Teen Titans – Renegade's Last Resort; Finding Pandora = Hope

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So, like my one shot of sladin this is based off of, there will be a wrong z ass Slade Wilson and the average Stockholm gone wrong. Instead, it's a bit more complicated. So? This is the chapter where Dick? Goes bananas.

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Chapter 20: Drop Kick Outta Hell – Cracks in My Armor for You

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Dun dum!! Warnings for: Sexual assault/ post rate mention, objectification of alien sentient life forms that look human, deaths of family and allies, and gas lighting and shut shaming , also Roy comes out of the closet. And….action!

Big rooftop scene!

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Lex checked the time.

Eleven on the nose, and still not a sign once of entry. Surely he was being played?

Waller had said not to lose Crystal as she lay in her pod a few floors down. No way there was a moment he'd let some two-bit freak show maniac and a panty wearing heroic boy scout in on his plans.

This was holding him mentally hostage as he commed Mercy. The sound of a Crackle on the feedback had the man worried. Angry. "Mercy! Get off your ass now and do something about this awkward…Mercy!"

He Robot was down, yet here he didn't spare being the one to come looking for trouble. He arranged the way the suit would go on to collapse like a piece of cloth that he tucked away. The key was his. He'd found it and none of those heroes could grab the glory.

Wayne especially, cock of the walk.

Or Slade, who was asking for a mess on his record as a hired help. "I should disown him from his chance to be a legion 8f doom member. I think he'd be better off with those bumblers in Paris." The man snickered, not seeing on the wall a figure with eye holes and night vision as it climbed his walls down, into the lab as he left. Dick took photos with his tech in the lenses as Slade saw every design. Every little minor detail. It wasn't an auction without the proper degree of merchandise to advertise.

"Got it. Next room is four floors and, the basement level. Sir "

~ He's been up all-night thinking about this encounter. Don't let this visit be a short one, child. We need –

The clink of doors opened as Dick cloaked himself like a chameleon and shifted off to the closest exit. "Hum, no Mercy. I though…" He checked around, now being spooked despite being scientifically gifted since birth. "Damn it. Has to be one of your tricks, Slade. I won't lose that key!"

He ran back out, yer Dick was already floors two; namely, two more to go, until he'd bumped into someone who should still have been in bed.

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She was maybe Blackfire's age and had snow white hair, a crystal inspired one-piece tight dress and chunky platform white boots. The difference was in how her skin had something metallic of a glimmer to it. Dick was staring as she stopped him with one look. She was not exactly a human teen, yet her recognized those vibrant…blue.

"Ah! The stalker in –

"Shush!" Dick snapped back; her grin as evil as he remembered about her idea if a good time. Thanks to Roy, there were a lot of laughs. "You're also the guy, who got my girl LW kicked in the –

"That…wasn't me. She…" He moved left, yet she blocked. "I'm here to get you out. What gives?"

"You. Short dark?" She snorted and pointed at his fourteen-year-old scowl "I was peachy until you snuck in like a damn shinobi. You're gonna get caught."

"You're going to be subjected to torture by this man."

"He protected us. Can you say the same about him? Hum? The guy you follow that everyone hates right now?"

"He's…" Dick waited as he put out a glove, feeling lightheaded as the vibrations made their mark on the blue-eyed witch in front of him. "Put that away! That could kill…"

Her eyes went wide as she backed up, running surefire full speed. Dick groaned and went fir the chase. This wasn't good. Lex had a key, and she was actually afraid of HIS employer?? Lex was the other sort of decent idiot Dick had to face. He hoped Slade didn't ask his "Genie " for mind reading powers…

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Beast boy landed on the roof where Lex had his hands preoccupied with his folded tech suit. Cy and Bb both blocked him off to talk. "You're out pretty late. Dedicated to that science, huh?"

"Bb, I'm gonna ask for both a' us." Cy interrupted. "Lex, you got ahold if something insanely dangerous. We want it confiscated or else some else is coming in to steal it if-

"The key…isn't real." He grunted back. "You all want what's I found! I'm yhe only one who can control it, so no. Tell your pompous animal to back down, Titan. I have bigger fish to fry."

