Jubilee Hall
By: TTFAN
Disclaimer: I don't own any of them.
Gotham City Hospital- 2:00 A.M.
A shadow looms over room 360, gun glimmering in hand. It was an easy job and he had it all planned out. All the communication systems in the hospital were disconnected distracting the nurses, doctors, and security guards. He watched the woman sleep peacefully. The gun was raised, the barrel was turned, and that's how it ended.
"No." Whispered Raven Roth in Jump City Juvenile Hall. She didn't need any security cameras, any one to tell her the bad news she would've been receiving tomorrow. She some how saw it… felt it without even being there. As if it was some dream, unlike 'normal' people, it definitely wasn't a dream, more like a premonition. Even before coming to Juvenile Hall and being exposed to the chemicals she always had this strange power. Her mother called it a gift. Raven considered it more of a burden, a curse.
Raven clenched her teeth before grabbing her journal. She needed to vent. She felt a heavy heart but shed no tears. Some people like Robin and sometimes Tara just forget how to cry. She mentally slapped herself for nearly losing control earlier. She was clam, kept her emotions under control. Crying was pointless and wouldn't solve anything. She picked up Tara's lighter and read over the blueprints again. She was going to get out of here, she was going to find him, but most of all she was going to make sure that goddamn bastard was dead.
Somewhere at Joe's Bar
Trigon or Scathe as they called them sat at a table clutching the last position he held of any value. Trigon was a large man, not as in fat, but more like in a football player bulky kind of way. After all he was one of the most famous underground tyrants. He was about six feet tall.
Though he'd hate to admit it, he was aging, and he knew it. Most of his hair had turned a white color and he still had yet to find a successor, definitely not his daughter, Raven Roth. He could think of close to thousands and thousands of reasons. Though she had all the perfect qualities, intelligence, strength, power, most he would say inherited from himself, she was stubborn, like her mother. One, she would never agree to helping him carry on the family name, she even kept her mother's maiden name. Two, she would never agree to having others work for her unless it was necessary, though she was a natural born leader. Three, she hated his guts.
"Do you want it or not?" Trigon asked as a boy of seventeen walked forward and sat in a chair facing opposite of him, a table between the two. The boy had his black hair spiked forward, his stern brown eyes blazed with curiosity at once at his offer.
"You do realize you owe my father one million dollars and some of my…associates have a way of getting that money. You are in no position to make some kind of pathetic offer to save yourself. You're already dead." The boy said.
"Is that anyway to speak to an elder…Jason?" Trigon asked as the boy cringed.
"It's X…Red X." Jason replied glaring.
"Right…I realize you take a special interest in my artifact. The Ring of Azar you know is rare…very rare." Trigon said crooked teeth showing as he grinned.
"Yes, ten thousand that's it." Jason said.
"Though I do like to know the reason for you wanting this object, it has been passed on from my ancestors-"
"That's a lie. You know that prophecy, that thing's cursed…for the one named Scathe which incase you've forgotten that's you." Jason said.
"Of course I don't believe in that garbage." Trigon said with a whole hearted laugh.
"…Is that why all your goons started getting killed off and arrested after you married Arella, the one whom happened to possess that ring?" Jason asked with a smirk, Trigon frowned.
"It was a minor coincidence… why do you want it?" Trigon asked.
"It's for a…friend." Jason said looking away.
"The Markov girl is it not?" Trigon said as Jason stared at the floor, then looked up.
"Where'd you get that idea?" Jason asked cocking an eyebrow.
"My daughter associates with her and does a lot of background work, I happened to come across it." Trigon stated.
"Enough of this, ten thousand take it or leave it." Jason said.
"Hundred thousand" Trigon said.
"Ten thousand five hundred" Jason said.
"Hundred thousand" Trigon said as Jason narrowed his eyes then looked at his watch in anticipation.
"Forget it…by the way the debt collectors will be at your scrap heap of a dwelling later." Jason said pushing the chair back.
"Why you impudent little brat" Trigon barked, one of his guards leap forward.
"Don't." Jason said as his body guard backed down. Jason turned towards the door as he heard a chair push back.
"Wait. Ten thousand five hundred is it?" Trigon asked in defeat, he was desperate, Jason grinned.
'All in due time…all in due time.'
Richard Grayson better known as Robin stretched as he woke up and slammed his fist on his alarm clock.
"7 already, shit." Robin muttered getting a fresh set of clothing and showering. He once again spent more then ten minutes styling his hair with five times the necessary amount of gel needed.
