AN: For the record: I am not going to hook Raven up with this guy in black. I just re-read the beginning and even I suspected that it would happen, so I changed it a little. It still might seem so, but it´s just your wishfull thinking.

This has just been bothering me.

Crazy laughter

Chapter 1

Raven was reading a book and drinking a cup of herbal tea in the common room of the tower. She was relaxing quite a bit since no one had interrupted her in quite a while. She tried not to think about the fact that she had to resort on threatening them with a trip to another dimension. She flipped a page and then sighed as she heard footsteps coming from the hall leading to the common room 'I knew it was too good to last. Wonder who gets to spend the rest of the day in the seventh hell' she thought as she prepared for the distraction by marking the spot she was on the book with her finger.

"Hi, you're Raven, right?" said the calm voice stranger in a black overcoat. He stood right in front of her and offered a hand to her. 'How did he get in here without tripping any alarms? Is that Beast Boy? He doesn't have green hands, so probably not. He might just be an assassin with a sunny disposition. Well...'

"HOW DID YOU GET IN HERE!" Raven shouted as she jumped up, dropping the book from her hands that were now engulfed in her black aura. "There's really no need for this…" the stranger stated in an amused manner, when Raven levitated off the floor. Raven's eyes flamed red and she shot a claw of her aura at the stranger with the intention of hitting him against the wall.

Instead the aura seemed to dissipate into him. And instead of sending him back, it tugged Raven towards the stranger with quite an amount of speed. Raven hit the floor where the stranger had stood a second ago. He had calmly stepped back as he had seen Raven flying at him. He looked down at Raven from the depths of his hood, which concealed his face completely. "Why did you just do that?"

The rest of the Titans ran to the room just then and saw a figure dressed in black standing over a downed Raven. Certain assumptions were made and they attacked.

"TITANS, GO!" The leader of the group shouted and the Titans were off. Starfire lifted in to the air and sent a couple of starbolts at the stranger. She tried to hit the ground beneath his feet to knock him back from Raven, but her starbolts hit him square in the chest and he only staggered a step back. He held out a hand and sent a white ball of energy at the Tamarian with a an angry looking flick of the wrist, it hit her right in the chest as well and sent her through the metal wall.

By now Raven was already climbing to her feet and flying away from the newfound nemesis. Robin was currently charging at the man who was now busy blocking all of his attacks. None of them connected though. When the Boy Wonder decided to draw his bo-staff the stranger also drew a similar staff, in black. They kept fighting with the staffs with the stranger mirroring Robins every move. Until Robin was able to deliver a quick jab to his ribs with his left hand while keeping him busy with his staff. The stranger retaliated with a football style kick to the Boy Wonder's ribs with his right leg. Robin was sent hurling at Cyborg who was charging his arm cannon to strike the foe. Robin hit the prone form of steel and man combined with a resounding thud, and they both fell to the floor.

"Damn…" said the man dressed in black. The staff had disappeared after the kick. Raven was standing back from the action because she was quite sure that her powers wouldn't work properly against the man. He stood in silence and looked around from the hole in the wall to where Starfire was lying knocked out from his blast, and to the forms of Cyborg and Robin who where just getting up, and finally to Raven who was glaring at him angrily. He stopped there and stared back at Raven for a second before snapping his fingers toward the hole in the wall and then speaking to Raven and pointing to Robin: "I'm sure you can cure him."

He didn't disappear like most of the heroes or villains. He wasn't engulfed in darkness or disappear in a flash of light. He just seemed to fade out of the world in a blink of an eye, leaving only a fading shimmer and a hole in the wall to even prove his existence.

Starfire flew out of the wall seeming quite surprised and infuriated but without a scratch on her. Her hands and eyes shone green as she looked about the room. Seeing only her friends, she calmed down and flew to Robin just in time to catch him as he almost fell to the floor. "Robin! Friend Raven, you can help him, can you not?"

Raven moved to the side of Robin that was not occupied by Starfire and looked at his injured side. Devastated, to say the least. Five of his ribs on his right side had been broken; by the blow the strange attacker had dealt. Raven started to repair the internal injuries with a bunch muttered words, internal injuries were much more pressing than the broken ribs. The soft glow from Ravens hands helped the Boy Wonder breath as she was repairing his collapsed lung. Raven only managed to heal most of the massive internal injuries. Leaving the ribs for later. She had never been good at repairing broken bones though. "Why did he just leave after pummelling all of us to the ground?", Cyborg asked more to himself than anyone else in the room. None of them tried to answer.

