The Darkest of Knights

"If you say so, Al." Karmy sighed, a hint of doubt in her voice. "I don't know how I'm not gonna get over the fact that people I hate, like Slade, I wanna kill. They deserve it."

"No." Alice said getting up and pulling a bean bag next to Karmy. "You're not going to kill Slade. Ever." She told her. "If you happen to be holding your fist up to deliver the final blow, I will be there to stop you." She said. "Tea?" Alice offered.

"No thanks, not thirsty." karmy leabed back. "I doubt I'll ever get a chance like that again though." she sighed.

"You're right, you never will." Alice smiled pushing her head into the bean bag. "I'll make sure of it." Her voice weakened, her eyes resting, her body sprawled on the bean bag, slowly sinking into it. "I do my best for you, you know that? I'm still trying to pay you back for what you did six years ago." She whispered. "Cause... You remember Jykle and Hyde right? The story I told you two years ago? The man who tried to separate his good side from his bad side when he drank a potion... When he stopped drinking the solution... He woke up as Hyde." Alice felt like she was talking to a wall now, but she knew Karmy listens to her. "Then he killed himself while he was still sane." Her voice weakened more. "Don't..."

"I've lost count of how many times you've told me that story." Karmy laughed and crossed her arms. "I may not be sane, but at least I'm not alone." she smiled and looked at Alice. "Hehe getting sleepy buddy?"

"First off, its tradition to do it once an RP. Its a good story and you still haven't sat down to read the book, secondly, I'll beat you one of these days!" Alice said snapping her eyes open. Several nights with Karmy and she makes a game of who stays up the longest. Karmy always won of course. "With all the lack of sleep you should at least read the book."

"You'll never win." Karmy smirked. "And I dont have a single book in this thing." she patted her bag. "Hell, I've never read a book all the way through. My mom tried to teach me with these weird sparkly vampire books when I was a kid, and I've never touched one since."

"Dr. Jykle and Mr. Hyde is a classic though! The language may weird cause it was a different era but, still its a good read. Makes you smart. Questions your worldview and philosophy." Alice mumbled turning around in the bean bag, but still facing Karmy. "One of these days I'll beat you soooo bad."

"I don't even know what a classic is!" Karmy admitted as she sat up in the bean bag. "And pffft yeah, maybe if I was thrown into a coma! which will never happen casue I got skillz!"

(Ah...Poor forgotten characters...)
Astro fell asleep in a corner some where.
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Ivy shuddered, thinking of Slade's return. She couldn't bring herself to stop replaying that moment. The time everyone paused, their attention shaken to the insect they dared call Slade. The one so easily squished, returned to the form that frightened everyone. He was Slade, he never died. He was like evil. It never dies. And it never will. She thought.
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Knightmare yawned, returning to herself. Her fingers twitched. Once. Twice. She slumped into a sitting position, propping herself up by her hands. "What the...?" Her voice cracked, dry, she found herself overwhelmed with hunger and thirst. She put those annoying needs to the side, instead focusing on where she was and what she was doing.

The cloaked figure discovered she had passed out in an alleyway, maintaining some sense of survival since she was cleverly hidden among debris and trash. She pushed her way out of the rubble with a disgusted expression, careful not to touch any the more rotten trash. As she moved, she couldn't help but notice her hands. Stained red. Bloody red.

That was all it took, the memories slowly returned. Zombie apocalypse, the people she killed. I've been asleep for days. she thought, any lingering weariness replaced with an alert anxiety. A quick once over on herself found the usual missing-Knives, shuriken. Only the more cunningly hidden weapons had she managed to keep. Nonetheless, it would take awhile to restock. Until then, she thought, why not go and get something to eat? Rob a Dairy King, make a scene. If she did that, she wouldn't have completely abandoned her mission to S.T.E.A.M.

She flexed her fingers around the leather handle of one of her two remaining knives. A pained ghost of a smile flashed across her features as she staggered out of the alleyway.

"Time to show Gotham I'm still alive."

"A classic.. Its something that withstands the test of time. Something everyone enjoys globally. There's classical music like Beethoven, Wolfgang, and Eminem. You know what I'm talking about?" Alice asked. "And you don't even.. Have any magazines in there..?" She yawned, her eyes slowly dropping again. "Sure you don't want tea?"

"Well?" Killer Moth asked his partner at a small square table for one. "Well what?" His partner asked. "Well how about we strike these banks?" Killer Moth inquired. "Why do we want money again?" Killer Moth's partner questioned his intentions. "To get rich! We need to get rich!" Killer Moth yelled. "Why do we want to get rich?" His partner continued to ask. "To get power! We get rich, we get power, we get money, sex, drugs, and the world! Do I have to spell it out for you?!" Killer Moth continued to rant. "Who would want to have sex with you?" His partner asked. "Everyone will!"
"Uhh.. I don't see that happening."
"Oh yeah? Why not?"
"Cause you're you."
"Once I have power and money, no one will care!"
"Don't you have a daughter...?"
"Kitty? Kitty has grown up, she doesn't need her old man, I can do whatever I want! So why are you here if you don't want money or power?"
"I'm here cause I like watching you work."
"Oh yeah, huh? Miss me?"
"Yeah, you're a real joke."

"Eminem?" Karmy asked curiously. "I thought that was some sort of candy or something. Those little round bite size things? And I sure, what the hell." she shrugged.

