Later, in the cave.

"So did you find a good place?" Raven asks the smelly ensemble of heroes seated at the table, noting inwardly that she was fortunate that she got to drink coffee, talk and play chess with Jason, the others got sewer patrol. Robin has joined the meeting in the cave, since his school is over for the day.

"Well, for one thing the place stinks." Beastboy says, stating the obvious, the others roll their eyes.

"There are extensive networks of tunnels down there; we have marked the following locations for our deployments." Cyborg's left hand is currently changed into a holographic projector, currently displaying a section of the sewers, for about a cubic kilometer. It's a virtual maze of tunnels from different periods of construction, some collapsed into each other and some going far deeper than others; getting lost in it would be easy. The spots Cyborg motions at with red dots are all reservoirs, Cyborg and Jason are given the largest of them, while team Sidekick and the Bat and Bird are stationed in smaller ones. "As you can see the good news is that the place is a maze with adequate places for us to use our way of fighting, the bad news is that the place is a maze and that we found tracks Batman says belongs to Killer Croc so in case we have to bail it can get dicy."

"We can expect the fight to draw his attention if he is in the area, but I couldn't tell how long ago the track was made." Batman explains.

"I think Waylon would do well to stay away." Robin states confidently.

"I doubt he knows what a tamaranian is." Nightwing says while imagining the reptile mans reaction when he finds out they are far stronger than he is.

"Croc has mutated since either of you last met him." Batman warns. "He's bigger than Bane now and he's got stuck on a diet of meat, human included. Jason?" Batman motions for Jason to speak, as he is raising his hand.

"If you wouldn't mind terribly, I do not know what a tamaranian is either other than the description given to me by Raven which only detailed their strength; I would like to know more if such information is available." To Beastboy and Cyborg, Jason's way of talking reminds them of their friend from Tamaran.

"Well the one we knew talked like you." Raven actually slaps her forehead, before Beastboy says something he would surely regret, before she starts explaining.

"Jason is talking like they did in the days of Camelot, but suffice to say; tamaranians are a humanoid warrior race with orange skin. Their society is built around their emotions, which enables them to fly by being happy to fly, having super strength by having boundless confidence and energy projection from hands and occasionally eyes by being angry. Since we are supposedly facing a platoon, I suspect we are going to deal with soldiers." Raven explains, ignoring the questioning look from the green changeling.

"Thank you." Jason says with a slight smile. "But if fighting styles are known, that would be helpful as well." Batman mouths a later to him, getting a nod.

"Um, sorry for asking this but; who are you? Batman has assigned us to be teamed together and I just wanna know who is having my back." Cyborg asks, him and Beastboy had only been formally introduced to Jason.

"I won't be the one down there with you, but my other self will." Jason says, dodging the question. Cyborg's questioning look makes him continue. "Have you heard of Etrigan?"

"Umm, can't say that I have."

"Think of him as Raven on a bad day." Cyborg nods, thinking of the form Raven took when they took down Dr. Light the first time.

"So, you're a half demon as well?" Beastboy asks.

"No, I am the host of a pure blood one. But fear not you will see him in time." Jason assures with a mysterious smile on his face.

"Back on topic, after Nightwing gets whatever number of hostiles into the sewer. Cyborg detonates the building above, cutting them off from immediate reinforcements and escape. Raven will whisker Nightwing away as soon as he is out of sight. After that, the go will be given. We will be having radio silence unless dire help is needed. If Croc or anything else is encountered, deal with them. Jason if you can talk to Etrigan to keep casualties to a minimum, it would be preferred. Other than that, watch each other's backs." Batman instructs the group; Nightwing and Robin groan inwardly, they were going to hear this numerous times before the event.

The rest of the day goes by with training with Batman who was adamant about knowing who he was fighting alongside with, reading up on Croc and what else that could be encountered in the sewers, and talking. Raven was faced with a barrage of questions from her two former teammates, they wanted to know everything; why she knew martial arts, where she had been and how her days in the Tower had gone. Beastboy was somehow disappointed about the fact she still hadn't become a vegetarian and Cyborg nearly dropped his jaw when she told him that when she wasn't busy with something else, she had been trying to construct her own car, after finding some of Cyborg's blueprints that had been left behind, but it had been a slow process.

