Teen Titans – Severing Old Bonds – Sibling Rivalries –
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Come out and plaaaayy! Long awaited, unlucky chapter 13…. roll with the chaos!
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Chapter 13: Daddy Issues - It's All Fun and Games, Until Someone Gets Blasted
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Joey stumbled back with a hand to his skull. He couldn't be serious…his father….
A roar of the engine to one; a motorized jeep made the poor blonde start on his twenty mile kilo run.
Grant had gotten bored?
No, it was –
Johnny Rancid.
"I'm not my idol Lobo, but dang! You run like a piece a' roadkill! Time to get your butt back to the ranger station!" He laughed and mocked Joey, had his head been any softer; yet Joe made contact and the boy's entire body vanished inside of the punk's inflated metal head.
"Ye- Waa!! Get…offa…"
~Take us to the Queen of the Hive. ~ Joey commanded as the drooling gorilla had no other choice, until the radio inside his vehicle went off.
~I knew you'd pull that trick on at least one my goons, Joey. ~
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Dick was outnumbered as Slade made sure to put his best face on when Rose let them through.
"Is he trustworthy, High one?"
Slade internally snorted at Rose's title. He'd never expected her to like being so high on a pedestal. The ground was too far down. She'd have to use all of her wits to come back down to earth.
"I've captured the Titan Robin, and would like to see the Grand Headmistress." Slade again didn't cut the crap as the guards had no choice but to lead him to a waiting room. A very hollow one as her face only showed in the shortest time through the same doors they'd been brought.
"Deathstroke."
"Rose."
She rubbed her chin and looked over the boy wonder. "Pretty bruised up." She saw from the scuff marks. "Did you two have a fight?"
"We call it a tug of war for honor's sake." Slade shrugged.
"What do you want for him."
"Rose…" Slade sighed. "You're not a villain."
She blinked, a smirk flying across her face as she burst out laughing.
"No, I'm a QUEEN, Daddy!" She barked in his face. "You think I'm like you?? 'I'm the leader, Grant is going to see that –
"Yes, but don't you think he's the same as you?" Slade asked the teenager. "Joey was the smartest of all of my children. It's why I respect him far more, but you? You're not like me…" Slade stood back with Robin, keeping an eye on the guards in his way.
"You're just a copy of my failure, Grant; he wants you to know that, so he can have my head before ANY of you get your dues."
She screamed and sent her flock to tazer the man, yet she wasn't the only one with that precognition skill.
"Give up this farce, Rose!" He exclaimed over the bullets and lasers being fired, Robin dangling on his back as a strap had the hero elevated.
"The Titans will figure it out, that you don't want to be alone anymore. I should have watched him, I should have –
"YOU…." She gritted her fists and had no sympathy for this man. This tyrant that had molded her into someone she'd despised more than her other family – all but Joe, he was impossible to hate.
"Won't go far, old man…you'll be a dead man as long as I'm in charge!! Because…. I just… HATE you!!"
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The tazer staves linked together and Robin also got electrocuted by the skill. The laughing queen stood over her two new gladiators, knowing the outcome quite well.
"I know who you'll face in the arena…. So, get ready…. Daddy."
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In cuffs, for a meta. Slade snorted, seeing the boy wonder was…
He opened his eye properly, not a mask on him. No, Dick had to be somewhere –
"What happened to Robin?" Slade called to a guard through his cell's high containment walls.
"He's being prepared for a fight."
Slade squinted at the man, turning away and not taking a chance to ask more. He'd figure a way out. A way to get that boy from his daughter's hands.
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Dick woke to a room filled with high powered lights, strapped down to a metal chair for those of a greater resilience.
"Hey!" He called out to the ones at the grid watching his every move.
"Let me go, now! –
"Cool it, small fry." Grant came by with his assistant, Dr. Psimon.
Dick gawked at the two, growling as Rose entered right behind. "My father wants you to trust him, right?" She asked the boy wonder.
"He lied to my team, tied me up and was about to give up on our plan." Muttered a seething teen leader.
