I don't own the Teen Titans.

"X, this is serious. You are classified as an anti-hero, not a hero, and yet not a villain as well. We are calling everyone short of our worst enemies for this, we need you. And you need us."

"I never thought that I would see the day that I would listen and say yes to a Titan."

"To be honest neither did I. So you will help us?"

"It depends on what exactly the threat is, sweetheart. And either or not I think that you need help."

"Meet us at the Titans Safe House in an hour, and don't play dumb I know that you know where it is."

"Well aren't you smart, sweetheart." Suddenly Raven snapped and pinned me to the wall that bordered the alleyway.

"Yes I am, and don't call me sweetheart or I will do things in places that you don't want me to go."

"How do you know I don't want you there?"

Her only reply was a smile and than she walked away, leaving me hanging from the back of my uniform from a nail I hadn't noticed in till she left. She was good, and she was easily provoked. Leaving me with just more questions than I had before.

She was right, one more than one occasion. She had know what I was thinking before I even said it. This annoyed me.

When I walked into the huge cave that they called a safety house three things surprised me. One, there was literally at least one hundred meta humans in the room from anywhere to heroes to anti heroes to ex villains. Two, the cave was massive. There were huge vehicles and platforms everywhere, from tanks to helicopters and motorcycles it was all there. Three, the Titans were no where in sight.

I walked over to the farthest corner of the room from the main entrance, where there were still more meta humans walking in. "You know X, I wasn't sure that you would make it. You made me lose a bet with Robin." I looked up to see a pale woman in a blue cloak hiding in the shadows.

"You thought I wouldn't come and Robin did? I never thought that I would see the day where someone trusted me less than the Boy Blunder does."

She slowly glided to the floor and through the shadows of her cloak I could see the smallest of a smirks. "You might want to pay attention to the briefing you are about to get. It will only be said once and I would hate for you to die the first day of training."

"Ha! That is a good one, sweetheart! Like you could have any obstacle course or trainer to fight me that could end up with my death. Besides, who ever said that i would stay that long? It looks like you Titans already have your hands full."

"I say that you will stay, and X?"

"Hmmm?"

"You shouldn't learn to be so cocky. That opponent might just be in this room that could end poorly for you."

She glided away only a few inches of the ground. When I originally stolen the suit 3 years ago she had been distant and easily embarrassed or ticked off. And yet here I was calling her sweetheart constantly and I hadn't even gotten a peep from her. Even just a few months ago she had been different, she was becoming more comfortable in her own powers and skin.

It was strange how you could know someone so well and yet, not at all, all without ever even seeing her face.

I was interrupted from my thoughts by the rest of her team suddenly making an appearance on a platform in the middle of the room. Robin, of course, was the first to speak.

"Welcome. I know that most of you are wondering why we have called you all here. Why we even sent the code of distress or hunted you down, I assure you it wasn't us crying wolf. The 7 original members of the Justice League have gone missing. We have received threats from their captors as well. Our enemies is actually the family of one of our own. She has gone against from the beginning and has agreed to help us learn how to fight these beasts. She was undercover with her families for the past month and has learned much more on her families ways. Listen to her, as she may be our only hope. Raven, you can take it from here."

"Ladies and Gentlemen, I will not beat around the bush, Trigon is back. For those of you who know who Trigon is you know that he is the father of all evil, and has any powers that he chooses. He is also my father. We will be going on a series of missions ending perhaps, with a war. This will be a volunteer mission only, for I must warn you. Trigon has thousands of powerful followers and they will not hesitate to destroy this world, for he has already done it once."

I watched as Raven went again to the back of the stage and her words caused several people to shake in fear. I didn't know who Trigon was but if his name could make a room full of the most powerful people I knew tremble than I knew he was bad news. He was also her father.

Robin walked back to the front of the platform.

"I understand why you may not want to take this mission, but know this. Without you we can't stop him this time, without you he will succeed, without you the world will come to an end. So if not for you, think of your families and loved ones and the people that you had not yet had the pleasure to meet. Signups will be in the back of this room and will continue for two hours. In two hours you will be briefed further and we will answer questions. Think about it."

