Teen Titans

Two Halves Make A Whole

Chapter 2- Enlightenment

"Titans! We have an emergency!" shouted Beastboy and Bohusk as they ran through the front doors of Titans Tower. Clutched tightly in thier hands were the twin's purses and Falcon's necklace.

"I'll say! What'll your girlfriends say when you tell them yall turned gay?" chuckled Cyborg eye-ing the purple and blue purses.

"This is no time for jokes Vic! Raven and Falcon were kidnapped by Slade!" screamed Bohusk. The sound of Slade's name made Robin's fists clench.

"Cyborg! Go get Joy and AJ. We're gonna need thier powers to track the girls." comanded Robin. Cyborg nodded once and took off toward the garage. Tears were falling freely from Starfire's emerald eyes.

"Why would Slade capture our friends?" she asked between sobs.

"I don't know, Star. But we will make him pay for this." said Robin reassuringly.

Meanwhile in Slade's evil lair...

Raven opened her violet eyes with a groan. The room she was in was dark and cold. She tried to move, she lay flat on a metal table with her hands and feet bound together by a black forcefeild. She was unable to break or phase out of them. Raven turned her head to her right and saw Falcon bound to a similar table with the same anti magic bindings.

"Vanessa!" cried Raven. Falcon didn't sturr. At first, Raven thought her sister was dead, but then noticed her breathing was steady and constant.

"Falcon, please wake up!" Vanessa moaned and regained consiousness.

"Huh? What? Where are we?" she asked. Raven took a breath of relief.

"Don't know, but I have a pretty strong feeling Slade isn't too far away."

"Where're the boys?" asked Falcon looking around.

"Don't know. I can't sence them because of these bindings."

"Me either. So, what do ya think Slade wants with us?" Before Raven could answer her sister, Slade's voice echoed through the room.

"What every great villain wants my dear." The sisters turned to see the black and orange suited man come in from a door on the other side of the room. "Absolute power. And i'll finally achieve it with my new invention."

"What sort of idiocy is that?" spat Raven.

"Why my dear Raven. I would've thought you and your lovely sister would be honored to be the first test subjects for my new machine."

"Like we would actually want to be your guinea pigs for a devise that probably dosen't even work!" shouted Falcon.

"Dosen't work? Well then, I suppose i'll just have to show you, first hand." with this, Slade hit a button on his wrist band and the tables the sisters were bound to started to recline until they were laying flat. Then, they started to move backward until they entered what looked like to be a CT machine. The two mages struggled and fought to break free from thier magical shackles, only to find it impossible. The dark cavern they were in suddenly glowed red and a two large needles errupted from the walls. One pierced Raven's arm while the other did the same with Falcon. Their screams rattled the room. When the needles left thier arms with a full syringe of blood, the wounds healed imediatly.

The tables retracted from the machine and stood upright again.

"So what? All you wanted was a blood sample?" panted Raven, her violet hair falling in her face.

"Yes. I suppose I can tell you my plan, since your friends have no way of tracking you. I plan to create the most powerful sorceress this world has ever seen. Your genetics are the key. By combining the best traits of both of you, i'll create the perfect , everyone will bow down to me." laughed the evil man.

"A clone? How original." shot Falcon with a roll of her eyes.

"Clone? Perhaps, but this clone shall be even more powerful than the two of you together."

"Fat chance! Do you have any idea what kind of power we hold? We're the living incarnations of light and dark!" growled a very pissed off Raven. Slade seemed to be smirking from behind his mask.

"I'm fully aware of your little 'powers' my dear. Remember I worked for your father for a short time, so I can dodge anything you could possibly throw at me." Seconds later, Slade entered both vials of blood into a separate machine and pressed a button. It shook and rattled for several minutes.

Back at Titans Tower-

"You girls got anything?" asked Robin peering down at Joy and AJ. The twins were in a lotus position, levitating a few feet from the ground. Joy clutched one of Raven's cloaks in her hands while AJ held onto Falcon's choaker.

"No. Nothing." Joy replied in a monotoned voice. Bohusk let out an enraged scowl and thrust his fist into the wall, creating a rather large hole.

"If I ever see that low down ass hole again, I swear I'll kill him!"

"That makes two of us!" growled Beastboy.

"Alright team. We have two Titans missing and no explanation. So we're to divide up and search the city." Robin commanded while snapping his communicator shut. "I've already informed Titans East. They'll be here shortly to help us. In the mean time, Star and I will check south end of Jump. Beastboy and Bohusk, you two check the north side. Cyborg, you and Aaron take the west side and Joy and AJ take the east. We meet back here in 2 hours."

Back with Slade-

"You already have our DNA so why not just let us go? We're no use to you now." asked Falcon.

"So you two can run home to your little friends? I don't think so. You see, you two are the strongest out of all the Titans. Your powers are limitless, unpredictable, dangerous. I have no intentions of returning you to them. So, I suppose i'll just keep you girls here for...study purposes." his body faded into the blackness that surrounded the room.

*sigh* "So, what now?" asked the blue eyed mage.

"We could try to merge our powers and break free." suggested Raven.

"That could work." Both sisters concentrated and a black soul self emitted from Raven while a small white spark came from her sister.

"What?! Why can't we merge?" asked a dumbfounded Falcon.

"I don't... wait! Where's your necklace?" Falcon looked down and saw her neck was bare.

"Slade must've taken it! He must've figured out that we channel our magic through them to help control it."

"So now your powers really are all of those things Slade said."

"Yeah. I gotta be careful of how I use them or elce I could blow this place sky high...along with us."

I'll hand it over to Butterfly for the next chapter. R&R please!