The Roles we Play
Zero Hour Pt. 3
Thanks to all of you who have taken the time to read my story!
***Nothing claimed nothing earned. ***
"If ever time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in government. Our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin." – Samuel Adams
***TRwP***
"What is the status of Case Grey?" The President asked, directing his attention to one of the few members sitting at the table before him.
"It is proceeding slowly, as you know heroes are naturally resilient to most forms of mental influence, chemical or otherwise. Thus we have yet to fully bring one under our control, but it is only a matter of time. Already we have begun seeing the side effects we predicted." A bespectacled man answered.
"Very good doctor, but remember even my patience has its limits. Do not test them. I want to see a fully combat ready specimen within two months." Luthor commanded in a stern tone, earning a frightened nod.
"Has the rubble been searched yet? I was hoping to have at least one of their bodies be used for autopsy."
This time it was a man dressed in a military uniform, with medals decorating his chest, who answered.
"No sir, the engineer corp. is taking its time sifting through the rubble for anything that might be usable as ordered. Most of the technology seems to have been completely ruined though. According to the reports the tower collapsed in on itself thus crushing virtually everything beyond recognition."
"DAMNIT! I want something to be salvaged from this disaster! I told you to take them alive, not bombard the entire place into rubble! Not only have we lost their tech and six more usable agents but we have taken a magic publicity hit from the idea that we called in a military strike on a bunch of teenagers."
"It had to be done Mr. President" Slade spoke out, sarcasm being the only identifiable emotion in his voice, "We had already lost over four units in the attack, anymore and it would have brought into question our ability to deal with mere teenagers, much less the ones who trained them."
"Which would only have further justified this war, by showing that only six of these brats were able to do such damage we could have easily swayed even more public opinion to our side, now all you have accomplished was making them martyrs."
"I disagree who is there to use them as such symbols hm? The Justice League is already in the middle of a massive crisis, the public opinion already rests with you for the most part. A large majority of foreign governments either support you or have agreed to stay out of the situation until more facts can be revealed. At this point the only real opposition comes from those floating around in a space station."
"Speaking of which how that phase of the plan progressing?" A feminine voice inquired, as the members looked to the woman who had setup a large amount of the logistics and background of the operation.
"As well as can be expected, The Justice League files are far more heavily encrypted than those of The Titans. Their weaknesses will be much harder to access as is to be expected." The chrome masked man answered.
"Then continue as planned, once we have our new force ready we won't need their weaknesses anyway." Luthor commanded before dismissing the council.
***TRwP***
"Alright Rob so what's the plan?"
"Now that we have verified that the other Titans are in the facility we just need to break in, free them, and then get out. After that…"
A few moments passed before the other Titans looked towards their leader.
"And after that?"
"Yeah…"
"You do have a plan for what happens after we break into a heavily secured military facility and break out over a dozen super heroes from government control… right?" Raven tensely inquired.
"Of course I do Raven… I just need to figure out some of the minor details… like where we go and such."
The teenagers groaned in disbelief as they sat on a ridge overlooking the facility.
***TRwP***
Back at the emergency bunker in which the Titans were hiding a lone figure stalked down the empty hallway before noticing a message on the communication system, after acting the large screen the man sat down on a nearby chair to view the recording.
"Beast Boy, I figured you would find this message at some point. We are currently on our way to a 'secured' facility in the Nevada desert which we have traced the other kidnapped Titans to. I am still not sure what they are doing with them but I can say for certain that we are not going to abandon them. I know we have not always had the best relationship and I haven't always been the best leader either to you or the team but I need one final favor from you. I need you to take on one more mission as a member of The Doom Patrol."
The green skinned teenager narrowed his eyes before giving a slight nod to the recording.
"It cannot continue this way Beast Boy, not anymore. With the information that I was stupid enough to keep we are all in danger now. I am not sure that The Teen Titans will be able to continue after this is all said and done, heck I am not even sure that The Justice League will make it through what is happening. Regardless though it has to end here. If it doesn't they will just keep coming back after us, and eventually they will get lucky. That or our luck will run out."
Robin paused on the video, before taking a deep breath.
"I need you to do what is necessary, not what is necessarily good. I need you to do what it is that you do best. I need you to take this final mission, and if afterwards you no longer wish to serve under me I completely understand, assuming I make it through this confrontation we will all be going over the future of the team anyway. From what I have done I would guess that my role as leader will be over with. I just need to make sure that everyone survives, that we have the change to live peacefully if that is what the others decide. I want everyone to have the option of walking away for once."
