Right, Ryan finally gets to work on his mission(s). And yes, to those of you shipping Ryan/Rose, yes, there is going to be a bit of flirting too. Everyone's happy!

Also, to XxPhoenix FlightxX, for reminding me of Jericho, I dedicate this chapter to you.

Slade had made Ryan pick his weapons, and had opened his weapons vault. Inside, rows upon rows of armaments, rifles, knifes, swords, pistols, he had almost every weapon in existence.

Ryan poured over them, as Slade told him the rules of being an assassin and Mercenary, mainly "Trust no one."

He finally chose two Kukri knives. Wicked curved knifes sharpened to perfection. Ryan swung the blades gracefully.

"These." He said.

"Kukri? An interesting choice…time to test them out." Slade said, and handed him a photo.

"Her. Take her out, wound her, but don't kill her. Yet."

"Awwwwh! Can I at least bring Rose with me?"

"No."

"Bah."

*scene break*

Jinx had just left the mall; she had at last got over the attack, and had gone to meet Wally, who hadn't turned up. She sighed, It was hardly surprising.

She went down a back alley and just as she was about to get to the other side, a blinding spike of pain shoot through her chest, metallic, sharp, cold. Then the blade was gone, her back was wet from blood, she managed to stagger into the high street, before collapsing.

"She is out of action for now." Wylde, Ryan Wilder spoke into his earpiece.

"And you?"

"She didn't see me."

"Good. You may wish to know that Blinder managed to put Miss Kole in a coma. Meet me back a base as soon as you can. Slade out."

As soon as Slade shut his end off, Ryan tuned into another channel.

"The Pizza place, ten minutes. We need to talk." He spoke into his earpiece.

*scene break*

Five teens had sat down in a group, and to the staff at Rodrigo's, they looked like normal high school kids, talking to each other and laughing every so often.

But they never suspected that they'd be talking about crime.

"Valentin Black." Ryan said, "is our hirer. He is apparently the second most powerful figure in the global crime network. Second only to Vandal Savage. Now what strikes me as odd is, why us? How did he find us, in all the worlds metahumans, why us?"

"We hadn't picked to serve Justice. 'S why." Selinda, aka Shimmer said, cuddling into Tom.

"Ryan states a good point. We're just kids basically, so why us? And why the Titans, as far as I know there are no GCN agents in Jump City." Rose said, her pale blonde hair tied back into a ponytail.

Their pizzas were placed on the counter, ready to be brought over, Michael noticed this and started speaking about college, motioning his eyes toward the counter, the others followed suit until the pizzas were brought to them.

"One million per Titan. That is how much we are being offered. So…my question is….is it worth it? Less than four million each, and we'll be hunted for the rest of our lives, is that really what anyone here wants?"

There was a collective murmur of "No."

"Then we carry on not killing them. When the time is right, we leave. We will be Darksiders, yet walk in the dawn."

Just then, Robin walked into Rodrigo's, and began asking the manager questions. He didn't notice the group of teens. Nor did he notice that, as they walked out, Rose placed a tracker on him.

The group split up, Selinda and Tom, Ryan and Rose and Michael, smirked as he said he had better things to do than listen to two couples making out.

As they were walking back to base, Rose asked Ryan what he thought of the other Terrors.

"Selinda has skill, but her powers are a bit useless. Michael's power just helps him never be noticed, which doesn't seem to be a change, and Toms a pyromaniac." He said.

"And me?" She asked, almost purring her question.

"I…er…" He stammered. " I think you're wonderful, graceful in combat, graceful when you are being Rose, not Ravager. You are also very..um…pretty." He said, trying not to blush.

"Awww. Love you too tough guy." She said.

*scene break*

It was about one in the morning when, the Terrors finally dragged themselves into bed, but not before Slade got angry beyond angry with one of them…

Ryan and Rose where the last to go to their rooms, and when the duo reached Roses room, where she turned to look at him, and smiled. Ryan thought it was a nice smile, nit an animalistic, feral one. It was Rose smiling, not Ravager.

"Goodnight then." She said, and began to turn to go, but Ryan put his hand on her cheek, and lent in, and placed a a kiss on her lips. In her mind, Ravager was screaming in fury, but Rose kissed him back, and she loved it.

Well, she loved the kiss, not so what came next.

Slade had turned up, and when he saw Ryan and Rose kissing, he lost it. He ran at Ryan, and start to throw punches at him, Ryan managed to block most of them, then Ravager-Rose placed he knife at Slade's throat.

"Do not punch my boyfriend again father." She said.

"You're learning." Slade murmured. With that, he went down the hallway, and went into his room.

"He seems pissed." Ryan remarked.

Rose pulled him up, opened her door, and pulled him in afterward.

Around midnight, Michael slammed on Rose's door and yelled:

"KEEP THE FUCK DOWN WILL YOU? PEOPLE ARE TRYING TO SLEEP HERE!"

So there you go,

Until next time…

Cult'r out.