"You seem a little tense" Freeze spoke.

It wasn't a question as much as it was a statement. A power play to show the other that he knew something was up. It was a move that Hugo did in fact not appreciate.

"I don't understand what y"-
"Hush, Doctor, we both know you're not one that gets stressed out in meetings like this easily, so why do you seem slightly panicked?"

Hugo internally took deep breath in and a deep breath out. "I'm merely concerned for my well being due to the fact chaos has broken loose below us, which by the way, I would've expected an event held by the Lords to have better security"

Deflect. He needed to deflect while making it sound natural.

"Doctor"
Freeze's goggles seemed to almost gleam off of nothingness, his emotionless expression adding to his image.
"I don't think you understand"

"I am a Lord"

Pressure. It was chilly and caused a shiver to run up Hugo's spine on instinct, not because he was afraid, but because it seemed as if the room's temperature had dropped several degrees at once. Or maybe it hadn't and he was imagining it.

Hugo showed no visible reaction despite this.

"I will not be put off any longer, so tell me"

Freeze held out a gloved hand towards Strange, who stared at it blankly.

"Are you with us, or against us?"

'Ok, now you might be wondering how I got here, y'know, surrounded by a group of uprising Heroes, well you see it all started the day I was fucked over by a 5th dimensional troll that'-

"Is he.......doing an inner monologue?" Kid-Flash asked the closest to him, Red Arrow/Arsenal/Speedy, who just shook his head.

'And that's how I came to be surrounded by the Titans. Or shall I be a bit more specific?'

'A former mercenary who has regeneration abilities, enhanced strength, great martial arts, and great looks while also happening to be the daughter of one of the few people I never want to meet'

'A former assassin boy with daddy and mommy issues who is the son of another person I never want to meet, and happens to come from a shady assassination cult that can bring people back from the dead'

'A speedster that I personally like but will probably beat the shit out of me before I can blink'

'An alien from space who has a bright personality but can shoot LASERS from her body....damn that body- getting off topic'

'A guy with a bow and arrow who feels like he has something to prove so he attaches fucking BOMBS TO THEM'

'As you can see, my current predicament is, in fact, not great. So, I'm going to take the easy way out'

You brought your hand up to your chest and bent over slightly.

"G-Guys before we do this can you at least let me catch a break?"

"Oh sure thing" Kid-Flash responded.

"Thanks"

"No! Why would we let him have time to recover?!" It was Robin who spoke up.

Sadly, it was too late. Your hand which was on your chest and out of view was raised slightly over your necklace as you prepared to clap it.
The Gamma Gong.

Here was your thought process. Firstly, Raven wasn't here and that probably meant she was on another floor, so no magic shenanigans would stop you.

Two, you weren't going to win this fight if it came down to you vs them.

Three, you had this. Although you weren't sure what it's effects were exactly considering how different the Gong acted, such as transforming into a necklace, you knew it was supposed to either stop time or let out a high frequency noise.

Things didn't go as planned.

Your senses went haywire, and everyone froze.

Time stopped.

No, actually stopped. You couldn't move, and the expressions and movements of the Titans stopped as well. Not even Kid-Flash moved.

The thing is, you never touched the artifact.

You were conscious, you could see everything, but you couldn't talk.

It was as if you were in a picture, and you couldn't do anything until you heard a voice.

"What do you think you're doing?"

It came from Robin, but his expression never changed, and his mouth moved without the rest of his body reacting in any way.

"Using something like that is impossible for someone like you"

Next it was Speedy speaking, with his tone of voice yet it wasn't him.

"That artifact connects to your soul, Y/N, and yours isn't apart of this reality"

This time it was Starfire.

"What do you think happens when the fabric of something not of this entire plane interacts with an object that connects with that fabric? With something of this magnitude, you die"

Now Rose.

"I shall do this but once, just so that"-

'Wait!'

You didn't speak, but you managed to form a thought. A coherent thought you internally screamed, and one the voice seemed to hear.

'You were speaking to me last time, that you were the'-

You couldn't think it, no matter how hard you tried you couldn't bring yourself to say the thing's label. It was there, you knew what it was, but you couldn't think it.

"Yes, that was me" It was back to Robin.

'Then is there any way you can return me home? You're the god of this entire reality aren't you?!'

It was silent for a while, with the voice not returning. With the way everything was frozen, it was hard to tell for how long.

"That" It was Ravager who started speaking.

"That isn't my decision to make"

Time went back to normal, and you took a deep breath of air.

Somewhere in the background Kid-Flash and Robin were having an argument, but you didn't care enough to try to actively listen.
It was as if to them, time hadn't stopped at all.

Then, the necklace, the Gamma Gong, shattered into two.

The necklace still hung around your neck, but the actual core part of it was shattered in identical pieces, yet still hanging there.

You clutched your knee with your other hand as you tried to suppress a vein from popping up in your neck.

'Now isn't the time, get out of this, then think about it. Get out of this, then think about it'

You had questions, too many questions in fact but now wasn't the time, currently, getting out of here with the girl was still your main priority.

