Sorry about the long wait, but everything was completely hectic over the past month and I had to deal with college. Had to get through with a final project, then study for an exam. But thankfully, I'm out of that mess and done with college. Now I can finally get through with my updates without any problems. Let us begin with the story update. Unfortunately I don't have any reviews from anyone, especially from Rahkshi500. But I got 39 hits, which means that I got people still reading it. So here's part two of Mars Surface, I hope all my hard work would pay off. The team made it to the construction site and are going to pass through it in order to reach their next destination, an underground cave. But what awaits them is an ambush and a bunch of monsters ready to kill. Will they get out of there in one piece or will these creatures consume them?
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Chapter Twenty-six: Deconstruction
UAC Power Plant, Maintenance Access 14: November 15, 2145, 9:13 P.M.
Back at the Power Plant, deep within the maintenance junction, Jack Campbell and Counselor Swan was heading straight to the main core of the installation. Campbell was holding one duffle on his shoulder that was loaded with explosive charges and his BFG strapped to his back while Swan was holding the other bag with one shoulder and his machine gun strapped to the other. As they kept walking, Swan wasn't sure if they were going to the right way. So he asked Campbell.
Counselor Swan: "Are you sure we're going the right way Campbell?"
Campbell was looking at his PDA and sees where the digital map was taking them.
Jack Campbell: "Not far, just a couple of more feet and we'll start Plan D right away."
After a minute of walking, they've finally reached a big metal door with a sign above it that said, "Main Reactor".
Jack Campbell: "This is it."
Once they approached the door, it opened upwards and gave them access. When the two stepped through the door, they have officially made it to the reactor core of the power plant. In the middle is the core's main reactor where a thin bright line of plasma stretches up to the ceiling and a huge rotating generator that powers up the plasma core. All around the main reactor were eight coolant rods used to keep the core cool and operational. And down at the bottom of the reactor were storing units used to control and contain the many radioactive and plasma rods that powers the entire UAC complex. Swan looked around at the area and was a little perplexed at all this. He then looked at Campbell to see if he can understand this plan he came up.
Counselor Swan: "You're certain this plan will work?"
Jack Campbell: "Positive. This main reactor powers up the entire installation. If there is one explosion in this area, it will create a chain reaction that would wipe out the UAC. If Plan C fails, then we have to go straight to D."
Swan listened in and realized that this is a long shot, but it must be done.
Counselor Swan: "I see…"
Jack Campbell: "Now let's go over this one more time. There are three parts that power up the UAC: the rods, the coolants, and the main power core. We have to place the charges on three of the places, as many of them as we can. Once we're done, we head to reactor's control room and set the controls to raise the rods."
Counselor Swan: "Are you sure this is a good idea?"
Jack Campbell: "It's the only choice we have left."
Counselor Swan: "But that's suicide! I mean, with the rods up and most of them radioactive it could kill us!"
Jack Campbell: "The wall around us is three feet of steel. Enough to hold off the high-radiated levels. This has to work. If we fail and when reinforcements come here, Earth will be destroyed. And that can not happen, at any cost."
The two started to walk down the circular catwalk to reach the lift that would descend them down to the rods storage. But just when they were halfway there, they heard strange whispers and heard lightning bolts coming from their left. They turned their heads and saw five Cacodemons appearing around the core and were floating towards them.
Jack Campbell: "Shit, they knew we're coming! Keep moving sir, I'll handle them!"
Swan immediately ran to the lift while dodging energy blasts the creature spat out at him. Campbell retaliated by taking out his BFG and began blasting them with green energy bursts. When all of them were dead, more clouds appear and ten more Cacodemons where summoned, along with a couple of Lost Souls. Jack looked at them and had a pissed looked on his face.
Jack Campbell: "Looks like this is going to be a long night."
He then charges up his weapon to give it more power while the creatures were flying to him, ready to rip him apart. When the BFG was charged enough, he immediately let go of the trigger and opened fire.
Mars Surface: November 15, 2145, 9:16 P.M.
Meanwhile, outside the base, Alex and the Teen Titans wearing their HAZMAT environmental suits were walking down the red sand of Mars looking for the construction area they're suppose to go to next. So far, they passed a couple of structures and a few mountains along the way, but no sign of their destination. And yet they haven't seen any monsters on the way. While they kept walking, Beast Boy was getting tired as his legs feel like they were going to fall off of him. He immediately collapsed on the sand and lay there until Cyborg noticed him, picked him up, and placed him on his shoulder.
Cyborg: "Easy BB, I got ya."
He then joined the others as they went ahead. It was then that that Robin noticed the hybrid carrying the changeling.
Robin: "Cyborg, what happened to him?"
Cyborg: "Don't know. The dude just past out and hit the sand."
Robin: "Is there any air left on his tank?"
Cyborg looked at BB's back where the oxygen tank would be and noticed the gauge is at a quarter of the way, enough air to last him a while longer.
Cyborg: "Naw, dude's got enough air. Maybe he passed out of exhaustion. He has been walking for a long time you know."
Robin: "I see… Well, I better talk to Alex to see if we can maybe rest up for a bit."
Cyborg: "I don't know man. It doesn't look like he wants to rest."
Robin: "We'll see about that."
He powered walk straight to Alex to talk to him.
Robin: "Hey Alex."
Alex: "Yeah?"
Robin: "You think maybe we can rest for a moment? Most of us seem to be getting tired of walking."
Alex stopped, looked at the Boy Wonder, and gave them a reason not to.
Alex: "We have to keep walking Robin. Incase you don't know, were outside the base, on the Mars surface, with thin air around us. Our oxygen tanks can hold a limited supply of air. If we rest, even for a few minutes, we will be wasting our supply. And who knows what will happen if those monsters appear and attack us, that will be a lot more time wasted."
Robin: "Yes but still, it would be best if we could just sit down a few minutes to rest our legs. Maybe even find some cover incase any monsters show up."
Alex: "And where exactly are we going to find some cover around here?"
Starfire, who was quite close to them noticed something from afar and pointed to it.
Starfire: "What about there?"
The two looked at Starfire then turned their heads to where she was pointing. Not far and visible from the sand storm was a structure that consists of girders all stacked and lined up and a crane at the top. Alex looked at the structure and could tell that it's the construction site they were suppose to go to. So he smiled at the fact Star found it and shrugged his shoulders.
Alex: "Yeah, that would work. Let's go."
The team continued walking and headed straight towards the construction site.
After seven or eight minutes of walking, the Titans and Alex finally made it to the construction area and approached the middle of it. Once they made it in, the team took a rest. Robin was sitting on the sandy floor taking a breather, Starfire was leaning back on a standing girder, Raven was meditating in a cross legged position, and Cyborg place Beast Boy on an empty cart, after carrying him on his shoulder most of the time.
Cyborg: "There you go buddy. You can rest here until you're awake."
The hybrid then turned around and saw Alex not resting. He holding his PDA and walking around like he's ready for action. Looking at his guardian a little oddly, he cleared his throat and asked him something.
Cyborg: "Um, Alex? I know this isn't none of my business and all but… Shouldn't you just sit tight and relax for just a second? You are walking around like a madman you know."
Alex turned his head to look at Cy for a second, then went back to his PDA to check the digital map.
Alex: "Sorry Cy. But a marine can't rest when they have a job to do, even if I'm in training."
He continued searching for their next destination they need to go while Robin was wondering what this place was supposed to be built for. So he looked at his guardian and asked a question as well.
Robin: "So what were they trying to build here?"
Alex turned his head to see the Boy Wonder, then reverted it back to the PDA screen.
Alex: "From what I understand, they were going to create a recreation center for scientists and marines to take a break after all that hard work. They were going to add stuff like a pool, tennis courts, bowling, the kind of stuff that will make them feel relaxed."
