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I also want to apologize for the huge wait. I just got tired and wanted to enjoy a bit of time relaxing during the summer and the story ended up getting away from me. But with that in mind I'll try to get the next chapter out sooner, and for those who are still sticking with me, thanks. It really means a lot to me.
There won't be any specific time gap between the release dates of chapters, they will just be posted whenever I finish them.
JohnJuanRamboJr35 – Wow, I'm so glad that you like the story that much and I hope you enjoy the stories that are out there. I also hope that you enjoy this chapter.
By the way I forgot to mention, Italics will be for scene changes, "character speech" and 'character thought' and Bold for accentuating words. I will also have A/N's when I want to make a point or mention the moment a song will be used. But there aren't any songs in this chapter.
Disclaimer: I do not own Teen Titans. I really wish I did, but I don't. I do hope they bring it back though before the original voice actors age too much so that they can't be used, no one was better than them.
Thank you for your support, let's get back to the story…
Chapter 3: Titans vs The H.I.V.E
Heavy foot falls kicked up small rocks as Jinx ran across the rooftop. Vaulting over vents and hurling back hexes to slow her pursuer.
But for everything she threw at him the green changeling effortlessly dodged it and continued chasing her before morphing into a leopard to gain speed.
'God, he really doesn't give up, does he?' She asked herself, being both impressed and annoyed at the rather relentless chase she was being given.
They had been in this chase for a while now and Jinx was beginning to tire. Beast Boy however hadn't slowed in the slightest as he leapt from ventilation units to large, long pipes and the gravel surface of the roof, effortlessly navigating the rather difficult terrain. Jinx was able to keep a steady lead for the time being, but if things kept up like this than she wasn't going to make it for much longer.
While she was quite nimble and quick on her feet, she knew that she had no chance of outrunning the green shapeshifter, seeing as even now he seemed to be toying with her. There was also no way to hide from him as his unparalleled tracking skills would allow him to find her again almost instantly.
'No way to escape him like this, so I'll have to out-think him and face him head on.' Jinx decided as she formulated a plan to subdue the hero long enough for her to make her escape.
But in her momentary lapse in focus, she neglected to keep her head on a swivel and was thus unaware that the big green cat had gotten within range of her until she was knocked to the ground with one well timed pounce. The briefcase was knocked away from her hand and landed upright against a roof vent.
"Damn it!" she cursed to herself as she slowly picked herself back up. Now out of her train of thought she turned towards the jade predator who snarled at her.
"OK Beastie, you wanna play rough, that's fine by me." She said as her hands began to sparkle with pink energy.
She unleashed a flurry of hexes towards the Titan, causing small explosions wherever they hit and kicking up bits of rock and debris. The changeling quickly leaped out of the way of the initial barrage of attacks and morphed into a rabbit. The small animal hopped around from spot to spot, its movements wild and frantic as it tried to avoid getting hit. The pink sorceress kept up the flurry of hexes, blasting holes in the roof and causing nearby heating vents and fan shafts to break down. With this break in their chase she took this moment to catch her breath while she kept her opponent at bay. Beast Boy however was not as panicked as he appeared and was in fact fully composed as he slowly but surely got closer and closer to the Jinx with every bound.
Eventually, when he got within 8 feet of the sorceress, he jumped on a nearby HVAC unit and launched himself towards her before seemingly vanishing into thin air. Jinx, surprised at this, immediately ceased her attack while keeping her guard up. She quickly looked around in search of her opponent with a mix of confusion and worry. Realizing he must have changed forms she kept her eyes and ears trained for the slightest movement or sound… but she heard nothing. No faint buzzing of an insect; no sight of something small moving on the ground. Nothing.
After what felt like minutes with no change, she dropped her guard and turned to retrieve her briefcase, unprepared when she was then tackled by a large silver-back gorilla that pinned her to the ground.
"Wha-… how-… where did you go?" Asked the shocked girl. He had disappeared with no trace only moments ago but now, barely a few seconds later, he was right back as if he never left.
"A little trick I realized a while back," He responded while shifting back into his human form. "But a good magician never reveals his secrets." His trademark carefree grin now adorned his face with his iconic fang peeking out from beneath his lips.
A/N: Beast Boy actually shifted into an amoeba while mid jump. He still maintained his momentum but was so small that he actually barely moved at all, and when he changed into a gorilla that momentum stayed with him. Kind of like when Antman shrinks and then regrows. I really wish that someone utilized this for Beast Boy since it would be a very effective way to surprise opponents while being virtually undetectable.
