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The Titans, along with Speedy and Kid Flash, slunk through Slade's base silently. As they turned down the twisting corridors, there was no signs of the children.
That is, until they suddenly heard yelling coming from the end of one of the hallways.
"Let us out! Let us out!"
The teens were rather surprised that the voice was that of the introverted Tim, but they did not look a gift horse in the mouth. They ran towards the noise, soon coming across the door where the ruckus was coming from. As they approached, Cyborg yelled to the occupants.
"Timmy! Are you in there?"
"Cyborg? Is that you?" the young voice called back.
"Yeah, kid. The whole team is here, as well as Kid Flash and Speedy. Do you remember them?"
"Robin hung out with Kid Flash all the time... And Speedy came over once and got stabbed by Damian..."
"Why is that all you kids remember about me?!" the archer asked, annoyed. This resulted in Cyborg glaring at him, annoyed, before talking to the child again.
"Are you all alright in there?"
"Cass and I are fine, but I think Slade broke Dami's hand... I had to help him up just to get him onto one of the beds instead of the floor..."
The half-robot, as well as the other teens, felt anger boil inside them as they heard that the smallest child had been injured. Cyborg soon composed himself, though, and spoke again.
"Okay, stand away from the door. We're going to try to break through, okay?"
"Alright!"
The next few minutes was spent with Starfire trying to use her star bolts to get the door down, but to no avail. Eventually, Beast Boy put a hand on her shoulder, stopping her attacks. Once she moved away, Beast Boy suddenly turned into a tiger, and crashed through the door, breaking it from its hinges.
The three children inside stared at the young heroes that burst into the room. Suddenly, Damian of all people smiled brightly. He jumped off the bed, obviously being careful with what must have been the injured hand, and moved towards Beast Boy, who was still a tiger, and climbed onto his back.
"We have been rescued by the mighty tiger! Siblings, we must now go onward to assist in our older brothers' current plight!"
Not sure exactly what was going on, Beast Boy padded out of the room, still a tiger and still carrying Damian on his back. Tim and Cass started to follow, but the boy stopped to scoop up Damian's knife, running to hand it to the child.
"Here's your knife, Dami. In case you get a chance to cause that jerk pain."
The small child nodded from his perch, though Roy found himself glaring at the weapon. Damian soon noticed this, before hissing his words at the archer.
"I don't forget how you almost killed Blade a few years ago, Harper."
"I wasn't even close to hitting your dumb cat!"
It wasn't until he didn't hear a response that Roy even realized the other teens, along with the kids, had left the room. He dashed out to follow them as they headed towards the roof.
Time seemed to stand still as Slade uttered his order. Robin's eyes widened as he looked at his younger brother, only to see the boy shaking in fear.
Which only made the teen furious.
However, that fury was soon swept away as he saw Jason's finger enter the trigger mechanism.
"Jason, don't!"
"Obey your master, child."
Looking at his brother's eyes, he saw something inside the boy snap. The fear and sadness that had occupied his expression only moments ago was suddenly overcome by anger and pure hatred.
It was then that Dick felt fear. Not for himself, but for what the young teen might do.
"You are not my master!" Jason suddenly roared, turning the weapon towards Slade.
"You are have no right to try to control my life! You are just some twisted sicko who kidnaps innocent kids, and abuse them. There is no way in hell I'm going to take your orders!"
The mercenary took a small step back as the boy walked towards him.
"Put that weapon down, boy!"
"No!"
Robin took a step towards his brother.
"Jason, stop!"
"No, Dick!" he suddenly yelled out. "If I don't stop him now, he'll just hurt others like he hurt us! I can't let him do this to anyone else! I won't let him do this to anyone else!"
Robin just stared in horror as Jason's finger started to pull back the trigger-
-only to be stopped midway by the surprise of seeing Damian come onto the roof, riding Beast Boy, who was a tiger, with a butter knife lifted upwards in his non-injured hand.
Beast Boy jumped onto Slade, knocking the man down. The other Titans and children were on the roof moments later.
"Slade, I would say you have been beaten," Starfire proclaimed seriously.
As Speedy took out some handcuffs and moved towards the criminal, Robin walked over to Jason, who, though no one seemed to notice, still had the gun raised to where Slade had been standing a moment before, tears streaming down his face in cascades. Dick slowly lowered the hands holding the weapon, pulling his brother into a hug.
"It'll be okay, Jaybird. It'll all be okay..."
"I-I'm so sorry..." the young teen whispered back, barely being able to talk.
"You have nothing to be sorry for, Jay. You did what you thought you had to. We just have to be glad you were stopped before you did something you'd regret..."
"The-the part I'm sorry about is that... I'm not sure I would regret it..."
Dick pulled out of the embrace, studying him worriedly, only to be distracted by the events going on over by Slade.
More specifically, Damian getting off of Beast Boy, walking calmly over to Slade, and plunging his butter knife into the man's left leg.
"Auuugh! You little brat!"
"That was for my family, Wilson."
Dick suddenly froze, looking at the child oddly.
"... What did you just call Slade?"
"Due to an... incident during this mess, I was able to see this man without his mask. I recognized him as Slade Wilson, a high-ranking solider that my mother had me study about only a month before I moved to Gotham."
"Wilson... as in... that guy who bought..."
Looking down at the building, Robin groaned.
"... the gym we are standing on."
As the this discussion went on, no one noticed Slade managing to slip off of the roof, and disappear into the night.
It wasn't until a few minutes later that Tim looked back at where they had left the man, only to notice he wasn't there.
"Slade got away!"
Robin turned towards the spot immediately. When he saw the boy was indeed correct, he felt an urge to scour the city for the criminal until he was found.
But, hearing Jason still sniffling slightly reminded him that he had some kids that needed him.
"Let's just forget about Slade and head back to the Tower. We have nearly two days of fun to make up for."
I think there is only one chapter left. However, after that there shall be a one-shot collection that takes place in the same universe.
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