Alice: New chapter!
Emily: I decided to update earlier because I'm so happy from all the awesome reviews!
Alice: Here's the next chapter.
Emily: This one was easier because the team was disfuncional, which worked to my advantage, and Robin was "dead" for some of it, which also worked out to my advantage. Oh and the best part: Cyborg says he was in Gotham city when Starfire got him soooo I decided to add a little treat.
Alice: Personally, I can't wait to write the episode Nevermore!
Emily: Please enjoy! Oh, and there will be referances to the show Young Justice! Not much though. Just a bit from the beginning and that's it. Pretty much with the computer on his gloves and KF with Speedy. That's it though. YG will be mentioned but it won't be heavily mentioned. In fact... this might be one of the oly chapters. Anyways, enjoy!
Final Exam
Part 1
Raven clutched her book with a harder grip than usual. The reason? Simple. Cyborg and Beast boy would not shut up! To her, a fight over the remote is just stupid. Why not walk up to the TV and just change the channel by pressing a button? Because both are too lazy, Raven thought to herself. She glanced over at her book and raised an eyebrow, surprised she still had the boys number. It's not like she was thinking of calling him... all the time. It was just he seemed to get her in a way most didn't. Like he knew more about her than she did or something. She sighed, wondering why this boy was causing her to think like this. Maybe she should just call him and avoid the headache about to come from the two friends. Lately, the team hadn't been the best. First, everyone refused to do the chores making it a mess. Now they were constantly fighting. But the absolute worst was definately...
"Oh, Robin, you are so funny!" Starfire giggled.
THAT! Raven sighed, knowing it was pointless, just like the boy said, to worry. Ever since Blackfire left, Robin and Starfire became slightly attatched to each other, making sure that neither could be seperated. That's why Raven tended to avoid them. Robin blinked as he stared at the two fighting, trying to get between them until Starfire grinned and offered to order pizza. Raven frowned in disgust but glanced at her book again. Why go out and interrupted her team having fun when she could discuss more important matters with him? "No." Raven slipped out before she really thougt about it.
"What? C'mon Rae," Cyborg whined, using his nickname for her.
"Yeah Rae," Beast boy pouted.
"Do not call me Rae," Raven glared at Beast boy before glancing at Cyborg. Cyborg was almost like a big brother to her so... "Cy, you can call me Rae."
"What?" Robin and Beast boy exclaimed. Beast boy pouted, mumbling something about it not being fair. Raven just shook her head, her headache becoming worse by the second before she looked at the team.
"I actually have plans," Raven mumbled.
"To read?" Beast boy snickered.
"No," Raven shook her head. "I'm meeting a friend."
This caught their attention. Raven was never social and never reached out to anyone. The fact she was even considering hanging around someone that wasn't them was... weird. Robin smiled softly though. It was good Raven was reaching out to other people. After all, she needed a friend that would help her out and would be a normal person rather than an alien, a cyborg, a... whatever Beast boy was, and him. Well, he was human but sometimes he forgot that too. So he was happy for Raven that she-
"I should call him now."
... Why was she calling a boy? Robin frowned, his eyebrows raised as he glared at Raven who walked over to the phone. He didn't try to stop her. His eyes behind his mask just stared at the back of her head as she walked over to the phone and dialed the number. She waited for a few seconds, making Robin hope that he wouldn't answer, but was disappointed when Raven started talking. "Hi. I'm the girl from the party... yeah, the one you... yep. I was... wondering if you wanted to talk again about... pointless... stuff."
It sounded lame to her but she wasn't the best at being social. Heck, even Beast boy and Starfire could talk to people better... and Starfire mistook a pun for an actual shovel at the party! That's why she needed to glare at the two boys for them to go away. Raven sighed before nodded, mentally jotting down the place in her head and hung up. She turned to her team, who were anxiously waiting for her to hang up. She raised an eyebrow. "What?"
"Who is that guy!" (Robin).
"Ah! A date!" (Starfire).
"I swear if this guy hurts you..." (Cyborg).
"Can I come?" (Beast boy).
