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Chapter 20 - chapter 20

Jump City

Robin

As Robin parkoured across the rooftops, he shot his grapple hook gun at the nearest skyscraper; below, he heard the distinct scream of people, the kind that was out of fear. As he swung himself down to the street below, a few aliens were aiming their weapons at the civilians and firing at any that fled.

Robin gritted his teeth in anger, seeing innocent people get shot down, "Hyah!" Robin yelled as he jumped out of his swing, flipped through the air, and uncurled his legs to land a foot into the skull of the alien.

A loud metallic smack of his metal bottom boot connecting with the aliens skull, accompanied by the sound of bones crunching, echoed within the general area, before the alien himself was sent flying off into the back of a semi truck trailer; the metal itself cave in from the alien's body impacting it, leaving the scene of the alien himself now just having his head caved inside the trailer, while the rest of his body hung loosely outside.

As Robin landed, he pressed himself up from the street with the help of his palm against the asphalt and whipped out his collapsible metal bo-staff; Robin spun for a second above him, before he leapt over to the nearby alien before either of the two could react in time after the two were in the midst of recovering from looking where their fellow ally was kicked off to.

Robin slammed his staff into the face of the alien, "Hragh!" He yelled, making the alien's head snapp to the side, before Robin spun on his heel to roundhouse kick the city invader off from his feet.

The alien let out a scream of pain as he went flying into a nearby car, caving in its door in the process; the alien tried to move, before collapsing from the blunt trauma he received to his face.

The last Alien yelled a guttural roar before firing his laser gun at Robin.

Robin reacted in the nick of time as he leapt up into the air, leaving the space empty for nothing the alien to shoot at, unless he aimed up; Before the Alien was able to correct his aim up at the incoming form of Robin, the young former sidekick was already on him.

Robin landed both of his metal clad boots into the chest of the alien, cracking a few ribs in the process, or perhaps chitcan, whichever the case was, Robin's ears heard cracking as he landed a double foot kick into the alien's chest.

The alien himself let out a strangling noise of pain, before he was launched across the street and into a sign, the sign itself bent over from the sheer force and weight the alien's body was forced into.

As Robin stood up, he analyzed his situation, before he quickly looked up after hearing a brief scuffle; above him, a girl with exotic looking attire with black hair, was in the middle of punching one of the aliens in the air with the assistance of those winged jetpack looking things on their backs.

The girl herself punched another one out of the air, before tackling one down to the street below, just a few yards away from him. A loud cracking boom of asphalt echoed around him, along with a thin cloud of asphalt getting launched into the air.

Robin narrowed his eyes, making some sense of this situation; he needed to figure if this less looking alien girl was potentially an enemy as well. While she was indeed fighting the aliens that were invading the city after chasing down the other ship, he was wary of her, considering the strength she possesses, alongside a number of other things.

Robin kept his grip on his staff firm, and waited for the girl to step out from the small crater she created from tackling the other alien into the street. His eyes focused on the form of the female alien girl step out from the dirt cloud while it dissipated away.

The girl looked over at him, and smirked, before she walked over to him, "And here I wasn't expecting Earth Boys to look cute as you." She smugly remembered, while Robin was unable to understand what she was saying in her foreign tongue.

Robin narrowed his eyes and stepped back to hold his staff threateningly at the alien girl, "Stop, I don't understand what you just said, but-"

Whatever Robin was about to say next, was cut off as the black haired girl was instantly inside his guard, and grabbed him by the back of his head, and pulled him for a kiss to the lips. Robin's eyes widened, "hmmmph".

Before Robin could react any sooner, the girl released her grip on his hair, and pushed him away against his chest, the girl smirked, "There, that's better, I've been meaning to learn Earthen." She remarked while licking her lips, before Robin began processing that his first kiss was with an alien girl.

Robin shook his head, after his brain rebooted and glared at the black haired girl, "What was that all about!" He shouted, was this how Bruce felt whenever he faced his fem fatale rogue gallery?

The girl chuckled with mirth, before both were silenced by the bright flash of pink in the air; Both Robin and the black haired girl glanced up to see the ship that the black hair girl flew out from, along with a red headed one, was turned entirely into chocolate. While Robin couldn't find the words to form the right sentence.

Shortly afterwards, the entire ship began cracking, before the entire thing broke apart with caramel and marshmallows flowing down into the city streets. Robin's eye twitched, uncertain how to comprehend that such an act was possible, that Pink alien Buu had to have been the culprit.

He was right too, as he saw the distinct form of Buu himself speaking with the other girl that exited the damaged ship that had just been turned into a gigantic hollow piece of chocolate with gooey caramel and marshmallows inside of it.

"I can't imagine how extensive the cleanup will be." Robin muttered to himself, unsure how to face the fact that he had just witnessed an entire ship get turned onto one thing, and see the sight of a waterfall-like sight of falling caramel out of the sky.

