A/N: I was totally planning on posting Birds of a Feather today but Cartoon Network apparently plays two episodes of Teen Titans now and I wanted to do something with one of the episodes that played today that's been one of my favorites ever since I was little. "Bunny Raven" or "How to Make a Titanimal Disappear" I've loved this episode for as long as I can remember and decided to start yet another series but this is going to be me taking episodes from the series and making it evident that Rae and Rob are in a relationship. There are numerous episodes I already know I want to do so get hyped! Also, hang on for the long chapters! Each chapter will basically be an episode! But, I will say, it will only be one point of view for the whole chapter so this one is all Robin so the only parts pertaining to Robin will be included.
P.S. I sadly do not own Teen Titans or the characters. If I did, I wouldn't need to rewrite the episodes so that Robin and Raven are together!
Thx!
AMM
~Robin's POV~
"And for my next trick, I, the Amazing Mumbo, will make all the money vanish into thin air!" Mumbo declares with a tip of his hat and wave of his wand. After saying the cliché magic words, the money springs from the bags it was previously collected in and blows rather forcefully into Mumbo's hat. I glance at my team as Mumbo backs up to a hostage bank teller, my eyes lingering on Raven a tad longer then the others, as of habit now. Mumbo pulls up a sleeve, as if to say there's nothing there, before reaching towards the teller and pulling a penny out of her ear.
"I always love a captive audience." He grins at her, eyes no doubt traveling over her figure from beneath his masked eyes.
"They may be captive now but you're the one who's getting locked up!" I claim, stepping out of the shadows, making myself known with the team following behind me.
"You forget. I'm an escape artist," Mumbo brags, cracking his knuckles before throwing Ping-Pong ball-sized bombs at us. Each of leap in action without a word being said, each with the goal to stop Mumbo, save the hostages, and return the money to the bank. Mumbo, however, has learned many of our moves over the last couple years and now knows how to dodge us quite effectively. He quickly gets Cyborg tied up, pushing him into me, and Star taken down by numerous playing cards raining down upon her. Beast Boy steps up but Mumbo simply uses the other side of the rope holding Cyborg to tie Beast Boy's mouth shut as it snaps at him as an alligator.
Raven pops up behind him, levitating with her cloak around her, hands hidden. "Is that all you've got?" she taunts. Mumbo sends some type of red ball at her but her hand flies up and catches it, surrounding it with black magic before sending it back towards him. It hits Mumbo in the face and his head disappears but we all know better because a second later, his head's plopping out of his hat and pointing his wand at Rae.
"Alakazam!" Three metal rings appear above Rae's head and slide down around her, tightening around her body as she grunts in annoyance.
"Cute trick. Ready to see some real magic?" Raven's eyes glow white and her whole body becomes surrounded in black energy, her chant falling from her mouth as she picks up the piece of column that fell over earlier and tries to take Mumbo out with it, the rings breaking from around her at the same time. But Mumbo poofs away as the column swipes through the spot he was just standing. Starfire and I take the opportunity of Mumbo being distracted to help untie Beast Boy and Cyborg while he focuses on Raven.
"Trying to steal the limelight, ay? Well I guess I'll just have to make you part of the act! Mumbo jumbo!" He points his wand at the column still encased within Raven's magic when it transforms into a swarm of doves that circle around Rae, turning into a tornado that tears up papers and pulls against Raven. Her eyes go wide in fear as she gets sucked into the middle of the vortex.
The tornado races around the room before seeming to curl over, revealing Raven struggling and shouting, her hand reaching for me as she calls out my name.
"Robin! Help!" She clearly tries to fight against the current of the abnormal disaster as I reach out for her, desperately trying to catch her hand, ignoring how I'm being pulled towards the vortex myself.
