The Age Of Akaige Chapter 10: Wings Will Glide you in Hell, a teen titans fanfic

The Age of Akaige

By Pakkrat

Chapter 10: Wings Will Glide You in Hell

Note: I really meant to update sooner but really I'm taxing this whole thing. Still, I try to make up the best I can with great action scenes! WARNING: Chapter has some violence and death, also mention of sexual acts but also not covered in detail. What I mean is it is mentioned but the acts are not described. Reader's discretion is advised.

When you're in hell, you expect a certain amount of torture or whatever. The fight now breaking out between the two winged combatants was torture to even look at let alone be a part of. Raven was clashing the two swords she held along strokes with her attacker, the one winged angel, Sephiroth. As she stayed his blade, he bared onto the opposite force with a smile. They seemed to levitate in the air with their wings slowly flapping. He looked into her eyes, as she strained he seemed only to merely press a slight force of his arms. "Oh my, you're sweating." Raven took a moment to see sweat fall off her brow, the force he had was so… "You were not prepared for this fight. Have you ever even used a sword, let alone two?"

Raven screamed before flailing her arms with the dual swords. Sephiroth floated through every strike in the grace of the devil himself, a smile grew and he flapped his wing to pass her. She stopped cold, as his breath whispered into her neck, "I see you never used a sword after all."

Raven turned but his strikes were precise, both blades have been struck and fell to the ground imbedding the dirt. She flew a distance between them, but he raised his sword so the tip niches her chin, she is at the very end while he looked on her smiling and leering in the manner a cat would with a mouse. "You're pathetically trying to think of a way to defeat me. You don't understand, I will not allow you, nor any other to make me into a mere memory."

Raven was somehow found in a situation. Her body tensed as the sword pushed her chin up, her neck dribbles a line of blood from the pressure of the blade down the center of her neck. Her eyes seemed to now look to the cavernous ceiling and glow brightly. As Sephiroth was reveling, he did not notice the large cave hanging stones to break and come towards him. His body is almost struck, when the sword moves to collapse all the stones with one movement, or maybe several that were in the flash of once. Raven now pulled her arms under her cloak, and this time her weapon was a strange type of spear with the long shaft of black, and the blade to the end is a Raven with the beak as the tip, the two blades fanning from its sides made fake wings. She flew full force, and Sephiroth looked on her to have the spear strike his side, "I have to win! This match, I must win this match!"

Sephiroth grabbed his side and pulled out the spear, pain only barely shown in his face. The pain changes to hate and he struck the butt of his sword over Raven's face. "You don't understand. You lost the moment you dared challenge me."

While Raven was rolling over herself along the ground, she seemed to allow her eyes and hands to glow. Sephiroth did not notice it, and he especially missed the fact a large sized mass of some mountainous pillar was up heaved and quickly speeding on him. He soon realized, and struck his sword to make the large mass split in two. He smirked with delight, but soon he frowned as the two halves now stopped with him in their center. Like a sandwich waiting to be made, the two large halves crush in on him with dust swooshing off the impact. The two halves began to grind, Raven lay on her stomach and concentrated with her hands rubbing roughly like the stones. While it seemed impossible, the two halves were slowly parting, and Raven's hands did the same. Pushing off the two halves was Sephiroth still wedged between the two large stone blocks? He turned his head back with a smile, and now his cheek is bleeding among other marks over his form. "Impressive as this is you know I will kill you." He pushed off with all his force, the two halves began to push away but they quickly tried to crush him again, but he plowed both fists through the stones and they began to crackle and explode in dirt or dust. Raven was using the spear to stand up and watch as the dust clears with Sephiroth turned only to her now. He lands slowly, one foot, than the next, and raising the long sword he signals them to continue. "I will kill you and all the things you love."

Raven had to admit he was intimidating but still she had to win. This was important to her, to the ones she loved. Raven gave a little shift off her one leg to extend out this large spear straight from her hold, "Come over here and just try it."

"The City of Townsville…" Spoke a mechanized voice hidden in brown ragged cloths. The figure had broad shoulders, and when they turned around from the ruined city and destroyed homes he made a loud stomping sound. "This miserable collective of flesh-sacks has finally been dealt with. Well, all except the three little champions you made. Where are they hiding Professor Utonium?"

A man knocked to his knees and held by strange blue robots with no lower halves, only strange boosters kept him there. Utonium gave a hate filled look to the being in brown rags, "What do you want with my girls?"

The cloaked man shook his head, the rags shuffle with mechanical gears moving and churning, "Professor, I want you not the girls. They are merely a loose end I plan to tie. In the world now coming we can not allow rogue agents to flutter about, aimlessly."

"No! They're my girls! Leave them be, please!"

The figure did not heed these words he merely turned around and waved with a metallic silvery hand, with spiked knuckles, "Take the professor. Akaige was in search of this one and his knowledge of the X Compound. I have more important matters to attain to since the Professor told his precious freaks to run away."

Utonium lowered his head, "Please, if you have any decency."

"I do not have the programming of such." The figure now let a metallic tail slam to the ground with several explosions in the city, "Blast, the girls were spotted but those drones can't handle them. I'll have to go myself. Take the professor and cloak yourselves!" The figure leapt off their spot away from the city and began to make his way towards the last sighting. While he did that Utonium begged him to stop, but the drones took him on a ship and blasted off.

A transmission came from the ship from a drone, referring to a picture it found in the Professor's wallet. "This image was found, it files under the descriptive similarities of the three female youths."

The figure stopped and inspected his visual sensors, "No… these specimens are of a younger age and period. The specimens I seek," The figure began to hop off buildings like it was a skip through the park, "are teenage specimens. I will know their beings when I see them."

Inside the city is another explosion, it was a pink like explosion. Three shadows hide behind some toppled building where only two walls stand. As they were huddled behind the wall, with collapsed rubble in front of it, one spoke in the leader tone expected, "Bubbles, Buttercup, this is not your average every-day Mojo Mischief plan. Those things burned our city down and killed innocent civilians. The professor said we have to get out of the city."

"Get out of our city? Are you stupid or something sis?" The green eyed teenager had to show the hate of any, but her other sister with strong defiant pink eyes snapped, "Don't start with me Buttercup! I'm the leader!"

"Look, Blossom! This isn't some damn villain mishap, we're in the real shit! You let me handle this like I want!"

Blossom gave a glare more agitated than leading, but when a pair of soft blue eyes looked on the leader pleading, "Blossom, we can't just leave the city. It's our home, our lives. We knew and loved people here for all our lives. You want us to just ignore that?"

"We-well…" Blossom let her eyes lower and a sigh exits her lips, "Fine, we have to leave but let's give them exactly what they deserve!"

"Yeah, now you're talking boss lady!"

Several groups of robots were closing in on the area an explosion occurred. From above them green beams shattered several drones causing the others to look up. They saw the teenager in a green sleeveless shirt with the words 'Fight' over the front. She screamed in her plummeting fist through a droid and as they back away she swung up her face making black hair flip back behind her ears and angled downward, two green bangs were dyed and angled down slightly over her glowing green eyes. When she put her hands on her hips she showed the black fingerless gloves, with knuckles bare in biker style. Her jeans were long and baggy, the edges of the sleeves are torn and her legs both have oversized pockets. The right hip allows one long chain to hang connected to her front and back part of that right hip. While she took a step onto the ground her green and black sneakers light up with red lights, stylish and attitude was her desire. As she gave a confident little smirk the drones surround her and she only points up.

The drones look up as a second form tore through them with kicks and punches, soon followed by the next. The second was with long red/orange hair flapping in her strikes. The hair is free and loose, a set of pink shades are over her head while her pink eyes glow in strikes of ferocity. Her upper body is in a shirt with pink sleeves, but white in the torso's center the picture of a purple heart is in the center and back. With a strong kick of her right leg to one robot's head her gray bell-bottom jeans with a black belt flapped in the wind. Her executive type brown shoes crack open the drone's head and she quickly pulls back to begin firing beams out of her eyes and through several machines.

The final of these three was a blonde haired girl with her hair in two small ponytails. She stomped her fine shoes into the ground and looked up to the robot about to grab her. Kicking up over his arms she giggled, the droid looked to find her smiling at him and simply blasting his head off like a game. Landing, she turned her head around showing her gleeful blue eyes glowing, and waving to two more drones. Her shirt was a sleeveless and shoulder less shirt, tucked into her pants. Her jeans were blue ones with little butterfly designs on the outer thigh and little slits at the ankle. Around her neck was a golden band that read 'Angel' and she now twirled with her necklace like a ballerina tossing droids and machines into the air where they exploded. When she stopped her delicate mind seemed to turn saying "That was so much fun! I hope they send some more!"

The girl of green looked over, "Bubbles, this time is one of the few," She swung her fist over her shoulder and smashed a droid to pieces, "I totally agree with you."

Bubbles, the girl in the blue smiled widely "I'm glad to hear that Buttercup." She turned to the girl in pink, "Blossom? Is there something wrong?"

Blossom, the girl in pink, had to nod her head "I hear something coming."

The three girls were silent, listening… (Ca-thunk) "Wait! I heard it too!" … (Ca-thunk) "What the hell is that?"

The loud noise is soon stopped with the appearance of a cloaked figure. Looking on the girls stood the metal man with his long tail, "Ah, the three specimens. I'm here to take… one of you alive."

The girls give blank looks to one another, and next they fire off their eyes on the machine. Their beams catch the robot's cloaks on flame and they burn away. Showing now was a shinning metallic body man like in shape and form, but it had irregular aerodynamic additions. The robot walked on two legs but those legs were arced like some animals, and had three toes that pulled up and clacked the ground cracking a stone each. The body is covered in sheets of metal that shines in the light. His upper body was immensely formed and housed most the workings of the creature. His arms were rising to brush away several ashes from its broad shoulders, and allowed the sharp fingers to scratch over the armored body with spiked knuckles glistening on flames. Their head was rounded and long faced, with a mouth that was glowing red from an open jaw. The jaw is always open and always had the same empty smile; it only serves as a spot for its oral orders to be given. Along with his eyes that also glow red they too never open or close more it would be pointless in perfection. Two antennae now turn about on his head's sides where ears need to be, but they were his ears now.

"Whoa, robot's big… and shiny."

"He's so cute!" The two other girls give a look as Bubbles had giggled, "Well he is it's like a shiny big puppy."

"Foolish little mortals I am the ultimate automaton. I am, Ultron."

"Ultron? What genius made that name?"

"The Avengers, before I had my newest acquisition destroy them. As for you I was ordered to oversee the destruction of this pitiful city before the falling of their kind, now I am supposed to capture you three, or preferably just one of you. Which of you is willing to live and not suffer my purification?"

"Sorry," Blossom looks to the other two and they give little smirks "we have other plans. Isn't that right girls?"

In their answer the three fly straight on their opponent. Ultron has little change while the three colorful blurs pass him at first, but eventually his shoulder would pitch or a leg would kind of buckle they were hitting him as they passed him. Ultron did not seem worried and only crossed his long arms over his wide chest while they struck away. The three girls ceased their attacks and floated in the air looking at his now tapping fingers, "I'm not sure, but, isn't he supposed to go all limp and painfully screaming on the ground?"

Blossom looks over to Buttercup frowning, "I think we need a new plan."

"We could ask him to go away." The two girls look to their blonde haired sister, "It worked with that big orange monster… didn't it?"

Blossom looked at their mechanical enemy and then she saw several exposed wires still sparking, a lamp post broke off from the ground, and a bus was in the distance, "I think… girls! Come here I have an idea!" the three huddle and when Blossom tells them her plan Buttercup punches her fist into an open palm as Bubbles giggled, "So, you got the plan!" The two others nod, "Okay girls lets get going!"

Blossom flew to the wires and pulled them out as far as she could. Flashing past Ultron she wraps one of his legs in the wires allowing the charge to jolt his body. When she looked he was merely kicking at the wires, 'He's not affected by electrical overload? I hope the others get better luck!'

As Ultron finally pulls off his wires the sight of a green blur caught him off guard. The swing of a metal pole made the beast's large upper body buckle over; now uneven he stumbles on his two feet backwards. Buttercup comes again and bobs his body forward this time. She passes over and over, striking again and again as he tried to straighten up. In one passing there was a strange sound and Buttercup stopped her attacks. Looking to the lamp post she grimaced at the missing pole's end, and looks to see the large retractable blade coming out from Ultron's one elbow before it returns inside his arm.

The next thing is Bubbles, she has over her head a large bus which she tossed and Ultron caught it. However, she let her eyes glow and fired into the gas tank making a large explosion. The flames funnel around the robotic monster and soon she smiled as it seemed to work. Then the dust cleared in the rushing blue light, Bubbles screams as her shoulder was hit. She fell to the ground and a loud sound of something large landing around her was the last she knew. Looking up Bubbles was wide eyed as Ultron's legs were planted at the opposite sides of her head. His one fist was rising up in a punch with the knuckle spikes growing in length and now spinning like drills. As he prepared to strike, the sound of energy crackling made a wall crumble on him, and Bubbles was covered in blackness disappearing while the fist plowed the dirt.

Bubbles blinks, and she found a young man moving away his cape to show he teleported her, it was Kid Wicked? Robin leaps into the fray asking "Are you the PPG? Powder Puff Gals?"

Buttercup screams as she lands, "Power Puff, POWER PUFF! How come everyone says it wrong?"

Blossom lands with a 'Hush' sound, "We're the Power Puff Girls, Blossom," she moved her head to Buttercup who crossed her arms and pouts her lips to the sky, "Buttercup," then she moved her head to Bubbles who was blushing while Kid Wicked has helped her up, "and that's Bubbles."

"Good I came to see if you would reconsider joining the Teen Titans." He looked now to the large amount of rubble "Looks like we came ju-." A loud crashing sound and a metallic fist ripped through the rubble, followed by another and then Ultron pulled himself out from the hole made. "Oh, wow… just what we needed. You know who that is?"

"He says he's Ultron."

"I know that… Ultron the Ultimate, a mechanized automaton with the most advanced A.I. ever, and worse yet the thing is made from entirely Adamantium making him virtually indestructible!"

"Ah, someone knows of me. For a human you certainly seem well advised." Ultron looked over the teens gathered, Jinx still sparking with pink energy and Kid Flash now rushing to the sidelines Ultron gave a very distasteful glare "I want the three females give me them and I will spare you."

Robin swung his staff around his front and back, a smirk he positioned the staff under his arm and outstretched his free hand giving a cocky little gesture, "You want them come and take them!"

Ultron laughs in a mechanized fashion, "I was calculating on it child!"

The Ultron leapt into battle, a strong punch and then a slap tossed back Robin and let open the next. Kid Flash flew around Ultron landing punches but he stopped to show his red beaten fists, a whimper on his face. Ultron was about to strike with his tail but Jinx flung a bolt to cause Kid Flash the trip out of the tail's way. She lands next to him and he asks "Did you just try to save me?"

"What?" She looked at his little smile "Oh god, just get up and fight you looser!"

Kid Wicked was flashing in and out from punches, kicks, and tail strikes as Ultron was now targeting the dark teen. While he did Bubbles, Blossom, and Buttercup were gathering their energy in their hands the energy a collective of power imitating their own colors. Ultron struck a punch on Kid Wicked but Kid Wicked only gave a smile as he disappeared. The sound of energy crackling and Ultron turned about to be hit straight in the chest, hard. The beam pushed him into the ground, but he stood firm and pushed back the beam with his own body. The girls begin to accumulate their power more but he still stood there. Blossom screams, "It's not working! Pull it off girls!"

They stop firing and find only some scuffs and smoke on Ultron's chest. He was not going down easy. While he stood dominant Robin was preparing a strike from behind. He was in the air with staff over head when Ultron's upper body swirled around from the hips and startled the boy wonder. Ultron grabbed Robin by the throat and held him up in the air, his grip was used to choke slam Robin into the ground so he could pivot his lower body around and place a foot onto Robin's chest. "You wasted your time boy. I am the ultimate automaton, Ultron!" while Ultron bore his foot down on Robin's body Jinx charged her hexes, while Kid Flash and the PPG all gathered together and flew straight into Ultron. Their combined forces in four strong jabs vaulted the large beast straight off his feet. They flew apart as Kid Wicked warped out Robin and Jinx released her blasts. Ultron had slammed into a large building, the bolts struck the structure and caused it to collapse, Ultron laughed at the attempt but then also the streets and sidewalks began to crackle. The ground fell into itself and the building only added to rubble inside the crater forged. Somewhere in the mess was Ultron, not hurt or even harmed but temporarily disoriented and buried.

Jinx had to stop on her knee as the others were safe. Kid Flash zoomed over to her and offered a hand, "So, you still think you're bad luck?"

"Shove it!" She did just that to his hand while standing. "Are we going to get out of here or what?"

Robin gave a look to the rubble, "We better hurry the longer we waste the sooner he's on our backs." The team ran for the Titans Ship where they began to jump in. Robin took his seat, while Kid Wicked leapt into another. Blossom forced Bubbles and Buttercup to take one set while she had the one for herself. Jinx had to let Kid Flash sit on her lap again… and she hated him for it.

While the ship escaped the rubble crater was torn apart. Ultron stood at its bottom looking up at the ship disappear now too far away to catch, "Impressive, for mere mammals." His stride was echoing in the mechanized fashion, while he planned to head back to a ship and return to his next site of operation, "I do hope I meet them again. They would make excellent re-constructs."

Jinx pushed a button, "So, now what?" Robin looked to his screen and pushed a button opening a link, "We're heading back to Watchtower. I don't know what else to do. Things are just…" Suddenly, Robin was just gone! The ship twirled around and only the transportation of Kid Wicked saved them all. He took the helm; Jinx slammed her fist on her panel "What the hell happened?"

Kid Wicked shrugged. She now looked to his empty pod, "Um, since a pod opened… can I use it?"

