It was early in the morning, and Cyborg was cooking a huge breakfast for everyone, which was pancakes. Passion was kissing the content Beast Boy while Starfire brushed Happy's hair. Some of it was already eaten by Knowledge and Brave, whom split from the group afterward to do further research and went to train in the gym. Timid was also staying out of the kitchen waiting for everyone else to finish first. Rude and Sloth haven't either woken up yet or bothered to leave Raven's bedroom yet, so it was just Passion, Rage and Happy.
"Hmm. Nothing like pancakes in the morning." He said as he was finishing up the last two.
"Maybe this will help!" The pink cloaked emoticlone suggested as she used her pink magic. "Azarath Metrione Zinthos!" Infused with her positive magic, the two pancakes grew and morphed into dog sized pancake animals shaped like a giraffe and llama.
"Whoa, baby! I've heard of animal crackers, but this takes the art to a whole new level!" Cyborg gasped excitedly. "Booyah!" He said loudly as he and Happy hi fived.
"Oh joy! These are so soft and fluffy!" Starfire cheered as she hugged the giraffe before biting into its neck, having no problem with it. Her eyes opened wide and her mouth dropped as low it could go. "These pancakes... they are the most delicious I have ever eaten!" The alien princess proceeded to devour the living pancake as fast as she could. The llama pancake tried to snuggle up to Rage, rubbing its head against her red cloak, but Rage's eyes glowed red, disintegrating the food creature.
"Can't a person get a decent non-dancing breakfast around here?!" She questioned as she tried to leave the kitchen, but unfortunately, Robin entered the room at the wrong time.
"Hey titans, what's for-"
"Out of the way, Bird Brain!" Rage insulted as she grabbed the Boy Wonder's body with her magic and shoved him against the glass very hard before storming away. Starfire gasped terrified from this.
"Robin! Are you okay?" Starfire asked in worry, flying to her wounded boyfriend leader.
"Ugh, I'm fine. I just-cough! -simply forgot that Raven isn't feeling herself at the moment." He coughed in response. However, his communicator went off and it showed there was an alert with the city. "Well, no time to hurt or eat! We need to move! Titans, go!" Once they got there, the city was under attack by an organic robot cyborg thing with long arms, sharp scythe arms and a building size height. All the titans were there, along with Happy, Rage and Brave. "Titans, we'll act as a distraction while the Ravens take it down. Go!" Beast Boy turned into a hawk to fly into the air. Once he was above the creature, the shapeshifter turned into a blue- er, green whale and crashed onto the monster with its massive weight. It tried to attack Beast Boy with its arms, but he shapeshifted into a humming bird to avoid being skewered, and the scythe arms cracked the glass dome around its head. Cyborg flew around it firing his blast cannons at the cracks, shattering it. Starfire delivered two eyebeams into its eyes, blinding the creature and making it scream. Brave flew behind it, and levitated all the cars up to launch them at its back, attracting its attention from the multiple hits. But, as it was turning, its legs were snared by tendrils from the increasingly demonic Raven of wrath as she pulled its legs under, causing it to fall. It tried to cut away, but Happy landed on its face and filled its mind with images with candy, rainbows and puppies. While it was incapacitated, the three Ravens flew high above it and enchanted,
"Azarath Metrione Zinthos!" The red, pink and green energies combined into a triple colored swirl blast that blasted the monster, and blew it up, winning the day. As the Ravens flew down to the titans, Robin congratulated them all.
"Nicely done, Ravens. Seems like being split apart didn't make you any weaker."
"Yeah! Way to go team!" Brave exclaimed with a big smile and extended her arms out with her fingers in peace signs.
"Yay, we won the day! Group hug!" Happy cheered as she gathered them all into a huge hug with her magic pink arms. However, Rage hated all the physical contact and created a pulse of energy that pushed them all away haphazardly.
"Don't hug me with your dumb goofiness, Happy!" She yelled at her fellow emoticlone.
"Yo Rage, we won, didn't we?" Cyborg tried to calm the situation while placing an arm on her shoulder, only for a red glow to spread across his body as soon as he touched her for a split second. His face contorted in anger. "Actually, you know what girl? What's your deal?!" The metallic titan picked up the scowling red Raven. "We just saved the day and you complain about a hug?! Ever heard of gratitude and good will?!"
