Hi again

Hi again! Well, this is the re-edition of chapter one. Helped by RavenRobinGirl (thank u), she's like my… collaborator, so u guys r goin' to see her name maybe every chap. Well, hope ya like it now with better English.

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Desperation was reigning in the factory; the shouts of fear were heard in the
distance. The titans were inside, looking for Raven. She had fled without
apparent reason. They knew that she was still in the factory, but the signal
from her communicator could not be found and therefore she could not be found
either. The Titans could not deny that they were scared, partly for the bomb,
and in another part for Raven; both of them were either the immediate danger,
or would be in it.
Cyborg was starting to suspect that both had something to do with each other
though (like they were near each other). He turned around to see Robin, who
had a very strange expression on the face, it was between distress and
annoyance, which replaced the moment with one of fright on having to listen to
Starfire's scared shouts. He turned around again, with an expression of
fear; Star was not emitting any sound, but she was indicating towards the
roof, fearful as well. It was the bomb. Cyborg took it down and he put it on
the floor, with some type of fear evident in his posture.
"The factory is going to explode, we have to go!" Cyborg shouted, trying
to stop the bomb but unfortunately not succeeding. BB appeared behind Cyborg,
trying to see the bomb.
"We only have 45 minutes! And … where is Raven?!" BB replied,
remembering the girl. He got up almost immediately from his position behind Cy
and started looking around like Raven would just popup out of nowhere.
"I do not have any idea! Robin?" Star finally piped up, waiting for a
response from her leader and exboyfriend. (they were together but broke up for
a reason that you won't know and never will, maybe)
"Look for the exit, and evacuate the area!" the Boy Wonder replied with a
cold and simultaneously desperate tone.
"But, where are you going, Robin?!" Starfire said in a sad and worried
voice while being pulled toward the exit by Cyborg
"To look for Raven." He said then quickly started running pellmell toward
the nearest door. He burst through and kept going. 'Where could she be?'
he thought. Robin kept going, opening door after door.
"I can't manage to trace her signal." the Boy Wonder said to the
communicator. He finally reached a corridor that looked like it would help
find Raven, although it seemed that when he did find her she wouldn't be
unharmed… The lights were flickering, going on and off on and off. But that
wasn't the bit that would help find Raven. There was blood on the floor that
looked as if someone had been running down this hallway with a bleeding side,
arm, or something to that effect. Robin froze. A bit scared now that he knew
someone was hurt and hoping beyond hope it wasn't his team member.
Coming to the corner, there was a piece of blue fabric. It was soaked in
blood but the masked hero knew who it belonged to. There was more blood on the
floor, looking like the person now had even more injuries. It started to worry
him to greater heights on having seen even more fabric at the end of the new
hallway. Robin ran forward with renewed strength, rushing to find his friend.
Another corridor. And another. His desperation was not compared with his worry
yet both were at the worst levels possible.
A gas escape started to leak so Robin had to cover his nose to avoid the
toxic fumes. Another door and the light was still flickering.
"Raven! Where are you?" The track of blood was continuing, getting
thicker and more potent as Robin progressed. After awhile of walking without
any result, the teenage boy found the blue cloak of his friend's outfit. His
worry had come to its limits, making him think the worst things.
After finally reaching one last corridor, he sees her, sprawled on the floor
like a ragdoll. Robin approached her and gently shook her, being carful as to
not hurt her anymore than she already was. She was much paler and her uniform
was torn in quite a few places. There were also a lot of cuts and bruises on
her small form and God knows what else (you know like broken bones and stuff
could also be present).
"Rae, I'm her. Now we have to go." Raven opened her eyes, all be it
slowly as if the movement was hurting her and she saw him, at the sound of his
voice. The look in her eyes and on her face was that of pain and hurt. Robin
helped her get to her feet, putting an arm around her shoulders for support.
He then took out his communicator, "Cy, I found her, we're getting out
now!" The teen looked away from the communicator and saw his friend who was
at the edge of fainting. "Raven, resist, your going to be fine, just resist
please" He said to his closest friend, in more ways than one, trying to give
her hope. Then, when you thought things couldn't get worse, there were more
leaks of the gas from before. The Boy Wonder ripped off a piece of cloth from
his also torn uniform and put it over Raven's nose and mouth, preventing her
from inhaling the gas, she held it on her face with the little strength that
she still had.
On having turned the corner, Raven fell to the floor, exhausted and in pain.
Robin immediately crouched down to the floor, checking if the dark bird was
still conscious "Rae, are you ok?" He held her shoulders and searched her
face for any signs of head trauma. "Resist… Raven come on we're almost
there…" Then Robin put his arm back around her shoulders, helped her up,
and they kept walking.
After a while the light finally stopped flickering and went out. "Damn!"
And almost as if it were perfectly timed, his communicator went off and he
opened it.
"Rob, hurry, you only have 18 minutes left! We're right outside the
exit… did you find her?" Robin then turned the communicator to face Raven
quickly and then returns it back towards himself.
