Teen Titans Presents; The End – Part Omni; Armageddon

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Chapter 10: Trackers

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The slither of a grown individual was not ignored as Captain Marvel turned his head while dusting his hands off. He'd disposed of Ra's corpse in the lab for now. What was left of a safe space so that Manhunter could do a biopsy, not that it didn't make him shudder a slight. Good fashioned horror was never this alien, magic was easier….

The rattle of a tambourine couldn't be what Billy heard as he changed and walked the corner to see the thing he'd suspected.

"Hey, what's this thing doing here…."

Evil, yellow eyes flashed out as the rattle tail divided; the two tore at Billy's skin as he let out a shriek – the cast shadow he held was not allowed to live as the snake on all fours. The lizard, bit off his skull, spitting it out as the headless Batson's soul was sucked dry with a hungry slurp.

"We are closer now…" The beast spoke now that it had human speech. "Magic, his magic is there…"

More eyes appeared as skittering beings in armor half – clad as hunters took to the walls, vanishing as roaches into the metal walls.

"Find, the saint….and the sorcerer." The first ordered, licking more blood from its lips as Billy's bones became dust. "He will come, to claim the earth he hath left to his followers…we shall preserve it!! Go!! Hunt and track. Go after the mortal traitors !!"

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Slade's ears perked as he held his temple. John noticed and Raven slowed down. "Is he ok?"

"You, don't sense that presence?"

"I sense danger, but not an' anything, mate." Shaking his head, the rattling walls of the bunker had Bruce seething. "We have to get to the emergency hatch. Those demon arachnids could breach the base."

"They will if we stay, but it's not them." Slade held his skull, groaning with a hiss. "What's wrong with Wilson?" Bruce turned to John and Raven as Lex tapped his foot by the exit. "Terrible time for an interragatio -

"Quiet, Luthor." Bruce snapped.

"We have to leave, he's correct."

"Jhonn??" The Martian came swishing by with panicked eyes. "The spiders I cannot sense entirely. There is something other –

BANG!

bANG !

"What in the world are you waiting to find out??" Lex exclaimed. "The door is going to get crushed!"

"NO." Slade stood up and watched, waiting as a stream of green and black moved as shadows at their feet. "They've already gotten inside."

"Well, that's a right –

~ MAGIC, WE DEEM…. WHERE IS……SHE????~

Holding whips, tails and forked tongues that spit venom, lizards on two legs and four surrounded the group. Slade moved to block Raven. "No one is here with that ability."

~ Wrong, you smell like our massster…. ~

Slade withdrew, his eye wider and his feelings not changed more than before. "What are you here to do, Trigon is no more. We were left to rot –

~ Regardless, we ssserve…. ~ The demonic Tracker agent flicked its tongue, Bruce's arm moving as one leaped out and slapped its tail to knock the bat sideways. Lex was frozen still, he would not risk groveling if he had to.

"Bruce!" Jhonn did not move but he was afraid for his allies. Raven was an asset; being the famed child of the Prophecy these demons believed; her life was most of all in danger…

"Trigon isn't here. Your information is false." Slade repeated himself, voice unwavering.

~ Silencccce! ~ The tracker came for him, yet John, Bruce and Raven stayed close together as the man elbowed the demon into the dirt. Raven let out a shout to clarify how done she was with waiting.

" RUN!" The five moved but Jhonn stayed to keep his arms out. "They killed one of us already." He began to glow as the barrier could not hold. "I will keep them from following you. Go, friends. Get to saf –

Jhonn groaned as he looked shakily down at his chest. A single dart by one primitive agent of a demon lord, blood of a sea moss green seeped from the alien's mouth. Raven gasped while John C dragged Bruce out of the fight, before the hoard of lizards tore the dying Martian limb from limb.

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Vixen was near the end of the hall. She was holding her hands to her chest, frightened and breathing heavily as Raven swooped over to grip Vixen's arm as she screamed.

There was a bloodbath as the shadows feasted. The Question. Elongated man. Hawk –

"No…"

The beasts ate, practically formless as the blood coated the entire room. "We can go, there is nothing we –

"We have to find Clark…billy….billy wasn't –

Slade came up, sighing as he opened his mouth to speak.

"We can't stay here. They gave their lives, now we have to take our world back to reverse the process."

Raven and the rest convinced each other to look for the hatch, Lex was scratching his arm a bit extra and John had to take a look. "The damned lizard didn't bite, it had spat and with it, the poison was a rash that bore up the man's arm as it kept growing. "R – raven!" He gulped.

"She, she's a healer. Isn't she? Right?"

"Rave, you –

"Vixen, I want to help –

"No." Slade took out what looked like a vile of some kind from his belt. Bruce tried to draw his weapon, but Raven took the vile. "Antidote…" She looked at her enemy. "Why did you have this? What do they want with us?"

"Still early to know, so I'll talk while we escape."

Bruce agreed, Lex breathing through his nose as Raven help him limp towards the exit hatch. Further off, as Slade spun his story above a den full of dragons and demonic spiders.

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"The trackers; bandits of souls that can shift into shadow and walk through solid objects to catch their targets. The days just before I was told to have Raven perform her role as the gem…I had a pick. Unruly dogs, or standing fire – clad soldiers. I chose the latter and the demons were spiteful for it. Trigon used them later and dropped some off to…take souls back to him. They might be why the gap between worlds won't close. They still have a target left uncaught."

"Who." Raven didn't need to ask. "Is, is it me."

"I don't know, mate…but it could be all of us. They said "he will return." Shuddered Constantine. "Ghoulish monsters from the great unknown and crawling things aside…why did you have an antidote made for the tracker demons' venom?"

"Jhonn, did." Bruce revealed with a deep set of eyes as they walked, a wincing Lex soon quieted as the antidote was applied to the infected boils on the man's forearm by John as a sympathy. "A topical salve, never ceases to amaze me, Brucie how quickly you set up camp."

"We had to counter any move that they tried. Clark knew Dinah was attacked by something with claws; we narrowed it down based on our analysis of day one of World – Omni."

"Omni?" Slade raised a brow.

"Omni, for one as in a whole, and we couldn't let her back inside the base. Dinah was possessed by whatever overtook her body, even when she knew to stay –

"We were supposed to let her die out there???" Vixen shouted out, overwhelmed with disgust. " Why ??? You had the anti –

"Not for the internal wounds from those monsters she'd sustained." He explained. "The "trackers" left her in too much of a dysfunctional state that we knew that bite could attract more…" Bruce stopped. "Ra's…Billy Batson was supposed to –

"Now is one time to bury your fallen." Slade told the bat. "We're almost there. I think Lex got his plan ready to bolt before I could think of it."

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So, off we go into the apocalypse. Right, then! So. The trackers are sickos and the spiders were not the things looking for blood this time. Will the heroes find a way out of the city to gather what time they need if Trigon really is going to be back to fight for his stolen world? Find out!

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