A/N: Wow, its been over a month since I've updated, thanks to my stupid english report I have to do! Srry to those of you reading my story for the looooong delay, but it shouldn't happen again. Anywho, in this chapter the Titans battle an old hip British foe out for revenge ;) :Read and enjoy

Ch. 4

Mad Rush

"I'm dreaming," Raven thought to herself dimly as she stood there, holding Rorek's hand limply, her body felt strangely numb. "I feel asleep on my bed, and here I am, dreaming this unbelievable dream that the dark knight Rorek is here holding my hand at this very moment."

But it was not a dream. The hand she was holding was real, and Rorek was really in her room with her. After a minute more, he stood up and looked down at Raven (he was at least a foot taller than her).

"I am sorry I intruded so unexpectedly," he said to her, "but …"

"I-it's ok," Raven stammered, speaking at last, "Rorek…but…I thought you were…"

"Dead?"

Raven nodded. He chuckled a little and replied, "Well…I was for a short while. As you read in my book, the dreaded dragon Malchior had defeated me in battle. But, as you read, Raven, your love for me was transferred by magic into the book, and gave me the power to revive myself."

Raven's mouth hung open slightly in disbelief, and after a brief pause she said, "So…you mean I saved you?"

Rorek nodded and smiled charmingly at her from underneath the silky white rag that partially covered his face.

"Indeed Raven, without your help I would not be here."

As Raven tried to comprehend all that she had been told, her head swirled with a multitude of thoughts, and her emotions were going haywire.

"Ohh, he's a cutie!" Happy cried out, giggling delightfully.

"Indeed…"Wisdom muttered, eyeing Rorek keenly through Raven's eyes.

Raven told them to be quiet and with a weak smile she asked Rorek if he needed anything.

"Well…I am a bit hungry," he replied after thinking for a moment, "Not having eaten for over a thousand years is rather difficult."

"Ok," she said, "I'll get you something from the kitchen…but you'd better come along with me."

Rorek bowed to her and said, "It would be my honor to."

Raven blushed lightly and said, "C-come with me."

She led him out of her room, her cobalt cape flowing behind her gracefully, and they proceeded to head to the kitchen, Raven keeping a sharp eye out for any of the other Titans. As the two proceeded down a small flight of steps Rorek said suddenly, "My, this is such an amazing structure Raven. How did you ever come to live in such a grand place?"

Raven smiled. "Well…it's quite a long story, but I'm not alone here."

They rounded a corner and continued down the hallway, Rorek listening to Raven intently.

"You see Rorek, I have friends who…" She was cut off suddenly by Robin's voice coming from ahead of them, around another corner.

"Raven?" He called out to her, his visible shadow on the wall ahead of her growing larger, "is that you?"

The Goth froze in her spot, paralyzed with fear. Rorek peered around her and said, "Is that one of your friends Raven?"

"Oh no," Raven thought to herself, looking around in a panic, "What do I do! If Robin sees Rorek he'll…" Her thoughts were cut off abruptly as Robin rounded the corner, rubbing his damp hair dry with a towel.

"Hey Ra…"

He froze upon seeing Rorek, dropped the towel, drew out a birderange from his utility belt, and cocked his hand back, ready to strike. Rorek saw this and immediately his hands began to glow with a deep black aurora, ready to defend himself.

"STOP!" Raven yelled, throwing her hands up and knocking the weapon out of Robin's hand with her powers, "Robin, it's not Malchior!"

Rubbing his hand, the boy wonder stared aghast at her and replied slowly, "But…w-who is he?"

Sensing that there was no hostility, Rorek relaxed his powers and walked past Raven, approaching Robin in a leisurely manner.

""Robin," Raven said, following behind him slowly, "This… is Rorek, the good knight who fought Malchior in my book."

"You must be one of Raven's friends," Rorek said contently, holding out his hand, "It is a pleasure to meet you as well."

Robin slowly stuck his hand out and shook Rorek's, then said, "It's good to meet you too."


A few minutes later in the living room, Robin and Raven were chatting quietly, while Rorek gazed out of the large windows at the sea.

