Teen Titans Presents; Renegade – Prison Break; Break Out!
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The long-awaited return!! Let's do this! Slade wants Dick back and obedient. Waller wants Slade in her grasp to experiment on and punish, but is she as noble as Wayne believes? Find out!
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Chapter 12: Therapy Sessions and Back Door Negations
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"I AM NOT…." Dick seeped in a heavy, anger I fused breath as Dr. Psycho raised a speculative brow.
"A criminal…. I am…. a hero….and you have to let me go!"
"I don't care if you're a Saint and a holy woman wrapped in one shiny package." Dr. Psycho grumbled, getting put in with the snooty brat to keep Wayne 's workings out sight for now. He was willing to get a second chance, if only to have the image of this hero- to see what he saw once his guard was off. They'd then put this case to bed, done and …
"Dr.? Hello? Are you lis-
"I'm thinking." The man's chipped tone had Dick withdraw his hand in a startled way. " Oh….I, I mean what's the point to this? Waller won't see me as, being…you know?"
"YOU aren't, kid." Sighed Psycho. "We all know it, but there is a catch ta' not putting what ya did on a blank slip to the court house's big man. They give the order, and Waller wants me in your mind ta' dig up the dirt on why " Babcocker" was in on making a mess of the pen under somebody's watch."
" Slade." Dick growled under his breath and only felt that deep hatred returned to swallow him up again. Even Psycho saw his aura and gasped, directing the boy wonder to keep that pose, that way…
He got his shot at getting into the kid's fragile mind quickly.
"CLOSE YOUR EYES…. TAKE IN THAT FRUSTRATION; WHERE IS IT STEMMING FROM? COME ON…."
Dick felt his body ratchet from his control for only a second before his own body slumped out cold into his seat.
~ The doctor is in, so let's see if we can understand a super hero tee –
A swish had him look to his right. The space was smoky and almost eerie to be in, as if….
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Psycho was sure that Dick's mind was no haven. Someone was watching his back, but not in the brotherly kinda way.
~ Didn't see that coming. ~
A bouncing echo of a man's voice had Psycho put up his psychic defenses, only to hear that shiver – worthy evil chuckle and let himself levitate onto a solid space.
Whatever was already in Dick's head, it couldn't be a good thing.
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Harley was in her own mood to end all as she sneaked away to find Floyd; coming out of Waller's office, or…
"Hiya…" She meekly whispered with a wave as the former assassin help up an immediate finger.
Waiting by the door, two voices could be heard and that…. wasn't something they had not expected.
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~ How did you find my private line, Deathstroke? ~ Amanda demanded from her office, Slade content on letting Waller know that the transfer would take place but on his terms. In full.
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~ You know what it is I want, Mandy. ~ Slade told the warden, her knuckles scrunched as he listed his demands to her, this not being Task Force X or Team Seven.
~ Even if you try to go along with your little plan, Wayne will be left in the dark until it happens; you don't intend to help out the bat. In fact, you want Robin to "get well" as much as possible. Don't you. That he should be as average as your own family-
"Keep them all outta' this, Wilson." She hissed into the mic on her desk. "If you don't quit hiding in plain sight, I'll get a collar you'll never break. Your kid can watch you get beheaded if that's what you're after…Wayne will be glad you're no longer at-large-
~ So, then you can donate my carcass to science? Did Bizarro's design end up flop? What of Cadmus, Mandy…you're destined to see things on the harder path. ~ Slade tutted mockingly. ~ That boy will be my apprentice; you can crate me all you wish, yet he's not going back to what he was. I can assure you. You and your doctors, lawyers and deal breakers? ~ Slade had the key board under Waller's hands rattling as she clutched at it, face a fire truck red.
~ They can't stop me, no one can and you KNEW that from the start. So, quit hiding yourself, negotiate a price before I take what's owed –
"Over my cold, dead –
~ That could be arranged… ~ The man almost gleefully suggested. ~ Want that Bat taken in instead of me? I can offer up a trade, keeping your hands clear of this spill of crime. Law breaking…. otherwise. ~ Slade let the word span out, a chill up Amanda's spine as she held her breath.
Death, was coming for her….
