A/N (09.02.14): This chapter has been edited as of today.

Happy 2008 everybody! And my present to you is an update.

Glad to see that all of you liked that last chapter! I'm sorry that they will be that long and you might not read it all, but I really hope that you will continue to like you have for the past 6 chapters. Now I'm going to make this author's note short and just get on with it to spare you guys.

Disclaimer: I do not own the Titans or the episode "Divide & Conquer".

Chapter 6: Divide & Conquer

It was a week later and everyone was finally getting accustomed to one another fully. Cyborg and Beast Boy were now accustomed to their morning arguments over breakfast food, Robin was accustomed to the arguing itself, Starfire was getting accustomed to Earth in general, and Raven was used to Beast Boy's jokes… well, that was a work in progress.

It was early morning and everyone was still asleep. Of course, that had to be interrupted by the alarm sounding throughout the whole Tower, along with blinking lights in all of the rooms.

Raven moved from one side to the other and stretched. She pushed the covers aside and went into the closet, changing from her pajamas to her regular black leotard, blue cloak and matching boats. She put her hood up and quickly turned into her soul self, disappearing into the floor on her way to the Main Room.

"What is the damage?" Starfire asked as she flew in, followed by Cyborg, Raven, and finally Beast Boy.

"Cinderblock it says. He's breaking people out of the downtown jail., Robin told everyone. They all nodded and went out the door, on their way to the jail.

"There he is!" a guard shouted as they walked towards Cinderblock, guns in hand, ready to shoot. "Fire!"

They shot at the back of the moving block man, but to no avail. He merely turned around, annoyed, and stomped his massive foot on the ground, creating a hole that all the guards fell into. He continued walking onward, ready to finish his mission. When he entered the jail itself though, he was met with yet another obstacle.

"You know Cinderblock, normally the bad guys break out of jail," Beast Boy said from out of nowhere. Cinderblock looked around.

"I can think of five good reason why you don't want to break in," Robin's voice told him. Suddenly he jumped down from the top of another level in the jail.

"One."

Raven then floated down to the floor considerably fast and landed next to him, arms at her sides.

"Two."

Beast Boy then jumped from a darkened corner in the form of a tiger and went at Robin's other side, morphing back into a human in the process.

"Three!"

Starfire flew down from the same area as Beast Boy and stood beside him.

"Four!"

Cyborg finally jumped from the balcony of the other level as Raven and stood next to her.

"Five."

"No matter how you do the math, it all adds up to you going down," Robin told him with a slight grin. "So, are you going to go quietly?"

"Or is this gonna get loud?" Cyborg finished for him.

Cinderblock looked outraged and roared at the top of his lungs as he made his way toward the five teens.

"Titans, go!" Robin shouted as they also charged towards him, the girls flying above the boys . A fight he was going to get.

Robin attacked first, giving him a blow to the head with a kick. Cinderblock stumbled back a bit and turned to see Star. She gave out a small cry and blasted him with her starbolts. Cinderblock cringed, just as Cyborg quickly jumped in and met his fist as they collided, punching each other back. Beast Boy swooped in as a bird and started clawing at him. Cinderblock swatted at him as Raven appeared in front of the stone man. Her eyes turned white and she lifted the ground in front of her up, blocking his way. But Cinderblock ran through it and Raven had to quickly fly out of the way and behind him now. He looked back at her retreating form and was about to attack when Robin and Cy came back up again, Starfire close behind.

Robin and Cyborg were immediately thrown back by Cinderblock's arm. Starfire looked back and then back to her objective, charging a starbolt in her hand. She shot at him a couple of times before he grabbed her slim body simply one-handed. Raven saw this and then came in to help her friend. She went up at Cinderblock with glowing black hands and was about to throw energy at him when he grabbed her in his other hand. Both girls squirmed in his tight grasp. He brought both of their faces up to his and smirked. Starfire smiled back.

"I am sorry to disappoint you, but I am stronger then I look," she told him, as Raven got ready to flee. Star took her leg back and bashed him, letting Raven and her go. The two girls flew back as he stumbled and hit one of the jail cell doors.

Beast Boy again came up and attacked, now as a T – Rex. He gave out a ground-shaking roar and charged at Cinderblock, who punched him back with great force. At that exact same moment Raven was chanting her mantra where Beast Boy was falling, still in dinosaur form. Her eyes widened and she stopped when she saw this. To her amazement, Robin ran up to her and pushed them both out of the way in time. Raven looked at where she had just been seconds ago. An unconscious green T – Rex, now occupied that spot. She glanced at Robin who knelt beside her.

"Thanks," she said to him. That was the second time in recent memory that he'd saved her from something. He and went back to work, and Raven too got up.

