Chapter Three
--School Under Attack
Victoria waited until the security guards brought all the love sick girls back into the lunch room before she and Beast Boy walked out of the closet and back to the lobby where all the other titans were.
Beast Boy turned to Starfire, "Remind me next time never to go in there again."
She smiled, "You mean that heard of domestic girls running about the hallways were all after you?" Beast Boy nodded, "You're popular."
He rolled his eyes, "I hate it."
Victoria looked at her watch, "Bell's gonna ring, what are your next classes? I can show you towards them."
Everyone had the same class, Social Studies, except for Raven…who had to go to Phys. Ed.
"Just my luck," she said, glumly as she turned to go towards the direction Victoria told her the gymnasium was.
"So you all can come with me," Victoria said, "You picked a good week to come to school. We have all substitutes because of the teachers convention. All we'll be doing is watching movies and sitting around."
They all nodded and followed her just as the bell rang. They walked into the classroom and took their seats in the far back. Beast Boy sat hidden behind Cyborg's large body while sitting right next to Victoria, who was sitting in front of Robin and on the other side of her was Starfire.
The substitute got up in front of the class, "The teacher assigned you all to take notes or you'll get an F for this assignment."
She went over to the television and popped in the movie.
"She's bluffing, we never get Fs for not taking notes," Victoria said to the four titans. She handed them all a piece of paper, "But make pretend you taking notes just to be sure."
The titans nodded and went away, occasionally scribbling on the paper as if they were taking notes from the movie.
About forty minutes passed when a gothic kid walked into the room and sat down in front of Starfire. Victoria rolled her eyes, annoyed that the kid was sitting near them. But she realized why, she was sitting in his seat.
"It's doesn't matter," she muttered to herself, "I'll let him find another seat."
She felt someone tap her shoulder and she turned to face the gothic kid, "You're sitting in my seat," he said in almost a growl.
"So?"
The kid growled again.
"Honestly, Matt…you scare a lot of people with that idiotic growl of yours," she said sarcastically, turning back to her paper, "They think you're a friggon idiot obsessed with cats."
Matt leaned closer to her, "What did you say?"
She turned towards him, "I said…" she said, louder this time, catching the titans' attention, "…you're a friggon idiot who's obsessed with cats."
She could tell he was angered by this. He reached into his pocket and pulled out a small knob with little buttons on it. It pointed to a particular button near the top.
"You see this button?" he asked.
"Point?"
"I push it, it explodes a bomb that stands right outside this classroom."
Victoria rolled her eyes, "That's a lie…you always were a great liar."
"Who says I'm lying?"
"Who says you're not?" she said.
He shrugged, "I warned you," he pressed the button. For a split second Victoria was sure nothing was going to happen. But after the split second past, a loud snapping noise followed by a puff of smoke erupted through the room.
Victoria covered her mouth as the hot fumes of smoke entered her lungs. She closed her eyes to avoid the stinging. So…he wasn't lying. But how stupid was he to set off a bomb with everyone in the entire class watching?
The smoke slowly cleared and she could see Matt was gone. She felt a hand on her shoulder and she looked up to see Beast Boy.
"You okay?" he asked in a reassuring voice.
She nodded, "Go find Matt," she said, struggling to her feet.
Beast Boy nodded, taking out his communicator, "Raven," he said into it, "You better get over here now, a kid just exploded a bomb in the school."
"I'll be there in a second," came the voice from the communicator.
"Titans…go!"
Victoria saw the four titans run out of the door, which had been blown down from the blast. She quickly ran after them, stopping at the door frame to watch them run down the hallway towards two, shadowed figures.
She squinted through the small remains of smoke. She could tell one of the figures was Matt. But there was a taller one right next to him. His brad shoulders and muscular arms and legs showed that he wasn't a student, wasn't much a teacher either. So who was this man?
She quickly took off in the opposite direction. She would come up behind Matt and the other figure and find out who he was on the other side of the hallway. She would be told to go back if she got close, most likely from Beast Boy.