"Unhand me you cybernetic rust bucket." She threatened with narrowed eyes.
"Yo Cy, what's with the negative vibes, man?" Beast Boy asked his best friend, but was shoved aside with one of his arms. "Dude, what's your problem?!"
"Miiight be best to stay out of this BB." Happy recommended while pulling him away by the shoulders. "Just let the vibes flow, you know?" What she didn't notice is that her hands spread a pink glow over him in less than a blink of an eye before disappearing. His eyes sparkled and a smile overcame his frown.
"Yeah, you're right. In fact, why don't we get some puppies and kitties!" He suggested happily, resulting in a delighted response on Happy's face.
"Oh they're so cute! Let's go get them!" The emoticlone agreed as they flew off.
"Beast Boy, stop! Star, restrain Cyborg!" Robin ordered. Starfire wrapped her arms around his shoulders and flew him back with only a little difficulty, despite his struggling.
"Let me go! She needs a good butt whooping to learn some manners!" He protested. As Brave pulled Rage away as well, Robin noticed that his normal eye seemed to be glazed over instead of focused. Narrowing his eyes, he took his staff and with a yell, swung it down at the top of Cyborg's head right in the center. This good smack stopped what he was doing and seemed to have had the right effect.
"Oww! Wha-what happened?"
"Well, you were antagonizing Rage here and Beast Boy flew off with Happy to get pets. Got anything to explain?"
"I antagonized her? I... don't remember doing so."
"What are you talking about Rust Bucket!" Rage shouted from a safe distance thanks to Brave. "You picked me up and said I needed a butt whooping!"
"What?! No, I... for some reason things just went red for a moment." The metallic titan said while placing an arm over the robotic side of his head. "Like someone threw red paint at me eyes. I don't even remember being mad in any way."
"That seems... unusual." Starfire commented with a confused look.
"Agreed. Well, it's about time we go home. Check your systems as soon as we return, Cy. I'm going to have a word with Beast Boy when they return." The titan leader said as he walked away, followed by the others.
As the titans returned to the tower, Robin asked Brave,
"So, you want to go and we can have ourselves a training regiment?"
"Sure! Sounds like it'll be a blast!" The green cloaked Raven agreed to gladly. In the gymnasium, both of the titans stood in offensive stances, not wearing their cloak and cape respectively.
"Are you ready?" She asked her training partner.
"Do titans kick butt?" He returned with a smile. The emoticlone grinned before yelling out a battle cry as she jumped forward to do a flying kick, but it was blocked when Robin grabbed her foot with both hands and pushed her away. During that half second of contact, a green glow enveloped the Boy Wonder, but they were too much in the moment to notice. They traded blows with their arms, punches and blocks parried in quick order that appeared to be evenly matched. Robin performed a triple spin kick that Brave moved back from, ducked under, and finally met with her own high kick. He delivered a one-two combo that she caught each, threw his arms outward and delivered a concentrated push with both hands into his sternum, pushing him back hard. She tried to further her attack with a second forward jump kick, but he was able to block it with his arms crossed over each other, though he didn't anticipate her to twist and use her other leg to kick his shoulder. He easily recovered though as he was able to duck under and block her spinning punches as she spun like a fighting ballerina before making her back off with a punch to her lower abdomen. Brave tried to do a leaping crane kick which Robin diverted with a roundhouse kick. In a show of ability that revealed how equal in kicking they were, Robin began his own mid air kicking assault, to which the emoticlone kicked each foot back with her own in midair up to four times. Brave switched thing up by doing a cartwheel kick that the Boy Wonder side-stepped away and ducked from an incoming reverse roundhouse kick from her right leg, only to be kicked in the chest by her left immediately afterward. While she started again by doing a midair spin kick, he finally adapted to her leg based form and grabbed her extended calf while also catching a knee coming towards his face. Moving his head downward and placing all of her pelvic area on his neck and shoulders, he fell forward so that Brave landed on the mat with her back. She gasped from the impact while he climbed up over her body, sitting on her waist and pinning her arms to the mat.
"I win." He chuckled, but she only grinned.
