Author's note: wait... the Titans live on an island... how do they drive the T-Car anywhere?
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"Right," Raven started to walk over to one of the larger piles of T-Car, "Starfire is afraid of the basement, she told you that before." Raven was still skeptical. The simplest answer is normally correct, she told herself. She and Cyborg and seen how Starfire reacts to that room, Cyborg just remembered it. That was all. "It was just something random from your subconscious."
"I saw her Raven, it was different this time..." said Cyborg.
"Your nonsense dreams have nothing to do with Starfire in reality."
"Are you kidding Rae?" Beast Boy asked the hooded girl, "maybe you didn't get a good look at her but something strange is going on with Starfire. Cyborg gets knocked out and sees two Starfires, one of 'em just gave us a big clue as to what's going on!"
"Nothing is going on. Starfire will be fine and your dreams will go away. A few coincidences happen and you go searching for the most bizarre reasons for them. It is a rediculus notion that Starfire could really contact Cyborg while he's sleeping!"
"You can't honestly deny that these are more then flukes, I think there's more to it then that." Beast Boy cracked a smile, "I know what this is about, what have you been dreaming about anyway?"
Raven stared into the changeling's eyes. No... she couldn't tell him...
Mercifully, the Jump City Police finally arrived. Cyborg got the attention of the armored cop marked #1 and jerked a thumb to the massive hole at the front of the store. Number One nodded, he wasn't even surprised to see the destruction. He knew the drill.
"So..." Cyborg said, "any of you guys hungry?"
They had spent that morning searching for Starfire, now it was almost three. A stomach growled.
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Minutes later Beast Boy, Raven and Cyborg arrived at a hotdog stand. Cyborg opted to buy while Beast Boy and Raven sat down at a nearby table.
"I'll have a polish dog with onions and ketchup, a tofu dog with extra relish and uh..." he looked behind him to Raven who stared forward with a disinterested frown, "a regular hotdog, plain."
"I think we should check on Robin, maybe Starfire's feeling better."
Raven shifted her gaze to the green boy alongside her.
Her look reminded Beast Boy of the little discussion Raven and Robin had that morning. He raised a hand to the back of his head and smiled. "Uh... I mean, I should check up on Robin."
Beast Boy pulled out his communicator. "Hey Robin, how's it going?" A few moments passed and he got no response. "Robin, you there?" he pushed the buttons on his communicator again, "Robin?" he looked up from the communicator to where Raven was sitting, but she was already moving.
Beast Boy changed into a pterodactyl and took to the air.
"Here you go, Cyborg." The hotdog vendor handed over the three dogs, happy to meet a local celebrity.
Cyborg turned to tell the other Titans that he'd gotten the food, but they were gone.
Beast Boy caught him by surprise, grabbing him with his claws while he swooped by.
The three dogs went with them but slipped from Cyborg's fingers. He swiped a metal hand through the mass of spinning food, he managed to catch one. "All right!" Cyborg ate it. "Blech!" he spat it out immediately. Tofu dog. After a moment to compose himself, Cyborg looked at Beast Boy and asked, "Why the heck are we leaving so soon anyway?"
Beast Boy struggled to gain more altitude and keep up with Raven. She was heading for Titan's Tower at full speed, something rather difficult for a pterodactyl with a load as heavy as Cyborg. "Robin's in trouble."
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The massive doors on the ground floor of Titan's Tower slid open. As they entered their home the three Titans knew something was wrong. Furniture was knocked over and the lights were out. "Robin? Robin!" they called a few times, but they got no answer.
"Looks like we'll have to take the stairs," said Cyborg, his flicking of the light switch resulting in nothing. If the lights were out so was the elevator.
Beast Boy yawned. "Yeah, well as soon as we find Robin and check on Starfire I'm sooo going to bed." Like the rest of them, Beast Boy was getting awfully tired.
Light from the afternoon sun still illuminated the stairway. On the left the stairs lead to the tower's main room, bedrooms, training rooms and various other rooms that took up the ten stories of their T shaped tower. On the right the stairs lead to the basement.
"It's time to settle this mess." Raven headed down stairs.
"Maybe we should look for-"
"No, I'm not doing anything with you guys until I disprove this idiocy. We're going in the basement and we're going to find nothing, because that's what's down there.
Raven quickly stepped down the stairs. Reluctantly Beast Boy and Cyborg followed her. She soon arrived in front of the basement door. She paused for a moment before the other two Titans rounded the corner and joined her. Sunlight didn't reach down here, and it wasn't going to get any lighter past that door. The door swiftly slid to one side as Raven pushed it with her powers. Cyborg's shoulder lamp flipped up and turned on. The light probed the room while the three Titans still stood before open passage.
