A.N.: I don't own Teen Titans, and this chapter is dedicated to RaventheAzerathian for being my first ever reviewer . Glomp. Sorry for being such a slow updater, I'm trying to actually think this through before writing it XP.


Thwbooooom!

"Oh, I've got you now!"

"Dude, that is so totally unfair! I know you pulled your little cheat code thing-"

"I don't even have a cheat book, B.B., that's such an unjustified and offensive statement upon my integrity it corrodes my metal heart."

"Well you could've downloaded it off the internet or something-"

"No I did not, I'm just better than you- HEY! What the… Robin you little bloodsucker, I'm gonna get you for that-"

"You can't, Cy, 'coz you're dead! Peh heh heh heh!"

Robin's triumphant (and wicked) laugh rang through the main room.

"Thanks Robin, he was really beating me-"

"Muwahahahahah!"

"No way…dude, that was so totally unfair."

"I just kicked both your butts. Take that, Cyborg! Yeah, baby!" Robin cackled in triumph, throwing his video game controller down on the carpet like a football, like an athlete would in the event of a touchdown.

His two friends were both staring at the screen, at a complete loss for their usual angry words of retaliation.

It was the morning after the Titan's fight with the former H.I.V.E. students, and the boys Titans had been going at it on their most beloved Gamestation, wearing out their thumbs on those irresistibly bright little buttons.

Starfire had been sitting on the edge of their grey couch, watching the competition with utter thrill. Of course, she had been avidly cheering for Robin. The Tameranian felt slightly disappointed that the exciting game had finished, although the ending screen had been quite unanticipated, with all the… red substance that wasn't ketchup that pooled everywhere.

"This game of yours…it is indeed most gory," she proclaimed doubtfully.

"Oh, you haven't seen violent yet, Star!" Cy cried lovingly to his video game, despite his recent loss. "You just wait until you see…"

At the shocked look on her face, he amended himself hastily.

"Uhh, oh, I mean uh… this is nothing compared to the video games that we don't… own…?" he said, quite lamely. Starfire perked up again, happy her friends were (supposedly) not being exposed to too much blood.

Beast Boy had been angrily poking Robin for the past minute. "Duuuude, I want a rematch! I know you pulled one of those secret kung-fuuuu whaaaaaaaaaa thingy movey thingys," he said madly, swishing his arms around in poor imitation of what Robin usually did in a confrontation.

"All right then, now you're both on," Robin said confidently, a smirk plastered on his face.

A few minutes later, Raven floated into the main room to find loud cheers, grunts, yells, and video game sound effects awaiting her arrival.

She blinked slowly.

"Aren't you supposed to be working with the museum catalogers to find out what was stolen?" she inquired of them, voiced raised slightly.

The noise got louder.

One purple eye twitched slightly in the shadow of her dark blue hood, and she levitated over to the kitchen and began making herself a cup of her usual herbal tea.

"BOO-YAH! Now I'm the one kickin' butt! Yeah, baby!" Cyborg yelled, while a miniscule black figure flew through the air on the giant television screen and crashed into a tree..

"I wish you congratulations on your success in the kicking of the behind of the bottom!" Starfire squealed in great enthusiasm.

Robin steamed.

Beast Boy was gaping at his dead character on the screen once more.

"May I play the game of the videos?" Starfire requested eagerly. Her warm-tone hands were clasped together in optimism.

"Sure, Star," the boys chorused, already picking their characters.

The alien yipped joyfully and jumped on the couch, between Robin and Beast Boy, and the controller bounced into her hands like a small puppy.

It took a few minutes for the boys to explain Starfire the controls.

The starting screen popped up as they finished selecting their combatants.

"Ready…FIGHT!" the game screamed.

The teens went at it with voraciousness. Raven wandered over and hovered, cross-legged, behind their heads, daintily sipping at her cup of tea.

"This should be amusing," she muttered to herself, a small smile on her face.


"I am so gloriously happy that I have actually been capable of winning the game of fighting with such ease!" Starfire tittered, dancing around in the air with her controller. The wire length ran out and she was, quite literally, pulled down to earth.

"Dude…" Beast Boy was, once again, mourning the loss of the battle.

"Umm, Starfire?" Cyborg sweatdropped.

"…You were the first one to die," Robin admitted carefully and apprehensively. "I think I won…" He leaned close to both Cyborg and Beast Boy, hissing "Again!" in their ears.

They gawked at him for a bit, and then their heads sunk and they both pulled extremely sullen looks onto their faces.

