Robin my Houkounin chapter XI: Poisoned, the undoing of Slade
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Shorter chap, sorry. This is where things start getting hellacious! 150 reviews, woohoo. Thankyou to everyone, im glad you all like this so much...Lets all hate on diet commercials that tell you it isnt your fault you weight 400 pounds. Mcdonalds isnt to blame, WE ARE. Warning: THINGS GET DOWNRIGHT UGLY FOR ROBIN HERE!
To: Jeff. Sorry to say this guy but you left an idea in your review and it really didnt make any sense. How could Slade kill Marcus? And if they both died who would be using mind control on Terra? Swing and a miss my friend. It would just be too easy to do stuff like that.
To: Plays with fire. Yes, Raven biting Robin often is a sexual thing.
To Snowlax. Star keeps the cape, lots more people like it than those who dont.
To Da mann. Robin in a birdcage is way way too far off. Writting that story is more like work and I'm too stressed lately to work on it. This story comes much much easier for me, and with recent events in my life easy is good.
To: Jonakhensu. Jinx doesnt like whats going on here, I cant quite understand how one can think of it as a gag. Its not funny, I mean she's betrayed by her team (they were way too willing to leave), then she's betrayed by her boss, and then she almost dies. Not gag material.
To Darkmoon Knight (Who IS a dude!). Glad you like this so much, its quite flattering. Robin and Raven will be together forever, more or less. But I was wondering if Sin was available, Kali needs a date; you know some time away from the kids. It was tempting to make Terra a vampire, it was. But I couldnt have her learn under Kali, she has a student already, Raven has Robin. I'd have to introduce a new OC. In your story it would be cool if Robins weird eye thing let him walk in the daylight. Cough cough hint hint. Glad you found the comment funny too.
I try to respond to a few reviews every other chapter or so. Keep it pithy (I watch too much Fox news...)
Slade dropped Jinx to the floor. She hit with a painful sounding meaty 'thunk' and a crack. He heard the air rush out of her lungs. It was a pitty he didnt have the time to drain her. Her blood was nice. Slade could hear the titans fighting far away in the sewer. He could hear the sounds of fighting somewhat closer in the cave complex as well. His trap was set, now he just had to wait. He would draw Robin away from the rest of his group, and with his new strength it would be easy to kidnap him. Wordlessly he walked away from Jinx. Leaving her to die.
Jinx watched him go. Half way through the ordeal her vision had cleared and she realized he was drinking her blood. Her tears still hadnt stopped. By force of will she didnt let herself fall unconcious; saving her life. Next to the feeling of betrayal there was the violation now. She tried to curse him as he left but her throat was too dry to form words. Jinx closed her eyes. She could hear Slades foot steps fading in the distance. She could hear water droplets hitting the floor near her somewhere. Her entire body hurt. She was so thirsty.
'Those bastards. Those fucking bastards. They wouldnt even have come back if they heard me scream. Those fucking bastards.' Jinx thought. The lights in her section of the cave turned off and she knew what true darkness was. Feeble and blind she felt around in the dark for the puddle where she heard water drops. Her joints hurt, her skin hurt, her muscles hurt, and even her bones hurt she was so dehydrated now. Her fingertips hit the water. It was only a few inches from her mouth. Her fingers fell almost four inchest into the cool water, there was no sediment on the bottom of the puddle. In what would be the most painful half minute of her life Jinx managed to pull herself to the puddle. She dipped her face into it and drank greedily. Her tongue, which had been horribly swollen began to shrink immediatly. The water was clean, not that she cared. She drank from the large puddle until she had to stop to breath; and then she drank again. Jinx pulled herself back out of the puddle and passed out next to it.
Robin felt a chill go up his spine. He always got that with anything concerning Slade. He and Raven were making their way down through the caves entrance. The resistance was light. The only time they encountered the typical robot was when they came to a fork in the caves. A robot or two would jump out of the shadows and run down one side of the fork. It was an obvious trap, but there was nothing they could do. They would catch up with the robot, destroy it and wander around the dimly lit caves again until another one got their attention.
"Damnit, this stinks worse than usual." Said Robin. Another robot jumped out of the shadows and ran down a nearby passageway. Raven levitated it was helpless in the air. She used her powers to bang it against the wall of the cave until it fell apart.
