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Post by vii on Apr 8, 2011 18:22:51 GMT -5
*Location is a Science lab ran by Cadmas*
This was not how Seth had envisioned spending his Saturday, as part of his new treatment for the headaches his parents had brought him into their workplace. How he hated places like this, they always reminded him of his nightmares. Needles, machines and that smell of overly clean but unnatural all at the same time.
Currently running on a treadmill while his mother checked the results, turning his head a little he could see his father working on a computer. Whatever his father was doing was making the machine speed up, once it reached a certain point a headache would start and the treadmill would stop. It had been like that all morning, first with the track running then weight lifting and now the treadmill. The teen would have much rather been playing on the piano or perhaps phoning Raven and seeing what she had planned for the day. Smiling absently the boy stretched and looked about for a towel. "Heart spike" His mother said most likely to his father "No sign of stimuli though, after effect from the physical push?" "Noted, Seth we're done for today. Get a shower and head home, we'll probably be a few more hours here working out these results. You did really well today. How about we pick up a pizza on the way home?"
Seth smiled and nodded, he hated when his parents went all cold and spoke about him as results or a test subject but that was probably just their work method or something.About twenty minutes later had him showering and drying off, clothed and out the main door. Mid afternoon, that wasn't too bad really. Patting his pockets for his phone the gothic teen sighed, he'd left his phone and pills in the room. Which meant turning back and picking them up, he really couldn't do without those pills.
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Post by NPC Villian on Apr 8, 2011 19:03:59 GMT -5
Dr. Light tentatively approached the Cadmus labs. He'd heard rumours of the place, and he knew better than to piss those guys off. Not to mention this was also Jump City, home to the Teen Titans. Which made this bad idea get progressivley worse the closer he got to the prize, but there was an awful lot of money riding on this gig. That was something Dr. Light just couldn't pass up. His greed would be the death of him one day but he would die a happy man.
He saw the target immediately, turning to go back into the Cadmus builing. With the level of security they were sure to have he was not going to miss the small sliver of opportunity to nab the boy before he got too far into the builing. He tossed a light bomb at the boy's feet, hoping to at least distract him so he himself would not have to get into the range of the cameras to deal too long with the boy.
He wasn't even sure what the boy was capable of. What resided in those labs was mystery at best and he's heard rumours of dangerous things. If someone were willing to put the amount of money on the boy as they did, and as much emphasis as they put on the boy being left in tact. He just hoped the kid wouldn't put up too much of a fight.
Of course, the smoke from the bomb went off just a little too close to the building for his liking. Smoke detectors were starting to go off, that meant firefighters and police at best. Robin and his band of teenagers, or Raven at worst. He just hoped today was his Lucky Day.
"Come with Dr. Light and you won't be harmed child. This could be as easy or as difficult at you make it." He warned the boy, hoping that someone is this city had the sense to be afraid of him.
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Post by vii on Apr 8, 2011 19:17:05 GMT -5
Voom! Suddenly Seth was blind, he was pretty sure there had been a bright light a second before and now there was nothing. Reaching around with his hands to try and work out what was going on. This wasn't something to do with his headaches, he was pretty sure about that.
Then the voice, it wasn't familiar and who the hell was Dr Light? Unsure what to do the boy sank to his knees rubbing his eyes "Whoever you are just take what you want and don't hurt me." This wasn't at all like anything he had experienced before. All he could do was hope that someone from the lab came to help. If only he had his phone, maybe he could dial 911 or something. To top all that off the mother of all headaches was starting, he was pretty sure his nose was starting to bleed. "Who are you.....what did you do....." Curling up now the boy wrapped his arms around his knees and hoped whatever was going on would stop soon.
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Post by NPC Villian on Apr 8, 2011 19:42:15 GMT -5
Running, screaming for help, those things were things Dr. Light was used to, but practically curling up in the fetal position and giving up? That wasn't the usual responce he got from his kidnapees. Sure, he was known to do it every now and then when coming into contact with a certain half demoness that took residence in town.
