Greetings again! Okay chapter 5 is here so let's hear some cheer ^o^! I
know, this has taken a LOONG time for me to write but it's finally done!
This is the chapter you've all been waiting for! The highlight of this
whole story! Please enjoy!
Disclaimer: I don't own the Teen Titans television series, or the Teen Titan comic books, or any Teen Titan merchandise, or the "idea" behind the Teen Titans. But I DO own the ideas in this story! So it all evens out, right? _______________________________________________________________________
"Now let's go kick some baddie behind!"
The Titans's feet skidded on the pavement as they raced towards the mall entrance. Smoke could be seen billowing in large clouds from the roof. 'Oh, no! There must be a fire inside!' The thought inflicted fear which made them all run faster. The speed at which they were running was at such a high velocity that they couldn't slow when they reached the double door entrance. So in result, all of the teens crashed into the two large, metal doors which didn't open for them to enter like they had done every other time in the past.
Cries of pain were released from every Titan's mouth as they rebounded off of the door.
"Oomph! Hey, the door's stuck!" Beast Boy stated as he rubbed his arm which had directly hit the metal doors. Beast Boy changed into a ram and rammed the doors without effect.
"What the..." Robin inspected the lock on the door. "It's not locked..." He then punched the door numerous times then tried using some powerful kicks from his metal shoes. "It won't open!!"
"Let me see..." Cyborg pressed a button on his arm. A small, portable screen popped up.
"What's that?" Beast Boy asked hovering right behind Cyborg's shoulder watching the screen. His eyes grew big and he slobbered drool of envy all over Cyborg's shoulder for the electronic masterpiece.
"X-Ray." Cyborg raised his other arm and pointed it at the doors. It shined a long, horizontal, red light over the door's frame. "We can see what's blocking these doors with this." A picture became visible on the screen. "Oh Man!" Cyborg groaned and Beast Boy gasped at the picture.
"What is it?!" Robin rushed over to the boys to find out what was keeping them from the battle inside the building. "Why can't we get through the doors?"
"Well, let's see... Those doors are probably not opening for us because there are about ten TWO TON, SOLID METAL SUPPORT BEAMS blocking the door." Cyborg declared as he pressed a button, sending the screen back into his arm. "Looks like something... or someone... ripped them out of various places in the mall and then bent them into place in front of the doors to keep them shut."
"Wow." Starfire gaped at Cyborg's remark. "This is unexpected."
'What are we up against?' Raven thought, but she kept it to herself as the looked at the doors.
"Is there any other way in?!" Beast Boy asked looking up at the building.
"All of the metal shutters are down on the windows. Can't get through that way." Cyborg observed.
"Looks like we're just going to have to bust open these doors!" Beast Boy got ready to ram himself back against the doors.
"Wait." Raven reached her arm out and took hold of Beast Boy's shoulder holding him back. "Let me try." Raven turned and faced the doors. Her eyes began to glow and she moved into her ever so familiar position. "AZARATH... METRION... ZINTHOS!!!" She yelled at the top of her lungs. A look of strain and pain spread across her face as she pushed with her power. The metal beams glowed black and began to shake slightly, but did not move enough for the doors to open.
"Come on, Raven!" Beast Boy shouted, a look of worry on his face. "You can do it!"
"You will be successful, Raven!" Starfire cheered her friend on.
Raven screamed in pain but kept pushing. 'I can do this! I just have to push harder!' She thought as she put even more of her power into the doors.
"Raven, be careful! Don't hurt yourself!" Robin shouted, but Raven couldn't hear him. All she could hear were he own thoughts... which her emotions soon began to control.
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"Raven!" Intelligence shouted. Her yellow cloak moved slightly as a light breeze blew the fabric. "You are hurting us!" Raven had gone into her mind and she saw all of her emotions present there with her. They were all standing in a circle, all with looks of pain on their faces.
"Please stop!" Happiness cried out holding her head, no longer happy. "You don't have to do this!"
"Stop NOW, Raven!" Anger yelled, pounding her fists on the floor trying to level out her pain.
Raven looked in anguish at all of her emotions. 'Oh my god! I need to stop! I'm killing myself!' Raven grabbed her own head, feeling the pain throbbing through it worse than before. 'I have to stop...'
"No... she DOES need to do this." Raven looked up to see who had spoken. Bravery stepped out of her spot in the circle and approached Raven, stopping when they were just inches apart. A look of misery was on Bravery's face, but she didn't give away that she was in any pain by the sound of her voice as she spoke. "You need to do this, Raven. For the Titans, for the people trapped in that building, for us (*Bravery nodded her head in the direction of the circle of emotions*), and for..." Bravery looked into Raven's eyes.
"Hah! Finally!" Raven's pink emotion grinned with glee, ignoring her pain.
"Oh, shut up, Pinkie!" All of the emotions shrieked.
"Yes..." Raven looked away from Bravery's eyes at her emotions writhing in pain in the circle, and then back to the eyes. "I can do it. I WILL do it!"
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'Oh, my god!' Raven thought again as she left her mind and became aware of the reassuring feeling of hardness under her feet.
"Is she okay!?!?" Beast Boy had been jumping from one foot to the other ever since Raven's eyes had glossed over when she entered her mind.
Raven's eyes focused and a look of determination spread across her face. A slight smile crept onto her lips. 'I can do this!'
Beast Boy gapped at the smile, but otherwise relaxed seeing Raven back from her visit with herself ^_^.
Raven walked forward, still forcing her power on the doors. "Azarath..." She whispered as she approached the doors. They began to trembled, and shake more violently than before. "Metrion..." She walked closer and pushed harder. The metal beams shook so hard that the teens could hear them rattling behind the doors. "ZINTHOS!" She ended in a shriek which was dripping with power. The doors and the metal beams flew forward and into the entrance way of the mall with a loud boom. Raven's eyes closed and she fell to the ground.
"RAVEN!" Starfire and Beast Boy screamed. They both ran to the dark girl lying on the asphalt.
