What's this? Another chapter? MAN I'm on a roll! Admittedly, this is another somewhat shorter chapter. But hey, after the real monster of a chapter I gave you three chapters ago, I'm sure you won't mind yet another shorter chapter to allow for a much deserved breather. On that note, once again, I hope you all enjoy this next new chapter, read it, and leave plenty of feedback. And that being said, in this new chapter, Raven comes to a landing in the forest over the course of her search for Beast Boy . . . only to unexpectedly find herself caught in a trap! Sound exciting? I certainly hope so!

A/N: One final thing to say before you leave you to your reading. I do not own Teen Titans. There, done. Now; onward with the fic!

Chapter 12:

Right into a Trap

For another few minutes, Raven continued to levitate over the forest, carefully searching as best as she could for her missing shapeshifter friend. She let no outward sign of her emotions show. But inside, she was feeling frantic and worried. "Come on Beast Boy," she thought to herself. "Where are you?"

She continued soaring over the forest, trying as hard as she could to catch some sign of the shapeshifter she was searching for. "I know he's down there somewhere," she thought to herself. "But where?"

She narrowed her eyes in a mixture of concentration and irritation. "You'd think that a hulking green werewolf-like monster with Incredible Hulk level rage issues would be so much easier to find than this." She looked straight downwards. "Where is he?"

Under any other circumstances, she would have detected the changeling on her empathic radar in no time flat. But at the current moment, much like when she'd comforted him in his bedroom three days ago, she had no idea where or what to focus her empathic senses on. And secondly, in her current state of mind, she doubted she'd be able to properly concentrate well enough for her empathic abilities to work as well as they usually would. Thus she had no other choice but to rely on her less empathy-based senses to find Beast Boy. She squinted down towards the ground. "Where could he be?"

A loud rustling split the air beneath her. The sorceress paused, listening intently. She heard the rustling again, and this time she saw several trees about a mile or two ahead of her swaying slightly in synch with the rustling.

"That had better be you Beast Boy," Raven whispered to herself. In a flash, she dove down towards the area where she saw the rustling trees.

. . . . .

Adonis had a smile on his face as he continued to rapidly shake the trees he was holding in his hands by the trunks. "Boy am I clever or what?" he thought to himself. He shook his head side to side, smug smile still on his face. "She obviously wasn't led into the forest by that dweeb the black cloaked fellow mentioned; so likely she's on patrol. And thus, she'd be on the lookout now for crimes or anything else suspicious looking." He chuckled. "And since their certainly ain't anything naturally living around here capable of moving these here trees the way I currently am, and she's smart enough to almost certainly be aware of that, there ain't no way she won't come down to investigate." His grin widened. "And when she does," he drew out a small crystalline box, the 'secret weapon' that the cloaked figure had given him, from a small pocket that had recently been built into his armor. "That will be when I strike."

He lifted his head to check if his plan was working. His smile widened. He could see the sorceress diving down towards the clearing near the trees he was rustling right that very moment.

"Yes," he purred. "That's right little girl." He grinned. "Come on down to Adonis you hot little kitty cat." At the same time he had this thought, he started shaking the trees even harder, and his grin widened as he saw Raven get noticeably closer to landing on the ground within the clearing a good few yards or so in front of his position. Then she disappeared below the tree line, and his grin widened. "Perfect," he thought to himself.

In a flash, he stopped rustling the trees, and stood absolutely still, not daring to make a move just yet.

"Beast Boy?" he heard Raven ask. "Are you there?"

Adonis felt a flare of anger rise up inside him. "Looking for that freaky green wimp huh?" he thought to himself. He gritted his teeth arrogantly in a silent snarl. "How dare you think so highly of such a worthless piece of trash like that walking string bean when you could have a real man like me?"

"Beast Boy?" he heard Raven say once again. "If you're there, please say something, or at least make some sort of noise or similar indication that you're here."

