Changes Chapter 26: Part 26, a teen titans fanfic

Part 26

He awoke thinking that he heard something. He looked around his cell – must've been his imagination. The beating of his heart seemed to be intensified by the echo the room created. He rested his back against the bars as he sat. He picked up a few pebbles that were on the floor and threw them at the wall. The clanging sound something different then his breathing and heartbeat. Then suddenly a sound that sounded like a crash happened, and the pebble never hit the ground.

What in the world? He thought and stood up. He walked towards the wall that sounded like glass. He heard another sound and then lifted his boot up in the heel of his boot was a shard of glass. He took the shard out and threw it into a corner.

There must be an opening several feet above his head. He walked back to the gates and picked up some more pebbles. He kept throwing them and as he did he would throw the next pebble higher.

Whack

…

Silence that is where the hole is, or where the glass was. He then began throwing pebbles to the sides of where the first unyielding pebble went.

Clash

More glass, it was wider than he first thought, maybe even enough for him to crawl through, if he didn't mind getting cut with glass.

Raven wiped the dirt out of her friend's hair. "Are you sure it was Speedy?"

Starfire nodded her head again, she was now in the t-car her friends dusting her off and the air inside the t-car allowed her to finally catch her breath. Enough so that she could tell her friends what happened.

"Why would Speedy do that?" Cyborg rubbed a metallic hand to his chin.

"I don't care about Speedy, I worry for Robin!" Star exclaimed.

Jinx left the car and started scurrying around the site where the explosion happened. Beast Boy and Cyborg quickly joined her looking for any evidence and clues on where Robin and or Speedy could be.

There wasn't much to be found, a few brick pieces dust, soot, and pieces of Robin's suit. They quickly picked up each piece and attempted to hide it so Starfire wouldn't see.

"Star are you going to be okay?" Raven asked, her hands on her friends shoulder.

Starfire looked at Raven and looked as though she was going to say 'yes,' but instead her face suddenly became somber and she began weeping.

Raven a little taken back, but understanding, drew Star into a hug and let her cry on her shoulder. "We'll find Robin, Star, everything is going to be okay."

Beast Boy turned into a dog and began sniffing around; he sneezed and then continued sniffing.

"Anything?" Cyborg asked.

Beast Boy changed back, "Robin's scent is strong, and I think I might be able to track it."

Cyborg let out a sigh, "Finally something good."

Robin had two choices, he could either stay in the cell, or he could try to get out. The problem was that the exit may be covered in glass, and his costume was already cut apart, and his gloves wouldn't offer him enough protection. He wished he had his cape; he could use it to brush the glass away maybe, or crawl with it in front of him. With all the pebbles he threw he decided that the opening was maybe seven feet above him, and he could jump and reach it, though he didn't know how much he liked that idea. He guessed it was maybe two and a half feet high and maybe the same feet wide – a very tight squeeze.

If he jumped up and pulled himself up into it, he risked his hands being cut by any glass that was up there, and if he decided to crawl through it, who knows how much glass would cut him up. He walked back, glass crunching under his shoes and sat back against the cages again, wondering what to do.

Roy Harper Jr. knelt in front of Slade, "I have done what you asked."

"Good Apprentice good," Slade grinned from ear to ear, "Now, Arsenal you will go after the next one. United they stand, but divided, they fall."

"I want to know why you didn't just let me destroy Robin?"

"There is no fun in killing a worthy adversary, but there is something in torturing them, Robin will soon learn that he has just blown up into hell. A hell that I manipulate, the Titans will no longer be of any concern to me. You shall grasp the next one, but remember they'll be expecting you next time, so use what I have taught you," Slade held out the small black gun to the once Speedy. "From now on you will taunt your foes as Arsenal."

Arsenal took the gun that fired an electro-charge blast that incapacitated his foes. He twirled the gun around his fingers and then hooked it to his side, he then bowed to Slade, "Thank you".

"Oh and don't forget your new outfit," Slade threw him his new clothes. Black fatigues with a red 'S' on the chest, outlined with a target. His boots contained slots for several other guns, which lined the inside chest piece. Now he was suited with four guns two at both sides of his waist and one on each boot.

It looked quite humorous to see a bunch of superheroes slowly following a green dog. Following a green dog to a brick wall.

Beast Boy transformed back to his normal self, "I lost it."

"Lost what?" Jinx blinked.

"The scent," He sighed, "I lost the scent."

Starfire began to sniff, "You just can't lose it!" She grabbed Beast Boy and began shaking him, "We have to find Robin!"

"Alright new plan," Cyborg pounded his fist into his hand, "Okay we're going to split up. Star I know you're emotional so you and Jinx pair up and take everything from Evening Ville Street to Third Street. Both of you keep an eye out for each other."

"Why should I?" Jinx crossed her arms.

Cyborg frowned, "Please Jinx?"

"Humph," Fine she lightly fumed.

"Raven, Beast Boy get everything on the eastern side of the city," Cyborg took a moment to gather his thoughts.

"I'm going to cover everything else, should be able to cover a lot of space in the T-car."

Time of death

Raven turned around, nothing there.

Robin rubbed his head, his stomach ached in hunger, sweat from the heat of the cell dripped down his face. There was no way he was going to go out like this.

All or nothing…..

He ran at the wall and leapt forward and began to run up the wall. Using his momentum jumped upward and pushed his body as much as he could forward, he bent his back and made himself as horizontal as possible. He crashed right through the small crevice and flew right to the other side.

He fell to the floor on the other side and cried out in pain hitting the floor. He arched his aching back and rolled over onto his stomach. It was then he looked over to see he was leaking blood all over to the floor. He looked at his arms and legs and he had scratches all across them.

He slowly sat up and then with all his might he rose to his feet. He leaned onto a pole that was next to him. He looked across his body only a few of the lacerations hurt and all of them were just skin deep, It was his back that was killing him now, but maybe he'd be able to walk it off.

Not being able to see what was in the distance, he kept leaning against the pole as he walked in agony forward to the darkness.

ROBIN!

Robin stopped, his skin pale, his body motionless, "No," the words whispered through his lips.

He shook his head and kept making his way forward, it was just his imagination. It was his body's way of dealing with the pain. He looked to be in a giant mechanism of some sort. There were giant cogs rotating and spinning all around him. Huge metal bars were swinging left and right. There didn't appear to be any clear path, suddenly it hit him.

He looked up and saw a gigantic mirror above him; he was inside the city's huge gamma telescope. How was he in a telescope, how could he get out? No he was only in the station the telescope was about twenty meters in front of him.

Are you confused Robin?

Robin in horrible pain began running forward, jumping and spinning away from cogs, dials, levers, and other machinery. He hit a wall, "NO!" He screamed. It was just like he thought; he was trapped yet again, just now in a giant dome, and Slade's voice in his head.

"No!" He knelt down and pounded the floor, "I just want out! Please let meout!"

- end of part 26