WeaselChick: Well... If this isn't overdue... Heh... Excuses: First - during the last two weeks and beginning week of March - I had to draw 13 people for my yearbook. Second, I got wrapped up in KingdomHearts. Third, I got Kingdom Hearts2 and spend forever playing it.

Kingdom Hearts is an awesome video game, by the way. Just for those who don't know what it is.

Also... I couldn't figure out how I should end this chapter... So... I just stopped writing.

Beast Boy, still in his raptor form, stared at where he had thrown Thorn over the edge, Thorn's blood dripping from his mouth. He changed to his human form, spat out some of Thorn's blood, and shuddered. "Eww... I broke his leg... I broke his leg... His blood's in my mouth... ew!"

Dayna, standing a few feet away, Thorn's cane in her hand, watched as Beast Boy contnued to spit out Thorn's blood. She sighed, brushed the remaining slivers of glass off of her body and out of her hair. "Beast Boy," she said. "It's all right if you broke his leg."

Beast Boy looked at her and nodded. "Yeah... I guess... Hey, Dayna... Do you think he's-?"

"Dead?" Dayna smiled and tossed the cane to her other hand. "I don't know. Normally... I'd say no, but considering all this lava, it could be either way."

Beasy Boy nodded again. "Makes sense. At least you're safe now."

"Yeah," Dayna agreed, grinning sheepishly. "But, y'know, he really didn't do anything to me... Xanka's the one who was always trying to kill me."

"Xanka?"

Dayna blinked, realized what she had said, and sighed. "Oh... crap. You're not supposed to know his real name, so just forget I said anything, okay?"

"Uh... Okay... Dayna-"

Something, glinting and sliver, slammed into the ground between them. Beast Boy looked down at it in confusion. "What the-"

"Thorn!" Dayna said, looking towards the edge of the rockface.

Thorn was leaning over it, all but one leg on the flat surface. His breath was being drawn in quickly and short; his forehead was shining with sweat. He gripped the hard rock and lifted his other leg up, grunting. He stood, shaking slightly, and started towards them. The clothing that covred the leg Beast Boy had broken was soaked in blood, causing the fabric to stick to his skin. He was still grinning. "Think you can get rid of me so easily?" he said, his voice strong. He laughed, and, before Beast Boy could attack him, broke into a run.

Beast Boy lunged, changing into a tiger, and swiped at Thorn. His claws caught on Thorn's coat and ripped the end. Thorn swerved around Beast Boy's next attack, and reached Dayna. He yanked the cane out of her hand, grasped her wrist with his free hand, and pulled her after him.

"Dayna!" Beast Boy cried, running after them as Thorn started up the stairs to the building beside him. "Let her go, Thorn!"

Thorn, in a rather childish act, turned to face Beast Boy, grinning. "Make me," he said, pulling Dayna close to himself and pressing the gem on top of the cane. A rock wall shot of the ground in front of Beast Boy, meeting the ceiling in roughly fifteen seconds. Beast Boy gasped, looked at the rock, and the ground now far below him, and sighed. He'd have to break through it.

On the other side, Thorn had resumed running, laughing as he did. "Thorn," Dayna said, running beside him. "That was just a little bit childish."

Thorn's response was a fresh burst of laughter.

Behind them, the rock wall exploded and a green rhino ran towards them. Thorn pressed the gem, gripped Dayna's wrist again, and ran faster as another rock wall seperated them from Beast Boy. "No more talking, Dayna," Thorn said. "It's all running from here until I tell you to stop. Got it?" Without waiting for an answer, he made another rock wall shoot up from the stairs as Beast Boy destroyed the second one.

Raven pulled away from Red X's mind, startled. Red X noticed this, and looked questioningly at her. "What?" he asked. "What did you find out?"

"You've been brainwashed," Raven said slowly. "Thorn's taken control of your free will."

