Told ya'll I'd update sooner this time. Didn't get my ideal number of reviews last time, but o well, I didn't update soon enough so that was my punishment I suppose. But the few I did get were very supportive, thanks guys for those, really. Hope you guys enjoy chapter 7.
Warnings: Blah, blah, yaoi, blah, blah...
/means switching between scenes, mainly between Cyborg and Beast Boy since they aren't together right now, which I'm assuming you all have read about and understand by now, right, right? O.o
He was all alone in the tower as he watched some meaningless show on the television in the main room. He didn't know where everyone else was, but he didn't think too much on it either, after all, when you're living with four other teenagers inside a giant T, you don't tend to have much time to yourself, so he lived it up while he could. As Beast Boy began to relax, he felt a strange tickle on his neck, but it went away once he scratched it, so he just ignored it.
"Hey, B!" Cyborg said, walking into the room. "What ya doing in here all alone? You know we were all out on the roof having a Bar-B-Q."
"Unless you guys are cooking tofu, I'm not all that interested." Beast Boy told Cyborg, for some reason feeling sad as he did. "But don't let me spoil it for you, Cy, I know you love those kind of things."
"B, you better come up with me, I went to the store and got some tofu you know, just for you, so you could have something too." Cyborg told the smaller Titan while crossing his arms.
"Thanks, Cy, but I'm not all that hungry, I appreciate it though, really, I'll make it up to you later." Beast Boy assured the man that was now hunched over the couch with his chin resting on Beast Boy's head.
Beast Boy giggled at Cyborg's touch, but then felt it again, the tickle on his neck, but this time it was also on his ear, feeling like someone was touching him. He scratched it again, and like before it went away. Just in time for Cyborg's advancement.
"Why wait, I went out of my way to get that tofu junk, so you better pay me now." Cyborg told the green changeling as he moved his hand to rub the younger boy's chest. "It was humiliating to buy that stuff, you know." he continued to say, making his hand go lower.
"What, now? What about the Bar-B-Q? Won't the stuff burn, or whatever?" Beast Boy tried to distract him, even though he liked where things was going.
"Robin's watching the meat, it won't burn." Cyborg defeated Beast Boy's attempts to get rid of him. He reached down to Beast Boy's belt and tugged it off, dropping it on the couch next to him. "By the time we finish, it should be cooked."
"Fine, you win, Cy." Beast Boy gave up as Cyborg's hand began to show more and more signs of his growing lust.
"Always thought I'd get Robin before you, Beast Boy." Some other voice spoke, spooking Beast Boy a bit, and also confusing him to no end.
"What did you say, Cy?" Beast Boy asked, worried about what he just heard.
"I didn't say anything, B." Cyborg said as he nibbled on Beast Boy's pointed ear while his hand did other things to Beast Boy. "You ready to get this party started, for real?"
"... Sure." Beast Boy answered, still thinking about what he just heard.
"I'm ready, how about you, Beast Boy?" The voice from before said, the voice that didn't sound like Cyborg's.
"What's... going on here?" Beast Boy nervously asked.
"What do you mean, what? You know what's going on, pre-cookout party, table for two."
"Right. Sorry." Beast Boy let go of his worries as Cyborg's hand continued on with what it was doing.
"Tell me, Beast Boy, if Cyborg ever did this to you." The voice said again, and after it stopped, Beast Boy felt something other than Cyborg's curious hand, something that didn't even feel like his touch. Then, in almost a second, Cyborg's hand couldn't even be felt anymore, and he was nowhere to be found, it was just Beast Boy alone. He wasn't in the tower anymore either, now he was on a bed, laying down, and he couldn't move his arms or legs. His body felt heavy, weighted down by something. He tried to scream now, but he couldn't say anything. He was quickly becoming scared at what was unfolding and didn't think of anything other than Cyborg.
Beast Boy felt himself open his eyes. Very slowly he saw the true reality of where he was, but didn't really know where he was. It was so dark and he felt numb, but then the numbness began to fade away as he felt the heaviness on top of him once again. And along with the heaviness, he also felt something that felt like what Cyborg did to him on their first night, but somewhat off. He then remembered what happened earlier that day. He was drugged by the woman, and then everything went black. Now he was still shrouded in black, not being able to see anything in front of him, except out of the corner of his eye, he saw a small red light, but other than that, nothing.
He tried to move as a feeling between his legs began to increase. His arms felt like they were chained down, same as his legs, and the weight on top of him didn't make it any easier to move. The feeling stopped once he began to move and then he heard it, that voice in his dream.
