Anything, Anytime, Anywhere, For You
Chapter Forty-Seven
"Metropolis, Mallah and Mayhem"
A/N: Dedicated to GoldenBlade416. Also, I apologize to ShiningAsta13 for misspelling his name in 45's dedication.
We're coming down to the wire; the story is almost over. I'm still not sure if it'll end the very same day it began (the 14th) but I'm going to try. Anyway, I'll stop doing the notes now and return you to the struggle of the Titans, already in progress.
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Metropolis.
The biggest, busiest city in the world. The love child-city of New York and Chicago. When The Brotherhood of Evil took over the world, Metropolis became a gigantic prison. In the middle of the city, at a large prison facility, the only heroes who managed to escape the mind control are being housed -- set to die at midnight.
Outside of that building on all sides are the Brain's robotic warriors. Anything that approaches that isn't supposed to be there is assaulted with hundreds of blasts from hundreds of laser guns. The Titans knew it would not be a simple matter.
Robin, Starfire, Beast Boy, Raven, Cyborg, Terra, Jinx, Bumblebee, Aqualad, Kid Flash, Tim Drake (the second Robin), and Mento were all that remained of the heroes. They were on an airplane, flying low towards Metropolis. As they approached, everyone knew this could be their final mission.
"Robin?"
Robin was standing in the cargo hold of the plane, looking out the window at the country below them. They were almost to Metropolis, though for now they were just flying over Smallville County. Robin turned to see Starfire standing at the doorway, and he smiled, though it was only a half-grin.
"What is it Star?" He asked as she walked over to him and stood beside him.
"I was merely looking for you." Starfire said, placing a hand on his shoulder. She looked out the window as well, and then she sighed.
"What's wrong?" Robin asked.
"I had hoped this was over." Starfire sighed.
"Yeah, I had too. But it will be over soon. I promise." Robin told her.
"I hope so." She replied, and she bit her lip. She was about to say something, but then she stopped and decided that it would be better to wait for that subject until later.
Whereas the two of them were happy, Cyborg was not as happy. He was flying the plane, but Bumblebee and Jinx were both standing behind him. He knew they were there, but he did not want to acknowledge either of them.
"You just going to ignore us?" Jinx asked with a growl.
"Uhh. . . listen, ladies . . . umm . . . okay, I've been thinking about this." Cyborg said. Bumblebee looked at him from the left, Jinx from the right, and both were in his face.
"You were, eh?" Jinx asked.
"And you've decided...?" Bumblebee raised an eyebrow.
"Decided? No, I haven't decided, I just done a lot of thinking." Cyborg grinned, and they both hit him in the back of his metal head. Cyborg growled and then he sighed, and looked down at his lap.
"Look . . . I, I don't know if I can pick between you two." He admitted.
"Well, you better pick Sparky!" Bumblebee shouted. "Because I'm getting pretty sick of this! You got till the end of the day to choose me, or you can lose me."
Cyborg sighed and let his head fall forward.
Jinx slipped out of the room with a distraught look on her face. She walked away, and Bumblebee was left alone to yell at Cyborg, while he sighed the day away.
Jinx walked down the hall and slumped against the wall. She was tired of all of this, and sick of the love triangle that had sprung up. Cyborg wasn't worth all of this. Though she really did not like losing to Bumblebee, not at all. Jinx sighed and leaned against one of the walls of the plane. Was this is? Was this why she had betrayed Gizmo, Mammoth and the others? This sure as hell wasn't worth it. She lost the guy, and she couldn't go back -- now what was she supposed to do?
Jinx looked out one of the windows of the plane, and below her she saw Metropolis. She also saw the prison where the heroes were being housed. Looks like they were almost there.
"Incoming!" Tim Drake, the younger Robin, shouted to the older one. A laser struck the plane and punched out a large hole several centimeters in diameter. The plane jerked, and began to lose altitude.
"Didn't we JUST get in a plane crash?" Beast Boy complained.
"Bad guys lost originality a long time ago." Raven remarked. The plane's wings hit the sides of the buildings on street, breaking them off, causing a massive scream from the occupants. The end of the plane crashed into the street and skin along, the landing gear wasn't down so it scrapped on its belly until it finally came to a rest right outside the prison.
Several robots began advancing on the plane; guns ready.
However, as the got near, the ground beneath them shook and opened up, dropping several of them inside; and then it smashed back shut destroying them. Terra, though lying on her stomach and bleeding from beneath her hairline, was using her powers to try to stop the advancement of robots.
Starfire leaned down to help Robin, who was on the floor, but he quickly told her to fight the robots and to try to get into the building. Starfire nodded and kicked the door off the side of the plane, flying out and up into the sky. She gave a yell and flew, throwing starbolts at the robots, blowing up several of them.
"Robin, something's wrong." Aqualad yelled to the Titan's leader. "If this is the big prison where all the good heroes are, why isn't it better guarded?"
