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Chapter 11- Him

Songbird got no sleep that night. She heard the conversation that Robin and Raven had in his room, and their decision to confront her about it tomorrow.

She couldn't tell them about her past. She wouldn't. God damn it, it was her past. Not theirs. Why should she explain it to them? Why should she tell them about what He made her do? What sickening disgusting foul things He made her do?

But in the back of her mind she knew that she had to tell them. She knew that if she didn't that they would send her to jail. That they would turn their backs on her. That they would brand her as a traitor and never speak to her again. She couldn't bear to tell them, but she couldn't bear to lose them.

She couldn't lose Starfire's happy smile, or Beast Boy's corny jokes. Or the meditation she and Raven shared. Or Robin teaching her new moves and sparing techniques. And Cyborg. She couldn't bear to lose him. She couldn't bear to never see him again. To see him turn his back on her. To see a look of hate on his face when he found out about her shameful past.

She sighed and rose out of bed. Concentrating she went to the roof of the Tower. Using her powers to make sure she made not one noise. There she sat and relived every fateful moment of her imprisonment. Every ghastly deed, every time He made her call him Master. Every order He gave her.

The sun was already half way up the horizon when she finally moved from her spot on the tower. She headed back to the stairs. She had heard the others rising and she knew that Raven and Robin would want to talk to her about her past.

Before she got half way to the stairs she saw a black portal open and out stepped Robin and Raven.

No one said anything. Robin was fighting to hold back his anger. Raven's face remained impassive as ever.

Finally Raven spoke. Her normally calm voice cracked a little as she spoke.

"Care to explain this article in the Montana Mountain?" she asked. She held up a copied version of and article entitled Mega Sound strikes again!

Songbird looked at it and frowned.

"Not really."

Robin was flabbergasted. She had told them no. They were holding up an article that detailed how she had completely destroyed a building, killing ten people; three of them being children.

"What did you say?" Robin asked in a deadly voice.

He took a menacing step forward.

"I said no. I will not explain that article because it deals with my past. I will NOT talk about my past."

Songbird knew she shouldn't have yelled. She knew that she shouldn't have lost her temper. But before any of them could react an explosion shook the Tower. The Titans were thrown everywhere. Shakily the gathered themselves up.

Beast Boy came charging up the Tower as a gorilla, holding a dazed Starfire in his arms.

"What happened?" barked Robin.

"Well err ummm, Starfire was showing me how to make the pudding thing and when we were doing it the oven sort of exploded," beast Boy simpered.

Raven rolled her eyes and healed the large bump on Starfire's head. Starfire came out of her dazed and blushed deeply.

"I am sorry my friends. I did not realize that making that type of pudding would be so disastrous on this planet," Starfire paused when she felt the tension between Robin Raven and Songbird. Beast Boy noticed it too.

"Dudes what's the matter?" he asked.

BOOOOOOM!

Another explosion rocket the Tower. Everyone glared at Beast Boy.

"Not us!" he shouted.

"No," came a cold voice. "It was us."

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Every one went rigged.

"Slade," Robin said turning around.

"So nice to see you again Robin. Ohh and may I introduce you to my new apprentice, X5."

Cyborg floated up beside Slade and turned his sonic cannon onto them.

"Dude what happened to Fixit?" asked a bewildered Beast Boy.

"He had a little, accident," Slade laughed maliciously.

Songbird hadn't moved since she heard Slade's voice. She was breathing heavily. Trying not to lose her temper. It was a losing battle though. Her eyes were already red and her hands were glowing red too.

"What do you want?" barked Robin.

"I want my apprentice back," Slade said.

"Too bad barf brains," Beast Boy said. "We don't have any of those probe things in us anymore. So no blackmail." He blew a raspberry at him.

Raven rolled her eyes.

"I am not after any of you Titans," Slade sneered. "I am after the one you call Songbird."

Beast Boy and Starfire gasped.

"What do you mean?" asked Starfire.

"Do you really think that Robin was my first apprentice? No she was. She was a very good apprentice. Very obedient too, always did as she was told."

Everyone turned to Songbird who still had her back turned to Slade. Slowly she turned around to face them. Cold fury was written on her face.

"Is this true?" asked Robin. His voice was strained and forced.

"I was his apprentice, but not by choice. He forced me into it. He forced me to obey his commands he forced me to kill those people and to destroy those buildings," Songbird said. Her voice was forced calm. By now her whole body had a red aura to it and was shaking. "But he will never force me again."

