A/N: Hey everyone! Thanks for reading! This chapter gets pretty hectic but I hope it's to your liking. If there are any concerns with vocabulary used please let me know! I don't mind editing previous chapters but I do want to stress the importance of growing up in this season. As always drop a fav/follow and leave me a review if you have any ideas and let me know how I'm doing! Thanks again!

STARFIRE!!!!

The sound of Nightwing's voice echoed across the gentle waves of the ocean. His voice only met with the evil cackle of her attackers laugh. This laugh, that over powered his cry, came from the beauty of a woman with flawless smooth skin and long silver hair. A laugh that only tarnished her beauty revealing a dark and disgusting soul.

Under her robe she was wearing skin tight black spandex pants showing a flawless figure that rivaled her perfect skin. Small light weight armor covered her vitals and weak spots like her knees, elbows, and chest but didn't restrict her movement in the slightest. She looked like a well experienced fighter willing to do whatever it takes to win.

The rest of the Titans were frozen stiff as they watched the lifeless body of their leader fall into the hands of someone they had never seen before.

What just happened? Is Starfire... Ok? She couldn't be... She can't be...

The number of questions pulsing through their minds left them in a weakened state. As the possibility of the worst outcome continued to resurface in their thoughts.

As the evil laughing continued, Nightwing no longer held any sense of humanity in his heart. He saw the face of Starfire's attacker and his blood began to boil within him.

"ROSE!!!!" Nightwing let out a yell as if he was about to butcher the woman holding the love of his life. His scream could have struck fear into the heart of the most savage monster. He seemed to know this woman and from the sound of his voice... he was hell bent on making her suffer.

He explode forward in a sprint to the long dock but he wasn't the only one. Red X had already started making his move as well. Already at the dock, he had a good ten step lead ahead of him. they were half way up the dock when Gizmo came out of hiding, hovering over the ocean next to the dock. The jets popping out of the sides of his backpack kept him suspended in air while a long arm with a claw held Rancid who was ready for a fight.

"Chew on this ya losers!" He said with a nasty grin.

A large rocket appeared from the top of his backpack and shot straight ahead of where the two young men were sprinting. Red X stopped in his tracks seeing the rocket but Richard didn't even acknowledge Gizmo's existence allowing him to gain on X. He had tunnel vision and was only concerned with one thing. Or rather... One person.

With little to no time to react, X grabbed Richard by the back of his collar as he passed and pulled back with all his strength stopping Nightwing cold. The Rocket then landed just inches from where Nightwing would have been if he had continued running freely. With a quick flash followed by an ear shattering boom, the explosion completely annihilated the dock in a huge cloud of smoke and wooden debris, sending the two masked fighters flying back to the cement platform of the bay with a rough landing.

Gizmo then threw Rancid like a beach ball at Nightwing. Nightwing couldn't react in time, and Rancid landed on top of him pinning him to the ground as he started dropping fists into the face of his masked enemy.

"Sorry Dick," the silver haired woman taunted, "I'd love to catch up but it looks like you're busy and I have a bounty to collect." As she finished her sentence, the platform she stood on began to decend into the ocean as the protective bubble started rise around her and her victim connecting at the top above them.

"No!" Cyborg shout as he abandon his fight with Mammoth. But before he could do anything Mammoth put him in a full Nelson head lock stopping his movement.

"Where do you think you're goin' tin man!" Mammoth insulted.

"Let me go!" Cyborg yelled frantically as he struggled.

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Beastboy also dropped everything and began making a dash for Starfire. But as soon as he released his grip he morphed into a cheetah at full sprint only to get completely overwhelmed by Billy's clones dog piling him once again.

"Hold it right there, whiskers!" One of his clones exclaimed with a taste of victory.

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Terra had turned around on her floating rock to see the horror unfolding before her. As she was about to make a move, an explosion behind her stopped her and drew her attention.

