Disclaimer: Never owned the Teen Titans show nor team. Goes to DC, WB, and whatever.

SUNGLASSES AT NIGHT

CHAPTER 14

It was night once more and the holo-fied teens arrived at the house that had exploded from one chapter.

They still wore their sunglasses, but they were clad in outfits that could be seen in that drama film Now You See Me. You know, lots of black.

Despite them all feeling like they'd been in Hell for a brief time they still decided to follow their tradition.

"So, why are we meeting here again?" Asked Thunder and Lightning in unison. They appeared to be glum because.. you know why. Maybe if Robin listened to them maybe they would still be able to fight crime. But Thunder and Lightning couldn't, for awhile at least. They were prohibited. Even though they couldn't fight crime as a Titan they could perhaps still do their vigilante jobs.

Gar sighed. "I'm thinking we should stop this whole ordeal."

His comrades eye's widened. "What?" Kole murmured. "Why?"

Gar shrugged. "I don't even know why were doin' this nonsense anymore. You guys all look horrible. Thunder, Lightning, you two apparently are suspended from your job, Kole you look like the Hunchback of Notre dame. I have a feeling I'm gonna get kicked off the team as a Titan...This vigilante group we've formed hasn't been doin' us any justice."

They wanted to prevail to Gar, but they knew he was right.

Kole for some reason began to cry. Thunder and Lightning were tearing up a little, but they were grateful for the night sky. And Gar. Man, he could only look at his feet.

It was all really a moment of silence for them, but then they saw a red blinking light.

Uh, oh.

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"I'm surprised." The masked villain stated. His hands were behind his back, his voice taunting and deceiving as he stared at the four titans whom were standing in front of him. "Even with those rings your identities are still visible to my knowledge. Kole, Beast Boy, and nice to see you again Thunder and Lightning."

The four teenagers stared back at Slade. Somehow after the explosion occurred, unbeknownst to their knowledge, he managed to teleport them to his lair unconscious and all. Now awaken, the titans were surprised to find themselves in the villain's lair.

"Slade..." Beast Boy whispered enough for each one of his other teammates to hear.

They couldn't look at each other though, considering Slade had each of their legs, arms, hands, and feet trapped. It was as if every part of their body was paralyzed, neither of them having the given energy to try to struggle, except for Beast Boy. He was used to this kind of pain and confinement, hence the fact his shape shifting abilities garnered those kind of side effects. Each muscle, bone, and organ splitting every time he had to change into some kind of animal.

Struggling Beast Boy could tell Slade was looking directly at him.

"I wouldn't try to get my way out of those traps if I were you." The masked villain held up his right hand holding a remote with a blue meter rising up and down. "If you try to escape, this meter right here will come to a halt and each one of you will self destruct. That being one of you, you'll be the cause of death for each one of your friends, Beast Boy."

The blonde stopped struggling. Think Beast Boy, think. He wanted to hurt Slade so badly he never felt such disgust for anyone. Lately he had been thinking he hated Raven but Slade was ten times worst. Raven he had a reason to dislike. Remembering he did love her very much so.

"Why can't you just leave us alone," said Kole. Her body was stiff and her eyes were watering. She didn't find comfort in this situation at all. Her father had experimented on her for treatments and she could remember feeling much like this, when her father would strap her to a table and stick any pseudo antidote inside her frail body. She shivered at the memory.

Slade stared at the antlered girl. "Kole Weathers, nice to see you. I've heard so much about you."

"You haven't heard nothing," she squeaked. Beast Boy tried to look her way to see if she was fine but was unable to. Don't struggle, he thought. Thunder and Lightning on the other hand were completely still they had been communicating telepathically for the time being.

Oh brother I'm frightened.

Me too brother, admittedly I wasn't aware of this metal faced dick to be this cruel. Remind me to look over the villain paper leader Robin had sent us after the Brotherhood of Evil victory.

Will do, brother. Now how are we going to be able to escape?

How am I supposed to know, brother? I thought you would have a plan.

Same here.

The storm brothers continued looking straight at Slade whom glanced at them ever so often with his one visible eye.

"I've realized you guys are a team," concluded Slade, taking a look at Kole ever so closely from his peripheral vision . "Beast Boy did you finally come to realize how your team thought of you?"

Beast Boy didn't answer, Slade continued. He was walking back and forth slowly; examining each Titan. "Kole I presume, is your precious precious sweetheart. The earth manipulator girl whom can't remember you, I per se you're finally come to acceptance for who she is," then he added, "I perceive."

The green shapeshifter didn't reply or react, all in all he had to admit it did sting slightly but he already knew it was over with Terra for good. Either way if she did remember him or not, he would have to accept it sooner or later. Which he already had.

Kole stared at Beast boy a little perplexed of how nonaggressive he was acting. The cuffs on each of their bodies sure didn't help but she still didn't know how he did it.

"And Kole," Slade said stopping right in front of her. His face facing hers, she didn't look his way and although she was by all means intimidated by him she didn't show it, just like the rest of her teammates weren't showing it either.

"You love my son," that caught Kole's attention but she resisted the urge to open her eyes. Slade smiled. "You're sweet." He held out his metal clothed arm and that's when Beast Boy spoke up quite sternly,

"Don't touch her."

