Re-Educating Miss Roth
A Teen Titans Fan Fiction by Jacob McDonald
Opening Notes: Good to see you again. Read on.
Standard disclaimers apply. I don't own Teen Titans.
Chapter Seven - Going Down Town
Raven glanced over at Jinx the next morning as she pulled on her socks, "You look like you didn't get much sleep."
"Yeah. I was kept up by visions of love."
"What?"
"Nothing." Jinx shook her head with a grin.
"What ever you're hiding from me, Jenny, I will find out." Raven narrowed her eyes.
"I bet you will." Jinx stood up and stretched, then leaned down and grabbed her in-line skates, "I'm gonna go meet Becka and Ami. Meet you at the Land Bridge Park at six, okay?"
"Sure thing." Raven nodded, "Stay close to her, Jen. Robin called and gave me the low down, and you'll have him and Gar nearby at all times, but all the same, stay close."
"She wont leave my sight." Jinx nodded, "Ciao!"
"Later." Raven watched her go, then turned pulled on her sneakers. Walking all over shopping took athletic footwear when you were Raven Roth.
After pulling on her shoes, Raven stood and walked to the dresser where she put her wallet and a few makeup items in her small purse. She picked up the Titan communicator as well, and stared at it for a moment. He'd been on duty last night, so he'd be sleeping now, but... should she? After a moment of internal debate, she flipped open the com unit and punched in a code.
Speedy groaned and rolled over, blinding groping for his communicator where it sat on the night stand next to the bed he was sleeping on in one of the Towers guest rooms. After a moment, he found it and flipped it open. The light from the screen illuminated the dark room, which was on the interior of the Tower and had no windows.
"What?" he asked in a groggy voice.
"Hey Roy." came a meek voice from the other end. Speedy sat up in a heart beat, fully awake.
"Raven! Hey, what's up?" he grinned at her and she smiled back weakly.
"You've been working out a little." she admired his chest, then sighed, "I just... wanted to call and... say hi."
"Oh. Well, hi!" he grinned again.
"You know, the other night when I got all pissed off at you-"
"Don't sweat it, Rae. I was out of line."
"That doesn't mean I didn't enjoy it."
"Still." he shook his head, "I had no right, and from what I hear, it's thrown you for a loop. I didn't mean to compromise the mission."
"You didn't. It's under control now." she looked away from the screen, and a blush colored her cheeks, "You... wouldn't mind sticking around town for a few days after we're done with this mission, would you?"
"What for?" he arched an eyebrow.
"So we can... talk."
"Talk?" he blinked, "About what?"
"Us."
"What 'us?'"
"Roy..."
He smiled more gently, "The fact that you're even considering an 'us' is reason enough for me to stay, Raven. I'll be glad to hang out for a few days."
She looked relieved, "That's good. Thank you."
"For you?" he winked, "Anything."
"I'll talk to you later, Roy. I have to go shopping now."
"Oh, real tough mission." he rolled his eyes.
"You try it sometime." Raven grinned back, "Marathon shopping is not a spectator sport."
"Yeah, yeah. Have fun."
"I'll try. Get some sleep."
"Yeah. Talk to you soon, Rea."
"Ready?" Ami asked as she and Becka skated in circles around the bench where Jinx was fastening her own skates on. They were all dressed in jeans and t-shirts, with helmets in place and elbow and knee pads strapped on.
"Yup." Jinx stood up and grinned at them, "This is gonna rock."
They were just inside the gates of the school, and Miss Veerlin was standing off to one side, signing out the people that were leaving so she would know who was gone and who was staying. The three girls skated over to her.
"Going for a skate?" Veerlin rolled her eyes, "Try to stay on the sidewalks this time, okay girls?"
Jinx arched an eyebrow at Becka, who winked back, "We sure will." the burnet replied to the teacher with a smile, "No repeats of the last time."
Veerlin shook her head, "How about you just don't get caught this time, and we'll call it good."
"I don't know what you guys are talking about," Jinx said with a grin, "but with me around, we wont get caught." she winked at Veerlin, "Trust me."
"I'll hold you to that. Come back in one piece then." and they were waved off.
