"So, for what it's worth, she's actually moving forward at an enhanced rate, most people like this, well they would be out of commission for a whole lot longer," Tess explained to Harry briefly as he made his way to the room where Kory came back to life.
He smiled and decided to respond honestly. "Well someone like her, she would be far more durable for a number of reasons. That being said, I should check up on her, make sure that she's okay."
"For what it's worth, she wants to thank you," Tess told Harry. She didn't need to elaborate on what that would entail.
All Harry responded with was one statement that was short, sweet, and rather to the point. "Yes, I'm aware."
He parted ways with Tess and make himself to the lab area where he hoped that Starfire was really doing well. The twins managed to get her out of that vessel but at the same time, there were a lot of problems that went along with being in stasis for so long. So really Harry crossed his fingers and hoped that she recovered from that ordeal.
He would find out in a matter of moments. Like the gentlemen he was, Harry knocked on the door and waited to be invited inside.
"Come inside!" Kory said and Harry entered the office.
It went without saying that the Princess of Tamaran was a woman of heart stopping beauty. Her shocking curly red hair stretched a far distance down past her back. Her alluring glowing green eyes shined brightly and she wore a tight white top that stretched over her large breasts. The top stretched, showing a flat and stoned stomach. A pair of short black shorts added to her figure even more, along with perfect shaped feet that any model will be envious of. There was also the fact that she had an ass to die for.
"Harry, it's good to see you," she said in a bubbly voice, bouncing up and down and greeting Harry with a tight hug, pressing her body against his.
"It's good to see that you're up and well again, Princess Koriand'r," Harry said with a smile, her body felt warm against him and he sensed the young woman's arousal growing in his presence.
"As is you, Harry Potter," she commented with a bright smile and bounced up and down on her tip-toes which did amazing things to her body. "I've heard many stories about you, but I haven't been able to verify them first hand. That kind of makes me sad."
She smiled looking him over, checking him out. She licked her lips, the young man before her looked quite delicious. He was so amazing that he would make a woman's heart ache. She could feel a present and growing heat rise through her loins but she had to focus.
"So, the suit that I'm wearing, it should be able to contain the excess flow of energy, it is invisible and adaptable to many activities," she told him with a saucy wink and she slowly licked her lips, viewing Harry with ever growing hunger. Her gaze was something that was both burning and powerful.
"Is it now?"
"Yes, it is," Kory agreed with him, folding her arms underneath her chest, and gazing at him. "And you've….you've done so much, and made so many people really happy."
"And made a lot more people even more angry," Harry reminded her and Kory gave a shrug, which had the added bonus of causing the tight white material of the suit to pull even tighter against her ample chest.
"Yes, you've done that as well," Kory agreed, with a wide smile on her face. "But those were a bunch of bad guys, they deserve to have a rough life, don't they?"
"Well if you say so," Harry said with a smile.
"It wasn't that fun being used as a power source, but there were far worse fates," Kory said, shuddering. She could remember a lot of the girls being sold into the growing sex slave market.
Harry smiled, and swept her into a comforting hug. She felt extremely nice pressing up against him like she was.
"It's unfortunate…"
"Yeah, I know," she agreed. She bit down on her lip. "I guess it saved me in the end…..I don't see many of those girls being around for too long when they get all used up."
That was a dark assessment, but never the less, an accurate one. Harry noticed that Kory's face was nuzzled into his neck and the woman was getting busy in running her hands down his body, feeling him up.
"It wouldn't be right if I didn't have a chance to thank you," she muttered, running her hands underneath Harry's shirt and rubbing his abs. "Plus, I think that we should….celebrate my coming out party, don't you?"
"Am I going to say no to a beautiful lady?"
Harry grabbed her face, tilting her head back, and gave her a mind blowing kiss. Kory returned the kiss, her arms wrapped around Harry.