"My powers didn't work on him. I think he came here for me", Raven said in her monotone voice after doing what she could to keep Robin alive "Why did he attack us like this?" asked Starfire with tears in her eyes. "I'm more concerned about Robin right now. Get him to the med lab, Starfire. Be careful, he has broken ribs. Cyborg, see what you can do for him, I'm drained for now." Cyborg nodded and started following a frantic Starfire down the hall. Starfire was carrying Robin; he was practically flown through the building by Starfire. Raven sighed and took out his communicator.

Beast Boy was out in the town with his camouflage ring on, so that he looked just like an average teenager. He was drinking coffee at a small coffee shop without a care in the world. Then a stranger in a black coat, sat next to him.

"Hi", He simply stated and looked him over, head to toe. Beast Boy freaked out and put his coffee down. "Look, buddy. I don't swing that way. So - " The stranger cut him off by saying "Beast Boy, I presume." It was more of a statement than a question, and Beast Boy was stunned beyond words

"How… How did you…" The stranger did not have his hood on. There was a boy about his age staring at him with bright white hair and cold eyes. "You'll know soon enough. Could you tell your teammates that I don't like it when people attack me and only act according to the situation when someone does? Tell the red haired one in particular that I am sorry about overreacting."

"What -" His communicator started bleeping. He looked down and grabbed it. He looked up with the communicator in hand. The boy was gone and Beast Boy wasn't even that sure that he had even been there in the first place. The coffee he had been drinking was still there though.

He flipped the com open and saw Raven looking at him "Get back to the tower. Now!" Beast Boy was utterly confused. Well, better get back to the tower anyways. That creepy monotone was more than enough to make him fear for his life.

When he got there he found the common room looking like a battleground and with a hole in the wall. "Was this what he was talking about down in the café? Guys! Where are you?"

He ran around the tower looking for them. He found them just where he didn't want to.

"What happened to Robin?" Was all he could say when he saw the grave scene in front of him. Robin was lying on a hospital bed with the steady beeping of the EEG machine signalling that he was alive. Raven was barely able to stand but she didn't want to show it so she was leaning against a wall. Starfire was sitting by Robin's bed and asking Cyborg and Raven every five seconds if he was going to be okay. Both of them answered calmly "yes" every time

"Wish I could get my hands on that hlorbog who did this to him!" Starfire fumed when her hands and eyes glowed green and her hands burnt the arms out of the chair she was sitting on. "Calm down Star. We're gonna get him for this." Stated Cyborg while gritting his teeth from anger. A spark flew from his neck because of his agitated state.

Beast Boy was thinking if he should tell the others about his encounter with the attacker. Actually what was so important about what he had said that they needed to know about it 'I don't like it when people attack me and only act according to the situation', His memory bitched at him. 'It has to be done'

"I think he came to talk to me after the attack" Silence greeted the statement. Raven decided that it was unbearable and asked him to elaborate. She said it in her regular monotone. Beast Boy started squirming under the gazes of his teammates. "Well I was getting some coffee uptown… and he sat down next to me and seemed to check me out and I got creeped out and - " " Just get to the point. What did he say?" Raven cut in. Beast Boy blushed and started spelling out from memory: "'Tell your teammates that I don't like being attacked and only act according to the situation'" He paused at this and then said "'And tell the red haired one that I am sorry about overreacting'" Starfire looked utterly shocked "He said he was sorry?" Her face scrunched in thought "Villains don't do that, do they?" Star looked at Raven for an answer. Raven shrugged and said "Not usually. But what did he mean about that 'I don't like being attacked' thing?" Beast Boy shrugged and said "Dunno" Cyborg looked thoughtful and then asked "Raven, you were there first. Did he attack you first?"

Raven thought about for a while and then blushed in the confines of her cloak. "Actually…" She sighed deeply and her shoulders slumped. "No, he didn't. My powers didn't work on him and I was hurled to the floor by them. Then you came in… Sorry, but I really need to sleep" 'and meditate' she added to herself as she was walking to her room.