Cinderblock took one last look at the once again standing team and then made off down a hallway where the prisoners were kept. Robin quickly helped Cyborg up off the ground with a small grin.

"Want to give this guy the Sonic Boom?" he asked in anticipation.

Cyborg grinned back and his right arm transformed into his sonic cannon. "I got the sonic if you got the boom."

Raven, Starfire and Beast Boy ran over to the side to watch what was happening.

"Hey, ROCKHEAD!" Cyborg yelled down the hall. Cinderblock immediately stopped and turned around to look at them. Robin and Cyborg were running down after him, running up on the side of the wall and then the ceiling, ready to throw their attacks at him when they crossed legs and tripped. They spun around in the air as their attacks went the wrong way, neither of them getting close to Cinderblock.

Cyborg's blast hit Beast Boy and Star, making them fly-back and hit the wall. Robin hit the wall he had run up and the disk flew out of his hand, landing right in front of Raven. Robin's eyes widened as Raven let out a single gasp and it exploded, not giving her time to protect herself properly.

Cinderblock marveled at the display that had happened before him and smirked, doing what he had came to do, and the walls to the prison began to knock down one-by-one while people started to flood out. Robin saw them coming their way and motioned for the rest of the team, Raven and Cyborg, since the other two were still groggy, to follow his lead and stop them. They gathered them up in groups and made sure that most of them didn't get away.

Somewhere on the other side of the jail was Cinderblock. He came up to a door that said 'Complete Silence' and barged in.

There was a lab in there, and in the middle was a large containment center that held a man in a bathing suit surrounded in water that was sleeping. Cinderblock grinned. This was his real objective. Without waking the man up he took the tub out of the room, bashed the floor open, and made his escape.

Back with the Titans a dozen or so men had made it past the three Titans and were heading towards the door in a hurry, cheering about how they were free now. The opened door in front of them was then was shut suddenly and the men stopped right in their tracks. Raven came through the door itself, surprising the men even more.

"Think again," she told them with an expressionless face.

They finally gathered up the rest of the guys, handcuffing them once again and putting them in cells that hadn't been destroyed. The Titans watched the guards do this as they hung around.

"Jailbreak? I don't see any jailbreak," Beast Boy told them quite happily.

"None of us would have seen one if Cyborg hadn't messed up," Robin insisted as he folded his arms across his fit chest.

"Me?!" Cyborg yelled back, getting defensive as he threw his arms out. "I messed up NOTHING! You got in my way." He now crossed his arms over his robotic chest exactly like Robin.

"You were too far forward, and Cinderblock got away because of it!" Robin accused, a blood vessel on the verge of exploding from his forehead with irritation that his word was being challenged.

"You saying this is MY fault?!" Cyborg yelled back at him again, getting in Robin's face.

"Want me to say it again?" Robin said with a snarl as they both locked gazes, neither giving in to the argument.

Raven finally had enough and materialized between the two of them, putting a black shield on her hands to emphasize that she wasn't letting them fight each other.

"Enough. Stop acting this way, it's ridiculous," she told them. They huffed, looking away from each other.

"Raven is right, friends to not treat friends this way," Starfire piped in, flying beside her.

"Yeah. And if you two are going to fight, then we need time to sell tickets," Beast Boy said with a smirk, jumping up beside Star. Raven and Starfire glared at him and he quieted down.

"Cinderblock escaped, there's no amount of yelling that will change that. Agreed? So stop acting like idiots, and lets go home," Raven finished. Still, both of them snorted and walked in different directions. The other three merely stood there, hoping that they would come around and stop the nonsense so they could actually leave.

"Loser," Robin said.

"Jerk," Cyborg muttered under his breath at the same time.

Both suddenly turned around to face one another. "What did you say?!" they yelled simultaneously. They ran up to each other, faces once again close as they started to fight.

"Do you have a problem, TINMAN!?" Robin shouted.

"Yeah! It's four feet tall and smells like cheap hair gel!" Cyborg shot back, making Robin furious.

"I don't even know why you're on this team!" Robin shot back suddenly. Everyone turned to look at him surprised, mouths slightly agape in shock in their own degree. Cyborg straight a bit and clenched his fist.

"That makes two of us, then. I QUIT!" the half robot shouted, leaving everyone to stand there in a daze as he walked away, leaving them no choice but to return to the Tower without him.

Miles away in a warehouse that had many gizmos and machines running for no real reason, a man in an all steal orange, black and silver suit that only had one eyes sat upon a chair in the immense place he called his lair. Cinderblock approached him with the sleeping man in the water filled capsule.

