Hehe, sorry, I got a bit side-tracked. Anyway, now it's time for the story to actually start unraveling! And feel free to R&R everyone!

Chapter 1: The Mysterious Thief

Beast Boy was the first to arrive on the scene. Rapidly changing from falcon to himself, he landed right outside the large 5-story building that served as the new security compound. He gasped at what he saw.

It looked as though something had taken a large bite out of the left of the building. Smoke was spewing out of the building and flames were jumping out several windows. Several bodies lay strewn out in various unnatural positions. Beast Boy ran over to one of them and saw he was a security guard.

Beast Boy lightly shook the guard's shoulder. "Hey, dude! Wake up!"

The guard moaned and opened his eyes. "Ooh.. what the devil happened? Who are you?"

"My name's Beast Boy. I'm here to help. Do you remember what happened?"

Just then, the rest of the Titans arrived. Starfire dropped from the sky above Beast Boy and, seeing the injured guard, gasped. She helped him sit up. "Oh my goodness! Sir enforcer of the peace, are you all right?"

The guard, no doubt confused, simply nodded. "Yes, yes, I'm fine, my dear… what's going on?"

Robin, followed by Raven and Cyborg, ran over to the security guard. Robin knelt down next to him and tried to fill him in on what he knew. "Sir, we received a report that this place was under some sort of an attack. Do you remember anything that happened?"

The guard looked around at all the teenagers, reluctant to speak. Finally, he spoke. "All I remember is joking with my buddy, Frank. The next thing I know, there's this huge explosion and I go flying forward. I think I crashed through the window. I don't remember much else."

Robin nods. "All right. Thanks. Star, Cyborg, can you stay out here and make sure everyone else is ok?"

Cyborg nodded. "Yeah, sure thing, man. You goin' in?"

"Yeah."

"Be careful. If you need backup, we'll be out here. C'mon, Starfire." He and Starfire walked towards the other fallen gaurds.

Raven looked Robin in the eyes. "Robin, do you think it was him?"

Robin knew very well who she meant. She was referring to Slade. "No, I don't. Giant explosions don't really fit Slade. Then again, I'm not ruling anything else right now. We need to get inside and find out what's going on. I'll go in first, then I'll give the ok and you two come in behind me."

Beast Boy and Raven nodded and followed Robin up close to the front of the burning building. Beast Boy shuddered a little. "Dude, this place is giving me the heebie jeebies."

Raven smirked. "Scared of a building, Beast Boy?"

He laughed. "Who me? Afraid? Of course—" There was a large groan and he yelped and hopped up into Raven's arms. "What was that!"

Raven glared at him. "It was a steel beam bending somewhere inside. Get down!" She dropped him onto the ground.

Laughing nervously, Beast Boy stood up and brushed himself off. "Heh… heh… yeah, I knew that."

Robin sighed and slowly walked inside. The power had been cut so it was extremely dark inside. There were overturned desks, chairs, drawers, and other normal office supplies scattered all over the place. Seeing nothing too dangerous, Robin whistled to the others outside. They joined him shortly and the three walked deeper into the darkness.