At last, the first part of Controlled Part 1! I seriously hope everyone enjoys this one, seeing as this took so long to write. And be warned early: extreme nasty and mature content at the very end of Controlled. No, not this chapter, but the entire chapter in a whole. Blegh, I still can't believe I wrote that... Anywho, hugs and thanks to Harleen Quinzell, Heathen Requiem, and Bert the Nomad for being the best ever! And remember, reviews are happily accepted.
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Terrance stood in his new room, his old uniform discarded on his bed. He brushed his messy hair once before placing the metal hair clips above his ears just as Terra had. He pulled his sleeveless shirt, which was black on the right side and orange on the left, just like Slade's mask, over top of his Terra-like wrapped arms, then his pants, which cut off just above his knees over his wrapped lower legs. He placed the steel kneepads over his knees and the steel elbow pads over his elbows.
Over his shirt he secured the Slade-like steel neckpiece, then fastened the steel shoulder pads just over the corner of the collar. Over the front side of his upper legs he attached two leg guards, then pulled on his black gloves. Over his wrists and back of hands he locked on steel wristbands attached to steel protectors to cover his hands.
Lastly he stepped into his black shoes with steel ankle bands with two spaced out steel pieces over the top of his feet. He had steel toes on the end of his shoes, and the soles were just like his old hiking boots. On the front of his shoulder pads, kneepads, elbow pads, leg guards, and metal clips was the same small kneepad design that Slade had. On his shoulder pads and leg guards were two lines, one on top of the design, and one below.
To finish everything off he pulled on his belt, with was similar to the things Terra had on her hips, only there was a circular head attaching them together. This was his new outfit. Slade had been preparing it while Terrance was with the Titans North. He said that it was a combination of Terra's outfit and Robin's outfit; apparently he had been his apprentice once before.
Terrance looked into his mirror, his hair still pushed behind his ears, and with one furious shake of his head his bangs fell feel, the rights once falling over his right eye. He was ready to take on the Titans North now, seeing as he was now completely Slade's apprentice. He breathed in once before looking over at his old clothes, and with an angry yell he pounced, tearing the clothes to shreds.
He never wanted to think of the lie of a life that he had once lived, and every single piece of memory had to be destroyed. His face flushing, Terrance threw the remains into his trash can then lit them on fire with a small book of matches that he had found in his dresser drawer. He glared down on the flames as his old clothes disintegrated, and was sure to pour a glass of water on it before the fire seeped over the edge of the basket.
'I'm never going back to the way I was. Never,' he snarled at the ashes, and heard his Slade communicator beep. He clicked it open to find – of course – Slade's head looking at him.
'Apprentice, it's time,' Slade said simply, and Terrance nodded solemnly. He silently closed the device and tossed it onto his bed. He walked out of his room and into the main chamber where Slade was waiting patiently. He stood in the center, his head down, and Slade began to speak. 'In the past, you have had many doubts, made many mistakes because of them, but now it's all behind you, isn't it?'
Terrance looked up, his eyes opened. 'Yes,' he replied, and Slade continued.
'Now, you belong to me, just like your sister, don't you?' He gave Terrance a hard stare as he answered.
'I do.'
'For now on, from this day forward, you will serve me, and me only?' he asked seriously, and Terrance raised his hands in front of him to show he wasn't lying.
'I will.'
'Will you obey every command I give you?'
'I will.'
'Will you fight, unlike Terra, by my side, forever?' Slade brought his hand forward, his clenched over something. Terrance looked over as Slade opened his hand to reveal a circular disk with his S insignia on it. Terrance glared down on it, never before wanting to wear it outside of his lair, but now he wanted to show it off to the whole world. His eyes traveled from the disk to Slade, and seen that he was also glaring down on him. Terrance wasted no more time; he reached forward, grabbed the disk and attached it to the right side of his shirt, directly over his heart.
'I will,' he answered, and looked back up at Slade, waiting anxiously for his next request.
'And, without failure like your sister, will you destroy the Titan North?' Slade glance down at Terrance to find that he was grinning cruelly, just like Terra had on her first day.
