Raven is standing in the middle of the burning Jump city looking for her friends. She had been trying to make sense of everything that is happening around her. She finally came across her friends; all of them have been crucified on a burning cross all with defeated looks, Peter weakly looks up at her.

"Raven why did you do this? I thought we were your friends?" asked Spider-man weakly.

"Peter! Hold on I'll get you out of there." When she got too close the five crosses ingenerated her friends, leaving Raven all alone, until a giant shadow casted before her.

"Why escape your destiny? It is inevitable." Said the giant beast. Raven then looks up to see her father Trigon, and immediately she backs away from him, as if she was trying to run away from him. She attempts to run away, only a giant red sphere emerging and engulfing. "This is your destiny, you will help open the gates of hell."

Raven shoots up from her bed panting as if she just ran a marathon. She had been repeatedly telling herself that it is all a dream. She walks out to the leaving and she sees a banner that says happy birthday, a birthday cake and a bunch of presents lying around.

"HAPPY BIRTHDAY!" shouted the rest of the titans as they threw confetti around wearing birthday hats.

"What is this?" asked Raven with a confused and annoyed look on her face.

"Well I since I knew nothing about you like when your birthday was, so I looked into your files and found out it was today and told everyone." Said Beast-boy.

"Yes we have been preparing the day of your birth." Said Starfire

"I baked my famous eight layered cake with three kinds of frosting." Said Cyborg.

"I had assembled a traditional Tamaranian Throknar, the crown of meat" Starfire then pulls out the crown of meat presenting it to Raven who backs off just a bit.

"I hope this is ok we just..." said Robin before he was cut off by Raven.

"No it is not ok. Look I really appreciate what you are trying to do here, but I'm not interested." Raven then walks away from the worried Titans.

"Raven there is going to be food music and a strange game that involves pins and a donkey's behind." Said Starfire.

"Raven, I know you don't like fun but today is your birthday and it is suppose to be special." Said Peter as he grabbed onto her arm. She looks down at the ground wishing that they hadn't gone through this much trouble. "Raven you can't end this day without..." she turns around and furiously shouts no causing the decoration and the cake to go flying everywhere. Peter goes after wondering what is going on with her.

"Raven what's wrong?"

"I just don't like parties."

"It's more than that, I can tell."

"There are things in my mind and my past that no one should ever go through."

"I can relate."

"No you can't."

"Yeas I can I've seen the worst of what society has to offer, I have seen things that can scar almost anyone, so you can tell me."

"Trust me if you knew anything about the day of my birth you would know bad things is supposed to happen." Raven walks into leaving a confused Peter standing there.

Meanwhile at the site where the Titans defeated Slade awhile back before first Spider-man appeared, Slade teleports on the spot taking a look around the area. "So it begins." Dr. Doom contacts him via magic, "You know what to do?"

"Yeah I'm going to have some fun with them first."

"Fine but make sure they get the message." Doom then cancels the spell and leaves Slade to do whatever he wants.

Back in Raven's room, Raven is sitting on her bed in front of a clock, watching it slowly ticks away. She starts to get annoyed at how slow time is going. She then decides to meditate to pass time. As she meditates, her room gets engulfed in flames making it hard for her to breath.

"Whatever you had concealed, you shall become, you have no other choice. Your destiny shall be fulfilled. THE PORTAL MUST BE OPENED." Said an ominous voice as the fire formed an insignia.

"NO" She quickly gets out of meditation; she looks around the room and sees nothing has changed. There was a knock on her door, and when she opened the door Peter was standing in front of her.

"I heard you scream." The alarm goes off and both of them raced to the jet to see what was going on. The Titans arrive at a factory where there had been reported that there was an intruder.

"So who do you think it is? Mad Mod? Killer Moth? Gizmo?" asked Cyborg.

"Don't know, it just there was an intruder." Said Robin, as they were walking Robin stops mid-track and stood in fear. "No it can't be."

"It's been a long time hasn't Titans? A month? A year? A millennium? Far too long for my tastes, I was beginning to think I would never see your smiling faces again. And it seems that you guys have a new member, Spider-man I believe is your name." asked Slade.

