It was nighttime in Jump City, and standing atop a capsized armored truck spilling out a veritable bullion of gold bars was the supervillain Dr. Light. The man was tall, thin, and had a beard, wearing a black skintight jumpsuit with silver accents and a light bulb on the front. Still, he was better than the dog-themed Dogman, who had to be put into an isolated cell and sedated on a daily basis.

"Your pathetic attacks can't outshine the brilliance of Dr. Light," the light-obsessed man cackled as he brought his hands together, firing a broad beam of yellow light at the Titans, who scattered to avoid the attack. Robin leapt high and threw a birdarang at the light-themed villain, only for him to leap down to avoid it and the teen's lunge. "You're fast, but I doubt you'll enjoy moving at the speed of light!" the man said as he touched the light bulb on his chest, sending out a wide-angled Omni Blast-esque attack and sending Robin over the roof of a nearby building. Beast Boy came around the corner and charged him, turning into a wolf mid-spring and charged the man who ducked under the changeling's initial rush. "A wolf is no threat when it's blind as a bat!" he cackled as he threw several glowing orbs at the lupine, the balls exploding in a series of brilliant flashes and completely disorienting him and effectively taking him out of the fight. The next moment Star flew overhead and launched a barrage of starbolts, Dr. Light creating a golden shield around himself to block the projectiles, which dropped after she ceased firing. He then threw a landmine-like device onto the street, its top opening as a walls of radiation rising up and trapping her within.

"Watch yourself, lightweight. Things are about to get heavy!" Cy said running at Dr. Light with half the car's front axle in hand, tire and all into a swing. The overhead attack missed, but the created tremor threw Dr. Light across the street. The villain then shot a concentrated beam from his hand and fired an intense beam that broke the makeshift club in half, then laughing as he launched a red beam at Cyborg. When the dust from the resulting explosion cleared, the Titan was now imbedded in the melted remains of the truck behind him.

"Uh! Hey! Let me go!" Cy cried as he tried to get out, the villain laughing before an airbolt suddenly nailed him in the back of the head. Turning around to see the brown-haired teen flying at him, the man then brought his index and middle fingers to both his temples, releasing a brilliant flash of light from his body and grounded the approaching teen.

"Dammit he hit me with a Solar Flare!" the brunette cried as he rubbed his eyes trying to ease the pain of his agitated corneas.

"Now if nobody minds, I'll be taking the gold," Dr. Light said walking towards the massive pile of gold to the side.

"I mind," Raven said floating a distance away. "Azarath Metrion Zin-" she chanted, only for a beam of light to hit her squarely on the chest and send her to the street. If you looked carefully enough, you could see the silhouette of a raven's head on the brooch holding her cloak together.

"Bit of advice. Find shorter magic words," Dr. Light said walking up to her as he charged a laser, a motorcycle on the curb sent flying towards him with a wave of the mage's hand, only for him to blow it apart. He then blasted her down the street, her back to him as he walked towards her.

"Don't come any closer..." she rasped out in a menacing tone.

"What's the matter? Afraid of the light?" he asked, the deeper meaning of the mage's words lost on him. This error would then cost him, the mage suddenly spinning around at him with a snarl and rage-filled eyes. A moment later she grew to an impossible height, almost three times taller than the lightweight as black tendrils shooting into the air from the darkness of her cloak. "No! No!" he cried as he backed up, the tendrils seizing his suit and causing sparks as he was pulled in. "My suit! What are you-no, stop, you win, I surrender!" he cried as he was dragged towards the shadows of the mage's billowing blue hem.

"What's the matter? Afraid of the dark?" Raven asked in a demonic tone, her eyes blood red from within her hood's cowl, the man crying out in absolute terror as he was dragged into the darkness.

Man... Vent thought having finally gotten his sight back, though his eyes still stung like hell. Never thought I'd actually see this side of tentacle rape, he thought quickly clamping his eyes shut, regretting looking up while his corneas still throbbed in agony.

"RAVEN! STOP!" Robin cried as he ran towards her, the mage gasping sharply as she returned to her normal size. When her cloak receded, it revealed Dr. Light curled up in the fetal position on the pavement. "It's okay. You're going to be alright," Robin said trying to comfort the terrified man.

"It was... so... so dark... make it stop... make it stop... make it stop..." he shuddered, eyes widened in absolute fear as he shook, his body, armor, and possibly mind looking like they had aged a decade within the span of a single second.

"Dude! Raven, what did you do?" Beast Boy asked in shock after having helped free Cy from the slough of steel around him. Turning to face him, the mage's eyes were red like before, her snarl causing the changeling to back into Cyborg with a scream, the mage composing herself and stalked away into the shadows of the alleyway. "What's her deal?" the changeling asked as the aerokinetic ran over to the alleyway.