'And here I thought that you'd never ask. It would be my pleasure,' Terrance answered, and narrowed his eyes. He could already imagine the fear on Beast Babe's face as he took her down.
Beast Babe sighed as she climbed unwillingly into Gypsie's car, which she made herself with her own powers. It had been almost a month since Terrance had betrayed them, but the shock was starting to wear off. Like Sparky said, all she needed was some time to be alone. Pretty soon she had started sleeping in her own bedroom instead of his, and began ditching the memories and photographs. Her friends never mentioned him, and as soon as the sun had reached its peak the day after the attack the team was already half down cleaning the tower. Gypsie kept on having fits at how all her hard work had been flushed down the drain, and Crow kept on cursing at how Slade's robots had even dared to set foot in her room, let alone trash it. Craig and Dean had taken the attack harder than any of them, harder than Moonfire, harder than Sparky, even harder than Beast Babe, seeing as he had been their friend, their best friend, and he had tried to kill them.
'Guys, I don't want to go to the mall,' she whined as Craig got in, then Moonfire, then Beast Babe, then Crow, then Dean. Sparky was in the front, with Gypsie driving.
'Beast Babe, you could use some time out of your room chick,' Gypsie said as they began driving, and she folded her arms.
'Well, if you're gunna force me to go, then I might as well enjoy myself. Crow, I'm gunna ask you some questions, and you gotta say yes to all of them. Got it?' Beast Babe asked excitedly, and Crow looked past Dean and out the window.
'No, I don't got it,' she replied monotonously, and Moonfire piped up.
'Oh, Beast Babe, may I partake in the game of questions?' she wondered, and Beast Babe turned her attention to her new contestant.
'Of course! Okay, first question: do you like Craig?'
'Of course. That must be the stupidest question that I have done the hearing of!' Moonfire exclaimed as she snuggled into Craig's arms.
'That was just number one. Number two: would you ever date a girl?' This one caught Moonfire by surprise. She thought about it for a second, then answered.
'If Craig was a girl, then yes,' she answered slyly, and Craig raised an eyebrow.
'If I was a girl?' he asked, and Sparky hushed him.
'Number three, if you had to date Sparky, would you?' Sparky stopped laughing up front, and even Crow cracked a smile.
'Uh…' Moonfire stuttered, and Beast Babe grinned evilly at her.
'You have to answer,' she edged, and Moonfire gulped.
'Uh… yes?' she murmured, and the car burst out in laughter.
'Ohmygod she had to say yes!' Gypsie laughed, and Sparky hit her arm.
'That so was not funny,' she growled, and Beast Babe shrugged kiddingly.
'You wanted me to come, remember?' Gypsie stopped the car at the red light of a stoplight, and high above them a 17-year-old villain looked down on them. The car got ready to move as the light turned green, and the villain shot a large boulder forward at the car. It hit its target dead on, sending it and its passengers tumbling a good 15 ft. It skidded to a stop on its tires, and Moonfire panicked. She lit up her starbolts and focussed the energy on her jammed door. The car became enveloped in bright blue power until there was enough energy to knock the door off cleanly. A few seconds later the engine blew, the hood of the car landing with a heavy thud 25 ft away. Craig stumbled out and helped Moonfire exit, her hand on her head. Dean warped out, Crow wrapped in his arms, and Beast Babe flopped out last. Sparky jumped out, furious at who had attacked, and Gypsie stepped out after carefully opening the door. It fell off as soon as her feet touched the ground. She looked forward, as did everyone else, save Craig, who was glaring down on his cut arm.
'Alright, now who the fuck did that?' he yelled, and Moonfire turned him towards where everyone else was looking. Beast Babe stepped forward, her eyes wide with shock.
'Terrance?' she asked, and he grinned. The wind from the car's impact carried clouds of dust around him, but everyone could still his him. See his uniform, his vengeance, his hatred. The wind stopped and his hair fell back into place as he spoke.
'Hey Beast Babe, hey guys. Did you all miss your favourite villain?' he asked, then, with a yell, brought his hands back behind his head and thrust them forward, taking a large step forward as he did so. Sparky was the first to move away as several sharp and pointed rocks zoomed their way. They destroyed everything in their path, from tearing up a bit of the road, to totally trashing Gypsie's car.
