Hello Everybody! Btr100 over here with the 29th chapter of my story, Ben 10: The Faction Returns...
After watching the Homecoming episodes, I finally got some inspiration! It might be a little like it, with lots of obvious allusions...
Peace!-Btr100
The Teen Titans continued their way, venturing through the Tamaran desert-like, wasteland landscape. Even though it has been turned into a wasteland thanks to the countless Gordanian invasions, Starfire still remembers the times when Tamaran was like a beautiful oasis and still think Tamaran as one. As they made their way towards the Gordanian base, they saw multiple ship debris scattered around, some of them still in flames.
The core Titans, Terra and Ben as Manadite even had to run away from Tamaranean wild animals, specifically, an angry Portkin and a viscous Flarnop, when Starfire barely managed to calm them down.
They then continued their way, before Beast Boy heard some noises.
"Wait. I think something's following is." Beast Boy said, as the Teen Titans stopped and looked around them, but they saw nothing. Unknown to the Titans, Manadite heard it too, and he and Beast Boy saw small rocks shaking and rumbling. Manadite then lifted his right foot, to see a small crack underneath it. Manadite gasped, before his eyes glowed pink.
"Guys! Look out!" Manadite shouted, before firing a pink windy blast which sent the Titans backwards, and Manadite took off into the air, just in time to avoid a large robot with a Gordanian symbol emerge from the ground, before it fired lasers everywhere, the Titans quickly dodging each lasers, Terra creating a rock wall to protect the Titans and Manadite creating a mana bubble to protect himself.
After multiple laser blasts, Terra's rock wall began to form cracks and one final laser blast was enough to take the wall down and send the Titans flying. While its attention was focused on the Titans, Manadite lowered his shield and his fists glowed pink, before charging towards the robot and punching it multiple times, each punch sending the robot back.
Manadite then landed two more punches, before firing a mana blast, which greatly sent the robot backwards. The robot then fired a laser at close range, but Manadite crossed his arms and took the blast, only being sent backwards. He then retaliated with a large mana bolt, which was enough to send the Robot flying.
The other Titans stood up again, and they decided to fight back.
"Titans! GO!" Robin shouted and they all charged forward.
Beast Boy then turned himself into a Pteranodon and Cyborg jumped on his back, before BB Pteranodon flew towards the robot. Cyborg then fired some sonic blasts, but the robot then created a force field which then blocked the sonic blasts. The robot then fired a single laser blast which then managed to hit Cyborg and blasted him off of BB Pteranodon and he crashed down the ground.
Beast Boy then turned himself into a T-Rex and he charged towards the robot, but the robot fired an electric missile which then managed to hit BB T-Rex and it electrocuted him, before he fell down the ground with a thump and reverted back to his normal form.
The robot was then covered in black aura and the non-sentient creation looked to Raven, attempting to telekinetically lift it, but then the robot fired a blue energy laser beam which then managed to hit Raven and froze her, falling down the ground with a thump. The ice didn't broke when she crashed, only managing to create small cracks.
Starfire then rammed into the robot and punched it several times, each punch sending the robot back, before firing a star beam which caused the robot to fall down. Starfire then flew down towards the robot, which then fired several missiles, which then hit Starfire, causing a cloud of black smoke to fly in mid-air. Starfire then flew out of the smoke and charged towards the robot, but then the robot created a magnetic force field which then sent Starfire crashing down the ground.
Robin then charged towards the robot, dodging several missiles and laser blasts along the way. The robot then attempted to grab him, but Robin dodged and jumped, landing at the robot's hand, before running towards the robot's head. The robot then attempted to blast Robin with its eye blasts, but Robin evaded them and it hit the robot's arm instead, effectively blasting its own arm into half. Robin then jumped and landed on top of the robot, before he planted a time bomb disc on the robot's forehead. Robin then jumped as the disc exploded.
