Titan Tamer of The Swordsman
Chapter Twenty Four
Date with Destiny
A/N
Karsap: Time for the next chapter.
Yuki: Date with Destiny? What's this about?
Karsap: Well Robin has to date a daughter of a super villain.
Kotemon: Another one?
Karsap: Well technically three, but more on that later. But for now Yuki do the disclaimer.
Yuki: Okay! Karsap doesn't own Digimon or Teen Titans, but he owns Me Yuki Hata.
Unknown Location-Night
Sinister red eyes pierced through a pitch black void behind a pane of glass. These scary looking optics belonged to multiple small creatures silhouetted in a dim underground lair, and their owners grew restless as the whirring sound of many beating wings filled the room.
"Patience, my children." A heavily distorted male voice calmed the creatures, "Soon you shall wreak the havoc you crave." The owner of this voice was a large humanoid with the head of a moth, covered with black and white fuzz that stopped short of his abdomen and legs, and had two pairs of striated insect wings sprouting from his back. Standing at a worktable with his back to the ranks of glass holding pens, the mysterious human/insect hybrid was piecing together a small device with a button on the top. "Soon I shall have the power I deserve. Soon the entire city will bow before its new master, Killer Moth!" He shouted as he stepped away from the worktable.
Laughing madly, the insect-themed villain stalked away from the tables as he passed the rows of cells. Before he could fully relish in his excitement, however, a second, very petulant, young, and high pitched female voice cut him off.
"DADDY!"
"DAAAADDDDDYYYYY!" A teenage blonde, blue-eyed girl screamed from the top of her lungs. Inside a pink colored room, and wearing the same colored pajamas, the girl sat on a bed as she called for her father.
An instant later, the door to the room smashed open. "Daddy's working, Kitten." Killer Moth growled angrily as he stepped inside. "Can't this wait until-"
"No! He broke up with me." The girl, referred to as Kitten, interrupted as she began storming back and forth in front of the villain. "My stupid ex-boyfriend Fang broke up with me! And now I don't have a date for the prom!" She explained in an annoyed tone as she tossed a telephone and a pillow across the room.
During the whole event, Killer Moth was breathing heavily, trying to hold back his rage that was most likely at its' boiling point.
With a pull of her hair, Kitten threw herself face down on the bed with a groan before sobbing uncontrollably.
Her father sat down next to her and held his hand uncertainly out toward her back, not having much of an idea what to do in this crisis. He finally settled on stroking her hair, giving her whatever comfort he could. "Uh... there, there." He said hesitantly. "I'm sure you'll find another date."
With a disgusted groan, the spoiled brat... er... young blonde picked herself off the bed and faced her father, "Prom is tomorrow, Daddy. I don't have time to find another date. So you're gonna find one for me!" She shouted, a sight gag inflating her head to jumbo size while the villain shrank ten or twelve notches under her.
"Now, Kitten, be reasonable!" Father-dearest yelled as he stood up from the bed, "You don't seriously expect me to-"
"And I don't want just anyone." Kitten cut her father off again, standing up on her bed to loom over him, "I want someone handsome, and popular, and totally cool." She counted off with her fingers. "Someone no other girl could get. Someone who'll drive Fang wild with jealousy! I want-"
Next Day
Robin was bent over the handlebars of his R-Cycle, traveling through the streets of Jump City at an incredible speed. So fast, in fact, that his cape blew nearly straight out behind him due to the high velocity. The sun was setting, darkening the sky into the purple of early evening.
"Range to target!" The masked cyclist said through his helmet microphone.
In another street, the T-Car sped through the city at probably the same pace as the R-Cycle. Inside the vehicle, Cyborg was at the wheel while Raven sat in the front passenger seat.
"Five hundred and closing." The bionic driver replied, "Should have a visual any-"
"There he is!" Starfire exclaimed through her own speaker. She, Yuki riding on Asuramon(Yuki had digivoved Kotemon)'s shoulder, and Beast Boy, in the form of a green vulture, had taken to the skies in the hopes of finding whoever was causing the disturbance in the city.
"Correction. There it is." The gray mage said, completely awestruck by the sight in front of her.
Just outside of a smashed jewelry store window, the silhouette of a teenage male reached inside and picked up the several pieces of precious stones. As Cyborg's tires were heard screeching in the distance, Robin's R-Cycle headlights flashed on the culprit, revealing his entire form; a teen male's body, wearing a hoodless black jacket, white t-shirt, jeans and black shoes, but instead of a human head, it was replaced with a spiders' a male reversed Arukenimon. A complete carapace, with four legs long enough to reach the ground were attached to the head as well. The spiky-haired Titan stared at the culprit while the T-Car pulled up in front of him.
The thief raised a gun-shaped weapon and lifted his entire human body off the ground with his arachnid legs. A moment later, the delinquent pulled the trigger and released a powerful pink blast at the two vehicles. Robin gasped in surprise before he and Cyborg peeled out in opposite directions to avoid getting hit, just in time, as the blast ripped through the pavement they were parked on. Both drivers skidded to a stop; the cross-breed howled in anger and leaped straight toward the sky, landing on the roof of the jewelry store.
As soon as he touched down, his spider legs scurried from rooftop to rooftop, away from the super teens. The masked leader of the team could only watch as the thief jumped across the street with ease. The long legs of the store breaker were carrying him on the sides of the buildings while the Titans set off after him on wheels and in the air.
Starfire sent a few starbolts toward him, but he easily dodged by leaping to another building across the street and continuing his sideways run. It was now Robin's turn to try and stop their target. Gunning his engine and extending a blaster from each handlebar, he popped off a string of shots that barely missed the semi-arachnid, who crossed the street again without breaking stride.
Next, the T-Car pulled ahead of the R-Cycle and opened its sunroof. Instead of the proton cannon, Cyborg installed some modifications to the weapons system of their baby, and what better weapon to show off than a missile? Primed and ready for launch, the cybernetic bruiser fired the projectile at the speeding arachnid. It streaked through the evening sky and zeroed in on the thief, but at the last second, he jumped clear to avoid the impact and explosion.