"Think again, leader." While struggling with effort and doing so slowly, Brave was able to push his arms back up and curl her back up despite his leverage. The titan leader groaned, trying to keep her down as she kept inclining more and more upward until she brought her legs back and planted her feet on his chest, pushing him away. He bounced off his back and landed on his front, and was unable to evade the pouncing emoticlone as she fell on his back, scrambled into position, and put her arms around in a choke hold while wrapping her legs around his midsection. Unable to breathe, he needed to act fast. Literally pushing himself off the ground and onto his feet, he ran himself into a padded wall as fast and hard as he could. She gasped, but didn't let go. As a last resort, he front-flipped and landed on his back again. She actually cried out in discomfort from that, but her hold was still strong. Seeing that it was obvious she wasn't letting go, and could feel his mind blacking out, he tapped her arm so that she'd release him. Robin gasped for breathe while Brave got up and pumped her arms into the air. "Hoorah! Brave one, Robin zero!" Offering a hand to the titan leader, he took it and laughed as well.
"I have to admit, you're tough. Man, that session really got me going there. I feel like I could go fight 10 criminals in one night. In fact, let's go! Let's punch some evil faces!" He tried to run off fueled by adrenaline, but she grabbed the back of his shirt.
"Whoa whoa whoa. As much as I like punching and kicking evil too, there hasn't been an alarm. So there's likely nothing happening."
"But that's... only the supervillains!" He grunted, trying to get free. "We could... beat up some... purse snatchers and... store robbers."
"Man, they're not fun! There's no actual challenge." She protested. Then something occurred to her; Cyborg was overcome by inexplicable rage, and Beast Boy was overcome by inexplicable joy, and that was immediately after touch. Has her touch made the Boy Wonder solely focused on his fighting spirit? "Robin, look at me!"
"What?!" He asked annoyed, only to be confused when she wasn't there behind him. That is, the confusion only lasted half a second before he was kicked in the head by Brave when she jumped behind his vision while he was turning. Falling to the ground dazed and hurting, he groaned as gripped the part of his head that was struck.
"Ow. Ugh, what happened?"
"Robin, what's your most recent memory? Do you remember anything of our fight?"
"I... I don't." He admitted, weirded out by that. "I remember catching a kick, but that's it."
"You know, I know I'm not Knowledge, but even I'm noticing something is up."
"What would that be?" He asked her, again being assisted up onto his feet.
"I think-" The emoticlone was interrupted by a distant crash strong enough to be felt in the room they were in the room they were in, and the alarms went off.
"We're under attack!" Robin exclaimed as he and Brave ran out of the gym, picking up their remaining cloth. Once they made it to the living room, they were shocked it was Starfire making a rampage, one of her actions being the couch meant to be burnt was thrown into the tv screen, leaving a gaping hole. She appeared to be on the offensive with the red cloaked Raven, with Cyborg, Passion, Rude and Sloth to an extent protecting Timid, whom was in a fetal position crying into herself.
"What do you mean hugs are stupid?! They are the signs of friendship!" Starfire screamed as she shot red eye beams at Rage, which were easily avoided by a portal.
"They are an invasion of someone's bubble! Especially if they don't ask for it, you air-headed suffocator!"
"Who does not want the hug you demonic witch?!" The Tamaranean screeched as she flew at the emoticlone, grabbing her by the cloak and dragged her outside, shattering a window.
"This isn't good. Rude, come with me!" Brave ordered as she followed the fighting girls.
"Ugh, why do I have to fight the rageoholic of us?" The orange cloaked Raven complained as she went along. Robin and Cyborg looked out the window hole to see the action. Starfire threw multiple starbolts and fired eyebeams, all red, at the red cloaked emoticlone as she weaved in between them, letting her body become fully demonic with red skin and white hair, screaming at the alien warrior. The two were about to collide in a physical clash when a large yellow Raven rammed into Starfire, allowing Rage to fly uninterrupted into a green and orange cage Brave and Rude constructed.
"Time for you to cool off Red!" Brave told Rage as they dragged the emotional monstrosity down with her into the sea. Starfire exploded the yellow raven apart with a big purge of her energy, looking down as the soul-self pieces retreated back towards knowledge.