"Don't worry, I'm not," chided the villain, not fazed one bit. "I really wanna know what she sees in my son and what my son sees in her. Ah, you already knew he was my son, the house, pictures. I'm surprised you caught that, Kole."

"It wasn't hard," Kole said trying to muster a glare finally looking at him. "You're a pathetic excuse as a father."

"And yours, Kole, isn't?"

She felt rage fill her insides but she wasn't going to let the rage take over. Kole, remember, he's a stupid man who hasn't ever lived in joy, that picture didn't prove anything.

"Kole I know all your life you've been a victim of experiments. Syringes, needles, antidotes..."

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"Daddy can I please go back to playing with my doll?" Kole, seven years old stared right back at her father. Her blue eyes the same; innocent and childlike—hair light brown nearing to her mother's red shaded locks.

"No darling, Daddy will let you, soon after this one." Abel done and ready to inject the antidote inside his daughter, smiled softly at his daughter whom was staring straight back at him. He had the same tan skin and doe-like blue eyes, exception being he had elf-like features instead of round and attractive features.

"It will just be a second." He held up the needle which was very long indeed. Kole gulped and said, "Daddy but you said that last time, remember. I had a bug in my tummy for days and almost went to Heaven."

Abel's then gentle face contorted into anger. "No need to be scared, child. Just listen to daddy and everything will be fine!" Kole nodded slowly and timidly, Abel then lifting her onto the table and strapping her down tight. "As usual, be still." Grabbing the two syringes he injected one of them into her leg. "Daddy that hurts!"

"Stop it child!" He demanded, there was still some antidote left in the needle and Kole starting to struggle was making it hard for him to insert the liquid.

"But daddy it burns, please don't put anymore inside me!" Abel ignoring her, gave her a deathly glare equivalent to Jack Frost's.

"Darling you struggling is making it worst. Stop it or it will be worst for you!"

The merciless threat successfully made the seven year old quit struggling.

"You're being daddy's little angel, nice."

Kole squeezed her eyes very tightly as the rest of the antidote filled her body. The pain was by all means exceedingly excruciating. The burning, the black dots consuming her eye sight, her father grabbing another syringe off the lab table...

"Daddy, please don't do it again, you said you were only doing one more and that was all."

"What do you mean darling?" Abel inquired his daughter ever so conniving.

Thus, before he was able to stick the second antidote into her body. Kole's last words barely a whisper were, "But daddy you said..." Her eyes now shut, the black dots already winning.

Suzy, her doll, was larger than her.

Kole's eye sight was taking everything in and to a bright light that casted upon her was blinding her. She tried to reach for the light switch however she realized her hand wasn't able to move. Whimpering a little, she could tell she was on a very cold surface. But how could she be outside in the cold winter season when her father didn't allow it? Looking at what she was sitting on, whatsoever, wasn't the floor. And the lab table her father had her strapped to was across from her and unattended.

A voice snapped her out of it.

"Kole it's going to be fine, daddy just has to work out a few things and we'll be back to normal." The seven year old knew her mother's voice from anywhere, however she couldn't detect her. All she saw from where her mother's voice came from was a green grasshopper looking directly at her. She ignored it and continued searching for wherever her mother could possibly be.

"Mommy where are you?"

"I'm here, honey. It's fine."

Kole started to worry, finding that her mom's reassuring voice wasn't being reassuring. It was as if her mother's voice was giving her a some kind of hint—a warning.

"Mommy I'm really scared. Where are you?"

"I'm here, right here honey. The grasshopper."

Kole stopped staring and looked right at the grasshopper that still stared back at her. Even with her mother's unidentifiable eyes within in the insect somehow she knew it was her.

"You're a beetle," said her mother. Kole confused, examined herself in front of a nearby mirror her father always had laid out to reevaluate things. Looking at herself, she felt tears come to her eyes that soon began to fall remembering one thing she said before she had went unconscious. "Mommy, but daddy said..."

Her grasshopper of a mother came to her guide and hugged her gently. "I know, honey, I know."

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Someone was shaking her.

This time a bit harder.

Her eyes fluttered open. Jericho's face came into view.

She sat up.

"Jericho?"

He looked at her worriedly and signed,

What happened?

"What do you mean?"

He gave her a mirror; all over her face was bruises, soot, a scar that was on her cheek, and looking at her arm there was a one-degree burn mark. It didn't cover her whole arm, the scar was moderate sized and somewhat life threatening. Luckily it got tended to just in time.

She sat the mirror down and glanced at Jericho. "Why am I here, and what do you mean what happened?

He touched her arm, pointing at the burn mark. Then he touched her face gently—which made her blush—seeing if the scars on her face had heeled.

He handed her a moist cloth to clean her face. The scars and bruises already fostered.

"Thanks."

No problem, he signed then hesitating a little, he added. Can you tell me what happened?

Kole glanced at her feet, trying to remember why she was here and how she had come here.

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A/N: Well, this will be the last quick update. Maybe sometime this week, or next week, or next month... Perhaps there'll be a update. Beast Boy will really need Rae's help now. And I think Kole and Jericho will totally bond. Jus' wait and see. Romance will definitely begin. Especially with the pairings we want. (Read the summary again)

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you reviewers are all awesome, and lucky stars. Not jus' 'cuz ya review. But for keeping calm and shipping BBRae and Jerikole.

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