She could feel both of their bodies heat up and she thought that her mind was going to get blown even more. His hands roamed her body, causing her to tense up and feel the pleasure of him roaming her body.
There was so much pleasure, even more than she could really stand. Her mind was being taken to places she never knew that it could be and her heart skipped a couple of beats as he ran his hands all over her body.
"Relax, the fun's just getting started."
Kory shivered with his hands going underneath her shirt and he started to touch her like no one else could. She was wet and willing to go for as long as he would take her.
The kiss Kory gave him was extremely passionate and it assaulted all of Harry's senses at once. Her arms tightened around his body, and her hands ran against him.
The team relaxed, after the fun of the previous night.
"So, nothing," Chloe commented as she reclined back in her chair.
"Well, I know that nothing is normally something," Barbara said and she had that sense of incoming dread coming towards. Nothing in Gotham City was the worst because they knew that something really insane was going to break.
"Yeah, but what is it?" Chloe asked and Harry smiled.
"I've come a long way, haven't I?" Karen asked, as she managed to complete all of the complex transfigurations and charm work up to Harry's specifications.
"You have, but you've been practicing for a long time," Harry said and Zatanna could not help but chime in with her two cents.
"Magic can be amazing…..but you kind of have to throw logic out the window to get it to really work," Zatanna said and she watched Karen make the transfigured lion to do a dance.
"You're telling me," Karen said with a grin. This was entirely absurd and she could see no practical application to what she did whatsoever.
Harry smiled, she always had the abilities but all abilities would have to be trained up somewhat, at least that's what he figured. His green eyes increased in intensity, as he fixed them onto the blonde before him.
"You're doing well, trust me," Harry told her and Karen smiled a wicked smile.
"I don't worry, I do trust you, a lot," Karen remarked to him, and Harry's praise was pretty high.
"So what's going on this day in history?" Chloe asked suddenly and she scrolled through. "Well that's interesting."
"What is?" Imra asked, popping on through.
"It says here that this is the final defeat of Deathstroke at the hands of the Teen Titans, but the team split up due to their differences afterwards."
Atlee hitched in a breath and Karen instinctively pulled an arm around her. "Well we know that defeat was not really final."
"I'm not sure, do clones really count?" Chloe asked and Harry smiled.
"Well they seem real enough."
"Yes, that was a brutal battle," Kory said, as she just completed an intense sparring session with Diana, which warmed her up nicely for the activities to come. "The Titans fought against him and eventually took him down but all of the mistrust on that day…..well it caused a chain of events that lead to our team splitting up."
Kory tried to take things like this in stride but it continued to wear on her mind. Harry got up to his feet and pulled her into a one armed hug.
"Thank you," she said graciously.
The door slid open and Rachel staggered in, looking white as a sheet like she saw an entire army of ghosts, and Donna followed behind her. She looked equally as spooked.
Diana was put completely off, she never saw her sister look so terrified in her life. "What's the matter Donna?"
Donna seemed to be unable to speak for a moment, she just made wild gestures with her hands.
Rachel, being the more composed one out of the two, commented in her stoic voice. "How would you feel if you saw people that you thought were dead?"
That caused Chloe to nearly jerk her head up and Lois came inside. She was still agitated about missing the party last night but she knew that Harry would more than make it up to her in the not so distant future.
"What's going on?" Lois asked and Chloe opened her mouth.
"It was Nightwing."
That caused Barbara's mouth to open and shut. "As in Dick….Dick Grayson, Robin, Nightwing, one half of the Dynamic Duo with Batman, that Nightwing?"
"Yes, and we saw him running around from a facility, he stole something," Donna said, finally finding her voice.
"That's impossible," Kory said.
"Trust me, acrobatic moves like that, I know them anyway, no one can duplicate his style," Rachel said and she could see Harry in deep thought.
"Team meeting, in the war room, in about five minutes, everyone, something's going on here."
Harry wasn't quite sure what yet but he had his theories. Never the less, everyone within the sound of his voice scrambled because they sensed the urgency in his voice.
