"Prepare yourself Titans! I, Control Freak, have devised the ultimate weapon for your destruction! I..." the dorky teen standing atop the giant robotic dinosaur paused, and squinted at the heroes below him. "Hey, how come it's only you three?"
"Some of us have a social life, unlike you." Cyborg powered up his canon, plates shifting in his forearm and drives warming up. He knew what Beast Boy had planned, they had watched Free Willie just the other day.
"Social life? You mean…" Control Freak's beady eyes widened, "No way! I thought that was a rumour!" the villain wanna-be jumped about in excitement, giving Beast Boy a chance to morph.
Raven simply crossed her arms as the green boy tossed her a confident wink and dove into the water.
"Wait, that means Starfire is taken! Gah!" Control Freak hung his head and noticed Beast Boy's absence. All of a sudden from the water shot a green dolphin, moving at speeds incalculable. Control Freak however was faster, and pressed a button on his remote. Just as Beast Boy was about to smash into him, a blue energy field shot up, deflecting the green teen back into the bay.
When his head, his human head, poked above the water it was met by a smirk from Raven. He frowned and dove again."Well, this won't be as much fun," the obese geek boasted, "but it'll have to do."
"C'mon man, we haven't done anything, you haven't done anything. Go home man." Cyborg had his arms crossed, though still loaded, as unconcerned as Raven. Beast Boy's whereabouts were a mystery. "No! You humiliated me! I will have my VENGEANCE!"
With that the platform on the giant robot's chest withdrew, sealing as it closed. The robot came to life, its head leaning over to roar at the two unimpressed heroes. "Seriously? Isn't this more Rancid's style?" Raven teleported away as a giant fist came down to smash the T-ship.
Cyborg on the other hand activated the retreat program and leapt into the air, hoping his baby would dive before the mechanical monster smashed it. As he spun in the air, disturbingly graceful despite his bulk, he took aim at the protozoid and shouted "Titans GO!" though he was sure neither of his teammates could hear him.
His first shot was a concentrated beam that struck the robot's muzzle. Seeing that it had no effect, Cyborg changed tactics as his feet clamped onto the machine's side. It struggled to grab him, but Cyborg evaded the massive hands, and soon the behemoth had other things to worry about.
Raven appeared from a portal in the air, eyes glowing and palms irradiating darkness. She muttered her meditative phrase and flicked her wrists, carving two giant tears into the behemoth's chest. It turned to her and opened its mouth, preparing to release a torrent of flame.
Raven, despite popular belief, actually did pay attention to the asinine films of her friends, and though she didn't like them, she at least gained a working knowledge of the world of nerd-dom. So she dropped as soon as the creature opened its mouth, and sure enough tongues of napalm roared overhead as she drove toward the water.
Right before she hit Raven opened a portal and materialized next to Cyborg, who was perched in between two of the machine's back spikes. "Any ideas? I could barely dent it." The cybernetic teen's response was to shift his finger into an arc welder. "Yeah, just buy me some time." With a quick nod Raven disappeared into the ether again.
Meanwhile, Control Freak found out the full extent of his arch nemesis' powers as Beast Boy rose out of the water as a Meglosaur, nearly as large as Godzilla himself. But the extinct water dinosaur was no match for the king of monsters, and Beast Boy's teeth chipped on its armour. Control Freak, deep in the bowels of the machine, laughed, "Puny snot stain! Your powers are no match for mine! You are bound by nature, but I am…"
The speakers cut out, and the rest of Control Freak's monologue was silenced. Morphing back into a human and squirming through giant fingers Beast Boy cheered, "Finally, silence!"
"Now you know how I feel." Raven deadpanned as she appeared to his left, smashed speaker parts raining around her.
Unfortunately just because it was silenced didn't mean the monster was beaten, and it grabbed Beast Boy again and swatted at Raven. She deflected its swipe and Beast Boy morphed into a guerrilla, swinging between fingers and pulling at anything loose.
Inside the monstrosity an alarm sounded, and Control Freak glanced at the notice. A perimeter breach in the hind quarters, probably Cyborg. The fat man sneered, "Deja vu!" much to Cyborg's surprise the newly opened skin of the machine was suddenly blocked by a brick wall (1), and the man rolled his eyes, activating his canon.
Cyborg never got to use his signature weapon though, as just when he was about to fire a massive electrical current shot through the machine's hide. The charge disabled his magnetic clamps and he began to fall, expletives lost as he smashed into a lower spike.
With a growl Cyborg planted his feet on the machine and kicked off, powerful hydraulics in his legs allowing him to leap clear over the monster's head. As he descended he fired a stream of sonic energy into its face, calling out to his teammates "The back, a breach, bricks came down."
Beast Boy nodded and called out to Raven, "Hey, can I get a lift?" The empath rolled her eyes, recalling a time when she had chided the boy for treating her as a taxi. A portal opened below him and Beast Boy dropped through, appearing a dozen feet above the machine's spines.
He morphed into a hawk and dove for the discoloured blob in the machine's armour. He morphed at the last second into a rhino, and blasted through the bricks into the machine.
Alarms blared as Control Freak struggled to keep track of both the heroes outside and the one now inside his creation. Raven was tricky, narrowly dodging his every swipe, and flinging Cyborg back into the air whenever he fell too far. They had definitely learned since they last fought.
"Damn!" he cursed, tapping frantically at his screens, "He's in the ventilation shaft…"
Beast Boy smashed as much as he could see, alternating forms for their destructive capabilities. Honestly, he was beginning to question the sanity of the villains they faced. Certainly, they had never been stable, but this was just stupid. Morphing into a lion he hopped into a new duct, only to find it blocked on both ends.
As he turned to drop back down, a panel slid over the opening, cutting off his escape. He silently cursed, shifting into a rat, its instincts hopefully able to find an escape route. No such luck, as all of a sudden the walls began closing in and a voice crackled over some distant speaker. "And now young Titan…You will die."
Raven felt the gap immediately, like a blow to her stomach. She gasped and dropped her shields, allowed a massive metal fist to strike her. Cyborg, seeing this, halted his firing and activated his emergency rockets. They didn't carry a lot of fuel, but they allowed him to catch Raven and fly out of harm's way, the Godzilla beast following.
He shook her, "Raven! What happened, are you alright?" Her eyes were wide, staring into the distance. She snapped to after a near miss from the enemy's fire. "Its Beast Boy…" Cyborg looked at her in confusion, "He's…gone."