“HE JUST TURNED INTO A MONKEY!” Ron screamed.
“A - green monkey!” Kim noted.
Overtaking Slade, Beast Boy dropped to the ground – and had turned into a rhino by the time he’d landed.
Kim was stunned. “And now he's a green rhino?”
“Y'know,” Shego cried, “that might be why the circus kid called him ‘Beast Boy,’ Kimmie!”
Kim suddenly remembered what she had first come for. “Shego…” she growled. She ran over to where the girl she’d heard being called Starfire was about to attack Shego. “OUT OF MY WAY, GOLDIE!” she bellowed as she SHOVED the girl aside quite angrily, not caring that she just seen the girl not only fly, but also send Shego across more than half the room with one punch. She sneered at Shego. “She’s mine!”
Starfire began a protest. “But this woman just attacked Cy-”
Shego took the time of ignorance to do what she had been itching to do since Kim had shown up. “RRRAHH!” she bellowed, as she dive tackled Kim.
Ron and Drakken watched as the pair rolled across the floor, fighting beserkly.
Starfire, realizing the futility of the situation, flew off to help her teammates fight Slade…
Shego proceeded to pin Kim on the ground, with her on top. “What's wrong, Kimmie?” she asked as Kim struggled to break free. “You don't ever get this upset, even around me!”
POW! Kim got a leg free and kicked Shego hard in the gut, sending the woman flying off of her and slamming into the base of a platform. Right after Shego stood up and gained her bearings, she lost them again as Kim viciously dive tackled her, and pinned her in exactly the same fashion as she had just done to her not 3 minutes ago. “You wouldn't know anything about it!” Kim growled.
“Oh really?” countered Shego.
“Yeah-” Kim said, snarling a grin (if that's even possible) “- only the good girls get dates!”
“Who says I want a date?” Shego replied. She finally got an arm free. CRACK! She punched Kim hard, snapping the redhead's face up like a case of whiplash. But instead of Kim sailing backwards like Shego had when Kim kicked her, the girl stayed put.
“Aww, whatsa matter, Shego?” Kim said, upon seeing the look on Shego’s face. “Surprised at how I can stay where I am? Though, I will admit that was a good punch…”
Shego was surprised, yes - but she was also happy: this was turning out to be one hell of a fight already. Easily one of their top brawls ever. She decided to make it even better. She twisted her mouth into a taunting smile as she looked up at Kim. “Man, you must be really angry.”
Nerve.
“Lemme show you how angry I AM!” Kim exploded – then, to Shego’s complete surprise, picked her up and hurled her into a bank of monitors, which exploded in a shower of shattered glass, sparks, and steel.
Shego stopped her eyes from rolling out of her head.
“Okay, mental note: Kim's angry…”
“TITANS! GO!” Robin hollered at his teammates.
Kim stopped. “Why does that sound familiar?” She’d heard that before. Hadn’t she?
With a glistening SCHINGSCHINGSCHINGSCHINGSCHING, Starfire's starbolts tore up the floor as she, Robin, Beast Boy, and Cyborg attempted to take Slade down. But somehow he dodged all the blasts. “WHERE'S RAVEN?” Robin screeched. “I don't know!” said Beast Boy, after changing back from a pterodactyl. “She was right behind me last time I checked!”
Drakken & Ron shrieked, ducked, and freaked out as errant starbolts slammed down by them.
“I think it's time I got out of here!” Drakken proclaimed.
“You know, Dr. Drakken,” chimed in Ron, “normally, I wouldn't want to admit that you're right, but - I AGREE WITH YOU TOTALLY!”
Screaming, the two ran towards the hole in the wall – at which point the entire room was encased in what seemed to be moving darkness.
Kim, just about to make Shego permanently stuck in the monitor bank, stopped. Shego, prying herself out, looked around. “Hey, who turned out the lights?”
“Shego,” asked Drakken, “you did pay the electricity bill this month, didn't you? Shego?”
Shego was about to berate him when the moving darkness receded – into a towering figure right in front of Ron and Drakken – with a grey-skinned face, glowing white eyes, and wearing a flowing dark blue cape. However, underneath that cape was all more of that moving darkness.
“Going somewhere?” Raven asked the males standing in front of her
Ron & Drakken screamed in terror – too much terror, apparently, as the next thing they did was promptly faint.
Raven returned to her normal self and sighed, shaking her head as she looked at them. “Men.”
“Yeah, tell me about it, sister,” Shego said. “Hey, why have we stopped fighting?” Kim asked her. “Uh, I don't know,” said Shego. “Good question.” Kim had a point… “Well, let's get back to it.” Kim grinned a nasty grin. She had bruises, but for the first time, she wanted to bleed. “I still haven't wiped the floor with your face.”
