Worlds Collide

Chapter 13: Titans, Regroup

The Final Chapter

-Author's Notice-:

This chapter is about 7,000 characters long... just a heads up.

"Hey, man, what's your favorite Pokemon?" a short-haired teenage guy asked his roommate.

They were in south Seattle, in an apartment to be exact.

"Uh… Charizard I guess." His roommate asked, ruffling his short blonde hair, and then blurted out…

"I've got one for you… Who's your favorite Teen Titans character?"

The other shook his head in distaste, and replied, "You know I don't like that show, Chris."

"Why not?" Chris replied, as his roommate shrugged and said, "It's just too anime-ish."

"Oh come on, you watch Naruto! Teen Titans isn't as anime-ish as that is." Chris replied in a tone of ridicule, as his roommate just smirked.

"Alright, well, I guess it was that dark girl."

Chris laughed out loud, and said, "So you've really been just saying that this entire time?"

"No, I watched a bit of the first and second seasons, man. After that one blonde chick betrayed them all, I sort of lost interest."

Chris nodded, as suddenly the power blinked. "Man, ever since the Space Needle toppled, it's been blinking all the time." Chris's roommate said, as Chris shrugged.

"Well, you know, if it fell the other way and crushed us, at least we'd be near a hospital." Chris joked, as suddenly the power shut off completely, "Oh well, how about we go for a ride in that Mustang of yours, Nick-o?"

"As long as you don't call me Nick-o." Nick replied, walked past, grabbing the keys, and motioning him to come along. Chris didn't wait, as they went down a steady staircase and out the back door into a small parking lot. Nick used his keys to unlock his car, as they both got in. "By the way…" Nick began, and pointed to the title on the headrest of the seats, Chris grabbed his seatbelt buckle, "… It's a GT500, not a Mustang."

As they both buckled in, Nick revved up the engine. "A Mustang doesn't sound like this baby." Nick bragged, as Chris smirked.

"Just drive." Chris replied, and Nick hit the gas, as they sped out of the parking lot and into the open road. There was way less traffic since the Space Needle toppled, as machinery worked to get debris off the skinny Seattle street behind them.

"By the way, that 'dark girl' is called Raven." Chris brought up, as Nick nodded, as their started cruising, the hospital entrance to the right in front of them.

"So, do you really think the thing that hit the Needle was a meteor?" Nick began, as suddenly a 'poof' sound came from in front of them. "I don't-" Chris began, as Nick looked back ahead and spotted something that made his eyes bug out and him hit the breaks. Two people suddenly in the middle of the road, in front of the hospital, one hunching over the other. The GT500 they were driving was speeding too much to stop with the breaks alone, as suddenly the collided with a very solid object that stopped their car immediately, causing the front bumper to crush inward and the car to lift off its rear tires before plopping bad to the ground. As a black wall receded back into the ground in front of them, both teens were dazed. Chris opened his eyes first, and blinked, seeing the gray-skinned girl with violet hair, and the green-skinned boy lying down beside her.

Chris rubbed his eyes in shock, and shouted, "Dude!" to his roommate at the wheel, who was still dazed, moaning. "Dude, dark girl dead ahead!"

"Did we hit her?" his friend Nick said softly, peering at Chris, not even paying attention ahead.

Chris got out, and replied, "Not by a long-shot."

Chris circled around Raven and Beast Boy, staring trying to get a better look at Raven's face. As Raven turned back to Beast Boy directly, and Chris got a direct line of sight at both their faces, he gasped. "Live, damn it…" Raven muttered, as she put her hand on his chest and began to heal.

"Are you…?" Chris began, eyes wide, as Raven glared up and gave him a really vicious glare, sending the message 'Not another word.'

Chris got what the stare meant, but his focus was on the red charka on her forehead. "Just like in the cartoon…" Chris whispered in awe, as Raven picked up Beast Boy with her arms, and carried him towards the hospital in a rush. "Out of my way!" Raven snarled at Chris, using her energy to push him to the side. Chris gasped, and went, "Whoa. Nick, you're never going to believe what I just saw."

"Dude, I don't care if it's a unicorn, can you just help get me out of this thing?" Nick moaned.