"You will pay for hitting me like that!" Starfire threatened as she flew at the yellow cloaked Raven with a mighty cry, about to punch her in the face when the sorceress said,
"Azarath Metrione Zinthos." A yellow shield protected Knowledge as Starfire flew head first into the projection, groaning as she looked around and saw that the shield was a yellow book. A book that slammed shut on her. Robin and Cyborg made it up to the roof where Knowledge slowly dissipated the book, letting Starfire fall softly onto the ground.
"Starfire!" Robin cried out as he dropped down and lifted her into his arms. She opened her eyes, having gone from red back into green.
"R-Robin? What... what happened?"
"You don't remember?" He asked her.
"I... do not. I tried hugging the rage filled Raven... then everything went red."
"Like I did when I touched her." Cyborg commented on. Brave and Rude returned after than, bringing back a relatively calmed down Rage, all three dripping wet and covered in seaweed, which Rage disintegrated off her person. Yet not even the cold sea could cool her anger down entirely as her eyes and frown were full of bitterness. Rude was just as annoyed as she flung seaweed onto the roof they were on.
"What's happening?" The Boy Wonder questioned, confused on why they're acting so primal.
"I know." Knowledge replied. "We need to go somewhere private. But first, let's make sure Timid is no longer hyperventilating." As they all made their way back into the living room, Beast Boy and Happy finally returned, wearing party clothes, animal face paint, and a box filled with puppies and kitties each. He appeared as joyful and starstruck as when he left, but seeing the living room in such disarray, it was enough to shock him out of his state and shake his head.
"Whoa, what happened here?!" The he looked down. "And why am I holding a box of baby cats and dogs?"
"Huh? Don't you remember?" Happy asked him, confused.
"That's something we'll discuss shortly." The titan leader responded.
In Robin's Room, the four titans sat in a semi-circle around Knowledge. It lasted a lot longer than expected, since she kept reverting to a level of speaking Beast Boy couldn't comprehend.
"So just to recap..." Robin spoke, "...the crystal that separated Raven into the eight of you is because of the mirror shattering upon impact with it. That we knew before, but you figured out later that its the reason why is because Janus also has the power over change and boundary manipulation, in which the prism is the physical personification of such. The prism is what's also preventing the mirror shards from being fixed because the prism is also broken. Each of the Ravens need to be placed in each shard so that the mirror becomes more fixed."
"Yes, and not only that, based on the evidence, since we're not supposed to exist on a physical plane, our presence overtime is affecting people and items around us. I even know this first hand when the text on my spell books started to become much more sophisticated and complex in grammar. I could still understand it but it made reading longer."
"So we just get all the Ravens back into the prism and everything goes back to normal?" Cyborg asked, which Knowledge nodded to.
"Aww. I was liking the company of Happy and Passion. I even liked this one here." Beast Boy pouted, pointing to the brown cloaked Raven.
"Should we be discussing our plans in front of her?" The metallic titan whispered to Starfire.
"Oh, don't worry about me, I don't really care." However, the door was busted down by Rage, since she and every one of the other Emoticlones were eavesdropping.
"But I do!" The red cloaked Raven protested as she used her magic to telekinetically lift them all up, trapping them. The titans and Knowledge struggled, but the mental grip was too strong. "You're not going to use the prism on us! Especially ME!" She roared at them. "I don't want to be combined with these losers!"
"In-in her mind, I can only hide." Timid whispered. "But out he-here, and there, when things are scary... I-I can actually run." Beast Boy's magic trap went from red to magenta as he was dragged into Passion's grip with a yelp.
"You won't trap me in a lonely ol' prism, won't you Beastie Boo?" She asked sweetly. A magenta aura overcame him, and his face became romantic.
"Of course not, sweet mama." He answered seductively, suddenly taking and dipping her down to kiss quite passionately for a few seconds. "I was a fool to not want to kissy kiss yo beautiful face." Passion giggled.
"Quite the charmer when in the right mood."
"Let's get out of here!" Rage shouted as she telekinetically levitated Robin's bed and threw it through the window, flying out the broken window, while most of the other emoticlones disappeared through portals, each going into different sections of Jump City.
