Episode 5: Intruder from the Beyond
"Where are they coming from?" Cyborg asked giving a punch.
"Don't know, but we have to stop them," Robin answered throwing a disk. Beast Boy barreled through as a bull. Changing back, he said,
"We've had a new villain every day for the past three weeks."
"Some times twice a day," Raven added throwing a lamppost.
"But why now?" Starfire asked throwing a few starbolts. Just then White Dragon orbed onto the scene.
"Here comes the cavalry," Cyborg said.
"Is it just me or is he showing up more than usual?" Beast Boy asked. Breathing heavily, White Dragon sent three lightning bolts, and the fight was over. He stood up straight, smiled, and then fell face first into the ground from sheer exhaustion.
White Dragon laid on the bed in the med lab in Titans Tower. Raven sat in a chair watching him. Robin had told her to take him back to the tower while the others took the new villains to jail. She really started to watch him when he slowly began to change. She was curious as to what he really looked like. Once he finished, there was something about his red hair that caught her interest. She couldn't stop looking at it. Something just made her want to touch it. She reached out her hand and was about to touch it when Robin came through the door. She drew back her hand fast.
"How is he?" He asked.
"I think he's just tired, but my healing powers don't seem to work on him. In fact when I tried, it almost seemed to hurt him."
"That is strange."
"Where are the others?"
"They're calling for back up. Until this settles down, we're going to need some help, and it doesn't look like he's going to help much." Noticing the person on the bed didn't look like White Dragon, he exclaimed, "Wait. Who is that and where's White Dragon?"
"That is White Dragon, the real White Dragon. After I got him here, he started to change into that," she said pointing to the skinny red-head with a tail that was laying on the bed.
"So that's the real thing, huh?"
"Ah huh," she simply said. Robin turned to leave.
"I'm going to get him a mask. He probably would like us to protect his secret."
"Are you going to do a search on him?"
"Course," he said looking back over his shoulder. While Robin went to get a mask, Raven decided to do her own research. She took a hair from his head and ran a DNA analysis. Robin returned just as the computer was finished with its analysis.
"What are you doing?" Robin asked placing the mask over White Dragon's eyes.
"I'm trying to figure out what he is."
"Didn't you once say he was a dragon?"
"Yeah, but no dragon is that powerful. According this he has two completely different strands of DNA, but the computer can't identify either one."
"And it shouldn't," White Dragon weakly said. Raven and Robin looked over to see White Dragon sitting up in the bed. He pointed at Raven and said, "It'd be the same with you but the computer could identify half of your DNA."
"How long have you been awake?" Robin asked.
"I just woke up," he answered yawning.
"So what is it?" Raven asked.
"Half of it is dragon and the other half is angel," he answered still stretching.
"Angel? Wouldn't that mean?"
"Yeah, I'm dead or at least I died and was reborn as this. I didn't have to become this. I chose to be this way."
"But how?" Robin asked.
"Sorry, can't tell." Just then Black Dragon appeared in a flash of light. He was in his normal form, and he looked pretty tried. In his normal form, he looked like a white Cyborg before the accident with a tail that had bones on the outside like armor and blonde hair. The end of his tail had three points with the outside two curving back.
"Where am I?" Black Dragon asked turning around.
"Hey, you look like something the cat dragged in," White Dragon said mockingly. Black Dragon turned to see White Dragon in the bed.
"At least, I'm not as ugly as you." White Dragon got out of the bed and walked over to stand in front of Black Dragon.
"Well at least I don't smell like rotten dragon eggs."
"I do not."
"You're right. Rotten dragon eggs smell better." The two stared at each other for a minute before they both started laughing.
"Can somebody tell me what's going on?" Robin asked.
"So what brings you back here?" Raven questioned.
"Not sure yet," Black Dragon answered her.
"So who are you exactly?" Robin asked still not sure what was going on.
"He calls himself Black Dragon, and White Dragon claims he's his counter part that is still good," Raven answered him. Robin looked at her confused.
"Ah, how do you know that?"
"He was the one who came to the tower claiming to be my Special Secret Admirer, but he wasn't."
"Wait. Who's your Special Secret Admirer?"
"Don't know. Just some guy that keeps sending me love letters with no name or return address and signs them Your Special Secret Admirer." Cyborg then came in on Robin's communicator and said,
"Robin, the other heroes are starting to arrive."
"Thanks. We'll be down in a minute," he told him. The Dragons all of a sudden had serious looks on their faces. White Dragon walked over to the window, opened it, and took a big whiff. His eyes went wide.
"Oh no," White Dragon said a little uneasy.
"What is it?" Black Dragon asked.
"Lucifer is about to send one of his Generals."
"No, he can't. We don't have the strength to face one of those right now, even if we work together in our dragon form."
"Your what form?" Robin asked.
"Never mind. He can't be sending one now. We can't kill one of those."
"I know." He thought for a moment and then said, "But I have a plan."
"What's going on?" Raven asked.
"Raven, please get everyone into the conference room. Robin, can you get Black Dragon a mask?"
"Sure," Robin said leaving the room immediately.
