Final Destination

By

Teen Tyrant

The romance stuff will start happening in the next chapter. For this one, just enjoy the death scenes. For those of you who follow the Final Destination films and want to know what pattern Death is following, let's just say that Titans East goes first, in reverse order to how they were supposed to die, then the regular Titans go, in the order they are supposed to, in future chapters.

Chapter 2: The Grim Reaper's List

In the living room at the tower, the Titans all watched the news story of the tragedy that occurred at the amusement park. Twenty-two people had died. Four had been hit by the robot dragon when it crashed into the ground, the rest had fallen from the Ferris wheel after the dragon had smashed through it.

All of them realized that they too could have died if Raven had not moved the T-ship out of the path of the Titans East ship. Raven had explained about the "vision" she'd had just before the event occurred. Her teammates had trouble believing it, as it was disturbing that she had actually seen their deaths occur. Still, none of them could deny that Raven had been right about the dragon changing course and the other T-ship coming right at them.

Raven was headed to her room now. She reached the door, but before she could enter…

"Hey Raven. Wait up a sec." she heard Beast Boy call out to her.

She turned around to face him. "What is it?" she asked.

Beast Boy tapped his index fingers together, seeming kind of nervous about what he wanted to say. "Are you… going to be alright?" he asked concerned. "I mean, you seem kinda out of it."

Raven looked to the ground. "Well, if you saw your whole team die, taking dozens of other people with them, then find out that it was a vision and you stopped it from happening, wouldn't you be a little bit in shock?" she asked, semi-sarcastic.

Taking her meaning, Beast Boy decided to try a positive approach. "Well, just so you know, I believe what you said." he told her honestly.

Raven was surprised that how nice it was to hear him say that. "Umm… thanks." she responded.

Still thinking that she looked a little phased out, Beast Boy went further. "Listen, how about tomorrow morning, after you've had time to sleep on all this, you and I go down to that little café by the park. I'll by you a cup of tea and you can tell me exactly what happened today, with none of the others around to prod you for info." He suggested.

Raven just stood there and stared back at him. It was starting to make him feel a bit uncomfortable. "Beast Boy. Did you just ask me out?"

Beast Boy's mouth dropped open. Without even realizing it, that was exactly what he had just done. What the heck was he thinking? No way would Raven ever do anything with him alone, even if he was trying to help.

He put his hands up defensively. "No! No, no, that's not was I was thinking at all! Sorry if it sounded like that. I was only trying to help you to talk about this. Forget I said anything."

"I'd like to." Raven said plainly.

Beast Boy stopped his attempt at explanation and stared at her. "You… would?" he asked, unable to believe that he had heard her say that. Raven nodded. Okay, this was odd. He had just technically asked Raven out (although that had not in any way been his intention), and she was saying she wanted to do it. What did that mean?

"Um… okay." he said, confused.

Raven turned to her door and opened it. "See you tomorrow morning then." she said, stepping into her room and closing the door.

Beast Boy stood outside her door for a minute, just staring at it. "What just happened?" he asked nobody.

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Raven hovered over her bed, having been in meditation for about an hour now. Opening her eyes, she lowered herself down and stood up. Walking over to her dresser, she pulled open the third drawer and brought out a box. Opening the box, she removed a stack of cards.

This was the Azarathian card deck. Each card was as thin as a piece of paper and they stacked five inches high, so there were quite a lot of them. Each one was a certain aspect of the world. There were cards for things like chair, disease, moon, plant, etc. They served much the same purpose as the tarot cards of earth. They helped to tell the future, a person's fortune or even someone's state of mind.

Raven decided that she would use the cards to look into whatever force it was that had given her the clairvoyance to see the impending deaths of her teammates today. Maybe there was something to it that she had missed. Shuffling the cards in her hand, she straightened the stack, walked over to her bed and sat down on it.

She laid the stack in front of her, preparing to use her telekinesis to levitated the card in the middle out from the stack. Suddenly, a breeze picked up, causing her curtains to flap gently. She had left her window open from that morning. The wind blew the top eight cards off of the stack and onto the floor beside her bed.

