Underestimated
Chapter 9: Plans Revealed
"Got them for you," Beast Boy announced, removing a book bag from his shoulder and throwing it at Slade's feet. He then said, demanding an answer, "Now tell me what you need them for."
"Very well then," said Slade. He pressed a few buttons and a 3D image of a machine appeared on the monitors. "I have been developing this. It has a similar concept to the atomic bomb: highly destructive explosion, extremely deadly effects reaching out miles further. However, instead of radiation, it gives off a chemical which is deadly to organisms with a humanoid structure. It destroys its victims from the inside-"
"Kinda like those probes you used a few years ago?"
"Something like that. But the effects of this cannot be simply turned on and off. It eats away at cells like acid. It destroys within an hour, a very painful hour. However, there is a sort of vaccine which gives one a resistance to it, which I am also working on."
"You're not actually going to use it are you?" Beast Boy was shocked that he was actually helping this madman. Destroying his old team was one thing, one thing he could care less about. But millions of innocent lives would be destroyed, innocent people who never wanted anything to do with this, who never asked to get mixed up with this.
"Now would I be going through all this trouble to not use it?" he asked rhetorically. "I have an ultimatum for our little 'friends' and the government. I've got a little message for you to deliver. Then you can finally be united with your girlfriend."
A tall, strongly built guy in a suit, sunglasses and an earpiece stood outside a door. He was obviously one of the mayor's bodyguards and there was no getting past him without taking him out.
Beast Boy transformed from his current state, a mouse, to a fly. He flew around the security guard's head and before he knew it, there was a blade to his throat and fell to the ground in a pool of his own blood.
"They trust someone like him with the mayor's life?" he asked no one, amused at the ease of killing him. He kicked down the door, pointing the blaster in the mayor's direction. "Anyone makes a move and I shoot, and don't even try it, this can shoot straight through one of you guys, so it's futile shielding him."
The security guards around him dropped their weapons and put their hands up, showing that they were unarmed. "What do you want?" the mayor asked, panicking as sweat drenched his forehead.
"Just to deliver a little message from the psychopath of the decade." He threw a device into the middle of the office and transformed into a hawk and flew out.
"We have a metamorph on the loose, green in color, find him," one of the guards said into a microphone hidden in the collar of his shirt, but it was useless; Beast Boy was already gone.
The device lit up and they all shielded themselves but found instead that it produced a hologram of Slade.
"Hello, my little friends at City Hall. Enjoying the view of your precious city? I would hope so, because if you don't do as I say, you won't see it again."
The Titans were sitting in the living room when they heard the doorbell.
"You're the one who built this place, you go answer it," Robin said to Cyborg.
"Come on, man. We decide this fairly: rock paper scissors." Cyborg ended with rock while Robin ended up with scissors. Robin got up, grumbling, and headed downstairs. No one was at the door, but there was a small metal disk with a red light in the center. "Guys, you better get down here, he said into his communicator."
"Damn it, I win and still have to get up…"
Before they even arrived, a hologram of Slade appeared. "Hello, Robin."
"What do you want?"
Cyborg and Starfire walked up behind him. Raven was staying out of view since he still thought she was dead and if he found out, they would lose their advantage. "You've always been impatient, Robin. If you're really hasty to find out, then here you are." The plans for the machine showed up as he explained its purpose. They listened, stunned, as he unveiled his plans. "However, it can be averted if you cooperate with me." Slade announced his list of demands, among which involved them being at an old building at midnight, both Robin and Cyborg unarmed. He also wanted them to make sure the Titans East, too, were disarmed. "Remember: be there or say 'good bye' to Jump City."
The hologram faded out and Robin crushed it with his foot in anger.
"So what're we gonna do?" asked Raven.
"We have no choice but to give in…" he sighed in defeat. "Raven, even if we save him from Slade, it's gone too far and we have to arrest him."
AN: The government is far from innocent! Which is why he had no remorse for killing a bodyguard but was so concerned about innocents getting killed.
