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Chapter Twenty-Seven: Earth Shattering Getaway


The black four red eyed raven flew down the twisting passages of the cave. Banking left and right with each passageway it flew through.

Krkrkrkrk…

Up above, stalactites fell down from the ceiling. The cave itself shook and collapsed in areas all around the raven thanks to the fight from before. With the death of the geomancer who had been holding the cave together, before the destruction of said cave was starting to race up the whole rock formation the cave had been beneath.

Though none of these could harm the Astral raven, it could make it lose its way if enough of the cave collapsed in front of it.

The being in control of it sped up, trying to get ahead of the destruction going on all around it. The other being inside the raven lent his energy to hers, allowing the one in control to speed just ahead of the collapsing cave. And then beyond to where the cave was still intact for the moment.

The raven traveled for another mile, getting farther and farther ahead of the destruction the fight had caused.

Finally, the cave opened up, and the black raven came into a large man made cavern. The ceiling was a good hundred feet up in the air. With the walls about a good one hundred and fifty feet apart. The floor was rocky, yet it was smooth, devoid of any stalagmites and other rocks. The room seemed to stretch off into the distance.

It was the thing about fifty feet in front of the raven though that really grabbed it's attention.

The raven dropped to the ground, and then it sunk down into it. Revealing the forms of Raven, and the limping Beast. Raven was staring almost wide eyed at their way of escape.

It was a ship. More specifically, it was a Doom Patrol jet.

It had some characteristics of what you'd see in fighter jets today. Like a single engine in the back of it. A smaller than normal wingspan and tail. A coat of silver paint along the body and wings of it. And the Doom Patrol logo on the back tail of the plane.

However, it also had a wider than normal body. And a couple windows on the side of it, giving it the characteristic of a private jet. The cockpit area confirmed it, since it looked like you had to go in through the side door to get to the pilot's seat instead of sliding the glass forward. Yet the slightly wider body didn't look like it would slow the plane down in the slightest. It didn't have any missiles or a bomb bay either. Meaning it didn't have any extra weight to slow it down.

Raven quickly realized it was built for a fast escape. A very fast one at that.

And she wasn't sure she'd know how to fly it...

She looked to the side at the limping Beast, who was whimpering as he tried to keep his weight off it's broken arm and hurt leg. The Beast itself could easily take a few hits, and when enraged, it could ignore almost everything that happened to it short of death. But any injury master sustained beforehand transferred over to him. And master had not had the best of times before the transformation...

Raven felt a pang of sympathy course through her, and she reached out and touched his forehead. Allowing a bit of her blue healing energy to take away some of the pain he was feeling.

Kckckckck!

The sound of the collapsing cave came from behind them. Alerting Raven that they didn't have much time before it reached them again.

"Beast?"

The Beast looked down at Raven. The pain in its white eyes was replaced with a somewhat more gentle look. He took in the sight of his mate in front of him.

He nodded his large head at her.

"I know you're rarely let out. But I need Garfield right now? Can you give him control again for me?" Raven whispered calmly to the Beast.

The Beast looked at her for a second more, wishing it could stay longer, and then he started to shrink.

Slurp!

But not before his long dog like tongue came out and licked her pale face along her left cheek.

Raven was shocked by the action. Her hand unconsciously raised up and felt the spot the Beast had licked. It was still warm, and sticky.

'Did he just… but… what…?'

By the time she finally managed to figure out what had happened to her, Beast Boy was back to his normal form. Teetering on one leg he to teeter back and forth with his eyes closed.

'Beast! What the hell!'

'Sorry master. I just couldn't resist.' The Beast said in a happy puppy like voice.

'Oh animal kingdom, what do I do!? What do I do!? Rae is going to kill me if she founds out I remember doing that!'

He started to fall back to the ground. Raven instantly caught him with her powers, helping him to stay standing in an upright position. He groaned and wearily opened his green eyes to look up at the ceiling. Acting as if he truly was tired from the transformation and was still recovering from it.

"Ugh… what happened?" Beast Boy asked.

"Not much." Raven answered.

Beast Boy looked at her then, and he put on on a weird face. "Why do you have spit running down your cheek Rae?" He asked curiously.

"That is something you don't want to know." Raven said flatly, before she started to float the two of them over to the jet.

