Author's Notes

To Kaarlinaa, thanks for your first review to the story. I can try to update this story every few days, but keep in mind I am posting this story plus "The Dark Army" plus I have college and the workload has just increased, decreasing my potential writing time.

This story will contain several episodes from season one that I am rewriting to fit the purposes of this story. I will be skipping over a couple of episodes that wouldn't be able to be revised. You'll know which ones they are.

Now, let's continue the story.


April 27, 2015. The Teen Titans had finished building their tower out of the fallen Gordonian ship. It stood roughly eight stories tall and featured a top floor that was sixty feet long by twenty feet wide.

With that, they began to move into their new living quarters. In Robin's room, he quickly made his room of utmost simplicity, with just a bed, dresser, and closet. He didn't need anything else in his room - just the bare essentials.

Starfire, having nothing for herself, had to go shopping to get things. She used the credit card Bruce Wayne gave Robin (but the identity of the card's owner would remain a mystery unsolved) and bought a bed, sets of clothing, a mirror, a dresser, and some other accessories necessary for female care.

Cyborg brought in his computer equipment to his quarters, which included his computers, his bed, his charging table, his systems charger, spare batteries and cores, and repair tools to fix himself up.

Beast Boy brought into his room his bunk bed, his clothing, his dresser, and his GameStation 2.0. It was very courteous for Mento and the Doom Patrol to quickly be able to ship his things over to Titans Tower. He may have been raised by the Patrol but Beast Boy needed some time off from them, especially to live a bit like a kid, have a childhood he never had.

Raven brought everything in her room from a backpack she kept on her, which she had previously stored in an abandoned warehouse on the other side of town. She needed a place to stay, and after wandering the Earth for several weeks, she finally had a permanent home. One unlike the monastery Raven was confined to with an abusive populace outside. She had her bed, some personal sculptures, her books, her tea-maker, and her clothing - a lot of cloaks and leotards. Raven didn't really care for much different clothing as that was all that felt comfortable to her.

During the construction of the tower, Slade had managed to hack into the Tower's security systems and plant several cameras throughout the place enabling him to spy on the Titans and monitor their computer activity. It couldn't enable him to disable the Tower's security, but at the moment, he didn't need to. He just needed an eye into his new opponents, to see how he could split off their violet-haired bird from the others.

Now, since the Titans had established themselves, the Jump City Police had agreed to call them if they had any crises. But crime had been laying low for the past few days, especially after the crash landing of Starfire onto Earth.

However, that temporary peace would soon come to an end as a large stone creature came in a cage into Slade's lair, ready for tasking.

Slade walked up to the creature and spoke into its ear, saying "Go to the Jump City Penitentary and bring me Plasmus. Engage anybody in your way but do not kill. I need them alive."

Cinderblock's eyes opened up as he began to smile, ready for a lot of destruction at the prison. He knew his task but he did not know who he was going to be fighting.


Suddenly, an alarm began to ring inside of Titans Tower. They all knew what it meant - trouble. There was a crime going on in Jump City and they had to go stop it.

After all five Titans went into the common room, aka the living room, aka the main ops room, which had been furnished with a couch, table, and chairs, Robin went to the computer near the windows in the room to see what the crime was.

Robin said to his team, "We've got a break-in at the Jump City Penitentary. Apparently it is a very big rock, a sentinent rock that is going on the attack."

Starfire asked, "What does sentinent mean, Robin?"

Cyborg responded, "It means it's alive, and in this case, that makes him a lot more dangerous. We better tread carefully, for we don't know what he can do."

Robin then shouted for the first time ever, "Titans, go" and the Titans headed off to stop the break-in. Starfire carried Robin in her arms while Beast Boy turned into a pterodactyl that supported Cyborg while Raven merely levitated her way to the prison.


Jump City Penitentary. It was night time, say 9 PM and it was dark out. Most of the prisoners were in their cells asleep as the guards took watch outside, making sure nobody got in or out of the prison.

