At the Jump City Juvenile Correctional Center, an alarm set off, letting everyone know someone escaped. But it wasn't the Hive this time. But someone much more dangerous. Running into the evidence room, this prisoner grabbed some old clothes she wore, a pair of swords, and an orange and black mask to cover the top half of her head. Exiting the room and turning a corner, she came to face against many guards in armor with energy rifles and stun batons.
"Prisoner 101992, return to your cell now!" Clad in her armor, bearing her weapons, and staring deadly with her one good eye, she asked,
"You telling me what to do?" Closing her eye, she then saw lines of pink shoot at her, phasing through her body. When the guards began firing, Ravager opened her eye to deflect the beams she saw incoming just seconds ago, her swords slashing around with such precision it seemed unbelievable as she charged. Jumping onto the left wall, then the right, the villainess rolled her body forward while swiping her swords through their guns, rendering them useless. While she was upside down during her flip, she used her back and armored elbow pads to smack into the first three guards, spinning her swords around while doing that so she could stab through their shoulder armor into the ground so the couldn't escape. While still falling from her spin, she planted her feet on the chest of the second row middle guard, and used him as a spring board to flip slightly back and kick with splits so that she knocked the two on them out in the head.
Landing on her hands so she could flip onto her feet, Ravager immediately side-stepped away from a guard with a baton, kneed him in the back so he'd push into the wall and fell to his own knees so she could clock the top of his head with a left elbow. Spinning to her right to catch a wrist holding a baton, she forced it down while breaking the wrist to deliver a strong left hook to his jaw, though still used that spin to evade a taser and smack her right elbow into the back of the guard's head, ducking with splits before a blow landed against her by another guard to punch the guy's groin before planting her hands on the ground behind her and closer her legs against his knees, forcing the guard to fall. Using her hands to push herself onto her feet, the villainess caught another wrist and kicked at the guard's knee from the side so it broke. Even though all them yelled as she hit them, he especially screamed with his broken knee before she kicked his chest. Sidestepping another taser, Ravager used her right hand to break his wrist while using her left elbow to clock the guy in the nose, sweeping him off his feet with her left leg so that he fell down, and then stomped on his chest. A guard literally tried to jump while tackling her, but she merely caught his leg and body and threw him past her with a grunt, the guard falling down face first. Two guards tried to catch her from both sides but she was able to manage both fronts kneeing the guard in front of her in the crotch while elbowing the guy behind her in the nose, punch nose up front, kick back against chest, knee face up front, and then jump and spin to knock both of them out with two simultaneous kicks. Sensing a guard trying to catch her blind side, she punched him in the face before grabbing his head and leaping back, Ravager slammed his throat and teeth into her armored knee, crushing his windpipe while breaking his teeth.
Backing up, the girl dodged a swipe of a baton before punching him in the nose and proceeding to grab his face and jump to smash her knee into it. Two guards again tried to attack but she caught both their wrists trying to use a taser and baton, kicked the guy behind her in the throat, and then brought her suspended leg down so she had advantage of momentum to swing the guard over her and slam him onto his partner. Still sensing danger, she spun to kick the guy's head trying to sneak attack her, jumped to use her other leg to provide a mid-air spin kick to the guard behind him, and finally use her first leg to be slammed down onto the last guard's head, knocking him out onto the ground as she landed. All of them have been knocked out and some need serious medical bills. She smirked as she went back to stomp on the two guard's faces to be sure before pulling her swords from their armor, and retracted the blades so they're easier to carry. Thinking about it, she also took a pair of their power inhibiting handcuffs. Walking to the lobby, she punched and kicked a last guard whom tried to sneak attack her on her blind side before walking out of the doors, where she met the Teen Titans, ready to fight.
"Rose Wilson aka Ravager. I'm sorry to inform you but your parole has been denied. Titans, go!" Bringing out his extending staff, the titan leader leapt while Rose closed her eye. Taking hold of his staff as it came down, she rather swung the Boy Wonder around so that he crashed onto his back, and kicked the side of his jaw before he could recover, knocking him cold.
"Robin! You will pay for that!" Starfire yelled in fury as she flew at Rose with glowing green eyes and hands. Opening her eye while taking her cuffs out, she side-stepped away from a punch where she latched one cuff around Starfire's right wrist. The Tamaranean warrior tried breaking it off but Ravager came in and tried to land a punch which the alien girl caught. Smirking, Ravager flipped over Starfire and brought both of them down onto their backs though Rose rolled onto her feet first. Starfire tried to float to attack, but the cuffs were now on both wrists, thus negating the Tamaranean's powers. Try as she might to defend, a kick to the head rendered unconcious. Cyborg and Beast Boy as a gorilla tried to ambush her but taking her swords out without extending the blades, she rolled in between them and slammed the butts of her swords into their ankles, shocking the titans harshly. Screaming, they fell down twitching.
