Author's Notes
Remember, I will respond to all reviews for this chapter as well as chapter 5 in the author's notes section of chapter 7.
And much like chapter 4, reader discretion is advised for the final scene of the chapter.
Now, let's continue the story.
It has been 3 months since Raven's sentence to Belle Reve, and the Titans miss Raven in the tower. She was their young sister that acted as the mature and oldest for some. Starfire missed going to the mall of shopping with Raven, as well as meditating with her. Beast Boy's going to missed being thrown out of the window from the empath, and those times where he always tries to get her out of her room. Cyborg missed the times he and Raven would just sit, play chess, and see who will win and lose. As for Robin, he is determined to get Raven out of Belle Reve and is focusing on getting her appeal. Right now he is discussing with the Justice League to get Raven's appeal.
"There's no one in the law system of California to support our cause." Robin states as he spoke to Batman, Martian Manhunter, and Zatanna. "It always comes to the same thing, these people are so ignorant and bigoted about Raven's heritage."
"Don't give up the cause you believe in, Robin." Martian Manhunter advised the boy wonder.
"We are currently waiting for the Hague to reply to us about Raven's appeal." Batman states.
Before Robin can reply, the klaxon alarm went up as Robin looks at the other screen to see Overload and Kardiak terrorizing Jump City. "There's trouble, call you back, later." Robin told the league as he is forced the end the meeting prematurely.
The four remaining Titans went to the shopping mall which is where Overload and Kardiak are. Overload is seen at the electronics sucking up the power from the technology, as well as Kardiak trying to kidnap children from the indoor playground. It has been a while for some of the villains in Jump to do crimes, as they're too afraid of doing any crime in the city after most of the villains were killed by Raven. As of now, it seems that without Raven, the Titans are overpowered by the two villains, for which they are now powered to be unstoppable.
"They've gotten stronger." Cyborg comments as he helps himself up, just as Overload prepares to drain Cyborg's battery. But before the living electricity can bring Cyborg's demise, Overload as been knocked away by a green glove. The Titans then saw Kyle Rayner of the Green Lantern corps, as he flew in to the rescue.
"Someone needed a hand?" Kyle asked as he constructs his ring as a hammer as he hits Kardiak hard enough to spit out all of the children he sucked in. Kyle then constructs a cage to put Kardiak and Overload inside so they won't escape.
"Thank you, Green Lantern." Starfire said as she bows to the young Lantern.
"Yeah, thanks for the assist, fellow green dude." Beast Boy replied.
"Well when the Justice League told me that you guys needed my help, you can always count on me." Kyle respond to them. "Besides, I'm just a temp."
As Kyle and the Titans brings in the contained villains out of the mall so he can bring them to prison, he and the Titans noticed Overload and Kardiak glowing as the two villains exploded from Kyle's materialized cage, killing them. The impact caused Kyle to fall back and injured himself as the Titans rush over to his aid.
"Dude, what just happened?" Beast Boy asked.
"Kardiak and Overload exploded, that's what." Cyborg answers as he checks up on Kyle.
"But how, and why?" Robin asked as he grew in suspicion of the two deceased villains as he saw many pieces of them scattered on the floor.
Over at Belle Reve Prison, Raven was now three months into her indeterminate sentence and her situation was not looking any brighter. She was well on her way to becoming the "prison bitch", if she was not there already, - the other inmates frequently vented their anger at the Titans, the Justice League, hell any superhero that existed, on Raven, leaving a lot of nasty injuries on her. While these wounds wouldn't be significant if she had her healing ability, Raven didn't have it as all of her powers were suppressed, leaving her as powerless as a normal human.
And the other inmates of Belle Reve knew this as they dished out blow after blow. They wanted to hurt her, but not kill her - they needed her alive or else they no longer have any "fresh meat". And while the male inmates more often than not attacked her, the female inmates not only attacked her, but also forced Raven to perform oral sex on them.
Unfortunately, Raven had no traits of a succumbus in her, despite her curvy body, and the other prisoners were dissatisfied with Raven's performance - they kept forcing her to do it to humiliate her and they had also threatened to allow Dr. Light to rape her if she didn't improve. And Raven had yet to improve as she had no experience in the field of sex - she wasn't even sure if she would lose her virginity during her life. But if she didn't improve, her virginal barriers would fall to Dr. Light, or some other prisoner at Belle Reve.
