Thechilldude(me): You know what, I'm tired of this.
random person: And I want to know why...?
Thechilldude: Just thought you'd want to know.
random person: Trust me, anything you think of, no one wants to listen to.
Thechilldude: you hurt my feelings.
random person: deal with it.
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"Ow. . .I think I hit my head," Cyborg announced. Ok back up. First off, what happened to the Ravens again? And how did Cyborg get here?
Rage, the emotion, attacked one Slade. Two more held Robin. "Get out of here, both of you! I want to deal with this!" Rage screamed while she held back four Slades at a time. Cyborg panicked as Ravens with Slades heads walked up to him.
"Yo man what the heck is happening?" Cyborg asked. Wisdom came out. She saw what was happening and immediately knew this was a grave situation Robin and Cyborg were in. One of the Slades stopped himself from taking on Rage to look at Wisdom.
Wisdom didn't stop him as he walked slowly to her. Robin threw off the two Slades that bound him and ran to stop that other Slade. Rage was still taking on two of the Slades, while Cyborg shot at one, backing away very quickly. Fear overcame him right now, and Robin wasn't to concerned for him. Robin threw out his bow stick and hit Slade. Slade blocked and threw Robin away like trash.
"Raven! Run!" Robin called for her. Wisdom didn't run, however. Rage conquered over the two remaining Slades that she was battling, only to battle another two. Cyborg finally gained the courage to comeback to the Slade he was fighting. He then got a migraine so strong his electric circuits went haywire.
"What's going on?" Cyborg yelled.
Robin turned his attention to Cyborg. "Oh great, he's got it now too." Robin looked down. He needed to find a way out of this situation. Rage was finally cornered. She too was transformed into one of the Slades. How, was what Robin was trying to ask.
Robin decided that this was a perfect time to run. He grabbed Wisdom's hand and ran for it. He ran to some place he'd never been to. "Why would you want to go to the central nervous system for?" She asked. "I'm not sure." Robin said looking around, "There has to be something that's causing this to happen in here."
"I would believe the virus." Wisdom said, repeating the word virus. "Yeah, and whatever it is, the same thing is probably inside Beast Boy's mind, and now Cyborg's. They might be fighting it, and loosing." Robin explained out loud both to himself and to Wisdom.
"Beast Boy can handle himself, he has the beast. I'm not sure about Cyborg." Wisdom said. "Don't worry Raven, the answer is somewhere in here." He said with a smile.
He walked down to wall that had a bunch of cords attached to it. It seemed like a normal brain would, if you actually could fit a person inside it. There was one thing that didn't belong. It was yellow and shiny.
Robin went over to it and grabbed it. Without having to pick it up, it revealed itself to be the source to Robin. "Don't touch that." Wisdom cried. "Why not?" Robin asked. The brain began moving at an alarming rate back and forth. "What's happening?" Robin asked. "You've set it off, now I'm afraid it won't be long before they find us."
"Can't you find a place you can hide until we fix this?" Robin asked. "I'm afraid not. Leave now! Before it's to late!" She screamed. Robin didn't need her to tell him twice, but he wouldn't let her suffer through this. He grabbed her by the hand and ran. He ran to another hiding spot where they were sure not to find her. "I'll leave now, can you stay here until they come for you?" Robin asked. "Yes." She replied.
"Good," Robin said, "I'll be going now."
Robin left Raven's mind. He was back on Raven's floor, inside her room of course, and placed the mirror back on the shelf. He returned to the medical bay. Along the way, Starfire greeted him. "Did you see Cyborg?" She asked. "Yes I have Star, and you're not going to believe where." Robin replied.
Robin made haste and entered the infirmary. Starfire followed, not knowing what just happened. It wasn't until then that Robin had actually noticed the huge wall where the window used to be. At least the beast wasn't in the tower. There was less to clean up that way.
Starfire and Robin conversed about what happened inside Raven's mind. Starfire wasn't at all pleased by it. "But why did Cyborg travel into her mind? He was no where near Raven's mirror." "I know Star, it doesn't make any sense. You did say that there was a wind vortex that came from Raven, right?" Robin asked.
