Underestimated
Chapter 10: Overthrown
The streets were empty. Part of the Mayor's agreement had been not to say anything, but due to an "accidental" news leak, most of the citizens had fled. But they didn't know exactly how far out the damage would go, and most were still within range.
"I thought I'd never hear this silence again since Terra…" said Slade, who then turned from the screens to Beast Boy. "Speaking of which." He fingered a knife, which was kept out of Beast Boy's view.
"Our deal?" he asked, impatient.
"Time to be reunited with that traitor!" Slade threw the knife at him, but he transformed into a hawk and flew upwards, then dove down towards him and returned to his original form, drop kicking him. Beast Boy pulled out a switchblade as Slade stumbled backwards. He charged towards Slade, aiming for his throat, but he grabbed Beast Boy's arm and kicked him in the gut.
Beast Boy struggled to get up, at the same time saying, "You told me you could bring her back!"
"Yes, but I never told you I would. You're just a naïve idiot, just as you always have been."
Beast Boy recovered from the earlier blow and aimed a punch at his face, which was blocked, so with his other fist, he tried punching Slade in the groin, but that, too, was blocked. But he managed to kick him in the knee cap. While Slade was down, he kicked him in the face and picked the knife back up, but ended up shot in his left shoulder, an obvious miss from the real target. But still, Beast Boy advanced towards Slade. "I'm sick of being underestimated. I'm gonna make sure this is long and painful," he promised, raising the knife in a position to stab.
In the middle of his downward strike, a star bolt hit him from behind, followed by another which hit Slade. It hadn't managed to knock him out, just stun him for a moment. As he recovered, he threw the knife at Slade, a clean cut at his throat.
He then turned around, glaring at Starfire, who had interfered with him making Slade suffer for his deception. "What the hell are you doing here?"
"Stopping you, but I can see you are not truly evil."
"Don't take it the wrong way; Slade was just in my way, like you." He ran towards her, but Robin drop kicked him in the chest.
"Unarmed and still kicking your butt!" he heard Cyborg say. Following Slade's ultimatum, he was literally disarmed.
The three heroes were standing/levitating in front of him and he glared at them, keeping his guard up.
Raven phased in through the floor and put him in a headlock position. She threw Robin his utility belt and Cyborg his right arm. She then disappeared through the ground, the same way she had appeared, taking Beast Boy with her.
They were in the room below where they had been before, which was set up like a lab. She dropped him and he got up, facing Raven.
"Why are you still doing this?" she asked. "You not serving Slade anymore."
"What? You think that because I killed Slade, I'm gonna come back crawling to you guys? It doesn't change anything. I don't need anyone, especially not you."
"I made Terra a promise that I'd save you before you got hurt, and I intend to keep it. If you really cared about her, you'd give this up."
"You're so full of shit, Raven! You never cared about her! You never even liked her! And you expect me to believe you made this promise with her, even though she's dead!"
She smacked him. "Wake up and smell the coffee! It doesn't matter if you come back or not. Just quit screwing around on the bad side of the law!" Next, the most unexpected thing happened. Something no one would have ever guessed Raven would ever do, even if she were drunk. She kissed him. "Beast Boy, stop this. I'm sorry for everything. I know, it was mostly my fault, so please don't hate the others. But we miss you a lot."
He almost fell for it. For the first time in a long time, he wanted everything to just be normal again. But he came to his senses. These people he once called his "friends" had pushed him too far, underestimating him. He was not going to give up to be ridiculed further.
He turned into a tiger and pinned Raven painfully to one of the tables, claws sinking into her chest. Just then, the door was blasted open. "Leave her alone!" Cyborg called out.
This time stay dead! he thought angrily. With one snap from his jaw, he could have killed her, had Starfire not shot him. His surroundings went dark as he passed out.
AN: I'm sorry! Please don't kill me! I'm not a RaeBB fan (RaeStar!), but I had to!
