Slade's Children
By: ANTT
A/N: Hey, everyone who's reading this. My story, as you can see, is going smoothly. And since summer break is on the way, I'll probably get to update sooner than I usually do. So that's good news I guess, but I'm not making any promises, okay?
Chapter three: Reviews, Roommates, and Ruptures
Recap time…
Robin and Cyborg were check out some of their Villain Reviews…
Then next was Sean:
Who was he fighting in the battle? - Chloe
"It was either Bee or Aqualad. Or both." Cyborg responded.
The next was for Dijon:
It's sad the world has to be like that…if only his parents were different… maybe… maybe he wouldn't be there…maybe…- Chloe
"You like reviewing don't you?" Cyborg responded/asked.
Then the alarm went off. It was H.I.V.E. messing around at the bank. "Let's go." Robin said to the titans, now all in the living room. And they left.
The Titans just got back from defeating H.I.V.E., and Robin and Cyborg were egger to get back to reading their reviews, so they began to run to Cyborg's room again. But Raven stopped them. "Where are you two going?" she asked.
"Uh, to Cyborg's room…to read the Villain Reviews. Why, you want to come?" Robin responded.
"No, but…why are you in such a hurry?"
"Because they're interesting."
"And I have to update information about this battle anyway. I have to keep our fans posted" Cyborg said, and it was true. When he started the website, he promised to update every battle, and so far he's lived up to that and he wasn't going to stop now because Raven was suspicious of them. "Bye!" then they left Raven to sigh.
In Cyborg's Room
He already had the site up and was moving on to the next review that they had got. The reviews were special to the titans (…well, most of them). It was a way to keep in touch with the fans, and they liked to too because it allowed them to communicate with their heroes. There was even an emailing system where you could email the titans certain questions and also make suggestions to them. The fan's loved it, and the titans were cool with it…as long as no one was trying to get to them or something.
The next Review was for Dijon:
Dijon's probably a nice person. It's so sad that he had to grow up where he did. I am so thankful that I didn't have to grow up there. It's sad… it really is… -prettyeyes
"I don't know about that. But I do know is that he's the bad guy and that he's the one that we're fighting. So until he retires from villain work, he's a bad person." Robin responded.
The next one was for Sam:
That evil ! How can she serve that…that…that evil dude! What happened with her brain? And those other dudes too? Were they dropped on their heads when they were little? Do they have mental deficiencies? – hot delicious 'n' fresh
"If only you knew…" Robin responded.
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"Gosh how many reviews can we get in one night?" Robin asked.
"Apparently, a lot." Cyborg responded.
"Maybe we should take a break."
"Yeah." Then Robin got up and left, leaving Cyborg alone to his computer.
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Back at Slade's Hideout/House, in the Training Gym
Sam and Sean were going head to head. Slade liked them to train them fighting like this a lot because a lot of the time they'll be going head to head with one of the titans and they needed to be prepared for it.
"Now, let's imagine that Sean is Robin…" Slade began circling the two while they still stood idle.
Sam interrupted them. "That's gonna be the hardest one yet, Daddy." She said looking at Slade, then to her brother. "Sean here isn't cute enough to be Robin."
"I oughta…" Sean said stepping up to Sam again.
"You oughta what?" Sam stepped up to him.
"Just shut it!" Slade shouted to the two. "You're both acting like $$es! Idiotic $$es! Y'all best get a grip of your self before I whip both of ya."
Sam and Sean backed away and back into their places.
"Now, where was I…ah, yes…Sam, pretend that Sean is Robin…how would you annihilate him?" Slade asked.
"Annihilate? C-can't I just have fun with him first?" Sam asked.
"No, tonight we are going to rid our selves of the Titans."
"Don't you think that's a little fast? I mean…"
"Is that what you were thinking last night when you saved the titans from their death…most of them at that?" Slade asked stepping up to his daughter.
"Y-you know?"
"Yeah I know. We could have had a couple of titans dead last night, but you had to save them; and then, you had the nerve to sleep on their couch!" Slade shouted at her, outraged.
"How…h-how do you…how do you know?" Sam stuttered.
"The Titans have villain review site, where they update every battle telling every detail about it. Sometimes even video clips. Not too soon after you finally got home, I check the site to see what people thought of you guys. There were 7 video clips of the fight, 1 and a half were of you saving the titans."
Sam's shocked expression soon turned to furious one. "You know what? My dept is paid. 'Cause every beating I got from you was worth 5,000 deaths. Are you guys coming?"