"Raven. Raven is there something wrong?" Vent asked placing his hand on the wall and looking for her, only to find she'd already vanished into the shadows. Raven... What's happening?


"Rise and shine, amigos," Beast Boy said the next morning as everyone sans Raven entered the living room, taking a seat at the table past the open-air kitchen while the changeling cooked breakfast while donning a chef's hat. "Breakfast is served," he said as he brought the steaming pan over.

"Thanks, Beast Boy. Everything looks great," Robin said as he was served.

"On my planet, such a feast would mark the arrangement of a marriage," Star explained as the changeling served the others. "Tell me, Beast Boy, to whom re you engaged?" she asked throwing her "daily curveball", causing Beast Boy to shout in surprise and jump back, nearly losing his hat in the process. Cyborg and Ventus on the other hand were wolfing down their food, the prior belching loudly before both their expressions changed to that of a person who'd just eaten a skunk ass-first. While Cy spit it out in disgust, Vent retched but held his meal down.

"That's not eggs! That's that tofu stuff!" the cyborg cried out while the aerokinetic's body seemed to be disagreeing with what it was that he ate. He then drained the nearby glass of its contents in an attempt to wash down what he ate, the liquid soon going the way of the food he'd just eaten. "That's not even real milk!" he cried, Vent moving the glass away from his lips as he shook off the approaching migraine. Giving off a depressed frown, Raven entered the door to the kitchen, paying the room's occupants no mind as she made her way to the counter and began pouring a cup.

"Hey Raven. Want some breakfast?" the changeling offered. "It's good. Wakey-wakey, tofu eggs and bakey," he offered.

"Herbal tea," the girl returned.

"Come on, just one little taste. You could use a little food after the way you cooked Dr. Light," he pleaded, the girl whirling around to face him with eyes burning red.

"NO!" Raven cried angrily, her powers leaking onto the plate he held, causing the eggs to explode upwards like a volcano, leaving him covered in the tofu eggs he'd cooked. With a strangled little noise as he dropped the plate, the residential mage turning away and leaving via the sliding door, which closed behind him.

"Beast Boy, no one wants your nasty-ass eggs," Vent grumbled rudely with narrowed eyes, a vein throbbing on his forehead as the Boy Wonder strode over to him.

"Maybe you should go apologize."

"Me? I'm not the one who turned breakfast into a battlefield!" he cried irately as Cyborg walked over carrying the dishes.

"Yeah, but after the weirdness that went down last night, you should know better than to go messing with her," he said depositing the dishes in the sink.

"I was trying to be nice, but no matter how hard I try, she still treats me like tofu eggs!" he cried irately, the brunette huffing while Cyborg washed the dishes. "You know, she's never once laughed at any of my jokes."

"'Least she listens. I just kinda tune you out," Cy said.

"Amen brother," Vent said bumping knuckles with the cyborg, a little storm cloud appearing over the disgruntled teen's head.

"Raven is complicated. There is much about her we are not meant to understand," Starfire stated.

"Then how are we supposed to deal with her? How can we trust her? I mean-"

"She's our friend. What more do we need to know?" Robin asked.

"If that isn't good enough an answer for you, then how about this?" Vent offered with crossed arms from the counter. "Don't believe in her. Believe in the you who believes in her," he said sipping from his cup, then yakking it out remembering what it was.

"Dude, that doesn't even make any sense," Beast Boy stated flatly.

"It doesn't have to, it's manly!" the brunette stated as he dug into the fridge and get some real breakfast. Fucking tofu eggs... Fucking tofu milk... he growled lowly to himself.


A while later, Beast Boy was standing before Raven's door, whatever mental machinery lay between his ears working in overdrive as he attempted to figure out how to apologize for agitating Raven that morning. After scratching his head for a few seconds, he gingerly raised his fist, turning his head away as he would from an explosion and barely tapping the door.

"Oh well. Nobody's home," he said relieved as he turned around, only to bump into Cyborg's metal chassis, Vent behind him with crossed arms and narrowed eyes. What crawled up his ass and died? the changeling asked himself, not liking the dark look the brunette was giving him.

"You might want to knock a little louder," Cy said turning the changeling around and knocking on the door loudly, the door falling off its hinges on the final knock.

"Great. Now we have to apologize," Beast Boy groaned.

"This is the first I've seen of Raven's room," Vent noted looking around, expecting her to be sitting in the darkest corners. And then kill them for entering her room. "Medieval gothic with a touch of the arcane. Quite fitting for the residential mage," he noted around, feeling like he'd stepped into the domain of a powerful sorcerer in an RPG. The shelves were filled with old books and grimoirs, four-eyed tragedy and comedy masks on a pedestal, a hexagonalally-shaped mirror mounted on the wall, chalices and braziers abound, a bed partly recessed into the far wall, and a large globe in the corner. The entire place was done in shades of gray and black, the brunette gaining a much clearer understanding of what had laid behind the girl's doors.

