Disclaimer: I don't own the Teen Titans nor this incarnation of them. I only came up with them fighting this group and Batgirl hanging with them... And I didn't create Batgirl neither... Just the idea for this story.

Chapter 5
The Titans

"Dick!"

The Tower door opened and Babs looked upon a very tall, scantily glad, orange skinned girl with bright orange hair and green eyes. She cocked her head to one side. Dick forgot to mention this one. She was positive that Donna Troy, Wonder Girl, an Amazon from Themiscyra wasn't green.

The shocker for Babs, however, came when the girl threw her arms around Dick's neck and kissed him passionately. To Babs' utter… what was the word for it? Disgust? Jealousy? No! Not jealousy! Disgust? No! That wasn't it either. Disappointment? That was the word! Disappointment, he kissed her back, leaving Babs wondering for a good several seconds how long Robin skirted off to Titans Tower to make out with this girl.

When the kiss ended, Babs attempted to look unembarrassed as the girl beamed brightly, smiling at both of them in turn, repeating the process over and over and over, making Babs feel increasingly more and more and more awkward.

"Oh!" Dick snapped back to reality. "Batgirl, meet Starfire. Starfire, Batgirl."

Starfire's eyes widened. "You're Batgirl?"

Babs nodded, confused, checking to make sure that none of her confusion stemmed the kiss that Starfire had given as a hello to Dick. To her dismay, her confusion over the kiss was still there.

"X'hal! I have heard so much about you! Every time he comes, Dick always has the most wonderful stories about you!"

Babs blushed. "I'm sure they're not that good," she said, secretly hoping Starfire would continue.

"But they are! They are!" Starfire exclaimed. "They fill me with great joy and happiness at the thought of you and him working together!"

Dick turned to Babs. "Starfire is an alien from the planet of Tamaran. We rescued her about two weeks ago."

Babs turned to him, confused. "How did she learn English so quickly?"

Dick blushed again and turned away. Starfire, meanwhile, merely beamed with pride. "I kissed him!" she said proudly. "I scanned his tongue with my own to learn your speech patterns and common phrases!"

Babs almost collapsed. They were full on making out? She'd only kissed him twice. No, three times. No. Twice. Yes. Twice. Not that she was counting, or anything, she just, had a lucky guess. Yeah. That was it, a lucky guess!

Why did he neglect mentioning her? It wasn't like Babs minded or anything, but if she was barely kissing Robin while his tongue was dancing around an alien, albeit a very pretty, beautiful, hot, sexy, attractive alien who was more than willing to kiss on a whim, it would have been nice to know without trying to guess what the heck was going on.

"So…" Dick interrupted, trying to fill in dead time. "Are they all here Star?"

"As you requested!" she smiled back.

"Then let's go?" he asked Babs.

"Right behind you and Starfire!" she gave the biggest, fakest smile she could muster. Why did this bug her so much? It was a kiss necessary to help Starfire get along in the world. She didn't even have a reason to get territorial over the whole fiasco. This was ridiculous.

Dick shrugged and entered the tower behind Starfire. Babs seriously considered waiting around for a few minutes to see if anyone would notice, but decided to not act like such a petulant child. She didn't want to appear desperate or cat fighting with a super powered girl from Tamaran who could do goodness knew what with her green eyes.

They entered the large, spacious room at the end of the first hallway. Babs looked around at the ceiling, vaulted almost one hundred feet high. She looked around the room, eyes wide with shock. She suddenly realized exactly why Dick liked to come here so often.

It was every guy's dream.

The large TV screen sat between two cabinets as tall as the screen itself, each one jam packed with movies. The computers were state of the art, even from across the room. Someone in a red and yellow jumpsuit raided one of the two fridges while a girl and a boy sat on the plush, inviting sofas, watching the massive TV. Babs almost groaned for want of the comfortable seat. The cycle's seats were built for comfort but the cycle itself didn't have the proper legroom.

As they entered, another boy in a red top and short blue shorts entered through the opposite door. The boy and girl looked around from their comfortable position on the couch, and in an instant, the fridge closed and the boy in yellow and red disappeared as though he never existed.

"Who's this?" Babs felt her hair whip around her head. She spun around, but found no one there. What was-

"Must say, Dick," the voice said again. "Love the hair." Babs felt a slight tug on her hair, and twirled around to see a boy in a red and yellow costume looking back. She stared at him in wonder. "It matches mine," The boy smiled, his own red hair poking out of the top of his topless yellow cowl.

"Everyone," Dick called out, beckoning the remaining three people of the room. "This is Batgirl, the one I told you about. She'll be staying here for the weekend if that's alright with you guys."

