C.C.C.- Helloooo! 'Waves'

DISCLAIMER: Nah, but maybe the Get Backers could... nah...

Slade then Faust – ish

He chuckled, the laughter barely travelling to his eyes as he ascended the staircase to the main floor. Time to visit the pair and tell them who to kill, what to steal, how to do it. Not that that the killing part entailed tonight's journey. No, no, no. Tonight would be a simple 'snatch and grab', as many of the pitiful wrecks that called themselves villains now a-days would call it. To be honest, something that he only did around a 'special' few people, some of those morons couldn't even count. Fools.

He burst through the main doors, eye searching the room only to find it empty, the pair gone. How… Annoying. Why pay for assistants if they weren't going to be around him when he needed them? But then again, he wasn't exactly paying them, so to speak. More like saving one and condemning the other.

He went into the hallway, still searching for the pair, and, luckily (if you could call what constantly seemed to surround Slade luck), spotted one. It was the boy, muttering words in a language which escaped Slade (an odd thing). He was doing something, and his mutterings refused to speak, going on as if Slade had never entered the room.

Walking briskly up to the boy, Slade stopped about a foot away, still staring down at him as he sat on the dirt floor of the hall. 'Boy...' was all that escaped the grated mask, immediately drawing the boy's attention, causing him to scrabble up onto his feet, staring at Slade with eye's like a frightened deer gazing at a car about to escort it to death. 'What is your name so that I may call upon you when I need you?'

'The people of mine each harbour three, one for the good, one for the hope, and one for the future, the strength to be. I am Faust Mitigo Reizo, but within my people I was always stated as 'Soother' for my birthright was that of healing truth and compassion.' He half-mumbled half-muttered, all the while trying to avoid looking into Slade's cold glass of an eye. At the last word he spared a look and his eyes widened, and a smile blossomed under the grate of Slade's mask, unseen to Faust, or 'Soother' as the girl and apparently his old community called him. If you could call people who did that to a person a community. But it worked perfectly to aid Slade's plan, that was for sure, despite it all.

'Well, whatever your name just so happens to be, I happen to have a job for you. Fetch the girl and I shall show you what you are to do.' With that the large silhouette known as Slade, the Sladed Man to Faust, began to step once more down the hallway, starting to open the door, and that meant that it was going to close behind him-

'Wait, Sladed Man, what am I to do after I 'fetch' Ariko? What is it that you have planned for us?' Images flashed by Faust, ones of glass creating a dazzling array of shining stars, deadly one's though, falling with him into the sea and a cold 'hug' they called it here, water rushing into him, filling all voids of air that should not have been filled-

'You are going to attack the Teen Titans.'

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Robin

Robin paced up and down the room, anger and impatience covering him like a fine glow. He had thought that he had struck gold with that article, and, for sure, it was – to some extent. Now he was back to another dead end, and how he hated dead ends. Usually the term became too literal for his liking, especially in Gotham.

He raked his hands through his gelled hair once again, a special recipe that he used just to make it defy gravity to such a degree. Another sigh, he would have to go to sleep soon, it was nearly 2 in the morning. The other Titans were asleep, that was obvious. He hadn't heard any sounds in the Tower other than Beast Boy's weird monkey toy thing… It was a wonder that Beast Boy didn't get any nightmares about it, with the amount of scary movies that he watched. Then again, Beast Boy slept like a log, and he had no doubt that if Beast Boy could turn into a log, then by all means he would when he slept.

Enough of Beast Boy and his sleeping patterns, he had work to do. His mind couldn't wander, not with the lives of people at stake. He had something, now, at least. The newspaper, but who was to say that that wasn't a blissfully ignorant coincidence? The wording, of course, that's who.

That was the thing with his work, something that he had learned after years of experience. There was always a chance, no matter how small, and, although it was as infuriating as hell, you couldn't make an assumption. Another little lesson from Slade, learned from his first encounter.

Then again, he was supposed to have learned to not obsess, so why was he awake at 2 in the morning-

BEEP BEEP BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP!!!

The alarm, huh. What villain decided to call at two in the morning? That narrowed it down to someone who was most likely an insomniac and insane… Well, that didn't really narrow it down, so to speak…

Running into the living room, he got there first. Looking up the file on the main computer, the Robin Computer Beast Boy and Cyborg joked sometimes, he waited for the rest of the Titans, who arrived shortly.

'What is it?' came Raven's monotone, looking at him like it was no earlier than three-in-the-afternoon, calm and composed as usual. Beast Boy was being held up by Cyborg, who was apparently trying to wake him, and in the end opted for dropping a jug of water from the fridge onto him. This worked, evidently.

'Dude! I was trying to sleep-' A look around the room and he seemed to awaken, coming to just as Robin turned and began to leave, calling over his shoulder-

'It's that man again, he's attacking the city, an accomplice has been sighted, but there aren't enough sightings of the accomplice to be sure whether or not they're working together. Move out, it's at the town centre.'

C.C.C.- Once again, Sorry for any mistakes, or any little slip-ups when it comes to being out of character, and alll that load of fun.

I'm having a little competition with a friend, on who can write the most, so I may be trying just a bit more than normal to update nowadays... 4 V 1 Gemma, beat that. And I'll try and make it 5 tomorrow, so we'll see...

I don't like leaving this the way that it is, so I will most likely post tomorrow... Yeah, I'll try my darndest.

Oh, I kinda forgot what sound TTower makes when it goes all 'ZOMG! VILLAINS!'... So I went with 'Beep'.

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