A/N: I just now realized how much this fic is like the fifth Alex Rider book. I didn't even know I was doing it till I read a review saying that this fic reminded them of a mix of Alex Rider/Artimis Fowl/Teen Titans thrown into a blender. I didn't realize that I did that with the whole Alex Rider book. It makes me laugh once I think of it. But my readers seem to really like this fic, so here is another chapter that I hope you like as much as the others. Please R&R. Thanks!

Disclaimer: Me don't own or ever will own. That came out strange. Oh well.

Chapter 12 Pillow Fight!

"Where is everyone?" Raven asked Robin as she walked into the main living room with the giant TV screen. Robin was lying on the black, leather couch looking bored and worried about something. He had been doing that for the past two hours. He just stared up at the ceiling like it was the only interesting thing at the moment.

"Oh," Jake said while sitting upright. "Cyborg is in the garage working on the T-car. Starfire is at the mall. Beast Boy is reading some of his comics in his room."

"What about you?" Raven asked him with that emotionless tone. She had defiantly been meditating for a long time. "You look bored."

Jake yawned while thinking on how to answer. He was resting before his outing that night. Stealing Xenothium from a big plant with a ton of high security would not be an easy thing, and he was preparing his mind and body for it.

"I kind of am," Jake said with a faint smile to Raven.

"Do you want to play chess with me?" Raven finally asked him with a sigh. She hated to admit that she was bored as well. She had meditated enough for her liking, and chess was just something she liked to play at random times.

"How 'bout a videogame?" Jake asked her slyly. He waved a controller in his hand and saw her face form into a look of thought. If Beast Boy had asked her this question she would have said no right away and would have left, but he knew that this was different. Robin and her had a tight bond, and they both took each other seriously.

"You have to be kidding me, Robin," Raven said finally. Jake saw the interest on her face, though, and he slowly started to pick at it.

"You've never played this thing, have you?" Jake asked her with a laugh.

"No," Raven answered. "TV rots your brain."

"You're missing out on videogames," Jake said. "Oh well, it's your loss." He shrugged his shoulders like it was no big deal and went back to staring at the ceiling. He had set the bait, and the dark fish was sure to take it sooner than later.

"I'm not missing out on anything," Raven said while sitting next to Jake's head. A stubborn frown was planted on her face, but her eyes shown with amusement as she looked down at him. "I already know how to play the stupid thing, and it is not fun."

"So you have played it before?" Jake asked her. He arched his back up so that he could see her reaction. She gave him a frustrated look and rolled her eyes. He smiled at her and gave a small laugh at her actions. He loved to tease her like this.

"No, I haven't played it before," Raven finally said while crossing her arms in front of her. "But it looks uneventful."

"You're just scared that you won't be good enough to beat anyone," Jake said while pointing a finger at her. That smile was still on his face as he saw her look down at him with wide eyes of surprise. She then got angry at him for saying that she was scared, and she glared at him. This only got another laugh out of the boy having fun messing with her mind.

"I'm not scared," Raven said to make him shut up. "I could beat you any day."

"Prove it," Jake said while throwing a controller in her lap. He sat up and grabbed himself one and started up one of the racing games that Cyborg and Beast Boy loved to play all the time. He glanced over to her and smiled wickedly. "I'm going to burn you into a crisp, Raven," he said cockily.

"You're evil, Robin," Raven muttered to him while accepting her fate. She looked at her controller with plain confusion on her face. She really had no idea what the heck she was doing or how she got into this mess for that matter.

"Okay, go!" Jake said while pressing on the gas button and leaving poor Raven in the dust in only two seconds. He laughed out loud when he saw Raven pressing all the buttons on her controller and trying to figure out how to make her car just go.

"Stupid thing," Raven muttered to herself. "This thing is broken."

"Gas is X," Jake whispered to her.

"How about this," Raven said to him. She stuck her hand out at the seat he was sitting on. Jake looked down as his cushion turned black from the girl's powers. Before he could even yell a protest, Jake was flying up towards the ceiling at great speed. He gave a sharp yell while falling off the cushion and landing on the ground next to Raven on his butt.

"That was cheating!" Jake said while grabbing a pillow and throwing it at Raven out of anger. Raven simply stuck her hand out at it then pointed it at Jake. The pillow turned black and slammed into Jake's head and sent him to the floor again with a loud 'uuff'.

"Not fair!" Jake said while getting up. He quickly pulled out one of Robin's bird-a-rangs and sliced the next black pillow coming at him. Feathers flew into the air, and Jake had to fight his way out of the mess. He heard Raven give a small laugh of amusement. It was one of the first times he had heard her laugh like that, and it made him smile for some reason.

"It looks like I'm going to beat you after all, Robin," Raven said smugly. Jake came at her again with another feather pillow, but Raven distracted him by pretty much blowing up all the pillows on the couch and sending millions of white feathers into the air.

