Chapter Four: The Weapon: The Heroes: The First Battle
Danny was already ready, floating up in the air, as June rushed over to him. Then a cry of "Dragon Up!" caught his attention as Jake, being consumed in flames, transformed into a red dragon that was about the size of a rather large man. He then noticed Ben was fiddling with the 'watch' that he had. Then in a flash of light, a four armed red giant stood in Ben's place.
"Fancy. Let's go get this Weapon guy, guys!" Kim ordered, then stopped short. "Uh…which way to the exit?"
Danny thought for a moment, then accessed the computer. While he wasn't a techno nerd like his friend, Tucker, he wasn't bad either. He found what he needed, a full map of the Tower, plus a note from the original Titans, stating: Your Ids have been imputed into the computer and security systems. Click THIS button for a full tour and on how things work…
Danny saved it for later. Right now there was a seriously nasty looking…guy?…attacking the city. Kim looked at the info, and started for the door, the others EXCEPT for Danny following after. Danny was going to take a much easier route.
One quick intangible moment and a flight downwards later, and Danny was there before his team. 'Heh. Now that's new…actual teammates who can fight.' he thought, amused. As much as he liked Tucker, Sam, and Jazz, it did get annoying having to save them so often. He didn't get much time to think, however, as a new problem presented itself: they were on an island.
The problem was this: only two of them could fly, as far as he knew. While he could carry all of them without much trouble, the thing of it was that Ben was pretty large, and he only had two hands. He just hoped Kim and June wouldn't mind being carried around.
When they finally got out, as it took them a few minutes to work the doors, they too relised the same problem. Jake turned to June and Kim, flashing a toothy grin, saying "Come on ladies! The American Dragon airline express is ready for business!"
Few minutes later, over the water; "Aw man…" Jake grumbled, Spider Man on his back and holding Four Arms, while Danny zipped ahead of him, holding either girl with one arm each.
"Woohoo! Come on Dragon Plane! FASTER!" Spider Man shouted, making fun of Jake's earlier line.
"Oh, keep on Spider Breath. Yall won't be laughin' when dragon breath goes down YOUR back…" Jake mumbled.
"What was that, pilot?"
"NOTHING!"
Yeah, they'll get along GREAT folks. Moving on…
Danny, as he was naturally faster then Jake and had a lighter load, landed first, putting down Kim and June before landing himself. He took a long look at the robot, Weapon it had called itself. "All right…let's do this," he said, more so to himself then to anyone else, though Kim and June both got ready for combat, Kim assuming some sorta combat position, while June bent her knees slightly, and brought up her fists.
Jake landed soon after, dropping Four Arms who made the ground shake when he landed. Spider Man leapt off of Jake's back, much to Jake's grumbling, stuck to a building, fired off a webline, then swung down and flipped in front of the group. Jake landed as gracefully as he could, still grumbling. Then he caught sight of Weapon and nearly laughed. No, he did laugh.
"Oh MAN! I'm going to have SO much fun beating you down!" Jake roared.
"I don't like this…something doesn't feel right," Kim said, an edge of worry tainting her voice.
"Hey, don't worry! These robot types ALWAYS are so easy and predictable! Just watch for a pattern and…hey, wait. Why hasn't it attacked yet?" Spider Man began reassuringly, then noticed that Weapon wasn't even moving. "Uh…?"
"I dunno…but it can't be anything good." Danny replied.
"Hey RUSTBUCKET!" June yelled, stepping forward. Weapon's head turned towards her. "YEAH I'M TALKING TO YOU! COME ON AND FACE US ALREADY!"
"Unless you're SCARED!" Four Arms added, finishing the taunt.
"Would you STOP stealing my lines?!" June yelled at Four Arms.
"You stop stealing MY lines!"
Danny and Kim exchanged glances, but before either could say anything, Weapon answered. "Query. Where are the Teen Titans?"
Jake stepped forward, jumping over the group, resisting the urge to smack Peter with his tail, and answered. "We ARE the Titans, dawg! Now be a good Robo and DISMANTLE yourself!"
"Correction. You are not the Teen Titans. You are not Robin, Beast Boy, Star Fire, Raven or Cyborg. There are six of you. There are five Teen Titans. Answer. You are not the Titans." Weapon spoke, in a clipped tone.
"I'll show you who is and isn't a Titan, foo!" Jake yelled, rocketing towards Weapon. Who merely rose up his gun hand and locked on.
