Mwaaaaa, onto Chapter Three. Things start picking up here, but the story won't come to full speed until later chapters. You know the drill. I don't own anyone except Keena and the puppies. Hehe!

Chapter Three : Wonders Never Cease

"What's the plan?" Robin asked the police chief beside him. The met in his office to discuss Keena's capture.

"Well, say we have another stone. We don't, but let's pretend we do. What would happen if Keena found out?"

"She'd probably return and steal that one, and destroy it."

"Yes. She'd return." The brought a steaming cup of coffee to his lips, but did not look away from the box that sat on his desk.

"How do we get her to return, chief?"

"We'll set up a mock stone, and tell the media that we have another one, so its no big loss for us. She'll see the story, and she'll come crawling back. But you and the others will be waiting there."

Robin leaned back and put his hands together. "Sounds good. But… you don't think she'd figure it out?"

The chief got out of his chair and brought the box over to Robin. He opened it, and revealed a stone identical to the original gem.

"She'd never know the difference."

After a moment, Robin nodded his head. "Yeah, sounds good. She'd probably believe it." He shook the chief's hand and left the office. He had to tell the titans the plan. But first, he better get some pizza.

Keena watched the TV intently. She was waiting for her story to come on. The story about how she'd stolen the gem, and destroyed it. How she had outsmarted the police. How she had outfoxed the Teen Titans. She grinned and ate a potato chip.

The last commercial ended and there it was. An attractive, brunette woman was standing in front of the building. "Early morning was quite and calm. No one was aware of the dangerous situation that unfolded in this warehouse just before 3 AM. Apparently, a well-known master thief, known as Keena, or la Zorra, stole a priceless gem from this building. This stone has the ability to emit a high-powered beam of destruction if electricity is applied to it. Somehow, the thief destroyed the precious, green rock and disposed of the remnents in an unknown location. The Teen Titans followed her to a hide out, but she gave chase and was unable to be found. We believe she is still in the city, and the police chief does not encourage civilians to pursue her, but instead, phone the police. She is armed and dangerous. Local police chief Thomas Jones left this message on our answering machine."

Keena took a long swig of soda.

"It was a great loss for us, but we do in fact have another stone of the same material. We will continue testing and we will catch Keena and correct this wrong."

Keena went to gasp, but the soda flooded into her lungs. She fell to the floor, coughing and grabbing at her throat, unable to breathe. The noise and racket alerted Miguel, who ran to her side and patted her back, hard, while the dogs began whining and circling their ailing master. When she finally was able to breathe, Keena sat upright and pounded her fists into the ground.

"What is it? What's wrong?" Miguel asked as he tried to prevent her from falling back to the floor.

She swallowed hard, and in a rough, shaky voice, said, "There's another stone."

"What?"

"Another gem, Miguel! Another electricity rock! They had two!"

"You're not going after it, are you?"

"I have to."

"Fool!"

"No, no. If I don't, who will? You want to know how many people could die because of that damn piece of rock! It could even be you or me!"

"Keena, I know. But…"

"What if it's a trap?"

"You know, then?"

Keena looked away, into the distance, and sighed softly. "Yeah, it probably is a trap. But you know what, I have to check it out anyways. I would be so angry if it turned out that was a real stone, but I didn't go because I thought it was a trap."

Miguel looked at her helplessly. It seemed as if nothing could detere or phase her. He tried to persued her to leave it alone, but before he could open his mouth she continued.

"And no one can trap me, anyways."

She waited until early morning hours, under the cover of the black velvet sky, before she returned to the building housing the faux gem. She scurried along the buildings, her vulpine paws as silent as the cool breeze that refreshed the down town area. If you looked close enough, you could see the white tip gleaming from the darkness, like an ivory flame. She approached the fire escape and without making a sound, leapt onto it and slipped through a window that had been opened to let the heat out.

And to let her in.

