Disclaimer: I own the tape that I recorded TT on, that is all. Sadly I do not own them…

Technically Speaking

Robin's p.o.v.

I paced. Back and forth, again and again. This was becoming more of a ritual than I liked.

The tower was still empty; I had beaten them all home from the club. It was a good thing. I had already taken anger out on my room. Instead of making my way to the training room I had beaten out my troubles on my room.

Newspaper clippings fluttered annoyingly where they had slipped off my walls. My desk that was usually piled high in books and research was now empty. The pile lazily glided across my floor.

How dare Slade? I was so close to getting something from that girl. No, he had to drop in at just the wrong time.

I slammed my fist onto my desk making it rumble dangerously. I hated him, more than hate. Probably loathe.

I pulled back the limb and shut my masked eyes tightly a second. Deep breath.

One thing was for sure as much as Raven wanted to deny it. She wasn't being truthful with herself. She denied her feelings.

I wondered how much longer it would take her. How much longer was I expected to look and not touch?

Actually I did touch. I smiled to myself. Much to the dark beauties dismay.

Could I help it if she was beautiful and alluring? Raven being dark and mysterious all the while cunning and intelligent with a side of humorous sarcasm. Deep drawing eyes and enough curves-

There was a downstairs door shutting. My thoughts immediately disrupted. Shifting uncomfortably I paced once more. Getting into those kind of thoughts could be dangerous. I smiled at a thought of a Raven reaction.

There probably wouldn't be even a trace of my being to find.

Finally deciding to check who was home I opened my door. I stepped out to almost be mauled by disgruntled Raven. Sputtering a quick curse she righted herself and disappeared into her room further down the hall.

The whole interaction was so quickly done I was still thinking of something to say to her when her bedroom door shut. I shook it off, she looked a little angry. There probably wouldn't be any reasoning with her now.

Knowing her, she was probably in her room drinking the rest of the towers tea. And that was a lot of tea. Smirking I decided to head back to my room. A long shower sounded real good right now.

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I sat up abruptly to the sound of a female shrieking. I shook my head looking about strangely. I was hunched over my desk; I had been reviewing a few Slade leads and must have fallen asleep.

It was strange to be the first time in a while waking up in my room. The dark walls were an improvement from the white walls of the hospitalization room.

Remembering the scream I jumped from my slouched position. I threw a hand in my hair trying to get it right and made sure my mask was in place.

With that I tore down the hall heading toward where the shriek had sounded.

It was only upon entering the living room I realized I was in only my black boxers. I looked about hoping for a good reason for my unprepared entrance.

Sadly, there wasn't one. The yelling had come from Beast Boy. He now was tripping and galloping around the room. Quick in chase was Starfire, righteous fury blazing from her fists.

"Wait, friend Beast Boy I have almost gotten it!" Starfire called flying after a panicking Beast Boy. He was flailing his arms and screaming slightly muffled. It was only after they passed my way I noticed the call for distress.

A glob of blue fuzz had transfixed itself to Beast Boy's normally green face. Starfire looked to be trying to "help" Beast Boy. I don't think he enjoyed the idea of her firing her star bolts at his face.

I held back a laugh still watching the two of them run about. Beast Boy was yelling something about "evil fuzz from planet X".

I didn't bother to try and reason with Starfire. Sighing I moved to the kitchen area for some food, I'd been a while since I'd had a meal. I noticed I was still bootless as I stepped into the cold kitchen tile.

"Morning Cyborg," I gave a half wave between a yawn. He turned to me from his post at the stove. I smiled at a memory of Raven's cooking.

"Mornin, oh her I made some progress on the chip. Later ya might want to take a look."

I nodded in reply. I watched amusingly as Beast Boy ran into the kitchen. Cyborg raised the pan so it wouldn't be disturbed. The green boy shrieked more sounding like a girl and ran out of the kitchen. Oddly he resembled a chicken with its head cut off.

Cyborg set his pan back on its stove and shrugged as if nothing had happened.

"Should we do something?" I wondered aloud when another scream was heard.

"Nah, I think Starfire's handling it." The robotic boy laughed a little turned to shake up his frying food. There was a loud crash that sounded like a star bolt. "Dear friend!" Was heard from the living room.

"That's what I'm afraid of," I shook my head but couldn't help the smile that made its way onto my face. Cyborg chuckled a little and poured his finished breakfast onto a nearby plate. I noted it consisted of every edible breakfast animal.