"What is it you need me to do Robin?" the changeling muttered out to himself.
"Here is what I have managed to figure out…"
***TRwP***
The 'research' facility had been expecting the visit from its commander, the man known as Slade, for some time now.
In preparation everything had been thoroughly cleaned and organized.
Information had been readied should he ask for it.
The 'experiments' had been increased in order to gain as much proof of success as possible.
All in all the top scientists were sure that they would impress the man who had brought them the 'specimens'.
And thus far it had been a success, Slade had arrived a bit later than anticipated, which had given them even more preparation time, and seemed quite pleased with the results.
The tests were going well, some even said ahead of schedule.
In another few months the weapon they had been commissioned to build would be ready.
That is until several large explosions rocked the facility and alarms began blaring out confused, and often contradictory, orders.
All that the 'civilians' knew was that an unknown force was laying siege to them, and that all test subjects were to be readied for immediate deployment should it be necessary.
It was far more necessary than they would have initially guessed.
***TRwP***
For the first time in weeks Jinx felt a feeling of excitement that had been thus far missing in her life as a hero.
Heroes, after all, did not get to enjoy causing destruction and chaos.
Heroes were not supposed to simply destroy enemy forces, causing blatant collateral damage, or put the fear of God, or the Devil, into their enemies.
No, heroes were supposed to be the 'good guys' and thus keep themselves in check.
That was why she had been literally 'giddy' with excitement when Robin had put her on 'front gate' duty.
Meaning to cause as much damage and create as big of a distraction as possible and if there were two things that the pinkette was good at, they were creating a distraction and causing damage.
Waves of pink energy descended upon the perimeter, causing vehicles to explode violently, electronics to short circuit, buildings to collapse, and various other 'bad luck' incidents to occur.
Next to her stood the Tamaranean princess herself, Starfire clad in full armor that had been salvaged from the storage facility deep under the rubble of The Tower.
Her wrath was just as terrifying as Jinx would have imagined it being.
Bolts of green energy rained down upon the soldiers and structures alike, devastating the area. Any security personnel who had found themselves brave enough to try and retaliate quickly found themselves regretting that decision, and attempting to dodge out of the way of blinding green energy beams which tore through the ground and defenses alike.
Despite this the alien girl seemed to be a bit pent up. Their orders had been to maintain a safe distance and not to engage in any kind of close combat, thus removing Starfire's greatest outlet of aggression, her super strength.
Robin had insisted though, he knew exactly how his 'plans' had been designed to defeat each of the Titans and wanted to eliminate any possibility that these could come into play.
Thus the two girls were forced to be content with just bombarding the area, much like their home had been, from afar. Causing destruction and luring out all available forces from the interior of the facility where the remaining three Titans would infiltrate.
***TRwP***
In one of the darker observation rooms a shadow grew larger and into the form of a large raven before dropping the remaining three Titans stealthily into the underground base.
A quick glance around told them that Raven's senses had been correct, and that they were alone.
Robin quickly secured the door while the cybernetic teen went about hacking into the security systems of the facility.
Raven, in the meantime, closed her eyes to focus on her empathic sense, trying desperately to locate any of the captured heroes.
"Found something, it looks like something called 'Case Grey'. Captured technology from Brother Blood being used to mind control… oh God…" The mechanical man froze his eye widening in horror.
"What is it Cyborg?" Robin demanded.
"They are mind controlling the other Titans it looks like they are looking for schematics on The Justice League watchtower. Robin they are going to use them as soldiers!"
"But why? Even Luthor knows that we stand no real chance against The League, especially if they are all in one spot."
"It doesn't matter, I doubt most of the heroes would be willing to use lethal force which means that even if The Titans are only able to kill a few members then it would be worth it."
"That's not their plan… they are going to use them as a suicide weapon, to cause enough damage to the watchtower and drop it from orbit. They want to take everyone out at once while making it look like an act of aggression from The League. If it drops on a city…" Cyborg muttered out in shock.
"Then the world would unite in their hatreds and fears. Any surviving members of either group would be targeted for execution and Luthor would have his war." Raven finished, quickly glancing over to her two comrades.
"We need to get them out of here and undo the effects. But first, Cyborg do you think you can get this information out of the facility somehow?"
