Fan Fiction ❯ Dark Love ❯ The Cloning Experiment ( Chapter 6 )

[ X - Adult: No readers under 18. Contains Graphic Adult Themes/Extreme violence. ]

gone for a while, and I still don’t own those damn Titans.
A/N: I am finally able to begin writing. And I feels so friggin tight. So here ya go.
The Story

The Titans sat down at the table, well at least one of them was chatting along with Judy. Beastboy, who had taken a fancy to her when they met, was constantly making corny jokes, which Judy kept snorting, giggling, and laughing at. Robin sighed in disgust when he saw there eyes lock and smelt the smell of instant lust; Robin had changed his uniform and showered. Meaning they liked each other, meaning rough days were ahead for the Titans. As this union was likely to be the most annoying. They were getting ready to discuss the topic at hand, when Judy burst out laughing again. Raven glared at them both, causing them to shut up. Then Raven pointed furiously towards his chair, making Beastboy give one last look to Judy, before sulking over to his chair.

“Now,” Robin sighed, “As you all may know the last couple of days have been nothing short of hectic. I, being the one Titan to experience all of it, has come across vampires, a vampire hunter Blade, these altered dogs, and a new enemy. But I am going to start from when I first met Jenette; I am guessing she is one of the heads of this new Vampire organization here in Jump City.” Robin inhaled and continued, “The day me and Raven told you of me being a vampire and all that. That night I went to a vampire club, to see if
Blade would show up and tell him we were on the same side.”

“But, I ended up meeting Jenette, she wanted to enlist my aid to take down Blade, as she like the way I kept up with him. But of course, I turned her down. So she invited me to the dance floor, and dragged me down there even though I told her no. And that’s when it all fucked up.” The Titans raised their eyebrows at that. As he normally doesn’t cuss.

“While getting bumped around on the dance floor, blood trickled down on to my cheek. I had thought it was mine. But it was coming from the ceiling, I look up and guess what happens-” Beastboy put up a hand to stop him so he could guess.

“Blood poured from the ceiling right?” He shot out. And Robin nodded regretfully, making Beastboy clap his hands and causing Judy to clap. Robin shook his head.

“Anyways! The blood came pouring out of the ceiling from fire sprinklers. I kept my mouth shut just in case. But I ended up bumping into the wrong person. He punched me in my stomach, making me suck in breath, and blood. My mind went haywire, I turned into something completely different. I felt new, free, but I also felt the thirst, for not only blood, but the thirst to kill. I was a beast, and I smelt blood not to far away.” Judy gasped silently, when she realized what he was getting too. She hugged herself as the dreaded memories came back to her.

“This is where I found Judy; she was trying to escape three other vampires. Who tried to have their way with her, but I stopped them of course. But in ways I never ever think of doing. I killed three men, vampires yeah, but three men. Each at the neck, vicious attacks from what I can remember. But I didn’t harm Judy, I new deep down she was innocent, so I fought myself so she could escape. Then while I was fleeing the scene, I ran into Blade as I intended to. But in the condition I was in I would have surely died.”

“But that’s when they came and snatched me up, Jenette I mean. And chained me up in this dark room. Inside the place you came to pick me up Cyborg. And while I was chained, this other guy like Jenette I guess, berated me because I killed the vampires and not Judy. And he detested that, and couldn’t understand why I don’t need blood. And that’s when they brought Judy in, when the thirst would return, she would be there to quench it.” Starfire gasped loudly, along with silent gasps from Beastboy, Cyborg, and Raven. But Robin continued.

“But we broke free, in ways I don’t want to mention. And Blade was there too now, fighting there guards. I watched as Judy escaped to you guys to tell you I was here, and helped Blade out. We won of course, but what Jenette told me was what surprised me.”

“There planning to conduct experiments containing my blood and Blade’s blood. To try and create clones, for what reason, I don’t know. But what I do know is that, we have to do anything in our power to stop them.” He finished and puffed out his chest. Waiting for the reactions of his fellow teens. Cyborg leaned back into his chair and rubbed his head. Raven constantly stared at Robin, then Robin shirked his shoulders in an ‘I know’ sort of way. Starfire was a little confused at first, but then just summed it up to having another villain to face. Beastboy just shook his head and sighed.

“Dude we just can’t catch a break can we?” He groaned.

“Apparently not.” Raven said, “So what do we do now, where do we start?” She asked Robin.

