HELLO!
So I've been writing as much as I can…which as normal isn't much lol.
Merry Christmas to all of you and thank you for putting up with my bad writing habits.
Planning on two more chapters after this one that will be fairly lengthy so it may take a bit to get them posted but I shall as soon as I can.
Also thank you to everyone who has reviewed, I really appreciate the feedback as it helps me become a better author.
So without further ado – and please review ;) – enjoy!
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Flashback 6: Tension Line
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In Raven's mind the Echrid's attack was all but overpowering, the psychic force had penetrated her defenses like a hot knife through butter and she barely had time to shield her emotions from the attack before she lost the ability to stand on her own – luckily Beast Boy was there to catch her – and retreated into her own mind to fend off this attacker. What she found was that half of her emotions had already been claimed by the Echrid's attack and now just stood there with blank faces as if waiting for some inevitable doom.
"Raven!" Bravery said as she ran up, clutching her own head with one hand, "We can't fend this off, I don't know what it is but it's too strong! We have to do something now or its going to take control of our body!"
Raven only heard Bravery as she flew past her though, she knew there was one emotion that hadn't succumbed to the attack that could help her – it was an emotion that at the moment was the most powerful emotion she had.
"What in the name of all that is holy do you want?!" Anger shouted as Raven arrived in its domain. "Cant you see I'm busy trying to not succumb to whatever is-"
"I know I know, listen to me anger I need your help, you're the only emotion I have that is strong enough to fend off this attack and if we don't do something soon both of us as well as Jinx will lose ourselves to this Echrid thing!" Raven said.
"Why should I care, the thing might take over you but its not going to take over me!" Anger shot back.
"You should care because if we lose this battle, we may never see how our feelings for Beast Boy play out." Raven said, she could feel herself getting weaker, the Echrid was winning. "Please…do it for Beast Boy."
Another push by the attacker drove both Raven and Anger to their knees as the oppressing force tried to take control of her mind.
"Fine." Anger said, "I'm helping for his sake and ours."
Meanwhile in the real world Beast Boy held Raven in his arms still trying to get her to wake up. She had collapsed into him her arms reaching out for him as if she knew it was coming, Jinx had simply just fallen onto the floor as Cyborg rushed to her aid and was now holding the small pink sorceress as she whimpered from the pain. Cyborg was about to tell everyone to take Jinx and Raven to the med bay when he noticed Raven's eyes begin to glow.
"Beast Boy! Let go of her something is happening!" Robin ordered having noticed the same thing and the changeling looked down at her a moment in time to see her glowing red eyes close, then open again as four red slits.
"Gah!" Beast Boy knew enough about those four eyes to know that when Raven looked like that one of two things was going to happen, something was going to explode, or something was going to die and as he didn't want to be either, Beast Boy let go of the pale Titan. Raven immediately floated to an upright position and levitated over to where Jinx was, Cyborg looked up at Raven as the half demon reached down and placed a hand on Jinx's head.
"Silence." Ravens voice said quietly, though her voice sounded like that of many instead of her own, Jinx instantly was quiet and Raven's four red eyes squinted as though she was struggling more with whatever was attacking her mind. Gritting her teeth Raven stood up strait again and levitated a few inches from the ground.
"You…will…not…harm…my…friends!" Raven said through her teeth as black power began to swirl around her, for as hard as she tried Raven couldn't find the source of the power anywhere on the earth – wait – Ty had mentioned that the Echrid mother ship had the power to use its psychic power from a great distance, through the pain Raven felt around the room with her mind until she found the two strings that lead upwards and into space, her four eyes could see the lines that led upwards and recognized them as very weak strings for how strong on attack was being sent through them which meant she could send it back at the Echrid ship, easily.
"Azarath, Metrion, Zinthos!" In her mind Raven quickly created a path for the attack to follow, the Echrid's controlling force fell for it and followed Ravens path in and then back out of her and Jinx's minds and flying back up the invisible lines into space and with twice the power burning towards the sky.
