Hello Again Faithful Readers!

No, Kyd did not steal chapter 7 like he did 6, I'm just back after a long, unwanted, hiatus where RL was just kicking my butt. But, things are starting to fall back into manageable shape, and here is the long awaited seventh chapter! As always, we must have the disclaimer...

DISCLAIMER: Yeah, I don't own Teen Titans. Get over it.

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"Hello?" Raven called out in her monotone, floating rather blindly in the darkness of the library. She took deep breaths, making sure she stayed calm - she could not let herself get scared. Remembering she was in a library, Raven held her hands before her, guiding herself by feeling for the bookcases, so she wouldn't run into one.

There was a sound from behind her once more. It sounded like a door opening. Heading for the sound, Raven thought of reaching for her communicator to call her friends, but decided against it. It was likely just a power failure, and one of those guards about the place was going to fix it. So she hoped, but she had to make sure. Gliding towards the sound of the door, Raven's eyes gleamed as she could make out faint light coming from nearby windows, giving her some manner of illumination.

A tapping sound from above her to the right. She whipped about, looking for the source of the noise, but could not find anything. Cursing silently to herself, she remembered that the security room was near where she thought she heard a door. Believing the two manning the security cameras might know something, Raven glided over towards the back of the library where the security room was. She thought she heard a noise, so she began to hurry, anxiety slowly creeping upon her.

In a manner of seconds, Raven was in the reference section, gliding towards the security room, wondering what in the world was going on, and why the lights weren't back on yet. She would have thought that if this library actually had anything worth a Titan's protection, it would at least have a back up generator...

To Raven's surprise, the door to the security room was shut, and there wasn't a soul in sight? Raising an eyebrow suspiciously, Raven rapped on the door, calling out, "Hello? What's wrong with the lights?" She got no answer. She called again, knocking on the door a little more insistently this time. Still no answer.

Irritated now, Raven gripped the door handle, and tried to open the door, but the door wouldn't budge. Raven stared at the door in shock. The door shouldn't be locked, but it was? What in the world was going on? She had to find out, for her gut told her something was terribly wrong.

Clenching her fists, Raven breathed in deeply, and called upon the powers within her, allowing her emotions to run in smooth controlled courses. Dark energy flowed about her, illuminating her eyes in a glow of darkness, as coronas of mystical black energy gathered about her hands. With a gesture of the hand, a swirl of darkness erupted on the surface of the door, growing in size and solidity of shadow. Taking a deep breath, maintaining her concentration, Raven stepped through the portal of darkness.


From his vantage point, See-More was having difficulty locating the entrance to the hidden vault. Even with his X-Ray vision, there were too many obstacles and rebounds to take into consideration, and it was very disorienting to use. Groaning as he rubbed his head with one hand, See-More zoomed in on the first floor, searching the ground in a grid pattern, trying to block out any obstacles or obstructions to that view.

After a half minute of diligent searching, See-More had come up with nothing. Grimacing, he could hear it now, the various dirty looks he would get from his 'friends' for mucking up the mission, not to mention the snide comments, like For a guy called See-More, you sure can't See Much" or something to that effect. Humiliation and the facing the disappointment of his friends if he failed - it felt like there was a great deal of pressure on the poor guy's shoulders. Taking a deep breath, See-More tried to calm himself. He had to keep his cool, just as his big bro had always said.

"Stay cool," he had said. "An' ya can do anythin'." See-More smiled. Those were the words his big bro had said before getting carted off to jail then convincing a jury he was innocent of a crime he had not committed, despite all the evidence against him.

"Stay cool," See-More whispered to himself, gathering up his wits to figure something out. 'Focus on what you know, and the answer will be clear', he thought to himself. He knew that there was a tunnel under the library to a hidden vault. He knew that the tunnel would have to be connected to the ground floor somewhere. He knew that his team was counting on him, and he couldn't fail. He knew that he had looked for the tunnel with his X-Ray vision, but it failed.

'Wait, why did the X-Ray fail?' See-More wondered.

A moment of pondering, and he suddenly realized the answer. The tunnel was lined with lead, and he couldn't see through the lead. That's why he couldn't see a tunnel with his X-Ray vision, the lead made it invisible to X-Ray! A wide grin coming to See-More's face, the cyclopean thief zoomed his X-Ray vision back on the ground floor and began searching for things he couldn't see, things like a large gap in his X-Ray vision where a quick reference to a part of Gizmo's schematics revealed to be the story time area for the children's section.

