A/N (09.04.14): This chapter has been edited and altered as of today.

Thanks to all my reviewers! They aren't giving up on me yet and I thank them ever so kindly! Just bear with me through all this long stuff and you won't be disappointed. So here we go, another chapter for you all!

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Chapter 7: Final Exam

The orange and black masked man was watching a video screen intently, studying the film the headmistress for the H.I.V.E academy had popped in. It showed three teenaged villains performing various attacks, proving their capabilitis. Finally the video ended and the man motioned for the woman to take out the tape.

"Well, Mr. Slade?" the headmistress said to him as she approached the T.V. screen in front of him and hit 'eject' as the tape popped out, putting it on the table beside her.

"Impressive, truly. However, robots and obstacle courses only prove so muc," he went on as he and the headmistress walked over to the teens. "My plans demand operatives that can act in the real world. If your students are going to serve me, they'll have to pass one final exam… destroy the Teen Titans, and then we'll talk."

The headmistress nodded before looking over to the three teens. They grinned

Raven sat in a chair in the corner of the Main Room, trying to read as she kept her distance from the bickering two in front of her.

"Oh come ON! It has to be around her some place," Cyborg whined as he looked around the sudden dump of a Tower for the remote control. Beast Boy was in the form of a dog, sniffing around. "How could you lose the remote?!"

Beast Boy morphed back to being human at this accusation. "What makes you so sure I lost it!?" he demanded as Cyborg picked up the sofa and shook it a couple times before putting it down to speak.

"Uh, 'cause you're you," he told him.

"Hey, just 'cause I lost that video game –" he started before Cyborg interrupted him.

"And the toothpaste, and my football, andthe waffle iron…" Cyborg started listing on his fingers, Beast Boy's face turning indignate as he pouted. Raven's irritation level rose with each listed off item.

"Those things just disappeared! And how am I supposed to know where they go?" Beast Boy complained.

"Well how amI supposed to watch T.V. without a remote!?" the half robot demanded demanded. Finally, Raven couldn't stand it anymore and closed her book loudly. She couldn't manage five continuous minutes of reading without interruption. She stood up. She was better off in the sanctuary that was her bedroom.

"Simple. You get up and change the channel," she told them, a blank expression on her face.

Beast Boy and Cyborg exchanged looks before facing her.

"Don't even joke like that," Cyborg said to her.

"I wasn't joking," she told him somewhat sternly.

"Good! Because it wasn't funny!" he responded back. The level of seriousness these two were taking the remote business were on a whole new level Raven couldn't believe.

"This is a pointless argument over a useless device. You are wasting your energy and disrupting my concentration," she told them as she walked over instead of leaving just yet. Just then, Robin walked into the room, followed by Starfire.

"Whoa, take it easy Titans, combat practice is this afternoon," their leader told them as he rushed over to the three arguing.

"We must manage dispute by the sharing of unhealthy junk foods. I shall fetch them," Starfire told everyone as she zoomed to the kitchen.

As she looked through the fridge everyone continued to argue. It waso nly when she saw the mounds of food covered in blue fuzz that she screamed, gasping out and without hesitating fired a starbolt sleakly into the fridge, making everyone and everything in the room covered in blue stuff goo, making everyone freeze.

"Maybe we should just go out for pizza…" Robin told everyone with a raise of his eyebrow.

"Pepperoni for sure," Cyborg told them all, menu in hand as they sat at a round table at the local pizza place.

"No anchovies!" Starfire chimed in.

"Can we please just order something?" Raven pleaded.

"As long as it's vegetarian," Beast Boy commented. Cyborg stared at him.

"Oh come on man, how can you deny me the all meat experience?" he asked the changeling. Beast Boy gave him a 'duh' look.

"Dude! I've been most of those animals," he shouted in frustration. Starfire piped up.

"I suggest a large pizza with pickles, bananas, and mint frosting," She said with a smile. Beast Boy, Cyborg and Raven looked at her hesitantly. Robin sighed.

"Star," he whispered, "not everything on the menu is a pizza topping."

She blushed. "Oh."

Everyone continued to argue and chat idly, undecided, while across the street unbeknowst to them they were being surveillanced.