"Fish, or tiger?" Bb turned into a green, striped purring terror as it made Lex's eyes cross in fear. "Have him change back! You don't know how much time I have left to get away. He's sent –

The roar of electricity was interrupted by a ruptured concrete footing. Cy grabbed onto Bb as he leaped into the man's arms with a yowl. "Hey, cut it out!"

~ Earthquake?? Who's doing that??~ Gar growled at the ground as Lex yelled out angrily while two people came through the floor or knowing, the floor collapsed partly under them to have shard of icy crystal shoot up as stakes to the groin.

"Yah!" Bb hopped away until his bunny ears heard a fight. It was….

"ROB! FOUR O' CLOCK!" He flew down as a crow and dove in while Crystal was pushing back Dick's counter moves. "You…stupid, stupid, dummy! He's not gonna change me! He is the one who has a plan to fix my –

Dick dragged her hair as her shoved her to the ground, his glove out as he set the rest to "stun."

Cy blasted as Crystal sent a field of her shards up at the two, Lex being easily able to evade and return if not growling to his little gold mine of energy preservation. "You…how did you escape??"

"My pod sort of, broke?"

"That's no coincidence." Dick dusted himself off as Bb went full wolf to attack his own teammate. "She's a kid, and you tried to hurt her?? That's not cool!!"

He was tossed aside but got back up and bit hard on the glove, which shocked him to swallow what felt as a thousand tiny needles of electricity. Bb jolted as he accused that energy of belonging to another.

"THAT. IS. NOT. YOURS!"

Richard grabbed his staff and hit the wolf back, fear driving him as he used his staff to hold them off. Cy however was ticked. He came after Rob from above and dropped down, Dick flew out of the way in a crouch and rolled, his eyes looking for Crystal amid the attackers.

Wh –

He heard a scream and looked up. Robots one went after Lex, taking him away alive. The other, went after Bb as it shot him with a similar laser. Dock called out, Cy gave him his dues as the bear hug happened before he could pull out.

Dick flung up his leg and hit his friend to stun him, the boot metal edged sharply. It dug a bit by his ear as Cy cried out and dropped Renegade in an attempt to sooth himself.

That…wasn't the Robin they knew holding back. Maybe, but that was no easy fight. He checked his ear as Dick ran to get through the rubble and to Crystallizer. She was facing two of the robots as the captured her, then it was far too soon as Batman landed his rangs and a shot of red joined in. A bolt of light, as Supes tugged at those arms to let go. Bruce saw his son as the looked different. Those eyes.

Dick fled and looked for a way out.

~ Not so fast, you're still lacking in the objective department, my apprentice.~

"Superman is here. I can't fight him."

~ Who said you will. Watch.~

Slade was so sure as Lex was found by Bb, who was chasing a boy while being chased by his own pursuer. It was madness as Dick didn't know if it made him dizzy at so high up.

"Robin…"

Dick now turned to see what he'd refused to before.

Kori. In the light of the moon.

No, he checked again.

Just a glare, as an image of Crystal became his mirrored reflection. ~ Do you want to save a life?~

He thought about what this was. Some alien esp.?

~ I'm not a hero….but, she shouldn't have to suffer so much. It's not right. What do I-

The image of Crystal pulled the boy in as they kissed, while in his trance, he was pulled forth to get the robots to back down, while Crystal used her esp. to center on him doing so for her.

Superman was sure that's what her figure had shown. How glassy, light eyed in a daze, Dick took her over to the ledge of the building and dropped her down, until she resumed a glittering, transformed key of silver.

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The one to catch it was Lex as his suit worked even better. "Mine…I….have t –

The robots zapped him. He started to cry even higher as his entire form was remade into a near -molten mess. Burned to his lowest "dermal layer," Superman attacked the bots as Bruce went to go save the damned other psycho from the ones that were taking away

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"He's getting away!!"

The no-good boy wonder was sure Slade had the right to murder them in front of him. Crystal was….the key and the robots had obliterated the suit that was using her. The entire time, this alien "pandora" product was killing things like that?

