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Following Shadows-Chapter 7: A+ to the one that pounds them first!
When Raven woke up, the first thing she noticed was the pounding headache hammering her skull. The second thing was that wherever she was; it certainly wasn't in a Teen Titan friendly environment.
Trying to get up, she found that she couldn't move.
"Shit" she muttered.
Raven ceased struggling when she heard voices approaching her.
"Is she the last one?" Asked a girl's voice, harsh and soft at the same time.
"Yes." Answered a boy's voice, with an air of sophistication. "The others told us that only the Bird and the Robot were left. We have already attained the Robot, so it appears logical that she would be the last."
"Very well. Did you bring the-"
"-Vaccination? Of course sister darling. Why-"
"-Wouldn't you? I have know idea how that mind of yours works brother dear. Are you asking me to tell you how you think? That is-"
"-Preposterous. I know, I know. Shall we?"
"Of course brother dear. The poor girl must be tired of our habit of-"
"-Finishing each others sentences. Yes, I would say it does becomes annoying after a while"
Two figures loomed over her then, hidden by darkness. The girl spoke up.
"Don't not be alarmed Raven. We have helped your friends from their imprisonment and now-"
"-We will help you. Hold still because what I am about to do will hurt but the pain will-"
"-Die down if you offer no resistance."
Despite her suspicions, Raven relaxed her muscles and felt nothing until the needle that the boy had inserted hit the bone.
White hot pain speared throughout her body. It felt like every muscle, every cell was screaming in protest. Almost to the point of crying, her vision started going blurry.
Then, it stopped.
Laying there panting, Raven glared up at the two strangers. "Who...the hell...are you...and what...the fuck...was...that?"
The girl answered. "I'm Parie, and this charming specimen across from me is
my-"
"-Twin brother, Paris. And in answer to question two, the fluid we injected you with now-"
"-Allows you to move. Try it if you don't believe us" Parie added when she noticed the disbelieving look Raven was giving her.
Gingerly, she lifted her arm and found that it came up easily. Sitting up, she got a better look at her rescuers.
They were the same height and had the same brown eyes and the same pale skin. Though they had the same purple hair, Paris's was cropped short while Parie's went past her shoulders. They were both dressed in golden jackets with black bottoms.
Paris started. "We are –somewhat reluctant- students of H.I.V.E academy. Neither of us hold any-"
"-Love for our school, so in order to prevail in making our headmistress's life as miserable as possible-"
"-We ruin any and all plans that she might have to 'further' our education. It's-"
"-Quite simple really. By freeing you and your friends, we stop goodie- goodies like Pixie from receiving high marks and hopefully will eventually result in the resignation of our esteemed-"
"-yet glorified, baby-sister. Get it?"
Raven blinked. Even though the dialogue had constantly switched between the two of them, Parie and Paris made perfect sense.
Perfectly horrible sense.
Slightly amused, Parie spoke up. "Are you going to sit there all night, or follow us?" Raven slipped off the table and gazed at them evenly.
"Lead the way"
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Robin paced around the room, deep in thought. Those two twins, Parie and Paris were up to something. It was possible that freeing them was just a way to gain the Titans trust, so that the trap could be set for later. And where the hell was Raven? Those twins had said that they would find her but that was over an hour ago and she still wasn't here.
Not that he was worried or anything.
Raven was a big girl; she could look after herself. He didn't have to worry about her like he did if Starfire was by herself.
But still...
'No! Come on Wonder Boy, get a grip' Mentally slapping himself, Robin shook his head. This was not good.
The doorknob turned and opened. Parie and Paris stood there, exaggerated smiles on their faces. Parie started talking, an overly pleasant smile on her face.
"Hey there! Did you miss-"
"-Us? Cause we have a little surprise for-"
"-You! Can you guess what or rather-"
"-Who it is? I bet you can't!"
Fed up with their teasing Robin just asked, "Where is Raven?"
Grins growing even wider, the twins parted and revealed Raven behind them, scowling harder than she ever had.
Glaring at them all she barely contained her anger as she muttered, "Get me away from them before I hurl them out the widow."
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"There is no force on earth that will make me wear this"
Starfire darted a quick look at Raven then at the uniform she had tossed to the side when she came into the room.
"This attire is not all that bad, Friend Raven"
The Goth just stared at the beautiful alien. It was all right for Starfire. Robin probably thought she was gorgeous no matter what she was in.
Raven shook her head. Thoughts like that were very dangerous and could lead to the group's destruction if she let them carry on. Jealousy was a petty emotion and would only get in the way.
The group's destruction...
