A.N: And so we come to chapter three. I do hope that you're enjoying this story, I think you are, or else you wouldn't be reading it… I think… Anyway, for those of you wanting to know the back-story of the villain who changed Starfire into Sunfire, just let me know in a review (or an e-mail), and I'll reply with her profile. And beware of OOC Raven. V for Venetta ROCKS!

Previously: "Titans, Jump Municipal Bank, GO!" Robin cried, and for the first time in almost four weeks, Sunfire joined his teammates in the chase.

Chapter 3: Villain

Sufire flew over the car, his mind clear and the wind whisling through his ears while he listened to Robin's orders over the communicator attached to his belt.

"Sunfire, hang back until we know what we're dealing with. You may be rusty. Raven, you're going to have to protect any hostages we find. Cyborg and Beastboy: henchmen. I'm going to go after the leader. Questions?" Sunfire spoke into his communicator

"Would it not be better if two people attempted to capture the leader? Perhaps I should assist you." He said.

"Not initially. Take care of any goons who get past Cy and BeastBoy. If I need help, then feel free to assist."

"Very well Robin." Sunfire shut off the conversation.

Inside the T-Car, Raven was fuming, or as close to fuming as she could get safely. While it was not her place to say anything, she was unable to keep the uneasy silence that permeated the vehicle.

"Sunfire will be with me. You know as well as I do that no one is going to get past Cyborg and Beastboy."

"Raven, you're bordering on insubordination."

"You seem to forget who formed this team in the first place. Sunfire. Fights. With. Me." She punctuated each word through clenched teeth. "Have I made myself clear?"

Robin could nearly feel the malice in her tone and quickly relented.

When they reached the bank, it was already surrounded by officers, most of whom had guns pointed at the building.

"Any news?" Robin asked the chief of police.

"No. But we think everyone got out, though you may wanna send in your goth chick just to make sure."

"Alright chief." He turned to Raven, "Would you…?"

Raven was already in process of settling into a lotus position and began her mantra quietly. "Azerath, Metrion, Zinthos…" Almost invisible, a dark shadow left the body that was Raven and launched itself towards the bank. Inside the stark interior that most banks sported, Raven could see that there were at least seven well armed men, as well as four more that appeared to be cracking the vault. Her soul self turned a corner and found their previous villain sitting at the manager's mahogany desk, twirling an unlit cigarette between her slender fingers. Raven pulled out of the bank quickly and rejoined her body outside the line of police cars. Her eyes opened to find the unforgiving form of Robin's mask staring back at her.

"Well?" he asked intently, his mind already formulating possible plans.

"Seven are armed with automatic weapons, several of them loaded with what looked like armor-piercing rounds. Another four have semi-automatics, same bullets though, and our gender shifting adversary is the leader. No apparent hostages. Does that help?" she looked over at Sunfire, who was silently fuming as several officers looked over at him with curious glances. Robin thought for a moment.

"All right. This is a tricky one. Raven, teleport somewhere inside, take out the leader, quietly if possible. Beastboy will sneak behind the front guard and create a distraction as Cyborg, Sunfire, and I blast through the remaining forces, clearing the way for police to make the arrests. Any questions?" he rattled off.

Sunfire did not respond, he stood there, his jaw clenched tightly, and a small spark of green showing in his eyes as he considered the floor plan of the bank, which all the Titans had committed to memory through all of the robberies that had occurred there. The manager's office was located in the back left corner, in a windowless room, a good place to start. Sunfire took to the air and flew over the roof of the building, choosing the best point of entry, he pointed himself downwards and flew straight into the roof of the building, the occurring BOOM drowning out the protests from the other Titans, in the rubble of the room, he found the one that had turned him into a man unconscious on the desk, the cigarette still in "her" hand. He could hear the cries of alarm from the other robbers, and before they could ambush him inside the office, he decided to take the fight to them. He crashed through the door of the office and flew at breakneck speed towards the vault. Before the safe crackers had time to un-holster their weapons; he had picked up three of the four, who were knocked unconscious by the concussive force of the impact. The fourth was frozen in a deer-in-the-headlights stare as Sunfire dropped his burden and turned towards him, his normally placid face twisted in rage as he swept the man's legs out from under him and viciously finished with an open-palmed strike to the man's face. (1)

