14- Paranoia
In the autopsy lab in the Tower, Robin and Kid Flash has been studying the body of Private HIVE, who mysteriously died in his cell. Kid Flash was looking through a small telescope as he inspects the celluloid agent while Robin inspects the body.
"This doesn't make sense." Robin said rubbing his chin "How was he killed? Did he did it to himself?"
"Quite possibly, until I found something strange in his cells." Kid Flash replied "I spotted a foreign agent in his blood. Some kind of toxin that stopped the brain activity in Private HIVE's mind and stopped his heart. Did we ever get a name on him?"
"No, he's a John Doe. No DNA matching, no fingerprints, almost as if he didn't exist." Robin said, remembering doing research on the HIVE soldier through the civilian accounts but nothing pops up. Almost as if the soldier was never born in his theory. He then starts to wonder who killed him 'Could it be a HIVE agent that snuck in? A cop? Or maybe…a rogue hero?'
Kori Anders is making out with Xavier on the sofa. Xavier's hand was on her waist, they were getting intimate then they land their bodies kissing passionately until he heard the door opening and the teens quickly sit up. Adrian Chase enters the house.
Adrian Chase notice that the two were making out. "Heh. You kids needs to calm down before you go to third base." said the cop.
"Adrian!?" shouted Xavier with a strong level of blush.
"It's good to use protection, kid." said Adrian. "You don't want to end up being a young father."
"Alright Adrian, can you stop please." Adrian pleaded, his face was now fully red.
"Ok, Ok." said Adrian. Adrian leaves the room to go to the kitchen.
"I'm sorry Kori." said Xavier. "You know how my stepdad could be when it comes to-"
"Oh, it's all right, Xavier. I was most please with your stepdad Adrian teaching more of us the meaning of love and sex in human culture." said Kori.
Adrian smiled. "Yeah, my dad sure loves culture." Adrian goes to the kitchen and offers Kori a drink which she said yes. Xavier got a class and pour lucozade for her, to be honest he don't know if lucozade could have an effect on her but he thinks it won't bother her since her physiology is superior to humans anyway. Xavier saw his dad washing the plates, he went up to him. "Should I tell her." the boy whispered to his stepfather.
"Not yet." the stepdad replied back. Xavier nodded and went back to the lounge with Kori.
Meanwhile..
Beast Boy, Wonder Girl, Terra, Cyborg and Jericho were all enjoying some pizza at the Pizzeria.
"I love me some, Pizza." said Terra. Both Cyborg and Jericho agree with her by nodding. Terra was eating a meat-feast pizza which disturb her boyfriend, Cyborg was eating the super-meat special (pepperoni, meat and chicken), Jericho had a napoli pizza with anchovies, BB had a veggie pizza and Donna had a hawaiian paradise pizza.
"Terra, you should try this." said BB. By showing a slice of his veggie pizza to Terra.
"No, thanks BB I'm fine." said Terra. Beast Boy's ears was down because she rejected his offer but he can't force her to eat it. Cyborg saw this and ready to start a war.
"BB, you can't have your veggie pizza to turn her into a vegan like you. Terra loves the meat, right?" smirked Cyborg.
"Yep." Terra responded while eating her meat-feast pizza.
"Terra, your suppose to be on my side?" BB whined.
"Well, I guess she chosen the right side." said Cyborg.
"You chose the wrong side." said BB to Terra in a mock serious tone.
"I can do this all day." Terra laughed.
The Titans heard a rumble below the pizzeria. They all got up from their seats and looked down below they saw three of their enemies wrecking havoc and stealing money from the Bank of Perez. Mumbo, Mad Mod and Andre Le Blanc carry dozens of bags, they throw the bags inside Mad Mod's van and drive off.
"Alright, Titans lets go." said Wonder Girl.
"Can we stay here for five minutes." Cyborg whined because he wants to eat his meat-feast pizza.
"Cyborg." said Donna with a mild cross tone.
"Alright." said Cyborg in defeat. The Titans jumped off from the pizzeria and fly under their own power with Donna flying unaided, Terra using the rocks for transportation with Jericho standing behind Terra on her animating rock, Beast Boy morphs into a peregrine falcon and Cyborg calls forth his new invention, the T-Disc. The T-Disc was a circular hoverdisc made for Cyborg for quick transportation incases he doesn't have his T-Car with him.