She rounded the hallway until she met up to the back, seeing the two figures. One of them was Matt, yes, now she knew for sure. But she was shocked to find out who the other person was. Just by the back of his head, she knew. It was Slade.
She bit her bottom lip, pumped and ready to fight. She snuck up behind Slade ever so quietly and planted a strong kick to his back, making him fall over.
"Victoria…get out of here!" she heard Beast Boy say. She ignored him.
Slade slowly got up from the ground, turning around to face Victoria, "I congratulate you," he said in his low, mysterious voice, "Not many can sneak up behind me and have enough strength to make me fall to the knee."
Victoria smiled, "Consider it my best trick, I live for sneaking up behind people."
Slade smiled behind his mask and pointed towards her, "Apprentice, take her."
Matt slowly stepped forward. Victoria gasped…he was Slade's apprentice?
He cracked his knuckles, "I'm sorry, Victoria. But I'm afraid today's the day you get hurt very badly."
"It's you who will get hurt."
Matt chuckled a little and attempted to kick her in the stomach. But, reacting at his sudden movement, she grabbed his ankle with both hands, stopping the kick, then tilting his leg upwards, making him fall backwards. He rubbed his back, wincing in pain.
"You'll pay…" he said fiercely, growling.
There's goes that stupid growl of his again.
She kicked his side, making him flop sideways.
"Fool, apprentice…get her!"
Matt rubbed his side, in too much pain to move. She must have cracked his ribs with that powerful kick of hers.
"I-I can't…" Matt said, trying his best to get up.
Slade rolled his dark eyes, "Fool, you let a girl beat you?" he hissed in anger, "Fine, we'll be back…sooner or later."
He took out a pebble from his pocket and threw it to the ground, smashing it. The pebble burst into a huge puff a smoke. The titans shielded their eyes, avoiding smoke. When the smoke cleared, Matt and Slade was gone.
Robin walked up to Victoria, "I can't believe how fast you were," he said, "You were awesome, I mean…so quick…what's your secret?"
She shrugged, "I…sorta become stronger when I'm in the heat."
Robin gave her a weird look, "But it's air conditioned in here."
She showed him her sleeve, letting him feel the jacket she was wearing, "I made it myself, it traps heat, allowing me to become stronger."
He felt the thick texture to the jacket, "Impressive, we could use someone as fast as you on the team."
"Of course, my sister's faster, you can have her…she's twenty."
Robin laughed, "But not a teen, therefore she can't be a Teen Titan," he said, smiling. He took out a spare communicator, "What do you say?"
Beast Boy placed a hand on her shoulder, "We really do need someone like you, please join." Please say yes…please say yes…
Victoria shrugged, taking the communicator, "Sure, why not?"
Starfire's smile turned wide with joy, "Hello, new friend," ran to give Victoria a death defying hug, squeezing her, almost crushing her ribs.
"Jeez…Stafire…you think you could…loosen up a bit?"
Starfire giggled nervously and let go of her.
"You'll get used to it," Raven said glumly, "Now, if you will all stop fooling around…yes, wow, we have a new member…my acute hearing is picking up the ticking of bombs and judging by how fast they're going, we only have two minutes until they go off."
"Evacuate all students and teachers, now!" Victoria said, "There's bombs all over the place in the school, we'll be blown to shreds."
Starfire and Cyborg nodded and ran off to get the people out of the school while Raven, Robin, and Beast Boy went out to find the bombs, hoping they can deactivate some. Beast Boy placed both hands on Victoria's shoulders.
"You should go with Star and Cy too," he said, "I don't want to see you go down with the school."
She smiled and nodded, "Okay," and then turned towards the doors leading out to the back lawn of the school, not even realizing she had dropped her communicator on the way.
A/N-You like yet? It's getting good, I think. I think I'll put in at least three more chapters before the whole Terra thing kicks in.
Yes, Matt's gonna go up against Victoria again. No, when she becomes Slade's apprentice, he won't be apart of the team yet. It's either he'll be dead or just banished.
Hope you like it. The next chapter is called Abduction, I think you can come up with a slight idea on what it's gonna be about.
I'll update soon.
R&R please!