He then felt something on the front tip of his foot while walking. He looked down and spotted a skeleton next to a jackhammer, all drenched in blood with its suit ripped to shred.
Alex: "And by the way this looks, they were obviously in the middle of the construction until the invasion started."
He walked away from the skeleton and continued searching for the cave.
Robin: "So how far is the cave from here?"
Raven: "If he says that it's going to be another ten miles or so, I'm going to levitate here to protest."
Alex: "Actually Rae, it's much closer then you think."
Raven: "How far?"
Alex: "Oh… Let's just say that it's in the construction site."
Everyone immediately looked at Alex except for Beast Boy, who was still sleeping, and was surprised at what he said.
Cyborg: "You're serious about it?"
Alex looked back at Cyborg and nodded.
Alex: "Positive Cy. For all I know they were blowing out a cave through a mountainside next to the construction site so they can add pipes and wires for heat, water, electricity, air, whatever. You can't have a building without adding a few things important to keep it active. Now according to my PDA, the cave would be down this path."
He then looked up to see the path. But what he saw was the path completely blocked off by fallen debris and bent girders a while ago. Upon seeing that, Alex lowered his head and shook it.
Alex: "And unfortunately for us, that path is blocked off."
Robin: "There's got to be another way to get to that cave."
Raven looked around and spotted an elevator shaft used for taking workers up to the higher levels to start building. Once she saw the machine, she pointed to it to get Alex's attention.
Raven: "What about that?"
Alex looked at Raven pointing at the shaft, then he turned his head to the right to see the elevator across the way. He smiled while at the same time starring it.
Alex: "Yeah… That's one way getting to our destination."
He then approached the shaft to see if it's operation. But when he got there, he saw a closed shaft with a monitor that says, "Low power. Elevator suspended." He tried to figure out what the problem is until he spotted an AM3 Series Portable Power Plant with an empty compartment that would hold a single power cell. Upon seeing that, he rolled his eyes within his helmet and sighed.
Alex: "Great… Just our luck."
Soon enough, the four Titans approached the shaft and noticed their guardian in desperation. So Robin was the first to ask.
Robin: "Is there a problem Alex?"
Alex turned around to look at his team and rubbed the back of his helmet.
Alex: "I'm afraid so Rob. It looks like this elevator is out of service and the only thing to make it work is by using this portable power plant right here. And to make matters worse, we don't have a power cell to get this to work."
Starfire: "So, all we have to do is find this cell of power and we can proceed."
Alex: "Looks that way Star. Though even if we so find one, I don't know if it's somewhere in the construction site."
Robin: "Then we have to start searching immediately if we are able to get going."
Suddenly, a low but evil snicker came out of nowhere, totally keeping the Titans off guard.
Dr. Betruger: "I don't think you're going anywhere boy."
Once they realized it was Betruger's voice, they went into their battle positions and looked around to find the crazed scientist. But for some strange reason, he was nowhere to be found.
Alex: "Damn it Betruger, I'm getting sick and tired of these games! Come out of hiding so we can kill you!"
Betrguer snickered one more time and was amused at Alex's obsession.
Dr. Betruger: "Dear Alex, have you already forgotten? No matter where you go, no matter how you hide, no matter how much you squirm, I will always be watching you."
Alex: "Yeah, well guess what? No matter what happens to us, we'll find you and stop you once and for all."
The doctor's voice snickered yet again at the thought.
Dr. Betruger: "Foolish boy… Do you think destroying me will stop this invasion? I highly doubt it. For you see, there's nothing left for you but a slow death, as your tanks will be robbed of their oxygen."
Alex: "Don't make me laugh Betruger. We still have enough oxygen for a while."
Dr. Betruger: "Not if my children can stall you until then. Destroy them!"
Suddenly, they all heard whispers coming from above them so they looked up to see what it was. What they saw was four red clouds at the top of the construction structure and flashes of lightning came out of the clouds. From out of the lightning, four Archviles appeared and shrieked at the team at the ground floor. The team starred in awe at the four vicious creatures on the top floor, even Alex couldn't believe it.
Alex: "Ah shit…"
After they appeared, the Archviles raised their fiery hands and in a second, multiple Imps, Maggots, Vulgars, and Wraiths appeared behind them as the team turned around to see them. The creatures all immediately charged in for the attack, but Raven formed a barrier to push all of them out of the way and let them soar to the other side. Alex immediately took out both his Series 3 Plasma Rifle and MG-88 Enforcer Machine Gun to use as dueling weapons and alerted the Titans.
Alex: "Titans, we got contact! Lots and lots of contact! Take them all out!"
The Titans took out their weapons, powered star bolts, and summoned the dark energies. They all then charged right in and fired with everything they got. Robin jumped off high in the air and threw ten exploding disks at the hoard as they connected and exploded, killing six or seven creatures. Cyborg positioned his chain gun ripped twenty of them in half. Raven levitated a couple of flammable barrels and threw them at the swarm, killing off ten more on an exploding impact. And Alex used both his weapons to nail any living, breathing monster one by one. Starfire flew up in the air and launched a barrage of star bolts at the army of monsters, killing two or three a second. The Archviles could tell that the flying Tamaranean could be a problem, so they summoned more creatures to help dispose of her. While Star was busy taking care of the hostiles, six more bolts of red came down on one of the floors where Starfire was flying around and six Revenants appeared ready for action. They immediately shrieked as Starfire turned her head at the sound and spotted them. They then fired their mini heat-seeking rockets at the girl as she flew away from them. However, wherever she turns or how high up she goes, those missiles would follow her heat signature. But when she looked down the hoard below her, she came up with an idea. She rocketed down towards the creatures while the rockets trailed behind her. The beasts looked up at the Tamaranean as the Imps and Vulgars threw their fireballs at her. Star easily dodged the red and green projectiles and waited for the right moment to surprise them. When the time was now, she flew up a few short inches of the monsters slashing hands and let the rockets hit them. They all exploded and killed about fifteen to twenty creatures in one blow. She then soared up to where the Revenants are and blasted all of them with a full blast of green energy. But when she was done, six more skeleton soldiers appeared out of the lightning bolts and fired their shoulder mounted rockets at her. Before she could turn around and react, Raven came up out of nowhere and used her dark energies to surround the missiles in obsidian energy and turned them around to fire them back at the Revenants. Starfire saw the inhuman skeletons dissolving away and looked at Raven who helped her out.
Raven: "Go and help the others! I'll take care of this."
Star nodded and flew back down to protect her friend while Raven stayed behind to handle any more Revenants that decides to appear. And to her luck, they did, an army of skeleton soldiers surround her and launched more rockets at her. She then formed a black globe around her so that the rockets won't harm her. Back on the ground, the rest of the Titans were busy dishing out the rest of the hoard. But no matter how many they clip down, more would appear courtesy of the Archviles summoning. Starfire soon joined them and helped them destroy any one of the monsters that would come to get them.
Cyborg: "Man, this is ridiculous! We keep killing them with everything we got, and they just keep coming."
Starfire: "We are being surrounded!"
Robin: "We can't just give up Titans! There's got to be a way stop them."
Alex, who was reloading while the others took care of the creatures, looked up and spotted the Archviles summoning more monsters from out of nowhere. He then came up with the idea.
Alex: "Those Archviles seem to be the ones teleporting those monsters here. They're the targets, not them. We have to get rid of them fast before we're overwhelmed."
Cyborg: "Yeah, well there's one problem. How the hell are we suppose to stop them? They're so high up!"
Alex looked up at Starfire who was shooting star bolts at the swarm and knows what to do.
Alex: "Starfire!"
Starfire stopped firing and looked down at her guardian with a serious look.