"H...how do you know my name?"

"I've been keeping my eye on you for quite some time, in fact who did you think hired Deadpool?"

"How d..did you survive?" asked Cyborg who like the rest of the Titans were shocked to see Slade standing there.

"Terra took you down, way down." Said Beast boy.

"Slade I don't know where you've been, but you shouldn't have come back, I'm still ready." Said Robin. The insignia that appeared in Raven's room, started to glow on Slade's forehead.

"That's precious Robin, but I didn't come back for you." Slade fires a massive fire blast and the Titans, they moved out the way. The Fire follows Raven and she vanishes just in time before the fire hit her. He fires again at the other Titans who once again dodges, "Had one of those days where you are happy to be alive?"

"Duuuuuude." Said Beast-boy in awe.

"Yeah since when could Slade do that?" asked Cyborg. Slade leaps down to the bottom floor and standing in front of the Titans.

"Not sure, but we'll take him out, Titans GO!" Starfire and Cyborg both fire away at Slade, but he creates a fire barrier blocking their attack. Robin throws a batarang that encased Slade in ice. He appeared defeated but he breaks out as if it was nothing. Raven uses her magic to levitate the ice shards and fire at him, but he dodges it with ease. Spider-man shoots a webline down at the ground yanking a huge chunk of rock and throws at him, but Slade again dodges it with ease. Beast-boy turns into a gorilla and leaps into the air hoping to land on him, Slade moves out the away and Starfire shoots her starbolts at him, only for Slade to catch it fire back at her, she attempts to catch it but it was too much for her. Cyborg lifts a huge machine component and swings at Slade, Slade heats up and burns through it

"Woah." Said Cyborg who was in shock.

"What no clever comment? I was so looking forward to it." Cyborg charges at Slade and throws an uppercut. Slade dodges to the left and flicks his face sending him flying colliding against Raven. Spider-man comes swinging from behind to cannonball kick him, Slade turns around and clothesline him sending him hard to the ground.

"Ow that idea played out so much better in my head." Said Spider-man to himself. Slade grabs his throat and lifts him in the air.

"Spider-man I don't know why he wants you alive, but quite frankly I'd rather crush your tiny neck with my own bare hand." As Spider-man was gasping for air, Beast-boy who had transformed into a raven, flies towards him to save Spider-man, Slade lets him go and jumps into the air, dodging Beast-boy who later transformed into a triceratops. Beast-boy charges at him, Slade instead of dodging, touches the ground burning the ground in front of him, causes Beast-boy to fall. Robin comes swinging from behind throws an explosive batarang, which he dodges, and swings his staff at him, which he again dodges and disappears. He looks all over the place, he looks and sees him standing holding a pipe covered in fire. The swinging their weapons at one another, but the heat proved too much for Robin's staff, so it breaks in half.

"Take my advice, don't play with fire." He smacks Robin sending flying down to the ground. "It's really been nice seeing you again." Slade then looks down and sees Raven taking care of Cyborg.

"I just want this day to end." Said Raven

"I think we both know this day is far from over." Raven looks at him with sheer fear on her face, "hello birthday girl ready for your present?" Raven uses her magic to a giant claw smacking Slade into a wall. She flies up to see if Slade was down for the count; she lets out a sigh of relief, until Slade emerges from the wreckage levitating in front of her.

"I have a message for you and Spider-man." Raven prepares to attack but Slade grabs her arms, burning a symbol on her arm, "It has begun." Slade then fires lightning all over the place causing everything to crumble. Everyone except for Spider-man slowly had gotten up from their attack and starts to move all over the place making sure they don't get by the falling debris. A huge piece of machinery brakes off and is rolling towards a still unconscious Spider-man, Raven seeing this, uses her magic to stop everything, causing everything around her to stop. Raven looks around to see if everything was all right and then Slade starts to move.

