(A/N: I hope you guys enjoyed the first chapter and I hope you enjoy this one. I'm honestly really excited to get this done, but I'll try not to get too excited. Experience has taught me that getting too excited while writing a story makes it a little too much for some people to take in. Experience has also taught me that not getting excited while writing a story makes it really dull and boring. And I am not a boring person!)
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"So, wait, what are we looking for again?" Kevin asked. His armor now long since gone.
She sighed, "Evidence of where the android could be."
Four Arms tossed a crate to the side, "So far all I've found are man-sized shapes in the walls."
"Well, that does prove the fight happened here," she tried to be a little optimistic, but it was pretty difficult since she was shrouded in disappointment and concern.
Disappointment because she had a glimmer of hope that they could actually find it there. Concern because of the important message that it was protecting from the wrong hands.
She placed a hand on one of the indentations in the wall closest to her. She went into a deep concentration to put her mana and the trace mana in sync into her tracking spell.
"From here the fight carried on in an alleyway just a block away," she spoke.
"Then, what are we waiting for?" Four Arms asked impatiently. "Let's go!"
The doors suddenly flew open and five unfamiliar figures stood in the early morning light. The bright light obscured their faces and what they were wearing, but they could tell that they were teenagers just like them. The group consisted of three boys and two girls, who were floated above them.
"You're not going anywhere!" a voice full of seriousness and selflessness declared.
Green energy bolts were thrown down on them from one of the girls. Gwen immediately created a mana shield to protect them. Kevin knelt down and absorbed the material the floor was made of.
The tallest and largest figure fired a blue sonic laser at her shield, causing it to crack. The other female figure shot down a beam of black energy. All three attacks combined were more than enough to break the shield and slightly weaken Gwen.
Kevin shaped his hand into a spiked maul and charged them. Clearly intent on pounding all five of them to a pulp for hurting his girlfriend.
Four Arms cracked his knuckles, "Bad move."
He lunged at them and aimed for the one in the middle. He noticed the voice from earlier was coming from directly in front of them, not from the side or from above.
In reaction, the figure in the middle commanded, "Titans, go!"
Unbeknownst to them, a shadowy figure watched from above as this was happening. He had a feeling that this battle would lead to an interesting outcome.
He took out a bo staff to defend himself just as he brought down all four of his strong arms. If there was one thing he had to say, he was definitely just as strong as looked.
He smirked went it looked like he was about to be brought down to his knees. That was until his arms were suddenly held back by two green hairy arms.
He was lifted up off the ground by a green sasquatch. He reached for the Ultimatrix, but none of his arms could reach his chest in the position he was in. Then, he remembered something, he could transform without pressing it.
All it took was just a little focus and... a familiar light enveloped him. Seconds later he was transformed into an alien that looked to be made of green slime. An anti-gravity projector was hovering above him.
"Goop!" he shouted and slipped out of his arms into a puddle on the floor.
The sasquatch turned into a green human with a confused look on his face. "Uh... what just happened?"
His friend and leader didn't know either, "I'm not sure, Beast Boy."
While they were talking, Goop's anti-gravity projector rose up off the floor with his body in tow. Before they could react he covered them and trapped them in a ball.
The girl that fired the green energy bolts at them before gasped in shock when he transformed into a different alien. "A Polymorph? How did he-" She was cut off by multiple projectiles of mana being fired at her and her cloaked friend.
Her friend created a shield of dark energy to protect them from her powers. Though it didn't hold up for very long, just like with Gwen's shield before, her defenses started to crack and eventually shatter.
Gwen was surprised by this nonetheless and asked, "Are you from Ledgerdomain?"
'Ledgerdomain?' she questioned in her thoughts.
Another green energy bolt was fired at her, she shielded herself just in the nick of time. She tried to reason with them, "Wait! We're not here to cause trouble! We just want-"
She was cut off by her boyfriend finishing it for her, "To pound you!" It was the opposite of what she was going to say.
His hands were now enlarged and he was charging the largest member of the attacking group, who just happens to be covered in metal and cybernetics. Who better for an Osmosian to fight?
The sonic laser was shot at him again, but he was able to dodge it with ease. Before he could land his attack on him, he clashed with two metal hands. His hands shrunk down to their normal size and began to fight like wrestlers.
The cybernetic guy was stronger than expected and was able to crack his armor. He was driven down to his knees and relieved himself of his sheathing.
He smirked down at the now-defenseless Osmosian on the floor, "Not so tough now, are ya?"
He gave a toothy smirk of his own, "To the contrary, I think I know a way to beat you!"
He suddenly arose to his feet and got a firm grip on his metallic foe's wrists. His opponent looked at him in utter shock as he acquires a blue and white color scheme, similar to his.
"What are you?!" he gaped.
"A badass," he answered with a smug look on his face. He cracked his knuckles and lunged at him.
