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After a little bit of heavy petting, we, unfortunately, had to split up. Angela would be debriefing on the anti-talon raids this weekend, and I needed to sort some stuff out before heading to Jump City for my date with Raven.

The usual really, checking that everything in Niger was going well and that the process for bringing people over to assemble the reactor after that was going well.

So, after we got cleaned up (and enact a spell of Cleansing on the room) we headed out, checking in with Tsunade before we headed off.

The morning was pretty quick, and before long, I was opening up a portal to Titans Tower.

Raven was there to greet me as soon as I entered, wearing an altered version of her costume. Her leotard was recut, now high-waisted to show more leg.

Her little boots had also been swapped out, now replaced with chunky combat boots and I could see that she was wearing makeup.

Gothic makeup, to be sure, with dark eyeshadow and black lipstick, but she had put in the effort.

I swept her up in a hug as I walked over to her, "You look absolutely fantastic today Raven!" I said with a smile.

She leant into the hug for a moment before I let her go.

"So, what's the plan for today?" I asked.

Raven smiled for a moment, "Oh nothing too much to start with, I'm watching the console today, so we can just talk for a while if no villains show up again today. Then, Elizabeth is helping me with a present for tonight."

"Speaking of which," I responded, "I've got something for you."

Reaching into my cloak, I pulled out a box.

She grabbed it from me, quickly opening it to see what it held. There, on a bed of crushed blue velvet, was a pair of earrings and a choker, patterned after belt, set with the same red crystals, if smaller.

She gave me a small smile, "Do you think you could help me with these?"

I leant down to give her a kiss before reaching down, removing the small silver studs in her ears before replacing them the gold pieces I had bought for her.

As I put on the choker, she reached back, grabbing my hands and guiding me to pull it just that little bit tighter.

I nodded, wrapping an arm around Raven as we left the room.

We sat there at the console discussing tings for a few hours as we watched the skyline of Jump city through the wide array of cameras.

We had moved onto the topic of magic, discussing the pros and cons of using different emotions as focuses of different effects when something came up.

A robbery had been detected at one of the museums in town.

Raven snapped to action immediately, wrapping her cloak around me as I jammed my face into my helmet.

Moments later, We were floating in front of Dr Light.

The man seemed more pathetic in person than he had in his dossier, the costume loosely fitting from an emaciated form.

The man was hunched over an exhibit containing a large crystal, the visible spectrum laser tripwires (I mentally facepalmed for a moment) redirected around him through the power of his suit.

"Where are the rest of your friends?" He asked Raven. His voice was a little shaky.

She shrugged, "Too busy to deal with you, Light. Surrender now and let's get this over with."

The blasts of energy he sent towards us were quickly subsumed by Raven's barriers, but Light was already moving. Ignoring the alarms, he grabbed the crystal and blasted a hole in the wall across from us.

We took off in hot pursuit, dodging and weaving between blasts of light as we chased after him.

The light-themed lunatic jumped onto a motorcycle of sme kind trying desperately to get away from us, but we were gaining.

In moments we were flying alongside him, the road blurring under us as we lined up alongside him.

I launched a bolt of altered space-time at his wheels, grinding them to a halt, even as Raven bound his hands with tendrils of shadow.

The man collapsed to the ground as the engined in his bike came to a stop.

I turned to Raven, "Hey, is there anything stopping me from taking his suit?"

"I… I don't actually know." Raven responds.

As we wait for the police to come to pick him up, I connect to the radio systems.

"What is it?" Batman growls out.

Keeping my tone casual I pose my question, "Hey, is there anything stopping me from taking Light's suit so that, at the very least, we don't have to deal with him for a few months while he replicates it?"

Batman grunted, and I could hear him tapping away at his console, "I will contact STAR Labs and have them send you authorization to transport the suit from police custody to the facility in Metropolis."

I nodded, I had contacts in that facility, so I should be able to keep abreast of the reverse-engineering efforts. Hard-light technology was something of a side project as of now, but it was very interesting technology, especially with the metaphysical properties hard light seemed to have from a mystical perspective.

A few moments later, the communicator flashed, the screen displaying a certificate from the Federal Schizotechnology Institute, authorising me to ferry Dr Light's suit to Star Labs for holding, in case Light attempts to somehow litigate to try and get it back.

Not that he'd get very far with it, the suit had been used as a weapon so often that he had absolutely no grounds to be able to do it.

As the police showed up, I apologised to Raven for the distraction but she shook it off, "Light's a nuisance, and I honestly don't know why we haven't done this before. Even if it just slowed him down by a few weeks each time, the less we have to deal with him, the better. Well, that and I don't want to get back to the tower this soon, Elizabeth needs a little more time to get ready."

The cops seemed to be pretty happy, actually, when I made my offer. Apparently, they did attempt to separate the villains from their weaponry, it was just that they tended to be attacked shortly after, and their local holding cells destroyed as the villains recovered their equipment.

So when I offered to take Light's suit to Metropolis, they were quite excited to do so.

They even asked me and Raven if something more permanent could be sorted out, something that we promised to pass on to Robin.

After that, I got to work and it wasn't long before fore Dr Light was left naked in the side-room, a set of prison overalls by his side, and everything resembling technology stripped from his person.

With everything properly sealed into evidence bags, Raven wrapped her cloak around me, pulling me in for a kiss as we were transported to Metropolis. I took a moment to tour Raven though the labs, taking a look at some of the exotic technologies that the people here were working on.

And then we headed back.

The two of us took to the skies and poured on the power, racing across the entire country as we made our way to jump city.

We made great time, even as we stopped by various cities to take a look at various interesting sights and even spending a little time to try out a few small snacks on the way back. Still, after three hours of travel, we found ourselves coming in for a landing on the roof of Titans Tower.

As I came in for a landing, Raven quickly grabbed my hand, slowing me down.

At my questioning look, she points me towards Beastboy and Terra, who were standing at the other end of the building, lost in a deep kiss.

We quietly phased through the door and through the building, eventually coming to Raven's room.

As the door opened, I was greeted by my present.

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