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Chapter 5: Forces of Nature
Sora and Raven were walking down the hall of the Tower talking with each other while also watching the big thunderstorm going on outside. It's been a few days since the fight with the HIVE and when Sora rescued Rose from the ninja robots. Since then, Raven has been able to keep her emotions in check due to constantly mediating.
"That thunderstorm is really intense. I mean, I've seen a lot of other crazy thunderstorms in my life but still this is beyond normal," Sora said, looking out to see a lightning strike and hearing the sound of thunder soon after. A few minutes passed and then another lightning strike hit.
"Hopefully, it'll pass by quickly," Raven said.
"Yeah. Anyway, how far are you in that book we got at the fair?" Sora asked, changing the subject.
"Oh, I'm still at the beginning but close to the middle. It has a lot more detail and explanation in the book. It's definitely longer than any other book I've read be-," Raven said but stopped when she heard the sound of buffalo hoofs stomping on the ground.
"What?" Sora asked and Raven pointed around the corner of the hall. He and Raven looked to see Beast Boy standing in the middle of a strange contraption while holding a liquid filled balloon.
"Wanna scare him?" Sora asked. Raven nodded and they both snuck up behind the shapeshifting Titan. Beast Boy, unaware of the sneaking duo, held up the balloon up to his face and chuckled to himself.
"This is going to be so sweet," Beast Boy said to himself. Sora and Raven got up right behind him and put their plan to action.
"What are you doing?" Raven said while Sora grabbed Beast Boy as an attempt to make him jump. The attempt was a success as the green skinned boy screamed and jumped into the air, releasing the balloon into the air. Luckily, Sora was able to catch before it hit the ground. Beast Boy recovered from the scare and nervously chuckled to himself.
"Oh, hey guys," Beast Boy said.
"You know, I figured since you could turn into all of the animals that you would at least have some of their senses," Sora joked. Meanwhile, Raven was looking at the contraption Beast Boy has set up.
"Please tell me this isn't another ridiculous prank of yours," Raven said.
"Okay, it's not. It's a brilliant one!" Beast Boy said, causing both Sora and Raven to roll their eyes.
"All right check it out. Remember when Cyborg put red dye in my shampoo and my skin turned brown for two days straight? Well, guys its payback time. I give you...the Beast Boy Insta-Lube 9000!" Beast Boy said, introducing what he has been building earlier. Sora looked at the design and noticed that it looked like a simple slingshot contraption. He was so busy looking at the slingshot that he didn't notice Beast Boy take the balloon from his hands and place it in the slingshot.
"Pretty clever, huh?" Beast Boy asked. Raven and Sora looked at each other and came to a simple conclusion.
"You're a genius," Raven said, sarcastically.
"You created a slingshot," Sora said.
"It's just a little good clean dirty fun," Beast Boy said with a smug look on his face but stopped when he heard a door open and close. He quickly grabbed Sora and Raven and ducked behind one of the corners.
"Wait! Shouldn't you-" Sora said but was silenced by Beast Boy.
"But what if-" Raven said as well but was again silenced by Beast Boy. A silence fell over the three heroes when Sora turned to see the target of the prank sitting down next to him, luckily Beast Boy did not notice. Cyborg decided to let his presence known.
"Why are we hiding?" Cyborg asked. Beast Boy, not registering the voice, once again shushed him but upon recognizing the voice turned around and his eyes widened in response.
"Cyborg?! You can't be Cyborg!" Beast Boy yelled.
"I can't?" Cyborg asked.
"But if you're here, then who's...?" Beast Boy asked confused. He peeked from the corner and saw the figure of Starfire making her way to where the trap was set up. Sora peeked out from the corner and saw Star as well. Starfire's foot eventually pulled the rope that was set up on the floor and the balloon was sent flying towards Starfire's face. Beast Boy ran out from the corner to try and stop the balloon but he's too late as the balloon hits Starfire's face and she is covered in motor oil and falls to the ground.