"Know what now?" Beast Boy asked.

"Exactly." Raven replied.

Beast Boy wearily looked at the jet then, and a small smile came onto his face. "Well, at least something went right today."

Krkrkrkrkrk…

The collapsing cave sounded behind them.

"Gar. I'd rather you didn't jinx us now." Raven said blandly.

"Sorry mama. Didn't realize how dire the situation was." Beast Boy replied.

"When isn't it dire for us?" Raven asked sarcastically as she phased the two of them through the door into the plane.

"Oh, when we get to sit back in our home away from home to relax and all that." Beast Boy said casually.

Raven rolled her eyes and looked away to examine the inside of the plane. Beast Boy heaved a sigh of relief beside her. He had managed to completely make it look like he didn't know he had licked her.

'Disaster averted.'

'I thought she liked it. Maybe we should give her another one.'

'You're insane!'

'Only from a certain point of view master.'

In Raven's opinion, the inside of the jet looked pretty good. In comparison to the T-Ship.

Raven saw the inside of the jet was big enough that she was able to stand up straight and even float a few inches off the floor. The interior was a startling white. There was a couple nice looking leather chairs with mahogany arm rests, but there was only two rows of them, with only one chair on both sides of the plane.

A small bed of sorts was in the back of the plane. It was a simple twin mattress with a white sheet over it. The area in front of the bed had a pull out curtain that could block out the rest of the activity on the plane if need be. Raven didn't really see anything else of importance at that time as she turned away.

Raven turned to face the cockpit, and her brain almost stopped. 'Um… does anyone know what any of those glowing buttons in there do?' Raven asked herself.

'Um, I think that might be a throttle down there.' Timid said nervously.

'And that definitely has to be the… steering wheel?' Brave said uncertainly.

'Idiots! Of course we have no idea how to run this ****ing thing! We only have that crash course lesson from what Cyborg let leader bitch do on the T-Ship!' Rude shouted.

'And this is nothing like the T-Ship in any way, shape, or form.' Knowledge said rather calmly.

Well, she had her answer now.

"Gar, do you know how to fly this thing?" Raven asked.

The mental argument he had been having with the Beast was cut off. 'We'll talk later.'

'Only when you'll admit what I did wasn't a disaster.'

Beast Boy ignored it. "Theoretically."

"As in?" Raven bluntly asked.

"Well… It's been a while, and Mento never let me fly it... but I can try from what I saw him and Rita do on the other jet during missions. It can't really be all that hard." He replied beside her.

Kckckckckck!

Well, the chance of dying was still high. But it was better than nothing.

"Fine." Raven agreed.

With Raven's help, he was able to get into the pilot seat. She got into the co-pilot seat next to him.

Kckckckck!

The ceiling high above them cracked.

With his one good arm, he started to flick a series of switches into place. "Alright Raven, I need you to flick all those switches there in front of your face up." Beast Boy said to her.

Raven looked at the row of switches in front of her. Her mind almost went blank at the rows of switches she saw. She unsurely raised her her hand to a series, and started to flip them. After the last one, the engine of the plane hummed to life behind them.

"Alright, now check the fuel gauge beside you while I make sure the tank is full." Beast Boy said before he started to press what looked like random buttons and switches to Raven.

"Okay, flaps are up. Hydraulics for the wheels are okay. Oxygen tank is full…" He mumbled to himself while she tried to find the fuel gauge.

'How the heck is he doing all that from memory?' Raven thought as she finally saw it.

'I'm not sure… maybe he studied this Mento and Rita more closely than we thought.' Knowledge replied uncertainly.


'Master, what the heck are we doing?'

'I have no clue Beast. I'm just repeating what Mento said when he looked a certain direction and pressed something.'

'... This seems very risky to me master. Are you sure we'll be able to fly in this man thing with wings out of here?'

'Hey! I'll let you know I have hours upon hours of flight time in a cockpit!... well, at least in a simulator. For a different plane...'

'Experiencing something fake does not help translate to knowing how to do it in the real world master.'

'I'd like to see you try to fly this then! Geeze, it's not like we're going to... wait, what did this switch do again? I hope I didn't just try to launch the life raft out the back.'

'Lions, wolves, bears, help us now.'