Positive that leaving the others was the only way to save them, Raven couldn't bring herself to do it. Everyday she woke up making plans to slip out of the Tower, but everyday something would happen that convinced her that the twits needed her, or someone would say something and she told herself that one more day wouldn't hurt.
Glaring at Starfire in a sudden burst of anger Raven had to remind herself that she wasn't the enemy. But she was sick of worrying, sick of making the silent sacrifices. It was unfair that Starfire was the light of the group. She could smile at Robin, laugh at Beast Boy and share jokes with Cyborg. She didn't have to worry about what would break if she showed her emotions.
Raven did.
It didn't help that Starfire was beautiful either, and totally unaware of it too. Normally Raven didn't care about superficial things like looks, but lately....
She had been wondering if that was one of the reasons Robin liked the otherwise ditzy girl. And then she would look in the mirror and wonder what was so repulsive about her.
Raven shook her head again. She had to stop thinking those kinds of thoughts.
"Friend Raven? Will you not wear this?" Starfire stood in front of her, holding the set of clothes that she had thrown in her disgust.
"I'd rather be dressed in a clown suit than wear those revolting-" She stopped and looked up at Starfire's confused face. Sighing, Raven took the garments off her, heading towards the screened changing room.
Starfire looked after her with a puzzled expression on her face.
"What is a clou-win?"
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Looking around the building, Robin had to remind himself to look like he actually enjoyed being here. H.I.V.E. Academy looked like any other school. Classrooms, uniforms, teachers wondering around trying to figure out how they got stuck baby-sitting a bunch of smart-ass teens. There was only one abnormality. Most schools didn't train killers.
And watching the other students walk past, chatting and joking around just like other teenagers, that's what Robin had to remember. That these average looking kids were being taught how to best use their powers to destroy the world instead of protecting it.
"Enjoying the tour so far?" Muttered Cyborg under his breath as he slid up next to the boy wonder. Robin just looked up at him. The twins had given them all a set of the uniform, and various other disguises to help them blend in while they sussed out the best way to leave. To cover up the fact that he was part robot, Cyborg was wearing a rubber mask molded to be a replica of what his face would have been like had it been whole.
That made Robin even more suspicious. How would the Twins have had time to prepare? According to them, Pixie had decided she wanted extra credit in her science class so she had captured the Titans to conduct her famous A grade paper:
What is the Best Way to Dispose of a Superhero?
Paris had gleefully told him that one of the many variables in the experiment was how many piranhas should be used in a 6X5-foot tank.
Not pleasant.
Robin tugged at his hockey mask. The Twins had told him that his own one was to well known to be worn safely within H.I.V.E walls. Reassuring the Titan leader that hockey masks were the latest fad, Parie and Paris had managed to coax him out.
Doing a quick assessment of the 12ft wall surrounding the school, Robin groaned.
Starfire and Raven were heading in their direction. Raven was successfully blending in but Starfire...
Stood out in a very, very bad way.
Then she saw them.
"Ro-"Before she could finish his name, Raven clapped her hand over her mouth and hissed something into her ear. Starfire nodded meekly.
Straightening, Starfire tried to look like a surly grump, but as far as Robin could tell, she....
Was failing misrablely.
'Poor Starfire' he desperately thought as a couple of older looking boys started laughing at the constipated expression on her face. 'She just can't be like them'
Raven, who had ignored the jerks' attempts at picking a fight, swung round then with a very ticked off expression.
The air around her started crackling in an all too familiar way.
"Cyborg!" Robin called, not liking the way this was going. "Cyborg, quick! The girls are about to blow our cover!"
Bolting off before Cyborg could do anything, Robin raced to their aid.
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"Ooh, I'm scared. Look the little girl can light up!" Laughing, the senior pointed at the glow from Raven's power.
That only made her angrier.
Suddenly it all exploded inside her, letting the one thing she worked hard to stop happen.
The dark took over.
"So, You're not scared huh?" Whispered the menacing voice from her nightmare. "Tough guys, is that it?"
The two boys looked at each other, a bit uneasy by the sudden change in her voice.
"Yeah, that's right" The tallest tried bluffing. "I ain't frightened by some pip-squeak of a ki- Argh!"
He was lifted high into the air and thrown into the side of the math's building with a sickening crack of bones.
"Tagger!" Cried his friend. "Oh my –"
Screaming he was picked up and followed his mate.
The other students all stood around, paralyzed by shock.
Robin, Cyborg and Starfire who were standing behind Raven just stared at her, opened mouthed. She had just killed two people.
Grinning in an insane way, Raven faced the school.
"Who's next?"
