-Chapter 1-
A teenage girl in a blue robe drifted past her friends. All of them had superpowers, and made no real effort to keep their identities hidden. The group of friends called themselves the Teen Titans. It was a catchy name, actually. First, there was Robin. Yep, Batman's former sidekick. He decided one day that he and Batman should part ways, and he ended up meeting Beast Boy. No one really knew Beast Boy's past. He himself never knew about his mother or father. But he knew he had strange powers. He could instantly shape shift into any known animal, and even dinosaurs! Not to mention the alien animals... Creepy! Upon his and Robin's meeting, they met Cyborg. As his name suggests, Cyborg was half human and half robot; a cyborg. However, underneath he was a good guy, who loved to hang out and chill with his best friend, Beast Boy. The two were constantly snatching victory from the other one's hands with their unrivaled video game skills. Don't worry, though! The gang doesn't just consist of boys. A strange alien princess from the planet Tamaran was the group's very first team mission. The Tamaranian, Starfire, could shoot what she called "starbolts" from her hands and eyes and can also fly simply by thinking a happy thought. Upon kissing Robin, she instantaneously acquired the English language. Later it was found that the people of her planet used this method to communicate without much trouble. And last but not least, the fifth member of the group, Raven. She was a mysterious girl, supposedly born and raised on a planet or world called Azurath. Her superpowers consist of pure energy. Using it, she can levitate and control objects thousands of times bigger than herself! Together, they made up the Titans and worked together to stop their enemies dead in their tracks.
Raven went to her room, as usual, and locked the door. She remembered her first day on Earth. Everyone thought she was weird and didn't want anything to do with her. Little kids cried when they saw her first heroic action of stopping a wayward train from crashing. The train had slid off the rails and was going to crash. She used her energy to grab the train and lift it into the air, stopping the crash and hurting none. Then she set it back on its rails, and it went on its way. But little kids got scared, and people thought she was a freak. She always knew she didn't belong here on this planet, but she stayed because of her friends. They would surely hate it if she left. But there was another reason; the people of Earth needed her, even if they didn't like her.
"Yo, Raven!" an all-too-familiar male voice shouted from behind her door. Surprise! It was Beast Boy.
"What do you want? I said I wanted to be alone." Raven dully asked. She went through this every day.
"Cyborg says that in Monster Truck Smashers 4 the lower your points are, the less damage you took and therefore the one with the lowest points wins. But that's not true! I say the more points you have the better you're doing! Tell Cyborg he's wrong!" Beast Boy demanded.
"And...why do I have to get involved again?" she wondered out loud.
"I'm telling you, BB! The lower your score, the better you are! I'm the one winning!" Cyborg's voice was heard in the background.
"No you aren't! It depends on what Raven says!" Beast Boy yelled back. He turned back to Raven, begging her to tell Cyborg he was wrong.
"Hold on a second." she said. In her room, she flipped a coin. Heads was Beast Boy and tails was Cyborg. It was how she'd always dealt with them, and it worked every time. The coin landed on heads. She blinked, walked back to Beast Boy, and said, "Congratulations, you're right. Go knock yourself out."
Beast Boy jumped up in the air. "Yeah! Woo! I knew I was right!" he screamed. He dashed back to the losing Cyborg.
After making sure he was gone, Raven pulled her door closed again. Seconds later, you-know-who was back. She pulled open her door again, asking what he wanted this time.
"Wanna play with us?" Beast Boy asked.
"...No." she answered. "Why don't you ask Robin or Starfire?"
"'Cause Robin's downstairs training and Starfire can't play video games to save her life." he replied.
"I heard she was bored. If you don't want alien good-luck pudding for dinner, you better let her play with you." she warned. Starfire's alien pudding was the most aweful thing you've ever tasted in your life. Realizing this, Beast Boy ran to Starfire's room and frantically banged on her door. "Star!" he said, "Star! Play a game with us!"
Raven shut her door again and, as luck would have it, she heard knocks on her door again. Beast Boy was back. Again.
"She won't play unless you do. Please Raven! Save us from the pudding!" he begged.
Raven sighed, knowing she'd be sucked into doing it anyway. "Fine, I'll play." she gave.
Four of the five were on the couch and soon enough, Raven won the game.
"Woah! Hey, no fair! You cheated! You used those strange powers of yours to predict stuff! You were anticipating our moves!" Beast Boy accused.
