Before he'd finished morphing into a hawk, Beast Boy changed his mind and his body quickly changed. Now a pterodactyl, he grabbed the unconscious Raven from out of the air and swooped back down, just as a lethal disc of darkness sliced through where his neck had been.

Get to the tower. Get to the tower. Get to the tower. It was all that mattered. Once he got there, he should be safe. Robin had a plan...Robin always had a plan. Beast Boy veered left and right, doing his best to avoid the shots from behind without looking behind him. The purple Raven's arms were tightly clutched within his giant talons, and she swung along with him as he rapidly banked right, then left, then right.

The shoreline! He could see it ahead. Only a few hundred metres after that was the Tower...and backup. He only hoped he could reach it in time...

xxxx

If he wasn't strained to his limit with the seriousness of the situation, Robin would have laughed at the group assembled on the Tower. It was one thing to meet a couple strange Ravens, but to see them all together was beyond imagination. After the brown Raven let him down, he went straight to the original Raven and the yellow one, who never left her side.

"Are they all here? The mirror, is it repaired? How is Raven?"

"Calm down, Robin," the yellow Raven murmured, pushing her glasses up her nose. "To answer your questions, 'they' are here, all of me. Except one. And the mirror is not yet complete – give me the pieces you have retrieved."

Robin handed his two shards to her, and she in turn placed them within the frame of the mirror. The glass healed itself instantly, as though it had never shattered. Now there was only a small, L-shaped hole in the centre.

"One more piece," he thought aloud. The yellow Raven nodded, and as she did, Cyborg appeared in the doorway to the stairs, followed by the happy Raven and one wearing an orange cloak. Robin raised an eyebrow.

Cyborg, a little less serious than Robin, saw the humour of the situation. "Here," he said. "Lemme introduce you to the collection." The half-robot guided the two brightly-coloured Ravens to the rest of the group, and began pointing to each of them in turn. "You've met her, she's the happy one. This one's the lazy one...yea, I know. I didn't know there was one either. Here's the brave Raven, and this is...according to Starfire, the 'emotionless' Raven."

"This isn't a party, Cyborg," said the brown Raven coldly.

Cyborg and Robin exchanged a look, the half-robot recognising this particular version of Raven. He retorted, "Well then, Raven, what do we do now?"

The 'serious' Raven explained to Cyborg and Starfire about the red-cloaked Raven. "She's coming right now," she hissed.

It just so happened that at that moment, there was a loud, panicked cry from above. Everyone instantly looked up and saw, several hundred metres away, Beast Boy, carrying another Raven. Or at least, he had been. It appeared he'd just been hit, and now he let go of the purple-cloaked Raven and fell, unable to fly anymore.

Robin and Starfire launched themselves off of the edge of the Tower and caught both of the Titans in the nick of time. Robin shot his birdarang back up to the roof and Cyborg caught it, while Starfire floated back up, a dazed Beast Boy in her arms.

"Ow-ow! Don't touch my arm!" the changeling cried, holding his left forearm and grimacing in pain. "Up there! Quick, watch out!"

POW! BOOM! The large crowd on the Tower roof scattered as the renegade Raven threw more lethal spheres of energy down at them. As Robin and the purple Raven reached the roof, they were almost knocked back, as another projectile blew the edge into rubble. Robin dived forward, still holding Raven, and they landed safely on the tarmac. The Titans leader yelled, "Does 'that one' have the last piece?"

From across the onslaught, Robin saw the yellow Raven nod solemnly. The entire group of Ravens (excepting a half-conscious purple one) had gathered around their fallen, original form, protecting her from her very own grumpy side. Robin thought quickly; they needed the last piece for the mirror, and of course they couldn't harm this red Raven, no matter what she was trying to do. They needed to subdue her somehow...distract her, perhaps.

He placed the slowly-waking purple Raven on the concrete next to Beast Boy, and tossed several tiny orbs straight up. BOM-BOM-BOM-PSSSSsss... Suddenly the air above was filled with dense smoke. Cyborg instantly understood the plan and turned his searchlight onto full-blast. The beam of white light tore through the smoke so the Titans could see a silhouette – Raven, coughing. Starfire soared into the black cloud and joined the silhouette. Since Beast Boy was injured, Robin had to jump onto Cyborg's shoulders and take a massive leap into the air, shooting one of his roped birdarangs as he did. Then there was only silence.

Beast Boy, Cyborg and the many Ravens stared into the smoke, wondering what was happening. There was a small moan beside the changeling, and he turned to see the Raven from the library, looking immensely tired. Barely knowing what he was doing, Beast Boy took her hand and squeezed it, making her smile back at him. Inside him he felt the sun shine; Raven's smile was rare, but beautiful – he was going to miss this side of Raven. That is, if they ever managed to get the last piece of the mirror...

"I got 'er!" Cyborg called. Out of the dense cloud, the red-cloaked Raven fell – right into the half-robot's arms. She was bound with tough cord, and her eyes burned in fury.

"Do you really think that will work?" the brown-cloaked Raven called, insinuating the worst. Even as Starfire carried Robin back out of the smoke, the thick, metallic cord began snapping away from Raven, sliced right through. As they fell away, the cords were drenched in darkness and began wrapping themselves around Cyborg.

The red Raven finally broke away, leaving the half-robot to deal with the possessed cords. She easily eluded both Robin and Starfire's grasp and glided swiftly away from the Titans and toward the huddling Ravens, her hands beginning to glow once more. The alien girl and Boy Wonder tore straight after her.

However, Beast Boy watched Cyborg in horror; helplessly lying on the concrete, as the tough cords began tightening, more...more...the metal began to bend, creating an awful clanking sound. "Cy!" he yelled. "Guys, help! Cybooorg!"

His call managed to catch everyone' attention, but not before it was too late. In one final squeeze, the cords binding Cyborg pulled so tight that one of his arms fell off...and, it seemed, so that he completely shut down. All of his lights went off, and Cyborg collapsed, as if...as if...

Every side of Raven but the red one screamed at the top of their lungs, "CYBORG, NO!"