Prompt: "Exit"
Raven awoke again to the sound of the door slamming open as Malchior and Gizmo hurried inside. Next to her, Melvin groggily sat up (Raven and Melvin had to share the only bed while Gizmo slept on a chair and Malchior, well, apparently never slept) and looked blearily at them.
"'s going on?" Melvin asked, rubbing her eyes.
Raven fought herself into a sitting position but hissed in pain as Malchior forced her back down onto the bed. "What are you-"
"Melvin, time to get up," Malchior said simply as Gizmo began to tug the blonde off the bed.
"Move, pigtails, we need the blanket," Gizmo hissed quietly. Melvin scurried off and Raven felt alone and exposed as Malchior began to wrap the entire comforter around her.
"What is going on!" she snapped at him, still too weak to fight.
"Time for us to make our leave, darling," he said simply, pulling up part of the covers to shield her head and face like her cape had once.
"Slade's crud munching robots have found the building," Gizmo explained, more to Melvin than her really. "Grab anything you need and let's go!"
Raven felt very lost and confused in the racing around that happened next as they exited the building, carried by Malchior. She kept quiet as they ducked around the rumble lining the streets, spying around corners for any scouts. It felt like it was taking far too much time, she felt too exposed, and that if they didn't hurry, they would be caught. They were lucky she knew, to have made it anywhere at all, but as they turned the corner, their luck ran out.
Sladebots. Hundreds of Sladebots, all with their gazes trained on them. Gizmo, next to her, let out an uncharacteristic real swear word that would have made her smack him for saying it in front of Melvin if it weren't for the fact he was absolutely right.
"Oh bloody hell," Malchior muttered, then after a moment. "Raven, I want to you to know I'm very sorry."
She couldn't stop herself. "From what?"
"This," he said and dropped her like a bag of potatoes onto the ground. She screamed at the indignity and pain as she impacted, landing on several rocks. Above her, Malchior was conjuring something in her hands.
"Melvin," Gizmo hissed, "do the shield thing, quick!"
Whatever the shield thing was, it worked because a large white energy shield appeared. Above, Raven saw Malchior had conjured a large ebony bow. As he pulled back the string, black magic formed an arrow that he shot high into the sky. She watched as the arrow spilt into many different arrows and rain upon the robots while Gizmo and Melvin tried to tug her up. Malchior, not bothering to try another shot, scooped her up from them and off they ran.
She realized something there in his arms as they ran. "What happened to your hair?" she asked.
He glanced down at her. "Cut it," then "Did I drop your head on a rock?" She nodded. "Ah. I'll fix it later."
As they ran, she glanced backwards to see if the robots were following. What she saw was the remaining Sladebots were being smashed to bits by falling boulders. "Rocks," she whispered, struggling to remember something, something important to do with rocks. "Rocks?"
"Yes, dear, rocks, hush now," Malchior ordered. Raven realized that they were running to a large pile of rumble with a small opening in front. She frowned and wondered how they could all fit inside when they began to duck in. After a moment, still disoriented, she realized that the ground beneath the pile sunk deeply in, and that there were other people in the large pit, which was not so much a pit as a sunken building. The problem of where they were going solved, Raven began to ignore the others and tried to contemplate the rocks.
"Rocks," she muttered again, as the others began to talk to people. Why did rocks sound so familiar?
Suddenly, she remembered just as she saw a blonde teenager slip in after them. Terra, hair cropped to her chin, without recognition, waved at them.
"Rocks," she surmised and promptly passed out.