About an hour later, outside a club in Jump City:

As they stood in the cold, they believed that overall it had been a good night, the utter embarrassment aside. The titans left Storme and Lightning alone, but often spied on them in hopes of seeing a romantic moment or spark between them (spark...haha) to no avail. Now they were hanging outside a closed out club that hadn't been open for a couple of years now. The other titans had set off, leaving Lightning, Storme and Robin. So conversation struck up. "soooo... we're going down to the cinema...you wanna join?"

"Well..." said Lightning hesitantly, looking nervously to his feet "I have to call my team first."

Thunder was strolling down the road, when he remembered exactly how long he had been out.

He took out his communicator and dialled Kid-Flash

He took out his communicator and dialled Jinx

There was no answer...

There was no answer...

"I cannot. I must return home." Lightning frowned slightly and flew for home at top speed.

Thunder frowned slightly. "hmmm." He started fast towards home.

Pushing open the doors he gasped. The front room had been completely destroyed. The room itself, if possible, was even colder than the night outside, and nothing lay untouched except the doors themselves and the stairs, and even then there was hardly any room to step. His initial reaction was to call out to his brother. No reply. So he called for the rest of his team, just to be sure... no reply.

Why did I even call Jericho? He wasn't going to reply. What in the clouds has happened here...?

He ascended to the next floor, walking carefully, exploring the destruction. Then he slipped on something. Overbalanced and sent one foot slamming into the wall, the other getting trapped underneath him as he fell. Looking to see what he had slipped on, his eyes were drawn instantly to his leg. A dark red streak ran the length that had scraped across...the dark puddle on the floor caught his attentions. Blood. He had slipped in blood. He didn't know who's but for the moment it didn't matter to him. He scrambled to his feet and ran for the main room.

"Well, we've established that whoever this was, they knew each of our strengths, and weaknesses. They knew the damned security codes! Someone had to tell them. Somebody is a traitor, and we've already established it's none of us." At that very moment Lightning burst through the doors. A few minutes of staring followed. Each member was damaged in a different way. At least now Lightning could see where the blood had come from. Kid-Flash was trying to press a piece of tissue to Jericho's heavily bleeding forehead, while trying to lie so that his oddly twisted ankle was lying comfortably. Jinx stormed up to Lightning, cradling her left arm with her right. "Where HAVE you been!" she shrieked, startling him back so that he tripped over his own feet. "I already said I was going out with friends, did I not?" he replied bitterly, picking himself back up.

"What friends?" sniffed Kid-Flash

"I have plenty of friends. And what's more if you do not believe me, you may contact the teen titans. I have been with them for the evening."

"FINE!" shrieked Jinx, taking out her communicator, she called the titans. When the reply came, it was Beast-boy.

"Oh no" groaned Lightning. "Not him, no, put Raven on!"

"Hello Beast-Boy, have you seen Lightning this evening?"

"yeah, he came by with his little girlfriend"

"SHUT UP, SHE IS NOT MY GIRLFRIEND!"

"well she said she was!"

"whatever, thanks" she closed the lid of her communicator and turned to her violently blushing teammate. "technically your story checks out, but there are some missing links..."

"what in the clouds are you talking about?"

"today we were ambushed. Attacked by someone who knew all of our strengths, weaknesses and the security codes...now how on earth did that happen..."

"the security codes? Not even I know the security codes! Are you accusing me of...?"

"it's only logical. It wasn't us, and the person in question had to be outside the base at the time of the attack. That simply leaves you and your brother. And who of the two of you is going to be the one most likely to betray us all for a bit of...I don't know...mindless 'fun' maybe...it seems like your style..."

"I...I...this is madness!"

"What's th...?"

But she was stopped mid sentence when a blast of blue energy enveloped the room in a painful turquoise beam.

When he got to the desolate tower the first thing he noticed was the opened door. It didn't bother him; he just didn't expect to see what was inside. He hadn't expected that much...damage. The next thing he noticed was that there were voices drifting down from the smashed window of the main room. That bothered him. He recognised the voice of their team leader, Jinx, and the voice of the shape shifter. He heard the unmistakable shriek of his brother, which he was actually glad to hear. He went up. He was at the window listening in on their conversation when Jericho tapped Kid Flash and pointed to him. Kid Flash opened his mouth to speak and the order came through his earpiece.

"Blast them."

Well, who was he to disobey. He blasted them and flew off. As far as he was concerned he had at least fatally injured them. He smiled to himself as he rode his cloud away from the scene. He smiled...and did not know why. He was the traitor...