Afterburn: Part I
Arc III: Diversions
Chapter XII: The Desert: Part 2
By: mrbeans
Rated: T
Beast Boy paceed up and down the room he had been given. Clarence had brought them to the dinning hall the evening and had served them dinner.
"Hows the duck?" Clarence had asked as the two Titans poked the meat, thouroghly confused. "Wait a second! I know why you won't eat it! I over cooked it, I knew it!" he exclaimed, throwing his dish towel to the floor and pouting.
"No, It's just that first you inprision us and now you're serving us duck." said Raven "By the way when do we get to meet this boss of yours?"
"My boss is all gloomy and simlply insists that their they remain all shadowy." Replied the minion. "Even though secret is sooooo dreery"
After dinner, Beast Boy and Raven had been brought to seperate rooms and bid good night. It had been a long time since Beast Boy had spent the night without a round of some video game, or at least a movie. He sat down on the bed and tried to think of something to do.
Across section 2A, Raven was having similar problems. For some reason she was having trouble meditating in the underground labrynth.
"It's just an animal burrow, nothing disracting, just a hole" she told herself to no avail. She got up, decided that attempting to meditate right now was about as easy as teaching Beast Boy calculus, got up, and went for a walk.
It was actually quite impressive how massive the base was, Raven passed several rooms, including one laybeled "The BOOM closet" which contained a large quantity of explosives. Rae kept walking, making several turns until she reached a large pit. There was a suspended bridge that led to a platform, suspended in mid-air by seemingly nothing.
Raven walked out onto the floating platform, and up to a half-circle counsole. As soon as she approached the pannels lit up with tons of holographic controls. The one that caught Raven's atttention was the large depressor swich, much like those from gold rush dynamite detonators. It glowed a green yellow and was apparently the primary activator for whatever the pannel did. The half demon approached the glowing array, After all she thought to herself It's not like I have anything better to do.
Beast Boy had left his room insearch of something to do, how one place could be so boring was beyond him. He ran through the tunnels, quite at home in his prairie dog form. Beast Boy ran until he got to a large room, it was a huge pit with a floating platform and a bridge, it reminded him of level from a video game he had played last week but he couldn't remember what. After a minute of failing to remember, BB noticed Raven.
"Raven? What are you doing here?" asked Beast Boy from behind her.
Raven, startled by the sudden appearance of the green shape shifter, reeled back, depressing the depressor. The platform creaked once and then began to plumet at extrodinary speed.
"Um Raven?" asked BB, quite puzzled. But before he could put anymore thought into it, a circular section of floor beneath him divided into swirled quaters and then quickly retracted, causing Beast Boy to plummet down a small shaft. He landed roughly at the bottom, right at the feet of the person who had trapped him here.
Raven tried to regain her balance as the platform continued to free fall. She staggered against the speeding winds. Just as she regained control of her body against the wind, the platform came to a grinding halt at the bottom of the bit.
The now ticked off telepath brushed herself off and began to walk down the hallway in front of her. It led straight to a smaller circular room with another counsole. the one had an actuall keyboard and bottons for a computer.
Raven pushed the power button and the screen lit up. It displayed a menu screen for something.
Main Structural Drawings
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System Functions
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Operation: Shattered Hope
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Inventory
Naturally, Raven clicked 'Operation Shattered Hope'. The link brought up a computer simulation that layed out the operation. Very few things actually startled Raven, this was one of those few.
"I have to warn Beast Boy" she said, pulling out her communicator. "Come on, work" she said as the device failed to activate.
"You'll find that quite impossible" said Clarence who had just entered the room "Nifty little device called an EMP"
But as Raven turned to face the gay side kick, she got another surprise. Standing beside Clarence, dressed conservitivly in a black suit and tie, was none other than Cyborg.
Sorry, that it took me so long to update with only an OK chapter, although betcha' didn't see that one comming.
-mrbeans