| “ | ” |
Conceived by the demon Trigon and one of his cultists, Raven was adopted by a group of monks in the distant realm of Azarath. As she grew up, Raven sought to learn more about her father and accidentally summoned Trigon, who slaughtered the monks and killed her mother. Raven was kidnapped by Trigon, where she learned of his plan to conquer Earth. Raven managed to trap her father in a crystal and fled to Earth, where she was taken in by the Teen Titans. While with the Teen Titans, she grew a close friendship with team member Damian Wayne after the duo worked together to stop Trigon and Ra's al Ghul from surfacing on Earth.
During the Justice League's invasion of Apokoplips, Raven was with the Teen Titans defending Earth. She and the rest of the Titans were overwhelmed by Paradooms, where only she, Damian, and Superboy survived. Two years later, Raven works with a powerless Superman to locate John Constantine and Etrigan. Raven reunites with Damian, where they admit their feelings for each other. On Apokolips, Raven releases her father Trigon to fight Darkseid while she and the living heroes escape. Back on a dying Earth, Raven and Damian finally kiss for the first time before Flash resets the timeline.
Battle vs. Percy Jackson and Annabeth Chase alongside Robin (DCAMU) (by MovieStuff65)[]
A bright flashing light overcomes Raven's mind, causing her to open her eyes with a start. She found herself on a park bench, with the sun warmly greeting her face and a firm hand on hers. She looks beside her, where Damian Wayne opens his eyes with a similar look of confusion, only to quickly resume his brooding frown.
"Where are we?" she asks aloud, looking around. "Barry, what did you do..."
"If I were to guess, this is part of him resetting the timeline. Again." Damian replies curtly, keeping her hand in his as he stands. "Wait...do you hear that?"
Raven strains to listen, before shaking her head. "Exactly." Damian pulls out a small computer-like device from his utility belt, only to growl at its blank screen. "There's nothing. Strange; whoever put us here didn't bother to take my weapons. Not that I'd need them."
"How humble of you." Raven closes her eyes, mediating briefly as she collected her aura. "My powers seem to be working as well."
"Can you try to bring us back to Titans Tower?"
She nods, casting a dark purple portal beneath their feet. The portal envelops them, and the couple sinks into the ground, the portal closing behind them.
Percy Jackson couldn't tell if he wanted to go to town on the nearest, most punchable item he could find or crawl into a corner to hide. A growling in his stomach soon made him realize the answer was neither, eliciting a laugh from Annabeth Chase, who had been the first to shake off the initial shock of their new environment.
"Gods, I am going to kill Hera if I see her again," she says, offering a hand to Percy. He takes it, instinctively putting his hand to his jean pockets. He sighs in relief, the comfortable shape of Riptide meeting his grip..
"What's your plan, Seaweed Brain?"
"I had hoped you'd figured it out by now," he helpfully suggests, keeping his hands in his pockets. He looks around, finding themselves in a seemingly abandoned cafe, the lights ominously shuttering as if it were a horror movie. Not a good one, either. Like a Saw rip-off.
"Earth to Percy? Hello?"
Percy looks at Annabeth, who had already taken to looking behind the counter of the cafe. "Little help finding some supplies would be nice."
"Sorry. If I had a dollar for every time I woke up somewhere I didn't recognize, I'd have two dollars. Which isn't a-"
Before he can continue his reference, a large black portal forms in front of them. Percy heroically yelps over the counter to join Annabeth, waiting to see what formed to greet them.
Rising out of the black portal, Raven and Robin found themselves in abandoned restaurant. Robin clicked his tongue in annoyance, but before he could act out in anger Raven's hand went up. "We're not alone, Robin." He nods, drawing his sword and straining to listen for movement. He hears the light scuffling of crawling, and points in Percy and Annabeth's direction.
Raven floats into the air and sends a bolt of magic at the counter, throwing debris and a surprised demigod in different directions. Percy hastily pulls the cap off of Riptide, the sword flashing and briefly illuminating the dark room. Raven covers her eyes as Robin charges forward, throwing a batarang to distract his enemy. Percy easily deflects it with his sword, before parrying a thrust from Robin. Robin follows up with a swift kick, but Percy raises his spare arm in time to grab his leg and throw him at Raven. The two superheroes collapse into each other, with Raven the first to stir.
"Percy, focus on the girl. Judging by that purple beam she shot at us, she's the powerhouse," Annabeth whispered, invisibility cap on. Percy nods, focusing his powers into the pipes of the building. After a brief moment of hesitation, the ceiling sprinklers burst open, filling the room with water.
Raven quickly raises a shield as Percy summons a large column of water, blasting her away from Robin and out the cafe's street window. Percy forms a small cyclone of water, following her outside. The Boy Wonder readies another batarang to retaliate, only for a invisible force to pound into the side of his head. Staggering, Robin swings his sword in the direction of the attack, hearing the satisfying clash of metal hitting metal as Annabeth deflects it with her knife. Robin turns, trying to locate his invisible attacker, and sees a barely imperceptible shape moving, the falling water exposing Annabeth.
He feints a thrust, missing the shape, before swinging his feet low and knocking Annabeth off of her feet. Her cap falling off of her body and rendering her visible, Annabeth hastily rolls to the side to avoid being skewered by Robin. She rises, holding her dagger out, and Robin smiles as he takes a fighting stance.
