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The Collector Chronicles 1

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It was a new morning in Titans Tower and everyone but Raven was busy doing something. Beast Boy and Cyborg were hanging out all over the city. Robin was in Gotham training with Batman and Starfire was in New York for no apparent reason. Raven had the whole tower to herself and that meant the long awaited peace and quiet she needed.

Raven spent most of the morning in a deep meditative trance focusing her energy. At noon she decided to eat some lunch, which turned out to be some of Beast Boy's tofu waffles. After gobbling down the waffles, it was about one o' clock. Time seemed to slow to a crawl because Raven had nothing to do. She to enter her meditative trance again but she just couldn't seen seem to do it. Frustrated she went to the roof of Titans Tower and gazed out to the ocean. Raven found it quite calming. Suddenly in the middle of her relaxation, she remembered she needed to brush up on some of her techniques.

While gliding back to her room Raven abruptly stopped at the sound of an explosion. She felt a dark presence enter the tower. Quickly without thinking she ran to the control room to see where the breach was, but before she could make it an explosion near her caused Raven to fall. Raven hit the ground, but wasted no time getting up. Hastily, she searched for her attacker. She scanned the room, ready to attack on sight. Minutes later a fast moving, clear bubble came from the shadows and struck the wall next to Raven, exploding on contact. The force again knocked her down. A vicious ringing clouded her hearing. She glanced up as much as she could and saw as her attacker came out of the shadows.

The attacker walked forward and light shown on his face revealing a young man's visage and long brown hair coming down from his head. He wore a green and blue suit that revealed his body in great detail. The handsome young man carried with him a gun with a hose attached from the handle to the jetpack that was on his back. He grinned at Raven and tried to caress her face with the back of his hand, but she collected herself fast and smacked his hand away. "Who the hell are you?" she demanded. The man smiled, "They call me many things back home: Jeod, Jackass, Number 1, Weapon Q, and Horny bastard.  I like to go under the alias of The Collector." Raven stared at him, waiting for him to move, but he remained still. "I go in and out of dimensions and collect women of various opiates. Of course I haven't had much success with super beings, but I feel like today is a good day for capturing bitches." Raven didn't move, but simply muttered, "You're sick." The Collector smiled, "No, it's just a goal in my life and most people have goals. Now, if you stay still my dear I promise it will be fast." He raised his gun. Raven what was to come right as he fired.

The shot propelled forward but Raven dodged to the right and began to chant "Azarath Metrion Zinthos." Her spell grabbed a nearby table and hurled it at the Collector, who gracefully rolled out of the way, despite his jetpack, and fired two more times at Raven. She chanted the spell again, while raising a barrier before her destroying the explosive bubbles. Raven reached out with the spell and grabbed a vase, a chair, and a box of unopened soy waffles, all of which the Collector avoided with much grace. Raven noticed the fight was going to be more difficult then she had originally intended, so she thought of a new approach. 'What if I just hold him off until the others come back? Then we could take down this clown,' she thought. 'Now I need a plan.' She glanced over to a nearby table she hadn't thrown and saw a communicator. 'That needs to be in my hands,' she thought.

Raven cast her spell and grappled the communicator with her mind. With one swift thought she pulled it toward her, but before it got in her hand the Collector shot his gun. The bubble hit the device with great force, and then exploded, breaking it into thousands of pieces. Raven watched as her plan hit the floor, but her training told her to keep fighting. The Collector fired again, which Raven blocked with a shield. He fired two more, both of which Raven blocked. Frustrated, as he was becoming, the Collector shot three more bubbles, all in separate angles at his target. Raven blocked the first two but let the third one slip past. The projectile hit a wall four feet behind her and exploded causing bits of debris to hit Raven's unprotected back side. The pieces struck her down to the ground. The Collector laughed, "Well this was fun, but now I'll be collecting my prize. There just aren't enough hours in the day for collecting, ya know. Always in a rush I am." He pushed a button on his gun that caused a compartment to open it in the back. The evil collector then pulled a clear cartridge out of a compartment in his jetpack and loaded it into his gun. "Now for a more permanent residence. I hope you want to live forever, cause with me you ain't never gonna die." Raven could barely move. The only strength she had left was the little bit needed to life her head to see what was coming next. The Collector pulled the trigger and a giant bubble came out of the end of the gun. The bubble floated lazily towards Raven, who quickly regained enough strength to lift herself up. The Collector quickly reacted to her recovery by shooting another bubble at the floating one. The shot exploded and pushed it into the now standing Raven. The bubble hit her with much force and pressed her against the wall.

Raven tried to thrash away as it pressed against her body, spooning her against the wall. Raven began to thrash harder, but the bubble moved with her. A feeling of terror set over her as she felt the bubble pulling her into it. Raven thrashed as hard as she could, but it only made the situation worse. Within minutes the bubble finished pulling in the heroine and it had no intention of letting her out.