Beast Boy continued what he was doing with a calm face. Raven had turned to look at him working with only his left arm, and found herself staring.

'He seems to know his way around the cockpit, that's for sure.' Raven thought amazed. Unaware of what was really going on inside her green friend's mind.

'Hmmm, I wonder if he knows how to navigate from his other cockpit.' A sultry voice said inside her mind.

Raven almost choked on what she was saying to Beast Boy. "The fuel gauge is full." She managed to say monotonously.

'What… the… ****?'

"Great Rae, everything checks out over here, so now I need you to…" Beast Boy was saying to her. Unaware that she was no longer listening to him.

'Um, maybe now isn't a good time for you to be around sister.' Knowledge said in a worried tone.

'Are you kidding me!? I haven't seen Lust in years! How are you doing big sis?!' Happy yelled happily while likely shaking her hand over and over.

'Oh, I'm fine. Now that I'll finally be able to express myself without having to have help from Affection and Rage.' Lust replied in what would be known as her signature sultry voice. Rage and Affection likely had their hoods covering their blushing faces now.

'Wait! Hold on! What the hell did Lust mean by what she said earlier!?' Raven thought in a very shocked tone. Her cheeks were blazing from the blush.

"Rae..." Beast Boy's voice sounded from the outside world.

'She meant nothing by it! It was just one of her old unusual quips was all! You wouldn't remember since it's been like over five years!' Knowledge said loudly, quickly, and nervously.

'Um, w-what she m-m-meant w-was… uh…' Timid stuttered in fear.

'Oh, I just meant that I might finally be able to get you to admit to yourself that you crave our nice friend's big, juicy, delicious, beastly-... Umph! Umph! Umphhhhh!' It sounded like she had been gagged at the end.

"Rae..." Beast Boy said again.

'Will you shut up!' Rage said in an angry tone.

'What...' Raven trailed off.

'She meant nothing by it! We s-s-swear!' Timid yelled nervously.

Raven tried to think on it all. It was mere minutes after reuniting with her emoticlone, and she was already being left in all sorts of confusion. What the heck had she been about to say to-

"RAE!"

Raven suddenly focused on the real world again. Having been snapped out of her thoughts. Several lights were beeping at her, along with a red blaring alarm.

Beep! Beep! Beep! KCKCKCKCKCK!

The ceiling around them was collapsing. Pieces of it were hitting around the plane.

Thunk!

One chunk the size of a truck almost hit the right wing, landing behind it and cracking into many different pieces.

"I NEED YOU TO PUSH THAT THROTTLE BY YOUR HAND NOW! OR ELSE WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE!" Beast Boy yelled in a scared voice at her while waving his good left arm. His right hand weakly gripped the throttle already, but couldn't push it forward. All his awkward checks were done, and he was praying internally right now that Raven didn't need to do anything more on her part to get the jet to fly.

Raven instantly put her hand over his on the throttle, and felt a heat travel up her arm at the contact. But she pushed it to the side for later and pushed the throttle forward.

Fwoom!

Raven found herself pushed back into her seat at the sudden burst of speed. Beast Boy was also pushed back into his. Though he was yelling happily.

'Woohoo! I managed to do it! We can fly this baby!'

'We're not out of the woods yet master.'

Somehow, the collapsing cave behind them seemed to speed up, as if it knew its prey was getting away. They were going fifty, and the cavern was still collapsing all around them. Beast Boy was having to use his left arm just to keep the jet steady and straight.

The wheels beneath them shook with the cave. And Raven was afraid for a moment that the plane might lose a wheel or two as rocks the size of pianos fell around them.

'Eep!' Timid hid under Brave's cloak. Both of them were shaking from fear inside her mind..

"Gar…"

The jet had, by this point, passed the 120 mile mark, and was slowly lifting up into the air. It flew over a large chunk of rock that hit the ground in front of it. Raven gripped the whatcamacallit in front of her then, her knuckles turning a very pale shade of white as she fought to keep the plane steady.

Beast Boy hit a button with his left hand, lifting up the landing gear. How he managed to remember which one did it, he didn't know. But he heard the landing gear pull into the plane beneath them, over the sound of the cave collapsing around them.

Kckckckck!

