I'm going to start going crazy soon. I can't go on at my DA account at school because that website is blocked so I can cross out using the school scanners, my only hope now is my cousin's scanner when we visit (if she even lets me use it), or the library. School work is starting to pile up but the good news is that my family will be gone for a few hours so I finally get a chance to work in peace.
Sorry again for taking so long so here is what so many of you have been waiting for and to my reviewers thanks for the tips about the conversations between Raven and Danny. I hope it's better in this chapter.
Chapter 4
Night time had fallen onto the city and the last of the sun had just set over the horizon. The street lights automatically came on as pedestrians hurried home and off the streets. No matter where you lived it has never a good idea to be out after dark on the open street, especially if you live in a city where strange things happens everyday.
Villains of all shapes of sizes pop out of no where and attack thinking that this is heir chance to finally to succeed only to be throttled once again and be thrown in jail.
BAM!!!!
A brief ball of fire exploded from a near by building blowing out the entire west side of the building to nothing but a pile of crumbling concrete and steel and smoke rose from the rumble.
As the smoke cleared away a blue man stepped out with a smug smile. The sounds of the alarm came blaring out as sirens wailed from afar getting closer and closer to the scene of the crime. But he didn't care as he laughed into the clear night air.
The police cars screeched to a stop and a swarm of authority figures piled out of the car taking the proper stances when dealing with criminals. All raised their weapons ready to fire if necessary and ready to ensure that who ever had the gall to rob a high security facility paid dearly with a tedious sentence to jail.
Unfortunately that's not what the perpetrators of the law had in mind.
"Mumbo you are under arrest for grand theft and breaking and entering," proclaimed a cop holding a megaphone, "Come out with your hands up!" He demanded.
Mumbo just smiled and said, "Sorry but I have nothing up my selves," just then he pulled out a wand and waved it pointing straight toward the police, "Mumbo Jumbo!"
With that a series of confetti shot out of the tip and came to life swirling around into a miniature tornado of bright, festive colors directed straight at the cops. All that the men could do was pivot back and try to escape but their efforts were futile. Before any of them new what had happened they were all sucked into the vortex and then spit back out entangled in a tight embrace of confetti with the strength of steel wire.
As the police struggled and cried out in distress from their current situation, Mumbo casually stepped off the rumble and onto the side walk as if it were a stage and he was the main attraction in his sick twisted mind. "And now gentlemen, for my final trick I will-"
"…Be landing yourself in a jail cell,"
Mumbo wheeled around to the source of the interruption in his so called performance to spot his all too familiar adversaries the Teen Titans. All in battle stances, with Robin at the front glaring down at the criminal with his cape billowing in the small breeze, behind him stood Cyborg with his cannon ready to fire at his will, Beast Boy more than happy to morph into any living creature in the planet in a second, and last but not least the female members floating in the air with their eyes, and hands glowing with power.
"Alright Mumbo," Robin said in a serious tone giving the magician a fair warning before they started the butt kicking action, "You can either put back what ever it was that you stole and come quietly or we can make you come."
Mumbo just smirked and put a finger on his chin pretending to be in deep thought, "Hmmm, what to choose…. Oh I know!" he snapped his fingers and twirled his wand pointing at the Titans, "How about Mumbo Jumbo!"
A blast flew out of the tip causing the area where the teen heroes had just been standing to be engulfed by flames. The Titans dodged out of the way before the blast had even hit and were already going at the mad man.
"Titans Go!" Robin shouted in command to his team mates as he drew out his retractable staff and charged at Mumbo.
Robin swiped left then right then bent down to try to swipe Mumbo off his feet but he dodged every attack thrown by the boy wonder. Using his own wand to block the staff from ever coming into contact with his body smiling the whole time at Robin's seemingly futile efforts as Mumbo just blocked them with precision ease.
Before the leader knew it, his staff had been knocked out of his hands and sent yards away. Mumbo then, in one fluent motion, made his own wand come in contact with Robin's body sending the boy into the air and straight into Beast Boy.
