Titans Go!

A/N: Well they are super heroes…and super heroes tend to get in fights and stuff.

"I'm sleeping for a week," Cerdian announced as the team returned from a battle in Las Vegas with a group of metas bent on turning the Nevada city into their own den of sin. The dry climate had drained him more than the others and he was looking forward to sleeping in his quarters below the waterline. Jai noticed something ahead in the control room and pulled up his personal system.

"Uh, no you're not," he said, reading the information streaming across his screen.

"What?" Cerdian growled, turning to face Jai and using his superior height in an effort to intimidate him.

"You're not going to bed anytime soon," Jai added, ignoring the Atlantean's efforts. "We've got some nutjobs intending to blow up the Golden Gate."

Cerdian let his head fall back as the others rushed to the control room. He quickly followed and forgot his exhaustion as Jai fiddled with the video feed on the main screen.

"Blowing the bridge up will accomplish what exactly?" Cerdian asked.

"The Golden Gate Bridge is a world icon. Immediately recognisable," Damian supplied. "Not to mention, a vital artery into the city from Marin county and points north."

"Try, the only artery into the city from the north," Sin corrected. Since returning from the monastery, she had moved in with Connor Hawke in San Francisco. And with his help, had quickly adapted to life to in the city. "BART doesn't run any routes up there. The Benicia can barely handle the traffic it gets into Oakland, let alone the overflow from the Golden Gate, if it were to go out of commission. And most of the ferry traffic comes from Oakland. And then there's the whole thing about being one of the biggest tourist attractions in the country to consider."

"You settled in quick," Iris remarked.

"Living with a monk who calls the city home, helps," Sin replied.

"How have they got it rigged?" Chris asked, squinting at the screen.

"The fact that it's night and the fog is moving in, doesn't help," Jai said. "I can't tell…hang on let me try something."

"Well that worked," Lian commented. Jai had switched to an infrared view.

"Do they have the explosives running down to the pylon bases too?" Milagro asked, studying the view on the screen.

"That I can't pull up," Jai muttered. "Judging from the look of the bombs under the deck, they might, but I can't get in any tighter."

Cerdian waved his hand casually through the air and darkened his features into his civilian appearance to make it harder to be seen. "I'll go look." He ran outside and dived into the bay, quickly making his way to the bridge. Remaining just below the surface, he scouted the four bases of the bridge and returned to the Tower to report his findings. "The two towers in the middle are rigged."

"Can you describe the explosives?" Damian asked. Cerdian did one better and used his magic to conjure an image into thin air of what he'd seen. "Your basic semtex mix," Damian murmured. "Can you disarm them?"

"I wouldn't know where to begin," Cerdian admitted.

Damian folded his arms across his chest and considered his team. "Surge, adapt Firewall for water survival so he can disarm the explosives at the tower bases and under the deck. Once that's done, join us on the road deck. Lantern, take Arsenal and Sin to the south end of the bridge and drop them off. You two will be in charge of working your way to the centre of the bridge and the terrorists," he instructed. "Lantern, you will then work with Kid Flash to get as many civilians to safety as possible. Superboy and I will take the north end of the bridge. Titans, go!"

Outside, Green Lantern grabbed Arsenal and Sin with her ring and flew towards the south end of the bridge. Superboy took a hold of Robin and flew towards the north end, as Kid Flash raced along on the water with them. On the shore of Titan's Island, Surge quickly used his powers to transform Firewall into a water breather and the pair dived into the bay. "I'll never not be amazed by this," Firewall commented as Surge used his hydrokenisis to propel them towards the southern tower of the bridge.

"I'm partial to it," Surge chuckled as they arrived at their target. The explosives were several metres below water, but Firewall had no trouble cutting the wires and rendering them inert.

"Next," he said and they began swimming to the other tower. "Ho shit," he exclaimed when something hit the water in front of them. "Oh they are not throwing people from the bridge now?" he asked when they saw that it was a police officer who'd been thrown from above.

"He was dead before he hit the water," Surge stated. "Bullet hole," he added at Firewall's questioning look.

