7 Years' Bad Luck In 1 Day

Chapter 3: Capture

"Friends, I am worried about Raven. She seems quite sad." Starfire's voice was tinged with concern. She didn't like this; it was too strange to have multiple Ravens in the tower, and fighting Raven was disconcerting.
"She'll be fine. We need to go and stop her emotions from destroying the city." Robin looked at his communicator, hitting a button to display alerts in the city. He grimaced.

"Ok, we have three targets attacking three different parts of the city. There are alarms going off in Wayne Museum of Antiquities, St. Wallace's Cathedral, and... uh... the City Dump. We have to split up and capture the emotions so that we can put them all back where they belong."

Cyborg nodded. "I'll take the Museum. Rave- Brave, you want to come with me?"

Brave nodded, looking fierce. "Yeah, time to go kick four-eye's butt!" Cyborg and Brave took off, running towards the T-car.

"Starfire, you come with me, we'll go to St. Wallace's and take care of that. Beastboy, you go to-"

"I'm staying here. Raven seems really sick, and someone needs to take care of her." Beastboy's voice was timid, despite his insubordination.

Robin started to interject, but Starfire cut him off. "That idea is a good one. If Raven is ill, it will be helpful to have someone who is not her around. Robin agrees, do you not?"

Robin sighed. She had a point. "Fine. Beastboy, you stay here. Whichever team finishes first will go after the one at the dump. Let's go Star!" Robin ran off, towards the R-Cycle.

Starfire smiled at Beastboy, then flew after Robin. Beastboy watched the two vehicles and one flying alien dart out of the garage, and sighed. He wasn't sure Raven would be happy with him staying, but someone had to make sure she was alright. He walked towards the elevator that led back to the rest of the tower. Just before he pressed the button to call the elevator, the door opened, revealing the familiar blue-cloaked Raven, and also Wisdom, the brown-clad one. Raven spoke quickly, as if she was rushed.

"Have they already left? I need to help; this is my problem." Raven's voice was forceful and irritated. Yet, there was also a hint of exhaustion in it. Beastboy nodded.

"Yeah, they're gone. But you can't go help; you're sick. Robin told me to stay here and take care of you, so you can't leave."

Raven scowled at him, while Wisdom looked satisfied. "It is prudent to stay, Raven, as I've told you. You cannot fight in your condition."

Raven sighed, then sidestepped Beastboy as he walked on to the elevator. "C'mon, it won't be that bad. I'll help you have someone besides yourself to talk to anyway."

The doors closed, and the elevator hummed as it drug the three people up from the underground garage to the common room at the top of the tower. The silence hung in the air oppressively. Raven was busy thinking of how her day would be, trying to keep all of her emotions under control, Beastboy was nervous about being so close to two Ravens, and Wisdom was carefully considering the best course of action for the trio. The elevator reached the top floor and opened, revealing all the emotions sitting around the common room, trying to amuse themselves.

Happiness was still playing videogames, and had coerced Timidity into joining her, though Happiness was easily winning. Rudeness was digging around in the fridge, and making loud munching sounds, taking bites out of random foods without even bothering to take them out of the fridge. Knowledge was reading a greenish book on the table, one that Raven didn't recognize. Love was still sitting on the couch, looking towards Beastboy and smiling happily.

Beastboy ran over to the fridge, trying to save what food was left. "Dude! You can't just eat one bite of everything! I mean, we have to have something to eat!"