"Ugh, get off me." Jinx said as she let out a burst of magic, blasting the green teen back and giving her the chance to grab the briefcase and continue running.
Beast Boy got back up and shook himself out of his stupor when he took notice that the pink enchantress was getting away. So he shifted into a Doberman pinscher and ran after her.
Jinx lead Beast boy across several more rooftops before coming to a stop at a wider, more open commercial flat roof. She turned and lowered herself into a fighting stance as she readied herself to face her opponent.
Beast Boy shifted back to himself as he slid to a stop a good 20 feet across from her, his keen eyes surveying the layout of the rooftop. The building was adjacent to 2 other buildings: one behind him where he and Jinx crossed onto it, and to the left of him with alleys between each building. A rooftop door leading into the building stood a short way off to his right about halfway between them with a couple heat vents beside it. A little past that, a large HVAC unit with multiple pipes leading into it stood about two thirds of the way to her. To his left there was a row of air shafts of varying shapes and sizes, a ladder at the edge of the roof behind them dropped onto a fire escape which lead to the alleyway bellow. Other than that the roof was a bare 30 by 50-foot space with a smooth concrete surface. The edges of the roof were guarded by a short 2 ½ foot wall surrounding the edges.
Beast Boy and Jinx were locked into a stare down as they both decided their next course of action.
With his mind set Beast Boy charged towards Jinx, taking the form of a grizzly bear. Jinx didn't move an inch but kept her eyes on the lumbering animal.
Then, once he got about halfway to her Jinx launched a pink wave at the ground in front of him, causing him to stumble. Right after this she used her magic to burst open the side of the HVAC unit, sending burning hot steam into the green changeling's face, blinding him, and causing him to shift back to his normal form.
"Ouch, oww, oww, oww, oww, oww. Dammit that hurts!" Beast Boy exclaimed as he held his face.
Once the burning sensation stopped, he opened his eyes and shifted into a pterodactyl to clear away the remaining steam.
But after he shifted back and scanned the area for his assailant, he noticed that Jinx was nowhere to be seen, and the after affects of the steam had rendered his nose unusable for the time being.
"Oh dude," He moaned in disappointment as he slapped a hand to his face. "All that and she still got away. Well, better see how the others are doing."
Beast Boy pulled out his communicator to inform the other titans of his situation as he started walking back to the museum. As he walked away Jinx pulled herself back up from the far ledge of the building and watched him walk away.
Once he got out of sight she turned around and descended the fire escape into the alley bellow. In the alleyway she hid behind a dumpster to check on her prize.
"Hehe," She giggled "Nice try Beast Boy, but I still won." Jinx said as the opened the briefcase and admired the necklace. "Not a scratch on it, Gizmo's shock absorbers worked perfectly."
She closed the briefcase and turned around, only to be met by a pair of blood red eyes.
"AAHHHH! Dammit Kyd, I've told you countless times to stop doing that!" She screamed in the dark clad villain's face.
Kyd Wykkyd's features remained as stoic as ever as he gestured towards the briefcase in his leaders hand.
"Yes, I got the necklace," She said as she held up the briefcase. "I can see you also got away with your loot, so we both did our jobs perfectly. How'd you escape the music man?"
Kyd Wykkyd, being mute, simply closed his top eyelids slightly, as if to say "really?"
"Right," Jinx said rolling her eyes. "Well, let's see how the others are doing." She pulled out her Hive communicator and tried contacting her team but got no response.
"Ugh, what are those idiots doing?" She said as she tried again only to receive similar success. "Grrrr, forget it. Lets just head to the rendezvous and meet up with the others. Without us there I'm sure the Titans are kicking their asses right now."
Gizmo was launched through the front doors of the bank with about 5 Billy Numerous' following suit shortly after him. All of them hitting the pavement hard.
"Gawd damn partner, they're kickin our asses." The southern boy drawled out in pain as he re-absorbed all his copies.