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The Echrid's hive mind was troubled, it should have had control of both of the minds it had attacked already but they had resisted. In fact one of the minds had been removed completely, perhaps the friends of one of the minds had killed the creature once it began to turn but it could not tell. Then suddenly it could feel something was wrong, the cords of psychic energy that led through the widening wormhole to earth had been cut off from the planets surface…and there was a large amount of energy coming strait up the psychic lines at the ship. Knowing that it was not possible to stop this much energy or power on its own bio metric shields the Hives mind simply ceased all function to the psionic part of its own mind, isolating that part of the ship.
And it was a smart move, as the power the slammed into the mind was fierce enough that the psionic controllers on the ship exploded into space, leaving a gaping oozing hole in the side of the yellow carapace that made up the ship. Membrane quickly if temporarily filled the hole before too much ozone escaped into space and the Mind set is drones about repairing the outer shell so the ship would be ready to make planet side as soon as possible. It had made the first move in the battle to come; the hive mind had played a gambit and lost which was most unexpected. It did not matter though in the long run it had enough soldiers to destroy the pitiful planet and recharge its core with magma from a young fresh world.
The Warp tunnel would be ready in a matter of hours now, so again the Mind of the Echrid waited.
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Raven's body stretched back as she expelled the intrusion from her and Jinx's minds, Beast Boy could only watch in horror as Raven's body arched backwards as she struggling greatly against her attacker before the black energy around her faded and she fell back on the floor, her cape crumpling behind her as she did.
"Raven!" Beast Boy ran to the dark girl and gently wrapped his arms around her, Raven appeared to be unconscious from whatever just happened.
"What was that?" Ty and Starfire asked in unison.
"I…I think I can explain." Jinx said weakly from Cyborg's arms, "I saw in my head…there was a bunch of Raven everywhere…all the colors…and in a white flash…then the pain was gone."
"Sounds like Raven kicked the Echrid's attack out." Cyborg said looking at Beast Boy, "Jinx might have seen what we saw when we got stuck in her head."
Beast Boy nodded knowingly and looked down at the girl he was in love with who at the moment looked very small and vulnerable as she lay limply in his arms – he had to help her somehow. "Raven and Jinx are in pretty bad shape lets get them to the med bay." He said to Cyborg and each teen carrying Jinx and Raven, took them from the room.
"I thought it would be a few months before this Echrid ship thing was going to be able to launch a psychic attack on anyone, and how come that psychic attack didn't affect you?" Robin shot at Ty when Cyborg and Beast Boy were out of earshot.
"Firstly I'm not empathic or telepathic; I don't have those abilities, and secondly; how am I supposed to know what's going to happen I haven't even been born yet!" Ty said defensively, "Just because I am from the future doesn't mean I can predict it, my being here at all has already changed the future even though we haven't done anything."
"I suppose so." Robin looked at the floor a moment in deep thought, "What if the Echrid thing knows what you are and where you come from and is speeding up its approach to earth? Is that even possible?"
"I guess so, I don't really know." Ty shrugged, "Like I said I'm from the future, but I can't predict it."
"We need to check because if its closer than we thought there's a lot we need to do before it arrives; Starfire, Ty, lets get to that observatory and see what's going on, ill let the guys know where we are going." Robin said and whipped out his communicator as he walked out of the room. But Starfire and Ty waited a moment longer before following.
"You are indeed the offspring of friend Beast Boy and friend Raven are you not?" Starfire asked.
"Yeah…" Ty smiled slightly, not sure where Star was going with this.
"It is indeed wonderful news that my friends put aside their differences to have a relationship then, I just wish we could have met you under happier terms." Starfire smiled at the boy before following after Robin.
Ty stood there a moment longer before following after the other Titans, wishing that he could have met them without being the one who proclaimed of the end of the world, before following the other two teens.