"Damn it Dick, open the door, I swear you spend as much time as a girl in there." Cyborg yelled as Robin opened the door, razor in hand with shaving cream on.
"…Man do you even have anything to shave off?" Cyborg asked.
"Cyborg buddy, today's the dance, man's got to look his best." Robin said proudly.
"I know…just saying…you don't have a beard." Cyborg said laughing as Robin glared. Apparently the males thought facial hair was a sign of 'manliness'.
"Screw off man." Robin said as Cyborg washed his face. He soon went back to work on another one of his inventions.
"What're you working on?" Robin asked pulling a shirt on.
"You know that thing in the control room. I tweaked it a bit to my advantage." Cyborg said showing him two rings on his palm.
"So it's a holographic generator." Robin said as Cyborg put them on, and then connected them causing a blinding light to light the area.
"Whoa…stuff really works." Robin said observing the appearance of his new friend. He looked the same before the accident, all mechanical parts gone.
"Dude…why's everyone so… DUDE! Who are you and what've you done with Cyborg?" Gar asked rubbing his eyes.
"That is Cyborg…unplugged." Robin said.
"Why's everyone up so early?" Gar asked scratching his head.
"We're just preparing for the dance tonight." Cyborg said.
"Oh…ok…Crap I totally forgot." Gar said running into the bathroom.
"So who're you going with?" Robin asked.
"You gotta promise not to tell Rae, T, or Star." Cyborg said.
"Can't be that bad" Robin said shrugging.
"You know that person who hangs out with science freak and the giant-"
"Holy shit, you asked JINX out?" Robin asked bewildered and in shock.
"Keep it down. She kind of asked me out." Cyborg said rubbing the back of his neck.
"Letting a girl do a man's job?" Robin asked flexing and grinning cockily.
"Haha very funny, least you didn't ask Kory out yet." Cyborg said.
"That's what I'm getting hyped up for." Robin said draining a can of beer then crushing it with his fist.
"You…might want to put on some pants first." Cyborg said as Robin looked down as his boxers.
"…Right." Robin said taking them out of the drawer then walking over to Kory's room. He checked his breath twice and made sure his pits didn't stink. He sighed then knocked on the door.
"What do you want? Raven woke me at two to tell me about some other vision." Terra muttered sleepily. She tilted her head in confusion as he ogled her for a while.
"What?" She asked then realized she was wearing really short pants and a bra. She slammed the door and changed clothes.
"…You saw nothing." Terra said as Robin just shot her a confused look.
"Why are you here again?" She asked him before yawning.
"Is Kory awake?" Robin asked.
"Yeah…you might not want to be here now." Terra said.
"Uh…why?" Robin asked. He had this so carefully planned out. Ask her to the dance, she says yes, if no they'll just go as friends. After the reply walk back to room smoothly, close door, then do happy dance. Damn…
"The town idiot's awake." Terra said as a scream was heard.
"Ahh! WHY IS THERE WHIPPED CREAM AND TOFU IN MY HAIR?" Kitten screamed.
"Muahahaha" Terra laughed as Robin gave her another awkward stare.
"Hey, first attempt to laugh evilly, can't blame me. You better go before she sees you -"
"Oh my gosh! Robbie Poo!" Kitten said as Robin ran.
"You scared him away didn't you?" Kitten asked glaring at Terra, hair still dripping with tofu.
"I do every day." Terra replied with a grin.
12:00 P.M.
"No meeting today?" Gar asked walking towards the cafeteria.
"Nah, goth girl decided we should get a break." Cyborg said taking a seat.
"But you seem to be the most glorious and loyal companions you must have-"
"Starfire…Rae and I hated each other's guts." Terra said taking another sip of her coffee.
"Then how did you meet? Surely your feelings of hatred developed into friendliness." Kory asked.
"Let's just say thing went badly…involving one black eye and a twisted arm. It's a long story." Raven said.
"And I'd rather not talk about it…" Terra said remembering her first encounter with Raven and the first time she got beaten in a fight.
"Then how did you become friends?" Kory asked.
"Longer story" Terra said.
Flashback
Tara Markov walked through the streets of Gotham, wearing a worn out T shirt and jeans. She looked at her empty cigarette pack and groaned, just what she needed. The gym was closed at this hour and they already kicked her out of the bar for getting drunk there too often. Where now? She thought desperately needing to escape life. She looked at a store with burnt out neon signs.
