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Chapter 3: Third Encounter
The
Titans stared in horror as Slade's head was twisted 180 degrees
around.
The
white robed former apprentice looked into the lifeless wide open eye
staring out in surprise out her former master's mask, smiled, and let
go, Slade's dead body drop to the floor with a dull thud.
"Bet
you he didn't see that coming" the girl said, turning to the
Titans.
"Till
we meet again"
She
wrapped her cloak around her and turned white with black lines before
disappearing through the wall.
The
teen heroes stood still in the silent control room of their
arch-enemy, still stunned.
"Dude,
she just- she just.." Beast Boy stuttered, gaping, breaking the
spell.
"Oh
man, that's just not right" Cyborg said.
"Truly,
that was as babaric as seeing a sporznort's killing frenzy"
Starfire said, eyes wide.
Robin
walked up to Slade and stared down at the body before kneeling down
and putting two fingers to his throat, checking for any pulse, any
signs of life.
"Eww,
dude, you're touching a dead guy!" Beast Boy shrieked, turning a
deeper shade of green. "I think I'm gonna barf!"
Ignoring
him Robin reached into his utility belt and pulled out a duster and
white powder, sprinkling some over Slade's helmet before brushing it
off to reveal a set of fingerprints. "Well, at least this time
we've got a clue to go on" he said, using one of his gadgets to
scan the prints.
"We'll
run a check back at the tower, and hopefully we'll be able to find
out the identity of our mystery person"
"Uh,
Robin, what about Slade's body?" Raven asked, floating up to
him.
"We
can't just leave it here, can we?"
"Oh
no! I'm not going to be one who has to carry him!" Beast Boy
shouted, still a little greener then green.
Robin
stood up and stared down in silence at the body of the man who'd
caused them so much grief, so much pain.
"Robin?"
Starfire put her hand on his shoulder "What do you wish us to
do?"
Robin
sighed and turned around to his team. "We'll contact the
authorities to come and get his body. And then we start to work on
our uninvited guest's name"
Minutes
later, back at the Tower, Raven sat in her room, meditating, trying
to free her mind of the shock and stress that filled it.
And
failing.
"What's
wrong with me?" she thought, sighing in frustration.
She
took a deep breath and tried again.
"Azarath...
Metrion... Zinthos... Azarath... Metrion... Zinthos... Urgh!"
she snarled, gnashing her teeth. Why couldn't she find her inner
peace like she normally did?
Why
was it everytime she tried, it felt like she was... missing
something?
"Frustrated?"
"Oh
no" Raven groaned as her sister Wolf floated in.
"If
I wasn't before, I will be now"
"Is
that anyway to talk to your loving sister?" Wolf asked
teasingly.
"Please
Wolf, this isn't the time for that. There's been lot's of trouble
happening lately"
"Yeah,
I bet, especially with Terra now hanging unto your boyfriend BB"
"Terra's
dead. Slade too"
"What!
How?" Wolf asked, shocked.
"I
cast the spell, and as it was about to work someone showed up and
cancelled it out, then shattered Terra's statue body. And then we
found her teamed up with Slade.
We
confronted them and then she snapped his neck like a twig"
Wolf
whistled. "Who ever she is, she sounds powerfull"
"She
is. But the weird thing is, she's dressed like me, only in white, and
her powers manifest like mine, but white with black instead of black
with white, and she even sounds like me. And I'm so worried"
Raven said, a scared look on her face.
"Why?"
Wolf asked, floating closer to her sister.
"I'm
worried I won't be able to protect my friends against her"
"Ok,
so far this is what we have on our mystery girl" Robin said,
pointing a remote at the screen in the living room.
"We
know she's highly trained in magic, as she's proven quite a bit.
She's
also highly dangerous, and will kill without a giving it a second
thought, as she's shown with Slade... and Terra."
Beast
Boy clenched his fists, but stayed quiet.
"Have
you had any success on acquiring her identity of the finger prints?"
Starfire asked. "No, and here's why" Robin said, tapping a
button.
"Wow,
now that's mixed up" Cyborg said as they stared at the
fingerprint.
It
looked like several different fingerprints joined together.
"I
know" Robin said, "It's going to take the computer a while
to decode it, so until then we need to be prepared for when she
strikes again. Raven?"
"Yes?"
"Do
you have anything that could shield us from her magic? Or could your
magic help us out in anyway? Maybe track her down, or show us her
face?"
