Chapter 9: First Fight, Then Talk
Phazon: For the record, everybody reading this, this chapter is mostly a fight chapter and will only incorporate a few elements from the past chapter, but don't expect anything horrible. And by the way, to Black Dawn, for the record, I had posted chapter four in the intention that I would receive feedback on whether or not the rating should be upped or not. Had I known most reactions, of course the story would be rated R, but that wasn't on my mind at the time.
Cyborg: I certainly hope Terra can fight, because she better know how.
Terra: Why?
Raven: Because we're in a fight against some HIVE members, and some we don't even know about.
Beast Boy: I certainly hope that you've calmed down, Terra. No need to be jealous.
Starfire: Beast Boy, why did you not tell her about that other night when--
(Beast Boy covers Starfire's mouth.)
Terra: What?!
Phazon: (Disclaimer) I don't and probably never will own Teen Titans, thank goodness.
Everyone got to the old abandoned prison where Cinderblock was thrashed. Right in the center of it all, there was no one.
Robin took a look at his communicator, and it displayed no indication of villains.
"I don't understand. They said to come here, and not even a single bomb or breakout. This is a letdown."
Before Robin could finish, a pipe came flying at him.
"Look out!"
Raven threw her hand out and stopped the metal bar inches away from Robin's skull. The Titans looked up and Jinx jumped from the top of the building to right in front of them.
"Darn, I really need to focus on my aim without witch girl getting in my way."
"If Jinx is our only competition, this'll be cake." Raven said.
Starfire prepared to strike Jinx, but she couldn't due to an unknown starbolt striking her in the back.
"Dear sister, is that you?"
At lightning speed, Blackfire flew to Jinx's side.
"Yeah, those guards up there can't keep you in prison if you've got the right moves."
Out of the darkness, Mammoth and Gizmo came next to their cohorts.
"Meet our new friend."
"Wow, Blackfire is another villain to aid you guys. Now there are four instead of three." Raven scoffed again.
"We're not done yet."
Two metal creatures appeared from opposite sides of the empty room. Between them was Control Freak.
"Like my new toys, Titans? It's all thanks to my remote control. Now I can manipulate anything. Watch!"
With a flicker of the joystick, Control Freak pointed his remote at the dim light in the distance. He began to drag it closer as he gave it structure, turning it into an electrified monster.
"I can do more than that."
Cyborg's eyes were wide opened at the figures Control Freak had created. "Well, this is new. Could it get worse? HEY, I…can't…move--"
"Me neither." Beast Boy strained while trying to move his joints.
"That's it, hold it where you are." Warp walked out with his hand in the air. "Meet the new team, Titans."
Terra crossed her shoulders. "Are there any more of you?"
"Yeah, but you'll meet them later down the road."
The Titans prepared their assault on the team of Jinx, Mammoth, Gizmo, Blackfire, Control Freak and his creations, and Warp.
"Titans, attack!" Robin yelled.
The battles went basically like this: Cyborg vs Gizmo, Beast Boy vs Mammoth, Raven vs Jinx, Robin vs Control Freak, Starfire vs Blackfire, and Terra vs Warp.
Gizmo flew around Cyborg and landed on his back.
"Oh, no, I came prepared for that this time." A compartment in Cyborg's back opened and a laser blasted out of it, sending Gizmo skyward, but he flew back. Cyborg charged his Sonic Cannon and shot straight at Gizmo, but the blast went straight through him.
"What the--"
"Blast off!!" A rocket on Cyborg's back blasted him straight through the roof of the building.
"Well that takes care of him." Gizmo cackled before being knocked back to the ground by Jinx.
"Sorry 'bout that, but I'm busy with this witch here." Both Jinx and Gizmo headed up to where Raven was. She pressed her hands together.
Azarath, metroin, zinthos!
As Gizmo took out a bomb, Raven's spell detonated it on command.
"Not bad for a witch."
"Say that again." Raven growled.
Jinx sent pink shockwaves towards Raven, who deflected them with a shield. When the debris stopped crumbling, she flew towards Jinx and sent a kick straight to her stomach, causing her to fall.
Upon landing, Jinx stuck her finger in her mouth and when she took it out, it was slightly red.
"How dare you make me bleed, you bastard!" And with that she lunged straight at Raven and the two began to scuffle.
On the other side, Robin tried juggling the three creatures Control Freak created.
The television maniac watched Robin combat with the two metal structures. He tried landing blows to them, but the metal was too tough to break, so he took out a detonator and threw it towards both of the creatures. They exploded on impact, crumbling the ground.
