I'm sorry for the wait but I had some family emergencies and after that was taken care of, I had trouble finding time to be able to write again. I will try to work on fixing that best I can.

Hate Eater – I understand what your saying, but I wanted to leave it vague for now. The background of the characters should be what was given to us in the TV show, until I flesh it out more and set it apart in later chapters. Thank you for the comment, productive criticism is greatly appreciated, and I'll try to be more descriptive.

Disclaimer: I do not and probably will not own Teen Titans or the song in any way. If I did, I would have shown a deeper depth to Beast Boys character, he's by far my favorite superhero in DC.

With that all done let's get to it…

Chapter 2: Heists

The sound of the Klaxon alarm blared throughout the halls of the tower, waking everyone from their once peaceful slumber. With an almost timed response the Titans were all dressed and in the common room within a minute on the alarm.

"Alright Rob, who's the one itching for their morning beat-down?" Cyborg announced as he cracked his knuckles.

"You know that you don't have any knuckles to crack, right? So why do even bother doing that?" Raven asked with a small smirk tugging at her lips.

Cyborg didn't respond, he just glared at Raven before rolling his eyes, well eye, with a chuckle and turned his attention back to Robin, waiting for the response to his original question.

Over the time the team has been together since Trigon, Raven had really progressed with embracing her emotions. Albeit you wouldn't find the empath engaging in any overly enthusiastic behavior, unless her happy emoticlone took over which had certainly been an interesting day none the less, she did jokes now and then, enjoying the occasional group trip to the carnival and even video games once in a while. Cyborg was altogether very proud of his little sister.

He was pulled from his thoughts as Robin pulled up the information for the crime alert. "It's the Hive." (The team dropped the 5 part of their name since all the changing in some of their members was never consistent and thus gave way to a lot of teasing and jokes that they, to say the least, were tired of.) "They've spit up and are robbing several locations at once: The Jump City Museum, the National Depository and a Jewelry Store. The alarms never went off, but our software is integrated into the cities surveillance system and caught them. The police have been notified and told to be on standby but not to deploy, if were going to have the element of surprise this will need be all on us."

"My God do those guys never keep it simple anymore. Since we took out the Brotherhood of Evil all they've done is think bigger and bigger. What ever happened to the simple small-time bank job?" Beast Boy complained as he rubbed the sleep out of his tired eyes.

"I agree friend, I miss the times when our enemies were not so bold and had less members." Starfire added, referring to the fact that the Hive now consisted of Jinx, Gizmo, Mammoth, Billy Numerous, See-More, Private HIVE a Kyd Wykkyd. The Hive (as a whole) had also become more aggressive and although they still wouldn't kill, they seemed to have less of a problem seriously hurting people, mostly thanks to Mammoth and Gizmo who were never very stable to begin with. Later on See-More became more threatening as well when he upgraded his helmet and his failed attempts to woo Jinx greatly confusing and infuriating the one-eyed villain. All three of them (mainly Gizmo and See-More, Mammoth still seemed to have some sense of morals left) had seemed ready to kill for a while but Jinx always was able to hold them back.

"Well be that as it may they're still going down. I'll call in Kid Flash and the Herald since they can get here the quickest." Robin said as he took out his communicator.

"Are you sure that bringing in KF is a good idea dude?" Beast Boy asked with a concerned look on his face.

"Yeah man. Don't you remember what happened when he last saw the Hive?" Cyborg noted. He was referring back to when Kid Flash broke into the Hive's base to hit on Jinx and as well sway her to the side of good. It didn't go well. See-More trapped him in a bubble that was immediately sent to another dimension by Kid Wykkyd. A few minutes later he was brought back frozen with fear and mumbling incoherent nonsense under his breath. While he was still in shock Mammoth crushed his arm with a single stomp of his foot. He managed to escape with his life, but not before Jinx told him off saying that she would never date a hero. She even hit him with one of her hexes as he ran away, at first nothing happened but once he got to the streets his foot caught a drainage grate, shattering his ankle.

Needless to say after all that, even after his recovery, KF was adamant on going anywhere near the Hive again.

A/N: In this story the episode "Lightspeed" took place after the events of "Titans Together" and the rest of the Brotherhood of Evil arc, with Jinx rejecting Kid Flash and staying as the leader of the Hive. More changes will be revealed as needed as the story progresses.

"I know," Robin stated. "But he is all healed now, and I've had him take regular visits to a psychiatrist to help him deal with what happened. Plus he's the only other Titan who's available and as long as he doesn't interact with Jinx and leaves once the battle is done, he should be fine." Robin finished with a tone of finality in his voice that said it wasn't up for debate.

He opened up his communicator and called the two heroes. It took some convincing, but Kid Flash reluctantly agreed and signed off. Soon he and the Herald would meet up with the Titans to formulate a plan before pursuing the Hive.


