So sorry for the lack of updates lately, but I've been absolutely hooked on Resident Evil 4 for my PS2 and I'm hellbent on earning the Chicago Typewriter. BUT, I cannot forget my loyal fan base (both of you), so on with the show.
Beast Boy sighed bitterly as Raven went and grabbed her cloak. After a relative dry spell of crime, things has begun to pick up lately and he rarely had any time to spend with his pale beauty. "I wonder if Batman has this problem?" he wondered to himself.
He did manage to make it to his feet, though he was still sore from head to toe, and follow Raven to the roof of the Tower to get a better glimpse of their attacker. The empath and changeling flung open the door to the roof to find Cyborg, a hastily dressed Robin and Starfire with her hair in a bit of a mess staring down a giant mech like robot.
"TITANS! You have been allowed to exist for too long! TODAY YOU SHALL BE DESTROYED!" came that same voice. A bit of thinking on the matter and Beast Boy could swear he'd heard it before. The voice seemed to be coming from a giant robot of sorts floating in front of the Tower. The robot's sharp, angular features were accented by a blue and white body that sported red trim on the soles of the feet and the mech's "face." Possessed in it's hands was an absolutely enormous gun of some sort, the barrel of which was aimed right for the Titans. It looked so familiar to Beast Boy...like he'd seen it somewhere else...
"It's a Gundam!" he squealed, finally pin pointing where he'd seen it. "A what?" came Raven's reply.
"Dude, it's a Gundam! It's a cool giant space robot from the book Gundam Sentinel, based on the anime."
"Wait...so someone is attacking us with a robot from an anime?" Robin asked. Beast Boy just nodded, still staring at the hulking mech with a fan boy gleam in his green eyes..
"Control Freak." Raven hissed. "If anybody would attack with a giant anime robot, it would be him."
"Haha! Took you long enough!" the nerdy super villain taunted. "And your snot toned little boyfriend is right! This baby is..."
"It's the MSA-011 S Gundam!" Beast Boy interrupted. "The top of the line! One of four prototype models, but the only one to see actual combat! It's loaded to the teeth with everything from 60mm vulcan guns to beam sabers! The works!" he gushed, his obvious fan boy-isms bleeding through to the surface.
"Hey! Don't interrupt me when I'm trying to be evil!" Control Freak protested, angry that his monologue kept getting cut off by the meddling do-gooders. "Whereas I am impressed with your knowledge, the only thing you need to know about this gifted piece of technology is that it is your DOOM!" he added.
"Is this part where I'm supposed to be scared? Intimated perhaps?" Raven said sharply in response, her arms crossed over her chest. Her lack of fear just made Control Freak scowl inside his cockpit. Without a further moment of hesitation he pressed the trigger with his sweaty, clammy finger, sending a barrage of futuristic bullets to rain down upon the Titans. Within a blink of an eye Raven had cast the group inside a huge dome of her dark energy, the bullets bouncing harmlessly off and landing at the base of the Tower. Robin was quick to use this moment to his advantage to set up the plan of attack.
"Titans! Listen up as we don't have much time. Cyborg, Beast Boy and I will keep him busy. Starfire? You and Raven take him from behind. If we can take out whatever device is keeping him in the air, we can knock him down to our level." the fearless teenage leader commanded. Starfire gave a small nod. "But how shall we do the sneaking of the up?" she asked.
"Simple." said Raven. "I can hold out longer than he can and eventually he will need to reload. When he does, I phase up through a portal behind him. If you hold on to me you will come with me."
And she was right, as soon after saying this Control Freak cursed audibly as he went to reload his Vulcan assault rifle. "NOW!" Robin commanded. Starfire lunged for Raven and clutched the pale Azarathian's arm with a vice like grip. Raven grit her teeth at such a tight squeeze, but shaking it off, fell into a black swirling pool that had opened beneath her feet and in a blink of an eye the two girls were gone.
"Alright little man, time to show you what a real robot can do!" said Cyborg, as he fired a blast from his sonic cannon straight at the Control Freak piloted Gundam. Control Freak merely smiled from inside the safety of his cock pit and effortlessly swatted the blast away with his beam saber.
"Nice try, Tin Man! But you're gonna have to do better than that!" he taunted.
Beast Boy's turn was next as he quickly morphed into a humming bird and shot at the robot with blinding speed. When he was close enough, the green changeling quickly morphed into a gorilla and, clinging to the Gundam's metallic frame, began to furiously pound his large primate fists on the anime space mech.
"Get off me!" Control Freak whined as the Gundam's systems went haywire with the damage they had been receiving. Before Beast Boy could react quick enough, the Gundam's arms reached up and grabbed him and with a mighty heave, slung him into Jump City Bay with a huge splash.
"That just leaves you, Robin!" Control Freak sneered. "With you out of the way I'll be getting all the Tammaranian booty I desire!"
At first Robin was furious, but when he saw the black portal open up beyond the Gundam, he calmed down and smiled instead.
"What's so funny?" Control Freak demanded to know.
