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K, it took me a while to hammer this chapter out, cause I wasn't happy with the first six or seven versions of it. what you're about to read is the 8th and final version...lol.
Chapter 7
Redemption Pt 2
"Carcer, what are you doing here?" Raven asked, floating down to the couch.
Carcer stood up and faced the Titans before he spoke.
"Well, I tracked Rose here and figured before I started looking for her, I'd stop in and say hi. Sorry about setting off the alarm, I forgot the password." Carcer explained, giving them another smile.
"Hey man, that's ok! It's good to see you again!" Cyborg said, walking down to the living room and slapping hands with the young man.
"Yeah, it's great to see you again." Robin added. "How long will you be staying?"
"I dunno. Maybe for good this time, if it's ok with you guys." Carcer replied.
Before Robin or any of the other Titans could say anything, the alarm went off. Robin rushed past Carcer to the computer panel, typing furiously. The TV screen changed from Super Monkey Rabbit Dog Ninja Cowboy Rangers to an overhead view of Jump City, a red blinking dot was flashing over Jump City Bank. Robin typed in some more commands and zoomed in. It showed Rose robbing the bank with a couple dozen Slade-Bots. Bodies of the bank's employees were scattered around the front, all showing signs of bullet wounds. Blood was absolutely everywhere.
"Titans, let's go!" Robin shouted, running out of the room, followed by the other Titans. Raven stopped at the door and glanced back at Carcer, who hadn't moved.
"Hey, are you coming?" Raven asked as she ran out the door.
Carcer smiled and took off after her.
T JUMP CITY BANK T
The Titans arrived at the bank just in time to watch Rose jam her gun into a female bank employee's head and pull the trigger. The sound of her gun was slightly muffled by
the poor woman's head. Rose turned and stared at the Titans, blood covering her face.
"Hello, Titans. And Carcer! What a surprise to see you here so soon!" She said, acting as if nothing had happened.
"All these people…they were innocent, Rose! HOW COULD YOU HAVE DONE THIS?" Carcer shouted, his face twisting into a mask of rage.
"They were to slow following my demands. This was an easier way to get what I wanted. And now that we have the pleasantries out of the way, I think it's time for you to DIE!" Rose shouted, leveling her .45 at Carcer and pulling the trigger.
The explosion from the gun was extremely loud, and just missed hitting Carcer in the chest. The Titans exploded into action, Robin and Starfire heading towards the vault to handle the robots there, Raven, Cyborg and Beastboy taking out the robots in the main part of the bank, and Terra and Carcer went after Rose, who had ran through the side door into an alleyway.
"Come on, Terra, let's get this murdering bitch." Carcer said through clenched teeth.
Terra nodded in reply, following him out. In the alley, Terra lost sight of Carcer as he ran around the corner. Terra sprinted to catch up.
"I remember this alley. We chased Dr. Light down it a few months ago. It leads into a dead end around this corner!" Terra thought to herself.
As she rounded the corner, she saw Rose standing at the end of the alley, her arms folded across her chest, staring at Terra with an evil smile on her face. Carcer was no where to be seen.
"What have you done with Carcer?" Terra asked.
"Carcer? Who's that?" Rose asked innocently.
"Don't play dumb with me! Where is he?"
"I don't know what you are talking about, sweetie." Rose answered back.
Before Terra could say anything else, she heard something drop to the ground behind her. As she started to turn, she was met with a heavy punch to the side of the head, knocking her into the alley wall. Dazed, Terra looks up and sees Carcer standing over her.
"C…C…Carcer…?"
Carcer looks down at his body and shrugs.
"Oops, sorry bitch." Carcer said, his voice deepening.
Terra watched as Carcer pushed something on his wrist. His whole body seemed to shake, and then it disappeared, and standing in front of Terra was not Carcer but Jason.
"Brother!" Terra squeaked in surprise.
"I. Am. Not. Your. Brother!" Jason snarled. "Stop calling me that! I would never be related to someone so weak and pathetic."
Tears sprang to Terra's eyes, her hands clenched into fists.
"Good going Jason. You made her cry. Again!" Rose said, sneering at her partner.
Jason snorted. "Let's just get her to Master."
Jason looked back down at Terra, and to his surprise, her whole body was glowing yellow.
"Shit…" Jason moaned.