"RAVEN! SPEAK TO ME!" Beast Boy shouted holding her head in his lap.
"RAVEN! PLEASE AWAKEN!" Starfire shrieked as tears streamed down her face. "PLEASE, FRIEND!"
Cyborg and Robin raced over to their friends. "Raven! Is she okay?!"
Raven's eyes shot open and she looked up into the worried, fearful eyes of her best friends. "What's everyone looking at?" She asked weakly. "It's not like I died. I just opened a door."
Shouts of "YAH RAVEN," "YOU ROCK," and "YOU GO GIRL," rang in her ears as Beast Boy happily helped her to her feet.
"Let's go, the battle's waiting." Raven said when she was again on her feet.
"Are you sure you're up to a fight, Raven?" Robin asked, a bit nervous for his friend.
"Yah! That took a lot out of you, Rae!" Beast Boy's voice quivered. Raven gazed at Beast Boy with a questioning look on her face. "I just don't want you to get hurt..." He responded softly looking into Raven's eyes.
"I'm fine. Really. And with friends like you to back me up, there's no way I can lose this fight... or any other" Raven's eyes brightened as she walked slowly towards the hole in the wall where the doors once were. When she reached the entrance, she turned and looked at her friends. "Like I said before, the battle's waiting."
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Screams could be heard coming from all directions as people frantically scrambled through the smoke filled mall. Some people had found ways out of the building, but a good number of them were still trapped inside. The smoke blinded their eyes, causing them to not know, if they ran into anything, what it was.
"Ouch!" A tall teenaged boy, not being able to see if there was anything in front of him as he ran away from the source of the trouble, had run directly into Robin. Both of them landed on the hard floor.
"Woh, woh there. What's the rush?" Cyborg reached down and helped the boy up. Beast Boy grabbed Robin's hand and pulled him off of the floor. Robin dusted off his rear and straightened his cape.
"Have... to... get... out..." The boy panted, holding his arm. Raven slowly approached him.
"Let me see your arm." He obediently held his arm out to the girl with the black magic in her hands. There was a long, deep, bloody gash in which a sharp object had sliced his arm.
"Raven! No, don't!" Beast Boy interrupted before Raven could begin a healing. She looked at him with an irritated expression. "You might not have enough... strength left... to do a healing... he can just go to the hospital..." Beast Boy's voice trailed off as he received an especially aggravated glare from Raven.
"I'm fine," she said with so much force that Beast Boy backed away from her. She turned away from Beast Boy so she wouldn't have to see the hurt expression on his face and began to heal the boy's arm. After sending enough healing magic into his arm so that the cut had become shallower and the bleeding stopped, she led the dazed boy over to Robin for questioning.
"Who started this... do you know?" Robin asked. In his mind a list of suspects immediately developed. The Hive, Thunder and Lightening, The Puppet King, Cinderblock, Plasmus, etc. The top suspect on his list though was the one and only... (drum roll, please)... Slade. But to Robin's dismay, it turned out to be none of these.
"It was a girl..." the boy coughed dust and smoke out of his throat before continuing. "She created magic with her hands..."
"Did she have pink hair?" Beast Boy inquired jumping with anxiety.
Another coughing fit before he continued, "She was wearing a hood over her head, but it fell down for a few seconds when she entered the food court which was where I was. She had long, dark blue hair with eyes... the same color. Her eyes... contained so much evil... they paralyzed me..." He began coughing again and grabbed his chest.
'Oh, great. Just what we need, a new villain,' Robin thought.
"Alright. Star, lead him to the exit, everyone else follow me," Robin told his friends as they all began to stumble through the smoke filled mall.
"Are we going to the food court?" Beast Boy asked Robin as he ran into a wall. After mumbling about walls that move to somewhere where the clearly weren't before, Robin answered, "We might as well look for this girl there since it's somewhere were we know she was. It's a lead."
"We could just use the sinister evil laughter to lead us to her." Raven said as the sound of a girl's laughter wafted down the corridor.
"TITANS GO!" Robin yelled as they all went racing towards the sound of their enemy. Starfire caught up with them and flew beside the bird-Beast Boy. As they turned the corner, they all stopped in shock and surprise at the sight before them.
A girl wearing a billowing blue cape which covered her entire body as well as shaded her face in darkness stood elevated on top of a large, glowing pile of debris (all of which just happened to be metal) in the center of the corridor. Her laughter was clearly evil, and the sound of it inflicted fear into the soul of the listener. People ran blindly around below the queenly mound being pursued by two small blue men one with silver hair, the other with blue and white. Both of them had balls of dark, navy blue magic in their hands just like the girl, and they seemed to be enjoying the chase.
"What's with the smurfs..." Cyborg muttered to Beast Boy as they gazed at the sight before them.
"They look more like Teletubies to me." Beast Boy whispered back, referring to the crystals on their foreheads. Before Cyborg could reply, the girl spoke.
"Robin... Titans..." Her voice had a friendly ring to it, but it was easily identified as false. "I'm glad you're here." She reached up and slowly pulled her hood back from her head. "I've been waiting for you."
All of the boys gaped, mouths open. The girl had long blue hair, and dark, deep evil eyes as the boy they had helped had described, but she was also extraordinarily gorgeous. Every boy titan became hypnotized by the girl's beauty, only to be awoken by receiving a sharp kick from either Starfire or Raven. Robin rubbed his leg and then glanced embarrassedly at Starfire who had been the one to wake him from his trance. She was glaring at the girl with blue hair, anger in her eyes.
"Who are you?" Robin stepped forward and addressed the girl. The "smurfs", as Cyborg had described them, stopped chasing the civilians and stood at the bottom of the mound, ready for the "real" action to begin.
The girl answered, staring intently at Robin, "I am Chaos. It's a pleasure to meet you, Robin." Chaos blew a kiss in Robin's direction. Robin blushed and glanced nervously at Starfire. Starfire was fuming, hardly able to constrain her anger.
