Hey people! How's it going? Good news! Only three more chappies left to go! And I'm going to focus on those three this weekend! So I hope you people who are enjoying this story cough Kit cough don't get too mad at me. I'm thinking about a sequel anyway. Anyway, let's answer reviews!

Kit Anika-Wildmage: Yes, you are right. I guess I should add that this is an AU story, huh?

K.C. Raven: I'm glad you like this story, so I hope you won't get mad at me when I say that it's ending soon. Watch out for the sequel!

Mizoku-Princess: Cliffies may suck for the reader, but they're fun for the authors to write! Glad you liked your present.

nunofyorbiz: No, the other Digidestined will have to come in the sequel. I already have the last three chapters on paper. Sorry!

Anyway, now that's over with, get reading. Also, I said that this would be a Rob/Rae story, and here are the first moments. Oh, and follow the RRE rule. Ya'll should know it by now!

Chapter 7: Happy Birthday

Raven sat in her room, meditating. It was in the middle of the day, so the rest of the Titans were wondering why she was secluded in her room. At least, most of the Titans wondered. One Boy Wonder frowned in the general direction of her room.

So there Raven sat, wishing the day would just end. And when the door was knocked on and she went to answer it, she was not surprised to find Robin on the other end.

"Want to talk about it?" asked Robin, the only one to know her secret.

"What's there to talk about?" Raven asked bitterly. But she moved aside and allowed him into the room.

"TK's worried." Robin said, standing in the middle of the room while Raven sat on her bed. "So's Kari, Patamon and Gatomon."

"So why don't you tell them?" Raven asked.

"I'm not going to unless you want me to." Robin answered. Then he chuckled. "I'm surprised the Child of Hope is attached to you of all people so much. He really knows you well."

"What's he doing?"

"He's in charge of your birthday party." He answered. "I told him you didn't want one, but he's not listening. He's setting up all kinds of things you like." He smirked. "Kari's not comfortable about it, being the Child of Light, but TK's absolutely trying to make you happy."

Raven sighed. That sounded like the old TK. Then she frowned.

"Robin, remember last year, right before we were called to go after Slade?"

Robin remembered alright. "You'd screamed."

Raven nodded. "Every year of my life, on my birthday, at different times, I see—no! No, not now!"

In her vision, Robin was not there. She could hear him shouting "Raven!" over and over, but she couldn't see him. She saw fire. Her room was on fire. She could barely breath from the smoke.

Then he started talking. "You remember your destiny. You will full-fill your destiny."

And the fire began moving. It formed a very familiar symbol on the wall in front of her.

"No." she kept whispering. "That's not going to happen. NO!"

"Ah!"

Raven looked up. Robin had somehow been thrown like a rag doll to the other side of the room. The Boy Wonder shook his head, jumped up, and crossed the room in seconds. "Raven!"

Raven looked up at him, tears swimming in her dark violet eyes. "What did you see?" he asked.

"I saw…fire." She said slowly. "My room was on fire. I can't breath, the smoke is so thick."

Robin made a strangled noise. Raven looked into his masked eyes. "Remember that symbol on Slade's forehead last time we faced him?" At Robin's nod, she continued. "The fire made that symbol on my wall. The symbol of him.

"Then he started talking. It was his voice. Anger's voice. My father's voice."

Robin's eyes were wide behind his mask. "Raven…"

"Please don't say anything." To Robin's surprise, she wrapped her arms around his waist and held him close. "Just hold me. And don't let go."

And he held her for over an hour as she cried.

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"Patamon, Gatomon, don't even think about touching those cookies."

"Aw, TK!"

"BB, a little more cobwebs on the corners. There, perfect."

"I have brought the cream of ice and I have also found the game of pins and the hind end of a donkey from last year."

"Thanks, Star. Put the ice cream on the table. Cy, think you could give me a boost?"

"No problem. Allie-oop!"

TK smiled as he attached the pink decoration on Kari's side of the party room/kitchen. "Perfect."

Cyborg lowered the boy again and went back to the banner. "Yo, Teeks, this idea of yours is perfect. The girls will love this."

A bowl of cake batter now in his hands, TK observed their handiwork. Half of the room was decorated in cobwebs and red light covers. The other half was covered in pink decorations and pink light covers. Each side to both special girls in his life.

"I agree, dude." Beast Boy said. "Raven and Kari are going to love this. Raven barely let us celebrate her birthday last year." Then he eyed the cake mix in TK's hands. "Is that non-dairy?"

"Is it possible to make non-dairy cake?" Cyborg wondered with distaste.

TK sighed, shaking his head as Cyborg and Beast Boy began arguing. He had come to accept this as normal behavior between the two, but that didn't make it any less annoying. He now knew what the others felt like whenever he and Davis were arguing.

He emptied the cake batter into three cake pans and put them into the oven—just as the alarm went off.

"Security breach!" Cyborg shouted. He opened his comm. "Robin, Raven, Kari, we have a security breach!"

BOOM! The wall burst open and several people came in.

"Slade-bots!" Starfire shouted, powering her star bolts.

"Smash 'em!" Beast Boy yelled before he turned into a rhino and charged.

TK held up his D-3. "Go, Patamon!"

"Patamon Digivolve to…Angemon!"