"Uh, Raven? Sorry about the door. Raven?" Cy asked looking around.

"Dude, she's not here. Come on," Beast Boy said leading the group into the room. "Heh. Looks like Halloween came early this year."

"We're in Raven's room. We should not be in Ravens' room. She doesn't let anyone into her room," Cyborg whispered.

"So this is our big chance to find out about her," the Changeling noted.

"And maybe get a one-way trip to hell," the brunette noted grimly. Maybe I'll trip Beast Boy when Rae goes on the warpath. Save my own skin, and Cy's too if I can help it. Two of them die and the only other guy in the house will be Robin, and we're alike as chalk and cheese.

"For instance..." Beast Boy laughed picking up a hand mirror with a black frame adorned with black horns and red diamonds on it. "Check out this beauty mirror. Who woulda thought Raven spends time sprucing? Ah! Is that a zit!" he asked poking his cheek. The next moment two pairs of glowing red eyes superimposed themselves onto his image, clearing a moment later as he gasped and dropped the mirror to the floor with a cry of fear. The next moment a red-rimmed swath of black energy shot up from the mirror, shaping itself into an arm and grabbed the changeling. As the changeling was suddenly shaken back and forth, Cyborg paid him no mind while heading for the doorway, Vent watching with a grin as dark shadows were cast across his face.

"Hey Cy. Beast Boy's getting raped by a Floormaster," Vent said tapping the cyborg's shoulder as he pulled out his camcorder and recorded Beast Boy flailing about.

"Yo!" Cy cried as BB was being dragged downwards, Vent snickering as he grabbed one ankle while the cyborg grabbed the other, all three being sucked in before the mirror gave off a small puff of smoke.


"Beast Boy you stupid fuUUUUUUUK!" Vent cried as he and the others fell out of a red and black portal born of chaotic energy, the two nearly crushing him as they landed on a floating stone platform in the middle of a outer space, filled with red stars and a few large asteroids. "You're lucky I didn't break my camera." "AIIIIGH!" "Hahahahaha! I am so putting this on the internet," Vent chuckled darkly as he pocketed the camcorder.

"Uh... Where are we?" Beast Boy asked looking around.

"You're asking the wrong robot," Cy said tapping his forearm controls. "My sensors must be on the blink, 'cause they're saying we're in Titans Tower."

"Riiiight. So how do we get back?" the changeling asked.

"We start walking and find out, you dipshit," Vent grumbled as he stepped over the edge of the platform. Cy and BB gasped when he dropped from view before a stone platform with him on it rose up, several rock fragments forming a winding path as well.

"Man, why's Vent acting like such a jerk now?" Beast Boy whispered.

"Maybe 'cause you fed him tofu eggs and tofu milk," Cy stated as they began to walk, not even a minute passing before he made a crappy joke.

"If sending us to Weirdsville's Raven's idea of a joke, I am so not laughing."

"Hey, she didn't sent us here. You were the one snooping in her room and popping zits in her magic mirror," Cy grumbled back.

"Who booby-traps a mirror?"

"Maybe it wasn't a trap. Maybe it's Raven's way home," Cy said looking around. "Maybe this is where it's from."

"Definitely creepy enough," Beast Boy stated.

"Turn back," a feminine child-like voice suddenly said, causing everyone to pivot and look behind them.

"Like I was saying..." Beast Boy said looking around, whereas Vent actually followed the sound of the voice to a rocky arch over the path. Perched were three small black birds with large red eyes.

"Turn back," the black chick repeated.

"Sweet! Becha they can tell us how to get home," BB said happily.

"I'd watch my ass, grass stain," Vent huffed looking at the birds warily. "Those things might end up raping your ass. Just like that Floormaster," he chuckled darkly, taking out his camcorder just in case.

"Scathing comment aside, the name's Beast Boy, remember? If they were dangerous, I would know," he said before turning to the arch and adopting a tone one would use with a small kitten. "Hey little guys. My buddies and I were wondering it-" he said before the birds disappeared. His eyes turning to the ground, the three chickies continued to repeat- "Turn back." –their beaks suddenly elongating and sprouting rows of sharp teeth, their eyes splitting into two smaller ones as they snarled, freaking out Best Boy who ran into Cyborg, whereas Vent just laughed like a madman while waiting for Beast Boy to get "raped" again. As if on cue, the trio of birds then multiplied into a flock of dark ravens, who flocked past Cy and Vent in favor of the fleeing shapeshifter, who opted to transform into a hippopotamus and opened its mouth wide, a trio of ravens perching on his tongue before he snapped his jaws shut. Squirming inside, the hippo then opened its mouth and shook them off after they had clamped their beaks onto his lingual muscle.

