Prelude to a Massacre

I don't own the teen titans

Slade was plotting, as he so frequently did. He was pissed off, because he had tried nearly every possible way to defeat, or capture the Teen Titans. In anger, he smashed both hands down on the table, knocking the morning paper onto the floor as he did so. Reaching down to pick it up, he noticed an add on the back of the front page. (The paper was folded over, so not all of the add was shown.) "If you want your troubles disposed of, call us! 973-374-9237!" Slade was tremendously happy, so happy he didn't see the rest of the add, which read Fred and George's Exterminators. Practically sprinting, he ran to his phone, and called the number. A perky voice answered him, much to his surprise. "Hello, Fred and George's exterminators here, how may I help you?

"Exterminators??" Slade roared into the receiver, before slamming it down. He was furious again, so he began to break things, mainly the remains of the table, until he heard the voice of one of his henchmen.

"Mr. Slade, there are some people here to see you."

"See them in." Slade said, regaining his composure almost immediately. As the figures entered, Slade noticed two things; one is that they had the air of professionals about them, and the second was that they were shorter then an average adult, just about the size of teenagers. Observing them more closely, he saw there were seven, each wearing a trench coat and a black ski mask.

"You are?" Slade asked, in his usual tone. Instead of responding, the lead man pulled a card out of the pocket of his trench coat and casually tossed it to Slade. Slade caught it and read the card. Written upon it were the words "Death Watch", and underneath those were written "Trouble Shooters". The level below it read "978-475-7819" (do not call this phone number, I have no idea who's it is.) With that, they turned to leave. Not yet satisfied, Slade pressed a small button on the underside of his chair. Before the Death Watch was half way to the door, 30 or so robots had blocked the door. With out breaking stride, the leader leaped into the air, and the second man pulled two guns out of his trench coat, and fired a strange laser, ripping through half the bots centers. Leaping into the air, the next man's arms suddenly became blades. Slashing out, 6 more of the bots were totaled. He to leapt into the air, and the next man clapped his hands. 8 of the bots suddenly melted into radioactive slag. By that time, the first man had landed, grabbing part of the table that Slade had smashed earlier, threw it through the last robot. The piece of table didn't stop there; It bounced off the wall and landed on the arm of Slade's chair, severing all the wires to the button on the arm. With that, they turned and walked out of the room. Slade smiled. Later that day, he called the number on the card. He was greeted by a voice that sounded oddly happy, for an assassin.

"You are?"

"My name is not important, "replied Slade, speaking in his normal fashion, "but was is important is that I have a job for you."

"How much are you offering?"

"I will give you $10,000 when you return, if you return."

"That works, what's the job?"

"There is a child that I need brought to me, he goes by the name of Robin." The voice on the other end coughed, and it sounded like the word rapist. "Robin is a member of the Teen titans, the teenage super hero team in Gothem."

"We know who he is, one question, dead or alive?"

"Robin has to be alive in order for you to get paid. The others I don't care about."

"It's as good as done." And with that the phone went dead. Once again, Slade smiled.

Later that day, the Titans had decided to go to a pizza place, (the exact one that they had been at when the H.I.V.E had attacked.) They were in the middle of eating the pizzas, when Robin heard a yell. Standing up, he noticed a man being pulled into an alleyway.

"Titans stay here, I'll be right back." He said, before flipping off the roof and running towards the alleyway. When he reached the back off the alleyway, he saw a man being mugged. Pulling his Bio staff, he swung it, knocking the would be mugger's head into the wall. Pulling the mugger off the ground, he realized that he was no more then 15 years old.

"Thanks Robin" The man said, and Robin was about to reply, when the mugger who should be lying unconscious, grabbed Robin's leg and pulled him onto the ground, where he grabbed the back of his hair and rammed his head against the ground, knocking him out. "That was easy," said the man who was being mugged. "Now lets have some fun." Pulling a radio out of his pocket, he said one word, "Go."

Starfire was getting worried, as Robin had not yet come back. She decided to look around at the other dinners. Most were just couples enjoying pizza, but two tables stood out in her mind. Two tables over, two 13 years olds were eating, one looked pretty normal, aside from the fact he had a large black scar across his back, and his shirt was slightly ripped. The other had a white Mohawk, and a small sash at his waist. Across the pizza place, two younger children, they looked about eleven, and were wearing long trench coats. Awkwardly enough, all four of them pulled out cell phones, and put them away a few seconds later.

Smiling, the 11 years old stood up, and at that second, a strange bolt of green light flew into the table, and it started melting. Immediately after that, all hell broke lose. The first 11 year old drew an axe, and threw it at Raven, pinning her cape to the wall. The second kid threw a punch that hit her in the stomach. It was a weak punch, and she would have been fine had the fist not turned into a pile driver at the last second, sending her crashing through the wall. The white mohaked kid pulled a strange powder out of his sash, and threw it at Starfire, which somehow prevented her from moving. The kid with the black slash suddenly disappeared, and a strange shadow appeared near Starfire's struggling shadow. Three swipes of an axe, and Starfire was out cold. Cyborg switched his arm to his sonic cannon, and one of the 11 years olds did the same, only with both hands. He shot Cyborg off the pizza place's roof. As Cyborg was getting up, two figures ran out of the ally way near him. One had a laptop in one arm, he pressed one button and Cyborg's hard drive was assaulted by 37 different viruses (as in computer viruses.) His virus protection was overloaded, and one of the viruses shut him down. Beast Boy ran over to turn him back on, but another bolt of green light shot from one of the windows in the nearest building. Cyborg was a radioactive puddle before Beast Boy came with in 15 feet of him.

Furious, Beast Boy changed into a T-rex and charged at one of the 11 year old kids. In response, the kid chucked a woodchip at his head. Still in the air, the wood chip some how shifted into a large ooze, and landed on Beast Boy's face, suffocating him. Beast boy changed back into his human form, and the ooze formed around his body, making him unable to move. Landing hard on the street, Beast Boy was somewhat dazed. Smiling, the other kid who had ran out of the ally walked up to Beast Boy, who realized he was the only conscious Teen Titan left. Smiling more sadistically, he pulled a rectangular box from his coat, and placed it on the pavement underneath Beast Boy's throat. Still dazed, Beast Boy squinted at the box, where large letters spelt out C-4, next to a timer, which was counting down from 1:00 minute. "You change form, it goes off." And with that, he began to walk away. Panicking, Beast Boy changed into the smallest animal he could think of, a cockroach. Flying off, he was about ten feet in the air when the C-4 went off, sending him even higher into the air. A knife and a bolt of green light collide with his wings, causing him to start to fall. In extreme pain, Beast boy changed back to human. (as some of you may know, falling 30 feet straight down is not a pleasurable thing to do.) Unfortunately for Beast Boy, his fall was an additional 10 feet; as the C-4 had blown open a large hole in the street, which opened into the sewer. The assassins walked circled around the hole, and watched Beast Boy get pulled under by the sewage.

Smiling, the assassins picked up the three unconscious teens, stepped into a near by car, and drove off.