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"Guys, any sign of Raven yet?" Robin asked from the top of Titans Tower.

"No sign of her on the east side and I'm analyzing the scene of the fight," Cyborg said. "There's not a lot of damage except a car. Raven and Jinx definitely fought and I can tell Raven won, but I can't tell where they went."

"I have examined the entire western quadrant of Jump City and there's no evidence of Raven's presence." Starfire checked in.

"I flew all over the south side. No Raven." Beast Boy sighed.

"And I checked the northern side. No sign of her, and her communicator signal is still offline," Robin added. "I'm monitoring all the frequencies, but she hasn't checked in."

"Oh, we are bad friends! We should never have left Raven to do battle alone." Starfire said with a worried tone in her voice.

Beast Boy, landed on the top of a building as a crow, then transformed into his human self. There was bandage on his right arm with a long splotch of blood on it, evidence of the fight that happened not too long before their search for Raven.

"Yeah, especially since the H.I.V.E. wasn't actually there," he said. "It was all a setup."

"Yeah," Robin agreed. "A setup to lure us away from Raven…and we fell for it. We should've known."

"But who took Raven?" Starfire asked. "And why?"

Just as he was about to answer, Robin's communicator started flashing red and playing a siren.

"Titans! Trouble! Slade sighting on the far side of town," Robin said, already on the move. "Let's go!"


A shadowed figure walked into a darkened laboratory. In the middle of the laboratory was a storage vessel that held a thermal blaster. The figure walked over to the vessel and placed a circular object on the side. The object was black with several red lights around the circumference of it and in the middle, a large red S. The object blew a hole into the side of the vessel. The figure reached in and grabbed the blaster. Guards ran toward the shadowed person.

"They've stolen the thermal blaster!" the first guard said.

"Stop them!" a second guard shouted.

The figure ran out of the room and jumped off of a ledge, disappearing.

"Where'd they go?" a third guard asked.

Unbeknownst to the guards, the figure was running down a platform, attempting to escape.

"Freeze!" Robin shouted.

Robin and Beast Boy were in front of the figure and Cyborg and Starfire were behind it. The figure pressed a button on its belt and disappeared.

"What the?" Beast Boy said, astonished.

The four Titans looked around. Cyborg turned his head to the left.

"Over there!" Cyborg pointed to his left.

The teenaged heroes ran over toward the shadow. The shadowed figure was stuck between the Titans and the edge of a platform. The figure threw down a smoke grenade disguising itself for a split second. The figure heard a voice in its ears as it was about to say something.

"Not a word," the voice said. "Let them discover for themselves who you are or else I'll waste him."

The voice had distracted the figure from making an escape. The smoke cleared and Robin took a step toward the figure, a birdarang in his hand.

"It's over Slade." Robin said maliciously.

The moonlight shone onto the shadowy figure. Decked out in a black and red jumpsuit with metal accents, the figure looked like Slade or any Slade-related person. However, the only unmistakable features were the gray skin, the red chakra stone, the angled purple hair, and the unforgettable amethyst eyes. The Titans froze, as if they were nailed to the floor.

"That's not Slade," Cyborg said. "That's…"

"…Raven." Beast Boy finished.


"No way." Robin gasped.

"How could this be?" Starfire asked.

"It can't be-" Cyborg started.

"Raven?" Beast Boy asked. "Why are you-?"

Raven cut Beast Boy off by throwing a grenade at team that exploded in their faces, making them jerk back.

"Yo!" Cyborg shouted.

"What is your deal?!" Beast Boy shouts.

The voice buzzed in Raven's ear again through a small radio receiver, marked with Slade's insignia.

"Remember Raven," Slade said through her earpiece. "They're not your friends anymore."

The four heroes closed in on Raven. Raven lifted up the blaster she stole and fired at the stretch of walkway between her and the team.

"Raven, what are you doing?" Robin shouted.

Smoke started to dissipate, revealing that a section of walkway was gone. Raven raised her free hand and disappeared in a ball of dark energy.

"Raven." Beast Boy whispered to himself.


