Sixth chapter. Almost there. Read & Review. Sorry I haven't updated for so long. I've been absolutely swamped with school work. That plus swim team equals hardly any writing time.
Silence reigned over the H.I.V.E. There was no one around except for six figures quickly making their way to the main building. They stopped underneath a window.
"Everyone ready?" Robin asked. The others nodded. "Then lets go." He took out the retractable wings and activated the boosters on his feet. They all took off and went up to the window.
Brother Blood entered his room.
"Good afternoon Mr. Blood." Came a voice.
"What…Who's there?"
Just then the lights were all turned on. Brother Blood looked around. Robin was seated in Brother Blood's chair with his legs up on the desk. Raven was seated on the desk inspecting one of Blood's various weapons. Rose was seated by the bookshelf leafing through a book. Terra was on Blood's laptop browsing the internet. Jo had taken the money out of his safe and was currently counting it. Whatzizname was sulking in the corner after being yelled at by Robin for messing around and breaking something. The entire air of the room was far too calm for Blood's liking.
"Who are you people?" asked Brother Blood.
"My name is Robin I believe we meet while I was serving as Slade's apprentice." Robin began. "I believe you also know Raven. That is Slade's daughter and one of my apprentices. That is Terra, another apprentice of mine. And that is Whatzizname."
"What do you want?" Brother Blood asked.
"I want the H.I.V.E." he replied.
"WHAT!" Blood shouted.
"I" he said pointing at himself "want" he made a fist "the H.I.V.E." he pointed at the floor and the walls.
"And how do intend on doing that?" Blood asked.
"Well. You can either hand it over to me and place all the students under my mind control or we can torture you until you give us the information."
"You think you can beat me?"
"I don't think I can, I know I can. And further more I believe Slade can verify that my torture techniques are very very painful"
"You tortured Slade?" Blood asked nervously.
Robin nodded gravely.
"Well prove iiiiii……"
Blood was cut of as Robin crossed the room in the blink of an eye and knocked his legs out from under him. He summoned up a ball of fire and held it close to Blood's throat.
"You were saying?" Robin asked.
"I'll turn them over to you tomor……" Robin growled. "Tonight." Blood said hurriedly. "I'll call them all immediately."
"Good" Robin stated getting up. Blood remained on the floor. "Hurry" Robin growled. Brother Blood scrambled to his feet and raced out the door.
Robin smiled as he sat back down.
Meanwhile with the Titans
"I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS." Shouted Cyborg
"I do not understand this at all." Said Starfire
"Understand what?" came a voice.
The three Titans looked up to see Speedy and Bumblebee sitting on the couch.
"What are you guys doing here?" Cyborg asked.
"We both got an emergency call from Robin."
"Robin betrayed us." Said Beast Boy.
"What!"
"He's a criminal now." Cyborg said
"But why'd he call us?" Speedy asked.
"He must have wanted to finish all of us off." Cyborg said sitting down and putting his head in his hands.
"How? What? When? Where?"
"Don't know, don't know, don't know and oh yeah don't know." Cyborg said.
"So what do you know?" Bumblebee asked.
"Well we know he has a pretty strong team." Beastboy said.
"Whose on the team?" Speedy asked. "And where are Raven and Aqualad?"
The three sighed.
"Friend Aqualad is dead." said Starfire sadly.
"WHAT!"
"Robin killed him." Said Beastboy.
"He shot him with a laser. It cut a clear hole right through his chest." Cyborg said.
"What about Raven? Don't tell me she's dead as well." Bumblebee asked nervously.
"No she's still alive." Answered Cyborg sounding even more unhappy then when he had explained about Aqualad's death.
"Then where is she?" Speedy asked.
"Friend Raven is with friend Robin." Said Starfire.
"You mean……?"
"Yeah. She's evil as well." Cyborg confirmed. "She's on his team. Along with some girl who I'm guessing is Robin's twin. He seems to have also found some way to resurrect Terra and turn her against us. He also had some guy dressed up in the red X outfit and some other girl as well."
"And he managed to gather all these people without you all noticing at all?" asked Bumblebee.
The other three nodded.
"What do we do?" asked Speedy.
"We do to them what we would do to any other criminal." Cyborg said.
"We are going to hurt friend Robin and friend Raven and friend Terra?" asked Starfire.
