Nightwing and Raven were set up on a rooftop across from Black Mask's newly acquired headquarters in Bludhaven; an old warehouse attached to an office building in the commercial section of the city docks. Raven was levitating with her hood covering half her face as it always did; Nightwing had a knee to the ground scanning the building through all the different filters in his mask.

"It looks like we have some time before his operation starts."

Nightwing said as he stood up and turned around. Raven lowered herself to the rooftop and looked at the warehouse making observations of her own' after all Dick had trained her in investigation and infiltration. Her powers just made it easier. Raven looked over at Nightwing who was sitting on the rooftop.

"Well I'll tell you one thing, Bludhaven is no Jump City. It's below freezing out here."

Rachel was holding her cloak closed. Nightwing stood up with a smirk.

"That reminds me."

Nightwing rappelled down the building to his bike and pulled a square container from the bike and went back up to the rooftop. He laid the canister on the roof and opened it to reveal a silver thermos and some snack bars. He picked up and gave the thermos to Raven who unscrewed the lid and took a sip of it, a small smile appeared on her face.

"Herbal tea."

"Figured you could use some while we wait. You live off the stuff anyway."

Nightwing was fussing with his gear. When Raven handed him the thermos. He shook his head.

"Come on Nightwing, your body is trying to stay warm from this cold, don't make it work too hard."

He nodded and took a sip of the tea. Then handed it back to Raven.

"Great, I just shared a drink with the daughter of a demon lord. Now I got cooties."

Raven got a huge grin on her face but kept her thoughts to herself but forgot about the Psylink.

Grayson you got the cooties when you kissed me.

Nightwing still had the smirk on his face as he heard her thoughts but spoke out loud instead of using the link.

"If I remember right, you're the one who kissed me Raven."

Rachel blushed, embarrassed she forgot about the psylink.

"You didn't resist… at first."

She was still blushing.

"Yeah, yeah."

Raven changed topics, she didn't need her emotions affecting her powers.

"So tell me about this street drug he's been selling."

"Ever heard of Digoxin?"

"Yeah it's a kind of antiarrhythmic control."

Raven always read books on all different subjects. That gave her a knowledge across many different fields.

"Right. Digoxin is created from the digitalis plant; it basically makes the heart beat more effectively. They use it to treat heart failure and atrial fibrillation. Mix a concentrated amount with an anabolic steroid and inject it into the blood stream or a high dosage pill and it channels more oxygen into the heart giving the user increased speed and strength, also numbs the nervous system dulling out pain. Less effective than VENOM. Too much in the blood stream and the blood becomes toxic, poisoning organs and shutting down the heart and leads to a painful and slow death."

"Damn. Good thing to get it off the streets."

Raven couldn't muster to say anything else.

Minutes passed without either of them talking. Rachel began to meditate when the warehouse started to show some activity. She opened her eyes to see some lights on in the warehouse but the office building was still dark. Rachel stood to get a better view of the warehouse. She never had an idea of the time that passed when she was meditating. Raven could hear Nightwing doing something, when she turned she saw him checking his gear over. She walked over and kneeled next to him. Nightwing opened one of the pouches and counted smoke pellets then put them back in the pouch on his leg. He then pulled out several wing-dings to check their balance. Nightwing looked over to see Rachel staring at him intently.

"Yeah Rae?"

"Haven't you ever considered a belt? You used to wear one"

Nightwing put his wing-dings back into another pouch on the opposite leg and stood up.

"I realized that the belt disrupted my center of gravity, I couldn't move completely free like I can now, slowed me down some too. Not a problem for Batman because he mainly mixes boxing and aikido when he fights and relies more on power than speed. I mainly mix ninjutsu with escrima which are more aerial and rely on extremely fast strikes."

"So is that what you taught me?"

As his time as a Titan Robin had trained Raven and the other Titans hand to hand combat as an extra advantage against their enemies.

"I taught you kickboxing with ninjutsu influences. Helps channel your emotions."

Before Raven could answer Dick stood up quickly and stared across the street. The office building was lit up like a Christmas tree and they could both see guards patrolling the halls. Rachel stood up and looked over at the office as well. She broke the silence.

"Guards on every level, looks like they all have M4 Carbines.

"Right. Sionis gives them to all of his guys. 5.56 caliber shells, good stopping power and easily available over black market dealers which Sionis knows most of. Same carbine that BPD uses. I can see Black Mask in his office he's having a meeting with his top lieutenants, See? They were the ones overseeing the drug operation; he is selling to teenagers. Over twenty of them were hospitalized from over doses. Three died. One of them…"

He stopped talking. Rachel could tell what he was about to say brought him pain.

