Previously: The Ravager's mask appeared on-screen. "I have a job for you." Brother Blood spoke as Gizmo stood behind him, strangely quiet.

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A dark laboratory, a scientist sat at his desk, torch in one hand, cylindrical object about to be placed into a robotic arm in the other. A long sword slides into position at his neck. Along the sword is a hand, then an arm, then a body, at the top of the body is the Ravager's head. "Get up, Professor."

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The Ravager stood, his sword in his right hand and a bomb trigger in his left. Facing off against him were both Robin and Raven. "Hey Robin! I think I just outwitted you." He pushed the bomb trigger.

BOOOM!

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Cyborg looked up from polishing the T-car. In the garage, there was a similar version of the main screen up in the main room. It displayed exactly what was on it's counterpart, for when Cyborg was, like today, doing things with the T-car and something important came up.

Currently it was displaying that there was a break in at S.T.A.R. labs. He shivered and went back to polishing, but his mind was now elsewhere.

Maybe it was just the memories, but he had a bad feeling.

Suddenly, the information on the screen changed. Where before it had read

OFFENDER: UNKNOWN.

CRIME: BREAKING AND ENTERING.

It now changed to

OFFENDER: THE RAVAGER.

CRIME: KIDNAP- SIMMONS, Pr. JAMES.

This double change made him feel much worse. He reached for his communicator.

"Robin? Raven? This is Cyborg."

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The Ravager's plan was going well. He had downed two of the Titans and escaped with the Target. His only regret had been that he hadn't had time to finish off the two heroes. But he had a schedule to keep, and it was important that he wasn't late to the drop off point, for the most vital part of the plan, actually escaping with the Target.

He had the scientist flung over his shoulder, and was making his way through the corridors, to the car-park exit, where he had arrived. He made no effort to dodge the cameras, the element of surprise had been lost, and the only way he would be able to make it to the drop-off was to be quick.

Plus if he took too long then the rest of the Titans would inevitably show up. So, he ran. He kicked down the door to the car-park and took a look around. He jogged to the car he had placed earlier, just outside the car-park, opened the door and threw the scientist onto the back-seat.

The kidnapped man started to talk again. "Wh-where are y-you take-" The Ravager slammed the door and got into the driver's seat. He pulled out the pistol he had used against the security guard earlier, aimed and fired a shot into the scientist's chest.

PFFT!

He slumped in his seat, but the robotic arm was still grasped in his hand.

The Ravager started the car's engine.

VRRRM!

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Robin climbed to his feet, shifting the table, which was partially covering him. His face was slightly blackened by the blast and his body must have been bruised, but he didn't show it.

"Raven?" He called.

In a nearby heap of rubble there was a sort of explosion, darkness throwing bits and pieces in every direction. Raven stepped daintily out of the wreckage, without a scratch on her.

Robin raised any eyebrow at this. "I said, I wouldn't let myself get beaten up for your lesson, I'm quite happy for you to." She replied to his unspoken question.

"Thanks." He said sarcastically.

"In all honesty, it was a reflex."

"Whatever. Come on, we need to catch up with him."

They went to the window, where they saw a dark car drive away, a little over the speed limit. Robin opened the window, leapt out, landed in a tree a couple of metres away. He jumped out of that onto the street.

Raven floated down and landed beside him.

The T-car pulled up beside them and the doors opened. "Need a lift?" Cyborg called from the driver's seat.

The two Titans got in, Raven in the front Robin in the back. "How come I have to be in the back?"

"Because I always sit in the front."

"But-"

"Always."

"Fine. Can we track him?"

Raven closed her eyes, and folded her legs beneath her. "I can try… Azarath Metrion Zinthos… Azarath Metrion Zinthos…"

Robin muttered in the back. "I'm the leader. I should be in the front. I knew I should have brought the R-Cycle…"

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Beast Boy and I had agreed to meet Starfire in a restaurant down town.

"How was your date?"

Me and Beast Boy were momentarily speechless.

"It was not a date!" we both shouted simultaneously.

"Eww."

"Gross."

"Like never in a million years!"

"Even if I was that way inclined!"

I looked at Beast Boy. "Hey! I'll have you know I'm quite a catch!"

"Sure you are nooby!"

