A/N Looky looky what I've got, another story for you lot out there. I hope you like it, I do!
Summary: Raven is electrocuted in a fight and is saved from a watery death by a strange girl called Miyoka. The titans are grateful to Miyoka so they ask her to stay in the tower, which she does. Aqualad is also staying at the tower for the time being as he is extremely worried about Raven, his girlfriend who he has been dating for a few months. Although Raven isn't as badly hurt as the others thought, Aqualad still stays and as luck would have it, Miyoka begins to fall for him. At the same time Robin realises he has feelings for Raven and he tries to get her to see she must love him as well. Out of all the other people on the team, Miyoka is the only one who sees what is going on between the two and she uses this to her advantage, trying to win over Aqualad. At the same time, we find out she is another water dweller but with a dark past. Although a nosey interferer who wants Aqualad for herself, she does help bring about happiness in the end.
Disclaimer: I don't own Teen Titans and I never will though I wish I was one of the lucky ones who owned them. That would mean I'd own a variety of other superheroes as well . . . oh how my life would be complete! I also don't own Miyoka, Alisa does. She gave me the idea of this girl when she reviewed for my other story 'Shades of Blue' (humorous story that one is!) though this character will not be 100 the same as the character she told me about.
IMP: Also Miyoka is NOT, I repeat, NOT based upon anyone. She is not a Mary Sue. She will not have that main of a part; she will be more like a catalyst. Think of her as a water dwelling Terra, though less traitorous, less hurtful and less infuriatingly chipper.
The main pairings are: Aqualad/Raven most of the way through. Robin/Raven from about halfway through onwards (though it'll be mainly flirting and longing for each other etc. . .). Aqualad/Miyoka MAYBE, I'm still not sure about that cos I might just make it that they hint that they like each other in the end, I'm still not sure. Also there will be a slash pair later on but they will not feature greatly, just once, and the slash isn't imperative to the story, I just like slash, in fact, I'll write it in such a way that you can skip slashyness if you don't like it k.
So, one with the story!
STILL WATERS RUN DEEP
Chapter one: Electric Energy
It was dark outside, too dark. It was meant to be four in the afternoon but heavy black, pendulous clouds filled the sky, blocking out the sun making it unnaturally early night. Lightning streaked the sky rapidly and thunder boomed out, barely a pause between the two. The storm was poised right above Jump City and it was about to strike.
Large, fat rain drops began to fall rapidly from the sky and the few people that were out and about on the streets below quickly ducked into the nearest shop or covered doorway to avoid being caught in the downpour. There was no-one about and aside from the sound of the storm, all was quiet . . . until a large bus was thrown into the side of a building causing a great amount of debris to crash to the floor in a defending sound.
"Titans! We meet again!" an all too familiar annoying voice rang out, barely feasible over the booming of the thunder "I see my mayhem and destruction has brought you here to me."
"Dude, you told us where you were." another all too familiar voice, this one belonging to the green changeling, Beast Boy, could be heard, although the changeling himself was too hard to see through the downpour.
"Yeah man, what kind of bad guy tells the good guys where he's at?" Asked Cyborg who stood beside Beast Boy, the rain clinking loudly off his half metal body as it fell.
"I am guessing one who is not a very good villain?" a girl whose voice was filled with innocence and naivety questioned from somewhere above the two. The girl was Starfire and she floated a few meters above the ground behind the two. The rain fell so hard now that she was nowhere to be seen.
"Well considering who the 'villain' is, that description is pretty accurate." A voice drawled from somewhere beside Starfire. The voice belonged to the mysterious but extremely beautiful dark Titan, Raven. She too was nowhere to be seen but this was nothing new, Raven hid in the shadows on a regular basis.
"Enough talking!" the villain in question, Control Freak, interrupted, sounding quite indignant at the way the titans were talking about him "Allow me to show you just how good a villain I am. With my new and improved trusty remote control I will defeat you, Titans, once and for all. You will never be able to defeat me now with the upgrades I've added." With that said he aimed his remote at the road in front of him and pressed a button.
The tar covering the road began to melt and form a thick gooey puddle of sludge. Suddenly the puddle began to stretch upwards. The tar spread out and began to take the shape of a large blob like monster. Its body stretched until it was towering over the titans, tar dripping off of its body and plummeting to the ground in clumps.
