Phoenix; OMG guys it's been so long! I'm soo sorry, my mind has just been other places lately and I've been trying to get my grades up since its the final stretch! So anyway I've been thinking about ending the story a little sooner than expected so instead of 20 or 30 chapters, I may just go up to 19 or 18 chapters. I've been on this really bad writers block lately so please be patient with me. Anyway I hope y'all enjoy the story!...
"Uhh guys I could use a little help here!" shouted Phoenix as she was being attacked by many angry rabbits sent to her by the infamous Mumbo Jumbo. They had been fighting Mumbo for a couple hours and everyone was pretty confused about how he became so strong. But he wasn't the only villain they were dealing with sadly. It seemed as though him, Johnny Rancid and Control Freak had unexpectedly decided to team up just to cause some random chaos.
"I'll be there as soon as I deal with the nerd!" replied Beast boy who was busy dodging attacks from Control Freak who had animated nearby mailboxes and lamppost to attack him. He was the only one within hearing range to call for assistance from since everyone else was dealing with Johnny and his giant mechanical dog. After taking down the animated objects in T-rex form, he then went for Control Freak. Deciding that he didn't want to be dinosaur food, Control Freak surrendered.
"Please Please don't eat me!" whimpered Control Freak as T-rex BB looked at him. He then shifted back down to his human form and cuffed him. Mumbo happened to glance over from where he was and saw that one of his fellow companions had been sustained and glared.
"Are you serious Control Freak?! We haven't even completed the mission and you've already been captured, what a shame." Mumbo shook his head. Phoenix overheard this while trying not to get eaten by the bunnies and realized that there was something she didn't know. Luckily for her, Beast boy had come to her aid and was now helping her fight off the rabbits.
"I'm going after Mumbo, watch my back." she whispered over to him while she was throwing fire balls at the massive creatures. He nodded and turned into a wooly mammoth and hit many of them with his trunk. She saw Mumbo looking towards the roof of one of the nearby buildings like he was waiting for orders. She then shot a fire dagger towards his hat making it fall off of his head and catch on fire. Mumbo's attention was then directed to the burning hat behind him.
"MY HAT!" he quickly shot some water from the flower on his coat and put the hat out. He then gave a relieved sigh as he picked up his now singed hat. But before he could turn around, a large fire rope wrapped around him and he dropped his hat. Phoenix walked up to him looking him dead in the eye and made the rope hover so that she could see him without having to look down.
"Soo, Mumbo, do you want to tell me what this 'mission' of yours is since I think it involves the Nerd and the crazy mechanic." she said calmly
"Oh I'd love to, right after oh...how about never." he replied with a smile on his face.
"You know Mumbo, I heard that burns hurt, depending on how you get burned." she then formed a fire knife and twirled it around in front of him. He seemed a little scared but not enough to budge.
"Your little knife trick isn't going to make this magician talk." he said sticking his tongue out. She raised an eyebrow
"Ok, then I guess I should show you this new trick that I'm working on." she then chanted a spell and then used her powers to conjure up a tiger made of fire. The tiger roared causing Mumbo to tremble. The fire animal came up to Phoenix and nudged and licked her and then glared at Mumbo.
"This is Fiamma, isn't she pretty." Mumbo nodded trying not to anger the teenage fire bender and her pet.
"So, you still not want to tell me the mission." she smirked as Fiamma growled at Mumbo. Just then, the rest of the titans came over to check on her.
"Good job on catching Mumbo Phi." said Cyborg. Feeling something warm beside her, Raven noticed the flaming tiger standing next to her
"I see you've been practicing that spell I showed you." Raven said in a slightly impressed tone.
"Yea I decided that I had a good reason to try it out today right Mumbo?" she said mischievously looking at the entrapped villain.
"Oh course! why wouldn't anyone want to threaten a poor old villain with a ferocious beast made of fire." Mumbo replied sarcastically rolling his eyes.
"Ok, so Phoenix why were you threatening Mumbo?" asked Robin putting handcuffs on the villain.
"Because as me and BB were fighting off his little friends, I noticed him looking up at the building tops like he was waiting for instructions and when Beast Boy had captured Control Freak" Beast boy gave a small grin " Mumbo saw and then said that they hadn't completed the 'mission' yet." replied Phoenix. Robin looked at the building tops and noticed a shadowy figure standing and watching them.
"Guys, someone's watching us act normal." whispered Robin looking back at his team. Mumbo gulped knowing that the shadow figure that Robin saw must have been his boss. But as soon as Robin looked back to the building, just like a ghost, the figure had disappeared. Robin sighed and looked at Mumbo.
"Mumbo tell us what you know." Robin said sternly
"I don't know anything." said the villain smugly
"Phoenix..." Phoenix then signaled for Fiamma to attack Mumbo. The tiger was just about to strike the blue magician with its flaming paw when...
"Alright! I'll tell you what I know." yelled Mumbo fear evident in his voice. Phoenix smirked and withdrew her pet.
