Raven
Coughing, she rose up with a streak of blood running down her eye. The explosion had been unexpected. She peered through the window and frowned. How did she not sense the rocket coming at her. The Tower was groaning under the strain of it's own debris. Fire swam up like a swan. A fiery phoenix screeching up the strairs and consuming all that it touched.
She took no thought to her actions and summoned a shield of black magic to defend the Titans in their rooms from the death threat. Raven quickly took the magic absorbing the heat and forced it down the building. She then dispersed the flames into the ground causing part of it to melt.
A second explosion came and forced Raven to expend even more energy. She saw the Cyborg running towards her. He slid next to her and shot a glass pane to hit the another rocket. Suddenly, Robin was out with his staff and was throwing shurikens and exploding a swarm of mini rockets. Raven put her arms out as if she was being crucified and separated the heat in half and made it cool down in the water. Free from the magical responsibility, she ran down the hall past an incoming Starfire. She was running at the window pane at the end of the hall as fast as she could. She cocked her fist back as she slammed her foot down and put her momentum forward and hit the glass.
From the cracks came blackness. It began to expand and cover the whole building. Sealing it off from the rest of the incoming heat. It was transparent though. One sided tinted glass. The barrier would prevent all inanimate forms from entering or leaving until she willed it away.
Raven saw Beast Boy stumble from his room on fire. Raven was horrified. She willed a pipe to burst and extinguish the flames. She rushed to his side and saw he was suffering third degree burns. Charred skin and black saggy flesh falling off. It looked so furiously destroyed. He was breathing hard and trying hard not to scream as the shock was putting him to sleep slowly. Cyborg was by her side and they were soon carrying him downstairs via stairwell and preforming surgery. They did as much as they could before they decided to give him a coma shot. Medicine designed to put it's recipient iinto a coma from three to five days. They then hooked him up to machines for breathing and then put him into a water tank to heal his skin.
They returned upstairs and the rockets had stopped coming. The Titans began to examine through the glass and try to locate the attackers. Raven was looking around the rocks slightly off the coast holding a pelican when Starfire tapped on the black glass.
"Over there," she announced. Raven followed her finger and saw a scope flash in the distance near the coast line of Jump City. Then another. And another. Then multiple scopes were flashing. It was evident that the Titans were not able to get to the land. Raven sat down as she realized that they were stuck there.
"Maybe-" Robin started. "-we can teleport and ambush them."
Sounding reasonable, Raven grabbed Cyborg and made a portal. The two, as the ambush with Starfire and Robin waiting behind for a signal to go, entered. Finding themselves on the beaches, a sniper bullet was instant. It pelted the sand by their feet. It came so suddenly that without a second thought, Raven knew the snipers were prepared for her to set up an ambush. Another bullet hit Raven in the leg. Raven summoned a new portal quickly and had the two back in the Tower before another round could be fired.
"What happened?" Robin asked.
"They were expecting us bro," Cyborg
"Any other way Raven?"
"No," Raven gasped as she gripped her thigh. "I don't think I can summon another portal without dropping the shield. And we can't leave Beast Boy."
"We could drop the shield and all of us could teleport before they could blow usup," Cyborg suggested.
"If they knew about an ambush in the moment we got there, they could very well know exactly when to fire before I could cut the magic barrier to create the portal."
"So… are we stuck?" Starfire asked.
"It appears so," Robin said. "But that doesn't matter, we need to get Raven patched up."
Cyborg scooped Raven up. He carried her downstairs. Raven took of her robe so Cyborg could examine the wound. The bullet left a nasty exit wound that was about three inches in circumference. Cyborg was going to have to do extensive surgery. Raven could hardly move from the soreness. The only reason she could remain calm and not feel the shock/ferocious pain was because of the years of meditation with relaxation and inner mind peace. Regardless, he did inject anesthesia into her veins.
Raven, laying hare on the table, closed her eyes and looked into the current matters on hand. Who were the snipers? Raven tried to recalculate all events that could have possibly happened for the Titans to piss of someone so much they called an entire army. There has to be the minimum of forty-five scopes on the coast. No telling how many more were terrorizing the city. Observing her enemies and their characteristics, she concluded with a list of suspects. Either it was Slade, Rose Wilson, Trigon, or Ra's al Ghul.
Then a sudden picture of Beast Boy floating burnt in a water tank flashed in her mind. She tried to shoot up, but the sedation had taken it's toll and taken all advantage of her strength to rise up and scream. She was about to fall asleep, when Cyborg picked her up and moved her to a soft infirmary bed. She laid in it more tiredly than usual and let herself sleep.