40 minutes earlier in the National Depository
The villainous trio exited the vault with their loot in hand. Mammoth was carrying a huge crate full of gold bricks, Gizmo held a small bag containing various valuable possessions (diamond jewellery, a few pearl necklaces, several kinds of high-end watches, etc.) while being carried by his robotic spider legs, and Billy Numerous had split himself into 6 clones each with a bag of cash in each hand. Suddenly they were all knocked forward and onto the ground by an unknown force. When they picked up, they saw Cyborg standing in front of them with his arms crossed and a smug grin on his face. Just to his left, Starfire floated a few feet off the ground with a serious look on her face. Her eyes and hands were aglow and radiating green energy. A few seconds later they were joined by a yellow and red blur that revealed itself to be Kid Flash, no doubt the one responsible for knocking them all down earlier. He leaned against Cyborg with his left hand propping him up and his right hand on his hip, his face adorned with his usual cocky grin.
"Aw hell, it's the shit-eating Titans. Split up, I got the robot." Gizmo barked out in his squeaky, still prepubescent voice.
Cyborg and Gizmo:
The battle started with Gizmo and Cyborg exchanging a volley of rockets at each other, which collided together and created a shockwave that launched the more pint-sized of the two back several feet. Cyborg being 385lbs and almost entirely made of metal, was unfazed by this and charged forward through the smoke cloud with his signature sonic cannon.
"Booyah!" Cyborg exclaimed as he fired a sonic blast at Gizmo who quickly jumped out of the way and changed to his jetpack, getting high into the air. "Try this on for size you rusty scrap heap." Gizmo called out as he began raining down laser blasts while flying around constantly to change his angle of attack and overwhelm his titanium plated adversary. But Cyborg shrugged off each shot and fired back with multiple quick sonic blasts from both of his cannons, managing to tag his opponent with every few shots. The clash of technology continued for 10 minutes with Cyborg getting hit repeatedly but sustaining very little damage. Gizmo on the other hand was visibly struggling with a few bruises and his mechanical wings showing some new dents and markings. But he continued making several areal maneuvers until he changed back into his spider legs midway through a dive, trying to crush his opponent. Cyborg rolled out of the way and the two became locked in a battle of strength with each pushing back and forth trying to overpower the other.
Eventually Cyborg released the hold on his right hand and shifted over to grip the leg in his left hand. Using the sudden momentum he swung the tiny villain around and around, causing the other three legs to retract before hurling him through the bank's front doors.
Kid Flash and Billy Numerous:
Kid Flash stood at the center of a mob of at least 20 Billy Numerous copies, set in a ready stance, but still with his cocky grin and overall sense of bravado.
"Well looky what we got here Billy; it looks like ol' Romeo didn't get enough of a beatin last time." Said one Billy Numerous to another one next to him.
"Naw Billy, it don't seem like he did." The other Billy responded.
"Welp," A third Billy said while cracking his knuckles. "Let's show him the ruff stuff boys."
All the Billy clones then rushed towards the speedy hero, set on beating him into the ground. That idea flew out of their minds as he spun, creating a mini tornado, and sending all the clones themselves to go flying. As they picked themselves back up Kid Flash raced through them, delivering a swift punch to each. Eventually his over cocky attitude got the better of him when one Billy clone tripped the speedster and pounced on him, duplicating himself several more times so they could hold him down and throw a fury of punches and kicks to the now immobilized hero. Before long, the blows simply passed through him as he began vibrating his molecules. "The hell?" A Billy clone questioned before he was blasted by a bolt of lightning, courtesy of Kid Flash. Now with a brief reprieve he decided to make a break for it attempting to escape from the ever-growing swarm of human copy machines. As he did the Billy's started duplicating parallel to each other creating a maze of bodies and guiding the hero randomly throughout the room. "Run, Run, Run fast as you can. You can't escape me, I'm… uh… oh! I'm the duplicating man! Yes! Finally!" The clones called along side the hero as he ran. Eventually Kid Flash grew tired of running around like a lab rat and at the next turn blasted the human wall away with a tornado from his hand. Now free of the swarm he ran in a huge circle around all of them, going faster and faster until he created a huge tornado and sucked all of them into the air. The redheaded speedster than darted back to watch the clump of Billy's fell to the floor in a heap, their eyes seemed to be spirals from the dizzying trip they just took.
"Aww dang," A Billy clone grumbled as he held his head. "That sumbitch is ours when we git our brains to stop spinnin."
"I don't think so," The clone's sight returned just as he looked up to reveal Kid Flash standing over him, hands on his hips and a triumphant grin on his face. The hero then unleashed a bolt of electricity at the group, causing all the clones to return to the original and leaving the original Billy all by his lonesome and left dazed, in pain and wobbly on his feet.