A flurry of seats, poles and glass shards from the surrounding windows took up into the air and hurled at various people killing their targets on impact. Teachers tried to calm the students that were alive but mass panic irrupted as they all looked for places to hide from the danger of being knocked out by a bench or being speared by the glass from their classrooms.
"Raven!" Cried Robin ducking bits and pieces. "Raven! Stop this!" Not knowing, what to do he motioned to Cyborg. "Knock her out!" He called over the screams of the slaughtering. "She can't do this!"
Nodding in understanding, Cyborg snuck up behind her as Robin reluctantly ran back to Starfire, who was hiding under a table.
"Sorry Dark Girl" Cyborg muttered as he swung down at her. The flying objects stopped midair and dropped to the ground as Raven gave a shuddering groan and collapsed.
Picking her up and swinging her over his shoulder, Cyborg started back when something caught his eye. There were bodies everywhere, most dead, some still moving but standing up amongst all the carnage were the twins, smiling grimly.
Frowning Cyborg blinked and when he looked again, they were gone.
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"Should we tell her?" Asked Beast Boy anxiously. He hadn't been there when it happened but he had seen the aftermath. More than three quarters of the school's population had been killed and the school's buildings destroyed by the flying weapons.
They had just walked out, no problems at all.
Robin stared into his juice. He hadn't said anything to the others about Eclipse and he wasn't going to. But whatever the evil in Raven was, he had something to do with it.
Looking out the kitchen window he frowned in worry. It could be the final push if they told her what had happened.
Robin looked back at Beast Boy. They glared at each other, trying to stare the other out.
Raven was still out but when she woke up-
"No one is to tell her what happened" Robin stated flatly, daring Beast Boy to challenge him. Lately there had been something bugging him about the usually friendly vegetarian. Beast Boy's attitude towards Robin was really annoying, like he had stolen something from him.
Beast Boy nodded in defeat.
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Raven lay there in her bed, trying to keep her despair from breaking out.
She remembered everything.
AN: Yeah.... Poor Rae, she sure goes through a lot. Thanks to all you people who've reviewed! It so cool 2 know that people like my stories! Hee hee. The first season has just started here in Aussie, but I've read a lot of stuff on the net. I want all the characters to be in character. If anything is out of place, let me know! Come now...don't be shy.... Luv you all ....many chocolately kisses...
CC
Following Shadows-Chapter 7: A+ to the one that pounds them first!
When Raven woke up, the first thing she noticed was the pounding headache hammering her skull. The second thing was that wherever she was; it certainly wasn't in a Teen Titan friendly environment.
Trying to get up, she found that she couldn't move.
"Shit" she muttered.
Raven ceased struggling when she heard voices approaching her.
"Is she the last one?" Asked a girl's voice, harsh and soft at the same time.
"Yes." Answered a boy's voice, with an air of sophistication. "The others told us that only the Bird and the Robot were left. We have already attained the Robot, so it appears logical that she would be the last."
"Very well. Did you bring the-"
"-Vaccination? Of course sister darling. Why-"
"-Wouldn't you? I have know idea how that mind of yours works brother dear. Are you asking me to tell you how you think? That is-"
"-Preposterous. I know, I know. Shall we?"
"Of course brother dear. The poor girl must be tired of our habit of-"
"-Finishing each others sentences. Yes, I would say it does becomes annoying after a while"
Two figures loomed over her then, hidden by darkness. The girl spoke up.
"Don't not be alarmed Raven. We have helped your friends from their imprisonment and now-"
"-We will help you. Hold still because what I am about to do will hurt but the pain will-"
"-Die down if you offer no resistance."
Despite her suspicions, Raven relaxed her muscles and felt nothing until the needle that the boy had inserted hit the bone.
White hot pain speared throughout her body. It felt like every muscle, every cell was screaming in protest. Almost to the point of crying, her vision started going blurry.
Then, it stopped.
Laying there panting, Raven glared up at the two strangers. "Who...the hell...are you...and what...the fuck...was...that?"
The girl answered. "I'm Parie, and this charming specimen across from me is
my-"
"-Twin brother, Paris. And in answer to question two, the fluid we injected you with now-"
"-Allows you to move. Try it if you don't believe us" Parie added when she noticed the disbelieving look Raven was giving her.
Gingerly, she lifted her arm and found that it came up easily. Sitting up, she got a better look at her rescuers.
They were the same height and had the same brown eyes and the same pale skin. Though they had the same purple hair, Paris's was cropped short while Parie's went past her shoulders. They were both dressed in golden jackets with black bottoms.