"Uh sure, but who are we going to…"
"I am sure that the media would love to have this." Robin grinned maliciously.
***TRwP***
"Sir what should we do? Our exterior forces are unable to mount any kind of defense and most of the above ground facilities are either destroyed or severely damaged, if this continues they will eventually overrun and force their way inside!" One of the scientists panicked as he quickly scurried alongside of his 'employer'.
"Calm yourself doctor, I am not concerned with the Titans on the outside, but rather with the ones who have undoubtedly infiltrated the facility during the distraction." Slade replied in a monotone, almost bored, voice.
"They are inside!" the man felt his blood pressure skyrocketing as he glanced about nervously.
"Of course, why else do you think that only two of them would be attacking? This has Robin written all over it, a pity really. Well regardless I believe it is time to activate our little experiment and unleash them onto their former teammates."
"We can't do that! You know just as well as I do that the project isn't ready, if we send them out too early it could reverse the process completely."
"Well if that is the case then I shall leave you here to deal with your failures. I, on the other hand, have on interest in going down with the ship that Mr. President has put all his stock in."
With that the chrome masked man turned and departed down a separate corridor, but not before sealing it off, much to the horror of those attempting to flee with him.
The chief scientist's two assistants quickly glanced over to him, desperately looking for any guidance.
"A-activate the weapons! At worst they will buy us time to delete the databases and save ourselves if nothing else."
The two nodded before quickly moving down a separate hallway.
***TRwP***
"Slade" Robin growled out, as he watched his arch nemesis walking leisurely down a hallway. "Where is this? We can still catch up to him and…"
"Robin there isn't any time, he is on the opposite end of the base and even if we charged full speed to reach him we could be walking straight into a trap. There are more important things to attend to right now." Cyborg replied, before gesturing towards another camera which was monitoring a room full of large containment units labeled with the names of various teenage heroes.
"Our teammates, our friends are down there. They need to be our top priority."
Robin took a deep breath before sighing and giving a nod.
"Yeah you're right. Okay let's get them out of here and rendezvous with Jinx and Starfire, after that we can proceed to the emergency bunker located in Oregon and hide out until we can ensure that it is safe again."
"Now that sounds like the Robin we know and love." The mechanical man teased before bringing up the layout o the facility. "Alright we are here which means that if we take this hallway…"
***TRwP***
As the criminal mastermind walked through the abandoned parking garage he halted, eyebrow raised as the lights in the distance began shutting down one by one, the darkness slowly expanding towards him from all directions.
"It appears as though someone is targeting me now, how interesting. Batman is still confirmed as being in the tower Robin is elsewhere and would never be so bold. In fact all of the Titans are present and accounted for except…"
The darkness finally reached the man as the final overhead light shut off, leaving the entire area without any source of light.
"I wonder what you will do now." Slade's voice echoed out through the underground room, "Do you really think that removing my sight will give you an advantage? You have adapted to the darkness, trained in it. But you made a mistake in targeting me. I was born in the darkness, raised by it. The shadows are my home as much as that tower was yours."
Laughter seemed to echo out at this statement, coming from every direction at once.
"You were born in it Slade? Raised in it? What a joke, do you know how many animals are nocturnal? Do you have any idea on how many creatures hunt at night? How many instincts are roaring through my head right now? How many ways I have of killing you at this very moment?"
"I can imagine I have killed far more people than you can imagine dear boy. I must say though that this does present an interesting situation. The two of us meeting, alone, I have wanted to speak with you for some time about your role as the 'clown' on your team. Even I was fooled by this act, but now I see the truth. You are like me Beast Boy, a hunter, and a predator. You should come with me. Become the apprentice I have been searching for ever since Robin failed. Succeed where he could not, where even Terra could not. If you do image what we could accomplish, the world would be your hunting ground. The Titans would stand no chance against you. I know you do not desire wealth, no your desires are far more simple, far more primal."
"Pathetic Slade" Once more the changeling's voice seemed to flow through the open room without any direct source. "Here you are talking about submitting to you when you are the one who is being targeted. In my experience it is the prey that always bargains with the hunter in their last moments, trying to hold off death for just a few moments. Why is that? Do you think that it will give you time to repent for your sins? That a few extra breaths will somehow make the end easier?"
"So you intend to kill me then, not very heroic of you."
"I never claimed that I was being a hero right now. In fact due to your actions I don't know if I will ever be able to claim that role again, but that's not what is important right now. What is important is that you are never allowed to leave here. That your threat is ended once and for all."