"You met him, now get ready to say goodbye!" Cyborg switched his arm into a laser gun and aimed it at Chaos.
Chaos laughed. "No, I will not have to say goodbye..." She smiled the devil's grin and her eyes lit an intense blue, "because he is coming with me."
"Wha..." Robin began, but was cut off as Silver and Cold leapt forward and began the fight.
"Ya'll are going down!" Cyborg yelled as he aimed his gun at Chaos's minions. "What the f... AHH!" Cyborg yelled out in surprise. Chaos's blue magic had pulled him straight off of the ground and into the glowing pile of metal objects.
"If it's metal, it's mine." Chaos raised her arms into the air and a blue light surrounded her body. Metal objects flew out of nearby store windows and began to circle around her.
"Ahh!! HELP!" Cyborg struggled against the blue magic constraining him, but he couldn't budge. Raven covered Cyborg in her black magic and tried to pull him free, but either the magic holding him was too strong or Raven's was too used up and weak because she was unable to get him off of the pile.
"She can control metal!" Robin shouted as he observed the events happening before him. "Get away from anything that is metal!"
Robin used his stick to knock back Silver as he watched Chaos collect her metal objects which circled around her body far about them all. 'What is she doing?' Robin thought, but had to look away as Silver threw a shard of metal in his direction.
Starfire flew around and herded all of the people out of the room and in the direction of the exit. After leading the last mother and child out of the battlefield, she turned to rejoin the fight. But because she had been unaware of what had been happening in the battle, she didn't notice that she was being attacked.
"Starfire look out!" Beast Boy turned into a cheetah, jumped into the air, and knocked Starfire out of the path of a flying butcher's knife which had been sent her way by Cold. Starfire screamed at the closeness that the knife had come to her.
"Be careful, Star! Watch your back!" Beast Boy told Starfire as he helped her up. "There are a lot of sharp things flying through the air." He looked at Chaos nervously.
"We have to stop Chaos from taking all the metal," Raven said to Robin as she floated beside him. She looked at Chaos's metal circling around her. "Whatever it is that she is going to do with it can't be good."
"Oh, yah? And how do you purpose we stop her?" Robin said as he fought hand to hand with Silver. His stick had been broken earlier when a metal refrigerator had been dropped on it.
"Azarath Metrion Zinthos!" Raven sent Silver flying backwards. He hit the center of the wall with a thud and then slid to the floor. Silver glared up at Raven who was standing on the other side of the room. She glared back.
"AHH!" Raven screamed as Silver reached out a hand of blue magic which pulled her through the air towards him by her metal belt. Raven struggled against the pull but couldn't stop. She couldn't get the belt off either; it was tightly around her waist.
Beast Boy looked up from the battle he and Starfire were fighting with Cold when he heard the scream. His eyes grew wide with fear and then filled with anger. "RAVEN!"
Silver used his hand that was not beckoning the girl to pull a knife across the floor to him. He grinned devilishly at the fearful girl and held up the knife.
"YOU WILL NOT HARM MY FRIEND!" Starfire flew between Silver and Raven, her eyes glowing brightly with anger and power. She formed two large starbolts in her hands and then sent them flying at Silver.
Silver released his pull on Raven and dropped the knife. He covered his face with his arms and cringed preparing for the impact. At the last moment, he was pulled out of the way by a blast of magic from his brother. Because of the metal crystals on their foreheads, Silver and Cold were able to move each other with their magic.
The brothers looked up at their mistress, high above them on her metal mound. She was shaping the metal objects that flew around her. Silver and Cold smiled at each other, 'the plan was almost complete.'
The Titans (with the exception of Cyborg who was still being held against the mound by Chaos's magic) regrouped into the same spot just below the metal pile and watched the girl shape the metal.
"What is she making?" Beast Boy asked even though he knew that no one else had a clue either.
"Whatever it is, it's not going to be a good thing." Raven said as she watched the girl intently with a fierce hatred for her growing deep inside her.
Suddenly there was an immense flash of light and everyone in the room was blinded for a moment. Blinking their eyes, the Titans looked back up at Chaos and her creation witch was now complete.
"It is a..." Starfire began.
"Cage." Raven ended.
A large cage made completely out of metal floated lightly in front of a smiling Chaos. The metal was smooth, not lumpy like it should have been because of all of the different shaped objects that had been used to create it. It had a flat metal top with bars extending down the sides. The bottom was not attached, but floated readily beside the cage.
"What's it for?" Robin asked, completely and utterly confused. 'Why would she make a cage?'
"Are you really this dense or are you just pretending?" Raven looked at Robin as if he were the dumbest person she had ever seen.
"Yah, Rob! Remember what she said earlier?" Beast Boy asked excitedly because it was the first time that he had actually understood something that someone other than Starfire did not.
Raven continued the explanation when Robin still looked confused. "She said she didn't have to say goodbye."
"Because you were going with her." Beast Boy finished.
Robin blinked and then a look of understanding appeared on his face. He looked up at the cage. "Oh my god..."
"What? What is the cage for?" Starfire still didn't understand why Chaos had created the cage. She looked at Robin.
"It's for me, Star." Robin looked into Starfire's eyes. "That cage is for me." Starfire finally realized what they were saying. She gasped and looked at Robin with tears in her eyes. "But I won't let her get me."
Beast Boy looked at Robin and Starfire entirely disheartened. He couldn't believe what was happening; he was in shock. But when he saw the tears in Starfire's eyes, Beast Boy filled with a white fiery rage. He turned and looked up at Chaos, smiling with her cage on top of her mound.
"WHAT IS YOUR PROBLEM?" Beast Boy yelled at Chaos. His face was contorted with rage. "YOU BETTER LEAVE ROBIN ALONE OR... OR...!"
"Or what?" Chaos grinned at the raging Beast Boy below her.
"Or you'll have to deal with us." Raven looked up at the girl with long blue hair. Raven's face was distorted with rage. Store windows nearby that had not yet been broken shattered at the release of Raven's emotions. Chaos looked at Raven's face and it seemed as if Chaos's eyes filled with fear for a moment but then they returned to their normal evil gleam.