Seemore had shot a massive red laser at the rock that had him pinned to the roof and it detonated like a bomb freeing him... Now he stood on the roof with a glowing dark red eye that took aim at Terra.

"Don't move," Seemore said angrily.

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Raven gasped as she began to fly as fast as she could to save Starfire but her advance was cut off as Kyd Wykkyd appeared in front of her out of thin air. It brought her to a halt as he kept putting himself in her path.

"Get out of way!" Raven yelled with desperation.

"Don't," the telepath said in her mind. He no longer smiled and his face held a kind of sympathy as if he might feel sorry for her, "facing them alone will only end badly for you."

"Them?" Raven asked confused. She looked around to see her friends were all held up as well and had no chance of getting to Starfire either. As she looked back to Kyd her only response from him was a small nod. There was more to this mysterious red eyed enemy than she thought.

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Red X started to get up. Slightly dazed, he saw Night wing getting beaten by Rancid straddled on top of him. He then returned his sight to the real enemy he faced. She had the most sinister look on her face. Her only visible eye looked like that of someone with an insatiable desire for bloodlust as she held the limp body of the beautiful red haired woman as they both sank into the depths of the water.

Under his mask his eyes lit up with concern. He stood up and gained his balance as best he could with his current dizziness. When he finally got stable footing the platform his enemy stood on had fully submerged and could no longer be seen but the ground under his feet began to shake.

Everyone looked at the waters of the ocean. It seemed as if it had started boiling on command. The shaking ground turned into a low rumble as the once gentle waters now raged with volume.

Then they saw it...

A massive space ship from another world breached the surface with a loud boom as engines roared with fire, rivaling the power of a volcano, came pouring of out of the back of them propelling the ship towards the moonlit night sky.

X was in shock. He was not expecting that. But he snapped out of his stupor and without hesitation he took a few steps back from the edge of the cement and threw him self into a sprint before leaping of the edge and vanishing into thin air.

Gizmo knew his team had finally completed their mission and better yet... had finally beaten the Titans. He smiled at the sight of the ship flying away and turned to address his team.

"C'mon!" He yelled to them, "let's blow this stink storm!"

The Titans watched helplessly as their friend disappear into the night sky, they didn't even notice their foes had released them and regrouped on the ground near where they had first appeared. They waited for Kyd but he was still floating in the air near Raven who was fixed on the enormous UFO growing more and more distant.

"Kyd! Get us out of here!" Gizmo yelled

Kyd Wykkyd looked from his friends back at the ship, then back at Raven.

"The battle ahead is not going to be easy." He relayed to her mind, "But I look forward to our next meeting." He seemed to be confident that the Titans could win and bring back their friend.

With that he disappeared into a shadow of his own creation before reappearing next to his friends and collectively they vanished once again.

The roar of foreign engines had finally faded and the waves had returned to their gentle and soothing rhythm. The only sound that clashed with the waves was the sound of fists landing on Nightwing's face.

He didn't even struggle. He laid there on the ground staring up into the sky where his beloved had disappeared into. As the fists continued to land on his cheeks he didn't even care. His mind had gone elsewhere.

Twice. He thought to himself. That's twice I lost her. The punches continued landing. But he didn't feel them. In fact... right now he couldn't feeling anything. Twice I've failed her.The ferocious punches were brought to a swift halt but Nightwing continued to lay there like he didn't even notice.

Cyborg tackled Rancid off of him and was wrestling him on the ground trying to stop the violence.

"Yo! That's enough!" Cyborg yelled.

"Get off a' me!" Rancid shot back, "this punk is getting what he deserves!"

Am I? Nightwing began thinking about what he had just heard. Do I deserve this? Did I bring this on myself? His dark thoughts began to plague his mind as his eyes slowly shut.After seeing how broken Nightwing looked Kitten and fang smiled at each other.

"We did it Fangy-poo!" Kitten said with glee as she put the rifle over her shoulder and threw herself into Fang's arms.

Raven, Beastboy and Terra regrouped behind them and they all had a look of incomparable fury in their eyes.

