Hey, at long last, this is The Good Within the Darkness, with my latest chapter, The Tension Begins. You have my apologies for this chapter taking so long. I had MAJOR writer's block, and I could not get over it. I must Thank ArtemisGirl, and my beta, but more importantly, my friend who helped me while I was stuck with writer's block.

Anyway, I don't know how good I am with action scenes, and, because this is right after writer's block, this might be a little worse then my last chapter. Anyway, I worked hard, and I hope you like it. So here it is, my long await, ((again, at least in my mind)) latest installment to my story, Dreams.


Raven was the first to arrive at the bridge. A roar behind her made her turn, just in time to see herself almost get run over by the T-car, which slid to a stop, bumping into her. Her eyes flashed to an embarrassed Cyborg, who just sat there, rubbing his neck, an embarrassed smile crossing his face.

Beast Boy jumped out of the car, his ears dropping a little bit. "Um, Guys?" he started, "Aren't there supposed to be, like, BAD GUYS HERE?!?!?" He yelled, his arms flaring.

Cyborg shrugged, as Raven rolled her eyes. She scanned the area, sensing no one. "The idiot's right…" She muttered, making Beast Boy flying around, yelling that he wasn't an idiot.

Starfire's voice stopped Beast Boy's whine. "Where is Robin? Is he not supposed to be here?" a worried expression crossing her face.

"He said he would get here…" Raven said, in here usual monotone. He'd better show up soon… She thought, she could still feel his grief, but after two attacks by it, that was little wonder.

Cyborg's arm turned into his sonic cannon. "Hey guys, shut up, I can hear-" he started, before being hit by a bright pink blast. Behind him stood Jinx, Mammoth, and Gizmo, all wielding a wicked grin.

"So, the snot-snifters fell for it." Gizmo said, held up be steel tentacles jetting out from his book bag. "I knew they were stupid, but this…." He started to laugh.

Cyborg pushed himself up, his anger starting to make his glow red. "So, it's the little green zit. Ya back for more?" He asked, aiming his cannon at Gizmo's ugly little face.

The Titans and the H.I.V.E. members were locked in a deadly stare down, each glaring hatefully at the one across from them. Raven made the first move. A sphere of darkest black smashed hard into Jinx, making the witch fly into a cable holding the bridge up.

With that as their signal, the four Titans sprang into action. Cyborg was launching sonic blast after blast at Gizmo, who had replaced his tentacles in favor of wings, and was flying around, dodging them.Beast Boy had morphed himself into an ape, and was locked in grip with Mammoth. Starfire was in the air, as she launched a starbolt at the back of Mammoth's head. It hit him, and launched both him and Beast Boy off of the bridge. Beast Boy morphed into a sparrow, and flew toward the bridge.

Raven and Jinx were launching spell after spell, each one striking the others', making an explosion. Raven glared at Jinx, who just smiled cruelly, before sweeping her hand, sending out a blade-like pink spell at Raven, making her fly back, hitting a bridge cable. Raven got up quickly, her eyes glowing white, but could not find Jinx.

"Where the hell?…" she asked herself, levitating around the bridge, looking for the pink little witch. She finally lowered herself to the base of the bridge, just in time to see her plant a blinking bomb at the main support beam of the bridge.

Back on the bridge, Gizmo was toying with an angry Cyborg. "HOLD STILL, YA LITTLE PIPSQUICKED, GREEN ZIT!!!" he yelled, his face turning a bright red. Beast Boy ran over to Cyborg, morphing into an armadillo, and hit Cyborg's leg. "What the…?" Cyborg asked, looking at Beast Boy. "Oh, I got it…" Cyborg quickly grabbed Beast Boy, and loaded him in his sonic cannon, blasting him at a flying Gizmo. Gizmo looked at beast Boy, who had morphed into a T-rex.

"Oh, crud…." Gizmo muttered, just as the T-rex form of Beast Boy smashed into him. The Changling hopped off of Gizmo, morphing back to normal, before falling on the ground, a goofy grin crossing his face, his eyes spinning.

Cyborg looked around, not seeing Raven or Starfire. "Hey, BB, where's the-" he started, as an explosion sent shrapnel flying at them, just as a black orb started to surround them

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While the boys fought above, Raven and Jinx were evenly matched. Blow for blow, the other blocked. It was if they were fighting their own shadow. Raven let herself be hit by a light blow, sending her back. "Azarath, Metrion, ZINTHOS!" she yelled, a pitch-black raven swooping down, striking Jinx.