The spiky-haired assailant and his green friend, identified as Beast Boy, struggled to escape from Goop. Still trapped in the bubble, they squirmed like infant animals, hoping to break free. Beast Boy morphed into different animals, but was still unsuccessful.
"Nice try, but I'm indestructible in this form," he proclaimed.
"Indestructible maybe, but not unbeatable," the leader stated.
He noticed earlier that he couldn't move without the device above him. He gripped his staff tightly and thrusted it up as hard as he could. He was able to penetrate the bubble and shoot the device away like a cue stick hitting the white ball in a game of pool.
With his anti-gravity projector disturbed, it caused Goop's body to splatter on the floor. The two were covered in the green gelatin-like substance.
"Ugh! What is this stuff?" Beast Boy groaned in disgust. "Get it off! Get it off!" He licked his cheek, "Huh, tastes like lime."
"Well, that's one down," the leader stated. Though, it was definitely said too soon.
Just seconds after they got out, Goop's anti-gravity projector gathered together every last drop of him, including what they were covered in. It only took a second for him to become whole again.
"Like I said, indestructible," his voice had very 'I-told-so' sounding tone to it, but it was difficult to catch due to his voice sounding like talking with a mouth full of water. His arms were crossed and his eyes were sharp.
The leader's eyes were equally as sharp as he glared at him. He tightly gripped his staff and went in for another attack. Goop grabbed the staff and it melted in his palms.
Gwen shot a power beam of mana at the two girls above her. It was blocked by yet another dark energy shield, this time it shattered completely like a pane of glass and hit both of them. The cloaked girl took most of the attack and was severely hurt, though was not going to let her friend know this. Her body heals itself rather quickly anyway.
"Raven! Are you injured?" her friend asked worriedly.
The girl, identified as Raven, assured her, "No, I'm fine."
Her friend didn't buy it though, her eyes glowed a fiery green as she threatened Gwen, "You will pay for harming my friend."
She still tried to reason with them, "Please, just listen-"
Too late. A powerful beam of green energy was already being fired down on her. She could just see the rage-filled power in the attack and knew the only way to counter a powerful attack like it was with another.
She cast one of her preferred spells to nullify it, "Tur-bo!"
A tornado of mana winds clashed with her attack and they quickly cancelled each other out. The two girls made eye contact with each other and decided to use one of their most powerful attacks if they ever hope to defeat her.
They joined hands and concentrated their respective powers through their arms and to their palms. Soon, a ray of swirling black and green energy came down directly at her.
She had to react quickly or else she wouldn't be getting out of this in one piece. "Mercuta Verditis!"
Pink lightning shot out of her palms and clashed with the swirling ray. All three girls concentrated more power into their attacks, only to be cancelled out yet again.
Both attacks had taken a lot out of all three of them, but the two above her appeared to be drained of all power from their combined attack. This was the perfect opportunity to immobilize them, to prevent them from attacking her any further and causing more harm to themselves than to her.
"Appendage-A Regoria!" The girls became paralyzed in mid-air and would remain that way until the spell wore off or when she chose to release them from its effects.
She created mana steps and climbed up them until she stood next to them. She turned her attention to her boyfriend and who he was fighting.
He and the cybernetic guy were toe-to-toe, they clashed hands and had each other in a vice grip. Both had their teeth gritted, almost to the point of grinding their jaws, and their eyes were full of rage and determination.
"Had enough yet?" Kevin asked through his teeth in a toothy smirk.
"No! What about you? Had enough?" his asked in response, smirking just as he was.
"No!" he answered.
While this fight was fun for him, he saw that his girlfriend was already finished with her battle. It was time to end it, he figured; too bad, this was the most fun he'd had in a long time.
He managed to get out of their iron grip and grabbed his right arm in an equally strong hold. He threw him over his shoulder and, using his weight against him, slammed him into the floor. It created a depression in the floor and knocked him out.
They both looked towards Goop and saw he was struggling against a green bull, his hands on his horns. Red bird-shaped objects were thrown at him, only to be melted as soon as they made contact with his body.
"Ben, I think it's time to wrap it up," his cousin told him.
His eyes drooped, indicating that he was probably frowning or pouting. "Oh, okay," he groaned.
He let go of one of the horns and slapped the Ultimatrix symbol on his chest. In a brief flash of light, he transformed into one of his favorite aliens.
"Diamondhead!" he exclaimed.
Both the leader and Beast Boy were surprised to see him changed again. This time into a large, dark blue and light cyan crystal humanoid.
He got a good grip on his horns with his crystal hands and flipped him onto his teammate. The green changeling turned back into his normal form and both he and his friend were out.
He punched the floor and light cyan crystals grew out and entrapped the leader, Beast Boy, and the cybernetic guy. Gwen placed one hand on the two girls and released them from her spell. She used a bed of mana to carefully set them on the floor, where they were immediately trapped in crystal.
"So… what do we do now?" Diamondhead asked.
"Leave. It's not here and these guys obviously don't like us," Kevin stated.