Luckily for Jake, Spider Man swung in and got him out of the way before the bullets could fire. But, Spider Man noted that the tingling, his Spider Sense, was still going off, and that no shots were fired. He managed a look behind him to see that Weapon was TRACKING them!
"Oh crap! Uh…No, no, Domo Aragioto Mr. Roboto?" as you might have guessed, that didn't work. "CRAP!"
Luckily, Four Arms got to Weapon before Weapon could fire. Four Arms started punching Weapon for all his worth, actually driving back the robot, using one hand to hold off the gun arm and the other three to give combos. He started slamming his left fist into Weapon's face repeatedly…and then was thrown, ass over elbows, by a punch from Weapon's left arm.
Though they didn't know it, Weapon had been prepared to take the strongest blows the Titans could dish out. He had been designed to take the worst punches Starfire and Cyborg could throw, built with anti magical talismans to block all but Raven's most powerful spells, designed to survive missiles flying into it with minimal damage, and to absorb heat and energy like a sponge. He had been made tailor fit to destroy the Titans. But, this had taken time. A LONG time.
So long that the one who created him did not know that Jinx joined the team, or that Robin, Beast Boy, and Jinx had changed their names. So you can imagine just what was going through Weapon's head when it found, instead of an alien, a human, a female half demon, a cyborg, and a strange human, it instead found a different human, a male half ghost, a different alien, a dragon and two other strange humans. That is, until the alien attacked. Then basic programming kicked in, and it got to work. Its job was to kill the Titans. No more. No less.
And, as it reached behind itself, into the right spike, and pulled out a black scythe with its left hand, it would live up to its programming. "Analyzing. New targets designated. Targets will be exterminated." It then rose up its right arm, and unleashed hell upon the new Titans that were in front of it.
Kim and June leapt off into opposite directions, as Danny, turning himself and Four Arms intangible, took to the air.
Dumping Four Arms off on a building rooftop, as per request from Four Arms, Danny flew back down to face the robotic menace. Firing off a half powered Ghost Ray, Danny flew in and slammed a punch into Weapon, actually managing to make it take a step back. For a moment.
"Who are you? What do you want?!" Danny yelled, taking to the air to avoid another wave of Weapons hell of gunfire, firing off Ghost Rays as quick as he could.
"Response. I am Weapon. I want nothing. You must die. The Titans must die. It is my objective." Noticing that its gunfire was going right through the target, it reached back with its gun arm, into the left spike, and pulled out something.
"Is that a…" Spider Man began, before being cut off as a mini missile was fired off from the missile launcher that Weapon was now holding. The after burners kicked in, and fired straight for the ghost boy…who, if he staid intangible, would allow a building full of people to be blown up, and if he went tangible, took a great, great chance of BEING blown up.
He became tangible. Then fired off a powerful ghost ray, driving the missile away before it blew up. However, he was still caught in the after shock, sending him out of the air and smashing into and through the building that he had protected.
Weapon armed another missile, uncaring and unnoticing that his first didn't do its job, and aimed. Before he fired, however, his heat readings spiked, as several fire balls slammed into him.
Basic physics lesson boys and girls! What happens when you mix missiles, high combustible items that go boom, with fire balls? That's right! Explosions!
And explode it did, consuming Weapon in the blast and shattering several nearby windows. However, as it calmly walked out of the inferno, dropping the now ruined missile launcher, it was hardly any worse for wear. The most it looked was a little darkened by the ash and such, maybe a scorch mark on its arm. It brought up its gun arm, now slightly blackened, and locked on, not even giving Jake a chance to relies just how much damage Weapon just took.
However, the fates were on Jake's side, as two feet slammed into the back of Weapon's head, making it stumble forward a bit, and not fire its gun. A hail of punches and kicks, one stronger then the other, were laid upon its back, until it swung around, bringing the scythe it held in a sweeping motion, trying to slice whatever was punching it in half. Luckily June and Kim saw this maneuver, as both leapt out of the way in time. And as it was now turned around, it couldn't turn back in time to stop what was about to happen.
Namely, Four Arms jumping down from the rooftop he was on, and slamming all four of his arms into Weapon, making it stumble forward again. Then Four Arms grabbed Weapon up in a vicious bear hug, and lifted the smaller, though not by much, robotic foe up. One of his arms forced the scythe out of Weapon's hand, while most of his strength went to making sure that wherever it would fire its gun, it would be DOWN.
The Jake showed up, boosting and strutting, saying, "Uh huh, uh huh, yeah boy! You just don't mess with the American Dragon and his homies, ya dig?"