"Starfire!" Beast Boy yells. He and the others ran over to see if the alien was alright as she props herself up on her hands but can't see due to the oil. Sora pulls out a towel from his pocket and starts cleaning up her face.
"This is punishment? I did something wrong?" Starfire asked, confused and puzzled by the situation.
"You didn't. He did," Raven said, glaring at Beast Boy. Beast Boy only responded with a sheepish grin due to all of the disapproving stares that were sent his way.
"I didn't mean to...you weren't supposed to...," Beast Boy tried to explain himself.
'Dude, just say sorry, it's not that hard,' Sora thought as he continued to clean up all the oil.
"Heh, heh, just remember to change that oil every three thousand miles," Beast Boy attempted with a joke, though no one laughed. Sora simply shook his head.
'You just had to make a joke,' Sora thought. However, he was brought out of his thoughts when Starfire suddenly stood up and over Beast Boy. Sora could practically see the rage that Starfire was releasing as her whole body shook in anger.
"On my planet, we have a name for those who do such horrible things. You are a...a... CLORBAG VARBLERNELK!" Starfire screamed. As she screamed those last words, all of the oil exploded off her face and flew off to who knows where and it looked like she was growing bigger while Beast Boy grew smaller.
'I've never seen her this mad before,' Sora thought.
"I'm a what-bag?" Beast Boy asked in confusion.
"You heard the lady," Cyborg remarked.
"You are such a clorbag," Raven said, shaking her head.
"C'mon, guys. Can't anyone take a joke?" Beast Boy asked.
"As long as no one gets hurt, then yeah, we can but not in this case," Sora stated. Suddenly, a huge lightning strike flashed over the entire city, illuminating everyone. Sora looked towards the window and saw Robin standing before everyone else.
"Titans! Trouble!" Robin said, as another strike illuminated the city.
(Later, at the Jump City Bridge)
The Titans arrived at the Bridge over the bay to see lightning and blue blasts of energy all over the bridge. Sora peeks behind the semi he was hiding behind to get a closer look. There were two figures wearing armor similar to samurai armor, though it was missing the upper half. The big one had blue colored skin, black and blue armor, a blue helmet and he had a thundercloud emblazoned on his chest. The other figure was a polar opposite: He was thin, light yellow skin and hair in the shape of a lightning bolt, red and yellow armor, a yellow headband, and a lightning bolt on his chest.
"It's two guys, they appear to be metas as well," Sora reported to everyone. He suddenly felt something impact the semi he was hiding behind and soon smelled burnt metal.
"Let all who pass this way know Lightning was here!" Sora heard the yellow one yell.
"And Thunder too," The blue one yelled before he banged his fist together, causing an earthquake that made the whole bridge shake. Sora was able to steady himself and soon heard the two figures laugh.
'So, they are Thunder and Lightning personified? In all my life I never thought I would be fighting the actual elements of the weather,' Sora thought. He looked to see the others getting on top of the semi and jumped up to join them.
"Hate to break it you guys but you both have a lousy sense of humor! This ends now!" Robin said, his mask narrowing.
"No one gives orders to Thunder and Lightning!" The one Sora figured as Lightning shouted. Lightning then made a ball of his element and aimed it at the Titans. "Taste my power!" Lightning yelled before launching the ball at the Titans, who were able to move out of the way. Cyborg and Robin dealt with Thunder while Sora, Starfire, Raven and Beast Boy fought Lightning. Lightning is able to blast Starfire and Raven away when he is suddenly bear-hugged by Beast Boy as a giant panda. Instead of struggling, Lightning instead electrifies his body and shocks Beast Boy with a thousand volts, turning him back to human and letting go of Lightning.
"Your powers are strong but mine are stronger," Lightning said, laughing. However, he was interrupted when he was blasted by a burst of fire from Sora's keyblade, knocking him to the ground.