Wicked had to now glare on the horizon as he piloted the ship. He was a bit preoccupied to deal with her wishes. When she realized he was ignoring her, Jinx gave a look that would kill before slamming her head back into her seat. Kid Flash had a smile, asking "What's wrong beautiful?"

"Do you ever stop…?" Her eyes were half-shot, "God, this whole mess is ridiculous. I went from trying to control the world to now saving it. Where the hell did I go wrong this morning?"

Snow covered fields with the majestic beauty that comes only with peaceful scenery. The peaceful scenery is however shattered with a large explosion. The cause was Starfire's bolts, now she readied another but one hand in a blue glove clasps her hand. Darkseid gave an endangering glare while he pulled a fist back. While it came forward, Star shot her eyes on his fist causing it to stop, fingers now smoking with ruined gloves. Starfire planted her foot firmly over Darkseid's chest, but his smoking hand clasped her ankle and swung her overhead before slamming her to the icy tundra under them. He would have added his foot to her now stuck form, but her eyes blast again and thrusts him off the ground some inches away where he now slammed to the tundra.

Pushing off her quaking legs, Starfire looked over to the white ice rising as Darkseid was still lying still. She now gathered her energy in her arms before readying to sling them all, but two red beams struck her shoulder causing the bolts to spiral off course and now he could stand and fire again. The second shots struck her along the ground. Standing tall and cruel, Darkseid points to her eyes, "You have eye beams," He now points to his own, "But I have eye rays. One keeps going and the other looses power as they go. Needless to say, I win, girl."

Starfire was able to get to her one knee, but Darkseid had stormed at her with one leg cocked in the end for a massive kick, one that flung her into the air high. While she plummets Darkseid pulled an open hand back, forward the hand thrusts and snatches the girl's face. He screamed in the sprint towards a tree covered in snow, but the tree cracks up the center with snow falling over them both. With the tree falling over them in splinters Darkseid grinned. The glow of green not only melts snow to water, but flung back the hand now completely free of its glove. Star let a roar go free and began to strike her fists over the bare chest, moving quickly to the face and jaw she left off a massive set of punches with one far back haymaker. Darkseid tumbled tiredly on his own heels, staggering with minimal recognizance Star charged her eyes and hands before one overwhelming, unholy mass of power that sprung Darkseid through the air and into the strange spaceship. Starfire slowly lands on the ground with the moment to take in some much needed breaths.

When Darkseid pushed out from his planted seat, he looked onto Colossus still holding an unconscious soldier. Colossus drops the soldier ready to fight, but Darkseid turned out the hole and ran towards it. "I'll kill you Troq! Hear me? I'll KILL YOU!"

Colossus was not too surprised so he moved through the ship some more. He had no time to waste. The smell of fine liquor and music was up ahead, music he knew his brother once… "Mikhail, could it be?"

As Colossus was going to rip open the doors beam of light bounced off his back. Kitty now popped out and saw Dr. Light who was not only freaked by the beam's ineffectiveness but now a second head, "Ho-holy crap! What are you?" He is then smacked over the head by a metal pipe suspended in mid-air? The mechanical voice adds "Glad I came here aren't you?" Soon Red X showed up and he looked to his belt now dead, "Crap, the batteries are dead. I need that Xinothium!"

"Xinothium?" Shadow Kat stepped out of Colossus who now was distracted from his previous target "Isn't that what Red Star makes?"

Red nodded, "Sadly, but I'm not able to get anymore. It's too far out there then I heard some of these guys are transporting it here! Their using that Darkseid guys tech to move it instantly from Red Star's home here so I can steal it and be done with it." He now sighed, "I guess I'll have to do it the hard way without the gear."

Shadow Kat kind of looked sad, "Sorry we screwed you up."

"Aw, no problem! I like a challenge. Now you two behave yourselves. I'll be taking on my own little nuisance as you do yours."

Colossus looked to the door as Red was heading to his little collection of Xinothium, "It will be difficult."

Shadow Kat phased into his body, and a giggle chimed his head, "You won't be alone big guy. You may be tough, but even you have a weakness."

"I… I am…" He seemed worried, so she whispered "its okay I'll be there for you."

He nods and with a sign of determination he kicked the door down. When the door fell a beam blasted him out the way. Slowly, a figure in a purple skin tight suit stepped out with red eyes, and bare yellow skin covered the hands, and head. With a stern sneer, a strong squared like jaw grinds its teeth. "Nicholi, you disappoint me."

"Mikhail?" Colossus was stunned, "You look so… so…"

"Different? It is a sign of my power. The power I found to distort reality and make doorways to other worlds. After time, I gained an intellect and replaced my humanity with cybernetics. You can not believe the worlds I found, brother."

"I do not care! You kidnapped our own sister, Illyana!"

Colossus grabbed hands with his brother in a bout of strength, "Why brother? Why did you return to hurt the ones who love you?"

"I do not recognize such little things. Illyana will be useful for the program, as will the other fools we gathered. You would be wise to join us."

"Damn you!" Colossus is struck in the gut, "No, damn you brother! Damn you for your idiocy!"

"Hey," Kat popped out of Colossus's back while Mikhail was going to use an overhead dual-fist swing, "He's smarter than you! He knows what it means to care!"

"Wh-what the hell…" Colossus flung up his uppercut smashing Mikhail out the large window in his special room. Colossus had to smile to Kat, "Thank you my dearest Kitten."

"Um… sure…"

"There's that strange heat feeling again?" Colossus looked out from the shattered glass and saw his brother standing, and waiting, so he screamed with his plummeting mass. He screamed with so much hate for what his brother is, and what he was going to have to do.

With the loud thundering clang of their forces rose the large walls of snow. This snow broke off into many directions and one such was around Starfire and Darkseid. His hatred began to fuel his strikes, and her rage fueled the determination. The two were like some sort of freight trains barreling down on one another, their forces destined to crash and you couldn't help but watch while they do. Darkseid released his two handed upwards swing, plowing Starfire over the snowy fields towards a large rock where she slammed into and crushed it. Darkseid now fell to one knee and breaths so haggard wheezed deeply to his chest. Starfire was also feeling taxed as both opponents worked on the other in defiant manners. Her one eye is now closed over and slightly the lids of her one eye were going a slightly purple color. While her one bottom lip was cut a little dab of blood leaked over her chin, dripping onto her own stomach.

Star was hunched over in the rocks, suspending her two arms were bits of rubble, and as she let her head hang forward she saw and heard Darkseid now resting himself. She also heard more noises behind her. These noises were of her friend Sabretooth fighting with rage echoing roars. There is also a sickening laughter from whoever he was fighting. He was not going to have an easy fight either, but maybe, that was what they all had. She now wished Robin was here. He was a spectacular leader and so help her, he was the support for every fight. Her mind's view of Robin is shattered with a large form slamming the rocks down with two spread feet. Darkseid was ready, and he signed that with his towering form over her now pummeling her with overhead club like swings of his double-handed fists. Rocks began to shatter and flip about, one such pebble rolled into the woods where laughter grew and grew, along with roars of hate and anger.

Sabretooth swing his claws with maddening speeds, but the fat head Sugar Man steps swiftly on his two little feet. Sugar Man held in each of his four arms hammers with block like heads. Soon as Sabretooth latched forward a hammer was greeting his claws, sometimes they hit the hands making their knuckles or fingers break skin, blood soon follows but disappears immediately with the cold air affecting the healing attributes of Sabretooth's mutant power.

While Sugar Man swung his hammers, up or down, left with a right, Sabretooth could easily out maneuver. This ease now made Sugar Man realize what was happening, he was being toyed with similar to the way a cat toys with a mouse. It was in this case a cat that was tearing into a rat, an insidious rat that hurt his family. Blink, the young mutant he saved still has nightmares from Sugar Man. He was worse than the Boogey Man, because for that kid you can't say he's not real, he was her past. The thoughts of her and this creature's experiments fueled him to now smack the many hammers one by one out of the way.

Sugar Man knew he was in for it, so he had to think of something. As the last hammer was gone, Sugar Man reached with his free hands for three Uzis. The bullets spray wild while Sabretooth made his retreat. With several wounds the mutants were in different positions. Sabretooth now had hidden away behind a large tree, while Sugar Man fired off his guns with a loud laughter. Sabretooth had to snarl, his new injuries were healing but man they hurt. The bullets were also widling at the tree and he wanted to stop that. Pressing his back on the tree he now pushed off his feet. The tree begins to creak and pull out from the ground. Sugar Man ran out of the trees plummet with a smile. However, the tree is lifting off the ground and was used like a bat.

While Sugar Man bounced off trees like a pinball from some kid's arcade, Sabretooth raised the tree up into the air. A scream and one fierce swing down caught Sugar Man underneath. With the mutant under the tree Sabretooth gave a cocky grin. He laid his foot onto the tree to roll it off the Sugar Man, and knelt down to fling the mutant up and around some more. That was stopped with a red tongue swinging around and planting a strike over Sabretooth's back neck. Sabretooth is lost and dropped cold; his body lost all motor skills. He knew it would heal and he'd be able to move again but there is more, a syringe now fell to the ground, there was a sedative in the last strike.

Sabretooth was somehow not able to act on his own accord with the extent of his limbs now numb. Sugar Man waddles over rubbing his nose and chin, "Dang, you really went crazy on me. I don't usually think I'm going to die." Sabretooth looked on with hate as the Sugar Man gave a little quirk in his brow, "You still want a piece of me? I guess she means something to you."

"You little, she's been through enough of those experiments I won't let you hurt her again!"

There was a moment Sugar Man seemed confused, but as his eyes brightened and his teeth grew wide with a smile he asked "She only talked about the experiments? She never told you about the other stuff, did she?"

Sabretooth was the one confused now, so Sugar Man in his dark, twisted mind figured he could hold off revenge for a sick sense of satisfaction, "Okay, so let's see… ever wonder about the times she awoke at night? The nightmares she would often reel about in her covers? How about, the times you tried to comfort her and she was more frightened when someone touched her?" Sabretooth still didn't quite get it, the experiments were some nasty ones he knew that. Sugar Man had a frown when he knew that this fierce freak didn't get it, "Not the brightest of them are you?"

"She told me about the experiments, I saw those machines… what else could you…"

"Harrumph to you! Fine, let's say, she's not as innocent as you think she is. What I mean is," Sugar Man got his sick smile up into Sabretooth's face, licking his tongue over the many razor sharp fangs he whispered darkly "She wasn't so innocent after I was done with her, get it?" Then he began to laugh like before.

That sick laugh started to get Sabretooth to see certain things, things he could only imagine. His lips curled over fangs of his own, Sabretooth had begun to feel a rush of adrenaline as his mind scanned the recesses of his mentality. It was obvious what this walking zit did to her now. "You, molested her?"

"Hm, guess we're not as dumb as I thought!" The laugh echoed louder, his tongue swung along his mouth wildly with bilious laughter. The more he laughed, the angrier Sabretooth became, and the faster his body healed. When the rage grew so high Sabretooth's eyes began to change they had now no human quality but they became more feral. Launching his head forward Sabretooth snatched in his mouth the flapping red tongue which he bit into with his own fangs. Sugar Man was stunned with it and screamed loudly. When he bit his large mouth down, Sabretooth pulled his head out allowing Sugar Man to bite off his own tongue! "Gah!"

Sugar Man looked now on Sabretooth and he shook with fear. Sabretooth's face was scrunched in on itself, the muscles tightened all over his body with adrenaline and hate. Looking at Sabretooth was like looking on a savanna lioness coming back to their pride only finding some stray hyena feasting on their young; it was so much like that in Sabretooth's mind. Sugar Man made a mad dash out of the woods but Sabretooth, on all fours, charged after fiercely. In a leap of all four limbs, Sugar Man is flung to the dirt where Sabretooth gripped his claws into one of the arms where he began to pull and tear.

With each of Sugar Man's screams came a sound of bone breaking. On every surge of Sabretooth's rage was the sound of flesh ripping. At each moment Sugar Man was foolish enough to ask for mercy, for Sabretooth to stop, Sabretooth just screamed in his rage, "How many times did she beg?" soon followed with a loud sound of screaming and tearing almost simultaneous. It was not too long after that the fat troll did not move, he did not breathe, he was just an amassed collection of bone and meat bare and crushed. Sabretooth cocked his one leg onto the mass and pitched his head, hair matted in blood, into the air he pitched them both high in a collective roar from every animal he ever met. His scream echoes the woods and made the tress seem to shake in recognition. Soon, his body grew numb. Without the adrenaline the sedative was taking its full effect. Sabretooth stumbled back off the mess and took a moment to groan. He fell on his back hard and loud, soon he asked, "Kid, was this good enough? Did I do you some good?" His eyes were blurring over with sleep, "If I get back alive… I need to make… it up to… her…"

Sleeping he did not notice something moving now in the fleshy mess. From what was his appendix a set of four little arms popped out? A large face showed through the organ and slowly it squeaked with a tadpole like bottom swaying its back. When it was free and now moving over the snow it turned to Sabretooth, it screamed and swished off leaving a trail of yellow snow in its wake, he wouldn't underestimate this one again.

While this tadpole like Sugar Man ran off, it swerved under a pair of purple boots, along with blue ones. Starfire and Darkseid were in a struggle of power pushing on the other. Darkseid seemed to be winning as his smile got bigger and she seemed to be buckling on her knees, but instead Star pushed her head into Darkseid's jaw knocking him off. Flying off from her last hit she was in the air where she slipped around on a straight course for Darkseid's chest. Darkseid saw her plow, and so he sidestepped to slap her off course and to the ground again.

Darkseid laughed while she weakly pulled out of the snowy dirt. Running then jumping onto her, he was suspended in the air by two powerful eye beams. She shot him in the chest and held him right in mid air before a surge of her power thrust him back away from her. Standing on her one leg, the other now seemed to be hurt so she tended after it a little. Starfire began to create her bolts where she flung them at Darkseid. Darkseid is struck by several making him sort of tumble back on his heels. He however got control and swats the bolts away from himself.

The bolts rebound and flicker over snow and ice. One of the bolts sparked over some ice where Colossus and Mikhail were in a bout of fists. The sudden sound of ice cracking, they realize the bolt caused their footing to loosen and so they both plummet down a large expanse of ice. As the ice began to settle with them, Mikhail saw his brother Colossus still slightly out of it. Stepping slowly towards his enemy Mikhail raised his arms over head, ready to send a crushing blow, but a woman's head pops out of Colossus's back causing him to loose concentration "Oh god! Colossus, behind you!"

Colossus acts with a swift uppercut sending his brother up and down again; shifting more ice Mikhail sinks into the ice a little as he now was struck. Colossus smiled inwardly saying "Thank you Kitten it was a good thing you helped me."

Mikhail was now pushing out from the ice, "That little girlfriend of yours has really begun to annoy me," Mikhail fired his fist with the scream of "BROTHER!"

"You are not my brother!" Mikhail missed as Colossus ran around the blast. He made far swung punches to Mikhail sending the brother to a sort of private la-la land. Those strikes were filled with rage, and hate, his brother was supposed to be dead. His brother died a hero to their family and now he reappeared as a villain, no, a monster. Mikhail fell to his own knees as Colossus held his fists in rage, "Why? Why did you turn to this?"

"Power!" Mikhail struck Colossus between the legs, and as Colossus cringed Mikhail rushed his brother with a grapple. On top of Colossus, Mikhail began to way-lay his fists to the face of his metallic sibling "The powers I had as a mutant were exceptional. I could distort doors between worlds, connect them, and report of their existence. I controlled a power of a god and deserved to be as such! Once I was a mere mortal, but now look at me!" Mikhail stood off his brother to clench a fist, "Yes, look at me! I am powerful, my body mutated to a new form! I can command my militia to conquer any enemy and soon in the world they will create, the Kagejin will make, I will become a god of war! Life will succumb to death and I will stand as its vendor. See the world I will thrive in, the world our sister will suffer through!"

As Mikhail swung the fist down, Colossus saw Illyana in his mind. He rolled out from the fist as it was now stuck in the ice. Mikhail pulled, but he was stuck. Colossus gripped himself as he rose up, seeing a large chunk of ice he thought, and he decided with a snarl and grasp of the ice. Mikhail pulled his fist slightly freed before he heard the shifting behind him. Looking over his shoulder was Colossus with the ice chunk in one hand over head, looming over Mikhail he had a face of hate and disgust, "My brother…" Colossus looked at Mikhail, his eyes wide in shock, but the shock turned to hate and Colossus screamed "You're not my brother!"

The ice fell from a curled fist, a thwack echoes the air, and Mikhail fell to the ground hard. More rushes of wind and thwacks with speed caused sickening splattering sounds. Kitten pulled out of Colossus holding her mouth, horrified with what she was watching. Colossus swung his arm with the ice, now turning red, high into the air and back down. Mikhail was now twitching his legs under the wide spread stand of Colossus. Colossus dropped the block of red ice letting it roll down the snow and ice, and he turned with blood over his one side, his hands at his waist he looked at how he was so bloody but his steel skin kept him from feeling it. Kitten was so in awe with his face that was so sad and terrified with what he did. She walked to him, and he flinched as her hand touched his cheek. The steel peeled off and Colossus felt his skin now warm with blood. He lost control, crying into the shoulder of Kat he seemed lost with the world. Kat had to hold his head to her shoulder while whispering with her kind words, "I'm here, remember?"

The red ice rolled slowly across the terrain, where it is crushed under Darkseid who screams with the ice under his fall. Starfire plowed her two feet straight into his stomach, where he screamed from pain but quickly grabbed her ankle and flung her into the ground next to him. The two were flat on their backs, but Darkseid rolled over onto her putting his full weight on her. His hands wrapped her neck and he pushed off his strangling hold making an effort to choke the girl. Starfire gave a look to his face before firing her eyes into his own, but he was smart enough to back off and backed away. "No, not this…" the next beam missed him as he dropped under it, and then he shoulder rammed the teenager with hatred, "not this time girl!"

