DemiHawk was silent as he stalked the construction site. He marveled at the clearly magical tools they were using for the quick construction. Looking down at a red-stained magic circle in the center of the site he realized it could only be one thing. As he hissed in a breath he was overwhelmed by the smell of blood. Already machines and inhuman looking creatures were laying concrete over the ground. It was astounding watching them work, in a matter of hours they'd laid the foundation and most of the skeletal structure of the building. DemiHawk had seen enough.

"You realize they're not why you were sent here," DemiHawk barely flinched as he heard Merissa from behind his shoulder.

"I've got bigger apocali to fry huh?"

"No- just more immediate ones, don't get me wrong, we'd all praise on both sides if you struck a blow against the Wolf Ram and Hart, but don't let it distract you."

"Kinda hard not to, I'm looking for an apocalypse and you tell me all about theirs…"

"The first harbinger will come in a couple weeks; that ought to snatch your attention away from Wolf Ram and Hart."

"So then why did Wolfram and Hart come here if the apocalypse is so near?"

"Because either they didn't know- they figure it will be prevented- or they figure they'll have an easier time circumventing the birth of an embryonic world, I'm told all you have to do is-… never mind, that a story for some other time," she chuckled. DemiHawk turned to ask her to clarify and she was already gone. He scowled and started back to the Tower.

Along the way he heard the sound of glass shattering and groaned. This was Hive Five territory, which could mean only one thing. He reached for his communicator as he headed toward the noise.

He had the communicator out but hadn't used it yet as he crept toward the noise. Stopping at a corner he wriggled his wrist a couple times shuffling through an assortment of pop-out devices until he got to the one he wanted, with a flick of his wrist a mirror slid into his hand and he held it around the corner to see what was going on. He saw Mamoth coming out of the building with two heavy sacks. He took his other hand with the communicator in it and put it to his mouth and depressed the button to talk-

He heard a click and felt a sudden pressure through the wall. As he fell he saw the missing brick where the modified taser wire was now sticking out and running current through his body. The communicator in his hand fizzled and fried from the massive surge of electricity. Gizmo comes around the corner with Jinx, both wearing smirks.

"I told you I wouldn't need full power to incapacitate him."

DemiHawk grunted and started to get up…

"And I told you it wouldn't stop him long," she mused.

Gizmo hit a button and DemiHawk tensed as the current ran into his body again. DemiHawk still slowly began to get to his feet.

"What the hairballs?"

"Turn it up!"

He turned a dial and hit the button again; a stronger pulse ran through DemiHawk.

"The scum muncher's building a resistance to the current?"

"Let's see him resist this," she proceeded to blast him with her hexes…

When DemiHawk opened his eyes later he was bolted against a metal support. The room he was in was dark. He used his own body to light the room a little by only letting out some light from the patterns on his body through the material in his suit. The room was mostly empty, there seemed to be a few boxes for storage around but not much else, he couldn't even see the door from where he was.

A light flooded the room and he assumed a door opened behind him. He quickly dimmed off the light he was casting and hung his head as if he hadn't awoken yet. Billy Numerous stepped up beside Jinx in front of him. Billy's laugh was irritating, but Demihawk continued to keep silent. Jinx reached over and yanked off his mask harshly…

"So it is you, not that I got your name before either," she chuckled.

"This here's the guy that gone and shot 'ya?"

She grabbed onto his utility belt and Xander barely managed not to tense as she started riffling through its contents, but with his hands and legs bound, his options were limited, so he kept silent. A moment later she seemed to find what she was looking for, and he heard the sound of his stun blade igniting.

"Definitely."

The door opened again and Gizmo clattered in on his spider-mech feet. "So now that we got him, what'da'ya wanna do with him?"

"I don't know- first I want to know what he is…"

Gizmo rapped on Xander's breast plate as he gave an examining glance of his armor. "I could take a blood sample, call a few friends to examine it, but I don't think I got any needle's that'll pierce this armor," he whistled appreciatively, "This stuff is high quality, and probably loaded with toys from boot to cape."

While their attention was on his chest and face, Xander started wiggling his wrist, shuffling through devices, when he hit the one he wanted he went limp again, where the restraint was it covered the outlet for the pop-out device.

"So how do you plan to draw blood if you can't get past his armor?"

Gizmo smirked and rustled around in a little case as his chest. Pulling out an alloy cube he jammed it between Xander's gums and wedged open his mouth. This time the shock was enough that Xander's eyes shot open-

"Wah arr ou ou'in?"

"Wedging your mouth open so I can take a blood sample from inside it," he chuckled as he did exactly that.

"'Ut 'I 'ou 'ou wan' 'ou?"

Gizmo took the sample and looked over at Jinx, "I got nothing at that one- what'd he say?"

"Wry!"

"He wants to know why."

"I got it that time…" He removed the wedges from his mouth and headed out.

Jinx leaned in close and spoke into his ear, "We just want to know what exactly you are- cutie," with that she brought her lips to his and whatever muffled protest he was about to start, stopped…

Xander realized some time later she'd left, he'd somehow not even noticed she'd stopped kissing him- let alone gone away…

"What is it with me and evil chicks," he muttered.

He sighed and felt the implants he'd had Cyborg install finally reset, all coming back online at once. He worked his jaw until it activated the internal communicator. "Titans, I ran into a bit of trouble- acknowledge…"

"Raven here, what's the trouble?"

"I was investigating something, and on my way back I spotted the Hive Five- I'm almost ashamed to admit but they got the jump on me, prepared specifically for me, and they captured me… I'm in one of their bases but I couldn't tell you where."

"You can't escape?"

"They got my wrist ejector covered by dumb luck- unless Gizmo spotted it and did it on purpose- which I suppose is possible- look- could you get the others and hurry- Gizmo's up to something with a sample of blood he took from me- whatever it is I'd rather they not… you know… and I'm not actually certain how long ago he left…"

"Gotcha," He could hear the suppressed laughter in her voice but chose to ignore it.

DemiHawk closed the link and set his head back against the metal plate and prepared to wait, "Less than a month as a superhero and I'm already playing Dawn," he chuckled.