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From her place in the bedroom window Angelica saw it all, she saw Dick; her savior turn into her fellow crime fighter Robin in a mere minute. Everything had fallen into place in her mind. There had been too many similarities between the two men for her liking; she knew that there had to be a link. She hadn't expected the link to be this.

As fast as she could she finished her own transformation and shut off the shower. She threw open the cracked windowpane and followed Robin off into the night. Somewhere there was danger, and innocent lives were at stake. And in Gotham, there were only three people to truly stop it at its core.

As soon as Raven was ready to leave her nest, she heard the door to her apartment being kicked in. She tore off her mask and gloves and threw on her housecoat. Peaking around the door she saw four heavily muscled men stomping around her living room. She carefully stepped out of her room hoping to take at least one of them out by surprise. She had just left the safety of her and passed the semi-closed door to the bathroom when one of the men called out. "Hey Robbie, it don't look like no one's here."

Angelica froze where she was, waiting silently for a reply. A feeling of being watched, she slowly looked over her shoulder and saw the threat but wasn't fast enough to escape. A large man had appeared from the bathroom and clasped one arm around her arms and chest and the other hand over her mouth.

"I told you there was a chick livin' here." The man said in a half chuckle as he half carried half dragged Angelica in to the living room. "She ain't exactly a looker eh? Not with this cut but she can fight I'll tell ya."

Angelica was confused, she ransacked her memory to find out when she had fought this thug and couldn't place him. Until, "So where'd the little boy friend run off to? I would have loved a rematch." The man holding her was one of the men that had jumped her out side of her apartment.

One of the other men glanced at his wrist watch, "Come on guys we better be heading back if we want to see the festivities."

"Come on Ben, we've got time for a little look at our main event, don't we?" asked the youngest looking thug. He couldn't have been far out of his teens if that.

The man named Ben looked again at his watch and then at the man holding Angelica. "What cha say Robbie? Got time for a quick peak?"

She could feel Robbie look down at her and release some of the tension in the hand holding her mouth. He sighed and then shrugged, "Sure why not? She's not even gonna be this pretty by the time the festival is over."

The youngest thug licked his lips as he strutted towards her. Robbie moved his arm that was wrapped around her chest to around her waist. The kid fingered the fabric of her robe as though it was fine silk. Then savagely with both hands tore it open. He gasped as Angelica's booted foot came up and hit him in the jaw. Robbie was slammed back into the wall and the other three men advanced on her, until Ben called out.

"She's friggin one of them!" he yelled out pointing to Angelica who was still in Robbie's arms.

The other men looked at Ben then back to the still struggling Angelica. Her robe was now fully open revealing her nightly costume. 'Damn' she thought as she finally decided it was now or never to make her break. Angelica threw her head back into Robbie's face smashing his nose. As he cried out in pain, his grip loosened enough for her to slip free.

Angelica did a foot sweep knocking the two silent men to the floor. Ben was backing up trying to get over his surprise. The youngest thug made it back to his feet just as Angelica made a break for the wide open door. In a flying tackle he knocked her to the floor and as he sat heavily on her back he pinned her legs down with his own and held her hands to her sides trapping her completely. She tried to buck him off to no avail.

"Well well well, this is a pleasant surprise I must say." Robbie said his voice a combination of pain, awe and self assurance. "Times up little girl, we really have to be going, the spot light has your name written all over it."

Angelica grimaced as she was roughly hauled up to her feet and carried out to the waiting van outside.

From their perch deep in the heat of the battle both Batman and Robin were wishing for their masked ally to make her appearance. They had been attempting to break up a large street brawl for the past ten minutes, along side many of Gotham's finest police officers. Tying up a group of four enraged brawlers with the rope from his batarang, Robin looked around yet again for any sign of Raven.

"Where is she?" he asked aloud, ignoring the snide remarks from several of the now disabled fighters. Batman approached Robin's side and motioned for them to continue forward, towards the G.U.N. club. The street fight had originally begun there, but had overflowed down the street.

The duo made it inside the packed club, inside was a mess. There were bodies, tables, chairs and glass thrown everywhere. The bottles behind the large bar were mostly broken, along with the large mirrored shelves that held them. The fighting men and women, even though they were far and few between, each fighter turned and looked at the costumed men and then made a break for the exit as fast as the crowd would let them.

"I wonder what the rush is?" asked Robin as he chuckled as two obvious showgirls grabbed an overweight customer and pulled him back into the club as they scampered out the door.

Batman wasn't watching the crowd around him; he knew that Robin would watch his back and inform him of any real danger. Batman's attention was drawn to the black stage at the back of the club. The curtains were drawn, but experience told him that the stage was the place for the big event.

As if on cue, a man dressed in a black tux stepped out from stage right, he held the microphone up to his mouth and began his speech, "Welcome gentlemen to the G.U.N. club. For tonight's entertainment we have a very special guest to participate in the unveiling of a very new resident to Gotham."

The man walked to center stage, "We the people here at Gangs United Nationally, would like to offer you men an exchange." Batman and Robin slowly approached the stage, ready for anything. "If we are to continue our business transactions in relative peace we are asking you to take this lovely offering as a silence payment. You stay out of our way; we'll stay out of yours."

"No deal." Batman said.

