“What the shell were you thinking?”

“Honestly, probably nothing but why let that stop me?”

She knew she was in bad shape since her glove left like it had been fished out from a river. Terra glanced up and scoffed at the monster’s mocking. She wouldn’t let his words get to her - the team had accepted her after all and she had even kicked a lot of villain butt with them so what was one mission?

The smoke settled and from the glass panes and containers, she noticed that she had just blasted the evidence room - Robin wouldn’t be happy about that.

Terra forced herself up on her feet, dropping the useless weapon, wondering what she could do to get a hit on him. “I’m here because they trust me with keeping the tower safe…and that’s what I’ll do,” she growled, before floating on a piece of rock and forming several large rock fists and throwing them towards him while she tried to get behind him.

Just then, she noticed another weapon, this time some sort of smaller gun, similar to Cyborg’s. She changed direction and flew into the evidence room, broke the glass container with one of the smaller rocks and picked it up mid-flight.

“Lights out,” she panted, charging up the gun to fire it.

She had to hold on just a little longer.

As Malware walked towards her, he stopped for a moment, and he was hit by a barrage of fists, leaving many dents all around his body. Once the fists dropped to the floor, he resumed walking towards her as the dented parts of his body started to repair themselves. 

He chuckled. “Haven’t you learned anything? You cannot damage me with your stone toys, child. A shame that you are even dumber than I expected.”

“Lights out? You are correct about that Terra. However, I’m certain that you should be speaking for yourself, and not me.” The blades on the saw changed, becoming sharper and more crude than their original form. The saw started turning at a high speed. 

Terra was still a medium distance away from him, and she was now holding a blaster that was charging. What could that weapon do? If she was going to fire it at him, he didn’t exactly want to find out. His right arm stretched and shot out, going for Terra’s arm that was holding the gun.

Terra noticed that the arm of that thing suddenly shot forward, the saw making loud noises and as she moved to the side, shot the gun at the same time at his arm that was the chainsaw.

Unfortunately, her legs were weak and she suddenly toppled backwards but managed to hold onto the gun. The surrounding was spinning briefly and Terra sucked in a deep breath before getting onto her knees.

A sudden jolt of pain, caused her to clutch the wound but she forced the pain into the background, managing to stand on shaky legs. “I-is…that all…you’ve got?” she breathed, charging up the gun a second time before firing.

Another jolt of pain rocked her body, causing her to drop the weapon. “Uurgh…”

Everything was spinning…and she knew she was close to her limit.

She fired. A little quicker than Malware anticipated, so that must mean that it couldn’t be an incredibly powerful weapon. That is a slight relief. The shot from the gun left only a small hole in the saw, but it still managed to steer it slightly off course. The saw barely missed her arm as she fell to the floor.

“Is this all I got? Ha. I assure you that I am far from done with you.” His arm retracted and returned into a normal claw, and at that moment a shot from the blaster hit him, leaving a small hole in his chest. “I almost feel bad for you. However, I will not let you get in the way of my own agenda.” He walked towards her limp body, looking around as he did so for any useful weapons as his wound quickly healed.

Ah. A taser. Malware has always wanted one of those. It makes conflicts so much more amusing. His right arm shot out at it, brought it to him, and assimilated it, replacing his hand with a slightly larger version of the weapon. “You see, I would like to kill you now. End your misery. Get rid of an annoying obstacle…” He reached Terra. “But something came up. While we were fighting, a part of me slithered off to find the information chamber, where your tower stores all of its important information. The door is locked, and there is a field in front of the door that does not allow me to go under it. It was probably made for creatures with shapeshifting capabilities like myself. Clever. However, there is a way to open the lock. A hand scan. Of course, I would not be able to open it, but you can. So instead of your death, I’m going to use you to help me…” The taser crackled with bright red electricity as it neared Terra’s stomach. “…despite your will to do so.”

Terra squeezed her eyes tighter, trying to stop the spinning in her head as she heard the footsteps of the robot-like creature nearing her…and something else.

Terra glanced up, her legs as frail as two matchsticks and saw with shock the red electricity already nearing her. “No!” she cried, lifting her arms before her hands glowed with her power once again…but the shock came too fast for her.

“Aaaaah!”

Her arms dropped to her sides as the searing pain ran through every nerve and it didn’t take long for her to drop back down like a doll. “Uuuh…no…way…am I…letting…you…” she groaned, her body having lost the strength to fight.

She couldn’t just let this thing get on the team’s secrets…even if she had been once doing the exact same thing.