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Beast Boy sat in a chair next to Raven's bed holding her hand, she looked pale but no more so than what could be considered normal for her light grey skin, her eyes were slightly sunken and hair a little messy but his animal instincts told him that she was merely exhausted as Cyborg's quick tests had confirmed. Jinx looked like she was equally as strained as Raven was but was at least conscious and talking quietly with Cyborg about their relationship while the metal teen was under cover with the Hive. Beast Boy probably shouldn't have been able to hear that except people always seemed to forget just how acute his senses were – not that he was going to say anything he just thought it was amusing – and he took the moment to thank whatever god was out there that his relationship with Raven was not as gloriously complicated as Cyborg's and Jinx.
But seeing Raven laid out on the bed there tore him up inside more than he was willing to admit at this point, seeing her be hurting earlier when the Echrid was attacking her mind made him want to do something, anything, even give up his own life just so she would stop hurting. Now there was a thought he hadn't had before, not to say he hadn't considered sacrificing himself to save one of his friends but the compulsion to do so for Raven seemed much stronger somehow – but if his feelings for Raven were stronger than that of his other friends, even his best friend Cyborg that could only mean that…
I…I love her. Beast Boy thought in quiet amazement, I'm in love with Raven…and I'm okay with that.
The idea seemed so absurd and yet so right at the same time, in fact he now recognized that he had always been in love with her and just didn't know it, the feeling was always there. But while Beast Boy was willing to admit to himself the depth of his feelings for her he would still respect her wanting to take this relationship slowly and carefully. So smiling to himself Beast Boy gave her hand a little squeeze and smiled, knowing that he would do whatever he could to keep her happy, and safe.
"Look at how he is looking at her." Jinx said quietly to Cyborg who was checking some sort of screen next to Jinx's bed, "Its sweet."
Cyborg had opted to lay Jinx down in the bed across the room to not only give her a little privacy but keep the rival sorceresses as far apart as possible, if Cyborg was anything he was prepared.
"What do you mean?" He asked not really paying any attention to his pink haired friend, eyes glued to a monitor.
"I mean….that he is looking at you the same way you looked at me a few times while we were part of H.I.V.E…well while I was part of H.I.V.E." Jinx said with a soft smile that faded at the memory of Cyborg only being under cover.
"I told you before, I may have been under cover but how I felt about was real." Cyborg said quietly and turned to face Jinx.
"I know…I was just teasing Cyborg, but I meant what I said earlier, it may take me a while to forgive you." Jinx crossed her arms and looked away.
"That's fine; when you want to talk I'll be here." Cyborg smiled and looked over at BB and Raven, noticing for the first time that he was actually holding her hand, his face painted and eyes painted with worry over the unconscious teen.
"Be right back." Cy smiled to Jinx and walked over to where Raven was, standing on the other side of the bed to Beast Boy.
"You're sure that she's just tired from the mind attack thingy right?!" Beast Boy asked before Cyborg could say anything.
"Yes, and considering that Raven looks to have forced the attack back on her own is why she fainted, I promise she's going to be fine BB." Cyborg chuckled and saw an opportunity to pry further into the situation but he would have to word this carefully but in the end decided unadulterated bluntness would win the day. "So how long have you and Raven been more than friends?"
"Since earlier today…err I mean-that is to say we are good friends and…yeah…" Beast Boy made a lame attempt at recovering what he just said but too late, cat was out of the bag now.
"So you are together then." Cyborg smiled and the changeling sighed.
"You could say that…Don't make a big deal out of it though Raven and I are taking this really slow because were still unsure about a lot of things." Beast Boy pleaded with his friend.
"No worries man I won't say anything, I'm just happy you two are finally getting somewhere." Cyborg grinned.
"What do you mean by that?" Beast Boy huffed.
"Oh come on Beast Boy it was obvious to me that you and Raven had secret feelings back when I was in the H.I.V.E academy." Jinx added from across the room, "You telling me that neither of you knew there may have been something there till your friggen kid from the future comes to visit?"
"Pretty much?" Beast Boy squeaked, "Was it really that obvious?"
"Yes." Cyborg and Jinx said at the same time.
But while Beast Boy tried his best to fend off his friends questions Raven was in the midst of a dream she wished she wasn't having. Most of her emotions had survived the ordeal with little or no side effects but there was one emotion that was missing from the bunch once Raven had checked on all of them.
