No sooner than the elevator's beaten doors slowly opened after it rose to the top, the awaiting crowd of exhausted, battered honorary Titans awaited with anxious anticipation, all their eyes darting to Cyborg and B.B. Many prepared to attack, seeing the robot with them, but Cyborg held his hands up.

"Easy, he's with us, I'll explain later," he managed, getting his allies to lower their prepared attacks.

"Where's Robin?" Beast Boy called out, wanting an answer from anyone.

"Over here!" yelled out a voice, waving him over, the voice happening to belong to Red X.

He dashed over, sliding to a stop, finding his leader, the Boy Wonder, unconcious, but his wound had been taken care of, his arm in a sling, blood soaking through. Starfire sat next to him, Jinx helping with her wounds.

"How is he?" Cyborg questioned, 001 right behind him.

"He's gonna be fine, but he isn't in too good of shape right now," Jinx informed, continuing her job of bandaging Starfire's wounds in her midsection and chest, "he needs to rest until he is healed."

"Where's Raven at, friend Cyborg?" Starfire questioned, her face grimaced with pain as Jinx continued to work, the others watching on, wondndering the same thing as well.

He turned around, looking at the area where the lair would be located underground, the ground beginning to sink inward from the cave-in, plumes of dirt and debris rocketing skyward as air escaped from underneath the tons of rock. He turned back to Starfire, who's face was just begging for an answer, and one of good nature for that.

"She's..." he started reluctantly, as if he was avoiding it.

"She's what?" Starfire continued to question, concern vacating her visage.

"She's still inside," he solemly informed, "we lost track of her when the place started cavin' in, we don't know where she is or..." he stopped himself, not wanting to finish the unthinkable thought.

She gasped, knowing what he was getting at, standing up, knocking Jinx over in the process.

"We must search for friend Raven, that was the entire purpose for what has traspired here today, we must find her, now," she announced, only to grip her sides as pain overtook her, falling to her knees.

"You and Robin aren't going anywhere or doing anything, you aren't in any condition," Cyborg announced, catching her somewhat, breaking her fall.

"We must go in and find her though," Beast Boy broke into the conversation, "we can't just abandon her, why the hell are we just standing around, come on, I don't know about you, but I am going to find Raven, I know she's still in there, I know she need us, so who's with me?"

"You know damn good and well I didn't mean it that way, B.B.," Cyborg replied defensively, "now, as you said, we will search for her, it's going to take some time, but we will look for her, ok? We will find her and everything will be fine."

"Yeah, I know...sorry," he apologized, realizing how he overreacted in the situation at hand.

Cyborg rested his hand upon his friend's shoulder, knowing what he was feeling, but there was something Cyborg couldn't feel, and that was Beast Boy's true feelings for Raven, the very feelings that bound him to her in a way only they could understand. These same feelings are the same that are fueling his determination to find her, by any means necessary. Cyborg nodded, turning to face a small group of the honorary Titans that surrounded them.

"You heard him, let's find her, more time we waste, less time she has, let's go!" he ordered, pointing in the direction of the lair's position beneath the ground.

The Titans jumped into action, leaving behind Starfire and Robin, both too seriously injured to be of any effective assitance in any way at the moment.

"I really hope friend Raven is alright," she quitely commented to herself, "she is much to strong-willed to meet such a fate, especially here, I cannot even begin to imagine such a thing happening to her, I refuse to believe the worst possible thing has happened today."

She turned to Robin's unconcious body, lying there. Starfire knelt down, picking up his head, cradling it in her arms upon her lap, stroking his black hair, attempting to find anything to take her mind off of what was truly at hand.

Meanwhile, the group of young heroes toiled endlessly at the rubble, even with the help of their powers in their own ways, it was a daunting task to find Raven, hopefully alive, but deep down inside of all of them, including Beast Boy, there was a minute possibility that she was no longer with them and never would be again. They worked that much harder to force the notion out of their mind. Beast Boy appeared to be the one working as frantically as he possibly could, rapidly changing into various animal forms in any attempt to get through the debris as quickly as he could, wanting to save his true love from an unjust fate.

