A/N: Standard Disclaimers Apply

Chapter Fourteen: Rage Unleashed

Raven teleported all of us to a house in the middle class neighborhood of Quarry Lake. I looked around and saw a white, 1996, Chevrolet Caprice in the driveway. You could still make out where the car was originally marked "Police." The house itself was nondescript, and just like every fourth one in the subdivision.

"He's still inside," Raven droned as if not there.

"Then let us attack!" Kory exclaimed. The air around her hands crackled as she powered up and flew at the house.

"Starfire, wait!" I shouted in vain.

She crashed through the roof, and Gar and Vic were right behind her. Raven's eyes blinked several times and looked up at me. The lights in the house went out. Complete darkness poured out the window. No, that wasn't right. I noticed some odd refraction, like the light from the outside was being sucked in.

"Close your eyes!" I shouted to anyone that could hear me. Raven looked away and shielded her face with her hood. My anti-flare lenses automatically slid into place, and even through my eyelids, I could see the blinding flash. It was like looking into the sun.

"What was that?" Raven gasped.

"Looks like Light has picked up a few new tricks," I snarled. "Let's go!"

"Do we have plan?" she asked as we ran to the door.

"Not yet." I focused and released a kick. The door nearly exploded off its hinges, and I rushed in.

I could see several fast food bags on a center table. Light from the massive hole in the roof came in an a great, bright shaft, casting everything in harsh bright and shadow zones. Doctor Light stood in the center of the shaft, arms open, like he was the Messiah of Photons. Vic, Gar, and Kory were at his feet, unconscious. I hoped.

"Light!" I growled.

Doctor Light took a deep breath and turned his gaze toward me. His beady eyes now glowed. I dove as he fired two white hot lasers at me. I smelled the scorched drywall, but kept my eyes locked on him.

"Hello, Nightwing," he said. "What, no smug little taunt? I was sure you had some pithy and pointless thing to tell me. Ah, and dear little Raven, I so hoped I'd see you again. I have such plans."

"We know all about those plans, you monster," she spat.

Light grinned perversely. "Monster? I've ascended to the rank of monster?" He laughed unsettlingly.

I took two steps toward him.

"Stay where you are, hero," he ordered. A beam burst from his fingertip. It seared the ground and drew a line towards Kory. "I'd hate to see your beautiful friend get… blemished."

I stopped and glared at Light. Vic began to stir, and Gar sat up.

"I can't see!" Beast Boy cried.

Raven? I thought.

Richard? What are we going to do?

I formed a picture in my mind. Raven closed her cloak around her body.

"What do you want, Light?"

"Free passage."

"You know I can't do that. You've killed four young women, and you're going to have to pay."

Light snarled. "Only four?"

Kory was coming to. I wanted her to stay down, but had no way to warn her.

"Raven!" I shouted.

Raven wrapped the house in her black aura. She cut off every incoming particle of light, and the world went pitch black. I clicked on my infrared lenses and rushed Light. I leapt to a table as I avoided his blasts of laser fire. The room blinked in strobe lights as he fired bolt after bolt.

"I can see in infrared too, boy!" he shouted but couldn't draw a bead on me. Then I could see him turn and draw a bead on a stationary target.

"Raven!" I shouted, but a second late.

The bolt hit her square in the chest, and she fell in a sickening heap. Her spell broke, and Light started his maniacal laugh again.

I had enough.

I blocked him to the ground and straddled him. His back was to me and I didn't care. I rained down punch after punch, ripped off his helmet and pounded his face into the ground. I lost count how many times.

"Nightwing!"

I rolled him over. My knuckles were bruising under my gloves. His jaw broke in three places.

"NIGHTWING!"

I saw a green flash.