Five Years

Part 30: Punishment

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Beast boy's pov
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I don't know how long I've been sitting here, but it feels like days. My new crystalmate hasn't woken up at all. I've been sitting here studying him for a bit.

He has silver hair and pale white skin. He's wearing a superhero outfit that is mostly white and light blue. Half his face is covered with a light blue mask.

I've been spending my time figuring out what happened. I think when I transfer energy to crystalmate it caused the two crystals to merge. Hopefully that isn't too much of a problem.

For some reason ever since the crystals merged I've started to feel tired. It feels like my energy is being drained. I stand up, trying to energize myself.

Suddenly I feel something strange. I try to move, but my legs won't comply. Slowly the feeling moves up my body. I can't move my waist or my left hand below my waist.

What the hell is happening?

For a while only my lower body is stuck. Almost as if it's frozen. After a bit the freezing continues until I can only move my head.

Rae, I don't know what's happening and you can't even hear me, but I care for you a lot.

I say into the air before fully freezing.
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Raven's pov
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The merged crystal was fully frozen in time by Anders last night. He had to leave for work, but he told us if the effect wears off then he'd come back to refreeze it. We all thanked him, except for Nightwing who didn't even come to say goodbye.

Currently I'm with Cy and Terra in the workshop. I combined helping Cy and keeping Terra under watch. We've been talking about the progress of the machine.

Cy thinks that we could be releasing people from the normal crystals tomorrow.

"It'll be great to finish this machine and get people out. Hopefully soon after I'll hear back from the inventor so we can work on getting BB out." Cy says screwing in a panel on the machine.

"Who is this inventor?" I ask.

"He's well known for a lot of inventions that assist superheroes. He has since retired and has been training his pupil for the last five years. He's our only hope for making a machine to safely extract BB and the other person. He hasn't responded so I sent Bee yo go check on him." Cy says.

As if on cue, Bee rings Cy. He picks up and puts it on speaker so he can continue working.

"Cy, I checked on the inventor and he's been missing for a few days now. I talked to his apprentice and he said his teacher has never done this before." Bee says.

"That's strange." Cy says putting his tools.

"It is strange isn't it, Cyborg honey?" Terra says teasingly.

I look over at her shocked. That's when I notice her eyes are cloudy and switching to green. I back away quickly from her. Cy picks up on my reaction and switches his hand into a blaster.

"Awww, don't be so scared now. I won't hurt you... For now." Terra smirks.

"What are you up to?" I ask suspiciously.

"Well love, I'm here to tell you that old inventor can't help you anymore. I made sure of that." She smiles.

She must have overheard us before and got to him first. Damn it. Terra comes closer to me, her smile widening as I try to move back further.

Over Terra's shoulder I notice the door open quietly. Beth stealthily comes closer to us, without Terra noticing.

"Why are you doing this?" I ask, trying to distract her.

"Why? Because little Raven, I want you to suffer. Not only did you put my sister in jail to rot, but you completely destroyed her." She says with disgust.

Beth reaches out and touches her hand. Terra jumps with surprise and quickly pulls away, her eyes turning back to blue. She's a bit dizzy and almost falls over. I put my hands on her shoulders to steady her.

"I got a good look at her memories. I know where she is. I'll inform Nightwing and send the coordinates to BumbleBee as well." Beth says turning around and heading to Nightwing's room.

I help Terra sit down. I wonder who the person's sister is. We've put many villains in jail and unfortunately I've hurt a lot of people more than deserved.

Especially after Gar and Nightwing left. I couldn't control my powers then and left several people on the brink of death. I'm not proud of those times.

Maybe I deserve punishment...