Terrance glared at the wreck for a moment before lifting the boulder he threw in the first place and dropped it onto the car, crushing what was left of it. He didn't even notice Beast Babe as her hiding place was taken away, didn't notice the confusion on her face as she stared at him for the longest time. Terrance stressed out as he broke the pavement around him, forming a not even close to be circular platform. It lifted into the air then flew forward towards the girls and two guys. Sparky dropped to the ground, her face curled into an annoyed frown.
'Titans North go!' she shouted, and the team advanced. Craig and Dean were now completely pissed; Terrance actually had the nerve to come back and fight them? Terrance, on the other hand, was as calm as calm could be. Without even moving he opened up the ground and sent the cracks towards the charging team. Sparky was running, and as soon as she seen the cracks she took to the air, but Terrance lifted the ground beneath her. A stone pillar raised up from under her feet and took her out, in the progress, taking Crow out as well.
Moonfire and Craig shot at him, but Terrance swerved to the side and replied with a large boulder. Craig flew in front of Moonfire to help but it was too strong; the large rock took them both out. Dean and Gypsie zapped at the rock, their powers combining, and the power broke a corner off the platform, causing Terrance to stumble. He regained balance and threw the piece of rock at the two, knocking the two out of commission. Beast Babe, being the last one standing, changed into an eagle and flew over. She changed back and clung onto the rim of the platform, Terrance glaring down on her as she did so. She groaned as she pulled herself up, and, her fingers almost digging into the rock, she looked him right in the eye, seeing as the right one was covered.
'Terrance, please stop! What are you even doing? We're all your friends for God's sake!' she said, and he leaned forward angrily.
'I no longer have any friends, remember?' he snarled, then brought his fist back, and brought it back in a sharp uppercut to her jaw. Beast Babe cried out as she fell back, her jaw feeling like she had just been stabbed there. She fell down, only to be caught just a few feet from the ground by Moonfire, who looked over at her 'girlfriendless exfriend'. Terrance smirked back at the two then flipped backwards off the rock, leaving it to float on its own, which it didn't do for very long.
The rock bounced over the knocked out Sparky, Terrance landing right after. He looked down on the leader, and carelessly lifted up two large boulders to crush her. The first one hovered over top of her as she started to sit up painfully, and Terrance got ready to drop it when the rock he had dropped on the car lifted into the air, surrounded by a white aura. Terrance looked over, his face full of surprise as Crow got ready to drop her own rock on her own victim.
'You know I can hurt you Bastard,' she swore, and Terrance smiled.
'You know I can hurt you Bitch,' he mocked, and threw back his hand. He broke Crow's grip on the rocks and chucked all three of them at her, his arm out in front of him. Crow grunted as the rocks pushed her back, and she desperately tried to cling onto the nearest thing, which was a lamppost. Her grip being too strong, Crow spun around the post several times as Craig ran up to her, and by the time she had let go and flew right into Craig, the pole had been worn down and bent over. Terrance laughed as he saw Crow crash into the arms of her friend, and didn't see Sparky run up to her.
She slapped his hand away and swung severely at his head as Gypsie and Dean joined the fight, and he pushed the two aside with as wave of rocks, then locked onto Sparky's arm and kicked her away with all his might. Sparky rolled backwards a few feet and got ready to charge again when a wall of pointed rocks flew up in front of her face. She backed away as Terrance lowered his arms back down to his sides, his hands in fists, and Sparky pulled out her own circular disk and implanted it on the wall. The middle flashed and beeped for a moment before it exploded, sending Terrance back and onto his side. Dean helped Gypsie up as Sparky looked in through the hole in the wall.
'Okay guys, now!' she signaled, and they got ready to do their double attack again as Terrance got up and to his feet, his body still close to the ground.
