Author's Note: Hello everyone :) thank you soooo sooo much for all the reviews :) I'm so excited. I just want to let you know, this is one of those chapters thats a necessary one for the rest of the story but not much actually happens. It was a hard one to write and thats why it took so long. I tried to make sure there are as minial spelling and grammatical errors as possible, but no promises as i'm the only one that reads the story before i post it.

MumbleSweeper: The advice Star gave her was that she thought it was sweet. Hope you liked this one :)
AngelOfEnergy: Thank you :) your review made me squeal like a little girl! hehe
HopelesslyUnromantic: I'll try my best :)
FelynxTiger: I'm trying to make it as normal as possible. Most relationships dont just happen, you know? I hate those FF we're they're just like BAM couple. haha
TheCretin: Thank you for being so kind :)
Ikasury: I'm glad you like it the way I've set it out. I think it kinda adds a bit of mystery to the whole plot. There's still more of it to come so better make me some popcorn too :)
xXBlackRavenXx: I hope you enjoyed your holiday. I did make this one another page on word, but that's all I could do. I promise the next one will be even longer! I haven't read any of the comics, they're hard to get in Australia :(
Entomophobia: I do try to keep them as in character as possible, and I thought she did also. I've always loved them as a couple ever since 'Spellbound'

Enjoy Guys :)!


Last Night.
Chapter Four.

-Narrator's POV-

Breakfast at the Titans tower was quiet. Robin had been working out in the gym all morning, refusing to come down until he mastered a new combo he'd been working on and Beast Boy was yet to leave his room. No one thought it strange that both teens weren't in the main room, as Robin was always either in the evidence room or in the gym at this time and Beast Boy was always sleeping in.

Raven and Starfire were sitting at the table while Cyborg was at the stove cooking another inhuman amount of bacon, sausages, eggs and steak. The sounds of sizzling flesh and crackling fat filled the room. Starfire had her bottle of hot English mustard, occasionally the sound of her slurping at her straw would also intermingle with Cyborg's 'Breakfast of Champions', she was currently colouring in a children's book, shouting "glorious!" every time she finished a page. Raven had her herbal tea and the book she had been reading during the events two nights ago.

The silence between the three titans ended once the flashing red alert lights and the alarm sounded, indicating someone was up to no good somewhere in the city. They all groaned as the alarm rang through the tower, and Cyborg whined about not getting a chance to have his morning protein intake. Soon the door to the main room opened and Beast Boy and Robin entered, Robin saying his usual "Titans, Trouble." As he ran to the computer screen and started hitting the keys in a mad flurry.

As the rest of the team walked towards him Beast Boy managed to catch Raven's eye. He winked at her and gave her a warm toothy grin that caused Raven's heart to skip a beat and her stomach to flutter. Her body's reaction to his actions shocked her. These feelings had never plagued her before. When her leader's voice rang through her ears she quickly remembered what was happening and soon everyone was racing past her toward the garage.

"Rae, you coming?" She looked up at the voice. Beast Boy's head was tilted to the side and his hand was extended towards her. He motioned with it for her to take it and when she didn't he grabbed her hand any way and forced her toward the elevator. "What's the matter with you this morning?" He whispered once they were inside the elevator.

"I guess I'm a little bit distracted." She whispered back.

"Well become undistracted. Robin said all of down town Jump has been completely destroyed." His voice became deliberate and serious all at the same time. Raven began to think to herself about how grown up he had become after they defeated the brother-hood of evil. After seeing the Doom Patrol and proving himself not only to them, but he proved his own self worth. He had started working out more, which meant that he no longer fitted into his smaller uniform, and had Starfire sew him a bigger sized version of the suit. He had also lost his gloves which showed off his large hands; his finger nails sharpened at a point, like claws, which often got him into trouble when he got a little too excited.

Raven began to recall the time when he beat Cyborg and Robin six times in a row at one of their video games and he had gotten so excited he ripped up the lounge. She watched his jaw clench for a moment and noticed how much even his face had matured. His jaw muscles were full and helped define his chin and jaw line. He had lost his peach fuzz facial hair and now sported a five o'clock shadow all day. And his eyes, the emotion he always portrayed in them. She could just stare into them for hours...

"Raven!" His whisper was fierce and sharp and it snapped Raven out of another day dream. "What did I say? Get yourself together, quickly!"

