Hello there, and thanks for the reviews!

Disclaimer: I don't own Teen Titans or Batman but if I did I would make every Wednesday cake day and every Wednesday all the characters from both of them would come and we would all bring out a cake and pretend like it was a surprise, because it's cake day.

Kudos to anyone who knows what movie I borrowed that line from…

On with the show…

Like Toy Soldiers

Chapter 11

Alex pressed the brake, and the motor cycle came to a halt.

"Well, I guess this is it" Alex said, looking up at the building. He swung his legs over the motorcycle and tried to get off when he realized that Becky was still clinging on to him for dear life.

"Uh...Beks?" He asked.

"Motorcycle…too….fast" Becky said, removing her arms from around his wait and shakily getting off of the motorcycle, "You sure this is the place?"

Alex jumped off and pulled off his helmet "The address is right and everything so, yeah, I guess"

Alex didn't like wasting time on silly things like looking up words in the dictionary. In fact, the only time he had ever cracked open a dictionary was when looked up obscenities for a good laugh. Even though he had never used the dictionary he was sure that if he looked up the word 'junk heap' there would be a huge picture of this apartment building.

The building looked from the outside like no one had cleaned it at least 20 years.

Becky pulled off her helmet and straightened out her hair "shall we?" she asked, reaching for the front door.

"What? And leave my precious motorcycle out here in this terrible part of town?" Alex asked, hugging onto the motorcycle for dear life.

Becky pulled him away from the bike and towards the door with a roll of her eyes "It's just a stupid bike, it'll be fine."

Before Alex was completely dragged into the building he grasped onto the door and exclaimed "STUPID?" He peeked his head out and reached in the air for his beloved motorcycle "Don't worry baby, Becky didn't mean that..."

Becky rolled her eyes and pulled him into the building with a final tug. The inside of the building was brown with orange stairs leading every which way.

"Becky, I don't wanna walk up all of those stairs, he lives on the top floor!" Alex whined.

"Oh for once just shut it, there's a freakin' elevator" Becky said as they walked up to the elevator. Becky pressed the 'up' button and they waited. And waited…

"Where's the freakin' elevator?" Becky asked, pounding on the elevator door.

Alex looked quizzically and then spotted an old, orange piece of paper on the top of the elevator door. He jumped up and grabbed it.

"Hmm, it says 'Elevator temporarily univalible'" Alex read.

"That's unbelievable!" Becky said, snatching the paper.

"I know, they spelled unavailable wrong!"

"Not that, dummy! Look!" She said, pointing to an area in the corner of the paper that stated when the paper was written.

"What? That just says…June 5th 1973…oh." He put the paper back on the spot it had been for over 30 years "Does that mean we have to walk?"

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The shadowy figure picked up an envelope off the top of his desk and opened it, spilling the contents out on his desk. He looked them over and smiled. His sources had served him well and these pictures were well worth the 20 dollars he shelled out for the Polaroid film to take them. He flipped over one with a picture of the new boy, the new possible threat. He grabbed a pen and scrawled Bird-boy of the new era. On the other, one with the new girl, the other new threat he wrote Bat Girl Returns.

He threw them over to a random minion who stood in the corner.

"Have these scanned and looked over for weak spots and weaknesses" The show's voice, the shadow was Slade. Back from years of sitting in silence.

The minion caught the pictures and nervously scurried off with a simple: "yes sir, right away sir."

But, then again, they always did.

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Becky tapped her foot patiently with her arms crossed and her lips in a frown. She glanced at her watch.

"Growing old here, 'Xander" She yelled down the steps.

He crawled up to the last step and collapsed. "Very funny. That must have been about 400 steps right there!"

Becky rolled her eyes and helped him to his feet "You'll live, let's go."

After walking down a narrow hall they reached room 929 and knocked on the door. The door was opened by not Doug, but his mother.

Alex put on a friendly smile "Hello Mrs. Logan, we're Doug's friends and he asked us to come and see him"

Raven looked at him quizzically and Alex knew she recognized him. Hopefully she'd just let it be.

Raven nodded "Of course, come on in, Doug's room is the one over there with a the purple door."

Becky and Alex waked inside the small apartment. There was a kitchen, a living room, and three bedrooms. Becky opened the purple door and she and Alex walked inside.

"Hi guys!" Doug said, jumping off of his bed and shutting the door "Sorry the house is such a mess, we just moved here. Sit down." Doug said, motioning to a circle of ratty old beanbag chairs that sat in the middle of his tiny room. Alex sat on a purple one and took a second to thank his lucky starts that he didn't live in a tiny apartment in the one of the worst parts of the most crime infested cities in the world.

Becky took a seat on a black beanbag chair and Doug sat down on a green one.

"So, what did you want anyways, Doug?" Becky asked as she tried to find a comfortable spot on the bag.

"Oh, just thought we'd plot headquarters and stuff" He said, pulling out a map "I don't know this place too well."

Alex, who just happened to be wearing an I Love Gotham T-shirt, grabbed the map and reached in his pocket for his handy-dandy blue Sharpie Mini.

"You carry around a Sharpie?" Doug asked.