"Garfield! How are we flying this out through that small an opening!?" Raven shouted loud enough to be heard over the roar of the engine and the collapsing cave. She had just noticed how small the way out of the cave was at the end. It was a long crack from ceiling to floor, about maybe three feet wide.

"Just trust me on this Rae! And when I say ready, pull up!" Beast Boy replied, as he put his left hand on the wheel (whatever it's called) in front of him.

The jet was fifty feet up in the air above the cave floor. Rocks still fell around them. Somehow missing the jet by the most extraordinary of luck. Raven shakily put her hand on her wheel.

'Master! Even I know there isn't enough room!'

'Just trust me Beast!'

Raven saw the opening get closer. They were a few hundred feet away. About seventy-five feet in the air. With barely any room from the collapsing ceiling above. There was a white patch of something spread out along the floor at the end of the cave.

"Garfield!..." Raven yelled unsurely.

"And…" They were about to hit the opening… but his eyes caught the falling white flakes coming out of the rocks.

'Gotcha.'

"Now!"

Raven pulled up, as did Beast Boy. Raven saw the light of the long cracked opening. And the rock around it. It was too small for them. They were still going to hit it. More rocks were falling from the ceiling around them. They were going to go up in a fiery explosion. They were going to be buried under a million tons of rock.

They were…

Plume!


...

Raven opened her eyes a little. 'We're… alive?'

In front of them, snowflakes fell swiftly past the ascending plane. Raven looked down from the cockpit, and saw a sprawling white covered forest down beneath them. And a series of clouds dropping snow up above.

'Wait, that white patch in the cave… that was snow… but it was spread out all in front of the end of the cave though…'

She used an Astral raven to look out beneath the jet at where they had come out. Besides some snow that was missing at the tops of some trees at the bottom of the mountain they had flown out of, there was no evidence of a jet coming out of the mountain. And as she watched, she saw a part of the mountain collapse in on itself, and a large plume of dust erupted from a completely snow covered tree dotted part of the mountain behind them.

They had somehow just flown out of it.

She brought the part of her soul self back into herself, and sunk back into her chair. Shocked at what had happened.

"But… but… there wasn't enough room for us… there was no exit..." Raven said to herself.

Beast Boy let out a loud whoop of excitement and laughed. He was smiling like an idiot. 'I always knew Mento would use a hologram or something to disguise that opening! It made no sense for snow to fall through completely solid rock!' He thought to himself.

'Master, don't you ever, ever! Do that to us again! Do you have any idea how many times I heard mother nature calling me the last minute alone!?' The Beast yelled in an angry, yet scared tone.

'Sorry Beast, but I thought you'd like the nice surprise for once.' Beast Boy teased.

'Oh, I'll give you a nice surprise later master.' The Beast said ominously.

Beast Boy ignored the veiled threat and turned to Raven. He was still grinning widely. He let out another laugh at her tensed up face. "Well Rae, what did you think?"

She uttered her mantra under her breath, and let the shock of what happened sink out of her body. She then looked flatly at him. "We are never, ever, doing that again." She muttered with no emotion.

Beast Boy laughed at that. "Aw c'mon Rae, the opening was merely hologrammed. I knew that the whole time."

'Liar.'

"And you have to admit, that was a lot of fun." He said to her in a teasing voice.

She rolled her eyes again. "Flying a jet in a collapsing cave, with a pilot who could only use one arm, and towards a rock wall that looked disturbingly real. You really expect me to say that was fun?" Raven asked.

Beast Boy nodded his head vigorously. "Of course! We were already ambushed and saved and whatever else today! So all we needed to end it was going out with a nice exciting bang!" He said enthusiastically.

She looked at him blankly for a second more, then she slightly smiled. She gave him a light playful punch on his right arm.

"Fine, I admit it was a little fun-" She stopped speaking though when he winced in pain. She looked at him, than at her hand, ending at his limp broken arm.

She felt like facepalming at that moment. The broken arm. She had just lightly punched his broken arm.

"Here, let me help you with that." She said almost a little guiltily.

"Nah, I'm good Rae. I still need to get this thing to altitude and all that." He said, trying to play it off as he checked the gauge showing how high they were. They were already at five thousand feet and rising.

Raven gently poked his arm gently in several spots, and he had to bite his lip to keep the whimpers of pain from coming out. Raven frowned.

