An ocean of lights shimmered below the T-Ship, whose only occupants were Nightwing and Starfire. Before heading off to Gotham, Dick dropped Raven, Cyborg and Beast Boy off at Jump City International Airport, from where they departed on commercial flights to San Diego and Metropolis.

Nightwing banked the T-Ship as he took the long way around Gotham, carefully avoiding commercial air traffic lanes that led to the airport, as the T-Ship was in full stealth mode and completely shrouded, and he no desire to cause an air collision. From her compartment Starfire looked down upon the city below. It was much bigger than Jump City. The city, while partially on the mainland, was also contained by a large island. Several suspension bridges connected the city with the mainland. Not far beyond, beckoning in the distance was Bludhaven, Gotham's younger cousin.

The T-Ship slipped past the metro area and was flying over the sea, which was dark and inky. Dick checked the scanners, which showed that there were no ships below.

"Get ready, Star, we're going in."

The princess pressed her palms to the cockpit canopy, in a vain attempt to get a better look. The sea was dark of course, being that this was a moonless night. The coast was equally dark. A small highway hugged the shoreline, and other than for a single car that was disappearing in the distance, it was empty.

Nightwing banked the T-Ship towards a peninsula that had no roads and a single residence at its tip. The house was rather large, more of mansion actually. It was perched at the top of a cliff and had a spectacular view of the sea. Starfire watched with curiosity as her husband guided the T-Ship towards a cliff.

"Richard, you are aware that there is a cliff straight ahead of us?" She asked, doing the best to hide the concern in her voice.

"I know, don't worry, there's a secret entrance." He explained as a section of the cliff, which was a holographic projection, suddenly vanished, revealing a large tunnel, which swallowed the T-Ship. Dick carefully guided the T-Ship to a landing pad right next to Batman's Batwing. The T-Ship stopped and hovered, before gently touching down. As he shut the engines down a thin, balding man dressed in a black suit appeared seemingly out of nowhere. He waited in front of the T-Ship while the two Titans emerged from their orange jet.

"It is good to see you, Master Richard. I was afraid that after your falling out with Master Bruce that I would never see you again."

"You didn't really believe that, did you Alfred?"

The Majordomo did not answer and instead bowed to the princess. "Welcome to Wayne Manor, your highness." He greeted her with the propriety of an English gentleman. "And you, Master Richard, I see that you have finally relinquished the mantle of Robin. May I inquire as to your new hero name?"

"Just call me Nightwing."

"Nightwing … very dark … I'm sure that Master Bruce will approve. Speaking of which, he and Miss Gordon are waiting for you in the Batcave. Please follow me."

Alfred led them into a connector tunnel which was long and winding. When they emerged at the other end Starfire had to contain a gasp. While Cyborg was proud of all the equipment that he installed in the Tower, the Batcave put the common room to shame with its variety of computers, lab equipment and other items. She saw the Batmobile, parked off in the distance on a rotating platform. At the far end of the cave was what appeared to be a museum, which was highlighted by what appeared to be a giant penny and a Tyrannosaurus Rex.

Alfred led them to an alcove in the rear of the cave, where two people were waiting for them. One was male and was obviously the Batman. His cowl was removed and it was plain to see that he was Bruce Wayne, the billionaire. His companion was a shapely female, who was also wearing a Batclan costume, which meant that she was the Batgirl. Her cowl was also removed and to Starfire's immense surprise she was stunningly beautiful. Richard had never mentioned that the Babs was that lovely.

The two hosts smiled at their guests. Bruce quickly approached Nightwing, placing his hands on Dick's shoulders in fatherly gesture.

"Well, look at you! You sure grew since I last saw you!" Bruce turned to Starfire and taking her hand into his own, he kissed it. "And you are Starfire! I've been dying to meet you."

The Tamaranian watched Dick and Babs exchange a warm hug out of the corner of her eye. The girl was gorgeous. Starfire was used to being the "pretty" Titan, but as she stared at Batgirl she realized that Barbara Gordon's beauty rivaled her own, and possibly exceeded it.

After releasing Nightwing she turned to Starfire, and with a grin on her face she extended her hand, which Starfire took hesitantly as she had never become accustomed to the Earthly custom of shaking hands.

"So you're Dick's girlfriend? He sure likes to pick cute ones." Babs giggled.

Starfire cleared her throat. "Nightwing is not my boyfriend." She replied in a haughty tone.

"Really? I'm sorry … it's just that Dick said that …"

"Richard is my husband." Starfire interrupted.