"Nice, can you make me one of those disc thingies." said Beast Boy with glee.
"Beast Boy, you can fly." said Donna.
"Hey, sometimes my arms hurt when I'm in bird mode." BB replied.
Mad Mod spotted the Titans by looking at his car mirror, "Bullocks, it's the Scooby Doo gang." said the villainous gentlemen. Mad Mod ask Mumbo to shoot them with his wand, which the blue-skinned magician did by using his wand to zap at BB's bird form.
BB's bird form screeched from the blast, and returns to normal form he was falling down until Donna grabs him in a bridal position. "My Hero." said BB acting like a damsel-in-distress.
"Do you want me to drop you?" said Donna with a monotone almost rivaling Raven.
"Um...No thank you." said BB.
"They're catching on to us!" shouted Andre Le Blanc. Mad Mod was driving furiously like he's in a motor race, he push some cars away with his english van. He pressed a red button which releases some railgun for both Andre and Mumbo to use.
"Don't need them, I got magic." said Mumbo.
"Magic doesn't always solve our problems!" shouted Andre. Mumbo took one of the railgun and begins to shoot at the titans, the titans dodged successfully moving with grace like they did when they practice training.
"Yo, Terra, Strategy 1-E." said Cyborg.
Terra nodded. She uses her geokinesis to launch small rocks and move it next to Cyborg's T-Disc, the small rocks went inside the core of his disc, and it absorbing the earthen objects as fuel to increase more energy for his T-Disc. Cyborg moved fast like a bulldozer, he employ his white sound cannon and shoot the van's engine thus stoping the vehicle.
"Are you kidding me!?'" shouted Mad Mod in disbelieve. Mad Mod grabbed his staff to shoot at Cyborg but he was knocked out by a huge slab of mud.
"Your welcome." said Terra.
"Good job, Terra." said Donna
"Yeah, you rock." said BB. "You get it, rock." BB laughed nervously, "So you guys really are going to leave me hanging?".
"All right, both Cyborg and I will take them to the police. You guys go back to the Tower or do what you wanna do." said Donna. Both of the older titans left with the captured villains wrapped in Cyborg's T-Net, he has to create something with a 'T' on it like.
"So what should we do." said Jericho
"We..coul..u-um..go back to the tower." said Terra.
"Fine by me." said BB. The Three heroes went back to Titans Tower and find something to do inside their headquarters.
"So who do you think did it?" Kid Flash asked. He and Robin are looking through profiles of many criminals they've faced. "You think it's Cheshire?"
"Cheshire may be sneaky with that cloaking belt of hers but Cyborg has updated an alarm just in case an enemy with a cloaking device breaks in." Robin said as he looks over at the possible suspects. "Ravager is a possible suspect."
"Yeah but why would she kill Private HIVE? Isn't she a hired merc for HIVE?" Kid Flash points out.
"HIVE could very well send out those to kill one of their own." Robin counters. "There are others like Fang, Kitten, maybe Red-X, also there's Shimmer, and Jinx."
Kid Flash chokes as he turns to Robin "There's no way Jinx could've done it."
"And why not?" Robin asked.
"Well…I don't think she's a killer." Kid Flash said hiding his light blush.
Ignoring the blush Robin turns to check on more files "Well maybe it's not just villains. It could be heroes." he said.
"Rob, where are you getting at?" Kid Flash asked.
"I just have a hunch that it could be one of our own." Robin said pulling up holographic images of Beast Boy, Raven, Terra, and Jericho.
"Whoa dude, I don't know why you're being suspicious of our friends but I'm leaving." Kid Flash said getting up.
"Wally, let me explai-" Robin didn't get to finish. The speedster ran off in a rush much to the boy wonder's frustration.
The Titans like Jericho, Beast Boy, and Terra all return to their rooms. Once Jericho reaches down to his room he shuts the door and lay on his bed. He picks up a photo from his shirt sleeve as he looks at the photo. It was a family that shows a white haired man with a blond woman, and three kids, two boys and a girl. The younger boy in the photo was none other than Jericho as the mute boy sigh.
