The Wicked One

Chapter Twenty-Four | Questions, Part One

The cave made not a sound as the odd group of heroes and villains sat, stood, and slept within the natural rock formation. See-More tried his best to stay awake and focused as they remained silent, but he continually had to fight with the strange exhaustion that had plagued them since the crash. Thankfully, he did manage to get one of his prototype shields to secrete from his eye in time to protect him, but it still wasn't enough to keep him from hitting his head and blacking out. Now that he was awake, the optical thief found it increasingly harder to remain so.

"Beastboy, I have a simple proposition for you," Fixit finally announced after he and the green colored Titan had finished their minute long staring contest.

"Forget it! I will never work for the likes of you!" Beastboy shouted back, fighting against his restraints as he knelt on the ground. See-More and Red-X had an amusing time several minutes go watching the Titan morph into nearly every creature of the animal kingdom as he tried to free himself, only to have Fixit's mechanical straps simply alter their size in order to keep the hero restrained.

"You may have managed to remove Blackfire's collar, but I assure you your new restraints will not be removed unless I wish it."

"Yeah, c'mon, kid, just tell us what we need to know and we'll let you and your freaky dark demon princess go," Red-X spoke up, looking incredibly bored as he propped up his head with one of his arms.

"Never!" Beastboy shouted out in defiance. "Neverrrrrrr!"

"Beastboy, I can make you tell me what I need to know," Fixit informed as he casually walked towards the Titan. "I only asked out of common courtesy."

"Well then, you're going to have to do your worst," Beastboy said with a growl as he stared into Fixit's blank, red eyes. The mechanic slowly raised one of his arms. "Because I--"

The Titan was cut off whenFixit's clawed index finger made contact with his forehead. Immediately, Beastboy's green eyes shone with a bright red to match the intensity of Fixit's luminous eyes.

"What is your alias?" Fixit asked as he stared into Beastboy's red eyes.

"Beastboy," the green teen responded immediately.

"What is your name?"

"Garfield Logan."

"Garfield?" Red-X saidwith a snicker. See-More couldn't help but chuckle as well. It was a pretty dumb name; he could understand why the Titan would want to be called something like Beastboy.

"How did you find us?" Fixit continued, pointedly ignoring the two thieves.

"I snuck onto the T-Ship as a fly before you took off. When the ship crashed, I tried to rescue Raven and found the cave."

"Who cares how the twerp found us? Just get him to tell us what she did with Kyd Wykkyd," Red-X said, throwing a thumb to the still dozing Raven.

"Yeah, man! Wykkyd's been trapped like...forever!" See-More joined in, mostly to try and add something to the conversation.

"What has Raven done with Kyd Wykkyd?" Fixit asked.

"I do not know," Beastboy responded on a dime.

"He doesn't know? Are you serious?" Red-X sighed, rubbing a hand over his masked face. "We would be stuck with the dumb one to interrogate."

"I was afraid of this," the mechanic muttered, closing his eyes briefly before fixing them back on the green Titan. "Sleep."

Beastboy then promptly closed his eyes and fell over, a dreamy look on his face as he fell into a deep sleep.