"So where's Raven?" I threw out casually.

"Meditating, she was in here real early. She said the next person to disturb her would be erased from existence." He said it so calming I almost laughed in spite.

"Finicky about her personal space?" I offered sitting down at the table with Cyborg.

"Yea, ever since that chip and your increase in stalking her."

I shifted a little uncomfortably in my chair. "You know?"

"It's not hard to miss. But lucky for you Beast Boy and Starfire have been a little too involved in each other to notice."

I almost chocked on air. I knew maybe they would think me and Raven was a strange matching, but Starfire and Beast Boy?

"Are they like-" I couldn't even make the words. Starfire and Beast Boy? Beast Boy and Starfire? I turned it over in my head.

"Together? No. But those two are almost as obvious as you and Raven."

I thought a moment. Maybe it wasn't so strange. I mean those two had similar personalities. They always seemed to get along all the time.

There was another of the green boys screams from a distant part of the tower.

So most of the time they got along.

But the more I thought about it the better those two seemed for each other. And to think everyone had paired me off with Starfire and Beast Boy with Raven.

I shuttered at the thought of Beast Boy romancing Raven. Changeling or not she would probably kill him-like she was trying to do with me.

"I guess they are good together," I rubbed the back of my neck.

Cyborg nodded having his mouth already full of meat consumption. He was eating so quick I was assumed he would choke. Probably trying to get in some decent food before Beast Boy got free to make his tofu-a-la-breakfast.

I spotted an isolated purple teacup on one counter. No doubt evidence of the dark beauty. This sparked an idea. A plan for truce later today. But for now…

"Hey Cyborg, I'm going to go get dressed then I'll meet ya in the lab for discussion of that chip."

The older boy nodded vigorously still gnawing with inhuman speed on the food. I shook my head and moved out of the kitchen. Dodging a frightened blind rhino I made my way toward my room. Echo's of "Friend Beast Boy!" were still present throughout the tower.

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"Alright let me pull up the readouts," Cyborg quickly typed a few keys and the big screen in front of me filled with facts and figures.

I stared wide-eyed at the information. I hoped he was planning on explaining because the only thing I recognized on the screen was the "Specimen A".

"As you can see what Slade said was surely valid. I mean look at these figures," He pointed animatedly to a list of numbers. Some of the numbers I didn't even recognize, what in the world was a sideways 8? Cyborg completely missed my confusion. "The subatomic chip placed directly into the nerve on her neck is a direct connect programmed to jam the signal to the central nervous system. In the case of a dimidium daemon it will block the frequency in the central cortex. No frequency means no matter what chemical combination is released into the brain the extrasensory ability cannot be released."

Cyborg motioned to a few more things on the screen and then turned and smiled at me.

It took me a second but I eventually closed my gaping mouth. Could somebody run that by me again?

"Um Cy, I didn't understand a word you said."

That seemed to pause his smile. After a moment of thought he gave a long sigh.

"Sorry forgot some people aren't computer literate. Well not in the sense I am," He gave a faint laugh.

"So do I get a translation?"

"Basically the chip is wired into her nerves. It produces the frequency exact opposite Ravens. That frequency is carried into her brain by the nerves where it cancels out her power."

"Well we knew part of that. What's a didium daemon?"

"I had to recheck it. It's dimidium daemon and it means half-demon in Latin. Computers only recognize certain things in Latin."

I nodded. "Do you have any way to get it off?"

"Well in the chip," he pointed to a little red smear on the side of what looked to be an enlargement of the chip. "It's a highly disruptive piece of metal that reacts to the frequency. Movement or added heat makes it let out electrical shock, as we've seen. This makes getting it off more difficult. Along with it we would have to have some kind of special containment when we get it off. It is just as destructive as Raven's powers when it's detached from her."

"But Slade was carrying it."

"Exactly. That means he has to have some kind of containment that made it safe to handle."

I nodded and pulled another hand through my hair. Why was this ever so difficult?

"So you want a break in mission." I deadpanned.

"We need an intelligence mission. We either need to know what he used or get what he used."

"Yea, just go mosey on into the most dangerous criminals layer I can see it now: Hey Slade by the way can we borrow that thing for the chip?" I shook my head.

"Hey don't bite my head off." He crossed his arms.

