AN: I'm back, and doing what I hate so much, writing after an episode. Sorry it's taken so long, but you all know how much I hate episode based chapters.
05:00 JUL 17TH 2013 Titans Tower
I WALKED INTO THE ROOM WITH Batgirl at my heels to see that the Titans had gathered in full uniform as I had requested on my way back to the Tower.
"Dude, what's the big idea waking us up at five in the morning?" Beast Boy asked his eyes about to close on him.
"We've got another message from Deathstroke." I said, throwing the small T.V. to Raven who caught it and immediately plugged it into our large screen. "Hit play."
The screen flickers on to show Deathstroke standing in some sort of warehouse, Ravager in the background with his arms crossed only showing us his side. "Good morning Teen Titans, I hope I didn't wake you."
"What are you an insomniac, who calls at five in the morning?" Beast Boy asked, rubbing his eyes tiredly.
"What do you want?" I asked, ignoring Beast Boys comment and glaring up at the screen. This man was just taunting me at the point.
"Well that's precisely what you've been trying to find out, isn't it?" he said, his gruff Australian accent filling my ears. "And despite all your efforts, you're still in the dark about my intentions. Disappointing Robin. I expected a little more from you."
"Like I care what you…" I began before Deathstroke cut me off.
"But since you've been unable to discover my plan, I suppose I'll just have to reveal it myself." The camera pans away from him to two of his men standing next to an object covered by a tarp. "I'm sure you're all familiar with the concept of a Chronotron Detonator?"
The tarp is pulled away as he says this. Underneath it is a large, egg-like piece of machinery with a couple of red lights set into its surface. The upper portion telescopes toward the ceiling, giving a view of the circuitry inside and more sets of lights.
"No!" Cyborg shouts angrily at the screen as Star Fire gasps behind him.
"Uh-oh." Raven says in her usual monoton voice.
"No Way!" Beast Boy exclaims before leaning towards Star Fire. "What's a Chronotron Detonator?"
"It eradicates all Chronotrons in a localized area, utterly destroying the temporal component of the space time continuum." She answers, still staring at the screen so that she doesn't see that the young hero has no idea what that means.
"It stops time, permanently." Raven clarifies for him, causing him to scream a little.
"If he triggers that thing downtown it'll freeze frame the entire city." Cyborg said, looking at a simulation on his holographic arm computer.
"Tell me Where!" I demand, glaring up at the screen as it pans back to Deathstroke.
"You're a clever boy Robin. I'm sure you and your little friends can figure it out. However, since I control the detonation, time is not on your side, even with your little girl friend."
"Augh!" I shouted as I slammed my fist down onto the computer dash. I stood up and began to head for the door. "Fan out! Find it! Shut it down!" I shouted as I was leaving only to have Batgirl push me back.
"Maybe you should stay here and coordinate the search." She said, looking slightly up at me.
"What?" I asked angrily, glaring at my old team mate.
"Man when it comes to DEathstroke, you've got issues." Cyborg said, coming up to me and putting his hand on my shoulder.
"Cyborgs right, and this doesn't fit his usual M.O. it's probably a trap." Batgirl said, angering me even more.
"And you think you know his M.O. better than me?!" I demanded, pushing my way past her.
"Robin…" star Fire said as I was about to walk out the door, causing me to stop dead in my tracks. "We have not forgotten the last time you faced…"
"I made a mistake, Star Fire. It won't happen again." I said as I took the first step out the door. "I can handle it. I promise."
"Would you at least like to know where to look?" Raven asked, causing me to look back at her. She was staring up at the screen, and I could tell that she had found something interesting, but all that was on the screen was the moment before Deathstrokes men took off the tarp. "I'm not very good at computers, but Batgirl would you mind zooming in and enhancing the reflection on the back of that wall?"
Batgirl obliged, quickly sitting down and typing in a few commands until we had a decently clear picture of what we were looking at.
"Ooh, squiggly lines, way informative." Beast Boy mocked, looking up at the screen.
"I'm not done yet." Batgirl said, putting in a few more keystrokes so that the image was clear. There PIER 41 was clearly written in bold white letters. "What's that thing you say now days Boy Wonder, Titans Go?"
05:45 JUL 17TH 2013 JUMP CITY DOCKS
I run up to the door with the rest of the Titans not too far behind. I quickly stop and throw an explosive disk, undoing the lock so I could easily kick in the doors, escrimas in hand.
"Empty?" Star Fire asks, looking over the bare ware house, the only thing inside being a graffiti of a half black half orange sniper sight with a white eye on the orange side.
"Oh Man!" Cyborg chimed in, his sonic canon reverting back to its usual hand mode.
"I can't believe it." I said, walking up to the graffiti, tempted to punch the stone wall that Deathsrote had been standing in front of.