"Titans GO!" another voice called out, this one belonging to the leader of the group, Robin. Robin was easily visible through the rain as his red, green and yellow uniform stood out strikingly in the darkness
Five agile bodies rushed forward and began to attack the tar monster simultaneously. Green blasts of fire energy and blue blasts of electrical energy hit the tar monster from all sides while objects encased in dark energy were thrown in rapid succession at the monster but to no avail. It seemed to absorb the objects and energy fired at it.
Exploding discs were thrown at the monster which upon impact caused pieces of the monster to be blasted off, only to be replaced immediately and a large green woolly mammoth charged at the tar monster but instead of hurting it, as was the desired intent, the mammoth's front tusks simply sank into the tar, causing no effect to the monster what so ever. The mammoth struggled to remove its tusk from the monster but was unable to. Suddenly the mammoth disappeared and standing in its place was Beast Boy, covered in tar but free from the hold of the tar monster.
"Eww." Beast Boy exclaimed, trying to move albeit sluggishly, away from the monster. His body was weighed down by the sticky tar and he couldn't wipe it away fast enough "Dudes this thing is like Plasmus but more disgusting!" he called out to the others over the booming of the thunder and the sounds of Cyborg's sonic cannon.
"Not exactly." Robin called out "This thing isn't human, which means we can kill it. Titans, don't hold back." The four titans nodded and began to pelt the monster with as much force as they could.
"Stand back." Raven order loudly, trying to be heard over the continuous thunder, after a few moments of watching her friends trying to hurt the monster but to no avail. The other titans moved and she encased the monster in her black energy. At first, all the Titans could see was the monster wrapped in darkness but slowly the width of the monster began to decrease and it became apparent as to what was happening. Raven was crushing the monster, hoping to cause it to implode upon itself. They watched in fascinated shock as the width continued to decrease until suddenly, it expanded into a large bubble as the tar shot apart with great force.
Raven released her hold on the tar and the titans saw that all remained of the monster were a few clumps of tar. They watched as it melted back into the road then they turned back to Control Freak.
"Very good titans." He said, smiling "You beat the tar, but can you beat water?"
He pointed his remote at the ocean stretched out behind the titans and pressed a button. A large column of water sprung up out of the sea and headed towards the titans. Before they could move out of the way it smashed into them, causing them to go flying into a building.
"Dude its raining and we're already wet, besides pushing us around what the hell is the water going to do?" Beast Boy asked, standing up and wiping his eyes.
"Well it's-" began Control Freak "It will- I guess- I mean. . ."
"That's what I thought" Beast Boy replied, rolling his eyes, looking startlingly like Raven.
"Titans, get that remote off of him so we can go home." Robin ordered, messing with his hair, trying to get it into some sort of style similar to his usual trademark style.
"You'll never be able to get it if you keep getting punched around by the ocean." Control Freak cackled from where he stood before aiming his remote at the ocean again and causing another column of water to spring up and head for the titans.
The water suddenly stopped mere inches away from the titans, frozen in mid-air. "What the-" Control Freak began before a voice interrupted him.
"You know, Control Freak, you're not the only one who can control the ocean." The voice belonged to a pale boy with black hair dressed in a blue suit.
"Aqualad? What are you doing here? I thought you were in Steel City." Control Freak asked, momentarily stunned "Is Bumblebee with you? Hey listen, could you, ya know, maybe get me her number?"
"Err- no." Aqualad replied "She's not her, she's back in Steel. I'm here because I got Raven's call for assistance and it looks like I came just in time." He smiled before turning back to the frozen column of water and redirecting its pathway toward Control Freak who had no time to move out of the way before being hit by it.
He was sent careening backwards into a building which shook violently after being hit by his girth. He stood up quickly and barely dodged the next column of water. He smirked and poked his tongue out at Aqualad who only smiled back and pointed upwards.
Control Freak looked up in time to see a shower of Starbolts come raining down on top of him followed by a bird-a-rang to the hand which held his remote. He let out a high pitched squeal and quickly dodged as many starbolts and the bird-a-rang as best he could. A few starbolts grazed his head and backside but the bird-a-rang missed.
The tables had turned on him and now instead of pelting the titans with items using his remote, he was dodging items pelted at him. Water raced towards him via Aqualad, green starbolts flew toward him as did bird-a-rangs and various disks along with blue sonic energy and objects encased in dark energy. To top it all off he had to dodge a variety of green animals who were trying to smack into him in some way or another.
