In case you haven't noticed I've been skipping episodes, but if it's important to the plot then it will appear, but maybe not in proper order.
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I hung on the ceiling of the near black room, looking at the pillar of light holding the red data chip. A man in a black suit metal on his neck going to the top of his chests and shoulders, as well as some on his biceps. He was also wearing a black helmet with orange in the middle of it.
"Tell Slade if he wants this, he can get it himself." I dropped down from my pearch and back kicked the man in the face.
He rolled and flipped backwards landing with one hand on the ground just as the lights came on.
The Titans and I stood looking at him, ready for a fight. A lazer shot down from the ceiling and I flipped back to avoid it. A horde of the steel clawed men jumped down from the whole in the ceiling, one charged at me. I easily blocked the first two but I had to flip for the third.
When I kicked the man easily blocked and pulled out a gun. He started shooting a laser beam at me and I flipped towards him and the right then forward to the left, spinning in mid-air and kicked the man back across the room.
I saw Star Fire blast one of the men back then fly away as another shot a laezer whip that destroyed the lights hanging from the ceiling. I jumped and pushed her out of the way.
I looked over and saw three of them standing with their weapons ready, then part of the wall slid across the floor and bull dozed them.
"Amazing what you can do with computers these days." Cyborg said, smiling at his work. He ran forward to continue his fight elsewhere.
Behind where he used to be Raven was gliding away from one of the men's laser attacks. She stopped and put up an energy bubble which disintegrated after the attack was finished.
She looked around trying to find her assailant who reappeared in front of her again. He swung a punch which Raven barely blocked with her black energy projection. She blocked two more the same way before the man did a low kick and knocked her to the ground with a grunt.
When she sat up the man pointed his gun at her and BB rammed in to him, knocking him out of the way. He rammed him after he hit the wall, slamming him harder than necessary.
"You owe me big time, you owe me big time." He said dancing as Raven got up.
One of the men jumped behind Beast Boy, then Raven slammed to of the computer wall pieces.
"Heh, heh, call it even." He said rubbing the back of his head and slouching.
Cyborg and Raven were both blasting at the one remaining enemy, who just jumped around like a monkey, after a few blasts he jumped forward and off the wall, grabbing the computer chip.
When he headed for the door way I through a birdarang which knocked the chip out of his hand.
"mine!" Beast Boy said turning into a green ant eater and grabbing the chip with his tongue. He landed and hit the wall, leaving himself open. The man stepped on the young Titans tongue and grabbed the chip.
He jumped to the doorway where the other men were standing, and dropped a flash bang grenade.
"That tasted so nasty." Beast Boy said, now in his human form.
"Titans Go!" I shouted running towards the doorway. When we got out we ended up in a hexagon with a path on each wall.
"Split up." I said, each member of the team going down the hallways. I was about to, when I noticed a grate in the middle of the room. I turned around looked at it, and decided to jump down.
When I landed in the water I saw the man running down the tunnel. I quickly followed him waiting for him to shoot that fancy laser gun. When he blasted the beam I flipped about six times till I did a role on the floor jumping into a birdarang throwing position. The man simply jumped over and shot the spinning projectile. The path turned off onto another and the man took the turn dropping a grenade.
He looked at me through a hole in the debrief and turned around. he walked forward and opened a whole in the concrete, revealing a cliff, and Star Fire.
"I am asking you nicely to stop running and…" Star Fire said right before the man blasted his laser at her.
I watched as she fell and spun through the hole in the debrief running toward the edge of the tunnel. By the time I got there the man was flying using rocket boots. I grabbed two grapples and shot one towards Star, the other towards the man who could apparently fly.
Rocket man noticed the string wrapped around him flew down towards the water, barely staying above it as he flew forward. I held on until we reached the shore on the other side of the gulf and then I put Bats training to work.
I grabbed the man by his shirt making him kneel as I held him below me. "Now talk! Who's Death Stroke? Why does he want this chip? And Why are you working for him?" I grabbed the front of the man's helmet and ripped it off.
The mask came off revealing a computer screen with a teen age in a outfit similar to the men we were fighting. He had a steel helmet instead of black, a grey strap holding a sword and a gun. he had chain mail on his right arm with a loose fitting orange glove. He didn't have the steel on his right bicep either; he had a steel belt with a gun on each side and compartments at each link. His right glove was much tighter, and there was a matching orange strap right above it. He had steel on his outer thigh, and orange painted steel knee pads that were attached to matching boots.
"excellent work Robin." It said in a cocky yet calm voice, with a slight metallic tone to it.
"Deathstroke." I said looking angrily at the screen.
"No, not quite." He said sounding slightly amused. "My name is Ravager, and you'll have to go through me to get to my mentor. I'm looking forward to seeing you again, you seem much more interesting than my other assignments."
I punched the screen looking at the blurry figure in front of me.
"Robin?" Star Fire asked in a worried tone.
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I sat at my work bench working on some wiring and thinking about what Ravager had told me, he wanted me to fight him, he wanted to meet me, he called me a test.
"Who are you?" the door behind me opened, letting in light I only saw during meals or before missions these last few weeks.
"Robin." I heard star Fire say from the source of the light. "I was wondering if you wish to."
"No." I answered, not even looking back at the Tamaranian girl. "Thanks, but I need to find out why Ravager wanted that chip, and Deathstroke."
"Agreed, and perhaps if you were to take a break the answer would be easier to…"
"I can't." I said turning back to the wiring of the bladed gauntlet. "You almost got hurt, next time it could be worse. He's planning something; I have to find out what."
"But Robin I am sure…" Star Fire began before I hit a button on my work bench to close the door.
I looked at the slightly visible circle on the floor and brought it up. It was entirely black except the shoulders and the V shape on the chest, a spike coming up from the middle, and two forming out of the shoulders. The mask was similar to Wally's old one except it covered the nose, had red over the eyes, and two spikes on the cheek. On the back were two escrimas with two red lines on the top of each.
"Looks like it's time to follow Kaldur's lead." I said grabbing the mechanical gauntlets with a large blade on the side of each. "Time to go Renegade."
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If you had trouble with the description of Dicks costume just look up DC Comics Renegade, it's the name Dick took up in the comics instead of Red X. Please review.