A/N (09.05.14): This chapter has been edited and altered as of today.

Ok now glad to see that people still like this and continue reading and reviewing. Only one thing to ask of you all… well actually it's more of a statement so just here…

I know that you all want to see Raven and Robin's relationship to go faster but they like just met! Raven would never get into a relationship that quickly with someone after about a mere 2 weeks of knowing them! But don't worry, Raven and Robin will start to get closer in this episode AND as the weeks go on and some good stuff will be coming up soon. ;)

Disclaimer: I do not own the Teen Titans and I never will. Too bad so sad, I know.

Chapter 9: The Sum of His Parts

It was a gorgeous day outside, and most of the residents of Jump City were outside having fun, including the Titans.

"Would you look at that," Cyborg said with a grin. "A little sunshine, a little breeze… only one thing could make this day better." As he said this he opened up his grill that stood beside an oak tree in the park they were in and grabbed a plate. "Four and a half pounds of baby back ribs! I love picnic food!"

Robin, Raven and the others were already sitting down at a table, eating away and having small conversation. Robin was eating a hamburger, Beast Boy waiting for his tofu hot dogs to finish, Raven sipping hot herbal tea she'd brought in a thermose carefully and Star was drinking something that she was holding under the table.

"Agreed!" Starfire declared. "This tangy yellow beverage is truly delightful."

Everyone paled then when they saw Starfire pull the bottle up from beneath the table to rest it on top of it, seeing she was drinking mustard through a straw.

"Uh… Starfire…" Raven started.

"That's mustard," Robin finished.

"Is there more?" she asked curiously, hope in her eyes. Raven shook her head and sighed as the others blinked in surprise. Robin had said she would someday do this. How could he always be right?

Suddenly, when Cyborg finished his ribs, he dashed up from the table and out towards the open space, football in hand.

"All right y'all! Who wants to play some football?" he asked with a grin as Robin, Beast Boy, and Star quickly finished eating and/or dropped their food to follow him. Raven sat there and continued to sip her tea, deciding it would be a good time to open up her book and read.

Robin looked back at her while the others continued towards the metal man.

"Raven, sure you don't want to play? It'll be fun," he promised. Raven sighed, contemplating this but still not glancing up from her novel. She hated sports, and loved to read. The decision was clear.

"I'd rather read," she told him flatly. He folded his arms across his fit chest.

"Oh come on," he said, raising an eyebrow. "If we'd wanted you to not hang out with us and read, we'd have left you back at the Tower. Now c'mon." He smirked.

"I'll be ref," she told him, trying to compromise and hoping he'd take her offer. He shook his head, smirk widening.

"I highly doubt the sidelines would be any fun, but if you really don't think you can beat me..." he told her reasonably with a shrug. She sighed once more, irritation evident on her face as she floated out of her lotus position on the bench and stood on the ground. She placed her book roughly down against the table purposely, making her feelings about the matter known to her leader, as she swiftly strutted past him, ignoring the snicker she heard as he followed close behind her to where their friends were.

"I say boys verse girls," Cy said with a small smile when he saw Raven was indeed approaching to join in.

"You are on and shall receive the butt wooping," Starfire said with a smile.

So they positioned themselves on either side of the other, boys to one and girls on the other. Cyborg stood in the middle with the other two on either side, bent down with their hands on their knees. Starfire on the other side was in the middle with the ball in one hand and Raven behind her, not about to be the one to run after the ball.

"Blue… 13… hut hike," Raven said emotionlessly as Starfire quickly hiked the ball through her legs and back to Raven, before flying in front of her with Cyborg and Beast Boy right on her tail. Robin smiled, waiting before he could catch Raven. He began counting as Raven waited around for Star to be open.

"One Gotham City…" he started. Star was between the two boys.

"Two Gotham Cities…" Starfire was still not open.

"Three Gotham Cities…" he said, as he got closer to five. Starfire began to fly around with the boys close still, double teaming her. Raven grit her teeth. She didn't know that it was possible for her to get invested in this.

"Four Gotham Cities… FIVE GOTHAM CITIES!" Robin finally shouted as he lunged for Raven. She quickly surrounded the ball with her aura and threw it at a now opened Star, hoping to get her target. Robin still made contact with Raven though and pushed her to the ground under him, her staring up at him in slight irritation.

"Aaaand this is why I don't do contact sports," she muttered, "Care to get off me?" He grinned at her beneath him.

"Sure, I'm just surprised you didn't fly up and out of my reach, guess you couldn't focus. Was I distracting?" he continued, his cocky grin spreading wider on his face. Raven glared up at him, a blush creeping onto her face that he took note of more than the irritation she was radiating off.