"Then how do you feel about someone who could match your power?" Sora asked, getting into a battle stance. Lightning got up from the ground and looked at Sora in anger but his face changed to shock when he saw the keyblade.
"So, it's true. The keyblade does exist. How is it that a mortal like you has come to wield such a powerful weapon?" Lightning asked. Sora simply shrugged his shoulders.
"It just came to me one day. Since then, I've been protecting people with it and right now you're attacking my friends and everyone else on this bridge," Sora said.
"You challenge me? Even with the keyblade, you cannot match my power," Lightning said before launching a bolt of lightning at Sora. Sora deflected the bolt, absorbed it into the blade and launched it back, hitting Lightning in the chest, knocking him back.
"Don't overestimate yourself," Sora stated. The two started shooting blasts of their own powers at each other, with Sora using his ice powers to slide around and blast shards of ice while Lightning flew around and shot his own bolts of energy. They were eventually able to blast each other with their own projectiles and eventually switched to hand to hand. Sora swung at the human element with his keyblade but he was able to defend himself. Lightning eventually countered by shooting a bolt at Sora's hand, knocking the keyblade away.
"Hahaha, what will you do now without your weapon?" Lightning asked. Sora simply responded by punching Lightning directly in the nose. Sora kept up his attack, punching Lightning in the face and gut before kicking him in the chest with a flying kick. Sora was about to attack again when Lightning surprised him with a bolt to the face, knocking him back.
"You are a strong one indeed. Sadly, we'll have to cut this battle short," Lightning said before flying away. Sora healed his face and looked up to see Beast Boy talking to Thunder before he was suddenly blasted by Lightning. The two brothers talked a little bit before they both flew off into the air. Sora got up and went to go help Beast Boy when he noticed Starfire fly by holding her arm with her nose up in the air.
'Looks like she's still mad' Sora thought. He offered a hand to Beast Boy and he took it.
"You alright?" Sora asked. Beast Boy nodded.
"Yeah, just shocked is all," Beast Boy said. Sora simply smiled in response and the two met up with the others.
"Okay team. We have to find those two before they do any more damage. Cyborg, search the west side. Sora and Raven, take the east. I'll take downtown. Beast Boy, you and Star scan from the skies," Robin ordered. Beast Boy nervously looks up at Starfire and slowly raises his hand.
"Um... maybe Sora can come with me instead?" Beast Boy asked. Robin was about to question the choice when Sora spoke up.
"I'll go," Sora said.
"You sure?" Robin asked and Sora nodded in response.
"Alright, Raven and Starfire will search the east. You two take the skies," Robin said. Sora nodded and jumped into the sky and started flying up, with Beast Boy turning into a hawk and flying after him.
(Later)
Sora and Beast Boy were flying over the city when they saw smoke billowing in the museum courtyard. They land to see the globe that used to stand was now destroyed and knocked over the other stones like they were dominoes.
"Well, either they were just here or this is the ugliest modern art I've ever seen," Beast Boy joked. Sora simply turned to face him.
"BB, why didn't you apologize to Star?" Sora asked.
"What?" Beast Boy asked confused.
"Back at the tower, you could've easily apologized to Starfire about the balloon but instead, you decided to go with a joke instead. So, why didn't you apologize?" Sora asked. Beast Boy chuckled nervously to himself and scratched the back of his head.
"Cause...it was just a joke," Beast Boy said in a nervous tone.
"But still, Starfire got hurt. Not physically mind you but emotionally. I mean how would you feel if you were suddenly hit in the face by an oil filled balloon for no reason?" Sora asked.
"Yeah, that makes sense," Beast Boy said.
"Look, I'm just saying the next time you see Star, apologize to her. I think she needs that more than your jokes," Sora said.
"Are you saying my jokes are bad?" Beast Boy asked.