"Ok so this weird shadow man hired the three of us to cause some damage around town and to rob random places you know, general criminal stuff. When we asked him what we would get in return he offered us a large stack of mulla! and you know how us evil masterminds can't resist ourselves a good payment."
"I wouldn't call you three masterminds, petty convicts maybe but not masterminds." replied Raven in her monotone.
"Anyway...we agreed to help the creepy dude out and he even gave us this little shot that gave our powers a little boost as you can tell. But he also told us to make sure that we keep you all distracted, but we obviously didn't do that because one of us got caught." he glared at Control Freak who was sitting inside a cage made out of dark energy sulking.
"Please finish your tale for us Mumbo." asked Starfire eager yet curious to hear the end.
"I will, just because you asked so nicely unlike these ruffians who threatened me." the blue spell caster looked at Robin and Phoenix. " So like I was saying, he said that his master plan would take some time to complete so he wanted us to distract you all and keep you preoccupied while he finishes up."
"When will he unleash his master plan?" asked Robin sternly
"I don't know, he wouldn't tell us. All he said was to cause some mayhem here and there and try not to get caught that's it honest, Magician's honor." said the magician raising up a gloved hand. Fiamma clawed at the hand making it disappear.
"You know, I'm getting sick and tired of your little 'pet' there miss flames." said Mumbo glaring at the tiger.
"Ok so we know why they were attacking downtown, but what I want to know is who this mystery ring leader is that seems to be planning something big." said Robin completely ignoring Mumbo's last comment.
"Yea and why he sent those three morons to distract us, even with enhanced powers, they still couldn't beat us." replied Cyborg pointing to Control Freak and Mumbo.
"Speaking of morons, where's the third one?" asked Phoenix looking for the crazy mechanic
"Once we had him unconscious, I teleported him straight to jail." replied Raven.
"So what are we going to do with the other two?" asked Beast Boy
"Phoenix and Star, I need you two to take Mumbo and Control Freak to the detainment center and make sure they are under strict lockdown since their powers were enhanced." ordered Robin. The two girls nodded, with Phoenix and Fiamma putting Mumbo on a hovering fire platform and Starfire carrying Control Freak.
"Now the rest of us need to head back to the tower and try to track down this shadow man who apparently wants us out of the way." said Robin.
After dropping off the two villains, Starfire and Phoenix were flying, well hovering in Phoenix's case, through downtown heading back to the tower. As the two girls were flying side-by-side in the sky, Starfire wondered how Phoenix and Wyatt had been doing since she last heard about him. Sure, she hadn't heard his name for quite some time now but she figured that Phoenix just didn't like talking about her love life with anyone.
"So friend Phoenix..." started Starfire trying to start the conversation off
"Hmmm." said Phoenix looking towards her alien teammate
"I was wondering how you and your friend the Wy-att had been." Phoenix looked away from her and slightly grumbled to herself. She hated that name and the person behind it
"So you and him have not been the okay?" she asked slightly confused. Phoenix looked at her and sighed
"He wanted me to run away with him and travel the world and I said no." Starfire looked at her still slightly broken hearted friend and gave an understanding smile
"So why did you not go with him?" Phoenix looked at her wondering why she would ask that, even though the answer was obvious.
"Why I didn't?" Starfire had turned around and was looking out towards the town.
"Yes, why did you not go with him? When you first told me about him, you made it seem like he was the lunar planet and the burning piles of gas to you." Phoenix raised an eyebrow trying to figure out what she said, and then finally understood.
"Oh you mean moon and stars, and I mean yea I guess he was, he used to mean everything to me but when he said that you guys didn't need me and that you weren't my family, I realized that he didn't really care about my feelings so I just left and didn't look back." Starfire flew next to her and put her hand on her shoulder as Phoenix looked at her.
"I understands what it feels like when you care about someone and they share those feelings but they do not have your best interest in mind."
"Who would do that to you Star? Your like the nicest person I've ever met." she said surprised
"Well I used to know this boy back on my planet named Mil'andrs , me and him were the greatest of friends, even our knorfkas were good friends, but when he found out that I was a princess and had to rule Tamaran, he immediately stopped talking to me and I have not seen or heard from him since."
"But why?" asked Phoenix intrigued
"He said that being friends with a princess would be too complicated and that we would never be able to hang out because I would be to busy, so he suggested that we just not be friends at all despite how much we cared for each other."
"Wow, I'm sorry about that Star." she said solemnly
"It is alright Phoenix, I have made plenty of friends since my arrival to earth, including you." Phoenix smiled "So I have nothing to be the 'down' for." Phoenix chuckled. The two girls then continued on their way back home, little did they know that the rest of the trip home would not be as smooth as the beginning.
On a building top not far from where Phoenix and Starfire where, a ghostly figure was standing there watching the two girls fly home. He then smiled to himself as he pressed a small blue button on a remote he had in his hand.
"This will be quite enjoyable." said the mystery man as he watched hundreds of robots come out of the alleys and sewers towards the two heroines. While the girls were just chatting away about past friendships, a red laser shot Starfire in the back knocking her to the ground. Phoenix turned around to see hundreds of robots aiming and shooting at her. She quickly flew down beside Starfire and put up a fire dome.