Adonis snorted in a mixture of anger and derision. "Oh I'll give you something alright," he thought to himself. He drew the crystalline box once more and drew the arm that was now grasping it back, allowing the moonlight to shine onto the surface as well as the ominously clear liquid within. "And it will be a million times more worthy of such a fine hottie like you then anything that green midget could ever give."

"Beast Boy," said Raven. "Say something. Please; if you're there, I really need to know you're ok."

"Wherever that green weakling is," Adonis thought to himself as he tensed himself up for when he finally threw the crystalline box. "He's probably a heck of a lot better then you're going to be." He hurled the box up into the air, yet at the same time in Raven's direction.

. . . . .

Raven snapped her head upwards upon hearing a sudden rustling burst noise come from in front of her. Then her eyebrows rose in confusion at the sight of what looked like some sort of large prism-shaped crystal hurtling through the air in an arc in her direction. Then the object in question started falling closer towards her, and her eyes widened in shock as she noticed and recognized the ominously clear and transparent liquid inside.

Raven summoned a force field around herself, and the crystalline box crashed into it, exploding into countless fragments simultaneously and releasing the liquid. Upon exposure to the air, the entirety of the liquid inside evaporated into a storm of white gas that filled up the entire clearing.

Raven remained standing within her force field, panting and gasping at the narrow escape she'd just had. "That gas," she thought to herself. "It's a special weaponized potion from the Brotherhood of Dante's database. In both gas and liquid form, it's capable of immobilizing and depowering all who so much as inhale a single drop. Starts out with knocking the victim out cold and rendering him or her into a state of complete suspended animation. By the time they wake up, they will regain the ability to speak and their basic senses, but will be unable to move and will be likewise rendered powerless for however long it takes for the effects to wear off. The larger the dosage, the more time it takes for the effects to wear off." In that moment, she knew without any doubt, that searching for Beast Boy was the least of her immediate concerns. As of that very moment, she had unwittingly wandered right into a trap. Then her eyes widened as she noticed the gaseous clouds outside the force field starting to expand skyward and likewise out of the clearing. "Azarath, Metrion, Zinthos!"

A second force field appeared outside the one she'd already summoned, trapping the gas and preventing it from escaping. Then a black vortex appeared on the ground covered by the gas, sucking all of the sinister vapors inside before vanishing into thin air alongside it. Raven let out a small sigh of relief, and dismissed both force fields. "Thank Azar that's over."

"No!"

Raven looked up to face the area in front of her, and her purple eyes narrowed at the sight of a very familiar armored figure step out of the wooded area and into the clearing. "Adonis," she growled. "What are you doing here?"

Adonis made a mock pout. "Oh come on babe," he purred. "That's no way to greet a person; especially not me of all people."

Raven snarled, her raised hood further strengthening the now ominous aura of anger starting to build up around her. "You of all people should know perfectly well how undeserving you are of any pleasantries or politeness from me, let alone any other girl, or any other person for that matter."

Adonis chuckled. "You wound me," said the armored 20-year old man. "Honestly girl, surely you should understand by now how pointless it is to fight what's going on between us."

"Oh please," Raven growled, rolling her eyes. "What's going on between us? It's one sided on both ends asshole. Hatred on my end, and a twisted fanatical obsession on yours. I sure as Hell don't love you; and quite frankly I never will. And Azar help whatever luckless girl actually does end up falling for you."

"Oh come on," said Adonis in an almost purring tone. He chuckled again. "You know better than to deny the truth like that. We all know how you really feel."

"You think I'm lying?" Raven asked in a completely deadpan tone of voice. "I'm telling you the honest to God truth." She let a small smirk come on her face. "And deny it all you want; I know the other guy agrees with me even though you won't."

"Indeed I do," growled a voice inside Adonis's head. "She may deserve to die, but she certainly is honest. Unlike you."