Alex: "Get up there and distract those freaks! We can't let them summon anymore monsters down here. Go now!"
Star looked up at the top of the construction site then looked back down to see her friends still fighting off the swarm of creatures. She knows she has to help them fend off the hoard, but knows that the only way to stop them from coming is to destroy the four Archviles from up above. So without giving it a second thought, she flew up to the top of the construction site, passed Raven who was still fighting the Revenants, avoiding girders and metal grating, and charging her star bolts for her battle. Once she was in the air, she looked down at the monsters with the fiery hands and was pissed.
Starfire: "You will not summon any more creatures to kill my friends anymore!"
The Archviles looked up and shrieked at her. They then put their burning hands together and launched a line of flames at her. She simply flew away, avoided the fiery lines, and fired back by throwing her green orbs of energy at them. The Archviles rolled away from the blasts and retaliated.
When the fight went on the top floor, the boys were busy handling the rest of the swarm down below. They noticed that no more monsters were coming out of the clouds to attack, roughly because Star was taking care of the Archviles. Cyborg looked up at the sky to see Star battling out the creatures on the top structure.
Cyborg: "Well looks like Starfire is taking care of the problem."
Robin: "Let's hope she doesn't hesitate and get herself killed in the process."
Robin then swung his R-Sword, which he took out a while ago, and cut of an Imp on the torso end while Cyborg kept on using his chain gun at a bunch of Maggots and Vulgars. Alex was using the dueling weapons of his plasma and machine gun to rip them all up to pieces. But when he did another reload while the others take care of the hoard, he noticed that there's one more member missing from the team and looked at the two male Titans to ask a question.
Alex: "Hey, where's Beast Boy?"
The two looked at Alex as Cyborg answered.
Cyborg: "He was still sleeping after all that walking, so I put him on the cart for him to…"
Cy stopped there when he realized what he just did.
Cyborg: "On no… Beast Boy!"
Quickly, the three teammates rushed in to rescue Beast Boy, mowing down any monsters that get in their way. Luckily, Beast Boy was still alive and sleeping peacefully. Unfortunately, he was surrounded by Wraiths, Maggots, and Vulgars; wanting to see it he's dead or not. A Wraith went over his head to see if he's alive. To its answer it saw fog on the glass of the changeling's helmet from his breathing and was mumbling in his sleep.
Beast Boy: "No mommy please… I don't want to ride the pony…."
Once it knew he was alive, it snarled and breathed on his glass plate. That caused BB to stir and slowly open his eyes. What he saw wasn't his mother, but a Wraith's face opening its lower jaw and shrieked. Beast Boy just starred at the face and laid there completely scarred. He couldn't change into an animal and attack because if he did, he would destroy his suit and will have no air to breath. So did the only thing he would always do when surrounded by enemies, scream.
Beast Boy: "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
The Wraith was about to eat his face until a birdarang penetrated its head. It wasn't long before multiple birdarangs appeared and hit all the creatures in the head, killing them all in one shot. Once they all disintegrated into ash, Beast Boy looked to the right where the birdarangs came from and saw the rest of the team running to him with more creatures following them. BB, with a ware of it all, jumped up off the cart, took out his Grabber, and waited for a fireball to come. To his luck, an Imp threw out the first fireball and the changeling got a hold of it. He then launched it back at one of the creatures and a Maggot got hit by it, getting killed in one shot. As soon as the others joined him, they began firing their weapons at the hoard trying to get them.
Robin: "Beast Boy, are you all right?"
Beast Boy: "All right? I nearly got eaten alive in my sleep! What have I missed this time?"
Alex: "Well to make a long story short, we found the construction site, we took a rest after all that walking, we have to look for a power cell to get the elevator lift working, and we've been ambushed."
Beast Boy: "Gee, and I missed all that while I was snoozing. Great…"
Robin: "Let's not argue about it. Starfire is taking care of the Archviles on the top floor and Raven's handling the Revenants a few floors up. We have to find the power cell or another portable generator that has one."
Cyborg: "And where are we going to find one when we're in the middle of this mess?"
Alex looked up while reloading and noticed the lights in the construction area were still on. He then realized that if the lights are still on, that's means that there could be another generator around here somewhere.
Alex: "There must be a generator that can controls the lights somewhere around here. We have to find the generator and get the power cell so we can get the lift up and running. Cyborg and Robin, you hold off the monsters while Beast Boy and I find the generator."
Beast Boy looked at Alex and was a little confused for words.
Beast Boy: "What?"
Alex: "You hear me BB, you're with me."
Beast Boy: "You can't be serious."
He then turned his head to look at Robin to see if he can help him out.
Beast Boy: "Robin?
But Robin was busy throwing a few exploding disks with one hand and holding on to his R-Sword with the other.
Robin: "You have your orders Beast Boy, now go! We'll handle it from here."
Beast Boy just stood there quietly, couldn't believe what he heard while Alex rushed past him and grabbed him by the collar of his environmental suit.
Alex: "C'mon boy, we got a power cell to retrieve."
As the two ran away from the swarm to search for a portable power plant, Cyborg and Robin kept holding them off. Some of the creatures saw BB and Alex running away and ran after them, but suddenly, flying girders, screws, and sharp objects covered in black energy came out of nowhere and struck them all down in one attack. The two Titans holding the monsters off stopped firing and noticed part of the hoard turning into ash, then looked up to see who threw all that. What they saw was Raven levitating down to them and formed a black wall to defend her teammates against the creatures.
Cyborg: "What took you so long?"
Raven looked at the hybrid and smirked.
Raven: "Cleaning the skeletons out of my closet."
She then looked back at the monsters and pushed them back one more time. Once they were out of the way, she levitated a couple of more flammable barrels around her and the others and said the magic words.
Raven: "Azarath, Metrion, ZINTHOS!!!"
All the barrels flew directly towards the swarm and exploded, getting rid of half of them.
Up in the sky, Starfire got her own problems fighting off the Archviles. Though it's one thing to keep them distracted so they won't summon any more creatures to attack her friends, it's another to take all four of them down. She kept shooting them down with her star bolts, but they keep moving around and avoiding the projectiles. Plus she can't use her eye beams because if she does, she'll break the helmet glass and, though she could still breath the thin air of Mars, couldn't see with all the flying sand hitting her eyes. So she continued her onslaught on the Archviles, hoping to kill one of them. But just as she was about to do that, one of the Archviles had a plan. It raised its fiery hands up in the air and shrieked very loud. When that happened, lightning bolts flashed from the sky and five Cacodemons appeared in thin air. The other three saw that and decided to do that same thing. Just like that, a total of twenty Cacodemons surrounded the Tamaranean and spat out high-energy blasts at her. Star 'eeped' and flew up to avoid the hits as the blasts hit each other at the same time. She then used her star bolts to take on the floating heads. While she was doing that, the Archviles looked down at the team still fighting what's left of the army of creatures and went back to work.
Back on the ground, the three Titans kept on fighting what's left of the swarm with everything they got. At first they thought they were going to get out of this one.
Cyborg: "I think we're winning!"
But right after Cyborg said that, more lightning bolts came out of the farther end and reinforcements arrived to help out what's left of the first brigade. Cy just looked at what occurred a few seconds and had his mouth opened in shock.
Cyborg: "Then again…"
The second group of monsters charged in as the Imps and Vulgars threw their fireballs at them. The three grouped together as Raven created a dome around them to stop the fireballs from hitting them. Once she put the shield down, Robin and Cyborg opened fire on the hoard with disks, birdarangs, and hallow point rounds.
Cyborg: "I don't get it. Starfire was supposed to stop the Archviles from summoning any more of those freaks, yet they still keep coming. What's going on up there?"