The changeling had tried to sneak up from the side as a cheetah but was surprised to see his teammate fly straight into his as he lept. They both hit each other midair and gravity took its toll dragging the teens back to earth and landing in a daze while the remaining three continued to charge forward with the attack.
Starfire, with her hands blazing, sent an array of starbolts at the villain showing no mercy as she let go the rain or green bolts.Mumbo just stood his ground and twirled his wand in fast pace creating a shield effortlessly. He gave a fake yawn and looked up at the alien girl and mocked, "Really is that the best you Titans can do?"
"Not even close," countered Raven raising her hands to say the magic words, "Azara Metrino-"
"Mumbo Jumbo!" Mumbo cut her off sending a deck of cards at her.
Raven grunted as she found herself painfully pinned to a wall by the cards. Already in action she fazed through the wall and flew out of the wall glaring at the magician. Starfire flew up to him in an effort to punch him. He swung around grabbing her wrist with ease and spun around diverting Starfire's flight course toward the ground.
"Ha ha you missed," he stated.
Cyborg came up to him with his cannon about to fire, "Oh yeah! Take this!"
The half robot barely got close to Mumbo, "You know I think I prefer if you'd take this, Mumbo Jumbo," Mumbo swiped his hat off of his head and pointed the end of toward Cyborg. A boxing glove shot out punching a surprised Cyborg in the face. Cyborg stumbled back shaking off the pain only to be punch again before he had even had the chance to see it coming.
As the Titan fell back unconscious Raven took the opportunity of Mumbo's distraction to phase through the wall freeing herself of her current predicament. In a second a pool of black magic appeared on the pavement of the street and out of it came Raven then it vanished as soon as Raven feet exited out.
"You're going to regret that," she said with ire in her tone.
"Oh really," Mumbo taunted crossing his arms in front of him, "How?" he questioned.
"Like this!"
Mumbo gasped as Cyborg sent a blast from his cannon hitting him and cent him crashing into a lamp post with a metallic thud causing the mad man to see bright stars.
"Nobody knocks me out like that and gets away with it," Cyborg said triumphantly at finally getting to retaliate against Mumbo.
Robin came up behind his friend along with Beats Boy and Starfire who had recovered from Mumbo's attacks and were ready to take the criminal to jail. "Good Job Cyborg," he praised. "Now let's finish this, Titans Go!"
"I don't think so," said Mumbo slowly getting up.
The heroes tensed and got in defensive stances ready for what ever the blue man was about to throw at them. "It's over Mumbo," Robin narrowed his eyes and made sure his birdarang was right in his hands just in case.
"Not quite," Mumbo took out a couple of small, purple marbles out of the sleeve of his sleeve, "A magician always has something up his sleeve." He threw the marbles hard on the ground creating a loud bang and a puff of blue and purple.
The Titans started coughing from breathing in the gas until Raven quickly disposed of it with her magic.
"Thanks Rae," Beast Boy said with gratitude at being able to breathe without suffocating, then it hit him, "Hey where'd he go?"
Cyborg looked down at his scanner, "I can't pick up his reading's anywhere within the cities range,"
"So he got away," Beat Boy put it in clarified verse.
"Pretty much,"
"Awe, dude now we got to spend all day looking for him now," the morpher whined pitifully, "And I has so looking forward toward spending all day watching the new Ultimate Star Ship Commando marathon. They were going to show three hours of never before seen deleted scenes and reveal the true secret code to that unlock the secrets of the twelfth quadric's wormhole generator."
The other team members just rolled their eyes.
"You need to pick up a book," Raven said in her usual monotone way.
Wasting no time Robin got serious and started to examine where Mumbo had just vanished into thin air. Bending down to get a better look Robin took out a small container and a scraping knife and scraped a bit of dirt off the course street into the glass dish, then sealed it and tucked it safely into his pouch on his belt. He got up and turned to address his fellow Titans.
"Alright let's go take a look inside and see if there are any that can help us track Mumbo down faster. Cyborg and Beast Boy will look for any clues while Starfire Raven and I will see if anything was stolen." Robin commanded with sure authority in his voice. The Titans all nodded in agreement and went inside the building through the whole that Mumbo had created.
