Star walked across the infirmary to where Robin stood, still holding
the minute dart in one gloved hand.
"Robin, what does this mean?" she asked him, gingerly picking up the dart with the tips of her index finger and thumb and holding it in front of her.
"It means nothing good," Robin told her darkly, his eyes narrowing in anger. He turned away from her, inwardly seething with anger. The unbelievably arrogance of Slade, attacking them in their very home. Was nothing sacred anymore? Never before had Slade ever threatened them in their homes in any way. Robin knew that it was more likely that Slade's androids were sent to shoot one of them with a dart, as Slade would never risk his own hide to do it himself. Just then, Cy and BB burst through the infirmary doors.
"What's up, we heard over the comm that Raven was needed here. Is everything all right?" Cy asked all in one breath.
"Everything is fine, for the moment." Robin told them. He then told him what happened, starting with seeing Star sitting outside on the rocks that surrounded the tower and finishing with finding Slade's personal insignia on the dart pulled out of Star's back. "Cy, I need you to perform a scan on Star to determine what was on the dart. We need to know if the substance on the tip of the dart was anything more that a simple knockout drug."
"Where's the dart?" Cy asked. Wordlessly, Star placed the dart in his outstretched hand. He walked to the door, turned around, "I'll be in the lab making an analysis of the dart's makeup and the chemical on its tip. Star, I'll need you in the lab in a couple of hours to perform the body scan. First I need to prep the scanner, run a few diagnostics, then tweak the circuitry a little to account for the difference in anatomy." Star nodded, having no idea whatsoever what Cy was talking about.
Okay, Star, I need you to stand on the white circle." Cy directed Star two hours later. They had all gathered in the lab to await the results of Star's body scan. She stood on the circle, dressed in a thin cotton hospital-style gown. Cy attached several electrodes to her scalp, neck, arms, and torso. "Now, just relax and hold still. It'll all be over in about 45 seconds."
The Tamaranien girl closed her eyes and took a deep breath, willing her tense body to relax. She heard the whirring of the scanning device powering up, then a gentle warm heat as its cycle began. In less than a minute, it had completed its cycle and Cy began removing the electrodes from Star's body as they waited for the machine to analyze and print the data it had collected.
A few minutes later, a long sheet of paper emerged from a slot in the side of the scanner. When it finished, Cy tore it off and scrutinized it. Star looked over his arm at the paper, but all she saw was lines, random letters, scattered numbers, and unfamiliar symbols. She had no idea what it all meant, but it was obvious that Cyborg did.
"Well, Star, you're fine. Everything is normal on your scan. No foreign bodies, no toxins or chemicals that shouldn't be there. All that showed up on your blood work was an organic compound I couldn't ID, but it turned out to be the knockout drug that was on the tip of the dart. Looks like Slade was just out to give us a scare and get us riled up for no reason" Cy told them.
"Yeah, I bet you're right." Robin said.
"Well, now that that's all figured out, I vote that we go to the park for a picnic and a game or two." BB suggested. They all agreed, and left for the park an hour and a half later.
Slade laughed, a low sinister sound that reverberated off the walls of his perfectly concealed lair. "Ahh, Robin, when will you ever learn? You cannot defeat me. Though you may triumph in battle, the war will be mine." He spoke with confidence, smiling inside the mask that concealed all but his left eye. He turned away from the monitors that banked an entire wall of the lair. He had tapped into the security system of the Titan tower and spliced into the security monitors, able to watch their every move. He knew every time one of them so much as sneezed. Nothing went unnoticed. He had them right where he wanted them. He strode across the bare concrete floor, his steps ringing in the dark silence, to a table along the far wall. On the table were five small raised pedestals, each one labeled with the name of a different Titan and covered with a protective glass dome. On four of the five pedestals were tiny darts, identical to the one that he had used on Starfire. On the fifth pedestal, the one labeled with Starfire's name, there was a miniscule vial containing a few drops of blood instead of a dart.
He lifted the cover off of the dome labeled 'Beast Boy'. He lifted the dart from the pedestal and turned to the dark silhouette standing in one corner. He held the dart out in front of him, and the wraithlike shadow moved to take it from him.
"You know what to do." Slade said to the shadow, "your next deposit is on the table by the door" he gestured to a small black bag on a round table by the door, "ten thousand, same as before, and another bonus of twenty thousand upon your return, provided that you are successful once again."
The wraith tucked the dart into a small pouch at its side, bowed slightly to Slade, and melted into the shadows.
"Can't catch me!" cried BB gleefully, his small agile body easily dodging and darting away from Cy and Robin, who were in hot pursuit of the green boy. They were playing a game of tag in the park and, childish as the game may be, they were having a blast. Cy and Robin were currently 'it', having been tagged at the same time by BB. Star, who was hiding from the boys behind a tree, giggled helplessly. Raven was not amused, having been talked into playing against her will. They had been watching Cy and Robin chase BB for the better part of and hour. Funny as it was to watch Cy and Robin trip over, run into, and knock down one another, she was getting bored. She stood up from behind the shrub she had been using as cover, she raised a hand and black bands of energy shot forth and bound BB head to toe, causing him to fall to the ground. Cy and Robin pounced on him triumphantly.