In the air, the cross-breed performed a 180-degree turn and spat a large wad of gray slime at the three fliers. As the wad came closer, Starfire and Asuramon weaved out of the way, leaving the green vulture to take the brunt of the massive webbing. The ball engulfed Beast Boy and dragged him out of the sky where it splattered all over a wall at ground level.
Back in human form, he was able to poke his head, one arm, and both legs out of the viscous material. "Super-loogie?!" The green teen groaned disgustedly as he struggled to free himself, effectively taking him out of the chase.
The shooter spewed out another mouthful, forcing the remaining fliers to take evasive maneuvers. Dodging one gobbet after another, they both were able to keep their pursuit. The hybrid then spat a stream of adhesive back and forth, layering it to create a thick sheet that stretched across the entire street. With their path block, Raven emitted her powers and placed the entire block under her influence. The pavement cracked while a fire hydrant gushed water along the sidewalk, creating a makeshift ramp that both vehicles used to sail neatly over the barrier.
The smash-and-grab artist continued his scuttle along the buildings, his human body waving in the wind, and turned to spit more silk. The red-colored Titan swerved expertly to avoid the goo, but the T-Car's windshield wasn't so lucky and was blanketed entirely by the viscous material.
"I can't see!" Cyborg shouted as he cut his steering wheel hard to one side and skidded to a stop. More sludge came down on the car as Robin passed by on his motorbike.
In the air, Starfire, and Asuramon started catching up again. The auburn-haired beauty began pulling ahead and was just about to reach the thief, but a well-placed burst knocked her put of the sky and pinned her to the sidewalk.
"Star!" Yuki and Asuramon shouted as the former stopped his pursuit and turned around to see if their was okay. The spiky-haired teen zoomed underneath the floating Digimon so as to not lose the criminal.
"I am without harm!" The covered Titan reassured as she tried vainly to free herself. With a nod, Asuramon continued the chase, following closely behind his leader.
The thief raced down the street and around a corner; the last two Titans followed him and found themselves heading to the end of a street that faced an elevated highway. The creature made straight for a parked car that faced the highway and jumped onto its rear end. Inside the car, a young man and his girlfriend were about to enjoy each others company, but they gasped when the slender legs of the arachnid pushed off the bodywork, sending the felon over the highway. Relieved that they were unharmed, boyfriend and girlfriend were about to get back to the business at hand, but were quickly interrupted again by the sound of an approaching engine.
A shocked stare and second gasp were all they could manage before Robin sped in and onto the car's rear end, launching himself over the highway. As he sailed through the air, he removed his helmet and fired off a grappling hook that pulled him toward a building, letting his bike drop. The swinging trajectory carried him toward a wall, while the large R's on both sides of the plummeting R-Cycle extended outward from the body to fire a beam from underneath, allowing the vehicle to descend smoothly to the curb and touch down without a scratch.
On the rooftops, the man-spider charged down the side of a building, followed closely by Robin, whose line trailed out ahead of him, and proceeded to climb the architecture on the other side. Once he reached the rooftops, Asuramon, with Yuki his shoulder flew in close and began shooting his Fire Fist of Shiva in the hopes of hitting the crook. But the cross-breed easily maneuvered between each blast effortlessly like Arukenimon before leaping to another taller building.
The masked Titan wasn't out of the chase either, as he shot his grapple after their target and followed close behind. With one final pull, Robin lunged for the culprit. But before he could seize the villain, the runner spun around and spat a pair of short beams down at him, knocking the Boy Wonder off the building and down toward the street.
As he fell, Robin's skin turned gray as his limbs froze in place. "Can't... move!" He strained to say as he continued his paralyzed free fall.
"ROBIN!" Starfire flew in from seemingly out of nowhere, swooping down and catching Robin moments before he hit the ground. At that instant, the remaining members of the team had caught up with Robin and Starfire. Cyborg, examined Robin.
"He is okay?" Starfire asked worriedly as the cybernetic Titan stepped up and ran a scanner over the paralyzed teen.
"He will be." Cyborg reassured after his inspection. "The venom's effect is only temporary."
"Getting away... we have to... go after him!" Robin groaned before he started toppling over. "Whoa!"
Yuki got off of Asuramon as the latter De-Digivolve back into Kotemon caught the Boy Wonder, stopping his fall. "You're not going anywhere like this." The Tamer stated as he rectified his friend.
"We'll be going after him." The Gothic mage corrected.
"You need to chill 'til that stuff wears off." The bionic added.
"But-"
"Dude, we can handle it. The guy's got a spider for a head." Beast Boy chimed in, cutting the Boy Wonder's protest off, "Not like he's gonna be hard to find."
With no immediate answer for the changelings' reasoning, Robin was quickly escorted back to the Tower with the help of Starfire in the hopes of working the paralysis out of his system Yuki and Kotemon went back with them just in case the thief come to them and Kotemon needs more energy to Digivolve again. Cyborg, Raven, and Beast Boy continued scouring the city for the freaky spider-guy.
Inside the Ops Center, the Tamaranean held the spiky-haired teen upside-down by his ankles while the Tamer and the Digimon watched. She stretched his legs and worked them back and forth, eliciting several yelps of discomfort and causing his arms to flail around.
"Better?" The alien chiropractor asked once she stopped working the poor boys' legs at odd angles.
"Ah, much. Thanks." Robin said gratefully as the gray coloring bled out of his skin, though the movements did cause a little tear of pain to hang down like a pendulum from his right eye.
"Wow. I didn't think the human body could bend that way Yuki." Kotemon told his Tamer.
"It doesn't Kotemon." The Tamer answered with the Digimon's eyes got wide.
"I welcome you. There are few problems that Tamaranian acupressure will not solve," she returned happily as she righted him.
