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      Published: 2015-05-17 Chapters: 14/14 Words: 53481
****** The Poison of the Raven ******
by storytell18_(theyarnspinner)
Summary
     Everybody has their demons, and Robin had thought Raven had defeated
     hers when her father arrived. However, another demon from Raven's
     past, one that Robin never knew about, returns and abducts Raven bent
     on revenge, leading the Titans to Gotham to discover Raven's
     connection to Poison Ivy.
Notes
     Bold indicates nightmares. Italics indicate flashbacks. "indicates
     speech" while 'indicates throughts'.
***** Cluemaster *****
Raven lay sound asleep in her bed, boots set aside and cloak hung up. As she
lay in her bed, she suddenly began to shake as if she was starting to have a
nightmare.
Raven found herself, a younger version of herself, pressed against a wall in
what appeared to be a dungeon with no escape, a window that was high above her
and a door that was locked and guarded. Her powers were being inhibited by a
collar that was tightly pressed against her neck, rendering her unable to
fight. Her arms were contained by a set of stocks on the wall. Raven could not
move or try to get away. The green outfit she was wearing had been unzipped and
pushed down, exposing her bare back to the elements, and whoever was
accompanying her in this cell.
Suddenly, Raven heard the unmistakable sound of a whip cracking as it struck
her backside, causing her to scream in agony as blood ran down her back from
the impact. However, that was not the first time that foul whip struck her back
- her back already showed signs of such abuse as shown by the healing lines
that criss-crossed her backside.
Raven continued to scream as more lashes struck her back, striking randomly as
blood fell down her pale gray body, dripping on the cold stone floor.
Raven was jolted awake from her nightmare, looking to see if everything was
normal, well normal for a half-demon superhero. She was still in her room, a
fact Raven took great relief in. That wasn't the first time she had experienced
that nightmare - in fact it was a memory.
Raven shuddered as she tried to repress the painful memories of her back being
lashed by her captor. She endured way too much, even by demon standards, and it
stuck with her for life.
How she ever was able to escape that, she never completely understood. Perhaps
fate took pity on her, seeing as her life was already screwed up beyond belief.
Her bastard demon father Trigon was going to use her as a portal to enter the
Earth, so she needed help. She needed companionship. She needed love.
Shortly after she awoke, she heard someone knocking on her door. Raven put on
her cloak and floated over to her doorway, seeing a concerned Robin in the
frame.
Robin asked, "Is everything alright, Raven? I heard you screaming."
Raven responded, "It was just a nightmare. I'm fine."
"It was more than that. You've been having nightmares for weeks now. This one
keeps popping up. I know through our bond. Raven, just tell me what's going
on."
"I can't. Robin, you know me better than any one. You don't want to travel into
my past. You won't like what you find. Trust me."
"I already know about the prophecy and your father. What else could there be?"
"A lot more than you realize. I just hope that you'll never find out, that it
never comes back to find me."
"How bad was it?"
"If you knew, you wouldn't look at me the same way again."
With that, Raven closed the door on the Boy Wonder, leaving him to go back to
bed. As Robin walked away, Raven silently muttered to herself, "I do hope that
you never find out."
Strolling over to her bed, Raven glanced at a copy of Cinderella before trying
to fall asleep again.
===============================================================================
It was another busy day in Gotham City, especially over at the city's most
infamous prison, Arkham Asylum, a sanitarium that houses more criminals than
mentally insane folk. Many of these criminals are sent over to Arkham by Dr.
Jonathan Crane, a psychologist who got paid off to label them insane, ship them
to Arkham, and where they would eventually be let free to continue their games,
i.e. crimes. However, this didn't last as Crane was eventually captured by
Batman upon proof of his corruption revealed and he was sent to prison for
conspiring with mob boss Rupert Thorne, who yet again eluded arrest.
Almost everybody Batman has put away has been put in Arkham one time or another
- everybody from the Joker and Two-Face to the Riddler and Bane. Only Harley
Quinn, accomplice to the Joker, has avoided detention inside the asylum, but
she has been inside, as an employee. She was by day Doctor Harleen Quinzel, a
psychiatrist who fell in love with the Clown Prince of Crime.
However, today she was not seeing her love, but rather another patient of hers,
one that she really liked. Formerly known as Doctor Pamela Lilian Isley, this
patient now went by the criminal alias of Poison Ivy. The two had struck up a
friendship in the prison, but the two had yet to cross paths in the criminal
underworld, as Ivy had been imprisoned for four years after someone had given
up her location for Ivy to be taken down by Commissioner Gordon's Gotham police
and Batman.
Ivy has been resentful ever since that day, and been imprisoned ever since,
unable to escape. The police had cut her off access from all plant life, making
it impossible for her to escape, not that she didn't try.
Dr. Quinzel was waiting in her office for Poison Ivy to come in for their bi-
monthly chat. Right on time, at ten in the morning, Poison Ivy came right into
the doctor's office.
The doctor said, "Ah, Miss Isley. Great to see you again. Please, take a seat."
Poison Ivy proceeded to sit down on the lounge chair as Quinzel proceeded to
take a seat right in front of her.
Poison Ivy asked, "What are we here to talk about today?"
"The manner of your imprisonment."
"You should know how I got imprisoned, Harleen. My servant bitch betrayed me in
order to save herself." With that, Ivy began to reminisce about the last time
she had seen her - which was at her trial and sentencing.
Poison Ivy was wearing an orange jumpsuit, sitting in the courtroom as the jury
for her trial was deliberating on her guilt and sentence following the key
testimony of her former servant, who was currently in a modified sound booth
that altered her voice and hid her face. But, even with such precautions, Ivy
knew full well who was behind the booth.
She was absolutely livid, but the only thing stopping her from completely
lashing out and trying to kill her was her lawyer, who was telling her that
such behavior would further hurt her case and likely provoke a longer sentence.
Fortunately for the witness, all the plants in the room had been removed,
denying her any possibility of using her powers against the witness.
Finally, the jury returned to the courtroom. The judge asked, "Has the jury
reached a verdict?"
The foreman of the jury answered, "We have your honor. We find the defendant,
Doctor Pamela Isley, aka Poison Ivy, guilty on all charges."
The judge declared, "Poison Ivy, you are to spend the next ninety years in
high-security confinement at Arkham Asylum under the recommendation of Jonathan
Crane."
Immediately, Ivy snapped and began yelling, "Don't you forget, servant bitch! I
will get out and I will find you. There's nowhere you can hide, nowhere I won't
have you found. And when you are back in my grip, I will make sure you regret
your betrayal."
With that outburst, two guards proceeded to handcuff her and dragged her,
barking and growling, out of the courtroom.
"Who was it?"
"Why do you want to know? Isn't it in the file?"
"No. A Batman redaction. The name was removed. Tell me who was responsible for
putting a dame like you in a hellhole like this."
"Tell you what, Harleen. You get me out of here and we'll partner up to ensure
that the rest of her life is a living hell."
With that, Dr. Quinzel got up from her chair and walked over to Harley Quinn,
whispering, "Give it sunlight and it's your way outta here" as she slipped a
small green plant into the pocket of Ivy's pants.
The doctor continued, "Time's up Dr. Isley, return to your cell."
Poison Ivy replied, "Alright then, Doctor Quinzel."
With that, Poison Ivy walked out of Doctor Quinzel's office with the plant
given to her, as she intended to use it in order to break out of Arkham and
exact her revenge on the one responsible for her imprisonment.
===============================================================================
A few hours later, Ivy was waiting in her cell for free time, knowing that was
when she would have her opportune time to escape. She knew that the plant
wouldn't be able to help her escape if she was still in her stone cell - the
plant wouldn't be anywhere near strong enough to take down the walls.
A guard soon called out to Ivy, yelling out, "Isley, yard time! And don't make
me have to force you out."
Ivy deadpanned, "I'm coming Vin, you don't need to come in here."
Ivy then walked out of the cell, soon followed by Vin, making sure that she did
not escape or try to make a move - she had tried that so many times, and had
failed every single time. But this time, she knew, would be different. Now she
would get her freedom.
She walked by the cells of Arkham that contained the likes of Doctor Victor
Fries (Mr. Freeze), Edward Nygma (The Riddler), Oswald Cobblepot (The Penguin),
Selina Kyle (Catwoman), The Joker, and Harvey Dent (Two-Face). She watched as
Fries worked on the cure for his wife, but to little effect. He had been
working on a cure for six years, four of them in Arkham, and his progress
hadn't gotten too far. Nygma was doing a puzzle while Cobblepot was sleeping on
his bed. Kyle was simply admiring a picture of a cat hanging on her wall, Dent
was flipping his signature coin, while the Joker was prancing around his cell
like a madman.
Ivy thought to herself, 'It'll all be behind me soon enough. I'll be out of
this hellhole.'
Poison Ivy walked by the empty cafeteria before finally getting outside. Vin
said, "Half an hour, no more" as Ivy walked out into the prison yard. Currently
outside included Waylon Jones (Killer Croc), Victor Zsasz, Garfield Lynns
(Firefly), Bane, and Arthur Brown (Cluemaster). Zsasz and Brown were playing a
game of basketball while Jones was having a conversation with Lynns, leaving
only Bane alone, who was sitting on a bench far away from the other inmates.
As she observed the other inmates, she thought 'Bane, when will you stop
staying by yourself? Well, it's not going to be my problem now. Harley, your
plan better work, or I'm ratting you out.'
Ivy walked past Lynns and Jones, obscuring herself from the view of the guards
as she headed towards an empty patch of soil - most of the soil (and the plant
life) were on the other side of Arkham Asylum, where she was forbidden to go,
given her abilities.
There was nothing planted in the soil, so placing the plant in there would be
very noticeable. Ivy had to do her work quickly or else her escape attempt
would fail.
She bent down towards the soil, which was fairly normal (and expected of her by
the guards), as the guards thought Ivy was trying to see what plant life was
there, when there was none. False hope for her, but it wouldn't be today.
Ivy pulled the plant out of her pocket, unseen by the guards and planted it
into the soil. Now, her escape was about to begin. She used her powers to
quickly grow the plant until it reached her waist, and Ivy's positioning made
it impossible for the guards to know what was going on.
Meanwhile, during the basketball game between Zsasz and Brown, their basketball
so happened to pop, leading Zsasz to go leave the ruined ball and attracting
the guard's attention, taking his focus far away from Ivy.
With that, she soon grew the plant up to her head and grabbed onto two of the
leaves as she proceeded to grow the plant up to twenty feet, going way higher
than the wall.
One of the guards soon noticed Ivy's escape attempt and fired his rifle at her
plant, scoring several hits on it, but doing nothing to prevent the criminal
botanist's escape as her plant bent her down to the ground, moving her outside
of Arkham's walls.
An alarm quickly rang out, signifying an escape was in progress. Guards quickly
moved to try to catch Ivy before she got too far, but she had the advantage as
they had to go through grass. Her powers enabled her to grow the grass such
that the guards were ensnared in it, making it impossible for them to catch
her.
Poison Ivy smirked at them, gave them a wave, and then ran off far away from
Arkham Asylum.
She soon made her way back to her old hideout, which had been abandoned for
several years, since she had been captured of course. She was very disappointed
that many of her plants had died because she could not take care of them, and
there was nobody to take care of them.
Ivy kicked open a window and got sunlight into several of the rooms in her
hideout, rejuvenating them as she grabbed a bucket of water to feed her plants,
giving them life as she grew them back to their normal size (well, normal for
Poison Ivy).
Once that was done, Ivy stripped out of her prison uniform, put back on her
signature outfit, and took a picture from the desk of her former servant before
heading towards a dungeon (which was a part of her hideout). This was formerly
the room of her servant girl (who went on to betray her).
A couple of minutes after walking in, Poison Ivy was soon graced by the
presence of Harley Quinn, who had left Arkham earlier and changed into her
criminal outfit.
Harley asked, "So, what's our plan, Ivy?"
Poison Ivy turned around to face Harley Quinn, saying "First, let's get my old
bitch back here. Then, I intend to make her life a living hell. I'm going to
make her beg for death, and not give it to her. She will suffer beyond compare,
suffer for the four years she imprisoned me to save herself."
"Who is she?"
Ivy pulled out a picture she had placed in her uniform and gave it to Harley
Quinn. She remarked, "Oh, I know her. She's one of them god-darned Teen Titans
over in Jump City."
Ivy commented, "Yes. Get her to me. I think we should make her think she's not
vulnerable before we break her down to the bone."
"I'm on..." Harley was interrupted from her heading off to pick up Ivy's old
servant when Ivy grabbed onto her shoulder, explaining, "First, here's a little
something to help you out. It's an anti-toxin that renders you immune to almost
all forms of poison and toxins and greatly enhances your speed and agility."
Before Harley could comment otherwise, she felt the pinch of a needle go inside
and screamed in pain. Once Ivy removed the needle, Harley rubbed her shoulder,
commenting, "Ya think after all that time hanging around with Mistah J, I'd be
used to pain. Okay then, now I'm off, Red."
===============================================================================
It was another normal day in Jump City. Raven was getting her tea while Cyborg
was making breakfast for the other Titans. Raven rarely had that much for
breakfast - just her tea and maybe a piece of toast or two. That was all she
needed to satiate herself, given her half-demon metabolism required less food
than a normal human.
Beast Boy came up to her and said, "Are you going to stay for breakfast today?"
Raven responded, "No. I need to meditate."
Robin then came up and noted, "Raven, you need to stay. We need to talk."
"About what?"
"Your nightmares. You can't seem to stay asleep for more than a few hours over
the course of the past month. What is going on? What are these nightmares?"
"Robin, those aren't just nightmares."
Cyborg sighed, "They're memories. Painful ones."
"Ones that I can't afford to reveal to you."
"Raven, as the leader of the Titans, I need to know about your past, if there
is anything hampering in there that could affect your performance as a Titan."
"I told you before, if you knew the truth, you wouldn't look at me the same
way."
"Was it abuse, Raven? Did the people of Azarath abuse you?"
"No, Azarath didn't abuse me." Robin clearly knew that Raven was withholding
something - she partially answered the question, but there was still more that
Robin couldn't discern. Before he could ask again, the klaxon rang out.
"Trouble, downtown."
===============================================================================
As the Titans arrived at the scene of the crime - the Slack Bank, Robin was
disturbed to see just who was robbing it. As he took a good look at the robber,
he became very uncomfortable.
Cyborg asked, "Yo Rob, what's wrong? The new robber's already getting on your
nerves?"
Robin replied, "She's on my nerves, but I know her. I never thought she'd come
here."
The thief bellowed, "Aw, if it isn't the Boy Wonder himself, leading a whole
team now. I'm sure ol' Batsy would be proud of his adopted sidekick."
As she readied her hammer, Robin responded, "I'm a little kid any more, and I'm
ready for you, Harley."
Harley Quinn commented, "Oh, but you see, Robin, I'm not here for you."
With that, Harley went on the offensive, leaping towards the Titans as she
swung her hammer into Starfire, impacting her in the chest before sending her
spiraling into the T-Car, now unconscious.
"I can see why she's on your nerves."
"Yeah, one of my most hated people on Earth. A real pain in the ass."
"Now the old Batman wouldn't want to hear that foul mouth of yours, so let's
shut you up." Harley Quinn pounced on Robin but Robin pulled out his bo-staff
to block the hammer, preventing it from hitting him. She continued, "Oh you
learned some new tricks. But you're just the same little boy that Mista J had
no trouble beatin'."
Robin was enraged by that, Harley bringing up the past, and Robin swung at her,
only to be met with a hammer to his shoulder, knocking him onto the ground.
Harley jumped away from Robin as she moved onto Cyborg, hitting him in the back
of the head, causing him to fall onto the ground. Beast Boy turned into a
cougar and lunged for the clown-dressed Gothamite criminal, only to be met with
the hammer impacting him in the neck, causing him to spiral into the road, now
out for the count. It was just the two birds on the team: Robin and Raven.
Robin managed to get back up and threw a bird-a-rang at Harley Quinn, knocking
her hammer's head off. Robin growled, "You're finished, Harley. Let's bring you
back to Arkham for a head check-up."
"No, I think I'm sound. But you aren't." Harley brought up a joy buzzer and
fired it at Robin - it was a massive tazer that stunned Robin onto the ground,
unconscious as Starfire, Beast Boy, and Cyborg.
Harley was soon blasted away from Robin with a blast of black energy from
Raven. Harley got back up and proceeded to cartwheel towards Raven.
Raven blasted away at Harley, trying to take her out, but she was just so damn
elusive, Raven couldn't get a lock on her. Harley, on the other hand, landed a
kick into Raven's head, sending her spiraling into the ground. Raven demanded,
"Why are you here? Isn't Gotham enough trouble for you?"
Harley replied, "Actually, I'm here on request from our mutual friend. She
sends her regards and wishes you to come see her."
Raven was startled as she realized just who Harley was here for, yelling, "Tell
her that I'm declining the visit. She can continue to rot in Arkham."
"But you see, she's already free. And now she demands you come back to see
her."
"That will never happen."
With that, Harley Quinn threw a small dart filled with a powerful sedative into
Raven's neck, which quickly knocked her out. With her target secure, Harley
grabbed Raven before tossing the half-demon into her monster truck parked a
little away from the Bank, driving away from the Titans.
===============================================================================
About an hour later, the four remaining Titans regained consciousness, only to
notice that their violet bird was missing. Robin screamed in frustration as he
realized that Harley was after Raven, and that they were long gone.
Beast Boy asked, "Dudes, where is Raven?"
Robin growled, "Harley Quinn kidnapped her. I need to call him, he might give
us an idea of where she's headed."
Cyborg inquired, "Are you sure about that?"
"I have no choice."
With that, Robin pulled out his T-communicator and proceeded to flip it open,
going through his contacts until he saw the one he wanted. Dialing the codes,
Robin looked at the man he needed to see.
"It's been a long time, Robin. Why are you calling?"
"Harley Quinn just showed up in Jump City and took Raven."
"Raven?"
"Is there a problem?"
"Poison Ivy escaped from prison yesterday. Harley's appearance could not be a
coincidence."
"What do you mean, Batman?"
"Robin, get you and your team to Gotham now. Hell is about to be unleashed."
"Explain what the heck is going on."
"I was really hoping that I wouldn't have to tell you, but Raven and Poison Ivy
have a history."
"What kind?"
"I'll explain more when you get here. But the important thing is that Raven
used to work for Poison Ivy."
Batman closed the connection as Robin stared with an angered expression on his
face. He thought, 'That's what she was hiding this whole time.'
===============================================================================
***** Clayface *****
Chapter Summary
     Now in Ivy and Harley's captivity, Raven suffers the consequences of
     her past betrayal.
Chapter Notes
See the end of the chapter for notes
Raven walked down the cold streets of Gotham City, looking for shelter or food.
It had been a rough couple of nights for her ever since she was forced to leave
Azarath. The monks of Azarath realized that if Raven stayed, the entire
dimension would be annhilated by Trigon, as well as Raven. To save both the
dimension and Raven, she was exiled to Earth, landing in Gotham City, rough
streets for a twelve-year old girl.
Raven had her powers, but only some of the necessary control required to use
them. If she had only stayed for two more years, then she'd have full mastery
over her powers.
Her treatment on Earth has certainly not been very welcome - people kept
turning her down, not giving her a place to sleep or something to eat,
especially in the brutal cold - and Raven didn't have any pants - just her
leotard and a cloak. Raven feared that perhaps she would have been better off
remaining in Azarath, being killed alongside everyone else would be much more
merciful than starving to death in the frozen Gotham tundra.
Little did young Raven realize that somebody was watching her in the shadows.
As Raven walked into an alleyway, she looked for something that would help her
out - a blanket, a pillow, food. But there was generally nothing of use - the
best Raven had found was a ripped-up scarf and a glove that only had trace
material left on it.
Raven plopped onto the cold, gritted ground, laying her head onto a hard brick
wall, calmly sighing, believing that the end was soon to come - she had no
food, barely any water, and no heat.
However, a mysterious woman soon came to approach Raven. She looked
professional, wearing a thick fur coat that went down to her knees as well as
pants and a shirt. Her red hair was in a ponytail and she had glasses over her
eyes. She held what appeared to be a grapefruit in her hand.
Raven asked, "Who are you?"
The woman answered, "A friend. Eat this."
She handed Raven the grapefruit, which Raven opened up to reveal several slices
of the fruit. Raven grabbed one and prepared to eat it, when something about
the woman shocked her. Raven's empathy detected sinister traces inside of her,
something that couldn't be trusted. The woman wanted Raven to eat it, as it was
drugged.
Instantly realizing it, Raven surrounded two trash cans in a black glow,
shouting "Azarath metrion zinthos!" as they went towards the woman.
Unfortunately, the woman dodged both cans as she walked up to Raven, grabbing
her arms in her hand as she forced the grapefruit down Raven's throat, forcing
Raven unconscious.
A few hours later, Raven regained consciousness, finding her new location was
almost completely dark. She saw a small window located high above her, giving
her some light.
Suddenly, her captor, the woman that gave Raven the grapefruit, came into the
room, revealing more light as Raven saw her captor had changed her outfit into
a green dress that went down her legs and she now lacked glasses and her hair
went down to her waist.
Raven was scared, asking, "Who are you?"
The woman answered, "Does the name Poison Ivy ring a bell?" It did, as Raven
had heard plenty about her from the newspapers - that Ivy was a botanist
criminal, whose crimes revolved around plants. The hero of Gotham, the Dark
Knight, the Batman had failed to capture her as she always slipped away.
Poison Ivy continued, "Now, who the fuck are you?"
When Raven did not give Ivy an answer, the latter proceeded to walk up to
Raven, grab her by her hands and tossed her towards a set of stocks. Raven
attempted to surround the stocks in her black energy, but Ivy boasted, "I take
it you haven't noticed the collar on your neck. You cannot possibly remove it,
and it neutralizes your powers."
Ivy pushed Raven into the stocks, locking in her hands so she could not escape.
After tossing away Raven's cloak, Ivy proceeded to crack a whip before swinging
it into Raven's back. Raven screamed as she felt the rough leather surface
collide with her soft, sensitive skin. As blood poured down Raven's back, Ivy
swung again, leaving a second mark on her back, tearing through the black
leotard on her. Another crack of the whip left Raven screaming as the pain
continued on.
Raven asked, "What do you want from me?"
"First, I want your name. Say it!"
Raven whispered, "Raven."
"What was it?"
"Raven!"
"Good, now that wasn't so hard, now. Was it? And now, I want your servitude.
You will do what I say whenever I say it. You will not question my orders, you
will obey, or you will pay the price. Understood, Raven?"
Raven meekly shrugged before another strike of the whip struck her back. "I
want a verbal answer."
"Yes, I will obey you, Poison Ivy."
Ivy whipped Raven one more time before remarking, "And call me Mistress for now
on."
Poison Ivy unlocked the stocks, leaving Raven huddled onto the ground before
walking out, leaving Raven once again in the dark.
===============================================================================
Soon after, Raven awoke after being knocked unconscious by Harley Quinn. She
looked to see where she was, finding it was a room that she couldn't see. Raven
said to herself, "Please don't be it. Please tell me I'm not where I think I
am."
Suddenly, a familiar voice boomed, "Actually, you are Raven. Welcome home."
Raven saw as Poison Ivy came into the cell along with Harley Quinn. "It took
four fucking long years but finally you're back where you belong, under me."
"We'll see about that" was Raven's indignant response, but when she tried
summoning her powers, Raven noticed that her neck was surrounded by a collar -
the exact same one that inhibited her powers when she was first abducted by
Ivy.
"I know how powerful you've gotten, so the collar is back to do its job. You
will never resist me. You will never escape. You will be mine, and there is
nothing you can do to prevent it. Understood?"
Immediately realizing that she was powerless against Poison Ivy, Raven's mood
instantly doured.
"Understood, Mistress."
"Aw, she remembers. Should I tell her about what I did to those gosh-damned
Titans?"
"No, I will, Harley."
"What did you do to my friends?"
"You see, Raven, I need something to keep you in line after what happened four
years ago, so Harley was fortunate enough to plant a microchip inside of each
of your former friends' bodies using her hammer. This chip, when activated,
will turn the next liquid they injest into a deadly toxin they will die from.
If you do not obey, they will die. The average human being can only survive two
days without a liquid. I got the idea from Slade, seeing how he tried to kill
you guys if the old Boy Wonder didn't do what he said."
"They'll find the chip, and your blackmail will be useless. They will find me,
and you will be back where you belong."
"We'll see about that. The chip is undetectable on even the most nanoscopic of
levels and once it is activated, you can say ta-ta to those Titan goodie two-
shoes. And they won't find you. Harley removed the communicator you hide in
your broach before you left Jump City. They'll never find you. They'll give up
on you. You are mine, do you understand me, Raven?"
"Yes, Mistress."
"Good, now there is the matter of your punishment for betraying me, for sending
me to Arkham while you got off scot-free. Harley, chain her up."
"You got it, Miss I."
With that, Harley Quinn grabbed Raven and brought her up to the stocks. Painful
memories flooded Raven's mind as Harley locked her in, showing her back to
Poison Ivy, who held a bullwhip in her hands. After Harley locked her hands,
she removed Raven's cloak, letting it flutter onto the ground.
Harley asked, "How many times are you going to impact her?"
Ivy maliciously smirked, "Until I get bored."
Ivy gave the whip a crack as she delivered the first lashing onto Raven,
causing her to cry out in agony as blood fell down her back once the whip
sliced through her skin and leotard. Another lash followed, tearing through
Raven yet again. Ivy did not stop delivering whip after whip to Raven, watching
as her back bled from the impacts and as her leotard was slowly torn apart,
sending bloodied fragments down towards the discarded cloak. As the lashing
count reached one hundred, Raven's back was bleeding harshly as most of her
skin was exposed. How much more could she take? This kind of abuse was even
harsh for demons, let alone humans.
Finally, Poison Ivy stopped, having delivered three hundred fifty nine lashes
onto Raven. She stopped to admire her work, looking at the massive lines of
blood that went through her after the whippings, creating a massive scar (or
series of scars) across her back, eyeing it through the torn leotard, which saw
its entire backside torn apart by the whip. The pain on her back was simply
unbearable for Raven to take. Ivy silently smirked, knowing that her revenge
was well within reach.
Soon after, Ivy unlatched Raven from the stocks, letting her fall on the floor.
Ivy remarked, "Come on, Harley. Let's go. We've got work to do."
Harley Quinn opened the door so Poison Ivy and herself could leave, locking it
to keep Raven inside. Raven wept silently in the darkest corner of her cell,
having been returned to the hell that she had so desperately thought she
escaped.
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Over in Jump City, Robin and the other Titans were getting ready for an
extended trip to Gotham. While the others were busy packing their things, Robin
was currently arranging for backup to handle the problems in the city while
they are out.
Robin had already called Titans East, who were busy with their own issues in
Steel City, so he called up Argent, Hot Spot, Jinx, Kid Flash, and Bushido -
all of whom were available to provide support.
The five were arriving at Titans Tower, with Kid Flash and Argent having
already arrived with their materials. The speedster asked, "So, will you tell
us what's going on Rob?"
Robin replied, "Not until the others get here. I don't want to repeat myself."
A few minutes later, Jinx arrived, with her bags. Hot Spot and Bushido arrived
a few minutes after them. Robin was glad they were there, but he was slightly
furious at how long it took them - they needed every second to locate Raven.
They needed to get to Gotham as soon as possible. The longer they waited, God
only knows what would happen to Raven.
Hot Spot asked, "So, Robin, what is going on?"
Robin answered, "Now that you're here, I'll tell you. We're heading to Gotham
for an unknown amount of time. It could be a few days, it could be longer, but
you guys will need to hold down the city while we're gone. I've told the Mayor
that you're filling in, and gave him a general description about you so he
isn't too shocked."
Jinx inquired, "So, bird brain, why the hell are you off to the noble majesty
of Gotham City? And what could be there that would take more than a few days
other than a visit to the old Batman?"
Robin said, "A few hours ago Raven was abducted by an old enemy of mine. Harley
Quinn. Batman says that Raven is in Gotham now, and that Harley is
collaborating with Poison Ivy."
Argent wondered, "Why Raven and not you?"
"Batman said he'd tell me once we got there, but from what he said, apparently
Raven and Ivy have a history, and that Ivy wants Raven. Something tells me this
isn't going to be pretty."
Kid Flash asked, "What exactly is going on? What's their connection?"
"I'm not entirely sure myself. Honestly, I don't want to find out. Raven said
she couldn't tell us about her past for a reason, and I think this may be the
reason."
"Alright, but are you sure you're ready to go back to Gotham, especially after
what happened between you and Batman?"
"I know that things did not go pleasantly...which would be a polite way of
saying it...but I don't have much of a choice. Raven may need our help and I
have to do whatever it takes."
Cyborg then came into the room, saying "We're ready to go now. T-ship's loaded
and ready. Waitin' on you, Rob."
"Okay, then, Jump's in your hands. We'll be off and we'll be back with Raven."
Robin walked away from the assembled group as they sat down at the couch,
attempting to coordinate themselves for an undeterminate amount of time.
As Robin walked away, Cyborg said to the assembled group, "Try to keep the
Tower in one piece. It took a long time to get it this way, and I'm not in the
mood to be fixing it."
With that, Cyborg soon joined Robin as they headed for the T-ship. Beast Boy
and Starfire were already inside, with their luggage. They obviously packed
heavily, as they were unsure how long they were going to be in Gotham. Robin
and Cyborg took their seats inside the T-ship as Cyborg readied the ship for
take-off.
Robin shouted, "Titans go!" and the T-ship took off flying towards Gotham City.
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Raven continued to lay in the dark corner of her cell, or as she had once
considered it, "her room". It remained as barren as before, with the only
flourishes being the torn fragments of her cloak and leotard. Her bare back was
exposed to the cold and held a massive injury from Ivy's brutal "welcome home"
whipping. Her boots were gone, something that had just been registered to
Raven. As she thinks about it, she had been barefoot ever since she awoke to
this hell.
Then, her cell door opened, revealing Harley Quinn outside, holding a whip in
her hands as she screeched, "Get out here, servant bitch!"
When Raven didn't respond, Harley Quinn walked up towards Raven before cracking
the whip and impacting her twice in the abdomen. "I said get up, servant
bitch!"
Raven got up from the cold, stone ground, walking up towards Harley Quinn
before slowly walking past her out of the door. Harley soon followed her,
placing the whip on her belt as she pulled out a hammer similar to that used by
her in the battle with the Titans.
Harley quickly followed Raven, winding up directly behind her, going inch for
inch behind Raven. When Raven noticed this, she tried to gain distance from
Harley, but the clown princess of crime kept moving right behind her, making
Raven incredibly claustrophobic.
Raven asked, "Why are you so close?"
Harley replied, "Want to make sure that our favorite servant did not escape."
Raven did not buy that lie for one second, and quickly realized what was
happening.
Harley Quinn was molesting her.
At last, Raven arrived at her destination - Poison Ivy's "throne" room. There
were a lot of plants across the room, with Ivy sitting on a couple of massive
leaves. Harley Quinn moved so that she was next to Ivy's plant throne.
Poison Ivy greeted, "Raven. Glad of you to join us."
Raven inquired, "What is it you want, Mistress?"
"First off, I want my coffee. You know how I like it. Step on it. Or else they
pay."
"Yes, Mistress."
Raven walked away from Ivy and Harley as she headed towards the kitchen to make
Poison Ivy's coffee. Raven remembered the first time Ivy had Raven make her a
cup of coffee.
Raven had no idea how to use the coffee machine. Technology was not Raven's
forte, especially as Azarath lacked technology. In addition, Raven was a tea
girl, not that it particularly mattered now.
Unfortunately, there were no instructions on how to operate the machine. Raven
could not figure out how to use it, so she grabbed a bag of coffee beans,
poured out several beans and put them in the machine before she pressed a red
button.
Raven was shocked as the device began to fizzle, apparently suffering a massive
jam. The device exploded suddenly and Poison Ivy soon came into the room,
aggravated at Raven's failure.
Poison Ivy shouted, "What is the meaning of this?"
Raven pleaded, "I'm sorry, Mistress. I don't know how to use this."
"Well, you're going to steal me a new one. But first, your punishment."
Two vines proceeded to tie up Raven by the hands, constricting her as Ivy
grabbed her whip and pushed down the green leotard on Raven's body, exposing
her bruised back.She struck Raven five times in the back with the whip, leaving
five more scars on Raven's back, with Raven screaming in painful agony with
each strike.
Raven did not like what happened with the first time she had to make coffee.
Ivy had forced her to steal an identical coffee maker to replace the one she
destroyed in the accident, and then Raven had to learn how to use it correctly.
Then, she had to learn how Ivy liked her coffee - with sugar, 1% milk, and
coconut flavoring. It took her at least a dozen more times before she got the
coffee correct - sixty more lashes struck Raven's back in that time.
After finishing Ivy's cup of coffee, Raven brought it out for the criminal
botanist, silently noting to herself that Harley Quinn was absent. Two vines
grabbed the cup from Raven's hands as they brought it to Poison Ivy.
