All five titans quickly assembled to the main room where a monstrous map of the city lay out with a blinking red dot located at the city science lab. Robin, taking his role as leader immediately, typed on the main computer to see what the problem was.
Suddenly his face hardened, his fists clenched, and his eyes turned into mirrors of hate, though all he had to say was a single word for the titans to run and do their job.
"….Slade." he muttered harshly under his breath.
Cyborg looked shocked, Beast Boy dumbfounded, Starfire fearful, and Raven skeptical.
"So this is the real real Slade? Not some stupid trick in our heads to make us think that Slade is back, and monkeys will soon rule the world, and Martians like meat, and…and…"
"Beast boy…shut up, you're hurting me with your stupidity." muttered Raven as she glared at the child like Beast Boy.
Robin turned away from the map and looked at his teammates, his friends. "I'm afraid it's really him and not some allusion, not some dream in our bodies. He seems to be stealing something from the Jump Science Laboratory, so lets go try and stop him before he gets away." he paused for a moment and looked at Starfire with a sideways smile, "Let's give 'em hell today." All the titans smiled and got their game faces on. "Let's do this."
JUMP SCIENCE LAB
A dark sinister figure waits in the darkness for his prize, a miniature bomb ticking away madly. One menacing eye watches the seconds drop and then holds deathly still as fire and explosion debris rushes past him. The villain smiles under his mask as the roar of heat sweeps through his ears and into his veins. Calmly and quietly, the man walks past the damaged safe door and approaches the last capsule to his trophy.
"This is the key all of my problems, this is the key to my greatest victory, this is the key to destroy Robin…" cackled the black and orange masked man.
He then rests his hand on the surface of the capsule, melting away the thick casing till one silver and thin bottle is revealed. The mad man carefully lifts the bottle out and turns around to leave when a birdarang barely misses his head and hits the wall beside him. Not even having to turn his head, he knew who it was.
"Hello Robin, it's good to see you."
"Knock it off Slade, hand over the bottle." replied a calm Robin.
"Oh but Robin, this isn't the only thing I'm going to steal tonight." stated the cold hearted villain.
The five titans looked around the lab quickly to try and swipe the next most valuable item before Slade could. Before they could move, however, Slade pressed a button on his armor and the teens were surrounded by robots.
"Remember, go after the one I want alive." Whispered Slade to his robots, and with that, every titan fought with what they had.
Robin whipped out his bostaff and tripped robot after robot before jumping off of them like stones and making his way towards Slade. Raven muttered her three dark but memorable words and lifted colorful test tubes full of dangerous chemicals and smashed them against numerous robots, melting their armor and computer chips to the floor. Beast Boy morphed into a tiger and pounced viciously on the androids and ripped out their inner parts with his strong teeth. When that started to wear off, he morphed into a powerful gorilla and tore the arms and legs off one robot at a time. Next, Cyborg used his blue sonic canon to blast many of the robots away, but they managed to tackle him and hold him down when suddenly a wave of electric green knocked them all off. Cyborg looked up and Starfire and gave her a thumbs up before shouting and pointing behind her, "Star, look out!"
Starfire turned with her eyes lit up and her hands clenched in green fists when a body slammed into her and dragged her off the floor and to her wobbly feet. She found it hard to breathe when a sharp and cold metal object was held against her neck. Robin froze; panting from the fight he had with Slade and shocked with what was happening to the one he cared about.
"None of you pesky children move, you'll see your precious Starfire again dear Robin. And don't worry, she will be alive. But the next time you see her, you will have to make a very hard decision. I've installed cameras in your tower, I've seen everything. Starfire will not be harmed while she's in captivity unless you try to save her. For now you need to rest up, for tomorrow night at the warehouse at 8:00 is when we play."
Slade then vanished with all his robots, and Starfire looked directly at Robin, with fear in her eyes, and reached out towards him with a slight scream slipping from her lips. Robin, unable to move from fear that Slade would harm her, mouthed to her, "I'll come for you…" right before her fear filled eyes vanished.