Outside, Raven takes to the sky as Percy emerges to meet her. She throws several telekinetic bolts at him, with the demigod avoiding all of them. Painfully aware of the lack of water outside, Percy uses the cyclone to rise up to the building's roof. The demigod breaks into a sprint, looking for any way to bring Raven down to his level. Raven forms a large construct of a raven, and the shadowy beast hurls itself at Percy. It slams into him, and breaks through the floor to take him back inside. The sprinklers let out one final burst to rejuvenate Percy before depleting the building's water supply.
As Percy shrugs off his harsh landing, Robin feints an overhead swing, allowing Annabeth to move in the gap and try to take advantage of her knife's small size. He holds his sword in one hand and uses his free hand to slam his elbow down onto Annabeth's neck. She falls down, only to receive a swift knee to her gut to catch her. She staggers to stand up, using the last of her energy to do a backflip and avoid fatal slash from Robin's sword.
"Get away from her you little shit!"
Robin barely has time to grasp how fast Percy moves, the demigod tackling him to the ground. He tries to slam the pommel of Riptide onto Robin's face, but the Teen Titan just grabs it with both hands and twists, forcing Percy to roll away to avoid having his sword thrown from him. The two boys stand, with Robin giving a battle cry as he and Percy's swords connect.
Percy's strength easily wins out, shoving Robin away and assailing him with a flurry of strikes. Finding himself outmatched for the first time, Robin grunts in frustration as he barely blocks each swing of Percy's sword. Percy swings his sword up in an underhanded slash, which Robin tries to block, only for Percy to retract his blade the moment they connect and change into an overhead strike, knocking the katana out of Robin's hands.
"I'm gonna give you one chance to back down," Percy threatened, jamming the point at Robin's chest. A solid black wall forms between them, giving Robin time to use his grapple gun to gain some distance. Raven levitates above Percy, eyes glowing with purple energy, before grabbing Percy with a telekinetic hand. She grabs him and throws him out of the building, and he sails through the air. Robin and Raven watch to see where he lands, with Robin grimacing as Percy slams into a water tower.
"We have to keep them isolated," Robin thinks to himself, allowing Raven into his mind. "Go keep him busy," he orders, turning around. "I'll apprehend the-" Robin's face falls as he sees the building empty, Annabeth and her cap long gone.
"Guess that's not an option anymore," Raven says, engulfing them both in purple energy. The two superheroes fly to where Percy landed, watching water slowly fall out of the human shaped hole. "Get ready..."
The tower explodes as Raven sets Robin on the ground, a large tsunami forming with Percy at its center. Cracking his neck and a serious scowl on his face, the demigod points his sword at Raven. A wave of water rises out of the tsunami, and Raven barely has time raise a shield before it slams into her. Robin attempts to move in, only for a watery tendril to form and wrap around him.
Percy takes a breath as he pauses to maintain the hurricane's shape, giving Raven enough time to levitate into the air. "Azarath Metrion Zinthos!" Raven's entire body envelops into a purple energy, forming a large raven construct around her. The bird screeches, and she dives at Percy with all of her power. He responds by channeling more of his energy into the hurricane, transforming the small hurricane into a large, aquatic twister. The two slam into each other, causing black energy and gallons of water to fly into the air on impact.
Robin watches the battle in amazement as Raven and Percy duel, before hearing the unmistakable unsheathing of a knife. He feels something tug down, and turns to see Annabeth's knife plunged into his cape and the ground, pinning him in place. Robin pulls his cape and hears the fabric tear just before Annabeth's fist slams into his jaw. Taking her opponent by surprise, the invisible Annabeth delivers a quick jab to Robin's gut, causing him to exhale before a roundhouse kick to the temple knocks him out.
"Damian!" Raven yells, her construct temporarily breaking and exposing her. Percy takes the opportunity to funnel water into the gap, and wrapping up Raven in a sphere of water. The girl desperately tries to form a shield around her, but Percy spins the water to disorient her. Raven grabs her throat as she swallows water, before eventually slipping into unconsciousness. Percy finally relents, dropping the girl into a wet heap on the ground.
Annabeth removes her cap as Percy collects himself, shoving it in her back pocket. She goes over to Robin, picking up her knife and sheathing it. "Percy and Annabeth win once again," Percy says, a tired grin on his face. He raises his hands in victory, and puts one to his hear. "And the crowd goes wild!"
She shoves her boyfriend playfully, looking in concern at the two unconscious people before them. "What do we do about them?"
Percy shrugs. "Let's leave 'em be. From the looks of it, I don't think they know where we are either."
She nods, and they sit down, waiting for answers from their two new companions.
Expert's Opinion[]
While Raven had more power at her disposal than Percy and Robin was a significantly better fighter than Annabeth, the Teen Titans were hurt by their lack of cohesion. Percy is an absolute powerhouse, capable of surviving Raven long enough to force them into a circumstance where he could use his hydrokinesis to its greatest potential, while Annabeth had the greater physicality and discipline to keep up with Robin. Where the demigods really took the lead was their teamwork; Percy and Annabeth have been fighting at each other's side as long as they can remember, and they've learned to compliment their partner's talents. Raven and Robin didn't have the team work or ability to isolate the demigods from each other, making them the losing couple in this bout.