Private Hive whirled around thrusting the still groggy Lunatic behind him and stepping over the bleeding form of Billy Numerous as the Nightmarish chainsaw wielding creature he and his friends had failed to harm thus far stood in the deepening shadows of the alley the blade of her saw dripped crimson and her clothing still hung from her malnourished frame as she took a slow step forward, P.H. adjusted the grip on his making it snugger, less likely to be wrenched from his hands as he lowered his stance and prayed to a god he didn't believe in for a miracle that couldn't happen, then with a desperate cry charged the grey skinned psychopath.
Lunatic shook his aching head, his shoulder throbbed distantly and his vision was blotchy, there was an ear splitting roar echoing around him as his senses slowly started registering the world around him, he slowly turned to see the gold and black clad figure of Private Hive fending off the grey skinned girl with the chainsaw, it was a desperate fight his shield bled sparks as the say skipped and shrieked across its once glossy surface, his fist snaked out around the shield smashing into the heavy ceramic of the girls mask failing to phase her at all as she forced the muscular form of the closest thing to a friend he had in this world to the ground crushing him under his own shield, Lunatic became aware of the sudden and desperate throb of his own heart beat.
P.H. groaned in agony as sparks flew in his face leaving smoldering holes in his mask as the impossibly heavy weight of both the maniac and her saw crushed him into the pavement and sliced an ever deepening rut into his shield, the air was leaving his lungs and the bit of sawblade that peeked over his shield was getting perilously close to his forehead his eyes glanced back and he caught sight of Billy slowly crawling to the safety of a nearby dumpster leaving a trail of blood in his wake when he chanced a glance back at Loony he found to his surprise that Lunatic had vanished, the weight on his chest vanished abruptly and the roar of the saw became a teeth rattling shriek of steel on concrete, he gasped with relief as the intense pressure was lifted from his body leaping to his feet and making a beeline for Billy's bleeding form, carefully he gathered up the still quiet form of his badly injured friend and glanced back to find Lunatic doing his best to try and restrain the maniac, he glanced back and shouted "get out of here get Billy to a doct-erk" at this point the masked girl had grabbed Lunatic by the throat and forced him to look into her mask once more.
Loony squeezed his eyes shut as he fumbled for the revolver at his side, his throat clenched and the muscle therein bulged as he fought the encroaching darkness that threatened to swallow him, finally his clumsily fumbling fingers were able to find the rough grip of his revolver, with a desperate motion he yanked the weapon free of its holster and forced the short barrel under her chin the awkward angle only allowed him one shot before the gun jerked out of his hand, at point blank range the noise and sudden impact of the powerful round startled her enough to lose her grip on the squirming creature in her grasp, Lunatic grabbed a nearby garbage can and yanked it forcibly over her head momentarily pinning her arms before delivering a hammer blow to the masked girls side sending her crashing through the brick wall on the left side of the alley.
P.H. spent a hectic few minutes reducing his shirt to rags in an effort to keep Billy from bleeding out while Lunatic did his level best to fend off the chainsaw wielding psychopath, it seemed an eternity before he was able to stem Billy's blood loss, when at last his shirt was in ruins but Billy seemed stable he turned still staying low behind the cover of the dumpster, Lunatic seemed to be desperately fending off the masked girl dodging her chainsaw even as he attempted to turn her head into pulp, after every swing of the whirling blade he would lash out with a double fisted hammer blow that would manage if only barely to stagger the masked girl, only to cause her to swing the saw once more in an effort to decapitate him, P.H. waited a heartbeat, while she war recovering from one of Lunatics brutal strikes, he came in low and fast lashing out with the edge of his shield aiming for the soft meat of her throat, he hauled back and struck her with all the force he could muster attempting to crush her trachea, he succeeded in denting his shield and pissing her off, with a soft snarl she raised her weapon intent on deal messy death to the golden masked man who dared to strike her tender throat, when she raised her saw Lunatic came in fast and high wrapping his hands around the engine housing of the weapon and doing his level best to wrench it from her hands while P.H. used this distraction to tackle her around her ankle knocking her from her feet, the tangle of limbs that insureds was chaotic at best, Lunatic did his best to pin her upper body using both hands to pin the saw while his legs restrained her left arm, P.H. struggled desperately clinging to her ankles, "WE CAN'T KEEP THIS UP LOONY WE'RE GONNA NEED AN ASSIST!" shouted P.H. as he desperately griped the boney ankles, Lunatic cursed and tried to struggle his communicator free of his belt, the device clicked on, Beastboy's face flickered into view "s'up Loony" chirped the green shape shifter he paused confused, the small camera picked up the strange sight of Lunatic and some weird guy he didn't know both shirtless wrestling with a grey skinned woman wearing a blank oval ceramic mask, "y'know dude, when your enjoying a bit of down time with a lady, it's a good idea to keep an eye out for where you leave your communicator, unless you know, you have a lady that likes to be wa-" Lunatic at this point received a brutal back hand that cracked his jaw and broke his nose, "SEND STARFIRE DAMNIT!" he gurgle/screamed through the blood clogging his nose and throat, as he wrestled the wayward limb back under his control for a moment before she wrenched her weapon free and used the engine housing to smash his head into the pavement, then using her now freed left hand grabbed Lunatic by the arm and flung him down the alley to crash amongst the garbage cans that hid Billy Numerous.
