Chapter Two-I Wish
After defeating the villains involved with the bank robbery, Beast Boy gets a little curious with a lost remote and winds up doing Slade's dirty work for him. Meanwhile Robin is fighting Slade for his life as well as his friends. RR, please!
The clock struck five as the alarm sounded throughout the tower. "Man, this town is full of insomniacs! Committing crimes at five in the morn-OUCH!" Beast Boy yawned, walking into the main room, Raven elbowing him in the ribs. Cyborg typed on the computer for a moment. "'Just a minor robbery. 'Nothing we can't handle without Robin." He turned to the exit, and began to walk the other four following him. All but Starfire. She stood for a trice, then gained the courage to ask the question. "You are certain we should not call Robin?" She did not mean it, but she had an ambiguous tone of curiosity in her voice. The others looked back to her. "..Positive..." Cyborg muttered, uncertainty in his tone.
They continued downtown to the bank in which had been robbed, naive about Slade's intentions. "Titans GO!" Cyborg said, blowing the bank doors away, clean off the hinges. The minions of Slade pretended to put on quite a show. They fought as if they weren't going to be defeated. Soon enough though, the minions were thrown into a jail truck. While watching the Prison Transport truck drive into the horizon, not visible through the city, Beast Boy spotted a television remote with only one button. The button was a bright sunset red with a larger circumference (the area AROUND a circle for those of you that have forgotten:)) than that of Cyborg's thumb, and was calling the green one's name.
He could not resist. He had to press it. "'Wonder what this thingy does." He pushed the button out of pure curiosity (heh heh...the saying is true: Curiosity killed the cat. The cat being Beast Bot Laughs hysterically!). Of his disappointment, nothing happened. However, a small lazer, smaller than the button in which Beast Boy had pushed, appeared silently behind the five. The lazer shot four blue beams out, then disappeared before anyone was to notice it. Cyborg, Raven, Starfire, and Cyborg flew face first into the ground. Terra was the only one that remained standing upright. She turned and was ready to crush whomever or whatever it was that had shot the other titans. No one was there.
I knew this because we hooked up security cameras in the T-Tower and T-Car after previous incidents. This was the only way I have been able to see my friends.
Slade had also drawn his pole at this time. I felt mixed emotions rise within me. Anger, sorrow, hatred-but by far the most-fear. Fear for me, fear for my friends-more so for the other Titans. I swore to myself in my mind that I would kill Slade. Even if it was the last thing I did. We struck at one another madly as if we had become insane killers (niobe: not that Slade isn't already one).
It was Slade who stopped first. I saw the button in the palm of his hand, and saw what was coming. "With the push-" Slade began, i interrupting at once. "You had better not hurt them!" I shouted, it echoing throughout the factory, only to end when the churning gears drowned it out. I knew it. I knew his plans. Exact as last time. "If you take my proposition, I will let them to live to see their future. If you don't...They will never see another sunset, Robin. So...what'll it be?" He had lowered his pole, but mine was still poised to strike. I took my chances before agree to his plans. I tried.
"I know who you are and why you are doing this. You were once a Teen Titan. A leader. Just as I am to this generation. But one day, someone did as you are to me. You were afraid when you escaped. You wished to join the other Titans, but were afraid they would not trust you after your betrayal. So you turned against them to become the villain you are today. That's why you are after me and not any of the other Titans. We are...similar in too many ways. You did the same as your master did to you...to the future generation." I paused. Slade's eyes showed fear. Fear of me. I could see Slade's power and courage draining and feel it being absorbed in to myself. "It's over, Slade. It's been over. It was over before it began."
Slade was amazed, but tried to hide it. "I'm impressed Robin. I didn't expect you to have figured out so much since our last encounter. But there is much you still do not know." Slade was fighting the shake in his voice. It came out anyway. I couldn't remember anything except that. Nothing in my memory bank about Slade had any usable information. None. I had made a puzzle with five hundred fifty pieces of Slade. One was left. Nothing on the other five hundred forty-nine pieces had stuck into my mind. "I quit," I said, simplifying the facts.
I walked to the doors of the abandoned factory. I put my hand on the door as a voice spoke behind me. "You're going to wish you hadn't done that!" Slade had anger in his voice. I said I wish I had done it the first time this happened, but I wish I really hadn't done that at all. I could feel the anger in Slade's voice, but I myself was angrier.
The button was in the palm of Slade's hand. I had turned by this time. "Do you really wish the fate of your friends to be a slow and painful death?" He had his thumb ready to press the button. I began to speak about his past, turning my back on him. That was my biggest mistake. A sharp sting splintered through my arm, the feel and smell of warm blood hit me. When I looked at my arm, blood leaked wildly to form a line of a pole. The pain led from my elbow to my wrist. The blood seeped through my glove. On the bottom side of my pale, bleeding arm, a white pole stuck through. My bone. I fell to the ground, afraid of movement. Blood dripped to the concrete floor from my arm. I was afraid.
author's note: How was this? I was typing at SoL (speed of light) on this one. This was no where neat what I had planned. One of my friends requested an unexpected turn, so that is where Slade a former Titan came from. So you know, I started this one in LA (Language Arts) class when I was bored. So THANK YOU LANGUAGE ARTS! YAY! 'Nother chap soon!
Niobe