Chapter 6
The Joker parked his car about ten miles away from Titan Tower, in a warehouse area. He walked to the trunk and popped it open. The Joker looked down at the emotionless Raven looking back up at him. "Here you are... you are free. Your powers should return in about two hours."
Raven eyed the Joker, 'Why was he doing this? I thought he was going to kill me in some twisted way.' Raven thought to herself.
"Hurry up and get out." The Joker pressed. "Your wasting my time."
"Why... why aren't you going to kill me?" Raven asked confused.
"Because... you wouldn't fear me even if I killed you, so it is a wast." The Joker explained, "But... you see you are my play thing, and you are defective... so I must return you, and get another."
"No... I wont let you." Raven said her voice still only louder than a whisper, still with no emotion.
"I think the orange haired one will do nice. HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAAAHA!" The Joker laughed, and threw Raven out of the trunk. "Toodles." The Joker waved and drove off to the Tower, to Starfire.
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"Cyborg and Beast Boy, you investigate the warehouse Harley said was their hide out. Starfire and I will..." Robin explained the plan, but was cut off quickly by Starfire when she heard she wasn't going.
"Robin shouldn't I go?" Starfire asked.
"No Star. This is only recon, when we are sure that is where the Joker has Raven we will strike, but until then we are only sending two so our cover isn't blown." Robin explained.
Starfire didn't understand they weren't attacking now. The sooner they attack the sooner she gets to see Raven again.
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Raven walked in the direction of the tower. She knew she wouldn't get there in time to save Starfire, but she had to try. Every step toward the tower she felt stronger, she felt her powers coming back. With no emotions to control, her powers felt like they had no limits.
It must have been a good thirty minutes until she had enough power to fly, and after she was flying she arrived at the tower in only minutes.
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The phone rang at Titan Tower, and Robin answered it quickly. "Robin here." Robin heard the voice at the other end tell him about a bank being robbed on the other end of the city. "We'll be there in a minute." Robin debaited over if he, or Starfire should go. One person had to be here incase if Cyborg and Beast Boy found something, and the way Starfire has been acting lately made him rethink sending her. Robin walked Starfire's room and knocked on the door. When heard nothing in return he leaned to the door and in a voice just below a shout Robin told her, he was going to stop a bank robbery, he needed her to stay here incase Cyborg and BB needed backup, and he would be back shortly.
Starfire sat in a ball in the corner of her room thinking about Raven, like she always did when she was alone. Before long Starfire heard Robin shout about going stop a robbery, and it knocked her out of her trance. Her felt her face and found streams of tears where she had been crying unknowingly. "Raven I'm falling apart without you, please let us find you soon."
Not long after Robin left Starfire heard something in the kitchen, knowing that she and Harley were the only two there went to see what she was up to. When she reached the common room she heard shouting from the kitchen. One voice was Harley, the other Starfire had never heard before. Starfire waited lessening to their conversation.
"Mistah J! You found me!" A happy Harley yelled.
"Harley? What are you doing here?" The unknown voice asked.
"Oh Mistah J it has been terrible, Bird Brain kidnapped me why I was at da store, a'd Old Orange hair did this to me." Harley whined.
The voice was silent for a minute, Starfire could only imagine Harley was showing the intruder her broken fingers. Then the voice spoke up in a fiery rage. "What? No one hurts my Harley! No one! Where is she?" The voice demanded.
"I don't know they've had me tied here." A scared sounding Harley explained.
Starfire only knew of one person Harley was friends with, The Joker guy. Starfire readied a starbolt and fired it in the direction of where the mystery voice was. The blot flew through the wall and hit its mark sending the Joker off his feet.
"Hey speak of the devil." The Joker said as he made his way back up.
"You are the one who has Raven. Give her back to me!" Starfire demanded.
"Oh you want me to give back your little girlfriend?" The Joker laughed. "I tell you what, I'll let you take her place, you come with me and I'll let her go."
"That is not what I said. I told you to give her back." Starfire said readying another starblot.
The Joker laughed and put his hands to his sides. "I can throw green too toots" The Joker the squirted green acid out of the purple flower on his suit at Starfire.
The acid hit Starfire's arm and ate away it's arm band, but didn't damage the skin. "My race is much stronger than humans." Starfire informed angrily. Starfire then held up her communicator "Friends the Joker guy is at the tower."
"The Joker scowled at the teenage girl. "Take this." The Joker yelled and tossed a couple of bombs with a jester painted at her. They exploded inches from Starfire releasing their purple gas.
Starfire at once started coughing. The more she coughed the more she felt the urge to laugh. Starfire fell to one knee coughing and laughing, until she was only laughing. She couldn't stop. Starfire felt her heart rate riseing as she laughed.
The Joker watched and laughed himself. "Thats right... one nice big laugh. HAHAHAAAHHAHAHHAHAHAHA!"
The Joker heard another voice say, "Azarath, Metrion, Zinthos." The Joker looked to his right where the familiar voice had come from, and was hit by a dark blast pining him up against the wall.
"Raven!" Starfire yelled as she could recognize the incantation anywhere. Starfire watched as Raven walked in the room with her head down and her hair covering up her face. Starfire felt Raven's healing glow surround her, killing the urge to laugh, and settling her heart .
"You!" The Joker yelled in rage, "You weren't suppose to have your powers back for another hour or so."
"Or so you though." Raven responded in her only above a whisper, emotionless voice.