Red X blinked, stared at her, then stared straight ahead at the the water still misting through the broken pipes. "Well... I'll be damned..." he said softly, shocked. "Brainwashed..." Then he grinned. "Uncle Frank always said I was an idiot. Guess he was right, huh?" He started laughing, a strange high-pitched laughter, then stood up and slammed his fist into a wall. "Dammit! I get brainwashed and taken with some stupid fucker to kill some more stupid fuckers!" He sighed, winced, and gripped his chest again. "Not to mention the damned injuries..."

Raven sighed also and got to her feet, moving over to him. "You know... I could heal you..."

"How do you know I won't kill you?"

"If you really wanted to kill me, you would have done it by now," Raven said.

Red X grunted. "Whatever. All I know is that Thorn is going to pay for making me work for him. All this time, I could've been doing something worthwhile..."

"Something for yourself, you mean."

"Yeah," Red X agreed, looking at her. "Maybe finding some way to rid myself of Uncle Fred without being charged for murder..." He seemed pleased by this idea. "That's next on my agenda, I suppose. By the way, if you want to heal me, you can go ahead and do it. I'll need to be in top form to fight off Thorn." .

Raven rolled her eyes and placed a hand on his chest. "You talk to much."

Red X's cocky grin returned as Raven's healing energy enveloped his chest. "But I'm right. So, I have reason to talk." He paused as Raven pulled her hand away. "And, yes, I realized that probably made no sense at all." He smiled - serenely - and looked into Raven's eyes. "Raven... Do you remember when I told you that I liked the...scenery?"

"Yes," Raven answered cautiously.

"When I fell on you. Second time, right?"

Raven nodded and took a step away from him. "What are you going on about?"

Red X grinned, reached forward, and grasped her wrists in his hands. "I wasn't joking." Raven gasped, and Red X pushed her against the wall, still holding her wrists. He looked into her eyes once more, then lowered his lips onto hers.

Robin, having just defeated Gizmo, was running up the stairs on the building, opposite the side Thorn was on. His plan was to find the room where Raven had blasted Red X into and help her defeat him. Red X was hard to defeat on your own, and both of them knew it. Reaching the end of the the stairs - and a large steel door - Robin looked up and spotted the row of broken windows. He prepared himself, then jumped from the landing through the exact window Red X had flown through. He was met with the same thing as Raven: A room full of broken pipes, one spewing water down on him. Through the haze of the water, he spotted what looked like two figures against the wall. He squinted, but couldn't really make out anything.

Except for the black flowing cape that hung around Red X's shoulders.

Robin reached to his belt, pulled out a random weapon, and tossed it at Red X. It hit him square in the shoulder and exploded, ripping the fabric there to shreds and causing blood to flow to the surface.

"Ah! DAMMIT!" Red X shrieked, pushing away from Raven and scanning the area. Spotting Robin, he glared, and expanded the X on his glove. "What the hell, man?"

Robin retrieved another weapon from his belt and tossed it at Red X, who dodged it neatly. "What were you doing?"

"Is it any of your buisness?" Red X asked, lunging at Robin. "I sure don't think so."

Robin glared at Red X. "Raven is my teammate. So it is my buisness."

"Get the hell out of my way!" Red X said, dodging another of Robin's attacks. "I'm trying to find Thorn! Gotta a bone to pick with that bastard, you know." He smirked, dodged yet another attack, and leaped over Robin. "That bastard thinks he can brainwash me and get away with it?" He started towards the door, but collasped as Robin's staff collided with his back.

"Wait- What?" Robin lowered his staff and watched as Red X sat up, groaning. "Did you just say Thorn brainwashed you?"

"Are you deaf?" Red X said, rubbing his back. "Or just retarded?"

By the wall, Raven's momentary shock had ended. "Thorn is brainwashing his team," she explained, coming to stand beside Robin. "I looked into Red X's mind and found that out."

"Now I'm going to murder the bastard,"Red X muttered, climbing to his feet. "And if you two want to stand around and gossip, go ahead. I am leaving!" He kicked open the door and walked out, turning left down a blinding white hallway. Raven exchanged a look with Robin, then they both followed Red X down the hallway.

WeaselChick: Now, I have no clue if that's a good ending... But that's what you all get. Blah...

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