Starfire nodded. "Then he must have been sucked up in her somehow. She hasn't told us she could do that though, and especially asleep. Things are getting more perplexing by the minute." "What about her pendant?" Starfire asked. "Of course. The pendant on Raven's forehead is a receiver. Portals can be created by objects being psychically linked to the pendant. But that doesn't explain how Cyborg could've came in contact with the item."
"Maybe Cyborg was the item." Starfire suggested. "I never thought of that. But we still have to keep our eyes peeled for any other possibilities." Robin stated.
At that moment, Raven awoke bluntly. At first, there was no sign that she had. When they did notice, she asked, "Where am I?" "You're in the medical bay, Raven. We still don't know what's going on with everyone, but I can't allow you, Cyborg, or Beast Boy to touch us." Robin declared.
"Why?" Raven asked. "I'm not sure. It seems that every time we touch an infected person, we become infected ourselves. The only reason why I'm not infected is because I have these gloves on. Who knows how long it'll be before they get to me too." Robin said.
"Robin, please explain to me why catching this bug would be bad?" Starfire stated, "Wouldn't that mean victory for us?" "No Star, catching it would mean loosing." Robin said. "We cannot hide from such pitiful bugs! We will fight this so called 'virus' until we are victorious!" "No no, no. . .If we catch it we become sick." Robin stated. "I knew that." Starfire giggled. "You did?" Robin asked. "Can I not lighten the mood a little?" Starfire asked.
"Wow. . .you sure miss BB." Raven pointed the obvious. "Oh how did you know?" She sobbed. "The joke stunk worse than his." Raven pointed out another obvious fact. "How do you feel?" Robin asked, changing the subject.
"Well, Other than the lack of emotions calling me to do things like they normally do, I feel no emotion." Raven said. "Didn't you always?" Robin asked, curious. "I may look like a Goth; I may look like a person without feelings, but I always have them. I have them wherever I go and they always call out to me to reveal. I can't completely control them sometimes, though."
"I think your lack of emotions was caused by all the Slades I saw in your mind." Robin said. Raven stared blankly at him for a moment. "You were in my head?" Raven asked. "Uh. . ." Robin said, a little nervous now, "Well. I had to fight all those Slades and I managed to save one of your emotions." Raven brushed off this little fact of him going into her mind and asked, "Which emotion?" "I'm not sure. She had a brown cloak." "Wisdom?" She asked, "Well, she knows what to do far more than the others do. She's probably the only reason why I'm sane right now."
"Oh yeah, I forgot to tell you. Cyborg was kind of sucked up in your brain somehow. We'd like to know how that happened." Robin said, pressing on with the matter. "Wait, Cyborg's in my head?" "I grow wiry of this conversation." Starfire said.
Starfire flew off in search of Beast Boy. Robin and Raven let her, continuing their conversation. Starfire needed to find out where he was. She couldn't bear to see a titan missing. She landed on a roof top, after half an hour of searching, and still no sign of Beast Boy. Just when she was about to head back, did the beast attack her. Starfire jumped away from his attack, but not to quickly that she'd escape. She hadn't had time to stop it.
She blasted him off with a couple of star bolts. He unleashed his self upon her, thriving every which way to take her down. He threw her on another roof top and jumped across the alleyways. Starfire was crushed down into a trash dumpster. She got up and flicked a banana peel off of her.
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"So, has everything gone according to plan as of now?" Slade asked. "Yes, and no one suspects a thing." Red X said, "Now can I get my money, I need to bail." "Yeah, I'll just send someone over in a little while." Slade said over the phone and hung up. Red X was pleased that soon he would be out again, and stealing more.
So once Red X was freed and his weapons returned to him, by some magical way, no one knows how, he went back to Slade and his new hide out. "It was ingenious how you tricked everyone into thinking that poor man was you." Red X said. "Yeah, but they just don't give up do they?" "Yeah well, you paid me my money so now I'm off." Red X declared.