The guards held their Heckler & Koch G36K rifles as they patrolled the gates. It was a normal night as usual, but there just this odd tingling feeling that tonight was far from normal.

Soon, what sounded like sonic vibrations began to storm around the prison. Something was definitely off as the vibrations began to get more powerful. The vibrations were being caused by footsteps, really big footsteps, that were rapidly approaching the prison.

As a result, the guards aimed their assault rifles out, ready to fire upon what was coming towards them. The footsteps continued to draw closer and they became louder and began to shake the position of the guards, getting uneasy as the minutes ticked by.

At last, they saw what was their threat - the huge hulking stone monster known as Cinderblock. The first guard cried out, "Cinderblock! Incoming!"

Another guard soon yelled out, "Open fire!"

As a result, the guards opened fire on Cinderblock as he charged right into the walls, and despite emptying hundreds of bullets into him, he was far from down for the count and seconds later, he breached the walls and sent several guards falling to the ground. Their armor prevented certain death but they were going to be stuck in the hospital for quite some time.

Soon, Cinderblock smashed right into the prison itself, specifically Cell Block Nine, where the most dangerous of criminals happened to reside, including Cinderblock's target.

Immediately after Cinderblock breached the prison, tons of alarms quickly went off as guards rushed to support those that were engaging Cinderblock on the ground.

A guard yelled out, "Code red! We have a code red! All available units report to Cell Block Nine. We have a break-in. Cinderblock!"

Several guards soon follow behind the yelling guard, aiming their weapons around the surrounding area to make sure there is nobody else.

Another guard stated, "Main yard secure. It's just Cinderblock here."

Suddenly they are quickly faced with a large block of stone that is thrown right at them. It would have hit them had they not moved away as it impacted, noting that the hole Cinderblock has made in the prison has just gotten bigger.

Another guard cried out, "He's going to free the criminals."

The first guard ordered, "Open fire! Take him down."

The guards opened fire on Cinderblock but they were unamazed to see that their bullets did no damage on the monster. As their bullets ran out, Cinderblock stomped on the ground repeatedly, which created vibrations that forced the guards off of their feet and crashing onto their bottoms.

With the guards dealt with, Cinderblock continued to move in the prison, looking for where they keep Plasmus to fulfill his boss's requests.

Before he could get too far, he was interrupted by an unfamiliar voice which said, "You know, normally the bad guys try to break out of jail."

Cinderblock looked to see an empty hallway but soon Robin jumped down and was standing in his way. Robin then said, "And I can think of five good reasons you don't want to break in."

Robin points at himself as he says, "One."

Beast Boy jumped down and landed on his feet, saying "Two."

Starfire then flew down with her hands glowing green before she said, "Three."

A black raven floated from the ground before materializing into Raven, who said, "Four."

And lastly, Cyborg came out from the dark and walked forwards to meet up with the other Titans, saying "Five."

Robin then said, "No matter how you do the math, it all adds up to you going down. So, are you going to go quietly..."

Cyborg continued, "Or is this gonna get loud?" as he charged up his sonic cannon to aim at Cinderblock.

Robin shouted, "Titans go" as the battle soon began between the Titans and Cinderblock.

Cinderblock first started by kicking down a lot of the stone walls in the prison, which quickly created huge walls in the cells of most of the prisoners.

One of the prisoners shouted, "Come on guys, freedom!"

With that, a lot of prisoners quickly ran out of the prison, rushing towards freedom. Before the Titans could continue their battle with Cinderblock, Robin said, "Raven. Handle the prisoners. We don't want anyone escaping the prison."

Immediately afterwards, Raven grumbled "Fine" before flying out to handle the prisoner breakout, knowing that the Titans would be better served if she was in the battle against Cinderblock.

Robin quickly landed a tough kick against Cinderblock's head as Starfire and Cyborg barraged him with starbolts and sonic cannon fire. Beast Boy turned himself into a hawk and tried to scratch Cinderblock with his talons. Cinderblock was forced to back away as the Titans began their barrage on him. However, as the four began another charge, Cinderblock swatted them with his hand, leaving only Starfire able to continue the fight.

