Well here goes another chapter of Brotherhood of Joker. I enjoyed writing this chapter and how it deals with some issues in the show that I wished had been dealt with. I want to thank all my reviewers, you have kept me inspired doing this and nothing is greater for a writer than inspartion. I want to thank reviwers like El Queso and Tammy Tamborine, and all of you guys for keeping me inspired to do this. All characters are product of DC comics.
A black raven shaped form appeared in the infirmary at Titan's Tower, and out of it came four distinct looking individuals. The first one was a man wearing a cape and a bat-like cowl, already setting up the infirmary. The next was a pale skinned, purple-haired girl with a concerned look on her face and determination in her eyes as she helped the first man. Last came a half-human, half-robot man carrying an unconscious green-skinned young man, to which he set him on the table.
"Raven, I want you to start healing him, but don't too much. Just enough to make sure that he stays alive. We're going to need you to finish up his injuries, but we'll take care of most of his injuries, then you'll finish up," Batman said as he got the supplies ready. He was actually surprised that the green Titan was still alive after his encounter with the Joker. Getting shocked, and at that high voltage, was a truly painful and deadly experience, he attributed it to the young man's unique physiology.
Raven nodded and proceeded over to Beast Boy and raised her hands to six inches above his body and a blue glow emitted from her hands, which spread her healing magic all over his body. As she started to heal him, she felt the pain that was coming from him and enter her own body. It didn't match ailment per ailment but instead the pain came at the center of her body, and it was a lot. The more she healed him, the more respect she gained for the green changeling. He had been through a lot.
"That's enough Raven, we'll take over." Batman said as he prepared all the necessary equipment to treat Beast Boy's wounds. Raven nodded and sat down in a chair in the corner. She was slightly relieved that Batman stopped her when he did; the pain she felt from healing Beast Boy was astounding. She had no idea how on earth he had survived something like that. When her empathy sensed him, it nearly drove her insane; the little grass stain was a lot stronger than anyone gave him credit for.
As Batman and Cyborg were cleaning and working on the electrical burns that Beast Boy had, a glum feeling came over Cyborg. Beast Boy was luckily out of the woods when it came to being life threating, but he still had a lot of injuries on him. How had that sick bastard Joker been able to stand doing something like this to someone else? The only one who seemed to take more pleasure in causing pain that he ever seen was Trigon, and that guy was the embodiment of pure evil. Next time Cyborg saw the Joker, the Joker would pay hell for what he did.
"Alright, we've done all we can, Raven if you want to, you can finish healing him up then take a break," Batman said while putting the medical supplies away. He was grateful that someone like Alfred did this kind of thing with him. He wasn't sure how well he would do against his war on crime if he had to fix himself up all the time. He really should give that man a raise for all of his work.
Raven nodded and walked over to Beast Boy to heal him again. This time around it wasn't as painful since Cyborg and Batman fixed him up, but it still took a lot out of her. Damn you Garfield. How could you get yourself into something like this? If you died I don't know what I would have done, but trust me I would have found a way to make you pay. When she was done she stumbled and nearly fell over.
"Raven!" Cyborg yelled as he caught her. "You ok girl?"
"I'll be fine; I just got a little dizzy. Healing takes a lot out of me. Don't worry, I just need to rest then I'll be fine," Raven said as she brushed him off.
"Well if you're sure," Cyborg said a little doubtfully. He knew a lot about Raven's healing power and how much it took out of her. Judging by the way Beast Boy looked before and the way he looked now he knew she did a lot of healing. Beast Boy looked closer to just stopping Cinderblock, not being electrocuted for almost twenty minutes straight.
"I'm fine. I'm just going to lie down here in the next bed and take a breather. I really don't feel like walking to my room," Raven said while she lay down on the next bed.
"That's fine. Just call us when he wakes up," Cyborg knew that Raven was weak and probably wanted to lie down now, but he knew it had a little more to do with keeping an eye on Beast Boy. Raven was normally too proud to show any side of weakness and would have walked to her room. Oh well, he would rib on her later.
"I'm going to do some research on the Joker right now and wait for Robin. If anything changes notify me immediately," Batman said as he walked out. Raven nodded and shooed them away. As she closed her eyes she took one last look at Beasts Boy. You better be glad you made it out of this ok Garfield. If you hadn't I would personally bring you from the spirit world and give you the mother of all beatings. With that she closed her eyes and drifted off into unconsciousness.
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Beast Boy woke up with the mother of all headaches. The last thing he remembered was getting shocked by Joker. He quickly shot up and looked around. He shouldn't have done that though because it just made his headache that much worse.
"Oww. Shit dude, that hurt," Beast Boy said grabbing his head. When he recovered he looked up and noticed Raven. At first he was happy, and then he noticed that she had an extreme mad look on her face.
"Great what did I do-"
SMACK
Beast Boy grabbed his cheek to where Raven slapped him. He was shocked because that really hurt a lot. When he was about to question her about it she threw her arms around his neck and hugged him tightly.
"Don't you ever do that again, Garfield. Do you have any idea how scared I was when I heard that the Joker had you? I was petrified," Raven said fighting to keep the tears back from her voice.