"Members of the Teen Titans died a long time ago, some of them living to a ripe old age," Chloe said and Harry nodded.
"Oh, Nightwing looked young and fit as ever, and skilled….but then again, do you expect anything with the protégé of the god damn Batman?"
"Well, this is interesting," Tess said as one of their scanners beeped to life.
"What's interesting?" Kory asked suddenly and then she saw the security images that Tess managed to hack into. Kory's mouth hung wide open, the girl looking completely and utterly godsmacked. "Is that….is that….."
"Looks like a dead ringer for Cyborg, doesn't he?" Harry asked her and Kory nodded furiously, she was really confused about that.
"So, there's more Teen Titans…..yep there's Kid Flash right there."
"Well we know that something is up, Wally eventually grew up…..well to be fair, he got older," Donna amended herself, which got some snickers from Zatanna and Diana, but the two women quickly adopted a serious expression. "So, he stopped being Kid Flash about forty or fifty years before his death, didn't he?"
"Yes," Barbara confirmed, frowning, tapping on the keyboard. That really wasn't adding up.
"So…..are you pondering what I'm pondering?" Alexis whispered to her sister.
"You mean about the Teen Titans showing up as young and fresh as ever…"
"Yes, about that," Alexandria agreed, looking at her sister.
The rest of the team looked at the Luthor Twins, once again following the high impact tennis match that was their thought process.
"Titans showing up younger than ever, despite being dead for hundreds of years….."
"And some of them being in their teenage or young adult forms…"
"I'm thinking clone, are you thinking clone?"
"Yes, I'm really thinking clone, thank you, that's why I'm smart, good thing I thought of it first."
"No, I thought of it first….."
"I did….."
Chloe gave a long groan and it wasn't just because of the antics of those two twin terrors this times. "Oh clones, why does it have to be clones?"
"Because an alien invasion doesn't have the same impact since most of Earth's population is aliens," Harry responded without missing a beat.
"You….are….not….helping," Chloe said to him and Harry smiled at her.
"Seriously, that could go really bad trying to clone someone like that," Tess told Harry and Harry whistled before he responded with one word.
"Yep."
And he was speaking from experience but that was what they called a long story.
"There has to be some kind of pattern to their heists, they're not doing this randomly," Barbara said and Chloe jumped in.
"Well in case they are….because that would throw them off of the trail…"
"Well that's possible, but they could make us want to think that….."
"Or perhaps the fact that this is a plan of a delusional madman….."
"Sometimes a delusional madman leaves some semblance of a trail….."
Alexis and Alexandria locked eyes before one twin said to the other. "Wow, they're completing each other's sentences….and stepping over each other."
"I haven't heard anything that annoying in my life….."
"Oh, you haven't listened to yourself lately….."
Kara groaned and cleared her throat. Imra decided to speak for all of them as all four of the offending parties were silence.
"I think that we're accomplishing nothing other than a circular argument with this line of questioning," Imra said.
"Right, of course," Chloe agreed, a long sigh escaping her lips and she drew up all of the points. "So Kid Flash…..Cyborg…Nightwing….."
"Seems like a real Titans sausage fest," Lois said, and she got several eyes onto her. "What….just pointing out that…..well Harry prefers the company of beautiful women, while whoever is behind this, prefers the company of young teenage boys."
"Well this entire scheme took on a new level of creepy,' Karen said, lowering her head so she could shake it. The thought in her mind…..
"Sounds a lot like Slade," Kory said and she shook her head. "He was always trying to make Robin his apprentice and we all know what that means."
"I didn't think that you knew what that meant," Donna said, her eyes open wide.
"I was unfamiliar with a lot of Earth customs, not stupid," Kory fired back and Rachel sighed.
"See what I had to put up with during my time in the Titans?" Rachel asked Chloe.
"You try babysitting Superboy, and then talk to me about stress," Chloe said and Rachel nodded.