Raven stepped into Slade's lair and raised the blaster. Slade's voice rang out from the darkened room.

"Excellent Raven, I'm pleased. You're already proving to be the perfect apprentice."

"This deal can't last forever. I hope you know that." Raven growled.

"Oh, yes it can. And it will," Slade replied, stepping into Raven's field of vision. "Beast Boy still has no idea my device is inside his body."

Slade pressed a button and behind him a screen flashed on, showing a layout of Beast Boy's bloodstream. In the changeling's blood, there was a small device. It couldn't have been any bigger than a piece of lint. The device broke open, releasing hundreds of tiny silver objects that flowed alongside Beast Boy's blood cells.

"Nanomites," Slade explained. "They are usually used to kill cancer cells. I've modified these to disrupt Beast Boy's homeostasis, his biological balance. They could remain undetected for years, decades even."

Raven remained silent while Slade walked away from her. Slade suddenly stopped and turned back toward her.

"Unless, of course, you disobey me and I decide to destroy your former love interest with the push of a button." Slade said with the detonator in his hand.

"Sooner or later, you'll let your guard down. I will get that controller, and the instant Beast Boy is out of danger, you will pay." Raven said with her teeth barred in anger.

"That sounds like a threat, young lady," the villain said, once again walking away from the empath. "Quite a good threat, actually. Betrayal, destruction, revenge. You're becoming more like me and your father already."

With that statement, Raven snapped. Her eyebrows formed into a second pair of eyes and all four glowed a bright red as she lunged at Slade. Slade grabbed Raven's wrist and bent her arm behind her back.

"I monitored your vital signs during the mission. Elevated heart rate, adrenaline, endorphins." Slade said in her ear. "You won't admit it, but at some level, you enjoyed stealing for me. It was a thrill, wasn't it?"

Raven broke free of Slade's grip and shook out her hand a bit to relieve some pain as her eyes and eyebrows went back to normal. Slade walked away, did something to the blaster, and placed it onto Raven's right wrist. Raven glanced at the blaster then quickly raised it toward Slade.

"No," Raven replied. "It wasn't."

Slade released a low, sinister chuckle. With the speed of a trained mercenary, Slade took the blaster off of Raven's wrist and pointed it back toward her. Raven stood in a stunned silence.

"Listen to me, Raven," Slade said. "You're going to keep stealing, and you're going to keep getting that thrill. And sooner or later, you'll see things my way."

Slade walked back toward Raven and put the blaster back on her wrist. Raven slowly lowered her arm, knowing that Slade would kill either her or Beast Boy if she fought again.

"Who knows," he continued. "I might even become like a father to you."

Slade walked away and Raven lowered her gaze to the ground.

"I already have a father," Raven mumbled. "One that I never wanted."


Back at the Tower, the four remaining Titans try to figure out what has made their friend go down this path.

"Perhaps it wasn't the real Raven?" Starfire offered. "Or perhaps she was being controlled?"

"As logical as that sounds, Raven's basically a master at keeping her mind under lock and key," Robin said. "She wouldn't be mind-controlled that easily."

Cyborg looked down at the panel in his left forearm, his face with a stony expression.

"And my scanners confirmed her biometrics," he said. "That was the real Raven…our Raven."

The three of them hung their heads down in sadness. Suddenly, Beast Boy slammed his fist down on the kitchen table.

"It's a lie!" he shouted. "That wasn't Raven! Your scanners are all wrong! Raven's our friend, our teammate, and nothing could ever make her betray us!"

Beast Boy sat down at the kitchen table, sadness overtaking his face.

"Nothing…" he whispered sadly, hanging his head down slightly.

Robin got up and walked over to the changeling, placing a hand on the emerald teen's shoulder. Starfire and Cyborg stood in the commons room behind the couch, watching the other two Titans.

"I know you don't want to believe that it's true," Robin said to Beast Boy. "None of us do…but no matter what the reason, no matter how much we wish it wasn't true…Raven's a criminal now…and just like any other criminal, the Teen Titans have to bring her down."

