A/N: Yes! People still like this fic enough to keep on reviewing even though I've not updated in forever! This makes me very happy and I have to say that I LOVE you reviewers! You know how to make a girl happy! I've done so many Teen Titan fics that I get the same reviewers that can sometimes be a bit…odd. But you guys are awesome! Keep it up, and here is your next chapter. I won't be evil and will just get to the really good stuff. Enjoy!

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Chapter 37

Roxie screamed loudly in horror as Merlander came at her with an angry battle yell. She put her arms over her head and quickly made a thick green eco shield with her powers that were multiplied by her green eco stone. Without it she would be dead by now.

"Merlander stop!" Roxie shouted at him with her voice shaky and on the brink of cracking as the fear of her situation rose in her.

Merlander didn't seem to ever hear any of her words as he threw himself at her with all he had. It was all Roxie could do to protect herself from the many dangers he threw at her. Yellow fire balls rained down on her head for one second, then he would be trying to kick her the next with strength unknown.

In only the matter of minutes, Roxie was completely worn out from all her dodging and from using so much of her green eco powers. She panted loudly as the sweat pored down her forehead and down her cheeks as makeshift tears for her lost friend. Her face and eyes showed panic as she tried to avoid Merlander. The teen was acting like a wild beast. His only goal was to bring her down.

The move that took her down was something she could never have avoided with her weariness. Merlander had thrown about a dozen fireballs at her, and as she tried her very best to dodge them instead of using her green eco. He had come up behind her and delivered a powerful kick to her back. The force sent her rolling, and she didn't stop till the wall said it was enough.

Roxie gave a small whimper of pain as she struggled to her two unsteady feet. Her eyes went wide with fear as she saw Merlander coming at her once again. "NO!" she screamed while putting her hand up to stop him. By mistake, her palm touched his forehead, and her Mind Speaking abilities then took over both of their bodies. They didn't see Simon look down at them with much interest in his eyes. He wondered what she would do with that move.

The girl was floating in world of darkness that surrounded her from like a moonless night. She spotted Merlander floating a few feet away from her. He frowned at her before demanding, "Get out of here, Roxie. I know what I'm doing. Just keep fighting."

"What are you talking about, Mer?" Roxie asked him with confusion and pain in her voice. "I can't fight that beast anymore. You're way too powerful in that mode. You have no control of that thing!"

"Uh!" Merlander muttered in frustration. "You're in my mind right now. If I didn't have control of that thing outside of here I wouldn't look like this. You have to leave right now and keep fighting. I'm sorry if I'm sounding really demanding right now, but you must leave!"

"But!" Roxie said while running in mid air towards Merlander. The problem was that she wasn't getting anywhere closer to him. She desperately didn't want to go back out there and fight him. It was scary. How could the man who said that he loved her tell her to go back and get killed?

"Leave!" Merlander yelled at her loudly. This did the trick, and Roxie found herself back in the real world staring into the yellow eyes of Merlander. She screamed again while rolling away from an attack. She jumped to her feet and prepared for more battle.

Roxie went back to her first form of fighting. She ducked and dodged every hit that came at her. She just hoped that Merlander knew what he was doing, because it sure didn't seem like it. After a few minutes of playing the full time defense, Roxie started to pick up on fragments of Merlander's thoughts.

"You make everyone's life a living hell!" "You imprisoned my friends!" "You made my very best friend betray me!" "You went into my mind and saw things that no one should see!" "You betrayed Black Water!" "You're making me hurt the one I most love in my life!" "YOU KILLED AKKI!"

The last fragment Roxie heard Merlander scream in his head made her gasp and pause in the middle of fighting. She gave a sharp cry of pain as Merlander hit her in an uppercut. She landed on her back with a wince and looked up with fright as Merlander stood over her defeated body with his eyes only showing anger that desperately needed to be let out.

"Please," Roxie pleaded in a small voice as tears slowly rolled down her cheeks.

