"Fascinating isn't it?" Slade asked casually, not looking away from the eerie black-rimmed other-worldly windows. "How the introduction of one variable can make all the difference"
Klarion cringed; he'd thought his entrance had been unnoticed, sneaky even. Apparently nothing went unnoticed by this great snot-nosed bully.
"Oh I wouldn't know. I tend to think that sometimes things need time to fully play out, chaos especially" He replied bitterly. They were in Slade's current secret hideout; an old condemned tenant building on the edge of Jump City, someplace forgotten and filled with bad memories. Just how Slade liked it.
"Klarion, Klarion Klarion," Slade tsked "You really need to watch a master at his work" beneath his mask a cruel smile was forming. Things were going perfectly, and with this brat under his control, well, soon the whole of both the Teen Titans and The Young Justice would be eliminated. And then the world would be in his hands.
"You'd think a Master would be smart enough to just jump in and kill them now" Klarion growled back, arms crossed.
"Klarion, please, consider just for a moment, how by adding the variables of Plasmus and Clayface to your little game the rules changed. Before they would have probably been content to help the Robins return to where they belong, only now instead they have turned against them, all because you freed the monsters"
"Yes…" Klarion growled in agreement, not that he had much choice in the matter, Teekl was held tight in Slade's arms, rendered helpless by the collar around his neck. And with Teekl's safety jeopardized, Klarion was defenseless. "But that still doesn't explain why you don't just remove them yourself! Seriously, why not?"
"Because Klarion, it's more fun this way." Slade replied, stroking Teekl in order to infuriate Klarion, "After all, the way things are going now- one Robin will be destroyed by his own stupidity, in a quest for redemption, while the other will meet his end at the hands of his would-be friends, convinced that perhaps he has lost his mind. Really, it's a lot more poetic that way than if I were to swoop in and end it now,"
"And supposing that it doesn't work?" Klarion asked, hands balled up into fists.
"Oh trust me Klarion, it will work. We've only just begun. Chaos will reign"
End chap 9.
HOLY CHAOS BATMAN.
Short, sweet yup.
Oh and I guess nows the time to warn you, I leave for a week long vacation on Tuesday D:
Let's see how much of this I can get done in the meantime :3