"Yah, with us!" Cyborg yelled from the below Chaos, still in the mound of metal. Chaos twisted her hand in the air using her magic still looking at Raven, now with hatred in her eyes. Cyborg yelled in pain as his arm twisted when Chaos twisted her hand.
"Leave him alone!" Raven's eyes darkened, filling with power and anger. She formed balls of power in her hands. 'Ouch!' Raven thought as she felt a sharp sting in her hands. 'Oh no, I'm almost out of energy... Chaos doesn't need to know, though! If I can just make her afraid of my power then maybe...' Raven pushed harder to empty more of her remaining energy into her hands.
"Robin, sweetheart, you are going to come home with me tonight." Chaos smiled and laughed. "I've waited for you for a long time."
Robin glared at Chaos and then turned to Starfire. "Don't worry, Star. I won't leave you... ever." Starfire's tears stopped streaming down her face. She looked up at Chaos with pure hatred in her eyes.
"Well I'm sorry to break up this moment, but it's time to say goodnight, Robin. SILVER, COLD, NOW!" Silver and Cold leapt out from their places at the bottom of the mound. Silver slammed a metal bar that he had just summoned into his hands into Robin's legs so the boy wonder fell to the ground in pain. Silver then rammed into the surprised Starfire, sending her flying with him away from Robin. Cold pushed Beast Boy down on to the ground with a powerful arm and then slammed into Raven, sending her far away from Robin, also. Chaos raised the cage high over Robin's body and then let it fall with a great, loud, triumphant laugh.
"ROBIN! NOOO!" Beast Boy leapt off of the ground and ran towards Robin faster than he had ever run before in his entire life. In Beast Boy's mind he saw Starfire's tears which helped ignite an energy inside him which caused him to run even faster.
"BEAST BOY! NO!" Robin yelled, lying on the ground, trying to discourage his friend from getting near the cage also. But Beast Boy kept running towards him as the cage fell lower and lower.
"NOOO!!" Starfire and Raven both screamed at the same time as the cage collided with the floor. They were both being held down by the brothers. Everything was happening too fast for them to react or struggle. Tears streamed down Starfire's face as she screamed. Raven, full of fear, looked at the cage hit the ground, wide eyed.
"YES!" Chaos yelled in ecstasy not bothering to look at the cage. She jumped up and down. "ROBIN IS MINE!" Silver and Cold both threw down smoke bombs which filled the whole room with a thick dark smoke. Chaos quickly turned the cage and it's occupant over and slammed the lid onto the top. Laughing, she summoned Silver and Cold to her and then flew out of the roof on a large sheet of metal, carrying the cage and the titan out with her.
As the dust cleared, Cyborg fell off of the mound of metal, Chaos's magic releasing him. He landed on his feet, holding his twisted, broken arm. With sadness in his eyes, he surveyed the scene before him. The two girls slowing rose to their feet, both of them staring at the boy left lying in the middle of the room. Starfire's eyes were full of tears. He was curled up in a ball, shaking slightly. As the dust cleared away, he slowly uncurled and then moved into a sitting position. He looked up at the roof where Chaos and her minions had escaped with their friend.
"NOOOOOOOO!" The boy yelled into the empty silence around him. He put his head in his hands and began to shake slightly.
"Robin!" Starfire rushed over to the boy wonder's side and hugged him. "It will be alright. We will retrieve Beast Boy back!"
Robin looked up into Starfire's eyes; his own were filled with pain and loss. "Beast Boy... he pushed me out of the way... he saved me just to get caught himself..." Robin began to shake again, but no tears came out of his eyes.
"It will be alright..." Starfire began to comfort him again. She still had her arms around him.
"That cage was meant for me... not him..." Robin looked up at the roof again, and then tried to stand, not remembering the damage that had been done to his legs. He cried out in pain as his legs collapsed under him.
"Robin!!" Starfire grabbed him and held him up. "Hold on to me. I will help you."
Cyborg approached Robin and put his good hand on his shoulder. "Don't worry, Rob. We will get Beast Boy back." Cyborg's eyes watered as he looked at his friends.
Raven stood where she had risen, not moving. A single tear flowed out of her eye and down her cheek. A TV exploded in a nearby store. Raven quickly wiped the tear off of her cheek, extremely embarrassed and ashamed. 'I must not cry. We will get Beast Boy back.' She thought this to herself but wasn't really sure she believed this. With a soft thud Raven fell to the ground. 'Oops, I guess I just used all of my energy up,' she thought.
"Raven!" Starfire ran to her friend's side and helped her up. Raven grabbed the offered shoulder and walked towards the rest of the Titans.
Cyborg looked at Raven's face. He had never seen her look so sad before. Of course he didn't see the tear that had come out of her eyes, but he could see the grief in her face. "Don't worry," he said, directed at Raven, "we'll get him back."
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Answers to Reviews!
moezy-chan: Now you know what happened in the fight! I hope you liked it!
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Destiny Smasher: Alright. I'd rather not have a big argument with you about the whole Terra issue, so let's just not talk about it again^_^. Okay? Oh and ive review!
Denizen of the Dark: Yes it was very good. Hahah^_-!
Carrot The LuvMachine: Mode X rocks! Whoo! Now that the suspense is gone, I hope you keep reading anyway^_^.
Ocdsugar: I had been informed that the Titans lived in NY. There is a Jump City in both NY and California. I'm sorry if I got it wrong.
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Krazy4Robin: Yah, I love BB/RAE and ST/ROB too. That's the only way it CAN be, yah know?
Kevin: I wrote the fight scene!! Are you happy now! Mwhaha now you can't kill me for not having it written yet! Go me.
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The fight scene is now written and posted! YES! FINALLY! Stay tuned for chapter 6!
Chapter 6: Titans try to think of a way to get BB back, Chaos realizes she got the wrong man, and Raven suffers emotional problems.