"I don't know his name," Raven told Robin, whose frown seemed to grow deeper at the words. She turned to Starfire. "I don't know if it's a date or not... I'll have to ask him that... along with his name." Starfire leaped with joy. "I can protect myself." Cyborg blushed in embarrassment with a sheepish smile. Raven nearly smiled back, knowing that he was only looking out for her. She frowned at Beast boy. "No."
Beast boy pouted once again before Robin stepped up, frowning. "How do you know this guy isn't a villian?"
"I can sense things," Raven put bluntly.
"And if you sense wrong?" Robin insisted.
Raven frowned, glaring at him. "I'm not a child."
Robin opened his mouth to retort but only found a giant, mechanical hand over it. He turned to a grinning Cyborg. Robin gasped and began yelling at him but his voice was hidden behind the hand, only coming out in muffles and few words. Cyborg continued to grin. "Go have fun, Rae."
Raven slightly smiled at him before walking out. Finally, once she exited, Robin narrowed his eyes before going over to the computers. He smirked, remembering when he was only nine and hacked into the Justice League's computer files. Ah, the times. If he could have easily done that at nine, he could track a simple phone call. "Um... Robin?" Beast boy blinked. "What are you doing?"
Robin turned back. "I'm hacking into the phone system and tracking the guys cell phone number. Wherever he goes, we'll know."
"So, basically, we're going to stalk Raven and her date," Cyborg put it bluntly. Robin flushed for a second before huffing.
"No," he blushed. "We're going to... protect her against a potential threat. He could be... after her..."
"Like, sexually after her?" Cyborg blinked. Robin flushed again, not wanting this conversation to go to that. Starfire blinked, trying to remember what sexually meant only to flush. Beast boy just smirked and tried to stifle a giggle at the word. Robin just bit his lip, trying to calm himself down.
"S-sure..."
Cyborg nearly burst out laughing at the pathetic excuse. "Dude, she has powers and-"
"He could too," Robin quickly guessed, sounding a bit unsure himself. Cyborg sighed, a slight smile on his face for how... strange Robin could be when it comes to his crush. Beast boy smirked and glanced at Starfire before whispering in her ear.
"This is him reacting to a teammate getting a date. I wonder what will he do when YOU, the girl he loves, gets a date." Starfire flushed as she yelped out, covering her mouth quickly. Cyborg and Robin stared at her strangely while she tried to awkwardly giggle the situation away. Beast boy, however, was cracking up laughing. Robin just sighed and looked back at Cyborg, who was raising an eyebrow.
"I just want to make sure she's safe."
Cyborg shrugged. "Fine by me. So, y'all, who wants go trash a date?"
"T-trash?" Robin exclaimed, though he secretly liked the idea. "We're just seeing if she's okay and-"
"Dude," Cyborg smirked. Robin just sighed in defeat before smiling and quickly running into his room. The team, knowing better than to go into his room, waited in the room before he came back out with a black glove. Two black gloves thicker than his green ones were on his uniform as he pressed something. The team gasped as a circular holographic computer screen burst out. Robin quickly entered everything, an occasional younger Robin face smirking once he hacked into something, and smirked when he got it in. He cackled with laughter, something that the gang had never heard or seen him do in a while.
"Man, I feel like I'm thirteen again," Robin snickered as he held up his glove. "You... had that when you were thirteen!" Cyborg shouted, completley jealous of the smirking boy in front of him. Starfire just stared in wonder, not knowing this side of Robin. It seemed more playful. Maybe because this wasn't a real mission or maybe because he had a token from when he was thirteen.
"Yeah. After all, I hacked into the Justice League system when I was nine," Robin smirked with pride, a cackle once again slipping through his teeth. Beast boy's eyes widened in recongiztion. He heard that Batman was always silent, never to be seen. Robin, however, would always have a certain laugh... cackle, to him that made villians uneasy because he couldn't be seen as well. Now, Beast boy understood why it seemed so threatening. It was a laugh that showed mischief but at the same time enjoying it. So... this was the "real" Robin from Batman?
"No way!" Cyborg interrupted Beast boy's thoughts. "How did you manage to do that? I mean, I've always known you were great with computers because you know everything, and even more, about my system and other computers but... man! When you were nine! And how come you've never pulled those things out before?"
