Yay, Chapter 10 has arrived! I got some cool ideas for either a new story or a chapter in one of my stories today (April 2nd), and with some great excitement, I now give thee my next chapter! I don't think my idea will be in this chapter, but if it does appear, I'll let you know.

darkaurora33: Well yeah I was missing you! I was wondering what happened, since you hadn't reviewed in forever. Now I know why. I've had your experience before, except that it was with my grandmother (who prefered Nana) but I didn't go to a funeral. We had her cremated and her ashes were scattered around our cherry tree... That's the way it was supposed to be, so I don't feel that much sorrow.

Some authors worth mentioning:

AussieLover- Only just started with fanfiction, and is doing superb! If you like any of Tamora Pierce's stories, you might want to read her story. For a first timer, AL has great word choice, and the only thing AL needs to work on a bit is length. It is hard at times, making chapters lengthy, I should know, so don't worry about it too much.

Insanity101- Suspense and action/adventure professional writer! Rae/Rob pairing, it's really worth reading, and I highly recommend 101's stories.

CrazyDeafGirl- Great writer of suspense and mystery, you can never guess what's going to happen until she posts her next chapter. (lol) Also recommended!

More authors to come, when I read more stories! I also add Princess Starfire of Tameran on there, and thSamurai, both are very talented at writing also.

Now that I've completely forgot my train of thought, lets continue, shall we?

Chapter 10: Survival Mode

No one realized what was happening until it was too late. The pressure of the water mounted, and its groans of pain grew louder. But attention is never placed upon the usually peaceful sea, because nothing is to be expected of it. Rancid and Light eyed each other, giving the other permission to beat Bob to a pulp. They both hesitated, and they didn't why. Rancid, taking a step back, decided to look to where Light had blasted the other thug, who landed and sunk like a stone in the great blue depths of the sea.

"Err... Light Bulb? Does the ocean usually act like... that?" Johnny stuttered, pointing a finger southward. Dr. Light looked away from Bob to Johnny's direction, and his eyes widened.

"Run!" Dr. Light yelled, but too late. A wave taller than the Titan Tower itself plummeted onto the surface, viciously tearing towards the pair with evil intent. Rancid tripped and closed his eyes, half because of the pain that jolted through his body, and also because he didn't want to face his bitter end. Seconds passed, so dreadfully slow it seemed like minutes. Then Johnny realized that he felt fresh air battering at his face, and not a watery death of oblivion. He opened his eyes.

"Agh!" Rancid shuddered, looking at the tops of buildings and skyscrapers as he was flown through the air. Turbulence occurred as the wind thrashed upon him, making him waver dangerously over the now mile-less stretched sea. He felt something tighten around his shoulders, piercing his skin a bit and he winced in pain. He looked up, and saw a green, and apparently really large, raven carrying him.

"Hold on to your seatbelt, dude, it's going to be a bumpy ride!" Came a scratchy voice from the raven. It cackled in victorious mischief, and began to rise itself a bit higher.

"Beast Boy? How are you... What are you doing?" Rancid asked, both in curiosity and fear. The raven merely winked in reply, and stopped flapping. Everything went still, and then... WHOOSH! They fell at an increasingly alarming rate, and Johnny thought that he probably wet his pants at the descent. Johnny became anxious, but swiftly it turned into anger at himself. Why was he acting like such a wuss? He was Ransom Rancid, top street punk man of Jump City. Why the sudden change of heart? He scolded himself further, and then realized why he was so fearful.

The distance radius left before impact was dangerously close, and flap as he might, Beast Boy couldn't possibly pull them out in time. Johnny was going to kill the green elf... if he got out of this alive. The raven gave a great caw as it realized that it couldn't slow it's plunging speed to the amount he wanted to. Johnny closed his eyes a second time, knowing that this time, it was the end…

"Hey dude, you okay? You passed out on me!" Beast Boy exclaimed, shaking Rancid furiously. Johnny groggily replied,

"Wha?" Beast Boy gave him a triumphant grin.

