The True Finale
By Scarredbyshallowness
Disclaimer: I do not own the Titans in any way, shape, or form.
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The War of Love
Gotham City, Inside Grayson's BMW 650i
"MMMMMM! BARBARA! " Richard Grayson hollered as he released his lips from his surprise attacker.
"GOTCHA! Got you! Got you! I finally got you! So I took my reward." Barbara sang with an intense red flush in her cheeks. She had waited years to do that.
"Congratulations." Grayson expressed with the greatest of sarcasm, pulling over at his stalker's nicely local home. "Get out."
"Wait, Dick! I have a solution to your 'extended leave' problem." Barbara pouted her patent puppy dog pout. Great for getting a free meal out of a guy.
"You know I hate that look…" Richard stated dismally. Remembering her past requests as he rubbed his eyes, the anticipation was less than stellar.
Then it hit him.
"So that was you around the corner."
"Maybe. But hear me out…"
Basement, Titan's Tower
"TURN IT OFF! TURN IT OFF! For the love of humanity, TURN IT OFF!" Cyborg screamed with all of his might. Torture doesn't get much worse than this. (Yes, I AM speaking from personal experience).
"Then you'll…" Raven grinned.
It's about time he cracked. She had, rather skillfully, set the movie 'The Notebook' to play over and over again in Cy's brain until he gave in.
It played 46 times. 46 times. And it's a 123 minute movie. Altogether, that's 5658 minutes, roughly 94 hours, and almost 4 straight days. However, it played at an accelerated rate due to the fact that the player was his brain; it only took a measly 30 minutes.
"YES! I'll tell you the code! JUST TURN IT OFF!" Cyborg yelled with the most extreme of pain. If he heard the line, "Why didn't you write me? Why? It wasn't over for me! I've waited for you for seven years and now it's too late.", one more time, his ears would self destruct.
Reaching into the back of Cyborg's exposed head, Rae pulled a single pink wire; stopping the movie's 47th play.
"Now was that so hard?" Raven quipped as she rose a brow.
"Don't say it…"
"I wrote you 365 letters. One for everyday."
"GAH! It's 2590! The code is 2590!" Cyborg finally gave in. "Now reattach my circuits. All I want to do is watch UFC, football, and wrestling while I eat barbeque riibbss." He cried with a slight sob at the end. His pride as a man was being pummeled.
"Sure." The demoness agreed. The moment she put Cy's normal system online, his body snapped back together and bolted for the door. Opening it with great force, he skillfully dodged a bewildered Starfire and slammed the door to his room. Where he would stay.
For HOURS.
"Friend Raven, What did you do to him?" Starfire rose a brow. She had never seen Cyborg act that scared before. Even when she baked her home planet's 'meat' cake.
"I notebook-ed him." Raven smirked. "But more importantly, I got the code."
"Ooohhh! I can not wait any longer! Let us open the suitcase of severe pain and wonderment!" Star squealed, grabbing the suitcase in a blink of an eye.
"Let's see what you have worked so hard to protect, Robin." Raven thought aloud as a single bead of icy sweat dropped from her brow. This was it.
Entering the code in carefully, the case released a burst of compressed air as it opened it self slowly. Bit by bit, the mystery was finally unraveled to reveal a…a…
Book.
It was Robin's personal diary.
"A book? Why would Robin hold this so sacred?" Starfire said with complete confusion, revealing a perfect opening. Raven took a moment to thank God for alien ignorance.
"I'm not sure. I'll analyze it and tell you what I find, Star." Raven slyly suggested as she nonchalantly grabbed the book and silently, yet hurriedly, teleported to her sanctuary. Her room.
Completely confused, Starfire reexamined the case, making completely sure that nothing else was left. Even shaking the heavy material like a rattle.
"What's with all the SCREAMING down here?" Beast Boy fittingly yelled through the doorway. Noticing the open case immediately, his curiosity nearly nuked itself. "OOOO! What was in it, Star? Money? Baby photos? Embarrassing pictures?"
"No, Beast Boy. It was a book of some kind. Raven took it to analyze it." Star answered truthfully.
" Oh YEAH! IT WAS A DIARY! Who CALLED …It was a diary, right? " BB asked, halting his celebration. C'mon. How often is he right?
"Diary? What is this 'Diary'?"
"Oh…um. It's a book that you write about how you feel about, uh, things. Like for secrets and stuff. And it's great for blackmailing." BB grinned widely. It reminded him of the time he got a hold of Cyborg's diary file.
