Phantom Titans 2: The Wrath of Slade

Slade's Return

The one who.called himself Slade was imposing. About as tall as me, I won't spend much time describing him, but he was incredibly strong, having been choking Raven for at least a minute. "Okay, I don't care who you are. But just in case, I'm Lyle, also known as your undoing." And that's when I made my move, transforming right in front of him. "Yeah, I'm shocked too. You look like you've seen a ghost. Even 400 years in the future and I recycle that old joke." I said. I then realized that it was a fight and not a comedy club. "You're getting on my nerves" Slade said. "Okay, the monotone has to stop." I said, doing a leg sweep. "Sounding like a robot will undercut you." I said. I looked behind me at my past self's unconscious form and reminded myself why I was doing this. "I warn you, I'm more powerful than you realize." he said. "Um, Slade, is it? Give me one reason why I shouldn't pound you into a pile of goo." I said. I got my a new pretty quick as before I could turn intangible he used a katana to deliver a deep gash to my stomach. "AAH! Okay, that hurt, but you still didn't answer my question." I said as I revealed something from my bag of tricks: the Ecto-sword. Half ectoplasm, half energy, this thing would slice his katana to pieces. "I have tricks, too. You're not dealing with a regular foe. No one makes my girl scream and lives." I said, in full rage mode, the normal green of the sword now a pulsing red. I aimed right for the bottom of Slade's katana blade, only for it to not work. "Okay, I'm impressed." I said. We commenced with a sword fight that would make Jack Sparrow blush. Relentlessly slashing and blocking, we each got several good hits on each other. That's when I had an idea. "Robin, can I borrow your staff?" I asked. He nodded and tossed it over. I coupled it with my sword to make an imposing weapon. "Ready to give up yet?" I said as I added an energy blade to Robin's staff. "Not by a long shot." a voice said. My past self had finally woken up and was ready for battle. "To be honest, fighting alongside my future self would be the coolest thing ever and you're crazy if you think I'm missing out." I said. I gave the go ahead as my past self transformed and we stood back to back. "Let's do this." I said. With my future self taking the first shot, I readied a boulder for impact. "Fire away!" I exclaimed. The boulder sent Slade flying back 30 feet as the Titans acknowledged my presence. "Okay, I'm liking this, what's the plan?" BB asked. "Gorillas" I said. BB understood just what I meant as he, myself, and my future self lined up as gorillas and beat Slade just enough so that retaliation wasn't possible. If course we didn't kill him, just beat within an inch of his life. We then gathered the others and delivered a group blast that left Slade charred, but alive. "Leave. Now." I said. Slade followed orders crawling away defeated. "Well, that's the end of-- AAGH!" I felt a jolt through my body as a threat I'd never thought would find me reared its ugly head.

"You're really quite simple. Tracking you here was easy. Then all I had to do was get the Titans' most powerful foe on my side and take care of you." Plasmius said. Then he looked straight ahead. "Who're you?" he asked. "The future self of the incapacitated halfa. 400 years from now you're nothing but a jar of ashes on my dining room table." I said. "And I still have the upper hand. Robin, aim for his tendons." Soon enough Vlad was incapacitated as well. "I really hope no more villains show up to try and kill me, or us, whichever comes first." he said. "Don't celebrate yet. I have a bad feeling." Robin said. "As usual, you're right, Boy Blunder." a voice said. "Lyle...Lyle, run for it!" Robin exclaimed. "You're telling me, Lyle Fenton, to run? I don't think so. In fact, not only will I not run, I--HEY! Get your dirty mitts away from me!" I exclaimed, as I was quickly subdued by familiar figures. "God Damn it! Another restraint system?! Hey, future me, I thought the GIW were gone!" I exclaimed. "Okay, they were. I didn't consider the possibility of worldwide bases." he said. "Shut up, both of you!" the voice said. "They call me Agent J, second-in-command of the French GIW." he said. I laughed. "Pardon me, but J?! They couldn't think of anything less embarrassing like-- AAAGH!" I screamed in pain as I was electrocuted. "It stands for Jacque and no one makes fun of it, especially some brat."
he said. "I'm not just 'some brat', I'm the brat that's gonna wish you hadn't stepped foot around me. Once people like you get too close, well, you end up dead." I put emphasis on that last word to prove my point. "And how are you-- OW!" Jacque exclaimed as I sank my teeth into his arm, causing him to drop me. I spat out the chunk of flesh I managed to tear off. "Either it needs salt, or I'm too used to venison, because that was disgusting. 1 star." I said. I didn't review on Yelp or anything so that's a generous one star. "You really think that I didn't come prepared for--OW!" Jacque was holding his wrist as I'd taken my glove off to claw at his hand. "I guess I'm just gonna have to kill you. Robin, can you and the others head inside? This is gonna be messy." I said. He nodded as the others followed him to the Tower, including my future self. Erin stopped to give me a kiss. "Tear into him for me." she said. I nodded. "I will. Now go." I said as I transformed into my ghostly wolf form. In a battle scenario, the form is bigger, more shaggy and more dangerous. I could sense the enhanced urine as Jacque peed himself. "Looks like someone wasn't potty trained." I said. It wasn't time to gloat. "I'll give you 5 seconds to hit me." I said. Jacque wasted no time in running up and-- "Time's up!" I said as I swatted him like the fat bug he was. I was feeling a bit more merciful, just a bit. "Why are you here?! I told the GIW that if they showed up again, they'd pay, and that includes you, baguette boy. Start talking before I claw it out of you." I said. He explained that every GIW base is learned of casualties to other GIW agents and how his just happened to be the first one. "So your base, in Paris, just happened to be the first one to know of the downfall of an American base? That's funny enough to only make your death half as painful, but still pretty painful." I said.

"I don't know what's worse, the talking wolf, the fact that it's speaking English, or that it plans on killing me." Jacque said. "Oh, all three, and I'm a he clearly. Not an it. And at first I just might toy with you, let you run before pulling you back in, make your disembowelment slow and painful like you bastards did 10 years ago. Oh, and I'm not letting that go. You ruined the childhood of an innocent boy, all for the sake of saving your own asses. And one more thing, I humored you, because the GIW have one base, which I destroyed. So not only are you lying about who you are, you think that association with a nonexistent base will help you. So I suggest you drop the facade, Agent O." Of course I knew the whole time. I just wanted to toy with him a bit before I used him as a human paddleball. "Very clever, subject --ACK!" I put an oversized paw on his throat and growled. "Not a subject, you lousy excuse for government slime. The more you bring it up-- why am I still talking? You should be crying in a ball by now." I said. So I took my sweet time in letting my prey "escape" before doing the deed. "That's it. Now you tell your superiors to fuck off before I do to them what I did to you." I growled one last time and watched as O retreated to who knows where. I transformed back into my human form and grabbed the grass at my feet before throwing up. The Titans helped me inside and laid me on the couch, where I recovered from the long battle.