TheUbu (I'd be Ubu but someone took it!)

I'm a crazy Canadian and some of my writing may reflect that. Don't be alarmed and run for the hills, I'm sure it won't hurt too badly.

I changed the rating to T for this fic because from what I can see, things won't be getting any more adult then that (I think…).

Disclaimer: I bet you can't guess what I don't own! What? The Teen Titans? Well uh… Yea… I do not own the Teen Titans; any characters contained within are not mine and belong to their respective owners with whom I have no affiliation. I do own the story though and I hope you've been enjoying to so far.

Chapter Six

Raven was so comfortable. Lying in bed curled warmly up against the one she loved. Could life get any better? She doubted it and rolled over to face her love. He was softly snoring and had a funny grin stuck on his face. She smiled as she looked at him. She could just lie there and stare at the peaceful expression on his sleeping face forever. Life definitely couldn't be any better then it is now.

She leaned in to kiss him, closing in on his lips. Closer, closer, so close she could taste his breath.

Raven was quickly torn for this peaceful state of dream-bliss with a swift kick to the side.

"Get up." Ordered Slade.

She found herself in a large cold and dark room. The only source of light came from a single half snow covered window that was situated close to the ceiling on the high wall. She was on the floor and was shivering because of the frigged bite the air held.

Last night came flooding back to her. Meeting Beast Boy in the washroom doorway, trying to get him to stop loving her, hurting him, crying only to be comforted by him, kissing him, his injuries, Slade… Her love stood to protect her and she was powerless to do anything! Beast Boy continued to fight for her and was struck down. Slade brought some kind of collar but Beast Boy got up again. The next thing she knew, Slade had him by the throat and was killing him…

'H-he's… Dead… Beast Boy's dead…'

"I'll not ask you a second time!" Said Slade kicking Raven again.

'It was him! He killed him!' She angrily thought as she quickly stood.

She glared at this despicable creature and focused all her hate and rage. He was going to feel pain. He was going to feel so much pain that he'd wish he were dead. She wouldn't kill him though; she'd make him suffer for killing that which was so precious to her.

"Azerath Metrion ZINTHOS!" She screamed throwing her hands forward.

Nothing happened.

"Don't bother demon. The collar you wear prevents any kind of magic."

She tried to tear the collar from her neck but found it impossible.

"Why have you done all this?" She asked trying to suppress her growing rage.

"You'll find out soon enough. Your assistance will be needed." He vaguely explained.

"What makes you think I help you in any way? You killed Beast Boy! I'd sooner die than do anything to aid you."

"Killed him? You have no idea how much I wanted to, but Master Trigon thought you may not assist us if I did."

'He's alive! I have to get to him! He's hurt he needs me! I need him…' A wave of relief washed over Raven but it almost seemed to good to be true. 'No. He's lying. I saw him kill Beast Boy.'

"I don't believe you." She said.

"See for yourself then." Slade pointed to a corner at the far side of the room.

Raven's eyes followed Slade's arm to the other side of the room. Lying in the dark corner was a green mass. It was Beast Boy. She ran toward him as fast as her legs would carry her. It wasn't fast enough for her though, she would have shot to his side at the speed of light if she had her powers.

As she reached him, tears welled up in her eyes at the sight of his body. The tears were tears of joy as well as tears of sorrow. Tears of joy because he was alive. She thought she'd lost her whole world when she believed he was dead; he was here now though. Tears of sorrow because of the state his body was in. At first glance, it would be easy to assume he was dead due to his numerous sever injuries. He was breathing however and his breaths were steady. A collar similar to Raven's was fixed around his neck.

"Beast Boy." She said as she tried to wake him.

Beast Boy stayed unconscious but seemed to be waking.

"Raven…" He softly said still not completely conscious.

A smile spread across Raven's lips. It was really him. He was really alive. She hugged him tightly as though letting go would mean she'd never see him again.

Beast Boy was roused from his sleep as a sharp pain hit him.

"Run Raven!" He shouted.

