Wow, I had no idea people were going to read this! Thank you to LostMusician, Instant Coffee,Fantazy,MirandaOtto,tiny tinker,ErekLich,ssjEasterBunny,Scorpio Serpant, and Dark morbid thinker I appreciate your comments and reading my story, it means a lot to me. I hope I've made the piece better. Now I'm just worried it will stink. Ahhh there are expectations!! Ok so this is a little longer but I didn't want to split it into two chapters. Oh and I want to thank my sister for reading it to check for its coherency. Thank Tetums! Anyway, I do not own the Teen Titans or Alice in Wonderland. Just covering all my bases since wonderland is in the title.

Ch. 2
"Battling Wonderland"

Cinderblock roared in a bank parking lot. His fists spun like propellers. Civilians ducked behind cars or fled from the scene. Cinderblock howled with delight, unaware of five shadows that crept up around him. Suddenly, a blow to the head ceased his cackling. The massive monster shrieked, and flailed his granite body franticly. A black haired boy was flung from the robber's shoulders, and a green woolly mammoth charged to strike him. But the blow would only rendered Cinderblock helpless temporarily.

As Cyborg went in for another hit to put the monster out, the giant rock clasped his colossal hand around the metal man.

Raven rose into the air, her eyes in a glowing brilliance, and the words forever etched on her lips spilled out. But before she could finish, she was hit by Cinderblock's free palm.

Her body soared backwards. In mid-air she watched as green bolts flew past to take up were she had failed.

She then felt her side make contact with the pavement. Skidding to a stop, Raven's limbs remained limp.

The dimming sky was lit up by different degrees of green intensity. Guilt twisted in her mind. She blinked her lashless eyes slowly; the gravel felt cool under her hand. Shakily she stood raising her arms in triumph, she shouted.

"Azarath Metrion Zinthos!"

A black spark danced jaggedly from her hand, but suddenly it turned and jolted back to her, coiling itself around her vulnerable body. Immediately, she was knocked to ground again.

There was nothing but bright light. As it faded, waves rolled over her, leaving salt stuck in her hair. She heard a familiar laugh, and splashes behind her. Before she could see who was there with her, she found herself staring into another light, though this one a biting bright white one. She felt herself incased in a room, nothing but a shadow to comfort her. Then there was nothing but flames around her. She stood precariously on a cliff. She heard menacing laughter, and felt something wrap around her.

"These are what could be, one and only one. It seeped into her skin, flooding into her ears. These are what could be, one, and only one. The time will arise, and you will know. One and only one. Empty, alone, full, surrounded. Do not be deceived by the white light."

Raven hit the pavement again, her eyes wide. Her lips moved rapidly. The words from her mind spilled out into the cold air. It was warning. Her mind was warning her.

She shook all over. But wherever she had just been, it felt inedible. This is what could be. She shivered. The heat could still be felt from the flame's singeing her legs. The laughter still pierced her ears. This was going to be her fate. Completely consumed with misery, left to have her mind rot in a shadow, stained with hellish overtones.

Her breath quickened. She felt her mind spinning, as if dipping back into that sub-conscience.

"No, not now, stay here Raven!" She commanded to herself. Her mind was bombarded with memories and voices swirling around, crashing up against her head, and dragging her into a bright, glowing light. Overwhelmed by the anxiety, she felt herself let go. She was going lose conscience again. It was too much: all ofthis screaming into her ears.

As she brought her hands up to cover them, she caught a piece of her hair. There was something in it. As she dragged her hands through, she found grains of salt sitting in her palm. Her eyes widen and she felt her mind relax with the sudden rise of hope. Maybe, as she had been told, there really was a choice.

"Raven!"

A shout broke her cognitive fog. She saw hands and reached for them. They took her and swept her away. A large fist slammed into the ground where Raven used to lay.

Fire works of blue lit up around her as Cyborg let loose with his cannon. When had he become free?

"What's the matter with you? This is isn't the best place to meditate right now."

Her head turned, coming to face green skin.
"I was healing myself. It was a hard hit." Raven responded stiffing herself at Beast Boy's touch. The pointy- eared boy frowned and lowered her to the ground.

"Maybe you should take a break then."

"I'm fine." And with that a bus was illuminated with black energy, and dumped onto Cinderblock's head. The rock lurched and then smashed into a parked car. There he remained.

"Victory!" Squealed Starfire as she jumped up and down in her joy.

"Yes, a victory." Raven uttered as she and Beast Boy walked over to join the rest of the Titans to go home.

As soon as they arrived to the giant T, Raven excused herself to her room. There, she immediately tuned her mind out. Retreating to the back of her recollection, she searched for the two worlds that had been displayed to her at the battle. Nothing could be divulged. She could only hope that they were memories, possible repressed, but a sinking feeling told her they had yet to come.

But it couldn't hurt to keep searching.

Pushing through a closet full of nostalgia, she saw when Cyborg had been infected with the virus, and had a free-for-all-buffet on the city. He was certainly sick after that. Numerous views of the park and sunshine passed by. Starfire offering her a spoon full of the Pudding-Of-Sadness. A green dinosaur dropping on top of her. Beast Boy and Cyborg staying and aiding her in the defeat of daddy-dearest. Her head ached, but she continued to strain father back. As she shifted through the old pictures, she happened to catch sight of a paper rose.

