Chapter 7: Uncontrollable Flashbacks
Another week of nothing but sleeping, eating and training, they were ready to go against Slade's team.
"We're gonna kick their asses!" Cyborg shouted in joy. He was going to show them how much stronger he had gotten. He and Robin were on the new and improved BeastBoy with Starfire and Raven leading the way. Beastboy, Robin and Starfire started to laugh. Raven just stared in disgust as they enjoyed themselves behind her. How could they not think about the war between good and evil that was about to happen any minute? She just sped up and the rest followed.
After a few minutes later, they finally reached their tower. Jinx came down attacking Raven from their roof top. Raven was only tackled down but Jinx just ran back inside their doors. Without anyone of them seeing or knowing, including Raven, Jinx had placed a control disk in her hair. The disk made her skin absorb it. She only felt a small head ache, thinking it was from the fall she encountered.
"GO!" Jinx laughed manically. Raven stood up and brushed her self off. Attacking Jinx at the same time with her mind and physically, Robin and the others went against the others.
"You've gotten stronger," Jinx smiled. "But not stronger than me!" she lied to both Raven and herself. Raven was almost as twice as strong as Jinx. She just didn't know it.
"I wouldn't be too proud of myself if I were you!" Raven snarled. Jinx just laughed at her. Her sorcery became stronger just like Raven's mind abilities. She lashed out a purple rift at Raven but she blocked it by controlling the rift and sending it back at Jinx. Her eyes were wide with fear at what Raven would do next. But laughed, remembering that the disk, in any second, would control her. Slade's team would soon have a new and all powerful recruit on their side. He would be pleased.
"Sister!" Raven heard Starfire cry as Blackfire flew above Mammoth. They were out numbered by one person. "No!! You were supposed to be in prison!!"
"I wasn't about to stay in jail for all of eternity, little sister. You have to- LEARN THAT!" Blackfire yelled, shooting little black balls at her. Starfire just looked at her in discouragement. She was supposed to stay in jail for stealing that moon jewel.
Just after the sibling's little argument and their beginning battle, something tingled the inside of Raven's mind. Her eyes went from black to red. Jinx stopped fighting her and Raven stood still, looking like she was sleeping while standing. Jinx gave another laugh.
"You will join our team, and you will kill all of them!" Jinx ordered pointing at the Teen Titans. Raven nodded and began steadily walking to them. But Jinx grabbed her wrist and tightened her grasp, burning Raven's skin. "Not yet." Raven nodded and flew inside the S Tower.
After a reckless two hours of fighting in and out of the house, Blackfire and Gizmo had given up in defeat laying unconscious that was soon to start a pile. Plausmus, in a coma, landed on top of them, with Mammoth following. The Teen Titans were going to win once and for all. Cinderblock was finished off as Cyborg and Robin did their sonic boom.
"That's all of them!" Cyborg smiled, wiping his hands of Plausmus' goo. He dialed the police. A few minutes later, the police arrived and clamped the team of Slade's in chains and large glass tubes, leaving the Teen Titans in almost victory.
"Where's Jinx?" Robin asked in concern. They were horror stricken.
"Where's Raven?" Starfire asked looking around.
"She's probably beating Jinx up on the roof! She'll be fine!" Beastboy claimed. But as soon as those words tumbled out of his mouth, Jinx came floating down. Raven holding her with her mind. After she was set down Raven flew down by her side.
"You think I was being beat up by the most gothic girl ever? You wish," Jinx laughed. Raven, behind her, changed from a grey sweater, jeans and no shoes to her old uniform, except her uniform wasn't blue and black, it was red and black now. Her hood was covering her now red eyes but that didn't stop her from grinning at them. Starfire gasped and Beastboy just took a step back. Cyborg widened his eyes, leaving Robin to utmost surprise. "I'm controlling her now, and the only way to set her free is with words. If you put me in prison or kill me, that'll be your fault she's never going back to you."
"Robin! Do something!" Starfire screeched. "We can't hurt her! She's our friends!" Her eyes yielding into tears. Beastboy agreed with her.