“We look for Blade.” Robin went to stand, then stopped. “Or, you’ll look for Blade. Can you search him out Raven, tell him to meet us here. To discuss this.” Robin asked her, instead of commanding her. She nodded and floated up from her chair. Crossing her legs and starting up her old, but familiar chant. Then the magical, black raven shot from her body and out the window. Into the now not so dark sky. As dawn was nearly there.

They sat there for sometime, then Beastboy got up and walked over to Judy. She looked frightened, not because of Raven, but of that night.

“You okay?” He whispered.

“Yeah I’m alright. What um. . . What is she doing?” She asked him while looking at her oddly.

“She’s using her powers to search out for Blade. Telepathically or something like that. That Raven you saw leave her, it’s searching for Blade. Then she like, enters his mind or something I don’t know. But it works.” He told her.

“Oh. . .” She shrugged.

The mystical Raven soared over the town searching for any signs of Blade. It scoured the entire city in record time, but it still could not find any signs of him. It searched through run down buildings, nightclubs, and even the sewers. Until Raven directed it back towards the tower. It re-entered her body as she landed softly back on the floor and opened her eyes. She looked towards Robin.

“He’s gone, I couldn’t find him anywhere. You know what that means.” Raven said.

“It means we do it the old fashioned way.” Robin stood up again and looked at Judy. “Um, Beastboy, are you okay with staying here and watching Judy?” Robin asked while nodding towards them.

“Oh no problem! I’d love to, I. . .mean, yeah Robin I’ll protect her.” He sputtered with a blush. Cyborg snickered at Beastboy, earning a glare that had only the effect of more snickering.

“Titans, lets move.” He turned around with the swish of his cape, followed by the rest. They disappeared behind the doors, Beastboy walked to the window and waved as they sped across the ocean to the city. He turned around to Judy.

“So whaddya wanna do?” He asked her, and she smiled.

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The Titans stopped on the street above the cliff where Robin was spurted out of. Starfire carried Cyborg, and of course Raven carried Robin. They crept up the shaft Robin escaped from and into the burnt room. They settled down finally inside by the door.

“Man, what the hell happened in here Robin?” Cyborg asked as he goggled at the destructive room.

“Hell shot through one of the cracks in the floor.” Robin joked, and Raven snorted. But only Robin seemed to hear her, as his head quickly turned to look at her. He smirked and she blushed. Mentally telling him to shut up. Making his smirk turn into a grin. Then he got serious.

“This hall leads to the warehouse area, which is where me and Blade separated. Stay alert and stay guarded.” He said while creaking the door open. The halls were dusted with desertion as not a single soul was detected by Cyborg’s radar. They entered the large area where he and Blade fought off the numerous amounts of guards. He looked into the hall where he fled the dogs. Robin nodded for them to follow.

Robin pulled out a flashlight and Cyborg turned on his. The hall was quiet, eerily quiet. Starfire began to fidget with her hands, and began to float closer to the group.

“What is it that we are searching for?” Starfire whispered, making them tense.

“We are looking for, any, traceable evidence to Blade’s whereabouts. . . And I think we just found some.” Robin said as they walked to a would be dead end. A door, fit for a closet, was broken off of it’s hinges. Raven sliced the remaining hinges and Cyborg carried it off to the side. Robin peered inside, his flashlight shown a flight of spiral stairs heading even further down into the lion’s den. Robin looked back at them and nodded.

They headed down the dark stairs for no longer than four minutes, when a certain step, stepped on by the leader himself, Robin. Sank into the cement, yet of course, no one noticed. They continued on until clicks were heard, ringing down from the door, to and past them. They stopped and looked around for anything. But it remained dark, then it suddenly became silent. Only their quickened breaths could be heard.

“Nothings happening.” Cyborg muttered, then the stairs they were standing on slid apart and they plummeted below into the darkness. Then Raven snatched Robin out the air and Starfire to Cyborg. They hovered for awhile, looked up at the stairs as they closed. Then they looked at each other.

“What now” Cyborg asked Robin.

“Well we can’t go up. Turn up the beam on your light and see how high we’re up.” He told Cyborg. He did, and they weren’t really that high off the ground. As a matter of fact, Raven dropped Robin flat on his face. Cyborg snorted and landed on his feet, along with Raven and Starfire. Robin mumbled something while pushing himself up from the ground.

“Thanks for that.” He grumbled. They sat in darkness with only the beam from Cyborg’s light giving them just that.

“What now?” Raven asked while walking around the small room.

“Well I don’t see a way out. . . Wait a minute. Starfire, what’s that by your foot?” Cyborg pointed to a little lever sticking out from underneath the wall.

