Flying or Falling |Titans|

|XIX|

"He gave you an out, dumbass. You should have taken it." Jason said from behind Nick Zucco, and the two teens, they leapt down and tackled Nick real hard, and sending him flying over the edge.

Malia flung out her hand and made two separate shields. One to keep her from breaking her own bones and the other was to send Nick Zucco tumblin' far away from them all.

Jason kicked Nick in the stomach hard, sending the Melting Man flying away from them all.

Dick tossed his Robin symbol swiftly through the air and Clay was released from his hanging position underneath the acid. As Malia threw out her hand desperately, trying to keep up with it all, a shield caught the bouncer and it kept him from breaking his legs.

"Help Jason!" Dick shouted and Malia's hand dropped, as she let the shield go and it clearly had never even occured to Dick, that Malia had no shitting idea how to do it.

She heard multiple gunshots and she flung out her hand to stop the one that was headed for her, but failed to spot the other target until it was too late for her to stop it.

She let out a crackling roar of fury and her eyes blazed, as the Melting Man was thrown across the room. He tried to get up, but his left leg snapped and he let out a strangled cry of pain.

She made a fist and a shield that managed to spread around his leg that she had purposely left unbroken, it began to tighten.

Nick began to scream, as she continued to crush his leg bit by bit with the shield, and he sobbed in total agony.

She finally stopped slowly torturing him and just broke it hard, as he let a scream escape, that sounds like a real dying animal.

She looked back nehind her to the others and now... her vision was being tinted red, like their blood. She saw Dick, who was regretting ever being a Robin to Batman. She looked to his other side and saw Clay, who was in unbelievable agony from the acid that had touched his skin.

She saw that Jason was still on the ground and her rage exploded, as she flung out her hands and a shield, was wrapping around Nick Zucco's head.

"No! Don't!" Dick shouted rather desperately at her, seeing exactly what she was about to do and he'd charge forward in an attempt to stop her.

Malia's hands came together hard, as if she was just simply clappin' hands a friend's hand after not seein' them for a while.

Except when she did it, Nick Zucco's head turned into a pile of goo from a strength, that nobody knew, that she possessed.

Malia looked at the ruined mess of a head, and she shook her head and she walked quickly over to Jason. "I told you to not get hurt." She muttered to him and he rolled his eyes at her.

"Nice work. Dude deserves what he got." Jason said, as Dick helped him up and Malia looked at Clay, while Dick's face was distinctly upset with Malia's actions.

"Meaning a head that was crushed like an ant under a boot?" Dick asked and Malia lowered her head, looking ashamed.

Jason shakes his head at Dick's words and the cops a bunch of them had just shown up. "I'll take care of it." He said and gestured to Malia, who jogs after him quietly.

They both were waiting in the shadows, before Jason nodded and they bolted towards the cops. Jason charged directly into the fight, while Malia used shields to deflect bullets and to send the cops flying into walls and floors, even the ceiling at one of the times.

"Lights out, Bitch!" Jason screamed and he broke the spine of one of the cops over his knee, as even Malia had to turn away at that one.

After Dick had confronted him about it Jason had left and Dick was shocked to see that Malia had just, disappeared after him.

After, and only after, helping Clay back into his house and making sure that he was completely safe, did Dick call Kiara.

"Hey. About damn time." Dick sighed quietly, and he looked around at the room, trying to figure out how to say something like what it was that she'd have to hear it. "What's wrong, Dick?"

"Malia... Kiara, she left to go with Jason. She went back to Gotham City without me knowin'. I totally lost it on her and I'm sorry."

The line went totally dead and Dick felt shame prickling at his eyes, while in Chicago at the safe house Kiara was sitting on the floor of her room, as she began to sob.