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Raven awoke to find her companion still out cold. She was somewhere where she couldn't use her powers to escape, and she couldn't contact her friends. Her and BB's communicators were taken away from them, so even if she wanted to call them, she had no way of knowing how.
Raven didn't know where she was, which was really bad because she had absolutely no idea where to go if she were to escape, not saying that it was possible to. She was well bonded to this tissue that coiled around her. It was soft, yet tough as nails as she couldn't break free of its grasp.
After many failed attempts at breaking free, Raven decided trying to revive BB. No matter which way it was turned, she couldn't punch or kick him. She had duck tape over her mouth in any case so there was no point in trying to yell, seeing as it won't be heard anyways, and all Raven would be doing was hurting her lungs trying.
She felt a sense of failure and pain in her stomach and heart as she ran out of ideas to do something, if anything at all. She tried scrambling around and see if the commotion would wake Beast Boy at all. Everything she had done had failed and Beast Boy remained asleep for hours. Raven was panting trying to get Beast Boy awake.
By the end of the fourth hour she had given up all hope of freeing herself and Beast Boy. She had also given up hope that Beast Boy would awake and save them both. She was loosing hope as well for the other Titans to rescue them. Her powers hadn't returned either, and she was growing hungry from the long time it has been since she has eaten last.
Just when all hope was lost, Beast Boy awoke with a most uncomfortable scream. He fluttered around and morphed, but to all avail that he could not break free from the tissue the linked him just like Raven could not escape from the tissue that bind her.
"What's happened?" he asked.
No answer did he hear from Raven. They couldn't look at each other, seeing as they had their backs turned to each other. When Beast Boy didn't hear Raven's voice he got worried.
"Raven?" Beast Boy called.
He tried turning around, but he only saw her from the corner of his eye for a second before he fell back to his original position. By the second Raven's situation seemed to get better and better.
"Wow. . .What a fine mess I'm in." Raven thought. She then figured that since she couldn't transmit thoughts to her friends on the outside, maybe she could at least transmit thoughts to her friend on the inside of the barrier.
"Beast Boy," She thought, trying to focus getting her thought through. Beast Boy reacted to her thoughts. He looked for a way to get through to her but he didn't know what to do himself, with him in such an awful predicament.
"Raven?" Beast Boy asked, flustered.
"I have some duck tape over my mouth, could you try getting it off?" Raven asked in her thoughts.
"I'll try", Beast Boy proclaimed.
Beast Boy tried getting his arm free from the tissue that slowly put more pressure on him as he gripped his arm slightly further away from himself. The harder he pushed against the tissue, the harder it pressed back.
BB slowly morphed his hand, not his whole body, but his hand alone into a smaller animal's hand to see if that would work. It helped, rather than completely altering his shape and body, by confusing the tissue a little. For a little while it didn't know how hard to press down on it. It seemed to change whenever Beast Boy changed, unlike Raven's, which just bound her to a long pole and discontinued Raven's ability to use her powers.
It took quite some time to free his hand, but once freed he maneuvered around to see if he could reach the duck tape around Raven's mouth. He had quite some difficulty now, for no matter what he did to change himself or his properties, it wouldn't effect the outcome.
Beast Boy managed to get to her mouth. Ripping it off, the duck tape fell to the floor as Beast Boy's hand fell to the side. He gripped it with his other hand, while still stuck up against the pole in which he was bound to, and rubbed it a little.
"Ouch. . ." Beast Boy said, "This stuff is tougher than cotton candy."
Raven couldn't help but giggle to that as she needed the relief from all the stress she has been having for the past four hours.
"Well, this is a perfect time not to be like myself," Raven said, thoughtful of her present circumstances.
"Why's that?" Beast Boy asked.
"Oh come on. Don't you think it's strange that I'm not using my powers to get us out or something?" Raven teased.
Beast Boy didn't get it. Raven waited for him to get it, but that never came. He was clueless on what to say too, so he kept quite.
"I can't use my powers in here," Raven said with a happy tone.
"Why do you sound happy then?" Beast Boy asked.
"Well now I can show you how I feel," Raven stated, "And to be honest, please don't tell anyone this, but I think your jokes are very funny."
"That's encouraging." Beast Boy countered, "What will you do if I tell?"