"Go evil chocobos! WHOOO!" the brunette cheered, the camera now following Cy as the flock of ravens began attacking him, Beast Boy nursing his injured tongue.

"Get 'em off me! Get 'em off me!" Cy cried as he ran down the platform as the birds attacked him, Vent laughing as the birds began chasing Beast Boy too, who took the form of an ostrich and began running across the stone platform back and forth. "Cut it out!" he cried now riding BB in llama form and firing away with his sonic cannon. Firing a few shots high, one flew low where Cy tried to blast it, the cyborg firing straight down. "Aw mAAAN!" he cried as the path beneath suddenly gave way, his hand dug into the animal's pelt while Ventus simply floated in the air with crossed arms, having lost interest in recording the "two stooges" performance until something more interesting came up.

"Hey guys," a familiar but cheerful voice suddenly spoke up, the guys looking up to see Raven standing upside down on the platform with no ill effects, her blue clothing now pink. "What's up?"

"I don't know anymore," Cy said in a small voice, Vent turning 180 degrees before Cyborg cried out and fell down –or up- onto the path. "Woah!" he cried as they slammed down, Raven giggling as Beast Boy got to his feet.

"Raven? How did-where are-what just- Why are you wearing pink?" the changeling suddenly asked.

"Cause it's my favorite color," she said giggling.

"It is?" BB asked in shock, Vent taking a few pics with the silver spy camera clipped to his beltloop for later use before clipping it back down.

"Look, I'd love to talk fashion, but I don't suppose you know how to get home," Cy stated.

"The Forbidden Door," Raven said motioning to an arch down the path on a distant asteroid. "It's the only way out, but you don't want to go there. Not now."

"Uh... Yeah, we do," Cy stated.

"Kay, but don't say I didn't warn you," she said as she headed towards the arch, making airplane sounds and stretching her arms out like wings before she ran through the archway and disappeared.

"Have you ever seen her this happy?" Cy asked as they headed for the arch.

"Dude, I didn't even know Raven could do happy," he said as they headed through the arch, the dark and dreary landscape fading away in lieu of a peaceful-looking landscape under a bright yellow sky, the path threading through a huge meadow filled with pink grass and trees. "... I think this is where air fresheners come from," Beast Boy then stated as he watched a giant strawberry float by.

"Hahahaha! Good one!" Raven giggled.

"You're laughing?" Cy asked in shock.

"At one of my jokes?" Beast Boy asked.

"Sure. I've always thought you were funny BB. But hey, looks aren't everything," she returned.

"Oh you are just adorable!" Vent cooed to the pink-garbed Raven, doing a total 180 from his snarky demure. "Come on, you gotta let me hug you, you are just precious," he said running over to her with a wide grin on his face, the pink-clad mage running through the field of flowers towards him and practically leaping into his arms, the two of them spinning around as Raven wrapped her arms around his neck, flower petals rising up into the wind while BB and Cy's jaws just dropped, the sound of a screeching record going off in their heads at the sight.

"Uh, BB, you seeing what I'm seeing?" BB asked.

"I dunno. She kinda lost me when she said you were funny," Cy stated, seeing the two laughing and giggling like a couple of looneys.


Meanwhile back at Titans Tower, a blue-garbed Raven sat on the roof and meditated cross-legged, Robin and Starfire walking up behind her.

"Raven... you okay? We stopped by your room and the door's been knocked down," he said with all the subtlety of a car crash.

"Haha HAHAHAHAHA!" Raven laughed before suddenly stopping. "Need to be alone," she then said demurely heading down the stairs and to her room, disappearing as though she had passed through a barrier.

"Many of your Earthly ways are still strange to me, but that was... just plain freaky. Correct?" Star asked.


"She ditched us! I can't believe Raven ditched us!" Beast Boy cried irately as they made their way down the path. She and the brunette had been bounding through the flower fields and giggling up a storm up until a second ago when the prior had disappeared, the latter returning to their sides with a plain expression on his face like nothing had happened. "Next time I see her, it's not gonna be pretty," the changeling grumbled right before the scenery dissolved into the outer-space region from before.

"Hey, I know where we are! We're in that place where I didn't know where we were before," Cy groaned as he rubbed his head, a gray-clad Raven suddenly popping up and scaring the living daylights out of them, only now she had a very said and fearful facial expression.

"WHERE WERE YOU? SHOPPING FOR ROBES!" the changeling demanded angrily, the now gray-clad mage crying under the boy's piercing gaze and trying to make herself as small as possible.