An hour later, Raven arrives home by using her magical portals for quick transportation, as she went to the common room only to find the couple, the geomancer and the changeling making out on the couch. The Dark sorceress turn back so she could just go to her room, she saw a yellow-red blur obviously Kid Flash who ran up to the kitchen to make a meat sub, he find the couple on the couch and was making kissy sounds behind their back.
Beast Boy's left ear picked up KF's bodily movements but he was too busy with her elemental princess. "Mwah, Mwah." said KF quietly. Three titans came by and saw KF playing with their relationship, all three decide to tease the two. "Yeah BB, get in there." said Cyborg in a quiet and teasing voice.
"Is the how you two kiss, you must wrestle your tongues." said Wonder Girl quietly. She may be the leader of the titans but it doesn't mean she can't have fun too.
"Woop! Woop!" Starfire hollered quietly. It is a native tamaranean word for 'yes'.
Robin arrives and he saw the three titans teasing BB and Terra's relationship behind there backs but Robin being Robin announces his further discovery of the deceased Private HIVE. "Team, I need to announce something very important." said Robin.
"Titans!" the masked boy shouted so the five titans stop behaving like children to him and act like teammates to him. For Robin this is a serious matter because both he and KF were using various scientific appliances and analysis to find more about Private HIVE's dead body.
"Today, both KF and I were researching and finding more content of Private HIVE's body although it seems that it looks like he was killed by conventional means but what I found here were chemicals, nanobots and broken cells inside his body. He reveals numerous pictures of his dead body, nanoscopic probes, destroyed organs, his blood cells slightly hardened and differently coloured organs like it's been ten days old.
The Titans gasped who would do something like this to Private HIVE, sure his military attitude get on their damn nerves but they never expect HIVE or any other to kill him such a torturing way. "Damn, that's disgusting. Robin! Could you please tell us before you send autospies of Private HIVE!?" shouted Cyborg to Robin in disgust, the half-robot felt like he's going to vomit.
"So why are you telling us now what we already know?" said Beast Boy. The Boy Wonder glance his eyes at Beast Boy slightly suspecting he could be the one to kill their former enemy.
"Why am I telling you guys know is that we may have a killer or traitor within our team." said Robin.
"Huh?" said both Starfire and Wonder Girl.
"What!" shouted the boys.
"Impossible! No titan would ever kill someone, life is precious!" Starfire ranted. Robin looked at Starfire, analyzing her words about 'life is precious' and 'no titan would kill', he don't know if he's right or wrong about her but he mostly likely be wrong because of a certain individual he knows informed him about Starfire and her species.
"I know it seems like its impossible but it is possible that someone would commit a crime to kill." said Robin. "I was doing further research of the incident, and I have a theory that there are five suspects in this tower right now who potentially is the mastermind of killing Private HIVE."
"Then who is it!?" shouted Cyborg.
Robin looked at Kid Flash but the speedster slowly stepped away not wanting to be a part of it, so Robin is all by himself to announce who are the possible suspects. "The possible suspects are you, Beast Boy, Raven, Terra and Jericho." said Robin with his signature detective voice.
"What!?" shouted Beast Boy in disbelieved.
"Are you serious!?" shouted Terra who was also in disbelieved too.
"Come on man, this must be a joke!" shouted Cyborg. The cybernetic titan came put to the young detective's face.
"I am not making any false judgments." said Robin.
Cyborg growled with rage so much that he subconsciously raised his transformed hand into a white sound cannon ready to blast at Robin. Robin bring out three of his disc, all three secretly coated inside with xenothium. He didn't tell anybody but he got some spare tools filled inside with the unstable powerful compound incase he's in danger or worse.
"All right, calm down guys." said Terra.
"Stay out of this Terra!" said Cyborg with boiling rage.
"Yeah dudes, no need to kill each other." said Beast Boy.
"Funny, how your the one who almost killed someone in cold bold." Robin replied harshly.
"Since when!?" Beast Boy responded with a hint of anger.