When Robin landed, the Robot was still in one piece, much to his surprise, before the robot attempted to step on him, but then Cyborg caught the foot and he attempted to lift the robot and throw it, but the cyborg struggled and he was sweating heavily, closing his eyes. The robot was heavier than expected. When Cyborg opened his eyes, he saw a laser cannon in front of him.
"Oh really?" Cyborg said, before he was blasted and he was sent flying into a rock pillar.
The robot looked at Robin again, before two large boulders hit it. The robot then looked at Terra, who then raised her glowing hands in the air. She then created two, large earth hands with the robot between them, and she cupped her hands together, the earth hands making their way towards the robot, but the robot grabbed them, but it struggled to push them out, as the earth hands were still attempting to advance forward.
However, the robot was left in a vulnerable position.
"Ben! Now!" Terra shouted.
Manadite then landed on the ground and a green light enveloped his body, turning him into:
"Tyrannopede!" the Tyrannosapien shouted, before roaring loudly and charging towards the now vulnerable robot. He then bashed through the robot and completely destroyed it and the earth hands, robot pieces flying through the air. The Titans then regained consciousness-Raven managing to thaw out of the ice-and they waited as Tyrannopede walked over them and reverted back to human.
"Okay...Let's get going. There's probably more of these things waiting for us..." Robin said as they continued their way towards the Gordanian fortress.
As they continued their way towards the Gordanian fortress, they saw dust in the distance. And from the looks of it, the dust cloud seems to be advancing towards them.
"Beast Boy, take a look." Robin said. Beast Boy nodded his head and turned into a hummingbird and flew upwards in order to see what's inside the dust cloud. He then saw a large number of Gordanian tanks advancing towards them. He then flew down and reverted back to Beast Boy as soon as he saw the tank army.
"Tanks and a lot of 'em." Beast Boy said.
As soon as Beast Boy said those words, the tank army were soon in front of them, preparing to fire at the Titans. A Gordanian then went out of his tank and shouted one common enemy word:
"FIRE!" the Gordanian shouted, before going back inside his tank, as the other tanks fired laser blasts at the Titans. The commander then began firing lasers as well as advancing towards the Teen Titans.
Raven then created a telekinetic shield in order to protect her team from the laser blasts.
"Titans! GO!" Robin shouted, and once again, the Team charged into action and Raven lowered her shield.
A green light then enveloped all over Ben's body and his body form changed, turning him into:
"Armodrillo!" the Talpaedan shouted loudly, but before he can slam his fists down into the ground, Terra ran over to him.
"Are you a Talpaedan? Cool! I red a book about them, and I loved it! You think we can do this together?" Terra asked as her hands and eyes glowed yellow.
"Sure! In Three. One. Two. THREE!" Armodrillo shouted as he and Terra slammed both of their fists in the ground, creating a large wave of rocks and dust which sent multiple tanks toppling, flying and destroying some tanks. Armodrillo and Terra then bro-fisted each other, before Terra slammed down on the ground again, creating three sand monsters. The sand monsters and Armodrillo then charged towards the tanks. Armodrillo then dodged some laser blasts, before jumping high and landing on top of a tank. He then punched the tank so hard, before jumping off again, the tank exploding. He then did this to the next set of tanks.
The sand monsters fired sand blasts and covered multiple tanks in dust.
Beast Boy then turned himself into a Triceratops and Cyborg got on top of him and BB Triceratops bashed through several tanks, destroying them and sending large tank pieces flying into the air, while dodging and enduring laser blasts along the way. While BB Triceratops was charging through multiple tanks, Cyborg fired multiple sonic blasts at nearby tanks that cannot be reached by Beast Boy, managing to hit them and destroy them.
Starfire then took off into the air, and fired multiple starbolts and eye blasts, each blast hitting one tank and making it explode. When she landed on the ground, multiple tanks surrounded her and prepared to fire, but Starfire slammed her fists into the ground and created a huge explosion of dust and sand. A few seconds later, Starfire flew out of the sand explosion.
