded
When Robin had the ample time to shake what had just happened he looked to Reige.
"Thanks." He said
"Just because I'm not a big fan of humans doesn't mean I could let ya die." Reige told him
"Come on," said Rack "lets go check up on Roger."
"What about that Cockroach guy?" Robin asked
"Right," Rack said "I better warn HQ. Tell them we have a bug."
"Sure do have a bug." Robin agreed "I mean what the heck was that thing?"
"Some Mutants are fused with insects and are slightly tougher to actually kill." Rack explained "They usually get into the special forces and stuff. Lots of Mutants have two pairs of arms but only a select few have DNA that shares that of an Insect's exoskeleton."
"Think about how hard it is to kill a cockroach by stepping on it," Reige added "now think about trying to take on that kinda armour when you have it fused with a dinosaur's tough hide, specially a Ceratops like that guy apparently is."
"And it can climb up walls and hold two guns?" Robin asked
"Sure can, or four if they are pistols." Rack informed "I fought a couple of mutants who held two fully operational machine guns at times. They're really dangerous, you'll see a lot of them before this crisis is over."
"This never gets easier does it?" Robin wondered
"Its war kid," said Reige "what did you expect?"
Roger and Snipe came over to the group.
"How you doing bro?" Rack asked to Roger
"Fine, fine." The Raptor assured "And best part is the Nachos are okay too!"
Roger held up the box of Nachos and continued to munch on them
"Its nothing bad," said Snipe "It should be healed up by the end of the day. He can still fight."
"Then come on," Rack ordered "we have a Stadium to re-take."
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Starfire blasted her way past Mutant after Mutant as they tried to take her down, but they were no match for the Alien's starbursts. Soon the platoon of soldiers before her ran like the cowards they were.
"I am sorry for having to hurt you!" She shouted "Perhaps if you were nicer we could have been friends."
At that time Cyborg appeared, through a hole in the wall he had apparently been thrown into.
"Cyborg!" Starfire shouted "Are you damaged?"
"Star! Look out!"
But it was too late four tentacle had wrapped around her body and she was dragged closer to Sergey, now standing in the hole that Cyborg had made, as he laughed at her efforts to escape
"I had thought coming here would be a waste of time." He said "No one on this planet can truly match me, I am the most accomplished wrestler in the entire Mutant Army. Winner of several consecutive tournament."
Starfire continued to struggle against his grip
"Of course," Sergey smirked placing his hand underneath Starfire's chin "if coming here meant I could meet the Alien Princess Starfire of Tamaran how could I resist?"
"Put me down!" Starfire shouted
"Oh please, do not struggle." Sergey requested with a smile "I may hurt your deliquet frame."
"I hate to disapoint you," Starfire said "but I am stronger then I look."
Starfire delivered a kick to Sergey's chest causing him to losen his grip on the girl with a sudden gasp. Starfire then punched the Mutant with all her might back into the hole he had crawled out of. He had apparently come from another locker room's showers for had been slammed straight into to one of the stalls with water spewing all over him
"Wretched little Alien bitch!" Sergey muttered before a flurry of Starbolt hit him square on
Weak but still standing he saw a flying Starfire speeding straight at him. Sergy tried to use his tentacles to smack her, but Starfire avoided them and punched Sergey right in the jaw. Causing him fall through more Shower stalls. Then his motion was changed as Starfire grabbed him and flew upwards into the ceiling and throwing him to the ground when they arrived. He got to his feet once more.
"You should not have harmed my friend!" Starfire shouted
As she began a flurry of punches one after the other on Sergey it was apparent that the Mutant was reaching his limit. The furry of punches stopped when Starfire delivered one to his forehead that sent him several feet backwards. Although he was still standing up, Sergey was still in pain. Cracking his rather long neck and preparing to face Starfire again he instead met with more green as Starfire fired her eye bolts at him.
"Aw sh-"
Sergey was unable to finish his swear as the eye bolts blasted him straight out of the stadium and several rooftops away.
"I hope I did not damage your frame of deliquetness!" Star shouted at the fading Mutant's figure.
She now knew why Robin kept saying stuff like that in battles, they were quite enoyable. Cyborgin the meantime had managed to get back on his feet and jumped up to meet Star on the level she had reached.
"Good going Star," Cyborg congradulated "He may be the best in the world, but on Tamaran he's got nothing."
"Thank you friend," Starfire bowed "please are you fit for battle?"
"I'm fine, I just need to get my barrings."
"Wonderful. Then let us continue together."
