Going Down

In an orange flash Starfire flew back toward the lobby in search for Hybrid and Deadshot. Robin face palmed at his lack of composure. If he couldn't catch up with Hybrid then he was going to have to out smart him. Walking out of the room Robin used what routes he had already travelled through to make a rough mental map of the building. 'If he didn't escape through the main entrance that could only leave the emergency exits. But from what I've seen he could never lose Beast Boy through them. Where else could he-' A light bulb in his mind shone bright. He knew where they where headed. And he knew how to beat them there. Running in the opposite direction to where Starfire had flown off too Robin raced for the stairwell.

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Deadshot repeatedly and firmly pressed the elevator button with haste as if it made a difference. 'Come on hurry up.' It pained him to watch the elevator slowly reach his level from the underground car park.

UG3 (Under ground)

UG2

UG1- Only a floor away and Hybrid's growling and foot steps could be heard coming down the hall.

*Bing* "GROUND FLOOR. LOBBY AND RECEPTION".The doors to the elevator door opened with an elderly couple inside. The pair slowly started to walk out of the lift with their cane and walker but Deadshot stuck out a hand in front of the couple. "I wouldn't."

"Oh but this is our floor." The older woman said as she tried to step past the tall coated man.

"Really. That's not a good idea." The woman was growing cross with this rude man when she and her husband heard the growling from down the hall.

"Maybe we should listen to the man dear." Her husband said trying to convince her to come back into the lift.

"Look do what you want but I need to get out of here." Stepping in the lift Deadshot pressed the button for the top floor. As the doors began to close the woman began to squeal in terror as a gigantic grey werewolf creature ran around the corner toward the lift. Grabbing the woman by the back of her dress Deadshot pulled her inside as the doors shut behind them.

"Oh Brian! It was horrible!" The couple embraced behind the man as the lift rose from the ground floor.

"What in God's name was that thing?!" The man yelled nearly losing his false teeth in the process.

"No idea. But he isn't friendly."

The group slowly rode their way too the top. While each of them wished whatever creature they saw would stay away for good their hearts sunk when the bottom of the lift felt like it had been hit by a wrecking ball.

"Brian…"

"Margaret…"

Ripping off his coat Deadshot threw it aside no longer hiding his regular uniform. Quickly he checked over his G18's cocking them both. Reaching into his back pocket he pulled out a white mask. Slipping the fabric over his head he was now in his regular attire. Deadshot looked over at the couple now both shaking in fear. "Get in the corner and huddle up close." He couldn't do much more for them. Above his head was an escape hatch. Shooting each hinge on the door the door fell through the square hole in font of the couple.

Like a scene from a slasher flick Hybrid's claws stabbed through the elevator floor. The woman went to squeal again but her husband covered her mouth and hugged her close as they say in the corner. Leaping off the floor Deadshot pulled himself up to the top of the lift through the hatch. He wasn't going to make it up to the top floor in time. Not with out fighting off that thing again anyway.

Hybrid cut away at the floor making a hole large enough for him to fit through not leaving much of it left. Deadshot reached for his grapple when he remembered something. He left his grapple in the stairwell. "Oh fuck."

Hybrid crawled inside the lift looking for it's prey. But found no sign of him. Soft cries and sniffles came from behind him. The couple closed their eyes refusing to look at the monster in front of them. Hybrid couldn't care less if they were fearing for their life's, they weren't who he was after. He did notice the hatch door however. Looking up at the hatch Hybrid found Deadshot standing on top of the lift aiming on of his guns at one of the pulleys helping to lift the elevator.

"Sorry folks…" He had no choice. It was either them or him. Deadshot shot away at the pulley with the other breaking under the added stress of all the elevators weight being forced into it. Grabbing onto the cable Deadshot rocketed too the top of the shaft leaving hybrid behind.

Before he slammed into the roof of the building Deadshot let go of the cable and grabbed onto the ledge of the top floor. He sighed annoyed that he had to do what he did but he had no choice. Pulling himself up he stood on the ledge and started to pry open the elevator door.