Chris, not paying much attention, a tone of bewilderment and kid-like imagination still in his voice, replied "No, it's not a unicorn… it's better."

"Dude, I don't care if it's Superman! Get me out of my seatbelt real quick so I can see if I hit anything… or… er… What I hit!" Nick shouted, as Chris rolled his eyes and came to help his roommate out of the car.

"Somebody help him…" Raven replied, exhausted, as the nurse gasped at the sight of the blooded boy lying just past the entrance doors.

"SOMEBODY? We have a boy with multiple gunshot wounds at the front desk!" she shouted, as several doctors nearby rushed to the aid of them, and one nearby doctor grabbed a vacant stretcher nearby as they lifted him on to it. "We need him in surgery, ASAP!" one doctor shouted, as Raven kept pace with the moving stretcher.

A few nurses were also close by, as the stretcher burst through the Operating Room doors, as a nurse halted at the door to try to tell Raven to stay out, but before she could even open her mouth, Raven rushed in.

One of the Doctors got in front of her and said calmly, "You need to let us do our job."

"But I need to be with him!" Raven replied in a panic, as a nearby nurse told her calmly, "You need to come with me. He'll be fine."

Raven, a painstaking look of worry written on her face, backed off as the nurse guided her back down the hall, and the doctor turned back around to help, as the double doors shut.

"So, are you his girlfriend?" the nurse asked, trying to keep her calm, as Raven shook her head. "Just a friend…"

"So, friends for how long?" the nurse asked calmly, as Raven sighed. "A couple of years."

"You seemed more than friends right then." The nurse told her, as Raven looked surprised. "How?"

"Just a friend wouldn't want to be with him that badly…" The nurse told her, smiling, as Raven looked away.

"You know, he's going to be fine. Our hospital is one of the best when it comes to dealing with gunshot wounds." The nurse coaxed her once more, as Raven seemed less worried.

"I just… he's…" Raven began, and then choked up.

The nurse put her arm around Raven's shoulder in support, as Raven started sobbing.

Good thing the nurse didn't know she just wrapped her arm around a half-demon girl from another reality.

"So… do you love him?" the nurse asked softly, as Raven paused for a brief moment. The answer to that question, the pause felt like a few hours for her. The decision of how to answer. What to answer like. What path it might take her down…

And then she answered, as Beast Boy was being operated on, semi-conscious. He wondered what Raven was saying about him, so he turned his eardrum into a wolf ear to hear it.

He heard the question, and then came the answer.

"Yes, I do…" Raven whispered, as suddenly the nurses noticed Beast Boy's heart rate speed up just a bit.

"Is it speeding up?" The Doctor asked, as a nurse shook her head. "Nothing to be worried about, too little of a jump to do anything harmful."

Suddenly, Beast Boy's heart rate started slowing down. And slowing. Then suddenly, he flatlined.

The beep could be heard down the hall, as both the nurse and Raven sitting side-by-side lifted their heads that way, both hearing the noise. "NO!" Raven shouted, in tears, as suddenly the flat lining stopped.

Beast Boy's normal heart-rate resumed, as the doctors went 'Phew' in relief. They continued, as the nurse sighed in relief as well. Raven fell back to the chair, even more exhausted.

"… With how much you care about him, you two would make the perfect couple." The nurse said, smiling, trying to make light of the situation.

"I guess…" Raven whispered, as the nurse smiled a bit wider. "Love like yours isn't common anymore."

Raven smirked, and shut her eyes, almost about to doze off in the early morning. She hadn't slept all night.

"Chris, man, you expect me to believe… that you saw two cartoon characters in front of us." Nick told his friend, as he nodded. They both walked up to the entrance doors, and Chris pointed, saying, "See?"

Nick gaped, and backed away. "Ok, I see, now let's go." He replied, creeped out.

Nick went back towards the street, and shouted, "Chris!", seeing his buddy not moving. Chris snapped out of the stare, and both went on to survey the damage to the GT500.

"Calling all Titans!" Robin shouted into his communicator, sliding down a hilly slope towards a large city west of Mount Rushmore, named Rapid City. In the Great Plains, it was just turning to dawn. "We need to regroup!" Robin shouted once more, as somewhere over West Virginia, Starfire picked up in mid-air, "Robin, I am here!"