"And you say that I'm evil," Jake said to her through the feathers. Whack! A pillow hit him on the back of his head. He turned sharply around while shaking the few stars away from his vision. He whacked Raven back, and she came back at him full force. They both then cracked up from the complete mess they had made over a simple subject of videogames and from how childish they were acting at the moment.

Jake and Raven both sat down in the middle of the living room floor holding onto their sides as the many feathers cleared away. Raven loved having these kinds of times with the only person she trusted them with. He was the very best friend she could ever have. All those worries of him somehow acting different were gone at the moment as she let go of her emotions for a few minutes to enjoy life for once.

Jake finally calmed down and looked over to Raven and fell in love with that smile of hers. He hadn't seen her like this ever before. When she was having fun she was beautiful. Those violet eyes were shinning with life instead of that emotionless dull that she always seemed to have. Jake loved her like this.

"DUDE!"

Both teens jumped from where they were sitting in the living. They looked behind them to see Beast Boy standing there with wide eyes of horror of the mess, yet he couldn't hold back a smile of the situation. He was just sad that he wasn't the one who got to do it.

"We can explain…somehow," Jake said quickly while getting up. Raven stood up next to him while dusting herself off of feathers. She looked at him and pointed to his hair with a smile playing on the corner of her lips. Jake winced while shaking all the feathers out of his spiky hair.

"You guys have issues," Beast Boy said while looking at the two strangely. "I was just going to ask you, Robin, if you could come with me to get a videogame that Cy and I really want."

Jake would have said no if he was not dwelling on the night before whenever he saw the changeling. He didn't want to let the teen out of his sight now. The changeling could tell anyone of his secret if he was left alone with any of the other Titans. Going with him to get a simple videogame would be easy.

"Sure, Beast Boy," Jake said with a wide grin. "We can rent some movies for tonight too. Let's go!"

"Who's going to clean this all up?" Beast Boy asked him while looking at the feathers. He then shrugged his shoulders while yanking Jake out the door while saying over his shoulder, "Thanks, Raven!"

"Idiots," Raven muttered to herself while standing in the middle of the room. She then gave a sigh and made sure her emotions were in check with themselves before starting to slowly clean up the mess. Cyborg would have a cow if he found this out.

- Beast Boy -

"Dude, Star wants some chick flick for tomorrow afternoon," Beast Boy said to Robin while searching the rack for anything he thought would be good for the alien girl. "How 'bout Cellular?"

Jake gave a short laugh and said, "Get serious, Beast Boy. Just get her Legally Blonde for something like that." He smiled faintly when remembering him and Valentine watching all kinds of chick flicks late at night just to make fun at them and laughing till they both cried from the stupidity of some. Legally Blonde was one of their favorites. (A/N: it's a fun hobby doing that. Chick flicks can be so stupid sometimes that it just makes me laugh. It's the best when the girl starts to cry.)

"What's that?" Beast Boy asked Robin with confusion. "How do you suddenly know all these girl movies? You hang around Starfire too much, dude."

"Its common sense," Jake said with a forced smile. Beast Boy raised an eyebrow at him and let him go. He knew that Jake wasn't Robin, and yet he was so comfortable around him, as if he was the real person. Slade had picked the right guy because even though Beast Boy did know that this wasn't Robin he sometimes caught himself thinking it really was.

The boys quickly finished up with their movie shopping for the night and started to walk back to the Tower. The day was humid and looked like it was going to rain soon. The wind was strong and warned people to stay in their houses that night. Beast Boy finally worked up the courage at that time to say what he wanted to say to Jake.

"Hey, Robin," he said with his tone serious for once. He glanced over to the teen and saw that his mind was somewhere else right now. Maybe he shouldn't tell it to him here.

"Yeah?" Jake answered while looking back to the changeling. He was back to the real world now, and Beast Boy told himself to just suck it up. But how would Jake react when he knew that Beast Boy knew everything about him? He would just have to see.

"Um…I don't know exactly how to say this…but here it goes," Beast Boy said. He was stumbling on words and trying his hardest just to spit it out. "I know who the real you behind that mask."

Jake tried to act cool even though he was panicking at that moment. "Like my real name?" he asked Beast Boy after swallowing some fear. "So you know who the Batman is?"

"Stop acting like the friend I know," Beast Boy said to Jake sharply. "You can fool the others and me pretty good with this act, but I still know that you're Jake and that you're working for Slade."

"I don't know what you're talking about, Beast Boy," Jake tried once again even though it was pointless. The changeling knew, and that meant Val was going to be dead by tonight. He could even see her small grave stone now. It was like all hope was sucked out of the teen as a numbness took over his body.