"Not so tough without your creatures down, are you?" Robin said while taking out his Bo staff and walked towards Control Freak.
"They're not dead yet, boy wonder! Watch and learn!" Control Freak pointed the remote at the rocks and they began to rise. He fused the rocks with the electric monster far away. It looked basically the same, with all the electric functionalities, but more rugged.
Robin jumped high and slammed his staff into the creature, only to receive an electric jolt spurting from the creature and into his body. When he got his footing, he took out a bird-a-rang and threw it straight at Control Freak's control, piercing straight through it and causing the creature to malfunction and break down from the inside.
Robin went up and grabbed Control Freak's remote. "You've just been cancelled."
"Oh, that is so lame."
"This controller will self destruct in T-minus five, four, three--"
Robin lunged his hand back and threw the control sky high, straight into Gizmo, who happened to be landing from his last flight.
Blackfire got up from the blow she took from her sister's eye beams. Her eyes met those of her sister's.
"Well, Blackfire, shall we continue battle?" Starfire snarled while her hands glowing with star bolts.
There was no response from Blackfire, until she stood up and a black bolt came out of her hand, but this wasn't a regular energy sphere. Instead of contained in her hand, it floated by itself.
"Little trick I learned in jail."
The sphere chased after Starfire, who flew as fast as she could away from it.
"Be careful, Star, that bolt will kamikaze as soon as it connects with a body."
As fast as she could, Starfire tried evading the purplish energy sphere, but it wasn't long before Blackfire summoned another one with her other hand. Before long, Starfire saw herself flying into one of the blasts, sending her hurdling to the ground.
"Is…it over?" She said with the strength she had. Little did she know, yet another blast headed her way, but it stopped inches from her body.
Blackfire kept her right hand out to balance the blast. "Say I'm the better sister."
"Never."
"Say it!" Blackfire said as her eyes glowed a villainous purple. "SAY IT!"
Raising her right hand, Blackfire prepared to finish off Starfire, and with a flick, the blast consumed Starfire. She wasn't dead, but she was badly injured. Kneeling down to her defeated sister, Blackfire didn't have time to gloat before being knocked by a boulder.
"Step down, Blackfire." Terra growled.
"Don't try it." Warp threw a watch down on the ground and there was a flash. Terra was frozen in her place, vulnerable to attack. Blackfire regained her composure and fired black bolts at Terra's exposed body, but she began to feel strange as a thick black energy surrounded her body.
Raven walked away from Jinx's battered body and began messing with Blackfire's body. She threw her straight into Warp, sending both of them into Mammoth, who maneuvered his way around them and Beast Boy, who was throwing punches in his ape form.
Mammoth stared at his dazed cohorts, but he thought about how he would dispatch of Beast Boy. Finally, he took something from his pocket.
"Hey monkey boy, I got a banana for you."
In his ape form, Beast Boy was a sucker for anything, and this time was no exception. He galloped on his feet, begging for the banana. Mammoth threw it to him, and watched his adversary eat it, but that gave him the opportunity to thrust forward, sending Beast Boy back into his human form. He never let go of the banana.
"Watch it, Mammoth! Fruit's gotta stay clean."
Mammoth charged at Beast Boy, only before seeing a starbolt blast him in the face. Everyone turned to Starfire, who mustered the strength to stand on her legs, but could only function one of her arms. Beast Boy regained composure and turned into a snake. Slithering quietly, he bit Mammoth on his leg, stunning him. Returning to his human form, he helped Starfire up.
Terra noticed Beast Boy help Star and was crossed. She was so crossed that she sent her fist into the ground, causing waves to pulsate from the earth. At last, Gizmo and Cyborg crashed back to the ground, spurting off electricity.
"You're not gonna throw me over there, are ya?" Control Freak asked Robin, who held him tightly.
He didn't get a response, for Robin set a device on Control Freak's chest, and it grew into a trap. Robin brushed the side of his cape off before surveying the battleground.
"Let's see." He thought to himself. "Cyborg and Gizmo are out for now, Blackfire and Warp are over in that corner, Mammoth I don't want to worry about, I got Control Freak, and Warp's got himself in slow motion. Who did we forget?" It then hit Robin like a block of ice…literally. He found himself on the ground. "Jinx! How could I forget?"
Sure, Jinx got a thrashing from Raven, but it didn't stop her from using her working hand to materialize an ice block and lunge it to Robin's back.