A huge grin appeared on Barbara's face. "Dick! You rascal! Why didn't you tell us? When did you marry Starfire? … Say … does that mean that you're a prince now?"

Nightwing rubbed the back of his neck. "We were married this morning. Raven performed an Azarathian ceremony … it's 100% legit … as for me being a prince …" He turned to Starfire. "I have no idea."

In a very authoritative voice and looking a little stiff, Starfire replied. "Richard is my consort, which grants him the title of prince of Tamaran. If I ever become Empress, he will remain my prince consort."

Bruce was now grinning too. "Not bad, Dick, not bad at all. From circus brat to prince. You've done well."

Babs surprised Starfire with a big hug. "Welcome to the family, Starfire!"

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"Raven! Watch out!" Beast Boy shrieked as he covered his eyes.

"Shut up! I'm doing the best I can!" Raven howled as a Honda Accord barely got out of the way of the rental car she was attempting to drive, honking its horn at her. "So I was wrong, driving is hard! I can fly the T-Ship, how was I supposed to know that the skills weren't transferable!"

Raven veered the car off of the main road into a side street, screeching the tires as she whipped around the corner. She zoomed down the street until she reached a dead end and came to a screeching halt.

"We made it, safe and sound." She announced proudly as she opened the garage door with a remote control. Before parking the car, she pried Beast Boy's fingers off of his face. "It wasn't that bad!"

"It wasn't? You almost crashed 11 times!"

"You were counting?" She asked in disbelief.

"I told you we should have taken a taxi from the airport!" He bellowed.

"Hey! I can drive, unlike you, Mr. Chicken. How it is that you can play all those racing games on your GameStation, but you wussed out when I offered you a chance to drive?"

"It's different." He replied as the garage door shut behind them. "So, this is our new home?"

"For now, come on, I'll show it to you."

They entered the house, which was sumptuous. Beast Boy blew a long whistle.

"Dude, this is Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous … it's even got an indoor waterfall."

Raven took his hand and led him out into the back. There was a pool and Jacuzzi, along with a cabana. The ocean view was stunning and there was a staircase that led down to the beach. Beach Boy inspected the cabana.

"It has an ice cream bar and a soda fountain! Wanna a root beer float?"

She nodded as she sat down at an outdoor table. The changeling quickly assembled two root beer floats and brought them to the table. He immediately began to suck on his straw, and moaned happily.

"This is the life, Rave!"

Raven took a sip of her drink and looked at her surroundings. "The Tower … it already seems so far away and so long ago …"

He stopped drinking his ice cream laden treat. "Yeah, I know … it's more of a vacation … and vacations always end."

"Slade, will make his move … it's only a matter of time."

He nodded his head sadly, but quickly changed it to a smile. "Speaking of time, it was about time that Rob … I mean Nightwing and Star tied the knot."

Raven sipped on her straw. "It was about time." She remarked as she looked around. The pool and Jacuzzi area was very secluded, very private. The changeling grinned at her.

"This place is kind romantic, huh Rave? It's gonna be just you and me here." He wagged his eyebrows at her. "What do you think?"

Without saying a word she turned off her holorings by smacking them together. Old school Raven reappeared, including her signature costume. She walked up to the spa and turned it on. It bubbled like a boiling pot and Beast Boy watched curiously, wondering what she was up to.

Raven put her root beer float down next to the spa and to his utter astonishment she completely disrobed and got into the hot tub. She picked up her drink and sipped it before turning to him.

"Are you coming or not?"

She didn't have to ask him twice.

They sat together in the spa, sipping their ice cold drinks. Finally, Raven broke the silence.

"Gar, if anyone had told me a week ago that I would be sitting with you, naked, in a hot tub in a beach front mansion in La Jolla, I would have told them that they were nuts."

Beast Boy clinked his root beer float with Raven's. "Here's to crazy people."

"Cheers." She replied.

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The baggage claim area at Metropolis airport was bustling with people waiting for their luggage to appear in the ubiquitous carrousels. A tall young man wearing a hoodie was tapping his foot impatiently as suitcase after suitcase slid down into the carrousel. There were dozens of pieces of luggage, none of them his.

"I should have kept the T-Ship and let Nightwing and Star fly commercial." He grumbled.

More minutes passed and Victor was beginning to swear under his breath when his luggage finally appeared.

"It's about damn time." He grumbled as he effortlessly picked up the heavy luggage set.

