Hey guys, sorry it took me so long to get this up, what can I say? Stupid computers, stupid parents, stupid school... get the picture? Please don't kill me! Anyway...

Disclaimer: I own Teen Titans just as much as I own anything; not at all. Stupid legal things...

The Fight Area

The two circled each other expectantly, waiting to see who would make the first move. As usual, Falcon moved first, being the less patient one. She morphed into a black wolf with dark purple streaks, and lunged at Raven. Without thinking, Raven wrapped a bubble of dark energy around Falcon and started to shrink the space. Realizing that the two might actually kill each other, Robin yelled at Raven, "What in the world are you thinking?" For the briefest second, she looked at him, and Falcon took that chance to vibrate the molecules of her body so that she could pass through Raven's spell.

When Raven had noticed that Falcon had escaped, she reached her essence out to form tentacles of darkness that would make Falcon experience her deepest fear (as shown in Nevermore and Birthmark). Instead of crying out in horror, Falcon only laughed, "You've used that trick on me so much that I decided to confront all of my fears, so now I'm not afraid of anything." and pulled herself up to Raven's face and kicked it hard.

Her head snapped back, and everyone could hear the bones cracking. It didn't seem to faze her however, and she summoned snakes of darkness that were filled with poison to attack. Falcon froze in place, and to Raven's surprise, let them bite her. Falcon let out a mischievous grin. "In one of my adventures down to Earth, a woman caught my essence, and in turn, my blood became poison to the poisonous." This enraged Raven all the more, who attacked Falcon with a blindingly fast barrage of martial arts, the likes of which the other Titans had never seen before. Falcon put up a thick shield of purple energy, which seemed to cause Raven to pause for a moment. Falcon stopped to catch her breath, but that didn't last long. Raven's chakra began to pulse, then glow as a solid beam shot out of it that pierced through Falcon's shield. Falcon lost her concentration at that, which lowered the shield completely.

Teleporting right in front of Falcon, she attempted to knock her legs out from under her, but it didn't work. The two of them fought, their bodies weaving in and out of each others like a choreographed dance. Every time when one would try to hit the other, be it kick or punch, it would just slide harmlessly by. Falcon was beginning to run just on instinct, so she failed to notice the black hand that sneaked behind her to grab onto her shirt. This surprised Falcon so much that Raven was able to get in two good hits, one to her shoulder and one to her gut, before she noticed it. "So that's how you want to play, is it now?"

Quickly, Falcon built up a thick wall of energy around her, and began to meditate. The skin on her shoulders began to wriggle as if it had a life of its own and wanted to get off of Falcon's body. That was what happened; a little pixie came out of each shoulder, passed through the energy wall (which Raven had been hammering at with magical and physical force), and started to attack Raven's face. Whenever Raven caught one, it would just slip through her fingers and leave ink stains on them and her clothes. Once Falcon was sure that Raven was both cross eyed and deaf (the things were really quite loud), she took off her long sleeved shirt, exposing the tank top that she had underneath, and summoned the creatures back to her skin where they resided as tattoos.

The energy wall began to shatter, and it seemed to bring Raven back to her senses. Chanting something under her breath, Raven brought her right hand down across the left half of her face, and at the same time reached her left hand behind her back to swing both hands to the right side. At once, spikes exploded from the ground and flung themselves at Falcon, who dodged most of them with ease. But the ones that hit her hit hard, crumbling to dust from the force of the impact. Apparently not noticing, Falcon jumped and flipped into the air, landing with her legs wrapped around Raven's neck in a chokehold. In an attempt to get rid of the sudden weight on her neck, Raven began punching and hitting Falcon's sides, making her wheeze. She relinquished her grip on Raven's neck, moving her arms down to her waist to grab on while swinging her legs around to knock Raven over.

