A/N: Hey hey! It's me again! Finally, I have time to write without being pressured or hurried. I'm on my winter break till January 11 T_T but anywho, I've finally managed to drag myself away from all kinds of TV shows on Netflix and online :3 buttt MERRY BELATED CHRISTMAS EVERYONE! HOPE YOU ALL HAD A SUPER CHRISTMAS DAY!

(Eight) A Disturbing Event

Click, click, click.

The sound of the keyboard clicking echoed throughout the room.

At first, said room seemed deserted, but eventually, a shadow was revealed, and it belonged to Robin.

He stopped for a moment, taking a deep breath again, before he resumed clicking away.

There was just this one thing that wouldn't leave his mind… and that was when Raven told them the news.

He got why Raven would keep it a secret, but at the same time, he thought that she was more…sensible. But even though he was still a bit mad at her, he was at least happy that Raven had finally told them.

Apart from that thought, the leader still had another troubled thought bothering him.

That day, when they fought the villain—whatever its name was—, he had placed a tracker on him and he was currently trying to find out where the device was going to lead them. Robin wouldn't be surprised if the villain tried to make them go to a false location, but even if he did, the group would still have gotten some kind of clues as to where the minion's Master was actually located.

Raising an eyebrow, the Boy Wonder continued to type until his eyes widened slightly. There, on the screen, was that red dot blinking…

:(/\):

Grunts echoed throughout the room and it sounded as though the person didn't want to be disturbed since it was so focused on…whatever it was doing. Sam repeatedly kept on kicking the punching bag, using her feet and arms in all sorts of different ways.

She was already panting hard but she still continued anyway.

The MBC member was merely here to let some steam off. Add that to the fact, she had a certain thought crossing her mind. And that thought just happened to be related to yesterday's events…

When Raven told all of them about her unusual condition.

And speaking about Raven, she had yet to return from her…process, to put it short.

Just thinking about that made Sam put powerful punches and kicks. Her fierce eyes glared at the bag as though it was its own fault.

Sam still didn't understand why the empath had kept that vital information a secret.

Didn't Raven trust them? Why didn't she tell them in the first place?

Another fierce kick was sent to the bag.

It seemed that the more she thought about the yesterday's events the more it increased her…emotions. Hell, she was mad, yes, but it still felt like the Titan had somehow betrayed them…

And that gave an odd feeling to the MBC leader, since it didn't make any sense at all.

The yellow fighter sent one last powerful punch but this time, (even though she didn't mean it), the punch got the bag torn out of its hinges and flown across the room.

Damn. Sam thought, placing her hands on her knees as she panted.

"Um…when you're done beating up the bag, Robin told us—"

The sudden voice made Sam alert and she spun around to perform a round kick. It struck the newcomer, sending him flying sideways before landing on the floor.

Sam gasped as the person pushed himself up and gave a dazed look.

"Oh my gosh! Beast Boy, I'm so sorry! I didn't mean too!"

"Houston…we got a problem." the green one responded, still being dazed. He then shook his head to be back in order. "It's alright. What's a brain without losing a few brain cells? Anyways, Robin told us to go meet him in the living room. Apparently, he's got some info he wants to share."

Sam nodded. "Got it. Be there in a few."

:(/\):

"Uh, that blinking dot of red means a bad sign?"

The voice grabbed Robin's attention and he turned away from the screen to see Starfire and the rest.

"It means it's a good sign. Remember that day when we fought that…villain?" Robin began.

"Uh, sure."

"Anyways, the villain was on my mind a lot lately and I think its time we go and follow him. Maybe he has some clues about his Master's location."

"Oh yeah, I remember you placed that thingamabob on him. Uh… what's it called?" Cathy asked.

"A tracking device." Robin replied.

"To be honest, I honestly forgot about the villain." Danny admitted.

"Somehow I'm not surprised." Chris remarked, shaking his head.

"So, where's the red dot's current location?" Cy asked.

Robin moved to the side so that the group could see the dot blinking. "In an alleyway. Not too far from here."

Before they could move, Sam had to ask.

"Does anyone know if Raven is done with her… process?" she asked.

Everyone went silent and this told Sam everything.

"Oh…"

"While we don't know about the current process of Raven, I know she is recovering." the masked boy responded.

:(/\):

The glimmering stars illuminated the darkest place as though it was a sign to give people hope. It was honestly a great night to have a walk in the dark.

A sudden whoosh sound was heard, followed by running footsteps. A shadow was seen, before vanishing.

