Chapter 51 'Over'
Her entire body ached, Raven wasn't sure what had just happened but she was sure that she currently had control at the moment and that moment might be all she needed. The half demon's eyes materialized back to their normal shade of amethyst as she felt Slade's control vanish. She was weak, she knew that but she needed to still fight it was the only way that Beast Boy would be safe. Her eyes focused on her surroundings and she frantically began searching for the shapeshifter, she swore to herself if Slade laid one hand on him she would rip him limb from limb.
"Well done Raven," Slade stated beginning to walk towards her. "I was beginning to think you didn't have it in you. That you actually reciprocated the changeling's love."
At this comment Raven froze, what had he meant by that? Where was Beast Boy?
"What did you do to him Slade?" She hissed.
"It's not what I have done my dear, but you, you have set my plan into action," Slade said with a gesture to the opposite side of the rooftop.
There Beast Boy laid completely unmoving and badly bruised as far as Raven could tell. Slade hadn't hurt him, she had. He'd used her and her powers to hurt the person who cared so deeply for her.
"No," She whispered almost inaudibly. "No, is he…"
"You haven't killed him…yet," Slade replied with a low chuckle.
Raven glared up at the psychopath. "I would never."
"No?" Slade questioned. "Well then perhaps you'd enjoy to watch instead."
In a flash the dark girl rushed towards the villain, ready to plunge him into the depths of hell. However, before she could reach him Slade pressed down one of the buttons on her controls stopping her dead in her tracks. She knew more than anything else that she had to maintain consciousness, if she let rage take control now there was no telling what could happen. Grabbing her head and falling to her knees Raven collapsed onto the cool concrete desperate to hold onto even a fragment of reality. As far as she was concerned it was the only way to keep Beast Boy alive.
Her thoughts were interrupted when Slade's masked face came into her line of vision. "Allow me to give you a hand," he said before leaving her side and walking over to the green teen.
"S-stay away f-from h-him," Raven spoke through clenched teeth still trying to prevent her body from giving into to Slade's control.
" I gave you an order and you seem to not want to follow it. Now it seems I'll have to do the job myself," Slade stated as he looked down at Beast Boy. "You shouldn't worry though, this will be completely painless for him."
Raven's eyes widened as she realized what was about to happen. Beast Boy had been dropped to the side of the roof, so close to the edge. He was completely unconscious, and there was a good fifty foot drop beneath them. Slade's leg moved once, rolling him onto his back and even closer to the edge.
"No!" She yelled steadying herself and fumbling on her shaky legs to stand.
Ignoring the empath Slade continued to roll the changeling. One more push was all it was going to take, she knew she had to do something but with her powers under so little control it was extremely difficult.
"I Said…NO!" Raven screamed blasting as much power that she could muster at Slade.
To her dismay he dodged the attack, but it did cause him to jump a good five feet away from Beast Boy and for that she was happy.
"Apparently I'm not using enough power," Slade snapped cranking up her device which sent the cloaked girl straight back to the ground screaming out in pain.
"Now, where was I?" He asked before making his way next to Beast Boy one last time.
Raven looked up from her position on the concrete roof, she had to gain control if she was going to save him. Slade's foot lifted overtop of the shifter. Raven raised her hand willing her powers to work and strike the masked man down. Then, in a single second the body of the changeling was shoved off the rooftop.
"Beast Boy!" The violet haired girl screamed finding the strength to pull herself to her feet. "NO!" she yelled charging towards the villain as fast as her legs would take her.
"Oh, but you haven't seen the best part," Slade quipped. Before she had any chance to question him the masked man pulled out a small device and threw it off the building as well. The explosion that followed managed to shake the entire building, shattering every window in a five mile radius.
Raven managed to shield herself so no debris managed to knock her over during the explosion. She was finding it hard to believe what had just happened. Beast Boy couldn't be gone, she could just imagine his cheerful face popping up still ready to fight. The jokes he would make after the battle was won. He couldn't be gone.
The demoness stared on with a blank expression, "he can't be…" she whispered.
"Shall we go greet the rest of your friends?" Slade replied.
Raven's eyes darted over to him. "I will not allow you to control me or my friends any longer Slade, this ends now."
"I would like to see you try when I have this," Slade began as he held up the controller.
"Funny thing about my emotions, you can try to control them all you want but once you've done something that even rage is angry over you're not going to get them to take anyone down other than the one they want," Raven replied with a frightening smirk.
Slade ignored her comment and continued fumbling with the remote. "So who shall we eliminate next? Ah, how about the Tameranian princess?" He asked.
Raven's glare that she had been holding deepened at this comment. "No," she hissed.
"Just imagine the look on Robin's face once you destroy her, I'm sure it'll be quite similar to the one on your face when you discovered you aided in the destruction of your…tell me Raven what was the changeling to you?"
She knew he was smirking under that mask. "How dare you, you've destroyed enough of this city Slade. You've made us believe that our friends were dead, you made us kill villains that were simply ploys in your game, but most of all you've managed to take away one of the greatest people I have ever known and I will not allow you to take anymore."
"Raven, Raven-."
"Silence!" The dark girl yelled, her voice coming out deep and demonic. "You've utilized this side of me long enough, now it's time to get your share." Slowly she closed and reopened her eyes and when she stared back at the psychopath four red slits were staring directly at him.
Slade's eye widened realizing what had just happened. His control was no longer working, Raven had snapped and her demonic side had been released. Her main target: himself.
"Now Raven, just think about what you're doing," Slade said backing away from her slowly.
"Oh I have thought about it," Raven replied with a low chuckle. "I've thought about it while in the games, I've thought about it while you tried to kill me in your lair, and I'm thinking about it now."
Slade quickly broke out into a run, hoping to get as far away from the cloaked girl as possible. But before he had a chance to scale the rooftop he was caught in midair by a black aura. Swiftly, Raven brought him down slamming him into the concrete roof causing Slade to emit a loud scream. Pleased with what she had done Raven quickly brought him back up and dangled him over the edge of the roof.
Flames danced underneath the villain, the explosion had caused a massive amount of fire and Rage was fully aware that she could use these conditions.
"What's the matter? Didn't you enjoy trying to burn Beast Boy and I in the games?" She rasped as the flames rose up around the masked man. However there was a good chance that his suit was flame retardant, that had to be taken into consideration.
With a flick of her wrist Raven slammed him back into the concrete watching in amusement as his armored suit produced multiple cracks. She knew that was all she needed to finish him off. And in a mere second her powers hoisted him up into the air one last time.
"This game is over Slade," She replied, her normal tone returning.
And with that she plunged him straight down all fifty feet and into the flames as screams of agony following behind.
So I thought I would give you all an early update mainly because I suck and haven't updated regularly in awhile. And two, because Catching Fire aired the other day and it was awesome! To all of you who haven't seen it yet, stop what you're doing right now and go see the movie! You will not be disappointed.
Anyway, what'd you guys think? Slade's dead so we should all be happy right? But then again…Beast Boy's probably not in such a good state right now. What do you guys think, still alive or not? Dun dun dunnn…It'll all be answered in the next chapter!
xoxo-Megz