She saw that coming and flipped forwards so that Falcon let go and fell on her back. When Falcon didn't move for a minute, Raven went over to her side to check how conscious she was. Before Raven could blink an eye, Falcon morphed herself into a tall and dangerous looking dragon, its eyes gleaming as if lit by an inner fire. "You're out of practice Raven. I should have come down here for a long visit sooner." Falcon's claw was clenching Raven's stomach in an ever-tightening corset. Right before she would have passed out from lack of oxygen, Raven chanted her mantra, causing her body to be encased by her magic, keeping her from further being squished. Falcon yelped as her claw was burned by the feel of the energy that pulsed from the body shield and dropped the offending person.

In a heartbeat, Raven was back on her feet, ready to do battle with the dragon, but could not find Falcon anywhere. A voice came from behind her, "What, looking for your own shadow?" as two hands of purple energy grabbed onto Raven's arms, pulling her down partially into the rock. Phasing out of Raven's shadow, Falcon coughed out, "Degro Infusco Animus" as Raven went limp. After three minutes went by, the Titans were in shock. Robin swung up their on a grappling hook, but Falcon transported him back down to the viewing platform. "She still might wake up in two minutes. We have to knock the other out for five to have it qualify as a win." The ticking of the clock in there became unbearably loud. Eventually, Falcon bent down, put her hand on Raven's pulse, and murmured, "evigilo". In an instant, Raven was back on her feet and the two of them were lowering the arena that they had raised.

They walked back out of the training area and headed up to the living room to get some food, for they had worked up quite an appetite. As Falcon reviewed her performance she thought to herself, I didn't do too badly, but I'm out of shape. Oh well, since I'm here with Raven, I'll be able to train back up to my previous level. Raven was thinking along the same lines; I didn't do so bad, considering that I've had to hide a lot of my ability from my teammates. I don't want them to ever think that I'm trying to take over Robin's position.

The other Titans were following the pair in amazed silence. When they were far enough ahead of the others, Falcon thought to Raven, So, when will I be able to claim my reward? How about tomorrow? I don't think that my teammates could handle anymore excitement today, and whatever you have in mind will surely be something that I would usually never do. You can count on that.

Living Room
The Titans and Falcon were ordering Chinese food. It was one of the few things that had enough veggie options for Beast Boy while still having plenty of meat for Cyborg. Raven inwardly shook her head. Sometimes she wondered if the two of them just put up such a fight for show and entertainment.

All of a sudden, the alarm blared. Robin raced over to the computer that was always on crime watch. Forgetting most thoughts about food, everyone else crowded around their leader, except for Falcon. Even though she had hung out with these people in spirit for a few years, she still didn't quite feel like she belonged with them.

"Oh crap. Cinderblock, Overload, Plasmus, and Jinx, Mammoth, and Gismo are all out attacking different parts of the city. We'll have to split up…"

"Wait, Robin." Everyone turned to stare at Falcon. Nobody contradicted Robin; that's why he was the leader. "Slade sent all of these people to have the group split up, each person taking one villain except you and someone else would go after HIVE. Don't do that, split the team up into two groups, but leave yourself out of it so you can be prepared for when Slade tries to attack you." The group, except for Raven, blinked unanimously. Smiling sheepishly, she answered their unspoken question. "I spent a lot of time around psychologists and mind readers, some of their talent has enhanced my own, I guess."

"Well then," started Robin, "I guess we have new information to add to this. Beast Boy, Cyborg, and Starfire, go after Cinderblock, then Plasmus. They're close to each other, and you can defeat them together. Raven and Falcon, you go and start with HIVE, you two could definitely take them down, but they will prove to be the most troublesome. Move on to Overload after you take care of them. Everyone, if your team finishes their villains before the other, go and help them out. When all of you are done, contact me on the communicators so I can tell you where I am. I'll most likely be fighting Slade, if what Falcon tells us is correct, so I'll probably need all the help I can get. Let's go."

With Falcon and Raven (all 'speaking' is thought-speak between Raven and Falcon)

The two old friends sped over to the block where Jinx, Mammoth, and Gismo were wrecking havoc, as usual. Raven smiled. 'Since these guys don't know you, and don't know what we can do together, let's hit them hard and unexpected. Just don't kill any of them.'

