The Titans were about sick of being in the van by the time they reached a small hotel. The rooms were reasonable and they were able to pull their money together and put themselves up for the night. "Ah," Beast Boy sighed, "whoever thought that a bed would feel so good?" he asked.
"You said it, man," Cyborg said. "Now all I wanna do is sleep."
"Man, they don't have any good food around here," Beast Boy complained. "I've been all over the hotel and they don't even serve reasonable doughnuts."
"Why worry man, we'll be in New York before you know it."
"Yeah, right, but still, there isn't any decent food here." Beast Boy muttered, "I'm going to the cooler." he quickly turned himself into a housefly and flew out the hotel back to their van,
Robin threw himself onto the bed, "So Cyborg, how are Starfire and Raven? Fighting in their rooms already?"
Cyborg laughed, "You should see it man, they're already fighting because Star says she doesn't have enough room for her makeup and yadda yadda."
"Well I think we should call it a day. What'd you say Cyborg?"
"Well yeah," Cyborg agreed but where's—"
Unexpectedly, there was a scratching at the door. There was yelling and screaming. Cyborg ran and hastily opened the door. Beast Boy quickly ran in the room in the form of a green dog. "Hey you, boy!" a man shouted. "Keep your dog in your room!"
"Sorry sir," Cyborg said. He shut the door, turning he glared at Beast Boy. "See what you've got yourself into? You could get us kicked out of this hotel!"
"Sorry," Beast Boy looked sheepish. "What are you doing?"
"Finding some food."
"Quiet you guys!" Robin exclaimed, irritated, "I'm trying to go to sleep here!"
"Okay, okay!" Beast Boy muttered, "I was just getting ready to go to bed anyway." So all three boys slept that night.
Meanwhile, Raven and Starfire were having quite the time in their own room. Raven silently set her bag on the bed and silently pulled out her nightclothes. "You are quite silent Raven," Starfire commented, "are you not happy about our exciting adventure?"
"You call this exciting?" Raven asked, "This is hardly an adventure."
"Besides that," Starfire decided to change the subject. "I am off to unload my beauty accessories." She said as she went into the bathroom.
"Ugh!" Raven growled to herself as she finally sat down by herself. "I wonder how I put up with her.
Suddenly Stafire's voice rose up from the bathroom, "Raven, I am afraid I do not have enough room for everything." Raven stood up and walked over to the bathroom door. "This isn't the Tower, the bathroom's not big enough for all your stuff."
"Well, why do you have all your stuff in here, if I may ask?"
"Because I have to use this bathroom too!" Raven barely kept her voice even, "The world doesn't exactly revolve around you, you know!"
"Oh," Starfire said sarcastically, "And I suppose it is supposed to revolve around you?" Starfire shouted from behind the door.
"NO!" Raven roared back. "It just means that you shouldn't hog the bathroom like the selfish person you are!"
"Oh, selfish am I" Starfire shot back, "Unlike you, Raven I have not shut myself off from the world and hid my feelings under that emotionless mask you ware!" She opened the door and stomped out.
"That is not true," Raven muttered under her breath, "I am not without emotion."
Suddenly, the door opened and Cyborg poked his head in the door. "Will you two keep it down? There are other people in here and they've already yelled at us about Beast Boy and Robin is trying to sleep so keep it down."
"All right, Cyborg," Starfire said, I'll tell RAVEN to keep quiet!'" She shot Raven a dirty look. Raven said noting more to Starfire as she got ready for bed.
Climbing into bed, Raven fell into an uneasy sleep.
Raven found herself standing in a dark alleyway. She looked around startled, "Where am I? she asked herself, "Starfire, what have you done—?" She saw it suddenly. It was a strangest creature she had ever seen before. It seemed like a human but it wasn't some how. She saw it coming for her and she knew it was attacking. "Azerath Metrion Zinthos!" Raven shouted, harnessing her powers with all her might. She began to throw her bolts at the mysterious attacker, who dodged and continued coming at her. She continued to hurl her power continually blasting it with everything she had, but he kept coming on. Raven backed up slightly, she saw the dead end of the alley out of the corner of her eye.
She suddenly felt a fist slam into her face. Raven felt blood trickle down her cheek onto her lip. Was this a dream? she wondered, this couldn't be real could it? She backed up and swung her fist hard; her attacker blocked and struck back. With all the force she could muster, Raven went on the offensive. "Azerath Metrion Zinthos!" she pushed her power to the limit. It slammed into her opponent and he, or it staggered back. Only slightly, though, because he suddenly stretched out his hand and a mysterious substance, like a spider web came out and wrapped itself around her. Raven broke free, but she wasn't fast enough. Fists slammed into her face repeatedly.
