Disclaimer: See chapter one.
It's time for something I don't do very often! Drum roll, please. *dun, dun, dun, dun, ect.* It's time for me to answer reviews! Yay! First off, Moon girl 16, you totally rock for reviewing all the work I do no matter how weird it might be. Thank you. Second, Starre, thanks to you, the Ebony Saga with the Titans is going to be one story longer! I was planning to end it with this story, but now I've gotten an idea for a third story based on your requests for a Robin/Jinx story. The final story in the Ebony Saga will indeed be a Robin/Jinx coupling story, okay? Also, thanks for the tip about Tramm. If you want me to reply to more reviews, review this chapter!
~*Chapter 5*~
Beast Boy was the first of the Titans to start panicking. He was all alone, and he knew it. The place he was in was so dark and hot that it was hard to run, let alone breathe. Despite that, he started running in an attempt to find anyone that could help him out of this.
"Robin! Star! Cy!" he called, running around in circles. "Aqualad! Raven! Ebony! Are any of you guys here?" He stopped short. "Guys, this isn't funny! Come back now!"
"Stop shouting, my ducky. Do you need a detention?"
"That voice!" Beast Boy whispered. "I know that voice!"
"Hey, are you passing notes? Read it aloud to the rest of the class!"
"What rest of the class?"
"Aye, I think someone woke up and didn't eat breakfast this morning. Are you slacking off when it comes to your school performance?"
Mad Mod walked out from the darkness in his teaching suit.
"What? Impossible!" Beast Boy cried as he stepped back in shock. "You're just a hologram! You can't hurt me."
"Really?" Mad Mod asked back. "Could a hologram do this?" He poked Beast Boy in the stomach with his cane.
"But the real you is just some old guy!" Beast Boy accused. "Besides, we put you in jail a long time ago!"
"Isn't it great to have your youth restored? Now then, I think a hypno-screen is needed to fix you up."
With that, the entire place turned into one giant hypnotic screen. Beast Boy shouted and fell back. He tried to crab-crawl his way out of the room, but it was too late.
"Don't look at the screen," he told himself. "Don't look at the-" But he couldn't finish his sentence. Beast Boy had become a victim to Mad Mod's screens once again. He sat there in the middle of the floor drooling all over the place.
Starfire was the second one to go.
"Hello," she called, slowly walking down the halls of the dark room she was in, "is anybody else occupying this area at the time? Is anybody here with me?" Starfire could feel her fear rising up through her and affecting every single little cell in her body. Soon, she started to shiver in pure terror. "Cyborg! Aqualad! Ebony! Beast Boy! Raven! Robin! Where are all of you?"
"And so the beautiful alien Starfire continued her search for her friends,"
"Who is there?" Starfire gasped, looking around the room. She, too, was in total darkness. "Show yourself, please!"
"The eerie darkness of the room she was in frightened her, but she continued to call out for her friends."
"Is someone trying to narrate my search for my friends?"
"A voice followed her. The voice almost seemed to control her, just like I am."
Starfire looked to her hands to see strings attached to them. She looked at her feet to see those strings attached to her legs. There was one string coming out of the top of her head, too.
"My body!" Starfire screamed, flailing to get the strings off. "Someone is turning me into something like, like,"
"A puppet?"
Suddenly, the room brightened. Starfire stood on tiny stage with her feet off the ground, but she wasn't flying. She was being held by torturing strings. Before she knew it, she couldn't move on her own. She couldn't even speak on her own. She looked up to see who was doing this to her.
"Are you enjoying the Puppet King's show?" he asked. "Now, dance. Dance for the audience, Starfire. They came to see a show."
Lights came up on the audience members. Slade's robots stood there, eyes narrowed.
"Starfire continued to call out for her friends. Soon, she ran into a group of her enemies," the Puppet King continued. "She went to use a star bolt. 'My weapon is disabled!' she cried, and the enemy attacked."
Cyborg was third.