"What's happening?" Raven asked again.
"Something bad. Prepare yourself; this one event will push yours and everyone else's skills to their very limit. This will be the fight of your life and I can only pray that everyone will survive it."
To Be Continued...
"This will be the fight of your life and I can only pray that everyone will survive it."
A few minutes later, everyone was gathered in the conference room with a few particular villains on video screens around the room. Many of the heroes were arguing, particularly about having the villains here, when the Dragons walked in wearing masks. The heroes continued to argue. Not having the time to waste getting them to be quiet, White Dragon let out the loudest and most terrifying roar ever that made almost everyone in the room wet themselves and those that didn't had either already heard the roar before or their bladders were already empty. Once everyone was quiet, White Dragon began to address the assembly.
"Now that I have everyone's attention, we have a very serious issue to discuss. Right now a portal is opening in the bay that will only stay open to let something out and will then close. We cannot stop the opening of the portal nor are the creatures that come out to be captured."
"Why should we listen to you? Who are you anyway?" One of the heroes stood up and asked.
"I'm the one who knows the most about these creatures and if you want any chance of surviving this, you'll sit down and listen." The hero sat back down a little intimidated. White Dragon then continued,
"Now as I was saying, everyone has heard of the devil. Well the real devil, Lucifer, has a special group of demon, his Generals, whose powers are only surpassed by the devil himself."
"What's so bad about one demon?" Gizmo asked.
"This ONE demon, if we don't stop it, will destroy not only this earth, but every dimension in this vector and then move on to the next and the next one will not be prepared, so we have to stop him now." A different hero then spoke up,
"If this demon is so bad, what makes you think we can stop it?"
"I'm getting to that if you would let me finish," he said getting mad now. "Now as I was just saying, this demon is very powerful, but I have a plan. As the portal opens, many lesser demons will come through. Do not waste too much energy on them. You'll know the General when you see him. My companion and I will appear on the scene as dragons. DO NOT ATTACK US. We will try our strongest attack. If our attack fails and we are not able to kill it, that is when we will need all of you super-geniuses from both sides. Should we fail, you have to have ready a large, one-way, trans-dimensional gate. It has to be one way and it has to reach other dimensions.
"Why do have to send it some where else?" Dr. Light asked. "Wouldn't we be dropping the beast on someone else? Aren't you heroes against that?"
"Yeah," said many of the heroes in unison.
"I have coordinates," he said writing something down, "to a place that will imprison the beast where he came do no harm and will not be heard from ever again."
"So what are these coordinates?" Gear asked.
"You will get these coordinates, if and only if we fail. Once the gate is open, the super-strong heroes will push the demon toward the gate. When the demon is near gate, you will back off quickly, and those heroes who have some sort of way of blasting will hit it with everything you've got. Once the demon is through, the gate is to be closed immediately." Just then the alarm sounded. "It has started," he whispered. He then addressed the assembly. "You know what you have to do. Now do it." The heroes rushed out. "Raven," he called to her as she turned to leave.
"Yes," she said turning back.
"This demon will recognize us and will not want to hold still for our attack," he whispered to her. Reaching into his pocket, he pulled out a small piece of paper. "Take this."
"What is it?"
"A very powerful spell to hold a demon in place and make him unable move. It does not affect the caster, but it will weaken you. We need you to cast the spell so the demon will stay still long enough for us to launch our attack." Raven took the piece of paper and tucked it under her wristband.
"Do not use it until I give the signal and don't strain yourself too much. After we launch our attack, we will powerless. We need you to bring us back to the tower and back to the battle if needed. Can I trust you to do this?" Raven looked at her wrist where the spell was hidden, then back to White Dragon.
"Why me?"
"Because I know you can do it," he said placing his hands on her shoulders.
"Okay." Raven turned around and ran after the others.
"Now," he said after everyone except Black Dragon had left, "we have to recharge."
"And how exactly do you plan to do that?" Black Dragon asked.
"With our force-fields, of course."
To Be Continued...
"Now," he said once everyone except Black Dragon had left, "we need to recharge."
"And how exactly do you plan to do that?" Black Dragon asked.
"With our force-fields, of course."
"Huh?"
"Don't you have a force-field that sends any projectile back with twice force as it was sent?"
"Yeah," he answered puzzled not sure what White Dragon was getting at.
"Well," he said walking to the opposite side of the room, "put it up." Black Dragon put up a shield that was a combination of shadow wave and energy. White Dragon threw a ball of energy at Black Dragon. The ball bounce off of Black Dragon's shield and came back twice as big. White Dragon caught and absorbed the large ball of energy.
"What did you just do?"
"Took half of what energy I had left and doubled it without taking too much from you. All you have to do is shot me and be ready to absorb the backfire."
"Oh," he said finally catching on. The Dragons continued this until they were both tired.
On the battle field, things were starting to heat up.
"Where are they coming from?" Flash asked. "There's so many."
"Just keep fighting," Superman told him.
"Hey, you got that teleportation circuit up?" Gear asked.
"Keep your shirt on, scuzzbreath. I got it," Gizmo told him.
