96 Chapter 73

The Bioship arrived in a parking lot outside of a blue tower with the highest end of technology. The tower, as it were, resembled a giant "T" and stretched high into the sky. The ship opened up, with Superman coming out of the ship, followed by Aquagirl, Kid Flash, Robin, Wondergirl, Aquagirl, Miss Martian, Artemis, Zatanna, and White Canary. The entire gang was all here.

"You made it...each and every one of you."

Nightwing showed up from outside of the tower and she was not alone as well. An attractive group of four other women appeared alongside her. Standing right beside her, an attractive and buxom orange skinned woman with fiery red hair and green eyes appeared. Her hair stretched widely in every direction. The purple material of her costume left little to the imagination, with two small strips covering her ample breasts and then one small strip in the back covering her ass, along with a pair of thigh high purple boots.

Obviously, she did not have any modesty issues.

"Yes, Superman, we are all glad you can make it!" she yelled in an excited voice.

"This is Starfire," Nightwing said.

Starfire looked over the team, bouncing up and down in excitement. She moved to the side so the other three members of the team could be properly introduced at Nightwing's behest.

"And this is Dove."

A very attractive woman with platinum blonde hair, wearing a full bodysuit which fit her like a glove, a combination of white and blue, soft and appealing colors, walked out into the picture. She flashed them a very calm and very tranquil smile.

"It's nice to meet you all," Dove said.

"And this is Dove's sister, Hawk."

An auburn haired woman dressed in red and a sharper color of blue turned up as well. Her costume had been more built for battle, with a couple of spikes jutting out the back.

"Good to see you all could be here," Hawk replied. "If nothing, things have been a bit boring here. Haven't had as many heads to bust lately."

"Oh, is that all you think about?" Dove asked. "You know, violence is not the only answer to stopping the bad guys. We must bring peace and understanding…."

"Because that always works," Hawk said.

Two sisters, stubbornly locked into combat. Nightwing cleared her throat and brought the attention of each individual team member back into the conversation. And back more importantly towards the youngest member of the team. A goth girl dressed all in black, with purple hair, shoulder length. An understated body underneath her cloak.

"And this is Raven."

"A pleasure," Raven said.

"It's really nice to meet all of you," Miss Martian said.

"It's just going to take longer to introduce the rest of us," Kid Flash said.

"Yes, I can see that," Starfire said. "You have almost as many members of the Justice League!"

"Can't believe you're working for them," Hawk murmured. "Too soft."

Dove rolled her eyes. Yes, Hawk was not a big fan of the League and their meddling, and also their tendency to let criminals off just with simple prison time. Regardless, it was time for the Titans and the team to intermingle. Nightwing lead the way for them to step into the tower.

Thirteen heroines and one Superman could be a very combustible elements. And yet it could be very exciting in some ways, if you really thought about it.

Madison Walker, Kitten to her friends, drummed her fingers. After being suspended from Happy Harbor High, her entire social life was dead. All because those two set her up, Donna and Anissa, she believed those were her names. She leaned back and took in the stale air of the factory.

"This is a dung heap," Kitten said rolling her eyes. "You expect me to be able to do anything in here, especially with the bad network you're getting. And what's worse, the fact is.we've been waiting around for your friends forever, and they haven't showed up."

Drury Walker, Killer Moth, humored his daughter in the most good natured way possible. Although he did curse the person who thought that "Take Your Daughter to Work Day" was anything remotely approximating a good idea.

The door opened up, and speaking of daughters, two of several prominent criminals arrived. In the form of Scandal Savage and Nora Darhk. Killer Moth stood up practically straight to face them.

"Progress report," Scandal said.

"My pets are on schedule," Killer Moth said.

"Good, keep them on schedule," Nora said. "After our .friends broke you out of prison, you owe us a debt."

Madison just rolled her eyes and went back to fiddling with her cell phone and sighing. She scrolled down and the latest news about Superman flashed on the screen. Madison sighed, so dreamy, and yet so wasted by not being on her arm, as her boytoy. She thought about saving up to buying a Kryptonite dog collar and making him her own.

Amazing the things that you found on the Internet.

"And yes, we will be moving forward with the plan, Mr. Walker."

