Not one of my longer chapters, but you're getting two once again so don't hassle me about it. If you noticed I also did some re-diting to the first chapter. I got some suggestions that I could make it look better and I believe I have. Also I decided to do this chapter because the Raptors have never really faced one of the Titans foes yet. I mean Jump City usually has a problem every couple of days, would every villian in the world suddenly stop just because a bunch of Terrorist Rogue Army Mutants invaded the city? Well maybe they would considering this timeline takes place after season 5 ended but there were a handfull of badguys who escaped the final freezing in 'Titans Together.' I don't think that the world actually keep them in there however. Lets face it, their bad guys but they don't deserve to be frozen forever. So instead they all go back totheir nice warm jail cells.
Anyway, Disclaimer: Titans and Villians are not owned by me. Anything that is a Mutant Dinosaur or a Raptor does. God, I hate doing these. Of course the alternative is getting sued.
Chapter 12: Walking Pudding
Professsor Chang sat in his cell, twiddling his thumbs and not even listening to the all the commotion that seemed to be happening outside. It wasn't important to him, a lot of things weren't important for the moment. It had been months since he had returned from Paris and had been chizled out of his icy prison. He and all the other villians who joined in on the Brotherhood of Evil's plan had now commited a far greater crime then just idly robbing a bank. Professor Chang still had the whole super laser of death thing on his rap sheet so this only got him more time on his sentence. He'd be out, when he was 201. So now all he had was time, time to think, time to experiment, time to do basically nothing until his end of days. And he would have continued along on that course had fate not intervened and a certain creature with two gas masked armed escorts showed up at his door. They unlocked his cell and the insectoid-lizard like one with a half gas mask around his mouth had taken a seat on the bench next to him.
"Comrade Chang, how good it is to see you still alive." The creature said
"I'm afraid we have not met." Chang told him "Who are you?"
"You may call me Cockroach." He said "A humble servant of a noble cause led by a great man."
"Charmed." Chang said, in non convinced tone "I don't know why you are talking to me and I don't really care now please leave my cell, I have more important work to do then talk to lizard with anttena and names him self after vermin." Chang turned his head away from Cockroach and to the cell door where the two masked soldiers were standing watch
Cockroach did not say anything he only looked over to the wall near the small window to Chang's cell. There were a great deal of calculations on it.
"Does any of that work have anything to do with Xinothium Professor?" Cockroach asked with smile beneath his mask
Chang's eyes widened as he turned back toward Cockroach
"Please don't bring that substance up," Chang requested "it has brought me nothing but trouble. Not to mention humiliation."
"Do you always refer to your expertise with such shame?" Cockroach asked
"Xinothium refining isn't exactly a greatly smiled upon profession. Its usually regarded as a form of slow unintentional suicide do to its unstable nature."
"That is exactly why we are interested in it." Cockroach told him
"And who exactly are you?" Chang asked
"The new dawn for a people who have been led astray from the mighty revolution and our destiny." Cockroach explained "'The Red Path' shall lead the people of Mutentica to a new utopia and a grand new soviet Union shall be born!"
Chang was still unimpressed
"Well if you wish to pave that path with Xinothium be my guest," Chang told him "but you might as well serve up your own death warrant."
"The unstableness of the substance and its dangerous nature is why we want it Professor." Cockroach explained "Do not think I am unaware of that."
"Of course thats why you want it." Chang said "Everyone thinks that all they need is Xinothium and they'll have the greatest superweapon of all time. So did I, till it backfired."
"Ah yes," said Cockroach "your Xinothium powered Disintergrator cannon. A fine weapon, if somewhat brutish and unsuttle. We prefer to use it in a more steatlhy and explosive way."
Chang's looked at Cockroach in amazement.
"You cannot be serious." Chang said wide eyed "Xinothium is dangerous when used with precision, but to cause it to explode would be maddness! You could millions! Including yourself."
"That's generally the plan," Cockroach told him "and I'm sure you would know just how to pull it off wouldn't you comrade Chang. You did it once before in the old Soviet Union didn't you?"
Chang instantly knew what he was talking about, in the years when he was younger and asked by Communist Russian Government to make the perfect soldier.
"Those arrogant fools thought a human could maintain Xinothium exposure and become a super soldier. The only reason I agreed to it was because of the money. That and I was curious to see what happened. I'm surprised not more people died in that explosion."
"A minor loss to insure the survival of the people." Cockroach said brushing the tragedy off like a minor inconveince. "What is one village compared to an entire country. Which is why we need Xinothium, to sacrafice a small amount of lives to insure our future."