She entered her room and threw her cloak on the bed and started to levitate over her bed chanting "Azarath…Methrion…Zenthos"

Down in Jump City there was a bank being robbed, not a single alarm was sounded so the Teen Titans knew nothing about it; just as it should be. Jinx didn't like it. It seemed too easy. Something was bound to go wrong. She was expecting the Teen Titans to burst through the doors any second. She didn't even have her teammates with her this time. She had insisted on doing this alone, she was starting to doubt her judgement on this.

Just as she had almost assured herself that everything was going to go smoothly, there was a voice from somewhere in the plentiful shadows of the banks entrance hall. "So… You're a villain, eh?"

She spun around, as the voice seemed to come right behind her. She tried to place the voice, but it seemed to echo from every shadow in the hall and it was impossible. It surely wasn't the Boy Wonder; he couldn't do something like that to his voice. Raven could and would do that to her voice, but the voice was too masculine and not even a bit demonic, so it wasn't her. Starfire or Cyborg don't do that kind of sneaky stuff. So, who was he? Red-X? No, there was no voice synthesizer. She didn't even think it could be Beast boy.

Sighing she answered "Yes. You're not an hero, are you?" She had to keep him talking to know where to throw a hex or two. "No, I don't think so. I've been thinking: which is better; to be a hero, or to be a villain? How's life treating you, beautiful?" The voice still seemed to be everywhere, but it also seemed to get closer.

Jinx started to get afraid. Any hero would have attacked by now and a villain would have done that too. This guy was just creepy. Creeping up on her like a… common rapist.

"What are you going to do with me? Show your self!" Her voice was shaky from fear. And even though she didn't see him she knew that he had stopped in his tracks at the sound of her voice. "I just want to talk. I'm not going to rape you or anything even like that." He stepped out of the shadows right in front of her, "Though you are quite a stunning woman. I'm just loving the eyes..."

She jumped in surprise and threw a hex bolt at him. It hit him with no visible effect. He just looked at her surprised face and she threw another hex bolt at him. During the flash of light she noticed his bright white hair and the smile that was playing on his lips. The hex bolt hit him again with no visible effect. He just looked at her with the smile still in place. It just widened when he lifted his hand and shot a similar pink energy ball at her. She wasn't able to dodge it as it followed her as she rolled to the side. It had very different effects on her though...

She didn't notice anything at first and drew her hand up to charge another hex. The mystery assailant just ignored it and said in a deadpan tone: "You know, I learned an interesting fact from the heroes. They don't seem to like physical violence…", Jinxes focus fluttered away when a warm tickly feeling started forming in her lower abdomen. The forming energy faded away, "…So, I changed tactics. You see, this makes you as co-operative and unable to defend yourself as a good kick to the head. And there's absolutely no pain involved. Quite the opposite, in fact."

Jinx fell to her knees, as the sensation grew unbearable. "What are you doing to me?"

The man crouched next to her and whispered to her ear "Like you wouldn't know. I'm only actually releasing something that's been inside you for a long time. Don't even try to say that you'd prefer the usual beating from the super-heroes." She looked at him. She tried to glare at him but it seemed very hard to focus her eyes on anything. "You - Oh god… You perverted bastard!"

He sat down on the floor next to her. She collapsed on the floor while panting hard. She noticed that his eyes were like the ones on some birds of prey: Bright yellow, on a black base. They were glowing brightly in the dark. The smile was still there. "You should tell me how to trip some of the alarms you disabled. Take your time. I'm not going anywhere."

She tried to stop herself, but couldn't help it. 'Damn this feels wrong, but so GOOD.' she though as she started purring and stretching on the floor, very much like a cat. The man laughed and started scratching her behind the ear. She reacted to this by purring louder and bending her head towards his touch. 'This is so perverted. I'm not a cat'

"This is so weird… I think it's time to call in the cavalry" As he said that he raised his hand that wasn't scratching Jinx. With a bright flash of light, the doors of the bank blew out in the street causing the alarms of the bank start ringing. "Hey, pussycat." He said while Jinx's head was resting on his lap. She didn't answer because she was certain that only thing that would come out of her mouth was a meow. "umm…" She managed to get out through the intensifying waves of pleasure wracking her body.

"I think I'm going to go meet the heroes. Don't miss me too much…" He chuckled and gently lifted her head out of his lap and started for the huge gap in wall that used to be the doors to the bank.