She lunged at Slade. Pulling at the different sound waves she shot a huge sound bomb at him.

Cyborg blasted her, yet again, with his sonic cannon. Songbird was thrown to the side and her sound bomb was sent reeling into the bay waters below.

Slade let off a cold laugh. "You haven't changed a bit. Still as temperamental as ever Mega Sound."

"Don't you dare call me that!" Songbird yelled, floating back up the Tower. She stopped and faced he enemy.

"X5," barked Slade, "destroy the Titans. But not Songbird. She will be kept alive."

Cyborg turned to the stunned Titans. He aimed his laser cannon at Starfire.

"Cyborg what are you do?" asked Starfire.

Her trusting nature couldn't comprehend that one of her friends would try to hurt her.

Cyborg powered up and fired. Robin dove in and knocked Starfire out of the way.

They landed in a heap. Robin was on top of Starfire; his head was directly over hers. There was time for awkwardness as Cyborg fired again. They rolled out of the way. Now Starfire was on top of Robin.

"Azerath metrion ZINTHOS!"

Black energy encased Cyborg and held him tight. Cyborg turned his head to her and fired red lasers at her from his eyes. Raven yelped and jumped out of the way, losing her concentration and releasing Cyborg.

All of the Titans gathered in their normal fashion. They were very hesitant on attacking their friend.

"We need a plan," Raven said not looking at any of them. Her eyes were roaming around the roof. Looking for objects to throw at Cyborg.

"If we can overload his circuits we could reprogram him to his normal self," Robin said.

"But how?" asked Starfire.

"What should you never mix with electricity?" asked Beast Boy.

"Water," said Raven.

Everyone shared a knowing glance. All of them were able to read each other's thoughts by their faces. They knew what they had to do. They need to get Cyborg into the pool.

"Teen Titans, Go!"

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"Don't you dare call me that!" Songbird yelled.

"X5," barked Slade, "destroy the Titans. But not Deadly Voice. She will be kept alive."

Songbird watched as Cyborg fired at Starfire. She let out a sigh of relief when Robin pushed her out of the way.

Her relief was short lived when she turned and saw a boot fly into her chest. She gave a grunt as she was sent flying into the volleyball net.

Getting up from the net she growled and attacked Slade. Flinging sound bomb after sound bomb at him. He deflected each with a twirl of his staff. Sending each off them zooming into the bay waters.

--- Following the sound bombs ---

The red orbs hit the water and dissolved. Sending the sound waves that they were made of everywhere. Many of them knocked around till they faded.

But a few caught the attention of a certain Atlantian.

Aqualad was finally fed up with all of these strange sounds scaring his aquatic friends. Gathering up a tidal wave of water he rose to the surface. He rode the wave straight to the Tower. Where he saw the Titans doing combat practice.

--- Back to the battle on the Tower roof ---

Slade and Songbird were fighting furiously with each other. The Titans were slowly backing Cyborg nearer and nearer to pool.

They all saw it at the same time. A wave of water speeding to them. It towered twenty feet over the roof.

Luckily for Raven she thought fast. She sent ropes of her black energy and grabbed all of the Titans, minus Cyborg, and pulled them to her. She created a shield around her and her friends. And then she sent a rope out to Cyborg. Holding him fast around the ankle so that he wouldn't be swept away but he would still get extremely wet.

Robin turned to Songbird.

"Make him hear me!" he shouted over the roar of the water.

She nodded and raised her hands.

"Aqualad, drop all of that water on the tower!" he shouted.

Songbird amplified as much as she could. She sent it right to the boy that she saw riding the wave.

Aqualad heard Robin's voice loud and clear. Grabbing more water he drenched the entire tower with water. Sweeping everything away, including Slade.

Unfortunately for the Titans Raven wasn't able to hold off the entire onslaught of water. About the last two feet of water pressure drenched them.

Aqualad landed near them and eyed them strangely. When he saw the wet frame of Songbird, in her drenched white tank top and purple shorts, flying straight at him his eyes went to the size of saucers.

"WOW! What a babe! Defiantly have to ask her out!"

Aqualad opened his mouth to say something but was cut off by Songbird harsh yelling and a slap across the cheek. Numbly Aqualad touched his cheek were she slapped him.

"What the fuck to you think you were doing?" she yelled. "You could have killed him! Did you not think that twenty tons of water would be enough to drench the Tower?"

Shoving him out of her way she flew over to Cyborg and knelt beside him. She checked his 'pulse' and sighed in relief.

