Final Destination

By

Teen Tyrant

Chapter 4: Death Is Coming

As Raven and Beast Boy reentered Jump City, their communicators went off. Raven lowered them both to the sidewalk below. Activating their communicators, they saw Cyborg's image appear on the screen. From the look on his face, they could tell that their fears had been realized.

"Guys… Rob and Star. They… it…" he couldn't finish. Beast Boy nearly fell over, and his eyes began to cloud up as tears began to form.

Raven simply stared back at Cyborg, when suddenly, the street lights all around the area were coated in a dark energy and began to twist and bend violently. Small rocks and pebbles around the area levitated into the air and exploded. Raven's hood fell back and her hair began to spin like a windmill.

Getting control over herself, Raven calmed down and addressed Cyborg.

"Where are you?"

He answered, "Downtown. Follow my signal." he said plainly and hung up.

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Following Cyborg's communicator signal, Raven and Beast Boy flew to where he was. They arrived on the scene to see police cars and an ambulance all gathered around. Cyborg was standing back from them, staring at what the emergency workers were doing.

Beast Boy and Raven could see two of the paramedics that had come in the ambulance carrying a large black bag; a body bag. They loaded it into the ambulance.

Over on the sidewalk was a another body bag, which a cop was zipping up. Looking hard, Beast Boy and Raven thought they saw what looked like a hand that had been fried to a crisp, before being zipped up.

Walking up behind Cyborg, the two simply stared. Cyborg turned around and looked at him, having obviously been crying from his human eye.

"They're gone. They're just… dead." he said it, obviously in shock, and not yet coming to terms with the whole thing. Who would?

Realizing that there was nothing they could do for their friends, Raven looked up at Cyborg.

"Listen Cyborg. Titans East are dead too."

Cyborg's eyes widened. "What!"

Beast Boy nodded. "We just came back from there. They've all been killed."

Cyborg was astonished. This was another shock on top of Robin and Starfire.

"Killed by who!"

Raven stared at him. "Death."

Cyborg's human eyebrow rose. "Say what?"

Beast Boy's held his arms wide apart. "Death. You know, the Grim Reaper, the Soul Harvester, the Debt Collector, the dude with his face hidden in a robe and a big stick with a blade on it. Death!"

Raven explained. "We think that because I stopped us all from dying yesterday, we cheated some kind of cosmic design on our lives. Now something is trying to fix it, to make us die like we were supposed to. The world is moving on with us in it when it was not supposed to, and now something is setting it right."

Cyborg looked back at them. "Well, that's just about the craziest thing I've ever heard."

Raven frowned. "It's not just us. Four people died this morning who were at the amusement park yesterday. People who would have died if I hadn't interfered. They were talked about on the news and everything, and who knows how many others who survived yesterday have now died since that broadcast. What happened to Robin and Starfire and Titans East is proof enough that I'm right. Death is coming for us."

After thinking that over, Cyborg took a step back. "Well, if that's the case, then that Reaper can kiss my shiny metal behind." And he began walking away. Stomping actually.

Beast Boy held up a hand. "Cy, wait! Raven thinks you may be next."

Cyborg didn't look back to him. "Well, that's fine. Let Death try and come for me. If it's in the design, then who am I to cheat it. Let that skull faced freak come for me. I'm gonna give him a run for his money." He kept walking away, leaving Beast Boy and Raven behind.

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Cyborg walked down the streets of Jump City, lost in thought. Two of his closest friends were dead. His friends on the East team were dead. And if Raven was right, then he was next. And he didn't really care. He was in a state of shock and denial that his old athlete hotheadedness was coming out, just daring the end to come and try to take him.

As he continued walking, he heard a commotion coming from a store on the other side of the street. It was a hardware store, and looking in through the window, he could see a familiar looking kid in a green outfit on a set of spidery robotic legs.

Seeing his old nuisance Gizmo, Cyborg decided that now could be the last chance he would get to give the little midget the pounding he deserved. Cyborg made his way across the street and went in through the stores front door.

Gizmo was towering over the man behind the sales counter, laughing down at him.

"I'm taking this stuff and if you don't like it, scrum buffer, then you're going to get hurt. I need some supplies for a new gadget, so stay out of my way." he said, cockily.