Ivy took a sip from the cup, remarking, "You didn't forget how I like it,
Raven. Now, it's time for a change of uniform."
Before Raven could move, Harley grabbed her from behind before she ripped the
remains of Raven's leotard off, leaving Raven completely naked. Harley's mouth
was almost watering as she looked down at Raven's D-cup breasts, smooth pubic
region, and plump butt.
Poison Ivy's vines soon brought out Raven a new outfit, but to Raven it was not
new. It was a green leotard (or something of that sort) without sleeves, and
was a lot less comfortable than it. In addition, two small elf boots followed
on the ground.
Harley pushed Raven onto the ground to look at her outfit. She had been given
it when her leotard finally fell apart while she was working for Ivy. Shortly
afterwards, Harley grabbed the outfit and proceeded to put the outfit on her,
forcing it on Raven despite how much she struggled and squirmed to avoid it.
After her feet were placed in the curved green shoes, Raven was kneeling on the
ground. Poison Ivy's vines soon delivered her a metal rod plus a box filled
with what appeared to be coals, burning coals.
Ivy grabbed the rod, which was revealed to in fact be a brand, and dipped it in
the coals. Harley grabbed Raven's arms again as Ivy smirked, "This is to remind
you that you always belong to me. That you never deserved to be part of those
goddamned Titans. That I own you."
Raven struggled to escape, but Harley secured her as Ivy pressed the brand onto
Raven's left cheek, causing her to scream in massive pain as an ivy leaf became
permanently branded on her pale gray face. Even if Raven had her healing back,
she couldn't heal that injury - the brand will remain on her for the rest of
her life.
Harley asked, "You think we should give her something for her troubles?"
With that, two vines soon came out with a bowl for Raven that was filled
with...what was that stuff filled with?
Ivy said, "Eat up, Raven. Growing girls need their gruel."
Raven was about to pick up the bowl when Poison Ivy indicated with a grunt she
wasn't to pick up the bowl to eat her gruel.
Just like back in the past, Raven had to eat her daily serving of gruel like a
dog, just like the bitch that she was to Ivy and Harley.
Raven moved her face towards the bowl of gruel as she began to eat it, scooping
the...whatever was in the gruel with her tongue, licking off the gruel that got
on her face with her tongue as well.
Harley gave a malicious smirk to Poison Ivy behind Raven's back, indicating she
was pleased with this.
Once Raven had finished the bowl of gruel laid out for her, Poison Ivy
indicated, "Bring her back to her room. And Harley, burn victims get awfully
cold. Don't let her freeze to death."
Harley Quinn picked up Raven and began to walk her back after assuring her,
"Will do, Miss I."
With that, Harley began pushing Raven back towards her room, her cell, her
hell, one that she feared she would never get out of, one that she would be
condemned to, one that would push the Titans away from her forever.
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Chapter End Notes
     If you thought that this chapter was dark and intense, this is just
     the tip of the iceberg. I've got even darker things planned for Raven
     at the hands of Poison Ivy and Harley Quinn. Just you wait, and make
     sure that you are able to stomach what's next as this
     story...definitely not for the feint-of-heart.
***** Man-Bat *****
Chapter Summary
     The Titans arrive in Gotham for Batman to explain what had happened
     to Raven years earlier as Ivy continues to torture Raven.
The four Titans soon arrived in Gotham, landing the T-Ship in a small airport
ten miles outside of the city - one that happened to be owned by billionaire
Bruce Wayne.
Cyborg handed each Titan a holo-ring, resulting in them looking normal-ish,
good enough to be disguised and nobody would know that they were Titans. The
fewer people that knew they were there, the better.
Once the Titans got off of their ship, which was then hidden beneath the
airport so nobody could see it, they were picked up by an older British man in
a large car. He greeted, "Master Richard, nice to see you again."
Robin replied, "Nice to see you too, Alfred. Let's get to the mansion and then
we can get to work."
With that, Robin, Starfire, Beast Boy, and Cyborg entered the car, closing the
doors and buckling up before Alfred started driving away from the airport,
heading towards Wayne Manor and the Batcave, where the four Titans would work
to locate their missing fifth member.
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Raven quietly returned to her cell, shivering as she suffered from her burn.
Ivy had permanently branded her for life, and she would never be able to get
rid of it, no matter how hard she tried. Would she ever be able to see her
friends again? Even if she did, what would they think of her? Knowing that she
had worked with Poison Ivy? That Ivy had broken her? That Ivy laid her claim on
Raven? Perhaps, that is what Poison Ivy had meant to do. Perhaps, Raven was
condemned to spend the remainder of her days under the sadistic mistress's
control.
Raven was so distracted by her hypothermia that she failed to notice the door
opening behind her. Soon after, Harley Quinn walked in and moved in so she was
soon kneeling right behind Raven.
While Raven remained unattentive, Harley proceeded to leap onto Raven, tackling
her and grabbing her tightly before Raven could move away. Harley squeezed onto
Raven's breasts, making Raven very uncomfortable.
As Raven tried to turn around, Harley's arms wrapped around Raven's and her
legs tied around Raven's, with her knees touching Raven's covered vagina.
Raven squelched, "Why are you doing this?"
Harley gleefully replied, "Burn victims can get awfully cold. Just makin' sure
that you don't freeze to death. Ivy won't like that."
"Then why did she brand me if I could freeze to death?"
Harley squeezed onto Raven tighter, making her even less comfortable. "Don't
question her decisions, servant bitch. I do have to admit, the brand does look
lovely on you."
"Gee, thanks."
"Don't use sarcasm on me."
"Can I just get some peace and quiet?"
"No. You were so isolated when you were a Titan. You need to become more
sociable. Ivy's orders. By the time we're done with you, nothing of you will
remain, just what we want of you."
As Raven had to deal with Harley's molestation, Raven recalled that Harley
wasn't the first to molest her.
Raven had been under Ivy's enslavement for close to a week now, and she
desperately trying to find some way to escape. However, her Mistress never let
her out of her sight and Raven had never been near any doors to the world, let
alone be able to get out of her cell, her "room".
Waiting inside her cell for her next task, the half-demon tried to meditate,
get her emotions that threatened to spiral completely out of control in order.
Staying calm was the only way she would get out.
However, she could only get a few minutes in before the cell door slammed open,
revealing the Mistress, who yelled at Raven, "Get up."
Raven responded, in fear of getting whipped again. Arising, Raven approached
Ivy and the two began to head for Ivy's personal bedroom, which was very
ornately designed, so much moreso than Raven's basic cell.
Raven asked, "What do you want me to do, Mistress?"
Suddenly, Ivy threw Raven onto the ground and grabbed both of her arms before
sitting down right on Raven's side. Ivy then moved her other hand around
Raven's body, studying her breasts, squeezing at them through the fledgling
leotard and the rest of her curves. Sliding her hand to Raven's crotch, Ivy
felt a noticeable lack of hair there, which admittedly wouldn't be unusual for
most twelve year olds.
Doing so, though, caused Raven to pant. Ivy whispered to herself, "You little
whore." Then, moving her hand to Raven's butt, Ivy checked for any
abnormalities.
Raven choked out in panic, "What are you doing, Mistress?"
Poison Ivy chuckled, "I'm feeling you, checking out your body, and from what I
see, I'm going to be very delighted."
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The Titans arrived at Wayne Manor, entering through the surface entrance (the
front door of Wayne Manor) before de-activating their holo-rings. As they
walked down the main hallway, they were met by Bruce Wayne, who came up to
greet them.
The billionaire greeted, "Hello, Richard. It's been a while."
Robin replied, "Been a while as well, Bruce."
Bruce raised out his hand to give a handshake to Beast Boy. "You must be Beast
Boy." He moved his hand towards Cyborg, "And Cyborg." After giving Cyborg a
handshake, he moved over to Starfire, "And this must be Star...fire." Bruce
squelched as Starfire's grip proved to be much more powerful than he imagined.
Starfire exclaimed, "It is so nice to meet you, Bruce Wayne."
Robin added, "Not that this hasn't been nice, but we need to get down to
business. One of our own is missing is in the city, and we need to find her.
What was it you waited to tell us?"
Bruce urged, "Let's get down to the Batcave."
Robin and the other Titans proceeded to follow Bruce as they reached the piano
that opened the secret entrance to the Batcave. Bruce played the right key and
the door that concealed the Batcave opened, revealing a staircase. Bruce walked
downstairs as Robin, Cyborg, and Beast Boy followed with Starfire flying down
to the Batcomputer.
Upon arriving towards the platform, Bruce walked up to the computer and began
typing as the other Titans watched silently. Then, on the monitor of the
Batcomputer came security footage from six years earlier in Gotham City, where
Raven was moving along with the masses in the city.
Bruce began explaining, "Raven arrived on Earth six years ago, two years before
the Titans were formed. She first appeared in Gotham, and a few days later, she
vanished. That was when Poison Ivy abducted her and made Raven her personal
servant."
Robin asked, "How did Ivy do that?"
"Ivy drugged her and brought her back to her base, placing a power-suppressing
collar on Raven's neck so she couldn't utilize her powers. Raven was forced to
perform whatever Ivy requested, or she would be faced with lashes onto her
back. A lot of this involved Raven following Ivy on her jobs."
"Wait a minute, I fought along with you for several years. How come I didn't
recognize her when we first met?"
Bruce pressed another set of keys on the keyboard, revealing a picture of Raven
with a green mask, the light green leotard Raven had been forced into recently,
and the shoes. "Ivy forced Raven to maintain utmost silence on missions and
dressed her up for missions so nobody could recognize her. In addition, Ivy had
plenty of decoys wearing similar outfits that she utilized on occassion, making
it hard to tell whether or not the henchman was human or not. We both know Ivy
is capable of making said decoys." That remark made Robin remember when Ivy had
managed to have a "family" by fusing her husband's genetic material with her
own plants, and wound up using them to commit crimes. Likely, Ivy created the
decoys with Raven's genetic material - that was not something he wanted to
think about.
"You mean that henchman you had me fought, that was Raven. I was beating up
Raven? Why didn't you tell me?"
"I know you, Richard. You would have been convinced that she was still an
enemy, and I know that associates of your enemies aren't people you tend to get
along well."
"Then how did Raven become a Titan if she was Ivy's servant?"
"Two years after Raven had been captured, I found her hiding while performing a
theft for Poison Ivy. What I saw in her, you wouldn't have imagined in her."
"What do you mean, anger? We've seen that before."
"Fear. Raven is afraid of Poison Ivy, the horrors that Doctor Isley is capable
of. She abused Raven for so long, she wasn't stable. When I caught her, Raven
made a deal with us, her freedom for everything she had on Ivy, which was more
than enough to get an arrest and conviction on manslaughter, multiple counts of
grand larceny, trespassing, kidnapping, property damage, and human bondage. Ivy
was currently four years into a ninety-year sentence when Harley Quinn helped
her break out."
"So, Raven was the informant that gave up Ivy? I saw the news while I was in
Bludhaven."
"Yes, and after we confirmed her story, I brought Raven here to heal. Even
after we took off the collar, it took several months to get Raven back to her
former figure. She lost close to a fifth of her body weight and was scarred
across her back from constant whippings. The damage also stunted Raven's
growth, which is why she seems so small and likely won't grow much bigger. It
also had a serious effect on her skin tone, it went from Caucasian to gray
because she spent so much time locked in captivity. Even though the scars
healed, Raven would be forever reminded of her bondage."
"Did Raven even get anything to eat?"
"Gruel. That was all she had. After Raven had fully healed, I sent Raven your
way. Raven told me the truth about her, her infernal ancestry, and I knew the
League would not help her, so I didn't inform them. Zatanna would've made
things worse for Raven. I knew you would have protected her, kept her safe,
gave her a family, a connection she never felt while under Ivy's control."
Cyborg noted, "If Ivy did that to Raven, who knows what she'll do now that
Raven was responsible for her betrayal."
Beast Boy grimly commented, "I sure hope we get our Raven back. From what we've
seen here, Ivy is out for revenge, and the second this hits Jump, our lives,
and her's are about to become fifty times difficult."
Robin added, "So we need to keep this on the down low. The mayor of Jump is
only partially aware of what's going on. I never told him about the true reason
for our departure, and I swore the back-up Titans to secrecy. But if this
breaks out of Gotham, God knows what'll happen next, so we need to find her.
Any idea where she might be?"
Batman answered, "We never found Ivy's hideout. Raven wasn't given a good
enough idea of where it was located nor what it looked like. We caught Ivy
during one of her raids on the city. I'm willing to bet that Ivy is using her
hideout to hold Raven."
As the Titans moved to begin searching for Raven, Robin simply walked away,
heading into a corner to think. Noticing his protege's sudden move, Batman went
to see how Robin was doing, having received a very recent influx of new and
shocking information.
Batman asked him, "What is it, Robin?"
Robin pounded his fist onto one of the cave walls and began, "We should have
gotten here sooner. If only I'd known Raven would be in danger. I thought Raven
was becoming the enemy, or at least she could fend for herself."
"I'm sorry I didn't tell you sooner. I didn't want you making a bad impression
on your teammate after the four years you spent together. You needed to know
the truth and I wanted to minimize the number of people that knew about it."
"Raven took down her father, a very powerful demon lord, ensuring he had no
more influence in this dimension or on her. I thought she was secure, but now,
she's basically a scared kid. Ivy's her monster in the closet, the one that
haunted her sleep, the one that left her mark on Raven. That creature from the
Wicked Scary fiasco, that was Raven's own manifestation of Poison Ivy, the one
she fears most. If Raven could resist Trigon, but not Ivy, I honestly don't
want to think about just how malicious Poison Ivy really is."
"Raven is going to need your help, Richard. She needs you to wake her up from
that nightmare, bring her out from the hell she's trapped in."
"I just wish I'd seen the signs sooner. Raven was always hesitant to open up
about herself because of the secrets she was hiding. This puts her in an
entirely different perspective."
"Like what?"
"Raven's powers. When we fought, it looked as if Raven relied a bit heavily on
them, and I was tempted to warn her about what would happen should she abuse
them to the point they get exhausted and she loses them. But Raven already lost
them, as Ivy's slave. She couldn't use her powers and got her butt kicked
repeatedly. Raven's use of her powers, they were to make her forget about Ivy's
torture, to remind herself she was more than Ivy, to remind her who she really
was."
As Robin headed to the wardrobe, he proceeded to change back into his Robin
outfit, marking the official return of the Boy Wonder to Gotham after a five-
year or so absence.
Batman asked Robin, "So what are you doing?"
Robin explained, "I'm going to brief Commissioner Gordon on the situation. I
assume that you haven't told him."
"I believe it's probably for the best that you brief him." With that, Robin
hopped onto his R-Cycle (which Robin had brought over from Jump City) and
headed into Gotham. As for his mentor, he internally lamented, 'Well, I guess
that will have to wait. There's so much unresolved between us. When Raven is
back, I'll talk to him about whathappenedthen."
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Raven was trying to sleep in her cell when Poison Ivy burst into the room. She
yelled, "Servant, time to get up. Time to make me breakfast."
She slowly got up from her place on the floor, crawling towards Poison Ivy.
When she became dissatisfied with Raven's progress, Ivy cracked the whip and
proceeded to send two lashes onto Raven's back. "Get moving you bitch!"
Raven croaked, "Yes Mistress." She got up on her feet and walked out of the
cell, followed by Poison Ivy. Raven arrived at the kitchen and Ivy barked, "I'm
in the mood for toast and eggs. Make it, now!"
"Yes, Mistress." With that, Raven went to work making Poison Ivy's breakfast.
She placed two slices of bread into the toaster oven as she began preparing the
eggs how Poison Ivy liked - poached with some hot sauce.
Ivy sat down, awaiting Raven to finish her meal - she had already forced Raven
to prepare her meals before, and each had resulted in five lashings onto
Raven's back. Raven's leotard was starting to fall apart, with a large line of
breakage emerging on the back as the scars were forming - eventually it would
break and then Raven would be left without the only things she was able to take
with her from Azarath.
She could not afford such vile treatment. She needed to break free, but so long
as the damned collar resided on her neck, her powers were forced dormant and
Ivy could very well crush her in an instant. While death would have been a
relief for Raven, her bastard of a father would not let her die and Ivy would
simply institute pain to Raven - not enough to kill her but more than enough to
make her scream for a death that would never come.
After the toast was finished, Raven plated them along with the eggs on a plate,
giving them to Ivy along with her daily cup of coffee. Raven anxiously watched
as her mistress ate her breakfast - if it wasn't up to par, lashings were the
end result.
At last, Ivy said, "You get a pass this time, servant. Now water my plants.
Every one in the greenhouse. And there better be exactly the right amount of
water in each plant. Or else!" For every plant that Raven didn't allocate the
right amount of water, ten lashings on the back were the result.
Raven went into the greenhouse and began filling up a bucket with water so she
could begin watering the plants - though, each bucket could water on average
ten plants, and Ivy had several hundred plants. It was going to be a very long
day for Raven.
Raven began watering the plants, making sure to allocate the right amount of
water to each one before going to the next one - if it got too little, it would
wilt and die, if it got too much, it would saturate and leak. Ivy would be able
to easily tell if Raven got any incorrect. And she had, several times.
After emptying out the bucket on the plants, Raven had to go back over to the
faucet and fill it back up so she could water the next set of plants. It was
seven in the morning when Raven started watering, and it wasn't until five in
the afternoon that she finished. Ten hours to water all the plants, and it was
exhausting.
Ivy came into the greenhouse and upon checking Raven's work, remarked, "You got
it right this time. But faster, next time. No more than eight hours. Now make
me dinner."
Exhausted, Raven answered, "Yes Mistress" and dragged herself back to the
kitchen to make Poison Ivy's dinner - a cow tongue sandwich with grilled
peppers. Raven took care to ensure that the cow tongue, bread, and peppers were
not burnt or undercooked - she dreaded the consequences if anything was wrong
with Ivy's meal.
Raven served Ivy her sandwich, nervously awaiting the reaction of her Mistress,
her master. Ivy commented, "Yet again, you pass." Once Ivy finished the
sandwich, she went over to the counter and a few minutes later, dropped a bowl
of gruel onto the ground. She continued, "Dinner time, servant."
As Raven bent down to pick it up, she felt a whip strike her back as Ivy
insisted, "On your hands and knees, like the bitch you are."
This treatment was not just inhumane but dehumanizing as well - the amount of
gruel Raven was given was barely satisfying even for her metabolism, and the
manner in which she was forced to eat was wrong as well.
Ivy watched as Raven ate the entire bowl of gruel, starving from having not
eaten anything in some time, perhaps a day or so. Raven could not stand this -
she was going to die under Ivy's fist from the treatment given to her. If
Trigon didn't come first.
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Raven awoke from her nightmare after she had been lashed several times in the
abdomen. Harley Quinn was in the doorframe of her room, yelling, "Come on,
servant bitch! Time to make our breakfast!"
Raven painfully got up, aches in her stomach from the lack of sustenance and
the whippings. She limped towards Harley Quinn and then proceeded out of the
door. Harley quickly followed her, soon coming in close to Raven, too close for
Raven's comfort. Raven knew Harley was molesting her, but she could do nothing
about it or her friends could pay the price (or she would). Neither were
options Raven particularly relished.
At last, Raven arrived in the kitchen as Poison Ivy waited. She barked, "Make
us breakfast!"
Raven asked, "What do you want?"
Harley answered, "Toast and an over-easy egg." Ivy replied, "Toast and poached
eggs, just how I like it. Now get moving!"
With that, Raven turned her attention to the stove in order to prepare their
breakfast meals, and so they wouldn't try to hurt her. No, so they wouldn't
hurt her. They didn't even need to try. They could hurt her if they really
wanted to, and so often they wanted to.
Raven placed toast in the toaster so she could work on preparing the eggs -
poached with hot sauce for Poison Ivy and over-easy for Harley Quinn. While she
was preparing the eggs, Ivy asked, "So, servant, why did you choose to go with
those teenage dodoheads, the Teen Titans?"
Raven answered, "Because they accepted me, Mistress. They treated me like a
friend, like family."
"That's all malarkey. I bet they won't do it anymore. I'm sure that our ole pal
Batman has told your friends the truth about our past."
"Their opinions won't be swayed by it, Mistress."
"Are you so sure, servant? Because they will now either believe you truly are
evil and a criminal, or believe you are a whimpering, misery-loving bitch. I
believe it will be more along the lines of the second, because you are a
misery-loving bitch. Those do-good Titans, were too good for you. You didn't
deserve them. All you deserve is to remain like this for the remainder of your
days. You belong to me, Raven, and you will serve me until your dying breath."
"And if you die before me?"
"As if, servant. I'll still be here long after you're nothing more than bones
buried beneath the ground. Now, I expect you to give us our breakfasts."
"Okay then, Mistress."
Raven finished their breakfasts and handed them over to Ivy and Harley - now
all Raven could hope for was that they liked it enough so they wouldn't hurt
her.
As they ate, Raven waited to see their reactions. Harley Quinn noted, "I have
to admit, these aren't good enough. You agree, Ivy?"
Poison Ivy said, "Much agreed, Harley. This is not what I was expecting."
Raven began to back away, trying to get away from Poison Ivy and Harley Quinn
before they began to hurt her. However, before she could escape, Ivy's vines
proceeded to ensnare Raven, trapping her as she squirmed, unsuccessfully trying
to break free, but as long as she was powerless, Raven never stood a chance.
Harley Quinn walked up to the stove and grabbed the still-hot pan Raven used to
cook the eggs and proceeded to slam the pan against Raven's knees, one at a
time, scalding them. Raven screamed as her knees burned. Raven struggled even
harder to break free, but as she tried to push apart, Ivy increased the
resistance on the vines, beginning to cause strain in Raven's joints.
Finally, Ivy had the vines release Raven, dropping her on the ground, with both
of her burned knees falling onto the ground, increasing the damage done to
Raven. Before she could cry out in pain, Harley placed her hand on Raven's
mouth as she crouched down, soon placing her hand on Raven's genitalia,
beginning to tickle Raven in the area. It made Raven very uncomfortable as some
of Raven's cum began to trickle down her body.
Harley whispered, "Oh, I bet you're enjoying this, servant bitch. Even if you
don't want to. You don't want to admit it, but deep down, you want to be
abused. You want to be a wreck. You want to be broken, and we're just going to
fulfill that wish. May I suggest you just accept these desires and things won't
be much harder."
Raven muffled through Harley's hand, "I will not be broken. I will be free of
you."
"We'll see about that, servant bitch. Though, we have what, three hundred or so
lashes on your back, burns on your knees, oh, and a suit tailored by your
Mistress, not to mention her brand on your cheek. Safe to say, we own you. You
will be broken, you will remain enslaved."
Poison Ivy then ordered, "Now, servant, go to the greenhouse and water all of
my plants. I'm sure you remember how to do that. Now, go!"
Raven replied, after Harley let go of her mouth, "Yes, Mistress."
With that, Harley Quinn backed away from Raven, so she can walk out and go
water Ivy's plants at the greenhouse.
After Raven walked out of the kitchen, Harley Quinn turned towards Poison Ivy
and said, "So, how are we doing with breaking the bitch?"
Poison Ivy replied, "Very well. Revenge will be achieved, and she thinks she's
just protecting her friends."
"Too bad for her, there is no threat to their lives. Those chips were all
bluffs, but she'll never know."
"So, she'll be ours. And it won't be long. We've got some great things going on
for her later on." 
***** Floronic Man *****
Chapter Summary
     The Titans search for Raven as Robin talks to Gordon, and Ivy and
     Harley give Raven a "wash".
Chapter Notes
See the end of the chapter for notes
The Teen Titans quickly began canvasing Gotham City in search for their empath,
knowing she is there, imprisoned by that monster Poison Ivy and her deranged
accomplice Harley Quinn.
To start, Robin has went down to the Gotham Police Department to speak with
Commissioner James Gordon, hoping he might have information regarding Poison
Ivy and Harley Quinn.
Robin got into his R-Cycle and arrived just in front of the station, surprising
more than a few residents by his sudden return. Four or so years ago, Robin and
Batman had a falling out that was ultimately resulting in Robin setting out on
his own path for a couple of months, ending up in Jump City, where Batman sent
Raven to ensure her safety.
Robin popped off his helmet, revealing his face and mask (which he applied
before departing the Batcave) and walked out, in uniform, into the station,
being met with more than a few gasps.
He went up to the desk and asked the attendant, "Is Commissioner Gordon here?"
The woman at the desk, Officer Malena, said, "Robin. I'm certainly surprised to
see you. I thought you broke apart with Batman?"
"I did, but long story short, I need to speak with Commissioner Gordon. It
relates to why I've returned."
"Okay. I'll let him know you're here."
A few moments later, Malena ushered Robin into Commissioner Gordon's office.
The head of Gotham's police department was in his early-to-mid 50s with a
lightly graying head of hair and a brown mustache.
The commissioner greeted, "Robin. It's been a long time."
Robin replied, "I know, Commissioner. How's Barbara?" It was a little known
fact that Robin (or Richard Grayson) had a fondness for the Commissioner's
daughter Barbara Gordon, who also took up the mantle of Batgirl after Robin's
departure, unbeknownst to him.
"Paralyzed for life. The Joker shot her in the spine trying to turn me crazy
two years ago."
"Jesus Christ, I'm sorry Commissioner. He just went way too far with that and
had no particular reason. I suppose it is fortunate he is finally locked up."
"Yeah. So why are you back in Gotham? And why out in daylight? Aren't you a
night person?"
"This couldn't wait. I'm back in Gotham to look for somebody."
"Who is it?"
Robin pulled a picture out of one of his pockets and handed it over to Gordon.
"Her name is Raven."
"Raven? Why do you think your teammate is here?"
"Yesterday Harley Quinn abducted her from Jump City. We also have heard that
Poison Ivy has escaped from Arkham, and that Raven was forced under Ivy's fist
for two years. We don't think those are coincidences. Harley must have found
out about Raven and brought her for Ivy."
"But how would Harley have found...Son of a bitch! Ivy told her."
"Poison Ivy was locked up for four years. Harley Quinn only surfaced a little
earlier. I doubt that Ivy would have told Harley, unless it was in prison."
"That's not possible. Harley Quinn has never been captured."
"Then she was in disguise when Ivy told her, and Harley must have helped with
Ivy's escape."
"Poison Ivy never got any visitors and all of the other inmates were screened
before getting in."
"Then Harley Quinn is on the inside of Arkham. The most secure prison in the
city, the one holding the worst inmates, has a security breach. Oh my God."
"We need to start running personnel against Harley Quinn's description. That
should give us an idea of who she is and possibly where she is."
"Thanks, Commissioner. And again, sorry about Barbara."
"And Robin. Be careful if you encounter Ivy. She is extremely dangerous. She
gives us the nerves, especially considering her kiss of death."
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Over at Poison Ivy's hideout, Raven silently laid in her cell, awaiting her
next bout of labor for her Mistress. In the past few days, she has barely
gotten any sleep, largely thanks to her constant nightmares and Harley Quinn's
molestation, and even if she got some sleep in, she was quickly awoken by
either Harley or Ivy.
She was in constant fear of what would happen to her (and her friends) if she
did not cooperate, if Ivy suddenly felt that Raven wasn't performing well.
Raven knew all of what Poison Ivy was capable of - she spent two years pinned
beneath her grasp - and she did not like it one bit.
Raven silently shrieked as the door opened, revealing her Mistress, Poison Ivy,
in the doorway, saying, "Come on, servant. But first, you need a wash."
Raven dreaded that, especially considering what it was.
Raven was silently keeping to herself in her room when Poison Ivy burst in,
noticing that Raven was starting to get a little filthy. She shrieked, "I
really need to give you a wash."
Raven got up from the ground and was then dragged by Poison Ivy out of her
cell, passing through the hallways until they reached what appeared to be a
washroom. Ivy commanded, "Strip!"
Raven reluctantly complied, slipping off her fragmented leotard (her boots and
cloak were already long gone) before Ivy gave a swift kick to Raven's butt that
kicked her into a shower stall. Raven turned to see that there was no knob to
turn on for activating the water.
Suddenly, she was blindsided by a hose that slammed her petite, young body into
the wall, blasting her relentlessly as the water impacted each inch of her
body, washing off the dirt from the plants and from the cell. The water was so
powerful that Raven couldn't even turn around her body, only able to slightly
move her neck to see her Mistress, smirking at her with the hose as it fired on
Raven.
The ice cold water also made sure to land in Raven's lashings, causing them to
sting, making Raven scream in pain. She was stuck there, in the shower stall as
her Mistress "cleaned her".
At last the water level was seeming to stop, causing Raven to droop onto the
floor, her knees buckling onto the cold tile floor. Raven soon turned around,
trying to hide her shame from her Mistress.
All of a sudden, the water restarted, blasting Raven's back into the wall as
water pounded onto Raven's chest, soon causing Raven's arms to be pushed away
from her body, giving Poison Ivy a clear view at her slave's features.
Raven struggled to move away from the onslaught of water raining down upon her.
It was so intense it no longer felt as if she was being cleaned, but rather she
was being waterboarded by her unforgiving Mistress, who never kept her
malicious, devious smirk off her face, a smirk that also held deadly poison on
her lips.
At last, Poison Ivy turned off the hose and Raven slumped down on her hands and
knees onto the wet tiles, completely drenched from head to toe in bitter ice-
cold water, each inch of her birthday suit soaked and struggling to dry off.
The water running down her face soon made it impossible for Ivy to discern
between whether it was water droplets or tears of anguish coming off of her.
Even more so, the water did not short out Raven's power-suppressing collar,
preventing her from using her powers. She was trapped and completely
humiliated.
Raven tried rubbing the water off of her pale flesh but it wasn't moving fast
enough for Raven as she shivered from the bitter ice of the water, nor was it
for Ivy, who wanted Raven dried quicker. So, Ivy walked up and sarcastically
asked, "I suppose you need a towel, servant."
Raven nodded in agreement before she found herself smacked right on her back
with a green towel, wiping off some of the water that was on Raven's fragile
back.
Poison Ivy continued striking Raven across her body until she was dried off,
leaving a number of painful bruises across her body - on her butt, the side of
her breast, her legs, and her abdomen. Poison Ivy walked away from Raven before
tossing Raven her ruined leotard, which Raven quickly put on before following
her Mistress.
Raven snapped out of her painful flashback as Poison Ivy brought Raven back to
the same washroom she had endured years before.
Harley Quinn was silently watching from nearby, holding the hose in preparation
for Raven's "wash".
Poison Ivy commanded, "You know what to do, servant."
Harley excitedly screeched, "Yeah, get naked, servant bitch!"
Raven solemnly replied, "Yes Mistress" and stripped off her clothing, removing
her boots and her green leotard, walking towards the shower heads as Ivy kicked
away Raven's uniform, sliding it out of the door frame.
As Raven reached the shower heads, she was immediately struck by the hose on
its sheer power. The feeling was so familiar, it burst right back onto Raven
like a freight train - the painful, brutal feeling of the "wash".
Water sprayed all over Raven's pale gray skin, hitting with such intensity that
Raven felt like her body was being stung with cans. The hose moved all across
her body, from her porcelain face to her large breasts to her smooth pubic
region.
Raven tried to block the impact of the water with her arms, but the current was
so strong, Raven couldn't even move her arms to block it, to give her modesty.
Ivy and Harley had full view of her body, and Harley was certainly enjoying the
view, as she cackled with laughter. Poison Ivy had the same malicious smirk on
her face, indicating she was enjoying hurting Raven.
Blasted against the wall, Raven struggled as ice cold water burned on her, as
the droplets pierced her skin like daggers stabbing into flesh. As dirt fell
from Raven's body, so did tears as she cried out in pain, screaming hopelessly
for the pain to stop, but it never did.
Harley Quinn turned down the hose, which caused Raven to drop onto the ground
before barking out, "Turn around." Before Raven could even move, Harley began
spraying at full volume, which turned Raven on her own, smashing into her
backside, covering her back and butt with the bitter cold water.
Raven tried balancing herself to withstand the spray, but her arms weren't
strong enough, her body too frail to prevent her breasts from impacting the
cold stone wall, causing several scratches as the water continued to spray.
It overpowered her as she continued to scream for relief that was never going
to come. Salvation was never going to come for her, from this treatment, hosing
her down like she was graffiti, feeding her like she was a dog, and abusing her
like she was a slave.
Water poured down her body, from the back of her neck down to her toes,
chilling her body several degrees with each pricking touch. It was too much for
her to handle as she felt numbness kick in around her knees, making it hard to
keep standing. Only the sheer force of the hose kept Raven from collapsing onto
the ground.
Soon after, though, the hose stopped spraying, and the wet, cold Raven fell
onto the ground, barely breaking her fall by placing her hands out, landing on
the floor, stomach down as she shivered, trying to avoid the views of Ivy and
Harley.
