A/N: I LIKE COOKIES!!
Disclaimer: If I owned Teen Titans there would be more episodes going out.
The entire group of Teen Titans stood in front of the warehouse. They could hear the machines inside working overtime. Behind them, water lapped at the docks. Titans anxiously shuffled their feet, awaiting the order.
"Titans, Go!" Robin yelled out to his assembled friends.
They burst through the door. Cyborg, being one of the tallest, could see right over his friend's heads. He did not like what he saw.
He saw green webbed skin. The person laughed throatily and held up a yellow pitchfork. It was Triton, back from the watery crypt they had left him in. Cyborg growled mentally.
As one, the Titans tried to fling themselves on him all at once, but there was a barrier. They all flew back and hit the metal door. Cyborg swallowed blood and looked up.
Fluorescent, round objects were being turned out of the machines. Cyborg caught a look of one that had accidentally been turned over. Within, he saw a dark smudge the size of small child. A webbed green hand reached out. His heart sinking, Cyborg came to the conclusion. The machines were building a miniature army of Tritons!
Some of what Cyborg now recognized as eggs looked as if they were about to open. He aimed to blast them, but Bee's scream came first. His head whipped around to look at her, and followed her line of sight. His stomach dropped.
Aqualad was stuck in the barrier. Lines of electric light sparked and cracked around him like whips. He was writhing in pain and his eyes had rolled back into his head. He was screaming, but the barrier was creating some type of white noise affect, stealing his voice away. Worse, some of the Titans were rousing and had not seen that there friend was trapped.
They starting another attack, and before Cyborg could yell to stop them, they were blown back again, this time more forcefully. Cyborg checked the force field, and thanked an unknown power that no one else was trapped within it. He knew there was a big battle ahead, most likely a dangerous one.
For the love of god, Kale, stay away, please, stay away.
Kale hesitated, as she always did, with the water. She had learned that she swam exceptionally well, but every time the water touched her skin… it was like an electric shock went through her. Not only that, but she could see, like a part of a dream she could not quite remember, glowing wind and water all around her and then… the episode would pass, leaving her dizzy and wondering. It was something she had learned and even grown used to.
They've been gone far too long for this to be a simple mission. There is a problem. She considered staying back because of the danger, as Cyborg had told her to so many times before, but shook her head. They are my friends. I might not have powers, but I'm helpful, damn it. She grinned to herself. If it seems like something I can't handle, I'll just stay back. She recited the old justification (which she used every time she went on a mission that Cyborg did not want her on) to herself.
Kale plunged fully clothed into the water, glad she had touched the water beforehand. The electric shock she would have received would have left her breathless. She had a theory that the closer the temperature was to whatever it was in her 'dream', or the texture, or something, that increased the ferocity of the water's jolt.
This was not the time. She swam quickly across to the other side.
Reaching the other side, she looked to the sky, looking for trouble as Robin and Beast Boy had taught her. Her heart dropped at the sight of black smoke coming from the direction of the warehouses. Usually, smoke did come from that side of town, but today was Saturday, and all the workers have off. She got into a racing position. Kale liked to admit; she was fast even when she was not in the water. Water resistance and a year of running on a daily basis did that to a girl. She took off, glad she did not have to use a taxi.
She found the warehouse easily; it was the one with all the banging. Her stomach hurt with all the nervousness building. Like an omen, the smoke was circling the warehouses on the other side of town. She slowed near the warehouse that had the door open, glad for the break. The acid had burned off a while ago, so her legs hurt when she stopped. Still, if she did not stop she would be more of a hindrance than help.
Kale took in the sight before her. Beyond the banging, the smoke was billowing out in clouds from all openings. This had to be it, and if it was, why were the Titans not running out, or putting the fire out. She worried for her friends even more.
Having caught her second wind, Kale walked slowly towards the building, ready to bolt and throw herself into the water if she had to. When nothing came out to eat her, she peeked in.
The sight that met her felt like a physical blow. Titans were scattered everywhere, making a forceful efforts in groups of two to six to break the barrier. There was a man with green webbed skin behind the blue-misted barrier. He was laughing, his chest heaving with his triumphant mirth. Aqualad was trapped within the barrier, and bolts of energy would cut through him. Worse (to her) there was no sign of Cyborg.
Something stirred within in Kale. She clutched her chest. She felt a rage she had never experienced before. A shock went through her, like the one she felt when she touched water. She fell to the ground, trying to get the feeling out of her chest by rubbing and beating at it. She grit her teeth against the pain.
Kale blacked out.
Cyborg was coughing from the smoke coming from a busted machine. His mouth filled with blood from a cut on his tongue, but his was lucky for his nearly-indestructible metal frame. Many of his friends supported broken bones and long gashes. Aquald was still stuck within the barrier, his mouth wide with his unheard screams.
Cyborg heard Bee shout to him. He turned his heart dropping. Bee was screaming as Kale stepped into the warehouse. His praying had been for naught, and now Kale was in worse danger than ever before. NO! He felt like he had been punched in the gut.
Then he saw her eyes.
Blue-white and glowing.
Kale stepped forward, her hair whipping around her in a harsh wind that filled the room, flattening the Titans. She raised and spread her arms. Cyborg watched as storm-winds and leaves enveloped her, streaming in from the outside. He raised himself against the winds, which by now flattened even the strongest of Titans. The water raced around her body.
Cyborg reached for her, but was blown backwards by water, which had been sucked up by the miniature tornado Kale had been creating.
He called out to her, and a leaf was stuffed into his mouth by blowing winds.
He tried to touch her and was fiercely slapped away.
Kale could not recognize him.
The wind glowed the same color as her eyes as Kale brought the wind, water and leaves around her. She was hurled up into the sky. The erratic winds concentrated around Kale. Soon she was invisible from the waist down. Her friends tried to help her escape, fearing for her safety, but the water (which was too heavy to be brought into the twister) smacked them back. The pillar of wind and leaves started to waver, and curved in the middle.
Kale brought her hands together in front of her and the column plunged towards Triton. She went right past the barrier as if it were not there. Aqualad fell to the ground, twitching and unconscious, but none could tear their eyes from Kale.
She hit Triton, and the wind crushed him to the steel wall. The pods from the machines were pulled with her, and all of them crashed into the wall, splattering on to the floor as if they were eggs.
Kale was the first to stand. She took Triton's triton and put it to his chest. Triton froze as he got up and glared at her. She growled dangerously, her eyes still glowing.
When she spoke, her voice held a thousand angry whispers, low and terrifying, "Triton, you've walked this earth a free creature long enough. By the Zephyrian Courts and the Law of the Forest, I place you under arrest."
She drew the triton up, and thick, brown—things shot up from the ground. Cyborg covered his eyes, fully expecting a massacre. When he slowly opened them again, he saw that the 'things' were roots that had expertly tied Triton so he could not move and was vastly uncomfortable, but had not pierced flesh.
Starting, Cyborg realized guiltily that he had taken his eyes away from Kale. He looked to her now, almost hoping that all of that had come from someone else, that his Kale was still at home, safe, and waiting for his return.
But no, Kale was there, and standing, her face slightly dragined and her hands shaking as she stared off into space. She wavered and swayed, the ethereal light draining from her eyes. Cyborg pushed himself up and ran to catch her under the arms, but his mechanical legs gave out and he ended up kneeling with her head in his lap. Her eyes refocused. She sat up slightly, though Cyborg kept his hands on her back, supporting her. She took one long look at the wall, Triton and the broken pods. She swiveled her head to look Cyborg in the eye.
"Dude, I am so not cleaning that up."
And then she fell unconscious.
A/N: Whoohoo, new twist!