When they left the room again people finally began to begin speaking. I heard things like "why are they being so secretive about all of this?" or "for all we know they are behind it and don't need help at all, after all Raven is on of them."

A part of me agreed with my fellow anti-heroes but in the end Raven was right, I would be helping them. Not because the world was coming to an end, no. But because I couldn't stand knowing that the Titans knew more about a subject than me. I knew that Raven knew that I wouldn't be able to resist new information, I knew that I could die, but that didn't seem to bother me at the moment. I walked up to the sign up sheets and put down my meta human name when this was all over, I would go back to my previous mission. This wouldn't stop me from hating the Teen Titans.

Boy was I wrong.

When the two hours was up everyone that hadn't signed up in the room seemed to vanish from plain sight. I am guessing that it had something to do with Raven's new mysterious powers. I knew she could do magic, but the things that I had been seeing her do lately border lined on ridiculous. She was growing stronger and more confident and since I didn't know the full extent of her original powers, I was worried. She was something that I didn't understand, that no one could fully understand.

But I had the feeling that soon I would find out just how terrifying she could be, as she was back in the room and the rest of the Titans were no where to be found.

She walked up the the stage and stared down at the hundred or so meta humans left. Her outfit had changed, instead of her signature leotard and cloak she now dawned a skin tight black body suit that I have only seen the likes on Cat Women, with one difference, her face was still covered. She cleared her throat loudly and any sound that was in the room from before seemed to vanish.

"Thank you all for helping us, I know that it was a difficult choice and we haven't been the easiest to work with throughout this entire ordeal. We will be having training sessions every day and we will rendezvous here at 3 am every morning. Expect to not be back home for at least 8 hours after you arrive here. You may all think that you are strong and may be cocky since there is so many of us, but let me assure you. However strong you think that you are at this moment, they are ten times stronger. From this moment forward you are in MY army. You all will listen to me and any commanding officers that I appoint. If you try and back out the signature in the contract will reveal your worst fears and I will send it after you. There is a plus side though, with every good evaluation report from me you will earn 10,000 US dollars from the state of Azarath. I will call 14 of you, the rest of you may go home, we meet again tomorrow. When I call your name you will come to the stage."

"The Question, Huntress, Robin, Black Canary, Cheshire, Starfire, Miss Marshan, Superboy, Wonder Girl, Red X, Beast Boy, Cyborg, Kid Flash, and Jinx. The rest of you may go home now."

When everyone was gone Raven stepped down with a determined set in her shoulders. She walked towards us and then proceeded to take off the mask that was covering her face. Everyone except the Titans or the honorary Titans gasped, her face was beautiful but was marred by a thin, jagged scar going down the left hairline. Her eyes, her eyes were the thing that made us gasp. Her eyes were a brilliant shade of purple that caught the smallest amount of life, they looked at you with compassion and disdain at the same time. There was a hardness that was set in them, but the same time...hope. They were capable of healing the wounded or of making the world suffer. I knew that I would never forget those eyes.

However she ignored our gasps and proceeded to walk along the line of meta humans, looking at each one as she passed. "You all will be my commanding officers, you will each have to take care of your own squadron and will report only to me. In due time I will make one of you my second in command, can you all handle that?"

We all looked at each other like this was some sort of joke. She couldn't be serious! She was beneath every single one of us when it came to caste. She was a part of a team that was insignificant, and she was the lowest ranked in even that team!

Everyone around me nervously chuckled but I remained staring at her. Her eyes seemed to harden even more and fire flashed before those purple orbs that I couldn't stop staring at.

"I SAID CAN YOU HANDLE THAT!"

The room around me had sudden strong wind and she grew 12 feet before our very eyes, even though all of us were used to this sort of thing happening, we were all intimidated. She seemed to put fear directly into our minds.

Everyone but me chorused a round of 'SIR YES SIR's'. She left than without another word leaving the people not in the Titans to wonder how exactly she, off all people, rose to power.