Cyborg talked tech with Batman, compared their cars and receiving and giving a few pointers and ideas along the way. Personally Cyborg thought Jason was a basket case, he had a hard time believing Etrigan was a completely different person from Jason. Added that Jason said Etrigan could see and hear what he did, only added to Cyborg's suspicions. Raven reminded him that he would be fighting side by side with Etrigan and that it was best to stay on his good side, which made Cyborg keep this to himself.

Beastboy went about the cave, finding a likely mind with the new Robin, they both loved jokes and pranks. And Robin was able to teach him a few moves in favor for some information on his favorite animals. Beastboy also took time to watch his idol, train with some of the others, before Cyborg threw him into the arena. In which he promptly got trounced, but he received a few pointers afterwards, like he shouldn't let his enemy blind him just by standing still.

Jason spends his time by reading up on Croc and tamaranians, and talking briefly with the others in the cave, mostly limiting himself to answering some questions about himself and Etrigan, and others he just dodged or flatly refused to answer. The exceptions was Batman and Raven, Batman because they were old friends and that his questions were mostly in the professional field or about antiques, a hobby that they shared, though Jason was the expert and Bruce couldn't always say what he knew about the items he sometimes put on display. Once he even had to brush a question off with saying he didn't even know he had these items. With Raven it was more a case of finally meeting someone on the right side of the law that could say they truly knew demons. Something he normally couldn't say about his colleagues in the League, Dr. Fate and Zatanna knew their stuff, but they only knew demons from the outside, like himself, Raven knew them from the inside. In a way it was like having an obscure hobby you thought you were alone with, only to suddenly bump into someone with the same passion.

When not chatting with the cave visitors, as the clan members call the four, the clan goes about its usual routine while in the cave by training, researching and thinking up how best to use the area they were going to fight in. Nightwing had a little extra job of trying to imitate Slade better, something Cyborg said he just needed to get into the mood he always went into when Slade was in Jump. Nightwing just growled at the man, reminding it was like if Cyborg had to pretend to be Gizmo. Robin tried numerous time to sneak up on Raven for no other reason than she was a woman, and that he wanted to test if the fabled 'Ice Queen's' awareness really was as sharp as Nightwing claimed, she caught him every time before he got within 5m of her.

Batman spends much of his time casually observing the people in his cave and how they interact with each other and his two protégée's, while keeping a careful eye out for anyone acting suspicious. Taking note that Jason and Raven were getting along really well, he guesses that it was their common problems that connected them. On the subject of Raven, he was agreeing with Nightwing that despite her bumpy entrance in Gotham, she hadn't given him a reason not to trust her, yet. She had done all he asked of her, even something she admitted she hated and had great difficulty doing for a prolonged period of time. He was however a little worried about how the encounter with Zatanna had played out, but given Raven's past history with her and the fact Zatanna almost killed her when they met again, he couldn't say Raven's actions were unjustified, they were however an indicator of how much the Leagues rejection of her had weighted down on her over the years. Finally he had warned Zee about staying away from her before the encounter. Right now he was only concerned about what Zatanna has told the League, he knew she had disappeared out of the Gotham Memorial with only a note saying the League had her, but so far he had heard nothing from them. He sighs knowing he would have to deal with them after the immediate danger posed by Blackfire has been dealt with.

By now Batman has only one test left for Raven, the ultimate one; if she could make the right decision under difficult circumstances. He was fairly sure she would, but he needed to be sure she could handle it. However it is a test that will have to wait till the situation appears as it can't be manufactured. He was beginning to wonder what would happen if or rather when he gave her the green light to work here, would she merge into Gotham's shadows to fight her own hidden battles alone? Taking on the threats of Gotham that even he barely knew existed as a regular human. Would she only appear next to him or the others and offer her assistance if needed by either side? Or would she accept an offer he had been considering; staying at Wayne Manor as a member of the 'clan' with all that it implied? He knows Alfred already likes her a lot; they are both quiet people, enjoy their tea, reading and they are both proficient at spreading sarcasm and dry humor. Also the old man was pleased to have a member of the opposite sex present since it somewhat muted the usual 'boys-club' antics Richard and Tim could get into during their free time. Richard is of course pleased to have his old friend around again but Bruce isn't sure if that will last, tearful reunions only last so long. Tim is between impressed and pleased to have new subject he could try his pranks out on, something Raven is dealing with admirably, but considering she has years of experience with Beastboy, Tim is climbing a steep hill to get on her nerves, which Beastboy appears to be able to do without effort. Actually Bruce is fairly certain she is enjoying the attention it brings that someone is trying.