"CYBORG!" Starfire's frantic cry got the two birds out of their staring contest and up off the ground, both running towards a scared looking Star, a dumbfounded Beast Boy and a gray hardware Cyborg on the ground, not moving. After a couple of seconds of the Titans standing over him, worried and contemplating, he came back to life, looking at them all.

"Cyborg, are you all right?" Robin asked as he and Starfire helped the robot up.

"What happened?" Raven asked as he rubbed his head.

"Something must be wrong with my system," he calmly told her as he pressed a button on his arm that showed his battery life. "Man, my power cell's dying."

"Dying!?" Starfire shouted, frantic.

"It's only a battery, I'm fine. This happens every couple of years, it's normal." he reassured the alien.

"So, what should we do?" Robin asked him. Cyborg handed him the football.

"You guys keep playing. I'll go back to the Tower and get my new battery."

"Are you sure you don't want help?" Beast Boy piped up as they watched Cyborg's retreating back.

"Just cause I can't have fun doesn't mean you guys can't," he told them.

Everyone shrugged as they looked at each other. Robin then turned his face to Raven.

"Where were we?" he asked innocently. Raven glared, but before she could remark back the gem that held her cloak together and the ones on the back of her hands started to blink red. Starfire's green one on her neck-piece did as well, and Robin and Beast Boy's belts blinked. Robin looked back at Cyborg and already saw him running.

"Lets go, Titans!" he commanded as they all flew/ran after Cyborg, passing by a little boy with one wooden arm that was looking ecstatic as Cyborg had passed. They quickly tried to catch up to the running half robot and whatever scene they had to get to.

A balding black haired man looked terrifyingly down from the top of the ceiling which he hung upside down from, squirming furiously as he tried to talk through the tape that covered his mouth at the thief that was stealing jewels from his store.

"Thanks so much, you've been a wonderful audience," the blue magician with an overly long nose said. He was dressed in a black top hat, a red cape that went up in the ends, a black tux and a white shirt underneath with white gloves. He also had a mask like Robin's on and white hair sticking out from either side of his head from underneath the hat.

"Now watch as the amazing Mumbo vanishes into thin air!" he exclaimed as he took out a black wand from nowhere. "Mumbo Jumbo!" the mad magician said as a puff of thick smoke covered his spot and he was gone. He was then running down into a junkyard, suddenly coming to a halt in front of a heap to examine one of the diamonds he stole."Not bad," he complimented.

"Show's over, Mumbo," a voice from behind him suddenly said and Mumbo turned around to see the Titans, all but Cyborg, above him overhead on the hill. "Now hand over the jewels before the critics decide to trash your performance."

"Now Robin, I'm sure there's a peaceful solution here," Mumbo said with a grin. Two bombs appeared in his hands from thin air. "But this isn't it!"

He threw them both at the four teens as the girls flew down and the boys jumped to the ground, Robin landing over to the side on his knee. Suddenly an arm grabbed him from behind his cape and he was pulled into a ditch.

"Now who said you could start the party without me?" Cyborg said with a large grin.

"Cyborg, what about your power cell?" Robin asked worriedly. They looked over to see how the others were doing to see the girls blasting at Mumbo with their powers from behind drifts of garbage while he dodged and Beast Boy charging at him as different animals.

"Go home and get fixed. We can handle this," Robin told him.

"I won't let you guys fight alone," he argued.

"And I won't let you get hurt," Robin countered.

"I've got it covered," Cyborg told him as he motioned to the giant machinery on his back. "Extra-on battery pack." Robin sighed as he and Cyborg jumped up from the ditch and went to fight.

Cyborg quickly blasted Mumbo back, him flying into a pile of trash. He quickly got up, taking a rope of tied colorful hankerchiefs from his sleeve and throwing it at Cyborg, wrapping it around him, causing making him fall. Robin then charged at him from the air with his leg extended out, ready to kick him back. Mumbo shot his hand threw some nearby pipes and grabbed Robin by his cape, suspended him in the air as he fussed. Raven's eyes turned white as she flew in from Robin's side.

"Azarath Metrion Zinthos!" she shouted as she picked up some giant washers and threw them at Mumbo. He let go of Robin and he dropped to the ground. Mumbo stopped the machines with his magic, halting Raven's own and making them explode into rose petals.

"If you think that's good watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat!" the magician exclaimed to her as he pointed his hat at her, thousands of stuffed bunnies headed her way. Robin shot at her to push her out of the way, only for them to cover Starfire who had been behind her ready to attack. Once more, Robin was on top of Raven, this time though she pushed him off swiftly, Robin and her both going back to the battle.

They saw as Beast Boy ran in the shape of a ram, heading at Mumbo.

