Post by bbissocute on Apr 8, 2007 20:29:59 GMT -5
CHAPTER 15
After Robin had explained everything to him, Cyborg sat quietly for awhile. He knew it took a lot to tick Starfire off, but for her to suddenly risk what they were there for, was just really odd for her. He returned to reality when Robin’s voice continued.
“Cyborg, I’m sending Raven to retrieve Beast Boy and you. Get him ready for transport.”
“Okay, Robin. I really hope you know what you’re doin’, though.”
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As Robin closed his communicator, Raven prepared herself for her small journey. Now, truthfully, it was not a huge feat, but it did require a lot of energy and concentration. When she did it herself it was not as strenuous, and even with one extra person it wasn’t that bad. Usually in those cases she secretly absorbed some of the other person’s energy, but she knew that wasn’t a possibility this time.
Beast Boy would need every ounce of energy that was left in his body to fight the battle going on inside him. Robin suddenly interrupted Raven’s trance in an effort to rush her.
“He doesn’t have that much time, Raven.” He said sarcastically.
“Well, if you would like me to utterly and completely destroy the time-space continuum I suggest you pull that stick out of your butt and sit still!” she replied in an obvious annoyed tone.
“Mgnsnam…I just wanted to help, god…” he mumbled under his breath.
“I’m not deaf, you know.” Raven said as he subconsciously cowered behind Starfire. Personally, Robin was glad Slade had left a while ago. He had gone to ‘spruce up’ for the others.
“Okay, I think I’m ready. I will be right back with the others.” Raven said after another 5 minutes.
“Okay. Please do hurry back, friend Raven.” Starfire spoke quietly, the first time since the incident.
“Don’t worry Star; I’ll be quick about it.” She gave a small smile to her friend before stepping through an ebony portal.
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Cyborg was about to call Robin to ask if something went wrong, when Raven stepped out of the ‘wall’.
“Is he ready to be moved?” she asked, with even less emotion in her voice then normally.
“Well, he’s stable for now. I sorta finished the temporary antidote. If I’m right, if I were to inject him with it right now, he would have about another hour before it was compromised. I haven’t injected him yet because Robin said that Slade had the antidote and to bring BB there. Why are we trusting Slade? Do you really think he is going to let us keep BB if he has the antidote?”
“No. He wants Beast Boy for himself. It’s a trade, Cyborg. Beast Boy for Beast Boy’s life.”
“And Robin’s allowing this!?!” Cyborg shouted, surprising himself.
“I don’t know what he’s planning, but I don’t think he is going to completely go through with it, ‘I hope.’” She added to herself.
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‘Why is this taking so long?’ Robin asked in the confines of his mind. ‘Raven must either really be tired or something went wrong back at the tower. I wonder if we should go and-’ His thoughts were suddenly cut short when Raven stepped through the wall with Cyborg. Beast Boy lay on a small bed in his hands.
“It’s about time you showed up for the party, Beast Boy.” Slade said, despite the obvious fact that he was unconscious.
“Now take us to the antidote, Slade. Beast Boy is here just like we promised.” Robin was obviously annoyed with his last comment.
“Patients, Robin. Didn’t your parents teach you any manners? Now if you all would be kind enough to follow me this way…” Slade said as he walked down the narrow hall. The titans followed closely behind. They came to a stop outside of a large door.
“Now only one of you may enter with your friend. Chose wisely.” He stepped through the doorway and closed the door. The titans looked at each other for a moment before speaking. They all wanted to go in, but they knew they weren’t in a position to bargain. Another quiet moment passed before Robin the silence.
“I have an idea. Cyborg, you go with Beast Boy. Raven, I want you to phase yourself into the wall connected to the room. Make sure you are not seen. Not even sensed. If something happens in there I want you to take care of it. Star and I will be out here.”
Both Cyborg and Raven nodded. Slowly Cyborg walked into the room.
“Please lie him down. There isn’t much time left before your ‘medicine’ wears off and he is completely susceptible to the pain again.” Slade said in a snide voice. Cyborg gritted his teeth, but did as he was told.
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‘Well, I can’t hear extremely great, but oh well. At least I’m doing something.’ Raven thought to herself. She was literally inside the wall, listening to the muffled conversation going on the other side of the wall. Her thoughts, once again, returned to Beast Boy. Although she hated to admit it, she couldn’t imagine life without him.
A sudden crash brought her back to reality. She prayed that it wasn’t what she thought it was. She heard some cursing (that would force the rating of this story to be changed if added), and then quiet.
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“Robin?” Starfire asked hesitantly.
