Phoenix Hey! so anyways I wanted to start focusing on Phoenix and Cyborg's relationship more that's why there was a little fluff in the last chpt but the story will still focus on Phoenix's relationship with the other Titans as well, and for those wondering when Jenny will show up again, don't worry she'll be back soon enough...anyway on with the story :)

Robin and Starfire walked into the common room expecting to see everyone busy or chatting but it was surprisingly weird when they only saw Beast boy and Raven watching a movie on the couch. They had just come back from the council meeting and were pretty tired from discussing the town crime wave and how so far its been pretty quiet but Robin told the council that Slade was still and outlaw and that they had no leads on his whereabouts but would keep looking. But in the tower things had been the exact opposite, after Cyborg left to work on the T-car, it had been quiet around the tower with the occasional noise coming from the backyard where Phoenix was practicing for her upcoming final test.

"Hey guys we're back" said Robin trying to get the couple's attention. Raven and Beast boy then turned around and noticed that their leader and teammate had just returned.

"Hey dudes, how was the meeting?" asked BB

"It was alright, just some old businessmen talking about how to make the city a better place and asking for our imput which reminds me, we have to start going to more charity events." replied Robin

"What? why?!" asked Beast boy. If there was one thing all the Titans hated more than criminals it was charity events that they had to dress up for.

"Because the mayor suggested that we do more of the service of communities." replied Starfire cheerfully

"Great just what we need, to show off for the press." said Raven rolling her eyes at the thought of the annoying cameramen taking multiple pictures of her at a fancy event.

"I know I hate the thought too, but we have to, saving the town from criminals and evil masterminds isn't enough for the mayor anymore and he wants us to prove that we really care about the city, not just save it because we have nothing better to do."

"But that's like half true!" shouted Beast boy

"Yea I know but we still have to do this." Beast boy then grunted and went back to slouching on the couch mumbling to himself about how unfair it was. Raven got up and started walking towards the kitchen to make herself some soothing chamomile tea. As she started walking towards the kitchen, Robin noticed that two people were missing.

"Hey where's Cyborg and Phoenix?" asked Robin

"Yes were are friends Cyborg and Phoenix, I have not seen them all morning." asked Starfire wondering the same thing as her boyfriend.

"Well Cyborg is in the garage and Phoenix is outside practicing since she finished training with Cyborg and we told her that when you guys got back that we were going to give her, her final test." replied BB now starting to get over the previous topic of discussion.

"Oh yea that's right, ok well then someone needs to go fetch Cyborg and someone needs to go get Phoenix from outside and bring her to the combat room."

"I'll go get Cyborg." said Raven as she then phased out of the room to the garage

"Well then I guess I'll go get Phoenix." said BB as he transformed into a crow and flew out of the room leaving the other couple by themselves.

"Alright come on Star, we gotta go set up the combat room." said Robin reaching for Starfire's hand and leading her to the combat room.

"I hope friend Phoenix does well on the test."

"I do too Star."

Phoenix was in her bird form practicing her flying techniques and maneuvers. She was also working on her fire breath and her aim. She had a couple of targets set up and she would keep trying to shoot the targets with her fire before they would disappear under the ground. Beast boy flew down as he spotted Phoenix and shifted back to his human form as he neared the ground. He then called her

"Hey Phoenix, Robin and Star are back its time for the test!" the bird looked over in his direction, squawked and flew near him stopping just a couple of feet in front of him and then changing back to her human form.

"What! its time already?!"

"Uh yea but don't worry you'll do fine, its just like taking a test." he smiled but she didn't smile back

"What if I fail? I won't be able to hang out with you guys, and then Robins gonna kick me out and then I'll be homeless and then-" her hair was now full on fire.

"Woah woah slow down! you won't fail, you'll be fine just believe in yourself, the rest of us believe you can do it." he gave her another smile and this time she gave him a smile too, her hair now back to its normal brunette color with its unique orange streaks.

"Come 'on lets go." they then started walking back up towards the tower.

When they got to the combat room, Phoenix was a little hesitant about going in but Beast boy nudged her to step into the doorway. He gave her a thumbs up and then walked away leaving her to face this challenge. alone. She walked into the room and the door slammed shut behind her making her jump and turn around but when she did, the door had disappeared. She turned to the front of the room and was shocked. It looked as though she was on a dirt road in the middle of a farming country.

"Welcome to the combat room or simulation room where we train with real life emergencies except in the comfort of the tower." the voice on the intercom was most likely Robin. She was looking around and noticed that it actually looked and sounded like she was in the middle of who knows where.