"Small?" Chang said surprised "Depending on what trips the Xinothium to explode you could kill an entire city!"
"That's the plan," Cockroach told him "all I need is a Xinothium power core. One that's poiwerful enough but small enough to fit into a suitcase."
"And you think I can tell you where to find one?" Chang asked, he recieved a nod from Cockroach. Chang could only sigh "Why would I help you find something that you could use to possibly blow up this city and me?"
"Your city is not the target." Cockroach told him "Tell me Professor, do you really care what happens to few people miles away from you."
"No but I still don't see what I get out of this." Chang told him
"You rest easy with the knowledge that you helped keep Communism alive in my country." Cockroach explained
"Hardly worth my advice," Chang told him "considering how long I've had to think about that period in time."
Cockroach's face suddenly grew cold. He could only make out his eyes, but Chang knew that Cockroach was unhappy. With in an instant Chang had pistol pointed towards his face.
"How about the knowledge you'll live another day?" Cockroach asked
Chang held up his hands in fright
"Its no use," Chang told him in a panic "there are no properly refined Xinothium cores in this city. The company who had them sealed in the vault moved their entire stash southward down the coast. I don't know of anyone who-" Chang stopped, he suddenly remembered, someone "Wait, there is one."
"Who?" Cockroach asked, still aiming the pistol at Chang.
"A certain black caped, skull masked theif who is one of the causes for my being here. And if the Brain had listened to me he would have known the traitorous little ass would have turned on us so quickly."
"Who is he?" Cockroach insisted
"A crinimal who goes by the name of Red X," Chang told him "I madw his costume for a certain Boy Wonder before he stole it for himself. More specifically I gave him the power source for his suit. A Xinothium core, placed inside his suit's belt. It powerful enough and small enough to fit your needs."
Cockroach seemed to smile and put away his weapon.
"How do I find him?" Cockroach asked
"He's a theif, figure it out yourself." Chang told him "He'll probably want something big and valuable for himself to fence."
"I'll manage that myself."
Cockroach smiled beneath his mask, he got what he came for with Chang. He exited out of the cell and shut the door tight. He looked towards his two guards beside him.
"We're leaving," he said "pack up everything and lets get out of here."
"But they are blocking the outside." One of the Mutants told Cockroach "How will we get past them?"
Cockroach simply walked down the aisle of the prison and pressed the acess code for a large door in front of him. He entered into a peaceful blue room with calming music and in the center of this room was man in a glass tube sleeping.
"Unhook it from its restraints and bring it to the top of the structure." Cockroach ordered his men.
The two soldiers took the tube out from its holding area and careful began to walk out of the room with it. Cockroach smiled under his mask once more.
"As Americans say," Cockroach chuckled "wakey, wakey, eggs and bakey."
Outside the prison stood a large blockade of Raptorian Soldiers and JCPD Officers. Large army vehicles accompanied the smaller less armoured Squad cars. The the spotlights were blaring at the prison's windows trying to spot any sign of movement. But one thing was for sure, no one was going to get out without a fight. The Titans and several of their Raptorian friends were already on the scene. Recon had already relegatted both Robin and Ryan to stay at least five feet away from each other. If they couldn't work together they wouldn't work with each other at all. Ryan at the moment was staying inside one of APCs, Robin was with the titans outside. In the end Recon had put aside those small dissagreements to focus on the task at hand.
"According to the JCPD," Recon began as he addressed everyone "our mutant friends inside have pretty kept quiet since they invaded the prison. There are no hostages and no demands."
"So how come we haven't busted in there?" Cyborg asked
"I have no idea how many of them there are." Recon explained "That and they could have recruited some of the inmates to help them, wether as weapons or sheilds."
"I thought you said there were no hostages." said Robin
"None that we know of." Recon explained further "We haven't heard anything from the mutants inside and they refuse to open a line of communication with us."
"So were just going to sit here and wait all day?" Reige asked with amazement
"As long as this blockade is up no one is going to escape." Recon told the private "That's our mission now soldiers containment. They'll make their move soon enough."
"Okay then," Rack said arming his weapon and motioning to his brothers "we'll head on up to front of the blockade then. Come on squad."
"Can I bring my chili dog?" Roger asked holding his drippy weiner in a bun up
Snipe just shook his head
"Everywhere we go you have to bring food." Snipe said "If you can't bring food in some place you refuse to go. Why must you always stuff your 24/7?"