"Ok, have you heard from the others?" Robin asked, as Starfire replied, "No… I have not."

"Ok, I'm going to try to contact the others. Hang on." Robin told her, and then switched over. "Raven?" Robin asked into his communicator, as suddenly Raven's communicator rang… it was still in the middle of the intersection in suburban Philadelphia. The one that they had fought in and that Beast Boy had been wounded in. No response, so Robin tried the next. Beast Boy.

In the middle of surgery, the doctors all heard the beeping coming from Beast Boy's ripped and tattered uniform. One of the nurses shifted through it, and found the yellow communicator. "I'm going to get this to his girlfriend." The nurse said, and walked out of the room, still in a rush. She walked quickly down the hall, and handed Raven the 'phone'. "Here you go, it's your boyfriend's." the nurse said, handing her the phone. The nurse then made way back to the surgery room, and Raven began, "He's not my-…" but then softly stopped, as the nurse entered the surgery room again.

"Two down…" as the lead doctor laid the next one in a metal tray, and they all looked in on the last one still firmly locked in the young changeling's chest. "And now for the tricky one." The doctor added, and they began working on the last one.

Meanwhile, the communicator was still ringing, and Raven picked up. "Now's not a good time." She said monotonically, and hung up immediately as soon as Robin tried to open his mouth on the other end.

"Ok, now Cyborg…" Robin whispered, and it started ringing.

"Man, I thought you'd never call." Cyborg picked up on the other end, as Robin smirked.

"So, where are you?" Robin asked, as Cyborg shrugged.

"Well, wherever I am, I caused an EMP. I think one of the street signs said Detroit, Michigan." Cyborg replied, as Robin took no time to ask another question.

"Have you seen any of the others?" he asked Cyborg, as the cybernetic teen shook his head. "No, I haven't. I do remember seeing something falling a long ways away from me, and then suddenly it got huge. It might have been Beast Boy."

"Alright, keep me posted." Robin told him, and called Starfire back.

"We've got Cyborg and Raven, but still no response from Beast Boy." Robin informed her, as she nodded.

Suddenly, Cyborg called in on the other end. "Hold on, Star." Robin said, and switched calls.

"Hey, I traced Raven's communicator to Philadelphia… but get this…" Cyborg began, as Robin looked at him in peculiarity at the words 'get this', "I traced Beast Boy's built-in alert device, and then Raven's too… they're both at the same place, and the same building."

"Where?" Robin asked.

"Seattle, Washington… in a Hospital." Cyborg replied, as Robin looked surprised.

"And if Raven has Beast Boy's communicator… that means…" Robin muttered, and then looked back directly at the screen. "Cyborg, everyone regroup at that Hospital. Beast Boy might be hurt."

Cyborg nodded, as Robin switched back to Starfire. "Star, can you go pick up Cyborg in Detroit?"

"Certainly" she replied, as then dove down. Robin looked a bit surprised, and asked, "You knew where that was?"

She nodded, and replied, "I found this very nice Global Positioning System in a vacant car. It works well for travel."

Robin raised his eyebrow, and was about to ask where she got it… but that didn't matter.

"Eep!" she went, as Robin asked quickly, "What's wrong?"

"Oh, nothing, Robin. Cyborg shot off a flare and it surprised me." Starfire replied, and flew down to get him.

Robin scratched his head and the feed no longer showed Starfire, but Cyborg's leg and the ground. Somehow, Starfire was acting differently. He just couldn't put a spot on it.

"Got him?" Robin asked, as Starfire nodded, carrying Cyborg in mid-air. "Yes, where are you, Robin?"

"Rapid City." Robin responded, as Starfire pulled out a GPS, holding Cyborg with one arm now, and typed it in.

She nodded, as flew off that way.

Robin disconnected the feed, and looked around in the sky.

Suddenly, he noticed something odd. There was a wavy pattern in the sky, barely visible. Wavy like the waviness from scorching hot roads in the summer.

Starfire only took 5 minutes to get to him, as suddenly he found himself being swooped up out of nowhere by her, and back up into the air.