They split into two groups. Cyborg activated his scanners and started to look for anything that could be useful. Beast Boy morphed into a blood hound and started to sniff around on the ground for a scent. Robin and Starfire examined each of the glass cases to ensure that their contents were still inside safe and sound.
It didn't seem as if anything had been stolen to them but they couldn't be absolutely sure until they had looked everywhere.
While Robin and Starfire looked near the cases containing the more valuable items Raven took it upon herself to take in account of the objects that rested near the sides of the walls of lesser equity. Despite the whole scene looking as if Mumbo merely broke in for the kick of it Raven kept looking. She sighed and just as she was about to report that there was nothing missing she spotted an empty case out of the corner of her eyes. Gliding to a stop in front of the glass case where there was nothing but air inside and a lining of what used to be there on the cushioning.
She raised eyebrows and called her teammates over, "Hey guys," they all looked up from what they were doing and fixed their attention on her, "I think I found something."
They all hurried to where the sorceress was, "Friend Raven you have encountered some piece of information that can aide us in the tracking of Mumbo?" Starfire asked hopefully.
"I think I just found out what was stolen,"
"Well then what is it?" Beast Boy asked impatiently wanting to know.
Raven looked down at the information plaque, "According to this it looks like Mumbo took a talisman that dates back to ancient Egypt."
"So he took some piece of rock big deal," Beast Boy shrugged.
"It also says that this 'rock' has some ancient magical abilities," Cyborg added reading the plaque from over Raven's shoulder, "Apparently what it exactly does is unknown and that it was only a fragment of an unknown text."
"Uhh, in English," Beast Boy demanded so that he could be clued in on what was going on.
"It means that no one has any clue what this thing does only that it was part of something else," Cyborg rephrased for his friend's comprehension.
"But why would Mumbo want something that no one knows what it does or even what it's for?"
"Well what ever it is it can't be good," Robin stated, "Raven see if you can find out anything else about this talisman, Cyborg I need you to run some tests with me on this stuff I got off where Mumbo disappeared. Starfire see if you can find anything on what ever Mumbo took. Who knows maybe it might not be from this world , we can't take any chances." Robin instructed, "Beast Boy..."
"Yes!" Beast Boy perked up at hearing his name, "What do need me to do huh, interrogate any known associates, go on dangers patrols, secret undercover stuff?"
"Actually I want you to keep an eye on the scanner,"
Beast Boy's mouth dropped at that from disappointment, "Thats it? But that's like the most boring job ever!"
"Sorry Beast Boy but I need everyone else on something else and your the only one who's available. We need someone to keep an eye out for any trouble in case Mumbo comes back." The teen leader said in a very mature way.
Cyborg couldn't help but grin at the potential of a set up that was within reach, "Besides BB who else has the ability to sit on his butt all day watching t.v ?" Cyborg quipped.
Beast Boy just shot him a glare and responded, "Yeah well you-"
Robin interrupted him before the changeling got the opportunity to retort back, "Let's go on home and gets some rest, it's getting late and we'll need our energy for tomorrow."
"I'll bring the T-car around so we can stop by the drive through and pick up a pizza before heading on home," offered Cyborg.
Starfire's eyes lit up at the notion, "Oh yes! The earth food pizza sounds marvelous!"
"Bring on the veggies!" added Beast Boy punching the air and walking besides Cyborg and Starfire.
Robin smiled and followed shortly hearing his three friends argue about what type of pizza to get this time and who would get the last slice this time. He paused and back tracked a bit when realizing that Raven hadn't stepped away from the crime scene.
"You coming Raven?" he asked in a worried tone.
Raven nodded, "Yeah I'm fine," she reassured him, "Listen you guys go one ahead I'm just going to head on home."
"Are you sure?" He persisted on.
"I'm sure, I'm just going to get a head start on that research and see if I can find anything tonight,"
"Well if you're sure..."
"Don't worry I'll be fine," Raven turned to leave before she decided to say one more thing, "By the way..."
Robin stopped to face her, "Yes?"
"Save me a slice of pizza," Raven sad with one of her are small smiles.