The couple squealed their lungs out as they fell. For a moment hybrid looked at them sympathetically. Why did he feel like this? Was he, sorry? One look at the escaping Deadshot snapped him back into reality however. Shifting into his dragon form hybrid flew through the narrow hole to once again chase him down.

Any impact at this point would be devastatingly fatal for any regular human body, let alone an older one.

In their last moments together Margaret and Brian shared a kiss waiting for inevitable. But in a world of superhero's, anything's possible. An orange flash dived though the hole in the floor and fought the massive force bringing down the elevator. A painfull screeching came from the mechanics of the lift as the orange skinned heroin used her strength to slow down the falling death box. Starfire groaned as she fought. It was going to be close. The screeching started to quiet down as Starfire slowed the lift down.

Margaret and Brian looked at the girl amazed. They had heard of the teen hero's had never seen them up close before. The floor was approaching however. The couple and Starfire could see it creeping up on them. With all her alien might Starfire kept going. With only a few floors till they hit bottom the lift had stopped. They where saved!

*Bing* "GROUND FLOOR. LOBBY AMD RECEPTION".

The doors of the elevator opened into the Halls of the lobby. The couple's jaws where practically hitting the floor as they couldn't stop staring at the halls of the lobby. "Excuse me, but you may leave now." The innocent voice of Starfire said still holding the elevator for them.

"I think we'll stick to the caravan next time dear."

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Deadshot was once again running though the halls of the building. The only difference was he knew where he was going this time. He beelined it for the stairwell. He could hear hybrid ripping apart the elevator doors behind him. Opening the door to the stair well Deadshot ran up the flight of stairs nearly at the roof. In all the commotion and excitement he hadn't noticed his grapple was missing.

The door now a pile of ash laid on the floor at the top of the stairs. He ran though onto the roof. He looked back toward the stairs looking for Hybrid but found no sign of him. He finally did it. A wide smirk was hid under his mask.

While he had escaped Hybrid, he hadn't escaped the rest of the Titan's. Robin's staff connected with Deadshot's face. Robin had hit him so hard he was nearly head over heels from the vicious clothes line.

His head was ringing and his vision was blurry. That was some hit. His already busted nose had been smacked in the other direction re broken in another place. He held his nose in immense pain glad he was wearing the mask so no one would ever see the tears forming in his eyes. "OH WUAT THA UCK! COME ON!"

"That was for Raven." Robin was already on top of him pulling out a set of cuffs for Deadshot.

"Till mad bout tha muzeum huh?"

"You tried to kill me. Twice. Your under arrest." Robin clipped the cuffs over Deadshot's wrists across his chest. Removing the clips from his guns he stashed them away in his belt. He got him.

"Robin."

Hybrid's evil voice came from the door leading to the stairwell. Robin stood and faced the creature.

"It's over Beast Boy. We caught him. You need to calm down now."

"It's not over until he pays for what he did."

"And he will. Through a caught of law."

"That's not good enough."

Hybrid started to slowly walk forward towards Robin and Deadshot claws extended itching to cut away at fresh flesh.

"Beast Boy. I'm warning you. Stand down."

"No! He deserves far worse than a prison."

Robin had heard enough. With the speed of a western gun slinger Robin drew his dart gun and shot a syringe at hybrid hitting him in his left arm.

Hybrid stumbled back pulling the syringe from his arm and tossing it aside. The effects of the drug came quick and with force. Immediately drossiness took over him and his eye lids grew heavy. He fell too one knee fighting too stay awake. He wasn't in good shape, but he wasn't blacking out yet. He swayed back and forth but he was standing. Deadshot was only a few meters away. He couldn't stop now. As best as he could hybrid ran at the assassin.