"Raven!" I shout when I feel hands wrap around my middle, Starfire shouting my name followed by Cyborg and Beast Boy as we all begin to get sucked into the freak storm. I finally manage to grab hold of Raven's hand and she holds on tight, her hood pushed back off her head and violet locks swinging wildly in the air, her cape mimicking it along with my own. I slowly feel us being pulled into the tornado, further and further into it's center despite Beast Boy changing into a mammoth or something at the very back.
We're dragged closer and closer to the source of the tornado, each being sucked into Mumbo's magic top hat and pulling the others in behind me.
The storm disappears and changes into a black vortex with an even stronger pull. Strong enough that Raven's hand is pulled out of mine. "No!" I shout as she falls, somehow falling faster then the rest of us before disappearing. "Raven!" I shout as we careen our way to the end of this nightmare.
The next time I blink, the team and I, excluding Raven, are all standing in the middle of the street, flashing lights advertising Mumbo flash everywhere and music plays from the theatre to our left. I glance around, spinning on my heel but fail to see Raven anywhere. I look to Cyborg who seems to share my worry but the other two are too busy looking around at everything.
Raven must've gotten here first and Mumbo must've taken her somewhere. There's no way she'd wonder off if she knew we were falling right behind her. But maybe she didn't land here at all. She did fall faster then us when I let her go. God, I let her go. I have to find her. I have to apologize. I will never forgive myself if something happens to her. I should've held on tighter. I should've let go of Star's hand and grabbed on to her with both of my hands. I should've protected her better. I should've-a hand lands on my shoulder.
"We'll find her," Cyborg says confidently, seeming to realize my train of thought or read the poorly hidden guilt that must be spelt across my face. I nod as we begin to walk forward, intentionally putting myself a little ways ahead of everyone else.
"I always knew Mumbo had a big head, but I didn't realize he had such a big hat!" Beast Boy exclaims, still entranced with the lights and advertisements.
"I'm not sure it's that big," Cyborg speaks up after a couple minutes. "This is the third time we've passed that theater." We look over to the theatre that's been playing the same tune ever since we got here.
"We've got to find Raven." I stress. "She could be anywhere! She's our first priority."
"Oh, if only there were a sign," Starfire says with a sigh when suddenly a large sign appears above the theatre, flashing:
TONIGHT ONLY
THE AMAZING MUMBO
AND HIS NEW ASSISTANT
RAVEN
There's no way she'd willingly be his assistant. There's fowl play here I know it.
"That'll do," Cy comments.
"Titans, go!" I shout but most of them had already started moving before the words even left my mouth. We all run straight into the theatre, ignoring the posters of Mumbo and the signs advertising his show. We run into the dark hallway but stop when a bright light shines down on us, revealing a large table under our feet. The surrounding area is left pitch black, though, and none of us can see outside of the humungous spotlight.
"Raven!" I shout out into the darkness, not expecting a reply.
"Robin!" I hear her yell back. I almost question that it's a trick when Starfire calls out.
"The Mumbo has made you invisible?" All of us look around at the possibility, each expecting him to have performed some kind of trick on her. I need to see her. I need to make sure she is all right. I need-
"Up here!" we all look up to see a giant canary cage hanging from the ceiling, seemingly hanging from the spotlight. Suddenly, a small white rabbit peeks its head from the cage and looks down at us, a cloak adorning the bunny very similar to Ravens.
"Uh, why does that rabbit sound like Raven?" Beast Boy asks.
"Because I am Raven," the bunny-Raven-snarks back as Starfire floats up to her level.
"Oh, you look so cute!" Star gushes when Raven growls at her, Star's eyes going wide as she realizes what she just said to Rae.
"We'll get you out of there!" I call up and Star breaks the lock as Raven opens the cage door and leans out, preparing to jump when Mumbo can be heard.
"Sorry! No sneak previews! You'll just have to wait for tonight's show just like everyone else!" Raven looks out into the darkness when a large hand appears and reaches for her. She tries to run to the back of the cage, away from the grabbing hand but is unsuccessful as it grabs her by her ears and holds her above a hat that appears from the darkness too.
"No!" she shouts as the hand dangles her back and forth by her ears, Raven not performing any magic to try and stop it.