"Beast Boy, shut up!" the brunette said angrily as he bopped the green-teen over the head before turning to the gray-clad mage, said changeling nursing a bump over his head. "There there Rae, it's okay. No one's mad at you," he said pulling crying girl into a hug. For a moment the girl stiffened at the contact, but she eventually returned it, resting her head on his chest and once again shocking BB and Cy. "Feel better?" he asked quietly, having turned a total 180 from before.

"Can... *sniff* Can we stay like this? Just for a little bit?" the gray-clad girl asked timidly as she fisted his shirt in her hand and hugged him to her tighter.

"Sure," the brunette returned, stroking her back to make her feel better, shooting a dark glare at the changeling from over the crying girl's shoulder. The look pretty much said, "Step out of line one more time and I will fucking kill you."

"Uh Cy, have you noticed that Vent's acting a lot more... bipolar than usual?" Beast Boy asked worriedly.

"Yeah. His Beta and Alpha Brainwaves have been on the high road since this morning," the Cyborg returned, watching the brunette comfort the crying mage. "Maybe it was the eggs," he said using the brainwave monitor built into his arm.

"Rae?" the brunette asked her in a soothing voice.

"Y-Yes?" Raven asked as she looked up at him.

"Tell me, is that the Forbidden Door over there?" he asked pointing to the ornate arch in the distance, the girl nodding to him worriedly, as though she had broken a person's window or stomped on a person's foot.

"Come on y'all! We're almost-" was as far as Cy got running forward before a stone surface rose up from the ground to block his path. "Woah!" he cried falling onto his ass, Vent pulling Raven to his chest and readying a magazine of air bullets as numerous walls rose up and boxed them in. A moment later BB transformed into a hawk and tried to fly out of the labyrinth, only for an invisible forcefield to electrocute him before sending him to the ground.

"Great," Cy grumbled as he brought out his cannon.

"Oh man, we gotta get out of here!" BB cried worriedly as he nused his head, Cyborg blasting several walls but not even putting a scratch on them.

"It's a maze. You can't get out. You have to go through," Raven said timidly as Vent released his air bullet. "I can show you the way, but when we reach the end, you won't like me anymore. *sniff* He already doesn't like me," she sobbed as she motioned towards Beast Boy.

"Come on. That's not..." Beast Boy said sadly as Raven walked off, leaving his embrace but holding onto his arm like a scared child as she led them down the corner. "Gee Raven, moody much?" he asked.

"First Vent, and now Raven. It's like they're entirely different people," Cy noted as they were led through the maze. A minute in, Raven started apologizing to them for stuff she'd done and things she'd said to them before, the brunette giving her a fond smile whenever she had to apologize to him, the gray-clad mage's robe flashing pink too fast for the others to notice as he smiled at her.

"And... remember the time I called you both immature pinheads? I'm sorry about that too. And also the-"

"For the hundredth, millionth time..." Beast Boy groaned. "We forgive you!" both he and Cy called out as they rounded the corner. At that moment they had stopped at a wall identical to the others, Raven releasing Vent's arm and waves timidly towards it, the wall sliding open like an interlocking pair of doors to reveal a short path that led to the path out of the maze. Right at the edges of the exit were a pair of stone statues, both wearing long cloaks with faces to match the masks in Raven's room, each having only one arm on the side that was closest to the wall.

"That's the end!" Cy cried happily as Beast Boy whooped –"Sweet!"- "All right Raven!" he whooped as he and the others headed for the egress, though she did not join them. Looking up, Ventus whipped out his camera just in time for the smiling statue's eyes to glow red followed by the frowning one. The next moment they slammed back to back, and three quick half-turns later showing a smile, then a frown, and then another smile, a pair of longswords suddenly materialized in the statue's hands as the combined form grew a second set of arms.

"What?" Cy gaped.

"No way," Beast Boy groaned alongside Cy.

"Sweet! Boss battle!" the brunette cheered. "Hey grass stain, try not to die too quickly. I left my Phoenix Down in my other Tool Pouch, heheheh."

"Told you you wouldn't like me when we got here," Raven said before dropping out of view.


"Stir continuously until thickened," a chef on the TV that Robin was watching spoke, the teen then flicking the channel and starting up a Western.

"May we go see if she is feeling better?" Starfire asked, while also wondering where Ventus went. He normally asks to go out flying right about now, she noted to herself.

"She said she wanted to be alone," Robin said flicking the channel.


"WHOOOO! THREEE DEEE!" Vent whooped as he leapt into a flying kung fu kick at the two-faced statue and striking it in the face, Beast Boy having taken to the air in the form of a hawk while Cy retreated and fired off his cannon only for it to have no effect. Flying into a scratching attack, one of the statue's free hands suddenly grabbed Beast Boy and squeezed cruelly.