Nothing looked out of the ordinary. Raven stepped inside then started to walk down the metal stairway that lead to the floor of the basement. Cyborg went in next with Beast Boy practically hanging off his back.
"Nothing's different." Raven told them from the bottom of the stairs. "Now do you believe me?"
Beast Boy remained silent, Raven had made her point.
"Well that's different, seems to be the cause of the power failure." Cyborg aimed his light at the fuse box. It had been torn out of the wall. "Someone was in the tower..." he said.
"and maybe he still is!" added Beast Boy.
The three Titans scrambled out of the basement and up the stairs, if someone was in the tower then Starfire could be in grave danger.
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Beast Boy and Cyborg stood over Starfire's bed. Raven still lurked in the shadows of the windowless corridor.
Starfire was in the same condition she had been in when they left but at least who ever was in the tower hadn't harmed her.
"Ok..." Beast Boy sighed, "then where's Robin?"
In the corridor something moved in the darkness. It reached for an access panel and quickly turned a lever. Behind Beast Boy and Cyborg, Starfire's door slammed shut. The two Titans ran for the sealed passage.
Beyond the door someone cried out and the instantly recognizable sounds of a brawl sounded through. "Someone's attacking Raven!" shouted Cyborg.
Beast Boy tried to pull open the door. "It's not working!"
Cyborg checked his scanners. "Someone hit the manual override, back up."
The half metal Titan slammed his fist into the door, sending it flying into the opposite wall. Light from his shoulder lamp started to fill in the action.
Down the corridor a dark figure had Raven pinned on her back; he battered her again and again with his fists. Raven unsuccessfully tried to defend herself, settling for tearing something off her attacker's tunic. When the light got close to them the figure turned to face Cyborg before getting off Raven and retreating deeper into the corridor.
The Beast Boy got to her first. "Raven..." he said quietly while touching her lightly; unsure if anything more would add to her pain. Raven was differently hurt, the most evident of her injuries being a laceration on the right side her forehead. Blood already flowed down her face. She looked into Beast Boy's eyes; she was frightened, if only for a moment.
Raven reached up for Beast Boy, pushed him aside, and sat up. "I'm fine." Her face hardened... she was already back to normal.
"Who was it Rae?" asked Cyborg, standing over the two of his teammates, "who attacked you?"
Raven tossed something metallic into the shoulder lamp's pool of light. It was round and curved. On it there was an emblem, one large letter.
"R"
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"Right," Raven started to walk over to one of the larger piles of T-Car, "Starfire is afraid of the basement, she told you that before." Raven was still skeptical. The simplest answer is normally correct, she told herself. She and Cyborg and seen how Starfire reacts to that room, Cyborg just remembered it. That was all. "It was just something random from your subconscious."
"I saw her Raven, it was different this time..." said Cyborg.
"Your nonsense dreams have nothing to do with Starfire in reality."
"Are you kidding Rae?" Beast Boy asked the hooded girl, "maybe you didn't get a good look at her but something strange is going on with Starfire. Cyborg gets knocked out and sees two Starfires, one of 'em just gave us a big clue as to what's going on!"
"Nothing is going on. Starfire will be fine and your dreams will go away. A few coincidences happen and you go searching for the most bizarre reasons for them. It is a rediculus notion that Starfire could really contact Cyborg while he's sleeping!"
"You can't honestly deny that these are more then flukes, I think there's more to it then that." Beast Boy cracked a smile, "I know what this is about, what have you been dreaming about anyway?"
Raven stared into the changeling's eyes. No... she couldn't tell him...
Mercifully, the Jump City Police finally arrived. Cyborg got the attention of the armored cop marked #1 and jerked a thumb to the massive hole at the front of the store. Number One nodded, he wasn't even surprised to see the destruction. He knew the drill.
"So..." Cyborg said, "any of you guys hungry?"
They had spent that morning searching for Starfire, now it was almost three. A stomach growled.
-
Minutes later Beast Boy, Raven and Cyborg arrived at a hotdog stand. Cyborg opted to buy while Beast Boy and Raven sat down at a nearby table.
"I'll have a polish dog with onions and ketchup, a tofu dog with extra relish and uh..." he looked behind him to Raven who stared forward with a disinterested frown, "a regular hotdog, plain."
"I think we should check on Robin, maybe Starfire's feeling better."
Raven shifted her gaze to the green boy alongside her.
Her look reminded Beast Boy of the little discussion Raven and Robin had that morning. He raised a hand to the back of his head and smiled. "Uh... I mean, I should check up on Robin."
Beast Boy pulled out his communicator. "Hey Robin, how's it going?" A few moments passed and he got no response. "Robin, you there?" he pushed the buttons on his communicator again, "Robin?" he looked up from the communicator to where Raven was sitting, but she was already moving.
