Jubilee Hall
By: TTFAN
Disclaimer: I don't own anything.
"Why won't this stupid thing open?" Tara Markov asked slamming the key pad with her fist. Kory Anders rubbed her eyes as she got out of bed.
"Friend, where are you going?" Kory asked.
"Getting out, you feeling better?" the geomancer asked.
"I still have the aching feeling in several joints, but I believe I am fine. Are you searching for the others?" the red head asked groggily, as she nodded. Tara cocked her head to the side, she never really thought Kory would sound…tired. The girl always seemed peppy and cheerful, even in the morning.
"Do you require assistance?" Kory asked.
"Just a few more seconds," Tara said slamming the key pad.
BEEP
"YES!"
"ACCESS DENIED" a mechanical voice said as Tara glared at the machine.
"…Perhaps you require assistance now?" Kory asked.
"What gave you that idea?" Tara muttered as Kory's hands glowed a yellowish green color. She melted the door with her powers.
"…How did I not think of that? You might want to change first," Tara said as Kory looked at her hospital gown and nodded.
"Kory and Tara are down…which leaves Rob, KF, Cy and me. Ah-ha that proves it, dominate species," Garfield Logan shouted pointing his finger in Raven Roth's face. She rolled her eyes.
"Kory's a newbie, and Tara's an idiot when it comes to common sense…much like you," she stated as he glared. She looked at each person individually, reading their expressions marked on their faces.
"Anyone have a plan?" Raven asked as Robin opened his mouth.
"Besides boy blunder," she said as he closed it. No one else said anything.
"One out of four…dominate gender eh?" Raven asked raising an eyebrow.
"Hey, girls are supposed to be smarter," Wally West said.
"Look at Albert Einstein," she countered. Wally opened his mouth again then closed it, tapping his chin in wonder. Gar had the expression he was concentrating so hard he was going to wet himself, the two boys were left speechless.
"We need a way to shut down the robotic copies," Robin said.
"Cyborg, download the building schematics. Beast boy, Robin, you'll provide distractions for the other clones," Raven commanded.
"The main computer is in the center of the building. It can shut them down, only problem is they trashed it before KF got the chance to," Cyborg stated as he took the lead and led them to the central computer lab.
"Can you fix it?" Raven asked.
"It's going to take-"
"It doesn't matter how long, is it repairable?" she asked as he nodded.
"We'll stall them, work on getting that machine fixed," Robin ordered. Wally swallowed a mouthful of air before walking up to the empath. He tapped her lightly on the shoulder.
"Raven…if we don't make it out, I just wanted to tell you that I…sort of…uh-"
"It'll have to wait," she interrupted an astral body in the form of a raven rose from the ground. Five teens appeared as the bird disintegrated.
"I told you they were here," Rachael said as Stone rolled his eyes.
"Pay back time," Dick said punching the palm of his hand.
"Titans go!" Robin shouted as they squared off against the counterparts.
"Oh a battle cry, how cute," Koriand'r cooed before she kicked Robin in the side, sending him flying until he hit the wall.
"Stronger that she looks," he muttered grabbing a birdarang from his belt.
"I don't want to fight you," Gar said to his crush's doppelganger.
"You killed my boyfriend," Terra said, tears pouring down from her glowing eyes. Bits and pieces of dirt pelted him.
"Cyborg, it wouldn't hurt if you could hurry up," Gar said dodging flying spikes.
"Easy to say if Rock-o wasn't trying to wreak this thing," Cyborg stated, firing his sonic cannon at Stone.
"Raven can't you create some kind of portal?" Robin asked.
"I can't and even if I did it would be countered," Raven said as Dick fired two bullets. With a wave of her hand they stopped in mid air, before falling to the floor. She then flung him to a wall.
"Why aren't you belligerent as all those other fools?" Rachael asked.
"I don't know," Wally said with a light smile dodging a flying table. He stopped for about a second to watch what it hit, that was more time than she needed. His shoes were engulfed by a dark energy, then suspending in the air, hanging him upside-down.
"No where to run," Rachael said with a smirk.
"Here's a new trick I learned," Wally said, before he started vibrating rapidly, so fast it seemed like a haze, before the black energy subsided.
"Vibrating through solid molecules, I didn't know if that'd actually work on your telekinesis but I guess it short circuited it. I so rock," the speedster said as Rachael's eye's glowed white again.
"Vibrate through this," she muttered before miscellaneous objects bombarded him. Dick slowly got up as Raven went to help Wally. He grabbed a gun and aimed it at Robin.
"Hey bird boy, dodge this," Dick said grinning like a mad man as he fired the shot. About an inch away from his face, a rock, seemingly, fell from the sky.
"Weren't going to start the party without us where you? I brought a few friends," Tara said with a grin. She lowered her rock as several other teens were behind her, armed with weapons.
"Commander did you just bring in about twenty forces locked and loaded?" Raven asked.
"I believe I did General," Tara replied.
"Nice work. I can't imagine how weird this is going to sound but…Titans Together!" the telekinetic yelled as they all came crashing though the ceiling, several lowered by rocks.
CRASH
"You moron, you didn't have to break the entire roof," Jinx muttered, several pebbles and debris falling on her head, as Baran Flinders or Mammoth, shrugged.
"Cyborg hit the switch!" Robin yelled.
"Actually it's a button," Gar stated as Cyborg slammed his fist on the shiny red button. The clones short circuited then shut down.
"That's it? We didn't even get to smash anything," Mikron O'Jeneus, Gizmo, grumbled, arms folded over his chest. A wall fell as more Slade-bots poured in.
"Remind me to duct tape your mouth," Jinx said as she sent a wave of pink energy at the robots, more flowed in.
