The tower gave another violent shake, and Stardust flew off the ground to keep her balance.
"Well, it's not gonna help anything standing around in here," she said. "Tians, go!" Then she thought, I've always wanted to say that.
The three of them exited through the door on the roof, and discovered that the whole tower was caged in a dangerous-looking force field. Stardust threw a starbolt into it, but it just bounced off and exploded on the roof of the tower.
"What are we going to do?" Talon said.
"Find out what's causing this," Stardust replied. "Since it doesn't look like we're in the much immediate danger, I'd say we'd better check down at the rocks."
She took Talon by the arms and flew down to the bottom of the tower, and was surpised that Rorek was already there when she got there.
"I believe that is the source of our problem," he said, pointing his thin finger at the ground. Stardust saw what seemed to be three sort of machines that were powering the force field.
"If we destroy those, we'll probably deactivate the force field," Talon said.
"Good idea," Stardust said. She fired up her starbolts and blasted one of the machines, and it smashed to bits. Rorek destroyed the next one without any effort, and Talon took care of the last one. Then the force field disappeared.
"Well, that takes care of that, I guess," Stardust said.
"I believe it was far too easy," Rorek said, crossing his arms, his armor clinking together. "I have never had a so efortless fight."
"Good," a light female voice said. "Because it's not over." She was standing on the top of the tower, her hands on her hips. Her red hair blew in the sharp wind.
"Who the heck are you?" Stardust snapped, flying up to face her.
"I'm Eva," she said, tossing her hair behind her shoulder. She narrowed her eyes. "And you're the Titans, right?"
Talon emerged from the door behind them. "What's it to ya?"
Eva ignored the question and looked at Rorek, who had somehow appeared on the top of the tower himself. "I've never seen you before, hottie, but you're pretty cute. WE should have a date sometime."
Rorek narrowed his eyes and was about to respond, but Stardust did first. "Look, girl, I don't know who you are or why you've attacked us, but-"
"Oh, I haven't attacked you," Eva interrupted. She grinned. "Yet." Then she let out a battle cry and hurled a green sphere into the top of the tower. Out of the hole quickly grew large vines, and when she moved her hands they seemed to obey her every command. The first one she hurled at Stardust, who dodged, and it took off a chunk of the roof. Stardust hurled starbolts at her, but she gracefully moved out of the way.
"Good grief," Talon mumbled, and aimed her powers in the direction of Eva, but she missed by a mile.
"Can't you do better than that?" Eva yelled, and smashed Talon off the side of the tower with a strong vine. Stardust flew down quickly and caught her before she hit the ground.
"Thanks," Talon said, rubbing her head on the way back up. "Who is that girl?"
"I've never seen her before, but we've got to get rid of her." She sat Talon down on the roof and saw that Eva and Rorek were engaged in hand-to-hand combat, but when she got closer she realized that Eva was the only one making violent advances, and Rorek was just blocking.
Stardust blasted Eva away with her eyebeams, then looked at Rorek. "What are you doing? Why don't you defend yourself?"
"I would rather not hit a lady," he said.
"She's not a lady," Stardust said, then flew and punched
Eva hard, but she didn't use her full super strength- she didn't want to kill the girl. Eva flew off the edge of the tower, and they heard a splash in the water below. Stardust took Talon's wrist and flew down to the rocks, and Rorek just jumped off the tower, but he amazingly landed lightly and Stardust was surprised that he wasn't injured.
"Where is she?" Talon said, scanning the water with her eyes.
The ground rumbled beneath them, then vines burst from the rocks and smashed them all into the water. Stardust surfaced and took a deep breath, but something grabbed her ankle and yanked her down below. She opened her eyes and struggled, but it was strong and kept pulling her down. She resisted, and suddenly the vine was cut and someone grabbed her by the arm, and she soon surfaced again.
"Let me be of better assistance, my lady," Rorek said. He shoved his wet long hair out of his face and smiled. Despite the situation, Stardust had to smile too. Rorek took her by the waste and hoisted her out of the water and onto the rocks. Then she shielded her face quickly when Talon slammed down beside her, a shower of rocks going everywhere.
"Talon, are you okay?" she said, helping her up.
"Thanks to my uniform, I've been spared a lot of pain," she said, holding her arm.
"Titans!" Eva yelled, jumping down beside them. "I never thought it would be this easy."
Stardust's eyes charged up and glowed purple. "It won't be!" She exploded from the ground and whirled around into a spin kick, sending Eva across the water and through the wall of building on the street.
She grabbed her teammates and was across the water practically before anyone could blink. She dropped to the ground, her eyes still glowing and starbolts dangerously charged. "If you want to fight, Eva, get out here and fight! We're ready for you, now!"
The red-head emerged from the hole in the building, looking furious. Her eyes were glowing a dark green, and she charged from the building, knocking her hard to the ground. Rorek threw her off and narrowed his blue eyes.
"Let's just end this," he said, and hurled a white ball of electricity at her. It hit her square in the stomach, and she cried out and hit the ground.
When she recovered a little, she gasped, "I guess that's a no to our date?"
He closed his eyes and lifted his hands upwards, and the ground under her exploded in his power. She land hard a few yards away and shakily got to her feet.
"I will be back," she said. "Don't think I won't." Then she was wrapped in vines and disppeared.