"This isn't a good place to talk about this," Beast Boy muttered. He pulled Jake into an alleyway and said, "I know that you're Jake, you're Red X, and that Slade is making you do this for someone called Valentine." He paused while letting Jake finally break out his shock of the situation. He took a deep breath and said, "Jake, I'm on your side!"

"Huh?" Jake asked him with disbelief in his voice. He only managed to ask, "Why?"

"It's because of that Valentine girl you care so much about," Beast Boy said with a nod. "I heard your conversation with Slade, and it sounded like her life was on the line if you didn't do what he told you to do. So I followed you for a few hours afterwards with that drunken guy. You caught me as a fly, and I beat you back to the Tower and pretended to be sleeping. I just didn't know how to think of all this at that point, so I had to dwell on it for a few hours."

Jake slumped to the floor in shock as he bit his lower lip. Worry was planted on face as he was stuck in deep thought over the matter. This put a whole new spin on things. Beast Boy was on his side now? If he was then Slade had no idea so far. He knew that something could turn to his favor here, or he could just be walking on thin ice instead.

"Dude, you okay?" Beast Boy asked him while bending down to look Jake in the eyes. "You look sick."

"So you won't tell the others?" Jake suddenly asked him.

"I can't promise you that," Beast Boy said. He saw Jake's face go paler (if that was possible), and he tried to quickly back up his answer. He put on a cocky smile and said, "I'm going to make a deal with you here. You want Valentine back, and I want my leader back. Now that you someone else working with you maybe we can trick Slade and bring them back. How does that sound?"

"You're crazy if you think you can fool Slade," Jake said while standing up. "I want Val back so badly, but what can I do? I do admit that I hate doing this for Slade, and if Val was not on the line I would have never done this to Robin. I really hope he is okay. But you and I can't do anything."

"That's what you think," Beast Boy said with a smile. "But I have a plan. Wanna hear it?"

"No," Jake snapped back, and this made the changeling frown.

"Well, why?" Beast Boy asked him with confusion and anger. "I thought that you didn't want to do this to Robin."

"All I want is for things to go back to the way they all used to be!" Jake shouted harshly into Beast Boy's face. The green teen winced at the cold tone in the other teen's voice. "But no matter how much a wish, pray, or plead it will never happen!" Jake then paused and his voice changed into a whisper of pain. "All I can do is plan ahead and hold onto the things I love while hoping that my crappy luck doesn't get even more crappier. Valentine is the only thing that keeps me going, and I'm not going to gamble her life for anyone, including you, Beast Boy."

Beast Boy stared up at Jake with wide eyes. He saw his mistake in this. It was like a stranger trying to tell Beast Boy to beat his team members' lives. That was how important Val was to Jake. Beast Boy's whole life was the Titans. It had been stupid to form this kind of a plan. But Beast Boy loved his team too much to give up here. Robin and Beast Boy might have been complete opposites, but the two were still close. Beast Boy would never give up on him because he knew Robin would go through anything to bring him back.

"Sorry to ask you this, dude," Beast Boy said to Jake suddenly, "But what are the chances that Slade will keep Valentine alive? Slade is ruthless and pure evil. The man always has some twisted solution. And after you go do his final plan for him what will keep him from not killing her?"

Jake looked up to Beast Boy with panic on his face. He had thought the same thing, but just hearing someone who knew Slade well say it was scarier. But things were going to get a lot worse here.

"I have more to say," Beast Boy said with his voice getting sharp. "Robin is my leader, and I love him as if he was my very own brother. The Titans are a family, and when one of them is in trouble we will do anything for that person. I'm going to do anything to get Robin back and to save the lives of the others. If it all comes down to it, I would have to kill you to save them. I'm serious, Jake."

Jake nodded to him. Beast Boy had a lot of power at this point. He had convinced Jake that right now it was smarter to play hero even if he didn't want to do it. If Jake said no right now Beast Boy could tell the Titans and they might not take it as lightly as Beast Boy. Then Slade would find out and Val would soon be dead. Things were getting complicated.

"So we have some common ground now," Jake said. "We both want a loved one back that Slade has. But this is serious because Slade isn't your run of the mill villain."

"I have a pretty good plan so far," Beast Boy said with a tiny smile. "But we might be able to make it better if we put our heads together. Two heads are always better than one."

Jake managed to smile at the changeling. He felt a little better having his secret known to at least one Titan. His guilt was now gone because he was somehow trying to undo his sins, and he was more confident that he would see Valentine again. "We are going to have to be really sneaky," Jake said. "I'm getting a lookout for Slade tonight at another mission for him. This person is going to be watching my every move."

"Yeah," Beast Boy said with his ears dropping a little. "You're defiantly going to have to change this plan. Robin always says that we need to think smarter, not stronger. We are going to have to outsmart Slade for this to work."

"Outsmarting Slade," Jake said with a chuckle. "This might take a while."

