YAYYYY... Um... School got cancelled after dinner so I get to write a chapter of this :) Annndd, I think I should change the genre of Angst to Action/Adventure. Somebody review and encourage that plz. And my review numbers have gone downhill since this plot so I have to bring on the good crap ASAP. Still wondering who the shadow person was? Review your guess, I'm curious to see what you think. So on with the fic...
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
" You stupid kids... Grrr... Just let me have the money and I won't have to hurt you!" Lori threatened
" No way, dude! It's my grandpa's money! He worked hard to get it, you don't deserve it!" Beast Boy blurted
" Well if he wanted to keep his money safe, he would have kept it in the bank! What a fool!"
" This is your last warning. Give up without a fight and we'll only tell the police you broke in." Raven improvised
" I don't think so, hood." Lori replied " I'm getting that money, and you can't stop me. Now YOU give up without a fight and I won't have to kill you!"
" Are you crazy!? We'll never help you!" Beast Boy shouted
" ... Ok.... That's how you want to be, then I'll just blow this whole room up!"
" WHAT!?" The teens cried in unison
" Just watch me!"
Lori stood still and strained her muscles the same way she produced copies of herself. She closed her eyes and clenched her teeth until she began to glow. Beast Boy and Raven couldn't run, it was like their feet were glued to the floor. As Lori shouted out a battle cry, the duo both tried to shield themselves to protect themselves from the oncoming blast. Neither looked to their evil babysitter to see her expression.
Lori's yell changed to a cackle as she relaxed and instantly jump kicked Raven, sending her to the floor. Lori quickly ran to her and kicked her sharply in her side. Raven grunted and clasped the throbbing area as she heard something slide across the floor from her belt. When she looked up, she saw the pistol spin to a stop just out of her reach from her place of rest. Lori glared as Raven attempted to get it back. Lori quickly lounged forward and snatched the gun before Raven had time to get to it. As the cloaked girl stood up, Lori fumbled with the gun and the ammo at the same time in an attempt to get some bullets into it. Raven got to her feet and darted over to the blonde to get it back but Lori clubbed her over the head with the gun butt to keep her away. She stumbled back as Beast Boy finally took action and snuck up on their enemy. Lori sneered and rotated directly toward the changeling and pointed the gun at him. Knowing she needed him to open the vault, she put him in a head lock and ordered him to obey her.
" Thought you could sneak up on me, huh? Too bad for you I'm gonna have to kill your friend!"
Lori raised the weapon at Raven as Beast Boy could do more than watch in horror. Raven kept still and calmly awaited for the gun to fire. Lori smiled smugly and pulled the trigger, but before the bullet left the shaft, Raven summoned a barrier of dark energy around herself to shield herself. The bullet was slowed on impact to the barrier as it sliced through and dropped to the floor with a cling. Lori flinched to see Raven's powers once again foil her plot.
" Ok. I can't kill you... Yet. Come near me and the elf gets it!" She taunted
Raven surrendered and shrugged as Lori put the pistol to Beast Boy's head to show she was serious about her threat.
" Good. Come with me green. You're my ticket to the lap of luxury!"
Lori dragged Beast Boy to the giant vault holding the majority of his grandfather's fortune and pushed him to one of the panels. Beast Boy regained posture and looked around the idea in case an idea struck him, but nothing was crafted in his weak intellectual. He sighed and observed the panel, the feeling of the unsurpassed presence of a revolver at his back. Lori looked tempted to kill him but reminded herself she could after she got the money.
" What are you waiting for!? Put in the password!" She barked
The changeling tensed his shoulders and sluggishly lifted his hand to the small typing panel. With quick, accurate movement, he punched in the password reluctantly. Lori smiled to hear a chiming confirmation sound. She walked up to the combination lock present on the face of the vault door. She cracked her knuckles in a boasting manner and put her hand on the combination lock. Thinking back, she recalled the code under the desk she sought and with the flick of a wrist, she spun it around to all the numbers. Whatever her clones knew or saw, she knew it as well. She didn't need clones for this meagre task.
Click.
