XANA's Virus :Chapter Two:

CHAPTER TWO: Possessed Emotions

Robin blinked several times as he took this all in. It seemed ridiculous and absurd, and yet... after the evils they, the Titans themselves, have faced recently... It could be possible.

"You said that they're in France? Right?"

"Paris... yeah..." Cyborg read the paper that had been printed out.

"That's pretty far... west, huh?" Said Beastboy, waving his finger in the air as if he was doing an imaginary math problem on a sheet of imaginary paper.

"East... Beastboy..." Robin corrected the monochromatically green teen.

"Oh... right... sorry, dude..." Beastboy sweat dropped. "Sooooooo... we gonna go?"

"We must..." Said Starfire, who hadn't talked since Cyborg began to explain the situation. "We must, or surely Raven will not recover from her illness."

"How we gonna get there?"

"We'll take the T-Car..." Said Cyborg.

"No, duh, dude... I mean how are we gonna get Raven to that Paris place? With her as sick as she is?"

"We'll figure it out..." Said Robin.

:IN THE T-CAR:

They had decided to have the car set-up as followed: Cyborg driving (duh...), Robin shotgun (as usual), Starfire tailing behind the T-Car, and Raven curled up in backseat next to Beastboy, her head resting on his lap.

Occasionally, she would kick her foot out where, had Starfire been in the car with them, Starfire's ribs would be. This involuntary muscle twitch was all due to actions within Raven's state of mind: Nevermore.

:NEVERMORE:

Hours before, Raven woke up to find herself in Nevermore, the asteroid laden spacious state of mind that was hers, badly dazed.

Her head was spinning as she sat up, holding said head in her hands. She only half-wondered how she got there; she was too dizzy to think properly. All she could remember was, first, being taken to her room after announcing she was sick, she fell asleep, but succumbed to nightmares of demons and monsters trying to drag her to an unknown darkness. She faintly remembered her name being called out several times before regaining a sense of the world around herself briefly. She remembered seeing Robin before passing out.

Blinking a few times, her vision started to focus better, and she found that she was staring into a set of eyes exactly like her own. Moving her gaze upward slightly, she noticed a grey hood.

"...Timid?..."

"You're awake! I was afraid you'd be out for at least another couple hours!" She cried out, throwing herself on Raven with a hug.

"Timid! Let her at least catch her breath!" The green cloaked Raven said as she tried to pry Timid off of Raven.

"Give her a break, Bravery..." Said the pink one."She's been scared out of her mind!"

"Be that as it may, Happy..." Bravery said, glaring at her joyous "twin". "Raven isn't feeling well today... and we can't stay here for too long..."

"...Why not?..."

Raven had been the one who spoke this time. Her voice was soft and quiet, but her emotions heard her quite clearly.

Bravery let go of Timid, and hesitated. After a while, Raven asked again.

"...What's going on?..."

Bravery looked away briefly. Damn... Knowledge is better explaining this kinda thing. She took a deep breath before she began to explain.

"See... Rae... the problem is... well... I don't really know what is going on... but... something's up with the other emotions..."

"... What do you mean?... Like a Trig-"

"No, no, no... It’s nothing like that! It's-"

"Really scary!" Timid cried out, as she tightened her hold on Raven. "They're like zombies! They keep talking about this, this weird X.A.N.A guy, and, and there's something weird going on with, with their eyes! A creepy little symbol keeps flickering on and off and on and off in them, and they almost have no emotion in their voices except darkness and evil and, and-"

"Timid! BREATHE!" yelled Bravery when she noticed the terrified emotion hadn't taken a breath since she began talking. "Don't do that... it's not good for you!"

Timid took several deep breaths, and whispered an apology, eyes tearing up briefly. Bravery suddenly felt bad for yelling at her.

"No... It’s okay... I'm sorry..."

Timid smiled weakly, before her eyes suddenly opened wide, and she squeaked frightenedly.

"Did you hear that?"

"What?"

"That!"

She pointed beyond the boulder they were hiding behind. Bravery glanced behind it, and gasped.

"Aw, Crap! They found us!"

"...Wait... what?..." Raven said. Her mind still hadn't completely registered what was going on.

"Never mind that now. Raven, can you stand?"

"...I... uh... I dunno..."

"Timid, let Raven get up..."

Timid let go and scooted back, until she had her back touching the boulder. Raven tried to stand up, but her legs couldn't support her weight, and she collasped back to the ground. She felt Bravery drape her arm around her shoulder and pulled Raven to her feet, allowing Raven to lean against her.

"Okay...Then I'll have to help you... Timid? Are you gonna be okay?"

Timid whimpered, her body trembling with fear. She tried to stand up too, but she was so scared, she promptly fainted after she got off the ground. Happy quickly picked up Timid and carried her in a fashion that reminded Raven of the way Robin had carried her as a terrified child during the "End" of the world. Timid hung limply on Happy's back, groaning softly.

"And where do you think you're going?" a brisk variation of Raven's own voice spoke out.

Behind them, the glasses wearing, yellow cloaked Raven stood, leaning, almost casually, against a tree trunk. It was Knowledge. But, Raven could tell something was different about her.

She wore an almost menacingly, viciously evil grin across her face that would be expected to be on Hatred. Behind her glasses, a target shaped symbol with three spokes set at the bottom, and on set at the top, was flickering in her eyes.

"I do hope you're not planning on leaving with Raven, as she's just arrived. That would be impolite..."

"Knowledge... get outta our way!"

"Bravery... I would expect a comment such as that from Rudeness... no worries, however... she is on our side, now..."

"And what side would that be?"

"The winning side..."

Knowledge raised her hand and snapped her fingers, signaling the other emotions behind her to step forward, all with similar expressions and all had the same flickering symbol in their own eyes.