Raven and Gifteds random 1x1s

[Raven]

Ben slid in beside her, and spoke very quietly. "We have reason to believe that."

[Gifted]

"Just shut up and drive." Joan demanded once Ben was in. The driver stepped on the gas and whipped down the street at 100 miles an hour. "I'd hold onto something." Joan said to Ben. She was holding onto a little foldout handle set in the ceiling above the window, and there was one above Bens window too.

[Raven]

The air gained a slight charge as Ben's skin prickled involuntarily. "You don't say." He grabbed hold of the handle and his knuckles turned white.

[Gifted]

Joan felt the slight static in the air and her eyes uneasily flicked over to Ben, but she didn't dare comment within the earshot of the driver.
They made a forty-minute journey in ten and the car skidded to a halt. "I don't like this." Joan commented as she got out and looked around. "We're uncomfortably close."

[Raven]

"Uncomfortably close to what?" Ben asked, his metal coil coming out seemingly from nowhere.

[Gifted]

"Woah, you had that hidden on you the whole time?" Joan was shocked when he pulled it out. "That's scary, you know that?" She shook her head. "Look up there." She pointed in the opposite direction, beyond the car. A ways away from the city a forest began, and appeared to stretch on for miles and miles. It looked vaguely familiar. "See the forest?"

[Raven]

"Well, I'm not about to go through some strange green crack in time and space without it," Ben answered. He looked up and saw the trees. Frowning, he nodded. "Yeah, what about them?"

[Gifted]

"Her cabin is pretty deep in and if you don't know the path you could travel for hours without ever running into it... but Isobel lives in there. I fucking hate it when Ben shows up too close to her, I'm worried he'll go after her. He actually did once, tried to use her as a hostage in a sadistic choice sort of situation. That was the closest we ever came to killing the son of a bitch and we scared him bad enough he hasn't dared to fuck with her since. Not that he'd admit that's why. But come on, we're wasting valuable time."

[Raven]

Ben frowned at the trees again. His sister from another universe was there, and he was going off to kill her brother. He sighed and followed Joan quickly, not wanting to think about it any longer.

[Gifted]

As they made their way through town the destruction around them became more and more evident. Several civilians lay on the road, burn marks around their necks. The power had been cut to the whole city and anything not made of concrete and burn and gouge marks in it. Several buildings seemed to be on fire. Joan's eyes narrowed as they got further in and she feared they may be too late. Thankfully, they weren't, and Ben saw his other-world counterpart for the first time.

He was a few inches taller and much older. He had considerably more muscle mass than Ben did, and his mouth was turned up into a sadistic smile as he lashed out at a fleeing civilian with his metal coil. It wrapped around the civilians arm and, when he pulled it back with all his strength there was a loud crack as the civilians arm broke. He grinned wider. "Man, that never gets old!" he exclaimed as the civilian screamed in pain, and his eyes began to light up green.
Joan wasn't about to let the civilian die, and she telekinetically pushed the civilian backwards into Ben, knocking them both down. The civilian screamed in pain as it put pressure on his broken arm but Joan knew it'd loosen the cable around his arm. Sure enough, a minute later the civilian was up and fleeing in terror. It took Ben another second or two to get up. "I see you never tire of boring me, Wenkeling."

[Raven]

Ben was shocked, despite everything he'd seen so far, to see the destruction of the city. A kind of fury he hadn't experienced for three years boiled up inside him. Only it was worse. Kenny had just been some man who had randomly chosen to go after his sister, but this was him. His eyes narrowed and he stepped between his not-quite-doppelganger and Joan. His cable had disappeared again, since he feared that the other him would realize what was going on. The element of surprise was important.

[Gifted]

The other Ben looked at him with an interested but slightly condescending expression. "You found a new lackie to come and help you out with me, Wenkeing? Even after what I did to the last ones?"
"He's a friend." Joan replied coldly.
"I thought you'd have figured out by now that bringing your friends to see me never ends well for them."Ben said, like they were just having a conversation. "Especially after... oh, what was her name, the tall hot one. Wasn't so pretty with burns all over her body and her neck snapped like a twig, was she?"

[Raven]

"Shut up," Ben growled. He had known Jade well before he knew Joan well, since she'd stayed with them. Even if she did side with Leia, he had to respect her, especially for protecting Sam the way she did.

[Gifted]

"Oh and who are you? You know being friends with her doesn't exactly give you a very long life expectancy? You the hot ones boyfriend or something?" He sounded utterly unconcerned.

[Raven]

"No, just a friend. And I'll take my chances," Ben answered.