"How in the friggen heck am I supposed to know where affection is?!" Anger had hollered when asked, "I was a little busy helping us with a little thing called SURVIVAL at the time!"
Raven at that point gave up trying to ask her other emotions where affection was as each one would give their own skewed answer and set off across her healing emotional plane on her own. But after fifteen minutes had passed she still had yet to come across Affection's domain, and she had gone through each of her other emotions domain at least three times now. Setting down on the grass at the boarder of happy's domain Raven stilled her own thoughts and worries trying to summon affection to her instead of a futile search from the air and sure enough, affection phased through the ground in front of Raven looking much weaker than any of the other emotions.
"Raven…the Echrid tried very hard to destroy me…" Affection almost whispered before falling forward into Raven who caught her and helped her emotion gently to the ground.
"Are you alright?" Raven sounded more than a bit worried.
"No, I do not think I will survive Raven…" Affection said, "you must tell Beast Boy how you truly feel about him before it is too late…he loves you…he-" the emotion then coughed violently a few times then and went limp in her arms.
Raven's eyes went wide, how could she let t his happen? How could she let this happen? Now she wasn't going to be able to return any of the feelings Beast Boy had for her, now she wasn't going to be able to have positive feelings about anyone! And what would Beast Boy say when she told him that she was now incapable of feeling love? No no no no!
"NO!" Raven sat bolt upright in the medical bed almost hitting her head on some sort of equipment suspended above her. Her wide eyes quickly searched through her surprised looking friends that were there until she found Beast Boy who was still sitting next to her and jumped into his arms, a maneuver that almost knocked them both to the ground were it not for some fancy balancing by Beast Boy. Raven curled up into a ball on his lap with her arms firmly around him and as they stayed close together, her heavy breathing began to finally slow.
"Whoa, Raven are you okay?" Cyborg asked after a few moments had passed.
It was a dream Raven, affection whispered in her head, it was only a dream, all of us are fine.
But tired, dang it! Anger chimed in.
"Rae?" Beast Boy asked quietly interrupting her thoughts.
"I'm fine…I'm okay." Raven said, "It was just a nightmare probably from fighting off that creature in space…I just need to meditate." Raven quickly stood from Beast Boy's lap and leaned down and hugged him again, whispering my room, as soon as you can get away from them, in Beast Boy's ear before walking out of the med bay.
A moment after Raven left Beast Boy sat there for a moment before announcing that he was going to make a cheese sandwich and ran out of the med bay.
"That was weird." Jinx commented.
"Eh, they've been like that even before they were together…you get used to it." Cyborg said with a smirk.
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Raven sat on the edge of her bed anxiously waiting for Beast Boy to arrive so this empty feeling in the pit of her stomach would go away. It seemed silly to her that she would be so infatuated with the boy even though they had just confessed that they even had feelings for each other but at the same time, she couldn't wait to see him again just so she could feel that loving feeling he radiated wash over her once more. Speaking of which why was Beast Boy not here yet? Had he become distracted with video games by Cyborg? Nah the changeling may have some form of ADD but he wouldn't abandon her without at least letting her know what was going on, especially after what just happened. Maybe he wasn't coming though…maybe he had given up on her – Raven shook her head to try and clear those thoughts form her mind but as the minutes ticked by doubt began to trickle into her mind – maybe she wasn't good enough for him.
Just as panic began to work its way into her thoughts the door swished open as Beast Boy walked into her room. Raven jumped up from the bed and ran into his arms while wrapping her own tightly around his shoulders, burying her head into his neck.
"Beast boy I know were taking this slow but I have to know." Raven's voice came out slightly muffled by Beast Boy's own uniform.
"Do you love me?" she whispered.
Beast Boy was surprised by the question, first Raven was telling him they were going to take it slow and now she was asking if he loved her, talk about a change of policy.
"Raven umm, what happened to taking it slow?" Beast Boy asked.
"Do you love me?" Raven pleaded to know as she looked up at him, "Please I have to know."
Beast Boy smiled down at her and kissed her, "Of course I love you Raven, I love you more than anything."
