Referring to Raven as a sentient creature at this point would be folly. Determining what she intended is for minds less...human than this author's. Therefore, all events until such a time where Raven recovers (if she recovers) will be referred to by their distance from the epicenter of this disaster.

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Inches From Epicenter

Jinx' powers barely had time to wrap around her as the monster Raven had become slapped her away. Jinx somehow was not shredded as easily as the air the claws had passed through. The kinetic force did bolt her through a window in a neighboring building a few stories up.

Feet From Epicenter

"Oh no.", Robin whispered. He had tried to hold it in, as he had to be the voice of calm in this disaster. But he knew what this meant. For Raven had told him once.

Flashback 1

"I don't want to kill you.", Raven said.

Robin's eyebrows hovered in puzzlement. "Uh, I don't want to kill you either?", he offered.

Raven shook her head. "I'm serious. What I mean is that there may come a day where that is a question. Some supervillain may take my total power to bring down. I might be exposed to some psychadelic. Whatever the reason, I may stop being the person you know as Raven. Then I will be the beast prophesized as the doom of worlds."

Promise me you'll save everyone you can."

Robin saw in her eyes that she meant what she said from the bottom of her heart. "Alright. I promise I won't let you kill anyone."

"Thank you.", Raven told him. "But I also need you to promise that you'll kill me/"

"What!", Robin exclaimed.

"If the only way to save the universe is to kill me then so be it!", Raven countered. "If I can't be stopped, if the only way to save all existance is to sacrifice all hope of my becoming me again then do it."

Robin glared at her.

"Promise me!", Raven yelled.

Feet From Epicenter

"Teen Titans!", Robin yelled. "Evacuate every civilian in the area!"

Robin rolled out the way as the shadowy, alien, demonic beast that was once a member of his team half-slithered half-floated half-stomped its way toward the window Jinx crashed through. He then looked up to check on his team and the situation.

Beast Boy stopped biting his nails through his gloves, shaking himself out of his panic. With intense concentration, Beast Boy managed to transform himself into a Chyrsilas Hunter having witnessed one attack Starfire. The green alien monster then raced up the side of the afflicted building and started dragging civilians out by the claw full.

Cyborg picked his jaw off the ground and snapped it back in place-literally. He then glanced around and found a dump truck abandoned once the fight began. Garbage went flying as he dumped it while driving it next to the building in an attempt to catch all the people Beast Boy was 'saving'.

Robin caught sight of four things simultaneously. Goth (as now thought of Red X as) was making his escape. Gizmo's exhaust trails led into the sky. Mammoth was fleeing at a full sprint. And Starfire appeared to be ready to take off after Raven. One of these four demanded his immediate attention.

"Starfire, don't do it.", Robin called out as he raced to her.

"What should I not do?", Starfire asked with a mild annoyance. "Help friend Raven? Stop the criminal that has hurt her so? Why would you tell me not do these things? Are you one of the Gizmo's holograms?"

"No, I'm real Starfire.", Robin pleaded. "You just gotta believe me. Help with the evacuation. Help save as many people as you can. Don't go after Raven."

"If I get to her before she harms anyone, then your e-vac-u-a-tion is unneccessary-is it not?", Starfire said while floating into the air.

"I don't want you killed!", Robin screamed at her.

Glowing green eyese glared down at him. "I can take care of myself.", the girl said.

"Don't go! That is an order!", Robin told her.

The Tameranean blew him off.

At The Window Of The Floor Of The Epicenter

Starfire screeched to a halt. She was looking through an undamaged window. Hundreds of glowing red eyes, thirsty for all colors of blood, looked back.

Before she could move, the window crashed. A tsunami of tenebrous, viscious...(shadow demons? Fruedian machinations made real through infernal power? Constructs? Yes, constructs.) constructs poured out the window and onto the space princess. The pillar of blackness, only lit by the red glows peppering it, grew without hesitance toward the sky. It carried Starfire with it.

Miles Above Epicenter

Starfire swung madly at the beings that accosted her. She screamed her war cry until the atmosphere got too thin to carry it. Her starbolts timed in concert with her emotion driven strength. She was a kicking, punching, yelling, energy wielding violence factory.

She bled more than she ever had before. She didn't carry a mark from her battle for empress. She had been shot by beams generated by future weaponry before. Only now did she try to ignore the trickle she felt seeping into her boot. Only now did she whip her head to clear her sight.Only now did her gauntlets rip.

Only now did she worry. Was boy friend Robin right to order her not to engage this mass of evil? She had never run into an Earthbound criminal that loved freedom or feared jail more than she sought justice-but could what Raven had become hate existance more than Starfire wanted to save her friend? Would her friends last memory of her be one of valor in battle or betrayal by desertion?

Seconds later, re-entry joined the howl as the constructs ripped her downward.

Outside The Building Containing The Epicenter

Robin waved his hands to signal Cyborg to drive. Cyborg glared at him as if to say he had yet to get everyone. Then he looked up and saw that the black streak was racing back to the ground. He stepped on the accelerator with little hesitation then.

The green Chrysalis Hunter saw the same sight. It jumped off the building with civilians clinging to it. The creature then raced off as fast as it could without dropping anyone.

The black plasmic column of hate slammed Starfire into the street well before Robin was at anywhere a safe distance. When the dust cleared, de-cel lines and bent light poles led a trail to a bruised Robin.

Still, he ran to the crater that had been dug into the middle of the street. As the shadow monsters receeded into the building, Starfire was revealed. Enough of her clothing remained to preserve her modesty if not her health. Hopefully enough of her blood too. She was clearly unconcious with her eyes half open and their energy blinking like strobe lights and her pretensal, purple tongue still stuck to her neck protector by upper atmospheric frost. Robin thought that he remembered her legs bending like that once, but he wasn't exactly sure.

Either way, Starfire was no longer going to help them out of this.