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chapter 10 It fell apart for the Titans. part 1.
Jazz Fenton was currently back in Amity Park to give emotional support to her mother.
"I don`t get it Jazz. Why didn`t he tell us? We would have helped him." Maddie said.
"Mom, Danny didn`t want to worry you. Have you seen some of the things he did? Ever since I found out about him my blood pressure has skyrocketed." That was true. Jazz kept a blood pressure journal to keep track of her stress levels. Being the sister of an insane superpower teenager really motivated her to buy stress reliving toys.
"I can`t believe how oblivions I must have been. He probably came home with several injuries and I never noticed. I must be a bad mother."
"Well... There is no denying that. Danny and I love you but to be honest you should've never come close to children let alone have them."
Maddie flinched at the comment. "At least I raised you to be honest. Do you think that after this we can repair our family? I miss the time we could talk to each other about anything no matter how silly."
Jazz gave a sad smile. "We are working on it mom. Project Reaper was our attempt to repair the damage Phantom caused."
"What does Phantom have to do with repairing our family?" Maddie saw the tears stream from her daughter`s eyes. "Jazz what..."
Jazz hugged her mother. "Just a few more weeks Mom. Just wait a few more weeks. We`re almost there. We`ll tell you everything... and then it will finally stop."
Maddie didn`t know why she started crying. Maybe it was because deep down she knew what was happening, maybe it was the tone in her daughters voice or the past three years of secrecy in her family. whatever it was she hugged her daughter back and knew that whatever was going to happen, she`ll be included.
"Good morning world! Today we`ll have... Oh, you two are crying... and having a family moment... Do you want to talk about it?"
"Damn it Bob! Don`t you have any sense of timing?"
"No I do not. I`m probably the record holder for most ruined emotional moments. But that is not important. Do you know a Vlad Masters?"
Jazz went pale. "Yes... We knew him. He`s dead."
"Good riddance." Maddie said.
"Good riddance? isn`t that a bit harsh?"
"Just before he was murdered he threatened my husband to divorce me or else he would use some nonsense evidence to take away our children. Although his dead was brutal, I`m glad he`s gone."
"I see... He`s back."
"What?" Jazz whispered.
"He`s back and almost killed me."
"What is that supposed to mean?"
"Precisely as I said it. He broke in my working dimension, destroyed my equipment and nearly killed me."
"Was he a ghost?"
"I have no Idea what he was but I lost the ability to communicate with the other dimension. I can still receive video and audio from the other dimension but all my other abilities have been nullified."
"Maybe, he`s trying to save Danny." Maddie said.
"No. He has already entered and left the dimension and did something rather interesting."
"Like what?"
"Not going to tell. you just have to see it for yourself in today's episode. Yes, I`m going to continue the episodes like nothing happened.
The screen changed images and revealed the Teen Titans, the second Raven and Danny sitting at a table in a hotel room. They were having breakfast.
"Starfire, could you pas the mustard. I know it's the last and that I don`t even like mustard but you`re not going to neglect friend telemarketer are you?" Danny said with a grin.
Starfire smacked her fists on the table. "Of all the villains we have faced you are by far the biggest blorpgafar!"
"I might be a blorpgafar but at least I`m a blorpgafar that knows which Raven is the real one. Aren`t you supposed to be friends with Raven. If I had a friend that couldn`t even recognize me I would be highly disappointed. You are a very disappointing friend, Starfire."
That was all that starfire could take and she charged up a starbolt in her palm ready to throw it trough the head of the blorpgafar sitting in front of her.
"Starfire no! This is the last hotel that would have us. If you fire that starbolt we`ll have to stay in motels." Robin said as he hold Starfire`s wrist.
"Yes Starfire, stop being such a nuisance. Sometimes I really don`t know why you're on the team." Danny somehow managed to get his hands on the mustard when everyone was looking at Starfire. "But don`t worry, now that the Titans have two Ravens you can focus all your time on being Robins play toy. Heck you can even explore your weird mustard fetish with him. Let me help." And with that Danny deposited the mustard all over Robin and Starfire.
"To hell with hotels. I will kill you!" Starfire jumped over the table to strangle Danny to dead but discovered that he already was running for his life.
Cyborg groaned. "How did things get so messed up?"
It was a legit question. The Titans were currently living in a hotel with two of their most unusual and annoying enemies. And the worst part was that one of those enemies was disguised as a ally so that they didn`t know who to trust.
Robin wiped some mustard from his face. "I don`t know Cy but I know where it started."
/ Flashback
Robin was watching his newest enemy through a single sided mirror. What he saw confused him, there he sat, a normal looking civilian that looked slightly incompetent.
Robin knew that whatever this man had planned would be a pain in the ass. Just the way he would smile send waves of annoyance up Robin`s spine.
Cyborg walked in the observation room. "Rob, how did the interrogation go?"
"I learned a lot about him, yet I learned nothing. This guy is constantly switching between high intelligence and childish annoyance. And for some reason I`m starting to like him."
Cyborg raised a eyebrow at that. "Starting to like him?"
"I like puzzles and this guy makes them at the drop of a hat. I think he has done extensive research on us because the conversation I had with him was tailored to test my ability to read between the lines. And If I read his smile correctly, I passed."
"What are we dealing with Rob?"
"... I don`t know. How did the tests with the two Ravens go?"
Cyborg sighed ."They are identical. Blood work, MRI, X-ray, fingerprints, irises and they both have really ticklish feet."
"How is that possible... Clone?"
"No. There are no artifacts in her DNA that would suggest a clone. They are both Raven."
Robin looked at Danny and mumbled. "What are you planning? What is your next move?"