"Hey, where the heck am I?" he asked himself, slowly walking down the dark halls. "Guys, where are you? We've been separated!"
Cyborg walked down the halls, his metal feet making a gentle clack against the floor. He used his eye to guide him through the thick darkness. He constantly looked behind him to see if anyone was coming.
"Raven! Star! B.B.! Robbie! Aqualad! Ebony! Are you guys around here? Did anyone come with me? I don't think we planned this when we decided that we were going to go after Slade!"
Before he could say anything else, something grabbed Cyborg behind him. He turned around and looked straight in the eyes of Cinderblock. He tried to fight his way out of the tight grip.
"Let me go!" he shouted.
"I don't think that'll be happening anytime soon." Cyborg looked straight ahead and saw Fixit coming out from the darkness. "I have my orders, and we will finally make those repairs that have needed doing this whole time."
"You teamed up with Slade because you wanted to make repairs on me?!" Cyborg exploded. "I thought I showed you how great it was to be human!"
"Don't be so silly," Fixit reasoned. "Slade showed me how great it was to be a robot. Your biometrics are inferior."
Cyborg could only stare at Fixit's red eyes. Cinderblock tightened his grip on the robot. Cyborg squirmed, trying to get free.
"You've been reprogrammed," he whispered.
Next was Aqualad.
"Hey, is anybody here?" he asked into the darkness. "Hello? Can somebody help me out? Anyone?"
He walked, somewhat nervously, down the halls. Although he worked alone, Aqualad never dealt with anything like this. He always had Tramm to back him up, but this was totally different. This time, he was alone, for real. He shook his head and cautiously walked.
"Starfire! Beast Boy! Raven! Cyborg! Robin! Ebony, whoever you are! Can any of you hear me?" he called. There was no reply. The hair on the back of his neck started to stand on end. "This is bad."
"And Perfection is tired of listening to it!"
Aqualad whirled around to see Trident attack. He jumped out of the way at the last second, but kept getting bombarded with the villain's attacks. Silently, he wished that Beast Boy would appear and back him up.
Now, it was Robin's turn.
Out of all the Titans, Robin had to be the least scared. He was still scared, yes, but he stood his ground and held a straight face. He took tiny steps as he observed his surroundings.
"Let's see," he began, "I'm in the middle of my worst enemy's hideout with a bunch of other villains who probably want to get me. I've been separated from my friends, and one of those friends has a sister that's probably in grave danger. And how are you?"
"Just fine, thanks."
Robin whipped around but saw nothing down the dark halls of the hideout. He narrowed his eyes and scratched his head.
"This is weird," he said to himself. "Is anybody out there? Hello? Ebony! Aqualad! Beast Boy! Starfire! Cyborg! Raven!"
"Stop shouting, you stupid loser!"
Suddenly, a light appeared behind Robin. He turned to see a single TV on. Soon there was another activated, and then another, and then another until the entire room shined with the lights. Robin squinted and listened to what the people on the TVs were saying.
"Oh, it looks as if we've got ourselves the leader of the Teen Titans. What are you doing here without the rest of the team?" Gizmo asked.
Robin could only step back in surprise. He went to destroy the TVs with his bird-a-rang, but something gave him a good punch in the back from behind. Mammoth grabbed one of the TVs and threw it at the Titan leader. Robin rolled out of the way but was stopped short by one of the spider legs out of Gizmo's backpack.
"Where's your little girlfriend?" he asked, gasping for breath.
"Who? Jinx?"
"That sissy girl couldn't take all the heat of capturing that other little girl," Mammoth explained. "She's on her own now."
The last thing Robin saw was a flash of Jinx on her own in his mind; then his world went black.
And then there was one.