Merlander pointed his hands at Roxie and frowned deeply as he started to form a giant ball of yellow eco. Roxie backed up till her back was pressed up against the wall of which the window Simon was looking out of was on. A horror that seemed to swallow her up and kill all the senses in her engulfed her body as she stared up at her friend.

Right when Roxie thought that he would really kill her and that her life was over, Merlander hesitated and a sly smile came to his lips. He shook his head at Roxie and tore his yellow eco ball in half and threw the two fire balls he had made down on the floor by his feet. The explosion sent him into the air as Roxie put up another shield to protect herself.

Merlander smashed through the glass window that Simon was behind with another big blast of yellow eco. He landed on the windowsill with his fists at his sides and his eyes narrowed slits of pure hatred for the man that stared up at him. The teen bared his teeth as another wave of anger pored into his system. Small shards of broken glass fell onto the teen here and there, but he was not affected by them. His sights were set on Simon.

"I'm sick of you, Simon," Merlander growled at the man after some silence. "I was your test subject this whole time. All you wanted to see was a ruthless fighter that only knew pain and suffering. Well, you got it. But you forgot one thing in your testing, Simon." He paused and then said menacingly, "You forgot to control it. I'm yours no more!"

Merlander grabbed the wristband controlling his emotions with his free hand and quickly incinerated it to black ashes. He opened his palm and the dust fell to the floor. He looked up to Simon, and his eyes were still dark. He was still as angry as before.

Simon started to laugh and said, "That is where you are wrong, Merlander. I have complete control over you. You can't kill me now because of your stupid morals. You won't be able to bring yourself to kill me without that wristband right now."

"And that is where you are wrong, Simon," Merlander mimicked the man. The only difference was that his voice had a deadly tone in it that could chill anyone's blood and make them go cold.

Simon's smile faded quickly as he saw how serious Merlander was. Suddenly fear took over the man as he realized that he really was wrong and Merlander was right. He looked up to Merlander while already knowing his fate by now. "I guess I did too well with you, Merlander," he said with sadness in his voice.

"I'm putting an end to everyone's suffering right now!" Merlander shouted. He put his hands together and used his blue eco to quickly thrust his hands charging up with yellow eco at Simon. The two collided into the wall.

A scream of pain and a yell of revenge sounded out into the room as Merlander's hands burned through Simon's stomach. Their eyes locked, and it seemed like all of the memories that Simon had stolen from Merlander were returned. The teen was slowly getting all his identity back from the man who had stolen it from him ruthlessly. The brokenness in side him was being rebuilt.

"You'll regret this, Merlander," Simon said to the teen weakly. A small trickle of blood slowly came out of his mouth and made one red line to his chin. "The Baron won't be so nice to his nephew when he finds out that you killed his greatest scientist. You're friends won't be able to forget that you're a murderer. And you, Merlander, won't be able to forget your inerasable sin."

Merlander now looked scared, but that feeling quickly vanished as he whispered harshly into Simon's face, "I might never forget this moment or forgive myself for killing someone." He then smiled evilly and said, "But right now getting my freedom back and preventing you from killing someone from the very inside like you did to me is something I've been longing to do for such a long time. I'm free from you, and it is the best I've ever felt."

"I'll say it again, Merlander," Simon said with his voice only a faint whisper. He was dying quickly and would soon be done with this world. "You'll regret this." And those were the last words of the man Merlander most hated with a great passion.

Merlander breathed a deep sigh while taking his hands out of Simon's body. He burned the blood off of them with his yellow eco and turned around. He looked down to the room below him and saw Roxie staring up at him with her deep, green eyes having so many emotions swimming in them. She looked confused and scared.

"Is he…gone?" she asked him quietly.

Merlander jumped down to her level and nodded while saying quietly, "Yep. I'm sorry if it really seemed like I was going to kill you, Roxie. I was doing it for Simon. He had to believe that I was mad at you and wanted to kill you. But I used all that anger to focus on him. After a while all I wanted was to kill him."

