Teen Titans: I Need Her
Chapter Four: It's nice to finally meet you
Raina skidded across the floor, trying to stop herself from flying into the wall; she stopped short of her attacker and flew back at them, catching them off-guard as she delivered a solid punch to their jaw. "All right then," a voice said suddenly, startling Raina and almost making her fall over. Slade walked into the training room and over to Raina's fallen attacker. "I think that's enough training for today," he said once more. "I believe Mammoth needs to recover his strength, that's the third time you've knocked him unconscious this week." Raina simply shrugged and sat down at the mat, taking a breather. "His own fault," she stated icily. "He keeps trying to use the same moves on me like they are going to actually going to work. Stupid giant. How about giving me someone to fight who's actually a challenge Slade, huh? At least that would give me something to do."
"Don't worry my Dear," Slade said chuckling, signaling his robot soldiers to come and carry Mammoth back to his room. "Soon enough you will have some worthy adversaries to fight... In the meantime, though, have you been studying those profiles of the Titans I gave you?" Raina stood back up and started walking toward the door, but she stopped for a moment and turned back to face her host. "Of course I have," she said, rolling her cat-like orange eyes. "Every single night. I could recite those files by heart if you wanted me to." She paused and stared at Slade. "Why?" Slade merely walked past her, heading for his lab or whatever, and called back to her, "Because I want you to get to know the leader, Robin, very well. He is the Titans' strongest fighter and he will be your main target; I want you to try everything in your power to infiltrate his senses and whatever else you can to get under his skin."
Raina stood there perplexed, snapped out of it and started to follow him. "Wait," she said, coming up behind Slade. "What do you mean, get under his skin? What exactly do you want me to do with the Pretty Boy Wonder?" Slade kept walking down the hall, but Raina stopped at his next words. "Seduce him, my Dear," he stated calmly. "Make poor Robin fall in love with you beyond all reason." "Why?" she questioned harshly. "What good will that do?" "Simple," he said, entering his office. "It will get him close enough to you, and to me, and it will make it much, much easier to crush him when his head is clouded with a silly, useless emotion like love." The door whooshed shut, leaving Raina standing dumbfounded in the hallway, pondering her employer's last words.
Finally snapping out of her stupor, she whirled around and headed back into her bedroom to take a shower and study some more of that Robin's profile. Shutting her door behind her as she entered her room, Raina grabbed her robe and headed to her bathroom. She stripped quickly, turned on the steaming water and stepped into the hot shower, cleansing herself of the grime, grit, and sweat she accumulated from her training session. Make him love me? She thought as she shampooed her hair. That's a strange request, but I guess I could do it. I mean, he definitely is quite handsome, in a brooding, dark, goody-two-shoes kind of way. Well, I mean, I could definitely pull off lust, but love? I don't know about that.
Raina finished her shower, dried off, put on her robe, then walked into her room, letting her hair air dry as she went to her closet to pull out a new uniform. She stared at her clothes with a mixture of disgust and a deep wonderment; she sometimes actually liked her uniform, feeling like maybe, just maybe, she was beautiful. Well, beautiful in a sexy, vixen, almost slutty, kind of way. She pulled her hair up into a clip for a moment, just so that is was out of her way and she could get dressed without it getting all tangled up. Her outfit was entirely different than the one she had been found in, but she felt strangely comfortable in this new one Slade had provided her.
Slade, she thought while getting dressed quickly, knowing those stupid gits Gizmo and Mammoth liked to 'accidentally' rush into her room without knocking to try and catch her naked. Him and his cronies are so weird. Well, Jinx isn't too bad, she seems pretty smart and she's been surprisingly nice to me during the last three weeks, especially after that little video conference with the Titans. That was the first time she had seen them in person; she felt almost compelled to be over on that side of the screen, but then something kicked in at that thought and she instantly felt a hatred running through her blood. But then she had noticed Robin and she felt strangely attracted to this dark hero, which obviously wasn't too bad since her boss wanted her to seduce him anyway, this would just make it easier on her part.
Raina finished getting dressed, took her hair down and went to stand in front of the mirror to see if she looked okay. Hmm, not too bad, I must say, she thought, turning around to get the full effect. Her high-heeled, black leather boots came up just short of her knee, leaving her milky white thighs completely exposed and making her seem a little taller, too. Her skirt was also black leather that touched down to the floor, but with major slits on both sides all the way up to her upper thighs; thankfully she had little hot pants on underneath or she could probably flash her underwear just by walking into a room.
