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Chapter 4: Final Exam
"Well, Mr. Slade?" a gray-haired woman asked, stepping in front of a screen with a yellow H symbol on it. This woman was the headmistress of the HIVE Academy for Extraordinary Young People and was presenting this year's top graduates to the man only known as Slade. This year's graduates were a team of three students: Jinx, a pink-haired girl who had the ability to release waves of energy that causes bad luck upon her opponent; Gizmo, a bald-headed little boy who had amazing intelligence and used it to create many weapons and inventions in order to fight; and finally, Mammoth, a collar-length brown haired man with genetically enhanced super strength and was the muscle of the group. However, after presenting a demonstration of the graduates' proficiency and teamwork, the masked man seemed less than impressed.
"Impressive. Truly. However, robots and obstacle courses can only prove so much. My plans require operatives who can function in the real world," Slade said walking up to one of his screens while the headmistress walked up to the graduates who were standing underneath a spotlight.
"If your graduates are going to serve me, then they'll have to complete one final exam. Destroy the Teen Titans and capture the Titan known as Sora," Slade said, bringing up a picture of the key-wielding hero. "And then we'll talk," Slade said.
"May I ask what is so intriguing about this boy to you?" The headmistress asked.
"That is for me to know. Now go, or I will deny your offer," Slade said. The headmistress bowed before the spotlights went out, covering the room in darkness.
(Meanwhile)
Sora was walking to the living room after working on his seashells for a little bit. He had almost all of the seashells but he needed to collect a little bit more, he needed more leather rope to hold the shells together and finally he needed more colored gems to put into the center. But he decided to take a break and get some food and hang out with the others. The door to the living room opened and he was suddenly bombarded with a bunch of yelling from Cyborg and Beast Boy. He looked to see that the room was a complete mess, the kitchen had dirty dishes and Cyborg and Beast Boy were searching high and low for something. Sora saw Raven silently reading her book at the kitchen table a good distance away from the searching duo but he could easily tell that she was getting annoyed.
"Uh, what is going on?" Sora asked Raven. Raven lowered her book to look at Sora.
"Apparently, one of the idiots lost the TV remote and have spent all morning looking for it," Raven said.
"And they haven't found it yet?" Sora asked.
"No, not yet. Could you please try to stop them? I can't really concentrate when they're arguing like that," Raven asked.
"I'll try," Sora said walking over to the arguing boys. Raven nodded and went back to reading. Sora walked in between them and pushed them away from each other.
"Whoa guys, calm down. Let's get this place cleaned up first and then well find the remote, because we won't find it when the tower is buried under all this trash," Sora pointing out all of the dirty trash and dirty dishes in room.
"Cyborg was the one who was watching TV last night, he should know where it is!" Beast Boy argued. Sora then saw Robin and Starfire walk in talking about something when Robin noticed what was going on.
"Whoa! Take it easy, Titans! Combat practice is this afternoon!" Robin said. Sora saw Starfire suggest something and then flew off towards the kitchen. Cyborg and Beast Boy went back to arguing and Sora did his best to try to stop them.
"Hey Robin. A little help?" Sora asked. Robin ran up to the others and tried to help Sora stop the arguing. This went on for a few minutes when suddenly Starfire screamed in fear and shot a starbolt into the fridge, blowing up whatever was inside and splattering this weird blue stuff all over the living room and onto the Titans. Sora looked closer at the stuff and noticed that it was mold and turned his head away in disgust.
"Maybe we should just go out for pizza?" Robin suggested.
"Agreed," Sora said.
(Later, down at the Pizza Place)
After cleaning themselves and the living room of the blue mold and getting rid of all of the bad food, the Titans headed down to the Pizza Place in the city and were now deciding what pizza to get. Sora remembered when Starfire first came to Earth and nearly destroyed the pillar holding up the second floor. After they defeated the aliens and announced themselves as the Teen Titans, they helped the people rebuild the Pizza Place and soon became their most favorite and frequent customers. Right now, they were sitting down at a table on the second floor looking over the menu, deciding what to get. Sora sighed to himself when it came to this part; Cyborg and Beast Boy would eventually start arguing at each other over getting a veggie pizza or an all-meat pizza. A few minutes later and they were still arguing over it.
"Can we please just order already?" Raven asked, annoyed. Sora looked at the menu and made a decision.
"Why don't we order three pizzas? One veggie, one all-meat, and another with just pepperoni. Would that work for everyone?" Sora asked. Everyone agreed and Sora was about to wave the waitress over when they heard the sound of a baby crying. They looked down from the floor to see a baby carriage in the middle of the street and an oncoming bus heading straight for it. They immediately sprang into action, with Cyborg and Raven stopping the bus and Robin, Beast Boy, Starfire, and Sora secured the carriage. However, when Sora opened the carriage, he was shocked to see an orange teddy bear inside. He then looked over towards the bus and saw that it was empty.