This should be rather straight-forward. Take her to the lock, place her hand on it, open it, and then download all of the data. Of course, he would also kill her after that as well. He couldn’t afford to have her alive to tell her friends about their encounter. 

As Malware dragged her up the stairs to the information chamber, he felt her move a little. He quickly tased her again. Terra wasn’t going to ruin this for him. Not when he was so close.

They reached the door, and he picked up Terra’s right arm and placed her hand on the lock. The lock shined green, and the door slid open. Perfect. He dropped her arm, and ventured inside, forgetting to tase her again, due to his excitement over his achievement. 

“YES.”

Malware let out a maniacal laugh. The data would be his. All his. He would know every bit of information that the Titans had on both heroes and villains, and he would use that information against them. He would know all their powers, weaknesses, and locations. No one would be able to keep him from his goals, hero or villain. 

Malware formed around six tentacle-like growths around his body, and they extended outward, reaching as many data terminals as possible. It was only a moment before he began to access those terminals. The red markings on the tentacles glowed a bright red as he began to download the information the terminals held. Malware let out another maniacal laugh.

Terra had secretly wished that the team hadn’t trusted her with the security of their tower but of course, they would and once Malware placed her hand on the scanner, the doors slid open, revealing all the team’s secrets.

She was dropped to the ground carelessly before the creature walked over to the mainframe computer and stuck six tentacle-like structures into the ports of the computer before a bar on the screen slowly began filling.

Get up!

Her body still hurt and Terra tried to keep quiet as she struggled to get her body to move from the floor.

Get up already!

She slowly propped herself onto her elbows before crawling away from the door. Terra sucked in a deep breath, forcing her pain into the background once again, getting slowly onto shaky knees. What to do now?

He seemed to be invincible and none of her attacks worked!

Her eyes glanced around, slowly beginning to worry. Had she…let their team down? Not even any of the weapons she used worked on him!

How was she supposed to find his weakness? But then…an idea popped into her head! She might be able to save her team.

With new-found hope, she managed to get onto her legs and supported herself against the wall…already feeling too weak to stand on her own. Gradually, she approached the room and stepped inside.

“Didn’t you…forget something?” she breathed before she gathered the remaining of her powers as she fisted her hands and lifted one of them over her head.

Cracks began appearing on the ground, walls and the ceiling as pieces of the room began to crumble.

“I won’t let you hurt my friends!” she shouted before pieces of the ceiling began dropping…right towards the mainframe computer and water and gas pipes began cracking due to the damage of the collapsing debris.

Water and gas began leaking into the room and Terra swung her hand downwards, letting a larger piece of the ceiling drop towards Malware who stood in front of the computer, long since forgetting that she risked damaging the system as well.

Soon, all of the information would be his. Malware was only a few minutes away from downloading all of the information stored in the computer. 

He heard her voice behind him. No. He forgot about her. His plan was going so well, he completely forgot to make sure that she was knocked out before entering the room. The whole room began to crack, above him, the ceiling was beginning to show signs of giving way.

“NOOOO!”

Not yet. Not now. He was so close. Water and gas began to fill the room as he detached the tentacles from the computer. The ceiling began to collapse on him, breaking the floor in the process, sending him, the debris, and the water and gas down there with him. 

As the debris came down on him, it caused pieces of himself to be scattered all over the room, dripping down the walls, ceiling, and leaving small puddles on the floor. 

She never thought that screams of fear would ever sound like music to her ears. But as she approached the hole, she couldn’t help but grin to herself.

And not even the damaged computer that was sizzling with blue electricity on one side wasn’t going to ruin her mood. She just hoped not too much data was lost.

But her grin vanished, seeing the various puddles in the room and unfortunately, a sudden feeling of dizziness forced her onto her knees. “Urgh…why couldn’t Cyborg stay…and take care of you?” she groaned before supporting herself on the panel of the mainframe computer so she wouldn’t completely fall over. She rummaged in her pocket before slowly pulling out her communicator to to let the others know of her situation.

That insolent brat. Terra halted got rid of what he was mainly after, only kept Malware from getting all of the information that he was after. He only managed to get through the personal files of the tower’s inhabitants. How aggravating. At least the information he obtained would have some uses.

It took a moment for Malware to regain his control over his body. The collapse of the floor made quite a mess of himself, since he wasn’t able to separate himself very well in order to get out of the way of the ceiling rubble. However, he still had his consciousness the whole time. Of course, he didn’t say anything because Terra would have noticed, and then probably would have put him in an even more poor state.