A rolling apparatus entered the room and the form of the Brain appeared. Scandal and Nora stood up straight and stared down the Brain and Walker extended his hand.

"My sources have informed me that the Justice League's young associates have met with the Titans," the Brain said. "A group of fourteen protectors falling in one day should serve as a very prominent example of how to take us seriously."

"Yes, that would be perfect," Walker said. "The first wave is ready."

Now in full costume, Killer Moth was going to prove that the world would not treat him as a joke. Wiping out two generations worth of heroes in one fell shot was the perfect way to gain him some respect. Thoughts, a tingling feeling, and rapid enjoyment spread through Killer Moth as he almost had his hand on the trigger.

"You're not going to be taken seriously in that dumb outfit," Madison said. "Because, seriously, that dumb outfit is very dumb."

Scandal stared over at the woman.

"What are you staring at?" Madison asked.

"You should have your own uniform," Scandal said. "Wouldn't you agree?"

"Yes," Nora said.

"And it just so happens that I have a uniform that would fit the little darling just nicely," Scandal said. "It is something special. Something that she would stand out in."

Madison Walker squealed madly. If there was anything that she loved, was something special and something standing out in the crowd. She could not wait to get this uniform on and be ready to stand out.

Donna and Hawk, or Holly as they found out her real name was, circled each other in one of the training rooms of the tower. The two fought each other, with Holly's punches soaring over the head of the Amazon. She did not care she was losing, but rather, she had a chance to fight someone.

"My team is great to watch my back," Holly said. "But, no offense to them, other than Nightwing, they aren't the best hand to hand. But, with their powers, they don't need to be. And Dawn's a good enough healer as well."

"Make sure not to put too much into those punches," Donna said. "Great, I sound like my sister."

"Wonder Woman?" Holly asked.

"Yes, Wonder Woman."

Sara watched Hawk and Wondergirl spar. She wanted a piece of the winner in more ways than one. Kid Flash and Artemis also hung around behind her.

"Pretty high end compared to the cave," Kid Flash said.

"And the League doesn't tell them where to go," Artemis added.

Harry just looked pretty thoughtfully out into the distance. Nightwing put a hand on his shoulder and stirred Harry's attention all the way back down to her.

"A penny for your thoughts?" Nightwing asked.

"Well, just thinking about everything," Harry said. "There's rumors that the League is having a membership drive and.."

"They're going to recruit you for the League?" Rebecca asked. "To be fair, you're worth it...hell, they wanted me to join...last go around. It was right after that I went my separate ways from him, I met Kory, and then Holly and Dawn joined later, and then after that we came across Raven,there's been a couple of others who have come and gone...and have been lost...but you get the gist of it."

Harry could tell that Rebecca was referring to the entire Amazon virus incident.

"You turned the League down then?" Harry asked.

"Yeah, I did," Rebecca said. "I feel like they wanted me on the Team for all of the wrong reasons. And I also feel it was his way of trying to...make right what went wrong. But...things never change."

Rebecca heard enough about the simulation incident to be disgusted about it. She knew Bruce tested it several times over. But there was a difference between testing a simulation and it actually being safe enough.

"Your ship is pretty neat," Dawn said.

"Thanks," Megan said. "So you and Hawk are sisters…."

"Yeah, we're at each other's throats all of the time," Dawn said. "She just won't back down from her ideals.but, if I'm in trouble, she'll have my back, despite our differences. I guess that's what matters."

Raven sat a little bit off to the side and Zatanna came up to her. She had been a bit withdrawn and quiet around people.

"Another magic user?" Zatanna asked.

"Yes," Raven said.

"So, your father or your mother?" Zatanna asked. "For me it was both."

"I try and take more after my mother," Raven said. "But my father left his mark. He left my mother before he was born .and my mother..she...she could no longer give me what I needed. So I can here...trying to find out a way to control what I had."

Raven had gotten a lot better in the year since she had arrived at here. After she summoned a very dangerous fire demon to San Francisco because some hoodlums had hassled her. However, her emotions always had been raw, and today, she had felt strange when in the presence of Superman.

Something was calming about his aura, but yet, it struck her as odd. Raven did not know what to make about this new emotion.

"Raven, isn't it?"