Raven then looked at the multiple tanks charging towards her, before she sat in a meditating position, before she projected her astral form out of her body and her astral form quickly flew towards a tank, short-circuiting it and destroying it on the inside, and letting it explode. Her astral form then jumped and jumped into the next few tanks, each tank exploding as it did. After destroying one last tank, the astral form then returned back to Raven's body.
"I should do that more often. Reminds me of Larry.." Raven said as she flew towards a Titan who probably needed her help.
Robin dodged multiple laser blasts as he ran towards a tank. He then jumped on top of the tank and used his metal bo staff to make a hole. Once he made a hole, he used his above-average strength to rip the hole wide, revealing a Gordanian controlling the tank. The Gordanian growled, before attempting to blast Robin with an electric bolt, but Robin dodged and grabbed the Gordanian by the shoulders, before throwing him out of the tank and he jumped inside, before using the tank to attack the others, the controls not being too much complicated to him.
The Titans kept attacking until they were no more undamaged tanks in the area.
Robin then got out of his tank and he walked over to the rest of the Titans, seeing the area full of destroyed tanks and flames.
"Okay team, let's get going." Robin said as the Titans continued their journey...
The Gordanian was still spying on them, which still wasn't noticed by the Titans.
"My Lord, our targets are very close to the fortress and our greatest defend robot and the tank army are defeated! What shall we do now?" the Gordanian asked through his communicator.
"Let them be...I only wanted them to see me. I'm not done with them yet..." the voice said, and the Gordanian looked to see the Titans still walking towards their fortress. The Gordanian smirked, before flying away.
The Titans continued walking and walking until they saw the Gordanian fortress by the distance.
"Well, we're here." Beast Boy said.
"And it's not very secret." Raven added.
"I think it's not supposed to be secret." Robin said.
The Titans then ran towards the base as close as they can without being spotted, before hiding behind several large rocks and rock pillars. Ben then took a peek in order to see the fortress' defenses.
"It's very common and expected actually. Laser turrets. Robot guards. Land mines. Security video system. Nero-Steel Door. And watch guards by the wall with four watch towers." Ben said, before hiding back behind the rock, just before a Gordanian looked at their spot, before shrugging it off.
"Okay. Me, Beast Boy and Raven will take out the door, while you four take out the guard towers." Robin said, before he, Beast Boy and Raven jumped into action. Beast Boy turned into a cheetah and ran quickly around the robot guards and towards the laser turrets, which then began firing multiple, quick laser blasts, which BB Cheetah easily dodged.
Raven then telekinetically removed the land mines from the ground, before Beast Boy Cheetah proceeded in making the two laser turrets blast each other, exploding as they did.
The robot guards noticed Beast Boy and began firing laser blasts, but Beast Boy and Raven dodged the blasts as fast as they could. Robin then quickly and quietly ran behind each robot guard and placed a time bomb disc on their backs, before running away from the scene. The robot guards then exploded shortly after.
Raven then fired the land mines at the steel door, exploding on contact and destroying the door.
"INTRUDER ALERT! INTRUDER ALERT!" the Gordanian guards shouted from the watch towers, but then a blue sonic blast blasted the first watch tower, a green starbolt blasted the next one, a large boulder then crashed the next one, and a missile destroyed the last watch tower. Cyborg, Starfire, Terra and Ben as Bio-Wolf then quickly jumped out from their hiding places and landing next to the others, before running inside the fortress.
As they ran inside, they saw multiple Gordanians and robot guards running towards them, but Bio-Wolf fired several missiles which then exploded, and the proximity of the blast managed to send all of them flying, and the Titans continued running, before they saw two pathways.
"Which way to go?" Robin asked.
But after Robin asked that question, several robot soldiers and Gordanians were seen charging towards them on the left side.
"Guess it's the right one! RUN!" Beast Boy shouted, and all of them but Ben as Bio-Wolf ran away towards the right pathway.