Raven was silent for a moment or two before leaning back into him so Beast Boy couldn't see her face.
"If where supposed to be together then how come when you tell that me that I don't know what I feel? I thought that you telling me would help me figure out my own emotions and help one evolve into something more but…why do I feel afraid?" Raven sighed.
"Raven." Beast Boy smiled at how little Raven understood her own emotions, "I love you but I feel afraid too, I think the reason for that is that this is so new to both of us that we're still unsure of where this may be headed and are afraid to get hurt. I think feeling that way in any new relationship is normal…not that we know what normal is." He smirked.
Raven couldn't help but smile at his comments, Beast Boy really was smarter than everyone gave him credit for.
"Besides even though I'm afraid I love you anyway Raven, I love everything about you. Your hair your voice the way you walk, they way you look, the way you look at me, how cool you are under pressure and…" Beast Boy was cut off by Raven pressing her lips to his again in a passionate kiss that hungered for more. But while they were kissing Raven began to feel something changing within her emotions – Beast Boy had made her realize that even though you may be afraid of being hurt that wasn't a reason to inhibit your true feelings for someone, and as she let her love for him poor out in the kiss she could feel one of her emotions changing, morphing into something more powerful than anything her other emotions could produce – Raven felt love for the first time in her life, she knew then that she was her heart would forever belong to Beast Boy.
But then something Raven didn't expect came right along with this new emotion, something that was tied to it and separate at the same time but was almost as powerful an emotion so much so that Raven simply acted on its impulses…Raven also was feeling lust. Moving her arms up Beast Boy's back Raven pressed her body into him trying to coax him into going farther. The changeling responded by pulling her against his own body and wrapping his arms around her waist inside her cloak while Raven parted her lips slightly to allow their tongues to dance together. She had never felt this way before but knew that she didn't want it to stop as she let a soft moan escape while they passionately embraced.
He's so gentle with us. the new emotion named Love said.
We should go farther. Bravery added.
I want him so much…we should go all the way, right now. Lust whispered in her mind. Let him take you…give all of yourself to him.
This is bad…we shouldn't go farther yet…nothing good would come from it. Timid's voice chimed in interrupting Raven's thoughts of taking it farther with him. I – I know we had his child in the future…but this is now…we shouldn't let him go that far with us yet…something bad would happen.
Raven continued to have a wholesale make out session with Beast Boy but ultimately the voice of reason won over the others, and Raven slowed the kisses down until the couple finally broke the kiss and stared at one another.
"W-Wow." Beast Boy said with a silly grin on his face, "That was the best kiss I've ever had." Raven smiled at him and blushed slightly.
"Out of the total of the three times we kissed and me being the only girl you've ever kissed?" Raven smirked.
Beast Boy looked mock hurt as he put his hand to his chest like he was covering a wound, "Hey…I've kissed…other…things." The lie died on its way out but he recovered by smoothly saying, "I don't need and comparison to know that was the best kiss anyway." He grinned.
"Anyways." Raven blushed, "My emotions are still…out there…from the attack and I really need to meditate Beast Boy."
"First I have one question, what happened to taking things slow?" He asked and Raven had to think a moment before she could form a response.
"It's the fast slow way." She said not wanting to tell him the real reason was that she wanted him to take her right now, "Please Beast Boy, I need to meditate."
"Oh, Okay. I'll just see if I can tear Cyborg away from Jinx long enough to play Super Smash ninja sharks five or something." Beast Boy smiled, Raven needed her meditation time and Beast Boy needed his.
"Alright." Raven smiled, "I'll come find you when I am done."
"Okay!" Beast Boy leaned in and kissed her one more time before grinning and walking out of the room in search of Cyborg while Raven assumed the Lotus Position on her bed and began to chant her mantra with the traces of a smile on her lips.
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"What do you mean you can't get anyone here for an hour?!" Robin shouted into the cell phone "This has to do with the safety of the whole city I need to get into this building and use the telescope now!...Fine!."
