Note: This act will be the shortest one, but it helps build up for the finale. So bear with me here XD thx!
Act 3
"It's Doctor Light." Robin confirmed again.
Beast Boy said nothing, and neither did Raven. He felt Raven's hand on his, and then the sound of her leaving. He was alone.
Beast Boy had come to a decision. He wasn't going to stay on the team blind, would not hobble around the tower with a walking stick, feeling his way around. He would not live off on the work of his teammates. He wasn't going to stay on the team at all.
Once Cyborg gave the final word on his condition. He would run away. Transform into a bat and fly to the nearest cave. Better to hide, then to let his friends see him like this. They would never find him, even if they bothered to look. It would be easier this way.
And now Beast Boy settled down again, trapped in the lonely dark world that he had known for weeks.
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I am a genius
The cackling laugh was followed by a flash of lightning, which melted the steel doors of the bank vault, revealing a huge stash of gold bars and diamonds. Paper money would never do for the ingenious Doctor Light! Only gold and diamonds, in their radiating beauty, could satisfy his personal greed.
Meanwhile, outside the bank, the smoking remains of a squadron of police cruisers burned brightly against the black sky.
A true genius! He laughed again. His victory over the Titans had made him into a new man. His fear had turned into exultation. He had fought, he had survived. He had beaten his pursuers, he had beaten the Teen Titans. He had lied about his strength, his prowess. Now the lies had come true. No longer was he bound by the fear of that wretched witch!
He levitated the gold and diamonds in a glowing yellow ball of energy now, another trick he had given his suit from his last encounter with Raven. With an air of confidence, the good doctor ran out the bank. The door meant freedom. Freedom not only from the police, but from that fear that had dogged him all this time. That overwhelming darkness. Those titans. But now they could choke on their anger for all he could care! He had beaten them!
He shouted his triumph just as a steel bar flew right in front of him. Missing his side by just a few inches. The bar flew just like a spear, and it dug itself deep within the concrete wall that was to Doctor light's side. The immense force from the throw itself was enough to make cracks appear.
This suddenly, deadly strike temporarily took Doctor Light off guard, but no matter! He was the master of his fears! He even gave a grin as the four Titans assembled before him. Starfire and Raven both had their hands charged while Cyborg had his sonic blaster out. Robin stood ready with two bo staffs in hand.
"Ah the Teen Titans. So nice to see you again. Tell me, how is your friend?" The Doctor gave an evil grin, then laughed as he shot two laser beams from his suit at the Titans.
"Titans. Take. Him. Down." Robin said with an icy steel in his voice.
The four titans split, Cyborg running and firing his sonic cannon while Robin threw explosive discs.
Doctor light merely cancelled these out with a palm of his hand. A force field already formed over his body.
Starfire was up now, trying to smash the field with her bare hands.
"You will surrender at once!" The Tamaranian, usually asking for surrender, shouted this as a demand.
"Or what my dear?" Light gave a self-satisfied laugh.
Starfire dove into the ground now, tearing at the floor with her hands and rolling up the ground beneath Doctor Light's feet. The villain tripped, falling backwards, but not before he threw one of his devices at Starfire, trapping her instantly in a white force field.
Light laughed as he saw Starfire attempt to escape her small prison, but was quickly thrown off by Cyborg and Robin, who decided to go in close for the kill.
The Doctor jumped to avoid Cyborg's punch, which made a neat crater in the ground, but he could not dodge Robin's bo staff as it made contact with his face.
Doctor Light grunted as he was thrown back, managing to stay on his feet. Cyborg and Robin eyed their target firmly as they made another charge.
"You will pay for that." Light grinned, producing two electric whips, one in each hand. The first one wrapped around Cyborg, sending an electric charge through him and throwing him into a nearby wall. While the second whip sliced Robin's bo staff in half, knocking him onto the ground.
"And once again. I, Doctor Light, emerge victorious." The villain laughed, only to be cut off by a voice from behind him.
"I don't think so." Raven appeared behind him now, a dark shadow casting itself loomingly over the room.