Her skirt ended just below her waistline in a red and black belt, leaving her navel in the open and letting her toned, pale abdomen stand out. Her petite figure was extremely well pronounced, very slender, and yet very curvy in all the right places, and topping it all off with her well-developed chest. Bringing her gaze up, she adjusted her top which, for some reason, always provided some problems somehow. Her top was red and black leather and it was really nothing more than a glorified bra, but with thick straps resting on her upper arm, leaving her shoulders open (A/N: Think Jasmine's top in Aladdin, ok?), and it nearly pushed her breasts up and out. She felt almost naked in her outfit and so she had complained to Slade about it during her first week here and so he had given her a little extra something to wear with it. Her little cape, I guess you could call it, was nothing more than extra see-through fabric dangling from her arms that gave her the impression of wings when she was flying, but it was enough so she could wrap it around her and it would keep her slightly warm.
All of this was topped off by her waist-length red, voluminous hair and a silver choker than had a diamond pendant on it. The pendant always fascinated Raina and she knew it had something to do with her past, considering she could never remove it without extreme pain shooting through her body. She just decided it was something from her home, wherever that was, and it was a major key in finding out who she was; the one thing that always puzzled her was the black liquid that swirled around inside the glass diamond. When she asked Slade about it, he merely said after tests he performed when he first found her, that it was a liquid manifestation of her powers to keep them in check, or some bull like that. Raina didn't know if she believed his definition, but it was the only lead she had, so she accepted it. She walked away from her mirror and over to her bed, laying down and grabbing the profile of Robin she kept on her night stand to read up on the local hero she was to entice, ensnare, enthrall, and... eradicate...
At Titan's Tower
Ever since Slade had resurfaced the Titans had spent every last second trying to find out where he was hiding, where he had been, what he was planning, but most of all, they needed to find out who his new apprentice was. Most of the Titans figured that his new lackey was either fake, just a ruse, or someone incredibly stupid like the H.I.V.E. students that, for some reason, Slade thought were good, trustworthy villains. But Richard, Roy, and Terra knew better than that; Rich and Terra had both been on the receiving end of Slade's twisted ideas and they knew with two failures under his belt, this new apprentice would most likely be an extreme threat to the Titans and so they stopped at nothing to try and analyze the figure they had seen to see if they could determine who she was.
"Well," Terra said, after studying the images from the video for the millionth time. "All we know for sure is that it's a girl, she has red hair, an extremely provocative outfit, and something shiny, presumably a gem of some sort, around her neck. To be honest, that really doesn't give us much to go on." Richard grunted in response and went through more snapshots of the video feed. "There has to be something we missed," he growled. "We don't know how Slade escaped, where he is or where he has been before, we don't know who his new crony is and we don't know what he's planning. So, what the hell do we know?" Roy walked around the table, carrying cups of coffee to keep everyone awake, and then went back to his own stack of snapshots. "To be honest, Dick," he said, craning his neck over all the photos and everything. "I really don't think we're going to find anything out until Slade makes his move. He's kept this operation under pretty tight wraps."
Richard glared in Roy's direction and he cringed and went back to his work; Richard had put everything between him, Star, and Speedy behind him and decided to call a truce, knowing he would need to get along with them sooner or later. Of course, by now, he had expected to have been with Raven, which would have made getting over everything a whole lot easier, but she had left the team and he still felt to blame for that one. Everyone had respected Raven's 'wishes' and had not physically gone to look for her, but Terra and Richard always checked the news and radar in case something seemed to stand out as to where she could be. Deep down inside, both of them suspected foul play, but neither could find any evidence to prove it, so until then they had to accept that Raven had simply left and quit the team because she no longer felt wanted.
Another week went by, making it one month exactly since Raven had quit the team, and the Titans were still trying to figure out what Slade had planned. Fortunately, or unfortunately as the case may be, they didn't have to wait long for Slade to make his first move. That night the alarm went off in the tower, signaling H.I.V.E.'s ongoing attack on a local warehouse; the Titans quickly assembled, taking extra precautions, knowing full well that Slade would probably unveil his project tonight, courtesy of the H.I.V.E. delinquents. When they arrived at the warehouse, it was eerily quiet and so they split up, each Titan taking a different direction, room, floor and whatnot. From a nearby shack, Slade watched as the Titans disbanded, got on his communicators and sent out his team to greet the Titans. Raina sat in the shack with him, awaiting specific orders; she had been told she was not to get involved until Slade gave her the special word to go in and take out the Titans.
