Disclaimer: I do not own Teen Titans… oh, wait… yes I do! I own half of those little 1 ½ inch tall figurines that they sell with cheesy comic book pages! My little sister owns the other half! Oh… and I have 3 of the old comic and 1 of the new comics… but other then that, no I do not own Teen Titans.

A/N: Wee.

-Chapter 3-

"Where the Hell is that vegetable face?" Cyborg asked when Beast Boy didn't show up for the morning's meeting. "I already knocked on his door and all, he should be awake."

"Starfire, could you go check on Beast Boy?" Robin asked and Starfire nodded, floating down the hall to go check on her friend.

She returned with news that they all expected. "It seems that friend Beast Boy has left. His window was opened a bit."

Robin and Cyborg both shook their head.

"So, now we have two missing people on our hands. Great."

"Not necessarily, Robin. Beast Boy still has his communicator."


"Raven? Raven can you hear me? Wake up! Wake up, Raven!"

Raven's eyes fluttered opened. It was bright. The room was still white. She had heard something, what was it? Oh, yes. She had heard Beast Boy. Wait. Beast Boy?

"Beast Boy?" Raven whispered. Why did she think hearing him was impossible? Slade… something about Slade… oh yeah. Slade took over Jump City and the Titans went missing. So why is he here? Is he here?

"I'm right here, Raven! Hurry, Slade is-"

"Slade?"

"Yes! He's real, Raven! He's alive! He attacked me and… just come on, Raven! Stand up!"

Raven tried to stand. She stumbled and fell into Beast Boy's arms. At least he was real. How long had it been? Why couldn't she think?

"Beast Boy… I'm sorry… after so long…"

"So long? What are you talking about? Here, I'll carry you. Get on my back."

He help Raven onto his back and began to run down the hall outside of the white room's door. When they left the building he leaned Raven against the wall and reached for his communicator.

"Hang on a moment, I have to tell the others that I found you."

"Why? You all knew I was there, right?"

"What?"

Raven shook her head. "I don't know. I can't think…"

"What happened to you?"

"That's what I'd like to know."

Beast Boy gave her an odd look and pushed the button on the communicator. "Guys, I found Raven!"

Starfire's joyous shout echoed in the background as Robin responded. "Good, now get back here so we can yell at you for sneaking out."

Beast Boy laughed nervously.

"Can you come pick us up? Raven's in no condition to fly, and I can't carry her anymore."

"Not even as a phanty ele?" Starfire questioned and Cyborg began to laugh hysterically. "What?" Starfire asked innocently.

"Uhm… I think she means elephant. Don't worry about it. Cyborg will come pick you up."

"Be quick. I don't know where Slade is now, but I did see him on the way in. We're out of the place where I saw him and all. I don't think he saw me, but… no chances, right?"

Everything was happening so fast. Raven was trying to cling to something. Just one thought, any thought. They all slipped from her. She couldn't think, couldn't grasp a thing. She couldn't even sort out her memories. What was real and what wasn't?

She pressed the palms of her hands against the cold wall as if grasping to something physical would help her grab a thought. And maybe it would… She tried to think of the wall. Something just that simple. She told herself to describe the wall…

She couldn't do it. She sank to her knees onto the ground just as Beast Boy turned back around.

"Raven? Are you okay?" He knelt down in front of her and she looked up at him.

"I don't know. I can't think… Everything's just slipping… Beast Boy this can't… my powers, they…"

Raven stopped. The thought had gone. What had she been saying? How would this effect her power? She had done something to her mind… but who? Why? Oh, yes… medication. Wait…

"Pills… the room…" That thought had gone now, too. She shook her head.

"Pills? So they did drug you! We tried looking for you using your energy thingy… but then Cyborg said that it could be changed if they drugged you 'cause that stuff can mess with you mind and…"

"Yes." Raven said, hastily. "My mind. I can't think…"

"Cyborg can fix that, okay? Don't worry." He placed a hand on her shoulder and she glanced at it a moment… She was unsure whether she wanted it there or not. Either way, the thought was soon gone.

Then a noise came from behind them. Someone was moving. Beast Boy glanced behind him, removing his hand from Raven's shoulder and standing nervously. The something approached them. Beast Boy struck a fighting stance. Out of the shadows stepped Slade.

That was when the T-Car came crashing through the alley, right on time. Slade was not hit by the car. Instead, the martial arts master flipped onto the hood as the car screeched to a stop. Robin was the first one out of the car.

"Slade!" He called and Raven stood shakily behind Beast Boy. Cyborg whined immediately about the dent that Slade had put in the car's hood. Starfire began to charge her star bolts. All eyes were on Slade. And then he vanished.