"Um, don't buses normally have drivers?" Cyborg asked. Realizing what was happening, Sora quickly threw the bear into the air and shot it with a fire spell, causing it to explode. Sora then saw the bus raise up into the air over Cyborg and Raven.
"Raven shield!" Sora said before throwing his keyblade at the bus, cutting it in half. Raven quickly put a shield up around herself and Cyborg, protecting them from the bus. Sora looked behind the bus to see a giant guy with brown hair and beard and was wearing a black unitard that went down to his ankles and gold bands on his shoulders. Suddenly, Robin and Starfire were blasted by a bald-headed kid who was up in the air by giant spider legs and a blaster coming from his pack. Sora then saw a pink haired girl appear next to him and blasted a wave of pink energy at him and Beast Boy but Sora quickly put up a reflect spell that reflected the wave back at her but she cartwheeled out of the way. The three attackers soon grouped up in front of the Titans who recovered as well.
"So you're the pipsqueak he wants? You don't look so tough," The big one said. Sora grimaced at the name but ignored it.
"Right, who is he and who are you?" Sora asked.
"Can't tell and as for us: We are the HIVE," The kid said.
"Your worst nightmare," The big one said.
"And this is Attack Pattern Alpha," The girl said before the group attacked all at once.
"You guys deal with the others. I'll take the guy in the unitard," Sora said. The other Titans nodded and went to deal with the kid and girl. The big one's face contorted in anger at the response.
"It's a onesie!" He yelled and charged at Sora, while the key-wielding Titan quietly chuckled to himself. Mammoth swung his fist at Sora but he quickly dodged out of the way and kicked him in the gut, knocking the wind out of him. Sora moved in closer and upper cut Mammoth in the chin before grabbing his head and slammed it into the ground, creating a crater. Sora ran around Mammoth and grabbed him by the feet.
"I may be a pipsqueak," Sora said before lifting Mammoth into the air and smashed him into the ground. Everyone stopped their fighting to see what Sora was doing. Sora then lifted Mammoth back into the air again.
"But,
*Smash*
"I'm a strong!"
*Smash*
"Fast!"
*Smash*
"PIPSQUEAK!" Sora yelled before spinning Mammoth around a couple of times and throwing him into a nearby building. Everyone was shocked to see Sora have that kind of strength within him and he didn't even use his keyblade at all. While everyone was too shock to move, Gizmo decided to sneak up on Cyborg and placed a rocket on his back, sending him flying off into the sky. Starfire quickly flew up and went to help Cyborg, leaving Robin, Sora, Raven, and Beast Boy left. Sora was going to help Raven with Jinx when he saw Rose standing off to the side, watching the fight. Sora was about to tell her to leave, he saw one of Gizmo's rockets flying off course and heading straight towards Rose.
"Rose!" He yelled running in front of her and putting up a reflect shield to stop the rocket. When it was done, Sora put the shield down and turned towards Rose.
"Are you okay?" he asked.
"I'm fine, thank you," Rose said.
"You need to get out of here. It's not safe," Sora said.
"I'm fine, Sora. I can take care of myself," Rose said.
"But I don't want you to get hurt," Sora said. Rose looked shocked for a little bit but shook it off and slowly nodded her head. She then ran off behind one of the buildings and Sora went back to see the others on the floor.
"Is it me or are we getting our butts kicked?" Beast Boy asked.
"It's just you," Robin and Raven said at the same time.
"Listen guys, I have a plan," Robin said, when suddenly Beast Boy and Raven were blasted away, leaving Robin and Sora.
"Gee, scrum-buffer. Sure hope your plan includes you getting fried," Gizmo said aiming his shoulder mounted cannon at the two Titans while Jinx readied her powers.
"Robin, give me your hand," Sora said.
"Why?" Robin asked.
"Trust me," Sora said, holding out his hand. Robin slowly placed his hand in Sora's. Sora suddenly released a burst of energy as his clothes started to change from black to red and a fleur-de-lis symbol appeared on his clothes. Once the light disappeared, Robin looked to see Sora now wielding two keyblades, one his normal one and the other being a black colored one with a black colored crown for the keychain and red lightning was dancing all over his body.
"That's new," Robin said.
"I'll explain later. Go help the others," Sora said. Robin nodded and ran off to help Beast Boy and Raven, leaving Sora to deal with the two HIVE members, who were in complete and utter shock right now at Sora's new form.