Like, children….

He flew off the side as Bruce threw his grapple and saw it cut by a bot as it took Dick up to it, he tugged as it didn't let go. ~You're not falling, boy. Stay with the bot. Abort. ~

Shutting his eyes to the screaming elephant and the lasers at Superman while he was protecting his damaged nemesis, the turmoil would be nothing compared to dying like he had the first time.

This time, in that haunt, there would be no more apprentice to put up a struggle as Slade reopened his back down to ever pore.

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Cy watched as the robots took care of leaving once the place was in the worst it could be. Weeping in a dying heap, was Lex as Superman flew like a jet to any emergency care surgery room that would fix seven degree burns by laser beam attack.

Bb was still eyeing the sight of Bruce as he looked among the ground level, the destroyed upper walls of the roof. Bb hiffed around as he noticed something almost glassy and clear by the same place that the bots had attacked Lex before he'd jumped.

"Uh, guys?"

He pointed as Bruce gasped and got out his bat-noculars to see the traces of viable energy. "She's still alive." He whispered, "But barely."

"Where do we go from here?" Cy turned to the dark knight as he clenched his fists. You'll have to go back to Central where the last orb is located. One key remains in the United States."

"There are more of her?" Bb exclaimed. "Was she a person or –

"She was supposed to not find the eye of the general public."

Up the steps, the guards that came were SWAT as Roy struggled to get loose. "I'm not a part of –

"You deliberately spared no sentence of silence to the enemy, and Lex lied to the entire head of my department when this was never supposed to see the light of day." Waller yelled and pointed at Bruce. "There is one last key, and it is the sole property of –

"Of no one, Amanda." Bruce snorted back, his anger pushing up while he still had more moral fibers intact than this tyrant of the universe. "That was a child, even alien or multi – dimensional, she was –

"She was a symbiotic replica that stole the body of the ones we picked for her to bind to. The body you saw was altered and she was not even destroyed by those incredibly dangerous androids. Was she?"

"Was she, what?" BB looked at the two. "Was she –

"She was a being from the same quadrant as the "Pandora" energy carrier. It wields that power it catches right back and even acts as a granter of "hope" or the human consciousness given what it craves through transmuted acts by the energy it steals from the barer. The thing I told Lex was that testing it was a no, and that it was a highly unstable source that required a longer follow up on what its effects were if activated."

"So, it drags out power in vast quantities from whoever the person holding it….projects it to take, and then it makes itself like a wish granting –

"It manifests, through the energy of the person directing that power." Amanda clarified." But If Slade has that orb and possibly has gotten his hands on a living key, then we're not going to see any less of what he's capable of committing. The only downside my scientists found was that it increases delirium, withdrawal and psychosis in those closest to it –

"Question on the "key," deal. Why was it a person, or why did it not, well….stay that way?"

Bb's question was exactly why that energy was as right as a rose with as sweet a scent. It drove animals to kill, to take.

"That is a question that might have something to do with what a symbiote is, child." Amanda smiled. "In fact, the fact it wants to get cozy on earth is why we think that the pandora project is its system to drain us and take over. The last one in the U.S isn't the last walking around. The other keys are all across the globe, and they're as dead set on getting their orbs back to make us pay."

"It might be to get home, too." Cy interjected. "You did abduct them and put them in pods to experiment on. Or Lex tried to use one. You said, Crissy, ta get more power to his suit. Probably to stop Superman again and blow up the sun like he always does."

"Even if that is the case, it made him paranoid more than he usually is." Amanda rolled her eyes. It was the truth, yet he was still a useful money bags to dig at.

Losing him would be no highlight. "I have to think that his chance to face Slade is the orb pitting villains against one another - until there are no more competitors. I'm not going to let that happen."

"So, a morphing freak – not us, is going around putting a wish into someone's face? Is that why –

"You are "particularly" obsessed about it now, yes." Amanda nodded. "The symbiotic response is that the longer the contact, the more the symptoms imprint themselves until your entire mind is on pleasing their needs. Or dying for them."

