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Stone Prison

By: Demonabyss

Chapter 7: Relapse

I walked through the woods away from Dakota. As expected, the Justice League went on another wild goose chase thanks to a simple bus ticket I bought. Right now, I was heading east, towards a place called Mountain City. It was a smaller city but a good rest stop for a hitchhiker like me. I was a good distance away from any real civilization but that was fine with me. I was used to camping out on my own; I have been for some time. It gave me time to think and plan my next move.

I know the Justice League and the Titans are still after me, as well as whoever sent those soldiers. Right now, I needed a good place to hide, preferably fortified and easy to defend until I figure out how to deal with all of them permanently. It would also need to be someplace they would never think to look for me. There's only one place I can think of that fits that description, Slade's underground headquarters. After what he did to me, they'd probably think I would never go within ten miles of that ass. If I were a normal person, more then likely, but I am far from normal. Besides, that bastard wouldn't expect me to come back even if he is still alive. Well now, I at least have a plan. Best of all, the Titans wouldn't think to look for me right under their noses.

I continued to walk in the woods, glancing around as I went. I knew someone or something was following me. For one thing, it was too damn quiet. On my travels I spent more time outside then most people do in their own homes and I knew that forests were noisy places. There were always birds, insects, and various little and large animals making noise, but right now it was as silent as a graveyard, a silence I was much more familiar with then I would ever want to admit.

(Normal POV)

Terra walked through the dense forest, heading back southwest towards Jump City. Paranoia gripped her as she listened intently to the wilds around her. Silence. The animals and birds were afraid of something and keeping silent to avoid whatever it was. Suddenly, she heard a strange roaring noise, like that of a massive engine as well as something tearing through the forest. She quickly turned and dodged out of the way, as a massive armored jeep-like vehicle plowed through the foliage and landed close to her. "Crap."

The vehicle was huge on four wheels. It was heavily armored with a number of weapons on it. The windows were tinted black and the whole thing was camouflage colored. As Terra readied to attack, not bothering to hide her powers this time, she heard more engines. More armored jeep things appeared, all aiming their weapons at her. "This is not my day," the girl muttered before lifting up the ground beneath her. With so many trees, it was harder for her to summon rocks and she didn't want to reveal her true form, not yet. The vehicles fired at her as she nimbly dodged them on the rock. She headed towards the mountains, a lot less trees and she'd have the high ground, so to speak. However, as she flew higher she heard more engines. Looking around she saw armored helicopters. Adding their firepower, Terra was now in a deadly crossfire, weaving and dodging as best she could on her rock. Finally, one of the copters got a lucky hit and she went falling towards the rocky edge of the mountain.

Summoning the rocks from below her as fast as she could, she then landed safely on the rock. "Okay, that's how you want to play, fine!" she yelled as her hands and eyes started to glow bright gold. Hundreds of smaller rocks started to lift up from the mountain below her, far more than she had ever lifted up before and yet she was doing it without thinking. Some of the rocks circled her in three orbits like the electrons around an atom while the hundreds of others hovered around her like an asteroid field with her as a gold glowing center.

"Uh sir? I think we need backup," one of the pilots in the helicopters said into a communicator as he saw the pissed off meta-human with a quarry's worth of rocks ready to attack them. Without warning, the girl sent the rocks flying at the choppers as well as causing spires of rock to shoot up from below, destroying the jeeps and nearly hitting the copters. The stones ripped through the armor quite effectively. It felt like a barrage of missiles was hitting them. In no time at all, the jeeps were totaled while the copters went down in flames. However, more soon arrived in their place along with some new comers.

The new vehicles were airial machines, but were equipped with VTOL (Vertical Take Off and Landing) thrusters on their sides and looked more high tech then the copters that were attacking her before. This had a government logo on the side, marking them as military. In addition, another ship appeared, but this one was more like a flying fortress and had an unusual symbol on the side. It was a yellow H in a hexagon, marking it as a Hive Academy ship. The three groups surrounded Terra; each determined to capture her first. The girl's eyes blazed gold as her hands became incased in golden orbs of energy and her body a very faint gold haze. She was determined not to lose her freedom to anyone ever again.