Kid Flash walked up to him and readied himself to throw a hard punch with his fist vibrating. "I win." He stated simply.
"N-N-Naw," Billy mumbled incoherently. "N-No one beats B-Billy Numerous-s." He split, with much difficulty, and created 4 clones only for them to collapse and fall to their knees beside him.
"Nice try partner, but it's the end of the line." Kid Flash mocked in his own southern accent as his hands came together to form a tornado.
"Damn you Flash." The original Billy grumbled under his breath before he and his clones were blasted through the bank's doors, same as Gizmo a few seconds prior.
Starfire and Mammoth:
Mammoth charged at the alien princess as she rained down starbolt after starbolt, each one doing little to slow the relentless advance of the hairy brute.
He lunged attempting to spike her out of the air like a volleyball into the bank floor. But Starfire proved too fast for him as she effortlessly flew out of the way in each attempt. Growing frustrated Mammoth looked around for anything he could use to bring this game to an even playing field. A service kiosk near the entrance caught his eye and caused a wicked grin to spread across his face. Starfire was floating in the air, starbolts at the ready as she saw Mammoth rip the booth from the ground and hurl it at her. She of course was ready for this and blasted it with ease creating a small explosion. However, what she did not see coming was Mammoth who used the explosion to conceal his lunge towards the warrior princess where he tackled her and slammed her into the ground. With her pinned down he continuously rained a storm of punches down on her with enough power to shake the building like an earthquake. Mammoth continued the brutal onslaught until an orange hand shot up and caught his fist, stopping it instantly mid-punch. Slightly shaken, he tried for another punch with his other hand getting the same result. He stared in awe to see Starfire's eyes shoot open, ablaze with green light, as she let out a war-cry and began to push her opponent back. He tried to push back with all his might, but he was just no match for the purple clad heroine's alien strength. She continued to force him back until they found themselves approaching a large window on the nearest wall. Starfire then pulled her right arm back and gave a quick jab to the brute's exposed side right in the liver, causing him to double over in pain. With this opportunity she brought her arm back and unleashed a devastating uppercut that launched the villain high into the air, now she unleashed a powerful eye beam that blasted Mammoth straight through the window and out of the bank.
Present:
Billy Numerous and Gizmo were picking themselves up off the ground as the southerner noticed that they were missing one of their party.
"Wait, where's Mammoth?" the southerner asked.
Just as Gizmo opened his mouth (Likely to spout some rude comment like always) he was interrupted by the very person who was the topic of their conversation crashing through the nearest window of the bank and into the concrete about 10 feet away from them.
"Oh, there's the big ape now, sucking shit just like always." The pint-sized villain said sarcastically.
"Hey, shut up you little gremlin!" Mammoth called back as he slowly pulled himself out of the crater he made upon impact.
"You shut up snot brain!" Gizmo squealed back.
"Uh, fellas." Billy Numerous said. He was disregarded however as the two hot headed villains continued to argue.
"You think your so great with that big brain of yours, but I could beat you to a pulp in my sleep!" Mammoth yelled at Gizmo.
Gizmo became angrier and angrier with each spout from the strong man's mouth.
"That shows what you know dumb-ass. If I wanted to, I could obliterate you in a second and no one would give a shit, there's always another muscle-bound oaf around but my intellect is one in a million." He retorted with a vein bulging in his forehead.
"Guys." Billy said a little bit louder but was still ignored.
"I'll show you, you disrespectful little shit!" Mammoth threatened as he raised his fists above his head.
"Bring it on cretin!" Gizmo challenged as he raised up on his remaining spider legs and brought out his twin laser cannons from the sides of his pack.
"HEY YOU EGG-SUCKIN' GUTTERSNIPES!" Billy screamed, having finally reached his limit and also finally getting the attention of the two bickering villains.
""WHAT!"" They both screamed in unison. It was then that they noticed the three Titans in front of them. Cyborg had both his sonic cannons out and aimed at them, Starfire was hovering a few feet to his right with her starbolts at the ready and Kid Flash was standing to his left, both wrists vibrating with small bolts of electricity jumping between his fingers.
"Shit, I was hoping I wouldn't have to use this." Gizmo grumbled as he began furiously typing into a keypad on his wrist. His laser cannons retracted, and two new gadgets extended from his pack: one from the top that looked like a large camera flash and peeked above his head, and another from his back that looked like a Tesla coil.
