How badly did she want to grip them in her hands, to tear away the flesh, to bathe herself naked in their blood. How easy it would be. How infuriating it was that they were so close and yet she could not reach them. She could smell them, the stink of their fear, the rich blood coursing through their veins. But, try as she might, she could not free herself from this prison of light. It would not sway, though she beat it longer than she could remember.

She could see him much more clearly now. He stood right up beside her prison, that pathetic look in his eyes. That sense of loss, the sadness. He was pathetic. He did not know anything about loss. He didn't lose his entire people. He didn't have a demon for a father; he did not have a mother who abandoned him. He had nothing to be sad for, yet he dare stand before her, tears in his eyes, mouth calling her name.

She shouted obscenities at him. Cried the countless ways she would torture him as he slowly died. How she would tear out those sad eyes. How she would bite off his green frown. But he just stood there looking at her. How she hated him. All he did was annoy, make jokes, and ruin her life. He was nothing but a green stain. He needed to be wiped away!

"I will kill you Beastboy!" Raven shouted as she beat herself against the prison, red eyes gleaming at the green teen. "And I will bring you back and kill you again and again until I have grown bored of watching you die, you pathetic little human filth!"

"She does not seem to be taking too kindly to you," Fixit said as he and See-More stepped up beside the Titan.

"You can hear her?" Beastboy asked, not looking away from Raven. "I've got like super hearing and I can't even hear her!"

"I can read her lips." Fixit stated simply.

"Well, what is she saying about me?"

"You do not want to know."

Beastboy gazed sadly at his friend as she continued to beat herself against the prison, glaring down at him, screaming at him. Her forehead seemed to be dripping with blood.

"I've seen her like this before," Beastboy said. "But she only gets this way when she loses control of her emotions, and Raven's normally really good at doing stuff like that. Something must have really sent her over the edge."

See-More glanced over to Fixit, remembering how Raven went all demon on them almost right after he had tried to delve into her mind. If Fixit noticed, he didn't make any indication.

"Well, regardless if you want to take her with us, we need to discern how to break her from this."

"From the prison?" Beastboy asked as he made his way to a nearby panel. "Maybe pressing a few of these buttons might do the trick."

Though, before he could move further, Fixit stepped in his path. "We break her from whatever is causing this level of uncontrollability, then we break her from the prison."

"Oh, right. That would be a better idea."

"But how are we supposed to snap her outta this?" See-More asked. Even through the back of his head, the force of Raven's red eyes sent chills through his spine. "I mean, she looks pretty mad."

"Beastboy, you said she has been like this before. How has she been broken from this state the previous times?"

"Uhhh." Beastboy scratched his chin, appearing to be in deep thought. "Actually, it's usually one of us, her friends, that manage to snap her out of it. I remember one time Raven was about to drag Dr. Light into some darkness under her cloak but then Robin called her name and it snapped her out of it."

"But if we can't hear her, I'm guessin' that probably means she won't be able to hear us either," See-More mused.

"That does complicate matters," Fixit agreed.

"We could always free her from the prison fir--"

"No!" said Fixit and See-More in unison.

"Okay, okay! It was just a suggestion."

The three then stood there in silence, apart from the repeated dull thuds of Raven's body impacting against the wall. Beastboy continuously had to flinch away whenever his gaze strayed over to her.

"We should get moving," Fixit finally said. "If we cannot find a way to calm her, then there is no sense in staying. The Tamaranian could wake any moment and there are bound to be patrols that will discover us if we remain."

"No way!" Beastboy shouted. "I have to help Raven. I can't just leave her here!"

"You can and you will," Fixit replied coldly. "You are our guide out of here and you will lead us by your own will or by mine."

"You know, I am getting pretty sick of you threatening to take control of my head," Beastboy hissed, eyes leering dangerously.

"Oh? Well, I shall take over your mind, Beastboy. And do not think I won't simply send you straight into the hands of the Tamarans once I am safely out of this dungeon."

"Uhhh, Fixit?" See-More whispered as the Titan's hands curled into fists. See-More wasn't sure how much power Fixit still had without his arms, but he knew for sure that he was completely useless right now.

"I am not leaving without Raven," Beastboy said, his eyes never leaving Fixit. See-More could see the determination, the confidence. 

Fixit suddenly let out a mechanical sigh. He could see it as well. "Well, I suppose there is no choice."

Thick, mechanical wires shot out of Fixit's body and See-More felt himself lifted from the ground and turned so that the back of his head was facing the Titan. See-More was still looking through the front of his head where he could see Fixit staring back into him.