Paris started. "We are –somewhat reluctant- students of H.I.V.E academy. Neither of us hold any-"
"-Love for our school, so in order to prevail in making our headmistress's life as miserable as possible-"
"-We ruin any and all plans that she might have to 'further' our education. It's-"
"-Quite simple really. By freeing you and your friends, we stop goodie- goodies like Pixie from receiving high marks and hopefully will eventually result in the resignation of our esteemed-"
"-yet glorified, baby-sister. Get it?"
Raven blinked. Even though the dialogue had constantly switched between the two of them, Parie and Paris made perfect sense.
Perfectly horrible sense.
Slightly amused, Parie spoke up. "Are you going to sit there all night, or follow us?" Raven slipped off the table and gazed at them evenly.
"Lead the way"
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Robin paced around the room, deep in thought. Those two twins, Parie and Paris were up to something. It was possible that freeing them was just a way to gain the Titans trust, so that the trap could be set for later. And where the hell was Raven? Those twins had said that they would find her but that was over an hour ago and she still wasn't here.
Not that he was worried or anything.
Raven was a big girl; she could look after herself. He didn't have to worry about her like he did if Starfire was by herself.
But still...
'No! Come on Wonder Boy, get a grip' Mentally slapping himself, Robin shook his head. This was not good.
The doorknob turned and opened. Parie and Paris stood there, exaggerated smiles on their faces. Parie started talking, an overly pleasant smile on her face.
"Hey there! Did you miss-"
"-Us? Cause we have a little surprise for-"
"-You! Can you guess what or rather-"
"-Who it is? I bet you can't!"
Fed up with their teasing Robin just asked, "Where is Raven?"
Grins growing even wider, the twins parted and revealed Raven behind them, scowling harder than she ever had.
Glaring at them all she barely contained her anger as she muttered, "Get me away from them before I hurl them out the widow."
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"There is no force on earth that will make me wear this"
Starfire darted a quick look at Raven then at the uniform she had tossed to the side when she came into the room.
"This attire is not all that bad, Friend Raven"
The Goth just stared at the beautiful alien. It was all right for Starfire. Robin probably thought she was gorgeous no matter what she was in.
Raven shook her head. Thoughts like that were very dangerous and could lead to the group's destruction if she let them carry on. Jealousy was a petty emotion and would only get in the way.
The group's destruction...
Positive that leaving the others was the only way to save them, Raven couldn't bring herself to do it. Everyday she woke up making plans to slip out of the Tower, but everyday something would happen that convinced her that the twits needed her, or someone would say something and she told herself that one more day wouldn't hurt.
Glaring at Starfire in a sudden burst of anger Raven had to remind herself that she wasn't the enemy. But she was sick of worrying, sick of making the silent sacrifices. It was unfair that Starfire was the light of the group. She could smile at Robin, laugh at Beast Boy and share jokes with Cyborg. She didn't have to worry about what would break if she showed her emotions.
Raven did.
It didn't help that Starfire was beautiful either, and totally unaware of it too. Normally Raven didn't care about superficial things like looks, but lately....
She had been wondering if that was one of the reasons Robin liked the otherwise ditzy girl. And then she would look in the mirror and wonder what was so repulsive about her.
Raven shook her head again. She had to stop thinking those kinds of thoughts.
"Friend Raven? Will you not wear this?" Starfire stood in front of her, holding the set of clothes that she had thrown in her disgust.
"I'd rather be dressed in a clown suit than wear those revolting-" She stopped and looked up at Starfire's confused face. Sighing, Raven took the garments off her, heading towards the screened changing room.
Starfire looked after her with a puzzled expression on her face.
"What is a clou-win?"
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Looking around the building, Robin had to remind himself to look like he actually enjoyed being here. H.I.V.E. Academy looked like any other school. Classrooms, uniforms, teachers wondering around trying to figure out how they got stuck baby-sitting a bunch of smart-ass teens. There was only one abnormality. Most schools didn't train killers.
And watching the other students walk past, chatting and joking around just like other teenagers, that's what Robin had to remember. That these average looking kids were being taught how to best use their powers to destroy the world instead of protecting it.
"Enjoying the tour so far?" Muttered Cyborg under his breath as he slid up next to the boy wonder. Robin just looked up at him. The twins had given them all a set of the uniform, and various other disguises to help them blend in while they sussed out the best way to leave. To cover up the fact that he was part robot, Cyborg was wearing a rubber mask molded to be a replica of what his face would have been like had it been whole.
That made Robin even more suspicious. How would the Twins have had time to prepare? According to them, Pixie had decided she wanted extra credit in her science class so she had captured the Titans to conduct her famous A grade paper:
What is the Best Way to Dispose of a Superhero?
