This was suppose to be a birthday present for my lovely editor Toph, but she didn't edit it till this week. Well, HAPPY LATE BIRTHDAY TOPH!!!! So, here's my new chapter! BTW, before I forget, the handcuffs they are all in is the same ones that Starfire was wearing in "Go!". So when I'm talking about how her hands are free, be she can't reach something, her hands are freed like Starfire's when she started to blow everything up. Thought that would help you when reading this.
The adults in the prison cell looked at the young girl with black hair. Her hair was down and wavy over her face and eyes. Over her eyes was a mask. She was wearing a red tank top under a black leather jacket and hard washed blue jeans. She was still in the spot on the ground where she had been thrown. Her handcuffs were looked down at her angrily, but Nightfire looked up and smiled.
"Hey, Dad. How's it goin'?" She started to stand up. When she was on her feet, Nightwing stood right in front of her, his hands in handcuffs as well.
"I am very disappointed in you, young lady," he reprimanded. Nightfire just moved her hair out of her face. "I told you to stay out of this."
"I know," she replied. She pushed her hands,causing the large metal strip over her hands to fall onto the ground. Everyone just looked at her. "And you can thank me later." She started to move her neck, moving the collar of her shirt. Under the collar was a chain. Unfortunately, the chain was hard to grab without her hands. As she was trying to get the chain, she looked around at the adults. Bumblebee was sitting on the bench next to a turned-off Cyborg with the same handcuffs on. On the other side of her was Changeling and Raven. They both had on handcuffs, but Raven had a plate over her mouth. Changeling had a collar on as well.
Nightfire finally grabbed the chain with her mouth and pulled up. Soon, the chain came up and a something like a key came up. "Dad," she mumbled with the chain in her mouth, "can you grab this?" He looked down at his handcuffs.
"Didn't think about that, did you?" He said a little smugly and angrily. Nightfire rolled her eyes. With her freed hands, she grabbed his metal bar and pulled hard. The bar came out and fell to the floor.
"There, now grab," she said with the chain still in her mouth. With his now free hands, he grabbed the chain and lifted it over her head.
"Now what?" he asked. She snatched the key out of his hand.
"I have a plan. Now hold out your hands," she said. He did what he was told to do.
"Mariand'r, why are you doing this?" Nightfire looked at her dad for a second and went back to what she was working on. "I'm trying to save you guys since you got captured. By the way, don't tell me that you're going to be home in a few hours when you know that you may not be." She continued to work with the key and the handcuffs.
"Well, you didn't do a good job planning. You're in the same ship as we are," he said sternly. Then there was a click from the handcuffs.
"Nah, I think I planned this a little better," she said with a smile. Changeling laughed a little.
"Dude, that's definitely your daughter."
"Now help me with mine," she continued. She held out her hands and handed him the key to unlock her.
Nightfire looked around and noticed that there was someone missing from the room. "Dad?" Nightwing looked up and then back down at the lock.
"Yeah?"
"Where's Mom?" The lock clicked.
"They took her somewhere else. I didn't get the chance to see where." He looked up at her and saw the pain in her face. "We'll find her though. Don't worry." Nightfire smiled as her handcuffs came off.
Right when the handcuffs came off, they heard someone coming. Nightwing and Nightfire looked at each other and grabbed the handcuffs and sat down, making it look like they still had handcuffs on. A Gordanian walked up and stood with its hands on its hips.
"Hurry up, Night," the Gordanian said. The voice didn't sound like an alien, but a teenage Hispanic girl. "We need to get going now. These things are starting to get suspicious of me," it continued. Nightfire sighed in relief and stood up, letting her handcuffs fall.
"I'm going as fast as I can," Nightfire replied. She looked around to see the adults both scared and confused. "Cam, I think it would be a good idea if you changed back right now." The Gordanian laughed. Then, it quickly changed into a girl. The girl had dark brown hair with light hazel eyes. "Now why did you pick that way to look? You look ridiculous, Cam," Mari said. Everyone looked at the girl.
"It's not like you look any better yourself. Hola, Mr. N." she added with a wave. The adults looked at her.
"Cam?" Bumblebee said, looking confused.
"Yeah, short for Chameleon. Easy, huh?" As she smiled. Nightfire just rolled her eyes and walked over to Raven.
"Sorry if this hurts a little," she apologized in advance. She messed with the lock on her mouth while Nightwing looked at Cam.
"Did she talk you into this?" he demanded. She shook her head, her hair changing colors into a bright yellow.
"Nope. In fact, we voted her leader unanimously," she affirmed. They turned when they heard the clink of a restraint coming off. Raven took in a deep breath.