"Yo, cue ball!" Cyborg shouted to him.

Gizmo turned in time for Cyborg's fist, fired from his arm and propelled by a small rocket propulsion system on the back, to hit him square in the face. Gizmo fell back, he spidery legs extending from his backpack wobbling.

Cyborg reattached his arm and took a fighting stance, ready to give Gizmo the thrashing he always wanted to.

Gizmo regained his balance and smirked at Cyborg.

"Alright, barf-brain! You're going to be the first to taste my new invention."

Reaching into his backpack, Gizmo brought out what looked like some sort of ray-gun from an old alien invasion movie. It looked so weird, one might think it was just a toy. Gizmo pointed the gun at Cyborg and squeezed the trigger, holding it back as the gun charged up and started to glow red, ready to fire a concentrated beam of heat at him.

Cyborg leaped forward, landing in front of Gizmo. Reaching out, he crushed the barrel of the gun in his hand, making it so that the gun could not fire. He then snatched it from Gizmo's hand and flung it through the air. The gun sailed high over the aisles of the hardware store, landing on the tiled floor in an unseen location.

Gizmo started to panic.

"You moron! That gun was charged to fire! If it can't shoot the beam, it's going to explode!" he shouted at Cyborg, before retracting his robotic legs and dropping to the ground. He lay face down on the floor and covered his ears.

True to Gizmo's words, there was a violent explosion from further back in the store. The blast blew through several of the aisles, including one that had circular saw blades for power saws. This display happened to be facing Cyborg, and as the explosion pushed the display forward, hurtling the saw blades through the air, Cyborg was caught right in the path.

The saw blades, sent flying with incredible force, sliced right through Cyborg like he was made of paper. After a moment, Cyborg's pieces fell to the ground. Some blades had cut through electronics systems, causing these parts to leak oil, battery fluid and a few sparks. Other saw blades had cut through the few parts of human flesh he still had, including his face, and these pieces leaked blood.

Gizmo looked up, his hands on top of his head to shield himself from debris. He looked at Cyborg's sliced remains in horror. He had never caused anyone's death before.

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Raven and Beast Boy landed on in the street in front of the hardware store, looking at the smoke pouring out of the building. They had been flying through the air, figuring that it would be harder for them do be killed in the sky than on the ground. They had heard the explosion and figured that someone else who had cheated death yesterday had been claimed. Fearing for Cyborg, they had gone down to see.

Now, seeing Gizmo running out of the store and down the sidewalk like he'd just witnessed the most gruesome thing he could imagine seeing, they knew that Cyborg had been taken. Gizmo's presence made that clear, as Cyborg would have gone to stop him. The explosion meant death for their robotic friend.

Standing there in the street, struck dumb and feeling cold as they stared at the scene, something in the back of Beast Boy's mind reminded him that Raven was now next on the Grim Reaper's list.

Suddenly, his ears picked up and he looked over at Raven and passed her, where a large truck was coming right for them! Raven was staring at the store in shock and did not notice it coming. Prepared to return the favor and intervene in the design for her sake, Beast Boy ran around her and changed into a elephant, mere moments before the truck, with its driver looking at the store instead of the road, would have hit Raven.

Beast Boy slammed his elephant's head against the truck and knocked it aside, causing it to tip over on its side and begin sliding up the street, creating sparks as it dragged on the asphalt.

Raven now noticed what was going on around her and looked at the truck sliding away, realizing that Beast Boy had just cheated the design for her and that he was now next, again.

What neither Raven nor Beast Boy knew was that the driver of the truck had put a box of fireworks into the back of his truck, in a box that once belonged to a vacuum. He was transporting them into the city illegally. As the truck slid along the road, the box in the truck bed fell out and broke open. Two firework rockets slipped out, while the truck slid away from the box before more could fall out. The sparks created from the truck's sliding lit up the fuses on the two fireworks and ignited their launch powders.

The first rocket shot up into the air a thousand feet. At that moment, a traffic helicopter was flying overhead, to get a look at the smoke coming from the hardware store below and to report a possible fire. The pilot of the helicopter just happened to have had day off yesterday and had taken his family to the amusement park.

