I was awoken from the darkness by a sharp pain. The sound of the smack from the back of someone's palm rang dully in the room as my eyes slowly opened. For a moment, I was blinded by the intense shade of yellow that I was immediately greeted with but, before I could even attempt to look away, someone gripped my chin and forced me to look up into the face of the Raven with the large glasses.

"Do you know who I am?" Yellow Raven asked. 

Her tone made it sound more like a demand than a question. I blinked repeatedly, trying to get used to the bright colors before mumbling out, "Raven...?"

"Wrong!" Yellow Raven declared before another smack sent my head whirling. The force was strong enough to send me off my feet, but I then discovered that my arms and legs were being held by some kind of dark energy, holding them aloft like chains.

"Do...Do you have to be so...rough?" A sad sounding Raven asked softly. I looked over to see another Raven clad in a dark grey cloak huddled over in one corner of the room.

"I have no other choice. It's the only way to make degenerate delinquents like him pay attention!"

"Yeah, c'mon, Sadness, you know Beastboy wouldn't give us any peace unless we were a little violent every now and then!" A chipper voice that I instantly recognized as the happy Raven called out. I didn't feel much like looking in her direction.

"I guess..." Grey Raven mumbled.

"We're wasting time here. Let's just beat the information out of him and get on with it!" A loud boisterous voice declared. I watched as a new Raven, one clad in a dark green cloak; march up towards me, a confident smile on her face. "So, what's it going to be, kid? You going to tell us what we need to know, or do I get to have some fun with you?"

"I don't--"

"You can't just get right to beating him and expect to get any answers!" Yellow Raven challenged, stepping up to Green Raven. "We need to run tests first!"

"Tests!" Green Raven exclaimed the word like it was the most ridiculous thing she had ever heard. "What kind of tests?!"

"Well, first, we needed to check that he can still communicate, which he can. Next, we needed to see if he was disoriented, which he is, meaning we aren't going to get any clear answers unless we get his head on straight."

"Oh, I'll straighten him out alright..." Green Raven muttered.

"Now, I'll ask you again..." Yellow Raven began, seemingly ignoring Green Raven now as she walked before me, "...who am I?"

I stared back into yellow Raven's face for a moment or two, trying to figure out if this was some sort of trick question or something. Finally, I just opted for stating the obvious.

"Er, a Raven with glasses?"

Yellow Raven immediately let out a sigh and began to rub her temples in frustration. "Happiness, you did explain to him what we are, correct?"

"Yeah, of course I did!" Pink Raven insisted.

"Okay, then let me ask you this, Kyd Wykkyd." Yellow Raven said, looking up at me now. "What are we?"

I looked from Grey Raven who was cowering in the corner, to Green Raven who was standing up straight and proud, to Pink Raven who was staring at me with a constant smile on her face, and finally to Yellow Raven who gave me a quizzical raised brow in response.

"You all are...emotions?"

"So, his heads on straight after all!" Green Raven declared before looking at Yellow Raven eagerly. "Does that mean I can beat him up now?"

"No, not just yet, he may provide us the answers we need without the use of violence," Yellow Raven replied, rubbing her chin thoughtfully as she examined me.

"Oh, come on! That's no fun!" Green Raven huffed before proceeding to walk away. "Call me when you want real results!" And with that the emotion vanished into thin air.

"My confidence really needs to get out more," Yellow Raven mumbled to herself before turning away from the spot where Green Raven vanished and looking back at me. "Let's cut right to the chase, Kyd Wykkyd. Do you know why I sent you here?"

I gave Yellow Raven my best confused look before looking around the small dark room that the four of us were situated in. Once again, I hadn't a clue.

"You mean...why you sent me to this room?"

Immediately, I heard Pink Raven giggle while Yellow Raven let out another sigh of frustration. "No no no, idiot, why did Raven, the one whose head we're all in, send you into her head?"

"...you don't know?" I asked hesitantly. If this girl was supposed to be Raven's intelligence,wouldn't she know why the real Raven sent me here? I thought this as I watched Yellow Raven rub her temples yet again.

