Hey guys, sorry it's been so long. I apologize for not updating sooner but my between my job and looking for a good college, I kind of had other things to worry about. But I should be less busy now that it's summer.

Here's the newest chap. I'm sorry if my writing has diminished, and I didn't proof-read this that much. Plus I haven't been in school since 2010.

Chapter 5: Mission Complete

Tiny stars dotted the night sky and moonlight bathed the land. Cars honked and hummed, while the citizens yammered. Scents from restaurants filled the air. The city was alive with activity of all kinds.

Raven huffed as she leapt from rooftop to rooftop, using a small amount of her powers to give her some lift. It surprised the young Titan how easy it was to scale the tall buildings, but she was careful not to overdo this because the other Titans were scanning the skies.

The wind blew in her hair and moonlight shone on her back. She landed in a crouched position, being sure to stay low and out of sight. The amethyst-eyed girl pulled out her binoculars from her pouch to examine the security patrolling the building.

"Raven, where is your current position?" Slade asked through her earpiece.

"210 meters due west."

"Good, proceed."

"Understood."

Raven jumped down from the roof, rolled as she hit the ground, snuck around a guard, and made her way to the small vent. She crawled through the vent, winding up in a corridor. As she turned, she heard several footsteps coming from multiple directions.

She dismounted off the ground, flipped in the air, and stuck to the ceiling.

"How many guards?"

"About 8 of them."

"Wait for them to pass."

"Right."

Several moments later, four guards passed in one direction and another four going in the opposite one. They took a moment to look around, failing to look directly upwards.

"All clear" the guards told each other.

Raven clung to the ceiling a few more moments, watching them pass. As soon as the coast was clear, she dropped from the ceiling, heading straight for the room containing the zinothium. She saw more guards up ahead, quickly hiding behind a wall. Without warning, guards were swarming in on her position.

"Minor setback, get rid of them."

Raven gave a reluctant nod. One guard swung at Raven but she slipped under his arm, thrusting her palm under his chin. He staggered slightly, giving her an opportunity to knee him in the stomach. The guard hunched over in pain as Raven grabbed his wrist and threw him at a few in-coming guards.

Two other guards swarmed in on her, but she elbowed one in the chest and spin kicked another in the head. She took a moment to catch a breath before ramming their heads together and sending a black wave. It flanked their positions and slammed them all into the wall. One guard snuck up from behind and gave her a bear hug. She struggled against to get out, seeing a guard coming at her. Raven lifted her feet off the ground, kicking him square in the chest. She heard his ribs crack as the guard held her, staggered from the inertia of her kick. The Titan slipped an arm away from his grasp, took hold of him, and flipped him through the air.

She looked around, took the keycard from one of the guards, inserting it into the reader. It beeped for a few seconds before the bars on the door slid away. The Titan stepped into the room, failing to notice was that one of the guards was still conscious and signaled for back-up.

She saw the zinothium placed in the middle of the room.

"Target confirmed."

"Excellent, proceed."

Raven sent a wave of energy and destroyed the cameras at the top of the room. She slowly levitated to the zinothium, pulling out a small device from her pouch, and linked it up to the base of the container. After entering a few codes, the container clicked open, revealing the red, frost-covered power source. She reached out, grabbed the zinothium, and placed it on her pouch.

The alarm went off as soon as she grabbed the zinothium; red lights flashed and zooming noises filled the air. Raven instinctively looked to the door to hear the stampede of footsteps closing in on her.

'Time to go!' She thought quickly.

The Titan whirled around seeing the door unlatch, and the guards stormed in. They aimed their guns at her but she dropped to the ground in a split second and charged her first guard. Before he could pull the trigger, Raven pulled out a staff, bludgeoning his head. Another guard tried to attack her, but she used the recoil from the hit to slam the staff into the attacking guards' head and knock him out. The other guards fired their guns but she twirled her staff, deflecting the onslaught of bullets. Then she leapt in the air and landed in the middle of their formation. Taking no time, she smashed the staff into the helmet of a guard who was about to pull the trigger of his gun. Following up on that attack, she aimed low and swept more guards off their feet and kicking them into the wall.

As they grunted and groaned in pain, she continued her onslaught, zooming in and out of the guards firing range. Bullets zipped around the room, occasionally occurring in friendly fire. The guards attempted to get rid of the sorceress but they were no match for her. She disappeared and reappeared behind one guard and thrashed him with her staff.

The last guard collapsed beneath her as she began making her way out.