"Now we can focus on our other problem," Robin said pulling out his T-Comm. and opening it. "Titans, any luck finding our jewel thief?"
"We found something worse," Raven replied through the small screen.
Jump City Bridge
On the Jump City bridge, Beast Boy, Raven, and Cyborg all stared up at the sky incredulously while the beating of millions of wings filled the air. The source of their astonishment was a horde of large hovering moths, each one fighting mad, moving lazily above the bridge. Several clustered up and munched at the bridge's cables. When one cluster dispersed, it revealed the gnawed remains of the straps, where the final strand snapped; the lower end lashed toward the roadway, and people scattered as a car was crushed under the wire rope. The entire bridge began swaying back and forth, creating oscillations that sent the abandoned vehicles sliding around the four Titans.
As more groups of moths chomped on cable after cable, Beast Boy and Cyborg were having a very tough time keeping their balance on the bucking pavement, while Raven floated a few feet above it, unaffected by the shaking.
In the air, a cable broke and whistled downward, forcing the teens to dodge in four different directions. After skidding backward to a stop, the metallic teen charged forward towards the bridge cables. "Teen Titans! GO!" He shouted.
Hearing their teammate, the other two Titans sprung into action; Beast Boy transformed into a pterodactyl and took off in the air, and Raven summoned her powers as she chanted her signature spell.
"Azarath Metrion Zinthos!" She intoned as she created an energy disc for the non-flying teen to jump on.
"Thanks for the lift, Raven!" Cyborg called out as the platform carried him higher and higher toward the cables, Raven following close behind. Once he reached the moths' level, the sorceress peeled off to handle her own group of insects, leaving the titanium Titan to jump onto the cable. He cried out a bit as he nearly lost his balance, but once he gained his footing, he broke out his sonic cannon and went to work blasting away groups of moths from the cables.
After blasting the horde nearest to him, he noticed that the cables' outer covering had been breached, and the two ends started pulling apart. Reaching the spot on the cable, Cyborg pulled the cable together with his left hand while he popped out his fingertip acetylene torch from his right for some emergency repair work.
Beast Boy flew for a head-on collision course with an oncoming insect, but transformed into a monkey at the last second to hitch a ride. The gibbering green primate was swept to and fro as the bug approached the cables, and weaved through them to try and buck its unwanted rider off. After finally getting some control of the runaway bug by using its antennae as a makeshift steering wheel, the green scamp crashed through another flock monstrous moths.
Next, Raven darted through the cables and slammed another disc into the face of a moth, but several others quickly gained on her. She flew straight up toward the top of a support column, then put on a burst of speed to giver herself a little breathing room. As soon as she was clear, small orbs of purplish-black aura collided with the pursuers and disintegrated them into ash.
Back on the bridge, Cyborg had pulled the edges of the cable back together and finished running his torch flame around the hem, joining them once more. With the cable fixed, he jumped to a different cord, avoiding several of the mini monstrosities, and slid down the cable with his cannon blazing. A mighty leap carried him to another one, where he had to duck a stream of oncoming six-legged bandits before jumping again where he landed safely on the bridge in a backward skid.
"Boo-yah!... Huh?" The bionic Africans' expression quickly changed from victorious to utter confusion as he looked toward the Jump City skyline. Above the buildings, a dense black cloud rose slowly into view, accompanied by the beating of countless wings. Cyborg watched, dumbstruck, as Beast Boy steered his moth down to street level before turning into an elephant to crush it. Raven floated down next to her friends a moment later to watch as the second wave of minions came.
As the three stared with wide-eyed disbelief, the big man lifted his forearm and activated his communicator. "Uh... we're gonna need backup."
Back in the Tower's Ops Center, Robin, Yuki, Kotemon watched the window screen, which was filled with their cybernetic friends' portrait.
"We're on our way." The Boy Wonder replied as he and the auburn-haired Titan headed for the door.
But before they could make it out of the room, the screen filled with static and changed to show the portrait of the commander of the insect army. "Don't bother." Killer Moth spoke through the video feed, stopping the four Titans in their tracks. "Even if you defeat a few of my children, you won't be able to stop me from releasing the entire swarm."
When Robin, Yuki, Kotemon, and Starfire returned to the window screen, the image pulled back a bit and showed masses of black, buzzing silhouettes behind the villain, prompting gasps from the four of them.
"Unless you want your city reduced to a moth-eaten wasteland, you'll do exactly as I say." The menacing hybrid threatened.
"What do you want?" The Boy Wonder sneered as he narrowed his eyes at the villain.
"My demands are simple. The city will declare me ruler, the Teen Titans will surrender, and Robin..." Killer Moth spoke before backing up slightly to one side of the screen, "...will... take this lovely young lady to her junior prom." He finished hesitantly before a window with the young blonde in it appeared in the space he vacated, causing the moth-man to flinch at the suddenness of its' arrival Yuki then raised an eyebrow while Kotemon ponders.
"Hi, Robbie-poo!" The girl greeted with a wave and large smile plastered across her face.
The last demand hit Robin like a two-by-four upside the head, leaving him with a bewildered look on his face. "Um... what was that last part again?" He asked after collecting himself, hoping against hope that he misheard the demand.
"Robin, who is this girl? And why does she call you 'poo'?" Starfire asked, an irked tone prevalent in her voice. As she spoke, the masked leader hunched over, hands twitching, and his face became covered with a fierce grimace, as a big drop of sweat trickled down from his forehead. However, when the clueless Tamaraniann said 'poo,' his entire body melted, leaving only his masked eyes floating in midair with one eye twitching.
"Her name is Kitten," Killer Moth introduced as the girl on screen puckered up, the embarrassed spiky-haired teen reconstituting himself a moment later, "and you will take her to prom!" The villain growled as he shook his fist at the four Titans.
The auburn-haired Titan floated up to the screen and came face to face with the image of Kitten, "This prom is some manner of duel, yes?" Starfire asked as she pulled off her wrist guard and slapped the young blonde's image across the face, leaving a bright red hand imprint on her cheek. "Robin eagerly accepts!" The angered alien girl stated confidently as she threw her gauntlet down, letting it land across her friends' eyes.
