Afterburn: Part I

Arc III: Diversions

Chapter 13: Oh Snap!

Rated: T for Violence and mild language

By: mrbeans

STJadeTebraa890- As..interesting as that sounds, it's just evil Cy.

FennecDaFox- Yes! They found alternate Cyborg! You'll have to read the chapter.

El Queso de Malicioso- Um...thanks...I do pride myself on good suspense, priding yourself on many things is just a symptom of my ego.

I would also like to formally appologise for:

A) Taking so freaking long to update

B) Being overzealous with the suspense

I have decided to recocille these acts by saying this: The suspense is over! This is the chapter where Evil Cy's master plan is revealed and begans to unfold.

Raven stumbled back, trying to take in what she had just seen.

"But how is that possible?" she asked, retaining most of her emotionless demeanor.

Cyborg chuckled to himself softy, interlocking his hands behind his back. "I'm disappointed Raven" he said, his words fitting to a villain though his voice was the same. "Just as there are five of you, there are five of us. As you have no doubt figured out, I'm not the Cyborg you know, my question to you is, do you know who I am"

"You're a mirror. No more than a clone of Cyborg with mirrored traits. It's too bad you inherited his sense of humor, too" replied Raven, glancing at Clarence.

Much to Raven's surprise Cyborg began to outright laugh. As he continued his maniacal cackle Beast Boy slowly rose up, rubbing the back of his neck.

"What happened?" he asked before he noticed Cyborg and Clarence. It took a minute for the sight to occur to him, a look of shock spreading over his face as he came to terms with it. "CYBORG!?!?" he exclaimed.

"Yes" replied the evil half robot "But further introductions can wait. You two now know too much and..."

"Know about what?" squeaked Beast Boy, cutting him off.

"At least one of you knows too much"

"As enthralling as this conversation is, I think we have to be going" said Raven, and in a fraction of a second she grabbed a computer monitor with energy and hurled it at Clarence who was standing in front of Cyborg. Clarence dodged with astounding speed. Cyborg effortlessly destroyed the monitor with a blast from his arm cannon, but in the flash the occurred from the explosion, Beast Boy and Raven were gone.

"Damn It!" he roared, his face turning an almost comical shade a puce "Find them!"

Clarence dashed off down the hallway without even daring to question Cyborg for the time being.

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Raven tried to silence her breathing, running had never been her thing, as she held her hand over Beast Boy's mouth, hiding around a shadowy corner. "I know this is hard for you, but try to be quiet" she said as she removed her hand. BB opened his mouth to say something but was silence by one venomous look. She listened intently as Clarence came to the corridor they were hiding in, her heart pounding for what seemed like an eternity while the fruity sidekick stood at a junction before finally deciding to turn right, heading away from the two titans.

"Alright" said Beast Boy, releasing a huge breath now that their pursuer had passed. "Mind telling me what's up with Cyborg and what the heck he's doing with this underground lair thing?"

"First of all" said Raven, glancing around for any possible hiding villains "It's not the Cyborg you know"

"Well, Yeah! He's in a suit and all evil!"

"Glad you noticed and that's not what I mean. Do you know anything about alternate universes?"

"Of Course...sort of...not really...no"

"Alternate dimensions are mirrors of our own only flipped, people in our world who are good are evil, shaven people have rather stylish goatees, and Spam is not left over pig guts in a can"

"So this is like evil Cyborg from another planet?"

"Yeah...let's go with that"

"So what do we do about it?"

"First of all you're going to have to stop talking" said an all-to-familiar voice as Slade emerged from the shadows

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"Where can they be?" said Cyborg, smashing his hand down on the table and leaving a considerable dent.

"Perhaps we have to coerce them into coming to us" suggested Clarence, buckling the utility belt on the combat suit he had just changed into. "In fact" he added with a devious smile "I know exactly how"

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Beast Boy and Raven greeted Slade in a stereotypical fashion, Raven taking a fighting stance, and BB morphing into a goat.

"Attacking me would raise an alarm and I assure you that would be very..." he looked a Beast Boy "Baaaaaaaaaad"

Beast Boy reverted back to human form for what seemed to be for the sole purpose of adopting to most melodramatic look of shock. "Diiiiiiid...Slade just make a joke" he stuttered.

A small grin caressed the edge of Raven's lip for a brief second before she reached out with her powers and grabbed a large pot from the wall and brought it speeding to the ground, stopping it mere inches from the ground.

"No!" yelled Slade as loud as he would allow himself to be, lunging forward in a vain attempt to catch the porcelain projectile.

"Beast Boy" said Raven "Meet alternate Slade"

BB opened his mouth as if to say something witty or shocked, but before he could something grabbed his attention faster than the large billboard of Pamela Anderson on 3rd Street. A beaten and drained Cyborg came into view, this one wearing no custom made suit. This Cyborg looked awful, his arm was connected by a few cables and he looked as if he had just run a marathon with Cedric the Entertainer on his back.

"Cy!" yelled Beast Boy, running out to help him.

Slade turned to Raven "Is his carrier signal in this area?" he asked hurridly. Raven flipped open her communicator and gasped "No it...3000 miles from her..." then, she and Slade turned and yelled simultaneously "BEAST BOY! NO!"

But it was too late. Cyborg snapped his arm back into place as the exhaustion gave way to pure maniacal giddy.

"What the?!?!" exclaimed BB, but it was too late. He attempted to head the other way but nothing happened. Before he could react any more, Clarence came out of no where and KOed Beast Boy with a single karate chop to the throat. Cyborg took a shot at Raven and Slade but it was easily deflected with an aura shield from Raven.

"Get Beast Boy!" bellowed Slade, drawing his Bo-staff "I'll handle them"

Slade leapt into action, trying to land a hit on Clarence but the two were too fast for the other to hit. He broke off from Clarence only to dodge a punch from Cyborg and then went back to it. Raven rushed across the room and grabbed Beast Boy with a giant energy hand.

"I've got him. Let's go!" she yelled to Slade who back-flipped out of the fight and rushed after them.

"STOP THEM!" boomed Cyborg

Clarence reacted in an instant, hurling a large number of marble sized spheres at the three running heroes. The balls detonated in front of Slade, Beast Boy, and Raven, causing their path to burst into flames.

"You didn't think you'd get away so easy did you?" asked Clarence sarcastically.

A sound drew Slade's attention as his eye drifted to the side and then back before he grabbed BB and Raven and leapt onto the monorail tracks that moved things around the facility.

"Damn!" cursed Clarence as the train sped away with Raven, Slade, and Beast Boy on board.

"Well, get going after them!" yelled Cyborg

"No" said Clarence "They're heading right into it, not to an exit. Let them try and stop us now"

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"You can wake up now Beast Boy" said Raven, shaking the shape shifter who refused to regain consciousness.

Slade bent down and snapped his fingers very loudly in front of Beast Boy, causing him to wake suddenly and snap to attention.

"So why are you here?" asked Raven, looking at Slade.

"I expect you know that universes, when their natural balance is disrupted try to balance everything out, right?"

"Yes"

"Robin was taken against his will so I was sucked here to balance it out"

"Why..." began BB

"Because only people who go willingly can pass undisrupted" answered Raven "Now we just need to figure out how to stop Cyborg's plan"

"What is his plan anyway?" asked Beast Boy, standing up.

Raven and Slade pointed out the window into the cavernous room they had just begun to encircle.

BB's eyes widened as he walked up to the window and gazed into the 7 story tall silo. All he could muster was a feeble "Oh"

OK, finally a new chapter, I hope you guys liked it. All I want to know is what questions you really want answered about the story line.

-mrbeans