I'm sorry for the wait and a short update, going to go back and make sure I have some chapters in the bank.

Note: I do not own the Teen Titans, if I did I wouldn't need to revise for exams...


"Titans GO!" The familiar signal echoed out and everyone jumped into action.

Starfire was closest to where Slade stood in the shadows of the higher levels balconies and was forced to resist the urge to speed across the room to see if friend Raven was okay, but that would mean passing right before Slade, gracing him with a perfect clear shot. So instead the girl released her fury and concern to her team mate by raining the spot where the fire ball had materialize with a shower of poorly aimed starbolts. When the dust settled that had been rudely disturbed from their rest upon the now ruined replaceable ancient artifacts, Starfie hopes of seeing a burnt out husk of a villian were dampened when no Slade could be seen.

"Your going to have to be faster than that, my dear child" a voice of pure silk said innocently behind the angered alien. Starfire whipped around only to be met by a blazing heat and a bone breaking knock that hit her straight in the chest, knocking clean out of the air, landing with a painful thud on the stone hard tiled flooring.

Slade gave a smug chuckle before calmly jumping from the interior balconies and walking up to his handy work, raising his hand to finish the job, knowing the alien had taken far harder hits. The pounding of footsteps could be heard and a light smirk played itself upon Slade's lips. Whipping around to face his new opponents, he caught the bow staff with ease.

"Oh please don't say my training went for nothing." He said, playfully drumming his fingers on the staff. Who could blame him playing smug, this was just a warm up before the main surprise.

If Robin was surprised that his attack had been so easily deflected, he didn't show it. Using Slade's weight against him, Robin tugged on the staff to bring the villian closer before letting out a vicious kick to the stomach. Robin looked up to see Slade's face inches from his. He hadn't moved an inch.

"Your getting boringly perdictable, R-" His threat was cut off when a blast of blue energy hit him square on the side, and this time it did throw him across the room.

Robin let out a breath he hadn't realised he had been holding, nodded in thanks to Cyborg who was powering up another blast before glancing over at Starfire. She groaned and started to pull herself up, gingerly rubbing the back of her head. Thanks to her superhuman healing ability and incredible strength, what would cause a normal human certain death, only gave the girl a few major cuts and brusies and from the extreme pain she could feel in her arm, she guessed it was broken in some way. Catching Robin's eye, she nodded as if to say she was alright and with that the Boy Wonder took off after Slade, not giving the villian an second to catch his breath.

Across the room, a green mouse scurried along the ground, lucky to have gone past the fire blasting villian without detection. Upon arriving at the impressive, but now worthless staircase, the green mouse grew and molded within a few milliseconds and once again the spindily green teen stood in its place. The boy glanced around to make sure that the villian was occupied before taking two steps at a time, carefully avoiding the large fault that threatened to expand at any moment.

"Raven?" When there was no reply from the motionless, corpse coloured girl laying in a heap at his feet. Panic set in. "Raven!?" He cried, the fact he was supposed to be quiet as to not bring attention to himself completely flying out of his head, replaced by the panic thought that one of their most formidable team members could be dead.

Every medic would frown deeply if they saw how Beast Boy was handling the situation, gripping the girl by the shoulders and shaking her, all the while saying in a child like whine "Wake up, wake up, wake up!" It wasn't entirely his fault for his lack of first aid knowledge, it wasn't as if Robin ever made thoses sessions interesting to listen to for the young boy.

Slade gave a sadistic chuckle at the sound of anothers pain, "One down, four to go." He muttered while easily deflecting every punch and kick that the kratate expert threw at him. It hadn't been a random choice of who was closest to him to go down first. Oh no, he never relied on random events. Slade could see it now, a clearly planned out encounter with the famous Teen Titans that should, if delivered with no hitches, result in him getting away and the Titans in chaos. Raven was to be the first to go as she was always the one who ended his show, for she only needed a little time to warm up her dark magic before releasing it and resulting in all who lay before her neutrality in a matter of seconds. That's why the honour of going first had to be hers. But as Slade had learned the hard way, those you wish dead rarely stay that way for long. Grabbing the staff once again with ease, ripping it out of the grasps of its loving owner before hitting the boy with such force you could hear all the air in his lungs being forced out as he was sent on his merry way into one of the glass cases. Without even having to look in their direction, Slade lifted his arm to point towards the staircase, grinning smugly to himself as he felt power surge though his vains as a ball of fire materialize in his outstretched hand. And all this power was down to such a petty little gem that hung around his neck.

"Three down, two to go." He said, releasing the fire and turning towards his last opponents.

Beast Boy was now really panicking, as would anyone who saw their leader getting flung across the room like a rag doll. If Slade could do this to their team in a matter of minutes with just some new found fire power, what were the odds that the smallest of the team would even get a scratch on Slade's uniform.

Raven had still not stirred, but with his sensitive hearing, he could distinguish the comforting "da, dam" of her heart beat over the shattering of glass across the room. Even though none of them were fully human (except of course for Robin, but no one would ever bring that up) in every other fight they had ever been in, none had been out for very long.

"BB, look o-" Cyborg's deep voice never finished when a blistering heat could be felt by the young, sensitive teen.

Beast Boy wasn't going to lie, the first thing that went though his mind when it had occurred to him that Slade had just sent him a gift, was to get himself out of the way as quickly as possible. Only to remember that Raven was behind him.

Before he knew what he was doing, Beast Boy had already wrapped his skinny arms around Raven just as he could feel the flames lick at his scrawny back.

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Oh. A cliff hanger! Guess you have to wait a little longer to find out what happened.

please tell me if Slade is a bit out of charater, when i was writing this he did feel a little... Odd. Well all reviews are greatly appreciated! Positive or negative as there is always room for improvement!

LouBa