"No! Raven! Wait!" I shout as if she can help it.
Starfire attempts to fly after her a single zap from the hand's pinky wraps chains around her feet with an anvil attached at the end and drops her straight through the floor.
"Give us Raven back!" I demand as Starfire blasts through the chains and pulls herself out of the floor.
"Now you see her," Mumbo taunts before dropping her into the hat, one last cry falling from her mouth before going silent. "Now you don't." The hat turns over and the top is tapped, proving that Raven has disappeared within it. "Ta-da! Nothing in my hat!"
"Let me get this straight, we're inside Mumbo's hat and Raven's inside Mumbo's hat inside Mumbo's hat?" Cy questions while I stare up into the hat, trying to see some secret compartment Raven may be trapped in.
"Dude! You're making my brain hurt!" Beast Boy complains.
"Just to prove there are no hard feelings for crashing my rehearsal, I'll show you that I am the bigger man. With a wave of his wand, the hands and hat disappear and the lighted area shrinks. The ground begins to shake as a giant Mumbo, almost as tall as Titan Tower, appears before us.
"The bigger they are, the harder they fall," I remind the team as we both enter battle stances. "Titans, get that hat!" Cy and Beast Boy both distract Mumbo as Starfire kicks him in the face, still stronger then him despite his size, while I grapple to the top of his hat, using a birdarang to slice open the hat. Instead of Raven popping out, dozens of doves fly out and push me off the brim of Mumbo's giant hat. Star catches me before I hit the ground and deposits me on the table beside Cyborg as Beast Boy attempts to pull Mumbo's hat off his head.
Instead of getting anywhere, the hat instead opens up and sucks Beast Boy inside before tipping over and becoming a cannon, shooting him out the end of it to hit a spinning target.
"You may be living large, but this'll cut you down to size," Cyborg threatens, pointing his sonic cannon at Mumbo. He and Starfire both fire at Mumbo enough to push him off of the stage we're all suddenly on, instruments flying everywhere from his fall. "Even tiny can pack a punch," Cyborg comments, smiling approvingly at Starfire who's pleased with the insinuated comment.
"Pesky powers," Mumbo comments as he climbs back onto the stage. "I know just the trick to take care of you," he points the wand at us and swirls it a few times as Cyborg, Starfire, and I all disappear, smoke enveloping us before separating us and placing me, at least, under a dark dome-like object.
I can hear Mumbo talking to Beast Boy but the sound is muffled and I can't make out what they're saying before I hear, "Presto chango!" The dome object is lifted from over me and when I'm able to see again, I notice that I'm shorter. I glance down and realize I'm no longer human but a monkey instead.
"Hocus pocus!" Mumbo announces and I turn to my right to watch a cup move away and reveal a cat that I presume to be Starfire. She gasps at the sight of her appearance before Mumbo announces another magic word and reveals a bear-turned-Cyborg with a pink tutu adorning his middle.
"This is not happening," Cyborg complains once he notices the tutu.
"Oh yeah? Well, watcha gonna do to me?" Beast Boy asks smugly. "I already change into animals." Mumbo snaps his fingers a few times, each time turning Beast Boy into some cartoon animal before he changes back.
"Hmm, good point," Mumbo rubs his chin before shouting a spell and turning Beast Boy into a lamp.
"Well, Titanimals, let's see you try to stop me now!" He grins down at us before leaning in real close and shouting into our face, "On with the show!" and disappearing before we follow suit.
The ground reappears beneath my feet and I can hear a bear growling and a cat meowing as I step forward, stepping on something.
"Ow!" I hear Starfire say from beside me.
"Sorry, Star. I think I stepped on your foot." I admit.
"I believe it was my tail," she says quietly before Cyborg requests some light from Beast Boy.
The moment Beast Boy clicks on, Cyborg groans at the tutu once more.
