Ch.4-Bullet one

Robin and Batgirl sat on the top of titan's tower, telling each other the events that had occurred over the time they had been apart and watching the sun slowly rise above the horizon. For some reason, every time batgirl said something about trying to come see him, He blushed, and had to turn his face away so she couldn't see it.

"Yeah and then Bruce had to come get him out of a tree… he may be another partner but he'll never replace you…"

Great, so Bruce has replaced me with another orphan...He's probably just another guy trying to get her heart…and he's closer to her…at least where he lives…

"But he doesn't live at the mansion. He has his own thing going in LA."

Whew...

"Can you believe we've known each other for 14 years?" Batgirl asked looking down at the little black puppy that had fallen asleep in her lap.

"Has it really been 14 years? Wow… I left the cave to come here when I was, what, 12? Heck, we haven't seen each other in 2 years…", Robin sighed, "It's just hard to imagine I haven't talked to you for that long…Boy am I glad you came back."

She looked over at him with a sweet smile, she looked as if she was blushing but Robin was sure that it was just the golden sunlight reflecting on her skin. He looked back over at her but got lost in her deep brown eyes.

Gosh! She's so pretty! No! Wait…she's my best friend. I shouldn't be thinking about her like that…but she is! I wish she would just notice me… maybe she thinks the same about me! No, maybe she has a boyfriend, why shouldn't she I mean, with those looks, and gorgeous hair and beautiful smile and deep eyes…

Batgirl had finally broken the silence. "Robin? Robin?" He finally snapped out of it and blushed a deep scarlet. "So which enemies have you been fighting exactly? I mean, apart from Slade. "

Robin stared at her in wild amazement. "How do you know about Slade?"

Batgirl jumped with this sudden outburst and Ace jumped out of her lap. "well, he's been coming to Gotham a lot lately, he attacked the cave last week twice. That's part of the reason I came to see you! I'm supposed to tell you-"

She didn't finish her sentence because Cyborg had just burst thought the door . "Time for sparring yall!" he yelled.

"Ok, but uh, I thought I was the leader of this team. Huh?"He joked. "You don't have to come if you don't want to. Its just practice…" He said to batgirl who strangely had become excited.

"Are you kidding me? Of course I'm coming! I wouldn't miss sparring for the world…ok maybe if it was in trouble…" She grinned at the two boys who had actually started laughing at her last remark.

"I knew you wouldn't turn this down," said robin, still trying to hold back the laughter.

Let's see what you can really do…who knows? You may be able to even beat our leader here." He said while messing up Robin's hair.

Robin glared up at the metal man, and then shook his head, trying to fix his hair. He looked over at Batgirl and smiled. "You never know…then again I've never been beat by any of them" he said pointing over to the Titans.

They had reached the practice room. It was solid white and had one control panel in a separate booth attached.

"Alright so what are we doing first?" Asked beast boy," I'm ready to go!" He changed into a dog, then a cheetah, ape, and lion.

"I don't know, but I say we see what batgirl here can do first." Said raven. Leaning over to batgirl she whispered "this is payback for beating me in that game…" she grinned evilly and moved back next to Starfire.

"That's all right Raven. I like being in the spotlight." She said, winking at the stunned Goth.

"Yes. Let us see what our new friend can accomplish." Starfire said. She floated over to the control booth to join Robin and Cyborg who had already started turning knobs and pushing buttons.

"So, do you know how to do this Batgirl?" Robin asked. He didn't know if she had ever seen this type of training thing before. The batcave was pretty tricked out but this was brand new. They had only used it once. "It has all our of enemies programmed into it. None of them are real, but they're real enough to kick your butt. Beast Boy knows that for a fact…"He said, smirking at the green changeling.

"Hey! I was a lion, my mane got in my face and so I couldn't see AND I was fighting Cinderblock!" he retorted. "Just because you're the only one to have your rear kicked doesn't mean you should come up with all these excuses." Raven said. She floated over and started to explain the procedure to Batgirl who was now sanding alone in the white battle room.

