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Raven lie curled up on a couch in her apartment, her eyes drifting closed in front of a TV that flashed between anime demon fights and random anime girls with overlarge breasts. Just as her eyes finally drifted close, she heared a knock at her door.
Mumbling curses under her breath, Raven stumbled off the couch and to her front door, groggily opening it and asking, "What do you..."
"Please, Raven, I need your help!" the voice of a man said, desperate and a little scared. Raven's eyes started to refocus into the darkness, and she made out the shape of a man several inches taller than herself, with spikey yet short black hair and large, slightly almond-shaped grey-blue eyes. That voice... it couldn't be...
"Robin?" Raven asked, her voice dropping to a shocked whisper. The man nodded, and Raven moved out of the door and let him in, numb with shock.
"I'm sorry to pull you into this, Raven. But everything's fallen in, I have no where to go. I just need a place to hide until I can get with some others in the rebellion and find a new place to hide." Robin looked just as anxious as he'd sounded outside; he looked into Raven's eyes, which were full of shock. "Ah, Raven," he finally said after a silence, and wrapped her in his arms before burying his face in her shoulder.
A few seconds later Raven recovered from her shock and Robin let her go, eyes boring into hers. "I've missed you all so much, Rave, I didn't know what to do..."
Raven was thrown back into her state of shock. This couldn't be Robin, the stoic leader whom she had grown to have so much respect for, the strong, determined, controlled person she once knew? And yet, somehow she knew it was Robin, older, wiser, and in a way much, much stronger.
"You can stay here as long as you need," Raven assured him, leading him to a chair and sitting him down. And more softly she added, "I've missed you all, too..."
It was a long night. Neither of them felt like sleeping after seeing each other, the only members of their team they'd seen since they were captured. Robin explained much, what the Rebellion had planned, what action they were taking now. "The only problem is there aren't enough of us," he explained. "Everyone's too afraid. If we could just do something to make them help, make them realize we can win if we stand together this time..."
That was when the idea struck her. It sounded like suicide even in her own mind, but filled her with such a crazy sense of hope that she couldn't keep it silent. "What if we get the team back together?"
"What?" Robin asked in a whisper, excitement somewhere there beneath the surface.
"We could get everyone back!" Raven exclaimed, jumping out of her chair now. "Find Starfire, and Cyborg... and Beast Boy. Show everyone that they haven't destroyed us, we were famous during the first Rebellion!" She tried to keep her voice steady, but she couldn't very well. She had thought herself alone in the world, and now that she had thought of everyone back together, she knew she couldn't just not do anything.
"I know where they are," Robin replied softly, trying to take things one step at a time. "They sent Starfire back to Tamaran, and hauled Beast Boy and Cyborg off to some lab."
Raven's excitement dropped slightly. "Okay. We could find Beast Boy and Cyborg, right? If we could send a message to Starfire, she might be able to come back..."
"How would we do that?" Robin asked, trying to look at everything logically. "All our equipment was destroyed. Starfire is on another planet, we can't exactly send her a greeting card. And even if we did find out where Cyborg and Beast Boy are... Raven, they've been experiments for the past three years. I don't think they'd be ready to plan an escape."
Raven's insides went cold at the suggestion his words held. "What do you mean?"
Robin shook his head. "I've helped people escape those facilities before, when secruity was loose or they were shutting the labs down. People aren't the same after they've been through that, Rave. I can only imagine what they do there, but when people come out, they're just not... right."
"Then that's all the more reason to get them out," Raven exclaimed, voice shaking violently. Funny, just this morning she hadn't thought she was capable of so much emotion- odd how easily she could be woken up.
Robin stared into her eyes for a few minutes, then nodded his head. "All right, if that's what you want. Come with me then, I guess you should meet what's left of the rebellion."
(Sorry this is short and took forever, I've been working on some other personal stories andI haven't been inspired lately. I'll pick up the pace, if anyone's still reading this. Also, I'm putting an end to the Noodle Army. Sorry.)
