Betrayal

Tears raped down the bleeding cheeks of the heart broken boy, he never looked back and simply ran, ran, and ran. "Julius please, you don't understand" Jinx cried out. The dark girl raced her exhausted young legs after her fallen friend. Julius turned and screamed hatefully "YOU ANIMAL, how could you do that to me?". Jinx pleaded "Will you please just let me explain?", Julius shook his head "You don't need to say a thing.

I already heard all I needed to know back in that room. You back stabber, how could you do this?". The pink haired girl continued to plead for forgiveness "Julius please, I didn't have anything to do with this I swear. Gizmo tricked me, he stole my keycard and used it to sneak into your room". Julius laughed "I never fall for the same lie twice Jinx, you were in on it and I god damn know it. I should have known it was all too good to be true".

Jinx blinked "What are you talking about?". The dark boy sobbed anger soaked tears as he explained "No one's ever loved me, no one, they all either lie or leave me to die, alone. You, you Jinx, I thought you were the only one who cared for me, the only one I could trust, could help, could……could love. But it was a lie, all a big fat stinking lie, and now my life is over". The aquatic base rumbled loudly and started to shake on its underwater hinges.

The pale sorceress shook her weeping eyes in confusion "Julius please just believe me, it's not true. It was all Gizmo's fault, I didn't betray you, I swear. I care too much for you, I care more then you can imagine, so please, please don't do what I think you're going to do". Dark laughter slowly erupted from the trembling lips of the demented Julius, he smirked "You insult me even when you're not trying. I'm didn't mean suicide you know.

I meant by work, my research, my LIFE, it's already dead". Jinx cried harder "Please stop, you're scaring me, I don't understand what's going on". Julius growled "Shut up, haven't you heard the sounds, there all over the complex. The Teen Titans have entered the academy and there ripping it apart as we speak. They are trying to find Brother Blood and the sonic resonator, that's where I just came from. I was assigned by Blood to stop the Titans at once.

But when I equipped the HIVE guards with my scatter blasters, they exploded and left us completely defenseless. Now there tearing this place apart, and unless I do something, were all going to go down with it".

Jinx cautiously approached Julius, she stretched out her hand and tried to touch her lover's shoulder. SLAP! "Stay the hell away from me" Julius said as he slapped Jinx's hand away, the girl recoiled in pain and stared painfully at the distraught boy. Julius turned and vanished down the halls, in search of something. But despite his rage, Jinx couldn't let such a wonderful person walk out of her life so easily. Jinx raced down the hall, chasing after Julius.

Mammoth blinked "Hey Gizmo, the walls are really rumbling, maybe we should find Jinx and split". Gizmo shook his bald little head "No way, not until that scum sucking, toe jamming, gunk eater Julius is taken care of……permanently". The mechanical genius started to chase after Jinx and Julius, Mammoth followed Gizmo as they turned down the hall and started to run. Gizmo grunted as he suddenly bumped into someone in the hall.

The body was large, thick skinned, and colored in a dark, jungle like green. The body's owner was a hulking young teen with a blank face, short black, spiky hair, a sleeveless dark brown vest like coat, brown pants and darker colored boot like shoes, and two forearms littered with massive, razor sharp spikes and muscles. Gizmo and Mammoth both gulped in sight of the huge, green giant. The spiky student had a small TV wrapped around his neck.

The collar TV screen flashed to life and revealed an image of Julius on it. Gizmo snarled bitterly at the image, the figure remained silent and still as the TV aired its message:

Hi Gizmo, Mammoth, it's me, Julius. If you are seeing this message then it means my suspicions were correct, and that you and the rest of your back stabbing buddies have ruined everything for me here at the HIVE academy. I now have no choice but to salvage what I can of my broken life, and leave this place so I can start fresh.

What does that have to do with you? Simple……revenge. My life may be destroyed, but I'll burn in hell before I let you 2 clowns get the last laugh. I'd like you to meet my little messenger boy, a new face that you're about to be painfully acquainted with very soon. He was going to be my science fair project but since you've ruined that from happening, I changed my mind.

I want you to meet my latest and quite possibly, greatest creation ever. Mutant genetic life, prototype 1, codenamed: Batch. Enjoy!

WHAM! Gizmo screamed as he was violently punched across the face by the green plant creature known as Batch. The massive spikes and reinforced exoskeleton armor like skin made quite a painful impact on Gizmo's face, he grunted in pain. Mammoth snarled "Oh yeah, let's see you do that to me". Batch opened his fist as he captured Mammoth's just as he was about to drive it into Batch's face. The plant mutant crushed Mammoth's hand.

Batch then reared back one of his huge forearms and smashed its spike covered contents across Mammoth's face, knocking him down right next to Gizmo. The monster plant being then grabbed both villains by the heads and bashed them face first into the hallway's steel walls. Gizmo and Mammoth squealed in pain, Batch then slammed them into each other and hurled them across the room. Gizmo gulped "I think this is going to be a problem for us".

Meanwhile……

Dark blue and silver hair dropped over Julius's twitching eyes, his face was drenched in heart pounding sweat. "Got to stay focused, stay focused" Julius said as he clutched his bio-hazard shirt and held tightly onto his rapid beating heart. A shadow was seen down the hall and a familiar voice was attached to it.

"That's two head quarters you owe me"

"Brother Blood" Julius blurted out loud, he could explain himself to his teacher, maybe he could tell him what really happened. Black leather boots and a blood red cloak were seen attached to the wicked teacher as he ran down the hallway in a frantic hurry. The sight of Julius brought boiling hatred and seething loathing to Blood's furious eyes. Brother Blood scowled "YOU", Julius nodded a bit "Yes head master it's me, Julius remember?

