Sorry for the long wait everyone, but here you go! A new chapter! And in this long awaited new update, the chase is on as Capricarn proceeds to get the Titans to go on an epic chase through Jump City. Sound exciting? I certainly hope so! And that being said, please do read, enjoy, and review!
A/N: But first, just to remind you all, I do not own Teen Titans or anything else DC based. Ok? Good. Now on with the story!
Chapter 1:
Hot Pursuit
Mere seconds after the Titans lunged out from the outer patio of Youngberg Café in pursuit of Capricarn, they all didn't take long at all to put all their energy into the chase to come and prove that they meant business. Raven and Starfire promptly took to the skies and swooped around after the fleeing miscreant. Beast Boy lunged onto the street, turned into a cheetah, and dashed off after the satyr-like criminal with a snarl of challenge. Robin jumped astride a familiar red motorcycle, snapped on his custom red helmet, and gunned the pedals as he zipped off to follow his friends in pursuit of Capricarn. And finally, Cyborg briefly disappeared around the side of the block Youngberg Café was located at before zooming back into view at the driver's seat of his beloved T-Car. Thus the Titans pursued Capricarn, eager to catch him and put a stop to his murder spree feeding frenzy.
Capricarn turned his head to look behind him, and grinned at the sight of the five teens pursuing him. "Wouldn't be nearly as fun without a challenge," he thought to himself. Turning his head to face ahead once more, he bleated, and then started running even faster, his goat legs going into full gear. The Titans noticed this, and proceeded to get themselves sped up as well. Before long, all five of the teen heroes began to quite noticeably catch up to the fleeing Capricarn, with Cyborg in particular getting especially close to apprehending him.
Capricarn noticed this, and directed a glare towards the incoming car with Cyborg inside. "Ok, now this is definitely getting too easy for them," he thought to himself. He leaped off to his right, landing on the bed of a pickup truck that turned out to be carrying barrels of oil. He picked up one of the barrels, bleating in challenge, and hurled it straight at the T-Car. The barrel crashed against the windshield and burst upon contact, completing covering the windshield in oil. Cyborg shrieked, and frantically activated the windshield wipers to no avail as he started rapidly swerving and spinning around in complete loss of control over the car. After a few seconds, the still horridly out of control T-Car ended up crashing right through the front window of a candy store, and was left stuck halfway through the window with the back half of the vehicle sticking out in midair and the tires uselessly rotating around. Meanwhile, inside the car, Cyborg found himself briefly gasping for air after the airbag finally deflated. Then he growled, practically punched the door to his left open, and jumped out of the car just in time to see the rest of the Titans zoom past the window the T-Car had gone through to continue their own pursuit after Capricarn.
As this happened, Robin was the next to start catching up to Capricarn. The miscreant chuckled gleefully. "Ooh," he thought to himself. "This oughta be even more fun!" He jumped up into the air, grabbed onto some overhanging electrical wires, and swung himself through the air. He landed on the roof of the front of a gasoline truck, reached through the open left window, and yanked the surprised driver right out of his seat before throwing him out the window and just as swiftly swinging himself into position on the driver's seat. At that point, he gunned down on the gas pedal with his hoof like feet, and caused the truck to start rapidly barreling towards a street intersection that he had originally been heading towards and that the Titans were still heading towards.
Minutes later, right as the truck was another minute or two away from entering the intersection, Capricarn leaped out the open driver's side window of the truck, kicking the door in question extra hard while in the midst of propelling himself into the air and causing the entire truck to tip over onto its side and start skidding dangerously fast into the intersection. And then, just as Robin was inches away from entering the intersection on the R-Cycle, he had just enough time for his masked eyes to widen at the sight of Capricarn hurtling through the air straight towards some nearby overhead power cables before the saber-toothed villain sliced the wires in two with his sharp claws. The two separate halves of all the severed cables landed right on the top of the tank as the truck fully entered the intersection, and it exploded in spectacular fashion, leaving an impressive wall of oil ignited flames within the intersection cutting off the Titans from Capricarn. The criminal in question landed harmlessly on the ground opposite the side the Titans were on and dashed off once more, bleating in joy yet again.
