Hey guys! Can you believe it? I'm back! I apologise half a million and then some times for the long wait, but I haven't had time to write for more than five to ten minutes a day lately, and that really isn't all that long, but here is part 25, originally it was meant to be longer, but I'm giving you this now, I hope you all can forgive me for not updating in such a long time!

Disclaimer: Don't own them, never have, never will. My dreams have been trampled, are you all happy now?

Part 25: the First Challenge

"Sam…" Beast Boy began to say,
"What did you do?" Cyborg finished. It was the morning after Robin had confined Sam to the island that Titans Tower resided on, and Sam had stayed up all night turning the obstacle course into three different challenges.
"This," Sam said, spreading her arms wide, encompassing her work,
"Is proof that Robin can be defeated." She said.
"And you plan to prove this how?" Raven asked sceptically.
"Simple, I have set up three challenges, Robin will participate in all three, and I will show him that sometimes, someone else can beat him, as I will also be having a part in the fun." Sam explained.

"Do you really think that I'm going to have anything to do with this stupidity?" Robin asked, laughing
"Well it's either that, or we can all live with the knowledge that you were too afraid to take on a girl who you barely even know because you're obviously scared that she had a chance of beating you." Sam replied in a flat voice. Robin growled before replying;
"Alright, you're on. Let's get this started."
"Sorry Blunder Boy, but we can't start just yet." Sam said,
"Not everyone's here yet." She added before Robin could make a smart-ass comment about her chickening out.
"What do you mean not everyone's here?" Beast Boy asked.
"What? You think you guys are gonna be the only judges? You've gotta be kidding me! It'd be a biased judgement because a) Robin is your leader and b) you'd give him higher marks because he's your friend…at least I think you guys are friends…I never actually bothered to find out if you were." She told them.

Before any of the Titans could make a come-back, a girls voice yelled out;
"Oi, you guys haven't started the fun without us have you!" Bumblebee asked,
"Yeah right! And let these numbskulls be the only ones here to see it? Come on, you gotta give me some credit." Sam replied, with a look of mock sadness on her face.
"We do give you credit Sam, we just don't give it to them." Aqualad told her, placing an arm around her shoulders.
"Yeah right. Anyway, it's time to start this!" Sam called.
"Great, mind explaining exactly what this is? Robin asked in an annoyed voice
"Yep, what we have here, is three different challenges, all of which Robin, you have done at one point in your life, and here's hoping that you still remember how to do them." Sam said, and then walked up to where she had set up the first event; it was what looked to be a cement ramp, with metal poles and stairs placed randomly throughout it.

"Titans and friends, I present to you the first challenge!" Sam shouted,
"It is a basic skate park design, and Robin, you and I are going to use it to see who can do the best tricks on a board." She explained, and walked over to one ramp, that was hollow at the bottom, and pulled out two skateboards from underneath it.
"Hey! You have an unfair advantage! You've used a skate board before, Robin hasn't! You picked this one because you know that you'll win!" Beast boy yelled indignantly,
"Oh contraire Beast Boy, Robin has ridden a skate board before. He was actually very skilled at it once." Sam replied.
"And now it's time to see if you still have those skills." She added, and then got onto one of the skateboards and rolled over to the start of the course.
"This challenge is pretty basic, so let's hope you can keep up Birdy, all you have to do is go through this course, on the board and doing as many tricks as you can. At the end, everyone will judge who the best was. Oh yes, if you fall, you lose points, so I advise against falling." Sam explained to Robin.
"Got it." Robin replied, and came up next to Sam.

The two teens glared at each other, while the others around them counted down for them to start. As soon as the word 'go' was said, both were off like rockets, going up and down the ramps and along the pipes, with every skating trick known.

Sam started off easy, with a shuvit, spinning the board around, using her left foot, without moving her body around. Robin countered it with a pop-shuvit, much the same as what Sam had done, except, he jumped in the air to spin the board around.
"I see you're still fairly decent then." Sam commented.
"In that case, I guess I'll have a chance to use some good tricks without feeling bad that I can do them and you can't." She added, before pulling a Backside 50-50; she rode up to a curb, jumped, and landed on the edge. She rode along for a few seconds, before ollieing off.

Robin went on with a varial kickflip. He started to swing the board around, once it had been turned 90 degrees, he flipped the board. Jumping off it so that he could flip the board, Robin leaned forward to land, but he leaned forward just a bit too far, so that when he went to land, he stumbled, not completely falling off the board, but still, it was easy to see that he didn't have complete balance.

"I guess he's not as good as he used to be." Bumblebee said to Aqualad,
"He used to be able to do that one without any difficulty, and go into another trick straight after." Speedy added.
"That'll probably make it easier for Sam to win, but she's not going to like it." Aqualad told them.
"What? Sam was being serious when she said that Robin hade skate boarded before?" Beast Boy asked,
"Duh!" Aqualad, Speedy and Bumblebee all replied at once.
"Did you really think that Sam would create a challenge that Robin hadn't had some experience in?" Speedy asked,
"Well…yeah." Cyborg answered,
"Sam hates Robin, I wouldn't put it past her to do something like that." Raven put in.
"You guys really don't know a thing about her then. No matter how much she hates someone, Sam will always make it a fair fight, she doesn't want to beat someone because she can do something and they can't. That's not a real win, that's a cowardly win." Aqualad told them all.