"Fair enough," she conceded.
"Back on track though," Diana said, trying to be the voice of reason in the room. "We're going to have to find out who is behind this."
"Well, I told you who was behind this….."
"He cloned himself once, why wouldn't he clone himself again?" Atlee asked and she recalled out Slade stalked her. What did he want with her anyway?
"The original was sick enough; I can just imagine how depraved this one is, especially if his mind degenerated"
Chloe managed to hack into something and sure enough the security feed popped up. "There he is, there's our man."
"Security is a bit of a joke."
Slade Wilson stepped forward, dressed in a sleek black body suit with a trenchcoat over the top of it. He wore a mask that was half black and half orange with one eye. He might have lost a few steps in his day.
His new and improved Titans did their job nicely in collecting all of the necessary components for the compound that they would need to cleanse world. The only thing that he had to do is grab the antidote.
Slade broke open the case. A dull alarm went off but by the time anyone got here, they would be gone.
Then again, no one had been in this part of the world for a long time. It looked like a ghost town outside, which would mean that it would be a perfect spot for his hide out.
He spotted the clear blue liquid, the only dose of the antidote for the biological weapon he created to wipe out the menace on Earth.
He picked up the vile and snapped it in the syringe, before putting the syringe to his arm and injecting himself with the antidote.
The man sized up, he felt a slight burning sensation, but it stopped immediately.
"Success," Slade said, and he tipped over the remaining contents of the vile onto the floor.
He prepared to set a bomb which would blow the compound sky high, so no one could even try and synthesize the antidote.
Slade Wilson suffered grievous injuries in what was to be the final confrontation against the Teen Titans. He recalled the fight with Nightwing, as they did battle. In the end, Nightwing thought that he mortally wounded Slade.
Deathstroke was a survivor even if it took quite some time to heal. He woke up in a lab, having been rescued by his benefactor in this future world. He saw what had happened and he was willing to help.
The world had been overrun by aliens and freaks, and that was not something to be done. This biological weapon would ensure that any super powered do-gooders or aliens would be wiped out and the human race would take back what they lost.
It would happen, Slade could feel it, the control, the power, everything.
There was just one problem, there were still heroes out there. He met them all those months ago when he tried to take the Earth Mover and use her for one of his schemes, to mine one of the components that he needed.
It turned out that Slade found an alternate way to get ahold of that component, because he was that resourceful.
"Progress report," a low voice whispered and Slade figured that he should check back in with his partner.
"It's doing as well as you can be expected, my new and improved Titans have three of the five components that are needed," Slade said.
"Good, this must go on schedule, the compound must be created exact, and the weapon should be deployed at the specifications."
"Right, for too long the Earth has been overrun by people like that, now the world will be a much safer place," Slade said, looking rather amused by the situation.
He was looking forward to all dropping at his feet, including his Titan pets. It would be a shame ,for they were so perfect, but all good things must come to an end.
"Yes, the Earth needs to be cleansed of all of the parasites that have brought it down to this point," the low voice whispered over the communication link. "You will get everything that you deserve, Slade Wilson."
"Looking forward to it," Slade said and he meant that completely honestly.
The world was an awful place and really deserved to be cleansed of all of the things that caused it to follow into such a state of disarray.
Slade decided to communicate to his group.
"I'm in position," a voice said.
"Excellent, my child."
"But we have a situation…..Nightwing spotted them…..Raven and Wondergirl."
"Yes, I was afraid of that, the traitors to the cause, they have thrown their hat in with them," Slade said and his voice was rather pointed. "If you see them, you know what to do."
"Right, tear those traitors apart," the young man over the communication link said.
"Good boy," Slade said, his voice dripping with sleaze the more that he spoke and they were words that would chill even the most hardened of men to the bone.
All he could wait was the final two components to be in his hand. Then the chemical will be created and with the antidote in his body, Slade planned to destroy those he judged to be unworthy.
