Chapter 4: The clues follow...

"Be my apprentice and I shall give you back Raven." Slade's voice replayed in Beast Boy's head…he thought about it once then again and again until his head hurt then he would stop thinking and think about it again.

"Could he really bring her back." He said out loud.

"Bring who back?" Dawn's bright smile came around the corner.

"Sorry the door was opened." She explained.

"Well shut it." Beast Boy was in no mood to talk to the "newbie".

"Beast Boy do you mind me staying here? I get the feeling you don't." she said sadly.

Beast Boy sighed. "It's not you…I-I just feel so empty." He turned away from her.

"About Raven?" she walked in his room nearly slipping on a stuffed monkey lying on the ground.

"She was a good friend…and I miss her so bad." His voice started to get shrill.

Dawn sat down on his bunk bed next to him.

"I didn't know her but I heard about her, and it seems to me she was an awesome person. And I feel you'd do anything to get her back." She placed a hand on his shoulder.

"Yeah…almost anything." He said quietly.

A red light flashed through the hallway and surprised them both. An alarm went off with a loud ear piercing sound.

"Who is it?" asked Cyborg. Robin twisted and turned knobs, pressed buttons but no information on who it was came up.

"I have no idea but it's at the docks…Titans move out!" they ran to the door.

DOC 16…and red sign was in the front of doc's gate. Labeled "UNDER CONTRUCTION" in big white letters.

"Okay team, whoever this is…no mercy we take them down!" said Robin. The jumped over crates and prepared themselves for battle.

A young man was calling out to robots he yelled at them and pressured them to keep moving and go faster.

"Hurry up! Slade wants all this material! Make it quick!" He had short brown hair that covered his right eye. He was slim yet built…he wore a metallic suit just like the one terra wore.

"I don't think Slade needs that!" Robin said from upon the crates.

"I've been waiting for you." He smiled a crooked smile. "Bots attack!" he said calmly. A wave of robots swarmed over to the titans.

"Titans GO!" Robin didn't have to tell them twice.

The robots toppled the crates over with strength.

With an estimated guess Robin that there was at least 20 to 30.

"Okay team hit em with everything you got." They were in a circle back to back.

Closer and closer the robots moved in. The Titans were waiting for their opportunity. Dawn saw hers.

"I got this." Her eyes glowed again the same red…she levitated off the hard ground she raised her arms in the air and dark clouds formed over them. Thunder roared and lightning struck.

She looked down at the robots and threw her hands down by her side. Heavy rain fell from the sky. Static discharge began to form around the robots, their bodies stopped moving and they began to give off smoke.

"Ha! That took care of that." Dawn smiled and her eyes stopped glowing.

"BAM!"

"Uh!" Dawn went flying into a large mountain of crates.

"You little bitch! You ruined my chance!" This mysterious man caught a disk that flew back to him.

"YAAAAA!" Starfire shot bolts at the man. He dodged them with speed. He through another disk. Starfire didn't move she never saw it coming and it blew up in her face. She fell from the black cloud to the hard cement ground.

The man smiled. "Yaaaa! Uh! Eh!" Robin was struggling to hit this guy with his staff.

Every move he made was either countered or blocked.

"Who…are…you? Why are…you working for Slade!" Robin tried to talk and fight at the same time.

The mysterious man just smiled and knocked Robin on his back.

He flipped onto crates and looked for the other two titans

"Where's the green thing and the tin man?" he searched for them but saw no one.

A shiny metallic object shined in his eye.

"There you are." He was ready to through a disk. When a large frightening…green gorilla picked him up.

"PUT ME DOWN YOU PIECE OF AAAAAHHHH!" Beast Boy threw him over the crates…he landed on the ground hard. Groggy and in pain the mystery man sat there on the ground.

"Who are you? Why are you working for Slade?" Cyborg shook him and dangled him nearly 12 inches off the ground.

"My name isn't important to you, tin man!" He said.

"You're right it's not…so I don't know why I bother to ask." Cyborg's cybernetic arm turned into his blaster.

"I think you should start talking you pulled him away from his game station." Dawn said leaning against Cyborg.

"Slade needs the material in those crates. For…an experiment." He looked at Beast Boy, with a "you know what I'm talking about" look.

"What experiment?" Starfire said with glowing green eyes.

"Sorry that information I don't even know." He gave her a sexy yet sinister smile.

"One more thing what's your name?" Robin said.

"Slade gave me the name "Crow"." He smirked at him. A beep flashed on Crow's belt and he was free enough to press the button. "Gotta fly kitties." A jet flew over them and came dangerously close to their heads. Cyborg let go. And Crow got away without the materials.

When the jet was gone…they checked themselves to make sure they were okay.

"Wait…why would he leave the one thing that Slade sent him to get." Dawn was confused about that.

"Because Slade never needed those, he probably already has them. Crow he was a messenger. Something is going down…and Slade's leaving us clues. But what is it that he wants us to know." Robin stated.

"Should we see what is in the crates?" Starfire asked.

"Yeah open it star." Robin commanded.

The crate opened with a loud snap from Starfire's strength. Inside it laid books…in witchcraft and wizardry, voodoo…things that…

"Raven." Beast Boy suddenly knew what Slade's big experiment was…

TO BE CONTINUED…

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