"The object is to beat all the enemies in one level and advance to the next. As soon as you defeat one enemy, another will appear. You also have to watch out for the battleground. It changes throughout the battle to make the fight harder. The lights will change and sometimes things will shoot out but other than that, it's just the opponent. We'll start you out on level one just to be safe. That's the one we all started on. Good Luck!"

She hit a button and pulled a lever and the room changed into a park, almost exactly like the one they had been in earlier except for the fact that there was still a booth about 15 feet above her head. The ground had obviously moved down so they could see everything she did.

A door on the other end opened and a short man with what appeared to be a light bulb on his head walked through.

"First level, Dr. Light." A voice said over the intercom.

"Wow. A guy with a light bulb on his head. I'm so scared." She walked over and flipped over him, coming down and hitting the switch on the back of the bulb. "I guess that's lights out for you. "Can we please move on to someone, or thing for that matter, that's a little more of a challenge?" she said, sounding kind of bored.

The titans looked down at her from the observation platform that had appeared out of nowhere. They had thought that she would have at least taken a little longer to take him down. She was always great at that. She has such a cute attitude; kind of cocky in a way…I guess she just wants to hot shot since this one is so easy. Maybe we should put her on a higher level.

"Uhh, Raven? Can I make a tiny suggestion? Lets start her out on level 10. I know her, she'll beat it for sure, heck, I know she will, she's better than me, but she's right. This isn't much of a challenge." Said Robin, a stunned look still on his face.

Raven stood there for a moment, considering what he had just said. "Whatever. We'll start her on level 10, but was that actually a compliment? You said that she was better than you. You never admit someone's better than you…could this be a crush?"

YES YES YES! It is! I swear! I want to scream it out loud!

"No way. She's just an old friend and I know she's really good. Is that a problem?" he said, blushing.

"Unh hn, whatever you say Robin. You forget, I can read minds."

Robin's mouth gaped. Luckily for him, only Raven saw.

"Hey! Did you guys fall asleep? I'm still down here!"

Raven turned, went into the control room and turned the knob to ten. "OK Batgirl. Here's level ten. We've decided that putting you on level one wasn't such a hot idea. Let's see what you can do."

"Finally"

The scenery changed to an old warehouse and cinderblock appeared. He started toward her and slammed his fist into the ground where she had been 2 seconds ago. He lifted his huge fist, expecting to find her, but she had disappeared. He looked around stupidly, trying to spot his prey, who at that moment jumped down from her place in the rafters to kick him in the face. He reeled back and fell over.

"How did she hide so fast?" Beast boy asked. "Even I can't do that and I can turn into a ant." He demonstrated and raven stepped just to his left.

"Yeah, you might want to watch that. You might be able to transform into a pancake if you stay like that much longer."

Starfire giggled and walked to the window to watch Batgirl finish cinderblock off with another smash to the head. "She is, ruthlessly strong. Do you think we could let her become one of our teammates? I'm sure that she would make a great addition to the Titans." She said as Robin turned the knob to the next level. "I hope we can star," he said, absentmindedly. "I hope we can…"

Dove was standing on a tree stump when it changed and she dropped to the ground. The scene had changed again and this time it was a street complete with bystanders and cars. "Wow, who built this? It's really great and…." She dodged a car "…realistic. I'm guessing this is Cyborg's work?" she said looking over at the control room.(The ground had risen)

"Thanks, It took forever and was really hard but I can't take all the credit. Robin and Raven helped me build it. Robin did all the technical stuff and Raven used her powers to put it all in place. I just built the stuff." He said blushing.

BANG. "Hello, batgirl." Slade stepped through a hole in a building. "Sorry your time with the titans was so short, but as you know, my job is to destroy you." He started to charge toward her, but she jumped out of the way. "Fine, but if I go, I'm going with a BANG!" she said throwing explosives from her belt at him, but he wasn't effected. He just ran through the smoke and punched her in the stomach.

"Batgirl!" Robin yelled, " I thought we didn't make him one of the challenges because he was too dangerous!" He said as he ran through the door and leaped down to help his former partner.

"We didn't!" The rest of the titans followed him and started to fight off all the drones that Slade had brought with him.