"Don't scare me like that again!" Roxie said while throwing her arms around him and crying softly into his shoulder. "I really thought you were going to kill me!"

Merlander hugged her back, but his smile was long gone. He stared ahead while thinking to himself. Maybe fate was all against him. He had broken the trust between him and Roxie. He didn't want all this to happen to him, but it seemed like he only hurt people. Something in this world had to hate him because he was only a nightmare and a disaster.

"Don't move, Merlander!" someone said suddenly as the door busted open. Both Elves looked to see Erol with a dozen of Krimson Guards standing at the doorway. They all had their guns pointed to Merlander because they knew that losing him was more dangerous than losing the girl. Even Erol had his pistol pointed to his friend.

"You made sure you were a little late to coming and helping the dead Simon, Erol," Merlander said slyly to the Elf.

"So I didn't like the guy very much," Erol said with a shrug. "He was too creepy for my liking. Besides, he was too power hungry and was threatening to take my place by the Baron's side." He smiled a little and said, "Look on the bright side, Mer, with him gone you can be banished to the Wasteland now."

The two smiled at the small joke. No one else knew that the two had made that small deal that was pretty much thrown away at this point for Merlander. But Erol was still serious about Merlander going to the Wasteland. With Simon gone, the Baron had absolutely no need for him. He was dangerous for the City, and the only thing to do was banish him.

"Go, Roxie!" Merlander thought to his friend. She looked over to him with confusion, and he thought to her, "Go now! Go to Hip Hog Heaven Saloon. Bo and the rest will be there. I'm not through here just yet. I'll see you again at my trial."

What are you talking about, Mer? She thought back to him with anger in her voice. You're not really thinking about going to the Wasteland, are you? But you're finally free!

"I have to do this, Roxie!" Merlander thought back quickly. "I know you don't understand it now, but it will be clear later on. I'll come back to Haven City. I promise. I just need some time to think and be alone. Now go!"

Roxie smiled a little to him then glowed green. She ran towards the Krimson Guards. Merlander winced when Erol ordered them to fire at her. Of course, nothing could hurt the crazy green girl, and this made Merlander smile. Roxie simply jumped over the men and ran right out of the room with an evil laugh. Erol growled a curse under his breath and yelled at his Krimson Guards to go after her.

When they were all gone Merlander walked over to Erol and they were silent for a few seconds. The two stared into the other's eyes till Erol finally lowered his pistol and gave Merlander a confused look.

"Why don't you run?" Erol asked him. "I know that you're with that insane girl, so why didn't you go with her? The deal is pretty much off on your part."

"Do you want me to go?" Merlander asked him with a sly smile. He loved to see his Erol confused, and it seemed like he was the only one who could do that to him.

Erol raised his pistol back up to Merlander and said in a puzzled voice, "No. I don't want you to go because it would look better to the Baron if I brought at least one of you two back. I'm just wondering why you aren't putting up a fight, because I sure would."

"Put the pistol down, Erol," Merlander said to his friend while lowering the weapon with his hand. Erol hesitated before putting it away. "I need some time away from this cursed city," Merlander then said to him. "Maybe going back to the Wasteland where I grew up would do me some good. I just seem to get my friends in trouble. I don't have any in the Wasteland, so I don't know if that's a good or bad thing."

Erol gave a small laugh at his friend's humor and said jokingly, "You're a loser, Mer. That's why you don't have any friends."

"You have to be a loser too if you were my first true friend," Merlander came back quickly. The two laughed together while walking out of the room. Merlander then got serious and said, "I'm going to come back, Erol. Don't think that I'm going to stay there for now on."

"Why are you telling me stuff I already know, Mer?" Erol asked him. "And I understand you. We're real close even though we have to enemies. And I'm glad we can still talk like this after what we've been through." He smiled and added, "Don't think I won't shoot at you when you join the Underground while coming back."

