4/17/07

Disclaimer: I do not own the titans. Only this fanfiction story plot.

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3. Trouble In The Dark

"Those who remember you...? That means you would have had to have been here before!" Cyborg still had his cannon out, aiming it at Shadow. There was a small silence as the Titans eyed him. Though they couldn't see a face, they new that his eyes had a returning gaze.

"I guess that would be a possible conclusion..." There was a hint of sarcasm in his voice.

"What you planning? Who are you?" Robin questioned, demanding answers. Shadow smirked underneath his cloak, and a second later he sunk into the floor again. The five Titans' eyes started to dart all over the place searching for him.

"Where'd he-" Cyborg started to ask aloud only to be interrupted by a hard hit to the back. He went flying, as well as Robin, Starfire, and Raven. When they landed and looked to see what hit them, there was a big green brontosaurs front of them.

"Beast Boy," Raven shouted, "what in the world did you do that for?"

He returned back to his human form looking confused, "But I didn't... I wasn't...!" Suddenly a green bolt hit him and he went flying back. As he stood up he looked at where that hit came from, "Starfire?"

"I did nothing." She protested, "I-" She was interrupted by a loud crash. Robin just got hit by a trash can.

"Raven!" This continued.

"Starfire!"

"Robin!"

"Ow! Cyborg!"

"Wait, where did Shadow go?" Raven asked as everyone else stopped what they were doing.

"He must be behind what ever is going on." Starfire mentioned. Everyone went quiet. Click. Robin quickly grabbed something from his belt and through it near the roof entrance. It exploded and the black figure was seen jumping away from the door.

"Now we've got you!" Cyborg turned from where he was looking to Shadow. His flashlight was right where he was, except he was gone. "Where did that sly guy go?" He was answered with a kick to the back. The light moved and showed Shadow running. He had already started running towards them, from the exact spot that he had landed only a second ago. Also, from behind Cyborg came another one that had hit Cyborg in kicked Cyborg in the back. That one landed near the ground and sent a sweep towards Robin who jumped over it only to be punched by the one that was running. He then turned to Starfire and sent a helicopter kick in her direction. She flew up and shot some green bolts at him. He sunk into the ground and disappeared into somewhere else. Beast Boy was flying around somewhere as a fly trying to find the one that just exited the battle field. He did is job well, but only because he found him. Beast Boy flew up high and then turned into an elephant falling in the direction of Shadow. To dodge it Shadow summersaulted out of the way. Beast Boy landed breaking whole through the floor and going down one story. The other Shadow ran into Raven. She was throwing everything she could get at him, but he kept dodging it. Suddenly he sunk into the ground and she stopped and looked around frantically. He came out behind her and punched her in the back. At the same time Starfire fell in the same direction, towards Robin and Cyborg who were running towards them. Robin caught Starfire, and Cyborg helped Raven up as Beast Boy burst through the door. The other Shadow landed near his other..

"What magic is this?" Raven muttered to herself as her eyes jumped from one to the other.

"Shadow replication." One of them answered to her surprise. They watched as one of them sunk into the ground, disappearing. They were back to one, and he was slowly backing up. As the Titans slowly came closer. "Now if you excuse me," He stopped walking near the edge, but of course, he had no where to go. He was cornered, "we must part." He jumped back, and fell from their site.

Robin was the first to the edge. He was scrambling down the fire escape. Robin took a jump past it, going down quicker than Shadow in his free fall. About half way down he grabbed his grappling hook and shot it up. It latched onto the fire escape higher up and Robin swung over into the escape root cutting off Shaddow. Cyborg and Beast Boy were scrambling down and were very close, as the girls showed up at the side.

"Your under arrest." Robin said. There was no way out that any of the Titans could see. Crash! A broken window and Shadow was in someone's appartment. There was a scream of a woman as Shadow ran through a bedroom knocking down the door and then barging through the apartment door, past a man with a bottle of wine and to glasses. Behind him there was another smash. The guy dropped something. The Titans split up. The boys followed Shadow through the strangers' appartment. Starfire and Raven flew down to the entrance cut him off. In moments he burst through the door sunk into the ground and coming out behind them.The Robin, Cyborg, and Beast Boy were right behind and went right past the girls, who flew quickly after.

This kept up for a few blocks as Shaddow would make a turn and go through tight corners, but finally, Robin reached out and grabbed the black cloak that was in front of him. Shadow was pulled back a little as Robin pinned him to the ground.

"Who are you?" Robin's hand reached for the hood as the others caught up. Cyborg turned on his flashlight so they could get a good look at the face, and Shadow was gone.

"If this Shadow the duplicate, then that would mean..." Starfire looked back in the basic direction that they had come from. The sound of a siren came closer. A police car drove by with it's lights flashing. As the siren disappeared Beast Boy spoke up.

"So, are we going to go back and help investigate or...?" The sentence trailed off and ended with him shrugging.

"Yeah." Robin nodded, standing up, "That sounds like a good idea. He was in this town before right? Someone at the Station has to know something, or at least someone in this city."

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I haven't updated in forever and I am sorry. I got stuck on the fight scene, and I'm sort of happy that I did 'cause otherwise it would have sucked badly, and my mind couldn't get out of future chapters. I do that all the time though. It just stalls the story, and besidesI was stuck in the next chapter truthfully, so as long as I get computer time, I'll be good. So, reveiw and read next time.