"If there anymore of those kinda creeps around here I think I'll need back up. Sure."
Starfire's thoughts now turned to the other Titans
"I do hope our friends have not encountered such problems as we have."
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Beastboy was not liking his visit to the Stadium so far. Then again he never liked it there much anyway, due to the fact they only served meat and they didn't allow outside food. But now with a bunch of Mutant Dinosaurs packing guns it wasn't plesant at all. He had managed to take out several columns of soldiers by charging at them as a well armoured and muscular Triceratops and was able to take them on in close combat as a wolf or tiger or gorilla, but they were still almost impossible to stop they just kept coming and coming. There was practically no end to them. As another Mutant fell pray to his Kangaroo kick and bull butthead combo and another Mutant meet the rear end of his Ankylosaurus tail and Gorilla pound move. He was beginning to see how tiring this was getting. He then settled on turning into a giant squid and just picking most of them up and flinging them across the hallway. Eventually the mutants stopped coming and Beastboy finally shifted back into his normal form, panting.
"Dude," He exclaimed "am I the only interesting person around here?"
Beastboy's question was answered as a speeding Raven passed him with some kind of bat thing on her tail that she was firing at.
"Come back!" It exclaimed "I only want you blood!"
"Oh no you don't." Thought Beastboy as he made his next shift into his giant octopus form and grabbed the bat thing in mid air bringing it back down to earth.
"Leave her alone!" Beastboy shouted getting the Mutant's attention
"Her blood is mine American!" The Mutant shouted "There is ntohing you can do to stop me!"
"Oh yeah!" Beastboy shifted into a lion and pounced on the Mutant Bat-Dino.
They rolled around clawing and bitting one another. Beasboy eventually turned into a grizzly bear and tried to pin the Mutant to the ground.
"Beastboy be careful." Raven warned floating back to their position "Watch out for his fangs!"
Beastboy made sure to keep those fangs from biting him, they looked rather sharp and he didn't want to know what would happen if this mutant stuck him with one of them. Eventually the Grizzly picked the mutant up by his wing and pounded him to the ground. Quickly morping into an African Elephant he grabbed the mutant by the torse and swung him into the open hall way of the stadium. The mutant landed in the path of the Sun's shinninh rays and he quickly sheilded his eyes.
"ACK! Too bright!" He screamed in pain "Sensitive eyes! It burns! Curse you Green American! I shall have my revenge upon you and your blue cloaked friend!"
The Mutant flew away through an over head air duct before Beastboy could catch him. Raven floated nearby.
"You okay." He asked
"Yeah, thanks." She replied
"Who was that guy?"
"Some guy named Colonel Vlad Aleksander." Raven told him "Said he wanted to taste Westerner blood again and he choose me."
"Thats just sick." said Beastboy as he covered his mouth
"Tell me about it." Raven agreed "But he's pretty strong, he even managed to hold his own against me. Took a full blast of my powers to the chest and it barely phased him."
"Yikes." Said Beastboy
"You seemed to handle him well though." Raven complimented "You've been practicing it seems."
"Yeah well," Beastboy said scratching his "I had some time on my hand getting over that whole, you know...the thing."
Realising he meant a certain blonde girl that had returned from the dead she decided not to press the issue further.
"I know." She replied "Come on, lets try and find the others."
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Reige pressed the detonator in his hands and watched the boarded up entrance explode.
"Alright squad move in!" Rack shouted as the Turaguts and Robin barged through the entrance way and into the stands. What they saw on the field was astonishing. It was a giant Blimp as big as the entire stadium itself, with turrets covering the entire ship and a bomb rack under its chassis. And worst of all it was almost fully pumped up. The other Raptor squads and Titans broke through to the field area and the stand just in time to see the airship take off and the large doors of the roof of the stadium open as the airship began to rise into the clouds. The soldiers outside surrounding the place also saw the airship as it climbed up into the sky. As the Ttians and other Raptors looked on in awe Rack pulled out his radio and phoned Captain Recon.
"Um sir, I think we have a problem."
Yes, I made Star beat up the strong mutant. I thought it would be cool, besides I don't want to have people thinking I'm cliche by having Cyborg have to save her or something. And there was some little bit of BBxRae because well I have to put a little something in here don't I? I'm not going to have anyone kiss though so forget it. That stuff is okay for most stories but not this one. Anyway, I bet you are all wondering about that blimp huh? Well its origin and purpose will be explained, but allow me to say one thing. There is one more Raptor to be introduced and his premiere is going to be marked with lots of gun play. Hope you like that. Till then please review!