He took advantage of the boy's strange reaction, walkin over and hoisting him over his shoulder. This kid was heavier than he expected, but that didn't matter. He would be able to get to his transportation before any police arrived. The boy was bleeding and the red substance dripped onto the yellow of his costume. Of course. He was unsure of what was causing the blood. The bomb he used was relatively harmless, but effective. Not even a shrapnel backlash would have come if it was working properly.
"Shut your mouth kid.The loss of vision is temporary I assure you. My employers want to keep you in tact." He sneered. That's when he saw it. The blue cape coming at him from a distance. It had to be her. He bolted, as best as he could with a kid on his back, only to be stopped by a dome of black aura that had him shaking in his shoes.
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Post by Raven on Apr 8, 2011 19:54:06 GMT -5
Raven recognized the costume from very far away, but she paused. Kidnapping wasn't usually Dr. Light's MO. Robbery and direct attacks against them, sure. In fact she'd never heard of the villain kidnapping anyone. Unfortunately there was a first time for everything. She pulled out her communicator, opening it to the rest of her friends. "Raven here. I've got this covered....it's just Dr. Light." She said before closing the small object. Then she saw something that disturbed her further.
Seth. Why in the world Dr. Light would want to kidnap Seth was beyond her, though there definitely had to be something up. She had, had her suspicions about the boy but they wouldn't explain why a villian like Dr. Light would want to kidnap him. He was bleeding too she could tell. She pulled up a sheild around Dr. Light. There was no way in hell he was getting away from her with her friend.
She touched down in front of the black sheild, walking through the black aura into the new battlefield. "I suggest you set down the boy and walk away before this turns ugly." She said shortly. There were no types of crime that she liked, but kidnappers were up there on her list of crimes she abhorred. Along with Murder and rape. She hated it especially when someone tried to hurt her friends. She knew she would need to take the man into the police station for questioning though. There was no way she would get more than a blithering mess of syllables from the villain if she tried to interrogate him.
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Post by vii on Apr 8, 2011 20:03:52 GMT -5
He was moving and his vision was starting to come back slowly but the pounding in his head wasn't going away. If anything it was like his brain was about to explode. Now able to see the weird yellow and black costume Seth scrunched up his eyes, perhaps he was seeing things? The dripping from his nose was definitely blood though, that was just great. He was being kidnapped and his nose was bleeding and his head was in serious pain with his pills in the building they were moving away from.
Did the Dr guy just say someone wanted him alive? Holy crap he was being kidnapped, like seriously stolen to be given to someone else for cash or something. That can't be happening, that stuff was just on TV shows, right?
Then it got dark and Seth was sure he heard Rachel's voice demanding he was put down. Perhaps the boy had collapsed and all this was some weird brain induced dream or something. Then she appeared in front of him wearing something he definitely couldn't have imagined and the pain seared through his head harder causing him to grit his teeth to stop from screaming out. Too much was going on, he couldn't handle all the different things and his programming definitely didn't cover anything like this. His parents would save him, they would do something and it would all be OK. Right?
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Post by NPC Villian on Apr 8, 2011 20:15:13 GMT -5
Dr. Light couldn't help but stammer and set the boy down, gently, before dropping to his knees in defeat, holding out his wrists. "Just take me to jail now please." He said, defeated. The edge to her voice seemed particularly pissed off. At least it didn't have the demonic edge to it he saw the first time he met the hero. He think he would lay down and die right then and there if something like that were to happen again.
The boy seemed to be in pain, not good not good. He didn't need to dark teenager even more pissed off at him. He didn't even do anything to cause this kind of reaction. He's used the bomb plenty of times, even on the heroes she usually ran around with and nothing like this ever happened from them. There had to be something else wrong with him. Why in the world would anyone want a defective adolescent for so much money. He just didn't understand.
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Post by Raven on Apr 8, 2011 20:27:49 GMT -5
Raven brought down the shield but used her powers to wrap a metal pole around the villian's wrists and feet so he couldn't get away before the Police got there. She flew over in front of the boy, kneeling down to be at his level. She took his head in her hands, realizing she was invading his personal space greatly, but right now that was not on the top of her concerns.