"Let's get this shit disarmed and get up there," Firewall said. Surge used his powers to move the officer's body to the artificial island of the first tower before swimming after his teammate.

Green Lantern dropped Arsenal and Sin off in the trees of Golden Gate Park and they made their way through the shadows towards the toll plaza. "So that's how they were able to pull this off," Sin commented, as they took in the scene before them.

"Que?"

"Caltrans workers aren't armed with machine guns," Sin pointed out. There were three armed men at the toll plaza dressed as road workers. One of them on the side of the road nearest to the park, had the toll workers cornered and under guard at the base of the support cable. A second one was pacing in front of the tolls and the third was manning the pedestrian walk on the far side of the road.

"I have a plan" Arsenal smirked. Once she told it to the other two, they nodded. Sin slipped through the trees to cross the brightly lit entry ramp out of sight of the armed guards, before making her way towards the cable base where the toll workers were being corralled. "You take out the one in the middle and Bozo on the far side is mine," she told Green Lantern as she pulled her handgun out of the holster.

"Knee shots only," Green Lantern reminded Arsenal as she lined up the second guard in the sights of a ring created gun.

"Si Mami," Arsenal scoffed as she took aim at the far guard. She had the first guard in her field of view and was able to see when Sin took him out. "Now!" Two shots were fired and the two guards went down. Arsenal holstered her handgun as Green Lantern flew out to quickly disarm all three and take them into custody.

"Head for the shadows of the trees and then follow the ramp. Police are waiting just over at the Presidio," Sin instructed the scared toll workers. She covered them until they all vanished into the trees before meeting up with Green Lantern and Arsenal. "Let the fun begin," she grinned.

"I see armed eses walking between the lines of cars further up the bridge," Green Lantern said. "You two get ahead of me and I'll get these folks out."

"You get the northbound lanes, I'll take the southbound," Sin told Arsenal. The two nodded and raced onto the bridge, using the cars as cover.

Green Lantern followed and looked up the cables to the tops of the towers. "Nobody's stupid at least," she murmured. She erected a bulletproof shield in front of a line of cars and had the people behind it get out as quietly as possible and head back to the toll plaza. Arsenal and Sin had made their way past the first tower by the time Green Lantern was ready to move onto the next block of cars.

At the northern end of the bridge, Superboy had a hard time keeping sight of Kid Flash, she was moving so fast, as she pulled stray civilians to safety just beyond the bridge. He heard the sound of metal sliding against leather and turned to see Robin unsheathing his sword. Robin nodded and Superboy charged down the bridge. Robin raced after him, using cars as cover as the two of them took out the occasional gunman.

Firewall shook his head to clear it as Surge removed the water breathing spell. The computer hacker counted to three with his fingers before the two leapt up to the road deck to take on the enemy. A barrage of gunfire stopped the two cold. Firewall gaped between the dead woman as she crumpled to the ground and the static charge building around Surge. "You're not worth saving," Surge vowed in Atlantean. The computer on Firewall's wrist short circuited from the stray bioelectricity as Surge poured it on at the gunman. "He'll live," the sea prince muttered in disgust as the gunman fell unconscious.

"You're not worth saving?" Firewall asked. "Aquaman's used it enough that I know what you said."

"Sorry," Surge replied. "That and 'ten thousand years won't save your soul', are two of my favourite Atlantean curses."

"What the hell kind of dimension did Atlan pull you into?" Firewall gaped.

"An interesting one."

"Looks like we got the attention of his buddies," Firewall murmured, noticing that armed men were heading towards them from both sides of the bridge.

"They're not the only ones," Surge purred, spying his teammates coming in behind the terrorists. Firewall stood with his back to Surge and the two braced for attacks from the armed men until their teammates joined the fray. They separated and Firewall slipped escrima sticks from his back and went on the attack. Surge grabbed two terrorists at a time and shunted their blood backwards, rendering them unconscious.

"How does grabbing their shirtfronts knock them out?" Sin asked Arsenal, as the two took on a quartet of armed men.

"He's probably making their blood go backwards," Arsenal replied.

