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(Raven)
It was raining. She observed the water cascading down from the sky, and hitting the window she was staring out of. Raven sighed… She could see in her mind Robin's battered, bruised and bloodied body as the doctors and nurses had rushed him into the emergency room. It's all my fault… If only I hadn't asked him! If only…
Two Days Ago
She was panting in exertion. One more before I'm done…
"Come on Raven!"
One of her teammates was shouting encouragement; but she was focused on the task at hand.
Three… Two… One… GO!
She shot for the swinging hoop, and after passing through it she managed to pull back just in time. Several large boulders rioted down from the raised platform. Raven took one in her power, and used it as to shield herself from the rest of them. Once she had passed through she was greeted by the final part of the relay.
Robin had asked Cyborg to fix up a few of Slade's bots – and improve them if possible. The results were two extremely-fast, super-strong, sonic-wave emitting robots of destruction (or as Cyborg called them 'my BEAT-DOWN Machines!'). Raven let out a small smirk when she saw that they both had matching 'BEAT-DOWN' logos.
Raven moved to pick one up with her powers - but it jumped too quickly, and came down behind her. She spun as fast as she could – but her efforts were rewarded with a strong side-kick and a high-pitched wave of disorienting sound. Her retribution was timely and efficient however – a boulder from the earlier section came up from the left side of the robot – and destroyed it utterly.
The other bot was midair when it was hit by the boulder, but right before Raven could follow up her attack and eliminate the machine - she was assailed by voices.
All she heard were screams and mutterings. It wasn't making any sense. She shook and fell, her body rapidly twitching from the assault on her mind. The last thing she saw was Red and black meeting sliver… Then she passed out.
When Raven awoke it was to the blurred but distinctly worried faces of her teammates. Once she started becoming oriented to her surroundings she noticed that she felt cold all over, and rather nauseous. As she shakily began to sit up she was thwarted by a soft yet firm hand and a, "Whoa –
take it easy there…" from Robin as he gave her a small smile.
"Raven – what happened back there?" were the first words out of Cyborg's mouth. His query was followed closely by a similar one of Beast Boy's devising.
"Yes friend Raven, why did you do the passing of the out?"
"Uh… That's 'passing out' Starfire," Raven with a quiet voice corrected automatically, but then the question began to register. Why did I pass out? What were those voices? Could it… no – it's impossible…
Still…
The anxious faces of her teammates pulled her out of her reverie however, and she realized she needed to say something, "Um… I don't really know guys…" When she recognized that this wasn't satisfying them she tiredly added, "I guess I need to meditate and get some rest…" Cyborg gave her a quirked eyebrow before shrugging his shoulders and walking away, while Beast Boy just muttered under his breath, "Whatever…" before he turned and left. Thankfully, Starfire simply smiled and nodded before floating off. Robin – on the other hand, didn't look like he was going to budge.
"Rae," She scowled at the nickname, "What happened?" Robin asked when the rest of the Titans had left the room.
"I told you Robin – I don't know," she responded weakly, hoping that he would just let it go. Fat chance of that…
Robin looked unhappily at her before softly saying once again, "What happened?"
"I don't know! I told you that! Stop pestering me!" Raven spat with as much force as she could muster. Yet his only seemed to fluster Robin further.
"Bull, Raven! I know you! You're hiding something!" The anger left Robin as quickly as it came however, when he noticed Raven shaking quietly. "Raven – please," Robin begged as he walked over to her and knelt by the bed, "I know that something's wrong. I just want to help…"
She looked at the mask hiding his eyes, and finally gave in. "I... Well... It's just that-"
Present
Her thoughts were interrupted by a high pitched scream that came from a strange green fly as it was blown by a newly turned on fan.
(Robin)
Black. It was everywhere. He wandered along the darkened path, looking at the black nothingness all around him. He had traveled this way before, but he didn't remember when… or where it led too. The end was near though, he knew that much…
The path came to an abrupt halt, dropping off into nothing. Robin had known that this would happen, he knew what to do…
He jumped.
Instead of falling he was shot upward, toward the Empty black void.
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