"I did know...up until the moment I-- the Raven outside-- blacked out. I'm under some trance that's affecting my memory...of all things..."

I could only assume that if anyone could put the Titan under a trance it would be Fixit...which means my comrades must have gotten away and have taken Raven captive. While I was relieved with this knowledge, I wasn't prepared to share this revelation with my captors.

"My best guess is that I decided to put you in my head because I knew it was one of the few places you couldn't escape from." Yellow Raven thought out loud, looking at me thoughtfully while rubbing her chin. "Which means that something is going wrong outside of my head...seeing as how I so desperately needed a hostage..."

"You know, Kyd Wykkyd's got pointy ears like an elf...or a demon!" Pink Raven spoke up, fueling my heated glare with a warm smile. "Maybe I trapped him here because I knew he was a demon and wanted to have some fun!"

"...a demon, huh?" Yellow Raven muttered as her eyes trailed up to my hood. "You wouldn't mind if I take that thing off, do you?"

"Yes, actually, I do mind," I hissed back, giving the Raven my angriest possible look. Still, the Yellow Raven only smiled in amusement as she reached out a hand towards my hood.

"Well, I believe you're not exactly in the position to mind anything anyways..." Raven's intelligence replied as her hand inched ever closer. I watched as it slowly reached over my hand, fingers less than an inch from my hood, before reaching out as far as my neck could stretch and  chomped down on Yellow Raven's hand.

I did not taste any blood, but Yellow Raven let out a cry of surprise and pain anyways. Just as I had hoped, the black energy that was bound around my arms and legs fell away the moment Yellow Raven let out the outburst. No sooner had I landed on the ground then I was sprinting away from the colored Ravens.

"Stop him!" Yellow Raven cried out to the other emotions. I continued to run, though with no doors or windows in this tiny room, I knew there was but one option. I swiftly gripped my cloak and, taking a second to pray that I don't end up somewhere inside out, pulled it around me-- instantly vanishing into the familiar cold darkness.

...

The planet was mostly barren. As far as the eye could see, there was only a dead wasteland of sand and rock. As dead as the planet was, it was only matched by the silence in the air. The quiet nothingness only broken by the soft sounds of flames eating at the dry empty air. The embers danced and played amongst the wreckage of the once proud Titan's T-Ship, now nothing more than a heap of destroyed rubble.

All around this destroyed wreckage, only a single figure could be seen moving away from it. The lone figure was dressed in dark clothes and frequently cursed under his breath as he dragged the lifeless body in his hands across the barren ground.

"Damn it..." Red-X breathed for the millionth time, feeling weaker and weaker as he forced his broken and beaten body onwards. He could actually feel his muscles and bones cry out in protest as he dragged the body behind him. "Damn it...all..."

"Why the hell...am I here?" Red-X whispered angrily to himself as he took one slow step after another. "Why am I...doing this..."

The multiple red suns beat down viciously upon his dark body. Each step hurt him more and more.

"I'm just a thief, damnit...I'm just a thief..." Red-X looked back at the body he was dragging. He didn't even know if the kid was still alive. "You're just a thief too...Damnit..."

"I'll get you for this, Blackfire..." The master thief swore as he felt his grip loosen from the wrist of See-More, finally relinquishing his heavy burden. 

But it was already too late. Red-X felt the rest of his energy leave him the moment he was forced to fall to his knees.

Here he was. Red-X, master of thieves, about to die on some unknown planet on the whim of some chick named Blackfire. In that moment, Red-X's entire life flashed before his eyes. All of the thieving, all of the fights with the police and the Teen Titans, his rivalry with Robin, his secret love for Starfire, everything good or bad that he had ever done or felt flashed before the masked eyes of the thief. And he knelt there, on the brink of death, and a warm smile spread beneath the skull mask.

"Wouldn't have changed it...for the world..." Red-X whispered to himself before finally allowing his body to fall, the creeping darkness taking its hold of the thief.

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