"To save someone?" Grant snickered. "You should have gnawed off your arm, then – cause when ole' Deathstroke hunts you down, he won't let his prey fly south, kid." Hissed the nutty jock, Dick actually understanding some truth to those words more than he'd liked to believe…
Dick shook his head, eyes to the floor. "This isn't right. I'm trying to stop you both from –
"Nu -uh!" Grant wagged a finger at the Titans' leader.
"We want you to fight our father, since he can't kill you and Grant isn't one for the spotlight." Rose stated to the hero. "If we let you take him, back and your precious teammates, you have to promise to keep your noses off of our work and this island. I'm the one who says if we sink or float."
"What?" Dick swung his head to look at her, right in the eye.
"He'll be humiliated. This was to make sure he pays for his crimes of doing experiments on us!" Grant blurted out, Rose rolling her eyes as he just had to monkey chatter it up.
"Slade, didn't make you like this, Grant." Dick shook his head. "The Hive did; you died, and –
"Did you get a chance to ask him "WHY" I was turned into a metal patient, though??" Grant stood over the hero, having only looked taller by his stature. "Or why Rose was abandoned on her mission in the first place? He can't commit!" Grant was surely the most likely to have decided they should revolt, but was he brilliant and not showing it?
"So, should you get a hug from a Titan? A pat on the back?" Dick sniffed. "You kidnapped my whole team !" Snapped the leader, ruefully. "Globally terrorizing the Titans is inane, and I can't call you anything LESS than a family of criminals for now. Rose was a Titan once, but something changed her…wh–
"Dad can't tell you the real reason and I don't have to." Rose shot at the hero. "Psimon? You know what to do. Have him ready for the arena."
Dick struggled in his chair as Grant brought the other villain forth while Rose went to hunt down the rest of the Titans, she could get her hands on.
"Gotta catch em' all, right?" Chuckled the male Ravager as Dick's voice was lost to a zombified droning of his own voice – as Psymon stole the kid's words away.
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Joey ran back as he knew it; Rose was going to find him, so he had to get away from the heroes to keep them safe.
A blur of red and green at the top of his head had Joey leave his possessed form's body. Johnny stumbled as the psychic blonde left, his steps quieter now that he was levitating off the ground.
He felt weak, the energy expanded at too great a rate. Was any fruit growing nearby? He scavenged mainly plantains which he couldn't cook and tubers that tasted like dirt. Berries made him wary, fish? He'd have to use his dad's technique…
Sighing silently, the mute hero wandered with a growling gut for a while longer before coming upon a –
Fruit…. food…. a village? No, the compound's supplies for the island. A personal garden as Joey went over the gate, checking for traps and finding none so far.
Until a green dog perked up its ears and….
~ Jericho! ~ Bb bounded up to the teen in his doggy disguise.
Joey sighed again, shaking his head and walking backwards until a thundering sound had the two looks before them.
" Busted~!"
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Mammoth and Gizmo had droids at their beck and call, the heroes now stumbling through cabbage plots, until Joey had an idea and reached down to grip at a head of lettuce.
Before chucking it at Gizmo's pea brain.
"Hey! Cut that out, meat – for - brains! –
" Ohh, his insults just lost it! Lemme help!" Bb turned into an orangutan and didn't hold back. Gizmo was caught into the fire, until Mammoth stomped his way into the fields.
" Cool it with wasting grub!!"
Bb screamed in a high-pitched way as Joey followed, going deeper into the corn fields that provided an amazing cover. Joey munched on a carrot he'd swiped, having enough mojo a - flowing to try something different for a change.
Mammoth went hunting after BB, while Jericho had enough energy left to go a little wild until he had to recharge his stations psychically.
Hiding in the tall corn rows, Joey tapped Gizmo on the back, and WHAP!
~ Contact!!~
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Cutting it off to be sure this stays good! Find out more! Wanted this last part to look comedic to the readers of this fic. Will Jericho and BB find the others and lose Mammoth in a corn maze? Will Slade get out of solitary confinement? Will Dick be totally brainwashed and thrash his opponent in the ring? Quit asking me (or please do, I love comments and open words) and see for yourselves in chapter 14 – Ready to Rumble!