“Yes Star?”
“I wish to apologies for my previous behavior. I did not mean to get angry at Slade and destroy friend Beast Boy’s cure. I just did not wish for him to suffer more by his hands.” As she said this, her eyes fell to the floor and she seemed to be trying to see through the nine-foot slab of concrete. Robin tipped her head up enough for her to look into his eyes (which wasn’t very far).
“Star, there’s no reason for you to be sorry. You were trying to protect your friend. That’s plenty of a reason to do that.” Suddenly Robin regretted saying that. Not because he didn’t mean it, because he did mean every word of it, but because of the look on Starfire’s face. That look only meant pain.
“Thank you very much, Robin. I am feeling much the ‘better’ now!” Starfire said as she enveloped him in one of her famous hugs. Surprisingly, instead of crushing the life out of him, Robin felt comfortable in the hug. Then something flashed across his mind.
“Hey Star? Have you seen Johnson?”
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“How much farther?” Johnson asked as they walked down the hallway.
“Not much. All we have to do is stop at the Dark Room and pick up your daughter. Then we can get out of this place for good!” Baer said, holding Rebekah and Mercy’s hands (her daughters, remember) while Robert walked next to her with Darek. Johnson’s wife, Melina, was walking next to him.
“Good, but before we go I think we should thank the titans.”
“Fine. Personally I think we should just scram and send ‘em a Christmas card.” They reached the door and typed in the code. Surprisingly no one was there. They had expected at least a guard.
When they opened the door a small girl walked out. She seemed dazed, almost like in a trance. Johnson immediately picked her up and gave her a huge hug. He began to cry.
They shut the door again and left without another word. ‘Now to go and thank the titans for bringing back my life.’ Johnson thought as he carried his little girl down the long hallway.
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Cyborg stood beside the bed as Slade took a long hypodermic needle out of the desk drawer. He picked up a small glass bottle from a nearby medicine cabinet.
As he drew the precise amount, a tile from the ceiling fell and smashed on to the floor. Startled by the sudden noise, Slade dropped the small glass bottle, shattering it instantly. Cyborg, seeing his best friends’ only chance shatter and melt into the floor, began shouting obscenities to adult for this rating. Slade just laughed.
“What’s so funny?” Cyborg asked angrily.
“You are making such a fuss over nothing.” Slade said calmly.
“NOTHING? NOTHING!?! MY BEST FRIEND’S LIFE IS AT STAKE AND YOU JUST DROPPED THE ONLY THING THAT COULD SAVE HIM! YOU CALL THAT NOTHING?!?” Slade continued to laugh.
“You are a complete fool, aren’t you? I still have the needle. In fact, it has more then needed.” And with that, he took the needle and pointed it up. A small stream of amber liquid shot up from the cylinder. Cyborg’s angered face was replaced with an extremely worried one at the sight of this. Slade smiled behind his mask. He loved making people hate him.
“Why are you doing that? That’s all we have left!”
“Okay, okay. Let’s get this over with.” Slade walked towards the bed.
“Oh no, I am going to give it to him. You might drop it again.”
“What, you don’t trust me? I’m disappointed, Cyborg.”
“I really don’t care what you think, Slade. I just want my friend to be better. And the only way to do that is if he gets this. Now hand it here.” Slade, strangely enough, handed over the needle.
“Go ahead, my boy. But it will not alter our agreement.” Slade said, almost sounding impatient. Carefully, Cyborg inserted the needle underneath the young boy’s skin. For a moment, he stood there and waited for something to happen. He didn’t know what he was expecting to see, but he figured something was going to happen. Slowly he turned to Slade and asked him,
“Can the rest come in now?”
“Why do they need to come in? Is there a problem with me?” he said, obviously trying to get on Cyborg’s nerves.
“I just think they would like to know their friend is alright.” Cyborg said, his tone dark and stern.
“Fine. You can go tell them his condition. But I expect you back in here within 5 minutes.”
Slade laughed to himself as Cyborg walked out of the room grumbling under his breath.
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“Friend Cyborg! How is friend Beast Boy? We had heard a crash of something breaking, and we feared for the worse.” Starfire was the first to greet the metal man at the doorway.
“He’s fine, for now. The crash actually was the antidote. Sl-“
“THE ANTIDOTE!” the others said simultaneously. Raven suddenly appeared with a worried look on her face.
“Yes,” Cyborg said, sounding a little annoyed. “Anyway, Slade is the reason. Don’t worry, BB is okay, luckily he had already drawn the correct amount in the needle before he dropped it. So far nothings happened, but I need to get back in there before-” suddenly he was cut off by a loud yell.
