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Purgatory
Chapter Eight: Caught In The Act
Quest:
1. The act or instance of seeking or pursuing something; a search.
2. An expedition undertaken in medieval romance by a knight in order to perform a prescribed feat.
3. The object or goal of a quest.
"Will you just tell me all ready," Jinx cried, tired of playing around.
Cyborg rubbed the back of his head while he stared solemnly at the ground, "Raven isn't dead."
The silence after this statement was said made Cyborg regret his words. Maybe he should have phrased them in a gentler way? Jinx herself looked as if she was going to faint, with eyes that were as wide as pumpkins and skin paler than snow… it frightened him a little. "Jinx," he questioned tentatively.
She shook her head, as if trying to force the truth from her mind. "How can she not be dead? You said it yourself. She drowned!" Jinx wobbled a bit before she sat hard on the ground and blinked, baffled, up at Cyborg, who was shaking his head to her previous question.
"I know what I told you," he began, "but I lied… we all lied. We had to, to protect her. You see something happened when Raven died, something very strange…"
There was a tense silence as the security guard turned the corner of the hallway, away from Raven and Beast Boy. Raven had been beginning to worry after the security guard kept staring down at Beast Boy.
Meanwhile, as the man walked away, a green ant crawled underneath the security camera and half way down the hall before it suddenly turned into a lanky green boy.
"Raven," Beast Boy hissed, straightening, "Raven, where are you?"
"I'm right here," she said monotonously, her voice floating farther along the hallway where Beast Boy had been heading. He blanched as he noticed her standing right in front of another security camera. Half of her body turned towards him while the other half turned towards the camera.
"Raven, what are you doing! You're standing in front of a camera!" She blinked owlishly and turned towards it.
"Beast Boy, it won't be able to see me; I'm dead." She replied lazily back.
"Then, why did they come check on us before? You were ahead of me. They must have seen you on the camera, or something." Beast Boy didn't think Raven believed him, until she suddenly moved towards him, out of the view of the camera.
"Have you tried reaching Cyborg?" she asked, but Beast Boy shook his head no.
"He kept trying to reach me while I was an ant, but I couldn't answer back."
Raven frowned, "We need to hurry up with this mission. I hate having to sneak around like this." Beast Boy nodded his agreement and pulled the microphone closer to his mouth.
"Cyborg, it's Beast Boy. Are you there?" Now, it was Cyborg's turn to not answer back. "Cyborg," Beast Boy growled, becoming impatient with the situation, "answer me man."
"Beast Boy," Cyborg finally responded, "you and Raven all right?"
"I'm dead; I don't think it's possible to get any worse," Raven monotonously replied to Cyborg's question.
"We're both fine," Beast Boy supplied, rolling his green eyes at Raven's remark, "but do you think you could tell us where to head? I'm ready to get out of here."
"Uh, yeah. Just head down the hall and keep going straight until…" There was static for a moment and then a different voice was heard.
"Hey, Beast Boy, it's Jinx," Jinx said into Cyborg's microphone. "I was searching Cy's computer when I found something Cyborg missed." There was a muffled voice muttering something in the background, but Jinx wisely ignored it. "Down the hall and to the left there should be an air vent cut into the wall. If you could pull it open and climb in, all you would have to do is follow it until you get to the elevator shaft that it opens up to. Then, climb up until you get to the top level."
"That sounds easier than trying to avoid all these cameras," Raven remarked placidly ignoring the fact that a nemesis of theirs was helping them, if Cyborg trusted her that gave Raven a reason to trust her.
Beast Boy fiddled with the headphones, "Do you think you'll be able to fly up the elevator shaft?" Raven nodded, and Beast Boy cleared his throat.
"Okay, Jinx, that sounds like a plan."
"Great," Jinx replied, "Well then, we'll talk to you in a few."
Beast Boy turned and walked down the hall, then suddenly asked, "Do you think Cy's into Jinx?"
This was such an unexpected question from Beast Boy that Raven was at an actual loss for words. "Anything's possible by now," she finally muttered as she watched Beast Boy turn into a gorilla and yank the air vent's grill off.