"Yes! Found it!" See-More exclaimed aloud, glad there was no one about to hear him. He then grabbed the communicator looking through the building now for Kyd. He switched his eyes from the solid black with white outlines of the X-Ray setting to an eye that was a solid light blue, save the tiny red iris. Heat vision.

Spotting a heat mass next to the security room where there were two more heat signatures slumped inside, See-More grinned as he whispered into the HIVE communicator. "Hidey Hole Located. Secret Panel in the middle of the room with the couches. Children's section. Can't miss it. Do your thing Kyd."


As Kyd had stepped through the shadowy portal he had made, he felt a slight vibration at his side. Eyes widening suddenly, Kyd vanished to the second floor, paranoia taking hold of him. He clung to the shadows, wondering what made him shake so much when he realized that it was just his communicator. Usually he was able to keep a commlink set into his cowl tuned to the HIVE frequencies, so he was still getting used to the communicator. It had been a while since they had used the clunky gadgets, and he chastised himself mentally for his foolishness.

Taking out the communicator, he flipped open the lid, and read the message from See-More. Tapping his chin with a single, he wondered if he could remember exactly where that might have been. Looking around, he realized he was on the second floor, which made him grimace slightly. It made no difference to the teleporter what floor he was on, but it irked him that he had simply teleported from paranoia and such silliness. Sure, he liked a good laugh, but it irked him when he was the butt of the joke.

Kyd sighed silently, and the shadows swallowed him up, swirling into an infinitesimal mote of darkness, reappearing a few feet away from the open area with the large rug and various comfy chairs and bean bags in the middle of the children's section. He paused, and turned his head as something caught his eye. There was a cardboard book resting on the shelf with a black dragon fighting a knight in armor. A princess wearing an absurdly pointy hat with some manner of cloth coming out of it dressed in pure pink seemed to be screaming while in the dragon's claws, and the dragon was belching out flames at the knight. Kyd picked up the children's book, looking at it strangely, head tilted slightly to the left as his eyes softened as he gazed at the scene.

The strange feelings the children's book brought about vanished as the communicator at his hip began to vibrate vigorously once more. Scowling, Kyd Wykkyd placed the book back on the shelf, and walked towards the open area with the chairs and stuff. Flipping out the communicator, his eyes quickly scanned the message, narrowing as they got to the end of the message. Once he was done reading the message, Kyd's brow furrowed in confusion, a slight frown coming to his face. His fingers moved quickly, faster than one might think possible, typing out a quick message on the communicator to the effect of, "What r u talking bout? Im not in SR..."

He slipped the communicator back into his belt, wondering what in the world See-More was talking about. He was here in the children's section, where he was supposed to. Why would See-More say he was still doing in the security room? Kyd wondered about this as he looked for the edge of the rug. Once he found it, he silently grunted as he lifted the heavy rug from the library floor, peeling it away.


Raven stared in shock as she found the two Task Force members out cold in their chairs. As she walked over for a closer look, tapping one of them on the shoulder, the guard fell back in his chair, revealing his heavily doodled face.

Raven raised her eyebrows incredulously. What in the world is going on, she wondered to herself. It then dawned upon her that she was here to guard the library, and apparently, she hadn't been doing her job. Someone was in the library, and was doing something that she felt she had to stop. She didn't know what made this library need the protection, but given how the Task Force members were out cold and faces doodled upon, she figured that she needed to stop whoever was doing all of this.

Motion on the monitors caught her eye. She looked at the cameras, and her jaw dropped from shock. She saw... herself. There she was, on the cameras reading that rather racy book and blushing furiously in solitude. Raven's face began to grow red as she noticed how clearly the camera had caught her on film, and had even gotten a good view of the book she was reading. She then saw herself drop the book, look about, pick it up, then put it down again to float off the monitor. She checked the other monitors but didn't see herself again. Then suddenly, there she was again, sitting in that comfy chair reading that novel that she was so embarrassed to have been caught reading.