She followed her green companion to the T-car and jumped in the front as navigator for Cyborg, Beast Boy sat in the back. Robin had already left the garage on his R-cycle and Starfire had followed in the air. She would look at the damage done from the skies and try to locate anyone or thing that looked suspicious.

"What did Robin say attacked the city?" Raven finally spoke once they had entered the city. "Make a left here." She didn't look up from her communicator as she tracked Robin and Starfire's communicator signals.

"He didn't." Cyborg said as he quickly spun the wheel and turned left driving up into the sidewalk, causing pedestrians to run out onto the oncoming traffic, before he quickly spun the wheel, entering the wrong side of the road and almost hitting another car, he then regained control and entered the right side of the road, nearly hitting another car, causing it to break before hitting another car that had entered it's lane avoiding the civilians that had run out onto the road.

"Don't you think you're driving is a little reckless there Cy?" Beast Boy's voice called out, Raven turned around to look at him. His right hand was pressed firmly onto the roof of the car and his left was holding his stomach. His face was contorted in a frown and he looked as though he was going to be sick.

"Hey man, I don't complain when you run around in your animal forms almost crushing everyone now do I. If you don't like my drivin', you can stick to flyin'" A smug look grew on Cyborg's face as he entered the down town area of Jump City.

"Woah." The three titans said at the same time as they could see the large amount of smoke dancing across the city skyline. The rest of the drive was quiet as they got closer and closer. Small fragments of building ash started to fall from the sky around them and a cement dust cloud smothered everything in sight. As they slowed down to a stop in front of a demolished building, Starfire appeared from the sky in front of them and her saddened expression all caused them to look at one another.

The site before them truly was breath taking. Down Town was a pretty crummy place, the titans were usually called out to the area to chase burglars and the occasional manic rapist. But other than that nothing this extreme ever happened that they were needed. The police usually dealt with the crime on this end. Criminals usually struck the Up Town district, because well let's just say there was more money.

The buildings that were usually surrounded by people shouting and children play were now completely wiped out. The rubble smouldering and reeked of gasoline. The church in the centre of the small community looked as though God himself and the Devil had a duel to the death on its roof. The stained glass windows were smashed all over the roads and the picket fence that circled the Church was thrown all over the street, some parts of the metal railings were stuck in other buildings windows and shop fronts.

As the titans looked around they noticed that most of the homes had been destroyed, all either burnt down or still ablaze. A large amount of apartment and office buildings had collapsed and filled most of the streets with rubble and furniture due to some kind of explosive force. Roads had become completely hidden from sight by the sheer number of brick and metal beams that were sprayed across them. Water began pooling in the small craters that cut into what was left of the roads and sidewalks.

The sound of the emergency service cars and trucks bellowing in the distance filled the streets eerily making the team uncomfortable in an odd way. The buildings that still stood amongst the rubble showed the scars of an epic battle that appeared to be between fire and lightning. Some buildings had been stripped of their outer skin and revealed the contents of office cubicles or peoples kitchens and bathrooms. Windows were either shattered or broken, and even missing entirely.

Street signs and traffic light metal poles twisted and corrupted the shadows into long hands for grabbing and mouths with large teeth that could swallow you whole if you got too close. They looked inside as many stable buildings as they could for any survivors and witnesses to the horror the city had faced, but there was none.

Cars littered the streets. Some still burning, others on their rooves and some with no car doors. Light poles lay on their sides or had become embedded into nearby buildings. Power lines lay along sidewalks, crackling and hissing as they wriggled on the ground. Suddenly coming back to life for a moment before falling back down and squirming.

"I can't believe this." Robin said as he exited a local bakery.

"Well believe it." Raven's dry tone echoed in the street. The sun had become hidden from them by the smoke and everything became disguised by the cloud veil, buildings that were once icons to the area were distorted and unrecognizable.

"I have been unable to locate any citizens. It's like they all just, turned invisible." Starfire's voice was heartrending and full of guilt. "What could have done such a thing and left no trace of it ever being here?"

"Well we'll find, who ever or whatever did this." Robin threw his fist into his other open hand. "And we'll take 'em down." He growled.


Once the emergency services arrived down town Robin decided that he would stay behind to help with the clean up and location of any survivors. Starfire and Beast Boy would ask around the nearby area to see if any of the civilians had seen anything or if there were survivors there that had fled the chaos. Raven and Cyborg would go back to the tower and watch the video footage captured by the cameras in the area before they were attacked in hopes to find the perpetrators'.

