The New TEEN TITANS! (IC)

"One on One spar, no holding back..?" Nova didn't show the same signs of enthusiasm in a smirk; instead, her teeth clenched. When her teeth clenched in that way, flames burned through them as if she was trying to hold back fire from erupting from her mouth. She was excited to finally be able to let loose. She turned to face Snow and backed away. Their battle was now unavoidable; a clash of the elements was going to happen and nothing could get in their way. Anything that did, would get burned alive, frozen over, then melted by flames once more.

Snow watched as Nova began to back away. Good. It was decided. Snow remained where she was while Novas flames began to churn about. No holding back. she repeated. Frost shot down her shirt sleeves as her hands erupted into large Ice Claws. Her hair started to ice over as the temperature around her began to drop below zero. As the freezing air crept forward it met with Novas own heated area, the spot where the two met begining to steam. Without another word or another moment passed Snow threw her arms out, flash freezing large chunks of ice and throwing them towards Nova. Her ice was highly concentrated and takes incredible heat to melt. A chunk of her ice would survive undamaged in the hottest desert on Earth. However she knew that Novas heat, if generated hot enough, could melt what she dished out.

Nova took a forward step and quickly raised her fists. She began throwing out quick jabs with flames bursting from her knuckles to counter the chunks of ice. As her flames hit it, the ice melted away to water and as her body heat rised; it evaporated to steam. Nova leaned to take a handstand on the ground and she swung her legs around, kicking the air. Flames burst from her feet that warped around like a rapid gust of wind; an expanding wave of fire. This would expand out and burn everything around her as it passed into Snow's domain. The fire goes wide, ensuring that she can't step aside. Because Nova kicked from a handstand position, her arms were susceptible to a ground attack but the wave of fire was both low and high enough to keep Snow from being able to jump or duck it with ease. It was a test; one to ensure that her opponent knew tactic.

Snow raised a slight brow at the heat Nova generated. She was not surprised. What surprised her was the quickness the heat turned her ice into steam. Overall it did not bother her. She made a mental tag on that as her eyes focused on the flames that licked towards her. The air around her began to be sucked towards her, the flames Nova lashed out with leaning in with the moving air. She stood still, the flames getting closer and closer until she let out all that air into a frozen torrent. It blew through the twisting flames leaving Ice in its place. It took a great deal of cold to flash freeze flame. She threw her arms out and the frozen flame shattered to dust before it swirled around her and into the air. She lifted up one leg and stomped it downwards and upon contact with the ground a line of ice erupted from the ground as jagged spikes, growing quickly towards Nova. Her brow furrowed as she concentrated, Novas fire melted and evaporated her ice quickly. However it couldn't melt it completely before she could make more spikes a step ahead of the melting ones. Nova was hot indeed but you need heat to make fire to begin with and Snow was slowly descreasing the temperature, absorbing the heat around her and expelling a below zero Aura.

Nova took a deep breath and pulled her arms in. The girl thrust them out and let loose a flame like jets from her arms to send her flying back. She used this to her advantage to gain more distance while the flames burned at the ice to keep it from reaching her. Even if the flames didn't evaporate the ice as water, keeping the spikes from touching her was enough. Once she got far back enough, Nova held an arm out. Her palm open. She drew her hand to the side and seemed to stroke the air. Flames were being brought around her at an accelerated rate. Her eyes closed. Nova was being encased in a burning cocoon of flames. The sight of it would blind Snow to the girl inside of it.

Once inside the cocoon, the intense heat only raised. It filled her lungs with a fire and made her resilient. The fire evolves to a miniature super nova that, because of the intensive heat, burns away at the ground and any other solid structure nearby. The heat expands from the fire and would counter the ice but at a decreased space. Nova only controlled a 4th of the field now.

From inside of the cocoon, she continued her movements. Nova thrust both of her hands out to the inside of the flame cocoon and thin blades of fire rushed out from it to tear across the structure they stood on. While the heat might have been removed from around her, Nova kept the ground heated with her own reserves. The flames that ran across the ground toward snow would work both to attack her and tear up the structure, giving her less control of the field. A cold tactic; If you can't have it, make sure no-one else can.

