A/N: We've reached another mark! 5 people have favorited this story and are loyally following it! I have something to say about this, but that can wait till the end of the chapter. So, after a lot of consideration, I'm going for a combination of Eris's and Aceman88's idea. Along with suggestions from my sister.
It was a peaceful night in Jump City, where it seemed like no crime was going to be committed tonight. Alas, that would not be for long as the Jump City Museum's front was exploded by a flash of light. Stepping out of the rubble and smoke was the infamous Dr. Light, holding onto a 8 sided prism. He laughed at his success until a jet hovered over the crime scene, in which he snarled,
"Titans." Beast Boy was the first to jump out and called out,
"It's lights out for you, Dr. Light!" To avoid the incoming light beams, he turned into a much smaller flying squirrel that managed to land on the doctor's face. While the shapeshifter was able to get a few scratches in, Light was able to throw him off with a grunt and blast him away with light. The villain was hardly amused.
"Really? A light pun? The rest of you better not do that or you'll drive me nuts. I hate puns!"
"You just made one dummy!" Cyborg remarked as he flew around with his jetpack. "Anyway Doctor, prepare to have your lights punched out!" Revealing many small rockets from his shoulders, he fired two dozen at the villain only for him to shoot out flairs away from his body, keeping the explosions at a distance. Cyborg tried to punch at him, but was repelled by an expanding light shield.
"Another one?! How childish can you be?!" He yelled out with more irritation.
"Star, make another pun. That may get him angry enough for Raven to do the job." Robin instructed Starfire, whom nodded as she flew down from the jet and prepared to attack.
"Do not worry, the Doctor Light shall need a doctor when I am through with him!" The alien warrior fired two starbolts at him, but Dr. Light absorbed them with ease and redirected the energy at a nearby statue of Superman, reflecting off its chest and pushing Starfire into a car, damaging it greatly.
"Augh! Shut up with the puns! I will show you what happens when you make light of Dr. Light! Oh-God dang it! Now I can't stop making them! Feel my wrath, as I shall unleash the power of Janus's prism, which shall obliterate you a-AHHH!" He screamed as he fell through a portal Raven made underneath his feet with a snap of her fingers, catching the prism he was holding. Dr. Light was dropped into a cell at the supervillain jail they go to, and scowled as the portal closed. The jet hovered down to the ground, where Robin came to congratulate the their success.
"Great job team. And nice way to finish this quickly, Raven."
"Thanks. So what do we do with this then?" The sorceress asked in her usual dry tone.
"I'll talk to the owner of said museum about us holding onto it until the museum is repaired." As the Boy Wonder walked towards the museum, police cars started to appear, so Raven went inside the jet so they don't bother her. As the titans one by one entered the jet, Starfire and Beast Boy somewhat bruised but mostly okay, they talked while waiting for Robin.
"So, where are we going to put the prism? Can't just leave it in the attic or basement." Cyborg stated with a shrug.
"I'll keep it in my room for the time being." Raven answered. "If Dr. Light wanted it as a way to become powerful than simply sell it, then it must hold some sort of power, and maybe some mythological power to it as well, since he referenced it was Janus's."
"Who is that?" Starfire asked.
"One of the Roman gods of the ancient Roman Empire. He's usually known for ruling over the beginnings and ends of time, since he has two faces that look into the past and future, though the exact details are widely debated. I will need to study this to see what Dr. Light was planning to do with this."
"Doesn't that seem like Wonder Woman's thing?" Cyborg asked.
"It would... if it were actually Greek. The Romans would eventually change the mythology into their own, and Janus is exclusively Roman."
"Huh. History can be so confusing sometimes." Beast Boy commented while shrugging. Robin soon came back into the jet.
"Alright team, we've been given permission to keep the crystal for the time being, so we're going home."
Raven entered her room, not wanting any of her friends to mess with it since it looking shiny and interesting to them. She placed it on the vanity, right next to her Nevermore mirror, the handle of which stuck out over the edge by a few inches. Turning away, the titan went to a bookcase to slide out the one thing she rarely uses for situations like this... a laptop. Just because she preferred books didn't mean internet access was something she turned away, and she knew there wasn't any books in the tower's library specifically about gods of ancient past. After spending the next few minutes looking up everything there is to know about Janus, she closed the laptop, placed it back in the bookcase, and went to her bed to briefly meditate when her arm and cloak bumped into the mirror's handle, causing it to swerve and push the prism off the table, along with the mirror following suite. Raven turned and her eyes opened wide.
"No!" She cried out before the two made it to the floor, the mirror landing on a pointy edge of the prism.