Until next time, this is WhiteTigerClaws signing off. Click.
Disclaimer: I don't own the Teen Titans television series, or the Teen Titan comic books, or any Teen Titan merchandise, or the "idea" behind the Teen Titans. But I DO own the ideas in this story! So it all evens out, right? _______________________________________________________________________
"Now let's go kick some baddie behind!"
The Titans's feet skidded on the pavement as they raced towards the mall entrance. Smoke could be seen billowing in large clouds from the roof. 'Oh, no! There must be a fire inside!' The thought inflicted fear which made them all run faster. The speed at which they were running was at such a high velocity that they couldn't slow when they reached the double door entrance. So in result, all of the teens crashed into the two large, metal doors which didn't open for them to enter like they had done every other time in the past.
Cries of pain were released from every Titan's mouth as they rebounded off of the door.
"Oomph! Hey, the door's stuck!" Beast Boy stated as he rubbed his arm which had directly hit the metal doors. Beast Boy changed into a ram and rammed the doors without effect.
"What the..." Robin inspected the lock on the door. "It's not locked..." He then punched the door numerous times then tried using some powerful kicks from his metal shoes. "It won't open!!"
"Let me see..." Cyborg pressed a button on his arm. A small, portable screen popped up.
"What's that?" Beast Boy asked hovering right behind Cyborg's shoulder watching the screen. His eyes grew big and he slobbered drool of envy all over Cyborg's shoulder for the electronic masterpiece.
"X-Ray." Cyborg raised his other arm and pointed it at the doors. It shined a long, horizontal, red light over the door's frame. "We can see what's blocking these doors with this." A picture became visible on the screen. "Oh Man!" Cyborg groaned and Beast Boy gasped at the picture.
"What is it?!" Robin rushed over to the boys to find out what was keeping them from the battle inside the building. "Why can't we get through the doors?"
"Well, let's see... Those doors are probably not opening for us because there are about ten TWO TON, SOLID METAL SUPPORT BEAMS blocking the door." Cyborg declared as he pressed a button, sending the screen back into his arm. "Looks like something... or someone... ripped them out of various places in the mall and then bent them into place in front of the doors to keep them shut."
"Wow." Starfire gaped at Cyborg's remark. "This is unexpected."
'What are we up against?' Raven thought, but she kept it to herself as the looked at the doors.
"Is there any other way in?!" Beast Boy asked looking up at the building.
"All of the metal shutters are down on the windows. Can't get through that way." Cyborg observed.
"Looks like we're just going to have to bust open these doors!" Beast Boy got ready to ram himself back against the doors.
"Wait." Raven reached her arm out and took hold of Beast Boy's shoulder holding him back. "Let me try." Raven turned and faced the doors. Her eyes began to glow and she moved into her ever so familiar position. "AZARATH... METRION... ZINTHOS!!!" She yelled at the top of her lungs. A look of strain and pain spread across her face as she pushed with her power. The metal beams glowed black and began to shake slightly, but did not move enough for the doors to open.
"Come on, Raven!" Beast Boy shouted, a look of worry on his face. "You can do it!"
"You will be successful, Raven!" Starfire cheered her friend on.
Raven screamed in pain but kept pushing. 'I can do this! I just have to push harder!' She thought as she put even more of her power into the doors.
"Raven, be careful! Don't hurt yourself!" Robin shouted, but Raven couldn't hear him. All she could hear were he own thoughts... which her emotions soon began to control.
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"Raven!" Intelligence shouted. Her yellow cloak moved slightly as a light breeze blew the fabric. "You are hurting us!" Raven had gone into her mind and she saw all of her emotions present there with her. They were all standing in a circle, all with looks of pain on their faces.
"Please stop!" Happiness cried out holding her head, no longer happy. "You don't have to do this!"
"Stop NOW, Raven!" Anger yelled, pounding her fists on the floor trying to level out her pain.
Raven looked in anguish at all of her emotions. 'Oh my god! I need to stop! I'm killing myself!' Raven grabbed her own head, feeling the pain throbbing through it worse than before. 'I have to stop...'
"No... she DOES need to do this." Raven looked up to see who had spoken. Bravery stepped out of her spot in the circle and approached Raven, stopping when they were just inches apart. A look of misery was on Bravery's face, but she didn't give away that she was in any pain by the sound of her voice as she spoke. "You need to do this, Raven. For the Titans, for the people trapped in that building, for us (*Bravery nodded her head in the direction of the circle of emotions*), and for..." Bravery looked into Raven's eyes.
"Hah! Finally!" Raven's pink emotion grinned with glee, ignoring her pain.
"Oh, shut up, Pinkie!" All of the emotions shrieked.
"Yes..." Raven looked away from Bravery's eyes at her emotions writhing in pain in the circle, and then back to the eyes. "I can do it. I WILL do it!"
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'Oh, my god!' Raven thought again as she left her mind and became aware of the reassuring feeling of hardness under her feet.
"Is she okay!?!?" Beast Boy had been jumping from one foot to the other ever since Raven's eyes had glossed over when she entered her mind.
Raven's eyes focused and a look of determination spread across her face. A slight smile crept onto her lips. 'I can do this!'
Beast Boy gapped at the smile, but otherwise relaxed seeing Raven back from her visit with herself ^_^.
Raven walked forward, still forcing her power on the doors. "Azarath..." She whispered as she approached the doors. They began to trembled, and shake more violently than before. "Metrion..." She walked closer and pushed harder. The metal beams shook so hard that the teens could hear them rattling behind the doors. "ZINTHOS!" She ended in a shriek which was dripping with power. The doors and the metal beams flew forward and into the entrance way of the mall with a loud boom. Raven's eyes closed and she fell to the ground.
"RAVEN!" Starfire and Beast Boy screamed. They both ran to the dark girl lying on the asphalt.
"RAVEN! SPEAK TO ME!" Beast Boy shouted holding her head in his lap.