Now, she needed to find some way to survive, or at least another ally. Unfortunately, none of the other inmates were acting kindly to her, and almost all of them kept beating her up, especially the ones in Raven's cell block.
It was another day as usual when the alarms rang out, indicating it was time to wake up, and Raven, who was short on sleep from her nightmares and her pain, as well as Killer Frost often hitting her at night, frequently was so startled she fell right off her bunk and onto the floor, where Killer Frost would simply crush her and cause quite a bit of pain, especially on the areas that had plenty of bruising from the beatings.
After Killer Frost finished giving the pain, it was time for breakfast, and in the single-file line to the cafeteria, Raven was harassed by some of the other inmates - Godiva and Cheetah, today, who tripped her while she was walking, making her quite the laughingstock in the line, much like Dr. Light had been the laughingstock upon his loss at Raven's hand.
Upon arriving at the cafeteria, Raven had to wait in a lengthy line - one made even more-so by the fact that the other inmates cut in front of her, resulting in her being last in line for the daily breakfast.
Getting her oatmeal and toast from Ugly and Firefly, Raven went towards the most isolated table in the cafeteria to sit down and try to eat her breakfast in peace. Some days, she got lucky and nobody went to bother her. Unfortunately, today was not one of them and it was Weapons Master, Key, and Captain Boomerang who struck at Raven, slamming her head into her bowl of oatmeal before knocking her on the ground and dumping the rest of the oatmeal onto Raven's back. Then, Weapons Master wrote in the oatmeal, KICK ME and soon after, many of the other inmates began to kick Raven in the butt, and there was nothing Raven could do to stop it.
A minor mercy came when the bells rang, signaling the prisoners to hit the showers, which became a much worse situation as once she got in the locker room, she was ordered to hand over her clothing so it could be washed - there was still quite a bit of oatmeal remaining on it.
Once she was out of her dirty clothes, Raven went into the showers so she could hopefully wash the oatmeal off of her face, but before she could, her roommate Killer Frost ambushed her and pinned her on the ground.
Killer Frost demanded, "Eat me up, bitch!" Positioning her crotch over Raven's mouth, the half-demon had no choice but to perform oral sex on Killer Frost, licking her until climax, moving her tongue monotonously to achieve effect. After that, her cellmate yelled, "Predictably terrible. I'm giving you a month to get better or else when you come in here, you'll be met by Dr. Light, not myself!"
With that threat instilled in her cellmate, Killer Frost went off to shower (and to get some of the oatmeal stuck to her nether regions off), and Raven did the same, trying to wash out the oatmeal and cum that overpowered her head and mouth. Things weren't getting any easier for Raven.
After the showers (and Raven was given a clean prison uniform), it was time for duty, with her current shift being in prison maintenance (it was cheaper than hiring janitors), and today's task was to clean up the hallways in the men's side of the prison. The other members of Raven's detail included Duela Dent, Professor Zoom, Brick, Anarky, Madame Rouge, Killer Croc, and Magpie. And whenever the guards were shifting through the detail (or when they just weren't paying attention), Duela, Rouge, and Magpie all forced Raven to perform cunnilingus on them or else she'd risk further pain and torture.
Working from 930 hours to 1700 hours, Raven both had to do her job (and beyond as her workload soon consisted of doing the work of half of the inmates there, forcing her to simply because they could) and endure the beatings.
At 1800 hours, it was recess and things weren't getting any better for the demoness as Volcana and Golden Glider each assaulted Raven and forced her to perform oral sex on them - six times in one day was becoming too much for Raven to handle.
For the few moments she wasn't being attacked, Raven tried to meditate. Even though she didn't have her powers, she didn't want to be lax in her control of them and keeping her emotions controlled also kept her calm (or as calm as she could be).
