Bookworm: -sighs- Arg, I hate the distractions of life….

Sabbath: Oh please stop your complaining! I've liked my little vacation. Thank you very much!

Bookworm: Well I'm back, so to work with you! –Throws rock at Sabbath-

Sabbath: -dodges- Not till you say that Disclaimer!

Bookworm: Arg! Fine! I do not own the Teen Titans. Some of the other characters I have some rights to them and will use them as I please!

Sabbath: Meep! –runs away-

Bookworm: Come back here! –runs after Sabbath-

Cyborg: Well now that those two are busy, ON WITH THE SHOW~!

Waiting for the Battle

Robin typed quickly and read through the encrypted information, all of it looking like a lot of gibberish. He pressed a combination of buttons and then enter and the gibberish turned into English. "It looks like….their first gig is to recruit Red X and go break into the Wayne Enterprises vaults this Saturday."

"Well….I hope no one has a date for Saturday." Raven joked dryly.

"Ah danggit!" Cyborg shouted as he smacked himself in the head.

So from there, the Titans planned out their next attack for the upcoming gig. It wasn't that hard to come up with a plan since the area and the building had been studied previously. So all of the Titans were set at their positions and with their assignments, half were at the building waiting for the enemy while the other half was waiting in case the team was having trouble with each of their jobs.

Robin was stationed on the roof behind on of the heating ducts with a trained eye scanning around. He lifted a hand to his ear and pressed down activating the hearing device, "Anyone see anything suspicious?" Robin asked in a hushed tone just incase anyone was listening in on him.

"Nothing here on the base floor." Cyborg answered him first and clicked off.

"Good. How about the vault?" Robin asked the secondary question.

"No signs at the vault Boy wonder. We're good for now." Raven checked in with him and Robin could hear some chatter of Cursa and R.J with the empath.

Everyone else gave Robin the same answers that everything was fine and no one saw anything unusual. He signed off and removed his hand from the listening device. It was good so far, from what Creature gave them the Collection was supposed to hit the place tonight and the moment, but nothing has happened yet. It made the Boy wonder curious if the young girl that was supposed to be on their side gave them faulty information.

"You know you shouldn't be staring out into space bird brain…" Robin looked up to said girl as she interrupted his thoughts. She was wearing a new outfit from before, skinny black jeans and a skin-tight long sleeve shirt, and some black shoes. All to help her blend in with the shadows and her surroundings. "About time you guys showed up!" Robin moved away from the duct as there was no need to hide behind it anymore.

"Do forgive the tardiness bird-boy, but we had some pressing matters." Another voice joined the two.

Robin turned and saw that it was a boy with orange hair and someone he didn't know. "Robin, Samuel, Samuel, Robin." Creature introduced the both of them so that Robin was up to date. Samuel saluted the guy and smirked at him. "Now, that we're up to date. Let's have some fun!" Samuel greeted before vanishing from Robin's eyes.

Robin was tossed up into the air by an unknown force and then was grabbed by Creature by the ankles to be harshly thrown into structure. When he connected with the structure Robin shouted in pain before he made himself jump back onto his feet and shot himself towards the two enemies with his staff ready in his hand.

Cyborg and Beast boy were standing on the first floor with their attention on their jobs….well that's a lie. Beast boy and Cyborg were behind the security desk on the first floor with cards in their hands, playing a quick game of poker.

"Come on! Daddy needs a new pair of exhaust pipes!" Cyborg grinned as he placed his hand down on the table between him and Beast boy, he had four queens and a six. "Four lovely ladies!" Cyborg boasted happily and was about to do a little victory dance, but was stopped when he saw Beast boy hold up his hands.

"Sorry bud, but your ladies don't beat my royals!" Beast boy laid down his hand to show off his hand. He had an ace, king, queen, jack, and a ten all of hearts, giving the little green been a royal flush. "Nuh-uh! You cheated!" Cyborg shouted in amazement. "Not even metal butt. I got this fair and square." Beast boy replied with a grin and started to dance.

"There is no way that these two are the guards…." A voice interrupted Beast boy's little victory dance.

The two Titans looked over to the source of the voice with wide eyes as they were now with two strangers. One of the strangers was a male of average height with a normal build, he had dark looking skin with a tri-edged scar on their right cheek, they had dark eyes the only color to describe them correctly would be black; they had short spiky black hair as well. The male's physical appearance could have been mistaken for a shadow or a dark image of the imagination, but he was there. He wore a simple white wife-beater with a worn-out leather jacket over it; he had some gray jeans that covered some heavy looking combat boots.

The second stranger was also male, he was of average build and was a bit taller than the stranger next to him, he had extremely pale skin with scars at the edge of his lips curve up, it looked like a demented smile when staring at it, and he had light blue eyes and shaggy silver hair. He wore a baggy black sweater with the sleeves going down to his knees; he wore normal blue jeans and was bare-footed. "Seriously you two can't be the ones we need to fight to just move on." The pale stranger stated again as he walked forward with a bored expression.