"Great." Raven said, irritably. Getting up, she bent down to pick up the cards… and stopped. The cards had all landed face up, in two rows of four, one row above the other. The card of Swimmer was positioned just under the card of Arrow. The card of Twins was under the card of Door. The card of Bee was just under the card of Razor. And the card of Archer was under the card of Nail.

Raven felt that weird feeling in her stomach again, and the shiver down her spine. How could all of these cards have landed like that, facing right up at her? And why was it making her this spooked?

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In Steel City, night had come.

Mas Y Menos, the youngest members of the team, had already gone to bed for the night.

Bumblebee was in the bathroom, washing her face and about to brush her teeth. On the edge of the sink was the razor that Speedy used to shave with. It was one of the old fashion kind, with a small wooden handle and a rectangular blade, like they used to us in barber shops. Heaven knew why he wanted to use one like this. But he had left it out. Again!

Bee picked it up, grumbling. "I've told him over and over."

She set the razor down on top of Speedy's water glass he kept on the back of the sink. The wooden handle and tip of the razor both stuck out over the edge of the glass.

Turning back to the mirror, Bee picked up her toothbrush, put some toothpaste on it, and began brushing and trying not to think of the horrible fate that they had helped bring upon those people in Jump City today.

Elsewhere in the tower, Aqualad was putting away a bunch of nails into the empty peanut butter jar where they were kept. He had been trying to make a new target for Speedy, since his old one had been pierced by so many arrows that it had finally given out.

Speedy asked Aqualad to do it because he said that the Atlantian was a much better builder than he was. The truth was that Speedy was just lazy a lot of the time. He was too busy practicing with his little bow and arrow to throw his weight around. He knew damn well that Aqualad couldn't' build anything, especially not wooden targets. He was from the ocean. They didn't have wood in the ocean!

The proof of his lack of carpenter skills was right before him. He had managed to make something that looked more like a table than anything else. He didn't have a clue how to make a target. But, it was better for him to go through the trouble of doing this than having Speedy practicing on the walls again. But he was done for the night. He'd nail the top of this table-target tomorrow, then figure out what to put on top for Speedy to shoot at. He set the jar of nails down on one end of the table-target.

"I swear, Speedy is going to be the death of me."

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Down in the basement level of the East Tower, the generator that supplied the building with electricity was developing problems. For reasons that were highly technical and wouldn't be understood by anyone other than Cyborg or a veteran electrician, a circuit that was not in the best of condition finally decided to let go. It started going screwy, to put it plainly.

In an instant, all the lights in the tower went dark. But the power was not gone. There was simply none going to the lights. Mostly everything else that ran on electricity was still getting it, but would start suffering glitches and malfunctions very soon. Nobody who might have witnessed these things would have guessed that the screwy circuit was a very ominous sign. Death had come to the tower of Titans East.

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In a room just off from the living room, Speedy was about to test his latest arrow invention: the boomerang arrow. As the name implied, it was an arrow that would return to the shooter if it missed its target. Of course, the archer would need to be very careful, or the arrow would stick them on the return. But Speedy didn't have his name for nothing, and had never been pierced by an arrow.

Drawing back, Speedy prepared to shoot the arrow out through the window that he had opened. Just as he released the arrow, the lights in the tower went out.

"What the? Great." he said in irritation. Suddenly, from the open window came a mysterious strong breeze. A small chair on wheels on the right side of the room was pushed by this surprisingly forceful breeze. It moved on its wheels through the dark room until it bumped, rather hard, into Speedy's shin.

"Ouch." Speedy said irritated. He leaned down to see what had hit him. He bent down just in time, because it was at that moment that his boomerang arrow decided to return. It sailed through the window and right over Speedy.

At that moment, the lights in the tower suddenly went back on for a second. The first glitch in the tower's electrical systems showed itself when the door to the room opened on its own.

Aqualad had been moving around in the dark, his hands out in front of himself. He was standing halfway between the table-target he'd been building and the door to the room Speedy was in when the lights went back on and the door in front of him opened.

Speedy looked up just in time to see the boomerang arrow that had flown back into the room and over his bent body flying through the open door. It stuck Aqualad in the center of his forehead and stopped with its point sticking out the back of his head. Aqualad dropped to the floor.