'Wait'
A realization hit you.
'Can't I just tell them where the girl is and let them- Waller'

You resisted the urge to punch something as that name burst into your mind.

'They'll put her somewhere for rehabilitation, whether that be for her mental state or powers, and I doubt Waller wouldn't be able to use connections to get to her. The girl might know more about what's going on and I don't ever want to meet the Squad again especially in the Black Zone'

'FUCK'

You were biting the inside of your cheek hard, and your head hurt. Your brain felt so overloaded and stressed by everything that happened in the last few minutes, from time stopping to realizing you couldn't talk your way out this, that you almost missed a statement made by one of Titans.

"Shouldn't we just get him?"
"Don't worry, I already hit him 15 times, figured I may as well give the guy a breather beforehand"

You sat there in confusion for a moment, before the realization of who said that kicked in.

The world's colour was sucked into you as your eyes scanned your surroundings.

You didn't see a thing, only for a faint yellow flash to faintly appear out of the corner of your vision.

In almost immediate succession, you found yourself receiving a punch to your face. Then, another one immediately followed up and gut-checked you. Before you could even react to either of them, you felt the force of 13 more.
It was like you were getting punched by air.

You fell to the ground, unconscious.

Everyone just stared at your body and then turned their heads to Kid-Flash with a wide variety of expressions.

"What?" He turned his body so that he was staring at the one closest to him, Robin.

"You..........nevermind" He said while shaking his head.

Kid-Flash let out a grin, before that grin was replaced with a look of shock and pain.

He turned around to look at the back of his leg, which had been impaled by a kunai, and then looked at you.

You were sitting half up with one of your arms outstretched, making it clear to everyone that you were the attacker.

"No leg?"

Apparently, they didn't take to kindly to that.

You kicked yourself up to your feet and immediately caught an arrow aimed for your chest, spun halfway and threw it at Robin who was only a few metres away from you. He cut it in half with his blade.

Forcing your upper body downwards, you managed to duck multiple green blasts. Then you immediately brought up up both your forearms to the left side of your face, blocking a knee from Ravager.

There was still too much force behind it though, so as your body began to move opposite the strike, you spun with the blow and dropped down to the ground, sweeping out the one leg she was using to hold herself up after her attack.

She landed head first in a handstand position and pushed herself up and backwards, performing a perfect back somersault.

You looked to your side, and saw Robin mid-air holding his blade as if he were about to shank you.

Pushing yourself out of your crouching position and to the side, you dodged the pierce and side-stepped behind him.

You couldn't even do anything though because you were forced to propel yourself backwards, narrowly dodging another arrow.

Not even able to touch the ground, you were snatched out of the air and promptly thrown to the ground with superhuman strength due to Starfire, who mumbled a faint sorry.

You felt the ever loving wind get knocked out of you, but you couldn't catch your breath since you had to roll out of the way of a stomp via Ravager and into a another crouched position.

'Shit'

Instinctively, you crossed your forearms as a force you didn't even see coming sent you backwards, but you managed to land on your feet.

Kid-Flash stood where you were a moment before, blood still trickling down his leg but a determined expression on his face.

'He's slower, good'

You stared at the Titans, who did the same. The only difference being you were out of breath and sore in the arms from blocking numerous shots, and besides a slower Kid-Flash, they were in perfect shape.

"Is there a world where we talk this out?"
"You kidnapped our friend, and then a few hours later he backstabbed us, why would we talk this out?" Robin replied.

"It was his choice, not mine"
"Friend Static would never hurt one of us" Starfire retorted in a rather firm voice.

"And yet, he did"

Robin flinched at your words, his hand scrunching up into a fist.

"But please tell me, why?"
"Why what?"
"Why are you all so desperate to get him back?"

Surprisingly, Kid-Flash was the one to respond.
"Call it selfish, but we can't lose anyone else"

You didn't know what he meant, but you knew the threat he was implying, that they weren't going to give up.

You let out a deep sigh and steadied yourself with a smile on your face.
"Well, let's get this party started shall we?"

The worlds colour disappeared, and you managed to put a up a block in advance as Kid-Flash's fist drove into the side of your face with your arms blocking it, but contrary to what you expected another fist hit the opposite side of where the blocked. Then, he was back by his teams side, his face scrunched up in pain as he favoured his leg.

'I can't beat him even if he's slower now'

That realization hit you as you began to fall sideways, but you pushed yourself upwards and to your feet by planting your hand onto the ground, dodging a barrage of green blasts.

Robin was already charging at you, but he lurched himself backwards in order to dodge a swing of a sword.

It was a butler.

In turn, you barely moved out of the way of a strike via a baton.

At that moment, everyone present realized that numerous guards were trickling into the room that, yet, they didn't have any firearms.

Robin out a hand to his ear as he backed up back towards his team and then turned to them.

"Raven's holding them back, but a bunch more showed up so she let the ones with melee weapons slip through and she's holding the ones with guns'

You stared at the Titans, then at the numerous guards the filled the massive room. Or more specifically, a guard who was on the ground with a shattered knee and a walkie-talkie.

