The Assassin
Chapter 5
Alecto started down the hallway for the doorway, his footprints traced in blood as he stalked silently towards the room. He saw a blinding green flash an instant later another, suddenly there was an explosion as a body was thrown into the wall at the other end of the hallway. Starfire and Raven followed the unconscious body around the corner then stopped dead with a blank stare. "I take it the roof is secured then" said Alecto… "are you guys okay?". Raven suddenly snapped out of her trance and ran towards Alecto, "oh my god are you okay?" she said as she ran up to him grasping his shoulders. Alecto felt warmth spread throughout his body. Raven turned around and yelled "I can't handle this myself, get a helicopter, we need to get him back to T tower quick". A SWAT officer ran around the corner started for an instant then got out his radio, "we need medevac, ASAP". Wondering what was happening Alecto looked around, nothing. Then he followed Starfires still starring gaze to his body. His stomach, arms and legs were all riddled with bullets, he had third degree burns all along the right side of his body, cloth fiber burned in with skin and a long cut down the side of his face, a large pool of blood began to gather at his feet. Suddenly his adrenalin wore off, a terrible burning pain spread throughout his entire being. The agony cut his mind to the core; it seemed as if his skin was being ripped off by red hot tong. He felt the bullet holes that had cut through his chest and stomach blood was running like a river. "Oh" He said, then his legs gave out and he fell, the ceiling spun above his head, voices screamed inside his mind, he was blacking out. Suddenly it stopped he was being lowered slowly to the ground, the pain abated. The last thing he saw before passing out were two deep purple eyes, and once again the strong warmth spread throughout his body. As Alecto began to fall Raven caught him and knelt by his side cradling his head in her lap. She was putting every ounce of her strength into stemming the bleeding; she knew he wouldn't last much longer.
Alecto woke up surrounded in a black force field; he was being levitated towards a helicopter. Suddenly he remembered what had happened, disregarding his wounds he sat up and attempted to walk back to the room, he was delirious the sky was spinning again, all sound seemed to come from far away, his ears seemed stuffed with cotton, and still the constant burning of pain throughout his body surging forth with each heartbeat. He felt a strong hand against his chest push him back, once again he looked up into the deep purple depths of Raven's eyes, calming down he was suddenly stuck by a dire sense of urgency. Alecto spoke to Raven, "have the SWAT officers gone in yet?" "No" she responded.
"Get this message to them" he said coughing, "If it's Diego, capture him, sleeping gas should do, if its Slade do whatever you want, but if its Cerberus don't let anyone go into that room. Back out set explosives around the hotel and blow the whole thing up, set tanks around each entrance and tell the soldiers to set up a strong rear guard."
"Ok" she said turning to an officer, "you heard him, go tell the entrance team", "immediately" the soldier saluted and rushed down the stairs from the top of the hotel.
"If you capture Diego, bring him to T tower along with one un-maimed dead guard, we'll need to interrogate him without police interference. And if I don't wake up… thank you.
With that Alecto passed out once again and was loaded onto the medical helicopter waiting to rush him to T tower.
Cyborg along with a team of doctors and raven worked tirelessly in the operating room, many marines and SWAT agents waited outside. "When I remove the bullet you heal the wound" said Cyborg, the doctors moved in to help Cyborg sucking the blood fro the wound. A pair of forceps came out of Cyborg's finger and lowered themselves down into one of the many bullet holes, with great skill the bullet was removed from the wound. After the doctors sterilized the bullet hole Raven used her powers to shut the laceration, the internal damage however she could not reach. Only time could fully heal those woulds, if it ever did. Four hours later Cyborg and the doctors scrubbed out and transported Alecto too his room with an IV and a respirator hooked up to special modifications by the bed. "All we can do now", Cyborg said, "is wait."