"Hang on guys!" Jinx yelled as Raven flew up and threw a black energy fist which Rose jumped onto and was about to kick the sorceress in the face if it weren't for the acrobatic witch leaping and grabbing her leg, throwing the both of them off though landing on their feet. Jinx tried hitting the villainess with her hexes, but Rose simply moved just enough where the attacks missed her as she charged and upper-cutted the metahuman with a punch to the chin, though not before being kicked to the underside of her own chin by the former villain. Ravager groaned as she touched her lips and saw blood.
"Hmm, not many people can hit me."
"I'm not most people." Jinx remarked.
"Yeah? Then let me ask you, why does your hair look like you stuck enough gum in it to keep that shape?" Insulted, the witch went on the attack.
"It's natural and I like it!" Tightening the grip of her swords, she swung them around, only extending when she was sure they'd stab into Jinx but the girl leapt over Ravager, blasting the ground while doing so so that dust obscured her vision. Grunting in mild discomfort, she tried getting the dirt out of her eye when she was punched in the face, but instead of falling onto her back, she landed hands first over her head, and pushed back so that her feet kicked into Jinx's stomach area with her enhanced strength, causing the metahuman to gasp with saliva coming from her mouth as she fell back. Rose on her back rolled forward and jumped to avoid a soul-self raven trying to tackle her as it returned to Raven. With her tears clearing the dirt away in her eye, if still red, she pointed a sword at the sorceress.
"You're next Gandalf.
"Hmph, I like your eye patch matey. Argh."
"Do you have a face under there or is it just eyes and a mouth?"
"Your grandma wants her hair color back."
"You..." When a comeback didn't come to her, she chuckled once before responding, lowering her sword, "You're pretty cool actually. The cloak's nicely foreboding." Raven dryly smiled.
"Thanks. I actually think your eye patch and hair are cool too." Rose scoffed as she brushed it back.
"Yeah they are." Raveger put her swords away. As Raven's friends began to wake up, Beast Boy asked his girlfriend,
"Why aren't you taking her down mama?!"
"I don't know, she seems pretty cool."
"Hey, we're cool!" Cyborg objected.
"Yeah but she more like Jinx's kind of cool. Which is the best kind of cool to me."
"Aww, thanks Rave." The pink haired titan responded, wiping drool from her mouth.
"Sooo, do you want to get out of here and do...whatever?" Ravager asked. Raven shrugged.
"I don't know. Whatever. Jinx, want to come with?"
"Heck yeah! I can appreciate hanging with a girl like her, even if she did kick me rather hard."
"Sorry?" Rose shrugged, not really being sincere. She then felt a hand grip onto her and looked down to see it was Robin.
"I won't...let you get away." Smirking, she replied,
"You telling me what to do?" Recognizing that phrase, the Boy Wonder looked up only to get a kick to the forehead, fainting again. "Oops, I hope I didn't give you a concussion. You guys better help him out."
"Yeah, he's fine." Raven assessed, not sensing any life threatening danger of his mortality. "Let's go." And so the three dark girls left leaving the remaining titans to wonder what just happened. As the girls left the correctional facility, Raven complimented, "I like your swords. They're sharp." Taking them out, the blades extended for a second before retracting them and putting them back.
"Yeah, my lame dad got them for me."
"Ugh, dads are the worst."
"I wouldn't know. I never had a dad." Jinx sighed sadly.
"At least he didn't drug you and blinded an eye while training." Seeing a music store, Rose smirked. "Hey, want to jam?"
"The store's closed." Raven stated. Taking out a sword, she slashed the door down.
"Oh look, it just opened." Entering, she left the titan girls stunned for a second.
"She's...so cool." Jinx praised as the two went in to play with instruments, Raven on the drums, Rose on guitar and Jinx on electric keyboard. Of course being the bad girls + one good girl they are they destroyed the instruments since that's what bands do. Getting together the girls then took selfies which were posted onto Rose's DCUBook, instantly getting 20 cools. The next picture was Jinx getting a brain freeze while they drank milkshakes and Rose laughed so hard milkshake came out of her nose. 35 cools. The next one was Ravager giving Raven a noogie while Jinx flipped the half-demon's cloak over Rose's head, getting 40 cools. 50 cools when they did silly faces.
