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Rory: Parents...
EMBER91: Just wait. Wait. Wait for it...wait for it. Now breathe!
im in a kill people mood: Trigon isn't Satan. Satan isn't Trigon. Satan's a small man. So's Trigon. Pudding is awesome.
The Wild Ambition: So, that wasn't directed at me now...was it?
Don't. Frickin'. Own. Nuttun'. 'Cept. Carson.
A despondent Beast Boy exited the house of mirrors. No matter how hard he tried, he couldn't process what had just happened.
Terra played us. Terra's a traitor.
Terra never liked me.
He couldn't accept it. So someone else decided to make him accept it. "Do you believe me now, Beast Boy?" a voice asked. "Or do you still think that Terra's your friend?" Out of the shadows stepped Carson. Beast Boy threw a punch at him, but Carson caught the fist in his palm, elbowed Beast Boy in the stomach and threw him into a wall. "I'm not here to fight you, Beast Boy."
Beast Boy staggered back to his feet. "Right," he said bitterly. "Came to gloat?"
"I came to kill Terra. Decided I'd rather let you learn a lesson about trust," Carson said, leaning against a fence with his arms folded across his chest. "Why so glum?"
Beast Boy leaned back and sighed, looking at the stars. "You wouldn't understand. You don't know what it's like to have your heart ripped out."
"'Course I do," Carson said softly. Beast Boy looked at him. "I just don't care is all."
The changeling looked down. At least someone was listening, even if it was Carson. "She's working for Slade. That makes her my enemy. I know what I have to do, but I can't bring myself to do it. She's...Terra. I care about her alot, you know?"
"You can't force yourself to hate someone you love," Carson said. His expression of satisfaction faded slightly. "No matter how hard you try," he added quietly. He looked back at Beast Boy and spoke up again. "One way or another, you know what you must do."
"And what if I can't?" Beast Boy replied. "What if I can't do it?"
"Then I'll kill her."
Beast Boy's head snapped up to look at Carson. "No! I won't let you!"
"You said yourself that something had to be done. What does it matter if I kill her before you?"
"I didn't say she had to die!"
"She's a liar and a traitor. She should die."
In a flash Beast Boy was in gorilla form and had swung one of his massive fists at Carson. He dodged, drew his sword and slashed Beast Boy across the chest. He sheathed the blade, grabbed his fist and swung him through the wall back into the house of mirrors, where he lay in his normal form covered in cuts from the broken glass. "Take a message for your friends kiddo," Carson called after him. "Should they get in my way...I don't care what my employer's directions were. I will show no mercy." A bright light filled the room, reflecting off of the shattered mirrors, and Carson was gone.
2 weeks later...
It was over. The Teen Titans were finished. Slade's army was unapposed in it's conquest of the city. They marched through the streets, killing all in their path, led by one of the heroes the townspeople had come to love: Terra. The Teen Titan. Women screamed. Children begged for mercy. Grown men wept in the streets just before getting crushed by a bouldar. The police ran. The National Guard abandoned them. Jump City was, to put it mildly, screwed.
And in the abandoned streets, defying Slade's army and Terra's power, was one lone warrior. Carson stood at the center of a crosswalk, holding a shotgun and staring up at Terra. The aforementioned girl lowered her perch to come face-to-face with the assassin. "Well, well, if it isn't Mr. 'I Kill For Fun.'"
"You wouldn't know anything about that now, would you Terra?" Carson asked, gripping his shotgun tighter.
Terra smirked. "Whatever." She rose into the air and shouted down at him for any remaining people to hear. "Carson Elam, you have chosen to oppose Slade, the Supreme Ruler of Jump City. Your only allies have fallen; you stand alone. What say you?"
"I never got the chance to thank you, Terra," he shouted up to her. "For saving my life. You gave me a second chance that day...Thank you, Terra."
Terra's expression softened a bit. She lowered herself to the ground and stepped off of the bouldar she was riding, sending it flying into an abandoned building. "You're welcome," she replied.
Carson laughed softly and looked up at the sky. "Wow. I thought it'd be harder than that. Wasn't so bad..." He looked back at Terra. "Anyway, I just wanted to tell you that," he cocked his shotgun and aimed it at Terra, "beore I kill you."
Terra's face turned to anger and as Carson fired, she raised a pillar of rock below her, sending her into the air. Carson continued to fire the shotgun, before abandoning it and teleporting up to meet her on the pillar. He drew his sword and Terra knocked it out of his hand. "Looks like I'll have to do this the old fashioned way," he said, cracking his neck. He attacked, pouring every once of his knowladge of three different martial arts into his flurry of moves, gaining speed and momentum as the fight wore on. Terra seemed to anticipate his every move, blocking the blows and responding with attacks of her own. Both improvised, both used every trick they knew, but they were still too evenly matched.
The pillar began to expand, forming a massive rock arena in the sky. The two continued to fight, neither fighter yielding an inch. Finally, Carson gave a kick across Terra's face, knocking her back, and drew his revolver. "Say goodnight, Terra," he growled, and fired. The bullet struck Terra in the chest...and ricoched off of the metal S on her suit.
Carson stared. "Didn't see that coming."
"How about this?" Terra said. The arena began to shake. A crack appeared down the center between Terra and Carson and the battlefield split in two. The half Carson was on began to dip forward and fall to the ground. Carson slid down the increasingly steep chunk of earth, lodging his knife into the rock to halt his fall. Terra smirked and put the finishing touch on the deathblow. Several cracks formed across the rock, and it exploded into dust and smaller chunks of earth. Terra stared into the haze, trying to find some trace of the mercenary, seemingly unaware of the plume of flame forming behind her. Carson stepped out of the fire, drew his knife and brought it down at Terra's back. She spun around, grabbed his arm and pushed it backwards, impaling him on his own weapon. He stared at Terra in shock, and the geomancer swung, hitting Carson in the cheek. She continued to attack, hitting him in various places on the body, until he reached the edge of the platform. At that moment, Terra kicked him in the chest and he fell. From a hundred stories up, he fell to the Earth, and Terra sent the remaining hunks of the platform he had been standing on down with him, crushing him.
Terra desended, and hovered over the pile of rocks that covered the warrior. "Say goodnight, Carson," she mocked. She looked down to see his sword lying at her feet, and she kicked it in with him. Terra gave the signal, and the army continued it's march, killing anything and everything that got in their way.
And when they were finally gone, the rocks began to stir. From beneath the pile of earth, a bloodied hand shot up, followed by a head. Carson coughed, choked, and hacked up blood. His vision blurred and darkened.
His final thought before the darkness took him was She's so cute when she's a psychopath.
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