Robin and the rest of the Titans stared out of the window to look upon the distant view of what is left of Salt Lake City. This was their first view of a former major metropolitan area in this apocalyptic future, and already they didn't like the look of it at all.

"So…" Robin said staring at Phoenix who was apparently doing fire tricks while rapily shifting in multiple animal forms, much to the amusement of Beast Boy and Starfire, and in a way, Raven. "…you want us to stay in here while you and Old Man Beast Boy go out and fight?"

"That's the plan" Phoenix said. He was now in his mongoose form and was juggling balls of fire. "We go in, Dad does most of the killing while I direct most of the innocent people to safety. I admit that I am not good at it, but I can do it."

"Alright then…but what's your plan after that?" Robin said, not sure on what to say after that

"We go to see my mentor, Constantine." Phoenix said, shifting into his monkey form and preformed some kind of fire hula – hoop tricks, which received applause from Beast Boy and Starfire who were trying to distract themselves from what is going to happen. "Or maybe have a stop at the Oasis. I heard it is a lovely place to go to at this time of the year."

"Right…" Cyborg said as if unsure on what to say "…What is the Oasis?"

"Doesn't matter right now" Phoenix said now shifting into his human form "All that we know is that we have the minor advantage of surprise and I intend to…"

But Phoenix didn't have the time to complete his sentence when there was a giant explosion. It was as if the entire air had been turned into bright light and fire. Shrapnel flew through the air, stabbing at anything and anyone that it came in contact with and the loudness of the bang was so loud, so loud that it made half of the Titan's ears bleed.

It all happened so fast and so quickly that one moment Robin was looking at Phoenix, the next moment he was groaning in pain, he felt as if he was stabbed at least a hundred times all over his back, his ears felt as if they had turned into a fog horn, his eyes was on fire and his bones felt as if they had been ran over by a steam roller. His lungs felt as if they were clogged and his throat wanted to turn itself inside out.

With great difficulty he tried to pull himself together, and he found the task of getting up Herculean. He looked around him to see that half of the vehicle has been ripped apart. The entire air seemed to have been transformed into dust, sand and shrapnel. Next to him was Starfire who sounded as if she was trying to yodel, Cyborg who looked as if he had been hit by a train, Beast Boy in his armadillo form shielding himself from the blast and Raven who was hovering over the rest of them as if she encountered explosions every day.

He looked up at the giant hole and stared in horror to see a large army of men, all of them dressed up as either ninjas, samurais or wearing tacky costumes of Batman and all of them were pointing giant weapons at them. Everything from bows and arrows, to machine guns, to giant mallets, to samurai swords, to tridents.

The new league of Shadows.

"Titans!" Robin cried coughing rapidly as if speaking was too much for him "Go!" as all the Titans charged at the crowd.

Robin ran straight towards a rather shrimpy looking woman firing a machine gun at him. Robin tried to dodge the bullets, however they all stuck him in the chest. Had he not been wearing protective armour, and had he not been spinning his staff in front of his head, he would have most certainly been a goner. Robin threw in a kick to the woman's gun and then kicked her right in the solar plexus, sending her down onto the floor.

Starfire flew up only to be met with a giant ball of fire. Starfire looked down to see a giant man firing a flamethrower straight at her. With one well aimed Starbolt the woman along with several other people were sent flying back as if hit by a truck.

Raven was engaged in combat with what looked to be a woman whos skin made out of rocks. The rock woman was throwing giant mountain sized boulders out of thin air and throwing them like cannon balls straight at Raven's head. Raven barely had the time to recover from the crash when a well-aimed boulder hit her right in the face, causing her to almost fall unconscious. Finding the strength that she thought that she didn't have, she closed her eyes and bellowed "Azarath Metrion Zinthos!" and immediately giant purple ropes emerged out of thin air, wrapping around the rock woman until she looked like some badly wrapped Christmas present.

Cyborg was engaged in a laser gun fight with a man who could have passed as Control Freaks twin brother. Cyborg fired his laser cannon at the same time the man fired his laser gun. The beams met right in the middle, which had a strange effect where both beams tried to go forward but is meeting resistance which created a strange looking light show, with neither one dominating the other. Cyborg closed his eyes and concentrated to force more power and then…BAM! The man was sent down onto the ground. Unconscious. Cyborg smiled as he ran to help his friends.

Beast Boy transformed into a cheetah and was dodging many attacks from the armed men, however he had to duck, doge and jump over many attacks. He ran up and pounced on a man who was about to fire his gun at Starfire who was rapidly firing her starbolts at the crowd, only to find himself surrounded by a small crowd of people holding vicious looking knives. Beast Boy immediately shifted into a falcon and fired himself into the sky to join Starfire and then…

The strikes happened so fast and so quickly that it was over moments after it began.

Raven was firing her spells when something hit her on the back. She turned around to see a giant tranquiliser dart impaled on her back. Raven tried to resist it, but it was a fool's errand as she felt herself falling down into darkness.

