The Weapon is released Again
Beast boy landed in front of a small convenience store and changed back. He had made sure to grab his robe before leaving the Tower. He pulled the hood over his head before he stepped inside.
Stephen was bored as he was forced to watch the connivance store. Barely anyone ever came in here. He was passing the time by reading some of the comics. He looked up when he heard the doors open. A man wearing a black robe had just walked in. He couldn't see his face thanks to the hood he wore. The hooded man walked towards the cashier.
"Excuse me where do you keep your beer?" he kept his head down so that Stephen couldn't see his face. He stared at him for a moment before he turned his attention back to the comic.
"Third aisle to the back." He heard the footsteps of him walking away. A few minutes later he heard the doors open and close. He thought the man had left until a knocking on the counter caught his attention.
"Hey what do you want… he stopped when he felt a gun touching his forehead. The person holding the gun was a different guy. He had on a red hoodie and a black ski mask on.
"Empty the register and give me all the money out of it NOW!" he pressed the gun harder against his forehead. Stephen nervously reached over to the cashier and pressed the button to open it. The same time he was about to give the mugger his money there was a thudding sound coming from the end of the counter. The mugger and Stephen both turned there heads toward the source and found someone leaning against the counter with a case of beer to the side of him. Stephen noticed it was the same guy as before but he still couldn't see his face.
"Can you hurry this up. I want to get out of here as fast as I can." The mugger took this time to turn the gun towards Beast boy.
"Who the hell are you?"
"Listen I'm in a bad mood so I'll give three seconds to get this gun out of my face and I'm even going to let you get away with the money alright?"
"Oh yea what you going to do if I just kill you and take the money anyway?" he cocked the gun as he said the last few words. Beast boy just sighed before he pushed himself off the wall.
"That's three seconds." Before the mugger could react Beast boy had grabbed the gun and moved it away from his face with one hand and grabbed the assailants neck with the other hand. Beast boy increased the pressure on the hand holding the gun until a cracking sound was heard and the gun dropped from his hand. The mugger screamed out in pain as his hand was broken. Beast boy looked over at the Stephen who was now shaking in fear.
"Hey sorry for your window." He said before he threw the assailant straight through the window behind him. "So how much for the beer?"
"T-take it." He said stuttering from the fear if this man would turn on him.
"Hey thanks. You might want to call the police and an ambulance for him." he said as he stepped out through the broken window. Two black raven wings suddenly appeared out of his back. He flapped them once before he crouched and took off into the sky.
"Was that an angel or a demon?" Stephen asked himself before he took out his cell and called the police.
Beast boy landed on top of a large hill over looking the city. He ripped on of the bottles out from the case and used one of his claws to rip of the bottle cap as he laid down on the ground.
"Why do you drink that poison?"
"It can't kill me and I need something to calm me down. It's either this or some cigarettes." He touch a swing of the bottle. "Why does all this shit happen to me?"
"What shit?"
"Every person who I accept as family end up getting hurt because of me. My parents died to protect me. The chieftain who took care of me ended up dying. The doom patrol almost ended up dying multiple times because of me. And now look my friends are endanger because of me. Damn my life sucks." He said taking another few gulps of beer.
"Don't you think you a little to hard on yourself? You were a little kid when those things happened. And now your making it seem like you don't think you can beat Ghost."
"I know I can beat Ghost, I'm worried about after I beat Ghost. Will they leave me alone or send more people after me. And if they chose the later I would be the one to blamed if anything happens to my family."
"Then when you find Ghost beat him to a pulp and make him tell you where the second base is so you can make sure they're never able to threaten you again." By now Beast boy had finished his first bottle and was currently half way through the second bottle.
"Yeah that seems like a good idea"
"What seems like a good idea?" Beast boy tilted his head back and saw Raven looking down at him.
"How long have been there?"
"A few minutes." She looked over at the remaining bottles of beer. "You really shouldn't be drinking that you know." Beast boy just rolled his eyes as he sat up.