Roger thought it over for a few, working the cogs inside his simple mind. He eventually finally found a response.
"So I can bring my Chili Dog right?"
Snipe smacked his forehead and simply grumbled away following Rack and Reige. Roger followed soon after stuffing his meal into his mouth. The Titans followed with Recon after them. Everything seemed normal at first glance, until the spolights saw something on the top off the building. Two mutants with gas rolling a glass tube near the side.
"What the hell are they doing?" Recon asked looking through his binoculars
"That glass tube looks famaliar." Beastboy said scratching his neck and looking at the scene above them.
Suddenly the mutants threw the object over the side. It careened towards the ground.
"Everyone duck!" Recon called
Everyone put their heads down as the glass tube collided with the concreate. Glass shards spread everywhere and the sound of splashing water was there as well. Everyone put their heads back up to see what was going on. Lying on the ground in front of them was a man in only his underwear who seemed to be stiring from his sleep.
"Oh no." Beastboy said suddenly remembering where that tube was from "We are so doomed."
"What?" Reige asked in amazement "It just some dude in his undies."
The dude in his undies however suddenly awoke and the second he did he grew several feet tall and no longer resembled a man at all. He was covered in goo and had several green globby eyes on his head. The creature howled from his gigantic mouth at the blockade.
"What the name of sweet zombie Jesus is that?" Reige screamed
(Yes this is a "Futurama" Referance)
"That would be your dude in tights." Raven told him
"He's called Plasmus." said Robin, staring at the giant walking blob.
"Has anyone told him he looks like a giant peice of walking poo?" Reige asked
Before anyone could respond Roger gave his opnion
"He looks more like a giant walking pudding thing to me fellas."
"Pudding isn't suppose to look this mean!" Snipe shouted at him.
Plasmus began to walk towards the Blockade, roaring and screaming at them as well.
"Open fire!" Ordered Recon
Everyone in the blockade did as ordered, but the shots didn't seem to hurt goo monster. Rack fired ferociously with his Sub-Machine gun, Reige fired round after round with his shotgun, Snipe fired from the sniper rifle in his head into each of the creatures eyes but nothing seemed to work. Roger's assault rifle was also useless, as well as Recon's rifle. Robin, Raven, Cyborg and Starfire, (Beastboy has no long ranged attacks) fired at the monster they had battled many times before. But the creature still kept coming.
"Everyone fall back!" Recon ordered
The blockade members fell back as the monster continued forward. It lifted up one of the JCPD cars and threw it at one of the Raptorian armoured cars. The military vehicle flipped over on its side while the smaller police car began to leak oil. Plasmus continued his path of destruction through the blockade. Knocking cars out of the way and throwing them at the soldiers and police men shooting him. They avoided the flying vehicles easily, but if Plasmus got to close he knocked them away. Cyborg tried to get in close to fire a shot from his sonic cannon but was knocked clean across the courtyard. Starfire attempted to bring him down with her starbolts, sut Plasmus was still uneffected. He then lobbed a giant ball of goo straight at the poor alien girl causing her to land on the ground in a heap.
"I do not like it when we must battle this monster," Starfire said trying to wipe the goo off "he is most...disgusting."
As the Raptorians and Cops tried in vain to stop Plasmus with their guns, the monster lifted another car. But Robin used one of his disks to freeze the arm holding up the vehicle. Plasmus seemed uncaring, he simply ripped the iced arm off and grew back another. Then he used his frozen arm like a club and tried to smash Robin. However he easily jumped away before the final hit came down. Beastboy tried to tackle Plasmus in the form of a Triceratops. But Beastboy simply collided with the monsters and passed through to the other side. When Beastboy returned to his human form he was covered in goo.
"Why does this happen everytime we fight this guy?" He asked himself "And why does it always happen to me?"
As Plasmus continued his attack on the blockade, Reige and Roger took cover behind a police car.
"I'm just a Raptor with a shotgun." Said Reige "I didn't ask for all this superhero and monster junk!"
Roger had his mind on other things as he watched Plasmus continue his rampage.
"What flavour pudding do you think he is?" Roger asked Reige
"He's not pudding you Texas Trailer Lunkhead!" Reige yelled at his little brother "He's just goo! GOO!"
It was at this point that both Raptors heard a engine revening sound. They turned across the courtyard facing away from the carnage and watched as a police truck broke out of the garage, sped throguh the broken blockade and crashed through the fence and onto the streets of the city. Everyone else was so busy with Plasmus they never really noticed.
