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The Titan 22
🕑 Added 2025-01-17 01:22:00 +0000 UTCChapter 22:
– Titus –
Superman’s fist slammed into my jaw hard enough to make my head snap to the side, but I came right back with a hook that caught him square in the ribs. He grunted, the sound more pissed than hurt, and came at me again. We were trading blows like our lives depended on it, and they probably did.
I wasn’t holding back, and neither was he. The bruises on his face were proof of that. I could feel the sting from his punches, but it wasn’t enough to stop me.
If anything, it just pissed me off more.
I grabbed his arm mid-swing, twisting it behind him and driving my knee into his stomach as hard as I could. He let out a sharp gasp, and before he could recover, I clasped both hands together and slammed them down onto the back of his neck.
“Stay down,” I growled, but I already knew he wouldn’t listen.
The force of my blow sent him hurtling toward the ground, and the impact was massive. He hit the frozen landscape like a meteor, the shockwave ripping through the air and leaving a crater so deep that the snow around it melted instantly. A thunderous boom echoed across the landscape, shaking everything around us.
From above, I could hear Grail’s voice shouting excitedly. “Is that the best you’ve got?!” The yellow lanterns she was fighting screamed in terror as she tore through them one by one.
I glanced in her direction and saw her rip another yellow lantern in half by yanking both his arms. Her red eyes glowed with pure delight. “Come on! You’re supposed to be warriors! Not a bunch of weak pussies!” she sneered, grabbing another one of them by the throat before crushing his windpipe.
...If he had one. He kind of looked like a mix between a bug and a mummy so who knows when it comes to some of these aliens.
“Grail, you’re enjoying this way too much!” I called out.
“You’re just jealous I’m having more fun than you,” she shot back with a wicked grin before flying at another lantern who may or may not have been pissing himself. Some kind of liquid was spilling down from the sky at least.
Superman emerged from the boiling water, steam hissing off his body. He looked absolutely pissed. His costume was shredded, barely hanging onto his muscular frame, and the yellow lantern aura around him flickered weakly, like it was running on fumes.
“It didn’t have to be this way, Titus!” he shouted, his voice raw with frustration and anger.
I stared down at him in disbelief. “That was literally what I told you before all this shit started,” I muttered under my breath. The guy was delusional. He was the one who’d gone off the deep end and murdered the Flash, his own fucking teammate, over a single comment. There was no reasoning with someone like that, and I knew it.
A final scream echoed through the air, signaling the end of the last yellow lantern. I glanced over to see Grail floating toward me, her armor spattered with alien blood. Somehow, she still managed to look ridiculously hot. She caught me checking her out and smirked, her glowing red eyes narrowing slightly before she turned her attention to Superman below.
“Do you need my help killing Superdickhead?” she asked, her tone dripping with amusement. She seemed pretty proud of that one.
I rolled my eyes at her. “I can handle him myself.”
“Good,” she said, crossing her arms and hovering higher. “Because I don’t hang out with pussies who need help with their fights.”
I raised an eyebrow. “I mean… you just helped me out now.”
She scoffed. “You know what I mean! A 20-on-1 fight is hardly fair. But I’m not going to help you fight one guy. Go feed him his own dick.” She said.
Superman’s eyes darted between me and Grail, his jaw clenching as he seemed to realize how dire his situation had become.
“You don’t have to worry about her,” I told him, gesturing toward Grail. “Your fight is with me.”
“Yeah! And if Titus loses, then I’ll kill you!” Grail cheered from above, clearly having way too much fun.
Superman glared at her but didn’t respond. I couldn’t help but let out a small snicker at the ridiculousness of the situation. But that was all the time I had to spare.
In the next instant, I flew straight down at Superman, breaking the sound barrier multiple times as I closed the distance, crashing down on him!
His eyes widened in shock, and before he could react, I slammed both my fists into his chest with everything I had. The force of the impact triggered another massive explosion of steam, much bigger than the last one. The blast was deafening, and for a moment, I couldn’t see an inch in front of my face. But that didn’t matter because I still had one hand gripping his torn costume.