The Tameranian looked at the boys with intrigue, slightly puzzled.

"Then the point of this game then is indeed not to lie down upon the earth in a pool of liquid that is the opposite color of my most favorite beverage?"

Raven chortled softly, head down. She was floating in a rather erratic way now. The now empty teacup was rolling on the carpet.

"First off, dudette, it's mustard, not a drink, and that there on the screen is blood, and the point of the game is to be the last one standing," Beast Boy explained, quite triumphant that he was actually better than someone in the game. "I think you got them mixed up…eh heh…heh…yeah…" He trailed off with a nervous laugh.

"Oh."

"So, uh, do you want to play again?" Cyborg half-heartedly asked.

At that moment, the giant window/screen flashed red twice and then showed a brief, noise-scattered clip of three figures, inside a vault filled with precious metals and stones, causing havoc. A bright pink, partially blinding light headed towards the screen, and the clip fizzled out into black. The window then flashed to a map, a blinking red dot flashing on the blue.

"Mammoth, Gizmo, and Jinx," Robin confirmed, his mask narrowed like the eyes beneath. "Bank robbery at the south end."

"Again?" Cyborg and Beast Boy groaned, dropping their controllers.

"Titans, go!"

At their leader's words, they all took off- Starfire took flight out of one of the windows, her Titan communicator out in her hand to allow her to easily find the coordinates of the raid. Beast Boy followed in the form of an olive green crow, nudging the window closed with his beak before he flapped after his alien friend. Raven teleported herself, Cyborg, and Robin down to the garage, any remnants of her power fading from the main room like eerie ebony mist.


Jinx twirled around, laughing as she dangled an expensive-looking sapphire necklace on the tip of one elegant finger, the gold chain dangling. She flashed a tiny wave of hex at it from her other hand- the blue gem glowed a bright purple as it was infused with the magic.

A few seconds later it crumbled to the concrete floor, the pale blue shards slowly fading to a deathly red-stained brown.

Jinx looped the gold chain over her hand from where it had fallen on her wrist and tossed it carelessly away. She traced her finger carelessly around the iridescent black jewel strung about her own neck. So worth the planning, the witch thought cheerfully, and then looked curiously over at the other side of the vault, the floor strewn with debris of slabs of concrete, bars of gold and silver, as well as a multitude of jewels and coins.

Gizmo was stuffing a bag excitedly with all the coins his small hands could grab. . Mammoth was busy trying to heave an enormous stack of gold ingots into his massive arms- Jinx's pink eyes could easily see the shimmer of his hawk-eye crystal where it had been embedded into one of his gold bracers. Her grin glinted much like it.

"Having fun, boys?"

Gizmo's shrill laughter cut through the air.

"This is one of the best barf-brained ideas you've had for a long time! I love doing this!"

"Second that," Mammoth grunted heavily, with another heave, his ox-like stubbornness reigning.

"I don't…not really," the pink-haired girl hummed, twirling about with a great flourishing of her arms. Her two companions stared at her oddly.

"Because we can do…absolutely…anything…that…we…wish." She stopped spinning and placed her hands on her hips, a large smirk on her face.

Mammoth and Gizmo cheered, but their eyes boggled mightily when Jinx suddenly hurtled through the air past them and crashed into the concrete wall, and then fell limply back down to earth like a doll of cloth scraps soaked with oil.

"Whoever said that we'd let you?" a taunting voice rang out.

The two standing thieves turned to the entrance of the vault and their eyebrows twisted down in hate, clenching their teeth.

Robin's bo staff was extended in the follow-through of his powerful smack, a sarcastic looking smile on his face. A menacing looking leopard crouched next to him on his left, muscles tense beneath the glimmering emerald coat. On his right stood Cyborg, his arm extended as his white-blue sonic cannon, glowing ominously. Behind their leader hovered Starfire and Raven, the sorceress's arms inversely glowing, the alien's eyes and hands wreathed with her righteous green anger.

Jinx had staggered up next to her comrades, one hand clutching the side of her head, a deep, displeased frown evident. She pulled her hand away- red blood, half dry already, was smeared all over her fingers and palm. The girl tugged at a tendril of her hair, loosening it from the blue metal band, and stared at it. It had been darkened into a sinister looking color.

