Part 14: Shadowcobra and Beast Boy's Crazy Adventure
Beast Boy woke up and was bored as Hell. Everyone else had gone out, which left him all alone in the Tower. At least, ho could play his video games without anyone bothering him.
In the common room, he realized that he wasn't alone. Shadowcobra was sitting on the couch, in front of the TV, reading.
Beast Boy shrugged and jumped over the back of the couch to land on it. Shadowcobra's eyes moved to the side.
"And I thought I was alone in the Tower…" Shadowcobra muttered before going back to his book.
"Where is everyone anyway?" Beast Boy asked.
Shadowcobra raised his hand and counted down with his fingers. "Raven and Jinx are at a Sorceress Convention, Cyborg is at an Auto Show showing off the T-Car, Robin went out on a date with Starfire, and Terra, Blackfire, Pluto and Draco went out to the park to play football."
"And they didn't think to ask me?" Beast Boy complained.
Shadowcobra shrugged. "You slept in too late while everyone was up nice and early. It's already 5pm."
"And you're here, coz?" Beast Boy asked.
"Someone needs to guard and monitor the Tower as well as watch out for any criminal activity. Besides, it was my turn to volunteer anyway."
Beast Boy looked at the abandoned Gamestation and then back at Shadowcobra. With a nervous smile, he began, "So, Shadowcobra, wanna-"
"No," Shadowcobra cut him off.
"But you didn't let me finish!" Beast Boy protested.
"You wanted me to join you and play idiotic videogames," Shadowcobra shook his head. "No thank you. I have more important things to do."
"But you play Duel Monsters, right?" Beast Boy reminded.
Shadowcobra let his book down, "Logan. May I remind you that I am a Knight, a Duelist and a Mage? I don't do videogames." He continued, "And besides, playing that dreadful stankball game was bad enough already."
Beast Boy crossed his arms and pouted as he slouched in the couch, "You're no fun! You're like Raven!"
"Maybe that's why we understand each other."
"Fine!" Beast Boy surrendered. "What do you want to do?"
Shadowcobra's eyebrow twitched, "Sit here in peaceful silence and read my book."
Beast Boy was about to say something, but was cut off by Shadowcobra's finger.
"For now and forever, I will and won't ever, play videogames. Case closed."
Grouch! Beast Boy thought.
"I heard that," Shadowcobra said.
Beast Boy grumbled.
One hour later...
Shadowcobra felt Beast Boy's boredom and was getting extremely bothered by the way Beast Boy moaned. With a sigh of defeat, Shadowcobra let down his book.
"Fine," Shadowcobra said, "Let's play."
Beast Boy's head shot up, eyes wide. He couldn't believe what he just heard. "What?"
"Do you want me to say it again?" Shadowcobra hissed, eyes glowing red. Beast Boy gulped.
"Okay, what do you want to play?" Beast Boy asked.
"Pick something, anything. I want to see what is so interesting about these Videogames." I can't believe I just said that.
"I think you'll like, Tekken 3!" Beast Boy announced.
"Just start," Shadowcobra said as he picked up the controller. Beast Boy turned on the TV and Game and started playing.
An hour or two later…
"And I win again," Shadowcobra said, emotions none evident in his voice.
Beast Boy's jaw dropped.
Out of the thirty games they have been playing, Shadowcobra had won them all.
Beast Boy narrowed his eyes suspiciously at Shadowcobra. "I thought you said that you don't "do" videogames."
"I don't," Shadowcobra said. "However, it does not I mean I do not occasionally play now and then. Blame Draco and Pluto for dragging me to Arcades back home and making me play these things."
Beast Boy was silent and immediately grumbled.
Shadowcobra looked at the clock, "The others should be back by now," he commented.
Suddenly, the TV's image shifted from the game to the face of a man with a black hair in a bowl cut hairstyle and large, round rimmed, glasses.
"GREETINGS Shadowcobra and Beast Boy!" the man announced.
"Who are you?" Shadowcobra asked, raising an eyebrow.
"Yeah, what he said!" Beast Boy added.
"I am THE COLLECTOR!" the man laughed manically.
Both Beast Boy and Shadowcobra sweatdropped.
"Okay…" Beast Boy said awkwardly, "And what is it you want exactly?"