"We can't just run away though. Slade himself isnt really into nuking cities, but if we just let him have that uranium he would sell it to someone who was just to get at us." They continued to speed through the passageways destroying one robot at a time. Raven wondered how the rest of the team was doing.
Starfire darted around a corner and took down another robot. Beast Boy and Cyborg were falling a little behind. Her new strength was wonderful. Her bolts when she threw them had a small spot of red in the center. She found her eye bolts (?) had a double helix of red; similar in appearance to D.N.A.. She found the fight envigorating.
"Hey Star wait up!" Yelled Cyborg. He was riding a large green bull. The bull was goring robots two at a time and he was hitting them with his sonic canon.
Starfire flew backwards to help her friends in the swarm. She found she could just grab certain parts of robots and squeeze them or pull on them and the robots would be destroyed. Starfire destroyed the robots holding her friends back and litteraly grabbed the bull by the horns.
"Come, follow me!" Starfire flew along holding Beast Boy by the horns and sped through the tunnels leading out to the caves. Before long they came to a large cavern.
"Hold up Star, this is where we're supposed to meet Robin." Said Cyborg.
Beast Boy returned to his usual form and fell backwards. He held the side of his head where the horns would have been."Dude I think she almost pulled them off! Where are Raven and Robin?"
As Beast Boy said this another robot came running out of a nearby passageway. Several large rocks with black energy around them and a few exploding disks were right behind it. A disk hit it and it exploded. They could hear Robin up that passage.
"Another for me. I'm winning."
"It isnt a competition."
"Your only saying that because I'm winning."
Cyborg lit his shoulder light and shined it up the tunnel. He could see his team mates just a little ways up."Hey guys! Any sign of the troika or slade?" His voice ecoed nicely in the cave. Robin closed the distance between them and shook his head no.
"So what now? We come here expecting to find Slade or the troika and neithers around. What are we supposed to do?" Asked Beast Boy. He looked a tad too frustrated. He nearly jumped out of his skin when Starfire landed next to him. The cape was making it look like it was just her head floating around in the dark.
"Friend Beast Boy, are you afraid of the dark?" Starfire hadnt quite realized that it was her that made his hair all over his body stand on end, not the dark.
Across the cavern things got narrower, another small tunnel led to another cavern just as big. Around the tunnel the name 'SLADE' lit up in big neon orange letters. All the letters were capitalized. Neon arrows pointed into the tunnel. Everyone just looked at it skeptically.
"Gotta givem points for being direct." Commented Beast Boy.
"This is just too screwed up. Everything about this is wrong. Normally Slade tries to make it hard for me to find him, and then congratulates me when I do." Robin gripped his staff tightly and took a step foward in front of the team."We going in?"
The team only nodded their heads.
"Guys, I'm standing in front of you. I cant see it when you nod your heads."
The team made their intentions known verbally this time and they sped forth into the neon tunnel. Their hands had been forced in this matter. They couldnt let Slade have the uranium, and there was no way to avoid the trap. It seemed that this was the way it always was with Slade.
They emerged into another large cavern and stopped. A steel door closed them in. They could hear robots moving in the dark near them. Lights came on above and swarms of robots descended on them. The robots attacked four of the titans, leaving Robin alone. He found himself playing support for his teammates.
Raven felt it the instant they entered the cavern. There was a great evil here, but it wasnt Marcus. She didnt have time to warn the team of it, but she was sure Starfire felt it too. She could see the robots werent atacking Robin. This didnt stop him from wading into their ranks and sending them flying in every which direction. Raven was sure she had never seen this many robots in one place before. Something to the left caught her eye. Then it was to the right. Normally she could have tracked it better but it was moving fast and she was busy. "Azerath Metrion ZINTHOS." Raven picked up some nearby rocks and began dropping them on the robot hordes.
Beast Boy was having a somewhat harder time. In the form of a T-rex he was able to just stomp robots. He had to be careful though not to squash his team mates, and a t-rex was pretty much just one big vulnerable spot. There were just so many of them. Their laser blasters didnt do any damage to his thick scaly hide but they hurt. He shifted forms into a rhino and charged through all the robots ahead of him. He pinned several to a wall but in the instant he was stopped at the wall many jumped on him. He was forced to shift forms back to his human form and squeezed out of the dog pile. He was about to shift into something to squash them all at once when another robot knocked him on his back. His head made hard contact with the floor and stunned him. When he tried to sit up he found his right eye was looking straight into the barrel of a laser blaster. He gulped.
