A blast from the future 4
Previously on this story:
"She says she's from the future. Calls herself Shadow."
"She also says she needs my help. And only my help."
"Help on what?" Robin tried to connect the information.
"Says I'm the only one she can trust."
"Let's see what she is up to." Robin went to the interrogation room. Opened the door and closed it. The girl watched him enter and sighed.
"Great. Just great. I get Bird boy first." She mumbles.
"Now, Shadow. Who are you? What do you want with Cyborg? "Robin asked.
Shadow said nothing.
Chapter 4
Robin just stared at her, asked her questions, and did everything he could think of to just make her speak. She just stared pass him.
"What is it that you want?" Robin said sitting down in front of her. She looked at him and raised an eyebrow.
"Bird boy giving up?" she asked. Robin just glared. Shadow smirked but then got serious.
"Look Bird boy, I'm just here trying to prevent something. Okay? But I can't do it alone. And as much as I hate it I need help. I need your help. The "your help" is a living place, food, water, training place, information. But my real need of help is from Cyborg. Why Cyborg? For two reasons: one is because in the future I trust him. And only him. Not even my parents. And the second reason… he is a Cyborg. Even I can't erase the memory of me even been here. His mechanics have a memory chip. And because of the Beast boy incident when he gave Cyborg a virus. No one can mess with him. - She looked at Robin more with a smirk- and besides he will kill me if I touch his babies."
Robin looked back at the glass where the other Titans observed the girl, is she saying the truth?
"I'm telling the truth." She said to them.
"Prove it" Robin dared her. She handed him a blue chip. It looked like Cyborg's technology.
"Cy told me it some kind of chip that it can actually connect to him in the future. Some way of talking to him 'lives'. Video chat to the future. He told me it's the biggest thing that he has ever accomplished."
Cyborg came through the door and looked at the chip.
"How does it work?"
"Just insert it to the big screen. In the living room. And don't worry, it was made by you, it won't have a virus or anything to look for Titan info."
Cyborg nodded and went to work. Robin looked at Shadow. She just stared at where Cyborg was. She looked back at Robin. And he really looked at her. Her black hair was dirty, and her clothes were burn in some places. And under her mask, her big green eyes, he could actually see the sadness and how tired she was. But either way she looked calm, alert… neutral.
"Are you alright?" He asked in a soft voice even he was surprised. She slowly turned to his stare, her expression not changing.
"I travel threw time, leaving everyone I care about, everything that I know. Just so they could actually have a real life, not the piece of crap that you left it to be the future. My present; my day to day life - she looked at him, no, she glared - and you know what Bird boy it's your fault." He looked at her waiting for her to explain but she just looked at the glass. She knew they were there. Watching her, knowing she was going to do and say something wrong.
"And it's your fault… all of you! The Titans and the JLA fault! –She looked back at Robin- do you really want to know why I'm here? Do you really- she sat back down crossing her arm, with a sarcastic grin on her lips. - do you really want to know the failure you have made? All of your life's work and sacrifices… all wasted and thrown to the garbage like shit!?"She said this in a calm, eerie voice only raising her voice sometimes. All the Titans could do was staring. Trying to understand what this girl was saying to them. And trying to figure out if she was real. If her words were real.
"And you know the saddest thing of all? - Shadow waited for them to try to speak, even if she knew it was in vain- it all started because of one man. One man that is right now living his life. A normal ordinary life. Studying, planning for the future. Plans that change one night. Then he becomes a monster. But not a monster to the people…. To meta-humans, to us. Heroes, villains, anyone that has the slightest difference in their bodies or minds."
"What-what happen?" Beast boy's voice could be heard in the interrogation room. Shadow looked at the glass, trying to guess where he could be standing.
"Would you believe me if I said that I didn't know?" she said with a small sad smile. She waited for his answer.
"No."
"Well, I'm telling you the truth. I'm actually waiting for my Cyborg can tell me."
"Wait. Are you saying you came here blind, with no plan?" Robin asked her. Trying to figure her out.
"Are you an idiot? Of course not! I know what happen every single day since today! But that one night, that one single event, it's been erased! And only one person hasn't, can't forget. Because it's impossible to erase that information from him."
Robin's eyes widen realizing it. Cyborg, half- human, half-machine. His machinery insert the information to his brain, he can never actually forget any information. It's impossible. If he could change an event in the past without causing and time change that can risk their life, it would be…
"Cyborg"
"Finally you catch on Bird boy. Hopefully your Cyborg has figured out his own future technology. So let me out of this cage so I can talk to my uncle."
Slowly Robin stood up and opened the door. He carefully let her go.
"I still don't trust you." He told her. She just rolled her eyes and replied.
"Don't care, I'm used to it in the future." She walked to the living room where Cyborg was finishing installing the chip.
"It's done. Just have to send a message." Shadow side hugged Cyborg and pushed him lightly out of the way.
"Don't worry, I'll contact Uncle CY." It was silent on the Tower. The five Teen titans stared at the back of the girl called Shadow. Who says she is from the future. A future that is not worth living, all because of one man. Because the heroes failed. One child from a future, where she hides secrets, is going to save the world.
"By the way you don't have to trust me. None of, besides Cyborg, trusts me in the future." She kept typing some passwords Uncle Vic told her.
"Why?" Starfire asked her.
"I decided I didn't want to be a hero. But relax Bird boy, I'm not a villain."
"So what are you?" Raven asked her in her monote voice. Shadow turned around and smirked at them.
"Whatever and whoever I want and need to be."