"Ever since I first saw you, I've had a dream to collect every single piece of Teen Titans merchandise and memorabilia. I have various newspaper clippings of your endeavors and have also bought all of the action figures and dolls as well as duplicates of all your costumes!" the collector ranted.
"So…?" Shadowcobra said.
"However, it wasn't enough that I collect the merchandise," he paused, "SO I DECIDED TO COLLECT ALL OF YOU!" The collector moved to the side a bit to reveal all of the other Titans, unconscious, and sealed in glass case prisons.
Upon seeing Starfire and Raven's unconscious faces, Shadowcobra hissed, "If you so much as touch a single hair on their heads I'll-"
"Dude! Calm down!" Beast Boy coaxed his teammate. He was too angry at seeing Terra being captured. But, being mad wasn't going to save their friends and he knew it.
"Anyway, before I was so rudely interrupted, I've decided to collect all of you. I already have all the Titans, but you two. After you are added to my collection, I shall take Titans Tower, which will become the masterpiece of my greatest collection! If you want your friends back, come to my fortress. I'll send you the coordinates! Bye!" The Collector disappeared from screen and it showed the map of the city. There was single glowing dot.
Beast Boy slapped his hand on his face, "Great!" he moaned, sarcastically. "If control Freak wasn't bad enough, we have an evil and crazy fan boy on our hands!"
Shadowcobra looked the map over. His arms were crossed as he closed his eyes in thought, "This is just too easy. This has to be a trap."
"No shit Sherlock!" shot Beast Boy, "He wants ALL of us! That's why he wants us to rescue the others, so he can add us to his freaky collection!"
"I know that, Beast Boy. But, if we enter without a plan, we may be putting our friends in danger."
"So what do you want to do?"
"We go in, we fight, and we rescue our friends." Shadowcobra summarized the plan.
"How? We don't even know what to expect from this guy!" Beast Boy exclaimed.
Shadowcobra glared, "Beast Boy, the more we stand here arguing, the more danger our friends will be in. And you know what fan boys like to do when they have their hands on their favorite FEMALE idols."
Beast Boy's eyes widened and he spat with disgust. "If he touches Terra, I'll kill him!" he threatened.
"If he touches Raven and Starfire, we'll both kill him!" Shadowcobra memorized the coordinates and printed out the map. "Let's go!"
They arrived shortly at the coordinates to realize it was an abandoned old amusement park. Since it was dark, it held a creepy atmosphere. Shadowcobra rolled into the Amusement Park, riding on his Shadow Chaser. Beast Boy had taken the form of a hawk
Beast Boy shifted to human form. "Creepy…" he commented.
Shadowcobra got off his motorcycle and walked forward, "Let's go. We're getting close."
Both Titans managed to walk through the Amusement Park without any danger. Tumbleweeds tumbled and crickets chirped, but that was about it. Beast Boy jumped into Shadowcobra's arms when he heard a dog howling, only to have himself dropped back onto the ground.
They finally arrived at the spot. It was a large castle surrounded by a moat. There was a bridge though
"This Collector really has a superiority complex," Shadowcobra said.
"He also has a big castle," Beast Boy added.
They stepped onto the bridge, which moved slightly. Beast Boy whimpered and continued to walk slowly. It was a long way to the door when Beast Boy noticed something. He immediately looked back. His eyes widened as he reached up and shook Shadowcobra's arm.
"What? Shadowcobra said, annoyed. He turned around to see the drawbridge collapsing!
"RUN!" Beast Boy yelled as he ran past Shadowcobra. Shadowcobra did the same, since he had sworn he had seen piranhas in the moat. He ran quickly too as the wooden boards began to give way and dropped into the moat, exciting a feeding frenzy from the carnivorous fish. They reached the castle in time.
"That definitely," Beast Boy gasped, "Was a trap!" he continued to catch his breath.
Shadowcobra looked at Beast Boy and agreed. "Let's just go in so we can end all this," he suggested. Beast Boy nodded.
They both pushed the large doors open and entered. The doors slammed back shut, causing them to jump. Suddenly, all the candles lit up.
"Creepy…" Beast Boy commented.
Shadowcobra looked around. His eyes wide with amazement, "Amazing," escaped his lips.