Cyborg was about to yell out when he heard something move behind him. He whipped around only to see the man he thought he had just knocked about right in front of his face. Cyborg barely had time to react as the man fired aiming right at his chest, sending him flying in the air like a rag doll. Sending him down, down into darkness.

Starfire cried out as she saw her friend, Raven fall she was about to see if she can save her when a giant force hit her straight in the back. Starfire felt as if she had been run over by a truck carrying explosives that was on fire and had decided to blow up when it was directly over her back. Then she too fell down, down, down, into darkness.

The moment Beast Boy launched himself into the air he heard a strange sound, like a boomerang flying through the air. Beast Boy cocked his head only too see a giant net that looked to be made of that material Red – X uses. He didn't have enough time to react when the net hit him, sending him crashing down onto the ground unable to move.

Robin cried out seeing all his teammates go down. He would have helped them, had he not been surrounded by at least 20 monolithic men all of them aiming their hostile weapons at him. He knew that if he did so much as reach for so much as a paperclip they would all fire and no matter all his training, he knew that they wouldn't miss.

That was when he heard it. An animal like roar. An angry animal like roar. An angry animal like roar that was heading full speed towards Robin.

A man holding a giant rifle who was closest to Robin barely had the time to cock his head when his face of puzzlement to pure shock and horror as a loud squelching sound that sounded like rubber boots on mud whipped through the air. Robin stared too as he saw a giant, hulk like fist punch straight through the man's chest.

Old Man Beast Boy looked livid. He too was extremely beat up, however his phoenix like healing factor was helping him out.

There was a giant screech like nails on a chalk board as out of the sky, blue fire balls came cascading down like the wrath of God. Phoenix was firing his fireballs straight at their attackers and he was doing a good job at it sending half of the men and women into nothing but giant balls of flame as they ran at top speed at so many directions that they collided with one another.

Robin took his chance and threw a smoke bomb immediately sending a giant ploom of fog around him. The next few minutes for Robin can only be descried as a flurry of punches, kicks and dodges as he knocked all of his attackers out with his stun gun/tranquiliser gun. This can be a simple training exercise, expect a little more real, and a little more deadly.

Cyborg looked up to see the man pointing his laser gun at his face, he didn't have the time to fully process that he might die when the man fired…only for the laser to bounce off around Cyborg. The man blinked. Cyborg blinked. Suddenly, without any warning the man got thrown back as if he was hit by a train. Cyborg turned to see the baby Vic the IV firing what looked to be force fields out of his hands. Cyborg smiled as he picked up the baby who was giggling giddily at Cyborg.

"You really are my grandson." Cyborg said under his breath as he embraced the baby in a hug.

Old Man Beast Boy let out another beast like roar as he launched himself at the crowd of men. He slashed his beast like claws disembowelling people left, right and centre as if he was a spoiled kid opening gifts on Christmas. He saw a juggernaut of a man approach him. Old Man Beast Boy smiled as he launched himself at the juggernaut turning himself into a giant snake. He smiles as he wrapped himself around the man like a rope and increased the pressure. The man squirmed and struggled against him, but that made Old Man Beast Boy increase the pressure until…. There was a loud crunching sound and Old Man Beast Boy smiled as he looked down at the bag of skin that used to be a man. Then made a giant scorpion's stinger burst out of his backside to impale a large row of men like a kebab. He turned to see that they looked as if they had been impaled by some strange device as the skin around the hole in their chest resembled a balloon about to explode.

He looked around him to see that he couldn't see anyone else through the fog, and choosing to shift into his phoenix form he fired himself into the air to join Phoenix in their fire attack and…

BOOOM!

The bazooka rocket stuck the two phoenixes so suddenly and so quickly that they didn't even had the time to realise that they had been hit until it was too late, and the two shapeshifters were sent plummeting back to earth. Phoenix unfortunately landed right on top of Cyborg, which almost immediately knocked him out cold. Old Man Beast Boy was no less fortunate as he was impaled through the chest by a discarded sword.

Robin looked up from the ninja that he had just defeated to see a girl in a Robin suit emerge out from a jeep holding two missile launchers and a face that both looked extremely gleeful and extremely sad at the same time.

Robin knew who he was looking at. His daughter. Ashly.

Once again, Robin's mind seemed to have jammed. What is he supposed to say to her? What is he supposed to do? Does he try to reason with her? Does he try to fight with her? Knock her out? What is he supposed to do?

The all too familiar feeling of a gun getting forced on your back brought Robin back to Earth as he realised that he had been staring for too long. Then a voice, a voice that he knew all too well spoke.

"Well, Well, Well." Ra's Al Ghul sneered "Dick Grayson. How we meet again."

"Ra's Al Ghul…" Robin growled

"Yes. That's me." Ra's Al Ghul said "Me and my host welcome you to Salt Lake City. And it is a host's duty to entertain their guests."

"Ashly…" Robin whispered in horror

"Father!" Ashly cried, sounding like someone who is reuniting with a long-lost friend or family member, "Come on over here and have a drink! And let me tell you how you are going to die!"