Good times. Especially for Jinx and Bumble Bee.
"Oh, you mean…"
There was a pause.
She'd been had.
Jade fire erupted from her eyes.
"RAVEN!"
Titan's Tower, Raven's room
"Date: 02-05-1992
I hate Two-Face. I hate him with every fiber of my being. He murdered both of my parents two years ago. Mother. Father. You'll never know how much I miss both of you. You'll never know much I wish and prayed that I could of changed what happened. Or at least done something. The last thing I remember is my mother telling me that when I performed, I was her little robin…"
"Well that explains the name. How sad. 2590... That's the date that his parents died." Raven frowningly thought to herself.
Skipping ahead a couple of pages, and noticing the name 'Star' written more times than she would like to admit, Raven was starting to feel a little bummed. That was until…
"Date: 02-05-2002
Tonight was an odd one. Time stopped. Slade returned. And Raven was put into mortal danger…and, well, stripped. Slade is going to pay."
A smile crept across the sorceresses' face as she imagined Robin balling a fist into his hand.
"Ever since Raven has opened a telepathic link between us, my thoughts of her have changed immensely. At first I thought she was a shy, apathetic, anti-social, goth girl…But I couldn't have been more wrong.
I'll never forget the night after the 'Slade' drug effected me. Raven stayed up extra late in the medical room to make sure I made a full recovery. And thanks to her telepathic connection, she could tell if I was lying. Not fun…at first.
We started talking, and I've got to say, I was impressed. I had no idea how much she had to do to control her powers. We even discovered a few similarities. Like broken families and unwanted responsibilities. Although, she never really wanted to say anything about her father. Not that I minded. I didn't want to say anything about mine either.
Minutes turned to hours without us even noticing. Before we knew it, everyone else had already gotten up and was ready for the next day. Then she was gone. Off to her usual anti-social self.
I still can't help but wonder; why me? Why did she choose me over everyone else to protect her? But, regardless, we definitely…"
CRASH!
"RAVEN! HAND OVER THE DAIRY! NOW!" Starfire demanded in growl from what remained of Raven's doorway. This reaction from Star much like the way she acted BEFORE she joined the Titans; ticked and scary.
"Starfire! I was just about to come show you…"
"Drop the ACT and hand it over…please." Star requested as herbal green colored energy flowed around her body. She wasn't the happiest. "Do not make me fight you."
"Starfire, can you even read our language?" Raven asked honestly.
No response…except a sneer.
"Look, I read everyday. I can speed read a 50 page book in half an hour. Wouldn't it make more sense for me to go through it first and tell you the things he wrote about you? " Despite the irrefutable reasoning, Star was not buying it. This wasn't turning out the way Rae thought originally…
"On my planet, when tamerianians choose a mate, they are willing to fight for them. No matter who the enemy is."
A cold bead of sweat tingled down Raven's spine.
"Friend Raven, you have spent a lot of time with my boy recently. However, I have looked away. I'm sorry, but I just can't do that anymore. Either declare that you will no longer feel for him, or fight me." Starfire threatened in a voice that was serious…and kind of chilling. Not like her at all.
Maybe this was the way she acted on her home planet…
"Starfire…"
There was a slight pause. Starfire was charged up and ready for battle. The time to decide was at hand. Give in or fight? Win or lose? For Raven, the choice wasn't hard.
"You can't fight what you can't touch." Raven snapped back, enveloping Star in a dark orb. "Calm down! Anger will get you… AHHH!" Raven attempted to lecture before Star burst the hold with an explosive starbolt.
"I've heard ENOUGH out of you! RRAAHHH!" Starfire roared as she launched herself forward, slamming Raven in the stomach with a crushing fist.
If not for her powers protecting her, Rae would have been hurt a lot worse than just being slammed through her wall. A steel wall mind you.
The truth behind the fight? Simply put; pent up jealousy. Starfire had been getting less and less attention from the Boy Wonder because of guess who. Something that had been going on ever since the Trigon incident.
That was a year and a half ago.
And they really do kill for spouses on Tameran.
"You wrecked my ROOM!" Raven roared as a void of energy flowed around her in an impressive aura. "Stop it, Starfire! Before one of gets hurt!"
"Then say it!" Star demanded, blasting an eye beam directly toward Raven's core. But was canceled out by a protective orb of the sorceress'.
"I…I can't!" Rae yelled back, sending a dark claw crashing into the alien; forcing her through the level's ceiling.