~ All deals are off, and I'm coming for you, Amanda. ~
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Harley knocked as Amanda brought her red eyes up to see who was ready to relieve a restraining order from the warden, yet…Deathstroke could scent out that weakness.
"Come in."
The door creaked a bit as it was unlocked with a button by her desk, the woman in charge seeing not one but three visitors.
"I thought you might like to hear some positive news for once." Batman let Harley go by the cuff of her shirt collar as Floyd cleared his throat to speak up on his temporary ally's behalf.
"The nanos in the dust that infected both Harley and Dick Grayson, was also found in the tissue sample of Babcock's corpse, yet this solution. It was too advanced to know what it's use was for. The nanos had a programming and could alter brainwave patterns, voice box altering as well suit had the ability to mimic sounds. The person, was turned into an actual puppet. There was also a chip I plant into Babcock's brain."
Waller's eyes popped. "Crane…" She swallowed.
"Deathstroke combined that technology with fear gas from the walking hay stack???" Harley gawked. "And those thingies, are inside Bird boy an' me?? How do ya get em out!"
"We don't, not without giving Slade the same chance as he has to destroy the Titans." Bruce told the staff grimly. "I was only taken out of commission but escaped, long enough to do some hacking as well. What we found later, Waller."
Bruce stopped as Floyd finished for him.
"Wyatt's been leaking more info than the Valdez did to destroy an entire ecosystem in the nineties. He's why Deathstroke had Crane in and willin' to infect his "boy hostage" for im."
"Where is Doctor Psycho??" Amanda didn't care, the kid wasn't what she wanted safe.
Her freaking staff had betrayed her trust, violated her rules.
"I'M CALLING, LOCKDOWN –
"No!"
"BATMAN!" Her voice shook with so much pent-up malice, her damned penitentiary ruined because of that bleeding mercenary.
"I'M not letting Deathstroke beat me at my own game." She snapped. "We're all on his list to die…. all of us!! I want that meta…hung! Right in front of my eyes so I can see i…t Forget about doing his thing, your way." She activated a switch as all the windows were now impenetrable. Her grin as mad as her attitude towards the Bat.
"WALLER…" Bruce's eyes widened. "He has threatened you; I won't leave. I'll call –
"We have unfortunately, unfinished business, Batman." She pointed to the exit, her hand never swaying.
"Go save your boy, I fear it may already be too late for a fair trial…even for me…."
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Dick's body was left unguarded as Psycho battled the false "dust" fabricated Wilson inside of Richard's wary mind. Why wasn't there a door to his subconscious? He had nowhere to hide in this empty skull of a teenager!
"I don't want you moving in on MY territory." Slade moved as a wild cat scoping out its prey, and for Psycho he was grounded. He had no chance to be at eye level with this six-foot killing machine.
"You…your " creator" done an' flipped the script when he made you! This is nuts, and if you are tryin' to your best to lay out a nice little trap for me…then guess again, ole' Stroky!"
Psycho used his powers, yet this Slade was more agile than his Task force counterpart. Black ops aside, he could win. It was just a –
"Aren't you curious to know why, Dr." Slade's double landed in a crouch to rise and crack his neck. "Never understood your borderline baddies, much." Shuddered the big-headed doctor as Slade acting human…. truly deserved its own horror film theatrical clip. "You could a' just walked through the door an' abducted the kid – and I know your buddy Wilson can hear me!" Yelled the angry animated little man. "Slade had it coming when he decided to go and kidnap other people's children! How many more baby Terminators do you need before you can take over the damn galaxy, ye' schmuck!"
"This is about a legacy, Dick just happened to catch my eye as Robin. The Bat can butt out of our affairs." Slade materialized a staff from the same shadows he had walked through. Psycho put up his walls. "Easy, big guy…you hurt me and your host might feel it later –
"Why shouldn't he?" Slade's smirk being hidden and his narrowed, dastardly eye had Psycho's heart beat a little out of sync. "My apprentice chose to run away chose to have me prove him wrong. Time and time again, he'll learn and eventually, so will Mr. Wayne."
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SO…. NEXT CHAPTER WILL CATCH UP WITH REBEL YELL CHAPTER THIS FIC WAS INSPIRED BY. STAY TUNED! READ ON FOR MORE!