"What just happened?" Roger asked still looking at the place where the truck had crashed through
Before Reige could find a response, the car they were hiding behind lifted up into the air and now standing over their head was Plasmus holding the car with both his arm.
"Roger," Reige said calmly still looking at the monster towering over them. "Have I ever told you how much I hate my life?"
"All the time." Roger replied
"Well I just want to repeat that," Reige told him "I hate my life."
Before Plasmus could do anything, Raven launched another car straight into the monster. Plasmus dropped the car he was holding onto the ground and missed the two Turaguts. Cyborg finally returned and blasted Plasmus with his sonic cannon. But Plasmus was still kicking.
"Does this guy get tougher everytime we fight him?" Cyborg asked to no one
Suddenly, a loud sound of a war cry was heard and everyone looked to see Ryan running on top of the cars, chainsaw in hand, straight at Plasmus.
"What is that lunatic doing now?" Robin asked himself
Ryan launched himself straight into Plasmus and clawed his way inside while the monster screamed at the what the Raptor was doing. Soon Ryan was completely sumerged inside Plasmus.
"Eww, gross." Beastboy said covering his eyes
Suddenly several eyes at the top of the monster's head burst open and Ryan came flying out.
"WWWHHHHHEEEEEEEEE!" Ryan shouted in delight until he came to a sudden stop ontop of a car. He raised his chainsaw in the air and said "I wanna do it again!"
With the Monster dazed, Raven finally had an opening to use her ideal attack against Plasmus. She meditated crosslegged in the air and launched her soul-self into Plasmus. The creature moaned and creid for a few seconds and then collapssed on the ground spreading goo everywhere. Some of it landed on Roger who licked and then just as quickly spit it out.
"Oh man, that is so not puddin'." He sputtered
Reige just shook his head
"I swear," Reige muttered "Mom dropped your egg on its head, then you hit on the ground when you butted your way out. Why else would you eat a goo monster's goo?"
"I needed to be sure what flavour of pudding it was." Roger commented
"You are such a moron." Said Reige angirily
when the dust had settled the man in his undies lay there sleeping where Plasmus once was. Ryan had lifted himself off the car by then and landed with a thud on the concreate under him
"Maybe I didn't need to get inside the monster to launch a grenade but I think the results were pretty much the same." He said to no one in particular.
Moments later the Raptors and officers stormed into the prison, in order to Plasmus' human form back in another container and to finish off the mutants inside. They had had enough of the waiting game. But when they had entered they found no one around. Mutants had left. When Reige told everyone of the Truck that had escaped during the fire fight with Plasmus Recon was none too amused.
"So they release that monster to keep us busy while they steal a police vehicle and drive off. Just our luck."
Robin had come back from interrorgating Chang in his cell.
"Chang says they came to him asking about Xinothium." He told Recon "He said they threatened to kill him if he didn't tell them where they could find one."
"Did he say where he told them he could find one?" Recon asked
"He said it doesn't matter cause they probably won't even get it." Robin explained "That and he wants a reduced sentence before he tells us anything."
Recon just sighed
"Screw it," He said "we'll go back tot eh tower and find out where they could possibly find a Xinothium core."
"What about that truck?" Robin asked
"We'll never find them now, besides I just got a call a few minutes ago after we locked Plasmus back up." Recon said "Looks like the US military has finally arrived here in Jump. As of now they are taking over the job of stopping the insurgency. WWhich leaves us with the far more simple task of stopping Karvisko."
Robin just breathed a sigh of relief. He didn't need to worry about the city as much anymore, the army was on the job. Now he could just focus on one bad guy.
"Considering everything else we've been through that is probably the biggest break yet."
Why Plasmus? Cause I wanted someone to say he looked like what he looks like...a giant walking disgusting turd. DC Kids didn't even want to say poo on their show because it would gross out children. Kids pick their noses guys, they don't care. Riege's Rudeness is basically a mouthpiece for the audience, he says what he wants to say when no body thinks about saying it. Like Howard Stern only less depraved and Reige considers himself a Republican. Snipe is probably the more Liberal minded of his brothers sine he never resorts to trash talking to get his point across. He just mocks them with sarcasm.
That brings me to this. I want to ask that all people who read this Authour Note, in your next review please tell me what you think of all my Original character so far. Well maybe not all just the Raptors. The Mutant characters are made up just for this story. However if you like their personalities as well please tell me. I'd really like to hear your feedback on the OCs. Maybe I'm just looking for recognition or maybe I'm just trying to see how far I can push this universe to tolerate the Titans living with them.