"Phantom…it doesn't really matter….we do our job and get his over with." The dark stranger answered Phantom as he followed them.

"But Sonuke! This is pathetic…" Phantom replied complaining still.

"Who cares, we get this over with and then we're onto our next task." Sonuke shrugged his shoulders.

Beast boy and Cyborg looked over to each other and grinned before the moved into fighting positions. Cyborg pointed at the both of them, "You two ain't getting past us! No way, no how!" Beast boy stood next to him with a confident grin, "Yea, you just try it you two!"

The two strangers looked at each other before shrugging and then launching into an attack. Phantom jumped and used both of his feet to stomp down on Beast Boy's chest while Sonuke went over to Cyborg with a readied fist aimed for the face. Beast boy had hit the ground from the first attack, but rolled over and got back onto his feet. He charged at Phantom and jumped to tackle him down but sadly went through the figure. "What the hell!" Beast boy shouted as he fell onto the ground.

"Why do you think I'm called Phantom, green bean?" The pale figure looked at him with a smile making the scars looked even more demented. Phantom moved quickly over and swiped his leg out to kick at Beast boy, but was caught by a hand was flipped onto the ground. "Looks like it you can be touched." Beast boy mused aloud. Phantom growled and got up before throwing a punch at Beast boy. The changeling ducked and looked at the hand that almost hit him to see very sharp claws. "Oh crap!" Beast boy shouted.

Cyborg saw the fist and grabbed it before it could connect to his jaw. Sonuke in response lifted his body weight to flip himself over Cyborg to only throw the mechanic teen towards the wall. Before Cyborg could refocus on what happened, Sonuke was in front of him with a kick to the chest. "Still think we can't get past you two?" He asked amusedly at his opponents. "Lucky shot punk!"

Cyborg smacked the leg away from him and rammed Sonuke with his shoulder to shove the teen away from himself. Sonuke grabbed the arm closest to himself to twist it behind Cyborg and then pop it out of its socket. "Aw man what's with people doing that to me?" Cyborg growled as he saw the missing appendage now being held by Sonuke. The arm shifted and made itself punch the holder in the face. Sonuke frowned and tossed the arm away from him so it wouldn't bother him again. "Hey treat my stuff with respect!"

Raven was leaning against the vault wall and was watching Cursa entertain little R.J by using her magic to create little creatures. R.J giggled in amusement as a little creature that looked like a ferret snuggled up to her. "Aw it's so cute!" R.J commented as she tried to hug the ferret looking thing, but it had disappeared. "Awww." The young girl pouted sadly as there was no ferret in her arms.

"Sorry cutie, but I can't make it real yet. So you gotta wait." Cursa apologized to the little girl then petted her on the head. R.J nodded her head, but she was still pouting from the lack of her little friend.

"I was wondering what I would find in the vault…." A smooth voice caught all of their attentions. They turned to see a slim figure standing by the door of the vault, Red X. "So I gotta deal with two witches and a little child. This is a bit of an insult…" Red X commented softly as he leisurely started to walk towards the holding unit in which he was snatch a couple of important micro-chips and some technology blue-prints.

Raven waved her hand and a black aura moved and wrapped itself around Red X's feet, enabling him from moving. "It's not going to be that easy, you thief." Raven replied to the man before lifting him up and tossing him farther away from the holding unit.

Red X flipped himself and landed gracefully on his feet. "Must we do this again….Don't you guys feel Déjà vu with this?" He questioned as he reached into his belt and was now holding out some items. "it may be for you, but for some of us this is only a first." Cursa added in on the conversation as she waved her hands in certain directions then a pink aura shot at the thief to steal the items in his hands and the belt that held the items.

"Clever little girl, but it takes a little more to stop me from my job." Red X pressed a button on his wrist and the belt wrapped itself around Cursa so she couldn't move her arms and couldn't speak.

"Hey let her go!" R.J shouted as she levitated over to Red X and started to hit him, but it felt like little taps on his thigh. "Kid…get away." He lifted his leg and shoved her far away from himself. R.J hit the wall with her side and then hit the ground, she whimpered in pain. Raven saw this and she felt a lot of anger towards Red X for treating R.J like that. She summoned her magic to form into a giant fist and aimed it at the thief, it hit him square on.

Raven kept throwing the punches while Red X could only accept the punches or die out of the wave to only get the second punch. "Alright girly, I done with this…" Red X was starting to get annoyed with dealing with a raged Raven and so he made one of his red X items to appear and threw them out towards Raven. It hit her dead on the mouth and it stopped the onslaught of attacks.

"Now that you guys are done I'll just steal what I came to get." Red X went over to the holding unit and stashed away all the items into various pockets.

R.J came over and started hitting him again, "Return those at once you meanie!" She demanded with a strong voice. The man scoffed and shoved her out of the way before looking over to the vault door as it opened on its own.