"So you don't know exactly why he came here?" Robin asked Raven, glancing past her at Rorek.

She shook her head and replied, "No. He just said that, somehow, I resurrected him from the dead, and then he used his magic to travel to our time…just to thank me."

"Wow," Robin murmured, "that's amazing Raven, but, what will he do now?"

"I…don't know," she replied slowly, "but to tell you the truth I think he…" She stopped and sighed, looking away from Robin; her eyes were quivering. Robin gently placed his hand on her shoulder, understanding the message. "He…I think he's in love with me," Raven whispered in a slightly quivery voice, looking back at Robin.

"And is that a problem for you?" The leader asked Raven in a gentle, caring tone, looking slightly worried.

Raven shook her head slightly. "When Malchior…he was the only one who seemed to care..." She broke off for a moment, and then continued. "But he never really wanted me. He played with me, and toyed with me…and I…I guess it's just too hard to accept someone else from the same story." A single tear rolled down her cheek, and she wiped it away.

"I understand your fears, Raven," Robin said, "but Rorek seems like a completely different person. If you think you can try, maybe you should give him a chance. After all, you don't like anybody else, do yo…"

"Guys, I'm hooooooooome!" Beast Boy called out suddenly from outside the kitchen. Raven froze.

"Who might that be?" Rorek inquired curiously, appearing from behind the humongous T.V. monitor in the living room.

"Sounds like Beast Boy's back from his paper route," Robin said with a chuckle.

Before Raven could say anything, the kitchen doors opened, and a very sweaty Beast Boy slinked into the room, looking exhausted but immensely satisfied with himself. "Dudes! I sold twenty-five stacks of papers tod…" He stopped abruptly as he noticed Rorek for the first time, and stammered slowly, "Uhh…guys, who is that?"

Raven opened her mouth to speak, but Rorek beat her and replied calmly, "I am Rorek of Norm." He walked over to Beast Boy, who stared up at him in awe; between the two there was at least a foot and a half of difference of height. Rorek held out his hand and said, "You are Raven's friend?"

Beast Boy nodded, shaking his hand limply, and replied in a slightly sarcastic tone, "Yeah, Raven's my best friend."

Robin smirked at Beast Boy's humor, while Raven only rolled her eyes.

"Oh yeah, I'm Beast Boy. Just so ya know."

"Ah yes… I believe I remember your name," Rorek said, "I've heard Raven say many great things about you when I was entrapped within my book; very affection words."

Raven barely managed to stifle a gasp from her mouth, and her cheeks flared red.

"How could he hear me?" she thought in horror, trying not to look any more surprised.

Beast Boy, more confused than ever, cocked his head to look directly at Raven and said, "Uh Raven, what's he talking about?" Before she could utter another word, the room began to flash red, and a piercing alarm rang shrilly at regular intervals, announcing some kind of disturbance in Jump City.

"Trouble!" Robin exclaimed as he ran over to the nearby computer and began typing rapidly on the keyboard. A few seconds later, he added, "Looks like we got Mad Mod causing havoc downtown!" As Robin continued typing some more, Cyborg and Starfire entered the kitchen swiftly, looking vigilant.

"What's happenin'?" Cyborg asked the others.

"…And what in Tameran's name is that smell?" Starfire added, pinching her nose and glancing at Beast Boy, who was surrounded by a small puddle of sweat.

Beast Boy looked alarmed and quickly took a whiff of his armpit, which, needless to say, didn't smell too fragrant.

"It's Mad Mod," Raven replied unconcernedly to Cyborg's question.

"And who might that be?" Rorek asked pleasantly.

"A craaaaaazy bad guy," Beast Boy responded, taking off one of his sopping wet shoes and wringing it, "what's he up to this time anyway?"

"Hard to say," Robin replied, "but we'd better find out. Titans, go!"

Everyone immediately dashed out the door, except for Raven, who turned to face Rorek and said, "Would you like to come along? We could probably use your help."