"It's not a duel, Star." Robin sighed sadly, peeling the guard off his face. "It's a date." He clarified as he scratched the back of his head nervously.
Her long, hysterical gasp gave away just how unprepared she was to hear that face. "He does not accept!" Starfire quickly shot back at the screen, trying to take back her words she said only a few moments ago. "Do you hear? Robin does not accept!"
Before she could continue her protests, the hysterical girl was yanked unceremoniously through the air as Robin led her away by the foot.
"We're going to need a minute." Robin said as he dragged the floating Starfire out of the common room by her ankle, leaving Yuki and Kotemon on their own with the moth-man and the blond.
"Hi. I'm Yuki, and this is my partner Kotemon," the Tamer said to the monitor a minute after Robin and Starfire left the room.
"Hi… I'm Kitten…" the blond returned, slightly taken aback by the Tamer's laid-back attitude to the whole situation. She thought he and his partner would be also be mad that their friend was being blackmailed into a prom date.
"Nice to meet you," Kotemon returned. After an awkward silence, the blond saw fit to speak up.
"So… Yuki and Kotemon… How long have you two been Titans?" she asked finding the silence awkward and really needed something to talk about to pierce the silence. That and she was a bit curious about the Tamer himself. After all, every hero had some form of costume, yet he wore normal clothing.
"Since day one," Yuki returned. "So… Jr. Prom time huh? You must me excited." Kotemon added.
"Yeah, I would be if my stupid ex-boyfriend didn't break up with me," she grumbled with crossed arms, a scowl visible on her face when both Yuki and Kotemon heard that they got the same thing that they think that the ex-boyfriend is linked to the jewel thief.
"Um you said ex-boyfriend, what's he like?" Yuki asked
"Well, he really knows how to entertain a girl, if you know what I mean." Kitten said as it gave the Tamer embarrassed look while it gave the Digimon a confused one. "What's that supposed to mean?" Kotemon asked, titling his head in confusion before looking up at Yuki to see that he was blushing. "Yuki, why are you blushing?" the Digimon asked his Tamer. "Well looks like she's flirting with me Kotemon." Yuki said to his partner as he turn back to Kitten. "Not like that I meant the description of what your ex-boyfriend looks like?" The Tamer corrected. "Oh well he wears a hoodless black jacket, white t-shirt, jeans and black shoes, but his head will scare arachnophobics away." she said as the Tamer knows what's up. "Well thank you for that." Yuki said as the blond slightly taken aback.
While the three talk Robin and Starfire had their talk in the hallway. With the latter quickly landed on the ground and made her thoughts apparent on the matter.
"Odium! Scandal! Atrocity!" She growled, literally fuming with rage as she paced back and forth. "These atrocities must not be met! Clearly this demented madman has no idea with whom he is dealing! And if he believes-"
Robin, however, tuned her out as he pulled out his communicator to get in contact with the rest of the team. "Cyborg, report. How bad is it?"
"Bad! Can't hold 'em off much longer!" Cyborg replied through the scanner on his arm as he tried keeping one vicious moth at bay with his other.
Back on the bridge, the other Titans were starting to get overwhelmed by the sheer numbers of the furious insects. Utter chaos reigned as they tried everything in their power to keep the bridge from getting consumed by the mutated moths.
Raven was using her powers to levitate pieces of debris to toss at the moths, and Beast Boy was in the middle of a swarm as a green tiger, swiping and biting on the creatures. But even this was too much for them to handle.
"If you're gonna do something, do it quick!" The bionic Titan shouted through the feed.
Back in the Tower, Starfire was spewing fire from her mouth as green smoke rose from her now glowing eyes as she continued ranting, "-out of his mind if he believes you would even consider such a distasteful-"
"I have to do it." Robin stated flatly as he closed his communicator and clipped it back on his belt.
"WHAT?!" The Tamaranean shouted in complete shock, her reaction causing her head to grow about three sizes as her outburst was strong enough to blow his hair flat.
"It's the only way to save the bridge." The masked teen replied as he tussled his hair, "The only way to give us enough time to stop Killer Moth."
This left the girl hanging slack as her eyes were as wide as dinner plate from the shock of hearing the decision. "But... but... but..." She was finally able to mutter as she floated behind her friend back to the Ops Center.
"I have to, Starfire, no matter how much I don't want to." Robin stated as the door opened to admit them back into the room. "And I really don't want to."
Back inside the room, the reluctant Titan crossed the floor and stopped in front of the screen next to the Tamer and the Digimon, where a smug looking Kitten and a displeased looking Killer Moth waited for his answer.
"Do we have a deal?" The insect villain asked, though it ultimately came out as a demand.
"I'll take the girl to prom." Robin stated evenly, not an ounce of enthusiasm behind his tone.
"Don't tell me. Ask her." Killer Moth motioned to the small box in the corner of the screen.
The spiky-haired teen looked up incredulously, "You've gotta be-"
"Do it!"
Robin steeled himself before turning toward the blonde girl, "Kitten, was it?" He asked.
On screen, a brief burst of static changed the girls' visage to show she grew a tail, claws, and cat ears, while her face took on a feline appearance. "Meow." She purred before her picture corrected itself.
"Right. Will you... go with me to the prom?" The disgruntled Boy Wonder growled as he struggled to say the words. Behind him, Starfire snarled through gritted teeth at the indignity of the date by extortion. Her eyes glowed more and more intensely before she spontaneously burst into flames, leaving a giant burned matchstick with two green-flaming eyes at the head.
"Oh, Robbie-poo!" Kitten gasped happily as she leaned out of the screen. "I thought you'd never ask!"
Robin could only stare in disgust at the girl and villain on the screen as he thought of thousands of other things he'd rather do than take the bratty blonde to her prom.