"I- We- We just can't attack her-AH!" Robin leapt backwards from their evil team mates punch's. She kicked Beastboy in the face leaving him with a bloody nose. She tackled down Starfire and continually punched her in the face and neck. Starfire was crying against her will but saved by Cyborg when he threw Raven back. Starfire flew and picked up Beastboy, heading inside the house for safety. They had never seen Raven like this.
"You're going down, missy!" Cyborg yelled. He punched Raven to a tree, but before Raven hit the tree, she regained her control in the air and flew at him, mentally chopping down the trees she passed and then flinging it to him. Robin being left all alone with no one to help him against the girl covered in a blood-red cloak was standing still, not flinching when he saw her or when she called out his name. She started to punch him in the stomach. He leaned over, clutching his sides. He then looked up at her in sorrow for her. She only shook her head and then kicked him in the face. He rolled over and was lying on his back. She was about to step on his neck and cut off his breathing cycle when a memory from the past began to take over her mind. The real Raven took off her hood.
Flashback
"Are you alright?" Robin asked. "If your dad is upsetting you, I'll help you fight him off." He looked at her kindly and she softened away the hard look she had a few seconds ago. He reached towards her hand and held it in one of his.
End Flashback
"What're you waiting for? Destroy him!" Jinx protested in her wait. Raven nodded and picked up Robin. She controlled a knife from the kitchen in her hand. She was fighting against herself.
Flashback
"You ok?" Robin filled with concern, asked. He was shirtless and washing it from the blood. He smiled with his belt still on and took out a miniature first aid kit.
"I don't need that, I'm fine!" Raven bickered. Robin held back a bit.
"Raven, don't try denying it, you're cut up," he leaned next to her wet body as he applied alcohol to her skin.
End Flashback
"Raven! What're you waiting for!?" Jinx yelled again. This time Raven wasn't about to stop, or was she?
Flashback
"What do you think of us?" He blurted out. This made Raven blush. She could tell him how she felt about him. How she exactly felt about him.
"They're- they're what I would call extravagant," Raven ended. Robin just wilted his face. He expected her to say more. She read his mind, and it was obvious that he did care about her, but she wasn't sure if he cared about her in a more than a friend manner. "You - I li- I really care about yo-" She began but an alarm went off. Robin raced to the intercom.
End Flashback
"Let me do it then!" Jinx ran over and grabbed the knife. Robin kicked it out of her hand. Jinx just sat there, watching both of them. He and Raven stood, facing each other.
Flashback
"But I've got a special feeling about you two. Just wait, it will come to you," the old man smiled.
End Flashback
'A special feeling. right' Raven thought. She realized that not all of her was controlled yet. While she saw Jinx was on the ground, she made the knife hit the tree. Robin looked at her. He noticed her eyes had changed color. It was black now, just like before and it showed a great deal of torment.
"Raven," Robin called out. She felt the disk finally going to the center of her mind. Before it did completely control her she did something to make Robin remember her forever.
"Robin- I love," But instead of saying it, she thrust herself in his arms and kissed him on the lips. He held her and all the same, he kissed her back. The last of the real Raven blushed.
Flashback
She flew swiftly to Robin's room, her dress puffing in the skirt section. Raven knocked but heard a little giggle. She was confused. 'Does Robin giggle?' the thoughts whirled in her mind. The door was unlocked, but she wasn't sure if she should barge in like. Instead her head went through the wall to check on Robin, but what she found wasn't at all pleasant for her. Robin and Starfire had been kissing. She went back out and was ashamed that she walked in on them like that.
"No, NO!" She cried out flying into her room, a mirror shattered and the pieces crashed into the wall, piercing it with every reflected image it had to own. The mirror had represented her very emotions.
Shattered.
Starfire and Robin?
End Flashback
By that time, her eyes went back to red then to light red, almost pinkish. Her eyes then turned white with only the black rim left of her eyes. Raven pulled away from the grasp of Robin's soft lips. She had finally crossed over to being controlled. He was still holding her.
"I saw you," the evil Raven hissed.
"Saw me what?" Robin was terrified that he'll lose her forever.