"Gizmo to Jinx. Begin phase one," he instructed to her from a communicator, the direction transmitting through her earpiece. She looked across the street at a vacant bus and threw a pink hex at it casually, the bus beginning to roll down the street. As if on cue, cars began honking their horns incessently at the fast moving bus, the noises grabbing the five teens attention before they could place an order. They all looked over to see what the commotion was. At the sight of a fast moving bus hurdling toward an unattended baby carriage, their food fight was forgotten. Robin stood up as the others followed suit, Raven throwing her hood up.

"Titans, GO!" he shouted as everyone jumped off from the second story balcony. Starfire quickly flew to the street and snatched the baby carriage to safety on the sidewalk to where Beast Boy was waiting. Raven, Robin and Cyborg took on the bus. Cy stood in front of it to try and at least slow it down as he grabbed the front end, giving the other two more time to fully stop it. Robin jumped on top and cut a hole through the roof to drop in to see if he could use the controls, but Raven's black aura was already around the gearshift and had changed it to park, the bus stopping in front of her. Cy finally let go of the motor vehicle and Robin came out over to him and Raven.

"Don't buses normally have drivers?" Cyborg asked them.

"And don't baby carriages normally have babies?" Beast Boy asked from the other side of the road as he picked up the teddy bear to show the others.

"Are you pit – sniffers normally this stupid?" the bear suddenly asked from Beast Boy's hands, and he and Starfire gasped as its eyes glowed yellow and shot a ray at them, sending them flying back into an alley.

Suddenly the bus lifted up and hovered over the other three Titans. Their eyes grew wide and it came down on them without notice. A bulky guy with long orange hair and a beard with huge muscles came around from the back of it, brushing off his hands as his two teammates came from the other side.

"Nice work, Mammoth," the short kid, Gizmo, said. "That was too easy. What a bunch of clutch heads. You guys want to get pizza?"

"This isn't over," Robin said as black aura surround the bus and threw it up and into the air, revealing three of the Titans.

"We're just getting started," Cyborg finished for him.

"Yeah! Who are these guys?" Beast Boy said from inside a trashcan he'd flown into. "And what's a clutch head?"

"We are the H.I.V.E." the short boy genius said.

"Your worst nightmare," the big one told them with a sneer as he punched his fists.

"And this is attack pattern Alpha," the pink haired one, Jinx said as she stood in front of her friends and they went into action.

Gizmo flew up into the air using mechanical wings that sprung from his back and started shooting yellow rays again at Starfire and Beast Boy. Jinx lunged herself at Raven, noticing her comprable capabilities, and Robin and Cyborg took on and Mammoth were immediately gripping the others hands, trying to push each other back and win over with strength.

"What do you call an idiot with a rocket on his back?" Mammoth asked him suddenly. Cyborg looked at him oddly.

"Say what?"

"Doomed," Gizmo finished for him as he flew away with his own rocket and activated Cyborg's he'd just placed on his back. Cyborg flew up in the air and screamed, unable to control it. Starfire noticed this and gasped.

"Cyborg!" she cried as she flew up in the air quickly after him.

Jinx threw a kick at Raven, which she backed up on and then moved to the other side as the cat – eyed girl threw punches at her, Raven moving from side-to-side. She wanted to stay on the defense for as long as she could manage until she threw a punch of her own finally, which Jinx blocked with her own arm.

"You fight like a boy," Jinx insulted her with a smile. Raven gritted her teeth.

"And you're gonna croak like a frog," Gizmo said as he stood up above the two girls with four mechanical spider legs. He shot a ray out at Raven, blasting her back. Robin had been charging at them and before he knew it Raven flew right into him, the two gripping each other as they tumbled to the ground. Beast Boy ran right past them and up to the H.I.V.E, ready to attack again. He changed into an elephant and ran at them.

Robin helped Robin stand back up in the meantime, the two looking up in time to see Beast Boy flung back towards them, skidding on his back to a halt on the asphalt.

"Listen up team," he said to the other two left, "I have a plan." Before he could go into any detail, a yellow beam blasted in front of Raven and she shrieked as she flew back through the air, the same happening to Beast Boy. Robin was standing alone.

