Prompt Post - Part Ten
I am REALLY, REALLY SORRY about taking so long, guys, and about not being around much recently. I've been busier than I have in a while, and it just kept slipping my mind between uni applications and volunteering and all sorts- for some reason I thought we were much further off a new post.
If there is anything I haven't responded to, as of now, I'm ( Read more... )
(Bonus if at any point, Robin claims he'd NEVER work for Slade, not under any circumstances, not in this world or or any others!)
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That episode came on yesterday and I had to watch it despite the fact that it was tearing me up inside.
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He called in the middle of the night.
“There’s a warehouse on the corner of South and Main. Come alone.”
He didn’t know who it is or what they want, but he thought he could take whoever it was.
He was wrong.
An ambush.
He woke up three hours later in a cell, a kryptonite-laced metal cuff on his right wrist. Just the little dusting of the rock was enough to make Conner feel nauseous and dizzy.
It wasn’t long before he appeared.
He offered to train Superboy, to help him learn control (the cuff was only for protection, so he could explain himself without being attacked). He presented him with the chance to become the best he could be; powerful, precise, and in control. He offered him what Superman never had; the chance to have a father.
…Conner accepted.
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She knew what he was offering her was wrong. She knew that. She knew she didn’t want to betray her friends or her uncle or Batman. Her rational mind knew that, but the instinctual part of her mind, the part that had made her mind-blast her friends and turn Psimon into a vegetable when her secret was at risk, didn’t see it that way.
He had promised they wouldn’t be hurt. He had given her his word. Just feed him information, little tidbits here and there.
She tried to convince herself she didn’t feel guilty, that she wasn’t betraying her friends and that this deal she had made with him, her friends’ guaranteed safety in exchange for information wasn’t harming anything, or anyone.
…She did not succeed.
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He hated working for this man, this cold, ruthless man bedecked in Halloween colors. He hated being forced to steal in the dead of night, going against everything he had ever stood for. He hated standing in the man’s presence. But most of all, he hated the hold Slade held over him.
He was not in this situation by choice. Two months ago, the man had captured him and took him into a room. It had been empty except for two large pods filled with salt water and his two best friends.
Tula and Garth were floating motionless in the water, their eyes closed and their breathing even. Kaldur prided himself on being calm and level-headed, but he had flown into a rage, attacking Slade and bargaining with him to release his lost love and his first friend.
…This was the result.
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He’s coming down from his latest high when he notices the silhouette.
Roy swears under his breath and grabs his arrows, quickly notching one onto his bow.
Slade steps out of the shadows, carrying what looks to be a dart gun with one hand while the other holds the remainder of Roy’s heroin stash.
Suddenly Roy’s desperate, and he’s begging with the wraith. Him, a hero. Begging to a villain.
He feels disgusted with himself, but can’t bring himself to care as he watches Slade hold his ‘lifeline’ in his hands.
…Roy’s hooked, and that’s all Slade needs.
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I'm so happy you filled this for me!
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You're welcome. I've been attempting to work on an Apprentice fic anyway, so this was...practice of a sort, you might say.
I'm glad you liked it. :)
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Well...okay, so I posted this on FFN, and one of my reviewers wanted to see the continued attempts of Slade to procure Wally as his apprentice. And, being me, my mind jumped on the idea. I had to write it NOW NOW NOW!
This is a much more lighthearted fic than 'Coerced'...the nature of the fic refused to settle for anything different.
So anyway, I present to you, "Frequent Kidnapping Card-Slade, Stamp Here!"
"Five times Slade attempted to sway Wally West to the Dark Side, and one time Wally accepted for the good of the world....chocolate might have been involved. But it was mostly for the good of the world! Semi-Sequel to Coerced."
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First Slade tried the normal ways of manipulation and coercion. He simply kidnapped the Team and left Wally to decide whether or not to be his apprentice or watch him kill his friends one by one.
But Slade, genius mastermind though he was, forgot one crucial thing.
Wally could travel at the speed of sound, far faster than any mere bullet.
Slade couldn’t even touch him before he managed to pull Robin from his grasp, shut off the security systems (which Robin had been instructing him via mind-link on how to hack since he had been brought in) and escape with the rest of his friends.
Slade was not amused.
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Then he got slightly more devious. He kidnapped Wally and stuck an inhibitor collar on him.
That got his attention. He still refused point-blank to have anything to do with him, but he couldn’t escape. Slade began to plot ways to wear the speedster down.
However, Slade had forgotten that next to Robin, Kid Flash was one of the most loved and protected heroes on the planet.
Three days later, his base was assaulted by the Justice League of America, led by Batman and the Flash. Kid Flash’s stupid covert-ops team had snuck into the building and freed the weakened speedster while the League had ‘stormed’ the compound.
Slade was just lucky he had explosives buried around the building as well as an escape route.
Next time he would succeed. Kid Flash would become his apprentice.
It was only a matter of time.
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Months passed, and Slade’s attempts to capture and force Kid Flash to become his apprentice continued. Wally now considered it weird if he didn’t get kidnapped, knocked out, bound, gagged, and hauled to Slade’s newest hideout at least once a week ( ... )
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Wally groaned and held a hand to his head.
What was this, the third time this week? Seriously, didn’t Slade have a life?
“You’d think you’d be used to this by now. No, I won’t join you. No, I don’t want to be your apprentice. No, I think you look tacky in that outfit. Can we skip to the part where you sprout your evil plan and laugh about it so my team can get here and kick your butt? I have a math test in the morning.”
Slade gave him such a bewildered look (well…as bewildered as you can get for a guy who only had one eye and wears a full face mask).
Seriously…Slade had been seriously scary the first couple of times around, but after you spent enough time with him…you just ceased to be afraid. Especially when you knew your friends were three minutes away and counting.
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It had now been a year and a half since Slade’s first attempt to force Wally West to become his apprentice.
After about the 355th kidnapping, Wally had talked a little with Slade…off the record, of course. They had…bonded, for lack of a better word. Now their little kidnapping sessions had turned into more of a game between the two. Slade would test how long he could keep Wally from escaping and Wally would attempt to beat his record time.
Strangely, it helped Wally become a better hero.
But he was still late. Constantly.
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