Jubilee Hall
By: TTFAN
Disclaimer: I don't own anything.
Brother Blood ran toward the emergency escape entrance. Slade's plan was taking a spiral for the worst. If he got out now he might still have a chance to escape.
"Fools," he muttered with a grin. Constant bickering was heard before he hid behind a building. Two teens walked by. One dressed clad in black clothing, a skull mask with a red X over several parts. Another had chalk white skin, presumably red contacts, wore baggy jeans and a black tank top.
"-I told you we should've printed a map but you said no… We had to wait, who knows how long for the plane to leave for Steel City," Jason Mc Culver better known as Red X muttered.
"Least we were lucky enough to get past the cops and would you quit whining?" Toni Monetti asked.
"I'm whining? You're the one that wouldn't shut up about my car going too fast and the plane going too slow. Jeez you're a riot," X exclaimed.
"This city is huge. There's no way we can find them in this-"
BOOM
"Ugh," Kory Anders rubbed her head, after being flung through several building, causing several holes in brick walls, miraculously she was alive.
"Hey cutie, where're all the fireworks?" the masked teen asked.
"Your voice…you are the clorbag that was pestering friend Terra," Kory said, hands glowing a greenish color.
"Yes we clearly know he's an asshole. What's going on? Is everyone okay?" Toni asked.
"You must leave. There is danger ahead. I shall bring you to a safe area," Kory said grabbing both with inhuman strength and flying to a safer area.
"So you are a fallen angel-"
THWAP
"No wonder she dumped you," Toni said shaking her head.
"…That's what she wants you to think," he mumbled.
"Sure… Wait, umm…miss we have to get over there. Is Raven there?" Toni asked worried.
"My name is Kory. Friend Raven has gone to subdue the warden with Robin-"
"Always has to be the goddamn hero," X said.
"Kory we can help you guys. Red has the tech and…lets just say I've got a few abilities myself," she said as Kory shook her head.
"I…can not allow harm to come to another," Kory said setting them down on a building before flying back to the site of the explosions.
"Pfft like that's going to stop us…" X said grinning behind his mask.
As soon as he entered the void, another replica of the dark room with gears he had previously seen, appeared. Little would he know, this summer he would experience a similar predicament in a place known as 'Mad Mod's Camp for Wayward Boys', strangely next to 'Mother Mae-Eye's Camp Improper Girls'.
He was concerned with the task at hand, living through a savage beating he would receive, and hopefully throwing this mad man in prison. Robin swallowed a bit of his own saliva, throat throbbing, heart beat racing.
"End of the line, Slade. My team is taking down your army as we speak. You've got no where to run," Robin said with all the confidence he could muster. Before he could stop it, he felt several blows to the abdomen, sending him into a collision course with the wall.
"So sure you've won, Grayson? Far from it, your team…is losing the battle. Quite brutally I might add. The more of my machines they take down, more will come to replace them. My plan was to create a diversion with the clones. Within time your friends have begun to grow exhausted. I wasn't aiming to kill them, for you see that suit used to control Ms. Markov, I planned to enslave the entire group of meta-humans," Slade said.
"Why are you telling me this?" the boy wonder asked, half terrified, more determined to stop him. Slade chuckled, as he slowly walked towards him.
"Because, my dear boy, there isn't the slightest possibility for you to beat me. You can't stop me. No one can," the warden said before lifting Robin up by the collar, then using his other hand to choke him. Robin felt his stomach tighten, before kicking Slade where it hurt. He took a few gulps of air as his enemy bent over in pain.
Robin wondered how much longer he could keep fighting. Barely even ten minutes and he was exhausted. He was snapped out of his reverie as the sole of Slade's shoe hit his face.
Roy Harper launched an array of arrows at the army. They divided themselves into groups to cover more ground, leaving him the leader of a team full of rookies, just great. However he couldn't help but constantly looking over his shoulder at two beautiful ladies, Donna Troy and Jade Nguyen. He jolted out of his reverie when his arm was shot with a taser.
"You okay Roy?" Donna asked helping him up, Jade cast over a worried glace as he nodded.
'Yeah, it's good to be me,' Roy thought with a grin before picking up his bow.
She felt herself getting weaker. Tara Markov sent several more rock-made-spikes at the army. The geomancer wondered if Kory was alright. Tara told herself she should've been more careful, everyone on this team was her responsibility. Her heart almost jumped out when she saw the red head fly past her.
"I'm not going to die," Tara muttered all of a sudden, she had no idea why, but she kept repeating the phrase. Her alter ego had a tendency of talking to herself in times of peril, she must've pick up the habit.