The Jump City National Depository was huge. The vast hall of the lobby was decorated with a crystal floor and red rope dividers throughout the room to keep the citizens in ordered rows as they waited for their appointments at the front desk. Large marble pillars lined the edges of the room and stretched to the roof where they surrounded a massive stained-glass skylight reminiscent of the at the Trinity United Church in Notre Dame. The entire room had gold inlay highlights which added to the captivating scenery of the building.

Beyond the reception desks were a set of large, heavy looking brass doors that connected to a short hallway leading to the vault of the bank.

Three figures now stood in front of the vault door: Mammoth, Billy Numerous and Gizmo. Gizmo released tiny nanobots from his backpack that sunk into the seems of the door. The nanobots scampered through each crack and crevice as they worked their way through the thick steel door. Mini cameras on each transmitted the live feed back to Gizmo's holo-screen. The midget genius mumbled quietly to himself as he frantically scanned and searched for the locking mechanism to the vault door.

"I still don't get why I can't just rip this thing off so we can get on with it. This is taking forever." Said Mammoth. The giant brute was growing evermore impatient at the fact that he had been standing their doing nothing for the past 15 minutes.

"Quiet pea-brain. If we want to get away with this then we need to be subtle." Gizmo squeaked back. He was having a difficult time trying to unlock the door to the vault and hearing the complaints of his teammate was not making it any easier. "Besides, this isn't some low-level bank like we used to rob. This is the Jump City National Depository! The door is 3 feet thick and is made from a special reinforced concrete mix of cement powder, stone and metal shavings that resist drilling penetration. It weighs almost 25 tons and is sealed with about 8 tons of pressure. If that's not enough the locking mechanism is secured with numerous 3-inch-thick metal bolts extending from all around the door into the surrounding frame, all held in place with a dual control combination lock that has two dials controlling two separate locking mechanisms for the door."

A/N: I'm basing the design roughly off the vault at the Winona National Bank, except a bit larger.

Mammoth stood slightly shocked but mostly confused at the small teens rant, it was all too complicated for him to understand. Next to him the final of the trio Billy Numerous was equally as confused, trying to wrap his brain around what was said as well.

Gizmo face palmed as he noticed the confused expressions on both their faces.

"Unless you can rip about 33 tons from the door I'd shut up and let me work through this thing!" Gizmo screamed before turning back to his monitor.

5 minutes later the door finally began to open with a jolt.

'Finally' Gizmo thought. "Alright you two nimrods, grab the cash while I call in our progress." He ordered.

Mammoth began loading bricks of gold into a giant sack while Billy Numerous duplicated himself and began gathering all the money his selves could carry.

Gizmo pulled out his Hive communicator and started calling the other team at the Jewelry Store.

Scene change: Jewelry Store

See-More brought a diamond up to his eye as his helmet lens changed into a loupe (a lens that jewelers use to inspect and verify gemstones and other jewelry.)

"Yeah. These are some real pretty stones." He commented before returning to normal and placing the diamond in a satchel with others.

"If your done wasting time then get a move on soldier. We have a short window before we need to gather as much as we can carry and get going." Private HIVE said in a commanding tone.

"Whatever." See-More responded

Suddenly See-More felt a buzzing in his pocket. He retrieved his communicator and opened it to see Gizmo staring back at him.

"Were in the vault now and loading up the loot. How's it on your end? Any sign of those pit sniffing Titans?" He asked.

"No sign of them yet. I disabled the alarm and were grabbing the gems now; these are something else." See-More responded as he admired a fancy ruby necklace with a gold trim.

"Yeah, yeah, just do your job snot-brain. You can drool over the jewels after this is over. Remember, we all need to finish before those pit-sniffing Titans figure out what's going on, they always do." Gizmo looked away for a second, seething at the thought of all the times the Titans managed to catch them. "Do you know how Jinx and Wykkyd are doing at the museum?"

"No sir. Before they went in, she said that they need to maintain radio silence until they call us so that the security system wouldn't be alerted." Private HIVE responded as he peaked his head over See-More's shoulder.

Gizmo grumbled in frustration, even though Jinx made him second in command he never liked her. She always seemed to act like she was so perfect and was the only one who didn't respect him because he was smarter than everyone else, which didn't well for his ego. She also didn't like his lack of respect for her authority.

"Fine. I'll check back in later." He said before hanging up. 'One day, the Hive will be mine. And you will learn to fear me." Gizmo thought as he joined in loading up the money.

Scene change: Museum

The Jump City Museum was deathly silent. Normally abundant with art-lovers and staff alike it now was empty with no activity whatsoever.

It had been this way for the past couple of days as the building was almost 70 years old and despite having top of the line security features, needed a renovation. Some walls needed new framework, the elevator to the second floor needed repairs and the overall decor was in desperate need of an update. As well as other minor repairs here and there.

Despite this the layout was still quite the sight to behold. Large hallways were 40 feet wide and 30 feet high left plenty of room for display cases of various antiquities and priceless jewelry which laced the walls. The walls were painted a light sky blue and had silver inlays throughout the building with intricate swirling patterns at each corner. The floor was made of refinished hardwood while the roof was reflective and mirror-like. For some odd reason most of the displays were still there in the museum as the owner didn't trust any of them in the safety of some warehouse. He would learn his grave mistake today.