Meanwhile, the black haired girl spoke as her fellow female alien flew down to them, "Now where have I heard of something like that happening before…" she murmured out with her hands on her hips, before she shrugged. "Eh, I'm probably just thinking of some old story…" she muttered.

Koriand'r / Starfire

As she floated down to speak with her sister, she noticed the masked teen boy that was eyeing her, making Koriand'r look at her sister, "Go on get a kiss." Komand'r offered her with a smirk, "Not the worst local I've kissed to gain a language, he's easy on the eyes too I must say." She chuckled, before launching off into the air, "I'm off to deal with our enemies, take care of the local, would you?" She hollered back.

Koriand'r shook her head at her sister's behavior, and looked kindly to the earth boy, and smiled and swooped in to grab him by the shoulders with a disarming smile, "Please hold still! We can speak after!" She tried to speak non threateningly.

The boy on the other hand tried to pull away, but a peck on the lips was all Koriand'r needed, as she kissed the boy, and released him; the masked teen stumbled back and shouted out her with his finger pointed at her, "What's with you alien girls! Is this how you say hello or something!" he yelled with wide eyes, while his cheeks were now red.

Koriand'r could help but smile and giggled at the teen's behavior, he was indeed cute, especially when he gets flustered! She palmed her hands together in apologies to the teen boy, "Sorry, but for my people, we can learn languages by connecting lips with the other alien!" she offered, giving the teen boy an apologetic smile, "I hope we can still be friends though, after this!"

Making friends on this planet would help, being on her home planet was nice, but after traveling to this planet, a few thoughts ran through her mind; one, she didn't feel like returning home after this incident was over. Losing her mother and father made the castle lose its warmth, and the more she dwelled on it, the more Koriand'r felt like she needed some time away from her homeworld.

Staying on the planet for a time would help her clear her head, afterall, her sister and brother were probably better suited for the throne; Komand'r in particular seemed more than particular to want the throne, but Koriand'r was unsure if her sister was mentally all there yet to be Tamaran's Queen.

Then again, her sister was the most 'mature' of the three of them…

Koriand'r hovered back away from the teen boy, and smiled while her hands were clasped behind her back, "Sorry, if the kiss was something that offended you!" she earnestly apologize, while the boy himself reached up to scratch at the back of his neck.

"....right…" The boy replied back, "You can just call me Robin, mind explaining to me what's going on between you, that other girl, and those aliens?" he asked her.

Koriand'r smiled excitedly, and floated back forward to be within a yard's length between her and the boy. Koriand'r palmed her chest, "You can call me Starfire, in your native tongue! My sister's is Blackfire!" she informed the boy.

Robin 'hmed' before he spoke again, "Well Starfire, mind getting me up to speed, while we head to that ship in the air?" The teen asked as he pulled out something and pressed a button, shortly before a motorcycle rolled up on its own to park beside him.

"Sure!" Starfire answered, this was going quite well between her and the local! Sure, Blackfire may have kissed him first to gain Earthen language, but her kiss with Robin felt a bit special to her. This was her first time learning a new language, maybe that was it?

Beast Boy and Cyborg

Beast Boy was in the midst of transforming into a pterodactyl, and as he completed his form to grab one of the aliens out of the air; While Beast Boy flew down while taking with him one of the alien invaders in the grasp of his talons, Cyborg charged up his hand cannon and fired one of the other aliens out of the sky while its attention was on Beast Boy.

Cyborg was a name Victor could get behind as his hero name, and been one he's been using since both him and Beast Boy rushed out to deal with the alien invaders.

Victor didn't need any other reason to protect his city, thousands were in danger, so now here he was with the assist of Beast Boy; Victor was fortunate too, since Garfield was already a hero prior.

After Beast Boy threw the alien from out of his talons, he transformed back into his human form as he landed onto his feet while the alien he threw, crashed into a brick wall. The alien growled in pain as he rushed to pick himself up, only for Beast Boy to ram into him as a Rhino.

The alien heaved in pain, before Beast Boy backed away, letting the alien collapse to the ground unconscious.

Transforming again back into his human form, Beast Boy turned around to see Cyborg in the middle of throwing an entire car at the last alien. "Catch!" Cyborg boastfully shouted, only to earn an angry shout from the alien as he dodged in time and aimed his gun and fired at Cyborg.

"Ooh boy!" Cyborg's eyes widened as he quickly dodged in time, and retaliated whilst he stood on his knee and foot, keeping one hand on his arm as he aimed his hand cannon at the enemy, "Try mine on for size!" he shouted as his blue beam shot out and hit the alien dead center in his face.

"Kyaack!" The alien screamed in pain as he was shot out of the sky, and crashed into a garbage bin.

