Voila! Here it is, the last part of Losing Another! Next up, the ever exciting Controlled Part 1! Imagine how that's gunna look when I update lol Controlled Part 1 Pt 1 lmao anywho, I thank Bert the Nomad and Heathen Requiem for being my favourite and only reviewers - And thank you to my friend Harley for her return XD WELCOME BACK!
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The sun had set long ago, and Sparky's call had been ignored for over an hour. But no one noticed, especially the two figures on the abandoned roller coaster. Beast Babe screamed happily as the coaster cars rounded a sharp turn and headed for the biggest drop Terrance had ever seen. He gripped the handlebars tightly as Beast Babe threw her hands – and hair - into the air and closed her eyes, her screams echoing off of the empty theme park. He looked over, his eyes watering from air rushing into them, and gazed in amazement at the girl beside him, enjoying the night like there was no tomorrow. But then again… Terrance breathed a large sigh of relief. Feeling a little dazed, he dragged Beast Babe over to the nearest bench where she hopped onto the top while he sat on the seat itself.
'Woo! Yeah! This place kicks ass!' she cheered as she punched the air, and Terrance looked up into the dark abyss called the sky.
'I used to come here a lot when I was looking for Terra. I used to stay in the House of Mirrors over there because I kinda felt safe, surrounded by so many people who looked like me. Sometimes I'd pretend it was Terra, seeing as we're twins. This place is pretty much the closest thing I've ever had to an actual home,' he said as his eyes wandered over to his 'old room', and Beast Babe punched his shoulder playfully.
'Oh you silly, you so got a home: our tower,' she said happilly, and he frowned sadly, his shoulders slumping.
'Yeah, sorry, you're right. So, there's bumper cars over there if you wanna ride them now, or –' But before he could finish, Beast Babe interrupted with a worried look.
'Hey Terrance, are you feeling okay?' she asked, and he realized how miserable he was looking.
'Hell yeah I am, why in the –'
'Well, you look so sad, while I'm having fun. And I want you to have fun too, seeing as this is, well, our date, but if you're not, then well –' Now it was Terrance's turn to interrupt, a smile on his face.
'Beast Babe you're such a dumbass,' he laughed, and punched her in the shoulder to get her back. 'There's no way on earth that I could have more fun alone then when I'm with you! You are the definition of fun to me! C'mon, enough small talk. Let's ride these rides before someone else does.' He reached for her hand, entwining his fingers with hers, and thy headed for the bumper cars, big smiles on their faces. Terrance raced her to the cars and jumped in the yellow one, driving away before she could even do up her seatbelt. They laughed as they chased after a while before Terrance disappeared. Beast Babe stopped and looked for him, but as her eyes scanned behind her, Terrance zoomed up in front of her, slamming the machine right into her. Her car went zooming as he raised his fists in triumph, laughing at her defeat.
As she stepped woozily out of the dented car Terrance raced over and pulled her over to the Tilt-A-Whirl, and by the time they got there she was feeling better and was smiling again. They jumped onto the ride and strapped themselves in quickly before Terrance used a rock to start it. It began spinning slowly, but it quickly increased as Terrance raised his fists again, enjoying ever second of holding out longer than Beast Babe, who was drooling like crazy, absolutely stunned, her arms flying off to the side. But it didn't last for long as the ride got a little too fast, causing the celebrating Terrance to quickly become sick. The ride ended just as Terrance pressed his gloved hands hard against his mouth to keep from getting sick all over.
Wobbling over, Beast Babe smiling stupidly at her own triumph, Terrance was just able to reach the nearest trashcan before things got a little too messy. 'Holy shit,' was all he had time to say before it was Beast Babe's turn to choose what was next. To his surprise, it was a photo booth. Beast Babe pulled him in and came up close to the camera, expecting Terrance to do the same, but before the flash went off he dropped back to leave her alone with a wicked smile on his face, her face covered with confusion instead of a smile. Terrance came closer and tapped her. She looked to see him flexing his muscles impressively for the camera. Laughing, she pulls on a strained face to mimic him just before the flash.
Next picture: Beast Babe was somehow able to arrange herself in such a position that she was able to hang upside down. Terrance, who remained on the floor, laughed as her hair fell messily over her face.