Snow stood there as the flames began to tear towards her. She slowly looked upwards to the ceiling. Above them was a cloud of white dust and steam that began to swirl. With each bit of Ice Nova destroyed it went up to accumulate. Her ice could never be truly destroyed. It was always under her control whether it was dust or ash it was still a part of her. It all began to condense above her as Nova destroyed more and more of her ice with the flames that destroyed the field. It curled around in the air above her head and as Snow lifts her hands up she shoots out two large spikes into the mass and the entire thing freezes into a very large, very dense chunk of ice. If Nova was going to pull out all the stops then she would too. She threw her hands down to the ground and the giant ball of super dense ice fell to the ground but not towards Nova. It landed on her! With a crash the floor cracked where Snow once stood and the ground froze over as well as the wall behind the chunk. This ice was pressed together with all of Snows physical might and it now encompassed her. Because of its solidity the fire that lapped at her couldn't melt it but neither could the ice do anything to the fire. It gave off no cold what so ever but the surface was so cold it was as if it was from a sunless word. Snow was no where to be seen from within the chunk of ice or around it.

Athena's smile widen at the boy's answer, she hadn't read his but she knew that was what he was going to say, Athena flipped her hand around so that her palm was facing Oliver, they both slowly lifted off the ground so that Ollie wouldn't freak out. Athena began to fly forward pulling Ollie with her toward the tower at first she started slow then began to speed up. All Athena could think about was that silly movie that she had watched years ago about a poor boy that finds a genie and takes the princess for a carpet ride, she hid her red cheeks and dismissed the thought as a childish thought and cleared it from her mind leaving her face emotionless.

The two land on the tiny island on the bay the giant T was in the middle and hard to miss, "Well this is home for the Titans," Athena says then leads the way to the front entrance. As they got closer the doors opened and lead into a giant hall.

Matthew had ordered pizza while the others were out but it seemed that the two girls didn't have enough action fighting the psycho bomber guy so they were fighting each other. The fight was displayed on the main screen in the common room and Matthew was relaxing in his chair eating a slice of pizza and drinking some soda while enjoying the fight, in secret he hoped that Snow would win mostly because Nova damaged some of his tech and a small part of him was interested in Snow. He doubt that the two Titans would get carried away and really hurt each other but just in case he had ways of stopping the fight if it came to that.

"They're really getting into it, huh?"

Red X strode over to the couch and vaulted over it easily to sit down beside Matthew, eyes on the screen as he watched Snow and Nova going absolutely nuts with their powers. "Sure you should be letting them go all out like that? No telling how well the tower can handle the strain."

Nova's eyes flared with that familiar heat of passion. She started forward as she broke from the sphere of flames. The flames trailed from her skin as she passed through and they seemed to rush toward her as they touched different parts of her body. Her arms were held back as if gripping something, both hands almost stacked as fists. Fiercely, she charged on toward the target with scorched footprints where she ran. As each stream of fire connected to her, it left an strange mark with different meanings into her skin. Nova reached Snow's ice form and she gripped the air with flames swirling about from between her palms. Nova brought her arms in the air-- a sudden flash of fire erupted from her.

Nothing but flames could be seen in the cameras and the loud explosion from the training room. As the explosion cleared; Nova could be seen pressed to the ice with a sword. A solid sword with uncertain fiery force within it. Her body was covered in a red armor with cloth wrapped around parts of it. She appeared differently. No sign of hesitation, no sign of doubt; she was full of confidence and determination. A wall of fire clashed with equal size to the icy defense left by Snow and the training room is quickly destroyed by their clashing force. Snow with her immovable defense, Nova with her unstoppable offense. The tower stands but the training room is clearly no more as the two forces clash.

Red X narrowed his eyes as he watched Nova emerge from her fireball, raising a hand to block of the sudden flash of fire consuming the screen. He was impressed that the cameras survived, though it was clear once the flames receded that they were probably the only things that did, besides Snow and her little fortress of solitude. His arm lowers while his eyes widen at the transformation the fiery girl had taken, the flames forming some kind of intricate armor around here, as well as giving her a solid weapon. He gave a low whistle of appreciation at the display.

Olli's mouth fell open the further he limped into Titan's Tower. He wasn't sure what to expect. The tower wasn't inconspicuous in the least so he figured that it wouldn't look too much like a secret base. But to see that it looked like some super modern hotel right off the cover of a magazine, he just stood there, mouth agape and eyes wide.

