Chapter 12: Beaten...
With his finger Crow counted the stars in the sky. He closed his eyes and felt happy being alone for the moment. Then a smile came to his mind, a girl…she had black hair and his mother's brilliant smile.
His eyes opened and he said, "Regan." He starred into the moon that was just above and sat up.
He had felt enough alone; he decided to go back to the factory.
Back in the small room…Dawn's bright brown eyes fluttered opened. She looked up to a sleeping Beast Boy. His arm was still wrapped around her. She gently moved it and sat up from him. She was feeling crammed and decided to stretch a little. She stood up and raised her long arms up, touching a spider-web, she moved quickly in a surprised frightened gesture.
She leaned against the wall and sighed…and for some reason she thought of her brother.
She had never met him, she wondered if he was okay…or if he had family…or if he ever thought about her. She closed her eyes and imagined what he looked like. She imagined that he had brown hair like her mom's and bright brown eyes like her. She opened her eyes and said, "Adam."
A few minutes passed and Slade along with Crow and Raven opened the large metal door.
As the door slid opened. Beast Boy woke, his groggy eyes came to focus on Raven.
She didn't look at him…she couldn't; she was still confused about what the white Raven said.
"Ready to go?" Slade's evil voice rang.
Green eyes opened to the sound of the alarm…Starfire pulled herself off of Robin…he laid on the couch asleep.
She shook him to wake him up, he didn't move. She grabbed the neck of his shirt and yelled "ROBIN!" he jumped with surprise.
"What?" he asked then he saw the red lights flashing all around. Cyborg ran out of his room, all three got to the computer they found the location…Robin turned around to disoriented faces.
"What should we do man?" asked Cyborg. Robin was a little puzzled himself.
"We still have to fight, it is still our duty to help the citizens…no matter how much we lost." They nodded their heads and ran to the door.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Everyone screamed as a blue light damaged everything in its way.
"We will have this city on its knees." Slade yelled as he marched with his robots.
Raven picked up a bus and threw it into a building…shattering the glass.
Crow threw disks to the people that were running. They turned into nets and caught everything in it's path.
Dawn and Beast Boy on the other hand held their heads low; as people who had find somewhere to hide starred at them with hot eyes.
"AH!" Beast Boy fell to his knees, blue shocks of electricity flowed down Beast Boy's body like a river.
"Beast Boy!" Dawn held him as he felt the pain throb against his body.
"Don't just stand there, Cause some destruction." Slade said in a low demanding voice.
Slade had let go of the button and turned back to his army.
Something green came his way and knocked him to the ground.
"UH!" he landed on the ground with a "Crack." Starfire had no more mercy for this monster.
"AAHHH!" she yelled as she flew down to him and was about to give her another punch.
A black car flew her way; it knocked her to the ground.
"Good job, Raven." Slade stood up and popped his arm back in place with another loud "Crack."
Slade saw Robin coming after him. Slade moved with a back flip from Robin's powerful kick. He too was out of sympathy.
Slade jumped onto a light pole, he stumbled a little trying to keep his balance.
"Take care of them. I have more important things to do. Goodbye Robin. " Slade threw Crow the button to Beast Boy's collar. Crow placed it in his pocket quickly then moved from Cyborg's punch without even looking.
"NO! YOU'RE NOT GOING ANYWHERE!" Yelled Robin he jumped from the ground to the pole but Slade had already teleported from Raven's tunnel.
He looked at Raven; she wore black and had eyes that glowed red. She grinded her teeth and picked up a mailbox and threw it at him.
"YOU! YOU'RE THE ONE WHO KILLED ME!" She shouted.
Robin was trying to dart the objects being thrown at him.
"Raven…I never…" he was stopped by her screams.
"NO MORE LIES! NO MORE MERCY!" with all her power she broke open the street, pipes flew out of the ground like snakes.
"Beast Boy! Dawn! Help!" Shouted Crow still dodging Cyborg's blasts. He jumped way in the air and with a quick fluid motion he tossed an exploding disk to Cybrog's feet.
To slow to react Cyborg fell through.
"AAAHHH!" Cyborg held on to the ledge tightly. Crow looked over him. He smiled and took out a device and slapped it on Cyborg's arm. He waved and jumped down.
Red flashing buttons counted backwards from 20. 20,19,18,17,16…Cyborg had no choice. He tried to reach it with his other hand but couldn't move for the fear of falling was over taking him. 10,9,8,7…
His hand was slipping and to him there was no way out of this. 5,4,3,2…
A tan hand snatched off the bomb and grabbed his hand.
Cyborg took a sigh of relief "Thanks Star." She settled him on the ground.
"Uh, ahhhhh…" The cement and melt pipes started to crush Robin.
"I trusted you! I thought you were my friend!" Raven yelled at Robin, who was now turning a light blue color.
"You're nothing!" She closed her fist tighter…and the pipes became tighter.
"BAM!" Raven was knocked to the ground. With the loss of focus the pipes stopped squeezing Robin. They had let go, he fell and took deep breaths and coughed.
She turned to see a crying Starfire. Starfire had streams of tears flowing down her cheeks, and sobs escaped from her lips. Starfire's hands glowed green and she was about to slam it down on Raven.
"Does this bring you joy…seeing me on the ground again?" Raven was playing with Starfire's mind.
"BEAST BOY! DAWN! Help Raven." Crow demanded. Beast Boy started to walk over to Starfire. But a small hand was placed on his shoulder. Dawn shook her head and stopped him.
"I'll do it." Dawn slammed her fist into Starfire's stomach.
"UH…Dawn!" Starfire held her stomach.
Robin was waking and Cyborg had stopped all the robots, and Starfire grabbed her ankle.
"Friend?" she said. Dawn looked down at her with a emotionless expression. She looked away but Starfire felt a warm wetness fall on her cheek.
Dawn floated in the air, Starfire slid off of Dawn, The gray clouds formed in a circle. Thunder roared loud and lights flashed throughout the sky. Dawn looked up at the sky and screamed.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Lightening crashed down to Starfire, Cyborg, and Robin.
She screamed and cried at the same time. When she was done…She floated back down to the ground.
Beast Boy starred at her with frightened eyes.
"Beast Boy…she's not moving." Dawn had streams flow down her eyes. She laid her head on Starfire's.
"Let's go." Said Crow.
TO BE CONTINUED…
