Sorry for the wait, guys. I will be honest: I have been lazy. I am sorry for that. Anyways, here you go!

(Chapter 2: Like a Ton of Bricks)

There was a feeling of tension in the T-Car as it drove to the crisis at hand, but that was nothing new. That happened every time they got an alert and headed out.

What was new, however, was that Terra was a lot quieter than usual. She would usually share some up-beat remarks to keep the team's spirits up for the battle ahead, whatever it might be. But now, it seemed that she found the back of the seat in front of her to be quite fascinating for some reason.

This did not go unnoticed by the green changeling who sat beside her in the back of the car. He saw that she looked a bit down for some reason, and it worried him. He leaned over to her.

"Terra? Are you okay?" The girl turned to him and he could tell that her mind had been elsewhere. "Hmm? Oh sorry Beast Boy, I must have spaced out there." She gave him what she hopped was a reassuring smile, but it didn't quite reach her eyes.

"You seem to be thinking about something. And I don't think it was something nice." Her fake smile fell and her shoulders slumped.

"Is it that obvious?" she asked. Beast Boy nodded. She let out a quite sigh. Beast Boy took one of her hands in his and gave it a comforting squeeze. "Want to talk about it?" he asked gently. The blond geokinetic shook her head.

"I appreciate it Beast Boy. Really, I do. But some things are only one person's business." He squeezed her hand again. "I can't help but worry about you, though."

She gave him a small smile and some of her old self seemed to come back. "You're cute when you worry." "Hey!" he protested, "I'm not cute. I'm the model of manliness!" She giggled at his words. "Says the guy who invented 'The Face'!"

Beast Boy held up his hand and attempted to come up with a retort, but could not find one. "Okay, you got me there." Terra giggled again.

A few moments of silence, then the blond spoke up again. "Thank you Beast Boy. For the laugh." The shape-shifter could tell she had needed it, and he smiled back at her. "Any time, babe. It's my specialty, after all." She laughed again.

Before anyone else could say anything, Robin said 'We're here!' and they all got out of the car. Terra flashed another grateful look at Beast Boy, then they both headed out to battle.

The problem the alert had...uh...alerted them to was a familiar concrete monster going on a rampage. Cinderblock.

The Titans got into formation and prepared to fight one of their oldest, and most resilient, foes. Robin pulled out three disks. "I know you have bricks for brains, Cinderblock. But even you should know what happens next."

The creature roared and charged forwards. Robin was waiting for this and threw some cryo-disks, causing the road in front of Cinderblock to ice over. The monster's momentum was instantly turned from a strength into a weakness!

He slid forwards, right into a combo-punch from Star and Cyborg! The forward momentum combined with two super-strength-powered punches to the face caused the brick-like brute to fly backwards and roll a few times across the street, resulting in a very disoriented monster.

"Titan's GO!" Robin cried. And they did.

As Cinderblock rose to his feet and tried to clear his head, Beast Boy flew above him as a hawk before dive-bombing him as an Ankylosaurus (the 'club-tailed' dinosaur). Cinderblock was crashed into the ground from the impact before throwing the green Dino off of him.

Starfire and Cyborg began firing their respective weapons at him, only for the creature to bring both his massive arms up in-front of him as a shield. Robin threw an exploding disk at his head, which worked like a flash-bang grenade. Cinderblock roared in discomfort and stumbled back. Raven took advantage of this and encased him in dark energy. She then proceeded to swing him around her head till, with a mighty heave, she threw her opponent upwards.

At the peek of his arc he was intercepted by by a tamaranian with two fists encased in emerald energy. With a war cry escaping her lips she delivered a powerful axe strike, accelerating his decent.

Terr saw their enemy falling and called to her blue-cloaked companion. "Hey Raven! 'Rock & A Hard Place'?" The half-demon nodded. She used her powers to pick up a nearby slab of concrete while the geokinetic readied a boulder. Before Cinderblock could hit the ground he found himself struck by simultaneously by a hunk of pavement on one side and a one ton boulder on the other side!

The creature landed, creating a massive crater in the roadway. The Titans gathered around his non-moving form with caution. It seemed that he was out for the count.

Then his eyes eyes snapped open and he lunged forward with a roar. He was surprisingly fast for a ton of bricks. He delivered a powerful punch that sent Cyborg through a nearby wall, followed by a kick that sent Starfire arcing through the air down the street, where she landed in a painful roll.

"Starfire!" Robin called out in alarm and concern, before dodging a swipe that would have crushed him into the pavement. He threw an explosive disk at his assailant's knee joint, causing Cinderblock to roar in pain. Before he could strike Robin, he was blasted from the side by a beam of dark energy.

This, however, ended up pushing him towards Terra. Cinderblock ripped a street-light from the ground and swung it at the geokinetic like a club! Terra managed to put up a wall of rock to shield herself, but she knew it wouldn't hold for long.

Beast Boy charged at Cinderblock as a green elephant but found himself backhanded and sent flying toward Raven, forcing her to put up a shield around herself. Robin launched himself into a flying kick to Cinderblock's jaw, which caused the brute to stumble backwards before swinging it's club at the attacker. Robin back-flipped over the blow.

The next swing was intercepted by a pillar of rock, causing the iron pole to bend out of shape. The creature turned to see Terra, eyes glowing and a stern expression on her face. He swung at her again, only for her to lift herself above the blow with a stone platform. With a yell she moved her hand in an upper-cut motion, sending a slab of pavement to mimic the action and slam into the monster's jaw.

As he stumbled back, Terra kept up her assault. A cluster of rocks in the shape of a massive fist came crashing into the creature with the force of a freight train! The monster shook its head to clear it before charging back in.

Robin and the others had regrouped by this point, thanks to Terra buying them enough time to do so. Cyborg, Starfire and Beast Boy were a bit groggy, but that was to be expected.

Robin managed to ice Cinderblock's head while Starfire fired sent her starbolts at his shoulder joint! Cyborg picked up a green armadillo and threw it at the monster. Said armadillo turned into a rhino just before he slammed into Cinderblock's chest! The creature stumbled backwards, strait into a car that was flying through the air encased in dark energy. The vehicle exploded on impact, resulting in a roar of pain from the incredibly tough villain!

Suddenly, a fissure opened up under his feet, causing him to sink into the road up to his waist. As he struggled to escape, Terra raised her glowing hands. The scattered stone debris collected around her arms, resulting in Terra sporting two stone-covered fists and arms!

Closing her stone-shrouded fists, he began to pummel the criminal. She was using her power over her stone armor to increase the strength of her blows. Then after several blows she raised both hands up, bringing a heavy rock above Cinderblock's head, before bringing her arms down as-if she were swinging a hammer! The boulder crashed into the monster's face, finally knocking him out of the fight for good!

Terra was breathing hard as the glow faded from her eyes and hands. She had been practicing 'golem-mode' for a few weeks now, but she had never actually used it in a fight until now. She hoped to one day be able to encase herself completely in a suit of stone armor, but she had a ways to go before she could master it. Still it felt good to know she had gotten this far, and she was genuinely happy with the praise she was getting from her team-mates.

Just then the attention of the Titans was captured by the sound of applause. They turned to see someone coming out of an ally way, clapping energetically as they did so. Terra gasped as she saw who it was. A face she had never thought she would ever see again.

"Way to go, T!" the stranger exclaimed with pride in his voice. "I always knew you could do it!"

Dun Dun DUN! Now the story takes a twist!

This chapter was a challenge since I have a hard time writing fight scenes. Please let me know how I did.

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