The Titans then heard her girlish giggle, high-pitched and sweet. They were taken aback, and took a few tentative steps back, weapons lowered and powers fading slightly, Beast Boy reverting back to normal form to stare at the others with a puzzled expression on his face, with absolutely no idea what was going on. His teammates' faces mirrored his- with the exception of the stony-faced Raven, who's midnight-colored eyes were narrowed with strong suspicion.

The villainess ceased her laughter and pretended to wipe a jovial tear from the corner of her eye, straightening up. Mammoth cracked his knuckles with a grin, and Gizmo clicked a few buttons which lit up as they touched them.

"That was funny," the cat-like enchantress declared. Her fingers flickered with pink energy as she put them together.

"It kind of tickled, too." She then drew her hands apart, the pink power stretching and curling with it, until a ball of crisscrossing beams of her bright curse was made and dangling from the fingertips of one of her hands.

"Wanna try again?"

She shot back a few feet, dust railing from her black platform shoes, as she threw the ball it at Robin. It sped silently, a disturbing red aura emanating outwards from the pink strands as it rocketed towards him.

The boy leapt agilely out of the way, shouting the command of "Titans, now! We need to take them down!" before he, Cyborg, and Beast Boy were blasted away from the ball's brutal point of impact, a cloud of crimson-tinted smoke and heat billowing outwards from it.

Starfire swooped forward and was firing a heated barrage of starbolts at a charging Mammoth, hoping to slow him down. They exploded with heavy smoke. She stopped hesitantly, hovering a few feet over the ground, but was shocked when he came barreling at her through the smoke, a tightly packed punch catching her in the stomach.

"Eeeyih!"

The alien grabbed his wrist with two hands that held furious strength, ignoring the throbbing pain in her gut, and attempted to throw him. However, despite her extraterrestrial might, she couldn't budge the giant. She frowned and gave another tug, seeming to remember he had not been this strong the last time she had battled him.

He grinned maliciously.

"Surprised?"

Starfire's green eyes widened as she was hoisted up by the shoulders, Mammoth obviously preparing to throw her instead. She spoke in a slightly sad manner.

"I would indeed compliment you on your newfound strength, but you are not one of my friends."

The Tameranian wrenched one of her arms free and slammed him hard in the nose with the smooth green ornament on her wrist armor. He staggered back, disoriented, and was then encased in black power and tossed away into a pile of gold ingots, a few of the heavy bars jumping into the air before falling with ugly clinks onto the floor.

Starfire looked upwards and nodded in thanks at Raven, who hovered close to the ceiling above her, then the two split in opposite directions across the vault- Raven to assist Cyborg against an army of holographic Gizmos, Starfire flying to aid Robin in his battle against Jinx.

They both glimpsed, from the corner of their eyes, Beast Boy get up rather groggily from a deep indentation in the concrete floor, pink-edged burn marks visible in his face, and tackle an oddly swiftly recovered Mammoth in the form of a fierce velociraptor.

Robin had been blown away by the shuddering force of Jinx's spellball, but had managed to turn his fall into a carefully controlled tumble, and with a shove of his hand against the floor was able to jump upright again. He twirled about his staff and saw Jinx walking serenely towards him, hands glowing. The blood on the side of her head and face was dark and dry.

"Hey, birdy. Feel fast enough to fly?"

The witch swung her hands up and shot waves of shimmering pink hex at him, blue sleeves swooshing.

Robin gnashed his teeth and ran towards her, smashing his staff into the ground so he could jump over the bright spell, whipping it forward, and threw it at Jinx.

"Heh." Jinx neatly backed up to the edge of a large pile of silver ingots so the projectile struck an inch from her foot.

"Too slow."

Robin seized his staff from where it had sunken six inches into the concrete and tried various quick lunges at his opponent with it, but she dodged the blows effortlessly, back flipping and sidestepping, while carefully hopping over small pieces of rubble in her way.

Robin growled, feeling that his ability was being unnecessarily challenged, and swung the staff like a temperamental baseball player would a bat.

Jinx crouched down, the staff brushing the tips of her hair, and shot out a leg that immediately tripped her adversary.

"Ungh!"

The Titans' leader's air left him in one great rush, his chin banging on a gold bar, dropping his staff. He rolled over quickly as Jinx tossed a concentrated spell at him, creating a great flash in his eyes and chopping the gold neatly into two small bricks.

His hand went to his utility belt and he flung three exploding disks at Jinx. His position affected his aim- only one hit her, and it merely caught her shoulder, yet it still detonated loudly and let off a flash of orange light and grey smoke.

"Robin!"