Starfire goes to throw the lever when a screech from Raven makes him jump.

“Starfire no!” But it’s too late, Starfire throws the lever and the ground underneath them gives way. And yet again, they plummet into more darkness. But this time the longer they fell the brighter it became.

They all landed on their feet this time as fall wasn‘t that much of a drop. As they saw the floor this time. The Titans look around and the room they’re in looks more like a cathedral then anything else.

“Where the hell are we?” Cyborg mutters in disgust, “ I’m getting really tired of all these damn traps.”

“Chill Cyborg, we need to know where we’re at.” Robin told him.

“Yeah, what the hell ever, this is getting really… Robin look out!” Cyborg yells, giving Robin just enough time to dodge the S-shape blade aiming straight for his neck.

“Well, seems like your welcoming is as friendly as ever” Robin says dryly to Blade.

“I knew you‘d dodge it.” Blade states in a calm voice “Now what are you doin’ here?” Blade asked Robin sharply.

“Looking for you, we need your help, and whether you want to admit it or not, you need our help too.” Robin said. Blade just grunted, “There’s something going down real big here. And if they actual plan to, to create these clones or whatever. Then we really need to start cracking down on these people.” Blade growled at Robin’s choice of the word “people”, but Robin ignored it. Then he waited for a response from Blade.

“What I know,” Blade said after a brief pause, “is that they do plan to create clones from the my blood and yours too. But I have this.” Blade pulled a disc out from one of his many pockets. Robin peered closer at the mini CD.

“What is it?” Robin asked him.

“It contains data about the experiments they’ve conducted, what they plan to use them for and how they plan to use them. And where they plan to use them.” Blade pocketed the CD and turned to leave.

“Do we follow?” Starfire asked the group. Robin just started walking and Cyborg turned to her and shook his head. They entered another hallway that looked more of a laboratory than the room they were just in.

“Where is everybody?” Cyborg asked through the silence.

“In their labs, these walls seem to be sound proof. With alarms on the inside to notify them.” Blade told them as they walked down a new hall and up stairs that rose is high as the eye could see.

They continued to walk up these set of stairs for a while. They had forgotten just how far they were underground, until they finally reached another floor. That opened into the subway.

They crossed the tracks, up and out into the open night air. Or what was left of the night. It was nearly dawn as the colors orange, yellow, and red stretched across the sky to create a dramatic effect that made Robin sigh. Forgetting that he had to hide from the dreaded sun anyways. Blade cut off his dreaming with a question.

“Now we head to your tower?” Blade pried. Robin smirked.

“Yes, yes we do. But we have a little detour to make. I’m sure the route to our tower is littered with vampires. So we take the easy way.” Robin said and turned in the opposite direction of the tower. Blade frowned, but nodded and followed anyway. The Titans looked at each other with raised eyebrows. Then continued walking along with them. Raven was getting ready to ask Robin what was going on through their mental bond. When she was interrupted by Robin.

‘Raven! You can hear me?’ He asked, only doing this once and out of instinct.

‘I can hear you.’

‘Call Beastboy and check to see if everything is alright.’

‘Is there something wrong?’

‘I’m not sure.’

Raven reached for her T-comm when Beastboy’s face appeared on the screen.

“Robin! Titans! They’re attacking the tower! They have me outnumbered here, you need to hurry back fa-” Beastboy’s transmission was cut off as they stared at the communicator. Then Blade sent a speeding elbow to Robin’s temple, sending him crashing into a building.

Cyborg yelled and Starfire screamed. Raven let out somewhat of a growl. She went to attack him when Robin bellowed out from the rubble.

“STOP!! Beastboy needs your help! Now go!” He roared, Raven sent him a sharp look.

“I said go Raven! I’ll take care of him, but you are need back at the tower. Go, and that is an order!” He added. Raven glowered at Robin, then took off to the tower. Followed by Starfire and Cyborg. Robin trampled out from the bricks into the middle of the street, and faced the fake Blade.

“Surprised.” The clone said. Robin smirked again.

“Not in the least. I knew it wasn’t you from the start. You smell nothing like the real Blade. Act nothing like him, even look nothing like him. But we didn’t no how to get out and you did. So I waited, but I didn’t know you would be attacking the tower. To bad you will not succeed.” He told the fake Blade. He chuckled.

“We will, you’ll see. And you can call me C-1” Then he lunged at Robin quickly but suspected. Robin hopped back and prepared for the fight. C-1 sent a swift right hook, which was dodged and countered with a strong roundhouse kick to the clone’s kidney’s. Knocking him back while grabbing his side. With a real pissed off expression, yet again, making Robin smirk.