Yuki looked at Robin as if he was insane while Kotemon gripped his bambo sword. He looked back and forth between his team leader to the screen before it finally clicked. If Robin didn't agree, then the city is all but guaranteed to be destroyed by a swarm of moths. Robin discreetly gave him a look and Yuki nodded in understanding while gesturing Kotemon to stand down.
Back on the bridge, the endless swarm of mutated arthropods continued their assault on the Jump City bridge. In their attempts at damage control, each present Titan gathered the attention of a different group of moths and fought them separately.
Top-side, Beast Boy made his way to the top of a bridge column with a horde of moths following close behind. Once there, he transformed into a green gorilla and swung his massive fists around, striking the crazed insects every which way. However, as he was preoccupied with the current group of bugs, another group chewed their way through a cable beneath him, breaking it with ease.
Elsewhere, Raven had her hands full with a few dozen others when the free end swung past her, causing the group of bugs to disperse in surprise. Once she was where the cable was going to land, her eyes grew to the size of saucers before she took action to prevent any more damage. "Azarath Metrion Zinthos!" The mage chanted, causing the mass of wires to come under her influence and stopping it just short of crushing Cyborg.
As the bridge cable was levitated away, putting the bionic Titan out of harms way, Cyborg broke out his sonic cannon and fired it through the air, blasting a few moths out of existence. However, he soon became overwhelmed by the sheer number of bugs as they began surrounding him. "There's too many!" The cybernetic teen shouted as he tried shaking the mutated minions off, "We're not gonna... make it?" As he finished speaking, the remaining moths drew back into one singular black cloud and made a very rapid exit.
As he stared off after the cloud, Raven dropped to ground level next to him, while the green gorilla jumped onto a wrecked truck, then down to join them before returning to human form.
"Um... what just happened?" The shape-shifting teen asked. Cyborg merely shrugged, he was just as confused as his shorter friend.
Hoping to get an explanation to the situation, the blue-cloaked sorceress pulled out her communicator and activated it while the two boys gather behind her.
On the T-Comm, Robin appeared and spoke to the group, "I bought you some time." He began explaining, "Killer Moth. He's controlling the mutant insects." He stated as he showed a profile of the villain, "Find him and stop him." A picture of the bratty blonde then appeared on the small screen of the communicator, "Start your search with her."
"Who is she?" Raven asked as the boys each raised their eyebrows curiously.
"She is a manipulative gremplork not worthy of Robin's time!" They could hear Starfire shouting in the background, and judging from her tone, they knew she was incredibly irked.
Soon after, their masked leader appeared on the screen again. "Name's Kitten. She's got some kind of connection to Killer Moth." He informed, "Starfire, Yuki, and Kote-" Robin was about order both the Tamer and the Digimon to help search when Yuki butted in.
"Robin, Kotemon and I can go after the thief." the Tamer said as the Boy Wonder look at Yuki. "Okay.. just Starfire will join you to help with the search."
"Hey, what about you?" Beast Boy piped up again. "Aren't you going to help us?"
"I can't," Robin's face twisted into a grimace, "I have a date."
A few hours later Yuki and Kotemon went out of the the Tower but before they went out the door they were stopped by Starfire as the two saw that she was wearing a full-length gown and high heels that were a darker shade of lavender than the gloves, and holding a corsage. Kotemon was the first to spoke, "Um Starfire why are wearing that? Aren't you going to search Kitten's house with the others?" Kotemon asked. "I have decided that I will not be joining the others." The Tamaranean said, "What?" both Yuki and Kotemon said. "Robin's orders were to investigate the girl," stated Starfire, "While you go after the thief and the others investigate her dwellings, I will be investigating her personally…"
"You mean," Yuki said slowly, "As in actually going to the prom?"
"As I said," Starfire's eyes narrowed, "I will be investigating her personally." but before she stormed off the Tamer stopped her, "Wait Starfire!" he shouted as the Tamaranean turns around to face the two, "Please don't try to attack Kitten until we're sure she's in cahoots with her dad?" Yuki said as Starfire knows Yuki might be on to something, "Okay Friend Yuki I promise." She said as Yuki and Kotemon went out the door, when the two got outside the Tamer took out his D-Arc and the Matrix Digivolution card
*Cue DigiModify! Blank track*
With that said Yuki whirls the Matrix Digivolution card around catching it in his hand he then swipes the card through the D-Arc. "Digi-Modify..." as he shouted letting the data of the card run through it, "...Matrix Digivoltion!"
*Cue Digimon Tamers~Digivolution Theme (US)*
The words MATRIX DIGIVOLUTION appeared on Yuki's D-Arc and it begins the Digivoultion process with Kotemon shouting "Kotemon... Digivolve to.. Asuramon!"
And as soon that happen Yuki got on Asuramon's shoulders and they flew back to the city.
As the two flew above the streets the Ultimate looked at his Tamer "So Yuki how are going to find him?" Asuramon asked, "Well what else are we going to look!" Yuki said as they saw that the thief left a trail of police cars in webs. "Looks our jewel thief caught the police just like flies." the Tamer said as Asuramon followed the trail. "What will we do when we catch the thief, Yuki?" Asuramon asked curiously.
"First, we'll corner him." Yuki replied. "After that, we'll question him."
"Well no time to waste cause there he is." the Ultimate said as the two saw the thief.
"You're right after him Asuramon!" Yuki shouted as they gave chase.
The two flew at the thief and as soon the spider-headed human saw them he spat a pair of short beams at them quickly Yuki pulled out his D-Arc and his Magnamon card out.
*Cue DigiModify! Blank track*
He spins the selected card around gaining it in his hand then he slide it through the D-Arc. "Digi-Modify!" He pauses letting the card read through "Magnamon's Aura Barrier Activate!" Asuramon then shouted, "Aura Barrier!" as he envelops himself, and Yuki in the barrier of light around them preventing them turning gray and frozen.
"That should keep us safe " Asuramon says as Yuki smiled gratefully.