"I pulled us out man! You shoulda seen it! Then again, maybe you shouldn't..." Beast Boy rambled on and on about his accomplishment. Then suddenly, his communicator went off. While Beast Boy shouted, "Yeah? What? Sure, be right there!" Johnny wondered what happened to Dr. Light. Though he had been spared, he couldn't think of how Light Bulb would of gotten out of that situation. Rancid's mind drifted, feeling lost without his companion.

"Hello... Earth to Johnny... Hey, you listening to me?" Beast Boy was snapping his fingers, and making odd faces at him.

"What." Johnny demanded.

"We gotta go! Robin needs us, says that he needs help!" Beast Boy replied hastily, and transformed into a "blue" jay, taking off into the night sky. Rancid mentally cursed and raced after the green bird, still thinking of his revenge...

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It is said by many of their forefathers and ancestors that their lives depended upon the human race. Their entire existence depended on it. But many opposed the saying, and often retorted that they'd rather die than contact the help of a human being. But some didn't wish their brethren to be the object of desecration, and now flew over the strange, labyrinth city known to the human kind as "Jump City."

While flapping his black, shiny wings gracefully, showing the full extent of it's power, one asked, "How will we know the one spoken of in the prophecy?" Silence reigned for a while, until a comrade finally answered, "We will know." And with that, the big ravens continued on their journey, searching for the one that was meant to help them.

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Johnny ran full on into Beast Boy, not even noticing that the elf was right in front of him. They both fell, both silently cursed.

"Why are you standing there?" Johnny questioned, his voice harsh and bitter with anger.

"Why... are they doing this? What happened to them?" Beast Boy continued murmuring, appearing to not of heard Johnny's question.

"What?" The biker asked, now confused. Beast Boy pointed forward with a trembling finger, whimpering slightly. There, fighting before them, was the Titans East.

While Rancid and Dr. Light had been deciding what to do about Bob, Robin had noticed a change in the air, like it had mysteriously sprouted an illness of some kind. Searching for the source, he had found a man hidden in shadow, facing the ocean and clenching his hands into fists. Robin realized what was happening, and jumped towards the figure, but struck when it was too late, the ocean had lost its control and had created a tsunami right in front of them. Robin pounced and struck the man against the chest, knocking him out of the shaded area and into the post light. Robin gaped in shock as he realized that an honorary titan was the person he had caught. It was Aqualad. Noticing the boy wonder's slight hesitation and surprise, Aqualad threw Robin off him and placed a well aimed kick in Robin's face. Robin grunted in pain, and began a close combat with the water powered "hero".

Robin had finally succeeded in wrestling Aqualad down, and was about to inject a fluid into Aqualad to knock him out when Robin was hit hard on his back, and was thrown off Aqualad again. But not by the water controller at all. Slightly confused, Robin turned to his attacker, and nearly passed out in shock.

"Speedy? What is going on? Why is Aqualad..." Robin trailed off as Speedy prepared one of his special arrows on his bow. Robin remembered faintly a conversation which he had with Speedy before about the arrows.

"So how do you distinguish which type of arrow they are?" Robin asked in interest, not telling the difference between the arrows placed neatly on the countertop, placed in sets of five depending on their power.

"Well, each has different colored fletched feathers placed on them, to show what they are. The light blue ones here, for example, are the ice arrows. Red is fire, white is for nets, yellow is for temporary flashes, and this one..." Speedy indicated a black fletched arrow, "is very like your explosive disks, but multiply the magnitude by 9 and you get the power of these." Robin nodded, wondering exactly what the black arrow could possibly be used for.

And now, about 5 months after the talk, here Robin was looking face to face with one of those black arrows. Since his explosive disks were enough to knock someone out, the arrow would probably knock him into a coma, or worse, kill him. Speedy strung the arrow back, and gave a small smirk at the kneeling leader which made no move to escape his deadly accurately aligned arrow. Just as he released the string, something blasted the arrow and caused it to detonate. Speedy was violently thrown backwards into a nearby dumpster, making an indent at impact. A yell of pain issued before he lost consciousness.