"Star don't you remember what Robin said. He's no longer our friend. He tried to kill us. He did kill one of us. He's a criminal now. I sorry, but we have to take him down." Cyborg said.
"I understand. They are no longer our friends. They are our enemies." Starfire said.
"And we're gonna have to take them down like any other enemy." Said Beastboy.
The others all nodded quietly.
At the H.I.V.E
"Students of the H.I.V.E." said Brother Blood. "I am here to announce that from now on I am no longer your master. From now on your master is Robin."
Robin stepped forward smirking. "That's right you lot. I am your new Master. I demand your undying loyalty, respect and obedience. And to show you my power." With that he spun around, pulled out his knife and in one single swift movement slit Blood's throat. He gasped and fell to the floor. Dead. He turned around. Every pair of eyes were wide and watching him. "Does everyone understand?" Every head in the whole place nodded. "Good" With that he turned around and left the room along with Raven. They went to Blood's or rather Robin's study.
"What do we do now?" asked Raven once they were comfortably seated in the room.
"Now we let the Titans know where we are." He said.
"How?" Raven asked.
"You'll see." He stated. He pulled out a communicator. "Apprentices report to my office." He then pulled out a microphone and spoke into it. "Jinx, Mammoth and Gizmo report to my office. Now."
Five minutes later Rose, Jo, Terra and Whatzizname entered the room followed by Jinx, Gizmo and Mammoth.
"All right you bunch listen up and listen up good. Its time the Titans knew of our presence here. Gizmo, Mammoth and Jinx you are to go on a mission along with an apprentice of mine. Jinx and Terra you are to go free Overload. He's in a disk. Bring the disk to me. Mammoth and Rose are to go free Cinderblock. If he causes any trouble knock him out. Gizmo and Jo are to go free Plasmas. He is in a special cell. Do not wake him. Here are some maps with directions to their cells." He handed them some disks. "Friends in high places." He said as they sent him questioning looks
"The Titans will no doubt try to stop you. You are to beat them, but not kill them. Make sure they realize I am now stationed in the H.I.V.E. Understand?"
"Understood" the six replied.
"Err……Master" said Whatzizname.
"What is it Whatsyourname?" he asked.
"You didn't give me a job." He said
"Oh of course. How could I forget? You have the most important job of all."
Whatzizname's face immediately lit up.
"You have to go to Duncan Donuts and pick up a dozen glazed donuts for me. Oh and while your at it some donut holes as well. Make those sugar ones. You want anything Rae?"
"I like their vanilla ones with sprinkles on top." Raven replied.
"Right. A dozen of those as well." Robin said.
It took every bit of strength the other six had to stop themselves from laughing. Whatzizname looked like he was about to die. He stared at Robin with a 'are you kidding' look. Though as the apprentices all knew Robin never kid and he continued to give Whatzizname a dead serious glare.
"Well what are you waiting for? Get on it." Robin said. They all nodded and left the room. Jinx and Terra to go free Overload, Mammoth and Rose to go free Cinderblock, Gizmo and Jo to go free Plasmas and Whatzizname to go buy Duncan Donuts.
With the Titans
"So where do we start to look for him?" Beast Boy asked,
Just then the alarm went off.
"What wrong?" Beast Boy asked.
"It's the H.I.V.E." Cyborg answered. "Jinx is attack the place where Overload is. Mammoth is attacking the area Cinderblock is locked up in. Gizmo is breaking into the lab that holds Plasmas."
"You have got to be kidding me." Speedy said.
"So what do we do?" Beast Boy asked.
"We break into teams and stop them." Cyborg said. "Starfire you take down Jinx. Speedy and Beast Boy take down Mammoth. Bumblebee and I will take down Gizmo."
They all nodded and headed after their different villains.
Starfire vs. Jinx & Terra
"All right" said Terra. "According to this map Master gave us the place they are keeping Overload should be right behind this door." They stopped in front of a door that said 'Do not enter'.
"Right now to open it." Jinx said. "Master Terra, knock it down."
"Right" Terra replied as she raised her hands and brought the huge stone door down. The two entered the room. Inside were several guards who all looked up as they entered.
"Halt" the chief shouted.
"Don't want to." Terra replied as she lifted several boulders into the air and Jinx fired up her pink energy.
"Fire" the chief shouted.