"So did bird boy send you out here?'
"No I came here to check on you."
"Thanks but I'm fine okay" they sat alone in silence for a few minutes before Raven spoke up.
"Beast boy can I ask you a question?"
"You just did" he said with a small chuckle. He stopped when he saw the serious expression on her face. "Sorry go ahead."
"You remember when I asked you why the army took you?"
"Yeah why?"
"Well before you answered I felt a lot of pain coming from you but the strange thing I felt some happiness from you as well. why is that?" She looked at Beast boy and saw that he had his head down."
"Don't worry about it okay" he said with his head still down.
"What do you mean don't worry about? You're my friend I'm not going-
"JUST DROP IT" Beast boy roared involuntary breaking the bottle in his hand. He cursed as he picked out the shards of glass from his hand. Before he could react Raven grabbed his bleeding hand and healed it before his body could.
"Listen you don't have to tell me now but I would like to know soon okay." She started to move away but Beast boy grabbed her hand.
"I'll tell you alright but you might want to sit down." She sat down as Beast boy took a deep breathe. "Alright first I didn't exactly tell you the whole truth. When I was taken I was given a choice." He took another deep breathe.
"What was the choice?" He bowed his head.
"I could stay and be their little experiment or they would take someone else to experiment on. The other person was…you" he saw the shocked expression on her face. Another uncomfortable silence came over them.
"Why?" raven asked
"What?"
"Why did you do it?"
"I didn't want you to become someone's little toy to experiment on. I just thought you went through enough crap in your life. "a lot more than I have." He heard Raven get up and walk over to him.
"You idiot." Beast boy raised his head and was met with a fist to the face. It had enough force to knock him to the ground. Before he could fully understand what was happening Raven had lifted him back on his feet and was trying to strangle him. "Do you know what kind of hell I went through those two years! I didn't know if you were dead or alive you idiot. I kept thinking it was my fault you were gone. I keep thinking if I paid more attention to what was going on I wouldn't have been knocked out. I searched day and night trying to find you. And all this time you had a choice to come home but chose to stay because of me?" at this point Ravens voice was breaking and Beast boy could see she was crying. "What makes me so special? Why couldn't you just let me take your place? Who would miss the emotionless, goth girl anyway?" Raven had her head buried in Beast boy's shoulder. Beast boy took this time speak.
"Would it have made fell better if I chose to save my skin and put you in my place? Raven I have always cared about you and wanted you to be happy. Why else would I make those stale jokes and try to get your attention." He let out a small chuckle. "I didn't want you to go through that like I said. You're too precious to me. But you're still being pulled into this. It's funny I stayed so you would be safe and now you're in danger because I stayed. Maybe I should have just stayed away."
"No! Don't even think like that. Please don't think like that okay? Our job brings out people who wouldn't hesitate to kill us Beast boy. You can't blame yourself for what happened. You didn't know this would happen. So promise me you're not going go to leave." She mumbled from his shoulder.
"I don't really have a choice until Ghost is gone. But after that I'll stay here when this is all over okay?" her reply was a nod. He sighed as she wept into his shoulder. Seemed his disappearance affected her more than he thought it would. After a while he noticed she had stopped crying and had fallen asleep. He was about to get up and fly them home when he smelt smoke behind him.
"So this is what you're going to with your five days. Though I do suppose getting laid is important." He dodged a swipe of a tentacle coming from Beast boy's back. "Now what did I say about your temper? We don't want your friend to appear with your friend here do we?"
"I have him under control." Beast boy said pushing down his temper.
"You and I both know that's a lie. As long as I'm alive that things never going to be under your control. It works with your anger and pain kid and I know you have a lot of anger towards me. It probably won't go away till you kill me. Sorry if you can kill me. Aren't you worried that your desire for my death my hurt your friends?
"I would never hurt them."
Intentionally yes but, anger is one of human beings most powerfully emotions. Who knows something might make you so mad he gets released again. And you know it only lives to kill; it doesn't matter who it kills as long as every living thing around it is dead. This was the army intention and they got their weapon.