"Then I'll scramble you," Raven said, showing him a little anger.
"Easy or hard boiled?" Beast Boy joked with his usual accent.
"See, that's funny," Raven giggled.
Raven and Beast Boy took the liberty of their time imprisoned together to get to know each other a little more. They also took a good look around the room, seeing as there was much else to do.
They were trapped in a small quarter not large enough for more than just them. The walls and floor and ceiling were completely white, without any shades of color what-so-ever other than the dirt that stained the walls and floors. There was an air vent next to Raven that sent in heat to warm their bodies, and there was a fan on the wall next to Beast Boy to cool their bodies.
Lighting was provided at the dead center of the room, which was in between Beast Boy and Raven and the poles that they were stuck to. There seemed to be no doors, however, which was very odd if you consider the fact that they were placed in here from someone on the outside.
Perhaps the strangest thing of them all, further more, was the cell phone that was placed on the desk of in the corner where Beast Boy was just barely able to reach. Why it had been placed there, was only as clear as it sounded.
It seemed that whoever that placed them in hear wanted Beast Boy to answer the phone if they were to wake up and if the call came through. Beast Boy reached the phone and pocketed it. He then turned to Raven.
"Raven, what do you think of this place?" Beast Boy asked.
"I think it's nasty and we need to get out of here," Raven commented on the dirty floors that they hung only around two feet off of.
Beast Boy also noticed that he had a tape in his pocket. He took it out of his pocket and read his name out loud.
"Beast. . .Boy," He said, not being able to read to well.
"What about your name?" Raven asked.
"My name is on this tape." Beast Boy said.
"Let me see it." Raven said.
"Ok." BB said handed it over to Raven.
Raven knew that she had a tape player in her hands, but she didn't understand why someone had placed it in her hands. When she heard Beast Boy had one in his pocket she understood it was for her to play.
"Welcome Raven and Beast Boy, to your graves," came in a voice, "I have some good news and some bad news. The good news is you might survive if Robin gives Starfire to us, or you might be lost to them forever if he doesn't give me Starfire by six. Don't go searching for a way out because the only way out is to come in."
The voice stopped playing. Raven played it back through from the part where it said Don't go searching for a way out. . .the only way out is to come in.
"What does that mean?" Beast Boy asked.
"I'm not sure, I need to meditate on this for a little while," Raven said.
Beast Boy decided that it was best not to disturb Raven while she was in her meditative state. So he looked at the cell phone. He admired it, for it was the only beautiful electric device in this closed space. If only he could call. He had tried calling on it once or twice, but it was an only receiving type phone, not the type you can make calls with.
Beast Boy sighed knowing there was no way to call and it wouldn't be receiving any calls any time soon. He waited until Raven came up with an answer. Until then he was alone in this room, or so it felt like.
With Raven in this state, you couldn't act like she was in the room, for it felt like you were without her. This was how Beast Boy felt.
"Sorry, but I can't keep myself quiet anymore!" Beast Boy announced after several minutes.
"No it's ok", Raven replied, "I can't come up with anything that might help us."
"Whew," Beast Boy remarked, "I was getting worried you'd get mad at me."
"I should be the one Sorry. I made you feel bad last night," Raven sighed, "Although, I think it was last night."
"You don't have to be sorry for that, I already forgot see? To be honest I was sad about all of us being split up," Beast Boy explained.
Raven felt much gladder Beast Boy wasn't mad at her. He meant a lot more to her than he thought he did.
"We can only get out if they can come in," Raven told Beast Boy, from which she understood after that meditation, "Just thought I'd let you know."
"Yeah well, I'll take them on just you see. . ." Beast Boy said, suddenly getting boxing gloves on his hands.
"he-he," Raven giggled once more.
"Raven, how come you're never like this back at the tower?" Beast Boy asked.
Raven knew the question was bound to pop up. She wasn't sure if she was ready to answer or not, but thought it best to tell him.
"Well, . .Those powers that I have go crazy if I start getting emotional, and I don't want to hurt my friends, especially you-" Raven said, realizing that that came out.
"Raven," Beast Boy began, "I'm sure, if we get out of this, I'll give you something special."
"Can't wait," Raven replied, looking forward to whatever it was that Beast Boy was going to give her.