Beast Boy was shocked by this but returned the embrace with equal fervor. He was scared too that he would never see Raven again and tell her all that he wanted to tell her. At first he thought about saying what he wanted to, but holding Raven like that was just too enjoyable.
"Hey now, I'm ok now. You don't have to worry, I won't ever do that again," Beast Boy cooed. He really wanted to make Raven feel comforted again. He always wanted the resident mistress of magic to be comfterable.
"You better not. If you hadn't had made it I promised myself I was going to pull you from the spirit world and give you the mother of all beatings," Raven said with a frown on her face but gratitude in her eyes.
"Why do you think I made sure I made it? You really think I wanted to end up on the other side of one of your beatings?" Beast Boy joked with a grin on his face.
"You better wipe that shit eating grin off your face Gar. Otherwise I still might give you the mother of all beatings," Raven deadpanned, but she still had a ghost of a smile on her face. Beast Boy chuckled, but just then the rest of the Titans, sans Batman, walked in and Beast Boy immediately clamped up. This surprised Raven, she thought he would be happy to see his friends.
"Hey Beast Boy," Robin greeted with a smile. When he noticed the look on Beast Boy's face he immediately frowned. Normally, when you survive an experience like that you want to celebrate, but apparently Beast Boy was upset about something.
"Is something wrong?" Robin asked, frowning.
"What do you think, Robin?" Beast Boy said the Robin part with venom from his voice.
"I'll take that as a yes. However, I don't know what your problem is Beast Boy," Robin said calmly. No use in letting this get into a shouting match if he could prevent it.
"Well you never do see what the problem when it comes to your friends now do you?" Beast Boy asked sarcastically. He was going to vent his issues with the Boy Wonder now.
"What is that supposed to mean?" Robin asked getting defensive. This seem to come completely out of left field. Of course he cared about his teammates, he wouldn't have bent over backwards to find Beast Boy and rescue him.
"It means that you never trusted me ever. I called to let you know that the Joker was here in town and you just brushed me off." Beast Boy growled. The Boy Wonder never did seem to trust him in Beast Boy's mind.
"Beast Boy, Batman told me that Joker was in Arkham still. Twenty minutes after you left he called to let me know that Joker was coming into town. How was I supposed to know that he was here in town?" Robin asked perplexed.
"Simple you could have trusted me. You always did have a problem doing that," Beast Boy said getting defiant.
"What the hell do you mean by that? That's the second time you've told me that. Now I want to know what the hell you mean by that." Robin now was going to get to the bottom of what Beast Boy meant when he had said that earlier.
"Meaning that you have never trusted me ever. When I turned into the Beast I told you that I would never hurt Raven. That I couldn't hurt Raven, however instead of trusting your friend what do you do? You threaten to throw me in jail and lock away the key," Beast Boy vented. He had been holding this in for a long time.
"We thought that you hurt Raven, Beast Boy. How was I supposed to know that you hadn't hurt her," Robin knew that what he did was the right thing to do. All the evidence at the time pointed to Beast Boy hurting Raven.
"Oh I don't know maybe waiting until the victim woke up. Isn't it normally proper procedure to wait until the victim wakes up," Beast Boy said almost smugly. "And none of you others seem to have any trust in me either. Cyborg, Starfire, why didn't either of you stick up for me huh?" Cyborg and Starfire were surprised by this. They had stayed out of the way of this. They knew that the Beast incident was a sensitive subject between the two, but they didn't know that he had issues with all of them.
"What do you mean B?" Cyborg asked getting a little defensive. He didn't think that he had really done anything wrong during that whole incident. He had just stood back and let the two deals with it.
"What do you think I mean Cy? You're supposed to be my best friend dude. You should have known that I would never hurt Raven. Why didn't you ask Robin to back off and wait until Raven woke up? And you Star, you should have also known that I wouldn't do that, yet you didn't trust me. How come when Robin was Slade's apprentice you had absolute trust in him, but when there was even doubt that I might have hurt Raven you threw all of that out the window? When Terra betrayed us you still wanted to help her come back to our side and work on fixing her wrongs. Yet, when I get thrown into the question you don't stand up for me. I thought that you had complete and total trust in your friends, but I guess that stops at me." Beast Boy said all of this while fighting back the tears in his voice. "Ya'll have never trusted me ever, even when it came to the Brotherhood of Evil. I told you that we shouldn't split up that we should stick together, but did you listen, no. You all agreed with Robin, even though I was the one who had fought them all of my lives. If we were going up against Joker during that time, ya'll would have deferred to Robin, why not me?" As he said this Cyborg was looking down glum. He had truly hurt his best friend and he didn't feel much taller than Ray Palmer, the Atom. Starfire had her hand to her mouth trying to fight back sobs. She had never meant to hurt her friend. She had to make it up to Beast Boy in some way.
"Beast Boy-" she started.
"Save it Star, I don't want to hear it." That statement broke her heart and she ran out of the room crying the whole way.
Robin went after her but before he did he turned back to Beast Boy. "Smooth move Beast Boy,"
"Yeah whatever, Dick Grayson," Beast Boy said challenging.
Everyone's eyes went wide. "What?"