Jinx and Kyd Wykkyd hopped down from a vent down one of the east corridors and checked their surroundings.

"No guards in sight. Let's move." Jinx told her partner who simply nodded and followed her lead.

As they were slinking their way down the hall towards a right turn Wykkyd tapped Jinx on the shoulder and pointed to the security camera on the top left corner at the end of the hall. A nervous look adorning his face.

"Don't worry. My powers disabled all surveillance systems once I entered the room. The flash drive we entered into the security room on our way in released a program that gives all disabled cameras a fake feed once they start back up. In other words it's like nothing has changed." Jinx reassured him before continuing on.

As Jinx was about to take her next step a hand from Kyd Wykkyd pulled her back.

"What is it?" She asked with a slight irritation in her tone at being stopped.

Kyd Wykkyd reached a hand into his pocket and pulled out a handful of fine white powder before blowing it in front of them. As it settled red lasers were revealed blocking their path for 15 feet.

"Motion sensors, shit." Jinx cursed. Annoyed at herself for not realizing sooner.

She reached into her pocket and pulled out a set of goggles. Putting them on and pressing a button on the side the lenses glowed red, allowing her to see the lasers.

"Watch and learn Kyd." She said in a cocky tone as she stepped forward towards the lasers and began bobbing and weaving through them with pinpoint agility.

Upon reaching the other side she turned back to her partner who hadn't moved from his spot, his face unchanged.

"What, not impressed?" She said. "Get going."

Kyd Wykkyd then disappeared before reappearing next to Jinx.

"Hmpf, show-off." She said as she turned around and continued down the hall. Not noticing or ignoring the smirk that had appeared on Wykkyd's face.

Once they rounded the corner, they stopped dead in their tracks, staring in awe at the sight of the massive room before them. It the main room at the center room of the museum.

Large marble pillars lined the edges of the circular room. The room itself was 60 feet across and stood 70 ft high with a domed skylight serving as the roof. The walls were painted a deep navy blue with white ice granite outlining the edges. Throughout the room there were black, glass domed display cases containing beautiful and expensive items as well as various paintings adorning the walls.

At the center of the room sat a larger case displaying a pure silver necklace studded with small sapphires. The pendant was a large heart-shaped pink sapphire is highlighted by a glimmering halo of glistening diamonds.

"There it is, the Cupids Eye Necklace. Let's take a stroll and meet up there when we're done." Jinx said with Wykkyd nodding in return. Before they separated Wykkyd opened a portal and pulled out 2 bags and handed one to Jinx.

They went throughout the room with Jinx hexing the glass cases off and shutting down the built-in alarms in the process while Wykkyd simply created portals through the glass and grabbing the items.

Once they ransacked the rest of the room, they met at the Cupids Eye and Wykkyd opened up another portal, this time pulling out a specially made briefcase for transporting said necklace.

Wykkyd used another portal to retrieve it and placed it carefully in the case where Jinx sealed it in.

"OK, get us out of here." She ordered. They both stepped through a portal and found themselves in an alleyway next to the building that was blocked from the street with a fence one way and branched out between other building the other way.

"Damn it I love portals." Jinx said with a grin on her face. "Now I'll just check in with the others and-"

"Sorry, but we need a bit of your time if you don't mind." A voice interrupting her.

They turned around to see Beast Boy and the Herald standing just down one of the paths with confident looks of bravado on their faces.

"We're looking for some thieves who just stole some valuables from this museum, you wouldn't happen to know anything about that would you?" Beast Boy asked sarcastically.

"You take the jewels and get to the meeting place. I'll take the necklace and meet you there." Jinx told Wykkyd. They quickly changed hands and split up with Jinx hexing the two heroes off their feet and running down the other alley path while Wykkyd flew over the fence.

As Jinx looked back over her shoulder, she saw the Herald take off after Wykkyd while Beast Boy shifted into a puma and followed her.

'Of course he's the one who follows me.' She thought slightly annoyed making a left turn and hopping over some garbage cans and climbing up a fire escape and making her way to the roof. 'This is certainly going to be interesting.'

To Be Continued…

No songs this time. They are going to be used sparingly when the situation calls for it or to help explain something. Try listening to the lyrics.

I had fun writing this chapter when I could and often found myself being late to things by getting too engrossed in the story.

This ended up being longer than I expected. But with the path I took in this chapter I felt that breaking it up wouldn't sit right with me. That's a lesson I would give to anyone else who starts writing. Try to have a basic idea on where yours story will go, but the path to get there should be able to change and shift as you go along. You might have different ideas as you write. Unless you prefer another method, there is no right way, just your way.

I hope this a good chapter and makes up for the wait. There will be an action scene in the next one which I'm really excited to write. Please fell free to comment and tell me what you think, and I will try to respond to as many as possible. Next chapter will (Hopefully) be up in a week or so.

Thank you and I'll see you next time Titans…