Adranaym
Chapter 2 :: Slade and Hackers
Danny perched on the top of a warehouse watching as several masked thieves summarily executed a flawless plan to break into the facility nearby.
Well, it would have been flawless if he hadn't been there.
The ghost boy would have almost sighed as he reevaluated his new, soon-to-be enemies. They moved to smoothly, silently, and stealthily, in perfect synchronization. 'A trained unit then…' he thought to himself. As annoyed as he was, even if he was feeling slightly better after pummeling the Box Ghost, he wasn't going to act stupidly.
Even if, strangely enough, the annoying ghost had somehow followed him all the way to Jump City.
He wasn't about to jump into a situation as potentially volatile as the one he saw before him. Three trained operatives, obviously used to working together, of unknown abilities or skills on a covert mission to obtain something. If there had been only one person, Danny would have been sorely temped to say that he was an assassin, as assassins usually worked alone. Danny launched himself from the building in a quick swoop, twin halos of light surrounded him as he fell, changing him into a guise even his family did not recognize him in.
He landed in a crouch for a split second, neon green eyes sharp and calculating, before jumping forwards, vanishing midleap. Slipping into the body of one of the perps, Danny felt a chill creep over him. 'This isn't a human!' Throwing off the cold calculation induced by the efficient computer ticking away :Wall. Easy breach here. Human. Affiliate? Negative. Terminate human.: Danny wrenched at the form, managing to burn the computer to slag with a small, concentrated blast just before the robot reached the employee of the building.
Turning his attention to the two other robots, Danny accessed the robot's database quickly, pulling all the information he could and committing it to memory.
'So, the main man's name is Slade… And here I was beginning to worry that Vlad had come back to haunt me with these little presents. I've had enough of Plasmius's gifts to last me an entire afterlife.'
He methodically exploited the weak points of the robots, digging claws made out of some material stronger than steel into points where armor was thin or a vital wire was located. 'The claws are a bit duller than mine but they'll have to do. Micro-carbon fibers. Interesting idea for a weapon but effective due to the arrangement of the atoms. It seems that the one who designed these things is no fool.'
Vaguely aware of the alarms going off, Danny dug deeper into the files, ghostly hacking easily tracing the stream of orders the robot was still receiving to its source when suddenly, it was cut off. He had been noticed. Danny growled in annoyance as his chance to find out more was blown but was dragged out of his reverie when a shouted, "Titans! Go!" was called out from behind him.
Dodging a booted foot, Danny scooted back and spread his arms, empty hands open but still ready to fight if the Titans made it necessary, "Stop!"
Robin hesitated slightly, unused to any of the Sladebots speaking in any voice besides Slade's, much less telling him to stop attacking. Usually it the exact opposite.
Taking the opportunity, Danny thought quickly. Striking upon an idea he would have smirked if the robot had any facial feature to speak of, he straightened and spoke, "I will not be your enemy unless you force me be. If you attack me, I will fight back."
Robin eyed him untrustingly, not lowering his staff, Danny noticed approvingly, "And how do we know this isn't just a ploy?"
Danny shrugged, the robot following his movements smoothly, "You can't. I'm a hacker. Even if I did stop the attack on this place, I'm still not exactly legal, now am I?" he asked deviously. True, he could hack computers, as well as other things, but Robin would be lead to the obvious conclusion that the Sladebot was being controlled remotely, rather from inside.
Robin blinked disbelievingly, "A hacker? You hacked Slades robots?"
"Yeah? So? It's what I do. Are you stupid? Hackers hack things." Now that Danny was relatively sure that Robin wasn't about to attack any time in the immediate future, he could evaluate his surroundings more thoroughly. The rest of the Titans were making sure that the other robots were effectively destroyed and checking to make sure no one was injured.
Robin slapped himself on the forehead in exasperation. 'This guy could really lay off of the condescending remarks and he makes it seem like it was nothing taking control of the one robot and then takes out two others!' Taking a deep breath to calm himself, Robin reran the thought for a few seconds then asked, "If you hacked Slade's computers, do you know where he is located?"
Danny shook his head, "No. My access though this robot to the main computers was cut off the minute I was discovered, right after they sent a nasty self destruct signal. Luckily I stopped it. I think I like this machine. I wouldn't want to have to salvage it, especially with all the delicate wiring and the awesome systems they put in this thing in this thing!"
Robin stared.
"What? I get control of an evil guy's robot which for once isn't a pile of junk, do you think I'm just going to dismantle it? Modify it maybe, but it's not something I'm just going to hand over."
The rest of the Titans had finished what they were doing and came over.
"Dude! That's so cool! Maybe you should join us! Then we can take over all the Sladebots and make them turn on their evil overlord. It would be a revolution!" Beastboy shouted a loud hurrah and jumped up and down.
Danny, frankly, was rather bewildered at being offered a partnership so easily and shifted uneasily, "Umm… Thanks, I guess?"
Sirens wailed not far away, urging the ghost boy to retreat. Backing away, not releasing his hold on the robot, Danny said hesitantly, "Ah… I have to go… So, er… Bye?"
On that awkward note, Danny jumped backwards and fled. 'This is too weird. They are so… trusting. Innocent even…'
I actually wrote this a while ago but never got around to uploading it…
Sorry.
Danny: Mahahahahaha! I have stolen one of Slade's robots!!! Mahahahahahahah!!! I am the greates--$#$#!!!!
Strawberry Seraph: Eh… Sorry about that, you see, there was a second self destruct sequence. And you missed it. Some hacker you are.