"Sure hope that your fancy plan includes getting fried," Gizmo said to him, ready to aim. Before Robin could even move, the ground in front of him was shot by Gizmo, Jinx's hexes, and pounded into with a finishing blow from Mammoth. The ground shook, separating rapidly towards Robin, crumbling and taking him down with it.

"ROBIN!" Raven shouted as she and Beast Boy came just in time to see their leader fall. They looked around desperatly, only to find nothing but a giant opening in the middle of the road where Robin had been, the HIVE gone.

Raven's eager amethyst eyes darted quickly around the sewer's murky waters below for any signs of the traffic light colors that belonged to her leader, yet she could see nothing. She wasn't leaving until she was able to find something.

The two unsuccessful Titans walked through the massive doors to the Tower, Beast Boy sitting down on one of the closest black chairs, for once dumbstruck. Raven stopped and stood next to him.

"That didn't just happen… tell me that didn't just happen," he said over and over. Raven looked at him intently with a slight hint of sadness in her eyes.

"It did happen," she force herself to say as she pulled down her hood. "We cannot change the truth… No matter how much we dislike it." she finished with a frown as she looked down at the ground with sad eyes. "No matter how much we dislike it."

Just then the door to the Tower doors opened again and they saw Cyborg and Starfire walking in. Raven and Beast Boy exchanged a look before getting up and facing the two that had just entered.

"Maybe y'all should call me FLYborg from now on. I was halfway to Gotham City before Star blasted that rocket off my back. So what'd I miss?" Cyborg asked them excitedly. Raven's gaze fell from her friend's and to the ground. Beast Boy cleared his throat.

"Tell me how we kicked their butts," he urged on. "Come on I gotta have the play by play."

"Where is friend Robin?" Star suddenly asked.

"Uh, Star… we're not sure," Beast Boy told her truthfully.

"But… how?" she managed.

"We searched everywhere, and all we found was this," Raven said as she drew Robin's utility belt out. Cyborg and Starfire gasped.

"I should have been there! I let that kid sneak up on me…" Cyborg started blaming himself, while Star on the other hand had her bottom lip quivering as she looked like she was about to cry. Raven sighed and handed the belt to her.

"People do not just vanish though! He must be somewhere, you mean to tell us that he –" Starfire continued to rant on when Beast Boy stepped in.

"Whoa take it easy, Star. This is Robin we're talking about. He'll probably come through the front door any second," he said positively.

Suddenly they heard noise coming from the front of the Tower and everyone's sad faces vanished. Raven flew up to the door to see if it was who they all hoped, Starfire close behind. Disappointingly so, the front door exploded open, throwing back the two girls as they floated back by the boys. When the smoke cleared it revealed the H.I.V.E. students. Jinx had a wild grin on her face.

"Oh no," Beast Boy said with a slight frown, making Jinx's grin only get bigger.

"Oh yes," she objected.

Before another word could be spoken, Cyborg's fists clenched.

"Titans, split up!"

Beast Boy turned right down a hallway in the form of a cheetah, panels blowing up and smoke everywhere as he outran the villain. Jinx emerged from it, more things on the walls blowing up from her as she passed, chasing after him.

"Here, kitty kitty. What's the matter? Afraid of a little bad luck?" she sneered.

Raven and Starfire burst through the doors to the training room and Raven closed them shut with her aura. Starfire used her starbolt ray to melt the doors shut, not allowing anyone who had been following them to come in. They back up just in case, still, catching their breath.

A hole in the wall was suddenly formed as pieces and dust flew everywhere. Raven and Star stepped back more as they saw Mammoth's head sticking out of the wall.

"Hello ladies," he said with a grin.

Cyborg ran down the hall and up a flight of stairs as Gizmo followed. The small boy genius went into the Control Room in search of the half robot, and Cyborg followed as well now, thinking he had the advantage. The the door closed behind him though and Cyborg turned around quickly, weary to his surroundings. Suddenly all the T.V. screens lit up, with a close up on Gizmo's face on each one.

"So, Tinman, got a heart under all that outdated hardware?" he asked Cy, who walked around the room. Cyborg remained silent. "Not telling? Guess I'll have to take you apart and find out!"

Gizmo suddenly lowered himself from the ceiling and landed on Cyborg's back, grinning as he got to work while Cyborg futily tried to stop him.

