Okay, peoples!

I've decided to make this a Fighting-for-the-world sort of thing, with demons and hellfire and such. For Jojo the magic poptart (awesome name, by the way) FelynxTiger, and H'sfreedom, don't worry, a Raven-gets-sick fic is coming up as soon as this one is done. As far as I can tell, the story is leading in an "Everyone helps" sort of way, and a fanfic featuring mainly Raven and Beastboy would have to have a less worldly-impact problem. However, there will be some BBxRae smut and kissing action later on in this story.

For all of you RobxRae shippers, sorry, but I'm a solid believer in them as friends. I will be making a story about them, though, with lots of life-and-death situations and friendship moments. In this story and all the others in the future, they will be strictly friends.

Chapter Four: Plans

"Well?" Robin asked after a while. The silence was becoming more than awkward, and frankly he wanted to know what was going on.

"Slade was the intruder," she finally said. As she had expected, her teammates didn't react in the most favorable of ways. Starfire let out a small shriek, Cyborg swore, and Robin and Beastboy stared at the empath with equal measures of shock and horror on their faces. Knowing that she needed to explain, Raven decided to tell the tale in full and deal with the outrage and blame from her friends later.

"After we called it quits, I started to get really tired. I don't know if it was Star's pudding or something from Slade, but I could barely keep my eyes open. When I got to my room, he was there, and I heard his voice right before I passed out. When I came to, I was in a metal cell and Slade was there, but I couldn't see him. He told me," She paused and closed her eyes, taking a moment to compose herself. "He told me that there was another prophecy. Apparently, I'm going to end the world."

"No," Robin said quietly. The others were too shocked to speak. Raven couldn't look at her friends, so she settled for boring a hole in the floor. After a few moments of shocked silence, Robin cleared his throat and cautiously asked "Was that all he said?"

"Of course not. He couldn't resist his signature cryptic threat," Raven sighed. "He said that it would be my powers that destroy the world, not my father's. He also said that my father was alive, and as soon as I finish being a destructive mass of evil he's going to unleash demons from all the dimensions onto the Earth and take over the planet. Slade seemed very happy about that particular point."

"What?" Beastboy exclaimed. "Why? I mean, the last time Trigon tried to become the dude-king-of-all- the-world, Slade was the one who gave us the ring of Azar, helped us find Raven and fought against her dad. Why would he be happy now?"

"I don't know," Raven said, putting her head into her hands. "I don't know what any of this means."

"Do you think he's telling the truth?" Cyborg asked quietly. "Slade could be lying."

"I don't know," the empath repeated. "I've been looking in my books for the past few hours, and nothing's turned up to state one way or the other. It is possible that I could do a spell to find out what's going on, but if my powers really are going to go crazy, it will most likely kill us all."

"Okay, team," Robin said firmly, providing some much-needed stability to the situation. "This is what we're going to do: until we hear otherwise, we're going to assume that the world's not going to end, so no one needs to panic. Raven, you're going to keep looking into this without using your powers. If you find anything, let us know. I'm not just talking about prophesies in your books and stuff like that; if anything happens with your powers, or if you have a vision, or even feel funny, you tell us. No keeping it to yourself because you don't want us to worry." Raven let a small smile appear on her face. That was exactly what she had been planning to do. Robin saw this, and let himself relax the tiniest bit.

"As for the rest of us, we're going to do our own type of research. Cyborg, you run scans on everything and everyone; see if there's anything strange going on. Starfire, work through the ancient prophecies of all different cultures and find anything related to the end of the world. Beastboy, you and I are going to find Slade."

Each titan nodded at their assigned task, and started working right away at Robin's signal. Starfire flew off to her room, where a few storybooks from her home planet resided. Cyborg went to his room as well, and began working on an all-new series of scanners. As she was about to walk away, Raven stopped when a thought struck her.

"Robin," she called quietly to her leader. He turned from where he was searching on the computer mainframe with Beastboy. "If my father is alive, why haven't I heard anything from him? The only reason I can think of is that he knows about the prophecy."

"I know," Robin said. "It doesn't look good."

Beastboy watched Raven nod and walk away. He couldn't help but notice the way that she moved in a hunched-over, defeated way, and that his heightened sense of smell could detect obvious distress and pain coming from his dark friend. Sadness filled his green eyes as he thought about what she must be going through. Suddenly, he wanted nothing more than to run to the empath and hug her, hold her in his arms and tell her that everything would be okay. Who knows? He might even make her believe it. Robin saw the expression on the changeling's face.

"The only way we can help her now is finding Slade," he said firmly in his leader-voice. Then, in a softer tone, he added "I know you care for her, but I don't want you to lose focus on the bigger picture. For now, we're the only chance she has. We can't let our emotions get the better of us."

"You think it's true, then?" Beastboy looked his leader right in the eye. "You think that she's really going to end the world." A small nod was his only response. "So what do we do?"

"Everything we can." Robin's mouth twisted into a half-smile. "We find Slade, beat the truth out of him, bring him back here, and save the world." His smile broadened into a full-on grin. "No pressure."