"Pick a card. EVERY card!" the hysterical blue man cried as he shot giant cards out at the changeling, making him fly back. "For my next trick, I require a lovely assistant," he stated. He pulled out a giant hook and shot it out at Raven who'd been flying in the air. He pulled her down in front of him and a box formed around her small body. Her eyes grew wide, her head sticking out in one side and her feet the other. She turned her head to look at Mumbo as hetook out a large and sharp saw.

"It's only fair to warn you, I have NO idea what I'm doing," he told her as she struggled within. Before he could begin though, he was hit back by Cyborg, Robin behind rushing to get her out.

Mumbo was under Cyborg then, still grinning. "I hate fighting dirty. Shall we clean you up?" he asked as water shot out from a yellow flower on his suit. Cyborg flew back in a dump truck full of garbage, his batteries fried from the water, it now laying beside him. He looked at his battery life left and he had a mere five seconds. Before he could do anything to climb out or yell for the team, he was shut down, the truck dumping out its' contents, him along with everything else in the giant bin being thrown into a deep pit. Robin and the others rushed after him, yelling out his name.

Just then Mumbo jumped in the blue dump truck and drove off, escaping from the Titans.

"Titans, he's got Cyborg!" Robin told them, inaccurately. They all then ran off to find him, not knowing he was right beneath them.

Cyborg slowly opened his eyes and saw that he was laying on a metal bed. He sat up, looked around a bit, and saw a weird man looking at him, coming his him.

"You are operational, that is good," the tall, lanky man said as he came up to Cyborg and turned the lights on overhead.

"What's going on…?"

"Rest my friend. You must in order to let your new battery charge," the man told him.

"Who are you?" Cyborg asked as the man walked away from him now.

"My name is Fixit. Things come to me, and I fix them," He merely told him. Cyborg sighed. At least he was okay for now.

"Cyborg is not inside," Starfire reported, floating beside the truck as she peered inside. Everyone looked in Robin's direction.

"His locator signal is being jammed, too. This doesn't make sense," he concluded. "Why would Mumbo want to kidnap Cyborg?"

"Hey guys, I found something," Beast Boy told them, walking up to Mumbo's hat, about to pick it up.

"I wouldn't…" Raven started when he picked it up and birds flew everywhere out of the hat, over the four teens. Beast Boy spit some feathers out of his mouth. Raven shook her cape out and the feathers went everywhere.

"Way to go." She complimented Beast Boy sarcastically.

The four teens were still trying to find the crazy magician, following a trail of destruction as a bus poofed from one side of the street to the other, a mail box jumped down the sidewalk, and a bunny hopped out of it.

"I'll just say this much, that Mumbo's an easy act to follow," Beast Boy said with a grin.

"Oh, I would commit myself to a life of muck shoveling in the filth mines of Korzacks if only Cyborg could be returned to us," Starfire said with a frown as she clutched her hands together in front of her chest.

Raven approached Robin. "He was malfunctioning, he shouldn't have been helping us."

"I tried to stop him," he told her as he shook his head. "But he's Cyborg."

"Mumbo Jumbo!" they suddenly heard from a ways away. The teens ran over to the corner where there were some ATMs with money flowing out of them at fast rates. Mumbo stood beside them, cackling evilly. He looked up to see the four Titans staring at him.

"Sorry folks," he said, talking off his hat as it sucked up all the money like a vacuum cleaner. "No time for autographs." He made his way down the road.

"Titans, GET HIM!" Robin cried as all of them immediately followed the blue man.

Raven flew up ahead quickly behind Mumbo, the others close on her tail.

"Open sesames!" he cried as he came to a dead end. The wall opened for him and then closed back up. Raven gasped as she came to a halt as fast as she could the momentum ushering her backwards too fast. Robin was right behind her and caught her before she could hit the ground, wobbling slightly when her feet touched the ground and he tightened his grip on her arms.

"Thanks," she thanked him as he nodded, the two running to catch up to Beast Boy and Starfire who had gone the other way around. When they got their they saw Beast Boy in front of a broken wall in the form of a bull and Star on the ground as well beside him, exploding flowers everywhere. Raven and Robin jumped in front of their friends and the magician, Robin taking his Bo-staff out.

"Abra Kadabra!" Mumbo exclaimed as the staff in Robin's hands turned into a gray cobra. He gasped and dropped it, the snake then slithering around them and attacking Raven. It shot out at her legs and wrapped around them, her falling to the ground with a thump. Robin ignored the laughing magician to help Raven, grabbing the snake by its' middle and throwing it off of her.

When they looked up they saw him running away, Robin running after him, followed by the rest of the team now. The blue magician was now jumping on top of rooftops, Raven and Starfire flying close behind, Raven holding onto Robin and Beast Boy hopped as a kangaroo after them. Mumbo shot magic blast after magic blast at them, cackling horribly with glee.