"Alright morons get behind me." Gizmo told his teammates as the coil began to spark and glow an unnatural blue.
Billy and Mammoth, both weary, complied with the request and moved behind Gizmo as the heroes aimed their shots at the trio while getting into defensive positions. But before any of them could fire a single shot the device on top released a blinding flash akin to the sun, momentarily stunning them and causing them to miss their shots.
While they were distracted a large swirling blue vortex opened up bellow the villains, which they immediately fell through and disappeared, the vortex closing on them immediately afterwards.
Once the heroes sight returned, they noticed that the villainous trio had disappeared. Leaving no trace behind.
"Damn," Cyborg grumbled. "They escaped."
"Do not worry friend Cyborg, they will not get away." Said the ever-positive Starfire. "Perhaps they will do the meeting up with their fellow teammates. Let us meet up with our friends as well so that we may capture them together."
"Yeah, tin man, once we regroup and find them with the others, they're as good as caught." Kid Flash added.
Cyborg took a second to process his friends words. Although it wasn't a sure thing that the villains would meet up together before making their escape, seeing as they could just as easily have gone back to their base and left the rest of their team to fend for themselves. There weren't really any other options, so it was their best and only shot.
"OK guys, I'll call Robin and see how he's doing." He said as he opened a channel to their leader.
Scene change: Jewelry Store
Shards of glass fell onto the carpet floor of the jewelry store. The cause being a hard hit from one of the shields on Private HIVE's forearms when he shattered the protective glass cover on one of the stores many jewelry cases. With the case now open he began to shovel in the contents into an open drawstring bag clenched in his other hand.
The jewelry store he was currently in was known to the rest of Jump City as the "Diamond in the Rough," the most prestigious jewelry store in the city. But to the villains who currently occupied it, it was a simple paycheck waiting to be collected. The exterior consisted of snow-white walls and steel rimmed windows. The only notable features being the carefully cut-glass doors in the shape of an arch with intricate carvings engraved in the glass and a large, light up, neon blue sign with the store's name in an elegant font.
The interior was where the prestige of the building really shined.
The walls were the same snow white as on the outside, but with silver outlining the creases in the corners and along the floor that accentuated the appeal of each display. The floor itself was made of a rich, royal blue carpet that contrasted well with the walls, it seemed like an odd design choice and had to be steam cleaned weekly to maintain its immaculate appearance, but that's how the shop owner wanted it. Each jewelry case that lined the walls consisted of a dark stained mahogany base and a glass cover that perfectly allowed for the exterior light to shine on the valuables within. An island stood at the center of the room for check-out purposes, also surrounded with jewelry cases displaying various necklaces and rings. Even the lighting had special care taken to it with both a skylight in the center of the room, above the island, and special daylight bulbs and a combination of warm & cool spectrum LED's. Altogether they allowed for a perfect mix of warm & cool spectrum light that made jewels like diamonds flash without muting the color intensity.
Long story short, it was breathtaking.
At this point though, about half of the display cases had been smashed open and the contents collected by the two thieves who were working their way through the store.
"Looks like we're about halfway done." The militaristic young man stated as he glanced towards his partner. 'Or should I say I'm halfway done.'
He was referring to the fact that his partner, See-More, had been spending most of his time admiring the various luxury gems and valuables, and as such hadn't even filled half of his satchel.
"Hey, Cyclops!" He called to his teammate, who dropped the marble sized diamond in his hand as he was pulled out of his trance-like state.
"What the hell do you want?!" See-more argued back, quite angered at the jab to his ocular deformity.
"In case you forgot soldier we have a schedule to keep and if we don't make it to the rendezvous on time then the boss lady is going to have are asses. So if you don't mind, stop drooling over the pretty rocks and start grabbing some loot before I come over there and rip your eye out!" Private HIVE screamed; his patience having finally reached its limit.
See-More grumbled and cursed under his breath as he began to stuff his satchel very unceremoniously with random handfuls of precious jewels. He continued like this until his eye caught a particularly spectacular looking gemstone at the back of the store, which had previously been unnoticed due to the other cases obscuring it from view.
As he got closer, he couldn't help but loose himself in the sight before him. Just a foot away from him behind a thick glass case was a 3 by 2-inch, emerald cut, alexandrite. This rare variety of the mineral chrysoberyl is well known for its chameleon-like quality to change color, appearing as a lovely green in daylight or fluorescent light, and changing to brownish or purplish red in the incandescent light. Earning it the nickname "Emerald by day, ruby by night." Its case had been specially modified to alternate between these forms of light every 5 minutes.