One section of the wall was nothing but a window with an impressive view of Jump City and the river. There was a gigantic computer that appeared to be melted on a top corner with some video playing; a kitchen off too the side of the room and right in the middle of the room was a long circular couch where the boy Olli recognized from earlier on the roof of his job was sitting with another weirdly dressed guy. They were both so engrossed in what they were watching, Olli doubted they knew he and Athena were there.

The room was plain but impressive. Mainly because Olli knew super heroes called it home. He looked back at Athena, "This is a cool place but could I maybe get a tour? I'm pretty sure you wouldn't want me hobbling around unsupervised. I can almost guarantee that I'll break something."

X turns his head to the side, looking back as he heard Ollie speak and replying with a chuckle, "You wouldn't need to worry about that, kid. They're doing a pretty good job of breaking things on their own." He pushes himself off the ground, twisting in midair to sit on the top portion of the couch, eyes narrowing at Athena. "Let Tech show him around. You and I need to talk."

"Yeah it should be okay, that room is fortified..." Tech began to say then quickly turned his head to find Red X back in the tower.
"Ahh...!" Tech screamed and patted his chest, "Oh great another stalking butler...anyways I can press a button and this liquid...stuff will come down and expand on contact and pretty much stop them in their tracks." Just as Matthew finished speaking Nova had exploded in a flash of blinding light that made him cover his eyes, when he was able to look back at the screen he saw that the room had been destroyed making Tech scream again.

Athena saw the wonder in Ollie's face as they walked into the tower, she was too quiet impressed by the tower when she first walked into the tower but her good mood quickly turned when the tower was rocked from yet another explosion. Athena left Oliver as she floated passed the couch, she noticed Red X but chose to ignore him for the moment. Athena gave Matthew a look and was suddenly caught up to speed, Athena gave a sigh, it was like babysitting children some times. "Matthew take Oliver to the med ward and see what you can do for his leg then show him around, Red x... follow me you have 20 seconds." Athena ordered then began to float to the training room, it would take her 20 seconds to get there so Red x's time started 3 seconds ago.

Tech wiped away his tears, he would have to make more robots to keep up with the amount of destruction that the Titans did to their own home. "yeah okay," Tech said sadly. Matthew walked up to the boy with his head down, "Hello boy from the roof, my name is Tech Shock and I'll be your guide so follow me..." He walked down the hall and turned to an elevator door and pressed a button shortly after the doors open and Tech stepped into the elevator then waited for the injured boy.

The large Ice Block remained, black scorchs engulfed it but it seemed to remain intact. With the rest of the room destroyed to occured to Snow that it might be best if they halted, even if she was the one to say she was done. The tower might not be able to handle anymore. The top of the ice dome began to turn to dust, falling in piles around her. When the ice finally exposed her form she was sitting, curled into a little ball with her arms wrapped around her knees. Blue dust seemed to glitter from her form but as she stood Nova would see it wasnt dust. Her entire body had been encased in ice. She looked like a beautiful Ice Scuplture only a Master of the craft could produce. Dust sparkled around her as she stood making everything around her sparkle still. Perhaps we should stop for now. I do not think the Tower can take anymore of your raw power. The dust around them swirled like a vortex before disolving against her ice skin. When it was all gone her figure cracked and peices of ice fell from her body before disolving as well. Snow reached into her pocket and pulled out two suckers. She popped one into her mouth and offered the other to Nova. Tech is going to be upset.

"Exactly.." Nova said with a light smirk. The girl dropped her right arm to her side and both the sword and armor shattered into red lights that scattered around her. Nova returned to her regular clothes as she bowed her head to Snow before turning and walking to where the door was. The door, and nothing else. The door fell onto its back and Nova exited the room by walking over the door. She left and headed off toward her room.

Snow watched as Nova walked out of the destroyed Training room. After a moment she slowly turns her head to the camera high above them and just stared at it. As she stared at it frost began to cover the lense before it broke and Snow disappeared from the sensors.

Olli raised his eyebrows at Tech as he walked dejectedly past him. He hobbled after the character and got on the elevator and looked at the ceiling awkwardly. "You know," he said to the sniffling teen, "My dad is the department head of the computer department at Star Labs. And because of that, he has some pretty high level access. I'm pretty sure that I could "borrow" any tech equipment you may need to fix your...what was that room that was just destroyed? The excercise room? Yeah, the tech stuff at Star Labs could work a miracle on that."

