Disclaimer: I do not own the Teen Titans.

Whoever - or whatever, they often found with the job - caused all of this mess was already gone, or hidden. There was a nasty fire the firefighting crew was already working on putting out, and there were interviewers everywhere, each trying to get a few words out of them, however they told them they were too occupied on solving the case to answer their questions. Robin left Beast Boy and Raven to try and find any clues, and to make sure no danger came their way. BB changed into a green bloodhound, and with his tail pointed up, nose to the ground and long, droopy ears alert, nothing was going to get past him. Raven was floating in the air, where she had a much better view of everything going on around them. For now, they did not notice anything out of the ordinary - apart from all the damage, of course.

The remaining three titans were busy talking to witnesses. Robin was trying to make the ambulances allow him to ask the seriously injured shop owner some questions, or at least see him, though they were very reluctant to let him do that.

Starfire was talking to a young couple who claimed they had been on the other side of the road, about to enter a jewellery store, when one of the shops exploded into flames and desperate screams were comjng frominside. Being the girl she is, she got distracted and asked unrelated questions, such as why they were going into the jewellery shop, and when they replied that they wanted to get an engagement ring she started congratulating them and going on about what a great couple they will make until Raven overheard her from above. "Starfire, focus on getting important information, not gossip," she scolded and the alien apologised and got on with the actual task.

Cyborg was speaking to a man who was inside the shop when it all happened, according to him a man came in wearing a dark blue uniform, and had peculiar light blue skin, but some dark glasses, or possibly a mask was covering his eyes. They were inside some sort of sports shop, and he wanted to buy a few random parts, though he did not get to see what they were; he thought he was a normal customer with an odd appearance and did not give him much thought. Once he found out the price, he pretended to put them back, but at the last second made a run for it, and the shop owner called the police. When they got there, they quickly caught the man, and he seemed to work well with them, placing the stolen items back and apologising sincerely. They thought the case was closed, when he lunged out at the owner, knocking him out with a single blow to the head and then fought off the police before setting the building alight, and as he walked out he did the same to a few others. He did not see where he went next.

Robin sighed as he walked to meet up with Cyborg and Starfire, who had just finished questioning the witnesses. "Did they let you talk to the owner of the shop?" Star asked, and he shook his head in response, looking down at the ground.

"Unfortunately not, I got to have a glimpse of him however not up close. He has some serious injuries and burns, and can not communicate anyway. They do not know if he will survive," he informed them, sighing again.

"That sucks, man, whoever done this must have some pretty strong muscles," Cyborg replied. Robin groaned, knowing he was right. Star saw that he was worried, and she flew over to his side and put her arm around him.

"It will be okay, Robin, we can do this," she tried to make him feel better. She loved him and she did not like to see him nervous or sad, and he knew that so he forced a smile at her.

"Thank you, Star," he replied, leaning in to kiss her gently on the forehead. At that moment Raven flew down, and the olive green bloodhound bounded over to them before transforming back into its human form. "Did you find anything?"

"Not really, Robin, it headed in this direction," BB motioned to the left with one arm, "but we could've guessed that since he destroyed other buildings that way. "

"Okay, Raven?"

She shook her head. "I'm afraid nothing from me." Everything went silent for a few seconds, well as silent as it gets with firefighters, ambulances, police and interviewers surrounding them, as Robin thought of what to do.

"We'll have to do a search of the city, maybe they're still around," he finally decided, "or maybe there might be more signs. Let's split up." Everyone nodded and headed their separate ways, Raven and Starfire flying and Beast Boy in the form of a hawk, Robin and Cyborg walking. None of them found anything after two hours of looking through Jump City, and they all met up at the crime scene again.

"They seemed to have disappeared into the thin of air!" Starfire burst out. Robin was now pacing up and down, wondering what to do next. It had just gone midday and it would be unfair to just give up after all the damage that was caused. Suddenly Beast Boy perked up, and Raven followed, both looking up at the remains of a roof on one of the burnt down buildings. The other titans paused whatever they were doing and looked up as well, squinting to try and see through the smoke. Eventually they could make out a dark figure, taking its time to walk forward and make itself more visible. Once the smoke vanished around it, they could make the figure out; it was a man slightly shorter than Cyborg, with pale, light blue skin and a tight navy uniform, the sleeves elbow length. His body was very muscular and well built, his eyes were covered by some sort of black mask or maybe even glasses, none of them were too sure. He had a hood on his head that shaded his forehead and most of his face, much like Raven's one.

"Hello, you are the famous Titans I have heard about then?" He mocked, an evil type of smile forming on his face. "Sorry I took so long to show myself, I had to, ahem, get a few things before I could meet you, I mean you are heros after all. Have you been as excited to see me?" Then he let out a sort of half hearted laugh as the titans got into their fighting positions. "You want to fight already? But we just met and-" something seemed to have interrupted him, though none of them could work out what it was, and suddenly his teasing attitude changed. "Never mind, if you think you are so ready we might as well get this over and done with."

With that, he jumped right off of the roof, and at the last second he seemed to stop in the air, then gently place himself on the ground. "Please make the first move, I beg you, you are the stars after all." Starfire rose upwards then started launched luminous green bolts at the villain, who swiftly avoided them. "Is that all you can do?" He called, sniggering, but as he did so a large bull had charged right at him. At the last moment he jumped, grabbed the bull by the horns and used his strength to slow it down, but before it came to a stop he lifted it up, swung it around in a full circle once then hurled it at the titans, which all but Cyborg managed to get out of the way, and made him stumble backwards.

Gritting his teeth together, the half robot loaded up his cannon in his arm when the villain smiled, which he found worrying and he lowered it slightly. In his moment of hesitation he began to run towards Cyborg, putting one of his arms forward. Cyborg was about to shoot again when something else distracted him; his hand was made out of metal the same shade as his skin so it melted in, and it had a weird sort of glow coming out of it right now. He was about to get hit by whatever that was, when a dark power threw him to the side. He looked over at Raven and smiled and was about to thank her but she silenced him with a nod. They were in battle, he could thank her later.

Now it was Robin's turn, he was the closest to the villain who was currently on the ground, about to get up. He started sprinting to the now kneeling man, aiming to knock him back down. However, as he went to kick him, he caught his leg, and he got thrown far away.

"Robin!" Starfire cried urgently, but she saw that he was more or less alright, so she turned to the man who just got to his feet. "How dare you hurt friend Robin!" She began shooting her bolts at him again, but he shielded himself in a blue orb coming from his metal hand. When she finally stopped, he got this power and threw it at her, and she could not get out of the way in time and found herself on the floor, her arms scratched and cut on her forehead bleeding.

The man had decided it was time to make his own attacks on the titans, and showered them in glowing blue ice shards. They reflected right off of Cyborg, and Beast Boy who finally got to himself was sheltering behind him, and Raven put up a shield around herself, Starfire and Robin, who was also up again. Seeing they had good defence techniques of their own, he went down on one knee and closed his eyes, looking as if he was charging something up. Then, a massive blue wave crashed towards them, breaking through Raven's black shield and making Cyborg fall back onto Beast Boy, then shut down.

The villain smiled, getting back onto two feet. "Looks like you guys are not as strong as everyone credits you for, such a shame. Though, I have taken a liking to you, so I'll definitely see you around, promise. Remember me, my name is Arion," he said with a wink, then turned his back to them, and wrapped himself with a blue ball, and when that was gone, so was he.