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Chapter 3

That's No Ordinary Watch

After being informed that Beast boy shouldn't have another attack for awhile, Robin thought of a way to get him back to the Tower.

Cyborg proceeded to disconnect the wires holding Beast boy carefully, not wanting to trigger another reaction out of him.

While he was doing that, Robin first turned his attention to Starfire who was standing guard outside the door, just in case someone tipped the news off and sent people to investigate the truth of the matter. He then turned to Raven who haven't yet move since coming into the room, staring at Beast boy's prone state.

"Raven." She tilted her ear towards him, indicating she was listening. "Can you transport him to the tower with you and get him to the infirmary, that way no one can get any footage of being one Titan down.

After a moment of consideration, she nodded and lifted her hand slowly as it was being ingulfed in her magic. As soon as Cyborg was finished, Beast boy was surrounded within said magic and was gently being lifted into the air, being brought to Raven's side. The Doctor and nurses watched in awe as this was being done. When Beast boy was beside her, she closed her eyes and concentrated, behind her eyelids glowing white.

"Azarath Metrion Zinthos!"

A giant shadow of a Raven sprang out from behind the empath and eloped the two, then dove towards the window, phasing through it and headed onward to Titan's tower with a giant screech.

Once they were gone Cyborg turned his attention back to the doctor.

"There's something I've been meaning to ask you."

"Why didn't l take his watch off?" The doctor asked. At Cyborg's nod, he explained.

"It's standard procedure to remove all items when brought in to hospitals during emergencies, however when we tried to remove it, we couldn't find anything. No latch, velcro lock, nothing of the sort." While he was explaining, he started going through the file in his hands. "Cutting it off prove to be impossible as it broke everything we tried. After we gotten him stable l ran an MRI on him to see if there was anything wrong with his brain."

"An MRI?" Asked Cyborg, looking worried. "But wouldn't the metal interfere with the results and the machine?"

"Surprisingly not, whatever that watch is made of is something non-ferromagnetic."

He stopped his hand on the photo he needed and held it up to look at it. "His brain showed irregular activity, almost active but only certain parts, l suspected it was his animal senses being aware of his surroundings…" He then turned the picture around. "…However, when we check the area around the watch, we found something that caught our attention and worry."

What he showed the Titans first was an MRI of Beast boy's left arm with the watch showing his nerves, but the main difference was the number of nerve endings there; spreading up his arm; pulling up other slides showed the nerves continuing to spread up to his brain and down to his chest.

"As you can see, whatever that watch is, is slowly spreading throughout his body. They're thin strands now, simply making baselines to further deepen its bonding upon later."

The silence in the room was defending as Robin and Cyborg gaped at him while Starfire look horrified.

"Man, you saying my buddy's gotta symbiote!?"

"Yes, please tell us! What you are describing resembles a Lechuseus: that sucks your brain through your ear and plants its egg to control it later!."

The doctor looked confused by what she said but chose to ignore it. "We're not sure yet, with the brain scan it didn't show any activity, so we are assuming it's safe. However, l advises you to keep an eye on him for any changes to his behaviour and outwards appearance.

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All was silent in Titan's Tower since the call that morning; breakfast that was on the table was gone thanks to the giant hungry larvae.

Until a cry of a raven echo from outside as a giant raven made its way to the medical bay, phrasing through and landing before dissolving to reveal the purple empath and her green floating companion.

Raven carefully and gently placed the shifter onto the bed, now there, she relinquished her magic and now focused her attention on his profile again.

His looked calm now since his episode in the hospital, his breathing steady and body relax. Once done with her inspection, she began removing some of his clothes (shoes and shirt) using her magic; with that being done, she let her mind wander.

In Raven's mind

"Any ideas on how this could have happened?"

"Hmm from what the fisherman told us, whatever happen to Beast boy seemed to come from the sky." Stated Knowledge.

"Yeah! It sounds like it came out of one of those movies BB tries to make us watch, which we totally should watch sometime." Exclaimed Happy.

N-n-noo! You know we don't like scary movies, not after last time." Timid whimpered while rubbing her arms.

"Well, whatever came to attack him, better stay away or else they'll have to answer to me!" Proclaimed Brave while pounding her fist into her palm.

"Why did l even ask?" Thought Raven as she starting to pinch the bridge of her nose.

While the debate was going on in her mind between the four, one emotion was lazy around in the background of Happy's realm on her back; her cape a dirty orange-brown color. This was Rude and she was about to make her own statement when she felt a tugging sensation within her own mind and her magic making her pause.

"Hey, loser club!" She yelled, getting an annoyed look from Knowledge and a glare from Brave, she could also feel Raven's annoyance growing. "Is it just me or does anyone else feel that tugging?"

That made Raven pause as she focused on her magic again and indeed felt something pulling against it. She turned her attention back to Beast boy and saw that her magic was focusing on his arm trying to pull something off it.

Curious, Raven approach to get a better look at his arm, on it she found that he had a green and black watch that had a weird face plate it. She focusses more of her magic and tried to get it off, only to have the same results. So, she covered the watch with her magic to find the latch, she started to frown when her search proved fruitless.

"What's up with this thing?" She wondered.

"Interesting, the fisherman did say Beast boy was shouting something about his arm, could this be it?"

With that theory in mind, instead of it being covered, Raven focus on the inner workings of the watch and was suddenly assaulted by an emotional outburst of what felt like thousands upon thousands of different minds rolled into one.

Raven was blown back from the output as her powers went berserk, destroying everything around the room, miraculously sparing Beast boy and the machinery around him. Raven was not even aware of the chaos that surrounded her as she tried to get her mind back under control after such an attack.

Her mind was not doing much better.

"Well…" Rude groaned as she fought back the headache she was enduring. "…this feels great." She said sarcastically and in pain.

"Feels like my brain is getting split open and pulled in multiple directions." Brave stated as she cradled her own head, she could hear Happy's whimpering to her right as Timid passed out to her left soon after it started.

Knowledge was the only one on her feet, thanks to being next to a tree when it happened, breathing heavily as she tried to focus and analysis what she heard and saw.

"That was different, that was something we've never seen or heard before; so many voices, so many thoughts. If we had stayed there for a little while more we would've been driven insane!"

That revelation erupted a shiver from Raven from the floor as she slowly recovered from the event, at this point her communicator went off. Shakily reaching into her cloak to take it out and flip it open to reveal the worried face of Robin.

"Raven, whatever you do, don't go near…" He stopped mid-sentence when he got a better look at her. Sweat rolling down her face, breathing coming in a little laboured and the screen of the communicator trembling just a bit. "…I see you already know about the watch then." He signed.

"Robin, what is that thing? What l felt was…"

"Get Beast boy hooked up, we'll explain everything when we get there." He cut in.

After taking one more breath to center her mind, she replied monotony.

"Alright."

"Thanks, see you soon, Robin out." And cut the transmission.

Raven starred at the black screen for a moment before closing it and rising to her feet, closing her cloak around her. Scanning across the room at the mess her powers made. Taking one last glance at Beast boy prone form, she got to work.