The doors finished opening. Revealed behind them were:
Twenty gigantic robots holding up some huge mallets. In between the robots: A force made up of about one hundred Drakken henchmen; One hundred Slade-Bots; and one hundred HIVE-Bots. Just as Drakken had said. Everyone assessed the opposition. The Drakken henchmen had arrow-tipped energy lances, and the Slade-Bots have laser blasters - same with the HIVE-Bots.
“Ok,” Robin said. “Starfire, Cyborg, Raven, Beast Boy, and Shego - you go for the giant robots.”
Cyborg charged up his internal weapons grid. “Oh, I'm takin’ those down…”
Kim threw her arms down and out to the side, the clawed gloves scraping each other on the way down, making a SCHING! like two swords scraping. She lowered her head and glared fire at their opponents. “Just give me all of Drakken's henchmen!” The venom she spat along with her words surprised even herself. “You guys can take on all the toasters.”
“Whoah, Kim?” Ron noted. “That sounded…Shego-ish.”
“And that’s a bad thing?” Shego spoke at the same time as Kim – however, Shego accented the pointed by firing up her green energy.
“At the moment?” Ron backed away from the women. “No.”
“All of you shut up and stay ready!” Cyborg charged up both his sonic cannons. “I’d rather they be the ones to make the first move – not us.”
For some reason, Kim was extremely annoyed by Cyborg’s notion. “Why?” she asked, sounding quite spiteful. Even Shego looked a little shocked at Kim’s remark. Which was weird, because as they were disguised as each other, it meant that the shocked face was Kim’s face and the spiteful face was Shego’s. Had they been able to switch their voices, too, it wouldn’t have seemed anywhere out of place at all…
“Uh, because we’re the heroes, maybe?” Beast Boy asked.
“HERE THEY COME!” Ron screamed, pointing.
Everyone looked up - and leapt back as a wall of fiery rocks slammed down onto the already pummeled and jagged terrain. The flames ripped through the air. The smoke rose to the stop of the cavern.
Ron looked at the smoking fireballs. “Or they're firing - fiery things at us.”
Using the blue energy, Shego picked one of the fireballs. “Well, let's RETURN THE FAVOUR - HRRAH!” she bellowed as she spun around and heaved it at a random giant robot. The rock smashed through the machine's chest plate. The robot fell, smashing some Slade-Bots in front of it.
Kim ran forward – or would have, had Shego not grabbed her shoulder. “Wait, Kimmie!” For reasons not fully known, Kim was furious. Why the hell would Shego stop her like that? Kim had just watched Shego kill Aviarius not ten minutes ago, and now she was trying to stop her from attacking people who were trying to kill the both of them? What the flying fuck was this sudden hypocrisy all about?
It was Ron’s shriek of “MISSILES!” that answered that question for her. She looked back and saw that the giant robots’ pilots had decided to fire about every missile in their armories at them at the same time.
“Raven!” Robin yelled.
Raven nodded. She had already started to chant when he’d said her name. “Azarath, Metrion, ZINTHOS!” She threw up a massive dark energy shield. The missiles exploded against it like firecrackers on cocaine and speed.
“CHARGE, YOU IDIOTS!” Drakken screamed into the intercom microphone.
Drakken’s voice rang over the hidden speakers in the cavern. “CHARGE!”
The Slade-Bots and HIVE-Bots started firing like wild at everyone.
Raven kept her shield up while the laser blasts bounced off.
“Hey, Kimmie!” Shego tapped on Kim’s shoulder.
Kim looked at her. “Huh?”
“Crack your knuckles like this:” Shego told her, snapping her fingers to crack her knuckles. Kim didn’t know why Shego was telling her something like that now, but she tried to repeat the action. And promptly failed. But it was no big. She tried again, this time succeeding - and the clawed gloves sparked into a green plasma flame.
“Oh, hell yes.” Kim looked at Shego. Vintage Shego, this was, Kim grinned - always hiding something. It figured she’d have done something like that - adding more power to the power she already had. “Shegee, you sneaky little…”
Shego grinned. “Aren't I?”
Meanwhile, Raven was beginning to struggle with maintaining the shield. Her energy was draining, and the laser blasts were from machines that didn’t get tired. “C-can't hold this shield m-much longer!”
“Alright, y'all,” said Cyborg. “This is the time where we show what we can do! Starfire! Give ‘em the Welcome Mat!”
“I shall do so gladly!” said Starfire, and immediately began charging up an enormous starbolt.
