Teen Titans; Severing Old Bonds – Sibling Rivalries –
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Chapter 14: Arm Wrestle Me into Submission
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Wait for it…. now! Long awaited, so hold onto your breeches! Here we go.
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Dick felt a clanking binding set to eat arm, definitely not a rude enough reminder of Slade using him again. Last time in Blood's faux mountain haunt was enough!
Dick saw that the locks were not the kind you could slip from without being electrocuted.
That included his throat. Slade had been given the seat beside his daughter until she hung him out to dry, while he was a sacrifice to some stupid game of the Wilsons'.
"I'm such an idiot!"
"Yeah. You are."
The face he saw to his right was actually a guard clad in H.I.V.E gear. But they were never this willing to chat. Cy had said it right.
"What's her aim this time? Obliterate my team? Send word that the Titans are over? Rose is a typical psychopath now I –
"She's the queen, now." The man behind the helmet snipped, his voice lowered through a piece meant to mask another's. "Just, try to stay standing u –
"We're all ready to rock!" Grant grinned and pulled up the gates with his brainwashed help, his sneering face a constant recall of how he could be the one making Rose at this way.
"Awaiting your orders, sir." The robotic tone returned to the catty guard, Grant raising a short brow before waving on the others to bring in the cat's first victim.
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Dick was busy with facing his new opponent, yet Grant struck forth and knocked the fake guard's helmet off of H.I.V.E officer's head with his extendable staff.
"Hi, dad! Nice of you to send your words of encouragement! Did you come to apologize, already?"
"Shut it, you little weasel." Slade snapped at his own flesh and blood. "I know you're not even in control of your own bowels, let alone my daughter."
"Waa? Me? I'm just getting my puppies from seeing you suffer from what you did to us! Speaking…" Snapping his fingers, the suit started to disintegrate as Slade had only his under suit on.
"Nice abs, perfect for mauling a bird brain in your "daughter's" arena."
"You mean, "your" masterful trap." Slade growled at the teen of his own loins, the boy yawning and having his dad's body shocked by a hit from his staff's staves from behind. "Lazy thinking, brat. Nothing but a reject to the process."
"Shove him in; we're way behind schedule." Grant ordered the operatives as nodded without talking back. A dazed Slade meant that he was still not done healing. Or maybe….
"I've found your Achilles, pops." Grant snickered as the oaf was dragged to set him up for revenge all over again. "Have fun...We will ALL be watching your performance…"
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Starfire and the kids had to find Rave and the others, not realizing that Joey and Bb were closer until she too came upon the eerie corn maze. Floating atop it, Gizmo's beam had her slightly stunned as Timmy and his two fellow toddler Titans came to ty and assist.
Mammoth jumped out and growled, Bb going rhino on his butt as the goliath was made to grip his tush and week out loud by the other's tough horn.
" Oww oww!! This is why you guys is almost exin-
" Oomph !"
"Mamo – brain!! Help! The crud – munchin…. psychic is using….me!!"
"Jericho! Hang on!!" Bb said telepathically as Gizmo's hand shakily pressed at the eject switch on his hover saucer tech. The wee person went into the sky as Melvin's imaginary bear scooped up the dummy to have him in a big bear hug. "Let….me go, you big… fluffy nightmare!!! I'm warning –
"You can't hurt, him mister." Timmy growled and made a burp to disorient Gizmo, his eyes spinning in spirals while Timmy laughed at the bald other enemy. BB watched Jericho rematerialize and fall to his knees, slightly burned out.
"Star!" He called out as a male bull. (Duh, more dramatic in flow to me.)
"Mammoth is last one –
"Is that all, Friend Beastboy? Where are Raven and Cyborg?" She called to now the hot tempered "bull" as he braced himself to be thrown by Mammoth's gargantuan grip.
"Longest he's held out so far!" Gar cried upon the toss, swapping to a defensive stance as he got back onto his four hooves.
"Want a hand in wranglin' that mate???"
Starfire gasped and saw a red beam twist round the ex – H.I.V.E operative's arms to have him useless. He got up, yet the weight of her power was as strong as a super – magnet.
Wait…was that possible without….
"Friend Argent!! And Jenny the Sparks!"
"Just Jen, lov!" Jenny winked and made sure to shock the two operatives in to a pile, the tech falling to crumple right by Kori's feet as she landed.
