I know you've all been dying to see the ending of this fic. Well, I'm gonna be nice and add the last two chapters at the same time. Thanx to all my reviewers, especially BBcomedygirl, Kawaii34girl, and wordbearer. Hope y'all like it ::crosses fingers:: PS, I know it's kinda long, but it's the climax, so it'll be exciting
Beast Boy finally made it to the warehouse. The sight of it brought back memories of the time when Robin was Slade's apprentice. He looked for an entrance as he flew around the warehouse, and found a broken window on the first floor. He flew through, landed, and resumed his normal shape. He looked around and saw the gears laying on the floor. But it was so dark there that that was all he saw. He turned into a cat, and was able to see things better. He searched around, finding nothing. Then, his cat ears heard a groaning. He followed the groaning. Then he found the source of the groaning.
It was Raven.
He resumed his normal shape and ran to her. "Raven! Are you okay!?" He kneeled beside her and picked up her head. Her eyes opened.
"Beast Boy?" she moaned
"It's okay, I'm here." He noticed she was wearing the same suit as Terra did when Slade wanted to control her.
"We've gotta get out of here," Raven said weakly.
"Best idea I've heard all week." He was about to pick her up when her heard an elevator on the other of the building open. A voice echoed from it
"First floor: cookware, appliances, and conniving Titans," said the voice. The silhouette of the figure started walking toward them.
"Who are you? What do you want with Raven?" Beast Boy yelled angrily at the figure.
"Come now, Beast Boy. Do you not remember me?" Now that Beast Boy thought about it, the voice was familiar. Beast Boy was about to respond when the person walked into a beam of light. Beast Boy's mouth hit the floor. "Good Lord!" he exclaimed.
It was Slade.
Back at the tower, Cyborg was awake. He had woken up thirsty and went to the kitchen to get a drink. After gulping down a bottle of water, Cy made his way through the living room. There, in the dim light of the almost-on-the-horizon sun, he saw a note he had never noticed before. He picked it up, turned on his shoulder light, and read it. It was Beast Boy's letter. He read it with wide eyes, and when he finished reading it, ran over to the main computer, and slammed on the Titans alert button. Red lights flashed and an alarm buzzed. Five seconds later, Starfire and Robin were in the room.
"Um, Robin," Cyborg said, handing him Beast Boy's note, "we've got a problem."
"B-b-but, I thought Terra boiled you in lava when she created the volcano!" Beast Boy shouted in awe as he stared at Slade, who was standing in a beam of light from the risen sun. "We saw your mask burning!"
"Yes, but, you only saw my mask," Slade sneered. "My mask fell off, but I managed to grab a rock on the precipice and stopped my fall. Looks like Terra's efforts to save you all were in vain."
"You shut up about Terra!" Beast Boy yelled in anger. "And what do you want with Raven? Is she gonna be your next 'apprentice'? 'Cuz I don't think she'll give in to you."
"Oh no, that's not my intention at all. She was just bait. I wanted you to bring all the Titans, but only you came. Oh, well. They'll come to get you, and with two hostages, it'll be even easier," Slade said.
"Then…what's the suit for?" Beast Boy said, looking back at Raven,
"Just to keep her powers from getting in the way. The suit allows me to keep her powers subdued. The suit is also irremovable."
"But can't you control…"
"No. If I did penetrate her central nervous system, her powers would go berserk and it would destroy the very fabric of reality. And I'd rather live to see the day the Titans die." Beast Boy was getting very angry. "And once your dead, tell Terra that she was stupid to trust me when you see her. Unless I meet her first in Hell." Then something in Beast Boy snapped. He charged at Slade.
"You son of a…" but his last five letter word came out as a growl as he turned into a gorilla. Kids can be so easily provoked thought Slade. As Gorilla/Beast Boy hurled a punch at him, he back flipped away.
"Good, Beast Boy; unless, of course, you were aiming for me." Beast Boy feigned a punch to the left, Slade jumped to the right. Beast Boy turned into a velocoraptor (I hope that's how you spell it) and swung his tail, which hit true onto Slade's legs. There was a loud clang as his body hit the ground. Beast Boy resumed his regular shape. " Have a nice trip, see ya next fall," Beast Boy mocked. Slade struggled onto all fours.