Once he snapped out of his stupor a wide, toothy grin stretched across his face. With deadly precision he focused his laser eye and carved an opening in the case, taking great care to not disturb the precious gem in any way. Once it was open, he delicately removed the alexandrite from its case and brought it up to his eye as it changed back to a loupe to better admire it.
"Now that's a stone." He said to himself before placing it in a special, more secure compartment on his belt.
As he was about to reach for another set of jewels a birdarang flew just inches in front of his face and stuck into the wall next to him.
"Sorry, but the store's closed." A voice echoed throughout the room. Both of the thieves turned to see Robin standing at the back-emergency exit in a ready stance with his Bo staff drawn and Raven hovering a few feet to his right, hands and eyes glowing with dark energy.
"Oh look, its boy blunder and the witch," said Private HIVE. "I was hoping we'd be gone before you showed up, but some people just had to take their sweet time."
See-More chuckled nervously while scratching the back of his neck. "Whoops."
Already tired of the situation Robin charged forward and leaped with a hard swing of his Bo staff at Private HIVE, who blocked it with one of his shields but stumbled back from the force. At the same time Raven faced off against See-More with nearby objects floating up around her.
Robin and Private HIVE:
Private HIVE got back to his feet and crouched into a basic fighting stance while Robin went into his signature combat stance. Neither made a move as they studied each other. Private HIVE's stance was simple and lacked any specific advantage in offense, but its simplicity was its strength, allowing him the ability to adapt to an effective counterattack. Robin's on the other hand was more aggressive and suited to lead with heavy starting attacks. Moments seemed to stretch into minutes with both appearing still as statues yet ready to strike in an instant.
Finally Robin broke into a charge towards the soldier-esque villain, swinging his staff in a wide arch for maximum power. Instead of blocking the attack, Private HIVE ducks bellow it and delivers a quick jab at Robin's exposed side. Robin winced from the blow but kept his momentum, driving his staff into the ground and swinging around to kick his opponent back. He then thrust his staff forwards to knock his opponent stumbling backwards so that he could backflip away and throw a few electric discs around his feet. Bolts of electricity jumped between each disc and shocked Private HIVE, who stood unfazed. "Nice try birdie, but your toys won't help you this time. Actually I've got a few of my own." He said as he pulled out a black and yellow flashbang and threw it right at Robin, going off right in front of him and momentarily stunning the hero. He then rushed forward and ripped the Bo staff from Robin's hands with a palm strike to his chin and threw it away before delivering a flurry of punches and kicks at the now unarmed foe. But once Robin's sight returned to him, he caught Private HIVE's foot during one of his kicks and swung him around before throwing him through one of the store's front windows.
The villain hit the asphalt with a thud before regaining his composure and stumbling to his feet. With quick reaction time he just managed to deflect a birdarang flying straight for head. Robin, with Bo staff in hand, leaped out of the window and swung downward at Private HIVE. But he pulled out his own yellow staff with black ends and blocked the strike. The two exchanged various strikes and jabs with expert precision, along with a few well-timed kicks when they saw an opening. "You've got skills, I'll give you that, but theirs nothing you got that I don't have." The militaristic young man taunted as he took a few steps back to get some distance. "You think so?" Robin said as he looked closely at the other staff. After a moment he rushed forward and jumped at the villain with a spinning swing, one that the villain attempted to block only for his staff to snap when Robin hit a previously noticed critical weak spot. With his opponent unguarded and in shock Robin delivered a final hard strike to his temple, knocking the villain out. "I hate cheap knockoffs." Robin said as he lazily kicked one end of the broken weapon.
Raven and See-More:
"Look, can't we just talk this out?" See-More asked with a nervous grin.
"No." Raven said in her usual monotone fashion.
