Chapter 13
The vortex above Red X and Cyborg closed.
"Where are we?" Red X asked as he looked around.
The world around them was twisted, out of balance; in short it appeared they were in a floating rock in the middle of nowhere.
"You're asking the wrong robot. My sensors say we are in Titan's Tower."
"That makes no sense at all."
"I know what you mean. Look!"
A path way formed in front of them.
"I guess we go this way." Red X said leading the way.
"So what do you think this place is?" Cyborg asked as they walked on it seemed an endless roadway.
"No idea, another dimension? What do you think?"
"Maybe this is Raven's home? Where she comes from?"
"Riiight." Red X said and under his breath he said, "Not the way she described it is it."
"What was that?" Cyborg said.
"Nothing, I was just thinking how unusual this place is."
"Turn back."
"Like I was saying." Red X said as they looked around for the source of the voice.
"Turn back."
They saw what was talking to them. Little black bird with big red glowing eyes.
"Turn back, Turn Back." The birds started to chorus.
Red X approached them.
"Careful, they look dangerous." Cyborg cautioned.
"Maybe they know a way out."
Red X faced the dark bird. "My friend and I are looking for a way out."
"Kaw, Kaw!"
Razor sharp teeth and four red eyes appeared as they creatures attacked.
"Ah, gettem off me! Gettem off me!" Cyborg shouted and started blasting.
Red X fired his weapons scattering them, but not for long.
They kept firing until Cyborg was shooting one at his feet causing the ground to crumble away.
He started to fall when Red X grabbed him.
It took every muscle he had to hold him still as they dangled over the edge.
"Hey guys what's up!"
It was Raven and she was standing upside down.
"I don't know anymore?" Cyborg whimpered and the world flipped upside down.
Cyborg landed on top of Red X and Raven laughed.
"What is so funny? And why are you wearing pink?" Cyborg asked.
"Cus it's my favorite color." The pink-cloaked Raven said.
"It is?" Cyborg and Red X said together.
Red X looked away from Cyborg's curious glance at him since he responded a little more shocked than he intended.
Pink Raven laughed again and then started to make airplane noises running down the path.
"Dude she is acting weird."
"Have you ever seen Raven so happy?"
"Man, I didn't know she could do happy."
"Come on let's keep up."
They passed under an archway and suddenly the barren landscape vanished.
In its place was in short paradise.
"Whoa!" Cyborg said.
"Yeah, looks like some air fresheners exploded."
The pink-cloaked Raven started to laugh.
"Good one."
"I wasn't joking." Red X said.
"Sure you weren't." She giggled.
"So how do we get out of here?" Cyborg asked.
"Through the forbidden door. But you don't want to go there, not now."
"Uh, yeah we do." They said together.
"Ok, but don't say I didn't warn you." She laughed and led them down the beautiful road.
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"That movie was so awesome!" Terra said landing on top of Titan's Tower.
"I know, when the-"
"And the thing almost-"
"Then she-"
"I was dying. Hey-" Terra said accidentally kicking Raven who was meditating on the roof.
"Sorry Raven."
Raven was quiet for a moment.
"HaHaHa. HAHAHAHA!"
Terra and Beast Boy were totally horrified by her response.
"I have to go." Raven said leaving suddenly.
"Is it me or was that just plain freaky?" Beast Boy asked.
"You said it." Terra agreed.
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"She ditched us, I can't believe she ditched us." Cyborg ranted.
"Calm down."
"Calm down, we are who knows where and our only guide is gone. Why should I calm-"
They passed under another archway and the world became barren and twisted again.
"Hey I know where we are! We're in that place that I didn't know where we where before."
Red X pointed in front of him.
It was Raven, but this time she was dressed in a gray robe.
"Where were you!" Cyborg shouted at her.
Raven cringed.
"Look, I am sorry." Cyborg apologized.
"Raven, that's that forbidden door right?" Red X pointed to the end of the path.
Raven timidly nodded.
"Hurry, we are almost-"
A wall erupted out of the ground, then more walls.
"Awe man we have got to get out of here." Cyborg said and started blasting, but to no effect.
"It's a maze, you have to go through it, I can show you the way, but you won't like me when we get to the end." She nodded her head at Cyborg, "He already doesn't like me."
"Come on-"
The gray-cloaked Raven just walked away.
"Gee, Raven, I was really done talking, nice of you to notice."
"Does she seem a little moody to you?" Red X asked.
"You think?" Cyborg said sarcastically.
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Raven used her powers and lifted the door back in place.
Had someone gone into her room she wondered.
There on the floor was her mirror.
It was on her dresser and now-
"no" she whispered in freight.
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In the living room Beast Boy was watching TV.
"Do you think we should go check on Raven?" Terra asked.
"Why?"
Terra looked at Beast Boy as if he did not have a brain in his head.
"Oh." Beast Boy realized she meant the weirdness on the roof earlier.
"Yeah, so we should check on her."
"I don't know Raven usually likes to be left alone."
Terra gave him a look he could not refuse.
"Ok, after this show, then we will go see if she is ok."