"Seth, what's going on." She asked, it was obviously his head that was giving him pain, but she couldn't find anything wrong with him in a physical sense. There was nothing to heal except for a minor bloody nose. Unless it was something far beyond her capabilities, but she's fought Dr. Light before and he was hardly lethal. His weapons were more distract and dabilitate rather than maim and kill. Maybe whoever he was working for, because she had no doubt in her mind that he was hired by someone. Probably someone who had just enough money, and sway to make the villain just scared enough to attempt to kidnap some kid in their town.
It was moments later she realized her mistake. She called him by his name. Raven was not supposed to know who Seth was, but that wasn't on the forefront of her concernse either. She let go of his head and pulled down her hood, trying to catch his eyes. "Seth. I want to try to help you can you tell me what's wrong?" She asked. There was no use in trying to hide that she knew who he was now.
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Post by vii on Apr 9, 2011 4:06:45 GMT -5
Seth after he was put down managed to get to his knees long enough to see Raven use her powers to bind Dr Light. Shuffling backward now from both costumed people Seth flinched again from the headache and then the headache stopped. It just vanished and instead left an overwhelming sense of dread. Just like that a he could feel a whole week of his life just vanish "I had a bike when I was five........" Blinking at Rachel as she took a hold of his head "I didn't have a bike when I was five, it wasn't red. It didn't have a bell."
She asked again what was wrong and he looked at the captive criminal and then at her, logic dictated that what she wore was some sort of disguise so saying her name might be a bad thing but he had no idea what to say otherwise, perhaps it was best to avoid saying a name at all. "I think, the headaches gone, I didn't go to school. I didn't......they made me.....no my name is Seth.....right.....?" The stress was starting to cause his fake memories to fall away as the lies they were but currently they were getting jumbled up with everything that he actually knew "I need my pills, back at the lab though"
Behind them running out the lab with some sort of gun were armed guards, Cadmas Security. Behind them was a tall man that Raven would have seen before at the coffee shop, Seth's father. "I want it brought back inside. You there, get away from that boy and go about your business." The man called to Raven with an angry tone, his experiment was going downhill and fast "If she doesn't co-operate take her down."
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Post by Raven on Apr 9, 2011 8:55:47 GMT -5
Guns, Raven really didn't like guns. She also really didn't like people calling her friends an it. Something fishy was definitely going on here, and she wished she wouldn't have called off her backup. She glanced over at Dr. Light. He wasn't going anywhere, then back at the armed men. She needed a plan. "Ok Seth. This is going to be slightly unpleasant, and it's probably going to disorientate you but please try not to freak out." She said.
As the guards began to approach her she brought her energy to create another shield around the two of them. It was smaller than the last but she needed time to think. She didn't want to end up taking them to another dimension, or China or something. "I'm taking you to where I live." [/color] She warned. She would definitely have to go over some stuff that was happening here at the labs with the team but right now that was not her first priority. "There is not a chance that I could get into those labs on my own. I don't have the backup, now's not the time. Besides, I have a feeling your medication is not what you think it is."[/color] She said. She hoped he wouldn't want to go back with the people with the guns. She knew the man was supposed to be his father, but the fact they called him an it rubbed her the wrong way. Besides how many armed guards did one research lab need. This was ridiculous, and Robin would likely be furious. She muttered angrily to herself as she opened up the portal. Go about her business. Puhlease. Seemingly they were not squeamish about killing. She didn't like that in their city. Not one bit. Especially if they didn't know who she was. Who the Teen Titans were. This was going to be one helluva story to tell. "Can you stand?" She asked, finally, after the portal was completed.[/blockquote][/size]
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Post by vii on Apr 9, 2011 11:40:58 GMT -5
He could see Bill and Geff running towards them with guns, when did those guys have guns? They always sat at the front door drinking coffee and eating pizza, didn't they? Then there was the other guys, Seth was pretty sure they were janitors and stuff not armed men but right now he couldn't be sure of anything then there was this whole Rachel doing weird stuff thing. It seemed like she was making darkness act in ways that was in no way natural. Had she lied about the magic thing, was this what she meant about stuff people din't understand?