"What?!" Robin asked in total shock, as Cyborg had his cannon primed and pointed it behind them. "Hang on!" Cyborg shouted, as an Air Force Jet suddenly came from the clouds behind them, giving chase.

"I've got a lock." The pilot told someone over his headset.

"Alright, I'm flying in the other way. Don't be late on the turn." Another pilot with a deeper sounding voice told him.

Cyborg suddenly fired his sonic cannon for the fourteenth time, finally hitting the jet causing major damage to the right wing of it.

"I've taken damage to my right side, I've got to eject." The pilot said, and ejected out of the cockpit, the damaged jet nose-diving into the ground after Cyborg hit it with his sonic cannon in the top, lurching it down.

"Fox-42 to Nellis, we have another fighter down. Request immediate backup 5 miles Southeast of Rapid City, over." The pilot requested, as they picked up on the other end.

"Sorry, Fox-42. We don't have anything to give you, over."

"Roger that…" the pilot replied, and paused for a brief moment. "Nellis, I can't take these things on by myself. Request permission to return to base, over."

"Permission granted, Fox-42. Come on home. We'll let the other bases take this one." The man on the other end said, as the pilot pitched left and headed back.

Once the three Titans got away from the jets, they turned north back to towards Seattle.

"We have two of them in the hospital here. Should we send in the cavalry?" a policeman said, peeking around the corner of the entrance to the hospital.

"No, it won't be that simple. Now… listen carefully…" the man on the other end of the radio began.

Inside, sat Raven, asleep on the bench. The nurse had to go, unfortunately, to aid in another surgery.

But now, she came back. "Raechel, was it?" the nurse asked, as suddenly Raven woke up.

"Did he make it?" she asked almost instantly, as the nurse nodded.

"You can see him now. Follow me." the nurse replied, smiling, and guided her down the hall.

"Wait, stand down." The man on the other end of the radio said, as the policeman looked surprised.

"I just got news from the officials in Philadelphia, they say there's blood on the pavement and it's not one of ours." The agent said, as the policeman asked, "So they didn't kill any agents?"

"No, the man that we thought got crushed under the truck was actually right beside it. He passed out. Another agent has a claw-mark on his arm, but they did that, we believe, to disarm him. The driver just told us that one of them actually was mortally wounded. So, stand down. They're not as big of a threat as we thought."

The policeman shrugged, and walked back to his cruiser, replying, "Ok, got it."

"B-Beast Boy…?" Raven said, as Beast Boy lay there in the bed, still weak from the surgery.

"Hey Rae…" he said hoarsely, as she teared up a bit.

"What's wrong?" Beast Boy asked, as Raven shook her head, and sniffed.

"Nothing, nothing… so… Robin called… I guess they're here too." She managed to say, as Beast Boy smiled.

"That's good…" he replied.

A moment of silence, and Raven was still trying to contain her sobbing. Beast Boy was just staring at her there. He took her hand, and held it. Once he did that, she couldn't hold it in anymore.

"Hey, um, we're here to see Rae." Robin told the lady at the counter.

"Oh, Rachel? Yes, she's in there with her boyfriend." The nurse replied, as Robin, Cyborg, and Starfire's eyes popped out.

"Did you say… boyfriend?" Robin asked, in surprise, as the lady nodded.

"Well, she keeps on denying it, but it's really not that hard to figure out." The nurse told them, and pointed down the hall, "Room 106."

Robin nodded and they began to walk.

"Oh, and what's with the costumes?" the nurse asked curiously at the counter, as Robin turned around slowly.

"We were in the middle of role-playing." Robin said, as Starfire gave him a confused look.

"Oh, and I'm required to ask… how are you related to them?" the nurse asked, and Robin took the question once again.

"I'm Rav- I mean, Rae's brother. This is my girlfriend, and this is my girlfriend's friend." Robin answered, pointing to himself, Starfire, and then Cyborg.

"Alright, go on and see them." The nurse said, and sat back down at the counter, as they walked towards room 106.

They reached the outside and peered in through the window in the door.

"Raven… is there something you want to tell me?" Beast Boy asked, as Raven wiped her eyes.

"I… y-yes…" she went on, as Beast Boy waited.