Paris had gleefully told him that one of the many variables in the experiment was how many piranhas should be used in a 6X5-foot tank.
Not pleasant.
Robin tugged at his hockey mask. The Twins had told him that his own one was to well known to be worn safely within H.I.V.E walls. Reassuring the Titan leader that hockey masks were the latest fad, Parie and Paris had managed to coax him out.
Doing a quick assessment of the 12ft wall surrounding the school, Robin groaned.
Starfire and Raven were heading in their direction. Raven was successfully blending in but Starfire...
Stood out in a very, very bad way.
Then she saw them.
"Ro-"Before she could finish his name, Raven clapped her hand over her mouth and hissed something into her ear. Starfire nodded meekly.
Straightening, Starfire tried to look like a surly grump, but as far as Robin could tell, she....
Was failing misrablely.
'Poor Starfire' he desperately thought as a couple of older looking boys started laughing at the constipated expression on her face. 'She just can't be like them'
Raven, who had ignored the jerks' attempts at picking a fight, swung round then with a very ticked off expression.
The air around her started crackling in an all too familiar way.
"Cyborg!" Robin called, not liking the way this was going. "Cyborg, quick! The girls are about to blow our cover!"
Bolting off before Cyborg could do anything, Robin raced to their aid.
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"Ooh, I'm scared. Look the little girl can light up!" Laughing, the senior pointed at the glow from Raven's power.
That only made her angrier.
Suddenly it all exploded inside her, letting the one thing she worked hard to stop happen.
The dark took over.
"So, You're not scared huh?" Whispered the menacing voice from her nightmare. "Tough guys, is that it?"
The two boys looked at each other, a bit uneasy by the sudden change in her voice.
"Yeah, that's right" The tallest tried bluffing. "I ain't frightened by some pip-squeak of a ki- Argh!"
He was lifted high into the air and thrown into the side of the math's building with a sickening crack of bones.
"Tagger!" Cried his friend. "Oh my –"
Screaming he was picked up and followed his mate.
The other students all stood around, paralyzed by shock.
Robin, Cyborg and Starfire who were standing behind Raven just stared at her, opened mouthed. She had just killed two people.
Grinning in an insane way, Raven faced the school.
"Who's next?"
A flurry of seats, poles and glass shards from the surrounding windows took up into the air and hurled at various people killing their targets on impact. Teachers tried to calm the students that were alive but mass panic irrupted as they all looked for places to hide from the danger of being knocked out by a bench or being speared by the glass from their classrooms.
"Raven!" Cried Robin ducking bits and pieces. "Raven! Stop this!" Not knowing, what to do he motioned to Cyborg. "Knock her out!" He called over the screams of the slaughtering. "She can't do this!"
Nodding in understanding, Cyborg snuck up behind her as Robin reluctantly ran back to Starfire, who was hiding under a table.
"Sorry Dark Girl" Cyborg muttered as he swung down at her. The flying objects stopped midair and dropped to the ground as Raven gave a shuddering groan and collapsed.
Picking her up and swinging her over his shoulder, Cyborg started back when something caught his eye. There were bodies everywhere, most dead, some still moving but standing up amongst all the carnage were the twins, smiling grimly.
Frowning Cyborg blinked and when he looked again, they were gone.
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"Should we tell her?" Asked Beast Boy anxiously. He hadn't been there when it happened but he had seen the aftermath. More than three quarters of the school's population had been killed and the school's buildings destroyed by the flying weapons.
They had just walked out, no problems at all.
Robin stared into his juice. He hadn't said anything to the others about Eclipse and he wasn't going to. But whatever the evil in Raven was, he had something to do with it.
Looking out the kitchen window he frowned in worry. It could be the final push if they told her what had happened.
Robin looked back at Beast Boy. They glared at each other, trying to stare the other out.
Raven was still out but when she woke up-
"No one is to tell her what happened" Robin stated flatly, daring Beast Boy to challenge him. Lately there had been something bugging him about the usually friendly vegetarian. Beast Boy's attitude towards Robin was really annoying, like he had stolen something from him.
Beast Boy nodded in defeat.
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Raven lay there in her bed, trying to keep her despair from breaking out.
She remembered everything.
AN: Yeah.... Poor Rae, she sure goes through a lot. Thanks to all you people who've reviewed! It so cool 2 know that people like my stories! Hee hee. The first season has just started here in Aussie, but I've read a lot of stuff on the net. I want all the characters to be in character. If anything is out of place, let me know! Come now...don't be shy.... Luv you all ....many chocolately kisses...
CC