Chapter 56 Becoming ruthless again

Chapter 56 Becoming ruthless again

“We were fighting against mind controllers and thought we caught them all but someone was pulling the strings even further back.” I grabbed Dick and checked his brain just in case but saw no scene of the compulsions if he had been given any mental 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 control. I got to borrow your mana to find her.” I put my hand on her back without asking and linked our magics together. I began to cast a tracking spell.

It was an altered version of the druidic spell as an ethereal bird took shape and began to head towards the door. I looked around the room. “We got any other fliers who can track me?” Beast Boy stood up and changed forms becoming the same bird as the spell. Starfire and Raven were also there but the brief mention as I explained what happened and they heard I was part 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 controller would have attacked Batman so we don’t have to worry about him being under control. This man is dangerous. He is a ghost who hid his hand through other mind controllers over and over again.”

I got confused looks and one of the younger kids asked. “What the what?” I explained further. “He had a mind controller he mind controlled, control another mind controller who was controlling another mind controller. Think of your big bad guys like Lex Luthor except if he could control people with mind powers. That’s what we’re dealing with and I have to go right now. The tracking bird only lasts so long.”

I felt sick leaving such an obvious enemy unmurdered but I needed to find him first. The only way I knew of would be making a contract with a demon to find his location or contracting 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 FUCKING KILL HIM!” She thankfully didn’t attack me and looked sheepishly at what she shouted out. Even someone who believes everyone should have a second chance instinctively knows that people who choose mind control out of all powers aren't worth saving.

I felt it again. I was behind again. I needed to become untouchable. I needed to develop my magical technology to a new level to find this fucker. “Raven, can you check them and make sure I didn’t do any damage untangling the mental suggestions they were under? I...” I sighed as I knew this was going to suck. “I need to go talk to my boss.”

Steph stopped me before I left. “How did you know?” I didn’t need it explained any further. “It’s how slow you were responding to me. Like your brain needed to check if what you were about to say fit into the exact plan he was going for. You’re a goddamn Robin, that makes you a quip master compared 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 entrance to 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 seconds before I finally ask. “Any chance we can speed up the construction of the magical department? I need people I can rely on and I need to push the magical advancement like a million years forward and I don’t have the budget to do it myself.”