Beastboy was the first to arrive in the dirt pit. He stood and rubbed the back of his neck. What was going on? Where were the others? As if on cue, a dark hole suddenly appeared to his right and Raven came crashing in.
"Are you okay?" He asked, helping her up. She was shaking and looked scared. She pulled her hood over her face and merely nodded.
"Where are the others?" She asked.
"I don't know I just got here. I don't know what's going on, but we have to get out of here. Like, now."
Suddenly, a screaming form appeared above their heads and Cyborg came crashing to the hard rock ground. He grunted as he landed and slowly sat up.
"Man, that sucked. Where the hell are we?" He asked. He looked at them. They looked just as scared as he felt. A dark hole appeared to his left and Starfire ran into the pit, and fell to the ground.
"No, leave!" She said, she pulled her hands over her head and rocked back and forth.
"Starfire!" Cyborg said, quickly running over and kneeling. "Hey Star, it's okay." She looked up with tears in her eyes. She looked around and tried to calm her breathing.
"Are you alright?" Raven asked.
"No, we must leave. We must leave now!"
"I don't think we can." Beastboy said. Suddenly another figure fell from the darkness above.
Robin fell to the floor and grunted. His heart hammering madly in his chest he looked up. Four pairs of worried eyes looked back.
"Hey man, you alright?" Beastboy asked. Robin sat up and looked around.
"Yeah, fine." He said rubbing his shoulder. "Where are we?"
"Beats me. I was just starting to fall asleep when this guy came into my room…" Cyborg started.
"Yes, a strange man with a dark cloak over his head." Starfire said quietly.
"Yeah, and he said a spell." Raven said, remembering. "Whoever it was must have sent us here."
"Not straight here though. I was somewhere else before I ended up here." Robin said, looking around at his teammates.
"As was I," Starfire said, still shaking slightly.
"Me too," Beastboy said, shuddering at the thought. " I was in a cage, there were these people standing all around with long poles…"
"I was on my old football will with all my old…friends," Cyborg said, stressing the last word slightly.
"I was back on Azerath, my father was there…" Raven said, then quickly stopped.
"I was…" Starfire started but then put her head in her hands and stopped talking. Robin walked over and put an arm around her shoulders.
"I was at the old circus I performed in with my family. I saw them, them," He stammered and cut off. "We need to figure out what's going on!" They all lapsed into silence.
"It sounds as if we all went to places where we had bad experiences as a kid." Raven said suddenly. She was more thinking of her experience, as she didn't know what the others had really gone through.
"I've never been put in a cage and jabbed at with sticks!" Beastboy said heatedly.
"I had never been in the burial tombs of my home planet, it was forbidden." Starfire said quietly. "It appears as if we experienced things we were afraid of. Things we hoped would never happen or never happen again."
"Yeah, I am afraid of being caged like some wild animal." Beastboy said sheepishly.
"I'm afraid of being rejected by people I know because of the way I look." Cyborg admitted.
"I'm afraid of heights. And watching my family fall from them." Robin said testily.
"Home planet issues." Raven muttered.
"It is the same for me." Starfire said. They all went quiet at these new revelations that they had discovered about each other; each one avoiding the other's eyes. "It sounds like," Starfire began. "That we are being put to some type of te-"
But before she had finished, a huge hole in the ground opened and swallowed her whole. The others jumped to their feet, just in time to be sucked into holes of their own.