"TAG!! YOU'RE IT!!!!" Cy crowed, Robin cheering him on.
"No fair! Raven cheated and used her powers!" BB whined, glaring at Raven, who lowered her hand, causing the black energy that bound BB to vanish.
"You just a sore loser," Cy dashed away.
"Does this mean that Beast Boy is now the one who is 'it' in this game of chasing and hitting one another?" Star called from behind a tree.
"Yeah, Star, you're right. I think you're getting the hang of it now." Robin said to her. She laughed and dashed off to avoid being tagged by BB, who was barreling toward them. BB changed into a squirrel and climbed up the nearest tree in a flash, changing back once he reached the top. He found the tops of threes the best place to pounce on his targets from. In this case, his target was going to be Raven. She was the only one who had not been it, and he was going to get her. He would probably regret it immediately thereafter, but the expression on her face would be priceless.
He watched Raven walk across the park. In a moment, she would pass near the tree he was in and then.....
"BONSAI!!!!!!" he bellowed, launching himself out of the top of the tree, which was an ancient oak over a hundred feet tall. Just as he leapt from his perch, he felt a sharp stab of pain on the side of his neck, just under his right ear. As he began to fall, everything faded into black.
They heard the familiar yell of BB about to jump on someone, and they all looked up to see which one of them was about to get attacked by a flying green thing. Robin and Raven spotted him at nearly the same moment. To their horror, they saw BB's body go limp as he tumbled through the air towards the ground.
They both ran toward BB, Raven chanting, and catching BB in a protective black barrier the instant before he hit the ground. She laid his body gently on the ground, and his friends gathered around him.
"Beast Boy, hey BB, little dude, c'mon man, wake up," Cy gently shook the motionless Beast Boy. Robin was inspecting every inch of the green boy with a grim certainty as to what he would find. Locating the dart behind one pointed ear, he removed the offending object, and BB slowly opened his eyes.
"Beast Boy," said Star, tears running down her face, "are you undamaged?" Raven helped the boy sit up.
"Yeah, I think so." He looked around him, "What happened?" Robin placed the dart in BB's hand, a grim look on his face.
Well, that's it for chapter 6. Please R&R, I appreciate the feedback.
Special thanks to MysticQHBarrel for all the advice given to me. I really appreciate it.
I am taking a bit of a poll on who should get the next dart: Raven or Robin? Let me know what you think!!
Thanks a million, Aliciana Nightbreeze
"Robin, what does this mean?" she asked him, gingerly picking up the dart with the tips of her index finger and thumb and holding it in front of her.
"It means nothing good," Robin told her darkly, his eyes narrowing in anger. He turned away from her, inwardly seething with anger. The unbelievably arrogance of Slade, attacking them in their very home. Was nothing sacred anymore? Never before had Slade ever threatened them in their homes in any way. Robin knew that it was more likely that Slade's androids were sent to shoot one of them with a dart, as Slade would never risk his own hide to do it himself. Just then, Cy and BB burst through the infirmary doors.
"What's up, we heard over the comm that Raven was needed here. Is everything all right?" Cy asked all in one breath.
"Everything is fine, for the moment." Robin told them. He then told him what happened, starting with seeing Star sitting outside on the rocks that surrounded the tower and finishing with finding Slade's personal insignia on the dart pulled out of Star's back. "Cy, I need you to perform a scan on Star to determine what was on the dart. We need to know if the substance on the tip of the dart was anything more that a simple knockout drug."
"Where's the dart?" Cy asked. Wordlessly, Star placed the dart in his outstretched hand. He walked to the door, turned around, "I'll be in the lab making an analysis of the dart's makeup and the chemical on its tip. Star, I'll need you in the lab in a couple of hours to perform the body scan. First I need to prep the scanner, run a few diagnostics, then tweak the circuitry a little to account for the difference in anatomy." Star nodded, having no idea whatsoever what Cy was talking about.
Okay, Star, I need you to stand on the white circle." Cy directed Star two hours later. They had all gathered in the lab to await the results of Star's body scan. She stood on the circle, dressed in a thin cotton hospital-style gown. Cy attached several electrodes to her scalp, neck, arms, and torso. "Now, just relax and hold still. It'll all be over in about 45 seconds."
The Tamaranien girl closed her eyes and took a deep breath, willing her tense body to relax. She heard the whirring of the scanning device powering up, then a gentle warm heat as its cycle began. In less than a minute, it had completed its cycle and Cy began removing the electrodes from Star's body as they waited for the machine to analyze and print the data it had collected.
A few minutes later, a long sheet of paper emerged from a slot in the side of the scanner. When it finished, Cy tore it off and scrutinized it. Star looked over his arm at the paper, but all she saw was lines, random letters, scattered numbers, and unfamiliar symbols. She had no idea what it all meant, but it was obvious that Cyborg did.