Beast Boy turned and gave her a mischievous grin, "That's what I was thinking."
It didn't take long at all for the pair to reach the elevator shaft, and when they did, they only needed to wait a few moments as the elevator went flying past them to the first floor before things became even remotely interesting.
Beast Boy, of course, had to turn into a bird in able to travel up the shaft at the speed Raven was traveling. At one point during the flight, Beast Boy's heart had nearly went up his throat as the tremor of the elevator began to grow louder and louder, but even as they increased their speed, it was obvious that the elevator wasn't going to the tallest floor.
By the time they reached their destination, and after forcing the level doors open, Beast Boy was panting with exhaustion while Raven was naturally cool and calm.
They stood in a hall about five feet in length from the elevator doors and the solid metal doors that was obviously hiding something important, something like the glass they needed.
"Do you think we should break it down?" Beast Boy asked, pressing his fingers on the doors to see how thick they were, while Raven shrugged.
Beast Boy turned from the doors and began to speak into the microphone, "Cyborg, we've reached the floor. Now, what should we do about these doors?"
"That was the only problem in my whole plan." Cyborg's worried voice sounded over the microphone. "I'm not quite sure how we're going to open it. It only opens by the thumb print of Andrew Jackson."
"Who!" Beast Boy cried in frustration. This was something he did not want to mess around with.
"The top scientist who invented the glass. It was impossible for me to get his fingerprint, so I was sort of hoping that we could find an answer when we got there." Cyborg supplied them lamely.
"I can't believe this," Beast Boy whispered, scratching at the back of his head in agitation. "Sometimes, Cy, you totally let me down on being all smart and stuff." There was silence on the other end.
"Can you turn into that scientist? After all, you are Beast Boy, and man is a beast." Beast Boy gave her a brilliant smile, which made Raven realized she had somehow complimented him in his own twisted mind.
"I wish you were right, but I've never seen the scientist before. Besides, I've never turned into another human. I don't think I could do it." He looked over at the wall were the shape of a thumb was cemented by an odd device. "It was a nice idea though."
Raven stared at Beast Boy and then the wall. She carefully walked around BB until she faced the thumb print, and then, she concentrated hard upon her thumb…'Please let this work. I don't feel much like dying quite yet.'
As Beast Boy watched in fascination, Raven slowly lifted her thumb, which still looked translucent, and slowly fitted it into the device. Everyone held their breath as she pulled it away and waited for the doors to open. Yet nothing happened, no green light, and no doors magically springing open.
"You guys," said a muffled voice.
"Well, it was a nice try anyway," Beast Boy said kindly, trying to cheer her up a bit.
"Hello, earth to Titans!"
"It was a stupid idea, and I shouldn't have even tried it," Raven replied and tried to stifle her sigh.
"BEAST BOY!" Cyborg's voice screamed.
"Gah, what is it, Cyborg?" Beast Boy cried, trying to rub his sore ear.
"Just thought I'd tell you to prepare your selves?"
"Oh," Beast Boy questioned, giving Raven a surprise look, "Why what's happening?"
Just then, the lights above flashed on and off as if possessed, and then with a shudder, they died.
"Jinx shut off the electricity," Cy replied.
"Well that's obvious to us now," Raven said sarcastically as a loud whooshing sound resounded throughout the room. Loud sirens began to go off throughout the building, and red fire alert lights were the only thing shedding light in the room, which made it a lot easier to see that the troublesome doors were wide open.
"You guys haven't got much time. The only thing important in this building is that glass. Security will know exactly what we're going after."
"Great," Beast Boy cried as he and Raven ran though the doors while trying to make out which room was holding the glass. "Where is this wonderful glass anyway?"
"Umm… it's five doors down and to the right. But, you're going to have to break the door down; it won't open like the main doors did."
"This one," Raven cried after counting the five doors. Beast Boy took one look at the door before he became a rhino and broke it down.