He looked over at his cousin, "What about you, Gwen?"
"I want to ask them some questions before we leave," she answered.
Both knew that arguing with her was pretty much pointless because her reasons for wanting to ask them questions were probably good ones. After all, she's been proven to be right more than once when it comes to her motives.
They only had to wait half an hour before they finally started to pull through. By this time, Diamondhead had turned back into Ben and Kevin was no longer in armor, though he had a hand on one of the machines just in case.
The girl who fired the first shot at them shot green beams from her eyes and Raven used her dark powers on their crystal prison. They were unsuccessful in their attempts. Their teammates also made an attempt, but they were unsuccessful as well. Perhaps they would've been successful if they didn't have so many things on their minds.
"That's not going to work," Ben spoke matter-of-factly.
"What do you want with us?" the leader of the group questioned.
"We don't want anything from you," Gwen told him in a reassuring way.
"Well, actually," Kevin started, but his friends gave him warning glares, "uh, nevermind."
"We're looking for an android, it was supposed to come to us, but it landed in your city by mistake," she explained.
"Maybe you've seen it. It's all white with black spots on its face and has red eyes," Ben told them.
"It has the power to absorb and blend into its surroundings," Kevin added.
Beast Boy's eyes widened at their disruption, "Oh, man! That sounds like the thing that-" He was cut off by his friend and leader glaring at him.
This didn't go unnoticed by a certain short-tempered Osmosian, "What do you know about it?!"
"Kevin!" his girlfriend scolded.
"We'll tell you if you let us go," the leader told him.
He looked back at his friends and they nodded, giving him the approval. "Fine, I'll free you, but you have to tell us who you are."
He knelt down and absorbed the material in the floor again. He turned his hand into a mallet and started hitting the diamond borstal. He smashed it into thousands of diamond shards and freed them.
They didn't introduce themselves right away, so Ben walked up towards them and reminded them, "Come on, guys, a deal's a deal."
"I'm Robin, this is Cyborg, Raven, Starfire and Beast Boy," he introduced. "We're the Teen Titans."
He figured it was only fair that they knew who they were too, "I'm Ben, Ben Tennyson, this is my cousin Gwen and friend Kevin."
Beast Boy gasped, "Dude! You're Ben Ten?"
"Yep, that's me!" he proudly put his fist on his chest. "Savior of the Earth and the Galaxy!"
His friends groaned in the background, most likely thinking, 'Here we go again.'
Kevin cleared his throat before this could any further, "You were going to tell us what you know about our missing android?"
"Right. Two weeks ago we finally came back home after fighting an organization of villains for several weeks. The day after we got back, we decided to look around the city to see if there were any changes," Robin started.
"And we saw more than just a couple of small changes," Cyborg chimed in.
Kevin looked over at him with a raised eyebrow and a smirk, "Yeah, I bet."
"Kevin!" Gwen scolded him.
"What?" he asked.
He continued with his explanation, "While we were looking around this construction site, a white monster attacked us out of nowhere. It absorbed everything it came into contact with. We followed it all over town, but nothing we did could stop it."
Ben went into deep thought for a second, "Well, Reiny did say that he made sure it would protect what its carrying with its life."
Of course, this comment didn't go unnoticed, "What are talking about? What could that android be protecting that's so important?"
"What you fought is actually a messenger android called Angelos. It was sent to Earth by Reinrassig III, the Supreme Leader of the Highbreed," Gwen explained.
"The Highbreed?!" Starfire exclaimed.
"Starfire! What's wrong?" Robin asked, concerned.
"Forgive me," she apologized, "I believed the entire Highbreed race to be extinct."
"But they're not extinct," Ben told her. "I repaired the genetic damage in all of them." He then decided to get back on topic, "Anyway, where's the android? Did it escape? Do you have it?"
Those were questions that none of them really knew how to answer. It wasn't like they didn't know where it was, it's just where it was currently located was difficult to explain.
"Well, uh, you see, it's kinda difficult to explain!" Beast Boy nervously tried to explain.
"No need to explain. Can you take us to the alley where you fought it next?" Gwen asked. "We can take over from there."
Robin looked back at his team and they all nodded. He looked back at them, "Follow us, we'll take you there."
As both teams left the building, the shadowy figure that watched them battle narrowed his one eye. He silently jumped down to the ground floor and followed them out.
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(A/N: I apologize if this chapter doesn't live up to your expectations. Fight scenes aren't exactly my cup of tea, I don't write them everyday or in every story.
Again, I'm sorry if everyone is a little out of character, but I have a lot on my mind and a lot going on this week. Plus, the fact that I have Finals coming up doesn't exactly help.
If it makes you feel better, both teams will get to know each other better in the next chapter and the chapters after that. Also, our old buddy Reiny will be making an appearance here shortly and the identity of the Titans "guest" will be revealed in the next chapter.
Speaking of, can you guess who the mysterious figure is? Believe me, it's not that hard and it's so obvious.)