"Why?" Raven said as she grit her teeth in anger, "why would you help them take her?!"

Fang and Kitten turned around to look at the three Titans in aggressive fighting stances. They seemed completely relaxed though as if they didn't even want to fight them.

"We didn't want to hurt her. We wanted to hurt him," Kitten respond pointing over her shoulder with her left thumb, "he nearly beat daddy to death just to figure out where the exchange for your prissy friend was going to be made."

"Shut up!" Terra yelled standing next to Raven. Her eyes began glowing yellow with increase power, "don't you dare insult Starfire!" She had a look no one had ever seen before. It seemed even worse than the look she had when she worked for Slade.

"We wouldn't even be here if he hadn't trashed my girlfriend's house and put her dad in the hospital!" Fang yelled back in anger as he leaned forward, "if you want to blame anyone... Blame him!"

Me? Nightwing continued to scoure his mind. Am I to blame for this?

The Titan's expressions then changed slightly... They looked at each other confused and started to question the situation. The way Kitten felt about her father, is exactly how they felt about Starfire right now. If anything... The score was even.

"Alright! Alright!" Rancid yelled as Cyborg continued to hold him down, "just get off me!"

Cyborg eased up and allowed Rancid to get to his feet. As if exchanging prisoners, the Titans regrouped with Nightwing on the ground behind them while the others regrouped in front of them as if a truce had been drawn.

"Do you mind telling us what's going on?!" Beastboy yelled in frustration as he rubbed the hair on his head with both hands, "I hate not understanding anything!"

"I was just minding my own business when that jackass showed up out of nowhere and did this to me!" Rancid gestured to his beaten and bruised face, "I might be bad, but he's no better than any of the other guys you fight!"

A villain? Nightwing's thoughts began to grow darker and darker. Maybe I am. Maybe this is what a villain deserves.The Titans looked at each other once more. Cyborg looked at them like he knew they were telling the truth. It only made sense this is how Richard would have gotten the information.

"And you?" Terra asked Kitten. Her tone had changed and she felt like the one in the wrong here.

"He came to my house and attacked us for no reason!" She yelled with her annoying voice, "daddy even begged him to stop but even after he told him everything he kept hitting him until he could barely speak anymore!"

The Titans all hung their heads in shame. This was bad. They were the bad guys here. Or at least... Richard was.

"Consider us even," Rancid said still ripe with rage. No one really believed he was being honest, "but if I ever see him again... I'll break him." His voice sounded dark like he was dead serious.

"If we ever see you again," Raven replied with an even more serious sense of rage, "you'll never get the chance." Her words struck terror into everyone present. Even though she knew her friend was the one in the wrong, she still loved him and wouldn't let someone threaten him like that.

With that, the three foes then turned and began walking off towards the shadows peacefully before disappearing. They got what they came for, and the Titans couldn't do anything about it... If they did, their friend would most likely end up in jail and the others would be let off the hook. It left a bitter taste in their mouths.

The Titans turned around and looked down at their former leader laying motionless on the ground. They figured he must have passed out. They found themselves in a difficult position once again. Starfire was taken, Nightwing is now criminal, and they had to deal with both at the same time. After a long moment of silence one of them finally decided to make a decision for the leaderless team.

"We have to go after Starfire," Raven said urgently, "we can deal with this when we get back."

"We can't just leave him here alone," Cyborg argued, "who else is he gonna go after to get to Star?"

The team stood in silence once more as the calming waves continued to sooth the air around them but it never brought them any comfort. The night had gone from bad, to worse, to catastrophic and they were left in the most difficult position they had ever been in.

"So... what do we do?" Beastboy asked softly.

Nightwing started to feel the pain inflicted on his body and he grew tired. He hadn't slept since the night Starfire was taken and the toll on his body was starting to show as the fatigue weighed heavily on him. His eyes began to water as he thought about what his friends had said. The only question he could ask himself now was one that will continue to haunt him...

What have I done?