After recess, it was supper time and she got her tray consisting of a cup of water, a bowl of rice with a few chunks of vegetables mixed in, and a piece of bread. Raven had to admit that the rice was definitely a nice change-up from the usual oatmeal, but her dining was predictably interrupted by the arrival of several inmates, Andre LeBlanc, Osiris, and Kobra, all of whom proceeded to rough up Raven while she was eating and giving her no room to resist, roughly grabbing her to ensure she couldn't fight back.
Once dinner was done, Raven was returned to her cell along with her dangerous cellmate Killer Frost, who would continue to verbally and physically pick on Raven until it was lights out.
Raven could only stare up in silence as she lamented what she had done to deserve this.
If everyday was like this, she would never make it out of Belle Reve alive.
There is something happening at Chicago as there is a rally near a STAR Labs branch facility. This rally is made up of anti-metahuman supporters, a group that detests the metahuman populations. They're protesting outside of the building to force them out and stop supporting the metahumans.
"Get out of there, you freak supporters!" one protester demands as he threw a brick at the window.
"You people are the problem with these freaks polluting our country!" a woman shouts with disdain.
As they've continued to bash and throw objects around, another rally shows up. This time it's made up of pro-metahuman supporters, all humans. They are set up to stop the protestors from attacking the STAR Labs branch building. The leader of the group, Sally Winchester, a girl with long black hair, black leather jacket with a tye-dye t-shirt under it, and blue ripped jeans as she holds up a speaker phone. She also sports an arm band with a peace sign on it.
"Stop this protest, everyone!" Sally shouts through the speaker phone "You're all attacking against innocent people in the building!"
"Innocent!? These scientists are practically responsible for these freaks running around the world!" a man retorts from the opposing side.
"But these metahumans are just like us, people!" Sally calls out to them.
"Fuck you!" shouted one of the opposers as he threw a beer bottle towards Sally as it hits her on the head. This caused the metahuman supporters to retort as a fight breaks out as the protesters attack them. The riot was so bad and violent, with so many people getting badly beaten and hurt, that the National Guard had to come in later to break the fight. The leader of the metahuman supporters, Sally was last seen being escorted to an ambulance where she will be treated for the head wound.
Returning to Titans Tower, Robin resumed the conversation he had left with the Justice League. Wonder Woman appeared on the screen and asked Robin, "What happened? I heard that Kyle was injured."
Robin explained, "Overload and Kardiak were attacking downtown, having been obviously upgraded. Kyle helped us bring them down but soon after they were caged in his construct, they exploded! Kyle's being treated for second-degree burns, though he should pull through. What I don't understand is who would rig them to detonate."
"I suppose one thing is clear. The two were sent to deliver maximum damage to both downtown Jump City and to you, the Titans. Kyle's cage construct saved your lives by bearing the brunt of their damage."
"And so is another thing. Cyborg is combing through the remains of the two machines and found they were rigged with high-grade military explosives, the kind that are currently under development. Not only that, we found they were rigged to a remote detonator. Somebody was watching the fight and set them to blow up. Guess they didn't account for the strength of Kyle's construct. But, the fact they came this close to killing us is concerning to me."
Suddenly, the Flash came onto the screen and wondered, "Who do you think it would be?"
"Whoever it is, they knew we'd be far more vulnerable now that Raven is locked up in Belle Reve. Part of me believes it's Deathstroke, but he wouldn't use proxies to kill us - he'd do it with his bare hands. He hasn't been seen since the Trigon incident, and the closest we came to encountering him was Beast Boy's fight with a Slade robot at that amusement park. Barry, what do you think is our course of action?"
"I'd keep looking into the explosives used in Overload and Kardiak and trace the source of their upgrades. You're looking for someone with high technical capacity and skill. Almost certainly, some sort of government scientist would have the know-how. The question would be though, which one?"
"Yeah, there are a lot of them out there. Doctor Sivana, Professor Ivo, T.O. Morrow, hell, Gizmo, all have the technical expertise to turn Overload and Kardiak into upgraded machines turned suicide bombers."
"From there, not all of them would have the ability to capture the two and upgrade them. The HIVE would have no chance in containing Kardiak and Overload. I'm certain of it from what Wally's girlfriend has noted about her old group. Each of the others, and probably countless more, could contain them and upgrade them, but who would have the most to gain from your deaths?"