"You almost beat Private HIVE to death, remember." said Robin as he steps a little bit closer to the changeling. "And before that you had beaten Dr. Light to a bloody pulp, and let's not forget about the were-" Robin was cut of by the changeling with his green finger pointing at his chest, his eyes shows that he's ready to strike his prey.
"Listen up birdbrain, Yes I almost did beat Private HIVE to death because of the lazarus pits revived me, and it leaves some aftereffects which causes my rage to boil up occasionally but it's slowly fading away. I beaten Dr. Light to a bloody pulp because of the beast inside me and one of our friends I deeply cared about was getting ready to be fried by that megalomanic lunatic, and the beast was activated due to the chemicals altering my already altered DNA." said the changeling with a serious tone of voice, which surprises everyone standing in this room even Robin.
Robin heard what the changeling said, but he tries to think to back up his argument. "But that doesn't say that you were with Terra at the funfair." said the detective with an almost serious tone.
"Sure, Private HIVE was there but we didn't killed him. He was dead couple days ago after we captured him." said Beast Boy.
Beast Boy does have a point, Private HIVE was captured before he died and he's only getting his responses from Beast Boy, just Beast Boy only so on second thought where's the other titan who was with him. "Terra." Robin asked.
"Huh?" said a confused Beast Boy.
"Terra. Where was she after you guys captured Private HIVE?" said Robin.
"She went back to her room." said BB.
"Robin, please don't tell me you think Terra was the one who killed Private HIVE." said Wonder Girl.
"No, but she could be a possible suspect." said Robin. "On second thought, where is she now?"
"She's in her room, I think." said Wonder Girl. "Kid, can you call her for me."
Kid Flash runs at fast speed and went straight to Terra's door, he knocked twenty times quickly to grab her attention. "TerraTerraTerraTerraTerraTerraTerraTerraTerraTerra." said KF repeatedly.
The door opened revealing the blonde girl. "Yes, Kid Flash." said Terra, her eyes were a bit droopy.
"The Titans would like you to come to the common room immediately." said Terra.
"Tell them I will be-" Terra was stopped by Kid Flash's carrying her into a bridal position.
"Back in a flash!" said KF. Both KF and Terra were now in the common room.
"Terra, where were you before and after the death of Private HIVE?" said Robin in detective mode. He showed pictures of Private HIVE's corpses, it made the geomancer wanted to puke after seeing pictures of the lifeless body of the former solider.
The Geomancer get herself together and reply to the boy wonder . "Well for the before part, I was in Markova and stayed for two days and for the after part, I went to bed." said Terra.
"You went to bed?" Robin responded with some uncertainty of Terra's response.
"Uh..Yes." said a confused Terra.
"Why did you went to bed?" said Robin pushing the topic a little bit further.
"Because I was tired." Terra responded.
"You were tired?" said Robin, the detective was walking around left to right like an old-school detective. "Well, why your eyes are baggy seems to me you had a wonderful sleep. Is it because you killed Private HIVE while the rest of us were sleeping."
"No!" said Terra in disbelieved. "Why did you think i'm the one who killed Private HIVE!?"
"You was with BB when you encountered him, and you two were the only ones he last saw before his death." said Robin.
"I didn't killed him!" Terra shouted slightly at Robin. "Why did you think I was the one who killed him, is it because I'm the recent member of your group and you think it was me!?"
"She gotta point. Robin." said KF. Both Cyborg and a smiling Beast Boy nodded in agreement.
"Her and the rest of the five titans are possible suspects." said Robin.
"Wait, five titans...suspects?" said Terra. "So, who are the other three beside Beast Boy and I?" said Terra, she knows that Beast Boy was obviously in Robin's suspicion list.
"The other three are Cyborg-" said Robin but Cyborg cut him off.
"Hey! I didn't kill him man!" shouted Cyborg in frustration.
But the redbird carried on talking to Terra. "-Jericho and Raven." Robin finished. Terra's eye popped out when he mentions both the last two titans' names, the last two who are not her in this room right now.
"Can I ask you a couple of question, Detective Birdlock." said Terra with a bit of sass.
"You may." said Robin with a small tint of annoyance.