The titans have just made himself dinner, and Beast Boy enjoyed the smell.
"Hmm. Nothing beats the smell of perfectly cooked veggie and bean quesadilla." Taking his plate, he went over to the other titans where they were eating their own dinners at the couch where the tv was on commercial. That is, except for Raven. "Hey, any of dudes know if Raven's eating with us or not?"
"I don't know. It's only been what, an hour since we got back? I'm sure she'll eat when she feels like it." Cyborg shrugged while eating his stake.
"Should we not at least make sure she is the alright? Raven did say she was inspecting that prism for something." Starfire suggested. Robin nodded.
"Good idea. I'll call her." Taking his communicator out, he called Raven, whom picked up, not wearing her hood up.
"What?"
"It's dinner. Don't you want to eat with us?"
"Not tonight." She replied before hanging up. The titan leader narrowed his eyes suspiciously.
"Alright, we're checking on her in person."
"Why? Cyborg asked.
"Two reasons. One, she would've explained why she didn't want to eat. And two, which is the more important reason; she had yellow irises." That got everyone's attention.
"Yellow irises? I wouldn't think she'd be wearing contacts." Cyborg commented.
"I wouldn't think so too. Let's go." Once all the titans were in front of her door, they did rock paper scissors on who should knock the door. In the end, Cyborg was the chosen. Steeling himself, the metallic titan knocked on the door twice, before a black energy hand with a red outline pushed the door off its hinges and smashed Cyborg into the opposite wall before he could even utter a noise. The others were shocked, but remained silent when an angry voice growled,
"I told you all... Don't enter my-" A giant black demon face with four red eyes popped out and screamed. "-ROOOOOOOOOM!" The head retreated back into the darkness of the room. However, not one to even let Raven treat them like this, the titan leader stepped through the doorway and questioned,
"Raven, what is wrong with-" He stopped seeing not just one Raven in a dark blue cloak, but 8 in all sorts of colored cloaks. Beast Boy and Starfire looked in as well and gasped.
"Whoa! Emoticlones! I remember them!"
"Hi Beast Boy!" The pink cloaked cloaked happy emoticlone greeted as she hugged him. Cyborg pushed the door cramping him to the wall down, grunting from the effort. Seeing the clones though, he gasped like everybody else.
"Hey, it's all you Ravens!"
"Ok ok ok, what is happening here? How are there so many of you?" Robin questioned, seriously confused. Instead of an answer though, he got slapped in the face by the angry red Raven.
"I already told you not to enter my room! What part of that do you not understand?!" She hissed at the titan leader as she lifted him up by his shirt, but was kicked away in the face by the green cloaked Raven.
"Cool it Red. They're just curious about what happened to their friend. I respect them for entering our room despite you." Rage grumbled, holding her bruised chin as she slinked behind them all.
"Uhhh... thanks." Robin expressed before shaking his head and looked at the two other male titans. "Beast Boy. Cyborg. You seem... familiar with them. Care to explain?" The two looked at each other, unsure how to feel about this.
"Remember the time we defeated Dr. Light long ago and Raven lost control of herself for a small while?" The green teen started as he and Cyborg alternated.
"We tried checking on her afterward..."
"...But Cy knocked her door down and we saw no one in here."
"It was accidental. But I'm not the only guilty person here. Grass Stain here messed with her stuff and looked at a mirror."
"After that was a lot of confusing stuff, so I'll just summarize what happened was we entered her mind, met her emotions, and learned the value of friendship." Beast Boy ended with a smile and using his two fingers to trail a heart.
"Oh, I'm so glad we're friends!" Happy replied as she hugged him a second time. Robin stood there a few seconds before shaking his head.
"Good thing I've heard and seen weirder. But this does com close at the top. I wonder why this happened?"
"It's because of those." One of the emoticlones said behind him. He turned to see a yellow cloaked Raven wearing glasses holding up said broken mirror to Nevermore while also looking at the perfectly broken eight prism shards. "When Raven accidentally bumped into the mirror, causing it and the prism to fall, the two hit each other and broke, separating Raven into all of us."
"And we're all free now! Free! Free! Free!" Happy cheered as she flew around and hugged Starfire, causing her to laugh along as she returned the hug.
"Oh ho ho, I so very much like this happy Raven!"
"I don't like it here. Too many people." Timid squeaked from underneath the bed.
"Oh, there's definitely something I like here." A magenta cloaked Raven said as she walked up to Beast Boy and tried to kiss him, but he pushed her back.