'I'm not going to die. Not here, not now. I'm going to grow old, settle down have a few kids and- whoa…where'd that come from?' Tara thought before she dodged a blast.
'Fight now daydream later,' she reminded herself.
Kory flung energy blasts at a building, causing the ledges to fall on the robots. She wondered at this rate was there any hope left at all, holding an immense longing to follow Robin to the warden's office. Hopefully he was able take Slade down and then come back to her. It would've been like some fairytale, another happily ever after tale. Reflecting on most of her life seemed like a living nightmare unfolding with each and every step. First her sister framed her before summer vacation, then ending up as the new kid in a world of possible criminals.
Kory saw her life flashing before her eyes as she was flung towards the ground. Instead of meeting the ground, she fell into cold metallic arms.
"Don't worry kiddo I gotcha," Cyborg said.
"Thank you," Kory said before thanking X'hal she had such great friends.
Raven Roth tried not to imagine how she would react to a situation if a boy were to suddenly come in and see her like this. Her orange jumpsuit was nearly ripped into shreds. Thankfully it was covering her private parts but the uniform now looked like some kind of beach wear. The empath bit her bottom lip as she casually walked past the destroyed machinery. Exhausted, she shut down a device creating copies of the Slade-bots.
Raven walked through the empty corridors of Jump City's Juvenile Hall and stopped at her room. As soon as her hand touched the doorknob the door fell, she walked in and quickly changed into another jumpsuit, grabbing her journal, along with a spare box of collected evidence, incase something in her plan had gone astray.
She wondered what would happen to her after this was all over. Her mother was dead meaning she had to live with her father. Then again she could find a faster way to get him in jail. Perhaps she could probably stay at some kind of government funded agency. She sighed as she walked towards the control room.
Raven sat on a chair and lifted the head set placing it over her head. Maybe she could still establish a signal. Most of the machinery behind her was trashed but the transmitter remained in tact. She flipped several switches before speaking.
"Raven Roth to Steel City Police Department. Do you read me? Come to the Jump City Juvenile Hall ASAP," she said, answered with static. She threw the headset to the ground before teleporting to City Hall. The sight didn't surprise her, a few holes here and there. A light peach color caught her sight.
"Come out Mr. Geller no one's here to hurt you," Raven said, not sounding the least bit comforting. This man's city was being destroyed. Instead of sending out policemen, he cowered under his desk. The large mayor crawled out.
"You! You're one of them aren't you? You're one of those freaks at Jubilee Hall. You must've hired Batman to shut down that Containment Field," Herbert Geller shouted, pointed his finger accusingly. Raven leaned on the wall lazily.
"Incase you haven't noticed, your city is under attack. Other than that, your failure of action will put you out of office. Sources say that you were planning on using a Level Four Containment Field to sustain minors in a facility, where the guards happen to be picking fights with those minors. Face it you're at a dead end. You're getting kicked out of office and you'll be serving a number of years in jail," Raven said.
"You don't have any proof-"
"Oh that's where you're mistaken. I have lots of evidence. Truck loads even. Now I'm going to strike a deal with you Herb. I'll let you go along with all that evidence," Raven said fixing a picture up on the wall, then looking back at the politician.
"There's a catch. You're going to resign and you're going to tell me where and how to shut down that barrier Slade designed covering the entire city," she said.
"How do I know you won't lie? And-and I can still get you into jail for destroying the town," Mr. Geller said. He wasn't even beginning to make sense. Raven could tell these were the words of a desperate man, only one thing to do…intimidate him further. She chuckled as more beads of sweat fell from his forehead.
"The thing is you don't have any evidence against me or my teammates. Your security camera's destroyed. Not to mention the many witnesses who can tell the judge about your failure to do anything during a crisis. Well you kind of pissed me off by threatening me. Tell you what, you're going to tell me where that controller is and if I feel like it I won't slip this information to the authorities," Raven said. For a second she almost shuddered, she was using his tactics.
"Alright, t-the controls are behind that portrait. You just flip the s-switches down and the force field is gone," Mr. Geller said as Raven followed his instructions. She stared out the window and saw people flowing into the town.
"Now you're going to let me go free, right? That was our deal,"
"Actually Mr. Geller. I lied," Raven said as her eyes turned white. Telephone wires snapped out from the poles outside. The wires moved in through the window and wrapped itself around Herbert Geller. They weren't electrical but they worked as well as rope. As Raven walked up to him she dropped a portfolio a few feet away from him.
"There's all the evidence connection you to him. If you can get it, you're good to go. If you can't…well, we'll see what happens in court," Raven said walking out of the room. She ignored his cries for help, each time feeling like she should bolt in and actually destroy the evidence. Raven had no idea why she left him like that. For a moment she sounded like her father.
