Has anyone else seen the little preview for the next episode of TT? It looks soooo good. I can't wait until Saturday. Only… (Counts on fingers and toes)…123 hours. YESS! Oh well, I know I'm being a little…odd. Anyway, here's the next chappie!
Raven awoke the next morning in a fright after the horrible dreams that had raced through her mind that night. She looked over next to her, and saw that Robin wasn't there. She looked around, and saw nothing. She flipped open her communicator, and dialed the tower. The image cleared as she saw Cyborg's worried face. "RAVEN! Oh thank god, you're alive. The three of us thought…well," he stopped.
"Yeah, we survived my father. But…do you know where robin is?" she asked shyly. Cyborg's face drooped
"Raven, I knew you two would defeat your father. What I was talking about was…Slade gave us a call this morning. Robin came to him during the night and asked him to reaccept him as the apprentice." Cyborg said softly. Raven stood up shakily.
"Cyborg…he wouldn't do that. Never. He would have at least told me. We have to find him," she said. Cyborg shook his head.
"Raven…BB, Star, and I took a vote, and we decided that we weren't going to look for him. Even though you weren't included, it wouldn't have made any difference. It was 3-0. Come back home," Cyborg grumbled. Raven slammed it shut. Furrowing her brow, she couldn't believe them. Star had even voted for that. This was the girl who supposedly loved him.
Reopening her communicator, she pushed a few buttons, and found that his tracker was still on line. "I'm going to find him, even if it's by myself," she said as she phased through the ground.
Raven arrived at the same place that Terra and Slade had died before. She quietly walked in. Someone wrapped an arm around her neck, and placed a hand over her mouth. Pushing her into the large area of the room, she couldn't believe it was a green glove around her mouth. "Robin how could you?" she thought. They pushed her onto the ground. Robin looked down at her. "How dare you come after me?" he said enraged. She sat up.
"Please…did you think that I would let you betray our team again?" He smirked. "What do you think is so funny?" she asked angrily.
"Don't get yourself too worked up; showing too much emotion is bad for your health," he said. It then clicked.
"YOU'RE NOT ROBIN!" she said as she stood up and stalked toward this pretender. "Robin was with me when I went with my father and he removed that emotion problem. That's why you called the Titans. You wanted them to think that Robin was quitting once again, so they wouldn't come after him…didn't you, SLADE?" she said, jabbing him hard in the chest. Robin smiled, and ran his hand over his forearm. The little hologram disappeared, and Slade stood there.
"Very good Raven. You figured it out. No wonder why Robin likes you so much. Now, why did you come here?" he asked crossing his arms.
"I want to know what you did with robin," she said crossly. He looked at her, and then motioned for her to follow him. He brought her to this desolate area of the building…where Terra's statue still stood. "But…how? Terra came back!" she said inaudibly.
He turned to her. "The terra that came to the tower was a clone of the true terra. I programmed her to cause trouble. I had replaced the true one with a fake one that broke revealing the clone. She came to your house and wreaked havoc upon you. The true terra is still in there. Now, here's robin." He said gesturing toward a limp body hanging onto the wall. Robin's head hung limply as his hand were bolted above his head.
She crouched down next to him. "What did you do to him?" she asked angrily. Slade smiled evilly, and then shrugged his shoulders. She laid her hand on his arm, and it began to glow light blue. His head perked up slowly. Slade's smile quickly disappeared.
"Shit, I forget about the stupid power," he said kicking the ground. He jumped up and down furiously.
She laid her hand against his cheek. Her cool pale hands felt like ice against his burning face. "Are you okay?" she said weakly. He nodded, but then looked scared. Raven felt two icy hands wrap around her thin fragile neck. Her breath was being strained immensely. She tried to claw off the hands that were trying to strangle her
"You have ruined my plan, which means I will ruin your life," he whispered slyly into her ear. Her head began to pound. Robin tried to get his arms out. He saw her eyes squint in pain, and then he saw them relax, and her head fall.
Slade smiled. "Perfect, she's unconscious." He said grinning maliciously. He then began doing the most terrible things to her. He pulled out this long scalpel, and began placing enormous slits over her entire body. Robin watched angrily as she lay limply on the ground with a pool of blood surrounding her.
Meanwhile, Raven had escaped into her own mind. She was with Knowledge and Bravery. "What will you do to overcome this large obstacle and rescue the one who you have truly learned to accept and care for as your own?" Knowledge said knowingly. Raven shrugged.
Bravery placed her finger against her chin, and thought for a little while. "Well, is Terra still alive?" she said. Raven nodded. "…Why don't you try coming in contact with her spirit, and helping her to get out of the stone and help save you?" she said. Raven looked for a little while. She then got into that little cross-legged that she had when Robin was being hurt by the reagent. Her eyes became pale blue.
"Terra?" she called out. She found her self standing in a desolate area that looked like titans tower. "Terra, are you in here?" she shouted out. She walked along, but then began to run as she heard a scream echo through the halls.
She ran to the main room, and saw terra being forced onto a couch by people that looked like the titans. "You betrayed us" "We gave you everything" "How could you do this to us?" they said in trancelike voices. She wrapped her arms around her knees and buried her head in her knees.
Raven ran up, and shouted, "STOP!" Terra's headed whipped up surprised. She raised her eyebrow under her yellow blonde hair. Her icy blue eyes stared at Raven. She stood up.
"Raven? Is that…you know…you?" she inquired. Raven nodded.
"Terra, I have come here in search of some help." Raven said walking towards the ex-Titan, ex-Betrayer, ex-Apprentice.