He has his own more practical reasons for wanting to make the offer, the humanitarian one is that she doesn't have anywhere to go except the streets, but that is a minor problem he can easily cure for her. Practically he knows she is powerful and he'd rather prefer knowing where that power was when working in his city. But unlike Zatanna or most of the other superhuman he knows, Raven doesn't actually seem to rely on having them, not completely, unlike Zatanna and Fate. Her time with Roman it seemed that she actually just maintained a disguise and a certain attitude and that did most of her work for her, proving what Richard had long speculated, she could act a part to a convincing degree. She was driven to achieve her goals and the small camera in the park he had been using to spy on her without her knowledge had revealed that she had certain routines that always were kept, and that the books she borrowed were either hastily read or she was barely into the second chapter of the first as most of her remaining free time was spent reading a re-reading the extensive database of Gothams criminals, even a few that had only appeared once or twice. In regards to the housing problem he could discreetly set her up with a home somewhere in the city, but for the time being, keeping her close is the preferred option for a number of reasons.

There is only one person he needs to consult before offering Raven the option is Barbara Gordon the former Batgirl. He had only toyed with the idea of offering Raven the mantle of Batgirl, mainly as a stand in for whatever alias she would chose if made a member. But he knows enough to tell she won't take something like that up if he offered it out of the blue, she is her own person, if she liked it or not, and jumping into someone else's uniform would make her someone else, which seems to be against what she believes. And from Richard he knows she would probably beat herself up a lot to live up to the name and responsibility Barbara had created for herself. Ultimately however, the mantle of Batgirl it is not his to grant, that is a right only Barbara has. And he owes it to Barbara to let her know about changes to the team, so she won't feel sidelined and because she deserves to be told rather than suddenly find a new approved body on her grid. He was certain she knew the Shadow was in the city, but he had been quick to keep the mention of Raven out of the computers and the activity from the park cave was something she couldn't see, which was why he let Raven borrow it, communication to and from it would be seen by Barbara as a transmission from the League.

But yet there are still things he needs to know about Raven; what are her powers now and how far do they actually reach, he knows she is an empath and a telekinetic, but he don't know how far either of those things reach, can she sense Alfred tending to the flowers in the far end of the garden while she is down here for example, how much can she actually lift with her mind, was she limited to throwing cars about as Richard has said she could do with ease, or could she send the USS Gotham floating into space? He has pretty much grasped how her teleportation worked; if she could see where she was going with her mind's eye then she could teleport to it, but he wants details, like how she avoids materializing inside objects in the location and what was it she passed through when travelling? There are a number of other abilities he wants to know more about, those abilities of little mention or rarely shown, like the healing, mind reading and shape shifting that Richard had noted down over the years with her. Also he wants to know the extent of her magical capabilities, he isn't sure if she has used any of it while here, but according to Richard she knows magic to an uncertain degree. He decides that he will have to talk to her later tonight or tomorrow, after patrols and Roman is caught.

Taking note of the time, Bruce wonders what Alfred is cooking up. Since his old friend is banned from the cave as long as Beastboy and Cyborg are here they've all missed lunch. Excusing himself from the cave, he walks up the stairs to find out.

"Master Bruce! Have you been swimming in the sewers again?!" Alfred exclaims as Bruce walks into the kitchen, having forgotten that none of the people that went into the sewer had actually bothered to clean up after coming back because they had gotten used to the smell. His personal odor aside, his mouth starts to water as he smells Alfred's latest culinary masterpiece, a very large roast beef, with lots of different vegetables and brown sauce. It isn't exactly athlete's food, but if Alfred can put his foot down, he will make something other than sandwiches, sadly that has meant some meals have gone to waste over the years when an emergency suddenly appeared.

"Smells good Alfred." Bruce says, ignoring Alfred's barb.

"I do believe, the Gotham sewer is best left under the streets." Alfred replies pulling a face, knowing well that his employer was talking about his creation.

"I do Alfred…" Bruce suddenly gets a whiff of the sewers he was carrying around, taking on an annoyed expression.