Seeing his friend get hammered by the psycho's weapon P.H. released her ankles and rolled out of her immediate reach gaining his feet a short distance from her maintaining his defensive stance he called to the small golden communicator "SIR! if you do not send assistance soon we will be overcome by superior opposition, we have injured and are in SERIOUS need of an evac do you copy soldier?", Beastboy jerked an involuntary salute before stuttering "SIR! YES SIR!" and signing off.
The masked girl frowned behind the thick ceramic, she hadn't met such resistance before, even the dark man had found it necessary to trap her in a deep pit and fill it partially with concrete to stop her he never managed to cause her pain, it was strange, the boy who was like her, but unlike her was still resisting, still fighting her whispers and that was causing her confusion to well into seething fury,and the man with the shield who shouted and barked was beginning to annoy her with his constant refusal to die, her lips stretched back barring her teeth as she hissed, and yanked the cord connecting her to her sharp sister, Clarissa was becoming angry too, she wanted to find a place to sleep off her recent meal but these three had proven troublesome, already she had lost several teeth to that shield, and the hard surface of the street, she stood a moment unsure of what to do, on the one hand the "man/mob in red" was still breathing and had proven a tease of a meal, and that made Clarissa mad, on the other hand she had fed on five others before hand, so her hunger was no longer so sharp, the "shield man" had hurt both the masked girl and her sharp sister so of course he *had* to die, it simply must be, the girls mused precisely how to kill him for a time.
The precious moments she used to envision Private Hive's death would cost her some considerable comfort, for while she was deciding how best to brutalize the "shield man", Lunatic too that opportunity to hoist up a partially full dumpster and hurled it at her distracted form, P.H. cursed loudly as the suddenly obscured his vision and plowed into the grey ragged form, partially crumpling on impact, "hell's bells! Hoss" coughed Billy staggering over to stand beside the battered and bloody Lunatic, P.H. joined them holding his side an limping, "we should take up mini golf, pizza just doesn't hold the same appeal anymore" he chuckled, the laughter that followed was interrupted by a sharp cough then roar of the chainsaw as the dumpster was cut in half and the ragged grey skinned girl stood before them in the wreckage of the steel trash receptacle, her once blank mask now sported a visible crack down the middle the blank pits of her eyes were all but radiating menace as she marched towards the shocked trio, "boys, ah think its time we all got outta here!" gulped Billy as he staggered down the alley P.H. hot on his heels, he detached the broad golden hexagon from his arm and hurled it at the approaching madwoman's feet tripping her up and buying the trio precious seconds, Lunatic frowned as the alley ended in an eight foot concrete wall, "well thats a wrinkle" muttered Lunatic, "Knock it down Hoss" gasped Billy, P.H. eyed the eight foot wall and the approaching madwoman, yelping as Lunatic grabbed him bodily and hurled him over the wall, as the engine's roar reached a crescendo Billy's injured form was sent after him, P.H. caught his wounded comrade and waited for Lunatic to follow, nothing followed but the roar of the saw's engine.
"Gotta buy them time" thought Lunatic as he ducked a wild swing from the silently raging masked girl, the hellish pitts still made his skin crawl and the whispers crawling through his head were making it hard to deal with the stoic maniac, his energy was leaving him at a worrying pace and his wounds were still seeping as he avoided a nearly fatal thrust from the whirling blade, his reflexive dodge sent him straight into the grasp of her left hand, which curled around his throat in a cutting off the air to his lungs and the blood to his brain, in a desperate bid to save his own life Lunatic hammered his right hand into the already damaged ceramic mask shattering the left side of it, his vision darkened further as his live started to leave his body, it darkened further when the heavy steel engine housing smashed his already battered face into the pavement, the first blow crushed his head into the street, the second blow, he felt something give out within his head and his still opened left eye saw one of his locater studs roll onto the pavement, the third blow sent him reeling into darkness.