Sean and Dijon were silent, they weren't gonna get beat. "Alright, that just makes if much easier for me." She was about the turn to leave, but Slade slapped her and sent her flying across the room. Sam got up with a huge bruise on her face. She scowled, the same way she did when she was about to kill her mother.
"You belong to me, wrench!" Slade shouted to his daughter. Sam was pissed; she wasn't going to allow her father to talk to her like that. If she let her father talk to her like that, what was she gonna do if other people started to talk to her like that?
"You are going to pay for that!" she said and charged her father. Slade slid out the way, his daughter still had a long way to go if she was going to try to kill him. She was still at her intermediate stage.
"You still need a lot of work. Let me help you, Sam." He said.
"And take dissings from you? I don't think so." Sam was just as stubborn as her father. She wasn't going to give in just because…well…when she thought about it… it was a good idea, the better she was at fighting, the easier it would be to take down her father. She made her decision, she was going to stay. "…Alright, Daddy…I'll stay."
"Good. Good." Sean and Dijon looked at each other; their sister sure was a character.
At The Titans East
"It's gone too far!" Bee complained to Aqualad standing out side the door to his room.
"I can't talk about it now. Maybe later but not now, okay? I gotta go." He said walking out his room in regular clothes; jeans, sneaker, and a blue and black shirt.
"Where are you go---Ohhhh." She sung; he was going out on a date with Joi. They had been talking on the phone forever since their first date. Now they were going for #2. It looked promising.
"Yeah, yeah. I'm gone tell the others for me, won't cha? Oh, and tell the twins that no she doesn't have sisters, okay?"
Bee laughed and nodded an okay.
"Thanks." He smiled.
In a Small Café
Aqualad walked into his date's favorite café. She said she'd be there after him, but to be there at 7 sharp, he hadn't known this girl long but that didn't stop her from being weird, matter of fact how long you've known someone doesn't really stop that person from being weird; and if it does than they're not really weird they're just not what you're used to, but when you get used to them then it's isn't 'weird' anymore.
He sighed and looked around the café; she said someone would recognize him and take him to his table. And right on cue a guy walked up to him. "Aqualad?" the guy asked.
Aqualad became uneasy, who was this guy? "Uh…yea…"
"Hey, I'm David, Joi's roommate. Johnny and Eitan are sitting at the table." He puts his hand out for Aqualad to shake, and he does so. "Come on, man, don't be a wimp. This place isn't gonna swallow you whole!"
Aqualad smiled. Things were only going up hill for him and Joi, and now he was meeting the roommates. Of course they still had that little thing with the fact that he might die tonight but they've found a way to get around that and try to bond any way. It's like people always say, you can't let fear rule your life; and they were planning to stick to that!
David led Aqualad to the table that he and his friends/roommates were sitting at. Aqualad's first thought when he saw the guy was, 'She lives with these guys?' He wondered if they had ever tried to get her…if they did, and she wasn't cool with, he was prepared to kill. He laughed it off and simply thought, 'They don't seem her type.'
He sat down and took a good look at the guys sitting at the table he was at. David, who got him good look at the door, looked like a normal Caucasian boy with blonde hair and blue/gray eyes. He had a muscular body and wore what normal guy his age wore, clothes ((lol)), specifically a gray shirt with simple gray pants and white sneakers that completed the outfit. David grew up in a normal family, with their ups and downs, but more ups than downs. Eitan, as some might tell from the name, was a Latino guy with roots that go way back to ancient Greece ((The city state Athens to be even more specific)), with these roots he's learned to stay true to them, and he even went as far as to learn the language – though he doesn't use it in real life. He sports a forever tan and emerald eyes, he wore an emerald green shirt – to bring out his eyes – and jeans with fake patches and white sneakers with green accents. The last guy, Johnny was a light brown skinned African-American with braids, yes, he grew up in a not so glamorous neighborhood, but he's tip-toed away from that environment and found himself in a graduating class with highest honors, and a smile that could make any girl melt. He holds dark brown eyes that look black even when you're a foot away from him and wore a black shirt with flames coming up from the bottom he also wore jeans but dark ones. He's sneakers were black.
"So did Joi tell you why she asked you to come here?" David asked examining Aqualad.
"Well…no, actually she wouldn't tell me." He guys exchange looks. "What? Is that a bad sign?"
"Yeah. Very bad." Eitan said smirking. "She's gonna pull the pug."
"What?" B-but…she wouldn't…"
"She would. And she will." David said making himself more comfortable. "It's her tactic. She takes on a date, with us there, doesn't say why, shows up late…then…she smashes those fatal words on the guy's head… 'Sweety, you look pale.'"