"Ah man! Come on! I can take losing a fight but this is just mean!" He grabs a hold of the tutu and pulls for it only to be replaced with another one. He must pull off a hundred or so tutus before realizing they aren't going anywhere.
"How is it that Mumbo can change us into animals?" Starfire asks me.
"Mumbo's magic must be more powerful in here." I look around us and glance up, hoping to see the canary cage from earlier again with Raven in it but see nothing. "Who know what other tricks he's got up his sleeve. We've got to find Raven and get out of here."
"Wait till I get my claws on Mumbo," Cyborg threatens as he tries pulling off another tutu before freezing. "Did I just say claws?"
Starfire grunts in annoyance. "Be thankful that you do not have the fleas." She reaches up and itches behind her ear when Beast Boy changes into an old fashioned telephone, the light somehow remaining despite Beast Boy not providing it anymore. We all glance at each other before Cyborg answers.
"Uh, hello?"
"Hello, what have you got to complain about?" we hear Beast Boy shout through the phone as Cyborg pulls it away from his ear. "I'm a lamp! What's wrong with being an animal anyway! At least you guys have legs! I can't even move! And do you have any idea how hot a light bulb get-" Cyborg hangs up the phone before smirking at Star and I.
"Well at least we finally found a way to shut him up!" But then Beast Boy changes into a foghorn and blasts right into Cyborg's ear, sending him crashing through his pile of tutus and into a door that just appeared out of nowhere.
We all question the door before I step around Cy and open the door, stepping back out onto the street we first arrived at.
"We're back where we started," Starfire states, holding Beast Boy in her hands.
"And I'm still wearing a tutu," Cy angrily comments, glancing at the frilly piece of clothing with contempt when Beast Boy changes again, this time into a phone booth.
We all look at each other again before I step into the booth to answer the ringing phone. "So what does the great bludini want with Raven anyway?"
He seems to have the same question on his mind that I have on his. Why her? Why Raven? Is it because she poses the biggest threat? If so, then all the villains we fight should technically be after her. She's the biggest threat out of all of us. If Raven were to ever lose her careful control, we'd all be doomed.
"I have no idea," I look out the windows of the booth and notice old-fashioned jail cars approaching with their sirens blaring. "But we have other things to worry about right now." The vans pull to a stop and the back doors break open, large gloves jumping out and walking on two of their fingers and closing in on us.
Beast Boy screams in my ear as the gloves approach. "Killer gloves!"
"I'm going to have to put you on hold," I claim before dropping the earpiece and running out of the booth.
I reach into my belt and pull out what I thought was a birdarang but turned out to be a banana that only flies a couple of feet before falling to the floor and bursting open at the gloves feet. Not seconds later, the gloves form a fist and hover, punching me to the ground. We all attempt to fight the gloves but with all of our powers and gadgets swapped for ridiculous party gags, we're easily overpowered and "arrested."
As we're all pushed into the back of a van, Cyborg states the obvious. "We're trapped in a hat being manhandled by gloves. What next?" The doors of the van slam shut behind us as a carnival game lights up in front of us, Mumbo dressed as a fortuneteller announces that we have a bright but short future in show biz. Then disappears, poofing us out of existence once more.
Next think I know, I'm being contained within a glove in what appears to be backstage at a theatre, Raven appearing next to me in her little canary cage as she glares daggers at Mumbo.
"You know what they say, if you can't beat Mumbo, join Mumbo." Mumbo's head swells like a large balloon as a small puppet appears and announces the show is about to begin followed by praise for Mumbo, which only makes his head swell before popping.
"We're not going to be part of your show," I claim and begin to struggle within the glove while Mumbo's head reattaches itself to his body.
"Oh, I think you will." He says confidently. "It makes me so happy, I could sing!" Mumbo actually begins to sing, all of our confinements disappearing and we waste no time jumping towards Mumbo before being frozen in midair, feet dangling off the ground. We're pulled away one by one and changed into different outfits, Cyborg in a dress, Starfire a leotard, Raven a swimsuit, and myself in a blue tux.
