R And R 9

Ch. 9: Eastern Assistance!

"If you brought the lighting, I know Cy's packing the thunder! Wait for my cue! Titans' Together-Hey! That does sound better than Titans Go!"  Terra smiled to herself as she contorted her collected sand into the shape of a miniature cannonballs.

Aqualad did the same as he followed the blonde's lead. The two shot off their elemental projectiles quickly once an opening was clear, crashing into Adonis chest plate. "Bee hit now, in the center. Turn it to the max!" Terra called as she and her scaled companion continued combined their barrage into one final attack.

Bee pulled out her stingers as she poured on the power to 100%.  The heat of Bee's electricity caused the mud that had found its way into the kinks of Adonis's armor to harden. Terra's plan had worked so far, slowing down Adonis's swings at Cy and Bee. Now for the finishing blow! Terra found her footing in the sand once again, and yanked as hard as she could. Again, sand had wrapped tightly around the criminals feet, keeping him stationary long enough for Terra to shout: "Cy, hit him loud and hit him hard!"

Bee improvised, rushing Adonis to keep his eyes on her as he struggle with his mobility. Suddenly she vanished a mere foot away in front of him to reveal Cyborg following her every step! Slamming his sonic cannon into the rocky center piece, all the attacks seamlessly connected, causing each piece of the upper body to dissemble!

Moments later, Terra now sat atop of a mound of cybernetics that was once Adonis armor. Having pulled the upper structure of his suit behind her with well trained precision behind her, the rest had been easy to acquire as Bee had cleaning shot the young man on his back and knocking him unconscious. Cyborg was now dealing the media as Aqualad and his leader handled the jailers-apparently Robin didn't want Terra's existence to be known to the masses.

Staring aimlessly on the scene before her, life came back into focus once Terra caught Bee looking over her shoulder. The Black girl grinned having caught the blonde's attention, leaning into Aqualad's ear to whisper something and receive a nod.

The yellow clad leader then made a bee-line for Terra, zipping through the air. Landing next to the girl Bee gave Terra sideways hug. "So you're the new recruit Cy was talking to me about! Glad to have another girl in our ranks!" Terra couldn't help but smile at her friend's enthusiasm, it was kind of infectious…though it did wane a little as she asked the question.

"You knew who I was when you first met me, didn't you?" Bee released the blond, turning her head to sea. "I knew of you, from the little that the team told us, like what you looked like and your personality." Bee said softly, crossing her left leg over her right so that she could place her elbow and rest her cheek against her hand.

"But when we hung out at the mall for Raven's birthday, I didn't realize that it was you," She straightened up as she chuckled with a shake of her head, "Honestly, I thought you were some random civilian who had been lucky enough to befriend Star. Though the more we shopped though, the more I started to connect the dots, ya' know. When Sparky called to tell me that they'd have a new teammate, I wasn't really surprised to find you here today."

Terra nodded at her friend's response, but when Bee turned her attention back to the Geo-kinetic girl, she found that Terra was facing forward. Following Terra's line of sight, Bee grinned again as she spoke: "So what's between you and scales?" Terra blinked, taking a moment to think who that could possibly be, and then blushing immediately once she realized the girl was talking about.

"N-nothing! Why would you even ask me something like that?" Terra's head whipped to face her friend, only to be caught with Bee's glance. 'You gotta be kidding me!' Was the look on the Titans East leaders face, only making Terra's blush deepen at how obvious it was she was crushing on the water wielder.

"Girl, please, you how many times I heard that line from Raven a couple years ago? How many times I've seen Starfire with the same dazed look when she watched Bird boy? It's been there ever since he showed up on the beach. A word of advice if you are so content with playing this little game of denial: Aqualad doesn't follow rules when it comes to these things!" Wait. What was that supposed to—Terra looked to the Black girl but found that she had shrunk at the end of the sentence and buzzed off, most likely to go chat with Cy.

"Hey!" The blushed that had been on her face earlier returning much deeper at the sound of the voice. Making sure that the blood wasn't rushing to her face, Terra leaned forward a bit, and down at the feet of the metal pile was Aqualad looking up at her. The blond then kicked off the parts, using sand to wrap around her waist and soften her landing.
  
"How goes it, fish breath?" She said, while pushing a lock of hair behind her ear. He closed the tiny gap between them. He looked down at her to match the hesitant smile she was wearing. "That's depends on how you are, Sandy Locks." For once she didn't blush at the banter, her smile widening to show her confidence, "Then I'm doing alright. You come over here for any special reason, other than to try and flirt with a land lover like myself?"

Aqualad slid a hand behind his head, this time being the one to blush, "I just wanted to keep you some company. A pretty girl such as yourself shouldn't be left alone." Crimson overtook Terra's cheeks, but she looked away so that way the boy might not notice.

"So you wouldn't mind escorting me back to the tower?" She asked him sincerely. "Only if you if you don't mind trying to get your sea legs. I figure we'd cross by using the our T-Ship, since we parked it—" Aqualad didn't finish his speech, as the blond suddenly grabbed his free hand and started down the beach. "Why don't we just go for a walk? I'd think I'd rather take the long way home."