Next: Terrance, still laughing, positioned himself in the same manner as she did and grinned empty-mindedly as Beast Babe faked picking her nose behind him, her hair now messed up.
Next: Beast Babe took one look at Terrance enjoying himself so much that she turned into a small and adorable kitten and jumped into his arms. Terrance, without thinking, then wrapped his arms around her and pressed his face against her soft fur.
Next: Beast Babe decided that it would be funny to change again. Grinning, she transformed her head into one resembling a mix of Frankenstein and Mr. Hyde, scaring the shit out of Terrance, who cowered long enough to get it caught on camera.
Next: Terrance, completely furious, shot an uppercut at his date before he could react properly, sending the poor girl flying out of view, a bit of her legs and shoes still visible in the photo.
Next: Terrance, close to tears about what he had done, was comforting Beast Babe as best as he could, her face all ruined and her eyes opened widely, the shock still there.
Next: Terrance slung his arm around Beast Babe, his face covered with a forced smile to make up for what he had done, but Beast Babe didn't seem to mind now that he was holding her.
Last: for their last photo, Terrance began screaming dementedly at the camera, Beast Babe – who had miraculously healed – followed suit, razor sharp fangs making her seem rather fierce. As soon as their pictures slid into the receiver's slot, Terrance began laughing like crazy, his mood lifted greatly. Beast Babe blushed slightly as she laughed with him, and noticed that she had just enough for one last picture. She slipped the coin into the slot and turned to Terrance, a plan in her mind, but it backfired as Terrance turned to her, having noticed the readying camera, and placed a kiss on her cheek, and the camera flashed. Terrance hurried out of the booth to gather up all of their pictures, laughing extremely hard when he seen the look on Beast Babe's face when he surprised her. She stepped out of the booth after him, all happy and giddy, not caring how silly she looked; she had just gotten a kiss! And there was proof! Squeaking and wobbling around, Terrance grabbed her arm and brought her to the last place she would want to go at a time like this: The House of Horrors.
He excitedly pushed her into the first car and started up the ride himself, jumping in and throwing down the handlebar just before it traveled through the graveyard background painted doors, and by then Beast Babe had realized where she was and was now trying desperately to get off. To keep her in her seat Terrance held her hand tightly, and she smiled weakly and tried not to scream as they passed through a dark spot. When they reentered back into the light Beast Babe was now glancing around cautiously for anything that they passed. Looking to the right, a band of ghosts suddenly popped up right in front of her face, causing her to scream like mad while Terrance held back laughter. She then looked to her left to find that a bunch of spiders and cobwebs had dropped down in front of the laughing Terrance's face, but instead of laughing she screamed immensely, her eyes almost popping out of her head. Now full of fear, Beast Babe looked forward just in time to be greeted by several zombie people right in front of the car. She screamed while Terrance cheered, stopping to laugh at her expense. Her mind shaken by the cheap horrors, Beast Babe sat woozily in her seat before leaning over onto Terrance's shoulder, a thin line of drool escaping from her mouth. Terrance stopped laughing and looked down at his date, his face turning a little red; he hadn't expected her to do that next!
They finished the rest of the ride in an awkward silence. As soon as it was over Beast Babe – who had been very happy to be back outside and away from the 'monsters' – led her date over to something she had always wanted to do: Ball Toss. She picked up a baseball and chucked it with all her might at the small tower of cans and knocked it successfully over. If there had been someone working there, she would've just won that big teddy bear in the corner. Terrance, with a playful vengeance in his eyes, picked up his own baseball and threw it as hard as it could, only to have the damn thing hover in the air for a moment then drop to the ground. His eyes wide in confusion and stupidity, Beast Babe stopped praising herself for her victory long enough to pick up another baseball and chuck it at Terrance's pile, where it hit dead on and scattered the cars every which way. Impressed by her throwing arm, Terrance wrapped his arms around her neck as a reward, nearly squeezing the life out of her. Letting go of her, she took one look at his sorry face and they began laughing again.