"I'll hold them off! I can catch up!" Bio-wolf shouted, before transforming himself into:
"Buglizard!" the Lepidopterran predator shouted, before charging towards the army of Gordanians and robots. He then tackled multiple Gordanian soldiers, dodged laser blasts and electric bolts, while slicing robot troops into two with his sharp claws. A group of Gordanians attempted to dodgpile him, but Buglizard easily threw them off, before ramming into multiple robot troops, knocking them down and sending sparks of electricity flying all over their bodies.
Buglizard fought and fought until every Gordanian in the area is defeated and all of the robots were destroyed. When he thought it was all over, a fire blast hit him on the face, before he was hit by multiple lasers, sending him backwards. The Lepidopterran predator looked to see a large robot, walking towards him, and it looked more like Ultimate Humungousaur than humanoid.
"(growl) Oh great. This is the best you can do?" Buglizard said, before he started running. "Try alien power instead!" Buglizard shouted, before ramming into the robot and sending the large technological creation flying into the wall, dust and rocks flying.
Meanwhile...
The other Titans ran and ran, until they saw four pathways.
"Okay...which one now?" Robin asked. Raven's eyes then glowed white for a few seconds, before her eyes returned to normal.
"That one." Raven said, pointing at the 3rd pathway, and the Teen Titans go through it, running and running, before they stopped to see that they have entered a large arena-like room. The entrance/exit behind them then closed, before they looked at the large, but empty arena like room. The large room itself was in the shape of a hexagon, with Gordanian banners on the walls.
"Um...Raven? If this is the place, where's the Gordanian army?" Robin asked.
"Or their leaders?" Cyborg added.
"Maybe they're hiding..." Raven said, as the Titans began to have a look around in the large room.
"Well this is just great! Our only way out is closed, Ben can't get in here, we're stuck in this large empty room, and the ones we are looking for are not here!" Beast Boy shouted angrily.
"Can you just shut up?" Raven asked.
But then, Buglizard was suddenly sent flying into the room, crashing against the wall, before falling down the ground, dust flying all around him. The Teen Titans then ran over him in worry.
"Ben! Are you alright?" Robin asked, as Buglizard began to stand up, recovering from the punishment he just received.
"I am now. A large Gordanian dude just founded me after I took out some Gordanians and robots. He was a tough match for me, and I even tried to run away when I fired yellow fog on his face, but he still founded me and we fought again, and then he threw me in this room." Buglizard replied.
"I knew you Titans would be in here. Your friend proved to be a formidable adversary, so let's see if you have improved over the years." The Gordanian said, walking into the hole Buglizard just made and walked towards the Titans.
"Trogaar. I knew it was you behind this." Robin said, as he and the other Titans prepared their powers and or weapons.
"Yes. But you should be surprised after you meet my companion in invading Tamaran. You pretty met "him" before." Trogaar said, before charging towards the Titans.
"Titans GO!" Robin shouted, and the Teen Titans charged into action...
Robin was the first to attack and he threw his birdarang at Trogaar, but Trogaar caught the birdarang, before crushing it with his bare hand. He then charged towards Robin, as the Boy Wonder took out his metal bo staff and hit Trogaar several times with it, before slamming it on his head. When he attempted to hit Trogaar once more, the Lord Gordanian caught the staff and threw it aside, before grabbing the Boy Wonder by the shoulders and throwing him into the wall.
Trogaar was then hit by a sonic blast and he was sent flying into the wall, before falling down the ground again. He stood up to see Cyborg charging towards him, before punching him several times, each punch sending Trogaar backwards. After landing one last punch, Cyborg lifted Trogaar, before throwing him towards Beast Boy.
Beast Boy then turned himself into a tiger and pounced on Trogaar, sending him into the ground, before attempting to bite his face, but Trogaar held his paws, before throwing the tiger off of him. Trogaar then turned around to see Cyborg charging towards him, but Trogaar uppercutted him so hard, that he was sent flying into the ceiling.
