Alyssa307 said: I don't hate Starfire. She's too adorable and cute and innocent to be hated by other peeps.

And I just want to say...THANK YOU! FINALLY SOMEONE GETS IT!

AU


Hero

"-it was so awesome you wouldn't even believe it if you were there!"

Dick rolled his eyes. "Wally, I've worked with Bruce since I was a kid; believe me, Barry running so fast he broke the sound barrier isn't the weirdest thing I've seen."

"Good point," Wally grinned. "But seriously, if I were that fast-"

Dick shoved him playfully. "You'd still have to beat Bart."

Wally rolled his eyes. He knew that The Flash and Impulse were a lot faster than him, but he was working on his speed! "Thanks, Dick. Way to crush my dreams."

The former Boy Wonder chuckled, freezing when he heard a woman scream.

"Gotta go."

"Dick, wait!" Wally sighed, the man was already out of hearing range.

The ginger haired hero grumbled to himself as he turned and walked into an alley. "I swear this guy is going to get us killed sometime." He sped out of the alley, in full yellow and red getup.

When he got there; he saw his best friend fighting two of the Tyrants. Jinx and Bumble Bee.

"Kid Flash! Get Jinx!" Nightwing yelled, dodging an attack from the Bee-themed villain.

"On it," Kid Flash rushed into the fight and knocked the sorceress away from his leader.

Jinx groaned when she hit the ground, scowling as she pushed herself back up. Her eyes flickered with pink electricity when she saw him. "Bring it, Carrot Top."

As the speedster dodged all the hexes the sorceress threw at him, Nightwing worked on disarming Bumble Bee and protecting the woman who screamed.

He pressed the buttons on his sticks, causing them to electrify. With one quick movement he had them pointed at her stomach and she shot back from the force; knocking right into Jinx.

"KF!" Nightwing called.

"Yeah, yeah, I got it. No need to yell," he muttered, running the opposite direction. He ran in circles, gaining speed in the process. He may not be as fast as his mentor or Impulse, but he was fast enough to do this.

Kid Flash ran until he was sure he'd picked up enough speed, time seemed to slow down for him as he stopped in front of the two villains; turned, and threw a lightning bolt at them.

Nightwing whistled when he saw them getting blasted all the way across town. He crossed his arms and glanced at his friend. "You put a lot of force into that one."

"Yeah..." Kid Flash took a moment to catch his breath. "Told you I was fast."

"Never said you weren't," he grinned. "Just said that-"

"Oh shut up and get to the tower," he grumbled, turning and speeding into the direction of the giant blue T.

Nightwing chuckled and pressed a couple of buttons into the build in computer in his glove, waiting just a couple of seconds before his motorcycle drove up next to him. He jumped on easily and sped off in the same direction as his best friend.


Somewhere on the other side of the city, a giant building in the shape of a T was standing there. But it wasn't blue and happy like the Titans'. This one was a deep red, looking dark and brooding; you just had to walk past and you could already sense the evil.

"Stupid Kid Flash," Jinx grumbled, angrily brushing off the dust from her clothes. "Thinking he's all high and mighty with his electricity and stuff."

Bumble Bee rolled her eyes. "Relax," she took off the exoskeleton on her suit that allowed her to fly. "You aren't the only one who got fried, I got it double because of Nightwing." She stretched her body and ran a hand through her hair. She really should modify her suit, it wasn't really good for her back.

An alien with flaming red hair and green eyes flew in, wearing a black top and miniskirt, her stomach covered by metal pieces.*

"What is the matter?" She asked, raising an eyebrow.

"She's just grumpy because we got our asses handed to us." Karen called from the kitchen.

Jinx's eyes flashed as she glared at the curly haired girl. "I'm going to take a shower."

Both girls watched as she stormed off.

Kori raised an eyebrow. "She really hates losing, does she not?"

"Yep," Karen agreed, popping the P.

"Maybe we should go out tomorrow and kick the Titans' asses," another girl said as she walked into the room. She took off the Cheshire Cat mask and undid the ponytail before shaking her unruly black hair out.

"Jade, where have you been?" Kori questioned.

Jade shrugged and jumped over the couch; landing on it almost perfectly. "Robbing a random store, got kinda bored in here with you flying around space, Bee and Jinx messing with the Titans and all the others causing chaos somewhere in the town."

Karen shrugged. "Makes sense."

"Has anyone seen Rae?" Jinx asked, drying her hair with a towel while walking into the room. "I know she didn't go with the others."

"Same place she always is," Jade answered curtly, zapping through the channels and sighing. TV could be so boring sometimes.


Dick, Wally and Garth ran into the room when the Titans alarm went off.

The giant screen turned on, showing Cyborg, Beast Boy, Speedy and Jericho standing in the middle of mass destruction.

Buildings were being ripped apart, things were getting blasted to pieces, fire everywhere, people screaming and running for their lives. It was chaos.

"Beast Boy! What's going on?" Dick yelled.

The green changeling ducked a green blast and morphed back into his human form. "The Tyrants are attacking, it's bad."

Garth frowned. "They never destroyed the city this bad!"

"That's not it," Beast Boy morphed into a T-Rex for a second and knocked Terra off Cyborg before morphing back when Jericho stepped in to help.

"Raven is here."

Curses echoed all around the room at the name of the half-demon. She was easily the most dangerous of the Tyrants and could kill a lot of people with just a snap of her fingers. Everyone was lucky she rarely participated in the Tyrants' schemes, she preferred to stay at the base and monitor everything.