"Yo! Eight-Eyes!" Raven's voice spoke, sounding radically different than before. "Hai-yah!" she yelled out as she kicked the statue across the face and sending it toppling to the ground. "Whoo-hoo! In your faces!" she whooped, the guys noticing she was now garbed in dark green. As the thing got up, Raven dodged one sword slash after another, the smirk on her face remaining present as she leapt into the air and extended her index and middle fingers, bringing them down straight down the length of the rock body, smoke billowing out to follow the trace before the statue broke apart among the new cleavage, Cy and BB staring in pure amazement at Raven's latest 180. "Hoo-ah! High fives! Come on!" she called out holding up her hands.

"Ye-heah! Way to go mage girl!" Vent whooped giving the girl a high five.

"Hey, great kick flyboy!" the green-clad mage whooped as she slapped the brunette across the butt.

"Oh, a provocative one aren't ya?" he asked as he slapped her back, causing the girl to leap up and cup her rear before she started running after him for revenge, the two smirking as one leapt away with short bursts of wind, remaining tentatively out of Raven's reach and wiggling his rear at her in a goading manner.

"What is your deal?" Beast Boy suddenly cried out. "First you nuke breakfast, then you finally laugh at my jokes, then you're all weepy, and now you're a provocative Marine? Make up your mind. Who are you?" he asked earning a quizzical look from the green-clad mage before a matching pink-clad hopped in from the left and a glum gray-clad one slinked up from the right.

"I'm Raven," the three said simultaneously in their own tones, causing Beast Boy who was poleaxed by the sight to faint.

"Happy... timid... brave," Cy then counted off.

"You forgot dopey. Hehehe," Pink Raven giggled pointing to the shocked Beast Boy.

"Wow, even I'm surprised by all this," Vent remarked in a neutral tone.

"Different side of Raven's personality. We're not in Raven's home."

"We're in her head," Beast Boy remarked.

"And I want you out," the blue-clad Raven said floating down in front of the three Emoticlones, who faded away. "The mirror you found is for meditation. It's a portal into my MIND- NOT A TOY!" she growled through gritted teeth, big sweat drops rolling down BB's face.

"Heheh... My bad," he remarked weakly, the flock of ravens that had been roosting in the nearby tree for the past ten minutes suddenly taking off, squawking as they flapped their wings.

"You have to go. Now!" Raven then ordered.

"Raven, talk to me. What's going on?" Vent asked looking her right in the eyes.

"Last night, something... got loose. Something bad," Raven answered.

And Dr. Light got on its bad side, Vent noted, remembering how mortified he looked. The next moment there was an unholy roar from the heavens, a gargantuan black vortex forming over the horizon as the ravens from before flew into it. Gradually they retreated from the top down to expose a super-king-sized humanoid male with red skin, flowing white hair, and four glowing yellow eyes. It was clad in a black and grey loincloth, steel wristbands, and a similar belt to the one Raven wore, as well as an Anja chakra on its forehead. Its belt was silver and set with black stones, and a matching piece set at the throat to match her brooch. There were short, curved black stripes on its arms and chest.

"Hatred shall rule," the giant being growled, its voice being the same one that Raven had used when snaring Dr. Light.

"Let's just say I have issues with my father," Raven stated evenly, the red giant moving steadily towards them and leaned down with a loud roar. As Cy, BB, and Vent ran off, Raven stood her ground against the monster as it unleashed a quadruple blast from its glowing eyes that hit the ground in front of her, forcing her to jump clear. The thing's giant feet began stomping towards the three males, who at the moment were making a beeline towards the Forbidden Door. When a beam lanced the ground in front of them, Raven then dropped to the ground in front of them and faced her father. "Azarath Metrion Zinthos!" she called out as she created a shield around herself, the boys, and the door. The monster fired another blast cutting a furrow along the ground and throwing up a wall of dust around the barrier.


"May we go see if Raven is better?" Starfire asked.

"She wants to be alone," Raven stated plainly as he flipped another channel.


"Get out of my mind! Now!" Raven shouted as she strained to hold up the barrier.

"And leave you alone with that?" Vent asked even as the Forbidden Door lit up with a whirlpool. "No way in hell am I doing that!"

"It's my problem! I'll deal with it. If I lose, you'll be stuck in here forever!" Raven shouted. Outside the barrier, the monster pulled his hands back, producing a ball of energy between them, then swinging them forward and punching a hole through the mage's shield, bursting it with a second shot. "GO!" she shouted with no room for objection as she flung the three screaming towards the portal with a sudden lash of telekinesis. Flying up, she then fired a black salvo from her hand, only serving as an annoyance as he tried to swat her down, the mage flying around and avoiding another eye blast. Landing a blow on its chest, she flew around to his head in the briefest instant, only for him to whirl around and blast her point-blank in the chest and catching her in its broad palm.