"They killed the arcade for this shit?" She said out loud before walking in.
"Wasn't expecting you to come here" A lavender haired girl said as she walked in.
"Depressing café, gothic girl, typical" Tara said taking a seat.
"Why are you here? You know there's no way you can mug me." The gothic girl said purchasing a cup of herbal tea.
"I'm not here to mug anyone…I don't work on weekends." Tara said with a grin.
"You're hiding something. Otherwise you wouldn't be here." The gothic girl said.
"No shit Sherlock." Tara replied before purchasing some tea as well then taking a seat.
"I've heard you skipped out on your job today." The gothic girl said.
"Look, I got dumped by some guy for a hoe and I happen to see that guy at work. Just shut up already." Tara said before draining her tea like some kind of beer.
"You cut?" The gothic girl said staring at her slashed wrist.
"Your point?" Tara asked.
"Cutting is pointless." The girl said.
"Please, you think everything is pointless." Tara muttered.
"If he's that much of an idiot to dump you for a hoe then he's not worth killing yourself over." She said.
"You ain't too bad for a…'fellow citizen'." Tara said rolling her eyes at the term the mayor used.
"You aren't too bad for a street punk." The gothic girl said.
"I never really did get your name." Tara said.
"…Raven Roth. Don't get used to the company." Raven said before getting off the chair and walking out of the door. Tara followed her.
"Hey. Want to just hang out tomorrow?" Tara asked.
"Depends on your meaning of 'hang out'" Raven said.
"Movies or something got to find someway to kill time. Heard of the movie 'Saw'?" Tara asked.
"I've heard its good, but its rated R." Raven replied in a monotone.
"I know a way to get in." Tara said as Raven thought about it for a while. She did want to get out of the house as much as possible and sitting at the café close to 24/7 was getting dull.
"Sure" Raven replied before heading home. Tara checked her watch 10:52 P.M.
"Just enough time for one more drag race." She said as she got her motorcycle and drove over to the Crash Alley.
End Flashback
"Most intriguing that you had met because of a how you say the 'break up'. Was that person someone we know?" Kory asked.
"If I tell you his name she's going to get into another one of her 'moments' again but I can tell you who caused this entire mess." Raven said as Terra left the table.
"Who would that be?" Kory asked.
"You ever wondered why Tara hated Kitten so much aside from the fact that she's a spoiled idiot." Raven asked as Kory gasped.
"You mean she had…" Kory started
"Basically it never was his fault. Tara just saw her kissing him and you know how one things leads to another." Raven said as Terra came back with a stack of bills.
"Dare I ask how you got that?" Raven said.
"You'd be amazed how many people buy junk these days." Terra said.
"Typical idiots" Raven muttered looking at people messing around with a man-made whoopee cushion. Suddenly an alarm sounded.
"There's been a break in. Find and capture the trespasser." A mechanical voice said as an army of robots moved around the buildings forcing the rest of the teens to be shoved into random dorms.
"So…do we get bathroom breaks?" Raven asked.
"You notice that people are trying to break in instead of out?" Gar asked as Raven groaned. Just want she needed an idiot, two crushing teens, and an over obsessive prep.
"Kory I was meaning to ask you…if you. I. Would like to. If it's not too much…" Robin spoke broken up sentences.
"What do you mean to ask me Friend-?"
"The trespasser is unable to be subdued. Call back up." A mechanical voice was heard. The door immediately fell off its hinges.
"Tara, come on. Let's get out of here." A teenage boy with black hair said. He looked almost identical to Robin, close enough to be his clone, other than the fact his hair was styled a different way and he had brown eyes.
"…" Terra didn't speak. She just stared at the boy with hurt eyes and turned away.
"Jason! You came back for me." Kitten said, in a voice hoping to make Robin jealous, no avail.
"Grayson" Jason said glaring daggers at him.
"Mc Culver" Robin said glaring at him as well.
"Come on we don't have much time. Let's go." Jason said ignoring him and grabbing Terra's arm, she flinched.
"Leave me alone." She whispered.
"I didn't come all the way here for nothing." Jason said gripping her wrist.
"Hey you heard what she said, leave her alone." Gar said.
"What're you going to do about it Logan?" Jason asked menacingly. Gar ran towards him only to be kicked in the stomach, landing against the wall. Jason let go of Terra and ran towards him, dodging Robin and Cyborg's attacks, he slammed his head into the wall and started choking him.