The darkness came back and surrounded them both Seth looked at the purple haired girl with a mixture of confusion and fear, what the hell was going on? Could he stand she had asked with a numb nod he stood shakely still not saying anything, there was too much going on to even think straight but from the men with guns, the weird guy with light bombs and a purple haired girl throwing magic about he was going to trust her, least that he was sure of.
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Post by Raven on Apr 9, 2011 12:02:55 GMT -5
"Ok Come on. I can't keep the rift open for long, especially not at the same time as the sheild and I really don't feel like getting shot today." She said, taking his hand and slowly stepping through the portal. She pulled his hand so his fingers brushed the empty darkness, but not hard enough to pull him through. She only meant to show him that it was safe. She poker her head back out on his side of the portal. She made sure it went straight to her room so she wouldn't need to explain Seth to the others before she took care of whatever was happening inside of his head.
The things he had been babbling on about earlier had her concerned. She could tell whatever they had done to him was starting to fray. The emotions of distress and confusion were rolling off of him in waves. She admittedly had a lot of explaining to do, but then again he should probably learn things about himself before he worried about the things he didn't know about her.
The top of the sheild was slowly starting to disintegrate. Someone was talking outside of it, but it came through muffled. She assumed someoen was giving the order to shoot the sheild but she didn't want to wait around for the sheild to fray to leave the two of them open for fire.
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Post by vii on Apr 9, 2011 12:29:40 GMT -5
A window of pure black had opened up now and Rachel was sticking her hand through it and then her whole body. Seth stood looking at it when her head popped back through. What on earth was going on, why was the people shooting at him and why did that guy try and kidnap him.
With the bubble disappearing Seth closed his eyes and followed Raven through the portal, this was complete madness but he had to trust someone to give him answers and every bone in his body told him not to stay and get them from his father even though his brain was telling him otherwise. The portal was cold, making all the hairs on his arm stand up. It had also made him blind for a second, not like the time before more like a blindfold being put on and removed quickly.
Looking around the room he now found himself in Seth blinked confused "How.....what.......Rachel?" Trying to form a proper train of thought was just not happening, with memories flashing back and forth mixed with the doubt of them being real or not was taking up most of his thoughts. "Are you real?"
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Post by Raven on Apr 9, 2011 13:06:43 GMT -5
"What? Of course I'm real. You're in my room at my house. I just pulled you through a portal. It's like teleportation." She tried explaining quickly. Here was the 'Oh hey by the way I'm a superhero' part that she didn't like about this whole mess. She heard a crash from downstairs. She assumed it was Cyborg and Beast Boy playing video games or Robin training or something.
"It's a little too much to understand in a short amount of time like this. First I want to take care of whatever is going on with you if you let me." She said, feeling a little guilty about hiding so much from him, as well as what she was about to suggest next. She knew it was a major invasion of privacy, and it was uncomfortable at best. She's had people in her head and she remembers that she really didn't enjoy the experience. She was greatful for it, but it wasn't pleasant.
"I can enter your mind and figure out what is going wrong with you and try to help." She told him, figuring to give him a warning of what she planned before just jumping into his head. That was soemthing she would be unwilling to do. [/size]
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Post by vii on Apr 9, 2011 13:21:14 GMT -5
Trying to take in the new location wasn't really working and when the crash went off the boy jumped a little, almost like a rabbit about to bolt. While he was aware that the girl was talking he couldn't quite grasp a hold of what the actual words were but a few stuck out. Portal, teleportation, her room and enter his mind. Numbly nodding more out of habit and not wanting to argue Seth took a few steps but soon found himself falling to the floor.
Lying on his back the boy just started at the ceiling blankly, his body starting to shut down as his brain tried to sort itself out. As his breathing slowed down and his pulse began to crawl along Seth actually felt more relaxed about it all. Whatever was going on he was sure his father would sort it, though his father did seem to have a small squad of armed men. Everything would be fine with medication, everything would be fine. Now just lying there looking at the ceiling almost like he was alseep with his eyes opened.
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