"Rage shall consume you," the thing then stated.

"Yo!" Cyborg called out, catching the thing's attention. "Sounds like somebody needs a time-out!" he said firing a shot which was blocked by the thing's arm, which was blocked only for the second chest-shot to find its mark, causing it to stumble backward and let go of Raven. Toppling edge over edge, the blue-clad mage tumbled helplessly towards a high-speed hello with a thick granite slab, Beast Boy then dove down as a hawk and grabbed onto her shoulder, the mage starting to come to with a barely audible moan and leveling out as she fell to her knees.

"You stayed? I thought you didn't like me," Raven said rubbing her head.

"Thought you didn't like me," Beast Boy returned, his sentiment causing the mage to smile.

"Yeah yeah, warm fuzzies all around," Vent sighed as he landed next to them. "We still got to deal with not-so daddy dearest," he said pointing to the red-skinned monster as it stomped towards them.

"Feel my fury!" he roared firing a four-pack of eye blasts, Vent and Cyborg dodging to the sides while Raven and Beast Boy took to the skies. Grabbing his shoulders, Pterasaur Beast Boy lifted Cyborg aloft as Vent and Raven fired off their own projectile weapons, the two of them weaving through the barren landscape and returning shots, their distractions proving enough for Cy to nail the monster in the face with a sonic blast. Enraged by the hit, he was about to deliver the finishing stroke, only to yeal in surprise as his head was pulled backwards, Raven and Ventus pulling his hair back and causing him to lose balance, the red-skinned monster crashing among the rocky peaks.


"May we now-"

"No!"


"He's too strong. Even with your help, I cannot beat him," Raven sighed as the four hid behind a small ridge.

"So call for backup! What about the other you's?" Cy asked.

"Yeah, the green one kinda kicked butt," BB added.

And was also a bit of a flirt, but she doesn't need to know that, Vent thought.

"It still won't be enough. None of my other sides have the kind of power we need," Raven stated.

"Maybe not alone, but what about together?" Vent asked putting a hand on her shoulder. "All of them are parts of a greater whole. A part of you. Use them!" he said reassuring her, Cy ducking back after peeking around the edge to see if the demonic figure had found them yet.

"Go for it! We got your back!" Cy said firing off his cannon. With a smile, Raven closed her eyes in concentration before disappearing.

"Alright you fucking troll! Let's see how you like this!" Vent growled angrily as he began spinning his arms around, hollow whirlwinds forming around his wrists as he shot at the red-skinned abomination. "Nibai Sepukken!" he shouted as he flew through the air and started delivering brutal wind-packed punches to the red-skinned monster's face, causing it to stumble back before the brunette had to fly away. "Come on you fucking pansy! Fight like a maaan!" he demanded as he started darting around him and striking at his body too fast for it to keep up.

"Hey, doesn't he resemble a Powerpuff Girl flying around like that?" Beast Boy asked.

"You watch that?" Cy asked in shock, Beast Boy chuckling nervously as Vent swirled around Trigon's head, punching each eye out only for them to re-open moments later. "Forget it, there's no time," he groaned as he fired his sonic cannon at the thing. However, the beast didn't pay any credence to this, as it clasped its hands together before launching a swarm of bird-like apparitions, all of which converged upon Ventus and sent him tumbling to the ground, Cy catching him while BB scared off the birds with a lion's roar. Smirking at his victory, the demon had yet to notice Raven rising behind his back, her tightly wrapped cloak now pure white. As the thing swiveled around to face her, the mage opened her cloak and hurled a mass of dark energy at the demon, revealing that her leotard was white as well, her magic forming thick bands that encircled him from shoulders to waist.

"You are going back where you belong!" White Raven then said in a very deep and terrible tone.

"Never!" the demon growled as he broke the minding spell. Rising into the air with arms crossed in front, the white-garbed mage's eyes and mouth began to blaze with the same dark power from her hands before she launched a black white-trimmed beam at the demon, who launched an orange red-trimmed beam. Recording with his camcorder, Vent could only watch in awe as the two forces collided, the balance point shifting back and forth as the birds around them disappeared. With one final push, Raven's beam surged into the demon's face, an incredible flash of light nearly blinding everything before a red-garbed copy of her, four eyes glowing from within the cowl of the thing's hood, now only a foot tall. Dropping to the ground and facing its giant white-colored counterpart, the red-garbed being suddenly disintegrated into a hail of red lightning bolts, striking the white-garbed mage and throwing her into an unbearable rictus. In a final flash and a blast of smoke, the blue-garbed Raven had now been reverted back to her original size, Ventus catching her before she could hit the ground.