They walked away from the booth and headed for the last ride in the park, but Terrance had one more trick up his sleeve, and he didn't want it to go to waste. As they walked he flicked a rock over to a bunch of fireworks and lit them with his the flicked rock and they zoomed up high into the air above them, lighting their faces with several bright colours. Walking side by side, Terrance watched Beast Babe as she watched the fireworks, and before he could stop himself he laced his arm in with hers, sending unsuspecting chills down her spine. She looked over happily as he smiled and closed his eyes; everything was going so well, and now it was time to wrap it up with the Big Wheel itself, the ferris wheel. They scooted into number three, Terrance by the fence-covered window for safety, and he started it up, the compartment taking them up so high that he could see everything from it. Everything, including the tower, which looked pretty bashed up. His happiness faded away as he remembered what he was supposed to be doing, and he wondered if his friends were still alive or not. He was so wrapped up in his thoughts that he didn't even notice Beast Babe slide in close beside him.
'So, Terrance, what made you go anyway?' she asked unexpectedly, and he panicked. Go where? What was she talking about? Did she know? How did she find out?
'What'd you say?' he asked instead, and she winked at him.
'You silly, go here, with me. What made you change your mind about going out with me?' she asked again, and he breathed out in relief. 'I know; it was the ears I bet. No one can resist my sexy ears,' she teased, and wiggled her ears.
Terrance laughed, half-relieved, and half-anxious. 'It wasn't just your sexy ears. It was you. Everything about you. I just realized that I could've done a million things on my own in my room while listening to my favourite band, but I knew that I'd rather do a million things with you out here with my favourite girl.' Beast Babe beamed at his words.
'Well I guess I'm just lucky that I outfaved the music them huh?' she joked, and Terrance gave in to his troubled mind.
'Beast Babe, you can keep a secret right? A bad secret about me?' he wondered, and her eyes filled with worry.
'Of course. You know I can Terrance,' she replied curiously, and tried to gain eye contact with him, but he looked away.
'I know, but if you really cared about me, then I'd be able to tell you anything, anything at all.' Beast Babe was now full of worry. 'And you wouldn't even care how horrible it really was. And you, might even still like me?' Terrance glanced over to the person sitting beside him and seen that her face had changed; it was now showing a bit of secret understanding, like something like this had happened before.
'Terrance don't be dumb. Of course I'd still like you, no matter how horrible it really was. I'd never do anything to hurt you remember? I promise that I'll love you no matter what.' Terrance smiled for a moment then slowly leaned into her, gently pressing his lips against hers. They closed their eyes, kissing softly until it became a little more passionate. Terrance separated the space between their mouths and closed his eyes tightly, a strange new feeling rising heavily in his chest. Beast Babe wrapped her arms shakily around his neck, her hands gripping his back tightly. Terrance finally let his temptation overcome him as he lifted his arms from gripping the seat to her chest, his fingers struggling with the laces on her shirt. Beast Babe had just begun to undo his belt when they heard a noise. Parting quickly, Terrance looked over to see that Slade was sitting at the other end of their seat, his arms crossed casually. Beast Babe backed into Terrance and he held her tightly as Slade stood and headed towards them.
'Hello Terrance. I do believe that you remember me?' he asked, and they backed up as far as they could.
'Of course I remember you. Hope you enjoyed the show you sick bastard,' Terrance said shakily, and Beast Babe wondered why he was acting so afraid of him. Slade reached forwards and grabbed the frightened Beast Babe by the wrist, picked her up and threw her behind him, where she broke the door and fell through. Screaming, she reached for the floor of the compartment and clung to it with all her life. She was about 50 ft in the air, and if she were to fall…
'Slade tried to kill me, and now he's going for Terrance,' she said angrily to herself, and found the strength to pull herself back into the place.
'I have plans that aren't meant to be broken again. We had a deal, remember? So you think that just because you didn't want to lose you're girlfriend that you could just suddenly walk out of this?' Slade was saying to Terrance, who was scared out of his wits, and Beast Babe stepped threateningly up to Slade.
'Leave him alone!' she shouted, and transformed into a velociraptor. Roaring at their attackers, she pounced, pushing him back into the wall which broke as soon as they made contact with it. Terrance stepped up to the edge, his eyes wide with fear. This was the very thing he was trying to prevent, and now Slade was battling against Beast Babe for her life, and his promise. He had to stop it.
