Experiment

Thank you for your support and ideas so here I go! -Lord of the files

A red alarm went off throughout the compound. Both Beast boy and Blackfire got up lazily. Beast boy shifted his glance towards Blackfire. Her black hair was messed up a little and her hands went up to flatten it. She yawned and stretched as Beast boy did the same. Her violet eyes were not looking at his so he turned to where she was staring. The door was sliding back slightly.

A giant man in a heavily fortified armor had his gun trained on them as he said, "Out."

Blackfire smiled and made her way out and Beast boy followed. The guard stayed three steps behind them as he led them to the cafeteria.

"Why—" Beast boy started.

"It's because that dumb alien tried to escape," Blackfire said calmly.

There were no catcalls or hollering at her today. The guards were not playing today. This was reinforced at the stairs.

Beast boy and Blackfire saw a giant bipedal with pincers for hands stepping down gingerly onto the stairs. A smaller alien maneuvered right in front of him and to not crush the alien he took a step back. Quick laser blasts erupted from the riffle piercing through the alien and making him topple over and crunch the smaller alien.

"Get down!" The guard escorting Beast boy and Blackfire yelled aiming his shoulder cannon at the corpse. Both hit the ground hard as they heard an ear popping bang as a wave of energy past them. A ball of pure energy whirled past them as it made it's way towards the corpses. They exploded in a giant bloody gooey mess.

"Eww…" Beast boy said holding a hand to his mouth, "That really kicks in my want to eat."

"Get up," the guard said pulling them up.

Beast boy smiled, 'Was that a hint of a smile he saw on the guards face?'

No probably not he realized when he was pushed into the cafeteria with enough force to knock him down again.

What Beast boy noticed first was that the entire cafeteria was organized and civil. No one wanted to start a fight that could make the guards angry or edgy. So as Blackfire made her way towards the front of the line no one stopped her, but there was the occasional dirty look. Looks that promised vengeance later. After getting their food they made way towards a table that was empty. The guards on the catwalk overhead made sure their presence was known at all times. Occasional one would fire a gun that when the bullet touched flesh it would become spongy and weigh down the prisoner. Laughs would soon follow when the alien affected would struggle hopelessly with the extra weight; laughs from the guards Beast boy reconsidered. None of the prisoners ever laughed.

Beast boy's and Blackfire's meal was mostly in silence, but they didn't mind. The spongy bullet would hit prisoners that talked too much.

"Alright prisoners to the square," the head guard said loudly. At once aliens started to move. Blackfire grabbed his hand and made him go quicker.

"Why—" Beast boy stared.

She didn't say anything and shortly later Beast boy understood why. The guards were taking pot shots of the prisoners that didn't move quickly enough for their taste. Guards at the end of the cafeteria started to usher all the prisoners into the square where they got their regular two hours of sun.

"Well that isn't too bad," Beast boy said after Blackfire told them how long they were staying out.

She gave him this weird look and said, "You don't realize yet that there isn't anything 'too bad' here. Just things really bad."

He shrugged and as the guard led them outside he was nearly blinded. His skin was tingling and sweaty already.

Blackfire seemed to be smiling, "You get used to it."

Beast boy was about to say 'I won't', but he caught himself. He didn't want to get killed yet.

Instead he had a big smile and said, "Goodness gracious, it's blistering out here. Isn't it dear."

She laughed a little and quickly she grabbed his hand again and led them to an area of shade. It was already taken, and by who else? Why it was four eyes, the one that hated them so much.

"What do you want," four eyes asked.

Beast boy smiled dangerously, "Why nothing but a chance to share your shade."
"Get lost, I had this spot first."

Blackfire sighed dramatically and turned to Beast boy, "Told you he wouldn't listen."

Four eyes glared at them and started to growl.

"Oh, we should leave now, he might have diseases," Beast boy said as if he were an adult telling his kid to move along from a stray dog.

"You listen to me piss ant! You won that fight yesterdaybecause you cheated! Now try me," Four eyes yelled at them getting his arms in a fighting position.

Beast boy was smiling and was about to change form when he heard behind him, "What is this then?"

Without having to turn around he knew it was a guard. And to top it off the guard that threatened Blackfire the day before.

Four eyes lowered his hands and said submissively, "Nothing sir."

Beast boy could imagine the smirk on the guard's face and the condescending look when he said, "Good, good. Now cadets, what you see before you is an ideal prisoner."

The head guard then pushed Beast boy to the ground and told him not to get up as he continued to make his way towards four eyes. Four eyes lowered his eyes respectively as if he were a slave daring not to look at his master.

"Now cadets as this perfect prisoner will pose as a not soperfect prisoner, I will show you how to subdue one," the guard then took out a long metal rod. He pushed a switch on the rod and itstarted to glowinto a bright red color. Suddenly he put all his weight into a swing and backhanded four eyes. The giant monster flew in the air for a second before landing hard on the desert floor. The head master then proceeded to teach his students on how to beat an alien on the ground; how it was necessary so that the alien didn't pick himself off and try and do something harmful to someone else. He then started to bludgeon four eyes with that laser baton. Hits to the arms at first when four eyes resisted. Hits to legs as four eyes continued to resist. Hits to the chest when four eyes lost his resistance. Hits to the head when four eyes lost all hope. Blood started to come out when the teacher decided that it was enough.

"Now who would like to take over," he said when he offered his students the baton.

The students didn't know what to do when one of them rose his hand.

"Good," the teacher said when he threw the baton at the student. As the student came forward though the head guard took out his gun and fired it five times, three times in the chest and two in between the eyes.

Then he calmly said, "You saw. A cadet mindlessly and brutally beat down a prisoner to the point where it was unnecessary."

Beast boy looked over to Blackfire while the students got the meaning of the head guards statement. Blackfire didn't look all that bad. She looked like she had seen this stuff day after day after day. But what caught his attention was the fact that she was looking at him first.

She smiled and mouthed the words, 'Thank you'.

"Well, well, what do we have here?" the head guard said smiling, "What is this I see? Two prisoners lying on the ground for longer then twenty minutes, I think you should move along. Because if you stay longer and start thinking I'll have to think that you are planning an escape."

Blackfire pushed herself up and Beast boy did the same. She casually dusted herself off and yawned. Then she motioned towards the shade. As they sat down in the shade the guards started to move out to other sides of the playing field. That's when she put her hands on her face and breathed deeply. Beast boy was about to put a hand on her shoulder and say everything was all right when he realized something. He couldn't. He really couldn't. So he did nothing but sit against the tree offering the shade. Putting his hands on his knees he closed his eyes to think.

"I'm glad you didn't try and do anything."

"Of course not," Beast boy said sarcastically, "Contrary to popular belief I'm not an idiot."

Blackfire laughed at that and casually put her hand on one of Beast boy's.

He rose his eyebrows at her at this gesture, when she smiled and said, "I'm glad that you are here Beast boy. I'm so very glad."

Beast boy smiled a toothy grin and said, "We'll guess what, I wouldn't trade this for anything."

Blackfire rolled her eyes and said, "Yeah I bet you would."

"Well I would like to be at a beach resort doing this, but hey this is like a resort. We got sand, evil people directing our lives, all we need are drinks with little umbrellas."

"Tell you what after this I'll make you a drink with a little umbrella."

"That sounds good," Beast boy said.

Blackfire then grasped his hand and said huskily, "Also I'll make it feel like a resort."

Beast boy got shivers down his spine when she said that. The good kind of shivers. The shivers that are your friends.

"That sounds better."

Both shared a smile and sat there. Hand in hand.