I'm back again!
Rimon: Me to!
Joy to the world. So, what'd you think of the last chapter. If you reviewed, I know this, if you didn't review, I don't, so please, review and tell me what you think! And leave ideas to, actually, I never mind ideas to make the fic better.
Rimon: And as we all know, Sam doesn't own Teen Titans
Oh yeah, thanks for that Rimon.
Rimon: Anytime
Chapter 2-Questions Aroused
"Raven? Raven, are you in there?" Raven snapped out of her meditation state, a look of annoyance. Leave it to Starfire to look for her right when she wanted to be alone the most.
"Raven?" evidently, Starfire wasn't giving up, and Raven had a feeling Robin had put her up to this.
"What?" she asked Starfire as she finally opened the door.
"Raven, I wish to speak with you", Starfire said hesitantly, not sure whether or not it was safe to get on Ravens' bad side at the moment.
"There's nothing to talk about", Raven said, but Starfire wasn't giving up.
"Please Raven", she said, sounding slightly desperate, "Robin wishes to-"
"Robin?" Raven cut the Tamaranian off, a harsh sound in her voice, "I knew it, he put you up to this, didn't he?"
Starfire hesitating was the only answer Raven needed. Without another word, she walked out of her room, past Starfire, and down to the gym, where she knew she would find Robin. Sure enough, he was down there, kicking the living daylights out of a punching bag.
"Hey Raven", he gasped as he halted the practice, "Anything I can help you-"
He stopped at the angry look on Ravens' face, and just said, "What?"
"You know perfectly well what", Raven said, barely able to contain her anger, "If I didn't say anything to you, what makes you think I would tell Starfire?"
"Raven", Robin sighed, "I thought maybe you would open up to Starfire a little more, you're closer to her then you are, Cyborg, or Beast Boy, or me. I thought-"
"Well you thought wrong", Raven said, "I already told you, nothing is wrong, so why don't you just stop worrying?"
She walked away before Robin could say anything more. By the time she got back to her room, she was fuming, but realized right away if she kept going like this, well…the results would not be pleasant. She took in a deep breath to try and calm herself down. Even with Trigon gone, she reasoned, his demonic essence still lived inside her, right? Loosing her temper could still be a bad move, and a move she didn't want to make.
"Okay Titans", Robin was saying a couple hours later. It was time for combat practice, which had to be Beast Boys' least favorite thing to do. He always ended going up against Raven or Robin, who both always managed to kick his butt. Sometimes, he hated being short.
He especially hated it today. Raven seemed to be in a foul mood, and he really didn't feel like getting on her bad side in the middle of combat practice.
"Starfire and Cyborg, you first", Robin commanded, stepping aside and giving them room. Just as they prepared to fight though, the alarm went off.
"YES!" Beast Boy cheered. Anything to get out of combat practice.
Robin glared at him for a second, and finally just said, "Titans, go!"
"Ha!" Dr. Light yelled, firing at the bank vault. The guards jumped out of the way, and the vault was blasted open, revealing easily a billion dollars worth of gold. Probably more. He stepped into the vault, and held out his hand. A brilliant light shot out, and wrapped around a huge pile of gold, lifting it into the air.
"Pathetic", he scoffed, glaring at the guards, who were looking at him in horror, "Now, no one can stop me!"
He turned back into the bank vault, gathering up more gold. No one would dare try to stop him.
"Sing a new line dude", someone from behind him said, "Cuz I know we're sure not interested"
He whirled around, and saw to his dislike, the Teen Titans standing in the door of the vault.
"Well, well", he scoffed, "The Teen Titans. I would love to stay and fight, but as you can see, I have to take care of this gold, so, if you don't mind-"
"Uh, yea, I think we do mind, as matter of fact", Raven said.
"Titans, go!" Robin commanded, and the Titans started there attack.
"Not this time Titans!" Dr. Light said, "You'll never catch me!"
He blasted a hole in the vault wall and jumped through it, onto the street. "Titans, go!" Robin shouted, and the gang ran out after him (well Starfire and Raven flew).
"Haha!" Dr. Light yelled, looking behind him at the Titans, "You'll never catch me!"