"This is bad. Really bad." Robin commented.
"I should've calculated this as a likely outcome." Knowledge said to herself. "Now if we don't get all of us back together before 8:48, we'll be separated forever."
"What?! Why didn't you tell us that?!" Cyborg angrily asked the stoic clone.
"I was interrupted by Rage before getting to that part."
"Luckily, it's still early in the day. It's 2:30 pm, so we have about 6 hours and 18 minutes." Robin noted while looking at his watch.
"That doesn't sound like that much of a time crunch. Let's do this!" Brave cheered behind them, spooking the three titans.
"Brave? I thought you ran off like the others?" Starfire asked her.
"Unlike the others, I agree with Miss Glasses over there. I may be the most heroic and always ready to kick butt with my skills, but I need Timid and Knowledge together to best utilize it."
"In that case, we need to split up." Robin decided. "Cyborg, you and Knowledge go after Passion, Happy and Sloth. Star, Brave and I will will go after Rage, Rude and Timid."
"Got it." Cyborg agreed with a nod of his head and punched his right fist into his left hand. "Hang on BB. We're coming." The cybernetic titan and yellow emoticlone rushed out of the room.
"Okay! Titans, go!" Robin shouted as Brave teleported them out of his bedroom. Knowledge and Cyborg went into Raven's bedroom and picked up what they could.
"Luckily, I know exactly where Sloth is." The bespectacled Raven said.
"How?" He asked curiously.
"She's Sloth. Where else would she go except the living room?" To show her point, they did go into the living room where in the middle of the floor was Sloth snoring on a big pile of food bags and boxes. Her stomach was so big the stomach area of her leotard ripped, showing her huge grey belly.
"How did she eat all that so quickly? And also, she ate everything in the kitchen?!" He cried out in outrage. His outburst woke up Sloth and she turned to them.
"Oh. Hey. Those 30 somethin' pancakes really finished me ough..." She lazily greeted before going back to sleep mid-sentence.
"She likely used a spell to literally inhale the food into her stomach while also making it store larger quantities without making her body burst." Knowledge deduced. Cyborg touched a shard to Sloth, turning her into brown light before absorbing her. In a leather bag attached to Knowledge's hip, a mirror shard flew out and raced right at the mirror body Cyborg was holding, and latched itself into place in the bottom right corner.
"Well, at least we have the easy jobs."
3 o'clock. In downtown of Jump City, Timid was walking by herself, making herself as hard to be seen as possible. However, as much as she tried, someone was watching her. While passing in front of a movie theater that's closed for remodeling, a light bulb fell from from above, nearly scaring her out of her wits. However, seeing there was no immediate danger, she sighed and bowed low towards the light bulb, which somehow did not break.
"Oh, hey you little light bulb. Why didn't you break into pieces? Like I did." Timid asked it, tears beginning to form in her eyes until it flashed bright enough to blind her. She screamed which instantly became quiet as the light disappeared, showing Timid inside the light bulb. "Help! Help me, please!" She cried out, but two gigantic shoes dropped down beside her trap, was picked up, and came face to face with the sinisterly grinning face of Dr. Light.
"So the legend of Janus's prism was true. Oh how I can't wait to get answers from you." He threw down a light bulb that shattered, illuminating the area in a flash before it, and the doctor was gone.
3:30. Cyborg and Knowledge were heading towards the Fisherman's Wharf, after hearing that the scenery went from normal fishing port to a combination of 1930's Disney bouncy animation and Dr. Suess's building architecture. And seeing it for themselves, the description was not hyperbole. The sky was a bright yellow with seven different rainbows and a whistling white sun, the oceans were much bluer than normal with singing dolphins, and cars that hummed pop tunes with their cartoony faces, along with the people happily bouncing their heads up and down every second. As for the buildings, they curved in all sorts of directions, were supported on virtually nothing, and stairs interconnected through them with no rails like an ant colony. Not that the jolly good business people were minding.
"This is worse than I thought. Happiness is making everything loopy." Knowledge gasped, slightly mortified by how... positively chaotic it looked.
"Indeed. The balance of perceptual reality is becoming quite discombobulated." He said before putting a hand over his mouth. "What the? What kind of thesaurus like jibber-jabber is my oral orifice spouting?!"