'This is it, this ones gonna get me.' He closed his eyes and waited for the shot to come. He heard the report of the blaster but when he realized he wasnt dead he opened his eyes. In the half inch between his eye and the laser gun there was a small black energy shield the size of a dinner plate. Raven had somehow saved him. He couldnt see her anywhere though.
"Get up damnit!"
He heard her over to his left somewhere. He didnt need to be told twice. He shifted to a tiger and tore the robot to pieces. He lept gracefully among the robots and zig-zaged towards Raven. She was starting to look tired. The battle had been going on almost twenty minutes now. A lazer caught her in the back and she began to fall from the sky. He leapt up and caught her on his back. In midair she managed to get a grip and straddle his back. He began jumping through the crowd of robots trying to give Raven a chance to catch her breath on his back.
Starfire was tearing through the crowds. It was so easy now. Before they had given her trouble but now she felt as if she were fighting against manicans. She couldnt help but be exited by the feeling of power she got as she tore a limb off of one robot and used it to bludgeon another. Doing this ruined the first limb but there were plenty of new ones to find. Her starbolts melted through a few robots at a time before exploding in one further away. She couldnt help but get exited with a primal lust for destruction. She wiped out a few robots near her and twice as many stepped foward to take their place. She almost laughed, this was too much fun. Had she ben paying more attention she would have looked closer at the figure that seemed to always be in the corner of her vision.
Cyborg was sweating; at least the human parts were anyway. His sonic canon had run low on energy so he had decided it best to just pick robots up two at a time and smash them together. When he couldnt get his hands on two at a time he would just throw the robot down and step on it. His six hundred pound body was more than enough to crush the head. The robots around him struck out with their hands and lasers but most of his body was made to absorb laser blasts and the robots werent strong enough to cause serious damage. Around him he could occasionaly see Starfire flying through the crowd. Cyborg wasnt sure he heard right, but he could swear she was laughing. Something moved past him on his left too fast to see. He wasnt sure what it was but he knew it wasnt a robot.'Man somethings wrong here. More wrong than usual. Something bigs gonna happen, stay alert Cyborg, stay alert.'
Robin had seen the same things in the corner of his eyes. He was better able to track it since the robots for some reason or another refused to atack him. He had exausted his suply of birdarangs and exploding disks, and was now just pummeling the robots with his staff. The fleeting form stopped moving for a moment and he got a good glimpse of who it was. It was Slade. Slade beckoned him to follow and ran down another tunnel. Robin growled. He looked over his team mates and it seemed like they had the situation under control. The robot ranks were starting to thin out. Robin took out a few more robots and turned to the team.
"Im going after Slade!" He turned and ran down the tunnel Slade used before anyone could say anything, they didnt mind though. It really was starting to come under control.
Slade listened to Robin running behind him. He had to slow down just so the boy wonder would eventually catch up. Slade led Robin to the room he had left Jinx in. He was somewhat happy to hear she was still breathing, he would finish his snack later. Slade turned and faced Robin, who skidded to a halt.
"Are you ready to become my student Robin? It doesnt matter, you truly have no choice in the matter." Robin didnt reply to him.
Robin didnt know what was going on. Now that he had Slade cornered he was afraid. There was just something radiating off of him that scared him. He drew out his staff and took a fighting stance.
Slade reached up and removed his mask. Robin didnt look like he was bothered but Slade could just tell he was shocked and starting to get scared."Remember Robin. Your facing me this time, the real me. Not a talented robot." Slade took a fighting stance and Robin chaged him. Slade sidestepped his attack efforlessly and drove his fist into Robins gut. The sound Robin made was horrific."Get back up Robin. You have more to offer than this." Slade picked Robin up and tossed him across the small room. He almost landed on Jinx.
Robin couldnt beleive how strong Slade was. Before he could react Slade charged again and delivered a hard left to his jaw. He felt the bones almost breaking, and knew Slade could have hit harder if he had wanted. He was holding back!