"Admiring our artwork?" a strong Cockney accent asked from overhead. I looked up to see an army of Deathstrokes minions, one of which was dressed in heavy battle armor and an unpainted steel helmet.
"Titans go!" I shout, instantly firing my grapple and pulling a few of them down onto the ground before I started going all out. I had no idea where I was or which opponent I was hitting, but I knew that I had to win, and that I was. I was kicking the one that was wearing the unpainted helmet at this point, shouting at him angrily.
"Robin." Batgirl said, grabbing my arm. I tried to attack her but she quickly flipped me so that she was holding my arms to my back and sitting on me. "You need to calm down."
"Yes please. You may stop now." Star Fire said from close by, calming me down a bit. Batgirl got off of me and I stood up to look at Star Fire. "We are victorious."
"Deathstrokes got his finger on the button and we've got nothing." I said, putting my escrimas away and turning around. "Does that sound like victory to you?"
"We'd have a lot more if you hadn't put their platoon leader into a coma." Batgirl said, glaring at me.
"What are you even doing here; you're not part of this team?" I asked, walking up to her and staring her down.
"No I'm not, but I am your friend and this isn't like you." She said, looking up with me so that I could almost see the pain through her mask.
I turn away from hear and hear the sound of footsteps outside and see a thug walking past the door. "Freeze!" I shout, throwing a birdarang as he tries to get away. He stops and I catch him, slamming him against the wall. I take out one of Deathstrokes men's buckles I always keep handy and thrust up against his face. "Tell me everything you know about this!" THE MAN BEGINS MUMBLING AND STUTTERING, AND I START TO GET ANGRY. "Answer me! Now!" I shout pulling him back and shoving him back against the metal wall of the warehouse so that it dents.
"I've never seen it before!" the thug answers, obviously lying. "I don't know nothin'! Honest!"
I was about to thrust him against the wall again when I feel a hand pull me back and see black energy surround him, putting him down a few feet away. I was about to chase him when I feel my body being thrust against a ware house.
"You said you could handle it." Batgirl whispered angrily into my ear before she let me go.
"You promised." Star Fire said, looking down at me, but I didn't have time to look at her, I had to catch Death Stroke and raven just let our best lead get away.
"We're wasting time." I said, bringing out my hollow computer as I begin to walk away from the group.
"You know just because we're trying to catch Deathsroke doesn't mean you have to act like him." Beast Boy called after me, causing me to turn on my heals.
"Don't you ever compare me to him!" I shouted, before turning back to my computer. "He's trying to destroy the city, I'm trying to save."
"You're right Robin; you're not acting like Deathstroke." Batgirl said, peaking my interest in the way she said it. "You're acting like Batman."
"You say that like it's a bad thing." I say, turning back to her. "Cyborg you have a tracker that can trace metallic chromium cores right?
07:00 JUL 17TH 2013 JUMP CITY SEWAR
WE'RE WALKING THROUGH THE SEWAGE THAT'S ABOUT UP TO MY THIGHES WITH Cyborg at the front. "Look guys, uh-about earlier."
"It'll have to wait." Raven said, pointing at a small speedboat that had the Chronotron Detonator and a few men inside it, one of which wasn't wearing a mask. My mask immediately identified him as an un-named accomplish of the Penguins before a bullet went through his head and he fell into the sewage.
"Titans Go!" I shouted shocked that DEathstrokes men would take out one of their own. Everyone started chasing after the ship, the ones of us that could fly being a little more successful. "We can't let them get away!"
I suddenly felt the floor give out below me and I found myself even deeper under ground.
"I was wondering when you'd finally catch up bird brain." I heard Ravager say before he kicked me from my left side while I was still trying to get up.
"Robin!" I heard Batgirl call from above since she had been the closest to me when I did.
"Get to the detonator! Go!" I shouted up at her as I got up from the sewage soaked floor. "I can handle this guy."
"Can you now, because from my position you look pretty beat up?" He said, drawing his sword.
"It's only fair to warn you, you caught me on a bad day!" We shouted in unison as we charged at each other. I easily blocked his overhead swing with my escrimas before I kicked him across the underground tunnel, but it didn't knock him down. He quickly charged at me again, but I easily dodged him before I felt the but of his sword hitting my head. I rolled along the floor so that I was ready to block his next swing, but the force behind it was too for me to stop.
I went skidding across the floor before I rolled back onto my feet, charging at him. I jumped over him and did a slide kick as I landed, barely managing to knock him onto the ground. I quickly stabbed my escrima into his gut but he grabbed my wrist and twisted it so that I was on the ground too. We both jumped up off the ground, but he got the first hit. He punched me square in the face so that I was against the wall. He charged at me but I easily spun around him and slammed him against the stone.