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Back in the hole, the waters ran cold in his view at the streams of sewer manes. Slade was as tormented as those waves as the Blud city ones had especially high tides. Bludhaven, their new base had been relocated as Slade had expected Dick to at least attack with a bit more force.

The key, was it with him? He had to be lying by how strong these robots were getting. Three had shot Lex enough to seriously burn his flesh off, and yet they didn't hurt the key. Crystal was alive, he saw her real face. She didn't have a body, only some sort of cloud she was born onto. (Dick is bonding more because it chose him. Wait…)

The gears undid the hatched wall as he walked in with the Slade bots flanking, and one or two murder bots looking pretty useless in his case of protection. They only had one master, one.

The screens showed the building he'd leaped from and saved the key from a bot, Slade was standing and watching as Dick was shoved to go inside. Dick knew he'd let the key live. That was what Slade had said NOT to do if it were to fall into enemy hands.

A simple mistake –

"A simple task, and you blew it."

Dick froze as the man's mask was removed. His eye darted out in the dark, while hair over the patched one that Dick had only seen one time during the first kick.

"I've told you, that if you'd betrayed that oath –

"There had to be another way. We'll get it back. I saw –

"NO." Slade snatched the regretful boy's words from his throat. "YOU will accept your punishment. In fact,….maybe I've been going about your training all wrong. Here, you were supposed to incapacitate your former teammates. Did you?"

"I…Cy's face."

Slade paused and rewound to the site where Cy's ear bled on impact with the boot.

"Not good enough. You were brutal, I'll give you that. I wanted more of what you could have shown to save them."

Please! I'll….I'll take the caning, or…you can't kill them. They –

"I can, actually." Slade hissed as he pulled out the controller. "If you don't think so, go on. Attack."

Dick was too tired to keep up again, his feet sunk as he bowed into a kowtow. "Please….no, I don't –

The man came at his scalp and dragged it up. "You won't show me that you can, so why shouldn't they perish? The empath and alien didn't agree when they raided my warehouses last night."

Dick's mouth breathed open as he shook his head. "Please, please, don –

"Stop whimpering and stand up!" Slade shoved him down as his impact was hard on the boy's elbow. The kid got up to his knees before Slade kicked him down. "I need you to loath them, and to do that, I need that same "you" that came into my first lair. The you that claimed he couldn't be touched…" Slade pushed him onto his back as Dick froze, not sure what was going on in the man's skull. Slade then started to pressure his knees into the kid's legs to lie there. His hands gripped the boy's above his head in one set of fingers. "I should show you how long it takes to make me lose my temper. You did a pretty good job with the scars on your back. Perhaps they need a tending?"

"No!"

"Shut up!" Slade hissed as he backhanded the boy with his other hand. The first and second pushed the kid onto his stomach as the gears made it harder to hear. Then, the screens were even more audible as Dick heard Kori talking about him.

~Robin is not here, so where must we search? ~

~Any waterways that connect to where we ended up finding the fake address. ~

~Will he not be saved in the nick, Raven…~

Slade chuckled as he petted down the boy's back. "Mesmerized by her pretty words, dear child? You'd love to see if she'd have you, once I've made my notice clear."

The rip of material had Dick gawk and threaten to turn his head. "You'll serve only me, you'll want only my approval, and in order to see me dead…"

Was he taking off the belt?...

Dick's sensors had him kicking as Slade wrung his younger wrists past bruising.

The clank of metal was his, Slade's came next as a zipper should have been blocked by Bb's questions about their next move. About Bruce finding Selina before Slade did to find out what she knew. Why she'd given that info that had almost killed his back up in Gotham.

The feeling of a weighted lump at the crease of the boy's now bared ass was not what he'd thought. That free hand bit down hard as it groped and hit, the ongoing sensation made the boy throw his head into the floor with a yelp. "Sto –

"AG!...Ah…Nnn….. Auugh!~!

The tender red globes rose and shook in panic as a finger went next to push in. the dry ache had Richard biting his teeth into flesh as he wailed.