"Thanks. Now who's we?" she asked. Nightfire continued to work on the handcuffs of the others sitting down. To show who voted, a bunch of people showed up next to Cam. One girl had black hair with green and purple streaks running through it. She grew up from a small fly. She was wearing a Purple tank-top and jean capris. She had a belt around her waist that was slanted to one side. A boy next to her appeared. He too seemed to have just grown from a fly shape. He was African American with his hair cut really short so there was barely anything there. He was wearing a pair of baggy cargo pants and a black plain t shirt. The next teen to appear was a boy with pale skin and blond hair, which he moved away from his eyes to reveal them as dark purple. He was wearing a pair of jeans and a purple shirt. Holding onto his arm with her eyes closed was a girl with red hair. She was wearing a brown shirt and brown tights under a black skirt. She looked up and opened her eyes.
"Are we done?" she said. The blonde boy nodded. She looked around to see the Titans looking at them angrily. Nightfire just rolled her eyes and continued to unlock the other handcuffs.
"Dad, do me a favor and try to get Cy up," she said as she moved over to Bee. "Cam, did you get that key?"
"See, about that…" Cam began, but she trailed off. Nightfire stopped and looked up at her.
"If it's bad news, I don't want to hear it. You had better have that key or I'm personally gonna get you." Cam started to move behind the blond kid.
"Shadow, keep the angry lady away from me." The blonde kid lifted his eyebrows up.
"You're on your own. You were supposed to get the keys," he said as Nightfire continued to work on the locks. The black kid pulled two big metal things out of his large cargo pockets. They looked like giant B's.
"I could probably blast the shield," he offered. Night stopped what she was doing and turned around.
"Wasp, don't even think--" She didn't get the chance to finish her thought. Wasp blasted the shield with a large blast of electricity from the B's. He was actually doing well, with part of the shield around the room disintegrating away where he was zapping it. All of a sudden, the electricity went backwards and shocked him. He instantly dropped the B's and began to shake. Everyone ran to him or as close to him as they could. Bumblebee had to be held back by Nightfire to keep her from trying to get through the shield.
"You stupid idiot!" she started shouting at him. "Did you think I hadn't thought about that? You could've gotten killed!" Bumblebee kicked one of the handcuffs into the shield. Nightfire watched as the cuffs burned in the shield. She saw as a bug flew into the room in a small area around the handcuffs before they burned out. The fly tried to fly back out, but was zapped like a giant bug zapper. Night looked back to the handcuffs and then over to the bench where the adults were sitting.
"Watch out," she said. Everyone just stared at her. She let go of Bumblebee and walked over to the bench.
"What are you 'bout to do?" The red head asked. Night soon kicked the bench with the ball of her heel and broke the bench. Picking up the smaller piece, she looked at the red head.
"I'm about to try to figure something out, Iris. Now step back." Before anyone could question her, Night threw the piece of wood in her hand and hit the middle of the shield. The shield died down for a second, while the wood was burning. Everyone stared. Night smiled. "Iris, can you make plants grow from anywhere?"
"Umm, sure, I guess. I haven't really tried it through concrete though," she responded. Nightfire turned to Raven and the blond kid. "If Iris can get something to burn through the shield, can you use your powers to keep the shield open so we can get through?"
Raven turned towards the blond kid. "Shadow, are you up to it?" Shadow nodded. "We're in."
"Iris, when I say so, I want you to get some kind of plant growing. I don't care what kind, but keep them growing no matter what." She turned to Raven and Shadow. "Use your powers to try and help spread open the hole in the shield." She looked at all three of them. "But if you start getting shocked, stand down. I don't anyone getting hurt like Smart One over there." She smiled to Wasp. Everyone nodded. "Ready?" Night asked Iris.
Iris took a deep breath and closed her eyes. "Ready."
Shadow and Raven both took a stance to help keep their balance. "Ready," Raven said. Shadow nodded in agreement.
"Now." Iris threw her hands out towards the shield. Dust started to come out of her fingers and landed on the ground next to the shield. Soon, vines began to grow into it. As soon as they were appearing, they were being burned and replaced with new vines. Nightwing leaned over to Nightfire.
"I thought that it was just a coincidence that she had the same last name as Poison Ivy, but now that I see it, I believe it," he said. Nightfire just smiled as Raven and Shadow started to push open the shield. 'Not a good plan my butt.' Night thought with a smirk. She looked over at the shield. Little holes were growing into bigger holes. Soon, there was almost a hole big enough for them to walk through. Nightfire quickly pulled her hair back with a ponytail holder on her wrist. When the hole was big enough, everyone quickly ran through. When everyone was through, Shadow and Iris nearly fell to the floor, drained.
"Good job, you guys." Night said. Ani took off the belt she was wearing and handed it to Nightfire. Right when she clicked the belt on, a few Gordanians walked into the hallway.
"Great," Ani said right before the Gordanians started firing at them. Nightwing turned towards Nightfire.
"What's your plan now?"