Starfire fired some starbolts at Cinderblock but he was able to quickly grab her, bunching her so that she could not raise her arms at him and was unable to move. Cinderblock began to chuckle slightly, before Starfire said, "I am sorry to disappoint you, but I am stronger than I look."

With that, Starfire flipped Cinderblock onto his back as he was forced to let go of her. Cinderblock, however, got back up quickly. He was soon faced by Beast Boy who had turned himself into a T-Rex, whacking him with his tail and forcing him into a wall.

Cinderblock grabbed Beast Boy by the neck and threw him at Robin and Cyborg. Before they could realize it, Beast Boy was about to crash on them when he turned back into a human and landed.

Beast Boy sheepishly joked, "Watch out for falling dinosaurs." After seeing Cyborg and Robin's less than pleased reaction, he continued, "I'll leave you guys alone now."

Meanwhile, outside of the prison, the prisoners were trying to escape from the fallen wall. However, a bunch of large rocks, surrounded by a black glow quickly filled in the gap of wall, making it impossible for the prisoners to get through. They would have to climb.

Soon after, Raven phased in through the ground and angrily said, "Think again."

The lead prisoner said, "Ooh, we got a feisty little bitch here. Say, let us go and we won't hurt you too much."

Raven slightly smirked and replied, "I have a better idea. Return to your cells and you won't get hurt."

With that, the lead prisoner charged right at Raven but he was quickly flicked back by a black shield that impacted him in the face. After that, Raven raised her hands and gave the universal "come at me" signal.

A couple more prisoners raced towards Raven, hoping to successfully break through her. However, they were quickly hit with black energy and sent backwards into the crowd of prisoners.

However, the rest of the prisoners soon got an idea - Maybe if we gang up on her, she'll fall. With that, all of the prisoners charged at Raven with the intention of taking her down.

Raven quickly sent waves of black energy at them, hoping to take them down. While she took out a bunch of them, there were still a lot more prisoners and they soon managed to reach her despite the shields she put up to protect herself.

One prisoner quickly punched Raven in the head and soon the other prisoners ganged up on her, providing a flurry of blows upon Raven. She tried summoning her powers, but they broke her concentration by squeezing down on her arms.

The first prisoner Raven took down quickly came up to Raven, much more vicious and aggravated than before. Raven could tell by the look on his face that he was planning on raping her - a look she had seen seven times before.

Before he could prepare to do the nasty deed, guards swarmed in and opened fire on the prisoners, which quickly forced them to fall back. The few prisoners that stayed, trying to beat up Raven were met with gunshots that dropped them dead.

One of the guards picked up the battered Raven and asked her, "Are you alright?"

Raven replied, "I'm fine. I've been better though."

Back to the battle with Cinderblock, Cyborg was now engaged in a battle of girders with the stone monster, having realized that they may wind up being the only thing that can hurt him. Cyborg landed a couple of hits on him but he was quickly outmatched as Cinderblock smashed him back and he landed next to Robin.

After dusting himself off and getting back up, Robin asked, "You want to give him the sonic boom?"

Cyborg turned his hand into his sonic cannon and said, "I got the sonic if you've got the boom."

Robin pulled out an exploding disc and the two began their group move. Robin ran along one wall while Cyborg ran on another. The two met each other in the middle and Cyborg fired a sonic cannon blast as Robin threw the exploding disc that was enhanced by the sonic blast.

The two both impacted Cinderblock and they blasted him down onto the ground leaving a burn mark on his "chest". Before Beast Boy and Starfire could ensure that Cinderblock stayed down, he got back up and swatted the two of them away, causing them to crash behind Robin and Cyborg.

Robin shrieked, "Shit. How come he's not down?"

