Ch.5: Fighting With Knives in a Gun Show
There he sat, on a cold hospital bed in the middle of a metal silver room. The green warrior's chest moved up and down. His eyes closed in what seemed like an eternity. Around the fallen soldier were all of his companions, his son, his lover, his best friend, and all he had ever loved.
"Come on Garfield, open your eyes." pleaded the dark princess in an almost whisper.
As soon as her plead was heard, the husbands emerald green eyes opened in a furry and he himself flew off the bed to a fighting position. It was almost like he had lost himself for a moment.
"Daddy your awake!" laughed the little boy.
The man lowered his arms and fell to his knees. He held his stomach in a silent moan; his lover heard it and ran to his side.
'What's wrong?' she asked him in his empty mind.
'It's something horrible, something that should have never lived from the past!' he cried in an almost tragic outburst of hatred and sadness.
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Somewhere in the outskirts of the city
The same small room seen in the dream was in a real life a compartment inside of an old boat house now tattered and forgotten in time. Riku sat at the end of the table along side his three followers and to his side was the tall and evil looking Pain kneeling down next to his master.
"Well now that we have been revealed thanks to our old friend, we must give our Titans a little warning, Blade, maybe you should go play with them." echoed the dark prince's monotone voice.
The still silent warrior at the empty side of the table stood to his feet slowly and nodded coldly to his master. The man now known as Blade did not remove his cloak but walked out of the room with nothing but his echoing footsteps.
"Man, that guy gives me a chill every time he looks at Me." whispered the Australian voiced man.
"Yes Blade was a good choice sir, why not send the Titans an item that can destroy them with no problem!" smirked the large fighter.
"He won't kill them; I gave him orders to warn them, he will give a fraction of his power. But the Titans still don't stand a chance." silently spoke the leader as he stood on his own feet and walked over to a small window at the end of the room with a view over the ocean.
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Titans Tower
Logan sat in his small medical bed with Raven by his side; he held her close to the green skin on his chest and ran his fingers through her violet hair.
"So he is really back huh?" she asked him silently.
"Yes, and Malice was noticed, he will return soon and we will all talk about this."
As they talked silently the mechanical door swooshed open revealing Nightwing in his street clothes. He had a stern look on his face behind the black sunglasses he wore.
"Excuse me, I am sorry for interrupting this but I need to talk to Garfield." said the dark knight in a calm voice.
"Its o.k. go to James, he needs a mom moment right now." The green skinned shape shifter whispered to his love.
The Azerathian girl got to her feet kissed her mate on the cheek and bided them a goodbye as she closed the door behind her.
"What do we need to talk about Richard?" asked Logan softly.
"Well, it's kind of hard to say this," a large blush was coming to the man's face as he sat in a chair," so I guess I will say it, Kori is pregnant!"
The shape shifter was nearly knocked out of his bed by the surprise, he had never known the old Robin to speak of such private things to only him, but he was sort of happy the ex-boy wonder chose him to tell it to.
"That is awesome man, how far along is she?" asked the green one with a large smile on his now goofy face.
Richard looked at the face with a smile remembering the goofy Beast Boy wearing that same face, he hadn't seen it in a long time and it was good to finally see the man's bright white teeth again.
"She's due next week!"
That was the last straw; Logan nearly slammed his head into the metal chair to his side as he jumped out of the bed and pointed a finger at the boy.
"Bullshit! She hasn't got any pregnant belly!" he nearly yelled loud enough to come through the wall.
"Well tamarainian's have a different organ system than us, her baby is kept in a holding place inside of his chest and stomach that protects it from all inner or outer problems, they can not be recognized as pregnant till the day of birth when the child comes out of the protection and into the stomach. It's like a pill that grows into a plant, when its dry it stays like a pill but when applied t moister it grows until it stops and that's when Starfire's pregnancy will begin. She has been in great pain but I have been beside her the entire time man. And now that it's coming down to the wire I really need some advice from someone who has been through the father thing, so I came to you."
Logan sat there in complete shock, he had barley been able to understand anything the man had said and looked back at him like a child doing rocket science. It was complete bafflement.
"I really don't want to know anymore, but I am happy for you man, and I, Raven, Victor, Sarah, and James are here for you buddy!" smirked the green former teen.
When Richard had risen to his feet Logan straightened himself and for some strange reason, they shacked hands. But as they did a red light above there heads began to glow.