He got outside just as the Titans appeared from one of Raven's portals. They started fanning out on his sides a second later. "Now, now! Let's not do this again. Hear me out: First of all, I was not the to attack this place of currency and valuable items. It was the pink haired girl in there." He looked around the group of heroes and seemed to count them in his mind. "Where's the short guy?"

Starfire's fists clenched and her eyes were glowing in bright green "You dare to even act not knowing! You know that you almost killed him and you're going to pay for your actions against us!" The white haired teenager looked shocked "What do you mean 'almost killed him'. I barely even touched him. Humans can't be that frail!"

Raven spoke to the boy in her usual monotone, but there was an dangerous edge to it "Your not from earth, are you?" He seemed annoyed by slipping something out by accident. He sighed deeply and nodded. "Why are you here?" Raven asked him. He squirmed a little and looked at the heroes with a blush on his face "I-" He cut off by a loud scream from the bank "MEEEOOOW!"

The boy looked at Raven as if knowing that she knew exactly what happened. And she did. She had felt the rush of mixed emotions from the bank. And she blushed deeply from they're effect. She staggered back a little at the force of the powerful emotions flushing over her. "You sick bastard..." She hissed, as he looked very proud of himself. "What? I stopped the villain and all is well in the world… Right?"

Starfire looked shocked "What have you done to the poor woman in there?" Hawk-like eyes shifted to look at her. Then he looked over to Cyborg and Beast Boy. "She can't be that naïve, can she?" He asked the other titans present, "I made her feel good, Star. A better solution than beating her senseless." Starfire still looked confused. He smiled at her. "I think you'll learn better if I show you…" His hand started glowing in a soft shade of pink. "Don't you dare!" Raven hissed at him. The light dissipated at her words.

He looked at her, pouting like a child. "Yes, m'lady" He said in a dangerous hiss. 'Odd… he obeyed me. Like he was forced to.' Raven put this thought aside as irrelevant for the moment as he stood up from his mockery of a bow. "I should go get the villain out here" He stated and stormed in to the building.

Cyborg and Beast Boy looked at Raven for answers. Starfire looked thoughtful. "What did he mean about the 'feeling good'?" Raven looked at her only female friend. She's so innocent sometimes… Okay, she was always innocent "I will explain it to you later" Raven said, blushing from the thought of the conversation ahead. 'I hate this guy already'

He appeared from the building with Jinx slung over his shoulder. She didn't struggle at all in his grasp. He started coming down the stairs to them, but then stopped halfway down the stairs. He looked at them with his weird eyes. Then he seemed to realize something, and he squeezed his eyes shut. He stayed like that for a couple of seconds. Then he snapped his eyes open and they were not the same eyes anymore. "I always forget to fix them. People seem to be afraid of my eyes. I still don't know why though… Well, anyways, what to do with this one?" He slapped Jinxes butt. She winced and started squirming in his grasp. "You idiot! You almost broke my ass!" He dropped her down on her feet "Oh, come on! I can't help it if you are so frail! That's your problem, not mine!" Jinx looked furious "I'm not frail! You're just too rough on people!" She screamed with fire in her eyes.

He looked hurt, then thoughtful. He looked at The Teen Titans, who were looking at him with barely disguised anger in their eyes. Even Raven's eyes seemed to have an edge to them. He looked scared and vulnerable for a second. His eyes fluttered from the stormy looking dark blue to their natural state. He didn't seem to notice.

He looked back at Jinx and said, "You're right. I don't know the extent of my powers yet. That's one reason for me being here. I'm sorry if I hurt you." He turned to the Teen Titans. "And I'm sorry if I hurt the colourful guy back in your place of residence" Jinx was taken back with the hurt and loneliness present in his eyes. This guy clearly was not from earth. No normal guy would have shown their emotions like that.

She really was messed up. This was the kind of situation where a normal girl wouldn't find herself in. 'Why should I care. He just mind raped me. I should hate him for that.' She did try to hate him, but even when her logical side said that he had violated her. She just couldn't just find it in herself to hate him. "I'm only actually releasing something that's been inside you for a long time"

Now, when she actually thought about it. She had actually purred during that 'thing' that he did. She knew that she wasn't that innocent. She had been around and she had had a big O before. This was different though. It had felt so… natural? Like a new base instinct, nothing like an orgasm, but something else... and better. And why did she purr then?