The spider-headed human dashed off as the two gives chase after him as he took a turn down the alley way as they give chase.
"You'll never take me alive!" he says.
Yuki and Asuramon chased the spider-headed thief as the chase took them thew different alley ways.
Yuki and Asuramon then finally cornered him in a dead end alley way, "end of the road Fang, I presumed." the Tamer said making said thief look at him "Hey how do you know my name?" despite his grotesque appearance, his voice was perfectly normal for a teenage boy as he asked.
"Well it's..." Yuki tried to explained when his and Kotemon's communicator buzzed on the Tamer's belt "Hold on a second." the Tamer said as he flipped open the communicator to see Robin dancing, "Ah Robin how's your date with Kitten?" Yuki said as it gave Fang a angry look.
Cruse Ship Jump City Bay
On the other end of the call, Robin was holding his communicator at arm's length behind Kitten's back. "She's not my-" Robin try to explain when Yuki interupt him "I know Asuramon and I just caught the thief. An We will see each other soon." Yuk said as the screen fizzed.
Jump City
"I can't believe Kitten would do this to me after I got her the bracelets I stole." Fang angry said before Yuki spoke up "There's still time to win her back."he said giving the spider-headed thief hope. "Thanks." he said as he head off. "Follow him Asuramon!" Yuki said as they followed the thief.
Cruse Ship Jump City Bay
Back on the yacht of love, Robin just received the news from his three teammates and quickly tucked the device away as Kitten lifted her head from his shoulder. Staring dreamily into his masked eyes with her own, the prom princess began leaning closer to the taller teen.
"Kiss me." She said before puckering up. However, her advances were cut short as the recipient shot her down.
"Sorry. I don't like you that way." He said before smirking, "Matter of fact, I just don't like you."
From across the deck, Starfire pumped her fist victoriously as she watched the events unfold. "Yes!"
"WHAT?!" The bratty blonde shouted angrily as her head inflated like a parade balloon, the force of her yell blowing Robin's hair back for a moment.
"Killer Moth's being taken down as we speak." He explained as he calmly flipped open his communicator. "We're done here." He stated proudly as he tucked the device back into his pocket and turned away.
"No we are not!" Kitten shouted as she tore off her corsage, revealing a push-button controller within the blossoms. "Daddy's not calling the shots tonight, Robbie-poo. I am!"
The masked prom date was completely taken off guard by the revelation, "Daddy?" He asked as he stared incredulously at the psychotic girl.
"And unless you want me to let those nasty bugs out for a late-night snack..." She threatened before hooking her free hand into Robin's shirt front and yanking him so they were face-to-face, "...you better pucker up!"
The purple-clad Tamaranian could only stare in complete shock as a small gasp escaped her lips.
From Robin's point of view, he watched as his insane prom date leaned closer to him, pursing her lips eagerly for a kiss. He did his best to keep any and every part of his face out of reach and shut his eyes as tightly as he could. Opening one of them fully, then the other, he recoiled even father in horror as he gazed at the blonde again: her face looked like that of a fish gasping for air after being reeled out of the water.
Thankfully, the attempted smooch was brought up short by his finger on her lips as he pushed her away. "Not even if you paid me." The Boy Wonder defiantly stated before swiftly grabbing the controller from her hand.
Kitten gasped and tried to seize the device back, but he held it out of reach. In the twinkling, the two began a back-and-forth struggle, with the villains' daughter concentrating on his his hand and how to retrieve her ace in the hole. With an agile swing, the masked Titan twirled his ex-date around him and caught her on his other arm, leaving her hanging backwards to look upside-down at everything
"Fang?" The blonde's eyes popped from her head excitedly for a moment as she saw a familiar presence on the boat.
Looking in the direction Kitten was, Robin's eyes popped from his head also as he couldn't believe who was there. "That's your boyfriend?" As he was stunned, the bratty prom girl seized the moment and grabbed the button from his hand.
Across the deck, prom guests began panicking and fleeing the scene as Fang approached.
"Get your hands off my girl!" The half-human, half-spider hybrid growled as his arachnid limbs knocked tables and chairs out of the way.
Asuramon and Yuki then flew on the ship as the former placed his Tamer down as he De-Digivolve back into Kotemon "Looks like your plan worked Yuki." the Digimon said "Yeah." the Tamer said as he took out his D-Arc, and pulled out the agility card.
*Cue DigiModify! Blank track*
He spins the selected card around gaining it in his hand then he slide it threw the card slot. "Digi-Modify!" he pauses letting the card read thew "Agility Activate!"
"Alright let's go Kotemon."Yuki said as the Digimon nodded and the two ran.
Quickly getting his guard up, Robin dropped his ex-prom date like a ton of bricks and blocked a few swings of Fangs' huge legs. However, one lucky limb managed to pierce his defense and knocked him aside.
The spider teen stepped over his fallen love and was about to help her up, but a starbolt flashed across the yacht and plowed him away before he could do so.
Next to the table with the punch bowl, Starfire was holding out her glowing neon green hands as she readied herself for a fight. "Keep your legs off my boy!" She announced as her friend stood up. "Robin, are you injured?" The alien beauty asked as she dispelled her powers.
"Best I've felt all day." The spiky-haired Titan smiled as he tore off the money suit with one easy motion, revealing his normal outfit underneath, gloves and all.
Kitten quickly ran over to her fallen prince, who was fetched up against a table. "Fangie-poo!" She called out adoringly as he stood up to be level with her, "You really do care!"
"Let's never fight again, baby." 'Fangie' said apologetically as his spider legs held out several stolen bracelets that made her gasp in delight.
"Oh, Fang!" The crazy blonde awed as she threw her arms around her boyfriends' neck. The two lovebirds stared at each other for a brief moment before finally bringing themselves closer and closer until their lips met. It was truly a sickening sight.