"Cinderblock, I see your mission was a success. Good. We will proceed with phase two," the man instructed. "Wake him."

Cinderblock listened to what he was told and broke open the case. The man inside opened his eyes and then gasped.

"I'm not supposed to be awake! I'm only human when I'm sleeping!" he shouted as he panicked. The masked man remained cool.

"But what for I have in mind your human form is useless. I need Plasmus," the man told him with a sneer. Suddenly, the man in the water began to change into a form completely unlike his own, and the masked man grinned from under his armor when he had evolved.

"Perfect."

The next day came and all the Titans hadn't spoke to one another since what had happened at the jail. An air of tension was around for everyone, and no one knew what to say or do about what'd taken place. Beast Boy was trying to contact Cyborg continuously, but to no avail, as the answering machine picked up once more.

"Come on, Cy! Pick up. I know you're there, the phone's built into your arm!" Beast Boy went on. He finally sighed and gave up, hanging up and setting the phone down on the table once more.

Starfire suddenly flew up to him. "Taste!"

She shoved a spoon with some form of lumpy white food in his mouth. It was mushy and as soon as it hit his tongue he thought he was going to barf it up. He choked and made a face while Starfire laughed. He ran to the nearest trash and spit it out.

"What IS that?! Cream of toenails?" Beast Boy demanded as he tried to recover.

"Pudding of Sadness. It is what the people of my planet eat when bad things happen," she explained as she took a spoonful and put some in her mouth, swallowing. She shook her head to try and rid the bad taste and swallowed anyway, realizing the reason for Beast Boy's reaction. She then flew up to Raven who was reading a book on the sofa.

"Try, its pleasing taste will ease your troubled mind," Starfire offered. Raven looked up from her book to Starfire.

"My mind is never troubled. People come, people go. It's pointless to stay upset about Cyborg," she told her. Raven's hair then spun out in a circle and the coffee table in front of her cracked in two. Starfire looked at her suspiciously. "What?" Raven asked, unaware of what her powers had done. Starfire shrugged and got up.

Starfire went up to Robin finally, who was looking out the big window in the Main Room out into the city.

"Robin, you must need this most of all since…well…" Starfire tried telling him.

"I'm fine," Robin said roughly. "Who knows, maybe we're better off without him." With that said, he walked away, leaving a sad and confused Starfire behind.

Robin was in the training room, taking frustrations out on a punching bag. He kicked, punched, kicked, punched, punched and repeated that. Finally after a while of the repetition, it broke off the hinges and hit the wall opposite of him.

Robin cursed and sat down against the wall and took a drink from his water bottle. He didn't feel right, he felt guilty. Nothing could take his mind off the fight he and Cy had had, and now his friend was gone.

"Robin?" a voice asked from the door. He hoped it wasn't Starfire with her pudding as he looked up, and was surprised to see Raven at the door.

"Yeah, Raven?" he asked as he got up off the ground and met her halfway after she walked into the gym.

"It's just that…" she started and then noticed the disregarded bag in the corner of the room. "Wow, you're worse feeling than I thought."

"Why do you say?" he questioned her.

She put her hood down before speaking. "I can sense these things, Robin. I've been around all of you, especially you, for a while now, and I've become accustomed to these things. The closer I am, the more aware I become of you. I can sense your emotions."

"Oh," was all that Robin could respond to that. Raven nodded in understanding, realizing that he didn't want to talk right now and made her way to the door.

"Raven, wait," he said. She stopped walking and turned around to look at him.

"Yes, Robin."

"Since you're already in here and that bag over there is history," he said motioning towards the bag he had ripped off, "care to spar with me?"

Raven thought this over for a moment. "Sure, why not."

Robin grinned. "Great. I'll try to go easy on you."

"Are you saying that I can't fight?" she asked him. "Powers or no powers?"

"Do what you like," he told her confidently. Raven flew up into the air and started to throw projectiles at him. He jumped and ran out of the way of all of them. She finally came down flying at him and threw back a fist, but before she could make contact he moved behind her and grabbed her arm, making her swing backwards quickly and fly back into the wall when Robin let go of her. She rubbed her head.

"Done yet?" Robin asked. "I don't want to hurt you," he said with a grin.

Raven just glared at him and picked up a couple of weights, putting them above him and then dropping them all. Robin's eyes widened as she began to fight dirty and he dodged most of them, catching the last one miraculously. Raven came up on him when he was still holding them and did a roundhouse kick, knocking him to the floor.

"I didn't know that you could actually fight this well," Robin complimented from his spot on the ground.