"Good, I would insist you at least go clean up before walking into the kitchen next time." Alfred says while smiling slightly. "And do remind others of similar odor to do the same, dinner will be ready in about half an hour Sir, will you be dining at the conference table?"

"Thanks for reminding me Alfred, yes we will." Bruce decided it wouldn't hurt having Alfred bring it down. "Would you bring it down to us?" Batman asks

"Of course Master Bruce." Alfred replies happy he's allowed back in the cave; having visitors he couldn't attend to was a strange sensation, while Bruce is turning around to walk out of the kitchen. Alfred can hear his employer talking to his adoptive sons as he walks down the hallway.

"Robin, Nightwing; get upstairs and take a shower. Tell Beastboy and Cyborg they can use the one in the cave. Yes I know he doesn't, but we have to bear with him, besides his powers seemed to keep his suit dry. Well let's hope he doesn't rust."

Two hours later after a shower, a round of staring and an amazing dinner that left Cyborg hoping for more, the heroes gathered together again, preparing to go oversee the apprehension of Black Mask. Jason had requested that he be allowed to return home, Etrigan was not one to let out because of a 'common gangster', Raven dropped him off after letting the T-car, with Cyborg, Beastboy and Nightwing in it, out at the entry point to the northern freeway. Raven waited a few moments on top of one of the warehouses surrounding the building Black Mask operates from, before noting the rest of the team comes up behind her.

"Looks like he's not going to go quietly." Raven mentions not breaking of her gaze from the scene below that stated the obvious; the building is surrounded by the police and their cars. Unfortunately they were all exchanging gunfire with the men inside. Batman sighs; he had hoped it wouldn't come to this and that Roman would just have been loudly complaining over the police searching his building before they found his stash or better yet have been caught off guard.

"Try and see if any of you can spot a man in a brown trench coat with grey hair and glasses." Better than most, Batman knows how corrupt Gotham's police are, for every undercover agent the police had in the gangs there were two crooked cops taking the gangs money while in uniform in exchange for favors.

"That's him behind the S.W.A.T. van over there?" Cyborg asks seeing a man matching the description speaking into a microphone, apparently trying directing the events.

"Wait here." Batman says before shooting a grappling hook over to the roof of the building next to the man, allowing him to approach the man without letting the mobsters know he was there. "Rough night Jim?" Jim Gordon sighs at the voice.

"Someone tipped Roman off, but whatever he's got in there is important, he's defending it with tooth and nail obviously. We haven't seen any sign of your insider or that reported monster he's got employed."

"Don't worry about that." Batman says while grappling up the building again while Jim is looking away. Jim turns around again to reply only to see nothing in the space next to him.

"I'm never gonna get used to that." He sighs.

"Someone tipped him off." Nightwing states when Batman silently climbs back onto the roof.

"Yes, but Mask is still inside, apparently guarding something. Anything you know about Raven?"

"I wasn't given a tour, and I didn't have access to all the floors." She replies. "But he could be putting his heels in for the sake of it." Batman nods at this, Roman was like that and he wasn't so sane that he wouldn't do this if caught in a bad mood.

"Hmm, Cyborg, can your armor stand up to the fire coming from the building?"

"Sure man, they would need something a lot bigger than the firearms they are currently sporting to get through it. And before you ask, I have an inbuilt helmet for my head." Cyborg beams proudly.

"Good, you and Beastboy go help the police get in, the man in charge is Commissioner Jim Gordon, tell him I sent you. Nightwing and Robin are with me, we go in thought the roof. Raven, I spotted a few wounded officers down there by the ambulance, go tend to them, you can join the assault afterwards." If anyone was looking into Ravens eyes when the command was given, you might be able to see a small disappointment creep into them, but she is not going to argue, lives could be on the line after all and she had sensed the pains of the wounded before he mentioned it. After brief acknowledgements the teams split up, the clan grappling up to the roof of Mask's building. Raven engulfing herself and the remaining Titans, letting them out in the alleyway Batman had used to sneak up on Gordon. Cyborg takes charge like he did back in the days, when Robin was absent.

"Commissioner Gordon?" Cyborg asks, startling the man first by his voice, the man spins around taking on a confused look when he sees the half-man and the green skinned man, almost missing the cloaked woman behind them.