Looking outside a window the professor, Professor Chang watched the scenes now mingling, "This turned into one massive mess. At least we took the Xinothium, eh?" He turned to his collection of tubes with the red chemical. After the teens left he had men steal all their supplies. "Now if we could only get our hands on Red Star we would be set. Too bad he won't just give in."

"No? You think?" Red X pulled Chang around and into the metal wall knocking the doctor out. He looked around and found some test tubes with the red material. He gave a little smirk under his mask as he popped one open and put its contents into his belt. The machine began to power up, and he chuckled while he took some more tubes for later. "I guess this wasn't a total loss." He now looked out the window and saw to the distance Batman, he had to frown, "I wonder if he could… no, not my problem. I got what I needed now I can get out of here." Red X put the last tube into his belt and began to look for a vehicle… but he stopped, and turned to the window where he broke it and leapt out to the battle field, "I hate this, hate this, and did I mention I hate this!"

Meanwhile, Batman was flinging a soldier over his back in a judo throw. He now looked to find many of their opponent soldiers were now basically either on the ground KO, or fending off the urge to run away barely. "You know! This seemed a little easy."

Ice, the permafrost princess tossed up her hair before kicking her heel into one soldier, covering him in ice over the torso and arms making him top heavy and fall to the ground. "Yes these mercenaries are not very merciless."

A sound of ice shifting, the two see a black heeled boot deepening to the ground with one arm on the hip, Madame was now giving a little smirk to the two. Soldiers ran by her, and she gave a glare not to them but her disgust was directed to their cowardice. Her arm bent back and struck them without her even turning around, it stretched far enough to hit several men at one swing. Soon the arm melds back to her hip and she only scoffs to their cries of bones shattered, "A small price paid for ingrates. However," She now fully gave her scold to the two heroes "You're not going to get off as easily."

Batman took the initiative, pulling out several of his batarangs he flung them in three spots. Madame didn't seem too worried merely tossing them away with a flick of her wrists. He now pulled three more and tossed them, she swat and these three explode after contact. Blinded from the smoke Ice started showering Madame with ice shards, watching the smoke puff while swallowing them whole. Ice gave a little smile but soon the sight of black tendrils ripping out and down again made the two heroes now rolling and jumping. The tendrils were actually fingers. As they weaved and bent, around and underground these black moving things caused the ground to crack. The two heroes finally caught on, she was trying to make the ground crush them.

Batman was nimble and experienced so he leapt from the now sinking ice piece by piece until off from the crater. Ice didn't seem so capable so only when he turned around did he realize she was sunk in the hole too. He now started trying to get his hands on one of his grappling hooks, but a large chunk of the ice breaks out and lands near him letting Ice slowly strut off the shard. "It was very unusual she chose to attack me with the very element I control."

Batman, looking around to only see them now, had to nod. "That was strange. So you're safe?" She struts more; her swishing of her hips was wide and defined, "I am safe. We perhaps should go to the others; Red Star will need our help I'm sure."

"Yes… are you sure you don't need some help?" She looked confused, and more confusion arose while the grappling line wrapped around her several different times. Her one arm rolled under her bosom now Ice was changing colors and shapes, to Madame, "Ooh, a man who knows what I like. Brains, and of course leather/titanium restraints." Her eyes were not as flirtatious as they were intrigued, "What gave it away?"

"Your walk. Ice is a little bit shyer than you are. She also is nicer to look at."

"Ah, too bad." Her fingers wiggled out from the bands and struck Batman's hand, now her body expanded, stretched through the top, and back outside the bands she kicked the restraints under her foot, "I was going to think twice about keeping you, but no one makes a remark of my looks!"

She swung her fist out like a band of rubber with a hammer on the end. Batman rolled under the arm as it stretched past him and crushed some rocks. She was strong, and flexible, a man's dream but violent as hell! Leaping and dodging, Batman made his efforts to stay in front of jabbing springs, stretching kicks, along with the incoming whirling forearm-presses. Her body was a weapon, with nine other weapons following soon after. While Batman pulled out a rang, his eyes pop while he fell on his face. Looking to what tripped him Batman saw the black boot. Madame stretched her body to the foot, before swinging her other foot up and on Batman's chest. She didn't say it, or mouth it, but the look in her eye as her hand seemed to change to a drill, meant 'Game Over'.

When the fist came down a shield of ice covered a surprised Batman. Madame cracked a spot in the ice, but she turned to see the princess Ice now running on her. Madame gave a little smile as she flipped back from a punch, somersaulting several steps away before landing and whipping her hair from her eyes. "Girl, leave the fighting to the pros."

Ice didn't seem worried while her hands covered in ice shards. Madame flung her hands under the ice and tore out a huge hunk she now flung toward Ice. It was not the brightest idea as Ice controls that very element. With her powers the ice shattered apart to shards now brushing past Ice's smiling face. Madame now ducked and weaved from ice gauntlet punches. She now laughed as Ice's strikes only briskly made a chilled wind over her own skin. Ice got irritated, and angry, and she then began to loose control. Ice didn't act she just attacked. Madame had a wicked glare in her eyes, lust, or blood lust came in her eyes. Ice was attacked with ice balls, but Ice made the ice balls shatter and disappear. In the mess Madame now struck forward with her right hand, but her hand was a knife like object. Ice winced and screamed with a protrusion in her chest. Madame pushed in deeper and harder as Ice fell under the force. It seemed like she wouldn't stop until Ice lye dead, but the X shaped beam burning on Madame's face swung her off the young woman and to the protruding ice.

Red X skid to a halt where Batman was, "Sorry I'm late…" the fist ripped out of the ice and gripped Red over the throat, "Gah, said I was sorry!"

Batman tossed Red out of the way before now tearing it to Ice. Kneeling down he held her up slightly, "You okay kid?"

She only held the wound and groaned. It was a deep stab and in the worst of places. Batman looked at the wound and his eyes dropped, "She's not going to make it."

"What?" Red realized what has happened and he let his eyes sink too. The sound of shifting and he looked to Madame, she was shaking her head of the fuzziness that last hit gave. A scream of rage soon followed with her fists tight as vices, Red was not able to ignore what happened since he left, the girl's dead or dying because he ran away, and luckily he had something to take his anger and disappointment out on. Red put up his palms making tons of beams each the symbol of an X. Red was nicked at first but she began to dodge the later blasts. Space was now gone between the two, Red leapt over her punch and pushed himself off her arm, to land a kick with aerobatic accuracy and finesse. She tumbled and he rolled under her legs, pushing up he hooked his legs under her arms and swung her back around so her head smashed to the ground. With her pinned Red thought he had a chance to use some more weapons, but her arms lurched and wrapped the fighter before pulling him up and in the air before dropping him like a sack of bad potatoes, but more force echoed the ground when they hit. Madame stood up to look at her work, but thousands of Xs began to spray all around her and glow across the ground. The Xs were glowing brighter, and brighter, she realized what happened only a second as the Xs blew up all around her. The ice and steam seemed to collect all around the air. Red stood a little stunned; his new supply was really strong.

"Ice, are you awake kid?" Red looked back seeing Batman still holding her. She was a little less upset, or less painful to look at. Red looked her in the eyes and something seemed to sink inside him, he lowered his head in shame. This was in a way his fault, or so he believed. If he hadn't left them before they attacked maybe, just maybe this wouldn't have happened. The two men were too preoccupied, because Madame was now silently stalking behind them. As she raised both hands over head they merge to make a mallet, high up it stretched, and before her momentous strike would hit the sudden ice covering her stopped her movement. Ice's hand glowed as she stopped Madame's attack; she then laid back into the hold of the dark knight with a smile. "It was such an interesting chance, to finally live the dream I had when first I heard. When the time came for the Justice League merging and now I too was able to become one of them if not but one day."

Batman held her tightly, though he knew nothing of her or who she was he knew she fought with him and a life is a life, it is always worth knowing and respecting. Her face was very tranquil, so much that as she smiled Red had to lower himself even more. Her head fell back in the dark knight's hold, not fast but more like a slow release. After that Batman laid her down and took off his cape he wrapped it around her body like a slight sleeping bag and then he stood to look over the way of noise "We best get moving."

"What about…"

"We don't have time to say prayers or remorse. We have to fight, she understood that."

A sudden blast of power and Starfire falls back hard, soon she's kicked in the ribs across the ice skidding to a halt. Darkseid laughs in the wake of her tortured frame, beaten and bloody she had so little left. He was wrong though, as she pushed slowly up she had more will, and courage than he could ever understand. Starfire put her shaky feet to the test while holding her weight and Darkseid readied his anger for another attack. The two red beams exit his eyes on her, but Star has glowed green from her eyes, hands, and now her body. The emerald sphere collected and caused the red blasts to shatter apart. Darkseid watched with the sound of a female scream echoing the terrain, next he's engulfed by the green orb and a massive explosion rackets the area. Ice and steam lifts to the air as the light is gone. Starfire stood taking deep breaths. When she saw a figure coming towards her she lost the breathing, her body slightly went still. Darkseid stood there, looking at her, and his eyes glow deep red. However, his knees buckle and his eyes close over. A thunderous slam is heard as Darkseid passes out right at Starfire's feet, and she smiles, she actually won.

As her body was overjoyed it seemed to lose power, she fell back into strong muscular arms. Red Star pulled her onto her feet but still held her "I am sorry it took me so long. The soldiers have pulled back completely." He looks to the battle field the two now demolished, "Your people are quite resilient, if not just yourself."

She smiled at the words of kindness. "Thank you," She was now noticing how close they were and it somewhat got her embarrassed. "Um, may we perhaps have more distance?"

"What?" Red Star then got the idea and had a little blush "Yes, sorry…" he stood her on her two feet and the two smile a little embarrassed, then the sound of rustling was the sign of the monster amoeba returning. The two get ready, but the monster was not able to attack. From its body sprout now two metal tentacles that were like worms squirming through its body, the amoeba began to buckle and roll about with someone on its back. The monster disappeared into the tentacles, causing the man to stand with his body glowing red before the energy dissipated in him. The man was a blonde haired man, with pale gray skin like it was not alive. His hair is styled in a pony while his eyes were red and unholy. From his hands came two metal tentacles that roll and wrap back into his arms. The man wore all red, with white boots at his feet differing the normally red style. His cheeks are bare of skin, showing now flesh but metallic diodes and devices. He now gave a stern glare of brows quite cold, and his head is with the bandanna of the Omega symbol. Red Star knew the man, the machine, the Russian WEAPON, called, "Omega Red? I thought they removed you from the project years ago!"

Omega Red gives a nod but his thoughts turn to the battle field. He saw now coming to them was Colossus and Kitten, leaving the dead Mikhail behind them. Madame is frozen, and Ice dead, but Batman and Red X were moving on the spot as well. Omega Red turns to the ship where soldiers were still prepared to fight so they move at the sign of Omega's fingers flicking them to come. The many soldiers carry guns and weapons, Darkseid is now conscious but not able to do more but push up off his knees. "Kill them, kill them all Omega!"

Omega Red did not heed those words; he instead asked "What are your demands?"

The heroes are lost for words, and Darkseid grabs Omega's ankle, "What are you doing! We can kill them all!"

"I had orders Darkseid, orders that overtake your own demands. Now that Mikhail is… well, he's not able to command. I figure since you're out of the loop, I could take this match myself. I'll take the battle in a more profitable direction to say the least." Omega now pulled his foot free and asked "What do you demand?"

Red Star looked to the ship, "Unload the people you took. I want them freed."

"I agree, except for one. Mikhail had a special interest in the girl called…"

"Illyana!" Colossus stomped a foot down, "Release Illyana! Or I will take her myself!"

Omega didn't give anything but a snarl, "I set my demand I want the girl in exchange for those people."

Colossus gave no indifference, he soon began a thunderous charge but Omega Red grabbed the large man's face tossing him with no effort. Colossus was on his back looking up to the man, or in his eyes monster, Omega Red. "How could you do that?"

"I absorbed that monster's power. It added to my strength, my powers, it made me stronger. Survival of the fittest little one that is what life in the tundra makes." Omega Red now looked to the heroes, "What I want now is you Red Star." The heroes got little looks of shock, "For your friends' safety I want you to come with us willingly and without any resistance. I would hate for another of your friends," he smirked to Ice, "to suffer for your cowardice."

"He will not fall for your attempts to bring his courage down. Friend Red Star is beyond such attempts!"

Red Star looked at Starfire so beat and tired, "No," She looked in shock, but he smiled, "It is quite alright. I will go with them in the promise you, your friends, and of course the people are left unharmed. It is my choice this time."

"It is the wrong choice! You must not allow yourself to just be taken! Please, you are my friend!"

He smiled to that, "It is out of our friendship I do this." He now looked up a little, "Also, if I'm not mistaken you said I was a coward. In a way I'm ready to stop being a coward and admit this time to be courageous."

"No!" Starfire lets her fists tighten and eyes glow, "I will not let you go! Not without a fight!"

The sudden change made Omega Red begin to ready for a fight, but she was just… gone? She was there and then she was gone! Omega Red lowered his confused fists; Red Star was loosing it, "Starfire!" He looked to the villains "What did you do with her?"

"Nothing! I'm not wasting anymore time!" Omega Red points his men to the heroes, "What will it be boy?"

Red Star looked on the men, his friends all in stances, and he smiles to Batman, "You," Batman looked at Red Star, "when you see Starfire tell her thank you, and I'm sure she'll find me again."

The group watched as Red Star walked along with the other villains, Darkseid screams in anger as they take him along. Omega Red nods, and with a grin he says "We'll meet again. I'm looking forward to it."

The ship is boarded and begins to leave, last few soldiers report inside as the heroes stand and watch it leave. Sabretooth, who has been unconscious, was found healing the wounds he sustained. When he woke, he had to listen to what happened. He was left with the final idea, they failed, and he hated failing… miserably…

Two screaming figures clash hard to one another, flaming bodies mixing in their strikes. Holocaust fired his arm as Sunfire boost his fists through the pouring heat. They were not like anything seen before it was a collection of fire and power to one spot. As they fought, the others were left with no words or thoughts. Sasami has been rushed away as earlier Holocaust seemed targeted on the young princess. Naota was the one getting her out of there, but soon he seemed reclusive. He felt strange; he heard this sound like thunder in his head. The sound was actually some kind of skating sound; he has a huge smile on his face as he takes the bat in hand. When he turned to Sasami who was watching the fight as they hide he raised the bat overhead. The swing would have taken Sasami's head clear off but the intervention of Haruko knocked Naota out cold, and her swing made Naota's ear suddenly pop out a 5" tall Lil' Slugger. Slugger looked up to Haruko, who glared as she stomped the monster into the ground. It disappeared in black mist under her foot, 'You can't kill me.' She heard in her ear as the mist passed, 'It was our deal; I'll live in all their minds.'

Haruko just snorted while flapping the smoke away. Sasami looked at the two a little worried, "Haruko?" The pink haired rocker looked over a little less pleased, but Sasami is upset so she let herself lighten up "The Jurai ships are never coming are they?"

"Probably not…" Haruko now squat down and pet Naota's hair, "I wish you came with me kid. Now I'm going to have to head on without you. I doubt I'll ever see you again." she whispers, "So I want you to know I love you, Naota-kun."

Sasami watches as Haruko called on her guitar over her one shoulder, soon the vespa came close behind her, "Hey, kid." Sasami looked up a little embarrassed, "Take care of Naota. I have to get a move on. Till we meet again see-ya… maybe."

Haruko revved her engine, but Sasami asked one more thing. "Do you… do you really love him?"

Haruko looked back and shrugged "I know one thing. I gave up on Atomsk for the kid, but now I think it's time I do something more. I can't be sure I love anything unless I can see what it is to give up the thing I love, to protect it."

The fight outside was heating up especially as these two fire beings let all their rage in full flame. Holocaust swung a club punch as Sunfire was flying mid air; he blocked the punch with a kick of one strong leg. Sunfire is able to kick the club off with his other leg and soon he creates a large fireball overhead before launching it. Holocaust dug his feet into the dirt; the ball of fire carries him back some distance but soon fails. The horrid visage of flaming skull now grinned darkly; Sunfire is only able to glare on more in his distaste of the monster he is fighting.

The two go on in bouts of fire and power, unaware were the heroes something lands outside the hiding spot Sasami was in. Nimrod, the mechanized monstrosity now returned from what mission he had. His scanners pick up on Sasami and he's now moving on in for the kill. A loud thwack and a vine split the earth in front of Nimrod's march. Perhaps he wasn't as unknown as he expected. The large machine turned its screen toward the well dressed fox-demon, Kurama, with a large thorny vine whip as his weapon he asks "Would you be looking for the girl as well?"

Nimrod is not too concerned so it looks back to where the girl is hiding, but now a short man with all black has appeared, Hiei, "He asked you a question tin man."

Following behind the short man now came two students, one with red hair and the other with short black hair, "Hiei, Kurama; you think we need to ask a monster like this if he's bad or not?"

The red head nods, "You're right Yurimeshi," Kuwibara creates a red flame sword with his aura, "You don't have to be a genius to tell that thing's bad news shorty."

Hiei looks to the red head and snaps "You know the weather up there could become the weather down here if you keep saying height-jokes!"

"Enough the both of you!" Yusuke Yurimeshi, the Spirit Detective now looked on the mechanized minion with a stern glare, "Worry about the problem at hand guys."