"RAVEN! PLEASE AWAKEN!" Starfire shrieked as tears streamed down her face. "PLEASE, FRIEND!"
Cyborg and Robin raced over to their friends. "Raven! Is she okay?!"
Raven's eyes shot open and she looked up into the worried, fearful eyes of her best friends. "What's everyone looking at?" She asked weakly. "It's not like I died. I just opened a door."
Shouts of "YAH RAVEN," "YOU ROCK," and "YOU GO GIRL," rang in her ears as Beast Boy happily helped her to her feet.
"Let's go, the battle's waiting." Raven said when she was again on her feet.
"Are you sure you're up to a fight, Raven?" Robin asked, a bit nervous for his friend.
"Yah! That took a lot out of you, Rae!" Beast Boy's voice quivered. Raven gazed at Beast Boy with a questioning look on her face. "I just don't want you to get hurt..." He responded softly looking into Raven's eyes.
"I'm fine. Really. And with friends like you to back me up, there's no way I can lose this fight... or any other" Raven's eyes brightened as she walked slowly towards the hole in the wall where the doors once were. When she reached the entrance, she turned and looked at her friends. "Like I said before, the battle's waiting."
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Screams could be heard coming from all directions as people frantically scrambled through the smoke filled mall. Some people had found ways out of the building, but a good number of them were still trapped inside. The smoke blinded their eyes, causing them to not know, if they ran into anything, what it was.
"Ouch!" A tall teenaged boy, not being able to see if there was anything in front of him as he ran away from the source of the trouble, had run directly into Robin. Both of them landed on the hard floor.
"Woh, woh there. What's the rush?" Cyborg reached down and helped the boy up. Beast Boy grabbed Robin's hand and pulled him off of the floor. Robin dusted off his rear and straightened his cape.
"Have... to... get... out..." The boy panted, holding his arm. Raven slowly approached him.
"Let me see your arm." He obediently held his arm out to the girl with the black magic in her hands. There was a long, deep, bloody gash in which a sharp object had sliced his arm.
"Raven! No, don't!" Beast Boy interrupted before Raven could begin a healing. She looked at him with an irritated expression. "You might not have enough... strength left... to do a healing... he can just go to the hospital..." Beast Boy's voice trailed off as he received an especially aggravated glare from Raven.
"I'm fine," she said with so much force that Beast Boy backed away from her. She turned away from Beast Boy so she wouldn't have to see the hurt expression on his face and began to heal the boy's arm. After sending enough healing magic into his arm so that the cut had become shallower and the bleeding stopped, she led the dazed boy over to Robin for questioning.
"Who started this... do you know?" Robin asked. In his mind a list of suspects immediately developed. The Hive, Thunder and Lightening, The Puppet King, Cinderblock, Plasmus, etc. The top suspect on his list though was the one and only... (drum roll, please)... Slade. But to Robin's dismay, it turned out to be none of these.
"It was a girl..." the boy coughed dust and smoke out of his throat before continuing. "She created magic with her hands..."
"Did she have pink hair?" Beast Boy inquired jumping with anxiety.
Another coughing fit before he continued, "She was wearing a hood over her head, but it fell down for a few seconds when she entered the food court which was where I was. She had long, dark blue hair with eyes... the same color. Her eyes... contained so much evil... they paralyzed me..." He began coughing again and grabbed his chest.
'Oh, great. Just what we need, a new villain,' Robin thought.
"Alright. Star, lead him to the exit, everyone else follow me," Robin told his friends as they all began to stumble through the smoke filled mall.
"Are we going to the food court?" Beast Boy asked Robin as he ran into a wall. After mumbling about walls that move to somewhere where the clearly weren't before, Robin answered, "We might as well look for this girl there since it's somewhere were we know she was. It's a lead."
"We could just use the sinister evil laughter to lead us to her." Raven said as the sound of a girl's laughter wafted down the corridor.
"TITANS GO!" Robin yelled as they all went racing towards the sound of their enemy. Starfire caught up with them and flew beside the bird-Beast Boy. As they turned the corner, they all stopped in shock and surprise at the sight before them.
A girl wearing a billowing blue cape which covered her entire body as well as shaded her face in darkness stood elevated on top of a large, glowing pile of debris (all of which just happened to be metal) in the center of the corridor. Her laughter was clearly evil, and the sound of it inflicted fear into the soul of the listener. People ran blindly around below the queenly mound being pursued by two small blue men one with silver hair, the other with blue and white. Both of them had balls of dark, navy blue magic in their hands just like the girl, and they seemed to be enjoying the chase.
"What's with the smurfs..." Cyborg muttered to Beast Boy as they gazed at the sight before them.
"They look more like Teletubies to me." Beast Boy whispered back, referring to the crystals on their foreheads. Before Cyborg could reply, the girl spoke.
"Robin... Titans..." Her voice had a friendly ring to it, but it was easily identified as false. "I'm glad you're here." She reached up and slowly pulled her hood back from her head. "I've been waiting for you."
All of the boys gaped, mouths open. The girl had long blue hair, and dark, deep evil eyes as the boy they had helped had described, but she was also extraordinarily gorgeous. Every boy titan became hypnotized by the girl's beauty, only to be awoken by receiving a sharp kick from either Starfire or Raven. Robin rubbed his leg and then glanced embarrassedly at Starfire who had been the one to wake him from his trance. She was glaring at the girl with blue hair, anger in her eyes.
"Who are you?" Robin stepped forward and addressed the girl. The "smurfs", as Cyborg had described them, stopped chasing the civilians and stood at the bottom of the mound, ready for the "real" action to begin.
The girl answered, staring intently at Robin, "I am Chaos. It's a pleasure to meet you, Robin." Chaos blew a kiss in Robin's direction. Robin blushed and glanced nervously at Starfire. Starfire was fuming, hardly able to constrain her anger.
"You met him, now get ready to say goodbye!" Cyborg switched his arm into a laser gun and aimed it at Chaos.