Slade count help but sniff the air as he saw a trickle of blood come from the corner of Robins mouth. Even though it was only a few drops the entire area smelled like his blood. Slade found himsefl captivated by it. He brushed it aside and atacked again. This time he went slow enough for Robin to see him. Robin struck out with a fist to the solarplexus, but Slade hardly noticed. He found himself entranced by the sight of Robin's blood again. Slade snapped himself out of it and backhanded Robin across the room.
Robins head was spinning. He was close to losing conciousness. He had almost never been hit like this.'Where did he get so strong? Whats changed about him?' Robins saw Slade was advancing on him. He tried to get to his feet but Slade kicked him in the stomache. He flew across the room again and his vision began to blacken. He willed himself to stay awake, but he lacked the strenght to get up. He was certain he had cracked several ribs. He was defensless, all he could do was lay there. Robin couldnt help but be scared. Fear gripped his chest and made it hard to breath.
"A friend of yours visited me. He gave me a special gift. My strength has doubled at least, and your no match for me Robin. You cant even stand now and the battle just started." Slade laughed.
Robin instantly knew what had happened. Marcus had recruited Slade and changed him. That was why he was so differant. He tried again to pick himself up off the floor. He couldnt. He could only hope Raven or Starfire arrived soon to help him.
Slade couldnt resist it any longer. The strong smell of Robins blood and just the sight of it were driving him wild. He growled and picked Robin up. He slammed him against the nearest wall and tilted his head back by grabbing a fistful of hair and pulling. He smashed the back of Robins head against the rock wall once more just for fun. The scream that escaped Robins mouth was music to his ears. He watched Robins hands feebly come up and try to tear away the hand that was holding his head. Slade pulled his head back and slammed it again. Robins hands fell limp and he screamed again. Slade felt so powerfull. The feeling of power was so intense he was actually aroused by it.
"AGAIN! Scream for me again!" Slade pulled his head back and slammed it again. It was a wonder Robin could stay awake. His scream was weaker, more desperate this time. This time he cried out for help.
"AGAIN AGAIN AGAIN!" Slade slammed his head three more times, but his new musical toy only screamed once. How dissapointing. His toy had fallen unconcious. Slade licked the blood off Robins face. He ran a hand through the hair on the back of his head, it came away bloody. He licked the blood off his fingers. This blood was pure power! He had never imagined the sensation he got from just a small taste of it. Slade clamped his mout over Robins neck, but the instant he did Robin began to fight him desperately.
As foggy as his mind was he understood one thing and that one thing only.'I'm going to end up like one of those corpses.' Between the time Slade put his mouth on his neck and when he finally bit in Robins life flashed before him. His time with Raven played out in his minds eye, and he found himself wishing he could do it all again. He wanted to see her. He wanted to go back to her now. He felt Slade bite, and he cried out. Slade was trying to kill him, and pain rushed through his every vein and artery. Suddenly he found his voice, and used it."Get off me! Get off of me Get off! GET OFF!" He lost it again. He felt his life force draining from him through his neck. Robin curled his fingers, trying to muster the strength for one last assault. He couldnt do it though. His vision blurred, then blackened and the void claimed him.
Slade felt Robin weaken. He knew if he took even a drop more it would likely kill him. As hard as it was he pulled away from Robin and let him fall to the ground. Forget having a him as a student, Slade wanted to keep him in captivity as his personal toy. He wouldnt kill a gift this precious. Slade felt Robins blood settle in his stomach, it was pulsing with power. He watched Robin curl up into a ball with satisfaction. This is when things started going wrong for Slade.
"What the?" His body started to feel numb. He actually wondered if perhaps he had had too much blood. As he stood the numbness took his entire body, and then faded. It was replaced by a burning sensation running through his every nerve. He pitched foward and the blood sloshed in his stomach. It was quicly turning to acidic poison. The poison first attacked his nervous system. He fully collapsed, unable to move. He oculdnt even scream. The acid remaining in his stomach ate its way through him, and poured out to make a puddle on the ground. It was so powerfull it even ate through some of the stone. He was still awake when his body began to smoke. It smoked for three minutes, the pain was blinding. His eyes began to liquify, and his body burst into flames. The foul stench of stagnant blood and burning flesh filled the area. Slade was dead.