After Robin had explained everything to him, Cyborg sat quietly for awhile. He knew it took a lot to tick Starfire off, but for her to suddenly risk what they were there for, was just really odd for her. He returned to reality when Robin’s voice continued.
“Cyborg, I’m sending Raven to retrieve Beast Boy and you. Get him ready for transport.”
“Okay, Robin. I really hope you know what you’re doin’, though.”
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As Robin closed his communicator, Raven prepared herself for her small journey. Now, truthfully, it was not a huge feat, but it did require a lot of energy and concentration. When she did it herself it was not as strenuous, and even with one extra person it wasn’t that bad. Usually in those cases she secretly absorbed some of the other person’s energy, but she knew that wasn’t a possibility this time.
Beast Boy would need every ounce of energy that was left in his body to fight the battle going on inside him. Robin suddenly interrupted Raven’s trance in an effort to rush her.
“He doesn’t have that much time, Raven.” He said sarcastically.
“Well, if you would like me to utterly and completely destroy the time-space continuum I suggest you pull that stick out of your butt and sit still!” she replied in an obvious annoyed tone.
“Mgnsnam…I just wanted to help, god…” he mumbled under his breath.
“I’m not deaf, you know.” Raven said as he subconsciously cowered behind Starfire. Personally, Robin was glad Slade had left a while ago. He had gone to ‘spruce up’ for the others.
“Okay, I think I’m ready. I will be right back with the others.” Raven said after another 5 minutes.
“Okay. Please do hurry back, friend Raven.” Starfire spoke quietly, the first time since the incident.
“Don’t worry Star; I’ll be quick about it.” She gave a small smile to her friend before stepping through an ebony portal.
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Cyborg was about to call Robin to ask if something went wrong, when Raven stepped out of the ‘wall’.
“Is he ready to be moved?” she asked, with even less emotion in her voice then normally.
“Well, he’s stable for now. I sorta finished the temporary antidote. If I’m right, if I were to inject him with it right now, he would have about another hour before it was compromised. I haven’t injected him yet because Robin said that Slade had the antidote and to bring BB there. Why are we trusting Slade? Do you really think he is going to let us keep BB if he has the antidote?”
“No. He wants Beast Boy for himself. It’s a trade, Cyborg. Beast Boy for Beast Boy’s life.”
“And Robin’s allowing this!?!” Cyborg shouted, surprising himself.
“I don’t know what he’s planning, but I don’t think he is going to completely go through with it, ‘I hope.’” She added to herself.
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‘Why is this taking so long?’ Robin asked in the confines of his mind. ‘Raven must either really be tired or something went wrong back at the tower. I wonder if we should go and-’ His thoughts were suddenly cut short when Raven stepped through the wall with Cyborg. Beast Boy lay on a small bed in his hands.
“It’s about time you showed up for the party, Beast Boy.” Slade said, despite the obvious fact that he was unconscious.
“Now take us to the antidote, Slade. Beast Boy is here just like we promised.” Robin was obviously annoyed with his last comment.
“Patients, Robin. Didn’t your parents teach you any manners? Now if you all would be kind enough to follow me this way…” Slade said as he walked down the narrow hall. The titans followed closely behind. They came to a stop outside of a large door.
“Now only one of you may enter with your friend. Chose wisely.” He stepped through the doorway and closed the door. The titans looked at each other for a moment before speaking. They all wanted to go in, but they knew they weren’t in a position to bargain. Another quiet moment passed before Robin the silence.
“I have an idea. Cyborg, you go with Beast Boy. Raven, I want you to phase yourself into the wall connected to the room. Make sure you are not seen. Not even sensed. If something happens in there I want you to take care of it. Star and I will be out here.”
Both Cyborg and Raven nodded. Slowly Cyborg walked into the room.
“Please lie him down. There isn’t much time left before your ‘medicine’ wears off and he is completely susceptible to the pain again.” Slade said in a snide voice. Cyborg gritted his teeth, but did as he was told.
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‘Well, I can’t hear extremely great, but oh well. At least I’m doing something.’ Raven thought to herself. She was literally inside the wall, listening to the muffled conversation going on the other side of the wall. Her thoughts, once again, returned to Beast Boy. Although she hated to admit it, she couldn’t imagine life without him.
A sudden crash brought her back to reality. She prayed that it wasn’t what she thought it was. She heard some cursing (that would force the rating of this story to be changed if added), and then quiet.
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“Robin?” Starfire asked hesitantly.
“Yes Star?”
