Raven looked absolutely stunning in the dress, the tightness hugging her cures, showing off her feminine figure.

"You look…magnificent," Slade said, admiring her elegance in the dress.

"Thank you," Raven said, bathing in the compliment, "Now let's go."

"Now, what about the shoes? Thought you are going to go barefoot?" he asked, holding the heeled shoes in his hands.

"I can't wear heels, I haven't in years!" she gasped.

"Tonight, you will try," he aid, placing the shoes by her feet. She slid her delicate feet into them, and stood up straight on them. "She they aren't that bad." Raven sighed, and a frown.

"Try walking in them," she said. She shuffled to the stairs, and Slade followed, a smirk his face.

"Now, pick up your feet, and walk normally. You are walking oddly, trying to hard to keep your balance. Just concentrate on walking, and the rest will come," he advised.

"You know about heeled shoes more than I do. Now that's odd…."

"Just observations, I don't study shoes."

"I see." She swayed down the stairs, and headed for the front door. Slade briskly ran in front of her, and opened to door for her, letting her pass by. He closed the door behind him, and guided her to the limo, where Wintergreen stood holding the door open.

"Where to?" Wintergreen asked.

"The Diamond Treasure will do just fine," Slade said, getting into the limo. Raven was already dazzled at what was inside the vehicle.

"This is so, fancy and expensive!" she squealed.

"Only for the best," he said with a smile.

-xXx

Rhiannon laid the tools out on her bed, and examined each of them, making sure nothing was damaged, and everything was in good working order. She felt trusted, and true expert in this field of work as she completed the search for imperfections. As she expected, nothing unusual came up, and she proceeded to take the "uniform" out of her bag. It was slender and tight, to fit to her body. It was all black with a silver streak, like a sash, running across the front of her uniform, right shoulder to left hip. On her left shoulder was the infamous "S" marking in orange. She pulled out the gloves and boots, and then picked up the mask, and paused as she held it in her hands. The color of the mask was black, with silver and orange beams outlining in the eyes. Rhiannon knew that the mask did not only cover and protect her face from danger, it was a disguise, something to hide behind.

'Only villains wear masks, and yet you are holding one in your hands. What does that make you?' Rhiannon's sub-conscience asked.

"Nightwing wears a mask, does he not?" she answered, whispering softly making sure no one would hear.

'He has something to hide, we both know that. But you, you have nothing to hide. So--'

"I want answers, this is all this is for!"

'Answers? Answers to what, you're parentage? You know it's the truth…about Raven being your mother and Slade being your--'

"It's not true…."

'Why so sure, when anything is possible?' her thoughts nagged, 'embarrassed? Ashamed, perhaps?'

"After this, I'm going home. I don't want anything to do with the Titans. As much as a fear the truth, I respect it," Rhiannon whispered, grabbing her uniform and a device, heading to the nearest bathroom.

-xXx

Raven walked into the restaurant, feeling like royalty. Everything was perfectly expensive, the high priced taste very enjoyable.

"This is truly overdoing it, Slade," she said, her voice hushed once they sat down at their table.

"Well, maybe a little," he shrugged picking up the menu looking at the prices, "just think of it as a late anniversary gift. How long have we been married?"

"Seventeen years?" Raven guessed.

"You are only thirty-five, and have been married a little bit more than half your lifetime so far."

"Yes, amazing isn't it? I guess it worked out because we haven't talked for the sixteen out of seventeen years."

"Ha, yes. I think that might have a lot to do with it," Slade smiled with a chuckle.

"Hello, I am going to be your waiter for the night. May I start you two off with something to drink?" the waiter asked politely.

"Yes, I will have…um…your most highly recommended red wine here," Raven said, forgetting at what kind of restaurant she was in.

"There are many, miss," the waiter said.

"A bottle of the one you highly recommend then," Slade intervened.

"Of course," the waiter said, and walked off.

"Now you nor I have to worry about my legal age for drinking, like the last time," Raven joked.

"You were still seventeen? Oh yes, how could I forget," Slade reminisced with a vibrant smile on his face. Raven giggled at the memory. "I believe it was our first kiss?"

"Yes," Raven answered, "it was. Now look at where we are."

"No one would have expected this. Not even us," Slade commented.

"I agree."

-xXx

"I can't believe she beat you!" Changeling sighed with discontent.

"I know!" Cyborg said with a grunt.

"She's good at strategizing, very good. She figured out your weakness very quickly," Nightwing observed.

"What does that have to do with a racing game?" Changeling said, defending Cyborg's honor.

"She knew how to get past you, and keep you in second."

"The smarts must be from her father, because Raven has--"

"I should hope that you do not mean what you are about to say," Starfire said, a lull in her voice.

"I might, and I might not."

"Why so bitter?" Starfire questioned.

"It comes with prolonged rejection," Changeling sighed.

"I wonder where Raven went," Cyborg said, noticing that Raven has been gone for quite some time.