"Great job. I knew you could do it," Vent said with a smile as he helped her to her feet, BB and Cy following her with thumbs up.

"Thank you... friends," Raven sighed as she rubbed her head.

"So... We really are friends?" Beast Boy asked.

"Hmm-hmm," she said with a smile.

"And you really think I'm funny?" he asked wiggling his eyebrows.

"Don't push it," she and Vent said, the prior chuckling a bit as they group headed towards the Forbidden Gate. "Hey Rae, if this is your mind, how are you here?" he then asked, the girl remaining silent at that question.


Meanwhile outside Raven's room, Starfire was slightly straining to knock on Raven's door, Robin's fingers wrapped tightly around her arm and pulling her back with everything she had.

"Please! Let us simply-"

"Raven asked us not to disturb her!" Robin cried out even as he failed to move the Tamaranian girl.

"She could be weeping and-"

"I don't want to bother her!" he persisted.

"But if we merely-" she started, then suddenly gasped and smiled as the door open, her stance relaxing and sending Robin to the floor as Cyborg, Beast Boy, Ventus, and Raven stepped out.

"Where have you guys been all day?" Robin asked getting up from the floor.

"Just getting to know each other," Raven said with a blush, her Emoticlone's memories having come back to her after the fusion technique.

"Come, friends. We shall prepare a new breakfast feast," Starfire cheered.

"It's a little late for breakfast, Star. Maybe just some herbal tea," Beast Boy suggested.

"Actually, breakfast sounds-" was as far as Raven got before Vent suddenly collapsed to the ground, holding his head and groaning as though he were in pain.

"Ooooooogh..." he groaned as his body shook.

"Ventus, what is wrong?" Star asked.

"Stomach aching... head throbbing... desire to murder Beast Boy rising," Vent groaned and muttering the last part to himself as he held back the urge to hurl. Oh, and murder Beast Boy too.

"What's wrong with him?" Robin asked pointing to the teen on the floor.

"Don't know. He's been pulling 180s all day," Beast Boy noted, warily stepping away from the potential changeling-murderer.

"Well it's nothing a trip to the infirmary can't solve," Cy said throwing the teen over his shoulder. "Come on, let's see what's wrong with him."


Ten minutes later after a few diagnostic tests, Raven giving Vent a glass of tea with a crushed aspirin pill in it, Cyborg had finally gotten the results back from Vent's tests.

"So let me get this straight. Vent is allergic to tofu?" Beast Boy asked after the tests were run on the brunette.

"Yeah. After running a few tests, I determined that that's what was making him act up all day," Cy noted from the medical report, the brunette growling in his throat and crossing his arms as he stare out the window, practically burning a hole in it. "Apparently the coagulated soy milk in the stuff has been inducing a chemical reaction within his brain that's been causing the mood swings we've been on the lashing end of all day."

"Who would have thought?" Robin remarked. This had never been an issue until now.

"Yeah yeah big whoop. Least it ain't my freaking kryptonite," the boy growled lowly in his throat, resembling a caged tiger that had been poked with a stick too many times as he drank his aspirin-laced tea for the sudden headache.

"... So uh, how long 'til it wears off?" Beast Boy asked. To tell the truth, Angry Vent was scaring him a bit more than Scary Raven. And that was scary.

"No idea," Cy said before a wicked grin crossed his face. "But, if this is going to happen every time, then I guess that means no more tofu eggs and milk for breakfast," the teen said trying to use this to his advantage. "Well, time to make some sausage 'n waffles! And we're having real eggs!" he said before leaving the room.

"Dude! That's not fair!" Beast Boy cried as he ran off after him, Robin and Starfire following while Raven stayed by Vent's side, rubbing his back as he got up from his bed.

"You alright, Vent?" Raven asked as he threw his legs over the side of the chair.

"Yeah. I'm fine," he groaned holding his forehead. "Man that tofu stuff bites."

"Hey, at least now I don't have to worry about it on the breakfast table," she giggled, her robe flashing pink for a second as she helped the teen out of the room and back to the kitchen for some real food.

"Yeah. Hey, you wanna watch Beast Boy get raped by a Floormaster?" he asked with a chuckle as he brought out his camcorder, a few choice images for the DR to simulate later.

"Hmhm. Sure. Maybe later we can post it on the internet," Raven said folding out the small screen and pressing play, the two laughing as Beast Boy continued to scream as he was shook back and forth.


Disclaimer:
Do not own Legend of Zelda (Floormasters). Do not own Yuyu Hakusho (Jin's Double Whirlwind Fist).

Author's Notes:
Thought I'd put a little spin on this part of the story, as well as introduce Ventus'
pseudo-kryptonite as it were.