"I'm in the middle of something, can this wait?" The commissioner asks, with a hint of annoyance in his voice.

"We know, we are here to help, Batman sent us." Beastboy intervenes, the commissioner quirks an eyebrow look at the pair; they don't look like ones Batman would normally enlist.

"Unless you're bulletproof, I am afraid there is not much you can do." Cyborg gives the man a slight smile, before parts of his armor seems to extend covering most of his vulnerable spots, like his head. He now looks like a complete robot, the normally human right side of his head now covered by a thick plate of metal with a grill covering his mouth and a hole for his eye.

"I am now, Beastboy will hitch a ride with me, Raven back here will need to see you're wounded. Batman is working his way down from the roof of the building." A sudden realization hits Jim as to who these people are, as well as the idea.

"Ok, the wounded are back there." He says while waving his hand at the back of the line of police cars, a few ambulances can be seen at the back. "The S.W.A.T. team is currently over there; let them know it's time to push inside, Sergeant Mills is in command." The trio nods before heading off to their locations, Cyborg and Beastboy finds the team in an alleyway crouching over a drawing of the building, arguing over how to get inside.

"Sergeant Mills?" Cyborg asks the group of 10 masked and black-and blue clad men in bulletproof vests, helmets and goggles, not seeing anything that denoted ranks on their uniforms.

"That's me, who are you?" The man in question asks.

"I'm Cyborg, the green guy is Beastboy. Commissioner says we are to help you guys get inside."

"Good luck with that, they are dug in good in there."

"Don't worry, I've got a few tricks in my sleeve's." Cyborg says while unfolding his cannons. "I will make sure they keep their heads down, Beastboy will take care of the door, sounds good?" Cyborg asks the Sergeant.

"Ok, I hope you know what you two are doing. But we will be right behind you." Cyborg nods at the man before turning; Beastboy transforms himself into a fly then gets himself comfortable on Cyborg's back.

"Ok, going." Cyborg says before strolling into the fire zone between the police line and the building, taking note where the gangsters are leaning out of the windows. Cyborg notes there are four barricaded windows in the ground floor and five in the floors above them, currently all of them are barricaded with furniture and wood planks, all of them have some sort of firearm poking out of them, most of them directed at him. All of the projectiles ricochet off Cyborg armored hide harmlessly, he stands still for a few seconds letting his targeting systems find the weak spots in the barricades.

"Ready B?" Cyborg asks as more of a signal for Beastboy to be ready. Waiting a second, two slits in Cyborg's upper back opens, two small cannons extend themselves over his shoulder. "GO!" He yells to his green friends as his four cannons starts shooting at four different targets, before switching his aim firing again at four new targets, the shooting stops immediately from the building as the barricades are blown inwards.

Beastboy flies free from his cover, flying as fast as he can before he morphs into a rhino aiming straight for the door, the SWAT team emerges from their cover, storming over the killing field following the green rhino. Beastboy collides with the door with enough force to bend the metal reinforcing it before taking the door, its frame and some of the outer wall with him through the opening into the lobby. In the dust cloud that follows, he changes into a fly again before anyone in the lobby can think about shooting at him.

Raven hears the sound of Cyborg's cannons firing as she finds the paramedics and the wounded, taking cover in the alleyway that has kept them safe. She can tell with a glance that two of the 5 wounded were in dire need of help if they wanted to see tomorrow. Without asking she walks over to an unconscious man with a bullet wound in his stomach and shoulder, the paramedics had done what they could from here, but he will die from internal damage if he doesn't get extensive help soon. Right now he is lying bare-chested as they had to check his injuries. Raven kneels down next to him, with blue glow surrounding her hand.

"What do you think you're doing?!" A dark skinned female paramedic with a mask covering her face asks sternly, grabbing hold of Ravens wrist. Apparently thinking Raven was the sort of vulture, she sometimes had to kick out of the hospital for taking too much of an interest in the wounded.

"The man is bleeding internally; the bullets are still inside of him. He will die without my help." Raven says flatly. "Don't worry, I have done this before." She adds, tugging her wrist free of the other woman's grasp.

