Nightwing moved quietly as he made his way away from the other young heroes in an attempt to find his friends. He hoped that by moving alone he could go faster than the group, an idea that caused the man to laugh slightly when he remembered that Kid Flash was with them. It didn't take long before he found a large group of Reach guards, and took a position watching them, trying to figure out what they were doing and where to find the others. It wasn't long before he saw his young friend Garfield Logan, also known as the hero Beast Boy being brought in. The hero was completely still, watching as the pod with his friend was moved into the room, but with no sign of anyone else. As the scientists and guards dispersed leaving only a few Nightwing was able to get a better view and saw a large sign over the door. As he tried to figure out his next action he could only ask himself; What is Project: Titan?

Sportsmaster thought deeply about the situation he was in. Not long ago he would be helping The Reach do whatever it was they were doing with the young heroes of the world, but now he was swimming through the depths of the ocean towards a ship to help them. The whole idea was crazy to him, that he would be considered helping a hero, and doing a heroic mission like this. It was phase two of the plan, while Slash led the others inside, Sportsmaster would set charges on the outside and then meet the others for extraction. To his left his daughter Jade, the villain Cheshire, swam next to him. On his right a virtually unknown player, Donald Foster, the nephew of the recently deceased Poison Ivy and going by the name Spore rounded up his group. On the inside was Slash, the de facto leader of the team, and the two Wilson kids Rose and Aim rounded up the rag-tag team calling themselves the Suicide Squad. They had reached the ship while Sportsmaster was deep in thought, and the other two had already started to plant the charges. It wasn't a hard job, and the fact that the Reach didn't think ahead to patrol outside of the ship didn't hurt them any. Suddenly Cheshire and Sportsmaster were grabbed from below and drug down, wrapped in Seaweed. They tried to fight it off before Spore motioned to them to be quiet and pointed out the two beetle warriors flying above them. Using the Martians abilities the two of them phased into the ship, obviously called because of their teammate's distraction, and their cue to get inside and help. The three exited the seaweed and swam towards the nearest docking bay, and began to work. It wasn't long before Spore had the doors pried open with some plants and they entered the invaders ship. They met a few Reach guards, but quickly incapacitated them and continued on their way, looking for the other squad members.

It would have to be timed perfectly, there was no way around that fact. Two Light agents, Deathstroke and Deadshot had just disposed of some Reach scientist and looked over the older members of the team. Superboy, Miss Martian, and Batgirl among others were in the pods before them, and the light wanted to make sure they stayed out of the upcoming fight.

"It's such a shame that we can't just end them now, makes it a lot easier to deal with these situations, you know what I mean Slade?"

"Don't call me that Lawton, and you know that the others want these sidekicks alive, until we get the orders to cut them down, they are under our protection."

"Luthor said that everyone would be distracted so we could just take them, I don't hear any distraction, do you?" As if on cue a small boom was heard, signaling that something was going on not to far away from the two villains.

"That would be it, continue with the next step." Deadshot nodded and opened up a boom tube in the center of the room as the two villains moved each pod into it, sending it away. "Your turn Lawton, report back that our mission was a complete success."

"And what about you? Going to stay and have some fun."

"I have some... knowledge that tells me that someone close to me is on this ship, I want to go say hello." With that Deathstroke rushed out of the room, leaving Deadshot to report to their superiors what had happened. The assassin contemplated following his partner, but instead used the tube to leave the ship, arriving at a nearby manta-sub with the captive heroes.

"Deadshot reporting in sirs, the mission was a complete success, and Deathstroke even stayed behind to... strengthen the idea that we are helping the Reach, in case the heroes are not able to do away with them and we need the element of surprise." The various screens showing different light members, each having a pleased look before blinking out. Black Manta quickly had his men move the heroes away and place inhibitor collar on the more.. troublesome ones, before making sure that they had no device that would allow escape. Aqualad looked on as his friends were bounced around from prison to prison, but that was the plan all along.

Kid Flash had taken over leading his group after they had decided to let Nightwing go and travel in two different groups. They were looking for the rest of the team, all taken by a joint effort from the Light and the Reach. He was joined by a number of older heroes that had 'retired' like he had, as well as some new faces that had joined right before the mission in an attempt to save the others. No sooner than the group started out they could hear an explosion from somewhere in the ship.

"Alright guys, we've got to go find out where that came from!" Wally didn't give the others a chance to reply before he started through the halls. Kid Flash didn't get far before he was hit and knocked back into the others by an unseen force.

"So, you are the urchins causing all the trouble, do you think that I will just give you the others back and let you go?" It was the Martian Reach warrior, Green Beetle, appearing in front of the team in an attempt to stop them. "Black Beetle will take care of your friends, but I get the honor of dealing with you." The warrior used the scarabs power to change his arms into two blades, charging at the young team. He was intercepted by Donna Troy, using a lasso very similar to the one she used when she was Wonder Girl, to hold him away from the others. Without wasting any time Tempest used a combination of Atlantean magic to cover Green Beetle in water and freeze him, stopping him for a short time.