Like usual, Starfire flew up to the roof with Beast Boy, the two of them splitting up on the top floor and searching opposite sides of the building. Speedy and Terra took the second floor and Robin and Cyborg took the first floor, scanning to find where Jinx, Mammoth and Gizmo were hiding. On the top floor, Mammoth lay in wait around the corner while Starfire entered the room where he was waiting for her. She floated suspiciously around, hands glowing green, ready and waiting for an attack; unfortunately, she didn't anticipate someone being around the corner and so she was caught off-guard as Mammoth back-handed her across the room. She hit the wall with a defeated "Oof!", but she quickly sprung back up and starting firing her fire bolts at the giant. BB heard Star hit the wall and raced across the building to help her; he ran into the room and saw Starfire trying to dodge Mammoth while he charged her, almost completely unaffected by the minor fire bolts she was firing at him. BB quickly transformed into a rhino and charged Mammoth, catching him off-guard and tossing him into a pile of crates across the room.
Meanwhile on the second floor, Speedy and Terra had already found Jinx and were desperately trying to capture her, but her hexes kept knocking them out of the way. Speedy's arrows and Terra's rocks kept bouncing off her shields or exploding on contact with Jinx's hexes. Finally, Jinx managed to fake out Speedy and her hex hit him in the back, knocking him to the ground. Terra stopped for a moment and ran to his side, checking to see if he was okay, before going back to fighting Jinx.
Cyborg and Robin still hadn't found anything save for a few rats and empty boxes on the first floor. They could hear explosions, crashes and yelling from the upper floors, but they knew not to interfere until they had secured their own floor, not wanting anything or anyone to get past them. Suddenly, a noise startled them as they saw a small wind-up mouse winding its way from out of a stack of boxes; at first they thought it was merely another rat, but then Cy scanned it and saw it was made entirely of metal. Quickly, he grabbed Robin and ducked behind some boxes just as the little metal mouse had stopped and exploded, creating a tiny crater in the floor where they had just been standing. They stood back up to see where their attacker was, only to be hit from behind by a pair of mechanical spider legs. "Haha, you stupid pit-sniffers!" Gizmo cried as he walked towards them on his metal legs. "I can't believe you fell for that!" Cyborg and Robin got up and assumed their fighting stances almost immediately, ready to take down the pint-size snotrag.
Up on the third floor, Mammoth had bounced back quite quickly and the battle between him, the Tamaranian princess and the changeling was being pursued full-force. Mammoth had been winning for quite a while, when suddenly Beast Boy had managed to get the upper hand and Mammoth was currently being crushed by the butt of a Tyrannosaurus Rex while being questioned by an angry alien. Outside in the shack, Slade looked back at Raina, she only nodded, closed her eyes and teleported into the warehouse to do damage control. Beast Boy and Starfire never even saw their attacker as they both were thrown back, the only thing crossing their vision was a deep red mist that enclosed them. They were hurled into the wall, Beast Boy losing consciousness upon impact and Star only getting stunned for a moment; she looked up to see the young woman with fiery hair approaching her and tried to stand up, but the mist enclosed her once more, keeping her pinned down the ground.
"Who are you?" she screamed. "What do you want from us? What does Slade want this time?" The young woman merely smirked, sending shivers down the princess' back. "I am Raina," she said, eyes glowing a bright orange. "I want nothing from you, Tamaranian, neither does Slade. Just remember me, Good night." With that, Raina used her psychic abilities, dove into Starfire's mind and twisted her thoughts into painful memories. The intense pain caused Star to black out shortly after. Raina only smiled and turned to the fallen Mammoth. "Completely useless," she sighed, using her powers to teleport him back to headquarters. She then spun on her heel, leaving the sleeping Titans where they lay and going to find her comrade to help take down the next two super heroes.
Jinx was doing fairly better with her two Titans than Mammoth was, having already knocked out Speedy with quite a few hexes. But Terra was proving to be a much harder target to take down, she was too fast, and she had way too much protection with those stupid rocks of hers. Jinx's hexes and curses only exploded the rocks, making little pebbles rain down on the battlefield every now and then. She knew now that she needed reinforcement and so she was merely delaying Terra until her new partner in crime showed up. Never thought I'd be thinking that way, she thought, throwing another hex over her shoulder at Terra and then hiding back behind her steel fortress of beams. Just imagine the look on her face if she really knew, absolutely priceless. As if on cue, a red mist rose up from the floor, taking the shape of a young woman with fiery hair. "Sheesh, took you long enough," Jinx berated. "I already took out Arrow Boy, but the Rock Bitch is still going strong."