See-More's nervous grin morphed into a sinister one as he switched to his laser eye. "Didn't think so." He said before blasting Raven square in the chest and knocking her back. She recovered quickly and summoned nearby debris before launching it towards the one-eyed villain. See-More rolled out of the way and blasted the projectiles out of the air causing a cloud of smoke to obscure his vision. He switched to his x-ray vision and scanned the area. Unfortunately, he was completely oblivious when Raven rose up from the ground behind him and gripped him with dark energy. She stared him dead in the eye as he visibly sweat dropped before thrashing him about from the roof to the ground before finally throwing him into a wall. See-More collapsed to the ground momentarily before pulling himself pulling himself back up and facing the half-demon sorceress who began approaching him. Switching to his bubble eye See-More blasted an eye shaped sphere into her stomach, winding her and allowing him to trap her within an eye shaped sphere. "Well its been fun, bit I really gotta go." The villain gloated as he made his way towards the exit. Raven growled in anger as she watched him sauntering off towards the exit, her eyes began to glow as a dark aura grew around her. More and more until her eye shaped prison burst, unleashing a pulse of energy that threw See-More flat in his face. Mumbling obscenities under his breath he glared back to his now freed opponent only for his eye to widen in fear once he saw her towering above him, her top half appearing normal, minus the look of anger that now adorned her face, and her bottom half a mass of dark tendrils that propelled her towards him. "Holy shit!" He exclaimed as he stumbled through the broken window and ran a good 20 feet away before, quite bravely (or foolishly), turning to face his pursuer as she exited the store. He blasted a few eye spheres at her, but the unhappy heroine simply swatted them away with ease using one of her tendrils. Desperate, he tried to deter her with a laser blast to the face, which only enraged the already irate teen who retracted her dark energy back into her and charged up a powerful magical attack. "Azarath Metrion Zinthos!" She chanted as she sent a powerful blast towards her opponent. With split second timing See-More managed to create a bubble shield around himself, which protected him slightly but only just as it shattered and sent him flying through the air before landing hard on top of the already downed Private HIVE.
End of Fight Scene:
See-More groaned in pain as he just barely managed to pick himself up, his whole body screamed in pain, but he pulled through and got to his feet before opening his eye to see Robin and a now recomposed Raven walking towards him.
He glanced down to his unconscious teammate before silently letting out a disappointed sigh. "Ok, you win. I give up." He said as he raised his hands in surrender.
"Sure you are," Robin said sarcastically. "Just get down on the ground See-More." Robin ordered as he pulled out a pair of handcuffs.
"Sure thing," See-More replied as he began to lower himself down, suppressing a smirk as Private HIVE hand silently retrieved a grenade from his belt.
Suddenly the previously downed villain shot up and threw it at the two heroes. Raven created a shield to protect Robin and herself when the grenade exploded into a cloud of smoke, blinding them, and allowing the two villains to escape in an eye bubble courtesy of See-More.
After a minute, the smoke cleared, and the two Titans looked around only to notice the villains had vanished.
"Dammit." Robin growled before his communicator went off. He opened it to reveal the face of Cyborg on the other end.
"Hey Rob, sorry to tell ya but Gizmo, Billy and Mammoth escaped. How'd it go at the Jewelry store?" He asked.
"See-More and Private HIVE escaped, and although we managed to retrieve most of the stolen jewels back from Private HIVE, we weren't as successful in stopping See-More." The traffic light themed leader responded.
"I just got off the phone with BB and Herald, Jinx managed to escape from the grass stain, but Herald was watching Kid Wykkyd and said that he saw him meet up with Jinx a few blocks down from the Museum headed Southeast."
"I managed to place a tracker on Private HIVE during our fight. If cross reference his course with the most likely way Jinx and Wykkyd were headed, we might be able to figure out where they're heading and cut them off." Robin said.
"Sounds good man, send me the data and I'll run the calculations for the most likely destination. We'll all converge on the signal and catch them together." Cyborg responded before he cut off. Within 10 seconds Robin's communicator flashed with the directions from Cyborg.
"Alright, lets head out. There's no time to waste." Robin said to Raven who gave a simple nod before taking off. Robin then hopped onto his R-Cycle and rode next to her, both following the signal with determination in their eyes.
To Be Continued…
I'm so surprised by the response to this story, the fact that I have any people following and/or favouriting my story is amazing. I had a lot of fun writing the fight scenes and looking up slang for Billy Numerous to say. I originally started writing this story because I was tired of there being no new BB/Jinx stories and not many of them lasted very long or were left unfinished. I plan to do some more unique BB pairings in the future, and I hope to inspire others to do the same.
I want to remind everyone that I will accept and encourage any and all criticism (Preferably if its constructive) and will respond to as many comments, both public and PM as I can, although PM's will be guaranteed to get a reply.
Thank you and I will see you next time Titans…