Unfortunately, she was in perfect view of the two of them as Harley Quinn
walked away from the hose, heading towards Raven, and Raven was too weak to
resist, with her legs soon grabbed and Raven was pulled towards Harley, who
crouched down, still atop the wet, naked Raven.
Harley lowered her fingers down to Raven's genitals and used them to spread her
vagina, exposing her labia for Harley to explore. Harley pressed her fingers
further into Raven, causing Raven to yelp in pain as Harley sifted around
through Raven's insides, beginning to wetten Raven up on the inside.
Harley muttered, "Oh, you bitch, you're a virgin, aren't you? Well I guess
we'll have to fix that." Raven instantly began shivering even more, this time
in fear, as she heard what Harley was saying. The deranged pervert continued,
"Eventually." Raven felt only mild relief from that last word, actually, she
began to get even more fear from that word - not knowing when someone was going
to attack her last attribute of goodness, nor who.
Harley withdrew her fingers from Raven and soon moved her slightly sticky
fingers over towards Raven's face and began slowly moving them around her skin,
including the brand set on her face, resulting in Raven shrieking when the
brand was touched - that part of her face was much more sensitive, and still
was in pain.
As Harley continued to rub, Raven struggled to break free, not wanting the
Joker's sidekick to continue molesting her. Unfortunately for her, as long as
the collar remained, Raven stood no chance against Harley, or Ivy, who waited
in the door frame along with Raven's clothes.
Harley whispered into Raven's ear, letting her tongue out slowly, "I know you
won't admit it, but you like this, don't you, bitch? I know you like this, this
close proximity treatment. Don't worry, though, we'll make sure you admit it
and we'll give you much more of it." Harley stuck out her tongue as she licked
the lobe of Raven's ear before dragging her tongue down Raven's chin to her
neck, licking her lips once she reached the bottom of the demoness's neck,
moaning loudly to Raven's discomfort.
Harley moved her hands down towards Raven's chest, pushing one of Raven's
breasts from under her and grabbing it, circling her tongue around Raven's dark
gray nipple, causing Raven to tense up as Harley conducted her work on Raven.
She said, "Why don't you just accept it, that you're better off now than you
ever were with the Titans? I bet you'd be a beast in bed."
Harley pinched Raven's nipple, causing Raven to screech out again. Then, Harley
moved her hand across Raven's back, wiping the water off of it in a seeemingly
small act of kindness. After drying off Raven's back, Harley pounced her
fingers around Raven's back, one at a time, slowly moving in between the
vertebrae of her back as she moved herself so she was now laying right on top
of Raven, severely discomforting her.
"What did you ever see in them Titans? You have the idiot, the fool, the
outcast, and the hypocrite. And don't forget the honorary Titan program, just
bringing together more freaks like you - the biggest freak of them all."
Raven spat, "And you two aren't freaks?"
Harley did not take kindly to that remark and proceeded to punch Raven in the
head, sending her down to the ground before grabbing her by the hair and
twisted Raven around before pushing her back onto the ground. She squeezed her
hands around Raven's arms before setting her legs atop Raven's burned knees,
causing her to scream in pain. Ivy mildly smirked as she watched from the
doorframe.
Harley gritted, "Don't talk to us like that you fucking bitch! You're nothing
more than a servant, a bitch, a pet. Freaks are people who are different but
can change the world. Me and Ivy, however, we know we are different, but we
accept the world as it is, merely helping out the natural flow. Do you want to
remain the queen freak, servant bitch? If you merely go along with us, accept
your fate, and you will no longer be a freak. How about it?"
"Forget it, Harley."
Angered, Harley proceeded to punch Raven again in the head before getting off
of her and walking away. Poison Ivy walked up towards Raven before kicking her
in the face, resulting in a bruise forming on Raven's jaw. Soon after, Ivy
remarked, "Get dressed you bitch, then water my plants."
"Yes, Mistress."
Ivy dropped Raven's uniform - green leotard and boots right in front of her,
before walking away from her with an angry scowl crossing her face.
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It had already been more than a month since Raven had been abducted, and back
at the Batcave, the Titans were working every possible angle to find Raven as
soon as possible.
Starfire was running patrols in the city with Batman in hopes of locating
Poison Ivy, Harley Quinn, or Raven. Cyborg was trying to run through Doctor
Isley's life in hopes of finding possible locations where she had taken Raven.
Beast Boy was surveying the surveillance tapes at Arkham to locate any
information regarding Ivy's time in prison - and hopefully finding out who at
the prison was Harley Quinn. Robin, however, was being fed the data from the
other Titans as he tried to use his bond with Raven (formed when she went into
his mind to help save his mind from Slade's mind-rape) to locate her.
Unfortunately, Robin's efforts weren't coming to fruition as the power-
suppressing collar strapped around Raven's neck was preventing her from being
able to psychically reach out to Robin, and prevented him from being able to
zero in on her location.
The other Titans weren't having much better luck, as Ivy and Harley did not
surface in Gotham, rendering Starfire's patrols primarily moot. Cyborg was
being stonewalled with blocked files and firewalls as he tried to penetrate
vital information about Doctor Isley, having little success in finding anything
about the doctor. Beast Boy's attempts to find Harley Quinn in Arkham were
unsuccessful as the cameras were poor, either from age or from sabotage, and
there were multiple people at Arkham - guards and patients, that matched
Harley's body description, none of which were a match over forty percent.
All Cyborg had deduced so far was that Ivy's powers were the result of a freak
accident that happened at a lab, but he was having trouble finding the lab. If
he could find the lab, then he might be able to locate related buildings for
them to search. As for Beast Boy, he began running down the list of people that
Ivy interacted with that could have slipped her the plant, which lowered the
number of suspects from twenty-two down to ten, which began to narrow it down
to a process of elimination. Unfortunately, the longer it took to narrow down
the suspects, the more likely Harley would figure it out and flee, giving them
no chance of finding Raven.
The Titans worked through the night in hopes of narrowing down their search for
Raven, but it seemed like the bad guys were staying one step ahead, trying to
keep their efforts from reaching success.
At last, Cyborg finally managed to break through the firewalls surrounding
Ivy's files. He said, "Booyah! I found Ivy's past. Eight years ago, Doctor
Pamela Isley was employed at BioGrant Labs under the employ of Doctor Jason
Woodrue when she uncovered some of what Woodrue was doing with genetically
modifying plants to attack people. A scuffle broke out and Isley was crushed
beneath a stack of shelves filled with assorted toxins and poisons, which she
miraculously survived and emerged from the remains."
Beast Boy noted, "So that's how she got her powers."
Cyborg continued, "Yep. She killed Woodrue with a kiss laced with poison,
destroyed BioGrant, and headed towards Gotham."
"Maybe the owner of BioGrant can tell us more about Ivy."
"Umm, Beast Boy, I'm not entirely sure about that."
"Why?"
"Because BioGrant is the property of Wayne Enterprises."
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Chapter End Notes
     Okay, I know my background of Poison Ivy was pretty much akin to the
     much-reviled Batman & Robin, but I promise you - none of that movie's
     camp innuendo will be present. That movie was the only portrayal of
     Ivy I had seen (the only origin I'd seen), so I decided on using that
     and reshaping it so the origin would work for this story. And as for
     Gordon, I've decided to portray him akin to Gary Oldman from The Dark
     Knight trilogy - that's how I see him. In addition, I began writing
     this story (and completed it), long before I watched the DC Animated
     Universe, so keep that in mind.
***** Deadshot *****
Chapter Summary
     Harley takes Raven on a robbery.
Batman, Robin, and Starfire returned to the Batcave where Cyborg and Beast Boy
were waiting with their discoveries. Cyborg said, "Welcome back. We have some
questions for you."
Batman asked, "What is it?"
The half-robot continued, "Doctor Isley, aka Poison Ivy, originally had her
start working at BioGrant Labs, which you should be familiar with seeing how
you own it, or your company does."
"If BioGrant was the property of Wayne Enterprises, I never knew."
Beast Boy added, "Wayne Enterprises bought BioGrant Labs fourteen years ago."
"Fourteen years ago, I was not involved in the decisions made by Wayne
Enterprises. The person who bought BioGrant was former Wayne Enterprises CEO
Luther Pollock." Of course, Batman knew that because at the time he was out
exploring the world, trying to figure out the mind mentality of a criminal,
hoping to understand them so he could know how to fight them effectively and to
accordingly treat them.
"So, Bruce, how did you not know Poison Ivy came from your lab?"
"Pollock was embezzling from the company for several years. When I arrived at
the company, I fired him but he hid the books containing his embezzlements,
including some of the property acquistions. BioGrant had to be one of them."
"Didn't you dig into Ivy's past? Especially after she was arrested?"
"We only found out that Ivy was Doctor Isley after her arrest. Her file had a
lot of blanks, missing pages, names, dates. All of BioGrant was missing. How
did you find it, Mr. Stone?"
"After breaking through the firewalls surrounding Ivy's files, there were a lot
of blanks so I continued digging and found that Ivy had planted a bug that
erased a lot of the files from BioGrant shortly before she left. I was able to
recover the bug and retrieve the data, including the security footage."
"So Master Batman, what is our next move?"
"BioGrant. We investigate their holdings in the city. Ivy may be using one of
them to hold Raven. Robin, have you been able to gain a hold of her?"
"No. They must be suppressing her powers. I can't sense her anywhere. She's on
her own. Unless we can find her first."
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Raven was currently in her cell, trying to get some sleep after being hosed
down by Harley Quinn before being molested yet again by her. Harley wasn't in
her cell, which she was thankful for, but she could come at any moment and
unleash her sense of torture on her.
In the past month since her abduction from Jump (and subsequent return to Ivy's
enslavement), her back was bloody and scarred from all of the damage done by
Poison Ivy's whip, her face had an irremovable brand of an ivy leaf signifying
Ivy's possession of her, and her knees were burned by a pan, and Harley had
moved her fingers inside of Raven, threatening (more like promising) to have
her virginity, her only attribute of innocence, removed.
Things couldn't be going much worse for Raven right about now as her stomach
roared for food and her mouth begged for water that Ivy was not giving - all
Raven had to eat was gruel, and that was if she was behaving, and if Ivy was in
a good mood, which she often wasn't in. As for water, it was more often given
to the plants than to Raven, as Ivy preferred her plants and thought Raven not
as a human but as a pet, a servant, a bitch.
As for sleep, Raven was lucky if she could get a couple of minutes - whenever
nightmares did not startle her up from her slumber, some other loud noise did.
And her attempts to sleep soon came to an end when the door opens, revealing
Harley Quinn holding a small bowl.
She commented, "Servant bitch, drink up" as she placed a bowl of water down at
Raven's face. Raven inched towards the bowl before proceeding to use her tongue
to lap up at the water, taking in as much of it as she could, hoping to give
her throat a much needed relief from the dryness that plagued it.
As much as she had wanted to just pick the bowl up and drink down the necessary
water, Raven knew that Harley would likely have beaten her badly if she had
done so. Raven did not want another injury adding onto the wounds she had
already sustained during her stay.
After finishing up the entire bowl of water, Harley proceeded to grab Raven by
the collar before dragging her out of the cell and tossing her onto the floor.
Raven got up from the ground as Harley ordered, "Your Mistress requests you in
the kitchen, servant bitch!"
Raven meekly nodded and headed towards the kitchen, frantically trying to
outpace Harley Quinn. Unfortunately, it wasn't going to do any good as her body
was severely taxed from all the damage done on her, and Harley quickly caught
up to her and pressed herself against Raven's backside.
Upon reaching the kitchen, Harley tossed Raven inside as Poison Ivy was sitting
down at a table, reading a newspaper, the Gotham Daily, as she noticed the two
of them coming in.
Ivy said, "Servant?"
Raven asked, "Yes Mistress?"
"I have an errand for you. Do you know the Ninth Bank of Gotham?"
"Yes."
"They are holding a diamond on display that I want. Bring it to me."
"What if I encounter Batman or the Titans?"
"Fight them."
"But with my collar, I will lose and they will capture me."
"Then don't get captured. Don't get caught, and everything will be peachy,
servant. Or else your, friends," Ivy gave a sadistic chuckle as she uttered
that last word, "pay the price. Understood?"
"Understood, Mistress."
"Harley, would you be so kind as to make sure she is fully prepared for her
task?"
"Will do, Ivy. Come on, servant bitch. We need to get you dressed for theft."
As Harley began to drag Raven away, the Titan sorceress began thinking about
the first time she had to steal something for Poison Ivy.
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Poison Ivy walked in on Raven as she was finishing watering up the plants. She
shouted, "Raven!"
Raven nearly jumped out of her tattered leotard before turning around and
inquiring, "Yes, Mistress?"
"We're having a little...change of pace. You're coming with me to Gotham."
"What for?"
"To steal a new chemical formula designed against my pwetty wittle planties.
Once I have it, I will make sure it cannot be used. Follow me, NOW!"
"Yes, Mistress."
Raven quickly scurried as she followed Poison Ivy, her Mistress, her slaver,
her captor, as the two arrived into what appeared to be a small garage. Ivy
explained, "Before we go, you're gonna need a new uniform." Of course, Raven
likely would need something new to wear as her leotard had been brutally
shredded by whippings and beatings - at that point, the entire backside of her
leotard had been ripped apart and much of the stomach area of the leotard was
missing, leaving the top of the leotard covering her breasts only held on by
the collar and the bottom part of the leotard had significant parts torn enough
that the crack between Raven's butt cheeks was easily visible.
With that, two vines came along and proceeded to shred the remains of Raven's
torn leotard right off her back, leaving her again naked in front of her
Mistress. Two more vines soon followed, dropping in front of Raven a light
green sleeveless leotard and a pair of elf boots. Ivy ordered, "Well just don't
stand there, put it on!"
Raven quickly slipped on the green leotard and boots, which immediately made
her feel like an elf. Soon after, Ivy packed Raven into a plant as the two of
them took off towards Gotham Horticultural Laboratories. While Ivy was in front
steering the plant, Raven was hidden inside of the plant, where she could not
be seen, nor could she see where Ivy was headed - another strategy designed to
prevent Raven from escaping her Mistress's cruelty.
After several minutes, the towering plant arrived near the target, and let off
Poison Ivy and Raven. A moment later, Ivy grabbed a cloth mask and tossed it
over to Raven, which she placed on her face to cover it, protecting her non-
existent secret identity.
She pointed at the laboratory and Raven moved up towards it, aiming to get in,
steal the formula and get out before she is detected. Poison Ivy followed with
a collection of her plants, which were going to attack any guards they saw.
Raven went up to the door, but didn't know how to open it as back in Azarath,
there were no doors for her to open where she spent the majority of her life.
Even now as Ivy's slave, Ivy has been moving Raven around. Raven struggled to
open it, kicking at it, pushing on it, but to no avail as the door remained
closed. It didn't help that the door was locked.
A moment later, two of Ivy's plants went up to the door before smashing it
down, creating a pathway and entrance for Raven. Noticing an angry Poison Ivy
behind her, Raven quickly proceeded, trying to stay out of sight and out of the
view of the guards.
One guard passed by Raven, who quickly hid behind a wall. If she had her
powers, she would have been able to just teleport herself to the formula (or
far away from Poison Ivy), but unfortunately she had to walk there as the
collar remained on her neck.
As the guard walked away, Raven slipped past and moved towards her destination
- the top-floor laboratory. She saw an elevator, but quickly scurried away as
it opened, revealing four guards armed with handguns. Death was something Raven
was not afraid of - it was what would happen if she was alive that she feared.
Poison Ivy, first and her father, later. And as good guys, they would not shoot
her - making exposure an even-more fear-inducing proposition for her.
Raven saw a staircase and quickly ran into the open door, beginning her climb
up the staircase, frantically trying to avoid guards and beat Ivy to the top.
If Poison Ivy grabbed the formula before she did...Raven did not want to think
about the consequences.
Fortunately, there was nobody in the staircase, which made evasion an
infinitely easier task, and Raven quickly climbed the stairs, racing to the top
before Ivy got there.
As for her Mistress, Poison Ivy deployed her plants to slaughter all the guards
on the lower floor before walking up to the elevator and opening it, going
inside and pressing the button for the top floor.
The elevator arrived at the top of the building just as Raven reached the top
of the staircase, pressing onto the door in hopes of opening it. After several
agonizing seconds of force, the door opened, spilling Raven onto the floor.
Quickly crawling out of the doorframe, Raven got up and began searching for the
formula, unsure of where exactly the lab was, as Ivy never gave directions as
to its location. Perhaps she didn't know, or perhaps she did. Raven would never
know, but she did have to keep moving.
Raven walked down a hallway, searching for the formula when she came across
Poison Ivy, who was also looking for the formula. Ivy snarled at Raven, "We'll
deal with this later. Now, keep moving. The formula is nearby."
Poison Ivy kept moving, and Raven quickly tailed behind her. She turned her
head to notice the guards appearing (and getting cut down by Ivy's plants).
Raven asked, "Are you killing them?"
"Way to go, Madame Sherlock. Don't question me! UNDERSTOOD?"
"Understood, Mistress."
As the plants handled the guards, Raven and Ivy soon arrived at the central lab
where the doctor was working on the formula that Ivy wanted destroyed. Ivy
summoned some plants and proceeded to constrict the doctor, latching onto his
arms and legs, crawling around his throat so Ivy could suffocate him if she
wanted to.
Ivy shouted, "What's your name?"
The doctor responded, "Doctor John Freida. What do you want from me?"
"Your formula! Go get it!"
"But I'm..."
"Not you. Her!" as she pointed at Raven. Raven quickly went over to Dr.
Freida's desk to grab the formula. Ivy continued, "Any more copies?"
"Just in my head."
"Good. Raven, would you be so kind as to kill Doctor Freida?" Raven was shocked
by Ivy's words - she wanted her to kill him. She was raised in a pacifistic
monastery, brought up on a policy on not killing, especially to help tame her
demonic side. Doing that, would be a violation of everything she was taught as
a child.
A moment later, one of Ivy's plants brought over a handgun, which Ivy handed
over to Raven, threatening, "If you try to point it at me, you will never get a
shot off, and your life will be a living hell. Now, do it!"
Raven slowly (and painfully) pulled the handgun towards Dr. Freida, still
constrained by Ivy's vines. Raven hesitated, trying to uphold her Azarathian
values while trying to avoid a brutal beating at Ivy's hands.
Ultimately, fear prevailed over honor as Raven squeezed the trigger, putting a
bullet inside Freida's head, killing him. In disgust, Raven dropped the gun on
the floor, causing it to accidentally discharge into a wall.
Ivy proceeded to grab Raven by the neck, twisting her so Ivy's cold eyes stared
at Raven as she growled, "Don't drop a gun. Don't hesitate again. You will pay
for that when we return, I promise you that."
With that, Raven nearly went limp under Ivy, the volume of her actions just
overwhelmed her. It took all of Raven's willpower not to vomit on the ground.
Ivy proceeded to take the mask off of Raven's head drag Raven out of the
building, summoning her plants to follow.
After a quick trip down the elevator, Ivy and Raven arrived on the bottom
floor, preparing to walk out when Raven's stomach could no longer hold it in.
She tossed Raven a bucket which she proceeded to violently puke into, emptying
the feeble contents of her stomach into the bucket.
Following that slight detour, Ivy dragged Raven back towards the plant, placing
her inside as they took off back towards base.
Upon their return, Ivy proceeded to strap Raven into the stocks and whipped her
two hundred times in the back - for criticizing Ivy, for being slow, for her
'careless' disposal of a weapon, for hesitation, and for her inability to avoid
throwing up. Each lash was more violent than Raven's previous whippings, and
many opened back up old wounds that Raven hoped had healed by now.
After Ivy finished dealing out Raven's punishment, she unhooked Raven and let
her slump onto the floor before walking out, leaving Raven to weep in misery.
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At last, Harley arrived to where she was taking Raven - the garage, and pulled
out the mask Ivy gave Raven for their heists. But before she handed Raven the
mask, she pulled out a flat gag and proceeded to strap it into Raven's mouth,
fastening it together so she couldn't take it off.
After applying the mask to Raven's face, Harley Quinn proceeded to place Raven
inside of her monster truck, a compartment where Raven would neither be seen
nor be able to see. This was the same compartment where Harley had placed Raven
after her abduction from Jump City.
Harley drove off from wherever Ivy had her base, heading towards the bank for
Raven to steal the diamond and get out. Harley had her hammer plus a machine
pistol to take out the guards, while Raven was unarmed, and would not stand a
chance in a fight, especially against the Titans.
The ride over to the Ninth Bank was bumpy to say the least as it seems Harley
took the rockiest path, slamming Raven across the compartment, often painfully,
which seemed to be Harley's goal. Raven tried to moan in pain, but the gag
muffled out the sound coming out of her mouth. There was nothing that could
stop Harley from inflicting maximum damage upon her, even while on errands.
After several minutes of agony, the truck arrived at the bank. Harley opened
the compartment, revealing Raven. Harley dictated, "Get the diamond and then
get fucking out! Don't play any games because you will lose. Now, move your
skinny ass!"
Harley whacked Raven in the butt as she got out of the compartment, rushing
towards the bank as she saw guards emerge. She did not want to be seen as that
would trigger the police which would trigger Batman which would trigger the
Titans which would trigger all hell breaking loose both on the Titans and on
herself.
As for that last comment, Raven always was underweight for her age - her time
spent on Azarath didn't give her the greatest sustenance, suitable for survival
but not for complete development. Her time under Ivy's servitude did not help
as she lost a lot of weight - at least twenty pounds, which she never fully
gained back. She wasn't a big eater, courtesy of her demonic half, which
prevented her from eating to achieve an ideal weight.
While Raven thought about her body issues, Harley pulled out her machine pistol
and cut the guards down with frightening force and precision. She followed that
up by breaking down the door with her hammer. Raven quickly ran in and searched
for the diamond, hoping to avoid being detected, but seeing how Harley shot up
the front desk and guards, stealth wasn't a viable option at this point.
Knowing that the police were coming, Raven just moved as quickly as she could
into the vault where the diamond was on display. The quicker this was done, the
better as she did not want to have to fight the Titans, nor risk their lives.
After several minutes of searching, Raven saw the diamond that Ivy requested
and tried to take it, only to find it was surrounded by bulletproof glass which
was fastened into the stand. She frantically tried to rip the glass off of the
stand, but it was too firm and she was too weak. She tried everything - kicking
it, punching it, tipping it over, but none worked. There seemed to be nothing
that would get the diamond out of its container.
After moments of struggling, at last the container opened revealing the diamond
to grab. Raven turned around and saw Harley Quinn with a key. She glared at
her, only for Harley to smirk, "I just enjoy watching you struggle. Now grab
the goddamn diamond and let's get out of here servant bitch!"
Raven quickly grabbed the diamond and proceeded to run out of the bank only to
be caught by Harley's firm arm, wresting the diamond into Harley's hand. Harley
proceeded to toss Raven into the compartment before buckling herself in.
However, before Harley could drive off with Raven and the diamond, two cop cars
quickly drove up to the bank, trying to investigate what was going on. Raven
heard the sirens and the faintest glimmer of hope began to arise in her.
That hope was unfortunately crushed when Harley drove her truck over the two
cop cars, instantly crushing the occupants as she laughed all the way over them
before heading on back to Ivy's base, again taking a bumpy road to ensure
maximum possible pain on Raven.
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Upon arriving back at the base, Harley let Raven out of the compartment,
removing the mask and gag from her mouth. Raven coughed heavily upon the
removal of the gag, finally being able to breathe out of her mouth again. Raven
asked, "What was the gag for?"
Harley replied, "To shut you up. In case we ran into trouble. Orders of your
Mistress. Now, bring her the diamond."
Harley handed the diamond over to Raven, who grabbed it. Raven headed towards
the greenhouse, where she expected Poison Ivy to be at this point in the day,
with Harley Quinn following her closely, getting again to the point of
molestation.
After several minutes of walking, Raven arrived at the greenhouse where Poison
Ivy was tending to her plants. Ivy greeted, "Ah, you brought the diamond. Did
she perform well, Harley?"
"I'm afraid that I have to agree. Can't hurt her friends, nor can we hurt her."
"Unfortunate indeed. Now, we need to have a talk outside. Servant bitch, finish
watering the plants. The left side needs to be done."
Raven meekly answered, "Yes, Mistress."
Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy walked out of the greenhouse and well outside of
Raven's hearing range to talk. Poison Ivy asked, "What is it, Harley?"
The response was, "I need to get back to Arkham, Red. I've got an appointment
with Mista J. He's gonna talk about his plans for the festivities over at
Arkham Asylum soon."
"Okay then. Ask him if he wants me and Raven to come. I'm sure she could use
some exposure."
"Trust me, Ivy. He'll ask for you to come. Toodles."
With that, Harley Quinn walked away from Poison Ivy, heading out to the garage
and getting on a motorcycle, driving off to a nearby storage center where she
would change her appearance back to Doctor Quinzel, and then head to Arkham for
her appointment with the Joker.
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***** Catwoman *****
Chapter Summary
     Ivy and Harley ready Raven for her "night" at Arkham while an
     unexpected source provides Robin with an important revelation.
Harley Quinn returned from her day job as Doctor Harleen Quinzel, resident
psychiatrist at Arkham Asylum. She had several appointments through the day,
with the Scarecrow, Firefly, and the Joker. With the Scarecrow, Harley talked
with Doctor Crane about his fear gas, which was smuggled in through several new
inmates at the asylum, and he would soon retrieve it and utilize on the guards
at the prison.
After finishing her session with Scarecrow, she talked with Firefly, who said
he planned on breaking into the light storage at Arkham, creating a massive
security system that not even Batman could elude.
Lastly, Harley spoke with her love, the Joker, who explained more about what
was going to go down at Arkham that night. They conversed about their lives -
the Joker at Arkham, and Harley with Ivy and Raven. Before leaving, the Joker
and Harley Quinn made plans - that Raven was coming to their little "gathering"
tonight, where they intended to break her spirit.
Harley, as Dr. Quinzel, departed from Arkham Asylum before heading to her
nearby storage center, changing back into her criminal get-up and arrived back
at Ivy's base, where she was currently watching over Raven cleaning the
bathroom with a sponge and bucket down on her hands and knees.
Poison Ivy shouted, "Faster bitch! I want this bathroom clean in twenty
minutes! Move it!"
Raven choked out, "Yes, Mistress."
Ivy noticed that Harley Quinn had returned and proceeded to step away from
Raven, who continued to clean the bathroom, now working on the mirror and sink
having just finished the toilet.
Ivy asked, "So, how did it go with your appointments at Arkham?"
Harley answered, "Excellently. Everything's going to be set for the
festivities, and Joker has told us to bring Raven, but to dress her up in
style. For the little show he wants her to put on."
"So, I guess that means we have to give the bitch a makeover and a new
wardrobe. We better get some clothes and makeup for her."
"I'll go pick some up and be back. Anything you want?"
"Just enough for the Joker's requirements, so I'd assume something along the
lines of a slut stripper."
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Over at the Batcave, Cyborg was trying to hack into the property listings of
BioGrant Enterprises, and even though Bruce Wayne had given them the necessary
warrants to search as well as decryption codes, BioGrant still was behind a
massive firewall, especially the property listings. It was going to take Cyborg
some more time until he could find out all the listings of BioGrant around
Gotham, places where Poison Ivy could be hiding, and where she was holding
Raven hostage.
Meanwhile, Robin had been called over to investigate a bank robbery by
Commissioner Gordon, while Starfire was running patrols to find Raven, Harley
Quinn, or Poison Ivy. Unfortunately, Starfire was having no luck. Beast Boy was
running facial comparison of employees at Arkham Asylum against the picture of
Harley Quinn, hoping to find out which one slipped Ivy the plant she utilized
to escape.
The first scan the changeling had run could not get a match much greater than
forty percent, so Cyborg gave him a filter that would adjust for the poor
quality of the cameras, hoping to get a facial recognition greater than fifty
percent, so they could begin getting suspects.
Robin had arrived at the Ninth Bank where Commissioner Gordon was waiting in
front of two squished cop cars with three bodies inside. Robin asked,
"Commissioner, what happened here?"
Gordon replied, "I was hoping you could help me figure that out. Three squished
in the cars, four shot inside. Seven dead."
"How did the cop cars appear on the scene?"
"From what we can tell, after the first guard was shot, a silent alarm was
rung, summoning the two closest patrols - Michael Stratton with Algar Hopkins
and Eli Langer. A few moments later, something ran over them, killing them
instantly."
Robin walked over to the cars, away from his R-Cycle, examining the wreckage,
noting, "Those look like tire tracks. Massive tire tracks. Ran over the two
cars before driving off. Explains how the thief got here."
"What car could possibly have done this?"
"Monster truck. And there's only one criminal in town that uses one. We need to
check the surveillance records."
"You think it was Harley Quinn?"
"Yes, possibly Poison Ivy or Raven were along with her. I'm willing to bet on
that."
Robin and Commissioner Gordon stepped inside of the bank, heading towards the
cameras to see if they could get a look at the thief (or thieves).
They reached the internal vault of the bank, which had the recordings from the
hidden security cameras. Robin asked, "When was the robbery?"
"Late last night, about two in the morning."
Robin quickly began searching the security camera feed for two in the morning.
He finally found the security footage he was looking for when he saw the front
desk getting shot up. Robin continued playing the footage until he saw the
figure he was looking for.
Gordon muttered, "Harley Quinn."
When another figure popped up, one wearing green boots and leotard as well as a
mask, as well as her gray legs, Robin uttered, "Raven."
"The one who you're looking for?"
"Yes. But I don't think this was willing. She was forced to. We need to find
the monster truck and we might be able to find Poison Ivy."
"We're already on it. Ever since you told me about Raven's kidnapping, I had a
BOLO warning placed on Harley's monster truck. The cops responded so quickly
because the silent alarm was a response to the BOLO. We're trying to figure out
its path, but it's tires just seem to elude us. We can't seem to get a proper
trace on where it is. Perhaps that's what she wanted."
"Maybe, but we'll be on the lookout. We will find Harley, we will make sure
that she pays. We will show her true face to the world."
"Good luck, Robin. Thanks for the assistance."
"Thanks, Commissioner, for the blessing and the tip."
Robin walked away from Commissioner Gordon before mounting on his R-Cycle and
riding off, back towards the Batcave with the new information, hoping the other
Titans had gotten something useful as well. They all knew that the longer it
took to find Raven, the more crimes she would endure.
Finally getting back into the Batcave (and making sure that nobody had tailed
him), Robin checked in with Cyborg and Beast Boy. Robin asked, "Cyborg, have
you gotten into BioGrant yet?"
Cyborg responded, "Not yet. There's still another firewall to breach before I
can get to their property listings in detail, but I can tell you we have two
places to search."
Robin noted, "I guess we'll have to storm them both at the same time. And with
Bruce at work, we'll have to do it on our own. Once you locate it, I'll have
Starfire join us."
"What about her aerial patrol?"
"Hopefully, we won't need her to patrol once we launch the raids. We need Raven
to be there. She has to be at one of them. Beast Boy, any luck on finding out
who Harley Quinn is?"
Beast Boy answered, "Thanks to Cyborg's filters, I've got eight suspects with a
solid possibility of being Harley."
"Define solid."
"Between fifty and seventy percent. All females and all having been employed at
Arkham for at least six years, judging by her first appearance, when the Joker
broke out of prison, and Harley was his new accomplice."
"Put it on the Batcomputer."
Beast Boy pressed some keys and revealing the eight possible suspects of being
Harley Quinn - ranging from guard Jessica Alvarez at fifty percent to cafeteria
worker Linda Keller at seventy-two percent. Harleen Quinzel, whom the they were
still unaware was Harley Quinn, had a fifty-nine percent chance of being her, a
fifty-nine percent match between the two.
"Okay, now I'm running alibis for the eight of them, for the attack on Jump
City several days ago."
"Add in a bank robbery last night at two in the morning. Start calling."
"Okay then. It'll take a few hours but we should narrow it down to one or two."
"Make it as soon as possible. We can't afford to lose any time. I'm going to
check in with Starfire."
Robin pulled out his communicator to check in on Starfire. He asked, "How is
the search going Starfire?"
Starfire answered, "Not particularly well, friend Robin. No sign of Poison Ivy,
Harley Quinn, or friend Raven anywhere."
"Have you seen a monster truck?"
"No. Not at all while I have been on patrol. I have seen the jeeps and the
trucks that are not monsters, but not the monster truck. They seem to be laying
the low."
"Okay, Starfire. Keep looking. We may soon have a lead. I'll send you a
location once we have it. Robin out."
Robin shut down his communicator, trying to figure out what to do now.
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Just under three weeks later, after the harlequin's dicussion of the
"festivities" at Arkham, Harley Quinn came back with a bag full of clothing and
accessories to Poison Ivy's base that she had gotten a few weeks earlier,
proceeding to meet Ivy in the newly-cleaned bathroom. Ivy inquired, "So, do you
have everything?"
Harley replied, "Yep. Let's give the bitch a makeover. Where is she?"
"Currently watering the plants. I'll go collect her." Poison Ivy walked out,
heading to grab Raven and bring her to them in order to give her a "makeover".