"Nooooo!" Speedy yelled as he saw his friend fall. The lights went out again.

In the bathroom, the lights went out a second time. Bumblebee cursed and slammed her hand down on the sink in frustration, feeling her hand hit something. She then heard Speedy's scream.

She turned to the door, but knocked her head against the bathroom wall in the darkness. Feeling the world start to spin a little, she reached out to grab hold of the sink. In trying to do so, she turned the sink on with one hand, and pushed the drain cover down with the other. The sink started to fill up fast.

Resting on the edge of the sink for a moment, Bumblebee was only vaguely aware that the sink was now flowing over and water was spilling onto the bathroom floor. Shaking her head and slowly coming to, she remembered Speedy's scream.

Moving more slowly this time, Bumblebee turned to where she knew the door was. She took a single step and slipped on the wet tile floor. Bee landed on her back with a thud and a splash, banging her head once again.

What Bumblebee did not know was that when she slammed her hand down on the sink, she had hit the small wooden handle of Speedy's razor. It had flipped up into the air and embedded its sharp end into the ceiling.

Now, Bumblebee's fall to the floor sent vibrations through the floor and walls… just enough to shake the razor loose. It broke from the ceiling and fell, blade first, towards the floor, where it buried itself in Bumblebee's neck.

In the living room, Speedy knelt over the body of his friend Aqualad, now deceased. There was no question, he was dead. Hearing a swooshing sound, Speedy looked up to the door that led to the hallway where their bedrooms were located. The door opened and Mas Y Menos both stood in the doorway, able to just make out Speedy's form from the bit of moonlight coming in through the living room windows. He was kneeling on the floor by…

"Qué!" both brothers gasped.

At that moment, another glitch occurred in the tower's door operations. Mas Y Menos were standing in the doorway, and so the automatic door had not yet closed. It did so now. Or rather, it slammed shut. Both sections of door, on opposite sides of the doorway, slide closed at super high speed. Mas Y Menos were cut in half from top to bottom… sideways. As the door slammed shut, one half of Mas Y Menos fell to the floor in the living room, while the other half fell to the floor in the hallway.

Speedy, still kneeling by Aqualad, could only stare in horror at the fate that had befallen his two young friends. It had happened right before his eyes, just like Aqualad, and he was left with hardly any air in his lungs.

Hearing staggering footsteps, Speedy turned and looked aroundto seeBumblebee coming towards him, her hands at her throat. He tried to speak, to tell her what had happened to the others, but he couldn't summon the words. The lights came back on again.

Speedy saw that Bee was clutching a wound on her throat. Her costume was soaked with a massive amount of blood. Her skin looked pale. Speedy stood up and turned his whole body to face her, unable to believe that he was seeing this.

Bumblebee held a hand out to him, as if silently begging him to help her. Then he saw the light leave her eyes and she fell forward. As she fell, she hit the top of the table-target that Aqualad had been building. As her dead weight fell on the edge of it, the top, which Aqualad had neglected to nail in, tipped violently towards the ground. The jar of nails on the other end of the table-target was flung through the air in Speedy's direction.

Speedy felt intense pain for a moment as dozens of nails ripped into his body. He sank to his knees, then fell forward, the pain mercifully ending fast.

The lights flickered one last time then went out completely, as did the rest of the electricity in the tower. As dim moonlight filtered in through the windows of the living room, anyone in the tower at that moment might have thought they saw a strange shadow pass across the floor by the moonlight, there and then gone in less time than it takes to blink an eye. A person might have thought that something had passed across that spot extremely fast, or that it was only a trick that their eyes were playing on them. It was a moot point, as there was no one left there. The Titans East Tower remained quiet through the night.

Next chapter, Raven starts to pick up on what's happening, but is it too late to save Robin and Starfire, who are out on a date? Can she help her team cheat death twice? And why did she say yes to Beast Boy's offer, anyway? Find out in the third chapter of this story, coming… whenever I feel like it, although it should be before July 10th, which I'll put as the very latest for the next installment. See you then.