Chapter VI: Walking Home
Author's Note: While reading this, if you've got the song, listen to 'This is your life' from the Fight Club soundtrack.
Things wound down from there, the Titans searched the rest of the compound only to find that the robots had thrown everything that they had had at Seth. So it was up to Robin, Cyborg and Starfire to discover why the robots were there and what they were after. After they had finished searching and securing the area, and Seth realized that the fighting was over, he simply left. There was no need for him to stick around, Seth was just there to hit things. Whatever the incident was, it was up to the others to use their logic deduction skills to figure out what went wrong. As Seth had gone out of the great rent in the wall, he had not been exactly too surprised when one of the others had come to join him. Now, he and Raven walked together, in silence, down the dirtied back roads of the city. Two teens, possibly the two most powerful people in the entire city.
From what Seth could see, the city was falling apart. Despite the fact that the police force was working overtime and hiring as many people as possible, things were just not working. The Titans were getting lazy, especially Robin. Seth could sense some...obsession with this person called Slade. Whenever Robin mentioned the name there was a certain hate and anger in his voice, something that signified the strange being was important in a bad way. Wherever Seth looked, there was something bad happening. In dark, back alleyways there were drug deals, illegal gaming going on and the occasional mugging. Loud music was blaring from cars, mostly rap but sometimes rock, as they swerved down the roads at dizzying speeds. Sometimes, policemen were paid to look the other way as criminals and robbers did their dirty deeds.
A man with a Colt .45 jabbed the weapon into the chest of another man, he wore a ski mask and dark clothing. His left hand was held out, palm up, demanding money. The other man looked like he was going for his wallet, then suddenly a knife that had been concealed up his sleeve suddenly jutted out and sliced up into the mans chest. He cried out and blood came splashing up out of his mouth, he squeezed the trigger and the bullet did a horrible amount of damage. The two men fell dying to the street, they did not rise again when they fell. Seth looked over as he heard a rather loud engine approaching, it was the black, hatchback mustang from the night before. It came speeding down the street at insane speeds, three of them leaned out the two front windows with paintball guns. They tagged people and cars and buildings alike, splattering a pallet of colors across the general area of the street that they sped down. People cursed and yelled in surprise in anger, the four teens in the car began laughing really hard. The one driving was laughing so hard he almost crashed the car, but he quickly regained control and they sped off down the street and then around the corner. Seth watched them go, wistful thoughts of freedom stirring in his mind.
Seth and Raven, in their calm, peaceful silence, turned the corner as they reached the end of the street and made their way slowly but surely towards Titan Tower that was not but an eight of a mile away from them. Seth saw a prostitute being arrested by two cops, a fire truck racing doing the street to go to some location to put out a fire. He heard shouting that was getting closer and as they passed a rather large, open alleyway, Seth spotted a large group of men cheering and carrying on; surrounding two other men who were beating the living shit out of the other. One of them in the crowd shouted,
"You are not your job! You are not how much money you have in the bank!" Seth grinned slightly, a nice policy on life; material possessions did not matter. He watched as two medical officers put a chalk outline around one of many bodies from a recent gang war probably, due to the amount of chalk outlines. There was suddenly the sound of squealing tires, a car came peeling around the corner of the street. There were strange markings all over it, probably that of a local gang. The windows were suddenly rolled down and the barrels of pistols and submachine guns were stuck out of them. People screamed and ran as a rather large barrage of bullets began to pound all over the street. Blood flew on the air as the gang members performed a drive-by. And then suddenly Seth heard Raven do a bit of chanting, dark energies suddenly sprang forth from Raven's upraised hands and wrapped around the car. Raven brought the car upwards about twenty feet into the air, everyone on the road had paused to watch what was going to happen; even those who had been shot and were still conscious. Then Raven brought the car down with savage fury, slamming it into the ground repeatedly until everyone inside had lots of broken bones.
With that finished, Seth and Raven continued on down the road. The progressed through the city at a calm, slow pace; enjoying the scenery so to speak. More bad things happened, gang wars continued, but it was nothing entirely life threating at all; at least not to Seth and Raven. Eventually, they reached Titan Tower.