Out of the corner of her eye, she saw Starfire knock out a recovering Mammoth. She also saw the bomb. She started to say her control words to take out the bomb, as something sealed her mouth shut. Jinx had put duck tape over her mouth! She ripped the tape off, but not in enough time to stop the bomb. She quickly made orbs cover her teammates, to protect them from the blast. Her consciences loomed, as she almost fainted.

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As soon as Raven left, Robin grabbed his extra bird-a-rangs, and explosive disks off of his table, which was hidden under a newspaper with a headline that asked "Where is Slade now?" Eyes narrowed, Robin ran out of his room, and slid on his feet into the hallway, heading for the garage. Jinx has picked the WRONG DAY! He thought, his teeth clenched.

After running down countless flights of steps, he slid into the garage, eyes scanning the room for his bike, the R-cycle. "Where is my BIKE?!?" he yelled, not seeing it anywhere in the room.

"You looking for this Bird-brain?" an all to familiar voice asked from outside the garage door.

Robin spun on his heel, a bird-a-rang already in his hand, cape flailing out behind him, to face Johnny Rancid. Robin's face darkened as he scowled. "Rancid!" he yelled, silently cursing himself for not seeing him earlier, "how did you get my bike?!?"

Rancid, who was just outside of the garage door, leaning back on the R-cycle, examining its equipment, looked up at the Boy Wonder. "Ah, the Tin Man left the door opened. He practically invited a thief inside." He looked from the bike, and back to Robin, before smirking. "You got one sweet piece of machinery Bird Boy. Someone who sucks as badly as you do driving shouldn't be allowed to even touch something like this… I think I'll take it…" And before Robin could react, the bike was already running, with a laughing Rancid still sitting there.

A still laughing Rancid started to drive down the island, as an infuriated Robin chased after him, his teeth gritted, knowing that he would not be able to catch Rancid. Seeing this, Rancid started laughing, with a little more hysteria in his laugh, Robin still losing ground. Robin slipped a hand inside his belt, jumped in the air, and threw a blinking red tracer at his bike, and watched it attach itself. He stopped running, as the hysteric Rancid drove off on the land bridge that connected T island to Jump city on low tides.

Robin stopped, as he bent down, cursing himself. It's a good thing I modified my old tracers…He thought. He stood up with a snarl, as he murmured to himself, "You picked the WRONG DAY Rancid…." He ran back to the garage, looking for anything that would run. Then it dawned on him. "Wait, how did Rancid get…?" He looked outside, and sure enough, behind a bush, lying on its side, was Johnny Rancid's bike. Robin pulled it up, and sat on it, while pulling his communicator out of his belt. He flipped it open, to see a blinking 'X' that represented Rancid quickly going though the city. Robin started Rancid's bike, as grim defiance appeared on the Boy Wonder's face. "Rancid, you are going to pay…." He muttered, before starting off after his apparent rival.

Robin leaned forward on the bike, gaining speed, as his cape whipped like a banner high upon the wind behind him. Over the land bridge he sped, going over a ledge, and landing in the middle of the streets in Jump city. He quickly sped between cars and other obstacles on his hunt for Rancid. He was deep within the city as his communicator went off, alerting him that Rancid was very close.

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Raven had to levitate an extremely angry Cyborg back to the Tower, as Starfire and Beast Boy, who was in bird form, flew limply behind her. Raven's tattered cloak rippling in the breeze, along with the orb of magic that surrounded Cyborg, muttered his yelling about Robin, at least a little bit. Raven just rolled her eyes. Like one guy would have helped… she thought, although she knew that was a lie. He could have made the difference in the fight, although she was not going to speak that aloud.

Her thoughts were interrupted by Starfire, as she flew up beside her, a look of worry on her scratched up face. "Why do you think Robin did not come and help us defeat those… those… those FLIPBAR NOFALEX!!!" she yelled, and then blushed. "I am sorry, I should not use that type of language…" Beast Boy flew up beside them in hawk form, and squawked something that sounded suspiciously like curses. They all landed at the same time, Beast Boy back into himself, and Cyborg becoming free of Raven's magic, started his ranting once again.

"When I get my hands on that spiky haired little…" Cyborg started, punching the air in front of him. Cyborg had dings and cracks all along his robotic body.

Beast Boy was staring coldly at the Tower, a scowl on his face. He had a trail of blue blood from his mouth to his chin and growing slightly. He had more bloodstains on top of the million of cuts and scrapes under his ripped up body suit. "I might have to introduce the kid to Man-Beast for a little bit…." Beast Boy growled in his evil sounding Man-Beast voice.

Starfire, who had gotten the worst of the blast had blood caking on the deep gashes on her sides, and millions of other cuts, flew in front of the door to the Tower, her arms spread apart, her eyes showing her anger. "You will not harm Robin! He has a good reason for not helping us partake in battle! I know he does…" She said, the last part sounding as if she was trying to convince herself.