Cinderblock cried out, "Fools cannot take down Cinderblock" before ramming right into them and pushing them away as he headed to retrieve his target. He smashes through another wall as he finally sees a metal cell door that reads, Prisoner 385901 - Absolute silence!

Cinderblock rips the door off its hinges before kicking away the two guards that are in the room and proceeds to take the tank right out of the cell. He then runs right out of the prison, smashing more walls as he makes his escape.

And though that does free a lot of the prisoners, they are quickly forced back in their cells by Raven, who uses her black energy to blast the runners back. Probably hearing what happened to the first group of prisoners discourages them from trying to attack her.

The prisoners were herded back to their cells as the Titans try to figure out how Cinderblock could have succeeded. Raven soon comes up and Robin begins to yell at her.

Robin yells, "There you are. Where were you?"

Raven yells out (her head getting bigger as she yells at Robin), "I was handling the prisoners as you told me to! And they are a lot tougher than you think!"

Robin yells back at her (with his head changing in size like Raven's), "I had you do that because you couldn't handle Cinderblock. Look at yourself, you're the weakest."

Raven's eyes begin to glow a slight shade of red as the other Titans quake in fear away from the fight, now looking a lot smaller compared to the bickering birds.

Raven yelled back, "You don't talk to me like that. You needed me on the fight against Cinderblock! Trust me!"

"How can I trust you when you won't even tell us about yourself?"

"I told you that I couldn't tell you what I am. And you didn't care to inquire further. Are you saying this is my fault?"

"Want me to say it again?"

Starfire came in between Robin and Raven and said, "Stop! No more mean talking!"

In the background as Robin and Raven continued bickering, Beast Boy said, "If those two are going to fight, we ought to sell tickets."

Cyborg interrupted the fight and said, "Cinderblock escaped. No amount of yelling will change that."

Robin yelled, "Do you have a problem, Shorty?"

Raven cried out, "Yeah. It's four feet tall and reeks of inexpensive hair gel."

"I don't know why you're even on this team!"

"Me neither! I QUIT!"

With that, Raven flew away from the Titans, letting her soul-self engulf her.


Cinderblock brought his target back to Slade's base, setting down the container labeled 385901 in front of Slade's throne-like chair.

Slade said, "Cinderblock. I see your mission was a success. Good, now we proceed to phase two. Wake him."

With that, Cinderblock lightly knocked onto the container, which awoke the half-naked man inside. He shrieked, "I'm awake. I should never be awake. I'm human only when I'm asleep."

Slade then demanded, "Your human form is useless for what I have in mind. I need Plasmus."

With that, the man was quickly engulfed by a protoplasmic goo that quickly became him, shattering the container and quickly revealing a large brown-purple blob known as Plasmus, delivering a screeching roar.

Plasmus and Cinderblock then depart from Slade's presence as Wintergreen soon comes in.

Wintergreen says, "I have the feed from the prison. It appears the fight triggered disagreements between Robin and Raven. She quit."

Slade replied, "Good. Have Overload prepared. Tomorrow night, the Titans will fall."


Back at Titans Tower, the team was dealing with Raven's departure from the Teen Titans and they noticed that when they came back, Raven had taken all of her things from her room, which was now vacant and her T-Communicator was gone as well.

Cyborg tried to track it down but he discovered Raven turned off the locator and cell, rendering it impossible for him to find her. Raven did not want to be found. She needed to be away from Robin, but for how long? Would they ever get Raven back?

Raven, meanwhile, returned to the abandoned warehouse that she had been staying at over the past few days, where nobody could find her and she would stay away from civilization. Raven was beginning to think that she was never going to have a good experience with people.

And all the while, Slade continued to watch over all five of them - looking how isolated Raven was gave Slade the idea of just how to divide his three creatures to fight the Titans.


April 28, 2015. The Titans were dealing with Raven's departure in their own ways. Starfire was at the kitchen making some dish, Beast Boy was frantically trying to contact Raven (who was refusing to answer), Cyborg was programming the computers, while Robin was just staring at the windows.