"Shut up," Adonis growled mentally at his inner Beast. He shook his head to clear his thoughts, but in a way that would make it seem as if he were shaking his head in an arrogant display of overconfident self-esteem. "Oh please," he purred. "Stop fighting the inevitable." He directed a smug wolf-like grin at the sorceress. "Really, it's unbecoming of you to resist like this. We both know you're smarter than that." His grin widened. "And deny it all you want, but we both know how you truly feel, even though you and that annoying piece of vermin inside me refuse to admit it. So please, stop lying to yourself. We belong together. It's our destiny."

"As if," Raven responded without missing a beat. "The only destiny in store for you is a one-way ticket to Hell. And I already know firsthand that I won't be joining you there when I die."

"Doesn't mean I won't get to brag about my exploits to your fearless leader when I meet him there," said Adonis with a grin.

Raven was quite surprised to hear this, but masterfully let no outward sign of it show. "And what makes you think that will be possible?"

"Villains' grapevine," Adonis purred. "I may not be associated with that Brotherhood of Big Bad Wannabes anymore, but all of us villains who used to work on our own against you before committing the idiotic act of the century in joining them, not to mention all other standalone villains and those affiliated with the Legion of Doom still keep some level of contact between each other to stay aware of the world's happenings and the news on our enemies." He folded his armored arms across his chest, smiling smugly. "To make a long story short, word travels fast. And word on the street? Bird boy's got himself a one-way ticket to Hell that he's going to be cashing in next year."

Raven again let no outward sign show itself to Adonis. Inside, however, she was mentally cursing. "He knows about the deal," she thought to herself. Her eyes narrowed in both general anger at Adonis and at how very swiftly things were starting to get worse. "And if he knows about it, then who else knows?"

"But never mind that," said Adonis. He extended his right hand out towards Raven and started walking towards her, a smug smile on his face. "It's time we went off my dear. You know we've both been waiting for this day to come. Just say the words babe. You know it's true."

"Oh I've definitely got words for you alright," said Raven. She snapped her hands upwards, now glowing with her distinctive black energy. Adonis's eyes widened in shock. "Azarath, Metrion, Zinthos!"

Bursts of black lightning spouted from her palms and slammed into Adonis's chest, sending the armored boy flying backward. He crashed right through the trees he'd been standing amongst and landed hard on his back. He groaned, and managed to force himself back onto his feet. He eventually chuckled, and shook his head side to side as if in amusement. "You're as feisty as ever I see," said Adonis. He directed a smug look in Raven's direction, not at all caring how he was no longer at sufficient distance to see her directly. "You know I love a good challenge."

"Take this then."

Adonis's eyes had just widened in shock from unexpectedly hearing Raven's voice, when a massive oak tree right in front of him became encased in shadowy energy, uprooted itself from the ground, and then positioned itself appropriately before swinging itself at him like a golf club. The massive tree slammed into Adonis and sent him rocketing into the air. Needless to say, the landing he got from that attack was even more painful than the impact against him from the tree.

By the time he finally managed to get into an upright sitting position, he was in too much pain to even make another smug attempt at flirting. He groaned, and placed one hand on his stomach and another on his back, wincing from the pain.

"Azarath, Metrion, Zinthos!"

Adonis snapped his head up in shock, only to then be blasted down hard onto his back with a massive jet of shadow fire. Raven was now hovering a respectable distance above him with her hands pointed towards him and shadow fire spouting from her palms. She snarled, her eyes glowing black as well as her hands. "He will not get away with this," she growled mentally. "And if he's harmed Beast Boy in any way, by Azar I will . . ."

A blaring noise suddenly erupted in her ears, and what appeared to be a beam of noise waves slammed into her from the opposite direction of her shadow fire. The combination of the loud noise and the impact sent her flying backwards and off course. She landed hard on her belly right back into the forest proper.

