Blind Trust
Chapter 3: Broken

Silence raged over the room. Raven looked like her world was shattered and she disappeared in an instant.

"How did you find out?" Robin asked Beastboy.

"So it's true?" Cyborg asked.

"Yes, but she's working on controlling it. And we should trust her," Robin said, "How did you find out, Beastboy?"

"I followed you and was a fly on the wall," Beastboy said sheepishly.

"So, Raven's like volatile?" Cyborg asked.

"No, I don't think it's like that," Robin said, "I think it's more like she sometimes can't use it or sometimes it escapes a little. She said that she has control, just not complete."

"Yeah," Beastboy seconded shamefully, "She said she's working on it."

Robin glared at Beastboy, who was already cowering on the floor.

"I want you to apologize," Robin said. The lights in the Tower flicked off and flicked on. The sound of crashes from far off in the Tower sounded.

"Now," he added imperatively.

Beastboy sulked out of the room towards Raven's room. He knocked on the door, there was no answer. He didn't expect one.

"Raven," Beastboy said apologetically, "I'm really sorry. I didn't know it was such a big deal."

There was still no verbal answer, however, Beastboy was covered in black magic and phased back into the common room, where he was rudely thrown to the feet of the other Titans.

"Uh, it didn't go very well," he said.

"Maybe I can be of assistance," Starfire said as she floated toward the door.

"Star, I don't think that's a good idea," Robin said, "I think Raven wants to be alone."

"She made it real clear," Beastboy said.

"It's your fault," Robin said.

"Why are girls so temperamental?" Beastboy complained, which earned him a glare from the other Titans.

"You broke her trust, Beastboy," Robin said, "Most people take trust seriously. I'm sure she wouldn't have been as angry if you didn't announce it to the team. If you had talked to her personally about it she probably wouldn't have been as angry as to throw you back into here."

"Why don't you go try to talk to her then," Beastboy suggested angrily.

Robin left the room to do exactly as Beastboy had said.

… … … … …

"Raven," Robin said outside her door. She hadn't responded to his knocking.

"Beastboy is really sorry," Robin continued after a moment, "He didn't know you wanted it to be a secret."

Raven's door slid open and Raven glared at Robin.

"Why did you tell him? I thought you realized I didn't want to tell anyone!" Raven exclaimed angrily.

"I did-"

"I thought you realized how much I value trust," Raven said, she opened her mouth to say more, but the alarm blared throughout the Tower.

"Trouble," she said, more subdued and disappeared.

… … … … …

Plasmas was uptown, he had hijacked a truck carrying toxic waste and was terrorizing the people of Jump City.

"Titans GO!" Robin shouted and his band of heroes attacked. Cyborg cut through the goop monster with his sonic cannon, but the monster just filled in the gap with more goo.

"How are we supposed to beat him?" Beastboy asked.

"Hit him with everything you've got!" Robin shouted and expelled four exploding disks, one after the other. Just as before, Plasmas filled in the gaps. Starfire attacked next, her energy bolts causing the goop monster to roar with pain. But that still didn't stop him. Raven threw energy bolts at him as well, but not with her normal vigor.

Robin threw ice grenades as the monster, freezing both of his 'arms', but Plasmas just re-grew them. Beastboy turned into a Tyrannosaurus and stomped on top of the red gooey monster. When he lifted his foot Plasmas was nothing more than his unconscious human counterpart. Starfire volunteered to take him back to the jail, and off she flew with the sleeping monster.

"Good work team," Robin announced to Beastboy and Cyborg. Raven had disappeared as soon as Plasmas was defeated.

"Uh, Robin," Beastboy said.

"Yeah?" Robin asked.

"I think we have a problem," Beastboy said and pointed behind Robin's back.

Raven hadn't disappeared, she had been crushed by Beastboy's foot, and now she was angry. Very extremely uncontrollably angry.

"Raven?" Robin asked carefully, "Are you okay?"

His words were met with a wave of dark energy that swept from her billowing cloak. Beastboy and Robin were lifted into the air and slammed into the ground. Cyborg pulled out his cannon, ready to fire, but Raven trapped him in a force field that held him back.

Still, she uttered not a single word.

"Raven!" Robin shouted as he slowly got to his feet.

For a second, Raven seemed to come to her senses, but a second later her eyes flashed red and Robin and Beastboy were dragged towards her on the ground.

"Cyborg, help!" Beastboy called.

A familiar noise cut through the air and Raven fell forward on the ground, unconscious.

"Star!" Beastboy called happily, "I've never been so happy to see you!"

Cyborg was released from his barrier and he ran towards his friends.

"What happened?" he asked.

"I don't know," Beastboy said, "I guess she was really angry at me and Robin."

"I think she lost control," Robin said thoughtfully, "At one moment she looked like she was okay, but then the next second something seemed to just come over her."

"If she does that often we're in big trouble," Beastboy said.

"She didn't attack me," Cyborg said, "She only attacked you two."

"But why?"

"Well, besides the fact that she was angry with you to begin with, I think it was because you stepped on her," Cyborg said.

"Oh, right," BB replied, "But that was an accident!"

"Accidents still make people angry," Cyborg said.

"Will Raven be mad at me now?" Starfire asked, "I did not wish to hurt her, but she was doing the attack on you both."

"I doubt she'll be mad at you, Star," Robin comforted.

There was a groan from the ground, and Raven sat up and rubbed her head. She looked around at the destruction around her and her eyes widened in fear.

"That was me, wasn't it," she whispered to herself and fled the scene.

"Raven!" Robin called, but it was too late.

End Chapter.