Raven sat in a corner of a warm room. Her hood was pulled low on her face and her expression was gloomier than normal. Her arms were crossed, and her knees were pulled up against her chest. She was caught. Beast Boy was caught by Mad Mod, Starfire by the Puppet King, Cyborg by Fixit and Cinderblock, Aqualad by Trident, Robin by Mammoth and Gizmo, and Raven by Slade. She slowly brought her head up. She felt weak. It was hard to breathe, and Slade staring down at her wasn't making it any easier.
"Tell me," Raven quietly demanded, "where my sister is."
"In time out," Slade replied simply. "I knew you Titans would want to come rescue her. Tell me, did you enjoy the tricks and traps set out in the halls?"
"They were made by me!" Mumbo Jumbo called from behind the arch villain.
"And nobody cares," Lightning announced, pushing him to the side.
"You monsters," Raven whispered, "all you care about is death and destruction. You're all a bunch of maniacs that were bored so you decided to go enslave the world. I want my little sister back, and I want her back now."
"I'm afraid that's impossible," Slade continued. "You see, Raven, it's quite simple. I was thinking too small in all my other plans to destroy you and the rest of the Titans. After seeing some of the battles that other villains put you through, I got an idea. I summoned everyone here and restored them to be the villains they truly are. I was most impressed with Mad Mod, the Puppet King, Fixit, Cinderblock, Trident, Gizmo, Mammoth, you know. Right now, your Titan friends are in their clutches. Don't feel left out. They're suffering as well."
"If you wanted to destroy the Titans, then how come you kidnapped my sister?" Raven asked.
"An inferior annoyance like her was easy bait, don't you agree?"
"Don't talk about my sister like that!"
{Maybe we shouldn't,} Thunder thought, scratching his head. {Maybe this is something like when Brother and I encountered the green one.}
"Raven," Slade said, "if you want your sister back, why don't you fight for it? Why don't you just use telekinesis and throw me into a wall? Wouldn't something like that be easy for you?"
"If I use my powers, you'll kill Ebony, wherever she is," Raven replied, rage filling her. "Even though I could destroy you easily and reveal your identity to the world, I don't want to lose my sister." She looked up to the Thunder and Lightning. "If you guys care about each other as brothers, you wouldn't want to lose each other either. One of you must know how I feel."
Thunder slightly squirmed in place. He knew exactly what Raven was talking about. Lightning crossed his arms and looked at the Titan stubbornly. Yeah, he knew what she was talking about, but he didn't really want to admit it. He didn't really do sappy moments with siblings.
"What a precious little girl we have here," Slade commented on Raven's speech. "Perhaps you're not as much of a depressed girl as I thought, but that won't do any use. You and your sister are going to be dead."
"No, they won't!"
Slade turned around only to be punched in the face by Thunder. Mumbo Jumbo went to help Slade, but Lightning stopped him in his tracks. He delivered a storm of lightning bolts to the evil magician. As his magic spells were undone, the Titans, from their capture spots, awakened. Beast Boy stopped drooling on the floor; Mad Mod turned back into an old man and his hypno-screens were undone. Starfire turned back to a girl, and the Puppet King turned back into a normal puppet. Fixit's eyes went back to their blue color. Cinderblock fell to the floor after a good strength kick from Cyborg. Trident weakened and Aqualad was able to kick him back to the bottom of the ocean (literally). Gizmo's technology was disabled, leaving him and Mammoth defenseless. A few good karate chops from Robin took them out easy.
Mumbo Jumbo fell to the floor as the normal person he once was. Lightning stood before him with a smirk on his face. Slade lay on the floor courtesy of Thunder. He walked over to Raven and helped her stand up.
"Are you okay?" he asked, dusting her off.
"Fine," Raven replied. "Where are the Titans? Where's Ebony?"
Out of the corner of her eye, Raven saw Slade still moving on the floor.
"Azarath, Metrion, Zinthos!" she shouted, lifting Slade into the air. She used her powers and smacked him into a wall. "You wanted me to do that, so I did!" She walked over to the psycho villain. "Tell me where my sister is, now."
"Never," Slade mumbled. "I will never tell you."
