Current Events > Teen Titans CYOA: Romance Resurrected Part 18

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Alakazamtrainer posted...

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You do what you can to follow this bus along its route, going intersection by intersection, camera by camera. But this is rather tedious since bus routes are long and start very early in the day, and not every stretch has cameras. You lose track of the bus part way but pick it up at the next corner as it turns off from a northern street.

You keep going and finally see where this strange little crew first boarded the bus: the Jump City Library. It seems the big bruiser in red waited outside while the others spent time inside the library. As time rewinds more, you see they actually all arrived together. They walk backwards to where they parked, but that's offscreen.

You quickly look for other cameras to give you a better angle. You get one that looks away from the library, and you manage to see a shining gold something or other, the reflection causes glare. But it's definitely a luxury SUV. Wait, a golden SUV? Could it be...?

You get your communicator again and hurry to call Raven.

"Rorek?" she says.

"It's the metas from Vegas," you say. "They were in a new golden SUV."

"Wait, didn't they get away in a big monster truck?" she says. "Though, I gues that doesn't keep them from getting a new vehicle."

"I'm using the surveillance camera system to track where this SUV came from," you say, "but they arrived at the museum because of a bus. There's a chance they regrouped in the SUV, though."

"That's true," she says. "You wanna tag out to be in the field?"

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Cartridge88 posted...

A) Yes

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"Yes," you say. "I'm definitely not doing this surveillance thing fast enough."

"I'll take over then," Cyborg says. "Everyone can fan out from the museum."

"And the Jump City Library," you say. "That's where I found them getting out of the SUV."

"Alright, I'll check from that point, but also the point where they got on the bus," Cyborg says. "One way or another, they have to stop somewhere as a home base in town."

"Right," you say and Raven both say as you head to the elevator.

"Rorek and I encountered them while in Las Vegas," Raven continues. "Whenever and wherever these metas are spotted, whoever is closest hangs back until the entire team can converge."

"Got it," the others say.

You return to the garage, get back to Shadowfax and ride back out into town. You use your MagiPhone to give you directions to the library.

"If they stole the SUV, they stole it in another city," he says. "They rode into town with it, and apparently stopped by a drive-thru to eat up."

"And from there?" Robin asks.

"They drive around aimlessly but they find their way to the library," he says. "No stops in between."

"So they don't have a home base yet?" you say. "Seems like they did this rather haphazardly."

A) Prepare countermeasures now
B) Wait until you're closer to finding the metas
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Cartridge88 posted...

A) Prepare countermeasures now

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"Raven," you continue. "I'm thinking we prepare something for when we do catch up to this crew."

"Same here," she says. "Asking the Druidic spirits for help might be a bit severe, but seeing the strength shown to bust down the museum wall, I don't know if Summon constructs can stand up to them."

"Well, nothing I can make," you say. "You have a naturally higher affinity, maybe you can muster up something a bit stronger than just wolves."

"Maybe," she says while thinking. "Beast Boy, meet me at the park. I need you to model animals for me."

"Uh... Okay," Beast Boy says, a bit confused.

That's actually pretty smart, using Beast Boy's ability to become animals to get an idea of how they should be for Summoning, rather than struggling with mental visualization.

As for you, you unfortunately left your knapsack back at the tower. You could use some paper for some things. Wait a minute. You're at a library! You turn off Shadowfax's engine and puts up his kickstand before you hurry inside.

You look around and find a section with computers. And with computers, there are printers. You go over, grab about three or four sheets of paper and turn around to head for the door, only for a rather stout woman to be in your way.

"Sir, do you have a library card?" she asks.

"No," you say. "But I just needed the paper."

"Sir, you can't just take paper from our printers," she says.

"It's fine, it's just paper," you say. "The printer's feeder is full with fifty more."

"That's not the point, sir!" she says, getting a bit more upset.

"I don't really have time for this," you say as you bring out your wallet.