Cyborg and Robin exchanged glances, as Starfire asked, "Why is she so… jittery?"

Cyborg shrugged, and Robin just looked on.

"I… I…" Raven began, and then suddenly took a deep breath. "I… L… L…"

Beast Boy looked a tiny bit confused, and asked, "You… L… Lwhat?"

"I…" Raven tried again, but stopped. She closed her eyes tightly, trying to calm herself.

"Raven… you can tell me anything, you know that, right?" Beast Boy told her softly, as she opened her eyes and looked at him.

"I…" she began, and then shut her eyes again.

"I love you, Beast Boy."

Starfire squealed outside the doorway, Robin's eyes widened, and Cyborg's look went blank and his eye twitched, as if his brain was trying to compute what just happened.

"R-Really?" Beast Boy asked in surprise, as Raven nodded very very slowly.

"Y-yes…"

"Like… LOVE… love?" Beast Boy continued, as Raven looked away.

"I… I want to… know… do you… love me too?" Raven asked, as Beast Boy looked beyond shocked.

"Uh… Raven… it's just… this is all… happened so fast." Beast Boy managed to say, as she stood up, shakily.

"I knew I wasn't good enough for you…" she said hoarsely, as Beast Boy went, "No…"

She opened a portal behind and flew through it, as Beast Boy shouted, "Raven, wait!"

Beast Boy, looking very upset, turned towards the doorway, and his eyes widened, seeing the other three teammates out there. The surprise was short-lived, however, as he turned his head away.

"Man, and I thought this stuff only happened in Soap Operas." Cyborg said, his tone still littered with surprise and disbelief.

"Do you think they will be ok?" Starfire asked Robin, and Robin nodded.

"I hope so, Star."

Back in New Jersey, the two 'fans' had been released, and were back in their household.

"Ok, video uploaded to YouTube." Mark said, drinking a beer.

"Good, now let's wait a while and see how popular it gets," Charles said, as they turned on the TV and tuned into the New York News.

"And workers are still working to clean up the mess left behind by Friday's strange events. Several are reported missing, and Times Square is filled with debris from neon signs and overhead billboards. Still, though, authorities say despite eyewitness accounts, there was no 'Black Aurora Borealis' hanging overhead causing the damage, and it was just an allusion caused by black ash from the falling debris. Many believe, however, this and the EMP in Detroit could be linked together, and some are even going as far as to say that the meteor that hit on the opposite coast, in Seattle, is somehow linked. But so far, we don't have enough evidence to support any connections at this time."

Mark smirked, and said, "So, what are the chances they'll find evidence it's a cartoon character brought to life?"

Charles smirked too, and replied, "Well, of course not, a Black Aurora Borealis is obviously more believable."

"Pssh" Mark went, and flipped the channels. "And to think, a few days ago I read an article on 'Why Alternate Realities don't Exist'."

"Well, they might not exist for long if this keeps up." Charles replied, and drank his own Mountain Dew can, as they began to watch America's Funniest Videos.

"I bet you 10 dollars the next scene is of a dog pawing its owner in the nuts." Mark said, and Charles replied, "Deal."

The next clip was exactly that, and Mark held up his hand for the money.

"You TiVo'd it." Charles said bitterly, as Mark laughed.

"TiVo'd or not, a bet's a bet."

Los Angeles, California.

Raven had just warped there, standing on Hollywood Avenue. Her usual calm look wasn't there, and eerily replaced by a rage full one.

She cast her hand out, and suddenly the entire block shook, as metal wobbling began to cut through the silent air.

Nearby, the Capitol Records building, suddenly got covered in Raven's black energy. It was lifted up clear off the ground, sever meters off its foundation, and flung sideways into another short high-rise, causing both the crumbled.

Next on Raven's hit list? The stalled traffic to the right of her. Other pedestrians were running for cover while she lifted several calls off their tires. One teen grabbed his camera and started filming, but his buddy quickly convinced him to run instead.

Raven tossed a blue sedan to the wall first, then the truck beside it at the light to the other side, rolling.

She then tossed every last one of them to the side of the road, as suddenly sirens came from the distance. Suddenly, came a horde of police cars, all of them swerving around the corner and stopping in a line.

