Titans Reborn: Part Four

"Raven," a crackled voice eked out of Raven's Titans communicator, "Robin here, we've found the princess. She's surrounded, we're going in now."
"Roger that," Raven replied, Beast Boy snickered, "we've found the Gordanian's landing pod and we're just about to make our move so we're turning off our communicators."
The three of them simultaneously turned off their communicators and replaced them in their belts. Raven turned to the other two and placed her finger against her lips with an implicit glare that told them to be quiet or be afraid. Beast Boy nodded and Kid Flash smiled inanely, Raven rolled her eyes hidden by her cloak before signalling with her left hand for Beast Boy to go. His amazing body morphed by sort-of stretching and squashing himself into the shape of a tiny mouse and crawled through the undergrowth that surrounded them. His small green mouse nose poked out into the air and then his body, into a small clearing in Metropolis central park which was the hiding place of the Gordanian lander. He looked around him to see two Gordanian guards sat either side of the craft's open hatch on what appeared to be some strange alien deckchairs, they even had holes in the back for their third leg. He decided to get in close and so crept his tiny mouse body through the tall grass to their side, the aliens were talking animatedly, their fangs revealed inside their mouths whenever they spoke to each other. Beast Boy ran up to the Gordanians and looked straight up at them, they were both holding their energy spears lazily with one hand, apparently they weren't expecting trouble. Beast Boy ran back as fast as his little legs could carry him towards his team-mates and wormed his way through the undergrowth, squeaking quietly to get their attention. He stretched back up into his green-hued human form and whispered what he had seen to the other Titans.
"Two guards," Raven put her finger to her lips again but he ignored her, "both armed," Raven was now more frantically putting her finger to her lips, "but we've got them flat-footed."
"Not anymore," Raven said loudly before leaping into flight with a whispered prayer and arming herself with mystical bolts of shadows, as the Gordanian guards poked their energy spears into the bush, "take them down quickly, before they have a chance to call home," she shouted as she went into action, throwing her shadow-bolt at one of the guards. He flew back into a large tree and slumped to the ground, unconscious.
Kid Flash stood out in the middle of the open clearing in front of the second guard, "Damn you are the ugliest alien I've ever seen," the Gordanian fired his energy spear but Kid Flash was too fast, "ooh nice try, maybe if you weren't so damn ugly you could shoot straight?" the Gordanian fired again and Kid Flash again dodged, "Wow, ugly, bad shot, no sense of humour. You aliens really are a nasty bunch," he called as the Gordanian repeatedly tried and failed to shoot him.
Suddenly it looked down at one of its front legs to see a large green spider crawling up it, he swatted it away with his spear but then it morphed into a giant gorilla and swatted the Gordanian across the clearing to land unconscious next to its friend.
The giant gorilla clicked its knuckles and smiled as it transformed slowly back into Beast Boy, Kid Flash shouted over in complaint, "Hey I had that one!"
"That'll teach you to play with your food," he joked as Raven landed softly behind them next to the lander. Both the male Teen Titans turned to see Raven looking inside the open hatch of the alien craft, "Hey Rave, what you doing over there?" Beast Boy shouted over.
"I'm getting on with the mission rather than joking around," Kid Flash looked away embarrassedly at that, "now hide those guards somewhere so they can't tell the rest of their group what's going on," she said as she climbed inside the hatch.

The three young heroes all sat in the alien spaceship looking rather bemused, Kid Flash was the first to speak.
"Okay Raven, seeing as you're in charge of this little mission," he started rubbing his chin comically, "I guess you know how to fly this crate?"
"Yeah Raven," Beast Boy also chimed in, "how are we supposed to get up to the mother-ship if we can't even close the hatch? We failed before we even got going."
"Do not be so pessimistic," Raven replied as she pulled her legs up underneath her and began to levitate about an inch above her seat, "I may not know how to pilot this thing conventionally, but I can cheat."
Beast Boy looked quizzically at Kid Flash and was about to speak when the hatch slammed shut, both the boys jumped but Raven stayed in concentration. She raised her arms and the ship levitated off the ground about five feet, then she opened her eyes which shone from the shadows of her hood and muttered an inaudible prayer.
"Okay," Kid Flash whispered to Beast Boy, "is it just me, or is she incredibly hot doing this?"
"It's just you man," Beast Boy whispered back, "I've always preferred blondes, and its kinda creepy knowing she can lift this huge thing with her mind. Imagine how quickly she could snap your neck," Beast Boy replied in hushed tones.
"It'd take me less than a second," Raven said from her position at the front of the craft, "but don't worry. Speedo there's got much more to worry about from me," she smiled thinly to herself, then blinked and put her emotions back in check.
"Hear that man?" Kid Flash whispered to Beast Boy, "she so digs me."