"I was thinking the same." Robin replied as he helped to move a chair that had broken off and trapped Raven beneath it. Jinx growled and reluctantly helped Bumblebee up, and Bee was surprised by it; though neither of them had time to say anything to one another -- a moment later Starfire crashed into the plane and went straight through. Robin screamed and tried to reach her but he could not.
In the air outside was the man who had punched Starfire down.
Superman.
"Aww, man, not this guy again." Beast Boy complained; and a moment later he had to transform into a gecko to escape from the laser beam eyes coming from Superman.
"Titans, Go!" Robin yelled, and he jumped out of the broken side of the plane and hurled a freezing disc at some of the remaining robots, freezing them solid and when they fell over they shattered. However, Superman came flying faster than a speeding bullet towards Robin; and Robin had no time to avoid his punch. The boy wonder went flying off the side of the plane and hit the pavement, bleeding and bruised. Superman landed on top of the ship and turned; he spotted Jinx, who was still on her back, and he fired his laser beam eyes.
Luckily Kid Flash moved faster than even Superman, and managed to scoop her up in his arms and get her out of the way.
"You all right?" He asked.
"Peachy." She complained, sarcastically.
Superman let them go and turned on the others in the plane; Cyborg blaster him with his sonic cannon, knocking him back but not wounding him at all.
"Guys, we have a little problem here." Cyborg said; and in a flash Superman was back up, and he kicked him in his chest, knocking him off the plane and into the ground. Cyborg grunted and tried to get up, but Superman landed and picked him up. Then he threw him at some power lines; but a gigantic green pterodactyl grabbed him by the shoulders and flew him to safety.
"Thanks BB! But we gotta find a way to beat him!" Cyborg shouted to his friend.
And then; a voice spoke throughout Metropolis. The voice of The Brain.
"Attention. Teen. Titans. Do. You. Really. Believe. You. Can. Defeat. The. Brotherhood. Of. Evil?" The Brain was speaking to them all using his telepathy. In reality it was just a distraction to make them more vulnerable targets for the now-evil Superman.
"This. World. Now. Belongs. To. Me. Do. You. Not. Understand. That?" The Brain asked again. However, his distraction was not working. Mento finally emerged from the wreckage of the plane, and as Superman flew towards him to take him out; Mento used his mental powers and stopped him.
He shouted loudly, but used his powers to magnify the shout inside Superman's brain, causing him to close his eyes and cover his ears; he wound up crashing into the plane instead of punching Mento.
"Hurry Titans; go save the others!" Mento yelled to them, still magnifying his voice inside the head of Superman. However, Superman would not stay down because of this for very long. He fired his laser beam eyes and hit Mento's helmet; destroying part of it.
The Titans had already ran towards the prison, though. Raven used her powers to lift several of the destroyed robots and a few live ones and throw them all on top of Superman; but he punched his way out with easy and came flying at the Titans from behind.
"Kid Flash, you're the fastest of us, you go save the other heroes; everyone else, Stop Superman!" Robin yelled. Kid Flash obeyed and ran towards the prison, Jinx still in his arms.
The rest of the Titans stared down Superman. Both the Titan's Robin and the Robin from Gotham yelled and ran forward, Robin tossed an ice bomb, while Tim tossed a flashbang. The flashbang went off, creating a distorting flash of light; and the ice bomb froze Superman's feet to the ground.
However, Superman blasted the ice on his feet with his eyes and was free. A second later he had knocked both Robins on the ground, and then he flew forward; until Raven's powers grabbed him and threw him against the ground. Terra used her power to make sides of rock lift up and grab him, holding him firmly against the ground -- but to no avail. He broke free easily and continued to race after Kid Flash and Jinx.
Cyborg, Beast Boy and Bumblebee were all that remained in his way. Cyborg shot him in the head; Bumblebee blasted his chest with both her B's, and Beast Boy jumped on his back and turned into a blue whale; crushing him flat. Only for a moment though, because he picked up Beast Boy and tossed him so high into the air that Beast Boy had to transform into a bird. Superman picked up Cyborg and threw him at Bumblebee, pinning her beneath him.
"Hey Bee, if we survive this, I want to talk to you, okay?" Cyborg asked.
"Later Sparky." She flew out from beneath him and went chasing Superman.
However, Superman had a bigger problem. Right in front of him was Starfire; who had gotten back up and flown right in front of the prison. She refused to move, and she flew to met him in midair. He threw a punch; but she blasted him with her laser beam eyes, knocking him back. He fired his own red lasers; and she met them with her green; resulting in a large explosion which knocked them both back. Starfire was quicker getting up and she punched Superman once in the head. Her Tamaranian strength was enough to harm the Krytonian man, and knocked Superman onto the ground.
But Superman was back up in a second, kicking her in the face. The fight looked brutal, and it would not last long.