"Oh, shut up!" Lightning ordered, throwing another bolt in his face. His mask started to crack. "Raven, I'll tell you. Slade locked Ebony up down that hall." Lightning pointed down a dark hallway. Without another word, Raven ran down the hallway. Thunder and Lightning followed.
"Big Sister!"
"Ebony!"
Raven dropped to her knees and grabbed his sister's hands from inside her prison cage. Thunder handed her the keys. She fumbled with them for a moment and finally stuck one inside the keyhole. She turned it and grabbed Ebony inside. The sisters locked each other in a warm embrace.
Thunder and Lightning knew where this was going.
"We'll go gather up the other villains and your friends," Lightning offered. He and his brother walked down the halls back to where Slade was defeated.
"Big Sister," Ebony began, "I have something to tell you."
"I can wait," Raven insisted. "Let's just go home."
"This has to be said now!"
"What is it?"
"There's something wrong with me," Ebony mumbled.
"Are you sick?" Raven asked. "If you're not feeling well, we'll go home and call a doctor. Maybe we can order in some food, or Beast Boy could make tofu casserole! We'll watch comedy movies and play video games all night. Would you like that?"
Ebony didn't reply. She looked off to the side as her eyes filled with tears.
"I won't be able to do that," she announced.
"Why?"
"Slade wasn't lying when he said I was going to be dead soon."
"You've come back from the dead, right?"
"With help,"
Raven stared at her little sister. When she finally was able to accept that her sister was back, she goes and says that she did something wrong. Raven couldn't digest that.
"Nonsense!" she argued. "Everything's going to be fine. I promise."
"You'll break that promise in a matter of minutes!" Ebony yelled. "Everything's not going to be fine. Nothing's been fine since the day I was born! There isn't a reason for me to be born. I shouldn't have been! You were supposed to be an only child throughout all of eternity."
"But?"
"But Trigon is just so," Ebony stopped.
"What happened? What did Trigon do?" Raven asked as she shook her sister. "Tell me!"
"He's just so horrible," Ebony explained. "You, Big Sister, Raven, I know all about your past. I know that's weird for a younger sibling to know, but I do. I, too, have a past like that."
"But, Trigon should have left my mother alone,"
"He did."
Raven's eyes grew wide.
"Big Sister, we're not 100% blood-related sisters! Trigon, that horrible demon, raped another woman!"
Raven shook with a mix of rage and confusion running through her veins.
"But that's impossible!" she exclaimed. "We look exactly alike! We look like real sisters."
"He must've planned something out," Ebony reasoned, "because we may look alike, but we are not true sisters."
Raven could only sit there in pure shock. She felt her heart stop and her fingers shake.
"Oh, Ebony!" she cried, grabbing her. "I don't care what our past is! We're still sisters and we always will be." Suddenly, Raven felt her arms against her chest. "What? Ebony, you're starting to disappear!"
"Slade and Mumbo Jumbo cast a spell on me. If I agreed to serve them, they'd restore my spirit to my body. That was the only sure-fire way I could see you again. Now that's I've gone and told you this, the spell is being undone. I'm dying."
Ebony collapsed, breathing hard. Raven tried to grab her, but her arms went right through the poor girl. She looked at her hands and then to Ebony. This was way too much.
"No!" she screamed. "I won't lose you again!"
Apparently, fate wasn't listening. Ebony disappeared into thin air, leaving a small trail of blue sparkles behind.
"You liar!" Raven screamed into the air. "You told me that everything was fine when you came! This doesn't seem too fine!" She stood up. "You said that you came back from the dead for good. You made yourself completely at home in Titans Tower. But, no! You went and made a deal with our worst enemy and then died all over again! Do you know how much anguish I suffered through when you died the first time? Did you think I wanted to go through that whole episode again?"
Raven dropped to her knees and cried.