'Beast Babe!' he shouted as Slade pinned her down, and she struggled against his grip, caring only about him and not herself.
'Terrance, get out of here before he kills you too!' she shouted, and Slade barely turned towards him.
'Don't you dare move boy,' Slade commanded calmly, and Beast Babe moved violently to her side in an attempt to get free.
'Why are you doing this? Why are attacking only us?' she demanded angrily, and Slade smirked.
'Oh, so you're saying that the twin didn't tell you? Terra did the same thing with Beast Boy. And here I thought that you two "loved each other",' he sneered, and then flipped her over his head, sending her down over the roof of the compartment they had landed on. He jumped to his feet and was about to head back for Terrance when Beast Babe flew back into the air, her wings looking rather terrifying in the dim light. She pounced again, this time turning into a tiger, and waited for him to move as he pulled out his bostaff. She growled lowly, both of them circling the other until she attacked only to have her move blocked by the staff. Frustrated, she tried to break past the staff and hit him, but he swung the staff, knocking her back and off the roof. Terrance gasped as Beast Babe landed with a thud on the roof of his car. He looked back at Slade just in time to see him jump down too and swing at her, forcing her to back up. Terrance felt his breath get caught in his chest as she screamed and fell of the side, quickly clinging to the fence around the windows, her fingers scratched from the old rust.
She pulled herself back up as Slade looked down on her, and her anger was renewed. She changed again, becoming the fierce form of a gorilla. She roared ferociously and advanced on him, this time making him back up. She got ready to strike when Slade backed up so far that he actually fell off, but she realized that he had merely jumped to get away. Frowning, she jumped after him, chasing him from roof to roof, then onto the Big Wheel sign itself, then onto one of the higher up cars. Beast Babe lunged for Slade, her arms out to crush him when he jumped forward and caught her in the middle of her jump and brought her down in a tight headlock. 'He's been lying to you the whole time. He never even wanted to go out with you,' Slade told her cruelly, and she narrowed her eyes so much that it looked like they were closed. She threw her hands behind her large gorilla head and grabbed Slade by the shoulders, bringing him forward, and smashing him into the roof of the car. She screamed out as she threw him over like an old doll and just stood there, breathing heavily as Terrance rose up behind her on a large piece of the ground. His eyes were wide with fear and he had to continuously push his hair behind his ears.
'Beast Babe please, let's just get out of here and leave the bastard alone!' he pleaded, and she looked from him to Slade, who was standing on the roof of a rising car. She clenched her teeth in anger and jumped toward him, changing into an orangutan as she did, screaming furiously as she hit him. The pressure of her hitting him forced him back until he fell off the roof and once again landed on another, Beast Babe clawing at his face until he began to run, her following, extremely pissed off at how he ruined her big night with Terrance. She chased him for about 2 cars when he turned and punched her directly in the face, the blow causing her to change back to normal. Slade pinned her down, his left hand wrapped tightly around her neck, his right hand raised high and curling into a fist to do her in. Terrance raised the rock higher and seen Beast Babe struggle helplessly under Slade's grip, and he felt the fear rise in him.
'Terrance,' she moaned as Slade got ready, and he spread his arms out wide just like he did when they first met, a shout of stress drowning out all sound until the cracking of a fissure roared up and headed for the wheel.
'Beast Babe, fly now!' he yelled as he closed his eyes tightly, and Beast Babe smirked at Slade before turning into an extremely tiny bird and flying over to Terrance.
'Terrance, don't you dare!' Slade commanded, his eye wide with a bit of fear, and Terrance looked away and closed his eyes as the Big Wheel collapsed into the ground, sending up a tidal wave of dust, which engulfed him until there was nothing left. He kept his eyes closed, holding in his breath when he felt a soft grip grab his wrist and pull him down towards the ground, the dust staining their clothes and making them darker. Terrance opened his eyes as Beast Babe track raced across the fair grounds, Terrance's wrist tight in her hand. Her breathing was heavy and she was badly cut and bruised but she didn't care; she just wanted to hide, and what better place to hide than home? She took a sharp left and ran into the House of Mirrors with the frightened-looking Terrance behind her, and as soon as they rounded the first mirror-clad wall Slade stood in the doorway.