Raina only glared at her new pink friend, "Sorry, that moronic oaf upstairs nearly got himself killed, I had to do damage control. What a waste he is; you'd think Slade would have better insight into his own villains." She paused and looked over at Terra hiding behind chucks of fallen ceiling. "Don't worry about her, leave it to me. Just get out of here and go help Gizmo or something, Slade's orders." Jinx only blinked, but then nodded and jumped down through a hole in the floor Terra had created earlier. Terra grew frightened by the silence across the room, knowing that the quiet only meant Jinx was thinking of something big. Before she could send a rock over to get the show on the road, a trail of red mist appeared behind her and Terra froze, unable to move.
She wasn't afraid of the woman who formed in front of her for some reason, but she couldn't move because the red mist was enveloping her feet and suctioning her to the ground. "Hello," Raina said coldly. Terra just crouched there, glaring daggers. "So, you're Slade's new concubine, huh?" Terra smirked. Raina only glared and her eyes glowed orange again and Terra found herself hanging upside down, encased in a red mist, her face level with the woman's. "Don't ever call me that. You know nothing of me," she hissed, her face growing more twisted by the second. With that she melted the steel beams Jinx was hiding behind earlier and placed Terra, upright, in the middle of the melted mess. She began to reform the melted metal around the young Titan and Terra struggled to use her powers and knock the woman down, but it was to no avail as Raina had enclosed Terra's hands in the mist so they could not reach out to the rocks around her. "Why are you doing this?" Terra screamed, panicking. "You don't have to! Whatever Slade is holding over you, we can help, I promise." Raina only looked at the blonde and finished up her metal encasement. "He isn't holding anything over me," she stated. "He is helping me." With that she left Terra unable to escape or use her powers in the metal tomb and left her pondering over her words while she left to go find the remaining Titans.
Cyborg and Robin were doing fine with Gizmo, that is, until Jinx showed up and gave them a bit more than they could handle. Cyborg took on Gizmo by himself and was winning; unfortunately he failed to notice the red mist creeping up and he didn't notice until it was too late and the mist had enshrouded his body. He was lifted high into the air and suspended there for some time while Raina took great care not to be seen. Before the mist could overtake his entire body, Cyborg used his laser cannon on his arm and shot one final blast at Gizmo, who didn't expect it and was knocked out, his machinery lay in pieces. Cy turned to the woman who was now standing over the fallen techie and teleporting him back to the lab with Mammoth. "Absolute imbecile," she muttered, earning a strange confused glare from the suspended robot-man. "If you weren't the one holding me hostage right now," Cy said, drawing the girl's attention back to him. "I'd say we're probably fighting on the same side, since we have the same views about that midgety mechanical dumbass."
Raina looked at him with utter apathy and just shrugged. "Yeah, too bad," she said simply. "You Titans are way more of a challenge than that twerp and his big buddy. It's such a shame I have to hurt you now." "Yeah," Cyborg said, sighing. "Wait... Wha"€?" Before he could comprehend what she had said, Raina swung him hard up through the ceiling and onto the roof, pinning him down underneath the giant satellite that resided there, knocking out yet another Titan. Now for the real fun to begin, she thought, crossing the room to find the remaining Titan. Let's hope Slade's plan will work. She found Jinx and Robin battling quite heavily, leaving Jinx battered and slowly losing strength. Robin thought the Titans were winning, but he had no idea he was the only one left standing, and all because of the fiery sorceress standing behind him.
Raina used her telekinesis and told Jinx to back out of the fight and head back, that Robin was hers now. Jinx only smirked at the directions, and right as Robin was about to deliver an earth-shattering blow to her side, she rolled out of the way and ran out through a hole in the wall Cyborg had created earlier. Robin lowered his staff and was in the process of turning around when he was struck from behind. "Hey Cy"€" he managed to get out before his body went slamming into the ground. He quickly got back up, but before he could see his attacker, a stream of red mist shot out at him and pinned him against the wall behind him. As he struggled he looked up and saw the approaching silhouette; he knew who it was and he was eager to finally meet his new foe face to face.
