Underestimated
Chapter 8
"Don't worry, Terra," Beast Boy said to the statue. "It won't be long now, and we won't have anyone to get in our way. Not Slade, and not the Titans."
Turning to leave, he spat where Raven's body was buried by boulders.
Slade was unsure exactly of what happened in the fight earlier, but if was what he thought it was, it could pose a serious problem for his plan. The entire incident was unexpected.
On the monitors, a window labeled "Raven" popped up. It showed her heart rate, increasing rapidly, then decrease before finally coming to a stop. "One Titan down."
He heard Beast Boy enter. "Sorry, Slade. I failed you…" he said, hanging his head in shame.
As he looked up, all he saw was a fist. "You were sloppy. You let your guard down. I expected better from you," said Slade as he paced around Beast Boy, who was kneeling on the ground, holding his face where he had been punched.
"I- I'm sorry…"
"And now that you've been caught, those parts are impossible to get." He kicked Beast Boy in the ribs, causing him to fall over. "I trained you, yet still, you're nothing more than the doormat you were before."
He transformed into a gorilla and threw Slade against the wall. "I'm not gonna put up with the Titans pushing me around, and I'm not gonna take it from you!" he yelled.
"I was beginning to lose hope in you, Apprentice." Answering Beast Boy's confused look, he explained, "I was testing you. I trained you and didn't want it all to be for nothing. You actually reacted sooner than I had expected."
"I see," he responded simply, not buying what Slade was telling him, but decided it was best to keep his mouth shut. For now anyway.
"But I have some good news for you," said Slade, his tone lightening up slightly. "Raven is dead."
Beast Boy's eyes widened. He felt a pang of guilt, but then remembered all those times she had shoved the fact that he was weak and inferior in his face and didn't regret it. All this time she never saw him as much more than a weak dumb ass, but now she was dead at his hands. "About time that bitch pays."
But face it. She's the hot one the author has a thing for. (Yes, I am female, so either get over it or shut up :P )
Robin, Starfire and Cyborg worked quickly to dig raven out from were the it had caved in. Cy shot the boulder crushing her and Robin picked her up.
"Is she-?" Starfire asked, worried.
"Dead?" Robin finished, but he looked at her more closely. "No. But she's trying to heal herself." He laid her down as Cyborg and Starfire continued to investigate where she had been attacked.
"What's this?" she asked as he picked up a small disk with Slade's "S" on it.
"Let me see," said Robin and Starfire handed it to him. "Cyborg?"
"Fine… Have me do the work when you're too lazy to figure it out yourself." He examined it with his scanners. "It just monitors heart rate. But it was Raven's DNA on it."
"Slade probably had them put on us at some point to track us," Robin concluded. "The cave in must have somehow removed it from her.
"So would we not have them in us too?" asked Starfire.
Cyborg scanned them quickly. "That's strange.."
"What?"
"Neither of you have them."
"What about you?" asked Robin.
"Good point…" "Damn it"
"What? You have one?" Cyborg nodded. "It's in the back of my neck."
As Cyborg began to try to remove it, Robin stopped him. "Hold on. Slade and Beast Boy probably think Raven is dead. We could use this to our advantage."
"Where's he?" asked Raven, weakly.
"Raven, you ok?"
"Where is he?"
"No idea.."
"Was this him, or T-" questioned Cyborg
"No, it was him."
"Did you find out anything about Terra?" said Robin.
"Yeah.-"
"Like what?"
"If you stop interrupting me, I'll explain…" she practically growled. "She's still dead, but she did knock him out-"
"But- Wha- How-?"
Raven rolled her eyes, ignoring Cyborg's disruption. "But it's near impossible to control the physical world from the spiritual- it's surprising she was able to do it at all- so we can't rely on her to help us. Also, it's impossible to bring her back, but I think Slade is telling him otherwise. She also told me a couple things about Beast Boy. Nothing helpful, but it explains a lot about him."
"Please, friend. How did you find this out if she is unable to speak?" asked Starfire, still confused.
"… Her ghost told me this, ok?" She was annoyed that the concept of contacting the spirits of the deceased was this hard to understand. "But one more thing. We have to get him back from Slade. I kind promised her we would before he got hurt."
AN: Sorry, right side of brain malfunctioning. Ok, all of brain malfunctioning. So sorry that the dialogues in this sucks and didn't leave off that well. The thing is I'm trying to get it done by the 30th, otherwise there will be athree week gap in between chapters.
