Jubilee Hall
By: TTFAN
Disclaimer: I don't own anything.
"You've got to be kidding me." Wally West said as the clone shot another star bolt at him, he dodged it.
"You have anything that could help us escape?" Wally asked.
"Wait a sec… I think I still have those weird grenades with those chemicals." Garfield Logan said taking one out of his pocket.
"Here's the plan, when I throw it, you make a tornado to scatter it, then we both run as fast as we can to the exit, maybe pass a few rooms on the way down, got it?" Gar asked as Wally nodded.
"On the count of three…THREE" Wally said as he started running around in circles at an alarming speed. Gar threw the glass containers before he morphed into a cheetah. The containers started exploding in different areas around the room as Wally and Gar ran out of the room.
"Damn it, we lost them." Dick said agitated.
"We'll just have to do better next time, did you plant those tracking devices on them?" Koriand'r asked.
"Already done, babe" Dick said holding up a device that looked like a PDA, there were two red blinking dots on the grid.
"That's strange. These are the exact coordinates of where we're standing." Koriand'r said. They both looked down at their clothing to find blinking red devices on them.
"He must've flung it back when he made the tornado." She said.
"God I'm going to kill that bastard." Dick muttered.
"Can you please turn the station? You've been listening to that for hours." Toni Monetti said, still bored, more annoyed.
"My car. My rules." Jason Mc Culver said.
"Fine, forget it, I'll just go out and hitchhike a faster ride." Toni said.
"Hitchhiking is illegal." Jason said.
"Please, and I'm talking to some guy who couldn't stay out of jail for over two weeks." Toni said rolling her eyes.
"We're here." Jason said parking his car and running towards the entrance of the airport, one obstacle, the extremely broad street with cars zooming back and forth.
"You're the one talking about speed and you're not even moving." Jason said folding his arms.
"There are at least ten cars moving back and forth do you expect me to- AHHH!" Toni yelled as Jason ran dragging her to the entrance. The speeding cars abruptly stopped, the drivers honking the horns of their cars.
"What are you crazy?" A driver yelled. Jason slammed his fist on the hood of his car.
"Shut up." Jason yelled as a dent formed on the car. He dragged Toni to a part of the side walk.
"N-Never d-do that again." Toni said stuttering.
"Least we're here." Jason replied as he pushed open the door to the airport.
"Just great" Toni muttered as they were greeted with rows and rows of people on line for airline tickets.
Robin followed Larry out of the medical institute. He felt a hand on his shoulder.
"It's not that bad." The pink haired sorceress said.
"I feel like crap every time I think about it." Robin muttered not even bothering to turn around.
"She's still alive. That's good enough." Jinx said.
"It's not that. I might not make it back. Every time I think about what she's going to do without me…it makes me think I-I guess I love her as much as she loves me. I don't really know if I could call it that… I guess I never really felt love, ever since Babs… You probably have no idea what I'm talking about." Robin said realizing he was rambling.
"Eh. Half and half, I've heard about Gordon and you once. Then again first crushes and relationships don't always work. Don't worry. Knowing you and your thick head, you'll be fine." Jinx said.
"Sure hope so." Robin replied before walking out of the room.
"Wait. You forgot these, Gizmo and I spent all day working copies of your prototypes. He kind of buffed them a little. Check this out." Jinx said throwing a 'birdarang' at a chair.
BEEP BEEP BOOM
"Whoa. How did he manage to do that?" Robin asked ducking from the flying woodchips, then examining the weapon.
"Remember the samples of chemicals Tara gave us. He managed to store them in a small compartment here." Jinx said flipping the weapon. There seemed to be some form of glass tube with liquid in it. She handed him a belt with identical birdarangs.
"Three seconds, that's all you'll need before it blows, don't drop these or you're road kill. There a few more different ones. I could explain what they do but you have a job to finish. Kick ass bird boy." Jinx said saluting him.
"Will do" Robin replied grabbing the belt of weapons before running out.
"Cool, can I try one?" Larry asked looking at the weapons. Robin took belt and placed it over his shoulder. He grabbed the buckle and attached it, so it went over his chest, like what some army shoulders would have.
"When we get there, I think there's some tracking technology still in Jubilee, that's where we're going first." Robin said looking at a nearby motorcycle.
"Wish I had the keys though." Robin muttered.
"Here you go." Larry said holding up a key.
"Thanks- Where did you get that?" Robin asked.
