Halloween in Titan's Tower
"Please Raven," Beastboy pleaded.
"I ALL READY TOLD YOU NO!" She responded angrily.
"What's the argument about this time?" Cyborg asked Robin who was sitting on the couch with Starfire watching the fight.
"Remember when we fought Control Freak, and Beastboy made us watch that super scary movie?"
"How could I forget?"
"Well, when Raven made everything a freaky because she wouldn't admit that she was scared, Beastboy asked if she would do it again for Halloween. Halloween is in a week, and he's now begging her to do it anyway."
"Please," Starfire asked innocently. "What is this 'Holloween' that you speak of?"
"It's Halloween" Robin corrected her. "It's a holiday where everyone dresses up and tries to scare people. You'd think Raven would be in to the whole creepy idea, but she doesn't seem to want to have anything to do with it. She won't even help us with the party."
"Dude we're having a party?" Cyborg asked excitedly.
"Yeah," Beastboy said giving up on his mission. "No thanks to Raven," he gave her a glare and sat next to Cyborg.
"How come I'm just now finding out about this?"
"We just decided, and you just came down here," Robin answered simply.
"Yes it will be glorious!" Starfire exclaimed happily.
"No it will be a disaster," Raven said, and then she stormed off to her room. Everyone stared, they were used to Raven being angry, but now she was even more ticked off then usual.
"What is the matter with friend Raven?" Starfire asked still staring at the spot where they had last seen Raven.
"Maybe someone should go talk to her," Robin suggested. Right on cue everyone turned to look at Beastboy.
"Why do I have to go talk to her?" It wasn't a question that anyone should have to answer; Beastboy just seemed to always seemed to be fit to apologize to Raven.
"Because," Cyborg said with a smirk. "I'm afraid that Raven might kill me, Robin's the leader so he shouldn't have to, plus he told you to, Star didn't say anything, except for what Halloween was, and because Raven has a soft spot for you. Further more, if you don't I'll show everyone those pictures form the club we went to last week."
"Fine," Beastboy said feeling both terrified and angry.
He approached Raven's door to find a terrible surprise. Instead of meditating, like Raven normally did, she was both sobbing and throwing things against the wall. Beastboy, now scared out of whatever wits he had, reached his hand to the door and knocked. However before he could even touch the door, the room went completely silent. She didn't even finish her sentence he thought. Raven had gone from yelling something about people being intellectually impaired rodents to nothing. Raven never passed up the opportunity to finish a threat or insult, some thing had to be wrong with her, she wasn't even crying anymore.
Going against all reason Beastboy opened the door and found the room in pieces, but with no actual people in it. He ran out of the room and down the stairs to find Robin and Starfire searching the tower.
"What are you looking for?" Beastboy said, wanting their full attention before explaining what had happened.
"We can not find Cyborg," Starfire said, her emerald eyes gleaming with concern.
"He said something about going to meet a friend, and then vanished," Robin said. He looked at Beastboy, who looked concerned for Robin's mental well being. "He didn't even stand up all the way before he gone. He didn't just leave into the tower without us noticing."
"The same thing happened to Raven," Beastboy said now scared for his other friends, if it was only Raven, she could have just transported somewhere, but where could Cyborg have gone?
"This doesn't add up," Robin said, as much as he wanted to spend the day relaxing instead of fighting crime, this was an emergency.
"Today of all days," Starfire muttered in an almost inaudible voice. Beastboy didn't hear her, but Robin did, and he knew what she meant. I was supposed to take her to the mall and help her pick out a Halloween costume. That's a close to a date as we can get, and now (even for a worthy cause) I blew it. He instantly felt guilty for being so selfish and pretended he hadn't heard her.
"We must find our friends," Starfire said, acting as if this was the first time she had spoken. "We have no idea of what trouble they could be in."
"Where should we look?" Beastboy asked. He had a point, they didn't have any idea where the missing Titans were, and he doubted the communicators would work, that would be too convenient. He decided to suggest it anyway.
"The communicators aren't working," Robin said putting his back in his pocket. "I didn't think it would, but it was worth a shot."
"Didn't think so," Beastboy slumped onto the couch. "What are we going to do? We can't just randomly search the universe. Let's face it, they could be anywhere," he sighed, what was the point of looking everywhere for someone, who would probably never turn up? "And I thought not having Raven do the haunted house was bad.
"This is not a coincidence," Starfire said thinking hard. "The two that went missing are the two that would have the greatest chance of finding a missing Titan. Cyborg has all sorts of trackers, finding someone would be no problem, and Raven could see into someone's mind, and find them that way," she looked up with tears in her eyes. "Someone is trying to destroy us, and they are doing it one-by-one.
"Star has a point," Beastboy said slowly. No matter how many villeins someone fights, it's never easy to admit that someone is trying to kill you.
"That's crazy," Robin said, trying not only to convince his remaining teammates, but also himself. "There has to be a logical explanation for this. I'm sure that there's no connection between the two disappearances."
"Whoever is doing this captured the two that could track down someone, and is going to pump them for information about the rest of us," Beastboy said getting even more freaked out by his statement then anyone else. "They're going to use the info to take down the rest of us."
"This is insane!" Robin yelled. "There's no way that's true. It might be a possibility that someone kidnapped Cyborg and Raven, but there is no possible way that they're going to pump them for information, and then come after us. You guys are just paranoid!" Robin said this with force, but no one (including himself) believed him.
"I do not believe that we are wrong in are assumption," Starfire said barely being able to speak. "There is too much evidence to support our theory for us to be incorrect."
"Everyone calm down," Robin said. "Two of our friends just went missing. I know this would normally be a perfect time to panic and start coming up with crazy ideas, but we have to stay calm and focus."
"Focus on what?" Beastboy said without missing a beat. "In case you haven't noticed, we don't have anything to focus on! Two of our friends just went missing, and we're focused on what could have happened to them. You're the one that doesn't seem to realize what is going on. This is perfect time to panic, two of our best fighters are gone, and what's more they're the ones that would be able to find a missing person. Starfire's right, why don't you see it?"
"I DO!" Robin yelled. "I'M AS FREAKED OUT AS YOU ARE!" he sunk onto the couch near tears. "I know Star's right, but I'm trying to think of any possible way that she might be wrong. I know she's right, but I don't want her to be, because that means that all of our lives are in endangered. What's worse, we might never see Raven and Cyborg alive again."
Starfire sat down next to him and hugged him, "It will be fine Robin, we will find our missing friends and we will find them alive, and we will make out alive as well. I am sure of it." Robin looked at her, she was now crying, into his shoulders; she didn't believe herself either.
"We'll get out of this," Beastboy said sitting in Raven's usual spot.
Robin wiped a tear from Starfire's cheek. "It will be OK," he reassured her.
"I am sure it will be," she stood up and looked out the window. "A storm is approaching, the weather is going to reflect our current state. We might lose power soon," but before the storm had the chance to get rid of the power, the entire tower went dark.