Blue and Silver.
Chapter 5.
Escalation: Part I.
Tricks.
After my less than pleasant conversation with Robin, my Raven came in with a smile on her face she went straight towards me.
"Knowledge is doing better, she found that because of the rift, I can let my emotions affect me without my powers losing control. Lust and Love managed to permanently seal Anger in a prison built out Anger's own rage. Statistically Anger can't get out without a major personality shift. I think everything's finally fixed!" in her happiness she kissed me.
"I wouldn't say that. Slade killed my dad in prison and Robin thinks he's after me." Raven. Was. Pissed.
"If Slade gets anywhere near you, I'll send him into a inter-dimensional hell!"
"Baby calm down, maybe Slade just killed in self-defense, besides I can handle myself, and you'll always back me up."
She nodded and calmed herself.
Another two weeks passed and Slade didn't show his half-destroyed face. Raven actually started to attack like an average teenager. I also found out I was capable of silver E. , limited telekinesis, and shockwaves. Since most of my powers were electricity based I added light blue lightning bolt-like stripes to my bodysuit.
Also Knowledge had either gotten over or repressed the fact that Anger raped her. Knowledge had inquired that, the more Raven feels an emotion the more powerful said emotion becomes.
Robin decided that the Red-X situation was a bust.
However during the two weeks a trio of teen villains appeared in Jump. According to Cy's left over files from the H.I.V.E infiltration none of them had any relation with the academy.
Anyway the three were:
-Pyro: The leader, he had control over flames, blue-hot flames. I called him Hot Head.
-Cold War: She was Pyro's second-in-command. Her powers were Ice-based. Called her Ice Queen
-Brutality: The heavy. He was a regular teen who decided to use venom, poor kid. Call him Big Boy.
They appeared to purposely seek us out, Robin thinks someone put a bounty on are heads that these three are after. Personally I think there just a bunch of Metahuman teens trying to make a name for themselves.
Robin split us into three teams, each team would go after a certain meta, He and Star had Pyro, B.B and Cy had Brutality, and me and Raven had the ice queen.
Soon we moved out.
Raven and I found Cold War by tracking her temperature, a negative temperature in Jump is pretty easy to find.
So ice queen was freezing over the park, she had her back to us, currently freezing the pond. I glanced at Raven, she nodded and I shot a bolt of silver lightning at her, she raised a block of ice from the pond and used it as a shield, a shield that broke under the force of impact. I fired three lasers.
Since I could control the lasers, the makeshift shield wasn't a problem. Cold War was still standing with the shield up, Raven used her telepathy to throw the block into the pond, destroying the rest of the ice.
"Dammit," was her response.
"Surrendering may be a good idea." I suggested.
"Agreed" said Raven.
Ice Queen backed away from us slowly before attempting to sprint off.
Raven dragged her back with a tendril of Dark energy.
"We can do this the hard way or the easy way." Rae warned.
"What are the opinions?" she asked.
"You willingly go to Jump Penitentiary, or we drag you there."
"How about this." she fired wickedly sharp icicles from a nearby tree. Raven blocked with a shield but in the confusion Cold War broke away.
We looked at her and instead of fighting she turned herself into snow and was blown away. I saw her reform down the street before she ran away, we were gonna chase after but Robin called everyone back to the tower.
Robin made his suspicions clear once everyone returned to the tower. "Okay in each of are fights we saw the trio use tricks they haven't tried before. Pyro turned rock into lava, Brutality increased his venom input to fight Beast-Boy's T-Rex form hand-to-hand before decreasing his size, and Cold War turned herself into snow before reforming. Someone is teaching them these powers and I'm willing to bet it's Slade."
"Slade? Are you sure they just haven't used all their powers yet?" Asked Cyborg.
"Lava, size-changing, and reformation seam like the kind of tactics that these three would have used already if the hadn't just learned them." Robin retorted.
"Hmm...I don't know. Next time we got one of them w should try gettin' some answers."
"Agreed, Titans dismissed."
After the meeting me and Raven walked into my room. I locked the door and changed into a tank top and a thong. Raven who kept some of her underwear in here for thew nights we went in here instead of her room also changed.
We lay down on the bed and simply rest for a while in silence to recover after the fight. I decided to break the silence.
"Rae, was I really your first?" I asked.
"Yes, Last night was the first time I had sex."
"Wow, wish I could say the same."
"Besides me how many girls have you been with?"
"6, all of them one night stands."
"So I'm your lucky number seven?"
I kissed her as my response. "Good night my love."
"Good Night my beauty."
Me and Raven drifted off into a dreamless sleep. If we knew what would happen tomorrow, I assure you that we would not be able to sleep in any way, shape, or form. If we knew, perhaps things would have been different.
So the emotion plot is over, Honestly I just needed an excuse to make Raven more emotional for the Slade plot to work. If the romance seems rushed, it's also something that needed to happen for the plot to work, in the Escalation sub-plot (this chapter is the first of five parts of Escalation.) the story improves in quality.