Beast Boy stepped forward, but Shadowcobra stopped him. Beast Boy turned to him.
"Look at the floor," Shadowcobra said. Beast Boy did and saw that it was a checkered pattern of black and white square tiles.
"Yeah, so?" Beast Boy asked.
"There could be a trap," Shadowcobra said. He picked a small stone pebble and tossed it onto a white tile. Nothing happened.
"See," Beast Boy grinned. "No worries!" he stepped onto a black square and almost got hit by an arrow that zipped past right in front of his nose. "Gah!" he screamed as he fell backwards on his ass.
"The black ones are the triggers," Shadowcobra assessed. He levitated a few inches off the ground. "We just have to avoid them."
Beast Boy got back up and nodded. He transformed into a fly and flew over the floor tiles as Shadowcobra floated over them. They reached the stairwell safely. Beast Boy changed back.
"That was easy," Beast Boy commented.
"Yes," Shadowcobra agreed. "It would be most unpleasant if we didn't have our powers. Who knows what would have happened to us."
"Do the words, Titans Shish Kabobs mean anything?" Beast Boy joked and laughed.
Shadowcobra raised an eyebrow. "That has got to be the worst joke you have ever made, now come on." Shadowcobra climbed the stairs. Beast Boy fumed, but followed after him. Suddenly, the steps folded in and the stairwell changed into a slide.
"What?" Shadowcobra screamed as he slid down.
"Woah!" Beast Boy screamed as he slid down as well.
They were then thrown back onto the checkered tile floor.
"We're so dead," Beast Boy said since he was lying on multiple black floor tiles.
Shadowcobra groaned as he was too anticipating the traps. He was laying on top a few black tiles as well.
Various objects like arrows, spears and guns were being shot at them. They narrowly avoided them. A pendulum blade swung at them and they lay on the floor out of harms way. Various boulders tried to crush them before they rolled out to safety. A trap door that opened up to a hole full of spikes and Shadowcobra grabbed the chandelier while Beast Boy grabbed hold onto his leg. They were able to get back to the stairwell safely and held onto the railings. Shadowcobra growled. He hated being humiliated like this. Beast Boy was gasping for breath. His costume was in tatters in places the arrows zipped pass him. He only had scratches on him, but not visible cuts. Shadowcobra saw the scratches and reached out at Beast Boy. He concentrated and his hand glowed with white energy. Beast Boy almost jumped, but felt that Shadowcobra was healing him.
"Gee, thanks," Beast Boy said, smiling nervously.
Shadowcobra remained silent. They went up the stairwell again and this time it did not turn into a slide.
"Where could they be?" Shadowcobra whipped his head around to find some clues.
"Maybe they're here?" Beast Boy suggested as he pointed into a corridor full of doors on either wall.
"Which one?" Shadowcobra asked
"We just hafta check em all!" Beast Boy said.
Shadowcobra placed a hand on his face and groaned as Beast Boy marched to the first door.
There were a total of 5 doors and they checked them.
Behind Door No.1 was a brick wall. Beast Boy walked right into it, face first.
Behind Door No. 2 was a big black bear roaring at them. Beast Boy slowly closed it.
Behind Door No. 3 was a cannon that shot a cannonball at them. They dodged.
Behind Door No. 4 was a monkey in a pink bikini and doing the Macarena. Beast Boy closed the door.
"That was way creepy," Beast Boy said.
"Agreed," Shadowcobra said
"Now or never," Beast Boy said as he opened the last door to reveal an empty room with a high ceiling about 30 feet high. They both entered. "Finally, a normal room!" Beast Boy said.
"Are you sure?" Shadowcobra picked up a piece of paper written in red marker ink and in lower case letters "Blood?" he read.
Beast Boy noticed something on the far wall. "Hey Shadowcobra! What's this?"
Shadowcobra looked at the wall to see a sequence of numbers.
10, 11, 00 and 01. The numbers had a button under each one.
Shadowcobra was confused, as was Beast Boy. Suddenly, the ceiling started to drop slowly. They panicked and headed for the door.
"OPEN IT! OPEN IT!" Beast Boy yelled
"I'M TRYING! I'M TRYING!" Shadowcobra hollered. They were locked in. Shadowcobra tried to teleport them out but was stopped by a barrier of lead. "Damn!"