"You and Starfire, a couple weeks ago," Raven whispered. Robin's mind zoomed back in time to when Starfire walked in his room because they had to talk.
"That was an accident!" Robin confessed. She looked up at him, during the few weeks he had shot up three inches.
"How was it an accident!?" Raven started screaming. She zipped into the air, but Robin's muscular arms held tight. The snow had swirled around them in command. The wind stung against their cheeks. They were standing on/in air while the rest of the world just watched. 20 feet below them, the wind swirled with Jinx yelling at Raven to defeat him. She ignored her.
"She came in my room and we kissed! That's it!" Robin said, not telling the whole truth.
"It can't be just that!" Raven sneered.
"She told me she liked me and she was worried for you, and then without knowing it, we kissed!" Robin finally let it out. Raven looked at him with the same sad eyes.
"Raven! This is your chance!" Jinx yelled. Raven filled with disappointment at doing what she was going to do, she nodded as Robin looked her in the eye. They were both charmed by each other's stare until Robin broke it of with a tight shut of his eyes and a scream of pain from the knife in his shoulder.
"I'm sorry," Raven whispered in his ears as they floated down to the ground. He fell on her and held his arms around her waist, knowing that if he let go, he might lose her forever. Robin's head rested on her shoulders, the bridge of his nose snuggled against her neck. He was unconscious now.
"Let's go," Jinx commanded jumping away. Raven slipped Robin to the ground and flew away. After that, Starfire and Beastboy called the hospital to retrieve them both.
Two days later_____________
Cyborg had been recovered from the trees that hit him and luckily his strength had stopped it from crushing him. Robin was still in the hospital bed, but alive, thank God, and well. He although, hadn't waken up yet. After another few days of waiting for him, he finally woke up. The doctors, thank goodness, left his mask on, for the wishes of the team to not reveal his identity.
"What happened to Raven?" was the first thing Robin asked. All of their heads hung down, eyeing each other. "Well!?" He was losing his patience, and his heart went faster when a nurse came in and told him to calm down. He listened to her but began questioning them once more after the nurse left.
"She's on Slade's team now," Beastboy finally broke the bad news.
Another week of nothing but sleeping, eating and training, they were ready to go against Slade's team.
"We're gonna kick their asses!" Cyborg shouted in joy. He was going to show them how much stronger he had gotten. He and Robin were on the new and improved BeastBoy with Starfire and Raven leading the way. Beastboy, Robin and Starfire started to laugh. Raven just stared in disgust as they enjoyed themselves behind her. How could they not think about the war between good and evil that was about to happen any minute? She just sped up and the rest followed.
After a few minutes later, they finally reached their tower. Jinx came down attacking Raven from their roof top. Raven was only tackled down but Jinx just ran back inside their doors. Without anyone of them seeing or knowing, including Raven, Jinx had placed a control disk in her hair. The disk made her skin absorb it. She only felt a small head ache, thinking it was from the fall she encountered.
"GO!" Jinx laughed manically. Raven stood up and brushed her self off. Attacking Jinx at the same time with her mind and physically, Robin and the others went against the others.
"You've gotten stronger," Jinx smiled. "But not stronger than me!" she lied to both Raven and herself. Raven was almost as twice as strong as Jinx. She just didn't know it.
"I wouldn't be too proud of myself if I were you!" Raven snarled. Jinx just laughed at her. Her sorcery became stronger just like Raven's mind abilities. She lashed out a purple rift at Raven but she blocked it by controlling the rift and sending it back at Jinx. Her eyes were wide with fear at what Raven would do next. But laughed, remembering that the disk, in any second, would control her. Slade's team would soon have a new and all powerful recruit on their side. He would be pleased.
"Sister!" Raven heard Starfire cry as Blackfire flew above Mammoth. They were out numbered by one person. "No!! You were supposed to be in prison!!"
"I wasn't about to stay in jail for all of eternity, little sister. You have to- LEARN THAT!" Blackfire yelled, shooting little black balls at her. Starfire just looked at her in discouragement. She was supposed to stay in jail for stealing that moon jewel.