"You maybe able to stop time birthday girl, but you can't stop me, well you can't really stop any of this. I gotta say when I found out the truth, I was really impressed. All this time I had no idea the power lurking inside you. The glories destiny that awaits you, its always the quiet ones isn't it?" taunted Slade. Raven backs into a wall covering her ears not wanting to hear Slade talking, as he approaches her, she runs into another wall, "You think you can blow out all the candles and wish it all away? No matter what you do there is nothing, you can do, to stop it." She phases through the wall flies towards Spider-man, him from the time spell, and healing his injuries so he could wake up. He wakes up looking around everything all confused and Raven then teleports them both out of there.

They both teleported onto the middle of Jump city, and Spider-man falls on his stomach while Raven lands on her feet. "Ok seriously could you stop teleporting me everywhere? You know how much I hate it."

"Sorry but we had to get out of there."

"What is going on? Why is Slade back? How did he get his powers? And most importantly who is Slade?"

"Think of him as our arch nemesis, and I'm not sure how he did this." Raven looks at her arm seeing the insignia disappear. "I never wanted this day to come, and when it did I just wanted to stop, I guess I got my wish."

"What's happening?"

"Its my birthday." Slade jumps down from a building, and confronts the two of them.

"Seriously want do you want from her?"

"Not just her, the both of you."

"What?" asked Raven

"Yeah what she said."

"I've come to send you both a message. As to Raven I know why she is needed, but you Spider-man I don't know why my master wants you as well." Raven looks at Spider-man with concern.

"Well we're not interested in your master's message so leave us alone."

"There's no reason to run away from your destiny."

"We can sure as hell try." Raven uses her magic to yank the ground and sandwiching Slade with two large pieces of concrete. He pushes both of them to the side, and Spider-man then unleashes a flurry of punches and kicks at Slade, who seemed to be not affected by the attack. Slade then grabs one of Spider-man's punches, draws him closer and punches him square in the face. Spider-man, while he was on the ground, shoots his webs at Slade's feet, making sure he doesn't dodge a flying car thrown by Raven with her magic. It hits him and sends him crashing to a wall, Spider-man and Raven take this opportunity to run so they can think catch moment to breath and strategize what to do next. They flee to the roof of a building as they look around Raven looks at Spider-man with a worried face.

"What's wrong?" asked Spider-man.

"Its nothing."

"No its not. Raven what is going on? Why is Slade after you?"

"Its nothing."

"Raven why don't you want to tell me? Afraid that your deep dark secret won't be so deep dark secret?"

"Spider-man, do you know what it is like to have your entire future be decided before your birth?"

"Uhhh no why you ask?"

"Well before I was born, it was prophesized that I would be the one to let a powerful demon known as Trigon into this dimension."

"I heard of him, Doctor Strange said something about Trigon being the three demon lords, but then again I don't really pay attention to what he says. Wait you're going to let that powerful demon?"

" Yeah I have no choice, it is my destiny."

"Raven I never thought I would ever say to this to a magical being, but you shouldn't let some prophecy dictate your life. You should be able to live out the life you what to live."

"I would like to believe that, but everything that has happened."

"Don't worry Raven me and the other Titans will be there for you, we are your friends."

"How touching." Said Slade from behind, "Never realized how close you guys are."

"Slade why don't you just go back to your coffin and play dead permanently..." both Raven and Slade just give Spider-man a quizzical look, "sounded so much cooler in my head." Spider-man shot a web at Slade's face and both Raven and Spider-man made a run for it to where ever. Slade gave chase after them and was gaining fast; Spider-man looks back at him and realizes that there is no way they were going to out run him.

"Raven you go on ahead, I am going to slow him down."

"But he is way too strong for you to handle."

"Don't worry I'm the spectacular Spider-man and besides I want to know how am I involved in all of this." Raven silently lets him go fight Slade and just flew on. Spider-man turns around and shoots his web at Slade yanked towards him in mid-air and kicks him square in the chest sending him crashing down to the ground creating a small crater. Spider-man safely lands on his two feet, walking slowly to the crater, out came Slade barely scratched from the attack.

"Slade I have to know, how am I a part of any of this satanic ritual?"