"He has TWO of them?!" Gizmo asked. Sora had a smirk on his face.
"Surprised? You should be," Sora said before suddenly charging at them with great speed and quickly cut Gizmo's spider legs out from under him. It was so fast, that Gizmo fell onto his back and wasn't able to get any of his other gadgets out. He suddenly felt something hit his pack and he turned his head to see one of the keyblades imbedded into it, causing it to malfunction and all of his gadgets to go haywire. Eventually, his jetpack went off and went flying into the air uncontrollably before crashing into the dumpster. Jinx stood a gap at the defeat of her teammates so easily by the keyblade wielder and she had no idea what to do as the he stood there before her at the ready.
"I'm giving you this one chance. I would surrender if I were you," Sora offered. Jinx gritted her teeth in anger and was about to release a wave of energy towards Sora when suddenly Ravager came flying out of the air and struck at Sora with her swords. However, Sora was able to defend himself and pushed her back but she was able to land on her feet in front of Jinx.
"You again? Who are you?" Sora asked. Ravager said nothing and nodded to Jinx to leave. Jinx nodded and went to help her teammates.
"Robin, Those HIVE guys are getting away. Make sure they don't get away," Sora yelled to Robin. The boy wonder looked to see Jinx helping out of the dumpster and got the others to stop the HIVE, leaving Sora and Ravager.
"So round 2 then?" Sora asked. Ravager gritted her teeth and charged at Sora and swiped at his head with her swords. Luckily, Sora moved out of the way and clashed with her for a few minutes, with Ravager keeping up with Sora's increased speed and strength. Sora was attacking from different directions but she was able to keep up with him and block his attacks. She threw a handful of ninja stars at his direction but he was able to knock them away and retaliated by throwing his keyblade at her but she too was able to dodge the thrown weapon. Sora recalled his thrown keyblade to his hand and once again engaged with the unknown ninja. Eventually the two combatant's blades clashed and Ravager's old sword broke into pieces and one of the shards cut off a piece of her mask, revealing a lock of silver hair, though she quickly covered it with her hand. Sora saw the piece of fabric fall to the ground and saw the girl holding her head.
"Are you alright? I didn't mean to..." Sora said, dismissing his blades and holding his hand out to help. The girl responded by kicking Sora in the chest, knocking him to the ground and leaping to one of the rooftops, disappearing into the city below. Sora watched from the ground as the girl disappeared as his clothes reverted back to their original color and his black keyblade disappeared. He got up from the ground and picked up the orange piece of fabric and looked at it for a little bit when he heard his communicator go off. He pulled it out and opened it to see Robin's face.
"Robin to Sora, are you all right?" Robin asked.
"Yeah, I'm fine. The girl got away again but I was able to get a piece of evidence from her," Sora said holding up the piece of fabric in front of the screen.
"Good we'll analyze it once you get back. We also rounded up the HIVE members and we managed to get a name of their employer: Slade," Robin said.
"Good, at least we got something. Are the others all right?" Sora asked.
"Yeah, Raven's helping the others recover," Robin said.
"Alright, I'll see guys back at the tower. Sora out," Sora said before closing the communicator. He then picked up his keyblade and leapt up to one of the rooftops and made his way back to the tower. What he didn't know was that Ravager was watching from a nearby rooftop with her hair hanging out from the hole Sora made. She sighed to herself knowing that her father saw everything and soon felt her communicator go off. She opened it to see her father glaring at her.
"We need to talk. Return to the base immediately," Slade said, narrowing his eye at her.
"Yes, father," Ravager said, closing the communicator. She then jumped from the roof and made her way back to her father's base.
(Later, back at the tower)
Sora was sitting at the computer going over the fabric that he found and was trying to find out where it originated but was sadly getting nothing. Once he got home, he explained to the others about what happened back in the city and he called it his Valor Form, a form that relies on strength and overwhelming the enemy. The drawback being that he could only use it with a person who relies on strength and when he is in that form, he cannot use his magic spells. He heard the door open and he turned to see Raven walking up to him.
"Hey," Sora said.
"Hey, did you find anything yet?" Raven asked.
"No, it's like it came out of nowhere. I've tried to track it to its source but nothing has come up," Sora said.
"Just try not to get too hung up on it. Robin is in his room looking for every known source for Slade. He's been in his room after we defeated the HIVE, cleaned everything up and found the remote," Raven said. Sora laughed at the remark.
"Got it. I'll be done in a little bit. How are you doing?" Sora asked.