"Well, when you have to learn to protect yourself in case your powers don't go the way you want, then yeah. You better learn a little self defense," she told him as she offered him a hand up. He took it and she flipped him over on his back again as he winced at the sudden pain. Raven grinned.

"Sorry Boy Blunder, couldn't help myself. Shouldn't have trusted your opponent," she said as she shook her head as if very disappointed.

"Great point. Should have seen that coming," Robin responded as he got up himself this time, wincing a bit. "Let's say we call it a day and go back to the Main Room."

Raven nodded as they walked out of the gym.

The next day things didn't get better. Beast Boy was in the kitchen with stacks of dirty dishes. "YO! Whose turn to do dishes?" he yelled. Robin then came up from behind him.

"Cyborg," he merely said as he took a rag and started to do them himself. After he had cleaned them he went to the heart of the Main Room and started playing some video games.

"Come on! No…got it! Just one more and…YES!" he shouted from the sofa as the screen flashed winner. "New high score!"

Robin saw his name replace Cyborg's and he sighed.

Suddenly the alarm rang out and the T.V. screen turned into the monitor. All the Titans rushed into the room to see what was going on.

"Is it the Cinderblock?" Starfire asked.

Robin looked at the screen and then shook his head no. "We wish."

The Titans found themselves at a sewage treatment plant when they went out to find the location of the villain. When they went inside they didn't quite believe what they were seeing. A giant purple like glob man was drinking the waste, one barrel after another. Star swiftly threw a bolt at him and the tub of it broke, making him look at them finally.

"That stuff can't be good for you," Robin said to him. Plasmus screamed in anger and shot goo out at him. Everyone immediately ran from it and went into action.

Robin kept getting shot at with goo and couldn't stop running for fear of being stuck. He jumped then ran and then turned another way before on a crate and out of the way.

"Star, let him have it!" he told her. She came from behind him and blasted a giant starbolt ray at Plasmus. She gasped when she saw the hole in the middle of him.

"Did I let him have too much?" she wondered as she stared at him.

Plasmus looked down and then sucked air into himself, making the hole close as the Titans watched in wonder.

"I'm thinking not enough," Beast Boy commented as Plasmus went back to attacking them. He shot his arm out at Starfire who was still floating where she had been and shrieked when it came towards her. But Raven quickly flew at her and pushed them out of the way.

"Maybe he just needs to chill," Robin said as he threw one of his many disks at him. When it made contact with Plasmus his arm froze immediately. He stared at it and then crashed it into a wall, breaking it off.

Starfire threw some more starbolts at him as Beast Boy dove at him as a pterodactyl. He punched at him with his feet before Plasmus threw his arm out at the two again and they had to retreat. Starfire freaked and started shooting at the goo so it wouldn't touch her and she kept flying back. They finally both flew away, Raven stepping up.

"Azarath Metrioin Zinthos!" she shouted as her eyes turned white and black aura rose up from her and surrounded some of the cans he had been drinking earlier. She summoned them up and they began floating around her. She moved her hand towards Plasmus and they all flew at him quickly. Unfortunately, they all stuck into him and he thrusted his chest out so that they shot back out at her. She flew off to the side to avoid the barrels.

When they heard that thing roar they all turned to look at him again. He shot more goo out at them and suddenly the girls were the ones in it.

"I feel like the underside of a Zornian Muck Beetle," Starfire said, disgusted as Beast Boy helped her up.

"Tell me about it," Raven said after she threw it off of her with her power, watching as Robin charged at the monster again.

"Maybe the best way to take you down is to tie you up," Robin said as he wrapped the cord of his bird-a-rang around Plasmus's legs and Beast Boy rammed into him as a rhino. Star and Raven got back up quickly and pulled down two poles to wrap around him, pinning him to the ground.

"We did it!" Starfire exclaimed as she flew up into the air.

"Nice work team," Robin said to them all.

"Yeah, didn't think we'd pull it off without –" Beast Boy started before he was elbowed by Raven and shut up. Robin's communicator suddenly beeped alerting them of trouble.

"We finished just in time, Cinderblock's been spotted downtown. Come on," Robin reported to everyone as they began their way out. Suddenly they heard a noise coming from Plasmus and all turned around to see what it was. Where the bars separated he began to shrink down, and soon five separate pieces of different designs formed from his goo. The four teens stood in shock before they made their way to the open door and quickly shut it behind them as they held it with all of their weight, hoping for it not to come through.

"Four against five, not good odds," Beast Boy said next to Star. Robin tried to think but couldn't with the banging from the other side of the door.

"Forget the odds, that doesn't matter right now," Raven said from Robin's side.

"She's right, we need a plan," Robin commented.