The lock tightened while a small laser device emerged from a new opening in the side of the wall. And as Lori glared at the teens, instructions boomed from a hidden speaker somewhere nearby.
" Please step forward for a retina scan, Mr. Logan." It informed
" Kid! I need a retina scan! Who's do I need!?" She shouted
" My grandfather's." Beast Boy smirked
" You little... You knew this would happen!" She pointed the gun " How do I hack the system!?"
" You can't. You need my grandfather's eye to open the vault."
" Argh! Listen to me, elf! You get that vault open or I'll kill you and you friend! And when your grandpa gets home, he'll open the vault for me and then I'll kill him too! How do ya like that!?"
Lori kept staring at the teen until he began to squirm and look away. She was furious. She had come all this way with what she considered little trouble and now, the only thing in her way was the eye of an old man? She was still staring at Beast Boy when something sparked her memory. That's when she remembered something... Something important.
" You..."
" What?" Beast Boy snapped
" You have the same eye colour as your grandfather..."
" Ummm... No I don't!" He looked away
" Get over here!"
She pulled on his hair to get him by the laser and pushed his head into it's range. At first nothing happened. She noticed his eyes were closed and forced him to open it by spacing his eyes apart. The laser took notice of the exposed eye and ran a thin, flat red beam over it and awaited the results. As the screen flashed 'Checking', Beast Boy frowned and rubbed his blinded eye of the red glare blurring his vision. The room was quiet. Even if a dust particle hit the floor, it wouldn't go unnoticed. And when the screen said 'Checking Complete, Welcome Mr. Logan', Lori's heart jumped back into place as she walked up to the vault door. Without savouring the moment, she yanked on the handle and swung the massive door open. Her eyes glowed with lust as what layed within came into view. Her face lit up with a smile from ear to ear as the contents were revealed to her.
" .....What's this!?" She growled
As quickly as her expression plummeted, so did her rise to fortune. The room contained.............. Nothing. Nothing at all. It was all a trick. Lori began to shift to an even more diabolic state as she began to shake with hatred and her hands curled into tight fists. She turned around slowly and creepy to shoot dagger eyes at the two teens now standing very far away.
" THERE... IS... NO... MONEY!?" She broke the sound barrier
" Uh... I guess Grandpa does keep his money in the bank.... I think that room is the bomb shelter, kinda thinking of it...." Beast Boy chuckled
Lori's eyes bared an eerie spark of evil as her frustrated barged frown shifted to a grin. A maniacal grin. The kind you would see on the evil clown Sweet Tooth from the Twisted Metal series. Yes, a comparison Beast Boy would use to describe such insanity. She began to laugh in a twisted manner while the duo slowly side stepped to the door. Lori's evil cackling filled the room, creating an uneasy atmosphere.
" HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!" Lori bellowed cynically " THERE'S NO MONEY! THAT'S FUNNY! YA KNOW, WATCHING PEOPLE BLEED IS FUNNY TOO! YOU TWO WANNA BE THE VICTIMS!? AH HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!"
" ...Okay... Someone needs a trip to the looney bin..." Raven commented
" Um, Raven? I think we should... You know... GET OUT OF HERE!?" Beast Boy squeaked
" NO! DO STAY! WE HAVE SO MANY GAMES TO PLAY!"
" Sorry, but... Uh... WeHaveToGoBye!"
Beast Boy grabbed Raven's arm and literally flew to the door and tried to yank it open. When it ceased to budge, Beast Boy looked like he was about to sweat Niagra falls. And it couldn't have come at a better time to stay locked. Lori walked a few steps away from the safe door and raised her weapon with inaccurate aim. As both of her targets scurried to get free, Lori clicked the gun ready to fire with a lunatic intent and listened to the sound of the gun bounce off the walls.
BANG
BANG
BANG
And then there was silence.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
I love cliff hangers. They make people die of curiosity and come back to find out what happened. And, if my dear brother doesn't kick me off the computer... Again... Then I'll get the time to bring you yet another chappy. So for the love of God, R & R.. They encourage me and fight off writers block. >:)