"One of them was Amy's little brother."

Rachel put a hand on his shoulder to calm him down.

"Nightwing it's not your fault."

Raven felt his anger. She spoke up to break the silence and distract him.

"I'll take Black Mask and trap him with my magic. You take the warehouse; it'll keep you from making this personal and get angry. And you can make sure nobody gets out with that drug okay?"

Dick tensed then relaxed like he had done this routine a hundred times, he had done it more than a hundred times. He hated to admit it but he knew Rae was right, she always learned from watching him lead the Titans.

"Yeah, sounds good Raven. Use the psylink if you need backup."

Nightwing never waited for an answer, he just aimed and shot his zip line to the warehouse roof. Raven could see him enter from above sticking to the shadows as he always did, he was trained that way. Raven flew over to the office building and created her own plan; start from the bottom and work her way up. That way there were fewer mobsters to defend Sionis. Raven started to take down mobsters with her magic and the stealth tricks she learned from Dick. The ground floor guards were knocked cold by Raven's dark magic. She began to work her way up to the penthouse while Nightwing was in the warehouse. Raven could hear his voice in her head.

"How's it coming Rae?"

"I haven't even made it halfway up, how's your end?"

Nightwing answered with sarcasm.

"Well some trigger happy idiot decided it would be a good idea to shoot the fire suppression system so everything is soaking wet. Good thing I disabled interior and exterior sensors or Sionis would be sending more trigger happy idiots."

"You need help?"

"Nope. That was the last one. I'm contacting Bludhaven PD and having them send a few cars and a cleanup crew. On my way. See you at the top."

Raven had gotten to the top floor a few minutes later. Black Mask was still in his office unaware of the two thanks to Nightwing's meddling in the security system. Raven took down the final two guards in front of the office door. Raven blew the door off its hinges with magic and hovered into the office. All of Black Mask's lieutenants spun around and pointed their guns at her including Sionis with his twin semi automatic pistols. He yelled out with his raspy voice.

"Just who the hell do you think you are barging in here? Doesn't matter you won't be alive long enough to tell me. Take the bitch down!"

Raven used her dark magic and encased their guns with it and threw them against the wall behind her, she then encased Black Mask's desk with magic and pulled it towards her knocking down all of the lieutenants.

"You bitch! Do you know who I am? You're…"

Raven spoke with annoyance and anger.

"Yeah, I do. Black Mask or Roman Sionis if you prefer."

Raven stepped towards Black Mask who shot at Raven but she put up a barrier stopping the bullet and making Sionis angrier. Raven threw Sionis' guns against the far wall walking closer to Sionis who yells out.

"Ms. Li, send Bobo in here!"

Raven walked closer as she heard someone stirring behind her. Bobo was one of Sionis' men who took the Digoxin drug. He was a big guy without the drug but on it he looked almost super human. The veins in his body were easily visible and his eyes were heavily dilated. Rachel threw the desk at him with her magic but Bobo just caught it in mid air and threw it back against the wall. Raven got in a defensive stance ready to defend herself. She lashed out with a kick that didn't even faze Bobo. He reached down and grabbed her by the hood of her cloak and lifted her off the ground. Raven tried to free herself from his grasp but was thrown against the wall. Raven was dazed but charged back at Bobo, who caught Raven's kick mid air twisting it behind her and dropping her to the ground then put pressure on her ankle until there was a popping sound. Raven cried in pain when she heard Nightwing cry out to her.

"Raven, tuck and roll!"

Raven rolled to the left just in time to see Nightwing shoot something from his gauntlet. It stuck to Bobo's back and exploded stunning him. Nightwing flipped over Bobo's back and landed an uppercut to his jaw. Still it hardly fazed him. Nightwing pulled his escrima sticks from his back landing a flurry of strikes faster than the eye can see making a metallic clinging sound. Raven was kneeling on the ground holding her shoulder watching Nightwing take on Bobo. Nightwing tried landing a roundhouse kick but Bobo caught it lifting Nightwing above his head. Nightwing threw a smoke pellet in Bobo's face causing him to throw Dick to the side. Nightwing flips in the air wrapping his arms around the front of Bobo's neck hanging onto his back. Bobo was struggling to get him off when Nightwing pulled out a syringe and stabbed Bobo across the chest just as Bobo threw him forward over his shoulder.

Nightwing landed with another roll and got in another ready stance when he saw Sionis trying to get out of the room. Nightwing threw a wing ding into his foot causing him to recoil in pain and pull the wing ding out.