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Inside, Kid Flash and Jinx had a much easier time. As Kid Flash ran, Jinx used her bad luck powers on any robots in their way, and she also used them on the walls, breaking some of them open.
However; every room was empty.
"I don't get it, where is everyone?" Kid Flash asked as he stopped at the corner of a hallway.
"Good question." Jinx hopped down out of his arms and looked around the corner, but she found nothing in the hallway; just empty rooms.
"They said the heroes who were sane were here, didn't they?" Kid Flash asked.
"That they did; but maybe the info was bad." Jinx replied, looking around the empty prison. Not even the robots were coming anymore, which seemed odd, because if this was the Brain's prison, there should be guards.
"Is it possible they moved them when they saw us coming?" Kid Flash asked.
"No, I was looking out the window before the crash." Jinx told him. "There was no one coming out of this building but robots."
"So then . . . where could they be?" Kid Flash asked, scratching the back of his head.
"Shush." Jinx told him not to speak, and she bent down low, putting her ear to the floor. There was a sound coming from beneath them, a sound like someone walking around. It was hard to hear from the loud crashes and bangs coming from outside -- the Titans versus Superman and a robot army.
Jinx pressed her hands on the floor, energy waves swam across it, and the floor crumbled and then both fell through and landed on the lower level; and there they were, the heroes who had been captured.
Kid Flash gasped.
"What the hell . . ."
There were no heroes; it was only Monsieur Mallah, the giant gorilla who worked for the Brain. He sat in a large steel chair with a devious smirk on his face and evil in his eyes.
"Yes. That is correct; there are no heroes, there never were." Mallah grinned darkly. "It was all a trap to lure you all here; and it worked beautifully."
"Why? Why go to all that trouble to lure us here?" Jinx asked, crossing her arms.
"To kill you, of course." Mallah grinned; and then he grabbed a cannon of his back and blasted a laser at the pair. Kid Flash was fast enough to escape; but Jinx only barely missed it, and part of the blast scorched the back of her legs and knocked her to the ground, crying out in pain. Kid Flash zipped behind Mallah and tried to jump on him -- but Mallah punched him with his foot, balling his foot into a fist, and knocked him on his ass.
Then Mallah turned around and aimed the bazooka on his shoulder.
"It is time to die, small one." Mallah grinned; but the second he squeezed the trigger, his gun exploded, lighting his hair on fire and causing him to scream and run around like a monkey. Jinx had fired a bad luck charm on the cannon, causing it to backfire. Kid Flash smiled at her.
"Thanks."
Jinx felt herself blush, and suddenly felt a lot better about the whole Cyborg situation.
Kid Flash ran over to her side. "We should go."
"Easier said than done." She said, pointing at her bleeding legs.
Kid Flash grinned. "I'll carry you again."
"Oh great." She said in sarcasm to match Raven's. "And I'm sure you plan to have your hand right on my butt again."
Kid Flash decided not to reply, making the excuse that Mallah could recover and they'd be in danger. However, just as he picked her up, she noticed something in the corner of the room.
"Stop! We take that with us!" She said. Kid Flash recognized it, and looked at her like she was nuts.
"Lady, you're cute, but you're crazy." Kid Flash told her. "That's ..."
"I know what it is, they taught us about it in HIVE." She told him, and ignored the shocked look on his face -- apparently he hadn't know she was a former villain. "And with what's going on outside, that could be really useful."
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Outside, things had gotten worse. The Titans had defeated every last one of the robot warriors, but Superman was beating them back. Terra tried to hold him by pinning him in a fissure in the ground, but he broke free and threw a piece of street at her. Luckily Terra caught it and stopped it from destroying her, and then she smacked him with it again; but he broke it into pieces.
He kicked Robin in the face, threw Aqualad into a building, and crushed Cyborg with a parked car. The Titans were in serious trouble, and things were getting worse.
Beast Boy was on the ground, with Superman approaching him ready to deliver a fatal blow to the boy, when suddenly he screamed and fell on the ground. Superman gritted his teeth and couldn't move.
Kid Flash was standing behind him, holding Jinx in his arms who was holding a large green stone in her hand. Kryptonite. Apparently Mallah had it in case Superman regained his mind, so the trap wouldn't be a total waste.
With Superman down, the robots destroyed, and Mallah defeated, it was a victory for the Titans
Kid Flash was grinning. They had won, but Robin's next words quickly drown any happiness in his face.
"If this was a trap, it means this whole thing was a trap." Robin said as he clutched his bleeding shoulder. "We have to end this fast, before The Brain makes more good people go bad. We're going after the Brain."
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I realize it's shorter than normally, but I have the last few chapters all planned out, and this is where I have to end this one. :D I hope you enjoyed it, I'll have new chapters up every day until Valentine's Day, when the story will come to the big finale. And believe me, you'll never imagine what I have planned for the ending. :3
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