Hey!! HarryPotterFan1994 here! Does anyone remember me? *knocks at the theoretical wall* Hello? I know I've been gone a long time...I'm sorry. I was experimenting to find out whether I was really addicting to FanFiction or not!!! Turns out, I am... :)
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Starfire was in an unbelieveable amount of pain. The rocket had burned her, took a good chunk out of her side, and she was bleeding freely. Her head and spine were splitting open, probably from her less-than-graceful crash landing, and the rain continued to send sharp slices of agony through her whole body in spasms. She fought to stay conscious.
"Dick...Dick, please..."
There was no chance he would hear her. She couldn't even scream properly. Hot tears rolled down her face, and she could do nothing to wipe them away. Her vision blackened, and she welcomed the peace with all of her dying heart.
"We HAVE to find her!" Dick roared, fighting against Vic's grip. "Let me GO!"
"Calm down enough to listen, will you?" The team had run to the nearest shelter they could find, knowing back up for the ships was bound to come soon. They couldn't fight in an acid rain storm, the risks were even higher. Currently they were hiding out in a civilian home; where the said civilian was, they had no idea. "We're running a scan over the ground around us. We can't go out into that kind of storm and wander around, there has to be something for us to find. As soon as we do, Raven's okay enough to conjure up something to protect us while we walk. We'll get her, I promise."
Dick went limp, his eyes completely dull. "She's out there."
Even he wasn't sure what he meant. Dick was dependant on the fact that she hadn't been blown apart by the Gordanians, but out in all that rain...
"Let's go," muttered Raven darkly. Dick hadn't even noticed she was hurt, but she kept it covered well. "Dick, Vic, come with me. Everyone else, stay here."
Dick wasted no time in running outside, and Raven barely had a second to put up a barrier. "Where do we go?" Dick growled at Vic.
"North." They ran, following Vic's directions until Dick spotted a smudge of a body in the distance.
"KORY! KORY!" He sprinted towards her, and Raven extended her barrier to include the alien under it. Dick knelt by her side, brushing her hair out of her face. Her skin was so, so cold. "Is she..."
"I can't tell. Bring her back to the shelter, I can't hold this long enough for us to figure it out here," Raven said, blinking beads of sweat out of her eyes. "Grab one of my arms. Hold on to Kory."
As if Dick had any intention of letting go of her.
This time, he expected the nothingness as they traveled inside the ground. It didn't feel much different from what state he was in already. The journey was quick and difficult on Raven's part, but when they emerged, he could barely tell that his worry had lifted slightly. It scared him.
Vic had taken Kory away. Raven had gone with him. Everyone else was busy watching for Citadelian guard or restraining Dick. The rain refused to let up, but was instead falling in thick sheets, pretty much eroding the ground.
"This is disgusting," Alan said. "How does anyone live here? A couple more hours and I might wanna go blow up another planet, too."
Dick got up, and a couple of people made to hold him down, but he waved them off. "I just want to see her. I won't do anything stupid." He turned on his heel and left the room, entering a labyrinth of hallways he hadn't expected from such a small (in comparison to Wayne Manor) house. Sure he had taken a wrong turn somewhere, Dick wandered until he began to hear voices.
"Let go of me, you stupid animal!" That was unmistakably Colette. A hiss that sounded like a snake on laughing gas emitted from behind a wall. Dick could not find a way into that room.
"Inssssults won't help you or your friendsss, watch girl. They'll never know we're in here...and you mossst definitely won't be telling them..." Dick didn't know what exactly happened next, but it sounded like a blade had cut through human flesh. In any case, Colette was silenced. No longer caring about a door, Dick jammed his elbow into the wall as hard as he could. Thankfully, it was flimsy enough to break.
The Gordanians inside were so surprised to see him, they froze. One of them was holding Colette's body, his arms covered in a red, red substance that gushed from her throat. The other was holding a blood-covered knife. Dick would've puked, but he didn't have time. In one battle-cry fueled punch, he'd knocked the blade-wielding lizard out. It took the second one a split second to drop Colette's body, but that was a split second too long. A second roundhouse took care of him.
"Dick!"
Breathing hard, Dick glanced up. Karen stood there, followed by a few other people. "I heard you yell--"
Gregor bellowed suddenly, spotting Colette's body. His eyes snapped to the unconscious Gordanians. In seconds, he was on top of one of them, beating its lights out. No one bothered to do anything about it.
"Get Colette out of here," Karen commanded shakily to no one in particular. "When Greg calms down, take him, too. Dick, come with me. There might have been other agents that've been...taken out."
There was one more. Harold was out for the count. Both the bodies were deposited with Vic, who took them gravely.