"where is her?! Where is- huh?" I said as I heard a beeping coming from Ravagers belt. I quickly flipped the villain and smashed the but of my escrima against his face mask before ripping the source of the beeping off his belt.
Looking at the small disk I saw a map of the area with two blinking symbols. One was a blank bulls eye about where I was, and the other was the symbol that all of Deathstrokes men wore as their belt buckle. I smiled as I looked at it, knowing that this was exactly where my enemy was.
07:53 JUL 17TH 2013 JUMP CITY CATACOMBS
I put Ravager down next to the door before I put on of my disks up to it and set a timer.
"Hurry Titans, you're running out of time." Deathstroke said from the other side just before the disk went off.
"Actually, we just went into overtime." I said, smiling down at the man who was sitting in a large chair looking at a video of Cyborg disarming a bomb.
"Robin, welcome, I've been expecting you for some time." He said, standing up from his chair and walking around. "I was beginning to wonder if Ravager was too much for you. Looking for this?" he asked as he held up the transmitter to the Chronotron Denonator. A spotlight appears in the middle of the floor and deathstroke throws it there. "Well, here it is. If you want it come and get it."
I charge at the trigger but just as I'm about to reach it I feel Deathstrokes boot hit my face. I flip back into a standing position before sharging at it again only to be blocked by another one of Deathstrokes kicks.
"Come now Robing you'll have to do better than that, I haven't even broken a sweat." Deathstoke leaps at me, taking out his bow staff and barely giving me enough time to block with my escrimas.
We begin brawling, but I hardly made any blows on him while he had landed plenty on me. I was about to strike his face plate when he grabbed it with his left hand. "Good technique." The hold quicly turns into a throw and I skid across the room, the turning of the gears overhead beginning to fill my ears. "Good, but not perfect."
"Augh!" I scream as I charge at the man again. I jump at him about to kick him square in the chest when I feel his fist against me gut. I can barely breath as I hear the man chuckle to himself. Then it all went black.
I open my eyes to see deathstroke standing a few feet away from me. "I understand your frustration Robin. You hate losing as much as I do." He said, walking up to me and lifting my face. "One of the many qualities have in common."
I quickly grab Deathstrokes hand and flip onto the ground as I get up and charge to the detonator. "It's over Deathstroke." I smile as I pick it up with him kneeling on the ground.
"On the contrary Robin." He says as bullet goes through the top of the detonator. I look over to see Ravager standing with his helmet off so that I can see the strong muscular jaw and crew but blonde hair. "This is only the beginning."
"Where's the real trigger?" I demanded, looking at Deathstroke as he got off of the ground.
"Trigger? There is no trigger." He answered as he began to mess with his helmet, puffs of air coming out of the cracks. "Because there is not detonator." The screen changes to a view of seven physics, each one of them with a different size, shape, and a name above it.
BATMAN BATGIRL JAYSON STARFIRE RAVEN BEASTBOY CYBORG
"nanoscopic probes." He said, putting his hand on my shoulder as I looked at the screens. "the Chronotron Detonator was merely the bait for a much larger trap. You see with the push of a button my probes will destroy your friends from the inside out."
"You can't control them." I said, confident in all of them. "No matter what you threaten, they'll never obey you."
"This isn't about them Dick, it's about you, it's always been about you." He said, taking off his helmet to reveal his white short cropped hair, goatee, and a black eye patch. "Sending trouble your way, Leaving cryptic clues for you to unravel. I was testing you. For some time now I've been looking for and apprentice, someone to follow in my footsteps. And Dick, I've chosen you, congradulations."
"What about Ravager?" I asked glaring at the man. "And how do you know my name, who I am?"
"Grant has worked hard, but he doesn't have your natural talent." Deathstroke said, sitting back down in your thrown. "And as for knowing who you are, well, that's why I hate losing. Now if you join me, swear to serve me, if you never speak to your friends again, I will allow them to live. But… if you disobey even the smallest request, I will annihilate them, Dick. And I'll make you watch."
08:00 JUL 17TH 2013 BATCAVEA
"I'M SORRY Bruce, but there's no sign of him anywhere since he fell down that whole." Batgirl said, looking up at the back of her mentor. "The Titans are still trying to contact him, but to no avail."
"Good, this is a matter for the Titans to handle, not the Bats or the League." He said, not even looking back at her.
"Bruce, that's my best friend we're talking, your son." Bat girl said, exasperated at the Dark Knights response. "The Titans are good but they're no match for someone even you couldn't catch."
"I know, which is why I'm asking you to join them." He said, looking back at his protégé. "You said they trust you, so help them find Dick, and that's when I'll get involved."
AN: man that was long, well it was worth it. I made some changes to the fight as well as the chain of command in the Terminators. I hope you enjoyed and even if you didn't, please review.