"You idiot," she mumbled. "You little lying bitch,"
~*End of Chapter Five*~
It's time for something I don't do very often! Drum roll, please. *dun, dun, dun, dun, ect.* It's time for me to answer reviews! Yay! First off, Moon girl 16, you totally rock for reviewing all the work I do no matter how weird it might be. Thank you. Second, Starre, thanks to you, the Ebony Saga with the Titans is going to be one story longer! I was planning to end it with this story, but now I've gotten an idea for a third story based on your requests for a Robin/Jinx story. The final story in the Ebony Saga will indeed be a Robin/Jinx coupling story, okay? Also, thanks for the tip about Tramm. If you want me to reply to more reviews, review this chapter!
~*Chapter 5*~
Beast Boy was the first of the Titans to start panicking. He was all alone, and he knew it. The place he was in was so dark and hot that it was hard to run, let alone breathe. Despite that, he started running in an attempt to find anyone that could help him out of this.
"Robin! Star! Cy!" he called, running around in circles. "Aqualad! Raven! Ebony! Are any of you guys here?" He stopped short. "Guys, this isn't funny! Come back now!"
"Stop shouting, my ducky. Do you need a detention?"
"That voice!" Beast Boy whispered. "I know that voice!"
"Hey, are you passing notes? Read it aloud to the rest of the class!"
"What rest of the class?"
"Aye, I think someone woke up and didn't eat breakfast this morning. Are you slacking off when it comes to your school performance?"
Mad Mod walked out from the darkness in his teaching suit.
"What? Impossible!" Beast Boy cried as he stepped back in shock. "You're just a hologram! You can't hurt me."
"Really?" Mad Mod asked back. "Could a hologram do this?" He poked Beast Boy in the stomach with his cane.
"But the real you is just some old guy!" Beast Boy accused. "Besides, we put you in jail a long time ago!"
"Isn't it great to have your youth restored? Now then, I think a hypno-screen is needed to fix you up."
With that, the entire place turned into one giant hypnotic screen. Beast Boy shouted and fell back. He tried to crab-crawl his way out of the room, but it was too late.
"Don't look at the screen," he told himself. "Don't look at the-" But he couldn't finish his sentence. Beast Boy had become a victim to Mad Mod's screens once again. He sat there in the middle of the floor drooling all over the place.
Starfire was the second one to go.
"Hello," she called, slowly walking down the halls of the dark room she was in, "is anybody else occupying this area at the time? Is anybody here with me?" Starfire could feel her fear rising up through her and affecting every single little cell in her body. Soon, she started to shiver in pure terror. "Cyborg! Aqualad! Ebony! Beast Boy! Raven! Robin! Where are all of you?"
"And so the beautiful alien Starfire continued her search for her friends,"
"Who is there?" Starfire gasped, looking around the room. She, too, was in total darkness. "Show yourself, please!"
"The eerie darkness of the room she was in frightened her, but she continued to call out for her friends."
"Is someone trying to narrate my search for my friends?"
"A voice followed her. The voice almost seemed to control her, just like I am."
Starfire looked to her hands to see strings attached to them. She looked at her feet to see those strings attached to her legs. There was one string coming out of the top of her head, too.
"My body!" Starfire screamed, flailing to get the strings off. "Someone is turning me into something like, like,"
"A puppet?"
Suddenly, the room brightened. Starfire stood on tiny stage with her feet off the ground, but she wasn't flying. She was being held by torturing strings. Before she knew it, she couldn't move on her own. She couldn't even speak on her own. She looked up to see who was doing this to her.
"Are you enjoying the Puppet King's show?" he asked. "Now, dance. Dance for the audience, Starfire. They came to see a show."
Lights came up on the audience members. Slade's robots stood there, eyes narrowed.
"Starfire continued to call out for her friends. Soon, she ran into a group of her enemies," the Puppet King continued. "She went to use a star bolt. 'My weapon is disabled!' she cried, and the enemy attacked."
Cyborg was third.
