Hi everyone! Nice to see you all again! Enough of the pleasantries, you want a story, right? Well then let's begin a new chapter of…. RAGE!
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Cyborg was unplugged from his recharger by Robin. "Hey man, what gives?" He asked, slowly waking up. "It's your turn to watch Raven." Robin explained, yawning. "And boy is she angry." He continued. Cyborg grunted and stood up. He shook himself awake and wandered down to the elevator.
Around 3 floors above the secure room he could hear screaming. "Man, she really is angry." He whispered as he approached the room. At first he thought he was still dreaming when he saw a large, green gorilla looking in the window to the room. But when the ape nodded to him, he realised who it was.
"Man, what cha doin' down here? Your shift was the first one!" He said to the big green gorilla. It didn't seem to hear him; it just continued watching Raven through the window. Cyborg squished up next to the gorilla and looked through the window.
Raven was still wearing her green cloak, as she was too angry to care about what she was wearing. Various pieces of chain littered the floor. "Wow, I guess she broke free from those chains we put her in." Cyborg commented to the gorilla. The ape quickly morphed back into his human form to answer. "She broke out of those things around five seconds after we got her into the room."
Cyborg looked at his friend's sad face as Raven threw herself against the door. Cyborg put one of his huge hands on Beast Boy's shoulder and said quietly, "She means a lot to you, right?" Beast Boy's eyes grew tiny tears and he looked away.
He turned into a lion and started patrolling in front of the door. Cyborg stayed at the window, with one eye on Raven and the other on Beast Boy. He thought they were the two unhappiest people in the world right then.
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Robin and Starfire were sitting on the couch in Starfire's room, trying to talk. However, every minute or so, Raven would swear, screech or bash into something so loudly, it could be heard on the top floor. "Oh, I feel immense sorrow for Friend Raven! She was so nice to do the talking of the girls with me yesterday, but now…" Starfire trailed off and Robin put his arm around her.
"She was so wonderful yesterday." She continued, starting to cry. "She is always wonderful, but yesterday she was a girl with me… She even told me her secrets."
"What kind of secrets?" Robin asked.
"I cannot tell, I have placed a cross upon my heart and wished to become deceased." Starfire replied sharply, crossing her heart. "Raven has put the trust in me."
Robin nodded and shrugged. "I respect Raven's privacy." After a few moments of silence Starfire cracked. "Beast Boy!" She shouted. Robin was grinning. "Raven has the… feeling… for Beast Boy. That is the secret she bestowed on me. And now I have told it!" She gabbled on, afraid that her promise would come true and she would die.
"Relax, Star! You're not going to die. It's kinda obvious that Beast boy is head-over-heels for her, so I'm glad she doesn't hate him as much as it seems like." Robin told her and she smiled. They were about to kiss, but they were interrupted by the alarm. "Not today!" Robin muttered, shaking his head.
Once he and Starfire had reached the main-room, they realised that it wasn't the normal alarm. A voice was saying, "Lockdown mode activated," and all the windows were being covered by large, folding metal sheets. Robin received a call on his communicator. "What's happening?" He asked Cyborg on the other end.
"Raven escaped so I put the tower under lockdown." Cyborg replied. Robin muttered angrily under his breath. "Are you OK?" He asked Cyborg, who nodded.
"I was quite surprised, actually. She didn't even try and attack us, she just ran for the Tower door. BB's off trying to catch her, but boy that girl can fly fast! Try and guard the exit and if you see her, call in. Cyborg out." Robin and Starfire nodded, and then split up.
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Beast Boy was currently a cheetah, and he was sprinting down the stairs. Raven had gone down the elevator and he was trying to beat it to the ground floor. He was almost at the door when Raven burst out of nowhere and threw herself at the sealed doors.
He morphed into a gorilla and grabbed her. She struggled wildly as he fumbled with his communicator. Cyborg, Robin and Starfire all received a 20 second call that featured a very flustered gorilla holding a very angry girl. "That looks like the main entrance." Cyborg commented. Robin agreed and told Starfire and Cyborg to go help Beast Boy.
He went into Cyborg's computer lab and monitored the situation via the security cameras. He watched as Beast Boy changed into various creatures in order to restrain Raven. She managed to slip away as he was morphing, but Starfire and Cyborg quickly caught her before she attacked the door again.
They put her in shackles this time and half dragged, half carried her off to the secure room. They hurriedly shoved her in and then barricaded the door with a bookcase, a chair and a green T-Rex. "It does not seem humane to lock up Friend Raven like this." Starfire gabbled worriedly to Cyborg.
"I know. I don't like it any more than you do, Star, but if she got out, she'd kill us all. It's a miracle nobody was hurt last time." He replied sadly.
Beast boy, who had been listening to their conversation, walked over. "Why would she ever attack us? That goes against everything that we've ever learnt about her." He said, confusing his friends. "But man, this ain't Raven." Cyborg said softly.
Beast Boy shook his head. "This is Raven! Part of Raven. The part of Raven that wants to take revenge on all the people that have ever tried to hurt us." Cyborg and Starfire stared at him.
"What?" They asked, looking at him as if he'd grown two heads. Beast Boy looked away and grumbled under his breath, before returning to his post at the door.
"How can they not get that?" He muttered to himself later. How was it that he was the only one that knew how much her friends meant to her? She'd made that very clear in the way she acted. Hadn't she? He shook himself, walking over to the little window. Cyborg was upstairs having lunch and Starfire was off somewhere, probably making out with Robin.
"Hey Raven?" He said uncertainly through the reinforced glass. She stomped over to him.
"What?" she fumed, smoke practically coming out of her nose. He looked her in the eye and saw something change ever so slightly in the way she looked at him.
"I want you to stop being so mad. It makes me and the others feel upset, seeing you this unhappy. Especially me." He said firmly and he saw her eyes narrow.
"That's why I have to get out. To stop everyone and everything that will hurt you. I'm doing this for YOU!" she screamed the last word and punched the glass.
It shattered, but something caught her wrist. It was Beast Boy, transformed into The Beast. For a split second, their eyes met and a single thought penetrated Raven's rage-cloaked mind. "He hates that thing. Why did he morph into it?"
Time seemed to stop and their expressions didn't change. They stood there for what seemed like a millennium and a millisecond at the same time. It was really about three hours. Beast Boy finally transformed back into a human to say one thing, "If you want to stop things that are hurting us, stop yourself." For a tiny moment, he thought he saw a flicker of purple in those red eyes.
She withdrew her hand from the shattered window and retreated to a small corner of the room. She sat down with her back to the door and didn't say a word.
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Robin, Cyborg and Starfire were all seated on the couch in the main-room, discussing important matters. The main topic was how they could possibly get Raven and Beast Boy to admit that they had feelings for each other.
It was hardly a secret and they wanted to help. "He thinks that she'll blow him up if he tells her…" Cyborg said to Starfire and Robin.
"And she thinks that she'll blow him up if she tells him…" Robin muttered. Starfire suddenly had an idea and displayed it so obviously; Robin swore he saw a light bulb appear.
"In her current state she has no powers!" She called.
"No powers, no explosions!"
"And affection is next! Guys, I think we all just became geniuses." Robin grinned at his friends.
"All I need is an excuse to get out of the house tomorrow and they're good to go!" Cyborg said with a sly grin. The three friends smirked and they all knew that this might seem sneaky, but it was the best option they had.
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Yay! Sneakiness! This was A LOT of fun to write, much more than I expected. I hope you guys liked it, and be sure to tell me if you did!