"You have several minutes until their back-up arrives and the authorities will be here. Get out" Slade ordered.

"Roger that."

As she was about to open a portal and teleport herself out, she heard a distinct gasp behind her. Raven whirled around and saw the Titans standing near the entrance. All with wide eyes and jaws agape. They all held their weapons raised but the shock of seeing her caused them to momentarily lower them.

"Raven…"

She was just about to respond when she hear another order from Slade.

"I said get out of there."

The enchantress hesitated for a moment before nodding. Of course, this would mean she'd have to fight her way out.

Raven dashed towards Robin, swinging her staff at his head but he was barely able to block it. She sent him a swift kick to the side, pushing him near the wall while deflecting some of Starfire's bolts.

"Hyaaaa!"

She landed on the ground in a crouched position before running towards the door. A few bombs halted her escape. Raven snapped her head to the side and looked in Robin's direction. Not taking anytime for her to react, the Titan leader broke into a sprint and threw more explosives. Raven side-stepped to the right, avoiding the bombs and closed in on him. Robin saw her within 10-feet and quickly drew his staff, only for Raven to pull out one of her daggers from her boot and land a slice on his chest.

"Uhn!"

Robin jumped back and took a second to examine the small gash. Blood trickled down the gash and dripped onto the floor. When he looked up again, there he saw Raven charging at him. But she got blasted by Cyborg and landed across the room.

She let out a small grunt and looked at her teammates.

"What are you doing? Get out of there!" Slade growled in her earpiece.

Raven took one last look at her comrades, and then at a low-hanging cord which loosened from the fight. She glided right and left of Cyborg's blasts and Starfire's bolts before foot-stool jumping on Beast Boy. Robin jumped into the air to intercept her but she grabbed hold of the cord a second before he could intervene. She used her remaining acceleration to swing back and forth and knock him into the wall. Raven released the cord, landed by the door and took off.

"After her!" Robin told his team.

Raven sprinted down the hall, knocking the guards out of her way, tightly holding onto the stolen Xenothium. When she reached a fork in the hall, she could hear heavy footsteps coming from the left.

"Reinforcements."
"Keep calm, find the nearest exit."

"Understood."

As she continued her escape, she heard the Titans right behind her. By now, her entrance point had become overcome by guards. The other exits would be blocked now too.

"Friend Raven, stop!"

Raven looked back only to see her team hot on her tail. She paused for a second, her staff at hand and ready to fight them off. Glancing to her right, she saw a control panel for the door and smashed her fist into it, causing the panel to break.

-Beep Beep!-

A titanium door slid shut and cut them off. Being sure that the door would buy some time, the empath bolted down the hall. She gasped to catch her breath at this point, knocking back anyone that got in her way. Unfortunately, there was another fork in the hall. This time, footsteps were converging on her location.

"Apprentice, get out of there!"

"I heard you the first time!" she snapped.

She looked up to see an air-vent, unbolted it with her powers and started monkey-crawling out.

+Titans+

"Try blasting the door down!"

Cyborg fired a blast from his sonic cannon and made a dent, while Starfire sent a barrage of starbolts. Robin set up a few bombs and detonated it. The door had loosened quite a bit but not enough for the four of them to escape.

"I got this, dudes."

As Beast Boy was about to morph into an elephant, Robin stopped him.

"No, don't!"

"Why not? Raven's getting away!"

"We're in a narrow space, if you morph now, the ceiling will collapse on us!"

The green Titan looked up and saw the ceiling. He let out an angry snarl.

Right now, he couldn't care what his leader thought. He morphed into a gorilla and pounded the door while the Titans watched.

"Friend Beast Boy, I shall assist you."

The door had loosened quite a lot from the pounding, so the green ape stepped to the side to allow the Tamaranean some room. She placed a hand on the door and ripped it off the door.

"Let's go after her!"

"I can still trace her scent!"

Cyborg looked over at his bleeding leader.

"You're bleeding man."

"I don't have time to bleed."

"Then let's go!"

+Raven+

Raven blew off the cover to the vent on the roof and climbed out. She gasped for air, all this running around and fighting was exhausting. The girl WAS half-human after all. But she couldn't stay here because it was swarming with guards. Not only that, if she didn' t move soon, then the Titans would find her. Rising from her spot slowly, all the while ducking from guards, Raven breathed in the cold night air. After a few moments, she began catching her breath and dashed across the roof, hopped onto the next roof and ran into the night.

End.

No flames plz. R&R