They walked in silence, Beast Babe's face showing seriousness, Terrance's showing worried fear. Every mirror they passed showed that Terrance was afraid, but Beast Babe just ignored the images and continued on until they reached the center of the place, the room being shaped like a circle with mirrors all around. She quickly reached into her pocket for her communicator, but when she didn't find it she turned to Terrance.
'Terrance, I – my communicator is missing! You have to lend me yours,' she demanded worriedly, and Terrance back away from her.
'I left it somewhere,' he replied, the sadness and regret catching up to him.
'Well, Slade's coming, and we're alone, so we've got to sneak away and get back to the tower as fast as we can. I can carry you if you –'
'Beast Babe, I'm not going back there. I can never go back there, ever,' he told her sadly, and dipped his head, his hair coming loose on both side as he did so, the right side falling over his eye.
'Terrance – why can't you go back? Of course you can come back,' Beast Babe stuttered confusedly, and hoped for Terrance to answer, but the voice that did was most definitely not his.
'He can't go back because he's no longer your friend little girl; he's my new apprentice,' Slade said, and his image reflected off of every mirror in the room until it was only him and her.
'Terrance?' Beast Babe asked the room, looking for him, but he disappeared, and she was scared. 'Terrance please! Help me!' But no response came back to her.
'The boy you've been with was never really there. You thought that he was on your side, helping you defeat me, when really he's been helping me out this entire time,' Slade said, and Beast Babe tried to fight back the tears by covering it up with anger.
'You're lying!' she screamed, and ran forward to smash the nearest reflection in the collar. It cracked every which way, but it was still there.
'He came to me.' Beast Babe punched the next one in the face. 'I helped him forget his sister so that he control those impressive family powers.' She elbowed the next one's face in. 'And then I sent him to erase your own T.' The next one's face she kicked. 'And he did it from the inside out, just as planned for the real titans.' She punched this one in the gut. Terrance was still no where to be seen, but as the last unbroken mirror remained Beast Babe sank to the floor, her knuckles split and bleeding worse than Terrance's had, and she bit her lip to keep from crying.
'No, I know that Terrance would never betray us.' Her eyes were closed tightly, her mind pleading with her to keep from believing all the 'lies' that she couldn't stop from hearing.
'Tonight, just as with the Titans, Terrance was to strike and take down everyone with the assistance of my commando robots, but instead he decided to take you out for your one and only date. At first that he was going to take you down himself and not bother to waste a few robots on you, but to my surprise he made the same mistake Terra did: he tried to save you. But, apart from this miner setback, he was ever so kind as to deactivate the pathetic security at your tower. Your friends, and his exfriends, are being destroyed as we speak.' Beast Babe bit her lip so hard that it bled, and she stood up, her eyes turning red from the blinked back tears.
'You mother fucking liar!' she screamed, and Terrance's voice reached her ears. She looked up to see him and Slade standing in front of a dark opening; the remains of a moved mirror.
'Beast Babe, stop. It's the truth; they're all dead,' he said, and she saw that he hadn't even bother to tuck his hair behind his ears; he had merely brushed it away.
'But Terrance… Why? Why did you do this to us?' she whimpered, and Slade crossed his arms.
'Because what you had to offer, wasn't enough. He needed more,' Slade said smugly, and Terrance looked away. Beast Babe caught the hidden message in his words and sprang forward in fury as a tiger. Slade flipped her towards the opening where she arched her back and growled. Hardly even caring, Slade pulled out a laser like the one his robots always carried and shot it at her, and she fell to her knees, then onto her stomach, knocked out cold. Slade stepped forward and readied the beam at such a degree that it would kill her, and she moaned softly, grabbing the floor. Terrance saw what was about to happen and he warmed up his powers.
'No Slade. I won't let you hurt her. I won't let you kill my friend,' he sneered, and Slade looked his way.