"You think I'm going to join the Underground again?" Merlander asked him with a smile. He hadn't really dwelled on it. Now that Erol said something about it the topic made him think of his life back at Haven City after he calmed down in the Wasteland. He couldn't deny that he was an adventure seeker.

"You already worked for that pain in the ass leader, Torn," Erol said. "What is going to keep you from going to him again?"

Merlander looked thoughtful over the question and nodded slowly while saying, "Maybe."

The day was a gross and a wet one. The rain kept coming down in big, fat drops that could soak anyone to the core. No one wanted to go anywhere in the humid weather. But it was a surprise at the number of Elves came out of their homes to see the outside trail of Merlander. But not even his family stayed too long to see what the Baron would sentence him to.

The teen had killed the Mind Speaker, Simon, and that meant death or banishment to the Wasteland. Both pretty much meant death if you didn't know anything about the city, Spargus, which lived peacefully in the desert place and was only populated with criminals and insane people. A rumor had gone out that the teen had killed Simon in a freak testing accident.

Merlander stood out in the rain with his wrists handcuffed. His blond hair hung into his eyes that stared at the stage under him. Some Krimson Guards with guns walked around the place to make sure no one in the crowd tried to rescue the Elf. Erol stood a few yards away from the teen while reading the reasons for why he was here. Once in a while he stumbled on his words because of the rain getting in the way.

The Baron rarely had anyone really trailed, so lots of curious Elves came out to see what would happen to Merlander even if they knew him or not. One of those curious Elves had on a gray cloak with the hood up to hide her real identity. She was really one of the few Humans in the city.

Bo slowly walked through the quiet crowd of Elves with her deep, blue eyes locked onto Merlander. She had promised Roxie and her parents that were taking care of her that she wouldn't come out here to see him, but she came anyway.

Merlander looked emotionless as he stood there. The rain didn't affect him it seemed. Some people were kind of amazed at how calm and strong he looked up on the stage him and Erol stood on. Bo finally made her way to the front of all the Elves and looked up to her friend with pain on her face. She didn't want to just let Merlander go. He was everything to her. He was like her brother and the provider of the team. Without him, where would she be?

The teen looked down at his friend with surprise in his eyes. He didn't think anyone was stupid enough to come and see him get banished with this much rain and the big chance that they would get caught. Even more surprise came to his face when another Human showed up beside the other with a dark green cloak on, just like the others.

Torn was going to kill the second Human for coming. Tuya looked up to Merlander and smiled sweetly at him as if to say goodbye. He didn't know that she liked him so much as to come out and see him. Her little muse sat in the mud meowing every now and then. Merlander smiled back down to Tuya and was glad that she came out to say goodbye. She always seem to have a calmly effect on him.

Merlander then focused his attention to Bo. He looked down to his boot as he slid it forward a little off the stage. He then brought it back and peeled off a piece of paper that had been stuck to the bottom of it. It fell to the ground and Mozart picked it up. Tuya took it from her pet and silently gave it to Bo. She then left and disappeared into the thick crowd.

Bo looked back up to Merlander while tears formed at the corners of her eyes. But she never cried as she stayed for the whole trial. Of course, Merlander was banished to the Wasteland. He was to go right away to the desert. The Krimson Guards escorted him to the big zoomer that would take him there.

Right before Merlander got into the zoomer, he turned his head around and winked to Bo with a small smile on his lips. The Human waved back to him silently as she tightened her grip around his note in her other hand. She hoped he would come back soon.

A/N: There you go, people. I'm just so happy that I killed off Simon. It is pretty pathetic when you hate your own villain so much that you rejoice when you kill him off. I have one more chapter and I'm done with this fic and I'll be on to my sequel! The sequel will be shorter and things just get worse for my poor Merlander. I get to use Jak whenever I want to and Cleaver will be back with a BANG! Okay, that last part was just stupid nonsense. All I'm saying is that there will be less OCs and more characters from the games. Should I just add on the sequel to this fic or just put up a new fic? You guys tell me what you think. I'll update soon! Please give a review! Thanks!