Hometown Advantage

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AN: The mods to the cruiser... think the interior of the car on MEGAS xlr, which i dont own. After seeing that cartoon I often pine for hours for a robot with a car for a head to cause trouble and stomp traffic with...

There was really only so much that training could accomplish. Robin understood this. It was one of the reasons that driving a car recklessly through the top floor of the tower was included in his strategy. No matter how well these hunters were trained, a 1974 Dodge sedan teleporting into the large room and proceeding to smoosh things was not something they would be able to deal with.

In the warehouse district Robin climbed into the cruiser, turning around to give Raven one last kiss.

"Drive safe." She said as she pulled away.

"That wouldnt be productive at all." He joked back. He started the engine and revved it a few times. He turned on the lights, and activated some of the defenses which turned his car into a big bug zapper. Then, on second thought, turned them back off. He revved again as a portal began to open in front of him and slowly grow. The people he was facing should be so lucky as to be electrocuted. Jinx would be proud, I'm going in looking for blood. He thought. He took a deep breath, steadying himself. He was about to play demo derby against pedestrians, ones that wanted to kill his friends.

"Your good to go!" Said Cyborg, measuring the portal to be sure the car would fit.

"Remember, five minutes! Robin yelled. He dropped the car into gear and rolled slowly for the portal. The titans living room came into view. Several dozen hunters froze in his headlights, in complete and total disbelief at what they saw. Robin revved at them a few times in a friendly manner. There were alot more than he planned on. He picked up a mic that went to a loudspeaker in his grille. He was about to get the whole towers attention.

"Hey! Stupid! You all have 10 seconds to get out before I start setting speed records in the halls!"

At this point all hell broke loose, just like he knew it would. No ammount of training prepared people for being in enclosed spaces with demented drivers trying to run them over.

"1..."

"2..."

The tower was reduced to absolute bedlom. The hunters were running for theyre lives.

"3... You! Ugly!" Robin yelled through the loudspeaker. A rather unfortunate looking hunter stopped in his headlights. "Move the couch!" The scared hunter moved to comply, pushing the large blue couch out of the way of the car. Robin realised he had lost track of time. "Whats my count?"

"6?"

"Liar." And having no more patience, Robin ran him over along with several of his fellow hunters as he peeled into the hallway. He couldnt believe the massive number of them! There must have been hundreds, between waiting to ambush them and researchers. Robin chased a group down a hallway, slamming the car side to side so as to get the slower runners. "Lets play a little game!" Came his manic voice over the loudspeaker. "I'm a 90 year old motorist, and my home is a flea market!" He screamed into the mic. As he caught them some started to get wise. Magical attacks bounced off the car, courtesy of the wards Raven and Jinx had taken hours to paint properly on it. His victims seemed almost to be sucked under the car as he caught them, as if he were driving a large vacuum cleaner.

Kali and Blackfire materialised outside the Island. Blackfire looked about, somewhat confused. Kali pointed at the boats. "We're not letting them get away now, are we?" She asked. Blackfire smiled evilly and began sinking them one at a time. There were many, but together they made short work of them. Before long the shore was littered with splintered wood and deflated rafts.

"I'm heading for the roof!" Blackfire yelled. She took off for it. There was a large group of hunters stranded on it, trying to keep away from the madman and his car below. "Anyone want to surrender?" She yelled. Her only response was concentrated fire. She shrugged, avoided the attacks and began the simple process of charging and just pushing them off the roof in strafing runs.

Raven and Cyborg teleported onto the same spot Robin had. He had gone down the east hall, clearing a way for them to the main computer banks. The two ran, ignoring the massive carnage. They passed by a few personal rooms, all which were stuck open and had different looking scientific lab equiptment in them. "It looks like they were trying to figure as much out about us as they could!" Cyborg yelled over the screaming. Raven nodded, the anger on her face evident. "We need to get to my room, and hope they havent messed too much with the computers!"