"So I'm guessing that this isn't part of , unh, practice." Batgirl said as she punched one of the drones, trying to escape Slade.

"It's not," Robin said. He was trying to clear a path for them so they could get out of the room. " We don't have him in our system. See, I have a problem when it comes to Slade. I tend to-"

"Over obsess?" Slade said as he punched at the shocked boy's face. Robin took the punch and fell back. He caught himself and returned the punch as hard as he could. Slade was taken aback and fell onto his back. Where's Dove? I gotta see if she's ok!

"I don't over obsess!" Robin said as he kicked Slade in the chest. "I just want to stop you once and for all!" Another kick sent him flying to the other end of the room.

His team was slowing down, even though they were the teen titans. Raven and beast boy were nowhere to be seen. Robin guessed they were outside the tower. Cyborg was still in the room fighting off drones that were trying to get to an unconscious Starfire.

His team was failing and Batgirl was nowhere to be found. He ran outside and looked around, trying to find her.

She was over leaning against a tree holding her left arm, which was bleeding. She looked like she was in pain. Slade, who had recovered from the attack and ventured outside while Robin was checking out his team, was holding up a strange looking gun that had smoke coming from the mouth of it.

"Looks like that's the end of your little girlfriend." He said, laughing at Robin as he ran over to help his former partner. "I could leave but I want to see what you do when she dies."

"Batgirl! Are you OK?" He said as he knelt down next to her. She was now on her knees, gasping for breath.

"Ace, fetch." She said to the dog who ran off to get what she needed. After a few seconds he came back with a shot in his mouth. Robin took it and gently put it in her arm below the wound. "Thanks" she said as she collapsed into his arms. He checked her pulse. She was ok now but he still needed to wrap her arm, but first her had to take care of Slade.

"What did you do to her?" Robin yelled as he ran toward his target. He punched at his face but Slade dodged and he hit the tree. Spinning around he took off after Slade. The drones were gone so it made it a lot easier to chase him but it had started to rain and the ground was muddy and he kept sliding,

"I didn't do anything to her. That clown did. HE gave me the gun. HE told me where to go. HE gave me the 500 grand in cash. I just pulled the trigger." He said throwing smoke grenades at the ground and disappearing in the thick, gray fog that had surrounded him.

"NO!" Robin said. He had expected him to give out more information. He usually did, being as he liked to brag. Realizing he would never find him now, the boy wonder turned and ran back to Batgirl. He picked her up, being careful with her hurt arm, and carried her inside.

When he got in he laid her on the floor, pulled out a roll of gauze from his utility belt and wrapped her arm. She had started to wake up and winced when he touched her arm. "Sorry." He said when she was awake enough to hear him. "Your fine" She said "Thanks."

" Hey Raven!" He yelled across the room, "Can you come look at this?" The goth floated over to them.

Batgirl sat up and held up her arm for Raven to see. "What did he hit you with?" she said as she looked at it with her powers. She laid her hand on it and black energy surrounded it and Batgirl felt it heal. "you'll have to wear this for a few days because it's going to be really sore but other than that, it'll be ok. I still don't see how it's in this condition. Usually, it would be worse. Did you do something to it?"

"I made a vaccine that will work against the chemical in the bullet in the cave. I figured I would need it somewhere along the line so I made one that I could keep in my belt. Too bad, because Slade knocked it off and I had to wait for Ace to fetch it." She looked up at robin. "That's why I fainted when you gave it to me. Normally I wouldn't have but I'm guessing Ace couldn't find it." She gave the puppy a small pat on the head. "That's alright though, he found it eventually." Robin reached out his hand and helped her up. She was still weak so he helped her keep steady.

"You gonna be ok?" He asked, his voice full of concern. "Yeah. I'm fine. But like Raven said, I can't take this off." She replied, a note of disgust in her voice and waited before speaking again. It looked as if she was thinking about something important. "I can't stand this anymore! I have to tell you everything."

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Ok. Sorry this took forever. I have basketball practice so I don't even have time to watch TV. I Know. It's unnatural. but anyway, Here's this chapter.

PS-remember: I have a much better story but this person has to become a teen titan and be with the team for a while.LOL. R&R