Starfire landed next to him, and heaved him up by one of his sleeves and the back of his red shirt.

"My friend, are you too greatly injured to continue this conflict?" she asked him worriedly, green eyes overflowing with concern.

"I'm absolutely fine." Robin's jerked his arm away from her and took out two yellow and red birdarangs, ready for further combat.

Starfire bit her lip, but suppressed the urge to ask Robin a second time.

They saw Jinx jump out from the middle of the smoke cloud Robin's explosives had created. One of her decorative ruffled sleeves had been signed away, the remaining cloth on her shoulder rather tattered. She stood before them with her nose turned up in a haughty expression.

"Not exactly the ones to give up, are you?"

"WaaaaAAAAHGG!"

Robin had opened his mouth to give a harsh response when Gizmo shot between the two parties. He skidded against the ground before tumbling to a stop, his controller smoking, backpack crackling randomly. The small boy curled up, clutching his stomach with a moan.

"That'll teach you to MESS WITH MY CIRTUTRY!"

A glowering Cyborg appeared over a pile of tumbled coins, his sonic cannon ready to fire.

Raven floated next to him, yet her back was turned, seemingly occupied with helping Beast Boy with his slugfest against Mammoth, which was rapidly getting closer and closer to the others.

Jinx had taken advantage of both Robin and Starfire's moment of distraction.

"Eehp!"

"Aaggrh!"

The two had been hit with glowing pink hexes. Robin was knocked over, his birdarangs clattering to the floor. Starfire had stumbled to her knees, hugging her shoulders. They were both surrounded by an eerie crimson aura. The light seemed to lift off of them and manifest into wisps of ghost-like material, and then the red glow dove straight into the two Titan's chests.

"Yo!"

Cyborg angrily fired three successive sonic blasts at Jinx, and then rampaged forward with his fist curled for a punch.

Jinx curled over one shot, ducked under another, and side-stepped the last. She spread her arms wide and created a lattice of crisscrossing pink strands in front of her, glittering in a contrasting manner, innocent and yet quite ominous.

Cyborg stopped an inch before the threatening shield, almost leaning on the very tips of his metal boots, his titanium skin shining with the reflected hot pink light.

A deafening explosion then ripped through the air, following the flight of something large, black, brown, and gold. Salmon and crimson light burst outwards, highlighting the dark grey smoke that billowed from the collision.

A furious looking green bear with small patches of tattered fur lumbered from behind a tall pile of gold coins. He morphed back into his normal form, and then started walking slowly closer to the steadily dissipating smoke cloud. Raven lingered in the air behind Beast Boy, a flicker of deep thought in her violet eyes.

Robin and Starfire had finally recovered from Jinx's fierce curses. Robin stood with his staff in one hand, having retrieved it from the ground, his other hand clutching tiny, metallic-grey explosive spheres, ready to throw. Starfire's hands flickered lime green as her starbolts pulsed into existence.

Mammoth staggered out of the now thin smoke cloud, towards Robin and Starfire, Jinx standing on top of him, one foot each on his shoulders, perfectly balanced. Both looked like they were playing with dynamite and accidentally set it off, which, in a way, they had. Their faces were slightly blackened, and Mammoth's shirt had chalky looking pink crisscrossing marks on his black shirt, the remnants of Jinx's hex net. Mammoth looked indifferent- Jinx had a smirk on her face.

Gizmo soared up next to his companions on metal wings; a new jetpack attached to his back, a spare controller in his hands. His teeth were gnashed together and his green goggles were slightly steamed up.

"Hey, man! How many of those stupid backpacks you got?" Cyborg snarled, behind the trio. The visible circuitry had been blackened, the rest of his metal exterior with random black flares of ashes. Gizmo whirled around with a blaze of fire from his jetpack, and stuck out a tongue at Cyborg.

"Wouldn't you like to know, ya barf-brained sludge-sniffer!"

The Titans began to close in on the former H.I.V.E. trio. Jinx quickly leapt backwards off of Mammoth and flung hexes at Beast Boy and Raven.

Raven disappeared with a sigh of black smoke. The pink hex cut through plain air before exploding on contact with a wall.

The green changeling yelped and ducked, and then morphed into an ostrich that charged forward and gave Mammoth a mighty kick in the stomach as Cyborg fired his sonic cannon at the same time, cuffing Mammoth's arm.