No sooner had Raven been blasted from the sky when Adonis got up on his feet, the noise wave beam projector in his chest plate that he'd activated and used just now retracting back into its sheath. "As I'm sure you've now seen," he grinned cheekily, "or perhaps I should say, heard, I've made a few upgrades. Now I'm more macho than ever." He struck a cheesy pose as if pretending to be a body builder. "And by God the people are gonna hear it!" He chuckled at his wit, and then started running forward towards where he was sure he'd find Raven, ready to have another go.

Raven, meanwhile, was able to get back on her feet, and she hurriedly recited her mantra long before she even got the chance to hear the armored boy's footsteps running up towards her from behind, and she melted into a vortex of shadows before rematerializing right back in the clearing where the entire unpleasant confrontation had begun. "Should have kept my guard up," she thought to herself. Her eyes narrowed. "And considering that one upgrade I just found out about the hard way, who knows what else he's now got in that armor of his?"

She found out the answer to that instantly, and again in the hard way, when she suddenly got sent flying forward by an unexpected explosion that occurred right behind her. When she finally managed to get up, she snarled in rage at the sight of Adonis calmly walking into the clearing with his right arm pointed at the still burning area where the explosion had occurred, and with a large missile launcher-like device jutting out from the armor on that area.

The armored boy chuckled, and retracted the missile launcher. "I'm almost insulted by how easily you're getting caught off guard by my new toys." His smile widened. "Then again, I guess it's not such a bad thing considering that obviously means you're impressed by them."

Raven hissed in rage. "The Hell I am," she growled. She levitated up into the air once more, eyes practically steaming and on the verge of turning red. "The day I ever feel anything towards you that isn't pure and utter hatred will be the day the demons shake hands with the angels and they all sing Kumbaya together."

"An amusing image," said Adonis. He extended both of his hands towards Raven, palms now open and facing her directly. All of a sudden, what appeared to be circles of glass very similar to Iron Man's repulsor beam blasters started to glow and hum. "But that won't be necessary." Raven's eyes widened at the sight of the clearly charging weapons, and Adonis grinned. "Because believe you me," Adonis purred, "if you were truly not at all hot for me like you claim, you'll definitely get extra hot for me now." With an electronic groan, jets of flame burst from the boy's gauntlets and rocketed straight towards Raven.

The sorceress hurriedly levitated upwards and out of the way just in time for the jets of fire to roast the trees behind her. Within moments, the fire had started to spread to the trees behind the already burning line of trees. Raven hurriedly extended her hand towards the trees now at risk, encased them in shadowy energy, and uprooted them before the fire could spread sufficiently enough to run the risk of burning down the entire forest. The fire, now cut off from its air supply, shut out. In a flash, Raven levitated the entire group of trees directly above Adonis, and then slammed the whole lot of them down on top of him. And she proceeded to lift them back up and slam them down on him again and again. "This had better be painful you sick, twisted . . ."

Another beam of noise waves erupted from underneath her and trees, and she was sent rocketing upwards, off balance, and out of the control. At the same time, the trees and the shadowy energy encasing them were blasted to nothing. Adonis had blindsided her with his chest plate noise wave cannon yet again. After what felt like hours, Raven finally came crashing down to landing. She groaned, and worked to get back up on her feet. She had only managed to get on her hands and knees when she then heard Adonis smugly purr, "I knew you'd fall for me sooner or later."

At that point, Raven was livid with rage. She levitated upwards, her eyes now glowing red. "One more word out of you, and I swear, I will rip out your . . ."

Raven was interrupted when she felt something wiry snap and coil around her left ankle and she unexpectedly found herself engulfed in a mass web of electricity. Raven shrieked in agony as she felt the electricity zap her. Whatever had coiled around her ankle eventually let go, and the electricity simultaneously faded away. Raven fell back down to the ground with a thud, groaning in pain.

"Now this takes the whole concept of taking a shine to someone to a whole new level!"