"That's most likely me. Even without touching you, you're saying things that only people like me speak in." She explained.
"Hey, I seem that optimistic emoticlone prancing down on our lower sights!" Cyborg pointed out, seeing a skipping Happy, flinging her magic left and right, bringing a tree to live, glad to be alive and hugging a lamp post into a giant. Reaching her, they landed right in front of her path.
"Hey guys! What do you think of the place? Doesn't it look so magical and happy?" She asked laughing as she tried to hug Cyborg, but Knowledge stepped in between them, getting the hug instead.
"Happy, while under normal circumstances, I would highly approve of your magical sorcery, but your reckless shenanigans are putting everything out of whack and in peril with how unorganized everything is." Cyborg said.
"Huh?" She sounded confused.
"What he said was he'd normally love it, but the way you're doing it could be putting everything at risk of being hurt."
"But how can this much happiness bring harm to anyone?" The pink cloaked emoticlone questioned, but Knowledge put a hand on her shoulder.
"Just trust us." While her smile still remained, it did become smaller while her posture slumped a bit.
"Oh well. It was nice while it lasted." When Cyborg took out the crystal, she immediately became joyful again. "Ooo, shiny!" She cheered and tried to grab it, but instead got absorbed, along with all her magic, into it. Within seconds, everything was back to normal.
4 o'clock. Timid woke up in a dark room with a single light bulb over her head, tied up to a chair with light bulbs covering part of the chair she wasn't tied to, and a big electric node attached to her cranium.
"Wha? What's going on? Someone help!" She cried out like before.
"No one can save you." A voice said, quieting her. Dr. Light stepped into view.
"What do you want with me?"
"What else, my dear? How it is that the most dark, the most powerful, the most intimidating member of the Teen Titans, became a grey hooded sniveling brat?
"The prism?"
"Exactly! Somehow you unlocked the secret! I was going to use the prism to split myself up into eight versions of me. I'm not sure what other color would be left after all of ROY G. BIV was used up, but grey does sound logical, come to think of it. One Dr. Light is enough to rob banks and such, but is not enough to defeat the titans. But eight? I could rule all of Jump City!" Seeing that he was monologuing, and thinking that her friends were to likely find her, she nervously asked,
"How-how did you become this very scary man? Why are you doing any of this?"
"You want to know the truth? You want to be enlight-gah! I mean, educated about what made me the infamous Dr. Light?!" He dramatically inquired. "Very well. It all started when I was just a man named Arthur..."
4:30. Robin, Starfire and Brave finally found their first runaway Raven, and that was at one of the fanciest restaurants of the city. Jerry Jango's fine dining. Entering, they saw people who basically acted all sophisticated and proper now acting like immature kids, since they were all playing in a massive food fight. And in the middle was Rude sloppily eating her burger and fries. Once she noticed them approaching, she groaned loudly.
"Oh great, it's the fun police. At least let me finish my milkshake?" She requested rather annoyed. Looking at each other, the titans nodded.
"You have sixty seconds." Rolling her eyes, she drank what was left, through the straw, only to spit out the last mouthful into Robin's face, making him complain... with a rather vulgar potty mouth. Rude tried to run off, but Brave blocked her path, allowing Starfire to grab her by the orange cloak and pulled her back into the princess's arms, restraining the emoticlone.
"Dang it! Why would you even want her back? Miss Sunshine and fearless Braveheart are all you need, right?" Starfire wasn't having it though, taking out a shard.
"Oh put the cork in wherever you stick it, Chlorbag." She said before absorbing Rude, restoring dignity into the eatery as everything went back to being clean and proper. It seemed like that things would settle down, only for the communicator to warn nearby residents that a demon was wreaking havoc.
5 o'clock. The two entered a hotel, and Knowledge asked where a certain love struck teen and an overly romantic girl was staying, and was lead to the described room number. With the attendant allowing them in, the two titans found Beast Boy without his shirt on making out with Passion whom was only wearing her leotard and nothing else. The room smelled like lavender and the lighting was nice and dark. Noticing the two intruding, she disengaged the kiss and told him romantically,
"Sorry my beautiful, hunky Beast Man, but I have to go now." He looked disheartened by that.
