here is the latest chapter in the story. Chapter Nine: The Meeting.
"Smith! What the hell are you doing here?" Shade said backing up a bit, however he did not see Warhead that had sneaked up behind him. He looked around his shoulder and saw him there and made no attempt to run.
"Why do you have to be this way?" Smith asked. "All I want to do is have a friendly little chat, and all you want to do is run. Well guess what?" Agent Smith said, snapping his fingers. Just then, Warhead's arms were wrapped around Shade's body. "We are going to talk whether you like it or not."
Raven, in the concealment of the darkness behind them, saw everything. "Oh no, they've got him! What can I do? If I attack they will slaughter me, if I run they will see me then get me. Great." Raven said to herself quietly as she stayed put for a bit.
"Now we need to talk a bit, I hear you have some amazing new powers, and I want to use them." Smith started.
"I don't remember anything about that, all I know is from what I have been told." Shade said in defense.
"Now you know that isn't true, so why don't you stop lying and start telling me what you know."
"I told you already, I don't…." Shade was cut off because Warhead started to squeeze his body in his huge biceps. Warhead was crushing Shade.
"Now see what you made me do? If you don't cooperate there will be much more pain where that came from, so why don't you tell me where those powers were from."
"Answer the friggen' question." Warhead grumbled from underneath his broken mask.
"Why do you want me to show you these powers anyway?" Shade asked, curious to the fact that Smith and Warhead were here.
"Well, it is basically because with your power we could rule the world. You have quite a power within you and you just need a little training to unleash it. Let me help you." Smith said, extending one of his hands towards Shade.
"Sorry, I don't deal with shit like you." Shade spat at Smith.
"Now, now that wasn't very nice." Smith said, looking at Warhead, who squeezed his arms once again, sending Shade into pain.
Shade screamed at the amount of pain that was being sent through his body. "Let..me..go" Shade yelled.
"Not unless you show me these powers!" Smith yelled right back at him.
'Oh no! They're killing him!' Raven thought. 'What can I do though? They are too powerful, if only there was an opening for me so that I could jump in.'
Warhead kept squeezing, laughing as he did so. Finally he let up the squeeze as Shade slumped a bit in Warhead's arms.
He was breathing heavy. "You want to see power?" Shade huffed. "I'll show you power." Shade said as he lifted his head rapidly, his eyes glowing red again as the same black aura that surrounded him before, came back.
Warhead dropped Shade on the ground as he backed off a bit.
"Warhead! What the hell do you think you are doing? Get back here!" Smith said motioning Warhead over.
Instead of disobeying his master once again, he did as he was told and went to stand with his master.
"Yes, Shade, yes! Show me your power. Show me who you truly are!" Smith yelled out.
Shade screamed even louder now, as more power was unleashed. A bolt of black electricity hit Smith in the chest and sent him flying backwards.
"This is true power!" Shade yelled at the two people in front of him. "Is this what you wanted to see? Good, because this won't be the last time you see it. Sorry, but I work alone!"
Smith chuckled under his breath. "If you won't work for me, then you will die." Smith attacked Shade, only to be stopped by another black aura. "What the hell?" Smith said out loud.
"Don't touch him!" Raven said, coming out from the darkness.
"Ahh, a Teen Titan. Raven if I am not mistaken, yes I know of you. My brother has told me so much about you." Smith said smiling.
"You're brother?" Raven asked.
"Yes, you should know the fellow. Haven't you always wondered why I look so much like him? That's because he's my brother." Smith said, with a large smile on his face,
"Who is that?" Raven asked, curious,
"Slade."
"No way, that is not possible."
"Oh but it is." Smith said, he was now free of the black aura binding him and was on the attack.
"Sorry, but we will have to cut this meeting short." Raven said as she surrounded Shade and herself with her cloak, turned into a Raven and flew off.
"We will meet again Shade, don't you worry about that." Smith said, his teeth glinting in the light as he smiled a sinister smile.
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Raven flew back to the tower, and landed on the roof. She settled down slowly so that Shade could not hurt himself coming out of the Raven that she formed.
"Uhh, my head. What happened?" Shade asked, looking up to see Raven there above her.
"Shh, you were attacked by Smith and Warhead. You went all crazy again and unleashed your powers. The same ones you used on Warhead a while ago." Raven responded with the utmost sincerity.
"Are you serious? I don't remember a thing." Shade said sitting up and rubbing his head.
"Well that is something we will have to work on I guess." Raven said playfully.
Shade chuckled and then the question hit him. "What were you doing down there? I was walking alone. At least I thought I was."
"Well I heard you go outside, and I didn't want you to get hurt, so I decided to follow you, because I knew you were upset over Dark and I thought that maybe you might get into trouble." Raven admitted as she blushed when saying it.
"Ah, I see." Shade said, still looking into her big eyes. "Thank you very much." He said once again, and noticed his head was slowly leaning closer and closer to hers.
"You're welcome." Raven said, herself realizing that she was being slowly pulled into Shade's face.
Their lips met and they kissed for what seemed to be an eternity for the both of them.
Raven finally realized what she was doing and broke away from the kiss. "I'm sorry, I have to go." She said, rushing away from Shade, and leaving him on the roof.
Shade just lay there and wondered what was wrong. However, he had gotten what he wanted from the moment he saw Raven, to finally kiss her.