Disclaimer: Everybody watch out, this chapter is bloody and involves rape. Those of you with weak constititions may want to avert your eyes and turn off your imaginations. You have been warned.
And for those of you who are going to ask, no, I don't hate Terra. I like Terra. Slade's the one who hates her.
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The hulking creature standing in the pile of rubble resembled Slade only superficially. Bits of ragged cloth and armor hung off of the armored body. Its segmented tail lashed the floor, two sets of arms stretched and flexed several inch long claws. The mask was still there, lone eye glinting rabidly.
"Anybody else feel like we're completely boned?" Kid Flash said nervously.
"Can it, KF." Terra growled, hands and eyes glowing golden. "We can take this guy. He's just a cheap clone." She might have been about to say something else, but Slade hurled himself at her with snakelike speed. She tried to jump back, but Slade swatted her sideways, smashing through the window and sailing out over the water.
"Terra!" Jinx started glowing dangerously, hurling hexes at the masked demon. The pink bolts impacted him, but seemed to barely faze him. He turned, swinging at her with powerful strikes that looked strong enough to shred her like tissue paper if they landed. "We gotta get him outside!" Jinx called frantically as a claw nearly took her head off. "There's not enough room in here!"
A reddish blur circled Slade, and Kid Flash nimbly avoided the retaliatory claws, drawing Slade closer to the window. Distracted as he was, Slade didn't notice Jinx flinging a hex bolt the size of a refrigerator into his back. He stumbled, and fell almost halfway down the tower before using his wings to pull himself out of the dive.
"Come on," Kid Flash grabbed Jinx and ran down the side of the tower, only to see Slade wheeling about in the air, dodging massive chunks of rock flung about by a very angry geokinetic girl.
"You have no idea how long I've wanted to do this," Terra snarled, smashing Slade with a barrage of rocks. Several of his chitinous plates cracked under the force, and ichor oozed from the wounds. Slade plummeted as a particularly large one cracked his head.
Kid Flash sprang into action, streaking out over the water and running circles around the descending demon. The water fountained upward, holding him in place. Jinx fired pink hexes from the shore, Terra brought her stone flotilla around to strike at him again.
Somehow, this seems really easy, Jinx thought worriedly. He was a lot stronger the first time I saw him.
Her suspicions were confirmed then as Slade abruptly dove out of the vortex, flinging himself at Terra again. Terra pulled rocks up between them, but he smashed through them, snatching her off of her platform. Another swipe of a clawed hand sent the blond girl sailing, crashing her into the ground on the island. Jinx ran over to her as Slade turned his attention to Kid Flash.
Angry red lines ran across Terra's stomach, and there was a deep gash on her head from landing on a rock. "Terra! Can you hear me?" Jinx knelt down by the other girl, but knowing next to nothing about first aid, she was at a bit of a loss.
"Come on! Is that as fast as you can go?" Kid Flash yelled cockily as he sped all over the water. Slade was diving at him, trying to catch him in those vicious claws. A few seconds later, Slade disappeared from his view. Kid Flash ran in wide circles, trying to regain sight of the villain. Only a faint noise behind him alerted him to the demon's presence, and he avoided a claw by a hair. Worried now, he took off at top speed. He glanced back, seeing Slade get smaller as he got farther away. He started into a turn--
--and stopped, staring in shock at the serrated tail protruding from his stomach. His gave traveled upwards slowly to the owner of said tail.
"I can go much faster." Slade spun, flinging Kid Flash off of his tail. Then he felt pain as the blades ripped out of him. He slammed into something again, or, more accurately, something slammed into him, literally. A second hole appeared by the first, and blood spurted out, tinting the water below red.
The scream caught Jinx's attention from where she was trying to revive Terra. Slade threw his victim again, sending him hurtling through the walls of the tower and out the other side, landing on the other side of the island. He lay there insensible, bleeding from the holes in his torso. A piece of something had wedged itself in his chest from who knows how many walls he'd crashed through. His limbs lay at unnatural angles, at least one of them had to be broken.
"No!" Jinx whirled, facing the demon. Her eyes glowed with rage, and she hurled a barrage of hexes. Slade moved abruptly, blindsiding her, claws raking along her side. She felt something crack from the impact, and fell to her knees, trying to hold the wound closed.
Slade strode over to where Terra lay, lifting her up by the neck. Her eyes fluttered open, and she kicked feebly and gasped for air. "I told you you couldn't escape me, Terra." He slammed her against the side of the tower, driving out what little air there was in her lungs. "And now, you will pay dearly for your betrayal."
Something clicked in Jinx's mind. The tone he was using, the position they were in...He's going to rape her, Jinx thought in horror. She got to her feet unsteadily, clutching the gash in her side. Her hand was covered with blood, which made holding the wound closed even harder. Every breath sent a sharp pain shooting through her. She raised her free hand, sending a feeble bolt of energy into his back. "Hey, ugly! Get away from my friend!"
Surprisingly, he turned, dropping Terra in a heap on the ground. He approached her slowly, almost calmly. "She doesn't have any friends. And neither do you." He punctated this statement with a vicious backhand that sent her sprawling, her hand flying off the wound. Blood pooled underneath Jinx as she tried to rise. A clawed foot thudded into the gash, tearing a deeper hole, and she screamed. Another kick, and she felt more ribs snap. Another, and she was hurled backwards.
Jinx stirred, tried to get up. The entire left side of her body was on fire, and she was pretty sure one of her lungs had stopped working. Her vision swam unsteadily, and she coughed up blood. She managed to raise her head in time to see the foot connect with her face.
Blackness.
