DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN TEEN TITANS OR BEN 10. THEY BELONG TO THEIR RIGHTFUL OWNERS.

CHAPTER 2

The day was brighter than I anticipated being. It felt like that I should get an umbrella to shield my face from the sun's strong rays. Boy do I feel like a vampire. It was awfully nice of Raven for taking me to get some pizza after days of recuperating in that room. During our walk there we were very quiet towards each other, each of us were keeping our distance from each other. I would because I barely knew her, but yet showing me such kindness. I didn't want to be like Kevin but, this amount of kindness seemed rather suspicious. My arm swung near towards my Omnitrix just in case she tried anything funny. She could be a very powerful foe if pushed. So I had to watch my back.

We sat across each other at the Pizza Place and ordered a cheese pizza. As we waited we both looked on our separate ways. Now, I know what you all were wondering, "Isn't this the best time to get to know each other?" Apparently so, but I don't want to take my chances. I have no idea who I'm dealing with and at any time she could use my personal info against me...and I think that's what she thinks. I think. I don't know. Maybe I should start up a conversation; besides, the whole process of making a perfectly baked pizza was very tedious work. So it would take a minute before our pizza is ready. However, before I could initially do that, I had to double check my aliens to ensure all of them were saved inside the software, which surprisingly, they are...most of them anyway.

"Are you trying to see what time it was or are you playing games on it?" Raven asked.

"Recallibrating," It was easy to disguise my identity of the usage of the Omnitrix because people would simply dismiss it as an ordinary watch.

"Okay, do you live around here or anything?" she asked.

"Um...not exactly," I said, "I live in Bellwood...it's a place way too far from here."

"Ahh," she said.

"I never got the chance to say thank you for saving me," I said, "It was very heroic of you."

Raven smiled, "Thank you, it's my pleasure, Ben. Ben, that is your name isn't it?" she asked.

I nodded; however suddenly something came up. I looked back at the tower majestically sitting out yonder on the island off the city's coast and I noticed, just now actually, on the tower's size. If the tower was so big, where was the rest? The tower looked more of a base of operations. An offshoot of the Pentagon mind you. It was strange to think about at the time, but I think it was no big deal. I think that it's just strange for a person like her to occupy a building as massive and as secure as this one.

"I see that you are interested in the tower right?" she asked. I turned around, my throat cleared up and nodded, damn saliva.

"Yeah it looks majestic from all the way over here," I said.

"It does, doesn't it," from the hint of her voice, there was something off. A change in pace of her tone, to a degree, was noticible. She sounded nostalgic for a second there, mind putting that on note for me.

"Yeah," I said, "Say, you're okay?"

Raven's eyes bulged and quickly faced me, "Oh yeah, yeah. Everything's fine."

Finally, our pizza has arrived. Hot and steamy crust radiating my nose with its pleasant bakery smell, the cheese looked creamy and hot, sticking together like a yellow and orange spiderweb. I just couldn't wait to dig inside. Oh boy, i could feel the warm toast sizzling in my hand. Raven saw the reaction from the pizza. And honestly, I didn't care. The only time I saw her smile was when there was no pizza in front of my face. Now, there's pizza in front of my face. My mouth upon contact felt more like a drug. I slowly tore off the piece from God's magnificent creation slipped it in my mouth. The taste was...was...heavenly.

Raven snickered but I didn't care. All I could care for was the cheese oozing off my lips. Mmm cheese.

"You're funny," Raven said.

"What? What I do?" I asked, my mind snapped back to reality only to see a smiling Raven sitting across from me. Man that was embarrassing.

"N-Nothing," she giggled. Great, now she thinks that I'm some sort of freak. That's great. Before i could wallow in my own self pity, something odd happened. I heard screams of horror behind me. Just right down the street. People were running form a bank...oh boy. Not this. Anything but this.

It did.

It happened.

BANG! A black cloud engulfed the big, gaping hole I suspect the explosion made. And when the smoke cleared stood 5 teenagers...well 4 teenagers and one child. One guy wore some goofy red jump suit with a division sign on the middle, another man was hulking built, wearing a sleeveless black shirt enwrapped with a belt and lace forming an H around his torso, some little kid in a jet pack, and some young lady with pink hair, had a very skinny stature to her, very pale...paler than Raven perhaps, and had that smile so vicious that it would make Vilgax frown.

I slowly got up, my had covered the faceplate, thinking of an alien that could defeat these guys. Raven got up before me and said, "Ben, stay there and don't move!" Raven ordered as she PREPARED TO JUMP OFF A BUILDING! Okay there's a fine line between people who are depressed and fun-asses. I don't know which category to place her...at first by the way, once she jumped off the building, I was ready to leap forward to catch her, only for me to see that she levitated down on a black platform of some kind.

Was she an alien? Was she like Gwen? Raven didn't look like the girls I knew who could take on people like them...especially Manny McBuff here. I just got to do something. I just couldn't stand while someone gets hurt. It's time to go hero.

A/N: Hi there! Another day another chapter! I hope you all enjoyed the story, please always leave reviews, they are always appreciated. And until we meet again, I like to thank everyone for reading ng the first chapter, giving me the ability to jump start the story! Until we meet again, this is Mr. Raleigh D signing out!

Peace!