"We will be watching you to make sure that you stay safe, but you won't be able to see us so don't panic."

"No kidding." thought Phoenix

"So for your first test we'll be testing your speed. You will need to outrun Cinderblock without using your powers, if you make it to the check mark, then you pass."

"Who's Cinderblock?" she asked aloud hoping they would hear her

"You'll see, ready...set...Go!" and with that a buzzer sounded. She glanced over her shoulder and saw this huge monster made of cement roar at her and start chasing her.

"So THAT'S why they call you Cinderblock" she then started running down the dirt road as fast as she could trying not to look behind her. She was about half way there when Cinderblock started throwing objects at her. Hey, nobody said it would be easy. She then started jumping and dodging the objects that flew by her, when Cinderblock threw a car at her she slid under it and kept on running trying not to slow down. She could now see the finish line but then all of a sudden Cinderblock was a head of her with a fist ready to strike but lucky for her, there was a SUV next to Cinderblock so she jumped on the hood of the car, then the roof, then flipped over Cinderblock and crossing the finish line. The buzzer sounded and Cinderblock disappeared into mid-air.

"Well done Phoenix, you've proved that you could outrun a criminal without your powers." Phoenix grinned knowing that she passed the first test. Then the room started to change. She noticed that instead of a dirt road in the middle of nowhere, she was now in the center of downtown. She looked around and noticed a lot of cars and objects surrounding her.

"This next test will test you on how well you have learned to manipulate your powers." she was confused about what the objects were for

"What are the cars for?"

"They are to help you defeat the next villain, Mumbo Jumbo."

"Who the heck is Mumbo Jumbo?" her question was answered when the infamous blue magician came out of the shadows of the alley way in front of her.

"Hello my dear, ready for some magic?!" he asked her pulling out some cards from his hat.

"Umm no I think I'll pass on the offer by kicking your butt." he gave her a glare and shot cards from his hat aimed right for her. She quickly lit her hands on fire and started shooting fire balls at the cards.

"If you think you can handle a couple of cards, then why don't you try the whole deck!" he then shot a storm of cards from his hat. She them created a fire shield and blocked the upcoming storm of cards. When the cards stopped coming she then continued shooting her fire balls. She then started backing him into a corner until he shot a handkerchief rope at her and tied her up in it. Just when she thought she had failed, an idea sparked in her head making her grin mischievously. She started thinking about all the things that worried or frightened her and then her hair caught on fire, but this time when it burned, it burned the handkerchief and ended up singeing the hat.

"MY Hat!" cried Mumbo as he took his burnt hat in his arms. Phoenix then got up from the ashes of the handkerchief and went to over to Mumbo. He looked at her and back at his hat and started crying.

"Good job Phoenix, you have proved that you can control your powers under pressure." with that said the crying Mumbo Jumbo disappeared. Phoenix wiped the sweat from her face readying herself for the next test. The room started to shift and contort until it finally settled into a tropical rain forest. This setting confused Phoenix a little bit but she shrugged off the feeling trying to focus.

"This next test will focus on your shifting abilities, you will have to fly through the rain forest without being caught by simulation Beast boy."

"What? I thought Beast boy was with you?"

"He is, this is a simulation Beast boy, meaning its just one of his animal forms we've recorded and put into the machine to help us train, and this form is his T-rex form." Phoenix could practically hear Robin smirking into the microphone. All of a sudden there was a mighty roar that came from what she would have thought to be the other side of the forest but then a green T-rex started to pixelate in front of her. She then shifted into a phoenix and started flying through the forest trying to escape the giant green reptile hunting her down. She ducked through branches and flew to the canopy tops of trees flying as fast as her wings would take her to reach the finish line. As she was nearing the finish line she heard the sound of falling trees as the dinosaur was now getting close enough to claw at her. The T-rex tried biting at the orange bird but missed as the bird stopped mid flight and then flew up from behind the confused dinosaur and flew straight through the finish line. After passing the finish line, Phoenix then shifted back into her normal form and watched as the T-rex gave one last roar before disappearing into nothingness.

"Good job, you avoided the danger while in your animal form." Phoenix nodded in response

"Now for the next test-" the room started to shift again but this time she was in front of an abandoned building. She looked around, again utterly confused.

"Uh Robin, what am I doing in front of an abandoned building?"

"Your next test focuses on your newly developed hand-to-hand combat skills, you will be battling RedX." she could hear a number of voices telling him that it was too dangerous and that she's too young to battle him and that they haven't even been able to detain him let alone some young, inexperienced girl trying to take him down.

