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Slade
Slade walked through the halls of his secret hideout, however the masked villain was not just wandering, he was on his way to his apprentice's room. Artemis had picked a room at the other side of the facility, near the cells. When he reached the metal door, Slade lifted his fist and rapped on the door, after about five seconds the steel rectangle slid aside and a face peeked out.
"Yes master?" Artemis asked, as all apprentices should (in Slade's opinion).
"It is time for another session with our prisoner." Slade replied. "Are you prepared?"
"Yes." Artemis said, pulling out a short blade, as a smile crept across her face. "All ready."
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Five minutes later mentor and apprentice were standing outside the thick steel door that prevented Kid Flash from escaping.
Slade rested his palm against the hand-shaped indent in the wall and listened to the mechanisms in the wall whirred, recognising his hand. Then the edge of the print turned green and the door slid open.
Kid Flash was conscious, he stared at the two villains as they stepped into the room.
"Hello." Kid Flash spoke in a dull tone, the emotion in his voice was impossible to discern.
"Hello." Slade replied. Artemis only smiled. "Today my apprentice will be carrying out most of the torture, I will be watching and deciding whether she has learned enough from her lessons."
"So now I'm your little project?" Kid Flash asked through gritted teeth.
"In a nutshell." Slade smirked. "Artemis?"
"Ready." Artemis took the knife from earlier out from her belt. "Let's do this."
The blonde former hero stepped up to her injured ex-boyfriend, a large grin, which resembled the mask her sister wore, adorned her face. Without a word she plunged the knife into Kid Flash's arm, before dragging it down towards his hand, ignoring the scream of pain that issued from the red-headed hero's throat.
"Are you having fun?" Slade asked, wearing a grin that matched that of his apprentice.
"Are you asking him or me?" Artemis queried.
"Both."
"Well, I'm having fun, don't know about Wally here." The blonde girl said.
"Yes, you're sitting here torturing me, this is great fun!" Kid Flash said, despite being tortured and starved, he had not lost his sense of humour.
"That's the spirit!" Artemis smiled.
"Perhaps if this I so much fun our dear guest would like something else this enjoyable?" Slade's sarcasm was sickly sweet, enough to make anyone vomit, however Kid Flash had nothing left in his stomach.
"And what would that be?" Artemis asked.
"Take this." Slade said, handing Artemis a small, metal object.
Artemis smiled as she saw the device in her gloved hand. "Thanks."
With a sadistic smile on her face, Artemis pressed the button down on the weapon and pointed it at her prisoner. Instantly Kid Flash let out a pained yell as the electricity coursed through his body. Artemis released the switch, breaking the circuit in the device.
"A taser?" Kid Flash panted.
"Yes, a taser." Slade smiled. "I think that's enough though. Let's go back to the good old knives, shall we?"
"Or we could just put the weapons away and let me go?" Kid Flash asked.
The supervillains ignored him. "Sounds like a plan." Artemis smiled, reaching into her belt she pulled out a larger one than earlier and jammed into Kid Flash's shoulder, causing him to scream in pain.
"Aww, does that hurt?" Artemis asked, her voice sickly sweet. "Let me make it better." She lent down and, much to the shock of the two others in the room, crashed her lips against Kid Flash's.
Wally reacted instantly, trying to push Artemis off of him with all of his might, however he was weak from days of malnutrition and Artemis was strong from years of wielding a bow and Slade's strenuous training exercises. Artemis pushed the former sidekick down to the ground and forced her tongue into his mouth.
Slade gaped in shock behind his mask as his apprentice made out with his prisoner. This wasn't part of the plan! This couldn't happen!
"Apprentice!" Slade barked. "Stop this at once!"
Artemis most certainly did not want to 'stop this at once' but, Slade was her master, and an apprentice must obey her master. Reluctantly she released Kid Flash and stood up.
"Yes, Master." She said.
"Come!" Slade snapped. Like a faithful dog that had just been called off after it had begun chasing a cat, Artemis returned to her Master's side.
Mentor and apprentice left the small cell that held the super-powered sidekick.
"What was that?" Slade snarled at his blonde apprentice.
"I was meant to be torturing the prisoner, correct?" Artemis asked.
"Correct." Slade answered.
"Well isn't emotional torture a form of torture?"
"It is." Slade said.
"Well then I was torturing the prisoner." Artemis smirked.
"Do not be smart with me." Slade growled. "You were simply giving into your emotions, am I correct?"
"You are correct, Master." Artemis whimpered.
Just as Artemis said that, the lights went out, the blackout only lasted a few seconds, but a few seconds would be all that was needed for a speedster.
"What was that?" Artemis asked, panicked.
"One of the temporary EMP's must have gone off!" Slade said. "I knew they were unstable." He added to himself.
Artemis and Slade raced through the hallways of their hideout, trying to reach the holding cell, though they knew it would be futile, just as they suspected, when they reached Kid Flash's cell, it was empty.
A/N- Well, that's the end of the chapter, I'm really sorry for the long hiatus. I'll try my best to make sure it doesn't happen again. Anyways, see you next time! Don't forget to review, trust me, the main reason that I'm updating is because of the reviewers (and the fact that I'm on a ten-hour car trip). Bye Bye!