The firework rocket shot up until it was next to the cockpit of the chopper and then exploded right next to it. The force of it being so close shattered the glass window next to the pilot's face, sending glass into his body and ending his life. He slumped forward over the controls, pushing them forward.

The second firework rocket took off and shot forward. Just as Beast Boy turned back into his human form, the rocket punched right through his stomach and out the other side, where it then exploded in a dazzling display of purple sparks. Beast Boy was hurled forward, the back of his body scorched from the fireworks.

"Nooo!" Raven shouted, running to him. She bent down and rolled him over onto his back. She could see the pain this caused him in his eyes. He was unable to say anything due to the pain.

Raven looked at the hole in his midsection, which she placed her hand over. But the damage was too great, she could not heal it. She cradled his head in her lap, and Beast Boy looked up at her with fear in his eyes, gasping for an easier breath.

Raven felt immense pity and despair for him. She felt tears begin falling down her cheeks, but did nothing to hide it. There was no reason to hide this emotion from him, as she would likely be the last thing he saw. Rocks and street signs and cars that had stopped so that the drivers could get out and look at the whole mess around them, all started exploding as Raven's emotions went haywire.

Deciding to make his last moments as comfortable and as happy as possible, Raven found her voice again and spoke softly to him.

"Easy Beast Boy, easy. Don't die on me. Not yet. Please stay with me now. Stay awake." Beast Boy blinked, and she could see that he was trying to hold on, for her more than him. He was in pain and wanted it to go away, but he knew that she would be alone, and next in lne for Death's design, and he wanted to keep that from happening for as long as possible, so he had to stay alive as long as he could.

Raven continued, deciding to just go ahead and tell him what she'd been feeling over the last few months. He deserved to at least know that, here in his final moments.

"Beast Boy, I know you're not going to believe this, but… over the last few months, I think I've started to like you. I mean really like you." She saw his eyes go wide after hearing this and she nodded. "Yeah, I can't believe it either. You were annoying for a while, but I never hated you. You were my friend, my best friend really, and I never appreciated it. And I was starting to really like who you were, and being around you. I'm sorry that I didn't say anything sooner. I'm sorry that you had to find out like this, now of all times. I was stupid."

Beast Boy summoned the strength to reach up and brush one of her tears away.

"Just so you know," Raven said, "Going out to breakfast with you today was more special to me that I let on. I couldn't believe it when you asked. I was really excited this morning, when I woke up and knew that I'd be on a date with you. I'm glad we at least got to do that. Thank you, Beast Boy." She said.

Beast Boy's mouth twisted from agony to a slight smile and his eyes actually sparkled a little. He couldn't believe that she felt that way. It really was too bad that all this had happened. He would have liked to see where this would have gone. But it was getting dark now.

Raven watched as Beast Boy closed his eyes and lay his head back down on the asphalt. He breathed deeply a few more times and his face twitched once, twice, and then Beast Boy knew no more.

He was gone. Raven held him in her lap and realized that he had met Death. She sobbed loudly and hugged his lifeless body, now severely regretting that it took such awful tragedy to bring out this emotion towards him. Laying him back down on the street, Raven stood up, wiping her eyes. They were gone. All her friends were gone, dead. She was all that was left, and she was going to be next. And there was no one left to interfere. She now wished that she had not interfered with the original design yesterday. At least then they would have all died together, and in less painful, less humiliating ways.

Looking down at Beast Boy's body, Raven realized that she did not care about anything now. Let it come for her. There was no reason to go on now anyway, and it was going catch up with her sooner or later. She would just let it happen as it happened, and join her friends at their final destination in whatever was beyond this world.

Raven didn't even feel it when the whirling blades from the falling helicopter disintegrated her body into a mist of blood and bone chips.

This Is The End

Okay, that concludes this little tale of Teen Titans dying in bizarre ways. This isn't the last time I'll probably be killing off the Titans. I may do it again someday with famous horror icons, like Freddy Krueger, Jason Voorhees, Pinhead, or some other famous boogeyman. So be on the look out for possible Teen Titans crossovers with other horror movies in the future. Thanks for reading this story, and sorry if I offended you by killing your favorite Titans, but hey, somebody's got to do it, right? At least I put some style into it. Later.