"It should be lying in the middle of the room. It's a sheet of pure glass. You two won't be able to miss it."
"This is it," Raven said as Beast Boy began to yank open the glass window, except it wouldn't budge.
"What's wrong with this thing?" he grunted.
"Beast Boy, it's not made to be opened. You're going to have to break it open." Raven sighed rolling her eyes.
"Break it open, but there's nothing here to break it with that could penetrate that glass, it's as hard as steel."
"You'll have to think of something soon, BB. Security's all ready four stories below you." Cyborg interrupted.
"Is Starfire ready? We won't have time to wait for her," Raven asked loud enough for Cyborg to overhear.
"Jinx took care of Mammoth and Gizmo. Star should be there any minute," Cyborg replied.
"A minute is what we don't have," Raven mumbled tonelessly. "Beast Boy, do you think you could turn into an animal and smash the window open by sheer force?"
Beast Boy gulped, but nodded, "I can try." Beast Boy, carefully avoiding the sheet of glass, turned into a triceratops. He butted at the window but only ended up sending himself flying backwards, he tried again but it didn't even crack.
"Good, then. That's something you might want to do," Raven said. Beast Boy, carefully avoiding the sheet of glass, turned into a triceratops. He butted at the window but only ended up sending himself flying backwards, he tried again but it didn't even crack.
Finally with a grunt of annoyance Beast Boy changed back and grabbed the sheet of glass.
"What are you doing," Raven asked as Beast Boy motioned her to stand in the hall with it.
"This is the only animal I can think of to break the glass."
Raven waited out of the room and watched as Beast Boy took a deep breath and turned into a green, humpback whale. The whale broke both walls of the room, and Raven was actually glad that Beast Boy had had the sense to send her out. She may have been dead, but he was still a life force and she wouldn't have been able to go though him.
The whale rolled back and forth, back and forth, until finally it tipped towards the window. It smashed through both window and the wall, and he fell towards the ground.
"Beast Boy" Raven exclaimed in surprise. She abandoned the glass and ran towards the gaping hole. At first, she didn't see anything, which made a knot in her stomach tighten, but then she saw Starfire zooming up to the building like nothing was out of place at all, and next to her was a green hawk, who flapped his wings wildly, if not a little limply.
"Friend Raven, where is the glass?" Starfire cried to her as she and Beast Boy flew closer and closer.
"It's in here," Raven replied, while she pulled her hood over her head and covered up her surprise with a toneless face
"Beast Boy, do you think you can go meet Cyborg?" Starfire asked Beast Boy in midair. The bird hesitated a moment before it squawked and flew off towards the stake out.
Starfire carefully landed in the room while avoiding the sharp pointy glass, and Raven pointed towards the hallway where the glass laid waiting.
Before she went in, Starfire carefully arranged the bag of money she was caring on the ground so that they would notice it. She then headed for the trashed corridor. As Starfire stepped into it, she froze like a deer caught in headlights.
"Uh, Starfire?" Raven questioned.
"What is a little thing like you doing stealing military equipment?" A new voice asked, and the voiced echoed around the shattered room. Raven quickly went to stand by Starfire and saw that the security guards had finally made it up the stairs.
"Well, are you going to give up, or are we going to have to shoot?" Asked a man beside the one who had first questioned Star.
Meanwhile, Starfire didn't dare speak in case they recognized her voice. It was too dark in the room for them to fully make her out, but surely, they would recognize a voice that was always on the news.
"Has the cat got your tongue?"
Raven was starting to become angry, and in her anger, she felt a sort of strength from it. She wished desperately to be able to grab their guns and knock every one of them out long enough for Starfire to escape to the tower.
To Raven and Starfire's amazement, that's exactly what happened. One of the guard's guns was pulled out of his hand and whipped its owner hard across his head. There was a sickening crunch, and the man slid to the floor. To everyone's astonishment the gun kept on beating the guards up, hitting them everywhere that it had access to. It was causing such a situation that everyone had forgotten about Starfire and the glass.