The group initialized their attack with screams, Hiei taking the first strike. He was short, but so much faster, his speed was almost like invisibility as he ran straight into the much larger machine to deliver slashes and gashes over the protective armor. He hopped back on his heel to plunge all his force forward, but Nimrod slapped the sword making Hiei spiral up in the air. Calculation of a master computer, Nimrod raised his wrist to blast a searing beam to the upside down Hiei's back. Hiei screams as he was pulsed along the wind into a large heap of debris. Kurama swung his trusty whip latching over the arm of Nimrod, right before it fired so he could veer the beam away from the fallen comrade. Kurama smiled in hid upper hand, but another hand upheld his vine tossing him over in a perfect arc like some Saturday morning cartoon, back and forth he's being flung overhead by superior strength with his own vine the tether. Yusuke, irritated at the sight of his teammate like a toy is infuriated, soon he collects a shinning light in his palm before forming it to a perfectly shaped ball. With a masterful swing, the ball spirals on Nimrod but Nimrod pulls the tether to now bring Kurama to gripping. With Kurama's legs in each hand Nimrod swung at the ball, it churns into Kurama's abdomen where it struck and caused pains of both power and force. Kurama wails like the banshee of Scottish lore as the ball was spinning into his skin now leaving welts with a fiery touch. The ball finally gave way and dissipated, Nimrod tossed Kurama away with no regard to some rubble off in the distance.

Hiei pushed out of his spot of debris to see Kurama slamming to the dirt, he also saw Kuwibara making around the monster. He got a little grin before following to the front again. This time Hiei used his speed not as an offence but more distractive. Keeping Nimrod's scanners on him, Hiei pulled the attention from Kuwibara who now had his sword ready, and was climbing up a large mound of junk with intent to defeat this opponent. Hiei's strikes were doing nothing to the mech and its massive healing ability, but soon enough he pulled back with a grin. Kuwibara has leapt off the heap and into Nimrod with his sword through the top of the robots being. While on top, Kuwibara screams for his sword to become a javelin, the javelin is now lengthened to pierce the ground anchoring the robot into the ground.

The three heroes are venting in mirth, Hiei a daring grin while Kuwibara screams with a little dance. Yusuke had to shake his head at how well that worked. However, the robot stepped down its one foot, and then it defiantly walked allowing the javelin to rip it's body in half through the back. The sight of seeing your enemy purposefully mutilate itself can be a killer of one's morale, but it's almost as hard as watching the thing mend the hole through its back while walking away. Yusuke charge his hand like before and fired his patented 'Spirit Gun' but when he did Nimrod raised a hand to now push off the ball with a pillar of light from its very palm. The two powers push off one getting the upper hand after the other. But eventually Yusuke's ball dies out and Nimrod stops firing, winning.

Sasami was lost in her fear while watching the machine walk on them. It stalked with no end in sight. When it seemed lost, Naota awoke to see Sasami shaking and his head burns. Well, it burns with a very familiar symbol. Tons of eyes now glow behind him and a set of fangs open up wide. Naota turned quickly to Canti, who was with a large giant mouth gaping inside Canti's chest. As Nimrod raised his hand blowing open a hole into the hiding place, a red glowing fist struck through the smoke and dust to strike Nimrod away in one powerful punch. Nimrod is flung onto its back; he slammed like a slab of granite his shoulders and body staying straight and firm as always with its stance.

While Nimrod stood up, a red colored Canti now stood holding Sasami with one arm. She is blushing when she realized what happened, the beam came on her but this figure blocked the force with its own hands then opened up the hole letting her out. It looks to her, pushes her off a little like 'time you sit over there, sweet.' It was now looking back on the Nimrod raising one hand up and taunting by a gesture of its fingers.

Nimrod flew in full force; pulling an arm back it mixed momentum and force to create optimum power. However, Canti kicked up and flipped over the punch briskly only grabbing the wrist to move Nimrod's direction down some, and as Canti spun in the air he tucked a leg inward to later swing full circle and bare a powerful kick to the back of Nimrod's center. The power of nimrod now added with Canti's repositioned move, and the extra spur of force, causing the robot to bare its whole front side into the dirt up heaving a nice sized trail as it went down. Canti landed in a spry little flip, soon from a kneel to a complete dominant stance. Nimrod stood slowly before turning about quickly and opening up tons of compartments with weapons and missiles, unloading all these extra components a spray of smoke soon covered Canti. Explosives crackle along the framework of the mechanized Canti, but in the end only smoke remained. Nimrod's scanners went off the scale, and it soon began to create a field of energy over its hands before firing. Canti was struck by the fields, they smack into his open palms causing the smoke to funnel from the two beams and out. Canti pushed off the two beams with shaking arms, straining the forces back with every fiber of his being. The end result is finally the powers breaking and Canti charging through the shattering energy.

Nimrod's schematics on the robot it did not completely understand, they did not fathom the forces in Canti's processes. These were human like qualities, and before it could understand the more unusual powers it was now being punched repeatedly with powerful flurries of fists. Canti now struck with its massive force to the robot's body. His strikes were not seen but their effects are heard with sickening metal-on-metal breaking sounds. Nimrod's body has now many inward dents that slowly began to dent out again. Canti leaped over a backwards swing to now grip his one fist, and pushing his elbow to the exposed back of Nimrod launched it across the ground horizontally. Canti wasn't done yet, he now ran in speed to drop under Nimrod and past him, stopping short he then kicked both feet up as Nimrod was straight over him launching the android's body into the sky fast and precise. Canti swung up his legs to jump off the ground then hopped back a couple spaces to prepare for one more strike. This time Canti's body let steam flow out vents, and its arms swing into the dirt to allow the machine to form some large cannon, soon creating several pillars of grey matter. The cannon charged, and fired off a solitary glowing orb towards Nimrod who now was stopping in the air. The ball flew through the clouds, dragging them to pieces the orb flew faster and higher. Nimrod started to only begin re-loading its last log those last few hits somehow were meant to shut the system down. It was a good thing, because only a second before the orb hits do Nimrod's face patterns glow, to see and define an attack. The attack, it goes through Nimrod's chest before swirling around like a boomerang towards the ground again and to Canti's cannon. Nimrod's systems now slowly shut back down and its form falls quickly down to the earth.

Canti has started to shut down the powerful transformation, scooting and strutting it looked around wildly before sprinting behind a large mound of rubble where it now squats and turns to the blue coloration, soon afterwards Canti seems relieved and Naota appears behind the rubble with flies swirling around him. Sasami screams in mirth as she runs to her savior, hugging Naota she squeals and hollers but she soon pulls away with a deathly ill look, "Naota, you smell bad!"

"Yeah… well, you go through a robot's system and we'll see how much you smell like roses."

Holocaust has a giant smile on his face while Sunfire fell to one knee, "What? No more surprises? All that massive power and umph is all gone?" Holocaust raised his cannon arm to give a little grim gleam, "I guess I'll just absorb you into my own stream, adding all that power to what I already had."

However, Nimrod crashes over Holocaust and Sunfire took it as a sign. It was like Mimi was still giving him her blessings, heavens prayers still called. He flew back before releasing a large blast of his power straight into the two. His flames kept searing heat boiling over the two bodies, but it was not until they caught more of the area that something happened. A large explosion caused several cave-ins, and Sunfire floated up higher as the ground sunk in. It seems the underground gas-lines were just so happen to be right here and Nimrod's massive crash caused one of these lines to rupture and cause the massive boom now crushing the two inside a surging inferno of burning gases, and atomic energy. Sunfire was not done he still collected a large ball into the air of fire making a huge brimstone and sulfur orb, napalm seemed to be the design of this long burning ball. He was making anything he could that would allow his power to cover the area for a long burning time. Sunfire flung the ball with all his might, but it was halted with a second ball of fire now smashing it back on him. Sunfire barely moved out of the way as storming from the flames glowing golden in rage, Holocaust stormed out on Sunfire, he also didn't look too happy…

Sunfire looked back on the monster with a slight snort, "Some dogs never know when to lie."

Holocaust made a massive swing, "I'll lie," he made another hellacious swing, "When you're," another swing missed, but Holocaust simply swung to stop part way and fire his gun to the gut of Sunfire, "Dead!" Holocaust's laughter now began to grow with his next stampede while Sunfire is rolling across the ground, quickly trying to go airborne as more flames licked at his heels, which were not his own.

While the two fire entities fought each other hero wondered if they should join in. Naota especially felt obligated, Mimi was his friend for a long time. When he came to a decision, he's halted by a feminine yelp, Ninamori to be exact. Naota, along with the others, turn to see Ninamori being held in mid air from an invisible assailant. "Damn it!" Naota cursed for this, "Who are you? What do you want?"

There is a low chuckle, Ninamori shakes with the laughter in her back, and the chuckle motions to be a hissing sound now. "You forgot me already?"

"Oh, it's him." Yusuke gains a snarl as he remembered the assailant, "The lizard man."

"I am Reptile! Learn my name and fear it!" Reptile lost his cool, but regaining the composure he once had now he growls lowly, adding, "I have only one desire. I seek the princess or rather princess Sasami of Jurai."

The incident gave way to a little dispute of words. Conan was less entangled to the words he found something else more interesting. His detective skills were many, and inspecting the way Ninamori's shirt is ruffled along with occasional re-ruffled portions her assailant was taller than her. Conan began to contemplate the possibility; he then looked around to find a piece of rubble relatively the size of a small soccer ball. He smirked; a sly little look came over his face before kneeling down and turning a knob on his shoe. As the fight began to escalate on how they wouldn't surrender Sasami, a loud crack is heard. A piece of rubble flew into the air above Ninamori, and the rubble broke to bits! Ninamori fell to the ground as Reptile's form became apparent with two eyes wide and in tears. He fell to the ground, hard, and soon everyone wondered what happened except one young detective who whistles innocently. His mind now clicked, no more gifts from his friend the professor… this new world is just so wrong.

Kuwibara as the most adventurous walked up to the body. "Looks dead," he knelt down and poked the body several times, "I think that piece of rubble smashed the things brains to bits."

Kuwibara heard a chuckle from the shortest member, Hiei. "You know something about brains? I'd ask for a second opinion but the only one here qualified is myself."

Kuwibara had a look of frustration, that short troll always had some remark. When he looked back he's greeted with a surging pain in the base of his neck. Reptile woke up and lunged his head, and fangs, into Kuwibara! It was too sudden to see, Reptile now dragged Kuwibara by the throat as the others were helpless. Yusuke tried to make a clear shot, but it was useless even when Reptile kicked them both up into Tokyo Tower scaffolding. Kuwibara creates his sword part way up adding also a swing, but a clawed hand breeches into the fleshy appendage before snapping it at the elbow, followed by a horrid scream from Kuwibara. The scream is silenced as Reptile removed his fangs to unhinge his jaw and pull back his fanged mouth, a lightning fast strike forward mimics that of a cobra but with the chomping power of the crocodile. The scream was ended, and soon one of the figures fell from the scaffolding…

Yusuke didn't believe it; or rather he didn't want to believe it! His knees gave under his own weight and the sound of tears came next. The tears were his. Kuwibara, the rival, the idiot, but most importantly the friend was… gone. "It's not… possible, is it?"

Reptile pulls back his arms with force glowing within his palms. The power escalates as he did this. Before he could unleash the attack someone phases through the scaffolding to reveal the Martian Man hunter. He rose up two fists circled around the other, and swung down on the back of Reptile. Reptile is knocked off guard and off the tower. His smashing to the ground is not alone, as Rouge now trailed the ground in a flying assault; Reptile is struck hard from this attack before slamming up into another collection of debris. The final part is of Beast Boy. He storms through with a gallop, first he's a hoarse but soon he turns to a rhinoceros. The rhino strikes a powerful ram into Reptile before the ninja can recuperate, he did however stop his flailing with kicking off a wall to the ground.

The ninja was not safe, not yet. Yusuke lost his dearest friend and he now readied to loose all he had. A powerful energy gathered in his one hand before being released. This blast could have decimated the still confused Reptile, but a flame wall deters the blast long enough for it to dissipate. Yusuke rolls his eyes, "Give me a damn break."

The look of two dead eyes, they come to Yusuke almost acknowledging the idea of a breaking the neck. Those eyes belonged to Scorpion, and as Reptile realized his surroundings AND partner in crime were here, it was a savage grin those fangs gave. "Things have just come to my favor, they have."

A battle soon ensued; each side was fierce in competition. Even with numbers the heroes could not seem to attain a sure advantage. Scorpion offered skills like none other and the sheer brutality of hell itself, while Reptile with support gave hindering attacks and cloaked through his knowledgeable ways the duo made awesome headway. Yusuke tried a blast of spirit energy, but another wall of fire followed with harpoon snagged the detective to a wall. Reptile worked his way around, disappearing he attacked the man hunter then turned with savage claws along Beast Boy's back. Scorpion next was in a flurry of punches with Hiei, until Ryouko tried to assist tossing bolts that Scorpion dodged, allowing to hit Hiei all over. Reptile noticed her attack so he tossed orbs of seismic power sending her down to the earth, he then started to toss the orbs everywhere as a bombardment of waves. Scorpion came into the act too as he launched flames along the ground in every direction. The two were devastating; they were teammates and skilled ones at that. Alone they did not seem so destructive but together they could be a living hell.

One would think things could not become worse. One would be wrong. Holocaust has bout with Sunfire for a while now. He soon realized he needed a definite victory but it seemed impossible. Sunfire would not submit he was not going to give in. Holocaust realized that and so he started looking for a way to win, any way. It was the sight of one of the mutants his mind recognized a strategy. Flapping up his arms and toppling the latest charge of Sunfire, Holocaust quickly began a charge towards the many other fighters. His sights were set on the one mutant called Pyro, and he didn't stop as he trampled and plowed through Tenchi, Ayeka, and even the fox demon Kurama. He screamed a battle cry, pulling back his club arm he swings as he fires. The punch connects to the startled Pyro's back and while Pyro is shattered his screams are deafening, his body also crackles as flames roll out from Holocaust's arm and over the boy's form. In moments Pyro is gone, absorbed into Holocaust.

It seems sort of simple, but simple can be very crafty. The power of Pyro is to manipulate flames, and Holocaust was a raging inferno. When the boy was absorbed Holocaust also made sure to absorb his powers. He can not absorb all mutant abilities but those similar to his own are susceptible. The new ability gave him a slight charge. "Yes, this will do just nicely!" he swung his club arm into the ground causing vents of heat to now begin jetting up.

Holocaust's golden glow intensified as lava began to siphon out of the dirt and form at his feet, raising him up to the air it collects more and more. The lava took shapes, four long legs covered in magma and flame now hardening to a blackened shell. There is a torso connected to the legs, with spines going across a flaming back, and the long whip like tail wags back and forth. The front is larger than the front as this quadruped was muscular in design, and three heads also had to fit on the things shoulders. It was a tri-headed dog monster of fire and brimstone the size of a large building just over 20 stories in length. This moment, the heroes seem pretty screwed.

The group had no real means of fighting something like THAT! Beast Boy even fell to his knees, he couldn't believe this! This was just, cheating! His eyes began to shake as he didn't know what to do or where to turn. However, his eyes close for a second and when he opened them up again he was not in Japan, he was gone, and he was in a strange cavernous tunnel with candles lining the walls. His view followed the tunnel along an excellently made floor of gold, pure gold! Beast Boy gave a little confused shift of his eyes left, right, left again, but when he looked up ahead his eyes grow huge and ears drop, "Whoa…"

This tunnel had some large blue and white shelled egg at its one end. That's when Beast Boy realized the tunnel was large enough for something to come out of that egg and probably go straight out of here. It may have been odd to see the egg but soon the sound of singing made him do a double take. Looking crazily, Beast Boy tried to find the women singing it sounds like maybe two of them. His full out wiggy-whacked mode kicks in as he looks down to find two women the size… of dolls! "Wha-wha-wha-WHAT?"

The two women were no more than maybe 5" or 6" tall, in matching pink flower outfits the two women smile as they sung a strange song. Beast Boy sits down to look at them suspiciously, reaching out an index to the two girls. He poked one and she stopped singing, the other stops screaming "Hey! Did your mother teach you no manners?"

"You're real aren't you?" The two girls nod, "It isn't a dream, is it?" The girls shake their heads no. "Um, did you bring me here?"

"Yes we did. We are the Cosmos, and you are the green changeling called Beast Boy." He nods with a grin, "We are the sisters of the mother earth. She is in danger, and so now we wish to awaken our protector. However, she will not wake until the time is right."

"Protector," Beast Boy blinks before looking up at the egg, "Oh you mean that thing?" The two, The Cosmos, nod as he now awed the egg. "Wow it must be some big protector."

"It is Mothra. She has still yet to awaken from her egg and then to surpass the larvae stage of her existence. Until she can do this she will be in a slumbered state." Beast Boy looked at the girls kind of confused, but they giggle and say "She will be sleeping for a while."

"Oh, well why didn't you say so?" He gave the toothy grin, to that the girls nod and began to sing, "Um, what am I here for?"

"Mothra can not leave but she knows the world needs help. She wishes to send you her power for you can act in the power of the beasts. She also wants you to pass a message to the other protector, the one Fate chose, the message of what sins allowed darkness to come."

Beast Boy is confused but the girls began to sing. The beat of their song now soon echoed the halls, and something else follows them, the beating of a heart? Beast Boy could sense the life within the egg now sending him some kind of knowledge. The knowledge was of its own being, and something else he did not believe. He could not help but be made sick; falling to his side he felt ill, "We caused it? We allowed it all to be?" Beast Boy shook his head as the fuzziness was lessening, "I have to tell Raven what the truth is."

The egg stops beating and the Cosmos cease singing, to which they offer Beast Boy a means home again, "You must leave and save your other friends. With the power of Mothra you will only be able to use it once. This is her gift to you, be strong with it."

Back in Japan, the hound Cerberus used breath of flame to scorch the landscape. Sunfire showed his power over flame by forcing most to extinguish before becoming too great, while Rogue took a more direct approach using her super strength and flight to strike the three heads. That did little to nothing except irritate the monster, Gambit even tried to toss his cards yet this also was no more than an irritant. Holocaust is perched at the center head giving orders; soon his mind is set back to the princesses who now were together, "Of course! Cerberus," The hound stops to listen, "burn those two to a cinder!"