Raven looked up, and her eyes widened in fear at the sight of Adonis walking towards her. Or more accurately, at the sight of his newest revealed upgrade that he still hadn't yet retracted. Dangling from the fingertips of his gauntlets were what appeared to be very thick electrical cables that were now violently sparkling with electricity. It was clear now that at least one of these cables had been responsible for her earlier electrocution. Raven mentally gulped, and carefully, yet quickly, got positioned back up onto her feet. While one part of her couldn't help but make note of the slight similarity in style to the similar gadget wielded by Ivan Vanko in Iron Man 2, she was otherwise well aware of how the armored miscreant now had a dangerous advantage in his favor now that he'd decided to unveil this particular upgrade in his armor. "I'd really better be careful now," she thought to herself. "The last thing I need is to be forced to try to pull either of the two stunts that Tony Stark had to use in his encounters with Vanko in Iron Man 2. With my nature as both an umbrakinetic and a half demoness, there's no way I'd survive such ploys."

Raven glared defiantly at Adonis, even though she was still mildly terrified on the inside. "But what else can I do? As long as he's got those whips out and active, I doubt any of my attacks will have that much of an effect on him."

As it soon turned out, Adonis had similar thoughts, as his confident grin then grew wider, and he started spinning his arms, and the electrified whips, around in circles in the exact same fashion as the character with the gadgets that had clearly provided the inspiration for said whips. And as he got closer to Raven's position, he started spinning his arms and electric whips faster and faster. Raven gritted her teeth, for now she clearly needed to think extra fast.

Eventually, right as Adonis was about 9 or so footsteps away from Raven, he smacked the whips on his right hand down hard on the ground literally right in front of the sorceress. The impact of the whips combined with the resulting mild electrical discharge knocked Raven off her feet and sent her flying backwards. She landed on her back and skidded to a halt against a nearby tree, which Adonis then proceeded to slice in half at the area directly above her head with a single rapid lash of his left hand whips. Raven involuntarily shrieked as this happened, and the top half of the tree fell to the ground behind the bottom half with a thud. As Raven gaped at the damage Adonis had now inflicted upon the tree behind her in stunned surprise, Adonis walked up towards her again.

Raven finally came back down to Earth when she heard Adonis speak from disturbingly close to her, "Any last words?"

The sorceress turned her head. Sure enough, Adonis was now standing right in front of her with his right arm raised and spinning the whips on his right hand in the air in a style reminiscent of a cowboy's lasso, the buzz of the electricity engulfing the whips causing the motion to take on an added level of scariness.

In that moment, seeing just how close to her Adonis was now standing, she closed her eyes, now finally having a plan of attack. "Just three," she responded. "Azarath, Metrion, Zinthos!"

At the exact moment she shouted the last word, her eyes snapped open and revealed themselves to be glowing pure white. In that moment, Adonis had just enough time for his eyes to widen in surprise before he was then sent rocketing backwards by a gigantic shockwave of shadowy energy that abruptly materialized between him and Raven from completely out of nowhere. Adonis slammed against a large tree directly behind him, groaning in pain. Then he shook his head rapidly side to side. When he directed his attention directly towards Raven once again, he had a vicious snarl of such rage that Raven knew right then and there that she very much needed to get out of the area as fast as possible.

In a flash, right as Adonis leaped back onto his feet and started charging straight back towards the center of the clearing, simultaneously drawing back his right arm as if about to lash the whips again, Raven hurriedly rocketed up into the air. And she did this just in time to; for mere seconds after she came to a stop at what she deemed a safe distance, Adonis reached the center of the clearing and started rapidly spinning around with an angry yell, the whips now at full charge and violently crackling and buzzing while likewise spinning around and slicing up nearly every tree and similar object within the immediate vicinity.

After what seemed like an eternity, Adonis finally stopped spinning, and he stood facing the area where Raven had been before takeoff, snarling and growling in rage. "God darn it," he snarled, directing his head from side to side. "Where is she?"

"Right up here," said Raven. "Azarath, Metrion, Zinthos!"

