Ok you guys asked for a quick update and I'm giving you just that. Especially after reading StarvingLunatic's newest chapters to Warring States Era, I was inspired to write today. So here goes nothing.

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Ch.18 Odds Against Her

Black Star HQ

Blackfire and Morrigan walked down the main corridor of Black Star HeadQuarters with the Pandimensional Vortex Inducer in hand. Blackfire looked at it and smiled, her goal was almost to fruition. 'I'm so close.' Blackfire said in her mind.

Morrigan noticed Blackfire's expression and walked up beside her and placed her hand on Blackfire's covering the Vortex Inducer, causing Blackfire to look up at her. "Love, I know I've said this before, but do you think releasing that woman is a good idea? you don't have to go through all of this just for me." Morrigan said.

Morrigan stopped walking as she watched Blackfire take a few steps ahead before turning around. "We've been through this before. Whoever is sealed in there can't be that strong if that can't get out." Blackfire replied.

"But she was strong enough to free you from there, and she brought you to me. Isn't that enough?" Morrigan questioned.

Blackfire sighed as she thought about being trapped in that hell the Titans called a prison. Trapping her in between time and space, where the pressure was so dense she could hardly move. She would make them pay dearly for that. "Morrigan love, I already told you. My time as ruler of a planet has passed. But you, you're just getting started. Why settle for just a kingdom when you could have the world? After all I promised you the world, and I'm going to keep it." Blackfire said as she walked off down the corridor.

"Even if it meant losing your own life?" Morrigan said under her breath in a concerned tone. She walked up quickly beside Blackfire again.

"We're so close, I can feel it and with Kim and Shego weakened from their battles with Ryoko and Mystique killing them should be simple." Blackfire told Morrigan.

"So it is world domination your plotting." A voice said from behind.

Blackfire and Morrigan looked behind them to see Icy, Darcy, and Stormy phase through the walls and as they did so, they created green ripples that flowed through the wall like water.

"What are you three doing here? You're not allowed access to this side of the building." Blackfire said as she began to approach the three witches.

"Relax." Darcy said. "We're not going to double cross you."

'Yet.' Stormy and Icy said in their thoughts.

"Good, now get out. Keep an eye on that monitor incase the others somehow screw up their mission." Blackfire ordered.

The three witches nodded and left to monitor the portal. When Blackfire was sure they were gone, she and Morrigan continued down the corridor. "Blackfire, I have a bad feeling. What if freeing her is what she wants you to do? What if she is stronger than all of us?" Morrigan questioned.

Blackfire could tell that her lover was concerned, and offered her a reassuring smile. "As long as we're together. It doesn't matter how strong this witch is." Blackfire said.

"I hope you're right love." Morrigan said. as they walked to the end of the corridor and through the doors.

XX

Shego hit the wall hard as she slid down it. She looked up as Azula raised her left hand into the air and lit her hand up with fire. "Time to die!" Azula said.

Juri pushed her aside. "Move it! I'm not done with her yet." She reached down to grab Shego, but Shego acted first and tackled her onto Jacob's car and was about to punch her in the face. Juri moved her head to the side as Shego's fist slammed into the hood. Juri used both of her feet and pushed Shego off and slammed her fist into her face and knocked her back down to the ground.

Azula walked not happy with Juri shoving her aside like some ignorant child. "You there." She said pointing to Jacob.

"Yeah." He said in a dull manner.

"Go find the red head and kill her. We'll take of this one, slowly." Azula said.

"No don't you fucking touch her! You hear me! I'll Fucking Kill You!" Shego roared as she rushed Jacob, but Azula and Juri grabbed her by her arms and pulled her back.

Jacob ignored her and walked towards the back where he knew Kim slept peacefully. Shego emitted a pulse of energy and knocked Juri and Azula back and with blinding speed snatched Jacob and threw him against the wall.

"I've been nice up until now, but if you truly intend to kill my princess, then I'll make sure you get yours first." She threatened the man.

"Oh yeah? Then why am I still breathing?" Jacob asked and he quickly head butted Shego. He tried hit to land a right hook, but she caught his fist and began to twist his wrist. Jacob kicked her in her stomach and threw her into the wall again.

Her body bounced off the hard surface as Jacob proceeded to give her blows to her mid-section. He noticed Shego was about to Counter attack and blocked her fists, he gave her one good punch to the jaw and then backed up, as he gave her some breathing room.

"Oh, look pretty boy can fight." Juri said as she and Azula walked up beside him.

"Getting to Kim, wont be easy. We'll have to handle Shego first of course." Jacob said. to the two women.

"Good, because I want her to watch as we kill her girlfriend." Azula commented.

At that moment something inside Shego snapped and she erupted in anger like that of a volcano. "Oh no you don't. Oh no you fucking DON'T! I'll be damned if I let you hurt her anymore than you already have!" She roared her green glow growing brighter and stronger as the room temperature began to climb.

Azula stepped up. "I'll deal with her. Come on, I challenge you to an Agni Kai. This house shall be our arena, those two our witnesses, and your precious Kim, the prize." Azula announced as she got into a defensive stance.

Shego eyes glowed green with fury as she and Azula threw their fists forward sending blue flames and green plasma crashing into each other. Jacob and Juri stood back as the two women continued to fight and burned down the house in the process. Jacob smiled as he pocketed the small vial of Shego's blood he sampled from their earlier encounter. He then tried to make his way towards the back room while Azula fought Shego, but he was cut off by a blast of plasma. He stepped back and looked to his right as Shego's out stretched hand glowed with the same fury that her eyes were admitting. She jumped over Azula's blazing leg sweep and performed a somersault, flinging plasma everywhere as she did.