"You were sealed up! Just stay away."

The rose glowed a familiar black, tinged with green on the sides. Raven lashed out to whip up the rose and tear it to sheds. At that moment she didn't care if she lost that memory forever.

But once her fingers touched the flower, her mind stung. Her meditation state fell, and then she saw a shadow sitting hauntingly on the wall. Harsh white light burned around the figure. She could feel the torture of the shadow's mind; it's absolute despair. But other wise it was inactive. Its reality had been fractured and only memories of pain seemed to play in its head.

And then she was left in a haze.

Raven found herself stumbling down the hallway. She some how managed to escape her "meditation state" and get out of her room.

She fell against the wall in despair. This couldn't be happening. She had always been held hostage by her emotions: but her mind as well? This was the only thing she could count on, herself, her own mind, and now it was temporarily out of order? She couldn't even have the safety of meditation now. What ever her mind was warning her of it was coming too close to the realities.

The black outs, the inability to meditate, her mind was going to be left paralyzed. It was already heading towards one of the fates.

As Raven stepped into the kitchen to make a kettle of tea, she heard a hushed mixture of whispers. She sighed, and walked over to the cupboard to get a tea bag. Four Titans sat guilty at the table.

She looked at them as she now poured some water into the kettle and said, "I wasn't planning on having a tea party."

Starfire tugged on her red hair.
"I do not believe our current topic of conversation would be most pleasant for the drinking of tea."

Raven raised an eyebrow as she clicked the oven's flame on.
"Oh?"

Robin sighed and pulled out a chair for her to sit.

"I'm fine," Raven said as she began opening a tea bag.

"We're not." Cyborg's voice cracked.

Raven's head swiveled to each one of her teammates. Stopping at Star's, the girl's green eyes shimmered.

As she spoke, the droplets spilled onto her cheeks.
"As I have said before, we need to honor our friendship; yet you seem to grow further from us." The Tamaranian girl shifted uncomfortable. "Friend Raven, I do not wish to see the separation that I saw in the future come true."

Raven felt her cheeks burn with guilt. Starfire surprised her with that knowledge. A lump rose in her throat as she lied through her teeth.
"This is how I control my powers. There are some things I cannot participate in because they demand concentration."

Her eyes narrowed at Robin as she said this. She thought they had had an understanding of this when she joined. And this intervention was not making her feel any better.

"Besides," she continued, "you're still here Starfire; And what you saw has already been proved to be false..." She didn't want Starfire's hypothesis to be true, but a sinking feeling inside her told her other wise.

"Perhaps. But as I have also proved, time can be changed. Maybe there is still lose ends needing to be tied?" Starfire innocently replied.

The tea -kettle whistled for relief from the heat. Raven dimmed the flame until it died. Her eyes then concentrated on Robin, pleading with his masked ones.

"Raven, I've let you go with out explanation before, but not this time." Her focus shifted downward as he spoke.

"I've just needed to concentrate a little more lately. It's what my…"

"Why!"

"It's just what my powers command. I wish I had known earlier you thought I was a threat."

Robin folded his arms, his forehead furrowed in hurt.
"That's not it at all, we're just worried Raven, you're a valuable member to the team… and our friend."

Raven straightened herself up and swept her face of any emotion.
"There is no need to be concerned. It is my problem not that it is a big one. I can handle it. I'll be alright."

As the girl in question began walking away, Cyborg let out a grunt. Raven froze. Words still needed to be said.

Cyborg looked at the group and then at Raven. He rubbed the back of his neck and then sighed.
"C'mon Rae, we just want what's best for you."

"What's that suppose to mean?"

Robin taking that cue verbalized what was on the groups mind, "We think you should get some help. Just talk with some one. It doesn't have to be one of us."

Raven froze and then spoke. "I'll consider it." She then melted into the floor to return to her room.

Once in her bedroom, Raven paced wildly. Her frenzied mind ached as she tried to remain calm.
"There must be a way out of this. I know an answer looms, but my head is just too tangled. If only I could meditate with out feeling in danger!"A knock on the door halted her motion for a moment.

"Come in." She muttered.

Beast Boy entered the lackluster room. He smiled slightly and said, "I thought you could use a laugh er something."

"I said thatI will be alright. Besides you can't make me laugh, remember?" Raven said as she rearranged some books on the shelf.

The boy's ears fell slightly, "Malchior could," his voice sounding soft and crestfallen.

"Get out." Raven murmured through gritted teeth.

Beast Boy continued not missing a beat. "I don't understand how someone you hardly knew- how could you trust him? You let him touch you, be with you more than any of us. You've known us…"

"Out!"
Raven burst a stream of energy at Beast Boy's chest. It flung the greenteen out the door. He greeted the wall with a thump and then slid down to the floor.

The door now swallowed with black, slammed shut cutting out the view of Beast Boy on the ground.

"Raven," a muffled voice came from outside.

She shivered clutching her arms and turned to face the door. She lifted her hand, it started to glow, but in a split decision, lowered it.

Silence.

His voice, strong enough to cut through the stillness, swelled, "Just remember what I told you, you're not alone."

Footsteps could be heard walking away. Raven held herself even tighter as a voice crept up from the depths of her mind.

"You don't know how alone you'll be."