"No, it's just sometimes they're poorly timed," Sora said. Beast Boy laughed at the joke and Sora joined him. Sora then saw a ball of lightning heading towards Beast Boy and quickly pushed him out of the way. He then summoned his keyblade and knocked the ball away into a nearby wall and saw the two brothers flying in the air firing their respected powers at the Titans. Thunder suddenly flew up next to Sora and fired a blue beam of energy at him. The spikey-haired Titan moved out of the way and threw his keyblade at Thunder, knocking him off his cloud. Thunder recovers and shoots more blast of energy at Sora but he is able to dodge out of the way and counter with a blast of fire. Thunder moved out of the way and fires a large beam at Sora, though the keyblader quickly counters with a large golden beam of his own. Sora's beam eventually overtakes Thunder's and knocks the human element into the stand where the globe used to be. Sora ran up to him and grabbed him by the shirt.
"Why are you doing this?" Sora asked.
"We are doing this for fun," Thunder said in a confused tone.
"This is fun? Destroying stuff and harming people? How can this be fun to you?" Sora asked. Thunder looked down in confusion.
"You speak like the green one," Thunder said.
"We protect people. It's what we do," Sora said. What none of the combatants knew, was that a tall figure wearing red and black robes and a flat-crowned hat. He had long white hair, a thin mustache and beard, and only his left eye was showing. The man moved his robes to reveal a wooden box on a tripod with a hand crank on the side. Smirking, the man started to turn the crank and the front of the box fell off to reveal a red camera lens which started to turn white as he kept cranking. Sora and Thunder felt the ground tremble suddenly and Sora looked to see a huge red beam heading straight for Lightning and Beast Boy.
"Beast Boy!" Sora yelled. He quickly ran over and pushed his fellow Titan out of the way of the blast and flying concrete. However, this left him in range and he was hit by the blast and buried under the concrete.
"Sora!" Beast Boy yelled. He was about to run and help his teammate, when he heard someone speak and quickly turned into a spider to hide.
"Your gifts are your own. Who are they to tell you how to use them?" the voice said.
"And who are you that commands such power? Show yourself!" Lightning demanded.
"As you wish," The voice said, revealing himself to be the figure. "I am but a humble old man whose power is drawn from nature, like your own. Come with me, and sow as much destruction as you please," The Sorcerer said. Lightning, hearing about the destruction, got overjoyed and ecstatic.
"Yes! More fun!" Lightning said. However, before he could go with the Sorcerer, Thunder stopped him by holding his shoulder.
"Will we harm anyone?" Thunder asked.
"What? The green one has poisoned your mind," Lightning said angered. However, Thunder remained firm.
"This destruction-will we harm anyone?" Thunder asked again.
"Would it matter if you did? You are unique, gifted, better. Why should anything interfere with your enjoyment? I am going. Follow if you wish," the Sorcerer said. He pulled out a staff with a Chinese stylized in a S on the top and used it to remove the concrete that rested on top of Sora. He then lifted the unconscious keyblade wielder into the air and started to walk away with him.
"What do you plan to do with the one wo wields the keyblade?" Lightning asked.
"Merely to discover what allows him to wield it. A young ordinary boy able to wield one of the most powerful weapons in the world; I must figure this out. If you wish to discover how to wield the keyblade, come with me," the Sorcerer offered. Lightning starts to follow him, while dragging his brother by the arm.
"Come brother, and leave your foolish thoughts behind," Lightning said. Thunder looked around for Beast Boy but did not see him and slowly followed his brother. Beast Boy waited until they were gone before transforming back to human and quickly pulled out his communicator.
"Beast Boy to anyone please respond," Beast Boy said. Suddenly, Starfire appeared on the screen.
"This is Starfire," Starfire answered.
"Sora's been captured by those brothers and some weird sage looking guy. They're heading into the forest but I don't know what they're planning," Beast Boy replied.
"Understood, we are on our way," Starfire said.
"Right. Oh, and Star, I'm sorry for what happened back at the tower. You could've been hurt and your right, I am a total clorbag," Beast Boy said. Starfire didn't respond until her face broke out into a smile.