"You are so lucky that he isn't dead. If he was I swear I wouldn't be responsible for my actions."

Black energy encased Songbird.

"Raven put me down!" she yelled. Her temper was now out of control. The recent events had finally broken her barriers.

"Not until you calm down."

"Fine," she snapped.

Taking deep breaths she slowly calmed down.

"There calm. Now let me down."

Raven eyed her for a second then let her down.

"Who are you?" she asked Aqualad.

"Aqualad. Pleased to met you. What might your name be?" he asked taking her hand and kissing it.

Songbird snatched her hand away.

"My name is Songbird. And if you do that again you won't be able to make any little Aqualads," Songbird threatened.

Aqualad sweat dropped and backed away a few steps.

"Okay. Need to go the round about way on her."

"Songbird is that how you treat our friends?" Robin asked angrily.

"That is how I treat pervs who think that just because they are cute I am going to swoon over him and go out with him," Songbird said indifferent to Robin's tone.

"Dude Aqualad. Long time no see. What brings you up here?" Beast Boy asked.

"I came because some really strange noises have some how been coming down and spooking some of the animals," Aqualad said. "You guys know anything about it?"

"Yes. It is Songbird. Her powers let her manipulate sound waves. Some of her more recent sound bombs were knocked into the water," Raven said.

"You can really control sound waves?" Aqualad asked.

Songbird nodded her head.

"That is way cool."

"Glad you think so," Songbird said sarcastically. "Why don't you make yourself useful and help use take him down to his lab."

Songbird gestured to Cyborg.

Aqualad gave a salute and started to lift Cyborg up. Beast Boy and Robin came and helped Aqualad carry Cyborg down.

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Starfire, Beast Boy, Songbird, and Aqualad waited nervously outside Cyborg's door. They had been there for half and hour. In that time Aqualad had been filled in on what had happened to Cyborg and now they were all waiting for news from Robin and Raven, who were fixing Cyborg in his lad.

They had sent the others out after Beast Boy had knocked over his third set of instruments. Telling them that they would let them know about Cyborg when they were done.

"Aqualad the next time you look at my breasts you will find that you don't have any eyes," Songbird growled at him, from where she was sitting with her eyes closed.

"I was not looking at your breasts!" shouted Aqualad indigently.

"Yes you were. I could hear your eyes moving. Yes I can hear things that soft. I can hear a pin drop a mile away."

Aqualad just stared at her.

"Stop staring at me. Do you think I won't go threw with my threat?" she snapped standing up.

"Please friends now is not the time to be mean talking," said Starfire.

Songbird backed down for her. But she still glared at Aqualad.

The doors opened.

"So who missed me?"

"Cyborg!" they all cried.

Cyborg found himself in a back crushing hug, not from Starfire, but from a different red head. Then he found her lips pressing up against his.

There was a giggle, a chuckle, a whoop, and a sigh accompanied by and eye roll from the Titans (you guess which ones). The whoop seemed to pull Songbird back to reality. Her eyes widened as she saw what she had done. Blushing furiously she zoomed out of the hallway. Leaving a very stunned Cyborg in her wake.

"Dude that was soooo cool," said Beast Boy.

Aqualad was glaring at Cyborg, Raven saw this and sent him one of her deadliest glares. Aqualad whipped his grin away and went to see Cyborg.

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When Songbird saw Cyborg come out of his room she acted on impulse. She ran and hugged him. Then she kissed him. Beast Boy's whoop pulled her back to reality. Realizing what she had done, she acted on another impulse. She fled the hall.

She flew straight to one of the last places she knew people they would find her. The gym.

Upon arriving there she immediately sunk to the ground.

"What was I thinking?"

Obviously nothing.

She let out a groan and sat on the ground.

"Why did I kiss him?"

Because you wanted to. Don't deny it. You know you did.

Songbird felt her slightly swollen lips.

"Stupid. Stupid. Stupid. Stupid. Stupid," she said, banging the back of head to the wall.

"I don't want to heal another head today so stop," came Raven's voice from the doorway.

Songbird jumped.

"How'd you find me?"

"You're not the only one with good hearing. I heard you banging your head against the wall on my way to my room."

Songbird groaned again.

"Why me?"

"Why not?"

"What?"

"Why not you? Cyborg likes you. You really like him. Why not?"

"Does he really like me?"

Raven nodded her head.

"You want to know the first thing he did once he remembered what he did?"