"I told you I can do a lot of things." Larry said as Robin took the key and inserted into the keyhole. The roar of the engine came as Larry materialized two helmets out of thin air.
"Hang on." Robin said as he gripped the handle.
"You're telling me you don't know anything about your little friends?" Tara Markov asked Animal Man. He had a bruised cheek and his eye was starting to swell.
"I never even saw the other clones." Animal Man said before she punched him again.
"Then how do you know there were other clones? I asked about your friends. I never specified who or what. Now talk." Tara said taking out her switchblade.
"I thought you were my best friend." Animal Man said in a voice that mimicked Gar's pleading, hurt one.
"I'm not your friend." Tara said bringing the switchblade closer to his throat. He spit in her face.
"Ugh gross." She said wiping her face. She blinked then saw a different person tied to the chair.
"Dude what was that for?" 'Gar' asked.
"Beast boy?" Tara asked confused.
'I thought that- He was just- Oh…nice try.' Tara thought.
"You're not Beast boy." Tara said folding her arms.
"Tara, what're you talking about?" He asked.
"Give it up. Now where are the rest of the clones?" She asked.
"So you're not just another dumb blonde, of course you are a gothamite. No surprise there but you forgot one thing." 'Gar' said, before turning into a massive creature that resembled Big Foot. Animal Man threw a punch that flung her against the wall.
"Shit." Tara said as he transformed into some deformed mutant with blades on each hand.
"Wondering how I can transform into anything or anyone? My powers are far more advanced than your little boy friend's." The deformed mutant said ramming its blades into her arm. Tara didn't scream, instead she grinded her teeth, she'd die before admitting weakness to this guy. Her eye's widened as his other hand full of blades plunged into the side of her abdomen.
"He's not my boyfriend." Tara said as her eyes glowed and a pillar of rock shot up and hit him in the stomach.
"You can't win, you're bleeding too much and you'll pass out." Animal Man stated.
"Screw off" Tara said before she raised a pistol and shot him in the head. Animal Man's massive form immediately fell back and landed with a THUD.
"One down, five to go." She said with a grin before falling to her knees.
"Raven, I hate to be the one to tell you this I really do, but my batteries are running low." Cyborg said before firing his sonic cannon.
"Get a Duracell." Raven Roth said as she used her powers to repel a computer from crashing their skulls.
"Doesn't work like that. I have to recharge." Cyborg said.
"Didn't you do that already?" Raven asked as both of them took cover behind an overturned desk.
"Yeah but that was yesterday and I haven't slept or ate all day. It's like an alternative resource, I'm still human." Cyborg said.
"What a lousy way to spend a Tuesday afternoon. We can't win like this." Raven muttered.
"Question is how're we going to get out?" Cyborg asked.
"Hang on. Azerath Metrion-"
"What are you-?"
"Zinthos" Raven said before he was enveloped in a dark energy. A raven flew threw several floors of the building then reverted back to a girl. Cyborg fell out what seemed like another portal, shivering.
"That…was creepy." Cyborg said.
"I never said it'd be pleasant." Raven stated.
"I've got two- one heat signal up ahead, should we go?" Cyborg asked as Raven closed her eyes.
"What've we got to lose?" Raven said as they both walked towards the signal.
"Everything here is rubble." Robin said flipping a rock with his foot.
"Hey Robin I hear something from this door." Larry said pointing to a maintenance closet.
"That door locks from the inside. Wonder what could be in it." Robin said as Larry handed him a paperclip, once again appearing out of nowhere. Robin took out paperclip and jimmied the lock. What he saw mortified him.
"Robbie Poo!" Kitten screeched. Robin slowly backed away.
"How did you? Why are you in there?" Robin asked about to break into a run.
"That stupid slut locked me in there. What day is it?" Kitten asked.
"It's Tuesday." Robin said regretting, backing away towards the left. Kitten was blocking the exit.
"I thought you said it locked from the inside." Larry whispered.
"It does." Robin replied.
"I was in there for four days, but now you're here. Who's that?" Kitten asked with disgust, looking at Larry.
"I, uh. That's my, uh son. Larry." Robin lied.
"WHAT?" Kitten yelled.
"It's been a few years and I- I got married. Yeah, uh sorry we can't be together." Robin said hoping she was stupid enough to believe that.
"NOOOO YOU MARRIED THAT BITCH DIDN'T YOU?" Kitten yelled.