Robin was shocked. This was supposed to bring him down no problem. He was fighting the effects of the serum and winning, barely. The serum was the only plan he had against this thing. What was he going to do now? Robin ran at Hybrid hurling a few explosive disk in its direction. While he dodged the first two he didn't have the reflexes to avoid the third. The disk knocked him back on to the floor of the roof leaving his fur smoking.

To Robin's concern the beast wasn't staying down. Hybrid shook his head and eyed up the teen in front of him. He growled a weak tired growl at the boy taking a stance preparing to charge again.

Seeing his opening Deadshot silently pushed himself up to his feet trying to escape undetected but hybrid spotted him. The grey monster flared his fangs and roared at him but stumbled over. "Ooks like you 'ave a chwoice oo 'ake Wobin. Cass me or stop him." Deadshot gloated gesturing over too Hybrid. The assassin leaped off the building gasping onto a clothes line hung between two neighboring buildings. Pulling one end of the line out of the wall by force he swung down the loose line down to the bottom of the alley. "No!" Robin cried as his prison escaped away from his clutches.

Hybrid had already started to make his way over to the edge of the building to give chase but as he went to leap off the building a small disk exploded in his face creating a large ice wall blocking his path. The boy wonder was ready with more in his finger tips along with his staff.

"Beast Boy somewhere in there I know you can hear me so listen to me. This. Isn't. You! If you don't fight whatever this is you'll hurt innocent people, more than you already have. I won't let you have another person's blood on your hands." Robin never breaking his friends stare put away his staff and freeze disks. "I've seen people go down this path Beast Boy. Not many return the way they left. If you do this no one will see you as a hero. I need you to trust me…" Robin inched his way toward Hybrid watching for any kind of advance on him.

Hybrid stared at the boy, his eyes drooping and giving away on him as he fought against the serum. His angry look faded and was replaced by a look of guilt and regret. "Robin…" His blood red eyes seemed to blink away to his regular green along with his grey fur. Hybrid smiled a sad smile at his leader.

Robin equally relieved that Beast Boy had calmed down and was cooperating with him finally. He was hoping Hybrid would turn back into the regular Beast Boy so the two could leave this roof and go home but something was wrong. The smile on Hybrid's face was seemingly ripped from his face as the Beast gripped it's head growling in pain. It's breath quickened and groans turn to cries. "Beast Boy?!"

"No… NOT ANYMORE!" Hybrid's fur and eyes shifted back into the lifeless grey and blood red. His claws extended into their sword like shape all gleaming in the sunlight. Hybrid swung his claws at Robin, the tips of the claws just barely missing his flesh. Robin dove out of the way of Hybrid. Throwing a freeze disk in between the two of them Robin ran in the opposite direction of Hybrid toward the edge of the building. Hybrid busted throw the ice chasing after Robin. The drug was still effecting him however, he could hardly run in a straight line without tipping to one side.

Robin jumped off the building pulling out Deadshot's grapple gun as he fell and shot the line at the opposite building. The grapple pieced the tough concrete and pulled him up out of the street. Hybrid too leaped off the building shifting into the grey dragon chasing after the boy.

Robin reached the end of his line and was holding onto the side of the building. Hybrid was chasing him and he had nowhere else to go. He pulled on the cord but the grapple was stuck. Try as he might no amount of force was prying the grapple out of the building. Robin searched the street with haste looking for anything to either grab onto from the building or break his fall. Nothing seemed like a viable option of escape. Then a bright shape caught his eye racing down the street. Robin's face gleamed with thankfulness as he knew what he needed to do. Hybrid was only a dozen or so meters away from Robin breathing in a large breath of air to roast the boy alive with.

Pushing himself off the building Robin leapt over the dragon, the fire from the dragon's mouth chased the boy as he jumped over his head, Robin's cape might be smelling like smoke for a while but he avoided the fire. Robin was falling toward the street and he had no way of stopping himself, it was all up to her. Robin held out his arms like he was expecting a trapeze to fall into his hands. While no trapeze had saved him, something better had.