Songbird nodded.

"He smacked his head against the wall. Much like you were doing. He felt so ashamed at what he did. Robin and I told him that it wasn't his fault. He couldn't control what he was doing. He wouldn't listen. He was so ashamed of hurting you. I don't know what Robin did in convincing him that it wasn't his fault, but it took a half an hour."

Songbird raised her eyebrows in question.

"We finished a few minutes after we sent you guys out. Cyborg remembered everything he did. He was conscious of everything he did, but he couldn't stop any of it. Robin sent me out of the room so he could talk to Cyborg in private. I teleported to my room. He called me on the communicator when he finished."

Songbird didn't know how to react.

"Does he really care about me that way? I know we are friends, but still."

Raven pulled her out of her thoughts when she cleared her throat.

"You want to know how I know Slade?" questioned Songbird.

Raven nodded her head.

"I think that it would help."

Songbird stared off into space. Raven knew that she shouldn't speak. She knew that Songbird was collecting her thoughts. After ten minutes she spoke.

"I wasn't born with my powers. I was born normal. I had a mom a dad and two younger siblings. Victoria and Ethan. I was just your average girl. I went to school, had friends and even a boyfriend."

She paused.

"It happened at a family reunion. Every two years or so all of my family goes up to Alaska for a few days. It was tradition. We always went Alieska Ski Slopes. They're beautiful during the summer. The smell of the flowers, the grass and the trees. It's magnificent. This year my parents even let me bring my boyfriend, Daxton."

Another pause.

"We were getting ready to leave the slopes when it happened."

A tear fell down her check.

"Robots came out of the woods and shot everyone down. I watched as a rain of bullets cut down my mother and father. The bullets sliced threw my mom. She was covering Victoria with her body. My little brother died in my arms. Bullets tore up his stomach."

Tears were flowing down her checks.

"In a few minutes my entire family was obliterated. The silence after was horrifying. I looked around me and I saw blood everywhere. My family's shocked and pained faces. It was horrible."

Songbird paused and took a deep breath. Forcing herself to relive that fateful day.

"A voice split the silence. It was the voice of the man that I would come to loathe with every fiber of my being. He told me that if I didn't do as he told that he would do the same thing to other families. Including Daxton's. I loved Daxton. He had a little sister that he loved more than his own life. I couldn't let that happen. I had to do what he told me."

Another pause.

"He preformed all sorts of experiments on me. He some how mutated my voice and ears. Making me what you see now. Then he made me use my powers to destroy and kill. He told me that if I didn't do as he told then he would kill Daxton's family. I didn't doubt him for a second. So I did what he told. I must have killed hundreds of people. I tried to fight back, but he was too strong a fighter. Every time I failed he would kill someone and make me watch him do it."

Songbird whipped her tears away.

"For some reason, I lost my powers. I don't know how or why, but I did. Slade turned me out. The only thing he gave me was my clothes that I was wearing. He thought that I was going to die. But I wouldn't let myself. I had to avenge those that I loved. Slowly I regained my powers. After about a month, I went back to his hideout and he was gone. I had no idea where he went. So I salvaged what I could and set out to find him. That was two years ago. Now I am here and I know that he is too."

Her pained face turned to one of cold fury.

"He will pay. If it the last thing I do, I will make him suffer for what he did to my family."

There was silence in the gym.

Raven struggled to hold her emotions in check. Even she was feeling Songbird's pain.

"I am sorry for you lose. We never should have doubted you. Slade is our enemy too. He turned an innocent girl into a ruthless criminal. Then he betrayed her. Now she is encased in stone. We will help you destroy him."

Raven paused, thinking.

"I won't tell the others what you told me. It will be you decision if you tell them or not."

"Thank you Raven. Not just for not telling them, but for listening to me and being patient. I have been wanting to talk to someone about it for a long time, but somehow I have never found the right person to talk to."

Raven nodded.

"You know you can't hide here forever," Raven said slowly. Songbird raised her eyebrows in confusion. "You are going to have to face them sometime or another and the longer you aren't around the more they, well mostly Beast Boy, are going to tease you."

Songbird groaned.

"What am I going to do?"

Raven smiled. "You are going to have to figure that out for your self. But you better figure it out quickly because here they come."

"What? Oh shoot you're right. Raven could you-?"

Sighing, Raven nodded. They disappeared right as the others walked into the gym.

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Author's Note- A little bit of advice; If at first you don't suceed, skydiving isn't for you!