She was occupied with her transmitter, so that left an opening for him to reform himself easily, and without interruption. Malware began to reform a few feet behind her with all of the blobs of himself that were out of her vision, then when he was in a proper spot, the ones closest to Terra and within her vision moved quickly to join the reforming mass of himself.

Once he was successfully reformed, he answered her rhetorical question. “Because, you are all too weak to take me on, haven’t you already noticed, Terra? Or should I say, Princess Tara Markov?”

Malware’s right hand formed into a saw, and it began spinning rapidly.

She had just turned on her communicator and tried to reach Robin. But after a few moments of silence, she realized that his device must have been switched off or something and now tried Cyborg.

For a moment, there was just static…but then she heard a voice and Terra’s eyes widened, hearing the villain address her by a name she hadn’t heard for a long time.

She looked up just to see a saw nearing her and Terra jumped to the side as the blade reached for her, revealing the still sizzling part of the mainframe computer.

But her fall was clumsy and she toppled onto her stomach, letting out a pained cry as pain shot up her body before slowly turning onto her back. But she didn’t have the necessary energy to get up and brought her communicator to her face to call for help.

“Guys? T-the tower i-is…in trouble,” she breathed before weakly pressing a button and thereby sending her message to the other devices. @omnitrixter

Ben wasn’t sure what was more odd. The fact that he got a foreign frequency on his Omnitrix, or the fact that Jump City never had heard of a Mr. Smoothy. He was halfway to filing a complaint on the city when he heard Terra’s message.

Eyes widened as he cast his gaze out to the T-adorned island off the shore. It’d take some time, but he could make it by air faster than walking.

Of course, the Omnitrix gave him something lacking in the wing department.

“Hold on Terra... I’m coming!” He announced before bounding his way towards the tower.

          ❝ Woo - hoo !! Let’s go to Fish Stew’s Pizza !!              This deserves a proper meal for celebration !! ❞

     Which was very true, but Steven could only really focus on hugging his dear      friend back. Whenever Ben was in town … he didn’t feel so alone. With a right      squeeze he pulled back with a soft smile as he took to standing beside the      other && head off to grab their meal. 

     Steven couldn’t have been happier && he knew the Gem’s wouldn’t mind      an addition.

Ben followed suit, hands in his pockets and looking forward to a nice big pie to devour. Maybe his guardians could join in too? He didn’t remember too much, only that there was 3 of them and one was square.

“Place hasn’t changed much, has it?” Ben wondered, seeing what he could remember from last time he stepped into town.

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          ❝ Heh … It would take a bit to talk about everything              I’ve got going on, but yeah. Maybe over something              to eat ?? ❞

     It wasn’t a secret that Ben had Alien form’s from the wrist watch device he wore,      but Steven also knew everyone in Beach City took no notice of them … Well, at      least everyone save for Ronaldo. It was nice though … To have Ben around && to      talk about what he’d been going through. No one really understood && Steven had      to deal with the loneliness that came with that.

     At the other’s mentioning of being stationed here though, he held star’s in his eyes.      The last time Ben had been in town he’d stayed with him. If what he was saying      was true, then Steven could offer his home, again. With a smile he was over the      Diamond problem as he held his hand out with a determine smile.

          ❝ && if you need a place to stay, I’m here to offer              my home to you !! If you want, of course, but it              would be really cool to have someone home              with me more. ❞

A large crystalline hand moved to slap the Omnitrix badge on his belt, green light shrinking him down into the celebrity hero himself, a big smile on his face.

“Hell yeah! That sounds great Steven! Alright, to celebrate, boardwalk food on me!” Ben would clasp his hand in the boy’s own, holding firm and pulling him in for a quick hug.

Thanks Grandpa.

     Even though he had seen Ben change into the being before him … The fact      that his name was ‘ Diamondhead ‘, kinda set a trigger off in him. Still, he tried      to not let that make the visit less then what it was. After all, Ben didn’t come to      Beach City that often.

          ❝ S-Sorry. Just been a rough year && learned a lot …              When did you get this form or is this just the first              time I’m seeing it ?? ❞

     With the casual tone, Steven’s body langue relaxed a bit. Finding his friend        hanging around the boardwalk in this form may have caught him off guard,      but he wasn’t going to let that ruing the reunion.

Diamondhead wondered if he’d shown Steven this form or not. He remembered Wildmutt, probably Astrodactyl but... that was probably it.