However, their definition of makeover was radically different from Raven's
definition.
About a moment later, Poison Ivy returned with Raven, who had been bound by
vines, depositing her on the ground. Raven asked, "What do you want?"
Poison Ivy responded, "You've got a very important date tonight, and we're just
going to get you ready for it. We're going to give you a makeover."
Raven shuddered at Ivy's last word - she could clearly remember the last time
she was given a makeover at the hand of her cruel, unforgiving Mistress.
It had been a few days after the heist on the Gotham Horticultural
Laboratories. Raven was huddling in the corner of her cell, clawing at the
collar chained around her neck, finding it was an ultimately futile effort - it
was clamped on tight around her neck. She would need some kind of "tools" in
order to get it off of her, of which there were none around. And even if she
tried, Poison Ivy would find her and beat her mercilessly before she could get
it off, and then she would make sure the collar was firmly on her, making
getting it off even harder.
All Raven could do was wait and hope she would escape. Hopefully before what
little remained of her humanity was stolen from her. Ivy had forced her to kill
in cold blood, which Raven could not handle. She was raised not to kill, but
now under slavery, she had no choice. Raven, now unrestrained from expressing
her emotions now that her powers had been suppressed, weeped into her knees,
afraid of what she was becoming - an animal, a pet.
Raven's session of self-pity was forcibly interrupted by the arrival of Poison
Ivy, who quickly barked, "Get up", holding the whip in her hands to make sure
that Raven would obey, or suffer as a consequence.
Raven quickly got up and walked over to Poison Ivy, awaiting whatever task she
was about to assign her. Ivy commanded, "Follow me." Raven did so, silently
dreading what was coming next. If Ivy wanted to whip her, she would have done
so already by strapping her up in the stocks. Perhaps it was some other form of
beating or another task. Raven knew in her heart, no matter what she wanted to
think, it was not a reward - slaves don't deserve rewards, they deserve
beatings, a philosophy held by many a slaveholder.
At last, Ivy and Raven arrived at their destination - the garage, where a chair
was placed along with a towel plus a pair of scissors and a razor. Raven had a
feeling it was going to hurt, but she didn't know what was going on. Ivy said,
"Take off your clothes and sit down in the chair."
Raven complied with extreme hesitance, taking off both of her boots before
slipping off her green leotard, walking up to the chair, sitting on its cold,
hard surface. Poison Ivy walked up to Raven, attaching the towel to her chest
and holding it together with a clip. She explained, "After your performance a
few nights ago, I noticed that it seemed a little hard for you to fit into your
mask, and it will be a while before I can get another mask ready, so we'll have
to find a way to make your head fit in it, and I know just the way. Now, don't
move."
Raven acknowledged with a silent nod, holding completely still, as Ivy picked
up the scissors and began cutting Raven's bobcut violet hair off. Raven heard
each snip and felt as each of her hairs were cut off from her body, a piece of
herself that was being removed. As her hair fell on the floor, Ivy simply
continued cutting it off, going from underneath Raven's ears to the back of her
skull, lightening up Raven's head.
After cutting off much of the hair on the back of Raven's head, Ivy rotated to
Raven's front and began cutting away there, with Raven closing her eyes to
avoid the pain she knew she could not avoid.
Several moments passed and at last the snipping stopped, so Raven opened her
eyes, seeing her hair was all over the towel. However, Ivy was not done as she
pulled out the razor, turning it on and applied its electric metal touch to
Raven's head, shaving off the remains of the demoness's purple locks.
Her hair, already short, was continually shortened by the razor, which zig-
zagged from back to front, side to side, getting every last inch off of her
fragile gray head.
When Ivy finally turned off the razor, she gave Raven a mirror to look at her
new look. Raven was shocked at what she saw - her purple hair was all gone,
leaving behind a completely bald head with a couple of razor burns along the
stubble, the pores that once held hair.
Ivy unclipped the towel from Raven's body before removing the chair right from
underneath Raven, leaving the gray girl to look at her bald, naked reflection
in the mirror, completely ashamed at herself for what she had become. Poison
Ivy barked out, "Put your clothes back on and then make me dinner! Understood!"
Raven answered in a soft voice, "Understood, Mistress."
It took at least a year until Raven's hair fully grew back from the haircut,
resulting from the razor burns and the slow rate that Raven recovered without
her powers.
After flashing back from her previous makeover, Ivy ordered, "Strip down and
sit down on the chair."
While Raven did not want to please Ivy (or Harley), she knew she had to if she
wanted her friends to survive (not to mention herself). Raven slipped off her
leotard and shoes before sitting down on the same cold metal chair which
resided in front of the sink and mirror.
Harley Quinn first pulled out black hair dye, soon applying it onto Raven's
violet hair, making sure every inch of it was coated in a murky black. Then she
pushed Raven's head into the sink before turning it on, spraying Raven's now-
black hair with water, sealing the temporary coloring.
After finishing with the hair, Harley lifted up Raven and her dripping wet
head. Harley commented, "That should last for the next day or so. Now, let's
continue."
Harley grabbed a stick of balmy red lipstick, proceeding to apply it to Raven's
gray lips, turning them a bright red which contrasted greatly with her natural
colors.
She turned Raven around so she could then see her new look, which Raven stared
at, realizing that she looked like a whore with the lipstick. Then, Harley
continued with the makeover, applying fake eyelashes to her eyes and adding a
light pink tint to Raven's cheeks.
Poison Ivy noted, "You think she looks ready for tonight?"
Harley replied, "She certainly does, but now we have to dress her."
Harley walked away from Raven and grabbed the bag containing the clothing Raven
was going to wear for tonight.
Raven began examining the contents of the bag - a black set of underwear,
fishnet stockings, black high heels, a short black skirt that went down halfway
her upper legs, a blouse that went to a bit above her abdomen, and a cloth
jacket that went just below her abdomen.
Raven began putting on her outfit for tonight, first placing her bra and
panties on quickly so Ivy and Harley couldn't see her sensitive regions any
longer. After putting on her underwear, Raven added the fishnet stockings to
her legs before putting on the short skirt, following that with the revealing
blouse and jacket before finishing it up with the high heels.
Raven muttered to herself after looking in the mirror, "I look like a slut."
Poison Ivy remarked, "And that's just the look we were going for. We'll be
departing soon."
"Where are we headed?"
"You'll see soon enough, servant bitch."
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Robin was now on patrol in Gotham, hoping to find any lead, anything that would
help him and the Titans find Raven sooner. Starfire had returned to the cave
after an exhausting shift, and Batman had joined his protege patrolling from
the Batwing (a small helicopter).
He had been at his patrol for quite a bit now, having no luck locating Harley
Quinn or Poison Ivy, just a couple of low-life thugs that proved to be no
threat.
Now, Robin was passing by an alley when he heard a little disturbance there.
Robin hopped off his R-Cycle and pulled out his bo-staff, preparing to
investigate. He demanded to know, "Who's there. I'm armed!"
A familiar, deep silky voice cut through the air, "Hello, Robin. It's been a
while, hasn't it."
Robin's eerie suspicions of who the voice was were soon confirmed when a
familiar two-tone mask popped out of the shadows and right in front of him.
Robin barked, "Slade. What are you doing in Gotham?"
"Can't a man just check in on his old apprentice?"
"Cut the bull, Slade. If you wanted to check in with me, you would do so in
Jump. I won't ask again. Why are you here?"
"I'm not here to attack you if that's what you're asking." After a short pause,
Slade continued, "Very well. I know about Raven and Poison Ivy's former
relationship, which is why you left Jump, in order to find Raven. I may be able
to help with that."
"Why would you help us find one of your enemies?"
"Would you believe me if I said that your replacements are boring me? They're
simply not as much fun to play around with as you Titans." Robin's glare was
all the answer Slade needed. "Alright then, a while after you had escaped from
being my apprentice, I was trying to find a way to make you my apprentice
again, so I began searching old Batman's computer. I looked through one of his
old files and found the record of Raven as Ivy's slave."
"How does that relate to anything?"
"I realized that what I did was in essence slavery, and I do hold a place for
the Constitution in my heart, which explicitly forbids slavery. I then decided
that if I wanted an apprentice, I would have to find one that would willingly
join me. That's where Terra came in."
"Not that your speech hasn't been enlightening, but where is Raven?"
"I'm not sure of Ivy's exact location, but I can tell you where they will be
tonight. Let's just say that Arkham isn't quite as secure as it should be."
"A breakout? Ivy's going to spring Arkham?"
"No. But she will be heading there with Harley Quinn and Raven, and from what
my sources inside Arkham say, they have something nasty prepared for her."
"Why are you telling me this?"
"Because, Robin. From what I've heard, I would not wish what will be happening
tonight on Raven. It's against my code."
"You have a code?"
"Everybody needs one, Robin. I'll be waiting to see if you get Raven back."
With that, Slade vanished out of sight, frustrating Robin that his nemesis had
gotten away, but it did give him information on Raven's whereabouts.
Robin then called his T-communicator, saying, "We need to get to Arkham."
On the other side was Cyborg, asking, "What's going on? How does that relate to
Raven?"
"Raven's going to be there tonight, and it's not going to be pretty. I'll tell
Batman and meet me there as soon as possible."
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***** Joker *****
Chapter Summary
     Raven is brought to Arkham for disturbing festivities, leaving her in
     the hands of the psychotic Joker.
It was now time for Poison Ivy to depart for Arkham for the festivities
tonight. Accompanying her would be Harley Quinn, who helped organize it, and
Raven, who would be a "guest of honor" in the most deranged sense of the word.
Raven was silently waiting for what was going to happen next in her cell. She
was awaiting her fate that night, where Harley and Ivy were going to take her -
and wherever it was, it was not good at all.
Perhaps the Titans would intercept them and rescue her. Perhaps this nightmare
would at long last be over, but as each second ticked away, Raven knew that the
chances of her freedom were growing increasingly slimmer than before.
And even if they were to find her and save her, what would happen next? Robin
and the Titans would never look at her in the same way again - as a slave, as a
criminal, as a pet, easily broken. Would they expel her? Would they abuse her?
Raven doubted that her life could return anywhere near normal after this.
As she pondered her future, she did not hear the door open, with Harley Quinn
soon popping in, with a whip slung at her side and the hammer across her back.
She screamed, "Servant bitch, time to go!"
That snapped Raven right out of her daze and she walked up towards Harley,
nervously dreading what was about to happen. She tried to move slowly,
attempting to delay the inevitable, but once she reached the door, Harley
kicked her in the ass, sending her crashing a few steps ahead, nearly knocking
her off-balance.
Raven managed to get back up, though the heels weren't helping Raven's cause -
her boots gave her much more balance than the heels, which was making it harder
for her to walk, especially with Harley breathing down her neck, groping
Raven's breasts right about the nipple, squeezing it right through the bra and
shirt. Raven clenched her teeth to get through the pain.
All the while, she could barely notice that Harley was navigating her over to
the garage - all of Raven's focus was on Harley's molestation of her which she
feared would never end.
At last, the two of them arrived at the garage where Poison Ivy was waiting,
having exchanged her normal green plant dress for a silkier green chemise with
a white skirt plus sandals. Ivy remarked, "Time to go!"
Ivy prepared a plant for transport, having it bend over towards the three of
them. First, Ivy tossed Raven onto the plant before Harley Quinn jumped on,
proceeding to move over Raven, preventing Raven from moving and escaping while
Ivy was preparing to get them moving.
Then, Poison Ivy boarded her plant, shutting it to ensure that Raven could not
escape, so she would arrive at Arkham for what they were planning.
With them all aboard, Ivy took off, heading towards Arkham Asylum.
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Over at Arkham Asylum, it was just about dinner time, where the criminals of
Arkham were gathering for dinner, featuring such criminals as Two-Face, Killer
Croc, Catwoman, Penguin, Riddler, Calendar Man, and Lock-Up. The Joker was
waiting in his cell because of the plan he had to storm Arkham.
Scarecrow's gas was currently inside several inmates that he would soon get it
out. Once he got it out, he would utilize it on the guards, paralyzing if not
killing them. With the guards out of the picture, the inmates would gain
control of the prison and secure it. Then, the fun would begin.
Over on the other side of the prison, Scarecrow and Hush were preparing to
execute the plan. The inmates with the Scarecrow gas inside of them were
present, and there weren't any guards that could interfere with their doings
watching them.
Hush pulled out a shiv he had made out of a stone chip, a rubber band, a piece
of tape, and the broken handle of a shovel. He proceeded to stab the first
inmate in the heart, killing him as he began to cut down the three other
inmates bearing the Scarecrow gas.
Once the four inmates were dead, Hush threw Scarecrow the shiv and he proceeded
to rip open their stomachs with Hush's shiv, revealing the packets of Scarecrow
gas capsules.
After grabbing all four packets, Scarecrow smiled, "Let's begin."
He pulled out a capsule and proceeded to toss it towards a guard rapidly
approaching them. When it impacted, the guard proceeded to fall onto the
ground, screaming and convulsing. Scarecrow handed Hush two of the packets and
said, "I trust you can handle some of them."
Hush nodded and proceeded to run towards the walls, moving up them as he headed
towards the roof to handle the guards on top.
Scarecrow proceeded in and began dispensing capsules of his poison towards any
guard he saw. The guards weren't alert, and Scarecrow took them down before
they could alert other guards to the chaos ensuing.
As guards went down across the prison, Hush soon handled the guards on top of
the prison, leaving them dazed for several hours, more than enough time for the
inmates to do what they planned to do.
Once they were down, Hush popped into the cafeteria and tossed one of the
packets down to the inmates inside, with each one taking a helping handful of
capsules to handle any guard they saw, and there were more than enough capsules
to take down every guard in Arkham.
Killer Croc went up to the entrance and proceeded to gas every guard he saw,
leaving them unconscious while leaving himself unharmed - they all knew to stay
out of range of the capsules when they impacted.
Elsewhere in the prison, Calendar Man rushed through the bathrooms and showers,
handling all the guards with gas capsules, leaving them incapacitated on the
floor.
And meanwhile, Riddler was prancing through the other side of the outdoors in
Arkham, making the guards endure Scarecrow gas that made them unable to fight,
scared by their worst fears.
Within minutes, every guard at Arkham Asylum was utterly unable to retaliate
against the prisoner onslaught, and once every guard was down, the Penguin
popped into the communications room and proceeded to yank all the cords from
the radio and phones.
Communication was now shut off at Arkham Asylum, so nobody could be called
about the events that were about to go on. Then, Lock-Up came up to the Joker's
cell and opened up the madman clown's chamber.
Upon his exit, the Joker commented, "Ah, the sweet taste of mild freedom. Step
one, secure Arkham, complete. Is Firefly up on the roof?"
A moment later, a barrage of lights came out from the roof of Arkham, quickly
surrounding the prison. "Complete. Step two, our fun. Are Ivy, Harley, and the
bitch here yet?"
Lock-Up replied, "They should be here momentarily. They've already started
setting up in the cafeteria. Should I release the other prisoners?"
"Everybody but Fries and Bane. They've both got heart. That'll fuck us up big
time. They're the only ones that can stop us, aside from Batman, who won't be
able to get here in time."
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Robin pulled up to the rapidly mobilizing Arkham Asylum, noticing the massive
barrage of light pounding down on the surrounding prison. Robin thought to
himself, 'Arkham's not this bright. Must have been a breakout in process. Is
that what Slade was warning me about?'
Robin got off of the R-Cycle and proceeded to walk towards Arkham, hoping to
figure out what was going on. A few steps forward, and upon getting into the
bright light, Robin was soon met with a barrage of machine gun fire.
He was quickly forced to back up, startled at what was going on. Why would the
guards at Arkham be shooting at him? To investigate, Robin pulled out a pair of
high-tech binoculars and zoomed in to examine who was firing.
It was Anarky who was opening gunfire on him. Robin quickly pulled out his
communicator and signaled, "Batman, come in. I repeat, Batman come in."
Batman responded, "What is it Robin?"
"Arkham has been overrun. Anarky just shot at me from the roof. Get the other
Titans here now."
"Why are you at Arkham?"
"I had a credible tip that Raven was going to wind up here momentarily."
"Who gave you the tip?"
Robin sighed before answering. "Slade."
"Slade? Your worst enemy? Why did you believe him?"
"He's got his own reasons for not wanting this going on. Apparently something
bad is about to go down."
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Ivy's plant finally arrived at the rear of Arkham Asylum, far out of Robin's
view. The plant then bent its stem into the outdoor area where it deposited
Poison Ivy and Harley Quinn before spitting out Raven onto the ground.
Raven took a look at where she was an silently muttered a gasp. Poison Ivy
declared, "We're here, servant bitch! Get up!"
Raven was soon forced on her feet by Harley Quinn and the trio began walking
inside, passing by doors that were guarded by Victor Zsasz and Catman, both
armed with automatic rifles acquired from the armory.
While Harley and Ivy had expressions of excitement and glee, Raven's was of
pure fright and terror as she was pulled past lines of criminals out of their
cells, coming closer to her, with lust in their eyes. Raven tried to stop,
tried to break free, but their grips were far too tight for her to escape.
After several minutes of walking, the three came across a door that had a paper
label attached saying BACKSTAGE. The door was opened by Firebug and Raven was
pushed into what appeared to be a backstage with chairs and stage lights, plus
a giant curtain concealing Raven from whoever else was there and from the
amount of screaming and hollering, it sounded like a lot.
Harley walked up in front of the curtain, telling to somebody "We're here.
Let's get this show on the road."
The voice on the other side replied, "Okay, let's just give a minute for
everybody else to get here, and then we'll begin."
In anxiety, Raven softly asked Ivy, "What are we doing here?" While Raven asked
the question, truthfully, she did not want to know what was going on - she
already knew it was going to be bad and painful.
Ivy snarled, "You'll find out soon enough. And you better perform, or those
consequences we discussed will become reality. Understood, servant bitch?"
Raven gulped before uttering, "Yes, Mistress."
Ivy walked away from Raven, keeping an eye on her as Raven tried to back away
to the farthest corner, attempting to escape. However, Firebug was blocking the
door, making getting away an impossible task - Raven was doomed for whatever
they intended.
A moment later, Harley screamed, "Servant bitch, it's time to begin. Get over
here!"
Raven reluctantly complied and walked over towards the harlequin that was
molesting her previously. Upon arriving, the voice she had heard earlier said,
"Ladies and gentlemen, prisoners of Arkham Asylum, I, Cluemaster, will be your
host tonight. Now, put your incarcerated hands together for...the Teen Titan
Raven."
Harley pushed Raven through the curtain, causing Raven to stumble around until
she found her footing on the heels. She was soon overcome by the sound of
hundreds of prisoners clapping, plus several prisoners armed with rifles
looking at her. Raven turned around to get a full view of what was going on,
seeing the sign on the impromptu stage.
It said STRIPPER. Raven realized that her "date" was an appointment as a
stripper - she could barely handle Ivy or Harley seeing her naked, but hundreds
of criminals put in prison on God knows what. Raven frantically tried to get
back through the curtain, but Harley cracked the whip at Raven, forcing her
back onto the stage.
Soon after, the massive mob screamed, "Get butt naked! Get butt naked!"
Raven first lifted up her left leg, slipping off her heel before doing the same
on her right leg, sending both heels off of the stage and giving her a better
sense of balance - Raven hated to wear high heels.
A sudden crack of the whip was accompanied by Harley Quinn barking, "Faster!
Strip faster!"
Raven proceeded to lift up her left leg to pull off the fishnet stocking and
followed on her right leg, placing them at the edge of the stage and leaving
her completely barefoot. One prisoner quickly climbed up onto the stage and
proceeded to grab Raven's legs, trying to bite and suck them.
He was met with a bullet to his forehead, dropping blood in between Raven's
legs. Raven stepped away from the dead prisoner and continued her more than
reluctant striptease, taking off her jacket and sliding it behind her.
She pranced to the other side of the stage as the prisoners continued to shout,
demanding that she get completely naked. Raven slid her blouse above her head,
exposing the black bra and the rest of her stomach before letting it fall onto
the ground.
Another prisoner soon came onto the stage with a bucket of water and splashed
it all over Raven, dampening her bra and skirt with the droplets of water
skimming down her body and impacting her panties.
That prisoner hooted, "You're all wet. Take it off, babe!" He walked up to
Raven only for a rifle-wielding guard to kill the prisoner with a headshot.
Apparently, this striptease was Raven's act alone.
With her skirt soaked, Raven slid it down her knees and kicked out of it, just
leaving her in the black set of underwear. She dreaded where she was now -
surrounded by hundreds of prisoners in a bikini, with Harley Quinn and Poison
Ivy behind her. Raven tried to escape behind the curtain only for Harley to
crack the whip towards her, keeping Raven on the stage.
Harley screamed, "Now! Finish it. Show these honorable residents of Arkham
Asylum your tits and pussy!"
Raven proceeded to unhook her bra, slowly and hesitantly, overwhelmed by the
noise and the crowding of prisoners. Raven almost breathed a sigh of relief
when her fingers slipped. Only for there to be no relief when her bra strap
slipped, sending one of her last two garments right off of her. Harley soon
snatched it with her feet and slid it behind the curtain.
She noted, "I've seen it, so now show them!" Harley turned Raven toward the
crowd, showing them her breasts and nipples, which she tried to cover up only
for Harley to block her arms from reaching her chest.
After kicking Raven in the ass, Harley proceeded to crack the whip at Raven's
panties, unknotting the string that held up the right side of them. Before
Raven could even act, her panties lost their hold on her thighs and slipped off
of her, effectively leaving her completely exposed to the crowd.
Cluemaster then announced, "Now then. How about a little crowd-surf?"
The prisoners couldn't agree more as some of them walked onto the stage and
dragged Raven off of it, soon moving her across the massive crowd of prisoners
who then began their perverted work.
Many proceeded to caress Raven's butt, pinching it or placing their tongue on
it, making Raven very uncomfortable as she was passed around the group of
perverts. A couple proceeded to stroke their fingers around Raven's vagina,
further decreasing Raven's comfort level as they came so close to violating
her, to place their fingers inside of her vagina. And a bunch of them were
toying around with Raven's breasts, bouncing them around to the point of
numbness, slipping their tongues around her nipples or giving her a little
pinch.
While she was being passed around, a new voice came in and demanded, "Put her
down. She's mine."
With that, the prisoners proceeded to let Raven down, surrounding her still as
she saw who had delivered those words. She was deeply terrified when she saw
the man's grass green hair, snow white skin, and cherry red lips.
Harley Quinn popped out and yelled, "Mistah J! You're here. We brought her just
for you."
The Joker replied, "Thank you, Harley. You are much appreciated. And as for
you, servant bitch."
Raven snarled, "My name is Raven."
The Joker whacked Raven across her face (where the brand was set), explaining,
"You don't interrupt your master. Anyway, Harley promised you to me for
tonight, so how about we get down to business."
Raven uttered a gaping, "No."
The Joker soon grabbed hold of Raven's arm, demanding, "Yes." Raven tried to
resist, but the Joker won out, pulling Raven away from the swooning criminal
crowd and into the bathroom, where the guards were nicely stacked atop each
other in the shower stall. Raven noticed the blood pouring from their throats
and settling down on the ground.
The Joker commented, "Didn't want them waking up. Now, on to business."
The Joker tossed Raven onto the ground, soon grabbing her hands with one of his
to keep her from retaliating, and sat down on Raven's knees, further making
avoiding the inevitable impossible.
Once Raven was rendered helpless, the clown prince of crime began his work,
slipping one of his pale white fingers into Raven's womanhood, working its way
around. As he began, Raven tried to remain completely silent, knowing that the
Joker would want her to scream, to verbalize her pain.
The Joker manuvered his index finger around Raven's tightness before placing
his middle finger in to join, continuing to wetten up his captive bird, with a
creepy smile plastered on his face that Raven could not get out of her head.
"Harley was right. You are a little virgin, aren't you?"
Feeling that Raven was now wet enough, the Joker proceeded to slip off his
prison uniform jeans and speared his dick into Raven, feeling the pop that came
from breaking Raven's hymen, stealing her virginity away in one fell swoop.
The Joker proceeded to thrust in and out, laughing maniacally as he shook
Raven, seeming desperate to get her to scream. Raven stubbornly refused, trying
to hold out as he rapidly pounded Raven, causing a lot of pain on the inside.
The Joker moved his free hand and his mouth over towards Raven's breasts,
placing his legs on top of Raven's so she could not escape. He bit hard onto
one of Raven's nipples before sucking, causing more pain from Raven.
He moved his hand towards Raven's other breast, shaking it as he pinched her
all around, continuing Raven's torment. Noticing a faint tear track coming down
her cheek, the Joker pressed his lips against hers, resulting in a brutish kiss
that caused Raven to gag.
Finally, the Joker climaxed in Raven, spilling his sperm into her body before
pulling out, leaving the blood of Raven's hymen to pour itself on her leg.
But that had not been enough for the mad clown, and he immediately flipped
Raven over and stabbed his dick into her rear end, which was such a pain that
Raven was barely able to hold in a scream from the brutal pain. As the Joker's
shaft rammed into her butt, Raven tried to get away, but the Joker kept his
knees on top of Raven's, ensuring she could not escape.
Finally, the Joker came and as he exited, spilled some of his leftover sperm
over Raven's womanhood.
That experience had been utterly horrifying for Raven, having the Joker's cock
pound into her. However, that had not been the first time Raven had been forced
into sex.
Raven had been under Ivy's servitude for about two weeks, and already she was
starting to give up hope that she would get out.
Awaiting her next order, Raven lamented to herself how she could not seem to
escape from Ivy's grasp, that as long as she was collared, she was powerless
and could not fight off Ivy. Not to mention that besides her ability to control
plants, Poison Ivy was certainly able to deliver brutal punishments using her
whip, causing massive (and perpetual) agony to Raven's back. And without her
healing ability, the pain would not stop for Raven.
Finally, Poison Ivy opened the door to Raven's cell and yelled, "Get over here,
now!" Raven complied, walking up towards the Mistress to see what labor was in
store for her now.
Following her Mistress, Raven dreaded just what she'd be doing next. Hopefully,
it would be something simple like watering her plants.
Unfortunately, when Raven arrived at the destination, she knew it wouldn't be
simple. Entering the Mistress's bedroom, Raven knew that this was going to be
incredibly uncomfortable.
Poison Ivy ordered, "Now, Raven, take your clothes off!"
Raven stuttered, "Mistress, why?"
"Just do it." Reluctantly, Raven complied, shedding her battered leotard to
reveal her developing, nude body. However, once her clothes were off, Raven
tried to cover up her breasts and crotch.
Ivy snarled, "Put your hands at your sides. You've got nothing that I haven't
seen before on myself."
With that, Raven shifted her hands to comply with the Mistress's request. Then,
Poison Ivy unexpectedly stripped out of her own dress, leaving a naked adult
with an equally nude minor. As Raven stared at Ivy's body, Raven saw her well-
developed C-cup breasts, her flat abdomen, and her pubic region with a
considerable amount of red body hair.
Ivy walked up to Raven before forcing Raven onto her knees, barking, "I'm in
need of some relief, so you're going to get me off."
Raven inquired, "What does that mean?" Ivy was somewhere between laughing and
screaming internally, almost facepalming herself, as she now knew Raven had
absolutely no idea of what she was asking. Sex.
"You see my cunt?" Upon realizing that Raven was absolutely clueless about what
she was doing, Ivy pointed down to her crotch and Raven answered, "I do."
"Lick it."
"For how long?"
"Until I tell you to."
With that, staring into the light pink innards of her Mistress's genitals,
Raven placed her tongue inside, pushing it in and out, as if she had no clue
what else to do.
The rest of what happened...remained a bit of a mystery.
The Joker proceeded to turn around, leaving the bathroom from the front
entrance.
Raven, however, soon noticed a rear entrance. She tried to get up, but with the
amount of punishment Raven had taken between her legs, she couldn't stand up.
She crawled up towards the door, racing to get out of the bathroom before the
Joker got back, or another criminal.
Each movement seemed exerting for Raven, thanks to all the pain brought on her
by Harley and Ivy. She took notice of the massive scar formed that first day
when Ivy whipped her repeatedly in the back.
Moving on, Raven finally got outside of the bathroom, dragging herself through
the door (which she was most thankful was a push door) and into the hallway,
trying to get as far away from the criminals as possible.
However, only steps outside of the bathroom, she came face to face with a
criminal that she dreaded from what Robin had told her about him.
Immediately, Raven begged, "Please don't hurt me."
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***** Bane *****
Chapter Summary
     After her brutal rape at the Joker's hands, an unlikely prisoner
     tries to assist Raven; meanwhile, the Titans siege Arkham to stop the
     breakout.
Chapter Notes
     Regarding my portrayal of Bane, this is inspired heavily with
     elements of his backstory coming from The Dark Knight Rises and my
     own interpretation. You'll either like my more sympathetic portrayal
     or hate it for not being criminal enough. Sort of the same with my
     Joker portrayal - you'll either like my darker, more twisted version
     or feel he just went too over-the-top.
Arkham Asylum was abound with criminals going free from their cells and
partying around the prison. Well, all but two criminals - Doctor Victor Fries,
aka Mr. Freeze and the mysterious masked mercenary known as Bane.
The Joker chose to keep them confined in their cells because they both had
standards, which would lead them to interfere with the events of the night -
namely, Raven's striptease and rape.
Mr. Freeze was still working on curing his wife's terminal disease, still
having little luck in finding a cure. He tried every possible combination of
medicines in hopes of finding the one that would cure Nora, but every medicine
he formulated could not remove the cancer. The ice chamber in which she was
kept was the only thing that allowed her to keep living - without it, she would
dead in a matter of days.
Bane, on the other hand, stood silently in his cell, having watched every other
prisoner in Arkham go free, passing by, while his cell remained locked. He
remained right in front of his door like a rock, not moving. Having been locked
in there for nearly breaking Batman's back, the Venom-fueled criminal was cut
off from his supply, but that does not mean he was completely weak - traces of
Venom ran through his bloodstream, which gave him some of his strength, but not
enough so he could break out of Arkham.
Much like Mr. Freeze, Bane did what he had to do for his own reasons - not for
greed or power but rather for survival. He had grown fond of an orphan boy in
Gotham much like himself as a child, so he tried to rob a businessman
responsible for the orphan's suffering. After giving the orphan boy the
proceeds, Bane was confronted by Batman, in a fight he almost won but
ultimately lost, sending him to Arkham, away from the orphan boy he had vowed
to protect.
Bane was infuriated with the Joker for not letting him out. From what he had
heard, this would be his only chance to break out. He needed to find the orphan
boy, to make sure he was okay, as Bane had been denied visitation privileges
and the boy was unaware of what had happened to him.
Suddenly, he began to hear chanting, "Get butt naked! Get butt naked!" in the
distance. Bane soon began to call upon his strength to get out of the cell,
hoping to find what was going on, as he sensed that rape was about to go on.
And Bane was one who would never rape a woman - it was against his own line.
Bane began to press down on the door side, trying to push it to the other side
so he could get out, trying to break the lock that kept the door in place.
As strong as Bane was, unfortunately, it wasn't enough to break the lock.
However, Bane refused to give up and soon began looking for the tumbler,
intending to push it so he could ultimately open the door.
The tumbler wasn't quite as strong as the overall door, but there was less of
it Bane could see, making it harder to grasp. However, this was the best way to
get out of his cell.
As he continued wokring on his escape, the hooting and cheering continued in
the distance. If there was any time Bane could make his escape, it would be
now. He had to be patient, or else the guards would have caught him and locked
him back up, making future escape attempts more difficult. The other prisoners
did not want Bane on the loose, for fear of what he could do.
After several more minutes of working on the tumbler, Bane finally managed to
push it back into the door, effectively unlocking the door. Without the door
lock, Bane easily pushed the door open and walked out of his cell, searching
for his way out. He was on the second floor, and he doubted he could face such
a jump.
However, he could handle the rest of the prisoners, but first he had to get his
Venom tube in order to effectively escape from Arkham and then continue on his
path.
As he strolled down the path of the hallways, he came across a few prisoners
armed with rifles in case an infiltration was tried on an upper floor. Before
any of them could fire on Bane, the mercenary attacked.
The first prisoner had his gun ripped from him before he slammed the second
prisoner into a wall, finishing off the trio with a kick that sent him crashing
into a cell door, knocking him out. With all three prisoners incapacitated,
Bane continued on his way, slinging one of the discarded rifles on his shoulder
until he saw a disturbing sight.
A pale naked girl, blood running down her leg, crawling down the hallway, as if
she was trying to escape from somebody. The girl noticed Bane and proceeded to
beg, "Please don't hurt me."
Bane kneeled down to face the girl, staring at her porcelain face, her violet
eyes that could only be described as being filled with abuse and pain, the
cheek that had been scarred permanently. Bane brushed her dyed black hair,
promising, "I won't hurt you, Raven."
"How...do you know my name?"
"Ivy kept mentioning having a servant and made some remarks as to how she
looked. They match you, and I saw a picture of you on an article about the
Titans."