"Who knows," Nightwing shrugged. After an awkward silence, the red flashing lights flared brightly, and a siren sounded. Nightwing pulled up where the location was, and looked at it with suspicion.

"Where's Rhiannon?" he asked, turning around to face the Titans.

"She left abruptly. I hope she is well," Starfire said, sounding worried.

"Well, no time to find out, we've got trouble. Titans, go!" Nightwing commanded.

-xXx

"I should follow orders, but this doesn't seem right," Rhiannon whispered to herself, clutching the uniform in her hands.

'Face the truth, and leave the mask alone! Go home while you still have a --'

"But what happens if it isn't true. What if it is all a lie, just to make me do this!" Rhiannon cried faintly.

'Listen to your heart, and that is the answer you must follow. Whatever you choose, you must go after, with every breath,' her conscience explained.

"Now I know what I must do…."

-xXx

"She's beautiful no doubt. I suppose a trait of yours?" Slade said, lifting a glass of expensive wine to his lips. Raven blushed at the compliment.

"Maybe. I assume she is intelligent?" Raven questioned.

"Very, to be frank. She's got an all-knowing sense to her. She can make you believe anything, even if it is false."

"Really? So how did she take to her parentage?" Slade paused at the question, and thought about how to execute the answer.

"She figured it out herself, but assumed how she was conceived all wrong," he sighed, remembering.

"Only natural I presume. Well I mean who you--"

"Was…who I was. But she cried, and spoke aloud her thoughts. She was very confused, distraught really. Definitely trying to find her place within a circle."

"Oh. Well her powers that she inherited from me, is she good?"

"She is excellent. Studies them as an art, and not as a burden. She would make an excellent addition to your team," Slade smiled.

"Ha, I'm not so sure she wants anything to do with the Titans."

"Why do you say that?"

"Everyone says she snaps at them, and is very negative to the whole situation. They tell me she has a cold heart. Slade…what's wrong?"

-xXx

"Starfire you need to be more careful!" Nightwing demanded, after slamming a fist into one of the androids.

"I am trying to keep safe, but we must destroy these robots!" Starfire pleaded.

"I don't want anything to happen to happen to you or the--"

"The baby will be fine, you just have to concentrate on keeping yourself alive," Star soothed, jumping up into the air, to attack with an aerial ambush.

"Please don't let anything happen to her," Nightwing sighed, stepping into another fight.

-xXx

After she slipped into attire, Rhiannon ran to the front entrance of the tower, and pressed a button on a very small device, and activated her father's android army. After about a fifteen minutes wait, the alarm sounded and she heard the Titans running down the stairs. She made herself hidden well within the room, and counted on their attention on the mission to blur their vision enough so they wouldn't notice her. She timed her dash after the last Titan left the tower so she could get out of the door with out any forced exiting. Rhiannon's breathing was erratic, and it felt very difficult to control, as she watched the Titan's leave their island. Once they were practically out of site, she pulled out a large "hookshot" and shot the anchor like device towards the top of the tower. Once it felt secure she hooked herself to the "hookshot" and pressed a button to make her ascend. At the top, unhooked the device and placed it securely on her utility belt and headed over to the roof door. She placed a time bomb on the door and walked away, pressing another button to set it off. The door blew open with crafted ease, and Rhiannon stepped inside the familiar tower. With the tower mapped, it became fairly trouble-free to navigate around the tower. She finally stepped into the main room of the tower, and headed straight for the computer system. Desperately, Rhiannon searched for the drive where the advanced computer virus CD could be placed. Once located she nervously shoved the disk into the slot, and watched the screen as the pop-up window came into view.

"Start program?" Rhiannon read off of the screen, "Yes, I do. All I have to do is click 'yes' and part of my job is done." A smirk grew on her face as she saw the virus start to work. She extracted the disk from the computer, and broke it in half. No one else could use it, for whatever the purpose.

-xXx

"Where are we going? Slade, answer me!" Raven screamed, and she writhed in his grip.

"We need to stop her, from --"

"Stop who!" Raven yelled hoarsely.

"Rhiannon," Slade sighed, looking into her eyes. A limousine pulled up near the curb and the two got in, a heavy cloud of silence over them.

"Rhiannon?" Raven asked, breaking the silence, "stop her from what?" Slade couldn't look at her, and stared at the floor of the vehicle.

"What did you do…Slade what did you do!" Raven said excitedly.

"Executing my vengeance," Slade said, almost a whisper.

"Vengeance! And to think you changed and…holy crap I'm so dumb! So ignorant to the fact that you will never change, will you?" Raven scolded.

"I have changed already, have I not? For I am going to prevent Rhiannon from carrying out the task, and you missed that point."

"What do I believe? For seventeen years, half of my life, it has been deciding whether to seek love from you or not, and I am still lost. Should I really believe you?"

"Yes."

"Why?"