Harry Potter sensed that there was something lurking in the shadows but then again, that was nothing new. It seemed like every time he went out in public, there was something really to kill him.
"So, is Slade another person who would like to kill you?" Barbara asked and Kara chimed in.
"Well, after Harry took care of his nice little scheme with Atlee, I think that Harry's on the top of his list."
Harry made his way into the compound with Barbara, Kara, Donna, Kory, and Rachel. The group walked inside, and the door was still locked.
"Good that means no one was inside yet," Harry said.
"That means we can actually spring a trap and not be trapped this time," Kara remarked to them and she looked happy at this sudden change of events.
'Well isn't that a first?' Karen asked, she rubbed her hands away in anticipation. 'The one time I don't come with you, you don't want into a trap.'
'It's a brave new world,' Imra commented, barely avoiding smiling.
Harry smiled despite himself and made his way further into the lab. It had been a ghost town, the last time card was punched a long time ago.
"So, according to Chloe, the next chemical that he needs should be down this hallway, to a vault on the left."
"And this is a chemical that has to be put in the weapon, it doesn't work well without it," Barbara added and Harry smiled with a short nod.
"Precisely," Harry told her, and Kory looked on, looking at Harry with a pleading look dancing through her eyes.
"May I?"
"I'd be insulted if you didn't," Harry told her and Kory ripped the vault door off of the hinges.
"Careful," Kara warned them, and Harry turned towards her. "You know it's a highly combustible chemical."
"Yes, we're well aware of that, we need to get it out of here and soon….." Rachel said but she saw something over her shoulder.
"Well there wasn't someone here, but there is now."
"Great," Rachel replied, crossing her fingers and she could see something in the shadows, but it was hard to see it.
"Come out and face us!" Donna yelled, bunching her fists up. Harry placed a hand on her shoulder, the Amazon warrior spirit was bubbling through and she was not going to take anyone's crap at all.
"Donna, calm down."
Donna was about to say that she was calm but there was some laughter coming through the shadows.
Kory's eyes followed the source of the laughter, eyes growing like saucers, and she could not believe it. The woman recognized it. "I think that it's Beast Boy."
"Well, not really Beast Boy, more like a clone," Barbara said and she looked in the shadows, before the grisly sight really struck itself towards her. "And there were a few defects in the cloning process."
"Who are you kidding, I look and feel better than ever," Beast Boy commented, stepping out of the shadows.
Harry caught sight of the grisly sight. His face was mostly the same, even though he had large sharp fangs and piercing yellow eyes that burned a hole through everyone that he saw. There were large claws on his hand, and he had many hands, multiple hands and multiple arms, and they all looked dangerous.
He had four legs as well and a tail that resembled a scorpion's tail. He stepped forward, looking at them like he was hungry and they were on the dinner plate.
"More beast than boy, I think."
"Okay, Garfield, snap out of it, I know you're still in there somewhere in that abomination," Rachel said to him but there was no snapping him out of it with how far he was gone.
"Please, don't pretend that you care…..you didn't even laugh at my jokes anyway," Beast Boy said and he shot a jet of acid at them but they dodged it.
"Well most of them weren't really funny," Rachel said, lazily putting up a shield to block his attack.
Suddenly, Starfire nailed Beast Boy in the back.
"Armor, got to love it, hey Starfire, how about a kiss?"
Starfire hurled a punch at his mouth and knocked him off guard.
"Just give me the chemical thingy, and no one needs to get hurt."
"Wasn't he supposed to be the nice one?" Harry asked, dodging the razor sharp bolts.
"Yeah, but remember, this isn't the real Beast Boy….."
"Note," Kara agreed, using her heat vision to destroy the spikes that he was sending out.
"If one of those hits the chemical…"
Harry didn't need to finish that sentence, and they had to keep this Beast Boy clone away from the chemicals.
To Be Continued on September 1st 2014.
