Disclaimer: I DIS-CLAIM what I am writing. I do not claim Teen Titans. I don't even own the title; it was going to be used as an ep title.

NOTE: Whenever one of the girls is named it is referring to the body, otherwise the actual person may be specified in (these).

Chapter 5: Tripping Downhill

Robin cut the engine, his R-cycle dying down immediately as he rounded it to park in the garage.

Starfire slid off and waited while Robin took out the keys and replaced the kickstand.

"Very nice back there." Robin smirked turning quickly to face Starfire. For a second he could have sworn she smiled. Not as radiant as the Tameranians usual ones, a more discrete twitch of her lips.

"Mmmhm, now should we prepare arrangements for our guest?" Starfire had braided her hair for the ride back, getting a little more familiar with the new body.

"Sure." Robin opened the garage door for Starfire and followed her up the stairs to the elevator, completely at ease in her presence.

"And he agreed?" Beast Boy fell back on the couch, holding his stomach in hysterics.

Starfire nodded once before taking a seat on the opposite couch, scowling as the green boy tumbled to the floor still laughing.

"She was quite convincing." Robin added rounding the couch and plopping down next to Starfire out of habit.

"Must have been," Beast Boy snickered as his bout of laughter subsiding.

Robin grinned to himself and sat back folding his arms behind his head. "So the attendants said they'd be delivering Mod to Titan Island later today."

Cyborg finally stood up looking incredulously between Starfire and Robin. "Are you two crazy? You want us to actually house a criminal?"

Starfire nodded her head pulling her braid over one shoulder.

"And why would any penitentiary allow this?" Cyborg sighed exasperated.

"They went to see Mad Mod after Raven had been with him." Robin added, his lips twitching in amusement.

"He'll be staying in the higher right rooms." Starfire added.

It took Cyborg a moment to draw up the tower blue prints in his mind and locate the room she was talking about. "The interrogation room."

"Perfectly sealed from the inside." Starfire noted looking across the three other titans.

"You've certainly out done yourself Raven." Cyborg grinned before sitting back down.

"Speaking of Raven…" Starfire brought attention to the missing titan.

Robin sat up sharply. "Where'd she go?" Three clueless faces looked back at him.

Raven (Starfire) perched on the tower roof ledge watching the sun move lazily through the sky. The draft pulled the cloak in swaying motions and bristled her skin.

She just needed some time to be alone, to think.

Though loneliness may not have been her forte, she wasn't exactly feeling herself anyway.

The last time she and Raven had switched they had grown closer, learned how to control the others powers to save the other three. But now, all Raven felt was a giant rift slowly pulling her away from the rest. She didn't know if it was just the body's need for solitude, or her own strange thinking.

The dark girl swung her feet against the tower top before pulling them up and crossing her legs.

Without another thought she closed her eyes and concentrated on finding her center.

There, she knew she would find her answers.

Robin stalked up the stairs toward the roof. It was one of the last places to be checked, and somehow he knew she would be up there.

Starfire's (Raven's) words still rung in his ears, should he find her, he was to send Raven directly to Starfire.

His mind froze over a second and he shook his head. He was going up to see Starfire, he should not let the body switch confuse him.

Scowling his renegade thoughts Robin started up another set of stairs.

Thoughts jumped to earlier that day. Starfire, no, Raven had intimidated Mad Mod to help them. Though that should have been his job something had defiantly stopped him from taking the initiative and let Raven continue.

Maybe he was curious...

Curious of what?

Robin pushed the thoughts out of his head; he would stop thinking about Raven. Carefully he eased the roof door open, and his gaze drifted to the lone figure floating near the roof edge.

And his thoughts jumped back to Raven.

Raven heard footsteps, and knew them well.

Slowly she pulled back from the meditative center she had conjured up, proud for how well she had done meditating alone.

Still floated she opened her eyes and lowered her feet to the floor just as Robin stopped behind her.

"Robin," She turned to greet him with a smile.

"Star, I was worried, why are you out here all alone?" Robin stepped forward and looked as though he was going to embrace her, but stopped short placing a hand on her shoulder.

"I needed to do the figuring out." Raven pulled her cloak around herself, delighted that she was getting better at the cape business.