"WOULD YOU JUST SCRAP THIS TIN CAN ALREADY?!" Four Arms roared straining to hold Weapon.
"Oh, right! Hiyya!" Then Jake, along with making a lot of weird sounds, slammed into Weapon, clawing, biting, bashing, tail wiping, and fire blasting it with all his might. That is until Weapon's left arm broke free and grabbed Jake by the chest.
"Huh?" Jake asked, confused. Then screamed out as electrical waves ran through his body, and Four Arms as well, as Weapon pumped volt after volt of electric power into its left arm. Then Jake was blasted twenty meters away by a lightning bolt which fired from its left arm, he changing back into just an American-Chinese kid, albeit knocked out.
And Ben wasn't fairing much better, as the Omnitrix started beeping and flashing red…just before he was changed back into normal ol' Ben. "Aw MAN!" Luckily something else caught Weapon's attention, other then Ben changing back into a human. That'd be…
"Here's web in your eye!" Spidey quipped, spraying Weapon's head with the webbing, and dragging it towards him. "OK Tin Man, when I'm through with ya, your gonna wish you staid in Wonder Land!"
"Oz!" Kim yelled at him. "Tin Man is from OZ!"
"…wherever!"
Kim rolled her eyes, and fumbled around in her belt. "Big sitch…don't have any weapons. Least, nothing that'd compare to a missile launcher exploding. And that did JUST fine…man, why can't this guy be like Drakken?! Oh well…June!" Kim said, finally speaking to someone other then herself, in a commanding voice.
"Yeah?"
"Let's get Jake some where safe and try to evacuate the area. We're practically useless, and unless Ben here can turn into another alien right now…"
"Which I can't." Ben grumbled, kicking a piece of fallen rubble.
"We'll just get in the way. I don't have anything that can SLOW this thing down, let alone stop it, and I doubt you do either…"
"Give me a few hours and I could probably cook something up…" June muttered.
"Dude, we'll be DEAD in a few minutes! I don't think you HAVE hours!" Ben yelled.
"DON'T YELL AT ME!"
"ENOUGH!" Kim ordered. "Now come ON! Jake's still out of it, and there are helpless people we have to get out of here! NOW MOVE!"
Meanwhile…Spidey was trying his best to avoid all of the bullets that were heading his way, but it wasn't exactly easy. At all. He had already hurt his hand trying to punch the thing into submission, which was bad. Real bad. How was he going to get out of this…
The answer came in the form of a black and white clad ghost kid. Well, half ghost… Ahem! Anyways, a ghost kid who happened to be flying at well ABOVE 129 miles per hour, slamming himself into Weapon, forcing the robotic thing to stumble back, as Danny started unleashing his rage.
When we last saw Danny, the backlash of a missile had carried him into and through a building. Now, his suit was ripped, and. He. Was. PISSED.
Going intangible to avoid blows, Danny rained his own personal hell down upon Weapon, driving the robotic THING back with a flurry of punches, kicks, and Ecto blasts. He slammed his fist forward again…only to have it be caught by Weapon. Who then slammed Danny into the ground. He aimed his gun, but didn't get much farther then that as Spidey swung in at the last moment and slammed into the thing, feet first. Weapon unleashed an electric discharge, which Spidey, by relying on his Spider Sense, dodged, and used the ground as a rebound to uppercut Weapon.
Then the two devices built into his head, and along his body, turned on, and blasted Spider Man with electrical beams, making him fall. While Spidey could dodge a slew of bullets, even a virtual lightning bolt, he could not dodge hundreds of them at point blank range. It was then, when Spidey was on the ground, momentarily shocked, that the two chest panels on Weapon opened up…and the two cannons within started charging.
Luckily Danny was right there, as he grabbed up Spider Man, turning intangible, and flew out of the way, just as the horrific blast fired, causing a 50 foot crater to be formed.
"Where's Jake?" Danny asked, flying around, zigzagging through buildings, and into buildings.
"Whoa…uh, I think June grabbed him as they were leaving…dude, this is cool!"
"Leaving? To do what?"
"Kim came up with the idea to evacuate the local area. You could sell TICKETS for this!"
"That's smart. And would you quit grouping my chest? Please?"
"Awww…"
"Look, I have a plan. Think you could make Weapon use that chest cannon thing again?"
"You mean his nipple beams?"
Danny stared at Spider Man for a long, long time. "Nipple beams."
"Yeah! Look, they come from his chest…NIPPLES come from your chest…NIPPLE BEAMS!" Spider Man actually sounded proud of himself for coming up with that.