However, their loving moment was interrupted by a familiar voice. "You know..." The couple broke their kiss and looked over in the direction of the noise, gazing upon Robin, Yuki, Kotemon, and Starfire, who had changed back into her usual purple outfit. "You two make a really bad couple." The masked leader quipped.
The two evil teens glared at him for a moment, after which Fang let go of his girlfriend and threw himself at the young hero and Kotemon.
Jump City Suburbs Killer Moth's house
Back at Killer Moth's residence, Cyborg was currently engaging the villain in hand-to-hand combat, currently dodging his opponents' swinging claws. However, he was taken by surprise when the winged evildoer climbed up his chest and vaulted into the shadows, driving the cybernetic Titan to the floor. Quickly standing back up, he canvassed the vicinity, but found nothing except for Beast Boy searching in another isle of pens.
Raven were in a different part of the basement and actually had better luck finding the villain, or rather he found her. In a flash, the villainous hybrid leaped towards the mage, causing her to dart in opposite directions to avoid his swipe.
Looking to the ceiling, the half-human half-moth criminal spotted the blue-cloaked mage floating above him. With a swing of her arms, she levitated several bags of feed and sent them down at him; he knocked them away easily and jumped up to grab her shoulders. Planting his feet on the ceiling to brace himself, he slung her across the villain was in the clear for but a moment before he had to jump away from a blast from Cyborg's cannon. As soon as he touched the floor, a green wolf lunged at him for an attack. The insect who would be king seized both forelegs of his canine attacker and released a scream that put a surprised stare in their owner's eyes before hurling the lupine Titan down another isle where he collided with a charging bionic, leaving them in a pile on the floor, next to a downed Raven.
After collecting themselves, Beast Boy morphed back into his human form. "For a weirdo who lives in his basement, this guy's pretty tough." He spoke up. His comment earned him a dirty look from each of his comrades before they stood up and charged the villain again.
Cruse Ship Jump City Bay
On the cruise ship deck, Fang spewed a torrent of spider silk across the dance floor. Robin and Kotemon was able to nimbly dodge the glop, but Starfire and Yuki was hit dead on and pinned to the floor. The spiky-haired Titan and Digimon then stopped near the rail, where a couple cut in front of him, completely unaware of the fight that broke out.
"Let's hit the dance flo-" Unfortunately for the unlucky couple, they were struck by the spider-guy's venom, leaving them as living, gray-tinged statues. A second blast just missed Robin and Kotemon, causing them to jump away, and Fang gave chase again. Stopping at another end of the railing, the Boy Wonder and Digimon stopped to face their pursuer and expertly blocked a flurry of spider-leg strikes. They managed to grab all four limbs at once, setting off a tug-of-war between the three combatants. Gaining ground on the villain, Robin and Kotemon pulled the legs with all his strength and heaved the spider hybrid tumbling overboard.
Looking past the rail where he sent his opponent, Robin stared in surprise at the sight he was greeted with. "Huh?"
With all four spider legs climbing up the side of the ship, Fang spat more silk up at the two Titans. After getting over the rail, the teenaged spider wrecked one of the tables and leaped high above the planks. On the way down, he whirled his legs like a high-speed and forced the brightly dressed teen to back up while blocking the hits. The human limbs were then brought into play instead; Fang, Kotemon, and Robin began dodging each others blows, the former swinging his body high overhead to gain momentum. More furniture went flying all over the deck in the course of the punching match, and the delinquent teen finally connected with a spider kick that sent the young hero spinning through the air.
Catching a string of lights and hanging there for a moment, Robin and Kotemon braced himself for another assault as their opponent ran to the ship's cabin and scuttled straight up its wall. A leap carried him up to the cables, and the heroes and villain were facing off once again with only four wires between them. Robin and Kotemon swung from one to the next, dodging gluey spurts along the way, and launched himself into an incredibly high leap that silhouetted him against the moon. With one leg extended for a kick, and the Digimon used his Thunder Kote attack, they descended straight toward the half-spider villain. Once the attack connected, Fang dropped like a ton of bricks and crashed down on one of the surviving tables, letting the balloons attached to its centerpiece to float freely.
As they rose, Robin plunged through them and towards his fallen opponent. But before he could land on him, the delinquent held up his spider legs to catch the spiky-haired Titan. The two continued their grappling as Kitten watched a short distance away.
"Ooooh!" The blond terror cooed as her boyfriend threw her prom date across the deck. "Isn't it romantic? They're fighting over me!"
Behind the bratty princess, Starfire stood up and peeled the adhesive off her face while she got rid of the silk on Yuki and stared in disbelief at her. "They are not fighting over you!" The auburn-haired Titan growled as her head grew a few notches.
With a yell, Kitten turned around and jumped at her. as the Tamer dodged the two The two landed on the refreshment table and began rolling across it before Starfire pinned her shoulders under her. She reached to snag the button, but the quick thinking cat-named girl got a handful of food and threw it in her face. In a blink, Kitten gained the upper hand and pinned the orange-skinned alien, who was unable to see through the mass of cream covering her head. It soon started to bubble, and the blonde backed of cautiously as energy beams from her opponents' eyes pierced through the mess. The out-of-towner sat up with a wildcat snarl, throwing a genuine scare into the young villainess, and clamped a hand onto her shoulder. With ease, the enraged Titan tossed the crazed blonde across the table.
Once she slid to a stop, Kitten found herself staring up at a leaping, roaring Tamaranean teen ready to claw her eyes out. She screamed and got her legs up at the last second, catching Starfire with them and flipping backwards to dump her head into the punch bowl. The bratty teen then put her weight into forcing her foe's face deeper, smiling savagely as she tried drowning the poor girl. Thinking quickly, Starfire wrapped her own legs around her opponent's waist and slung her over the bowl to crash into a large chocolate cake that was set on the end of the table.
The young redhead pulled her head out of the punch and flung her sodden hair back. On the deck before her, Kitten lied sprawled out with cake plastered all over her hair and body; the look on her face was one of complete and utter shock.