"Trouble now?" asked the two men together.
"Guess there's a little practice for the Titans again." The shape shifter said plain fully.
As the two Titans ran down hallway after hallway they heard a soft sound, distant first, but then it grew louder and closer every step. It was like a whistle from an inhuman object. It began to sting the green man's sensitive ears and he fought back the pain. Finally they had reached the control room were all the other 4 titans and James sat.
"What's the trouble?" asked Richard confused by the sound.
"There is something or someone outside the door, whatever it is it doesn't have any activation code and actually punched the door. Might be some muscle bound meat head but we needed all of us here to check it out." said the metal man.
"Did you check the camera's, might have seen who it was." Logan could here Victor's mega chip nearly crack under embarrassment.
"Well…I…WA…wanted you to come see it for yourself!" he gleamed at his shitty lie.
Logan shook his head and walked over to the large TV screen, there was a camera at the front of Titans Tower and Logan had used it many times, he even watched Starfire and Robin leave on one of there dates many years ago. But now he needed it for a more important reason. He looked at the screen and saw a black almost inhuman figure standing before the door. It was tall slim and clearly evil. It wore a long black robe with mo face on it. From the long arms cam two blades, they were long enough to drag on the ground if placed straight down, and had a twisted tip for bigger wounds. On the dark soldiers faceless cloak was a Price Passion sign.
"Fuck me sideways." Victor whispered to himself.
Sarah leaned over to him and whispered in his ear, "You tried that on me, it didn't go very well."
"What is a Price Passion still doing on the streets, I thought we locked those guys up!" yelled the ex-boy wonder as he slammed his fist against a wall.
"Why don't you ask Garfield?" said a voice from behind the group.
When all of the team turned around they saw Malice leaning against Doom bringer that was stabbed into the ground leaving a gothic crack down the floor that the blade left. The former assassin lifted the blade out of the ground and slipped it between a leather strap and his black leather back.
"What does he mean Garfield?" asked Kori as she approached her green friend.
Logan held up a finger and ran out of the room, Malice knew he had forgotten the Massacre and was trying to get to it in a small amount of time. Finally the green man returned with the blade in his hand gleaming in the mild sunlight.
"I'll tell you guy's later, right now I need Malice and Richard to come with me, but first Richard go get your weapons we need you to fight outside with us!" ordered Garfield as he readied his blade.
While the superhero ran down the hallway's Logan and Malice readied themselves next to the door and looked at the large dent in the door with worried hearts. Finally Nightwing returned with his new improved staff, it was longer and sturdier with a retractable blade made out of extend-o-steel. Nightwing flung the weapon down and a large curved blade flew from the steel pipe and he stood with his eyes to the door. Cyborg ran up to the door and pressed the open button and the doors flew open with the masked man standing just a few yards away from it.
With a battle cry the three men ran out of the home and onto the battlefield. The masked man put his hands up in an X position and bent his knees. The dark night's apprentice ran forward and twirled his staff around before he lunged at the man with full force. But he was stopped by the man's arm blade blocking his own with ease. Nightwing pulled back and started to swing his staff at the Price Passion solider with frustration, every time the masked man raised his hand to block it with a simple movement.
"God damn it, if you are going to fight me then do it, just don't block me all the time!" yelled Nightwing as he tried to decapitate the masked man but was once again blocked by the man's simple hand movement.
The blade on the masked man's arm didn't seem to take any punishment from the furious slams from the larger metal weapon. The masked man shrugged his shoulder in an 'alright but I don't see the point' manner. This time as Nightwing pulled back to lunge his blade the man used both his arm blades. The first swing he pushed the weapon up so it would stab right by his shoulder. Then the man lunged forward with the other blade an implanted the metal monster straight into Nightwing's chest and out of his back. Before he removed the weapon from his chest and grabbed onto the staff and swung his lower body up to send a large knee into Nightwing's side and blasting him across the field and nearly off Titans Island.
As the man returned to his feet and twirled the staff around between his fingers. Then with a huff he snapped the staff in half like a twig in his palm.
"So…do you have any ideas?" gasped Logan as he back up against the tower in fear.
Malice looked over to him in just the same face of fear and shook his head no. Logan trembled his blade and held onto it as tight as he could but he couldn't steady himself.
"So it's safe to say were fucked!"