Inside the dome Raven stirred and sat up “what happened were am I”
“You were knocked out by Heat Wave. She made the nuclear plant explode. I used my jacket to make a protective Dome.” Raven surveyed the surroundings. “Couldn’t you make it a little bigger?” She remarked dryly.
“The reason it’s so small is because I’ve got another dome around the area stopping the nuclear stuff from harming the environment. It’s also speeding up time in this area, so the place isn’t radioactive when we leave. It’s going to be two hours before it’s safe so you better get comfy.”
“Fine” said Raven crossing her legs, getting ready to meditate “Just pretend I’m not here.” She closed her eyes and within a few moments D could hear the familiar ‘Azerath, Metrion, Zinthos’ coming from across the tiny dome.
“Ok well when nobody’s here, I whistle” So he started to whistle. After a few bars, it started to get on Ravens nerves, “Stop it” yelled Raven.
“Hey, I thought you weren’t here” Replied D
“Well I am here, so just stop it,” said Raven growing angry.
“Hey, my dome, my rules.”
Ravens grew even angrier. She felt she could just hit D. Suddenly she stopped. She had just realized something. “What’s going on? I’m angry but my powers are not going haywire.” said Raven rather confused.
“It’s the jacket. All power is suppressed, under this dome, even mine. So you can feel whatever you want, and nothing will blow. You can laugh, cry or be angry.” said D sitting down. He had been leaning against the wall.
“So anyway Raven, you going to tell me who this Terra is?” asked D.
Raven sighed, “To cut a long story short, we found her, she joined the team, I trusted her and she betrayed us.” Answered Raven, clenching her teeth.
“Ouch, and you think I’m going to do the same?” Asked D.
“I don’t know. Maybe, what’s to stop you,” replied Raven.
“Good question. What’s to stop me?” D pretended to ponder this thought. “Well when you were out cold, I got an offer to join Heat wave and Slade. I said no. Do you know why?” Said D
“Why?” asked Raven
“Because I already consider you a friend.”
“Really?” said Raven blushing.
“Yup”
“Friends?” asked D putting out his hand.
“Friends.” said Raven shaking his hand.
“Good. Now that that’s over, let’s go,” D said as the jacket started to shrink.
“But, I thought it’d be two hours before it was safe. It’s only been a half a hour.” said Raven.
“I thought I’d give us time to talk,” replied D grinning. “And it worked, didn’t it?” continued D as he slipped back into the jacket.
“So why two hours?” asked Raven.
“Well I knew you were going to be difficult, so I gave my self plenty of time for my charm to work” laughed D.
“Your Charm?” Replied Raven, skeptically.
“Yeah, why? Anyway let’s get out of here.” said D.
“Let’s call the others.” Suggested Raven, pulling out her com-link. “Robin come in, Robin, Starfire, Beastboy, Cyborg, come in. Someone? Anyone?”
Slade appeared on the screen.
“I’m afraid the titans can’t come to the phone right now, but I’ll be happy to let them know you called.” said Slade
“What have you done with them?” shouted D
“Nothing yet. Meet me at the old warehouse at the north end of the city. Raven will know where it is. You have 30 minutes.” With that, the com-link clicked off.
“We have to go and save them” exclaimed D.
“Follow me” Raven replied, floating out the door.
So D and Raven headed to the old warehouse. The sun was setting when they arrived they stopped outside the big metal door
“You know it’s probably a trap” Said D
“No, really?” Raven said sarcastically, back to her old self. “You ready?”
D opened the door.
A huge light flashed on, nearly blinding Raven.
“Ah D, Raven.” It was Slade. He was on a ledge high in the air. Behind him was a huge laser. It was big attached to the floor. D saw the Titans in a cell chained to a wall. D ran over and stopped just short of the bars. He could fell the electricity running though them. He back away, like I said before, he and electricity weren’t on the best of terms.
“Now D if you want to see your friends again, you’ll do what I say” said Slade
D lowered his head, he had no choice. “Fine, but you have to promise to release my friends.”
