Hey! Thanks for the (few) reviews! Alright, so here's the next chapter. I'm not sure if I might need to change the rating on this soon, but if anyone thinks so, please tell me.

---Jaime

Disclaimer: I don't own the Titans. I'm just doing this for fun. But the actuall teens in this story are mine.

Ch. 12: the Mission

Bumble Bee, Andrew, Raven, and Logan had all left for their homes. Now, the remaining adults were making their way towards the conference room to discuss a few things. Once there, the four of them settled into seats around the circular table emblazoned with a capital 'T'. It was then that Nightwing began their meeting.

"We have a few things that we need to discuss. First off, I think we should consider looking for new recruits to join the Teen Titans. Considering we only have three actual teens on the team-"

"What about Rune? Is she not also a Titan?" Starfire interrupted.

"Well," Cyborg started, "the girl's a good fighter, but does she have any powers?"

"No one knows," Nightwing said.

"Shouldn't she know?" Beast Boy asked.

"Not necessarily. She most likely has not discovered her powers yet. But still, we should not exclude her from being a Titan just because we do not know if she has powers yet," Starfire answered.

"But she hasn't accepted to being a Titan. And we all know that Raven won't allow it -not yet, anyway," Nightwing argued.

"Whatever, we'll talk about Rune later. Now, you were saying?" Cyborg said.

"Yes. We need to look for new recruits. We're only mortal, after all; we won't be able to protect the city forever," Nightwing said, resuming his initial speech.

"Okay, so how do we do it?" Beast Boy asked. "Post flyers? Phone book ads? Commercials?"

"...That's actually not a bad idea. Beast Boy, I'm putting you in charge of making flyers and a commercial. A phone book ad won't be necessary. When you have a few ideas, Cyborg will help you make them a reality.

"Now, our next topic-" Nightwing was interrupted by Beast Boy, who was waving his hand frantically, waiting to be acknowledged. Nightwing sighed. "Yes, Beast Boy?"

"I have a topic that I want to open for discussion."

"What is it?"

"I need a cooler name!" No one made a move to hide their annoyance. "Come on, guys! I'm in my late twenties! I'm not a boy anymore! I'm a man, and I demand to be treated as such!"

Figuring that they wouldn't hear the end of Beast Boy's mid-life crisis until he had a satisfactory name change, Starfire asked, "Do you have any new names in mind?"

"Loads!" he replied, smiling at the alien. "What about 'The Beastinator'?"

"...How about something less lame?" Cyborg suggested. Beast Boy glared in response.

"Hm...what about 'Switcharoo'?"

"No."

"Beast Machine?"

"Ick."

"The Beast?"

"Try again."

"Beast...Dude?"

"Not."

"Beast Man? Come on, this one is so cool!"

"Well, kind of," Cyborg said, "but then I'd go around calling you 'BM' all the time."

"Oh...maybe...'Impressioner'?"

"That doesn't make any sense," Nightwing said. "You're not an impressioner, you're a changeling."

A moment's silence, and then Beast Boy broke out into a huge grin. "Okay, what about 'the Changeling' then? That's cool, right?"

They all thought about it for a moment, debating silently over whether or not they'd like to call their friend 'the Changeling'. Once they reached a decision, it was unanimous.

"Okay," Starfire said. "We shall rename you 'Changeling'."

"Yeah, but just that. Nothing more. Deal?" Cyborg asked, extending his hand for his green pal to shake.

"It is SO a deal!" he replied, shaking hands.

"Okay," Nightwing started. "Now on to more important matters. A local gang has been attacking young adults in the city. There's no description for them, since anyone who's ever seen them is now dead. But from the lab reports, all of them were beaten into subjugation and then raped."

"Some reports about missing girls have also come up," Cyborg said. "They're in the age range of the victims, so maybe some of the girls were too good to kill-"

"And they were kidnapped," Starfire agreed.

Changeling (formerly known as Beast Boy) shuddered at the thought. "Dude, I still can't believe that people would actually do things like this." Everyone silently agreed.

"So," Nightwing continued, "our mission is to capture this gang. If we can get to their hide-out, then we can find the missing people. Or, we can take them off the streets and force the information out of them. Either way, they're going down."