Unfortunately for Capricarn, Robin was able to fight off his shock just in time to kick start the R-Cycle into a daring leap over the wall of flames while the other 3 Titans currently still actively on the villain's tail managed to simply fly over the flames, with Raven even going so far as to summon a shadowy vortex underneath that instantly sucked the dangerous obstacle out of existence. Capricarn just happened to turn his head to look behind him, and his grin faded at the sight of the four Titans having managed to both evade and dispose of the obstacle he'd set up. "They always have to make it even harder," he thought to himself in half irritation and half respect.
Thinking quickly, the saber-toothed satyr jumped away to his left, grabbing onto a lamppost and swinging himself around in circles before eventually letting go and sending himself rocketing hoof-first back towards where he'd been positioned at the time he'd jumped. And just as Capricarn had planned, Robin zoomed right into that very area, and the Boy Wonder had just enough time to shriek with his eyes widened before he got sent flying right off the R-Cycle as a result of the villain's hooves slamming into his side. Even as Robin landed hard on the sidewalk nearby, Capricarn managed to grab onto the handle bars of the now riderless R-Cycle and swing himself astride. With a pleasured bleating laugh, he gunned the pedals, and sent himself rocketing forward once again.
Robin's eyes widened once more at the sight of Capricarn making off with the R-Cycle, and he was able to hurriedly snap out of his initial pain from landing and back onto his feet, snapping his left palm forward uselessly as if trying to grab his vehicle back. "Hey that's mine!" he shouted.
"Thanks for the free getaway ride Bird Boy!" yelled Capricarn. He let out his bleating laugh yet again as he proceeded to continue pressing on the pedals and send the R-Cycle rocketing forward even faster.
Robin growled, and clenched his fists in rage. "If I catch you first," he snarled to himself just as much as to Capricarn, "you are so dead." He drew out his grappling gun, fired, and started using it to swing himself across multiple lampposts and other convenient objects in continued pursuit of the villainous satyr-like monster.
The other Titans, meanwhile, managed to slowly start gaining on Capricarn themselves while still remaining currently ahead of the Boy Wonder. The satyr-like villain continued laughing maniacally and recklessly swerving around on his stolen transport, clearly enjoying himself. He turned his head to face his three closest pursuers. "Give it up kiddies!" he yelled. "You'll never catch me!" He turned his head to face the road ahead of him once more, laughing in the process yet again.
"That's what you think," Raven whispered to herself. "Azarath, Metrion, Zinthos!" She extended her now black glowing right hand forward at the same time she spoke her mantra, and within seconds a giant wall of shadowy energy popped into existence directly in front of Capricarn right as he was about to enter another intersection. The villain had no time to stop or turn around, and both he and the motorcycle crashed into the summoned barrier with an emphatic pounding noise. The R-Cycle was sent flying backward by the impact and bounced on the ground thrice before skidding to a halt, smoking and steaming. Capricarn landed on his back without going any further back then where he'd been positioned at the time of the crash, groaning and bleating in pain. The barrier faded away seconds later.
Capricarn was then jolted back into focus at the sound of snarling coming towards him, and he got up on his feet and looked behind just in time to see Beast Boy the cheetah lunge over the downed R-Cycle and straight towards him, morphing into a wolf in midair. The green wolf slammed into Capricarn, and the saber-toothed 'love-eater' tumbled onto his back with the snarling and slavering shape shifter still on top of him.
Beast Boy had enough time to emit one more vicious snarl before Capricarn backhanded him on the underside of his lower jaw and he reared up reflexively while howling in shock and discomfort. But that brief moment of distraction was all Capricarn needed, and he sent the changeling flying back off of him with a well-placed thrusting head-butt attack to the green wolf's chest. And for extra points on Capricarn's part, Beast Boy crashed right into Robin, and the two boys went sprawling. Capricarn leaped back onto his feet, bleating in pleasure once again before dashing off once more.