"Maybe these buttons would help!" Beast Boy headed for the buttons under the numbers, but Shadowcobra grabbed him.
"Wait! How do you know which is the right one?" Shadowcobra asked him. Beast Boy nervously shrugged.
The ceiling was getting closer.
Hold on! Shadowcobra looked at the piece of paper and saw something wrong. "Of course!" he turned to Beast Boy. "Beast Boy, hold up the ceiling!" Shadowcobra ran towards the numbers.
Beast Boy morphed into a gorilla and held it up as it pressed down. He struggled.
I hope I'm right! Shadowcobra slammed his palm onto the button under the numbers 11. He closed his eyes.
Beast Boy didn't feel the pressure of the ceiling. He let go. The ceiling had stopped. He walked up to Shadowcobra.
"How did you figure that out?" Beast Boy said sounding impressed.
Shadowcobra showed him the piece of paper, "Notice anything unusual?"
Beast Boy looked at the paper and then he realized something. "Wait! Blood is written wrong! It has 2 lower case L's!"
"Exactly. The numbers actually represented the letters. 10 is b, 0 is o and 01 is d. 11 represented the two L's in the spelling and the answer to our riddle!" Shadowcobra explained.
"But, what if you were wrong?"
"Then we'd be pancakes."
Beast Boy gulped. Shadowcobra pulled the door open and they walked out.
"Okay. So we can suspect this Collector guy wants us dead or alive," Beast Boy assessed.
"Suspect nothing!" Shadowcobra countered. "If we were dead, it'd be easy for him to cover us up in wax or stuff us and put us on display!"
"Do you think he's gonna stuff the others?" Beast Boy asked, panicked.
Shadowcobra shrugged. They continued walking around. It was a good thing he was wearing his helmet. Beast Boy was unable to see the worry in his eyes. His lover, Raven, was in danger and he needed to help. However, the only assistance he had was Beast Boy's. He sighed.
"Beast Boy?" Shadowcobra started a conversation.
"Yep?" Beast Boy answered.
"I've been in Raven's mind and I've seen some images of you in her thoughts."
Beast Boy blushed.
"I wish to thank you."
"Huh?"
"Raven told me a lot about herself and sometimes talks about you and how you helped her, a lot. She also told me that you got trapped in her mind and helped her defeat Trigon there. Also, after the Malchior incident," Shadowcobra spat out Malchior's name like disease, "You comforted her. I wish to thank you."
Beast Boy rubbed the back of his head, shyly. "Heck, you're the one who makes her happy, I should be thanking you."
Shadowcobra turned to Beast Boy and listened.
"I knew Raven was different and I sorta had a crush on her," Beast Boy turned to see Shadowcobra's reaction before he continued, "I saw how unhappy she was so I tried to make her laugh with my jokes. Maybe I just annoyed her more."
"You at least made an effort to get close to her. And, I know she doesn't really hate you."
"Yeah, I knew a relationship with her was impossible. I just thought, you know, opposites attract."
"But you have Terra, right?" Shadowcobra said.
"Yeah, I know. I love her more than I love Tofu and that's saying a lot. Terra enjoys my jokes and doesn't think I'm useless."
"No one thinks you're useless, Beast Boy. It's just that you never think things through."
Beast Boy slumped.
"Forgive me for being so blunt," Shadowcobra apologized.
Beast Boy's eyes widened, "Wait. You're apologizing, to me?"
Shadowcobra hissed. "Let's just go rescue our friends."
As they walked through the small hallway, from the intersection, came a bouncing ball. Beast Boy grabbed it.
"Wonder what this is?" Beast Boy asked Shadowcobra. Shadowcobra looked at it and his eyes widened as he saw a timer.
"IT'S A BOMB!" Shadowcobra shouted.
"WHAT?"
"THROW IT! THROW IT!" Shadowcobra shouted. Beast Boy threw the ball and it bounced along the walls until it bounced back into his hands.
"Oh for the love of-"
KABOOOOMMM!
When the smoke cleared away, it revealed a slightly blackened Shadowcobra and Beast Boy. The Knight glared at the Changeling.
"What? You told me to throw it!" Beast Boy said to him.
