Teen Titans Presents- Robin; Torn Legacy of a Prodigal Son –
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Chapter 11: Covert Ops and Hot Spots
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Ah, so pausing for this if I may? We have some very Young Justice JLA vibes to come and so…. will the Batman show? And noted; Roy and Canary have been fighting Ravager for close to about an hour trying to catch him and pin the clown down. They are worn down, yet Grant has the serum so…
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Tripping the alarms was not an option.
The guards had sparks coming off of their suits as a prowling night – bird got its dues in the security room.
Click.
A good burglar knew how to get in.
Swiping up his gear, the feet moved as lightening through those dim lit halls.
And…
A door flung itself back with one click of a key card being activated.
~Get the data off the computer, don't take the suit. Leave it, he said. Download the file to the drive in your pack. ~
Dick cocked a brow at his orders given through the informant speaking through his ear piece.
"Why?"
A scene of turmoil was to come, but not before the door slammed shut from behind.
Out.
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Back outside of the lab, by the parking garage or under it….
"Fooled you good, Song – bird!"
Black Canary cracked her knuckles and swung in, while Roy Harper drove his arrow at the enemy with a hooded face in heavy duty armor.
"Ravager's the name. I take full credit in bamboozling' you chumps." Snickering, the kid pulled out a device.
"He planted-
BOOM!
Like father like son, the Ravager was onto a very good week as he nudged an unconscious Canary's arm with his boot. Roy though, wouldn't fall.
"Drop the toy, kid – side kicked."
Grant snorted at the archer, who right now was on his own.
"Getting ansty? Alright." Ravager tugged out his staff, twirling it over his head - only the tip could electrocute a bull elephant. "Wanna dance? Then let me, lead!" He came at Roy but swerved by. Butting the brat in the back of the skull as the archer cried out.
Where was Ollie???
"Aww…. baby need his nap – nap time?" Taunting Grant before he swung out with that menacing grin and unbridled power.
"Allow me to turn off the lights."
THWACK !
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Terra's victory was at hand. She and Raven had worked as on unit to lift the Teen Titans' tower from the end – Slade had left just in time to get a close distance; he wasn't about to hand over his word entirely to either child, though Robin would have to do a bit better in not getting caught.
He swapped channels, and then he was out the door.
"Damnit…"
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"Hands where I can see them, Renegade."
Dick turned his back to whomever had decided to play hero.
In a Flash.
~Oh….is that the side kick? Kick, him! Before –
"Is that informant not very smart?"
"Kid Flash. Where's your boss?" Smirked the boy wonder as he let his arms come up, back to the speedster's messenger boy.
"He's out on JLA business, and you?"
"My own, apparently." Dick shrugged. Talk it out, just one click and he was gone.
"Aha…so, well. I have to take you to jail now –
"Like a good boy scout, Kid?"
"That's rich, coming from a former hero." Snipped the speedster. "Come on, R –
"Don't move!"
The thermal blaster?
That was…
Dick had gone along with Slade to have it fixed, to have the repairs for his benefit for when he finally pulled a real trigger. Hands in front of his face, KF was also one with a habit to stall and slow down criminals.
But, blackmailed heroes….
KF was just target practice for the other protégé.
"You let me go, and I don't turn you into smoldering particles." Dick threatened, seeing KF's eyes widening through his yellow and white masked eye holes.
"You…. wouldn't, would you?"
"Not up for debate. Move, or I won't hold back."
He wasn't firing, he was stalling.
He didn't want to hurt anyone, then.
"Slade." Wally West fell his mouth go bone dry. "He got you, huh. Just like when he stole the machine that hurt your friends from this lab."
Dick's hands started to tighten even harder.
"It doesn't matter; he won; I have to do this. Move, KF."
"Or, then you become a criminal? I take you down?"
~ Apprentice! ~
Dick's hands shook around the gun, he froze up…
No. How…
The informant. Damn!
~ Attack the speedster. The side kick can't get any help, not from you or his mentor…DO IT. ~
KF snickered and pointed at the other's boy's ear. It made a lot of noise for something so expensive.
"That's your –
"Bah!"