As the three girls skated to the gates, Jinx looked over at the other two, "So?"
Ami giggled and spoke up, "We were going too fast, knocked over a fruit stand, and got chased by this crazy Indian guy. We skated into traffic to try and get him off our backs, but he followed us there too, and caught us."
"Bummer. No worries. I'll be able to lose any crazy men that come after us." Jinx sounded confident.
"I hope so..." Becka grinned, "Cause we're goin' downtown, baby!"
"Where to first?" Raven asked as she, Janice and Hanna walked down the street outside the school.
"The Center Square Mall." Hanna replied firmly, "I need a dress for the dance." she adjusted her t-shirt (it had a picture of Funshine Bear on it), and tugged at the hem of her mid-thigh length black skirt. Her mid-length blonde hair was pulled up in a pony tail behind her head.
"Do you even have a date yet?" Janice asked. She was dressed in a simple violet, tunic style shirt, and flare leg jeans. Her hair was pushed back form her pretty face, and held in place on one side by a flower shaped comb. Raven thought she looked like a hippy.
"No." Hanna shook her head, "But I'm thinking about flying solo anyway."
"Huh. Looks like all of us are going dateless." Janice shot Raven a sidelong glance and a smile, "Unless things are panning out with Will Mathews?"
"Uh..." Raven felt a ting of heat creep up her cheeks, "No." The psion was wearing a black tank-top with a plunging neck line, showing off her ample assets. Over it she wore a simple red jacket, and her jeans had embroidered flames down the sides of her legs. She kept her black hair loose and falling about her face in a pretty manner.
"I see a bluuuush." Hanna sing songed.
"It's nothing." Raven mumbled, and looked away to hide her rosy cheeks.
"Come on..." Janice pounced on her and hugged her from behind, "Spill, or I grope you in public." she continued to walk along behind the black haired Titan with her hands inching up from her mid-drift.
"You are getting bold, aren't you?" Raven sighed, and batted the southern girls hands away as they crept up towards her breasts, "Get off. Sheesh, okay." Letting out a sigh as Janice let go of her, Raven straightened up, "I've been in contact with Roy again."
"The guy you slept with back in Gotham, right?" Hanna arched an eyebrow.
"Yeah. It's, uh... kind of going somewhere. Like... relationship somewhere." she blushed again.
"Oh no... you're not falling in love too are you?" Hanna looked disgusted, "Becka's enough to deal with on a daily basis."
"Oh, no worries there." Raven shook her head with a weak smile, "It's a relationship based on mutual pain and sexual attraction. Not exactly doves and cherubs."
"That sounds..." Janice searched for a word.
"Fucked up?" Hanna supplied.
"Yeah." Janice agreed, "That's fucked up, Cassie."
"Tell me about it." Raven sighed, and they lapsed into companionable silence as they continued to the mall.
Becka slid on her rear end down the rail of the concrete steps that led down into Green Park, near the center of Jump City. Ami came shortly after her, simply jumping the small flight and landing in a crouch, still skating away. Jinx was last, and she leapt up and positioned her skates on the railing as Becka was jumping off the other side. She slid down as well, grinding the whole way, then jumping off and landing perfectly.
"Woo!" she pumped a fist in the air, "Alright! Let's see if we can find a cute jogger to harass!"
"There's one!" Ami pointed, "Hey! Shirtless too!"
Becka grinned, "This way ladies. We should skate while we're here... Lord knows the cops'll be here quick enough."
"Amen to that." Jinx skated up next to her, then spun around and skated backwards in front of her, "You okay?"
Becka blinked, "Why wouldn't I be?"
"Oh, I dunno. There was that little thing with a hit man trying to cap you the other night, but I guess that's no big deal..."
The burnet rolled her eyes as Ami skated up next to them, "I'll be fine, Jenny. It was probably a one time thing."
As they flew past a decent sized oak, a green squirrel skittered down and twitched it's nose at them.
"I think we should keep you away from the black, Cassie." Hanna eyed the dress Raven was holding up over her own form in a critical manner, "It washes you out."