The banging got harder and louder and the team gritted their teeth. Two tentacles from one of the shaped forms came slipped through the open crack in the door widening it. They came reaching for the teens. Finally, Robin got an idea.

"Titans, SEPARATE!" he told them as they got off the door and shot down different paths in the maze of a building. Robin took the far left one, Raven the middle left, Star the middle right and Beast Boy the one next to her.

Starfire flew down her path quickly and then turned around to her snake figure. She threw starbolt after starbolt at it to no avail as the snake just thrashed out and jumped at her. It wrapped around her and dragged her down to the ground.

Beast Boy ran down his in the form of a cheetah, the crab like thing right on his tail as it threw out its overly long tongue at Beast Boy. He got wrapped up in it but only for a second as he turned into a gorilla and freed himself. Then the real monster pounced on him.

Raven flew down her path and glanced behind her from beneath her hood. That squid like thing continuously threw it's tentacles at her but she continuously dodged. Finally her eyes turned white and she lifted her hands up as she flew. She surrounded everything around her with black aura and made it lift up and fall over in the path of the squid once she flew past it. That would have worked beautifully if the squid wouldn't have kept dodging. As Raven looked behind her to see nothing it came up in front of her. When she looked it was right there, and she gasped.

Robin was outrunning his bug-like guy pretty well, as it had short and stubby legs. Finally he ran threw a door and jumped over the wall, landing on a conveyer belt with huge toxic jugs below him. He definitely wasn't going to be falling.

Then the thing followed him down and landed right behind him. He slashed at it with his Bo-staff but it just sucked it in and broke it in two. Robin huffed and started to take on a fighting stance as he walked backwards, praying he wouldn't fall. Robin stayed on the defense, the bug-like thing on the offense. Robin kept backing up as the thing grew closer. It opened its claw like mouth and jumped on Robin. He began to try and get it off of him as they were nearing the edge of the conveyer belt.

Robin was half way off the edge when he flipped the thing over so that he was on top and soared through the air, catching the edge of it. The thing held onto his leg, so Robin had a lot of weight on him he was trying to hold up. The edge of it started to break off and Robin gritted his teeth together, hoping and praying it wouldn't break off, but it did, and he began to fall, his eyes wide beneath his mask.

Then a half metal arm came out from nowhere and grabbed Robin's hand. Robin was dangling up in the air, the monster in the toxin, drowning. He looked up to see his savior who had pulled him up.

"I still got the sonic if you still got the boom," Cyborg said with a grin as Robin finally cracked a smile himself and they made their way back to the others. When they did appear, the team was cornered together, the monsters approaching them.

"Teen Titans, GO!" they both yelled as they began doing their move. The others watched upon hearing them, relief at seeing Cyborg back, hoping they'd get the move right. And they did. Plasmus was blasted and destroyed. For now, at least. Instead he was reduced down to his normal form, a sleeping man, just as the cops appeared.

The Titans stood outside the plant, watching the cops drive away with their villain.

"Cy, I'm sorry about…" Robin started and then stopped.

"Yeah man," Cyborg insisted.

"So are we cool?" Robin asked.

Cyborg grinned. "Frosty."

"You made up! This is most glorious! I wish to initiate a group hug," Starfire said with delight. The guys laughed as Raven made a slight face, glancing away.

"Pass," Raven said monotone, just as Starfire and Beast Boy smirked from either side of her and gave her exactly what she didn't want. Soon enough she felt Robin and Cyborg join in around them non chalantly, the team smiling happily. Raven huffed and didn't say a word, simply shaking her head. Goofs.

"There's one thing that's still bothering me," Robin told them all from their huddle. Raven, Beast Boy, and Starfire looked over to Robin as best they could in the circle, concerned.

"Breaking into jail, using Plasmus to distract us, the whole plan seems to be a little too smart for Cinderblock," Robin said to them.

"I was thinking the same thing," Cyborg told them all, reaching out across everyone to high five Robin. "And whoever they are, they're no match for the Teen Titans!" Cyborg finished with a wide grin, pulling everyone back in even closer than before. Robin and Raven sighed at the same time, glancing sideways to look at one another as they smiled sheepishly and shrugged, glad the team was content and everything was back as it should be.

The man in the lair banged his fist against the table in front of him and the coffee he had been drinking spilled over. He had watched the whole thing on his screens and saw his plan fail. His butler Wintergreen came over, cleaning up the mess.

"Next time my plans will succeed. And the Titans will pay."

End Chapter

Next time…

The HIVE unveils their top graduates: three teenaged super-villains known as Gizmo, Mammoth and Jinx. Before Slade will hire the new HIVE agents, he requires that they pass one final test: they must destroy the Teen Titans.

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