Chapter-21 Whispers Of The Mind--Part Three Of Three

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As of now, Raven and Kyd Wykkyd had been successful in stopping the other four boys in their group- Gizmo, BB, Cyborg, and Mammoth from seemingly killing one another.

But, on the bad side of things, they were totally lost, and had no idea as to where the hell they were going.

As of now, Raven thought I'd be a rather convenient time to pay a little visit to Mammoth's mind; just to do it before the argument heated up again.

"Hmm, this oughta be good." Raven thought drolly to herself as she focused her hands on Mammoth's head; but not before telling Wykkyd to carry her, so she'd not be left behind while her soul was in the depths of the brute's mind.

As Raven climbed onto Wykkyd's back, she made her descent, and her body collapsed in a lithe position; her head on Wykkyd's shoulder.

Inside Mammoth's mind, there weren't to many current voiced thoughts that interested her, as they were mostly about the argument that had taken place only moments ago. No juicy confessions like Cy and Gizmo's.

However, she did find the thoughts of Mammoth's past quite interesting.

"Hmm, I didn't know the big guy was from Australia." Spirit Raven thought to herself as she stood back to watch the visions in Mammoth's head.

As of now, she saw visions of a younger Mammoth, sitting on a swing-set alongside a little red headed girl, Shimmer; (Selinda) his younger sister.

While this chain of memoirs seemed quite happy, the next few were Mammoth's bad childhood memories.

One of the visions showed Mammoth and Shimmer standing alone in a vast schoolyard while most all of the other children had friends to play with, and as Raven recalled, there was also name calling being passed around by the other children.

"Hmm, I can see where he's coming from. But, it must've been so hard for them; being the only kids with powers in a school of hundreds of normal people." Spirit Raven said to herself sympathetically, as yet another vision took that one's place.

This time, there was no bright, sunny schoolyard; but this time, there was nothing but a young Shimmer, standing merrily before huge towers of blazing inferno.

And a younger version of Mammoth chasing down all of the schoolmates who'd caused them so much pain.

"Now I see it. He really did have his reasons for becoming a villain, didn't he?" Spirit Raven said again, as the next vision revealed Mammoth and Shimmer standing with their two frightened parents as enraged townspeople cornered them.

Later on, only about four seconds later, spirit Raven found another vision, with Mammoth, his sister, and his father standing in the lobby of an airport, as a thin woman in a white lab coat approached them. (In the comics, this is how Mammoth and Shimmer's real past was, and the scientific lady I just talked about was Dr. Helga Jace, for those who don't know.)

Afterwards, it showed Mammoth and Shimmer fighting alongside one another, obviously many years later, when a strange looking man with a transparent skull (Psimon) transformed Mammoth's sister into a sheet of glass, and shattered her into pieces.

"Oh my god...on top of being picked on, and being chased away from his home, his sister was killed? Damn, no wonder Mammoth gets so furious during fights." Spirit Raven said as she closed her eyes, and decided to leap back into her own body.

Back on the outside world, Raven's lifeless body, still propped on Wykkyd's back, suddenly sprang back to life, Mammoth's did as well.

"Wha-what happened?" The brute asked as he rubbed his head and ran ahead to catch up with his group.

As Wykkyd gently let Raven slide down from his back, he noticed a slight blush forming on her pale cheeks; and on his as well.

"So, anything interesting in the big guy's head?" Wykkyd asked in a whisper as Raven shrugged, removed her hood, and turned back to him.

"Yeah, kinda. But out of all three of them, there are shadows. You know, the bad points in their lives that actually caused them to take up a villainous or heroic lifestyle." Raven started off as Wykkyd nodded.

"Yeah, I kinda figured you'd find those things in Mammoth and Gizmo's heads." Kyd Wykkyd said, as he looked to his friends up ahead forlornly.

Raven instantly noticed the unsettled look on his face.

"Wykkyd, what's the matter?" Raven asked as the pale boy turned to her.

"Well, it's just…I-well, I never thought for one minute, that I'd ever meet a hero who was willing enough to get to know and understand the lives of her enemies." Wykkyd said with a smile as Raven's trademark frown suddenly curved upward, though briefly. (Of course.)

Back in the mansion…..(I know, ya'll are probably getting really really tired of me saying this! Tee-Hee! .)

As Ammoraye watched the group walking along the trail, a thin smile began to form within her thick layers of black lipstick.

"Hmm, it seems, we have ourselves a winner. If only the other members of the group could learn to act like that; then maybe, they'd not be in this predicament. And I have just the way to solve it." Mistress Ammoraye said; her monotone voice full of malice as she hit a small red button on one of the control panels.