"Because I love you." The vehicle stopped, and Slade got out, ushering for Raven to come with into the house.

"What are you getting?" she questioned once back into the bedroom. Slade handed her uniform in the process.

"My mask," he stated while getting into uniform.

"Why do you still hide behind it?"

"Good habits don't die, my dear," Slade smirked as he put the mask over his face. Raven laid the dress on the bed, and slipped her feet back into the boots and dashed out the door.

"Why don't I take my way of transportation?" Raven questioned.

"May even be better that way," Slade mused, "be careful."

"I will, you too," Raven said gliding into the air.

-xXx

"Why are there so many this time?" Changeling yelled with a huff, fighting off an android with difficulty because he was in human form.

"Maybe Slade truly wanted to terminate us this time?" Starfire suggested, after throwing down a machine head first into the concrete.

"But why this time…why now?" Cyborg said, shooting his aggressor with his laser cannon.

"What happens if it's not Slade doing this?" Nightwing suggested.

"These robots have his mark, do they not?" Starfire questioned.

"But who else has his mark? Not only by birth, but by choice?" Nightwing pondered.

"Rhiannon…," Changeling whispered.

"Titans, fall back to the tower!" Nightwing yelled headed in the direction of the tower.

-xXx

"How could you betray the truth?" Raven questioned, flailing her arms about.

"How could I betray anything if I didn't know it in the first place?" Rhiannon yelled back, hiding behind her mask.

"You betrayed it by accepting your father's stupid accusation! And this "S" on your uniform makes the conformation all the more clearer," her mother yelled, clearly angered, ripping the emblem forcefully off her uniform. Unprepared for the attack, Rhiannon staggered back, and got into a ready fighting position.

"You think you can talk sense into me? Trying to shove down your side of the story down my throat? We are past talking, mother. We always were…," Rhiannon said, glaring.

"I don't think that is the appropriate tone of voice for speaking to your mother," Raven smirked, globes of dark energy forming around her hands.

"I have a mother, and it definitely isn't you."

-xXx

"Slade?" Nightwing said under his breath, as he saw the masked man make his way toward the tower.

"Man, what is he doing here?" Cyborg questioned, as Changeling dropped him on the shore of the island.

"I'm not sure, but I'm going to find out," Nightwing said, gliding swiftly to his most hated person.

-xXx

Hearing the oncoming approach of someone behind him, he readied himself, already planning what to say to the young man, as he tried so desperately to even give him scratch.

"You think I didn't see it coming?" Slade said turning around, making Nightwing stop halfway in-between his attack, "Ha, you getting soft in your old age?"

"Look who's talking," Nightwing said bitterly.

"I am not as old as you perceive me, and I will be this age for a lot longer," Slade said with a smirk. Nightwing tilted his head with curiosity at the comment, and shook it off so he could further question him.

"What are you doing here, in the first place?"

"To be honest, I had a plan to disable you from the rest of the city. But now, now I am here to stop it."

"You want to play hero?"

"I've been playing it for seventeen years. It's a wonder how such a wonder turned against the good that made him a wonder. And don't think that this is the last of what you deserve," Slade said, landing a fist in Nightwing's face. As Nightwing regained his balance, Slade took the advantage and ran into the tower to help Raven in an attempt to stop the evil he had caused.

-xXx

The wanting of disowning of Rhiannon's relationship to her mother stabbed her heart, and she clutched her chest at the feeling.

"That's right, embrace it…the feeling that I am not your child. By legal rights I am Rhiannon Harris, and reside in Plainville. You may of birthed me, and carried me in your womb, but I am not yours," Rhiannon wickedly said, burying the blade deeper into her mother's just.

"Go to hell…," Raven said, her voice deep and powerful, and her eyes glowing white.

"It's where I belong." Angered and heartbroken, Raven lifted the couch and flung it at her daughter. Rhiannon responded quickly and effetely, putting up a shield of dark energy.

"That's all you've got?"

"Don't underestimate the true power of darkness, for it will surly kill you." Rhiannon shot dark energies at her mother while running towards her. Raven deflected all of them with ease, but wasn't expecting the rather strong blow in the chest.

'Just let go, and let your sub-conscience take over, ' Rhiannon reminded herself, after stepping back from her attack, ready for more. Another few punches and a kick in the face was what more Rhiannon gave her mother, and she was only getting angrier inside with the lack of information she believed.

"Why are you doing this?" Raven asked, seeming as if none of the attacks phased her.

"For vengeance, my dear mother."

-xXx

Slade heard the two women talking, and stopped to listen; just incase he would make things worse by his intervention.

"Why are you doing this?" he heard Raven question.

"For vengeance, my dear mother," his daughter responded.

"Shit," Slade cursed. Rhiannon was falling through with this and he wasn't sure how to stop it. In fact, no one was sure of anything anymore.

-xXx

A/N : Thanks for the over abundance of reviews, and I hoped all of you have enjoyed this just as much as I have!