Back at the tower, Robin came too as he laid in a hospital bed.
"Ugh, what happened?"
"Boyfriend Robin!" Starfire cried out as she went to hug him while crying. "I was so worried the Ravager has severely hurt you!"
"Star, Star, I'm fine now." The Boy Wonder tried to reassure her. "Call the others here." Summoning her friends to the infirmary, the two guys sighed.
"Whoo, glad to know nothing's permanent dude." BB said.
"Yeah bro, you've been out for like an hour."
"Sorry guys." Remembering something, Robin then said, "Titans, there's something I need to tell you."
"What is it Robin?" Starfire asked.
"I remembered who Rose was. We knew each other when I was still Richard." The others gasped.
"Yeah. Though I didn't know her actual name at the time. She went by Mary Smith. It was after my parents died, and we met in school. Mary beat up some bullies when I couldn't defend myself after, and we became best friends. Bruce didn't approve but he's Batman so I thought he was just being paranoid. We'd have harmless fun like spray graffiti or burn some stuff, sometimes steal stuff for the thrill but I always returned it to the rightful owners and bought the same thing to replace what we stole for ourselves, but she kept doing worse and worse things, and I tried to reign her in but she didn't like I was being a wet blanket as she called it. One time when I tried stopping her from doing something really bad, we fought on the top of a building. Unfortunately she beat me because she was better trained. She nearly killed me when I almost fell to my death, just like my parents. But she saved me, because of our friendship. She said I owed her one and then disappeared. That was the last I saw her, before today."
"How very sad." His girlfriend commented.
"Yeah. To think friends could go down hard like that." Cyborg whistled.
"Back then, she had this catchphrase whenever she'd be told to do something. 'You telling me what to do?', she said. I always knew she liked doing bad things, but to think she'd follow in Slade's footsteps." Closing his eyes while clenching his fist over his heart, the Boy Wonder's eyes opened before he got up from bed.
"Robin, you just recovered from a concussion! You are not well enough to fight her!"
"I will defend myself if need be, but there's more than fists I want to exchange."
As Raven, Jinx and Rose sat on a bench in the park, the three girls sighed together.
"That was fun!" Raven remarked. Jinx giggled.
"Yeah it was! My favorite part was when Rose 'opened' the doors with her sword! Ha, I love it! I love girls night!" Rose shrugged when the T-Car came around and the titans stepped out.
"Rose." Robin said with a determined tone.
"Oh, want to go again Boy Blunder?" Robin's eye twitched at that comment. "Okay then, but I warn you this is going to hurt again."
"No Mary, it's me..." The titan leader took his mask off. "...Richard." Rose's eye opened wide as she gasped, standing up and walking to him as she took her mask off.
"Richard? You're the leader of the Teen Titans?" The two just stared at each other, unmoving for about 20 seconds when she made the first move. She hugged him. "Richard." She held him close, her eye closed as tears streamed down it. "I'm...I'm so sorry for how we last met all those years ago. I was just angry, and with my dad pressuring me before our fallout, I hated myself for what I almost did. You were my only friend aside from my brother, and I should never have turned on you just to be with dad. He's a monster." As she blubbered all this out, Richard hugged her back, though his face remained stoic, though he did close his eyes. All the other titans stayed back, unsure where this was heading. Taking a step back, the remorseful Ravager continued to say, "I wish I could change it all. You were the best part of my life after my family became broken."
"Rose, listen to me." Opening her wet eye, she complied. "Slade is my sworn enemy, and you're wearing his colors. You broke my heart when you left. How much do you really mean what you say?" Rose sighed as she turned away from him.
"There's nothing I could say or do that would excuse or justify what I did, or show how much I regret what I chose and wanted to be different. But..." She then thought of something as she turned back to face him. "...maybe I could show you what I was breaking out for."
"What? A bank? All the notes you have on Slade?"
"No. I don't need money and dad cut ties with me after my capture. I broke out for revenge against someone Batman knows."
"Who?"
"The Clock King. Specifically the one who can see into the future like I can."
"Wait, you can see into the future?!" Cyborg gasped.
"Yeah. 4.6 seconds exact. Same as Clock King. We met once and he wanted me to join but I refused. We had a score to settle from there on. Precog-combat wise we're evenly matched though he escaped, but maybe this time you guys can help me."