“And you fight nothing like the real Blade either. You must be the prototype right?” Robin taunted, enraging the clone. He charged Robin, Robin sidestepped and tripped him. Making him skid against the ground. Robin chuckled mischievously, he stepped back to give the clone room. But he had forgotten of his worst, most deadliest enemy, the sun. He stepped back in fear as he could see shadows lengthening and the sky becoming brighter before his eyes.

Then C-1 grabbed Robin’s neck and slammed him against another building. He yanked him up and shoved his forearm into his throat.

“Forgot about that big, yellow orb in the sky didn’t ya bitch?” He whispered into Robin’s ear, making Robin growl.

“See, now unlike you, I don’t have to cower in fear from the sun. Unlike Blade, I don’t need the necessities of blood. So no, I’m not a prototype. . .I’m so much more.” He went to force Robin out of the shade, but Robin dug his claws into his wrists. Making him pull his neck free and speed towards a manhole in the street. Smoke was steadily rising from Robin’s body as the heat of the sun’s rays became more powerful over the horizon. He heaved the manhole out and over to the side and jumped down into the sewer below.

He landed in waist high water and gasped at the sudden coolness. Then C-1 landed next to Robin and shoved his head into the water. Robin smacked his hand away, and rose quickly. Slamming the top of his head into C-1’s chin. C-1 tripped over his feet and into the nasty water. Robin picked him up and struck him back down into the water. Then grabbed his ankles and slang him into a pipe. He looked around for anyway he could escape this fight to enter another one at his Tower. He looked towards C-1, he could see his eyes closed as if he was unconscious and took off down the large sewer line. He trudged through thick and thin as he dodged rays of light that shown through holes in the street and other manholes.

He came to a pipe that would make him have to bend if he entered, and he was going to. This pipe leaded all the way to his Tower in the basement. It was sealed off, but the lid can be easily removed. The problem was, that, Robin had no idea if the pipe constantly flowed, or contained water. Try his luck and see what happens, at least that’s as far as he could sum it up.

He placed a grip on the lid and was ready to pull, when a hand yanked him around by shoulder.

C-1 glowered into Robin’s eyes, Robin thinking that pipe hurt more than he expected.

‘He should be stronger than me and Blade shouldn’t he?’ Robin then realized something, the water level was starting to rise. He looked down the long tunnel and saw flowing water gaining level and speed. C-1 then slammed Robin up against the hard lid, snapping Robin painfully out of his notice. Which was unfortunately not noticed by C-1.

“Listen, if we don’t stop this fight we’ll both die!” Robin bellowed as he fought back against C-1’s force. But he ignored Robin, then gave him a look like he didn’t care.

‘Damn!’ Robin cursed to himself, the water was reaching the ceiling level and getting closer to there position. Robin then remembered something, making him feel incredibly stupid. He had his utility belt. Newly equipped for fighting vampires among the other necessities of his battles.

Robin shoved C-1 back quickly, knocking him off balance. Robin then reached into his belt and pulled out three bird-a-rang’s with sharp points. He launched them at critical parts in C-1 ones clothes, locking him to the wall. He looked toward the wall of threatening water, then at C-1. Smirked and saluted him to his farewell. C-1 thrashed at the weapon’s strength to keep him where he was, but to no avail. Robin pried the lid to the pipe open, which was thankfully empty. And he closed it just in time as the large wave came barreling through. He sighed and wiped his forehead, then looked down the long dark pipe. He started to walk, when sounds of breaking could be heard behind him. Like the water was having trouble keeping the water from entering.

‘Or was it supposed?’ Just as he asked himself, the pipe opened and the water shot in towards him at a dizzying speed. He was pushed along with the water and launched on a rollercoaster ride under the ocean. If there ever was a time to scream, now was that time. And Robin was screaming to, but not out of fear. Out of fun, he tried to stand a little and ride the wave. But fell on his ass, when the pipe included a sharp dip. Then he was being shot upwards through a skinny pipe.

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Raven stood alone against 3 clones, all of them resembling Robin. She’s been getting beaten all this time because she had problems fighting this type of enemy. If there ever was a time she cursed her emotions, it was now. The other Titans were towards the roof, with Starfire outside and Beastboy protecting Judy. They seemed to be losing as the odds kept coming, but only Raven noticed they were dying down. The clones themselves didn’t seem to be complete replicas, she was just the hapless one to end up with perfect clones. Some had minor kinks she noticed, some couldn’t talk. Blurting out computer like lingo out Raven when she moved. She knew these clones aren’t Robin, there were three Robin’s in front of her and she had a problem dispatching all three. It was still hard, every time she went to strike, he flashed through her head. Causing her to pause and end up attacked. She has been fighting, mind you, just not the way she normally does.