Raven blinked at her, "That's the point."
"To look like a corpse?"
"What part of 'Goth' don't you understand?" Janice asked from the door to the changing room, "What do you think?"
The other two girls turned and looked at her. The gown was long, spaghetti straps holding up the straight, sparkly blue fabric that hugged her curves.
"Too flashy." Hanna remarked.
"Not low cut enough." Raven put in, "You need to show off those great boobs a bit more. All those sweaters you own are a bit too mousy."
"What's wrong with the tunic shirt?" Janice asked with an arched eyebrow.
"It makes you look like a lesbian."
"I am a lesbian."
"But that doesn't mean you have to dress like one." Hanna grinned and shooed her back into the changing room, "Try the darker blue one. It'll go with your eyes better."
"Right, right." Janice chuckled and walked back into the fitting rooms.
Raven watched her go, then turned back to Hanna, "I'm not Goth, really. I'm a pagan, and therefore quite fond of earth tones. Though my favorite color is blue..."
"I'm thinking red for you."
"Red?" Raven wrinkled her nose, "Get out."
"No, really!" Hanna smiled at her, "What about... this one?" she pulled a dress off a rack and showed it to the Titan.
"It's too... hmmm..." Raven looked at it closer, "Maybe if I..." she reached out and took the dress, "You're too damn good at this."
"I know." Hanna smiled weakly, "You think... Roy will be going with you to the dance?"
"What?" Raven laughed a little, "No! Oh, hell no!"
"Why not? I mean, you said earlier that you might be heading for something meaningful, and-"
"Roy Harper is the ward to Oliver Queen. He's a multi-billionaire."
"Holy shit... marrying into money, huh?"
"Let's not get ahead of ourselves." Raven looked back at the changing rooms as Janice stepped back out.
"Okay, darker blue." the southern girl smiled, "Good enough for you, Cassie?"
Raven let out a low whistle. The gown was slightly shimmery, and swayed about Janice's well formed body in a seductive manner. The neck line plunged a bit, revealing almost half of her breasts on either side, and gathering in loose folds around her shoulders.
"I'd fuck you." Hanna said.
"Ditto." Raven nodded, "You're damn hot, Jan."
Janice blushed a little, "Stop it. You know I'm a boob girl, and you're both stacked. Don't make me take you up on your offers."
Raven rolled her eyes, "I think Janice has he dress. Hanna, you want to try anything here on?"
"I've got one picked out. Let's get changed so we can see what we look like."
"Alright." and all three of them entered the changing rooms, Janice to change back into her street clothes, and the other two to try on their dresses.
A man in a business suit checked his watch as he sipped his coffee. The park was a nice place to take his lunch, but it was a decent walk from his building. He had just enough time to get back to the office in time for the meeting and close the deal that would make him millions.
Three female forms blew past him, one of them bumping into him and sloshing his coffee down the front of the Armani he wore.
"Sorry!" the blonde haired skater called over her shoulder at him, then giggled and continued on after her friends.
The man whimpered, looked down at his suit, then at his watch again.
He began to cry.
"You need to watch where you're going, Jenny." Becka said to her as they skated down the paved walkway that ran through the park, "What if that guy had someplace to be?"
"I said I was sorry." Jinx sounded entirely unrepentant.
"So where to now?" Ami asked.
"Westbrook Mall?" Becka grinned, "We can shop a little, then tear up the courtyard. It's like a skaters wet dream."
"Sweet." Jinx nodded. Raven and the others would be at Westbrook in a little while to do some more shopping. Having all of the girls in one place was safer.
"Let's get to it then. It's a cross town skate." Ami took off, "Last one there is buying lunch!"
"Hey!" Jinx took off after her, "No fair! I'm broke!"
Giggling, Becka followed. She didn't see the shadow move along the edge of the building she skated past as she left the park. She didn't see the other shadow in the ally she flew past in her effort to catch up to her friends.
On a rooftop across the street, with the eyes of his mask narrowed, Robin did.
"That will be $224.67." the cashier said to Raven as she finished ringing up the dress, the shoes, the jewelry, and the long gloves.
