Disclaimer: Doth I own thee, Teen Titans? No I don't.

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When they were safely at the entrance, Raven leapt off. Terra turned as they floated higher into the air and looked down. "Seeya at dinner, Raven!" Raven only nodded as she turned to look at the two boys guarding the doors. The first eyed her curiously for a moment. The second elbowed him.

"That's Robin's partner, they say she's more in charge of the titans than even he is."

Raven blushed at being called Robin's partner, but only nodded. "Let me in. I'm going to see Robin." They stepped aside, their gazes still firmly locked on her, almost suspiciously. Raven ignored it and continued in, thankful to be wearing a hood which hid her blush. Moving over to the elevator, she pressed the up button. The elevator hadn't been there before, but she wasn't about to pass that up.

When the doors had closed, and opened again, she stepped out into the room which had once been at the top of the tower. "Robin?" She whispered to the darkness. The red hue bathed the room, but didn't show the outer edge, where the couch was. Raven stepped forward, and a dark form moved as a second dim red light went on, over the couch. The dark silhouette stood and began to come toward her.

"Hello, Raven." Robin said. The sinister air that had held the room in its grasp disappeared as she saw him rubbing his eyes, waking from sleep. (A/N: Can't you imagine the anime sweatdrop?) "I-I- I've missed you, Raven. I understand, I understand it all and a bit more than you." The look of pure fear and sadness and overall angst in her eyes drew Robin down with her. His arms spread wide, his eyes inviting and saddened, his mouth forming the words, "I can help."

Raven stepped forward and then collapsed into his arms. Tears, for the first time in so very long fell from her eyes, untold fears and uncountable restless nights sleep, on Earth, on Tamaran… on the ship to and from. So many mental sessions with herself calming her, telling herself she wouldn't do it. "How? How can you help?" She sobbed out. "I'm destined to destroy Earth. What good can come of me being here? What good can come from me still living? What good?"

Robin increased his hold on her. "You're not going to destroy the earth. Trigon is." Raven looked up suddenly, violently. "He'll try at least, and that is when we must stop him."

"But Slade…"

"Slade told you half the story to try and convince you fighting it was worthless. If you want to know all of it, I can tell you, but it's going to have to wait. We need you to come to help us put the final protection on the dome. Cyborg and Jinx will be on their way with a security team, they'll escort us down the Island and wel'll have no choice but to seal the island off completely. We have lights hanging everywhere on the dome to light the island, but it'll all be the same type. It requires less electricity and most of our generators will be going to the computers running the Tower."

"Jinx?" She asked, softly clutching him just as tight.

"She and Cyborg fought off Slade together and then she joined up with us about the same time most of the remained of TT joined us. We've got one more person coming. He was sent out right before you arrived to bring us something. But that's it for now. Lets go… c'mon."

Raven and Robin now stood beside the nearest wall of the tall stone dome, looking up to the only bit of an opening that still existed. Suddenly a large black shadow covered it. Raven felt more than saw the tenseness of everyone around her, a large group to say the least. The shadow passed and a small form began a descent to the ground. She watched indiffewrently as this figure drew closer. She saw a boy of about 15 with long blonde hair drawing closer. Suddenly a flash of light came, and the figure was safe on the ground. "Whew..." The boy said.

"Welcome, Lightning, back to Earth, and back to The Teen Titans Last Stand. Thunder is waiting just inside the tower. Terra will take you back as soon as our job is done here. Right Terra?" Robin said all business like. Raven wasn't sure how Robin managed to convince the ex-villains to join up with them, but didn't much care. "What we're going to do is this. Terra will close up the dome, and each of you will begin putting up your shields on it, one at a time. After each one, Raven here will add her own protection, like layers. When the last is done she will summon a stonger shield. I think ultimately it will be hers that is able to protect us." Raven suddenly turned back to Robin, shocked.

"I don't know if I have that much power." She whispered to him.

"You do." He replied.

Raven collapsed, tired on her bed. It was still underground, and she found that this time, her basement level hall wasn't empty. Sacred's room was a ways down the hall. She doubted however if anyone could enter it without him wanting. What seemed to be a large dummy sat in front of it a club in hand. She had no doubt it'd attack anything that tried to force entry.

Raven sighed completely worn out. The Teen Titan's Last Stand Tower, as it had been dubbed, was now protected by two meters thick dome of stone, and her protection amongst about twenty others. Outside she could hear the training grounds come to life as Robin and Speedy instructed in Archery on one side, and Sacred was teaching telepathy on the opposite side. Raven herself was going to begin teaching spell work to anyone who seemed capable of it.

Most people weren't, but form the time she arrived here she had sensed a handful of people who might be molded into a decent spell caster.