Robin returned the gestured, "Sure thing, see you back home."
They both turned to leave. Raven phased out of the building and took off into the night above the lit streets and buildings while Robin hurried to catch up to the other Titans who were waiting in the car impatient with hunger.
The sorceress paused to see the familiar blue and white sports vehicle speed off in the opposite direction toward one of their favorite hangouts that never seemed to close. Sighing she continued on her way at a smooth, steady tempo allowing the night air to brush gently against her skin. This was one of those rare times when Raven could just have absolute peace with herself without interruptions from her friends or the alarm going off every hour on the hour to signify some loose villain terrorizing the city.
Her thoughts started to wander off about the person whom she had just met online. They hadn't sounded so bad. In fact they actually sounded pretty interesting and she didn't know why but Raven wanted to talk to them again.
'They're probably not even on right now,' she reasoned. After all, it was almost one in the morning and it seemed pretty weird and rude to talk to someone you've just met a couple of hours ago at this ungodly hour. 'How those guys manage to be so hyped so early is beyond me,' Raven thought to herself thinking of her team mates and how just the smell of food is enough to send them running at full speed toward the source no matter what the time.
Well that was usually the case for Star, BB, and Cyborg. For Robin it was the alarm for an attack on the city. Raven was the only member of the team who found little or no motivation to wake-up in the morning before ten to say the least. Since most crimes happened during the afternoon and at night there was hardly a good reason to get out of the comforts of her bed and face the cruel mirth of day time hours.
As usual it was Beast Boy who had set the example of why it was not a wise choice to disturb the half-demoness's sleep.
The tower in the shape of a T that was known as 'home' to the girl, came into view and soon she was gliding over the water toward the island where the oddly shaped house stood upon. The water crashed gently against the faces of the stones surrounding them with foam as they retreated back to the ocean then came back again.
Raven landed on top of the building's roof. The walked to the door and headed downstairs. The lights were automatically on already so Raven didn't have any problem seeing in the dark hallway. Being all alone her footsteps echoed against the walls. Turning she walked down the familiar corridor and entered the first door on her left.
The door slide open on its own and Raven stepped inside seemingly grateful to be in the confides of her room. The only light came from the various black and dark colored candles all over the room. A large bookshelf took up half of one of the walls filled with books in various languages, artifacts and potions. Another wall was occupied by her vast bed that was located on the right to a large window with a nice view of the waterfront. To the left was a dresser and closet.
Everything had a Gothic appearance to it and that was just how Raven preferred it.
She went over to her small library and started pulling out any books that she had on ancient and magical items. When Raven was content with what she had she picked up the books and carried them to her bed setting them down. Getting in one of her favorite positions for reading of floating criss-cross over her bed by a few inches, Raven selected the first on top of the pile and opened the thick book to the first page.
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"So you're sure that you're okay?"
"Don't worry just a few minor bruises..."
"Danny."
"Okay so they're big bruises but they'll be gone in a couple of hours I swear!" Danny reassured his sister hastily over the Fenton Phones 2.0 on his way back home from his routine night time patrol.
"Are you sure?" Jazz Fenton asked still sounding unconvinced and worry evident in her tone, "Because you know that-"
"Jazz it's fine!" Danny interrupted her impatiently. He loved and respected his sister and all but there were times when she could be a bit of a nag. "Look I how about if I'm home in an hour tops," he compromised.
The was a brief silence while Jazz thought it over on the other end of the line then she finally gave her decision over to her little brother who was nervously waiting for her answer. "Alright... But just one hour you got it."
Danny breathed out in relief of not having to live through another 'health' lecture from his sister. "Yeah I got it, see you in an hour."
"Sure, bye Danny and take care you hear,"
"Don't I always?"
Jazz laughed lightly over the small communicators, "Just try to stay out of trouble this time,"
Danny shook his head in exasperation from the request his sister had just asked from him as he cut off the line of communication between his older sibling. Even before he had gotten his powers that one little task alone was an impossible feat itself.