Raven blinked at her. She hadn't realized it was going to be that much. "Um.. yeah. Hold on..." she reached for her purse, only to discover it wasn't there, "Wha... oh shit. Hold on, I think I left my purse over at the changing rooms."
"Okay." the cashier nodded as Raven took off. The black haired girl muttered curses at herself as she stalked back to the changing rooms. How could she have forgotten her purse? True, she wasn't used to having to carry one, but-
She stopped dead when she saw a young man standing by the changing rooms, his short red hair marking him in an instant. Roy Harper turned and regarded her with a curious expression, "Think it looks good?" he motioned to the shirt he was wearing.
"Roy!" she hissed as she stalked forward and grabbed his arm, "What the hell are you doing here?"
"Trying on a new shirt." he pointed again, "Why?"
"You can't just... you... jerk!" she glared.
"Look," he smiled down at her, "I'm undercover, okay? Your friends wont notice me, and Dick doesn't even know I'm here."
"Why are you here?"
"I missed you?" he sounded hopeful.
Raven glared for a moment more, than turned and walked back to the main isle. She looked to the left and saw Janice, "Hey, Jan?"
"Yeah?" Janice looked over from where she was inspecting some perfume.
"I found a shirt I want to try on. I'll just be a minute."
"Okay. Hurry up, we need to get over to the Westbrook Mall too."
"Sure." Raven walked back over to Roy, grabbed his arm, and yanked him with her into the changing rooms.
"Uh... Rae..." he chuckled, "What the hell are you doing?"
"Shut up, Roy." she dragged him with her into a stall, then shut and locked the door behind them, "Now hurry up... we have to be quite." and she shrugged out of her jacket.
Roy grinned and unbuttoned the shirt he was wearing.
"What's taking her so long?" Hanna complained to Janice, "She forgot her purse, then found another shirt to try on, and then what? She's been gone for almost fifteen minutes."
"Maybe I should go check on her." Janice looked back to the changing rooms, just in time to see Raven come strolling back, her purse in hand, "Or maybe not."
"What the hell took so long, Cassie?" Hanna glared.
"I got side tracked. Sorry." As she stepped closer to them, both girls noticed that she was subtly adjusting her bra, and that she looked quite flushed.
"Are you okay?" Janice asked, her eyes narrowing, "If I didn't know any better, I'd say you look like you just had an orgasm."
"That's ridiculous, Jan. I don't carry a vibrater with me, and it's not like I'd just pick up a random guy and screw him in the changing rooms for crying out loud." Raven cleared her throat. "Sorry." she said to the cashier, "How much was it?"
"$224.67."
"Right." Raven opened her purse and blinked down at it. Sitting on top of everything was a debit card with the name Roy Harper on it. Paper clipped to it was a slip of paper with four numbers on it. Shaking her head with a smile, Raven pulled out the card and handed it to the young woman behind the counter, "It'll be debit."
Jinx skated along behind her two friends as they chatted about the merits of Chad Doxon. Smiling in a contented fashion, she didn't even notice as a dark form darted out of the ally she was gliding past. The figure grabbed her arm with one hand, and covered her mouth with the other, yanking her into the darkness.
She began to struggle, but a familiar voice hissed in her ear, "It's me, Jinx." Robin said quietly, "Cut it out." He took his hand off her mouth.
"Stop trying to comp a cheep feel and I'll stop thrashing!" she whispered back, "What the hell, Dick?"
"Robin!" he squeezed her arm extra firmly before letting her go, and she winced. It would probably bruise. "Listen, there's six men shadowing you along the rooftops and from the shadows around here."
"And you haven't stopped them why?"
"They're good. I can't do it without drawing attention to you. I'm not sure what they're waiting for, but I'm betting it's for you guys to stop. Whenever you do, make sure it's in an easily defensible position. I'll need you to hold these guys off for a few minutes before we show up. It has to look like we aren't following Pullman."
"Right." Jinx nodded, "You have a spare toy or two that'll help me out?"
Robin sighed, and reached behind himself. Pulling out a small rod, he handed it to her, "Extendable bo staff. Only use it if you have to."