'Very well, let's go have some fun!' Falcon though gleefully. This day was getting better and better.

They soon came upon the HIVE, and Falcon grinned as she disappeared into the shadows. 'Great thinking, Fal. They don't expect you, so when they only see me, it will lull them into a false sense of security. When they focus on me, knock them out with everything you've got.'

With Starfire, Beast Boy, and Cyborg

Cinderblock was doing what he did best, mindlessly destroying buildings. Fortunately, it was only a slight challenge for the three of them to defeat him. Starfire flew around him, alternating between hitting his body with starbolts and his face with beams from her eyes. Meanwhile, Cyborg and Beast Boy were working as a team, aka, Beast Boy turning into a dinosaur and Cyborg hurling him at Cinderblock. After a couple minutes of trying to squash the annoying little alien that was hurting him, Cinderblock got so twisted that he collapsed right in the center of all the rubble he had created.

With Falcon, Raven, and the HIVE

The HIVE boys were estatic; they had just pulled off robbing a jewelry store, and they were envisioning the new toys that they could get. Gizmo had stars for eyes thinking about all the new electronics he could buy and make to do his commands. Mammoth was thinking of the new bike that he had been wanting to get... it was BIG and SHINY and RED. All good things in his mind.

Jinx however, was much less excited. She was the one who planned all their missions, so of course she was the only one in that group that had been told by Slade to rob somewhere this afternoon. Somehow, she knew that they would probably not be able to keep any of the things they had helped themselves to. She hadn't been able to help herself from looking over her shoulder the whole time, just waiting for someone to show up, most likely the Teen Titans. Jinx shuddered at the thought.She couldn't stand any of them, except for Raven. Unbeknownst to anyone on either team, the two of them were actually friends, both able to put aside their minor differences to be able to have fun with each other. It was almost necessary; neither one of them had much intelligent conversation or interaction with their own teams. Speaking of the dark empath...

Jinx felt, more than saw, the form of Raven fly over to where the HIVE was. Jinx sighed inwardly. It looked like Raven was the only Titan sent to deal with them, making it impossible for them to engage in their usual debates while fighting.

Raven smiled at the sight of her friend, both relieved and disappointed that she had to fight her. Relieved, since it was an intellectual fight that they usually had, with just enough real fighting to make it believable, and disappointed since it meant that there was a real chance that this time Jinx would actually get hurt. Raven shook her head to clear it of that thought; no need to go regretting taking Falcon along with her. 'Falcon, wait until I let you know that it's ok to attack. I want them to be very comfortable before you come out.'

Raven heard a light laughing sound filter through her mind. 'So you basically want me to wait till they beat you up to show myself Roth? Even I don't want to get rid of you that bad, no, I'll just wait until I think it's a good time to attack, my sense of timing has always been better than yours anyway.'

Raven snorted. 'You'll never let me forget that one time, will you?'

'One time? It was more like five...' Raven inwardly laughed at that, then focused herself on finding the pesky kid with the terrible insults. Ah, there you are... She let her powers encase the little backpack that he had on him, successfully jamming all of the circuts and wireless transmittions. The whining of the machine gave her away to the HIVE members, though she was sure that Jinx had noticed her before, but was waiting for her to make the first move. As soon as they had all focused on her, all of them heard waht sounded to be a miniature explosion in their heads, making them sink to the floor unconsious. Raven looked down the street to where Falcon was standing. 'And here I thought you were going to let me do some fighting.'

'With your crazy mental status right now, not a chance.' Teased Falcon. Even from this far away, Raven could see the glint in her eyes.

'You're saying something's wrong with my mind?' Replied Raven just as teasingly.

Falcon feigned innocence and surprise. 'What! Do you thing that I could ever say something as terrible and mean as that?'

'Yes'

A/N Really, I'm very sorry about the insane amount of time that it took me to get this up. I'll be trying to update more quickly, but I'm not promising anything.