The vicious blows drowned out the dull boom of Starfire breaking the sound barrier as she sped towards her battling comrade, her flight was short as she entered the clouds above jump city her communicators tracking system pinpointing Lunatics communicator, what greeted her was a scene of carnage that was uncommon within the Jump City, the entire district had been evacuated as standard with most titan battles the police had escorted the citizens to the numerous safe houses located through out the neighborhood, leaving her a great deal of room should the confrontation turn out to be as violent as evidenced in Lunatic's transmission, the others would follow shortly but their strange teammate had requested her specifically, she caught sight of the alleyway in question and sped towards it just shy of the speed of sound, when she alighted within the confines of the alley she saw a tall grey skinned girl dressed in rags standing over the still form of her comrade, he was laying in a smear of his own blood his head seemed to have been beaten into the pavement using the engine housing of the wicked bladed weapon chained to her right hand, Star's eyes flared brilliant green as she screamed her fury and flew at speeds that would make a bullet weep in envy, she didn't slow for an instant as she smashed into the grey skinned girl and dragged her into the air, the masked girl seemed shocked the blow had forced the air from her lungs this new person had a body like iron and could fly! she gazed at the rapidly retreating ground for a moment the scream of the wind past her ears was almost too loud for her to hear the soft whimper of her sharp sister, Clarissa didn't like heights!, the roar of the saw was drowned out by the roar of the wind, Starfire became aware of burning pain raking at her back like a wild beast, she plucked the grey girl from her back and with a mighty throw hurled her back to the earth, like an errant meteor, the grey skinned saw wielding girl struck the earth leaving behind a deep crater, she lay unmoving within the center of the deep pit, pain wracked her body, she had fallen from so great a height, her mask was broken and her sharp sister was quiet, the green eyed girl hovered nearby her hands glowing her eyes seemed to mock her pain, with will alone the masked girl stood, dragging her silent sister after her, Starfire stared with disbelief as the partially masked girl regained her feet and started walking towards her, making no effort to raise the saw she simply strode towards her position, Star raised her glowing right hand "you have harmed my...teammate even so I do not wish to destroy you, surrender!" The masked girl put on a burst of unexpected speed and leapt at the flying alien girl, wrapping her arms around the orange titan locking her gaze upon the startled green eyes of her attacker, the momentary battle of wills with brief but bitter as the grey skinned girl whispered into her mind bringing out her most secret nightmares and her deepest fears, Starfire's scream echoed across the city, and drew the other titans like a fireworks display.
Robin and Cyborg were the first to arrive they found the still form of their teammate curled upon the ground hugging her knees with a desperate strength as she shook with quiet sobs, the unconscious form of the masked girl lay nearby her arms at unnatural angles her left leg obviously broken and the heavy looking chainsaw at her side still and silent still tacky with the mingled blood of Lunatic, Billy Numerous, Private Hive, and the recently slain citizens of jump city, Robin rushed over to the quietly sobbing alien girl, "Star" he murmured reaching for her shoulder, as his fingers brushed her form she whirled on him teeth bared and eyes glowing her hands sheathed in hellish destructive green light, for a moment the suddenness of the attack from a source he never would have expected paralyzed him for a moment too long and he was caught unawares by the crushing grasp of his closest friend, Robin remained still as his best friend sobbed brokenly into his chest, broken only by periodic whimpers in her native tongue.
Unsteadily Robin stroked her hair and whispered soothingly to her, Cyborg moved into the crater where the still form of the grey skinned girl lay, his right arm had locked into his sonic cannon which he trained on the still form, his left eye wasn't registering any heat from her body or her weapon, it was as if she were dead but he could clearly see her breathing, he stowed his cannon and approached pulling a set of hand cuffs from his hip compartment with careful motions he cuffed her arms behind her back securing her for the moment as he radioed for the Jump City Special Containment Unit, after confirming they were on their way he wandered back up the side of the crater to check on his comrades, Starfire was asleep in Robins arms and he was gently soothing her hair as her rocked her, unaware of his actions, Cyborg cleared his throat as quietly as he could, when he had Robins attention he informed his leader that the containment unit would be there momentarily, Robin gave a nod and made his way to the car settling into the back seat with Starfire, Cybrog waited on the edge of the crater for the J.C.C.U.
Raven materialized in the alley in a flicker of shadow Beastboy crouched at her side in the form of a wolf, he sniffed about the alley growling at the bitter stink of blood until Raven`s slender hand touched the fur of his head and he glanced over following her gaze to the sight of Lunatic`s savaged form, and the two shaking guardians at his side, Billy Numerous had managed to hold the chunk of pipe he had found in a menacing fashion despite his injuries Private Hive stood slightly in front of Billy his shield between him and the new comers ``hey P.H. aren't these two of them Titans, ah think ah recognize the girly but the green dog ain't so familiar`` twanged Billy his legs shaking unsteadily as he at last lowered the pipe and used it as a make shift crutch to take the weight off his leg, "Yeah Billy these would be the same ones that jumped us in the parking lot, minus the big metal guy, can you two help Loony he's hurt pretty bad" P.H. nodded towards their fallen friend, backing up and hooking Billy's arm over his broad shoulder making his way towards the street, Beastboy resumed his human form and wandered over to the still form of the newest titan, Raven followed her feet inches from the ground as they stared down at the nearly unrecognizable form before them Beastboy wasted no time calling for emergency medical services, as Raven knelt beside Lunatic her hands glowing a pale blue, his life force was slowly fading, she propped up the remaining energy with the power of her will alone as they waited for the medi-evac, Beastboy stood silent vigil over her concentrating form his skinny form between her and whatever would do her harm.