He nodded to her, and placed a hand gently on her shoulder. "I can get us to 'downtown' much quicker," he said with a smile, his hand beginning to glow a bright white. Suddenly, there was an even brighter flash of light that blinded Raven, and she closed her eyes as she felt her body move at high speeds. Then, she stopped suddenly, and the light gradually faded. Raven opened her eyes again, and found herself standing on the main road in Jump City, which was unusually deserted.

"You can teleport?" Raven asked Rorek, who was standing next to her, observing all the tall buildings in wonderment.

"Of course," he replied, "how else would I have possibly been able to enter your time?"

"Oh…right," was Raven's oh-so-intelligent response. Rorek nodded and continued to marvel at the enormousness of Jump City. Raven, looking around and realizing that no one was around, muttered, "Wow, it's like a ghost town here. Where is everyone?"

As if on cue, the sound of screeching tires could suddenly be heard, and moments later a strange, lengthy red car swerved around the corner up ahead and speed towards Raven and Rorek at high speed. Standing on the elongated hood of the car was none other than Mad Mod, dressed in his usual attire except for an outlandish furry red cloak, standing with his hands on his newly repaired cane and smiling his wicked smile.

"Halt!" he yelled to the unseen car driver upon spotting Raven and Rorek. Immediately the car swerved to a stop, and the madcap villain hopped off the car and strolled towards the two titans casually, his cloak dragging several feet behind him.

"Well well well, if it isn't Raven," Mad Mod chuckled, twirling his cane in one hand, "and…now who might this be?"

He gestured towards Rorek, who gave him a hard look and said, "If you must know, I am Rorek of…"

"Right right," Mad Mod interrupted, looking uninterested, "say, where are the others to help you?"

"Oh, they'll be here," Raven growled, "just you wait."

"Mad Mod laughed and said, "If you say so, love…but wait, I 'ave a guest to introduce to you as well, or should I say guests. I present to you, my Mini Mods!"

And with that he flipped open the ruby red diamond atop his cane and pressed the button inside with a 'click'.

The four doors of the British car flew open simultaneously, and several nut-cracker dolls, modeled to look exactly like Mad Mod himself down to the smallest detail, filed out quickly. Within seconds, the entire road was full of these red-headed replicas lined up like soldiers in an army. Mad Mod chuckled again and said, "Beautiful ain't they? Now, my mini's, DESTROY THEM!"

The doll's eyes started to glow dark red, and they began marching towards Raven and Rorek.

"I think we might be outnumbered here," Raven said seriously to Rorek as the Mini Mods closed in on them.

Suddenly, there was a loud explosion nearby, and several of the dolls went flying into a nearby office building. A blue shot of energy decapitated more dolls, causing them to fall like dominos and explode. The caped figure of Robin dropped in front of the two titans suddenly, and he said, "Play time's over Mad Mod."

Starfire landed gracefully next to the boy wonder, and Cyborg was dropped down from above by Beast Boy, who landed soon after as a pterodactyl and transformed back to his human form.

"Well well, all my best students back to learn another lesson eh?"

"We'd have thought you'd be the one who would've learned the lesson," Cyborg retorted, crossing his arms.

"Yeah, especially after that major butt-kicking we gave you last time dude," Beast Boy added, grinning, "Remember? We saw London, we saw France, and we saw Mad Mod's underpants!" He cracked up at his own joke, giggling madly while the others only stared at him.

"Please…did we not travel to the land of Britain, not France or London?" Starfire remarked confusedly. This only made Beast Boy laugh even harder, until he was rolling on the ground, clutching his sides.

"ENOUGH!" Mad Mod bellowed finally, pointing the cane at Beast Boy and pushing his glasses up the bridge of his nose sharply, "You may 'ave foiled my plan for a new Britain but I won't let you get off easy this time. Mini Mods! Teach these brats a lesson!"

The doors of the car opened once again, and even more of the dolls emptied out and began to encircle the Titans.

"Titans, go!" Robin yelled, drawing out his bow-staff.

"B.B.!" Cyborg called, "T-rex take-down number 2!"

Beast Boy nodded and in an instant became a massive and menacing tyrannosaurus rex.