"You shouldn't have called us Control Freak." Raven monotoned as she encased a nearby mail box in dark energy, she was floating a slight ways away above the ocean "You should have just stayed in jail."
He stopped and called out suddenly "Hey Raven," she froze momentarily as did the other titans, the abruptness of this action stunned them "Have you ever mixed water with electricity?"
"No, why?" she asked, not seeing him pointing his remote from behind his back at the sea behind her.
"Wanna see what happens when you do?" he asked before causing the water to shoot towards her. At the same time he made the electricity cable behind her come loose from the pole and head towards her. Before Aqualad could divert the water or Starfire could move the cable, both hit her.
The titans watched in horror as their team-mate began to scream in pain as her body convulsed in mid air. The electricity shot through her body, causing her heat to beat faster, faster. Blood pumped through her veins in an alarming rate as her muscles contracted rapidly making her body shake faster. The effects of the electricity were increased by the sea water as well as the rain water which pelted down onto her body oblivious to the effects it had upon her. Her nerve endings were on fire and she could hear herself screaming but she could do nothing. She tried to encase the cable in black energy to divert it away from her body but she couldn't move, she'd lost all sense of being and she could feel her neural activity begin to slow down. All she could feel was pain and the pain seemed to last forever.
What seemed like forever to Raven was only a mere moment to the rest of the world. As soon as Raven had begun to scream, the titans had been jolted into action.
"Starfire!" Robin had called out "Move that cable! The electricity from it is going to attract the lightning!"
Robin had proceeded to attack Control Freak with as much force as he could muster and almost instantly he had wrestled the remote from his hands but continued to attack him, the burning desire to hurt the one responsible for Raven's pain great within him. He threw the remote to Cyborg who had disabled it which had released the electricity cable from its hold, although the electricity was now attracted to Raven's body so the cable did not fall slack. Aqualad concentrated as hard as he could to make every ounce of water avoid Raven. The column of water which control freak had aimed at her had fallen back into the ocean below and now Aqualad was concentrating on making the rain drops avoid Raven's body. Starfire, following Robin's orders almost before they left his mouth, flew over to where Raven was suspended in mid air and grasped the cable in her hands. The electricity had no effect on her due to the toughness of her alien skin so she easily moved the cable away from Raven's body.
Immediately Raven's body fell limp and she plummeted to the ocean below her. She was unconscious and none of the titans were able to catch her.
"Raven!" Starfire called out as she watched her friend disappear beneath the dark icy waters of the ocean.
"Starfire, where is she?" called Aqualad from the ground below her, he had had his eyes closed in concentration whilst directing the water so had not seen Raven disappear into the ocean.
"She fell into the ocean! She was not moving, I fear she will not come back up on her own!" Starfire replied. The alien girl was dropping out of the sky rapidly as the fear built up inside her, she could no longer maintain the joy needed for flight "Friend Aqualad! Help her!"
Aqualad ran toward the edge pier on which the fight had taken place and was about to dive into the water when something shot out of its depths. That something rose high into the air before landing with a wet smack onto the ground behind him.
"Are you looking for this one?" A high pitched voice with a Russian accent asked.
Aqualad watched as she held out a small bundled up body toward him. His heart leapt up into his throat as he recognised the body as Raven. He couldn't see her body rise and fall with the motion of breathing nor could he hear any thoughts from her, he could sense nothing.
He ran forward and bundled her up in his arms. "Robin! Cyborg! Anyone! We need to get Raven back to the tower now!" his voice shook as he spoke, trying to be heard over the thunder which was still booming overheard. He could hear heavy clunking and he knew Cyborg was running toward him.
"Come on, the T-car's just over here!" he said to Aqualad before heading off into another direction,
"Thank you." Aqualad whispered to the girl in front of him before running after Cyborg, Raven's body still clutched in his arms. The other three titans came over to stand beside the girl and watched as the T-car sped off in the rain toward the tower.
A/N: Ok so what do you think? Any good? I hope so cos this took me 2 hours to write. It was amazing really cos I could see everything happening in my mind (and I could see/hear the lightening and thunder as it was going on outside whilst I wrote this!) but I just couldn't put down in words what was going on which really annoyed me to no end. Ok so review and I'll get the next chapter out as soon as possible. I'm gonna continue writing it now but I doubt I'd have finished it by the end of the day and besides, I should really be doing my research on E. Coli . . . or not! Ok so, review and bye!