On the control-deck of the flying fortress stood a cyborg in red clothes, with a skull-like emblem on his chest. "Oh just look at all that power! This girl will make an excellent addition to the Hive academy. Ready all gun ports! I want her taken alive! Destroy the other ships as well," Brother Blood barked out as he watched the golden glow of the girl slowly intensify.

"Brother Blood, power levels are rising off the charts, I've never seen anything like this sir," one of the operators stationed on the Hive flying fortress exclaimed. On the screen showing the readings from their target, warnings started flashing. "Sir, I think you should see this!" the operator exclaimed.

In the military assault crafts, one of the pilots opened a line to his commander. "This is Unit 137 to base. Sir, we've located the target but two other forces have intercepted us. One is the Hive and the other is unidentified. Your orders?"

An authoritative voice came back over the line. "Destroy the Hive and the unidentified craft. Capture the girl at all costs! Over and out." The military began immediately to follow those orders. Using missiles on the two enemy forces while using specialized capture beams on the girl.

On the helicopters, one of crewmembers was doing the same thing, getting on a communicator to their superiors. "Milady, the Hive and the Military have interfered, what is your wish?" he asked.

The voice of the dark haired woman came through the intercom. "They are insignificant. Remain focused on the girl and destroy the rest if you have to. My father and I do not tolerate failure," she ordered in casual yet cold voice.

Terra blocked with the hundreds of floating rocks as the various aircraft all fired on her and each other. It was a massive storm of lasers, missiles, and rocks as they all exchanged fire on one another. Terra dodged and blocked as best she could, but was finally hit by a tractor beam fired by one of the government aircraft. Shortly after, she was snagged by both the helicopters and the flying fortress and was now being pulled in three directions by them. All three beams were battling to pull her in and break the other two. This just made the rage inside Terra grow more and more.

'Who do they think they are? I am not a weapon to be fought over or used and I refuse to be! I will never be caged, not now, not ever again!' she thought as her rage and survival instinct mixed together and maximized, causing her powers to flare sky high once more.

All the shooting momentarily stopped as the girl that was the center for the whole confrontation started to glow a bright gold like a miniature sun. Suddenly, the entire mountainside that they were all fighting close to broke off and broke into thousands of smaller rocks. The ground below her started to rip apart, trees and all, as a massive rock storm similar to the one she caused before months ago started up.

However, unlike the first one, which was widespread, this one was much more concentrated into an area of about a 1-mile radius, but it was no less powerful or destructive. From outside the massive column of whirling dust, dirt, and rock you would see nothing but a wall of wind and debris with a faint glowing gold star in the center, from inside however it was a different story. Inside it was chaos as everything whirled around at an ungodly speed. All the aircraft were being ripped apart by the massive and sharp stones as they tumbled and tossed around in the massive stone vortex. In the center of the vortex was a small gold star that was Terra. From the star, gold streams of energy reached all the way out, feeding the hurricane, causing it to maintain and even increase its speed and fury. Most of the rocks and debris were traveling at 200 mph up to 450 mph depending on size and shape, beyond normal tornadoes due to Terra feeding it her energy without even realizing it.

Within the gold star in the center of all this chaos, Terra was only dimly aware of what was happening. To her, all she wanted was for those that were attacking her to be gone, destroyed, and wiped off the face of this planet immediately. Her rage and hatred at being used like a weapon and hunted like an animal fueling her power and in turn fueling the massive sandstorm. After about 45 minutes of this, her rage and her power died down and the storm with it.

All of the smaller aircraft were completely annihilated while the flying fortress was just barely in one piece on the ground. Actually, into the ground would be more accurate as it looked like it had taken a nosedive deep into the side of the mountain. There were massive patches of dark red blood dotting the area where the hurricane was. The entire area had gone from a lush simple forest to a bloodied, ruin war zone in less then an hour. Even seasoned soldiers would be sick at this sight.