'I would say sorry, but you're an asshole,' Dean sneered, and Terrance gazed on with a simple smile. Then he moved quickly, jabbing his hand into the ground. Yellow power flared up around his fingers and into the pavement as a crack raced towards Sparky, and Gypsie and Dean. Two pillars of dirt forced the three into the air, where they saw the roofs of two buildings across from each other come dreadfully close. Sparky crashed through the roof of one as Gypsie and Dean crashed into the roof of another just as some guy in a desk was flirting with some girl in his apartment. The girl screeched and jumped into the guy's arms as Dean flattened the desk and Gypsie fell on him.
Down below Terrance stood properly and looked up to see where the three had landed. He laughed briefly as he seen the smoke rise from the holes in the roofs, then grinned as he laid eyes on Crow and Craig as the two tried to get up. He lifted the large rock that lay near them once again and moved it over to where the two were, and they looked up just as Terrance let it drop. Crow fearfully warmed up her powers to try and lift the rock back up, but she and Craig both knew that it was useless. They prepared for the impact when the rock suddenly stopped and rose away from them, a stressed groan reaching their ears.
Moonfire raised the rock high over her head as she glared at Terrance, giving Craig a chance to get away as Beast Babe helped up her friend. Moonfire's eyes were narrowed as Terrance glared back at her, and she threw the rock forward. Terrance raised his arms in front of him and used his powers to stop the rock before it smothered him, and he sent the rock flying back at her. Moonfire angrily warmed up her starbolts and shot them at the boulder, the pressure finally breaking it. Without giving him any time to move, she jumped forward, eye beams shooting from her eyes and nailing him right in the chest. The beams pushed him back and into the side of the rock wall Terrance had made, and he smashed through 3 pillars when he finally stopped, fell, and closed his eyes with a groan. Moonfire, her eyes smoking a little, flew over to her old friend and gasped.
'Terrance, I think I annihilated him,' she whispered, and Terrance opened his eyes, every corner of them filled with bright yellow power.
'You're such a stupid slut,' he said cruelly, and a jet of mud erupted beneath her. Moonfire cringed as it propelled her up, and cried out as it slammed her against the ground. Now the team was really pissed, but Terrance wasn't afraid. He stood up and dusted off his arms casually as Moonfire mouthed several rude things to him, and Sparky exited from the building she fell into. Gypsie and Dean left their own landing zone and they all warmed up their powers, their patience way past gone. Getting annoyed at their determination, Terrance stressed out his powers greatly, bringing his fists near the ground, then raising them to his sides as two monsters made of mud, rock and sewage pipe appeared from under the ground. The team let their powers turn off as the monsters stood in front of Terrance, who looked just as amazed as they were.
'Well, it looks like he's got some new tricks up his sleeve,' Crow said, her eyes wide as they examined the creatures, and Terrance turned away from them, looking at his hands.
'Holy shit, how did I -?' he started to ask himself when Slade interrupted on the little earphone in his ear.
'You didn't dear boy, it was me. I used this trick to help Terra, and help her it did. So I decided to pull the same trick for you. You see, apart from being stylish, your suit's neural interface had given me direct access to your nervous system, just like Terra's. These powers, are again my powers. My strength is now also yours. We are connected Terrance, just as Terra and I were. We are united as master and family apprentice. We fight as one: Terra, you and I!' he shouted, and Terrance felt his arms lift into the air and behind his head. His voice let out a cry as he leaned back then forward, slamming his fists into the ground. Terrance relaxed, the sides of his fists stinging as the crack traveled quickly from around his hands to the team, breaking and weakening the pavement all around them, around him, and everywhere between and yonder.
The cracks slithered under the standing team as they took to the air in surprise, their powers flickering uneasily. Terrance let his breathing catch in his throat as the monsters, or mud golems, sank into the ground as pure dirt and disappeared for a moment before one popped up below Craig and Dean, knocking them away. It then swung its sewage pipe arm and smacked Gypsie's away just as she readied to fire. Sparky growled and charged at it as Craig helped his friend up.
Moonfire was about to rush to her significant other when the other golem appeared in front of her, Crow, and Beast Babe, and they quickly readied their powers, but it was too late; the golem readied its own arm and let fly a thick stream of mud in their faces. Beast Babe jumped out of the waist-high muck and ran at her attacker, morphing into a rhinoceros as she approached. In a calm reaction, the golem disintegrated itself and sank back into the ground, leaving Beast Babe to change back in confusion. She looked around as it silently rose behind her, and turned just in time to see its large fist coming right at her head.