"She's really badly hurt Cyborg." Robin replied in a sad and (believe
it or not) scared tone.
"I'll call an ambulance! Ok... the
signal…cut…yo…rob…not……s…." Cyborg replied, but the signal was
lost before he could say more.
"Cyborg, no!" Robin desperately shouted. He looked at Raven, afraid that
something bad was going to happen to her.
Opposite of the exit door there was fire. It looked as though someone had
started it though instead of it being caused by natural causes. Raven closed
her eyes, as a sign of resignation. Robin looked at her, "We're going to
cross running, do you think you can run?" Raven shook her head; she was
increasingly paler and colder. Robin picked her up and ran with her in his
arms to the door.
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"They are not going to make it!" Starfire said, driven with despair.
Cyborg walked over to her and put a hand on her shoulder.
"Don't say that, they've got to make it…" Cyborg told her, trying
to consol the alien girl.
"Don't lie to me, please" And just when Star thought that everything
was already lost, Robin, while carrying Raven, came out of the factory.
"Robin!" Star shouted as she ran over to him but then realized and shouted
"You are burning!" The Boy Blunder gently lay the nonburning Raven on the
ground and then did the stop, drop, and roll technique that just about
everyone knows, extinguishing the flames that were on him. He then got up.
"Raven!" Cy shouted, having seen the girl on the ground, he then ran over
to her. Already she was not pale, but the shade of white similar to that of
snow. She was sobbing with pain, "What happened to her!?" he said
furiously.
Robin replied ferociously, "I don't know! I didn't see what
happened!"
"Why isn't she healing herself?" BB then spoke up, scared.
"BB, can't you see? Raven is dying!" It hurt him to admit it. He could
see the expressions of his friends: terror, sadness, and confusion dominated
theirs looks, and he could not deny that he was feeling the same as his
friends. It seemed that time had frozen.
"No!" Starfire screamed, crying and breaking the silence, "It is not
true! It is a lie! IT IS ALL A LIE!" she furiously continued. Cyborg and BB
become scared for the their friend. Cyborg then embraced Raven. Feeling
something wet on her back he looked at his hands.
"Blood! She was crossed!" he nearly screeched. "How?" he continued
incredulously.
"What do you mean by 'crossed'?" Robin replied dispiritedly due to
his ignorance.
Raven then grabbed Cyborg's hand, shivering.
"The bomb! It is going to explode!" Star terrifyingly said. They all had
clearly forgotten the bomb completely. They embraced each other; Raven on the
floor in the middle. The uproar from the bomb then began. The teen heroes
waited for the impact when a field of black force surrounded them, protecting
them from the impact. Then explosion ended and the force field disappeared.
Raven's hand slipped off Cyborg's. A terrible foreboding struck the four
Titans. Ambulances were then heard in the distance.
"Now they come. Raven, resist, I know you can, you are a very strong girl
and you must not give up, please do not give yourself up… wake up! Wake up
please! Damn it! Wake up, the ambulance…, wake up!" His voice was heard,
even over the ambulance's sirens, driven with despair. He shook her
shoulders slightly, but without any result. BB started sobbing, tears forming
in his emerald eyes. Starfire embraced Robin, crying and trembling. Robin was
stiff, he wasn't saying nor feeling anything. A great hole started to form
in the pit of his stomach at seeing the desperation of the robot boy. "Wake
up! Resist! Not me…don't inghis to us! Breathe…please!...He then
hugged her again.
Beast Boy looked at the stretcherbearers, which had already gotten out of the
vehicle.
"Stupid idiots! You're late! Very late!" He shouted screechedly at the
emts.
"Beast Boy, calm down." Robin said coldly. Which only made BB get more
angry.
"Don't say to me that it's my fault! It's your entire fault! You
could have been faster! Or…or…or you could have been a better leader and
prevented her from leaving where we were!"
"Do you think that I wanted this to happen to her?!" the Boy Wonder
yelled back
"Stop fighting!" Starfire shouted at them, furious because of their
idiotic fighting.
They all went quiet as a white aura appeared out of what seemed like nothing,
revealing a woman similar to Raven, only several years older and she was not
as pale either.
"Who are you?" Cyborg said to the new comer while sadly approaching
Raven. "Can you…can you do something?"
"That's why I'm here. I am Arella, Raven's mother." She then
touched her daughter's forehead and a white sheen appeared surrounding
Raven. She next put her hand on the wound, closing it a bit. Arella then
stumbled, but Robin caught her in time, she looked extremely tired.
"Thank you, youngster. My work is finished… I can't do more than her
wound. I'm sorry, but that's it." And she disappeared with the same
white aura. They looked at Raven, who had returned to her normal color and was
starting to breathe again.
The stretcherbearers came and lifted Raven to the stretcher.
Starfire approached Robin and put a hand on his shoulder, she smiled, trying
to comfort him. "She is going to be fine." He then put his hand on the
hand that was on his shoulder.