A/N: Thanks again to my reviewers; this will be the last chapter for this part of the series. Read, enjoy, read it again, review…Happy Hunting
Disclaimer: I once did not include the disclaimer I do not own Teen Titans…I'm still paying the legal fees.
Raven was on her hands and knees, her eyes flashing between normal and quadruple-red. Anger devoured mind, fury consumed soul, rage became her.
It was not only Trigon's words, they had been merely a vessel, a ship to carry her to the shore of truth, the images and memories swirled around her, clouded her judgment.
She felt something was wrong, like Trigon was warping her memories, influencing her will; it had to be that way. She knew it.
The pure rage slowly began to leave her, it fizzled away, but something remained. Truth. Complete and absolute truth in what he had said, what she had seen, what she had felt. It was all true; she had just blinded herself to it until now.
"How do I get my revenge?" She asked from the position on her knees.
"By doing exactly as I say, when I say it."
"Whatever it takes…" She said slowly rising to her feet, fists clenched at her side, her head still slightly bowed.
"Good, good."
Raven stood in front of the tower. 100 yards away and in its shadow. Her face was resolute, stoic, and mostly unchanged from her usual demeanor. She was completely healed from her encounter, save a little dusty, she was in perfect condition.
No, better than perfect, for now the whole truth had been revealed to her, new powers awakened, strength attained.
Her new path in life lie before her, destroy the Titans, the perpetrators of crimes against her, the treacherous dogs. She was going to make them beg for their lives on their knees, and then snuff them out.
"I am going to enjoy this…" She said. She began her approach.
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"Hey, all the alarms are goin' off!"
"Thanks Beast Boy, we couldn't tell…" Cyborg sat down at the computer system and began to bring up the alarm information while shutting off the buzzer. The red lights continued to pulse their energy through the tower.
"It's the biometric alarm, along with the motion sensors. I'm opening up the feed from the cameras now…"
"Friend, no one is there…"
"We just can't see them Star. They must have a way to fool the cameras, a cloaking device or something." He was typing furiously now. "I'll switch them over to infrared."
"Dude, there's still nothing there!"
"I'll try-" he was interrupted by a large explosion that sent a cloud of brown dust around every forward facing camera, then he was greeted by static coming simultaneously from each camera. "Someone destroyed all the cameras." There was a look of disbelief on his face.
"Starfire, head to the roof and try to scout this guy out. BB, go down to the main door, I'll meet you there in another 30 seconds." Then he added "And guys, be careful, I'm activating the A.A.S. so don't get caught in the crossfire!"
"Yes."
"Got it."
He sat back down at the desk and within ten seconds he had the system up and running.
The system was the Titans' best defense on the outside of the tower; a dozen plasma-bolt cannons, all strategically placed so there are always three interlocking cones of fire on the target on any three dimensional plain, four banks of ten, magically enhanced, rune inscribed, rockets, each one with an internal computer independent of the main network, making them nearly impossible to hack without a hard uplink; separate targeting computers fast enough to predict where the target will be and when it will be there with only one tenth of a nanosecond lost in calculation, each using a much broader spectrum of light then the human eye can perceive and including an energy tracking sensor capable of locking in on any energy signature collected by the computer; five sensory deprivation guns designed to blind and deafen the target for up to ten minuets; six laser containment grids, that can be projected anywhere within 250 yards of the Tower on any plain; and one 16 inch antimatter Howitzer…just in case.
Cyborg raced down the stairs four steps at a time, almost going landing to landing. He came up next to Beast Boy at the large steel front door just like he said, in 30 seconds.
"So…remind me. What does A.A.S. stand for again?" Beast Boy was readying himself mentally for the fight.
"Automated Annihilation System."
"Cool…"
"Yeah, that's why I named it that." Cyborg said as he reached his hand up to the control panel next to the door and pressed a button opening it.
The both stepped out into the cool mid morning air ready to fight, but saw nothing but a clear blue sky and some of their defensive systems humming away, looking for a target.
Cyborg activated the communicator in his arm. "Star, see anything from the roof?"
"No, Friend, the intruder on our security perimeter remains unseen."
"Well keep a sharp eye out, this might get ugly."
"Yes, I shall do that."
A few minuets passed and still nothing had happened, Cyborg and Beast Boy seemed like unneeded sentries guarding an already well-protected door.