"Beast Boy, so you've decided to join me? Good, I was getting bored." A man said, turning around, relieving the pressure on Beast Boy's chest, since he was sitting on it. "I was getting ready to move on without you, but now that you're here, let me continue."
"..." Beast Boy couldn't make out any words, but knew who it was, Slade. He felt his heart beat fast as he wondered why Slade was doing 'That' to him. He was afraid of what he meant by, 'continue,' though deep down he knew what he meant.
Beast Boy felt Slade free his ankles and began to panic as he felt his legs get lifted into the air. He tried to shift into an animal, but he was too tired, the only thing he could do now was blindly watch, and feel.
Sunday 10:25 A.M.
Cyborg woke up late since he had a hard time going to sleep the night before. He had nightmares about Beast Boy. All kinds of things, Beast Boy being dead, never finding him, and also, one of Beast Boy becoming Slade's new apprentice.
Cyborg was a wreck, he for once, didn't wake up starving. The first thing he did after he opened his eye was make his way to the main room to sit around and wait for Slade to contact them. Cyborg turned on the news to maybe find a hint when a new story came up, but only saw a story about a girl raising money for the city dog pound. Cyborg thought about Beast Boy again when he saw all the animals in the cages. He then noticed that the time changed to 10:30.
Buzzz, the tower's doorbell rang, startling Cyborg from his thoughts. He walked over to the monitor and saw a man standing outside with a box, nothing unusual. Cyborg took the elevator down and pushed a button to open the doors. Once they were opened, the man was gone, but the box was still there, and on top was a small note that read, Cyborg.
"Didn't order any parts for anything as of late, what could it be?" Cyborg asked himself as he bent down to pick up the brown package. He shook it and only heard the ruffling of paper, but didn't think much of it as he took it inside. Cyborg took the box to his room and sat it on his table that had his computer on it. He turned away from the box, but as he reached his door he felt something strange. The box was holding something he didn't notice at first, but now he felt it telling him he needed to look in it. Cyborg got back to the box and ran his fingers over the top, and as he pulled the tape holding it shut off, he heard a knock at his door.
"Yea?" Cyborg yelled, never looking away from the box.
"Cyborg, it's me." Raven returned through the door, hardly audible through the thick door of Cyborg's room. "Robin and Starfire are out looking for Beast Boy, I came back to see if you were awake. Guess you are."
"I was wondering where everyone was. You can come in, you know." He told her as he finished pulling off the tape and opened pulled back the flaps of the box as Raven entered.
"What is that?" Raven asked, spying the box.
"Not sure yet, got it a few minutes ago. It was addressed to me." Cyborg told her, as he began to take out paper the was used to stuff the box. Cyborg stopped pulling back paper as he saw what was in it. "It's a tape. And, and..."
"What?" Raven asked again, seeing the thing Cyborg couldn't say. "Is that?"
"Beast Boy's belt. O God..." Cyborg uttered as he brought the belt to his chest. "What is on this tape? I'm almost afraid to look."
"You need to Cyborg." Raven told him as he looked almost teary-eyed at her.
"Right." Cyborg left his room followed by Raven and went to the main room to play the tape.
Cyborg put the tape in the player and sat on the couch as Raven stood behind him, both ready to see its contents. "Cyborg, this is intended for your eyes, and yours alone." Slade told the audience of two. Raven was about to leave, but Cyborg looked her in the eye, telling her to stay.
They watched in horror at what had been filmed. There was hardly any light and what light there was, didn't show the upper half of what was most likely Beast Boy. He was sprawled on a bed with his ankles handcuffed to the bedposts, and his hands as well, though they couldn't tell for sure. Then they heard the sounds of Slade kissing him. Cyborg grew red with rage as he watched. Slade had to do this, had to torture Cyborg in the worst way, by taking all he had. With the shadows still shrouding Beast Boy's face, they saw Slade climb on top of him. They noticed amidst there immense anger that Slade had taken off his mask, but they couldn't get a clear look at his face, all they could tell was that he was blonde.
The man then did something neither of them expected. He took off Beast Boy's belt and removed the lower portion of his uniform. Raven looked away as Slade lowered his head down and all she heard was the heavy breathing Cyborg was making as he watched. If she were one to cry, she would have been at that moment, but she didn't, and she wished she could have. Cyborg felt dead to the world as he watched the man continue to indulge himself.