"Starfire are you ok?!" she asked frantically. The tamaranean girl sat up seeming to be perfectly fine.
"Yes friend I am unharmed, are you the okay?" asked Starfire getting off of the ground and looking at Phoenix
"Yea I'm fine, for some reason there are hundreds of robots out there attacking us, good thing I put up this dome." she replied looking at her temporary shield.
"How long will this shield hold?" asked Starfire charging up her starbolts.
"Not very long, I can barely keep it together now, we need to call the others quickly cause we're obviously outnumbered." Starfire nodded and Phoenix pulled out her communicator. Raven and Beast boy's faces soon appeared on the screen seeing that they were the only ones in the common room.
"Hey Phoenix what's up?" said Beast boy
"Beast boy, we need help now! We've been ambushed by a random amount of robots and my shield can't hold anymore, we need back up!" in the background you could see the fire shield breaking and robots start heading for Phoenix while Starfire shot starbolts to hold them off. Raven and Beast jumped up looking at the screen wide eyed.
"I gotta go, GET ROBIN!" The screen then went fuzzy. Raven and Beast boy looked at each other.
"You get Robin and Cy and I'll teleport over there to help them." said Raven. Beast boy nodded and took off down the hallway as a falcon.
Phoenix and Starfire were trying their hardest to fight off the robots but, every time they destroyed a decent amount of them, more would show up out of nowhere. Phoenix was fighting a robot when she missed and the robot hit her across the street. As she was struggling to get up, the robot walked over to her and aimed its laser cannon at her. Before it could hit her, the robot's arm was covered in dark energy and ripped off. Phoenix looked to her right to see Raven chanting her mantra and covering the entire robot in dark energy and flinging it right into a wall.
"Thanks." said Phoenix rubbing her arm.
"Anytime." said Raven helping her up
"Have you seen Starfire?" asked Phoenix looking around
"No, when I teleported, I came to the place where I felt your energy at. And it looks I came just in time or you probably would've been ashes by now." Phoenix grinned sheepishly. All of sudden, Phoenix saw a couple robots get tossed across the street by a giant green energy beam. Starfire looked around and once she saw Raven she hovered over to her and Phoenix and smiled.
"Oh thank X'hal that you have come to help us friend Raven!" said Starfire cheerfully. Just then Beast boy, Cyborg and Robin showed up looking around.
"What's going on around here?!" yelled Cyborg as he shot one of the robots with his sonic cannon
"We don't know! we were just on our way home, when one of those crazy robots shot Star right out of the sky and then started shooting at me." replied Phoenix throwing fire spears at more robots.
"This doesn't just happen, these have to belong to somebody." shouted Beast boy before shifting into a grizzly bear and attacking a nearby robot.
"Yea and I know exactly who." said Robin as he picked up the head of a robot which was painted half orange and half black. He looked up and saw a man on a nearby rooftop just watching all the chaos take place.
"Slade." said Robin to himself as he made his way to the rooftop. Phoenix noticed Robin go off to the rooftops and wanted to go with him, but knew she couldn't because she was needed to help the others. When Robin got to the top of the building, the man in question was standing next to a billboard, looking down at the ongoing battle with amusement.
"Slade." sneered Robin towards his most hated enemy. Slade turned around and smirked
"Hello Robin."
"Why are you doing this?" he then brought out his bow-staff but Slade just snickered
"All in good heart boy. You see, when you and your new apprentice decided to influence and take MY apprentice away, I came to think that some well deserved revenge was in order don't you think?" Robin just glared at him and then charged at him. Every move that Robin made Slade would either block or dodge. Finally when Slade was too busy mocking his intelligence, that Robin ended up knocking Slade to the ground and pinning him there.
"Well done, you've finally pinned me." said Slade smirking. Just when Robin was about to strike again, Slade kicked Robin off of him, making the boy wonder land a couple feet away. Slade stood up and shook his head.
"What are you wasting your time for? You continue to fight me, when you could just join me and for what?, these unworthy and ignorant civilians, those 'teammates' of yours."
"My job is to protect the people of this city and bring justice to anyone who violates or tries to ruin the peace." answered Robin panting.
"How can you protect the people when you can't even protect your own family." Robin raised an eyebrow and then he saw Slade aim a laser pistol straight at Phoenix. Having no time to waste, Robin swiftly threw a bird-a-rang at the gun as he pulled the trigger twice, hoping to knock the gun out of his hand. But he missed.
Phoenix was battling the robots when she heard a couple gun shots go off. She looked around and then looked at herself and noticed that she had been hit.
"PHOENIX!" shouted Robin from the rooftop. She looked around once more before succumbing to complete darkness...
OMG! That was intense :O, anyway I hope you guys liked this chapter. I think this one was WAY better than the last one , so yea expect the next chapter to come out soon, not too soon but soon enough so yea thanks again for all the support and
*BTW- Fiamma is Italian for Flame :)
I'll see y'all later! ciao ;)