"Number one, How comes Wonder Girl, Kid Flash and Starfire are not suspects?." said Terra. "Private HIVE was killed by means that I don't have the skill nor ability to do, and number three, where are the missing titans, should they be here also?"
"Kid." said Donna. The speedster doesn't need to say what his leader said so he runs to grab the other titans into the room, he quickly came back to the room holding a sleeping Jericho.
Robin glanced at the sleeping Jericho, thinking that he's faking it or maybe Robin is going a little bit paranoid but paranoid has always been a valuable tool for him to expect the unexpected.
"Kid, where Raven?" said Wonder Girl.
"Don't wanna go there, Don. Her room must be contained with dark magic and shit." said the speedster. He has not been a fan of magic, mystically-inclined members always gives him shivers because truthfully he doesn't understand the exotic nature of magic, he has always been one with science he understood his extradimensional powers, the speed force, through science but magic is another different level.
"Starfire, do you want to get Raven?" said WG.
"Oh, yes." said Star. She fly outside the meeting room, she saw Raven's door and begins to knock. The door revealed Raven looking bored and annoyed.
"What?" said Raven.
"Friend Raven, we need you to be in the meeting room...it..i-is..umm..important." Starfire slightly stuttered to the empath.
"Star?...What's going on?" said Raven raising her eyes up.
"Come with me, Raven." said Starfire as she grabbed Raven and flew to the meeting room, Raven didn't see the quickness of the alien and she couldn't get out from the alien's meta strength. The two girls were now inside the meeting room, so all of the titans was inside the room.
"Alright, good to have you here Raven." said Robin.
"Yeah, good to be here." said Raven with her usual sarcasm.
"Wake-Wakey, Jericho." said KF to the sleeping titan. Jericho worked up from his slumber.
"Jericho and Raven, I know you would not like to here this butt-" said Robin but was interrupted by his fellow titan.
"What is this, is this about Deathstroke again?" said Raven with her usual voice. Robin pretends not to hear Raven say that name.
"No, something worse. We believed that you and-"
"We!?" shouted an incredulous Cyborg.
"Alright, I suspect that it was either you or Jericho who killed Private Hive." said Robin.
"Excuse me." said Raven with her usual voice.
"Excuse me, seriously?" said Terra quietly.
Jericho was shocked thinking that his leader believed that he killed the villianous general even though he has not seen him before. "I have never seen that man in my life." said Jericho.
Both Cyborg and Raven understands sign language. Cyborg assimilated sign language from the computer so he could speak to Jericho so he wouldn't feel alone without his voice and Raven already practice sign language while in Azarath.
"Jericho, said that he has never seen Private HIVE. Which is true because he wasn't there while we had him in our team." said Cyborg. Cyborg made a point about Jericho because he joined the team a little bit shortly before the arrival of Terra.
"Alright, but it doesn't mean he was brainwashed." said Robin. Jericho shows an annoyed expression at Robin. "So far I don't have any info on him, so I'm guess he's safe...for now."
"Really, Robin. You're suppose to be a detective." said an annoyed Jericho.
"He is a bit crazy, Jericho." said Cyborg communicating with Jericho
"Yeah, crimes always worked him up too much." said Raven also communicating with him.
"So Jericho is not a suspect because he haven't seen him before so therefore it leaves to one person." said Terra when she finishes her sentences she was looking at the dark empath.
Raven didn't believe that Robin and possibly other Titans believes that she was the one who killed Private HIVE, would they?
"The last suspect, Raven." said Robin, he was walking left to right while looking at the empath. "You were not here in the tower much lately."
"Yes, I know Sherlock." said Raven wither sarcastic wit.
"It seems how would BB say it, OOC?" said Robin.
"Out of character?" Raven replied, he thinks that she was the one who killed the HIVE member. "What makes you think i was the one who killed him.' she had her arms crossed.
"Well, you weren't here in the tower, and you always going to the libraries a lot. Even though you would rather stay in your room reading your other books for the third time."
"Actually, fifth time. Boy Wonder" Raven corrected with some sassy wit.