But at the very rare times she actually did go out...a lot of people started praying for their lives, even the nonreligious ones.

It wasn't that she was a killer, she actually tried to avoid killing the best she could; but that didn't mean she cared if people died during her mission or not.

On the screen, a girl in a pitch black cloak was flying in mid-air, her four demonic eyes glowing bright red; the same color as her skin. Speedy shot arrows at her, but she just smiled, revealing her sharper-than-knives teeth. Raven didn't even move as a black bubble protected her and the arrows bounced off as if it were plush toys.

From that moment, Cheshire ran in and kicked the archer off screen before running after him.

"We need to go," Dick decided.

Wally sped off and was back in approximately three seconds, wearing his costume.


When Nightwing, Kid Flash and Aqualad arrived at the scene; it was worse than before.

Raven just had to be in a bad mood, why else would she destroy the city so much?

Almost immediately, Jinx jumped in and shot a hex at Kid Flash, knocking him back.

Aqualad was about to follow when she went after him, but Nightwing pulled him back.

"Don't," he said. "He can handle her, go help Jericho with Starfire and Wonder Girl."

Aqualad nodded and ran towards his silent teammate, blasting Wonder Girl with water while he was running. She growled and ran at him with her lasso.

Currently, Beast Boy was fighting Terra, Cyborg was fighting Bumble Bee, Speedy was fighting Cheshire, Aqualad was fighting Wonder Girl, Jericho was fighting Starfire and Kid Flash was fighting Jinx. Which only left Nightwing and...

Beast Boy hit the ground hard when Terra threw a large rock at him. "Hey, has anyone seen Nightwing?"

"No," Cyborg blasted Bumble Bee. "Wait a second...where's Demon Girl at?"

Kid Flash dodged a hex and froze. "For God's sake, he didn't..."

"He did!" Aqualad called.

"What an idiot," Speedy shot four arrows at Cheshire, which she dodged perfectly.

Jericho managed to knock Starfire down and stared into her eyes, taking control of her body quickly. "We can't help him now, we need to take care of this," he said in her voice.

Starfire roared and forced him out, her eyes glowing a dangerous green color.


Raven sat on top of a roof, watching all the fear and destruction with a sick sense of delight.

She sighed, already sensing his presence before he even arrived at the roof.

The half-demon turned and grinned, purposefully revealing her sharp teeth and hoping he'd leave her alone.

"That won't scare me."

What was she thinking? Of course he wouldn't. His persistence was almost admirable.

Nightwing tossed one of his sticks in the air, his stance still alert despite the relaxed way he moved. "You don't have to do this, you know?"

She rolled her eyes. "You say this every time we fight."

"And I'll keep doing it until you agree," he shrugged, not even fazed by her demonic voice.

"Why do you keep doing this?" She hissed, flying around him in circles and smirking when he refused to turn his back on her. "Every time we meet you barely escape with your life, and only because I let you."

His eyes narrowed. "I see good in you, Raven, in all of the Tyrants."

She scoffed. "You're naive."

"Maybe I am," he shrugged. "Maybe I'm wrong about thinking you guys could be heroes, maybe I'm digging my own grave by just talking to you. At least I tried."

"Why?"

"I told you, I see good in you. Just because you're a Demon doesn't mean you have to be evil."

Raven dropped from the sky and landed on her feet, her four red eyes glowing with curiosity and confusion. "Maybe, but for some of us good never was an option. Jinx, Cheshire, Starfire, they didn't have a choice."

"They did," he insisted. "They just made the wrong one."

She thought about it for a second, before making a decision that could be the stupidest thing she did in her life.

She let her guard down.

Nightwing watched in surprise as two of her eyes disappeared and the red faded, revealing two big amethyst eyes. Her skin lost its red tint and turned into a grayish color. She lowered her hood, revealing her silky purple hair and when she smiled; her teeth didn't look as dangerous or as sharp anymore.

Despite all this, she still radiated power that made it clear not to mess with her.

"So maybe my team made the wrong choice, maybe they could turn good if they wanted to. And I know they want to," she stepped closer. "But that doesn't mean I can."

"You can. I know a lot of Demons that are heroes."

She shook her head. "That may be true, but I'm a daughter of Trigon, being evil is in my blood. What I'm doing now is actually considered pretty nice."

Nightwing looked around the city, raising an eyebrow at all the fire and destruction.

"I'm not killing."

"Good point."

"Just..." She sighed. "It's too late for me, I'm not even sure if I want to be a hero. But I know they do, so if you can help them...do it."

He frowned. "Why are you...you just gave me the team's weakness. I could destroy it easily right now."

Her eyes flashed and she looked up at him. "I know you can, but I also know that you're a great person. You'll send them to the right path, won't you?"

He nodded, still unsure.

"People may think of me as heartless, Dick."

He froze, she knew?

"But I care about my team and just want what's best for them."

A scream could be heard and she tensed. "Starfire," she breathed.

Raven stepped back and pulled her hood up, and he watched as she slowly turned back into the Demon he saw before, but he now knew it wasn't the real her.

Before he realized what was going on, she lifted her hand and black tentacles wrapped around him. The tentacles brought him face to face with the half-demon, forcing him to look into her four red eyes.

"Don't make me regret trusting you," she hissed, before tossing him off the building.

Nightwing snapped out of his shock and shot his grappling hook, watching in confusion and amazement as she sped off towards her teammates.


*Just think of Blackfire's costume.