"What can I do? The only reason why you're probably in trouble is because of me. And how am I going to help you? I'm trapped in here." She said moving some furniture around.
"Terra, I know what it's like not to be able to control you powers. If you had just told us you went to Slade, maybe we could have helped you, and then overcome Slade. But, right now, Slade is attempting to kill me, and you are the only one who can help me. I'm going to help you get out of this predicament, so you can help me. Do you agree? I'll even persuade Robin to let you back into the titans. Please," Raven begged.
Terra's pale blue eyes widened. She looked down and then nodded. "If you'll help me, I will help you," she said quietly. Raven smiled, and placed a hand on her shoulder.
"Okay, we're going to start by you getting into position." Raven said as she stood about 30 feet away from terra. "Now, I want you to let all of your power out. By using time let me know how much you want to return to earth and be a titan once again." Raven said as she got her terra to close her eyes in concentration. When terra opened her eyes again, her eyes were as yellow as the sun. Everything around her began to break. Raven knew it wouldn't be long, so she decided to go back to her own mind and wait.
As Robin watched horrified, he saw the Terra statue began to shake tremendously. He stopped his attempting of breaking himself free, and looked at it. Slade then turned, and dropped Raven onto the ground. She landed with a soft thud.
He walked over, right before the stone cracked right down the middle revealing the social butterfly the Titans had once known and depended on. She staggered a little at first, but then she sauntered out with her arms high above her head. She walked up to Slade, who was beginning to back up. "N-now Terra, this is your master speaking," he said shaking.
She smiled. "This is the man who tried to kill me when I ran from being killed? A man who kidnapped my friends? A man who tried to kill my boyfriend? A man who's trying to kill a girl who trying to save her friend? Why should I stop?" she asked. She lifted the shell of the statue, and brought it down upon him as hard as possible. She then gathered a large amount of rocks and did the same. She didn't stop until the only exposed part of his body, his hand, fell limp. She stepped over toward robin, and broke the little cuffs off the wall.
"How?" was all he could say as he began to rub his wrists.
"Raven was in nevermore, and she came in contact with me inside that stone. She helped to break free, so I could help save her. She said if I did, she would talk you into letting me be a titan again." She said softly not making eye contact with him.
He smiled. "She wouldn't have to talk me into anything…not after what you just did for both of us." He said placing his hand on her shoulder.
She smiled, and then frowned. "Raven!" she said scared. Robin's eye popped open. They both ran over toward the limp empathic. Terra looked at her to see she was merely unconscious still, but she had lost a lot of blood. "Robin, we got to get her back to the tower quickly. She's lost too much blood." She said looking at him. He looked at her and nodded.
They both arrived at the tower a little later. When they opened the door, they were extremely surprised to see both of them, but they were mostly worried about Raven. "We'll tell you what happened later; let's just get her to the medical room." Robin said as he trudged in. The other three shrugged as terra followed in.
Later, as they were all packed into the room, Terra began to explain as Robin cleaned raven's cut. They had to give her a transfusion. "Slade began this whole thing by creating a clone of me to come here and wreak havoc. He had replaced my statue with hers before you came to the little memorial, Beast Boy. The clone then went through the whole procedure of taking her diary, showing it to Star, getting to run away and on. Beast boy then killed her, and Raven and robin went into her mind. They came out, and they were outside. They fell asleep, and during the night, Slade came out and drugged him. He brought him to where I was, and then sent the video to you. He used a holographic projector to make himself look like Robin, and he managed to get you to hate robin. Luckily, Raven didn't believe it, and she figured it out. He then began to suffocate her until she passed out He then began to cut her. But knowing that she probably wouldn't make it, she came in touch with my spirit and helped me get myself out," she finished.
They all stared with their jaws practically hitting the ground. Robin and terra gawked at them oddly. They then shook out of it. "Just to let you know terra, we killed the clone," Beast Boy said.
Robin walked over to Terra, and offered his hand out for her to shake it. "Terra, as one of the leaders of the Teen Titans, I am asking you if you would be interested in becoming a Teen Titan once again, now that you have total power over your…well…powers." He said.
She looked back at him, and then shook his hand and nodded with a large smile on her face. They all began to cheer. But it had only clicked with Beast Boy. "Wait, you're the only leader of the teen titans. Why did you say 'one of them'?" he asked.
Robin sweat dropped. "Uhhh… Well, I guess I'd better tell you. You see, this all started about 5 days ago. Remember when Raven and I screamed at the same time? Well, we both lied. Raven and I had been cutting ourselves for a while. That day, Raven was able to give me help with my problem. Then, I helped her with hers. I helped her again after by helping her to overcome her emotion problem. I knew that if there was one thing she could do to help me with mine; it would be to be a co-leader of the titans. She practically is. I mean we both founded it together. So…that's how it happened," he said.
They all heaved their shoulders. All that mattered to them was that terra was back, Robin wasn't Slade's apprentice, and Raven was no longer under her father powers.
Well, that's it for today. This isn't the last chapter even though it may have sounded that way. This is going to be one of those ongoing fics. I don't think I moved as fast as I did in the last chapter, yet it's still over 2000 words long. I rock. Sorry, I'm a little happy myself. And for all you people who reviewed saying you didn't read Sacrifice, do yourself a favor and read it. It's not that good though. And If you enjoyed reading this, go to that little button below and REVIEW! Anyway, I want to post this, and I have to finish a freaking geography report about Gypsies, so I better get going. BYE:D