Cyborg smirked as he gave Beast Boy a thumbs up, "Booyah, what's your number, BB? I've got five so far!" He cheered, a little impromptu game he and Beast Boy made of who could take out the most enemies to save Jump City.

Beast Boy blinked, and smiled at the nickname Cyborg gave him, "Hah, hum…" He reached back and scratched at his head, before he brought his hand up to count his finger, "I think I took out…six so far?" he questioned himself, and shrugged.

Cyborg soon expressed a serious face as he took his attention to the ship in the distance that was still hovering in the air, still having the absurd picture burnt in the back of his mind of seeing an entire ship get turned into chocolate. "Okay, now we just need to address the matter of that ship. I think I saw Buu fly there." He mused.

Beast Boy tilted his head a bit in confusion, before asking "Who?"

Cyborg expressed realization, before answering Beast Boy while he turned to face him, "Oh, right, you haven't met the guy yet. Hehe, almost forgot!" He chuckled nervously.

Beast Boy shook his head, and gestured for Cyborg to 'come on', "Well, maybe we should help him if he's up there!" He then turned into a large pterodactyl that afforded him the strength for what he was about to do, "Here, I'll be the wings!" He talked in his form.

Cyborg smirked in turn, "Alright! Time to bust some more alien butt!" He announced, as he ran over for Beast Boy to fly up and grab him lightly by the shoulders with his talons, before taking off towards the space ship.

However, just as the duo were on their way to the ship that was flying above the lone island, an explosion exited out from the inside of the alien spacecraft "Huh…" Beast Boy spoke, unsure what to say yet.

Cyborg shook his head, "Come on, we need to deal with whatever threat that's left inside the ship." he reasoned, earning a nod from Beast Boy.

Majin Buu

Crashing through the hull at full speed required had definitely put the entire crew on alert. Now, I was standing in the midst of several aliens of the same race, all aiming their guns at me. I looked around and counted them all, I began to debate how I wanted to dispatch these slavers…

They are slavers and raiders, right? I remember vaguely that these familiar looking aliens had something to do with Starfire's planet and race. I think somewhere, it was said that they were given Starfire's brother to get a ceasefire to happen, unsure on the details.

One of the aliens stepped forward and yelled at me, "Foolish pink one! You're surrounded by dozens of us, we'll make you regret this slight against Gordanian supremacy!" the alien yelled, before all subsequently began firing on me.

Each laser beam hit me, it felt like hundreds of flicks against my skin. Not damaging, but irritating and annoying. The only reason I let them shoot at me, was cause I wanted to see the looks on their faces once they stopped.

"He's still standing, firing secondary rounds!"

What?

I glared at them as they all switched their guns into ones that started shooting explosive rounds at me. My entire vision was filled by smoke as every alien shot at me with explosives. Felt more like someone was slapping me with brunt force, but without the stinging sensation of flesh getting smacked.

"Cease fire! He's got to be nothing but ash now!" One of the aliens shouted, allowing me to smile a bit, I was honestly just done taking it for doing this bit.

As the smoke finally cleared, every alien who expressed pride and smiles, switched instantly to horror and shock, "Buu's turn!" I shouted with a toothy smile.

"Wait-" One of them shouted, only for it to be too late.

I took up a stance with my feet apart, and thrusted my palms out beside me, sending a massive blast of ki on all direction; every single alien ended up getting sent flying into the walls, their faces empty of any signs of life, before all fell to the ship's floor in a collective sound of bodies hitting the floor.

Klaxons started blaring to life, "Warning, internal systems are failing." A mechanized voice prompted throughout the ship.

Shit, I'd have best get to the bridge, if I could find it.

Before I was able to crash through the entire ship to find the damnable bridge, Blackfire flew in through the hole I made in the hull. I looked over at her, while she looked around at the aliens before she looked down at me from her position in the air, "Huh, and to think I'd have to get my hands dirty on this ship." she mused, before staring down at me with a rueful smirk.

Damn, Blackfire looks better in person, than through the television screen.

I turned and gave Blackfire a sideways gaze, "Does Black haired girl know direction of Bridge?" That was the best I could respond to her rhetorical statement. We just met, and I didn't have any quips on my mind.

…Still, 10/10 goth/punk baddie, Blackfire is.

Blackfire smirked, "Quite so. What, plan on facing the leader." she asked, before frowning with ire written all over her face, "And the name's Blackfire, or Komand'r in Tamaran if you prefer." she glared at me.

I couldn't help but smirk at her, "What, was Wildfire taken?" I retorted, while Blackfire looked surprised.

"No, that's my brother's name. And someone I was hoping to find on this dirt ball." She answered, expressing an annoyed look afterwards.

What's next, her mother and father's names were Purplefire and Orangefire respectively or something?

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