"But there's still so many things I want to do, Rae Rae." The shapeshifter whimpered. She giggled in response as she cupped his left cheek.
"Don't worry, we'll see each other in our dreams, where we can do whatever. You. Want." She emphasized the end with a seductive whisper before giving him one long last kiss. She floated off of him and the bed. Levitating to them, she stuck her hand out. Cyborg 'handed' her the crystal, absorbing Passion and all the magic in the room so that it looked like a regular hotel room again.
"Ugh. Oh man, what happened? Did I black out again?" The restored yet dazed Beast Boy asked, then yelping when he realized he was half naked.
"Yeah BB. We have captured all of our assigned Raven emotions on our end. We need to reconvene with the three others and help capture whoever is left." Cyborg instructed his best friend.
Also 5 o'clock. "...and that is how I became Dr. Light! HAHAHAHA!" The luminous villain finally finished his backstory after an hour. However, it appeared that during that entire exposition, Timid actually fell asleep from boredom. "Oh, I'm sorry, was my painful and unjust origin boring for you?!" He questioned, becoming enraged as he charged up a light attack towards her face. Timid woke up from the shouting and yelled, and even more so when noticed his illuminated hand right in front of her face.
"AHHHH! Blegh!" All that fright at once caused her to vomit right into Dr. Light's face.
"Ah, disgusting! It's in my eyes and mouth! Bleeegh!" He in turned threw up from how vile it tasted and how much it stung his eyes. "RAAAAGH! Once I clean my face, You will know the full extent of my wrath, you cowardly scoundrel!" He yelled at Timid, unaware where she was before he stumbled around trying to find the bathroom.
"Please guys, rescue me." The gray cloaked emoticlone pleaded while tearing up.
5:30. It was truly a nightmare made reality. The streets were torn to shreds, there was no window not broken, the buildings were cracked like eggs, and the sky instead of being pink and yellow was pure red like the atmosphere itself was freaking mad at everything. Everyone that wasn't unconscious or even worse were fighting each other for any slight there was. And floating amongst it all was Rage, truly looking like the daughter of Trigon. As Brave flew up to her, Rage displayed something she never did before... a genuine smile. She spread her arms out while taking a deep breath of all the blood spilt.
"Do you feel that? Rage, hatred, fury. All in its purest expression and unparalleled power. Not even you can stop me like this, Brave! This... is the end!"
"Oh really? Then tell me, what would happen if you were slammed into the ground at sub-sonic speeds?" The green cloaked emiticlone inquired with a smile of her own. Rage frowned in confusion until she was rammed into a three story building below her. Rage opened two of her eyes to see Starfire was the one to give her a big headache, and noticed her eyes were glowing a darker green than usual. Like Brave's cloak.
"Ugh, Brave gave you something, didn't she?"
"Yes, you wrathful demon. I am now truly connected with my inner warrior. Surrender now, and you will not experience more than the necessary amount of broken bones!"
"You think you can defeat me?!" She hissed as she easily pushed the Tamaranean warrior away. The two charged up their own energy blasts, and created a stalemate of raw power of green eye blasts and red energy from her chakram. "Even with your power, you can't beat down rage! Rage! Will Consume! All!" While she was preoccupied, Robin jumped her from behind and stabbed the prism shard into her chest, making the emoticlone gasp. The energy between them stopped as the Boy Wonder said,
"But it takes the truly brave to overcome it."
"Curse... you." She wheezed before being absorbed into the prism, and all the madness she wrought. Everything that was destroyed; restored. Everyone that was hurt and worse? Alive and well. The two titans and Brave got together exiting the building.
"Wow Star, you were great with that dive down onto her!" Robin cheered his compliment.
"And I commend you Robin for coming up with said strategy! Even without Brave's influence, you are truly a fearless warrior!" She returned with the same gusto.
"That's right guys! We totally whooped her butt good!" Brave added as they each high fived each other. "With Rage defeated, my work here is done. If you'll put me back in my prism, that's one more piece down." Robin nodded, and poked her with a shard, absorbing her along with her influence disappearing from them.
"Whoa. Wha?" Robin spoke perplexed at first, only to see the green shard in his hand. "Oh, my plan worked."