Terra chucked a shower of boulders at them. Meanwhile Jinx sent her pink energy waves at them. In the blink of an eye all the guards had been crushed under rocks or knocked unconscious. Terra walked up to the table that had the disk on it. She raised a small rock and attempted to send it towards it. The rock was sliced in two.
"I expected as much." Terra said. "Luckily Master taught us how to hack such things." She walked over to the main computer in the room. Within a few seconds she had hacked the system and shut down all the security in the room.
"Impressive Master Terra." Jinx said.
"Master could have done it faster." She replied as she picked up the disk and put it into one of her pockets. "Now I wonder where the Titans are?"
"Maybe they won't come." Jinx said.
"If Master said they'll come, they'll come." Terra said.
"Do not move." Came a voice behind them.
The two turned around to find Starfire behind them a starbolt in each hand, eyes glowing. Terra smirked.
"Hey there Star." She said. "I'd love to stay and chat, but I've got places to go, people to see, things to steal."
"You will not escape this time." Starfire said.
"I beg to differ." Terra said.
With that she raised her arms and several huge chucks of stone from the ground raised into the air and shot towards Starfire. She started throwing starbolts at them. Jinx raced off into a dark corner. Terra leapt on a stone block and flew into the air. She continued to throw stones at Starfire. Meanwhile Starfire was so occupied with the stones that she had forgotten about Jinx. Jinx had slowly edged behind Starfire. As soon as she was sure that Starfire was not paying attention to her she leapt forward and sent her pink energy straight at her. Starfire was knocked out of the air. Quickly Terra banged her head with a rock knocking her out.
"Let's go" Terra said.
"Yes Master Terra" Jinx said. With that they both returned to the H.I.V.E.
Beast Boy & Speedy vs. Mammoth & Rose
"Lets see Master said that this is the place where they hold Cinderblock." said Rose. She and Mammoth were standing outside a huge building that was Cinderblock's prison. "Right let's go."
"Yes Master Rose" Mammoth said.
The two walked towards the building.
"Mammoth break down the wall." Said Rose.
Mammoth nodded and then started to punch and kick the wall. Soon it had been smashed down. The two stepped into the area.
"Halt. You are both under arrest." Shouted a guard.
"Err…… no we aren't" said Rose. With that Mammoth pounded his fist on the floor causing it to shake and all the guards to fall over.
"Take care of them while I go get Cinderblock." Rose instructed walking towards the main building.
Once she was inside she began walking down the halls. As she expected when the guards heard that she and Mammoth had attacked they had all raced outside. She walked through the maze of halls using the small map that Robin had given them. She located the area that Cinderblock was kept in. she entered the room to find Cinderblock chained up. He looked up at her.
"Good evening." She said. "I've come to offer you a deal." Cinderblock looked at her curiously. "I have been instructed to free you if and only if you agree to from this day forth swear total and undying alliance to my Master, Robin." Cinderblock stared at her. "So. Is it a deal?" she asked. Cinderblock was quiet for a moment before nodding. "Good" she replied.
She then walked forward and used her bare hands to break the chains. Cinderblock stared at her. He had at least a thousand times attempted to break those and here a kid not even half his size had snapped them like twigs. "Come on" Rose instructed. She then turned on her heel and walked out of the building followed by Cinderblock. They reached the outside to find Mammoth had beaten up all the guards and was now standing in front of Beast Boy and Speedy who looked ready to fight.
They looked up at them. There was a one second pause before Rose instructed Mammoth and Cinderblock to attack. The two sped towards the two Titans. Mammoth grabbed hold of Beast Boy who tried transforming into an elephant, but that didn't stop Mammoth who picked him up and flung him across the area towards Rose. Rose simply made a fist and raised it into the air. A second later Beast Boy's face made contact with the fist and he collapsed on to the floor.
Meanwhile Speedy had tried every arrow he had, but none were effective against Cinderblock. When Speedy ran out of arrows Cinderblock grabbed him and sent him hurtling towards Rose. Once again Rose simply made a fist and raised it into the air. A second later Speedy's face made contact with the fist and he collapsed on top of Beast Boy.
The three then quietly left the area.
Bumblebee & Cyborg vs. Gizmo & Jo
"All right, now all we have to do is drug him" said Jo.
She and Gizmo were standing in front of the human form of Plasmas. They had already taken care of the guards. She attached a tube of sedative to the injecting arm near the tube which Plasmas was held in. She went up to the computer and pushed the button. The sedative was injected into the human Plasmas. When the tube was empty she pressed another button and the injection removed itself.