Back in the woods…..

While Ammoraye sat back upstairs in her mansion, the tired groups continued their monotonous walk through the thick forest; when BB suddenly paused in his tracks. As if sensing something ahead. Or even closer.

"Beast Boy, what's wrong? You see anything?" Cyborg asked as he looked to his green friend who nodded once.

"Close, I don't see anyone else, but I hear something." BB said as he transformed himself into a bird and flew into the thick patches of trees and brush to the right of the group.

As he transformed back, he found himself standing next to a half intact bridge, right above a rushing current of sheer doom. (Perfect…Tee-Hee!)

BB groaned in disappointment.

That may be their only way to getting out, and it was totally trashed. However, he figured he'd let their group give it a try anyway.

"You alright in there BB?" Cy's voice thundered from back across the brush.

"Yeah! Hey! Everyone come here! I found something!" BB called as the group crawled through the dead, thistly brush, while voicing their pissed off-ness. .

"Whoa." Was all Raven had to say as she looked over to the bridge, and then at all of the other members of the group, who also looked quite frightened.

"Well, uh, okay, who wants to go first?" Mammoth asked, immediately drawing himself out from being the bridge's safety tester.

(NOTE!-Okay, this isn't one of those little cheap-o rope bridges you see hanging from cliffs in action movies, okay? This is just a normal, wooden bridge, but it's all crappy, and most of the support and stair boards have been removed. Just thought I'd let ya know! .)

As Wykkyd looked around to the others, he finally sighed angrily, and stepped forward. (Oh no! Not KW! WAHHH! We barely knew yee…)

As Kyd Wykkyd stepped forward, he lifted up his cape, and then wrapped it back around his body, and teleporting himself to the other side triumphantly.

"Uh, yeah, that's great…Now get your ass back over here and bring us this time!" Mammoth's bass voice thundered from twenty feet across the bridge while the others nodded in unison.

"Okay, okay." Wykkyd said, wrapping his cape around his body…But something was wrong. Ammoraye had done something to mess with their powers.

Once they got to the other side…They couldn't use their powers to get back.

"Uh, guys? There's a problem! My powers aren't working! So once we're over here, we can't get back!" Wykkyd called as everyone's eyes went wide.

"Oh…SHIT!" Cyborg cried out, getting more and more frustrated as the horrendous journey dragged on.

With that, Raven sighed, and reluctantly pulled BB into her cloak, and transported them over to the other side.

"Uh Rae, any chance you could do that aga-DOH!" BB cried out as Raven gave him a swift slap upside the head, while she eyed the remaining three on the other side worriedly.

"Uh, heh, heh; I'll take that as a no." BB replied sheepishly, as he too turned his attention to his other teammates.

"Agh! I can't take it anymore! I'm goin' over!" Mammoth blurted out as he charged towards the bridge, jumping over all of the broken spots, but knocking down about four more boards.

"Oh great." Cy mused as he looked over to the last member he was left with, and the large gaping holes in the bridge; could things be any worse!... I should say yes! .

Cyborg then looked down to Gizmo, and sighed.

"Alright, we're gonna have to cross over at the same time. 'Cause if I go first, and the thing goes down, you're screwed, but if we both run it at the same time, well, let's just say there's a better chance of us living." Cy finished as Gizmo jolted back, wide eyed.

"Okay, here it goes." Cy breathed as he and Gizmo reluctantly began to run towards the end… but this is where the 'could it be any worse?' jinx comes in.

As the two ran on, and only mere feet to go until the end, Cy's large metallic foot hit one of the rather thin support boards near the main ones.

The four members on the other side began to gasp frightfully as the bridge began to shake violently, and more cracking sounds were heard.

"Oh damn! Hang on!" Cyborg called out to Gizmo as the bridge finally collapsed, sending both of them into the rushing water below.

Back in the mansion…

As of now, Ammoraye was watching what had happened to Cyborg and Gizmo, and chuckling at the teary, grieving looks on the faces of the four remaining members.

"Hmm, hmm, hmm. Poor, poor children. When will you learn, you cannot defeat me so easily." Ammoraye said as her servant, Hirra; (God, haven't seen her in here for a long time! .) walked into the room, an unsettled look on her face.

"Mistress, do you not think you are going too far with this? I mean, innocent children are getting hurt, and those two careening down that waterway; they could be killed!" Hirra cried out as Ammoraye turned back slightly, so the corner of her black, aura-like eye was facing her.

"Hirra, tis not your place to tell me what I can, and cannot do. The scrolls may have been destroyed in the Phortik home, but you are still bound to me; and they are still lost." Ammoraye ended coolly as Hirra's look hardened.