Terra however was used to this and once more was too tired to care at the moment. A decent portion of her energy had gone into creating and sustaining that storm for so long and right now, she was dead on her feet. She lowered the rock she was riding on and touched on the ground below. Her vision blurred as it was getting harder to stay awake, let alone keep up her human appearance. Thin, small, golden tendrils of energy danced on her body as it slowly shifted back to its natural state. All along her body were cracks from her overuse of her power.

'So tired. Stupid, stupid Terra! Why did you have to go ballistic like that? Now your energy's drained, you're in the middle of a war zone miles away from any civilization, exposed no less, and more then likely just alerted everyone and their dog to where you are. Why didn't you just send them an invitation while you're at it?' she berated herself as she stumbled across the broken edge of the mountain. After a short walk, she finally collapsed with her things onto the earth. 'Damn it, I'm too tired to even move. I need to hide, but where?' she thought sluggishly as her mind started to wind down. She then got an idea. 'I just hope I have enough energy for this,' she thought as her hands took on a faint gold glow. The ground opened beneath her and swallowed her. Within the earth, she had it mold itself to her while her body shifted to match the surrounding stone types. Soon she was merged with the surrounding rock types, undetectable and taking in new nourishment and energy from the area around her. In no time at all afterwards, she fell into a peaceful sleep, the earth as her blanket and bed.

Not long after the second upheaval had ceased, the Justice League, the Teen Titans, and the local military all arrived to inspect the damage. All of them had the same reaction, surprise, awe, and disbelief. Beast Boy was the first to speak, "I think I'm gonna be sick."

"I'm with you kid," Green Arrow commented at the sight. It looked like someone had bombed the place repeatedly. The ripped metal, mangled bodies, blood pools, twisted trees, and various scattered debris made the whole area hard to look at.

"Oh man, I knew Terra was powerful, but this is too much," Cyborg commented as he surveyed the wreckage. All the ships looked like they'd been ripped apart mercilessly by the claws of monsters.

Raven floated around the debris as the Justice League and military started their survey of the area. It was hard to look at everything, even for someone as dark as her. The smell of blood, oil, and pine all mixed together didn't help much either. 'Terra, is this why you wanted control so badly? Is this why you betrayed us for Slade, because he offered the control necessary to avoid something like this?' she thought as she surveyed the damage. Raven knew from personal experience what it felt like to loose control of your powers and get someone hurt because of it, but this was beyond anything she had ever gone through. 'Is this what she meant when she said we didn't know anything about her? Is this what she was always so afraid of?' the gothic girl asked herself.

She had long ago gotten over her initial hatred of Terra's betrayal and had realized something; they really didn't know anything about her. Where she came from, why she was traveling, how she got her powers or even her real name if she had one? It was starting to bother Raven to no end. She wanted to know Terra's side of the story. There was also something else, something from the time when she was working for Slade and fighting the Titans when they were separated that continued to bother the gothic girl.

Question looked over the debris and shook his head. 'Damn it, this isn't good. Now the military is involved. Now she has five forces chasing her, the Justice League, the Titans, the government, the Hive, and one crime lord. Worst yet is no matter who gets to her first, it's sure to cause another upheaval like it did here, and it'll more then likely be in the middle of a city instead of the wilderness. When that happened, God, there's no telling the damage that would result from that,' he thought darkly as he looked over the remains of what was once a helicopter, at least he thought it was a helicopter.

Superman surveyed the damage with his x-ray vision as Batman looked over some wreckage. "No survivors left and any that were left are already long gone," he told the dark knight.

"Apparently she doesn't do anything halfway," Batman commented as he surveyed the wreckage. He stood up and pocketed some samples before turning to the man of steel. "Considering how Terra has operated so far, she's probably long gone as well. We'll have to start searching any nearby towns or roads immediately if we want a chance to catch her this time," he said in his usual dark monotone voice.

"What will we do if we do catch her?" Superman asked his dark counterpart.

"We'll cross that bridge when we come to it," Batman answered cryptically. He silently added to himself, 'If we're ready to cross it at all.'

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