Robin flipped the small cell phone shut and looked at the locked door to the Observation tower that sat almost twenty miles outside of Jump City on the top of a mountain. The building itself had been there since the late eighties and the era it was built reflected the design with the stucco walls that let up to the domed metal portion of the building that had a thing rectangular door on end which was closed protecting the telescope when not in use.
Robin muttered under his breath before asking Ty if it was possible for him to unlock the door with his powers.
"Err…I don't honestly know." Ty Shrugged, "Never had the reason to try in my time."
"I suppose that's true, Raven can but I'm not sure how she does it go ahead and give it a shot just don't blow up the telescope." Robin said and he and Starfire took a step back.
Ty frowned at the 'don't blow it up' part but ignored it; there were more important things to take care of. Not really sure what to do Ty stared at the lock on the metal door a moment before reaching out with his own powers to the lock. It was a weird feeling but after reciting the mantra his mother had taught him Ty was able to simply slide the deadbolt back and the door swung open a moment later – huh that was easy.
"Good work Ty, now let's get in there and see what's going on in space, the telescope should still be pointing at the same spot because the scientists left when we did." Robin said and all three teens ran into the Observatory. Just as robin predicted the telescope was still set to the last setting it was used at, all they had to do was open the doors shielding the telescope from the setting suns rays, but even with the interference from the sun and a few wispy clouds Ty could still see something in space that once night came, would be even more visible to the naked eye. A wormhole large enough to transport the Echrid mother ship through was opening right in front of the ship itself the distorted light and space around the epicenter becoming larger and larger with each passing second.
Ty blinked, how could this be? The Echrid mother ship wasn't supposed to arrive for another three months. Wasn't it Robin who told him that his presence here at all was changing the future for better or worse, the latter applying to this situation.
"What is it you see?" Starfire asked as Ty backed away from the eyepiece with a shocked expression on his face.
"Hold on." Robin said from the computer terminal next to the massive telescope, "I think I can bring it up on this screen here." And after typing in a few generic commands was able to bring up the picture of the wormhole that was forming, "What is that?!" he said.
"That's the beginning of the end of the world." Ty said quietly, suppressing the urge to blow the screen up, "If the ship is able to jump in closer to earth…who knows how much time we have."
"You mean to say you do not know when the ship will appear anymore?" Starfire sounded worried.
"There's no way of knowing until it…" Ty stopped talking the screen showing the Echrid's progress flashed all white for two seconds before going back to a normal view of only Pluto; the ship was nowhere to be found. Before any of the three teens could question the whereabouts of the chip though the light that was coming in from outside suddenly flashed unnaturally brighter for two or so seconds before returning to normal.
"Oh no…" Ty left Robin and Starfire where they were and sprinted out of the building and turned towards Jump city only to find too many trees in the way. Pushing off the ground Ty flew up about a hundred feet until he could finally see the city in the distance, still in tact with no giant ship in the middle. But where had the flash come from then?
"Friend Ty! Above the city, look!" Starfire yelled as she flew up behind him and as Ty looked up his heart sank. The sun was now below the horizon and the moon was almost at mid sky, but something was not right with the moon when he looked at it, just off center to the left, was a yellowish dot in the sky.
"Is that what I think it is?" Ty's heart sank.
"Yes, my eyes can make it out it is the Alien ship you have been telling us about."
Ty stared at the dot a moment longer before saying, "We don't have much time then common!" and darting back to the earth where Robin was waiting.
"Cyborg just called." He said clipping his communicator back on his belt, "That flash was the Echrid ship appearing in the sky, we missed it because we were inside but Cy said the light show was amazing enough that there isn't anyone in Jump city that could have missed it."
"Right, we don't have much time now Robin what do we do?" Ty asked, wanting to get down to business.
"Let's head back to the tower as fast as we can, once we meet up with the others we'll come up with some sort of plan to get the city evacuated as quickly as possible. Titans, Go!"
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The Echrid ship had come out of the wormhole closer to earth than it had calculated, this error in navigation was fine though as it would now be able to drill into the magma of this young planet and repower itself soon. Checking its power levels the Echrid mind was pleased to see that the ship still had about fifteen percent of its power stores left, more than enough to make planet fall and drill through the weakened outer later of the planet that resided beneath the city.