Robin: "I don't know but whatever happened, it must be bad. We have to get up there and see what the problem is. And the sooner Alex and Beast Boy gets the power cell, the better."
The three Titans kept on holding off the creatures and keep their distance away from them as fast as possible.
Meanwhile, in another part of the site, Alex and Beast Boy was searching for the portable generator with a power cell, unaware that their friends are in danger. Alex was looking up at the lights to see the wires that were connected to them, thinking that they could lead them to the generator. While he was doing that, Beast Boy was searching the area, pointing his grabber left and right to see if they are any more creatures following them. Once it was clear, he put the weapon down and sighed.
Beast Boy: "Man, I can't believe this. One minute I was sleeping, the next I nearly got eaten alive by those things. Isn't there any chance for me to get my beauty sleep in peace instead of running for my life?"
Alex: "Well at least be glad you got your rest. Now you feel refreshed and ready to kick some ass."
The changeling turned his head to see Alex looking at the wires that are connected to the lights and was completely bummed.
Beast Boy: "Well I don't see you helping me out. What are you doing?"
Alex: "Trying to find the generator thank you. Why don't you come here and learn something for once?"
BB rolled his eyes around and approached Alex, wanting to know what he's doing.
Alex: "See all those wires?"
The changeling looked at the wires that were attached to the lights.
Beast Boy: "Yeah."
Alex: "They connect to the lights that help us see the way. If we can follow the wires, it can get us close to the generator. Now am I helping you or what?"
Beast Boy looked at Alex and sighed again.
Beast Boy: "Yeah, I guess you are."
Alex: "Excellent, now let's move on."
Alex started to walk, following the wires to the generator while BB stands there scratching the back of his helmet.
Beast Boy: "I hate it when he acts like a smart ass."
He then follows Alex so he won't get lost. After a minute of walking and following the wires, they finally found the AM3 Portable Power Plant.
Alex: "This is it."
As he walked straight to generator, but when he was halfway, he spotted dead marine bodies scattered all over the floor with ammo and weapons scattered around them. Beast Boy joined in and noticed the corpses too.
Beast Boy: "Oh man… Guess we're not the only ones who decided to take shelter."
Alex: "Yeah, looks that way. You check to see if the power cell is in that generator, I'm going to gather up some ammo."
Beast Boy nodded and headed to the generator while Alex searched the bodies and gathered ammunition he needs for his weapons. While he was getting clips, shells, cells, and a pack of grenades, he then spotted a dead marine with a chain gun and three packs of ammo belt. He knows that Cyborg was using his chain gun a lot and it will be a matter of time before he runs out of rounds. So he decided to take the cases, and remove the ammo belt off the chain gun.
Alex: "At least Cy will have enough ammo to help him out."
Once he was done with the ammo collection he stood up and looked at Beast Boy that was still at the generator trying to figure this out.
Alex: "Well BB, is there a power cell in there?"
Beast Boy: "Yeah, there is one in there and it's still active."
Alex: "Then what are you waiting for? Remove the cell so we can join the others."
Beast Boy looked at the screen to see the picture of the cell at full power and an icon on the right that says, "Remove". He wanted to remove the cell but for some reason he can't.
Beast Boy: "Um… I don't know about this Alex. I'm just worried that if I remove this cell, something bad would happen."
Sighing, Alex headed to the generator to join the changeling.
Alex: "What are you so scarred about BB? The rest of the team is taking care of the situation back there and I don't think that there would be anymore monsters catching up any time soon."
Beast Boy: "Yeah but still, what if this is a trap? What if we get the power cell out of the triple P and the moment we leave, one of those things come out of the blue and attacks us."
Alex shook his head and rubbed the front end of his helmet.
Alex: "Man you're paranoid. Step aside."
He shoves Beast Boy out of the way and pressed the remove icon on the screen. Once the compartment containing the power cell opened up and all the lights around the construction site were off, Alex removed the cell out of the generator and strapped it around his back. He turned his head to see BB still shocked yet scared at what his guardian done.
Beast Boy: "Don't you think that you might get us all in trouble."
The guardian smirked and shook his head once more.
Alex: "C'mon BB, what harm that can happen when taking a power cell do?"
The two walked back to where the team was but after a few steps, the two heard Betruger's evil laughter and a red cloud hovering in front of them in the air. Suddenly, a red lightning bolt crashed to the ground and a Mancubus came in front of them growling. Both Alex and Beast Boy were scared stiff at what's in front of them.
Beast Boy: "Uh… That could happen."
Alex: "Oh crap…"
The Mancubus positioned its mounted cannons at the two and opened fired.
Back at the rondavue place, the three Titans had their hands full too. Robin and Cyborg were taking them all down with an R-Sword and a chain gun while Raven was levitating anything that can penetrate through the creature's skin. As Cy was finishing up the last of the group, he heard a clanking sound in his weapon. He looked down at the screen of his chain gun and discovered that he has about ten more rounds to go.
Cyborg: "Ah shit!"
After cutting up one more Imp with his sword, Robin heard that remark and turned his head to see the hybrid.
Robin: "What is it Cyborg?"
Cy looked at the Boy Wonder and showed him the chain gun's screen.
Cyborg: "I'm almost out of ammo. It would be a matter of time before I'm on empty."
Robin checked the screen out and could tell that this is a problem. But once again, another batch of monsters appeared and started their attack. So Rob went back to work and positioned his R-Sword for another battle.
Robin: "Just save up on your ammo Cy and use whatever that could be an effected weapon. We have to hold them off as long as we can."
He then charged right in and began slicing and dicing creatures from any angle. While he was doing that, Cyborg put his chain gun away and searched for something that could be useful. After a few seconds, he spotted a bent, damaged girder that was split in half. He picked up the first half of the girder and upon further inspection, nodded in agreement.
Cyborg: "Yeah, this will do."
He suddenly looked up and spotted three Vulgars charging towards him and positioned themselves for a leap. Cyborg set his weapon up as a baseball bat and waited for them to come towards him. Once the spider like skeletons jumped up in mid air and extended their claws and rip him to shreds, Cy swung the heavy bat with his cybernetic strength and hit all three of them in one blow. They all flew away from the hybrid and got slammed hard on a metal wall.
Speaking of flying, Starfire was flying around in circles avoiding energy blasts from the Cacodemons and fighting back with her own arsenal of star bolts. She was able to kill three or four of them, but when she did that, more of them kept appearing out of the blue and join the others. This was because the Archviles had put up a plan all together. The first two would take care of the Tamaranean while the other two takes care of the rest of the Titans at the bottom. The perfect plan.
Back on the ground and away from the ambush, Alex and Beast Boy were hiding a metal pillar that was already set up for a column on the main floor. On the other side of the pillar, the Mancubus was firing huge fireballs out of its cannons, trying to destroy the pillar and hopefully roast the two who were hiding behind it. Lucky for them the pillar was already bolted to the ground with cement and steel, so it won't go anywhere. After a failed effort, the behemoth ceased firing and started thinking of a way to get them. While it was doing that, Al and BB must come up with a plan of their own.
Alex: "Okay. This is a sticky situation. We have to find a way to avoid this mess."
Beast Boy: "Well if you hadn't took the power cell in the first place, we would've gotten out of this mess."
Alex heard the changeling's remarks and looks at him to explain his actions.
Alex: "Well I should've listened to you to begin with, but I had to get that power cell so we can proceed."
Now it was Beast Boy's turn to see Alex and argued.
Beast Boy: "Maybe it would've been easier if we had Raven form a platform for us if we ever wanted to go up."
Now Alex looked at him and argued back.
Alex: "And be a sitting duck? I don't think so."
Beast Boy: "Well I could've turn into a flying animal to get us all up there, but the last thing I want is to get out of this suit and not survive on this airless planet. Now how are we getting out of this?"