Raven looked at him in confusion for a moment but realized he'd lost consciousness still fighting with Slade.

"Calm down." She soothed. "We're safe for now."

"But how Rae? When Slade-" Beast Boy's eyes shot wide open. "Slade!" He shouted as he pointed past Raven.

The green changeling quickly stood and placed himself in front of Raven. He could still feel the many broken bones throughout his body and knew changing would be impossible. All he could do was fight to the best of his ability in the body he had. He prepared to lunge at his enemy but was interrupted.

"I wouldn't do that if I were you."

"Then I'm glad you're not!" Beast Boy replied as he leapt forward.

He was stopped before he got half way to him and was flailing on the ground in pain. Thick blue electric arcs shot all over his body and he was crying out in pain.

"STOP!" Raven screamed and Slade lifted his thumb from the controller in his hand.

Smoke rose from under the collar and the sickly sweet scent of charred flesh filled the air. Beast Boy was panting on the ground, relieved the source of the pain had stopped but confused as to what had happened. He felt consciousness slowly slipping from his grasp again.

"That," Slade explained. "Is why I would not have done that. The collar you wear prevents you from transforming and I can shock you whenever I feel you've stepped out of line. This can easily kill you so mind yourself and you will live. For the moment anyway."

"You bastard." Breathed Raven.

She immediately got to Beast Boy in an attempt to relieve him of some pain but could not use even her healing powers.

"Get this collar off me at once! I need to heal him!"

"Since when are you in the position to make demands?" Slade asked in a calm tone.

"Ever since you and my father needed me to open the portal." She spat.

"I'm sorry but the collar stays dear Raven." Said Slade as he exited the room.

Returning her attention to Beast Boy, Raven cradled his head in her lap. He had been so badly beaten. First by Raven, then by Slade, and now he had just been severely electrocuted. It was a wonder he was still alive at all, his body wouldn't be able to take much more punishment.

She examined his body more closely. There was a large dark bruise around the front of his neck along with deep cuts that were surrounded by bruising on his face. The gash Raven had inflicted was present but was less apparent because of the burn marks that consumed the greater mass of his chest. The fireball Slade hit Beast Boy with had caused a great deal of damage, it was evident that many more ribs were broken by the deformed shape of his rib cage and the bruising all over. It didn't seem out of the question to assume there was internal bleeding as well. His back was a similar story, bruises covered a fair sized area and wood splinters were deeply imbedded in the skin.

"Beast Boy." She breathed fully grasping the extent of his injuries. She stroked his hair as tears found their way to her eyes once more.

Hearing his name roused him. "R-Rae?"

She hugged him closely, doing her best not to further his injuries.

"I'm here Beast Boy. Just hang on… I can't use my powers to heal you because of the collar…"

"Don't worry." He coughed and a small amount of blood was expelled. "Just a couple of cracked ribs. We'll get them taken care of when we get back to the tower."

He'd lied to her. He'd probably told her the biggest lie he'd ever told anyone. Beast Boy knew he had more than a couple cracked ribs, much more. Every time he inhaled it felt as though fire filled his chest. His entire body ached and he was pretty sure that he wouldn't live through the remainder of the day.

Raven smiled a bittersweet smile at his attempt to lie to her. Without her healing powers, he'd need weeks to recover at the tower. He may even need to get to a hospital. She wrapped her cloak around him, bringing his body closer to hers with his back to her stomach. The room was easily below freezing and he was still wearing nothing but his boxers.

"So how do we plan to get out of here?" Beast Boy asked.

Raven put her chin on his shoulder and rested her cheek against his. "I'm not sure." She sadly replied.

:-:-:-:-:

It was dark. 'Where am I? What happened?' It was difficult to breath. 'Something's on top of me and it won't budge.' His legs were pinned under heavy rubble and he couldn't move them. Wait. Was that a voice? He tried calling out but could tell his voice didn't travel far past whatever was holding his body down.

"He's over here Star! I'm going to need your help with this!" Cyborg shouted.