"Are you kidding? I never leave home without one!" Alex exclaimed as Becky rolled her eyes. Alex shrugged and rolled open the map and marked Wayne manor. "Okay Doug, this is where Becky and I live"

"I knew that" Doug said, beginning to develop the idea that his new friend Alex might have some serious issues "I know where we all live, but we need a place to practice and keep watch other then the roof of this apartment building"

"Well, 'Xander here knows this city better then anyone. What do you think, 'Xander?" Becky asked.

Alex stared at the map for a moment and circled a building that was on the map.

"You see this? This is Wayne Enterprises new, fourth building in Gotham. They're still building it. The bottom floor is going to be a training base for the military so they can try out all of Wayne Enterprises militia equipment. It's just an empty white room 'cause no one uses the building yet. At night the construction workers go home and the two unguarded floors are the roof and the Military room, aka bottom floor…"

"So you're saying that we can use the bottom floor to train and the roof to keep watch" Becky finished.

"Exactly!" Alex exclaimed.

Becky sighed "I never thought I'd say this but Alex…"

"Yes?"

"That was a really good idea"

Doug nodded "really really good"

Alex jumped up "Ha! Who's smart? ME, THAT'S WHO!"

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That night, 11:00 PM Eastern Standard time-

Doug rolled out of bed. He hadn't been asleep anyways. He pulled on a black T-shirt and black sweat pants. After he was in his full black, for lack of a better costume, he opened his window. He sat on the window sill and pulled his map of Gotham out of his pocket. A cool breeze blew past his shoulders, reminding his that fall was almost here. He scanned the night sky and then jumped back inside, slamming his window shut. He grabbed a pair of binoculars of his desk and opened his bedroom door. His parents had gone to a movie and wouldn't be back until much later that night.

Snatching his house key off the kitchen table and grabbing a small black jacket from the closet he left the apartment and locked the door and went up to the roof. He pulled out the binoculars and scanned the night sky. It was supposed to be right behind the first and biggest main Wayne Enterprises building. He scanned the area all around the building until he could make out the shadow of the building.

"Bingo" He whispered as he sat down in meditation position. He could teleport himself there but he had to see it first.

He shut his eyes and focused on the building in his mind. With a quick 'Azerath Metreone Zinthos' he was gone.

Wayne Enterprises building 4, 3 minutes later-

Becky looked at her watch and frowned "Where is that kid, anyways?"

Becky and Alex were seated in the empty Military training room. Not a soul was in the building but them.

"I don't know, but he better come soon. I still haven't completely washed off all the obscenities those people sprayed onto my motorcycle WHEN YOU TOLD ME NOT TO STAY WITH IT!" Alex shouted as he paced the room.

Becky shrugged "Whatever. Since when do you pace?"

Alex continued pacing "It makes you look smart, I've been doing it for ages."

Two minutes later there was a huge black flash and Doug appeared.

"Sorry I'm late guys, teleporting takes awhile "Doug said, smoothing out his hair.

Alex shrugged "Yeah, whatever. Let's just go up to the roof, that way we can patrol and practice."

Doug jumped up "Oooh, I can teleport us there!" he shouted

"Wicked awesome! Let's go!" Alex exclaimed.

"Hmm guys, that may not be such a good-"

"Oh, quit worrying Becky, it's totally safe!" Doug exclaimed. He said the three words and in a swirl of black light they were on the roof.

Two minutes later, Wayne Enterprises building 4- rooftop-

In a swirl of black light they were on the roof and Becky was hugging the ground.

"Land!" She exclaimed, kissing the rooftop.

Doug covered his eyes "Eww! She's kissing the roof!"

Alex crossed his arms "Oh, so she has a thing for roofs. When I kissed her she pushed me into a freezing cold bay" he grumbled.

Becky stood up and wiped her mouth off "Okay, Doug, show us some of your moves"…..

Top of a random building-

The shadow focused in his binoculars. They were there all right. When the boss caught wind of this there would be a big bonus. He pulled out a small communicator.

"Shadow Slayer to Slade" he said.

Shadow was one of Slade's minions. But not just any minion. Shadow had once lived a fairly peaceful life as the world's topmost expert in Martial arts. He new almost every kind and was the highest rank in each. He lived off of reward money from competitions and made a nice living for himself. But Slade had a better offer for him. Shadow didn't have to settle for a nice house by the shore of the Pacific ocean. He could have a 6 story mansion.

Slade's voice came over the communicator "Report."

"Targets spotted, sir" Shadow replied.

"Very good. Fight them. Take notes. You know what to do"

"Very well. Shadow out"

Shadow tied his black bangs back with a bandana.

"Fight them, indeed"

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Half an hour later the New Teen Titans sat on the roof, planning out strategy. Alex was writing down their strategies when he saw a shadow.

"What was that?" Alex said

"What was what?" asked Doug.

"I saw something. Over there."

Doug looked around "You're crazy"

Becky laughed "You just realized that?"

Suddenly a dark figure appeared on the ledge of the roof.

"Told you" Alex whispered, "Who are you?"

The dark figure walked closer. He was clad in black with a dark bandana holding back dark ebony hair.

"Oh, only your worst nightmare."

To be continued…..

Next Time: The fight commences, Alex discovers some more of his mysterious powers, and the team learns the hard way that the super hero game is no joke….Will they survive?