"Hey man you got everything?" Phantom poked his head in and raised a brow at the thief for hire. He looked around and saw the struggling girls, "Wow…"

"Don't say a word…." Red X said before nodding his head. "Yea I got everything. Let's blow this stand." Red X left the vault with Phantom to only see Sonuke with him, waiting. "You guys already defeated the security they placed?" He questioned curiously. Sonuke nodded his head, "We wanted to beat them so we did." Was the only explanation that he gave. "Good enough for me. Come on let's split."

The three of them left the girls in the vault so they could go back to their lair. Raven had finally ripped off the red x from her mouth and growled before she waved her hand over Cursa so that she was free from its confines. She then levitated the young girl to her and gave her a big hug. "Hey R.J, you alright?" Raven asked with concern.

"Yea I'm fine, but I think I did a good thing…" R.J smiled mischievously at her mother. "Oh?" Raven raised a brow at the young girl. R.J pulled out the mirco-chips and some parts of a blue print.

"Oh, you sneaky thing." Cursa commented happily.

Robin was having a hard time dealing with both Samuel and Sabbath since they were working together with precision. When one started an attack the other would finish it with ease. Robin was about to grab his communicator to call for back up, but someone beat him to the punch. Kori came flying in and tackle down Creature before she perform a round-house kick on Robin.

Creature hit the ground and growled as she looked up at Kori, "Get off you idiot!" She shouted at him angrily. "What the hell is wrong with you? Why the hell are you working with Samuel?" Kori shouted right back at her with anger and confusion. Sabbath growled at her former best friend wouldn't move so she used her feet to shove him off. Before lunging forward so she could twist around him to slam Kori on the ground. "I joined Samuel cause there was nothing appealing to me with you guys. I was getting sick of our parents and being told what to do. I have more freedom with Samuel and he seems to like the evil me." Sabbath lied to Kori so she wouldn't spoil her cover, but the look it caused on the usual stoic Kori had hurt to see.

"There gotta be another reason, you wouldn't turn on everyone you know for a prick like Samuel…" Kori got up to throw a fist, Sabbath dodged the punch to only return it. "Sorry Kori, You don't know me very well if you're thinking like that. Now…" She hit him in the sternum very hard and then did a strike at Kori's throat to disrupt the breathing pattern. "Stay there and don't bug me again…" Creature demanded before leaving Kori struggling on the ground.

Kori stayed there trying to get his breathing back to normal and trying to figure out the girl that was his best friend. Nothing made sense to him at the moment and his heart hurt very much at that point. A tear left him but it went unnoticed by the other people on the roof.

Samuel was just messing with Robin, running circles around him and striking him here and there. "Hey Sabby, we done here? This is getting boring now…" Samuel asked with a bored expression. "yea the others probably did their jobs by now. Let's go." Creature answered the other with a shrug of her shoulders before leaning over and snatching up Robin's communicator. She crushed it while hiding something inside of it; she stared at Robin discreetly before dropping it on his chest. "Thanks for the fun bird boys."

The two Collection apprentices were gone in the next second, only leaving the two birds on the roof waiting for the rest of their group to find them. Robin reached up to his listening device and dialed into the shared frequency. "So did everyone do their jobs?"

"Yea, but next time we do it without our butts getting whooped man. Some of those punches did some damage!" Beast boy answered him this time.

"Agreed.." Raven quipped as well.

"Good, at least they didn't succeed right?" He smiled before looking to the sky and just rested for a second.

For those that got injured they were now getting check out by Cyborg in the Medical bay and then would go to Raven so she can heal them quickly. At the moment she was healing Kori and the bruising on his neck from the hit from Sabbath. He sat there silently and only muttered a small thank you before shoving off to go to his room to be alone. She sighed and just waited for the next patient, but when she did look there was no one left to heal. "So that's it?" She asked Cyborg and saw him nod his head.

"For now at least. Let's go rest...this day has just worn my circuits out." He sighed tiredly and smiled. Raven nodded her head as the idea of sleep sounded very good at the moment. So Kori, Raven, Cyborg, R.J, and Beast boy went to their rooms to sleep. R.j went with Raven into hers as she didn't want to be alone and Raven didn't complain. Cursa, Starfire and the other Titans were in the living room doing chores or other teen related activities to keep their minds busy. While Robin was the only one missing, but if anyone knew Robin, they would know he wasn't endanger or really lost, but just in his little office looking at his crushed communicator. He removed a lot of the pieces and looked over the remains to see if there was anything different or worthwhile.

Something finally caught his eyes, there were multiple different chips wrapped with a string in the remains. All of different colors and with initials scratched into each of them. Robin only smirked as he thought about his earlier thoughts about Sabbath. He separated the chips and found his own, a red chip with a big 'R' on it. He went over to his computer and inserted the chip inside to see what information the thing had.

To be continued…..

AN: Hey hey people! Anyway here's another addition to the story. So there's two new characters now! Phantom and Sonuke! Phantom is of my creation as not a lot of people want to join the story while Sonuke is a character of JAK-AXEL. So to them, if they are reading this, I hope I did him justice and if any complaints tell me so I my improve! I know I suck at fights scenes so this is a bad chapter but it'll get the story going. Anyway later people!