"I thank you for the apology, Beast Boy and I forgive you," Starfire said before she ended the call. Beast Boy pumped his fist into the air in happiness. He then remembered that Sora was in danger and quickly turned into a hawk and flew into the forest.
(Later, in the forest)
While the two brothers were preoccupied with shooting the dummies that were set up for them, the Sorcerer decided to figure out what made Sora so special. So, he took the keyblade wielder further into the forest away from the eyes of the brothers and pulled out a scanner and scanned the boy's body. When it was done, he checked the results and saw nothing abnormal about Sora.
"Nothing. There has to be something about you that allows you to wield the keyblade. You can't just be a normal boy," the Sorcerer said to himself. He suddenly heard some footsteps heading his way and quickly put the scanner away. Thunder and Lightning appeared from the tree branches and the Sorcerer saw that all of the dummies were lit.
"More targets, old one!" Lightning begged.
"Yes, please give us more," Thunder said as well. Instead, the sorcerer walked up to the dummies.
"That won't be necessary. You've done quite enough," the Sorcerer said before pulling out a disc with the same S that is on his staff and throws it into the air. The disc flies up above the lit dummies and starts to spin in place. It keeps spinning until electricty starts cackling from it and an orange flash erupts from it. It then shoots a beam of light to one of the dummies and the beam starts to connect with the other dummies. The dummies are soon all connected to form a huge humanoid shape and eventually, the form erupts into flames. The Sorcerer raises his staff to the sky in response.
"Rise," the Sorcerer said. The form stands up to reveal a humanoid figure with the S symbol on its forehead and the entire being is on fire.
"Burn Fire! Burn it all!" the Sorcerer yelled. The form does as its commanded and starts making its way down the mountainside towards the city but stops when it sees the Titans standing in front of it.
"Didn't anyone ever tell you? Play with fire, you're going to get burned," Robin said. The Fire Form waves its arm at the Titans and a wave of fire is launched at them. The Titans quickly move out of the way and chase after the Form in order to stop it.
"Titans Go!" Robin ordered.
(Meanwhile)
Sora opens his eye to see nothing but smoke in the air and trees surrounding him. He gets up and immediately, his hand goes to his head in order to get rid of the headache.
"Ow, what hit me?" Sora asked. He slowly makes his way through the forest and sees his friends fighting a giant fire figure and Thunder, Lightning, and a figure in red robes watching from a distance. Suddenly, the two brothers disappear and start attacking the others. Sora ran up to the figure and kicked the staff out of the figure's hand and quickly drew his keyblade. Suddenly, Robin appeared from the air and tried to kick the figure as well but he moved out of the way, leaving Robin to land next to Sora.
"Are you alright?" Robin asked.
"Head still hurts but nothing I haven't dealt with before," Sora replied and Robin nodded his head and got into a fighting stance. The figure meanwhile, raised his hand and the staff flew from the ground and back to his hand.
"Sora, Robin. We meet at last," the figure said.
"Who are you?" Sora and Robin said at the same time. The figure only responded by charging at them with staff at the ready. Sora and Robin respond by Sora deflecting the staff and Robin kicking the figure back. The two tag-team him but the old man manages to hold his ground against the two Titans. The figure grabs Sora and throws him aside and starts to assault Robin with the staff, though Robin is able to block and dodge the strikes. Eventually, the figure goes for a lunge and Robin moves out of the way, with the staff lodging into the tree, releasing a wisp of smoke from it. Sora jumps up and knocks the staff away and the two end up dueling with each other. It eventually starts raining in the forest as they continue to strike away at each other. Sora slashes away at the figure but the man is easily able to block Sora's attacks before countering with a kick to the chest, which knocks Sora down. Robin comes in for a flying kick but the old man easily grabs Robin by the neck and slams him into a tree.
