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Chapter One-

"Slade." Robin growled the name like it the most foul thing in the world. And it was pretty high up there. The Titans were assembled around him accordingly and took up fighting stances, as they all faced the most elusive villain.

"Ah, yes. Robin. What a pleasant surprise. But I'm afraid I don't have time to chat today. I have some other… important things to take care of. Grown-up matters." He cocked his head mockingly as he spoke to them, and Robin scowled in anger.

"You can't hack the city's main central computer system. It's-"

"But Robin-" Slade leaned closer, "I already have."

"Then what're you after, Slade?" Robin nearly screamed with frustration.

Slade glanced sideways at Raven, who was getting tired of the chat session and whose black orbs of energy were pulsing from her hands. "Let's just say, I'm feeling a bit ambitious." And he sent a flying kick at Robin.

"Titans! GO!" Slade's robots launched themselves from wherever they had been hiding and Robin, Cyborg, Starfire, Beast Boy, and Raven began fighting them off. Slade surveyed his work with a smug satisfaction, before turning to leave.

Robin destroyed another of Slade's robots when he noticed Slade taking off, "Raven!" he yelled. Raven looked up from where she was fighting, to see Robin pointing to Slade running off. "Azarath Metrion Zinthos!" She split the robot in half and took off after Slade.

Raven found herself in a long corridor in City Hall. During daylight, it was bright and cheery, but after hours, it was full of shadows. She knew he was here, though it was dead silent. She could feel him, his presence. If she could just wait for him. He'd have to show himself eventually. So she backed herself into a corner, right into the arms of, "Slade." She hissed the words out, hating herself for sounding so much like Robin.

"Yes," He sounded amused, as if, he too, were expecting something more creative to escape her lips than what Robin always said. "Now, what is my favorite little Titan doing all alone?" She struggled to get out of his grip, but it only tightened. She refused to play into his little mind tricks, they'd only feed into her rage and a lot of good that'd do her.

"Let me go!" Her eyes blazed and she kneed him, forcing a grunt of pain out of him. He loosened his hold of her and she quickly broke free of his grasp, and started to run away from him before remembering that Robin had told her to go AFTER him and to find out whatever he was trying to get a hold of.

"Now, now, Raven. Haven't you been told it's not very nice to play naughty like that? It can hurt." Slade's chilling voice sent shivers up her spine, but she forced herself to face him. He was stalking towards her, down the main hall.

She glared at him and started chanting, "Azarath Metri-" Slade kicked her to the ground and made to hit her but she sent a black shield around herself. She put out a leg and tripped him, giving herself time to get up and send a table his way. He avoided it gracefully and with ease and proceeded to throw continuous hits and punches at her, some of which she was able to avoid, others made their way to their intended host. "Hmm… I wouldn't say hand-to-hand combat is your best feature. Might be something you want to work on."

"I don't think I'll be taking any advice from you." Raven sneered as she made a move to hit Slade. He grabbed her by the wrist and wrenched her arm back, ignoring her screams of pain.

"Oh, I think you'd do well to take advice from me. You'd learn a thing or two. Like, how to control these powers of yours and maybe a few other things." He spoke softly and temptingly in her ear, smoothing back her hair with his other hand even as the other gave her unspeakable pain. He let go.

And Raven pulled back to cradle her arm and glare up at the man before her. "I wasn't after anything tonight. Nothing, but you. And now that you know what I want, there's no need to stay. Just know that I will have you eventually. It's just this pretense of a choice that would get it off to a good start."

She snorted at him disbelievingly, "You can't honestly expect me to become your apprentice? Robin was a complete failure. And Terra… Well, you couldn't have picked a more traitorous bitch."

"Good-bye, Raven. I'll be seeing you and your little friends quite soon." And he leapt out of the main hall's window. Raven ran to the window's ledge, but he was gone. She couldn't see him on the rooftops, or even the streets below. He had just vanished.

She sighed heavily, wondering how she would explain the loss of Slade to Robin. She wasn't stupid enough to mention that she had had a conversation with the enemy and one involving her becoming his apprentice. Raven could just imagine how that would turn out. (Chibi versions of Raven and Robin fighting. This is not really how the fight would be, obviously…)

"Umm… So I…"

"You lost Slade! I can't believe it! If I had been there then-!"

"Then what, Robin? We would've lost to Slade together?"

"…"

"Anyways, there's something I've been meaning to talk about. So while Slade and I were fighting we were kinda' talking, and-"

"WHAT! You were fraternizing with the enemy? How could you do that Raven? You of all people should know that-"

"And so, he kinda' wants me to be his apprentice and I don't know whether I should feel flattered or gross…"

"What the hell! I need to talk to Slade. I thought that was our special bond. Like, we beat each other up, and he taught me stuff that he wanted me to use for evil, and once we even went out for pizza."

Raven paused at the door to where her friends were just finishing up with Slade's robotic minions. No, she'd have to be an idiot to tell Robin all of what happened.