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Stone Prison

By: Demonabyss

Chapter 3: Evasion

I paced back and forth in my apartment in my rock form in shorts and a tank top, unable to keep my human appearance due to all the stress and the recent heat wave. This can't be happening! How can they be here! Why are they here? I can understand the Justice League but why them? This is all wrong! Oh man, what can I do? The city is crawling with Justice League members, the Titans are here, suspicious of me and everyone in the city is on the look out for whatever they're looking for! I'm so screwed!

I stopped and took a slow deep breath. Okay Terra, calm down and think. They know you're in the city, but they don't know where you are yet. That buys me some time. It'll take them at least a few hours to track me down. There is no way I can handle the Titans and the Justice League in the middle of the city. I've trashed enough homes and lives already. Surrender is also out of the question. If they catch me, they'll try to either imprison me or use me like everyone else. The only thing I can do now is run, like usual. If I face them here, they have the advantage of numbers, organization, and the support of the law. If I'm going to face them and have ANY chance, it needs to be on my terms. I've lost my freedom one time too many and I'm not going to lose it to a bunch of spandex wearing weirdoes with a superiority complex. If they try to put me in a cage, then they will face the fury of the earth itself!

(Normal POV)

The stone girl's anger rose as her eyes took on a familiar golden glow. However, her whole body took on a gold glow as her anger at the situation grew. Without realizing it, her body sprouted extremities of rock. Her entire body grew a rock armor hide. Her shoulders grew spikes while her hands morphed into lethal claws. Long spines of rock grew from her back and converged on her chest, forming a plate of armor that reached down her torso. Her legs morphed into heavy boots of smooth stone with three spikes sticking out of each foot, promising a nasty kick to any who crossed their owner. Last but not least, her head morphed. Her eyes elongated into glowing gold slits like those of a crazed animal. Her mouth widened slightly as her teeth became razor sharp, with four pointed fangs, two on top and two on bottom. Terra was becoming more demonic looking the longer she dwelled on her rage against those who would use and abuse her. The transformation would've continued had she not looked in the mirror on her vanity.

"HOLY CRAP!" she yelled as she got a good look at herself. Her anger dissipated in an instant as she stared at the earth monster in the mirror. Without her rage to fuel the change, she started to revert. She stared at herself as her body morphed backed into her normal rock form. Terra went back from a freakish earth creature to a walking statue of a young girl once again. Even though she returned to her normal form, she was still staring at the mirror, half expecting the nightmare from before to reappear. The girl stared at her hands as she fell to her knees with a loud bang sound. "No way, that can't be! What am I?" she said aloud.

As before, her form reacted to her emotions. However, the effect was dramatically different. All across her body, cracks and fissures appeared, marring her smooth stone surface. Cracks and shards broke out on her body. She was shaking, as if her very body was experiencing one her own earthquakes. Terra held herself as tears formed, solidified, and fell as small crystals. Her own body seemed to be breaking apart as her fear and sadness mounted. The thoughts of 'What am I?' and 'What am I going to do?' kept repeating in her mind. No answers came to the broken girl of stone.

Raven's head shot up. She had felt it again. The force everyone was looking for had spiked up again. It felt like it was going to erupt again, this time right in the middle of the city. She gripped her head as her eyes took on white glow. She opened her communicator as she did. "This is Raven, I'm sensing our target." She concentrated on the power as she spoke, getting a fix on it.

"Where is it?" Came Robin's voice.

"Is it Terra?" Beast Boy's followed eagerly. Raven scowled at his tone as she continued to concentrate.

"I don't know, but it's spiking up again, like before during the," she stopped as the power shifted and changed. Instead of building as a bomb getting ready to blow like it did the first time, it was now shrinking, as if it were short-circuiting on itself like a machine breaking apart. "I take that back. Robin, I don't know what's going on, but I have a lock on the target. Something weird is going on with it," she relayed.

"Relay the coordinates and we'll rendezvous. I'll relay the message to the League. Do not engage until everyone is there, we don't know what it is we're dealing with," their leader ordered.

Terra/Teva quickly packed her things, her stone form repairing itself from her early, saddened mood, though a few cracks remained due to her still present stress and despair. She didn't have much, just enough to fill one backpack and one travel bag, both she had bought just in case. Just as she filled the last of what few clothes she had, she felt something. Not vibrations, but a gut feeling and after all this time, she knew to trust her instincts in a situation like this. "Time to go," she said as she quickly left with her two bags. She left the building, covered up and in her human form and was three blocks away just as Green Arrow and Black Canary turned and rode past her on a motorcycle, heading for the building. "That was too close," she muttered to herself as she went down into the subway, unaware she wasn't alone.