Raven felt pain shoot through her face, her side, and her stomach. She fell to her knees and stared up at her attacker. The face leered at her glaring. That was the last thing she saw before she felt him kicking and punching her again. He grabbed her and pulled her to her feet. Suddenly, the strange alien face slipped away and she saw the face of a young man. She thought he could have been a nice person, but the face was full of hatred. His hands reached out and started choking her. Raven felt her throat constrict and tighten. She fought to breathe and she tried to access her powers, but she found that she could not. The world began to spin and go black—
Raven shot awake with a start. Sweat poured down her face. She looked around the room. There was no one. "It was just a dream," she told herself, "only a dream." She sighed and lay back down on the bed. What did it all mean? Who was her attacker? He was unlike anything she had ever seen before. She decided not to tell anyone about her dream. Who would believer her? It would be better that way, she decided, she didn't need to bother them with her problems.
So Raven fell back to sleep. This time, there were not dreams, no attacker would haunt her nightmares this time.
It was early the next day when they all woke up. Starfire found Raven standing at a window looking outside at the sunrise. "Are you well Raven?" Starfire asked. "Yes, I'm fine," she replied in a flat unemotional tone, she couldn't let her friend know about her nightmare that previous night.
Starfire went into the bathroom and began primping. Raven paced around the room, nervous and disturbed. She tried to ease her mind. There wouldn't be much of a choice for her, she couldn't tell anyone about it, she would figure it out herself. Cyborg popped his head in and said, "Hey, are you guys ready? Starfire, get out of the bathroom!"
"I am almost ready, Cyborg," Starfire said, she finally, after twenty minutes plus in the bathroom. Raven went in and quickly got ready. She was finished and they both got their things together and packed their things back in the car.
Driving down the road, Beast Boy was getting bored again, so he decided to sing a little song, "riding down the highway, playing rock and roll..." soon all Titans began singing. "...It's a long way to the top if you wanna rock and roll..."Beast Boy kept singing. He'd been singing for a straight hour and Starfire was starting to get irritated.
"When will he stop Raven?" she asked.
"I don't know," replied Raven, "deal with it." Starfire clenched her fists and gritted her teeth, muttering something inaudible under her breath.
"Here we are, people, New York City!" proclaimed Robin, "We finally made it!" "Whoa," they all exclaimed.
"It is incredible!" Starfire said in awe.
"This place is TIGHT!" "Yeah, you said it man!" Beast Boy agreed. "Let's find this Unity Days Festival. I want some hot dogs!"
"But Beast Boy, you don't eat meat."
"I know that, maybe there will be veggie hot dogs," Beast Boy said unconvincingly. "So, where's this place?" Beast Boy asked
. "It's at the Main Street," replied Starfire answered. They asked a man for directions and they soon found their way to Main Street.
They made their way towards a humongous stage, "Now for our final song," said the singer, "Hero," so the song began, "... And they say that a hero can save us. I'm not gonna stand here and wait. I hold onto the wings of the eagle and watch as they all fly away..." When the song ended, the audience roared. "Come on, guys let's get going." Robin said, he looked up, suddenly, he looked up, "What the—" He saw a strange sight. A mysterious figure swung down and began attacking the people in the street. "
Titans, let's move!" Robin ordered. They all took positions. Only Raven seemed frozen. It was the man from her dream! She had to do something, and fast. "Azerath Metrion Zinthos!" Raven commanded her powers to bear on him. Robin twirled his steel staff and began fighting his opponent. The attacker stretched his hand out and web came from it and wrapped around Robin, paralyzing him. Starfire shot lasers from her hands and eyes as fast as she could. Cyborg shot lasers out from his gun. The attacker began punching and kicking, Robin slammed into a wall. Starfire became trapped in web and Cyborg's gun was jammed by web. He suddenly launched himself at Raven who was paralyzed with fear. Suddenly, another webbed man swung himself in and slammed her attacker to the ground.
Suddenly, two other people charged in. A man in a mask with huge claws and a man with a red visor. The three of them began attacking him until the mysterious man fled. Beast Boy sat up and said, "Whoa, who was that?"
"Come on, kid," said the man with the mask and the claws. "let's get you out of here."
"Where are we going?" Raven asked, hesitant.
"I'm Logan," the man introduced himself, "We are going to Xavier's School of Mutants."