He got his answer.
With a mighty Tammaranian battle cry, the warrior princess Starfire swung her petite fist at the massive hulk of technology and with a loud and thunderous CLANG, the Gundam rocketed towards the water like a meteor falling from the heavens and hit the blue sheet of water with a loud SPLASH.
"That was easy..." Cyborg said, observing from the roof of the Tower. Robin furrowed his brow slightly. "Too easy." the Boy Wonder said cautiously.
"Is...the Control Freak gone now?" Starfire asked apprehensively to Raven, the two female Titans still floating in air where the Gundam had been seconds ago. "I do hope I did not hit him too hard."
Up from the water behind the two girls came a dented and heavily damaged Gundam. Sparks flew from it's various joints, random wires hung out like straw from an old scarecrow. The Gundam was beaten, but not out of the fight yet. Or at least, so Control Freak thought.
"Lucky shot!" he taunted through his microphone, his voice sounding even more distorted than usual. "You may have won the battle, but the war is still mine!" and to accentuate his point produced his beam saber and blindly charged at the two girls.
Raven grit her teeth and from her own dark energy formed a curved, long, blade-like shape. With a yell, she swung the dark blade, slashing the legs off of the Gundam as if it were made of styro-foam. The Gundam sputtered, coughed and wheezed as it began to plummet towards the icy cold waters of the bay.
"EJECTION SEAT!" Control Freak screamed in a panic. The hood of the cockpit opened and his seat shot straight in the air, at least 30 or 40 feet higher than Titans Tower itself. A parachute opened when the chair reached the peak of it's jump and slowly floated back down...
...to the roof of Titans Tower.
An irritated Control Freak threw the parachute off him and swallowed his spit hard when his brain had processed the fact that he was surrounded by the Titans, including Beast Boy, who had flew back up the Tower, but was now soaking wet.
"Any last words?" Raven said with ice dripping from her voice. Control Freak unhooked his seat belt and standing up to his feet, smiled a huge nerdy smile.
"Actually, I do." he said. And quickly produced his outstretched hands and fingers to his forehead.
"SOLAR FLARE!" he screamed and suddenly the Titans were surrounded by an intense white, blinding light that seemed to last for a few seconds or so. When their vision had returned to normal, Control Freak had escaped.
"You know...I'm really starting to dislike that guy..." Beast Boy said. "I mean, the dude totally gives us nerds a bad name."
"As if nerds had a good name to begin with." Raven said dryly, with a slight smile on the corner of her lips. Beast Boy just grinned ear to ear, noticing his entire body was soaking wet. "Hey Rae, how about a hug?" he asked grinning. Raven took a cautious step back as she said "Gar, if you even so much as get one drop on me..." Beast Boy slowly stalked his girlfriend with his arms out stretched, his lips pursed together in a ridiculous "kissey" face as he made obnoxiously loud kissing noises.
"Azarath Metrion Zinthos!" and before he knew it, the changeling found himself suspended three feet in the air engulfed in her mystical powers. Cyborg howled with laughter, the cybernetic Titan never getting tired of the sight of Raven always getting the best of Beast Boy.
"I swear man, you two are so opposite you're perfect for each other." he said as he chuckled heartily. "Indeed. You two are definitely the attracting of opposites." Starfire added.
"Uhh...Star, hun? The phrase is 'opposites attract." Robin politely corrected his crimson haired beauty. Starfire's cheeks blushed an adorable shade of pink, but quickly faded when Robin planted a reassuring kiss on them.
"Can I please come down now?" Beast Boy asked politely. Raven just smiled as she made her way to the door that would lead her back to their room, still dragging a floating Beast Boy behind her.
"Let me think about it." she teased as the rest of the Titans made their way back in, ready to resume their activities before Control Freak's attack.
Control Freak huffed and puffed breathlessly as he ran up the stairs to his apartment and reaching his door, frantically searched through his keys till he found the right one. In one swift movement, the nerdy super villain swung open the door and slammed it behind him, locking and securing the dead bolt. He peered out the peep hole to make sure none of the Titans were following him, yet secretly hoping that Starfire had decided to follow him after being impressed with his complete mastery of piloting a Gundam.
Sighing a sigh of both relief and disappointment, the pudgy geek plopped down in his leather computer chair. "It's just not fair!" he lamented. "I am the greatest villain ever and yet those twerps beat a super genius such as myself? BLASPHEMY!"
His mind raced through the possible scenarios and what he did wrong, when it suddenly dawned on him. "Of course! Every time I attack them it's 5 against 1! They have to use cheap tactics to try and hold me down!"
Control Freak laughed manically as he reached for a nearby dart that sat on his desk and chucked at his dart board across the room, where a glossy 8x10 picture of Robin had been taped on top of it. The dart shot through the air and stabbed the photographic Robin between his eyes.
"Relish this moment now Boy Wonder, but I'll pick off your precious teammates one by one when they have no one else to back them up! And then...oh then I shall save you for last and have that gorgeous Starfire all to myself!"