"Cool trick," Sin grinned, sending an elbow into the throat of one of her attackers.

"Efficient indeed, and painful to be on the wrong end of," Robin added as he joined them, blocking a knife attack with his sword pommel. "Superboy, Lantern…round them up. Kid Flash secure their weapons," he barked as the fight was winding down.

Arsenal picked up one of the machine guns from the growing pile Kid Flash had going and studied it. "I think they might be from that armoury theft in Kentucky last month," Kid Flash offered, as she dumped the last of the secured weapons to the ground.

"Yeah, U.S. Army," Arsenal shrugged. "Stamped right on the butts here."

Robin grabbed one of the terrorists by the collar and pulled him close. "Talk," he ordered.

"This pit of filth is what's wrong in this country," the terrorist spat. "Their liberal views are poisoning the rest of America and ruining what makes it great."

Arsenal rolled her eyes so hard that she regretted it. "That hurt," she muttered as she blinked them a few times. Sin bit her lip to keep from laughing.

"And here I was thinking that civil liberties, human rights, and freedom are what this country prided itself on," Surge remarked.

"The definitions of those ideals are vastly debated," Robin retorted, shoving his captive back with the rest of his comrades. "Knee shots only?" he commented, looking at Arsenal when he saw the two wounded guards from the toll plaza.

"How many did you stab?" she shot back. Robin let a tiny smirk grace the corner of his lips as he wiped the blood clean from his blade.

"You might want to put that away, here comes the cops," Kid Flash told him. He sheathed his sword just as the police and tactical units swarmed the middle of the bridge where the Titans had secured the terrorists. "They're all yours," she added sweetly to the head officer coming over to them.

"The bomb squad will find four semtex packages," Firewall stated. "They're disarmed and harmless. Two are just under the waterline of the towers and the other two are under the road deck."

"Thanks," the officer replied.

"One of your comrades can also be found on the south tower barrier island," Surge added. "He was shot execution style and thrown to the water." The officer nodded and gave his thanks again.

"We were beginning to wonder if you guys would show up," the officer admitted.

"Our apologies," Robin stated. "We were tied up earlier this evening with another mission."

"I know what you mean. You can't be everywhere at once," the officer sighed. "Thanks guys. Head on home, you've earned it from the sounds of it." He flinched back at the gust of wind Kid Flash kicked up as she tore off towards the end of the bridge and then across the water to Titan's Tower. Superboy lifted off into the air after her, followed by Green Lantern who had several of the team with her on a ring created platform. Surge bowed his head to the officer and then dove into the water far below.

"How pissed off were you, dude?" Jai asked back at the Tower as he studied the ruined remains of his wrist computer. Jai curled his finger at Damian and pointed to the ruined tech on the table. "I mean, I know you were tired, but damn!"

"I'm sorry?" Cerdian asked. He saw Damian's eyebrows raise in surprise.

"Your arm wasn't scorched?" Damian asked Jai, looking at his bare forearm.

"The glove's insulated enough," Jai chuckled. "You melted my baby," he added for Cerdian.

"My apologies. Is there any particular shipwreck that you want the payment salvaged from?" Cerdian snorted.

Jai and Damian shared a look. "Legend has it that the Atocha had an impressive emerald haul," Damian replied jokingly. Cerdian rolled his eyes and walked off.

"That one bunch has salvage rights on the Atocha, D," Jai pointed out.

"And the chances that an Atlantean hadn't stumbled onto it first, are what?" Damian smirked.

"Dad found it years before they did, ages ago," Cerdian replied, returning to the room.

He tossed a large green crystal to Damian and bid the pair goodnight before retreating to his quarters. Jai stared at the massive rough emerald as Damian gauged the weight. "Easily several pounds," Damian murmured, handing the emerald to Jai.

"This thing's fucking massive," Jai gaped. His hand could only wrap halfway around the crystal. "You're dirt poor next to him," he smirked. Damian nodded in agreement as they both stared at the emerald.

"Too tired to go electronics shopping?" Damian suggested after a moment.

"There's no such thing as too tired to go electronics shopping," Jai replied, rising from his chair.