"Put this thing on autopilot now Gar. Your arm doesn't feel that good to me." Raven ordered this time.

"But, but we aren't high enough yet. I need to do a couple more things. And I don't know where we're going?" He said to her.

"Superboy told us to check along the coast for mystic energy, right?" Raven asked.

"Uh… yeah."

"So program for us to go somewhere along there to land." Raven blandly said.

Beast Boy shrugged helplessly at her. "Whatever you say dude. Where do you want to land?"

"I don't know. You choose." Raven replied.

With his one good arm, he turned the plane about while still in the clouds, using the compass to guide where he needed to go. He was trying to think of a good secluded spot where they could land the jet and then get back in the air. 'Okay, let's see… we could try um… uh… ooh! I know!'

Once he thought of one, he lined up the plane in what he was sure was the direction of the place. Again using the compass to help guide him. He ascended the plane up a little more. They were at ten thousand feet when he leveled out, still hidden in the clouds.

He pressed one button in front of the throttle, and outside the cockpit, the surface of the ship rotated out, and a series of reflective mirrors appeared over the surface of the jet. He then set the autopilot, and a timer that would go off about when they needed to start descending. Raven had waited patiently for him to finish the whole time.

He relaxed back into his chair and looked at her while grinning. "Alright nurse Rae, I have the ship all ready, what do you want me to do now?" Beast Boy said jokingly.

He suddenly disappeared into a dark portal, and came down softly onto the bed in the back. Raven was above his surprised form, glaring down at him.

"Unless you want any more injuries today Gar, I would suggest you refrain from calling me that again." Raven said flatly, yet with a tint of red in her eyes.

'Hmmm, it actually sounds kind of kinky... I like it!' Lust yelled inside her mind. Raven ignored her, though she had to fight to keep more red from coming up her unhooded face. Her threat would not look very good if she was embarrassed.

Beast Boy gulped underneath her, and then shakily nodded his head. Raven glared down at him for a moment more, and then spread her hands out in front of her. She made sure to drop the glare from her face along with the tint of red in her eyes.

"Now where are you hurt?" She asked softly.

Beast Boy was silent for a moment as he assessed his injuries. "I have several fractures along my right arm… I think I have some bruising on my back… and I likely sprained my knee or something. I honestly don't know, but it hurts like hell." He finally said as he figured out where all the pain was coming from.

Raven nodded her head, and started over his arm. Her powers seeped in, and probed at the damage. "You have five fractures… and a burst blood vessel… I think I can heal this, just don't try to move."

Raven concentrated for a moment, and then her blue healing powers enveloped his arm. She sealed off the blood vessel inside his arm first, and then worked on realigning his bones and putting them together. A bead of sweat ran down her forehead.

Beast Boy felt the pain slowly fade away, to slowly be replaced by a great need to itch his arm. It was like fire ants were crawling around in his bones as she healed him. He ignored it as best he could, and tried to think of other things… that didn't involve Raven's pale hands hovering over his green arms. Or how soft they were when he held them in the cave and the manor. Or how they'd feel to be rubbing all along his-

'Wait!... why am I thinking about... Beast!'

The Beast chuckled evilly. 'I said you'd regret what you did earlier master.' The Beast continued to chuckle evilly inside his mind.

Great, now Beast Boy couldn't stop thinking about that! It was like the Beast wanted to sexually torture him or something whenever he did something wrong. Now he had to keep himself from itching, and becoming aroused beneath Raven.

'Why do you always pay me back with something like this!? Why can't you just make me want to crave meat or something?!' Beast Boy thought incredulously.

'Technically, that is what I do make you crave. Our mate is one smoking hot piece of meat.' The Beast said in awe.

'... Oh lord. Why did I, a hormonal green teenage boy, have to get a freaking perverted Beast as my own personal Jiminy Cricket?' He thought in despair. He tried his best to keep his aroused feelings from surfacing into his mind. Azar forbid what would happen if Raven sensed them.

After a minute, Raven stopped healing his arm, and swayed slightly in her spot. The itching feeling faded away as his bones were no longer moving inside him. And luckily, she never sensed the spike in his aroused feelings, since a simple image of Mother Mae Eye in a skimpy bikini had made the aroused feeling go far, far south away from his mind.