Starfire and Raven were not about to let Capricarn get away that easily, and they continued swooping after him, sending star bolts and shadow orbs flying at the fleeing criminal. Capricarn masterfully evaded every single one of the blasts through use of a series of cartwheels and somersaults. Raven soon noticed that she and Starfire weren't getting anywhere with their current efforts, and she then wordlessly melted herself into some nearby shadows, certain that Starfire would have an idea of what she was now planning. Starfire indeed did understand what her friend's intention was, and she continued flying after Capricarn and sending star bolts flying his way. Sure enough, right as Capricarn was halfway down the road segment leading up to yet another intersection and Starfire had positioned herself a few feet behind him and started charging up her eye beams, a shadowy vortex materialized not too far ahead of Capricarn and Raven lunged out, eyes glowing black and letting out a shriek of rage knowing that the villain would now be running too fast to stop and she and Starfire could easily catch him.
Unfortunately, Capricarn wasn't going to let himself be so easily trapped, and he took advantage of his inability to stop by jumping right over Raven, his speed from his initial running serving as a perfect means of propulsion. Raven had just enough time for her eyes to widen and to briefly look up towards Capricarn sailing over her before she heard Starfire shriek in front of her, and she turned her head just in time for both girls to painfully collide with each other and land on the ground all tangled up in Raven's cloak. Capricarn landed painlessly on the ground and started bounding off again. "Ha, ha!" he bleated. "You'll never catch me alive suckers!"
"We'll see about that!"
Stunned, Capricarn turned his head away from the downed girls behind him just in time to see that Robin and Beast Boy had somehow managed to get themselves positioned not too far in front of him and were now rushing towards him, with Beast Boy even in the form of a triceratops. Mentally cursing, Capricarn turned to try to run to his right, only for a sonic laser to blast the area directly in front of his hooves and cause him to jump backwards in fright before looking up in time to see Cyborg now standing at the entrance to the area he'd been about to try running down, glaring irately at the stunned miscreant. Realizing how very deeply in trouble he now was, Capricarn turned his head to look back towards Starfire and Raven once more, and found his heart sinking when he saw them back on their feet and tensed up in battle ready positions with their hands glowing with their signature energy. Then Capricarn heard snorting from behind him, and he turned his head in time to see that Robin and Beast Boy had come to a stop, and Robin was now smirking at him while Beast Boy merely snorted once more while directing an ominous glare towards him from his triceratops eyes, and even went so far as to paw his right foreleg back and forth like a bull. It seemed very much that the Titans were going to catch Capricarn right then and there.
But then the distinctive sound of a train sounding its horn split the air from Capricarn's left, and he turned his head. His face brightened into a gleeful smile as he saw a train start zooming over a nearby elevated railway train track bridge. "And that's my ride out! So long!" He hurriedly jumped over onto the wall of a nearby building and scurried upwards while the Titans were still off guard from his abrupt comments. He jumped onto the roof of one of the train cars and crouched into a firm position to avoid sliding off. He sarcastically waved towards the Titans. "Hasta la vista flatfoots! MAA-HAA-HAA-HAA-HAA-HAA-HAA-HAA-HAA-HAA-HAA!"
Robin growled, and pointed his finger in the direction that the train was heading with the object of their chase on board. "After him! We can't let him get away!" The other Titans all snapped into action, with Raven levitating off after the train on her own, Beast Boy shifting into a pteranodon and carrying Cyborg away by the shoulders, and Starfire and Robin eagerly locking hands and taking off together in their familiar style.
Meanwhile, Capricarn was now practically skipping along as he made his way across the roofs of the freight cars on the train in an effort to continue putting distance between him and the Titans, chuckling happily in the process. But then he was forced to skid to a halt, hissing in displeasure when Cyborg abruptly landed not too far in front of him. Cyborg aimed his sonic cannon. "There ain't no Billy goats gruff getting past me!" He fired his cannon, and Capricarn ducked to avoid the blast. Capricarn jumped backwards in a back flip to avoid a second blast, then again to avoid a third, skidding to a halt afterwards.
Capricarn had just enough time to lift his head, direct a livid glare towards Cyborg, and snarl angrily before he then heard a guttural yell coming from above, and he looked up just in time to see Robin hurtling towards him with his feet at the ready to deliver a flying ninja kick. Robin's foot slammed into Capricarn's face and sent the saber-toothed villain stumbling forwards back towards Cyborg.