Speaking of the man, he looked up.

"How are you doing?" Harry asked.

"I'm fine," Raven said. "It's just been a long last couple of weeks but nothing has happened...and I just feel there's something in the air...and…"

Her slow monotone faded off, when suddenly an alarm echoed from outside of the Tower. Nightwing and Aquagirl both rushed to the tower, with the other members of the Titans and Team arriving.

"Oh, my they don't look too happy," Starfire said.

An army of giant moth creatures descended on the people of the city. The combined group of Titans and the Team all nodded to each other and prepared to move out.

"We need to split into three factions to take them all out," Aquagirl said.

"Right," Nightwing said. "What I was thinking. Starfire, come with me, White Canary, Miss Martian, and Raven. Hawk and Dove, you're with Superman, Artemis, and Kid Flash. The rest of you are in your own group or did you want to divvy it up a different way?"

"No, perfect," Aquagirl said.

Everything would work out just right.

The giant monsters appeared at the edge of the city and some of them went to the tower. Starfire jumped up high and moved back to engage them.

"What is it you want?" Starfire asked.

A loud scream echoed and one of the moths fired some of acid like substance at the group. Starfire scattered and threw an energy bolt into the air at self defense. The Princess of Tamaran could sense something was wrong, something was very wrong indeed.

"I do not understand why these creatures would attack us," Starfire said. "But, you leave us no choice to defend our homes and take you down!"

Raven, joining her team on the ground stopped and she could feel something.

"They're being controlled, and they're in distress,"Raven said.

"Well, they attacked us so they're going to be in more distress," Hawk said.

She spiked one of the moths in the back after jumping on said moth's back. The moth dropped down to the ground. White blood spilled off to the side and Kid Flash rushed in, to gain a sample of the the blood from the moths. In an instant, in a blink of an eye, Kid Flash analyzed the blood.

One of the moths came towards her. A combined arrow attack and canary cry from both Artemis and White Canary resulted in the moths coming down.

"So, what's the deal with the super moths?" Artemis asked.

"Kobra venom," Kid Flash said.

"You're kidding me, right?" Robin asked.

She and Nightwing crossed each other. They threw explosive charges at the moths and more infected blood rained from the skies at them.

In a flash, Superman flew around and took care of all of the blood. They did not want to run the risk of the blood infecting anyone.

"Kobra Venom, really, they keep trying to replicate that formula?" Nightwing asked.

"Watch your back!" Superman yelled.

Two of the creatures tangled him up in some kind of stick substance. Harry broke free and sent the moths flying. Right when Raven caught them in an energy field and sent them flying into oblivion.

"These poor creatures, they never had a chance," Dawn said.

"I would agree," Miss Martian said. "They just want someone to put them out of their misery."

Kid Flash took out three of the moths as they moved towards her with a cyclone attack. The rush of adrenaline from taking out this threat had been short-lived upon more of the moths dive-bombing down onto the ground and taking ahold of Kid Flash. Kid Flash broke out of the attack.

The combined forces of the Titans and the Team cut down the number of moths coming at them in no time flat.

A sullen look flashed over Kitten's face showed she had not been too particularly happy. Especially considering Nora and Scandal had decided that her uniform had been a French Maid's outfit. She walked around, looking at the view screen. The combined heroes make short work of her father's disgusting creations.

"They're stupid," Madison said. "Really, dumbest criminal plot ever! .Giant moths! And they didn't even do anything! .Your stupid criminal scheme is stupid!"

"That's nice dear," Scandal said. "Go fetch us a cup of coffee."

"I'm not fetching you a cup of coffee!" Madison howled.

"I insist."

Scandal withdrawing a blade resulted in Kitten scrambling. Nora just chuckled in bemusement and almost wanted to strangle the girl for making her miss Superman perform a death defying move to take down six of the moth creatures at once. The vital signs had been going down on them.

"My poor babies, what did you do to my poor babies?" Killer Moth asked.

"Calm yourself," Brain said. "The test run has gone down. Now we must move to phase two."

The Team and the Titans liberated one of the moths. They crowded around, with Raven moving close. Miss Martian put her hand on the creature and read it's primal mind. Which knew nothing other than pain and despair as it struggled to keep its thoughts from breaking up.