Cyborg leaped onto his green tail and ran up onto his back. Using Beast Boy's height to his advantage, Cyborg took aim and began firing at several dolls rapidly, toppling them with ease.

Starfire, flying up into the air, charged up a large green bolt of energy in her hands and released it into another crowd of Mini Mods, sending them flying. But one doll she failed to notice began to sneak up behind her. Starfire, hearing it, turned around in mid-air, but it was too late; the doll clamped its metallic claws around her waist and began to squeeze.

Struggling, she fired several starbolts from her eyes at the claws, only to have them ricochet and collide into several buildings. Finally, Starfire filled her tightening lungs with air, and screamed. Hearing the outcry, Rorek and Robin turned away from their fight and saw Starfire in the Mini Mod's clutches.

Robin acted first, using his bow staff to pole-vault over the Mini Mod and then strike its face in mid-air with a barrage of blows. When he landed, he whirled around just in time to see the doll, its face disfigured by his blows, drop Starfire, who landed safely on the ground.

A second later the doll's face sparked and exploded.

"Robin, look out!" Rorek yelled suddenly from behind them. The boy wonder spun around just in time to see Mad Mod raise his cane and strike him in the face. Stunned, he quickly drew out a birderange and threw it at Mad Mod, but he side-stepped it easily.

"Well, I didn't want ta' do this but you sports left me no choice," he said sadly, glancing at his fingers indifferently, "to tell ya the truth I made enough of these high-class Modies to flood this entire city, and now 'hats just what I'm gonna do!"

He raised his cane high into the air and poised his thumb over the red button.

Rorek, seeing this, quickly charged a black energy ball in his hand and hurled it at Mad Mod with all his strength.

As he slowly lowered his thumb over the button, grinning in triumph, the bolt struck Mad Mod's cane and exploded, sending the two flying in opposite directions.

But as the others watched the cane fall to the ground, the red diamond suddenly flew off it, and in seemingly slow-motion it fell to the ground and shattered. Then there was a sudden blinding flash of red light, and Beast Boy, Rorek, and Raven vanished in the blink of an eye.

Lowering his arm from his eyes, Robin caught a brief glimpse of the three as they disappeared.

"No!" he cried out, running over to the spot where they had stood a second ago, but they were long gone.

As Mad Mod, groaning and muttering something under his breath about stupid children, tried to sit up off the street, he was suddenly grabbed by the collar and lifted into the air.

"Where are they?" Robin hissed, holding up Mod by one hand and clutching his broken cane tightly in the other. Cyborg and Starfire appeared behind him, also looking angry.

Mad Mod simply shrugged and replied with a weak smile: "That's a good question Robby ol' boy."

The last thing he saw was Robin's fist aiming for his face.


"…Uhh…where…"

She opened her eyes slowly and shut them immediately.

"Too much light…,"she muttered to herself, "too bright."

Finally, she opened her eyes a little bit at a time, until they fully adjusted to the luminosity. Sitting up, Raven looked around and found herself in the middle of a large white room with a black and white tile floor.

"Hey…this place looks familiar," she thought to herself, "I've definitely been here before, but when?" Turning around, Raven noticed a brown door at the end of the room.

"Huh…that wasn't there before was it?" She asked herself, frowning. "Oh well."

And with that she began walking towards it. As she paced through the big room the sound of Raven's footsteps reverberated off the white walls, making a noticeable amount of noise. But as Raven kept walking towards the door the echoes ceased abruptly.

"Wha…?" Stopping, she looked down at the solid floor, and unexpectedly fell right thought it. Plunging downward, Raven watched as several portraits of Mad Mod spun past her, all smiling devilishly.

Suddenly, she remembered.

"No...," she gasped, "I'm at…"

Her thoughts were cut off as she landed violently on another black and white floor. Regaining her balance, Raven looked up, and found herself in the exact same room she had been in before.

"I knew it," she groaned aloud, "I'm at Mad Mod's school…again."


Eh, that was a pretty descent 4th chapter. Now review! PLEEEASE!
It'll help me write the last two chapters, I promise!