Starfire blinked. "Oh."

Bleep. Bleep. Bleep.

All of our communicators went off.

Beast Boy sighed. "Aww man! Not even half the weekend off."

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A dark blue car came to a screeching stop just outside the park of the city. A door opened and the Ravager climbed out. He walked to the back doors, opened one and pulled a man in a white coat out.

He slung him once more onto a shoulder and made his way to the park gates. A sturdy pad-lock and chain held the two large metal gates together. The Ravager reached for his sword.

SLINK!

The two halves of the padlock fell to the floor along with the chain. The villain pushed open the gate and jogged into the park. He took a moment to gather himself, squinting through the darkness to find a direction before he changed his direction slightly and went down a concreted path through the grass.

Soon he reached a statue, of an old mayor, which was built in the middle of the park. He dumped the scientist on a nearby bench and placed an electronic beacon down. This would lead the H.I.V.E. agent to the position… as well as the Titans…

He held his sword before him and put on s apir of night-vision goggles, with luck he would see them coming.

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Cyborg drove when the map of the city on the dashboard gained a flashing dot, in the middle of the city park. He pushed a few buttons, while keeping one eye on the road ahead of him.

"Rae, is this guy in the park?"

Raven frowned. "Now you mention it, he has stopped moving. Could be he's in the park."

"I'll take that as a probably. Robin?"

"Sure, go for it."

Cyborg put his foot down and the T-Car flew down the near empty streets, towards the city park.

Robin got out his communicator. "Starfire? Head towards the park."

Starfires face appeared on the screen. "Affirmative, Robin. We are relatively close."

"Be careful, Star."

"And you, Robin. Starfire out."

Robin looked down at the communicator, which now showed the two groups of Titans positions in relation to the park. The group with Starfire in was a good distance closer. "Cyborg? Can this thing go any faster?"

"I thought you'd never ask."

VRRRRM!

The T-Car sped through the silent dark streets, almost a blur. The engine echoed ahead, even faster.

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Vrrrm!

The Ravager looked in the direction of the noise. The echo of a car engine coming from quite nearby.

FLASH! FLASH!

Two starbolts connected with his back and he was flung forward. Starfire flew into view, flanked by myself and B.B. in falcon form.

"Prepare to be defeated evil-doer!"

The Ravager tore off the goggles in anger.

"Raaargh!" He ran forward, with his sword raised.

He threw a small object up at us. We scattered.

BOOM!

A fireball appeared as the object exploded.

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Robin saw the fireball in the sky, and knew that the others had reached the kidnapper. He snarled, opened the sun roof and climbed onto the top of the T-Car.

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The Ravager followed me with his eyes as I traveled through the sky. I flew past the statue, and deciding I was safe enough stopped mid-air, searching round for the captured man.

Unfortunately, the captor had different ideas. He sheathed his sword, ran towards the statue, jumped onto a bench, then onto the statue itself and finally with amazing dexterity leapt from the statue at me.

Too late I tried to move and his hands reached me, pulling me to the ground.

We twisted in the air, and I ended up being at the bottom.

THUD!

I landed on my back, with the Ravager snarling down at me, I had a huge pain in my back, but that was taken away as he started beating my front.

WHAM! WHAM!

I tried to block, by bringing my arms in front of my face, but he continued his barrage regardless.

THUCK!

Suddenly the punching ceased and the weight was lifted from my body.

A little way away, Beast Boy and Ravager were untangling themselves. The villain got to his feet first, but just as he was about to beat down on the elf, Starfire punched him hard in the chest.

THWACK!

He flew back a couple of metres, but managed to land on his feet.

Starfire flew forward again and tried to punch, but he ducked and managed to dodge it. As he straightened he managed an uppercut.

WHAM!

Starfire was knocked out of flying by the blow to her chin. She landed unsteadily on her feet.

WHAM!

He punched her in the gut and she doubled over. He joined his fists together, and clubbed her back, dropping her to the floor.

He reached back, gripping the hilt of his sword, and unsheathed it.

SLIIINK!

He raised it for the decapitating blow.

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Robin rode the top of the T-Car, even as they crashed through the park gates, skidded down a grass bank, until the fight was in sight. He saw the Ravager unsheathe his sword and raise it above his head.