Starfire ran up to Raven and embraced her in a deep hug. This was the happiest moment of her life, she knew all she needed to do was not give up hope, and her Raven would return.
As Starfire held her, Raven stood still hiding her face. "Raven?" A worried Starfire asked. "Are you all right?" The Joker then burst into laughter. Starfire combed her hair out of her face, and her eyes grew in fear. "Raven what has he done to you?"
"I just made her that way she was meant to be" The Joker laughed.
"Why would you do something, so terrible?" Starfire asked in tears.
"It was funny." The Joker replied.
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Robin heard Starfire's voice through the communicator, and his eyes widened. He had just found out the robbery was a hoax, it was all just to get her at the tower alone. Robin turned him motor cycle around and headed back.
Beast Boy and Cyborg heard Starfire's voice and they ran back to the T-car, and rushed back.
The rest of the Titans rushed into the Tower and found The Joker pined against the wall by a black force, and Starfire crying hugging Raven as she just stood there.
"Ah it is Guano Man Jr, and his team the Tater Tots." The Joker laughed. The black light around the Joker faded and he fell to the floor. When he looked up Robin was there to place handcuffs on him. "Oh no fair." The Joker pouted.
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The Joker and Harley where send back to Arkum home for the criminally insane. After a quick search of the Joker hide out they found what faze three was to his plan. The Joker had planted hundreds of pounds of explosives under roads that exit the city, and enough Joker Venom to kill the entire city.
Raven was sent to the Jump City Hospital, and after circulating human blood into through her veins she finally started to look like her old self again. All the Titans were forced to wait in the waiting room while they worked on Raven until finally a doctor emerged.
"Your friend is going to be OK physically, but she doesn't seem to show any emotions. It is like she is dead inside."
The Titans were hit with shock. "She... she is going to get better right?" Starfire asked.
"I'm afraid it doesn't look too go. She will most likely be like this for the rest of her life. She needs you all now more than ever." The doctor explained.
"No! No this can't be" Starfire wined.
"You can see her now, if you like." The doctor then led them to the room Raven was being held in.
Raven looked like she did before the Joker, except her hair was still long. She looked distant, like she was in another world, and this shadow watched over her body until she got back.
"Raven... It is your friends." Starfire said to get her attention. Raven turned to look at the, but none of her facial fetchers changed in the slightest.
Raven turned to see the people who she called friends walk in. 'One would think they would want to know what happened to me.' She thought to herself. Raven then greeted them with a blank stare and a whispered tone. "Hi."
"The doctors say you are going to be ok, and you should be abel to leave in the morning." Robin told her, replaying what the doctor said in his mind. "She will most likely be like this for the rest of her life."
"Aren't you glad to see us?" Beast Boy asked. As soon as he did everyone eyed him.
"Yes." Raven lied. It wasn't that she disliked seeing them, but she felt incapable of felling.
"Well I think we should let Starfire and Raven have time to talk." Robin said as he pushed everyone one else out.
As soon as they were alone Starfire burst into tears, "Oh Raven why did the Joker do this to you?"
"The Joker didn't do this." RAven explained. "I'm the one who fried my emotions."
Starfire couldn't believe it. "Why... why would you do such a thing?" She asked a little anger in her voice.
"I had to stop the Joker." Raven explained, "The Joker was planning on acting on my rage emotion, and sending me to hurt you, and the city. I couldn't let him."
Starfire looked into her blank eyes. "You did this because you didn't wish to hurt me?"
"If you love someone, you would never hurt them." Raven said
Starfire felt hope that her Raven would return. "Do you love me?"
Raven paused at the question, she could give her the answer she wanted to hear, but she knew Starfire deserved the truth. Raven searched herself for any feeling of love, anywhere, even if it was only for a second. "... ... ... I... use to."
Raven's answer sent Starfire crashing down back to Earth, tears formed in her eye once again. "Raven... I love you... We have been through so much... I refused to believe you couldn't love me back then, and I do so now... ... Please tell me you at least feel something for me... anything."
Raven felt a flicker of something she use to call love, but only for a moment. Raven slipped her hand into Starfire's. Starfire watched and smiled as she did this. It was Raven's unspoken way of telling her she still loved her.
Tears streamed down Starfire's face, only this time tears of joy. "That is all I asked for." She said happily.
Raven knew it was a long shot, but being with Starfire felt right. She couldn't feel a lot of things, but one thing she could feel was love, and that's the only one that mattered.
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The Joker sat in his cell in Arkum, He had underestimated his the orange haired girl, and Rachel's powers. The drug he kept her on to surprise her power had lost its effect way earlier than anticipated. 'Oh well' He though. The Joker would leave his cell and break out when he wanted to, but for now he was content in his cell next to Two Face's.
"You really though Buttman would just sit and watch you try to take over the city?" The Joker asked.
"... Shut up!" Was all the Joker heard fro the cell next to him, which threw him in to a fit of laughter.
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Through meditation, and the help of Starfire, Raven started to recover her lost emotions. Beast Boy said she was still dull as a door knob, in fact the only other person who could tell a difference in her personality was Starfire.
Raven thought if she would ever be the same again. It took her two months to crack a smile, and it still wasn't much of a smile. It would take time, and as long as Starfire was next to her, she had all the time in the world.
The End
A\N Well finally I finished. Tell me how you liked it, and if you have any questions don't be afraid to PM me. Special thanks to all for supporting me from the beginning. There should be a poll at my profile for you to vote on what I should write next. To all my readers, I love you all. =^.^=