"Alright, I mostly healed the bones, and the blood vessel that burst is okay now, but I don't suggest you use that arm much for the next couple days to be safe." Raven said tiredly to him.

Beast Boy tried to get up. "Alright. Thanks Rae-"

She pushed him back down. She was glaring at him again. "I'm not done yet."

Beast Boy was about to object. She looked tired after using her energy for that after all. Who knew what else she had done today that he didn't know of. But then he somehow realized it would be a bad idea to argue with a tired Raven. He shut his mouth and nodded his head.

Raven moved down to his knee. Letting her healing powers encompass it wholly. "You ripped a ligament between your kneecap and tibia, other than that, there isn't much here. Your leg will be just fine." She said flatly as she repaired the damage.

When she was done, she had him flip over onto his back. Then she let her healing powers dig deep into his muscles to find all the aches and bruises in them. She didn't comment on what she found this time, and simply allowed her energy to heal the damage. Beast Boy actually purred at the warm feeling spreading across his back.

'Hmmm… she should really give us a nice massage sometime with her hands master.'

'No!' Beast Boy thought back instantly.

After a minute of healing, she lifted her arms back from his back. "Okay Garfield. I think that was the last of it, and…" She was about to say something else, when she suddenly got very lightheaded and started to sway in her spot.

'Raven. You might have used a little too much energy.' Knowledge warned her.

'No kidding.' Raven sarcastically and tiredly thought back.

She was tipping over, about to fall to the side onto the floor of the plane, when she found herself leaning on Beast Boy. He had gotten up beside her just in time to keep her from falling.

"Whoa Rae. Easy now. You've used up a lot of energy today." He said.

"No I haven't Gar. I'm fine. I'm just a little, lightheaded is all." Raven said groggily back to him.

"No. You're tired. You healed me twice today. Kicked Terra's skinny butt. Spent a couple days healing yourself. And Azar knows how many other things while I was captured." Beast Boy said in a scolding tone to her.

"Garfield. I'm not tir-" YAWWWWWNNNNNN!

Her own body betrayed her then. She became limp in his arms.

"Raven. Lie down." Beast Boy ordered.

"But-" Beast Boy didn't let her finish. Instead, he picked her up off the floor, getting a small 'Eep' of surprise out of her. He set her down on the bed against her will. She looked ready to protest, when she felt the soft, comfortable mattress melting beneath her.

'Holy Azar, it feels like I'm melting into it…' Raven thought tiredly. Her pale eyelids were suddenly very, very tired. And she had to fight to keep them open.

"Comfy, isn't it?" Beast Boy said in a teasing voice.

"I thought I told you... not to use that arm." Raven said slowly.

"What do you mean? I'm sure I only used one." He said with a glint in his eyes.

"You did that on purpose. Didn't you?" Raven said in an already sleepy voice.

Beast Boy smiled. "I have no idea what you're talking about."

Raven tiredly rolled her eyes. "Little green elf pri…" Raven was asleep before she could finish her sentence.

Beast Boy continued to smile down at her. "Heh. She must have been exhausted if she couldn't finish insulting me." He said to himself jokingly.

He moved his green hand down to move a piece of violet hair from her face. Her face was already relaxing, and smiling softly in her sleep.

'Wow, she really is beautiful when she sleeps.' He thought astonishingly to himself.

'Stalker much?' The Beast teased.

'At least I'm not the pervert in my mind.' Beast Boy countered.

'I remember several times where you've done it all by yourself master…'

'Like when!'

'Maybe… our mate's picture?'

'Fine… you win this round.'

Beast Boy stared down at Raven for a moment more. Taking in the sight of her small form resting on the mattress. He realized that she was shivering slightly in her sleep. He got on his toes and took a blanket out of a drawer up behind the bed, and then put it over her. He made sure she was completely covered in it, then looked down at her face again. She wasn't shivering anymore, and her face relaxed again.

His hand gently cupped her left cheek, and he wiped off the spit from earlier off her face with his thumb. Then even though the spit was off her face, he still continued what he was doing. He didn't know why, but he liked the feel of her pale smooth skin against his hand.

His mind started to wander, starting to wonder if the rest of her body was as smooth as her cheek… like her...