Capricarn was able to turn himself around to face Robin while still stumbling, only for Cyborg to then grab him by the horns while his back was still turned and start lifting him up. The criminal was not about to let himself be taken out that easily, and instead of letting Cyborg forcibly lift him up, he used Cyborg's own effort at picking as a means to propel his legs to allow him to flip over Cyborg, simultaneously slipping his horns free of Cyborg's grasp. The villain landed astride Cyborg's neck and upper back with his legs lying across the bionic teen's shoulders. Cyborg had just barely noticed how Capricarn had now positioned himself before the saber-toothed satyr-like villain locked his legs around his neck, leaned backwards, and pressed his clawed furry hands against the ground; at which point he then did a backflip, yanking Cyborg into the air and slamming him down hard face-first on the roof of the train car. And in a blind act of pure spite, he went so far as to jump up and slam the bottom of his right hoof on the back of Cyborg's head right as the bionic teenager was starting to lift his head up from the train car's roof.
Capricarn had just enough time to sneer at Cyborg, who was now groaning in pain while still lying face down on the train car's roof before he then felt something wiry wrap around his horns and yank him backwards. He mentally cursed. "Darn you Boy Wonder," he growled to himself in his mind as he was continuously dragged backwards and off balance by the grappling hook cable that was now wrapped around his horns. The cable tugged hard enough to turn him around, and he got slugged in the snout by Robin's swift left fist uppercut. Capricarn stumbled backwards, but regained his footing in time to make a defensive gesture to block against the karate chop that Robin sent his way next.
The two combatants engaged in a hearty brawl that involved plenty of thrusts, punches, jabs, kicks, elbow strikes, and similar motions. Then Robin stretched a good couple inches too far with his newest attempt at punching out Capricarn, who ducked easily enough, and the saber toothed criminal managed to pound Robin in the chest with a swift uppercut with his furry right fist before the Boy Wonder had a chance to get back into position from his failed punch attempt. Robin had only just gasped from the impact of the punch to his chest when Capricarn grabbed him by the shoulders, pushed him down, and struck him in the stomach with a knee-strike. A gasp of pain burst from Robin at the impact, and he was then sent flying backward when Capricarn followed up with a backflip jumping kick with his right hoof. Robin came to a hard landing a couple train cars behind him, and he was just barely able to draw two of his birdirangs in time to stop himself from sliding right off the train.
Capricarn had just started laughing heartily at the Boy Wonder's expense when his eyes then widened and he was forced to jump back in time to avoid getting struck when Starfire proceeded to dive bomb the area he'd been standing on with a furious shout. The enraged Tamaranean princess struck the rooftop area with such force that she blew a hole right through that spot. Capricarn leaned his head over the hole, a smirk on his face. "You missed . . ." The train car roof burst out from underneath him and sent him rocketing upward. Starfire had caught her target. And to further emphasize her newfound advantage, Starfire continued hovering over the area she'd burst up through long enough to pound the now falling Capricarn in the side of his head with her right fist. The satyr-like criminal was sent hurtling down towards several train cars behind Cyborg, and he both landed painfully and bounced across the rooves of the cars.
While still bouncing, Capricarn's eyes widened when he heard a familiar mantra coming from the area he was bouncing towards, and he directed his gaze towards that area just in time to see Raven lunge out of a newly materialized vortex of shadows and send her right foot flying towards him. The resulting kick sent Capricarn stumbling backwards on one foot. And then he got pounded in the back by Starfire slamming into him from behind. He landed flat on his face.
"AZARATH, METRION, ZINTHOS!"
Capricarn's eyes widened again. The mantra had come from directly above him. He looked up, and then hurriedly jumped away back towards the direction where Cyborg and Robin were still located just in time to avoid getting struck by the jet of star bolt fire and shadowy energy lightning bolt that zapped the area where he'd been lying down upon. The villain barely even had any time to catch his breath when his attention was drawn to the area behind him by Cyborg and Robin yelling and running towards him from behind. He turned around in time to grab onto Robin's bo staff before it could strike him and propel it to send Robin flying over him, but he was still too late to avoid getting slugged in the face by Cyborg's powerful right hook.