Bane then lifted the beaten Raven off of the ground and carried her bridal
style back to his cell.
As the two headed back to Bane's cell, Raven began to reminisce about another
time she had almost been saved while under Ivy's servitude.
Raven was currently with Ivy in downtown Gotham, looting an armored truck
containing rare plant seeds en route to the Gotham Horticultural Society. While
Ivy waited in the shadows, planning to ambush the truck as it arrived, Raven
was on the street, as the trap.
Raven asked Ivy, "Are you sure about this?"
The plant villain replied, "Yes, now remain quiet, servant bitch or you'll pay
for it."
"Yes Mistress."
Suddenly, the truck began to come on towards the duo at rapid speed. Raven lied
down on the ground as Ivy prepared her plants. Immediately, as the truck saw
Raven on the road, it began to swerve as Ivy grabbed onto the wheels with her
vines and slammed the truck into a nearby building.
Upon hearing the truck crash, Raven ran up to the rear of the truck as Ivy
opened it up, revealing a huge assortment of plant seeds. Ivy ordered, "Grab
the seeds."
As a result, Raven began to grab bags of seeds from the truck, tossing them
onto the street for Ivy to take and bring back. The sooner she was done, the
sooner they would get back, and the less likely Ivy would beat her senselessly.
While Raven continued to unload the seeds from the truck into Ivy's plant, one
of the guards, still dazed from the impact, got out and opened fire on Poison
Ivy, moving fast enough to rip one of the stems from the plant.
With Ivy distracted, Raven took the opportunity to hide, trying to get as far
away from Ivy as she could, hoping to finally escape the servitude she has been
imprisoned in.
Leaping into a nearby apartment building, Raven quickly ducked into an elevator
and pressed it for the top floor - she needed to get as much of a head start on
Ivy as she could.
As the elevator door shut, Raven removed her mask, revealing her increasingly
pale skin and crew-cut hairstyle, and kept her arms close to her chest, trying
to remain as concealed as possible and attempting to keep warm. The elevator
door arrived at the top floor and Raven got off, quickly entering a nearby room
with an open door.
Entering the apartment, Raven closed the door and began looking around.
Glancing out the window, she saw Ivy was starting to look for her, which meant
she was not going to have a lot of time to hide. Ducking into a closet, Raven
shut the door and slid behind the dresser.
Hearing footsteps, Raven began to panic and hoped that they wouldn't find her.
Then, the door to the apartment opened and Raven heard footsteps - she
desperately hoped that it wasn't Ivy.
"Do you think someone is here, Mr. Scarface?"
"Of course I do, dummy. Open the closet door. They've got to be inside."
Raven panicked as the door opened and was unceremoniously tossed out of the
closet by a meek man, who looked to be in his late fifties, with balding hair
and glasses, holding a cigar-chomping dummy with a machine gun.
The puppet then asked,"Who are you?" Raven answered, "Raven. Who are you?"
"I'm Scarface and this is my dummy. Now, why are you here?"
"I'm trying to hide from my mistress, Poison Ivy. She's been keeping me as her
slave for over a year now. I need to get away from her. Please, help me."
"Mr. Scarface, Raven makes a good point. We have to help her."
"And what do we gain by helping her? Why can't we just let Ivy have her?"
"We can't let Ivy get her or who knows what will happen to her. You don't want
to have someone's life on your conscience that you weren't responsible for
killing, do you?"
"Eh, alright, girl, get back in the closet!"
"Thank you." Raven ran back into the closet and closed the door, hoping that
Scarface and "his dummy" would be able to protect her. It was only a matter of
time before...
Poison Ivy arrived at the apartment, and her vines soon crashed through the
door. Immediately coming upon the male and the puppet, she remarked,
"Ventriloquist, I see. So, Scarface, Arnold. Where is she? Where is Raven?"
Wesker tried to feign stupid, "I don't know who you're talking about?"
"I know you do. Where is she?"
"Face it, planty. Dummy ain't telling you shit."
"If that's the case." Immediately, Ivy commanded her vines to run themselves
down Wesker's throat and deep into his body. Then, they snatched onto Scarface
the puppet and tore his head off before sending the puppet flying out of the
complex and onto the street where it would be crushed further by a passing
eighteen-wheeler.
Once Wesker fell down on the ground, dead from severe internal bleeding, Ivy
walked up to the closet and ripped the door off before dragging Raven out.
Grabbing Raven by the neck, Ivy promised, "You are in big trouble, Raven."
As punishment for her escape attempt, when they returned to the base, Poison
Ivy whipped Raven over two hundred times, the harshest whipping since after her
first robbery, and gave her a much increased workload. It wasn't until she was
caught by Batman that Raven tried to escape again (this time succeeding).
After arriving at Bane's cell, he laid her down on the bed before covering her
with the sheet on the bed. Raven asked, "Won't you be cold?"
Bane chuckled, "I've endured much worse than this without covering. I'll be
fine."
"Well I don't think I will. I thought I've endured the worst, things no person
should ever endure, but I was wrong. The past few days have been the worst ever
of my life."
Bane closed the door, placing the rifle down on the ground, before taking an
Indian position on the ground, asking "What do you mean?"
"Poison Ivy. She made my life an absolute hell for two years, whipping me
whenever I did something wrong or I didn't comply with her demands. She turned
me into her slave, her pet, forcing me to rob and kill on her orders."
"But you got out of it."
"I suppose it was only luck. The universe hasn't been on my side for most of my
life."
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The other Titans quickly arrived at Arkham Asylum following Robin warning the
prison had been overtaken. Batman arrived a moment later, along with
Commissioner Gordon and several Gotham Police Department cops.
Gordon asked, "Robin, do you have any idea what's going on?"
Robin explained, "The prisoners are in control of Arkham. Anarky and Firefly
have the roof locked down, but there could be more there. I haven't even gotten
inside. I can't risk it without being shot at, and their accuracy is near
perfect."
Batman stepped up and said, "Okay then, we need to get to work. Gordon, Robin,
monitor the outside of the prison, make sure that no prisoner can get out
without you knowing. We are not allowing a break-out. Starfire, perform a
perimeter sweep, try to get a better angle of the roof and inside. We need to
know everything. Beast Boy, try to get inside of Arkham, try to help us gain
access inside. Cyborg, hack into the security cameras, try to figure out what
is going on. Understood?"
Robin nodded before adding, "Titans go."
Starfire quickly took to the air, being careful to elude the blinding lights
pounding on the ground. She also did not want to attract their attention, as
they would most likely open fire, for which she would most likely retaliate,
which would inevitably lead to an all-out battle between the prisoners and
their small force, which they likely wouldn't win especially with Joker,
Catwoman, Riddler, Killer Croc, and Penguin amongst the prisoners harbored.
As she ran patrols across the roof, she saw there were at least six prisoners
armed on the roof - Hush, Anarky, Firefly, and several more common thugs.
Beast Boy quickly turned into a fly, casually zipping through the air before
landing on the wall and turning into a spider, climbing his way up to a small
hole in the wall, where he would enter the prison and continue stealthily
inside to get a situation report of what was happening.
Several guards quickly took positions at the various exits of the prison,
ensuring that they would notice if any of the prisoners tried to escape,
staying out of the light so Firefly and his prisoners would not notice them,
with Robin and Gordon standing watch at the entrance.
Cyborg and Batman were currently trying to hack into the feed inside of Arkham.
If they could get security feed inside, they could figure out how the riot
occurred and what their plan is. However, the security system at Arkham Asylum
wasn't the most up-to-date, making it harder for Cyborg to penetrate the
security.
A moment later, Gordon walked up to Robin and explained, "This is not going to
be an easy fight. The inmates, they aren't like they were on the streets. They
will fight and they will kill if they have the chance. I'm authorizing my men
use of lethal force is necessary. I suggest you do the same."
Robin spoke into his communicator, "Titans, go for non-lethal takedowns if you
can, but lethal force is now authorized as a last resort."
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Bane and Raven were inside of Bane's cell, still talking. Bane sat down on the
floor while Raven was seated on the bed, using the blanket to hide her shame
from the criminal as she recounted her life story to him.
Bane asked, "So you really are the Gem of Scath, the daughter of Trigon the
Terrible?"
Raven gave a nervous nod, fearing reprisal from Bane. The man continued, "From
what I've heard thus far, you have been able to overcome the cripples that life
gives you. You were raised to end the world, and you ended up saving it from
your sire. You were removed from your home but then you found a new one with
the Titans. You were enslaved by Ivy, but you broke free. I am impressed."
Raven remarked, "Except for the part where I got enslaved again, and abused
even worse than before."
"You never deserved this, Raven. This torturous existence. All this time, I
thought I had it bad."
"How did you come to be, Bane?"
Bane soon began to explain his life to Raven. "I was born to a poor family in
Soviet Azerbaijan, a father who herded goats and a mother who was often ill.
When I was three, my mother passed to a plague that claimed the lives of most
of my fellow villagers. Out of the fifty-nine people who were in the village at
the time of the plague, only twelve lived to see the next winter.
"My father raised me to help herd the goats, our only source of money, until
the Cold War ended and Azerbaijan became an independent nation. More goat
herders came into the country and our competition increased. My father was left
with nothing by the time I was ten. Before I was born, he had made dealings
with a Soviet general in order to help sustain himself. Upon his bankruptcy,
the general, now a mobster, sent his men to kill the both of us.
"He told me to run, so I did. I ran as far as my legs could take me while they
proceeded to brutally torture and murder him. My legs eventually gave out and I
was left with nothing, no family, no home, no money, no food. Then, my luck
changed when I came across Ra's al Ghul. He took me in and trained me as a
member of the League of Assassins. For ten years, he gave me a place where I
belonged, and in that time, I avenged my father and killed the general.
"When I was twenty-five, Ra's sent me on a mission to Qurac. It went south from
the first minute and I was badly wounded. To save my life, he gave me Venom,
the chemical in my mask. However, upon the failure of my mission, I was
disowned from the League. I left my old life behind and moved to America,
specifically Gotham.
"I worked as hired muscle for several criminal overlords including Black Mask,
Maroni, and Falcone. I outlasted my employers as Black Mask was killed by rival
mobsters, Falcone went insane by Scarecrow gas, and Maroni was murdered by Two-
Face. The reason I am in Arkham is because of a young boy. Karl Sherman. An
orphan left on the streets after a crooked businessman's projects left his
parents dead. The same businessman ran the orphanage, and Sherman soon found
the streets a much safer alternative. I came across him and vowed to avenge his
suffering."
Raven noted, "And that was what got you arrested and put in Arkham. You still
have traces of Venom in your blood even without the mask feeding it to you."
"But Venom is a drug. An addiction. When the last traces of it exit my
bloodstream, I will weaken and need to get more in order to survive."
"I guess one thing is in common between us. Our lives are both screwed up."
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The Joker returned to the cafeteria where Raven had put on her striptease act
in front of everybody at Arkham, well most everybody. Harley Quinn jumped down
and proceeded to run up to her clown prince of crime.
She eagerly asked, "Puddin', so how was the bitch?"
The Joker angrily growled, "She was a terrible fuck. She didn't even scream! If
I'm to rape somebody, I want to hear them scream."
A malicious smirk grew on Harley's face as she replied, "Don't worry, Mistah J.
We'll make her scream for ya."
Harley Quinn walked back to the stage and met back with Poison Ivy, who
snarled, "Bring her back, and make her suffer."
"Absolutely. Come on boys, we got a bitch to catch."
Harley Quinn proceeded to walk to the the bathroom where the Joker raped Raven,
followed by at least a dozen bruisers all carrying rifles.
Upon arriving in there, Harley searched for Raven, trying to find where she
was. She growled upon seeing that Raven was not present and proceeded to notice
a small trail of blood, Raven's virgin blood.
She followed the path towards the rear door and kicked it open, noticing the
trail gradually becoming more faint before disappearing entirely. The group of
prisoners followed Harley as she began to search everywhere in Arkham for
Raven.
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Raven asked Bane, "So what is your real name?"
Bane looked down to the ground and answered, "I honestly cannot tell you. When
I awoke from the Venom procedure, I found I forgotten elements of my life. I no
longer remember the name I was given, and had to start anew. I chose the
identity of Bane because I was told I was the bane of my enemies."
"It certainly suits you. Why did you come across me tonight?"
"I was trying to escape, and tonight would have been my best chance to, and
find Karl. I had taken down three guards and was on my way to retrieve my Venom
supply when I saw you crawling down the hallway, trying to escape from him."
"The bastard stole my virginity. No, it was sold to him by Ivy and Harley. Do
you know how it feels? Losing a piece of yourself? Especially as everything
else about you is destroyed, leaving you as an empty shell, as a slave?"
"No."
"I need to free myself, but this damned collar blocks my powers. I can't escape
from Ivy and I don't stand a chance fighting her. If you can help me remove the
collar, I can help you escape from Arkham."
Bane got up from the floor and walked over to Raven. He said, "I can try. I
need a clear view of your neck."
Raven proceeded to lower the blanket that hid her shame so that her neck was
revealed while the rest of her was covered, especially her bust and her
genitalia region.
Bane placed his hand on the collar, seeking for any potential spots where he
could snap the restraints. The collar couldn't have been slipped on over her -
it had to be latched on, and there had to be a place where the parts of the
collar connected to make a whole.
After several minutes of examining the collar, Bane finally saw the point to
break. However, before he could release Raven from the collar, the two of them
heard rapid footsteps approaching them.
Raven asked, "Prisoners?"
Bane replied, "Undoubtedly searching for you."
Bane walked away from Raven and grabbed the rifle he left on the ground, aiming
it through the cell doors as he saw the prisoners get closer to him. As they
got within ten feet of the cell, Bane opened fire, shooting down several
prisoners before the rifle unfortunately ran out of ammunition.
Another prisoner or two quickly proceeded to run towards Bane, trying to charge
him, but Bane tossed the empty rifle at them, knocking them unconscious.
However, those weren't the only prisoners trying to break in. More prisoners
soon flooded in from the other side, trying to latch onto the door in order to
open it, with one prisoner holding the keys in case Bane tried to lock it
(which he couldn't thanks to the lack of key).
The mass of prisoners quickly opened Bane's door and tried to engage the
mercenary. However, Bane proved much stronger, punching down each prisoner that
tried to get in and take Raven.
As a group of prisoners charged in, Bane delivered one kick that sent them all
down. He had to hold out long enough so he could get himself and Raven out of
there.
Before he could resume work on removing Raven's collar, another prisoner leaped
onto Bane only for the latter to grab his hand and tossed him to the other side
of the cell, knocking him down.
However, two prisoners soon emerged with rifles and opened fire on Bane. He
managed to knock them both down but one of them scored a lucky hit on Bane's
lower left arm, hurting him.
As Bane continued fighting, another prisoner pulled out a knife and stabbed
Bane from behind the bars, striking him in the lower hip, causing him to cry
out in pain.
He punched said prisoner out before Harley Quinn came in with her hammer. The
other prisoners proceeded to back away from Harley as they awaited the showdown
between Harley and Bane.
Bane said, "You will not take her, Harley. She does not deserve this."
Harley replied, "Oh yes she does, Mister Masked Luchador."
Raven snarked, "He's from Azerbaijan, not Mexico."
"Oh shut up you bitch! Anyway, I'm taking her regardless of your moral stance."
"Then how about my physical presence?"
Bane charged at Harley, only for the latter to leap into the air and strike
Bane with a good blow to the back of the head. He fell down unconscious to the
ground, leaving Harley, hammer in hand with a whip tucked at her side against
Raven, trying to conceal herself with the blanket.
Harley quickly advanced on her, and Raven tried to throw an uppercut against
her head, only for it to be caught quickly by the harlequin, who smashed
Raven's fist against the wall, hurting her before pulling the blanket right off
of her.
Harley said, "Oh, servant bitch. I hear you've been a naughty girl, and all
naughty girls have to pay the price. You didn't scream for Mister J when he was
promised you'd scream."
Raven deadpanned, "How was I supposed to know he was going to fuck me?"
"Anyway, we'll make you scream for him, and we won't make it pleasant for you.
Come on boys, let's bring her on back."
A couple of prisoners walked over the unconscious Bane, proceeding to snatch
Raven from the bed and dragging her out of the cell, intending to bring her
back for punishment, which Raven dreaded with all of her heart, especially with
all the prisoners staring at her exposed body.
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***** Killer Croc *****
Chapter Summary
     As the Titans fight the inmates at Arkham, Raven endures unimaginable
     pain.
The prisoners proceeded to drag Raven from Bane's cell back down to the
cafeteria to an awaiting crowd of Poison Ivy and the Joker amongst others, with
Harley Quinn leading the procession.
Raven had been tied up with two ropes and was then pulled downstairs to face
what was going to be a brutal beating. All the while, Harley Quinn was finger
fucking Raven, placing her fingers inside Raven's violated box, continuing to
molest her.
Just what Raven needed. To be raped by the Joker and by Harley Quinn in one
night, and then to have her body shown to more than five hundred prisoners
convicted on everything from robbery to mass homicide.
After several minutes of being dragged across the cold floor (and suffering
from more of Harley's molestation), the group arrived in the cafeteria, where
the Joker was waiting with a sadistic smile on his face as was Poison Ivy,
maliciously smirking at her servant.
Ivy asked, "I trust everything went well, Harley?"
Harley replied, "Yep. Bane was a bit uncooperative, but we got the servant
bitch so she can face punishment."
"Bane? How the hell did he factor in?"
"He tried to protect her. Apparently they formed some kind of bond. Well, no
matter. He's out for the moment and we've got her right here. What are we gonna
do to her?"
"Tie her down."
Harley nodded in agreement and proceeded to place Raven on a table before
approaching with more ropes - the first rope, which had originally bound her
hands together was untied around her right hand and then tied to a nearby stone
column. Harley tied another rope to Raven's right hand and proceeded to knot
the other end to the same column. The next rope, which originally kept her legs
close to each other, again was moved so Raven's right leg was connected by rope
to a barbell weighted down with cinderblocks and bench weights coming in at
close to a thousand pounds with another rope being tied to her other leg that
was then knotted up to another thousand-pound plus barbell.
No matter how much Raven struggled, she soon realized that she could not
escape, she could not avoid what was about to happen to her.
Then, Raven caught eye of the whip strapped to Harley's side as she proceeded
to unfurl it, revealing the massive whip that had already caused her so much
pain.
After Harley cracked the whip for practice, she ordered, "You better scream."
With that, Harley swung the whip at the area between Raven's legs, scoring a
direct hit just next to her thigh. Raven cried out in massive pain after the
whip struck, causing the Joker to begin to crack himself up laughing,
remarking, "Now that's a scream. Do some more."
Harley sadistically added, "Sure thing, puddin'."
She then continued to whip Raven, scoring several hits near her thighs, causing
Raven to cry out after each hit, and leaving a number of noticeable scars
there.
Then, Harley got lucky and struck Raven in her genitalia, causing Raven to
loudly scream in agonizing pain. Her most sensitive region, as if it hadn't
taken more than enough abuse tonight, had just been impacted with a whip. As it
began to swell in pain, more hits struck it again and again.
And all Raven could do was scream in pain, screams that would be helped by
nobody. Everybody there only wanted to hurt her and watch her suffer.
Or almost everybody. Nobody in Arkham noticed a spider crawling on the walls, a
green spider.
Beast Boy turned into a fly and quickly zipped off, trying to get to the door
in order to open it and bring in the calvary, and then hopefully save Raven
from the torment that was being inflicted upon her.
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Beast Boy quickly flew into a small broom closet before morphing back into
human form and pulling out his T-communicator. The response he got from Robin
was, "Beast Boy, what's going on?"
The changeling explained, "Raven's here, and they're currently in the process
of torturing her. We need to get in now."
"What did you see?"
"They were whipping her while she was naked. I couldn't see much else, but it
isn't good."
"Get to the door and open it. Cy's still working on getting access to the
security feed. I really hope that what you just said isn't what actually is
happening, but I know it is."
"Understood, Robin."
Beast Boy put down his communicator and turned into a fly, zipping into the air
vents so he could reach the front entrance in order for them to break in and
save Raven.
However, once he was in the air vents, he soon was faced with a couple of
bullets heading his way, spraying the entirety of the vent and giving him no
room to evade.
He was forced to take a slight detour to the side when a grenade soon landed
where the bullets had previously been.
The changeling had no choice but to exit the vent immediately as the grenade
exploded and damaged the vent.
Seeing a couple of prisoners headed his way, Beast Boy quickly morphed from a
fly into a raptor in order to engage the guards that were headed towards him.
A prisoner that tried to engage the green raptor quickly had the gun knocked
out of his hand before being sent into the wall. Another prisoner soon met the
same fate as Beast Boy continued to take down each prisoner so he could get to
the door and open it, bringing in the cops and the Titans into Arkham to stop
the riot.
However, Beast Boy was soon struck from behind by Killer Croc, knocking him
onto the ground, returning him to his human form.
Killer Croc sings, "Well, well, what do we have here? I believe it's young
Beast Boy, coming to have his death served to him on a silver platter."
===============================================================================
Outside, Starfire was running patrols across Arkham, aiming to get a better
view when the lights began to adjust, moving upwards into the sky, soon
catching Starfire in their glaze.
Instantly, the prisoners, including Anarky and Hush, began to open fire on
Starfire, forcing her to evade their bullets. Through her communicator, she
then heard Robin order, "Retaliate Starfire. You've been made."
Starfire inquired, "What does being the made mean?"
"They know you're there. Stealth's not very useful anymore. Take them down!"
Starfire smirked and soon began to fire her starbolts at the prisoners on the
roof.
Instantly, her first one connected and sent one prisoner spiraling to the other
side of the roof, unconscious and unarmed. The Tamaranean moved quickly,
forcing them to constantly reposition their fire in hopes of hitting her.
They might as well have been dropping their guns onto the ground as she was
much faster than they could reposition themselves, moving through the areas
where they didn't have her in their sights.
She first blindsided one of the prisoners on the roof with a punch to the side
of his head, knocking him onto the ground before tossing him towards one of the
other prisoners, sending him into the wall, unconscious.
One prisoner took aim at Starfire only for the Tamaranean to fire a starbolt
that melted his weapon. He was soon met with a knee to his gut that left him on
the ground.
Anarky, realizing just how much of a pain Starfire was becoming, snuck a shot
off at her back just as she was moving against another one of the prisoners,
forcing her to back off. Starfire then charged right at him, only for him to
leap and deliver a kick to Starfire's head, sending her pummeling into the
ground.
Hush and Anarky moved in on Starfire, trying to beat her, but the alien was
more than just a little resistant, performing a leg sweep on Anarky and
punching him to the ground.
Only for Hush to get onto her back and press her into a chokehold. Starfire
responded by slamming him into the ground so he would let go.
Soon after, Firefly began to fire a light gun at Starfire, trying to burn or
blind her, forcing her to wave off to take out the weapon.
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Down on the ground, the cops were getting ready in case the doors opened - if
prisoners were trying to come out, or if they were trying to break into Arkham.
Robin and Gordon were readying to infiltrate, with Beast Boy now on the inside,
fighting to reach the main gate and open it for the Titans. They knew they were
going to have to be fast, or else they would lose Raven to Ivy.
Cyborg, meanwhile, continued to work on getting into Arkham's security cameras,
getting much closer as he penetrated through the firewalls, almost inside their
system. The system had been outdated, but he had archive logs of such a system,
ultimately enabling him to crack the encryption and get inside.
After a few minutes, Cyborg said, "I'm in. Accessing the video cameras now."
He found the video feed for the past hour and began to browse it, his facial
expression becoming more and more shocked as he watched it.
Batman inquired, "What do you see, Cyborg?"
Cyborg muttered, "They had this planned for a while. Scarecrow gas had been
smuggled into a few inmates, so they could use it to take out the guards. Then,
Ivy arrived with Harley and Raven. They forced her to strip in front of most
everybody at Arkham."
"Everyone?"
"Aside from the prisoners that are acting as guards and any others they chose
to leave out. We need to get inside now."
"It's all on Beast Boy now."
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Back in the cafeteria, Harley continued to whip Raven around her womanhood, her
most sensitive region, delivering blow after blow, punishing, brutish. Raven
doubted she could take any more as she kept screaming her lungs out, screams
gone unanswered.
At last, the whipping stopped, leaving Raven to silently weep on the table,
head facing as far away from the prisoners as it could. Her continued misery
had just gone full-blown with tonight. Inside Raven, it was starting to become
clear. This wasn't an effort to turn her back into Ivy's slave.
It was to break her for turning on Poison Ivy. The beatings, the labor,
tonight's events, they were stripping away everything that Raven was and
leaving her as nothing. Just a vacant shell, of barely any mind and no
sustainable body, having taken so much abuse.
As Raven thought to herself, her eyes soon started to become vacant and hollow,
staring in the distance without any reason. Life was starting to become without
reason, but she still had to persist.
Her friends, the Titans. They had to be out there looking for her. They
wouldn't give up on her, not after all they had been through. No matter what
they had been through.
She began reminiscing of the time she first met the Boy Wonder, Robin. Only
this time, they were on opposite sides of the law.
Raven laid in her cell, huddling in the corner, silently awaiting what future
torture her Mistress had planned for her. Her hair had only started to regrow,
though it was still only stubble, the purple strands ghosted across her scalp,
barely a fuzz where it had once been down to her shoulders.
Suddenly, the door opened and out came Poison Ivy with the mask and a whip,
tossing the mask out on the ground for Raven to see. Ivy shouted, "Put it on
and get your ass moving!"
Raven eagerly grabbed the mask and put it on before following Poison Ivy where
she went, hoping to avoid another lashing. Her back still ached in pain from
the last time Raven had been forced to put on the mask - two hundred whippings
for her failures: her harshest punishment yet. She wanted to stay on Ivy's good
side as much as possible, to spare herself the pain.
She tried to figure out what her Mistress was planning for her, where they were
headed, what she was going to steal for her. After a few minutes of walking,
they arrived back in the garage, with Ivy stuffing Raven in the back of a plant
before jumping on board and taking off.
As the plant moved, Raven again did not know where they were heading, and the
movements were so jarring that she couldn't retrace the steps of the plant,
making identifying her prison a near-impossibility.
After several minutes of the plant stomping about, it arrived at its
destination, with Ivy getting off of her plant before letting Raven out - even
though she had fallen out because of the lack of restraints keeping her from
wobbling around the place, disrupting her balance.
Ivy grabbed Raven by the arm, forcing her up while leaving a bit of a bruise on
her forearm, dragging her servant up to the location of their heist - the
Gotham Second Bank.
First, Ivy burst in and took control of the plants placed across the lobby,
using them to kill both guards on duty before ensnaring the several civilians
inside of the bank. Ivy barked, "You see that emerald in the distance? I want
it. Now get it!"
Raven nodded and quickly ran over to the emerald in the corner, hoping to get
it quick enough so Ivy doesn't hurt her - or before the infamous Batman
arrived. Ivy's orders were to fight if Batman interfered - and Raven had no
fighting skill, especially with her powers suppressed by the collar.
As she got halfway to the emerald, she heard what sounded like a sharp object
impacting. She turned around to see Batman coming into the bank, as well as a
boy in what appeared to be a traffic light costume.
Ivy smirked, "Well, well, Batman. What are you doing here?"
Batman snarled, "Cut the chatter Ivy. You're going down. Robin, stop her
accomplice."
Robin, the boy in the traffic light costume, with smooth black hair and a mask
covering his eyes, replied, "Will do Batman" and fired his grapple gun, going
after Raven.
While Batman and Poison Ivy fought, Robin delivered a punishing kick to Raven's
side as she rushed for the emerald.
Raven soon got up, again rushing for the emerald before having her leg caught
by Robin's, and she turned around to be met with a punch to her face, sending
her to the ground.
She quickly got up and threw a punch towards Robin, her technique clumsy
because of her lack of experience, which resulted in Robin easily catching the
punch before twisting her arm and delivering a punch to her midsection, leaving
her stumbling to the wall, completely dazed.
Robin stood there, waiting for Raven to get up. She struggled fruitlessly to do
so, exhausted by Robin's blows and Ivy's torture. She tries not to give
anything away, knowing what consequences would be in store if Ivy discovered
she had let information slip out.
Raven, feeling that she could not get up, simply focused her attention on the
fight between Poison Ivy and Batman, watching as Batman tried to handle the
mass of plants while Ivy fought through Batman's gadgets.
Ivy briefly distracted Batman with a vine that tangled around his leg, enabling
her to launch an attack against Robin. With the Boy Wonder distracted by Ivy's
attack, Raven was able to regain her composure and grabbed the emerald from the
corner, removing it from its container.
With the emerald secure, Ivy tossed Robin to the side and beckoned Raven to
follow, which she did as quickly as she possibly could, hoping to get out
before Robin could catch her, or before Batman. Heaven knows Raven did not want
to be caught by those two.
By the time the Dynamic Duo had broken out of Ivy's traps, the plant that
brought them there had vanished, along with the two thieves, with Ivy putting
Raven in the back of the plant while Ivy took control and brought them back to
the base.
Upon returning, Ivy grabbed the emerald and placed it in her bedroom for
storage before dragging Raven back to her cell. Opening the door, Ivy tossed
Raven in before walking inside.
Ivy moved towards Raven, tossing the mask right off of her before grabbing her
by her uniform and slamming her against the cold stone wall. She yelled, "You
bitch! Why didn't you fight him?"
Raven stuttered, "I don't know how, Mistress. I was raised in a monastery, an
environment without violence."
Ivy growled, "And you better learn how." She tossed Raven onto the ground
before delivering a brutish kick to Raven's abdomen, causing her to turn away
from Ivy in pain. Ivy snapped, "Fight back, you whimp!"
As Raven tried to get up, Ivy punched Raven in the head, causing Raven's head
to collide with the stone, causing a scratch on her scalp. Ivy went in for a
kick, which Raven tried to intercept, grabbing Ivy's leg, but she was
ultimately too feeble to hold it and Ivy used her leg to force Raven to strike
her own face.
Ivy, looking at the mess that was Raven, simply stormed out of the cell,
slamming the door behind her, leaving her servant to lie in pain.
That was not the last time Raven would encounter Robin while under Ivy's
servitude, and their encounters did not end any better for Raven.
As Raven snapped out of her flashback, she soon found several prisoners
standing over her, holding their erect dicks over her, rubbing them as she
noticed that there was sperm already laying on her abdomen and breasts from
previous ejaculations.
While the other prisoners masturbated over Raven's naked body, the Joker began
speaking, "Residents of Arkham Asylum. We have awaited this day for so long,
for tonight is the night that we escape this hellhole. The police outside think
they can stop us. How foolish do they think they are? We have powerful allies
and they have four itsy-bitsy teenagers along with them. We outnumber them, we
overpower them, and we will be free."
The prisoners in Arkham cheered upon hearing the Joker's speech, and he
continued, "I would like to thank Poison Ivy for providing tonight's
entertainment, and now we go!"
Immediately, dozens of prisoners soon began to rush out of the cafeteria,
heading towards the various exits in order to break out of Arkham. Meanwhile,
Harley and Ivy went over to Raven, removing her restraints before grabbing her
like a prized pig, with Harley holding Raven by her midsection, and the three
went off, going back towards the plant on the other side of Arkham.
While the other prisoners soon began breaking out of prison, they were met with
gunfire coming from the guards that left a few dead and several more injured,
but that did not stop the prisoners.
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Beast Boy continued to fight Killer Croc when he soon began to hear the other
prisoners raging in. Suddenly, something inside Beast Boy began to turn and he
then transformed from his resting human form into an old friend of his.
The Beast.
Beast Boy charged head-on into the prisoners, clawing through them and sending
them down. As Beast Boy effortlessly defeated them, many of the unpowered
prisoners immediately ran away from the Beast, going back to their cells and
locking themselves in.
Killer Croc, noticing Beast Boy was busy handling the breakout, tried to attack
him, but Beast Boy sensed the attack coming and grabbed him before tossing him
into the door, and delivering a kick that burst the front gate of Arkham open.
As Killer Croc rolled down onto the ground, Batman moved in to take the sewer
dweller into custody, but the other police officers were soon lining their guns
on the Beast.
Robin however shouted, "Hold your fire. That's Beast Boy! He's not an enemy."
Gordon asked, "And you know this, how?"
"Long story short, it's his primal form, and it usually only shows up when
Raven is in danger. We need to move in."
With that, Robin pulled out his bo-staff and Gordon pulled out his pistol, and
the two of them proceeded to move into Arkham Asylum, hoping to mop up what was
left of the prisoners trying to escape.
Elsewhere, many of the mobs of prisoners were getting taken down by Cyborg's
sonic cannon and prolonged gunfire on the part of the police, not to mention
the Beast, which was ramming down prisoners in its path as he searched for
Raven.
On the roof, Starfire soon gained more momentum against Firefly, Hush, and
Anarky, sending a starbolt into Anarky that left him dazed on the roof,
destroying Firefly's light gun with her super strength and then slamming Hush
into the ceiling, Starfire's emotions fueling her fight against the three
Arkham residents.