"Hey, where the heck am I?" he asked himself, slowly walking down the dark halls. "Guys, where are you? We've been separated!"
Cyborg walked down the halls, his metal feet making a gentle clack against the floor. He used his eye to guide him through the thick darkness. He constantly looked behind him to see if anyone was coming.
"Raven! Star! B.B.! Robbie! Aqualad! Ebony! Are you guys around here? Did anyone come with me? I don't think we planned this when we decided that we were going to go after Slade!"
Before he could say anything else, something grabbed Cyborg behind him. He turned around and looked straight in the eyes of Cinderblock. He tried to fight his way out of the tight grip.
"Let me go!" he shouted.
"I don't think that'll be happening anytime soon." Cyborg looked straight ahead and saw Fixit coming out from the darkness. "I have my orders, and we will finally make those repairs that have needed doing this whole time."
"You teamed up with Slade because you wanted to make repairs on me?!" Cyborg exploded. "I thought I showed you how great it was to be human!"
"Don't be so silly," Fixit reasoned. "Slade showed me how great it was to be a robot. Your biometrics are inferior."
Cyborg could only stare at Fixit's red eyes. Cinderblock tightened his grip on the robot. Cyborg squirmed, trying to get free.
"You've been reprogrammed," he whispered.
Next was Aqualad.
"Hey, is anybody here?" he asked into the darkness. "Hello? Can somebody help me out? Anyone?"
He walked, somewhat nervously, down the halls. Although he worked alone, Aqualad never dealt with anything like this. He always had Tramm to back him up, but this was totally different. This time, he was alone, for real. He shook his head and cautiously walked.
"Starfire! Beast Boy! Raven! Cyborg! Robin! Ebony, whoever you are! Can any of you hear me?" he called. There was no reply. The hair on the back of his neck started to stand on end. "This is bad."
"And Perfection is tired of listening to it!"
Aqualad whirled around to see Trident attack. He jumped out of the way at the last second, but kept getting bombarded with the villain's attacks. Silently, he wished that Beast Boy would appear and back him up.
Now, it was Robin's turn.
Out of all the Titans, Robin had to be the least scared. He was still scared, yes, but he stood his ground and held a straight face. He took tiny steps as he observed his surroundings.
"Let's see," he began, "I'm in the middle of my worst enemy's hideout with a bunch of other villains who probably want to get me. I've been separated from my friends, and one of those friends has a sister that's probably in grave danger. And how are you?"
"Just fine, thanks."
Robin whipped around but saw nothing down the dark halls of the hideout. He narrowed his eyes and scratched his head.
"This is weird," he said to himself. "Is anybody out there? Hello? Ebony! Aqualad! Beast Boy! Starfire! Cyborg! Raven!"
"Stop shouting, you stupid loser!"
Suddenly, a light appeared behind Robin. He turned to see a single TV on. Soon there was another activated, and then another, and then another until the entire room shined with the lights. Robin squinted and listened to what the people on the TVs were saying.
"Oh, it looks as if we've got ourselves the leader of the Teen Titans. What are you doing here without the rest of the team?" Gizmo asked.
Robin could only step back in surprise. He went to destroy the TVs with his bird-a-rang, but something gave him a good punch in the back from behind. Mammoth grabbed one of the TVs and threw it at the Titan leader. Robin rolled out of the way but was stopped short by one of the spider legs out of Gizmo's backpack.
"Where's your little girlfriend?" he asked, gasping for breath.
"Who? Jinx?"
"That sissy girl couldn't take all the heat of capturing that other little girl," Mammoth explained. "She's on her own now."
The last thing Robin saw was a flash of Jinx on her own in his mind; then his world went black.
And then there was one.