The Slade-Bots and HIVE-Bots charged forward, the Drakken henchmen staying back.
Raven's shield broke--
-- and Starfire launched the nuclear starbolt with as much force as she could, digging up the ground and sending robots and their parts flying - as well as conjuring a choking cloud of dust. Laser blasts rained down through the dust as everyone charged into the thick of war.
Starfire picked up Cyborg and soared through the air, dodging the seemingly impossible amount of laser blasts that zipped through the air. As they neared the giant robots, slots in Cyborg's shoulders flipped up, and he fired a bank of his own missiles at the giant robots from them. After the missiles were off, Starfire tossed him onto another giant robot off to the right as she peeled off towards another one off to the left. The two Titans and Cyborg's missiles all hit their targets at exactly the same time, all smashing into the giant robots’ center torso areas. The three giant robots crashed to the ground.
Robin and Red X played hopscotch with the Slade and HIVE-Bots. Robin chucked two birdarangs through them, decapitating all of the robots they hit, while Red X fired some sharp red ribbons from the suit that took the robots’ legs out.
Beast Boy turned into a Triceratops, lowering his head. He barreled through the crowd of Bots like a green locomotive with no brakes - his horns and neck frill acting like a cowcatcher, deflecting pieces of robots high into the air away from him.
Ron went into Full Monkey Mode, plowing through the Slade-Bots and the HIVE-Bots with a viciously reckless abandon. Rufus chittered angrily at him - and then grinned cheerfully as Ron used him as a shuriken, the naked mole rat biting through the robots with his sharp front teeth.
Kim leaped and twirled right over the all the charging robots, ignoring them. She had no desire to fight simply machines. She glared more fire and headed straight for the Drakken henchmen.
Shego was right behind her, using the blue power as she hopped and skipped over the top of Bot after Bot - the super strength making her feet crush the heads of the Bots she leapfrogged off, leaving behind a trail of decimated robots in her wake.
Kim finally reached the Drakken henchmen. Five of them instantly tried to pop her with their energy lances - but Kim just sliced the lances in half with the clawed gloves almost laughed. “Aw, c’mon-” she sneered at the henchmen. “You’re gonna have to do better than that, Bubs.” The little skirmish then promptly became an all-out bloodbath as she proceeded to go apeshit ballistic on them all. The first henchman of the five found his head suddenly turned into a Shishkebab as Kim jumped up on him and dug her hands into it, the claws of the gloves going right through his skull, the blood spurting. She played orange juicer next, using his head as a balance point as the other four henchman tried to attack her, doing some - literally - bloody handstand dancing, the clawed gloves punching through the first henchman's head like a fork again and again as she slashed two henchmen and snapped the third's neck. Then she used the first henchman's head like a gymnastics pommel horse, swinging down around and delivering a swiftly forceful kick to the fourth henchman's face, smashing in his eyes. She ripped her gloved hand out of the first henchman's head upon exiting the move. Blood sprayed from the puncture wounds and the body plopped down behind her as she landed and moved on to the next group of henchmen. Now she knew why Shego loved the green-and-black jumpsuit so much – it just moved with her body. She had so much freedom as she took out the next arriving batch of Drakken henchmen.
Shego split off from Kim as Raven swooped down next to her. Raven pointed to one of the giant robots looming up ahead of them. Shego shook her head furiously – one measly robot was not enough. She pointed to ten of the giant robots. Raven didn’t seem to get it - until Shego used the red power to make seven copies of herself. As Shego began to infuse all of her copies with a mixture of the blue and green energies, Raven started powering up her dark energy.
One of the robots’ pilots spotted them approaching and started swinging his machine's massive metal mallet down at them.
“AZARATH, METRION, ZINTHOS!” Raven sent the dark energy charge through the legs of two of the giant robots in front of her. Shego and her copies punched through the legs of the other eight giant robots. All ten giant robots toppled to the ground. Shego was satisfied - until she spotted that the metal mallet that had been swinging at them had now gone airborne - and was heading towards a flattening of a completely oblivious Kim – who was far too occupied, hacking her way through a circle of Drakken henchmen.
“KIMMIE, LOOK OUT!” Shego screamed, not knowing if Kim could even hear her over the din of the battle.
But Kim heard her, loud and clear. She looked up - and leapt backwards as the metal mallet slammed into the ground, squashing the brains - and the bodies - of the Drakken henchmen she was fighting. Shego snatched Kim up as Kim was about to crash into the ground head first. “Thank you,” Kim gasped.
