Unwelcome Mat
A Fanfiction by Keystone
Disclaimer: Sorry, I own nothing here. Haven't we been through this before.
Author's note: Welcome to chapter five. I hope you have enjoyed it so far, and I hope you continue to find it entertaining. Tell me, does including music make the story more enjoyable? I always found it to enhance to the effect of the story. And for this chapter I suggest downloading "Violate", again by, you guessed it, Iced Earth. So anyway, on with my show. Oh yeah, don't forget to go check out "A Hero is Born" by Dr. Evans.
Unwelcome Mat
The monitors taking up the better part of the wall clearly showed all of the events going on across the city. The sudden appearance of several odd red portals and the shambling creatures that exited them. Then the slaughter began. He watched with a mix of horror and great interest as the things approached and eradicated all of the humans they encountered and began ransacking the entire city.
His screens showed how local citizens with guns and police appeared and began a desperate counter-attack on the horde. They also showed how those bullets served no purpose other than to incite the wrath of the very creatures being shot at. Modern day bulletproof armor and high tensile material succumbed to plain black blades. Next he watched as news broadcasts flashed on over all the channels across the city. Frantic reports of unstoppable monsters and pleas that they all stay hidden and as far from the creature as possible.
'Well they may not be able to do anything about them, but I can.' The viewer thought. All of a sudden his thoughts flashed to the Titans, and he activated the cameras pointed at the tower. The screen in front of him quickly shifted to over twenty different views of the structure, showing the same thing in all of them. The Tower surrounded by glowing red swirls and legions of the fiends pouring into the structure. Beams lanced out as green flashes lit up the interior, then suddenly vanished as more and more things walked in.
"Robin," he muttered, then in a flash of anger slammed his iron clad fist down on the railing he leaned on, denting it permanently. "If they have harmed you Robin, they will have to deal with me!" He finished flatly, a rising ire fracturing his normally calm voice. He moved to make the necessary preparations when an alarm sounded, signaling intruders were present.
He activated the in-house monitors and a crimson maelstrom appeared near the main armory and maybe thirty or so black clad warriors emerged, similar to the ones that attacked the city. Some had two arms, some had four, but all were heavily armed with spears, swords, and massive hammer- like objects.
Seeing as how his main weapons cache was now off limits, he activated his security droids and gave them orders. "Go now and cleanse me of these intruders. Do not fail me." Then each of the black long limbed robots scattered with intentions of destroying each of the unearthly invaders. Then, left alone, he picked up his mask and donned it, securing the locking collar around his neck.
Moving into one of the few overhead mounted lights' pools of orange glow, Slade withdrew his own bo and formulated his own plan for dealing with these meddlesome beasts. Activating his helmet-com that linked to his security bots, he added "But the leader is mine." Then he double checked the rest of his armaments. Slade disks, exploding knives, grenades, and two hidden short swords. Feeling confident with his choice of weaponry, he dashed off towards his armory.
Moving deftly through the grinding gears and constantly active machinery of his complex, he mentally reviewed his plan of attack. 'Bullets have no effect, but perhaps being rent in half or blown into pieces will have some,' then considering the power of his droids, 'if they can stall the attack and eliminate most of the force, then they could maybe even capture one of them and I can pump it for information. Even still, the leader is mine. No one enters my lair uninvited.'
Climbing through an overhead access hatch, he moved through the small maintenance corridor and came to a grate over the armory. Silently removing the cover, he slid out of the hatch and onto a nearby power box. To his surprise, the group had not left the armory. They all stood there bunched up as if waiting for the arrival of a higher ranking commander to usher them to their duties. Not wanting to engage such a large group of targets without some backup, he silently waited for a minute until his com received a message. "In place, master. Awaiting the order to attack."
Violate would be well played about now I imagine.
Responding to his head bot, Slade replied "Now! Attack now!" And dropped from his concealed position as three access hatches opened simultaneously and spilled out close to forty of his formidable drones. Launching their attack with such blinding speed caught the advance guard quite unaware.
Thane Lavrin had ordered his troops to position outside of the arms facility in case the dweller of this proverbial cave decided to appear. The reports claimed that the man who lived here was a warrior of exceptional skill. One who may be able to defeat the Hellspawn if he encountered him. So he was ordered to go and get him and bring him back to his master. He did anticipate a retaliatory attack from the one called Slade, but did not expect it to include an army of over forty similar looking soldiers to appear and join the fight. Suddenly he was outnumbered.
"Fight! Destroy all the minions and bring him before me!" Lavrin ordered. His soldiers responded with a defiant cry and charged ahead, meeting the enemy forces iron blade to steel claw. His men were strong, well trained and forged in the sacred flames of Hells fire, but in this case were simply outnumbered. To their credit, they were very hardy warriors capable of healing from any ordinary wound, but this man had insured they were told to sever the heads or upper bodies of his men, or just plain blow them up.
Even still they managed to cut Slades force in half. But in the end, Lavrin was left alone face to face with Slade. He drew his sword and spoke, maybe he could convince Slade to come with him anyway. "Slade. I know you. My master knows of you. He wishes to offer you a deal to grant you the power to do all you want in this world, in exchange for helping to recover a deserter. Your power is great and we desire to cooperate. Hell is waiting for your help." He then bowed in a sign of respect. Despite the fact that he truly loathed this human.
Considering his words. Slade decided to continue the parley with his formerly desired prisoner. "First, tell me your name and what is the nature of this deserter you speak of." He asked calmly, all the while scheming ahead.
Responding in the hopes he would agree to the offer, Lavrin continued. "I am the Dark Thane, Lavrin. I am a commander of Hells soldiers. The deserter I speak of is a servant of Satan, my master. His personal guard, so to speak, and personal assassin. We believe you have the power to defeat him in single combat. Of all humans, only you have the speed, cunning, and strength to match him in this area." This was of course pure conjecture composed of by one of the royal guards. And a very bad guess at that.
"And he reward you offer me..." Slade asked, interested in what the underworld could offer him up here. And learning all the information he hoped to get out of him should he have imprisoned him. 'Thereby eliminating the need to keep you alive' he thought.
"Ah yes, the reward. It is well known to my master that you despise a group of individuals calling themselves the Teen Titans. Well if you agree to our cause and defeat the renegade, than we will grant you the power to destroy them, or torture them, or do whatever you so desire to them." he concluded truthfully.
Mock considering his words, Slade replied back the one calling himself Lavrin. "Very well. After hearing your terms," he said as he strode over toward the now risen Thane, "I decline." He spit in his face. Then in one swift motion drew one of his exploding knives from his belt, shoved into Lavrin's shocked face, then turned and walked away. Two seconds later Lavrin fell to his knees. Two seconds later as he fell face down on the ground the blade detonated.
"So, Hell wants me to play babysitter?" Slade mused as he walked back to his control room, "They will have to try harder than that to get me to work with them. I can defeat the Titans of my own accord. And if he says they would grant me the power to do as I wished to them, that can only mean they are still alive or have somehow escaped."
Facing his standing drones he barked orders to them. "Clear this room of the bodies. Burn the intruders and scrap the fallen of our numbers. Then return to your docking ports and re-energize yourselves. I will commence the activation of more to replenish your ranks."
'There is work yet to do...' he thought as he made his way back to the control room.
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There you go. Chapter five is done. Sorry its so short, but I am a little pressed for ideas at the moment. Be back later. Please Review why don't you.