Drunken Dilemma
A BB/Rae Fic
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Chapter 4
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The afternoon of September 13th.
They had gotten YouTube to remove the video and track down where the Video's Uploader uploaded it from, and were en route to the location. It was an old abandoned scientific lab on the outskirts of town. The sign out front read 'McCormack Industries', and there was 1 car parked in the parking lot, and that was the T-Car.
All of the Titans stepped out, Cyborg as the driver.
"So, this is it, huh?" Cyborg said, as they all walked up to the entrance.
"Yeah." Raven said a bit tiredly, Robin drew his staff and Starfire loosened her wrists.
"Let's go get him." Beast Boy growled, and they all went forward. Cyborg busted down the door and Robin went quickly through. They all got in their own fighting stances. Then, Robin stopped and got out of stance, and stared at a huge metal security door.
"Uh, maybe we should do that again." He whispered, and they moved up to the other door. Cyborg did the same routine, boot kicking the door. But it didn't budge, and instead Cyborg's foot clanged, causing him to hop back holding his feet and go, 'Ow, ow, ow.'.
"I nearly bent my foot doing that!" Cyborg said loudly, and Raven replied, "Let me try."
Right as she was about to cast her hand out and pull it off the wall, to their surprise, it opened by itself.
Robin stepped through first, looking around suspiciously, as the other 4 Titans came in behind him.
"So, where is Slade?" Starfire asked, looking to her right and then to her left, as they all walked through a big empty dome, the middle portion very dark.
"I don't know. All this just looks like rusty equipment." Cyborg replied, as Robin held his hand up, and they all stopped.
"Do you hear that?" he asked them, and there came a simple but loud creak. Like a metal swing set squeaking, but only ten times louder. Then Raven took her finger up to just beneath her nose, and then held it up and looked at it in surprise.
"My nose is bleeding." She said, as they turned around to look. Beast Boy took his finger up to his top lip, and held his finger out. "Mine too…" he whispered, as suddenly a loud clash, and big spotlights turned on, all flashing towards a huge tall Supercomputer.
"Hello, Teen Titans. I have activated the nerve gas. You have 5 minutes to live." The computer's digital voice said, as Robin shouted, "Where's Slade?"
The computer snickered, and said, its tone sounding a bit amused, "Do you really think a Criminal Mastermind would use something like Ebay? I created that account to look like his. I automatically became the highest bidder at the last second to beat DaveChris2909's bid of 250 dollars. I am the one who led you here. I am the one with the tape! And it is my Central Processor. And if you are wondering how it got there, you have obviously not seen the rest of the facility, where all workers of McCormack Industries seemed to of died of water poisoning. I must have accidentally slipped the Antifreeze in with the water supply. Oops." It went on, as they began whispering.
"What's the plan?" Cyborg asked, and Starfire suggested, "Maybe we can cover up the vents?"
"No, that wouldn't help." Robin told her, and Beast Boy said, "Maybe we can hold our breath."
They glared, and Beast Boy shrugged. "Yo, we're kinda 4 minutes from being dead, so can you either come up with a plan or not try to make one at all?" Cyborg told him, as Raven suddenly stepped forward with an idea.
"Why don't I just rip it apart myself?" she asked, and they all shrugged. "Go for it." Robin said.
She rose up into the air, and then chanted. "Azarath, Metrion, Zinthos!" she chanted, and suddenly her black energies enveloped the supercomputer "W-what, no! What are you d-doin-gggggg?" it said, as suddenly all the black energies ripped the computer apart, instantly causing the vents of nerve gas to stop and reverse suction, sucking the gas out of the air. Then, Raven landed, and an object suddenly flew at her. She held her hand out in front of her, casually, and looked at Robin. A video tape landed in her hand, the 'Sex Tape' the computer had, and she nodded. "There." She said, and they all nodded.
"Let's go home." Robin said, and they walked out to get back in the T-Car.
"Hey, Star, your nose isn't bleeding." Beast Boy pointed out, as she turned and went 'Hm?'
She then realized what he meant, and began to explain, "Oh, Yes, the people of my planet are immune to such toxins because of how many Toxin-carrying animals inhabit Tamaran."
"Damn, girl, first Radiation, now Poison? Wow, Superman's got nothing on you." Cyborg replied, and Raven quickly muttered, "Except bulletproof and puncture-proof skin," right before Starfire gasped and exclaimed, "Am I the only one in this group not using such vulgar words now? I know we have all aged, but that does not permit the use of such language!"
"Calm down, Star. It doesn't mean anything." Robin told her, as Cyborg added, "Yeah, and what'd you used to call people? A Chlorbag?"
She nodded slowly, as Raven muttered, "I don't remember it taking this long to get to the car before…"
"What does that mean in English then?" Cyborg asked, and she seemed a bit hesitant, but then told them.
"One who contains lots of soft balls of cushiony material that are using to cleanse a woman's… crotch" Starfire said slowly, as they all stopped in their tracks and stared at her in shock.
"Girl, so you've basically called almost every villain a Douchebag! Sh!" Cyborg shouted, and they all began walking again.
"But-!" Starfire began, and Cyborg went, "Shh!"
"But I-!" she went again, but Cyborg said, "Nuh-uh!"
"It is not-!" she tried once more, and Cyborg continued, "Zip!"
She then sighed, and pouted, as they all got to the car and buckled themselves in.
Cyborg turned around to see how to pull out, and saw out of the corner of his eye Star still a bit upset.
"I didn't mean nothing by it Star." He said, and then turned around once he pulled out to take off down the dirt road back onto the freeway.
"It is fine, friend… now please drive so we may go home." She replied, as Raven suddenly began coughing. Beast Boy hopped up from his slouched position in the backseat, between Raven and Starfire, and leaned over to her. "Are you ok?" he asked, and she nodded slowly, still coughing a lot.
She leaned back a bit surprised, and stared in her hands. Blood.
"Are you sure you're ok?" Beast Boy asked, and she nodded. "Probably just that nerve gas." She replied quickly, and grabbed a few tissues from the compartment on the back of the passenger-side seat, and wiped her hands clean.
When they got back home, they all split for their rooms to get some sleep since the sun already went down. Raven got to her room, and shut her door. She then locked it, and walked over to her nearby bathroom, which had been installed in the bedrooms themselves now during a huge Renovation after they had defeated the Brotherhood of Evil. She opened a wooden door underneath the sink reached in, knocking around shampoo bottles and toothpaste, as she muttered, "Come on, come on…"
She then took out a small meter. A pregnancy test. "I hope to Azar that this thing doesn't turn up positive." She mumbled, and proceeded to take it.
Minutes later, the mirror in Beast Boy's own bathroom cracked as he was brushing his teeth, and he jumped. He then calmed down, and repeated one phrase.
"Just Raven venting… just Raven venting…", and then kept on brushing his teeth in the now-split mirror.
