I am so very sorry! I have not updated this story in forever. I will try harder to update more frequently. Enjoy this chapter. I hope it makes up for the wait. One quick note, bolded text means that the character is thinking those phrases.

I don't own the Teen Titans….sigh….if only.


Silence….

Nobody spoke or laughed over the communicators. In fact the only noises Cy could hear was the road under the T-car and the gentle hum of the engine.

Cyborg hated silence. It reminded him all to well of the days before the Teen Titans, when he was a freak on the streets just trying to survive. Those days had been full of silence as though the world wanted to remind him just how alone he was. Cyborg supposed that one of the reasons he loved being a Titan so much was because things were hardly ever quiet. And usually driving to bust the bad guys was a prime example of that fact.

But not today. Today he was once again subjected to the pressing weight of silence. Only this time, the silence was all his fault. He had jumped to conclusions about the picture thing. Cy should have known that Beast Boy didn't give Bee those pictures. B might like to pull pranks but they were always innocent fun. Well mostly innocent. But Cyborg had assumed that is was BB because of his love of pranking. Well you know what they say about the first three letters of assume. Cyborg thought bitterly. And I am definitely feeling like an…….


"Cyborg are you listening?" Robin's voice broke Cy out of his thoughts.

"Yeah, I am. Go ahead Robin."

"We are nearing the alarm area. We don't know who or what we are up against so I want everyone on their toes. Got it?"

"But Robin, it is very hard and uncomfortable to walk upon my toes! May I not fly instead?"

…….

"Sure Star, you can fly," sighed Robin as he turned the R-cycle around a corner.


Main Street held a very peculiar sight today. There was a tall man dressed completely in burgundy riding down the street on what could only be described as a chair with mechanical claws. At first it appeared as though he was just looking in the windows of the buildings he was passing. However soon red beams of light poured from his hands shattering the windows. The mechanical arms would then reach in to the buildings and pull out any women that were there. They were raised up to the man's face and he would stare at them for a moment. Shaking his head he would then strip the woman of any jewelry that she was wearing. Then the arm would set her gently back down in the building.

Just as he was about to pull a necklace off a redhead, his mechanical claw was forced open by a black aura. The woman fell screaming to the ground only to be caught in the claws of a giant green pterodactyl. Beast Boy set the woman down and rejoined his team. Robin pulled out his staff.

"I don't know who you are but you picked the wrong town to trash. Titans G…." Robin was cut off by a single swipe of the mechanical claws. Beast Boy and Cyborg were also sent flying. Two of the claws shot around Raven's and Starfire's waists and began pulling them closer to the man. The struggled and tried to summon their powers but for some reason they just couldn't. The man calmly stared Starfire in the face for a moment before throwing her away from him. He then turned his attention to the extremely pissed off Raven who promptly punched him in the face. Ignoring the blood trickling from his nose the man studied Raven's face for a while.

No still not the right one. Hmmm….pity, this one is quite beautiful. The man sighed softly as he reached for Raven's amulet that held her cape together. At least I will have something to give her when I find her.

SMACK! Raven slapped the man as hard as she could. He fell back against the controls of his chair. All the claws opened and Raven flew away just as the chair collapsed in on itself. All the Titans gathered around the heap of twisted metal. Beast Boy turned from a pterodactyl to a gorilla and started to shift thru the debris in search of the man.


BOOM!!!

Beast Boy was thrown away from the site along with several of the arms. The rest of the Titans were once again facing the man. However he looked slightly different now. His clothing which had been completely burgundy before now had a stripe of black running diagonally down it. Not only had his costume changed but his expression had changed as well. He now wore a very sinister smirk. "So the little Titans want to play? Well I think that could be arranged." The man shot Star and Robin in the chest with a sickly green beam of light. Raven and Cyborg tried to rush the man but they were stopped by blows from their teammates.

Cyborg stared at Robin. He was completely green and he was attacking Cyborg with a vengeance he usually reserved for Slade. Robin swung his staff at Cyborg's head. Cy caught the staff only to be sent backwards by a well placed kick. "Robin, man it's me." Robin growled at Cy in response and charged once again. Cy grabbed Robin's staff with both hands and tried to push him back. Robin roared in anger.

"Star is mine. I've seen the way you look at her but I will make sure you never look at her again."

"Rob, what are you talking about?" Cy yelled as fought to keep Robin away from him. Suddenly Robin ducked under the staff and delivered a hard uppercut to Cyborg's jaw. Cyborg flew back into a brick wall and Robin pounced after him.