The paramedic is about to protest, but Raven quickly places her still blue glowing hand on the man's chest, working quickly, the paramedics protests die on her lips as she sees first one, then two bullets work their way out of the wounds they made, more blood follows the bullets out before the wounds close and turn a slight pink; it was like watching the natural healing process, only speed up to compress weeks into seconds. Raven gets up to face the wide eyed paramedic.

"He will be sore when he wakes up, and he still has a few fractured ribs in his back and spine, but he will live." She says while moving onto the next man, a male paramedic is struggling with a wound in his neck, he had been shot through the artery, he will die shortly if they can't stop the bleeding. "Move your finger out of the wound, slowly as you feel the tissue begin to tickle." Raven says to the man before placing her hand on the opposite side of the wounded neck. He just stares at her before noticing that his thumb is beginning to tickle, at which he slowly pulled it out. The healing process repeated itself as it had on the other man, leaving fresh pink skin on his wound.

Raven is now being stared at by the two paramedics and the three conscious wounded, one with a bandage around his left thigh, a S.W.A.T. member with a wound in his shoulder, the last had a broken arm. They are all sitting next to each other, leaning their backs against the wall. Fortunately the one with the leg is in the middle, with the arm man on his left and the shoulder wounded on the right.

"If you can move together, I can help you quicker." The three instantly shuffle closer to each other, practically leaning on each other. Raven surrounds her hands with blue energy before offering them to the men who grab hold of them with all of theirs; that being four since two had theirs in a sling. The blue energy creeps from Raven into the hands holding onto her, disappearing after a moment after which she lets go. "You will still need a cast for the arms I am afraid, but the tissue around the breaks are clean now." She says to the one with the arm, the others were getting up flexing their previously wounded areas, nothing that the wounds were still a little sore but otherwise gone.

"Who…who are you?" The paramedic whose finger she had relieved from the neck wound asks.

"Me? I'm no one really." Raven says before levitating off the ground and into the air heading for the mob held building.

"We are going to be out of a job." The female paramedic says to her colleague staring after the blue cloaked woman.

Meanwhile, the Bat-clan has encountered a booby trapped roof that slowed them down considerably, for them. They heard Cyborg's attack a minute before they got inside the building without triggering anything, like the mines, guns and the bomb on the door. Moving in total silence they know they have to keep quiet, they made a quick recon of the top floor, finding it completely abandoned. After a round of wordless communication, they split up. Robin found an air duct he could crawl into, Nightwing took the stairs down, while Batman took to rappelling down the side of the building. The three know Roman is their primary objective, he directs all of the lesser thugs and if they take him out, they would soon lose the fight in them. Unfortunately for them, they encounter several setbacks.

Batman has to crash through a window on the 13th floor, after getting spotted by a thug smoking in a vacant room. The noise brought in seven more; it took Batman precious moments to clear them out. Nightwing encountered a similar problem, Black Mask had apparently ordered the stairs guarded, something Nightwing found out when he almost collided with the door that was swung open on the 12th floor, and again the noise of the ensuring fight brought more mobsters into the fight. Robin ends up cursing his luck in the air duct he is stuck in on the 10th, half of the S.W.A.T. team had made it up there and were now in a fire fight with a team of dug in gangsters, and Robin is stuck in the duct passing over the battling parties. He has to stay put as he sees several holes passing thought the metal, he couldn't go back as he had just dropped down from the level above, and there was no room to move other than forwards.

Meanwhile Cyborg stalks the lower floors, using his thermal scanners; he can easily see where the bad guys are hiding. The remains of the S.W.A.T. team are behind him, settling with covering his flanks. Cyborg occasionally fires his cannons into a room where someone is waiting and sometimes he punches his way through the more flimsy plaster walls to get to the ones hiding on the other side.

Beastboy on the other hand is moving around the building as various small and unnoticeable animals, whenever he finds a lone man he pounces on them either as a venomous reptile or insect, or the few cases he found a pair of thugs he would smack their heads together while he was a gorilla. Before splitting up from Cyborg he had been warned not to do anything stupid, like trying to attack people as a tiger or bear. Garfield knows well enough that even his largest shapes are not bulletproof, and bullets tend to stay in those large bodies.