As Beast Boy walked into the main ops room, Starfire quickly shoved a large spoonful of her dish down Beast Boy's throat. He asked, "Dude, what is that? Cream of toenails?"

Starfire replied (slightly glum), "Pudding of Sadness. It is what the people of my planet eat when bad things happen."

After that, she then ate an equally large spoonful of her Pudding of Sadness, which didn't go down with pleasure, but at least it wasn't as bad as Beast Boy - he was on all fours trying to expel it from his system.

She then went up to Cyborg to try to get him to try the pudding. She said to him, "Try. The displeasing taste will ease your troubled mind."

Cyborg turned to face Starfire and said, "My mind is never troubled. People come, people go. It's pointless to be upset about Raven."

Suddenly, all the monitors begin to go fuzzy as they all begin to flash, SYSTEM ERROR.

Cyborg simply asks, "What?", not noticing the damage, as Starfire continues on to Robin.

While Robin is looking at the windows, Starfire holds the bowl out towards him. She says, "Here, Robin. You need this most of all since, well..."

Robin cut her off with, "I'm fine. Maybe we'll be better off without her."


A few hours later, the Titans are continuing to deal with Raven's absence when they get the trouble alarm. Rushing to the main ops room, the Titans looked to see the threat.

Robin asked, "Cinderblock strikes again?"

Beast Boy replied, "You wish."

The Titans quickly rushed over to a chemical factory where the disturbance was reported. Looking inside, they see a large brown-purple blob going through the massive quantities of chemical waste, grabbing the barrels and guzzling them down.

After watching him eat some barrels, Starfire blasts another one away before he could chug it down.

The four Titans assembled as Robin said, "That stuff can't be good for you."

Plasmus soon began dispensing sludge right at the Titans and they are barely able to avoid it as it comes for them. Robin orders, "Star! Let him have it!"

Starfire then fires a couple of starbolts into Plasmus's chest, creating a fairly big hole in it. Upon seeing the results of her work, she said, "Did I let him have too much?"

However, Plasmus quickly fills in the hole in his body. Beast Boy gasps out, "I'm thinking not enough" as Plasmus restarts his barrage on the four Titans. He sends an arm towards Starfire but Cyborg is able to move her out of the way as it hits a wall.

Robin pulled out a cryo-disc and said, "Maybe he just needs to chill" as he threw the disc at Plasmus's arm, freezing it. However, that didn't do too much as Plasmus shattered the arm before regrowing it and a bunch of tentacles along with it.

Beast Boy turns into a rhino and tries to ram Plasmus, but it merely sends out a bunch of goo that washes Beast Boy backwards towards his teammates. Afterwards, he says while he spits out the goo, "And I thought Star's pudding tasted bad."

Back at his base, Slade was watching the fight between the Titans and Plasmus, with Wintergreen by his side. Slade remarked, "Disappointing. With one Titan missing, this is almost too easy."

Slade turns to Cinderblock and continues, "I was expecting more of a challenge. Cinderblock, begin phase three."

Cinderblock nods and grabs a large piece of equipment, intent on fulfilling his master's request as Slade turned his eye back to the fight.

Wintergreen then said, "Overload has been deployed at the girl."

Slade then remarks, "Let's watch."


Back at the warehouse where Raven was staying, she was sensing something was coming. Her hearing detected a lot of electricity heading her way. Putting on her backpack, Raven began to leave the warehouse when Overload, a malevolent computer chip surrounded by electricity, crashed in.

Raven asked, "What the hell are you?"

Overload replied, "Overload. Foolish biological. Overload shall destroy!"

With that, he sent a large shock of electricity towards Raven, who barely dodged it as it impacted the wall. Raven summoned her black energy and began blocking his blasts as she sent some of her own his way.

Unfortunately, they failed to do a thing to Overload, who continued heading towards Raven. So, she used her powers to lift several abandoned desks at him and threw them right at him, and predictably, they did nothing to slow down the electric beast.