In a dark corner, several figures appeared but something about them seemed a little off.

If one were thinking of camouflage, then too bad : their suits kind of gave off a glowing light, making the foursome easy to spot. Because of this, a certain person made a certain comment.

"You know, if you want to be hidden, well it's not a great idea to wear glowing-in-the-dark suits." Beast Boy muttered, coming out of the shadows.

"Well, why don't you tell that to your two friends of yours?" Danny asked, giving a slight glare because of Cyborg's blue light and Robin's white mask. "They certainly give off the "glow." "

Cy and Robin glared in return.

"My mask…isn't glowing."

"And it's not my fault that I'm half-machine."

"Anyways," Chris started since he sensed that a small fight was coming along. "So we're here…now what?"

"I think we should maybe split up. You know…it will be faster that way. Since Star and Beast Boy both have the ability to fly, I think they should take the sky." Jinx responded.

Robin nodded. "Okay, Sam and I will take the roof. Cathy, Chris…you guys take the right side and Cy and Danny can take the left. We will meet back here if the search turns out unsuccessful. Jinx, you will take the upper path."

"Got it." the Rhapsodian replied.

With that, all split apart. Once the two groups were gone, Jinx looked left and right before she ran towards the path ahead of her.

:(/\):

Star and Beast Boy flew through the silent sky. It was so peaceful that it made those two simply forget about everything and just float.

The green one (who had assumed the shape of a hawk) saw a nearby roof and made his way towards it in order to land. This caused the alien to be curious about it and follow her companion.

"Man…I'm starting to think this search is going to be futile." Beast Boy stated.

"Even if it is going to be futile, I think it will do us some good. Who knows? We might find something that we might have missed." the alien responded.

Beast Boy gave a little shrug. "I suppose."

"Now let us resume our search and let us hope that this mission will be a succ—"

Way behind them, something seemed to be flying towards them at full speed. Thanks to his animal senses, Beast Boy's ears perked up and he turned around, giving out a little gasp.

"Starfire, watch out!"

The changeling pushed the girl out of the way so that he took the force of the blow instead.

Star landed roughly on the ground and immediately pushed herself up.

"Beast Boy! No!"

The falling Titan shouted, but just in time, the boy managed to grab the edge of the roof and as he watched below, he saw that whatever struck him had been smashed to the ground.

"Beast Boy!" Starfire scrambled up and made her way towards her fellow teammate to help him up. However, just as she was walking towards him, her communicator rang and she picked it up.

On the screen was Robin.

"Star…anything to report?"

"Uh…" she started as she walked towards Beast Boy to help him up. "Uh, no. There is nothing to report."

"Huh? What do you mean 'there is—mmfph!"

Star covered the green one's mouth with her hand. Naturally, this raised Robin's curiosity.

"Everything is fine, Friend Robin. Please do not worry about us even though we had nearly been crushed."

"What?"

"Uh… Bye!"

And she cut off the conversation.

"Dude, what was that for?!" Beast Boy exclaimed. "It could've very well been important! And I thought we all agreed to not keep secrets anymore!" he complained.

"I am sorry, Friend Beast Boy, but I think what we need to answer is that is it important to us? Or to them?" Star asked, having Beast Boy to question.

"Huh?"

Star walked in the opposite direction. He followed her and they eventually reached the edge of the roof. Below seemed to be construction machines of all sorts, which all appeared to be activated.

This only raised even more suspicious looks from the two Titans.

"Construction machines? That doesn't make any sense. The workers have time schedule and going with that, they shouldn't even be working right now. Whatever got thrown at us must've been on purpose…to let us know that we're not alone."

"If that is the case, what was the thing that attacked us?"

"I don't know but judging by how it got smashed, I'm going to assume that it was a huge boulder." Beast Boy then got up. "Come on, we have got to find the others and tell them."

As the two took off, they failed to notice that, way behind them, there were yellow narrowed eyes in the shadows, watching them take off…

:(/\):

Robin raised an eyebrow at the abrupt cut from Starfire's conversation. He felt that was rather odd…especially coming from her.

"Everything okay?" the MBC leader asked, noting how suddenly quiet her teammate was.

"Yeah…everything's fine, though I'm a bit...curious from Starfire's sudden behaviour." He shrugged it off. "Well, um, I'm sure everything is alright."

But even his reassurance didn't ease him at all. What if something did happen to them?

"Well take a look at it this way : at least they're still alive." Sam responded, trying to keep things less intense.

