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Thorn arrived at his house roughly a half hour later. Mystery and Terra stood in the doorway, Slade behind them. "What do you want me for?" Slade asked him.
Thorn looked at Slade, noticing that all of the magic and fire had disappeared. Smiling, he said, "Later, Slade." He looked away from him, fixed his gaze straight ahead, and was met with a busted wall and a pile of rocks. On top of these rocks, an angry Xanka sat, his mask in his hands. Behind him, the HIVE members stood, looking disgruntled and also angry. "Xanka," Thorn said quietly, the smile disappearing. "What happened?"
"Titans did it," Xanka muttered. "Mostly Cyborg's fault. He blasted me through the wall when I couldn't teleport."
Gizmo scowled. "That belt would've lasted the whole fight if some crud sniffer hadn't used up all the zinothium in the first two minutes."
"Well, if someone else had enough brains to put a full thing of zinothium in the damn belt," Xanka said, standing up and grabbing Gizmo by the collar of his shirt. "none of this would've happened!"
Gizmo started yelling while Xanka stretched his arm out. Thorn gritted his teeth and closed his eyes in frustration. It was bad enough that one of his rooms was wrecked, but now his team wouldn't cooparate with each other. He opened his eyes to see Mammoth lifting Xanka into the air while Xanka kept his grip on Gizmo. "Put him down," Mammoth ordered.
"Make me," Xanka snarled.
Mammoth reached for Xanka's belt with his other hand and attempted to break it.
"Stop messing with my belt, you fat fuck."
Thorn growled. "Enough!" he yelled. "Mammoth, drop Xanka. Xanka, let go of Gizmo. Gizmo, help Mammoth, Jinx, and Xanka clean up that room." He took a deep breath while they grudgingly got to work. "Everyone listen to Terra, she's in charge while I'm gone. Mystery, go to the Titans Tower and steal that damn belt so he'll stop complaining. Slade, you come with me." He turned around and began to walk off, Slade following him.
Mystery shrugged and teleported, while Terra turned to the others. "Stop slacking and get to work, Xanka," she said, falling into her role easily.
"She gets the easy job," Xanka muttered, walking into the room after Jinx. "All because she's Thorn's little pet."
Meanwhile, Titans Tower
The Titans had gathered in the main room after nursing their wounds and had begun to discuss how they were going to defeat Thorn when the door to the evidence room slid open. Mystery walked into the room, Red X's belt in her hand. "Sorry to interrupt you," she said lazily. "but dear Red X has run out of zinothium." She smirked and vanished in a bright light. The Titans shielded their eyes, all of them having heard Beast Boy's story.
"So, how are we going to stop him?" Raven asked.
Robin sighed. "I don't know. We have to find a major flaw and use that for our own good."
"Or we could just kick his bad guy butt," Cyborg suggested.
Robin shook his head. "We already tried that," he told him. "And it got us beaten."
There was silence for a while.
"How are we going to get our friend back?" Starfire asked suddenly.
Robin said nothing.
"We'd have to know where Thorn had her teleport to first," Raven said. "And even then it could be hard to get her back."
Beast Boy looked over at her. "I thought you said one move to the bad guys and she was out?"
"I did. But she was forced, kidnapped. She didn't do it on her own."
Robin looked at his team. "And now that Red X has a full supply of zinothium again, we can't count on him not being able to teleport." He sighed again and sat down beside Starfire. "This could be our hardest problem yet."
Thorn had Slade sit in a stone chair in front of a wooden desk in an otherwise empty room. Thorn himself was sitting in the chair behind the desk, his boots on the desk, and a grin on his face. "Well?" Slade said, annoyed.
"Patience, patience," Thorn told him. "We must wait for Mystery to get back."
Slade resisted the urge to choke Thorn.
"Ah, here she is!" Thorn said as the door opened. He pulled his feet to the floor with a thump and stood up to meet her. "Now, Mystery, do you remember when I told you to go over Slade's purpose with him?"
"No," Mystery said, confused.
"Then I'm telling you now," he said, beginning to get angry again. "So just do what I tell you to, okay?"
Mystery nodded. "Sure, Thorn, but I have no idea what your purpose is for Slade."
Thorn let out another annoyed growl and slapped himself in the forehead. "Why does my team act like a bunch ofincompetent fools?" he asked himself.
"Uh, hello?" Mystery said loudly. "I'm standing right here in front of you!"
Thorn lowered his hand and eyed her angrily. "So?"
Mystery sighed in anger and threw the belt to him. "Have fun, Thorn," she said sharply. "I'm going to watch the others work their asses off."
"No, you'll help the others work their asses off," Thorn told her as she walked out. Then he turned back to Slade and slammed the belt down on the desk. "You, Slade, will help my dear Terra."
"Terra is a fool," Slade told him. "The very first chance she gets, she will turn on you."
"You're the fool," Thorn said. "I have the power to minipulate people to do my will."
"Is that so? Then why did you not do it to me?"
Thorn shrugged. "I just thought minipluating a spaz like you wasn't worth my time," he told him. "Only the good ones need mind minipulation. Usually the others will join me because they know I'm better than you."
"Don't you mean 'them'?" Slade asked him.
Thorn thought about it, then shook his head. "No, Slade, I meant you," he decided. "I am better than you, and everyone knows it. Therefore, they are frightened of me and tend to stay away from me or join me if I ask them to. Now, about dear Terra."
"Why do you refer to her as 'dear Terra'?"
"Because she is my dear," Thorn said in a how-stupid-can-you-be tone of voice.
"Where is the other one?"
Thorn blinked. "What other one?" he asked stupidly.
Slade sighed. "The one who controls fire. Dayna."
Thorn closed his eyes again and groaned. He had completely forgotten her, and it had been at least forty minutes since she had left. But I can't go now, he thought. If I do, the storm my anger will cause will kill her. And I can't have that. He sighed and pressed a button on the desk. Thick metal bars shot out of the chair Slade was sitting in and wrapped around his torso, arms, legs, and neck. "Stay there, Slade," Thorn ordered, walking towards the door. "I'll have Mystery come in and watch you. One look in the eyes and she'll be happy to," he added to himself as he walked down the hallway. I just hope Dayna won't be to angry. After all, it does take twenty minutes for the computer to zap me there.
WeaselChick: Thorn's going to be in trouble. Leaving Dayna in that weird place for about an hour. Oh, and I just noticed I spend a lot of my time focusing on my own characters and the villians, but not the Titans...Oh well. That's the way the story goes, I guess
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Revenant666:Darn you. Now that crap about Slade being Thorn's bitch is going to be stuck in my head and knowing me,I'm probably going to make Xanka say it sometime.
And: Some ranting. I don't mean to make anyone angry or anything like that,but eightpeople have this story on story alert list. I knowsome of you aren't on a lot andwhen you are on, might not feel like reviewing then. That's fine with me as long as you review sometime. I know that myself as a writer, I love getting reviews and feedback and having people help me learn how to write better. And I also know that I update a little bit to quickly sometimes, but if you people review me, it will make me asa writerhappy to know what you think of my story, and I might tell you something like I did to Revenant. So, blah, I'm done.
Click the little review button! You must've gotten itby now, that I want reviews! Not that I'm complaining about the amount I've gotten...59 reviewsfor 13 chapters is excellent, believe me. And I've already said I'm done ranting for now. Just so bored at 3:00am...I need to go to bed.