"Reading books or repeating any other things makes it seems your hiding something which has been shown by many guilty civilians. Raven, this trick what you did was not new and since your not from Earth you took the easy way to make it seems like your not the one who suspiciously killed HIVE. Remember what you did to our second interaction with Doctor Light where you grabbed him and send him into some portal he even admitted he would go with Beast Boy instead of you." said Robin pushing deep into his thoughts.
"I did not do it." said Raven.
"You did not do it?" said Robin. "Maybe you were controlled by your own powers-" she was interrupted by the dark titan when she come at Robin's face with quick speed that would make KF envied.
"Listen up, birdbrain. I did not killed him." said Robin.
"Takes a birdbrain to know a birdbrain, your using simple tricks to make sure your not the suspect." said Robin. "Beside any of you could be the suspects."
"Wait, hold up. Starfire." said Beast Boy.
"Starfire!?" said both Wonder Girl, Kid Flash, Terra and Cyborg.
"I mean how comes Starfire was not a suspect. Surely, she could be the one who killed Private HIVE. She has the raw power, strength and intensity to kill him." said Beast Boy. "I'm not saying that your a suspect,...just an example." the changeling said to the alien.
"It's not Starfire." said Robin.
"Huh?" said Beast Boy.
"Not me?" said Starfire.
"No, because you wouldn't leave him like that." said Robin.
"Then how did you know that?" question Star.
"Well, let say I have a special green friends who told me about your species." said Robin.
"Wait, you don't mean-" said Cyborg but he was interrupted by the young detective.
"Yes, Green Lantern and Martian Manhunter. They told me about your species, it shows that Tamaraneans would never leave dead bodies but rather burn them to crisp." said Robin.
"...Yes..that's true..Tamaraneans would've burn them all." said a saddened Starfire.
"Also, how comes Wonder Girl and KF were not suspects as well." said Beast Boy.
"Really Beast Boy, Seriously?" said Raven. She knows that the two mentioned members who had plenty years of experience would never turn rogue.
"Ok, fine...but they could be." said Beast Boy while rubbing the back of his head.
"Alright, so we have four suspects now." said Robin, showing a hologram of Beast Boy, Cyborg, Raven and Terra. "I believed they are possible candidates."
"Robin!" shouted Cyborg.
"Great!" said Terra with sarcasm.
"Come on, seriously dude!?" Beast Boy shouted with a mix of anger and whine.
"Good luck, cause it's not me." said Raven, as she leaves the room.
"Raven, where were you during our barbecue or our meeting with Speedy's Titans, you always turned up late so is it you..who-" Terra was interrupted by a Raven with a black fiery aura around her body.
"Listen, Rookie. What I do is none of yo-" this time Raven was interrupted when she heard a small ting from Robin's batarangs preparing to aim at the dark mage.
"Raven, put her down, now!" Robin orders.
"Friends, please don't fight." Star plead but was ignored.
"Fine!" Raven threw Terra towards Robin, causing him to be pushed back and accidentally threw the birdarang at Raven as it explodes in a flash of light. Raven felt blinded by the light as her anger struct. "If that's how you want to play, bird boy? Then so be it!" Raven shouts as she went to demon mode, stretching her body up with her cloak covering her body as her four red eyes glow, and black tendrils sprouting out from under the cloak as it grabs many objects and throws around the room.
"Nice going, bird brain!" Cyborg said as he dodge one of the tendrils.
"Yeah, you've broke the number one house rule." Beast Boy shouts as he transforms into a gorilla and shields himself by grabbing a couch in front of him. "Never make Raven mad."
Wonder Girl and Starfire both tries to calm Raven down, but the empath was too angry to notice as a black tendril swat the two girls both to the walls.
"Friend Raven…please calm down." Star begs.
"At this point, she's not paying attention to reason." Kid Flash zooms in "Yo, Joe. Think you can possess her with your eyes?"
"I need to be in direct eye contact with her, but she needs to be still." Jericho signs.
"Raven, calm down!" Beast Boy shouts as he's change into a sasquach to wrap his arms around her, but Raven turns her head facing him in a 90 degrees angle, her tendrils wrapping around the green arms as it restrains them, forcing Beast Boy to change back to himself but Raven keeps a hold of his arms and without warning…
Snap!