Shadowcobra grumbled, "Next time, don't touch ANYTHING!"
At the intersection, Beast Boy walked forward and triggered something. Laser beams shot from the walls and crisscrossed with each other to cover the whole corridor. Beast Boy froze in place in and awkward stance, standing on one leg as the laser beams surrounded him.
Shadowcobra slapped himself in the face and groaned, "Beast Boy…"
"What? I didn't touch nothing!" as Beast Boy said, this, a laser gun came down from a hole in the ceiling and aimed right at him.
"You should keep as quiet as possible!" Shadowcobra yelled at him Beast Boy staying quiet would be a miracle made in Heaven. "I'll try to disarm it. Don't move."
Unfortunately, Beast Boy couldn't stay stationary for long as a fly landed on his nose. It tickled his nose and he tried to shake it off. His nose started to itch and he was about to sneeze. Luckily Shadowcobra shut his mouth with a Shadowcobra energy bubble.
Shadowcobra sighed as he let go, thinking Beast Boy wasn't going to sneeze.
He was wrong.
"AWCHHHOOOO!" Beast Boy sneezed loudly and moved, passing several beams.
"Of shit," Beast Boy's eyes widened.
The good news was the laser beams had gone.
The bad news was that about a dozen or so laser guns came down from the ceiling and started blasting at the two Titans.
Shadowcobra ran forward and grabbed Beast Boy, who had turned into a turtle. He ran down the hallway with his teammate, narrowly missing a few shots. As they got to the end of the hallway, Shadowcobra dropped the turtle, which immediately morphed back to Beast Boy.
Shadowcobra grumbled and mumbled something under his breath as he avoided any and all eye contact with Beast Boy.
They were walking down a hallway which had suits of armor lining the wall. Beast Boy gulped as he walked past a menacing looking suit of armor.
"What is it now?" Shadowcobra asked.
"This hallway is mondo creepy. In those scary movies, the suits of armor move around and kill intruders and stuff," Beast Boy answered.
Shadowcobra rolled his eyes. "Those were just movies, Beast Boy. Besides, I don't see anything suspicious."
Beast Boy sighed. "Good."
A hand from one of the suits of armor reached out to Beast Boy, but pulled back quickly as he turned. Beast Boy looked left and right before he continued to follow Shadowcobra.
Another hand reached out to Beast Boy and he turned, only to see the suit standing still. Beast Boy then turned to see Shadowcobra far in front of him. He took a step and found he could not move. Beast Boy turned around to see a metallic hand on his shoulder. He let out a silent scream and tried to get Shadowcobra's attention.
Shadowcobra quickly turned and threw a dagger right at the helmet. The helmet sparked erratically before the whole suit fell to the floor. Beast Boy did an okay sign with his hand. However, they were not out of danger yet.
The other suits of armor came to life and charged at the two Titans. Shadowcobra then grabbed Beast Boy and they both phased right through the ceiling.
The two Titans found themselves in a study. Shadowcobra looked at the massive book shelves with volumes upon volumes of books while Beast Boy was looking at the globe.
"Oooohhh," Beast boy cooed. "Big ball." He went to touch it.
"Beast Boy, what did I say about touching anything?" Shadowcobra warned as he reached out for a book. He opened it and found it interesting.
Beast Boy looked at one of the portraits in the study. He then thought he saw the eyes move. His eyes widened and he rubbed them, only to see the portrait looking normal. He turned to Shadowcobra. "Um…Dude?"
"Yes, Beast Boy?" Shadowcobra answered as he continued to read.
"The eyes are moving."
"What eyes?" Beast Boy pointed at the portrait. "Beast Boy, it's just a painting. Artists use a technique that makes the painting's eyes move, see?"
"But they were moving."
"Don't let your imagination get the better of you," Shadowcobra advised.
"Fine," Beast Boy grumbled as he headed for the bookcase and leaned his elbow against it. However, his elbow was on top of a book that leaned slightly over. Beast Boy was surprised as the bookcase spun around.
When Beast Boy looked again, he was in a strange room and saw half a dozen henchmen playing a game of cards. He panicked and grabbed the book before they saw him. The book case turned and he was back in the study.
