"You Titans will never get me alive. In fact, you won't get me at all." The villain cackled as he jumped down the top step of the bank. He started to power up his suit. He pressed a button located on top of his chest and he blasted into the sky. But before the Titans could figure out where he was going, he dropped a series of smoke bombs to cloud their view.
All the Titans fell in a coughing frenzy; all except Raven. She had put up a force field right before the smoke bombs touched the ground. Since she had a clear view; she saw the villain blast up into the sky and head north.
"Oh no you don't!" Raven said to herself as she flew off after him. She was not about to let him get away; she had to stop him!
"Foolish girl, you will not catch me! My suit can fly twice as fast as you!" The villain cackled when he saw that Raven was chasing after him. His suit may be twice as fast as she is, but she's got some powers too.
"Eat this!" Raven screeched to the villain. She hurled a few rocks at him in which he dodged quickly. She decided that she didn't want to make this a long journey. A stop sign was surrounded by a black aura and swung at the villain. He fell to the ground with a huge thud.
"YOU STUPID GIRL! YOU HAVE RUINED MY SUIT! FOR THAT, YOU SHALL PAY THE CONSEUENCES!" The villain yelled as Raven touched the ground. The button on his chest which powered the suit was now sending sparks astray. The villain reached into his utility belt and sent a huge ball flying towards Raven's head. She dodged it easily and turned around towards the villain with a smirk.
"Whatever kind of aim you call that, it wasn't good." The villain continued to look past her head and behind her. Raven noticed and turned around, but she was too late. The "ball" that she had dodged, had transformed into a boomerang-like shape and was headed straight for Raven's head.
The boomerang hit her head with a clunk and she fell to the ground. She heard an evil cackle from the villain, and then fell unconscious.
-8-8-
"Mmm… Wh-where am I?" Raven said dizzily as she lightly touched her forehead. Her head was throbbing and her stomach felt uneasy. She knew she had been unconscious, just unsure of where she was now.
"Home." Came an icy response from Robin. He was sitting at the bar with a scowl on his face. He was upset and wanted everyone to know.
"How did I… why does… ow!" She said as she sat up from her previous position. Moving had only made her migraine worse than before.
"Lay down, you shouldn't be moving." Beast Boy quickly motioned for her to lie back down. He had been seated on the table in front of the couch with a concerned look on his face. Raven scanned the room and saw Cyborg leaning against the living room window with a disappointed look on his face. Starfire was, of course, sitting next to Robin with a sympathetic but also disappointed look.
Beast Boy was the only one that didn't look… upset.
"What's wrong? What happened? Did he get away?" Raven asked quickly. All of the events after she went unconscious were unclear to her.
*Flashback*
"That's what you get when you mess with me! Now, to get out of he-"
"I don't think so!" A tall, slim man said firmly as he threw three knives towards the villain. He dodged them, barely.
"Who are you?" The villain asked frightened as he backed up against the side of the alleyway. He stumbled over a trash can and fell over.
"I am the last face you will ever see."
*flashback ended*
"We don't know." Robin again answered coldly. He swiveled in his seat and put his head down. His fist clenched tighter and Starfire started to comfort him.
"What do you mean you don't know? How do not know?!" Raven started to raise her voice. She wanted to know why everyone was so… unsettled.
"Umm Raven, the guy we were chasing earlier, he's… well… he's…-" Cyborg stuttered but Robin abruptly cut him off.
"Dead!" Robin rudely spat out.
"Dead? He was alive when he knocked me unconscious! He was… laughing." Raven was getting agitated. She held her monotonous voice, but she didn't understand what they were getting at. She was utterly confused.
At that moment, Beast Boy's facial expression changed. He was no longer concerned; he now also had a scowl on his face. He turned towards Robin then at Cyborg. He turned to Raven and his face softened, but he was still upset.
All of the sudden, Raven got it.
"YOU THINK I KILLED HIM?!" Raven screamed as she stood up suddenly. She wobbled and Beast Boy tugged her hand trying to get her to sit back down. She tore her hand from his grip and placed it on her hip.
"WHY ON EARTH WOULD I EVER KILL HIM?! HAVE I EVER KILLED ANYONE ELSE?!" Raven continued to yell; more towards Robin than anyone else. He seemed to be the one that was the most pissed off.
"Raven, I think you should sit down." Beast Boy said gently tugging her hand. Raven ignored his suggestion and kept staring at Robin expecting an answer.
"I'm talking to you! How could I have killed him if I was knocked out?" Her monotone was gone and all that was there was anger and confusion. Anger because they actually expected so low of her, and confused on how she could have killed him.
"You weren't knocked out. We knocked you out to get you to calm down." Robin explained as calm as he could. He still didn't turn around which upset Raven even more.
"He knocked me out with a boomerang. I had followed him when he threw those smoke bombs. I had broken his suit, I know I did." Raven retorted. Beast Boy again tugged her hand for her to sit down, but she again ignored him. She wasn't at all interested in sitting down, just clearing her confused mind.
"That didn't happen. There were no smoke bombs or boomerangs. You got upset and went off on that guy and he ended up dead." Cyborg told her calmly. He was still looking at the floor, but he wasn't angry like Robin.
"I know what happened; I know what I saw! Don't sit here and make me look crazy!" Raven was yelling now and several things in the room were floating in a black aura.
"Raven, maybe you should calm down and just...talk to us." Beast Boy quietly suggested to her. He just wanted her to calm down because yelling wasn't going to get them anywhere.
"Why? All you think I'm a murderer anyway. Who wants to talk to a murderer?!" Raven yelled. She didn't want to calm down. How could she? Her own "friends" we're convicting her of murder and they wanted her to just calm down?
"Well if you would get some damn control maybe you wouldn't be one!" Robin screamed as he turned to face her. "Someone died today because you couldn't keep control, because you were mad!" This was out of character for Robin, well except for when Slade haunted him.
Everyone turned to look at Robin; this was shocking for everyone. Raven could feel the rage bubbling inside of here and she needed to be alone.
She just shook her head and walked out of the room barely staying upright.
After Raven left the room Beast Boy was the first to speak.
"Way to go douchebag! Now she thinks we hate her!"
"So what? She killed someone today. As super heroes, we took an oath to never kill anyone, even the villain." Robin retorted not as angry as before.
"Well what you said was uncalled for! How do we know what she was saying isn't true?" Beast Boy stated as he stood up from where he was seated. He didn't think that the Raven had actually killed the villain. In a way, he remembered some of the events she stated. The smoke bombs at least.
"Who knows, maybe it was her subconscious. After we knocked her out, she could have dreamt a fight on her own." Cyborg suggested. He, along with Starfire and Robin, was blaming her for his death.
"No! This happened to me and I know what it's like to not know what's real and what's not. Not knowing if you ever endangered someone you cared about. This was not her subconscious, she didn't dream this, I'm telling you! There's and explanation." Beast Boy refused to believe that his friend was capable of being so mad at someone who had only robbed a bank. Something had happened, just figuring it out was the challenge.
"We saw what happened. Your case was different, we didn't know what happened. We were right there, you were right there!" Robin stated trying his hardest to keep his composure.
"Well she doesn't remember it and that's all that matters. When this happened to me, you got impatient and threatened to put me in jail because I couldn't remember. And the result of that is that I lost all admiration for you. You're still my friend, but it's different between us now. Don't make the same mistake twice, dude!" And with that Beast Boy walked out of the living room on his way to let Raven know that she wasn't alone.