A man in a blue detective outfit with a blue hat and no face followed silently after the black haired girl. Question knew this girl was the one everyone was after and that she was what had caused that disaster. However, unlike the rest of the League and the Titans, he did his homework. He knew why this girl ran and why she had betrayed the Titans to Slade so quickly. The Question also had a good idea of what would happen if either confronted her now. The consequences would be disastrous.

Teva Teleia sat down in the car as she headed towards the industrial area of Gothem. It would take awhile to get to the other side of town this way, but it would cover her trail and buy her some time. In the mean time, she decided to take a nap and therefore didn't notice someone sit next to her. "Long day?" a calm older male voice said.

"You could say that," Teva said without opening her eyes. She was too mentally exhausted to care right now.

"I would think so, considering the Justice League and the Teen Titans are gathering outside your former home," he said as simply as if he were discussing the weather. Teva's eyes shot open and she turned to her conversation partner. Her mouth dropped when she saw he had no face. Her hands and eyes started to take on a gold glow before he stopped her. "Take it easy, I'm not here to take you in. In fact, I want to help you," he said quietly and sincerely.

Teva/Terra's eyes narrowed from under her glasses. "The last time I heard something like that I ended up as a puppet turned statue for a madman. Give me one good reason why I shouldn't use all the dirt in this car to take you out," she said quietly but coldly.

Question chuckled slightly. "Because it would attract the League and Titans, especially Raven who can sense your powers by the way," he said which caused her eyes to widen. She then frowned and settled for glaring at him. "In any case, I want to help you evade the League and Titans," he stated again.

"Why should I believe you? You're with the League so you could be leading me into a trap. Besides, if you do want to help me, why do it? Couldn't you be kicked out of the League? And what do you get out this anyway?" she asked while staring intensely at him.

"Good questions. Tell me what do you think will happen if either catch-up to you before you leave town?" he asked simply.

She sighed as she thought about it. "I'll probably go nuts, loose control of my powers, destroy a lot of property and or kill a number of people, get knocked out and taken captive anyway," she said simply as if it were inevitable. The image of her monstrous form from earlier entered her mind. She involuntarily shuddered at it.

"Exactly, I want to prevent that. Also, I think I have pretty good idea why you did what you did," he said cryptically. She glared at him again, her eyes even more narrowed. He ignored it and then handed her something. It was a small device, similar to a PDA but sleeker and of alien design. She looked at it then him. "It's a communication device you can contact me with. I know a few people outside the league who'll be willing to help you," he explained as he watched her reaction.

Teva looked at it for a moment before looking at him. "All right, I'll trust you for now. But I want you to swear to me that you won't tell the League or the Titans about where I am, what I'm doing, or anything like that," she said while grabbing him and holding him firmly. She stared intensely into where his eyes would be if he had a face. Her blue eyes burned like twin blue novas, daring him to cross her and give her a reason to crush him.

"I swear I won't tell the League or the Titans about where you are or what you're doing," he said clearly. She let him go, but kept a weary eye on him. "You don't have to run you know," he stated quietly.

Teva then did something that would disturb the Question for the next couple of hours, maybe even days, she laughed. "Not run? Yeah right. What other options do I have? Surrender and go with them, either to be sent to jail or "convinced" to be one of the good guys? No thanks. I've tried to be good and I've tried to be bad and neither one works. So far, everyone I've ever gotten close to has double-crossed me, one way or another. Besides, people, especially people like them, only see in me what they want to see, nothing else. They're always too blind to see the clues that are in plain sight," she ended as cryptically as the Question himself would.

Before he could ask what she meant, she got up and left the train. The Question just watched her silently, the gears in his head moving quickly to figure out her cryptic message. If there was one thing the Question couldn't resist, it was figuring out a mystery or more specifically a conspiracy. 'What does this girl know that she's hiding? What did she mean by clues in plain sight?' he wondered silently as the subway train pulled away, heading to its next terminal.

Teva Teleia walked through the industrial area of Gothem. 'I have to get out of town, but if I take the bus, taxi, or a normal train they'll track me for sure' she thought as she looked around. Years of being on the run from various people, had taught her how to move quickly and undetected from town/area to another. She planned to take a train, but not a passenger train. A cargo train would be much less suspicious and harder for them to track her on.

The black haired girl searched around and finally found a train carrying cattle and cargo heading east. She snuck on and made her way to the back. There she quietly sectioned off one area for herself from the cows that were there. Despite the smell, Teva didn't mind. If she had bought a normal train ticket and used that, then she could be easily traced, like before.

The girl didn't have long to wait, as the train started moving, heading out to some unknown destination. With a sigh, she watched as the scenery slowly went by as she rode out of the city. However, her gazing was cut short by the feeling of someone watching her. She turned and her eyes widened as she met one of the last people she wanted to see.