"Ah. If it isn't the witch." Light turned to face Raven, and in that split second he fired every single weapon on his suit. His palms shot a constant stream of light at the titan while his chest cannon and electric whips pummeled her. A series of explosions lit up the room in a brilliant flash, shaking the bank at its very foundations.
Light however, wasn't through. He took out two disc like devices, tossing them into the maelstrom of light and smoke.
Within seconds the room vanished into a blinding white light, and the cackling of electricity filled the air.
"Raven!" Robin shouted as the rest of the Titans looked in horror.
Doctor Light gave a triumphant laugh as he stared into the cloud of smoke. Not a sound. He had done it.
"At last! I Doctor Light-"
A dark blast stabbed through the smoke, hitting Doctor Light and throwing him back as another explosion rocked the bank.
As the smoke cleared, Doctor Light widened his eyes. It was the thing from his nightmares. Black Tentacles, thousands of them completely filled that corner of the room. Some even stretched into the walls, their shadows steadily entroaching on light while at the source of all this, was the demon. That tall misshapen thing that had dragged him to the darkest depths of his nightmares.
Light however, somehow found some courage in him to stand up.
"HAH! You think I'm going to fall for that trick again?" Light fired another bolt of lasers at Raven, but they were simply absorbed into the dark mass.
"This is no trick. This time, I'm making you a permanent resident."
As if on cue, the tentacles shot out at Light now. The Doctor screamed, running and firing his lasers as he fled. The light was simply absorbed into the dark matter. No explosions, no electricity.
"Stay back! I'm warning you!" He threw two more flash bombs at Raven, firing his chest cannon at the same time. No light appeared, they were all swallowed up by the darkness.
"You can't be doing this….no…. NO!" This last imprecation was due to the fact that the shadows were wrapping around his legs, and with a powerful pull, he was dragged into the darkness of Raven's cape.
Then the screaming began.
"Raven!" Robin jumped to stop Doctor Light from being pulled in, but he didn't make it.
Necronom…..Hesberek……Mortix ……. Raven's voice began changing into the demonic tone that the Titans had feared.
More shadows emerged from Raven, these ones assuming the forms of creatures, roaring and screaming as they moved along the walls.
Yes……Yes….
Raven gasped, opening her eyes as she realized what she had almost done. The shadows were gone now. And Doctor Light was once again lying prostrate on the floor, shaking, trembling, bits of drool sliding down his mouth.
"No…Stay….back…..Not…..Enough….Light……Can't…….See… ..Muusst….Get….more….light."
He was even worse off than last time.
The Titans gathered around the villain now, except for Raven, who pulled her hood back on and quietly began walking out the door.
"Raven……"
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Back at the Tower, the Titans were gathered up inside the lounge. The police, and the psychiatric doctors had come to the bank and collected the deranged Doctor. With that done, the Titans went back to their activities. Cyborg and Starfire were busy fixing up dinner, while Robin sat at the table with Raven, who was drinking her Herbal Tea.
She looked troubled. Robin thought.
"Is there something wrong Raven?" Robin asked, pulling up a chair to sit beside her.
"Back then…..I'm sorry. I didn't know what came over me." It had been awhile since she lost control of her power. Her Rage. And this time, she nearly did something she would have regretted for the rest of her life.
"It's been a tough time for all of us." Was all Robin could say.
"So what now?" Raven asked, obviously referring to how they were still going to cure their friend.
Robin had been thinking all week of a solution, a far-fetched one but one that might just work. And after seeing the state of his teammates, he decided he had no choice.
"I'm leaving." Robin said firmly.
"You're WHAT?" Cyborg, holding a sizzling frying pan, could not help but over hear.
"But Robin! Why are you doing such a thing?" Starfire asked in amazement.
"I'm going to get help." Was all Robin said in reply.
"From where? From who!" Cyborg asked.
"From someone I know." The Boy Wonder replied flatly.
He then left the three titans in the lounge. To get ready for the long hard road up ahead.
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