Raven
felt her heart go cold.
"Uh,
I'll have to check and come back to you on that. There might be one
or two spells that might be able to help"
"Get
on it. In the meantime, I want everyone else to do extra training
sessions.
The
next time she shows her face, we'll be ready"
"Uhm,
I don't think we'll be ready" Beast Boy said, pointing.
Everyone
followed his finger to a large plume of smoke drifting up from Jump
City.
Suddenly
there was a flash, and a second plume joined the first.
Robin
stared at the plume in anger, clenching his fist.
"Titans...
let's go!"
Robin
raced down the debris littered streets of Jump City with Raven,
Cyborg and Beast Boy following close behind in Cyborg's car while
Starfire covered them from the air.
All
around them people where screaming and running while clouds of dust
and smoke flew through the air alongside explosions and roaring
flames.
Suddenly
the skies darkened as a large bus full of people came tumbling down
towards them. "Look out!" Robin shouted to the team, taking
evasive manouvres as the bus raced down... and stopped, inches from
the ground, glowing black.
"Nice
catch" Cyborg said as Raven slowly put the bus down unto the
road.
"No
time for cheers. Let's go" Robin said over their intercom's,
before racing off.
Seconds
later they found the source of the destruction: The white robed girl,
floating above the cracked and hole-ridden road, her hands glowing
white with black moving lazily left and right as explosions rained
across the buildings.
"Ah,
the gang's all here" she said, turning around.
"Wanna
play?" she smiled, her eyes glowing white.
"Playtime's
over for you, permanently" Robin growled, staring at her in
hatred.
"Titans,
attack!"
"Pitifull".
The girl dodged Starfire's bolts easily.
"Predictable".
She spun and dived low, Cyborg's sonic blast missing her by a mile.
"Poor".
She dived down and stopped before spinning in a circle and kicking
Beast Boy, in wolf form, right in the jaw in mid air.
"Pathetic"
she laughed as she evaded Robin's birderangs without even trying.
"And
what about me- oof!"
"Raven!"
Starfire shouted as the girl sent a massive piece of concrete
slamming into her, sending her flying through the air to smash into a
building.
"And
now, it's my turn" The girl grinned, hands glowing brightly.
And
the Titans felt a chill run up there spines.
"Uuh..."
Raven groaned as she slowly came back to the world, her body one big
ache.
Woozily,
she stood up, bits of debris dropping off her, took a step forward,
and almost fell to the ground. She reached out to steady herself
against a wall and stood there, gasping, as she stared across the
city skyline at the sounds of a battle raging.
"Ok,
so you want to fight dirty..."
"Come
on, you're not even trying!" the girl laughed, pulling another
piece of building out with a crack before flinging it at them.
"Yahh!"
Robin shouted, filling the air with small black balls that hit the
looming piece of debris and blew it to bits.
"Nice"
the girl said, "But not good en-"
"Booyah!"
Cyborg shouted as he got a surprise shot at her, held aloft by Beast
Boy in pterodactyl form.
The
girl's eyes went wide as the beam struck...
...
and flowed around her without leaving even a scratch.
"Naughty
naughty" the girl tisked, wagging a finger.
"Looks
like I'll have to teach you some manners"
She
held up her hand, glowing white and black, and grinned.
BOOM!
"Aaah!"
Raven cried out as the ground under her feet jumped and shook, almost
knocking her back down to the ground.
"Oh
no! Oh, please no!" she gasped, taking a few steps forward
before breaking into a run and finally flying.
She
descended down through the pitch black smoke until she saw the large
crater of destruction, and two familiar and very beaten up forms near
the edge.
"Starfire!
Cyborg! Oh, please answer me!" she begged as she landed next to
them, checking them for a pulse, and sighing in relief when she found
them.
"R-Raven...?"
Starfire moaned, opening one eye.
"Starfire,
you ok? Where's Robin and Beast Boy?"
"They're
gone"
"You
mean they're...?" Raven couldn't bear to think of it.
"No...
she took them. The girl took them. And.." Starfire broke into a
fit of coughs before finishing, "And she said to tell you:
"You'll know where""
Back
at Titan's Tower, in the Lab:
Analysis
Complete
Scanning
Database Villian For Match
No
Villian Match Found
Scanning
Database Hero For Match
One
Match found
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