7 Years' Bad Luck In 1 Day

Chapter 1: Sundered

Raven hovered gently above her bed, her mind calm, serene. Her life had been fairly composed recently, everything was proceeding normally, and her meditation was getting easier and easier. She had avoided any emotional outbursts for over a month now, and she was only meditating at the moment to pass the time, there was no true need for it. Combat was of course a constant for the Teen Titans, but she had avoided the sort of interpersonal emotions that often got the better of her control, even suppressing her natural irritation at some of the other Titans' habits.
She deftly reached her legs down, pulling out of the lotus position and stepping softly to the floor. She enjoyed it when everything was at peace like this. It made her life much easier, having no worries about outbursts, power misfires, or anything of the sort. She padded silently across her carpeted floor, to her small vanity. She smirked slightly, not from emotion, but from irony. She had no reason to own a mundane mirror like the one mounted on top of this desk. She never used it to put on makeup, or to play with her hair, as many girls her age did. She looked down to see the only item on the desktop, a small, ornately decorated mirror.

She reached down, and picked the portal up. She ran the fingers of her right hand over the rimmed glass, considering the mirror. She really hadn't needed this mirror for some time either. She only used it when her emotions got out of control, and that hadn't happened since... since Terra had berated her into it, actually. That was months ago now, and no longer on any of the Titans' minds.

Suddenly the alarm in the tower began to blare, causing her to jump slightly. She heard a commanding voice over the tower's intercom system.

"Titans! We've got an escaped criminal on approach to the tower! Get to the roof immediately!" Robin's voice sounded almost... worried.

There was no time to waste. Raven set the mirror she was holding back onto the desktop, then steadied herself as the tower shook from some unseen impact. She opened her door using her telekinetic powers, then flew through the hallways, heading for the roof.

Forgotten, the mirror remained on the edge of the desktop where she had carelessly placed it. The tower shuddered from another impact. Somewhere beyond this earth, a mind noticed this perilous position, and an evil grin crept across red lips.

Raven reached the roof just in time to be blasted back down the staircase by a brightly glowing bolt of electricity. She was unceremoniously caught by a grinning green teenager that was climing the stairs behind her. She stood back up, then ran forward again, only curtly nodding a thanks to the changeling.
The situation on the rooftop of Titans' Tower was chaotic to say the least. The combined golem of Plasmus, Overload, and Cinderblock had scaled the side of the tower, and was now doing it's best to destroy the Titans utterly. Cyborg was grappling with on of the monster's hands, as the other arm clutched an injured-looking Starfire. Robin was nowhere in sight.

Raven threw a quick glance at Beastboy, and he didn't look optimistic. The amorphous beast howled in animalistic anger, pressing with sudden incredible pressure, driving Cyborg through the roof of the tower and down into the top floor rooms. Raven flew backwards, gathering her concentration for a strike, as Beastboy charged valianty forward as a rhinocerous.

The monster pulled it's hand out of the crater in the roof just in time to block the rhino's charge with it's forearm, and then threw the dizzied alien in his hand at the flying empath. Raven used her powers to quickly slow Starfire's trajectory, and then let go as she felt Starfire begin to fly on her own. Raven dodged a tendril of electified toxins from the mutated creature, and focused her energy on one of the large boulders surrounding the tower, slowly lifting the three-ton mass to the roof.

Beastboy changed to a sparrow, dodging the massive foot that was heading towards him. He landed as a human once more, grinning at the golem that was trying to pull it's foot out of the floor. Changing quickly once more, he bent down as a Tyrannosaurus Rex, biting into the massive monster, trying to ignore the electricity running through his mouth. He saw green bolts smashing into the beast's flesh as Starfire flung starbolt after starbolt ineffectually into the creature. It wasn't working! He felt the monster shift it's weight, then throw him off the tower with a spin of it's massive body. He looked up as he changed into an eagle, and saw Starfire get knocked hard by a smashing fist of the monster.