A/N: Is Jayman the only one with love? Come on, you can even tell me story sucks if that's what you think.

Disclaimer: I do not own Teen Titans.

"Alright team, the 911 call from the security guard told us that we have them in the vault right now," Robin informed his team through the comm. Link in his helmet, as he sped down the street near 100 miles per hour, zigging around the cars then zazging across entire lanes of traffic, doggedly fighting the congestion to reach the bank ahead of his team.

Robin never really spoke of it, nor did the rest of the Titans, but they all thought about it, including him. Through all their fierce battles, hard won victories, and endless chases the other Titans were occasionally reminded that their fearless leader, the one who gave them all their orders, hammered out all their plans, the first to charge into battle; was, in fact, quite human, with no extraordinary abilities or powers, save perhaps for his unstoppable willpower.

He always tried to be the first to a scene they were responding to, even when it posed such a great risk, even to an expert driver; he felt that he had to keep some air of physical superiority to maintain his credibility, and by coupling that with his indomitable will he lead his team, and rarely accepted or admitted defeat.

"How many people are in the bank?" Raven asked from her speedy path with Starfire and Beast Boy, above the city rooftops.

"The guard gave an estimate of 30, but counting the staff that's probably about 45. But we don't really have to worry about that, this is the fourth time we have tracked them so far and they haven't hurt anyone too badly…yet."

"Which is why we're taking no chances, right Robin?" Cyborg added from the T-Car, which was racing down a street parallel to Robin.

"Right. We're going in full throttle, we've got to take them down, today." Robin spotted the entrance to the massive building only a few hundred yards ahead of him and he let his hand off the accelerator.

The building was directly in front of the street he was on ending at the building's cross street.

Robin hit his beaks, hard, when he was only 50 feet from the curb. He leaned slightly and brought the back of the R-Cycle into a slide. The cars going past on the street he was crossing was luckily empty for a few blocks and Robin encountered no additional traffic as he guided the bike up onto the sidewalk, the tires still skidding along, burning a great deal of rubber. The bike came to a stop just in front of the steps, Robin quickly dismounted, removed his helmet and looked up to see three of his teammates swooping down to land next to him, and Cyborg pulling up to a screeching halt and stepping out of the T-Car.

Robin quickly looked over his team then spun on his heals towards the entrance.

"Titans, GO!" He yelled rushing forward towards a solid glass wall, which was shattered just before he reached it by a starbolt. He put his arms up to shield himself as he plunged through the rain of safety glass.

When the Titans burst through the window and began to spread out through the bank, the hostages looked up from their positions on the ground with their hands clasped over their heads.

"Get up, go, quietly." Robin whispered to a small group of people on the floor, kneeling down next to them. The quickly got to their feet and hurriedly, but quietly ran out the building. The other Titans were doing the same with the other hostages and within a minuet the bank was empty, save for the Titans, and their adversaries.

Robin gave a series of hand signals to the team and the silently moved to the hallway that lead to the vault. Lined up in a single line, shoulder to shoulder, they filled the hallway, and they proceeded in near unison with silence and speed.

Robin could see the guard lying on the ground, blood was coming from his head, but he was still breathing, he hit a button on his communicator, which sent a signal to dispatch the police and ambulances to the site of the signal.

A small security camera buzzed almost inaudibly from side to side.

The Titans were a few yards from the corner when two people ran around it, speaking to each other at a level that was inaudible to the Titans. Both groups saw one another and stopped in their tracks, they stared blankly at each other for a moment and then Robin switched back into leader mode, having only lost less than a second.

"Stop right there!" He called out furiously, the Titans assumed battle positions as he said this.

The two they had encountered took their own fighting stances. The one known only as Ariel said one last thing to the other, known as Black Thorn before Robin made one final demand.

"Surrender, now. You can't win."

"I wouldn't be so sure." Black Thorn responded.

"Titans, GO!" He yelled and the Titans sprang into action, lunging for the criminals they sought to put away.

Robin reached Ariel first and leaped at him with a powerful kick, Ariel stepped to the left, pushing Robin's leg out of his way and then hitting him hard in the stomach, temporarily knocking the wind out of him.