And the battle commenced.

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Up in Raven's room, Raven had just let go of Robin when the alarm went off.

"Robin, Raven, Kari, security breach!" came Cyborg's voice from the comm. Robin and Raven listened as an explosion filled the kitchen. They heard Starfire shout "Slade-bots!" before the comm went dead.

They only had time to say "Uh-oh." before they heard explosions from outside the room.

They raced outside to find Kari with her bow and quiver, sending arrows at the Slade-bots and using the bow as a staff for any that got too close.

Robin and Raven added their arsenal to Kari's and destroyed the rest of the Slade-bots in the hall.

But then he came in.

"Hello, Robin, Raven." Slade said calmly as he walked forward. "Good to see you again. And a pleasure to meet you, Light."

"Slade." Ice was clearly visible in Robin and Raven's voices as they acknowledged the man.

"Another message?" Now venom was dripping from the ice in Raven's words.

"No." Slade replied. "No…no, it is no message. It is time."

Robin glared as Raven's eyes widened in fear. "Raven, Kari, run." He said in a low voice. "I'll distract him, but I can't win."

Kari glanced at him without losing sight of Slade. "What?"

"Robin, no." Raven whispered.

"Go!" Robin charged at Slade, whipping out his staff. "Run, NOW!"

Kari grabbed Raven and pulled her away, pulling out her comm. "TK!"

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Still in the kitchen, the other Titans were having problems.

"There's too many of them!" Cyborg yelled while sending a white sound blast at a Slade-bot.

"Don't give up hope!" TK said, slamming his active beam shield into another Slade-bot. "Keep going!"

"TK!" Kari's voice blasted from the comm on his belt. "Robin's in trouble! Digivolve Patamon to Ultimate and help us!"

"That bad?" TK asked as Gatomon slammed a Slade-bot to Angemon, who cleaved it in two with his staff. "Where's Robin?"

"He's distracting some gut called Slade to let me and Raven get away."

"Slade!" came from Cyborg. "Oh boy, we're in trouble."

"Not if I can help it." TK said, raising his D-3 again. "Go, Angemon!"

"Angemon Digivolve to..."

Angemon gained armor like TK's Hope costume, as well as an extra pair of wings and a purple bishop's helmet. A purple beam shield was on his left hand and a purple beam sword was attached to a golden bracelet on his right wrist. "MagnaAngemon!"

MagnaAngemon extended his sword and drew a circle in the air. "Gate of Destiny!"

TK dived to the ground and grabbed the oven door. "Grab something! Make sure it's nailed to the floor!"

Cyborg grabbed the whole kitchen island while Starfire flew to a light fixture and grabbed it. Beast Boy ran into a mouse hole and Gatomon jumped into TK's arms.

The circle became a golden gate, which opened and began to pull the Slade-bot from throughout Titan's Tower in a vacuum. When all Slade-bots were in the gate, it closed and disintegrated.

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Raven and Kari ran down the hall, where Slade-bot had been running around until they were pulled to the kitchen by a vacuum. They ran until they turned a corner and found themselves face-to-face with Slade.

"Hello, ladies." He said.

"Where's Robin?" Raven asked, fearing the worst.

"He's a little hung up right now." Slade said, jerking his thumb behind him. There was Robin, bruised, burned, and bloody, hanging from the ceiling by his own cables.

"Robin!" Raven shouted, eyes wide at the sight of his condition.

"Come, Raven." Slade said. "Your father awaits."

"Back off." Kari snapped, sending an ice arrow at him.

Slade, however, grabbed the arrow in mid-flight and snapped it in two. "You're going to come with me, Raven. It's your choice how. The easy way or the hard way."

Eyes wide, the girls began to back away, looking at Slade fearfully as fireballs appeared in his hands. "The hard way, then." He said.

"Back off from Kari!" snapped a new voice. "Lightning Paw!"

A small yet powerful blow to the head sent Slade into the wall. He looked up and saw Cyborg, Starfire, Beast Boy, TK, MagnaAngemon and Gatomon—er, scratch that.

"Gatomon Digivolve to…"

She grew from a foot-tall feline to a six-foot, six-winged angel with clothes that mirrored Kari's Light costume, including the helmet. Long blonde hair sprouted from her head and a pink ribbon wrapped around her arms, completing the transformation to… "Angewomon!"

So that means that Slade looked up and saw Cyborg, Starfire, Beast Boy, TK, MagnaAngemon and Angewomon, but still didn't feel worried. Instead, he sent a stream of fire at the two Digimon, sending them through the wall.

Kari, Cyborg and Starfire loosed their weapons, but Slade dodged them all, sending his own literal firepower at them, hitting Starfire and angering a certain she-angel.

"Celestial Arrow!"

The light arrow blasted him through a wall, but he got up, just annoyed.

"I'm sorry, but I have nothing to say to you." Slade said, sending several streams of fire at everyone but Raven. "I have to see the birthday girl."

Raven was tending Robin's injuries when everyone was blasted back by the fire. She looked up and saw that Slade coming for her. She quickly used her powers to push the unconscious boy down the hall, away from the destruction before Slade grabbed her neck.

"Happy Birthday, Raven." Was the last thing she heard before blackness took her.