She's Gone Missing
He watched horrified as she plummeted, gaining speed as she neared the ground. What in the world was she doing! The first answer that crossed Robin's screaming thoughts was: suicide. And wait a minute, what was he doing! Sitting there wasn't doing anybody any good!
He jumped up hurriedly, banging his way down the stairs yelling, "Titans! Move! Everybody outside!"
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What was that? Raven's head swiveled around to look behind her at the rear wall. She could hear commotion outside her door, but that wasn't important. She had felt something go by. Emotions. She had sensed someone's emotions.
She narrowed her eyes, getting up to walk over to the back of her room. She was sure that it had come from behind her. Whoever it had been, they weren't in her room anymore. Or perhaps…She placed a hand on the wall, the cold stone cooling her fingers…perhaps from outside? It had been an interesting combination of feelings, however brief she had been exposed to them.
Hate, very strong hate at that, and the feeling of being stabbed in the back. She knew that feeling quite well. There had been loneliness too, and determination. But…regret? Regret of what? Raven lifted her hand from the wall, puzzled thoughts whispering in her head.
What puzzled her was that the presence had seemed to come from above, and had left her from below. The only explanation she could muster up was that someone was just outside the tower, and was either falling or flying downwards. Strange…
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This was a bad idea. I've only managed to probably ruin my present…or is it the future? Doesn't matter, I've got to do this on my own.
Violet gulped at the thought of going all by herself. She looked straight at the ground as she continued to fall. It was nice to fall like this, like she had done when she was younger and still learning to control her abilities. Back when things had been alright. She was almost there now, passing the last few windows on the tower. Just a few more seconds before…
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Robin's heart was pounding faster with each passing second.
"Robin, what's going on!" Cyborg questioned why they were running.
"No time to explain!" he thrust the door open and ran out into the cold wing, not stopping for an instance to look around; he went straight to the side of the tower that Violet had jumped off.
Only there wasn't anyone there. There wasn't anybody in the air or on the ground. There weren't even impact marks. The rest of the Titans stopped behind him, positioning themselves defensively, reading themselves for attack.
Robin swiftly turned to them, "Where's Violet!"
Cyborg lowered his cannon, "Violet?"
"There!" Starfire called, pointing out toward the lake.
Someone was disturbing the water, causing it to rise as she passed above it. Violet was speeding fast away from them, not once looking back. She was too far away by this point for anyone to do anything but stare.
Robin just stood where he was, dumbfounded with the discovery of Violet's ability to fly and by the thought of, Where could she be going?
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"For the thousandth time Robin, I CAN'T LOCATE HER ON THE SEARCH BOARD!" Cyborg yelled the last part, having said it, oh how many times? Too many times to count…
"Well try again!" Robin shouted into his communicator, steering the R-Cycle into an alleyway.
Cyborg sighed, "Look Robin. You know the search board only locates crime and/or each individual Titan who's locator is turned on. Since Violet doesn't have a locator, there's nothing I can do about it."
"I don't care! Just find her!" Robin was hardly looking at what was in front of him, his sight was darting left and right, looking everywhere for any sign of Violet.
Cyborg's face was pushed out of view on his communicator as Beastboy's took his place, "Dude, you're getting way too uptight. It's not like you. Well, maybe it is just a little like you…okay, so it's a lot like you, but you've got to give it a rest!"
"But I must have said something to make her upset! This is all my fault!"
Starfire's face squeezed Beastboy's out of view after he had said his bit, "Robin, you should not be so hard on yourself. She is alright and we are going to most definitely find our friend."
Beastboy squished back in, "Yeah Robin! Besides, it wasn't—" he was cut off by Cyborg bumping back into view.
"Robin I think something's wrong with the—Hey!" he in turn was interrupted by Beastboy's head squishing Cyborg's back out of focus, "Dude! I wasn't finished!"
Cyborg's voice could be heard somewhere off in the background, "Well you'll have to wait until I'm finished! Something weird's going on with the search boards!" he pushed Beastboy off the screen, only to be pushed out again by Starfire, "You two should not be arguing in such a manner and—no! Beastboy, put that oddly over-sized mallet down!"
There came a series of yells and shouts, clouds of dust showing up on the screen to indicate scrambling and fighting. Robin himself had stopped listening quite a while ago. For once, something Beastboy had said was making him think hard. Why was he acting this way? If memory served him, he only acted this way whenever Slade was involved directly, or if one of his team mates was hurt or missing.
It wasn't like he knew Violet all that personally…but something about her just felt so familiar, as if he'd met her before. This seemed impossible since, if Violet's information was accurate, they would never have met before, her being from her time and him in his own. But…somehow…he felt……he felt himself being knocked out of his thoughts and off the R-Cycle as it collided with something solid. He groaned, aware of the little red that was seeping through his pant's leg on his knee. He groaned even louder when he saw the condition of the R-Cycle.
The front tire was melted, the metal parts twisted and smoldering red. If it was at all salvageable, it would take weeks to repair. He stood up, the pain in his knee slightly increasing as he did, looking around for the source of the collision. Finding nothing he could see he…wait a minute. Walking cautiously, he brought his bo staff out and kicked at an empty soda can laying on the ground.
It bounced lowly into the air, making an arc until…
"Robin? Robin, are you still there?"
"Uh oh."
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"Locate them. And when you do, destroy them."
A swish of hair and silent, obedient steps exited the corridor as Slade turned to address another, "As for your instructions, don't interfere this time. I want you do something else for the time being. You know what you have to do."
The servant nodded, and with another swish, was also gone to carry out the given task.