"Will do." Jinx turned away from him, "That all?"
"One more thing."
She turned back, "Yeah?"
"Be careful out there." his voice softened, and he smiled a little smile at her.
"O-okay..." she blinked, "Thanks."
"Get going."
"Alright." she nodded with a small smile of her own, then took off. Robin watched her go, then turned around to head back to the roof tops. He stared when he saw Starfire sitting on a crate down the ally way a little further. She grinned at him.
"Be careful out there?" she quoted.
Robin grumbled, "I just don't want her to get banged up and have to pull her out of the school. Raven can't do this alone."
"Of course."
"What? You think I care about her?"
"I am not jealous if that is what you are insinuating."
"That's not it at all, Kori! You think I think that she... she..." he crossed his arms and glared at her.
Starfire giggled.
"You okay?" Hanna nudged Raven as the black haired girl was inspecting a lacy looking bra at the Victoria's Secret in Westbrook Mall. Raven glanced over at her with a small smile and nodded.
"I should be asking you that. You... went through a much tougher ordeal than I've ever-"
"Don't." Hanna cut her off with a small frown, "I'm fine. You've been a little flushed since we left Center Square."
Raven blushed, then straightened up and glanced around. Seeing Janice occupied with a sales person, she grabbed Hanna's arm and dragged her over to a display of barely there panties. She grinned over at the blonde, "You know Roy?"
"Speedy, right?"
"Right. He's in town for the protection gig at the school."
"Really? You must be going crazy not being able to see him. You said you two were getting serious?"
"Kinda. Not sure yet." Raven shrugged, "Anyway, he was at Center Square when we were there..."
"Oh no..." Hanna giggled, "You did have an orgasm, didn't you?"
"I'm having sex in more fitting rooms from now on." Raven grinned and nodded.
Hanna gasped, then giggled. Her mirth faded quickly though, and was replaced by a sad smile, "Wish I could... have that."
"Hanna..." Raven suddenly grew serious as well, "What that man did to you... don't take that as what all men will do. There's a great guy out there for you, and-"
"I just don't... want anyone to touch me like that again. Not for a while anyway." she looked away, "I don't want to talk about this."
Raven inspected her friend's profile for a moment, then slowly, she spoke, "Gar said you talked to Starfire a little..."
"She mentioned that she would be willing to talk with about it, but so has everyone else-"
"Star would be better than me, I think." Now it was Raven who looked away.
Hanna's eyes went wide, "Has she...?"
Raven shook her head, "I don't know. She lived as a slave for quite a while when she was younger. For a Princess, it must have been very hard."
"She's a Princess?"
"Of a whole planet." Raven nodded.
"Wow... maybe I should..."
"I think the two of you would get along great." the darker haired girl smiled warmly, "Now let's find Jan."
"Robin?" Beast Boy held his com unit to his mouth as he spoke, "You see these guys?"
The reply came quickly, "Yeah. I've got Jinx on the lookout, and she's armed now, but be ready to swoop in on my mark. We have to make it look like we're responding."
"Alright." he nodded, "You think we should call in Cy or Speedy?"
"They were both out all night. Let them rest."
"You sure we can handle these punks on our own? I mean, Jinx can help a little, but Raven wont be able to use her powers at all..."
"Starfire's with me."
"Oh." Beast Boy grinned, "Ooookaaaaay."
"What the hell does that mean?"
"Nothing."
"Bullshit, Gar! What the hell are you-" Beast Boy shut his com with a chuckle.
Raven arched an eyebrow as she led Hanna and Janice into the open air courtyard of the Westbrook Mall. Jinx had Ami and Becka there, and they were sitting around the modern art sculpture that sat in the center of the yard, chatting.
As the three shoppers walked up, Ami glanced over at them, then grinned, "Vicky's, huh?" she pointed to the bags that all three girls were carrying, "Hot dates all around?"
"I buy all my bras there." Raven rolled her eyes.
"I found some with good support." Hanna smirked evilly at Ami, "Some of us have to worry about that sort of thing."
Ami glanced down at her own small breasts, then around at the other girls, "Hey! All you chicks with big tits went shopping and all of us with average sizes went out skating! We're segregating!"
