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Chapter 3: Third Encounter

The Titans stared in horror as Slade's head was twisted 180 degrees around.
The white robed former apprentice looked into the lifeless wide open eye staring out in surprise out her former master's mask, smiled, and let go, Slade's dead body drop to the floor with a dull thud.
"Bet you he didn't see that coming" the girl said, turning to the Titans.
"Till we meet again"
She wrapped her cloak around her and turned white with black lines before disappearing through the wall.
The teen heroes stood still in the silent control room of their arch-enemy, still stunned.
"Dude, she just- she just.." Beast Boy stuttered, gaping, breaking the spell.
"Oh man, that's just not right" Cyborg said.
"Truly, that was as babaric as seeing a sporznort's killing frenzy" Starfire said, eyes wide.
Robin walked up to Slade and stared down at the body before kneeling down and putting two fingers to his throat, checking for any pulse, any signs of life.
"Eww, dude, you're touching a dead guy!" Beast Boy shrieked, turning a deeper shade of green. "I think I'm gonna barf!"
Ignoring him Robin reached into his utility belt and pulled out a duster and white powder, sprinkling some over Slade's helmet before brushing it off to reveal a set of fingerprints. "Well, at least this time we've got a clue to go on" he said, using one of his gadgets to scan the prints.
"We'll run a check back at the tower, and hopefully we'll be able to find out the identity of our mystery person"
"Uh, Robin, what about Slade's body?" Raven asked, floating up to him.
"We can't just leave it here, can we?"
"Oh no! I'm not going to be one who has to carry him!" Beast Boy shouted, still a little greener then green.
Robin stood up and stared down in silence at the body of the man who'd caused them so much grief, so much pain.
"Robin?" Starfire put her hand on his shoulder "What do you wish us to do?"
Robin sighed and turned around to his team. "We'll contact the authorities to come and get his body. And then we start to work on our uninvited guest's name"

Minutes later, back at the Tower, Raven sat in her room, meditating, trying to free her mind of the shock and stress that filled it.
And failing.
"What's wrong with me?" she thought, sighing in frustration.
She took a deep breath and tried again.
"Azarath... Metrion... Zinthos... Azarath... Metrion... Zinthos... Urgh!" she snarled, gnashing her teeth. Why couldn't she find her inner peace like she normally did?
Why was it everytime she tried, it felt like she was... missing something?
"Frustrated?"
"Oh no" Raven groaned as her sister Wolf floated in.
"If I wasn't before, I will be now"
"Is that anyway to talk to your loving sister?" Wolf asked teasingly.
"Please Wolf, this isn't the time for that. There's been lot's of trouble happening lately"
"Yeah, I bet, especially with Terra now hanging unto your boyfriend BB"
"Terra's dead. Slade too"
"What! How?" Wolf asked, shocked.
"I cast the spell, and as it was about to work someone showed up and cancelled it out, then shattered Terra's statue body. And then we found her teamed up with Slade.
We confronted them and then she snapped his neck like a twig"
Wolf whistled. "Who ever she is, she sounds powerfull"
"She is. But the weird thing is, she's dressed like me, only in white, and her powers manifest like mine, but white with black instead of black with white, and she even sounds like me. And I'm so worried" Raven said, a scared look on her face.
"Why?" Wolf asked, floating closer to her sister.
"I'm worried I won't be able to protect my friends against her"

"Ok, so far this is what we have on our mystery girl" Robin said, pointing a remote at the screen in the living room.
"We know she's highly trained in magic, as she's proven quite a bit.
She's also highly dangerous, and will kill without a giving it a second thought, as she's shown with Slade... and Terra."
Beast Boy clenched his fists, but stayed quiet.
"Have you had any success on acquiring her identity of the finger prints?" Starfire asked. "No, and here's why" Robin said, tapping a button.
"Wow, now that's mixed up" Cyborg said as they stared at the fingerprint.
It looked like several different fingerprints joined together.
"I know" Robin said, "It's going to take the computer a while to decode it, so until then we need to be prepared for when she strikes again. Raven?"
"Yes?"
"Do you have anything that could shield us from her magic? Or could your magic help us out in anyway? Maybe track her down, or show us her face?"
Raven felt her heart go cold.
"Uh, I'll have to check and come back to you on that. There might be one or two spells that might be able to help"
"Get on it. In the meantime, I want everyone else to do extra training sessions.
The next time she shows her face, we'll be ready"
"Uhm, I don't think we'll be ready" Beast Boy said, pointing.
Everyone followed his finger to a large plume of smoke drifting up from Jump City.
Suddenly there was a flash, and a second plume joined the first.
Robin stared at the plume in anger, clenching his fist.
"Titans... let's go!"