"I'm doing alright. My hand still hurts after I was blasted by Gizmo's blaster," Raven said rubbing her hand. Sora took her hand in his and used a cure spell to make it better. When he was done, he released her and she felt her hand was much better than before.
"All better?" Sora asked.
"Y-yeah. Thanks, Sora," Raven said.
"Of course," Sora said turning back to the computer. Raven looked down at her hand and walked away, silently blushing to herself. Sora typed away on the computer looking for answers when he suddenly felt his communicator go off. He opened it to see Rose's face on it.
"Rose?" Sora asked confused.
"Can I see you?" Rose asked quietly.
"Uh, sure. Where at?" Sora asked.
"The park. I'll see you there," Rose said before she hung up. Sora was confused by how Rose talked, as if something bad happened.
'Hopefully, she's alright,' Sora thought to himself. He turned off the computer and left the tower towards the park.
(Jump City Park)
Sora was walking down the walkway of the park looking for Rose but he has had no luck so far. He made his way to the water fountain that was in the center of the park and looked around until he finally found her sitting on one of the benches. He walked over to her and saw that she her face was hidden by her long sliver hair.
"Rose?" Sora asked. Rose looked up to Sora and he saw why she was hiding her face. She had a black eye, her face was covered with scratches, dirt, and tears, and she was visibly shaking. Sora quickly sat down next to her and moved her hair to get a better look.
"Oh my gosh, Rose what happened?! Sora asked. As soon as he sat down, she wrapped her arms around and wept into his shoulder. Sora hesitantly wrapped his arms around in order to comfort her and he eventually felt her calm down.
"Are you okay?" Sora asked and he felt her nod.
"Can you tell me what happened?" Sora asked again. She slowly pulled away from him and looked up to him.
"M-my father...found out what I was doing and... forced me to come home. Once I did, h-he..." Rose said trying to hold back the tears. Sora nodded, understanding what happened next.
"Rose, you need to leave him. No father should ever hit their kids, no matter what is happening in your lives. At the very least, report it to the police," Sora said.
"I can't! He's my father, He is all I have left and I don't where I would go without him," Rose said shaking her head in denial. Sora looked down in thought before looking up at Rose.
"You can come live with us," Sora said. Rose looked at Sora in shock and confusion.
"What?! B-but Sora I..." Rose said but Sora stopped her.
"We have enough room back at the tower for you to stay in. Rose, you are going to keep getting hurt and I hate seeing my friends get hurt," Sora said. Rose quietly said something and Sora asked what she said.
"Why? Why do you care so much? We barely know each other and your talking to me as if we've been life-long friends?!" Rose asked.
"Your right, we barely know each other. But that doesn't mean I can't learn more about you and just because we barely know each other, does not mean I can't help you when you are being hurt by a family member," Sora said. Sora then caressed Rose's face and used his cure spell to heal her, making her black eye, scratches, and dirt disappear as if they were never there. She felt her face and she lit up when she did not feel any pain anywhere.
"Sora, thank you," Rose said with a small smile on her face. Sora smiled back but his face grew serious when he heard a noise, he looked around and saw that all of the people who were previously here were gone and soon noticed a pair of white eyes peering from a nearby bush.
"Rose, get down!" He yelled. She ducked down and Sora summoned his keyblade and fired a fire spell towards the bush, knocking whomever was watching out of the bush. Sora ran over to the figure and saw that it looked like a foot ninja wearing sliver armor, a belt around its waist, and the mask was black with an orange circle in the center.
'He's dressed like the girl I've been fighting recently,' Sora thought to himself. He looked back to see Rose was alright and he ran back to her.
"Are you alright?" Sora asked and she responded by nodding. Sora looked up and more of the foot ninjas running at them.
"We have to go. C'mon," Sora said, grabbing her by the hand and running away with her. They ran while dodging or deflecting blaster fire from the ninjas. Eventually, Sora stopped and pushed Rose in front of him.
"Keep going. I'll hold them off. Go!" Sora said. Rose nodded and ran off while Sora readied his keyblade. One ninja tried to punch him but he moved out of the way and slashed it aside. Another shot at him with a blaster but he was able to deflect it back at the ninja, nailing it directly in the face. Sora cringed but stopped when he saw the ninja get back up and saw metal and wires instead of flesh.
"Robots huh? Sweet, now I don't have to hold back," Sora said, before throwing his keyblade at the robot ninja, cutting its head off, deactivating it. He eventually destroyed the other robots and bits of scrap metal were strewn all over the ground. He suddenly heard Rose scream and he turned around to see her being chased by three other robots.