Jinx rolled her eyes as well, "Speak for yourself. I'm a B cup."
"Me too." Becka stuck her tongue out at Ami, "You're the only one here with tiny boobs, Ami."
"Screw all ya'll." Ami grinned and stretched, "You guys all up for lunch?"
"Sure." Raven nodded, "I saw a great little Tai Cuisine place just over there..." she pointed.
"Sweet!" Becka got to her feet, "Let's-" she was cut off as a Jinx darted in front of her and held out a finger. Spinning around, the pink eyed girl covered her friend's body with her own, and flung the throwing star she'd just caught back the way it came, "Down!" she shouted.
All of the girls dropped, except Raven, who jumped over next to Becka as well, "How many are there?" she demanded of Jinx.
"Six, I think." Jinx responded, her eyes darting around, "Everyone stay calm and stay down!"
Hanna glanced over in a direction that neither Raven or Jinx was looking and saw a tall man wearing a dull yellow body suit, with red stripes running away from his covered face, and all along the length of his body. He wore at least three swords strapped to his back, twin daggers at his sides, and had two tonfa sticks ending in wicked looking blades strapped to his wrists.
And he was marching toward them.
"Cassie!" the blonde shrieked, and Raven looked over. Her violet eyes widened when she saw the man and she leapt in front of her friends.
"You want Becka? You go through me."
"Ra-Cassie!" Jinx stood up as well as five more dark forms dropped to the ground all around them from the roof of the building. They were all dressed as ninjas. "Are you crazy? You can't take these guys!"
"And you can?" Raven yelled back, "We have to hold them off until the cops get here!"
"Oh, we're not waiting for the cops." the yellow and red clad man smirked at them, "We're waiting for the Titans."
"Then you're an idiot." Raven sneered, "The Titans will kick your ass to hell and back."
"I don't think so. Boys! Kill the mark!"
Three of the five ninja's rushed in towards Becka. She screamed as Jinx growled.
"You want this?" the pink eyed girl screamed, "Then come on!" and she hurled herself at the nearest ninja. He drew a sword and chopped at her in an amateurish swing, and she dodged it with insane speedy. She delivered an open handed strike to his jaw, sending him reeling as the next mook came in.
Jinx lashed out past his staff and kicked him in the face.
Raven meanwhile was staring down the ring leader, "Who are you? Why do you want to kill Becka?"
"Because I'm being paid an awful lot of money to do so," he grinned even wider as he raised his arm blades, "And the name is-"
"Shrike!" Robin screamed as he descended from the rooftop as well. He landed in front of Raven and slammed his staff across Shrike's midsection with enough force to blast the man backwards off his feet. Shrike tumbled out of the fall, and came up with his arm blades ready to deflect Robin's next attack. The two bounced back from each other and panted. Robin gave his coldest glare, "Impossible... I watched Shrike die."
Raven gasped at that and took a few steps back. Shrike just grinned again, "So did I, Freddy. So did I."
"No..." Robin breathed, re-gripping his staff even tighter, "Boone..."
"That's right. Boone." the snarled as he darted in, putting Robin on the defensive.
"Old friend of yours, Robin?" Beast Boy asked as he flew dropped to the ground behind Shrike.
"Something like that." Robin grunted as he blocked Shrike's strikes, "Help the girls."
"On it." and Beast Boy morphed into a rhino, charging across the courtyard at the two ninjas that weren't occupied with Jinx at the moment.
Starfire descended as well, raining starbolts around Shrike, and making him back off. "Shall we subdue this man quickly, Robin?" she asked as she powered another blast.
"Don't underestimate him! He's a highly trained killer!" Robin shouted back.
"I do not fear this man!" Star swooped in to strike him, but Shrike just grinned.
"NO!" Robin darted forward, but it was too late. The assassin pulled out a small box and hurled it at Star, catching her in the chest with it. The box exploded on contact and a net burst out of it. A net lined with three pronged fishhooks.
Star fell to the ground with a cry of pain as the hooks worked their way into her flesh.