"N... no... please no." Cyborg whispered as he saw Beast Boy's legs twitch. Up until then he assumed Beast Boy was still drugged, but now that he was awake, things would be much different. He heard Slade say something to Beast Boy, but couldn't make it out, and then the hell increased. Slade got off Beast Boy, freed his ankles of the cuffs, and lifted the boy's legs into the air. Cyborg's eye grew ten times larger as he saw slade set himself in the ready position and then all in one second, he saw Slade thrust and he heard a pained cry from the shadows that tore his heart apart, a pained cry the branded itself on Cyborg's pained mind for eternity to come.
Raven fell to her knees upon hearing the cry of anguish. Cyborg toke ejected the tape and crushed it in his hand, never in his life had he been so destroyed by one person. Slade had pushed Cyborg farther than possible, and if Cyborg ever got his hands on him, Slade wouldn't rape anyone ever again. Cyborg felt himself begin to pout and tried to hold back his tears. Eventually, he too fell to his knees and hid his face in his hands. Raven heard him crumble and pulled herself up and walked over to him. Instead of placing her hand on his shoulder like she was most known to do, she knelt in front of him and pulled him into a full on hug. Cyborg uncovered his face and wrapped his arms around her as well. She felt her shoulder get moist as his tears spilled out of him.
Raven closed her eyes and let him cry. She knew he was throughly hurt, and was feeling maybe one of the worst things in his life. She cupped the back of Cyborg's head with one of her hands and then heard the garage door open, signifying Robin and Starfire's return. The two didn't budge as the door to the main room opened. Robin froze at the sight of Cyborg crying in Raven's arms as Starfire flew across the room and also knelt down next to Cyborg.
"Raven, Cyborg? What happened?" Robin asked, still stuck in the doorway. "Is it... Beast Boy?"
"Robin... We have to get him back, you have no idea what we just saw." Raven told Robin as she continued to embrace Cyborg.
"What is the matter? Why does Cyborg's body shiver so?" Starfire questioned the goth girl, guessing Cyborg wasn't in the right state of mind. "There is something that vexes him yes? Please do tell, I wish to know."
"Starfire, Robin, I fear we may have, in a sense, lost the Beast Boy we all knew." Raven spoke to Starfire. "Slade sent us something."
"What? What was it?" Robin moved over to where the others were.
"On the couch." Raven said, nodding her head in the direction of the belt.
"Friend Beast Boy's belt!" Starfire gasped, putting her hands to her mouth as Robin picked it up.
"What has he done? Something tells me this isn't the whole story." Robin asked, not turning around to look at Raven.
"Slade made a tape. A tape showing..." Raven began to speak as Cyborg pulled out of the embracement.
"This tape, it had, something bad on it." Cyborg then continued to tell Robin the rest of the story.
"Slade filmed himself raping Beast Boy, man."
"No..." Robin said, turning around to see Cyborg and the girls get up.
"I do believe I know what the Earthly word, rape, means. And I do believe I wish I didn't." Starfire spoke stoically. "May we not rest till Slade is found and made to punish for his indecent actions." Starfire said as she walked up to the window overlooking the city to look out at the bay.
"He will pay Starfire, be sure of that." Robin attempted to comfort the alien girl, not moving a foot as he did though.
"Friends, I wish to announce my deepest secret. "Starfire demanded their attention as she still looked at the water outside. "When I was but a little girl on my planet, I remember waking up one night to the sounds of screams. They echoed through the palace as if the creator was being slowly slaughtered. I was but nine in Earth years, and was afraid is was a ghost. A ghost it was not. It was my sister, Blackfire. That was the night of her wedlock, and it was to a native of the planet. I remember looking through the crack of her bedroom door, and seeing it. He was on top of he, he was forcing her to... Blackfire was not the same. She killed her husband almost a month later and then ran away. Please friends, let us get him."
"Star..." Robin looked at her. "Alright team, we need to devise a strategy of attack."
"All I know is, I want him dead." Cyborg said, joining Starfire in looking out at the bay.
"I'm sorry, but I need to meditate first." Raven told her friends.
"Of corse Raven, take all the time you need. I guess I'll go to my room. Come get me if you need me." Robin said, deciding to leave the planning for another time.
Cyborg and Starfire watched the water in complete silence. He looked away for a minute though and moved his gaze to Starfire's face. He had never seen her as serious as he was seeing her now. He then looked down at her arm and saw a strange color that resembled a bruise.
"Starfire... What's that on your arm? Cyborg asked her.