With that the voice faded, and silence prevailed through the darkness.
It was Slade who would strike first, or at least he would seem to, lashing out at a perceived sound with a cybernetically enhanced punch that could shatter concrete.
But he found no victim, instead a pair of claws ripped into the back of his armor, cutting through the metal in ways that should not be possible.
The criminal spun instantly, sweeping around with a kick, but once more hit nothing.
His foe had already fallen back to figure out a new approach.
Silently the masked man swore in his head for not including infrared sensors into his helmet, although with the boy's powers there was no guarantee that they would have helped anyway.
Once more he heard a slight tap on the concrete. But instead of attacking immediately he held back, until he felt the attack tear into his armor. It was at this moment that he activated his shoulder lights, illuminating his opponent and allowing the mercenary to engage the boy before he could retreat.
Slade struck forward, landing a blow on the teen's shoulder, which he absorbed by flowing with the punch. Beast Boy retaliated with a claws swipe towards the man's face, far faster that Slade would have anticipated.
Thankfully years of experience had given the villain reflexes that would have impressed even Batman, allowing him to duck just in the nick of time and land a kick into his opponent's gut. Leaping backwards Beast Boy glared in annoyance at the counter attack.
"Impressive, my suit enhances me to the point of superhuman levels and yet you shrugged my attacks off like they were ordinary blows."
"My skin is stronger than Kevlar at this point, so to me they are the equivalent of a normal person."
The two adversaries once more attacked, clashing mid charge in a flurry of blows.
Each had a mastery of combat styles that made any potential slip up deadly.
Special Forces techniques that had been developed over decades came into play.
Each grapple was calculated to break bone.
Every counter was designed to paralyze a muscle group.
Even the feints had a purpose to lure the other into a trap.
Neither gave an inch, and both bled.
***TRwP***
The three Titans raced down the hallway, trying to reach their captured teammates as quickly as possible, when they came to a large open room. By the looks of it Cyborg guessed it to be some sort of training room for either weaponry or the other Titan's powers.
On the other side of the room stood the various remaining Titans, with blank expressions on their faces.
Suddenly a voice called out from the loud speakers.
"Ah welcome Robin, Cyborg, and Raven. It is a pity that we were not able to capture you and your friends during the siege, if you survived such an ordeal you would have made truly powerful weapons in our fight for freedom."
"How the hell can you call this freedom!?" Cyborg roared out in response, gesturing towards the state of the others.
"They have been freed of the manipulations of your so called 'Justice League' freed of the emotions that have held them back. Surely you can understand this Raven? Of all the super heroes in the world our information marks you as being the most influenced by her emotions. If anyone can understand the beauty of what we are doing here, of the sacrifice by the few to save the lives of the many than it is you." The voice once more echoed out.
"Years ago I might have agreed with you. But I have come to realize that emotions are what make us unique, they are what give us strength when we cannot find any, they are what give us compassion when it is needed most, and they are what guides us when the path is darkest. So no I cannot agree or allow such travesties to continue. I will not stand by and let you kill innocent people by manipulating my friends and family to your own will."
"A pity, well I figured that you all would fail to see reason just as your teammates did. But perhaps once the demonstration is complete you will see the error of your ways.
The various Titans began advancing forward, intending on destroying their former comrades.
"Uh Rob… you have any brilliant ideas?"
"Operation Hammer Fall?"
"I thought we wanted to help them, not kill them!?"
"Do you have any better ideas Cyborg?" the masked leader inquired, already pulling out dozens of various exploding discs from his satchel.
"Not really, you ready for this Raven?"
The empath nodded, before her eyes crackled with pure energy.
***TRwP***
Both warriors stood, bleeding and wounded from their fight.
Both were heavily injured, bruised in ways that would have dropped lesser heroes or villains to their knees.
Both knew that this would only end with one of them walking away.
Beast Boy grabbed the man's arm, intending on snapping it in two, only for the man to calmly strike his face, breaking the hold and following up with a blow to the throat.
The changeling would dodge low, sending a kick to the man's knee with the intent to snap it in two.
Slade raised his leg, kick back and intercepting the attack and forcing the boy off balance.
Garfield flowed into a hand stand, delivering a kick to the man's skull before he was able to grab the limb.
A submission hold forced the teenager into a reversal, pushing himself up to strike at the man's head with his claws.