However, she felt that her remark didn't help at all. Noticing the look Robin gave her, she quickly retaliated by changing words.

"Uh, they're still…functioning?"

Another look.

"Heh…do you want to go back or…?" Sam offered as she was being awkward.

"No, I think we should still continue to search. I just hope that they are alright and maybe we would bump into them."

With that, Robin resumed his running, and this left Sam breathing out a huge sigh of relief.

:(/\):

Jinx ran ahead and occasionally stopped in order to catch her breath. She wasn't running from anything, she was running just because.

Whew. Okay, gotta stop to catch some breath. Jinx thought, leaning against the cold brick wall.

So far, she hadn't found anything unusual much to her disappointment and she was beginning to wonder if this…search would be useless in the end. She just hoped that the search would prove something… otherwise, she would begin to have doubts about Robin's actions…but at the same time, his plans had ceased to amaze her.

She shook her head and, after she caught her breath, the pink-haired sorceress began to walk.

Just as she took a step, a small whoosh sound came, and it made Jinx halt in her tracks. The Titan turned around and narrowed her eyes as she scanned up ahead, trying to find out where that noise came from.

After having no such luck, she merely shrugged it off and turned around to resume walking…

:(/\):

Hour after hour, their mission was…unsuccessful. This only made everyone, especially Robin and Sam, befuddled about it.

"Anything at all, guys?" Sam asked.

"Nada." came Cy's voice.

"Nope." Jinx.

"Nu uh." Cathy.

"No and I think someone needs to order a bed. Star here decided to use a streetlight as her bed." Beast Boy then showed the alien who was indeed sleeping on what seemed to be a bent streetlight.

"Well," came Robin's sigh. "I suppose we should all head back to the spot we all agreed upon."

Everyone signed off and they all went to said spot, soon reuniting there.

Once they reached it, Beast Boy gave out a yawn and rubbed his eyes.

"Can we please just go back home? I need my beauty nap." he whined.

Sam rolled her eyes and ignored him. "I was honestly hoping that we would at least find something."

"I know. Me too." Chris said.

While they were talking, Star looked down at her hands since she was still holding the communicator. However, she suddenly got a questioning look since the device was…blinking red.

"Huh?" she softly said.

She tore her gaze away and squinted her eyes to see what lay ahead of her, then went back to the furiously blinking red dot; again, she looked up ahead and repeated the same process until she decided to walk in that direction.

"…let's call it quit and go back…Star?" Robin suddenly asked as he just now saw Starfire walking passed him.

The group stopped what they were doing and continued to gaze at the young alien.

Starfire reached her destination and the only thing that was heard was the red blinking dot.

The heroine kneeled down and continued to gaze at a spot which had caught her attention.

"Um, is everything alright?" Jinx questioned.

Starfire finally found what she was searching, took it, placed it inside her hand and finally got up so that she could meet the group's curious gazes.

"I believe I know why our search was unsuccessful."

Since no one answered, she continued not by talking but by simply extending her hand out to reveal the object.

Robin walked towards it and grabbed it so that he could bring it up to his face. Sam followed him shortly and she automatically recognized what it was.

"It's your tracking device." Sam announced.

A sudden loud slam was heard and everyone twirled around to see Danny who had just punched his fist into a wall.

"Don't you guys see?! Everything was done on purpose! The villain was playing with us. When we were battling him, he knew that he was losing but he also knew that Robin was going to place a tracking device on him. So he of course let him do that. We were pawns in his game. The villain knew that we were still searching for its Master's location." Danny replied, letting everything out.

Silence.

"I'm assuming that, out of your group, you're not the one to have a brain, so going with that…congratulations on making something that makes sense!" Jinx replied, giving a cheeky smile.

A glare.

"And that's why our mission was fruitless." Chris said.

"I think everything just got a whole lot complicated." Cy groaned.

Robin sighed. "Assuming what Danny has just said is right, let's just head back to the Tower. Obviously, we aren't going to get anything done tonight. And it's useless anyway."

Just as the group was heading back, Starfire spoke.

"Out of all the bad things, I know of news that is good.

"Which is?" Cathy asked.

All eyes were on Starfire who had a happy look.

"Friend Raven will soon have made her recovery!"

A/N: Ah ha! Nine pages in total! Not bad, I say ^^ So Dixxy, what did you think of the chapter's extension? Hehehe…but aweh, too bad their search was futile and all because of that damn villain…sneaky! Anywho, toodles!

(SKYCHILD101)