Olli was telling Tech all of this because it was weirding him out to be so near a guy who was crying over machines. He must've built them himself, Olli thought quietly. Why else would he be so emotional over something like that?

Matthew wiped his nose with the sleeve of his shirt and straightened up, "Nah it's cool. My little nano bots will take care of the damage those two did to the training room...as soon as their done with the other room that was destroyed this morning." Matthew lifted his arm and little black spots began to come out of his sleeve and swirl around Tech's arm. "These ones are my suit so they stay with me at all times." He says as the nano bots went back into his sleeve. The elevator stops in the doors open to the medical ward, Tech steps out first and ushers Oliver into the room, "Right this way sir if you would." The room had four beds that were very clean and surrounded by hi-tech looking machines along with other medical looking things that you would find in any other hospital room.

Snow would be found upon the roof of the Tower. She was sitting against the ledge, her left leg hanging down and her right bent up where she set her arms and head. Her eyes were upon the setting sun and the city lights that turned on one by one. She enjoyed her solitary moments where she could watch the sunset, the warm day turn to cold but comforting night. It was in this time of day she liked to ponder on the days events.

First off there was the confrontation with Red X. Nova had dropped some files about him. How he went against the Titans back before her time. About how dangerous he was.

Second, and right after the thing with Red X the had a call in the city. Boomy, a MetaHuman who was able to create explosions. She couldnt get it around her head how he was able to do that still. He was captured by a group effort with a new player, Olli, who from her perspective was able to stop time. She was still very impressed and amazed at all the 'Still Life' people she saw during that. With Boomy disoriented after it wore off Nova jumped in and began an assault. With the help of these two she was able to take the Villain by surprise and freeze him from his feet up his body and arms and even over his mouth. Afterwards Athena mentally locked his powers so he couldnt use them anymore, for how long that would last Snow didnt know, and Boomy was sent to jail.

Lastly the 'Spar' between her and Nova. Nova had shown superior fighting skills with hand to hand against Snow. Snow wasnt even mildly advanced with hand to hand she was more of a Freeze everything until she won, which proved pointless against Novas intense Heat... Snow reached a hand up and wiped at a single bead of sweat that went down her forehead. Interesting.. she had exerted herself more then she ever thought she would. However while Nova was superior in Offense, her own defenses proved to be able to stop that power even it she did have to resort to her ultimate defense. Her mind went over Novas tactics. How she fought. How she used her powers along with her own fighting style....

Snow lifted a fist up and it began to glow a soft blue. She punched forward and frost shot out from her knuckles in a tiny amount. Useful. She said softly. She would have to practice a lot in order to expend frost in the same amount Nova used her fire but it seemed to work.

Her mind went back to Nova. She was in sight most of the day and Snow seemed very aware of her and the heat that followed her around. Snow didnt like Fire particularly but she didnt fear Nova in that regard. Snow looked back as the Sun had finally fully set and the city was ablaze with lights. Pretty. Her soft words still bland as ever. Her eyes closed and the roof she sat on turned blue and frosted over, making a circle of ice beneath her. She slowly began to seep into the ice, disappearing within that ring.

A ring of ice slowly appeared against the wall of her room and she stepped out, the ring fadding. Perhaps it was time to learn how to fight properly. Nova would be a good person to ask for help in that regard, she seemed very capable. Snow wondered if she would be able to handle such heat for long periods of time. Would Novas fire temper her? Or melt her?

Olli raised his brow in subtle disbelief. TWO rooms destroyed in one day, he thought. "Nanobots? That's kinda cool. My dad works with that type of stuff. But I try to stay away from it. Kinda creeps me out." All types of images ran through his mind about the destroyed rooms and nanobots on the rampage but before he had the chance to entertain them, they arrived at the med bay. It looked just like a hospital room fit for four people. The equipment looked clean and state of the art and it had the hospital smell that Olli hated.

He hobbled over to a bed and plopped down on it, relieved to be off his leg. It was hurting more than it was when the debris fell on it but he was able to dismiss the pain because of all of the excitement. Now that he was calm, the pain was palpable.

"I don't suppose you have anything to numb this pain in my leg," Olli asked Tech as he looked down at his leg. His pants leg was torn so he could see that already purple bruise. He looked closser and could swear that he saw his leg pulsating.