Alex: "Just be quiet and let me figure out a plan."
Suddenly, they all heard loud stomps on the ground. Alex looked behind and saw the Mancubus heading towards them. He then looked away and placed his back against the pillar.
Alex: "Damn it, it's heading straight towards us. Now we really got to think of a way to stop it and reach the others."
He began searching for something he can use and discovered a pulley mechanism holding a lift plate containing twenty medium girders above them. Upon seeing that, he came up with an idea and looked at Beast Boy.
Alex: "Beast Boy, I want you to do something for me."
The green changeling looked back at his guardian and nervously gulped.
Beast Boy: "I'm not going to like this am I?"
The Mancubus was getting closer to the pillar and thought it would be a good plan to bang its head on it so it would break loose and kill the two teammates in the process. It was only mere inches of the pillar until it saw Beast Boy coming out of his hiding place running around taunting it.
Beast Boy: "Hey, big guy! By the way you look, you can pass as an ugly sumo wrestler."
The behemoth looked at the running changeling and growled very loudly. It then aimed its cannons at him and open fire, shooting out huge balls of flames at him. Beast Boy was able to stop, duck and dodge every blast without getting burned and found a couple of hiding places he could use to take cover. He also used his Grabber to lift flammable barrels and shoot them at it, slowing it down for a moment. While BB was distracting him, Alex came out of the hiding place and started to search for a way to get up to the pulley machine. He then spotted a small ladder attached to the top of the floor where the machine was and approached it. He then climbed up the ladder and made it to the floor that had the pulley. Alex rushed to the control panel to see if it's operating correctly. Lucky for him, it was still on and functional.
Alex: "Thank god this still works. Now to position this thing."
He looked below him and saw the Mancubus blasting while Beast Boy either took cover or fired back with flying barrels. Since he now knows the monster's position, Alex went to the control panel and start pushing the left, right, up, and down buttons to get it to the right place. After moving the pulley crane to a couple of places, he finally got the carrier to its proper position. He then took out his plasma rifle to aim it at the chain that's holding the carrier, and looked at Beast Boy who was still holding his ground. When the changeling saw Alex looking at him, he knew what to do. He then levitated another flammable barrel with the grabber and tossed it straight to the Mancubus, exploding once it connected. The sumo freak fired back with its cannons as BB rolled out of the way from the fire blasts. He then stopped and starred the creature down while the behemoth aimed its cannons at him. But instead of running, he looked at it, smirked and said…
Beast Boy: "You know, I would run if I were you."
He pointed up as the Mancubus looked up to see a floating flat panel over its head. It then turned around to see Alex aiming his plasma rifle at something and was confused at what he was doing. Alex immediately opened fire on the chain and after a couple of plasma projectiles, the chain broke and the carrier fell straight to the monster with the girders tumbling down. The behemoth looked up at the falling debris and didn't had time to move away from it as the steel plate hit it first, followed by the girders pilling over it. Beast Boy saw the whole thing as he observed the pile of debris where the Mancubus was under. Suddenly, the pile compressed and everything toppled on the floor. He knew that meant the monster was dead and dissolved into ash, so he sighed in relief as Alex jumped off the deck and landed on the ground floor.
Alex: "You all right BB?"
Beast Boy looked at Alex and rubbed his top part of his helmet.
Beast Boy: "Yeah. But next time, you'll be the bait."
Alex snickered a bit and shook his head.
Alex: "Come on, let's get this power cell back to the others."
They ran away from the pile and headed back to their friends.
Beast Boy: "Do you think that Robin and the others are doing a good job without us?"
Alex: "What are you worried about BB? I'm pretty sure they have the situation under control."
Boy was he wrong. Back with the Titans, they were having a real hard time. Robin was swinging his R-Sword left and right to either back the hoard away or cut them through their waists, arms, or heads. Cyborg was using the damaged bent girder to swing it at the ones that were heading towards them. Raven was flying around using black barriers to protect her from flying fireballs and tossing tools, debris, and barrels at every directions, killing off everyone in site. But despite all their efforts, more creatures swarm around them thanks to the Archviles and commence their attack. Robin notice he was completely surrounded by the creatures, so he took out his grappling hook and fired it at one of the higher girders. He pushed the button and flew in the air, getting away from the surrounded hoard. Once he swung away, he flew down to the ground and landed next to Cyborg who was still swinging the girder around to take out a couple of more beasts. He joined the hybrid and helps him with the swarm, but they were still outnumbered.
Cyborg: "Damn it! They're too many of them. We can't hold them off much longer!"
Robin: "We have to! We got to hold them back a little longer until Beast Boy and Alex show up."
The two kept on attacking anything that gets close to them and hope that their two teammates would come. What they didn't know was that hiding behind one of the pillar like girders, a Vulgar was waiting for the right moment to strike. When it saw Cyborg turned his back at it while he was swinging the girder at a Wraith and Maggot, it got the opening it need. The skeleton bug jumped out of its hiding place and with much force, speared him in the back, and tackled the hybrid on the ground. Robin heard the shriek the creature made before it leapt and Cyborg's grunt. He turned around and saw the Vulgar on top of Cy, trying its best the scratch its way through the HAZMAT armor.
Robin: "Cyborg!!!"
He raced in to save him, but an Imp came up in front of him and shrieked. Robin jumped up and sliced it down the middle with his R-Sword and watched it fall and two separate directions and disintegrated. He was about to rescue him, but now a Maggot and Wraith blocked his way. Getting a little pissed off now, He kept using his sword to clear a path for him to save his friend. Speaking of which, Cyborg was trying his best to get the Vulgar off of him. But the creature kept clinging on to his suit, he's afraid that it might rip the outfit up and he'll be exposed from the Mars surface with little air. So he pulled off all the stops to make sure he get out of this mess.
Cyborg: "Argh… Get off of me you bug eyed freak!"
The Vulgar, knowing the scratching through his armor suit wasn't enough, then charged up a fireball to see if that would do the trick. Cy thought it was all over for him and closed his eyes to feel it coming. But just before the creature could hit him with the green flame, it was randomly hit by blue projectiles. After all those many hits, it fell off Cyborg and dissolved in the process. The hybrid looked to the left to see where those hits came from and saw Alex and Beast Boy with their weapons ready for an attack. Once they saw the multiple hoards of monsters just about everywhere, BB looked at Alex and cocked an eyebrow.
Beast Boy: "You were saying?"
Alex: "Well I could be wrong."
Few of the creatures saw the two and began charging in for the kill. Alex kept using his plasma gun to moe down half of them while Beast Boy lifted off one of the flammable barrels, and tossed it to rest of the batch. Once it was all clear, the two came to Cyborg's aid and see if he's all right. Of course, he did have scratch marks on his HAZMAT armor, but not deep enough to penetrate through the suit.
Alex: "Hey Cy, you cool?"
Cyborg: "Yeah, I'm 'aight. If you guys haven't been here sooner, I would've been a goner."
They got the hybrid up and Alex noticed Cy's chain gun almost out of ammo.
Alex: "I could see that you're almost out."
Cyborg: "Yeah. Had to use a girder to fend them off."
The guardian took out the ammo belts he was carrying and gave them to Cyborg.
Alex: "Here. This can help you dispose of those freak shows."
Cyborg look at the ammo belts, strapped it to the chain gun, and saw the screen went from ten to six hundred. Once he saw his ammo full, he smirked.
Cyborg: "Aw yeah. Now I'm good to go!"