Raven, coming in late, wastes no time in locating Roman on 7th floor in his office. She can sense Batman has resumed his scaling of the outer walls, he would be at this floor shortly, but she can't tell which side he is on in the chaos of emotions around her. She can however sense Richard's thoughts as he plows through a large number of goons that thought they can overwhelm him in close combat. And she can sense Tim's anxiety from being cooped up in the duct waiting for one side or the other of the firefight to win. Cyborg is making his way up to the 4th floor with the S.W.A.T. team on his tail and Beastboy is spying out the 5th. Noticing a lull in the combat between Nightwing and the goon squad she sends a message.

"Richard, I have located Roman, he's in his office on the 7th floor."

"Good we will meet you there; Batman is already on his way."

"You might want to help Tim out on the 10th." The line grows silent after that, she didn't know if he was preoccupied or just worried.

Sighing she folds herself into her cape before floating through the floors unseen, appearing in the room outside Romans office.

Staying invisible she notes that the secretary's desk and the other furniture have been used to make an improvised barricade. Four False Facers are taking cover behind it, facing the elevator with semi-automatics in their hands. It is a deathtrap to come out of the elevator now. Raven can sense Batman's determination coming closer, guessing he is two or three floors above her. Taking a peek through the walls into Romans office she, sees the bodyguards preparing their weapons, like they were making a final stand. Black Mask himself is pacing around the room, clearly agitated. Sighing she phases out of the room, appearing again a floor above on the outside of the building.

"How's it looking on the inside?" Batman's voice sounds from above her, it slightly startles her that he is this close and noticed her that fast.

"He's got seven large bodyguards with firearms in the room with him, and four in the room besides it carrying semi-automatics." She explains, wondering what the Caped Crusader is thinking of.

"Good, you deal with the four, I will deal with Roman. When you done with them, try and come and save him, I will throw a small flare at you, pretend it hurts and get out." Raven nods at him before sinking into the wall again.

Settling with watching the men in the room till Batman makes his entrance, Raven has a bright idea, oddly reminded of a certain former apprentice to Slade. Hearing the sounds of splintering glass, curses and gunfire, Raven makes her move on the guards outside who are distracted. Encasing the mobster's weapons in her energy she bends the barrels out of shape before hammering the weapons into their holder's heads, they all drop down unconscious. Noting only one voice is cursing on the other side of the door, Raven tears the doors from their hinges appearing in her Shadow guise. "Drop him, Bat-freak!" She roars at the sight of Black being held off the ground, his guards already out cold while she advances.

"Catch." Batman replies as he hurls Roman at her as the chairs begin to move on their own.

"Oph!" Shadow growls as Roman passes through her, there is an instant where she sees a small black ball flying towards her before in explodes in a flash."HHHRRRAAAA!" She roars in her blindness before storming towards the direction she remembers there window was in and falls out of it, pushing Batman back on the way out before she disappears in the night sky.

Nightwing and Robin emerge out of the door in the back of the room, having come down the stairs. Both seem slightly disappointed that they missed the last fight as Batman kicks Roman's last gun out of his hand before he can bring it to bear on him.

"Floors above are clear." Nightwing says, falling back into his role. "Only one officer was wounded, but it's not bad." A 'ding' sounds from the elevator before the door opens, revealing Cyborg and the S.W.A.T. team taking cover behind him. Seeing Roman on the floor they all point their weapons at him.

"Fine, you got me." Roman growls in resignation.

Clearing the barricade, Nightwing makes his way over to Cyborg who was standing idly while the S.W.A.T. begin dragging away the unconscious thugs away while two were dragging Roman away.

"Rae got in on the action too?" Cyborg asks quietly, getting a nod. "Gordon knows she's here." He says quietly having noticed the shift in the older man when they spoke.

"Gordon is good at keeping tight about such subjects." Nightwing assures him.

The team splits up after a few words with Batman, Cyborg would go find Beastboy and leave by the front door the rest would leave by other means, preferring to stay out of sight as always. While moving across the rooftops Nightwing tries to communicate with Raven.

"Raven?"

"What?" Her reply is somewhat grumpy.

"Nothing, just wondering if you were all right?" The ensuring silence almost makes him believe she won't answer.

"I'm fine, just a little blinded still, that's all."

"Alibi for the Shadow?"

"Yeah, though I guess I won't be seeing Roman anytime soon after that performance." She replies.

"Good thing about the mob and this city is that it always gives you second chances." Nightwing sends cheerily.

"Very funny." She replies with sarcasm oozing.