Raven sat in a corner of a warm room. Her hood was pulled low on her face and her expression was gloomier than normal. Her arms were crossed, and her knees were pulled up against her chest. She was caught. Beast Boy was caught by Mad Mod, Starfire by the Puppet King, Cyborg by Fixit and Cinderblock, Aqualad by Trident, Robin by Mammoth and Gizmo, and Raven by Slade. She slowly brought her head up. She felt weak. It was hard to breathe, and Slade staring down at her wasn't making it any easier.
"Tell me," Raven quietly demanded, "where my sister is."
"In time out," Slade replied simply. "I knew you Titans would want to come rescue her. Tell me, did you enjoy the tricks and traps set out in the halls?"
"They were made by me!" Mumbo Jumbo called from behind the arch villain.
"And nobody cares," Lightning announced, pushing him to the side.
"You monsters," Raven whispered, "all you care about is death and destruction. You're all a bunch of maniacs that were bored so you decided to go enslave the world. I want my little sister back, and I want her back now."
"I'm afraid that's impossible," Slade continued. "You see, Raven, it's quite simple. I was thinking too small in all my other plans to destroy you and the rest of the Titans. After seeing some of the battles that other villains put you through, I got an idea. I summoned everyone here and restored them to be the villains they truly are. I was most impressed with Mad Mod, the Puppet King, Fixit, Cinderblock, Trident, Gizmo, Mammoth, you know. Right now, your Titan friends are in their clutches. Don't feel left out. They're suffering as well."
"If you wanted to destroy the Titans, then how come you kidnapped my sister?" Raven asked.
"An inferior annoyance like her was easy bait, don't you agree?"
"Don't talk about my sister like that!"
{Maybe we shouldn't,} Thunder thought, scratching his head. {Maybe this is something like when Brother and I encountered the green one.}
"Raven," Slade said, "if you want your sister back, why don't you fight for it? Why don't you just use telekinesis and throw me into a wall? Wouldn't something like that be easy for you?"
"If I use my powers, you'll kill Ebony, wherever she is," Raven replied, rage filling her. "Even though I could destroy you easily and reveal your identity to the world, I don't want to lose my sister." She looked up to the Thunder and Lightning. "If you guys care about each other as brothers, you wouldn't want to lose each other either. One of you must know how I feel."
Thunder slightly squirmed in place. He knew exactly what Raven was talking about. Lightning crossed his arms and looked at the Titan stubbornly. Yeah, he knew what she was talking about, but he didn't really want to admit it. He didn't really do sappy moments with siblings.
"What a precious little girl we have here," Slade commented on Raven's speech. "Perhaps you're not as much of a depressed girl as I thought, but that won't do any use. You and your sister are going to be dead."
"No, they won't!"
Slade turned around only to be punched in the face by Thunder. Mumbo Jumbo went to help Slade, but Lightning stopped him in his tracks. He delivered a storm of lightning bolts to the evil magician. As his magic spells were undone, the Titans, from their capture spots, awakened. Beast Boy stopped drooling on the floor; Mad Mod turned back into an old man and his hypno-screens were undone. Starfire turned back to a girl, and the Puppet King turned back into a normal puppet. Fixit's eyes went back to their blue color. Cinderblock fell to the floor after a good strength kick from Cyborg. Trident weakened and Aqualad was able to kick him back to the bottom of the ocean (literally). Gizmo's technology was disabled, leaving him and Mammoth defenseless. A few good karate chops from Robin took them out easy.
Mumbo Jumbo fell to the floor as the normal person he once was. Lightning stood before him with a smirk on his face. Slade lay on the floor courtesy of Thunder. He walked over to Raven and helped her stand up.
"Are you okay?" he asked, dusting her off.
"Fine," Raven replied. "Where are the Titans? Where's Ebony?"
Out of the corner of her eye, Raven saw Slade still moving on the floor.
"Azarath, Metrion, Zinthos!" she shouted, lifting Slade into the air. She used her powers and smacked him into a wall. "You wanted me to do that, so I did!" She walked over to the psycho villain. "Tell me where my sister is, now."
"Never," Slade mumbled. "I will never tell you."