Robin's face met the ground once again. He struggled to get up before a boot smashed on to his back.
"I offered you a chance to become stronger," Slade said as Robin's memory flashed back to all the times he needed help from his mentor.
"You're pathetic. I could've given you everything, but you denied my offer. Impudent child-"
"Shut up!" Robin yelled as he managed to find the strength to knock his opponent off and send an onslaught of attacks at him. He grabbed his bo staff and slammed it at the side of Slade's stomach. Robin grabbed one of his arms and slamming him into one of Slade's own gears. Sirens echoed throughout the room as policemen stormed the room.
"Slade Wilson put your hands up you are under arrest for child abuse and conducting unauthorized cloning procedures," a middle aged man said as the entire crew aimed their guns at him. Slade glared as he was shoved into a wall then handcuffed.
"You okay son?" the commissioner asked helping Robin up. He was dripping with sweat and covered in bruises.
"I'll be alright. Is everyone else-?"
"We've brought a few medics along, several minor injuries but no casualties. It's amazing… how did you kids survive?" the commissioner asked as reporters stormed the building.
"I'm here with Richard Grayson, the ward of billionaire playboy Bruce Wayne. Now Richard how does it feel to be a hero?" a perky reporter asked shoving a microphone in his face. Camera flashes blurred his vision.
"Uh…good, though I'd have to add none of this would've been possible if it weren't for most of the kids at Juvenile Hall. Turns out that numerous experiments were being conducted on the residents. We have evidence to prove that," Robin replied, exhausted.
"Don't you people have any sanity? This child needs medical attention," the commissioner shouted angrily. Robin chuckled at the cowering newscast as he was lifted onto a stretcher.
One Week Later…
"Mom… I'm fine," Garfield Logan said as Rita Farr shook her head.
"You were almost killed. How could you possibly be-?"
"It's okay Rita. He's been through worse…I can tell," her husband, Steven Dayton said as Gar groaned.
"Can we get out of here quick? They're trying to feed meat to me. It's killing the animals!" Gar yelled as he stared at the tray near his bedside. He got off the bed, after stretching.
"I'm going to take a walk around. Just to see how the others are…is that okay Rita?" the shape shifter asked. Rita opened her mouth as Steve placed his hand on her shoulder. She reluctantly nodded.
"Isn't that dye supposed to come off by now?" Steve asked as Gar ran out of the room.
Most parents weren't allowed to see their children after a week in the hospital. After all it did take a while for the nurses and doctors to get back to the hospital. Not to mention security. Needless to say most parents attempted to reconcile with there children.
Raven walked barefooted across the corridor. Numerous amounts of parents/guardians were hugging their children. Trigon had his arms open, Raven just walked right past him. She didn't need him to look good for the press. It was just sick.
"Not much of the hugging type…but, it was nice working with you," Tara said with a smirk.
"Couldn't have said it any better myself. We're going back to Gotham right?" she asked.
"Unless something messes up my schedule, yeah, looks like your old man's warming up to some of those journalists. You got to admit, he might be a sleaze but a good actor," the blonde said.
"To be a crime lord, you'd have to be," Raven said looking at the television screen.
"Recently Mayor Herbert Gellar of Jump City was arrested his trial will take place on-"
She turned off the television screen then stared at the floor. Tara walked over and placed a hand on her shoulder.
"I destroyed that tape in the hidden security camera at City-"
"What hidden security camera? Where was it?" Raven asked cutting Tara off.
"Whoops. Man I have to stop doing that. It was a trade secret around the guys down under. Apparently no one informed Gellar about it when he took office," the geomancer said.
"You watched it…didn't you?" the empath said, guilt dripping from her tone.
"I…didn't think you had it in you. For a sec there I thought I wasn't watching Raven Roth. I thought it was her father," Tara said. Raven felt a vibe of regret flowing off her.
"Thank you. Thank you for giving me the truth… The future has much to hold. Either way, I'll let you know I'm not taking over the family business, no matter what happens," Raven said.
"…Want to sneak into the cafeteria and get some ice-cream?" Tara asked in a suddenly different tone, a perkier one, filled with excitement.
"I bet I could eat more than both of you combined," Cyborg said walking into the room.
"You're on," Tara said as they both darted past the double doors. Raven shook her head. Rough times will come ahead but for now…
"Better go stop those two before they stay a few more months in the hospital,"
On the other side of the hospital sat Richard Grayson. He lied in his bed, left arm in a cast.
"Aren't you going to give me a 'you did good speech'?" Robin asked. Silence followed his question.
