Chapter 16
Terra was still shaking off her grogginess as she looked around. "What happened to the party?" Suddenly, everything - her Betrayal, Slade, Beast Boy- all came back to her in a rush.
"Where am I? What's going on!" The princess asked in horror. She went to swing her fist at the doctor, but stopped the motion as a bit of liquid splashed into her face. She coughed. "Jayce, you witch! What have you done to me?"
"Shut up, You little brat! I don't have to tell you anything!" Helga Jayce snapped back, a smirk coming to her face. She decided she rather enjoyed that small moment of suffering. "If it were up to me, I'd have you dissected!"
She stared at the frightened girl, floating in the tank. After Terra had left her for dead, the doctor felt this was sufficient payback. "How does it feel to be on the receiving end?" Jayce taunted her, walking slowly around. Terra kept her eyes following the doctor about. "Don't bother trying to use your powers either, those restraints we fitted you with will prevent you from doing that!"
Terra looked at the Doctor, tears streaming down her face. "Why... why did you take my life away from me again?"
"Because." Jayce replied smugly. "The man I am working for is paying me a lot of money to bring you under control." She adjusted her glasses. "That money will be used to fund my experiments, which will further the cause of science."
She walked up to the tank. "Don't you understand, child? That what this is all about." The doctor gestured around the room, at all the scientific instruments. "By creating super-powered humans, I am helping our race towards the next step in evolution."
"The day will come when the super-human will outnumber the so called 'normal' people." She stared Terra directly in the eyes. "It will then be time for your kind - the super humans- to purify this planet of the contamination of Normal humans."
Jayce closed her eyes. "Then, a new society shall be born. A race of supermen who are above hatered and greed! Above cruelty, prejudice, pain and all of the other evils that plague this world!"
Jayce looked away. "It is towards that goal that your mother was sacrificed. It was the reason you and your brother were made to suffer for all these many years." She looked back at Terra. "Your sacrifice will be super-humanity's salvation!"
Just then, Houngan entered the Room. "Doctor Jayce, Brother Blood wishes to speak with you... at once!"
"Very well!" The doctor grumbled. She looked back at Terra. "Now don't go away!" She said evilly, cackling as she left the room.
Terra glanced over at Houngan, a look of fear in her eyes. "Who's brother blood?" She asked nervously.
"Your new master!" The shaman replied simply, before looking away. A terrible dread filled the young girl's heart.
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Dr. Jayce went down the hallway, straight towards Brother
Blood's office. She knocked on the door.
"Enter." Came
the voice from inside.
The Doctor walked into his office. She found the Hive leader looking over several student's progress reports.
"Good afternoon, Doctor." Blood said, leaning on his chair. "Houngan tells me that the experiment is coming along well."
Jayce nodded.
"Excellent." He replied. "How soon will Terra be ready?"
"Give me about a week." Jayce replied. "I believe I can replicate... and enhance... Slade's technology that he used to control her!"
"Very good, Doctor." He gripped the back of his chair tightly. "You have exceeded my expectations."
"Thank you, sir." She said smugly, reveling in her scientific prowess.
"Then could you please tell me..." He threw his chair against the wall behind her, causing it to shatter. "WHY YOU TOLD ME YOU WEREN'T SURE SHE COULD BE CONTROLLED !"
Blood lunged forward, and picked the terrified scientist up by the collar of her shirt. "I don't enjoy being lied to, Doctor!"
"Please... my lord..." Jayce choked out. "I will have her ready on time..."
He dropped her. "See that you do. I want her ready for the presentation!"
"Presentation?" the confused doctor asked, getting back up.
"Of course." Blood smiled again. "I plan to sell her to the highest bidder, once I demonstrate her destructive capability. "
He looked at the wall, towards the direction of the laboratory. "Every supervillian on the planet will want the living weapon that destroyed Jump city... and the Teen Titans!"
