Final Destination
By
Teen Tyrant
I didn't verify in the summary, as I wanted to make an ominous sounding description to hook people into reading this story, much like the taglines of the incredibly fun Final Destination movies which, yes, this fic is based on. Pairings are mainly Beast Boy and Raven, with some Robin/Starfire scenes, although the romance is only the second category. The main theme here is the horror.
Disclaimer: I don't own Teen Titans. Final Destination is property of New Line Cinema
Chapter 1: The Premonition
Raven opened her bluish purple eyes. Right away, she knew something wasn't quite right. Sitting up in her bed, she yawned and looked around her dark room. Nothing appeared to be out of place. Everything looked normal, or as normal as the term could be applied to her. But still, something was out of whack with the world around her. She just didn't know what.
Sitting in a lotus position, Raven levitated herself above her bed, preparing to do her morning meditation. For some reason, she felt like letting some air into the room. She felt oddly confined. Using her power, she telekinetically opened her bedroom windows, although the curtains continued to block the morning sun.
There, that felt better already. Raven closed her eyes and began her meditation. "Azarath. Metrion. Zinthos." she recited, the words spoken thousands of times before, bound to be spoken millions of times throughout the course of her life.
After several minutes of meditation, Raven realized that her Timid emotion was still rather active today. She could not for the life of her figure out why. There was nothing wrong that she could sense, yet for some reason she felt anxious. Nervous. Like something was coming.
Snapping her eyes open, she realized that the last time she had felt this way was just before Trigon came. Raven prayed to Azarath that it wasn't going to happen again, but she didn't think that it would. This felt a little different than the last time.
Suddenly, her bedroom curtains began billowing and flowing in the air as a rush of wind blew in through her windows. Raven watched her slowly flapping curtains and felt the breeze on her face… and felt afraid. She didn't know why, but something about the wind blowing in like that at that precise moment sent a chill down her spine.
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Entering the living room, Raven was surprised to find that the usual bickering over the contents of breakfast was strangely absent. Looking around the room, she saw that Cyborg and Beast Boy were sitting on opposite ends of the couch, folding pieces of paper for whatever bizarre reason. They never made sense in almost everything they did.
Looking at the breakfast table, she saw Robin and Starfire, who seemed to be talking about something. Probably that Disney movie, the Lion King. The Titans had all watched it last night, and Starfire and Beast Boy had both loved it, although Cyborg and herself were bored after the first fifteen minutes, and Robin didn't really care either way. She would have left the room once she realized that the movie just didn't interest her, but Beast Boy had rented it for them to watch something peaceful for a change, and to leave would have hurt him.
She didn't know why, but she'd been acting much nicer to Beast Boy than usual lately. It just didn't seem quite as fun anymore to make rude comments about him.
Seeing as how nobody had made any breakfast this morning, she went over to the kitchen to make her usual cup of herbal tea. As she poured the tea into her cup, it created some bubbles which floated to the top of the warm liquid. As Raven brought the cup to her lips to drink, she stopped and pulled the cup away with a gasp. The bubbles floating in the cup… for a moment, it had seemed as though they had formed the shape of a skull.
"What's up, Raven?" she suddenly heard Robin ask. He was standing beside her, a questioning frown on his face.
Looking at him for a moment, Raven looked back into her cup. Most of the bubbles had popped, and the ones left didn't form any sort of recognizable shape. It must have been her imagination.
"Nothing. Just thought I saw something, but I guess it was just a trick of the light." she answered.
Robin shrugged and returned to the kitchen table, continuing his talk with Starfire. Raven took her cup and walked over to the couch, sitting down in the middle, between Beast Boy and Cyborg, who she could now see were making paper airplanes with the folded papers.
Picking up the remote control, Raven pointed it at the TV and began flipping through channels. Settling on one for a moment, Raven saw that it was some movie about Pearl Harbor. She watched as two American fighter planes were flying right towards each other, pursued by two Japanese fighter planes. At the last moment, just before they hit, the two American planes both swooped to their left sides, nearly scraping the bellies of the planes together. The Japanese planes were not so lucky, and they both collided with each other.
As Raven watched the two craft hit, she felt that strange feeling again. As she watched the wreckage of the two crashed planes fell from the sky, a nervousness seemed to fill her stomach. That feeling like something was coming.
Grunting, Raven changed the channel. Something small and white suddenly shot past her face, startling her. Another one flew by, going the other way.
"Boo-yah! My plane flew further than your plane!" Cyborg shouted in triumph.
Crossing his arms, Beast Boy snorted. "Hmph. No duh. You're stronger than I am, so of course you can fling it farther than me." he said grudgingly.