"Raven now!"

"Azarath Metrion Zinthos!"

Raven put a barrier around Sionis trapping him. Bobo had recovered, what he didn't know was that the syringe held the antidote to the Digoxin and Bobo was coming off his high. Nightwing smirked as he saw Bobo's eyes back to normal. Bobo charged at Nightwing who was waiting for the charge.

"Hey! You're done!"

Nightwing shouted as he started his back handspring connecting an upward kick with both heels right into Bobo's chin. Bobo fell back hard from the kick knocking him out. Nightwing looked around and saw one of the lieutenants coming to. He threw his escrima connecting with the mobster's temple knocking him out again. Nightwing caught the escrima on its rebound and placed it back into its holster on his back. Nightwing walked over and helped Raven up showing some concern.

"You good?"

"Damn ankle. I can't move it."

"Do you mind lowering the barrier? I have one last piece of business."

Raven lowered the barrier as Nightwing approached it. She saw him pull out another syringe but it was a different color than the one he used on Bobo. Sionis yelled as Nightwing approached him.

"You bitch! I'll get you for th-"

Nightwing punched Black Mask and he fell to the ground. Nightwing grabbed Sionis by the chest of his white suit and dragged him over to the wall with the windows.

"Now Sionis there's a lady present, watch your language."

Nightwing threw Black Mask through the window and caught him with his zip line by the ankle and pulled him back up dangling him upside down. He placed the other end of the line around an exposed beam over the window. Black Mask was dangling over the ground twelve stories up.

"Damn you Nightwing! This is my city now. You can't do squat."

Nightwing smirked, Raven could feel his anger but it wasn't out of control.

"You want to see what happens when pure Digoxin gets pumped through your blood stream when you have a pacemaker? Let's find out"

Nightwing stabbed Sionis with the syringe then threw it behind him. Raven spoke telepathically to Nightwing.

Dick what are you doing?

Relax Rae, I've got two more doses of the antidote I need to convince him to give me his supplier

Nightwing looked back at Black Mask who was starting to show effects from the Digoxin shot.

"Wha- You can't kill me like you did Blockbuster. You self-righteous vigilantes don't kill"

"How do you know once I crossed that line it didn't change me?"

Sionis' heart race increased and he got a jolt from his pacemaker.

"How'd that feel? It gets worse. Blurred Vision? Insomnia, Nightmares. Nausea, or how about psychosis or delirium?"

"Oh god. They're all over me. Get 'em offa me!"

Sionis' pacemaker gave him another shock of two and a half volts.

"Psychosis and delirium, nice. Tell me your supplier and the antidote is all yours."

Bludhaven police were now showing up on scene and taking the mobsters from the lower level into custody.

"Alright, alright!"

Nightwing walked over and lowered Sionis onto the floor then tied him up for the police. He used the antidote on Sionis then walked over to Raven who was having trouble standing on her own. He wrapped her arm around his neck and helped her walk out of the building and talked to the detective on site.

"Detective Molloy, haven't seen you on site in awhile."

Detective Malloy approached Nightwing and began talking to him.

"Yeah, it's been awhile. Ever since Hogan took over as commissioner he's been sending me out to the scene. What do you got for me?"

"Well I've got Black Mask tied up on the top floor and destroyed the formula for the street drug. There are still several cases of it in the warehouse, and I have an antidote for it which you can send to the hospital for replication."

"Thanks Nightwing. Looks like you've got it handled."

Malloy looked over at Raven and inspected her from head to toe.

"Who's your friend? She injured?"

Raven looked over at Nightwing who was looking back at her. He was trying to come up with something to say quickly.

"She's an old friend. Just a twisted ankle nothing I can't handle."

"Okay Nightwing. See you around."

Nightwing helped Raven back to his bike and they headed to the Grayson's apartment.

Apartment

Nightwing pulled Rachel's cloak off as they entered the apartment from the rooftop and walked down the hall.

"Sit on the couch; let me look at your ankle"

Dick helped Rachel sit down on the couch in the living room and started to inspect her injured ankle. It was starting to swell. Dick took off his gauntlet and gave it to Rachel.

"Good news, it's not broke. Bad news, you're ankle is dislocated. Bite down on my gauntlet. On the count of three."

Rachel bit down on the gauntlet and looked at Nightwing who looked back up at her.

"You may not want to watch this."

Rachel looked away.

"One."

Rachel bit the gauntlet harder.

"Two."

She closed her eyes.

"Three."