"Well he's a classical artist from the late 1900's, I think he got inspiration from the candy. Had a lot of M&M's when I was with Dick in Wayne Manor. I use to read and nibble on them every now and then." Alice said getting up, warming up an electric vat of hot water. "What do you want? Earl Grey, Sleepy Time, Sweet Lemon, Lemon Lemon, Raspberry, Strawberry, Appleberry, Birdberry, Berryberry, Deathberry, Sweet Oak, Cinnamon Snowmen, Cinnamon Sandmen, Cinnamon Noman, Peach, Sweet Peach, Unsweet Peach, Cow, Peppermint, Bojack, Bu, Orange, Hot Spice, Green Lemon, Green, Green Peach, Sweet Green, Unsweetened Green, Jasmine, or Flower Burst." Alice said examining the tea collection she snagged. "This isn't even half of Raven's Exotic Tea Collection by the way." Alice laughed.

Zero's face lit up like a kid at Christmas when Greyson mentioned him being the one to talk to Superman. Oh he considered Greyson cooler by far, but this was SUPERMAN- little superheroes wanted ot be him when they grew up. The man no bullet can kill, the man of steel. This to Zero was like a garage band about to go on stage with Elvis. "You want ME to call SUperman??!" Zero asked enthustically, makign sure he heard thar right.

After the real Cyrah ahd dragged her duplicate into the shadows of the warehouse where it was never seen again, she noticed something clipped to the belts of the drones that transformed. They looked something like a pager, but more complex. Everyone else had hammed the drones and damaged the devices, but Cyrah left the one attached to her duplicate intact. She pulled it off and trotted up to Ivy. "Hey, what do you make of this?" Cyrah asked, examining it.

Cassius was covered in various mechanical fluids, seeming to enjoy the robot carnage he had left behind......

"Cow tea!? I..." Karmy shuddered in disgust. "I do not even wanna THINK about that one.." she sounded like she was about to barf. "But.. Deathberry sounds like, uber sweet! I'll try that one since it doesn't look like she has black tea."

"Yeah sure go ahead, we're on speed dial." Dick said pressing the button, the dial tone rung several time before Clark picked up, Barbara sighed deeply, taking in what little humanity she thought she had left and hugged Dick's arm, resting her head on his broad shoulder.

"She has black tea... But I'll have to steal it. I'm gonna have Flower Burst." Alice said pouring hot tea into small mugs. The tea bags dispersed into the hot water, streaming colors, Alice blew lightly on the steam as it rolled out of the cup.

"Coolio, thanks." Karmy took the cup from Alice and took a sip after blowing on it. Smacking her lips slightly to the taste, she thought for a moment before setting the cup down. "It sorta tastes like-" she slumped over backwards and lay sprawled out on the floor. Alice panicked but before she could do anything Karmy popped back up. "Holy sh-t! That was AWESOME!" she reached for the cup and took another sip. And the process repeated.

"Want some sugar?" Alice asked holding up a plate with several lumps. "It's not my personal cup of tea but.. well no pun intended."

"Oh hell no, whatever is in this stuff is making my heart stop!" Karmy took another gulp and slumped over again. "Oh man, what a rush!" she said when she popped up. "It's like I'm dying but I'm... I don't know but this is awesome!" a bit of foam dripped from the edge of her mouth.

"Don't say that... you don't know what it feels like to get killed." Alice smiled softly and sipped her tea lightly. "And by the way, I know what you're thinking, there's no actual deathberries, it's just a mixture of natural sweeteners." Alice laughed.

"Pfftt I knew that, there's no berry taste at all!" Karmy said, already starting to get jittery. She finished off the cup and held it out. "Lemme have so more, I'm loving this stuff." she laughed. "You're defiantly gonna lose tonight!"

"Well.. it's got finchberries in it, so it does technically have berries." Alice said not thinking much about it at first, then thinking about it she looked at Karmy. BAD IDEA. "Karmy! That-!!!"

The man of steel was simply flying around town, his eyes scanning the city like and eagle for its prey, when his communicator went off. Only one person it could be......

Zero was having total Idol worship moments right about now, even with Superman repeatedly asking for someone to pick up the phone on the other line. Really, what COULD he say to Superman? He just sat there like a deer in headlights untill he snapped out of it. "M....Mister Superman?" He asked initially. "......Uh, who ARE you?" Superman asked, curious as to just who the heck he was talking to if it wasn't Batman. "Oh, I'm Zero, of the midnight Riders." he said, trying to make himself sound important. "Oh, I've heard about you." He said. Zero indulged in a dumb grin at this praise, as the two swapped info on the generator....
[I cropped it short of time purposes, my folks are killing my internet right now, I'm sorry I'm letting y'all down by not posting as much as I should, I'm really REALLY sorry]

(these are finch berries.)

Karmy knew full well what finch berries were, and that it took few minutes to kick in. But oohhh man, when it did it was- "WOOOOOOOOHOOOO!!!"... Yeah, that. The cup smashed on the ground as all hell broke loose.

Luckily Cyrborg managed to put the tower in lock down before Karmy escaped, but that didn't save. Since finch berries were so much stronger than coffee, it was gonna take a lot to take her down. Though, it was hard to do that with everyone being.. Well I'll just tell you. In a blink of an eye, Cyrah and Rose were painted different colors. All the current titans were covered in kitchen appliances. Nicole and Damian were glued together. Cassius was tied to the couch. Luna, Ivy, John and Alice, were pretty much all over the common room, covered in who knows what anymore. And Karmy was still going nuts, laughing like a maniac and trying to break through the lock down.

(Don't be sorry Red!!)

"Okay, so what's a good time to fly in Clark?" Batman inquired The Man of Steel. "I mean we haven't quite made it back to Titan's Tower yet, but we'll be there by the time the sun rises in Gotham."

Alice ran for Karmy and finally managed to snag her with a pair of Bloa Batarangs that tied her feet together effectively. "Gotcha!"