To Raven that sounded like too much to ask. Given how these people worked she doubted it would be that easy. The exhaust smells were heavy here, and Raven took to floating to avoid stepping on the dead. "Its is likely they have installed computers of theyre own on yours, just be ready to deal with anything!" As she said this they encountered the first signs of resistance. A small squad up ahead of them began to open fire. Raven put out her hand and erected a shield for Cyborg and herself. "Get to the computer." She told him. "I'll deal with these!"

Jinx and Robix fought theyre way up from the bottom floor. The two women fought theyre way up a stairwell against a throng of hunters, tossing them over the side and hitting them with lethal blows. Twin arcs of hex power arced out from the two, cutting down advancing soldiers from higher levels before they could get to them as they dealt with the ones already in hand to hand combat range. "This is taking too long!" Jinx growled. She saw Robix next to her struggling to keep up. She was happy to think she had something on the other woman. Her momentary distraction cost her and a fist collided with her face, sending her backwards with a slight trail of blood flowing from her nose. She landed on the floor below and wasted no time in getting back up. She charged back up the stairs over several bodies and re-entered the fray. Robix had fought her way ahead now, and was using a bow staff much like her father did. Jinx punched a man in the throat and threw him over the railing. There were too damned many! Blows were raining down on her and her daughter, and half a flight up she could see them beginning to push her over the edge!

"Hey Kali, want a little snack?" She thought. She hoped this would work. She was quickly being overwhelmed. She hadnt been at this big a disadvantage since someone freed Slade's robotic army.

"Help!" Cried Robix above. Jinx was in no better a situation than she was.

Jinx was thrown beside the banister, and instead of being thrown off she was thrown to the floor. The men around her began to stomp as she feebily tried to protect her head. "All the men in this stairwell Kali, get rid of them and I'll do something for you!" She thought. She heard Robix screaming above her, probably getting the same treatment. A final foot landed on Jinx, and she lost conciousness.

Anyone close enough to her would have heard the words her lips spoke quietly. "Alright little one, just remember how much this will cost you."

Robix watched as pink lightening arced between every hunter in the well with her. They twitched violently as it passed from the chest of one man to another. The blows finally stopped landing on her and she sat up to see her mother a flight below laying prone on the floor, the lightening coming from her body. All around her the hunters began to turn to dust, leaving no trace of themselves behind. When the last one faded the lightening ceased, leaving the stairwell as quiet as a tomb. Jinx was alive, she could tell by the steady rise and fall of her chest. Whatever that was Robix was happy not to be on the receiving end.

Cyborg made it to his room and was pleased to find his computers mostly untouched. They had obviously been tampered with, but the system had locked them out. All he needed now was the authorization of two titans to re-activate it. Two titans. Where was Raven, she should be here by now! Cyborg stomped back out of his room, firing at the sporadic hunters with his sonic cannon and calling for help. None answered. He retreated back inside and sealed the door. He then remembered Starfires task, the basement! He punched the vent out of his wall, the twisted metal and fragments of plaster falling down the deep shaft. He stuck his head in and bellowed. "Starfire! I need you up here!" He could hear himself echo over the sounds of battle downstairs. He didnt hear her respond, but at the bottom of the shaft there was something growing green and heading for him fast! He ducked out just in time for Starfire to come barreling through the wall, ready to fight.

"You need assistance?" She asked him. She was a little bruised and cut up, but Cyborg was sure she was fine.

"Yeah, we need to de-activate the computer lockout! This way." He lead her to the computer. "Put in your security code." Starfires fingers flew over the keyboard and the screen turned a bright green, a command prompt asking for input # 2. Cyborg took over and the screen turned blue. He quickly put in the needed commands to kick the towers security programs online. Out in the hallways he could hear the sound of laser fire from the automated turrents. He pulled up another prompt and re-adjusted the value of the laser energy, setting it to lethal. He exhalled. It was done. He looked out his window. Kali and Blackfire were now attacking the last hunters as they retreated. "We won." He said. He looked to Starfire, who was slumped tiredly in his chair.