'DAMNIT GREG! This was the opposite of what I wanted'

Your goal of luring the guards away front eh top floors was in shambles.

You were all swarmed.

In an instant yells of pain, the sound of blasters and the clanging of weapons enveloped the area.

You on the other hand were simply dodging any attack that came your way and hoping to make it to an exit to the room.

After gaining some ground a getting past numerous people, you were forced to move to the side, dodging a sword strike that hit the ground. Then, you kicked them in the wrist so that their sword and arm shot up, grabbed the weapon, spun it in your hand so that it was hilt-first and bashed them in the face.

While they were unconscious on the ground, you for some reason decided to give them a little kick in the ribs for no apparent reason.

Now that you had a weapon you were more comfortable with compared to the bat, you simply ran in a straight line towards the closest exit.

You blocked multiple, random strikes as you ran, but an upwards swing forced you to slide underneath it.

Once you did, standing in front of you was Robin.

'SLIDE CANCEL!'

You attempted to halt yourself as Robin swung at your approaching figure with a low horizontal slash, and instead ended up pushing off the ground with your feet and launching yourself over the blow.

You landed with a roll that ended with you facing the Hero, your grip on the sword that remained in your hand tightening as you both were a bit too close to each other's for comfort.

As you stood up, Robin let out a scoff.
"I'm getting déjà vu"

You looked at him for a few seconds, before letting out a sigh. "Yeah.......yeah me too"

He was the first person besides Joker who you fought, when things weren't so complicated. Before the bounty, the Zones, it all felt so long ago.

"Didn't I beat your ass last time?"

"Things are different now" Robin cracked his knock as he spoke.

"I have a friend to get back"

You both stared at each other for a few more seconds, only for the both of you to simultaneously bring up your blades for a diagonal slash that interrupted each other.

With your blades still lightly connected, you both circled each other, waiting for the other to make a move.

Robin acted first.

He pushed your sword out of the way and spun his body for a horizontal slash.

You leaned your body back slightly, dodging the blow while also swinging your own sword which was off to the side horizontally.

He himself took a half step back and was immediately back in as he sprung his body forward and used his katana to try to pierce you, almost like a superman stab instead of a punch.

Pushing yourself off to the side, you brought your sword down for a vertical swing which he launched himself to the side and out of the way of.

Halfway through your swing, you switched the direction of the blade so that it was facing horizontally and shifted the momentum so that it followed Robin.

He stopped the attack by swinging upward with his full might, hitting the blade a causing it to go flying up and into the air.

Using this chance now that he was slightly off balance, you literally ran up Robin and hit a step up knee to his face not unlike the one you gave a previous guard.

Pushing yourself off of him and into the air, you caught the sword and brought it downwards for a vertical slash.

Robin sidestepped, and due to gravity the missed swing resulted with you on one knee.

Before you could recover, Robin knee'd you directly in the side of your face.

Forcing yourself to not become disoriented, you spun with the force and lifted your leg up to kick him in the stomach before he tried anything else.

Pushing yourself back to your feet, you were met with the familiar sight of Robin charging at you.

You went for a pierce, but to your surprise Robin dropped down and slid both under your attack and in between your legs.

You couldn't do anything as he popped up and side kicked the back of your knee, causing you to fall on it and use your other leg for support.

He went for a diagonal slash to your back going from right to left from his half-turned position, but you blocked it by bringing your sword over your right shoulder, stopping it.

Twisting your body around at the same time and switching what hand you held the sword in, you forced Robin's blade downwards so that it's tip touched the ground and your own blade was on top of it.

Then you lunged in, scraping your own weapon against his as you prepared to swing.

Instead, Robin forced his katana to stand upright, and your blade lost all momentum as it met his weapon's hilt and stopped.

You both attempted a test of strength, but that didn't last long.

Robin attempted a punch, but you deflected it with the side of your forearm and went for a low leg kick.

He blocked it by lifting his leg up so that you didn't hit a vital part of it, and then attempted to slide his entire body into yours.

You rolled over his back as you did this, with him ending up on the side you were before and you vice-versa.

'This.........this is fun'

You stared at him with heavy breaths, while he did the same and readied his weapon once more.

A feeling of danger behind you interrupted your bliss , causing you to let out a back kick which connected with a guard who was about to attack you's stomach.

You followed it up by doing a side kick to the same spot as you faced him, which caused him to lurch over.

With your other foot, you kicked him in the face, bringing it back up which you quickly but back down with a definitive roundhouse kick with the opposite leg.

You barely had time to think as another guard engaged you, but you did manage to catch a glimpse of Robin going against other butlers.

'This is just my d'-

"OUT OF THE WAY"

You were startled as the guard in front of you was dropkicked by a blur, a blur that perfectly stuck the landing in front of you.

Rose.

You immediately took a leap back out of caution and stared at the grinning woman, who pointed her sword in your direction.

"You. You're mine"

As usual any feedback on fight scenes is appreciated, and also I'm only slightly late on the weekly chapter so that's noice.

Like usual, see you soon.....hopefully.