"Why are you here?" trying to change the topic
"Just checking up on you. Have to make sure you don't leave town. Well I've wasted enough time so later kid." He disappeared again. Beast boy was silent for awhile until Raven shifted her body. He sighed as he rose to his feet and made the black wings appear. He took off for the tower trying to get what Ghost said out of his mind.
Beast boy was surprised when he found no one was home. He went to Raven's room and laid her on the bed. He left the room and decided to find where the others went. He checked each room and couldn't find anything. He sighed as he sat down on the couch and relaxed. It was then that he noticed something attached to the wall and blinking a red light. He ripped it off the wall and noticed there was a screen with two dots. One was blue and showed the location of the device and the other was a few miles away from the tower. He figured that this was where the other Titans went so he went to the roof. he walked to the center of the roof and spread his wings out and took off towards where the red dot was leading him.
"Why didn't you wake the girl?"
"I have a bad feeling bout all this."
Beast boy found the beacon was coming from an abandoned warehouse. He walked towards the doors and pushed them open. It was almost completely pitch black inside but his eye quickly adjusted.
"This feels like a trap." Beast boy didn't say anything as he walked further into the warehouse. His eyes scanned the room and couldn't find anything. Walking further he noticed a door that lead to a staircase going underground. He walked down into a hallway. Suddenly the door behind him slammed shut and locked.
"Told you it was a trap." Suddenly four large metal tentacles came out from the corners and wrapped around him. Before he could move he felt something prick his skin. He quickly grew spikes and cut off the tentacles. He rubbed the spot on his arm where he felt the prick before he continued walking. He noticed it became harder to breath and his vision became blurry. He leaned against the nearby wall as he felt his heartbeat spike.
"What the hells going on Beast?"
"It's that prick we felt. Seems to be a sort of knock out drug. And if you're going to ask how are our body is affect by this it's a drug our body has never encountered so we have no way to combat it." Beast boy felt his eyelids becoming heavy. Before he passed out he heard heavy footsteps coming closer. He strained his head and saw a giant robot staring down at him before he passed out.
Beast boy woke and found chains wrapped around his body and also felt small wires attached to his head. He tried to break the chains but found out he couldn't use his powers. He tried to pull his hands free but that proved useless. Sighing he looked around and saw the other titans were in similar situations except they were in the same type of cell as he except it seemed to be filled with a strange liquid and they were asleep and from the looks on their faces it wasn't a good dream.
"Alright now I have a really bad feeling about this."
"Ah I see you are awake good." Beast boy looked up and saw Slade sitting on a chair high above him. On the side of him two robots could be seen. The one on the right looked humanoid. It was at least six feet tall with long blades running along its arms. In the center of its head was a glowing orb that signified its eye. The one on Slades left was a behemoth. It easily towered over him at twelve feet tall. It had a large gun attached to its right arm with an equally large shield strapped to its left arm and shoulder. It also had a number of spines protruding from its back. All in all it seemed Slade had a lot of time on his hands. "Hello Beast boy nice to see you again. I'm sure you're wandering why you're here?"
"Yes please."
"Sorry I don't feel like revealing my plans. Now you're probably wondering what's going on with your teammates correct. Well right now; those wires attached to their headsare making them feel their worst fears or something painful that's happened in your life."
"What's the point of that?"
"You see physical pain is easy to recover from but mental pain is more permanent. If the mind suffers through a big enough trauma then it shuts down. Also if you die in your dreams you die in real life. The mind is a fascinating thing Beast boy isn't it? Also even if you manage to break out of the dream these two robots on the side of me will finish you off. Now then its your turn" he said as a panel appeared in front of him. Beast boy tried to warn him but he continued and pressed a button on the panel. A liquid poured into Beast boy's cell and he felt the wires on his head start to power up. His eyelids started to close and sleep overtook him.
Well that's finished. Next chapter shows what happened in those two years and the army's weapon gets to come out and play.
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