Oh I am so glad I found you. Look, it wasn't my fault with your room or the exploding scatter guns, I found out the truth, I was tricked and sabotaged by ARGH". In the gut wrenching blink of an eye, Blood snapped his powerful fingers across Julius's throat and angrily started to strangle him with his right hand. Blood screamed with anger "This is all YOUR fault, I should have known". Julius gagged and pleaded "Master AH, what are you UGH".

The psychic teacher cut him off "Spare me your trash talk twerp, I'm not as stupid as you take me for. I know all about your little schemes with Cyborg, Bumblebee, and those other meddling Titans". Bewildered looks of confused painted Julius's truly confused face, "What the hell are you talking about?" the boy asked. Brother Blood laughed "Did you think I wouldn't figure it out? It was you who told the Titans our secret location in the first place.

You fed the information to Cyborg and helped him destroy our old HIVE head quarters. You knew that if I caught Cyborg, I wouldn't dare suspect another spy inside our own ranks. You and Bumblebee told Aqualad where we were hiding so he could tell the Titans and bring them down here for an encore performance. You even put on that fake light show in the arena, fooling me to believe those weapons you had built were actually real guns.

Not to mention sabotaging the force field generator around the sonic resonator core, security system my ass". The boy gasped for air as he struggled to free Blood's hands from his crushing neck. "Sir please, you're making a mistake" Julius weakly begged. Brother Blood replied "No, the only mistake I ever made was trusting you. Beast Boy is too stupid to know how to dismantle the generator without some help, help from you of course.

You've destroyed everything I've created, everything I have rightfully earned, you fooled and tricked me into helping your pitiful Titan team mates, and I was gullible enough to believe every candy coated bedtime story you suckered me into. You're a disgrace to your family name". Julius gasped as Blood said those words, also as he dropped him on the ground. The dark boy struggled to breathe as he rubbed his neck and tried to stand.

Brother Blood smirked "School's out traitor, time to receive you're final grade". Julius looked up in horror as Blood charged an energy blast in his raised hand, he aimed it right at Julius's face. "F minus" Blood screamed. ZAP! Julius screamed in pain as Blood blasted the energy wave right into the boy's face, he clutched his left eye as he felt blood dripping from it. The twisted teacher laughed as he started to disappear "An eye for an eye Julius".

Five minutes pass, the underwater based started to thunder and tremble, pieces of steel and metal collapsed all around the wounded boy. Julius cried mixed tears of water and blood as he clutched his open socket, having lost his left eye. "It's not finished……not finished……It's……I'm not finished yet" Julius uttered to himself. The dark boy ran from the escape pods, the same direction Blood was heading to, along with the other HIVE students.

Julius entered his room, shuffling through the fallen papers and quickly grabbing the vortex regulator off his bed. Quickly exiting the room and charging up a scatter blaster in his right hand, Julius raced down the halls in search of someone. Hundreds of frightened felons, foes, and super villain freaks ran down the halls and raced to reach the school's escape pods. An elderly old man blinked as he noticed Julius, clutching his bloody left eye.

"Why young Julius, what in the twatting shite happened to you?" Mad Mod said. Julius coldly replied "You're cane, hand it over to me, now". The aging villain adjusted his glasses in confusion, scratching his balding white head. Mad Mod blinked "What in the name of jolly old England do you want with my cane? Look sonny, get your knickers in gear and get moving, we've got to escape before AH". Julius slammed Mod against a wall extremely hard.

The old man cried out in horror as Julius then aimed his scatter blaster directly under Mod's chin, the old man trembled in fear. "I WON'T ASK TWICE" Julius shouted. Mod squeaked in terror and dropped the cane, Julius released him and grabbed the cane as it fell. The old man screamed and ran to the escape pods, leaving the demented boy to his own doings. Jinx panted as she spotted the students, she turned to see Julius walking away.

"Julius wait, the escape pods are this way, Julius please" Jinx begged in heart broken tears. But the boy did not respond or turn to the girl's calls, Julius simply ignored her and walked to the end of a hallway and entered a door at the far end. Jinx raced after him and missed the crashing bodies of Gizmo and Mammoth being slammed through steel shattered walls. Gizmo cried out to the fleeing dark girl "Jinx help us, were right behind YAAA".

Green spiky fingers crunched around Gizmo's head as Batch grabbed him and bashed his face into the floor again, and again. Batch then yanked Gizmo's cyber backpack off his back and crushed it into smashed circuit boards. Mammoth charged forward and punched both of his knuckles into Batch's spiky forearms. Crying out in pain, Mammoth stumbled back and held his wounded knuckles. Batch slammed him down beside Gizmo.

The hulking plant mutant grabbed both Gizmo and Mammoth and also followed Jinx down the same hallway that Julius had gone to. In a matter of minutes, the 5 villainous students were locked inside a large, empty, massive, theatrical like command chamber. The caving roofs and crumbling walls made it very clear that in a matter of minutes, this whole base would be completely destroyed. The Titans had already evacuated and fled.

Beast Boy's whale form gave them a free ride out of the base, and up to the surface. Leaving Jinx, Julius, Batch, Gizmo, and Mammoth deep, deep underwater in the confines of the gigantic chamber inside the rapidly crumbling underwater HIVE academy. Julius smirked as he sat proudly in a high, throne like tower in the center of the room. Jinx wept "Julius please, we've get to get out of here, I love you too much, I don't want you to die".

Julius smiled "Die? My dear Jinx……I'm already dead".

To be continued……