Chaos laughed. "No, I will not have to say goodbye..." She smiled the devil's grin and her eyes lit an intense blue, "because he is coming with me."
"Wha..." Robin began, but was cut off as Silver and Cold leapt forward and began the fight.
"Ya'll are going down!" Cyborg yelled as he aimed his gun at Chaos's minions. "What the f... AHH!" Cyborg yelled out in surprise. Chaos's blue magic had pulled him straight off of the ground and into the glowing pile of metal objects.
"If it's metal, it's mine." Chaos raised her arms into the air and a blue light surrounded her body. Metal objects flew out of nearby store windows and began to circle around her.
"Ahh!! HELP!" Cyborg struggled against the blue magic constraining him, but he couldn't budge. Raven covered Cyborg in her black magic and tried to pull him free, but either the magic holding him was too strong or Raven's was too used up and weak because she was unable to get him off of the pile.
"She can control metal!" Robin shouted as he observed the events happening before him. "Get away from anything that is metal!"
Robin used his stick to knock back Silver as he watched Chaos collect her metal objects which circled around her body far about them all. 'What is she doing?' Robin thought, but had to look away as Silver threw a shard of metal in his direction.
Starfire flew around and herded all of the people out of the room and in the direction of the exit. After leading the last mother and child out of the battlefield, she turned to rejoin the fight. But because she had been unaware of what had been happening in the battle, she didn't notice that she was being attacked.
"Starfire look out!" Beast Boy turned into a cheetah, jumped into the air, and knocked Starfire out of the path of a flying butcher's knife which had been sent her way by Cold. Starfire screamed at the closeness that the knife had come to her.
"Be careful, Star! Watch your back!" Beast Boy told Starfire as he helped her up. "There are a lot of sharp things flying through the air." He looked at Chaos nervously.
"We have to stop Chaos from taking all the metal," Raven said to Robin as she floated beside him. She looked at Chaos's metal circling around her. "Whatever it is that she is going to do with it can't be good."
"Oh, yah? And how do you purpose we stop her?" Robin said as he fought hand to hand with Silver. His stick had been broken earlier when a metal refrigerator had been dropped on it.
"Azarath Metrion Zinthos!" Raven sent Silver flying backwards. He hit the center of the wall with a thud and then slid to the floor. Silver glared up at Raven who was standing on the other side of the room. She glared back.
"AHH!" Raven screamed as Silver reached out a hand of blue magic which pulled her through the air towards him by her metal belt. Raven struggled against the pull but couldn't stop. She couldn't get the belt off either; it was tightly around her waist.
Beast Boy looked up from the battle he and Starfire were fighting with Cold when he heard the scream. His eyes grew wide with fear and then filled with anger. "RAVEN!"
Silver used his hand that was not beckoning the girl to pull a knife across the floor to him. He grinned devilishly at the fearful girl and held up the knife.
"YOU WILL NOT HARM MY FRIEND!" Starfire flew between Silver and Raven, her eyes glowing brightly with anger and power. She formed two large starbolts in her hands and then sent them flying at Silver.
Silver released his pull on Raven and dropped the knife. He covered his face with his arms and cringed preparing for the impact. At the last moment, he was pulled out of the way by a blast of magic from his brother. Because of the metal crystals on their foreheads, Silver and Cold were able to move each other with their magic.
The brothers looked up at their mistress, high above them on her metal mound. She was shaping the metal objects that flew around her. Silver and Cold smiled at each other, 'the plan was almost complete.'
The Titans (with the exception of Cyborg who was still being held against the mound by Chaos's magic) regrouped into the same spot just below the metal pile and watched the girl shape the metal.
"What is she making?" Beast Boy asked even though he knew that no one else had a clue either.
"Whatever it is, it's not going to be a good thing." Raven said as she watched the girl intently with a fierce hatred for her growing deep inside her.
Suddenly there was an immense flash of light and everyone in the room was blinded for a moment. Blinking their eyes, the Titans looked back up at Chaos and her creation witch was now complete.
"It is a..." Starfire began.
"Cage." Raven ended.
A large cage made completely out of metal floated lightly in front of a smiling Chaos. The metal was smooth, not lumpy like it should have been because of all of the different shaped objects that had been used to create it. It had a flat metal top with bars extending down the sides. The bottom was not attached, but floated readily beside the cage.
"What's it for?" Robin asked, completely and utterly confused. 'Why would she make a cage?'
"Are you really this dense or are you just pretending?" Raven looked at Robin as if he were the dumbest person she had ever seen.
"Yah, Rob! Remember what she said earlier?" Beast Boy asked excitedly because it was the first time that he had actually understood something that someone other than Starfire did not.
Raven continued the explanation when Robin still looked confused. "She said she didn't have to say goodbye."
"Because you were going with her." Beast Boy finished.
Robin blinked and then a look of understanding appeared on his face. He looked up at the cage. "Oh my god..."
"What? What is the cage for?" Starfire still didn't understand why Chaos had created the cage. She looked at Robin.
"It's for me, Star." Robin looked into Starfire's eyes. "That cage is for me." Starfire finally realized what they were saying. She gasped and looked at Robin with tears in her eyes. "But I won't let her get me."
Beast Boy looked at Robin and Starfire entirely disheartened. He couldn't believe what was happening; he was in shock. But when he saw the tears in Starfire's eyes, Beast Boy filled with a white fiery rage. He turned and looked up at Chaos, smiling with her cage on top of her mound.
"WHAT IS YOUR PROBLEM?" Beast Boy yelled at Chaos. His face was contorted with rage. "YOU BETTER LEAVE ROBIN ALONE OR... OR...!"
"Or what?" Chaos grinned at the raging Beast Boy below her.
"Or you'll have to deal with us." Raven looked up at the girl with long blue hair. Raven's face was distorted with rage. Store windows nearby that had not yet been broken shattered at the release of Raven's emotions. Chaos looked at Raven's face and it seemed as if Chaos's eyes filled with fear for a moment but then they returned to their normal evil gleam.
