Camera 15: Cyborg's Eye

"You grew your hair out. I like it." He breathed into her ear. Raven struggled beneath his grasp—squirming—trying to break free of his monstrous death grip. She felt an overwhelming sense of déjà vu…

"I uh… like your hair. You grew it out." Beast Boy said. Her back was to him, but she could sense nervousness pouring out all over him.

"You got bangs… That's a new addition."

The familiarity of Adonis' armor suit was shocking. The same shade of red and the same scrawny little man behind it. He looked younger than her—give or take a few years.

Why hadn't she seen him coming? She thought as panic started to settle in. She was trapped. His right hand was around her mouth, and throat, his full body suit was digging into her back—hard cold rock on one side and a perverted psycho bank robber on the other. His left hand held both her hands firmly behind her back along with the bulging bag of loot.

"It's good to see you again babe… I was lonely without you…" He crooned into her ear. She shivered. He proceeded to tie her wrists together with an unknown substance.

"You're mine now babe… Without your mantra…" Adonis said as Raven's face went from panicked to shocked, "I looked it up… It called a "mantra". Without it, you're nothing but one harmless sexy little lady."

Raven closed her eyes concentrating… Building up magic… The air became thick with a fine black mist.

"Yeah… That's right baby… Just relax… Relax… I've got something here that'll help calm you down. It's called pressure points… I learned it in the fifteen years two months one week three hours five minutes and eight seconds that we've been apart…"

As Adonis put the same unknown substance over Raven's mouth to prevent her from speaking, she willed her concentration to focus. It was hard not thinking things like, "What a psycho!" "Crazy lunatic!", or "Perverted stalker!" And many years of meditation helped her block everything out and left her in a world of peace and quiet.

Suddenly a green blur knocked Adonis up and away from Raven. Adonis skidded across the ground bouncing a couple times before resting at the far corner of the sewers in muddy waters. The green rhinoceros transformed back into Beast Boy who instantly ran over to Raven.

"Raven? Raven? Are you okay?" He asked desperation clearly evident in his voice, "Raven please tell me he didn't…"

Raven's back was to him. Her eyes closed, she was far too deep in the trance that she didn't answer him.

"Oh no…" Beast Boy clutched his head mistaking Raven's silence as an answer, "He did didn't he? He did… He did… Oh god, he did! What have I done? I came too late! I should have known he'd go after you first! Why? Why did I wait so long? Why? Oh god why?"

Adonis was recovering as Beast Boy paced frantically around yelling at himself.

"Raven I—I'm sorry! I knew I should've—" Beast Boy was cut short as Adonis struck him in his shoulder from behind.

"Get away from my girl!" Adonis yelled to the wobbly changeling.

"She's not your girl!" The green man yelled back finding it his job to speak for Raven since her "traumatic" experience.

"Do you want her more?" Adonis sneered. Beast Boy was in shock—He wasn't prepared on what to say or what Raven would think.

"I—I do! I want her!" Beast Boy screamed with all his might. Adonis growled. They leapt into the air, colliding head on. Beast Boy's new shape—a very large, very angry grizzly roared in Adonis' face.

"I've learned something new teddy bear!" Adonis yelled. He grinned and put his index and middle finger together in a point. As Beast Boy neared him he struck out and jabbed his hand towards Beast Boy's shoulder. His attack didn't draw blood; instead it took on a different effect.

"What the—?" The green man yelled out in surprise. His shoulder suddenly became limp and hung uselessly at his side. "What did you do?"

"As I was telling my lover over there…" Adonis explained as Beast Boy sneered, "…It's called pressure points. Your arm is paralyzed… And this next one will knock you out completely!"

The changeling was worried. His right arm had been taken out of commission entirely. He vaguely remembered reading something about pressure points in his various comic books and video games. They involved hitting veins that lied over a bone and that resulted in loss of consciousness, loss of breath, paralyzation, or internal damage. This was his first time actually experiencing it in real life.

Beast Boy ducked as Adonis barely missed his neck. Spinning around he jabbed his hand into Beast Boy's chest. Although it felt like a bomb had gone off in his heart he remained standing.

All the while, the black mist around them was slowly becoming thicker.

Camera 15: Cyborg's Eye

Nightwing had came to a dead end, turned around, and was coming back to the meeting point when he thought he had heard something. Something like fighting… It sounded like a big boom, but maximized by the echoing throughout the sewers.

Reaching the meeting point he spotted Starfire.

"Nightwing!" She exclaimed, "I came to a dead end, what about you?"

"Same here. But I thought I heard something… Did you hear anything?"

"I thought I did, but I'm more convinced now that someone else has heard it…"

"Great, well… Which way do you think it was coming from?" Nightwing asked quickly. The Tamaranean took off in the opposite direction—Nightwing right behind her.

As he took a step everything hit him full force. He collapsed on the floor breathless, eyes wide full of panic.

"Well don't look so scared… I want you to see everything I do, since you wanted her more…" Adonis laughed menacingly.

Beast Boy noticed the ground was full of a thick black mist… And before he lost consciousness—he thought he saw Nigthwing and Starfire.

Adonis had one hand on Raven when he was suddenly struck in the ribs for the second time that day. A batarang. So predictable. His metal ripped right through Raven's cloak leaving her 'exposed' for the first time since the Reunion.

"What have you done to my teammates Adonis!" Nightwing's voice echoed throughout the room.