"RUN!" Robin yelled as Larry and he pushed past Kitten. They managed to get back to the motorcycle with an angry Kitten gaining up on them.
"Come on, start." Robin said as the engine blew a fuse.
"Oh for the love of-"
"YOU'RE MINE ROBBIE POO!" A voice screeched.
"Well Larry it was nice knowing you." Robin said with defeat. Larry's finger glowed as he touched the engine. It reverted back to its previous state, good as new.
"Can you please drive?" Larry said looking back as the insane girl ran towards them.
"Right" Robin said as he gripped the handle and sped off leaving Kitten to 'eat his dust'.
"How do you think she survived for four days?" Larry asked.
"There's always a storage room under the maintenance where the janitors eat. She probably found their stash of tacos." Robin replied.
"Ugh what's that smell?" Gar asked holding his stomach before barfing.
"It smells like blood or some…dead thing." Wally said.
"Heh. Last time I checked I'm still alive." A voice said as they both ran into the room.
"Tara, what happened?" Gar asked.
"I let my guard down, won't happen again." Tara said as Gar helped her up.
"We need to take you to a hospital." Wally said.
"I don't need one. Just give me the box." Tara said pointing to the first aid kit. Gar handed it to her.
"What did…this?" Wally said motioning his arm, signaling the rest of the room.
"Could you change into different people?" Tara asked taking out a gaze pad.
"No, technically this is my human form. Why?" Gar asked.
"Just wondering" Tara said before shivering.
"You cold?" Wally asked.
"Nah just a little freaked out. I couldn't get anything out of him." Tara said pointing to the green boy on the floor.
"That looks just like…me. I mean like future me or something like that. I…need to work out more huh?" Gar said looking at him.
"Advanced powers, something like that. This guy's like some cockroach on steroids. You guys know how to patch a cut?" Tara asked as they both look at her then shook their heads.
"Rae probably didn't think there'd be any bodies floating around. Heh nothing's ever that easy." Tara said unrolling some tape.
"How exactly do you know this stuff anyway?" Wally asked.
"Actually Raven taught me. In Gotham either you learn how to fight or you die. That was part one of the code, second one a few of the guys and I made up. We stick together." Tara said lifting her shirt a bit and inspected the large gashes. She stared at them uncomfortably.
"For crap's sake turn around, can't a girl get some privacy?" Tara asked, her face flushed, both of them quickly turned around muttering apologies.
"Okay I'm done. As much as I'd hate calling up on him and believe me I wouldn't if there were any other way. We have to find Robin. I'm out of ideas other than we need back up." Tara said.
"That's weird." Wally said inspecting the unconscious body.
"What's weird?" Tara asked getting up. Gar let her use his shoulder as a support as he helped her walk over.
"It won't come off." Wally said trying to yank a paper clip off Animal Man's forehead.
"What…is that?" Tara said grabbing her switchblade. She limped over and dug the blade into Animal Man's shoulder blade, a yellow fluid squirted out of the wound.
"What is it?" Wally asked as she yanked the blade out and stared at the fluid drip.
"Look's like…oil." Tara said. She saw a dull glint in the gash.
"His bone's are…metal." Tara stated.
"You're telling me this guy isn't human?" Wally asked.
"It's some kind of synthetic robot." Tara said.
"That was…weird." Gar said shuddering.
"Well… now we know how to get rid of them." Tara said.
"You've lost me." Gar said confused.
"Either there has to be a control somewhere to shut these guys down or we find some way to stick 'em to a giant magnet." She said.
"We have to take you to a hospital." Wally told her.
"I'm fine." Tara said.
"You're still bleeding." Gar said.
"What?" Tara said staring at her shoulder. The black cloth was darkened with what appeared to be blood.
"Shit, didn't notice. It's not a big deal." Tara said limping forward.
"You're going to a hospital." Gar said sternly.
"What hospital? Everyone's out of the city." Tara said
"Well you can still rest there and we can stock up on supplies." Wally said.
"No way you're going to-"
She was cut off when Gar karate chopped a space in the back of her neck. She fell into his arms, unconscious.
"Cool…where'd you learn to do that?" Wally asked.
"Movies. I didn't think it'd work." Gar said shrugging.
"What the heck happened here?" Cyborg asked looking at the wrecked room.
"Tara was here." Raven said.
"How can you tell?" He asked walking over to where she was kneeling.
"She got her hands on a Colt .45." Raven said picking the bullet out of the body with a nearby scalpel.