"Figure out what?" Raven felt him press a bit of pressure on her shoulder and it drew her own emerald eyes to his masked ones.

"It's not of importance, but the meditation helped greatly, see?" Raven smiled widely and spread her hands out. Robin cringed a moment, but no fever of power emerged from the girl.

"That's great Starfire." Robin stepped a bit closer looking directly at her. She couldn't help but notice he didn't need to look up anymore to see her. "Now, come on, when I found you I was supposed to take you to Raven."

"For what?" Starfire tilted her head ever so slightly to the side.

"Well Mad Mod will be arriving soon and we want him to look at the two of you right away."

Raven's eyes brightened instantly. Without thinking she jumped into Robin, hugging him flush against her in delight.

"Bounties of gratitude!" Raven shouted before bounding away in search of Raven. In her haste she completely missed Robin's flush of color as he turned to where his girlfriend in disguise had just vanished.

"What a surprise, this must be Moddie's room." Mad Mod turned the knob to the interrogation room. Still cane-less he was flanked by four of the five titans as he hobbled into the white room.

Cyborg had taken station in the command room for the interrogation room; it gave full viewing privilege into the room without the occupant knowing so.

A metal table and set of chairs had been placed inside for occupants; the rest of the room was empty.

"Make yourself at home." Starfire droned, leading him toward one of the table chairs. Raven pulled her hood up and followed him in, while Robin and Beast Boy stopped at the door entrance.

"We'll give you some time to get acquainted, just beep one of us on the communicator when you two are done." Robin commanded looking at Raven first, then Starfire.

Both girls nodded and he shut the door, sealing two alien girls and a mad criminal inside.

"And welcome ya'll, I will be your announcer, and godly genius this fine evening." Cyborg voice boomed through hidden voicing equipment in the room.

Raven smiled, and Mod mumbled something under his breath.

"Super, we all set now?" Starfire pulled out a chair seating herself, Raven followed suit.

"Fancy this," Mad Mod sighed finally sitting back to look at the two girls. "Two of ya 'ave switched."

"Obviously." Starfire bit back. "Now you have to help configure something to change us back."

"Elo now, no need to get your knickers twisted, explain how this happened first." Mod adjusted his glasses, a grin on his old face.

Starfire rolled her eyes to the ceiling praying to Azarath for more patience. "Care to take this one Starfire? Cyborg can jump in when he sees fit."

She heard the click of Cyborg's mic turn on as Raven cleared her throat and sat forward eagerly.

"Two days ago…" She began.

"That's quite a show." Mad Mod leaned forward looking between the two girls when Raven had finished retelling their oh-so-unfortunate tale.

"And?" Starfire prompted, shaking herself from a silent meditation that no longer helped.

"I can help you lot, but Moddie's going to need to know a bit more about this remote."

"We have an older prototype remote here in the tower." Cyborg piped in over the intercom.

"Have someone get it and bring it in." Starfire added before adjusting her skirt once more.

Raven (Starfire) seemed content to watch herself, it was still strange to see herself, and have no control over her body. But the strange feeling seemed not to be bothering Raven any, she had taken over the new body with initiative and fierce leadership.

"Nothin else beside eye color has changed back I assume?" Mod asked after the click of the intercom had turned off.

"I haven't noticed anything." Starfire sighed before turning to look at Raven; she was looking down, her hood was still up hiding her face in shadow. "What about you Star?"

It took a second before the girl looked up; when her eyes refocused Starfire sensed a change.

Concerned, Starfire opened her mouth to ask again, but just as she did the only door to the room slid open.

Robin strode in, one of Control Freak's remote toys in his gloved hand. He carefully set it on the table before Mad Mod. "Everything going ok?" He looked between his girlfriend and Raven, unsure of the way neither of them looked at him.

"Jolly good." Mod quipped when it looked as though no one else would take it.

"Er, alright." Robin consented awkwardly before heading back through the door he had left open.

In the silence Starfire drew herself back up. "Star?"

"Raven," Raven's (Starfire's) voice was light. She paused looking down at her lap where her hands were folded. "I think our beings are assimilating."