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Robin got to his feet unsteadily, supporting himself with his bo staff. The room was barely recognizable in its present condition. Chunks of robots littered the room, and most of it was badly scorched. The only reason the whole place hadn't gone up in flames was due to the emergency sprinklers, which were still running. "You guys okay?" He asked his teammates.
Starfire prodded gingerly at a large bruise on her head. "I am not badly damaged."
"Still alive 'ere, cap'n." Argent fingered a hole in her shirt. "So, now wot?"
Robin flipped out his communicator. "Cyborg, come in. What's your status?"
After a tense few seconds, the metallic Titan replied. "We're okay, just doing a little cleanup. But the computer wasn't here."
"It wasn't here, either. Any ideas?"
"Hold on." In the lower levels, Cyborg consulted his scanners. "I'm not picking up any more major signals, but the whole place is still resonating with the signal, something like a wireless network."
Robin scratched his head. "Then that must mean...the mainframe is hardwired into the building itself!"
"Say what?"
"If the whole building's the computer," Raven's voice came over the communicator. "how do we destroy it?"
"Simple. We blow up the building." Robin said decisively.
Stunned silence answered him.
Argent floated up behind him. "Eh, are y'sure that's the only way? I mean, knockin' down the whole bloody skyscraper seems a tad extreme."
"If anyone has a better idea on how to shut this thing down, I'd love to hear it." Robin answered gruffly. When no one spoke up, he went on. "This thing has to be stopped. We'll meet you three downstairs."
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Raven stood well back from the generator where Robin was affixing various explosive devices. I don't know what I should be more worried about--the fact that Robin regularly carries around enough explosives to destroy a building or what he said earlier about wishing he had remembered to refill his belt with them.
Robin stepped back from the building's generator, eyeing his work critically. "I think this should do it. I've got the bombs on a remote timer, but we need to stick around outside."
"Since when was it a good idea to hang around something you're about to blow up?" Beast Boy exclaimed.
"We need to make sure the building doesn't fall on any other buildings," Robin replied. "We have to be responsible about this and make sure no one gets hurt."
"Responsible destruction. Sounds like an oxymoron." Raven muttered, figuring no one would hear.
Someone did, however. "Oxy--ba what what?" Beast Boy asked, briefly turning into an ox.
"Never mind," Raven said as they followed the rest of the team out of the doomed skyscraper.
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"Three...two...one." Robin depressed the detonator. A roar could be heard from the building's foundation, and it started to sway dangerously. Raven readied herself to grab the biggst thing she'd ever tried to grab before. Massive cracks ran up the building, and chinks started falling off. Starfire and Argent sped into action, catching as much as they could and setting it down, rather than having it plummet randomly.
The front wall of the building leaned forward, straight towards where Robin and Raven were standing. Raven gritted her teeth. "AZERATH METRION ZINTHOS!" It stopped, encased in black energy.
The strain was unbearable. In theory, the weight of the object shouldn't matter. For a master of telekinesis, anyways. But in reality, the feel of it, the pressure, was intense. It was all she could feel, all she was aware of. The other Titans were hurriedly ripping pieces off, trying to ease the burden on their teammate. Raven was barely aware of sinking to her knees, deaf to Robin's encouraging words. Her mind felt like it was squeezed in a vise.
Mercifully, after what seemed like years, it started to lessen. The weight was shrinking, the ringing in her ears fading. Raven felt a rising surge of confidence. We're going to do this! I can--
Pain.
It struck her like a sledgehammer to the head, knocking her flat on her back. The remains of the building crashed to the street. Fortunately, the parts that were looming over buildings had been removed first. Images crashed into Raven's head, the Tower with huge holes in it, people lying on the ground.
--and Slade--
--and Terra---
Raven sat bolt upright with a gasp. No.
"Raven, are you okay?"
"We have to go back. Now." Her grim tone of voice left no room for arguement. "Slade."
Robin's eyes narrowed. "Titans, let's move!"
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Mercifully, she didn't remember all of it.
She was sure he beat her before, and maybe after too, but she didn't remember it. She only knew by the bruises and cuts that hadn't been there before he started.
But what happened between the beatings. That was the part she wished she didn't remember.
There was pain, but it was a far cry from the kind of pain that accompanied injury, or the kind of pain she'd gone thorugh when she couldn't control her powers, or the pain she'd felt when she betrayed her friends. Those she was used to.
That vile thing inside her. It penetrated deep, down to her very soul, thrusting its way into her innocence and tearing it in two.
She couldn't cry, couldn't scream, couldn't even move. All she could do was stare into his eye, his one dark eye, twinkling happily as he violated her.
She would have spit in it if she could.
Everything hurt, every move he made against her, the little spikes on his carapace scraping her bare skin, his sick twisted hands on her throat, her wrists, her breasts. His hot fetid breath in her ear, whispering obscenities she blocked out.
That filthy fucking thing in her, shooting his slime into her.
He dropped her on the ground when he was finished. She got a good look at it when he hit her in the face with it. It was disgusting, covered in blood and semen, throbbing with unnatural veins, spikes and ridges everywhere.
She blacked out.
When she woke up again, everything was blurry. There was noise, light, movement...faces peering at her. She didn't recognize any of them.
Someone held her hand, telling her it would be alright, that she was going to the hospital.
None of it meant anything anymore. Words were just words, after all.
Where had everyone been when he raped her?
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A/N: I bet I get flamed for this chapter. Oh well, bring it on. Like I said, I don't hate Terra. Slade's just twisted and evil. And I would also like to say the only thing that I think really does how I feel justice. Ahem.
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