"Rose!" Sora yelled, sprinting after them. He saw that one of the robots was about to grab her, he jumped into the air and threw his keyblade at it, cutting off the robot's hand. He landed in between Rose and the robots and summoned his keyblade back to him.
"You want her, you got to go through me," Sora said, swinging his keyblade in one strike, and destroying the rest. Sora looked around to make sure it was clear and de-summoned his keyblade and turned to Rose.
"Are you alright?" Sora asked.
"Yeah, thank you Sora," Rose said.
"Looks like I'll have to escort you home since your being chased by robot ninjas," Sora said.
"I can take of myself, Sora," Rose said.
"I know. I just wanna be there to back you up," Sora said. Rose chuckled a little bit and walked to her house with Sora. They eventually made it to a two-story house that was in the middle of the city.
"You live here by yourself?" Sora asked. Rose shook her head no.
"My dad and I live here," Rose said quietly.
"Rose, you don't have to live with him," Sora said. She nodded to herself/
"Maybe but right now he wants me home," Rose said.
"Will I see you again?" Sora asked.
"Maybe, I'll call you," Rose said about to walk away but walked up to Sora and kissed him on the cheek before walking up to her house and closing the door. Sora was left standing there in shock and slowly placed his hand on his cheek. He looked up at the house to see the lights go out.
"Stay safe, Rose," Sora said before gliding up into the air and flew back to the tower. Once he got back, the door opened and he made his way to his room. He was so lost in his thoughts that he didn't the person he accidently shoulder bumped into. He looked up to see Raven.
"Oh, sorry Raven. I was somewhere else," Sora said.
"Is everything okay?" Raven asked.
"Well, it's just... you remember that girl we met at the fair, Rose?" Sora asked. Raven nodded in confirmation.
"Well, it looks like she has a really demanding and abusive father," Sora said. He then went on to explain all that happened after they talked and how he and Rose talked and were then attacked by the foot ninjas. Raven thought everything over what Sora offered to Rose and finally answered.
"Well, she could stay here. You just need to learn more about her. Remember when I told you about her training with swords?" Raven asked and Sora nodded in confirmation. "She might still be hiding something. You also said those ninjas looked like the girl you've been fighting recently, so they might be working for her and Rose might be a target of hers," Raven suggested.
"Maybe, I just don't know why someone would target Rose. She hasn't done anything bad as far as I know and she only has a bad father and..." Sora said.
"Sora, do you like Rose? As in like like her?" Raven asked.
"I-I don't know. Maybe. I just need some time to think everything over. Goodnight, Raven," Sora said, walking to his room.
"Night," Raven said, watching Sora slowly walk down the hall and enter his room. As an empath, she was able to sense people's emotions and know how they were feeling. She sensed Sora's mind and he did have some sort of feelings for Rose but he also felt sadness and empathy for her as well. Raven felt sorry for Sora and Rose and...
...wait...what was...
She also felt something else, something she thought she would never feel in her entire life.
She felt...Jealous.
Raven felt her powers grab her book and toss it against the wall due to what she was feeling and she started to breathe quickly. She quickly grabbed her book and ran to her room. She put her book away and grabbed the first seashell Sora gave to her and listened to the noises of the ocean waves, calming her down.
'I've never felt that before. Where did it come from?' She asked herself. She set the shell down on her desk and decided to meditate to keep the emotions down. She crossed her legs and slowly floated into the air. After meditating for a good five minutes she went to her bed and got some shut eye. While she was sleeping, she could hear nothing but the sound of the ocean waves crashing onto the shore.
And that's it. What will happen to Rose now? Will Sora end up falling for Rose? Find out in the next one. And yes, I thought now would be a good place to bring the Drive Forms since in this one the Titans lose and Sora is kind of their swiss army knife. Now onto the reviews:
Guest1: Yeah, I'm kinda making so that a lot of the girls will like Sora but at the stories core, it's a Sora and Raven ship. Also, thanks for the encouragement.
Guest2: Exactly, though I'll also try to change the episodes up a little to where they'll focus on or follow Sora's point of view.
Guest3: 1. No, it is a Sora and Raven ship. 2. Later in the story they will be. 3. I'll try to. Really hard to tell who it is underneath that mask.
Guest4: She'll get her chance the next time she appears.
Guest5: I am implying that one of the BBS trios was there. Also, yes but I'm going to add new ones in that would fit with the other characters. As we've seen with Robin, they will depend on what that person's skill or power is.
Guest6: Your gonna find out when that episode comes my friend.
Guest7: Yeah, it's going to be fun to see what happens next.
Once again, thank you guys for the advice and encouragement. Please review, please favor, and please follow. Until then, I'll see you guys in the next episode, peace.