Back in the other cavern the other titans were having trouble of their own. The number of robots was dwindling rapidly, and Starfire was obviously taking more and more pleasure in destroying them. There were only a dozen left, parts of the fallen ones littered the ground almost knee deep. The few that remained were running from Starfire. As the other titans watched she destroyed three with a large bolt, and she just didnt stop laughing. She was laughing madly.
"Raven, whats wrong with her? Has she lost it?" Beast Boy sounded concerned, he had a good reason to be. Starfire was losing herself.
"She's let herself be consumed by blood lust, she's not hungry she just wants to bathe in it. The problem is these robots dont have blood."
"Yeah well what do we do?" Cyborg had his sonic cannon armed. He didnt want to use it, but he would if he absolutely had to.
"We wait until she kills the last one then we try to calm her down."
"RAE! Look at her! Nothing short of throwing her some raw steaks is gonna calm her down!" Beast Boy winced as the last robot exploded. He turned to see Starfire standing at the other end of the cavern. She was looking at her hands as if she had never seen them before.
She emitted a low chuckle that sounded almost evil. Everyone heard her cracking her knuckles."I want more."
Raven took a few steps towards her."Starfire. Calm down. You need to get ahold of yourself."
Starfire seemed to be struggling with herself."But I want more!"
"Starfire you fight when you have to; you shouldnt wish for fighting. Stop this now, this isnt the time."
Starfires arm dropped. She took a few deep breaths and lowered her head."More..." When she lifted her head again she had snapped out of it."Raven I am alri-"
"Ok, come on. We need to find Robin. Come on." Raven took to the air and Starfire followed suit. They sped off in the direction Robin had gone. Beast Boy and Cyborg followed on foot.
Raven smelled burning flesh and began to panic. She knew what happened to vampires that drank anothers houkounin. Could Slade have been a vampire? Could Marcus have tried something? She caught up to where the fight had gone on and almost fell from the air. Robin was laying in a fetal position on the floor. Blood had pooled around his head. There were scorch marks on the floor near him, and some of Slade's gear could be seen in it. She immediatly knew what had happened. She rushed to Robins side and desperately felt for a pulse. She pulled her broken lover into her lap and began working on his injuries. She couldnt help but cry at the sight of what had happened to him. The injuries to the back of his head were horrific. She looked up at the wall behind her and gasped. The wall was covered with blood spatter at head high.
"Raven? Will he be ok?" The worry was thick in Starfire's voice.
"I have to get him back to the tower. Tell the others to finish up here." Raven shrank into the shadows and was gone before Starfire could respond. She needed her herbs and potions to deal with these injuries. She knew she could save him, the damage to his body could heal. It was the damage to his spirit she worried about most. He was strong though, and she would help him get through it.
Starfire quickly explained her suspicions to the other two titans when they arrived. They didnt take it too well. They almost forgot to get the missing uranium before heading out. Cyborg picked it up and left with Beast Boy. Starfire was too shocked to leave just yet.
"I will be along shortly. I want to think." Her tone was solemn and her friends didnt argue. After seeing the blood on the wall and hearing Marcus was most likely responsible they needed to think to.
Starfire sat until she was sure the others had left. She didnt want any company for the way home. She was starting to be convinced that this would kill them all. She turned to leave and heard something. She wasnt sure what it was, and turned again to leave. She heard it again.
"Hello? Is somebody in here?" She powered up a bolt in case she would need it. She scanned over the cave floor. Hidden in the shadows at the farthest end of the cavern was a body.
"Please...Dont leave me here." Jinx came crawling into the light. Her voice was a hoarse whisper."Dont leave me. Slade..atacked me. Please...dont leave m-me." Starfire watched Jinx lose her strength. She stopped trying to crawl again and just lay down panting heavily."Please."
Starfires eyes narrowed.'She's the one that lured us here. Robin wouldnt be hurt if it wasnt for her.' Starfires darker thoughts were interupted by Jinx.
"Please. Please dont go."
Starfire sighed. She was a hero, she was supposed to help people who needed it. Even if it was an enemy. She couldnt leave someone to die.'If it wasnt her Slade would have found another way to bring us here.' She reasoned.'Slade attacked her, just like Marcus attacked me.' Starfire floated to the other girl. Jinx was clawing at the ground. She must have been doing that for some time. Her nails were broken and bloody. Starfire scooped her up and the instant she did Jinx fell back into unconciousness.
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