"Raven, hurry. Let's get out of here before they remember us," Starfire said as she easily picked up the sheet of glass and ran towards the hole in the wall. Raven glided quickly along with her, and both jumped out and flew towards the tower, not bothering to go back to the stake out place.
"Do you think that he's having a problem with the glass?" Beast Boy asked nervously in his seat, as Starfire hovered nervously around him like a mother hen.
Everyone had just arrived home as Raven and Starfire had landed on the roof. Cyborg went straight to work on fixing Raven's coffin (they were nearly running out of time) while everyone else waited impatiently in the living room.
"I don't think so," Raven replied, still staring out at Jump City through the Tower's window.
"I don't know how you're acting so calm, Raven... Ouch!" Beast Boy cried as Starfire cleaned the cut on his cheek out with peroxide.
"If you would please stop moving? It would not hurt so much." Starfire replied, biting her lip and holding Beast Boy's face a little tighter.
"You have nothing to complain about BB; at least you didn't get punched in the eye." Robin mumbled from under a sack of ice. Gizmo had gotten a little too creative with his punches, and unfortunately, Robin had been too distracted to react properly.
"Please, the both of you, I do not think my nerves will handle another fight. Besides, if friend Cyborg were having trouble, he would have called us." Starfire sighed, digging into the first aid kit to retrieve a band aide.
"Hey you guys," Cyborg said wearily from the doorway, "are you all okay? I never got to really ask."
"We are fine, but tell us how is friend Raven's body? Was the glass we took able to save her?"
Cyborg sighed wearily but nodded his head. "It worked perfectly. She'll be able to last half a year if need be."
"I'm glad to hear that." Robin sighed as he got up from his seat on the couch. "If that's the case and I'm no longer needed, I think I'm going to head up to bed." He began to climb up the stairs towards the bedrooms before he glanced over his shoulders and said, "Don't stay up too late." With that, he disappeared with a loud yawn and a stretch from his muscular arms.
"I agree with friend Robin. This mission has tired me greatly. Please excuse me for bed." Starfire quickly stole away from Beast Boy and followed Robin's wake towards bed.
"You look exhausted, Cyborg," Beast Boy commented, watching Raven out of the corner of his eye.
Cyborg chuckled, "So do you." He turned towards Raven. "So, I think tomorrow we should start looking for some promising candidates. You do only have so much time left."
Raven turned towards the two as if she had just begun to notice them. "Thank you, Cy, for saving my body." Her hood was still up, but her voice told them that she was grateful.
"Of course, Rae, what are friends for?" Beast Boy supplied, giving her his friendliest grin.
"Don't call me Rae," she said icily while standing up to stretch her body out.
"Well, I think I'm going to head off to bed. I'll see you two tomorrow." Cyborg said cheerfully, expertly breaking the silence.
"Night," Beast Boy said and watched as Cyborg cheerfully left the room.
"Aren't you happy you're body's safe now?" Beast Boy asked, tipping his head in a very canine like manner.
"I'm ecstatic," Raven's sarcastic remarked replied as she sat back down on her chair.
"What's wrong?" Beast Boy asked, confused at Raven's behavior. They had just risked life and limb to save her, but it seemed like things hadn't changed at all.
There was silence for a moment and then, "I doubt anyone could fall in love with my demon and human side," Raven said in an uncharacteristic rush. Beast Boy was so surprised with this sudden confession that he fell off the couch.
"That isn't true," he said with a laugh, which he realized was wrong immediately when she gave him a dirty look.
"Listen, Raven. I know you don't believe in that. I mean, if people didn't love each other, why would so many go look for it? It has to exist somewhere." Raven didn't answer him back. So, he stayed quiet for a while... until finally, sleep seemed to consume him too, and he to left for bed.
Raven looked around the empty living room and pushed back the same feeling she got every time she realized she wouldn't be able to sleep all night. She would just have to entertain her thoughts of all the boys who she could get to love her. She couldn't help the snort that escaped from under her hood. Too bad she had all night, that wouldn't even take an hour, but she started to think about it anyway.
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