In an instant the mastermind had thrown the boy backwards, distancing himself from the lethal claws.
Once more the two charged, although with Beast Boy moving noticeably slower after the bruising he had received through the fight.
Just as the two were about to collide the green teenager vanished, forcing Slade to skid to a halt.
Less than a second later Beast Boy shapeshifted back to his original form from the flea shape he had assumed a moment prior, his claws already midway through the attack.
A sickening sound filled the air as his claws tore through the man's spine and throat.
***TRwP***
'Operation Hammer Fall' had been originally conceived of by Cyborg, in essence he saw the need to be able to bring in powerful backup weapons should the team ever become overwhelmed, or they found themselves dealing with another massively powerful enemy.
The 'cool' part of it was obviously thought up by Beast Boy, after all who else would have come up with the idea of "wouldn't it be cool if you dropped some kind of huge mech suite from space?"
Thus with a little bit of ingenuity, and Robin providing the funds to construct a small orbiting satellite, the most powerful weapon in Cyborg's arsenal gained the ability to be deployed any place on Earth, including into heavily fortified underground bunkers.
After holding off the other Titans, who thankfully lacked the teamwork that made them so dangerous, for a few minutes the roar of metal tearing through concrete, rock, and then steel reached the ears of those present just as the reinforced capsule punched through to the mechanical man's location, who immediately leapt back into the device, and donned his improved cybernetic form.
He now stood at over ten feet tall, with armor over a foot thick surrounding him and empowering his already formidable form.
Red Star stood no chance as he shoulder tackled the man into a nearby wall, knocking him unconscious just as a powerful charge by Wildebeest was easily deflected.
Unfortunately, he had been unable to bring the full power of his mechanized weapon to bear. Since most of the weapon systems were designed to be utilized against powerful opponents, such as Cinderblock or robotic armies, he couldn't use them against his controlled friends.
Robin was having even more trouble than his teammate, unfortunately. After partially freezing Mas y Menos with a pair of specially designed discs he found himself under projectile attack by Speedy and Hot Spot.
It was all the leader could do to simple stay one step ahead, especially with little to no cover available.
The few times he was able to close the distance and engage the archer in hand to hand combat he was forced away by Pantha, who had been commanded to cover for her teammates by those in control.
Meanwhile Raven found herself facing off against a group led by Argent and including Aqualad, Kid Flash, and Gnarrk.
For every way of energy she threw at her new opponents to try and disable them the pale girl would form a barrier and repel it. Due to her reluctance to injure them Raven held back much of her power, resulting in several injuries to herself.
***TRwP***
As the former Doom Patrol member checked the body of The Titan's greatest enemy his mind went back to the message he had received from his leader.
***Flashback***
"Here is what I have managed to figure out Slade will be at the main facility doing a checkup on progress. Should our attack succeed I have no doubt that he will be forced to flee, especially if we are able to free the other Titans. I have located the most plausible escape route, which is an underground parking garage which leads to tunnels moving under the desert and away to secure locations. Should he reach any of the vehicles I doubt we will be able to stop him from regrouping. Beast Boy… I need you to eliminate him… permanently."
***End Flashback***
Upon confirming the corpse Beast Boy went about removing any type of technology that might be of use, before walking back into the shadows trusting in the others to get out safely just as they had always trusted in him.
***TRwP***
Raven glanced over to her two teammates, Robin was heavily injured now and barely avoiding the potentially fatal attacks.
Cyborg had knocked out at least half of their opponents, but the strain on his power supply was beginning to show and his movements were now slower, more conservative.
Her own injuries were minor, but if the battle continued as it was they would surely lose.
And then what? Would they be mind controlled like the others, turned on their friends? Would she be forced to kill Beast Boy?
That single thought snapped any restraint she might have had her eyes began to glow with raw power, her normally dark blue cape brightened to a pure white color.
"ENOUGH!"
The wave of energy released from this single command was enough to crater the walls, and tear the floor apart.
The enemy Titans that were still standing were thrown backwards with incredible force, before a bright radiance consumed them and rendered them unconscious.
The control panel which had thus far been overlooking the battle exploded violently, severely burning the man who had forced the heroes to engage each other and sending him fleeing in pain and fear.
Moments later the Titans vanished in a flash of magnificent light.
***TRwP***
Outside the still pinned down soldiers stood up in shock as the two females who had thus far turned their base into a cratered ruin disappeared suddenly, a bright flash being the only sign of their departure.