"Blast open that tube" she instructed Gizmo.
"Stop right there" came a voice. They turned around to find standing at the door were Cyborg and Bumblebee. Jo smirked. She summoned two fireballs and Gizmo took out his spider legs from his backpack.
Cyborg leapt at Gizmo and Bumblebee leapt at Jo. Jo leapt into the air and somersaulted over her. As she was doing so she released her fireballs and they hit Bumblebee in the back. She fell on to the floor. Jo instantly sent a kick straight to her head burying it into the ground. Cyborg was distracted from Gizmo for about a millisecond and that was enough time for Gizmo to attach a device on him that electrocuted him. Cyborg collapsed to the floor. Jo then smashed the tube holding Plasmas with a fireball. She lifted him up and left the room followed by Gizmo.
Later that night with the Titans
"I can't believe we all got our ashes kicked." Shouted Beast Boy.
"But why were Robin's apprentices with the H.I.V.E. members?" Bumblebee asked.
"Because Robin must have taken over the H.I.V.E." answered Cyborg.
"So what do we do now?" Starfire asked.
"We attack the H.I.V.E." Speedy said. "And take Robin down."
"I agree." Bumblebee said.
"I agree as well." Said Starfire.
"Me two." Cyborg said.
"Me three." Beast Boy finished.
"When do we attack?" Speedy asked.
"Tonight." Cyborg replied.
Unknown to the five Titans they were being watched. Robin smirked as he watched the Titans on a screen hooked up to one of the various cameras he had set up. Raven walked into the room.
"What are you doing?" she asked.
"I set up video cameras throughout the tower. It seems the Titans intend on attacking us tonight. The fools." He answered.
"So this time we finish them?" she asked.
"This time we finish them." He confirmed. He then produced two boxes of donuts and a packet of donut holes. "Donut?" he said offering her them. She smiled and took one while he took one as well.
"What now?" she asked. "Now we wait for my apprentices to return.
"Master we have returned" Three voices said.
"Right. Did you put Cinderblock and Plasmas where I ordered you to?"
Rose and Jo nodded
"Good." He said. "Terra do you have the disk?"
"Yes Master." Terra said handing over Overload's disk.
"Good" he said. He pulled out a communicator. "Whatsyourname get in here."
A few minutes later Whatzizname entered the room.
"All right listen up. The Titans are going to attack the H.I.V.E. This time we finish them once and for all. Whatsyourname you are to inform all the students. Terra you and a few of them are to wait by the southern end where we came in and see if they attack from there. They will probably attack from the main entrance knowing them. So Jo and Rose you two are to take some students and stay by the main entrance. Whatsyourname you are to be posted in the main assembly room with some students. The remaining students are to patrol the halls. And Raven and I will stay in my office. You are to stay at your posts until all the Titans are spotted. If you sight one you are to tell the others. When all are located move to the nearest Titan sighting."
They all nodded. They turned to leave.
"Oh and bring them to me alive." Robin finished.
"Yes Master" they replied.
Robin smirked. He turned of the monitor he was watching the Titans on.
"Don't I get to fight them?" Raven asked.
"You will Raven. Just wait a few more hours." He said. "Now to fix up Overload." He stood up and headed to his desk where he had already set up different gadgets and what not.
"You can do that?" Raven asked.
"My dear Raven. Its not what can I do, its what can't I do." He said as he began to work on the disk. After about twenty minutes he moved back and the disk purred to life. Then Overload emerged.
"Hello there. My name is Robin and this is Raven. I am your new Master. You are to do as I command no matter how stupid it may be. And if you don't I will be forced to do this." With that he produced a remote from his pocket and pushed a button. Immediately Overload was pulled back into his disk. He pushed another button and Overload reappeared. "Understand?" Overload nodded quickly. "Good" he pulled out a communicator. "Whatsyourname bring Cinderblock and Plasmas in here." He ordered.
Whatzizname entered the room a few minutes later followed by Cinderblock who was carrying the still sedated body of Plasmas.
"Cinderblock according to Rose you have agreed to my terms. Correct?" he asked. Cinderblock nodded. "Good" he said. He then walked over to his desk. He picked up two injections.
"What's in those?" Raven asked.