"Why 'Sweety, you look pale'?"
"Because, is signifies the fact that the relationship is dying or lacking. Just like skin; when it's pale, it's either dead, dying, or there's a lack of pigment." Explained Johnny.
Aqualad looked at he ground. "You only have until she sits in that chair to figure out what you're going to say. Cause after she's here" – Johnny shook his head – "it' all over."
"Sorry, dude. But you had to know; we didn't want it to just pop up on you outta no where." David said sympathizing.
"I…I don't know why this is happening….it's not like we don't get alone…"
"You should have seen her facial expression when you said that you were might die tonight, earlier. It was full of joy; she said that now it was only going to make the break up easier for both of you." Eitan said.
"I…" Aqualad was about to speak when someone walked on stage and spoke into the mic.
"Hey, everyone. How's your morning going so far?" the crowd claps. "Well, I think you'll be glad to know that it's gonna get even better. We have…a person who has been with us for the longest while. She's supported us and donated money to keep REAL Diamonds alive. So it is my honor and pleasure, to welcome to the stage, Joi Virtue." Aqualad's head pops up to the stage where his date is. 'She looks hot…does she always look this hot when she breaks up with someone?' he thought. Joi stepped up to the mic.
"Hey everyone!"
"What she doing?" the guys were silent.
"Uh, I haven't been up on stage for a while, and I definitely haven't been on this stage in a long time; so you guys have to help make this go smooth, ok? Ok?" Music starts in the background, and Joi takes a step closer to the mic, and she starts to sing…
Where once the moon
Was just a rock, spinning in the sky
Where once the stars
Were only tiny points of light
Now the moon looks like
Its heaven's shining pearl
Now those stars
They look like windows into another world
Look what love has done to me
Look what love had done
There's poetry in all I see
Look what love has done
And my heart is dancing through each day
My soul is running free
Look what love has done to me
'She can sing?'
Where once each breath
Was just a sigh of aching emptiness
Where once I hardly felt
The beating in my chest
Now each breath feels like
A precious kiss of life
Now inside me beat
The wings of a thousand butterflies
'She can sing!' Aqualad thought '…but she's gonna…drop me like a hot potato…great!'
Look what love has done to me
Look what love had done
This must be how it's meant to be
Look what love has done
And my heart is dancing through each day
My soul is running free
Look what love has done to me
And I can't tell
Was that a violin or did you say something
Wad that lighting striking where I stand
Or did you just reach out and take my hand
Look what love has done to me
Look what love had done
There's poetry in all I see
Look what love has done
And my heart is dancing through each day
My soul is running free
Look what love has done to me
The music stopped and Joi scanned through the audience, then smiled when she found Aqualad. "And there he is ya'll! My love." The cloud looks at Aqualad and claps harder.
"Whoa, talk about a build up." (Eitan)
"This is gonna be harsh." (Johnny)
"It's sad…it really is…" (David)
Joi jumps off the stage and runs to hug Aqualad, he didn't return that hug but she didn't let it get to her. Maybe he's in a bad mood was all she thought, and shrugged it off. L she sat next to Aqualad and looked at his face. He seemed uneasy. 'What's up?'. "Hey, Sweetie…you look pale…what's up?"
"Look, Joi, I just think you should just go out and say it, okay? Don't try and beat around the bush; I'm a big guy, I can handle my self. I was doing it before you came okay?"
"Alright. But you have to do it first."
"But that doesn't make sense, if I do it then there's nothing left for you to do."
"Yes there is. There's trust, love, understanding…"
"Trust! Love! Understanding! There's no room left for that!"
"Yes there is! Don't you believe?"
"I don't' know what to believe anymore. I thought you liked me."
"I do."
"Then why are you doing this?"
"I'm not doing anything! Its you! You're the one that's bugging!"
"Me! What did I do?"
"This!"
"And you…you know, what…I'm gone. You're right. I'm not putting up with this. I'm just gonna respect your wishes and do it first. I'm just gonna get it off my chest." He took a deep breath. "Joi, I wanna break up. Okay? There you have it. I hope you have a good time with your buddies here." then he stormed out.
"But…." Tried to call to him, but he ignored her. "What did I do?"
"We don't know, Joi. But he seemed like a jerk anyway." David said going over to Joi, and putting his arm around her." Eitan and Johnny exchange looks.