The moment we're free, we all pull the ridiculous clothing off and all seem to be relieved to find our normal uniforms underneath before being grabbed and caged. We're set beneath the stage, Mumbo and applause faintly heard from above us.
"We have to stop the show before the finale or else it's curtains for us."
"Perhaps if we work together we can find a way to defeat him." Starfire suggests as she itches behind her ear again.
"Mumbo's taken our powers. He's turned us into furry creatures and a lamp. How can we defeat him if he's holding all the cards?" Raven asks, her arms crossing beneath her cloak.
"Powers or no powers, we're still the Titans. What we've got to do is-" I stop short when the trap door above us opens and Mumbo announces the opening act: the dancing Cybear. Cyborg shoots us all a panicked look as he's pulled through the ceiling. While Cyborg does whatever above us, we try and think of solutions to the problem.
"We could sneak up behind the Mumbo and-" Starfire cuts off when Beast Boy types something out on a small piece of paper.
"Mumbo's got eyes in the back of his hat." I read. "Beast Boy's right," I claim before Cyborg is brought back down and I'm taken through the opening.
"Robin!" Starfire and Raven both cry out. I'm released from my cage and glance up at Mumbo, waiting to see what he does before doing anything.
"And now for the comedy portion of our show!" Mumbo announces as I pull two bananas from my belt and squeezing them at his eyes.
"We'll see who's laughing now," I claim as Mumbo reels back from the bananas and growls in anger before a jack-in-the-box appears. I watch hesitantly as he winds it up and cymbals appear in my hands, people booing from their seats in the audience, holding rotten fruit in their hands. The fruit and other garbage get thrown on the stage at me and it's all I can do to dodge most of it in time. Suddenly, increasingly heavy objects begin falling from the ceiling. First a weighted bag, then a piano, then a car, a bus, and even a cruise ship. All disappear into doves as I'm lowered back through the floor, thoroughly exhausted.
"Any ideas?" I ask, slumped in my cage.
"Still working on it," Cyborg claims unenthusiastically when Starfire's lifted through the ceiling next.
Beast Boy transforms into an old record player. "I got it!" he exclaims excitedly before Cyborg cuts him off.
"It can't involve driving a tank or unleashing magician eating sharks." I reach over and wind Beast Boy up.
"I don't got it." Sometimes these two blow me away with how they know what each other is going to say.
Starfire drops through the ceiling and Beast Boy is pulled upwards. "Four acts down, one to go," I glance worriedly at Raven. She's been Mumbo's obsession and I worry for what he has planned for her. She meets my eyes and something in them assures me. If he's done anything to her this far, she's handled it. She seems to assure me that she can handle whatever it is he has planned for her with a single look. "We don't have much time before the finale."
"Raven, you are the Mumbo's assistant. Surely you must know some of his secrets." Starfire tries.
"He never told me anything," she replies, hood drawn up over her face, hiding if she's revealing everything or not.
The trapdoor opens once more and Raven takes places with Beast Boy. "Come on, Titans, think!" I urge as she disappears above. Only moments later, applause can be heard but Raven doesn't come back down through the door.
"There's got to be something we're not seeing." I ponder aloud.
"Maybe all of this is more of Mumbo's mumbo jumbo-just a trick!" Beast Boy claims after changing into a phone again.
"It all seems awfully real to me."
"Starfire's right," Raven claims, suddenly appearing along with her cage. I want to hug her in relief but am unable to do so. "Whatever happens in here is real, even if it is a trick." She goes silent for a moment before her eyes widen and she smirks. "But that doesn't mean we can't perform an even bigger trick." She turns to me. "Robin, can your tail reach those cans of paint?" I glance to the side and see the cans she's referring to.