***TRwP***
Sometime later Robin awoke, startled and on a rather uncomfortable bed.
"Where?"
"Have enough beauty sleep Boy Wonder?" Jinx laughed out as she entered the room with a small tray of food.
"Jinx, where are we?"
"Best I can tell we are in one of the safe houses. But do to someone's hatred of sunlight there are no windows or ways of telling where exactly."
"What happened?"
"Oh wow you have no idea do you? For once you are actually less informed than I am. So is this what you feel like all the time? Pretty cool actually."
"Jinx…" The boy growled out in annoyance, his head was throbbing enough as is and he didn't need any further irritation.
"Yeah yeah let me just take a moment to enjoy this feeling, wow it really is amazing. So anyway apparently Raven decided that you guys were getting your asses kicked too badly and went all 'perfect being' on their asses before teleporting us, and the other Titans, back here."
"The others, are they?"
"Our team is fine, not sure on anyone else though. Currently they are heavily sedated and strapped down for their safety and ours. No telling if what Raven did cured them or not so we can't take any chances."
Robin nodded in agreement, before slowly pulling himself out of the bed, wincing slightly at the bruises that were still present.
"Hey easy, there is no reason to strain yourself, besides there isn't much to do anyway right now."
The masked boy nodded, before gently sitting back down.
"How long have we been here?"
"Are we really playing twenty questions or something?" Upon seeing the glare being directed towards her the girl shrugged before continuing her answer. "Fine, we got here about two days ago, since then Vic has fully repaired himself while Starfire and I have been checking up on you and the others."
"Raven?"
"She's okay, but she was super worn out, apparently teleporting a large group of people and a robotic suit hundreds of miles can really take a toll on her powers, who knew?"
The teenage leader nodded before his eyes shot open in concern.
"Wait, what about Beast Boy? Have we heard anything?"
"Nothing yet, Raven said she would be searching for him once her powers recuperated but Cyborg insisted she stay here for now. Not like she can find him with her empathy anyways."
Just then a voice sounded over the loud speaker system.
"Everybody to the main room now! BB is back!
The two Titans gave each other excited glances before running off to greet their missing friend.
***TRwP***
"Beast Boy you have returned to us!" Starfire happily proclaimed as she flew into a powerful hug.
"Nice to see you too Star, glad to see everyone is okay. How are the others?"
"They are stable right now. We won't know the full extent of the psychological damage until they regain consciousness though." Cyborg answered.
"So Beast Boy how did you manage to survive the collapse of The Tower?" Robin inquired curiously.
"Aww you know me Rob, it would take a lot more than a massive artillery barrage and the collapse of thousands of tons of metal and concrete to keep me down." The boy grinned in response.
"True, but it still raises an interesting question."
"I'm tougher than I look you know, plus you would be surprised how easy it is for an amoeba to escape rubble."
Robin nodded content that his question had been completely answered for once.
"That does remind me Rob I got something for you when I was out and about. Think of it as a souvenir." The changeling mentioned, while reaching into a nearby backpack and pulling out a small box before handing it to the boy.
The other Titans stared curiously at their leader who privately opened the box, staring for a moment, at the chrome mask before nodding and shutting it once more.
The entire time his expression had never changed.
"Thank you Beast Boy, I'm not sure if you realize how much this means to me or not."
"Just finishing up one last mission."
The Boy Wonder nodded before the silence was interrupted by the pinkette.
"So what do we do now? The Titans are back together, the others are rescued, and we are probably considered terrorists." Jinx counted the various points on her fingers as she listed them.
"Now we wait for our friends to recover and let Luthor make the next move." Robin answered, turning his attention to the box in his hand and becoming lost in thought.
***A/N***
I hope this chapter didn't seem rushed, it did a bit to me but I had a lot to cover and I didn't want to have one normal chapter and then another split up weird or really short, either way I don't think it turned out too bad all considering.
So the last major arc is mostly resolved and I figure there will probably be one chapter left in the story, which makes me a bit sad.
Hopefully everyone enjoyed the short little skirmish, and Cyborg's badassery. My inspiration for that came from the second Avengers movie and the Lego Batman game where Cyborg could turn into a giant form of himself.
As for Slade, well I was going to have a big climactic fight between him and Robin but let's be honest here. Robin was never going to beat him and I figured why not have a final 'Doom Patrol' mission.
I hope everyone enjoyed the chapter.