Jinx jumped forward and delivered a few rapid kicks at Beast Boy, and although he towered almost seven feet tall, the short witch managed to get a couple hard blows in. A wildly thrown bar of gold, covered with black energy, then caught her leg and she stumbled and fell. One of her pale hands rose, and a sharp wave of hex emanated out from it and caught the bird's foot, causing Beast Boy to fall back hard onto the ground as well.

Robin and Starfire rushed to help him.

Gizmo was pressing buttons like a DDR maniac would stomp arrow pads, carefully directing missiles towards Cyborg, Robin, Starfire, and Raven, who had reappeared. He was careful to fly close to the ceiling so as to go unnoticed. With one short chuckle, he pushed a large yellow button centered on his control, clearly labeled "Fire".

Click.

Red-tipped missiles that had been sprouting from his jetpack issued smoke and rocketed off to their targets, searing the air they cut through.

Three soared towards Raven, who had been throwing projectiles with her powers at Mammoth. She groaned inwardly as she saw them and raised her arms, a black shield forming easily from her hands.

The missiles screeched as they impacted, but did not explode. Instead, they ground their crimson noses into her protective screen, causing her to strain a bit with the effort.

"Azarath metrion zinthos!" she intoned darkly, and her power then enveloped the missiles themselves. She drew her controlling hand back and then flung it- the rockets reversed direction and aimed themselves at Gizmo, who squealed and started to fly around wildly in attempt to avoid them.

Cyborg aimed carefully when he saw five missiles heading for him, a few parts on his cannon-arm clicking and smoothly sliding back or forward as he adjusted it.

He fired five times, small and dense streaks of sonic waves flying at the incoming rockets.

They exploded with a violent bang.

"Boo-yah! WHOA-"

Mammoth had escaped from the chaotic melee that consisted of Jinx, Beast Boy, Starfire, and Robin, and was rushing up to Cyborg with his fists raised behind his head and interlocking to form a giant, pounding-efficient weapon.

He roared out a sound of rage, leaped up and prepared to bring his hands down on Cyborg's head.

BROOM.

A single, deep note reverberated through the vault as Mammoth struck an obsidian-black dome that had swiftly risen around Cyborg. He was thrown back slightly by his forceful impact, feet sliding.

"Thanks, Raven," Cyborg called to the azure-cloaked sorceress. She nodded, and then brought her hands in front of her as she prepared an attack, chanting quietly.

Gizmo hovered down next to the teenage giant, a few black specks of ash on his otherwise bald head, an ugly scowl on his face. Mammoth cracked his knuckles with a snarl, and then the two dashed forward with murderous intent.

Cyborg quickly altered the wavelength on his cannon and sent a flash of blue streaking towards the evil pair. Raven finished her spell and black warbled out of her hands, and then melded into the bright blue, reinforcing and strengthening it's power.

Mammoth and Gizmo halted and-

A flash of black and two eerie red glows-

Disappeared.

The blue-black sound waves rocketed on and heavily hit Beast Boy in his rhinoceros form, who had been taking rapid stabs at a laughing Jinx. He flew into a pile of concrete rubble and fell onto the floor in his normal form, still.

Jinx looked about in surprise at the sudden disappearance of her two companions, her sweet pink eyes narrowed and her pupils large. She whipped around to stare at Cyborg and Raven, who both had confused looks on their faces, although the dark one's expression much less prominent.

They pointed to each other swiftly- Cyborg in all honest confusion, thinking that perhaps a wild spurt of Raven's power had somehow spirited away their two enemies. Raven held up her pale finger as well, yet somehow the gesture dripped silent sarcasm.

Suddenly there was an odd gust of wind passing through the still room, whipping up scattered, light necklaces of silver and bronze.

Wiiiiiiiiiishhhhh.

A breath of bitterly cold wind-

A dissolving of black nothingness into reality-

And six figures suddenly reappeared between the three that were left standing: Jinx, Raven, and Cyborg.

Their eyes bugged slightly.

Mammoth and Gizmo were standing next to each other, the stunted child barely up to his friends knees. Mammoth's arms were crossed, Gizmo's expression half resentful, half gleeful.

Starfire and Robin were spread out at their feet, both out cold- Cyborg and Raven stiffened.

And on either side of the aforementioned four stood two odd looking figures.

The first, closer to Jinx, was a tall, slim teenaged girl with skin porcelain white. Her hair was covered by a silver helm that came with a point down to the middle of her forehead and up on both sides to the bottom of her cheeks, swirling designs etched into it and inlaid with some strange black metal. She had two armbands of the same material, as well as similar metal bracers and anklets. The girl's shirt was red and cropped at the shoulders, and turned a royal blue as it rose up thickly to encircle her neck. Her short skirt was the same hue of blue, and a metal belt hung crookedly above it. Her feet were bare.

