Disclaimer: I wish I owned Teen Titans, but sadly I don't. R & S, BB & Rae, and Cy & Bee.

I'm terribly sorry for the long wait. I had absolutely no inspiration to continue, but now I'm beginning to regain it. Please forgive me.

Dedicated to: faya27, CraneX, Blue Ten, Sunny724, and to all my reviewers who reviewed last chapter and reviewed so far. :)

Chapter 14

The Time Is Now

As a dark figure of a man approached them from the door, BB replied in a regretful tone, "Let me guess it's Slade." Catwoman turned to face him; her masked eyes seemed to glisten in an evil way.

"You are correct." Robin, Starfire, Beast Boy, Cyborg, and Raven gasped, and all of them were to shocked to speak.

"You're... you're lying!" CatGirl whispered disbelievingly. The dark figure approached CatGirl, and Catwoman, and stood between them. They all could see the man was Slade. Slade rested his right hand on Catwoman's shoulder, and the other hand on CatGirl's shoulder, while facing the Titans.

Raven couldn't believe what she was seeing, and hearing. The only words that flowed in her mind were "How could she do this to us, to me? She's just like Terra. I should never have trusted her!" She was more shocked then angry. Raven glared rebelliously at CatGirl, Slade and Catwoman.

Starfire gave CatGirl a blank and yet surprised look, as if she would never have expected her friend to do this to her. She couldn't think clearly, at first she had flashbacks of when CatGirl first joined the Titans. The room was filled with an eerie silence that seemed to go on forever. Starfire couldn't believe her ears. "Why did she do this to us all?" Tears began to form in her eyes. She wanted to wipe them away and believe that she wasn't hearing what CatGirl, or what any of them had said. Before she could stop herself and realize what she was doing, she shouted, "How could you do this to us!" Pain was evident in her voice. "You were my best friend..." Her voice had grown calmer—sadder, but she didn't even attempt to hide the tears that were now flowing down her face, or the pain in her voice. Starfire looked at CatGirl's face and saw for a split second a look of pure guilt and apologetic. Then suddenly, her face went back to the monotonous look that she had always shown. "Maybe she is sorry..." Starfire's train of thought trailed off. "Or maybe she is not, and maybe I imagined her face." The word 'maybe' went her mind multiple times. She turned her head to the side and looked at Robin's face. Robin was glaring so angrily at Slade that it made Starfire's skin crawl at first. He turned to look at her face, but he showed the face of someone that could kill. Starfire let out a quiet gasp of surprise after she noticed the intensity of his face. He was panting heavily, as if he would break through the chains that held him and tear down anyone who got in his path (even herself) so he could get to Slade.

Catwoman's voice alerted everyone's attention. "She did this because inside she really wants to hurt you all, and we want her to too." Her voice was like pure venom that lashed at all of their faces. Starfire and Robin and everyone else looked at Catwoman. Robin didn't see Catwoman or CatGirl, he only saw red and Slade. Furry blinded him, and only three people went through his mind, and that was Slade, CatGirl and Catwoman. He didn't even acknowledge the fact that his friends were in the room with him. He began thinking of many ways to free himself, and get to Slade, CatGirl and Catwoman.

"If I didn't know better, I'd say that this is a new low that you three are doing." Robin's voice was very bitter, sneakier to be precise. He remembered that when he looked into Starfire's eyes, he saw the pain and confusion. Seeing her that way made him was to hurt them even worse.

"You don't know the half of it," Slade replied.

"What do you mean?" Beast Boy asked, with hostility in his eyes.

"You'll find out in ten minutes from now," replied Catwoman as she watched each one of the Titans like a tiger going to pounce on its prey. "Ten minutes? What could they be planning?" Robin watched CatGirl quite carefully. She seemed to be regretting everything that she had done, he sensed it. He knew she just was hiding it deep inside her heart. "How can she doing everything be a mistake? I doubt it, no one related to Slade or Catwoman can be good at all." Robin wasn't entirely sure what really he thought of the whole situation. He held a long challenging stare with Slade that seemed to last forever.

"Robin, whether you like it or not you and your friends will die." Slade said it matter of factly---almost too naturally.

"You're wrong Slade, you're wrong." Catwoman smirked in a wicked way at Robin's comment. "We shall see Boy Blunder, we shall see." Beast Boy watched CatGirl carefully. He sensed that she was very unhappy. "I can sense what other people and animals are feeling. How is that CatGirl is unhappy? Shouldn't she be happy she's causing pain to us? Maybe not... After all what insane villain would be happy?" Beast Boy thought in an uncertain tone. "Dude... Never mind I can think of someone," He thought as he looked at Slade. He watched CatGirl more carefully to make sure if his feelings were right about her. He not only watched CatGirl, but he watched Catwoman too. Beast Boy didn't get any nervous, regretful, scared or sad vibes from Catwoman, but the only sensations he got from her was immorality and hatred. He next watched Slade closer, and let his animal instincts take over. He got waves of revulsion and yet he sensed that Slade was so far satisfied with the whole situation. Beast Boy closed his eyes, took a deep exasperated breath, and released it slowly. When he opened his eyes again, he noticed that Slade and Catwoman had walked a few feet in front of them, they were facing the same way the Titans were facing, and they were talking to each other very quietly. Beast Boy turned his head so he could see Raven's face. He saw that she and CatGirl were staring at each other like hawks getting ready to kill their prey. He sensed that Raven was hurt, and heated. It hurt him to see her this way. Raven turned her head to meet Beast Boy's gaze. Her and his eyes both soften at the same moment from their hostile stares that they were giving the villains. To Beast Boy, Raven's face seemed to say, 'Don't worry Beast Boy, we'll make it out of here unharmed somehow.' He felt all his angry melt away, and at that moment he wanted to hold and secure her from all harm and forget what was going on at the moment.