Because they were law enforcement they were allowed to hack into the city's mainframe and download the footage. It wasn't a hard task for Cyborg and even Raven had done it before that was why Robin had sent the two back to the tower. Once they were there, they got straight to work looking at all angles of Down Town Jump City. Some of the cameras were still operating even though they appeared to be underneath the rubble. One or two of the cameras showed the clean up well underway as they were still attached to the buildings still standing. But most were completely blank.

Cyborg started to type something on his computer that he was seated at and all the cameras began to slowly rewind. Soon the blank screens came back to life as they showed a rewinded version of their buildings being rebuilt or other buildings coming back to life from rubble. Cyborg then started to pause the screens that showed the city back to its former self, with buildings and roads still intact. "This may take awhile Rae."

She sighed and began to rub her temples. "I can't believe the amount of damage that was done."

"I think this might go a little quicker if we spilt these up. It would really help if we had the rest of the team though. There has to be at least over a hundred cameras in just the main part of down town alone." He sighed and pulled out his communicator. "The police can question the people. We need BB and Star."

Just at the mention of his name the fluttering feeling came roaring back into her stomach. Raven knew that whatever was going on had to have something to do with the events of two nights ago and last night's brief little chat. 'Get yourself together! The city needs you to help find out who did this.'

"Beast Boy, Starfire." He said half heartedly into his communicator as he continued to type things on his keyboard and either pause more screens and start dividing the ones that had paused between the four computers that sat in front of the main screen.

"Cy, what's up?"

"Hello friend Cyborg."

"I need y'all to get your butts back here. We need help with the video footage." And with that he closed his communicator and started to type like a mad man. Raven hadn't seen their faces, but their voices helped sooth her nerves. "Ok Rae, all you have to do is press this button." One of Cyborg's large metal hands came over her shoulder and showed her a key. "And the screen you picked will start playing. This button here rewinds, this one fast forwards and this one pauses it."

She looked up at him and then back down at the keyboard and then the screen. "What are we gonna tell bird brain when he gets back and finds Starfire and Beast Boy here?"

"I'll handle him." He smiled at her when she turned back around to look up at him. "Is everything ok?" He placed a hand on her shoulder and squeezed it lightly.

"I'm fine." Her voice was shaky and she cursed inwardly at herself for it.

"Wanna talk about it Rae?" He sat in the computer chair next to her, and stared expectantly down at her.

"It's nothing."

"Raven." He pulled his parenting tone that he used when he knew someone wasn't telling the truth.

"I think I may." She sighed and looked away from him. "Yesterday morning Beast Boy told me that he had feelings for me. And now I think maybe I might have feelings for him."

"Oh my god." His jaw dropped to the ground as he continued to stare at her. He raised a hand to her forehead to check her temperature. "Beast Boy said that?" 'Starfire was right!' He thought to himself.

"I'm just as shocked as you are." She sighed.

"Raven. I haven't wanted to say anything to you about this, because I thought maybe you were in denial or that you had your reasons. But I think, no actually I know, that you've had a little something for Beast Boy for awhile." He had another smug look on his face and Raven just wanted to punch it right off him.

"What?"

"Come on girl. I know what it looks like. You may be better then Star at hiding it, but you're just as lovesick as she is." He said matter-of-factly.

"Is that so?" The doors to the main room opened and Starfire glided in humming to herself.

"It most definitely is so." He said in a childish voice and got off the chair. "Here you go Star." He said to her and put her in the chair between him and Raven. "I'll show you how to work this ok? So when you want to play one of the screens you click on it with the mouse. And then you press this button here to play it. This button here rewinds, this one fast forwards and this one pauses it. Have you got it?"

"Yes friend Cyborg. There are so many to choose from." Her eyes lost their sparkle and she rested her elbows on the desk and then her head on her hand as she watched the footage. "What is it I should be looking for?"

"Well, we don't know. Something that happens before the city explodes. Like a van or..."

"Cyborg, I don't think that it was an exploding van that caused this." Raven spoke up, her voice was gravely and it was covered with fear. Cyborg moved towards her screen and he gasped at what he saw.

"No way..."


End Chapter Four.

Dun dun duuuuuuun! I'm bad I know. I feel like now the story has more of a direction then it did before. Otherwise it would have just been this massive sap story, (even though I do fair love those), its now a epic story with buildings being blown up and cities being destroyed and oh lordy guys you'll just have to wait and see :)

You know the drill, R&R boys and girls. You're helping push this little one along :)

-Moe