When the steam started to clear, I was leaning over him in the center of an even larger crater. Boiling water was already pouring back in around us, but I didn’t care. I started wailing on his face, delivering one powerful blow after another.
Superman struggled beneath me, trying to push me off, but it was no use. He was out of gas, and his yellow lantern ring had completely stopped working. Each punch I landed shook the ground beneath us, sending ripples through the water and cracking the earth further. My fist glowed gold with all the divine energy I had left, and I didn’t hold back.
“You could’ve stopped this at any time!” I growled, punctuating each word with another punch. “You didn’t have to kill your own people! You didn’t have to become this!”
I mean fuck, he made my piece of shit superman seem like father of the fucking year! That was saying something! I don't know what that something was, but it was something!
Superman’s face was battered and bloodied, but he kept glaring at me, defiant even now. “I did what had to be done,” he rasped, his voice weak but still filled with conviction.
“Bullshit,” I snapped, slamming him down even harder. “You’re just a coward hiding behind all that power of yours. You’re done!”
“BOOOOOOM!”
The Alaskan wilderness shook violently one last time and Superman lost consciousness. I reached down and yanked the yellow lantern ring off of his finger as Grail landed next to me with an appreciative whistle.
Her hand darted out and yanked it from my fingers. "I can add this to my collection! This is my reward for saving your handsome ass!"
I raised an eyebrow at her. "You have a collection?" Why did that not surprise me? I didn't bother asking how she had one, the answer was obviously violence. "Are you sure that's all you want as a reward though?" I asked her while running my hand through my hair. My ears had stopped ringing and I could feel the bruises all over my body already healing up.
Grail’s eyes darted left and right, as if checking to see if we were alone. “Okay, I suppose I also wouldn’t mind another type of reward,” she said with a smirk before grabbing the front of my costume and yanking my face toward hers. Her lips crashed into mine, and she kissed me passionately. Her tongue didn’t hesitate to push inside my mouth, dominating mine as our lips moved together. It was an incredibly hot kiss, and I felt like if we didn’t stop, I wouldn’t be able to hold back from just taking her right here.
There was still fighting going on at the power plant nearby that we needed to help with, though.
Grail pulled her lips back from mine as suddenly as she started and licked them while winking at me. “You were right, that was a much better reward!” she declared.
I felt my cheeks heat up at her comment and quickly adjusted my pants, trying to make my boner less obvious. Of course, Grail noticed. Her eyes flicked down before meeting mine again with a smirk that only made things worse.
Before I could say anything, a massive crash rang out from nearby. The boiling water that had filled the crater up to our knees started sloshing violently. I left Superman’s body floating face-up and took to the air, Grail following close behind me.
“Is that a Kraken?” I asked out loud as we spotted a giant octopus-like monster lying dead in the snow.
Shazam was floating over to us, grinning ear to ear with Hercules beside him. Both of them looked way too pleased with themselves.
“What are you doing here, Billy?” He was supposed to stay away where it was safer.
“I wanted to help,” Billy said with a shrug. “And we already took care of Atlantis and their secret weapon.” He gestured toward the massive dead creature.
“It was quite a fight,” Hercules added, flexing dramatically. “Even better, after we defeated it, the lovely Queen Mera surrendered immediately and announced that Atlantis would no longer support her husband Aquaman… or should I say former husband!” He grinned.
Billy rolled his eyes. “Hercules kept trying to make the queen fall in love with him or something. I don’t know why though…?”
Ah, Billy… still so innocent.
Hercules wiggled his eyebrows at me and Grail, clearly fishing for a reaction.
I just sighed. I supposed with Superman defeated there shouldn’t be anyone left to hurt Billy. “There’s still some fighting going on at the power plant if you want to help,” I pointed out.
Billy perked up immediately. “Let’s go then! It’s time to be heroes!” He zipped off toward the plant without a second thought.
“He’s a fun kid. Can’t wait till he’s older and we can have less censored adventures together. We’re both champions of Olympus, after all,” Hercules laughed, crouching down before launching himself toward the power plant with a single powerful leap.