"And how is it that Sam knows that Robin used to skate board?" Raven asked.
"Easy, before he became famous for being a superhero, Robin was famous for something else. Everyone that led the kind of life he did knew of him, and we're some of them." Bumblebee told them.
"What was he famous for?" Cyborg asked
"That's not for us to say, if he hasn't told you about it, he obviously doesn't want you to know." Aqualad replied.
"Oh come on! Tell us! Robin won't mind." Beast Boy whined,
"No. If Robin hasn't told you, he has a reason for it. And anyway, I have a feeling; you may learn something about it today." Aqualad told him, and then turned back to Sam and Robin.

Robin was halfway through a bluntside; he was grinding along on one of the pipes. When he came to the end of the pipe, he jumped off, this time landing with no difficulty.
"Oh very good Robin, but this is starting to go on for a bit too long. Next trick is the last, so let's hope you've saved your best one." Sam said, rolling past him to start her trick. Rolling along, she pushed her back foot down, bringing the front of the board up in the air, then rotated the board around her feet before jumping up to untangle her feet and landing on the ground, she rolled along with her arms spinning, attempting to keep her balance, finally coming to a stop as she hit a curb.
"Well that didn't go as well as expected." She muttered under her breath, and then turned to watch what Robin was going to do.
"Nice try Sam, but I can go one better than you with a 900." Robin mocked
"Wow Robin, you're more of an idiot that I first thought. Are you really stupid enough to try a 900? The only person who was ever able to pull off one is Tony Hawk, and he's the best skater in the world, you've got nothing compared to him." Sam said in voice telling Robin that he was crazy.

"So? It doesn't look that hard to do." Robin replied, and started off for the trick. He rode up the half pipe, came off it and started to turn. He made it through one turn, and was halfway through the second, before gravity started to take hold, and the next thing he knew, Robin was falling to the ground, he wasn't able to make it into a landing either, as the board was above his head. With a loud THUD, he hit the ground with his back, causing pain to run through his spine and up his neck.

Sam rolled up to Robin as he lay on the ground waiting for the pain to subside.
"Believe me now?" She asked in the same mocking voice that he had used on her.
"Fine, Tony Hawk is the only person able to pull a 900." Robin said in a resigned voice.
"Thankyou." She said happily, and then turned to the others;
"So…who won that round?" She asked with a smirk on her face.
"Why do you insist on asking stupid questions?" Bumblebee asked her in return,
"Just to make it seem some-what fair." Sam told her and then bent down to Robin's level.
"Ready for the second round? Or do you need some time to recover?" She asked.
"No, I'm fine. What's second? I'll take anything you throw at me." Robin told her, and jumped up.
"Oh that's good, but unfortunately, this round doesn't involve throwing anything." Sam smirked, and walked through the small crowd that consisted of her friends and the Titans.

"Ok, the next round is probably a bit easier for you Robin, as you tend to do this on a regular basis. Motorbike racing." Sam told him. Robin smirked, and said;
"Now this is one game that I will always win."
"Now how do you know that?" Sam asked in a doubtful voice.
"Because I can ride a motorbike, and I've chased villains on it pulling off stunts that you've never even heard of." Robin replied confidently.
"Well that's all fine and dandy, but we're not here to chase villains or pull stunts, we're here to race." Sam told him and pointed out to the motor-cross track that she had produced.

There was nothing but dirt, and a few hills going around a circular track.
"This one's simple, we go around the track three times, and the first one to finish wins." Sam told him.
"And I'll say it again, an easy win." Robin replied, while thinking
'And with the R-Cycle, it'll be even easier with that Turbo-Charge Cyborg put on it'. As if reading his thoughts, in which she probably did, Sam added,
"Oh right, you're not using the R-cycle. I don't know what gadgets you've got on there, which means you could pull some dirty trick to win, so you're gonna be using just a plain dirt bike, and I will too."
"I'll still beat you." Robin told her in an overly confident voice.
"We'll just see." Sam said, and walked over to one of the two dirt bikes at the start of the track.

Robin followed her and got onto the second dirt bike, it was a dark blue one with light blue streaked flames drawn onto the side. Sam's was black with a blood red thorn design on it. They put their helmets on and then both got onto their bikes and kicked them into gear. They rode up to the starting, line where there was a set of traffic lights installed, Robin turned to Sam about to ask what the lights were for, but before he could open his mouth, she said;
"I couldn't get hold of the proper starting lights, so we have to live with these."
"Right…" Robin replied. He then turned back to the lights as they went from red, to yellow to green.

The second the light turned green, both Sam and Robin sped off, literally leaving the others watching them eating their dust.

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Ok, well that's for part 25, evil cliffie, I wasn't intending to make this chapter so short at first (hence the long wait) but I figured you guys have waited long enough, so I'll give you this now, and the rest whenever I can.

Once again, I apologise profusely for the wait, and if people are still reading this, thank you! I swear I'll try and update again really soon, but I'm just being overrun with homework and assignments at the moment, and unfortunately, they have to take priority over writing this fic.

If you're still here, please review! And if you have any ideas, I'd love to hear them!

Later, BlackGothFarie