Beast Boy made no motion or sound. The only sign of him hearing what Robin had said were the tears streaming from his jade eyes. An alarm starts to blare through the room. Cyborg runs over to the computer console. He turned to the others.

"It's her."


Raven quietly walked up to two large doors with a large W emblazoned across them. Her eyes showed no emotion as she used her powers to blow the doors off their hinges. Raven stepped into the room, ignoring the debris that littered the floor around her. The room was completely empty aside from a strange device surrounded by a force field. Raven walked up to the force field and, after making a portal with her powers, reached out to grab the device.

"You're not walking out of here, Raven!"

The empath froze as she heard the voice. Robin.

I knew that this wasn't going to be easy, she thought. But I have to do this. To save Beast Boy.

Raven turned around to be greeted by the faces of her former friends and teammates.

"Not without a fight," Robin added to his previous statement. "Titans! Go!"

Raven charged the four Titans and they did the same to her. Cyborg and Beast Boy, as a tiger, made the first move. Cyborg threw a punch and Beast Boy lunged at Raven, both of which the empath dodged by quickly dashing forward. Raven landed between Robin and Starfire and disappeared before either of them could do anything. The four Titans stood, seemly glued to the floor with shock.

Unperceived by the Titans, Raven ran across the rooftop of the building behind a large lit sign that read Wayne Enterprises. She knew she had to make an escape and fast, but was halted by the incessant voice of Slade buzzing in her ear.

"Not so fast, Raven," he said. "You have yet to achieve your objective."

Raven ran faster across the top of the building, a time like this made her glad that she took the time to physically train.

"The device was too heavily guarded," she replied. "I'll have to steal it another-"

"No!" Slade shouted, effectively cutting off Raven's speech and movement. "Go back. Unless you want me to destroy Beast Boy, go back and fight."

Raven held back a growl. Just as she moved to turn around, Robin and the other Titans arrived on the other side of the roof.

"Raven!" Robin shouted.

Raven turned around completely coming face to face with her former teammates once again.

"Look, I don't know what's going on," Robin stated. "But we don't want to fight. We just want to talk."

Raven's eyes paled to a ghostly white as her powers surged around her hands.

"Azarath Metrion Zinthos!"

With the uttering of her mantra, Raven blasted Robin backwards past the other three Titans.

"Guess there's nothing to talk about." Cyborg said coldly.

Cyborg launched himself toward Raven. The empath made quick work of him, throwing Cyborg to the side with her powers and detaching the sign's W and using it to keep him still.

That won't hold him long, but I have bigger things to worry about. Raven thought, moving to target Robin.

Raven ran past Beast Boy who looked very reluctant to fight her.

"Rae, please-" the changeling's speech was cut off since Raven was too far away from him to hear it.

Raven fought back the urge to shake her head to get rid of Beast Boy's voice.

Block it out. Block it out. the empath repeated to herself.

Robin leaped up into the air and aimed a kick in Raven's direction. Using her powers as a shield, Raven blocked the barrage of attacks Robin sent her way. A few feet away, Starfire began to charge up a starbolt from her right hand, aiming it at Raven. Uneasiness shown on Starfire's face and she waited to fire.

"Raven…I do not wish to…" Starfire muttered to herself.

The Tameranean stopped charging up her powers, choosing hand-to-hand combat instead. As Starfire threw a punch in Raven's direction, the empath moved away quickly, causing Starfire's fist to collide with Robin instead.

"Robin!" Starfire shouts.

As Starfire focused on Robin, Raven started to make her escape. On the other side of the roof, Cyborg finally managed to dislodge himself from the large W and fired a blast at Raven with his sonic cannon. The empath shouted as the blast collided with her and she lost her balance, rolling toward the edge of the roof. Cyborg ran over to the half-demon, his face showing obvious guilt and distress.

"Raven, are you okay?" he asked.

Without saying a word, Raven blasted Cyborg away with her powers and caused the metal man to topple backwards, taking Robin with him. Raven took the opportunity to stand up. As she did so, Slade's voice droned in her ear again.

"Fight to win, Raven," he ordered. "Use the thermal blaster."