You slap a $5 bill down on the desk and leave, even as the woman whines, "Sir!"

You fold the sheets of paper in half, then cut them each down the middle so that you now have eight pieces. You then take those and cut them in half so that you have 16 different 4-by-5-and-three-quarter-inch pieces of paper.

On six, you quickly right various protection spells, both from Western and Eastern schools. You can tag yourself and the Titans with these to be ready defensively for anything these metas can throw at you. That leaves 10 pieces of paper for just about anything.

A) Use them for offense
B) Use them for defense
C) Use them for support
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Cartridge88 posted...

C) Use them for support

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This group is very prone to running away so you need something to keep them contained. And since you know the young woman who looks like a lot like Raven can punch through magic barriers while the big man in red can punch through brick walls, you'll have to try something else.

On one piece of paper, you write "Shouheki," the kanji for "barrier," at the very center. You surround it with a repeating kanji, "Tatemono" for "building." This will make it so no one can leave whatever building you're inside, so hopefully you can contain them within a hideout or refuge.

Nine pieces of paper left, and you take a head count. Raven's almost lookalike, the young girl in the burger T-shirt, the Muppet person, the man in white who loves gold, and now the beefy man in red. That's five of them against the six of you. You have the numbers advantage but you can't be sure the limits of their powers. You take five papers and use various runes to give them the power of Gravity magic. You'll make them weigh too much for them to move, in lieu of Binding spells that could be broken.

Four pieces left, and you might need a back-up if something happens to your other papers.

A) Preassign them
B) Keep them blank
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You'll keep them blank, you can ad-lib what is needed as you confront the meta criminals.

"Alright, I've got something," Cyborg says. "They pulled the golden SUV into a warehouse at the Jump City docks."

"Which one?" Robin asks.

"Pier 41," Cyborg says.

"I'm closest to the docks," Starfire says.

"Remember, keep watch at a distance," Raven says.

"I've got a special sealing spell," you say. "I'll bring up the rear."

You take off and find your way south to where the docks are. Along the way, Raven and green hawk Beast Boy fly overhead, and then Robin on his R Cycle and Cyborg in the T-Car come in from a northern street. You see Starfire flying over a warehouse and all of you head that way at full speed. Starfire busts the garage door down, the R Cycle and T-Car pull in, then Raven and Beast Boy fly in. You have Shadowfax whip around as you enter and you slap the paper with the sealing spell on the wall!

"We've got you now!" you say as the spell takes effect.

The burly man in red and the lean man in white are clearly caught by surprise. The big man suddenly throws the cheap folding chair he was sitting on, but Starfire easily blasts it out of the air!

"You idiot!" the man in white says. "I could've used that!"

The man in white wears gold gloves, and he pulls one off to touch the cheap picnic table in front of him. The table turns gold, and then the man in white throws that! Raven catches it with levitation magic, throws it back, but then it stops in midair! It flips around and now goes legs first! Raven stops it again but it seems to be a push-o-war between her and the man in white!

"Gold alchemy at a touch, and then gold based telekenesis?" you say. "That's unique."

"We gotta get outta here!" the man in red shouts.

He runs over to the far wall and rams his shoulder into it! A crack runs up the wall a good 12 feet, but the wall doesn't fall thanks to the sealing spell you've applied.

"Ow!" the man in red shouts as he shakes out his arm. "Why didn't that work?"

"Get that paper off the wall!" the man in white says. "We can't leave here until the spell's undone!"

"Ugh! Stupid magic!" the man in red growls.

His eyes start glowing red-orange and his skin starts burning with actual fire! He roars and runs straight at you! But Starfire intercepts and digs in her heels to bring him to a stop! You then have Shadowfax turn and *CLANG* hit him with both back hooves! He leans back, but then stands up tall again. He throws Starfire away and she lets out a "WAA~!"

Cyborg hits him in the face with a sonic blast and he staggers again. But he only gets angrier and the fire gets stronger. But then Starfire comes back and tackles him out of the way!