A slightly nervous looking Gordanian foot soldier prowled the corridors of the Gordanian flagship, he looked over his shoulder but kept scuttling onwards as he tried to find some sort of ship diagram. The nervous Gordanian was in fact, Beast Boy disguised as a Gordanian but unfortunately Robin hadn't really thought his plan through completely. Yes, Gordanians were green alright, but they were a very slightly different shade of green to Beast Boy's metamorphic skin. Other Gordanians aboard shook their heads with pity in his direction and patted him on the back, he had now assumed they thought he had some rare disease or that maybe when he'd become a Gordanian he'd missed a vital piece of the anatomy or just made it smaller than usual and now the other aliens just thought he was under-equipped.
"Beast Boy," a floating voice called in his brain, "its Raven, I'm using telepathy to talk to you. How are you doing?"
"I think I either look ill or I'm under-equipped,"
Beast Boy thought to himself.
"Whatever Kid Flash may have told you, I am not in the slightest bit concerned over anyone's equipment or its size thank you."
Beast Boy mentally giggled, "She said equipment!"
"Get over it Beast Boy you have a job to do,"
Raven replied with a hint of annoyance, "So did you find anything?"
"Not yet,"
Beast Boy rounded a corner to come out into a huge open room, full of computers and consoles and other Gordanians, all of whom turned and shook their heads at him. Not in unison of course as that would be odd, but still annoying nonetheless. Beast Boy took a long look around the room and decided he was in the main command centre or something and then he saw a large screen with a picture of a Gordanian on it who was speaking to the commanding officer, "Raven."
"Yes? You found something?"
"I'm on the bridge or whatever, and I just had a thought,"
Beast Boy thought to Raven, "what are the Gordanian search party going to do when they realise their shuttle is gone?"

In the shuttle bay Raven and Kid Flash sat in the back room of the landing shuttle with their backs against the back wall, low enough so as not to be visible through the window at the back of the shuttle.
"I think we're about to be discovered," Raven whispered to Kid Flash as they heard the scuttling of Gordanians coming toward them, "we're going to have to move fast."
"Then you're in luck babe," Kid Flash said with a smile, "fast is what I do best."
Raven rolled her eyes, "Hold on tight," she said and without warning she grabbed onto him and phased through the deck and out of the ship into the open air, then she flew them both along the ship's hull until she thought they were below the next room and she phased them back through the hull again. Kid Flash had his hands just above her hips and she had her arms around him for a moment, their bodies were pressed tightly against each other and Raven looked up at his warm smile. Raven noticed for the first time that he was extremely well-built, but then you would expect that from somebody who spends their life running at incomprehensible speeds.
"Uhm, you can let go of me now," Raven separated herself from Kid Flash, although subconsciously one of her fingers lingered on his forearm, "we've got to keep moving."
"Sure," Kid Flash said, in an almost detached way, "where are we now?"
Raven looked around the small room, there was a small metal bed that looked uncomfortable and a metal toilet bowl and a small sink. The entire room was gun-metal grey and depressingly minimalist.
"Crew quarters?" Kid Flash replied, "the décor in here is terrible, all their crew must be so damn depressed."
Raven moved past Kid Flash breaking her contact and went for the door, it was just a sheet of metal that didn't move as she approached, "I'm thinking the brig, we appear to be locked in."
"Oh, that explains the décor," Kid Flash sat down on the bed, "everyone makes mistakes, don't feel too bad."
Raven turned and her cape took on a red tint that was barely visible, "Not me."
"Oh-kay," Kid Flash said, "at least it can't get any worse."
A voice came from a hidden loud-speaker somewhere in the cell, "Humans, your primitive intelligence could never outsmart the superior Gordanian Empire."
"My mistake," Kid Flash said as he put a hand on his head in exasperation.
"You will be executed tomorrow at dawn for the theft of the Imperial Landing Craft."
Raven muttered her prayer again and moved towards the door and then a surge of electricity ran through Raven's body and she collapsed, seemingly unconscious to the floor.
"Raven!" Kid Flash leapt at light speed to catch her at the moment she fell, "Raven what happened, are you okay?" He felt her neck and found a weak pulse and carried her to the metal slab that served as a bed, "Please be okay Raven, please be okay…"

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