Trogaar was then covered in black aura as he saw Raven telekinetically grabbing hold of him.
"Guys! NOW!" Raven shouted, just in time as Cyborg fell down from the ceiling.
"BOOOOOOOO-YAAAAAAAH!" Cyborg shouted as he fell on Trogaar, sending dust flying. When the dust cleared, Cyborg got off of Trogaar, before grabbing his tail, spun him around and threw him in the air. When Trogaar was about to land, Beast Boy as a ram tackled him so hard that Trogaar was sent flying into the wall. Robin then ran towards him and grabbed his tail, and with unexpected strength, threw the Gordanian in the air, before Starfire rammed into him and rammed Trogaar into the wall. Starfire then threw Trogaar towards the ground and he crashed, dust and rocks flying.
When Trogaar stood up, he was suddenly sunk into the ground like he just stepped on quicksand. He then looked to see Terra smirking, before she side stepped, revealing Ben as Armodrillo slamming his fists down the ground, creating a rock wave which easily hit Trogaar, and sent him flying into the wall, before falling back down the ground.
Trogaar then stood up again, groaning, before he found Ben as Crabdozer charging towards him, before tackling him so hard, that he was sent crashing through the wall and was sent flying towards the weapons room, and he was finally knocked unconscious.
"Yeah! You better stay knocked out!" Crabdozer shouted, before facing his teammates.
"Okay team. We better find Trogaar's companion right now." Robin said.
"Yeah. He maybe the mastermind of this whole thing.." Cyborg added.
"Didn't you guys even heard the way the Gordanian dude said "he"?" Crabdozer said as he reverted back to Ben. "He made it...a bit too obvious..." Ben said.
"So you're saying his associate's a girl?" Raven asked.
"Um...yeah?" Ben replied.
"Wow. And you're the clever one." a voice said, before a purple energy blast hit Ben on the back, knocking him unconscious. When Ben fell, the Titans saw:
"Blackfire?" Starfire asked in horror and shock.
"Surprised to see me sister dear?" Blackfire asked, walking towards the unconscious Ben, picking him up.
"This new member of yours is pretty much the full package..isn't he?" Blackfire asked, before a Gordanian guard picked him up and took him away from the arena room.
"Well now, he's not with you. I'm interested to know if that blonde of yours will be enough for your team. Because you'll all be fighting against ME!" Blackfire shouted, before firing a large purple star energy beam at the Titans, who then barely dodged it, but the blast proximity still sent them all flying.
"It looks like the star energy of that pathetic Tamaranean spy has paid off on me." Blackfire said as her body glowed purple. That statement made Starfire gasp.
"You absorbed the star energy of our fellow Tamaranean!?" Starfire angrily asked.
"Why yes sister dear. You see, after breaking out of prison, I built an energy absorption machine which will absorb the life energy of any living thing and also the energy from certain technologies. After I built the machine, I joined the Gordanians in taking over Tamaran, so everyone will bow down to me! But after realizing I don't have enough power, tested the machine out on the Tamaranean spy and it worked perfectly! All while transferring the energy into this indestructible crystal you might now as Taydenite." Blackfire said, showing the Taydenite crystal on her neck, glowing brightly.
"Now, I want your energy, and you might help me take over Tamaran." Blackfire said, before firing multiple purple starbolts, in which the Titans narrowly dodged.
"Alright! This has gone far enough! You attempted to blame me for all the crimes you have committed, you took over Tamaran, you forced me to marry a hideous slime creature for you to get the Jewel of Charta, you hired Madame Rouge to kill me, and now you joined our greatest enemy and killed a fellow Tamaranean for your own power!?" Starfire shouted angrily, trying to hold back the tears..
"Aww...is little Starfire about to cry?" Blackfire teased.
"I. AM. NOT. SO. LITTLE..ANYMORE! RAAAAAAAAAAAAHH!" Starfire angrily shouted, before quickly and angrily tackling her sister and ramming her into the ceiling, before throwing her into the wall, before grabbing her right foot and slamming her into the ground several times, before slamming her into the wall, her rage taking full control of her.