He charged out of baggage claim and was soon outside the terminal. There was a statue of Superman outside. It was over thirty feet tall and had a greeting, welcoming travelers to Metropolis, engraved on a plaque at its base. Cyborg looked at the monument to Metropolis' favorite son and grumbled, as the citizens of Jump City had never paid that kind of tribute to the Titans. To add insult to injury, he had to wait there for his ride to pick him up. He had to put his beloved T-Car into storage and couldn't bring himself to drive some bland rental car.

Before he could make himself comfortable on a nearby bench he heard a voice calling out to him, barely audible over the din of the all the buses, hotel shuttles and other cars that steadily flowed past him.

"Victor!"

Cyborg turned and smiled. It was Reggie Wilkinson, his ride.

Victor and Reggie went to the same High School, were they played on the football team. Reggie was a good player, but not good enough to play in college, unlike Victor, who was being scouted by several colleges, that is until the accident.

Few people knew what happened to Victor, and Reggie was one of them. After Cyborg's father rebuilt his mangled body with bionic components, Reggie stuck with him, a true friend in a time of need. Victor appreciated the sentiment, but decided that he needed a fresh start and said goodbye to Metropolis and many people, including Reggie, and moved to Jump City.

An SUV pulled up and Reggie waved at this childhood friend before hopping out of the car. They exchanged a quick hug.

"Vic! It's great to see you! You look great."

"It's a hologram; I'm still the walking scrap heap I was when I left." Cyborg whispered to him.

Reggie smiled. "Never mind that! I'm taking you out to eat some real Metropolis style barbeque! None of that crappy stuff the serve on the coast. I'm talking about the good stuff!"

Victor grinned. "Now you're talking my language. Say, what do you think of the Marauders new running back?"

"Jason Bell? He rocks! We're gonna win the Superbowl next season, you'll see!"

A cop blew his whistle at Reggie, signaling him to hurry up as other people were waiting to pick up arrivals as well.

"Let's get these suitcases!" Reggie exclaimed as he grabbed one of the suitcases. To his surprise, it was so heavy that he couldn't lift it.

"I got it." Cyborg chirped as he handily picked it up.

Reggie grinned as he opened the rear hatch on the SUV, which Cyborg loaded effortlessly,

"Damn Vic, it must be so cool, being a super hero. Too bad about the Titans though. Why did you guys resign? Was it because of the San Antonio incident?"

Victor shook his head. "I'd rather not talk about it."

Reggie nodded. "That's cool. Now let's get over to CJ's Barbeque. I'm starving!"

Cyborg grinned. Seeing Reggie was like taking a trip back in time. To a time when he was just a kid, before he was Cyborg.

"Me too."

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I realize that nothing really happened in this chapter. But sometimes you need one of those.

And now, it's mailbag time! Thanks for all the reviews.

sonicboy678

Well, WHAT DID THEY SAY?! Here comes the boom (of murders that could've been prevented)!

The president is definitely going to regret canning the Titans

Rosalind du Coudray

Holy nuts...I freaking love this story! I can't wait to see what goes down with the Terror Titans and the Titans' new lives (for the time being that is...)! Keep it up! :D

For now, we'll have some fluff while Slade finishes cooking his monsters

bluedog197

awesome story at least the couple get to stay together so... keep updating and ill keep reading by the way nice plan you made for slade they wont know what coming to them

Deathstroke and the Terror Titans = trouble!

Dezarulordoftwilight

And now the badass that is nightwing is back. I'm excited that deathstrokes coming in. On a more depressing matter, young justice is actually being cancelled after this season, which sucks because I was really hoping raven would be in it. Good chapter by the way.

It is a bummer that Young Justice is getting cancelled so soon. Especially as it keeps getting better and better. It's being replaced by "Teen Titans Go!"

DeeThom

I can't imagine that the government believes that is going to help by sending them away. But I like Nightwing's idea, I'm just curious on how this is implemented.

Like Raven said, the Titans are just the scapegoats. Sadly, real life works like that all too often

No Line on the Horizon

Deathstroke always sounded better than Slade in terms of getting those goosebumps down one's spine when saying it. Too bad the TV series didn't use the name, but then again it was originally made for kids. I can only wonder what he has in store now with the titans out of the picture for the time being. I have to admit, the end of the last chapter caught me completely off guard, and I didn't see it coming. Love it when an author can make a drastic plot twist in the middle of the story, it always helps keep the story fresh. And your story continues to be fresh after 30 chapters. Other than this, good job with the last two chapters. I've really been enjoying the story so far. And thanks again for reviewing both my stories, I should have the second chapter out by the end of the week for Claustrophobia.