A secret passage. Cool! Beast Boy thought. Now, which book was it? he grabbed it again and immediately found himself back in the room. This time, the henchmen were ready.
"Yipes!" Beast Boy panicked.
"Well, there isn't anything here, Beast Boy," Shadowcobra sighed. "Beast Boy?" he scratched his head looking around for his green teammate. "Now where did he go?"
The bookcase spun behind Shadowcobra. Beast Boy was in a chokehold of one of the henchmen.
"Shadowcobra!" he rasped out before he spun back into the secret room.
"Beast Boy?" Shadowcobra turned around. His eyebrow twitched, "Beast Boy, now is not the time to be playing around."
The bookcase spun quickly as Beast Boy ran out. "WAAAHHH!" and slammed into Shadowcobra's back. Shadowcobra turned.
"Where were you?" he asked.
Beast Boy panted. "Bookcase…pull book…room…lotsa henchmen…"
Shadowcobra raised an eyebrow and then read Beast Boy's thoughts, "You found a secret passage behind the bookcase after you pulled a book?"
Beast Boy nodded.
The bookcase spun again to reveal half a dozen of the henchmen Beast Boy found. Beast Boy yelped and hid behind Shadowcobra.
"We haven't the time for this," Shadowcobra cracked his knuckles and his neck before crossing his arms over his chest. "Bring it on," he challenged.
After minutes of walking, they finally found the room marked, "TITANS COLLECTION".
"This is the place," Shadowcobra said.
"No shit Sherlock!" Beast Boy retorted. Shadowcobra glared at him and he shut up.
Beast Boy pushed the door open to see a room full of Teen Titans posters, action figures, dolls, plushies, newspaper clippings and various memorabilia.
"Creepy…" Beast Boy said.
Shadowcobra nodded in agreement.
They finally found the Titans imprisoned in the glass cases.
"Raven!" Shadowcobra exclaimed as he pressed his hand against the case holding his beloved.
"Terra!" Beast Boy pressed his face against the case. "Terra?" he asked, his voice muffled
"We have to get them out!" Shadowcobra said.
Beast Boy nodded in agreement.
"I DO NOT THINK SO!" a voice bellowed.
The two Titans turned to see The Collector dressed up in a powered up super exo-suit that looked like Adonis' except that it was black and had a C in the centre of his waist.
Beast Boy's eyes widened while Shadowcobra sighed.
"The Collector I presume?" Shadowcobra inquired.
"Why yes! And you see I was prepared for you," The Collector flexed his mechanical muscles.
"I can't believe you defeated the Titans," Shadowcobra smirked.
"Well my friend, life's full of surprises, ain't it?" The Collector smirked.
Shadowcobra went into a battle stance. "I demand that you release my friends!"
"No! They are part of my collection and I will keep them as I please. You two will make fine additions! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!" The Collector laughed.
"Aw, man!" Beast Boy groaned
((Beast Boy. Release our friends. I'll try to distract this overgrown geek )) Shadowcobra told Beast Boy.
((You're trusting ME?)) Beast Boy asked.
((Now is not the time to argue! Go!)) "ZODIAC FORCE! SNAKE!" The energy field swept over his body and he was transformed into his armor.
Beast Boy saluted and ran towards the glass cases.
Shadowcobra dodged a punch and charged forward to land a kick on The Collector's solar plexus.
"Didn't feel a thing," The Collector smirked as he slammed his gigantic fist into Shadowcobra. Shadowcobra gasped at the force of the punch. He doubled over and looked down to see a dent in his armor.
"You're more powerful than I thought. A worthy opponent," Shadowcobra summoned his weapon, the Cobra Staff, "Too bad you're going down!" Shadowcobra viciously went on the attack.
Beast Boy was still trying to figure out how to free his friends when he saw a control station nearby. He saw a button marked release and so he pressed it, opening all the glass cases.
"NO!" The Collector roared but Shadowcobra grabbed him by the leg and began to spin him around and then threw him into a nearby wall, leaving a sizable imprint.
"Like Cyborg would say, Booyah," Shadowcobra smirked before drawing out a card and sliding it into his staff, "Add Vent-Summoning Genosnaker!" the gigantic king cobra slithered into view and stood over its master. The Snake Knight drew another card and then hissed, "Final Vent," sliding the card into his scepter. He took a running start, Genosnaker slithering after, before jumping up, doing a back flip and finally being catapulted by a blast of venom and acid fired from Genosnaker's mouth.