"I know she's alive, I know she is, Raven's too strong of a person to go down like this," B.B. thought, pulling boulders away, making the most progress out of all, yet he knew it was going to take a lot of time before they could even begin to find signs of her. They all excavated diligently well into the night, eventually to the point where they could no longer continue, forcing them to reluctantly return to the Tower, but not all went. Beast Boy, Cyborg, and a few of the closest honorary Titans remained. All through the night and into the early morning they continued, nearly an entire day had passed, but much progress had been made, as for they were beginning to find robotic remains, as well as the floor to the facility, but many debris still remained. Well past the point of exhaustion, Beast Boy continued to work, tired, hungry, and in need of serious rest, yet he remained just as determined as before. Cyborg, as the others that remained, were above ground, resting, awaiting the arrival of the Titans that left the day before, ready to continue the frantic search for their fellow Titan.

"You guys really need to head back to the Tower and get some rest, you look awful," commented Jinx, this little endeavor of being their ally seeming to change her ways somewhat, making her actually care about what happened to one of her so-called enemies.

Cyborg yawned, his human side showing signs of fatigue, yet he continued, relying on his cybernetic half to contine.

"We know, but I can't just sit around and wait, the more time it takes to find her, the less chance that we have of finding her a-"

"I know," interrupted Jinx, some of the other Titans nodding, "seems like you made a lot of progress."

"Not bad for a night, nonstop though," Cyborg informed, looking as if he were ready to fall down and sleep right then and there.

"If you want, as I said, you can go home, we can handle it, that, and we can do this in shifts. I don't really need to explain that, you know what I am getting at," Jinx proposed.

"Believe me, I want to, but Raven's my friend, my teammate, hell, we're basically family, so I'm not gonna rest until we find her," Cyborg replied, getting a smirk out of Jinx.

"All you heroes are the same, always standing up for one another, no matter what, and I respect that," she informed, walking past him, headed into the debris-ridden site.

Cyborg followed, as did the rest, walking back towards the area where the lair was located.

Meanwhile, Beast Boy managed to move a large boulder that contained a large support beam within it, using the raw strength of a gorilla, hefting it with ease, tossing it to the side, changing back into his human form. He stopped, frozen, staring at what he had uncovered. B.B. fell to his knees, still staring at what he hand found, slowly pushing his hands forward, forcing himself to examine his discovery. He picked it up, a torn and tattered piece of dark blue cloth, soaked and saturated in blood. B.B. started to quiver, his hands holding it shaking frantically. He dropped it as if it were physically hurting him, searching for some other kind of clue.

"Oh, God no, God no, please, no," he said to himself, scrambling about, searching.

He found a shattered ruby-red jewel with a gold ring around what was left of it, the many shards scattered around it, the very same that was the broach to her cape. Again, his hands trembled violently as he picked up the varoius pieces, still trying to doubt what his mind was telling him. Tears started forming in his eyes, moving yet another rock, only to find more horrors. He backed away in fright and horror, the sight of the semi-hardened pool of blood upon the floor, the steel blade of a katana lay within it. He knew whose it was, he knew what had to have happened, yet he refused to believe it.

"RAAAAVVEEN!" he yelled at the top of his lungs, bursting into an uncontrollable state of sobbing.

Cyborg and the others scrambled down the debris, running to see what had happened to B.B. to cause him to scream in such a way. he, as the others, stopped dead in their tracks as they found him doubled over, crying, tightly gripping the tattered piece of cape that belonged to her.

"My God," he commented at the sight, knowing good and well that there was no possible way that she could have survived, yet her body was nowhere to be found.

Red Star knelt down, studying the area, trying to keep Beast Boy's outpouring of mourning from affecting him.

"If she is truly gone, comrade Cyborg, then why is there no body?" He questioned, trying to keep from B.B. hearing it.

"I don't know," he managed, holding his emotions in as well, "I just don't know. We need to let the others know."

He nodded, starting back up the deep crevice that led down to them. Beast Boy remained upon the ground, grieving. Cyborg slowly approached him, kneeling down to him, resting his hand on his shoulder.

"Come on, let's go," he gently said, tugging at his shoulder.

"I...failed...her," B.B. managed through his sobs, gripping the cloth that much tighter, "she relied on me...and I failed her."

Cyborg turned Beast Boy around to face him, looking him in the eye.

"Listen to me, Garfield," he said, his voice breaking, "we did all we could, she understood what could possible happen, and she sacrificed herself to save us, all of us, and possibly all of the city. Raven didn't die in vain, it was for a worthy cause."

Beast Boy nodded, throwing himself forward, wrapping his arms around Cyborg, still sobbing.

"It's alright man, let it all out," Cyborg encouraged, tears starting to fall from his human eye, proving that the most fragile thing of all, life, is shattered in an instant.