Oh and for the record, I would totally by a "Where's Beast Boy?" book. P See you next update!

Actually, in the "Kidz Korner" short, Robin does play "Where's Beast Boy?" It's on you tube if you haven't seen it. Just search for "New Teen Titans Kids Korner"

The Cretin

YES! DEATHSTROKE IS BACK! I know that sword well :) Always considered Slade the best all around swordsman in DCU. A lot of good introspection from BBRae. Wonderings of this and that. The way they look, the exit from the tower. You did that really well. If the foreign born Titans leave that'll leave them shorthanded. Not just with the ones you named but also Red Star, Argent, etc. several of the Titans are foreigners. Its gonna weaken the team. So Rob ditched the Christmas elf outfit, eh? Can't say I blame him. I think Bruce will approve of his new duds. I don't know why but I'm really worried for Star now. The govt. is taking control and where she's A) an alien and B) royalty I hope she's careful. I thought DS might have been behind the govt. thing but I don't know. It looks like their action may have thrown a monkey wrench into Slade's plans.

Star's deportation was cancelled. Speaking of Deathstroke, I was disappointed that that in the animated version of Batman: Under the Red Hood, they replaced Deathstroke with the Fearsome Hand of Four.

Radmila Raznatov

I can't fit my whole name and I'm too lazy to log in. That was freaking awesome! And what the hell? Does the government have to fuck up everything? HAVEN'T THEY DONE ENOUGH?! And I like how you changed Slade's Teen Titan identity to the comic identity. Puts a cool twist, and his name sounds more...intimidating now. I'd be more scared of Deathstroke than Slade. Keep up the good work! I don't know how you manage a chapter a day... I need that talent...

Thanks. The show's producers thought that Deathstroke was too scary, so the changed him and toned him down into into Slade.

Shadico

You weren't boring me, I was more trying to convey that government interaction like that was just a big turn off for me. The JLA had to deal with issues like that before the Titans did, and for the sake of the Titans as well as other groups. To see it happening in a fanfic just makes me groan for having to deal with it again, that's all. The situation doesn't exactly invoke the cheeriest of feelings in people, especially with super powered villains still running amok that guns just can't remedy. Well, at least it looks like there's going to be some BBRae fluff (WOO!) upcoming with their moving in together. Awesome. Glad to see the Titans aren't rolling over. It certainly looked like they were going to for a second there.

There will be plenty of fluff until Deathstroke makes his move.

krostovikraven1

man!, i'd love to have a crate like Raven's to store everything... hahahah, it would make moving sooo easy. and the Azarathean wedding was performed almost the same way as it was in "the gift" with the difference that Raven was already married to Beastboy. but great anyway. i like that your stories run under the same vibe as a constant background. love the chapter.

I've been known to marry BB and Raven off early in my stories. Not this time.

Jason9000

I don't know much about Deathstroke from the comics, only Slade from the show, but I did see him in action two weeks ago when he fought Miss Martian and someone else...I only just started watching the show and I am intrigued by it. Still think Deadpool is gonna pop up later from the Marvel Universe wondering what his "brother" is doing.

Deathstroke is perhaps the most badass villain in the DC universe. It was Lagoon Boy whose clocked he cleaned in Young Justice. And he did it without breaking a sweat, even though Deathstroke doesn't really have real super powers (though he a very enhanced human). Unlike Slade, Deathstroke used real weapons.

glittergurl022

i love it! getting better )

Thanks!

WhovianTitanPotter

Hahaha I dunno if he'd approve. The 7th Doctor wouldn't be too happy about this. Great chapter & story by the way!

Thanks! I miss David Tennant as the Doctor. Matt Smith just never worked for me.

Dragonkyng

Wow. I hope Deathstroke gets his ass kicked.

He's going back to his roots.

titanfan45

I can just imagine Beast Boy and Raven getting behind the wheel of a car when they have never driven before. Raven certainly had good taste to put a deposit on a beach house, she and gar can really live the good life on the combined income they have. Have to wonder how long Rachael is going to be able to live in Atlantis, I can't imagine a landluber thriving in an underwater city. This sequel is great so far, in fact I would say that it is definitely among your best writings.

Thanks, I hope you enjoyed the brief driving scene.

Avandra the Mary Sue Slayer

I said it. They'll learn they need the Titans the hard way. Now Slade's taking over with his Terror Titans. I think the real ones will handle the situation, I remember when Beast Boy, Starfire and Cyborg kicked their clones' butts.

True, but they weren't led by Deathstroke the Terminator