Starfire and Robin grabbed each other's wrists as she flew by catching him from a very ugly splat on the pavement. "Starfire! Thank goodness."

"Robin! Why is Beast Boy after you?"

"I may have made him a little upset. Got any ideas?"

"If anyone would have any ideas it would be you Robin."

"I was afraid you'd say that…"

The two Titan's soared through the streets with a very angry yet tired grey dragon hot on their heels literally keeping their heels hot from it's fire balls.

"Have you not tried the serum you used last time?"

"It didn't work. His body must be growing immune to it."

"But that is not an emu Robin?"

"Please, not right now Star…" Swinging his legs up above his chest Robin dodged an incoming fireball.

Hybrid was still fighting against the drugs in his system. Terrifying dragon or not he was very tired and all this flying wasn't helping. '…maybe shutting my eyes for a second… couldn't… hurt…' Hybrid's droopy eyes closed shut still flying above the streets. The dragon fell from the skies for a moment but he caught himself from falling and gave chase again. 'No! Don't let them win! He let Deadshot get away! He- He must pay! He… will…' The dragon's eyes shut again as he fell into a micro sleep.

Hybrid's eyes shot open catching himself again this time nearly hitting the pavement. Hybrid swerved past a large bus the swooped past a banner hung across the streets. The dragon looked back at the obstacles he barely avoided. 'Hehe. That was close.' The dragon thought to himself as he chuckled. Ready to give chase again Hybrid looked back to where Robin and Starfire where meant to be but instead of the two Titan's he was faced with an light pole encased in black magic. The pole smacked him up into the air like a baseball. The hit completely knocked the wind out of him and couldn't find the strength to straighten out. Hybrid fell back down to the street hitting the floor with a colossal smash. Chunks of road cracked into pieces leaving a crater in the middle of the road.

Raven floated down from the air landing next to the crater soon followed by Robin and Starfire. "Sometimes the simple solution is best." Raven said duly. Her eyes didn't leave the green figure that laid in the crater. The grey dragon no longer present, just it's original form. Beast Boy laid in the crater, his body passed out from the exhaustion of being over worked. His hair had once again grown along with his facial hair. Raven had yet to see Beast Boy with any kind of beard and she wished she hadn't. He looked hideous, like a green skinned caveman. 'What's the matter with you Beast Boy…'

Traffic had come to a halt as the road in front of them had had seemed to explode in front of them. Pedestrians started to get out if their cars and nearby stores to view the crater. Many pulling out cameras and phones eager to get some good shots of the incident that happened right in front of them.

Robin did his best to keep the crowd that started to form away from his friends. "GET BACK!" Robin cried but his pleas fell on deaf ears. Gasps and whispers grew loud in the streets as everyone saw their teen hero lay in the street wondering what had happened prior to this.

"Raven get us out of here."

It was a long way back to the tower but she could do it. Raven encased the group in her magic and teleported them back to their tower, leaving a giant crater in the middle of the street along with a still growing crowd of people.

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Hopefully this makes up for me being a tad behind on the last chapter. It's a little short but it's just the other half of the previous chapter.

I'd just like to say I know a lot of this plot seems a little confusing and I don't blame you if any of you are lost in it. Even I had to re write a few chapters for it to make better sense but fear not because to my knowledge everything will be explained in the future. However if you have any questions so far you'd like answered (No spoilers I promise) I'll be happy to answer them.

Tri Force - Your review made my day it really did. I don't see myself as a writer so to hear it's someone's favorite at the moment felt incredible. Cat Woman will be back soon. She's just resting at the moment and yes she'll be working with Deadshot.

And don't worry about silly requests. I'll only fit in what I can so I won't be killing off any characters until or if the story needs it.

Once again I can't thank you enough for all of the support everyone's been giving for this story. I really hope nothing gets in the way of my writing because I have 2 sequal ideas I'd like to get around to.

In the meantime please enjoy this chapter and let me know what you thought and where i could improve.

See you soon.

DansaCharm