Violet
"Remind me again why we had to accompany you to the supermarket."
Robin replied, a bit huffy he had to admit, to Beastboy in the rearview mirror, "So that you know how to do it on your own the next time I'm away"
"But you let Raven stay behind at the tower! You wouldn't let any of the rest of us stay behind!" Cyborg complained, parking the T-Car.
"Well Raven seemed pretty upset about something, and besides she threatened to throw me into that mirror world of hers"
"Raven wouldn't do that!" Beastboy argued.
"It seemed to me that she would; she had the mirror in her hand and everything…"
Robin began to unload the groceries out of the car as he continued, "Then I heard her mumble something that sounded like, 'At least you'd be safe there' and then she stormed off into her room."
"That mirror world is definitely not safe. I know. I've been there." Beastboy climbed out of the car with two of the grocery bags.
"The point is she's been acting strange and we don't know what's wrong."
"Could it be that she's just gone into some really moody stage and it's just a phase?"
"I'm not sure Cyborg… I think there's more at work here…"
Starfire shut the door closed, carrying the last bag, just as a large BANG sounded. A huge explosion was seen in the air, debris flying every which way. A scream ensued, together with another explosion.
"It is coming from the tower!" Starfire yelled over another explosion, dropping her bag and flying off towards the bangs.
A moment later they were all standing in front of the tower, watching with disbelieving eyes as a girl they had never seen before ran around in circles, dodging blasts from Raven who was flying above.
"Stop shooting at me! I just want to get into the tower!"
"Azarath Metrion Zinthos!" Raven shouted, ignoring the girl's plea for mercy.
A blast of energy shot out of Raven's hands and the girl jumped, trying to evade the attack, and landed smack on her face. Before she could get up, Raven had already fired another attack, headed directly for the girl, and it wasn't going to miss. Then the girl did something that set several things off at once. She screamed.
She screamed louder than they had heard her scream before and as soon as she let that cry fly past her lips a bright light flashed and she was quickly encased inside a blue bubble of energy. A pulse rang out from the shield around her, knocking down Raven, the other Titans nearby, and a couple of trees and bushes as well. And she didn't stop until Raven's attack was absorbed by the shield, and the bubble around her disintegrated.
The girl just sat there shaking and said, "I think I'm…going…to…"
She fainted as the Titans around her sat up, blinking in the sun at the unconscious girl laying on the grass.
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"Stop fidgeting over me, I'm fine" the girl shook away the arm that Cyborg had extended to check her temperature.
"So…what was it again?"
"Violet"
"Right, Violet. So, you say that you come from…" Robin trailed off as the girl, now identified as Violet, nodded her head.
They all stared at her, as if something about her face would give away that she was lying or worse, that she was telling the truth.
She only stared back at them with disappointment and said, "Oh come on! You've got to believe me! I'm telling the truth!"
When none of them said anything she turned to Beastboy, "Beastboy, your favorite food is tofu"
Beastboy didn't say anything.
"Okay, that wasn't a good example. Robin, your eye color is blue, and you've got to believe me because I know that no one from here has seen you without your mask."
Robin didn't reply.
"Cyborg, one time you thought it would be funny to hide all of the tofu and soymilk from the fridge so you could see how Beastboy would react, but you forgot that you hid them in tight-sealed containers under the sofa."
Cyborg looked taken aback, "Hey, I don't know what you're talking about"
"Wait a minute, you mean that one time I couldn't find any of my tofu! It was you! I practically starved for two days! And what does she mean you hid it under the sofa!"
"I forgot! It was supposed to be a joke! I never remembered where I hid it!"
"See! I was right! You never told anyone that" Violet paused for a moment as Beastboy proceeded to kneel down and look under the sofa, then continued, "At least not yet"
Beastboy emerged from under the sofa with a clear, plastic box, "Ewww! Forgot is right! This stuff looks like it was mutated or something! Good thing the smell didn't go through"
He began to pry at the lid when Cyborg yelled, "Don't open it!"
He dropped the box immediately, "What, I just wanted to see if it was alive; it's definitely not edible"
"Would you stop fooling around!"
All the attention was on Violet again, and she once again picked up on her argument, "I really mean it! I know all this stuff because I'm really from the future! Stop that!" she swatted at Cyborg who had reached out again to check her temperature, "I'm not sick, and I'm not crazy! None of you are paying attention! Can't you see I'm not lying!"
There was another awkward silence that filled the room as she looked at everyone one by one with her big, worried eyes. There was something in the silence; it seemed to drip with uncertainty.
Violet turned to Raven, "You can sense it right? That I'm not lying?"
Raven looked very hard at her, concentration spreading over her face, and suddenly her eyes went wide, as if she'd seen something horrible, something too terrible to say.
She must have realized it as well, for Violet said quietly, "You saw too much, didn't you?"
The innocence and joy--although clouded over with disappointment and unease a few times during her attempts to convince them--the sparkle, was gone now. They weren't full anymore either. In fact, they were quite empty as they looked at Raven intently.
Raven looked down at her feet, unable to hold Violet's gaze with the knowledge she had gained when she had broken into her mind raging around in her head.
"She's telling the truth" she muttered finally.