"Sure,"
"Beast Boy, can you be a paintbrush?" He changes and she nods to me. I pull the paint towards her and she mutters her incantation, the paint seeming to disappear within the can. She reaches for Beast Boy and dips him in the can. Every part of him that dips inside disappears and Raven brings him to her body, brushing him over herself, slowing disappearing. I grit my teeth as Beast Boy touches more of my girlfriend then he should, no matter the form or the reason, but I allow them to continue as Raven covers her whole body in the invisible paint. She goes fully invisible until she opens her eyes and mouth.
"Everybody do the same." She instructs and we hurry to comply when applause starts from above, signifying the beginning of the finale. We all rise through the floor and I cross my fingers that Raven's plan works. Not that I don't trust her, I just don't know what Mumbo's capable of in this world.
As we clear the trapdoor, gasps of horror and shock fill the audience before booing fills the theatre.
"I-I don't understand!" Mumbo shouts in confusion. "They-they were just here a second ago!" I sigh in relief that the plan worked.
Mumbo leans down to Raven's cage and opens the door, peering inside with confusion when her eyes open and she shouts, "Alakazam!" kicking Mumbo in the face and her whole body being sucked out of the cage, all of us following as Mumbo falls back on the floor. We appear in front of him along with all the money.
"All right!" Cyborg cheers. "I'm back with a vengeance!"
Raven pushes her hood back and seems to check her head for ears before smirking as Mumbo panics and tries to escape. I throw a real birdarang at him as the cops burst through the door. Mumbo falls back to the ground as Beats Boy celebrates my lack of bananas. Raven lands on the floor in front of us before reaching out and snatching Mumbo's hat away from him with her magic.
"We're going to make sure you don't have any encore performances."
The cops grab Mumbo as he struggles forward to be closer to Rae. I tense, stepping forward slightly when Cyborg puts a hand on my shoulder, holding me back. When I glance over my shoulder at him, he smirks and nods back to Raven. I return my attention to her and Mumbo.
"B-But my magic! How did you escape?"
"I had a better trick up my sleeve," Rae claims confidently.
"I gotta know. Come on, kid, just between us," he leans way closer, "tell me what you did."
Raven only smirks before twirling his hat and placing it on her head. "A magician never reveals her secrets," she tells him, her smirk growing and she winks as Mumbo frowns and is pulled away by the cops.
Cyborg's hand drops from my shoulder as I step forward and turn her around, embracing her tightly, whether she wants the others to see it or not.
Surprisingly, she doesn't fight my hug, her arms wrapping around my shoulders as I nuzzle into her neck, Mumbo's hat falling off her head. Starfire quickly comes forward and picks it up, paranoid after the days events. Not that I blame her.
"I was so worried. I'm so sorry I let go," her hands smooth up and down my back, digging in between my shoulder blades in the way she knows unravels me after a stressful mission.
"You didn't let go. There's nothing either of us could've done to hold on better. Mumbo's magic pulled me away from you. He saw my magic as a threat and wanted me to assist him and stay away from you guys. My magic wasn't working in there for most things. I was scared of what he'd do to you," she admits as I press a kiss below her ear.
"Well, all is okay now." I say but more as a reassurance to myself then to her.
"Yes," she agrees. "But I'll still hold you tighter tonight to enforce that I'm not going anywhere." She mutters, knowing that I'll need the comfort to be able to fall asleep tonight and know she'll be there.
I chuckle at how well she knows me and press one more kiss to her neck before pulling away and smiling at her.
"You do look pretty cute in that hat, though," I tease and she groans, pulling her hood up and over her face to hide her embarrassment. I chuckle and wrap my arm around her shoulders, guiding her out of the bank with the rest of the team following, watching Mumbo get hauled away as he watches Raven with calculating eyes, most likely obsessing over how she defeated him.
All is okay now….hopefully.
A/N: Two and half hours, 4,690 words, and 9 pages later, I have the first chapter done. I think it went pretty well, the ending is cute, but I hope to have even more evidence of their relationship in the future. I did leave some things out and skip over some stuff to make it flow better and to save time instead of wasting it on unnecessary details. I hope you guys enjoy and I hope to update this story soon!
Thx!
AMM