Chapter 10: Finally Some Action!

Psimon handed Star off to Brave to hold. He raced to where Star had been flying too, no doubt to her friends. In a minute Psimon spotted them. Beast Boy had Raven slung across his back as he ran, unfortunately she began to wake up and promptly slipped off.

He shifted back and ran to her side. Psimon focused his power and sent a huge malevolently glowing purple and black energy blast right at him. It blew his off his feet and into a tree.

"Beast Boy!" Raven called after Beast Boy

"Not so fast darling!" Psimon grabbed her with psychic energy formed into a claw, pulling her towards him. "Come on out everyone!" He called loudly. Raven was struggling, trying to break free, and he focused on Raven, "Try anything and your friends die." Raven froze and Psimon released her.

Raven saw Rude swoop down and grab Beast Boy. Then she flew to the sky and faced Raven, Beast Boy hanging limp in her arms. For once, Rude wasn't shouting anything disgusting, just paying attention. Brave floated in holding Starfire, who was also unconscious. Anger stood in between them, smiling. Lust entangled herself by Psimon almost immediately, revoltingly so. Then to her surprise, Intelligence popped up.

Psimon threw out spikes of energy directed at Beast Boy and Starfire, and with a jolt, like they'd been electrocuted, they woke up. "What are you doing here?" Starfire asked, once she was conscious enough to look around at the circle. She faced Intelligence. "I thought you were our friend! You were going to help us stop him!" She protested.

"I'm smart." She said with a condescending attitude. "I can do the math, I can do all the probabilities I want, and it will still be him that wins in the end. There is no other alternative. So why stay on a side destined to lose?"

"We're not as alone as you think!" Raven retorted. She spun towards Psimon. "There's a spy in your midst."

Psimon's face lost its delight of the trap to the possibility of a traitor. He looked at each personality carefully, eyes narrowed in suspicion. Any of them could betray him, Anger might. She didn't seem the loyal type. She had a righteous fury streak the might push her help Raven. Or Brave could have the guts to face the villain, the big bad. Rude, bah he never liked her. So disrespectful.

Of course, there was someone who joined the game a little late. He looked at Intelligence. "It's you, isn't it?"

"And how you'd get to that conclusion, genius? Was the last minute turn to much of a fat big sign saying just playing you, you horrible good for nothing loser!" Rude chucked the words at Psimon.

"Or perhaps it's you, you always were repulsive." Maybe when this was over, he would cut her tongue out. Then she wouldn't have anything to say ever again.

Then he felt a sudden sharp pain in his side, he looked down and saw Lust slide out a dagger, and toss it to Raven.

"Told you it would be easy." Lust said to Raven, holding Psimon up.

"You idiot, we're Raven! We fought you for hours to keep her safe, don't you think we would have thought about quitting, I don't know, sometime earlier? That during those huge gaps of time, we never made our choice of who to support? We wouldn't turn our backs on her because you decided to get smarmy!" Anger hissed. "What would we ever want with you, disgusting piece of scum that you are?"

Psimon was still in shock as he looked at Lust. "I was the perfect candidate, don't you see?" Lust started. "You wouldn't be suspicious if I hung on every word you said, so I could share it with Raven. Or when I insisted on accompanying you everywhere. You just thought that's who I was; too focused on other things to focus on what you were actually planning." She snorted. "Like I'd be interested in you, you're not my type." Lust winked at Beast Boy, and his cheeks got red.

"Everyone thinks Lust is so shallow and stupid, but you have too smart to have a man, any man, and make him want you." She continued relentlessly. Psimon was still aghast, but as she continued, he started to smile. She was so sexy when she was lecturing him. She cued onto this after a few more moments of ranting, "Ew!" And promptly dropped him to the ground without another thought.

Psimon crumpled to the ground. He looked up as everyone floated down. Brave had let go of Starfire a while ago, as she could fly, and so did Rude. Beast Boy had shifted into an eagle. They all landed and faced him.

Beast Boy walked up to Psimon as he was about to get up, and punched him square in the face.

"I don't believe that was necessary." Wisdom said as she floated down, clutching a terrified Timid. She continued to recite her list of apologies for leaving everyone and then started apologizing to Psimon, which at that point, Rude just gagged her.

"Yeah, but it made me feel a whole lot better." Beast Boy admitted. "But I won't make a habit of it." He told Wisdom, who nodded with a smile. Then he turned to Raven. She looked so beautiful, standing there in her cloak of deep blue. It suited her, and he was sorry that he had ever thought she was creepy. She was perfect.

That reminded him; he promised himself that he would say something when all this was over. He took a deep breath. "Raven, there's something I need to tell you. I've wanted to tell you for a long time and…" He was cut off as he was yanked backwards.

Psimon had gathered his strength, and lunged up. He had grabbed Beast Boy, and held a psychic knife to his throat. If he used it, Beast Boy's body would shut down. The body couldn't function without the mind, if Beast Boy was lucky he'd be a vegetable.

"Don't move my darlings, I'm not down so easy." Psimon looked deranged, he had blood dripping down his nose and he was dirty; but there was only one thing on Raven's mind.

"Let him go!" She commanded. This was her mind, and he was holding her friend. Psimon started backing up.

"Uh huh, now if I did that, how bad of a super villain would I be?" Psimon asked. "Let me go to my own mind, I take him as insurance. Then, maybe I'll let him get back to his body with minimal damage."

"No deal, let him go. You're outnumbered, now that we're all here there is no way you're getting out of this alive if you so much as touch him!" Anger's well, anger rippled out of her in a snarl.

"I wouldn't test that theory, but then I don't care as much about your little boyfriend here do I?" Psimon taunted.

"Boyfriend? Beast Boy? Why he's just a …" Rude began, but Raven shushed her. Lust leaned in towards Raven and whispered, "Just take a chance. I'm sure he's a good kisser."

Raven shrugged her off. She wasn't going to, couldn't deal with this right now. She took a deep breath. She glared at Psimon, someone was going to lose and it wasn't going to be her.