"I can see that kick coming from a mile away." Raven said after successfully guarding and counter attacking a roundhouse kick from Robin. "Maybe you should stop trying to use that attack on me, and come up with something else instead."

"We're out of here! Raven, Jinx, let's go!" Gizmo shouted from somewhere else.

There was an explosion that sent dust and debris in Robin's direction, and when he stood up, the members of HIVE were nowhere to be seen. He sighed and brushed himself off, then rejoined with the other Titans. "Awesome dudes. Once again they start an attack, once again we show up, and once again they get away. Shouldn't we chase after them for once?" Beastboy asked as he watched Starfire pull a large magnet off of Cyborg's back.

"Don't worry Beastboy. We'll see them again sooner than they think." Robin said with a smile. His roundhouse kick earlier had given him the opportunity to place a tracker on Raven's cloak, smaller than a dime, and when he held up his communicator the others could see a dot giving away the villain's location. The others smiled and nodded, then headed back to the Tower with renewed determination.

A few days later, Starfire and Beastboy stood in front of the large monitor that displayed plans to infiltrate the villains secret layer. "This'll be a piece of cake!" Beastboy said. "No one's gonna suspect a spider-" he transformed into the animal before turning back to human, "-or a harmless fly on the wall-" he transformed again before returning to normal, "-or I could even become a-"

"Sorry Beastboy, but a green animal is going to stick out no matter which one you choose to be."

The two turned around to see Robin walking in, and beside him was… "Cyborg!?" Beastboy and Starfire both exclaimed at the same time. "How are you-" Beastboy gestured to Cyborg's human appearance, completely devoid of all mechanical augmentations.

"Because of this." Cyborg pulled a ring off his left hand, and his appearance went back to the way the Titans were used to seeing him. "A holographic appearance changer invented by yours truly. And check this out!" Cyborg put the ring back and after his appearance went to that of a normal human, it changed his skin to stone-gray. "Meet Stone, the new bad guy at HIVE academy."

"Amazing!" Starfire cheered.

"Of course I don't get to go." Beastboy grumbled.

Robin ignored the shapeshifted and said, "Cyborg will be in touch with us whenever he can, and if anything goes wrong, we'll be there as soon as we can to help him out. Wish him good luck now, because it'll be a while before we see him again."

Starfire lifted into the air a few feet and hugged Cyborg. "Be safe, and best of luck to you."

"Like he needs me to wish him luck." Beastboy said as he gave Cyborg a high five.

"That's right. He's never let us down before." Robin nodded at Cyborg, who gave a wave and turned to leave, walking into the hallway and getting into the elevator so he could make his way to the HIVE's secret layer as he'd discussed with Robin earlier.

Initially, the leader of the Titans had wanted to go undercover himself, using the Red-X persona once again. Cyborg managed to convince him otherwise by pointing out that Slade had played him like a fiddle last time and there was a good chance Slade had told others about who Red-X really was before he'd passed away in the fight with Terra, and pointing out that it was safer if he used the holo-ring in order to pass for a villain. Plus, even though he hadn't brought this up to Robin, he didn't want the Titans leader to get tricked by a villain once again. So far, his interactions with Raven hadn't aroused any suspicion in his teammates, by Cyborg could tell there was something more going on, at least on Robin's side. If the Titan's leader accidentally let his true identity slip, it would all be for naught and he'd put himself in unnecessary danger, and if anyone was going to trick Robin into revealing his secret (on purpose or not), it would probably be Raven. It wasn't like things had gotten out of hand, but Cyborg knew it was the safer option for him to go instead of Robin.