Hey guys kbunny10 here with the next chapter of Beta, long story short I started to write this chapter, almost finished it, then totally blanked and forgot I was writing it until I received an email last night that wasn't exactly meant for me but it jogged my memory and I finished this chapter up as quickly as I could. I'm so so sorry. Eric is sitting next to me right now and I'm not allowed to leave my basement till I finish this. So yeah, I mean technically you see the whole thing laid out in front of you, where as I am currently looking at a half-finished chapter which will soon be totally finished within the next few minutes or so.

Anyways on with the show, as always we do not own the Teen Titans but we do all own our oc's. Hopefully I do them all justice in this chapter, I'm really nervous about that. ^^;

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Nix sighed as she and the new Beta team traversed across the town, with all 5 recruits now retrieved they could finally head back to the tower and figure out their new action plan, where the new members would sleep, how crime fighting throughout the town would go now, that sort of thing. It hadn't been much of a trip to gather everyone, but it sure was tiring, it'd be nice to finally get back to the tower and rest.

Everyone was startled when the communicator went off. "What now?" Nix groaned as she answered.

"Nix, have you finished gathering the recruits?" Robin asked, his voice sounding edgy as if he were in a bad mood.

"Yeah, got em all right here, Silver, Amber, Rachel, Zane, Ziggy, and Ziggy's…friend…1-9-5-2. Anything else you need me to get for you on the way back? A movie? Tickets to see the Mets? Some butter for that crab?" Nix smirked as she finished her sentence, Silver and Zane could be heard chuckling in the background.

"Now's not the time for jokes Nix. I need to speak to you." Robin retorted.

"We…are speaking?" Nix said, a little confused.

"I mean I need to speak to you alone, where the recruits can't hear you." Robin said, letting out an exasperated sigh.

"Oh okay, one sec." Nix said. "Uh guys I think you heard him, I'm just gonna step over there real quick. Entertain yourselves in whatever way you find necessary."

As Nix backed away the 5 newest recruits all turned to look at each other. "So…any of you have any interesting stories to share?" Silver asked.

"1-9-5-2, knows some pretty good ones, don't you little buddy?" Ziggy asked, the others stared for a few seconds.

"Uh…living in a graveyard, I know some pretty interesting stories." Rachel said after a few moments silence.

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Once Nix was a good distance from the others she turned back to her communicator, "What's up now Rob?"

"While you were gone looking for the new recruits Raven and Cyborg brought up a good point, even though we have their powers and backgrounds down, we really don't know how fit they really are to be Titans."

Nix blinked, "What are you saying?"

"I'm saying we should test them first, before we know if they're actually fit to be on the Beta team, once they get back to the tower we're going to test each one of them physically and power wise, and Raven's going to interview them, just to be sure they'll be okay."

"Isn't that a bit…unfair? You've made pretty much every teenage hero in the world a Titan without some sort of test, I wasn't even tested, why do we have to test them?" Nix asked, getting annoyed.

"This is different Nix, these people are going to be living in our home, we've already had something like that go sour once, we can't let it happen again, it was a risk even just letting you join the team. Just know that this is what's in store for them once they get back to the tower, understood?"

"Well I-" Nix opened her mouth to speak but was cut off immediately with a "Good, I'll see you back at the tower." And with that Robin ended the conversation.

Nix let out a frustrated sigh and ran a hand through her curly brown hair. "So what happens if they don't pass then? Do we just send them back to where they were before?" She frowned as she looked over the new recruits, they seemed genuinely happy to be out and about, interacting with other heroes, the idea of just sending them back from where they came didn't exactly sit well with the hydrokinetic, but Robin was the leader and he called the shots so if one or more of them failed she didn't really have a choice.

"Is everything okay Nix?" Zane asked, eyeing the young hydrokinetic suspiciously.

"Yeah, everything's fine." Nix insisted, putting on a smile for good measure, she hoped Zane and the others would buy it. Much to her relief Zane looked at her suspiciously one last time before shrugging it off. "Alright, you guys ready to go back to the tower?"

As the others walked on ahead, Amber slowed her pace to match that of Nix's. "So…even though we've been selected for Beta team…there's still a chance we might not make it huh?"

Nix frowned, "Yeah…leave it to birdbrain to tell us these things at the last second."

"Yeah…" Amber agreed absently.

"Yeah…" Nix confirmed, watching as the others walked in front of them unknowing of what was coming next.

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And there it is, chapter 7. I'm sorry I know I wrote everyone wrong I feel really bad, and I still feel really bad about how long it took. Next time it won't take so long I promise. Hope you have a wonderful rest of the day, later lovelies. Please R&R…I don't know why I always put that at the end…seems like it should go at the beginning doesn't it?