'You can't just keep ignoring me Raven' Lust said cockily
She had not stopped talking in my head since we had left the school. Now we were in a car on our way to some interrogation place, I assumed.
'I'm not ignoring you, I just choose not to answer you. Now stop bothering me. I'm trying to think of what to do. Somehow I think they will see me as the one responsible no matter what I say. After all they do know that I blew up the school.' lust didn't seem to get the hint because she kept on talking.
"Hey Bats? How much longer?" flash asked from the back seat of the car.
Batman ignored him and kept driving with John beside him in the front passenger seat.
'Oh he is a cute one. And he is lightning fast, there are so many wonderful things that can be done with someone like that' lust hinted with a purr in her voice.
'Oh Azar, please help me. Lust get control of yourself and go away. I am not interested in flash.' I thought and then looked out the window to see where we were going. Lust had taken my advice and left my mind for the moment. With some peace in my mind, I could finally think things through.
Suddenly, there was an explosion to the right which caused batman to swerve to the left.
"Damn" batman cursed and brought the car to the right sharply as another explosion came from the left.
My hands were bond in front of me and the alien man John had bound my powers with my consent of course. No need for my powers if I had nothing to hide right? Wrong, I should have known that fate would throw something my way to mess things up.
"Hold on!" batman called out to all the occupants of the car.
The car went into the air in that moment and flipped a couple of times. There was nothing but the sound of Raven's fading scream was left as the car fell off of the bridge into the raging river below.
"Dude, robin what are you going to do?" Beast boy asked as he tried to keep up with robin's fast pace.
"I'm going to talk to headmistress* and get this mess cleaned up. They had no right to take her without any real concrete proof. Just because there was dark energy at the club doesn't mean she was the one to attack it. I know for sure that she wasn't there after we left." robin was steaming and not paying much attention to the words he was venting to the rest of the team that was trailing behind him.
"And how exactly do you know for sure that she wasn't there last night?" Cyborg asked in a brotherly protective voice.
"Because we stayed in the same room last night! Is that what you wanted to hear Cyborg?" Robin lost his temper and turned on Cyborg with all his pent up energy. Cyborg was tempted to take robin's bait and start a fight but he could see that robin was upset about what was being done to raven.
Before they could say anymore, headmasterShiera and two of the school guards came rushing down the hallway. Shiera looked worry stricken and only one thing could cause their composed headmistress to look so freaked; batman had been hurt.
They quickly went after her in the direction of the front entrance. Everyone thought the same thing at that moment; raven had been with batman. At the entrance there were five figures slugging in to the main hall. Three of those figures were drenched in water and leaning against the two school guards for support.
"What happened?" Shiera asked as she ran to batman and looked him over. He seemed unhurt but exhausted none the less.
"Where is Raven?" Robin stepped up next to Shiera and demanded the answer.
"Taken" Batman said in shame for the fact that it had happened while he was there.
"How?" Robin barely concealed his anger as he realized that he had let raven go and now she was taken.
"We were on our way to see Doctor Fate but then we were attacked. It was just like the attack on that club. Then when we got on shore Raven was being taken away unconsciously by someone in a completely black bodysuit that has a red-x placed right over his left pectoral muscle, an ash-gray utility belt with matching gloves that have red-X's on the palms and back of the hands, a pair of black boots with steel-soles and a black cape that has an ash-gray interior. His mask consists of a white skull, which has no lower jaw, on a black full-face mask and a red-x going starting on his forehead and with a point of the x is ending beneath his right eye." Batman recalled in detail what the person who had taken raven looked like.
"Where?" Robin was already going over a plan on tracking down this guy and getting raven back. The others would demand to come with him no doubt, so he would make sure that his plans included them.
"The bridge off of Chesly rd. But don't bother looking for something to lead to her because we already searched. We have to wait" Batman told robin in a stern commanding tone.
"You can wait but I won't" robin said as he by passed batman and the others and headed for the exit. He would find Raven if it was the last thing he did.
"What exactly are we looking for?" Beast boy asked as he waded into the water behind cyborg.
Starfire was flying above trying to see if anything relevant was floating in the waters down stream. Robin was chest deep in water and about to go under water to search for a clue as to where raven could be. But before he can, something flies in front of him and hits the water.
"Don't bother looking for her in there" A masculine voice calls from somewhere behind the group. They all turn in unison to see a dark dressed figure on the edge of the bridge. He was wearing a skull mask just as batman had described him.
"What have you done with her?" robin demanded as he reached for something in his utility belt.