Capricarn managed to stumble sufficiently enough to regain his footing, only to then find himself having to rapidly dodge and deflect a rapid-fire onslaught of attacks that came at him from left, right, behind, and in front of him. And to further add to the difficulty, even while already in the midst of having to deal with Cyborg shooting at him with his sonic cannon in front of him, Robin hurling birdirang after birdirang from behind, Starfire tossing star bolt after star bolt from the left, and Raven unleashing bursts of shadowy energy from the right, Capricarn had to also deal with completely randomly timed and out of nowhere dive bomb attacks from Beast Boy in his peregrine falcon form.
Capricarn managed to grab Beast Boy the falcon by the neck right as the green bird was in the midst of another dive bomb sweep at his face, and he held the shape shifter up in front of his face just as Cyborg was about to fire his sonic cannon again at that very area, forcing the bionic teenager to hurriedly swerve his right arm to his right to avoid striking his green friend, only to end up accidentally blasting Starfire backwards out of position. And at the exact same time that little bit of drama occurred, Capricarn managed to catch onto yet another birdirang that Robin threw at him without even turning his head to face him, not even flinching at the sound of the device starting to beep ominously before then hurling it right at Raven, who just barely had enough time to summon a force field before the projectile crashed into the energy barrier and exploded into a vibrant cloud of flames with just enough force to send Raven flying backward in spite of the force field.
With both of the girl Titans now out of the way, Capricarn turned to face Robin and threw Beast Boy at him. Beast Boy had literally just been on the verge of turning into a reticulated python when he got thrown at Robin, and by the time he realized what had now happened, he was too late to cancel his transformation, and he had just enough time to hiss in a clear 'oh crap' tone upon assuming the serpentine form before he then crashed into Robin and both the Boy Wonder and the massive green snake went flying over the side of the train car that Robin had been standing on. But of course, Capricarn had no time to celebrate before Cyborg then plowed into him with an angry yell, and the two sole combatants on board the train roof went tumbling along the train car rooves once more.
The bionic teen and saber-toothed goat monster managed to get on their feet, and they then began to engage in a rapid flurry of fisticuffs and similar physical blows. Then they happened to start passing by what looked like a pylon with a large spinning pole on the top, and right as one side of the pole in question began to fly over the two combatants, Capricarn jumped up and grabbed onto it, allowing him to fly right over Cyborg and avoid the bionic teen's newest attempted attack.
Cyborg turned his head to face the still hovering and apparently fleeing Capricarn. "Coward!" he yelled.
But as it turned out, Capricarn was not trying to escape. The criminal knew quite well that the pole he was on would eventually spin right back over the train, and while the side he was clinging onto was on the verge of passing the completely sky-based side of the pylon, he started swinging himself up and down in back flipping circles over and under the pole. Too late Cyborg realized what Capricarn was about to do right as the still rapidly flipping and spinning villain was about to reach the area where he was positioned. His human eye widened, and his cybernetic eye turned an even brighter shade of red at the sight. "Oh cra. . . . ."
Crash! Capricarn's hooves slammed into Cyborg's face and sent the bionic teenage hero flying off the train. Cyborg screamed as he went hurtling through the air, and he landed hard on a nearby street and bounced a few times across the pavement before landing on the sidewalk and bouncing across it a few more times before then skidding to a stop . . . and in the process managing to collide with a young blue eyed blonde who seemed to be about the same age as him. Both Cyborg and the civilian shrieked upon impact and they then tumbled across the sidewalk before then skidding to a stop in a position in which the civilian appeared to be pinned underneath Cyborg, who was lying on top of her.
The two somewhat awkwardly positioned people groaned, and had just closed their eyes to mentally shake out the disorientation when they heard a voice nearby say, "Hey it's Cyborg again!"
Cyborg looked behind him in time to see a large group of clearly disabled kids with varying robotic prosthetic limbs standing nearby, three of which looked especially familiar. Cyborg's eyes then widened as he fully recognized the three at the very front of the group, and then he looked back down at the face of the young woman he'd accidentally crashed into, who's own eyes were now also widened in apparent recognition of her own. They'd met before.