Panicking, she turned into an ankylosaurus and flinched as the golem punched her hide, literally. She closed her eyes as Sparky jumped down in front of the beast to distract it, and flew sharply to the right as it aimed a punch at her. Craig flew over to help as Dean and Gypsie tried again to try their attack on Terrance, who rebounded and sent a wave of dirt crashing upon them and pushing them back into the mud monster fight so that he could concentrate and control the golems properly.
'See now didn't I tell you it would all pay off in the end?' he asked himself as he clenched his teeth and forced the golems to fight harder.
'It all pays off in the end Terrance,' Slade said to the earpeice, and Terrance grinned and shouted out as Sparky jumped onto the back of her golems while Craig and Beast Babe shot energy at it. Sparky thrashed back and forth as the golem blocked attacks and desperately tried to get her off its back. Sparky zapped it continuously until it finally forced that certain piece of pavement that she clung on to to shoot away and slam her into the ground. Sparky groaned and tried to form a ball of electricity as the golem raised its hand to crush her when Gypsie came out of nowhere and tacked the thing senseless as Craig stepped back. They watched as it began to fall helplessly apart before Gypsie was even able to touchdown it and she sat on the ground in a rather confused manner as two large mud arms shot up from the pavement and crisscrossed over her, locking her down.
Gypsie struggled angrily as the golem came back and held her in front of it, using her as a shield as Craig and Dean came to help. Sparky stood up and looked around as her friends fought to free Gypsie without hurting her, and her masked eyes trailed over to where Moonfire was shooting at the golem as it tried to hit her. She stepped back and gasped smally as two streams of mud wrapped around her, pinning her arms to the side, but she regained her anger and shot a straight line of freedom down the tendrils with her eyebeams and broke free by using ultimate strength to push them away.
Crow came up beside her, using her powers to block several small rocks twice before a large boulder crashed down in front of her, and she was just able to block it out. She then turned her attention to Gypsie as Craig and Dean tried hopelessly to attack without hurting her. A scream caught her off guard as she turned to see Beast Babe turn back into a dinosaur, only to have her plan fail as the golem stuck its muck cannon inside the ground and shoot up a jet of mud underneath her, the pressure sending her flying across the street and into a building, the window above her shattering on impact. Sparky then took it as the last straw and pulled out some exploding disks, covered them with electricty and fired away at Terrance, shouting to her teammates as she did so.
'Titans North! Fall back!' she shouted as she tossed the disks, and they exploded right in front of Terrance's face, who coughed and cringed from the small shock as smoke surrounded his body.
'You bitch I can't see,' he coughed, and everyone turned to their leader.
'Are you shittin' me we got him!' Craig yelled, and Sparky shot him a sharp look.
'You all heard me, and I said fall back. Now!' Without another word, she threw a smoke bomb at her feet and they all disappeared into a cloud of smoke where Crow and Dean warped them all home, minus one little changeling.
Terrance, sick of the fumes, raised a pillar of rocks under his feet and he went up about 20 ft before letting it stop so that he could see clearly, and all he seen was the large ball of smoke, a trashed street, and a small green girl looking up at him. Furious enough for not having the chance to do away with them like he wanted, Terrance gave her the meanest look his had, one of threats and warnings mixed together saying, 'Get lost I'll destroy you later.' Beast Babe caught the message and backed away slowly before spreading her wings and flying into the smoke. Terrance watched her silhouette fade for a moment before calling over a platform to ride home on, his fists stinging from being clenched so hard, several thoughts running through his mind faster than Beast Babe as she ran the rest of the way home, tears flowing from her eyes.
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Ohhhh what happens next? Not what happens right off in the actual Teen Titans episode I can tell you that. Slade's kinda upset, as it were, at Terrance's failure... Be prepared for the nastiness I warn you again! No it's not a lemon. Or is it?... Nope, no it's not. And until next time, farewell!
Tiff