"I don't know, but we'll have to find out."
Wonder Woman added, "And as for the matter of Raven's appeal, you'll likely need to keep tabs on the key piece of evidence, the Demon's Hand. If somebody is out to get you, they know that the Demon's Hand is going to be your play."
Robin replied, "So, we'll need to get it from evidence lock-up. It'd be much safer in the Tower. I'll get back to you." With that, Robin shut down the feed and proceeded to head off to the garage, where Cyborg was working on processing the remains of the two mechanical menaces along with Beast Boy, who was sorting out the pieces. While the changeling wasn't the most knowledgeable about the parts, having two sets of eyes was better than one.
Hopping onto the R-Cycle, Robin opened the garage door and sped out from the Tower and headed towards the police station, hoping to make sure that the Demon's Hand was still inside the evidence lock-up. Ever since the Joker's death, the artifact was placed as evidence in the case, not that it was utilized to ensure the jury knew that Raven was innocent of the crimes committed under the Joker's thrall (the counts of larceny and murder).
Quickly arriving at the police station, Robin parked the R-Cycle so it wouldn't get a parking ticket - the Titans had to be extra careful nowadays since Raven's conviction damaged their reputation and they didn't want to worsen it.
Stepping away from the R-Cycle and activating the anti-theft measures, Robin walked into the police station and headed towards the evidence lock-up to take custody of the Demon's Hand. As Robin approached the custodian, she asked, "What are you here for?"
Robin explained, "I'm here to examine an object currently in evidence."
"I take it has something to deal with the Roth case."
"Yes. May I please enter?"
The custodian pressed a button and the door opened up to allow Robin access. Stepping into the evidence lock-up, Robin proceeded to look through the shelves to find where the evidence pertaining to Raven's case was.
At last, Robin found the right section: Re-Sa, and began looking for the evidence. After several minutes, Robin finally arrived at the case labeled "ROTH, RAVEN". Grabbing the box, Robin set it down on a nearby table before opening it, taking a look at what was inside.
He saw two sets of Raven's clothes (which had been placed in the box after her arrest as well as those obtained from the Joker's hideout), a handgun taken from the Joker's base (the one Raven was given to kill the McCullen family), the weights placed on Adonis, the chainsaw used on Fang and Kitten, the knife that killed Mumbo, fingerprint imprints from the corpses of Mad Mod and Professor Chang, the driver's wheel on the car that ran down Ding Dong Daddy, the bomb that was responsible for Rancid's death, and the loincloth and bra that Raven had been in a few hours before the Joker's death.
The last piece of evidence was taken right from Titans Tower - the police got a warrant demanding the Titans surrender any evidence that pertained to the case, and they handed over the bra and loincloth.
However, one thing that wasn't in the evidence box was the Demon's Hand. And that was deeply concerning - somebody got the object before Robin could. Robin knew that the artifact had been in evidence lock-up as he had been shown it just after Raven's trial concluded.
Placing the box back where he had found it, Robin walked up to the custodian and asked, "Who was the last person to have accessed the box containing Raven's evidence?"
The custodian handed Robin the chain of evidence log and just before Robin signed it, he saw the name he was looking for - Lieutenant Jim Grant, who happened to be Chief Hogan Grant's brother. And the lieutenant had signed for Raven's evidence about a month ago.
After signing, Robin left the police station, hopped on his R-Cycle, and returned to Titans Tower to inform the Justice League of this new development.
At Recess, Ravager is seen sitting on the bench, watching Raven sitting on the floor, meditating. But unfortunately for her, Raven was hit by a ball thrown at by Volcana. The fire villain motioned Shade, Osiris, and Merlyn the Archer to step towards the empath and bully her without the guard's knowledge. Merlyn kicked Raven's sides as well as Shade beats her with a stick he found. Volcana then straddles onto Raven as she forcefully kiss her and grope her chest, which angered Ravager greatly.
"You little demon whore." Volcana told her as she pins Raven's hands down. Once Ravager heard that her blood boiled. Ravager then saw Killer Frost coming towards them as she joins in to kick Raven's arm.