He turned himself invisible while descending to a lower elevation so her was only a few yards above the roof tops of neighborhood buildings all clustered together. It had been a slow night so far apart from the little adversities with a couple of loose behemoths. Nothing seemed to be causing trouble.
And who knew maybe this time Danny could actually finish his homework before falling asleep tonight.
As Danny flew over the park a blast came from out of nowhere sending him down to the earth with a crash.
"Umph!" Danny rose up to his knees shaking his head slightly to clear away the stars he was seeing, "Where the heck did that come from?"
"Haha! See I told ya I'd get him with one shot," said a braggy and bratty sounding voice.
Danny looked up to see a bald kid in some sort of green pajamas? Goggles, with robotics spider legs coming out of a backpack on his back with he controlled with a video game controller. Next to him was a teenage girl in clothes that Sam would absolutely love and pink hair done up in a horn shapes. Coming right beside her was a large teenage boy that could have easily broken Dash in half, with long brown hair, and wearing a black, sleeveless suit.
The larger boy just snorted, "Yeah well you just got lucky that's all,"
"Luck had nothing to do with snot wiper," the green clad boy retorted with an evil grin.
The older boy growled and brought his fists up, "Listen you-!"
"Hey! Knock it off you two!" The girl intervened getting in between her comrades, "Focus okay, we can't screw up," she reminded them.
Both of them cooled off and didn't say another word.
"Hey, yeah sorry if I'm interrupting here," Danny said now standing up drawing attention to himself, "But who are you guys?"
The girl just smirked, "Oh sorry for being so rude," she apologized sarcastically, "My name is Jinx, this Gizmo, and Mammoth,"
The one named Gizmo grew impatient and complained out loud, "Enough with these stupid introductions lets just get him already."
"For once I agree," added Mammoth eagerly giving Danny a preditorial grin. Without warning he lunged forward. Luckily Danny was prepared for surprise attacks and easily dodged it leaving Mammoth slightly confused for a moment before he growled and charged again.
This time Danny dodged a punch and grabbed his wrist. Mammoth looked surprise and before he knew it a strange tingling feeling ran through his body. The half ghost took the opportunity of his opponent's surprise to flip him over, slamming him into the earth, then turned him tangible again leaving Mammoth chin deep in the ground.
"What the?!" he exclaimed then glowered up at Danny, "Why I'm going to teach you a lesson! Nobody pulls one over the Mammoth,"
"Uh I think I just did," Danny retorted.
Mammoth just snarled at looked at Jinx and Gizmo, "Hey a little help here,"
"But I thought you said that you can take down this Casper wanna be with both hands tied behind your back," Jinx mentioned innocently.
Gizmo laughed cruelly at Mammoth's fortune, "Yeah barf bag."
"JUST GET ME OUT OF HERE!!!!" he roared.
Danny took the opportunity to try to escape unnoticed but he wasn't so lucky.
Jinx caught sight of him out of the corner of her eyes. Unlike the other two, she wasn't the type to get distracted so easily as she sent one of her destructive bad-luck energy wave catching Danny by surprise and causing him to crash painfully with the trunk of an oak tree.
"I don't think so," she said simply walking over to where he had collided. She stopped a few yards from where he was and put on hand on her hip, "You have something that we want."
"And what makes you think you're going to get it," Danny challenged, "Uh, just what exactly do you guys want?" he asked unable to suppress his curiosity. He had never even seen these guys before or even said a word to then until about five minutes ago. So what he could he possibly have that they would want. But then again, new ghosts attacked all the time, usually just showing up once or twice at most.
"Like were going to tell a little ghostie like you!" shouted Gizmo obnoxiously as he pulled Mammoth out.
Mammoth didn't look to happy at all though, "Ow! Cut that out your killing me here!"
"Stop being such a baby, it's just dirt,"
"Keep talking and you'll be buried under six feet of dirt,"
"I'd like to see you try,"
"Well then you'll have to look up then won't you,"
"Why you...!"
Jinx glanced over to the feuding boys and slapped her forehead out of impatience. 'I should have have just left these two back at the Hive Hangout,' she thought dryly.
Danny was looking at the other two as well, "Great pair to work with aren't they," he commented sarcastically.