"Where are the others?" Raven asks the man in white. "We know there's more in your little group!"

"Oh, yeah, like we're going to give that up," he says back. "Gonna get us to monologue our master plan and stuff like all the villains you've faced? We're not stupid."

"Yeah!" the man in red says. "They're obviously in the back, anyway!"

The man in white sighs.

"Alright, I'm not that stupid. Boot is..."

A) Go to the back room
B) Stay in the main room
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"I'll protect the sealing spell," you say. "Everyone, take one and press it to your body!"

You throw out the protection spell papers and each of the Titans grabs one. You and the boys put them on your chests while the girls put them on their arms. The spells go into effect with a glowing wave that goes over everyone.

"We'll go get the other three," Raven says as she, Robin and Beast Boy head for the back.

"Try and flush them out this way," you say. "I've got something for each of them."

Cyborg shoots sonic blasts at the man in white while Starfire brawls with "Boot." She can take the fire on his skin but she still has to bob and weave to avoid his meaty hands' haymakers. You summon wolves and have them go after Boot while you help Cyborg against the man in white.

A) Use Elemental
B) Use Arcana
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Cartridge88 posted...

A) Use Elemental

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You create some magical charges and have Shadowfax steer around. Cyborg shoots away golden projectiles the man in white is slinging at him. Turns out, the projectiles are his golden gloves.

"Cyborg! Make an opening, would you?" you ask.

"Sure thing!" he says.

Cyborg uses double sonic cannons to blast away the body of the gold picnic table. You then side arm a magical charge and have it ricochet off the floor!

"KASAI!" you shout.

The charge explodes with fire and the man in white flails to slap the fire out. But that in turn makes the jacket turn into gold.

"Great," he complains. "There goes my favorite jacket."

He takes it off and uses his gold kinesis to throw it your way. Cyborg shoots it away, you throw your other two charges, one bouncing off the ground and the other going straight through the air.

"RAITON!"

The charge that bounced off the floor explodes with electricity and it tazes the man in white!

"KORI!"

The second charge explodes into ice and it encases his torso! Cyborg then blasts the ice and it shatters while sending the man in white flying! You leave Shadowfax to run up and get closer to him, your gravity tag at the ready! You throw it at him and it lands on his chest!

"JUURYOKU, HAJIMERU!"

The gravity spell turns on and pins him down!

"Ugh! Stupid magic!" he grumbles as he tries to lift his arms.

"I won't be able to tag this one with my gravity seal," you say in regards to Boot. "His spontaneous fire will burn it off."

"Then we'll just have to knock him out," Cyborg says.

You now put all your focus on the wolves, and you have them flank Boot. He tries to keep an eye on them all but Starfire dropkicks him in the stomach! He throws a punch but she blocks and kicks back. You have the wolves bite down onto Boot's denim jeans, two wolves a leg, to anchor him. Boot kicks around to try and shake them off!

Cyborg and Starfire fire away on Boot while you create another magical charge. You then spin into the side arm and sling it under him.

"RAITON!"

The electricity strikes Boot and he stiffens up, but he stays standing. Starfire then flies up to dive down with a double ax handle, driving Boot into the ground!

"Is he out?" you ask.

More flames burst out from Boot's body so that's clearly a no.

"He's an idiot, but he ain't weak," the man in white says.

You look over, and he's getting up!? Wait, does he have four eyes? And how did he get the gravity seal off his chest? You don't have a lot of time to question things as he gathers up the many things he turned into gold.

You take out one of the blank papers you'd left over and figure it's time to adlib and assign it something.

A) Try another gravity seal
B) Try some Alchemy
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You'll try Alchemy to counter how he can make anything into gold from touching it. You write an Alchemy circle to turn gold into stone, just to change things so he can't throw them around.