"Sorry, thanks for all this though. I'm just, a little stressed."

"No kidding, but you are Boy Wonder after all."

"Yea, yea," I pulled my hands through my hair roughly. "Any idea what we'd be looking for?"

"We?"

"I'm taking Raven with me." I held up a hand. "And before you try and convince me other wise know that I am set on this."

Cyborg looked as though he could argue. After a moment of silence he nodded slowly. "It would probably look like the objects Raven's power touches. Black and white."

"Thanks for everything Cyborg," I gave him a smile before turning on my heels to head out of the room.

"Be careful!" He called after me.

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I held the purple mug tightly in my hands. It's warmth already starting to burn my fingers. I ignored the scalding. The brown scent of herbal tea wafted to me, it was soothing.

I was a little fidgety inside, you could never tell by my steady stance outside her door. I hadn't knocked yet; no doubt she already knew I was here.

"Go away," A dead voice called from behind the titanium door. I rolled my eyes and had them pass over the plain 'Raven' printed onto the metal.

"I have something for you," I called back leaning in closer to the door. There wasn't any sound of movement from inside.

"I don't want it, go away." I sighed and looked at the keypad to my left. I had a backup plan because Raven was always stubborn.

"Open this door or I'll use the access number to open it." I hollered so she could hear me through the door.

"Then what's the number?" She sounded as if she was daring me. So much for trusting me. I smiled a little to myself.

"5-2-7-" That's as far as I got when the metal door slid open. Not a lot, just enough to see a violet eye watching me with a fury.

"What," A cold demand more than a question.

"I brought you tea, can I come in?" She looked apprehensive for a moment.

"If I don't let you in would you just open the door with the number?"

"Yes," There was amusement to my voice, could I help it if this was well planned?

"Then come in," She sighed long and darkly as she slid the door open. Barely enough for me to squeeze through I might add.

I ventured into forbidden territory. It was almost like I had just entered a black hole itself. There was barely any light; the dark curtains that were crammed into the window corners ensuring that. Across the room was a lone candle that tried to reach out its light to me.

I followed Raven down a jagged black path that was laid over the dark carpet. In the small amount of light I couldn't tell the color of the walls or carpet. I noticed a towering shape that looked to be a bookcase. Theater masks, a small desk that only had a mirror perched on its top.

I noticed the girl had pulled her cape completely enclosing herself. She sat on the precipice of her bed and crossed her legs. I only caught a quick glance of her skin before she moved her cape disconcerting my view.

"Aren't you going to ask me to sit?" I asked when the silence was quite unbearable.

"No."

"Then here," I took a step forward with the quickly cooling tea. I was overjoyed to see her at least a little jumpy. She fidgeted a little with the ends of her cape. Finally upon reaching a decision she reached and took the cup giving me a sideward glance.

"I talked to Cyborg today. He said Slade must have some kind of containment for the chip. We need to get it."

I kept trying to catch Raven's gaze. She was watching the tea however. Finally she put it to her lips and took a small sip.

"So," I continued as if she had agreed. "I volunteered you and I to find Slade's lair and get the mechanism."

She paused with the mug just at her lips. Her eyes found mine. Again she was judging me. Along the lines of 'is it really worth going with Robin to get this chip off?'.

In a moment of decision she smiled. It was one of those when-I-get-back-my-powers-you're-so-dead smiles. I didn't try to ward off the shiver it gave me. She really was frightening, and beautiful.

"Ok, when?" She sipped her tea still watching me.

"Tonight, I'll have a lead by then." She nodded.

I turned to leave. I could almost feel the invisible waves of energy pushing me out.

I stopped at the door and looked back at Raven, still perched on her bed.

"You know your frighteningly beautiful sometimes." I heard a growl as I slipped out of the door and quickly shut it behind me. I heard various objects hit the door, a little late.

I heard an infuriated voice from inside, small bits of smoke seeping out under the crack of her door.

I couldn't help that smile of mine that crept onto my lips. Or the laughter that followed.

Wow I like this chapter. And the plot thickens! Can ya guess why update took so long? Starts with a 'g', hahaha. Anyway thanks all my readers, you guys are AMAZING! Tried to incorporate a little more humor into this one, as well as a little SF/BB. And I thought Cyborg should be technologically smart after all.

- Raven plushies for all!-

-Dragonslayer527