Beast Boy changed into a pterodactyl and took to the air.
"Here you go, Cyborg." The hotdog vendor handed over the three dogs, happy to meet a local celebrity.
Cyborg turned to tell the other Titans that he'd gotten the food, but they were gone.
Beast Boy caught him by surprise, grabbing him with his claws while he swooped by.
The three dogs went with them but slipped from Cyborg's fingers. He swiped a metal hand through the mass of spinning food, he managed to catch one. "All right!" Cyborg ate it. "Blech!" he spat it out immediately. Tofu dog. After a moment to compose himself, Cyborg looked at Beast Boy and asked, "Why the heck are we leaving so soon anyway?"
Beast Boy struggled to gain more altitude and keep up with Raven. She was heading for Titan's Tower at full speed, something rather difficult for a pterodactyl with a load as heavy as Cyborg. "Robin's in trouble."
-
The massive doors on the ground floor of Titan's Tower slid open. As they entered their home the three Titans knew something was wrong. Furniture was knocked over and the lights were out. "Robin? Robin!" they called a few times, but they got no answer.
"Looks like we'll have to take the stairs," said Cyborg, his flicking of the light switch resulting in nothing. If the lights were out so was the elevator.
Beast Boy yawned. "Yeah, well as soon as we find Robin and check on Starfire I'm sooo going to bed." Like the rest of them, Beast Boy was getting awfully tired.
Light from the afternoon sun still illuminated the stairway. On the left the stairs lead to the tower's main room, bedrooms, training rooms and various other rooms that took up the ten stories of their T shaped tower. On the right the stairs lead to the basement.
"It's time to settle this mess." Raven headed down stairs.
"Maybe we should look for-"
"No, I'm not doing anything with you guys until I disprove this idiocy. We're going in the basement and we're going to find nothing, because that's what's down there.
Raven quickly stepped down the stairs. Reluctantly Beast Boy and Cyborg followed her. She soon arrived in front of the basement door. She paused for a moment before the other two Titans rounded the corner and joined her. Sunlight didn't reach down here, and it wasn't going to get any lighter past that door. The door swiftly slid to one side as Raven pushed it with her powers. Cyborg's shoulder lamp flipped up and turned on. The light probed the room while the three Titans still stood before open passage.
Nothing looked out of the ordinary. Raven stepped inside then started to walk down the metal stairway that lead to the floor of the basement. Cyborg went in next with Beast Boy practically hanging off his back.
"Nothing's different." Raven told them from the bottom of the stairs. "Now do you believe me?"
Beast Boy remained silent, Raven had made her point.
"Well that's different, seems to be the cause of the power failure." Cyborg aimed his light at the fuse box. It had been torn out of the wall. "Someone was in the tower..." he said.
"and maybe he still is!" added Beast Boy.
The three Titans scrambled out of the basement and up the stairs, if someone was in the tower then Starfire could be in grave danger.
-
Beast Boy and Cyborg stood over Starfire's bed. Raven still lurked in the shadows of the windowless corridor.
Starfire was in the same condition she had been in when they left but at least who ever was in the tower hadn't harmed her.
"Ok..." Beast Boy sighed, "then where's Robin?"
In the corridor something moved in the darkness. It reached for an access panel and quickly turned a lever. Behind Beast Boy and Cyborg, Starfire's door slammed shut. The two Titans ran for the sealed passage.
Beyond the door someone cried out and the instantly recognizable sounds of a brawl sounded through. "Someone's attacking Raven!" shouted Cyborg.
Beast Boy tried to pull open the door. "It's not working!"
Cyborg checked his scanners. "Someone hit the manual override, back up."
The half metal Titan slammed his fist into the door, sending it flying into the opposite wall. Light from his shoulder lamp started to fill in the action.
Down the corridor a dark figure had Raven pinned on her back; he battered her again and again with his fists. Raven unsuccessfully tried to defend herself, settling for tearing something off her attacker's tunic. When the light got close to them the figure turned to face Cyborg before getting off Raven and retreating deeper into the corridor.
The Beast Boy got to her first. "Raven..." he said quietly while touching her lightly; unsure if anything more would add to her pain. Raven was differently hurt, the most evident of her injuries being a laceration on the right side her forehead. Blood already flowed down her face. She looked into Beast Boy's eyes; she was frightened, if only for a moment.
Raven reached up for Beast Boy, pushed him aside, and sat up. "I'm fine." Her face hardened... she was already back to normal.
"Who was it Rae?" asked Cyborg, standing over the two of his teammates, "who attacked you?"
Raven tossed something metallic into the shoulder lamp's pool of light. It was round and curved. On it there was an emblem, one large letter.
"R"