The Titans sat on the shore to the mainland, looking out at the Tower, thinking to themselves as they tried to dry in the fading sunshine.

'I can't believe that just happened… how could that happen? They managed to kick us out of our home. They can't do that! We're the Teen Titans after all! No one kicks our butts and gets away with it!' Beast Boy thought as he sat on the grassy floor, his legs out in front of him.

'I do not understand. How could we allow them to attack us in this manner, and with such a result? That is our home… or rather was our home. I wish that Robin were here to lead us...' Star sighed as she finally stood up and looked out onto the setting sun, eyes filling with tears.

'That kid… that little brat. I just let him take me down like that. How could I? I failed. That should never have happened. What are we supposed to do now?' Cy wondered as he looked down at his missing right arm that'd been ejected off in his fight with Gizmo.

' Our team has lost its' leader and now its' home. The emotions im feeling off of them, from myself… it seems that their aren't any better than mine If only Robin were here…' Raven thought as she sighed out loud, pulling her hood silently. She glanced over as she heard Cy start working on his arm.

"Maybe I could be of some assistance," Star offered quietly.

"I got it," he told her.

"But, you look so damaged…" she went on.

"I said I've got it!" he yelled at her, frightening Star.

"Hey! What's your deal, she was only trying to help!" Beast Boy shouted right back at him, sticking up for her.

"What do you think!? We got kicked out of our house, a pint – sized coin-Dexter took me for a joy ride, and if you haven't noticed I just became left handed!" he told them as he put up part of what was left of his right arm.

"Enough!" Raven demanded, getting up from her place and coming to join the three. "We need to control out emotions." Cyborg would have none of that right now, though.

"Or what? Our bad vibes will keep you from meditating!?" Cyborg shouted as he got in her face. Raven glared up at him but then it faltered as she looked away.

"You aren't the only one feeling upset at what's taken place, none of us are happy," Raven whispered, the next words she spoken becoming even more inaudible. "I wish Robin were here."

"Well he's not; they won, we lost! IT'S OVER!" Cyborg shouted at them all. The Titans all looked out at the water now.

"Then, the Teen Titans are finished?" Beast Boy asked.

"Not yet," a voice said from behind them said. "Not if I can help it."

Raven's eyes widened before she even turned around, looking behind her shoulder to be met with none other then the sight of her leader. "Robin," she breathed out. He grinned as everyone made their way over to him.

"Here's what we're going to do…"

Cyborg's arm that Gizmo had mounted to the wall came to life. One of his fingers popped up to reveal a cameral like eye and it looked around. It first spotted the computer and jumped down from the wall, sneaking past the H.I.V.E. and scampering over to it. It typed in a few codes and the whole Tower went haywire. The cabinets starting to open and close, the CDs were flying out at Gizmo, and the alarm blared.

"What's going on?!" the small boy cried out as he ducked and crawled on the floor towards the computer. When he approached it the the chair turned around, revealing the arm. His eyes widened a scream escaping his lips as it grabbed him suddenly when cord like mechanisms came out of it and wrapped around him, starting to fly out of the room and out the Tower, with the other two watching. Without warning though, Jinx too was pulled out, a black Raven claw coming down from the ceiling and snatching her up, pulling her through, leaving Mammoth to look around before being blasted out the door with a large starbolt.

Outside on the top of the roof Jinx had just been placed on the ground, her shivering as Gizmo flew in beside her, being ejected from a vent as the arm flying off without him. The door to the roof opened and Mammoth was blasted out by starbolts more starbolts, falling next to the other two. They looked around in surprise, now completely alert.

"Sorry to interrupt the victory celebration, but like I said, this isn't over." The HIVE turned to the to see all the Titans standing together, Robin glaring.

"It's just getting started," Cyborg said with a grin. The HIVE merely grinned back, as usual, confident.

"Attack pattern alpha!" Jinx cried as her team went into action.

Mammoth shot out at Beast Boy who ducked and turned into a tiger, running back at him now. Jinx threw some hexes at the others, making them spread out. She went after Cyborg, jumping over his back and then flipping midair, shooting more hexes at some massive tanks filled with liquid. They fell around him as he dodged.