What? You really don't think that the eyes don't mean anything She heard the voice of the boy in her head. 'I wish I knew his name' She thought. It's Du'grel in my home world, but I guess it's gonna be something tacky like "Nightshadow" in this world. I wish they would stop with the IDIOTIC names in this world. Why do they even need them? I know for a fact that people fear the unknown more than something that they can name.

Outside the conversation in her head he seemed not to mind her a second thought. He barely even looked at her. Actually only one or two seconds had passed, but thoughts were a lot faster to speak than words. Telepathy's funny that way.

Listen. I'll let you escape now, because I don't think you deserve this. I've seen the outset of your mind, and it's not evil to the least. I'm sorry for the intrusion by the way. Why are they after you anyway? How was she supposed to answer? She wasn't a telepath and this was all new to her. Just think of it. Put it up to the front of your mind and I'll know it. Feel it. See it. Smell it if you want.

She didn't have another way out of this. So she though about how the H.I.V.E had helped her. Given her a home and a purpose in life. She thought about her mother and the damage that her powers had caused to everyone she had ever loved. She thought about the early days when her mother had smiled at her and said that she loved her. Her sound had been so loving and tender. That didn't last long. She -

I've heard enough, please stop. Please… His thoughts seemed saddened and somehow forced. Hit the ground under my feet with one of your hexes when I tell you to… Oh, I get it! You jinx people with your hexes. Therefore, Jinx. The name fits you. And it also means a cat. Is that what the hair is. Jinxes have ears kinda like that… Or are they even called Jinxes? Jinx? Or are they lynxes?...

'Your getting off the point' She thought. She was getting the hang of it. Sorry. Telepathy's hard to control at times. I came here to get some control over my many powers. I could actually destroy this whole planet if I wanted to. Don't know how, but I could.

He looked down to Raven with murder in his eyes "Stop trying to read my mind, witch!" His eyes flared and Raven fell to the floor. "Now" He said in a firm command. He shouted it out loud to Raven and telepathically to Jinx. It was a perfect moment. Raven was down and the other titans were looking at her. And he seemed to be distracted with Raven. This was a perfect moment for an escape attempt, even if Du'grel would not be in on it.

She shot a quick hex at his feet and the ground under him crumbled, sending him stumbling down the stairs. She could swear that he had a smirk on his face. He hit his head on one of the steps. Ouch! And you say I'm rough on you. Run into the bank.

She shot up the stairs and leaped into the bank as Cyborg's sonic cannons blast whizzed past her head. 'Now what?' She said to him. You'll see… he answered. She could hear the snicker in his thoughts. 'He could be planning on killing me for all I know.'

There was a wordless shout of anger, which seemed to linger in the air unnaturally long. Then a very bright white light was filling the hall…

He was a very confusing man. First, he hurt Robin very much like a villain would, but then he apologized like a hero. He was not to be blamed. I also have problems controlling my powers when interacting with my friends. "The bone crushing hugs they call them." Oh, how ever so much amusing it is to see the look of fear on their little faces when I rush in for a hug.

Everything was very wrong. Starfire was giggling for no apparent reason. And Beast Boy… well, he transformed into a cat and disappeared into a dark alley. Cyborg was perched on a street lamp whistling the tune of the A-team.

This all happened while the alien boy was charging up to attack the retreating back of Jinx. His eyes shone brighter than ever. Power was seeping out of him, practically melting the ground beneath him. There was an almost inaudible humming that made your brain itch. It had a rhythm to it, like a generator charging up.

His black overcoat suddenly turned white and lighting danced on its surface for a second. Then it was oddly silent. He had an oddly calm look on his face. The other titans started to return to normal. Cyborg fell off his perch and groaned. That's when the boy shouted a word that even Raven or Starfire could not recognize. The power that had been building up in him shot out of him.

It was not like an ordinary energy blast. It had a mind of its own. It shot out of him and gathered above his head in an orb of lightning. He sent it flying with a word.

Then the world was filled with white light.

AN: This is my first fic ever so be harsh if you wish because I want to learn and feedback is what makes writers evolve. So please review. Thank you. If you liked it, don't be shy to review either. Otherwise I could get all depressed and not post anything at all! And I... I'll stop writing now before I do something I'll regret...