Just after the sibling's little argument and their beginning battle, something tingled the inside of Raven's mind. Her eyes went from black to red. Jinx stopped fighting her and Raven stood still, looking like she was sleeping while standing. Jinx gave another laugh.
"You will join our team, and you will kill all of them!" Jinx ordered pointing at the Teen Titans. Raven nodded and began steadily walking to them. But Jinx grabbed her wrist and tightened her grasp, burning Raven's skin. "Not yet." Raven nodded and flew inside the S Tower.
After a reckless two hours of fighting in and out of the house, Blackfire and Gizmo had given up in defeat laying unconscious that was soon to start a pile. Plausmus, in a coma, landed on top of them, with Mammoth following. The Teen Titans were going to win once and for all. Cinderblock was finished off as Cyborg and Robin did their sonic boom.
"That's all of them!" Cyborg smiled, wiping his hands of Plausmus' goo. He dialed the police. A few minutes later, the police arrived and clamped the team of Slade's in chains and large glass tubes, leaving the Teen Titans in almost victory.
"Where's Jinx?" Robin asked in concern. They were horror stricken.
"Where's Raven?" Starfire asked looking around.
"She's probably beating Jinx up on the roof! She'll be fine!" Beastboy claimed. But as soon as those words tumbled out of his mouth, Jinx came floating down. Raven holding her with her mind. After she was set down Raven flew down by her side.
"You think I was being beat up by the most gothic girl ever? You wish," Jinx laughed. Raven, behind her, changed from a grey sweater, jeans and no shoes to her old uniform, except her uniform wasn't blue and black, it was red and black now. Her hood was covering her now red eyes but that didn't stop her from grinning at them. Starfire gasped and Beastboy just took a step back. Cyborg widened his eyes, leaving Robin to utmost surprise. "I'm controlling her now, and the only way to set her free is with words. If you put me in prison or kill me, that'll be your fault she's never going back to you."
"Robin! Do something!" Starfire screeched. "We can't hurt her! She's our friends!" Her eyes yielding into tears. Beastboy agreed with her.
"I- We- We just can't attack her-AH!" Robin leapt backwards from their evil team mates punch's. She kicked Beastboy in the face leaving him with a bloody nose. She tackled down Starfire and continually punched her in the face and neck. Starfire was crying against her will but saved by Cyborg when he threw Raven back. Starfire flew and picked up Beastboy, heading inside the house for safety. They had never seen Raven like this.
"You're going down, missy!" Cyborg yelled. He punched Raven to a tree, but before Raven hit the tree, she regained her control in the air and flew at him, mentally chopping down the trees she passed and then flinging it to him. Robin being left all alone with no one to help him against the girl covered in a blood-red cloak was standing still, not flinching when he saw her or when she called out his name. She started to punch him in the stomach. He leaned over, clutching his sides. He then looked up at her in sorrow for her. She only shook her head and then kicked him in the face. He rolled over and was lying on his back. She was about to step on his neck and cut off his breathing cycle when a memory from the past began to take over her mind. The real Raven took off her hood.
Flashback
"Are you alright?" Robin asked. "If your dad is upsetting you, I'll help you fight him off." He looked at her kindly and she softened away the hard look she had a few seconds ago. He reached towards her hand and held it in one of his.
End Flashback
"What're you waiting for? Destroy him!" Jinx protested in her wait. Raven nodded and picked up Robin. She controlled a knife from the kitchen in her hand. She was fighting against herself.
Flashback
"You ok?" Robin filled with concern, asked. He was shirtless and washing it from the blood. He smiled with his belt still on and took out a miniature first aid kit.
"I don't need that, I'm fine!" Raven bickered. Robin held back a bit.
"Raven, don't try denying it, you're cut up," he leaned next to her wet body as he applied alcohol to her skin.
End Flashback
"Raven! What're you waiting for!?" Jinx yelled again. This time Raven wasn't about to stop, or was she?
Flashback
"What do you think of us?" He blurted out. This made Raven blush. She could tell him how she felt about him. How she exactly felt about him.
