Raven looked down on the stony wasteland. Her four red eyes glew. Her red cloak wrapped around her like the bandages of a mummy.
The battlefield she watched was awash in emotion. This could be the most important fight of her life. She smiled.
"What the hell are you smiling at!", Raven demanded. Her green cloak blew out from around her as she called for an answer. Her glowing white eyes only met a bemused expression.
"I'm smiling...", Raven stated earily. "because I know that there are only two choices in this decision. And either choice I take, my rage will be served."
"She's right.", Raven informed. Her yellow cloak fell modestly around her. "If I do re-accept Goth, I will burn my bridges with all of our new family-the Teen Titans. If I don't, then I'll have my revenge on him for being a criminal. For what may be the first time in history, my rage is the most neutral observer present."
Another Raven spoke up, with a pink cloak wisping about her. "Listen up. I had fun with Goth, right? And if I take Goth back, then I'll have more fun-right? So the choice is simple."
Raven's yellow cloak swished around her as she turned. "It's not simple. Either choice has serious consequences in a number of different facets of my life. My final stages of development into adulthood could be made with this choice-morally, legally, career-wise and even sexually."
"Let alone the affects it will have on everyone else.", Raven said. Her head uncovered by her fushia cloak.
"That's why I need to take the moral high road here. Goth's lying. The Red X is all his fault. He used me. And when I see him I'm going to arrest him.", Raven said amidst her billowing green cloak.
"Oh, no I'm not. I'm going to run away with him.", Raven clad in pink told her.
"Fight, fight, fight...", Raven clad in red chanted.
"This is getting us no where.", Raven clad in yellow reminded. "I need more information on the situation. While Goth's explanation had no gaping holes-no magic bullets if there were, it also seems very unlikely that the likes of the HIVE were capable of such a long term plan."
"Uhm, is this going to be decided soon?", Raven clad in brown asked.
"Yes!", Raven clad in pink and Raven clad in green screamed simultaneously. Then Raven returned to glaring at herself.
"I know...", Raven clad in a wet, white, very thin cloak implied.
"Yes, I do know.", Raven clad in yellow replied. "And no, I'm not simply going to order off web-sites for immediate gratification rather than seek human relationships. Emphasis on the human, as in not plastic."
"Wait a minute, I'm on my side?", Raven clad in green asked about scantily clad Raven. "And not on mine?", pointing at Raven clad in pink.
Raven clad in pink threw her hands in the (what was presumably) air. "Oh this is complete bull/"
"Excellent.", Raven clad in red continued to celebrate.
"Don't worry, I'm on my side.", Raven clad in tan stated. "After all, taking Goth back is the easy thing to do."
"And how in all of the /unpronouncable Azerath/ is sucking face with that villain, not criminal-villain, the easy thing to do?", Raven in green tasked.
"Simple.", Raven said as her tan cloak fell lazily about her. "Everyday I struggle to protect the world from myself-advanced meditation, magical barriers and breakers, power saps, etc. And it hurts, and it's hard and today it failed."
But if we just take Goth back, I'll be protecting the world from him and me. And being teen in love is a lot easier than superheroine."
So if she's going to stand with you,", Raven clad in tan pointed at Raven in white while speaking to Raven in green. "Then I'm going to stand with her.", she said while floating slowly toward the bounciest Raven in pink.
"What do you think?", Raven in lime asked Raven in yellow.
"I'm still contemplating.", was the reply.
"What do you think?", Raven in lime asked Raven in slate.
"I don't know that I mind either descision.", Raven stated with a stony expression. "I do know that whatever descision is made, I want it to be mine. And because it is the correct one, not because I was led into it by baser emotions."
"Oh, screw you.", many Ravens cursed simultaneously.
Ignoring them, Raven in slate continued. "So I think I'm going to stand with her until this is decided." And with that she walked up the stony ruffs to Raven in red.
Raven in lime turned to Raven in sky-blue. Before she could speak, Raven in sky-blue blurted out, "Why don't you tell me what do you think?" Raven in lime pondered this a moment then sat down on a rock and started thinking as hard as she could. Raven in sky-blue chuckled.
Then she walked over to Raven in brown. "Why don't we go on and watch with them?", she said while thumbing up at the girls on the cliff.
"Up there's no better than down here.", Raven in brown said droopily.
"Oh, get a move on." Raven in sky-blue punctuated the comment to Raven in brown with a swift kick in the ass.
Then Raven in lime slapped herself on the head. She sped through the air to Raven in yellow. The two started whispering intently to each other.
"Hey, big red!", Raven yelled while casting her sky-blue cloak away from her arms. "I'll take the one in lime if you take the one in yellow."
Raven shrugged under her binding red cloak. "A fight's a fight.", she said nearly apologetically.
"Wait a minute.", Raven in yellow called out. "I think we've found a solution."