Chapter Five:

Starfire screamed as Robin was throw across the room into a wall. Any harder and she might have knocked him out. Cyborg readied his arm cannon and jumped up from his seat. This was no time to play games. If they didn't get Raven calmed down and under control, someone could get hurt. What made this harder was that they were in a public place containing hundreds of people.

"What do we do?" Starfire asked, panic clear in her voice.

"We have to stop her before she hurts someone," Robin said whipping out his bo-staff.

"But what if we hurt her?" she asked.

"That really isn't the issue now, Star," Robin said edgily.

"Humans! You cannot defeat me!" a voice from Raven boomed.

"Raven, snap out of it! It's us, your friends!" Robin shouted lamely.

"Silence!" Raven shouted.

Chairs were lifted off of the ground and smashed to pieces before their eyes. Robin jumped at Raven and threw three explosive bird-a-rangs at her. They simply broke at Raven's command. Suddenly, large black tentacles protruded from under her cloak. She seemed to double in size, making the Titans feel as though they were merely bugs.

Cyborg blasted at her with his laser cannon but before the laser reached her, she teleported to the other side of the room, causing the laser to shoot a large hole in the wall.

"Idiots!" she boomed and seized each one of them with a black tentacle.

All around them nurses and patients ran, screaming for the police and security. Even with the hospital's security force firing their guns at Raven, the bullets had no effect on her. They're fear of this monster only made her stronger. A tentacle grabbed hold of one of the security guards, lifting him off of the ground. Raven glared at the man and tightened the tentacle around his waist, squeezing and squeezing until the arm of black energy smashed all of his organs together inside his body.

The others stared in terror as they watched Raven continue to squeeze him until a mixture of blood and organs began to gush from his mouth.

Robin squirmed in her hold, trying to reach for his bird-a-rang. If he could only reach it then he just might have a way out. Suddenly, Raven's evil gaze was focused directly on him.

"You cannot escape! You will not escape!" she said to him.

"Let me go!" he yelled.

"Never! Never shall I be commanded by a human!"

Finally his hand grabbed hold of a bird-a-rang. He cut the tentacle that held him and was soon falling. Just when he thought he couldn't get any better, another tentacle was wrapped around him, this time around his neck.

Raven laughed as she squeezed him tighter and tighter, watching him gasp for air.

"Did you think you could out smart me, human?" she asked. "Did you honestly think you could outsmart someone as powerful as me? Well I'll show you," she said tightening her grip further," I'll show you-"

"R-Raven. Stop!"

Raven's head jerked in the opposite direction.

"B-Beast Boy?" she asked.

He put his hand out to her, his body crumpling to the ground. Raven's eyes slowly changed back to their normal color and she was falling to the floor, along with her other friends.

"Beast Boy," she said running over to him. "You're Ok," she repeated over and over as she held him, held him in her arms.

"You killed him Rae," he said shakily.

"Sh, it's OK Beast Boy. You're alright," she said stroking his hair with her hand.

"No it's not Rae," he said," you killed him."

"No," she said.

"Rae, you killed him," he said pointing to the disfigured man.

"I-I did that?" she asked him, her eyes filling with water and fear.

He nodded.

"No, no! Good guys don't kill," she said resting her head against his shoulder. "Good guys don't kill," she repeated over and over.

Beast Boy wrapped his arms around her slowly, unsure of what to do. He rested his head on her shoulder and patted her back softly.

"I'm a murderer!" she said, realization finally sinking in. "I murdered someone and I can't control it!" she said sobbing.

Her shoulders shook as she cried into him.

"It's OK, Rae," he said softly.

"No, it's not! I killed him and I can't control it!"

They sat there on the floor, Raven mumbling over and over," I can't control it, can't control it."