It has specifically chosen this site because of the recent volcanic activity that had taken place beneath the surface of the earth, the crust was still weakened and it would be easy for the ships massive spike to penetrate all the way to magma without having to drill too far it at all. But with the landing site unprepared there could be issues that it hadn't anticipated – it was aware that there were many super humans or mutants on earth that could potentially pose a serious threat to its mission of self preservation and while only a handful of the said super humans were present in the city it would soon land on and destroy, it still was worrisome.
Perhaps though it could use the extra energy left from warping closer to earth to create extra drones though which would mitigate and threat from these super humans – yes that is what it would do – diverting ten percent of the remaining power to the creation of drone soldiers for the landing.
It would arrive at earth in about twenty four hours at this rate, plenty of time to create the solders it needed.
It had taken a gamble warping this close to the earth but knew that with its current plans the reward would be far greater than the risk.
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Azarath…Metrion…Zinthos….
Nothing else in the world matter right now but those words…
Raven consulted with her emotions as she meditated, it seemed that affection had indeed evolved into love, which brought with it the almost equally powerful emotion, lust. The old adage 'love conquers all' seemed to be true after all as that particular emotion was more powerful than any of her other emotions including anger. While this pleased Raven greatly to know that she could now utilize her emotions more freely it also concerned her as to be honest, she had no idea what she was doing.
Counseling with the emotions in her head Raven learned that Lust was simply a part of Love and not an emotion she would be able to easily control. Though the idea of keeping Lust locked away in its own domain seemed plausible, knowledge had informed her that separating the two emotions was inadvisable and Wisdom told Raven that if she were to split up the part of love that made her attracted to her lover of choice it may adversely affect her relationship with the changeling. Raven then realized that just like everyone else in the world she would need to simply control her emotions as she let them out – easier said than done.
It was then that Raven's communicator began its incessant beeping that signaled there was something wrong, opening her eyes a little annoyed Raven crapped the small communicator from the nightstand and clicked the button on top to answeronly to see Robin on the other side of the screen.
"Raven, something really bad is happening we are on our way back meet us in the common room in five minutes." Robin said and the round little screen went black.
Great, that didn't sound good.
Standing from her bed Raven walked over to the full length mirror and looked herself over to make sure she was presentable before phasing into the common room where she was surprised to see Cyborg, Beast Boy and Jinx either sitting on the couch or standing by the window looking at the sky instead of playing Video games, something was indeed wrong.
"Robin just called me, what's going on?" She asked.
"The alien ship that Ty has been talking about just warped in closer to earth, we only have about a day to get everyone out of the city before it gets here." Cyborg said from the couch.
"We're waiting for Robin to get back so we can form some sort of plan to get everyone out of the city." Beast Boy added, "This doesn't look good."
Before Raven could form another thought however Robin, Starfire and Ty ran into the common room with a swish of the door.
"Alright listen up, the Echrid ship warped closer to earth somehow, Cyborg estimates we have two days before it lands in Jump City and we need to get everyone out of there somehow – I will coordinate with the Mayor so we can help with that – also there is an old war bunker three miles west of here we can use as a shelter when the ship lands, that way we can come out right in the think of it and hopefully surprise those aliens enough to get the time machine on the ship, got it?" Robin's leadership skills were never finer than when there was a crisis and with one as big as this on the horizon, he was at the top of his game.
After about fifteen minutes of talking with the mayor Robin reappeared and gave everyone their assignments, Beast Boy, Raven, and Ty would help ferry people to busses and emergency vehicles, Robin and Starfire would be working the freeway in traffic control, and Cyborg and Jinx would stay at the back of the evacuation line for a while making sure everyone got out.
"Alright guys, this may be the hardest thing we've ever done but I know with the militaries help we can get everyone out in time, Titans, lets go." Robin said solemnly.
All the Titans looked at each other and nodded, knowing that tonight was going to be a long night.