Chapter Twelve :: Trouble Afoot

"Slade has broken into a nuclear weapons research facility warehouse. It's a top secret government building that not even the mayor realized existed. The facility does research on nuclear weapons to help us be prepared for anything our enemies can dish out" Robin paused to catch his breath. "The warehouse has an underground safe, very strong, very hard to get into. It holds nothing more than a computer program which contains vital information. If Slade gets his hands on it he could destroy an area six times the size of Jump City."

"So we need to be getting off our butts and stopping him!" Cyborg replied.

They left the tower and headed for the warehouse. Robin was avoiding Raven. He wouldn't look at her, wouldn't go near her, and wouldn't even answer a question about her. The rest of the team seemed to notice this and the hurt that was in Raven's eyes when she would notice him deliberately avoiding her, but they were too busy with this mission to bother asking about it.

The team arrived at the warehouse to be greeted by three dozen of Slade's robotic drones.

"Titans. Go!"

The team jumped into action at the familiar command of the Boy Wonder. Cyborg took two of the drones out with his cannon, as Starfire was overtaking four others with her star bolts. Beast Boy had transformed into a Rhino and charged into a group of the drones, taking out three and injuring 6 others. Robin was fighting three of the drones with his extensive karate knowledge.

"Azarath, Metrion, Zinthos!" Raven used her powers to throw some crates on three of the drones and then picked up two others that were about to jump on Cyborg's back. She flew off, not waiting to be thanked or noticed.

After twenty minutes of fighting, they were in the lead. There was one drone left that was quickly finished off thanks to Cyborg's cannon. They ran further into the warehouse, in search of Slade and the safe he would be trying to break into. They rushed in, expecting to see Slade in front of them. Instead, an impending doom quickly washed over them.

They had walked into a trap.

They heard an explosion and they jumped out of the way just in time to prevent themselves from being buried by a collapsing ceiling. The dust settled.

"Is everyone alright?" Robin's voice could be heard from behind a pile of rocks.

Starfire looked around. Everyone seemed to be safe and accounted for...except.. "Where is friend Raven?"

The blood drained from Robin's face as they looked to the pile of rocks they had dodged. Raven's hand was sticking out from in between two of the rocks.

"Raven!" Cyborg immediately ran over to move rocks off of the body of his purple haired friend. Beast Boy transformed into a gorilla to help as Starfire jumped in. Robin stayed where he was, sitting on his knees. His face was pale, tears were running down his face. Raven was hurt and he just felt like it was his fault alone. He shouldn't have let her come along. She was pregnant, with his child, and he had put both of them in danger by allowing her to come along on the mission.

"Raven!" Cyborg held Raven in his arms. She was out cold and just barely breathing. "Beast Boy, go get help!"

Beast Boy nodded and in seconds was flying away in the shape of a hawk to get help. Robin snapped out of his trance and rushed over to them. Tears were streaming down his face but he was too afraid to touch her or get too close.

An hour later, the team was sitting in the waiting room of the hospital. Cyborg was sitting quietly in a chair looking for Raven's doctor. Beast Boy was sitting on a couch with his arms around Starfire as she cried on his shoulder. Robin was pacing back and forth, sweat beading on his forehead, tears running down his face. Cyborg's eyes would occasionally stop on Robin's pacing figure. He wanted to confront him, but it just wasn't the right time. They needed to learn the condition of Raven first.

Raven's doctor rounded the corner and the titans jumped and walked over to him. Cyborg and Robin opened their mouths to talk at the same time, but the doctor put his hand up to stop them.

"Teen Titans. I am Dr. Robinson, head of the ICU. I've been caring for your teammate Raven. Please, sit down" he waved his hands towards the chairs and they all went to have a seat. The doctor stood there for a moment, his hand to his chin, he seemed like he was trying to find the words he needed. He cleared his throat and began to talk.

"Your friend is in, well, to be quite frank, she is in bad shape. We have the best doctors in the city working with her right now and we have two specialists on their way from the next town over. When she arrived her legs were both broken, and she had fractured her hip. She is powerful, her powers must be looking out for her, she frightened many of our doctors and nurses when she began to glow a light blue and her broken bones healed themselves." He stopped to clear his throat again. "Raven is..." He tried to say this as delicately as possible, "Well, she is in a coma. Not a good one at that. We are doing everything we can to bring her out of it. We cannot do a full vital scan without her being awake, so we have no way of knowing if there is currently any prolonged damage. She really shouldn't have been fighting today, you might want to have a talk with her boyfriend. He shouldn't let her fight." The team looked over at Robin and then back to the doctor, their eyes all filling with tears. "The baby is fine, when her powers healed her hips it must've looked after the child as well. We have the baby under observation as well."

"Whoa... baby?" Beast Boy looked from the doctor to Robin and then back again.

"Oh! I do apologize. She isn't far along...she must not have told you all yet." The doctor said quickly. "We will allow you to see her in just a little while, we need to finish up our current tests and then the specialists should be here shortly. After they have a chance to look her over, we will allow you to see her as a group for a short time, and then you may see her one at a time for about 15 minutes each if you wish." With this he bowed slightly to them, and walked out of the waiting room.

The team sat in silence. They couldn't believe everything they had just heard.

"Robin." Cyborg began, "I think its time you come clean and tell us what's going on. We thought we had figured it out, but after that yelling match between you and Raven earlier, and now this news of a baby...I think you owe us the truth."

Robin shook his head and moved to a chair across from the rest of his team. He cleared his throat.

"Ok."