"We need to do something. Now," Dick muttered to the remaining agents when he and Karen reappeared in the common area. "I don't know who those two were working for, but it doesn't matter. They found us. More are going to find us, and they're going to try to kill us. We can't have anybody else hurt."
"So what do we do?" asked Gar.
"I think I might have something." A raven shot up from the ground, revealing a heavily bandaged sorceress inside. "On the way back from getting Kory, we passed under a building a few Earth miles off. There was a large gathering of Citadelians and Gordanian guards. I'm guessing there's a meeting of some sort. If we can get someone in there, plant an explosive, and leave, we could take out a good number of them."
"How do you know this?" Toni questioned.
"We can have an in-depth discussion of what I can do later. What we need is some sort of portable shelter to take someone--"
"I'll go," Dick said at once. She shook her head.
"You humans won't stand a chance if you were attacked upon."
"Neither would you," argued Gar. "You look like a mummy, and I bet you're halfway there. I could fly inside and--"
"Would you know how to code a bomb, Gar?"
"Well, can you transform into a T-Rex?"
"Well, I have a--"
"Well, I could--"
"Well, I--"
"STOP!" Dick shouted. Everyone turned and shushed him. "This isn't getting us anywhere. What exactly are we planting?"
Alan tossed a hockey-puck shaped object at him. "It's Mr. Wayne's. Well, obviously, but I meant he made that one from scratch. Has a blast radius of about fifty yards."
"This little thing?"
"Yeah. Lots of punch. Once it's set, you've got two minutes to get out of the place."
"Good, that's plenty of time. Raven, I want you to take me."
"Why? That's more load than I need, Dick."
"Just do it. There's someone who might be there that I want to talk to."
"Dick, this really isn't the time to settle scores. Whoever it is might get blown to pieces anyway."
Dick grit his teeth against his conscience. "Let's just make sure of that."
Again, Dick found himself traveling through nothing with Raven. It was slower and jerkier, as if something was tugging them back. Even he could tell, through his hate-filled thoughts of traveling like this. Finally, they surfaced in an empty hallway, with Raven breathing hard. She was even paler than usual, and sunk down to the floor, clutching her side. "Go," she gasped. Dick wasted no time.
He trekked quietly, listening for even a slight murmur of voices. Once he found them, his pace increased. There was a room at the end of the hall that appeared to be full of aliens. Dick gently placed the disk on the door and pressed the only button on it.
It beeped.
There had been someone speaking just on the other side of the door. The speaker stopped, and the knob began to turn. Dick had nowhere to hide.
The head that poked out, though, was a familiar one. In fact, it was just who Dick had been hoping to see. It broke into an evil grin at the sight of him. "Ah...my only human passenger, back from the dead. Perhaps you humans make better trade than I realized. You seem to have nine lives."
"Captain," Dick spat out.
"This will only take a moment," the Q'sta captain called into the room. He stepped out. "Why don't you be a nice slave and stand still while I--ugh!" With all his strength, Dick pounded him in the head. It didn't knock the captain out. Dick hadn't expected it to.
"You will pay," he seethed, "for what you've done to Kory." A well-placed kick to the stomach made the captain double over. "You don't deserve to live, you filthy"--punch--"cowardly"--kick--"idiotic bastard." The captain was wheezing for breath, still too shocked to realize what was happening. Dick pinned him to the wall, lifting him a full six inches off the ground with the strength his anger gave him. "You see that clock? That's how much time you've got left to live. You and all your sick friends. Say your prayers." Dick would've been lying if he said he didn't enjoy the fear that crossed the lizard's face before he pounded its head on the wall, no longer caring who heard. The captain was out cold, and Dick had about a minute left.
He ran back to Raven, who looked even worse than before. "I can't," she wheezed, shaking her head. "I can't go."
This was not expected.
"Raven, you don't need to take me. Just get yourself out of here."
"No." Her body convulsed with the word.
"Raven, please." He bent down to grab her shoulders. "Please, get out of here. I need you to leave. We don't have much time!"
"I can't."
Dick heard screams. Someone had found the bomb. People were panicking, and that meant they didn't have time enough to leave the building.
"Raven, GO!"
The sky is falling! The roof was torn off completely. Dick would've thought it was the explosion, but there was no fire. Instead, a huge Gordanian ship hovered over them, with Kory flying out of the escape hatch to grab him. Dick held Raven as they soared into the air, feeling the heat of the blast behind him.
One more chapter left! Which I promise I will finish. And I'll finish Escaping Egypt, too. I don't really know after that. Alright then...well, it'll be nice to talk to everybody again!