"Then…" Starfire spoke from afar. "We will find out who is stronger!"
In a flash, all that Raven could see was an incoming orange fist.
Basement, Titan's Tower
"WHAT IS GOING ON?" Beast Boy screamed to himself as he took cover underneath Cyborg's work desk.
BOOM! CRACK! AAAHHH! BAM!
As the girls continued to decorate the tower with new windows, an utterly annihilated piece of hardware flew past the cowering teen in a blur.
"AAAIIIEEEE! They blew up my game station! NOOO!" BB cried in horror as a river of tears leapt from his eyes.
1 hour later
Enough is enough. Time to call for back up.
Opening his communicator to Cy's frequency, Beast Boy couldn't help but notice something odd as the screen flashed to life.
"What is it, BB?" Cyborg nonchalantly questioned as a mountain of food, several game stations, and multiple football games lit the background in a hum of technical satisfaction..
"WHAT IS IT? Are you kidding me? OUR HOUSE IS BEING TORN APART BY THE…is that Halo 2?" The jade titan questioned with puppy dog eyes. It's not hard to distract the boy.
"3 football games, 20 pounds of ribs and Cy-BQ sauce, and gaming with people in France. You in, noob?" Cy grinned largely. Scarily big to be truthful.
"Just don't touch me with the ribs and I'm…"
CRACK!
Before anything else could be said, Raven was chucked into the room head first. Nicely in communicator view.
"THAT'S IT!" Raven swore, launching herself airborne with intense speed via a quick pulse from her powers…and unwittingly destroying everything in Cy's room. The screens exploded in a rain of glass that sprinkled themselves all over the mounds of ribs.
Nothing remained intact. Not even the CY-BQ bottles.
Cyborg developed a twitch.
Then, as if everything that was going on wasn't enough already, the all too familiar alarm went off. Adding to the chaos with it's blaring red flare.
Everyone froze.
Shaking off everything he had just been through for the moment, Cyborg immediately began scanning the city to find the problem. Unfortunately, the issue was right at home.
"YO! QUIT THE CATFIGHT! We have an intruder in MY tower!" Cy screamed from the gaping hole from his room. His 'pride restoration' would have to be put on hold…unless he single handedly dominated the enemy of course.
Raven and Starfire, both battered and bruised to the point that their suits had multiple cuts, burns, and rips (But being the clean author that I am, they both remain clothed in certain areas.), were still at a stand off. Heavy breathing, drips of blood, and falling sparks of viciously torn electronics filled what was left of the living room.
"Raven…huff…" Starfire struggled to say.
"Yes,…ugh…Starfire?" Raven responded, holding her right elbow. Going through three straight walls hurts more than she thought. A LOT more.
"I call a Befelium…a 'timeout'." Star explained in a wince, finally powering down. Raven was definitely not the easiest of opponents. It was like fighting her sister all over again.
"Uh…sure." Raven complied with tingling pain in her left arm. Who knew the little alien could hit so HARD?
"Raven! Starfire! We have an intruder!…And you girls should really consider some new threads." Beast Boy announced through the amazingly intact doorway, nervously grinning to pairs of leering eyes.
"Wow. You guys are a mess." A voice from the shadows mocked.
"You've got guts invading the tower. But now it's time for you to get the HECK OUT!" Cyborg gritted, slamming his sonic cannon in ready.
"Gotta do better than that!" The invader laughed softly, throwing, and jamming, an object into the weapon's barrel.
"I got -" Beast Boy smiled in confidence, morphing into an octopus…and missing with every single tentacle. Whoever it was, they could definitely move. "- nothing. It's heading your way girls!"
"You've caught us on a bad day!" Raven sneered, lifting her slightly ripped hood up. Her and Star took to the air and dove toward the still unseen threat. They were going to tear whoever it was a new one.
But before the girls could strike, a blur flew by Cy and spun BB like a top. Placing his body in front of the invader's like a human shield, he squeezed his way in between the oncoming assault to…
"STOP!"
"ROBIN!" The girls screamed in unison, crashing into each other to avoid impact.
"I told you to wait for me, Batgirl!" Robin scolded, wiping a bead of sweat from his brow.
"Sorry. Couldn't help it." The teen smiled with a blush behind him.
"Ugh." Robin rubbed his temples.
"Robin, who is this?" Star asked in her innocent voice. Raven couldn't help but wonder as well.
"Titans, we need to talk…"
I was actually going to keep going with this chapter, but I thought you guys deserved an update. Please comment! God bless!
-Scar