"Well Spider-man what is the point of calling something a secret if I were to tell everyone." Spider-man annoyed at his remark, and was also annoyed at how he got annoyed at something he is well known at doing. Spider-man charges at him and starts to punch and kick uncontrollably and even though he was landing all of those attacks, it didn't seem to faze him. In fact there wasn't a bruise or a small cut."

"Come on, you have to feel something, you are human after all."

"Let me put this way Spider-man, when the Titans took me down, they took me down to hell."

"What that means your dead? Oh my god I've been touching all of your dead, rotting skin."

"I'm not a zombie, lets just say I traded my humanity to a higher being." Slade then smacks him across the face, and takes him down and repeatedly punches him until Spider-man loses consciousness; Slade then floats in the air and chases after Raven.

Raven kept flying as far as she could since Spider-man went back to fight Slade, she decided to take a min or two to take a breather and think of what to do next. Much to her horror she sees Slade flying at her: without hesitating she flees once again. Raven then uses her magic to close the gap between two buildings that she pass so the passage to her would be sealed off. Slade flies right through the building and tackles her down.

"The message will be delivered, your destiny shall be fulfilled."

"NOOOOOOO!" roared Raven as red beams of light came out of her eyes, and parts of clothes get ripped off to reveal more insignias on her body. The sun and the moon goes flying by, and her hair grows in what should take months instead takes seconds. She kneels down trying to conceal her body, she looks around her and sees the sky turned blood red, buildings burned and destroyed, the sea becomes lava, the T-Tower destroyed, slowly sinking into the bottom of a pool of lava, and in front of are the bodies of her fallen friends.

"Look at it, drink it in, behold the world the world you are destined to create." On the horizon there was large crimson demon roaring as he destroys everything in sight.

"No, I won't do it, this can't be real, and this is only a illusion."

"This is the future, your future, it began the moment you were born, and nothing can stop it. This will come to pass, my partner and I will make sure of it. You're going to destroy the world Raven, it is written all over your face."

"NOOOOOO." Screamed Raven as all eyes flashed black and white emitting a huge black raven to the sky, reverting everything back to normal. The man walking his dog, the couple that were walking side by side, and the pigeons continues to move along as if nothing had happened."

"We'll be in touch, oh and happy birthday." Said Slade disappears who let the unconscious Raven fall from down from the building they were standing, and Spider-man appears out of nowhere swinging to her rescue landing on top of a building. She wakes up to see herself in the arms of Spider-man.

"Lets go home," said Spider-man, he then lifted her unto his back and swung back to the Titans.

Later that night Raven was in her room, cutting her hair back to the length, she hears a loud thud outside of her room. She walks out of her room wondewring what the noise was and sees arrows that seemed to be leading her somewhere. Curious she follows it all the way to the living room where the lights turn on and the confetti started to fall down.

"Uh, surprise!" said Beast-boy.

"Look I know you didn't want a party, but after today..."said Cyborg.

"We hope you would like to reconsider." Said Starfire.

"You may not like your birthday but we are all glad you were born." Said Beast-boy

Raven looks around, thinking about what to do next, "We're going to need ice cream." Everyone's' eyes lit up; Beast-boy goes for the ice-cream, the Cyborg goes to cut the cake, Starfire and Robin goes get a Tamaranian treat.

"Your sure you're okay?" asked the worried Peter.

"I will be."

"When you told about your destiny that something was supposed to happen, it already did."

"No one could."

"We will find a way to stop your destiny."

"Thanks Peter..."

"No problem, but for now lets just celebrate your birthday." Raven just smiles to Peter as they both eat the food, and tell stories about their past adventures.

Slade returns in his cool and calm matter to where both he and Dr. Doom meet to discuss future plans. "Were you successful?" asked Dr. Doom

"Yes I was for the most part, I still don't understand Spider-man's role in all of this."

"Do not worry, in due time his usefulness will come until then, I think I will toy with him a bit."

"You're going to attack the Titans."

"Fool brilliant strategists are those who do not confront the enemy without a purpose."

"So what will you do?"

"I'm going to bring back a ghost of Spider-man's past, and introduce him his new partner..."