Robin called down to Cyborg. "Brake!"

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Just as the Ravager was about to bring the sword down on the alien girl's neck he was lit up by car headlights.

He looked up.

He saw a silhouette soar through the air at him.

The silhouette became a yelling Boy Wonder.

WHAM!

Robin collided with Ravager.

The both slid on the floor for a second, before they both leapt to their feet.

Ravager twirled his sword, slicing through the air. Robin reached to his utility belt and pulled out a bo-staff and extended it.

They ran forwards, Robin swung his bo-staff twice, loosening his opponents grip on his sword. Using his staff, Robin lashed out with a kick which sent the sword out of the Ravager's hands altogether.

The Ravager punched hard into the chest of the Boy Wonder, and then punched again to make him drop his staff.

They both leapt back.

SHOOOM!

A sonic blast knock the Ravager off his feet, and he crawled away to hide behind a tree.

"Too many of them… Every time I get one down, another pops up!" He muttered to himself.

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A yellow and black hovercraft was making it's way to the drop-point. Piloted by a single H.I.V.E. agent who was wearing the usual yellow body armour. Through the windscreen, he could see the battle raging in the park. Green orbs, birdarangs and sonic blasts were being thrown one way, and the other were the occasional fire-bomb, stopping the Titans from advancing.

The H.I.V.E. agent pressed a few buttons on the console in front of him and his one laser turret began to power up.

SHOOM!

He unleashed the blast, not hitting any of the Titans, but hit the ground around them with enough force to knock them off their feet.

The Ravager ran towards the scientist, still on the bench, unconscious, on the way he grabbed his sword from the ground. He picked the man up and leapt into the hovercraft, which had moved closer to him and the ground.

"Mission Accomplished?" The pilot called into the holding area of the craft, which was about the size of an average room.

The Ravager looked into the cockpit and relied, "Almost. Drop the robot on them."

"Affirmative!"

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We all stood up, and watched as the hovercraft swept over us again, almost silently.

"Titans! Bring that thing down!" Shouted Robin.

But before any of us could move, a compartment opened in the bottom of the hovercraft and one of the yellow android Cyborg-replicas dropped out at us.

"Dammit, I hate these things!" Shouted Cyborg as he ran forwards to attack his clone. "Everyone else, just go! I've got this rust-bucket."

He swung a fist to punch it, but the clone blocked with a forearm, which became dented and started to spark. It swung it's own fist, punching Cyborg in the gut.

It held it's fist up, which was also slightly broken now. It looked at Cyborg's belly armour, which was barely scratched. It almost seemed puzzled.

"I guess they used inferior metal, huh?"

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Meanwhile, above the mechanicals' fight…

Robin had fired a grappling hook and pulled himself up to the hovercraft. He climbed into the hold and met the Ravager. A brief exchange of blows followed, which the Ravager got the better of.

WHAM!

The Boy Wonder was sent back to earth.

The rest of us spread out around the hovercraft. Starfire threw starbolts at the Ravager in the hold, while Beast Boy flew around the windscreen, distracting the pilot. I, meanwhile, flew around the other side of the craft.

PHVIISH!

The black-hole/cutting disks appeared on my wrists. I started to cut at the armour of the craft.

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Robin fell from the hovercraft and landed next to Cyborg. Cyborg looked at the Boy Wonder with amusement in his eyes. "Shut up, and just finish this thing."

"Sure thing, oh mighty leader." Cyborg moved to it's left and Robin went to it's right. Cyborg delivered a right hook to his counter-parts face, partially crushing it.

"I believe I said shut up?" Robin kicked a knee, which caused it to start sparking and the automaton tumbled down to a knee.

"Shutting up, sir."

Together, the leader and number one stepped back and threw an explosive birdarang and fired a sonic blast.

There wasn't much left, but what little there was tumbled to the ground.

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BOOM!

Starfire was sent tumbling through the air by the force of a fire-bomb, but managed to stay floating.

FL-FLASH!

The Ravager was caught by one of the starbolts, and fell, disappearing back into the hold of the craft.

PHVIISH!

Another chunk of metal fell from the hovercraft. I was getting somewhere by cutting through the other side, there could only be a little left before I cut through to the hold.