"Ugh, you have no idea but back to business,"
Danny barely managed to jump out of the way as Jinx's cat like eyes glowed pink and she sent him another wave of bad luck. As if he wasn't unlucky enough already.
The pink volt shot straight through obviating where Danny had just been only two seconds ago.
Of course he didn't have much time to think about it as Jinx sent ray after ray unmercifully causing mass destruction in her wake. She smiled very cat like as she watched him dodge every thing she threw at him. "Hm, not bad, but can you handle this,"
A large ball of energy gathered in her hands growing brighter and when she was satisfied, threw it at our teen ghost, hard and fast. This one he couldn't dodge quick enough as it hit him full on. He flew back several yards and in pain when he met contact with the earth.
Danny groaned in pain as he tried to get up. Rising first to his knees then to a somewhat crouching position using a tree nearby as leverage to help steady him. His vision was swimming from the blow he had gotten on his head when he fell on the ground and for a second he was seeing three Jinxs walking toward him.
"You know I thought that you'd be more of a challenge," she said in a bored tone, "But I guess I was wrong," she shrugged getting another energy volt ready.
Thinking fast Danny phased through the ground leaving a bewildered girl behind. "What!" Jinx narrowed her eyebrows and triwled around looking for Danny. "Where'd he go? Gizmo!" she called out to the boys who were far behind.
"What!"
"See if you can find a way to track him," she ordered impatiently.
"And how the heck can I do that and besides you're not the boss of me,"
"Just do it!" she snapped sending a stray energy bolt him way scaring the munchkin into submission.
"Alright, alright!" Gizmo held his arms in front of him as a sign of submission. He started mumbling profanities under his breath as he started to fiddle around with his control. His goggles slid forward and the lenses became mini screens for his use. A bit more button pressing and soon a whole ware house of data started flashing by that a typical person would have instantly gone mad had they tried to read all the charts and numbers appearing. But Gizmo was not typical, he could easily follow along the data presented to him at that speed.
Not finding anything on inferred mode he switched to energy surveillance. A new type of programming he had just installed that allowed him to read off anyon'e energy signals.
Looking around he could see his team mates energy with Jinx being the highest and Mammoth having the same amount as twelve men. 'It's like this guy just disappeared into thin air or something,' Gizmo said in his mind frustrated with the lack of result his super computer like scanner was presenting him with. All he could see were the typical things you'd see in a park at night.
A bunch of stupid owls and mice and a bat or two, a stray cat or dog here and there, and some sort of green glow-
'Wait a minute!' Gizmo focused on where he had seen the glow and zoomed in and sure enough he saw the out line of a teenage kid. "Gotcha," he whispered before he said louder for his team mates to hear, "He's over there," he pointed north toward the center of the park, "Quick hurry and get him before he gets away!"
Jinx were already moving fast and Mammoth was charging ahead at full speed eager to get back at his prey for making him know what it's like to have dirt in some very unusual places in his body.
Danny turned just in time to see all three of them come after him. 'Oh man!' Danny had been sure that these goons had been too distracted to notice that he was gone. He just wanted to get out of there and get home as quick as possible but it didn't seem that that was the case here. These guys are persistent.
'Especially that Jinx girl,' Danny observed, 'If I want to get rid of them then I'll have to take her down first then the other two.'
Getting in fighting stance, Danny watched their movements in slow motion as Jinx again sent her bad luck waves at his slicing through the fountain like a hot knife through butter. Water squirted through the sliced pipes in waterfalls. Danny just smirked, even though she didn't know it, Jinx had just helped set up a trap for themselves.
Jinx had noticed the small feature on his face and scolded, "What are you smile about when you're just about to get your butt kick. You're out numbered three to one and out classed. It just be best if you just give up now. It'll be less painful for you that way." The villianess said in a no-nonsense sort of way with authority that seemed to suit her well. "All we need is just a sample and we can either do this the easy way," she said in a sugar coated tone that made Danny feel sick to his stomach, then in an instant switched over to a more sinister voice with her eyes glowing to emphasis her point, "or the hard way."