"Hey!" Cyborg blurted out half giddily and half shocked. Then he remembered the current position he and the poor girl were in, and his stunned smile turned into a sheepish grimace. "Er, and uh, sorry?"
The girl sighed, shook her head side to side, and directed a half 'seriously?' and half 'nice to see you again' look up at the half robot teen hero. "We have got to stop meeting like this."
. . . . .
Meanwhile, Capricarn was currently standing on the roof of the train car he'd sent Cyborg flying off of, hands on his hips, unleashing a triumphant bleating laugh. "They'll never get me now!" he shouted, clearly believing victory to be his.
"I wouldn't bet on that just yet."
Capricarn turned his head at the sound of Robin's voice just in time to see none other than Starfire flying towards him while carrying the Boy Wonder as a result of locking hands with him. "Oh for crying out loud!" Capricarn yelled before he then hurriedly jumped off the roof of the train car he was standing on, making a point to carefully flip and jump his way across several other conveniently located environmental elements before eventually using a large cement construction pipe to safely slide his way back down to the ground. But of course, Robin and Starfire managed to follow him, and the saber-toothed miscreant was forced to continue running away to escape them. But then Raven and Beast Boy abruptly came to a landing in front of him, and he skidded to a halt.
Beast Boy snarled, turned into a gorilla, and rushed straight at Capricarn. Capricarn was quick to dodge the green ape's attempt to punch him out, and he swiped the changeling's legs out from under him with a swing of his own legs, and then jumped over the downed ape the moment it had crash landed on its back on the street. But Raven's attack, a wave of shadow energy, caught him in midair and sent him flying off towards Robin and Starfire. Starfire blasted him in the back with her eye beams, and the villain went pounding onto the street himself, but on his stomach. Capricarn got back on his feet, only to then have to jump away all over again to avoid getting smacked on the head by Robin's bo staff. With that narrow escape having been made, Capricarn managed to flee another kilometer or so before he then found himself stuck in a three-way trap between Starfire, Raven, and Beast Boy (who had now taken on the form of a grizzly bear).
Fortunately for the villain, there was an abandoned outdoor sale stall containing various gems and similar objects on display, and right as Starfire was about to fire her eye beams at him once more, he snatched a diamond prism that happened to be for sale and held it in front of his face. The beam ended up striking the tip of the prism, and the object's reflective nature caused the beam to be split in two and sent flying off to the left and right, at which point Beast Boy and Raven got zapped and sent flying backwards in their respective directions by Starfire's own reflected laser beam.
Capricarn had just turned his head to direct a smug smirk at Beast Boy when he saw an angry Robin running past the downed shape shifter and straight towards him with one of his nunchucks at the ready. Quick as a viper, Capricarn grabbed onto one end of the nunchuck and pulled on it, sending Robin flying straight towards Starfire. The Boy Wonder painfully collided with his girlfriend in midair, and the duo went crashing right through the main front window for a nearby shop that appeared to be entirely Valentine's Day themed. Upon crashing through this window, the Boy Wonder and his Tamaranean girlfriend bounced across the floor a few times before then unwittingly getting snagged within some considerably long Valentine's Day streamers dangling from the ceiling and subsequently getting spun around and tangled up together within said streamers.
Seconds later, the two teens finally realized the not entirely modest position they'd now unwittingly gotten themselves tangled up in. To be precise, they were now dangling upside down while being tangled up in position for them to be face-to-face and pressed against each other's chests. "I do believe this would be what one would consider an . . . awkward position," said Starfire.
"You assume correctly," said Robin, clearly not at all enjoying the current circumstances.
Then Robin suddenly noticed a slight movement out of the corner of his eye, and he turned his head. His heart promptly plummeted at the sight of none other than the seemingly 21 or so year old girl who'd been at the checkout desk standing right there with her cell phone drawn out and pointing at them, her facial expression clearly gleeful and hinting at being about to either take a picture of them or do something similarly embarrassing. "Oh Hell," Robin said before grimacing. Starfire turned her head at the sound of this, and had just enough time to raise her eyebrow before the cashier pressed a button on her phone and the distinctive snap of a camera split the air.