"Dude, it was probably just part of the hazing of some guy over and Jump City University. Just 'try and get near the Titans' Tower without them killing you' or something."
"Naw man, this guy took out half a dozen of our cameras at once, that's no fraternity prank."
"So who have we pissed off enough lately to make them come after us at the Tower?" A shadow loomed out of the sky and an object was crashing down to earth.
"That's what worries me man, that's-" For the second time that morning Cyborg was interrupted by a loud crash, this time of a human form impacting the ground about ten yards from where he stood, making a sizable crater.
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"Automated Annihilation System…" Raven laughed to her self "why did we ever let him name it that?"
Raven was having no trouble at all maneuvering through the sensors and trips the system had put into place. With her complete invisibility and the ability to cover up her power signature, none of AAS's systems could even guess that she was there; Trigon had really given her some amazing new powers.
She was flying high above the ground now, not out of range but still out of reach. She saw Starfire talking on her communicator and closed in to listen.
"…security perimeter remains unseen."
"Well keep a sharp eye out, this might get ugly."
"Yes, I shall do that."
Starfire had her back to Raven, who was only a few steps away form the green-eyed warrior.
Raven was only inches away from her now; Starfire was still scanning the ground below, looking for an intruder she would never see. Raven decloaked just as she put one of her hands over Starfire's mouth and used the other to twist one arm behind the girl's back. She was no match for the alien in strength on her best day so Raven used her milliseconds advantage to invade Starfire's mind with her powers and detach the redhead from control of her limbs, she was completely paralyzed.
"Starfire…" Raven whispered in her ear "you, of all people, I would have expected support from…but then whom am I kidding, we were never really friends anyway."
She took a breath, she could hear, smell, taste, feel Starfire's fear. Starfire was caught utterly by surprise and it showed. Raven lived her fear. She deicide that it should end.
"All of that aside…you were the nicest to me, the most conciliatory of my personality. For that…I'll make it quick." With one clean motion Raven moved her hand from Starfire's wrist to her head, and in conjunction with her other hand twisted the orange skinned angle's head around much further than it should have gone and gave the body a light push, letting it free fall of the edge to the ground below.
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"Jesus Christ! It's Star." Exclaimed the horrified and shocked Beast Boy, looking at the shallow but wide crater containing a very deceased friend of his.
"Fuck man, get ready to fight BB, this is gonna be bi-." And for the third time in as many minuets the metal man was cut off.
"Cy?" Beat Boy was confused as to why his friend stopped talking, but all too soon it became perfectly clear as a black shadow fled from Cyborg as her fell to the ground 'A house divided cannot stand.'
"Oh shit, oh Jesus, oh shit, oh man…" Beast Boy backed away form the corpses slowly, looking around him in every direction. He stopped suddenly when a sword of black energy found its way through his back and out the top of his stomach.
He fell to his knees as it was withdrawn, life quickly bleeding out of him. A shadow appeared in front of him, and then it became a person, a person he knew, his friend.
"Man, when Trigon talks powers he doesn't mess around!" Commented Raven, not to the green thing before her, but to no one in particular. She was just about ready to finish him off, burn the Tower down along with the incapacitated Robin and put this whole ugliness behind her. Beast Boy decided to use his last strength on speech.
"Rave…n" he wheezed out, his eyelids growing uncontrollably heavy "Paper or Plastic?"
"huh?"
"Paper or Plastic?"
Raven's eyes focused back in and she remembered where she was. The cashier, a pretty young girl, was staring at her looking quite annoyed; some of the customers behind her in line were staring as well.
"Uh…sorry, zoned out there for a second…" Raven smiled weakly, the girl's expression remained unchanged "Paper, please."
The girl silently bagged Raven's groceries in tow bags; Raven picked them up, walked out the nearby door, and teleported directly back to the Tower.
"That was fast." Said Cyborg as he saw Raven appear in the kitchen.
"Told you it would be."
A/N: There we go guys; I really do hope you liked it because I had one hell of a good time writing it. Now the part where I beg and cry my eyes out for reviews…please review, please, please, please, please, please. I'll be taking a small break from the weak series to write something different, so be on the look out for it! Unless you don't like my stuff, then you don't have to bother.
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