"Damn you!" Robin was on Shrike again in an instant, and they were exchanging blows once more.
Across the courtyard, Jinx was putting down her second ninja for good. A swift punch to his neck, then a knee to his face sent him flying several feet and landing on his back. He groaned, but didn't move.
As she whirled around to face the third mook she was fighting, he pulled out a handful of shurikan and hurled them at Becka. Jinx's eyes went wide and she dove in the path of the flying bits of metal, catching three of the four deadly objects. The one that got past her sailed right at the wide eyed Becka's neck-
And slammed into Hanna's shoulder as the blonde dove in front of her friend. She cried out in pain as she slumped into Becka, and the brown haired girl grabbed hold of her, "Hanna! What are you doing?"
"They're trying to kill you..."
"So? I don't want my friends to die because-"
"Waaa!" Beast Boy sailed over their heads and landed in a heap. Hanna's eyes went wide when she saw a slash across his arm, "Gar!" she screamed.
The other three huddled girls all stopped quaking in fear and turned to Hanna. In unison they all said, "Gar?"
Hanna blushed, "Um..."
"You're dead, bitch!" the ninja that had just tossed Beast Boy lunged over Janice and tried to get to Becka. Becka screamed, but was once again saved, this time by Ami, who stood up swiftly and slammed a fist into the ninja while he was in mid-air.
"Get away!" she shouted.
"Ami!" Jinx was grappling with the third ninja she had been fighting before, "Stay down and let Cassie deal with him!"
"What?" Ami gaped at her friend, even as the dark blur that was Raven jumped past her and slammed into the recovering mook.
"I've got this, Ami. Protect Becka." and she flew into a spin, knocking the ninja away with a roundhouse kick.
Robin and Shrike tumbled past them, Robin without his staff, and Shrike without his wrist blades. They struggled on the ground for a moment, then Shrike slammed his forehead into Robin's nose, knocking the Boy Wonder away. "Ha!" he screamed as he pulled out a katana and slashed at his opponent.
An arrow flew from nowhere and knocked the sword from his grasp before he could chop into Robin. Glancing up, he saw Speedy already firing again, and dodged to the side to avoid the small explosion the arrow made. Growling, he dove between where Raven and Jinx were fighting their opponents and grabbed Becka, who was still being clung to by Hanna. Shrike lifted both girls off the ground and dashed away quickly.
"Break off, men!" he shouted over his shoulder.
All the ninjas that were fighting jumped back and hurled smoke bombs at the ground. The others all picked themselves up and followed suit, covering the courtyard with a think smoke screen.
"Raven!" Robin shouted, "Don't let them get away!"
Raven called out, "Azarath, Metrion, Zinthos!" and waved an arm. The smoke in the courtyard blew away suddenly, but the ninjas were already gone.
Shrike's voice echoed around them, "I want a rematch Robin. You and me. I'll keep the girls alive until then... for now."
As his laughter faded away, Robin stood where he was an fumed, then whirled about to help his girlfriend out of the net.
"Robin?" Raven took a few steps toward him, "We have to follow-"
"He's gone." Robin snarled back at her, "I know how he operates. He and I... trained together for a time."
"You trained with the League of Assassins?" Jinx asked as she walked over, "Cause these guys definitely did. I recognize the fighting style."
"It was an undercover mission, back when I was in Gotham." Robin began to cut away the netting that was trapping Starfire, and she nodded her thanks, "A mission a lot like the one we just blew."
Raven and Jinx's eyes both popped open and they turned slowly to see Ami and Janice staring at them with equally wide eyes.
"You..." Ami pointed, "You're Raven?"
As Speedy dropped to the ground next to her and placed a hand on her shoulder, and Beast Boy groaned and sat up, Raven blinked. She looked over at Jinx, and Jinx looked back.
"Fuck." they said in unison.
Closing Notes: Dun dun DUN! Things just got a whole lot more messed up, eh? Expect a knock out, throw down, beat your face in battle between Robin and Shrike in the next chapter. And hey, what about poor Hanna? Raped, kidnapped, hit with a throwing star... how much more can I abuse this poor kid?
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