Dick shot out with the blaster; a bit lopsided purposely as he then turned to shoot at an air vent above his head. The blast went in throwing KF off his game, while Dick got a grappler out to hoist himself into the dusty vents for his "narrow" escape to go off without a hitch.
"Ah…. I'm on it!" Wally zipped to where the vents ended and started to make a whirlwind with his arms, directing the blast to the vents as the force did not pull, yet pushed poor Dick back out –
Not before he was tumbling in mid- air and blasted the wall to the outside, where Dick imagined a flashback in his mind of Slade stealing the probes' device from this same location. He shook off the annoying day dream and let the wall be destroyed, long enough to know ….
He had to jump, and the drop was quite up there. No Slade, not a bot….
He saw a clear glint in the distant sky and sighed. Landing in a crouch, quickly he made up his mind.
One step.
Wally zoomed in, yet he was one step too short as Dick willingly took the plunge, the data file secured as he wasn't ready to be caught in a free fall.
But not by the one person he would have liked, had he hoped to stay out of the spotlight once more.
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"We shall then, have a celebratory –
"Wait, star! Turn on the TV!" Cy ran into the room, panting.
The team frowned. This had to be bad news…
~ IN other news today; a band of covert criminal minds took down the heroes Kid Flash, Black Canary and Speedy in a strikingly desperate turn of events out in Star City. The reporter on sight had this to add… ~
~ Yes, Julie. It was a young man the citizens claimed. The attackers were after top secret info being held at STAR labs - the young man, who jumped out of this building's broken-down wall, into the air, was caught by another masked teenager in battle armor and was pulled up inside of a black military style helicopter. The suspected "agents" made their escape and authorities are still on the lookout for what we have now discovered…. ah, as Ravager and …Renegade, who was spoken about as being the new heir of the criminal network in Jump City and a criminal that's called, I believe, Slade…. ~
Gar swallowed painfully at the image on that plasma.
"Oh no…"
"No!" Starfire gasped and dropped her bowl of mixing ingredients for their celebratory feast. She flew out the door to her room, weeping all the way.
This was a very sad day indeed, as Terra finally understood. As the Titans told her about their former leader.
Now a known criminal in more than two states…
She almost started to feel guilty, and why was the question?? Slade was her teacher too...but…
Was that why he had cared? Was that why her conscience was catching up to the earth mover? The fake Titan and mole of that same man who'd made her competition front page news in only a few hours??
Slade, was the one who'd done this…but….
Did she really have a right to say anything?
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"Terra's hiding something from us."
Raven saw Bb sputter as she spoke of his love sick little interest.
"Rae…are you saying she's not one of us?? She helped us stop Slade –
"She was able to show up, right before Slade sent Robin to steal for him from STAR labs." Raven shot at the hero. "Beast boy; I have this, feeling that Terra isn't what she appears to be. You have to trust me; I want to help her but Robin is still in danger."
"You think she…"
His ears fell. "I'll watch out for her, but I won't go and interrogate a friend. She's had it rough ever since…"
"Slade." Raven rubbed her arms, sighing. "I just want us to be careful. Sometimes, these feelings I have hold a purpose." She lowered her hood and looked her friend in the eye. "And I need to know that you'll also make the right choice, should Slade be involved in her return."
(I'm making a swap here. If Raven had more of a hunch than the series, and if she came to BB when Dick ended up getting seen on TV. Well, Slade's got a lot of splainin' to do!)
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Terra turned a corner and was sure now, she was roped into this. She could get back at Slade, stop the Titans from getting hurt. She had to fight dirty.
Any way she could.
"Master Slade…we have a problem." Her video chat link had connected and the face popped up on it, and to her woe be it…
Robin, was being punished for them both.
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~ Ravager; that's enough. Let him down. He's gotten enough of our full attention. ~
She gasped and held a hand to her lips.
"He…. you didn't have to beat him up like that! I'm still –
~ GOING to keep your mouth SHUT. My, dear…. Renegade brought this onto himself for ending up in an important city headline. You just go about your day and I'll be sure to notify you in the meantime –
"But –
The screen went to black as Terra sat and hugged her knees to her chest. When they'd gotten back, the heroes had made sure to set Terra up with her own spot in the tower. Her own room, and yet….