"Whoa whoa, dude! We're not even dating! I don't want to take advantage of you while you're split! Even if you're her passionate part, I think. Are any or all of you even Raven if there's no main one?" He questioned them all. This did pose quite the puzzler to all the clones. Even if Raven wasn't in Nevermore, it was still her mind and thus all existed as their own entity. But with no main Raven, could all of them collectively be called her? Just because all the broken pieces of a mirror are put in place doesn't make the picture whole. Passion smiled thinking of something.
"Aw, that's sweet and considerate of you Beastie, but since Raven would never say it outright, how about we settle it like this?" She then turned to the other emoticlones. "Who here thinks we're good couple material?"
"We'd be such a cute and happy couple!" Happy giggled, going from Starfire to Beast Boy to hug, making him uncomfortable this time due to the topic at hand. "The romance, the dates, the presents and kissy kisses... that would be so much fun."
"I-I don't kn-know." Timid quivered while hiding most of her body. "Wh-what if it doesn't work out a-and we wind up ha-hating each other?"
"Ah, you think that's the worst of it?" Bravery chuckled. "If that's the worst you can think of, then I'm sure things will work out. Life is risks and danger. Go right ahead, I say!" The green cloaked Raven stated with a smile.
"I don't really care, but maybe there's some fun to it." Rude shrugged while cleaning out her ear.
"I don't care either. At least he's a slob." Sloth yawned before falling asleep... by falling face first onto the floor.
"I don't much have preference in this either, but it would be interesting to see what happens when we eventually combine." Knowledge said as she pushed her glasses up the bridge of her nose.
"I can't believe what I'm hearing here!" Rage complained, voicing her agitation. "He's an immature slob with the common sense of a pre-school child! How can any of you stand the idea of being a girlfriend to that doofus?!"
"Because he's taking strides to treat Raven the way she likes, not strictly his own way." Knowledge countered. "Sure, he's immature, but his heart is noble. Is he smart? No, but he's creative and adaptable. Is he a slob that could stand to shower more? Yes, but there's just some things about people we can't change, as well as need to overlook in the grand scheme of things. He's got faults, but his pros weight far more than his cons. So be quiet while we talk." With no way to effectively voice her opinion anymore aside from pain, and that seemed unlikely with how many of them surrounded her, the red cloaked emoticlone growled curses at them while retreating into the closet to sulk within her rage.
"So, what do you think?" Passion asked Beast Boy. He thought hard about this, his mind sounding like a car sputtering, trying to ignite. But once a spark did ignite, his face brightened up.
"Well, while there's Rage and Timid to consider strongly, but excluding them, three of you like me that way while three of you don't care. So here's a middle road thing. I'll let you kiss me and such, which I rather do like..." He said with a smile. "...but I actively won't do anything, that way both of us are respected. Right?" He inquired, nervous on how they'll react.
"That... sounds rather mature for you, BB." Cyborg admitted, looking surprised.
"Indeed. That sounds the most understandable to me." Starfire agreed.
"I think you're making a very wise decision, Beast Boy." Robin said with an approving look and a nod.
"Sounds fine to me." Passion shrugged as she kissed him on the cheek.
"Well, with all that out of the way, let's go to the living room so that we have more room to talk about this." The Boy Wonder recommended before leaving the room, followed by almost everyone else.
All of the Raven emoticlones were lined up in the best rainbow color assortment they could do, and Robin went down the list left to right with a writing board and pen.
"Alright. Orange, what might your emotion be?" He asked, but she replied with a loud burp, slightly covering his face with saliva. He was not amused. "Well that was just rude."
"Bingo." She smiled before sticking her tongue out with a raspberry.
"Right. Ok, so what's-"
"You may refer to my designated name to be Knowledge." She said in an unnecessarily sophisticated.
"I would've figured from the glasses, but I wanted to be sure. Alright, and you?"
"Call me Brave, fearless leader!" She smiled while saluting. "I embody Raven's fighting spirit and my namesake!" She proceeded to do a one-two punch and then a kick accompanied by quick yells.
"Very cool. I wouldn't mind going a few rounds with you in the training room."
"Yeah! Looking forward to it chief!" She agreed wholeheartedly. The Boy Wonder nodded with a smile before proceeding to the magenta colored Raven. "Alright, what kind of romantic are you?"
"Whatever you want me to be." She flirted, making Robin raise his eyebrow. She giggled before assuring, "Just kidding. Hehe, call me Passion."
"Oookay. Just keep your flirting under harassment levels and we're good." The titan leader made clear, which she nodded to. Next was Pink. "It's obvious you're Happiness."
"Guilty as charged!" She laughed before hugging him. "You're such a good leader!" Despite trying to be professional about this, her emotional output was just too much and he laughed as well.