“I don't need any praise to save you.” Shego punched a Drakken henchman coming up behind her as she set Kim down gently, sending him about five feet backwards.
Ron backflipped like a - cheerleader - up to the two as more Drakken henchmen spotted them and closed in on their position. The three formed a back-to-back-to-back defensive circle as the Drakken henchmen tightened in their circle around them.
“Ladies.” Ron acknowledged them, looking over his shoulder.
“Ron. By the way, nice approach when you came up there,” Kim praised him. “That was a beautifully executed cheerleader move, you know?”
Ron grinned “Thanks - been workin’ on that… Now-” He assumed a pre-fight stance. “What say we show these guys some much more painful moves? You two with me?”
The women nodded. Ron began yelling ballistically, and the three of them sprung at the Drakken henchmen. Kim slashed the eyes of two of them and hopped off into the air as two energy lances were swiped at her – both of them easily missing her by about a mile. Each. Shego kicked off one henchman - using the blue power so her foot imploded his face, and twisted over another - snatching his energy lance from him as she fired a blast of green energy into his eyes, killing him instantly. She tossed the energy lance to Ron. Ron caught it, spun - and rammed the energy lance right through the crotch of the last henchman in the circle as the women effortlessly stuck their landings right beside him.
Both Drakken and Brother Blood cringed in utter pain as they heard the bloodcurdling shriek of pain from the crotch-pwned henchman.
“Ouch…” Drakken said.
Blood shook his head, tsking. “Ooh, that's gotta hurt.”
“That is definitely not the prettiest way to go out,” added Drakken.
Brother Blood sighed. “No, it is not.”
They looked at Slade - who hadn't even moved or said a word about the situation at all. Slade's eye darted up to Drakken. “What?”
“You don’t have any opinion on this at all?” Drakken asked him.
“It was excellent teamwork. Very well executed. Perfect timing. And certainly not an attack I would have thought of.”
Drakken smacked his head in frustration. Blood hid a smirk from him. “Hey, you're the one who asked him.”
Drakken just sighed. “Oh, shut up.”
Cyborg had leaped over to another giant robot. As the robot’s pilot flailed his machine’s arms up over its head in an attempt to find its most elusive hitchhiker, Cyborg climbed down its back and kicked in the entrance door at the giant robot’s torso. There was a commotion inside. Then the giant robot turned around, its back facing the cavern - and the pilot was thrown out, screaming as he plummeted into the sea of war far below.
The pilot landed nearby where Robin - his bo staff out - and Red X - with spinning knife blades out – were fighting their way through the remaining armed robots.
“X – RUN!” Robin yelled as he threw his special grenade into the air, and he and X dove behind a ten-foot high piece of rubble, just in time.
BOOM! Robot pieces sailed over their place of hiding.
Beast Boy had turned into a T-Rex - and he mowed through three giant robots. He was sneaking up behind the next one, ready to pummel it into oblivion - when Cyborg suddenly appeared on its shoulder.
“Yo, B! Chill!” Cyborg yelled. “This one’s under my control!”
The green T-Rex halted its charge. Beast Boy turned into a hawk and flew right over to the shoulder of the giant robot. “Nice, Cyborg. Nice,” said Beast Boy once he’d turned back human.
They both heard a war cry and turned around - to see Starfire rocketing towards the last two remaining giant robots not in their control. Her eyes were crackling green as her fists blasted through the torso areas of the final robots.
The robots fell - Kim, Ron, and Shego all backflipping out of the way, in a way that looked incredibly coordinated even though it wasn’t. Kim and Shego wiped Drakken henchman blood off the other's face. “Too bad we didn’t think to bring us a towel,” Shego joked.
“Um, Shegee-”
Shego sighed, knowing what Kim was about to say. She checked all the pockets on the tool belt – and found some towels in one of them.
“Ah, much better.”
“Hey,” said Kim, “hand me an extra one so I can get the blood off these gloves, too.” Shego tossed Kim another towel. “Thanks, Shegee.” Shego looked at her – and smiled. They had done it. They had done it together. The hardest part was over. But now came the worst part: Confronting Wade.
Ron surveyed the scene. “YES! VICTORY IS SECURED - well, almost…” he added, knowing there were still people they needed to get to.
“C'mon!” said Robin.
They raced through the huge doors below the bank of massive monitors - Cyborg in the giant robot.
The flames in the cavern fell away as they went.
END ACT TWO