"Move and you'll find a limp body." Jason said as Robin's shoulder's slumped and Cyborg lowered his proton cannon built into his arm.
"Stop hurting him." Terra said as her eyes flared a golden color and the earth beneath their feet shook, creating a small tremor. He lost his balance and fell.
"I'm so sick of all this shit. I'm so sick of people calling me their property and I'm sick of you." Terra said as the room shook, several cabinets tipped over and bunk beds split apart.
"Terra…control your emotions." Raven said as the ground stopped shaking.
"Get out. I don't want to see you ever again." Tara muttered as he scrambled to his feet and ran out of the room.
"What now?" Cyborg asked the first to speak.
"He's an imbecile and he's going to get caught, in three…two…one." Raven said.
"We've subdued the trespasser." A mechanical voice said.
"How did you…?" Cyborg asked.
"The tremor attracted attention." Raven said before walking over to Kitten, punching her left eye, kicking her in the shin, and currently blinding her by poking both eyes with her index and middle fingers, ignoring her screaming it was like she was immune.
"Friend Raven, why did you harm Friend Kitten?" Kory asked helping her 'friend' up. Robin 'coincidentally' coughed when she called Kitten her friend.
"There has to be a reason the room's a mess." Raven said, she walked over to Kitten and whispered something in her ear that made her very pale.
"Understand?" Raven asked in her usually calm tone despite all the events. Kitten nodded, a look of terror spread over her face.
"What'd you tell her?" Robin asked.
"…You really want to know?" Raven asked.
"On second thought, maybe not. Kory I was meaning to ask you…uh…dance…want to… maybe…" Robin started twitching and stammering again, he was glad he had his shades on.
"You would like to ask me to accompany you to the festivities tonight as a friend?" Kory asked as a look of distress spread over his face.
'Close enough. Don't make things worse.' Robin told himself.
"Yeah of course" Robin said.
"Then I shall see you later in the evening." Kory said smiling, Kitten said nothing, still traumatized from what ever Raven told her.
"Sure…way to let a girl do a man's job." Cyborg said.
"Shut up Cyborg." Robin replied as they walked out of the room.
"What had Friend Raven say to Friend Kitten and why does Friend Robin begin a 'coughing spat' when I say Friend Kitten?" Kory asked.
'She is so clueless.' Raven thought pitying her.
"Roth you have a visitor." A guard said as Raven walked over to the communication area.
"Yes Mr. Palmer?" Raven said. Ray Palmer was a well known professor whom also volunteered at Gotham City Hospital.
"…I'm sorry to say that there was a security breech at the Gotham City Medical Institution…Arella Roth was found in the morning with a bullet in her head." Mr. Palmer said. Raven's face was still devoid of emotion, though she was dying inside. The light bulb above her exploded. Mr. Palmer pretended not to notice.
"…She left you something in her will. It was an old relic called the Ring of Azar. When I came over to inform your father-"
"I have no father." Raven said in spite as a few more light bulbs exploded behind her.
"I went over to your residence…but he said he had sold the ring." Mr. Palmer said.
"To who?" Raven asked.
"He didn't say. FBI officials are interrogating him now, believing he had something to do with the murder." Mr. Palmer said.
"I highly doubt they'll get anything out of him." Raven said.
"They've brought in OfficerHarvey Bullock and Chief Commissioner James Gordon. I assure you the murder will be brought to justice…Raven. I'm really sorry. Your mother was a great woman and I'll do everything I can in my power to make sure they'll find out who did it." Mr. Palmer said getting out of his seat.
"Wait." Raven said as he stopped.
"…Trigon did it. I'm sure of it… if you can't get anything out of him…threaten him with Mc Culver tell him that he has many sources and the prison can't protect him." Raven said.
"I will." Mr. Palmer said.
"Thank you." Raven replied before turning around and walking back to meet up with her friends, there was a tear drop on the ground before she left, and it wasn't from Ray Palmer.
In Room 410
"Please…tell me anyway I can make it up to you." Jason said to her as Terra slammed the door in his face for the tenth time that day. He was now in an orange jumpsuit and temporarily staying at Juvenile Hall until a trial was issued.
"Men are the strangest species in this world." Kory said as Terra nodded, slumped on her bed. There was once again another knock. This time Kitten answered it.
"Is there something you wanted to ask me?" Kitten said puckering her lips as he just stared at her.