She knew what she was going to do…When her Mistress, least expected it.

Back in the woods…

"Oh man…Oh God…Oh Jesus." BB said to himself repeatedly as he and the others gazed downward into the rushing current at least twelve feet below them.

"H-h-how? How, and wh-why? Why did this have to happen to them?" Wykkyd stuttered, holding back a medley of emotions as they all backed away from the cliff's haunting edge.

"C'mon, let's just get moving." Mammoth bellowed coldly as the three others sighed as they followed him in a monotonous walk.

But little did they know, that their beloved friends were not dead. Indeed, they had survived the fall, and the rushing waters. However, they didn't escape entirely unscathed.

About a mile or less down the river, Cyborg and Gizmo had washed up on a small, fertile bank beneath a smaller section of the cliffside.

As his vision slowly returned to him, Cyborg sat up on the muddy shore, and looked around.

He saw the now much calmer waters, the forest, and the cliffs above him.

But it was the one thing he didn't see that bothered him; Gizmo was nowhere to be seen. Even though Cyborg was his sworn rival, he was actually getting worried about him.

How did he know this?... well, his mind just started churning out totally random crap, that's how! . (Tee-Hee!)

"Is he nearby?...Is he dead already?...Did he wash up somewhere further up?" Cyborg thought to himself as he wandered through the brush on the shore, when he heard a crunching sound from down below.

The kind of sound you hear when you step on/ crack glass… Or, the lenses on a pair of goggles.

As Cy looked down and moved his foot back. To his horror, there, beside his large right foot, was a cracked and battered pair of green goggles. Cy's eyes went wide as he picked them up, and looked around frantically.

Cyborg then took off running.

About two hours later, he came to another section of the river, a much clearer and shallower side.

There were many rocks of varied sized poking up from out of the water; and that was where Cyborg found Gizmo's weakened body.

As the half robotic teen walked over to one of the smaller rocks a few feet away from shore, he found Gizmo unconscious, laying hunched over on one of the rocks.

From what he could see, parts of his tech suit were torn up/ off, and there were many scratches and bruises on his pale skin. And probably the most sickening thing he found was Gizmo's right arm; which was currently swollen and bent out of place.

As Cyborg jumped into the cold water, he quickly scooped Gizmo's body up and out of the water, and laid him on shore.

As he put a hand to Gizmo's neck, he could definitely feel he still had a pulse, he was still alive.

Cyborg sighed heavily and began to lightly shake Gizmo's left shoulder.

"Giz, Gizmo, wake up." Cy said with no avail, but just then, the smaller boy's eyes began to open.

"H-huh?" The small child moaned as he looked over to where Cyborg was sitting, and smiling saucily.

"Wha-what happen-OW!" Gizmo shrieked as he tried to move his right arm from the ground.

"Agh! Crud! What happened?" Gizmo screamed, tears rushing down his face as Cy looked into one of his compartments and pulled out a small first aid kit.

"Damn! I'm surprised that Ammoraye lady didn't take this too." Cyborg thought to himself as he took out some gauze bandages and wrapped them tightly around Gizmo's broken arm.

"Alright, I warn ya, this is probably, well, it's really gonna hurt." Cyborg said as Gizmo backed up slightly, and Cyborg bent Gizmo's right arm back up into a leaned position, and made a makeshift sling from some of the thicker gauze wraps he had available.

Gizmo then looked down at his (almost/ temporarily) repaired arm, and then back up to Cyborg.

"Uh, thanks." Was all Gizmo could muster as his foe/teammate picked him up in his arms.

"Whoa! What're you doing, crud head?" Gizmo asked as he tilted his head upward slightly.

"Well if you wanna walk with cuts, bruises, and a broken arm, then okay, be my guest!" Cyborg said as he dropped and caught Gizmo quickly.

"That wasn't funny." Gizmo said vainly as he gave a chuckling Cyborg a dirty look.

"Alright, let's just go. It's almost dark, and I'm pissed off about this enough as it is." Cyborg said to the child, who chuckled in reply as they continued on their already tedious journey.

AN TIME! . WHOO!- Okay! Yay! See? I told ya'll I'd give you a longer chappie eventually! . Thanks for all ur support through this fic! Luv ya! Sadly tho, there's probably only gonna be maybe five more chappies left until this ifc is over, then you'll need 2 find more fics 2 occupy yourselves! WAHHHHH! (Tears!) However, if we're lucky, there may be more chappies than that AND!... I spoke with WWMTgirl, and there may very well be a sequel to my fic 'Gizmo's Birthday!' WHOO! Anywho, I'll update soon! If you review…NOW! .