The policemen and policewoman of the LAPD jumped out, guns raised. "Stop now!" one of them yelled, but Raven didn't even turn around, and kept on tossing cars in blind rage.

Suddenly, she froze stiff, chills running down her back, as the lead policemen fired a shot into the air to try to grab her attention. She got sudden flashbacks of the night before, Beast Boy ripping the doors off, getting splattered by bullets, her running up to him and then taking it all out on the shooter…

Then, she realized what she was doing. Trashing innocent people's cars and tossing aside buildings for something that couldn't be changed.

But then, a big surprise. The LAPD apparently meant business, as the 1 warning shot expired.

The opened fire, bullets flying past her.

In retaliation, she waved her arms, black aura shooting out of them ripping away the policemen's weapons.

She then took off down the road away from them, as the LAPD jumped into their cars and sped off, sirens blazing.

She looked over her shoulder, and spotted the Police Car closest to her, and cast her left arm behind her. Her energies hit the front end of the car, causing the tires to burst and it to do a forward roll. The car landed up side down on the roof of a nearby-parked car, as others zoomed past, still in the chase.

It was clear where she was heading… towards the Hollywood sign.

She cast her hand out again, picking the next police car clear off the road and then tossing it aside. It rolled across a nearby plaza and landed on the outer wall of a fountain. The policeman driving it immediately jumped out, standing with just a few bruises, and watched the other cars zoom past.

"Azarath Metrion Zinthos!" Raven shouted, causing part of the road behind her to lift up, instantaneously causing a 4-car pileup on that side. But the other dozen cars swerved around the pileup, giving chase again.

Raven then elevated up above the rooftops, heading straight for the sign. And as soon as she looked down, seeing the police cars navigating the roads behind her, trying to keep up… there came a whooshing sound in the air. She looked back up at her head-level, and saw a LAPD Helicopter about 10 yards away.

The pilot quickly pulled up, and sped up a bit on the throttle… and surprisingly… hit her hard with the nose of his Helicopter. The huge bump rattled her, and she fell back down to the ground.

Quickly, she realized she was falling, and cast her hand up. Suddenly, the Helicopter gained some bottom-weight, as the landing bars on each side suddenly were covered in black with Raven's powers. She stopped falling… using her powers to bridge a rope between her and the helicopter, to keep her there.

The Helicopter pilot hit the throttle to try to keep in the air, with the sudden pulling on each side of the helicopter.

As Raven had her powers let go of the Helicopter, and she levitated once again, suddenly the Helicopter exploded in flame, causing Raven to cover her face with her arms in protection.

The two flaming piecing of the Helicopter flew past her on each side, and she looked down in shock.

As the remains of the helicopter landed in flames, in a small grassy patch near where another police car was turning, suddenly a female laugh sounded from behind her. She turned and her expression went from surprise to hate.

"You." Raven muttered bitterly, as the female laughed again.

"Been a bad girl, Raven?" Terra taunted her, floating on a reddish rock, taken from the California soil.

"I see that sacrificing yourself for the entire city didn't change you much." Raven fired back, as Terra scoffed.

"If you didn't notice, Raven, there was a gunner in the back of the helicopter, and he had his scope aimed right for your head. So, I really didn't slam a rock into it just 'cuz." Terra replied, as Raven glared.

"Do you really think that changes the fact you tried to drown me in mud?" Raven asked bitterly, as Terra blinked. "That wasn't really me, Raven. It was Slade, remember? He was controlling me. Seriously, you don't know how controlling that man is. He does anything to get what he wants."

Raven narrowed her eyes, and replied, "No, I do. After you got turned to stone, the world ended, and Slade helped it happen. Really, the entire world was turned to stone, and then it got rever-"

But she stopped in mid-sentence, realizing how Terra could actually be alive.

"… So you turned to stone… and Trigon turned everyth… that… means… when I defeated… and you just… then…" Raven thought aloud, and then looked back at Terra.

"Okay, so we're even now." Raven said, and Terra scratched her head, looking at Raven a bit oddly.

"You're really confusing, you know that?" Terra said.

As they continued the mid-air discussion, a SWAT Team had already dispatched, and was setting up on a rooftop to their south.