BAM! She punched Shego, and another brawl between them began.
Raven didn’t understand. She’d come here to take down Slade. Who was this other girl and woman who were fighting? And why did the woman seem to have the same powers as Starfire?
“ROBIN! WHO ARE THEY?” Raven asked, pointing at the fighting Shego and Kim.
Robin wasn’t really in the spot to answer any questions. He leapt off T-Rex Beast Boy's back and hurled some explosive discs at the same time Cyborg fired his sonic cannon and Starfire chucked some more starbolts at Slade.
“It doesn't matter, Raven!” Robin said, still chasing after Slade. “Get-”
“OOF!” was Raven’s reply as Slade slammed into her.
Slade looked back as he passed the grey-skinned girl. “Sorry, Raven - I'm in a bit of a hurry.”
Shego, in the middle of fending off a choke attempt from Kim, had a sudden revelation. “Waitaminute - did that green kid just turn into a green T-Rex?” she asked. “I think so,” said Kim. Shego shrugged. Fighting Kim, there was no time to be distracted. “Oh, well.” BAM! She popped Kim in the jaw with an uppercut. Kim returned the favour with a swift kick to the face. “Ugh!” Shego grunted, falling backwards.
Not far away, Drakken came to. He groaned as he sat up.
“Augh…Shego, did you get the licence plate number of that cement truck-”
“Azarath, Metrion, ZINTHOS!” cried Raven.
Drakken looked up just in time to see Raven encase the Supernova Death Ray device he had built with that moving darkness that scared the piss out of him earlier. Only now there was just a grey-skinned girl in a dark blue cape and a black leotard.
Drakken was utterly confused. “Who are you and what are you doing to my Supernova Death Ray?”
Raven didn’t answer. Her mind was on another person entirely. Using her telepathic powers, she tossed the dark-energy encased Supernova Death Ray device at the hole in the wall, destroying the machine utterly and completely - but blocking up the hole fairly well.
Drakken screamed. “MY SUPERNOVA DEATH RAY!” He nearly cried into his hands. “Ohhh, that took me dang near a month to build! And for once, I actually followed the instructions manual!” Then he actually began to sob.
Meanwhile, Ron also came to. “Wow, I musta hit my head pretty hard,” he said as he sat up.
Drakken had seen enough. “That's it, I'm getting out of here!”
He pressed a button on a remote control he fished from his coat. His hover machine soared down to him from its hidden position, and he nimbly jumped onto it. The entire roof opened.
“Come, Shego!” Drakken called.
Shego blocked a spin-kick from Kim. “Uh-uh. I ain't done here yet, Dr. D!”
“What? Shego! Here! Now! Escaping?” Drakken protested.
Slade looked up at the hover machine. He almost seemed to grin under his mask. Dodging the incoming beak of the dive-bombing green falcon, he effortlessly grabbed a hanging rope, swung off it, and landed on the hover machine with a thump. Drakken spun around at the intruder. “Excuse me, but this is MY escape c-OOF!” he exclaimed as Slade popped him in the gut, sending the blue-skinned villain slamming right back onto the ground – with his back. “Ow.”
“Come, Shego!” Slade suddenly barked.
Shego was too busy. She didn’t look behind her. “I told you, Dr. D, I ain't-”
Slade swooped down and picked Shego right out of Kim's grip.
“HEY!” Kim screamed.
“What the - Hey!” Shego yelled as she saw who had nabbed her. “Get your filthy, slimy paws off of me, candy-corn face!” she bellowed at the masked man in the hover machine with her.
“Now, Shego,” Slade said, in that same relaxed, calm manner, “That hurts my feelings.” Shego couldn't believe it. How the flying hell could this guy stay so calm despite all the crap that was going on around him?
“Oh yeah?” Shego said. She knew she could take this guy down. “Hurt THIS!” she cried, going to fire a green blast at her captor - but her special gloves weren't on her hands! “Huh?” She looked at her bare palms, stunned. What the hell? She’d been wearing them seconds ago!
Now Kim was angry. “STOP HIM! STOP HIM!” she cried. Nobody was taking Shego away from her right now – especially not while she was still in the middle of a fight with her.
“Azarath, Metrion, ZINTHOS!” cried Raven, encasing the open roof in dark energy.
But it was too late. Slade shot out the open roof and soared away into the night.
“Ta-ta, Titans!” said Slade, looking over his shoulder. “Oh, and Kim?” Shego could’ve sworn he smiled under his mask. “Thank you - for showing me to my next apprentice!”
Shego’s eyes went wide.
“Apprentice?”
END ACT TWO