Slade. Great. Duplicate thought. She knew that this was not going to be pretty. Then again, what fight is? Then of course there were his little minions, though they looked like they were there by choice and not by mind control.

"Star, how many people can you send through a portal?" the leader snapped into action mode as soon as she turned away from the computer screen that had the warnings and villains alerts on it. Duplicate saw the rest of her team, though lacking much training together, was ready to go kick some Slade butt!

"Me and one other person, three other people max. Each teleportation costs a certain amount of energy; I don't know how many people I can transport without passing out." Star made clear that she wasn't going to test her limits today. That being said, Savage and Duplicate began to dole out instructions for getting the team to the seene.

"Water and Falcon, obviously you guys fly. Darkside fly with them too. Star take Grace and Ghost through the portal-" Duplicate started.

"Irma, do that floating rock thing you showed us earlier and get your self there! Hack, you can ride in my car-" Savage continued.

"And I'll ride my motorcycle!" Duplicate finished.

at city hall

"Well it's about time! We've been waiting here forever! Call me Freak!" one of the villains exclaimed as the Titans came up. They all gave the girl a weird look not only because of what she said, but because of her appeareance too. "Get ready for injuries!" Freak let out a high pitched giggle after that and started to walk forward.

"Ah! The Titans! So good to see the new team! Freak, calm down we don't want to maul them yet..." Slade said as he walked out from behind the wall of villains.

"Freak, what are you doing out of Jump? Don't you normaly hang out there?" Grace taunted waving her sword in intrecat paterns. The odd looking girl stuck her tongue out at the hero.

"Drakkas!" Slade yelled.

"Yes sir?"

"Open a pipe for Siren, we need her in her element," Slade ordered.

"Yes sir." Siren smirked over her shoulder at Drakkas. Despite his recent sucess at the bank, he was still pretty low on the 'evil' scale.

"And Freak, listen to me this time! I know how much you want to win and gain the reward I promised you, but you're going to have to learn how to listen," Slade's voice was low and ominous.

"It doesn't mater if she listens or not! The ten of us can and will beat you," Irma said cockily.

"Ten? I only see seven. And speaking of missing team mates, there's one more person I want you to meet: Shadow..." He trailed off as Star, Grace, and Ghost came running up.

"Sorry about that. My landings can be questionable when it comes to location... Eric?" Star said 'Eric' just as a black haired boy appeared, walking from behind the criminals.

"Alexandra? No. That's not possibile. You're dead!" Eric shouted.

"H-how are you still alive? I thought when thoses thugs caught you, you were done for sure," Star asked quietly. She looked terrified.

"You two know each other?" Both teams asked simultainiously.

"Doesn't matter. Shadow; we'll talk later. Anyway Titans, we are actually just here to say welcome to the city and that we will be always be here to cause trouble. Good day," and with that Slade ran off. After about a half hour of pursuit with no luck in catching the team of criminals.

back at the tower

"How did you know him!" Duplicate yelled at Star once they had gotten back from the sceene at city hall. Star wasn't listening. She was calmly sitting down on the couch reading a book.

"Hm..?" the pale girl was too engrossed in her book to hear the leader's words.

"How. Did. You. Know. Him." Duplicate repeated, putting punctuation after each word.

"You know, you're acting a bit too much like Robin for comfort right now Dupe!" Darkside yelled from the kitchen. This was odd in the fact that he normally did not give his opinion on anything. He came back out holding five sodas in his five different tentacle 'arms' created by his suit. A Coke Zero, a Pepsi, a Diet Coke, a regular Coke, and a Sprite. Then each tentacle tossed the sodas to their respective owners. Coke Zero for Star, Pepsi for Waterwing, Diet Coke for himself, regular Coke for Ghost, and a Sprite for Hack who was trying to make the automatic door work.

"Come on! Work you stupid thing! I have an easier time breaking down the Pentagon's firewalls! Won't you please- OW! BAD DOOR! OUCH! BAD DOOR! STOP SWINGING! WILL YOU- AAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHH!" was the backgroud noise (courtesy of Hack) for the following argument.

"I am NOT acting like Robin!"

"Yeah, you are." Star was still reading her book, but was also capable of multi-tasking.

"Sorry Duplicate. You are acting as crazy as he does when something comes up he doesn't know about," Ghost, who was watching TV, was able to multi-task.

"Oh, please. I am not!"

"You're also able to argue a point that is clearly not the case, but you're still too stubborn to admit it." Waterwing had just swallowed all of her Pepsi and was now starting to jitter, hovering just above the ground. Her wings were sending off torents of air, making the already insane room frantic with activity. Star dove for her book that was blown off the table, Hack was oblivious and still yelling at the door, Ghost took cover under the coffee table, Duplicate face-palmed and went off to look for the four people who were not in the room so she could hang out with them, and Darkside was making his suit grow wings so he could drag the vibrating teen/bird/mermaid (teen mer-bird?) back down to the floor.

"WHAT IS GOING ON IN HERE?" Savage, Falcon, and Grace ran into the room with Duplicate right one their heels.

"It was so loud in here it sounded as if Slade had attacked. Calm down!" Grace said.

"Seriously. What happened?" Falcon asked. He was obviously concerned, but was also aggitated.

"I asked Star how she knew that boy today, then Darkside came in and said I was being obsesive, then he gave everyone sodas, and well... Waterwing is here. Enough said." Duplicate looked around at them all, daring them to challenege her story and Dark took the dare.

"I said you were acting like Robin. I did not say that you were being obsesive," he was trying to be calm and rational, but Dupe wasn't in the mood.

"It's as good as! Anyway, back to the original topic: Star?"

"Fine! He's my brother. We were abandoned when I was six, when Eric was nine. We ran away from the cops and I thought he was killed after he told me to leave him and run from some thugs in Las Vegas. I'm not saying any more, so I'll see you guys tomorrow..." she trailed off then walked up the stairs. On the landing she turned around and saw that her team-mates were all looking at each other; confused. She whispered "Maybe," then walked up the stairs to her room and got dressed in normal clothes, temporarily died her hair brown, and put in brown contacts. Down stairs Duplicate said that she was going to go out as a civilian by herself and try to wrap her head around what she had just heard.

Secret hideout in location disclosed

"SHADOW!" Slade yelled from the control room.

"Yes Slade?" Eric, or as he was known to villains: Shadow, asked.

"How did you know that girl?"

"Before we talk about that, I wanted to say that I don't want to do this anymore. It's wrong and... I can't fight- uh, Star." Eric finished nervously then looked down at his feet. His "master's" reaction was not going to be a good one. That was a fact.

"Shadow, you are my best fighter. You ARE GOING TO STAY!" Slade's voice steadily got louder until it reached yelling point. "I WILL NOT LET YOU LEAVE THIS GROUP!"

"Please." After Eric said this Slade calmed down and regarded him.

"You will stay on the team for three more days. If after three more days you still feel this way then you can leave."

"Thank you sir." The boy dressed in black had to resist the urge to bow as he left the room. When he out of ear shot Slade turned to Drakkas and Siren.

"Both Duplicate and Star are disguised as civillians and are out on their own. Kiddnap them and bring them to me. I think we need to gain some leverege over the Titans and that boy."