“I’ve had him since I was 10,” He recalled fondly, “Had a lot of training as Diamondhead. Me and my grandpa... anything you wanna talk about though?” Crystal body aside, he was still Ben. And if he could help Steven relax, then so be it. Who knows what he’s been through the last year...

“Oh, there’s a reason I’m back in Beach City... for a lot longer this time too Grandpa got me stationed here on behalf of the Plumbers so that means... I’m moving in for some time.”

Enjoy. Hell.

omnitrixter.

     BLUE EYES ROLLED as Panty considered his words. How much would she bet? Not like she had much in the first place, but she supposed she could humor him. After all, if he turned out to be some kind of demonic creature and she let him just walk away, she would end up in even more trouble than she already would be for fucking around half the day.

     NOT that she cared, but she certainly would prefer not having to sit through his speech about how her sister was out actually collecting coins, whether or not Panty was actually putting in an effort to find ghosts in the first place ( and this time she certainly had been for the vast majority of the time.

     AND so she figured she might as well see just what the guy had in mind - just what he was hoping to impress her with, her tone disbelieving and dry when she spoke, looking him over rather blatantly before she did, arms crossed in front of her chest.

     SHE would give a slight nod towards a more desolate trail between a nightclub and a bar, empty in the middle of the day aside from only the most desperate of people - all of whom she was sure wouldn’t be interrupting if he did manage to both accept and win the bet.

“Deal,” Ben wasn’t expecting that, but hell, he probably thought she was joking. She wouldn’t really do that... would she?

Playlist open on his watch, if she wanted a monster, she was gonna get a Galactic Monster. Blitzwolfer was still locked (he should ask Azimuth next chance he got about that) but with the alien set he slammed down on the plunger with a cocky grin.

Even the sky seemed to darken as a dark green and purple light enveloped him, the surrounding shadows being yanked off their objects and wrapping around his body. They suddenly sprouted frills, claws, and wings...

“Everyone’s favorite Vladat!” He spread his arms in triumph and even lifted off of the ground as he stood before her in all his glory, the sky now darker than before for the aesthetic.

“I told you~”

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omnitrixter:

Leon closed his eyes and took a low breath to clam his utter irritation with this young man “Look,” His tone had chagned to one far colder then he started off with. “You’re world is your own and it comes with challenges that are suited to someone like you to deal with. While you might be the best here, it doesn’t mean you are able to handle every other big bad that shows up. Arrogance like that will result in a heartless taking your heart and making your fallen self go after those you love. “You think you can take on a sorceress from another’s world whose magic was tainted to the point that she turns those she loves into puppets, making them slaughter friends. Have you ever smelled blood? Seen someone gutted to the point that you only see the meat inside?” He crossed his arms.

“I can respect those who put their lives on the line to protect what matters to them but what I cannot respect is an arrogant fool  who thinks they are the one and only. “

With that Leon would move to walk past the youth, back ridged and a slight twitch to his eyes that had a faint ring of amber to them.

Why would a child like that get to him? Maybe its because he had seen so many fall for not accepting their faults, seen them sacrifice their lives…

Stop. Let it pass, just keep walking.

“Practically,” 

The answer was spat out, despite him walking away before he could say it to his face, but Ben pushed more. He only heard bits and pieces replayed in his head. He wasn’t a damn fool, did this guy think he was so high and mighty? And right after he wasted his smoothie to boot?!

“You ever fight a worldwide cult? Take out some sort of “elder God” with your own bare hands? I’ve had to look myself in the eye to kick my own teeth in from other dimensions, fight assassins and bounty hunters out the ass, and see entire planets fucking MURDERED! I RECREATED THIS WHOLE DAMN UNIVERSE!”

The Omnitrix was open, playlist scrolling as Ben’s emerald glare never left the man’s back, temper rising. He was shouting now, moving towards the man with intent to show him just what he was made of, how much of a “fool” he was.

“AND YOU OWE ME A NEW SMOOTHIE!”

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omnitrixter:

“Considering your world is not my own…no I have no idea about any of those invasions let alone what those creatures are” Leon gave a roll of his eyes “and its rather arrogant to comment on saving the universe, not matter how many times. There are many out there fighting their own wars.”

“Sorceresses, Monsters, Gods, Heartless…all different kinds of enemies trying to destroy a world or many worlds.”

“Beat her, beat ‘em, don’t exist, would still beat ‘em...” Ben had never seen a Heartless he could remember, but would still kick their ass... if they had one.

“If Whisp wasn’t a monster, she’d be just as lost and screwed as you in my universe, where the real action is.”