(slight change of scene)

In the next room, the other Titans were dodging bullets, quite literally, as they attempted to subdue the remaining gunmen. Robin had thrown a flash-bang grenade into the building, and that had incapacitated three of the remaining seven. The other four however, had recovered quickly, and had started firing bullets at random, their automatic weapons reeking havoc on the interior of the museum. The two that had been guarding the entrance into the rear area of the bank had their guns swinging, trying openly to kill Robin and Beastboy as they bobbed and weaved into the fray, while two that were in the teller booths took on Raven and Cyborg. Raven put a shield around herself and allowed the bullets to ricochet off. She grimaced as her shield began to weaken under the long barrage.

"Robin, I think now would be a good time to end this." She muttered to no one in particular. On the other side of her, Cyborg grinned as the bullets bounced of his metal exoskeleton.

"You call those Armor-Piercing? I'll show you Armor-piercing!" with that, his right arm transformed itself into the sonic cannon that was his signature weapon. "Booyah!" he cried as he fired a powerful blast that decimated the teller booths, trapping the two hiding in them to be trapped under several thousand pounds of twisted steel and concrete. The remaining two were subdued by two well placed strikes courtesy of Robin's birdarangs.

The building was silent now.

"Robin, where is Sunfire?" Raven asked blandly, even as she wet to work gathering the weapons with her telekinesis.

"I am here." Sunfire replied as he stepped out into the main lobby, five people being dragged behind him, their hands trussed together by a thin but incredibly strong rope that Sunfire had stored in his new belt. He dropped the four safecrackers in a pile unceremoniously, but kept hold of the leader, gazing into her closed eyes, rage flowing through his veins.

"Odd, she does not appear to be a threat during slorvax." He said softly, his voice hard even as he began to relax. The police entered a moment later, their guns drawn, and began the process of arresting those responsible for the robbery. Sunfire was forced to relinquish his hold on the leader's collar, just as the young woman began to come around. The grating sound of handcuffs locking around the criminal's wrists jarred the alien Titan into action, and he began to assist with the clean up process. Rubble was cleared away from the collapsed manager's office as well as the decimated lobby with the teller booths.

(Scene Change)

Several days later, Sunfire found himself pacing the floor of Raven's room, his hands behind his back.

"Raven, I have to talk with her… him…" he groaned in frustration. "This may be my only chance to be normal again."

"No visitors until the arraignment. You know how the system works." Raven said as she floated in a lotus position, her eyes closed. "Please stop pacing, you're breaking my concentration."

Sunfire stopped and rather femininely flopped onto Raven's bed. "My apologies friend Raven. I do not truly know what is wrong with me lately."

"Besides the obvious?"

"Indeed."

"The arraignment is the Wednesday. I think you can wait that long." Raven cracked one eye open to look at the distraught tameranian. "Have you filed your report to Robin yet?"

"No." Sunfire stood again. "I'll do that, afterwards, perhaps you would enjoy an excursion into the city? A café perhaps?" Raven opened both eyes, then closed them, thinking.

"We'll see."

A.N.: I'm ending it here, as short as I feel this chapter is, it just wasn't coming together. So I felt it was better to cut it off here and begin anew. I also hope that the fight seen I threw in wasn't too horrible, not my forte I'm afraid. In other news, I'm moving into my dorm room on the 4th. Wish me luck!

1: I'm taking small liberties with his fighting abilities as they are shown in the show. He trained with the Okaarrans (I'm sure that that's spelled wrong) back on his home planet (in the comics) so I'm giving him skills he may have picked up from there as well as things he may have picked up while training with the Titans.