"She is safe...for now. I have big plans for her. You see I have been watching her for many years and I have come to the conclusion that she is meant for greater things and yet she is too...timid I guess you could say. Her powers can reach much farther levels than she could imagine but not alone apparently, so that is where I come in. No one will underestimate her and hurt her again. But for that to happen she must lose control and hand it over to someone else." the masked figure pointed to himself
"You are insane" Beast boy stated flatly in one of his few moments of seriousness.
"Perhaps but she is losing control and soon she will have to give herself over to someone willingly. That someone will be me. Whether she know it or not. You are all just puppets helping the process along. Especially you" the masked man pointed at robin as he said this.
"What are talking about?" robin didn't like being a part of anyone's plans especially if it affected those he cared about.
"Keep making her FEEL, boy wonder. Her weakness comes from her emotions and soon they will over power her and she will lose control. That school she destroyed is only a drop of her true powers. Once her full powers are released the world will fall to its knees." the masked man cackled and threw smoke bombs towards the young heroes.
The smoke cleared and the teens were left starring at an empty space. Robin starred and tried to process what had just been revealed to him. Could it be true that he was causing raven's weakening? What was he going to do?
"Here" cyborg handed a X shaped boomerang that the masked figure had thrown into the water to get their attention.
"Come on we have work to do" robin said as he stowed away the boomerang in his belt for later inspection.
"Damn" I murmured as I pried myself from the tight grasps of unconsciousness. There was a throbbing in my head that indicated I had I blow to the head. I tried to raise my hand to rub my aching head but I discovered my hands were bound behind my back. Just to assess my situation, I tried moving my legs too but found them tied as well.
Great, now I was completely useless and I had no idea what had happened. Now I had to find a way out of where ever I was and get back to robin and the others.
'maybe we could help you raven' knowledge intersected my train of thought and added her input.
'not now, first thing is first. We have to find out what the situation is and get some answers.' I told her and the rest of my emotions as nicely as I dared.
My eyes had finally gotten adjusted to the darkness of the room I was being held in and I began to scan the room for any signs of escape or life. The place looked like an old abandoned basement with no windows. The air reeked of old dust and it rasped against my lungs. From where I sat it was hard to see anything but the columns that probably kept the building up. It was dark but light came from somewhere and if I had any chance of escaping, I would have to find out where that light was coming from.
"ugh" came a groan from somewhere in the basement.
"who is there?" I called out in the direction of where the groan had come from. It might be a friend or foe, I didn't really know but I was willing to take the risk.
"What happened? Where am I?" Micheal's voice filled the musky basement air.
"M...Micheal?" my breath caught in my throat as his name carried with it a ball of emotions. It just couldn't be true, could it?
"Raven is that you?" His voice was laced with surprise and worry.
"I'm over here" my voice came out raspy and I fought against the emotional storm that wanted to come out.
'Raven we won't be denied.' my emotions said in my head and it took all I had to keep them in order.
'please not now' I begged my emotions so this moment would not be destroyed along with everything else around me.
'only this once' wisdom said and I felt my emotions reside into the never-never.
"Raven"
Suddenly, Micheal's face filled my vision and I forgot everything else. He was alive and that was all that mattered.
"robin"batman called as he came into the observation room.
Robin had been in there looking over tapes and traffic camera for any signs of raven or her masked kidnapper.
"I haven't found anything yet" he reported and didn't turn around from the computer screen.
"you need sleep. Go on and I will keep watch and let you know if anything comes up."batman said and put his hand on robin's shoulder.
"no" was robin's only answer and he went back to scanning the cameras.
"Maybe you should talk to the others and see if they have found anything or know of anyway of contacting her" batman tried again to get the young hero away from the computer screen.
"Cyborg created communicators for all of us and we all agreed that if we had anything new we would contact each other." robin typed away at the keyboard to lock into a new district of cameras.
"have you talked to john?" batman man stepped away to look at the papers that robin had spewed across a table.
"what does john know?" robin stopped what he was doing completely and turned to face batman fully.
"you know he could help find her since she is telepathic and so is john maybe there is a way for him to contact her." batman stated as if he had already known this.
"and you choose to tell me this just now?" robin stood and shook with agitation at his former mentor.
"John was unconscious until recently. I knew you wouldn't let him rest so I waited" batman stated flatly and watched as robin stormed off towards the door of the observation room.
"I would have waited" robin said stubbornly and stomped off
"you still have much to learn my young one" batman said as he took up the position in front of the computer screen to continue where robin had left off.
A/N:sorry for making these chapter so short but this is 5 pages in my documents so i guess its enough for me. tell me what you think so far. I'm not getting many review so i am not putting much importance into this story. so if you want me to update faster and more please review.