Before Starfire (Raven) could ask Raven had stood and stuck out her arm. Caurefully she rolled back the black fabric of the suit to reveal the skin along her arm.

It started near the palm of her hand and traveled into her inner arm, the gray skin had changed; it was almost a blending of gray and orange.

Starfire gaped before drawing out her arms to have a look, the orange skin seemed blander, a less radiant orange.

"Mixing?" Starfire frowned at the change in the Tameranian skin.

"What an unfortunate surprise." Mad Mod drew the two girls gazes to him. Through his spectacles he was regarding them intensely.

"May I enquire why you are staring?" Raven spoke after a few moments silence.

"My pet, would ya remove your cloak?" He inquired.

Raven started to oblige as Starfire stood up, her temper stepped in. "You sick little-"

Mod seemed to catch what she was insinuating, while a confused Raven looked on. "No, nothing like that, Moddie just wants to see how much of 'er skin has blended."

Starfire gave him a harsh look but nodded as Raven unskillfully unlatched the broach and slipped the cape off her shoulders.

The two onlookers were frozen a second looking over the skin that had once been gray.

In the background there was a click signaling Cyborg's return.

"Hey ya'll, what'd I miss?"

"Cyborg, you better come see this, now." Starfire commanded still looking at her precious body, no longer so familiar to her.

"Wow." Cyborg looked over Raven just as the other two had.

The strange discoloration ran up the back of her neck to round and start staining her cheeks, it splashed down the back of her legs and arms as well. It was a ghoulish color that had begun to run untamed across the girl's skin.

Starfire backed up and uncharacteristically flopped down in her chair. "Please tell me someone can fix this."

Raven watched her with fearful eyes; if Raven was concerned, then it was a big deal.

"My duckies, it looks as though you've been in an unstable transformation."

Cyborg still stood over Raven carefully moving her arm, turning her around, rechecking all the areas infected. "This is like genetically altering stuff. Your DNA's are blending."

"And our souls?" Starfire prompted rubbing her fingers across her temple, a thundering headache was starting.

"They're still switched. I might be able to stop and reverse the genetic traits, but I have no idea about soul switching." Cyborg paused and turned to Mad Mod.

"It took time to create my cane, and you all just had to go and snap it...stupid yanks." Mod grumbled the last part.

"How long?" Raven spoke up reattaching her cape the best she could.

"Two weeks at best." Mod readjusted his eyeglasses.

Starfire groaned and rolled her eyes.

"Raven, are you not overjoyed that in such little time we will be us again?" Raven pulled up her hood and looked quizzically at the other girl.

"Oh, I'm just estatic." Starfire barbed.

Cyborg cringed, trying to decide if it would be safe to escape.

He was saved the choice, however, when their alarm sprang through the tower. The three titans in the room immediatly began to blink in various places.

"Great timing." Cyborg commented pulling his arm to see Robin appear on the screen.

"Johnny Rancid is downtown," Robin informed the group.

"Can you handle him yourself?" Cyborg asked before Robin had switched off the link.

The boy looked confused for a second. "No, he's got hostages and some lackies who are doin the robbing, the situation is considered highly dangerous, why?"

Cyborg turned his arm toward Starfire, who besides looking completely menacing was looking strangly pale. "Their skin colors are blending." Cyborg added for clarification.

Robin cursed, making the three of them exchange curious looks. "Well Starfire is basically covered in that cloak so she should be good, have her start toward Madison Ave, and send Raven to the garage, I'll figure something out." Robin clicked off the link.

"Off you go now, just run out on dear 'ol me." Mod finally drew the titans attention back to him.

"I'll seal the room, and we'll discuss this more indepth when we get back." Cyborg added ushering the girls toward the door that had been left open.

"Tah, tah Titans." Mod added sarcastically before the door shut leaving him in an empty silence.

"Raven have you worked on flying?" Robin asked pulling his bike out. The others had already started toward the scene.

"I have to imagine happy things, what do you think?" Starfire added taking a seat behind Robin and carefully gripping around his waist.

"The only thing I can imagine to make sure no one notices is for you to keep a quick speed, there for flying."

"So I've got to imagine something happy."

"Basically." Robin grinned and revved the engine taking off toward Madison Avenue.