"Don't get hit," she said as they started to advance on all of them. She pulled out a small silver tube. She pressed a button on the tube and it expanded as she spun it above her head and hit a Gordanian nearby. The others took that as a signal to start fighting. Ani and Wasp were turning small and attacking from behind. Iris started to make vines grow out of the walls and grabbed the Gordanians' arms and legs, giving Nightwing and Nightfire the chance to hit them. Raven and Bumblebee were shooting at anyone that got close to the loading Cyborg. Changeling was changing fast, watching the girls' backs. In the middle of the fight, Nightfire and Nightwing noticed that most of the Gordanians were guarding a door to their right.
"Night!" Nightwing yelled over the noise as they fought side by side. Nightwing scissor kicked out a Gordanian's legs as Nightfire grabbed the falling alien and threw him into the two other Gordanians that were heading over to Iris and Shadow.
"Yeah?" She grabbed Nightwing's arm, pulled him up, and started to fight again.
The two of them were back to back when he whispered to her. "Get your team to that door. Change and I will cause a distraction for you guys to go." A Gordanian came up to Nightfire. She was about to take a swing when something grabbed its back and tried to bring it down. Nightfire took a few punches and helped bring it down. Cam soon materialized in front of the Nights.
"I can let the others know the plan if you want, Sweetie."
"Get it done fast. Do you remember the old code word?" Cam nodded and disappeared as a Gordanian can running up behind her. Nightwing was about to step in and fight when the Gordanian was knocked down. Nightfire smiled at her father.
"An old soccer move we know. Cam couldn't help showing off, even if she's invisible," she explained. The two of them went back to the fight, and Cam soon reappeared.
"Ready when you are, Boss," she said. Nightfire nodded and looked to her dad.
"We only have one shot at this, so you have to get through that door quickly and we'll follow behind the best that we can. Be prepared. We don't know what's on the other side." Nightfire nodded to her father then turned to Cam.
"Ready?" she asked. Cam nodded before turning herself and Nightfire invisible. Nightwing went back to fighting until he heard some Gordanians shouting and fighting from the door. One was trying to ram its back into a wall and another was swatting all around its body and trying to get something when both of them were knocked down, Nightfire's voice yelled the code word through the fight. "Camp!" Everyone dispersed in different ways. The adults started fighting harder, with Cyborg almost completely charged, and the kids ran towards the door, fighting their way through. Nightfire stood at the door and held it open as Shadow, Wasp, Iris, and Animal ran through. When they all got through, they were standing in a control room. There were many Gordanians standing around. Up on a second level were two women; one was standing up and pacing, talking and the second one was knelt down with her hair over her face. The one walking had dark black hair while the other one had red hair. Nightfire was stuck staring at the two of them until Shadow grabbed her and pulled her down where everyone was hiding.
"We need to get up there and rescue that woman," Iris whispered and pointed the woman kneeling down.
"I'll go."
Everyone turned towards Nightfire. "I think I can get up there, cut her free, and take down the other one faster than anyone."
"Yeah, but how will you get up there without anyone noticing you?" Cam said to her angrily. "Sweetie, to make you invisible, I have to concentrate on only you. I don't think that it'll be safe with me not paying attention."
Night nodded. "Fine, here's what we'll do: you go and free her and I'll make a distraction big enough for you to get in, free the woman, and get down as fast as you can." Cam nodded as Night turned towards the others. "I want you to stay here. If you see anything wrong, get out the back way. You saw where it was on the map." She turned towards Shadow. "If something happens, make sure that Cam and that lady get out safe." Night nodded towards Cam and they walked to the back staircase where one alien was standing guard at its base. Working quickly and quietly, Night took it out in a matter of a few seconds. Cam started to go up the stairs before Night stopped her. "This will help cut her loose or free her. Do you remember what I taught you years ago?" she asked. Cam nodded and flipped open the little pocket knife that was handed to her.
"What, planning to shank some aliens while we were here?" Cam teased. Night just shook her head and walked over to an opening in the front area.
"Hey, you stupid, ugly aliens! You want the girl who's been making you look like a fool? I'm right here."
The black-haired woman turned and looked down with an evil smile. She had dark purple eyes and the same skin tone that Night shared with her mother.
"Well, by the looks of the mask and the skin, I see that my pathetic sister married that loser human. Well, if you're trying to foil my plans, why don't you come up here and meet your aunt."
So, I really don't have anything to say tonight. I've been doing tech week for my school musical. (EVERYBODY CUT FOOTLOOSE!) My character's name is Urleen… pray for me. Anyways, I thought in honor of my editor's birthday, I would put up something she added to the end of my edited chapter. All of this is crack and will not happen. Or will it? DUN DUN DUNNNNN! Enjoy!
Next time, on The Apple….
Nightfire: You're the one I truly love…. Titan.
Titan: *wags tail*
*scene change*
Raven: How could you do this to our family?!
Changeling: But I really wanted that moped….
*scene change*
Shadow: Xavier Redd…. the object of my rivalry…. and also the object of my affection….
*scene change*
Random Gordanian: I'm pregnant…. with your baby.
Nightwing: WHAT.