"YOU MADE A LOT OF MISTAKES! (slams Blackfire into the ground.) I FORGAVE YOU! (slams her into the wall) FOR EVERY SINGLE ONE OF YOUR MISTAKES! (slams her into the ground again, but thrice.) BUT NOW! (throws her upwards.) YOU HAVE GONE FAR ENOUGH!" Starfire shouted angrily, before slamming her fists onto her stomach, sending her flying towards the ground, a cloud of dust flying.
Starfire, full of rage, fired multiple starbolts and eye blasts with no plans to stop, each blast making the smoke cloud bigger and bigger. She fired more and more starbolts, before creating one large starbolt, and throwing it at Blackfire, the blast proximity sending the Titans backwards. She then covered herself in a green star barrier, before screaming with all of her rage, creating a large star beam as she did. The beam managed to hit Blackfire and the blast was so big, that Raven had to create a telekinetic barrier all over the Titans, as the large explosion filled the room.
When the explosion cleared, the room turned like it was struck by a room tornado. Starfire was panting heavily, about to collapse into unconsciousness, as Blackfire was still covered by the black smoke. Raven lowered her barrier as they ran over to her.
"Calm down Star...calm down.." Beast Boy said.
"Everything's gonna be alright Star. We promise." Robin said.
"Hahahaaha! Sweet time's over loverboy!" they hear Blackfire's voice say. They then turned around to see Blackfire come out of the smoke, not a single scratch on her skin.
"Did I forgot to mention, I absorbed the life and star energy of over a hundred Tamaranean spies? Galfore told you only one? Oh...pity." Blackfire said. Starfire screamed in anger as she charged towards Blackfire, but Blackfire fired a large purple star beam, which then managed to hit Starfire and send her crashing into the wall, before falling back down the ground, unconscious.
"STARFIRE!" Robin shouted.
"TITANS! GO!" Robin angrily shouted, before the Teen Titans angrily charged towards Blackfire.
Blackfired yawned, before punching Robin in the face, enough to send Robin rolling down the ground, unconscious, bruises all over his face. Beast Boy then changed into a brown bear and attempted to slash at Blackfire, but his blows were dodged, before Blackfire kicked BB Brown Bear in the stomach, enough to send BB Brown Bear crashing into the wall, and it was all enough to revert him back to normal and fall down unconscious. Cyborg then attempted to punch Blackfire, but Blackfire caught his hand, and crushed it like it was a piece of paper, Cyborg didn't scream, but it was still painful. Blackfire then followed with a punch to Cyborg's face, knocking him out, severely damaging his robot side, but it wasn't enough to actually shut him down.
Raven then followed by telekinetically lifting Blackfire in the air, but Blackfire easily shrugged it off, before firing a purple starbolt at Raven, who then created a telekinetic shield, but when the starbolt landed, it wasn't enough and it broke, and Raven was sent rolling down the ground, unconscious, her clothes teared and some bruises on her legs. Terra, now angry, created two large earth hands, before crushing Blackfire with them, but Blackfire destroyed the hands soon after, before firing a small starbolt. Terra created a large earth wall, but even that was not enough for a small Blackfire starbolt, which completely destroyed the earth wall, the blast sending Terra flying into a wall, and since she wasn't used to physical pain, she was knocked unconscious.
"Now...you have learned how to fear me! With this power, I can rule the entire universe!" Blackfire shouted, before laughing maniacally, her body glowing as a red aura completely covered Blackfire as she laughed maniacally.
Starfire began to open her eyes, seeing a blurry vision of Blackfire covered in red aura.
"No...Blackfire..." Starfire weakly said before closing her eyes again, drifting back into unconsciousness.
To Be Continued...
And that's that for this chapter! We have no classes! ALL WEEK!
Peace!-Btr100