"We have to think of something, that won't hold him for very long." The team decided to quickly move to a more open area, and prepared to attack the martian. The martian broke free of his restrains and gave chase, wanting to kill the team even more. He was met with the team ready for him, with Static making the first move, sending some discarded Reach tech flying at the alien. Green Beetle simple let the small objects phase through him, but was quickly met with a barrage from Duplicate, sending 4 clones to attack him.

"This is doing nothing but annoying me, do you really think that you can stop me with such weak powers?" Green Beetle pushed the clones from him, sending them flying into the others and knocking them down. "It's been fun, but I tire of this."

Slash had been leading his team through the compound looking for any remaining labs or test

subjects that the Reach may be holding on to. They had come by a few labs, but the ship seemed to be much larger on the inside than it was on the outside. Something else bothered Slash, the decreasing number of soldiers coming for them, he had learned that it was always a bad sign when you are in enemy territory.

"Stay close, you don't know what kind of sneak attack they could be planning for us."

"You're right, I would hate for someone else to sneak up on you guys." Bursting through the wall Black Beetle wasted no time blasting the trio in an attempt to destroy them. "I know, I know, subtle right?"

"Yeah, about as subtle as a shotgun..." Gheist and the others dodged the back, and the young Wilson boy sent out a shot of his own, bouncing off of the old warrior. "Damn.. could use one of those right about now.." The three knew that they were seriously outgunned when it came to any kind of ranged weaponry thanks to that scarab suit. It didn't take long for them to rush into the fight, hoping to get closer to Black Beetle and force him to switch weapons to something more manageable. The large warrior took the bait as he changed the cannon on his arm into a blade just in time to intercept a slice from Slash.

"If that's all you've got.. well just give up now, I won't have to waste time and energy killing you the hard way, I can do it the easy way."

"You don't scare me, you don't scare any of us." The two pushed off of each other and stared each other down before preparing to cross blades again.

It was a small room, definitely smaller than the other labs on the ship had been, but Nightwing knew not to let is guard down. A number of Reach soldiers and scientists scuttled around the room in a hurry, all researching a number of people suspended in pods, one of them being Beast Boy. Dick was ready to move before he noticed something, he recognized one of them, Rachel Roth, a friend of his that was taken.

"Looks like I've found you.. now let's get you out of there." A small boom went off, causing the guards to rush out and find the cause as well as giving Nightwing the chance he had been waiting for. Before they could blink the remaining scientist were down, leaving the young hero alone with their captives. Four of them in total, Along with Garfield and Rachel, there was to that Nightwing had never seen before. There was a girl with Orange skin, and a young man with most of his body replaced with robotics. The biggest problem that Dick faced was finding a way to free the others from their prisons.

"This.. Can't be easy... I really wish I could read this Language..." Nightwing Slammed his hands on the control panel and looked at the screen. A light flashed across the screen quickly followed by gibberish, but gibberish in a language he could understand. It slowly started to take a legible form, something that Nightwing could understand.

"... R..e..d...bu...t..t..on... Cy..borg... Stone... online." A small red button on the control began to shine with a small light, and Nightwing followed the instructions on-screen and pressed the button. The pods suddenly opened, spilling their captives on the floor.

A/N:

I'm back from the dead! It's been a long one and I don't know how I should feel about this but in the end I decided it is good enough to post and that must mean it's good right... right!? Anyways we have 3 groups and 2 stray people wandering around the Reach ship and all of them seem to have something against the invaders, and now that the Beetles are on the scene you can expect things to end quickly. Now not only do we have the rescue team members, but the Titans are in the mix. The question to ask is will these new teens be friends, or foe? I had to bring them in, even though this is a single universe, the Titans and Young Justice have always been two distinct teams and have worked together in various ways. Next time we will end our time with the Reach, and most of the Team will be rescued, leading into the next and final arc of the story, the showdown with the light. Things will change for all three teams, and we may even visit our friends out on Rimbor, but who knows right?

One more thing before I go, I feel bad for waiting so long between each chapter so I have decided to give you some information on some of the Characters from the bigger DC universe I will be using in my next story, so I'll place them here, have a small bio and see how you like them. So we'll kick this thing off with one of my favorite characters.

Name: John Constantine

Aliases: The Laughing Magician, The World's Greatest Con Man.

Abilities: Magic, Hand-to-Hand Combat, Quick thinking, Knows all routes to Heaven, Hell, and the Afterlife.

John Constantine is a Cynical British sorcerer who wants the world to think he fights for his own skin before fighting for someone else or the "greater good." In truth Constantine uses his skills to defy both Heaven and Hell to keep the magic of the world in balance, preventing one side from growing to strong and causing a catastrophe in the world. While being a fairly adept mage, on par with Zatanna or Zatara, Constantine is known best for his quick wit and the almost supernatural ability to talk his way out of most situations without any danger to himself. This way he has been able to con and trick some of the most powerful and smartest beings in the universe, something that gods and demons alike hate him for. Foul-mouthed, Sarcastic, and just a tad bit morbid, Constantine never puts himself in danger. More often than not it is the people around him that end up getting the raw end of the deal, usually giving their lives for Constantine's ultimate goal. Will Constantine walk away scot-free? Or will he be forced to pay for the lives he had inadvertently ended or ruined?