Robin fell to the ground, he saw a small flash of light, like a camera going off, but he recovered and got to his feet after only a few seconds, ready to continue the fight only to be met with frustrated silence.

"They have disappeared." Starfire said, obviously irked.

"Just like every other time." Cyborg added.

"Raven," Robin turned to the half-demon, rubbing his stomach "do you sense any sort of magic involved?"

"Yes, but it's very subtle, I don't think it has anything to do with the disappearance." The Titans had walked outside the bank and were standing in front of their vehicles.

"Alright, take us home, please, Raven." Robin said, wanting to continue the conversation back at the tower.

Black energy enveloped the Titans and their Car as well as Robin's motorcycle and suddenly they were back at the tower, in the main room, and the cars back in the garage on the bottom floor.

"Dude, why can't we just do that every time?" Beast Boy exclaimed, throwing up his arms.

"Because it takes to much of my energy, I still need to fight…" Raven answered with a touch of annoyance barely disguised in her voice.

"Cyborg, is there any kind of transportation technology that you know of that could od this?" Robin asked, turning to him.

"Hmm, well, I head stuff about it being developed and tested successfully on things, but it's a military thing, and on things never on people."

"Well, the have it. We're pretty sure of that. That's how they have been doing so well, and getting away so easy."

"So what do we do now?" Raven said, putting her hands on her hips in frustration.

"I think I may have a way to track them…" Robin said, almost as if talking to himself "Cyborg, have the Police sent us the security camera footage from the bank yet?"

Cyborg took a few steps over to the computer and sat in the chair in front of it. He began typing and soon found what he was looking for.

"Yeah Robin. They sent them a couple a minuets ago." He brought up the files and got up from the chair to let Robin sit down.

Robin quickly sat at the computer consol and reviewed the material.

"Yes," he said after a few minuets and the team gathered around him " it is definitely some kind of energy transportation device." He pointed to the bright flash as the video kept replaying itself on a loop a few seconds: The two thieves were there, standing in the hallway, then a flash of light at the cores of their bodies and concomitantly, they were gone.

"The bank has infrared sensors, right?" Cyborg asked Robin.

"Yeah, yeah…good one. They do.." Robin began typing again quickly, becoming totally absorbed in his pursuit.

After several minuets of work, and the team standing patiently around Robin, Beast Boy poked up one finger and asked.

"Uh, dude, what are you doing?"

Robin turned around halfway, revealing the screen, then he stood up. His face was expressionless, his form was imposing. Beast Boy began to cower where he stood.

Robin let slip a very faint grin, he then turned to the huge screen on the wall and held up a small remote. What was on the computer screen appeared on its larger counterpart.

"Alright, now…human beings are basically, giant infrared light bulbs. Business use small infrared detectors for security." Robin used the remote to bring up a few more items on the screen.

"But, by picking up light on the infrared spectrum they also pick up other forms of light that are not visible to the eye." He showed the same portion of video from before, now with a red filter.

"And a technology like transportation would give off all kinds of different kinds of energy when it's used" Cyborg added.

"Exactly, and with the unique energy signature given off by this transporter we can analyze it, and search for similar patterns across the city." Robin lifted the remote from his side again and a three dimensional map of the city materialized on the screen.

The map focused down onto the bank and a little, pulsing red dot. Robin had the program analyze the distinct signature and then the map began to zoom out. On the screen a handful of small red dots appeared from the city, scattered about downtown are in no discernible pattern.

"We have too many. We have to narrow the search parameters." Robin walked back over to the computer and while standing, typed in more things and the program ran itself again.

Six of the eight new markers, which had emerged from the city, disappeared from the screen, leaving only the starting point, one in a research facility of a corporation downtown and one in a warehouse by the east side docks.

"Well, we have no idea why the first marker is in the city, in this building," he said, pointing to the building with a laser pointer "but we will look into that as our back up, later, if it comes to it."

Robin used the green laser pointer to isolate the indicator near the docks, the warehouse.

"This is it, there is no rational reason for this indicator to be here other than it's where our criminals are. Get ready guys. We're gonna get 'em this time."

A/N: I didn't want another near 4000 word chapter so I am dividing this and the next one. Hope you enjoyed it.