"I knew it would Robin." Starfire complimented him, making him blush. Holding hands, they kissed briefly before noticing the others coming to them. "Greetings, friends! How has your part of the mission been going?!"
"Good enough. We've captured all three of our end. How about you?" Knowledge inquired.
"We've found all but Timid. She'll be the hardest to find.
"Leave that to me." Taking the remaining two mirror shards, she placed them down on the ground and sat down lotus style. Closing her eyes, she spoke her signature incantation, "Azarath Metrion Zinthos." The shards glowed yellow, and started floating in the air. While the left one pointed at her, the right pointed a little bit to the right from her perspective. "West. Let's go get her."
5:30. Dr. Light exited the restroom, having cleaned himself up entirely. The only thing different was that his eyes were red and agitated so he couldn't see well. But at the very least he can see the single bright light and a grey blur. Originally if she was too annoying, he'd used the electric chair to torture the truth out, but this just became much more personal, too personal, for something like that. Walking back right in front of her, he began to charge up both of his hands, aimed at her.
"If you don't... tell me what I want... you'll experience the worst sunburn in your life."
"How...How..." She stuttered, tripping over her words.
"How what?"
"How... was that question not a pun? Didn't you say you hated those?" She asked, making him groan.
"Obvious. Its not wordplay, its a threat. And it didn't have anything to do with the word light. Now, enough stalling you crybaby! Tell me-" A wall was busted down, the titans having caught up to the last emoticlone. Dr. Light dived forward with a roll and got up to aim a charged hand at her head.
"So, you eventually found us, titans? Well you're too late! Stay back or she gets it!"
"Help!" Timid cried out.
"Don't worry. Well get you free." Knowledge assured, noticing that the turned off lights of the warehouse's ceiling were swaying away from her body, as if they were timid.
"Oh really? And how are you going to free my little captive of information?"
"Wait, you don't have every bit of information you seek to acquire? Is that what you're insinuating?" Cyborg questioned, perplexed. "I would've figured you had gotten everything down to our underwear sizes and favorite cereal."
"That... doesn't matter. I hold all the cards, and this scardy cat is going to-" The villain grabbed Timid by the jaw to make a visual point, but a gray glow overcame him as he started looking fearful. He screamed like a little girl. "AH! Get away from me!" He tried to run, but because his vision was impaired, he ran right into a steel support of the ceiling, knocking himself out.
"Ha! Fool knocked himself like a sucka!" Beast Boy laughed. Knowledge used her magic to free Timid from her, chair, and she flew to Robin, clinging tightly onto his chest. He wrapped his arms around her with a hug.
"I-I'd like to go home now please." She silently cried.
"There there. You're already home. Us." The Boy Wonder reassured as he touched a prism shard on her, absorbing her body into it.
"So now it is just me." Knowledge said as she took out the mirror, nearly fixed except for the upper right corner. As the others placed all the occupied prism shards onto the floor, Knowledge spoke to them all, "Thank you all for your help. Should we meet again, let us hope its not in this plane of existence." Everybody nodded as Cyborg touched her with the final prism piece, absorbing her. Now, all the prism pieces started to float into the air, spinning around faster and faster progressively glowing brighter and brighter, causing the others to look away until the light dimmed down. Standing in front of them was the Raven they all knew in her blue cloak, holding both the mirror and whole prism. She took a deep breath in as she took the moment to feel her existence again. Opening her eyes, the completed titan gently placed them down on the ground before walking up to her friends.
"Thank you for making me whole again."
"You are very welcome. We are all the friends." Starfire said, glad to see her female companion back.
"Not just friends. Family." Cyborg added. Raven nodded as she turned her gaze to Beast Boy, putting on a small smile.
"Beast Boy?"
"Yeah?" He replied, wondering what her question was going to be. But it wasn't a question, but a soft kiss on the cheek. His eyes opened wide and his cheeks blushed heavily.
"A reward for good behavior. When you could anyway. You've earned occasional cheek kisses now. Keep it up." The half-demon sorceress encouraged as she floated past the titans, ready to go home. The shapeshifter sighed happily as he fell back into Cyborg's arms.
"Wow." He simply uttered.