Raven wasn't faring much better against Star who was also completely green. "Star I don't want to hurt you," Raven yelled from behind her black shield. Starfire ignored her completely and continued to rain starbolts down upon the shielded girl. Raven tried to grab Starfire with a black aura claw but she dodged it.

Screaming in fury she flew straight into Raven's shield, breaking it. Star grabbed Raven around the wrists as she yelled in her face. "You can't have him. Robin is mine. He will never belong to you, you clorabag." Star sent her fist straight into Raven's stomach. Raven flew backwards into an alley with Star hot on her heels.

The man watched this scene with a wide grin. Ah, teenagers are so easy to manipulate. Now that my distractions are taken care of I really should get ba….. Beast Boy's gorilla form body slammed the man into the ground. The man picked himself up only to narrowing avoid being slashed by a velociraptor. Rolling to further avoid BB's lethal claws the man shot rays of blue and red at Beast Boy who turned into a mouse to avoid them. The man tried to step on the green teen only to find himself facing a pterodactyl. He stumbled back and tried to shoot but Beast Boy grabbed his arm in his claws and took off. Swinging wildly under Beast Boy the man frantically scratched at the green claws trying to get his arm free. Beast Boy flew straight towards the bay intending to drop the man in the ocean. CRACK! The man had managed to swing himself up high enough to make contact with Beast Boy's head. The Titan and the man dive-bombed straight into an alley as Beast Boy lost consciousness.


The man hit the ground hard, crushing his arm underneath him and hitting his head on the pavement. Fighting back the urge to scream the man slowly picked himself up. He could see the green teenager laying a few feet away on several trash bags. Slowly the man approached the prone teenager with the fist of his uninjured arm raised, ready to pound the living daylights out of this stupid Titan. He looked down on the green teen ready to fight when he stopped suddenly. As he stared down at Beast Boy's unconscious form his uniform slowly reverted back to the brightest burgundy. Very gently he lifted the small green girl up into his arms. She was perfect and he had found her. He brushed several strands of jet black hair out of her face as he leaned in closer to her rosebud lips.

Suddenly the girl was yanked out of his arms by a black claw. The man moved foreword to try to grab her but was stopped by a Star bolt to the chest. Collapsing onto his knees the man reached his good hand foreword pleadingly. "Please," he choked "Please give her back. She is the one I was looking for. I won't cause anymore problems, just give her back."

The Titans exchanged glances and then looked down at Beast Boy who was resting in Raven's arms. He was still wearing the wig and maid outfit. "Look man." Cyborg stepped forward a little to shield Raven and BB from the man's prying eyes. "Beast Boy is a guy. He dressed that way because of a prank I pulled on him."


The man stopped trying to peer around Cy and stared blankly up at the mechanical teen. Suddenly he stood straight up on his feet. "YOU'RE LYING!" The man began to breathe rather heavily as his clothing shifted from red to black. "I KNOW YOU ARE LYING. GIVE HER BACK. NOW!!"

Starfire, Robin and Cyborg moved together in front of Raven and Beast Boy. The man stared at them for a moment still breathing heavily. Then an evil smile worked its way onto his face. Pulling out a small grey sphere, the man threw it upon the ground in front of the Titans. It exploded in a flash of light. Thick black smoke poured out and enveloped the titans. Raven quickly cast her shield over her friends and herself. Raven waited a few minutes before dissolving the shield. The smoke and the man were gone.


A few miles away the man sat in a small apartment. He was gently binding his wounds as he searched the internet on a small laptop computer. Suddenly he stopped. There in his computers window was a large picture of the Teen Titans. And his girl wasn't there. Instead there was a small green teen with her face. But this Titan was clearly a boy. "NO!" The man smashed his uninjured fist into the computer screen and watched it fizzle then go black.

They weren't lying. His perfect girl was really a guy just like the big robot one had said. He had fallen in love with an illusion. Moaning the man dragged himself to a small bed in the corner of the apartment. Flopping down upon it, he closed his eyes. Her face swam before him, taunting him. How he wished she was real.

But then he thought as his eyes snapped back open. Who says she can't become real. With that same evil smirk on his face the man pulled out a small black cell phone. "Professor Chang? It's me Lai. I was wondering if you would be interested in another job." Lai listened for a moment as Chang voiced his requirements for this job. "It will all be arranged." Lai moved to the window. "So professor," he said as he pulled up the blinds on the small window. "What do you know about changing genetics?" Out the window and across the bay shone Titans Tower.


Whew! This was a really hard chapter for me to write. I once again apologize for the extremely long delay. College has been crazy. I will try to update more often from now on. Please bear with me. Anyway review please. I will give you virtual cookies! ;)

This is Alika Jones. Peace Out!