Dick turned to Babs. "Going around the circle," he indicated with his arm. "This is Garth, or Aqualad," The boy in the red top and blue shorts waved shyly. "Speedy, Green Arrow's protégé," he indicated the boy who had come from the couch, who nodded curtly. "Donna Troy, or Wonder Girl," Wonder Girl smiled brightly. "And Kid Flash," Kid Flash nodded low.

Babs stood there speechless. The only thing missing was a Superboy. They had representatives of the major superheroes: Green Arrow, Batman, Aquaman, Flash, and Wonder Woman.

"Nice to meet you all," she smiled, blushing slightly.

"You want the tour of the tower?" Kid Flash asked.

"Sure," she shrugged, smiling. He was kinda cute… Maybe she could make Dick jealous…

"I need to discuss stuff with Ro-, I mean Speedy, really quick," Dick attempted to make an excuse.

"No need for the formalities," Speedy smiled to Babs. "Real name's Roy Harper," he held out his hand.

"Nice to meet you Roy," Babs shook his hand firmly.

Kid Flash rolled his eyes and exhaled heavily. "And my name's Wally West," he sighed as he held out his hand for her to take, but just as she put out her own, he swept her wrist with his hand and brought the top to his lips, kissing gently.

"So," Roy interrupted. "You wanna-"

But she didn't get to have the tour of the tour, for at that very moment, a red light flashed through the room and a loud klaxon called out unbearably loud. Dick ran over to one of the computers.

"Looks like we're going to have to put that on hold," he called out, not peeling his eyes from the screen. "We have a break-in at the warehouse over on Brookshire."

"Anyone else notice that the warehouses get the most publicity?" Donna inquired.

"And why is that?" Wally added. "It doesn't make any sense. Who likes warehouses anyways."

"The Fearsome Five, apparently" Dick muttered.

"Sweet," Garth butted in. "I love kicking these guy's butts."

"We might have a problem," Dick said from the seat of the bike a few minutes later.

"How so?" came the voice of Donna through Babs' headset as she flew above them.

"It didn't look like Dr Light was there," Dick replied back.

"Is that a bad thing?" Garth asked on his headset as he held onto Donna's arms above him. "He's always proved incompetent before. Maybe they finally got it through their thick heads that they were better without him. Why is it such a big deal? Maybe it's the Fearsome Four this time. Who knows, maybe they'll do even better…"

"But it's five, and they have a new person who, according to the security logs looked different, menacing. Even more so than the other four."

"I think we can handle it," Wally said.

"Where are you now?" Babs asked, arms wrapped around Dick's waist.

"The Warehouse," he responded. "These guys are pushovers. They're moving quickly, though. I'd give them three minutes, tops."

"Then we'll take two," Dick assured him.

"I can take them out from here Dick," Roy butted in. "Can I?"

"No," Dick responded. "Wait for reinforcements."

They pulled up to the warehouse. Outside, across the way from the warehouse itself, Roy and Wally stood in shadows facing a large moving truck parked in front.

"They're just moving back and forth," Roy informed Dick. "They're all contributing equally, as odd as that sounds. Usually their disunity pulls them apart, but this time it's different. It's like Psimon himself is in control and mind controlling them all."

Dick nodded. "Then we know what we need to do. Garth, Donna, try to take out Psimon. Don't want to make this any longer than we have to."

Garth and Donna nodded. Donna flew quickly over the truck, staying as close to the truck's roof as possible, when she blew straight back towards the building.

"Wally!" Dick yelled. "Get her!"

But Wally had already run up half of the wall before Dick had even reacted at him. With a quick push off of the wall, he bounded off and towards Donna. He caught her in his arms and landed gracefully on the top of the truck.

"Donna's down! It's a trap! They know we're here!" Wally shouted.

A large, bearded man vaulted over the truck, Wally, and Donna and landed with a gigantic thud in front of the other Titans, snarling and drooling in his scraggily auburn beard.

"Scatter!" Dick shouted, desperate to stay in control of the fight.

How? This guy was huge!

"Down!" Roy commanded as he dived to the right and loosed three arrows that exploded on impact with the giant man's chest, creating a quickly dissipated cloud of smoke.

"Bats!" Babs turned around to face Roy. "Choose a different target! You don't stand a chance against Mammoth!"

She whipped around to see two giant fists come screaming down and dove backwards on pure instinct right as the hands crashed into the ground creating a large, very small crater, rippling the asphalt under the shock.

Babs sprinted to Starfire. "You fight these guys before?"

"No, but I have been reading. Team members include Gizmo, Psimon, Dr. Light, Mammoth, and Shimmer."

"Dick mentioned one in place of Dr. Light. Any idea on that one?"

"I dunno, but I have a feeling I'm about to meet her!"