"Um how about we do this the you guys surrender now way and nobody gets hurt, mainly you." The white-haired teen answered back cheekily.
That just about did it for Gizmo's short temper, "Aaarggghhh!!!! And why don't you just shut your trap!"
"And why don't you just chill!" Danny place his hands on the ground sending a cold shock wave through the ground and toward where the three goons were standing in a puddle of water from the fountain Jinx had sliced in half.
It traveled fast, rising first to the Hive Five member's ankles, then to their knee caps, thighs, and their torsos.
"That ought to hold you guys till morning," Danny commented about to leave. When a Gizmo sent out a command for several blades to go after Danny through chattering teeth and blue fingers.
Gizmo managed to chatter out, "I-I-I-I d-d-d-dont t-t-think s-s-s-s-s-o-o,"
A giant saw came out of the backpack and started to cut away through the thick ice and in a just a few seconds he was free. Jinx also freed herself by using her energy rays, Mammoth just used his muscles to shatter the ice into pieces.
"Heh, is that the best you can do you little runt," Mammoth jeered.
"Not even close," Danny's hands lit up with ecto energy ready to fire with a thought to counter Jinx's own rays.
Jinx shot first then Danny, the two bolts met each other in midair causing an explosion and smoke. Mammoth used the smoke as a cloak to sneak up on Danny punching the fifteen-year-old hard and sending him rearing back. Then came Gizmo seconds after and with his control and had his spider like legs shoot out like spears.
Barely managing to dodge them, Danny fired volleys of ecto energy at the Hive members. Jinx easily dodged them by cartwheeling and using her flexibility to get away. The Mammoth wasn't so versatile and got hit by a couple of powerful ones. Danny didn't miss the way the largest member of the assault fumbled slightly on his right foot. Seizing the opportunity of a weakness, he shot a carefully aimed electrical shock at Mammoth's leg muscle.
Mammoth roared in pain as an electrical jolt ran through his shin causing him to tumble down paralyzed.
Gizmo looked back at his defeat for a second before he got over it and continued to attack with his legs. As he kept missing, the little guy grew angrier by the second, "Hold still!"
Danny rolled his eyes at the comment, how many times had he heard that before, "Sorry, wish I could but I can't,"
"Well then lets see if this will," Gizmo activated a squitgun looking gadget and shot it at Danny as he was taking off in the air for an aerial attack but was surprised to find something keeping him rooted to the ground and unable to move. He looked down to see a gooey, green, glue on his left foot. No matter how hard he tugged he couldn't break free. "Haha, like it dirt face?" Gizmo mocked enjoying the ghost-boy's struggles, "I'd quite if I were you, that stuff is stronger than concrete there's no way you'll break out of that."
"What to bet," Danny replied. Focusing, he channeled his ice powers to his leg freezing the goo. With on quick kick he was free.
Gizmo's face adopted a shocked look with his mouth wide open and eyes bugged out at seeing Danny escape his gooey restraint.
The halfa smirked seeing the look on the brat's face, "If you liked that, really going to love this."
Jinx instantly came to Gizmo's rescue in time, "I don't think so!" she sent a destructive beam forcing Danny to dodge and and for the ball of green energy to disperse.
Danny gasped and got out of the way in time but had to retreat a bit backward so that there was now a decent length of space between the rivals. Mammoth got up and limped over to the others as best as he could.
"Hurry up will you," scolded Jinx. "Jeeze your so slow." She added once he was close enough that she could talk at a normal tone but not have the ghost boy over hear much.
"Oh shut up Jinx," he grunted unhappily, "This guy is tougher than he looks okay,"
"I know," she said quietly with an unreadable as she tried to think of a way to beat the ghost in front of them who was watching them like a hawk and seemingly waiting for them to attack before he makes his move. 'This guys is tough and knows how to fight. He doesn't seem to be tiring or even slowing down one bit, even against the three of us.' Jinx looked over to the other two quickly scanning their physical status so far from the battle. 'Mammoth's leg looks pretty bad and I don't think he's fully recovered yet from what ever he was hit with and Gizmo's temper is making him lose his concentration making him an easier target. And as for me... I can barely keep up with this guy. He moves way too fast and has more power than I first thought. If this doens't end soon we'll have to retreat." Jinx thought the last part bitterly quickly accessing a plan.