The oddest thing about this individual, however, was- well, in actuality, there were two odd things, if her appearance wasn't strange enough already.

The first was that her eyes glowed with an intense, eerie pale yellow, obscuring their real color and the whites around it, if there was any of that at all. The light highlighted her face oddly, her stoic expression contrasting greatly with the life that was blazing from her eyes.

The second was the two stunted white angel wings that spread out from her shoulder blades, too small to lend true flight. They shimmered with a faint white light, as if hope was enclosed within them and was struggling to get out.

The other figure resembled the girl in that he was tall and about the same age, but he was also unnaturally skinny, if anything could be inferred from the small width of his tattered black cloak. Its ragged ends lay on the floor, the cloth cut long so his entire body was hidden. There was a smooth, polished, dark grey circle clasp holding it around his shoulders. He also wore a helmet, except it was a dull black and pointed high on two sides, so that his head resembled a bat's. It reached down in a point to cover his nose. The boy's skin was also pale and light, but tinged slightly grayish-purple.

Like his companion, the teenager's eyes glowed as well, but with a dead crimson hue. They were slanted and narrow, but the light emanating from them was still quite strong. His eyes combined with his physical appearance made him look as if he was Raven's older cousin in demonic form.

"You!" both Jinx and Cyborg exclaimed at the same time, both accusingly, but the former with more familiarity and delighted surprise, while the latter with a short, stinging anger inside of him.

"Yes-" The girl said, her voice slightly low and melodious.

"Us," The boy followed after, his voice taking on a mournful, regretful tone.

Raven edged a bit closer to Cyborg. "Who are these two?" she inquired quietly, staring at the black-cloaked boy with a shadow of nervousness in the corner of her vast mind.

She felt a tug of air passing by her face.

"I am Lunarwind," the girl hummed immediately, closing her eyes briefly.

"They call me Shadowwing," the boy whispered, barely audible despite the polite silence those that were awake were giving him. "We are siblings."

"I hope you don't mind us taking our old friends here away for a chat," Lunarwind simpered with a wink of one shining yellow eye at Cyborg and Raven.

"Yes," Shadowwing said hesitantly, glancing at Jinx with a shade of unease momentarily before shifting his eyes back to Raven and Cyborg, and then to his sister. "Old…friends."

"And just what makes you think you can just-" the half-metal man began to protest vehemently while firing up his sonic cannon.

"Unless you want your friends to come with us, of course," the dark boy cut in quietly. He lifted a black-gloved forearm from his cloak and gestured smoothly to both Starfire and Robin in turn, the two Titans lying on the ground with pained expressions. He didn't seem particularly pleased about the idea- his mouth was set in a small line.

"We'd be happy to take the green one, as well," Lunarwind giggled sweetly. "He's sorta kai-uuute!"

All the males awake in the room twitched. Raven shook her head.

Jinx looked like she was about to laugh when something banged into her back and sent her flying towards the group. Mammoth threw out a muscular arm and caught her by the leg.

Beast Boy stood there, in his human form, eyes narrowed.

"Let go of our friends!" he snarled, gloved fists curled.

"I would do so most gladly," muttered Shadowwing. He reached a hand to his sister, who took it with her own almost-white one. The dark boy reached out his other arm and it extended with a black nothingness, shadow, it seemed. Lunarwind stretched out her free arm as well, eyes closed serenely, and the Titan's felt a breeze stirring. The shadow was stretched thin by the wind and thrown over the heads all the former H.I.V.E. students, and then it dissolved with vertical streaks of black and white, until only Starfire was left lying where they had all been in the vault. The whole process had taken a few short seconds.

"Robin!" Cyborg yelled quickly.

A black shadow reappeared, and solidified into Shadowwing clutching the Boy Wonder's green sleeve, Robin hanging limply from the bat-like boy's firm grip.

"My bad," he shrugged, letting go of the Titans' leader so that he fell to the concrete floor with a thump. Shadowwing threw his cloak over himself and disappeared.


This is extremely tedious, boring, annoying, difficult, and unnecessarily long (5012 words without either of my author's notes) to read. I need critiques…and seriously badly /. They would be undyingly appreciated.

Edit: Tweaked because of mistakes.