Starfire moved quickly to Cyborg's side and thrust aside a shattered slab of steel with ease. Under the piece of steel plating was Robin. He seemed dazed and looked pretty banged up but was otherwise unharmed.

It was amazing they were all still alive really. There must have been a bomb. They were all occupied with fighting the army of intruders and were beginning to get beaten pretty badly. They'd been forced to fall back to the garage and did their best to fend the robots off when a massive explosion completely leveled the tower.

Starfire unburied Robin's legs and quickly searched for any kind of break. Finding nothing, she hugged onto him tightly.

"Thank the stars you are undamaged!" She cried into his shoulder. "For a short time, I doubted your safety…"

"I'mokay Star. How's everyone else?"

"We're fine." Replied Cyborg. "Haven't seen Raven or Beast Boy though…"

"They were together." Stated Robin as he remembered the events that took place last night. "They must have been in the tower when…"

"No…" Said the half metallic Titan as he fell to his knees.

"Slade's going to pay for this!" Shouted Robin as he clenched his fist.

:-:-:-:-:

Raven summoned all the energy she could, focusing in into her hand. She had been trying for the past hour but could feel almost every last drop of it being sucked away through the collar. She eventually did manage to get some to pool in her hand. At first it seemed like nothing was happening but a very faint blue glow began to emanate from her palm. It wouldn't be much, but she would be able to start healing Beast Boy's life threatening wounds.

It was going slowly, agonizingly slowly. The green Titan had fallen asleep and Raven was beginning to become slightly more relieved. Hours had passed and now Beast Boy's rib cage was looking a great deal more like it should. She had taken care of the internal bleeding and had now just started to tend to the wood shrapnel in his back. Normally this could have been done in five minutes time but the damn collar was taking almost all of her energy.

She was beginning to feel faint but pressed on. Beast Boy had fought for her, she'd do the same for him.

:-:-:-:-:

"That's your plan!" Cyborg shouted.

"It's the best I can come up with." Robin explained. "The freezing discs were the only things that stopped him."

"Yea but that was for only like two seconds!"

"If you've got a better plan I'd like to hear it!" Shouted Robin very uncharacteristically.

Cyborg fell silent.

"That's what I thought. Now, once he's frozen, we're going to need a way to quickly shackle his hands and legs. I know he's pretty strong now and has the ability to control fire so we're going to need something that will be able to withstand heat and pressure."

"But how are we to obtain these things when our home is no more?" Asked Starfire.

"Titans East."

:-:-:-:-:

Raven had healed almost all of Beast Boy's broken bones and whatever was causing his internal bleeding. She'd begun to work on the superficial surface wounds but had almost completely drained herself of energy working on the major injuries to do very much. His face had been healed but the burns and most of the bruises were still present.

Beast Boy felt surprisingly comfortable. He could tell thatit was quite cold but he knew that Raven was right behind him. He yawned deeply and clamped his eyes shut expecting to feel the fiery pain in his chest once again. It never came.

'Huh?' He thought.

He felt his ribs expecting them to be still badly broken but they weren't. He also expected to taste blood but none was apparent. Had she done it? The collar sapped out her energy though...

He rolled over, was it just him or was her face paler then usual? He wrapped his arms around her and kissed her softly.

"Thanks Raven." He said smiling.

:-:-:-:-:

"Master Trigon." Greeted Slade as he bowed deeply to a large fiery symbol on the stonewall. "The portal is here and will soon be ready."

"Excellent." Trigon's mighty demonic voice boomed through the expansive cavern. "The time will soon be at hand where I can walk among the mortal realm."

"And about my payment?"

"Yes, you will receive what we agreed upon, but not before I have come through the portal." Uttered the demon.

"Of course Master Trigon." Said Slade with a hint of defiance in his voice.

Slade left the chamber and moved down the darkened hallway. This wasn't good. Slade knew treachery when he heard it and this was treachery. It was something tangible to him, almost as though he could taste it. Trigon had no intention of keeping his end of the bargain and would leave him to rot.