He looked up to see more monsters coming their way and pointed his chain gun to open fire. Alex joined in and used his plasma rifle to rip a few more to pieces. Then Beast Boy came in a grabbed a couple of fire balls with his weapon and launched them back at the hoard. As the three were attacking the charging creatures up front, three Maggots came up from the rear and leapt up to kill them from behind. When they were about to do that, ten birdarangs came down from the sky and completely rip them a set of holes in their bodies. The three teammates looked behind to see the three creatures disintegrated to nothing and wondered who did it. But they were caught off guard as three Imps rushed in and tried to rip them apart. Suddenly, from out of nowhere, Robin came down and used his sword to cut the first one up the middle. The second Imp looked at the Boy Wonder and used its claws to slice his helmet's visor, but Robin ducked, swung his sword to cut its claw hands, then spun in a circle to rip it in half in the middle. The third Imp then charged a fireball and threw it to Robin. But he side step to avoid it, turned halfway, positioned his sword, and stabbed the creature by the waist with his back turned. He then removed his sword, jump up, and slice its head by the neck. Once all three Imps were dead, he swiped the sword to get rid of the blood at looked at the three friends that saw the whole thing.
Robin: "What? Can't let you guys have all the fun."
They all then heard more roaring and looked all over to see a swarm of monsters everywhere. They all readied themselves and waited to see which creature would die first. But just when they were going to do some damage, five Revenants appeared a few floors above. They looked up to see them as the skeleton soldiers fired the shoulder-mounted cannons. The missiles headed straight to the team, but Raven flew down behind them and formed a dome shield to block off the missiles. She then levitate a stack of steel floor boards next to the dome, split them apart, and threw them at the Revenants. It all sliced them in multiple parts and killed them all. The Imps and Vulgars threw their fireballs at the dome to see if they can weaken it. While they were doing that, the Titans and Alex were coming up with another plan.
Alex: "I take it Starfire didn't finish the job."
Robin: "Yeah, you could say that."
Beast Boy: "Dude, what just happened? The moment Alex and I left, this area was under control. Now it's back to where it started. Did Starfire die fighting the Archviles off or something?"
Upon hearing that, Robin turned his head directly at the changeling and angrily answered back.
Robin: "Don't you dare say that! She can't be dead! She can't!"
Beast Boy frantically waved his hands and tried to calm the leader down.
Beast Boy: "All right, all right! Calm down Rob, I didn't really mean it. I'm just wondering that's all."
Alex: "Well whatever happened, we have to find out right away. But first, we have to get to the lift right now and put the power cell in the generator."
Cyborg: "There's only one problem… How are we going to get to the lift and place the cell in the generator if we're on the other side of the area, with a number of monsters around us?"
Raven: "Leave that to me."
Raven concentrated more and within seconds, the dome grew so big that it made everyone outside the dome went flying after one big push. Every creature hit every girder that was around them and knocked them unconscious, but not dead. When that was done, Raven let down her dome and Alex gave the orders.
Alex: "All right, everyone move out!"
Immediately everyone raced to the lift, passing every creature that's knocked out. When they made it, Alex removed the power cell from his back, placed it into the portable power plant, and pressed the "Insert" icon on the screen. Within seconds, the generator powered up and the lift was back online. He then approached the lift entrance and pushed on the "Call Lift" icon.
Alex: "Everybody in!"
The Titan entered the lift while Alex looked at behind him and saw some of the creatures stirring and getting up.
Alex: "And just in time too."
He entered the elevator and pressed on the icon that would take them to the top floor. And Imp was the first to got up and raced to the lift where the doors were closing. The steel doors sealed shut the same time the Imp hit the lift doors and cling on to them. The Titan boys got started when the Imp got a hold of the caged doors, but were glad it didn't get in. The lift ascended upwards to reach the top floor while Alex sighed.
Alex: "That should give us a breather for a while. But don't think for a minute that this rest is permanent."
He then place hand on his helmet and was doing something odd. Robin saw him doing that and wondered what he's up to.
Robin: "What are you doing?"
Alex: "Trying to get to Starfire. You should know by now that we have comm. links on your backs. I hope she knows."
He opened his comm. channel and tries to see if he gets Star's comm.
Alex: "Starfire, are you there? Come in Starfire."
There was nothing but static.
Alex: "Starfire, do you read me? This is Alex. Can you hear me?"
Still nothing but static. Just when he thought she was dead, he heard Star's voice through the comm.
Starfire: "Uh… Hello? Alex? Is that you?"
Alex sighed in relief when he heard her voice and answered back.
Alex: "Yes Starfire. It's me."
Starfire: "Oh, thank X'hal. I thought you were all goners and-"
She suddenly yelped and a sound of a commit passed her. Alex heard that and was now seriously nervous.
Alex: "Star, are you hurt."
Starfire: "No, not at the moment at least."
Alex: "Then what happened, I thought I told you to take care of the Archviles."
Back in the air, Starfire was still flying about dodging and attacking the Cacodemons that kept on appearing every time she kill some more. While she was doing that, she was communicating through her radio pack on her back, not driving any attention away from the creatures.
Starfire: "I was doing that. But of course these Archviles had summoned the Cacodemons to keep me distracted. I am trying my best to get them off my back, but they just keep coming!"
She intently ducked one blast and launched a large energy blast out of her hand to destroy another floating head.
Back at the lift…
Starfire: "I don't know if I can hold them off for much longer."
Alex: "Don't worry Starfire. We're on our way to help you. Just stay put."
Alex shut off the comm. channel and rubbed the top of his helmet.
Alex: "Shit, I should've seen this coming."
The team looked at Alex and was a bit worried as Robin came in to ask.
Robin: "What happened?"
Alex looked at Robin and explained the situation.
Alex: "Well the good news is that Starfire's still alive. Bad news is that she's being attacked by a swarm of Cacodemons. That's why she wasn't disposing the Archviles. They must've somehow summoned those beastly heads to attack her. We have to save her and dispose of those Archviles quickly before they summoned more of those things."
Beast Boy: "And how are we going to stop all four of them?"
Alex: "That I don't know. But I'll think of a way in taking care of them."
When BB heard that, he sighed.
Beast Boy: "Terrific…"
Seconds later, the lift then slowed to a complete stop, taking them up to the top floor. Alex turned around to see the lift's door and readied his plasma rifle.
Alex: "Here we go."
The others readied themselves for the battle as well, the same time the lift gates opened up and down. Once the path is clear, and team got out and looked up at the sky to see their Tamaranean friend fending off the Cacodemon's wrath.
Alex: "Raven, go help Starfire out. The rest of you are with me. Move out!"
Raven flew up in the air and aid Star while the boys ran on the girders and metal floors to reach to their target.
Cyborg: "Um… Aren't we supposed to help Star and Rae on the Cacodemons?"
Alex: "No, too far away. We don't want to be wasting our ammo."
Cyborg: "Then who are we going after?!"
The four then approached a couple of workstations where there are tools, equipment, and metal ready to weld and piece together. When they passed a couple Alex noticed a line of fire heading straight towards them and looked at the others.
Alex: "Take cover!"
They quickly split up and a fiery line went past them. Robin and Beast Boy were hiding behind one station while the Alex and Cyborg was at another. The four then peaked their heads and saw the two Archviles heading straight towards them with their flaming hands at the ready.
Alex: "That's who we're going after."
Beast Boy: "Aw man… I knew he was going to say that. So do you have a plan now?"
Alex: "Still working on it."
Beast Boy gulped when he heard that answer.
Beast Boy: "And I was afraid he would say that too."
Robin: "Well, whatever plan you come up with it better work. Even if we keep cover, it will only be a matter of time they could-"
Within an instant, the humanoid creatures raised their hands and shrieked as seven Revenants appeared from behind the team. Everyone instantly turned around and saw them the grunting.
Robin: "summon more monsters…"
The skeleton soldiers fired their rockets at them the same time the Boy Wonder took out his exploding disks and threw them at the rockets. They all collided with each other and created a huge explosion, away from the Revenants and the team thank goodness.