"Really, is that the best you two can do?" the figure asked. Sora gets up and cast a Thunder spell which nails the figure directly in the face. Robin falls to the ground while Sora gets in front of him to protect him. However, the two see the figure hiding his face with his arm when he moves his arm to reveal his face breaking away like a glass mask, which reveals another smooth, metal, orange mask with only one glaring eye staring back at them. The three stare at each other: Sora and Robin in shock and the figure glaring at them in anger; when suddenly the figure disappears in a burst of smoke, leaving only a metal disc with an S on it. Sora picks it up and looks at it in thought.
"Slade," Robin said. Sora turned to face him and handed the disc to him.
"He was the one who sent the HIVE right?" Sora asked and Robin nodded in response. Suddenly the other Titans run up to them.
"Hey, you guys alright?" Cyborg asked.
"Yeah, we're good. How about you guys? Is the city safe?" Sora asked.
"Yeah, those two brothers helped us out by having it rain. It put out the fire creature before it could reach the city," Raven said. Sora looked up and saw the rain slowly receding and the clouds dissipating, revealing a rainbow and the sun.
"That was them?" Sora asked.
"Yes, they realized their mistakes like Beast Boy and apologized in the end," Starfire said.
"Well, hopefully they stay out of trouble," Sora said.
"But what about that other guy?" Cyborg asked. Robin responded by holding up the disc.
"It was Slade," Robin said.
"He talked the brothers into joining him and he was the one who took Sora too," Beast Boy said.
"Why did he take you?" Robin asked. Sora shook his head.
"I'm not sure. I was knocked out when he took me," Sora said.
"He said something about trying to figure out why your able to wield the keyblade," Beast Boy said.
"There's nothing really complicated about it. It's just about having a strong heart and never give up fighting something that threatens the people you care about," Sora said. Robin hands the disc to Cyborg so he could have a better look at it.
"So, Slade wants to destroy the city and kidnap Sora. Question is why?" Cyborg asked.
"I don't know but I will find out and he won't get away with it," Robin asked. Sora looked at Robin with a look of worry.
'I hope he doesn't go too far with that saying,' Sora thought to himself when Raven walked up to him.
"So, are you alright?" Raven asked.
"Yeah, just a little headache now," Sora said, scratching the back of his head.
"Alright, just making sure," Raven said.
"Thanks, Rae," Sora said.
"What did you say?" Raven asked confused.
"Rae. We have nicknames for everyone else: Rob, Cy, Star, BB. We needed one for you," Sora said.
"Hhmm, then we need a nick name for you," Raven said.
"Well, let me know when you come up with one," Sora said, jumping down the hill and down to the city. On the way down, he heard Starfire giggling after talking with Beast Boy.
'Glad to see Starfire has forgiven him,' Sora said as he and the others head back to the Tower.
(Meanwhile)
Slade was sitting on his throne watching the footage he collected while fighting Robin and Sora while also getting rid of the rest of his disguise.
'There definitely is more to that boy than meets the eye,' Slade thought to himself. After reviewing all of the footage he had on Sora so far, he came to the simple conclusion that Sora had to be the strongest out of all the Titans and that there still is more to him that has to be discovered.
"Father, you summoned me," Ravager said, appearing from the shadows and kneeling in front of the throne.
"Yes, Ravager. Perhaps I was too hard on you," Slade said and Ravager looked up to him in shock.
"What?" she said.
"While I do not approve of you going off on your own without informing me and when you still have much training to accomplish, I do approve of you getting close to Sora," Slade said.
"What are you asking me to do?" she asked.
"I'm asking you to get closer," Slade ordered, narrowing his eye.
And that's it. The Titans come to learn more about Slade while Slade allows Ravager to meet with Sora again. What will happen now? Find out in the next chapter. Now, onto the reviews:
Guest1: I know and it's going to be fun writing about it.
Guest2: Yeah, I didn't want him to rely fully on the keyblade. Acts like a good surprise for his enemies that he can handle himself without it.
Guest3: Oh, they definitely will.
SonicMax: Well, I'm kinda making it so they'll deny their feelings when its painfully obvious to everyone else.
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