The hound complies with flames licking its fangs, curling around its very lips. The flames now shoot forth but as they close on the now cringing sisters, a field of blue blocks the blast. The hound snarls, and Holocaust screams "This shit happens every time! Can't the bad guys just kill someone without a freaking last minute rescue?"

The rescuer is not any man, but the two girls turn to the sound of a screech and two large blue compounded insect like eyes now glowing. A large gale of wind shakes across the ground as some strange, humongous moth began to rise of the ground. Everyone is caught a little off guard, especially Holocaust who never saw a giant moth before like it just came out of the freaking blue… usually that's not something you can miss. The moth is now flying higher into the air, with fur over its body the moth had multiple colors, mostly a combination of greens and blacks. The wings were decorative in designs with the similar color schemes, it would seem the green moth was meant to be a different kind of coloration yet this was not a real moth, it was Beast Boy. He took the form of the creature in the egg. Beast Boy was borrowing the form of Mothra.

Mothra now swooped down brandishing a set of six small insect arms under its body, each with three clawed toes now slashing over the back of Cerberus before gripping tightly into the tail and dragging it along. Holocaust is flung off his mount before screaming in his fall "Kill it!"

Cerberus obeys; slamming all four paws to the ground the two are tugging one another. Cerberus had to swing up his tail and back down twice to flip off Mothra, letting the mother moth flap off dazed with twice the impact to the ground. Cerberus pull off its feet from the ground, then it rushed around to open fire of three separate heads. The fires swirl about trying to hit a target but not so lucky was the beast, Mothra was fully aware and began to elude the flame pillars with remarkable skill. In the air Mothra took to evasion, causing the fires to swish about along the sky in a mad attempt to strike the flyer. Mothra soon began to fly up into the sky where the clouds were, and this caused Cerberus to loose sight of his enemy. The sound of air rushing behind Cerberus alerted him, so he fell on his stomach allowing the moth to pass him, but he also charged his middle head to fire a direct hit over the back of the moth's form. Mothra smashed to the ground and peeled through several tall buildings, not to mention nearly killing the frazzled Holocaust who barely leapt from the speeding insect. Cerberus gave a howl of his one right head, and a snarl of the left head, the central one began to charge more flame as it now stalked toward the landing spot of Mothra. The sound a flapping and soon a gale flung up the dirt and dust. Cerberus fired his center head, but too late as Mothra began to fly into the sky again. This time Mothra began to create horrific gales pushing Cerberus farther back in each wave. The gales pushed Cerberus farther and farther, soon everyone noticed he was being pushed towards the waterway near by. Cerberus is at the edge of land when its flaming eyes pop wide, and soon it falls head over heals backwards with a loud yelping sound. The steam soon followed and continuous splattering came. After a while the sight of bubbling water subsided and the fire monster is gone. Beast Boy now lands and began to shrink to his human self, a big smile on his face.

That's when, he was gone. The group was just about to congratulate him but he just vanished! That was not the worst of it for this huge battle began to call the attention of many monsters, the Kagejin in the area now moved on their location. People who survived up till now were also running to the light thinking it was a rescue team which meant as the Kagejin closed in so did their victims. Tenchi had to be crazy; he opened out his sword creating the magical blade it held. When the monsters got closer he was going to fight them. There was a wave or a sea rather of the monsters. He could not seek victory, but he would find death. "We can't just die we have to fight." Tenchi then heard a familiar 'Merow' and he turned back to Sasami seeing the cat/rabbit looking from her back-pack, "Sasami! Ryo-ohki! She can transform into a spaceship!"

"What?" Sasami then slapped herself, "Oh right I forgot! Sorry Tenchi!" She grabbed the creature asking "Will you help us Ryo-ohki?"

"She doesn't have a choice!" Ryouko grabbed the creature and tossed it into the air where it started to bulge out with sharp jewel like appendages, creating a red circular sphere in the center of these protrusions. The ship now made the "Merow!" sound, and Ryouko flew into the sky to get it working, "See what I mean! That's my ship, she'll do what I tell her!" she teleported inside, and inside the ship she found two large diamonds she now grabbed and moved around. The ship was now flying a little but Ryouko had more to do, "Ryo-ohki! Start to fire into those things! We need to slow them down!" The ship complies as its protrusions glow on their tips crackling golden bolts to the ground, with that noise the creature makes coming soon after. "Okay, now to teleport the others on the ship." Ryouko began to look on several strange red orbs showing the battle field, when she saw Washu with her strange gun firing on the demons she tapped the orb to bring her onboard. Washu looked over, snapping, "What the hell took you so long?"

"Hey, shut up!" Washu now noticed the others weren't on, "Where's Sasami and Ayeka! Get them on here now!"

"I said," Ryouko just found Sasami with some small potato looking thing on his arm screaming, "Shut-up!" the next transport brought both Sasami and the potato creature. Sasami pulled it off and Ryouko blasted the creature absent mindedly, "Or else you're next Washu!"

"Okay, okay. I'm just worried those things will go after them being the Juraian Princesses and all."

Ryouko darted her eyes over the red jewels to find her other companion Ayeka. She found several Kagejin being flung into the air like dolls so she zoomed to find both Rogue with her fists and Gambit swinging a metal staff now fighting large hordes of demons. She gave a grin and teleported them both on board, "They helped us out may as well save them too."

Rogue heard that and growled, "You think?"

"She didn't mean nothing by it my petite she's just," Gambit gave a look as Ryouko narrowed her eyes a little upset, "how we say, a bitch."

"I can throw you off this ship!" She now fumed while teleporting Hiei onboard, "What is going…"

"Shut the hell up! I need to concentrate!" Ryouko looked more; she found no one else did they all… "Tenchi, where are you?"

To answer he was on the ground slicing up some nasty monsters. With each one that attacked him his training answered, he swung sword at all and slit them down the middle, or pretty darn close! It was when he heard a scream he panicked, looking back he saw the girl Ninamori with a monster latched to her arm. It was her size, and it had also two little arms that swing about but not useful similar to a T-rex, yet the body is situated like a tadpole with two legs. It's fangs were gnawing on her arm and Tenchi ran to help her. He was blocked from the save when a fireball burned in front of him, and there stood Scorpion now brandishing a katana sword with scorpion symbols and decoration. Tenchi wasn't impressed, till the sword caught a flame like his but more blood red, "Oh boy, not good."

As Tenchi stood firm Scorpion began to charge on him. A demon got in the ninja's way so he twirled and slashed it making the beast burn to ash and break in his wake, a really bad sign to Tenchi he REALLY wants to kill him. The young boy readied his blade to clang off Scorpion, however, he didn't have to when a third energy sword blocked Scorpion several steps away. Scorpion pulled back his strike to see Yusuke mimicking the late Kuwibara's spirit sword technique, but his was a blue aura while Kuwibara's would be more red. Yusuke had a look not much his own, it was a cold stare while his eyes, they almost glow golden, "Where is it?" Scorpion gave no change, he stood with sword in hand and sight of rage, "Where is the monster that killed my friend Kuwibara!"

Scorpion didn't answer that, he did answer another question. The question asked when Yusuke got in his way, he answered with a little cock of his head and taunting gesture of the sword. "You want to fight? Okay, let's fight!" Yusuke ran forward to clash the flame of his soul with the fires of Scorpion's hell, as they began Tenchi got bombarded by several demons; easily he slashed them to bits. He later saw Yusuke and Scorpion wavering through the mass of horror and death, so he decided two were better than one, "Hey! Wait for me!"

Scorpion noticed the change when two strikes came at him; he barely dodged the first few as his other hand began to burn. The two young men swung from above with a judgmental blow, yet their swords were now blocked with dual blades, and a dual set of matching hell swords. Scorpion pushed off the two swords, a mocking laugh echoes a moment after, then he began to slash and gash causing the two boys to dodge, block, or down right jump from horrid strikes. The two boys with a sword each had difficulty with the one skilled ninja, and his dual hellfire blades. The only thing that made this seem more even is the interception of two diagonal strikes intersecting the two boys, blocked by a large whip of thorns. Kurama was several feet away but his whip could grow to whatever length he wanted. A smile on his face he pulled back his whip and made a dash to his two friends. Scorpion gave a glare at them before running towards Tokyo tower; he leapt into the rafters and began to ascend them.

"What's he doing?" Tenchi was confused yet soon he's struck with realization, "We made him run away?"

"It's called a tactical retreat," Kurama grabbed Tenchi and flung his arms around his neck, "or a tactical redirection either way he's not done yet! We have to follow him!"

Scorpion swung his two swords together at the base; they merged to one staff with at each end a set of sharp fire katana blades. Then he positioned the staff in between two steel poles of the scaffolding, and leaning off his staff he hangs with two feet propping from more scaffolding, allowing in his free arm a large collection of flame over his arm. The three heroes stop to see it, and each has a special way of mouthing 'Oh… crap…' Scorpion began to swing his arm with no direction or cause, such in the area of the three. Each swing made a flaming orb come down on the heroes. Soon the fires would hit the ground; they shatter into more fires that catch the area around them. Cinders would shower and scorch the ground but the three got through quickly. Scorpion noticed they now leapt into the scaffolding so he relieves his arm of fire before quickly kicking out with his staff, going up no more but lunging into the deeper center of that level of scaffolding. The three finally get up to the level Scorpion was now hiding, Tenchi gets off of Kurama's back now that they weren't into speed he was good enough with his own balance. The three move along the iron and steel bars looking for the gold ninja. He's not there, but eventually he leaps down at the end of the scaffolding, screaming "SUCKERS!"

The next thing they know is each one ducks, and the lance is swishing over them tearing up the scaffolding in its wake. They barely escaped the weapon, it returns to Scorpion and he now charged his hands with flame to blast not them, but the areas above these separations. They realize he's trying to make the upper half fall into the lower half, with them inside! As the upper half is broke free, Kurama sped off to the other end. He now swung his whip while he fell snagging the very top of the tower, but he also began to glow a bright white turning from man to demon, a large spiritual fox demon to be precise. The tugging whip made the tower not fall directly down, but more angled it fell towards Kurama and lopsided it made a ramp from the others, to the ground. Scorpion looked at the saved two, and gave a little snort. He didn't expect this damn it! Either way it only added to the next mess, Scorpion charged the other two on the scaffolding and Tenchi screams "We're in trouble now!"

"You could say that a-." Actually, he couldn't because Scorpion began striking them both. With swings and spins, the dual sword staff made as much trouble as two swords. Kurama tried to get back as quick as he could but it's not easy, he turned to human again and it's a large tower to climb up even using the new "ramp". Scorpion swung his staff weapon, and it nearly dislocated Yusuke's arm from the blow. Yusuke tripped also in that blow leaving him in a really poor spot, one Scorpion tried to take advantage of. However, Tenchi is skilled in swordplay so he dropped in front to block. He pushed off the strike, and in another fast slash he broke the staff into two parts. Scorpion swung his one sword, then the next horizontally. Tenchi did a little duck, and then a slight swerve behind Scorpion to launch another slash. This one hit Scorpion's back, and a scream along with massive swing came to Tenchi. Tenchi blocked the sword and pushed off, also following his push a strike on the sword flung it to the ground. That's where the good luck ends; Scorpion roared up in anger and created a ball of fire with his now freed arm. The ball hit Tenchi off in some distance making him almost fall into the depths of the scaffolding down, but he is able to latch on by one hand to the steel braces and hang. He hears a thud above, and there is Scorpion with his hands raised and sword pointed down. Tenchi couldn't defend here without falling, he couldn't do anything. He didn't have to as a long whip circled Scorpion's hands, it now held the strike at bay courtesy of Kurama.

Scorpion looked at the whip, to Kurama, and in one sneer he touched the flames to the whip causing them to whirl off on the fox demon. Kurama released his weapon moments before the flames came on him, he's blinded a moment from the ferocity of heat, and that moment was enough for a drastic change. Kurama looked up to see Scorpion over head, hands both up but freed of the binding, readied with a falling slash of his sword. The strike is made, Kurama stood still a moment as the blade graced his form. As Kurama took an idle step back a line of fire separates down his middle front, and he whimpers, "Mother…"

Yusuke now watched as fires soon engulfed his friend. The red skeleton in the flames stood there a moment, but soon it fell on its knees and is booted off by Scorpion who turns away from his kill. The fire and bones fell down the tower turning to ash in mid air, and Yusuke is left with more pain, more sorrow. That was when Scorpion realized the sudden change in Yusuke, his body now glows with a light blue aura. When Yusuke is angry, he can get stronger but as his friends are hurt he becomes even stronger. Scorpion tried to block the incoming punch with the fire sword, but Yusuke let go the fist and it shattered the very sword! Scorpion is shocked, and soon the fists striking his body so fast they can not be seen were just as shocking. Scorpion tried to swing a punch but Yusuke was gone, he finds Yusuke behind him with two hands glowing, and a blast grows in the center of each hand. Scorpion is able to say one thing…

"Uh-oh!" and then the blast riddles through the scaffolding, taking with it Scorpion who is knocked through beams and then the dirt deep and hard. The strike lays them to the ground, and Yusuke let himself fall to his bottom with a smirk, "Got him… good… for you guys…" He then noticed the golden ninja is alive, but unconscious. He would have attacked again but there came Reptile, a smoke bomb in his hand he swung it down to disappear, with Scorpion. Yusuke gave a glare, a slight whimper, and then he was disappearing. Tenchi looked up to Reioh-oki and smiled as he too disappeared.

Ryouko wasn't done yet, she had four more to find, "Okay, where's the kid and his friend? Then the one with the robot?"

Tenchi looked on the orbs, "I don't know there's so many of these things now."

"Hold your horses!" Rogue fluttered in snapping, "We have to find Sunfire. He's important!"

"Huh?" Ryouko looked to see only a mess of demons and scared people being slaughtered "You see him fine! I can't waste too much more time. The shields are being drained by those things," She points to large insects with wings slamming into an invisible shield, "which will leave us defenseless if we're not careful!"

Ninamori pulled free of the jaw holding her arm, looking now to the tadpole looking demon now crushed under the Tokyo tower. She couldn't believe it fell on it and not her. Of course she also couldn't believe everything that has been happening. When one new creature caught the scent of blood Ninamori grimaced, it was a large black praying mantis with long sickle hands, but its head is the shape of a dark gray skull with mandibles bending round sharp fanged teeth. She screamed, and it soon took chase. As she tripped and it got over her, a bat flew up and hit the creature in the head making it stop, and sort of tilt over. Ninamori was crying but she looked over to the one who threw the bat, Naota. "Naota!" She ran to him, he grabbed her and whispered how he was sorry he lost her in the mess of monsters. She didn't care now that he was here. She looked back as the skull-mantis was starting to stir, but it turned its attention to a woman with three crazy starfish creatures laughing in a high pitched manner, chasing her they are joined by the skull-mantis. Naota now looked to find Conan he was looking madly and nearly being stomped. He's the smallest person as still a young child, so he's overlooked by the demons. Naota grabs Conan, and asks "Where's that girl you were with?"

"I don't…" They hear a scream, and look towards it they found Rachael fending off some random monsters. Conan found some rubble, and messing with the dial on his shoes he kicked off the debris as projectiles knocking the monsters all around, or leaving them dazed so Rachael could release some well timed kung-fu. It was then she disappeared, and Conan looked confused as soon Naota and Ninamori were also gone. He looked up to see the ship flying past him, and he screams "You idiots! You forgot me!" his eyes now go wide as something breathes on his neck. He looks back and there is a strange looking demon no taller than himself with four little legs bent like an insect, but its body is a round ball with a little lid over two eyes, it also had four little arms like a man with little knives, "Kee-hee-hee!" it screeched, and Conan wailed as he ran like mad. The creature's legs seem to flash about and it charges after, Conan screams and runs but the monster follows. The monster stops when a fire lands in front of it, and looking up the little monster squeaks that strange, "Kee-hee-hee!" before running backwards. Conan turned to Sunfire and smiled, "Thanks, you saved me."

Sunfire reached down with his arm bare from flames, latching Conan's arm he now flew up towards the ship. That was when a fireball passed him. A fierce rage came over Sunfire's face as he looked down, and Holocaust only points his arm out with a fierce smile, "It's not over flame-boy. I'll swallow your soul yet!"

"Perhaps," Sunfire is slowly fading with Conan sticking out his tongue and pulling down his eye-lid, "However, that time will be later. I still have much to do with my life."

When the two are gone, the ship 'Merows' and flies into the atmosphere towards outer space. Holocaust looked about, seeing people being slaughtered was the extent of what he accomplished. Reptile even popped up with the injured Scorpion, "The jurai princesses live, our hides, Akaige will have."

"Ah, he'll get over it. Besides," Holocaust started to fire on some civilians now getting the courage to fight, "what's the worst he can do?"

A lick of his lips and Reptile screams in a charge towards his next prey. Failure or not, sometimes you're only a failure if you let it get to you. The more psychotic you are, the more you find in life's little joys, like a massacre waiting to happen.

The ship is in space, Ryouko asks "Well, what now?"

Rogue offered her hand to Sunfire, "My name's Rouge," She looked quick to make sure her glove was on, and putting it on she offered again, "I was sent to see if you'll join up with the X-men."

"X-men?" Sunfire looked to his hand seeing it a flame; he soon extinguished it and offered his hand, "I will do all that I can. Though I doubt you would want my services."

"Are you pulling my leg? Sug, that little mess down there you did just dandy!" Rogue nods to the others, Gambit shrugged, but then it hits and he goes to offer a word yet J'onn spoke in his place, "You were an excellent help, and you saved the young one here." Gambit let his finger sort of sway knowing he got screwed out of a chance to prove worth Rogue's time… damn….

Ryouko looked back around, "I asked what now?"

Sunfire looked over with a shrug, "I don't know. Do you know Rogue?"

Rogue looked up to the others of her team, "Well, we're on a mission to get you to join the X-men, but I also heard about them girls from Jurai." Sasami and Ayeka nod, "So I guess we could go to the Watchtower and see what we can find out with helping them get back home."