"Sucker," he said. Beast Boy raised his eyebrow, but cringed it as he felt dust thrown by Slade make contact with his eyes. He was momentarily blinded, and when he opened his eyes he saw Slade's fist speeding toward him. Next thing he knew he hit the floor, pain throbbing in his forehead. He looked up and saw Slade jump, extend his leg, and fall toward him. Beast Boy rolled to the side looking up just in time to watch Slade's leg break through the floor. He was about to get up when Slade's other foot spun around and made contact with his left cheek. Beast Boy spun in the air, and landed face down. He got on all fours and felt blood run down his lips. He didn't even have time to react as he felt Slade kick him in the stomach. He heard Raven, who was watching, scream, and he gasped for air and collapsed to the ground unable to move.
"Well, that was easy," said Slade, who said it as though he did this all the time. Then one of the small computer screens on the wall started blipping three red dots. "Looks like your friends are coming." Slade then picked up what looked like a small metallic box, he fiddled with it, and it started blinking the numbers 1:00:00. "Just out of curiosity Slade," Beast Boy said, "but is that a bomb?"
"Congratulations, Beast Boy. You're correct," Slade answered, putting the bomb on the ground. "And I can start the countdown at will." He showed him a button similar to the one that he had used to activate the probes that he had planted in their body when Robin was apprentice. Beast Boy sighed, and looked over at Raven. She had found the strength to sit up, and was rubbing her head. Beast Boy started to crawl toward her, but Slade stepped right in front of him. "Where do you think you're going?" Slade said. Beast Boy looked up and saw that Slade was holding a bo-staff. "If you're gonna be messing with her, I think your best disposed of first." He raised the bo-staff above his head. "Good-bye, Gar." Beast Boy braced for impact, and heard a loud clang. But he didn't feel anything touch him. He then heard Raven yell "Robin!"
Beast Boy looked up and saw Robin standing in Slade's place, his bo-staff fully extended. Then he looked over and saw Slade lying on the ground. He realized that Robin had whacked Slade just before he was hit. Slade got up. "You'll pay for that, Robin," he growled.
"Just send the bill to Titans Tower," said Cyborg who, along with Starfire, stood next to Robin. Slade growled again and hurdled toward them.
"Titans! MOVE!" They separated, and all hell broke loose between them and Slade. As this was happening, Beast Boy managed to get up and make his way to Raven.
"Are you okay?" he asked, helping her up.
"But we'd better get out of here soon," Raven said. She pointed to the bomb. Beast Boy watched as it hit 0:29:59. "His fall must've pressed the button." One of Star's bolts whizzed past them. They looked over and saw that she had been knocked out cold. Then Beast Boy got an idea.
"Raven, how does the suit stop your powers?"
"It feels like it suppresses my powers so that it cannot leave my mind. Almost as if the suit is a wall against my powers"
"Well, that means that there's a limited amount that this thing can withstand."
"Logical (what a surprise, she thought), but Slade built this suit. It's gotta be pretty strong." They heard a loud clang. They looked over and saw that Cyborg had fallen to the floor, out cold as well. They looked over at the bomb, which had hit 0:11:02.
I've gotta take the chance thought Beast Boy. He took a deep breath and said, "Ray, I love you." Her eyes went wide, and she gaped." Beast Boy noticed a small red light flashing on the headpiece of the suit. This must've been a warning signal to Slade in case her powers got too out of control. 0:05:46. He smiled at her, and his lips touched hers. What happened next happened very quickly.
Raven's hair that wasn't covered by the headpiece began flow, as if on wind. The light on the headpiece broke. Then there was a flash of blinding light that filled the whole warehouse.
Slade and Robin stopped fighting to see what happened. When the light receded, Beast Boy and Raven were levitating in midair, still locked in a kiss, except that Raven was no longer wearing the suit, but in her purple robe and leotard. They floated back to Earth, and stopped kissing smiling at each other.
Robin took advantage of this distraction to kick Slade in the chest. Slade was sent flying across the room toward the wall. As he got up he watched the bomb hit 0:01:45. The last two words the three conscious Titans heard of him was "Oh, shit!" 0:00:00.
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!
If someone had been standing where Beast Boy had been standing in his dream, this explosion would have looked exactly as it did during the dream.
On to the next chapter ==
