Teen Titans – Renegade's Last Resort- Finding Pandora = Hope
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Chapter 12: Open the Door, Richard!
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Based on a verse my mom used to sing. Fourth seven- something? Find out! Fight scenes! Also, if anyone notices, Roy is super closet shy in this and we'll explain why soon. Also, Dick loses his temper in the next chapter. Beat downs, but by whom? Find out!
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The set up was simple enough. Livewire would wire over her findings to her real commander in chief, while Slade did his best to prep both on the outside for their biggest heist. And an eventual duel with an angry dark knight to boot.
~ Renegade, remember this lesson well. Wayne is only interested in taking Robin back, from keeping your friends under his thumb. That would be no better than my crippling them, boy. So, go. Listen to your partner, don't disappoint.~
He'd be watching, a robot or two were in place to creep in and steal the kid out of danger, while a copter and a compromise with another villain Slade had gotten ahead of buying up in Gotham, was willing to set fire to the painted heroes.
Firefly, to add to this new mess.
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Roy sniffed around by dark as Oliver stayed out, per Beuve's shifty rules. On the next roof, he was sure eyes had been on him half the whole his smoke was about to breathe its last delighted puff. "Ghost – face? Yah gonna linger like one, all night?"
Raven appeared as herself, soul and all with her close up and face covered. "You're making a big mistake. Slade will be expecting us. He won't expect you to –
"You think I wanna get cozy with a team? You know who that royal paim was, right? Ward of sunshine and photo bombs, that's who." Roy huffed before getting his arrowed set up. Bombs away , he'd ignore her evil knevil bull shit omens. This was personal.
"If you wanna sink into la – la land and be good pals, I'll give you young kids some advice. Robin is a SWAT machine. He's not after sticking by for anyone. Batman trained a kid soldier, not a son. We aren't…all so lucky."
"I was cursed to end life on your planet, but I escaped that fate." Raven fibbed seeing Speedy's arm twitch. "Can you say that you didn't change in a similar way, to become who you are now?"
"I get rehab sessions for an unwanted heroin addiction and a way out if Ollie's face. That's all I get." Sniffed the dejected ward. "That's all I deserve for serving a pompous heroic. Learn from it, witch." He shot off an arrow like a grappler as she watched him drop over the side, a thin line on his mouth and no real reaction behind the domino mask.
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Changing the whys, so cry on it.
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His eyes were masked, tongue heavy and the air smelled too cold, too foul. Ollie was coming as a shot into his arm had the tortured Roy Harper bite down, try to be brave for his mentor…
It was only after he'd gotten past the kick that he was craving this very feeling. That during the period of his napping at fifteen, he'd harbored a want for a similar taste. Heroin happened to supply, and Ollie raved to slap some sense into his pupil by throwing him on his ass onto the pavement. ~ You're bringing shame on me, on the whole hero community! Get clean, now. I won't give you back your post unless you comply quietly, kid.~
Kid? He was his…no, Roy was an adopted street-smart brat that happened to be in the same shoes as Gotham's dynamic duo. For years, he'd felt overshadowed by the tight wearing creepy kid. The pixie without a care, and without caring about people who were beneath them. Roy got out at sixteen and never went to get clean the professional way, he mitigated the doses, worked on finding some other shut to fill his time up. Even smoked cigarettes until he reeled of them. Nothing.
Someone was out of the equation later. Dick Grayson, was AWOL and the whole community was abuse. A new Robin was stationed in Jump City, yet Roy had seen Wilson on the move long before in Star. He'd hidden his motives like crap and it wasn't until tonight. Tonight.
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Roy crumpled into a crouch on the roof of Wayne Enterprises. The cover to the vent there was one way in, as Dick crawled in first. Roy waited his turn, seeing no obstruction to get in his way.
His eyes slid partly to slits as his hunt began, to gain back an enemy. A rival, or….a best friend.
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……….
While he hid and slipped throughout dark passageway towards where the device lay buried, Dick's limber physically trained balance was, superb. As always, Roy cursed his old mentor for being as untrained as a wild man at a high-school party.
His very limbs bent into awkward points as the forever acrobat took Roy on a ride through those ducts once more, yet he waited. Kept in time, as thr clatter of one more set if grates was pushed out and he looked down onto what Dick had come to hold his eyes on.
A glower orb, so bright as a nebula's very first morning star. Roy saw it too as Dick was awe stricken. How it shone for any barer as he pulled out what looked to be a black box the beautiful gem like cosmic field around it warping with a wind gust of power –
"Stop right there, Robin. Or should I call you…Renegade. "
Roy looked on as the faces presented as five.
Five stupid, suicidal teens. He growled, a coward as he watched the other boy's eyes burn with wired anticipation on the time he had remaining.
No doubt a bomb to his chest or a beating was in store, from the mastermind with love.
"We shall stop you this time, dear friend. You are not well. Slade has done great harm."
"Regardless, Richard. Hand over the box." Raven held out a hand as Dick moved a step back. Roy stayed in the vent and leaned on one arm, his breath heard while Dick was cornered on most sides.
He then left a grin as a crushing if wall and currents of electrical energy jolted to erupt. The other armored door came down as Overload had them preoccupied.
Shit…
Roy knew this blueprint to a degree. If he hurried, he could meet the escaping brat half way.
He clicked his tongue and dropped down when Dick practically dashed for the man-made exit by one of Slade's other toys.
'"Stop him!! He's gonna –
The heroes had the orb, or so they thought as Livewire took their time out for her pleasure. Roy wanted to go after Dick, yet the Pandora Element had him sending his weapon at her hand while she was ready to reel in her prize.
"Wrong again, laser – daze. I think…you need to find a new sugar daddy to bank off of."