"Yah, with us!" Cyborg yelled from the below Chaos, still in the mound of metal. Chaos twisted her hand in the air using her magic still looking at Raven, now with hatred in her eyes. Cyborg yelled in pain as his arm twisted when Chaos twisted her hand.
"Leave him alone!" Raven's eyes darkened, filling with power and anger. She formed balls of power in her hands. 'Ouch!' Raven thought as she felt a sharp sting in her hands. 'Oh no, I'm almost out of energy... Chaos doesn't need to know, though! If I can just make her afraid of my power then maybe...' Raven pushed harder to empty more of her remaining energy into her hands.
"Robin, sweetheart, you are going to come home with me tonight." Chaos smiled and laughed. "I've waited for you for a long time."
Robin glared at Chaos and then turned to Starfire. "Don't worry, Star. I won't leave you... ever." Starfire's tears stopped streaming down her face. She looked up at Chaos with pure hatred in her eyes.
"Well I'm sorry to break up this moment, but it's time to say goodnight, Robin. SILVER, COLD, NOW!" Silver and Cold leapt out from their places at the bottom of the mound. Silver slammed a metal bar that he had just summoned into his hands into Robin's legs so the boy wonder fell to the ground in pain. Silver then rammed into the surprised Starfire, sending her flying with him away from Robin. Cold pushed Beast Boy down on to the ground with a powerful arm and then slammed into Raven, sending her far away from Robin, also. Chaos raised the cage high over Robin's body and then let it fall with a great, loud, triumphant laugh.
"ROBIN! NOOO!" Beast Boy leapt off of the ground and ran towards Robin faster than he had ever run before in his entire life. In Beast Boy's mind he saw Starfire's tears which helped ignite an energy inside him which caused him to run even faster.
"BEAST BOY! NO!" Robin yelled, lying on the ground, trying to discourage his friend from getting near the cage also. But Beast Boy kept running towards him as the cage fell lower and lower.
"NOOO!!" Starfire and Raven both screamed at the same time as the cage collided with the floor. They were both being held down by the brothers. Everything was happening too fast for them to react or struggle. Tears streamed down Starfire's face as she screamed. Raven, full of fear, looked at the cage hit the ground, wide eyed.
"YES!" Chaos yelled in ecstasy not bothering to look at the cage. She jumped up and down. "ROBIN IS MINE!" Silver and Cold both threw down smoke bombs which filled the whole room with a thick dark smoke. Chaos quickly turned the cage and it's occupant over and slammed the lid onto the top. Laughing, she summoned Silver and Cold to her and then flew out of the roof on a large sheet of metal, carrying the cage and the titan out with her.
As the dust cleared, Cyborg fell off of the mound of metal, Chaos's magic releasing him. He landed on his feet, holding his twisted, broken arm. With sadness in his eyes, he surveyed the scene before him. The two girls slowing rose to their feet, both of them staring at the boy left lying in the middle of the room. Starfire's eyes were full of tears. He was curled up in a ball, shaking slightly. As the dust cleared away, he slowly uncurled and then moved into a sitting position. He looked up at the roof where Chaos and her minions had escaped with their friend.
"NOOOOOOOO!" The boy yelled into the empty silence around him. He put his head in his hands and began to shake slightly.
"Robin!" Starfire rushed over to the boy wonder's side and hugged him. "It will be alright. We will retrieve Beast Boy back!"
Robin looked up into Starfire's eyes; his own were filled with pain and loss. "Beast Boy... he pushed me out of the way... he saved me just to get caught himself..." Robin began to shake again, but no tears came out of his eyes.
"It will be alright..." Starfire began to comfort him again. She still had her arms around him.
"That cage was meant for me... not him..." Robin looked up at the roof again, and then tried to stand, not remembering the damage that had been done to his legs. He cried out in pain as his legs collapsed under him.
"Robin!!" Starfire grabbed him and held him up. "Hold on to me. I will help you."
Cyborg approached Robin and put his good hand on his shoulder. "Don't worry, Rob. We will get Beast Boy back." Cyborg's eyes watered as he looked at his friends.
Raven stood where she had risen, not moving. A single tear flowed out of her eye and down her cheek. A TV exploded in a nearby store. Raven quickly wiped the tear off of her cheek, extremely embarrassed and ashamed. 'I must not cry. We will get Beast Boy back.' She thought this to herself but wasn't really sure she believed this. With a soft thud Raven fell to the ground. 'Oops, I guess I just used all of my energy up,' she thought.
"Raven!" Starfire ran to her friend's side and helped her up. Raven grabbed the offered shoulder and walked towards the rest of the Titans.
Cyborg looked at Raven's face. He had never seen her look so sad before. Of course he didn't see the tear that had come out of her eyes, but he could see the grief in her face. "Don't worry," he said, directed at Raven, "we'll get him back."
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Answers to Reviews!
moezy-chan: Now you know what happened in the fight! I hope you liked it!
Timid Raven: Thanks for reviewing! I'll keep writing!
Destiny Smasher: Alright. I'd rather not have a big argument with you about the whole Terra issue, so let's just not talk about it again^_^. Okay? Oh and ive review!
Denizen of the Dark: Yes it was very good. Hahah^_-!
Carrot The LuvMachine: Mode X rocks! Whoo! Now that the suspense is gone, I hope you keep reading anyway^_^.
Ocdsugar: I had been informed that the Titans lived in NY. There is a Jump City in both NY and California. I'm sorry if I got it wrong.
spiritual-s: I love it too!
Krazy4Robin: Yah, I love BB/RAE and ST/ROB too. That's the only way it CAN be, yah know?
Kevin: I wrote the fight scene!! Are you happy now! Mwhaha now you can't kill me for not having it written yet! Go me.
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The fight scene is now written and posted! YES! FINALLY! Stay tuned for chapter 6!
Chapter 6: Titans try to think of a way to get BB back, Chaos realizes she got the wrong man, and Raven suffers emotional problems.
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