"Oh, shut up!" Lightning ordered, throwing another bolt in his face. His mask started to crack. "Raven, I'll tell you. Slade locked Ebony up down that hall." Lightning pointed down a dark hallway. Without another word, Raven ran down the hallway. Thunder and Lightning followed.
"Big Sister!"
"Ebony!"
Raven dropped to her knees and grabbed his sister's hands from inside her prison cage. Thunder handed her the keys. She fumbled with them for a moment and finally stuck one inside the keyhole. She turned it and grabbed Ebony inside. The sisters locked each other in a warm embrace.
Thunder and Lightning knew where this was going.
"We'll go gather up the other villains and your friends," Lightning offered. He and his brother walked down the halls back to where Slade was defeated.
"Big Sister," Ebony began, "I have something to tell you."
"I can wait," Raven insisted. "Let's just go home."
"This has to be said now!"
"What is it?"
"There's something wrong with me," Ebony mumbled.
"Are you sick?" Raven asked. "If you're not feeling well, we'll go home and call a doctor. Maybe we can order in some food, or Beast Boy could make tofu casserole! We'll watch comedy movies and play video games all night. Would you like that?"
Ebony didn't reply. She looked off to the side as her eyes filled with tears.
"I won't be able to do that," she announced.
"Why?"
"Slade wasn't lying when he said I was going to be dead soon."
"You've come back from the dead, right?"
"With help,"
Raven stared at her little sister. When she finally was able to accept that her sister was back, she goes and says that she did something wrong. Raven couldn't digest that.
"Nonsense!" she argued. "Everything's going to be fine. I promise."
"You'll break that promise in a matter of minutes!" Ebony yelled. "Everything's not going to be fine. Nothing's been fine since the day I was born! There isn't a reason for me to be born. I shouldn't have been! You were supposed to be an only child throughout all of eternity."
"But?"
"But Trigon is just so," Ebony stopped.
"What happened? What did Trigon do?" Raven asked as she shook her sister. "Tell me!"
"He's just so horrible," Ebony explained. "You, Big Sister, Raven, I know all about your past. I know that's weird for a younger sibling to know, but I do. I, too, have a past like that."
"But, Trigon should have left my mother alone,"
"He did."
Raven's eyes grew wide.
"Big Sister, we're not 100% blood-related sisters! Trigon, that horrible demon, raped another woman!"
Raven shook with a mix of rage and confusion running through her veins.
"But that's impossible!" she exclaimed. "We look exactly alike! We look like real sisters."
"He must've planned something out," Ebony reasoned, "because we may look alike, but we are not true sisters."
Raven could only sit there in pure shock. She felt her heart stop and her fingers shake.
"Oh, Ebony!" she cried, grabbing her. "I don't care what our past is! We're still sisters and we always will be." Suddenly, Raven felt her arms against her chest. "What? Ebony, you're starting to disappear!"
"Slade and Mumbo Jumbo cast a spell on me. If I agreed to serve them, they'd restore my spirit to my body. That was the only sure-fire way I could see you again. Now that's I've gone and told you this, the spell is being undone. I'm dying."
Ebony collapsed, breathing hard. Raven tried to grab her, but her arms went right through the poor girl. She looked at her hands and then to Ebony. This was way too much.
"No!" she screamed. "I won't lose you again!"
Apparently, fate wasn't listening. Ebony disappeared into thin air, leaving a small trail of blue sparkles behind.
"You liar!" Raven screamed into the air. "You told me that everything was fine when you came! This doesn't seem too fine!" She stood up. "You said that you came back from the dead for good. You made yourself completely at home in Titans Tower. But, no! You went and made a deal with our worst enemy and then died all over again! Do you know how much anguish I suffered through when you died the first time? Did you think I wanted to go through that whole episode again?"
Raven dropped to her knees and cried.
"You idiot," she mumbled. "You little lying bitch,"
~*End of Chapter Five*~