"They're- they're what I would call extravagant," Raven ended. Robin just wilted his face. He expected her to say more. She read his mind, and it was obvious that he did care about her, but she wasn't sure if he cared about her in a more than a friend manner. "You - I li- I really care about yo-" She began but an alarm went off. Robin raced to the intercom.
End Flashback
"Let me do it then!" Jinx ran over and grabbed the knife. Robin kicked it out of her hand. Jinx just sat there, watching both of them. He and Raven stood, facing each other.
Flashback
"But I've got a special feeling about you two. Just wait, it will come to you," the old man smiled.
End Flashback
'A special feeling. right' Raven thought. She realized that not all of her was controlled yet. While she saw Jinx was on the ground, she made the knife hit the tree. Robin looked at her. He noticed her eyes had changed color. It was black now, just like before and it showed a great deal of torment.
"Raven," Robin called out. She felt the disk finally going to the center of her mind. Before it did completely control her she did something to make Robin remember her forever.
"Robin- I love," But instead of saying it, she thrust herself in his arms and kissed him on the lips. He held her and all the same, he kissed her back. The last of the real Raven blushed.
Flashback
She flew swiftly to Robin's room, her dress puffing in the skirt section. Raven knocked but heard a little giggle. She was confused. 'Does Robin giggle?' the thoughts whirled in her mind. The door was unlocked, but she wasn't sure if she should barge in like. Instead her head went through the wall to check on Robin, but what she found wasn't at all pleasant for her. Robin and Starfire had been kissing. She went back out and was ashamed that she walked in on them like that.
"No, NO!" She cried out flying into her room, a mirror shattered and the pieces crashed into the wall, piercing it with every reflected image it had to own. The mirror had represented her very emotions.
Shattered.
Starfire and Robin?
End Flashback
By that time, her eyes went back to red then to light red, almost pinkish. Her eyes then turned white with only the black rim left of her eyes. Raven pulled away from the grasp of Robin's soft lips. She had finally crossed over to being controlled. He was still holding her.
"I saw you," the evil Raven hissed.
"Saw me what?" Robin was terrified that he'll lose her forever.
"You and Starfire, a couple weeks ago," Raven whispered. Robin's mind zoomed back in time to when Starfire walked in his room because they had to talk.
"That was an accident!" Robin confessed. She looked up at him, during the few weeks he had shot up three inches.
"How was it an accident!?" Raven started screaming. She zipped into the air, but Robin's muscular arms held tight. The snow had swirled around them in command. The wind stung against their cheeks. They were standing on/in air while the rest of the world just watched. 20 feet below them, the wind swirled with Jinx yelling at Raven to defeat him. She ignored her.
"She came in my room and we kissed! That's it!" Robin said, not telling the whole truth.
"It can't be just that!" Raven sneered.
"She told me she liked me and she was worried for you, and then without knowing it, we kissed!" Robin finally let it out. Raven looked at him with the same sad eyes.
"Raven! This is your chance!" Jinx yelled. Raven filled with disappointment at doing what she was going to do, she nodded as Robin looked her in the eye. They were both charmed by each other's stare until Robin broke it of with a tight shut of his eyes and a scream of pain from the knife in his shoulder.
"I'm sorry," Raven whispered in his ears as they floated down to the ground. He fell on her and held his arms around her waist, knowing that if he let go, he might lose her forever. Robin's head rested on her shoulders, the bridge of his nose snuggled against her neck. He was unconscious now.
"Let's go," Jinx commanded jumping away. Raven slipped Robin to the ground and flew away. After that, Starfire and Beastboy called the hospital to retrieve them both.
Two days later_____________
Cyborg had been recovered from the trees that hit him and luckily his strength had stopped it from crushing him. Robin was still in the hospital bed, but alive, thank God, and well. He although, hadn't waken up yet. After another few days of waiting for him, he finally woke up. The doctors, thank goodness, left his mask on, for the wishes of the team to not reveal his identity.
"What happened to Raven?" was the first thing Robin asked. All of their heads hung down, eyeing each other. "Well!?" He was losing his patience, and his heart went faster when a nurse came in and told him to calm down. He listened to her but began questioning them once more after the nurse left.
"She's on Slade's team now," Beastboy finally broke the bad news.