Meanwhile Beast Boy, Robin, and Starfire were working on getting whoever was in that room out, all the cameras were shut down and the room had no windows. Beast Boy turned into a cockroach and crawled under the door. They heard gunshots and Beast Boy came scuttling back under the door on five legs, he returned to human for, "wow, that was close". "Who is it" said Robin, "Its Diego", said Beast Boy. "Well" said Robin disappointed, "we'd better go get him". Starfire used her eyes to cut a hole in the door, for Robin to throw sleeping gas through. After about 30 second they heard bodies start to hit the floor. The room was taken with no causalities, and to the surprise of the police, no Diego. Starfire was already half way back to T tower caring Diego to the holding cell, Robin and Beast Boy got the task of taking the dead guy back to the tower in the T car, luckily it hadn't started to stink yet.
Alecto woke up and pulled the tubes out of his thought coughing blood. Next, he pulled the IV out of his arm, with much pain he stood up and grabbed a pair of crutches by his bed. Raven who had just gone to the bathroom saw his heart rate flat line on her portable monitor. She rushed back to the room to find Alecto hobbling out of the room on crutches, he had on the same pair of pants ripped down the left leg and no shirt. "what are you doing" she cried, you'll kill yourself. "Nah" he said, I've had worse. "Who was in the room?", "Diego" Raven relied. "Good, if you'd please retrieve him for me along with the dead one and bring them down to the rocky beach", "and I'm sorry I worried you I probably should have thought before ripping all the life support off", "maybe next time" he laughed and proceeded slowly down the stairs, to the main room of T tower.
A few minutes later all the Titans were assembled on the beach, with Diego kneeling bound on the hard rock. Aleco walked out of the main doors of T tower along the beach until he was stopped right in front of Diego. He turned to face the man and though he was still standing on the lower beach with his feet in the water his soft voice pierced every other sound on the island resounding clearly through the night air. "It's a beautiful night isn't it", "the moon is bright and the water black as jet, wouldn't you say so Diego?" no response. "It is my opinion that our emotions influence our perception of our surroundings". "An event of great significance is about to happen, so the night changes for us, to a subtle subdued tambour, making room for what is about to happen". "Do you know what is about to happen, Diego?" still no response. "Apparently not" his voice going even softer yet seeming to pierce even deeper into the consciousness of the criminal, "Tonight will be the first step on the path to destroying organized crime In the US, maybe even the world, and you would be its down fall", "what you are going to do is tell us were Cerberus, and Slade went, why you split up, and why ten of you met three weeks ago". "If however you do not provide the necessary information the night will still retain some of its magnitude, this moon and these stars along with six teens will see the death of one of the greatest drug dealers and gang bosses the world has ever known. They might even make a movie out of you." Alecto said "Though, your death will not be the grand exeunt that others were, you will not fall wrapped in the heat of battle fighting to your last breath. What ill happen is your blood will be carried out to sea by tide along with your body, the current will carry you away from shore to have your remains eaten by fish or drug up by a trolling net off the bottom of the ocean." "Do I make myself perfectly clear?"
"You wont kill me" Diego said "you kids have probably never even killed before, much less interrogated anyone, what could you poss-". But before Diego could say another world Alecto pulled the black hilted desert eagle out of his pocket and shot towards back towards were the Titans were standing. Robin had been trying to hear the conversation the beach when suddenly the head of the dead man he was holding exploded as the gigantic .50 bullet passed strait through the forehead. Alecto then appeared nexe to the man and yelled in his face, "I DON'T THINK YOU UNDERSTAND ME" his voice had lost all of its softness is was now a deafeningly loud rage of worlds seeming to shake the very ground beneath them. "YOU SEEM TO BE UNDER THE IMPRESSION THAT YOUR LIFE HOLDS ANY VALUE HERE", "I'D HATE FOR YOU TO DIE BELIEVEING A LIE…HERE LET ME SHOW YOU THE TRUTH". Alecto pointed the gun at Diego's head and pulled back the hammer, "wait stop" cried Diego, "I'll tell you whatever you want". "Ah, see, now you're beginning to see the light" said Alecto. After asking Diego the location of Cerberus he said, "now one of my constituents is going to ask you a few questions, I trust you'll as polite to him as you were to me?" "yes, god please don't kill me" sobbed Diego. Turning away from the broken criminal Alecto walked up the beach to Robin, "He's all yours buddy". With that he walked inside. The strain of the energy exerted during the interrogation had completely drained him, Alecto passed out as soon as he reached the couch.