Hey I've gotten all your reviews and I thank you for all of them. For a while the document manager was disabled so I couldn't update the story but then finally I was able to It really was this one big frustrating thing wasn't it? Anyway I know you don't want to hear me ramble so here is Chap 4:
Disclaimer: I DON'T OWN THE TEEN TITANS BUT I WISH I DID
Chapter 4 I Need Your Help
The tower was surrounded by darkness as they stepped inside. Dick found the power outlet and switched it on. And once again the tower was filled with light. They had been quiet on the way there, still shocked from the news that Cyborg was murdered. They made their way into the main room, still quiet. They sat down and it was Gar who was the first speak.
" How?" He asked.
" How what?" Kori asked instead of answering.
" How do you know so much about how he died?" Gar said in a normal tone. " You said when we got here you would answer questions now start answering."
" OK I'll began on what he was doing before he died and explain as much as I can. This too is a bit weird for me so I'll do my best. For the last four years Cy, there's really no use in calling him Vic now, and myself have been for working for the government. We've gone on assignments and have helped bring the bad guys down. We didn't exist, we don't exist. We were told that we would be nothing more than shadows and our identities would be erased and we would be given new fake ones. We were told the risks and told that many agents die before they get to the age of 45. We were trained in the best facilities and we were always the best team. For a long time now everything had been going great. I loved it and so did he. That's the thing I loved most about Cyborg-- he never gave up and he couldn't resist the urge to fight."
" When we got the "Sypher" case it was little, we just thought it would be a couple of undercover missions and then done. We were so wrong. Turns out the deeper we got the more we came to find that "Sypher" was up to something big. Really big. We traced and integrated for months and there was nothing. Still we got deeper. Even found out some names of "Sypher's" henchmen and ruined some business deals they had been running. Cyborg got really into to it as we moved forward. He tried everything to find these supposed files that held " Syphers" plans but had no luck at least that's is what I thought. Apparently he had gotten deeper and found out something he wasn't meant too. He was found murdered in his apartment last Tuesday at 5:00pm. He had called earlier that evening and told headquarters that he had found out what "Sypher" was up to and that he'd be there soon, but he never showed up."
" Kori, these files did you find them?" Dick asked when she was finished.
" Yes and no." Kori answered. The rest of them now noticed that she had gone pale. " After Cy's death they searched his apartment but didn't find anything . Then I was told to find them. I came here thinking that maybe Cyborg had put the files where no one maybe except me would think to look. He talked about the tower often now
I realize why." She held up a floppy disk. " I found this in Cy's room it's the end of the files. Cy was smart he knew that maybe someone would look here so he hid the end of the files in his room so then if anyone did find them they wouldn't know that he had found everything. But I know better. Cy found the whole file."
" How do you know?" Raven asked skeptically.
" By a massage at the end of the document. That was inserted by Cy himself." Kori popped the floppy into a computer and a riddle type poem appeared before them on the TV.
The massage read:
So my dear fire of the night sky behold
The wonders of that only of the past can hold
Within you shall seek
The answers you'll find will not be meek
The protectors of Now shall see the Past
The Past now belongs to the ages
Remember the young were not week.
" What's that mean?" Raven asked.
" I don't know," Kori said sadly, " But I do know what the first line means."
" What?" Dick asked now very interested in what was happening.
" On my home planet " Fire of the Night" means Starfire, my name."
" So it's addressed to you then?" Dick asked.
"Suppose so. Guess Cy knew that I would find it." She smiled. " He is leading us to it."
" What did the government headquarters have to say about this?" Raven asked.
" They don't know." Kori said.
" What do you mean they don't know?" Dick asked surprised that she hadn't told them yet.
" I feel it's best not to tell them what I've found."
" Why?" asked Gar.
" Because I lied to them about the last time I spoke to Cyborg. I told them I hadn't spoken to him for two days when really he called me the day that he had died." Kori said as she took out a tape. " After Cy died I went to go see him for the last time to say my good-byes I found this in a hidden compartment in his arm. It's a message machine record tape and it came from that recorder." She pointed to a phone on the counter of the kitchen. " It was recorded 15 minutes before he died, when he talked to me last and 5 minutes before he called headquarters. There's something in it that makes me not want to trust them." She picked up the recorder, put the tape in and pushed play.
: Recorded Massage:
Ring, ring ring.
"Hello"
" Kori," Cyborg said his voice sounding broken up, " it's Vic."
"Duh it's you who else would be calling."
" Kori I want you to leave your apartment now and go to the bridge. Don't take anything with you, just go." His voice had of worry in it but over the crackling line it couldn't really be heard, but Kori heard it.
" Vic what's wrong?" Her voice was now concerned..
" Kori don't trust headquarters, don't tell them." The phone line was now so cracking up so bad that some words were starting to be cut off. " Kori-"
"What?"
"Damn this old phone!" Cy could be heard yelling at it from the other end. " Kori still there?"
" Yeah."
" I found it-" Cyborg was once again cut off. "It's not safe they know. Just trust me and get out. I'll meet you there. I forgot-"
" I gotta go Kori, I don't have much time. Promise to do what I say."
" I promise but-"
" Goodbye Kori." He sounded so final she didn't know why.
" Goodbye." Then she hung up.
: End of message:
" I listened to what he said then left. And about 10 minutes after I did my apartment blew up. It was covered up on the news by saying it was a gas explosion but really... it was a bomb."
" How did Cy know." Gar said in shock.
" This." Kori uploaded the rest of the file so it appeared on the screen. First BeastBoy appeared. There was a picture and his name. Under his name was the word LOCATION: UNKNOWN.
Then Raven's face appeared . LOCATION: UNKNOWN
Then Dicks or Robin's face appeared. LOCATION: UNKNOWN.
Then Cyborgs at first it said LOCATION: KNOWN. But then turned to LOCATION: TERMINATED. At this the others winced.
Then last of all Starfire or Kori's face appeared. LOCATION: KNOWN. They all gasped. Under LOCATION: KNOWN was Kori's address, phone number, and some facts about her. They knew just about everything.
" They know where I am. And like Cyborg they'll come to kill me. They already tried." She had her back turned from them the whole time the file was going through. She turned back to them tears now running down her face and said, " I need your help. I'm in too deep and can't get out. I need you to help me solve this case. I need you to solve this case even if something happens to me. Please. Your the only ones I can trust now."
The others looked at each other. Then Dick stood, " Nothing's going to happen to you, Kori. I'll make sure of it. I'm in."
Raven stood, " I'm in."
Gar stood, " I'm in."
Well that's chap 4. Next chap will have a boat load of fluffiness and read to see what Gar finds out. Please no flames. If you like it so far I'm up for reviews and suggestions. See ya!