"Yo! Star! If the crazy spiky haired punk had been fighting with us, we wouldn't have lost! It's only because of Raven we're all not fish food right now!" Cyborg yelled, Beast Boy nodding silently in agreement behind him.

"And speaking of Raven, she could use a little rest." Raven said behind them, making them jump. She had gotten off with the least amount of damage, at least on the outside. Inside, she was ready to fall unconscious right at that moment. She had done to big a task without using her control words. She could have killed them all, but none of them knew it. Shows how much they know about me… She thought. She DID need to rest, but that wasn't why she wanted to get to her room.

Before she could get into the house, Cyborg and Beast Boy had just pushed a very angry Starfire out of the doorway, and entered the Tower. They tore off in search of the Boy Wonder. Starfire was launching herself after them, trying to stop them. Raven just hovered in, and slowly made her way to her room. When she was finally near her door, she was almost ran over, yet again, by Beast Boy, Cyborg, and Starfire.

"I CAN'T FIND HIM ANYWHERE!!!" Cyborg yelled, sending Beast Boy and Starfire flying into a wall. Raven's hair just blew back a little, as she glared at Cyborg, and headed to her room.

"Hey Raven, don't you know where Robin is? You were the last to talk to him. And besides, you should want a piece of him. After all, it was you energy that- HEY!" Beast Boy started, before being tossed into a wall by Raven's magic.

She opened her door, and began to walk in. Before she did, she said, "Have you tried his communicator? Or are you nimrod's just so smart, you thought he would be hiding behind a plant in front of my room?" She asked, as Beast Boy growled, and stopped looking behind the tree in the hall. With that, she stepped inside her room, the door shutting her off from the rest of the team.

Raven quickly threw herself onto her bed, and then began to meditate. This meditation session was not to control her emotions, but to locate Robin. "Robin, why did you miss our fight with-!" she gasped, as her eyes flew open as her empathy picking up signals from Robin, although she didn't know where he was. Robin was in danger, and needed help. But who, besides her, who offer him aid?…

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The three remaining Titans looked at each other, gaping at each other. Cyborg was the first to snap out of it, as he flipped the communicator on his arm on. "Robin! Come in man! TURN ON YOUR DAMN COMMUNICATOR!!!" He yelled, his left hand punching the wall as he stared as his blurry communicator screen. His gaze turned back to Star and Beast Boy. "I'm going to try to pin-point him. Good thing the paranoid little…" He trailed off as he got one of the angriest looks he ever got from Starfire. "I mean, it's a good thing that Robin installed a tracking device in out communicators, to track us if this ever happened. Good thing, 'cause we might have never found him…" he said, before heading to his room.

Beast Boy grunted, before having one of his many mood changes. "Well, while he's doing that, I say, it's chow time. Tofu Star?" He asked, not waiting to see if there was an answer, and ran toward the kitchen.

Starfire still stood in the hall, her inner sorrow getting the best of her. A few tears started to run down from her eyes. "Oh Robin. Why did you not show up? Do you not…no it cannot be that! You would never not care about us…" she trail off, a few more tears appearing. "At least, I hope you would not…" With that, she flew of to her room, a trail of tears marking her path.

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It had begun to rain, the clouds casting the world into shadows. Robin looked to his right, just in time to see a light launch itself at him. He jumped from his bike, as the light hit Rancid's bike, making it explode. Robin hit the ground hard, as he rolled to his left. He jumped up, his Bo staff in his hands. Even though his hair had fallen in front of his eyes, he could still see Rancid, sitting on Robin's R-cycle, still laughing hysterically. Weapons jutted out from almost every inch of the bike, adding a decidedly ominous touch.

"So, Rancid, you found the bike's weapon systems?" Robin said, some of his hopes falling. He had made those weapons especially for bike-to-man-combat. This would make things MUCH more difficult.

"Oh yeah Bird-Brain. And some of the stuff I added…just might…BLOW YOU AWAY!!!" He yelled, as he threw his head back, laughing insanely once more, sending the most foreboding chills down Robin's spine. This was not going to be good…


So, that's it for now. Things are getting pretty bad for Robin, eh? And just think, things usually go down hill. Will this happen here? Well, I ain't telling! It might not be as dark as my last chapter, but hey, this is how I've had it planned for a while.

Anyway, I hope you enjoyed this chapter. My next one should be out a lot sooner than this came, I can tell you that right now. Just remember, REVIEW! I don't care how long, just take five seconds out of your time, tell me if ya liked it or not, and you can get on your bloody way. Well, Farwell for now, my readers. You will hear from me soon enough.