Chapter 2: God/Devil
Cyborg chased after Jonny Rancid down the Jump City highway. Jonny's bike had better speed, but the T-Car had better handling, so they were evenly matched. Every move Jonny made, Cyborg matched him, made sure that he wouldn't get away. The Titan's had been chasing Jonny for hours, and Jonny had been wreaking havoc the whole way. It had all started after Jonny had let loose the new version of Wrecks upon the unsuspecting city, but the Titans had made the mechanical doggy 'heel', as it were. The mechanical dog was only a diversion; Jonny had robbed the Jump City museum of a rare and extremely valuable jewel that Jonny was going to use as a new gas tank lid. Cyborg swerved to avoid a blast from one of Jonny's guns and poured on the speed.
"Scratch my car will you! I'm gonna open a whole case 'a butt whoop on you Jonny!" Cyborg screamed out the window, blasting back with his sonic cannon. Jonny jumped over the blast, flipped Cyborg the finger, and then promptly crashed his bike. Cyborg got out of the T-Car, ran over to Jonny and grabbed him by the scruff of his neck. Luckily, his helmet and leather jacket had taken the worst of the crash for Jonny, so there wasn't much damage to the maniac. Starfire shrieked and she pointed to the ground where Jonny had crashed. There, bleeding from many wounds, its arms and legs at weird angles, was something that vaguely resembled a boy.
Apart from his extremely long, pointed ears, pointed chin, hooked nose, clawed hands and long, spindly legs which ended in feet that had three clawed toes, he looked human He wore rags, barely enough to cover himself, and he was covered in blood. Robin came over after restraining Jonny, looking to see what the problem was.
"Starfire? Is everything-" his words died in his throat when he saw the young lad. The police pulled up with their sirens blaring and their guns drawn. Cyborg handed Jonny over to the cops.
"Here, take this trash and put it where it belongs" Cyborg grumbled as he shoved Jonny towards the mobile holding cell, otherwise known as a 'paddy wagon'. Jonny grinned as he saw the mangled boy on the road.
"Woo hoo! Road kill baby! Ten points!" he began to laugh at his own sick joke when a cop cracked him over the head with his nightstick.
"Vehicular Homicide is what it's called, idiot" Jonny went pale. That was serious Jail time. He began to profess his innocence as he was finally stuffed into the wagon. Robin looked at the mangled boy in front of him.
"Is he alive?" asked the Boy Wonder, looking at Starifre. She placed her hand against his neck. "I think so…. But not for long… His lifepulse is weakening… what should we do?" she asked, looking to Robin. He ran an hand through his spiky hair and looked at the mangled boy.
"Get him into the T-Car, our facilities are better then anything in the city" he said softly, moving to pick the boy up by his legs as Cyborg picked him up under the arms. As soon as they touched him, though, he began to twitch, his eyes opened, and they put him down. He grunted and growled and snarled as he got to his knees and elbows and began to crawl towards Titan's Island. Cyborg looked at him and raised an eyebrow.
"Kid's tough, you can bet on that, but we gotta help him" he said softly as he looked at Robin, and the young team leader nodded. They went over and picked the young boy up under the arms, lifting him gently, and he went limp. They took him and put him in the T-Car, secured him tightly, and raced off towards Titan's Tower.
Raven watched the kid as the five super heroes' drove home, using the T-Car's hover mode to get to Titan's Tower quicker. She had seen into the boy's mind when she had helped pick him up. Raven was frightened, what she had seen in the boy's mind was a horrible thing, a mockery of a human mind. But the thing that she could not figure out was that if he was made this way or if he was forced to be this way.