An uneventful day passed in Titans Tower but when dinner came and went without Raven coming out of her room,Beast Boy started to worry. As he got off the couch and made his way to the main room's door he said, "Hey guys, I'm going to see how Raven is."
Cyborg shrugged, "Your death wish B."
Starfire looked up from her cooking in the kitchen area, "Okay friend Beast Boy. I hope friend Raven does not harm you for going near her room of bed." with that less than helpful warning Beast Boy left the main room and started off down the halls to Ravens room.
Standing outside her door he could hear her talking quietly, "I would never do anything like that would I?" he decided to knock quickly now, so she wouldn't think he was spying. "Hey Rae…..Ven, you haven't been out all day. Aren't you hungry?" he then heard Raven jump off the bed and in the process bang in to something, "Shit!" he heard her mutter under her breath, 'I wonder if Ravens ok? Never heard her swear before, thank god for super sensitive hearing' he thought.
The door opened with a hiss and left a less than happy Raven standing right in front of Beast Boy, "What do you want?" said Raven in her monotone but with her anger showing in her eyes but before Beast Boy could answer the alarm went off through Titans Tower, making it flash red every few seconds. Beast Boy and Raven ran/levitated to the main room where the others were waiting. "It's Johnny Rancid. Titans lets go!" Robin shouted running to the garage to his R-cycle.
When the titans got to the street that Johnny was trashing, they saw he had gotten himself a new pet, it was a giant Robot rat, its razor sharp teeth slicing through walls like butter and its bulky tail smashing through the buildings behind it. "Hey Titans" Johnny shouted, "Like my new pet"
Robin glared at him and spat out, "You should be getting a life, not new pets. Titans Go!" robins sprinted towards Johnny with his Bo staff at the ready. Starfire flew up high her eyes burning with righteous fury, 'take this' she thought as she unleashed a storm of starbolts at Johnny's new 'pet' causing huge amounts of dust to cover the street where some of the starbolts had missed. A blue beam suddenly shot out of the dust cloud and hit the robot rat, knocking it back into a building. Then seemingly out of nowhere a green rhino appeared slamming into the giant robot but the robot just got straight back up and continued its mindless destruction of the city. "Dang, this thing is much stronger than his last one" exclaimed Cyborg surprised that the robot didn't even have a scratch on it, "Hey where's Raven?" he asked Beast Boy who now stood beside him.
"I don't know but come on we have to beat this thing" the anger at the situation was evident in Beast Boys voice "Come on, we have to beat this thing" and with that he turned into a rhino and slammed into the robot rat again.
While that was happening, Robin was fighting Rancid hand to hand and he was getting more and more agitated as his punches kept missing. "I've been training Robin. You won't beat me this time, you can't even touch me." Rancid whispered in Robins ear causing Robin to let out a shout of fury and almost simultaneously there was a cry from Raven. "Raven!" Beast Boy shouted as he turned to where the cry had come from.
Raven had spend the whole time her friends had been fighting hiding in the shadows, holding her head as if in great pain. "Doesn't their anger feel annoying. Don't you just want to strangle each one saying 'control yourself!".
"No! I won't let their anger win." Whispered Raven, sounding quite tired and for a while she was winning against her friend's collective anger, until the sudden burst of fury from Robin pushed her over her limit and with a cry of fury similar to Robin's, Raven started to change. All the others stopped in their fights to see Raven transforming.
Ravens' skin became a darker grey, with black stripes running across it. Her eyes became dark with black magic. Her canine teeth became elongated, sharp and pointed out of her mouth while her fingernails became thicker and sharper and turned into claws. Once the transformation was complete she stepped out of the shadows with an evil smile on her face. The rests of the Titan watched, with fear evident on their faces, as Ravens hand shot out and a bolt of black magic went through Johnny's heart making him fall to the ground, dead immediately. Raven then turned to face the robot rat, surrounding it in her dark aura and crumpled it into a small metal ball. The new Raven then walked over to Rancid's body and with a small laugh, kicked it saying, "You messed with the wrong demon."
"Raven, what did you do, what happened?" asked Robin, disbelieve clear in his voice.
With another menacing laugh she turned to face the other Titans, "I killed him silly" she said in a falsely sweet voice, "Now your deaths won't be as quick and painless, I can guaranty it. See ya soon." and with a wink, she disappeared in a bubble of black magic, the only thing left in her place was Ravens communicator.
"Friend Robin" Starfire's voice rang down the deathly silent street, "What just occurred to friend Raven?"
"I don't know, Star" he replied quietly, louder he said, "Titans, back to the tower now." and with that, he got on his R-cycle and sped back to the tower with Cyborg and Starfire close behind.
Beast Boy stared at Ravens communicator, unshed tears making his eyes gleam and he whispered, "I'll find the real you again, Raven, I promise." Then he shifted into a hawk and scooped up the communicator in his talons and flew off towards the tower.