You wait for him to telekinetically throw the pieces of picnic table at you. You catch one and tag it with the Alchemy paper. The half of table becomes stone, just as intended, and you let it drop. You dodge as he throws the other half of the table, it comes back as if he were reeling it in, but you slap the Alchemy paper on it and it turns into stone. The momentum carries it so you pivot and throw the stone table at the man in white!

He puts up his guard and takes the hit, and he staggers back but otherwise stays up. He grabs the table piece and makes it gold again, but you throw the other half at him! He uses the gold table to shield himself but the stone table causes it to bend! You bring the stone table back, swing it around, and he again shields himself. The gold table gets hit hard enough that it completely folds!

"Surrender and I won't have to bash you with this table!" you say.

"AH~! Bad horsey!" someone says behind you.

You turn around to see Shadowfax chasing off a young girl from the sealing spell!

"Where'd she come from?" you blurt out.

You then turn around in time to see the folded gold table flying at you!

"CUSTOS!"

Your defense spell deploys in time and the gold table bounces off it. You throw the stone table over to Starfire.

"Use this to knock Boot out!" you say.

"Yes, this will do nicely for the kicking of butt!" she says as she catches the hefty bit of stone.

A) Fall back to Shadowfax's position
B) Bring out more blank paper
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A) Fall back to Shadowfax's position

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You run back to Shadowfax and hops back on.

"So there's a sixth one, huh?" you say.

"I'm not sixth, I'm third!" this new girl pouts. "Unless you go by age, then I'm fifth."

"Huh? Nevermind, I'll take you in, too."

You break out a technique you've been meaning to try in creating a bow and arrow. The arrow is really a magical charge shaped like an arrow, and you aim it at little Ms. Third/Fifth.

"BINDING!" you say as you *VWIP* shoot the arrow.

The magic arrow becomes a bolas and wraps her up around her arms and body. She falls over from the arrow's momentum, and you reload with another magic arrow as you aim at the man in white. But he's doing cartwheels as he heads for the back wall, making parts of the floor into gold.

"You ever hear the one about the Ship of Theseus?" he says with a grin as he touches where Boot made the crack.

The wall turns more and more gold! You aim your arrow and *VWIP* but he pulls up chunks of gold from the floor to block it! He keeps converting more of the building into gold! Cyborg shoots sonic blasts but again the gold chunks are used to block.

*SMASH* Someone or something smashes down the wall dividing main room and back room! You look over and see the long haired Raven lookalike, and she's in a bikini top and mini skirt...!

"Yeah, that's the spirit!" Boot says. "Bring down the house!"

Starfire then *BLAM* clubs Boot on the back of the head with the stone table! Boot falls on his face and the fire on his skin goes out.

"Here!" you say. "Gravity tag!"

You throw the paper to Starfire, but then something gold intercepts it! It's the same shape as the gravity seal! Of course, the man in white made it gold and used his powers to move it! But how did he even reach a hand over to touch it? Does it have to do with having four eyes now?

"Okay, someone stop Rumpelstiltskin from turning everything into gold!" Cyborg says. "He's trying to undo Rorek's spell by changing this building!"

Beast Boy as a green lion and Raven's summon construct lion charge over!

"But don't let him touch you!" you shout. "He has the Midas touch!"

Beast Boy puts on the brakes but Raven's lion isn't as fast to react! The man in white touches it and turns it from black to gold! He then has it... rather awkwardly turn around. He's apparently never had to puppeteer something like a lion.

"Screw it!" he says as he throws the lion!

Beast Boy dodges by changing into a chimpanzee, then he changes back into himself.

The man in white uses his gold kinesis to start ripping the gold wall down! You glance over and see your sealing spell is faltering.

"Lil!" the Raven lookalike says.

The girl with the cheeseburger shirt runs out, towing Robin along by his snare! The lookalike breaks the cord with her bare hands then picks cheeseburger girl up with both hands.

"She came in like a wrecking~ ball~!" the lookalike shouts as she throws cheeseburger girl at Starfire!

