Chapter Seven: Deadly Lies
Notes: 666 bible points to those who spot the reference in the title…
It had been bugging Kim. She KNEW she fell asleep on the couch…yet woke up in her bed. Did Peter do that? Same Peter who had called her a Mary Sue, and had done so not even seconds after she finished her own training course, perfectly might she add. No. It didn't seem Peter's…style.
"Better question is why am I thinking about it?" she muttered to herself. "Maybe Ben did it. He's been acting weird around me all day…"
"Kim, you alright?" Danny asked, floating, as he was in Ghost form, in front of her.
She smiled weakly at him, saying "Yeah. Just a little tired, ya know?"
"I know the feeling. TRUST me. Well, come on in whenever you're ready. Peter found something called a Game3station Wixi360 Play version Mach 3. Don't ask me, but it has some awesome games. Right now Ben is arguing with June over who gets to use the controller first…"
Kim laughed, before reassuring him with a "Yes, I'm coming!"
In another place. A dark place…
"Secrets. Lies. Nothing but LIES. The Children will suffer. The children will REPENT for their horrific LIES." A being vowed, in front of what can only be assumed to be Arcane.
"Yes, Deasin Eve, Knight of Repent! YES! Let their lies enrage you. LET THEM FILL YOU WITH POWER! Make them Repent. Make them suffer. Make them suffer in only ways you can. Now rise up my Knight! Rise up and kill! EWWEHEHEHEHEHE!"
And rise he did. And the night sky seemed to get a little bit darker at that moment…
The alarm popped up, cutting the game between Kim and Peter, which Kim was dominating in, much to Peter's cries of Sue!, short.
On the screen, it showed something. It looked like a knight…only its armor was Blackened red, with dark blue runes etched into it. From what they could see, it seemed to have a skull shaped helmet, with only two eye holes, slanted and jagged. From what they could tell, they were the ONLY openings in the thing.
Danny and Kim exchanged glances, before Danny did a sort of bowing gesture. "Titans!" she called out, "Attack!"
As they were outside…
"Awww man! WHY DO YOU HAVE TO RIDE ON ME?!" Jake roared at Spider Man.
"Well, the girls like Danny better…"
"We do not!" they cried out as one.
"INCLUDING Mary-"
"MY NAME IS KIM!"
"Your name is Mary-for-all-I-care-Sue!"
"Arg!"
"Anyways…those two got Danny as a ride, so you get stuck with me and whatever alien tEn here comes up with!"
"This so aint right…"
Ben started switching between Alien forms on the watch, trying to find one that would work, before settling on Heatblast. He punched it, as the light consumed him…
And laughter broke out.
"WHAT?! Gray Matter? I WANTED HEATBLAST! Arg!" Gray Matter moaned.
Needless to say, June couldn't stop laughing.
"Oh shut up!"
"Hey, Peter, mind holding on to him? Don't want him to get lost now!" Kim couldn't help but laugh.
"Ut Et Sue?" Gray Matter asked, annoyed.
"Oh shut up…" Kim muttered.
Let's just say, they got across the river without any more incidents. …mostly.
"He's a lot…bigger then I would have thought…" Danny muttered. The armored figure they were facing was a good 9 feet tall.
Jake took a step forward, a smirk on his face. "Yo dawgs, let the Am Dragon fire this metal giant up!" Then he unleashed a powerful stream of fire, aiming directly at the knight's head. Who brought up his sword, and blocked the flame.
Though…blocked is the wrong word to use in this particular situation. It more so ABSORBED the flames, causing the blade itself to be engulfed in white fire. Danny's eyes widened, as the knight brought up the sword, the flames glowing brighter, then brought it down, wave after wave of white flame pouring from it.
And straight into Danny's ghost shield. Danny grimaced as he tried to keep back the flames. Kim looked around, noticing that the flames were consuming the entire bubble of energy that Danny had brought up around them. This was SO a problem.
"On the count of three…" Danny said though clenched teeth, "RUN. 1..." the flames pressed harder onto all sides of the shield, "2..." cracks started to form, as bits of fire poked through… "3!" Danny roared, as he sent the shield outwards in a sort of energy based attack, driving the fire away. Everyone, as per his instructions scattered.
"Foolish Liars. Thou can not hide from your Repentance!" his voice boomed.
Kim rolled outwards, and slammed her foot into the back of the armored thing's head. She then used the same kicking spot to launch herself off of, somersaulting away. "Who are you? What do you want?" she asked, dodging a flaming strike from the knight's massive broadsword.
"Ye unworthy ones wish to knowth my name? So be it. Let it not be said that I do not take final requests. I am Deasin, the Knight of Repent. And ye all are nothing but liars and sinners." He then stomped his foot down, causing a mini quake, and knocking Kim off balance to the point of falling flat on her face. He brought his blade up, and swung it down.
Which missed Kim by several inches, the flames missing by millimeters. Kim quickly rolled out of the way as Spider Man slammed into Deasin with both of his fists, bringing them down like a club. That was, until Deasin brought up another weapon he had been hiding, a giant war hammer, and slammed Spidey with it, slinging him away and into a wall.
