Disclaimer- I don't own the Teen titans or the justice league.
And I am kind of obsessed with Speedy Raven pairing, so here's another one.
21st March 2010
The sun was shining brightly; it was a perfect summer day after a few weeks of dark clouds and rain. It really would be perfect if the villains were not causing havoc in Metropolis. A few members of the Justice league, namely Batman, Green Arrow, Flash, Black Canary and Superman were fighting them off. Flash was saving civilians who were caught in the cross fire with Green Arrow while the others were fighting off the villains.
Green Arrow was shooting his arrows, protecting the civilians from the villains when his sight landed on a little girl, who looked not more than six years of age. She was standing beneath a damaged building and a thug was approaching her. He aimed his arrow towards the thug while running towards the girl.
The building started to sway lightly; he saw this and realized that it was going to fall. He ran faster and shot the arrow at the thug, protecting the girl from him. She was too frightened to do anything, seeing the thug with a blade in his hand had frozen all her senses. Green arrow reached the girl and scooped her up in his arms, he began to leave the building when it started coming down. He hugged the girl tightly and ducked, turning his back towards the falling building so that he could protect the toddler.
After a few minutes, Green arrow had expected to feel the pain of falling debris on his back but was surprised when he felt nothing; he turned and saw a black dome protecting them from the falling pieces of concrete. The archer looked at the toddler in his arms and saw her hands stretched out in front of her and her face was in deep concentration. He saw her unnatural grey skin, her midnight blue-purple hair and her unusual amethyst eyes.
Green Arrow realized that the girl he was protecting or who was now protecting him was no ordinary girl. She certainly had powers and before he could think too much on it he heard that the debris had stopped falling and his teammates were calling out his name, to look for him. Green Arrow saw Batman and Flash approaching him, he touched the girl lightly, her concentration broke and the black dome vanished.
Batman having seeing the dome vanished asked the archer who was standing beside a toddler "What happened?" Green arrow looked at the girl whose eyes were half lidded and said "I saved her from a thug and the building was falling to fast for us to get out…..I think she cast that dome to save us."
After a couple of moments Black Canary and Superman approached them, Batman explained what he knew so far to them and they looked at the little girl who was standing a little behind Green Arrow, clearly nervous with all these eyes staring at her. Black Canary approached the little girl and kneeled down to her level and said with a soft smile "Hello, can you tell me your name?"
"Raven….." She said nervously, her eyes were droopy and her posture looked tired.
"Did you form that dome?" she asked softly.
Raven nodded and said "The heavy rocks were falling on hoody man." She pointed towards Green arrow and he chuckled at the name she had given him before she added "I just wanted to help…I am sorry." Black Canary looked at the girl with awe; the toddler looked so frail but had so much power in her. She saved Green Arrow without even knowing what was happening, the heroine felt herself being attracted to the little girl, a curiosity was sparked inside her. She wanted to know more about the little girl with grey skin.
"You did a very brave thing Raven, you saved him." Black Canary said with a smile, she got up and walked towards Batman to tell him all that she had learned. Raven began to feel dizzy, her nose started to bleed a little, her knees gave out but before she could fall Flash caught her, he asked her in his gentlest tone "Are you okay?"
"Too much…magic...dizzy." And her eyes closed. Batman having caught the sight of everything asked Flash "Can you take her to the doctor at our base? We will meet you there shortly." Flash nodded and speeded away.
Batman turned towards his teammates and said "We need to learn more about his girl…it is no secret that she has power…I am calling Dr. Fate, maybe he can tell us more about her. I will meet you all at the base." his teammates nodded and headed towards the base.
"Superman, Green Arrow, Black Canary, access granted." A metallic voice said.
The heroes emerged from the zeta tubes and saw Flash trying to entertain the little girl by making faces and telling her jokes and her giggling. Superman approached the speedster and asked "Is she okay?"
"Oh yeah, it seems like she just needed a little rest." He looked at the toddler who was now walking up to them, she looked at Superman and he smiled sweetly and her. Raven grinned and levitated off the floor, she had now come face to face with the Kryptonian. Superman raised an eyebrow and looked at the girl who was now studying him carefully.
Green arrow in the background said with astonishment in his voice "She can do that too."
After she was done studying, raven looked at the man of steel and said with a huge smile "Krypto-…Kryptonian." Superman's eyes widened, he had not expected a toddler to know about his home planet or even have the knowledge that he was alien.
Raven landed on the floor and Black Canary approached her, the heroine looked sweetly at the girl and asked "Raven, where is your mother?"
The smile on the toddlers face fell, she looked at the older heroine with tears welled up in her eyes, Black Canary kneeled down to her level, Raven touched Black Canary's face and the blonde heroine saw- a city getting destroyed by magic, everyone escaping, an older lady in a white cloak and purple hair looking at Raven, giving the toddler a sad smile and hugging her tightly before teleporting her away. The last thing Raven saw were the city and the lady getting destroyed.