Robin just stared at the smoldering spot that Speedy had been standing just a minute before. What happened? Something oddly familiar had struck that arrow, caused it to explode, but where did it come from? It couldn't of been her... He had seen her lying deeply injured on the white bed, giving an expression of such pain that he couldn't bear it and left after a friend persuaded him to get some rest.

"R...Robin?" Her familiar voice called to him. Robin blinked back unshed tears, threatening to splatter and thoroughly ruin his mask. He had to be in a dream. The arrow must have hit him, and now was in a deep coma, hearing what he so desperately wanted to hear and see.

"Robin! Oh Robin, please respond..." The voice echoed in his mind until he couldn't hold it any longer.

"Starfire?" His voice asked, barely a whisper. Starfire suddenly came into view, kneeling down so they could make level eye contact.

"I am here, friend Robin. But Cyborg needs our help. He has been fending off the Titans of the East, and I do not know how much longer our hybrid friend can withstand!" That snapped him back into reality. There she was in perfect condition, not a scratch on her. Her emerald eyes pleaded him to come with him, but also hope and joy flooded through them at the sight of the boy wonder. "Eyes are the mirror to the soul." Raven had once said, and Robin knew it was true. That was a reason why he wore the mask, to conceal himself from his friends, passerby, enemies... everyone. He didn't want his secret to be let out, didn't want anyone to see his soul. Drawing his attention away from his mind, Robin flashed a small smile at Starfire, and offered his hand out to her. She accepted it and allowed him to help her up.

"Let's go find Cyborg." Robin stated. Starfire nodded and lifted Robin into the air, using the joyous thought of being with Robin pull her through.

And that's how everything resulted in what Johnny and Beast Boy witnessed now. Cyborg was attempting to blast Aqualad with his sonic cannon, but Aqualad would merely dodge and hurl a water ball at him, most times not missing its target and knocking the hybrid off his feet.
Starfire was soaring through the air at alarming speeds, trying to throw her opponent off her tail. But the effort came to no avail, and Bumblebee rushed behind her, every once in a while trying to strike Starfire down with her B-lasers. (The things she used in Wavelength... lol)

Lastly, Robin was facing off with Mas y Menos. Robin never landed a blow on them, due to their lightning fast movements, but they pummeled him to the ground often, knocking into him and hitting him into walls at random. He knew that to win, he had to separate them, but how? They were hardly visible at all, only a blur of where they had been could be distinguished, and striking that would just be pointlessly punching empty air. As another blow from the Spanish speaking pair knocked him off his feet, Robin wished that Raven was here, using her black telekinesis to strip apart Mas y Menos' firm grip on each other and blast them to bits. But Raven was still in the infirmary...

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The group of ravens flashed quickly across the night sky, searching for their savior. Blending in with the darkness, nothing grew suspicious of the unusually large group traveling the streets and alleyways of Jump. When they reached their starting point, a few sighed in sorrow.

"The human should have been here! But alas, it has deserted us! Our fellow brethren were right, it was foolish to trust the..." the raven stopped when it received harsh cold looks from its comrades.

"We have not gone everywhere," said one, "look over there." It shrugged its shoulders dismissively off to the right. Curious, the whole group looked at what was indicated, and each flapped its wings once as it showed its disapproval.

"It would not be there!" exclaimed one. "The human is mighty and would not reside in such a vile looking building!" Silence engulfed the group as it just stared at the T-shaped building before them, built on it's lonely and desolate island.

"It's worth a try, though." cawed one, and took off into the air, heading towards the lone tower. The rest soon joined him, and glided off to their only hope...

To Be Continued...

Author's Note: Appropriate place to stop, I was going to add on what happens next but realized it wouldn't be right if I did, so I left it how it is now. I hope everyone who read this enjoyed the chapter, I actually took more than an hour to type it. Smiley At first, when I was writing the beginning, I was wondering how worse I could make it, and then realized, that rereading it afterwards, it sounded pretty good. Heh, Beast Boy can be so evil at times... Anyway, its time to obey that button at the bottom left corner of this screen... Review... 2500 words exactly! Yay me, Yay!