"Never had a good reason until now. They are totally whelming though, right?" He snickered at the strange , I wish Speedy and KF could see this. They'd feel nostalgic too. Next to" Robin showed his usual, well ex-usual, trademark smirk that Beast boy always saw when Robin was with Batman on the pictures on Google Images. Of course, Beast boy didn't dare say this outloud. "Now, let's get going!"
Raven knew they were spying on her. She didn't know why they were and could care less about it. She could sense them near her. That, or they "just happened" to be near her during the time of her... was it a date? She turned to the boy beside her, who hadn't spoken a word since they actually met up. Raven shrugged to herself, not wanting to break the comfortable silence. Instead, they just continued walking while Raven slowly breathed in and out, calming herself. Suddenly, the boy spoke up. "Breathing not only calms the mind but relaxes the body from strong emotion. Is your mind not calm or are you feeling a strong emotion?"
Raven nearly raised an eyebrow at him before relaxing her facial features. "My friends are following us. I guess they don't trust me to be alone."
He shrugged, his hands clutching a black backpack that hung on his one shoulder. "I guess."
"Do you... know much about calming and meditation?" Raven couldn't help but ask. Rarely anyone knew the real effects of breathing like that. Normally, people would have thought she was just... breathing but he could tell the difference. She was calming herself down from the thought that her teammates were following her. The boy, once again, shrugged before offering her a tiny smile.
"I'm more interested in the arts of auras and emotions than the calming down of them. I think it's interesting how so many people live off of just emotion while others, like us, live off of something more."
Live off of something more...? Raven raised an eyebrow out of plain interest instead of a, "what?" look. He chuckled a bit at the expression. "We live off of controlling and using our emotions to better ourselves and our actions. Sometimes even locking them away when they are either unneeded or causing damage."
"How do you know that about me?" Raven frowned.
"I remember you saying that you don't feel at the party," he said. "You do feel. You just don't want to feel. Actually, there's this one really good meditation technique that I can show you."
"Really?" Raven slightly smiled.
"It's really useful," he slightly smiled back. "It's a mirror to help you get in touch with your emotions. I can lend it to you if you want."
"Alright," Raven shrugged before hearing a loud squeal through her teammates mind. Starfire... she must have seem them smile at each other. Raven sighed. "Sorry, my friend, Star, thinks this is a date so watching us is only making her... I don't know..."
The boy glanced over, trying to find this Star person but couldn't see anything. He chuckled, his laugh a little more light hearted than before. "It's not a date?"
Raven's eyes widened as she turned to him.
"Can you hear them?" Robin whispered to Cyborg, who was trying his best. Cyborg, who was holding the black gloves, couldn't tell what they were saying. Robin had handed them to Cyborg, saying that Cyborg could borrow them or update them because they haven't been used in years. Cyborg, who was extremely happy, tried to but it seemed that all the latest technology was already in the gloves.
"Nope," Cyborg shook his head. "We gotta get closer."
"I can hear them," Starfire giggled. "They're smiling at each other! How adorable!"
Robin frowned before glancing at his holographic screen, frowning before smirking. "What are they saying?"
"Well, Raven asks if this is a date. Something of the sort, her range is a bit too far for me to hear exact and-"
Robin froze along with the rest of the team as the boy cupped her cheek with his pale hand a slight smile. Raven only stared at him with wide eyes, amazed. Slowly, he softly took her hand and began to walk towards the town, a pizza place, Robin thought. Until he grabbed his bag and unzipped it. Robin narrowed his eyes, ready to attack only to blink as he handed her a brown paper bag. She raised an eyebrow and glanced in it before nodding her head. Starfire squealed as Cyborg bit his lip, staring at Robin nervously. Beast boy, on the other hand, wondered what could be in that bag. They leaned in closer, trying to see until they noticed something. Raven must have to, because she quickly ran off, placing the bag in her cloak. The boy smiled slightly.
"Go save the world!" he shouted, placing his hands in his pocket and smiling almost lovingly at the girl who was running towards a baby. Beast boy noticed as well because he was gone in a second as he grabbed the stroller of the baby and ran it to the sidewalk. Raven's eyes went black as she made the truck stop almost immediately. Beast boy smiled brightly at the saved baby only to frown.
"Um... Raven," Beast boy mumbled, forgetting that he was stalking her and couldn't give away his position.
"I know," Raven said darkly. "A bus should have a driver."