Black Canary hugged Raven while the latter cried; she understood what she showed her. The other heroes were looking at the exchange sadly, having a slight idea of the answer about Raven's family. Black Canary patted the toddler's back comfortingly and tried to calm her down, after a while the child calmed down but she still looked sad.
Flash speeded to her side and again started making jokes and funny faces, after a couple of minutes Green arrow also tried to make the girl laugh. After a couple of tries Raven started to laugh again, the mood became light again.
"Batman, Dr. Fate, access granted." A metallic voice said.
Black Canary approached the newly arrived teammates; the three of them were looking at the toddler playing with the man of steel, the fastest man alive and the man with the best aim in the world. Dr. Fate walked up to the little girl, there was something familiar about this girl but he couldn't remember what.
Raven turned around and saw Dr. Fate approaching her, she squealed with joy and hugged him whilst exclaiming "Nabu!"
Dr. Fate then remembered and kneeled down to face the girl and asked "What are you doing here Raven?" raven took a deep breath and projected the same memories she did to Black Canary to Dr. Fate. After he saw he understood what happened, he placed a comforting hand on her shoulder; Raven smiled a little and then went back to playing with the man of steel.
The other members gathered around Dr. Fate and Superman could hear everything through his super hearing, Batman was the one who spoke first "You know this little girl?"
"I was once visiting other dimensions and I met her in a dimension called Azarath. She is royalty there and had just begun learning how to control her powers."
"What exactly are her powers? We know that she can levitate, cast shields." Green Arrow enquired next.
"She has telekinesis, empathy, power of teleportation and levitation and her powers are sourced from her emotions and her energy." He explained.
"But how did she get them? Tell us everything about this little girl." Batman said.
"She got her powers from her father…her father is Trigon, his followers call him Scath and he is a demon but her mother is-was a human. She is a half demon." He said with a sigh
Before anybody could say anything, he added "There is a prophesy about her- She will bring Trigon to earth, cause the end of the world…
…but she is also the only one who will be strong enough to defeat him."
"Does she have to be alive to become his portal?" Batman asked after a few moments of silence
The others were shocked and started at Batman with eyes wide open. Dr. Fate said "No, their connection is through their blood and whether she is dead or alive won't matter. He will ascend unless she is strong enough to defy him."
Black Canary was the one spoke next "Regardless of that, she deserves a chance to live her life. We can teach her on how to use her powers for good, we can make her strong enough to defy Trigon…she already has goodness in her heart, she saved Green Arrow out of instinct." For some reason the heroine felt protectiveness towards the little girl.
The dark knight let her words sink in him, he understood her words and nodded in acceptance that his earlier thought was wrong, he looked at the little girl smiling and playing with the Kryptonian and agreed with everything the blonde heroine had said. He was filled with sadness at his thought but he masked it with his emotionless and cold demeanor.
At that moment Superman and the little girl made their way over to them, Raven walked towards the dark knight and did something no one had ever done, she hugged him. The heroes stared with their jaws on the floor; even Batman's eyes were wide as saucers.
He looked at the tiny girl wrapped around his leg and asked "What are you doing?"
She looked up at him and said "Hugging you." "I can see that, but why?" Batman said.
"I could feel your sadness and hugs make it go away." She looked at him after a moment, her bottom lip was jutting out, almost like she was about to cry. She pulled away and said "Okay…you don't like me." He looked at the insecure toddler and a tiny smile graced his features, it came as soon as it left.
Batman knelt down to do some damage control, silently cursing himself for becoming soft and said "I just don't get many hugs. People are usually scared or intimidated by me." Raven smiled and hugged the dark knight around his neck and said "Everyone needs hugs." Just like that Raven had cut through every defense he had, he scooped up the girl in his arms, discreetly hugging her back. After a couple of minutes Flash said "Who will mentor her?"
"I can teach her magic but she needs to learn control." Dr. Fate said.
They thought for a while and Black Canary said "I can teach her to control her powers like I control my Canary cry and I can teach her hand to hand combat." The others nodded and Batman spoke "It's settled then, Black Canary will mentor Raven and Dr. Fate will work with her to develop her magic." He was staring to pull away from the girl who had her arms around his neck but he heard soft snores, now he looked confused and unsure what to do.
Black Canary stepped up and lightly woke up the toddler, Batman set her down when she woke up and the blonde heroine asked her "Would you like to live with me?" the toddler smiled a bit nervously and asked "I can stay?" She chuckled and said "Yes, you can…Let's go to your new home." Black Canary took hold of her tiny hand and waved to her teammates, Raven smiled at the heroes and sweetly said "Bye."
The two girls transported through the Zeta tubes and came in front of a mansion; Black Canary showed Raven a room and said "This is your room now, if you need anything you can come to me. My room is right opposite to yours." Raven smiled at her and hugged her and said "Thank you for helping me." The next day, Black Canary filed the legal documents to adopt Raven, Doctor Fate told them about Raven's mother who was originally from Gotham City. They tracked them down and found Raven's last name to be Roth.
