Chapter Six: The Fight

Nothing much had happened in the few weeks since Shadow and Nightmare had left.

Seriously. The T-Tower had been strangely quiet since S and N left.

Despite the fact that two of the Titans were gone, Vyborg's "Master Plan" went on as ever. So he was dragging Starfire and Robin out of the Tower nearly every day.

That is, of course, until the plan backfired.

It all started that one day when there was a huge electrical fire in a power plant on the outskirts of the city. The Titans were called in to help. Of course, it the fire had been started by Overload, and he was still there, so it wasn't like they were coming to help out the fire men/women.

Overload isn't exactly the smartest guy in the world, as you probably know. He doesn't talk in complete sentences and isn't really that scary. (I mean, come on: a computer chip with bad grammar, oooh, I'm sooo scared…)

Well, anyhoo, the fire was just being put out when the Teen Titans got there.

But here's what wasn't expected:

The entire place was literally about to blow. Robin was informed of the fact that there were many large containers of coal, oil, and other fossil fuels. And the fire was getting closer to them…

The fact that they heard what sounded like children screaming for help inside the place wasn't exactly reassuring, either.

Raven immediately disappeared so that she could get the kids out, although why there were kids in a power plant is something I don't know.

Anyhoo, Raven was able to safely get them out while the rest of the Titans helped put out the fire (Beast Boy turned into an elephant and squirted water at the inflamed building, Cyborg was somehow able to make his sonic cannon shoot ice) and the others battled Overload (Starfire and Robin).

Everything was going fine. The fire was almost out, Overload was losing miserably to Starfire and Robin, and all of the children were out of the building.

Or so they thought…

Just as Overload was finally defeated the fire somehow flared up again. It was clearly about to burn to the fuel tanks, and since there wasn't really much they could do about that, everyone just ran for it.

So that's what the Titans did, too. Until…

Raven thought she heard someone else in the building.

Much to the dismay of Beast Boy, she turned around and sped back toward the place. Robin ordered her to stop. She kept flying back toward the place that was on the brink of explosion…

"NOOO!" he yelled. He knew that the place was about to blow. So he did the only thing that he could: he turned around and ran after her. Robin yelled for them to stop, but no one heeded his orders: Beast Boy was concentrating so hard on getting to Raven that he didn't seem to hear anything; Raven was too far away already.

"Friends!" Starfire cried. Robin and Cy had to restrain her from going after the two. They could do nothing but

Beast Boy and Raven had disappeared from sight: they had presumably gone into the plant.

There was a few seconds of billowing, horrible silence.

Then, there was something much worse.

BOOM.

The plant exploded.

Starfire screamed. The boys looked on in horror.

At the plant, a few moments earlier….

Beast Boy had finally caught up to Raven.

Attempting to pull her away, he grabbed her arm, but she wrenched herself out of his grasp, and went straight into the plant.

Something told our little green hero that the place was about to blow. Call it animal senses, call it premonition, call it whatever you want.

All that he knew was that he had to get Raven out of there, fast.

So he ran in screaming for her.
He saw her through the flames. She was looking for the person who was supposedly trapped in the burning building.

"RAVEN! WE HAVE TO GET OUT OF HERE! NOW!" he screamed, which was admittedly tough with all of the smoke.

He ran over to her and grabbed her hand and dragged her out of there.

Good timing.

The building blew up about two seconds later.

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Back at the Tower…

Everyone was ok.

A little shaken up, perhaps, but ok.

Cyborg, as always decided that he would take Star and Robin out.

Big mistake.

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Cyborg, Robin and Starfire came back several hours later, discussing the movie they had seen.

They expected to find their fellow Titans being friendly. Instead, they came back to find all hell breaking loose…

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They were shouting at each other. Basically what the three of them heard was:

"-YOU JUST CAN'T ACCEPT THE FACT THAT WE CARE ABOUT YOU-" came Beast Boy's voice, full of anger.

"- I CAN TAKE CARE OF MYSELF-" Raven answered him with a voice filled with rage to match his…

"-TOO STUCK UP TO LET US HELP YOU-"

"-ANNOYING IMMATURE TWIT-"

"-THE WAY YOU ACT, YOU'D THINK YOU HAVEN'T GOT ANY FRIENDS-"

"-STUBBORN LITTLE-"

"- I HATE YOU!"

Ringing silence.

Beast Boy realized that he had crossed some invisible line.

Raven pulled up her hood and stormed out.

Of course, she wasn't expecting to find the other three, standing just outside the door looking dumbstruck.

She pushed past them and ran to her room.