"It's suffering," Miss Martian said. "The life span of one of these creatures, it's not long."

"Maybe we should put it out of its misery," White Canary said.

"It might be advisable," Raven said.

The anguish this moth gave off, it was beginning to give Raven a headache. Starfire gasped and looked at the creature. She could not believe that someone would do this to anyone, not even give it a chance. Practically poison it in such an awful way, why it was almost inconceivable to Starfire.

"Is there anything...we can do?" Starfire asked.

"No," Kid Flash explained. "The Kobra Venom taxed the internal organs on the inside of the body...this creature, it had a death sentence...and this strain…"

No question about it, the strain had been far more dangerous.

"It's far more comprehension than the version with the creatures we fought in Africa," Aquagirl said. "When you were in Star City."

Superman heard about the mission of the super creatures they fought in Africa. And they continued to experiment with the Kobra-Venom. They needed to be shut down, whoever it was. Harry wondered what ends they would go to to perfect this serum.

"We'll stop them," Nightwing said.

"Agreed," Aquagirl said.

The alarms went off and there had been another attack.

"Oh, not more moths!" Wondergirl yelled.

"No, not moths," Kid Flash said. "Oh, you've got to be kidding me!"

An army of super powered gorillas showed up in front of the city, and they were not alone. They had been lead by Monsieur Mallah, the Brain's life partner.

"Great, the Brain being involved," Hawk said. "This just keeps getting better and better."

The Titans encountered the Brain and his associates a couple of times in the past. While many of the Brain's allies currently had been of the table, Brain obviously got his resources.

"Gorillas, it would have to be gorillas," Kid Flash.

"Two flanks of them," Hawk said before turning to Nightwing. "What's your play, boss?"

"Wondergirl and Kid Flash, you're with the Titans," Aquagirl said for Nightwing. "The rest of you, are with me and Superman, unless you have a problem with that."

"No, that's good," Nightwing said. "Titans, go!"

"Why don't we have a snappy catchphrase like that?" Artemis asked. This statement earned the archer her share of cross looks. "I know, I know, not the time or the place."

An army of gorillas turned up, with Hawk, Dove, Raven, Starfire, Nightwing, Kid Flash, and Wondergirl facing off against them. A loud roar from one of the gorillas announced its apparence.

"Yeah, I have had my fill of gorillas!" Kid Flash yelled. "Just ugh!"

"Just stay focused," Nightwing said.

One of the gorillas charged them. Starfire blocked the swing of one of the gorillas.

"Please don't tell me they infected these more creatures with the serum as well," Starfire said. "Whoever would do this to anyone, is barbaric!"

"On the one hand, the serum doesn't negatively affect mammals as much as it does insects," Kid Flash comments. "On the other hand, gorillas! Giant...stinking....gorillas!"

Kid Flash jumped up into the air and zipped towards one of the gorillas. The gorilla swung a large fist at Kid Flash. Kid Flash jumped high into the air and started to punch away at the back of the gorilla's neck. A shiny glint caught Kid Flash's eyes.

"Hello, what's this," Kid Flash murmured, more to herself.

Said gorilla plucked Kid Flash out of mid-air and wrapped a hand around her throat by planting her down to the ground. At least until Hawk came down with a vicious attack. Three darts came out and hit the gorilla on the side of the neck. Said gorilla staggered towards her.

"Get wrecked!" Hawk yelled.

She smashed down onto the head of the gorilla.

"There's some kind of transmitter at the base of their necks!" Kid Flash yelled.

"Of course," Nightwing said.

Nightwing jumped into the air. The point of her metal staff cracked down onto the back of the head of the gorilla. Said gorilla howled out in rage and grabbed Nightwing's staff. Starfire knocked the creature back a couple of feet with a rapid fire punch and sent him flying back several feet.

Wondergirl jumped onto the back of the creature and tried to pull the device off of the creature's neck. The energy pulse knocked her back.

"The chips have been shielded," Wondergirl said.

"Okay," Kid Flash said. "Superman, can you hear me?"

"Loud and clear," Superman said. "What can I do for you?"