That question was answered in the form of a panicking Beast Boy. "Guys! TV! Remote! Bomb!"
"BB calm down and tell us what is going on."
"I wanted to watch some TV but couldn`t find the remote. So I searched and found it under the couch pillows but it wasn`t a remote, it was a bomb."
"What kind of bomb?" Robin asked.
"This kind!" Beast Boy said as he showed a rectangular bomb in his hand.
Robin and Cyborg went pale. "You brought the bomb with you!? What the hell BB!"
"I didn`t want to! It`s glued to my hand!"
"You wear gloves! Take off your glove you idiot!"
Beast Boy removed his glove and gave the bomb to Robin. "Here you go."
Robin took no time and sprinted into the interrogation room where Danny was. "What is this?!"
Danny grinned. "It looks like a bom..."
"No! Fun time is over! You will tell me all about this bomb or else I`ll break your fingers."
"Robin? Why are you suddenly so violent?"
"Your bomb has the number four on it. There are three other bombs aren't there."
"Yep. You have an hour before they`ll activate."
"What is the twist? It can`t be this strait forward."
Danny chuckled. "You are correct. When they activate they won`t explode, they`ll start a random number generator that will determine when the bomb should go of. It could be today or tomorrow or even over ten years. You`ll never know."
Robin left the interrogation room and started to give orders to the Titans. "Beast Boy, You and Cyborg are going to find the bombs. Starfire already is guarding the Ravens so when you come across her tell her to stay where she is." Robin started to walk away.
"Rob, what are you going to do?"
Robin stood still for a moment and turned to look his friend in the eye. "I`m going to pack our gear and essentials. He won this round."
"What do you mean he won? I`m not going to let our tower explode!" Cyborg said.
"Then find the bombs."
/ 45 minutes later in the Titan living room.
"Damn it BB! We need to find the last one!"
"I`m trying! But I can't smell it."
"Well smell harder! We`ve got bomb one, two and four. We need to find three."
Starfire was ordered to bring the Ravens to the living room "Have you checked the fridge? If I lost something I would look in the fridge."
"Yes starfire. We`ve looked in the fridge. We have looked everywhere but we can`t find the bomb."
Robin and Danny dragged the last few bags into the living room. "There we go. Glad I could help Rob." Danny said.
"Shut up. You know why I`m letting you help don`t you?"
"Yep. And it is pretty clever but it isn`t going to work."
Robin sighed. "Well team. I`ve got everything we`ll need packed and booked a room in a hotel. We`re leaving."
"What!?" The Titans exclaimed.
"Robin, you can`t be serious. All we have to do is find the last bomb." Cyborg said.
"The third bomb probably doesn`t even exist." Robin said.
...
"Huh?"
"Why else would he number his bombs. He put the number four bomb in a place where it would be easy to find and put the other bombs at locations harder to find so we would waste time searching for the third bomb."
"What?"
"But we didn`t waste time. We found the real bombs and already have our bags packed."
"Oke... That sentence makes no sense. Why would we need to pack if the third bomb doesn`t exist?"
"Because it probably doesn`t exist. I am not going to risk your lives on a theory, so we are leaving."
"Just like that? We are leaving our home this easily?"
This time Robin grinned. "No. I have one final trick. Raven I let Danny in your room to pack your stuff. Your clothes, your privet things and your underwear."
Danny suddenly got a look of horror on his face. "Dude! I told you that that wasn`t going to work. I need to run before..."
"You where in my room?"
"You touched my underwear?"
"Oh crap." Danny didn`t even flee as his impending doom in the form of two Ravens came crashing down on him.
As Cyborg looked at the carnage that was the punishment for entering Raven`s room multiplied by two he felt a pang of empathy. "Rob, was that necessary?"
"Yes. It was a test to find the real Raven. The Raven that is most angered would be the real Raven."
"The look evenly pissed."
"Yes. The test failed but somehow it still feels rewarding."
"You do realize that he`s going to get revenge on you for this."
"I know but it is worth it."
/ Back to the present.
"It was not worth it." Robin said to himself as he remembered all the things Danny had done to them after they left the Tower.
"Rob, Should I pack our stuff and go find a nice motel?"
"Yeah Cy, If you would be so kind."
"Any idea how we are going to fix this mess?"
"I don`t know Cy. I really don`t. There is just nothing to work with. When I send the justice league a picture of Danny they told me they couldn`t help us. This guy just has everything figured out."
"Well at least we found a way to cripple the fake Raven`s magical powers as soon as we know which one is fake."
"Yeah, the problem is that we don`t know which one is fake and we really don`t want to hit our Raven with this suppression spell." Robin held a piece of paper in his hand. "Both Ravens told us that this thing would hurt like hell."
"Too bad. I`ll be packing our luggage. Enjoy the rest of your breakfast."
"Thanks Cy." Robin felt defeated. Never before had he felt this form of defeat, It wasn`t that he lost it was that he never won. Right before him lay his enemy being strangled by Starfire but it was a futile fight. If only he made a mistake, just one mistake then Robin would show this bastard what he was made of.
Robin sighed, he`s been doing that a lot lately. As he looked at the two Ravens that were sipping tea he had to wonder for one last time how? How did Danny get this Raven. How could this Raven be identical to our Raven. How do I solve this?
And then he saw it. A mistake. A flaw. A tiny difference that you wouldn`t see coming. It was not a mistake of Danny it was a mistake of Raven.
"She`s been doing that for years." Robin said.
With a burst of speed Robin jumped over the table and practically punched the suppression spell onto a Raven`s head. "Found you!"
On the ground Danny was released by a startled Starfire. As he saw Raven her power being sealed he knew what had happened. "Shit. Didn`t think of that."