'Don't be silly dear boy. You no longer have any friends, remember?' This seemed to awaken Beast Babe for she stood, now as a bear, and clawed at Slade's masked face. He groaned and stumbled, Beast Babe slashing at every inch she could reach of him. Terrance watched in fear as she pushed Slade to the ground and pinned him down, fresh slash marks on his mask and chest. Now completely afraid, Terrance turned and ran, his hair flying over his face, his eyes darting behind him. He suddenly stopped in another room, one that was also filled with mirrored walls, and in these mirrors he seen a boy that looked just like him, only he was a mess. His clothes were covered in dust, his hair no longer shined, his eyes wide with fear of what he was looking at, as his top bangs feel partially over his right eye. Terrance backed away from his reflection only to find more, only this time there was another, and it was Terra. Her eyes were also wide with fear and her hair was falling over her face. Terrance spun around, looking from him to her, him to her, him, her, him, her, until the pressure crashed down on him. His knees buckling Terrance fell to the floor, one hand to keep him steady, one hand covering his face in sorrowed shame.
'Beast Babe, I'm just so sorry. I never meant to be like her, I never meant to be like him. I never meant for him to hurt us like this,' he said to himself, and Beast Babe walked over, sporting fresh cuts and marks.
'If you never meant it, then why did you let him?' she asked cruelly, and Terrance stood up, his hand on his head.
'I had to Beast Babe, I just had to. Slade, he said that if I gave him what he wanted, then he would help me control my powers. But then he asked for more. He wanted me to destroy you guys, but I didn't want to, I loved you guys so much. But then he said that he would show me Terra if I did so –' Beast Babe glared at him, her eyes cold and empty.
'So you sold us out, just so then you could see your sister? So you were just pretending that you wanted to be with me?' she snarled, and he could feel the coldness coming from her and chilling him to the bones.
'No, Beast Babe no. But look, you said that you'd love me no matter what remember? You said that you'd never hurt me? I thought that we were friends.' He extended his arm out to touch her, but she turned away from him, her eyes narrowed angrily, tears running down her cheeks.
'Slade was right Terrance. You no longer have any friends, remember?' Terrance backed away, his eyes as wide as they could go as he let the words sink in. It hurt so much, like she had stabbed him with a knife and not with her words.
'Apprentice, come here,' Slade said from behind him, and Terrance back away slowly. ' Thanks to her, we've had a little change in plans.' Terrance bowed his head for a moment, his hair now covering his eye completely, a look of betrayal and hurt on his face. But when he opened his eyes, his face was filled with hatred and disgust, his eyes now narrowed as Beast Babe's were. The two backed into the dark and left Beast Babe alone in the dim ceiling spotlight to cry to herself, and after a moment she fell to her knees and begged for death, for at the moment nothing felt worse than the pain she was feeling in her heart, the pain of a heart torn in two right before her eyes.
Terrance and Slade walked back to his lair in silence. Terrance no longer felt hurt from Beast Babe's actions, but instead wanted vengeance, and wanted her to feel ten times as worse physically. Slade knew that the robots would fail, seeing as the a team of four could stop them, when he now sent them against a team of six, extremely powerful teens, and he knew that the 'training' Terrance was put through that night would make him determined to finish off the titans himself. The same had worked for Terra, only this time, if something were to go wrong, he would have a backup plan, an emergency plan, to keep him from losing another apprentice. He then thought about their first actual encounter, and spoke.
'Did I not tell you that she would betray you Terrance?' he asked, and Terrance clenched his fists, his knuckles beginning to bleed again.
'Yeah, you did, and she's already got 2 strikes against her. This was the final straw. After what she did, I just wanna kill them all, kill her stupid team, kill my loser friends, break her fucking little green neck at my mercy,' he snarled, and Slade smiled hiddenly.
'That's my boy, you're doing better than Terra already,' Slade said, and Terrance smiled cruelly. That's just what he wanted.
Off by the barely standing Titans North tower, the sun was rising, marking a new day, but things would not start off well. Slade's robots were everywhere, their bodies broken and scattered in a heap or just scattered, but the team didn't mind. They didn't even care. Nothing mattered anymore; Terrance had betrayed them, and the news was still ringing in their ears.
'Well, I guess we did it. We beat them. We won,' Gypsie was saying as Crow helped heal her broken arm.
'I find it hard to believe. It does not feel like a victory,' Moonfire was saying as she nursed a sprained wrist and a broken heart – she had liked Terrance so much, and now he had done something like this to them, to her.