"My face, and everything below it, hurts," Spidey muttered to himself, trying to shake the stars out of his eyes. That was when the fire was brought down upon the Spider…
Which was intercepted by the Dragon. Or, should we say, the American Dragon. Jake rushed through the flames, as his body was flameproof, and slammed his clawed fist outwards…
It was like hitting a titanium wall. A titanium wall that could MOVE. "Ow! Man that really HURT!" Jake roared, before being slammed out of the way by the war hammer. Needless to say, what with Jake's head slamming through the wall that he landed in, and he detransforming, he was knocked out cold.
As Deasin slowly marched towards Jake, a punch slammed into his back, knocking him forward a bit. It was June. While looking at her, you wouldn't be able to guess, but in reality she was the third strongest member of the team, just behind Danny and Spider Man, scoring even with Four Arms. Which meant she had a lot of striking force, and when it came to her agility, she was also third. Just below Kim and Spider Man.
But, even with her super strength, she couldn't even put a dent into the metal monster known as Deasin. And sadly, as strong as she was…she was only human. And Deasin was so, so much more.
"Come on Tin Man!" June yelled, "BRING IT!" she leapt up, out of the way of a powerful strike from Deasin, and launched one of her own kicks, driving the metal man back again…who retaliated with such speed that June couldn't respond in time, as she was smacked out of the air and through the nearby, albeit crumbling, wall.
She looked on in fear as Deasin approached, as sound and as heavy as Death. However…even Death can be delayed, especially by one of its own. Namely, a certain half ghost slamming ghost rays into a target.
Danny floated, each hand aglow with the strange ghostly energy that gave him his powers, as he shot them forward, actually seeming to hurt the metal giant. However, Danny did NOT see, as he couldn't through the glow of his own blasts, that Deasin's eye holes were glowing a strange purplish color, which manifested into purple/black energy, firing outwards from his eyes in a jagged beam like state.
Not even Danny had time to move out of the way as the beams slammed into his form, and brought him to the ground. Spidey leapt in with a flying kick, making Deasin's head jerk sideways…but not much else. Deasin lashed out with a powerful blow, which Spidey narrowly avoided by twisting his form in such a shape that it almost hurt him, but he got away. Somewhat.
While he avoided the physical blow…the energy beams came out, slamming into him. Spidey screamed out in pain, as the beams slammed him into and through a wall, burning twin holes in his suit…and searing his skin. He grabbed himself, trying to block out the pain…
Then explosions racked Deasin. Kim's room had once belonged to Robin, or as he was now known as, Nightwing. And he had left behind a few gifts. Namely his explosive birdarangs. Which Kim had just launched five of into the metal knight.
As the dust settled, Kim took a step back. The Knight of Repent didn't even have a scorch mark on him! "This is bad." Kim muttered. She spotted Ben, normal Ben, checking on Danny.
Kim hurled three more explosives at Deasin, not a one of them even slowing the beast down. Kim saw it. The glow…she leapt out of the way just in time, as the blast TORE through the ground that she had been standing on…
And he caught her by her leg, then slammed her into the ground. "SINNING CHILDREN! I WILL MAKE YOU REPENT FOR YOUR CRIMES!" Deasin roared, bringing up the flaming broadsword…
And as dropped by the sheer force of two super strong super fast teens slamming into Deasin as one. Danny and Spidey were up, both giving everything they had into their punches, driving Deasin back, back, back…
Then he blasted them both. Their cries of agony reached June, as she struggled to her feet, she had to do something, she had to…
She couldn't do anything. Deasin picked up Danny by his throat.
"Liar. Sinner. Prepare for you're oblivion it will come quick." He then rose up his fist to crush Danny's head…
As diamonds slammed into his back, actually scratching his armor.
"Hey, buddy!" Diamondhead challenged, "Come and try me on for size!"
Deasin let Danny go, and turned to face the newest attacker. "It matters not what form a Liar takes, for he is still a liar." He bent down and picked up his broadsword…and was slammed into by Diamondhead.
Diamondhead transformed his fist into a spike, and slammed it into Deasin's chest…and not doing much to it. He was then blasted away by the beams.
While the beams itself didn't do anything really, other then get reflected, the force behind them DID push him back. It was then that it hit Diamondhead. The armor was too thick to penetrate…so he had to find a weak spot. He did.
Deasin fired off an unstopping stream of power from his eyes, trying to shatter Diamondhead, who merely started firing off his diamond projectiles, and rushing forward, the beams being deflected off of the diamonds. Diamondhead SHOVED both of his fists into the only weak spot he could find…Deasin's eyes.
Cracks started to form all over Deasin…the energy that came from his eyes escaping through the cracks, until he exploded, grappling with Diamondhead still.
Durring this time, Kim and June had gotten the others out of the area, and were knocked onto their butts as the explosion tore through everything. Windows shattered, and the road cracked.
Kim heard something approaching. And from the dust, first came Deasin's sword, now its normal form…and after that, Deasin's head, sticking up from the smoke, cracked, damaged, but still in one piece.
Sorta. For both, the sword and the head rocketed forward, being tossed by Diamondhead. True Deasin's armored head was still in one piece…but it was detached from his now completely destroyed body. Apparntly there wasn't much to Deasin outside his armor. Diamondhead flashed a toothy grin, as he changed back into Ben…and fell over.
"Do I get desert now…" Ben moaned.
"Yes, squirt. You do."
Notes: Well, there you have it folks. All three of you reading that is. Deasin has been defeated…but what was he? What created him? All of these questions, plus a few dozen more, will be answered sometime later. Next Up: Ghostly Law.
See ya then.