"O, this? The origin of this mark I do not know, but it has been itching for a few days past." Starfire said back, itching her ailment.
"Let me look." Cyborg took her arm and ran a check on the rash. "Star! No way!"
"What? What is this wound?" Starfire worriedly asked.
"This is no rash! Go to the lab, quick!" Cyborg told her as he ran ahead of her to get the needed tools for healing Starfire.
Starfire flew around the corners and down the halls at breakneck speeds, beating Cyborg to the lab. Once he got there, Cyborg told Starfire to lay on one of the tables while he got something ready. Starfire did as he commanded, but as she did, she began to shake with fear. She looked at what Cyborg pulled out of one of the drawers of a nearby counter. It was a needle, and Cyborg fished a bottle out of a cabinet over the counter to fill the bottle with. She watched as he filled the needle with a clear substance and although she feared needles more than the dreaded Grango-flax that lived under the ground of her home planet, she was ready for the needle to heal whatever had come over her.
"Star, that isn't a normal rash. That is an allergic reaction to something." Cyborg told her as he got the air out of the needle before sticking it into her.
"Something? What is this something? I do not recall being allergic to anything other than the..." Starfire was curious as to what Cyborg meant, but was cut off by Cyborg before she finished her sentence.
"Of corse Starfire, but you remember a while back when Slade put those things on the back of your heads to make you attack us?" Cyborg began to explain and continued upon seeing her nod her head. "Well, I examined one of them and found several tiny microorganisms that were made to travel towards the brain and make you attack anyone Slade wanted you to." Cyborg said, stopping his explanation as he stuck the needle into Starfire's arm.
"Eeek..." Starfire let out a small cry of fear and pain at the intruding syringe. "Please to continue."
"Well, when I ran the check on you just a minute ago, I found that there were several more of those organisms inside you still, more advanced ones, I'm lucky I got them before they did anything." Cyborg sighed as he knew Starfire was rid of the parasites. "It seems that you had an allergic reaction with the advanced organisms, be thankful you did, or else we might have not been able to help you as easily."
"I wish to thank you, Cyborg." Starfire said as she pulled him into a hug.
"Of corse, Starfire." Cyborg hugged her back.
/Meanwhile, back at Slade's hideout...
"No! Starfire is no longer infected with my drones." Slade said in a low but menacing voice.
"I told you Slade, Cyborg would stop them." Beast Boy told the man from his kneeling position next to Slade's throne overlooking a huge screen with the status of Starfire's and Robin's infection. She was at 98 when it stopped, and Robin, his was still growing, and his was about to reach 99.
"No matter pet, Robin's is still going strong, shouldn't be too much longer now." Slade told back the green boy that had a new collar around his neck. Slade tugged on the leather strap that was attached to the collar, reminding Beast Boy of his condition. "Robin will first lead them to us, but even with Starfire, they won't be able to win. But Beast Boy, have I told you what I plan to do... to Cyborg?" Slade scratched Beast Boy's head as he finished his sentence.
"Don't you touch him, you creep!" Beast Boy yelled as he got up and tried to punch Slade, but was blocked by Slade's hand.
"O, Beast Boy, haven't you learned? You could not possibly hope to defeat me." Slade said, pulling the boy closer by the collar around his neck. "You know your place now, and if you wish to live through your increasing illness, I recommend you give into me."
"Illness? What illness?" Beast Boy was confused by Slade's words.
"That is information for another time, but for now, give me you." Slade pulled the boy to him and took off his mask so that he could force Beast Boy into a kiss.
In the corner of the room, the woman watched as Slade made Beast Boy kiss him. She watched as he squirmed, trying to get loose. She watched as Beast Boy's dignity was quickly slaughtered. She didn't care though, all she wanted was her revenge on Cyborg, and this was the best way she could get it. Since Beast Boy had lost his ability to transform once again, it was almost sad to see him get so dominated by Slade. The woman just closed her eyes and continued to stay in the corner of the room, doing nothing but watching as she opened her eyes once again.
So yea, that's chapter 7. Hope everyone enjoyed it, and I wanted to say thanks to those who reviewed recently, those were very supportive and made me very happy.
Author's note: O.K. Slade is blonde, that is the most I know about him, but I only know that because I looked through a bunch of my brother's old Teen Titans comics, and saw Slade with his mask off, and blonde hair, but sadly not his face.
And also, for the Grango-flax, that is totally something random I made up, so it's mine. Heh. -
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