Adonis had literally just looked up towards Raven when a massive bolt of shadow lightning dropped down from the sky and blasted him point blank. The blast struck him with such a strong impact that he was jolted off his feet and sent sprawling on his back, groaning in pain and shock. In that instant, Raven extended her hand down towards Adonis, and hurriedly recited her mantra once more. In a flash, a large glowing circular bulb none-to-different from an arc reactor located within Adonis's chest plate became encased with shadowy energy and was yanked upwards and out of its socket before Raven then proceeded to toss it aside deep within the still standing trees to the downed miscreant's left. No sooner had the device been thus removed from its socket and disposed of when the electricity engulfing the cords protruding from the gauntlet fingertips shut off.

Adonis's eyes widened in shock upon noticing the abrupt cessation of the electrical buzzing noise from before. He hurriedly looked left and right, checking his electro-whips, and then cursed mentally upon noticing that they had now shut down. He looked over towards his chest plate, his eyes narrowing into a glare at the sight of the now empty circular socket. "Curses," he mentally growled. "That was the main power supply for my upgrades."

Growling still, he almost grudgingly mashed the button in his chest plate that he'd pressed to trigger the electro-whips, causing the now harmless cords to retract back into their sheaths within his gauntlets' fingertip covers. "Guess it's back to full on physical combat now," he thought to himself.

"It's over Adonis!"

Adonis tensed up. Raven was now right behind him. "You're finished Adonis! Now tell me where Beast Boy is and I'll let you off with a warning!"

At that moment, Adonis couldn't tell whether or not he should growl in anger of chuckle in amusement. Clearly, Raven thought that he'd perhaps captured or likewise done something bad to her green friend. Then he suddenly realized just how much Raven's current position now fit in his favor, and he let a smug smile come on his face. But even so, he didn't bother to turn his head to face her just yet. "Look witch," he then stated, masterfully concealing his current feelings of triumph at his current idea by making himself appear to still be angry. "I came out here with strictly you as the sole target. I was most certainly not aware of that green wimp being missing or in the area. And even if I had any idea where he was, I still wouldn't tell you."

Adonis heard Raven growl behind him. "And how do I know you're telling the truth?"

"Well aside from perhaps using your mind reading mojo, you don't."

Adonis leaned his head forward, seemingly as if angrily tensing up. "But regardless, that's not really my problem. Right now, I've got more important things to worry about."

"Oh yeah?" Raven asked. "Like what?"

"I'll give you an example."

In a flash, Adonis whipped his upper body around to face Raven, grabbed her by the collar of her cloak, and hurled her over his shoulder. The sorceress was caught completely off guard, and she landed hard before skidding to a halt on her belly a good couple feet ahead of the armored miscreant. Raven panted and gasped, and hurriedly got her hands position so she could push herself back up.

Then she suddenly felt something sharp, yet small, prick her in the side of the neck, accompanied by wind displacement of something heavy landing in the area as well as the sound of two heavy footsteps landing on either side of her. Raven was briefly immobilized from the sheer shock of it all; then she managed to direct a small glance towards where she'd felt the pricking sensation in her neck and her heart turned to ice at the sight of what she now saw right there at the area she'd felt the sensation. A small syringe had now been jabbed nonlethally in the right side of her neck and the armored hand holding it was even now continuing to inject an alarmingly familiar transparent liquid into her bloodstream.

Raven's eyes widened. "No," she managed to whisper to herself.

"Oh yes," said Adonis. A wolfish grin came on his face. "Come on, did you really think I wouldn't come prepared? I may not be the sharpest fang in the jaw; and believe me, I've flunked out of enough schools to know; but I've certainly gotten smarter in the areas that really mattered since the first time we met." He leaned his head down to the point that his face was inches away from the very back of Raven's head. It took all his willpower not to take a deep whiff of the sorceress's dark violet purple hair. Now was not the time to play around just yet. "And as you can see, I made sure to bring a failsafe in the event that the makeshift bomb of this stuff that I had failed to take you out." His grin widened. "And believe you me babe, in the time that unfolds between you're awakening from the initial blackout state and the moment I deliver you to my future boss, we're going to have quite a lot of fun together."