"One has microbes that will allow me to turn Plasmas on and off. The other will wear off the sedative." Replied Robin. He first injected Plasmas with the microbes then with the anti sedative. The human Plasmas awoke. He stared at them for a few seconds before he transformed into Plasmas. He stared at Robin. "I am your new Master. You are to do as I command. If you don't" Robin formed a ball of fire in his hand. "I will be forced to bake you alive. Deal?" Plasmas nodded. "Good. You may all leave now."
As soon as the four had left the room Robin sat on a couch in the room. Raven sat down beside him and leaned against him. Robin wrapped an arm around her and lovingly kissed her forehead.
That night
The Titans moved towards the main entrance of the H.I.V.E.
"Okay the coast is clear." Cyborg said. "Let's go."
No sooner had they entered the premises then the gates slammed shut. They spun around and saw Rose standing on top of it along with a few students. There was a sound behind them and they turned around and saw Jo with some more students.
"Well lookie what we found." Jo said.
"You guys get inside." Beast Boy whispered. "I'll take care of them." With that he transformed into a gigantic tyrannosaurus.
The remaining Titans ran towards the building.
Meanwhile in Robin's study
Robin was monitoring the different halls and rooms and the grounds.
"Terra all the Titans attacked through the main entrance. Get to the building. Leave the students there to be on the safe side." Robin said through the communicator.
"Yes Master." Terra replied heading towards the main building.
Back to Jo and Rose
Jo, Rose and the students leapt at Beast Boy. He roared and thrashed his tail and claws at them. Jo sent several fireballs at him, gut they were ineffective. Rose was shooting at him with various lasers while barking out orders at the students, who were using their various powers.
"Nothing's working." Rose shouted.
"Strength isn't working." Said Jo. "So we'll have to use intellect."
She shut her eyes and was quiet for a moment before she raced to Beast Boy's back, leapt on to his tail, ran up it to his head and shot two fireballs straight at his eyes. Beast Boy roared in pain. He started to shake his head. Jo leapt off his head and summoned as much power as she could and let out a powerful beam of fire at him. Beast Boy roared again and transformed back into Beast Boy at the same time that Jo fell to her knees panting. Rose raced forward and strapped a collar to his neck. It was the same kind that that alien had used on him. She then raced over to Jo.
"Are you okay?" she asked her.
"Yeah. Come on. We have to get the others." Jo replied standing up. "You" she barked at one of the students. "Get him to the cell." The student nodded. "Come on." She and Rose headed towards the building with the remaining students.
Inside the main building
The four remaining Titans stumbled into the building to be greeted by Terra.
"Hi" she said waving at them. With that she summoned numerous rocks and boulders.
"Guys go." Speedy said. "I'll handle this." The others ran for it while Speedy took out an arrow.
"Big mistake." Terra stated. She flung a boulder at him. He let his arrow fly, it made contact with the boulder and it exploded.
"Cute" she said. With that she send several boulders at him. Speedy dodged at shot at them. Finally she stopped toying with him and sent a boulder at him. Speedy shot at it with an arrow, but Terra moved the boulder to the right and making it curve and go through his bow. He gasped. He looked up and Terra hurled a boulder at him.
"Oh shit." He said before it made contact with him.
Meanwhile with the three remaining Titans
Cyborg, Bumblebee and Starfire stumbled into the main assembly room. They gasped as they saw Whatzizname and who knows how many students waiting for them.
"Cyborg" Bumblebee said. "Go take down Robin. Me and Star will take care of these guys." Cyborg nodded before running off.
Before the two girls could even turn around Whatzizname threw two bombs towards them. The bombs blew up and they were bashed into the wall. He leapt at Starfire and began kicking her further into the wall. Bumblebee raced at him, but was intercepted by Mammoth who grabbed her and flung her into the wall. Whatzizname leapt off Starfire and used an X to tie her up. He then did the same to Bumblebee.
Meanwhile with Cyborg
"Hello there Cyborg" came a monotone voice.
"Raven" said Cyborg.
"That's right." She said before he was enclosed in darkness and smashed into the wall. Several times. She let him fall to the floor. She summoned several rocks from the floor and hit him with them. She summoned several knick knacks that were lying around and hit him with them as well. Slowly Cyborg's vision blurred and he lost consciousness.
Well that's all for now. Read and Review. I'll update soon.
Until then.
Dragon. Out.