"Could you cut the language already?"
"I'll talk how I want." Dr. Light then interrupted them.
"I don't like either one of you, but I'd like to have a place to rob when it's over," he told them. He then yelled, "So just shut up and get back to work. We don't have a lot of time."
Just then an extremely large demon came through the portal. It was the General. As soon as he was through, the portal closed. The demon looked at the little heroes that stood to oppose him, and he laughed at them. Just then two dragons flew in and landed in what remained of a building. Both had human-like figures, tails, and wings. One had white scales with a blue tint, blue glowing eyes, and White Dragon's tail. The other had shin like black leather covered in bones like armor, long snout filled with razor sharp teeth and two horns in the back curving down and back. Little note for the reader, these two forms were inspired and modeled after Yu-Gi-Oh's Blue Eyes Ultimate Dragon and the Black Skull Dragon. The demons saw them and began to tremble, even the General was shaking. The Dragons began to gather energy in their hands. White Dragon's energy was white with a light blue around the edge. Black Dragon's was black with a deep red around the edge. The heroes quickly moved out of the way.
"Raven, now!" White Dragon yelled. Not standing too far away, Raven pulled out the piece of paper and began to chant,
"Daemon Magntus Immobilitas Nunc!" All of sudden, all of the demons who were trying to move out of the way, including the General, were stopped dead in their tracks. The Dragons yelled in unison,
"Ultimate Dragon Cannon!" After they spoke those words, energy came out of their mouths and all of the energy combined into a single beautiful blast. The two blasts combined into a black and white twisting beam. It vaporized every demon in its path before it exploded on the General. Raven looked back to where the dragons were to find the Dragons on their knees in their normal forms except they still had their wings. Raven went over to them and teleported them to the tower. From the tower, they watched the smoke clear. When the smoke cleared, the General was still standing. He was tired and was missing chunks of his body but he lived and would heal.
"Get me to the geniuses," White Dragon said barely able to stand.
"You're in no shape to go anywhere," Raven protested. With a cold and stern look, he told her,
"I don't care what shape I'm in. Just get me to them, now." Raven had never seen this side, and it made her tremble, but she took his shoulder and teleported him anyway.
"Looks like the dragons failed," Dr. Light said. "The heroes are pushing him this way."
"Not surprised. Hey, you ready down there?" Gizmo asked.
"Just need the coordinates," Gear told him. Just then Raven and White Dragon appeared.
"Is it ready?" White Dragon asked.
"All set. Just need the coordinates," Gear told him.
"Is it one way?"
"We made it exactly how said," Gizmo shouted at him.
"Good, now get out of the way." He pushed Gear out of the way and input the coordinates. He then put his hand over the screen so no one could see it. "Hit it!" The gate opened just as the heroes got close. "Now!" The strong heroes moved just as the second wave let out their strongest attacks. The beast was knocked through but held on to the edges. "Raven, help them." Raven was still standing there watching and still surprised at White Dragon. She came to from her trance and began to chant,
"Azarath Metrion Zinthos." The blast knocked the beast clear into the portal.
"Shut it down, NOW!" White Dragon barked. They immediately shut it down. "DESTROY IT!" He removed his hand just long enough to jut his tail into the screen.
"Why do we have to destroy it?" Gear asked. Gear was not standing too far away, so White Dragon removed his tail from the screen, wrapped it around his throat, and brought him close to his face.
"Because we just opened a portal to the Abyss and if any of you or anybody else is dumb enough to try and open it again," he then raised his voice and finished, "you could unleash every demon in their, and we'd have a worst problem than what we just dealt with." He dropped Gear and continued to destroy the machine.
"Okay. We'll destroy it. Shheesssshhh." After the gate was completely destroyed, White Dragon really seemed to calm down, and he apologized to Gear. As he began to fly off, Robin placed a tracker on his tail. Before he left, he said the easiest way to get rid of the others were to stab them in the heart. The Titans followed White Dragon as the others went to finish off the rest and wound up back at Titans Tower. The Dragons were sitting on the couch playing a racing game, when they came in.
"Hey, guys. Nice Game Station," White Dragon said as the Titans entered the living room. White Dragon was as playful as he was before this whole thing started. It was like the whole thing never happened.
"Dude, check out those scores," Beast Boy exclaimed. Cyborg and Beast Boy were on the couch in a minute.
"I've got winner," Cyborg said.
"Then I'll cream who ever wins," Beast Boy added in.
"Dream on. I'll cream both of you once I'm done with him," Black Dragon told them.
"That is if you can make it to the finish line first, but I doubt it," White Dragon said mockingly. He then called over his shoulder without taking his eyes off the screen, "Oh and Robin."
"Yeah," Robin answered. White Dragon flicked the tracer back with his tail.
"Nice try, but next time you might want to try a different spot." The tracker landed at Robin's feet.
"I'll remember that," he said picking up the tracker and turning it off. Robin and Starfire joined them while Raven stayed back looking at the piece of paper White Dragon had given her. She thought,
"I've seen four sides of him in the last few hours, but which ones the real one, hmm."
The End...or is it?