Blackbird Rising
by Snea a.k.a. Rakushi
A/N: So annoying. These new fic rules are so wrong. Anyway, repost of prologue for my second TT fic (which is the prequel to my first one that I'm not posting till this is done). Enjoy...again!
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Disclaimer: Like I own Teen Titans. If I did, BB and Rae would be together and Terra wouldn't exist. XD
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Key:
"..." – Regular Speech
'...' – Regular Thought
Bold Italics –Flashback
"Italic speech" – Different language (depends on character)
/.../ – Thought Speech/Telepathy
Anything in between (...) and is italic or bold-italic is the translation.
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Prologue
She looked around the doorway, eyes glittering in the dim light of the building ruins. She slid inside the room and looked around. No one was present.
Good. She looked back out the doorway to make sure no one had followed. No one had, and she started to get nervous. Things normally went wrong at this point, and nothing had. Sighing, she turned back to the empty room.
A previously empty room that was now filled with robo-ninjas, that is. Her mouth dropped open. 'No. Way.' A shadow behind the lines of ninjas moved. The lines parted and a man walked forward. He was dressed in a simple charcoal Armani suit, black dress shoes, and a one-eyed mask, half-black half-red. A yellow 'E' surrounded in a blue hexagon with a purple border was stamped on the pocket of his suit. Blackbird growled, extending her claws and narrowing her eyes. The man looked at her and shook his head. He narrowed his own eye and 'tsked.'
"Blackbird, Blackbird, Blackbird," he chided. "Or should I call you experiment one-oh-nine?" he asked. She bristled and bared her teeth, growling louder. The man grinned behind his mask. He'd hit his mark like a pro archer. "Edals does not like misbehavior, One-oh-nine, as you remember from our shocking years together." He said this slowly, as if the words were oil, and as he said this he pulled a taser-gun from behind his back.
She shrank back from the sight of it. Edals stepped closer and said, in his oily voice, "Apparently you have a fascination with our ruined laboratory" -he gestured around at broken glass, aged support beams, and large gears- "that should have been contained by you and your fellow Modern Titans 3 years ago. So why come back now?"
Her form shifted and she spoke. "Because someone forgot to turn the lights off!" She lunged, teeth bared, pupils constricted in rage. The robots sprang to life, firing and leaping at the girl. Grabbing her, they pinned her down as the man stepped forward.
Edals sighed, pulling out a syringe as he stepped towards the struggling creature being held. Removing the cap of the syringe, he attached it to the top of the taser-gun. A needle tip extended from the gun between the conductors, and an electric current arched around the needle. A sharp jerk shook off two of the ninjas, making Edals pause and think.
The combined effect of the electric current and substance would viralate the girl's mind and body, making further and experimentation on her useless. He watched the fruitless struggle against the robots pursue. For a second, he pitied the girl, but a stray swipe on his shoe rectified the sentiment. He plunged the needle into her side, pressing the trigger and watching the electricity short circuit the remaining robots holding the girl down. But then something happened he didn't expect.
Rather than weaken her, as it was supposed to, the electricity seemed to have no effect. Well, no immediately visible effect.
Her eyes shot open, pupils, which had been dilated, were no longer visible. An arch of electricity streaked up the taser and made the syringe explode. The shattered glass embedded itself in Edals' hand, drawing blood and making him back up quickly. With a yowl of pain, electricity still arching around her, Blackbird disappeared. The taser-gun fell to the ground, the hollow clatter echoed in the room.
Edals bit back a curse.
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(...end prologue...)
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Okay, basically what I was trying to get across here was that it was supposed to infect her...badly. Don't think 'viralate' is a word though...
A/N: Okay, I'm reposting this b/c FF.N deleted it b/c it had that announcement chapter on it. XP Evil ones... Anyway, the second chapter is kinda short, but will be up soon (if SOLs don't get in the way).