Fan Fiction ❯ Promise ❯ Disruption ( Chapter 3 )

[ T - Teen: Not suitable for readers under 13 ]

By: DavCube

Chapter 3 - Shattered Hope

“Titans, Go!”

The cry was heard, and a battle unlike any that the Titans had fought had officially begun. The team split up their battleground, Robin and Starfire going after Red X, and Cyborg and Beast Boy taking on Brother Blood, who had now thrown away his cloak to reveal his battle armor. Raven could still do nothing but stare as the almost supernatural battle took place. Both of the Titans' opponents were not themselves; their fighting styles were different, and they wielded fire magic as if they were the very messengers of hell.

`Something… or someone is controlling them… and I have a pretty good idea who…'

Raven was somewhat able to control her fear as her eyes began to glow black before taking off to assist Robin and Starfire with Red X. When she came close, she used her black magic in order to send an energy wave straight at the dark clone of the team's leader. Red X simply tossed it aside with one arm, the energy punching a hole through the ceiling rather than his chest.

“So, ready to play now are we? Better be careful, we don't want you dead quite yet,” the armored teen said calmly before sending his own wave of fire not at the sorceress, but at the Tameranian princess. Starfire's eyes glowed green as she prepared bolts of green plasma in her hands, aiming her bolt at the fire in an attempt to overpower it. This however, came to little avail, as the wave of fire continued to engulf the Star Bolt and crept closer to the Tameranian's body. A small scream of terror shot through Raven's ears, and the sorceress wasted no time helping her out by attacking Red X from behind with another wave.

“Azarath, Metrion, Zinthos!” she cried out her magic words and another, more intense beam of darkness streaked toward the possessed villain. The beam hit its mark, knocking Red X away forcefully into the wall, creating a small crater where he hit it. “Star, you okay!” Raven cried out in fear for her friend's health. “I am fine, Raven!” Starfire shouted back a moment later, which gave Raven cause for a small sigh of relief.

However, this was not cause for celebration, as Red X easily pulled himself out of the rubble and stretched a bit, sounding several grotesque cracks within his body, as if it didn't even faze him despite the obvious evidence that several of his joints were bent out of place thanks to Raven's beam. `Yuck… now I know that something's wrong here…' Raven joked to herself.

Robin looked up at the floating sorceress and prepared his strategy. “Raven, Star! Help the guys!” he then averted his gaze toward the revived Red X, who waved mockingly towards himself, asking for Robin for a second round. “I'll take care of him myself,” he declared, preparing his bo-staff and lunging at his rival.

Both of the girls nodded toward their leader, and they took off toward the battle that was taking place on the other side of the warehouse. At least, one of them did. Raven started toward Brother Blood, but a wince of pain from Starfire caught her attention. She turned to see her friend holding her right leg, which looked like it was slightly burned from Red X's attack. Raven flew back to get a better vantage point of Starfire's injury. “You sure you're okay, Star? That looks bad…” Raven asked as she bent down to look. Starfire shook her head, not wanting to worry her friend. “No, it is better than it looks. Nothing that cannot be fixed on the battlefield,” She said, forcing a smile, which for some reason, coaxed a smile out of the sorceress before she placed her hands on the wound, calling forth the angelic blood in her body to heal the singed skin.

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Meanwhile, at the other battle…

Cyborg began by firing a blast from his trademark Sonic Cannon, which Blood was easily able to avoid as he charged toward the two remaining Titans. Beast Boy transformed into a stegosaur, swinging its tail straight at the old man's chest, but it was caught by his supposedly feeble hands. This stopped his charge, but Beast Boy wasn't quite in the position he wanted to be. Blood then swung the green dinosaur high toward the ceiling of the building, where, if Beast Boy didn't change into something lighter, would smash straight through, but he was able to change into a falcon and stop his momentum before beginning a second pass.

Blood's focus was still on the mechanical man, who was flinging punch after punch at him, none of which was connecting until he caught one of Cyborg's fists and pressed it hard, causing a groan from him, but that didn't stop him from using his other hand as a cannon, aimed straight at the HIVE headmaster's ugly mug. The mark on his head glowed brightly as he used his free hand to send a wave of fire at him, melting a small amount of his circuitry and pushing him back into the wall. Blood's wicked grin never left his face, that is until the falcon that was Beast Boy dove upon his head.

The large bird scratched, tore and pecked on the madman's cranium, tearing out a small portion of his hair before it was grabbed and tossed aside once again. Blood couldn't seem to get a break, as his focus was averted back to Cyborg, who was able to connect a blast from his cannon, because of which he was grinning like he just scored a winning touchdown. “Yeah, Blood, how do you like me now!” he yelled mockingly. Blood's smile turned into a scowl filled with hatred. “You dare mock me! You'll pay for this!” he screamed, starting once more toward the crippling duo, that is until he suddenly stopped.