She backed up to create space, only to have it shortened by a lunging Robin. She swayed to the side, and dodged his relentless claws. He caught her cape and yanked her closer. She then evaded his attack only too close, slashing three marks down her chest. Stopping just above her breast, Raven tilled over, from exhaustion and pain.

‘I need. . .to find a way out of this somehow. Or some help, anything’ And at that moment, her prayers were answered. Robin came spurting out of a pipe hidden in the shadows and onto another lunging Robin. He slowly got up on the dizzy clone, then noticed just what it was he landed on. Then saw a panting Raven out the corner of his eye.

He sprinted to her side, surveying her cuts, gashes, and bruises. Raven gave Robin an apologetic look, Robin glared at her. Meant to tell her she has nothing to apologize for, which Raven understood. She then pecked him on his cheek.

“Raven. What you are about to see, isn’t really coming from me. It’s coming from the beast within me. So I want you to know now that by witnessing this, I have not changed. Okay.” Robin told her, Raven nodded more than once to reassure him.

Then something in Robin’s head snapped, as if he had turned it on when his mate gave him permission. He slowly turned to them, his eyes a deep shade of red. They glared back at him, a challenge of bravery this was. Who would cower before the better vampire.

One clone on the left hissed, flashing his teeth. Robin roared, bearing his fangs. The clone,
among the other two, shrunk in stature a little bit. Then Robin lunged at the clone that held the most blood. He gave him an uppercut that shook the ground, the clone raised off of his feet. Then Robin lengthened his claws and tore through the clones stomach. His bloodied hand ripped through his back, then Robin slung him to the side. His body laid lifelessly next to his companions. They looked at Robin, apparently these clones could feel fear.

They turned to run, but Robin leaped on one clone’s back, and tore at his back as he let loose sharp, ear piercing screeches. Then Robin broke his neck to shut him up. The other was near the top of the stairs, Robin jumped ahead of him, blocking the door. He wasted no time in killing him quickly and swiftly. The body fell over and down to the floor the fast way, as his head decided to take the long way and roll down the stairs. Robin calmed down and soon felt disgusted with himself as he did the last time. But the measures were desperate, and they had hurt his mate.

Robin walked back down the stairs to Raven, who was leaning against a box. She was frightened at first, but something inside of her craved for more bloodshed. She wanted to smell more fear from her would be killers. It must have been the demon within her, since this was the first time she witnessed death like this first hand. She slowly stood up and looked into Robin’s eye’s, then jumped at him and pulled him into a bear hug. She then backed away quickly with her face screwed up.

“You smell like shit.” She stated, Robin’s face faltered, then turned into a little grin as he thought it was a bit funny.

“Where are the other Titans?” He asked her to change the subject. She nodded upwards.

“Are they still fighting?” Robin had to know, even if he couldn’t go up there and help. She closed her eyes to feel them out. There stress levels were all at a normal, which meant they were no longer battling. She shook her head and Robin pulled out his T-comm. His face appeared on their screens as he told them to head to the basement. Then it signaled out. They waited for sometime, until finally they appeared at the door. They headed down and sat on boxes and stands that were there.

“Well we know they have the clones ready.” Cyborg said, while massaging his neck.

“What do we do?” Asked Beastboy, who had a long rip down his shirt.

“Well, we know now to leave together, all of us.” He added while looking at Judy, who nodded. “Since Blade seems to either have been captured, or I don’t know. We’re going to have to do this on our own. So we might have to head back to that laboratory soon. But now we need to rest. I’m actually kinda proud you guys defeated them. As they were like Blade and me.” Robin told them.

“Please! Piece’a cake” Cyborg exclaimed, making Robin grin. They stalked out the basement, leaving Raven and Robin behind.

“What now?” Robin asked her.

“Now, we take a shower.” Raven said as she walked towards his quarters.

“We?” Robin’s voice squeaked.

“Yes we. Now come on!” She demanded, Robin actually smiled broadly and followed her closely.


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End of Chapter 6

Sorry I was late on posting this for Monday. Like semi-Tuesday. But there it was and I hoped you like it. Extra long cuz I been gone for so long.

Peace!