"Help! I'm being attacked!"

"Where are you?"

"Grid 9! Under fire! Requesting assistance!"

"Roger! Be right there!"

"Hurry! I don't think I can–"

Super-Cy has been eliminated.

"Oh man!" Cyborg cried, clutching his control mournfully. "I was so close!"

"Don't sweat it, dude," Beast Boy said, still fiddling with his control. "You'll beat me one day."

Cyborg furrowed his brow and swiped the control out of Beast Boy's hands with a devilish smile. It clattered across the floor.

Beast-Man has been eliminated. GAME OVER.

"Dude! What was that for?"

Cyborg shrugged, grinning. "Payback."

"No fair!"

"Don't be a baby."

"I'm not a baby!"

"Then stop sounding like one!"

Raven looked up from her book. Her eyebrow rose, and she turned her attention back to the story. Her slender hand rose to turn the page as the two boys in front of her began to yell and poke each other. She knew they would start wrestling if left alone any longer. She also knew that in about five seconds they would be broken up.

Only a few seconds later the two doors hissed open, and she heard a small gasp.

"Friends!" Starfire cried. "Do not fight! Please!"

The two boys stared crossly at each other, but did as she asked and moved apart. Beast Boy sat back down, swiping up the control and restarting the game, and Cyborg walked over to the kitchen area. He pulled open the fridge and inspected the contents carefully.

"Bacon, expired; chicken," he picked up the packet and peered closely at the use-by date in disbelief. "Prehistoric. Turkey breast, whoa!" he threw the packet back into the fridge in fright. "Is growing penicillin! Yo! We need to go shop–"

Suddenly the communicator built into his system went off. He silenced it and closed the fridge, finishing his sentence half-heartedly. "Never mind."

Robin entered the room quickly and turned on the mainframe computer to find the source of the alarm.

"There's been a disturbance on Seventy-Third. Come on."

The Titans arrived on Seventy-Third Street a few minutes later and were immediately assaulted by a flying, flaming car. Raven threw her arms into the air and the car halted its spinning fall as it started glowing black. She carefully lowered it to the ground behind them.

The street was chaos. People were running and screaming in all directions, and several cars and buildings were on fire. About one hundred yards in front of them a woman dressed in some sort of red spandex outfit was loading cases of money from an overturned armored truck in the middle of the street into a red van. Flames were painted on the sides of the van.

"Nice paint job," Cyborg muttered quietly. Beast Boy giggled as Robin stepped forward.

"Beast Boy, Cyborg! Can you take care of the fires?"

Beats Boy saluted him and nodded and Cyborg gave him the thumbs up. He ran over to a hydrant near the T-Car and ripped it out of the ground. Beast Boy morphed into an elephant and began sucking up the water and squirting it onto all the burning vehicles and buildings around them.

Meanwhile, Robin, Starfire and Raven raced towards the woman in red, who turned to see them and snarled.

"The Teen Titans – come to stop me."

"You're a criminal, and that's what we do." Robin said, dropping low into a fighting stance. Starfire's hands glowed green and Raven's emerged from beneath her cloak as the two girls hovered in the air.

"Shame, I would have preferred just to take the money without interruption."

"No such luck."

"No. I guess not." She smiled.

Suddenly her smile disappeared and she raised her hands. A huge stream of fire shot from them right at Robin. Starfire gasped and swooped down, grabbing his outreached hand and flinging his to safety at the side of the road.

Robin looked at his attacker in shock from his crouch on the sidewalk.

"Sorry, I didn't introduce myself properly. Name's Flare." She extended her hand, as if she wanted to shake Robin's. When he just scowled at her she grinned and threw a fireball at him with the hand. He back flipped quickly out of its path, and Starfire shot a volley of star bolts at her. She swiped her hand before her and a wall of fire appeared. It absorbed the green energy right into it, and Starfire froze in the air in shock. She had never seen that happen before.

In the younger girl's delay, Flare shot another fire stream at her. A black shield appeared to protect her, and Flare turned to glare venomously at Raven.

"Ah, the creepy one."

"Don't call me creepy." Raven ordered quietly, her fists clenching.

"Sorry. Freak."

Raven scowled and raised her hands. "Azarath Metrion Zinthos!" A black bolt resembling lightning exited her hands and shot at Flare. It was met with a stream of fire from the other woman's fists.

The black beam began to overcome the flame. Flare snarled and her eyes began to glow red. The fire ray thickened considerably and forced the black one backwards. Raven's eyes stained white and black tendrils began to curl around her as she struggled to maintain the attack.

Flare's eyes shut in her struggle and she began to glow. Her deep red hair lifted from her shoulders and floated around her head wildly. The glow intensified and she suddenly burst into flame. The pillar of fire she was using shot forward and consumed Raven, who shouted in pain and fear.

Robin leapt over and jump kicked Flare in the side of the head. The fire blast stopped as the woman flew to the side and rolled across the ground, still flaming. Robin's boot had caught fire and he ripped it off in alarm.

Raven dropped to the ground and was immediately immersed in a jet of water. The green elephant behind her pushed her up, sodden and dripping, with his trunk.

"Thanks," she mumbled, grabbing the soggy remains of her cape and wringing it out.

Flare leapt up and jumped over at Robin. He wheeled away from the flaming figure, but she managed to grab his cape as it swept past her. It immediately caught fire and Robin ripped it off from around his neck. She scowled at the useless piece of material in her fist and dropped it, leaving it to burn on the ground.

Robin looked at her, furious, but unsure what to do. He could not attack her when she was just a ball of fire.

Starfire swooped up beside them and fired more star bolts at the woman, her eyes glowing green. But, as before, the energy was just absorbed into the flames. Flare swirled and lifted her hands to incinerate Starfire.

But she was suddenly soaked under a deluge of water from Beast Boy's trunk. She shrieked and hissed in pain and started smoking, collapsing into a heap on the floor. She recovered quickly and looked venomously up at the green elephant before her. Her eyes were still glowing red.

She gathered her arms to her chest and started shaking, as if in pain. Her skin began to glow red again, and the Titans began to back away – Cyborg, Raven, Starfire and Beast Boy, who morphed back into himself, on one side of the street, and Robin on the other.

She began to scream in denial as the glowing intensified and she suddenly exploded. Raven formed a shield around herself, Beast Boy morphed into a hawk and wheeled into the sky, and Starfire grasped Cyborg by the arms and shot with him up into the air.

The blast radiated out below them. It flattened everything in a fifty yard radius, all the glass fifty yards out from that shattered and fell from its panes, and street lamps and pylons beyond that were knocked over completely. A dust cloud accompanied the blast wave, dirtying the air and causing a strange fog, though it settled soon enough.

The four Titans were blown high up into the sky by the force of the blast, spinning uncontrollably. They recovered quickly and looked in horror at the scene below them. Raven dropped her shield as she, Starfire and Beast Boy lowered back to the ground. Starfire released Cyborg, who looked at the place Flare had been.

She was gone.

The four teens looked around them in shock, one thing spinning in their minds, which made its way out through Starfire's lips.

"Robin? Robin!"