Author's Notes

Okay loyal readers and followers, as of January 16, 2014, I am in the process of remastering the story, changing some of the content (as well as adding some new content) so the story works better in my opinion (and trying to finally push the story past 100,000 words).

I am still working on Collapse from Misunderstandings and Second Chance, so I will sporadically re-post chapters from this story with revisions (though likely randomly as I notice what needs to be changed or expanded.

Now, let's begin Betrayed, Cast Off, Angry.

It was a nice sunny day in Jump City. Raven suddenly finds herself walking up to the Titans favorite pizza shop where her friends are currently sitting, enjoying their favorite slice of cheese pizza (which they always ordered despite a long period of disagreeing over what toppings to order, whether it be crazy toppings like pickles and oranges from Starfire or loads of vegetables from Beast Boy or loads of meat from Cyborg). As Raven rushed up to join them, Starfire turns around to look at her. Instead of a welcoming look, Starfire fires two starbolts from her eyes at Raven.

Raven is barely able to dodge them as the other Titans rush up towards her. Raven noticed that Starfire's eyes and hands are glowing green, Beast Boy is a lion ready to pounce, Cyborg has both of his sonic cannons locked on at Raven, and Robin had his bo-staff pointed at her, aiming to thrust at her precious neck.

Raven nervously asked, "Why are you doing this? What did I ever do?"

Robin icily replied, "You tried to lie to us about who you were. We may have accepted you if you were simply a witch, but a half-demon. No can do. And now you must pay the price for your sins."

Raven ran away from the other Titans, who promptly began charging at her without any mercy or compassion. Starfire and Cyborg both unleash hell at Raven with their blasts as Beast Boy charges at Raven, trying to maul her with his teeth and paws.

Raven attempted to hide in an alley, hoping the others would not notice her. She sees a broken mirror in the alley and she sees that she is not the teenager that met them, it was herself as a young child, around the age of 8 wearing a smaller white version of her clothing. Even then, Raven was having problems with her own heritage, when she was in her own home dimension of Azarath, a dimension that no longer existed courtesy of her father Trigon. Now she knew that, from how she looked, that she never stood a chance against the other Titans. Her only chance was to keep running.

However, Robin arrived and fired a taser into Raven's back, neutralizing her. Raven fell down onto the ground in pain, weakened by Robin's weapon. Robin forcibly grabbed her and dragged her over to her next pedestal of torment.

Raven's eyes begin to open as she finds herself on a large wooden platform with several plastic pools on it. She turns to see hundreds of thousands of Jump City residents, all waiting for her demise, many with signs that said things in the vein of "Burn the Witch", "No Demons Allowed", "Yes, Robin, Boo, Raven".

Robin proceeded to go up to the speaker while Cyborg and Starfire held Raven in place, rendering her unable to move or escape from this.

"Citizens of Jump. Now it is time to punish the demon for her lies. She thought she could decieve us, make us feel sympathy for her before she conquers us all."

Raven begins to cry in tears, upset at what is going on to her. Raven asks, "What are you doing?"

Robin yells to Raven, "Don't give me those tears. We all know they are a bunch of crap and lies. You have no emotions or feelings. You aren't a human. You are just...an animal."

Robin turns back to the crowd of Jump City and says, "And it is time we make her the animal she is. And her name is Raven, so that is what she shall be. What she deserves to be." Out of all the criminals she had fought as a Titan, none were more heartless or sadistic than Robin. Even many of Batman's rogue gallery were softer than this - The Joker would not stoop this low.

Beast Boy walks up behind Raven and then ripped her cloak off violently and heartlessly and kicking her out of her boots. He threw the cloak to the side before proceeding to tear her leotard, splitting it in two as its formerly warm touch abandoned her, leaving Raven completely naked in front of the crowd.

Beast Boy coldly replies, "You're an animal, Raven. You don't need clothing."

Raven begins to sob in pain and fear. Cyborg then says, "And since you are a bird, you need to be feathered."

Starfire then turned around to Raven, now holding a pair of scissors. "You always liked your hair short, like you told me when we switched bodies. Let us just make it shorter. And now you will not need it at all, you demon witch."

The alien mercilessly snipped away Raven's locks away from her, slowly and brutally, in front of the city. Raven was so exposed already, and removing her hair made her feel completely hopeless, bald, as if she had nothing left in the world.

She finished with the cutting, leaving Raven's violet locks that went past her neck no longer attached to her body - she was as bald as Cyborg. Raven could only continue to sob as she dreaded what was going to happen next.

Cyborg and Starfire then proceeded to throw Raven into the first pool, filled with tar. Raven was filled with dread as the tar slowly coated her pale gray skin, making it black and sticky. It covered her chest, stomach, legs, arms, and the side of her head, only leaving her face free of the sticky killer.

Starfire grabs Raven by her nose from the pool of tar and throws her into a pool of feathers. Raven could not help as feathers stuck to her tar-covered skin, just like what was done back in the colonial days.

Soon, Beast Boy threw even more feathers into the pool, completely covering her in them, leaving not one inch of tar unstuck with feathers.

Raven was pulled from the pool, and now looked like a white raven with splotches of black popping out through where the feathers did not fully cover while her face remained uncovered. However, Cyborg and Starfire then began to pour black paint all over Raven, turning the feathers as black as the tar they covered, making it nearly impossible to determine what was exposed tar. The paint didn't just cover the feathers, it also colored Raven's face, leaving Raven a completely black, feather-colored raven.

Robin then said, "Now she looks like a raven. Like the animal she truly is." All of the city laughed at the completely humiliated and pained Raven, who wept a quiet tear as she was forced to endure the humiliation.

Then Beast Boy came up to the stage with a cage. Raven tried to flee but Robin and Starfire held Raven, leaving her unable to move. If Raven could use her powers, she would, but they were still absent, leaving her unable to fight back at all. Even a snail could beat her up in her state.

Robin and Starfire pushed Raven into the cage, and Cyborg then proceeded to completely lock the cage from the outside bottom, trapping Raven inside like an animal. The cage seemed too small for Raven, but when she was crouched, legs covering her chest and seated, the cage fit her with little room to spare.

Cyborg said, "Now she looks much better. She looks truly desperate."

Beast Boy sarcastically added, "Should we give her some help?"

Starfire said, "No. Leave her. This is her natural state."

Robin then hung Raven's cage in front of City Hall, where all could laugh and mock Raven as they chose. Raven could not take any more - she was caged like an animal by her friends who betrayed her and left to suffer without anybody to help her.

Raven began screaming for help, frantically trying to escape, but nobody would help her. Nobody would listen to her. Raven was truly alone, in desperate need of help. She couldn't handle any more of this torture, being ignored by the people that she should have been able to call her "friends" and being ridiculed by the citizens of Jump, people that she was supposed to be helping. They did not appreciate her, and if they had a choice, Raven would not be a Titan. Raven just wanted this to be over, to escape from this agony that was even worse than hell in her own opinion...