Ayeka looked to Sasami, "It's better we separate then." Sasami now jumped, "I know it may seem odd my sister, but we are the hopes of our people and theirs. If we fail to gain support in this matter than many lives will be lost. If we separate ourselves that is double the chances one of us will make it to planet Jurai."

"Ayeka…" Sasami began to cry and Ayeka hugged her tightly, it was the most logical choice. Ryouko did what she figured was best, "Okay, I'll go to the tower but don't think that's it." She gave a grin to Tenchi, "I want to make the gold freak pay for trying to hurt my Tenchi."

"Your Tenchi!" Ayeka now glares death to the girl, "He's my lord Tenchi!"

This dispute began to grow, and sure enough Tenchi only falters to his knees as it happens. He now noticed Hiei and Yusuke, they both looked terrible. 'They lost two friends today, not too much time between each. That, and Yusuke's girlfriend was killed the poor guys. Maybe I could," he's now being tugged by the arms, 'Ah! Make it stop!'

Yusuke looked at his hands while he sat on the cold floor. He was tired and looking at those hands he remembered they are the hands of the man that let people he loved, die. That was when Hiei looked down, knowing he was blaming himself Hiei offered, "It's not your fault Yusuke. We knew what could happen when we agreed to help." Yusuke didn't change, "We made the choice so deal with it." Hiei now walked off angry, he couldn't do the whole blame game or stuff of the sort he's a warrior he's going to settle it on the battle field not here. Then came the idea they could say it was a victory, the princesses and Sunfire are here, but in some ways none can say it's a true victory for losses were had… even Gambit now thought of Pyro, and the monster Holocaust who took him. With that he brandished the ace of spades and charges it for a slight sparkle, "Mon ami, I'll see to your rights as my compadre, and my team mate."

Rogue glimpsed his actions and she walked over, asking, "Will you miss him a lot?"

"No, he was an ass." She now gave a look and he smirked, "Don't get me wrong, an ass or not he was my friend. So I will miss him, but I'll also see him again, someday."

Rogue now nods, and she felt J'onn behind her, "Yeah?"

"I wanted to inform you we're going to be at the Watchtower soon. I believe you are still the leader, therefore you should be the one to open communications."

"Alright," She walked over as Ryouko began to hail the Watchtower, some kid with no hair and a green suit asked "What's your problem, toe licker?"

"Wh- Hey! You little snot nosed," she's soon greeted by Green Lantern who pushed Gizmo out of the way, in the back Billy Numerous is doing some repairs on the walls while he turns and laughs, soon following a beam that knocks him off a ladder. "Did you get the mission done? Where's J'onn?"

"I am here. She also did achieve our mission." To that the princesses did a bow, and Sunfire bowed his head slightly.

"Um…" Green Lantern whispers trying to be nice, "You know he's on fire, right?"

"I am aware of my… condition, you know?" Sunfire gets a chuckle from the others as Lantern clears his throat. Gizmo has been tied up and three Billy boys were now swinging a hammer with a blindfold, like he's a piñata. "Um, okay. Well that's a great job." He frowns, "Sabretooth and his team got back thanks to Blink, she seemed to sense he was hurt, or something. They weren't so lucky, Starfire is also missing. She seemed to just have disappeared."

"Disappeared?" Rogue looked at J'onn frightful, "Beast Boy he saved us but soon poof, he was gone. Anyone else missing?"

"Actually, Jinx came back with three teenage girls, but Robin also disappeared. I suppose it's the Teen Titans, but who, or what is causing it; also, why the Teen Titans?"

New York, lost, desolate, and plagued with destruction. It is also the last place so many people rallied to save what they loved. Mr. Fantastic was now kissing his wife all over since she was safe, which the Invisible Woman had to go invisible to get him to stop, "I'm fine! Now back off Reed!"

"I'm sorry; it's just one second you seemed you were going to die, then the next you're here! Safe and sound thank to those people." Reed now turned his head to the group of people from that van. They were all gathered in the main room where people were getting around to talking about ideas. This room is shut-off from the main group of civilians; Reed walked in and asked "Who are all of you, anyhow?"

That's when the many questions came up. There were tons of them, so many that only through the screams of Spider-Man could they quiet down, "Well, that's better. Look we're thankful you helped, all of you, but we need to know just who you are. Some of you showed a little bit ago you're not normal people, so just who are you?"

That's when a big man in an orange jumpsuit popped up, he had slicked black hair with a little white, "Well, my name's Jack Fenton, I'm sure you heard of the fearless ghost fighter!" He made a little pose, but no one did anything, "Right… guess that's a no…" he wrapped an arm around a red head with a light blue jumpsuit on, goggles hang around her neck, "Oh, this here is my wife Maddie, she's the best ghost hunter too!"

"Wait…" Magneto looked at the two, pointing between them, "One of you has to be better than the other so who is it?"

"Um, we're a team so it doesn't matter. We're just both the best!"

Then some strange green creature floated above them, to which Jack screamed "GHOST!" and began blasting a gun with ooze, until the ghost squealed and flew through the floor, Maddie now stayed Jack's gun saying, "Honey, relax, that was just Slimer, remember? We met him earlier!"

"Huh… oh, yeah… the pet ghost." Magneto gave a glare as he's covered in goo, "That answers my question… in the worst possible way."

As Slimer began to reemerge that's when Jack aimed to fire, but now a man with white hair and red glasses in a blue jumpsuit smacked Jack's hands with a wooden cane, "Jack! I told you Slimer's my friend! Stop it already!"

Slimer flew behind the man in blue and began yammering in an unknown mess of spits and murmurs, "Oops, sorry Egon I just get all worked up with ghosts… I'm a ghost hunter you know."

"I know Jack," Egon rolled his eyes, "I know because that was why I called you to come to the old 'Ghost Busters' HQ, the firehouse." Egon turned to Reed and began to explain what happened.

It was relatively a normal scene of Egon preparing for the event, thanks to his assistant Janine a red haired lady with green framed glasses, in a striped top and green skirt. "So, how's this?" Egon looked up and he blushed, that's not what she's asking about, so looking up more he smiles, "Perfect Jeanine! It's really going to catch their attention." It was a banner saying 'Thanks for coming, Fenton Family!'

Janine slowly came down the ladder looking back, seeing his eyes wander she smiled "What you been looking at, Egon?"

"Wh-what," he coughed uneasily, "what are you implying?"

"Aw, nothing I know you'd never think about something like that." She stepped off the last step and gave a wink, he just blushed more knowing she had a thing for him but… he's often too shy. "So did those students of yours decide to come?"

"No, they were busy with teenage things. I really wish they did it might be good for them to know their not the only ones out there fighting ghosts."

Janine sighed as she tapped his shoulder lightly in a fist, "Pucker up, some times they need to be kids too. If they weren't, who knows what they would do with their lives."

Egon nods before a noise is heard, they turn to see a large van is rolling through the open firehouse door, and a blue man is floating in the air dodging beams and blasters, one even burns the banner. The man screams, "You shall never stop, The Box Ghost!" before he disappears through a wall. Now the door of the van opens wide, Jack Fenton screams, "One of these days Box Ghost, one of these days!"

Jack shook his fist where the ghost escaped, and he then turned to the puzzled Egon and Janine, "Oh, hi! I'm Jack Fenton," Maddie Fenton now was screaming out "One of these days, Box Ghost!" So Jack motions to her finishing, "and this is my wife Maddie! We're the Fentons!"

Egon kind of quirked a brow to the banner, then to Jack, "Uh, welcome. So I was wondering if you brought any new ghost hunting tech with you, we could share notes and…"

"Oh boy did I bring something!" Jack offered out some sort of squiggly green blob on a platter, Egon asked "Is it some sort of ectoplasmic mixture?"

"Nope, it's my wife's jello-mold! It's shaped like a ghost, and it has," he nudges Egon in the ribs, "little pieces of fruit. Can you believe the things these women make in the kitchen, oh man that's good eating!"

"Um, yes well," he took the plat to pass it over with Janine, she now talked with Maddie as the two men were going towards the desk. That was when someone else, a red headed teenage girl with a black sweater and green jeans stormed out, "I just wish this day would end!"

"Aw, come on Jazz! It's not that bad." Jazz Fenton gave a glare to her younger brother the black haired, blue eyed teen that now gave a weak smile, "Well, okay, we took a family trip to a place where they hunt ghosts… and you hate ghost trips with mom and dad, but at least we're out of school for a week!"

"Agh!" She now slapped her face, she liked school… sort of, "I hate this, my parents and brother are all embarrassing me!"

Danny gave a little side look while she went on her tangent, "Man, she's got to get a life." Now someone else came out of the van, another girl with black hair and clothes, netting on her legs and arms she obviously was a Goth, "Danny, she has a life your family just kind of, makes it suck."

"Oh, good one." Now a young teen came out with a pocket computer which he was checking on some music downloads with, "She's right Danny. I appreciate the fact they got us out of school, but could they try not to go crazy over ghosts for like, ten minutes?"

"I know it's a little embarrassing but…" Danny's lips now let a slight mist form out from them, "Uh-oh, ghost!" He looked around and saw some green ghost starting to eat the jell-o; Jack saw it and screamed, "Ghost!"

Egon turned as Jack pulled a chair overhead and swung, the slime ghost screamed as he was being chased, "Stop! That's Slimer!"

"Rargh, Ghost!" Jack didn't hear over his own chase, soon Slimer phases through a wall and Jack smacks hard into it, next Maddie pulls him up, "Jack, Egon has a pet ghost called Slimer, remember?"

Jack was dazed, Slimer returned and Jack saw him, to scream, "Ghost!"

It went again, this time Slimer flew through the table where Jack slammed through it with his chair, Slimer screams but is saved when Egon smacks Jack with his cane, "Ow, that thing hurts!"

"Stop scaring Slimer! He's a pet, well, and a friend too."

"…." Jack gave a little cock of his brow, "Really?" Egon nods, and Jack shrugs, "Ah, guess I can let it slide this once." He offers a hand and Slimer speaks in happy gibberish as he shakes Jack's hand, leaving a slimed hand. Jack gave a glare to the hand, then Slimer, "Urge to hunt… rising…"

Danny got a chuckle out of his dad's antics; soon he looked over to his two friends, "Tucker, Sam you want to check out the city?"

Tucker, the boy into technology kind of smiles "I'd love to man! This baby has a GPS, we couldn't get lost if we tried!"

"Could you try it out for me?" Sam had a little smirk as Tucker gave a not so amused glare, "Hey, I couldn't help it that's Goth nature man."

"Har, har, very funny."

Danny gave a little smile but now he noticed something else. Another ghost was floating through the firehouse, and when it noticed he saw it the thing turned invisible, but he could see it because of a certain secret. "Sam, Tucker you stay here I have some work to do." To that the two friends gave a nod and Danny ran behind the van, whispering, "Going ghost."

Soon a ring of energy rolled from Danny's waist up and down, changing his clothing to a black outfit with a DP on the chest, and white gloves along with boots and belt. His hair became snow white, and eyes glow green. He now flew out the wall the ghost did, and found it flying on the next building's roof. Danny flew onto the roof, and screamed "Okay, turn around and tell me what you're doing here!"

The ghost turned, and it screamed "AH! A Ghost!"

At this point, Magneto asks "What is a ghost doing, being afraid of another ghost?"

Jack also asked, "Also, how did that Ghost Kid and you switch places? Some sort of matter-switching thing?"

Maddie looked up and gave a slight grin, "Um, Danny and the ghost kid are the same Jack."

"What? That's just silly… now, ghost gerbils switching places with Danny and the phantom kid that makes perfect sense to me!"

Magneto snorts, "I bet it would."

"Hm?" Magneto blinked realizing it slipped, "Er, I mean, sure now let's get on with the story. What exactly happened boy?"

Danny looked up, "Well, Egon mentioned the meeting and all, I saw a ghost. The thing is I'm not really the best one to explain the ghost, how about he explains it?" Danny now turned to a 10 year old boy in a white T and with baggy pants, his eyes blink kind of surprised with their brownish gold color, he also had a strange watch on his wrist, I mean almost other worldly. "Me? I guess… well, the name's…"

"Ben! Stop picking your nose, it's so gross." A girl snapped she's his age and with green eyes, and short orange hair with a hair-snip at the part. She's looking in a scolding manner to Ben who now gave a glare as he hid his finger under the table. "What are you…?" She is wide eyed as the touch on her knee connects, "Ew! You just rubbed it on my leg!"

This girl is Gwen, she's his cousin. She wore a blue and white long sleeve shirt, with a blue kitten on the chest where it was actually white. She also wore khaki pants she now wiped of a snot stain thanks to Ben, "You're so immature!"

"I'm a kid! It's what we do, duh!" he gave a little snicker, "Well, the normal ones."

Gwen gave a glare of hate, and now a man's voice asks "Kids, what's going on back there?"

"Nothing Grandpa!" they answer in unison, a bad sign to Max, aka Grandpa. Max is a good hearted figure for the children, and offered the trip to their parents. During the trip, Ben found the watch called the Ominmatrix, and from there it only began to go weirder and weirder. Grandpa is a big man, build not chubby just big, and he wore a comfortable clothing of Hawaiian shirt with baggy pants. "Don't be rough housing kids, I'm driving and I need all the concentration I can get." Then he had a brainstorm, "Hey, Gwen, didn't you get a present from your parents?" She froze, and Grandpa also stopped the car. He frowned, and Gwen sat into a chair as Ben was blank, he didn't know what was wrong, "Guys? Something the matter?"

"No… nothing's the matter…" Gwen had a little tear on her cheek, "I'm just… going to get a little fresh air, okay?"

"Yeah okay Gwen." Grandpa opened the door, and as she stepped out he put a hand on her shoulder, "I didn't mean to…"

"It's okay. I'm glad we stopped to see them, it was nice." She now walked out to look about, seeing a hotdog vendor she took no time to go ahead and just see what he had, maybe he carried Tofu dogs… or maybe, he didn't…

"What's up with her?"

"Ben, sit down." Grandpa pat the chair next to him and Ben complied. Soon Grandpa sighed, looking at the mirror to see Gwen talking to the vendor, "You remember when we stopped to see Gwen's parents? They were arguing that day, so much you had to leave and go get in trouble… as Four-arms."

"Whoa, that was a huge bug monster, I had to do something!"

"I know Ben, and while you were gone they screamed something that Gwen heard and she, well, I think she wasn't supposed to."

Ben looked at Grandpa confused, noticing he's very upset. "What was it?"

"They let her on the vacation because; she's well… not supposed to know about their divorce."

"Divorce? You mean their getting divorced?"

"Yes Ben, their having a divorce. That wasn't the only thing it seems well, even I didn't know this but, Gwen may not be your cousin."

Ben just lost it; jumping out of the seat he screams "WHAT?"

"She's actually adopted, and worse yet her mother is going to take custody which means your uncle won't be her father, she won't be your cousin. This all means she's not family, to a certain degree. However, she's still your cousin in the sense she's been there for you, and we've all had some hard fought adventures, so try not to do something stupid."

"Okay grandpa." Ben nods, but he's more blown away she's not his cousin anymore. Weird, that was only the beginning of it. She now returned with a pretzel, "So, you're adopted and stuff? Is that it?"

Gwen gave a glare of shock he knew, until Grandpa slammed his head into the steering wheel, "Ben…"

"Grandpa? You told him?" She sighed, and Ben shrugged, "I guess it was going to happen sooner or later. What a pain in the butt."

"I know, so now she's here on a family trip when she's not even family anymore?"

That however, got less appreciation. Gwen dropped her pretzel and kind of started to sniffle, and Grandpa gave a very, VERY stern glare. Ben looked at his feet, "Uh, I guess that was a stupid thing?"

The next thing he knew he was outside the RV, and she was crying in the back. He frowned, but listened in as Grandpa tried to comfort her. 'I didn't mean anything; she's just a pain in my butt. I figured this was sort of payback, though, it was a bit on the meaner side seeing as we were through a lot… aw crap,' he frowned big time, 'I did act stupid even for me.'

"Gwen, it is okay he's just… being stupid, even for him!" 'I knew it…'

"No," Gwen wiped her tears as Grandpa sat on the bed, looking up she gave a smile "he's right I'm not family. That's what makes it harder." She sat up and put a pillow into her chest, hugging it she let her face sink in it to remove some tears, then looked up saying "I can't tell how to act anymore. Before, I was just another part of the family. More of this, a little of that and it never mattered as I'm family. Now who am I? I'm just some girl that was family, but turned out to be somebody else. Gwen is just somebody that doesn't even belong."

"Oh come off it," Grandpa shook his head with a smile, "you're my niece, and Ben's cousin. If you don't like that, you're still the smartest one here! Heck, Ben could never match you there kid."

They laughed, and Ben gave a death glare to the van, 'What's with all the stupid jokes? Man!'

"Thanks Grandpa but there's another problem. I really just don't know how to act around Ben anymore. Before, when we were cousins, I figured us fighting was okay. Now, what do I do?"

"If you didn't fight with him I'd have nothing fun to watch while we're on the road." She now giggled, and Grandpa stood up to give her a little ruffle of the hair, "See kid, you're family. When Ben gets back we'll make sure he understands too."

"Be sure to use small words, Grandpa." The two laugh, and that tore it Ben moved the dial of his watch snarling, "Screw them both!" he swung it down with his other hand turning to an ethereal creature, with no legs just mist for a lower body, and one large eye in the center of the spectral form, then two long arms that creep about as he now flew off.

He felt bad for what he said, and she didn't deserve to be treated like that, not really. Ben now floated along idly thinking of how he treated her. Soon, he realized he didn't even turn invisible, and that was when he meets with Danny…

"Oh, I get it!" Magneto swung his hand on his face, "Now, where were we before Danny?"

"Right, well let's see…

Ben 10 in his ghost form screams, "AH! A Ghost!"