"Well, Star, you're fine. Everything is normal on your scan. No foreign bodies, no toxins or chemicals that shouldn't be there. All that showed up on your blood work was an organic compound I couldn't ID, but it turned out to be the knockout drug that was on the tip of the dart. Looks like Slade was just out to give us a scare and get us riled up for no reason" Cy told them.
"Yeah, I bet you're right." Robin said.
"Well, now that that's all figured out, I vote that we go to the park for a picnic and a game or two." BB suggested. They all agreed, and left for the park an hour and a half later.
Slade laughed, a low sinister sound that reverberated off the walls of his perfectly concealed lair. "Ahh, Robin, when will you ever learn? You cannot defeat me. Though you may triumph in battle, the war will be mine." He spoke with confidence, smiling inside the mask that concealed all but his left eye. He turned away from the monitors that banked an entire wall of the lair. He had tapped into the security system of the Titan tower and spliced into the security monitors, able to watch their every move. He knew every time one of them so much as sneezed. Nothing went unnoticed. He had them right where he wanted them. He strode across the bare concrete floor, his steps ringing in the dark silence, to a table along the far wall. On the table were five small raised pedestals, each one labeled with the name of a different Titan and covered with a protective glass dome. On four of the five pedestals were tiny darts, identical to the one that he had used on Starfire. On the fifth pedestal, the one labeled with Starfire's name, there was a miniscule vial containing a few drops of blood instead of a dart.
He lifted the cover off of the dome labeled 'Beast Boy'. He lifted the dart from the pedestal and turned to the dark silhouette standing in one corner. He held the dart out in front of him, and the wraithlike shadow moved to take it from him.
"You know what to do." Slade said to the shadow, "your next deposit is on the table by the door" he gestured to a small black bag on a round table by the door, "ten thousand, same as before, and another bonus of twenty thousand upon your return, provided that you are successful once again."
The wraith tucked the dart into a small pouch at its side, bowed slightly to Slade, and melted into the shadows.
"Can't catch me!" cried BB gleefully, his small agile body easily dodging and darting away from Cy and Robin, who were in hot pursuit of the green boy. They were playing a game of tag in the park and, childish as the game may be, they were having a blast. Cy and Robin were currently 'it', having been tagged at the same time by BB. Star, who was hiding from the boys behind a tree, giggled helplessly. Raven was not amused, having been talked into playing against her will. They had been watching Cy and Robin chase BB for the better part of and hour. Funny as it was to watch Cy and Robin trip over, run into, and knock down one another, she was getting bored. She stood up from behind the shrub she had been using as cover, she raised a hand and black bands of energy shot forth and bound BB head to toe, causing him to fall to the ground. Cy and Robin pounced on him triumphantly.
"TAG!! YOU'RE IT!!!!" Cy crowed, Robin cheering him on.
"No fair! Raven cheated and used her powers!" BB whined, glaring at Raven, who lowered her hand, causing the black energy that bound BB to vanish.
"You just a sore loser," Cy dashed away.
"Does this mean that Beast Boy is now the one who is 'it' in this game of chasing and hitting one another?" Star called from behind a tree.
"Yeah, Star, you're right. I think you're getting the hang of it now." Robin said to her. She laughed and dashed off to avoid being tagged by BB, who was barreling toward them. BB changed into a squirrel and climbed up the nearest tree in a flash, changing back once he reached the top. He found the tops of threes the best place to pounce on his targets from. In this case, his target was going to be Raven. She was the only one who had not been it, and he was going to get her. He would probably regret it immediately thereafter, but the expression on her face would be priceless.
He watched Raven walk across the park. In a moment, she would pass near the tree he was in and then.....
"BONSAI!!!!!!" he bellowed, launching himself out of the top of the tree, which was an ancient oak over a hundred feet tall. Just as he leapt from his perch, he felt a sharp stab of pain on the side of his neck, just under his right ear. As he began to fall, everything faded into black.
They heard the familiar yell of BB about to jump on someone, and they all looked up to see which one of them was about to get attacked by a flying green thing. Robin and Raven spotted him at nearly the same moment. To their horror, they saw BB's body go limp as he tumbled through the air towards the ground.
They both ran toward BB, Raven chanting, and catching BB in a protective black barrier the instant before he hit the ground. She laid his body gently on the ground, and his friends gathered around him.
"Beast Boy, hey BB, little dude, c'mon man, wake up," Cy gently shook the motionless Beast Boy. Robin was inspecting every inch of the green boy with a grim certainty as to what he would find. Locating the dart behind one pointed ear, he removed the offending object, and BB slowly opened his eyes.
"Beast Boy," said Star, tears running down her face, "are you undamaged?" Raven helped the boy sit up.
"Yeah, I think so." He looked around him, "What happened?" Robin placed the dart in BB's hand, a grim look on his face.
Well, that's it for chapter 6. Please R&R, I appreciate the feedback.
Special thanks to MysticQHBarrel for all the advice given to me. I really appreciate it.
I am taking a bit of a poll on who should get the next dart: Raven or Robin? Let me know what you think!!
Thanks a million, Aliciana Nightbreeze