When she came across the window, it gave Keena more evidence that this was, in fact, a trap. Her eyes grew concerned and her ears flattened against her skull, but she kept moving. She had made it this far, there was no use qutting now.

She held her breath as she entered the room where the gem was. It was enclosed in a glass that would not conduct electricity and would repel bullets. She turned into her human form, and pulled out a sword. She kept close to the ground, and inched toward the stone. Carmel streaks of hair fell into her face, and she pushed them away, her green eyes gazing intently at the stone. Something hit her, mentally. She took a step back and gasped loudly. Catching herself, she looked around to see if anyone saw her. When she got no response, she glared at the immatation angerly and rolled her eyes. She turned to leave, then started laughing.

"What's so funny?" A voice appeared out of the darkness.

"You almost had me, Robin. Almost."

The boy appeared out of the darkness, bo-staff in hand. Keena silenced, but the sly grin remained on her face. She licked her lips and took a step toward Robin.

"Why do you have to be so terribly cruel to me? I didn't steal anything this time."

"You haven't forgotten already, have you? Breaking and entery, theft of government property, assaulting two police officer with a deadly weapon, … shall I continue?"

"Ah. I see. You've proven your point, no need to carry on."

She drew both her swords and smiled more sweetly.

"Are you going to come quietly? Or is this going to get violent?"

"I don't want to kill you. Why don't you just let me go?"

Robin glared angerly. He'd never let a criminal go.

"Not on your life."

With that, battle between the two commensced. He tried knocking her off her feet, but she'd used that move too many times to be caught by it. She jumped and attempted to kick him, but he dodged and thrust the bo-staff at her face. She sliced it in three pieces with her swords.

As quickly as he could, he grabbed her wrists and threw her to the floor, and attempted to stomp her but she rolled away and swung viciously with her swords, nearly amputating his legs. He got away in a series of flips, and stared back at this insane young girl.

She was on her knees, both swords in a ready position. She was panting ever so slightly, her brown hair collecting in her face. Her eyes were furious and determined. In hand to hand combat, she could not match Robin, but those swords were so dangerous in her hands. He had to get them away from her.

And she understood this perfectly. She lept to her feet and tightened her grip on her weapons. Neither dared attack each other just yet. Robin searched for a sign of weakness, where as Keena searched for a chance to escape. She wouldn't waste her energy on him, not when there was bigger fish to fry.

Her understatement could have been her down fall.

Robin lashed out with his leg, trying to disarm her. Her sword sliced through the air, straight at his head and he doged the best he could, but lost a tiny bit of hair. His eyes grew big and he wondered what was more dangerous, swords or guns.

He threw a smoke bomb at her feet, and the room soon filled with the noxious gas. Keena coughed and closed her eyes. But female voice reached her ears and sent fear rippling through Keena. It was Starfire.

She could take Robin. Maybe she could take two of the other Titans, as well. But all five of them? She knew she wasn't immortal. It was now or never. She had to give everything she was worth.

She screamed and lept into the air, above the thick gray cloud and could easily see the other Titans on the other side of the room. Robin was nearly beneith her. He held up his bo-staff. As she landed she sliced it in half and kicked Robin off his feet. She grabbed him by the arm and neck and threw him into the wall as hard as her body could. She heard a sickening crack and watched him fall to the floor. A rhino was charging her. She was ready to stab the sword into his heart. Beast Boy quickly realized this and froze, turning back into a human.

"Hand to hand combat isn't going to work with her," he shouted towards Cyborg, who nodded and held up his sonic cannon.

"Damn it!" mutted Keena as she slipped into the thicker region of smoke. Cy began blasting randomly into the cloud. He was taken by surprised when Keena appeared beside him and sliced the cannon off his arm. She kicked him over and lept back into the smoke, barely dodging the starbolts that were completely damaging the room.

"I can find her through the smoke," said Raven as she closed her eyes. She saw the room perfectly… one dark figure standing by the window.