"If that impudent imbecile thinks he can play me, he's sorely mistaken." Breathed Slade.

He quickly approached the room where Beast Boy and Raven were held and opened the door. Both Titans were lying off to the side of the room and seemed to be sleeping.

"Time to wake up, we have to get out of here." Ordered Slade, the urgency of the situation audible in his voice.

"Huh… Wa?" Muttered Beast Boy slowly waking from his sleep.

Raven was awake immediately. "Get out of here? Why would you want to help us?"

"It's not a matter of helping you, but not letting Trigon gets what he wants."

"So you realized that he wasn't going to give you whatever he promised and now you want to spite him." Stated Raven.

"Why should we trust you? You were ready to use Raven as some messed up portal just a couple of hours ago. Do you really think we're going to fall for any of your sh-" Beast Boy began but was cut off by Slade.

"Enough! We don't have time for this! The only thing you need to know is I'm not helping Trigon. That means not letting him force Raven to open the portal. Either you come with me and we'll get her out of here or I kill her so she's unable to do so. Believe me, I'd rather kill the both of you so do not take my kindness lightly."

"Fine. Lets go." Raven sharply agreed.

A deep malevolent laughing echoed throughout the room. Trigon.

"Did you really believe you could double cross me Slade? Fool, I see and hear all that happens. Nothing you can do now will prevent what has been set in motion." Informed Trigon's disembodied demonic voice.

Slade quickly threw a gigantic fireball directly at Raven who had little chance to realize what was happening. It flickered out of existence as soon at is left Slade's hands though and Trigon laughed again.

"I gave you those meager powers, did you think I'd let you harm the portal? Your treachery will be duly rewarded."

Slade let out a blood curdling scream and beams of crimson red light shot out of the eyehole and mouth slots of his mask. He slowly rose a few feet in the air with his body convulsing violently, screaming all the while.

The spasms and screams subsided and Slade was lowered to the ground. The room was deathly silent save for the breathing that came from the two Titans that were firmly latched on to one another.

"I had hoped that it would not come to this." Said Trigon now in Slade's body. He rounded on the two with four eyes burning brightly through the mask. "No matter, this frail vessel will suffice until you create the portal daughter."

Ok this chapter was a little shorter then I had hoped but I got what I needed in there. I think it's half decent but then again I think all the other chapters are a little less then satisfactory in comparison to chapter five. I left it as a bit of a cliffie just to keep you guys on the edge of your seats until I update next (Which will be before the end of the weekend). There will probably only be one more chapter and possible an epilogue after this.

I've had about four or five more stories (All BBxRae. What! You know you love them!) ideas come to me while I was sleeping last night so I'll be working away on them once I finish this.

They-Call-Me-Orange – I'm glad you liked chapter five. It's my favorite without a doubt. I was trying to get Beast Boy's real devotion and love across there so I guess it worked out. I can see what you're saying about being a little PO'd at Raven but I don't think she did anything uber wrong. She thrashed him, but it was because she was scared that she might kill him along with the rest of the world. I do think that I may have had BB come to that conclusion a little too quickly though.

P.S. This chapter took a little longer because I was under siege by cool-aid elves : p

warprince2000 – Huzza!

Dyst – Thank you very much. I don't know about other writers, but when I get a review like this it just puts a stupid grin on my face and makes my week. Thanks! I know it was a horribly cruel place to leave it of and I suppose this chapter wasn't any better but it'll all be better soon! I thank you again and hope this chapter was to your liking.

ApocSM – Another one of those reviews that lightened my week. Thanks! I hope you liked this chapter as much as the previous ones.

Darth Sonic – I knew that Trigon's name was not the master but I guess I just did that to add a little mystery to the summary. You're right though, it didn't really grab the attention of the passerby so I changed the summary up a little. I was tempted to have BB go Beast but I'm saving that for a different time. I guess I could have but I wouldn't have been able to get them into the whole 'you're prisoners now' deal if I did. Thanks for your reviews! I hope this chapter was to your liking.

Thanks for taking the time to read my story.