I'm sorry. Fixit mouthed.

Pain exploded in See-More's head as he felt the wires bore into his mechanical equipment linked to the nerves in his brain. The thief let out a cry the same instant a great wave of sound erupted from the back of his head—hitting Beastboy directly, as well as the mechanical panel that he stood beside.

The panel exploded in a shower of sparks and, as Beastboy flew back, he expected to make contact with the light prison he had been standing right in front of. 

But he kept on flying as if it wasn't there. Shocked, he looked around, the moment locked in a kind of eerie slow motion. He looked up as he flew through the prison, Raven's prison.

 Raven stood there, robe extending several meters longer than its actual size, hood concealing everything but four glowing red eyes and a very large and toothy smile.

"Crap."

Mid-flight, Beastboy hastily morphed into a humming bird, narrowly dodging a black tentacle as it slammed into the ground very near to the green bird as it hummed away. Raven let out a roar of anger before fixing her attention on Fixit, immediately sending a few of her tentacles his way. 

Wires still embedded in the now unconscious See-More, the mechanic did not have much room to maneuver. Fixit ducked, avoiding one of the tentacles. Just as he managed to pull the wires out from See-More's head, two more dark tendrils hit him squarely in the chest, sending him straight against the wall. Sparks flew from his body as the blackness held him aloft, pinned against the hard stone walls of the prison.

"It is such a shame that you are so empty of blood," Raven hissed as her elongated body approached her prey. "Even when I twist, I sink deeper, there is no blood, not even pain."

"You are only wasting your time if you are trying to draw such reactions from me, Raven," Fixit informed nonchalantly.

"Is that so?" Raven answered with a twisted smile. "Well, I suppose I can still enjoy ripping you into tiny scrap-!"

The demoness was cut off when a great green gorilla landed on her back. With a primal roar, the animal used one large hand to pull down Raven's hood while the other arm wrapped around her neck.

With a cry of anger, Raven fell back, the dark tentacles leaving Fixit's body and allowing the mechanic to sink to the ground. The two Titans fought for control for several moments; Raven swinging around madly as Beastboy held on as long as he could. All the while, numerous objects: metal, pieces of the wall, weapons, flew across the room in random directions as they become cloaked in dark energy.

"I was wondering when you would stop cowering!" Raven roared as Beastboy tried to hold on. "And now you fight me like the pathetic beast that you are!"

Suddenly, the green gorilla itself was encased in blackness.

"Found you!"

Beastboy felt himself lose hold of Raven as his body soared through the air before hitting a wall, the noise of the impact echoing loudly in the expansive prison room. As soon as he hit the ground, Beastboy morphed into a cheetah, attempting a hasty escape, only to have the blackness catch him again. The Titan flew into the air, this time making contact with the ceiling. 

As he fell, Beastboy, still dazed, attempted to morph again, but instead of turning into an animal that could fly, he found himself in the shape of an ox. The heavy animal quickly hit the floor again, and this time Beastboy didn't have the strength to get back up.

"Aww, did the poor little green man not get the animal he wanted?" Raven taunted as she approached the fallen oxen. "Let's see, did Beastboy want to be, a bird?"

And then Beastboy was a crane, lying beaten and bruised on the ground, feathers everywhere.

"No? Perhaps you thought you were sly? Perhaps a fox?"

A green fox now lay on the ground, looking up at Raven, looking for mercy, for anything that was once Raven.

"Now, with eyes like that I would think you were trying to be a dog!"

A green dog whimpered at her, begging her in his language to stop.

"Oh, do my forced transformations hurt you? Perhaps if you had no bones,"

A green eel than began to flop around on the ground. It tried to use its electricity, but with no water...

"Something wrong Beastboy? Having trouble breathing? My, that is a shame."

Then Beastboy was a simple fish. It flopped around for awhile before finally lying still, its body heaving, trying to take in the water that wasn't there. It's single wide eye gazing up at the Raven that only smiled down proudly at him.

"And so the great Titan dies how he lived. Pathetic and alone!"

Fixit sat against the wall, not moving since being pinned by Raven, and not from a lack of wanting to. He could see the Tamaran with the long red hair, the one that flew off his back when Raven had attacked him, the one that was now awake and reaching for a communicator on his wrist.

"Blackfire get to the prison cell now! The prisoners are escaping! They-!"