Cyborg grinned. "Yeah, and don't you forget it, either." he said smugly.
Raven shook her head at their childish need to compete at everything and tuned them out. Continuing to change the channel, Raven stopped on another movie. It was that new King Kong by Peter Jackson that came out last year. Too bad it was almost over though. She watched as the giant ape climbed up to the top of the Empire State building and grabbed a plane that had flown too close by the wing. Spinning around in a complete 360, the ape released it. The plane was flung through the air, crashing into another plane that was coming to shoot the gorilla.
Raven watched, her mouth falling open as the two planes collided, slicing the wings off of each other, before plummeting to earth. Again that sick feeling was in her stomach and a chill went down her back.
Turning off the TV, Raven laid back against the couch, deciding that there was nothing on but crashing planes and she didn't want to see that. Suddenly, two small white objects came into her field of vision from both sides.
Time slowed down. It literally seemed to slow to a crawl, each second taking what would normally seem to be a minute. Raven watched in this sudden slowness as the two paper airplanes thrown simultaneously by Beast Boy and Cyborg both flew directly at each other. All sound was tuned out, and Raven could hear the whispery scratchy sound of paper rubbing against paper as the two paper planes met in the air. They hit and fell, right into Raven's lap.
Time returned to normal, and Raven freaked. She swept the planes off of her lap and onto the floor, practically jumping off the couch and brushing her hands against her thighs.
Beast Boy and Cyborg gave her funny looks. "You okay, Raven?" Cyborg asked her.
Realizing that she probably looked ridiculous, Raven stopped rubbing and fidgeting and stood still. Pulling her hood up over her head, she closed her eyes and nodded.
"Yes, I'm fine." she answered him.
Beast Boy stood up. "Sorry about crashing them in your face like that. We were just trying to make them fly to the other side of the room." he explained.
Raven shook her head. "Its alright, Beast Boy. I'm just a little jumpy today. I had some trouble meditating this morning, but its nothing to worry about. I'm fine." she said to him.
Suddenly, the alarm went off. Everyone jumped to their feet and ran to the emergency screen.
"What is it?" Robin asked.
Cyborg pushed a button on the control console. He turned and looked at Robin. "It's a signal from Titans East. They're trying to call us. I'll put them on." he said. Pushing another button, the screen suddenly lit up with the face of Bumblebee.
"Titans, you getting' this? This is Titans East." she spoke into her communicator.
Robin stepped up to the console and activated the mike. "This is Robin. What's the problem, Bumblebee?" he asked in a serious tone.
Bumblebee answered him. "We're in pursuit of a dangerous creature and need your help".
Cyborg spoke to the screen. "Can you specify?" he asked her.
Bumblebee nodded. "We were alerted that a satellite was being attacked in orbit over Steel City, so we all jumped in our T-ship and went up to take a look. We found some kind of robot dragon trying to eat the satellite. We chased it back into the atmosphere and have been on its tail ever since. Its matching our speed, so we can't get any closer, and its good at dodging our weapons fire. We figured since we're about to come up on Jump City in a minute anyhow, you guys might want to give us a hand taking it down. It can't take on both of our ships."
Taking all that in, Robin responded. "We'll be there to help you, Bee. Titans out." he said, turning off the screen.
"Will we assist the Titans East in our own T-ship, Robin?" Starfire asked, hands clasped in front of her.
Robin nodded. "Right. Like Bumblebee said, that dragon won't be able to dodge attacks from both teams. Titans, move!" he commanded.
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The five teens ran to the elevator and took it down to the bottom floor. Once in the garage, they ran over to the T-ship launch pad. Each Titan hopped into their own compartment in the ship; Robin in the front, Beast Boy in the middle, Cyborg in the back, Starfire in the left wing, Raven in the right wing. For some reason, Raven felt really nervous about getting into her seat.
After making all the necessary preparations, Robin prepared to launch the ship. "Titans, liftoff!" he announced. The launch doors in the ceiling of the room opened and the T-ship took flight.
After locating the Titans East ship and its quarry, Robin steered the ship to intercept. As the ship banked towards the eastern side of the city, Raven felt a little woozy. This was odd, as she had never had air sickness or any other kind of weird feelings when in the T-ship.
Beast Boy looked over at Raven's compartment, noting her strange expression. He activated his com-link. "Raven, are you okay over there? You're looking a little… green." he said nervously, noting the irony in the question, as he himself was green.
Raven turned her head and frowned at him. Beast Boy smiled nervously and shrugged. "Okay, forget I said anything." he said.
Raven looked forward again, preparing herself for the coming battle. While she had shown irritation on the surface, inside she felt rather… touched, that Beast Boy would be concerned about her comfort.