Starfire yelps as she catches cheeseburger girl and is suddenly weighed down!

"How is one so small as heavy as a full grown Flarnop!?" she lets out.

"Don't let her bite you!" actual Raven shouts. "She steals memories!"

Starfire drops cheeseburger girl and she falls on Boot's back.

"Whahapen?" Boot mumbles as he lifts his head up.

"Wall's down!" the man in white shouts.

"Bullocks," you say.

A) Seal the wall
B) Attack the metas
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A) Seal the wall

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"Use ice to seal the wall!" you shout.

Raven flies up and combines water and wind. You use magical charge arrows and shoot three over the man in white!

"KORI!" you and Raven both say.

Your charges explode and she blasts ice from her hands, and you two create a jagged, frozen obstruction! The man in white growls as he glares at the ice.

"Wow, it god cold in here," Beast Boy says as he rubs his arms, then transforms into a green moose.

"The ice is radiating cold, to make it harder to touch," you say.

The man in white growls as he rubs his hands together to warm them up. He reaches out for one of the frozen spikes but he has to breathe on his hands to get them warmer. He touches it and it starts changing to gold, but he lets go from the extreme cold.

"Yawn, damn you!" the Raven lookalike shouts as she holds up the Muppet person. "Yawn like you've never yawned before!"

The Muppet person yawns long and hard, but it has no effect on you and the Titans!

"Protection spells," you say as you point to the paper on your chest.

"What good are you?!" the Raven lookalike shouts as she shakes the Muppet.

"I'm sOrRy~!" the Muppet says as she flops about.

"Boot!" the man in white shouts. "Get over here to burn down the ice!"

"Lil, get your fat ass off me!" Boot shouts.

"Hold on," Ms. Third/Fifth says as she scoots over.

She puts a hand on Boot's head and then suddenly her muscles swell! She uses physical strength to break the bolas, and then she picks Lil up off Boot's back. Boot then gets up and roars as his fire returns! He storms for the ice and punches it! It cracks like the building all did, and then he roars as he pushes his fist in deeper!

You take aim at Boot with your magic bow and arrow, but Ms. Third/Fifth throws Lil at you! You change from bow and arrow to a shield and have her crash against it. You can feel the weight Starfire was talking about as she causes you to almost fall off Shadowfax!

Starfire flies at Boot but the man in white breaks off the piece of gold he made from the ice and telekinetically throws it at her! She punches it away, but then the Raven lookalike gets a boost from Ms. Third/Fifth and she grabs onto Starfire with a full body grapple. Starfire flies right down to the floor to ram the lookalike into the ground!

Robin throws his birdarangs, Cyborg shoots sonic blasts, but the man in white uses the gold wall he ripped down to shield himself and Boot!

Green moose Beast Boy becomes a green ram and, well, he rams the gold! It stays up so he rams it again! Ms. Third/Fifth tackles him away from the gold, but he transforms into a green Japanese macaque to wrestle his way free.

"It's open!" the man in white says as he opens the gold shell. "Someone pick up the dead weight!"

Ms. Third/Fifth runs over to the Muppet and scoops her up before running back towards the gold shell. Robin and Cyborg stand in her way but she tosses the Muppet way over their heads! The man in white catches her and then pushes the wall of gold forward! Raven and Starfire combo blast it and it twists and breaks but it keeps moving forward! You have Shadowfax gallop out of the way and the mass of gold hits the other wall!

The Raven lookalike, Lil the cheeseburger girl and Ms. Third/Fifth regroup with the others.

"NOW we bring down the house!" the lookalike says.

She, Boot and Ms. Third/Fifth with her borrowed strength grab the same side of the opening and rip down the wall! That half of the building starts to collapse! You turn around and see the golden slab is blocking the way you and the Titans entered!

A) Prop up the falling side
B) Bust out the blocked side
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E) Jerk it with Luigi.

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