"And this should have a baby," Beast boy mumbled only to be joined quickly by the rest of the titans.
"Are you guys normally this stupid?" Robin raised an eyebrow, staring at the green teddy bear in it, whose yellow eyes turned and went wide, blasting them away from the carriage. Raven gasped only to hear something behind her. She turned around to see the bus being lifted above them. Before she had time to react, it slammed down. Cyborg quickly hugged her around the waist and shielded her using his upper body.
Three people stood there: a pink haired teenage girl, a small boy, and a giant.
"Raven!" Robin shouted before growling. "This isn't over!"
The bus flew upward due to Cyborg's sonic blaster as he stood up, pulling Raven out of the ground, who appeared a bit startled. He held her by the waist, hissing that someone dared to try and hurt her. He shouted out just as angrily as Robin. "It's only just begun!"
"Who are these guys?" Beast boy asked dumbly. The three smirked and began an explination that they were from... HAEYP? That they were their worst nightmare (Raven scoffed at that), and their attack plan was alpha. Quickly, they flew over as Raven narrowed her eyes, taking on the pink haired girl. She was apparently a part of some dark magic. Cyborg took on the big, strong one only because he lifted the bus and endangered Raven. He growled until the big man spoke.
"What do you call an idiot with a rocket on his back?" he smirked, causing Cyborg to let his guard down only slightly. Robin quickly ran over to help Raven but was quickly distracted when he saw Cyborg literally flying away. Starfire gasped and quickly flew after him. Raven, deciding not to use her powers against this girl, tried using hand to hand combat.
"You fight like a boy," the pink haired boy smirked. Raven frowned, glaring at her. Until she looked above to see the child standing there in a green jump suit with a smirk.
"And you're about to croak like a frog!" He quickly blasted her, causing her to gasp and fly back. Robin, who saw this, quickly caught her princess style, making Raven frown, as he fell back, staring at her.
"Are you okay?"
Raven glared. "I'm fine. I don't need your protection!"
"Protection? I just helped you out!" Robin screamed at her.
Raven frowned. "Really? That's why you were stalking me and my date!"
"He... I wasn't... okay fine! I was but only because-"
"You're treating me like a child!" Raven hissed before shoving him back and walking angrily towards the scene, where Beast boy being lifted by the big guy. He smirked as he quickly threw him towards Raven, as she growled. Her eyes nearly glowed red for a second before Beast boy was surounded in black and placed carefully onto the ground.
"Is it just me... or are we getting our butts kicked?" Beast boy tried to joke.
"It's just you!" Raven and Robin said at the same time, causing them both to glare at each other.
Robin rolled his eyes, ignroing her. "Listen up, team, I've got a plan."
Raven glared at him only to be hit with a yellow laser, along wtih Beast boy. "Does your plan include getting fried?" the child laughed harshly.
"We'll just have to see," Robin smirked only to frown when the ground began to collapse underneath him.
Cyborg screamed as he continued to fly until Starfire finally caught up, attatching herself to Cyborg and tearing off the rocket. She quickly grabbed under his arms and landed him down safely. They glanced around only to frown. This... did not look like Jump City at all. It was darker because the clouds covered the sun. The buildings were higher and it just wasn't... homey. They continued to glance around until they heard something. "You guys are the Teen Titans, correct?"
They both gasped and turned around to see a man in a black cape standing there. Starfire nodded, bowing quickly out of respect while Cyborg just stared in pure wonder, his eyes wide. Well, his red one wider than it should be. Starfire glanced at Cyborg, who was staring in awe, wondering what could be so great about a man in a black cape. "I am Batman."
Oh... that probably explains it.
"The one who makes Robin so angry?" Starfire blurted out.
Batman frowned but nodded. "Yes."
"Starfire," Cyborg hissed under his breath. "We gotta-"
"Where is Robin?" Batman narrowed his eyes under his cowl.
"In Jump," Cyborg answered sternly but afraid he would croak out of complete fear. "We just kinda..."
"What are you doing in Gotham?"
"We were fighting and there was... an accident," Cyborg mumbled. "They probably won by now though."
"Let's just see about that," Batman mumbled, making Starfire scowl.
"We must have! Robin is our leader and has defeated all the bad guys!"