Raven stood up. "This won't hold me for long," she said confidently. Raven floated into her meditative position and muttered the magic words, "Azarath Metrion Zinthos." The spell pushed on all sides of the bubble causing it to stretch and get larger. Raven kept saying the words over and over intensifying the spell with each breath. The Collector started to grow worried. 'Damn, I hope it's strong enough.' The bubble became two times as large as it originally was. The pressure was becoming too much for Raven to hold as the walls pushed back at her. She began to sweat under the pressure. After what seemed like an eternity the walls of the prison collapsed in on Raven as she lost concentration, leaving her still imprisoned. The Collector gave out a sigh of relief, "Thank the Gods." Disoriented raven stood up and collected her senses. Shock hit her as she realized the bubble didn't break. She pounded on the walls with her fists as hard as she could. The transparent barrier bulged out with her efforts but did not break. "What have you done?!?" Raven screamed in demand. "What? No hug for me. Oh wait…" the Collector went into his pocket and pulled out his camera. He quickly took a picture of Raven whose visage showed great anger. The Collector put his camera away and continued, "You're my first super. Anyway, I have guaranteed that you are as close to collectors' value as possible." Raven grimaced, "Meaning?" "Meaning you are perfectly preserved, alive, but perfectly preserved," he answered. At hearing this Raven kicked the bubble hard. The wall bulged out but kicked back knocking Raven down "Let me out!" she demanded. The Collector laughed, "Please keep begging, it's so cute." "You are a monster, when I get out of her…" Raven was cut off before she could finish by the Collector as he fired an explosive bubble at her prison. The force knocked her down and her face pressed up against the bubble.

The Collector lifted up the bubble with one hand and put his other hand near Raven's face. She twitched slightly as he stroked the bubble where her cheek was smashed against the transparent surface. The Collector then dropped the bubble causing Raven and her prison to hit the ground with a hard thud. Raven let out a groan of displeasure. Recollecting herself she stood up and noticed the Collector was standing a few feet away with his back turned. He was fidgeting with something, but Raven couldn't see. She punched the wall as hard as she could. The bubble bulged out just far enough for her to miss the Collector by mere centimeters. She punched just as hard seven or eight more times, each time missing by the same margin again and again. The Collector, seeming to know what transpired behind him, laughed, "How does it feel? Too weak to escape, just like an animal. You know what you look like in that bubble." Raven answered before he could, "Someone who is going to kick your ass after I get out." The Collector snickered uncontrollably, "You heroes are all the same. One, you will never get out of there and two, you look like a cute hamster." Raven felt extremely embarrassed, 'First I'm bested by a lunatic who shoots bubbles. Then I'm prisoner in a bubble cage, and now I'm being compared to a rodent.'

The Collector moved about the tower looking for things to take, keeping Raven far from him but close enough to see what he was taking. He broke into Raven's room and glanced around for objects of interest. "Hello, there you are," he called out as he found one of Raven's mirrors. He picked it up and looked into it. The mirror shook and the glass shown back not the Collector's reflection, but a red eye. This did not seem to start the Collector at all. "Now you're going to get it Collector ass. My father doesn't like people messing with his assets," Raven mocked. "Hello Trigon," the Collector said ignoring Raven's comments. "What do you want?" Trigon responded. Raven called out, "Father he's got me held captive in some bubble prison thing. I ne…" She was interrupted by another shot from the Collector. Again she face planted into a wall, but she could still hear the conversation. "Alright I got her out of your way, what can I do with her?" the Collector asked. Trigon answered in an evil tone, "Whatever you want." Raven's eyes widened at the sound of his answer. Her own father let her go to the Collector. The Collector answered, "Thank you, and see you later." He put down the mirror and turned to his captive, "We are gonna have so much fun. Hell, maybe I'll even sell you." Raven started to thrash violently hoping to escape in some way but all in vain. The Collector laughed at her efforts and pushed a button on his belt that caused a wormhole to open up. He grabbed Raven's prison and threw it in. Then seconds later he followed in after her.

They landed on a surface of polished stone upon exiting the wormhole. Raven looked around the room and saw, in horror, about seven other women, all imprisoned in bubbles like hers. Three were trying to free themselves, while the other four seemed uninterested by the new arrival. One of the three trying to escape, a good looking blond woman, seemed like she was trying to scream to Raven but she couldn't hear her. The other two, a brunette and another blonde, continued to try and escape. The brunette looked up and shook her head, "Welcome to hell," she said. "Now, now, now let's not call it hell, let's call it home, at least for right now. This is the showroom. When a buyer comes in look sexy, that's all there is to this job. Okay?" Raven did not answer. "Good. Sleep tight and don't go anywhere." The Collector left the room and Raven, for the first time in a long time, cried herself to sleep.
Raven has a day by herself but she never expected she would face...THE COLLECTOR. DUN DUN DUN.

Working on a new OC so this is a pilot, sorta. Just trying to get into the swing of things.

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Yoshiegg603's avatar
WOW COOL wonder who hes selling