"Alright then, looks like it's time to start getting serious here."
Danny tensed and prepared himself for the worst. What ever it was that they were planning, he didn't like the sound of it.
"You know I wasn't sure if we were going to need this..." Jinx said in a chatty tone, "But in your case I'm willing to make an exception."
Before Danny could question on what she was talking about she pulled out a familiar looking device out of her pocket.
"Hey that's-" he managed to blurt out.
"Think fast," in rapid succession, Jinx tossed the metal marble toward Danny instantly activating them. In a few nano-seconds a couple of them transformed into small blades and the others into green glowing nets.
Danny took off into the air maneuvering between trees and other obstacles to evade the blades and nets that were hot on his trial and gaining. He got rid of the blades easily by making them hit trees but the nets were a different story.
They turned where ever he turned and in the same way. If something was in front of them they went around and quickly returned to his heels. Nothing seemed to be shaking them off.
Then they just receded back out of nowhere. Danny paused to look back to see why they weren't following him when a net came out of nowhere and slammed him to the trunk of a large tree pinned to it and trapped like a fly on a extra sticky spider web. He could barely move and the net was constricting his body a bit and painfully forcing it to rub his back against the coarse tree bark.
Jinx walked over to him with a cattish smile playing at her lips, "Looks like you got yourself in quite the mess now."
Gizmo and Mammoth walked and stopped beside Jinx grinning like idiots.
"Haha looks like Casper got himself caught!" laughed Gizmo in his cruel humor.
Mammoth joined in and then an idea and hopeful look flashed across his face, "Oh oh, Jinx can I please try it out huh? Please!" he begged eagerly. What ever it was that Mammoth wanted, Danny was willing to bet it involved him in pain or something just as bad.
Jinx looked thoughtful for a while before giving the teen an answer, "Alright, but remember, " she warned severely, "We need him alive so nothing that can kill him."
"How's he going to kill him if he's already dead," muttered Gizmo under his breath.
"Yes!!!" Mammoth pulled out a remote control and pressed a red button on it.
The trapped ghost hybrid let out a cry of pain as watts of electricity surged through his body making his muscles tighten painfully then it stopped leaving the ghost panting and sweat dripping down his face.
"That's enough let's get what we came here for and leave," Jinx commanded wanting to leave before someone saw them.
Mammoth's and Gizmo's face fell at the notion. They were having way to much fun torturing the guy who had given them difficulties.
"Awe come on Jinx," pleaded Gizmo with a sadistic grin, "Let's at least make this guy want to run home crying to mommy,"
That gave Danny an idea.
He took in a big breath and then unleashed his ghostly wail.
The other three teens let out screams as they flew back and tried to cover their ears. The earth beneath them quaked and it seemed that it would never end when silence finally came.
Jinx looked up to the net had been completely shredded to tiny fragments and there was no white haired teen in sight.
She faced her team mates who were also looking at where they had just had their captive trapped and at their mercy. She voiced the one thought running across their minds.
"The guys back at head quarters are not going to be happy about this..."
It's a long and good sized chapter don't you think? Didn't take nearly as long as MB and out of request the next story I'll be doing will be Fairytales Come True. I hope you've all enjoyed this and once again I'm really sorry it took so long. Also for those of you who want to help impoverish countries in need of food there's a link on my profile called some of the details are on my profile but most of them are on the website it tells you everything there. Send in reviews so I know what you all think of this chapter. There might have not been much chatting between Raven and Danny but there was definitely some good action.
A special shout out to Sweetsixteen19. Don't worry I promise that FCT will be the next one up. Thanks for reminding me that I have to get that one up. Sorry again for lack of updates. And sorry if this chapter has some spelling or grammer issues but for some reason my computer won't let me copy and send to my beta-reader. So instead of sitting here doing nothing while I try to fix this stupid problem I thought why not give this to you all right now.