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As they reached the eastern portion of the city, Cyborg alerted them to two approaching objects, directly ahead. The Titans watched as two tiny dots steadily grew larger, and soon they could make out the shapes they were seeing. The one furthest from them was the Titans East T-ship. Their ship had a different configuration than the Titans' ship. Rather than five different sections, Titans East only had four. Bumblebee was in front piloting, Aqualad was in the right wing, Speedy was in the left wing, and Mas y Menos were seated next to each other in the back.
The other object, the one closest to them… was one of the most bizarre sights the Titans had encountered, which is saying something. Bumblebee's description was accurate enough, it really did look like a twenty foot long robot dragon.
The metal beast was dark gray, with glowing red eyes. It had the typical dinosaur-shaped head, with three horns growing out the top and spikes running down the base of its long neck. It had four legs which were tucked up under its body during flight. It had long, skinny metal wings with razors at the tips, and although the wings were flapping, the were not what was keeping the dragon in the air. Under the wings were small devices which could have only been anti-gravity generators, allowing the beast to stay flying. It had a long tail, ending in a dagger spike. None of these features carried any insignia or logo, making it unclear who had built this thing.
As the creature flew past, the Titans received a message over the com from the other ship. "Nice of y'all to join us today." Bumblebee's voice spoke to them.
Robin responded to her. "We'll follow on its left side, you guys take the right. Maybe we can get it in a crossfire".
The two T-ships zoomed after the mechanical monster. The Titans wanted to end this before the creature decided to start messing with any part of their city. The Titans East wanted to end this because they had chased this thing across the whole freaking country and were sick of seeing the dragon wag its metal tail in their faces.
As they were following, Starfire activated her com system. "Why is the dragon not attacking the city?" she asked her teammates. True to her words, the dragon was simply flying over Jump City without causing any destruction.
Cyborg answered. "Maybe whoever built it only programmed it to attack that satellite. Maybe its not supposed to attack cities yet." he suggested.
Robin narrowed his eyes. "Whatever the reason, nothing that looks like that could have been made for peace, so we take it out. If it keeps heading in this direction, it will be over the ocean in five minutes. That's when we'll shoot it down, so that no one gets hurt".
Raven didn't know why, but she didn't think that being over the ocean would make a difference on that score.
Soon, the dragon flew out over the ocean, and the Titans knew that the time to strike was now. Opening a channel to Titans East, Robin gave the order. "Okay, we get around to the sides of it, then shoot it down with the sonic blasters." he said to the other team.
Speedy, at the weapons control of the East ship, responded. "Right. Preparing to fire".
Both ships swooped in closer to the dragon, taking up positions to the left and right, although still a little above and behind the flying robot. Cyborg and Speedy took aim with their weapons.
"Firing!" they both shouted.
The sonic blasters of the two ships fired, the beams both cutting through the air as they headed towards their target. Just before it was hit, the dragon did a barrel roll, dodging out of the way of the blasts. It then turned in the air, heading back towards the land.
Robin grunted in frustration. "Its heading for the amusement park." he announced.
The Titans watched as the Ferris wheel in the distance grew larger and larger. The dragon was indeed heading for it. It swooped in lower, flying only twenty feet above the water. It was heading for the pier that stretched out over the water from the amusement park.
Bumblebee's voice came back over the com. "We'll get in behind it and try to blast it".
Robin answered. "Alright, we'll be above you, in case it tries to fly up again. We'll catch it there if it does." he said.
The Titans East T-ship zoomed in behind the dragon, readying its weapons. The Titans stayed a little behind the other ship, higher in the air. The dragon had now reached the pier and was flying over he wooden planks.
Suddenly, a large number of seagulls which had been resting on the pier all took flight at once, panicked by the appearance of the robot dragon. Its sensors blocked by the mass of flapping birds, the dragon turned in the air and flew higher out of programmed reflex.
Because of the sudden change in flight path, the robot's sensors did not register the giant Ferris wheel in time. The dragon slammed into the center of it and burst through the other side, sending pieces of metal flying everywhere.
A large piece of metal was buried in the dragon's head, scrambling its programming. It fell from the sky and crashed into the amusement park ground, skidding along the concrete, flattening and impaling helpless citizens in its wake.
Its center ruptured, the Ferris wheel collapsed. The circular shape that the radiating spokes made simply crumbled. The compartments that the people riding the wheel were in fell to the concrete below, the people inside screaming futilely as they met their ends.
The Titans saw none of this, however. When the seagulls had burst from the pier and the dragon suddenly changed course, Bumblebee reacted immediately, not wanting to fly into the white mass and lose visibility. She jerked the controls of the ship, turning it around and flying higher… right into the path of the other T-ship.
