Chapter Six: An Old Friend
Quick Sticky: Happy new year! God bless you all! I have writer's block on my AFTERMATH CHRONICLES sereies right now so enjoy this becuase I finlly added a chapter to this one!
Raven sudden reached out and stopped Logan by grabbing his shoulder. "Who are these people and why are they here?" She stared suspiciously at Jubilee and Gambit. Logan gave her an angry look as his eyes met hers.
"Listen kid, they're on your side. They're the good guys alright?" he replied in a frustrated tone. "They came here to help me battle Slade."
"Why should we just accept help from complete strangers like you?" Raven demanded. Beast Boy and the others stared. What was her problem? Why could she understand that any help taking down Slade should be welcomed, not mistrusted.
"We aren't complete strangers Raven," Wolverine said tensely.
"What's that supposed to mean?" Raven shot back.
"I've seen you before. In the dimension of Limbo," Wolverine explained. Raven took a step back. Shock hit her like a blow. No, she couldn't have seen him before, she would have remembered him if she had. He was one you couldn't forget easily.
"You don't remember, do you?" Wolverine asked. He put a hand on her shoulder. "Well I do, and the Professor does. But it seems you've forgotten."
"But…" Raven began slowly. "I've never seen you before." She tried to think of a time when she might have seen him on Azarath, for Azarath was located in the detention of Limbo. But try as she might, she couldn't remember having ever seen him there before.
Beast Boy stepped forward. "Dad, what do you mean you've seen her before?"
"It took place when she was 13. Trigon, her father tried to claim her as his own and use her to take over the world. The Professor-"
"Wait a second," Robin interrupted. "Who is this Professor?"
"Charles Xavier," he was a…acquaintance of mine." Wolverine looked at Raven as he explained. "Chuck's known about you for sometime kid. I'm surprised he didn't take you to the school."
"What school?" Starfire asked.
"It's a school for people like us. For mutants," Gambit explained. "It's a place where students learn to control their powers."
"Dad, get on with the story," Beast Boy said impatiently.
"Okay, okay," Wolverine said hastily. "Anyway, this Trigon tried to take over Raven. As a defense mechanism she unleashed her soul self on him. She managed to hold him off for awhile but he managed to knock her out."
"Couldn't she fight him?" Robin asked.
"Dude, have you seen the size of Raven's dad? He's huge!" Beast Boy asked. Robin shook his head.
"That's where I came in, the professor had Nightcrawler teleport me through dementions to Limbo to help her when he heard her telepathic call for help. And I came. I fought him for what seemed like for ever. I'd show you the scars kid, but they've healed up as they always do. The reason I think you don't remember is because Nightcrawler woke you up-"
"Who is this Nightcrawler?" Starfire asked. The name itself made her uncomfortable.
"He's a mutant who has the ability to teleport himself where he wants to go," Jubilee explained. "He's a friend of Logan's and I think it's time we call him here."
"He's still at the school?" Logan asked.
"Yeah, maybe we should bring in Rogue and Kitty too," Gambit suggested.
"Good idea, Cajun. Call them up!"
Gambit used a communicator to signal Nightcrawler. He answered immediately. "Hello, vhat do you vant?"
"Listen, Kurt. We need you to teleport yourself, Rogue and Kitty to Jump City," Gambit told him.
"Vhy?"
"We need your help. And tell the Professor where you're going too."
"Alright," Nightcrawler replied. "I vill be there vhen I can get there." He ended the conversation.
"Well, he's on his way," Gambit said. "Who knows, maybe the Professor will send the Jet."
"Dude, your Professor has Jets at this school?" Beast Boy asked. His dad had told him there was more to this place than just a school, but this was a lot more than he had expected.
"Yes, we have a jet. Can I get back to my story?" Wolverine asked, gathering the shreds of patience that he was trying to maintain.
"Sure," Robin said. "Go on."
"And after we made sure you were awake, Nightcrawler and I left so fast that you didn't see me-"
A high piercing shout of, "Let me go!" was heard and Logan turned his head, looking around, he began to run at full tilt suddenly leaving the Titans behind him. Robin bolted after him, followed by Beast Boy, Cyborg, Starfire, Raven, Gambit and Jubilee.
"What is it?" Robin shouted.
"We'll find out soon enough!" Logan replied. Running into the alleyway, Beast Boy saw a shocking sight. A woman was struggling with two men. There were trying to hold her back as one man pulled out a cruel looking knife.
"Angela Roth, you will die for your treachery!" he shouted and raised the blade to strike.
"But what did I ever do to you?" Angela demanded. "It's not my fault!"
"It doesn't matter if it was your fault or not. Brother Blood doesn't like it when members just up and leave like you did." Angela Roth said nothing in reply. She just glared at her attackers.
"Of course, it was surprising that our Master wanted you as his bride. There were others, they would have eagerly went with him only you refused."
"Yeah, and got raped! If I'd known that was going to happen I wouldn't have joined your stupid cult."
"Oh, of course you didn't know that was going to happen did you?" the man asked.
"Don't you see what she's doing?" the other man asked. "She's stalling for time! Destroy her, now!"
He wasn't fast enough however, for an enraged Wolverine had buried his claws into his torso, killing him instantly. The two other men threw the woman away as Raven rushed to her side.
Robin hurled his Bird-a-Rangs into them and one of them hit the ground. The other was quickly dispatched by Starfire who blasted him with starbolts, rendering him unconscious.
The rest of the Titans gathered around the woman as she tried to catch her breath."Hey Angela, are you alright?" Wolverine bent down to the woman as she looked up at him.
"Mother, you know him?" Raven asked in shock. The Titans looked at her in surprise. This woman was her mother?
"Yes, Raven," Angela replied, looking intently at Raven. "He's an old friend."