"GENOCIDE CRUSH!" The vicious venomous kick smashed right into the Collector's powerful armor, utterly destroying it and reducing it to a pile of scrap.
"No!" The Collector moaned. Shadowcobra grabbed him by the collar and lifted up the geek. He was only half of Shadowcobra's size. A midget.
"Yes!" Shadowcobra concluded before he tied the villain up with Shadow bonds.
The Titans were freed and dazed. Shadowcobra immediately transformed out of his armor and was now clad in his form fitting bodysuit and cloak. He was at Raven's side.
"Are you alright, Raven?" he asked, concerned
Raven rubbed her head, "I guess. The last thing I remember was someone gassing the whole convention center."
"Yeah, the Convention got ruined," Jinx pouted.
"You okay, Terra?" Beast Boy asked.
"I'm fine, Gar," Terra assured him and he kissed her.
"I left the T-Car at the Auto Show," said Cyborg.
"And that guy got in the middle of our game!" Blackfire narrowed her eyes.
"I was going to win!" Pluto barked.
"No you weren't!" Draco contradicted.
"Yes I was!" Pluto barked back.
"No you weren't!" Draco growled.
Shadowcobra sighed.
"So, where's the guy who did this?" Robin asked.
Shadowcobra pointed behind his shoulder for the Titans to see The Collector tied up. "You want to make him pay?" Shadowcobra asked, smirking.
All the Titans grinned and proceeded to approach the Collector.
Beast Boy saw a big red button. "Ooohh! What does this do?" he pressed the button.
"SELF DESTRUCT SEQUENCE IS ACTIVATED," said a computerized voice. Alarms blared.
"BEAST BOY!" Everyone yelled at him.
"Whoops!" Beast Boy exclaimed, ears dropping. "Sorry!"
"What did I tell you about touching anything?" Shadowcobra yelled.
"Team! Let's get out of here!" ordered Robin. "Titans! GO!"
Cyborg carried The Collector over his shoulder.
"Allow us," Raven and Shadowcobra said in unison as they covered everyone in a dome of black energy. The Titans and the Collector were safely teleported outside as the castle exploded.
"NOOOO!" The Collector exclaimed, "My beautiful castle!" he cried.
"You're gonna have a new castle," Robin said, "In prison."
The Titans, ignoring Beast Boy's last foul up, congratulated their two saviors.
"You guys saved the day!"-Terra
"I would prepare the Pudding of Friendship and recite the Poem of Gratitude, all 6000 verses!"-Starfire
"Congratulations you two."-Robin
"You two are heroes!"-Draco.
"And you didn't even kill each other."-Pluto
"Now that's a miracle."-Jinx.
"You did good, snake."-Blackfire.
Raven kissed Shadowcobra on the cheek, causing the Black Knight to blush.
"Booyah dawg, I mean, snake!"-Cyborg
"It was nothing," Beast Boy said proudly.
"Nothing?" Shadowcobra said, "Beast Boy, you almost got us both killed several times. I've got the wounds to prove it."
Beast Boy rubbed the back of his head embarrassedly.
After the adventure, and handing the Collector to the authorities, in which Beast Boy said, "See how you like it," and chuckled, all the Titans returned to the Tower.
They were shocked out of their minds when they saw Shadowcobra and Beast Boy playing videogames.
"So…this is what you guys been doing when we were out?" Raven asked the two Titans.
"Oh my God!" Draco exclaimed melodramatically, "Shadow's playing videogames! It is the sign of the Apocalypse!"
Everyone else laughed.
Shadowcobra and Beast Boy ignored the others and continued with their game.
To Be Continued…
ZK Chromedragozoid: Just a silly bonding fic I conceived out of my mind just for the heck of it. How was it? I decided to go with a strange partnership between BB and Shadow. Did it work?
Zodiac Knight Shadowcobra
Real Name: Ichijyo Desmond Amakusa Akuma
Aliases: Snake Knight, Knight of Invisibility.