Danny stared at him for an even longer time.
"What?"
Danny kept on starring.
"…"
"……"
"Hey, since it seems like Weapon can't find us, what's stopping him from…" And then the hellish gunfire started up again. Weapon had decided that it would destroy the entire city to achieve its objective.
"Doing THAT?!" Danny yelled at Spider Man.
"Yeah. That. Uh…so, what's your plan?"
"To toss you at him."
"No really, what's your plan?"
Then Danny showed him his plan. By tossing Spider Man at Weapon. "That."
Luckily Spider Men always land on their feet. Though this one sorta landed on his head more so…not like he was using it, right?
Weapon turned on Spidey, this time automatically arming the chest canons it had. As the energy gathered, a voice distracted him. A voice filled with rage.
"GO AWAY!" Danny screamed, shoving his hands outwards, firing off a beam so powerful, so filled with his emotions, that it turned pure white as it slammed into Weapon's chest canon, driving him backwards, and caused a chain reaction within it. The explosion over took Danny, driving him out of the air, and shattered what remained of the windows surrounding, cracking and destroying the roads.
However, when the dust settled, it stood still. It was damaged. Heavily. Its chest armor was completely totaled, its right arm ruined as pieces of it fell, its left arm sparked and was cracked. IT was cracked. Every single inch of it. Sparks exploded everywhere on it. Then it raised its right arm, and all went to hell.
For Weapon, that is. As soon as it lifted it, two yells singled that June and Kim were back, as both slammed a fist and a kick into Weapon, respectively, forcing him to stumble back.
Then a beastly roar came forth next, as white hot flames slammed into the robotic feind. Jake was back, and proved it by slamming his entire body into Weapon's, another chunk of metal going flying as he landed beside June and Kim. After that, a blur rushed in, and several HUNDRED punches and kicks were brought onto Weapon, its gun being completely destroyed, and dents and cracks forming EVERYWHERE on its body. When the tornado of blows ended, XLR8, a blue super speeding alien from the Omnitrix, zipped back to the group.
Weapon rose up, silently, more explosions racking its body, as Spider Man swung in from a webline, punching and kicking with all his might, forcing Weapon to its knees, as he got one final kick off of Weapon, driving it back and flipping behind Jake and XLR8.
Its visor was cracked. Its vision was heckled by static. But it rose anyways. Then it heard it. Then it saw it. Then it was too late.
Danny flew in, going his maximum speed of 240 MPH, yelling out as his right fist was encased in green energy. He made it so that his palm hit Weapon dead center in the face first, this jerking back its head…before Danny unleashed the rage within him, unloading it into one single ghost ray, consuming the entire upper part of Weapon's head and shoulders, sending it flying backwards, explosions racking it as its head was destroyed utterly.
Danny landed next to Spider Man, falling to his knees, trying to catch his breath. That had taken a lot out of him. Then he saw it. Movement. Weapon was still moving. Still alive. Its feet was the first to touch the ground, then its entire body jerked upwards. Kim and June were ready, in combat positions. Flames hung around Jakes mouth as he got ready for hell himself. Even Spider Man drew up his fists, in a sorta fisticuffs styled way. XLR8 tensed itself, and Danny's eyes turned pure green. What they saw nearly made all of them take a step back in fright.
It was true, Weapon's head had been destroyed. Its METAL head. It was HUMAN underneath the metal, underneath the fire power and the weapons. But then again…Danny's eyes glowed brighter, as everyone tensed…then again, it was not.
It was female. Or had been. They could see that. One of her eyes, however, was gone. And in its place…a gaping hole. She wore no eye patch, and made no attempt to cover it. It was there. Her face was riddled with scars, and the left half of her bottom lip was RIPPED OFF, showing a blackened gum and yellowed teeth. Her hair was short, buzz cut, and off white. Not gray, or silver…just a kind of yellowish white. And her nose…it was mostly gone. Burned away they saw. Her lone eye ran chaotically, catching details over all of the heroes who had just defeated her.
"Titans." Her voice…it was dead. Emotionally, mentally, it was dead. And it chilled each and everyone of the new heroes to their respective bones. Then she fell backwards, her lone eye closing, the image of the Titans, the new Titans, forever burned in her memory.
Notes: …whew. This was fun to write, hope it was fun to read! Didn't guess about Weapon, did ya? This is just a taste of what will be going down before all is said and done, let me tell you! Oh, by the by, the next chapter will pick up exactly after this…and it will be a fun chapter as well. No fighting…enemies that is!