Azula blasted her with her fire knocking Shego out of the air. Shego managed to catch herself and land safely as Azula ran up to her and went for a swift kick to her face. Shego caught her foot and smiled as she charged her hands with energy. Juri took this as her chance to jump in as she rapidly appeared above them with her right leg raised high above. She quickly brought her leg down and crashing it on top of Shego and knocking her into the ground sending burning debris upwards.

"I thought I told you stay out of this?" Azula frowned.

"Whatever, I heard you. Thought you might've wanted to hold on to your foot for a while longer." Juri said as she gave her a quick glance.

Jacob ran to the trunk of his car and opened up the trunk and pulled out his AK-47. He looked over to Shego who had her back to him, he watched as her green glow quickly covered her bruised body and roar to life as the glow rose up higher and higher. He fired at her emptying an entire clip on her. Shego cried out as the bullets struck her and pierced her flesh. She was lucky however that not all of the bullets were able to penetrate her plasma that shielded her body.

Jacob quickly reloaded the clip as Shego turned to face him. He took cover by the driver's side as Shego hurled a chunk of plasma at him, causing the vehicle to rock. He took aim and fired again, but Shego ducked in time for the bullets to miss. However Jacob bought Azula the time she needed to attack. Shego looked to her right as she caught flashes of blue light. She saw that Azula's finger tips were covered in electricity and pointed directly at her. She didn't have any time to even block as she took a direct hit from Azula's lightning.

The impact carried her out through the hole that Jacob's car made and she laid on her back, her green glow faded and as sparks and jolts of electricity danced around her form. She opened her eyes her vision blurred, but she could tell Azula was standing over her. Shego's left hand came to life with plasma but Azula stepped on her hand.

"No, I think you're done fighting for now. Jacob go and retrieve the girl." Azula ordered.

The only reply she got out of him was a pained fill scream. She looked back towards the burning living room to see a raptor taking a bite out of Jacob's right arm. The dinosaur had it's clawed foot firmly planted on his chest, as it shook its head violently. Jacob punched the raptor in its snout but it refused to relinquish it's hold on him, as the dinosaur fought to protect her master.

Fortunately for Jacob, one kick from Juri was enough to free Jacob's arm from the dinosaurs grasp. He looked up at Juri as she stepped over him and outside towards Azula.

"You guys got to have all the fun. Can I at least kill the other one?" Juri asked as Azula walked over towards Juri.

"Oh, alright just make it quick. The sooner we can get away from this depressing dump the better." Azula told Juri, which made the Korean woman smile with glee.

Soon they were taken from their thoughts as the sounds of approaching sirens grew louder.

"What is that?" Azula asked.

"Someone must have called the police, and alerted them to what's going on. Come on let's finish the job." Jacob told the two women.

They turned to where Shego was laying to see she was not there anymore. They looked on and saw her climb up and into the burning house. "I do love dramatic endings." Azula side as she began to charge up her lightning.

"No." Jacob said, as he stuck his arm out blocking her aim. Instead he raised his gun and aimed for the gas tank door, on his car. He waited until Shego was in the perfect position, before firing several bullets. They all watched as the car erupted in a huge fireball that engulfed Shego and the entire living room. The explosion shook the entire yard and blew part of the roof off as smoke quickly rose to the sky.

"Satisfied?" Jacob asked Azula.

"Hmmm, not quite." She answered. She sent several columns of fire into the house, causing parts of the weak structure to bury Shego and ensure that she and Kim died in their fiery grave the three dug for them.

"Now, I'm satisfied." Azula said with a smirk.

Jacob activated the comm. link. "This is Jacob, we've completed our mission, and need an immediate evac." He said.

Within seconds a portal to headquarters opened up and they quickly ran through it, and were standing in the back alley behind Black Star Headquarters. Jacob dusted himself and then followed after Azula and Juri who had already entered the building.

"Ahem." He heard a voice say and he turned in the direction it came from.

He smiled as he saw Lex walk up to him. "Lex what are you doing out here?" He asked his fiancee.

"It's not safe here." She said as she grabbed his arm and began to pull him away.

"What are you talking about?" He asked her.

"Blackfire, do you really trust her to keep me safe?" She asked him. "She'll kill us both when she is done. Jacob come on now's our chance before she realizes I'm gone, run away with me." She said as she tugged on his arm, for him to follow after her.

He looked in the direction of the building and back to Lex the woman who he risked everything for. The woman he had lost over a year ago, the woman who meant the world to him. That's when Kim's words registered in his mind on how he would go so far as to help destroy a world that Lex loved so much. He reached into his pocket and pulled out the vial of Shego's blood from earlier.

'I had to do some pretty unforgivable things just to get to this point.' He said in his thoughts as the image of him blowing Shego to bits played back in his mind.

"What is that?" Lex asked him as she eyed the vial of blood.

"I don't know." He lied. "But it seems pretty important to Blackfire and without it she can't carry out her plans." He answered.

"Then break it and let's go." She said as she reached for the vial.

Jacob pulled his arm back. "No. Break it and we give her access to what she wants anyway." He told his fiancee. 'As long as I have it, the world will be safe from her icy grip.' He said in his thoughts.

"Come on let's get out of here." Jacob said.

Lex smiled and nodded and the two ran out of the alley and to apparent freedom. Unbeknownst to them Morrigan overheard the entire conversation. She watched from a dark corner of the alley as Jacob and Lex disappeared from sight, glaring at them as she did so. Without warning she turned into a swarm of bats and took to the sky.

She would deal with them personally.

Well I hope you guys enjoyed the chapter, while not on SL level, I will get there one day. For those who read his latest chapters, MAAAAAN What a chapter, but yeah I didn't forget about Shego's pet raptor lol. Also Lex is back, so you guys know what that means. Don't forget to leave a comment with your thoughts, good night everybody!