Zodiac Animal: The Snake
Zodiac Power: Invisibility
Other Powers: Can change self into a shadow form that allows him to stretch his body, shape shift and change his size, Intangibility (can pass through solid objects in shadow form), shadow manipulation, telekinesis, flight, teleportation, telepathy, healing, regeneration and can create shadow agents that can be used as spies or erase people's memories by entering their minds
Weaknesses: Suffers from a split personality due to his split Dark (Vampire) and Light (Angel) sides. He keeps his emotions bottles up and is very secretive, causing himself to be distant from his friends. He is plagued by nightmares of his past as one of Yoshido's Black Knights. A perfectionist and easily embarrassed by past mishaps he had a hand in. Also succumbs to his basic vampiric needs: blood.
Zodiac Beasts: Genosnaker, Metalceros, Stingdiver and Genocide
Bio: Shadowcobra is the creepiest member of the group next to Raven and just as secretive. He is a reluctant member of the Titans in the way that he never wanted to join the team in the first place. However, he stayed anyway to get to know a certain female Azerathian.
Shadowcobra is a half breed. He is half vampire and half angel, or in other words a Vampangel. This has caused many demons and humans to shun him. Only his family and closes friends stood by him. Because he was shunned by the outside world, Shadowcobra felt distrustful towards humans. He did fall in love with a human girl but the girl later died due to leukemia. He became withdrawn emotionally after that and didn't smile until he met Draco.
Draco was the first Knight he faced in combat and lost or won countless times. Because of this, he regards Draco as a rival. Unfortunately, Draco dimwittedness, naiveté and manner, embarrasses him time and again. He has formed a shaky alliance with both Pluto and Draco. However, he knows it will not last because they would eventually meet in combat and fight to the death. However, even if he hates to admit it, Shadowcobra actually cares for his teammates. He may not show it much, but he regards them as his friends no matter how much they annoy him. And boy, do they annoy him.
Due to his strange origins, Ichijyo possesses both vampiric and angelic abilities. His vampiric abilities allow him regenerate from any wound and his angelic healing powers can be used to heal others. His power to manipulate the shadows is quite amazing as he can use it to disappear and phase through walls. He can also create shadow portals for him to go from one place to another, a manner of teleportation. His psychic gifts of telekineses and telepathy help in some situations. He also has strong mental shields. His most frightening power, however, is that he is able to neutralize powers around him, be they magical, metahuman or alien. This can make his a terrible weapon if he falls in the wrong hands. Of course, the Snake Knight of Invisibility will not surrender without a fight. His Zodiac power to turn invisible makes him a good spy since he is trained in the art of stealth.
Shadowcobra is yet to truly tap into his full potential.
Shadowcobra's emotions and personality are split into two separate entities that reside within his soul. All his negative emotions are within Akuma, Shadow's Vampire side while all his positive traits are within Amakusa, his angel half. Both entities act as Shadow's conscience and anti-conscience.
Shadow is known to have an even worse temper than Draco. Fortunately, he keeps it in check and doesn't lose his cool. Of course, some situations may cause him to freak out and go postal.
Because of his origins, Shadowcobra can be cold and vicious one minute and then nice the next.
Shadowcobra has started courting Raven, wanting to break through her shell. His power to neutralize powers helps since Raven's power won't go haywire when she exhibits emotions. Raven also has a crush on Shadowcobra but has tried to deny her feelings for the fellow Titans and Snake Knight. They have gone on a few dates and evidence of mutual feeling for each other can be seen. They respect each other and care a lot about each other.
Like Raven, he meditates to keep in control. However, his form of meditation is gardening and he does have a beautiful rose garden on the roof. His vampiric side might just attack people if kept unchecked. He also locks himself in his room during the full moons since this is when the vampiric influence is at the strongest. Raven found out one night and offers him blood, cementing their relationship further. She is the only one who knows he is a Vampangel
During his time with the Titans, he has cemented a brother-sister bond with the Tamaranian, Starfire. He doesn't even mind her bad driving. Her cooking, however, is another story. Because of this bond, he becomes almost overprotective.
He has also never forgiven Draco for burning down the bonsai his mother gave him.
And if you think Draco and Pluto cause trouble, find out what Shadowcobra did one fateful Halloween. Shadowcobra's reason for becoming a Knight was never known to anyone but Raven.