“Fine, whatever you say. Now stand over there,” said Slade pointing to the wall. D walked over to the wall.
“I just want to test my new laser” said Slade he pressed a button on his wrist. The laser moved and aimed itself at Raven. It fired in a burst of red light. Raven was frozen to the spot, but suddenly D appeared out of nowhere and pushed her out the way. The laser hit him instead. He was sent through the wall above the door. He landed hard on his upper back and neck; he lay there flat on his back, unable to move out of shock from the blow he just received. Meanwhile Robin had managed to pick the lock on his chains and he was attempting to free the others, but they could not get out of the jail and Raven was having to fight Slade’s new and improved robots all by herself.
Outside D was still on his back a full moon hung overhead. D caught site of it.
Suddenly Ds’ body went stiff and a huge surge of power swept over him. An image of the moon appeared in each lenses of his shades and moved to the center, where they turned blood red. His jacket disappeared and so did his shades, the two red moons stayed and became his eyeballs. His chest began to thump up and down, his skin turned a metal gray and he tripled in height. Every muscle in his body doubled and tripled in size. His hair turned from dark brown to blond, his trousers turned from black to blue, his boots doubled in size. Ds’ mind had gone to sleep and Metal D had awakened.
Inside Raven was losing on her own, Robin, Star, Cyborg and Beastboy were cheering her on and trying to escape at the same time. Suddenly a huge monsters’ blood curling roar filled the room. Everyone froze.
The big metal door buckled as Metal D came through. He let out another roar; the robots attacked Metal D at Slades’ command. He picked up the nearest one by the head and punched it in the chest. The body went flying, the head still in his hand he flung it at Slade and it missed by only a few feet.
Over in the cell
“Dude who is that?” asked Beastboy in surprise.
“Who ever he is, it appears he’s on our side,” said Starfire
“Wait, didn’t D get blasted outside?” Asked Robin,
“You don’t mean… you can’t be saying that’s D,” said Cyborg a little worried.
Metal D was still taking the Robots apart. Slade caught sight of Storm Rider and Heat Wave headed for the door.
“Where are you going?” shouted Slade still on the balcony
“Sorry Slade, our pay check doesn’t cover him,” shouted Heat wave in reply.
Slade pressed a few buttons in his wrist. The laser took aim at Metal D and fired. It hit Metal D Square in the chest and he dropped to one knee and looked at Slade, gave an all mighty roar and jumped and landed on the balcony not far from him. He picked Slade up and tore him in half. It was another Slade robot. He crushed the remaining parts. Metal D looked down and saw Raven. She was trying to free her friend’s. He jumped down and walked over to Raven.
He picked her up with both hands and brought her Face to face with himself. He looked at her for the longest time and one word kept going around his head, “Friend”
“Metal D friend?”
Raven looked into his eyes and nodded, “Friend.” She confirmed
He put Raven down and look at the cell. He grabbed the bars and ripped them out along with half the wall beside it. His eyes suddenly turned black and he dropped to one knee and changed back to D, shades, jacket and everything. He was out before he hit the floor.
“Dude, he never told us about that.” said Beastboy
“Let’s get him back to the tower” said Robin
“ARE YOU CRAZY??? WHAT IF HE HAS ANOTHER SPAZ AND ATTACKS US?” Yelled Cyborg, waving his hands in the air.
“He will not attack us,” replied Raven, as she surrounded him with a black aura and levitated D in the direction of the car.
“HOW DO YOU KNOW?” yelled Cyborg getting in her face.
“Because we’re his friends. Didn’t you see what happened? He had Raven in his hands, he could have killed her but he didn’t. He called her his friend, so I say we take him back” replied Robin
“Ok, but he’s not going in my car,” said Cyborg folding his arms
“CYBORG” yelled Robin.
“Ok but he better not damage it, or I’ll whoop his butt, I don’t care who he is.” grumbled Cyborg.
“Good thing you agreed, I hate to make you.” Said Raven with the slightest hint of teasing in her voice.