Raina sauntered over to the captured bird and grinned seductively; she was really going to enjoy this part of the mission. "Hello Wonder Boy," she cooed, walking up to him and stopping a mere foot in front of him. Robin stopped his struggling temporarily and was entranced by this fiery angel that had managed to subdue him. "It's nice to finally meet you," she said once more, coming a little bit closer, so that their faces were only inches apart. "Who"€who are you?" he stammered, cursing his body for attempting to respond to the beautiful woman's close proximity. "What do you want?" She smiled and his heart seemed to melt right there. She leaned closer and put her lips by his ear. "My name is Raina," she said, making him shiver with delight as her hot breath made contact with his neck. "What I want..." she paused to lick his earlobe, earning her a low groan from her new pet. "Is you."
She pulled back from his neck, making Robin sad at missing the warm contact, but what she did next, more than made up for it. She smiled at the handsome hero and then, without warning, closed the distance between them and kissed him passionately on the lips. It was everything and more than Robin had dreamed of this past week and, even though he knew he shouldn't and that she was supposed to be the enemy, he couldn't help it and he found himself opening his mouth and inviting her tongue into his mouth. Raina was happy to oblige to the young man's desires, letting her hands roam about his chest and pressing her body even closer to his, feeling his growing erection pressing against her thigh.
It was now Raina's turn to moan, which startled her, but only made Robin want to press on even further; he struggled to break free as hard as he could, wanting to be loose and able to ravage this sexy woman as he saw fit. Suddenly, a previous memory flew back into his head, one he had forgotten from his night with Raven so long ago. He instantly knew what he was doing was wrong and he pulled back, ashamed he had let his carnal wants take over his moral senses. He loved Raven, not this Raina, Slade's new apprentice. At the thought of Slade, Robin growled at the young woman and she got the impression he had finally gotten his senses back.
"What is it dear Robin?" she asked sweetly. "Something wrong? Don't you want me?" Robin took a few deep breaths, trying to come up with the right response; his brain, as well as some other body parts, were screaming Yes!, but his heart was fighting for him to say No! "You're working for Slade," he finally said through gritted teeth. "So everything's wrong. Besides, there's someone else my heart belongs to; I could never betray her and give it to someone who is nothing compared to her." Raina just smirked and kissed him once more, and it took everything in him not to pursue it any farther. "Oh that's what you think Wonder Boy," she cooed once more, stroking his face. "Before long, though, you'll forget all about your silly morals and your little made up girlfriend and I'll be there when your heart changes it's mind. Trust me on that; you'll fall so far in love with me, you won't know what hit you."
She turned around and walked away, dissolving into the shadows, and seconds later, her power evaporated and Robin was released from the wall. He fell to the ground, thinking about what she had said. He had felt something when she kissed him, something he longed for and he couldn't push it away, no matter how hard he tried to. Raven's gone, his brain threw out at him. She left, quit the team and she's not coming back. You lost your chance with her when you took advantage of her and used her. Maybe this Raina could help you, give you someone to love again, someone to love you back. "No," he growled, talking to himself as he wandered around the warehouse trying to find his friends. "Raina doesn't love me, she's only doing what Slade asked her to do. It's just a big joke, she doesn't care for me like that, she doesn't even know me and I don't know her either. How can I love someone I just met?"
Robin's thoughts were still stuck on Raina as he found the other Titans and got everyone free and back to the tower to regroup and re-plan their next strategy. They all decided this new lackey, Raina, was going to give them major trouble and so they needed to come up with a new way to defend themselves against her. Everyone noticed that Robin's mind was elsewhere but no one knew why and they weren't about to ask either. That night in bed, Robin's dreams were full of extremely graphic visions about what he wanted to do next time he saw the elusive, tempting Raina. He woke up with a start around two in the morning, sweating bullets, harder than he could ever remember being before, and one thought stuck in his head: I'm in love with the enemy...
Back at Slade's Hideout
Raina had returned with a small smile playing about on her lips; Slade assumed that she had it because she had defeated an entire team of worthy adversaries, but even he couldn't imagine what was making his new creation so happy. Raina went straight into her room, took a hot shower, slipped into her silk nightie and went to bed. Her entire night was filled with wondrous dreams about what she wanted to with her captured bird. She slept better than she had before that night, content in what she had discovered upon returning from her mission: This feels so wonderful, I never thought I'd be able to feel this happy. I can't believe it... I actually fell in love...
A/N: WOOT! I did it! I managed to sneak enough time in to write a new chapter! Go me! I'm so excited. Now I just have to find some time to write the next chapters, He he! Was it good enough for y'all? Did I disappoint or was it everything you expected? Review and let me know what you think?