"And why should we help you?" Robin inquired. Rose scoffed.
"Because you owe me you butt. I saved your life, so now I need you to help me get even with Clock King. What, are you hero enough to try and turn me in but not hero enough to help an old friend?" When Robin didn't answer right away, she scoffed as she put on her mask. "You know what, forget I even asked. I shouldn't have bothered. I'll fight him on my own." Ravager left, leaving the titans uncertain what to do.
"Robin, what do you wish for us to do?" Starfire questioned. Richard sighed.
"I don't know. She was my friend but she followed in Slade's footsteps. She wouldn't listen to me back then."
"That's because Rose wasn't in her right mind at the time." Raven told him. "Slade influenced her with mind manipulating drugs that made her more susceptible to his command. She couldn't deny his words."
"So she didn't leave me willingly?"
"No. She was more Slade then Rose at the time, but thanks to our girls night out, we can say for a fact she's completely herself again." Jinx affirmed. "Robin, you may have had a falling out with her, but the remorse she was expressing was real. I could see it."
"Me too." Raven agreed. "I think we should help her." Starfire then took his hand.
"Robin, she may be the criminal with a hard past with you, but I can see you being friends again. And we all learned that friendship is truly more important over grudges of the past." Richard could feel his resolve shifting. Rose as Ravager did some pretty bad things, much more than her persona of Mary ever did. But with the revelation that things were stacked against her in a way she literally had no choice in the matter, this put a new perspective on their strained relationship.
"Titans, let's go."
Sometime later in Gotham, where a green clad, king based man with a clock based accessory over his face was working in a clock tower, obviously not the same one Oracle uses but similar in a section far from her. He was doing some time based calculations when he moved to the left to avoid sword slashes against his body.
"Rose. We've got to stop meeting like this."
"This will be the last. I see that you look so much stupider than last we've met."
"Well, it becomes necessary with what you last did to me."
"Hey, it could actually be an improvement." Ravager shrugged. "You looked plain and boring before, though the get-up is just way too ridiculous. I know you call yourself Clock King but taking it literally is just logically and fashionably dumb."
"If I wasn't the master of keeping time, then what else would I be?"
"A fashion blind dork." Her hurtful remarks seemed to be finally getting to him.
"I've had enough of your squabble child. Let's finish this."
"With pleasure." Rose went on the attack with a spin kick, though Clock King ducked under it with ease. He tried punching back with a right hook but she sidestepped and would've kneed his side if he didn't roll to his left. Raveger continued her onslaught but he was able to evade each punch she threw. With the last punch he even snagged one of her swords and would've shocked her if it weren't for her own precognition telling her to duck and draw her remaining sword, clashing against an overhead strike.
"Slow as always my dear, even with your enhanced speed." The daughter of Slade only grunted with annoyance as she pushed him away and leapt forward with her own strike but missed this one as well. This became would one would say is a masterful case of speed combat, each able to dodge, parry and block each sword strike down to the thousandth of a microsecond. But what was clear was that Rose was putting as she had into her movements while Clock King seemed calm and composed with his movements like he wasn't pressured at all. Eventually when the two clashed again, but the villain was able to do a maneuver that forced Rose's sword out of her hand, resulting in him getting the upper hand as he kicked her back against her stomach. Ravager was simply pushed back though as she didn't even take a step back, her feet sliding across the ground. Noticing a pipe, she grabbed and tore it off from where it was installed, wielding it as a staff so she could defend herself. Though even with the amount of spinning and movement she tried using with the improvised weapon, he could still see it all. The pipe banged against the ground as he side-stepped and ducked under a spinning back maneuver. He tried timing it so that the electric current in the sword handle would electrocute her, but instead felt pain as she moved the pipe slightly farther which banged against his wrist. Spinning her pipe so that it was forced out of his hand, she attempted to jab the right end of her pipe by swiveling on her feet but he ducked and backed away.
"I still know your weakness." Rose gloated.
"Ah, but I know yours as well Rose. While you do fight dirty, you more often tend to avoid hits if you can. So while there still is a chance you'll grab my arm and elbow me in the face again, I'm not going to give you as much chances. You must've noticed that while you are correct that both our precognition come at 4.6 seconds, mine is just slightly faster than yours. You assume we're looking 4.6 seconds in, but you come in at at 4.6692989 seconds, while mine is at 4.6692110 seconds, meaning that I'm 879 microseconds faster than you. In most regards, you can't beat me."
"Then how about I even the odds?" The two looked up to see Robin, standing on one of the scaffolds of the clock.