"Anyone could've done that…" Cyborg said before finding an electrical outlet. He pressed a button on his arm as a compartment opened, with an extension cord in it. He plugged it in.
"I saw her practice with a dummy, its dead center, definitely her work." Raven said pulling up a chair, still inspecting the body.
"They aren't really clones. They're actually made from the same technology as you." She said staring at the pool of oil.
"And Slade would go to all that trouble with the fake set up because?" Cyborg asked lazily, staring at his arm, waiting for the charging bar to load.
"Who knows?" Raven said her head on one arm.
"Stupid 32 k modem." Cyborg muttered tapping his arm with his finger.
"Your father didn't upgrade it?" Raven asked walking over.
"He didn't think it was necessary, it wasn't like he knew we were going to kick bad guy butt." He said still tapping his arm.
"So, you and Kid Flash huh?" Cyborg asked as she took a seat leaning on the wall, next to him.
"In his dreams" Raven said.
"Come on Rae, I saw you ogling him without a shirt." The metallic teen said with a grin.
"…You need to get that head of yours fixed." She said closing her eyes for a moment.
"You're thinking about him now huh?" Cyborg said with a grin, she glared at him and then got up.
"I'm not." Raven said looking a table, unknowingly to Cyborg they were full of few power tools.
"Denial's the first step…" He said with a grin.
"Come here and I'll rearrange that head of yours." Raven said holding an electric screwdriver.
"Hey keep that thing away from me, alright I'll stop." Cyborg said backing away slowly, his hands in front of him in a defense position.
"Good." Raven said, putting the device back on the table.
"You do like him right?" He asked after a long moment of silence, she sighed.
"I don't know." She replied.
"You should get some rest, he'll be fine." Jinx said to her new patient, bandaged up beneath her clothing like a mummy.
"I am still concerned, though…disappointed. I should not have fallen into such a simple trick." Kory Anders said lying back on her pillow.
"LET GO OF ME I DON'T NEED A DOCTOR." A voice shouted beyond the door that was eventually opened.
"Oh hey, Kory, get off of me." Tara said soon continuing her trashing and trying to escape from several people holding her down, she was eventually subdued with a sedative.
"That was…most awkward." Kory said as Tara was placed in a bed next to hers. Kory stared at the television out of boredom, at least her favorite program, World of Fungus, was on.
"How long?" Tara asked as Kory shifted her gaze from the television.
"You were unconscious for several minutes." Kory said.
"Thanks, you okay?" Tara asked.
"I am feeling a bit of the 'cramp' in the lower abdomen, because of the monthly problem that persists in females that involves the process of ovulation-"
"Okay too much information." Tara said not wanting a repeat of health class, some reason this stuff always made her squeamish.
"I'm out of here." She said then paused.
"Why can't I move my legs?" Tara asked agitated.
"Because all brawn and no brain, we figured you'd try getting yourself killed, that drug we gave you paralyzes the lower half of your body for a while." Jinx said.
"How am I supposed to use the bathroom then?" The geomancer asked glaring daggers at her.
"We'll have someone help you, besides its better here than it is out there." Jinx replied.
"While there's a major fight going on outside, you expect me to watch-" Tara looked at the television then turned back to face her.
"-World of Fungus?" She asked.
"Go back to sleep Markov." Jinx said as Tara 'plopped' her head on her pillow.
"This sucks." She said as Jinx walked out of the room.
"Friend Tara?" Kory asked, responded with a grunt.
"Did…you happen to see Friend Robin?" Kory said in a meek voice almost afraid to ask.
"Yeah…I saw him, he was fine." Tara lied, then turning to face her.
"That is pleasant to hear." Kory said finally able to rest after the long battle. Tara stared at her sleep for a while.
"Shoot kid, you learn to worry over a guy so much, you'll end up road kill." Tara said after sighing. She peered over the edge of her bed to find wheels on the legs of it. She grinned as she pushed off her bed from the wall towards a nearby wheelchair. Tara opened up the wheelchair and after spending several difficult minutes, was able to get on in the proper position.
'Damn it Grayson, you're coming back alive, for her sake, I'll make sure of it.'
A.N. I made a mistake on a chapter naming before, it's changed now, so...er yeah. Same old homework, writers block and a dash of depression and crap like that. I'll try getting the next chapter by next week. I'm working on a sequel for this, little or noaction, but humor and some romance.