He sneered as she did the same. Their stances coursing with life, while one shot a bolt and the with other dodged with less grace than the former boy wonder.
The character known as Overload was not supposed to be able to go two places at once, yet one part stayed as Livewire kept her powers as a puppeteer of the program, while the Titans had to now manage Dick's obstinate throwing discs and Overload mini's incessant electricity blasts at their heads.
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Dick's pattering footballs became frantic as he paced his racing, echoing heart and the chambers that had everyone under his spell. Overload did damage to the ceiling as if programed to help him run to the copter maybe parked above, or to face any other enemy besides his ex – friends. His eyes blurred a bit beneath the spiked domino as his heart beat was in sync with the pulsing orb he'd held his gaze on only moments before. Livewire would have to steal it. He had failed, and now…
He flipped above to find the roof and to see that no escape vehicle had yet to show the Renegade any such mercy. He looked around, thinking it was too good to be true as he growled at his fate, the Titans busy with Overload.
"That's as far as you'll have to go, Robin."
Robin ….that name was giving him heartburn at this point, tsked the kid. He turned his neck to face a dark shroud amid the flaring neon of a mentor he'd soon wished to forget.
Batman.
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Robin's fists got ready for a fight as he pulled out his double rangs, Slade's own insignia now replacing the design he'd come to grip so tender.
Robin. Always they called him.
"You need to stand down. Slade isn't the one in control. We'll find a way, but you need to –
"You'll waste my time, like you always have. Bruce!" Dick threw a flash bang as he NEEDED to get back, to stay away as much as possible from a fight right now. Slade needed him to get back, but how was he going to wait?? Were bots there to direct his moves? Was there some special device he wasn't aware of in his suit?
~ Apprentice. Stay at your post. Stay, and fight.~
He couldn't, believe it…
Dick nearly staggered as Bruce easily….too much… cuffed his one wrist, the clink of metal setting him along to panic by this rude awakening.
"I'm taking you in; stand down."
"No." Dick elbowed the bat with a light jolt, not knowing that his elbows had a little gift there while the blade popped out. Dick pulled back, his eyes scanning over the bat holding his rib, just bruised. Fuck…any harder…
He wasn't a killer. This was getting too far.
~ Apprentice. Attack!~
Dick thought he should find the receiver of those damned messages and toss it off the roof. It was in his suit, on him and in his damned ears with something that wouldn't pull off. Like a magnet. His fury and fear doubled as Bruce swung out a rang to Spook the kid, so he ran round the Wayne "W" and panted. Fuck…what was his deal?? Did Slade know about his fear of hurting Bruce?? Was this his plan or a part of it??
~ You need to overcome this. Stay and fight.~
" I'm going to lose…I can't beat him –
~ Then, incapacitate.~ Slade purred his orders and suggestions out, Dick nodding and thinking of a way to do that without sticking the Batman full of holes like Swiss cheese. "R…right…"
He swerved to see that Bruce was above him as h summersault away from another hit if that bloody rang.
"Robin, this isn't like you. Please. I know you're afraid, you can't keep running back…" His eyes betrayed what he was as those words matched none if the Bat, all of the favored play boy that Dick had grown to respect, once.
"I don't know why you thought going after him woukd be the best way to stop an enemy, and I get why. I do. But you can't handle this, so please. I can –
"You can't do ANYTHING!" Dick threw another flash grenade as this time it left smoke to blind the bat. He ran to the "I" of Enterprises and stuck at his knees, panting to catch his breath from the shock.
~ YOU WERE GIVEN AN ORDER. STAY AND INCAPACITATE THE BAT. ~
"I CAN'T….STOP…"
"Dick, it's ok –
~ TAKE HIM DOWN. NOW! ~
"No…no…I…-
Slade's warning came on deaf ears as Bruce tackled the kid onto his back, holding himself over the boy before getting him on his stomach to cuff him again.
Still, something.
Snapped.
As before with the roof and the Titans being attacked in their city, he didn't wait to contort out of the grip on the man who'd taken him from a dark place.
His boot was also laced with the same blade as his twisted it as an acrobat could to jab a…bit harder into Brice's leg this time.
Exposed by the Kevlar underneath as the bat cried out. Long enough for Dick to roll out from under him and twist out of the wrongly made cuffs. Ones the bat had not finished adjusting to the correct width, as Dick could heard Slade's praise in his ear.
~ Ever so ruthless as before….good boy. Now, take him out and THEN I'll keep my promise to come find you.~
Dick's heart was heavily beating, his eyes blurring a little more as he rubbed them
Finding his customized bo staff as he pulled it out, taking one swing with eyes shut, sorry to his disappointment, Bruce caught it with one hand. Dick twisted his leg as he pulled the bat's form along, this ceaseless tug of war not part of his weapons - yet in the palms of both of his gloves, were…something.
Shocking volts sizzled through the staff as a lightning rod, while they did their job. Dick pulled his staff back to collapse it, while Bruce was desperate at this point as he shook off the shock. With the perfect weapon failing him, Dick ran towards the last bleeding "S," and leaped off the side of the tall ride rooftop.
Open air, where he belonged, where he grabbed his grapple in time to hit some part of the building before the impact pulled him down with a splat into elsewhere.
He went down anyway, setting off more smoke with his own bombs again out of panic so that the bat could not find him.
The jet fueled sound of a rocket pack in his ear had the boy look up to see that a robot had stooped and had caught him, his body now cloistered and cradled in its embrace as he let out an sharp exhale. "Take me back, to him…" He groaned before falling silent from the shock.
He didn't have that power to command it, as the jet powered mechanical wonder took a former boy wonder, back to the lair of both their potential overlord's.
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Long so….gonna end this chapter to add the Titans and Roy in the next one. Big turn around by the way. Wait and see why Slade didn't intervene like he had. Find out!