The change in course was so sudden that there was no time to react again. The two ships were only a second away from hitting when both Titan teams realized it.
Bumblebee was the only one who had time to speak. "Oh shoot!" she shouted, at the realization at what her own reflex had done.
Raven watched in horror, feeling like her entire life had come together at this moment. Why was she not surprised that this was how it was going to happen, two ships colliding in midair?
Robin did manage to turn the ship to the right before the impact, but it wasn't enough. The left wings of both ships hit each other, shredding them off. Starfire and Speedy were instantly diced into pieces.
"Nooo!" Robin shouted, although nobody registered it. The collision sent the two ships spinning like tops in midair, not only hurtling them in new directions but also allowing the debris of the collision to bombard them as they spun.
A jagged piece of metal from the shredded wing penetrated the driver's bubble dome, skewering Robin in the head.
Another piece hit Beast Boy's glass bubble, but bounced off. However, the impact caused the glass to crack, and a moment later, it shattered. Glass was flung in all directions because of the ship's spinning motion. Beast Boy, now exposed to the open air, was cut to ribbons.
"Oh, Go-", Cyborg shouted, before he was cut off. The control console in his compartment exploded in his face, killing him instantly.
Raven grabbed her seat, holding on for dear life. She was getting dizzy because of the ship spinning around. The deaths of her friends had all taken place in the space of mere seconds, and her brain had not yet fully accepted it, especially since she was still in a life and death situation of her own.
Hitting the separate button, she detached her compartment from the rest of the doomed ship. As the wing split from the ship, she had a new view of the amusement park.
She watched as the Titans East ship, still spinning from the collision, crashed into the park's Merry Go 'Round. Upon impact with the ride, the ship exploded. The Titans East, all the children on the ride… lost in the fireball.
As she tried to steady her ship, the T-ship behind her suddenly exploded, the fuel tanks ruptured by debris. The explosion sent her own shuttle spinning out of control once more. Trying to steady it, she gripped the control stick fiercely, but to no avail. She watched helplessly as her own ship plummeted towards the park's House of Horror. As the ship got closer, seconds from impact, she could read the sign that had been placed on the attraction. Once you enter, you won't be leaving alive! it said. How appropriate.
"Nooo!" Raven shouted in her final moments before…
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Raven opened her eyes, breathing hard.
Bumblebee's voice came back over the com. "We'll get in behind it and try to blast it".
Robin answered. "Alright, we'll be above you, in case it tries to fly up again. We'll catch it there if it does." he said.
Raven looked around. She was back on the T-ship. All her friends were still alive. The robot dragon was heading for the pier next to the amusement park. And in a few seconds…
Raven turned on her com. "Robin, move away from the Titans East. Do not place us above them!" she said to him.
Robin frowned. "What? What's wrong, Raven?" he asked.
Not about to waste time explaining, Raven used her power and enveloped the controls in Robin's hands with her dark energies. She moved the ship to a position above and to the left of the other T-ship.
"Whoa, Raven, what are you doing?" Beast Boy questioned.
"There's going to be a lot of seagulls flying up from the pier. The dragon is going to move out of the way and so will the Titans East. If we'd stayed in that position, they would have hit us when they moved and we would have all died." she said.
Starfire frowned. "But Raven, how could you know that?" she asked.
Just then, fifty or so seagulls erupted from the pier. The dragon changed course, and so did the Titans East. The other T-ship flew right through the spot where their own ship had been moments before, true to Raven's words.
The Titans looked on in horror as the dragon crashed into the Ferris Wheel and saw it collapse, the dragon scraping along the ground and smashing the people in its path.
"My God." Robin spoke, stunned beyond any other words.
Bumblebee's voice came over the com again. "Oh no. Titans, you seeing this?" she asked, horrified.
Beast Boy watched the tragic carnage, then looked at the spot where the two ships would have collided if they'd still been there. He turned and looked at Raven.
"I don't know how you knew it was going to happen, but you just saved all our lives, Raven." he said to her. He would have smiled, had he not just witnessed dozens of innocent people die from the dragon's ill-fated flight.
Raven nodded. They couldn't do anything about the people down below, but she had just saved the lives of her friends from ending. And a lot more people would have died on the Merry Go 'Round and the House of Horror if she hadn't moved them. She would need to remember to tell them all that, it might help them feel a little better.
Yes, she had just saved them all. So why did she still feel scared?
End of chapter 1. Please review and feel free to flame if you wish.
Scary stuff will be happening in every chapter, but the romance stuff probably won't happen for a few chapters, so be patient for that.