Before Terra could make her escape, or any kind of resistance, a loud gunshot was heard, and intense pain filled the young girl's leg. Terra screamed in pain, clutching her left leg and rolling on her back. Jason looked up and saw a smoking gun in Rose's hand.
"Don't get scared, Jay. I handled her."
"Shut it. And don't call me that." Jason shot back. "Let's get this over with."
Jason walked over to Terra and picked her up by her arm. Terra began to struggle against him, causing Jason to give her injured leg a crushing kick. The pain shot up through her leg again, causing her to pass out.
T BACK AT THE BANK TThe Titans finished tossing the useless robots into a pile in front of Jump City Bank, and took a seat on the sidewalk. For the next few minutes, the Titans sat there in total silence. It was Beastboy that broke the silence.
"Man! That totally wiped me out! Let's go get some pizza!" Beastboy said, his face lighting up at the idea.
"We could do that, or, we could go look for Terra and Carcer. Neither of them are back yet." Raven said.
"Oh yeah…" Beastboy said sheepishly. "Yeah, where are those two anyway? They went after Rose, didn't they?"
"Come on team, let's go look for'em." Cyborg said as he stood up.
Cyborg led the way back into the bank and out the side door.
"I remember this alley…we chased the Dr. of Light down it a few months ago." Starfire said, walking alongside Robin.
"Yeah, so it ends in a dead-end just around this corner." Robin replied.
As the Titans rounded the corner, they gasped in surprise. There was no one in the alley, but blood covered a lot of the ground, and part of the alley wall. Raven was the first to walk over to the bloody scene. She kneeled down and slid her finger along the bloody ground.
"It's still warm." She said as she stood up.
"What happened…?" Beastboy said.
"Rose shot someone. But who? Carcer or Terra?" Raven answered.
As Raven started to walk back to the group, she slipped on something and fell onto her back.
"Raven! Are you ok?" Starfire asked, flying to her fallen friend.
"Uh…I'm fine Starfire." Raven said, accepting a hand up from her teammate. "What did I slip on?"
"This." Cyborg replied, holding up what appeared to be a wrist bracelet. "I just scanned it. It's a holographic generator. Similar to the rings I used when HIVE was around. It's to small to fit on my wrist, so…"
"I'll do it." Beastboy replied, taking the small bracelet.
Beastboy snapped it onto his wrist and pushed the button. The Titans gasped as they watched Beastboy disappear and Carcer appear.
"Who is it?" Beastboy asked, though his voice was now much deeper.
"It's a holographic generator of Carcer!" Cyborg answered.
Beastboy pushed the button again and the holographic form disappeared.
"Then that must mean…" Beastboy began.
"Carcer was Jason…" Robin finished.
The Titans stood there in stunned silence, staring around the alley. Starfire broke the silence.
"We must go to the Tower and…form a plan to get friend Terra back."
The other Titans nodded and they began the trip back to the Tower.
T SLADE'S HQ TTerra awoke suddenly, and sat up, clutching her injured leg. Terra looked around her surroundings, not seeing anything remotely familiar. Even though she was in unfamiliar surroundings, she did not hear the man enter the room behind her.
"Hello, Terra." An all-too-familiar voice said.
Terra froze on the table, not moving, barely breathing.
"Nice try, my dear. But staying still will not make you invisible."
Terra slowly turned around, facing the man that was once her Master.
"Slade." Terra spat the name out with intense hatred. "What do you want with me now?"
Slade let out a little laugh, walking towards Terra, his hands clasped behind his back. Slade put his masked face directly in front of Terra's, staring into her cerulean eyes with his one, cold blue eye.
"You, my dear, are going to help me with my most ingenious plan yet. That is why I need you and your brother."
"What have you done to him! He would never forget that I was his sister! And he would never…never…betray me…" Terra slowly finished.
"Ah, but betrayal seems to run in your family, my dear. Now, you ARE going to help me, weather you want to or not." Slade said, grabbing Terra's skinny injured leg and giving it a brutal squeeze.
Terra gasped in pain, her eyes going wide with shock.
"Now, you stay here and…rest. You are injured…" Slade said, walking out of the room.
Terra watched Slade as he walked out of the room. She brought her legs up to her chest, ignoring the pain in her left leg and put her head on her knees, fighting back tears.