As Raven asked, a bit bitter again, "Was that supposed to be a compliment?" Terra turned around and spotted the SWAT Team members on the rooftop, their scopes set on Raven.

"Look out!" Terra shouted, jumping off her floating rock, and pushing Raven aside. The SWAT Teams fired, and hit Terra in the back, as she plummeted back down to the ground.

Raven just stared, eyes wide, as Terra hit the ground. She growled, and then cast her hand out below to the SWAT Team, who were trying to re-align their scopes from the recoil they just had. But before they could re-align it, the entire roof shook.

The entire building lifted up off its foundation, and she tossed it sideways. The building crumbled across the 8-lane road, pieces of it spewing across the other dispatched units.

Raven then flew towards the Hollywood sign, and landed right nearby the giant 'H'. She was running out of energy, and focus. Without proper meditation, she could hit her limits way sooner than she thought. And no meditation and no sleep was killing her.

3 or 4 Police Cars zoomed up and parked side-by-side, as the drivers and their passengers all got out, guns raised.

Raven cast her hand out in defense, ready to do anything.

One older-looking policemen stepped forward, and set his gun on the ground, walking around the front-left tire of the car.

"Hey, what are you doing?" his partner asked shakily.

The man stepping forward just simply held his hand out towards his partner with a 'stop' motion, not keeping his eyes off the girl.

"Listen… Raven… there's nowhere left to go. Give up. You don't want this to go on any longer." The man said, trying to negotiate.

"You shouldn't have killed my friend!" Raven shouted, as the policemen in the back clicked their guns and held their grips tighter.

"Well… I'm sorry." The man said, and then smirked, and looked left and right, and then back at Raven.

"Look around. All you have to use are rocks and dirt. We have helicopters…" he began, looking up at an overhead Helicopter.

Raven glared up too very briefly, then back to him.

"… Guns… Swat Teams… and the National Guard is on its way too. There's no point in resisting." The policeman continued, as Raven shook her head.

"Don't say another word, or I'll kill you." Raven shouted icily, as the policemen didn't look too threatenned.

"What are you going to use, a rock?" he asked, as Raven smirked.

"No, something bigger." She replied, as suddenly the nearby Hollywood sign began to slowly lift from its place on the hill.

"What, a big rock?" he replied once more, as his partner was behind him… knowing this wasn't any good. He pulled the trigger, but it was too late. The two letter O's in the 'WOOD' part of the sign began tumbling down pushed even faster by Raven's powers.

She let her powers leave the giant letters alone now, as gravity did the rest.

As the two O's landed side-by-side, and slanted over the officers, Raven turned around and began to walk. But suddenly, out of exhaustion, lack of meditation, and sleep deprivation… she fell over and passed out.

Beast Boy had sat up in bed abruptly, causing the nearby nurse to ask 'What is it?'

He had flipped the channels on the hospital-room TV, and there it was. A police-chase, the newsmen in the media helicopter announcing what it was like and whom it was like. And then the National Guard trucks moving in, the LAPD still suffering traumatic losses down below, surrounding someone with a helicopter spotlight shined upon them.

It was Raven, down and out.

"Alright, forget what I said about them not being a threat." The man talking to the cop in Seattle earlier told the Seattle Police Department leader.

"Send in the cavalry on that hospital. I want those threats neutralized at all costs."

The man on the other end said, "Got it. So… do you want us to bring them in?"

"Yes…"

"In body-bags."

Mark and Charles in New Jersey had watched some TV Shows, and finally, Charles decided to check the views… and YouTube had removed his video.

Confused, he checked his e-mail, and found e-mail from the CIA. And the head of the CIA signed it.

It read, "Don't upload a video like that again… or we'll have raid your house again."

Charles looked awkwardly over at his friend, and decided to not tell him.

"They're not around here anymore anyway… so I guess I'll just leave it alone." Charles thought to himself, then told his friend…

"Hey, Mark, we'll have to just show our friends, bud." He said, as Mark asked almost instantaneously, "Why?"

"YouTube glitches up… well, at least we can show all the other fans we know." Charles replied, as Mark laughed.

