The Assassination Attempt

Raven was walking along the shore of the titan's island after a recent argument with her team leader.

"Are you serious Robin? He saved us. And you think he's a threat?" Raven exploded shortly after the barrage of missiles had ended and Hunter had vanished.

"Yes I do Raven. I don't trust anyone. He may seem nice but what if he has ulterior motives?" Robin retorted.

"So, threatening and insulting him will make him not a threat?" Raven inquired.

"No, but figuring out who he is will."

"Yea. Cause insulting someone totally makes them want to tell you who they are. Right?" She replied as she stormed out of the tower to avoid triggering her emotions.

As she walked, she felt a shadow-like presence but paid it no mind assuming it was the manifestation of her emotions. Once she had gotten to the edge of the beach, she felt a hand on her mouth and a sharp-searing pain at the small of her back. She gasped for breath as the dagger was pulled out of her torso and the hand was lifted.

"See my dear, you Titans are weak. Especially you and your locked up emotions. Don't worry, the pain will be over soon. See you in the afterlife." Slade sneered as he walked away.

Raven tried to get up while grabbing her torso. She got to her knees and fell back down, unconscious. The last thing she saw was a group of Slade-bots closing in on her.

(Hours later...)

When Raven awoke, she was greeted with the sound of fighting and looked around to see Hunter fighting off a mini army of Slade-bots. He grabbed one of them by the head and used it like a baseball bat swinging the bots that got a but too close to him down by the tens. Then, he disappeared and re-appeared behind the group of bots and caused a massive tidal wave. The wave washed away the remaining bots. He waited for another few seconds and then made his way back to Raven. As he got close however, a single missile came right towards them. Hunter immediately covered Raven with his own body and took the missile right to the back. He was thrown a couple hundred feet away slamming onto the soft sand with a loud thud. Though hurt, he wasn't too severely injured and managed to make it back to Raven and carry her to his home.

Once at his shack in the woods (the same one he had put the Titans in.) he tended to her wounds, made her a makeshift bed, and went to sleep himself. He didn't even realize that Raven was acting asleep the whole time.

Once he had fallen asleep, Raven quietly got out of bed and went over to where he was sleeping. She sat there quietly reading his mind as he slept. Once into his psyche, she saw a collection of memories of herself and the Titans. Most current, but she managed to find one of when the Titans had defeated Trigon which puzzled her. Why would this new vigilante care or know about their ferocious battle? And where was Beast Boy in his memories? As she pondered, she didn't notice he had awoken and was calling her name.

"Raven...Rayyy-ven...Raven?" Hunter called to her as he waved his hand in front of her face. She suddenly snapped out of it as she came back to reality and said.

"Sorry about that. Got distracted." As she nervously smiled.

"Not a problem. How are your wounds coming along?" Hunter asked concerned.

"They're fine." Raven said noticing her stab wound and bruises. Or lack thereof.

"Great to hear-" Hunter started.

"It was you wasn't it?" Raven interrupted.

"Not quite sure what you mean." Hunter said, confused.

"You saved us after Slade knocked us all out." She announced.

"Yes, I did. I couldn't just leave you and your team there to die." He replied.

"Fair enough. But now im curious, who are you?" She asked.

"All in time Raven, all in time." He answered as he went to make breakfast.

Three hours later Raven was heading to the tower thinking about what had transpired over the past twelve hours. She had talked to Hunter personally and even read his mind but was no closer to figuring out who or what he was. As happy as she was that he had saved her, she was equally frustrated at his stubbornness. As she thought this she stopped. That was the exact same way she felt about Beast Boy. She chalked it up to a weird coincidence and continued her way home ready to tell her team what had happened.