Raventhedarkgoddess: Well, I finally got around to updating.

Chapter Eleven: I Had No Clue

"RAVEN!" Raven took a hit squarely in her stomach. "Are you alright?" He called. He had to master the impulse to run to her side as Slade turned to him. Just shut up and fight, he told himself. Don't think about Raven, don't think about how she's bleeding, don't think about how much pain she's in........................ He knew all at once that it was hopeless. So fight anyway, he told himself. She'll still be here when you get back.

"Not so powerful without our little girlfriend, are we, Robin?" He landed his blow on Robin's arm, the bleeding starting instentily, but the blood didn't stop Robin. Bleeding is nothing, he reminded himself. Everything that matters to you is in that corner. .

"She's right there. Raven never leaves me!" And he kicked Slade as Raven had done only minutes before, the dent becoming deeper. Slade could feel the mask's metal digging into his face and knew Robin would be tougher than ever as long as his wrench of a girlfriend was at stake. But he raised the rod once more, ready to fight on anyway and claim his apprintice once more. Robin's face was set, his jaw determined, and Robin remained on the offensive until the boy was finally knocked back by a blow on his left shoulder. Slade raised his staff again, ready to claim his apprintice, who lay, sprawled on the floor, his head resting on Raven's leg.

Beast Boy followed Terra slowly, not sure weather or not to be happy for her company. Something in her had changed: She no longer seemed to be the light, joking girl that had left him before in supposed death. She touched his hand lightly. "Hurry up," she whispered, blue eyes staring into his impatently. "I'm not sure where Slade went, and I want to sneak you two out before something else happens."

"Terra, what if you CAN'T get back in for everyone else?" Beast Boy found this fear lurking in the back of his head, unplanned and random. Dude, what ARE you so worried about? He questioned himself. It'll be FINE. But even then, he didn't want to take back the question and let it hang among them. Terra did not answer, but continued to lead them down a long, dark hallway, toward what she thought was the safest exit, but her blue eyes proclaimed what was left unsaid: She didn't want to know what would happen, not just to herself but to them.

"What did I do THIS time, oh great sister, that you are holloring my name? Is it illigal just to stand there?" She challenged her sister mockingly.

"Anna, behind you!" Lecita was close to panic, ignoring her sister's mockery and anger. "What is your problem? Run!" Run, sis! She pleaded with her eyes.

Anna glanced around behind her, half expecting this to be some form of sick joke.When she saw the knife and heard her sister's pleas behind her, her legs, instead of functioning, locked. "What do you want?" Instead of the scalthing tone she'd used with her sister, she heard a weak croak. Oh, great, she thought, surprised. I've never had trouble talking to people before, she said to herself. Have you ever dealt with someone six feet tall with a knife in his hand? She countered herself, and then wondered why she felt so curiously weak.

"I want to do what I was told to do," answered a cold voice from behind the hood that covered the figure's face. "I'm here to kill you, just as the others are being killed as I speak. But I waste both of our time: You are to die, and only to die, and that will be the end of it."

"I don't think so, ya'll." Cyborg aimed his arm and fired off a single shot of blue light from his sonic cannon. It hit the teen square in the chest as he leaned down to Anna, knocking the knife away. His shoulder made a rather sick crunch as it hit the wall.

Instead of letting the pain show, the boy got straight back up. "Cyborg, is it?" He spoke calmly, but the mocking edge was gone. It had been replaced by one Cyborg had heard placed in Slade's tone before: Hatred. Cyborg did not acnowlage this wild guess, and so the boy continued. "I know everything about you, about all of you. It's just a simple matter of destroying the robot part of you and killing these two weak human girls. You and the Teen Titans will bother Slade no more. Terra has probably already anialted everyone else as I say this."

"She's dead," Cyborg said automaticly, as he was used to saying.

"Is she now?" But Cyborg got no chance to reply. Anna and Lecita were standing side by side, and Lecita shuddered as she heard something else: An undeniable female scream that sent an image of Terra into everyone's mind.

"I had no clue......." Lecita said. "She should be dead. She's what's been hunting us. Beast Boy....." She looked at Cyborg, and both knew at once that even if they got out of this alive, Beast Boy would probably be dealing with a very broken heart.

They had no clue that Beast Boy stood with her, ready to fight off the thing that had made her scream: An army of Slade's robots, fully armed, who had been waiting for them.

Raventhedarkgoddess: Short, but I hope it was okay.