"I can't predict anything." she stated plainly. "I'll be in my room if anyone needs me." Which in this instance, they probably would. She did just what she said she would do. She went to her room.
"Aw! C'mon, Raven! I was kidding! Why are you so boring..." Beast Boy yelled, still mad he got thrashed by a girl.
Boring, was it? Raven looked down. So now she was boring, huh? First it was weird, now it was boring, what next? Beast Boy was like a little brother to her. She didn't want him gone, but he still annoyed the crap out of her! And now she was boring...
A loud crash was heard right behind her. Several items in her room were thrown in the opposite direction. Even before Raven could look to see who had invaded her bedroom, a needle was stuck in her neck. The last thing she saw was Beast Boy, Cyborg, and Starfire bursting into the room. After that, everything went dark.
Robin was the very next one to enter the wrecked space. "What happened?" he asked.
"Raven's gone! We don't know what happened to her!" Cyborg answered.
"What? How can you not know?" an angry Robin persisted.
"It all happened so fast... First, I hear a loud crash, then I come into the room just in time to see Raven being carried off. I didn't get a glimpse of the person who did it, but I remember getting a glimpse of Raven. She looked like she was unconscious." Beast Boy continued.
"I do not believe I got to see Raven before she was abducted." Starfire confirmed.
"All of your stories only lead to one thing. We don't know anything about this guy. We don't even know where Raven is. Beast Boy, are you sure she was unconscious?" Robin asked, just to be sure.
"Yeah. Maybe the guy who took her drugged her?" he asked.
"Drugged? No. Drugs usually take at least a few minutes to work." he cleared up.
"Perhaps Raven went of her own will." Starfire suggested.
"Willingly? What are you talking about, Star?" Cyborg asked.
"I mean, perhaps she has a secret friend we do not know about. If that is the situation, then there is no need for panic." she said.
"Star's got a good point. But then why'd she look unconscious?" Beast Boy asked.
"There's another good point. If Raven had a secret friend, she wouldn't be unconscious when they came to pick her up. Raven was kidnapped." Robin said.
"Well, obviously! But how're we ever gonna find her? The guy's got guts and brute strength! If he had something that could take down Raven in one move, how do we know he don't have some kinda cloaking device?" Cyborg implied.
"Well, I'm not taking that chance. If Raven's communicator is still on, then I bet I can track her signal." Robin suggested. "But I'm gonna need really hard technology to do that, considering she could be anywhere by now." He cast a quick glance at Cyborg.
Getting the hint, Cyborg answered, "I got some new stuff in my room. I don't know if it can help, but-"
"It's good enough. If it doesn't work, we'll have to try the regular tracker." he interrupted.
Starfire looked down on Raven's bed and found something that would kill their hopes of finding her. She picked up a small gadget with a black screen and a snub of an antenna. It was still on, but had a weak battery due to the fact that it was slightly crushed. Everyone immediately noticed it. It was Raven's communicator.
Hours had passed. There had been several arguments over how to find Raven without her tracker. It was almost dusk and they still hadn't found so much as a trace as to where she was. She hadn't come back, obviously. They'd tried to find DNA traces of her kidnapper in her room, but they'd found nothing. Raven had always been a mysterious girl, and if she wanted to get away, she could very easily do just that. But this was too weird. She'd been kidnapped unwillingly. There was no trace of her abductor. She still wasn't back. And no clues that were found led anywhere in their frantic search.
Another hour later, a loud boom caught the entire group's attention. Since it came from Raven's room, they were naturally led to that destination. There was a lot of dust and dirt, but no Raven. Suddenly, booms were being set off all over the tower! Something or someone was attacking them.
The last boom they heard was somewhere in the basement. The group burst through the basement doors and cautiously began searching the room for the intruder. Still more dust and dirt wafting throughout the basement, but there was no other physical form besides themselves. Beast Boy decided this chase was just play, and not a real threat at all. He shifted into a bloodhound and started sifting through many scents, trying to locate any unfamiliar scents. But once he got to the training area of the basement, he stopped dead in his tracks.
The group soon found themselves running towards Beast Boy's incessant barking.
Once he was sure the whole group was alerted, he changed back into a human. Normally a prankster, it went against his nature to be very serious.
Raven was back, and still unconscious.