"Friend Tara is it not possible that you may open up a hole and swallow them up like you had done with us before?" Kory asked firing a star bolt at the massive army.
"It has to go somewhere Starfire. Under all this is the sewer system, so you guys want a clogged toilet or what?" Tara asked as spikes arose from the ground impaling the robots.
"Do any of us even live in Jump City?" Cyborg asked as they all paused, followed by murmurs of no and not really.
"Okay then," Tara said as her eyes glowed. The earth shook then split apart. They all fell into the dark abyss malfunctioning from the water.
"What now?" Raven asked.
"We find Slade-" Robin said in a dark tone before another wall broke down.
"For the love of, what now?" he muttered angrily as several large bulkier robot commandos trudged forward. They were white with black metallic bands on their joints, a red camera was located in the top of what appeared to be the head, black claws attached to its arms.
"That's…really bad isn't it?" Gar asked.
"Gee what gave you that idea," Tara muttered sarcastically.
"Robin, Raven, go get Slade…every one else you're with me," Cyborg shouted as they went to pummel the newly formed army.
"These guys are tough, but we can take 'em," Roy Harper said firing an array of arrows, some freezing the machines, exploding, or turning into boxing gloves upon collision. Kory ran up to Robin and hugged him. He returned the gesture patting her on the back.
"I'll be back I promise," Robin whispered in her ear.
"And I shall wait, friend," Kory said as she looked tearful into his eyes. Wally looked at the couple, "okay…last chance you've got," he muttered to himself.
"Raven, wait" he said running in front of her.
"Not now West-"
She was cut off as his arm encircled her waist, bending her backward he kissed her on the lips. Meanwhile…
"Take cover!" Gar yelled as groups of robots engulfed in a dark energy exploded along with windows, mailboxes, fire hydrants, and lamp posts. Raven blushed, shoved him off, and stared at him with hurtful eyes. She ran towards Robin, to teleport them to the warden's office in Jump City Juvenile Hall. Tara patted Wally on the back.
"It's been a while since she really well…least you took out most of the army," Tara said trying to say something to comfort him.
"Yeah…I guess," Wally muttered as a robot part flew over his head.
"Give her some time, after all everyone needs someone to lighten up her day. Now are you just going to stand there or are we going to finish this?" Tara asked motioning to the battle field. Wally nodded before speeding off and taking down every robot in his way.
"It's here, only question in where?" Raven muttered looking around the office. On the desk there was a photo. It had a white frame, plastic frame around it, appearing to be taken several years ago at a park. In the photo was Slade, his arms around a woman with brown hair, two other blonde boys. The one to the left had a cocky grin, arms folded around his chest, the other boy was shorter, his right hand gesturing a peace sign.
"Didn't know the monster had a family," Robin muttered.
"Maybe there's more to Slade than meets the eye," Raven replied leaning on a wall.
"There's got to be a switch, button, trick wall any thing here," Robin said desperately, plucking off every book off the shelf.
"You're watching too many movies," Raven said as the bookshelf was now empty, Robin moved to another corner of the room.
"I can't believe we forget to ask where the room was," the boy wonder muttered.
"I can't be that hard…even Beast boy found it," the empath said as Robin began to banging his head on the wall.
"I'm not sure if I should be alarmed or amused," she said looking at the pitiful scene before her. Robin stopped then began to pace around the room.
"How hard could it be to find a stupid-?"
THUMP
"Looks like you've found it. Even with the lack of brain cells from banging your head. Way to go boy blunder," Raven said as Robin looked at the lump on the carpet. He pulled it back to reveal a handle on a floor board. Robin pulled the handle back, it didn't budge.
"It's okay, I can do this. Just a little male muscle," Robin said as he pulled again. Raven started whistling, checking the wall clock every few seconds.
"Quit it," Robin said.
"Apparently your brain capacity was lower than I thought it would be…the lock is still on the side," Raven said pointing to the bolt. Robin blinked then pulled the object out of place. He pulled the handle, this time it opened.
"Eh thanks," he muttered as they walked down the steps.
"So much for Santa's workshop," Robin mumbled attempting to peer through the darkness. The room was surrounded by moving gears. Robin wondered how anyone to train or even work in these conditions. The darkness was no surprise to him, but the mechanical sound of the moving gears…it was driving him insane.
"Hello Mr. Grayson, Ms. Roth. I regret to inform you that this area is off limits," a voice said as a circular array of lights turned on. The glimmer of the armor against the light blurred their vision. They were surrounded by robots…lots of robots. Behind the machines was a balcony, where Slade stood atop. Slade pressed a button on the controller on his wrist. All the robots began to move forward as Slade took a few steps out of their view.
"Got a plan?" Robin asked clutching a birdarang.
"Kick their asses as hard as possible?" Raven asked, eyes turning white.
"Works for me," Robin replied throwing the birdarangs as fast as he could.
"Get Slade," the empath said using her powers to slice the robots in half.
"What about you?" he asked kicking a Slade-bot in the head.
"The real reason you went to Jubilee Hall and went through all the trouble to fake the murder records was to bring Slade down. Robin, I've known you for four years," she said before levitating a robot and throwing it against three more, "if you're going to throw all that work away, then I really don't know a thing about you. Go get him," Raven said as he nodded.
She created a spherical shield and a rising platform with her powers. Robin jumped on the moving platform and did a back flip, landing on the balcony ledge. He looked at the room, blank…with only one door, the one probably leading to Slade. If only he could've let her know how much he loved her before this. He couldn't back out now, all that effort wasn't going to go down the drain, but Kory… he told himself love wasn't going to get in the way of duty. Robin narrowed his eyes before running towards the door.
A.N. Finally, I've had this chapter on my computer for a while but didn't get a chance to post this.