With them out of the way, she joined Cyborg in suppressing the prisoners trying
to escape, forcing them to fall back to their cells.
As the suppression of the riot continued, the Titans soon realized that Raven
was gone, having been taken by Harley and Ivy before they could have gotten in.
They still had to find her, and their timetable just dwindled from the events
that had just occurred.
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***** Penguin *****
Chapter Summary
     The Titans collect evidence from the attempted breakout at Arkham in
     an attempt to locate Raven, who deals with the aftermath of her
     violation.
The Titans and the Gotham Police Department were in the process of cleaning up
after the whole storming of Arkham and attempted breakout very early in the
morning. They were primarily fortunate as most of the prisoners were contained,
including many of the high powered metas and Batman rogues including Hush,
Killer Croc, Anarky, Cluemaster, and Firefly. A few prisoners were killed in
the fight with the police and Titans, most notably serial killer Victor Zsasz,
who went down after being struck with Cyborg's sonic cannon and four 9mm
gunshots from a Gotham police officer.
However, there were a few prisoners who had escaped, namely Catwoman, Penguin,
and Two-Face. And there was one matter even more pressing for the Titans.
Poison Ivy managed to get away, along with Harley Quinn and Raven, whom they
were beginning to doubt could sustain much more.
There were also plenty of wounded, as the injured were quickly given minor
treatment before being sent back to their cells for attempted escape and
disturbing the peace amongst charges.
The Joker was amongst the wounded, having met a starbolt to his body that left
a vicious scar on his stomach. After being treated for his wounds, he was
promptly handcuffed and placed in a straitjacket before being placed in his
cell, utterly unable to move his arms, something that was agreed to be for the
best.
As they continued looking through the cells, Cyborg soon found one cell that
had been forced open, near a bunch of dead prisoners. Cyborg quickly pulled out
his T-communicator and said, "We've got another one here. I think he's barely
alive."
Cyborg proceeded to open the door and saw Bane, laying unconscious on the floor
of his cell, his blanket out of place on the ground, and wounds that were
bleeding.
As Cyborg began to provide medical attention, Robin and Batman soon followed
and arrived in the cell block, watching as Cyborg tried to save Bane's life.
The half-robot stitched up his stab wound, stopping the bleeding there while
also removing the bullet lodged in his arm before tending to that injury. With
the masked hulk no longer bleeding out, Batman administered a shot of Venom
into Bane's arm.
Before that, Robin asked, "Batman, are you sure about this? What if he attacks
us?"
Batman replied, "From what I've seen about Venom, this amount will be just
enough so he regains consciousness. His aggression would only increase if given
a more substantial amount of Venom."
Batman proceeded to inject Bane with the Venom, and after several minutes, Bane
finally awoke, arising from his position on the floor to see Batman, Robin, and
Cyborg.
Bane asked, "What are you doing here?"
Cyborg responded, "First, trying to keep you from bleeding out. Second, we need
some information about last night."
"Ah, from what I've heard, it was in the planning for some time. The Scarecrow
had fear gas smuggled into the prison in capsules so he and the rest of the
prisoners could take out the guards and have a little fun."
Robin asked, "What kind of fun?"
"I heard them chanting for some girl to get naked. I didn't know who it was at
the time, but I soon knew who it was. She's one of yours, right Robin?"
"Raven. She was here."
"Yes, but she was in pain. When I found her, she was crawling on her hands and
knees, bleeding from her legs, naked."
"Rob, you don't think what happened..."
"Unfortunately...Cyborg, is it not? It did happen. The Joker had his way with
her. I would never have approved of it, so they locked me in my cell. They did
the same with Freeze."
Batman inquired, "So how did you get out?"
"Pressure on the tumbler, pushed it to open the door. I was on my way out of
here when I saw her. I brought her back to my cell for protection. Gave her my
blanket and my bed."
"Prove it, Bane. Prove you were with Raven."
"We talked for quite a while, talking about our troubled paths. She mentioned
she was the Gem of Scath." Upon saying that, Robin knew Bane was telling the
truth. That fact wasn't public knowledge - only Batman, Slade, and the Titans
knew that Raven was half-demon. Ivy didn't know, Harley didn't know, none of
the League knew. The only person that could have told Bane was Raven.
"What happened after that?"
"The prisoners swarmed the cell, trying to take Raven back to Ivy. I fought
them off as long as I could, but they eventually outnumbered and overpowered
me. Harley delivered the knockout blow before taking Raven back to her misery.
I should have...I should have stopped them."
Batman kneeled down and placed his hand on Bane's shoulder. "Without your
Venom, you couldn't have held them off forever."
"If only I had gotten her collar off sooner, we could have gotten out of this."
"You did what you thought was right, which is better than most of the people
here. This does seem a bit weird coming from me, but thank you."
Batman arose from the ground and continued, "Robin, continue here with Gordon
to finish up with the prison clean-up. Cyborg, we're going back to the Cave to
break through BioGrant's files. Starfire and Beast Boy are going to continue
tracking Raven and Poison Ivy."
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Back where Raven was being held captive, the half-demon sat quietly in the
corner of her cell, as naked as the day she was born, covered in sticky male
sperm where they ejaculated on her and blood which had stuck to her legs. She
held her knees up to her chest, trying to stay as warm as possible in the
bitter cold that flooded through her barren cell. Her hair remained pitch black
from the hair dye Harley had given her and her lips had some of the bright red
lipstick on them from before.
She could not believe what Poison Ivy had done to her - had her brutally raped
and beaten, as well as naked in front of hundreds of perverts at Arkham. This
was without question the worst day of her life, with her spirit continuing to
break. Raven could only hope to make it out with some part of herself
untainted, if she made it out at all.
The Titans had yet to find her and Raven couldn't fight back with the collar
suppressing her powers. She could only wait for the inevitable, for her soul to
break, leaving her Ivy's shell.
Her thoughts were soon broken by the arrival of Harley Quinn, who screamed,
"Come on servant bitch! Get a move on!"
Raven slowly got up, covering her breasts with one arm and covering her
genitalia with her other, trying to avoid touching it where she had been stung
by the whip only hours earlier, before moving quickly so Harley wouldn't molest
her.
Unfortunately, that was only a fool's hope as Harley quickly took Raven's arms
and held them behind her lashed back before peering her head over Raven's
shoulder, looking down at all of Raven's body, her violated, tortured body.
Harley licked Raven's chin before working her way up to Raven's ear, making her
uncomfortable as her tongue glided its way across her body.
After a few moments of walking, Raven found herself in Ivy's throne room, where
Ivy so happened to be waiting for Raven with a small silver tray laying next to
her.
Harley sat Raven down, holding onto her arms with one hand and then placing her
other hand between Raven's knees, preventing her from moving them together in
order to hide her vagina from Ivy.
Poison Ivy walked down from her throne and approached Raven. She asked, "Well,
bitch, how do you feel?"
Raven replied, "Awful, violated. Why did you do that, Mistress? Why did you
hand me to him?"
"It wasn't me. It was Harley, actually. I merely approved the idea."
Harley giggled as she whispered in Raven's ear, "I told you we'd be taking it."
"And now, Raven, I think it's about time we remind you of your place."
"What do you mean, Mistress? And where are my clothes?"
"You'll get your clothing back momentarily. As for the first, Harley would you
come here for a second?"
Harley obliged, releasing her grip from Raven before walking up to Poison Ivy,
and the two of them walked over to the silver tray. Raven quickly tried to
cover herself up, but realized that it wouldn't matter as they'd simply expose
her...again.
The two of them came back towards Raven, both of them now brandishing knives,
surgical knives. Raven quickly tried to move away but was held back by Ivy and
Harley. Ivy asked, "Do you want the left arm or the right?"
Harley replied, "You can take the right."
With that, Harley moved so she was in front of Raven, holding down on her left
arm while Ivy moved behind Raven and held down on her right arm.
Raven could not help but scream as the two perverted, twisted, torturous
criminals began cutting into Raven's upper arm, moving precisely, deadly, and
painfully, as she noticed the blood coming out of her arm and dripping down
towards the floor.
The two then finished their work and gave Raven a mirror to look at what they
did. She gasped upon seeing the results. On her left arm, Harley Quinn had
carved the word BITCH into it while on the right, Poison Ivy had sliced in
WHORE.
With the painful incisions finished, Ivy grabbed a bottle of rubbing alcohol
before pouring it on Raven's arms where the cuts were made, burning Raven and
causing her to scream as the wounds sealed, stopping the bleeding but
preserving them into her skin.
Taking in the scent of the alcohol and examining Raven's body, Harley
suggested, "Ew, Ivy, I think she needs a wash."
Poison Ivy smirked, "Just what I was thinking."
Harley Quinn grabbed Raven by the waist, encircling her arm across her stomach
and partially onto her back, proceeding to head off to the same washroom where
Ivy gave Raven her "washes".
Depositing Raven on the shower floor, Harley went back to get the hose as
Poison Ivy came in to watch. Raven lay slumped on the floor, not moving out of
both pain and fear, trying to conceal her private regions to the two women.
That unfortunately did little to stop them as Harley then proceeded to activate
the nozzle and spray Raven with water, and she could not block the water as it
pounded on her skin.
Ice rained down on her skin, covering her naked lithe form from head to toe in
cold water that sprayed off the filth of male ejaculation forced upon her at
Arkham as well as the blood of her hymen, the last trace of her virginity gone
forever as it washed off her leg.
Raven struggled to move, hammered by the hose as it struck her arms to wipe
away any trace of the rubbing alcohol and any last blood from the cut wounds.
Once she was all cleaned up, Harley turned off the hose before walking up to
Raven, who futilely tried to get away, only for Harley to grab her by her legs
and pulled her over, leaving Raven fully visible to every inch of Harley's
wandering eyes.
She stared at the carvings that she and Ivy had made on Raven's arms, looking
at the sharpness of each letter. Harley commented, "Hmm, you're certainly a
bitch, but the whore part...maybe we weren't exactly thinking right."
Raven deadpanned, "Is this some sort of apology?"
"Hell no, servant bitch. We need to make sure that both statements are
accurate." Harley arose from Raven before taking off her boots and then pulling
off her pants, leaving Raven highly uncomfortable as she saw Harley's genitals,
with a groomed strip of black hair around her womanhood. Harley squatted down
before barking, "Eat my pussy, you bitch. Suck on it until I climax!"
Raven was incredibly uncomfortable with what was happening but found herself
forced to comply, sticking her tongue out and moving it into Harley's privates,
licking around before Harley lowered herself so that her thighs were right next
to Raven's face.
She continued to lick and suck Harley, moving her tongue around inside of her.
While Harley was moaning in apparent pleasure, Raven's face had an expression
of absolute terror, which Poison Ivy noticed from her position.
Raven's tongue continued its work, trying to finish this hell as fast as she
possibly could, especially since it was starting to be a lot less pleasant for
Raven as the taste of woman got into her mouth - this perverted, sadistic
woman. No, she wasn't a woman. She was a monster, a beast.
Her tongue was as deep as it could go in Harley, swirling around until Harley
felt her orgasm arrive, spilling her female juices all over Raven's face,
pouring onto her lips, chin, nose, and cheeks with some going onto her eyelids.
Harley got up from her position atop Raven before putting back on her pants and
boots. As Harley moved away, Raven quickly went to wipe Harley's cum off of her
head, getting it out of her eyelids but much of the rest was sticking to her
face, making it a lot harder to get off.
Before Harley left, she told Raven, "I know you liked it. Didn't you? You don't
want to admit, but you did like it. And by the time we're done with you, you'll
be begging to suck us."
After Harley departed, Poison Ivy walked back up to Raven before tossing her
the green leotard and boots, ordering her, "Get dressed, then make me food!"
Raven nodded, "Yes, Mistress", quickly placing the leotard and boots on,
welcoming their coverage, even though they weren't the most comfortable things
to wear. At least she wasn't naked anymore.
She got up and proceeded to the kitchen in order to make Poison Ivy her food.
As she did so, Raven began to remember what had happened once Ivy had broken
her years before.
It had been well over a year and nine months since Raven first met Poison Ivy,
now her Mistress. And now, after months of servitude, beatings, and other
horrors, Raven's will had finally cracked. She could no longer oppose Ivy any
more and now feared every moment of her life. Raven no longer cared about the
Prophecy, her fate as Trigon's Gem. All she cared about was not getting beaten
by Poison Ivy for messing up.
Waiting in her cell again for her next task, Raven shivered from the cold as
her leotard lacked sleeves. She had already cooked Ivy her dinner and watered
all of her plants. She just hoped she could get some sleep as she seldom got
more than six hours of rest (she normally got less than five) - if she could
get eight hours she would be fine.
Starting to fall asleep, Raven was suddenly interrupted by Poison Ivy's
arrival, as the door opened. Immediately, Raven awoke and stood up as she had
slowly been conditioned to do, staring right at Ivy. Her Mistress commanded,
"Follow me."
With that, Raven followed Ivy as they wound up heading towards Ivy's bedroom of
all places, where Raven immediately suspected she would be licking her
Mistress's privates again. Those suspicions would be confirmed as Ivy stripped
out of her dress, leaving her naked, exposing her bare ass to Raven. Turning
her head towards Raven, and looking with disdain, she signaled Raven to do the
same.
Just as she was always ordered to, Raven slipped out of her leotard and walked
over towards Ivy, preparing to kneel down so her face would be right in front
of Ivy's private region. However, unlike most times, Ivy instead hopped onto
her bed.
Staring confused, Raven simply remained there uncertain about what to do. Ivy
decided to simply wait and see what Raven would do next, or for how long she
would simply stare there in confusion, until either of them fell asleep.
Ivy then barked, "Just get on the damn bed!" With an order, Raven complied.
Now, it seemed that Raven was utterly under Ivy's thrall, unable to do anything
without her order.
Sitting on the bed now, Ivy then ordered her to curl up in between her legs.
Doing so, Raven stared directly at the inner flesh of her Mistress's insides
and slowly began to lick as she usually did. Inwardly, Raven slowly realized
that she had truly become Ivy's bitch and now, the term "servant bitch"
completely fit her. There was almost no more of Raven's spirit remaining - all
that was left was her loyalty to (or fear of) Ivy, that she had only her in her
life.
And that was what now Raven feared the most about her Mistress.
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Back at the Batcave, Cyborg continued to work on breaking through BioGrant's
files but could not seem to break through the firewall concealing their assets,
including their locations around Gotham.
No matter what method the half-robot tried to penetrate the firewall, it seemed
to adapt itself against any move Cyborg tried to make. He asked, "Who the hell
designed this?"
Batman replied, "A long-dead computer programmer. It adjusts itself to any
method to break through, making the system impenetrable. His secret went to the
grave, so we can't break into their files using these methods."
"So how do you suggest we try to get into the files?"
"I know somebody who could help us. We're going to need to talk with Gordon
though. Unfortunately, I have to attend to matters elsewhere so you're going to
have to go speak with him."
"What kind of matters are you talking about?"
"Board meeting at Wayne Enterprises. I can't afford to miss it."
Batman proceeded to walk away from Cyborg, intending on changing into his
business suit for the meeting - nobody could know his secret identity was Bruce
Wayne, so once he was dressed in civilian clothing, he took off in one of his
cars towards the city.
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Outside of Arkham Asylum, Starfire and Beast Boy were working to figure out
what direction Poison Ivy went in after taking Raven. The changeling had found
faint traces of her scent in the courtyard on the rear side, and tried to work
from there.
If Cyborg couldn't break through BioGrant's files, then it would be up to them
to locate Raven before it was too late. Unfortunately, they weren't sure if it
was too late, having been informed of what had occurred at Arkham earlier that
night.
The alien and the shape-shifter continued trying to detect any trace of Raven
or Ivy, but after around two miles, the trail had gone cold. Once Beast Boy
could no longer detect Raven's scent, Starfire got high in the air to see if
there were any notable landmarks, any buildings that they could have scampered
off into.
She exclaimed, "I have found a building!" She flew off towards said building,
searching to see if Raven was there. Noticing the locks on the doors, boarded
up windows, and overall deteriorating condition of the place, she sensed it was
abandoned, and a very viable location for Ivy and Harley to be.
Starfire blasted a door down and floated through the building, trying to find
any trace of life within. As she searched, it became increasingly dark, so she
held up a starbolt in order to see where she was heading.
She searched high and low in every direction, hoping to find her missing friend
before she was lost forever. Eventually, the alien came in to the heart of the
building, seeing if there were any clues to finding out Raven's location, or if
Ivy was there.
Starfire had no such luck as she saw that labels all across the building
indicated that this was not BioGrant property. It was a private warehouse owned
by the Cobblepot family until Oswald (aka Penguin) was arrested for drug and
sex trafficking.
Raven was not there. Nobody had been there for several years now.
As Starfire flew out of the desolate building, Beast Boy found her and asked,
"I bet you found nothing."
"No, I did not Friend Beast Boy. Friend Raven is not here. Did you have any
luck?"
"I can tell that the direction you went off in was a red herring."
"How can a path be a colored fish?"
"Red herring means a false lead. Ivy knew we'd be searching so she masked the
scent of the real trail and gave us a fake one to follow, leading us here.
We've got no way of figuring out where they went unless we knew precisely what
masking agent Ivy used."
"We need to acquire a sample and bring it back to the Cave of the Bat for
analysis."
With that, Beast Boy and Starfire left the abandoned building and went out to
the trail, going out to where the trail had gone cold, noting where the red
herring trail had been placed to throw them off.
In order to get a good sample of what it could be, Beast Boy grabbed a bag he
kept in his belt and proceeded to grab a fistful of grass, placing it inside.
The computer back at the Cave would give them a breakdown of what had been on
the grass, giving them an idea of how Ivy eluded them, and then what to look
for in order to find her and Raven.
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***** Hugo Strange *****
Chapter Summary
     The Titans close in on Raven's location and on Harley's identity, but
     will it be too late?
Robin was at the Gotham Police Department with Commissioner Gordon as Cyborg
soon arrived, followed by Starfire and Beast Boy.
Robin asked, "So what brings you guys here?"
Cyborg replied, "Batman says Gordon knows a person that can help us break
through BioGrant's files.
Beast Boy added, "We've got a sample of an unknown masking agent and we need to
identify it. We find it, and we might be able to follow the trail Ivy and
Harley took last night and find Raven."
Commissioner Gordon came out and noted, "You're right, Cyborg. I know somebody
that can help you get inside BioGrant. Come inside, and make sure not to tell
anybody about this. Understood?"
The Boy Wonder answered, "Understood."
With that, Gordon proceeded to escort the four Titans into a conference room
before closing the door and initiating several protocols. Gordon commented,
"Okay, nobody can hear us. We're safe. I'm going to contact her now, and
activate face time."
Starfire asked, "Commissioner, who is this person who will be helping Friend
Cyborg get the files?"
"Her codename is Oracle. Top-notch hacker, skilled with a computer, and also
has a very good memory, close to photographic. She provides consultation to us
and Batman, supplying leads, information, and locations of criminal activity.
Okay, she'll be up in one second."
Gordon finished dialing in the contact information of Oracle, and the large
screen in front of the room soon began to turn on, slowly revealing Oracle's
face.
Robin was stunned at who he saw – a redheaded female, aged eighteen or
nineteen, in a wheelchair.
He immediately asked, "Barbara, you're Oracle?"
She answered, "I am, Robin. You've been gone a long time."
Robin asked Gordon, "How long have you known she was Oracle?"
Gordon replied, "I helped her create the identity after she was shot by the
Joker. She told me about her time as Batgirl and how she wanted to continue
helping, so we were able to work up an intelligence network for her to utilize
in order to help us and keep her on our side, allowing her to be useful even
when she can't be in the action."
"What is it, I can do for you, dad?"
"We have a firewall we need your help in breaking through: BioGrant Labs."
Cyborg continued, "If you haven't heard, Poison Ivy had Raven abducted from
Jump a few days ago. We believe that she is holding her at one of the
properties held by BioGrant, but their firewall is adapting to everything I've
tried. Batman told me you might have an idea of how to break through."
"There are more than a few tricks their firewall hasn't been prepared for. Give
me the serial information number and I can get through their files."
"Oscar Four Seven Two Delta Three Beta Zulu Nine One Six Two Eight One Whiskey
– that's the SIN. Do you need me to repeat it?"
"Oscar Four Seven Two Delta Three Beta Zulu Nine One Six Two Eight One Whiskey
– I've got it, Cyborg. I'm going into their systems now. It will take me a few
hours to break through. I'm good, but I'm not that good. It'll take time to
fully breach their firewall."
"Thanks, Barbara."
"You're welcome, Robin. And sorry about Raven – I heard what the Joker did to
her over at Arkham. Get those bitches."
"We will."
Gordon shut the feed, but before he released the protocols that had locked the
door and sound-suppressed the room, Robin came to him with a question.
"Commissioner?"
"Yes, Robin?"
"Just how much did Barbara tell you about her being Batgirl?"
"Let's just say that I'm not going to tell anyone your identity, Mr. Grayson."
"Thanks, Commissioner Gordon."
After releasing the protocols, Gordon asked, "Now, about the masking agent?"
Beast Boy and Starfire handed the commissioner the grass they had plucked from
the trail and Gordon immediately took it towards the forensics lab, so they
could analyze it and determine what it was composed of. As Gordon walked away,
he began thinking about the events after his daughter's paralyzation.
Gordon was waiting on the roof of the GCPD building, the Bat-signal shining
bright into the sky. He was still recuperating from what had happened to him at
the Joker's hand - he had been stripped, humiliated, shot, and tortured, forced
to watch as his daughter Barbara was shot, stripped, and almost raped. Only
Batman's intervention saved them both from certain death and insanity, and was
able to finally capture the Joker.
Suddenly, Gordon heard a voice behind him, "You rang, Commissioner?"
Gordon turned around and saw Batman, aching in pain from what had happened. The
Caped Crusader urged, "You should really be in bed, Jim. You're still
recovering."
"I know, but this couldn't wait."
"What is it?"
"Barbara. Why didn't you tell me?"
"About what?"
"That she was Batgirl. Do you realize how close she came to death because of
it?"
"I do. I also knew that she was capable of handling it. She had already proven
it before. You think that he knew?"
"No, but if he did, he would have finished what he started with Barbara. Why
didn't you tell me the truth?"
"It wasn't my place to. It was hers, and only hers. A few nights earlier,
Barbara was ambushed with a dose of Scarecrow's fear gas. I'm telling you this
because her greatest fear was not telling you before it was too late, and in
her hallucination, you completely lost it. She realized that she couldn't keep
the secret from you any more - she had to tell you. Unfortunately, the Joker
came in before she could and now she'll never be Batgirl again. I take it she
told you."
"After she got out of her surgery."
"Then I take it you figured out my identity as well."
"It took ten minutes on her computer to learn everything, Bruce. Now, what is
she going to do? She can't fight...well, she can't be active in her
wheelchair."
"What would you have her do? You are her father."
Suddenly, an idea soon began to form in Gordon's mind. "I may have an idea."
Robin said, "Cyborg, stay here for when Oracle cracks through BioGrant.
Starfire, go downstairs to the forensics lab and wait for when they determine
the masking agent. Beast Boy and I are going into the field to continue the
search. When we have results, meet us in the field so we can storm the
building."
Starfire noted, "On it, Robin." She then took flight and zipped downstairs to
the forensics lab where Gordon was currently waiting on the results of the
masking agent.
Robin and Beast Boy left and went outside, with the two hopping on the R-Cycle
before driving off towards where Beast Boy and Starfire had lost the trail.
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Over where Poison Ivy was hiding, Raven remained huddled in her cell, waiting
for whatever torture Ivy and Harley had in store for her. The once defiant
spirit inside Raven's soul was merely a shiver as Bravery had fallen gravely
ill, leaving Timid gaining strength as Raven's faith crumbled.
Her body had reached its breaking point. Her back was anointed with hundreds of
lashes that left marks of blood and torn flesh. Her knees were weakened where
they had been burned by the pan, irritating whenever they were touched. Her
legs suffered soreness around her thighs from the whippings at Arkham, along
with the rape. Her face, however, was likely the worst, with Harley's cum
sticking on her face and the brand on her cheek.
The Titans had yet to show up and Raven was almost completely broken. Poison
Ivy's revenge was in reach. She would make Raven beg for the death she would
never receive. The rest of her life would be suffering and servitude.
Suddenly, the door to Raven's cell opened, revealing Poison Ivy along with
Harley Quinn, the former wielding the whip while the latter had a club in hand.
Raven tried to get as far away as she could from the two women as they
approached her, begging "Please don't come closer! Please!" As she yelled, her
voice soon began to drop, soon getting to the point where she could only
whimper, silently.
Harley stopped and noted, "Aw, look at her. The whimpering bitch she is. She's
unable to help herself, unable to resist us, completely at our nonexistent
mercy." Raven's eyes filled with tears, pleading desperately with her captors
to spare her more pain. However, their eyes were filled with malice and blood,
unwilling to stop and ready to torture Raven.
Harley stepped forward and unleashed the club on Raven, beating her out of the
corner as she repeatedly whacked the end of the club on her neck before
dragging her out into the middle of the cell. From there, Harley proceeded to
pull down the leotard Raven wore to expose the damage done on her back.
Ivy began to crack the whip, striking Raven in the back, causing her to whimper
in pain, her voice weakened alongside her spirit. Each hit either left a new
line inside her back or hit an existing one, further splitting it open and
causing her pain. This torture was unbearable for her as she struggled to avoid
it.
Then, the whipping stopped, making Raven hope that they weren't entirely
sadistic.
That hope was soon washed away when Harley began to use the club on Raven's
legs, causing her to silently cry every time the club banged her legs, striking
the bones with the intent of breaking them.
The violence against her was too much for her to handle. Then, Harley stopped
wielding the club and sat down on Raven's abused legs before pulling Raven's
torso up so her lips were next to Raven's ear.
Harley said, "This is your natural state, living in misery, isn't it?
Whimpering like a bitch about to be put out of its misery." Harley took a hand
to Raven's damaged face, proceeding to slide it down to wipe the tears off,
starting with the side without the brand before repeating it with the branded
side. But this wasn't gentle, this was more painful, making Raven scream as
Harley's hands ran down.
She continued, "Have you seen yourself? You think you're human, but you're just
an animal, a freak. What regular human has gray skin and violet hair? You never
belonged with the Titans, if anything, all their failures were caused by
you.You're the outcast, all creepy and isolated. Nobody would ever want to be
your friend, or even your ally. They would never listen to you. Because you are
just their pet, their slave. Just an expendable pawn. All they want is somebody
they can take out their anger on, a punching bag."
Raven insisted, "You're wrong."
Harley whacked Raven across the face before slamming her head onto the wall.
Harley got off of Raven and turned her around before resuming sitting on her
legs and taking Raven's throat in her hand. Raven thought that the collar would
protect her neck against choking, but whatever the material it was made of was,
it was flexible and seemed to contour itself to when someone was strangling
her.
Raven tried to get Harley's hand off of her but Harley used her other hand to
grab Raven's arms and sent them to the side.
As she choked Raven, Harley Quinn continued, "You belong to your Mistress, you
bitch. Until the second you stop breathing. You are her property, you do
whatever she tells you to, no matter how much you hate it."
The choke continued, and helpless to do anything, Raven started to black out,
her eyes fluttering shut. However, Harley noticed this and immediately released
her grip on Raven's neck and arms, sending her lithe, pale body to the ground.
As Raven struggled to recapture the air she lost, Harley chuckled, "Did you
really think I was going to kill you? Hmm, answer me servant bitch."
Raven nodded in acknowledgment. Poison Ivy then noted, "Well, you're not going
to die by our hand, not directly, not purposefully. We intend to make you live
as possible to serve us. You thought death was a relief. Well, you're never
going to get that salvation. No matter how much you beg for it, salvation will
never come."
Harley and Ivy then left the cell, closing the door behind them, leaving Raven
inside, enduring even more than before, even more like an animal, like a slave,
like the bitch she was to them. Death wouldn't come in time to save her from
this hell. Nothing would.
Left alone, Raven began to remember another time while she was under Ivy's
brutal grip years earlier.
Raven had been enslaved by Poison Ivy for around a year and a half now.
Hundreds of lashings populated her back, all of which stung with pain and many
of which were directly atop other lashes. Her hair was growing back having been
completely shorn off months ago, reaching the level of Raven's ears, a bit
above her chin.
The two of them had previously come back from a theft that had gone wrong upon
the interference of Batman, Robin, and Batwoman.Having failed to secure what
Ivy wanted, Raven soon found herself on the wrong end of a beating.
Upon getting back to her cell, Ivy delivered a brutal punch to Raven's head,
causing her to fall onto the ground. Ivy approached her prisoner before
proceeding to slide off Raven's boots and then pulling off Raven's uniform,
sending both items behind the doorframe and leaving the pale gray girl as naked
as the day she was born...again.
As Raven tried to get up, Ivy kicked Raven in the abdomen causing her to land
on her sore back. Ivy proceeded to slam her foot into Raven's ribcage, causing
her to cry out in agony. Raven struggled to get away, but Ivy proceeded to
place her foot on Raven's collared neck, nearly choking Raven before Ivy let
her foot off.
And it then went onto Raven's breasts, nearly crushing them with her heel
filled with malicious bile. Raven knew in her heart that Ivy was going to kill
her right then and now. And that actually relieved her, if only temporarily.
Her nightmare would finally be over. She would be free.
Squatting down, Ivy stared at Raven, her cold eyes staring into Raven's
pleading ones. The plant villain let her foot off of Raven before ripping Raven
from the ground with a vicious yank upwards followed by dislocating her right
shoulder with a push and repeating the process with her left shoulder.
Ivy sent Raven back onto the ground with a kick that sent her into the wall
before causing her to land on her front. Walking up to her servant, Ivy pressed
her foot into Raven's dislocated shoulders, painfully popping them back into
place.
She continued to beat Raven up, showing no mercy as she kicked and punched the
poor girl who began to weep in pain. Eventually, Ivy went down and grabbed
Raven by her hair, yanking her upwards so Raven stared at her captor's
malicious, vicious eyes with her own pained, hurt ones.
Ivy growled, "Do you think it is time your suffering ended? Do you think you
are about to die?"
Raven nodded as she meekly replied, "Yes."
Suddenly, Ivy tossed Raven back onto the ground before saying, "You're never
going to get out of this, Raven. Your suffering will not end unless I allow it
to, and I'm not in the mood of losing a perfectly good servant if I have any
say about it. You will do everything I tell you to, you will not fuck up again,
or I will make you beg for an absolution that will never come. Do you
understand?"
When Raven simply nodded, Ivy proceeded to kick Raven between her legs before
yelling, "I can't hear you. Answer me, you bitch!"
Raven answered, "I understand, Mistress."
"Good!" Ivy walked out of the room before slamming the door shut, leaving Raven
inside of her cell with more injuries applied to her body. She went to get her
clothes only to find that they weren't present - Ivy had locked Raven away from
them.
Beaten and naked, Raven's skin paled as it froze, so she huddled up, holding
her arms close to her chest in order to avoid hypothermia. Her suffering
continued under the hands of her Mistress, and Poison Ivy would not let up.
Only a miracle could save her.
And now, Ivy had completely broken her in as her new bitch.
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Back at the Gotham Police Department, the Titans were making progress in
uncovering where Ivy and Harley were holding Raven prisoner. Cyborg and Oracle
were working on hacking through BioGrant's files, nearing the files holding
their assets. The police were working on identifying the masking agent Ivy used
to cover up her tracks so Beast Boy could track Raven as well as identify who
Harley Quinn was, something the Batcave was already working on. And Robin and
Beast Boy were working on locating Raven out in the field.
After several hours of working, Gordon saw a ping in the forensics lab.
Checking it along with the forensics scientist performing the tests, he called
Robin about it. The Boy Wonder answered, "Yes, Commissioner?"
"We've narrowed down the identity of Harley Quinn to one of two individuals
based on their whereabouts over the past two nights and their time at Arkham.
Alana Vintorez and Harleen Quinzel."
"Vintorez?"
"Security guard that has been working in Arkham for six years. However, she
works on the other side of the prison, nowhere near Ivy or the Joker."
"Quinzel. She's Harley Quinn. Of course, Harleen, Harley. It's too similar to
be a coincidence."
"Harleen Quinzel is the psychiatrist at Arkham Asylum. She had regular
appointments with the Joker and Poison Ivy. She only showed up once in the past
few days, and one of my boys just found that Harleen had taken a flight to Jump
City the day Harley attacked you guys."
"It's official, Harleen Quinzel is Harley Quinn. Put out a BOLO on Quinzel,
Commissioner. Any news on the masking agent or on Cyborg and Oracle's progress
on BioGrant?"
"We should get results on the masking agent in a few moments, but I'm not sure
if Beast Boy will be able to use it effectively, or how."
"Trust me, Commissioner. Give us the agent and he'll be on Ivy's trail."