"Azarath metrion zinthos!" and Keena was hit by part of the ceiling that fell during Starfire's wrath. She groaned and fell to her knees. She turned in glared into the smoke. Things we not looking good.

"Damn all of you! I try to do this city a favor, and look what happens!" she shouted. It fell upon deaf ears. Raven was ready to get this over with. She muttered her spells as a strip of metal appeared before her. Her make-shift handcuffs. The color vanished from Keena's face. But the roof began to groan and buckle. Raven's concentration was lost as she gasped and stared at the roof. Cyborg was frantically try to reattach his weapon while Beast Boy rubbed his eyes, still burning from the smoke. Starfire called Robin's name, but the unconcious boy could not hear it.

"The roof is collasping!" scream Beast Boy, "Titans, get out!"

Keena turned into a fox and lept out the window and into the alley. The rush of fresh air shocked her system, and she temporarily couldn't breathe. But she had to get away from that building. She started to run.

"Robin!" Starfire screamed despretely.

He couldn't hear her. Not that he was still asleep. He had just come to, and his head was throbbing. Blood trickled down his face. He wearily got to his feet, and noticed lime smoke dancing withen the gray cloud. He stared at the cracked window and realized what happened. He busted the glass and jumped out of the window.

"She's outside!" Raven shouted, her emotions heated and frustrated, "And Robin had probably already caught her!"

"But what if-,"

"Star, we have to get out or we'll die!" Raven growled. She turned into that ghost of a bird and slipped through the roof and out of the building. At the same time, Cyborg busted a wall down and he and Beast Boy jumped out of the building.

Star kept looking for Robin. She only got a few seconds, before the roof began to tumble. She looked up with wide, terrified eyes as the rubble few on top of her. She never had a chance.

A pile of rubble. That's all the building had been reduced to. Raven was above it, and stared with wide eyes.

"No…" she whispered.

"Starfire! Starfire!" screamed Cyborg, using his only arm to move chunks of the rubble.

Robin watched, his mind in shock. No… no, she can't still be in there, he thought.

"Robin, help!" shouted Beast Boy. He turned into an elephant and pushed away the rubble.

"Noooo!" screamed Robin. Despite his poor health, he ran to the destruction and picked up debris and threw it aside.

Keena, forgotten and free, watched from across the street. She knew she could save the girl, but would she dare. She ears flickered and she knew she had to do the right thing. She ran to the remnents of the building. Soft rain began to fall. Good, that would inhance the scent.

She put her nose to the rubble and inhaled. Traces of the smoke burned her muzzle, but she ignored the pain and carefully made her way across the pile of rubble. Towards the middle, she caught the alien girl's scent and began and turned into her human form.

Prior to this, the titans, in their anguish, had not noticed her. But now they all watched her with silent eyes as the used those deadly sharp swords to cut up and remove the heavy scraps of metal. She reached down into the pile and pulled out Starfire, bloody and unconcious, but alive.

"But…" Beast Boy's eyes were wide and surprised. No one made a sound. Raven was the first to come out of her shock. She floated down to Star's side and looked at Keena, unsure of what to say or to do.

"When you get her back to the tower," Keena began, handing Star over to the dark girl, "Make sure you put her on oxygen. There are particles in the stuff they use to make buildings that can mess you up. Clean her wounds out good, too. That smoke is still around, and you wouldn't want that seeping into her blood stream."

With that, Keena started to run down the road. Robin made a feeble attempt to stop her. She meerly grabbed him by the front of his shirt and threw him down onto the street. She turned into her fox form and kept running as fast as she could.

Beast Boy carried Starfire, and Cyborg struggled to carry the now unconcious Robin plus his severed robotic arm. Raven just reflected on what happened. It was so odd, so strange. All three of the Titans left standing made their way back to the tower in silent awe.

End of Chapter Three! Wh000tness!

Awww... Keena saved Starfire. Does that make her a hero? Don't make up your mind until you get to later chapters, heh!