"I didn't know this was a whore house." He said as she looked offended, she pushed past him, Kory didn't want to abandon her friend, but she followed Kitten out, feeling that they needed some 'alone time' as the adults called it.
"I came here to break you out. I did this all for you." He said to her as Terra continued to stare at the ceiling.
"Just talk to me." He said almost in a pleading voice.
"You are an idiot." Terra muttered not shifting her gaze from the ceiling. She started picking at a piece of peeled paint.
"Ok, I'm an idiot. Just tell me what I'm doing wrong." He said climbing up the ladder. Terra made a short tremor causing him to lose his balance and fall on the floor…again.
"You made me believe there was someone who could understand me, you made me think that you really had some form of feelings for me, you made me betray my best friend, and you broke my heart." Terra said throwing a pillow at him. She wished it was made of lead. He climbed the ladder on the adjacent bunk bed and leap over to hers.
'Damn athletic abilities. I need a pile of rocks.' Terra thought bitterly.
"How did you do that?" He asked.
"Simple, I picked up a pillow and threw it at you." She said bluntly.
"No I mean the earthquake." He said.
"You have your secrets and I have mine." Terra said.
"I just came to give you this, managed to get it back from the guards." He said pulling a ring from his pocket. Her glare softened into a look of pain. Couldn't he see that he was killing her? She scooted away from him.
'No where left to run and no where left to hide' He thought as she backed up against a corner.
"Dad isn't doing well. He wanted me to take over to family business if anything ever happened to him." Jason said scooting closer to her.
"I wanted to spend my life with someone who was capable enough. Congratulations, you win." He said.
"You're seventeen, you don't expect to get married at your age. I'm fifteen no way, nice try, good bye plot." Terra said still looking for an escape way. She hoped someone would just open the damn door. Where was Kory anyway?
"You're turning sixteen next week. I can wait another fewyears." Jason said.
"Get off of me you sick freak." Terra said shoving him off her.
"Think of all the benefits. You don't have to live in debt and you don't need to beat yourself up in another cage match again. You can have anything you want…" He said getting closer her, she could practically feel him breathing down her neck.
"More like you can have anything you want. Life doesn't work like that. You can't honestly expect me to come crawling back to you like a desperate little girl know needs saving." She asked him.
"No. I expect you to fall for me like you did before." He said grabbing her right hand and slipping the ring over her finger. His lips moved over hers and before she knew it he slipped his tongue into her mouth. She soon found herself kissing back.
'I don't want this, stupid teenage hormones.' She kept repeating in her head, he moved his hands towards her shirt, in want seemed like forever the door finally opened.
"Why am I not surprised?" Raven asked as Terra pushed him off her with a force he fell off the bed, about five feet off the ground.
"You're a possessive asshole, get out of my room." Raven said using her powers to lift his underwear over his head then fling him outside, she closed the door.
"What happened now?" Raven asked.
"The sick freak tried asking me to marry him." Terra said gasping from lack of oxygen, she button up her shirt after shuddering.
"…You have something on your finger." Raven pointed out as Terra quickly took off the ring.
"Wonder what's with the weird symbols." Terra said staring at the ring. It was golden and had red markings on it. Raven glanced at it.
"…That's the Ring of Azar." Raven said.
"The ring of what?" Terra asked taking Febreeze and spraying it all over her bed.
"It was what my asshole father sold yesterday. He stole it from my mother, after murdering her." Raven said gritting her teeth.
"You want it, take it. One step closer to getting away from him, ever notice your past always comes back to haunt you, literally." Terra said taking out a bottle of mouthwash.
"You're not going to use all of that are you?" Raven asked as Terra shrugged.
"I am going to have to take another bath though…" She said.
"Aren't you a little too old for that 'cooties' thing?" Raven asked.
"Maybe, maybe not, side's I'll just tell him I lost it in the shower. You find anything new on Slade?" Terra asked changing the subject.
"Robin and I haven't found anything. It's like he erased all his files and background information. I even called up the military." Raven said sighing in defeat.
"And Deathstroke?" Terra said looking through various anti-bacterial soaps.
"Nothing on him either. All I know is that he's a world known mercenary and they've got a wage on him, dead or alive." Raven said.
"How are we going to distract them long enough to break out?" Terra asked.
"Not we, you. You're going to start an earthquake, powerful enough to cave in an entire room." Raven said.
"…I don't know if I'll be able to control it. Where do you want the quake anyway?" Terra asked.
"The Warden's Office" Raven said with a devilish smirk.
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