“I wish to apologies for my previous behavior. I did not mean to get angry at Slade and destroy friend Beast Boy’s cure. I just did not wish for him to suffer more by his hands.” As she said this, her eyes fell to the floor and she seemed to be trying to see through the nine-foot slab of concrete. Robin tipped her head up enough for her to look into his eyes (which wasn’t very far).
“Star, there’s no reason for you to be sorry. You were trying to protect your friend. That’s plenty of a reason to do that.” Suddenly Robin regretted saying that. Not because he didn’t mean it, because he did mean every word of it, but because of the look on Starfire’s face. That look only meant pain.
“Thank you very much, Robin. I am feeling much the ‘better’ now!” Starfire said as she enveloped him in one of her famous hugs. Surprisingly, instead of crushing the life out of him, Robin felt comfortable in the hug. Then something flashed across his mind.
“Hey Star? Have you seen Johnson?”
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“How much farther?” Johnson asked as they walked down the hallway.
“Not much. All we have to do is stop at the Dark Room and pick up your daughter. Then we can get out of this place for good!” Baer said, holding Rebekah and Mercy’s hands (her daughters, remember) while Robert walked next to her with Darek. Johnson’s wife, Melina, was walking next to him.
“Good, but before we go I think we should thank the titans.”
“Fine. Personally I think we should just scram and send ‘em a Christmas card.” They reached the door and typed in the code. Surprisingly no one was there. They had expected at least a guard.
When they opened the door a small girl walked out. She seemed dazed, almost like in a trance. Johnson immediately picked her up and gave her a huge hug. He began to cry.
They shut the door again and left without another word. ‘Now to go and thank the titans for bringing back my life.’ Johnson thought as he carried his little girl down the long hallway.
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Cyborg stood beside the bed as Slade took a long hypodermic needle out of the desk drawer. He picked up a small glass bottle from a nearby medicine cabinet.
As he drew the precise amount, a tile from the ceiling fell and smashed on to the floor. Startled by the sudden noise, Slade dropped the small glass bottle, shattering it instantly. Cyborg, seeing his best friends’ only chance shatter and melt into the floor, began shouting obscenities to adult for this rating. Slade just laughed.
“What’s so funny?” Cyborg asked angrily.
“You are making such a fuss over nothing.” Slade said calmly.
“NOTHING? NOTHING!?! MY BEST FRIEND’S LIFE IS AT STAKE AND YOU JUST DROPPED THE ONLY THING THAT COULD SAVE HIM! YOU CALL THAT NOTHING?!?” Slade continued to laugh.
“You are a complete fool, aren’t you? I still have the needle. In fact, it has more then needed.” And with that, he took the needle and pointed it up. A small stream of amber liquid shot up from the cylinder. Cyborg’s angered face was replaced with an extremely worried one at the sight of this. Slade smiled behind his mask. He loved making people hate him.
“Why are you doing that? That’s all we have left!”
“Okay, okay. Let’s get this over with.” Slade walked towards the bed.
“Oh no, I am going to give it to him. You might drop it again.”
“What, you don’t trust me? I’m disappointed, Cyborg.”
“I really don’t care what you think, Slade. I just want my friend to be better. And the only way to do that is if he gets this. Now hand it here.” Slade, strangely enough, handed over the needle.
“Go ahead, my boy. But it will not alter our agreement.” Slade said, almost sounding impatient. Carefully, Cyborg inserted the needle underneath the young boy’s skin. For a moment, he stood there and waited for something to happen. He didn’t know what he was expecting to see, but he figured something was going to happen. Slowly he turned to Slade and asked him,
“Can the rest come in now?”
“Why do they need to come in? Is there a problem with me?” he said, obviously trying to get on Cyborg’s nerves.
“I just think they would like to know their friend is alright.” Cyborg said, his tone dark and stern.
“Fine. You can go tell them his condition. But I expect you back in here within 5 minutes.”
Slade laughed to himself as Cyborg walked out of the room grumbling under his breath.
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“Friend Cyborg! How is friend Beast Boy? We had heard a crash of something breaking, and we feared for the worse.” Starfire was the first to greet the metal man at the doorway.
“He’s fine, for now. The crash actually was the antidote. Sl-“
“THE ANTIDOTE!” the others said simultaneously. Raven suddenly appeared with a worried look on her face.
“Yes,” Cyborg said, sounding a little annoyed. “Anyway, Slade is the reason. Don’t worry, BB is okay, luckily he had already drawn the correct amount in the needle before he dropped it. So far nothings happened, but I need to get back in there before-” suddenly he was cut off by a loud yell.