"What other fans? Nobody cares anymore, Chris. It's all old news. This is the news people care about right now anyway…" Mark said, as the TV was on Fox News, as they were showing "Newly submitted video" from the night that Blackfire shot down the Space Needle in Seattle.

Back at the home of those two teens in Seattle who just wrecked their GTO500 before, Chris being the only one who saw Raven in real life for the first time… they turned on the TV as the power came back on… and there was a speech by the President.

"Many of you may be wondering what's going on out there… all these catastrophic events…" he began, as the two teens sat down to watch.

"And I'm here today…"

Suddenly, the nurses in the front of the hospital shouted out in shock as a SWAT Team raided the front entrance, guns loaded and ready. Cyborg turned the corner, and turned to see the swarm of SWAT police, and his eyes bugged out as they sprayed him with bullets, luckily, they only hit his middle chassis, which was bulletproof, and he hurried to take cover behind the corner he had just came out of, and primed his cannon, taking a deep breath.

"…To give you answers…"

Cyborg rounded the corner, sonic cannon primed, but they opened fire again, this time, hitting his non-metallic skull, sending him down fast.

"… We have an… declassified experiment now… that myself and… and… many others did not know of…"

Robin shouted to take cover, as they ran in, and Robin brought out his staff, but didn't have enough time… they padded him with bullets in the stomach and heart, sending him down with a cringe. Starfire shouted his name, and came out with her own strike, knocking the man who shot Robin into several others. Beast Boy shouted Starfire's name now, and pointed to the glass windows nearby, as another team sprayed their guns around the room. Starfire then dove and pushed Beast Boy's hospital bed over to save him, causing Beast Boy to land behind it… but she didn't. Beast Boy called out her nickname in distress… but received no answer.

"That has caused these events… but now, we promise you… it has all been taken care of…"

Nick decided to flip channels to the local news, as suddenly a breaking news story in Seattle came to rise… a SWAT team had invaded the hospital that they just crashed outside… and the news reported 3 bodies being taken out after the raid, and 1 captured.

Chris, the one teen that had seen Raven before stared in shock, and slowly got up off the couch, mouth gaping.

"What, what is it?" Nick asked, as Chris stared at him, his expression suddenly in huge fear.

"Dude, you're scaring me now. What did you see?" Nick asked, a bit freaked by his buddy's sudden fearful expression.

Chris quickly pointed behind him, as the bodies were seen being taken from the hospital, able to be seen by the camera.

Nick's eyes bugged out after realizing his buddy hadn't been having delusions… that his buddy had actually met the Teen Titans… and then Chris looked back at the TV, and looked back at his friend again…

"They killed the Teen Titans…" Chris said, as Nick shook his head.

"They only mentioned 3… Where could the other one be?" Nick asked, as Chris looked back, now confused and shocked.

"We just killed 3 of your friends, and captured the green one…" the interrogator said now, after getting word from one of his colleagues.

"Ready to play nice now, or do you want to be killed?" the man asked, not knowing what he was really going to get. Suddenly, he backed up in fear, and banged on the one-sided window, as the girl behind him suddenly grew taller, with a hiss.

"THE REAL QUESTION IS…" Raven shouted, her four red eyes coming to view…

"DO YOU?"

All that came next was a bunch of screams… and the sound of ripping. The 3 spectators from the other side of the glass… one woman in a black suit and 2 middle-aged men… jumped in shock, and their eyes widened, as a message was written on the see-thru window in blood… backwards so they could read it…

"To be continued."

The man to the very right drew his gun, ran out into the hallway, and aimed his gun… but it was too late, as Raven stepped out, and tossed him down the hall.

She then floated, and faced the two left in the room, her teeth now suddenly razor-sharp and her eyes burning with a red they'd never been before.

"NOW… ROLL CREDITS." She shouted, and lunged at the two in front of her… but she stopped in mid-air… as the man she flung down the hall had quickly gotten up, got to the doorway… and shot her in the back… her eyes turned to normal and she fell face-up, KO'd.

"How many times do we have to shoot this thing? This is the third time tonight." He said, as the woman shook her head and spoke in total shock.

"I'm starting to just want to let it go."

Author's Notes:

By the way... there'll be a SEQUEL! :D

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