"Heh, I still got it. Now, I don't want to see you in this world again." Jinx raised her hand, getting a crowbar and aimed at Robin's neck.
Suddenly, the crowbar wasn't moving, for it was reversed and knocked Jinx across her chin. Raven came across her once again.
"You just don't learn, do you?" Raven wanted to blast Jinx away, but--"
"Don't do it, Raven. Not worth it." Robin mumbled from the ground.
As much as she didn't want to, Raven did as her leader said and spared Jinx. She placed her hand on Robin's back and slowly chanted to herself. In a flash, all of Robin's wounds were gone. Robin wasn't able to get up entirely, so Raven helped him up.
"Thanks." He mustered.
Raven put her hood over her head to conceal any feelings she had at the moment.
Blackfire got on her feet, battered and beaten. "Just you wait, Titans. We'll be back sooner than you think." A purple bolt emanated from her hand, and in a flash, the villains vanished.
Cyborg rose to his feet, as did Terra, but she was too busy staring at Beast Boy help Starfire pull herself together.
"BEAST BOY!!"
The green titan immediately stopped and turned to Terra. He understood why, but at the same time wish Terra kept her mouth shut. He was helping with all of the rips Star had on her suit, but his hand was moving lower and lower, but Star, not fully understanding why, didn't notice.
"What were you doing?" Terra snarled.
"Beast Boy was helping me with my wounds, Terra." Starfire replied menacingly. "And I don't think you should talk about me when you're missing your touch."
"My…touch?"
"Beast Boy, does Terra not know what I speak of? You told me on the way that Terra one day lost--"
Star didn't finish her sentence; Beast Boy put his hand over her mouth.
Terra let it go, but she knew in her mind she would have to find out if Beast Boy was going for Starfire or if this was some sort of con. Either way, all of the Titans had taken sufficient damage that would definitely take some time to heal.
(Back at that 'T' Tower)
"Aah, Raven, are you putting acid on my back!?
Robin was lying on his back with his shirt off, quite the sight for Raven, while she applied rubbing alcohol to his back.
"If you want this pain to go away Robin, I suggest you hold still and keep quiet. The longer you yell, the worse the pain will get."
"Then I shall continue to yell."
(Cyborg's Room)
Cyborg put some earphones on to conceal the yelling. He was picking some loose screws and rocket parts out of his body. He was just about to remove one that had been lodged into the side of his arm when--"
"Cyborg, Cyborg!!"
Terra burst into the room, with a bandage wrapped around her left shoulder.
"WHAT is it, Terra?" Cyborg asked as nicely as he could.
"Did Beast Boy and Star ever…" Terra didn't finish her sentence because she assumed Cyborg knew of what she was speaking.
"You want me to tell you about the time they had sex."
"They WHAT??!!"
"I mean, you're asking if they ever had sex before. Yeah, I understand what you're getting at."
The room was silent, until Terra winced out in pain.
"I better go fix this wound." And with that, Terra exited the room.
Cyborg let out a heavy sigh of relief until…
"But I WILL be back! Count on it!"
"Don't worry, I will."
Terra steamed away and downstairs to find Raven beginning to take advantage of the situation Robin was in. She nearly removed her cape when Terra eyed her.
"Am I interrupting anything?"
"No, no, no." Robin and Raven replied. They went slowly down, and Terra looked onward as her eyes darted toward Starfire, who was walking down the stairs and collapsed on the nearest chair, trying to forget nearly facing her death at the hands of her sister.
"Why," Starfire began, "Why did she have so much hate for me?"
Robin broke free from Raven's grip. "Think about it, Star, the bigger your girls are, the angrier your sibling gets."
Starfire was confused. "But Robin, Blackfire is older than I am."
"Oh forget it." Robin said as he went upstairs, with Raven trailing behind him.
Terra got the opportunity to walk over to Starfire and sat down next to her.
"Starfire, you and Beast Boy were once, right?"
The Tamaranian nodded her head. "It was not a permanent thing, but had things kept the way they were, it could be worse.
Terra placed her hand on Starfire's shoulder. "Star, let's talk."
Terra: It took you long enough to finish the story.
Phazon: Cut me some slack, rock girl. I had stuff to do. I just hope the chapter lives up.
Raven: As long as it's finished, don't worry about that.
Robin: You could have let me and Raven finish.
Phazon: You think it's over between you and her, but it's not. We'll get to that next chapter. Readers, sorry for the delay and I hope it meets the expectation, even though it was mostly about the fight. Read and review and I'll have your next chapter. Enjoy until then!