Robin put the car in park in the main room. He hadnt been able to find any more for a while now. He got out and looked out the main window. They were escaping! There were easilly a hundred or more hunters in the water right off the island swimming for shore! It was too many for Blackfire and Kali to stop. He growled. No one was escaping alive from this! He jumped back in the car and put it in reverse. He slammed the car into the rear wall, getting a good running start for what he was about to do. He slipped it into neutral and pressed the accelerator to the floor. When it reached the red line he slipped it down into gear and the car took off at a blinding speed, smashing through the window and sailing out into the night. In mid air Robin flicked a few switches on the dash and an eerie blue electricity began arcing over the surface of the car. He smiled madly at the hunters below, just now looking up to see theyre doom.

"Not so fast." Came the distorted voice of Robix.

Robin felt someone grab at his collar as he was pulled out of the seat. He watched the car hit the watter down below as it made short work of cooking the retreating hunters. He looked up to see Robix holding onto him with one arm and using the other for the grapple. He cracked a grin. He decided she must have come in through the back window when he had parked, seeing as it had never been replaced since the incident with Rancid. "Thanks."

Robix swung them back towards the tower a few times before letting go and crashing through a window on one of the middle floors. Father and daughter executed nearly identical rolls as they came to a stop in one of the spare bedrooms. Robin got up and checked the time. It had only taken 22 minutes to clear the tower of all intruders. He and Robix ran for the main room, which was where they were all to meet up when the battle was over.

In the end just about everyone had been injured in some way or another, but none of the team had sustained serious injury. Kali, though she had never been asked made short work of body disposal. Robin wondered how she had done it. One minute the tower had been littered with bodies, the next they were gone and so were the ones in the water outside. Robin got the distinct feeling it was better not to know what she had done with them. With the security now up, and the danger passed the titans (plus Kali and Robix) fell back onto the couches, nearly all falling into a fitfull sleep.

The tower, three days later

On the front lawn of the island The T-car was pulling the police cruiser up out of the ocean. Cleanup and repairs were well under way, and life was just starting to return to normal. Cyborg pressed the gas a little harder, and the heavilly damaged cruiser was drawn all the way up onto the grass. He knew from the looks of it that Robin wasnt going to be happy with the repairs it would need. He towed it back to the garage where Iana waited, sporting new arms and a backpack that cleverly disguised the battery they ran off of. He positioned the cruiser in its spot, watter still pouring out of its various parts. "Wanna give me a hand?" He asked her. He opened the door and the water came pouring out. "This baby could really use it.

Iana smiled at him. "Sure." This was her fourth day in a row coming here. Previously Cyborg hadnt had the time to do much more than lunch with her as he effected cricitcal system and security repairs, but today he was working on the car. She knew a thing or two about machines and was happy to give Victor a hand.

Cyborg smiled back and tossed her an adjustable wrench, which she caught easilly and twirled in her fingers; something she could not have done before. "Good, first thing we need to do is pull the engine and transmission out and see what cant be salvaged. Then we gotta clean this baby down thoroughly with fresh water to get all the salt off the metal and out of the interior before we can dry it. Its gonna be alot of work."

"I'm up for it. It'll cost you dinner though Victor."

Cyborgs face turned a shade redder. "Well I think I might be able to whip somethin tasty up. We can have WAFFLES!"

Would have ended it right after the battle but wanted to address cyborg actually having a romance. I wanted the battle to look easy because of the things that are coming up, things with the hunters are not done. There is going to be ALOT going on. As for the whole killing thing, just wanted to make it clear that its absolute war at this point between the titans and the hunters. Its not gonna be as easy as it seems. Robix will begin integrating as a regular charecter with alot of difficulty. Demons are going to start showing up, Blackfires Child will come into the picture, HP's role in the story will be defined, many questions answered and the springboard to the next arc will be drawn up. Kali and Shiva will make debut's Trigon will be dealt with, EVERYTHING IS ABOUT TO HAPPEN! Last chap only got a few reviews... hope this one does better, its all that keeps me motivated to write. If I'm not writting very well any more go ahead and tell me, leave a flame rather than leave me in the dark.