Raven managed with great difficulty to let an angry glare and silent gritted teethed snarl of hatred come on her face, even as the effects of the drug rapidly started to take hold of her. "You . . . dirty . . . little . . . pig," she managed to hiss. Then with an exhausted sigh of defiance, she lost consciousness, her eyes closed, and her head fell down on the ground. The drug had now taken effect, and she was now in the initial state of being completely out cold in a hibernating state of suspended animation.

Adonis smirked, and gently drew the syringe out of the sorceress's neck. "Thank God I brought along spares." And indeed he had brought two spare syringes worth of the 'secret weapon' that the mysterious cloaked figure had provided him with. Admittedly, unlike the considerably larger sample that had been placed within the crystalline box, the two syringe samples were samples that he'd stolen from said cloaked figure. But at that moment, he was confident that, in the end, once he'd finished having his fun with the target and delivered her to his hopeful master-to-be as planned, his successfully completing the test would be enough to allow him to be forgiven for this offense in the event that said master-to-be was aware of the theft.

"But for now," he said to himself, his grin widening once more. "Time to have some fun." He looked over at Raven's belt, his face briefly darkening. "But first." He reached into an area of her cloak and drew out her communicator. "Can't let her wishy washy buddies track her to where I'm taking her." He threw the device over onto an area of ground not too far to his right. "There, this will throw her pals off my trail for a while in the event that they come out to search for her." He looked back over at the unconscious Raven, his smug wolf-like grin of triumph back on his face. "And now," he thought to himself, lifting the sorceress onto his shoulder, "let us be off." No sooner had he gotten Raven sufficiently positioned over his shoulder when he dashed off deeper into the forest from the direction in which he'd initially approached her before throwing the makeshift paralysis bomb, instinctively following the path he'd mentally mapped out that he knew would lead to the place he'd chosen to use for when he had his 'fun'.

. . . . .

Little did Adonis know, however, that hiding out within another area of the forest surrounding the clearing, was another figure who had been sent by the armored boy's hopeful future boss to watch him. And at that moment, was not entirely pleased to have witnessed some of the not entirely pleasant unexpected developments that had ended up unfolding over the course of the incident. And since the eye holes in the figure's mask were fitted with a pair of gadgets that would allow the boss in question to remotely watch the event himself through use of a computer, the figure also had a very strong feeling that the boss would be less than impressed at having witnessed said developments himself.

The masked figure shuddered. "Things had so better not head south after this," she thought to herself. She shook her head side to side with her eyes closed. "Considering the various not entirely pleasant developments I just saw and allowed the master to view, I don't even want to think about how he'll react about them in the event that this boy doesn't have a successfully fulfilled test of worth available to make up for them."

Oh no! Raven's been caught! And knowing Adonis, she could very likely have quite an unpleasant experience ahead of her if someone doesn't show up and help! *shudder* But other than that, again I hope that you enjoyed this chapter (not to mention will now be looking extra forward to the chapters to come), read it, and leave plenty of feedback. Remember, I require a minimum of 1 review to be posted for this chapter at any time before or after the completion of the next chapter in order to allow myself to post said new chapter. And with that in mind, I might as well mention right now that this unexpected new character I just introduced at the end of this chapter is not just someone I randomly produced out of thin air for the sake of it. Oh no. Later down the line in my epic continuation of the DCTTAU, she will prove VERY important in the grand scheme of things. It will just take a very long bit of time for you all to find out just how important, or what role she'll play, or exactly who she even is ;). Sound intriguing? I certainly hope so! Again, hoping you enjoyed this chapter (somewhat) and leave plenty of feedback! For now, toodleoo!

Coming up Next: We briefly cut back to the other three founding Titans still at the Tower.