"Don't any of you move, or they're going to eat electrons." Rancid had a group of three little girls cornered, a sort of proton canon aimed at them while his groupies hauled bags of cash out of the bank.

Three of the Titans stood at the entrance to the bank as crooks and cash passed right by them.

"Dude!" Beast Boy whispered to Raven who was next to him. "What are we going to do?"

"I know not." Raven responded looking up at Cyborg for an answer.

"Just stay still, we don't want to get them hurt." Cyborg responded, watching the scene carefully for a lead.

Robin, careful as always had parked his bike a street away, as Starfire waited. They moved to the corner to take a look at the brick bank building not far down Madison.

There were three or four guys exiting and entering the bank with loot, but the other three Titans were no where in sight and neither was Rancid.

"We should try going through the back," Robin whispered. "Can you try and fly us over the building?"

"Try is a subjective word." Starfire mumbled, but closed her eyes nonetheless.

She searched her mind for something that would make her happy. Her friends...cute kittens...books...

Opening her eyes, she was still on the ground. Robin was watching her patiently. She snapped her eyes shut again. The image of Robin waiting set her mind in restlessness, but she pushed it aside to imagine changing back, her own body...

And suddenly the ground was no longer below her feet. Looking around, she had done it, flight in a foreign body. Robin looked pleased as she grabbed his hands to pull him up with her.

Carefully to avoid being spotted, she rounded the building, and set Robin down beside the back door before her own feet felt land again.

Robin eased the door open quietly and the two slipped inside. They could hear yelling and noises of havoc from the bank as they made down the back hallway toward the clerk counter.

Just as they were coming up at the desk the two ducked down to almost crawling height and inched toward the closest clerk. The lady was alarmed, but didn't make a sound, Johnny's voice was booming.

"May we negociate their release?" It was Raven's voice that came next.

The two titans in hiding paused and looked at each other, so the other three were here.

"Don't you move, or I'll use this." Rancid's deep voice threatened. It alerted Robin and Starfire of his position.

"What does he have?" Robin whispered to the clerk.

The woman whimpered a second before finding her voice. "A gun, he's holding three girls hostage."

Robin nodded before moving beside Starfire to relay the information. "Think you can shoot it out?" Robin whispered to her.

Starfire nodded and eased herself up slowly. All she needed was a clear shot at Rancid over the counter. She summonded all her anger of the earlier days, the remote...switching...Starfire's damned skirt...

Her hands began to glow as she made it to her feet.

Rancid was five or so feet away, if she missed, he'd get his shot at her. She aimed and arched her hand back and...

"Raven!" Starfire's voice violated her ears from across the bank. Raven had perked up at the sight of the girl and everything in the bank seemed to pause.

Rancid turned, aiming his gun in the direction Raven had yelled. And suddenly Starfire was looking down the barrel of a gun her arm still poised to fire.

As he clenched the trigger, Starfire's feet were hit out from under her, and she collapsed right under his shot, that blasted away part of the wall. She landed hard on her back and opened her eyes to see Robin hunched over her, a concerned look on his masked face.

He stayed only a second before moving to the end of the counter and standing himself. Without hesitation he threw a bird-a-rang with perfect precision.

Starfire still stared at the ceiling a little stunned. Robin had just saved her life. She could hear the clink of metal that signaled Rancid had lost his gun and the charging of the other Titans. Robin had hopped the counter to help in the brawl as the girl still laid on her back.

A million things ran back through her memory as she pushed herself up, her back ached painfully, but it was sure better than the alternative. In a sort of daze she was able to get to her feet, holding herself up with the counter. All of Johnny Rancid's gang had been tied up, and the hostages were being led out, a police siren had appeared in the distance.

So sorry this one took a while, thanks to my brother the computer that had my writing on it died. It took with it everything. (weeps in corner) If it's not one thing, it's another.

But thanks for the large amount of reviews, it makes me feel special! And gives me motivation to continue.

And I made this chapter extra long since you all had to wait so long.

Ooh, and with this new computer, I have no spell/grammer check, would anyone like to be my beta? It doesn't pay, but you do get to read the chapters before everyone else. Pretty please? Email me if your interested.

-Dragonslayer527