"... has he... ever talked about me?" The question seemed to come out of nowhere.
"No," Cyborg answered truthfully. "He hasn't."
"That's just like him," the Batman sighed. "Tell him Bruce Wayne might visit Jump City because he has a building there."
"Who is-"
"Bruce Wayne?" Cyborg exclaimed. "You mean like, that rich guy!"
"Yes," Batman nodded. "We have protected him a few times."
Batman eyed the black gloves that Cyborg had. Cyborg noticed and grabbed them, handing them to Batman. Batman's eyes widened as he stared at the gloves, remembering.
"First he's underwhelmed, now you're overwhelmed," Robin, the thirteen year old, huffed. "Why can't anyone just be whelmed?"
"Hey, this is totally asterous!"
"Feeling the aster?"
"Dude, what is it with you and the English language?" Kid Flash laughed.
Batman sighed sadly. "He has no use for these anymore?"
"I don't know..." Cyborg mumbled. "But something tells me you might want to keep them for the time."
"I would like that," Batman nodded before turning to them. "Do you need a ride back? I have the batmobile with me."
Cyborg nearly died of happiness right then and there. The batmobile? He never... Cyborg tired to mask his happiness. "Sure."
Raven raced in the sewers, trying to find anything that resembled Robin. She shouted his name but only heard the echo and sometimes Beast boy as he shouted Robin's name as well. Raven gasped in pure happiness, which she couldn't help, when she saw something yellow. Bright yellow. Landing towards it and not caring her feet were in sewage, she grasped the item only to frown. It was his utility belt... and nothing else.
"Robin..." she whispered only to shut her eyes tightly. Calm down... breath... calm down... breath...
Here's the mirror. If you ever need help controlling your emotions, just look into it.
Raven gasped, remembering the boys words. Quickly, she ripped out the mirror and stared in it, only seeing her reflection for a moment before it glowed a bit. Raven shut her eyes from the blinding light only to open them and see she was somewhere... different. "Hi."
Raven blinked and turned around, staring at herself only with a completely black cloak. "Hi..."
"I'm dispair," she introduced, only with tears in her eyes. "Robin's gone... isn't he?"
"He can't be!" a voice suddenly shouted. Raven turned to see another colored cloak standing there, frowning with her fists clenched. "I'm hope and he has to be out there!"
"Does it matter?"
Raven turned around to face another one. A gray one this time. "He didn't even like anyways... his last moments with us were us fighting."
"Shut up," Raven hissed.
"But he has to be alive!"
"We found his utility belt though..." Despair whispered.
"He will be alive!" Hope nearly cried out.
"He never liked us anyway," the gray one's throat hitched.
"SHUT UP!" Raven shouted only to gasp and open her eyes. She was standing in the sewage again only... her feelings were... gone? Now all that was left was emptiness. She almost felt numb at the situation. When she told her emotions to shut up, they really did. Sighing, she grabbed the utility belt, putting the mirror back into her cloak, and went to find Beast boy, knowing this would crush him.
"Thanks... Batman," Starfire smiled brightly at him. He just continued to frown before racing off as Cyborg and Starfire sighed. Starfire glanced over to see the building on the island. Grabbing Cyborg she flew across to the titans tower only to smile when she got in. Cyborg grinned.
"Beast boy, we were nearly at Gotham city by the time Star got me!" Cyborg slightly lied, knowing that Robin wouldn't want to hear that they met his ex-mentor. He turned to see Beast boy, who had tears in his eyes as he was rubbing his leg, while Raven was healing it. Cyborg raised an eyeborw, wondering what could be causing Beast boy to cry. "Okay, so what? We lost. We'll get 'em back next time, right?"
Beast boy shook his head, his eyes tightly closed.
Raven turned to Cyborg, her face emotionless. "Cy... Robin's... he's gone."
Alice: I decided to add a little Batman in there because Cyborg mentioned Gotham city in the acutal show.
Emily: What did you guys think?
Alice: Part two will be up some other time.
Emily: Once again, thank you to all the reviews I got! THey mean a lot to me.
Alice: I also tried to put in the mirror like this a bit. If i got the mirror's effects wrong, sorry. I'll fix it if I got them totally off. Anyways, thanks for reading!