The alien was cut off  as black tentacles suddenly struck down, piercing the Tameranian's body in multiple places. He did not even have time to scream.

"How irritating," Raven commented as the tentacles held the limp body up in the air, she then looked to where the fish was only to find that it had disappeared. "And you even managed to let my prey escape."

One of the tentacles suddenly tore off an arm from the dead Tamaran.

"How, very, irritating," Raven hissed as the tentacles pulled off limb after limb before finally twisting off the alien's head and letting all the parts splatter to the floor. "Your blood is not even fit to drink. Pathetic!"

"BEASTBOY!" Raven cried out in a fit of rage. "Come and face me, you spineless coward! Let me tear free that smug little head from your weak and useless body!"

More and more pieces of debris bathed in black broke from the walls only to be hurtled back into them. Fixit knew it wasn't long before the entire structure came crashing down, or until Raven turned her attention back to him. The mechanic searched his mind, his memory, scanned over every piece of data, anything that could lead to a clue on to how to stop Raven. Surprisingly, it wasn't long before an idea occurred to him, though even he had to admit it wasn't going to be easy to pull off.

"Beastboy," Fixit thought, using what limited power he had to project his mind into the room around him. "Beastboy, can you hear me?"

Silence followed for several moments and Fixit was about to try again when a hesitant voice suddenly replied: "Uh. Hello?"

"Beastboy, you need to listen to me carefully. I know of a way to stop Raven."

"Um, is this like, my conscious speaking?"

"Beastboy, listen to my voice. It is Fixit."

"Oh, well I have nothing to say to you."

"You do not need to speak, just listen--"

"No, you listen! Ravens loose because of you, dude! Because you attacked me! And now I don't even know--I don't even know if I can save her!"

"Beastboy--"

"No! I'm done listening to you! Just leave me alon--!"

"Beastboy, you have to kiss her."

Silence stretched in between the two. Fixit glanced to where Raven still stood, still yelling and throwing objects in her blind rage as she searched for her fellow Titan.

"I--What?"

"It is the only way."

"Dude! What the heck does kissing her have to do with breaking her free from that crazy demon?!"

"She is being ruled by emotion right now. By Anger. The only chance to break her from one emotion is to fight it with another."

"But, uh, I don't think she likes me like that."

"It does not have to be love. Surprise is as good as any emotion, anything that will shake her foundation of anger that she has built up around herself."

"But, but, she'll kill me! Even if this works, she'll kill me for kissing her!"

"That is a risk I am willing to take."

"...and you're sure this'll work?"

"Positive."

"Agh! No way, dude! I can't do it! She's too scary and creepy looking!"

"If you do not kiss her, she will forever remain that way."

"But, but, but, dude. I...Oh, man."

Silence  again fell between the two. But it only lasted for a second. 

Out of nowhere, Beastboy appeared before Raven and, before the empath had time to react, he threw his hands around her and pressed his lips up against hers.

"Oh man oh god oh man I'm kissing her I'm going to die I'm going to die!"

"Beastboy, there is no longer a need to project your thoughts--"

Fixit stopped projecting his own thoughts  when he noticed a black aura begin to take over Beastboy's feet.

"Oh no oh no her eyes are still red she's still mad she's going to kill me oh dude she's going to kill me!"

"Beastboy, try to relax. Be more intimate in your kiss."

The blackness began to trail up Beastboy's legs.

"You relax! More intimate?! I need to get out of here!"

"No! If you try to escape, you will only ensure your death."

"But, how...?"

"Use your tongue."

"What?! No way! Dude, that's completely disgust--!"

"In case you cannot feel it ,her aura is up to your waist now."

"Augh! Fine! I put my tongue in now wha-- Ow!"

"What happened?"

"Raven bit my tongue! Dude, it's bleeding!"

"Just relax, it will--"

Fixit was cut off again when everything changed in an instant. All the objects and debris caked in blackness  lost their aura and fell to the ground, even the aura that was starting to snake up Beastboy's chest vanished all the while Raven began to shrink until she was back to her normal self, Beastboy still locked in the kiss.

"Beastboy? Did you succeed? Is Raven sated?"

No response.

"Beastboy?"

Fixit used his now single undamaged eye to zoom in on where Raven and Beastboy still stood until he had a clear view of their faces. It seemed that the pair had switched places with Raven now keeping Beastboy in what appeared to be a very passionate and very deep kiss with Beastboy who had an eternal look of shock plastered on his face. 

Fixit could only shake his head in disgust. Teenagers.