Beast Boy shook his head, clearing out his other thoughts. 'Beast, was that you again?'

'No, I was caught up in the moment like you master.' He replied honestly.

Sigh 'What are we going to do?' Beast Boy suddenly asked.

'What do you mean master?'

'I mean, I know we have a plan to go to the coast first. Then we might come up with something after that… but…'

'What's making you nervous master. We got away, yes?'

Sigh 'We did. This jet has a cloaking system on it. So we should go undetected unless we have someone closely look at it. And I bet with what happened in that cave, people will likely think we're dead for a while.'

'Then why are you nervous?'

'Well… It's close to the start of spring time Beast. We have like a week, maybe two or three at most. And then we'll both… lose control of ourselves to our mating instincts.'

' And what is so bad about that? We will both merely play a part in the great circle of life. And rut until the heat either passes, or until our offspring is passed on. It happens to every great beast in the animal kingdom. And to us, it is a privilege to want to continue our line with such a strong urgency.'

'I know Beast. But it's just…'

'Just what master?'

He looked down at Raven's face, taking in the small smile. 'I just don't want to hurt her Beast… I like her, like a lot… and I just can't let myself lose control and take her innocence… she was born from rape… I just can't do that to her.' A tear fell from his eye at the end.

'Master. She said she would help us when we lost control. And she might be small to us, but she has a strong fiery spirit inside her. I am certain that when we lose control, she will be able to defend herself and help us get through it.'

'How?'

'We'll just have to wait and find out master. If memory serves me right, she hasn't told you yet how she would accomplish that.'

Beast Boy studied her pale face for a moment more. Then, he turned around and walked back to the cockpit.

'I hope you're right Beast.'

'When am I ever wrong?'

'Oh, I don't know… a certain condom incident does come to mind though.'

'Are you seriously bringing that up again! It was one mistake on my part! One!' The Beast roared inside his mind.

Beast Boy smirked to himself.

'And I win this round.' Beast Boy cockily thought to himself.


Down below

While the jet disappeared off into the snowclouds, a certain sorceress was coming in from Metropolis at a very fast speed. A speed that was very dangerous for her to be traveling at. Considering that despite her magic, she was still human. And impacting with anything would have turned the black haired and suit wearing sorceress into a big red mark on whatever she hit.

Unfortunately, she didn't hit anything, except for a lot of small snowflakes. And soon she appeared over the horizon, and she saw Midway City in the distance.

'Please don't tell me they got away… please don't tell me they got away…'

Zatanna, the sorceress, felt her heart sink as she got closer. Some of the larger towers she saw had damage showing on them. Along with almost every other building she looked closely at. But at the moment, one building stood out the most to her.

She could see in the distance how part of the Estate had collapsed in on itself. The rest of it that was standing, though substantial, looked to have suffered extensive damage. The area around it was deserted for the most part. Not even the police officers were in that area. Only a few shuffling people were seen, as if they were in shock.

'Did the fight already happen?'

Zatanna slowed down at last. Until she was merely hovering in the air over the building. She looked around again, trying to find some sign of life in it, but found none.

"Where are they?" She said to herself.

Be-oo-Be-oo-Be-oo…

A siren sounded in the distance.

Zatanna looked over between the city blocks, towards the edge of the city, and finally saw a large crowd of people. Stretching not only in that block, but also several blocks to the left and right. They seemed to be heading towards something, trying to get a look at something. But a line of police cars were blocking out the large crowd.

Zatanna immediately flew over towards that area. Feeling the headache from before returning with a vengeance. She looked down and felt vomit race up her throat, and then she saw the cracked roads beneath her. Along with all the damage down at the bottom of the buildings. Some cars were even upside down, resting on uplifted parts of road.

'What the hell happened here?'

As she got closer, and came out of the skyscrapers, she was able to hear a couple police officers with their microphones from up high. "Stand back! This area of the city has become extremely unstable due to an unknown cause! All family members and friends are being rescued from the area as fast as possible by our rescue teams! Please don't make their jobs harder by interfering with their efforts!..." That and more was being called out by the officers.

The crowd didn't seem very willing to listen to them though. As some pounded on the shields of the police officers. Or chucked rocks or other stuff at them. As Zatanna got closer to the edge of the city, she was even able to hear some of them.