"Raven," Beast Boy whispered quietly. His voice was full of concern as he searched her face. Raven continued staring at him. "What is it?" she asked as she glanced at CatGirl who seemed to be caught in her own thoughts at the moment. Then she looked back at Beast Boy.

"Do you really think we'll make it out of here alive?" Raven looked confused for a moment.

"Yes I do," she replied in a silent voice.

Cyborg watched the two with a little bit of amusement in his eyes. "I guess CatGirl was right. Man this stinks. Beast Boy and Raven not only lied by saying they don't have feelings for each other, but they're showin' it too!"

"Guys knock it off! Do ya'll want to show CatGirl, Slade and Catwoman that CatGirl was right!" Cyborg hissed to Beast Boy and Raven as quietly as he could buy still be heard by the two. He couldn't see Beast Boy's face but he saw Raven's face. Raven turned her head, looked at the ground in front of her and closed her eyes. She looked half embarrassed and half angry. Catwoman and Slade walked over to the Titans side by side and stood next to CatGirl.

"Thirty seconds to midnight," Slade said as he eyed Robin and CatGirl from the corner of his eye. "Oh god...no," thought Cyborg with a hint of fear in his tone of thought.

"Five...four...three...two...one..." CatGirl began changing into the beast before everyone's eyes.

Once she finished transforming, Slade commanded, "Attack the Titans! Kill them!" She just stood there for a moment, "No!" she replied as she turned to viciously attack Slade and Catwoman. Catwoman dodged it, while Slade didn't have time to react.

"What! You're under my control. How...?" Slade asked after CatGirl used her left paw to swipe Slade until he hit the wall. Slade took his controller and pressed a button to open the lid to the remote.

"Her will overpowered it" He exclaimed in an inhuman tone as he looked at all the information that it held.

"I should've known this would've happened. I'm out of here," replied Catwoman as she retreated down the stairs in a very hasty manner and exited the building. CatGirl ran in a swift motion to the controls on the far side of the room, brutally broke it by ramming it with her body, and then she ran back to the Titans before Slade had time to react. She bit and broke the chains to all of the Titans. Robin and everyone else jumped down and started moving in and attacking Slade including CatGirl beast spirit around her.

"I just contacted the police, Robin." Cyborg cried out as he released his sonic cannon on Slade as the same moment as Raven who was firing her energy blast at Slade.

"Good," Robin responded as he took out his bow staff, and started charging at Slade.

"X Hal," Starfire breathed a sigh of relief, as she in an aggressive way launched her star bolts at Slade. Slade tried to dodge Robin but all of the Titans had him surrounded.

"Now!" shouted Robin as he took out his bird-a-rang and at the same time he released it with everyone and their attacks. Raven and Starfire were floating about a foot or more off the ground as they shot Slade with all their might. Cyborg was standing between Beast Boy and Robin and was firing his sonic cannon with everything he had. CatGirl and Beast Boy just stood there for a moment waiting for the Titans to finish their attacks, because they didn't want to get hurt. When they finished attacking, Cyborg, Raven, Starfire and Robin tried to catch their breathes as they waited for the smoke to clear. Once it cleared, they noticed Slade was bleeding quite badly at one arm and was lying in a heap of rumble unconscious. A handful of S.W.A.T members ran up the stairs in single file. They all ran to Slade to arrest him, but one of them that were leading the group ran over to the Titans.

He walked over to them and said, "We have Catwoman under arrest too. We saw her fled from this building moments before we arrived here."

"That's glorious news!" Starfire replied.

"But dude doesn't that seem suspicious?" questioned Beast Boy. CatGirl who was still in her beast form fled down the stairs and out of the building. Robin and the Titans exchanged a look with each other and then ran after her.

Now what are the Titans going to do? Are they going to throw her in jail or are they going to demand what's going on? Tune in next week and find out. Lol, I just wanted to say that XD. Please read and review with constructive criticism, thank you.

I'm sorry it took so long to update, I won't lie to anyone... it's just I'm loosing a little bit of interest in the show. My head was stuck in "Naruto" and "Avatar: The Last Airbender" gear for a while now. (receives death glares from the readers/reviewers) One more chapter to go and then it shall be done, hopefully.

Sincerely,

CatGirl R and S Fan