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

CHAPTER 5

Back in the Operation Room, I stood right in the front of the window looking at the city twinkling in star's night, watching the lights flicker in brighten in the distance would always bring that wonder from me when I was kid, however sadly it does not displace my hunger of my wanting of getting home...wherever I was. I looked throughout the room to see if they had some sort of phone I could use, apparently there was none here. Dammit.

I was on the couch fiddling around my watch, bored ridges still trying to contact my loved ones. They probably be scared half to death not knowing where I was, and I's the same about them. You might as well be asking, Raven could have redone the spell for you could have contact with your family, tell them where you were and all. Maybe I should have have her done it again. Stupid! Well, maybe it's always tomorrow if she has the energy for it or if she bothered to. I don't know. Today's been a weird day hopefully things turned out as well as planned.

The only thing that could keep me from breaking down was me replaying the old videos I took from my Omnitrix from the day Kevin, Gwen, and I were at the lake having fun and all. It had been a month after finding grandpa. Turns out the bloke had been in the Null Void for months training new recruits for the Plumbers against our now newly formed allies, The Hybreed. It was amazing, wished that I could turn back the clock to those innocent days.

There were a lot of possible theories playing in my head on a loop. One moment I was flying from Diamondhead's home planet and then all of a sudden I crashed here. I don't remember everything else after that only that I found myself in some master bedroom at the other side of the tower. I looked down at the window and saw that the ship I once flew in, The Rustbucket III was all but obliterated. It was sticking on the coast like a gum on a shoe facing the front face of the tower looking upwards at me. The ship from where I was standing was snapped in two, bending in odd positions. Parts of the aircraft looked like it was on fire. Black scars permanently scarred the plane. I could have died that night but I didn't.

Raven saved me and I am the most dedicated to her for that, and I think that I kind of returned the favor by me saving her against those H.I.V.E Five gangsters or whatever else they called themselves. But here was what was odd to me, why would she house me here? Why save me at all? Anyone would have left it be and left a man to be swallowed up by the fire, but she didn't and for that I am truly grateful.

However in this tower, it's almost entirely empty. When I woke up in some person's bedroom, all I heard were the echoes of my footsteps. Nothing more. No laughter, no chatter, just an empty space of concrete and steel. It was as if you drop a marble in a pail. All this huge space surrounded by walls. I was that marble. The only person I met in this tower was Raven. No one else. I don't think anyone, not even the Grinch could bare this much silence in this empty, hollow shell of concrete metal. How Raven was not yet driven to the point of insanity was beyond comprehension. It was getting late, I might as well be getting some shut eye for the morn. Hopefully tomorrow would be a better day, not saying that this day was horrible, it definitely wasn't...it's just that...I don't know. It's complicated.

Instead of sleeping back in that bedroom, since I only had 2% knowledge of the whole tower, I decided to sleep on the couch facing the gleaming lights yonder. As beautiful as the view was it didn't fill the void I felt...the void of homelessness.

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I woke up the next morning found in a thick, brown blanket covering around me, my head on a nice comfortable pillow; not only that but a nicely prepared breakfast sat across from me. It was a simple meal: a bowl of cereal, milk and a glass of orange juice. It wasn't much else after that. Did Raven did this for me? How and why if that was the...wait the tower was so big that I could hear my voice bounce off the walls like some hyperactive dodge ball voided of any human footprint except one. Raven.

She was the only person who could have done this, the only person in the whole tower but yet I haven't given anything in return as of yet. Gotta go to town and get her something to repay for all she has done for me yesterday.

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The bathroom was not far from the Operation Room. I have to say, the bathroom looked very much high tech and sophisticated like those updated malls in the west coast. It looked more like those you would find in a five star hotel, or in a college/university. The shower was stationed right by the toilet, just to the left of the window. Well, that's something. Other than that it was just a regular bathroom but with high tech gadgetry and stuff.

After I groomed myself to perfection, I turned to my Omnitrix. As a force of habit, I looked both ways before i turned the notch.

"Okay," I switched to Ghostfreak, "Here goes nothing."

I slammed my hand down on the dial before I noticed that I was enveloped in a bright green flash. After the light died down, shouted...

"GHOSTFREAK!" out of habit, "Now to make a quick stop at Raven's. Hopefully she's still asleep," I said floating away out of the bathroom's vicinity.

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Raven's room was dark and eerie like it always been. Little light breached into this cave of hers, no offense. I went through the door, trying to make as little noise as possible. I have seen what she could do and I really don't want to set her off. Unlike Gwen, I don't know if i could handle if Raven gets pissed. She might do unspeakable things to me. Things that were too disturbing to think of.

Once I got close enough, I finally got a glimpse of her face...her face not covered in that hood of hers. She was rather beautiful sleeping soundly on her bed. Without the cloak I could get a good glimpse of her body. Her tight, black leotard barely hid her fantastic curves. She was rather beautiful I won't lie. I brushed my hand on her blue hair, my eyes not leaving her sight, glued to her beauty. Why was she here all alone? Was this tower like her prison...or was it something more than that?

After that, I transformed back into my regular self away from the door thank god and made my way to the second hall. I think this was the way to the elevator leading to the lobby wasn't it? I thought it was. There was no directory so there was no telling where. I think I might would have to try on luck and see if I would find it. I can try and transform into Brainstorm, there was no one around.

I think that could be an option. Before I had the chance on activating my Omnitrix I stumbled across a room to my left. Like Raven's bedroom door, this one has a name in all caps as well reading, "Beastboy".

Wait..other people live here too? Was this some sort of hotel or something or some vacancy? Questions for later. If other people live here then where are they? This makes no sense!

"Beastboy," I read. And unlike Raven's door, this door was barred shut. I tried opening it but it won't budge.

"No problem," I said, "I'll just go Big Chill and fly through it." That was what I was about to do until I heard screaming.

"SLADE!" I heard.

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