I do not, will not, and will always hope to own the Teen Titans. If you think I do than you are an uncureable nincompoop who need to get a life and stop breathing down others necks. . .kk that's all ^^ enjoy!

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Another alarm. Raven had just finished meditating and was on the edge of sleep when it rang, waking her up again. The alarms had been happening more often lately, and each time the Titans went to meet whatever had set them off. Each time, it was always something new they had never seen before, and not once did the same thing appear twice. The random attacks had started roughly a week ago. First when they were in the middle of lunch, and then the same time the next day, and right after they got back, until finally the entire team was suffering sleep deprivation, and overwork. They all met in the common room, each coming out of sleep in their own way. Robin was rubbing his face with the palms of his hands, Cyborg scratched his butt, Starfire tried to tame the wildness that had become her hair while she was trying to get the precious fifteen minutes of sleep offered to her, and Beast Boy showed hardly any sign of being affected by the lack of sleep, except for a slight increase in activity and decrease in forethought of his actions.

"Okay, at least we're all together on this one," came Robin's monotone voice. He was referring to a few attacks ago, when Beast Boy had been in the middle of a shower and had come running out of the bathroom suds and all, with the towel wrapped around his waist the only thing on the green boys body. After that the Titans had decided that you should just ignore the alarm if you were incapacitated in anyway. Raven knew this did not include sleep, unfortunately, and floated down to the group with her hood up to block the mid-morning sun from her burning eyes.

"Alright, let's go do this." Robin said, trying to stir some reply from his sleepy team. In reply he got three non-committal groans from Starfrire, Cyborg, and Raven, and one "YAHOO!" from Beast Boy. And they call me a freak thought Raven.

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As the Titans flew across the city looking for signs of trouble and trying to keep their eyes open at the same time, something odd happened. Or, rather, didn't happen. Normally the slap of cold air on their face and adrenalin beginning to pump through their veins would wake anyone up, but sleeping as little as they did, seemed to have left their bodies so worn that even in this situation, the four young heroes' could not wake up.

Upon landing in the downtown area, they saw what had caused the disturbance. A large, yellow reptilian creature resembling a dinosaur with hulking spikes running down it's back and what seemed to be pieces of rock imbedded in it's skin turned to face them. The yellow monster got into a fighting stance, identifying the small group of teens as a threat.

"Titans—" Robin's command to "go" was cut short by a small beeping coming from all of their communicators, telling of another villain, not far away. Looking to the left of the group and seeing Raven and Beast Boy first he told them to go fix whatever was happening and meet back at the tower.

"Right," came Raven's reply as she flew off once again, followed by a small, green sparrow.

"Titans!" yelled Robin yet again, "GO!" and off the trio went into battle.

Raven saw Beast Boy's sparrow form dart around her head twittering and then dart through a side street to their left. Following him, she began to smell smoke, and soon after her vision began to get clouded from the gray film in the air. Coughing she flew above the smog and took a deep breath looking around for the assailant

"Beast Boy?!" she called, searching for his small, feathered form. "Crap," she muttered under her breath, "I lost him." Diving recklessly back into the smoke she started looking for him, stretching out her senses but could not find him anywhere with all the soot in the air. Suddenly she felt a small twinge of fear off to her left that she recognized as the changeling. Flying in that direction, she reduced her speed and started to feel around more, wondering if it was Beast Boy, or the attacker. Hearing a roar from one side of the street and a crash from another, she flew up and looked around again, wondering if it was BB or the attacker.

"Rae! Watch out!" came the pubescent boy's yell just as Raven got knocked to the side, away from a flash of light.

"What the hell was that Rae?" yelled the young boy, "You almost go shot!"

"Sorry!" she said from under him as he started to clamber off. "I—I," she found herself unable to say what she was thinking: that she had simply been scared that maybe he had gotten hurt in some way. A loud noise off to the right cut off what she couldn't tell him. Beast Boy, startled, crouched down over her, looking around wildly. Heat started to creep up from her collar until he changed into a lion and started to sniff the air. Growling he shifted his weight and stared off to the side, readying himself to fight.

"Wrong way," came a taunting voice from straight ahead as a gun muzzle appeared and beam of light hit the lion in the chest.