On the TV it showed the title, "Them Hoot'en Boys"
"OK, it will give her a chance to meditate or something."
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"And that time I yelled at you, I am sorry for that too." Gray Raven said coming around the corner.
"For the hundredth millionth time, we forgive you." Red X and Cyborg said together hoping this time she understood they really did.
"We're here. This is the end."
The way opened and they could see the forbidden door.
"Alright!" Cyborg shouted and began to run forward with Red X when suddenly two statues that once where on either side of the exit slammed together blocking their way.
It had two faces with four glowing red evil eyes and four arms. In two of the hands swords appeared.
"Hey!" Cyborg shouted.
"Told you, you would not like me when you got here." The gray-cloaked Raven disappeared.
Red X blinded one of the faces, but the other took over the fight.
Cyborg blasted it with his sonic cannon, but had little effect.
The monster swung its sword, he dodged, but he tripped.
Red X leaped between the second blade blocking the strike with his red daggers.
"Move!" he shouted.
Cyborg did not need telling twice.
Red X leapt clear.
"Hiya!" a shout came from above.
A green-cloaked Raven kicked the stone monster in the face.
It went down hard.
The creature got back up and renewed its assault, but Raven dodged it with ease.
The statue has a surprised look as she attacked it splitting it in two again.
It fell immobile to the ground.
"Whoha! High fives come on!" Green Raven showed.
"I don't understand, first she was happy, then she was sad and now a marine. What is going on, who are you?" Cyborg demanded.
Suddenly the Raven in the pink cloak and the gray appeared next to the green one."
"I'm Raven." They said together.
"Hold on, back up, so you are, happy," pointing to the Raven in pink. "Timid" to the gray, "Brave" finally the green.
'You forgot serious." Pink Raven said in a deep voice pointing a Red X then laughing at her own joke.
"We are not in Raven's home" Red X said.
"We are in her head." Cyborg concluded.
"And I want you out!" they heard a shout from over head.
A blue cloaked Raven, their Raven landed in front of them and the others disappeared.
"Those were different parts of you personality weren't they."
Raven nodded.
"The mirror is used for meditation," and glared at Cyborg, "Its not a toy."
"My bad."
"Anyway you got to get out of here, something bad has happened, something got loose."
Suddenly hundreds of crows appeared and filled the air causing a whirlwind.
Out of that black whirlwind came a horrifying creature.
It was all red, with four glowing deadly eyes, sharp nails on his hands and sharp fanged teeth.
"What is that?" Cyborg shouted.
"Let's just say I have issues with my father."
They got to the door.
"Go now, I'll deal with this."
She created a force-field and held off the monsters attacks.
"And leave you with that." Cyborg said.
"Not happening." Red X agreed.
"It is my problem, go! If I loose you will trapped here forever. GO!"
She shoved them with her powers.
Her shield collapsed and then attacked the red creature distracting it from Red X and Cyborg.
They looked at the door and then each other. They knew what they had to do.
The monster got in a luck shot and Raven collapsed into its hand.
"Hatred shall rule, Rage shall consume you!" it crowed in triumph.
A blue-white beam hit its hand and it let go.
Red X caught her before she hit the ground and into cover.
"You came back." She said as she came around.
"Of course."
"You must really like me." She smirked.
"Hey I like you both. We have go to move." Cyborg shouted.
"I don't have enough power to beat him. You have got to save yourselves."
"What about those other you's?" Cyborg asked.
"Yeah the Green one kicked butt."
They dodged another attack and hid again.
"Alone maybe, but what about together, like us," Red X said.
"Yeah, they are apart of you, together, you can do it." Cyborg said keeping an eye out.
She nodded.
"Well cover you."
Cyborg and Red X charged.
"Hey four eyes!" Cyborg shouted running away from Raven as she concentrated.
The other parts of her personality appeared.
Intelligence, Timid, Happy, Brave, and other formed a circle around her.
"Azarath, Metrion, Zinthos!"
The other Raven then joined her body in whirl of color and exploded in a flash of light.
The red monster realized there was a bigger threat then the two it was chasing before.
"You are going back were you belong!" A giant Raven said dressed all in white.
"Never!" It shouted.
They gathered their energy and fired at each other.
White Raven won; overpowering the red demon.
It transformed into a Raven with a blood red cloak and four red glowing eyes which then became red energy and fused into White Raven.
She became her regular size and in her blue cloak again.
Cyborg and Red X helped her up.
"Thanks, friends." Raven said with a little smile.
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"I don't know why you are worried, Raven usually does creepy stuff like that." Beast Boy said in front of Raven's door.
"I know, but that was weird even for Raven."
"Good point."
Terra was about to knock on the door when it opened.
Cyborg, Red X and Raven stood there staring at the others.
"Where have you guys been?" Beast Boy asked.
"Just getting to know one another." Cyborg said.
"Its almost morning, who wants breakfast!" Terra shouted.
"Alright, tofu waffles."
"Man, no one wants those nasty tofu waffles."
"I do, come on."
"No way, I am cooking."
"Breakfast?" Red X asked Raven.
She shrugged. "Sure."