“We were fighting against mind trollers and thought we caught them all but someone ulling the strings even further back.” I grabbed Did checked his brain just in case but saw no se of the pulsions if he had been given aal suggestions. “Alright, I got to go find Cassandra, Stephanie might be pissed when she wakes up because she’s going to have a bunch of-.”
She woke up instantly screaming. “MOTHER FUCKER I’LL KILL YOU!” Instinctively she punched out and smashed Dick right in his face. After realizing what she did she put her hands over her mouth. “It wa-.” I interrupted her. “Cass is still under trol. I got to borrow your mana to find her.” I put my hand on her back without asking and linked ics together. I began to cast a trag spell.
It was an altered version of the druidic spell as ahereal bird took shape and began to head towards the door. I looked around the room. “We got any other fliers who track me?” Beast Boy stood up and ged forms being the same bird as the spell. Starfire and Raven were also there but the brief mention as I expined what happened and they heard I art of the 100 made them wary.
“Steph is going to be exhausted for a while so she’s out and someone has to watch her. I don’t think the troller would have attacked Batman so we don’t have to worry about him being under trol. This man is dangerous. He is a ghost who hid his hand through other mind trollers over and ain.”
I got fused looks and one of the younger kids asked. “What the what?” I expined further. “He had a mind troller he mind trolled, trol another mind troller who was trolling another mind troller. Think of y bad guys like Lex Luthor except if he could trol people with mind powers. That’s what we’re dealing with and I have to ght now. The trag bird only sts so long.”
I don’t wait for any more help as me a Boy take off after the bird. It flies extremely fast and I would have lost sight of it if it wasn’t so eye-catg and high above all the other buildings in the area. I had pletely fotten about the knife wound but my mid-superhuman regeion took care of it.
The bird began cirg a warehouse and I didn’t waste time smashing through a window. I was in a hurry because if the mind troller could refresh the pulsions he could tell Cassandra to flee from the sight of me or have her kill herself. The only thing visible iire empty warehouse is her.
With a creepy smile, she asked. “Was it as good for you as it was for me?” She pulled the knife across her throat and I dove for her. Even while dying she kept the creepy smile on her fad held the knife up in an attempt to stop me. I just guided it to a safer spot to be stabbed and pinned her down with my strength as I began knittihroat back together before unraveling the mental pulsions.
The fucker put extra effort into Cassandra because she was already a low superhuman in terms of strength. If things were to g when they fronted me she would have the best urder me. Altogether there were fifty pulsions with most bei around listening to Stephail things went wrong then they were built around hurting herself and killing me.
My teeth made popping noises as I ground them together from anger. He targeted me! HE TARGETED MY FUG PEOPLE! Tears streamed down my face as I thought about what I was going to do to him when I caught him. He killed my kindness. He couldn’t keep finding other mind trollers to hide behind. I’ll fug keep systematically killing them.
The sed bad news I got was the person looked differently than he did in Stephanie’s memories. I was so angry I fot to check for traps. I looked around the room scared for a moment but only saw Beast Boy who looked at me with fear in his eyes. I could only tell him what I knew already. “He targeted me. All the mental pulsions I unraveled were there to try and kill me. He could do it with other people I know.”
I felt sick leaving su obvious enemy unmurdered but I o find him first. The only way I knew of would be making a tract with a demon to find his location or trag a fae to find him but both of those would put me in a worse position than if I just found him myself. I portal us back right as Cassandra is waking up.
“MURDER HIM! I’LL FUG KILL HIM!” She thankfully didn’t attack me and looked sheepishly at what she shouted out. Even someone who believes everyone should have a sed stinctively knows that people who ind trol out of all powers aren't worth saving.
I felt it again. I was behind again. I o bee untouchable. I o develop my magical teology to a new level to find this fucker. “Raven, you check them and make sure I didn’t do any damage untangling the mental suggestions they were under? I…” I sighed as I khis was going to suck. “I o go talk to my boss.”
Steph stopped me before I left. “How did you know?” I didn’t expined any further. “It’s how slow you were responding to me. Like your brain o check if what you were about to say fit into the exa he was going for. You’re a goddamn Robin, that makes you a quip master pared to other people... I'd also like to think you wouldn't just randomly push an ultimatum onto me like that.”
I portaled outside the entrao SHIELD. I could have teleported inside Nick’s room but decided that might be enough to piss him off and go the normal way. I’m let in by his secretary and sit across from him. I wait a few seds before I finally ask. “Any ce eed up the stru of the magical department? I need people I rely on and I o push the magical adva like a million years forward and I don’t have the budget to do it myself.”