Back at Titans-Tower
Robin sat on the couch. He had been sitting there since he left Cyborg…thinking. About…everything that's been happening between to him, and the titans. Starfire breaking up with him…Slade's children coming on to the scene…Him finding out about why Slade became Slade…Dijon's past…Sean's….Sean's…anyway…Sam's ex-boyfriend…Sam's perfect physique… Sam's dangerous hardcore and up frond moves…Sam's deep purple eyes…Sam's butter tan skin…Sam's…WHOA, WHOA, WHOA! What was that? Sam's this, Sam's that! He didn't like Sam like that…did he? Cyborg wasn't right was he…I mean, he did take her on date, but that really wasn't a date…he was just paying her back for what she had done for him and his team…nothing like that. And the telling of her past, that wasn't a show of affection, was it?…I mean, she had never said I to any one before, and she was trusting him to tell the right people her story, and the story of Slade. Did Sam have a crush on Robin?...No…villains don't get crushes, especially not on heroes…but then again Sam wasn't really a villain, she was more so forced to be evil…but does that still mean that she liked Robin more than the friendship that they had now. Robin didn't realize it yet but, he secretly wanted Sam to have a crush on him, because he…had a crush on her.
In Cyborg's Room
Cyborg had been sitting at his computer doing research on various things that he had been pondering about, but eventually he found him self back to his Villain Review site. He didn't know why, but for some reason, something told him to check to see who was online in their site. It turned out to be a bit of people, about 195 to be exact. Cyborg thought, he hadn't done this since he created the site but he thought that it would be a good idea to do it now, he decided to have a chat with on of his fans.
Each titan had their own section of fans, where they can log on and have talks with their fans. Each titan goes by their codename and no one else can take that name – for clarification reasons, for the fans to know if they're really talking to their hero. Beastboy and Starfire did it the most, then Robin, and then Cyborg and Raven, who probably ((surprisingly)) go about the same amount of times. Cyborg logged in and sorted the names in alphabetical order, and when through them to look for someone who sounded interesting…
Adam
AimeeBentorocks
Alexthegreat
Amber
Blah, Blah, Blah
BAMF
Be-Be&Ce-Ce
Be CoOl
Brianna
Yadda, Yadda, Yadda
CaTwOmAn
Chloe
Cleo - a truly amazing lady...
Wait…
Chloe
That was the girl that kept on reviewing for the Slade's children…that was the person he was going to talk to. He clicked on her name and a private conversation popped up, he typed his first words:
Cyborg: Hey, Chloe
Chloe: O MY GOSH! It's the real Cyborg, ain't it?
Cyborg: uh, yea
Chloe: Okay, before we start chatting
Chloe: …there's something I have to say. Okay?
Cyborg: ok, shoot
Chloe: In chat rooms and stuff, I get real grammar crazy when people start to write in codes, most of which I don't understand. So can you please talk in a way that doesn't express codes and really weird spelling and things like that?
Cyborg: no prob
Chloe: Really? Most people just 'x' out of the convers when ever I say that…
Cyborg: not me
Cyborg: I feel comfortable knowing that I won't receive a message with really a really weird spelling of a word.
Cyborg: it's soothing
Chloe: That's exactly the way I feel!
Cyborg: that's good. I'm not completely crazy
Chloe: LOL you are so funny!
Cyborg: yeah a lot of people say that
Chloe: Well it's true.
Cyborg: well you can defiantly look forward to more of that in the near future
Cyborg: and maybe even in the far future
Chloe: Does that mean you wanna stay in touch with me?
Cyborg: if that's the way you wanna take it…
Cyborg: yea
Chloe: Great! Cause I wanna chat wit you in the future too.
Chloe: I got to go, sorry…
Cyborg: No sorry needed, you gotta go, you gotta go.
Cyborg: if I didn't accept that what kind of person would you take me for?
Chloe: An unfair one.
Cyborg: thank you. Bye
Chloe: Bye!
Chloe logged out the conversation and Cyborg saved it; he could see good thing for him and this girl in the future.
A/N: This is the end of this chapter, and I have really enjoyed this one. I've gotten ideas for other stories, that include sequels, I don't know if anyone wants one, but I'm working on plans for them.
I/A/N: This story takes place with in a day's time. Each chapter is a part of this one day, sorta like '24' but in this story there's one extra afternoon which in present in the first chapter, then it breaks into the '24'-like day in chapter 2. The time with in the next few chapters will subsist in this one day. I will try to list the time in the day in upcoming chapters, sorry that I did not do that in this chapter.
PS: Sorry for any mistakes in this chapter, they were just problems that 'Spelling and Grammar' check didn't find, again I say sorry.