'I don't even need to say that I knew it. I sensed it as soon as he came back. I even remember going into his room and seeing his conversation on his laptop. But he had put up some sort of device that made me forget, but now I don't. That bastard sold us out to Slade. I knew we never should have trusted him,' Crow growled, and Craig coughed again. He had taken his friend's actions very personally, and thought that he only wanted to call him over because he wanted to destroy him with the girls. Dean, on the other hand, hadn't spoken yet at all. He was leaning in a corner, his hands covering his face. Even though he tried to act tough, this was defiantly the biggest thing that would ever cause him to act so weak. Moonfire had stopped crying long ago, although the tears never stopped coming. Gypsie wouldn't stop cursing at herself for playing the fool and giving Terrance all their codes in the first place. Crow was angry with herself for not stopping him before it was too late, but what was done was done, and Terrance was gone. Sparky seemed to be taking it the worst though aside from Beast Babe, who had not joined them in their little meeting in the main room.
'But we did trust him. All of us. I feel like such an idiot for not asking Robin about Terra sooner. I should've asked what was going on, and why she was never mentioned, but I didn't so I couldn't stop him. I'm sorry you guys, I've failed you as a leader, and as a friend.' Sparky hung her head low for the first time ever, and Moonfire walked over to comfort her best friend.
'Sparky, it just wasn't you who failed as a friend. Dean and me should've gone with him on his travels, kept him company, called, but we didn't. Maybe it's all our fault that he did this to you guys,' Craig offered, and Gypsie laughed rudely.
'He did it to you too you know,' she sneered, and Crow hushed her friend by poking her arm. 'What?'
'Let's just try and forget about this all right. Now Gypsie, how's everything going now?' Sparky knew that the others could tell that she was just trying to make conversation to drift away from their first team breakdown.
'I finally was able to gain access to the computer. I've reset all the security codes and encryption strings. There's now no possible way that anyone could break in again,' Gypsie reported, and Sparky began to calm down.
'Yes, and all of the surveillance technology Terrance left around the tower has been located and destroyed personally by me,' Moonfire said.
'Sure, that may help our tower, but it doesn't help us. Terrance gave Slade everything he needs to know about us, so if he were to attack again, he would use our flaws, our weakness, everything against us,' Crow observed, and Dean spoke.
'Who cares? It doesn't matter anymore. If Slade ever dares to attack again, then we'll be ready won't we,' he said, stealing the very words Sparky was about to say, and Gypsie looked towards the door, her eyes looking for what wasn't there.
'But what about Beast Babe?' she asked, and Sparky looked also.
'Will she be okay? I know that she has been hit the hardest with Terrance's attack,' Moonfire said miserably, and Sparky shook her head.
'Of course she'll be all right. She just needs a little time to be alone,' she said, and her words carried through the hallways, all the way to the locked door of a guy's room. His room was completely undamaged except for the torn bedsheet and shattered window. On the desk was a laptop, the top still open to the background of two small identical twins, and the box of CDs, posters and a shirt lay unopened. There was a ripped brownish glove next to the laptop with stains of blood around the knuckles, but if someone were to enter, they wouldn't be paying any attention to the desk, its components, the room's paintjob, or even the broken window. Their attention would have been drawn to the circular bed on the platform, where a green melancholy dog lay whimpering sadly. Beast Babe cried to herself as she curled up next to the picture of her and Terrance that had been taken way before that night, and wished that things could go back to the way they were, even though it was all a lie. And no matter how hard she tried to hate him, Beast Babe still couldn't help but wonder if Terrance still loved her as she slowly cried herself to sleep in his bedroom, the memories drowning her mind like a flood, her heart beating lonely, wishing for his to be by hers again.
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I know what it feels like to be lonely. But do not pity me if you were going to, simply review, because good reviews make me happy. What also makes me happy is when my readers enjoy the story so I hope that everyone enjoyed this update and I cannot wait to update for the next part! OOOHHHH evil Terrance and an apprentice outfit that took five differents designs and 5 months to design. Seriously, it took my 5 months. But just hang in there for you all shall know what the infamous apprentice suit looks like in a few days. Until then, farewell -
Tiff