"My gear! Your snot – dripping – crumb - nibbling Titan wannabes had bette –
"Teether could eat that." Melvin smiled with a small threat, Gizmo's jaw going slack as the teether gashed and bit to the last morsel Giz's ticket to safety.
" Noo!! I'll do anything , make him spit it up –
"Then you shall tell us promptly WHERE our friends have the gone to! Where is the leader on this island responsible for harming our many comrades and what does she exactly plan to exact??"
A horn and a crowd cheering had the heroes look up; their answer clear.
"That fortress…is a coliseum??" Jenny gasped in midair.
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Cy and Raven had to catch up with Eli who was reading that there was a mind he had recognized dead ahead. Cy was somewhat unable to catch up until they also heard the fanfare of a celebratory death day on the horizon.
"It's started." Eli grumbled and kept going, Raven coming to stop him from forcing his way past the last bushes that lead to the Queen's massive gates.
"We can't go in yet."
"We have to sneak in, lov! I can't just wait on Slade to –
She blinked. "What do you know, Eli." Her eyes narrowed at his icier ones.
"What have you not been telling us? Who is your psychic power contacting?"
"He's in there." Eli huffed and lowered his head, directing his finger to point with an arm outstretched to the largest part of the fortress.
"It's a gladiator ring and guess who'll be dueling to win the Queen's favor, mates?"
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"Why didn't you say anything, man??" Cy shot at the ice – kinetic with a low growl, the shrubs only feet from those largely bolted gates.
"You on his side, huh?? Why are you an Slade so tight?"
"I can't tell you."
"Then why did he tell you where he was going to be."
"It was…" Eli sighed and tried to calm his thoughts to form a decent answer. "He's bloody dangerous to your leader, so I tagged along to be sure he'd not mess with im. And his past….ugh…the memories…I saw how close he was to those rebel children of his…they deserve a respite –
"You are doing what Rob did for Slade last time." Cy crossed his arms and stated coolly. "He's playin' you, dog. Slade can't be trusted with anyone's life. When we get Rose outta there and Grant into rehab, none of this is gonna look like you imagine."
"Cyborg's right." Raven told the younger looking Titan. "You know nothing about this Slade, our Deathstroke that is a threat to his own family. Your intentions are right like Robin's were, but…. he's not to be let free for the other crimes he's committed."
"He won't be. I just don't like how he walks his walk, that's all." Huffed the psychic and he watched the flags flying overhead. "How do we save them if my idea is shot, then?" He turned to his seniors as they both were sure that it wasn't all hopeless.
"We think big before going big." Cy told him. "An' a sneak attack might be ok if you and Rae both work together to turn us into guards, while I cut the noise for her majesty ta' look our way."
Eli grinned. "Smashing! I'd love to be a part of that battle plan, when do we start?"
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Dick looked up as the gate opened, yet so did an extra door as a dark suited man in a white patch was –
"Slade?? Did she finally put you where you belong?" Dick sneered as he awaited his real opponent to show up.
"First up?? WILDABEAST AND HOT SPOT!!!"
Rose's voice rose over the airwaves as the two brainwashed heroes were set loose on the Titans' leader and the notorious Deathstroke.
Slade shouted to the sky, Rose seeing the neck lines bulge a she inwardly chuckled at his pain.
"It's all a game to you, Rose! This isn't –
"SHUT it! You'll fight and I'LL decide who gets a round TWO! Begin!"
The two were fire and bulk, so Dick took the bulk, Slade went after Hot Spot to cool him off.
"What weapons do we have??"
"Each other." Rose cackled before letting her idiot followers do some more cheering. Even brainwashed, she could get used to this.
Slade scowled and ran to the wall to see about a torch on it, he grabbed the low bearing thing and got the flame to puff out.
"A stick, I feel so archaic."
"Cavemen…" Dick snorted, Wildebeest coming at him hard, as he too saw his chains as an opportunity to even the playing field.
"Ready?" Dick sniffed and got a yanked kink out of the cords as Slade twirled his makeshift escrima with a free hand. They were not all back-to-back, but it would not be long now.
"You think this is our round two, kid?"
"Don't care…just fight!"
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Loving it! Keep it there and here we go!! Ready for the next chapter, so read on and stay curious for more!