Back in the air, Starfire was taking care of the Cacodemons by shooting her star bolts with her hands. She was even swifting around to avoid the energy blasts the creatures spat at her. She turned around to see the few floating heads and placed her hands together to create a beam of energy to rip a hole in one of the monsters. While she was using the line to kill the next one, three more Cacodemons came up from behind, the fired their blasts. They were hurtling straight to her without her knowing it until a black barrier appeared and ward off the blasts. Star turned around and spotted the black shield and the floating heads. It was then that Raven came out of the barrier and was in front of Star's face and the shield disappeared behind her.
Raven: "Looks like you could use a little help."
Starfire smiled when she now knows her friend is assisting her. They then turned around with each other backs against each other and observed the Cacodemons surrounding them. They immediately fired back with star bolts and aurora blasts, killing half the hoard. But more of them were being summoned the other two Archviles that were watching on. The newly created swarm then fired their blasts at the same time while Raven formed a bubble shield to protect her and Star from the attack. After she done that, the Tamaranean looked at Rae and smiled.
Starfire: "Oh, I'm so glad that you are here to aid me friend Raven. But I was wondering, what happened to the others."
Raven: "I believe that they're on top of the construction site warding off the Archviles. Don't worry; I think they're taking care of themselves."
When the blasts ceased and the smoke is clear, Raven let down her shield and the two girls charged in for the attack.
Back on the top floor, the boys were standing between a rock and a very hard place. Or to their point of view, a bunch of Revenants and two Archviles. Alex and Cyborg teamed up to take care of the skeleton soldiers by Al using the plasma fire to take out of the rockets and Cy who was using the chain gun to rip them apart. Robin and Beast Boy, on the other hand, were facing the Archviles as they threw disks and flammable barrels at them. But the humanoids dodged the projectiles and launched a wave of flames at them. So the two teammates hid behind the workstations and to cover flames swept past them. Fortunate for them that the workstations were metal or they would've been roasted. Beast Boy then looked at his leader and wondered something.
Beast Boy: "Is it just me, or are these things are more aggressive then the last one."
Robin looked at the changeling and answered.
Robin: "I would say it's just you, but then I would be thinking the same thing. I believe that Betruger set all this up so he could watch us die. I mean one Archvile is bad enough, but four of them, that's a whole lot worse!"
He then looked back at the two creatures and saw one of them raising its hands up and screamed. The Boy Wonder immediately turn his head to see Cyborg and Alex trying their best to hold off the Revenants, but more of them appeared behind the first batch.
Robin: "And I got the feeling that if we don't stop them soon, we won't stand a chance."
Beast Boy: "Well any ideas on how we stop them? Cause I don't think Alex can come up with anything."
Robin did some thinking of this, and came up with one decision.
Robin: "I got it. But I don't think it would last very long."
Beast Boy: "Well what are you waiting for? Do something or else I'm going to turn into Fried Beast Boy!"
Robin nodded as he took out a couple of freeze disks from his utility belt and waited for the right moment. He looked back to see his other teammates killing off a few more Revenants with their weapons. When he looked back and took a peek at the two Archviles that started to summon more, it gave them the opening he needs. With the right timing, he came out of his hiding spot and threw the disks at the humanoids. They were going to summon more Revenants until the disks hit them and turned them into ice. Beast Boy took a look at the two ice creatures and came out of his hiding place, knowing that that's over for now.
Beast Boy: "Didn't kill them, but it's effective none the less."
Robin: "Now all we have to do is to help the others. Let's go Beast Boy!"
Quickly enough, both Robin and Beast Boy headed straight to where Cyborg and Alex are. Speaking of which, both the Guardian and the Titan were having a hard time taking out the hoard of skeletons. Alex was taking care of the last two rockets until he ran out of plasma projectiles. When he looked at the screen that said, "0/326", he lift his head up, rolled his eyes and said…
Alex: "Shit, I'm out of ammo! I need to reload!"
Cyborg: "Well you better hurry up! I can't hold this for much-"
Suddenly, Robin jumped up from behind the two and threw multiple disks at the creatures. After the exploding disks killed half of them while four exploding barrels flew past them and hit the rest. When all of them died, Alex and Cyborg turned back to see Robin and Beast Boy heading straight towards them. They all came together as Alex sighed in relief and inserted a fresh cell cartridge.
Alex: "Thanks for the help. But I thought you're suppose to handle the Archviles."
Robin: "They have been taken care of. Let's just say that they're a little on ice."
He pointed to what he did back there as the two took a look at the humanoids on ice. Alex nodded when he saw the sculptures.
Alex: "Nice… But you do know that it won't last long."
Robin: "I know. But it will give us time to think of a strategy. Now what are we going to do."
Alex: "Right now our main goal is to kill those Archviles before they could summon more monsters. So we can proceed to Gamma without any more problems."
Beast Boy turned his head to see Alex and asked the same question.
Beast Boy: "I hope maybe this time you came up with a plan."
Alex looked at the changeling and answered.
Alex: "I'm still working on that."
To that end, Beast Boy once again pouted.
Cyborg: "Well we gotta come up with something fast. It would only be a matter of time before those two thaw out. And I don't think Star and Rae can last long."
Robin: "That's true, but what can we use to take all the Archviles and the creatures they summoned out of our hair?"
While the three Titans were thinking of a plan, Alex looked up and saw something above them. It was a big crane with an arm holding a heavy cylinder tube. Inspecting the crane, Alex knows how to stop them all.
Alex: "I got it."
The three then looked at their guardian when he said it.
Cyborg: "Got what?"
Alex looked at the Titans and told them the plan.
Alex: "I know how we can take them all out."
Beast Boy: "Finally! What's the plan?"
Al turned his head to see Robin and asked him something.
Alex: "Robin, do you have any of those detonators in your belt?"
Robin: "Plenty."
Alex: "Good, you come with me."
He then looked at Beast Boy and Cyborg to give them their details.
Alex: "Cyborg and Beast Boy, hold down the fort while Robin and I head to the crane to do some heavy duty demolition."
The two nodded as Alex look at Rob.
Alex: "Let's go."
As soon as the guardian and Titan leader left to reach the crane, both the hybrid and the changeling looked ice sculptures that were melting, due to the Archvile's fiery hands and were causing the ice to melt. When they break free form their icy tombs, they looked at the two Titans and started summoning more Revenants. When they appear, the two looked at the group of skeletons roaring behind them then look back at the two humanoids. They then looked at each other to see who gets who until Cyborg made the decision.
Cyborg: "I'll take care of the Archivles, you'll handle the Revenants!"
Cy headed to the direction where the Archviles are while BB looks at the Revenants positioning themselves for attack.
Beast Boy: "I hate it when this happens."
He readied himself with the Grabber in his hands while the skeleton soldiers fired their rockets at the changeling.
Up in the air, Starfre and Raven was shooting down Cacodemons just about everywhere. Three Cacodemons spat out their blasts at the two girls, but Raven senses that, turned to the right, and created a wall to knock the blasts off. Starfire then came in and took them out with her star bolts. But right after she took care of them, five more came out of nowhere from behind and opened fire on the two. Raven felt that too, turned around, and formed another black wall and deflects the attacks. Then she turned it off and started firing aurora blasts while Starfire took care of the others on the other side with her bolts of energy. While the girls were taking care of business, the Archviles on the ground were summoning more Cacodemons to outnumber them. One of them then noticed something at the farther end where the large crane is and saw two shadows, one taking up guarding position and the other putting something on the base of the crane. The humanoid thought it would be trouble and decided to take some action of its own.
Heading to the crane, the two shadows were none other then Alex and Robin. Robin was placing his charges on the crane's base while Alex was keeping an eye out for anything coming their way with his plasma rifle at the ready.