"-Its just a simulation guys! besides he's set on medium difficulty so she should be fine, now Phoenix you have to pin him in order to pass the test, now go!" She got into a defensive state waiting for some weirdo to come out of the shadows and show them selves.

"Well, well, looks like the Titans got another cutie to join the team, how's it goin'?" from atop the abandoned building Phoenix saw the masked stranger jump down to show himself. She was dumbfounded that this was one of the Titans most hated thief in the city, he seemed so cocky and full of himself yet seemed a little unsure of if she was a threat or not. She shot him a death glare that would have made Raven proud but he shot back with what would have been a smirk if he wasn't wearing a mask.

"Ok, since you won't make the first move then I guess I will." he ran towards her and aimed his foot for her stomach. She jumped back only to be charged at with another foot. She flew a couple feet back as she watched him lunge towards her. She dodged right and met his surprise look with a punch to the face as he flew the opposite direction. She needed to be on the offensive if she wanted to pass this test but, this was probably going to be the hardest one. He came at her with multiple punches but she either blocked them or dodged them, she then returned the favor by sending a couple of kicks his way in which one of them actually connected with his face and flew back a couple of feet. She went to finish him off with a couple more kicks and punches here and there and then the buzzer rang. She looked down at the fallen RedX as he gave her one last wink before disappearing like the others.

"Great job fighting off RedX Phoenix, now you have one last test..." she heaved a heavy sigh as she realized that she had just passed four out of five of her test. "Only one more, thank goodness.." her thoughts were interrupted by the voice on the intercom.

"The last test was supposed to be the hardest but seeing you already beat RedX...this one should be a breeze." She almost jumped for joy hearing those words. The room then changed again, she was now in a lab building probably deep underground and in front of her was a huge bomb. Her eyes widened in shock as she looked at the bomb then looked around the room and then at the bomb again.

"All you have to do is disarm this bomb...you have five minutes...Go!" and with that the timer on the bomb started ticking. She was now extremely scarred, Cyborg hadn't taught her how to diffuse a bomb! was he supposed to?! all this worrying made her hair catch on fire again but she didn't care right now, she was too busy trying to diffuse this bomb

"3:00 minutes remaining.." she opened the bomb and looked at all the wires and almost screamed. She saw a blue wire, a green wire, a red wire, and a yellow wire.

"I'll cut the green wire! its the green wire that always gets cut in movies right?" she used the scissors she found on the ground and cut the wire.

"1:50 remaining..."

"OH NO! I cut the wrong freaking wire! what do I do!" She then saw the blue wire and decided to cut that wire next.

"20 seconds remaining..."

"OMG! you have got to be kidding me! who designed this stupid thing anyway!" This time she just went with her gut and cut the red wire, closing her eyes just in case it would explode

"Bomb disarmed." She opened her eyes and squealed seeing she actually did it.

"Congratulations Phoenix! you passed the test!" yelled the excited voice on the intercom. The room then changed back to normal and the Titans came in giving her praise on how well she did. She was just about to thank them when the alarm went off.

"Titans trouble!" shouted Robin. They all ran into the common room. Cyborg then began typing on the dashboard.

"It's Slade, he's causing trouble downtown."

"Ok Titans-"

"Wait Robin, what about friend Phoenix?" ask Starfire cutting off Robin mid catch phrase

"Phoenix, wanna join us?"

"Sure why not!" she said cheerfully

"Alright now Titans Go!" said Robin as they all rushed out of the room.

Downtown...

When the Titans got to the emergency location, they found Slade there scaring off civilians and commanding his robots to cause mayhem. He spotted them and grinned evilly through his mask.

"Hello Titans" said Slade grinning evilly as all of them gave him a death glare.

"And I see you have a new member, how nice."

"What do you want Slade, living in hiding not enough for you anymore." shouted Robin making Slade chuckle slightly

"No my dear boy, just showing my new apprentice how its supposed to be done."

"New apprentice?" they all said in unison

"Yes meet my new apprentice...Electra." A girl with red hair stepped out from behind him and grinned evilly until she caught sight of Phoenix and then her face dropped.

"Felicia?!" said the red headed girl stepping closer.

"Jenny...?!"

OHHHHHH! suspense! anyway thanks for reviewing I love reviews ;) anyway hope that was suspenseful enough for ya anyway keep on reviewing and I do apologize if this chapter was too long I was just trying to fit everything in but yea anyway I'll update later ;)