"Dude… where did…" Beast Boy started. He was interrupted by Raven's gasp. He turned to see her glancing about wildly.

"I heard him…" She whispered as her explanation. No one was there. Slade was gone.

"You can't fight me, Raven." She turned and tried to prepare her powers. The black energy did not surround her hands. Beast Boy began to look about as well. "I heard him." He assured Raven. He reached for her. "Come one, let's just get into the T-Car, okay?

"You can't even think straight, can you?" The voice again. Raven turned. Still no one was there. "Come on, Raven! Let's just get out of here!" Beast Boy urged.

"Slade… but the woman… the other people… who were they?"

The voice came back as a laugh. "You really don't know? Good, then the drugs worked well."

And there Slade was. Raven's couldn't think to attack. She couldn't think to defend herself. She felt two emotions suddenly, drowning out everything else. Rage and panic consumed her. She couldn't think to calm them. She couldn't even think enough to know what happened. She just lashed out.

Red eyes glowed against the pale skin of Raven's face. Dark tentacles licked out from under her cloak and Beast Boy backed up. Fear danced across his eyes. Raven was unpredictable when she was like this. She had made grown villains beg for mercy without effort.

A black tentacle darted towards Slade, missing as he vanished once more. Then Slade appeared again in a different spot. She lashed out at it, too. Tentacles where flying everywhere and Beast Boy kept backing up, trying to avoid Raven's rage as much as possible.

It was then that Slade appeared right in front of him. And then vanished. The black tentacle meant for Slade wrapped itself firmly around Beast Boy's neck.

Fear struck Beast Boy instantly. He was paralyzed. He tried to struggle, but all he could manage was weak and failing. He hit the floor as another few tentacles wrapped around his body and began to pull him in. He found his voice and screamed. Before him lay fears that he had never even imagined. Terrors plagued him, weighing upon him. The air seemed to grow thick with the horror and he choked on it like trying to breath in syrup. He was drowning… drowning in something worse then water. He was drowning in something worse then death…

"Raven, Stop!" That one phrase repeated over and over. Different people blurted out that one sentence over and over and over… Beast Boy's eyes glazed over. Yelling… an apology… then blasts. Starfire had apologized in advance before blasting away at the tentacles Raven had formed. Robin ran after Slade, only to find him gone. Cyborg was trying to shake Raven out of it. Finally he apologized just as Starfire had. He swung a mechanic arm around and buried his fist into Raven's stomach. He didn't want to hurt Raven, so he did it as lightly as he could. It was still enough to knock the wind out of the dark Titan. With a desperate gasp for air Raven's eyes flickered back to normal. She hit the ground, still gasping. The tentacles formed her legs and faded from black to the gray paleness of her skin. Burns from Starfire's blasts covered them, but it was hidden by her cloak.

Robin ran over to Beast Boy, who was curled up on the ground. A sickly pale color of green painted his face. His eyes were distant and only whimpers echoed from his throat.

"Beast Boy? Beast Boy are you okay? Can you hear me?"

There was no response. He continued to whimper, staring at something that wasn't there.

"Sorry about that, are you okay?" Cyborg asked Raven, who had finally succeeded in taking a few deep, but sore, breaths.

"I'm fine." She choked out, which was only half true. Her diaphragm hurt so much that each breath was a throbbing pain, but it would pass. The burns that coated her legs hurt, too, but she didn't want them to know about those. Cyborg nodded, excepting what she said as truth. Why would Raven lie? He went over to Beast Boy with the others. Raven chose this moment to close her eyes. She felt her mind spinning. Everything was spinning. Then it stopped. Everything stopped.

"Cyborg, get Beast Boy into the car." Robin commanded and Cyborg nodded, lifting the paled changeling from the floor. Starfire looked back to Raven.

"Raven, we are leaving now. Are you okay?" There was no response. She stepped over to her friend, who was collapsed on the floor. She shook Raven lightly and when she didn't wake up, Starfire picked her up.

"Robin!" She called, running over to the T-Car. "Robin, friend Raven will not respond, either!" Robin opened the side back door for Starfire. "Just get her in the car, we'll deal with them both in the medical wing."

Starfire leaned in to set Raven down in the center of the backseat, by Beast Boy. That was when Beast Boy reacted. He jumped and pressed himself into the door of the car, trying to get as far from Raven as possible. A loud whimper left his throat and Starfire jumped back in surprise, bashing her head against the door frame and dropping Raven onto the seat.

"Ow…" Starfire muttered, rubbing her head. After the pain went away, she positioned Raven on the side opposite Beast Boy and climbed over her to sit in the center. With that the T-Car took off for the Titans Tower.