- Red X -

"Piece of cake," Red X said to himself while looking into the room with red lasers. The company did not learn from his last break in a few months ago. At that time it had been easy to get in, and it would be just as easy this time. The company holding Xenothium did not update their security system, and that was just plain stupid.

Red X jumped into the room with much acrobatic skills. He landed on two feet and with his arms over his head. He crouched down and made another simple jump to another part of the room and then sprung off the floor with his hands. He barely missed a red laser as he landed in a crouch.

Suddenly the lasers started to move. It seemed that the company had changed the security system, much to the thief's dismay. Red X gritted his teeth together as he had to skip and duck around to adjust to the new setting of the lasers. They finally stopped moving, and the thief breathed a deep sigh of relief.

"I guess I'm not going to memorize this course," Red X said to himself while searching for an opening ahead. He found some small one and quickly jumped to it then searched for another one. In his head he was slowly counting the seconds till the next switch. After 43 seconds the lasers started to change. Since the number of seconds was not even it was hard to keep track of it in his head as the thief carried on.

"Crap!" X harshly whispered to himself. He tried his best to get out of the way of all the lasers, and when they stopped he was pinned in an uncomfortable position by the wall of the dark room. By now sweat pored down the thief's forehead.

"Go!" Red X yelled to himself while snapping into action. He got out of his position and looked for another opening through the lasers. He found one and got to it as quickly as he could while counting the seconds in his head. He was close to the end of the room when his seconds were up, and he had to frantically hop around to get to another position to avoid setting off an alarm that would blow his cover.

When X was out of the room it was easy to get to the next, which was the one with the black, marble floor that was with one step on it would blow you to pieces unless you were fast enough. Last time Red X used Robin as the target as he slipped past the deadly laser. How was he going to do it now?

"Hello, Jake," someone said off to Red X's left. He jumped and looked over to the person standing there watching him. It was girl wearing a gray top and gloves that came up to her elbows. She wore tight black pants with boots. A black mask covered up most of her face, but you could still see the brilliant blue eyes of the girl.

"No way!" Red X said while looking at the girl with his mouth gaping in pure shock. "Jessica?"

"I'm surprised that remember me, Jakey," Jessica said with a sweet and sticky smile spreading over her lips. "Miss me?"

"No," X responded with his voice sounding disgusted with her actions. She had dumped David to go work with a mad man! Who did that? "I knew you were crazy, Jess," he said to her through clenched teeth. "I guess I wasn't that far off. Why are you working for Slade, slut?"

"Oh, touchy, are we?" Jessica asked him while folding her arms in front of her. "You're just upset that I got the good end of the deal and you got the job that sucks." Jake frowned under his mask. Seeing this person was just another spin to this merry go round world of his.

"What angers me more is that you break up with Dave without a word just to go frolicking off with the most craziest, evilest person on the face of the planet," Red X spat out to her. He took out his zip cord from his belt and measured the distance between the platform he was on and the one across from it. "This isn't a game, Jessica," he told her. "Don't you even care that people's lives are the line? Or are you just as sick in the head as Slade is?"

"Oh you must mean your pathetic little sister," Jessica said with a small, mocking laugh. "The one who cries when she thinks no one else is looking because her big brother can't take orders from Slade without giving a stupid fit."

"Don't you dare talk about my sister that way! She's not pathetic!" Red X seethed through clenched teeth as he grabbed Jessica by the front of her shirt. He wanted to vent all his anger from Slade out on this demented girl. Everything Slade had done to him he wanted to do to her because he thought that she was defenseless. Anger was a raging pit of lava in him now, and all he wanted was to pore it all out.

"Whoa, hang on there, Jakey!" Jessica said to him smugly with a smile. "You better keep your hands to yourself. I might not be Slade, but I do have the power to tell him that you're behaving poorly. And that means that I have the power to hurt your little sister. Got it, Jakey?"

Red X released the girl and stepped away slowly while glaring at her through the mask. She smiled sweetly at him and flipped her long, blonde hair behind her shoulders. Jake couldn't believe that his best friend's girlfriend or ex girlfriend was working for Slade and was the one who would be keeping a sharp eye on him for Slade. Could this get any worse? He now had two people on his hate list.

"This should be fun, Jakey!" Jessica said with cheer in her voice. She then smiled slyly and said, "You were always hotter than David."

Jake looked over to the girl smiling at him for a few seconds before saying in a disgusted tone, "You're sick, Jessica. You're evil and sick."

A/N: Well there you readers are! Your hated Jessica is back with a bang! It is strange saying this but I hate this girl with a passion. Well, I'm the one who made her that way, so I should expect that. And now Jake and Beast Boy will have to sneak around to form a plan to take down Slade. And do I see a hint of romance? I just can't wait to type more and see what you readers think of it! I'm excited! So please give a review! Thanks!