Raven then noticed the sprinklers on the ceiling of the warehouse. She shouted out, "Bet you aren't waterproof" as her powers proceeded to rip the sprinklers right out of place and sending a downpour of water right onto Overload.

Immediately, Overload was zapped with the water and began to shrink until he was nothing more than his chip. Raven walked up to Overload's chip before stepping on it repeatedly, destroying it and the malevolent intelligence along with it.

Suddenly, Raven's communicator got an alert that there was another attack. She checked to see that in addition to the Plasmus attack being covered by her former teammates, Cinderblock was attacking downtown.

She immediately let her soul-self swallow her up as she headed off to confront Cinderblock downtown.

And she got there not a moment too soon as Cinderblock was using the piece of equipment from Slade's lair to cause more havoc downtown when he spotted Raven. Cinderblock chuckled slightly, preparing for what he thought would be an easy fight.

Raven used her black energy to surround Cinderblock with the equipment he brought from the lair, crushing him beneath its strength before he fell down onto the ground. Cinderblock struggled in vain to get up, but the equipment was much stronger than he expected, making it impossible to break out.

With Cinderblock down for the count, Raven then proceeded to head over to the chemical factory to help the Titans deal with Plasmus.


And the Titans were getting their collective asses kicked by Plasmus, who managed to worm his way out of any trap the Titans tried to set him in. By now, the Titans had been separated - Robin and Cyborg now trapped on a conveyor belt slowly headed towards a vat of sulfuric acid while Beast Boy and Starfire were slowly being consumed by the goo.

It was looking like the end for the Titans, with Beast Boy and Starfire almost completely drowned into it, about to die and the conveyor belt getting closer to the end where the Robin and Cyborg would meet their end.

Before the changeling and the alien could be drowned, the goo was suddenly pushed off of them and far away from them. When looking to see what had caused it, they saw that it was being done by familiar black energy. Raven came and proceeded to blast Plasmus with a burst of black energy, which turned that part of him into nothing more than scattered goo. Raven thought, Now where are Robin and Cyborg?

She got her answer when she sensed them down below, trapped by Plasmus and their time ticking away. Before Robin and Cyborg could fall to their demises, they found themselves on a platform of black energy that calmly coasted them over to a platform to the side of the conveyor belt, keeping them away from being dissolved by acid.

Plasmus turned around to see them, ready to blast them away. However, Raven came along and used one blast of black energy to send Plasmus flying away and smashing him into a wall.

The goo abated from Plasmus, revealing the bald, half-naked man formerly in the holding container.


The Titans were outside now, with four of them cleaning up the goo that got on them, whilst Raven was completely clean. The police grabbed the human Plasmus and put him back in his stasis container after applying a sedative to keep him asleep.

While brushing the goo that got on him, Robin said Raven, "Look, uh...sorry...about..."

Raven quickly said, "Yeah."

Robin asked, "Are we cool?"

Raven replied deadpan, "Frigid."

Starfire then cried out, "You made up! Glorious! I wish to initiate the group hug."

Beast Boy and Cyborg simultaneously said, "Pass."

Robin then said, "We still have two more crises to handle. Cinderblock and that electric monster."

Raven replied, "No you don't. Cinderblock's already in custody and this is what remains of the electric monster named Overload."

Raven pulled out her backpack and revealed the crushed remains of Overload's chip.

Raven added, "He did try to attack me."

Robin replied, "That's fine. But there's one thing still bugging me. Breaking into jail? Using Plasmus and Overload to distract us? That seems way too smart for Cinderblock."

Raven then commented, "I'm thinking the exact same thing. There's someone in Jump pulling the strings."

Robin confidently replied, "No matter who they are, they're no match for the Titans."

Back at his base, Slade furiously watched as the Titans had beaten Plasmus, or rather Raven had - along with Cinderblock and Overload (whom she had permanently put out of commission). Slade said to himself, "I guess he was right. You truly are a gem, Raven. The Titans will pay for what they have done and when the time comes, Raven will be in my grasp."