Another ding came from the forensics lab and Gordon soon saw the results of the
masking agent. "Robin, we've identified the masking agent. It's partially
Dichlorophenoxyacetic acid."
"2,4-D. One of the earliest pesticides. How modified?"
"Some chemicals were added so it wouldn't kill the plants entirely."
"Ivy wouldn't kill any plant, even grass. She had it modified so she could
regrow the grass without the scent. I'll have Beast Boy start looking."
"Okay, Robin. Notify me once you have a location. I'll bring Cyborg, Starfire,
and some of my men and we'll storm the building. We've only got one shot at
this. If Ivy's not there, she'll know we're onto her and disappear, probably
with Raven."
"We're getting Raven back, I'm certain of it."
"Question is, will she be alive?"
"Raven is more than difficult to kill."
"Maybe, but you should have seen her when we first found her. Though, that's a
story for another time. Good luck, Robin."
"Thanks, Commissioner."
Gordon hung up the phone as Starfire soon came floating towards Gordon. The
alien asked, "So, have you found a location for Raven yet, Commissioner?"
Gordon replied, "We'll have a location soon. Once we do, you're with me and
Cyborg."
"Okay. The shovak parashui will not get away from us. Neither of them."
"I'm guessing that's not English, that's...Tamaranean I presume."
"Yes. Shovak parashui roughly translates to in English, heartless bitch. That
is what both of them are."
"Too right, Starfire."
Gordon then continued to walk through the police department, followed by
Starfire as he returned to the conference room where Cyborg had nearly finished
breaking through BioGrant's elaborate firewall.
Gordon asked, "How much further?"
Cyborg replied, "Oracle is jamming the firewall and I've gotten a snooper bug
right through. In a minute, their files should be open."
"Even if the firewall is up?"
"The bug has penetrated the firewall. Reactivation of it won't stop the
snooper. I have to hand it to your daughter, Commissioner. She has a lot of
skill with hacking."
"I know. You should have seen her when she broke into the Central Intelligence
Agency for information on a fugitive we were chasing. They tried to arrest her,
she threatened to go public with all the data she pilfered and memorized. The
spies backed off, and I'm pretty sure the League is making sure that they don't
come after her."
"Favor from Batman huh?"
"Yep. Now, what locations do we have?"
Cyborg pulled up the assets listings for BioGrant Labs and saw they had several
dozen buildings across the globe before he began to narrow the field down to
Gotham and surrounding areas.
"Okay, we've got two possible locations. Both outside of the main city. First
was a bio-research lab codenamed Pailstone."
"The Redrick Compound. We busted the place last year."
"The second is a converted farmhouse, has a greenhouse and living quarters as
well as a garage."
"Yueler Farm. That's where Ivy is. Thanks, Cyborg. Come on, you're with me."
With that, Commissioner Gordon proceeded to call Robin up to inform him of
Raven's likely location.
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***** Harley Quinn *****
Chapter Summary
     The Titans storm Ivy's hideout to rescue Raven as Raven begins to
     regain her will.
With a firm idea of where Raven was located, Beast Boy and Robin soon began to
head towards the Yueler Farm, with Beast Boy using the scent of the 2,4-D to
give them directions towards the farm while Commissioner Gordon was bringing
several of his officers, along with Starfire and Cyborg to raid the building.
One thing was certain though - Ivy would not be permitted to escape. She was
going to go away for a long time, as would Harley Quinn.
That was, if Ivy didn't have an ace up her sleeve that would handle the cops
and enable her to escape with Raven.
Robin called Batman (who had just gotten out of a business meeting at Wayne
Enterprises as Bruce Wayne) to inform him of the development. Batman proceeded
to respond to his protege to follow Gordon in and get Raven, as well as
capturing Harley and Ivy if possible.
However, Robin nor Beast Boy nor the other Titans were in any particular mood
to take the two villainesses alive - for what they did to Raven, all the Titans
wanted was them dead.
It was going to be a little bit before Gordon, Starfire, and Cyborg arrived.
The two of them stayed just outside of Ivy's field of vision from the best
vantage point on Yueler Farm. They wanted to give her as little preparation as
possible so she couldn't escape.
Once Gordon arrived with Cyborg, Starfire, and other cops, they would surround
the farm while the Titans moved in to take down Ivy and Harley, as well as
rescue Raven from her cell. And again, much like at Arkham last night, they
were authorized to use lethal force if necessary against the two.
This would at least be an even fight, but the Titans refused to take any
chances. They needed the upper hand if Raven was to be free, if their friend
was to be saved from her eternal damnation.
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Back in her cell, the missing Titan remained broken inside, having been abused
in every way imaginable in the seven weeks she had been imprisoned. She was
completely alone, nobody could help her, and the only people around were the
ones abusing her the worst.
Her breaking point was almost present, and she was about to fall physically and
mentally. She hadn't had anything sustenant to eat in a while, and her throat
was drying from the lack of water. Her body bore tons of injuries from torture
and her mind was out of whacks.
Her emotions were getting ill and on the verge of death because of Ivy's
treatment of her. If they went, Raven would officially become nothing more than
a shell of herself, of the once powerful, snarky Titan.
Then, Raven would forever be Ivy's slave, mindless and spiritless, a drone for
her cruel Mistress.
Speaking of the devil, Poison Ivy soon opened the door to Raven's cell and came
in with Harley Quinn, who seemed to be holding a green dog collar. Upon
noticing the collar, Raven backed farther away from them, soon pressing the
vertebrae of her spine and her lashed back into the stone wall until she could
go no further.
She held her knees close to her chest, squeezing them tightly for protection,
as if it was going to do anything. She was trying to hold off the inevitable as
long as she could, but down in her heart, she knew that she could not escape
this. They easily overpowered her, and they proceeded to do so, walking up
towards her with Poison Ivy holding down Raven's arms while Harley applied the
collar.
Raven choked, "What? Why?"
Ivy replied, "You see, bitch, I think it's time we made certain you know your
place. That you are nothing more than a bitch, an animal. To all of our whims
you answer. That your former life was a lie to who you are. You aren't a human,
you're a slave. A pet. And the collar commemorates that. Also the leash."
Raven started dumbstruck at Ivy as Harley looped a leash onto Raven's collar.
Harley yanked the leash and forced Raven down onto her hands and knees. Harley
yelled, "Crawl, bitch."
She complied out of fear, crawling on her hands and knees, as damaged as they
were, she knew the consequences of resisting.
Harley proceeded to drag Raven out of her cell, walking her like a dog as they
headed towards their next destination. Wherever it may be, Raven was not
looking forward to it.
However, before they could go much further, Ivy soon began to feel something
off. She then said, "Goddammit! Cops!"
Harley asked, "How the fuck did they find us? I certainly didn't tell them, so
how about her? Servant bitch didn't give them the location, did she? Cause if
she did..."
"I never even told her where we were, never gave her an idea either. Well, I'm
not going down at all. I'll be leaving by plant."
"And what about the servant bitch?"
"Take your monster truck, kill everyone in your way, and I'll find you. We'll
start anew, and you'll be joining us, servant bitch. Won't that be fun?"
Raven croaked, "No."
Harley replied by kicking Raven in the abdomen.
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At last, Gordon arrived with the rest of his cops, Cyborg, and Starfire.
However, they could not get much further before they were soon met with plants
growing out of nowhere.
Or rather, right beneath them. They all knew what this meant - Poison Ivy knew
they were there. Each of the massive Venus fly traps Poison Ivy had summoned
soon began attacking the cops and Titans assembled around Yueler Farm.
Instantly, Robin ordered, "Cyborg, Starfire, Beast Boy, take down the plants!
Gordon, with me. We're breaching." With that, Starfire quickly took to the
skies and began sending off starbolts towards any plant that menaced herself,
Cyborg, or the cops.
Beast Boy arrived out front as an elephant, doing his work to handle the plants
that stormed their way towards Cyborg and Starfire, soon scooping on Cyborg so
the duo can tag team the plants and eliminate them. Beast Boy would ram the
plants and rip them from the ground with his trunk while Cyborg would blast
away with his sonic cannon.
All the while, the cops provided support for the Titans, firing their weapons
to tear through the plants with the intent of destroying them and keeping them
down. While most of the cops were fighting plants, a few were with Robin and
Gordon, going to breach the farm to take down Ivy and Harley as well as rescue
Raven.
Robin quickly arrived at the front, joining Gordon and several other officers
waiting to breach. Gordon asked, "Ready?"
The Boy Wonder answered, "Ready" and kicked the door down, soon entering the
building in search of Raven. Failure could not be an option here - they had to
find her no matter what, and alive.
As they entered, the cops pulled out their issue sidearms as they began to look
for her, checking every room. They had to search everywhere as they didn't
really know where she could be, and time was of the essence.
Robin and Gordon took the lead as the search began. However, as they began to
remove rooms from where Raven's cell could be, they did not realize that Poison
Ivy lurked behind them.
She immediately began to pick off the officers as she came across them with her
lips of death, ensnaring them with a vine before kissing them, poisoning them
almost instantly before they keeled over dead.
After several officers met this fate, Robin immediately sensed Ivy was near and
pulled out his bo-staff, awaiting combat with the botanist criminal.
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Meanwhile, as the Titans were in engaged in combat with Poison Ivy and her
plants, Harley Quinn was holding Raven by a leash as she dragged her over to
the garage as she intended to make her escape with Raven.
As she was pulled along by the embarrassing leash, Raven thought 'No. I have to
break free. I have such a chance to be free of this nightmare. I can't let her
control me anymore. But what about the chips? They threatened to kill them if I
resisted. Are they even my friends? Would they die for me? They helped me with
the Trigon incident. Just to save themselves. Dear Azar, I'm starting to think
like the two bitches. No. I have to think like myself again. Intelligence, I
need your help.'
Raven's yellow-clad emotion soon began to speak, 'What do you need Raven?'
'A way to get out of this.'
'Your powers aren't functioning with the collar on you.'
'Tell me something I don't know.'
'Well, your sarcasm is still present. Anyway, they had plenty of opportunities
to trigger the chip. But they didn't. If they did, your friends, the Titans
would be dead by now.'
'And not here. Was this all a bluff?'
'On which end, to make you fall susceptible to one of their tortures or to make
you their slave again?'
'Making me their bitch.'
'They wanted you as their slave. They knew you'd resist them after what
happened last time, so they pulled the apprentice trick Slade used on Robin.
Only this time, it was a bluff and you folded.'
'Hard to believe you made a poker reference.'
'There is a first time for everything. And for you, this could be the first
time, you breaking free entirely on your own will. Do it, Raven. Break the
chains that they placed you in. Free yourself.'
'Thanks, Intelligence.' Raven was distracted by her conversation with
Intelligence that she didn't take notice to where Harley was moving her. They
were heading to the garage and the latter was about to place her in the monster
truck.
Raven had to act fast or all her friends' efforts would be for naught. Quickly
summoning her strength, Raven got back onto her feet, rising from the hands and
knees position her Mistress had ordered her in.
Harley Quinn quickly noticed this and turned around to notice Raven proceeding
to remove the dog collar from her neck (however, the power-suppressing collar
remained firmly on her neck).
She demanded, "Servant bitch! What the fuck are you doing? Get back to being
the bitch you are!"
Raven countered, "No. I'm not your bitch anymore. I will be free."
"Fine, then expect your friends to pay the price."
"Oh, really. With the chips you didn't implant them with. It was all a fucking
bluff you set up to enslave me. If you actually did plant them, you would have
used them by now, and not tortured me instead."
Enraged, Harley proceeded to swing a punch at Raven, quickly striking her in
the head, causing her to stumble backwards as Harley moved in for another
punch. Raven barely side-stepped in time to dodge it and soon quickly rushed
for the door, intending to get out and finally be free of her prison.
However, Harley was much faster than Raven and tackled her onto the ground,
proceeding to curl her hand up into a fist before going underneath Raven's
leotard and pushing it into Raven's womanhood, causing Raven to scream. Harley
remarked, "This is really going to hurt."
Raven snarked, "So is this" as she kicked Harley in the throat, causing her to
lose her grip inside of Raven, who forced her fingers out of her before
recomposing the leotard on herself.
As she continued to move, Harley once again caught up to Raven before throwing
her away from the garage door before she proceeded to shut it, denying Raven
her easy avenue of escape.
Harley charged towards Raven, slamming her into the wall before punching her in
the stomach, depositing her on the ground as she prepared to deliver an
onslaught of damage to her.
Raven just eluded her and crawled away, trying to find something to use as a
weapon against Harley who rapidly moved in, pulling out the bullwhip to beat
her.
She rolled beneath Harley's monster truck as Harley cracked the whip, sliding
out the other side as Harley began creeping up on Raven.
Immediately, Raven noticed a rock laying nearby and grabbed it, intending to
use it. Encountering Harley, the harlequin swung her whip at Raven only to be
met with a rock slamming into her face.
Harley immediately dropped the whip before stumbling onto her monster truck.
Attempting to retaliate, Harley found herself struck by the rock again and soon
began to collapse onto the floor.
Raven took advantage of this as she proceeded to repeatedly strike Harley in
the head with the rock as revenge for all that she had done to her.
After a moment, Raven suddenly heard a familiar voice scream, "Raven!" The
demoness turned around to see Robin there.
Immediately, Raven rose before dropping the rock and then falling onto the
ground. Robin quickly ran to Raven, grabbing hold of her, and proceeded to walk
her out as Gordon arrived to handcuff the unconscious Harley Quinn. He noted,
"Well, Doctor Quinzel, we've got you at last."
As Raven faded into unconsciousness, another memory soon proceeded to surface
in her mind.
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Poison Ivy was going on a "shopping spree" across Gotham and brought along
Raven to get some things, a lot of things.
Ivy deposited her slave on the ground, having placed her in a plant before
dragging her over to downtown Gotham. Ivy barked, "Get me emeralds, money,
coffee, feathers, seeds, and plant food. A lot of them. Understood?"
Raven answered, "Yes, Mistress."
"Good. I'll be back in three hours to collect your merchandise. If you aren't
here in exactly three hours, I will make sure you regret it."
Ivy hopped back onto her plant and proceeded to head off away from downtown
Gotham, leaving Raven to gather things for her Mistress. First, Raven went into
the jewelry store to get the emeralds. Since it was late at night, all the
stores were locked and armed with security systems. Without Ivy to provide any
support, Raven had to break in on her own.
The windows were made of bulletproof glass and the doors were locked with a key
Raven could not possibly obtain. She needed a way inside if she wanted to avoid
Poison Ivy from beating her.
She searched all around the jewelry store until she found a dumpster she could
climb onto. Raven did so, hopping onto the closed dumpster and then landing on
the roof, looking for a way to get in. Finding an air vent, Raven eventually
managed to get it open, and she moved down the vent and landed inside the
story, unfortunately impacting the cash register as she landed on her side.
Brushing off the pain as it was comparatively small to what she had endured,
Raven noticed that she had already lost several minutes and if she didn't move
it, her punishment would be severe.
As she began gathering up emeralds from across the store, her task was
interrupted by what sounded to be a car pulling up. Raven took a look at the
monitor and saw the wordsSILENT ALARM ENGAGED.
Muttering "Azar help me" to herself, Raven quickly ducked into a small space
behind the register, hoping whoever was near wouldn't be looking for her.
Her hopes were almost immediately dashed as the door opened, and Raven heard
brooding footsteps enter the store. She tried to keep her breathing calm so
nobody would hear her, but this person seemed to be undeterred, walking through
the store, his footsteps becoming louder and louder as he came closer.
Raven began to panic as the man walked over the counter and soon spotted the
small space where she was hiding. Opening it up, he saw Raven clenched up
inside before he took off her mask, letting Raven see the man who
arrived...Batman.
Raven silently whimpered, "Help me" before looking away from the Caped
Crusader.
Batman grabbed Raven and then proceeded to place her in the Batmobile before
heading over to the Gotham Police Department, where Raven was handcuffed and
placed in the interrogation room.
He stood silently in observation as Commissioner Gordon began to speak with
Raven. He asked her what her name was, where she was from, how long she was
working for Ivy, and where Ivy was.
Raven soon broke down as she began to respond. "My name is Raven. I was not
born on Earth, but in another dimension called Azarath. They sent me away two
years ago to here, and then Poison Ivy drugged me and captured me. Ever since,
I have been her slave."
Gordon asked, "Do you know where Ivy is?"
"She never let me see where she was holding me, but I can tell you where she
will be. What time is it?"
"Roughly three fifteen in the morning."
"At five hours past midnight, Mistress will be in the center of downtown
Gotham, waiting for me to have stolen a number of goods for her. If I don't
comply, she told me I'd regret it."
"What do you mean...Raven?"
"Every time I slip up, every time I don't do what she says, she beats me. Whips
me on the back. She says I deserve it, and now I think I do. I'm a criminal
just like her."
Raven completely broke down, sobbing into her hands as Gordon walked away from
the interrogation room, intending to visit somebody to verify Raven's story.
Going downstairs to the morgue, Gordon arrived to meet with Doctor Henry
Stiles, the coroner, a Scot in his mid-sixties. Batman soon joined the duo,
hoping to get answers on whether Raven could be trusted.
Dr. Stiles greeted, "Hello, Jim. Batman."
Batman replied, "Henry. You know why we're down here?"
"Yes. You want me to see if Raven is telling the truth."
Gordon inquired, "Is she? Did Poison Ivy beat her?"
Stiles walked up to his desk where he had photographs of Raven's body he took
before she was placed in interrogation. Stiles answered, "Beating was an
understatement, Jim. The girl suffered from severe physical and psychological
abuse. Repeated trauma across her back and bruises all around her. This
suggests that this abuse has been going on for at least several months.
Mentally, based on the transcripts from her interrogation, Ivy forcibly
associated failure with pain, almost as if whenever the girl messed up, she
would be beaten, and she also had been forced into doing horrible things, as
well as her being constantly belittled and denied any sense of self-worth."
"But Raven said she was working for Ivy for two years. What could have
changed?"
"Nothing, actually. Batman brought to my attention a bruise inflicted on her a
month ago during a theft. Based on how slowly it has healed, I know that the
girl is healing slower than an average human."
"How much slower?"
"Adjusting my calculations for the slower healing rate, I'd say that the oldest
of her injuries is roughly two years old. And many of these wounds have been
reopened by Ivy's treatment of her, with constant whippings overlapping the
scars of fading wounds. If you were her, would you have resisted?"
Gordon walked back up to the interrogation room where Raven remained, crying
over the actions she had been forced to commit.
Noticing the commissioner had returned, Raven asked, "What is it? Am I a
criminal just like Mistress?"
Gordon walked up to the table and knelt down, gently moving his hand through
Raven's hair, replying, "Poison Ivy is a criminal. You were her slave, a
victim. Your story checks out."
"Now, can you please end this nightmare? I have to be free of her. Please."
Raven's eyes were pleading, tearing up as Gordon calmly held his hand to her
face, reassuring her everything would be alright.
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The unconscious Raven was brought back to the Gotham Police Department, where
she was examined by Doctor Stiles again. Gordon soon came downstairs to check
on her and Batman soon joined him.
Gordon asked, "Henry, have you finished examining Raven?"
Stiles responded, "Yes, but I'm sorry to say that she ended up a lot worse than
last time."
Batman inquired, "What kind of torture did they inflict on her?"
"Torture? Torture wouldn't even begin to describe this treatment, this
savagery. Repeated lashings across her back, all of which had been made at
around the same time, several days ago."
"When Raven was first abducted. Continue, Henry."
"Thank you, Jim. Anyway, her back, abdomen, and genitalia regions were all
heavily lashed. Her knees were burned with what appears to be a frying pan. Her
face was branded with an ivy leaf, which given the record of her healing
abilities as a Titan, I doubt will ever heal. In addition, her arms had brutal
insults carved into them, and much like the brand, they won't be healing. And
the poor girl was raped, viciously, savagely. Her insides show quite a bit of
damage."
"I kind of expected that with Harley being one of the torturers."
"But there's something else, something that will make Raven a lot more sick."
Batman asked, "What is it, Henry?"
"The poor girl is HIV-positive."
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***** Two-Face *****
Chapter Summary
     Back at the Batcave, the Titans struggle to help Raven heal after
     it's revealed her healing ability has been corrupted by her torture.
Chapter Notes
See the end of the chapter for notes
After having Raven evaluated by Doctor Stiles, Batman took her into the
Batmobile and brought her back to the Batcave in order to help her recover, and
from there, figure out how to help her.
Upon returning to the Batcave, Batman took the unconscious Raven out and
brought her to the medical bay where the other Titans were waiting. Upon
placing Raven down, Beast Boy noticed that Raven's collar was still on and
asked, "Yo, why is her collar still on? Shouldn't we take it off?"
Batman noted, "Normally, I would agree with you, but there are complications."
Robin inquired, "What kind of complications?"
"Doctor Henry Stiles, the coroner at the Gotham Police Department, did an
evaluation on Raven and found all of the damage done to her."
Cyborg commented, "So, we need to take the collar off to heal her."
"That's the thing. He found that Raven is positive for HIV, which Commissioner
Gordon has confirmed came from the Joker."
Robin blurted, "The Joker gave Raven an STD?"
Starfire asked, "Friend Robin, what exactly is an STD?"
"It's a disease passed on through sexual intercourse. There are other ways to
get it, but it primarily comes from sexual intercourse."
"You're right, Robin. From what I've seen in Raven, her immune system has been
corrupted by it, meaning her healing will merely increase the damage to her
body."
"Can't you find some way to get it out of her system?"
"If you don't know this already Beast Boy, there is no cure for HIV. Raven
could end up infected for the remainder of her life. She'll never be able to
heal properly."
"Bruce, there has to be some way to remove the virus from her system. Any magic
that could do it?"
"Maybe. I'd have to see, but it'll take some time, and even if I do find a
spell that could work, I'd likely need Zatanna to do it. And I personally dread
having the two together. Anyway, it's over now."
Robin insisted, "No, it isn't. Harley Quinn may be in prison, now facing a life
sentence, but Poison Ivy's still out there. And as long as Ivy's on the loose,
Raven is not safe. She'll try again and Raven is all the more vulnerable this
time. The woman took away Raven's identity, her sanity, her dignity, her
virginity, and just about her humanity. This doesn't end until we take down Ivy
once and for all."
"Are you sure about that, Robin? We're vigilantes, we can't cross that..."
"That woman is too dangerous to be out on the streets, or even in Arkham. We
have to ensure she'll never be a menace again, for Raven's sake."
As Batman brought Raven down to one of the medical beds in the bay, he asked,
"Starfire, could you put Raven into a hospital garment?"
The alien replied, "Most certainly", taking Raven from Batman's arms and going
to re-dress Raven and put her safely on the bed. As the other Titans headed
away, Batman noticed Robin was still there and approached his former sidekick.
Robin wondered, "What is this about, Bruce?"
"Five years ago. The last time I saw you...until Raven's abduction."
Immediately, the two began to remember what exactly had happened the night that
Robin left Batman's side.
Standing outside of a military research lab, Batman and Robin had received a
tip that there was going to be a heist there tonight and were waiting for the
thief. Robin was rather infuriated with this, as it had been several hours and
they had yet to get results - he had to leave a date with Barbara Gordon for
this.
Robin asked, "Are you sure about this?"
Batman answered, "Positive. Here they come." The Dark Knight ducked to get out
of sight, and Robin did the same as a truck pulled up.
Getting out of the truck were two heavyweight goons, Harley Quinn, her two
hyenas, and the Joker. The Joker commanded, "Come on boys!" Then, a fifth
person, one who obviously looked out-of-place, one who was more meek, like Sid
the Squid, the man who had almost killed Batman (albeit on accident). This man
asked, "So what am I doing here?"
The Joker answered, "You're overwatch, good sir. Alert me if Batman comes my
way." He grabbed a hundred-dollar bill and then placed it in the man's mouth.
The man nodded as he took the bill out of his mouth.
Grabbing what appeared to be a can of snakes, the Joker stuck it to the wall
before backing away and Harley pulled out a handgun, firing a single shot,
detonating the can and opening up the wall into the lab.
Waltzing into the lab, the Joker, Harley, and the goons quickly discovered a
nearby laser. Harley commented, "Ain't it pretty, Mistah J?"
"Indeed, Harley. Load it in, boys." As the two goons grabbed the laser and
deposited it into the truck, Batman and Robin crashed in through the nearby
window. Batman yelled, "Drop it. Surrender, Joker."
All the Joker had to say was, "Either the two of you have never heard of a door
or you rather enjoy pulling glass out of your spandex." The Joker and Harley
quickly pulled out handguns and opened fire on the Dynamic Duo, who took cover
behind a satellite under repair.
Robin grabbed one of his bird-a-rangs and tossed it out at the Joker and
Harley, knocking their guns away. Then, the two goons came back in with
submachine guns and opened fire on the satellite before another goon lobbed a
grenade at the duo, forcing them out of hiding and right into a blaze of
gunfire.
Batman tossed some smoke, blinding the goons long enough for him to grab his
grapple gun, swing up and then land right on the goons, forcing the guns out of
their hands. Then, he heard Harley say, "Babies...go get him!"
The two hyenas ran towards Batman with incredible speed and veracity. Batman
was able to kick one of the two away but the other tackled him and quickly
tried to bite Batman's neck, with only Batman's upper body strength keeping his
neck distant from the hyena's teeth.
Robin, meanwhile, grappled up to a nearby platform and headed until he reached
a satellite display. Hopping onto the display, Robin cut one of the strings
holding it up with a bird-a-rang and swung down below, knocking Harley and the
Joker down onto the ground.
Jumping from the satellite, Robin looked at the collapsed "Clown Prince of
Crime" and his partner before being ambushed by one of the goons. Now being
restrained by the goon, unable to move his arms, Robin fruitlessly kicked at
his legs as the Joker got up from under the satellite and then punched Robin
repeatedly in the stomach as Harley grabbed one of the discarded guns and
prepared to give it to the Joker.
Just as that happened, Robin slammed his feet against the gun, removing it from
the Joker's hands. Then, Robin gave a whistle and the hyena still pouncing on
Batman immediately ran off towards Robin and the goon.
The hyena rammed the goon in the butt, causing him to scream in agony as he let
go of Robin. Batman then rejoined the fight and threw the goon away. However,
the Joker and Harley Quinn then began to flee.
Batman threw a batarang towards the two, but it lodged itself on Harley's
hammer, from which she grabbed the batarang and tossed it away. Immediately,
the two hopped into the truck with the laser.
The rear cargo door on the truck closed and the Joker proceeded to quickly
drive off before Batman and Robin could catch the truck. However, Batman had
already noticed the presence of the meek man, who had already run away from the
scene.
With that, Batman and Robin pursued the overwatch in hopes of locating where
the Joker is hiding with the laser and possibly what is the endgame for the
Joker.
The overwatch soon noticed that Batman was on his tail and ran faster, quickly
ducking into an apartment complex in hopes of eluding them, and ran up to one
of the apartments...which so happened to be his apartment.
Just after getting there, and seeing his girlfriend and her child, he was
tackled by Batman, who pushed him to a wall and began, "Where is he?"
The man asked, "Who?"
"You know who. The Joker. Where is he heading?"
"You...you got this all...wrong. My name is...Winston...Winston Alban. I know
nothing about where the Joker is heading."
"Liar! I saw you providing overwatch for the Joker's robbery only minutes ago.
I saw him give you a hundred dollar bill!" As Batman continued to interrogate
Alban, he did not notice Robin watching in the background, visibly disturbed as
to what Batman was doing.
Eventually, Alban came through. "Okay, okay, please don't hurt me."
"Where is the Joker?"
"He mentioned something about heading to a skyscraper and planning to spread
his laughter across the city."
Suddenly, the television in the room turned on...without anybody turning it on.
On a title card that said,"URGENT NOTICE", written in what appeared to be
crayon, came the voice of Harley, who narrated,"Now, here's an urgent update
from our favorite funny man, The Joker."
Then appearing on screen, with the laser behind him, was the Joker, who
began,"Greetings, Gotham City. How do you do on this fine evening? I bet you're
wondering about what's behind me. It's a concentrated laser beam with perfect
accuracy. And I intend to use it to spread my patent-pending Joker venom
through the city water supply. Unless you pay me two hundred million dollars
within the next...forty-five minutes. No, that won't be enough time, so I'll be
generous. You have two hours to deliver me the money on top of the Canopy
Foundation, and no tricks, or this city will be laughing hard once they take a
swig of the water. Ta." The screen went to black as the Joker continued to
laugh maniacally.
Finally noticing Robin in the background, the Caped Crusader stormed past him,
saying, "The Canopy Foundation isn't a skyscraper. It's obviously a set-up. The
closest skyscraper to the reservoir is Putnam Tower. We need to move."
As the two hopped into the Batmobile, Robin began to complain, "You went too
far with him!"
Batman justified, "I did what I have to do. You saw the television. The Joker's
going to spread his venom through the water supply."
"You just got the information you needed off the television, just like you
said. You did not need to interrogate him in front of his girlfriend and a
child! Do you know what that's going to do to them? Do you?"
Before they could continue their conversation, they arrived at the Putnam
Tower, where the Joker and Harley had set up the laser. They needed to disable
it before the Joker could use it to spread his Joker venom. The big question,
though, was how the Joker was going to disperse the Joker venom. Soon after,
Batman heard Alfred on his com. "Yes?"
"Batman, I've analyzed the reservoir. There is a huge container labeled Joker's
Venom submerged underwater."
"He's going to use the laser to detonate the container and release the venom
into the water supply. So, we really need to destroy that laser and fast."
Batman shot his grapple gun up to the top of Putnam Tower and Robin soon
followed. Reaching the roof where the laser was positioned, the Dynamic Duo
quietly slipped onto the platform, remaining out of sight of the Joker, Harley,
and the goons.
The hyenas, on the other hand, quickly detected their presence and Harley
commanded, "Get the intruders, babies."
Batman and Robin leaped over the hyenas and quickly found themselves ducking
for cover behind a vent as the Joker's goons opened fire, and soon the hyenas
came back towards them.
The Caped Crusader stabbed a needle into one of the hyenas, knocking it
unconscious and Robin handled the other, leaving it tied in the air to a nearby
flagpole. With the hyenas down, they had to stop the Joker from shooting the
container, especially since the laser had incredible accuracy.
Throwing a batarang that disarmed the two goons, Robin rushed towards the laser
to shut it down before it was too late, but was forced to take cover as the
Joker and Harley opened fire on him.
However, that gave Batman a perfect window to throw a batarang at the laser's
power source and severed it, causing the laser to shut down. The Joker
screamed, "No! It's not supposed to work like that!"
The two goons rushed towards Batman, but he quickly took them down and left
them on the ground. Robin then got from cover and raced towards the Joker and
Harley, intending to stop them.
Unfortunately for him, the two leaped from the platform and landed on a helipad
where a helicopter was waiting for them and took off before the two could reach
it.
With the plan stopped (but the Joker still at large), Batman and Robin returned
to the Batcave and then exited from the Batmobile upon arrival.
Infuriated, Robin turned towards Batman and began, "Great, he got away again!
And now you scarred two innocents for life in your rush to stop him!"
"It had to be..."
"...done. That's the same thing you always do, your big Bat scare tactic. How
often has that worked to keep them in prison?"
"Robin, you and I both know how much of a monster the Joker is, and the people
he associates with..."
"Well, look at Charlie Collins. The Joker tortured his mind for years before
demanding he help him with an assassination attempt! And did you interrogate
him in front of his loved ones?"
"The circumstances..."
"Save it, Bruce. I'm done with you." With that, Robin began to walk away from
Batman, walking towards the R-Cycle. Batman rushed to stop him, but Robin
proceeded to punch him in the head, knocking him down on the ground.
Hopping on the R-Cycle, Robin left the Batcave in search of new prospects.
Shortly afterwards, Alfred came down to the Batcave and asked, "Where has
Master Dick gone to?"
"I don't know, Alfred."
"Do you know when he's coming back?"
"I'm not sure he's coming back."
Returning to the present day, Batman continued, "Why did you leave?"
Robin explained, "I was fed up with your style. You could have calmly asked
Alban the same questions, but you interrogated him! And it still didn't get the
madman in prison. It wasn't until Babs lost her legs that the Joker finally
went down."
"The Joker has done a lot of heinous things and he is not easy to stop. As for
the people that I had to hurt, it still haunts me daily. Alban was the last one
I interrogated that way."
"And what ever happened to him?"
"He cleaned up his act and is now a low-level security guard at Wayne
Enterprises. Sometimes, people need a push in the right direction, and it had
to be done. Do you understand, Richard?"
"Yes, you do what had to be done, and I have to admit, part of that was
instilled in me. Even though I try to be so different, we are just so much the
same. Just like with Slade and me."
"Just because that's what you had experienced, doesn't mean that it is how you
have to be. You make your style, your path. Honestly, I never wanted you to end
up becoming me."
"Why?"
"I have to be Gotham's Dark Knight, and with that, it becomes more and more
difficult to connect with people. The reason your uniform isn't like mine, is
that I need some different colors in my life, something other than black and
gray. My training for you, Robin, was to become my counterpart - you the light
to my dark. That's why, Robin. That's why I never wanted you to become me."