Meanwhile, outside the store where Robin and Starfire had now gotten involved in their current embarrassing debacle, Capricarn was still on the run trying to evade Beast Boy and Raven. In the process, they happened to run right nearby a gathered group of local Jump City News reporters who appeared to be in the midst of either packing up their gear or preparing for a live broadcast. Capricarn needed only to catch sight of a very large looking spotlight device in the possession of the press people before then jumping right over and snatching it into his own furry hands. He pointed the device at Raven, set it to maximum brightness, and turned it on. The massive beam of light that emitted from the spotlight caught Raven in the eyes, and the gray skinned teen sorceress shrieked in discomfort before snapping her hands over her eyes and halting her aerial advance.
Capricarn had just started letting out his bleating laugh once again in triumph at Raven's expense before he then heard a very angry sounding reptilian snarling coming from in front of him at a more ground-based position, and he looked in that area just in time to see a green Utahraptor lunge at him. The dinosaur slammed into Capricarn and the spotlight went flying out of Capricarn's hands as he and the shapeshifter began tumbling over each other backwards straight into a nearby alleyway.
The alleyway in question turned out to be a dead end, and Beast Boy managed to get himself detached from Capricarn just in time to avoid crashing into the wall; unlike Capricarn. Capricarn groaned from the impact of his back crashing against the wall, and he managed to get back on his feet with some difficulty. The satyr-like criminal had just enough time to shake his head as if to clear his throats and let out a half pained and half irritated groan before he then heard Beast Boy say, "End of the line Grover. End of the line."
Capricarn lifted his head up to face Beast Boy, who had reverted back to his human form and was now glaring intently at the villain. Capricarn snarled. "That's not my name."
Beast Boy snarled back. "Yeah well, boohoo. I'm not in the mood for any more silliness right now. So you'd best make things easier for yourself now."
Capricarn chuckled upon hearing that last line from Beast Boy, and he surreptitiously placed his right hand behind his back as if reaching for something. "Oh don't make me laugh," said the criminal. "When has a line like that ever worked for killjoy heroes like you?"
Beast Boy growled. "Don't push me pal, I'm really not in the mood."
"Yeah well, too bad," said Capricarn. "But at least you'll probably still have a good snack's worth inside you nonetheless."
"What are you . . .?"
In a flash, Capricarn snapped his right hand out from behind his back and slammed it onto the area where Beast Boy's heart was located, the hand in question crackling with what looked like a golden yellow aura of light that then seemingly crackled like electricity. Capricarn had just enough time to chuckle maniacally before he then realized that, aside from a brief flinch of shock, Beast Boy didn't seem to be at all affected. The action in question that Capricarn had just pulled was a very powerful last resort move in which by charging up enough energy, he could automatically absorb and extract all the emotional energy within a being's heart at once. But now, for some odd reason, Beast Boy did not seem to have been at all affected.
After about another minute or two, the yellow aura faded from Capricarn's hand, and he slowly looked back up into Beast Boy's face, his face now clearly silently screaming 'oh crap' as he realized how very screwed he now was. "That . . . wasn't supposed to happen."
"Too bad," said Beast Boy. With a growl, he slugged Capricarn in the jaw. And just like that, the chase was over.
And just like that, the first chapter (well 2nd if you count the prologue) is out of the way! Again, hoping you enjoyed this, and please do leave plenty of reviews (regardless of whether you have an account here or not). Again, it is MANDATORY that I receive at least 1 review for this chapter by the time I finish the next chapter. And on that note, for those of you who I'm sure will be confused about just what happened in that last little confrontation between Beast Boy and Capricarn, fear not. It will all be explained in time. But on that note, once again, I hope you all enjoyed!
Coming up Next: Capricarn is sent off to jail, and the Titans get the chance to finally appreciate just how close it is to Valentine's Day this year. And as if to further sweeten things up, the Titans (particularly Cyborg) soon find themselves gaining a quite pleasant new friend among the civilians of Jump City. Beast Boy, however, doesn't seem entirely over the weather; and that's something that Raven actually has perfectly good reason to be worried about. But why? Find out on the next chapter, of Shadows of Love.