"AAAAAAAHHH!" he screamed, Raven has uncontrollably snaps his arms in the wrong way, breaking his joints and snapping the bones of his forearms.
"Beast Boy!" Terra shouts, as she turns to glare at Raven once the changeling fell onto the floor "This ends now!" Terra shouts as her eyes glow yellow as large stones come in from the window, hitting Raven on the back as the dark titan faltered.
"Raven, stop!" Robin shouts but is then hit by one of her tendrils. It is now proven that Raven is out of control, but then Cyborg points at his cannon at her as he whispered.
"I'm sorry, Rav." he said as he shot his stun cannon towards her, the stun cannon was made to stun enemies who are too dangerous. This was the first time using this kind of setting but he never thought of testing it out on his friend.
Raven screams as she shrank down once the blast hits her. She growled as she turns to her teammates, but then she saw the down Beast Boy with broken arms as Terra held onto him with tears running from her eyes. This cause Raven to stop her rampage after seeing the green Titan injured and seeing his bleeding arms.
"Oh my Azar…" Raven said as she is back to normal, floating towards to Beast Boy "Beast Boy, are you okay?"
"Stay away from him!" Terra shouts at her as Raven backs away.
"Raven, stand down!" Robin orders holding up his birdarang. "I think you've done enough."
Raven felt guilty that she had severely hurt Beast Boy, and the majority of hurting her friends due to her uncontrollable anger. "Fine, treat me as a suspect for all you like." Raven snarled as she turns to Robin "But you know, why haven't you suspected yourself as the culprit, Robin?"
"What's that suppose to mean?" Robin demands.
"Think about it, bird boy. If there was a spy for the Titans it'll be you." she said as she glares at him "You were the one with those contingency plans on us, then you got yourself under Deathstroke's capture and from what I've remembered, he drugged you while his daughter poses as you to make you look like you've betrayed us. You've been Deathstroke's prisoner for two weeks, and from all the times he tortured you, he might've programmed you into being a sleeper agent on us!" she yelled as Robin backs away while her words process into his mind.
"What?" Kid Flash asked. "But Rob's not a spy."
"I would've put passed that." Cyborg grumbled.
"Friend Cyborg, surely you don't think-" Star said but was cut off.
"I'm saying Raven might be right, Robin's paranoia has gotten the better of all of us making us paranoid." he starts to explained "I mean, from all we know Robin could've been a sleeper agent for Deathstroke after we freed him and we don't know anything about it. Beast Boy could've been some doppelgänger posing as him when the real one was already killed by Ravager."
"Not funny, dude." Beast Boy groans in pain.
"I'm not being funny, man. I'm just making a point." Cyborg said as he walks to the door "I don't think I want to stick to a team that has some trust issues and a paranoid bird brain in the house." he said as he left the door.
"Me too." Raven sneered "I think I would be more appreciated at the Tower of Fate." she said as she threw her communicator away as she teleports her way out of the tower, but not secretly shoot a healing spell on Beast Boy's arms.
"Friends please don't leave!" Star cried out seeing two friends disappeared. Then saw Robin walk out "Friend Robin, don't go!"
"I can't even be around you guys since it's not safe." Robin said as he heads out to the door but is stopped by the amazon.
"Robin, you can't just leave for not trusting us." Donna said.
"It's not just you I'm worried about, it's me." Robin said looking down in shame "What if Raven's right? What if I was a sleeper agent and I wasn't aware. I could've hurt you guys worse than what Deathstroke did. For all I know I could still be under his grasp as he pulls the strings. So leaving is the only option here."
"But you can't leave, the team needs you." Wonder Girl said as Jericho nodded.
"No, it doesn't." Robin growled.
"But it's not the Titans without you, dude." Kid Flash states.
"As far as I know, there are no Titans." Robin said as he walks away from the common room, leaving Kid Flash, Wonder Girl, Starfire, Beast Boy, Terra, and Jericho behind.
"I-It can't be." Starfire stuttered with tears in her eyes. "The Titans can't break up like this."
"It won't, Star." Wonder Girl said as she walks up to her "We made a vow to protect Jump City together and we'll stick to it."
