Motive
Before the tower began to shake, robin had been training in his personal gym, Star had been tirelessly working on a new gift to cheer Beast Boy up, and Cyborg sat in his room thinking silently about what might be wrong with his best friend; but when the walls rumbled and cracked every titan stopped what they where doing and looked around in confusion. Robin dropped his staff, Star dropped the supper glue and Cyborg ran from his room. All three met in the hallway and asked the same question in unison,
"What's going on?" No one answered because they where all equally clueless of what the hell was going, then after several seconds Starfire spoke up,
"Where is Beast Boy and Raven?" She looked around expecting them to run up and join the group as always. Robin snatched the mini communicator attached to his belt and clicked in on,
"BB, Raven, report." Only static feedback answer him, he once more pushed the com button and barked out orders, "Beast Boy, Raven, what is your situation, come back!" Once again only static replied.
"What do you think happened man?" Cyborg scratched the back if his metallic skull in confutation. Robin was quick to snap back at him,
"If I knew you think I'd be standing here!" Robin obviously didn't enjoy not being in control of the situation. "Instead of just standing there like a useless vending machine you could help and find the two missing Titans while me and Star go see if where under attack! If your security system actually worked half the time this wouldn't keep happening!"
"Hey look it's not my..." But Cyborg was cut short by Robin exploding again.
"Argue with me after this is under control! Find them and contact me ASAP!"
Cyborg was petrified with astonishment at his friend's outburst. He stood in the middle of the hallway with his mouth half open as Robin stormed off, Star paused to glance back at the bewildered Cyborg, looked as if she was about to say something, then turned and glided along after her leader. After the shock warred off Cyborg glared down the hallway at Robin's back He wanted to say something to put that spiky haired tyrant in his place but right now they where in serious trouble, Raven and BB might be in trouble.
First he checked Raven's room, but it was vacant. Beast Boy's room was messy but it was always messy, this time however the majority of the furniture had been decimated and there where large chunks of the wall missing, there had obviously been struggle. Cyborg couldn't find any clues to where his troubled friend had departed to, so he continued to search the rest of the tower. The basement was as cold and empty as ever. The TV in the common's room had cracked in two and the kitchen had exploded in to a mass of food and broken dishes. Many things around Titans Tower had seemingly spontaneously combusted but no signs of a forced entry could be found. All the doors where lock and undamaged, from what Cyborg could tell no one was assaulting Titan's tower. Something had happened however, some force had rampaged trough their home and destroyed their stuff, what ever it was however it had moved on and it didn't leave a trail. After every room had been investigated Cyborg decided to see what was going on out side, maybe they where under attack. When he stepped out on the roof he saw Raven standing at the edge looking out at the sun set over the ocean. She was alone, no Beast Boy. She didn't look happy, Raven never really looked happy but this was somehow worse then normal. After several seconds of observing her in silence Cyborg spoke up,
"What going on Raven, every thing alright?" But the only answer he got from her was the back of her head and silence. "Um, you seen BB around any where?'
A ventilation duct detonated next to him in a flash of black splinters. He jumped out of the way in time to doge the shrapnel but his heart defiantly skipped a beat. Raven cringed slightly when the sound of the exploding metal cried out, as if she hadn't been expecting her powers to unleash. Cyborg had seen Raven mad before, when he and BB dove into the depths of her subconscious he'd gotten close and personal with Raven's moods, but even then she had control over her power, what ever was wrong with her now was much worse then anger. Raven's power where controlled by emotion, some emotion was causing her to slip on the restrains over her gifts. The question was what, and did it have to with the missing BB or the attack on the Tower. There was twinge of pain in Raven's voice when she spoke,
"Yes Cyborg I have seen Beast Boy... he's gone." Raven never turned to look at him, he couldn't tell but he thought she might have been crying. "Some things had come to light that require my attention, I'm going to have to leave for a while, and I don't know when I'll be back. Tell the others not to worry, please." Emotion and passion poured out in each word that she spoke, Raven never showed any emotion.
"Raven, are you sure you're alright." Cyborg slowly walked toward her.
"No, I don't think I'll be alright for a very long time." Raven grabbed the shoulder of her blue cloak and, in a slow clean movement, ripped it clean off. A pair of large black bird like wings grew from her shoulder blades. Cyborg was forced to take a step back as the large feathered wings expanded out ward. She stood at the edge with her dark wings glistening in the failing light, then with out a look back or a word of goodbye raven leaped from the edge of the tower and flew into the distance.