"What? You're a ghost too… aren't you?"

Just then, Ben's chest begins glowing and he turns to a boy. Ben looked about, taking a little stance he warns, "I know, um, how to run away… and some little karate!"

"Hey, relax there kid!" Danny powered down and Ben blinked, "I won't tell if you don't tell, deal?"

"Whoa, another superhero kid? That's pretty cool. So what's your name, I'm Ben, and as a hero I go by Ben 10!"

"Oh, well my name's Danny Fenton, but my hero name is Danny Phantom."

Ben now raised a brow with a sly grin, "Not very creative are you?"

"Oh, and like Ben 10 is the biggest innovation in codenames?" the two give a little chuckle, Ben soon agrees to go with Danny to the firehouse, he didn't want to go back just yet. After the introductions things go normal. Jack and Egon left to return soon after, Egon explains he wanted to send the spirits in their containment unit back to the ghost world, and Jack opened the portal putting them back. Even Jack knew his job when it came to ghosts, so after that it became a sort of party. Jack still tried to hunt Slimer, but it would occur, after either Maddie or Egon got his attention, that Slimer was in fact not a bad ghost, "Yeah… but he is a ghost right?" Jack had a smile but the two gave no change, he frowns before tossing his gun, "Aw…"

Just then the room began to glow with lights and whistles, that wasn't part of the party. Egon knew what it meant and so did Janine, she already flipped a switch behind a picture and some purple field rolled around the firehouse. It was not something the others expected, especially as some kind of little earthquakes made cars go off and the ground shake. When the quakes end, many just look around stunned and in slight awe. "Okay, I may just be 10 and the youngest, but that's not supposed to happen is it?"

"No," Egon looked on his computer at the small desk, "what happened was a large collection of paranormal energy soon followed by a release on the surface. I believe something has happened and it was not supposed to happen."

Now Janine screams, "Egon! There's some… things outside!"

"Things?" Danny now looked out a window to watch black and purple mist rolling off what seemed to be men, but more and more showed up outside in craters not looking like men at all. "Oh, I see what she means by things."

Egon looked out and saw many more creatures begin to move and stir, the mist dissipates to reveal grotesque abominations, "Oh my… Janine, we're going to need some proton packs!"

Jack screams to Egon, "Who cares about that how do we get out of here? The children are in danger!"

"Where would we even go?" Janine asked with more worry, now she carried some packs out and placed them on the ground. Ben looked up, and he raised a brow, "Wait a second… what if…" He smiled wide, "Hey! I know, the Baxter Building!" The group looked to the boy and he slammed a fist in emphasis of his thought, "My Grandpa Max read in the Daily Bugle or whatever, you know the paper that's always taking pictures of Spider-man!" They nod, "Well, something bad is supposed to happen and if it did, which I think it did, everyone is supposed to go to the Baxter Building, the one with the giant 4! We should all go there!" He also gave a worried look outside, "I know they would head there maybe I'll find them okay."

It was the best idea so Egon looked at the Ecto-1, their car. He frowned it was no kind of tank… but the other one the Fenton family drove was a ghost-busting tank. With armored plating, an array of weapons, Egon gave a little grin before asking "Who has the keys?"

"You want to drive that baby; oh no that's the Fenton-mobile! Only I drive it!" Egon shrugs before asking, "Will you drive us out of here?"

"Well… yeah, of course! Hop on in boys!" The group piled in but Jack points to Slimer, "If you slime the seats up, I swear I'll hunt you like a… like a… dog ghost! Yeah," He nods with a smile, "That's a good one. I should write that down or something!"

Inside, Jack turns the key and it revs up, but stops. Jack smiles back to everyone, "You know it's the oddest thing but I think I forgot to fill the gas tank this morning?"

After filling the tank, they try again, and this time it worked! The doors to the firehouse open and the car peels off knocking stalled demons out of the way, along with blasting any that seemed a threat. Their peeling rubber alright, but when some large beetle man creature stopped them it seemed a little bit, well, not so good. The beetle hissed and soon began to chase the van as it barreled off like it was some other kind of van, "Whoa, he really hates this van!"

Egon saw an entrance to the subway and he snaps "Take the subway! We can leave off into he sewers there!"

"The sewers? Why do we want to go in the sewers?"

"We need to regroup for a second, try to think of the best way to the Baxter Building. Maybe we can use a subway map." They are already in the subway, and Tucker pops in with his computer, "I have a GPS if you want."

"Oh…" Egon looks over and takes it, "Well, since we're here I guess the sewers are not a bad idea." Then the sound of the large beetle demon soon got Egon to scream, "The sewers!"

When they were inside the sewers, the creature did not follow. Perhaps the smells caused its senses to loose effect, or something of a similar situation. Either way it kept it back like Egon expected and so this gave them the time to start looking into alternatives, and ways to get inside or at the Baxter Building. So eventually, while they were waiting in these sewers something is bound to happen. What? Well, the something is the appearance of…

"Like us dudes!" This next figure was man in shape, but reptilian in features. His turtle shell is of his own body, while with his face the mask with orange color circled his eyes. He also had a belt, with nun-chukka, and an M symbol as the buckle. With him were two more reptilian creatures, one is wearing a purple variation of the mask with a D buckle; the other wore red with an R buckle. The D turtle has a long staff type weapon, while the R turtle had two weapons, three edged pronged hand daggers of the sort. This group of reptiles also had another; he however was not with them. He was in all black, aside from the metallic armor riddled with sharp edges and blades. His eyes look off to the mutants, and those eyes of red almost demonic hate seem to glow in the rage building in his blood. He wore over his head a mempo mask along the jaw and helmet with three long blades retracting back, his name is soon revealed as "Yo, Shred-head, why don't you chill out we made it to safety!"

"Why you insolent!" This man of sharp edges stomped his foot hard to the ground, "I swear to you freaks, not today, but some day." He walked up to he mutant with the M, "I shall dine on turtle soup…"

"Ew, man that's just nasty." The M turtle looked to the R turtle, "Ralph, maybe we should have left him behind."

"Don't look at me Michelangelo, Don and the others though he could help out. Of course, it seems we found more trouble than good because of this jerk!"

Shredder now gave his wrathful glare to Raphael, "It's not my fault your "family", has been unable to survive the massacres."

In the sewers some time before, the earthquakes caused incredible instabilities. One of them was so great that five subterranean dwellers moved out of their home to see what happened, but only after some time passed when they all began. They were the turtles, with them a large rodent man with a walking stick and another is a blue wearing turtle with an L on his buckle. The family unit was of four teenage turtles, and their father or sensei, the rat. "Leonardo," The rat spoke in sagely words, "Keep you and your brothers together, I must see something." His nose was picking up scents. Scents he did not like. Leonardo gave a nod as the rat walked over to a ladder leading to the surface. "Master Splinter said to wait here, so we will."

"Gee, great job as leader, Leo." Raphael was soon given a stern look but he ignored it, now slopping on a wall of the sewer he heard noises coming through the tunnels. One of them he soon recognized, as Shredder, "What are they doing here?"

Shredder, with his blades over his arms drenched in blood screamed to the ninjas with him, "Move it you fools! Those freaks are on our tails!" he looked back, and three of his remaining 7 ninja suddenly fell under the water, "Blast it! We can't keep running!" Shredder swung about with his blades glistening; soon the others look to him and try to mimic his confidence. It wasn't confidence; he'd just rather die trying to kill whatever is trying to kill him.

That was when it happened; the thing chasing them came from the water. It was a long worm like abomination with one large eye opening with three layers of eyelids. It had a set of fangs hanging in a slacked jaw below the eye, with drool now dripping and mixing with the sewage as it groaned a deep gurgling sound. As it stretched out its upper body, soon several tentacles began to extend along its sides and swaying slowly about. "Filthy…" Shredder made a swing as one tentacle came upon him in speed unfathomable, but not unpredictable. It groaned loudly with the lost limb, soon its others were beginning to swish about after the various ninja and with each limb cut it only grew back again. The beast groaned, and this time the detached limbs began to squiggle and form little heads at their tips. The heads were similar to its own and they swam towards the ninjas and Shredder, before they could react. The new little serpents surrounded them in death grips, soon their arms and bodies are bound but Shredder is able to break free since his body is covered by blades. The ninjas scream for him to help, but he snarls as he runs through the waist deep waters with their shrill screams echoing his escape. "It's better to be alive, than a dead fool!"

This was where the turtles began their own interest pulling up weapons, Leonardo with two katana swords screamed "What are you doing here Shredder?"

"Out of my way freaks! I am going to put as much distance between me and it as possible!"

The turtles now saw the creature, and soon it was finished with the ninjas it looked to them. Leo gave the order to attack, and they did. It swung the limbs, and tried to strike but all is as before. Limbs were cut off, and regenerate making more creatures. This time however, Raphael made a change as he flipped his dagger like weapon in hand, holding the central tip's edge he flung it and into the monster's eye. It screams in a loud shrill shriek, before seceding into the waters as its little tentacle creatures began to squirm with similar screams and die. A little bit of mirth and they all start speaking in celebrative slang, Shredder has stopped his retreat to look back surprised, "I could have done that…"

"Yeah, but you didn't!" Raphael struts over to the dead monster's eye and pulled his weapon out, twirling it he poses adding "That's why we're the good guys, and we always win."

Just then the monster reared up with wide spread jaws, the sudden flash and its head is separated from the body. There stood Leonardo with two katana still dripping of the monster, and he turned to add "You know the rules! Always expect the unexpected."

Raphael gave his look, but soon it's replaced with fear as Leonardo fell over screaming, a large gash in the back of his shell some shadow jumped off from his last attack, rebound off a wall, and put distance back between the turtles, Shredder, and himself. The shadow was in fact Dead Man, and he held his own katana blade with a little line of blood over it. "Whoa, thought I'd slice through that thing. Must be a little harder than I thought, next time a nut-cracker perhaps?"

Leonardo stood up as his brothers all crowded, asking him if he's okay. Leo nods to step forward, asking, "Where did you come from?"

"That manhole." They looked to the manhole Splinter had taken, "You know it's a good thing I was in the area, I mean, the size of the rats in this city!" The teens look back wide eyed, "You can't have things like that roaming around it's just unsanitary!"

"That was master Splinter!" Raphael snarled with disgust, rage, "What did you do to him?"

"Ah, the rat, so it has a name? Or rather, it had a name."

"You lie!"

Dead Man had to raise his head to show the smile on his burned face, "Do I?"

There is slightly a change in the teens, Leonardo gave a look to his brothers and screamed as he charged forward, and tagging his blades to Dead Man's one he began to order, "Get out of here! Find somewhere safe! I'll meet with you, promise!"

"Are you crazy?" Raphael began to ready his weapons as did the others, but Leo snapped "That's an order! I'm in charge, go now! Take Shredder with you!"

Raphael looked to Shredder, and screamed "No way! I vote he's on his own."

"Well I vote he goes, now go!" To that Shredder was given no choice when the other two began to leave. Soon Raphael followed in a snarl, and Leonardo gave a little grin after tagging blades again to pull back away, "You're going to pay for what you did!"

"Ooh, I'm shaking in my boots!" Dead Man swung his sword and it shattered the other Katana, now both have but one sword. "You don't know just how bad you got yourself in freak."

Shredder and the turtles were now slowing down after half an hour of running perhaps passed, if not more. He screamed "I hate this accursed city, along with these accursed sewers!" He wadded towards the wall to prop himself up, "I also hate you accursed freaks!"

"Yeah, well the feelings mutual bucket head!" Raphael looked up to now notice a van parked near by, "Whoa, what's that doing down here?"

Michelangelo gave a big grin, "Please be a lost Pizza van!"

Don, he was looking as he walked around it, "Wow, this is some tight stuff. The armor is reinforced, also covered in a polyhedral glaze. These turrets, they seem to be designed with multiple mannerisms for combat. I never saw something so high-tech!"

Shredder didn't care, he knocked on the door to have Jack pop out, and look up to Shredder's eyes, "… Oh boy, honey, you think this is a ghost?"

Shredder graced his claws before his face, they shined in the lights of the van's internal machines, "No, but you could be if I'm not in that dry, warm van in about five seconds."

Jack gave a little gulp, and stepped back as Shredder walked in to be viewed in some serious stares. The turtles also came in, but somehow it was the blade covered psycho they were more worried over. Ben even asked, "Those things come with directions?"

"Yes," Shredder leaned down to cause the young boy to look on in his own courageous glare, to which Shredder seemed to gleam his eyes a little at the sight of such a young boy willing to not give in to the sheer presence of this man. "The directions are quite simple. Stay out of my way, and you may live."

"I bet." Ben did move as Shredder sat down next to him it was not like he was scared, but those things seem sharp… and painful.

The van soon begins to give those introductions, Don got into a talk with Tucker about his mini-computer, and Don showed off his communicator he made from scrap parts. Raphael got into it with Ben and Danny; they talked about their little bits of fighting know-how. Michelangelo tried to cheer up the adults with some humor, but they got more worried with the impending doom up ahead at Baxter Building. Shredder didn't give anyone the time of day; Jazz did look at him but quickly went to ignoring him. Then, Sam also tried to ask if he's into heavy metal or something, to which he growled lowly and she got the vibe he was just into sharp objects… really, sharp objects.

While it seemed to group got situated, the sound of fighting breaks outside. Here was the appearance of Dante, the rescue, and soon the present situation…

"That took some time." Magneto rubbed his forehead taking in everything. "It's still good to have more capable support. Ben," Magneto watched the 10 year old hop off a table, "You lost your family. If they survived I'm sure they'll be in the commons area you should go and try to find them. If you'd like I could have someone go with you."

"Gee, thanks! I was so caught up in everything I forgot!" He ran through the door and Danny is mentioned to going along, a chance to see Sam and Tucker while they were outside too. Soon Shredder gave a look among the room, "I'm guessing we sent them out to talk about the next problem. Or rather, how we're all going to die?"

Reed looked a bit more sour now, "Well he's right. The boys weren't supposed to be here for the news we're talking about. We have very few options to defending the building, and even with all these powerful people fighting that won't change our odds enough. They have an army; we have some people with families and only a handful of those with the power to fight. In the end, we can't win."

"We need a measure of escape." Magneto stated that like no one knew, but they did, it just seemed no one had a way of actually committing it. Shredder now a little upset with such a stupid statement opened the door ready to leave, however, he then heard the large video screen in this room's one wall spark on. Its image began to clear up, showing the mad man in iron armor and mask, with a green hooded cloak and vest. "Greetings, Reed my old friend. It has been quite the night has it not?"

"Victor…" Reed had to let the sheer fathom of disgust ring in his voice, of all enemies Victor Von Doom is the most recognized in the entire world, even beyond Lex Luthor in some respects. "That's Dr. Victor Von Doom, my old friend."

"What the hell do you want Victor? We're not interested in your ridicule if that's what you're here for."

"I'm not so petty my friend. In fact, I came to first mention that these monsters that fell from the sky have been drawn back from Latveiria's borders." This caused some surprise, but Doom's eyes within the masked face became a little distasteful, "Don't everyone believe me at once."

Magneto nods to Doom, "It's not that we don't believe you we merely find it odd."

"Actually, most areas were not carpeted highly like you own. It seems the creatures, what ever they are, do not have a full understanding of our world and just who is to be worried over. They now learned that I'm not a man to be trifled with, me or my Mechanical Men." To that two mechanized men stood at each side of Doom, similar in his face but more over the body is robotic with distorted armored forms.

"They get uglier and uglier." The Thing had been quiet; he's a fighter not a planner. Then again, he and Doom were never good friends.

"My, that was drool even for you Benjamin."

"Aw, you just bring it out of me, Vic."

Reed got irritated in the talk, so he snaps "Damn it Victor! What do you want?"

Victor Von Doom now seemed a little less pleased, but h let his fingers rest onto tip for tip of each hand, and looking out above them he seemed to partake the role of ruler and tyrant once more. "Reed, we're in a war. These things have no plans to simply negotiate, not yet for they still have an advantage. We must not allow them to keep hold of their advantage. Right now, they see you all quivering like frightened dogs and it excites them more. I know, for I often am the one watching my enemies quiver. These things certainly would be my prime choice for allies, yet their more intriguing adversaries." Victor shifts his weight to let his hand out to Reed, "I'm offering the one thing I never offer, for now this is not an enemy of mine or yours, it is ours. I am on a direct course with a large arsenal and collective of Mechanical Men, as well I have intercepted a relay from ships of the 'Tameranian Fleet' in our orbit. When my ships begin the attack, these other ships will load up your refugees for escape. I found the leader of this fleet, Galfore, very hospitable. He seems to have a daughter on this world, of all things."

"I don't get it. This isn't your style Doom. What's the catch?"

Victor sort of seemed put out, he turned in his throne and it too swiveled away, his side profile is given but he tilt his head to the screen, "Survival. That is my way, and my curse. You should have known that by now my friend. I always survive, and if you died what would the world be, for Doctor Victor Von Doom?"

Reed sort of had a little smirk, "Now that, that sounds like you Victor."

"Indeed, well till then try not to get yourselves killed. I mean it," His eyes seemed to shift to Susan Richards, "it would be a shame if you were killed before I was ready, to see it."

Susan, knowing his look was on her now gave a slight nod, "Thank you Victor. We really could use the help."

Victor Von Doom lowered his head, but soon it turned to a nod. "Yes, it is a pleasure. I hope to see all of you safe." His view came to Magneto, "As I also can't wait to meet the legendary Magnus, to see you here with humans."

"The world has changed greatly Victor. My old adversary, Charles, has passed on and left the X-men in my charge." Magnus could tell it was a shock even to Doom, Storm walked to Magneto's side and Doom gave another nod, "Interesting, so this may just be the damned end of the world. No surprises, after all I'm going to work with that walking quarry of asphalt."

Before The Thing could yell something the screen went dead, "Why that… I hate him, so much!"