"You. Ruined. My. Dress!" The messy girl yelled as she raised the control button and pressed down on it with her thumb, causing a look of worry to spread across Starfire's face.
Jump City Suburbs Killer Moth's house
Meanwhile back at Killer Moth's house…
"Start talking!" Cyborg ordered as he held Killer Moth up by the scruff of his… front? "How do you control the-" he said before a plethora of alarms and red strobe lights went off. "MOTHS!" he cried as the front panels of the pens began sliding open, clouds of vaporous gas being released as the city-destroyers began to flood out of their tanks.
"Run!" Beast Boy cried as he tried as he ran towards a panel leading to the street, only for the top to slam shut in his face thanks to Raven's powers.
"We can't let them escape! Seal the exits!" she ordered with narrowed eyes, a few moths combusting into flame. Not wanting to end up like the shrieking bugs, Beast Boy and Cyborg quickly complied, the changeling positioning himself in front of an air vent, while Cyborg began to thorw stuff into the stairwell and barricading the stairs.
Cruse Ship Jump City Bay
Rising high into the sky, Robin aimed the sole of his right foot toward the face of his enemy. Caught flat-footed by the blow, Fang stumbled backwards and tried to refocus his eyes, but quickly lost that fight as he moaned wearily and lost his balance. His landing crushed one more table and knocked the balloons loose.
With that fight finished, one more needed to be wrapped up between the two female counterparts. Facing off from opposite ends of the refreshment table, the mad blonde screamed and charged straight down the table's length toward the redhead, but Starfire sidestepped and launched a starbolt. The projectile hit Kitten's hand, knocking the controller to the deck, and left the girl gasping as she watched the device skitter away.
Robin's boot dropped down on top of it, stopping its momentum, and he narrowed his eyes at his destructive ex-date. "Consider yourself dumped." He said as he applied his full weight to the device, destroying it easily.
Kitten's eyes went wide in horror as everything finally came to an end, "NOOOOOOOOOOO!"
Jump City Suburbs Killer Moth's house
Back in the basement, Cyborg, and Raven huddled against each other to protect themselves from the flying army. Suddenly, the insects transformed into large caterpillar/maggot-like larvae and dropped out of the air, leaving the two Titans at a momentary loss for words. Once all the moths fell and littered the ground, Beast Boy, back in human form.
"Okay...?" The changeling mused at he watched the larvae worm their way around them.
Jump City Docks
After an incredibly eventful prom dance, the cruise ship pulled back up to the docks where a couple of police cars and a transport van were waiting to apprehend the subdued criminals on board. With many guards on the ship now, the villains had no chance of getting away, though in all honesty, they probably didn't want to at this point. Fang was escorted down the gangplank, his hands cuffed and all four spider legs shackled together above his head, and led to the back of the van by an armed guard. Before he stepped inside, he gave the interior of the vehicle a very puzzled look; the reason being he saw his girlfriend's insect-themed father secured behind a perforated transparent shield. He wore a sort of muzzle around his mouth, and his arms and legs were clamped to the wall, sort of like how one would show off a butterfly collection.
Both villains groaned wearily, probably because of having had negative dealing in the past and now had to spend time together in the back of a police transport.
The next person to get escorted to the van put up a little more resistance than the other delinquent, though it didn't really help much in escaping.
"Nobody dumps Kitten! Nobody!" Said blonde shouted angrily as two guards effortlessly walked her to the back of the vehicle, her hands cuffed behind her back. "You're going to pay for this, Robbie-poo! YOU'RE GOING TO PAAAYYY!" The two guards put her in the back and closed the door, muffling her last word, and the van sped off with sirens blaring.
On the cruise ship, the team regrouped and was hanging out by the rail, watching the criminals get hauled off. Robin was leaning against the railing, while Beast Boy was sitting on the deck, cooing at one of the moth larvae he snatched from Killer Moth's house. "So, no second date?" Cyborg asked Robin jokingly. "You know, nobody's making 'em all mutate-y, these little guys might actually make good pets." he said as Raven is unsure about it "Don't even think about it." the mage said.
The Boy Wonder continued leaning over the rail, tuning out his friends conversation, while Starfire eyed his back.
Yuki and Kotemon saw two guards slid the paralyzed couple across the deck.
Knowing that he was the one that brought Fang he had to say something to the innocent couple, he quickly stepped over to them. "Okay well... sorry I pretty much ruined your prom." The Tamer apologized as he scratched the back of his head nervously. Kotemon accompanied him, since he also had a hand in ruining this special night.
"Are you kidding?" The paralyzed boy asked gleefully, "This was the best prom ever!"
"Even if I still can't feel my legs!" The paralyzed girl added before the guards rolled them away as Robin and Starfire came up.
"Yeah," The masked leader waved to the couple as they were taken away, "That'll wear off." Seemed like the night wasn't a total failure since some of the party guests had fun.
Once the spiky-haired boy and the auburn-haired girl were the only ones left on the dance floor, spotlights shined across the deck, causing both Titans to brace for action.
"And now, the moment you've all been waiting for-" An announcer cheered as his voice echoed through the air, "-the king and queen of this year's prom are..." The lights stopped on the couple, "...Robin and Starfire!" After the announcement, a slow song began playing for the winners to dance to.
The statement caught the couple by surprise, but a smile soon found its' way onto Robins' face as he turned to Starfire. "I guess one more dance wouldn't kill me." He said before taking before taking his beautiful teammates' hand and leading her toward the center of the floor. As the two began dancing, the remaining four members of the team, plus one larvae, watched with smiles on their faces at the sight.
If you asked any of them that morning if their city was going to be threatened by a horde of mutated insects and end with two of their friends dancing at a high school prom on a cruise ship, they probably would have laughed. But even though it happened, everything worked out in the end.
End of Chapter
Wow that was a tough chapter to do thanks to both to Unknown entity328 and Angry9guy for helping with this. What will happen next? Find out next time on Titan Tamer of The Swordsman. R&R