Frost then is called up by Ugly, as the ice villain walks towards the smuggler of Apokoliptan weapons as they speak. Ravager couldn't hear what they're talking due to their whispers. Whatever it is, it's not good for Raven.
"Hey, Rose!" shouted Icicle Jr as he and Duela Dent appears in front of her.
"What do you two idiots want?" Ravager snarled as her intimating eye makes the two shiver.
"We were wondering if you would like to play basketball with us." Duela replied to the daughter of who was formerly the deadliest man alive (he was the deadliest man alive until he lost his head to Raven). "We need another player, and-"
"Does it look like I give a fuck? Now scram before I shove your heads up your asses!" Ravager asked in a threatening tone.
Icicle Jr and Duela Dent looked scared by the platinum haired girl, as they decided to get away from her and find another player.
It was another agonizing day at Belle Reve for Raven. She had been beaten up all over the place, from in the prison halls to the cafeteria to the showers to her duty cleaning the prison and even at recess.
If this was outside of prison, where Raven still had her powers, then Raven may have been able to push them away. Unfortunately, in this instance, where nobody had powers, the other inmates had the edge by an insurmountable margin. And they took advantage of it, to get revenge for being beaten by the Justice League and all of the other heroes. And the abuse wasn't just physical, it was also verbal as well as they all took time to berate Raven for not "living up to her potential", i.e. becoming a hero when her powers would have made her a respected villain.
And in addition, Raven was also sexually abused as well, having to perform oral sex on the female inmates. Raven was at least fortunate that she didn't have to perform it on the male inmates, especially Doctor Light, who could easily be given the access to rape her and the other inmates wouldn't stop him.
She was all alone at Belle Reve, and what makes it worse, the Titans had yet to come and visit her. She had no access to the outside world, cut off from the life she once knew and shipped off to a world that made sure to make her life a living hell, one that was worse than that of her father.
And the guards weren't very helpful, treating her like the average criminal, not intervening when she was attacked by inmates, and even if they weren't unattentive to her plight, they just watched as she was beaten. There were big fish and there were bigger fish and then was Raven, the guppy everybody preyed on.
Any hope that Raven may have had coming into Belle Reve was rapidly deteriorating and she was now an almost lifeless husk, close to just droning on with her day with total apathy towards whatever was going on. Maybe once she no longer cared about the pain, the other inmates would leave her alone because they couldn't affect Raven anymore.
The empath was simply waiting in her cell for the guards to summon them for supper, along with her dreaded inmate Killer Frost. The ice villainess simply tapped Raven in the back whenever she thought Raven may have been at peace, disrupting her and leaving her at the edge.
Finally, the cell doors opened and Killer Frost hopped out of her bunk, as Raven got off of her bunk, heading towards the door. However, Frost pushed Raven back away from the door, so she could go first. Once Frost had passed through, Raven followed to see the swarm of inmates that were nearby and soon they began to attack her.
An unfamiliar inmate grabbed Raven by the neck and put her in an armlock, trying to choke Raven but the inhibitor collar was too inflexible to allow for strangulation (and that was why inmates couldn't hang themselves in prison).
Still, it kept Raven from moving, enabling a few other prisoners, who from what Raven could tell by their tattoos, were members of a prison gang, much like the inmate currently strangling her and keeping her from moving, to come up and beat her.
One of them began pounding at Raven's chest, delivering bruising all over her breasts while another began kicking at her legs. A third kneeled down to punch Raven in the stomach while a fourth worked on hitting Raven's head.
After several minutes of brutal, agonizing beatings, the prison gang let Raven slump onto the floor as they walked away from her, going towards the cafeteria to get their dinner. Raven arose and began following, limping a little from the insane punishment on her legs and abdomen. Again, more inmates kept beating her up. But at least they spared her womanhood further harm, at least until Dr. Light comes and then it's open season on all parts of her body.
As Raven quickly moved towards the cafeteria, more inmates kept attacking Raven, slapping her in the face and tripping her amongst other things. By now, roughly half of Raven's body was covered by bruising from all of the other inmates, and she hadn't been able to heal them because she didn't have her healing ability.
