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"Azarath, Metrion, Zinthos." Raven chants, her voice gives away a bit of nervousness. "Azarath, Metrion, Zinthos."
The empath sits in the center of the tower's main room. Her unconscious friends littered around her. A bad fight with Mad Mod, who had somehow shown up in Blacksoak, left the five other Titans completely unwakable. No amount of noise could rouse them and Raven had been forced to teleport team five other Titans back to the tower.
"Azar, why couldn't he have just used his usual hypnosis?" She asks, worried. "I hate plunging into other people's minds... So much could go wrong."
"Hey, it can't be worse than your mind, am I right?" Brave chuckles.
"Not now." Raven mutters, gathering dark energy around her in a slight whirlwind. "I have minds to visit... And hopefully not destroy."
"You're one of the most powerful sorceresses on the planet, owe ye a little faith." Knowledge sighs.
The empath smiles a bit upon hearing this. If her emoticlone of logic and reason thinks she'll be fine, then she shouldn't worry too much.
"Right." She says, her tone becoming serious. "Time to activate the council spell."
The council spell. An ancient Azarathian ritual used simply for silent communication. It is also very useful for explaining that which cannot be described, instead showing everyone joined a mental image. Even entire memories can be shown through this link. Though, in this case, Raven is just using it as an easy passage into her friends' minds.
The whirlwind increases in force, picking up light objects that Raven had neglected to put away. An eerie orb of purple light appears in the center of the six heroes, it hovers silently for a moment before shooting out beams of light at each Titan.
Robin, Starfire, Cyborg, Beast Boy, and Shadow all twitch in their forced unconsciousness. Raven can feel them fighting the unknown intrusion.
"Be calm..." Raven says mentally, gently sending the message to their linked minds. "Let me in..."
Her vision fades, and eventually goes black as she steps deeper into their collective unconscious.
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"Ello there my duckies!" The crazed designer cries, standing atop a Tim Hortons and gesturing with his arms. "Welcome to New England!"
"What have you done to my city?!" Shadow shouts, taking a threatening step towards the villain. "Do they even have Tim Hortons in England?"
"Nothin much." Mad Mod says. "Just returned it to how it ought to be!"
"Yeah, and the cake wasn't really a lie." Beast Boy scoffs, crouching at the cloaked boy's side.
"Seriously? Not the best time for that reference." Cyborg chuckles, powering up his cannon. "I doubt he gets it anyways."
"I was not aware that earthly deserts could speak, much less lie." Starfire sighs, confused. She summons a starbolt while continuing. "I confess, I never stopped to listen."
"Not what he meant Star." Robin mutters, pulling out a birdarang. "It's from a game. I'll explain more later."
"Oye! Are you blokes even listnen to me?!" Mad Mod protests. "I went through a lot of work to restore this city! The least ya could do is pay attention! In my day children respected their elders!"
"Yeah, well we're not exactly children anymore." Shadow growls. "Last I checked, we're teenagers."
"Same thing!" Mod snaps. "In my day-"
"People rode about on dinosaurs and had the IQ of sand, we get it." Beast Boy interrupts. "Can we fight now? I want to finish mega monkeys five before the day is over."
A vein pulses in the fashion designer's head. "You brats want a fight? Fine. Face the might of the British army!"
A massive amount of toy soldiers welding old fashioned rifles storm out of the doughnut store. They all aim them at the six heroes, an evil glint in their dark ey-
"Dude! They have mint chocolate! I haven't been able to find a place that sells those in forever!" The changeling shouts, completely ruining the moment as he mashs his face against the glass window.
"Focus Beast Boy." Raven hisses, snagging her teammate by the back of his collar.
"Just attack already!" Mod roars, pointing at finger at the shapeshifter.
The Titans tense, expecting shots to fly from the old-fashioned weapons. Instead, the guns fire out strange waves of spiraling energy. The mesh of black and white completely knocks out their visibility.
Raven immediately pulls her hood lower on her face, obscuring her vision of the spirals. Her teammates aren't so quick, and they all fall to the floor within moments.
"Mod, what did you do?" The empath growls while using her telepathic powers to locate the villain.
"Just a new mind trick my duckie." Mod cackles, closing his eyes and thumping his chest proudly. "Now I can reprogram your friends with just a little manipulation."
"Unless I have something to say about it." Raven replies, appearing behind the outlandish designer. "Actually, I have only three words to say: Azarath, Metrion, Zinthos!" Mad Mod immediately falls to the floor, unconscious.
And just like that, the battle is over. In less than a minutes five Titans are down for the count simply because of a few spirals. Mod certainly can be a handful.
"Now the problem is waking them up." The half-demon sighs, rubbing her temples. "This will be fun."
It turns out, Raven was completely incapable of waking the five heroes. Mod had really got them good this time, and, sadly, it was not his normal hypnosis.
"Well." Rage growls. "This isn't good. How about we wake up Mod, tear him limb from limb, and see if he'll help then?"
"We can't." Raven mutters. "That spell put him out for a good six hours."
"Then what the hell do we do?"
"I'm not exactly sure."
Chapter 1 / Intro complete. I just noticed how often I use commas. Does that get annoying at all?