`Blood! X! The girl is with the alien… do it now!' a deep voice in his head rang out.

Blood stopped and bowed to his rivals, smiling. “Sorry, another time, perhaps,” he exclaimed before a blinding flash of light erupted where he was standing, and then… he was gone.

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Back with the rest…

“Hello, child.”

Raven twirled around, after just finishing healing Starfire, to see Brother Blood standing over her. She readied her hands to fire a blast, but Blood placed his hand on her right wrist, somehow causing extreme pain in Raven's system. She gritted her teeth as she knelt down, trying to dull the sensation.

“The will of our master shall not be denied. X, obtain the final ingredient! Finish with him!” Blood ordered his partner before vanishing once again, taking Raven with him. Starfire reached her hand out from her lying position almost in denial that her friend had just vanished before her eyes.

“Raven!” she yelled before the properties of the sorceresses angelic blood took its toll on her body, rendering her unconscious.

Meanwhile, Robin was still battling his rival when those mysterious orders were shouted out to him. Red X immediately left the fight and took four boxes of zynothium in his arms before looking back at the Titan leader once more. “It's your lucky day, kid. Duty calls. See you in hell!” he yelled as he too, vanished with the goods in an equally blinding flash. Robin's fist hit the wall with rage and disappointment at this new development before he ran to check on his teammates.

“Starfire! You alright? Wake up! Star!” he said, gently shaking the Tameranian from her shoulders, but to no avail as her eyes refused to open. Cyborg and Beast Boy stumbled over to where she lay to update Robin on the situation. “It's alright, it's just Raven's healing powers; she'll wake up in about an hour.” Cyborg offered, calming Robin down only slightly. Beast Boy looked quite serious at this point. (Well, as serious as HE could get.) “OK, so Brother Blood and Red X are back, but now they're these super-magic-freakazoids, and they took Raven and some of the zyn-whose-ium! I have no idea what they're doing, but dude, it just cannot be good!” he screamed, holding his head out of fear. The other boys were too dumbstruck by the situation to even correct Beast Boy's spelling.

“Got any idea where they are, Robin?” Cyborg asked the Boy Wonder, who remained serious, keeping his gaze fixated on the sleeping Starfire. “I managed to put on tracker on Red X… use your systems for figure out their location. But we're in no condition to fight them now. We need to be fully prepared for them.” He explained, now carrying the Tameranian in his arms toward the T-Car outside. Beast Boy's apparent state of panic did not change. “Yeah, cause we just got our asses kicked!” Cyborg's fist came soundly upon the green teen's head, quickly shutting him up. “That's why we've got to prepare! This whole thing is way too confusing! The zynothium, those powers, their personalities, their motive, none of it makes sense! I mean, they're even around where Terra's stone is right now!”

The other two boys stopped in their tracks hearing that last bit of news, both their faces showing the evident rage building in their systems. “I swear, if they do anything to Terra, I'm personally gonna bury those jerks…” Beast Boy growled softly, memories of his first love returning to the surface.

“Slade's old hideout… this is going to be rough…” Robin added as he turned once again toward the T-Car. The unconscious alien in his arms shivered just briefly, so light that the Boy Wonder couldn't even feel it.

`Raven… Where are you…?' her mind called out in agony.

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At Terra's Grave

The two villains appeared at what was once the main citadel for Slade's headquarters, now only hardened magma thanks to the now literally stone-cold figure standing in the center of the “room.” Between the two of them, they carried nearly 4 kilos of zynothium and the sorceress Raven, who also was now unconscious due to the instant travel that they just acted out coupled with the pain that Brother Blood somehow inflicted on her.

Raven's eyes started to open to view the scene; nothing had changed since the sixth Titans' “funeral.” `What… why am I at Terra's tomb?' she thought, before remembering the events that had just transpired. “What do you want with me!” she spat out at her captors. Brother Blood's malicious grinned returned to his face as he looked down at his catch. “It's not what I want that matters, my dear…” he paused, for some reason, bowing down, and Red X did the same. `What!'

“It's what our master wants. You are the final organic tool for his rebirth in this realm!”

Fire, seemingly from nowhere, began to erupt around the area, much of it forming into a symbol, a much larger copy of the one plastered on the heads the two Titan nemeses. Then, surprisingly, the embodiment of flame began to speak.

“My child… the time has come… for you to do what you were born for…” Raven immediately recognized the voice from the fiery void.

“Trigon…” she snarled as her captors let her loose, their deed, for the time being, done.