Once she got through the crowd of enemies, Raven finally arrived at the cafeteria only to find herself at the end of the insanely long line that stretched all the way across the cafeteria. There was only an hour for eating, and Raven knew she wouldn't even have part of that time as she'll be stuck in that line for a while, possibly even longer if that was possible because some of the inmates that would trickle in just cut in front of her, treating her without any respect. It was almost as if there was some unspoken rule that Raven would automatically be the last person to get her food, whatever it would be today.
Most of the time, the food was oatmeal for breakfast and either rice or cream of wheat for dinner. Sometimes, though, much like tonight, the dinner was chicken curry, which would give much needed protein to the inmates, as even criminals needed a balanced diet.
As Raven quietly waited in line, waiting as the line slowly trickled as each inmate got their serving of chicken curry. Sometimes, the inmates in front of her would decide to trip Raven, sending her to the ground while other inmates gave her a punch or kick, which further agonized her already tortured body.
It took forty minutes before Raven finally reached the counter where "Ugly" and Firefly were serving chicken curry, water, and bread. However, upon arriving, Ugly sneered, "Sorry. None for you."
Raven countered, "It's the rules of the prison. All inmates must be served two meals. That means you have to give me that bowl of chicken curry."
"And whose authority would make me give it to you? You are surrounded by literally a thousand inmates, all of whom would give an arm to kill you. And the guards? They won't help you if their lives depended on it."
"Why are you doing this?"
"Because I can." As Ugly spoke, Killer Frost came up to the counter. Ugly continued, "Ah, Louise. What can I do for you?"
Killer Frost answered, "Serve my bitch something to eat. I don't want her to starve to death before I can wring everything out of here." As she spoke, Raven thought that Killer Frost had ulterior motives for defending her. Turns out, there was.
Ugly thought about it for one second and replied, "Alright, on one condition."
"Name it."
"She gives me a blowjob."
Raven asked, "A blowjob? Tell me that isn't what I think it is."
Killer Frost whispered into Raven's ear, "You'll be doing what you do to the female inmates, but it'll be a cock instead of a cunt."
Killer Frost escorted Raven behind the counter, where Ugly lowered his pants, revealing a very hard, very erect manhood pointing itself right at Raven. The ice villainess dropped Raven onto the ground before restraining her hands, forcing her to suck Ugly's dick.
Ugly then added, "No teethmarks, or else."
Raven nodded and proceeded to fill her mouth with Ugly's male pride, pumping her mouth up and down. She had performed cunnilingus on female inmates, but she hadn't performed its equivalent on a male yet. As Raven performed oral sex, her mouth was in obvious discomfort from Ugly's genitals.
She needed to get this over with as fast as possible as every second it took to get him off was one second less she would have to eat. After several minutes of sucking, Ugly came to a climax and ejaculated sperm all into Raven's mouth. Moving her mouth off of Ugly, Raven saw as sperm started to leak out of her mouth and onto her chin. After Ugly put his pants on, he gave Raven a tray containing her food - a cup of water, a piece of bread, a bowl of chicken curry, and a spoon.
Raven walked away from Ugly and proceeded to sit down at a nearby table, one that fortunately had nobody around. Raven quickly took a huge swig of water to wash out the taste of male "juices" from her mouth and then tried to cover up the taste in her mouth with plenty of chicken curry.
Eating quickly, Raven tried to finish her meal in under ten minutes, before she would be escorted back to her cell. Once she had finished her meal, she rose from her seat, but quickly felt very queasy and rushed towards a garbage can where she proceeded to vomit out the contents of her stomach. Indeed, the feeling of Ugly inside of her mouth was too unpleasant for her.
After her stomach was emptied into the garbage can, Killer Frost grabbed Raven and muttered, "Pathetic" into her ear before kicking her onto the ground, grabbing her and proceeding to drag her back to her cell.
As she was dragged back to her cell, all Raven could think was that she was definitely not going to last ten years in Belle Reve, if there was any doubt of that, it had been permanently erased.
It was only a question of how long it would take before Belle Reve claimed her life.
Okay, things aren't looking too up for Raven. Up next in the story: Raven and Ravager will finally interact.
And Happy Thanksgiving!