Starfire threw starbolt after starbolt down on Jinx as she flew, follwing the pink haired girl as she entered a dark area.

Gizmo jumped on Cyborg's back when Starfire left him to go after Jinx, the boy genius cackling.

"Hey robo-wimp. Feel like getting hacked?" he asked as he got his weapon out. Cyborg smirked.

"Nope, how bout you? Robin, NOW!" he yelled as his leader shot out from nowhere and slapped an electrical disk on Gizmo's back that began to overrun his system. The small boy tugged at his backpack unit, crying out.

"Beast Boy, now!" Starfire told him suddenly from yards away. He saluted to her from his hiding spot on a rafter and jumped down in the air in the form of a monkey. He landed right on Jinx's face and she tried to get him off, blasting hexes everywhere. Finally, Beast Boy got off.

"Your luck just ran out," he told the pale skinned girl as he ran away before turning into a bird. Jinx looked after him skeptically but then saw that her hexes had caused the poles to collapse in and she gritted her teeth together as they fell all around her.

Mammoth hadn't been able to land a hit on Raven as he kept running straight at her, merely flying up in the air and to the other side of him, out of his reach. Swiftly though, finally seeing her pattern, he turned back around and saw her, roaring and about to punch when Robin stepped in front of her with his staff out, whacking him back. He landed on his face in front of them but recovered quickly. He got back up to his feet and smacked Robin back, about to hit Raven when her eyes glowed white and she grabbed a crate from behind him, ramming it into his head. The towering man was knocked beside his two other comrades, the threat of the villains a mere memory. Raven went up to Robin and as he pushed himself up.

"You okay?" Raven asked.

"Never been better," he told her reassuringly as they quickly made their way over to their friends who were looming over the villain trio.

"Damn it, I'm calling Slade," Gizmo said from under the pile of his friends as he got a communicator out. Robin quickly snatched it away from the boy, grabbing him by the collar as well and looking him square on.

"Who is Slade?" he asked with a glare.

"Wouldn't you like to know," Gizmo sneered back.

Robin took one fist off of him and drew it back when Raven grabbed it, stopping him.

"He's not worth it," She said in a calming voice. Robin sighed and put his fist down, dropping the boy as well.

Back in Slade's lair with the headmistress, they had just finished watching the scene that the Titans had made with the H.I.V.E.

"I assure you, such failure is not accepted at the H.I.V.E. Once the students have been retrieved from the authorities they will be disciplined," The headmistress reported to him.

"Actually, your agents served my plan quite well. I never expected them to succeed," Slade answered her. "They were merely messengers, and the message has been received."

Slade clicked a button on a remote and the T.V. came to life with Robin's picture on it. "Who is Slade?" he asked, the question on a constant loop. The villain smiled to himself. All was going to plan.

Back at Titans Tower, the team was in the Main Room looking at what the H.I.V.E. had done while they were gone.

"NO!" Beast Boy's cry rang out. "My tunes! hey've been… alphabetized." Robin laughed as he went to the sofa and surveyed what everyone was doing. Just then Raven walked into the room holding a cloak in her hands.

"They went into my room," she said in a deadpanned voice. "No one should ever go into my room…" she shot Robin a glare as he laughed at this too.

"You have to be kidding me! The whole place gets cleaned and I still can't find the –" Cy started when Robin whistled to get his attention. He looked up and saw his leader holding it as he plopped on the sofa. Raven flew beside him onto the couch and Cyborg sat down next to her, followed by Starfire and Beast Boy to Robin's other side as everyone settled in.

"I guess we should be training more, tracking down clues and trying to figure out who Slade is," Cyborg said suddenly before Robin turned the T.V. on.

"We will. But right now, I'm just happy to be apart of the team," Robin told them with a smile.

End Chapter

Well how was that? I tried to add as much Raven and Robin as possible but it's very difficult. I added some parts and when Star or someone else was supposed to talk I switched it.

Next time…

Dark, ominous clouds blow in from the east, bringing Thunder and Lightning with them: two forces of nature made flesh in the form of costumed super-teens. The stormy brothers aren't evil…they're just looking for a good time. Unfortunately, their idea of run involves wrecking everything in sight. How will the Titans stop them?

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