Robin raced down the debris littered streets of Jump City with Raven, Cyborg and Beast Boy following close behind in Cyborg's car while Starfire covered them from the air.
All around them people where screaming and running while clouds of dust and smoke flew through the air alongside explosions and roaring flames.
Suddenly the skies darkened as a large bus full of people came tumbling down towards them. "Look out!" Robin shouted to the team, taking evasive manouvres as the bus raced down... and stopped, inches from the ground, glowing black.
"Nice catch" Cyborg said as Raven slowly put the bus down unto the road.
"No time for cheers. Let's go" Robin said over their intercom's, before racing off.

Seconds later they found the source of the destruction: The white robed girl, floating above the cracked and hole-ridden road, her hands glowing white with black moving lazily left and right as explosions rained across the buildings.
"Ah, the gang's all here" she said, turning around.
"Wanna play?" she smiled, her eyes glowing white.
"Playtime's over for you, permanently" Robin growled, staring at her in hatred.
"Titans, attack!"

"Pitifull". The girl dodged Starfire's bolts easily.
"Predictable". She spun and dived low, Cyborg's sonic blast missing her by a mile.
"Poor". She dived down and stopped before spinning in a circle and kicking Beast Boy, in wolf form, right in the jaw in mid air.
"Pathetic" she laughed as she evaded Robin's birderangs without even trying.
"And what about me- oof!"
"Raven!" Starfire shouted as the girl sent a massive piece of concrete slamming into her, sending her flying through the air to smash into a building.
"And now, it's my turn" The girl grinned, hands glowing brightly.
And the Titans felt a chill run up there spines.

"Uuh..." Raven groaned as she slowly came back to the world, her body one big ache.
Woozily, she stood up, bits of debris dropping off her, took a step forward, and almost fell to the ground. She reached out to steady herself against a wall and stood there, gasping, as she stared across the city skyline at the sounds of a battle raging.
"Ok, so you want to fight dirty..."

"Come on, you're not even trying!" the girl laughed, pulling another piece of building out with a crack before flinging it at them.
"Yahh!" Robin shouted, filling the air with small black balls that hit the looming piece of debris and blew it to bits.
"Nice" the girl said, "But not good en-"
"Booyah!" Cyborg shouted as he got a surprise shot at her, held aloft by Beast Boy in pterodactyl form.
The girl's eyes went wide as the beam struck...
... and flowed around her without leaving even a scratch.
"Naughty naughty" the girl tisked, wagging a finger.
"Looks like I'll have to teach you some manners"
She held up her hand, glowing white and black, and grinned.

BOOM!
"Aaah!" Raven cried out as the ground under her feet jumped and shook, almost knocking her back down to the ground.
"Oh no! Oh, please no!" she gasped, taking a few steps forward before breaking into a run and finally flying.
She descended down through the pitch black smoke until she saw the large crater of destruction, and two familiar and very beaten up forms near the edge.
"Starfire! Cyborg! Oh, please answer me!" she begged as she landed next to them, checking them for a pulse, and sighing in relief when she found them.
"R-Raven...?" Starfire moaned, opening one eye.
"Starfire, you ok? Where's Robin and Beast Boy?"
"They're gone"
"You mean they're...?" Raven couldn't bear to think of it.
"No... she took them. The girl took them. And.." Starfire broke into a fit of coughs before finishing, "And she said to tell you: "You'll know where""

Back at Titan's Tower, in the Lab:
Analysis Complete
Scanning Database Villian For Match
No Villian Match Found
Scanning Database Hero For Match
One Match found

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