Eyes going wide, Raven realized that the camera footage was being looped, and the Task Force members watching it had been taken out. But why in the world... No, no time for hesitation or question. She had to find whoever was responsible for this, and bring them to justice. If it was just some prank, then why go to such extents. It had to be something serious, or there wouldn't have been so many lengths taken to conceal it.

Raven flicked her hand towards the door, and felt the dark energy flow through her fingertips, arcing out to blast the bolts off the door. The door swung free, and Raven floated out there when she heard a voice from within the library. A voice that was slightly grained and static-y, and coming from the area where she had just been sitting. Bringing her hood up to conceal all save her eyes, Raven zoomed for the Children's Section, dark magic swirling about her hands and eyes as she prepared to deal with whoever was there.


See-More frowned as he stared at the back section of the library with his Heat Vision. He could still see the two stationary lumps of heat from the two security guards, though they were starting to dim a little. Yet, the lump that he noticed was Kyd suddenly disappeared when he called the HIVE villain, then automatically re-appeared turning a corner to come to the two heat masses in the security room, then pass through the door and be in the security room.

"Weird," See-More whispered to himself, wondering why Kyd would have come back to the security room. Shouldn't he have gone to the children's section on the other side of the library to get into the tunnel? What was he doing back in the security room?

"Hey Kyd," See-More whispered into the communicator. "What are you doing back in the Security Room? Ya need to be at the tunnel!"

After a second of wait, See-More felt his communicator buzz. Flipping it open to read the message, See-More frowned, and his dark face began to grow pale. Eyes shooting back up to the library, accessing Heat Vision once more, See-More gazed at the heat signature of the figure standing in the security room, trying to discern details that could help solve the conundrum. The figure was lithe, much like Kyd, but apparently shorted, and it's feet seemed to never touch the ground. In fact, it's legs didn't seem to move that much when they were. As the figure turned and pointed at the door, See-More's eyes grew wide as he noticed through the zoom lense of the heat vision that there was more heat divided into two section's upon the figure's chest rather than spread solidly about. The figure was s girl. And she was flying, making a motion to pull up a hood.

See-More turned his heat vision off momentarily as he grabbed his communicator and spoke quickly into the open channel. "Guys! Bad news! There's a TITAN IN THE BUILDING!"


Kyd groaned internally as the communicator buzzed once more. The rug was quite heavy and large, and even with Kyd's night attuned eyes, he wasn't sure where the hidden panel would be. Best he could do was remove the whole rug and then look for the entrance. Of course, this was complicated by the fact that he would now need a hand to grab his communicator from his belt, and the rug required two hands to keep up. How he hated these situations.

Struggling to keep the heavy rug up with one hand, Kyd's other hand went ot his belt, unlatching the communicator, flipping it open with a flick of the hand. But as he brought the communicator up to where he could see it, the rug slipped from his grasp. As he darted to catch it, he forgot the communicator which fell and hit the floor with an audible . Kyd's eyes shot wide as he saw the communicator hit the ground, and See-More's voice play through the speakers. Of all the rotten luck, it had to hit the button that un-muted the darn device. Kyd's eyes squeezed shut as he heard the words shouted through the communicator for all in the building to hear:

"- ITAN IN THE BUILDING!"

Kyd froze, and dropped the rug, grabbing the communicator. Did See-More say there was a Titan in the building? As in, one of the good guys? Thinking on his feet, he threw himself away from the open area into the aisles of bookcases, thanking that they would provide the ampe shadows he needed to hide given the lack of lights. He looked over his shoulders, red eyes deep with anxiety as he remembered what Gizmo had said if something went wrong, or they encountered something that wasn't in the plan.


"Uh, I gotta question?" Mammoth asked, raising one his large hands as if to ask for permission. The others gathered at the table turned to look at him, expressions of fatigue on their faces. They had had to go over multiple sections so the powerhouse could understand the plan and remember it, and none of them wanted to have to do it again. Well, everyone except Kyd, who didn't have to. It was one of the perks of being silent.

"If you need me to go over how you are supposed to just smash ..." Gizmo started, voice growing increasingly irritated before Mammoth cut him off.

"Naw, it's not that. I was jus' wonderin'. What happens if somethin' happens dat isn't in your plan?"

Gizmo paused. That was actually an inteligent and pertinent question. Gizmo scratched his near bald head, before a grin returned to his evil little face, as he gave his answer in one word.

"Improvise."


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