A/N Chapter 2. Raven is a bit OOC. Deal with it.
Disclaimer: Is teen titans still coming out with new episodes? No? there ya go. You answered your own question.
"What are we going to do when there's an attack?" asked Robin.
They had been discussing what to do about Melody for the last hour. Well, that wasn't exactly true. Starfire and Beast boy had been busy playing with the youngster. Raven had been trying to participate, but kept frowning in disgust at the baby noises that Melody, Starfire, and Beast boy had been making.
"I guess we'll have to take her with us." Cyborg shrugged "It's not like we can really do anything else. There's no way in hell that we're going to let her stay at an orphanage."
"Watch it Cyborg." Raven warned.
"Is that really a good idea?" asked Robin, ignoring Raven and taking a quick look at Melody "If she were to get hurt… I think she'd just be in the way."
"She isn't old enough to stay at the tower unaccompanied." Raven stated, sensibly "I'm sure that she wouldn't really be that much of a problem. We just have to be a bit more careful, and make sure she doesn't get hurt."
"Mommy and Daddy'll make sure nothin' happens to me." Melody said, hugging Raven around the waist.
"Oh for Arella sake! I'm not your mother!" Raven said, trying to push the little girl off of her.
"Hehe… and who's Daddy?" Robin snickered.
Raven rolled her eyes and jabbed a thumb over her shoulder at the green changeling.
Both Robin and Cyborg burst in to fits of uncontrollable laughter. Cyborg was laughing so hard that he actually fell out of his chair.
"Come on, Dude." Beast boy said uncomfortably "It's not really that funny."
"Oh come off it man! You know you'd be laughing you scrawny green ass off if it had been one of us!" Cyborg said, wiping a tear from his eye. A hard slap across his face brought him back to earth.
Everyone stared in shock as Raven took a step back from him, looking at him with the same impassive face she always wore.
"Watch. Your. Mouth." She said slowly.
"What?" Cyborg asked in shock, touching the raw place on his face where she had hit him.
"I said watch your mouth." She said again, folding her arms across her chest "Melody shouldn't hear things like that. I don't want her, swearing like a trucker."
"You swear more than anyone else on this team, Raven." Robin pointed out "You need to practice what you preach."
"Melody. Cover your ears." Raven ordered.
"But…" Melody began to protest but Beast boy put his hands over the sides of her head, knowing what was going to happen next.
Raven pointed a very accusing finger at Robin, poking him painfully in the middle of his chest. She was now standing on her tip toes, their faces so close together their noses almost touched.
"Now you listen to me, dick-for-brains." She hissed through her teeth "Until that girl is gone I don't want anyone swearing around her. For Christ-sake, she's a toddler. She doesn't need to know how to curse. She's still pure of mind. She doesn't need to be contaminated by the likes of you. No one will adopt a little girl who oaths like a mad-man. No one is going to swear around her, and if they do, I will make sure they experience so much they will beg me to face my father's wrath, merely to escape mine.." She took a step back then turned around and looked at the others "Do I make myself clear?"
"Crystal." Cyborg squeaked.
The other three merely nodded their heads in terror.
At that moment the titans alarm went off.
"Saved by the bell… alarm… thing." Cyborg said, sweat dropping.
"What he said." Robin punched the air, a bit over dramatically "Titans! Go!"
"Do not move from this spot." Raven said firmly, as she set the new comer down on the ground beside a parked car "We won't be long, but you have to promise me you won't wander off. The last thing I need right now is having to worry about a lost three year old."
" 'Kay momma." Melody said.
Raven groaned inwardly. She was aware that she was starting to sound like a mother more and more with each passing minute. This she did not like at all. She rolled her eyes, very aware of the civilians that were looking at them with curiosity.
"What ever… just, you know, don't move." She said, before turning away from the girl and floating into the music store.
"Who is it?" she asked monotonously, surveying the damage. Beast boy cocked his head towards their opponent.
"Oh joy…" she murmured, just loud enough for Beast boy to hear "Star fire's cooking."
Beast boy giggled slightly. Only Raven could manage to insult both an enemy and a teammates at the same time.
"Titans…" Robin started, but Raven cut him off, rather moodily.
"Yeah, we know the drill by now… Let's just get this over with." She said, unceremoniously shooting black magic at the monster.
"Uh…" Robin looked a bit crestfallen but merely shrugged it off, muttering something along the lines of "spoil sport" before following Ravens lead at attacking Plasmus.
(Warning: I really really suck when it comes to writing fight scenes. So, like, bear with me for the mean time…)
Quickly, he threw a disk at the creature, which was sucked into its stomach. Plasmus gave what was assumed to be a small laugh of triumph.
"3… 2… 1…" Robin counted "and… Boom!" he yelled. Just as he said that the monster exploded, bits of him landing everywhere.
Mostly on the very unfortunate Robin.
"Ewwww…." He griped, as he pulled a large glop out of his hair "This is why I really hate Plasmus… Hey! What the fu…" his last word was cut off as bits of Plasmus crawled up his legs. He was re-building him self, over Robin.
"Robin!" Starfire cried. She flew straight through Plasmus, wrapping her arms around Robin's waist. Both of them tumbled to the ground behind him.
"Thanks for the save." Robin said appreciatively.
"That was… urgh…" The Tameranian girl shuddered.
Beast boy, Cyborg and Raven were hitting Plasmus with all they had.
"Robin! Star! Get your butts over here!" Cyborg yelled, as he dogged a slimy tentacle that lashed out at him.
Just at that moment Plasmus let out an all mighty roar and bounded (can he bound?) outside.
"After him!" yelled their leader.
"What is that thing thinking anyways?" Beast boy asked, to no one in particular.
"He is going to hurt innocent people." Said Starfire.
"Uh… Where did it go?" Raven asked, looking up and down the street. Plasmus was no where to be seen.
"Let's follow the trail of broken stuff. I'm sure we'll…" Cyborg's sarcastic remark was interrupted by an incredibly high pitched scream.
"Melody." Raven's voice was as impassive as ever, by her eyes held a different story. In an instant she shot off in the direction of the scream.
"You know, for some one who hates kids, she's got this mother thing down pretty well…" Cyborg whispered to Beast boy as they took off after her.
"Mommy!" Melody screamed. She crouched down and threw her hands over her head clutching fistfuls of her hair. The monster towered above her, momentarily stupefied by her screams.
The child clenched her eyes shut, fighting back tears.
"Melody!"
There was a terrible cry of agony. She opened her eyes, to see the monster being thrown away from her. The older girl knelt beside her.
"Melody, are you alright?" asked Raven, unfeelingly.
"Uh-hu."
"Well, in that case…. You idiot!" Raven exploded. Melody recoiled at Raven's outburst "Why didn't you get out of the way!"
"You told me to stay…" Melody said, staring down at the concert.
A sudden pang of shame hit Raven, as she sensed sadness in Melody's voice. She had told her to stay there.
"Look out Momma!" Melody's screeches broke through Ravens train of though.
Raven turned to see on of Plasmus's tentacles lashing out at them. With out thinking, she turned her back to the monster and grabbed Melody, pulling her into her chest. She had no time to teleport. The monster hit her square in the back with such a force that Raven arched her back, screaming in agony. The tentacle re-coiled, and Raven could feel blood trickling down her back. The pain was dizzying. Raven felt her consciousness slipping, and, just before she passed out (perhaps she imagined it) she could have sworn the little girl in her arms started glowing a dark forest green.
A/N Dun dun dun….. Cliffy!