"But how are we going to find them?" Starfire asked. "According to the reports, they only attack these guys in the city at night."

"We could use bait," Changeling suggested. "You know, get some girl to attract them. And if they try to rape her, we bust 'em and make 'em tell us where the hide out is. But if they kidnap her, then we follow and take them all down."

"BB, that's a seriously risky plan. Something could go wrong," Cyborg said.

"But it is worth a shot," Starfire said.

"Who do you suggest we use as bait?" Cyborg asked. "No girl would be crazy enough to-"

"Rune," Nightwing said. Everyone looked at him.

"What do you mean? Surely you're not thinking about using Raven's daughter as bait? Raven would kill us!" Changeling argued.

"Rune is a pretty girl," Starfire said. "And I believe she would also be a good actress. We could have her pretend to be a helpless, naive young woman-"

"And dress her up to look attractive," Cyborg said. (A/N. He's not insulting Rune's looks.)

"-then we can watch her and catch the criminals. They may even deem her worthy of kidnapping, and take her to their hide out." she finished.

"Sounds like a good plan. Starfire, you take Rune to the mall later and tell her about the mission. If she's willing, then buy her a nice outfit. We can get this taken care of tonight," Nightwing said.

"Wait! What about Raven? She's going to murder us for even considering using her daughter to catch bad guys!" Changeling said.

"Yeah. So when she askes who's idea it was to use Rune as bait, we can blame Nightwing," Cyborg said. This seemed to calm down the green adult.

"Alright, meeting adjourned," Nightwing said.

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In the main room, Rune sat to the side with Yuho, watching with mild interest as the other two teenagers played Maniac Fury XVI. Rune herself had given up trying to understand the purpose of the game, and had handed her controller over to Sebastian, who was more than willing to take her place.

The two boys were getting really into the game, when suddenly, the TV screen turned off.

"AHH!" Both boys cried in unison.

"Guys, were going on a mission," Nightwing said from the main entrance, putting the remote back down on the table. Reluctantly, Sebastian and Covyll got up and headed out. "Rune, you're needed too."

Though she was genuinely suprised, Rune stood and followed the others, as well.

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"So, you need me to dress up as a girly girl and get these guys to attack me?" Rune questioned Starfire as the two girls walked through the mall. The older woman nodded.

"We need to use you as bait. Are you a good actress?"

"...I would like to think."

"Glorious! Now, let us head into a store. Oh! I know! Let us try that one!" That being said, Starfire dragged Rune to one of the clothes stores.

By the time they found all that they needed, it was six o'clock at night. Rune now owned a flowing, white knee-length skirt (Starfire insisted on a mini-skirt, but Rune flat-out refused). She also owned a pale blue tank-top, a pair of black heels (they slipped on and off, just incase she needed to run), and a silver butterfly hairclip.

"When we get home, I can put some make up on you." After a moment, Starfire rethought this. "Actually, you are very pretty. I think just some lip gloss should do." Rune blushed, but she did not acknowledge Starfire's statement.

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An hour later, all the males were gathered by the Tower's entrance. Nightwing was making sure everyone knew the plan, when Starfire flew up.

"We are ready!"

"Okay, good. Uh...where's Rune?" Nightwing asked. Starfire giggled and flew out of the room. When she walked back in, she was dragging said seventeen-year-old by the arm to the group of heroes. Rune was wearing the outfit that Starfire bought for her earlier, revealing many of her curves in the process, the butterfly hairclip, and a little lip gloss which gave her lips a cold, frosty look. The others were suprised.

"Heh, look out, Sebastian. You're drooling," Cyborg teased. Sebastian promptly blushed and denied it.

"Well, the wench certainly looks more presentable," Covyll stated boredly. Rune glared at him, but before she could go hit him for calling her a wench, Starfire threw a starbolt at him. "Ah! Hot! Hot!"

"Everyone ready?" Nightwing asked. They all were. "Alright, let's go."

Cool, huh? Thank you for reading, and please review! Thank you, bmwrider , for the idea of changing Beast Boy's name. Are you satisfied now? (I hope so!)

---Later!