"We thought you may say that so we prepared a little enticement." The man smiled lightly, and waved his free hand at someone back stage. Smoothly the curtain opened, both Robin and Batman gasped slightly. There caught in cross ties to two of the golden poles the dancers used in their routines, was Raven. Her head was down, her long hair covering her face. It was easy to see she wasn't unconscious by her stance; it was too ridged and firm.

"Now how about that offer?"

"The answer is still no." Batman replied again.

"Ahh I see. So we will up the ante." The emcee pointed to the catwalks above the heroes' heads. A red spot of light appeared upon the leather uniform of Raven. It hovered over her heart. "The gunman is the best in the state. And there is no sense in taking him out because there are more to take his place. If you agree to our terms she's free, if you don't.well then Miss Raven will be the new owner of an entire clip of bullets."

"Batman-" Robin began to say, but his partner lifted his hand to silence him. Robin glanced down to Batman's other hand, which was out of the line of sight for the man on the stage. In the gloved hand was metal cutter. With a little slight of hand Robin soon possessed the tool.

"No deal." Batman said as he snapped his wrist at the sniper above him in the catwalks. A batarang flew with deadly accuracy at the gun man's hand, efficiently knocking the gun away. In the mean time, Robin launched himself on to the stage and with one fluid kick to the temple knocked the emcee out cold.

Robin then proceeded to release the bound Raven. "You okay?" he asked tipping her head up so he could see her eyes. A look of surprise graced his handsome features as he locked eyes with ones all too familiar. "Angelica?" he stuttered.

"In the flesh birdie." She said a small smile fluttered across her lips. She looked past him and gazed at Batman, "Looks like the bat could use our help." Robin glanced behind him and saw in fact she was right. Batman was taking on far more then he could handle.

As the last chain was released Raven flipped to the side then flipped off of the stage entering the battle with Batman. Robin shook his head in amazement; Raven was a very intriguing woman.

Batman saw Raven enter the fight and took notice of her missing mask. He made a mental note to question Robin about her true identity after this was all over. While he had let his mind wander to other things Batman had kept fighting. He knocked two men senseless with a spin kick and then winded another with a punch to the abdomen.

Raven's fighting had brought her close to Batman so as they fought he called to her, "Glad to see you could make it."

As she punched a man in the face with a forceful one- two combination she replied, "I wouldn't miss this for the world. A few of these guys broke into my home and they are gunna say they're sorry."

The bodies began to pile up upon the floor and the stage, and yet no one person had come to the spot light to claim responsibility for this. Strange usually when things started to look good for the bat and now birds the big bad showed his face and declared that they would fight another day.

Just as the last body struck the floor and the first few police officers made their way through the semi-blocked door, an envelop fluttered down from the rafters. Batman picked it up and opened it. As he was reading it Robin jogged up, he was breathing hard and had bruise forming on his jaw where at least one punch had gotten through.

"What's that?" he asked.

"It seems to be an apology letter for us. Who ever arranged this entire escapade has fled and this is their apology for not meeting us, but it says that soon we'll hear from him."

Both men exchanged looks of confusion but quickly hid them when the police commissioner approached, "Gentlemen, "he greeted. "Thank you for your help. Do you have any idea why this happened?"

"We don't know who arranged this but the name of the club, G.U.N. we were told stood for Gangs United Nationally. I think someone is trying to link the entire underworld together as one nation. But for now has left Gotham." Batman said. The commissioner only nodded and scribbled a few points down in his little note book.

"Alright then, there seems to.be." the commissioner looked up from his note book and was not surprised to see that the bat and bird had disappeared.

Looking down from the high rise roof of a near by office building three figures watched as the police cleaned up and took care of the numerous unconscious and semi-conscious offenders. Raven stood not with the two men but a little apart, her face cast in shadows from her hair. The rest of the world was gleaming with the light from the full moon and cloudless night sky. Robin and Batman were exchanging a few hushed words when Robin caught movement from the corner of his eye. He turned in time to see the trail ends of Raven's cape flutter down the side of the building. She was gone, silently as she had come.

Hours later, after their respective patrols had been completed and the city seemed to be calming down for the rest of the night the bat and bird returned home to the cave. Immediately after discarding their uniforms Bruce and Dick went up into the gothic styled mansion for a late dinner and bed rest. The food quenched part of the hunger in the pit of Dick's stomach, but no matter how much he was to eat there would always be some part of emptiness.

Walking into his room, he flopped down on to his bed and reached for his answering machine. There was one message, from a very unlikely person.

"Hey little bird, my secret is outta the coup I guess. Well hate to tell you but so is yours. Don't worry I won't tell anyone." A sigh, "I guess I'm calling you to tell you I'm leaving Gotham, I've got prey to catch and it seems to have migrated from here. It was great getting to know you and the bat, and maybe our paths may cross again. Well.good bye Dick Grayson, remember to fly high."

Dick stared at the little black machine and allowed a soft smile to appear, "Good bye Raven, my angel." With that, he got up from his bed and headed to the bathroom for a well deserved shower. Little known to him a dark figure sat perched in one of the large oak trees outside his window. The ice blue eyes smiled at his retreating figure; there she sat until he was out of sight then it gracefully leapt to the ground in search of her prey.

Observing from the den's large windows were two figures; both men of war, one by choice one by obligation. "Do you believe we shall see her again sir?" asked the elderly butler named Alfred, his English accent making the question fluid.

With a deep sigh the other man replied, "Yes Alfred I do believe we'll see her again. Much sooner then anyone may believe.

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