Hi, everyone. Sorry for the missed update, my Document Manager kept choking on this chapter for some reason. Sadly, it looks like only one chapters getting up this week. Oh well.

Now then, before I start, I should note two things: 1. There probably won't be any more Internet kitsch references. 2. The giant robot from this chapter is from the comic based on the show (but probably not the comic on which the show is based. Try to keep up with me, folks.) Now, to paraphrase Mandark, enough with the talk, let's get back to the punching!

DISCLAIMER: I do not own Teen Titans, Magic: the Gathering, or Zero Wing. DC, Wizards of the Coast, and Sega are the ones to praise/blame, not me.

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The All Your Base moment having passed, Robin resumed normal grammar, along with his standard catalog of catchphrases: "Titans, GO!"

"Umm, Robin?" called Cyborg, "Raven's right outside the Tower. We don't really need to 'go' anywhere."

The leader's eyes narrowed. "We really don't have time for witty repartee, Cyborg. We've seen what Raven is capable of, and that was before she transformed into…" He gestured towards the screen, in an attempt to express the inexpressible horror Raven had become. "That. Prepare for emergency plan TGB-5."

Cyborg's eyes widened in surprise. Beast Boy gaped in shock. Starfire gasped, "But Robin, we are only to use plan TGB-5 when-"

"It's when." The Boy Wonder cut her off, but was soon stopped himself by another.

"You can't do this!" Beast Boy exclaimed. "That thing could kill her!"

Robin was not amused. "Beast Boy, at the moment Raven constitutes a major threat to the city. We have no idea what she's capable of, or how much control she even has over her powers anymore. Besides," Robin looked down in worry. "We don't even know if she…can be killed anymore."

"That's all you can say?" shouted the shifter, "That's all she is to you? 'A threat to the city'? Well she's more than that! She's a Titan, a friend, one who has fought for and earned our trust!"

Cyborg put his hand on his green friend's shoulder. "BB, you saw that thing on the screen. That wasn't Raven. Not anymore."

"No!" By this point, there were tears in Beast Boy's eyes. "I refuse to believe that Raven is gone for good! There's no way!"

Robin's patience ran out there. "Beast Boy, we don't have time for this. We have to stop Raven before she does something terrible. You're coming with us. That's an order."

The two heroes glared at each other, and Beast Boy said the only thing he could think of that would convince his superior. "Would you go if it was Starfire?"

Robin narrowed his eyes, the only external show of his internal struggle. There was a long pause. "Robin?" cooed Starfire.

"Starfire," the leader said finally. "you can pilot the T-Ship on your own, right?" She nodded, and he turned to Beast Boy. "Fine. You may stay. But if you can think of anything that might help, either tell us or do it yourself." The shifter nodded. "OK then. Titans, execute plan TGB-5!"

With that, the three Titans that would face their former ally all moved for the garage. "Robin!" cried Beast Boy. Robin stopped and turned back. "Thanks." The leader nodded and kept moving.

Outside, Raven exulted in the newfound energy coursing through her form. It permeated her very being, enhancing everything that she was. No longer a confused, weak little girl, she was now a mighty, nigh-immortal demoness. The reverie was broken only when the three familiar Titan vehicles launched out of the Tower. Cyborg in the T-Car, Starfire in the T-Ship, and Robin in the R-Cycle all emerged from the giant consonant, but didn't strike her immediately. Instead, they performed a complex maneuver to arrange themselves properly, then all three flipped a switch used only once before.

After engaging the switch, the T-Car split into legs and hips, shifting Cyborg's seat into the pelvic area. The T-Ship docked with the auto, shifting itself into arms and a body. Starfire's central cockpit merely changed orientation to accommodate the new device she would be operating. Lastly, the R-Cycle leapt of the roof of the Tower, landing squarely in the dock designed for it in the T-Ship. A face plate slid into place over the motorcycle, and it adjusted to form Robin's cockpit for the new machine. The Titans Go-Bot 5 was formed.

"Well," Raven crowed in her new inhuman croak of a voice, "that was impressive. A shame it was for naught."

"Naught this!" cried Robin, as the Go-Bot charged the former heroine.

The dark girl merely smirked, then cried out a new chant. "Trigon Yawgmoth Mephistos!" Every one of the eyes covering her body widened, and midnight energy screamed forth from them. The blasts skewered the giant robot dozens of times, and it crashed into the bay as its software followed suit, hit with the equivalent of several billion viruses.

Beast Boy watched this sinister spectacle in horror, and instinctively dove out of the main room window to help the rest of the team. Shifting to gull form midway through the drop, he surged towards the fiendish figure to do what he did best: harass Raven. By swooping, diving, and pecking at the occasional eye, he managed to get her attention long enough for the other Titans to escape the collapsed mech.

"Enough of this!" Raven cried, and slashed at the green nuisance. However, instead of impaling Beast Boy, she merely gave him a place to perch. Snarling, the demon tried shaking her arm to jostle the seabird, but he moved onto her shoulders and resumed human form.

Hanging on the being he still thought of as a friend, Beast Boy tried to reason with Raven. "Raven, you have to stop this!"

"Beast…Boy?" the figure whispered, her main eyes slowly fading to a more human color scheme.

"It's me, Rae. You have to snap out of this! I don't know what's making you go all super-creepy, but if it's my fault, I'm sorry!"

Deep within her eroding soul, Raven couldn't help but chuckle. I'm being possessed by an object of near unlimited energy, my powers have been multiplied a thousandfold, and he thinks he's to blame? Classic Beast Boy.

"Beast Boy, it's…not you." Raven struggled to speak, fighting the clutches of the jewel around her neck with every syllable. "It's…the Mox Jet. I-"

Struck with excitement, the shifter interrupted. "You found it? Great! How do we stop it?"

"I'm trying…to tell you. I'm-"

Unfortunately, Beast Boy's mind was already bubbling with possible ways to deal with the dark gem. "Do we use holy water? A hammer? Maybe that mana alliance thing that I beat the Pearl with? What about the Pearl itself? What if you wear that, too?"

"Beast Boy…let me-"

"Wait, I've got it!" If it wouldn't have made him drop, the were-everything would've smacked his fist into his open palm. "An army of squirrels! That's the answer for everything!"

This final exclamation was so ridiculous that it made Raven forget all about the other presence in her mind. While she was trying to figure out exactly how squirrels would help the situation, the Jet took advantage of her distracted state to regain control. Her eyes returned to an eldritch shade of indigo, and, guided by the black Mox, she intoned "Sohtniz Noirtem Htaraza!" Once the final bizarre syllable was pronounced, black spikes erupted from Raven's back, piercing Beast Boy's hands, limbs, and chest. She turned to watch his look of shock as he slipped off of her and into the bay.

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Best cliffie yet! Does Beast Boy die? Has he died already? Why hasn't Robin used a contingency plan by now? How exactly would an army of squirrels help this situation, anyway? All these questions, and some you never even thought of asking, will be answered next chapter. Until then, review! Review like your life depends on it! (You never know, it just might :D )