As if to prove the point, he threw a bunch of little metal pellets at the ground near the Titans, and the ground practically blew up in front of the three boys, blowing them backwards.
"Robin!" Starfire yelled, reeling back, "Are you okay!"
"Yea, I'm fine", Robin muttered, sitting up.
"I'm okay to", Beast Boy muttered sarcastically, "You know, incase anyone cares…"
"Come on", Robin said, "Dr. Light is getting away!"
"Haven't we usually already thrown this guy back in jail by now?" Cyborg asked as he ran for the T-Car.
"Lets' just get going", Robin said, jumping onto the R-Cycle.
Five minutes and a tireless chase later, they had caught up to Dr. Light. "Time to put out your bulb Dr. Light", Robin said, coming to a screeching halt, "Why don't you just go back to jail where you belong, and not put up the usual hassle?"
"How about…not!" Dr. Light yelled, firing at them. Beast Boy, Raven, and Starfire dodged with about a millisecond to spare, Robin and Cyborg though, weren't so lucky.
"AAAAHHHH!" they yelled in unison as they were blasted backwards.
"Robin!" Starfire yelled. She almost flew over to see if him and Cyborg were all right, but then she remembered they still had a job to do. She turned back to face Dr. Light.
"Only three left already?" he scoffed, glaring at Beast Boy, Raven, and Starfire in turn, "How pathetic"
"Lets just kick his butt already!" Beast Boy said. He morphed into a wolf and darted at Dr. Light, who dodged easily, and blasted him. Wolves may be fast, but when they weren't expecting something, speed was useless. Beast Boy barely had time to yelp before he was hit.
"He seems…much stronger", Starfire observed as Dr. Light turned back to face the remaining Titans.
"Doesn't mean we still can't take him", Raven said stubbornly, but even she was weary. Dr. Light may have been a second-rate bad guy, but after his time in jail, he seemed to have gotten stronger.
"What's the matter?" Dr. Light taunted the girls, "Afraid?"
Starfire flew into the air, and aimed her star bolts at him, firing with amazing accuracy. Dr. Light easily dodged each and every shot though, and blasted Starfire as she recovered. She yelled and fell out of the sky.
"No!" Raven said urgently, moving towards her fallen friend…
-Flash!-
Millions of people. But none showed any signs of life. They were as still as statues. They were statues…
-Flash!-
"Ah!" Raven cried, stumbling back. What was that? It had felt…felt so real…
"Afraid already?" Dr. Light asked, smirking, "Well then, let me make the fear worse…"
But as Dr. Light approached, Raven felt something rise inside of her. She couldn't explain it, not fully anyway, but all of a sudden, every trace of fear was gone, every memory of that vision vanished. She focused right on Dr. Light. Time to make him pay.
"What's the matter?" he taunted, as though daring her to make a move of any sort, "Cat got your tongue?"
The more he spoke, the more she wanted to hurt him, but she had to wait…
As he prepared to attack, so did she. She held her hands out, focused right on him, and cried, "Azarath Metrion Zinthos!"
Black energy encased the villain, halting him, and lifting him into the air, then throwing him back on the ground. She didn't stop there though. She continued the attack, and worse, she was enjoying it…
"Raven!" she snapped back to her senses as Robin yelled at her, and suddenly realized what she had been doing. With a gasp, she let Dr. Light go, and he hit the ground one last time with a groan.
"Well, that was beyond strange", Beast Boy said later. They'd gotten back from bringing Dr. Light to jail. Raven had disappeared right after the fight, and everyone had a feeling she'd locked herself back in her room. She was avoiding them, that was for sure.
"What do you think is wrong with her?" Starfire asked.
"She's been acting a little weird lately", Robin said, "Well, whatever it is, I'm sure she'll tell us eventually"
"Yea…" Beast Boy said, "…We're never gonna find out, are we?"
Well, that took forever.
Rimon: You're busy, I'm sure people understand
/Angry mob forms outside of window/
Rimon: Or not…
Uh oh…uh gotta go, I'll update soon if I'm still alive, bye!