"You'll never stop the amazing Mumbo! Never!" he cried then as Raven shot Robin out of her grasp and onto the ground in front of the unsuspecting Mumbo. He grabbed the wand and Mumbo looked at him, frantic. Robin snapped it in two.

Mumbo shrieked as his hat disappeared, his outfit being replaced with normal civilian clothes. All that was left of him was a pale old man with tan overalls on his knees begging for mercy. Robin picked him up by the collar of his shirt.

"No more tricks!" Robin said roughly. "Where's Cyborg?!"

"H-h-how should I know?" he asked.

Raven went beside Robin now, floating back down to the ground and folding her arms across her chest. "You took him from the junk yard," she told him sharply, scarring the already terrified man more.

"What have you done with him!?" Starfire cried, hands on her hips as she landed on Robin's other side.

"Nothing! Honest! When you broke the wand you broke all my spells. Even if I had done something it'd be over now. He'd be standing right here!" he explained to them.

Robin had heard enough and dropped the man back on the ground.

"So if Cy's not with him then that means he's still at…" Beast Boy started.

"The junk yard," Raven and Robin concluded at the same time.

"So, do I still have to go to jail?" the man in front of them asked with a small smile. Everyone glared at him silently. "I thought so."

Robin jumped through the top of the trash bin at the junkyard where they'd last seen their teammate. He glanced around, his eyes catching something.

"Cy's battery pack," he told everyone else at the top level when he saw it. "He must have fallen down here. Let's get going."

As he said this Raven jumped down swiftly, levitating herself. In the dark she couldn't see him though, bumping into him swiftly and knocking them slightly off balance. He reached out and grabbed where he thought she was, the two somehow looking at each other in the dark.

"Sorry," she mumbled, floating a good foot away as the rest of the team joined them, all moving slowly in the dark.

"Could we get some light Star?" Beast Boy asked, and she lit a starbolt above her head, a green glow illuminating the dark space around them as they began to walk. After a while, they spotted Cyborg just as he fell off a metal bed, a metal mask beside him on the ground. A strange looking man was on the ground as well a bit away in the room. Everyone gasped as they ran up to him.

"Cyborg, are you okay?" Robin asked as he rushed beside his friend and put a hand on his shoulder.

"Yeah," he told him as the rest of the team rushed up to him. They turned their heads over in the direction of the man when he began to speak and move.

"Such beautiful memories… I had almost forgotten what it was like… and your friends and the real world…" he kept saying. Cyborg approached the man.

"Maybe I am the one in need of repairs," the man said.

"And maybe I'm the guy that can help you," Cyborg offered as he held his hand out to him. Fixit looked up at him with a smile and gladly took it.

Outside was still a glorious day. The sun was still high in the afternoon sky, and the day was not yet lost due to the morning's happenings. Raven and Robin sat on a picnic blanket in the sun with Starfire and Beast Boy with them as well. They watched as Cyborg exchanged words with the small wooden-handed boy from earlier, who now had a friend beside him.

"Look!" he told his friend, "See? Cyborg's just like me!" His friend awed.

"You're right, I am just like you. But it's not our arms that makes us the same, it's the stuff connected to it," he told the kid. He smiled at Cyborg.

Raven watched the interaction with a small smile on her face before turning back to her book, enjoying her spot in the shaded part of the blanket, her cloak blowing behind her gently in the nice, calm breeze. Robin sat beside her, peering at it as he leaned his head just above her shoulder. She sighed and slammed the book shut, making him snap up.

"Will you please not hover over me like that when I read? Or just ever?" she asked him. Robin raised an eyebrow.

"Well after today's continuous events of catching you or you falling all over, I'd say that you'd have no problem with that," he told her. Raven sighed and nudged him with her shoulder in the cest lightly, refusing to budge.

"Well, you won't see me playing football ever again," she assured him, "Those days are over, so you need not worry about that possibility. I can't count on it in battles though."

"Really? Retiring already? I thought that was kind of fun playing with you… I was surprised when you didn't blow up and blast me off of you when I tackled you," Robin mussed as he chuckled. Raven's face grew serious as he turned to look at Cyborg, Starfire, and Beast Boy attempting to play football without any real rules.

"Me too…" she said under her breath, "me too."

End Chapter

Well what did you think? I know I totally left out all of that Cyborg stuff when he talked but you all should pretty much know that he was going to be repaired like I told you in that one scene. I just couldn't let him take the spot light when this is Raven and Robin's story.

Next time…

When a battle with Dr. Light pushes Raven over the edge, the Titans see a side of their mysterious friend that they've never seen before. After Raven's tantrum Dr. Light begs for mercy, Robin isn't quite sure how to treat her. What happens when he and Cy go into her room and snoop?

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