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Chapter 2: The last Titan part 2
It was nights like this that Cyborg hated. Made him remember and regret letting a bunch of street thugs get the drop and him and get away with his pride and joy. He did his best to ignore the rain as best he could though, to be honest he had quite gotten used to the sound of it splattering against his out of date chassis.
The city lights did their best to illuminate the dark streets but the local gangs thought it would be fun to destroy each of them with rocks, bottles and the occasional laser blast. Some had even thought it would hilarious to actually steal one of the lamp posts, all they left was a metal stump and few broken shards of glass. Cyborg had often wondered what went through the minds of the kids in these gangs.
He quickly dismissed the questions of the random lamp post theft from his mind and continued his patrol. Splashing through the puddles the rain was leaving on the ground as he stalked the streets of his once fair city.
"Someone help!"
The scream made Cyborg instantly stop moving and look all around him, his sonar may not be as good as it used to be but he could still pin point sounds, given enough time that is.
"Somebody please help me!"
It took him at least another 3 seconds after the second scream to lock onto its location. Without wasting another second the cybernetic hero sprinted towards the area the screams were coming from, which just happened to be one of the darkest alleyways he had ever had the misfortune to see.
He debated using the light built into his shoulder but in the end decided not to bother, the light would allow the bad guys to see him coming and he needed all the advantage he could when it came to fights get these days. With a final relaxing breath he disappeared into the darkness.
"Look I think she likes me" grinned the thug as he pressed the girl up against the nearest wall, licking his lips as the helpless girl screamed and struggled for her life, her tears poured out from her terrified hazel eyes, "Isn't that right baby?" he sneered as he groped her breasts roughly.
The other three members of the gang just laughed and whooped as they watched, occasionally taking huge swigs from the bottles they were holding in their hands. Nudging and pushing into each other as the hideous act continued to unfold before their very eyes.
The gang wore tattered t-shirts with a white skull printed on it, black jeans and heavy looking black boots. The three lackeys had painted skulls on their faces and carried what looked like an assortment of close combat weapons Each had bald heads and assortment piecings all over their faces. The leader was different. He instead wore what looked like a Kevlar vest with a skull painted onto it, plain black jeans with chains hanging from them and heavy looking black boots with metal plates on them.
"I don't think she likes you man" said Cyborg as he activated his shoulder light and stepped out of the darkness, cracking his metal knuckles as he glared at the attempted rapist, "So why don't you just let her go and get the hell out of here?".
"Who the hell does this guy think he is?" laughed the leader of the gang as he looked at Cyborg, keeping the girl pressed up against the wall as he stared at the cybernetic hero standing in front of him, "Guys kindly teach this talking trash can a lesson please?".
"This should be fun" sniggered one of the thugs as they approached Cyborg. Each one of them produced a sword from seemingly nowhere. Each of them wore a sadistic grin on his face as the light from the fire reflected off their weapons blade.
"Here we go I guess" breathed Cyborg as he took another calming breath and waited for the thugs to make the first move.
The thug closest to Cyborg swung at him wildly with their sword, narrowing missing Cyborg's head as he ducked at the last possible second. As Cyborg ducked he used his arms to support his weight as he kicked out with his legs and smashed them into the thugs kneecaps, making the grown man scream out in agony as he fell to the ground like a tonne of bricks.
Cyborg had never heard a man scream as he watched the injured man roll about on the ground, clutching both of his knees as tears streamed out of his eyes.
"Son of a….." but before the second thug could finish his statement Cyborg sent him spinning with a very stiff punch to the jaw, making the poor man groan as he lay on the ground and gazed up at the sky, asking whoever was listening why it was suddenly spinning around.
The third lackey however got the drop on him and managed to plunge the blade of his sword deep into Cyborg's back. Cyborg screamed in pain as he felt the blade pass through the metal of his chassis and slice through the wires and circuitry that was contained within it.
"Lets see if machines can bleed?" he laughed manically as he pulled the blade out and stabbed it back in again. Cyborg once again cried out in agony as he felt the blade slice into him, severing the various wires and circuitry housed beneath the metal armour. He fell to his knees as the maniac with the sword continued to plunge the deadly weapon into his back, tears even began to fall from his human eye as he closed it tightly and tried to fight through the pain.
"You see baby nobodies gonna help you" sneered the leader of the thugs as he grabbed the young girls head and forced her to watch Cyborg get stabbed repeatedly. The girl simply cried louder and harder as Cyborg cried out in agony.
"Your wrong!" growled Cyborg as he gritted his teeth and fought through the agony, "Someone is here to help her!" he snarled as he opened his eye and glared at the lead thug, making him begin to tremble slightly as he ordered the man on Cyborg's back to stab him harder.
This time the sword brought him no pain, it now seemed to fed his anger as Cyborg stood up once again, his human eye burned with a furious rage as he glared at the leader of the so called gang. With an enraged roar Cyborg threw himself at the nearest wall and crushed the thug on his back between his larger metal back and cold dank bricks of the wall.
"And that someone is me" grinned Cyborg as he stepped away from the wall and allowed the thug to fall onto the ground, ignoring the groans as the man lay in a puddle of disgusting brown water, "Now unless you want to end up like your friends here leave the girl alone and get the hell out of my sight!" he said as he cracked his neck and kicked the thug lying on the ground next to his foot gently, making the man groan again as Cyborg's kick rolled his face out of the murky puddle.
The gang leader considered fighting Cyborg as he quickly pulled a sword of his own out from behind his back, but the sounds of sirens in the distance made him think twice as he glared at the cybernetic hero standing in front of him.
"Your lucky tin man" he smirked as he grabbed the girl and threw her at Cyborg, distracting the battered hero long enough so he and his lackeys could make a dramatic escape into the darkness.