With that, Starfire rose into the air, power pulsing off of her in waves.

A bald, dark skinned woman walked around the truck, walking deceptively gracefully. She raised her hand, lighting it pink, and flung energy blast at Starfire, who fired her own in green. Babs looked around anxiously for something useful to do, not wanting to try to take out the woman who could shoot pink energy out of her hands.

"Wally," Dick's voice reverberated through Babs's ear. "I need you and Donna to take out Psimon."

"On it."

The truck Wally and Donna were on began to levitate, deftly flying into the air and as fast as it could to the wall next to Roy and Dick, who were attempting to take down Mammoth. Wally ran off the side of the truck and towards Babs, Donna in his arms.

"Wake her up," he demanded. "I'm going after Psimon."

Great. First mission and she was already a medic. Wonderful. She shook Donna fervently. "Donna! Donna! Wake up!" Something tapped her shoulder. As Babs turned around, a huge metal arm flew towards her and smacked her across the face, knocking her to one side and rolling along the ground.

"Oh! I'm sorry," came the voice of the man whose back was attached to three other claws. "Did that hurt?"

"I got him," Dick said, jumping in front of Babs and throwing a broken staff at Gizmo.

What was this? She was forced to play medic just because she wasn't really part of the team? True, Garth and Speedy were trying desperately to take out Mammoth, Dick was working on Gizmo, Starfire fought this new girl, and Wally was unsuccessfully attempting to fight Psimon, who stood, arms crossed, throwing things telekinetically at Wally. So where was the-

The ground began to absorb Babs and she kicked her legs until she hit the surface and jumped up, landing on solid concrete again. What was this?

A woman approached slowly, smirking. "Name's Shimmer. You the latest recruit?"

"Batgirl," Babs replied. "What's your power?"

The woman pointed her hand at the ground around Donna Troy, and the ground began to absorb her, swallowing her like quicksand.

"No!" Babs cried.

"Heh, that's what they all say."

Instead of attempting to pull Donna out, however, Babs ran to Shimmer and punched her across the face, stopping the sinking effect, but keeping Donna still embedded in the liquid ground.

"Ow," Shimmer rubbed her jaw. "That actually hurt." She straightened. "But no matter."

"What do you mean no matter?" Babs asked indignantly.

"That spell that I cast only lasts for a short amount of time," she teased.

Babs threw the same punch at Shimmer, who blocked it.

"Like I'll fall for the same-"

Babs gave an uppercut to Shimmer's jaw with the opposite hand, knocking Shimmer senseless to the ground.

"Donna! Donna!" Babs yelled at Donna. "I know you got hit, but you really need to wake up now. We need you."

"Hmm? Dick is that you?" Donna smiled.

Was everyone infatuated with Pixie Boots? "No! It's me! Batgirl! Wake up! The Fearsome Five is rather… fearsome!" Babs didn't even want to know how terrible that sounded.

Donna's eyes snapped open. "What do I do?"

"Psimon," Babs informed her. "Take him out."

"On it," Donna flew towards Psimon, attempting an aerial assault while Wally continued attempting from the ground.

Babs sighed. Perhaps she was cut out for the superhero business after-

Her world screamed red and her head lolled forward.

"That's for the three free hits. Be grateful it's not four," Shimmer said, rubbing her bruised jaw.

"You're done," Babs retorted.

She threw another punch at Shimmer, who blocked and countered with a kick. Babs grabbed her leg, and twisted it around several times, rolling Shimmer in midair and she fell to the ground.

"That'll show you," Babs said triumphantly.

"Huh?" Shimmer responded, dazed. "Where am I?"

Babs kicked Shimmer, knocking her out, and turned around to notice that the cohesiveness so readily visible at the outset of the fight, had begun to dissipate. Maybe it had something to do with Psimon's fall, the two pronged attack from Donna and Wally finally working. Donna took off immediately to fight the new member of the Fearsome Five while Wally ran over to help Dick with Gizmo. Babs stared as the remaining of the Five quickly lost their ability to fight effectively.

As she helped Dick take out Gizmo, by jumping onto Gizmo's back and ripping apart the metal device on his back, she pondered over the loss of unity, and by the time the battle ended and they had rounded up the Fearsome Five, Babs still couldn't shake a single pressing question that struck her when Shimmer uttered those four fateful words. This was similar to The Riddler four months prior. Could the same person be orchestrating this whole ordeal? Was Psimon the real perpetrator of these crimes? Was the streak finally over?

No. No way would Psimon make Two Face return to Arkham or want anything to do with the Riddler's crosswords.

This villain was a force to be reckoned with. If they could take out a powerful psychic like Psimon, then anyone was fair game.