The screen came back on, and this time it was Green Lantern, "Come in, this is the Justice League! We have an emergency!"

Danny didn't have to waste time finding Sam and Tucker. They were waiting outside for him, but Ben had to look through the crowds.

He screams for them, both Grandpa and Gwen. It wasn't like he was worried… well; okay he was a little worried. They were out of his reach because he had to act like a jerk. Then again, it wasn't his entire fault… okay, it was his fault. Ben just now worried over their well being, if they made it okay, if they were even here, or if…

"Ben!" Ben swung about to have Gwen snatching him around the neck in a hug, he blushed from that one. It was then the strong arms of Grandpa Max swinging them both up in the air and hugging them both. They giggled, Grandpa just laughed, and soon the three were overjoyed to know the other is safe. Letting them down, Ben rubbed his neck as he looked on Gwen's feet, "Gwen, about earlier I'm sorry I…"

"You can't help it, you're you." Ben looked up kind of angry, but the tears in her eyes made him realize it's not some insult. "Thanks… but I really am sorry."

Grandpa rustled Ben's hair saying "Kids, they seem to be planning to kill me. Gwen wanted to make a search for you when things got rough."

"She did?" Ben was sort of surprised, "Even after what I said, and the way I acted?"

"Well duh! You're my family, even if I'm not genuinely a member I won't forget what we went through. Family is what it is, family."

Ben looked blankly at her, but a sly smile he says "You're just happy you didn't get me killed."

"What?" She was going to start fuming, but his smile and she sighed, "You know what, you really irritate me."

The three start to banter off with what happened. To the window is Spider-man who has seemed very silent in all that has happened. He's just thinking over all that will happen soon. "It's going to happen soon. Whatever it is, it's going to be soon."

"Poor web slinger, still upset over your pathetic futility?"

Spider-man now saw Venom, where the hell has he been? It didn't matter; this was going to be it. "So you made it. I guess better late than never."

"Don't count us short Spider. This group of misfits may pull off a miracle still."

"Why do you say that?" Spider-man heard the laughter of those children with their Grandpa, and Venom answers, "We offered hope. The article brought those who want to survive here, and now they must hold their hopes. That is their responsibility for the power of life, the hope it will become more."

Spider-man looked over to him and seemed to chuckle, "You're so gay."

"You cursed Spider, argh!"

They began to laugh, and that is when Husk, the young mutant the X-men looked for came running up, "Excuse me, do you know where Cyborg is? He was right here and one minute he's just… vanished!"

Spider-man gave a puzzled look, "You mean he got lost in the crowds?"

"No, he literally disappeared."

"What?" Spider-man opened a connection to Mr. Fantastic, "Reed, Cyborg just disappeared."

Reed looked up to the screen, and Green Lantern lowered his head, "We know Spider-man it seems all the Teen Titans have disappeared. We don't know why, but perhaps it has some importance to why one of them is being trained."

"Huh? Being trained, by who?"

"It is complicated but we're sure it's nothing bad. For now we can only wait." Reed closed the connection and sternly asked Lantern "Was there anything else you wanted to warn us of?"

"No…" Lantern lowered his head, "I'm sorry."

In his camp Akaige stood before a large flaming ring, in it is Trigon sitting in a throne. The two were talking before, but recently the answer to a question got Akaige to look stunned. Trigon shrugs, and closes the portal. To that Akaige stood still, and then his eyes glow bright and he roars forth "Cowardly dog!"

Gaikotsu sighed as he pulled out the chair for Akaige, "I figured he'd say no. He feels he did enough letting you in the drivers seat. He's more worried about his false sense of power than the destruction and mayhem you want my lord." Gaikotsu watched as Akaige sat down in the throne, "At least Shao Khan sent reinforcements. That, and Darkseid sent a message they have the necessary components, Ultron snagged that Professor Utonium, and Japan is completely cleared out… although the princesses did escape…" Gaikotsu coughs, but looks for another bright angle, "Oh! I know! That Orochimaru guy! He's going to send on of his demons to assist in our plans! I bet that cheers you up, huh?"

Akaige moves from the camp letting himself growl lowly, "I'm more irritated from something earlier. The realization came to me that…" Akaige looked to the Baxter Building, and he gave a little growl again. Now he walked out from the tent towards the areas outside the city. He soon began to grow his cape wings and flapped off, putting distance between him and the others.

It was then as he flew something caused him to hit the ground. It was an orb of black and purple energy; he soon flung about the ground as the energy shocked and tossed over him. Floating down is a woman with dark black hair; here eyes are blackness and nothing else. She wore an all black dress, and her veins bulge with black color. Akaige stood up, a little bit annoyed he snaps, "Witch, you think you're a match for me?"

"You killed Buffy, Xander, and even Giles. You killed them all!"

Akaige didn't seem too thrilled, so when she fired off bolts from open palms he blocked with his claw arm. That is when he hears another collection of energy coming from above; he swung out his sword to block the bolts with his other arm. This next fighter is the black hero teen, Static Shock. He's rolling down with a glowing board. Akaige now noticed more of a sound, from his front. There is a white blur zooming at him with red, wait, a red cape… with an S? "I thought I…" the blur smashed Akaige in the chest and tore him across the ground, before it pulled off and floats to the air with the other two. This one is a white dog with a red cape and the S-Superman symbol. Akaige got up and now shook his head, "This is just pathetic. A witch, oversized battery, and some flea ridden Super-dog all think they can stop me now? What's next, please, I'm dying of anticipation."

In the answer was the sound of a string being plucked, from an acoustic guitar? Akaige looked back over his shoulder to see sitting on her golden Vespa, with her red guitar, and her eyes coldly scowling at Akaige is Haruko.

The titans, Robin, Beast Boy, Cyborg, and Starfire are surrounded by black nothingness and a single light shines down from overhead, leaving an area they can see. Robin looks over to the others, "Um… what's going on? I remember being here, but then… I couldn't seem to do anything."

"Yes, it was puzzling as I wished to tell you the joys of seeing you, yet I was unable to function through movement and action."

Cyborg slaps his face, "Aw man, I was so hitting it off with that Paige girl! She has the hots for me, I know it!"

Beast Boy gave a little smirk, nudging his friend, "You probably got saved from being embarrassed or something."

"Danger," The teens make to stances, but the appearance of Time Trapper and they lessen the worried looks, him in the long purple robe. "I apologize for distorting you from time but a mess has become very problematic. I need you all to help me."

"What?" Robin now noticed more figures; all are in robes of black with large scythes. One was with him a young girl with a deep-penetrating scowl, and a boy with a rather large round nose. The next one wore a golden necklace of a skull, and had baggy purple pants and armor over the chest. Another held a beer, and downed it to only have the alcohol roll out and under his cloak. The other one they saw was not in black, she was in fact in a purple kimono with an oar she was riding. "Um, what's going on?"

The figures in black remove their hoods, thus allowing their skulls to be apparent. The one with the two kids spoke in a Jamaican type of accent, "Do not be afraid, child, we be the Reapers of Souls. From many a world and reality, we exist to take the souls of our vigilance to their final resting place."

"Yeah, of course I prefer a certain monetary fee of two brass coins myself." The strange reaper with the necklace now twirled two coins between his bony fingers.

The reaper with the beer shrugged, "I'm just trying to teach the dead how to start living, I mean, you need to liven up." He now downed the beverage, and yet again it just seeped through, "Oh man I hope I don't have to drive home again… not like that last time."

Boutan the reaper on the oar floats to the titans, "You see this mess has caused countless souls to be disarranged. We all were called in to try and fix it. Unfortunately, that's not so easy. The only way we can fix this is if Raven can stop those demons. If she is killed, however…"

"Wait!" Beast Boy popped his head in the middle of the conversation, "Is Raven in trouble or something?"

"We believe so. She should have awoken, but her mojo is all out of whack, mahn." The reaper with two kids now twirled a finger at his head, "We are not so sure, but someone or something has interfered with the process. This is causing some problems not to mention making a dangerous chance of something bad coming and ruining everything." He points to the titans; they get the feeling this was the kicker, "You see that's why we called you. We want you to go and help protect her as the process is taking too blasted long."

"Well, sure! Let's get going!"

The reaper with coins tossed them up in the air, "Hold it right there!" He snatched them again, and began to do more little tricks, "If you go as you are you'll be pulverized. We have felt the shift of an evil in the cosmos, probably Akaige got to another villain. This means we're going to need the more, elaborate, means of fighting them."

The titans are confused, but Robin asks "What do you mean, 'elaborate'."

"Oh, we're going to fuse you guys together into a super-warrior." The reaper with the beer bottle burps loudly before tossing the now empty bottle away, "Hey, let's get this show on the road. I've got this super-evil baby and me playing poker at nine-o-clock. If I win, I get this watch or something, he wins I have to kill Louis… or was it Louie Anderson? I can't remember, damn it."

"A super-warrior? What are you talking about?"

"We can't send you as you are this next evil will be very powerful. Only with you sharing the same body, mind, and soul can you stop them. It's a temporary kind of deal too, like only an hour or less!" Boutan pleads with them now, "Please, it's our only chance!"

The titans look amongst themselves, and in a slight twitch Robin squeaks, "Okay…"

The reapers give little nods and float in front a titan each. The titans face them, and let their backs face one-another's. The reapers begin to spin their scythes and Boutan her oar. The weapons glow and gather power to now blast one titan each. The titan's bodies blast to one spot with energy through them, connecting in the center of them all four. Their bodies disappear, and the center of the energy began to take a new shape. When it is done a new figure stood before them all, the figure is not Robin, it is not Cyborg, it is not Beast Boy, and it is not Starfire. It is, Titan. "Titan? That's the gayest thing I ever heard!" The reaper now found another beer, "Oh, hey! Paul Tucket! My favorite!"

Slade stood with Terra, and Thanos is unconscious at their feet. It took a long time, and much of their strength. However, Raven was safe. "Terra…"

"Don't start Slade. Let's just finish this and keep a watch on Raven."

To that he gave a gloomed nod. The two went over to check on her but a sound is heard, like wind being displaced or energy slowing down. They see three men at the doorway, weird men, all of different looks. The one is a large muscular bald guy with a mustache, and he wore a black and gold armor outfit with boots that matched. Over his one eye is a strange screen with some kind of numbers flashing, and then they noticed a monkey like tail moving along his waist. "Huh, this is the place?" He looked over to Slade and Terra, and his machine seemed to pick them out, "Hm, they have nice sized power levels. The one eyed guy has a stronger stance, but the girl has a higher energy level. They make a good team, but nothing Raditz couldn't handle."

The one this man called Raditz gave a glare. He's with long black hair falling behind his back, and another armor and tail like his counterpart but not quite as big. He now looked at the two and shrugged, he was somewhere around a teenager, but his build was very chiseled as was his counterpart. "I guess, Nappa. Still, why would Friezabe all worked up over these guys?"

The third, shortest of the three men was a teenager. He had black had that spiked straight up, and he wore a blue spandex with a white armor and gold, white boots and gloves he now let his scanner search for the next signature. When it found the unconscious girl, his scanner began to fly up, and he nearly had his eyes pop. She's unconscious, and her level was rising higher and higher, so high the machine shattered. "I see… so that's the target Frieza mentioned." He looked to Raditz, "You're the lowest one here and most in need of training experience. Get your butt in gear!"

"What? Vegeta, this is a waste of time!"

Vegeta gave a glare, Raditz now frowned as he took a step forward, "What a pain in the…"

Slade put his arms up, but Raditz had disappeared to launch his knee in Slade's gut, and then volleys of punches and kicks launched Slade around till one final kick made him plummet into the wall behind. Terra is next, she raised her hands but soon she's being punched in the head fifty times per second. She is let loose from the punches and falls with a bloody lip and nose, next a simple pick up by the hair and toss to the side. Raditz now turned to the girl on the floor, and asked "What about her?"

"She's the target you idiot." Vegeta looked out the temple, "You know what to do."

"Right!" Raditz steeped down with his open hand, but then something slammed him hard over the head out the temple, Vegeta barely evaded or so it seemed, he just waited and moved at the last moment. There now stood the one who hit him, this fighter was a green skinned man, with armor plating covering pieces of his body. The machinery glows bright blue, but their eyes glow a stunning emerald, and their hands also had the green glow. Along their waist is a golden belt, and the left breast of their armored body is a golden R. Their hair is long and flowing like a woman's but the black color is not feminine at all. Their ears flicked a little, the green pointed ears that only mimicked the oddity of a little toothy grin on their manly looking face. The figure lands, with a strange aura it was able to float at will. Titan had entered this arena. "You won't harm our friend!" spoke many voices in one.

Raven stood, tired and beat. She had many weapons scattered around the area. As she struggled for breaths Sephiroth was now just standing there like nothing has really happened. He has injuries, and he breathes deeper than before, but he's not really acting all that tired. Raven had in her hand a large scythe weapon, the wings are shaped to be a scythe as the Raven was perched on the end of a long pole. Raven could not really swing the weapon, she is too tired. Raven finally flung the scythe, and Sephiroth only stepped back to let it fall at his feet. "Pathetic." He walked over to her, slowly, and then he asked "What was the point of this?"

Raven didn't look up, she kept her head down. Sephiroth looked one more time at Raven, before sighing deeply, "You had so much promise. Too bad you wasted so much potential." Sephiroth raised his arms over head and readied to slice her down. However, Raven's face lights up and her wings shatter away, chains now wrapped around Sephiroth holding his arms, body, legs, and one wing inside a cocoon of magical restraints. He is startled, confused, all so much that when Raven levitates in the air and calls the weapons off the ground he's not even aware. He was not aware as the weapons turned into bolts of energy, and they speed on him to lunge themselves deep within his body. The energy lances caused Sephiroth to loose his hold of the Masamune, his long bladed sword, and it clangs over the ground with a thunderous clatter. Raven grasps the sword by its handle and tries to raise it but the weight stops her. Raven noticed Sephiroth is trying to break free; his wing has snapped several restraints already. She now ushered her powers into the sword and raised it, pulled back, and charges with a murderous scream.

The sword impales the winged angel. He screams, and the chains snap as his wing shattered free and arms clasp to the wound of the sword no in his belly. His body is stressing, and his voice echoes the stone walls of this fiery hell. He now fell on one knee; the energy released has burned away the top of his outfit aside from the shoulder braces on his chest. Now he fell on both knees with his eyes glaring on Raven, she smiled, and he too smiled at her. "Impressive…" he then fell on his one side and there his body seemed to disappear in blackness, and feathers. The sword also disappeared, and Raven took a DEEP breath before sighing.

"Well now that was a good one!" Evils Angel walked up clapping his hands. "I admit, not often you get to see your student do such a nice job."

"Thanks. So you liked it?" Evils Angel nods, and Raven asks, "Well, will you answer a question?" Evils Angel shrugs, "Is that the question?"

"No… why didn't you tell me you're a woman?"

"…." Evils Angel gave a smug look while their black wings wrapped out and from what was once an old man, turned to a lovely young woman with black stripes under her eyes, a physique quite becoming, and the armor was no longer horrid but quite garish. "I guess I tried to be too much a dick, huh? I just figured you'd respect a man more than this."

Raven rolled her eyes as they were walking off laughing. Yes, that was the truth of the training. Whatever it was, Raven still wasn't sure. "Oh, the name's actually Britannia, if you're wondering."

Raven didn't, but she gave a shrug not so much pleased or surprised. She already was healing her injuries for the most part. The darkness of Sephiroth dissipated, and one last black feather rose up off the ground. It slowly raised, and floated up to slowly float back down.

…..

….. Then step down two black clamed boots, one after the other right beside it.

Raven stops, and Evils Angel turned fully around, "Son of a…"

There stood Sephiroth with his shirt burnt away, and wing now bare of feathers slowly building them back. A hole in his chest now healing with a black mist showed as the newest oddity. His eyes glow brighter than before, and he smiles more hauntingly than before. As his hands created the Masamune, Raven looked back to see his view on her. "You are persistent."

"I was about to say the same thing to you, my dear."

Note: Long time since an update. I added more characters, more storylines, and better yet I concluded the more secondary tales to allow full concentration on what's going to happen with Raven, and the people at the Baxter Building. Much more to come, and the climactic conclusion of the big Raven/Sephy showdown! Orochimaru is the creation of 'Metal Overlord 2.0' and his property therein. I also wish to say I do not own,

Teen Titans, Justice League, X-men: Evolution, X-men: Comics, Marvel Comics, DC Comics, Devil May Cry, Tenchi Muyo, FLCL, Yu-Yu-Hakusho, Case Files, Ben 10, Danny Phantom, Power Puff Girls, Avengers, Ultron, Final Fantasy, Buffy: The Vampire Slayer, Static Shock, Dragon Ball Zamong many other things. The only thing I take credit for are, as always, the Kagejin. That's my creation and now I hope to hear from you all, please Review if you can? It'd be nice to know you're still reading even after such LONG chapters!

If you're confused, a recap will be in the next chapter aswell the conclusion of beginning events. I wanted to end in this chapter but things were beginning to really collect, this has 50pages of story in it! I didn't even notice till I started looking, wow, no wonder why I took so long to update! Hope to see you there when I do it again!

The idea to use Dragon Ball Z was something last minute, caused when I thought Titan kind of had that whole DBZ-Fusion thing going. Originally they were going to have to fight the villain from the Ben 10 genre, or maybe some generic Kagejin. I even made it more pre-DBZ, with the teenage cast. Frieza is the same age while Vegeta was a young boy, so as a teenager it might be fun if he turns into another hero like in DBZ. Or, he could just stay evil who knows? This thing has so many pop-culture/Video icons it's kind of silly. Next chapter some of the characters will start to dissapear, more secondary or minor roles mostly. Perhaps even the more recognized roles may be taken too. We will just have to wait and see. In the mean time, please leave me a review to let me know how you felt about some of the new developments.