"She's right." Terra said as she help Beast Boy up "Just because we lost three doesn't mean we can't protect the city with six. All we need is to rest up, heal, and fight the good fight. Whether it be HIVE, Deathstroke, Dr. Light, Control Freak, or Ravager, we can stand together." she said with her hand up in the air.
"I agree with Terra." Beast Boy said as he couldn't move his hands as he grew a tail and tap over Terra's hand. "We can still hold on our own."
"Agreed, friends." Starfire said as she place her hand over, along with Kid Flash and Wonder Girl.
"What about you, Joe?" Kid Flash asked as Jericho walks up to them, hesitantly placing his hand over the others.
"Now, who wants to clean up this mess?" Wonder Girl asked as the Titans grown.
At the park there lies Raven who is seen at the bench. She didn't have enough energy to teleport to the Tower of Fate as she is too emotional distressed right now. She was laying her head on the bench, crying her tears out as she has her arms under it to cry her eyes out silently. She was sad that not only does her team doesn't trust her now, but her actions in letting her emotions getting out of control caused her to unleash anger and broke Beast Boy's arms and hurt her friends.
"*Sniff* Beast Boy…I'm sorry." she whimpered to herself.
"The dark titan in tears?" spoke a voice that Raven knew too well.
"Go away, Jinx." Raven told the pinkeye.
"You look like you're all alone? Where are your friends?" she asked.
"I left." Raven said as she wipes her tears off.
"Eh!? You quit the Titans?" Jinx asked as she thought of something "So they wouldn't care what happens to you?"
"It's better this way." Raven said as she stands up "Since I'm not a Titan, I don't have to fight or arrest you."
"Hmm, would you live on a life of villainy then?" Jinx asked with a smile.
"No. Right now, I'd rather do nothing." Raven dismisses as she turns around, but Jinx got in her way "Jinx, what are you-?" the empath didn't finish as she felt something sharp on her arm. She look to see a tranquilizer dart shoved by Jinx as Raven felt instantly drowsy. She faltered over but is caught by Jinx.
"Sorry." Jinx said as she swings the empath over her shoulder "Rose's orders." she said as a arcane circle surrounds her as she is teleported out of the area.
Meanwhile, Robin is now jumping from rooftop to rooftop. He didn't want to go back to the tower so he decides to find his own quarters to stay in so he'll find a warehouse to temporary stay in. He then suddenly spotted someone going inside a warehouse as he instantly recognizes.
"Red-X." he whispered as he ran down towards to the warehouse in secret. He has been hunting down the anti-hero since he starts the killings towards criminals, and then there's that time he rescued Starfire from the hands of Ravager's clutches.
The boy wonder slowly tap down towards to the warehouse as he looks inside through the window. Seeing the skull faced anti-hero inside there is someone else stepping out of the shadows. Robin gets a good look as his domino mask lens widened at who is this person.
"So did you get what we've requested?" the person spoke.
"Yeah, just found another goon who's possibly another HIVE agent." Red-X spoke handing him a case towards the person. "How about the boss? You think he's got the Titans in?"
"Not yet, until we can fully trust them and see if they're not one of them." he replied.
"Well let's hope not, don't want to learn that the pretty Star is one of them." Red-X said.
"Watch your tongue, Wilson." the person snarled.
"I told you not to call me that, Xavier, or should I call you by your-"
"Enough, you two!" shout another male voice as Robin leans in, seeing that not only was Xavier is here with Red-X, but Adrian Chase as well. "Do I need to remind you both why we're here? For the mission to reveal the-" he paused as his eyes shifts towards to a bunch of crates "Come out of here, I know you're there!"
Robin covers his mouth as he has been caught. Now the questions running through his mind keeps thinking on what will the outcome will come next.
"Three Titans has split."
"Good. Who left?"
"Robin, Raven, and Cyborg have all left the Titans. So it's just six of us."
"Excellent. Now you know your part in the mission. Without the empath and the tin man they won't suspect foul play. Robin leaving is just a bonus."
"I will proceed when given orders to do so."
"Excellent." Slade said as he hangs up his communicator, thinking of the plan going well on his part. Soon he'll be payed dearly by the Queen.