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-Everything Evil-
2: Monster
The shriek of the R-Cycle thundered down the streets of Jump City, followed the fast cruising of the T-Car. The Titans got word that Overload was being controlled by their rather nerdy foe the Control Freak. Though Control Freak's intentions were not clear, what was clear was that he was using Overload to harm many of the city's citizens. The heroes knew it was up to them to stop his madness. The two vehicles raced towards the direction in which the villains were spotted, which led them to the outskirts of Jump City inside a few suburban neighborhoods.
Upon entering the cluster of houses, the young heroes noticed the houses that were completely annihilated, with the bodies of those who lived in them strewn about the ground. Their flesh was burnt and scalded, giving the Titans a hint that they were killed either by severe electroshock, or died from the fires in the houses caused by Overload. In short, it looked like hell. Starfire was the first to gasp at the horrid sight in the passenger seat of the T-Car, while Beast Boy turned his head away in a grimace, and Raven just kept her eye out for the two villains.
Robin revved the R-Cycle and darted further down the avenue. Cyborg floored the T-Car in hopes to catch up to Robin causing everybody in the car to jerk in their seats.
"Geez, easy on the peddle Cy!" Beast Boy croaked, fixing the seat belt that threatened to strangle him.
Cyborg ignored his green friend and kept his eyes on the road. Beast Boy just huffed in his seat.
Robin passed rows and rows of obliterated homes, and with each one he saw, the Boy Wonder grew more eager to get his hands on the villains. Just then, beyond a couple of buildings, he saw a gigantic Overload, and Control Freak who mounted himself on top the electrical behemoth. The geeky madman had a device that resembled that of a ray gun, and had it connected to Overload, which he started to fire on unsuspecting homes and police cars.
The young hero sped up, feeling the adrenaline coursing through his veins. He drove straight towards the criminals, and readied for combat.
Smoke from the fires of the devastated houses polluted the night air, and the stench of burning carcasses accompanied.
Cyborg, who had already lost sight of Robin, rushed to find where he might have gone. Driving down past a couple of stop signs, the team spotted Robin's R-Cycle crashed through a window of a razed household. The T-Car came to a screeching halt, sliding across the asphalt and hitting the side of the sidewalk.
Everybody hurried out of the vehicle to investigate Robin's wrecked bike. As they all got closer, Beast Boy transformed into a blood hound, hoping he could pick up a scent of Robin anywhere nearby. While Raven and Starfire flew above, searching for Robin and Control Freak.
Cyborg entered the home; not using the door, for the front part of the house had collapsed. He looked around the home, noticing the corpse of a person clutching onto their phone, as if they were going to call the police at the moment they going to die. The metallic man shook his head mournfully and continued his search. Almost everything inside the house was charred black, including those who were inside the home.
"Why in hell would anyone do this?" Cyborg thought angrily.
"And where the fck is Robin!"
His inner angry musings burdened him further until he saw a picture framed somewhere near the kitchen wall untainted by Control Freak's insane rampage. The picture portrayed a pose of a happy, unified family. There was a father, a mother, a young daughter, and an older son. All of which were smiling. He paused to stare at the photograph, comparing his past to this picture in front of him. They seemed so different. Of course they were, this family was normal and he was not. Cyborg glanced at his robotic appendages, and uttered a soft curse.
Why do I live like this?
"Hey Cyborg, we found'em, we found Robin!" Beast Boy shouted.
Snapping out of his thoughts, Cyborg made his way out of the structure and into the backyard, where everyone seemed to be. BB, Raven and Starfire were huddled together around what Cyborg assumed to be Robin. As he got closer, he could hear Starfire sobbing furiously, and when he finally saw his leader, he was impaled with his own bo-staff with a sharp broken end protruding out from his chest.
Cyborg was speechless. The sight of Robin dying just did not seem real. His blood seeped into the soil beneath him, and on to Starfire's lap as she propped him up. Raven held his hand, which was almost as pale as she was. Beast Boy sat on the ground, tears flowing down his face, but not a whimper was heard from his mouth. Cyborg couldn't contain himself any longer. The grief and anger he felt was too much for himself to bare.
If you just had waited for us Robin… This would not have happened!
"Ahhhhhhh!" Cyborg screamed 'till his throat felt hoarse. "Where's that fucking bastard!"
Everybody gave him grave looks, unsure, and hurt stares. Robin clearly did not defeat Control Freak or Overload, and if he did, they could not be far.
"Damnit, Rae," He addressed Raven, "Contact the League, tell them Robin is severely injured and we need there support now!"
Seeing as how that was there only option, as much as everybody disliked it, Raven obeyed and took out her T-Communicator to reach the Justice League. Cyborg did not stick around for too long, as he ran in search for the two villains that harmed Robin. He ran hastily down the street where he could make out shriek marks on the road made by the R-Cycle. There were also huge holes in the pavement where Control Freak must have started blasting at Robin. Then, there was a massive area where the ground was scorched dark, where he could make out where the rubble of a house had fallen into a pile, like something was smashed inside it and made it crumble.
He ran too where he saw this view, and become aware of a hand extending out from the bottom of the rubble. Instantly, Cyborg pulled the hand out with all his might, revealing that it indeed did belong to the Control Freak who was knocked out cold. He was filled with anger, and grasped the criminal by his neck, which he responded to by gaining back some of his consciousness.
"Gah, a-ack," gagged the villain in Cyborg's hold, "l-let go of me!"
"No." He said coldly. "You're going to pay for what you did."
He dragged the man by his neck, gripping him tightly, and then drove his head into the sidewalk. The contents of his skull leaked onto the street, with his legs sticking up into the air. Cyborg staggered back to where the rest of the Titans resided, in the back yard of the house. But when he arrived, only Beast Boy stood alone in the torn lawn, and he was staring off into nothingness.
"They left not too long ago." Beast Boy said, with the tone of his voice suddenly solemn and soft.
"Did the others go with them?" Cyborg questioned.
"Yeah."
Both of the young men stayed there for a while in silence, none of them wanting to speak. Then Cyborg turned his back, in which Beast Boy noticed, and repeated his movement. The two walked back to the T-Car, got in, and drove away. As they left the horrible scene, they past a dozen police cars and ambulances en route towards the damned neighborhood. Beast Boy fiddled with his fingers, confusion and despair written over face.
"Vic," Beast Boy said staring down at his lap, "What will happen to us now?"
At first, Cyborg was reluctant to answer BB's question. He did not want to think about the Titans right now or Robin or about anyone in particular. Everything was going downhill, whether they chose to believe it or not, it was the truth.
And the truth hurts.
"I don't know Gar." Cyborg spoke truthfully; he didn't really know what was going happen.
"But what I do know Gar," he continued; Beast Boy leaned in intently, "this is going to change this team forever."
A/n: There you have it. Have any questions or suggestions, feel free to contact me or review and put your thoughts there. The third and final chapter will arrive in a few days.
-ThyCrimsonPirate