Beast Boy morphed into a hippo briefly which tilted the hovercraft with his weight, before he turned back into an elf. The pilot had tried to alter the flight of the craft, to stop it plummeting, so the things' nose rose into the air.

Inside the raft the Ravager's face was first smashed into the front side of the hold, then the back.

With blood streaming down his nose he snarled. He climbed out of the craft, onto the roof to deal with the changeling. Behind him, the hold doors shut.

Starfire saw us, and she had a moment of indecision, but when she saw the Ravager was creeping up on a completely unaware B.B. the decision was made for her.

FLASH!

The starbolt missed, but alerted the Ravager to her presence, as well as Beast Boy to his. The villain swung his sword, nevertheless.

SLASH!

It carved a great scratch in the roof of the craft, but the changeling managed to roll out the way.

Ravager turned to face Beast Boy, the wind making it a struggle to move.

TH-THUD!

Starfire flew in and delivered to punches to Ravager's chest and face. He stumbled backwards, the unstable roof of the hovercraft making him trip and he fell.

He climbed back to his feet, but both Starfire and Beast Boy had gone.

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PHVIISH!

I cut free the last piece of metal, and clambered inside the hovercraft. To my right, lying on the hold's floor was Professor Simmons. I picked him up and made my way back out of the hole I had cut.

I flew back to where Robin and Cyborg were waiting in the T-Car, now some distance behind. I placed the scientist on the back seats and flew alongside the vehicle. Unfortunately, now the craft had gone too far, and there was no way I was going to be able to catch back up with it.

Robin sighed and spoke into his communicator, "Star, B.B. We have the professor, fall back."

"Roger, that Robin." Came Beast Boy's reply.

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Gradually, Professor Simmons woke up. By the time he actually woke, the emergency services had been and gone. The paramedics had checked on him, said, "He'll be alright in a few minutes. Just let him wake up," and then left.

"Wh-where am I?"

"It's ok, Professor. We are the Titans, we got you free."

Robin grabbed one of his arms and Beast Boy gripped the other, and together they pulled him to his feet.

Robin spoke to him, asked him if he had any idea why the H.I.V.E. and Ravager had tried to capture him, but he had no idea.

"The police said that the robotic arm you were working on must have been taken, when you were kidnapped."

"Oh, that's okay. I'm sure I'll be able to remake it using my notes."

"Would you like us to give you a lift anywhere? Home maybe?"

"Oh no, that's quite alright. I can make my own way, thank-you."

"Well, if you have any information that you think might help, or if there's trouble, you know who to call."

"Oh yes."

"We're the kids who live in a giant T. We're not hard to find."

Simmons laughed. "Don't worry; I know how to find you."

He walked off into the darkness, presumably to wherever he lived, or back to the lab, to pick up where he left off.

Robin turned to us all. "Now, I hope we've all learned a valuable lesson. We need to be a team 24/7 if we want to have any hope of beating the H.I.V.E." Raven sighed behind him. "Now let's get back to the Tower and start training."

Beast Boy piped up. "Dude! No way! You gave us the whole weekend off! Remember?"

Raven smirked, as Robin dejectedly answered. "Fine."

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Professor Simmons put some money into a phone booth slot, and dialed the numbers for S.T.A.R. labs. "Hello? Yes, it's Simmons here… Oh you heard about the kidnapping? Good… Yes, I'm fine. Although I think some time off would be a good idea… Yes, the psychological strain that I was put through… Thank-you for being so understanding… I'll call again to update you in a couple of weeks… Goodbye."

He put the phone down.

He took a few steps away but then stopped.

His face started to melt away…

…Then his long white lab-coat started to recede…

…His white hair grew in length…

…He became quite a bit shorter….

…He grew breasts.

In fact he was no longer 'Professor Simmons'. He had turned into a petite woman. She had neck length black hair and wore a skintight 'costume' of black. On parts of her arms and her breasts was curved 'metal' plating, but when she moved, it had a fluid motion itself. On her hips was a silver belt, although it seemed to be connected with the rest of the black costume. Finally, she had a black 'leather' choker with a 'metal' inscribed G on it.

She held a H.I.V.E. communicator in one hand, she raised it up to her mouth and spoke.

"Brother Blood. This is Gemini. They bought it. Mission accomplished."