"Thank you so much" wept the young girl as she hugged Cyborg tightly, crying with tears of joy as she wrapped her arms around his neck, "Please is there anything I can do to repay you?" she asked as she finally stopped hugging him.
"Yeah can you get me home?" he asked in an exhausted tone as he looked at her with a weary human eye, "I don't feel so go…." his words trailed into nothing as his power supply finally gave out on him. In silence he just collapsed onto the ground, the girl he had just rescued narrowly escaped being crushed as Cyborg slammed onto the ground with a clang.
"What happened?" groaned Cyborg as he finally opened his human eye and took a slow had look around at his surroundings.
"You passed out on me" replied a cheerful voice from the shadows ahead of him. The new voice made Cyborg instantly transform his arm into it's sonic cannon configuration and activate his shoulder light, pointing them both in the general direction of the voice he had heard.
"Chill it's me" smiled the girl he had rescued as Cyborg's shoulder light illuminated her face, "Remember me, the girl you saved?" she asked as she slowly walked towards him.
The girl was beautiful to say the very least, her shoulder length hair was a darkish brown and looked like it was tied back in a pony tail, but that hadn't stopped a few strands from escaping. Her skin was lightly tanned but the thing that stole Cyborg's breath was her eyes. They were a gentle hazel and seemed to glow in the light of Cyborg's shoulder lamp, Cyborg tried to remember if he had ever seen a more beautiful set of eyes before in his life.
"How…how did you get my battery charged?" asked Cyborg in an ragged voice as he transformed his arm back to it's regular configuration and checked his battery, he was amazed to see it was close to 20 charged, "Matter of fact how did you know I lived here?" he asked as he glanced back at the girl.
"Not everyone lives in a giant T shaped tower" replied the girl as she gave him a playful smirk, "And I kinda hacked your system to find out how to recharge you" she said as she pointed to the small plasma screen that was built into his right arm.
"You hacked my system?" he asked more out of shock than anything else, "How in the blue hell did you manage to get past my security protocols?"
"I know a thing or two about computer systems. Long story" answered the girl as she smiled back at Cyborg sweetly, "You don't entertain much do you?" she asked as she knelt down and picked up a half empty bottle of Wild Turkey whiskey, it was only then she noticed the countless other empty bottles lying all over the place.
"Lets just say I like to be left alone" snapped Cyborg as he took the bottle from her hands and opened it, taking a long deep drink from it as he walked towards what looked like a fridge in the corner.
"I see" mussed the girl as she watched him open the door and take a long look at the contents inside of it, "Umm doesn't that hurt?" she asked as she pointed to the deep wound on his back.
"That's what the alcohol is for" replied Cyborg simply as he discarded the now empty bottle in his hand and took another from the fridge, the light from the fridge seemed to make the vile brown liquid glow before he slammed the door shut once again, "It helps block out the pain" he said as he lowered the bottle and looked back towards the girl.
"All that stuff does is dull the pain" said the girl as she looked back at Cyborg, behind her lightning flashed beautifully across the tortured sky, "Believe me I know".
"Listen thanks for helping me home and all but if you don't mind" he paused mid sentence to take a drink from his bottle, "I'd like to be alone" he finished after he had finished swallowing the vile brown liquid.
"Yeah I can see that you have some heavy drinking to do!" snapped the girl before she grabbed her coat and took off, leaving Cyborg alone as he took another deep drink from his whiskey bottle, "Thanks for saving me by the way!" yelled back the girl before she disappeared completely from Cyborg's vision.
Cyborg took a few more drinks of the vile brown liquid before he stopped and lowered the bottle from his lips.
"Ahhh fuck!" he cursed as he dropped the bottle of whiskey and ran after the girl, "Hey wait!"
"I said wait!" he snapped as he grabbed the young woman by the arm and physically made her stop in her tracks, "Listen I'm sorry for the way I acted up there, I'm…I'm not used to having people around the Tower" he said as he looked at her with a sad eye, doing his best to block the sounds of his final battle with his friends from his mind.
"It's ok you don't have to be sorry" smiled the girl as she placed her left hand on Cyborg's cheek.
They both stood there for what seemed like an eternity, both of them just stared into each others eyes until the rain started up again making the girl quickly remove her hand from his cheek and cough awkwardly.
"Anyway I think it's about time I headed home" coughed the girl as she thrust her hands into the pockets of her coat and looked down at the ground, "It was real nice meeting you".
She turned to walk away but once again Cyborg stopped her by grabbing hold of her arm, this time he smiled as she turned back round to look at him.
"Maybe you should stay here tonight" he said in a voice that was barely above a whisper, "I mean it would be safer if you stayed here, you know dangerous these streets can be at nights" he blushed as he quickly removed his hand from the girls arm.
"You sure you'd be ok with that?" asked the girl as she looked up into his eyes once again, water was now dripping off her brown hair as she looked at him with gentle hazel brown eyes.
"I'd appreciate the company" replied Cyborg with a gentle smile as the rain splattered against his metal body.
"Hi I'm Naomi, Naomi Gateman" beamed the girl as she held out her hand to Cyborg, "But please call me Ragdoll, everyone else I know does" she said as Cyborg shook her hand gently.
"Long story" she quickly added as she noticed Cyborg looking at her curiously.
"Sorry mines Victor, Victor Stone but please call me Cyborg" he finally said after a short silence, "We best get inside, looks like we could have quite a storm on our hands tonight" he said as he lead Trinity back into the Tower.
"Cyborg eh?" said Ragdoll as she followed Cyborg back into the darkness of the Tower, "Suits you" she smiled sweetly as thunder clapped across the sky.
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