"Azarath Metrion Zinthos!" Raven shouted once again.

The empath's powers launched toward Cyborg and Starfire, swirling around them then lifting them up in the air. Raven then threw a disc with Slade's insignia on it at the A in the Wayne Enterprises sign, causing the light to blast outwards in the Titans' faces. Cyborg and Starfire let out groans as they fell to the ground. With them out of commission for a while, Raven began to fight Robin with her powers.

"Come on, Raven," Robin pleaded, as he defended against her attacks. "Don't make me, do this. I don't want to do this!"

Raven didn't say a word as she used her leg to sweep Robin's feet and caused him to fall. The empath jumped up onto the sign's N and began to make her escape, leaping across the letters.

"Stop!" Beast Boy said, standing on top of the sign's E in a defensive stance. "Don't move."

Raven stood face to face with the changeling, not making a move. Beast Boy glared at the empath.

"I thought I told you to use. That. Blaster," Slade said into Raven's ear. "Attack! Now!"

Raven jerked her head to the side in anger, but complied with Slade's order and raised her right arm in order to aim the blaster. The blaster glowed a bright red as it began to charge. The two teenagers didn't break eye contact for a second, but the glare Beast Boy held softened.

"Raven…you're one of my best friends…I can't fight you," Beast Boy said. "I…."

Beast Boy sighed as he stood normally.

"If you're really evil now…" he said, looking down at his feet. "Then go ahead…"

Raven stood as if she was frozen, a look of shock painted on her face. She lowered the blaster.

"Beast Boy, no I-" Raven started. She was cut off as her earpiece shrieked in her ear. She held her hands to her ears as she grunted in pain.

"Raven! I gave you an order," Slade growled. "If you won't attack, my nanomites will."

Raven heard a beep go off in her ear. Beast Boy shouted in agony as his entire body glowed a bright red and he fell of the sign, down to the roof's surface.

"Beast Boy!" Raven shouted as she jumped off the sign to follow him.

The changeling writhed in pain, his right arm clutching his stomach as he groaned. Raven kneeled next to him, tears streaming down her face. The other three Titans were in too much shock to do anything except watch.

"Stop!" Raven begged Slade. "Please stop!"

"Attack, Raven," Slade ordered once again. "It's the only way to save him. Attack with everything you've got!"

Raven reluctantly stood up and raised her blaster at the three Titans and fired, sending them flying and knocking them unconscious. Then, she looked down at Beast Boy, still writhing and groaning in pain.

"Raven…" he choked out, reaching out to her slowly.

"I'm sorry." Raven said through her tears.

A blast rang out into the night. In Slade's hideout, he watched the entire conflict.

"That's my girl."


(A/N: God, that was hard for me to write, but I think I did pretty good. Now, I know the battle didn't go exactly like it did in the actual episode, but I had to work some things around in order to make Beast Boy be the one who didn't fight instead of Starfire. I had Starfire be the one who tried to fire at Raven instead of Cyborg because even before the episode Switched, Starfire did try to get to know Raven and do stuff with her, but Raven often shot Starfire down. So I did that to show that Starfire really didn't want to fight either. All in all, I tried to have a specific moment where each of the other four Titans showed reluctance in fighting Raven.

I tried to make it so Raven showed reluctance as well, like only using her powers at certain times. I made her use her powers mostly to distract, disarm, and defend with only two or three times where she used them to attack (mostly to get Slade to shut up). She uses hand-to-hand combat more to attack because, while she doesn't suck at it, it's not her first choice to attack with. This way, she knew she wasn't really injuring the Titans, but it looked like she was really fighting them. Robin seemed to be holding back in the show, so I made Raven hold back here.

Bonus Points

Whoever can answer all these questions correctly can get a sneak peek at the next chapter.

1. What side of Jump City did Beast Boy check for Raven?

2. What was the first thing Raven stole?

3. What did Slade put into Beast Boy's bloodstream, what do they normally do, and how were they modified?

4. Why did Beast Boy cry in this chapter?

And finally…

5. What was Beast Boy about to say to Raven after he said, "I can't fight you…"?

Until next time!