"Robin?" Ravager asked.
"Batman's sidekick?" Clock King questioned. "I thought you quit being Gotham's protector."
"I did. I'm just returning the favor of a friend." Rose almost smiled to that.
"Hmph, it doesn't matter. You don't have any precognition powers, so there's no way you can match me."
"Oh really? Watch me." Taking a leap, Clock King was caught off guard that noting came to him in 4.6 seconds, except for the Boy Wonder's boot against his face at exactly that, cracking the clock face as he backed into his computer.
"Agh! What?! Impossible!"
"Definitely possible if a certain magical friend of mine can make me immune to any mental and time related powers someone may have. So Ravager, how about we clean his clock?" The Boy Wonder asked as he punched his palm. She grinned while also rolling her eye.
"You just had to make a clock pun, did you? But taking down this jerk will certainly be worthwhile." The two then took offensive stances. Seeing one of Rose's swords near him, he tried to dash for it, only to be blocked by Ravager, each having a hold of her pipe, pushing against each other. Robin took the chance to jump over her with a flying drop kick and and caused the villain to fall onto his face and front. Pushing his hands down, Clock King grunted as he dodged a pipe end to the back of his head and stood up. Rose took a swing to her left which made him go right...right into Robin's line of attack as he was also hit with the Boy Wonder's staff. He grunted as he was pushed back, giving the two the chance to attack in unison with with staffs to both sides of his head, two upper-cuts to his chest to make him go flying, and simultaneous throws of their weapons so that they stab through his cape and he got stuck into the wall from his cape, feet dangling a couple feet from the floor. The two teenagers leapt up and landed two kicks to his chest with enough force to smash Clock King through the brick wall, causing him to tumble down the stairs with pained grunts, until he stopped at a flat corner section. As he struggled to get up, Robin used a grappling hook to reach a wooden beam where he offered his hands. Rose used her enhanced strength to grab onto his hands while she swung under and planted her feet onto the wall before pushing, letting the titan leader throw her up so that she landed on the ceiling before jumping from it, yelling as she flipped so her feet smashed Clock King through the wooden floor and down two more of the stairs before stopping, flipping off of him so that she could see how utterly defeated he was. Robin swung right next to her so that they smiled together with their victory.
After Clock King has been taken in, the Teen Titans and Ravager were outside of Gotham where it seemed like they were going to split.
"See you two later." Rose said to Raven and Jinx, her mask taken off. "It's nice to have friends as cool as you around."
"Definitely. We should plan our next girls night outs sometime." The pink haired metahuman giggled.
"Looking forward to it." Raven agreed. Nodding, she then turned to her childhood friend. "So, where were we?"
"We were stopping you from escaping jail."
"Oh right." Rose chuckled. "Well, did my actions lift my sentence?"
"Depends. Would you like to be an honorary titan so and promise not to do any more crimes?"
"Hmm, I don't know." She shrugged while crossing her arms. "I'm more of a lone wolf, so you guys would slow me down."
"Well then I'll have to take you back to jail."
"You telling me what to do, Richard?" Rose smirked. Richard returned the smirk.
"I was always the voice of reason between us, Rose." Chuckling, the white haired anti-hero hugged her friend.
"You always were indeed." Jumping back, she threw one of Robin's smoke bombs against the ground, disappearing in a flash.
"Robin, should we chase after her?" Starfire questioned, but the titan leader just chuckled.
"Nah. We'll meet again. When we need to. Let's go home. Oh, but first things first. Raven? Jinx?" The two girls turned their attention to him. "Since you've assisted a criminal and destroyed a music store, a punishment is in order. I'd say our food budget shall no longer involve your favorite foods until the cost has been covered from you two."
"Aw man." Both of them groaned.
A/N: Another slam dunk. I figured that instead of making Rose just be nothing but cool and 90's angst that she should be more likable. Like her friendship with Robin was genuine and that instead of writing what they had as a waste of time was rather something she really cherished since I figured her life probably wasn't all that great with Slade as her dad. Also made another Girl's night out more believable if Rose is going to be involved. Anyway, next is the Kicking a Ball episode, but here's something I realized. I thought Soccer, or futbol, was England's national sport. Mostly from what I've seen in Flushed Away. Remember that movie? Anyway, turns out that country's sport is Cricket while futbol is more of Spain's national sport. But since Eris already made a suggestion involving Mad Mod and soccor is still pretty popular in the UK, let's just let my incorrect assumption slide.