"Right…for I second I forgot-"
"You're headstrong, unprofessional, and reckless. If you ever jeopardize yourself or your teammates again by running off half-cocked without a battle plan, I will personally see that you'll never patrol Gotham again. I want you to know that was one of the most stupid things you could ever do. However you miraculously came out alive…and I'm proud of you," Bruce replied as he grinned.
"I'm almost eighteen now. Does that mean I can drive the-"
"Don't push it," the billionaire said before a knocking was heard at the door.
"Friend Robin," Kory said coming in.
"Oh…many apologies, I was not aware that he had company," Kory said, about to leave.
"I was just about to leave," Bruce said, grinning on his way out.
"I am returning to Metropolis tomorrow and I heard about your return to Gotham soon. I came to bid you farewell and a safe trip home," Kory said sadly.
"Wait," Robin said scribbling a phone number and an email address on a piece of paper, "Just because this is over doesn't mean we still can't stay in contact. I hope your parents don't mind long distant calling,"
"I am sure we will manage. I shall contact you daily through the strange box-like device," Kory said as Robin began to wonder if she even knew how to use a computer.
"Koriand'r!"
"My k'norfka wishes for me to pack before my departure. Good-bye friend," she said sadly before turning towards the door. Robin got out of bed and walked up to her, limping.
"How you weren't expecting to leave with out a good-bye kiss," he said with a slight grin. Before he was able to do anything, Kory grabbed him by the shirt and kissed him.
SWOOSH
Three certain teens fell into the room. Raven just stood there.
"There's a reason why people don't lean on sliding doors anymore," Raven said.
"Beast boy, I told you not to press that. Whoa," Cyborg said after staring at the scene before him.
"Were you guys spying on us?" Robin asked after they parted.
"It's not spying…we were just eavesdropping," Gar said.
"God you're an idiot," Tara said shaking her head.
"What do you think about the new guy?" Cyborg asked pointing to the television screen.
"They've elected a new mayor already?" Gar asked.
"Mayor James Hall will be visiting Jump City Hospital today to thank our young heroes for their courageous efforts. This is Brenda Walker with Jump City News…"
"Should we leave believe before being attacked by reporters and stalked by fan clubs?" Tara chuckled.
"I have a fan club?" Gar asked looking through a nearby newspaper, "hey they posted some of my jokes up here, and most of these people think I'm funny,"
"Statistically, I suppose someone has to," Raven muttered sarcastically as Gar glared.
"The James Hall appears to be a glorious decision for the city-"
"Not exactly Starfire. Looks can be deceiving, but I checked his records. He used to be the captain of the police force in New York. He can't be all that bad," Cyborg said as Robin nodded, trying to get up again.
"Easy there big guy. Don't need you trying to get yourself killed again," Cyborg said.
"Uh, Raven a little help here?" Robin asked.
"I don't know, this could be another way of keeping you out of trouble for awhile," Raven replied.
"Rae give the guy a break. Slade's in jail, it's all good," Tara said to his defense, much to everyone's surprise. Raven healed several bruises and strains on his legs. She held her hand over his arm, a light blue glow flowed from it.
"You should be able to walk. As for that arm I've reduced it to a minor fracture," Raven said.
"I wasn't ever expecting to see my face on a newspaper…especially for something good actually," Tara said chuckling.
"Oh no…" Cyborg said in realization.
"What's wrong Cy?" Robin asked.
"Slade's in jail but the cops didn't get Blood," Cyborg said.
"Where ever he's escaped to he couldn't have gotten far," Raven stated.
"Dude it's beena week and he's just an old geezer," Gar said reassuringly.
"I don't know, something just gives me a bad feeling about this," the half robotic teen said.
"Well guys. You know how time flies. Come on Rae, Cy, BB lets go do that thing we were going to do," Tara said as Cyborg and Raven got the hint and began walking towards the door.
"What thing? I don't remember that- AHH AHH Ouch that hurts dude,"
Gar was cut off when Raven dragged him out by the ear. Cyborg stuck his head in the doorway one last time.
"We're going to be gone a long time…so that leaves you two alone for some time. Have fun you two," Cyborg said with a grin before pressing a button on the key pad closing the door.
"So…where were we?"
A.N. First off I'd like to say I'm really sorry for not updating in months. I had a lot to finish up on and I hope the ending of this chapter wasn't too bad. It was a bit rushed. I should have the epilogue up by tomorrow. For all you Rob/Star fans, the reason I kept you waiting for the kiss part is because, unlike some other authors, I like making it a bit morerealistic. A relationship takes time to develop. You don't know someone for a week and then start making out with them.