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Having been knocked unconscious by Raven, Harley Quinn soon started to awaken,
trying to figure out where she was. As her eyes fluttered open, she saw that
she was sitting in a cell and then she felt that there were handcuffs on her.
Before she could begin removing the cuffs, she saw that she was now in a
straitjacket. Harley yelled out, "Let me go! I have plans!"
Suddenly, she was greeted by the sight of Commissioner Gordon, who asked, "You
have plans, Harley? Hmm, would those so happen to include your job at Arkham
Asylum?"
"I'm going to get fired if you don't let me out. I'm going to have your head."
"Well, you see Miss Quinzel, you have been removed from your job as
psychiatrist when we realized that you were Harley Quinn. And you have finally
been taken down. You've got a court date in a few weeks where you'll be tried
for multiple homicides as well as kidnapping, larceny, non-consensual sex,
human bondage, assault, assisting with a criminal escape, and so much more.
Right now, you're looking at a life sentence, at least."
"Doesn't really matter, I'll just get out of Arkham as everyone else does."
"Oh, you don't understand. You're not at Arkham Asylum. Welcome to Blackgate
Penitentary, the most secure prison in the Midwest. You're not getting out of
here. You will do time for everything you did, a long time."
Gordon walked away from Harley, leaving the incarcerated harlequin to bark out
and scream in anger at her new bondage. She was never getting out of there. She
had finally been captured, which relieved Gordon.
However, there was still the matter of Poison Ivy that they needed to attend
to.
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Back at the Batcave, Raven began to stir in the medical bay, regaining
consciousness as the other Titans waited. At last, Raven awoke from her
unconscious state, watching them watch her.
Raven asked, "Robin, Starfire, Beast Boy, Cyborg, where am I?"
Robin replied, "You're safe now. You're in the Batcave. We rescued you from
Ivy's base."
"Did you get her?"
"Ivy escaped. You got Harley, she's in Blackgate expecting at least a life
sentence, if not more."
Raven looked down at her body, seeing she was no longer in her green leotard
but rather a hospital garment that went down to her legs. She also took notice
that the collar was still around her neck.
"Why haven't you taken the collar yet? You know I have to heal."
"Raven, you're positive for HIV. Your healing isn't working properly and we
can't take the risk of you trying to heal. It could end up hurting your body
even worse."
"You're right, Robin. While my father didn't have to worry about it, nor my
mother, I do. HIV corrupts my white blood cells, which also makes my body heal
incorrectly, merely increasing the damage. How am I going to live like this?"
"We'll find a way to make you well."
"Just how bad is it, Robin?"
"You lost thirteen pounds and quite a bit of water. Once we've removed the
disease from your system, you should recover faster and we can take the collar
off. Unfortunately, even if you heal, some of your wounds will remain
permanent."
"Which ones?"
"The brand on your face and the carvings in your arms, and your hymen." Raven
looked away from Robin for a moment, realizing that the torture she wanted to
vanish the most would be the ones that would never leave her. She would be
forever branded as Ivy's, even if she had managed to escape.
She would never forget what the criminal botanist had done to her. Her recovery
would now take a lot longer than the Titans would have thought. They never
thought that anyone could be that sadistic, that cruel. Even Slade wouldn't
have done such damage. But Poison Ivy proved them wrong, that somebody could do
that much damage if they really wanted to, and she did to Raven. A full demon
would have trouble recovering from what Ivy did, but a half-demon - it was even
harder, especially since she was half-human as well.
Raven slumped back onto her bed, staring away from the Titans. She could not
bear to look at them because she did not want them to look at her while she was
so vulnerable, so weak, a wounded animal waiting for the inevitable.
All Raven could do now was wait for her death, unable to do anything, unable to
fight it, in pain from so many wounds that she would want to give up. She began
to sob into her hands, having abandoned all hope she could get better, that she
was too weak to stop it.
The Titans, however, refused to let Raven give up and die, and they would do
what it takes to help her recover and get well again. They would make sure that
Raven returns to the girl they all came to know and love.
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Raven soon fell back asleep, trying to avoid eye contact with her friends,
dreading their reaction to the person she has now become. As her thoughts
metabolized around her, she began to shake and clench in her sleep.
Raven found herself in the hallway to the main room of the Tower. She looked
around herself and saw she was in her cloak and leotard, wrapping her cloak
tightly around herself with the hood up before proceeding into the ops room of
the Tower.
She looked around, trying to see who was there, if anyone was there. As she
headed down the stairs towards the couch, she felt a surge of anger and
disgust, a feeling that she was not welcome there. However, despite the emotion
she was sensing, she could not see anybody there.
Suddenly, out of nowhere, she was blasted over the side of the couch with a
starbolt, landing painfully on the table. Raven turned her head to see the four
angry Titans, all ready to kill her. Beast Boy was a velociraptor whose teeth
were showing, he was practically smiling as he waited to pounce on the
demoness. Cyborg had his sonic cannon aimed right at Raven's chest, coldly and
without compassion. Starfire had her hands glowing green as she floated in the
air, with an angry scowl on her face, waiting to blast her again. Robin had his
bo-staff which actually had a bird-a-rang attached to the end, making it
sharper.
Raven asked, nervously, "What's going on?"
Robin growled, "We don't let traitors in our team."
"I'm not a traitor, Robin!"
"Oh really, then why did you join us after you worked for Poison Ivy?"
"She abducted me. She never gave me a choice. Please, Robin. I can't go back to
her. She'll kill me."
Suddenly, Beast Boy changed into a giant gorilla and proceeded to grab Raven
tightly around her torso, walking up to one of the windows as Robin said,
"Well, then, I guess that's a risk we're going to have to take. Goodbye, you
rotten bitch."
Beast Boy then tossed Raven through the window, sending her plummeting outside,
falling rapidly towards the ground. She tried to reach the water to avoid the
pain of landing on the ground.
As she fell, the other Titans looked at her, angrily and remorseless, as if
they were pleased with her being gone. Cyborg then fired off a round of his
sonic cannon and struck Raven in the back, increasing her speed as she fell
into the water.
As she impacted into the water, Raven soon found herself right back in the cell
she had escaped from - Poison Ivy's cell.
She stared around in shock, seeing that she had been changed into her green
leotard and boots with the collar right on her neck.
Suddenly, she saw Poison Ivy right behind her holding the whip. She smirked,
"Time for your punishment, servant bitch" as she cracked the whip onto Raven's
sensitive back.
Raven jolted awake, disturbed by her nightmare. She continued to lay still on
the bed in the Batcave, staring at the wall. The Titans couldn't see Raven's
face, but they could tell that there was almost nothing in her violet eyes
except pain, humiliation, and fear - all from her treatment at Poison Ivy's
hand.
The criminal botanist had all but broken her, physically and mentally, and had
damaged Raven's soul perhaps beyond repair. The damage to Raven was
overwhelming, which they were starting to doubt could be fully repaired.
Her sanity was slipping and she was starting doubt her own friends, her only
family, thinking that they were going to kick her out just like Azarath did,
and every moment of pain Raven experienced in her nightmares Robin felt. He
wanted to help her, but he didn't know how.
A few moments later, Bruce Wayne came down to the Batcave holding a book. Robin
asked, "Bruce, what's in the book?"
Bruce replied, "Richard, look at this spell. I think it might repair Raven's
healing ability." Robin looked at the spell in the book and saw what it was - a
spell that would basically be a massive blood transfusion, exchanging Raven's
HIV-infected blood with healthy blood. This was a very potent spell, but the
patient had to be able to have enough of a life force to withstand having their
blood removed, so it would prove to be more harmful than helpful for "regular"
people. While they were pretty sure they could get Raven's blood, AB-positive,
they needed somebody with sufficient magic skill to perform it.
Unfortunately for Batman and Robin, there was really only one person that could
perform the spell. Robin asked, "So, we need a powerful sorcerer to perform the
spell?"
Bruce replied, "If they're not powerful enough, then Raven will bleed to death
as her body won't have enough blood to sustain itself. Unfortunately for us,
Zatanna is the only sorcerer powerful enough."
"What about Fate?"
"Doctor Fate is out of this dimension and won't be back in time. We need
Zatanna, and as much as we don't want her and Raven to cross paths, we don't
have a choice."
"Call her, Bruce. Get her to the Batcave as soon as she possibly can. I'll have
Cyborg get blood for the transfusion."
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Batman quickly called the Watchtower and sent a request to have Zatanna to be
zeta-tubed to Gotham immediately so she could perform the spell to save Raven's
life.
Zatanna, not knowing the identity of the patient, immediately got into the Zeta
tube (a teleporter) and arrived in Gotham where Beast Boy soon met her, turning
into a pterodactyl and carrying her over towards the Batcave. The sooner she
got to Raven, the better.
After a minute of flight, Beast Boy arrived back at the Batcave with Zatanna.
Batman was waiting inside the opening of the cave. Zatanna asked, "Hello,
Batman, what do you need me for?"
Batman replied, "We need your help. We need you to perform Darah penyembuhan."
"Blood healing. Can you tell me who I will be performing the spell on?"
Batman summoned Zatanna and the two walked into the Batcave, followed by Beast
Boy. They walked up to the bed where Raven was laying, where Cyborg and Robin
were getting the blood ready for the transfusion.
Batman explained, "Her name is Raven. A few days ago, she was abducted by
Poison Ivy and was brutally beaten and tortured. Amongst these tortures was
sexual assault on behalf of the Joker, infecting her with HIV. Normally, Raven
can heal substantial injuries but the HIV is corrupting that healing ability.
We need to perform the spell so she can heal her wounds, well most of them
anyway."
Zatanna walked up to Raven, examining the visible damages on her as she
examined Raven's aura. As she looked at Raven, who had been sedated, Zatanna
inquired, "Bruce, there's something you aren't telling me. I can tell she is
human, but only partially. What is the other half of her ancestry?"
Robin reluctantly answered, "Demonic." As Zatanna looked up in shock, Robin
continued, "Raven is the daughter of Trigon the Terrible, a demon Archfiend
known as Scath. A year and a half ago, Trigon came to the Earth and nearly
destroyed it but Raven managed to defeat and mortally cripple him."
"So, Raven is the Gem."
Batman noted, "This is why we were hesitant to call you. We knew you would
refuse if you knew of her parentage. It's why none of the League officially
knows Raven exists."
Zatanna lamented, "Perhaps a few years ago, I would have tried to have the
League attack her. But now her demonic taint has diminished. She needs to be
saved. Do you have everything to perform Darah penyembuhan?"
"Yes. We need to do this as soon as we can. We'll give you some space to
perform it." Batman then handed the spellbook with the spell to perform the
transfusion to Zatanna before walking away.
The other Titans proceeded to join Batman in moving away, leaving Zatanna alone
with Raven. The magician then grabbed the six packs of blood Robin and Cyborg
had collected and placed them in a circle. Then, Zatanna moved Raven from her
bed to inside of the circle.
Zatanna began to chant, "Asinis no inficētām asinīm, cilvēka remonts kaitējumu
dziedēt viņu! Dziedēt viņu! Nodot asinis uzglabātā viņas ķermeņa un aizstāt
grauj slikti asinis. Viņa var būt labi."
As she performed the ritual, the blood in the packs began to turn into a red
gas that began to penetrate Raven's legs as another whitish gas began to flow
out of Raven's arms.
After several minutes, the flow of gases stopped as Raven's infected blood had
been replaced with healthy blood. Once the ritual had finished, Batman walked
over to the still sleeping Raven and removed the collar from her neck, finally
allowing her access to her powers again.
Batman quickly grabbed Raven and placed her on the bed. As soon as she was
placed on the bed, they noticed she was levitating, signaling that she was in a
healing trance.
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As Raven slept and healed, she began to experience a flashback to her time
after being freed from Poison Ivy.
It had been about a month and a half since Raven had turned over Ivy to save
herself from her Mistress's torture.
Now, Raven had been relocated to the Batcave, where she resided in a small room
presided over by Batman and Alfred, trying to help her recover. During the day,
Alfred gave Raven much needed nourishment to help her regain her strength so
she could heal all of her wounds. As well, he offered Raven psychiatric
assistance, acting as a therapist to release Raven's account of what happened.
To replace her old uniform, Raven now had a black shirt and red shorts as well
as slip-on sneakers, which Raven found a bit more comfortable than her old
uniform, but not as comfortable as her cloak and leotard.
Batman helped Raven work on her hand-to-hand combat and rebuilding her
strength. Batman had ultimately made an arrangement with Gordon so Raven would
remain in his custody to help her recover and keep her safe from Poison Ivy
until her trial.
From there, however, Batman was unsure of what to do with Raven. He doubted she
would be stable enough to remain with him, but there weren't enough places for
her to go. He needed Raven to gain control of her powers before he figured
where Raven would go.
After her latest session of combat with Batman, Raven went to her bed in the
Batcave. Before she could get in her bed, she suddenly spasmed and collapsed
onto the floor. Batman quickly noticed and rushed to Raven, trying to figure
out what happened.
Batman asked, "Raven, what happened?"
Raven responded, "My mind. My father berated me for what happened, called me
worthless, undeserving to live, not even a human, just an object."
"How?"
"I'm not human, Batman. Not entirely. My mother was human, from Gotham,
actually. My father, is not."
"What is he, Raven?"
"Trigon."
"Dear God. Are you..."
"The Gem. That's why my dimension kicked me out. Why I have my powers. Why I
look like this. Why I deserved my treatment atherhands."
"No, Raven. You didn't deserve any of that punishment."
"So what's going to happen to me now? Are you going to hand me off to your
friends at the Justice League for trial?"
An idea suddenly sprung to Batman's mind. "No, I think I may have a solution
that will be more beneficial. Do you remember Robin?"
As Raven remembered when Batman found out she was half-demon, the Titans
continued to watch Raven levitate above the bed, breathing normally as some of
her wounds started to disappear. Raven just might make it through this after
all.
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Chapter End Notes
     Okay, "Asinis no inficētām asinīm, cilvēka remonts kaitējumu dziedēt
     viņu! Dziedēt viņu! Nodot asinis uzglabātā viņas ķermeņa un aizstāt
     grauj slikti asinis. Viņa var būt labi" is Latvian for "Blood of
     infected blood of human repair the damage heal her! Heal her!
     Transfer the blood stored into her body and replace the blood tainted
     by ill. May she be well." The name of the spell, Darah penyembuhan is
     Malay for "blood healing".
***** Poison Ivy *****
Chapter Summary
     As the Titans return home, Ivy makes one last attack to reclaim
     Raven.
It's been a day since Zatanna had finished the blood healing spell on Raven,
and she had almost finished healing what she could, seeing as some of her
wounds were now permanent fixtures to her body.
As she silently sat on her bed, Robin walked up to her. Raven asked, "What are
you here for, Robin?"
Robin proceeded to lay down on the bed one of Raven's cloaks and leotards. Upon
turning around to see her new clothing, Robin remarked, "I think you'd want
these. Your favorites. Figured you'd be more comfortable in them than in that.
Hopefully it will begin to feel more normal."
Raven responded, "Thanks, Robin, but the old normal for me is gone forever.
This is the new normal for me, as much as I hate it, I have to live with it
until I die."
Robin turned around as Raven quickly slipped into her cloak and leotard,
relishing the comfortable feeling of them. After putting them on, Raven slid
the hood over her head, which barely managed to cover the brand on her face.
Raven turned around and asked, "So how do I look?"
"Like none of this ever happened. You look like you."
"Thanks, but I can't keep my hood up forever. Eventually they will know."
Raven turned back around, once again anxious about looking at Robin. "It won't
matter, Raven. They're not going to call for your expulsion if they see your
face."
"Then how will I explain it? Some random accident? They're not idiots. They're
vultures. They will figure it out. It's only a matter of time. My time as a
Titan is over. Face it, Ivy was right. I don't belong as a Titan."
Robin quickly stormed up to Raven and turned her around. "Listen to me, Raven.
Poison Ivy was lying to you. You do belong as a Titan. So what if they figure
it out? Does it really matter? What difference does your past make on your
future? You were prophesized to end the world and you averted it."
"Thanks, Robin."
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Over the next few days, Raven worked on regaining the strength that was lost as
a result of her weight loss, working her way back to her original figure.
In addition, Alfred and Robin provided psychiatric help for Raven, help her
cope with the trauma that Ivy put her through. Still, Raven suffered nightmares
of what Poison Ivy did to her, and insomnia plagued her as much as her dread of
returning to Jump City.
They had to make Raven feel as if none of this was her fault, that everything
was going to be okay in the end. While they worked on helping Raven recuperate
from what Ivy had done to her, Batman and the Titans were out searching for
Poison Ivy, intending to capture her once and for all to ensure Raven would
never feel threatened by the botanist again.
However, this was much easier said than done as Poison Ivy had all but vanished
- they couldn't find her nor her identity Doctor Pamela Isley, and there were
no traces of anybody fitting her description anywhere in Gotham.
The Titans figured that they should be ready to return very soon to Jump City -
they missed their home and needed to get back. Anything to help Raven recover
sooner.
At last, the Titans figured they could go home. They had finished
rehabilitating Raven as much as they could, and figured that the rest of the
recovery would happen back in Jump.
On their last day in Gotham, the Titans packed up, having spent most of their
time in the Batcave with some time spent in Wayne Manor for meals and sleeping,
whenever they weren't busy searching for Raven. In order to protect their
identities, they once again applied their holo-rings while Raven simply
teleported into the airport, unseen. It was very fortunate for the Titans that
Bruce Wayne owned the airport, or their identities would be exposed to the
world.
The Titans each said their goodbyes to Bruce Wayne and Alfred, with Robin
promising to come back some time before Alfred drove the four back to the
airport where Raven was waiting, as she still didn't want to be seen. Just as
they decided in the beginning, the fewer people that know, the better. In a few
hours, they would return to Jump City and everything would be alright.
However, not everything was alright in Jump City, as they would soon find out.
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The Titans finally arrived back in Jump City, soon approaching on Titans Tower,
preparing to land inside the hangar bay and then they would finally be home
after two months away and then relieve their replacements of the duty of
guarding over the city so they could return to their own homes.
As they neared the Tower, Cyborg spoke, "Tower, this is Titan Five, coming in
to land. ETA two minutes. Does anybody copy?"
On the other end, Kid Flash replied, "Got you Cyborg, coming in. Welcome back."
"Good to be back." The Titans soon arrived back in the Tower, opening the
hangar doors as the T-ship landed inside. Upon touchdown, the doors opened and
the Titans quickly got out, returning to their home.
Starfire exclaimed, "Oh, how great it is to be back at home."
Beast Boy commented, "Yeah, it's been a while. I really missed this place."
With that, Beast Boy and Starfire quickly ran off into the Tower, not knowing
what was laying ahead for them. Suddenly, Robin realized something, "Hey,
shouldn't Kid Flash be here? You know, to greet us? He always does when we
return from a long journey. Where is he?"
Cyborg pulled out his communicator, calling Kid Flash. Trying to get an answer,
he said, "Kid Flash, we're back. Where are you? Are you there? Kid Flash,
answer me. Where are you?"
Suddenly, Robin's communicator began to ring loudly and he flipped it open to
reveal a screaming Beast Boy, who yelled, "Robin, the others have been taken.
She's here..." Suddenly, Beast Boy was cut off and Raven anxiously noted,
"Poison Ivy. She's taken the Tower."
As vines began to linger into the hangar, Robin ordered, "Raven, run."
Raven quickly fled away from the vines as Robin and Cyborg went to battle with
them, trying to bring down the plant villain once and for all. Robin sent
herbicide and cryo bird-a-rangs towards the plants, only having some
effectiveness as there were far too many for Robin's limited supply. Cyborg
fired his sonic cannon at them, trying to cut them down, but it seemed like
there was a never-ending supply of vines coming right at him. They couldn't
hold out forever, but they needed to buy Raven time to escape. Every second she
remained there, she remained in danger at Ivy's hand.
As Raven tried to escape, she was suddenly cut off by a giant fern as Poison
Ivy soon approached. She snarked, "Well, lookie here. The servant bitch is too
afraid to help her friends fight little old me off. Just another reason you
belong to me."
Raven yelled, "Never" as she sent a wave of black energy that destroyed the
fern. Ivy responded, "You'll pay for that" and sent more vines Raven's way,
forcing Raven to phase into the floor. More vines began to fill the hangar as
eventually Robin and Cyborg were caught in them, no longer able to fight back
against her.
Landing in one of the staircases, vines suddenly began to flow, forcing Raven
to keep moving in order to avoid them. She tried using her powers to destroy
the vines, but they dramatically outnumbered her, and Raven's fear was kicking
in, which began to take its toll on her powers.
Soon arriving in the gym, Raven saw Argent and Bushido both surrounded by
vines, unconscious but still alive. Before Raven could attempt to free them,
Ivy's vines sprung to attack, forcing Raven to divert her energy into defending
herself.
While she did so, taking down the vines, Argent and Bushido were both sucked
out of the room and more vines simply took their place. Raven soon fled down,
heading into the basement storage of the Tower where she saw Jinx and Hot Spot
entrapped by the same vines that Argent and Bushido were encased in.
And yet again, the vines began to flood in as Jinx and Hot Spot were removed
from the room. Raven was slowly surrounded by the vines, cutting down as many
as she could. Raven decided if she were to go down, she would go down fighting.
She would not surrender, she would not be enslaved by Ivy again. She would die
free, even though she would prefer to live.
Raven continued to slash down the vines as she soon found herself in the lounge
near the front door with vines quickly surrounding Raven, blocking the door and
the staircases and giving the sorceress no room to escape. Poison Ivy soon came
down the staircase, followed by the other Titans she had taken captive.
Ivy remarked, "Isn't this exciting? Nine Titans in my possession, and you will
make ten. Or rather, I've got one Titan and nine pieces of leverage to use
against you."
Raven growled, "I will not be your slave again."
"You know, before I was bluffing about killing your friends, but now...", Ivy's
speech was interrupted by one of her plants bringing down Robin, knocked
unconscious by the vines, and she calmly stroked his cheek with her hand, "...I
have total power over you. I can kill each and every one of them."
"You wouldn't dare."
"Would I? I can simply have my vines snap their necks and rip them limb to limb
until they are nothing but organs, or I can apply my patented kiss of death.
You see, my dear Raven, you lose. You will become my servant or your friends
will die.
Ivy paused before continuing, "On second thought, I will just kill your friends
and make you my servant for the rest of your miserable life. You will never
disobey me, you will always follow your directions, you will be my slave and
you will like it."
Raven responded, "No, you will not win. I am not yours!" as she threw a table
surrounded in black energy towards Poison Ivy. Two vines quickly picked it up
and it landed on the ground, missing Poison Ivy.
"Weak. That's all you are. Too weak to admit you lost. Insolent bitch, I will
correct that. You will not oppose me anymore."
A bunch of Ivy's vines quickly moved in to attack Raven. She responded with a
series of black energy daggers that cut them down. Raven then charged at Poison
Ivy, hands glowing black, only for Ivy to respond with a blow to Raven's chest
that sent her to the ground.
Ivy added, "And too weak to stop me. You can't oppose me if you tried. I like
the light, it always prevails over the dark. I am on the light and you are on
the dark. And look where you are now. At my now nonexistent mercy. If you won't
obey me, I guess it is up to me to end your wretched life."
Vines quickly began to converge on Raven, binding her legs. As they started to
drag her, Ivy pulled out the power suppressing collar. "No more mistakes,
servant bitch."
Raven screamed "No" and soon the power suppressing collar was forced out of
Ivy's hand onto the floor. "Hmm, I do hope I didn't make you upset."
Suddenly, something in Raven was unleashed, the side Raven kept suppressed for
so long, the side that Raven now chose to take over her, now fueled by it.
Rage.
Raven snarled as she looked down, "You've never seen me upset." Raven turned
her head up and revealed her eyes had changed from her two violet ones to four
blood crimson slits.
The vines that constrained her were soon evaporated by black energy and Raven's
cloak soon expanded to reveal tendrils of dark energy that soon began to crawl
towards Ivy.
Poison Ivy yelled, "Disobedience. Babies, fuck her up."
A lot of vines soon charged at Raven's dark tendrils but each one was
overpowered by the tendrils as Raven fueled them with her own nearly infinite
power.
The dark tendrils moved towards Ivy as she ran, beginning to fear what was
going on. Demon-Raven remarked, "Funny, now who's afraid? You, Mistress? No
more. I am free."
They ensnared Ivy by the legs and crashed her to the ground before two more
wrapped around her arms, firmly locking her as they began to drag her towards
Raven, getting her revenge for all the torment she suffered under her.
Ivy began to beg, "Please, servant bitch, let me go. Please, and I won't hurt
you."
This did nothing to appease Raven as she roared, "No. I will not let you be
free. You must pay for what you did. You must suffer."
As the tendrils soon began to pull Ivy towards the infinite blackness of
Raven's cloak, Ivy croaked out, "Please, servant bitch, I order you to!"
"My name is Raven and I will never obey you again."
The tendrils gave one last tug and Poison Ivy was sucked into the folds of her
cloak. Without their master, the vines died, releasing the bound Titans who
started to awaken from the sedative.
Beast Boy shook his head as he inquired, "Uh, what happened?" As he looked
around to see all of the dead vines, he continued, "Okay, what did happen
here?"
Robin soon noticed one important factor, "Where's Poison Ivy?"
Suddenly, Raven, who remained in demon form, began to shrink back to her normal
size, her cloak joining Raven as it spilled out Poison Ivy, left badly bruised
and heavily shaken.
Her teeth were chattering, her body was shaking, and her arms were around her
body which had been covered with a lot of different injuries. Raven's eyes soon
changed back from their four slits into her two normal ones before walking up
to the Titans.
Raven explained, "She'll never hurt anyone again. I made sure of that."
Robin asked, "How?"
"Let's just say Rage had a talk with her. She won't be a threat anymore."
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With Poison Ivy captive, the Titans brought her to Gotham, where she was
returned to prison and indicted on new charges of human bondage, attempted
murder, kidnapping, and conspiracy to commit murder, which added to her old
sentence gave her a life sentence plus three hundred years in prison.
And Poison Ivy wasn't going to escape. She had essentially been lobotomized by
Raven, taking away her competency and her will as revenge for everything Ivy
put her through trying to break her. Ivy would never escape the prison she was
sent to, Blackgate, the same prison that held Harleen Quinzel.
In addition, the Gotham Police Department decided that Arkham wasn't safe
enough so they decided to ultimately tear Arkham Asylum down and replace it.
They sent dangerous inmates like the Joker to the maximum-security Blackgate
while they built a new prison designed for less severe criminals and a new
asylum for less sane inmates, one that worked like Arkham, but with a prisoner
list that was decided by Doctor Stiles, who could tell which were sane and
which were not.
Meanwhile, at Arkham Asylum, which was set to be demolished upon construction
of the new facilities, and much emptier now that the dangerous criminals were
now at Blackgate, a number of prisoners still remained, including Mr. Freeze,
Catwoman (who had since been recaptured in the few days since the escape
attempt), and Bane.
The masked strongman waited in his cell for what was coming to happen next. As
he sat quietly in his cell, a guard soon came up to his cell door, asking,
"Bane?"
Bane replied, "Yes, Officer Dean?"
Officer Dean opened the cell door and Bane arose, walking towards the now open
door. Dean indicated, "Follow me please."
Bane did so, walking behind Officer Dean as they proceeded through Arkham
Asylum, heading towards the front entrance of the soon-closing asylum.
Upon arriving at the front, Bane asked, "What is going on, Officer?"
As Bane headed down to the main lobby, Robin asked Raven, "Are you sure about
this, Raven? I mean, this place is probably toxic to you considering what
happened. No one would blame you if you chose to exit."
Even though Raven was obviously shaking in anxiety, Raven insisted, "I'm fine,
Robin."
As for Bane, Officer Dean replied, "This."
Suddenly, he was surprised by the sight of Robin, Raven, and Batman. Batman
indicated, "You've been granted parole Bane. Following the events at Arkham
Asylum a week ago, you were nominated for early release given your actions in
helping Raven and the light nature of your crime. Congratulations, you're a
free man."
Bane was stunned and was at a loss for words. "I don't know what to say."
Raven stepped up and said, "You helped me out in one of my darkest hours. You
offered a kind ear when I thought I had none. And I also got you a little
something."
Raven pulled from beneath her cloak a piece of brown paper which bore the label
BIRTH CERTIFICATE: ASGAR MURINOV BORN 14 APRIL 1982.
Raven continued, "It's your birth certificate, Mr. Murinov. I found it by
locating the village where you were born in. The extreme population decline
when you were three helped narrow it down."
Bane then embraced Raven into a hug, noting, "Thank you, Raven for everything."
Raven commented, "It was the least I could do."
Letting Raven down, Bane was escorted to the front gates by Robin, who asked,
"So, what are you going to do now?"
Bane answered, "I have heard that a Mrs. Waller wants to see me. Some sort of
work in the Secret Six."
"You'll be fine, Bane. Just be the person you were to Raven, willing to defend
with a heart."
As Bane walked out of Arkham Asylum for the final time, he looked back at
Batman, Robin, and Raven, who waved at him as he walked off.
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Back in Jump City, the Titans had cleaned the Tower of Ivy's vines and were now
getting readjusted to being back home. Cyborg and Beast Boy were playing their
racing game while Starfire was busy preparing one of her traditional Tamaranean
meals, which was shaping up to look like a stew of raw sewage colored orange
filled with garbage.
Raven was silently meditating on the roof as the sun began to set on Jump City.
After so much torture, torment, and fear, Raven was finally and forever free
from her Mistress Poison Ivy. Nothing was the same now since her past with Ivy
has come to surface.
Now, new fears still plagued Raven's mind. What would her friends think of her?
Would they order her removal from the team? Would the city? And how would she
deal with the scars that would never disappear. Her arms were carved with BITCH
and WHORE and her face had a brand of an ivy leaf burned into her cheek. And
her hymen was gone as well, and could never be retrieved. The trauma she had
undergone would not go away that easily, with the two years she had undergone
years earlier, and now the two months she had endured now. Despite all the
therapy she had done with Alfred, the psychological damage wouldn't go away and
would likely haunt her for years to come.
As she dreaded her future, Robin ascended onto the rooftop, watching Raven from
behind as she levitated just above the roof. Raven noted, "I know you're there
Robin."
Robin replied, "I was being stealthy. How'd you know?"
"Empath, remember. I can sense you and the others. Plus, our bond was growing
stronger."
"Yeah. Kinda figured you'd catch me."
"What are you doing up here, Robin?"
"I was just checking to see if everything was okay."
"I'm fine, Robin."
"Raven..."
"It's just...everything that's happened. I still don't know how they're going
to treat me."
"I'm sure everything will be okay."
"You may be sure, but I still have my doubts. What would the city say when they
find out that one of Poison Ivy's slaves was one of their heroes? And a half-
demon at that?"
"They wouldn't make an issue over it."
"Or they'd send me off to a prison where I'd never escape."
"No they won't. You have saved a lot of lives, hell, you saved the entire
universe. I don't think they'd mind your past if these are your results."
"And what about the other Titans? What about you? There was a reason Batman was
skeptical about sending me to you. And you've shown it several times,
especially with situations involving Slade."
Robin walked up to Raven as she lowered herself onto the ground, turning around
to see Robin in front of her. "Don't worry, Raven. Everything will be alright.
Trust me."
With that, Robin took Raven into a deep hug that Raven returned. As they
hugged, Raven reminisced to when they moved into the Tower.
It had been about two weeks since the battle with the Gordonian slavers, and
the newly-minted Teen Titans were preparing to move into the now-finished tower
in the bay the media is calling Titans Tower, especially since it looks like a
large T.
Robin had already moved his modest belongings into his room while others were
being shipped from Wayne Manor back in Gotham. Cyborg and Beast Boy were in the
process of doing the same, bringing their stuff into the Tower and into their
rooms.
Seeing how Starfire had nothing, as she had come from Tamaran, which was far
away from Earth, Bruce Wayne anonomously provided the alien with a credit card
to buy things in order to furnish her room (while being supervised by Robin, of
course, seeing how she was very new to Earth).
Raven, on the other hand, was still nervous about moving in. Her emotions were
highly volitaile, and one bad day could easily kill them all. In addition, she
still had her doubts about Robin as he didn't know about her past - neither her
time with Poison Ivy nor her destiny as the Gem of Scath. If he did know, then
Raven figured she would be imprisoned or worse.
When he noticed that Raven was hesitant to move in, Robin went up to Raven and
asked, "Aren't you coming, Raven?"
Raven answered, "I don't know. I don't think you'd want me around. It'd be for
the best."
However, Robin insisted, "Raven, we definitely want you around. Weneedyou
around. You're why we are all here. Come on."
Raven ultimately accepted Robin's invitation and moved her things, also bought
on Bruce Wayne's funds into the Tower.
Robin ultimately released Raven and said, "Come on, let's go inside."
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