Before Grail and I followed after them, I stopped her. Something about the whole situation didn’t make sense, and I needed to clear it up. “Hey, Grail, quick question. Atlantis is in the Bermuda Triangle, right? Why the hell would they drag the Kraken’s body all the way to Alaska after killing it then?”
She stared at me like I’d just asked why water was wet. “Obviously, it’s because they wanted to make an epic fucking entrance!” she said as if that was the obviously normal thing to do. “Here, let me show you!” And before I could say a word, she was off, flying toward the power plant at full speed.
“Grail, wait!” I called out, already knowing it was pointless. I took off after her, snow and ice whipping past me as I pushed my speed to keep up.
"Crash!"
I arrived just in time to see Grail bursting through the power plant walls like a battering ram. She came to a dramatic stop in the middle of the room, striking a pose with a cocky grin plastered on her face. “Surprise, motherfuckers!” she shouted, and before anyone could react, her omega beams shot from her eyes, blazing through the air.
Cyborg was the unlucky target. His lone human eye widened in pure shock just before the beams slammed into the robotic side of his chest, punching a smoking hole clean through the metal. It didn’t hit his human heart, thankfully, but he still dropped out of the air like a sack of bricks. Whatever tech was allowing him to fly sputtered out...
I let out a small sigh of relief. At least Grail wasn’t blatantly murdering members of the regime in front of the Justice League. We could still claim plausible deniability with the dead aliens outside. Hell, we could even blame Superman for it if we had to. Nobody was going to take his word over mine at this point anyway.
Raven, who had been fighting Cyborg, turned to glance at us. Her expression was a mix between exasperation and annoyance. "Kill stealer..." she complained to Grail.
Grail just shot Raven a smirk before diving headfirst into a nearby group of Atlantean soldiers that came to support the regime and probably immediately started regretting it! Bones snapped like twigs as she tore through them, tossing one into another and bending limbs in directions they were never meant to go. She wasn’t killing them, technically, but judging by the sounds, some of them probably wished she had.
I flew over to Raven, landing lightly on the ground. "Fancy seeing you here," I said with a grin.
Raven rolled her eyes at me. "So that’s Grail, huh? She’s certainly aggressive," she pointed out flatly.
“My leg!”
“Oh god! It hurts!”
“I want to go back to the ocean! The surface is scary!”
The Atlantean soldiers were whining like babies while Grail dusted off her hands, looking for her next victim.
“How dare you attack my soldiers, bitch!” Aquaman suddenly pushed away his own opponent and charged at Grail with his magic trident glowing gold. She narrowed her eyes at the challenge but, unfortunately for her, she wasn’t going to get it since Hercules suddenly landed in front of her.
“I’ve been looking for you, fishdick! Your ex-wife is hot, and I need to beat you down here and now to prove I’m a better man! For there is no woman who can resist my charms!” Hercules yelled so loudly that for a moment, almost all the fighting completely stopped.
I could even see my mother, Diana, Power Girl, and this world’s Diana—who looked bruised and battered—all glaring at Hercules together!
…Nothing brings women together quite like collectively hating on somebody…
Aquaman gaped for a moment before letting out a roar about "staying away from my wife" and charging Hercules with his trident. Hercules grinning like an idiot that he apparently was–roared as well.
And then they both ended up getting hit by a massive burst of lighting at the same time…
“Ah, darn it! Sorry… I was aiming for the other guy!” Shazam said awkwardly to a now sparking and smoking Hercules who was pouting at him.
The other guy wasn't looking too good though. Aquaman was on the ground twitching like a dying fish.
“Quit gawking and help us wrap this up, Titan!” I turned and saw that I just got yelled at by one of two Batmans who were fighting side by side against Ra’s and Talia al Ghul.
There weren’t a lot of regime members left at this point, it looked like my own Justice League was kicking their asses, but I guessed I could help wrap things up here.
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Comments
Josh
this story is fucking great
ADiscZ2
There was only one thing that went through my head when I read it, voice and all. Apt that it came from an undersea being. My Leg!
WhatAFungi
Thanks for the chapter!