"Tight for someone with so much flexibility. You need to have that to match when you are a better!...rehearsed….killer!"

The thumb burned as the hole seemed to never have enough space. Slade didn't bother on being kind as the strangest feeling of all felt worse than a prostate exam gone "illegal minor."

"This is why you'll hate me, become more of a real spitfire that can't be hurt. Not by the titans, not by anyone but how your master decides. You'll grow with more hate than anything to her. The girl who mocked you all that time your were here, with me."

Slade's sizable member dropped to find the crease of the boy's ass. "If that makes you face me again, so be it. Are you ready to lose your stubborn streak, kid?"

Dick bit down and screamed his last retort before he'd claw the man to shreds. He couldn't be lifted, kicked or spasmed away from. Slade wasn't this psychotic, then again….

He barely knew about Deathstroke. He barely knew anything about that one fucking eye as the man slipped into the crack of his ass and began to breach the first ring of flesh.

There was something Waller was saying as the slow pacing rocked him. Getting too tight, it burned enough to make him hiss at the blood that…

He felt blood and shook his head. "Slade…Slade….stop…stop this, please!! Slade!"

The thing she said….wehat was it again…his crying lost him too much salt. He was dizzy from, the headache that his own voice and their voices…why…what did they say –

Slade grunted as the pace increased. Was that…that was sex? This wasn't –

He yelped as the man shoved him down until he could only taste the dirt on his tongue. Mucus ran past his lip as the man lifted his hips and maneuvered the kid to do something…

"OW~!"

Slade hit his ass as he kept up the thrusts, this time his ass was in the air and his hands to the ground. "I could teach you to stop taking it….maybe…you'll end up a top, like me." He smirked from behind as he maneuvered again the kid to stand with his body was standing and the man…

Abusing him, like a thing not a person…where was the real reason he'd become this apprentice?? Slade was –

The kid didn't want this, he squirmed as Slade knocked him to land on his side as he got back into that dirty hole. Dick looked up to see what the key….

~A Symbiote, and its real goal….~

The man moved him to send the kid on his back with his legs up to his chest. His pants were too his knees as Slade kept up the pace again. Dick was hearing his heart as he turned his eyes yet couldn't when Slade growled him an order. "Look at me, look up."

"After this, treat me like your worst rival, boy…I want you to WANT me dead. And to do that, you'll have to be. A little….more…messy."

The man released his climatic load inside, as Dick let his mouth fall open before clamping it shut with a hoarse sob. His arms were released as Slade rose to release the rest of his cum and coated the kid's stomach. Half, when Dick curled up to cry in a silenced ball. His wrists were black and blue as he cradled those and shook.

"I hope you'll realize that hope is what you treat it as." Slade spoke while righting his uniform. " You could kill me, get away and be with your family again. Instead, you're already so broken. Aren't you, my Renegade?..."

He didn't know. The time he'd come down with the bo staff had….had made him blank and blacked out for a while, he had.

Now, he was wide awake and couldn't fall asleep. His poor hole was drenched as was his ribcage. His chest heaved as it fell, then rose when the man outright left on the monitors as a nightlight. "Wintergreen won't be returning. To continue this new training, I've set."

Dick bit his lip, a strange anger in his gut as he shook, but not from the shame.

"Stay in here tonight, and you may dehydrate yourself. I'd have to inject you with I'Vs. I know you'd rather not."

Dick's jaw ached as he didn't speak a word. He just listened to the screen's voices.

~We can always just talk to the JLA on his files. ~

~And we end him by reading his diary? No flipping way is that gonna stop " the crime lord of the century. ~ Bb pouted. ~I say we go in dirty. Get back at… ~

Was Bb not aware of what really being filth was…

"Good night then, apprentice. If you do pass out, I'll send a bot to do the rest."

Rest….did sound nice, as Dick knew for a bleeding minute.

The only rest Slade would be doing, would be where he was right now.

Nowhere to run, exposed. Hurt.

Almost dying, dead inside.

He smiled at the thought as in the next room over, the orb also liked that plan and began to formulate its next desire and who, was to own up to its wishes.

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