Robin: "And are you sure this is a good idea?"
Alex: "Of course I'm sure of this Robin. That crane is big enough to take out anything that's either in or around the creature's path. Once all the detonators are in place, you set them to explode and let the crane fall to the construction site."
He looked up to see the sand blowing in a different direction, the same path as the crane would fall from.
Alex: "And by the way the wind's blowing, it looks like the time is right."
Robin: "But you should know by now that if this falls on them, then the whole construction are would be completely demolished."
Alex: "That maybe true, but I don't thing anyone's going to build this place up any time soon."
Just when Robin was going to make it to the corner, they heard those strange whispers again. Suddenly, multiple clouds appeared around the crane and out of the lightning bolts were a swarm of Lost Souls, with the help of one of the Archviles who took notice at what's transpiring.
Alex: "Great, just our luck. You keep planting those charges Robin while I hold them off as long as I can! Hurry!"
Robin looked at Alex, nodded, and went back to placing detonators on the left side of the base. Alex aimed his weapon at the flaming heads charging right towards them and opened fire.
In another part of the site, Cyborg and Beast Boy was using anything they can to hold off their own problems. Cy was using his chain gun to make mints meat out of the two Archviles, but the humanoids rolled out of the way and threw lines of flame at him. The hybrid immediately took cover as one of the workstations as the flames soured past him.
Cyborg: "Ha, is that the best you got?!"
Once the flames passed, he came out of his hiding place continued the assault. Beast Boy was doing the same thing when he's fighting off the Revenants. But instead of firing a projectile at them, he was using his Grabber to revert the missiles away from him. An interesting strategy, but it works.
Up at the sky, Star and Rae still kept fighting off the Cacodemons with their own resources. Raven used her black magic to cover three standing girders on the top floor and lift them out of their foundation. She then waved her arms to her as the girders glided straight to them and hit ten floating heads, missing the girls. But after she took care of them, more Cacodemons appeared, fifteen more. Raven saw them all the cursed in her own breath.
Raven: "Son of a bitch, this is ridiculous. Everytime we take out one Cacodemons, more of them show up. It's like a never ending cycle."
Starfire: "What ever the case, we must destroy them!"
Starfire then flew up in the air and started spinning her own body in circles. She then fired a rain of star bolts all around and killed every floating head that came into contact with it, even the ones that were summoned.
Back to the crane Robin was just about done, running around the structure and connecting detonators at its base. Alex was following the Titan leader, protecting him from the Lost Souls flying directly towards them. He was blasting them with the Plasma Rifle he was holding and quickly reloading before more of them flaming heads could attack. They were already at the last side of the crane as Robin put the last charges on the base. And unfortunate for Alex, he was running out of plasma cartridges. When the Boy Wonder placed the last detonator on the pillar, he looked at Alex who was still taking out Lost Souls left and right.
Robin: "Hey Alex, I'm all done."
Alex: "Finally! Now activate the detonators so we can end this mess at once!"
Alex immediately ran away from the crane while Robin pushed the button in the middle of the charge and it blinked red. He immediately followed Alex as the Lost Souls followed after them.
Robin: "Fire in the hole!"
When the Boy Wonder yelled that out, the red light on the detonator blinked faster and faster until stayed red. Suddenly, the charge exploded; making all the other detonators explode, cause a chain reaction around the crane's base and killing off all the Lost Souls around the blast. All the Titans and monsters heard the explosion and turned their heads to see the huge cloud of flames at the crane. Alex and Robin, who were away from the explosion, watched on to see if it worked. And to their luck, it did. From behind the flames, all the metal on the base melted completely and the crane started to turn clockwise and tipped over. And thanks to the high winds blowing it to the left, it was heading straight towards the construction site. Cyborg and Beast Boy saw it falling straight towards them and had eyes wide in fear.
Beast Boy: "Uh… Cyborg?"
Cyborg: "Yeah BB."
Beast Boy: "I think we have to run now."
Cyborg: "I couldn't agree with you more."
They then immediately ran for their live, passing the Revenants, and screaming like there's no tomorrow. Alex and Robin did the same as they were running away from the falling crane. Back in the air, Raven and Starfire saw the whole thing and noticed the boys running away from the soon to be wreck, but they won't make it out of there alive. That made Starfire gasped, realizing what would happen.
Starfire: "Our friends are in danger! We have to help them!"
Suddenly, few more energy blasts came behind them. But Raven quickly shielded them from the blast and looked at the hoard of Cacodemons.
Raven: "First thing first."
She charged her aurora energy while Starfire charged her star bolts. They then placed the hands together and say the magic words.
Starfire and Raven: "Azarath, Metrion, ZINTHOS!!!"
Within seconds, a ball of black and green energy surround them and grew bigger, killing off all the floating heads once they touched it. When they're all dead, the ball of energy faded, the girls then flew down to rescue their friends. Ask for the boys, they kept running as fast as they could, but no matter how fast they go, they couldn't get away from the crane that fall past them. That's when Raven and Starfire came in and lift them out of the way by using their alien strength for Robin and Alex to grab Star's arms and a black disk to hover Cyborg and Beast Boy. The girls just lift them up to safety just in time for and crane to fall on the site. But unfortunate for the creatures, they just stood there and watched on to see the crane heading to them, without thinking of getting out of the way. The crane then crashed on the top part of the construction site and destroyed the entire place, ripping through floors and floors, causing random explosions, and killing every creature that came into contact with it, especially the Archviles. The Titans and Alex looked down to see the middle of the construction site ripped to shreds with Robin sighing under his breath.
Robin: "That was too close."
He then looked at Alex who came up with this plan to begin with and argued at him.
Robin: "Alex, that was the most stupidest and deadly plan you ever came up with. You almost got us killed!"
Alex: "Ah quit your whining. At least it worked."
When the smoked cleared and the construction area was nothing but a big gapping hole. Starfire and Raven flew down through it and carefully avoided the twisted metal and sharp edges. They made it to the ground floor as Robin and Alex let go of Star's arms and Beast Boy and Cyborg got off the disk. Once they took a clear look at the damage caused by the crane, Cy whistled and shook his head.
Cyborg: "So much for the recreation center."
Beast Boy: "At least those things are gone."
Alex: "For now. After what happened to this place, it will just be a matter of time before reinforcements show up. Let's start searching for the cave entrance."
Alex took out his PDA to access the digital map and walked forward as Rob looked at him and raised his eyebrow a little."
Robin: "And where do you think this cave's going to be after what transpired just now?"
Alex: "Well according to my PDA, the entrance to cave should be right about…"
He then stopped and looked at the pile of debris next on the side of a cliff with a few gapping holes poking out here and there.
Alex: "Here."
The rest of the team approached the sealed entrance and looked at it.
Raven: "Looks like we're blocked off."
Robin: "Not anymore. Starfire, Cyborg, give us an opening."
Starfire: "Affirmative."
The two walked straight to the debris and lifted the twisted metal and ripped girders with their unimaginable strength. Once the path was clear, the rest of the team approached the entrance and stopped when they saw the entrance to the cave was completely dark and cold. BB swallowed a lump knowing that this won't be easy and decided to joke about it.
Beast Boy: "O.K. Who wants to go into the creepy dark tunnel first?"
FINALLY! I'm done with this chapter! Took me like over a month to do all this, what with the projects and finals I had to do in college and everything. But now that my semester's over, I can now have all the free time I want all summer. So I hope I can do my updates much faster then before. And you think this chapter was aggressive, wait until you see the third part of the Mars Surface. When the team entered the cave that would take them to Gamma, they are about to meet an old friend of theirs, and when I mean friend, I mean enemy. And no its not Terra, you have to wait and find out for yourselves. Please Review.