"Hehe, thanks. Please get back in line?" She continued to giggle as she backed away. Last of the line was the one wearing a grey cloak. "And your name?" She turned away from him and didn't dare look at him in the eyes.
"Ti-timid." This display caused Robin's face to soften and asked sympathetically,
"Are you okay?"
"I... don't know." She answered barely higher than a whisper before magically turning into a shadow and slinked under the couch. He sighed before turning to the titans.
"Well titans, what do you think of this situation?" He asked the others.
"Personally I think this is gonna be awesome. I mean, I do want Raven back, but now we have three Ravens at least that could seriously help us." Cyborg said as he ate his reheated steak.
"Same, dude." Beast Boy nodded with a smile. "As much as I like regular Raven, I'm going to enjoy them while they're here." Happy gasped and flew to Beast Boy to hug him again.
"Aww, thanks BB! I'll enjoy you too!"
"Same with me." Passion agreed as she went to his right side and kissed his cheek. He chuckled from getting all this attention.
"I also find the extra Ravens to be interesting. Pink, perhaps we could participate with the activity of dressing up our hair together?" Starfire questioned the pink cloaked emoticlone. Happy gasped excitedly as she turned toward the alien girl.
"I would love to! I could give you pigtails on the sides and you give me braids!"
"Oh yes! We shall commence immediately!" The two girls cheered and laughed as they headed towards Starfire's room.
"Well, I guess for the time being, we can keep you around for the time being." Robin concluded with setting the clipboard down on a table. "So, are any of you hungry?"
"Yes." All of the remaining five answered at once.
"Hey I know! Let's order that teleporting pizza boy!" Cyborg suggested. Beast Boy's face lit from hearing that.
"Oh yeah, the Zippy dude! Ring him up Cy!"
Within 30 minutes, everybody was enjoying their own pizzas to their liking. Happy was finishing the touches to Starfire's side pigtails, Rude was sleeping on the floor with Silkie sleeping on her butt, Passion was kissing Beast Boy with him just accepting it with a small smile, not breaking his own deal, and Brave was keeping a close eye on Rage who decided to come out, still steaming about the whole situation. Knowledge went back into her room to look up more about the prism specifically, while Timid still hid under the bed. Sloth was eating all the pizza the other either didn't eat or finished, and gave a good long burp while patting her tummy.
"Augh. That was soooooo good." The brown cloaked Raven sighed before immediately dozing off. That is, until Cyborg walked back into the living room, yelling,
"Alright, so what movie do we want to watch?!"
"Ugh, do you always have to scream everything?!" Rage scolded with equal volume. "Why can't you talk at normal decibels like a regular person?!"
"Calm down Rage!" Brave told her off. "Yelling is the cry of a great friend and warrior!" She then proceeded to scream in Rage's face with enough gusto to sit her back down.
"Gonna deafen someone like that." She grumbled, folding her arms over her chest.
"Then how about we do an action?" Robin suggested, but Timid came up from behind the couch and shook her head.
"All those people fighting? And the explosions? Just thinking about scary villains is making me..." She stopped talking as her cheeks bloated before proceeding to throw up black vomit, nearly covering Robin. The rest of the titans and emoticlones near back away in disgust.
"Oookay then. We'll burn the couch and then watch a movie on the floor." The titan leader said.
"Perhaps a comedy?" Starfire asked.
"Dudes, you know what would be the perfect comedy for this situation?!" Beast Boy cried out in excitement. "Jon Corry's The Hat!" A mystical wide brimmed hat bringing out Stanford Kissip's darkest persona."
"I love that movie!" Happy laughed, remembering watching that.
"Ugh, if you're all just going to laugh like a bunch of idiots at stupid comedy for an hour and a half, count me out!" Rage voiced her protest before stomping off into her room.
"Alright then, The Hat it is!" Robin declared as he went to get the movie, and the rest of the night went without a hitch.
A/N: Hmm. I wasn't expecting making a more proper and in depth introduction of the emoticlones and the titans to take up so much. So, not wanting to make this too long, this is part one. I seriously considered about leaving Passion out, but after reading Eris's review, it actually made me come up with a middle ground, so that Passion's there doing her thing, but Raven's absence isn't taken advantage of from her and Beast Boy's agreement in Matched. If Rage didn't seem as much beat em up as you expected here, I just think with the extent she goes with crushing Cyborg into the floor and and smashing Robin repeatedly, those just wouldn't be walked off realistically. So I toned her down to being violent, but not debilitatingly so. I hope I didn't write any of them wrong. Let me know in the reviews below.