"Get lost pipsqueak!"

Starfire flew to Beast Boy and crouched down next to him when she spotted a strange black mist floating along the ground. Suddenly it was almost as if the mist was alive as it moved steadily towards Raven. Starfire's eyes went wide.

"Nightwing! Get away from him!"

But it was too late.

A change of perspectives…

"Honey! I'm home!" Nick yelled out as he entered their one story house.

"Nick! Get over here! I want you to see something!" His wife—Sam yelled back.

"Alright alright I'm coming…" He yawned. His best friend—Garfield—had disappeared on him the day Titans Tower "reopened".

He and his wife liked to call it "The Reunion". There were so many people crowding around that day that Nick didn't even get to see much except the Tower itself… And that wasn't much of a reward; you could see the thing from almost anywhere.

"Nick! Hurry! It's going to be over soon!" Sam yelled again. Nick jogged over to the couch. He hadn't gotten any sleep since yesterday since he stayed up all day in the crowds huddled around the docks.

He plopped down on the fluffy white couch. Sam was staring intently on the TV screen stationed in front of her.

"Turn it up."

"The latest on the Teen Titan's Fifteen year Reunion: This here is Nightwing—leader of the Teen Titans." A news reporter said happily shoving her microphone with the number seven emblazoned on it in Nightwing's face.

"Whoa, they're having a report on it already?" Nick exclaimed, "Is this live or what?"

"No of course not, but they do this so that sensible people like me, don't have to go through all the trouble of sleeping in a car staying up all night blah blah blah."

Nigthwing waved to the cameraman. Hundreds of fan girls screamed in the background. "Uh… We're not actually a 'Team' yet. We're still officially disbanded."

"So…" The news reporter went on, "Will the Titans get back together?"

"No. We're still officially disbanded." Nightwing sighed and repeated his rehearsed answer for the hundredth time that day.

"I see, I see…" The lady nodded her head. "May I ask: Who is your wife?"

Nightwing sighed.

"Just like everyone else out there—I think we'd like to get to the point—straight and simple—who is it?"

"Well…" Nightwing began; everyone seemed to lean in to catch every last word, "Well… She's a she."

"Um… Please mister Nightwing sir, can you please elaborate a little more on that?"

"No. That rules out half the population on this planet, that should satisfy you all!"

A big man with a microphone colored in the number four shouted out, "Will we be expecting a Nightwing Jr. anytime soon?"

"No more questions about my wife!" Nightwing roared, "Or my personal life!"

"Man that must suck." Nick sighed.

"Poor Nightwing." Sam said.

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Adonis and Nightwing were swept up into a flood of darkness, like hot metal suddenly doused with cold water, it hardened around them encasing them in a block of living black magic.

Beast Boy's mind clicked when it heard something crack. Like glass breaking—something big—cracking. Starfire heard it too; she knew Raven was losing control… losing it completely. One more tiny move and the whole thing would break—just like Atlas. Into a million pieces.

Nightwing along with it.

"Beast Boy! Beast Boy! Get up!" Starfire yelled as she tried to rouse him of his unconsciousness. It was no use he was out cold. Spinning around she contemplated whether she should try to seal the cracks with her lasers and wait for Cyborg to show up or try and knock Raven out of her trance.

Another ear splitting crack hastened her decision.

Flying full speed, she hit Raven head on with a powerful right hook. Another crack… Raven seemed still lost in her unmoved state.

"Cyborg!" Starfire yelled and cursed the tin man for not being here when the team really needed him. She flew back to Beast Boy and gave his clammy green face a good couple slaps. "Wake up! Raven needs you!"

Firing off her lasers from her eyes Starfire succeeded in mending together some of the cracks just like she had done fifteen years ago, mending steel bars and the like. But this was different. She had assumed Raven had gotten her powers under control in the years they were apart… apparently, she was wrong. Even the one time she got to experience Raven's emotional control for the first time when the Puppet King switched them, she was so impressed at how rigid Raven's mental control was. Being in her body for only a couple hours, it was a fluke and a coincidence that she had gotten Raven's powers to work right then and there. Starfire had never really been in a battle between her friend, or her lover.

She had little time to think—more cracks kept coming. Raven was losing it—inch by inch.

"Cyborg!" Starfire screamed again. "Cyborg! Where are you! I need your help!"

Silence.

Crack.

"Cyborg!" Starfire screamed at the top of her lungs desperately trying to stop Raven's mad attack. As if a great god were watching over them and made a miracle happen—Cyborg appeared.

"Star! What's going on?" Cyborg asked trying to act dumb. He knew exactly what was going on, but Hex had taken a while to pick up her phone and was reluctant to help without a hefty reward. Even if it involved the Titan's lives.

"Beast Boy's out cold! Raven's out of control!" Starfire yelled in response.

"I've got something that might help Beast Boy!" Cyborg yelled and popped open a compartment on his leg. He carefully took out a tiny pill. Hex had told him to break it under Beast Boy's nose and he'll come around. Fortunately Hex wasn't lying and Beast Boy was soon groaning, moaning, and slipping in and out of consciousness.

"Beast Boy! Man can you hear me?" Cyborg asked.

"Hurry!" Starfire yelled as she struggled against the strain her lasers were putting her through.

"Beast Boy! Garfield!"

BEAST BOY!

Beast Boy!

Beast Boy.

…beast boy…

And her voice faded in and out of darkness.