"There's a chip at the base of the gorilla's neck," Kid Flash said. "But, we can't pull it off. We think there's some kind of control."

"I've got a link to one of the gorillas," Superman said. "And you're right, I'm trying to get Genesis to uplink right about now...just keep them at bay."

One of the gorillas slammed down in front of Kid Flash and Kid Flash staggered back. The monkey breath coming into her face was almost noxious as everything else. The combined force of Starfire and Wondergirl knocked the primate back and sent him crashing down to the ground.

Kid Flash would breath more easily once they stopped this invasion of monkeys.

Aquagirl burst one of the fountains of the square to the side of the stampeding invasion. The gorilla moved through the mist and tried to attack her. The sharp discs created from the water send the gorillas down.

"About thirty seconds, they'll be shocked down," Harry informed the team.

One of the gorillas fell from his perch with a Canary Cry from the White Canary. White Canary avoided the attack, with the gorilla almost smashing down onto the back of her head. Zatanna held him back and propelled him into the nearest wall, dropping down hard.

Artemis rushed up the wall and landed firmly, to shoot three arrows. Some kind of sticky glue caught the gorillas in pace. A fourth gorilla rushed towards Artemis. Miss Martian popped out of the ground and caught the gorilla off guard with a shield. Said gorilla rammed as hard as possible into the shield and crumpled down to the ground.

Suddenly, a wave of energy hit the gorillas. The chips in the base of their neck had been short circuited and the gorillas all collapsed in a heap.

Monsieur Mallah, from the distance, watched with widened eyes. He tried to make a break for things.

Mallah ran into a wall, a wall named Superman. And a blast of energy, combined with a punch knocked him down.

"So you just punched out a gay gorilla out in San Francisco?" Artemis asked. "And there's a sentence I didn't think I was going to say, today."

The gorillas had been loaded up in three transport ships for treatment. Mallah, had been moved into cuffs and brought out. Black Canary and Wonder Woman turned up to oversee the transfer process.

"So, the League can handle it from here?" Nightwing asked coolly.

"Sorry about the lack of timely assist," Wonder Woman said. "There was another attack on the East Coast."

"Someone had to coordinate these attacks," Nightwing said. "That can't be a coincidence."

Diana would have to agree. This was not the first time two coordinated attacks, if not more had happened. The people behind this had resources.

"We have Mallah," Black Canary said. "And with him off of the table, tracking down Brain would be a lot easier."

"Yes," Harry said. "Although the animals that were lost…."

"I know," Black Canary said. "The League's making it high priority to shut down this entire operation...the people behind this are dangerous."

"As is the Team," Aquagirl said.

"As are the Titans," Nightwing responded.

Black Canary and Wonder Woman just smiled. They would have to give a statement about today's events. The Titans and the Team were able to move more freely, without the public scrutiny the League had. They hoped for their sake, it would stay this way.

"So, should we go now?" Starfire asked. "We were mingling nicely earlier before all of this could happen. It would be a shame if that just stopped right now."

"Yes," Nightwing said. "But, I would like to talk to Superman, the rest of you should get together."

Nightwing's eyes traveled over Superman. Harry understood Rebecca's intentions right away and followed her separately from the rest of the group.

"Oh, she just had to be first in line, didn't she?" Hawk asked.

"Yes, she's going to make with the sex with Superman," Starfire said.

The team almost stopped short at Starfire's words as Nightwing and Superman disappeared into the tower. It had been obvious what Rebecca and Harry were about ready to do. And there was no real stopping it to be honest.

As far as Starfire was concerned, sex was one of the best ways of strengthening the bonds of friendship. And perhaps some time, she could be very friendly with Superman, but today was Nightwing's turn and she respected her companion's desires to be bedded.

And even a part Kryptonian would be amazing in bed. Although Starfire would not wait to get to the actual bed.

"She's not very subtle is she?" Artemis asked.

"No," Raven said. "She's not."

To be honest, Raven could sense they were going to get together today. It was not a matter of it, and it was a matter of when. And Raven's mind went wild with images of Superman taking her into his strong arms and doing so much more. The energy tingled through Raven.

No, Raven had to keep under control. Letting her emotions run wild meant bad things could happen. Especially as the clock ticked down to her sixteenth birthday.