"Where are you going?" Slade asked. "Well, I got banks to rob. They have my name on it. Don't think I can work for you forever."
"Once you sign a pact, the deal is you can't leave." Slade murmured. Robots came down and surrounded Red X. "You want me to tell them don't you?" Red X asked. "Even if you attempted to tell them now, it's to late." Slade returned.
Red X blasted a couple of robots down and then transported away. He reappeared right in front of Slade quite some miles away. "How'd you get here so fast?" Red X asked. "I have my ways." Slade said and then punched him. Red X busted back out him. Slade ducked and threw himself on him. Red X did a back flip and threw an x at him and then transported again.
"You gotta be kiddin'", Red X said trying to dodge another of Slade's attacks after being spotted again. He jumped and hopped around trying to find a way past Slade. Robots also covered the immediate area. Red X tried one more transportation. It was on the titans tower. How'd he gotten there was a miracle. "How'd I manage-" The villain alert burst into Red X's ears.
Robin and Raven reached the roof top and found Red X there. "Man. . .Slade's one hell of a demon." He fumbled into the wall beside him. "Slade?" Robin asked, "How can he be alive I saw him get electrocuted!" Robin yelled in frustration in the realization that Slade was still alive.
"That wasn't Slade, that was some guy dressed up as Slade. He used him as a shield sort of." Red X explained. Raven and Robin reluctantly allowed Red X into their home and gave him something to eat, seeing as it was pretty late.
"I gave Beast Boy virus under Slade's command at the amusement park." Red X carried on, "Remember when you were in the haunted house?" He asked Raven. She nodded. "That's when." "But. . .How come I didn't catch it until Beast Boy kissed me?" "You had it before he kissed you. I accidentally gave it to you instead of him. I was meant to give it to Beast Boy, but you prevented that from happening when you threw your arms around him."
Robin could see Raven blush a little as she forced him to continue. "In a sense you are the original source of the bug, or virus, or whatever you want to call it. But Slade's been sending things to your mind, and, well, from what I can understand, in your sleep he's been pushing stuff into your mind."
"So that's where my missing things went!" Raven exclaimed profoundly. Robin chuckled a little over this. "I'm not sure how it works, but I just know that something's inside your head and is causing everything to go into your mind."
"Ok ok, you've explained enough already." Robin said, understanding what that yellow thing was now, "Just tell me, how can we break it and get everyone back to normal?" "That's just it, break it, and everything's back to normal." Red X explained. "How do I know you're not pulling my leg?" Robin asked.
"I want revenge for what Slade's done to me." Red X stammered, "fulfill that at least."
Robin and Raven both walked up to Raven's room. "You think this is a good idea? He could be pulling our leg." "It's the only lead we've got." Robin said, "And we're running out of time."
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"Please, Beast Boy remember me. I do not wish to harm you!" Starfire pleaded as she extricated the last bit of trash off of her. The beast simply blew on her and ran towards her. Starfire punched him back. "I am sorry Beast Boy, you leave me no choice."
Starfire went all out on him. She punched and kicked him until he was knocked out. It was a heavy beating, and Starfire was very tired afterwards, but she had done her job. It was so gruesome of a fight, that I can't even explain what she did.
Starfire held Beast Boy and flew back to the tower to put him in the infirmary. She'd forgotten all about the virus, while she was so wrapped up in fighting Beast Boy. She flew down onto a roof top and began the symptoms that all of her friends have had, with the exception of Robin.
"AHHH!" She screamed as she felt a huge migraine take control of her. Slade watched as she slowly succumbed to the immense pain. "How does it feel our young tamaran princess?" Slade asked. It was all to easy, for him.
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Robin opened the door. Two things that startled him. The first was there was the mirror on the ground, shattered into a million pieces. The second thing that was startling was, there were at least 30 robots of Slade's inside Raven's room.
More robots gathered around Raven and Robin. They both went on the defensive, but then Raven fell down, she was having another migraine. "Raven!" Robin screamed to her. At that moment, all the robots attacked.
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