"My son! He was in that large sinkhole! I need to find him!" A father shouted.

"My wife! Is she okay!? Please tell me that she is okay!" A man screamed in pain.

"I can't find my baby! Please, she is the only thing I have left!" A lonely mother in the crowd screamed in despair.

Zatanna finally saw it. About a block behind the barricade. Where the last half mile of the eastern part of the city had been, there was now not a single building left standing. The roads couldn't even be called that anymore, as they were almost impassable. Heck, it would be easier to walk through the buildings then on the roads.

And in the center of it all, there was a thousand foot, almost perfectly circular, sinkhole. And in the middle of it, she was able to see the other heroes.

'Oh no…'

Zatanna passed over the barricade. Heading towards the center of the destruction. She lowered down closer to the ground. Until finally, she was over the large area of the sinkhole. The bottom of which was about fifty feet feet beneath her.

Red Tornado was using his powers to lift a large rock off the ground. A trapped teenager came out from under it. Thanking the red hero for saving his life.

Robin and Blue Beetle together helped to move a large rock. Allowing a woman to get out of the hole she had been trapped in. Blue Beetle helped her out, and then took off in the air towards the city.

Starfire was with Superman. Superman was looking from the air, pointing out areas to the heroine. And she would go down and move the rocks out of the way to save the survivors the Man of Steel found buried in the ground.

There was at least ten other heroes at work around the sinkhole. Along with the areas around it. Screams of pain, fear, hope, and loss came from all around. But Zatanna's attention was grabbed by two specific individuals.

Black Canary was by Batman. Both of them watching the work around them. Making sure no more accidents happened while they worked.

Zatanna floated down until she was in front of them. Her shaky feet finally touched the ground. "What happened here?" She asked.

Black Canary looked sadly around her. "We don't know."

Zatanna breathed in to calm the anger she wanted to express. "What do you mean?"

She shrugged. "We all received Red Tornado's comm, and we came here to help out. But when we got here, no one knew where the changeling and demoness went. And before we could try to track them…"

"A 7.4 earthquake, with the epicenter in this general area, hit the city." Batman finished.

Zatanna didn't breath for a moment. "Is there anyone unaccounted for?"

Batman nodded his head sadly. "Wonder Woman never called in. Along with the Titan Terra. We also haven't found the bodies of the two traitors."

Zatanna fell on her knees. 'No… it wasn't supposed to go like this… she was my last hope... why?...'

"Bruce!"

Batman instantly looked up, and saw Superman approaching quickly. Back where he had been, Starfire was desperately digging up the rocks.

"What?" Batman gruffly replied when Superman was in front of them.

"We found Diana! She's buried deep down in the rock! She doesn't have her shield on her, but I think she's still alive!" Superman said loudly.

Batman let out a sigh of relief. Zatanna saw his face slightly relax. "That is truly an echo in the dark for me to hear... What about the Titan? Or the Changeling and Demoness?"

Superman shook his head. "I didn't see anyone else down there Bruce. They might have been farther in, but I can't tell."

Batman curtly nodded. "Then go get J'onn J'onzz. He won't have to dig through all the rock to get to Diana."

Superman nodded. And flew off to where the hero had just appeared out of the ground. Holding a crying baby.

"It's good that we found Diana." Black Canary said.

"Yes Dinah, but now we need to figure out what happened here. And if the two traitors managed to escape or not." Batman muttered.

Zatanna looked like she wanted to say something, but then she heard a cry behind her. She looked and saw another person trapped under a rock. Begging for help.

She mentally sighed to herself. 'You know what. It can wait. These people need help first. Then I can find out what happened to those two.'

Zatanna floated over to the trapped person. Leaving the talking Batman and Black Canary behind. She put her massive headache and all her worries and desires to the back of her mind.

Zatanna pointed her two hands at the rock. "Kcor og pu!" She commanded.

It was about time she finally helped out mankind again.


Author's Notes:

Well, we're getting close to wrapping up Part One here. What do you guys think? With a cave in of that magnitude happening, wouldn't it make sense for it to be an earthquake?... no… oh well, this is fanfiction! Logic doesn't work some of the time I guess!

And yes, EchoInTheDark, that line Batman said was just for you :).

Till Next Time

Allen