She cowered, not wanting to look away…seeing his beaten face as Ravager only managed to hold back on his strong hits.
Dick was in danger, that was what everyone here had said. While she, felt worse for even wanting to know more about the former boy wonder…
She fought her own emotions back to avoid Raven's powers over her mind. She had to – in the end, she'd tell them…but.
A yawn escaped the blonde's lips.
Right now, she was just….as beat as he was…
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Boots did not tap, yet instead, clapping.
Hands, and not two sets.
But one pair.
His master's.
"Why…. turn Terra against you –
"She's none of your concern." Dick was quieted by the man's words immediately.
"You took that well, I must say. I though Ravager could train you to take a better hit…I wonder if that was correct."
"Must be, DS." Shrugged the man's true son. "Dick here is in his A – game. He shot his first fire arm, even if he's afraid to admit it. Welcome to the pack –
"I didn't…hit him –
"You might have, had that aim not been so sloppy." Slade was patronizing him? Dick lowered his eyes, yet Slade dragged that skull up by the boy's dark roots to never look away.
"I give the orders, boy. If I tell you to crawl, you crawl. If I tell you to dive, go for it. And it I tell you to attack a Teen Titan?"
Dick gritted his jaw from the pain in his temples, Slade's breath on his face through the grate of that copper mask.
"Show no mercy. We're done for today. Have Wintergreen bring your things and get washed up before supper."
Dick was let go as Grant came over to help the boy wonder to standing, somewhat forcefully.
"I can do it myself." Dick grumbled and walked off in a light limp, yet it was plain to see.
When Grant and Slade were left all alone, Slade stomped over to his son –
And threw a punch to the kid's unsuspecting face.
He hit the floor and growled like a big cat in a pile of its litter. Unable to break free as Slade tugged the boy's arms behind his back and forced his kid to stay and listen to a word of advice from daddy dearest.
"Next time I say to keep your lips sealed, I expect you to obey as well…if you EVER want to have the right to be what I am –
"What if I don't, pops?"
Slade's eye blinked. "What? Then, why did you beat on my door for me to let you in? Why did you forsake your old teachers' words of wisdom to come and work for me!?"
"Ow! OW! I did it…for them!"
Dick….
What did –
Slade snarled and wrenched the kid to his feet, dangling like a wimpy sea prawn in his hands.
"WHAT did that boy wonder tell you, heh? That you had some good in you? That you had a chance in getting your revenge?" Slade hissed tauntingly in his son's good ear.
"You work for me until I think you can ever surpass me, regain MY legacy that you already sulied with that kind of nonsense. Richard just brought me the exact tool I need to see to all three of your tantrums."
Grant looked up, his lungs battered as Slade tossed his own son into a heap, a cradled stomach still a bt of a bother despite the kid's healing factor.
"You…. cared…. once…"
"Once, was a long time ago, Grant." Slade turned to his screens. Terra was inn a lump on the bed, her bed. Raven was planning behind the girl's back…troublesome. And…. What was the Batman doing in his city…?
Slade turned to the screens fully, then let his voice carry.
"Alright, Ravager." Slade said in a short huff. "If you'd rather make things up to me."
He turned to Grant, eye glinting as the masked boy's were tarnished full of his hatred for all heroes.
"Damage the Bat. I won't tell you how to do it, but make it difficult for out rodent friend to manage…"
Grant's old persona fell away as his latest pain took hold, his knees still on the floor as he grinned, eyes masking the evil in his heart.
"What about if I give him a mental shocker, pops? And guessy - -what; I know the perfect kiddo to go up in flames for the job." He snickered and pointed to his own chest, mind coming as undone as Harley Quin's during an ugly break up with Mista' J.
"Put in the game coach!! I won't let you down! Ah, and then let's give the bat a round of applause for makin' it this far…"
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"Master Renegade? Dick?"
Wintergreen had seen the trail of blood and knew this was not at all uncommon for Slade to punish…. But it had another trail to follow.
Right out a secured door, with bots completely sparking and gutted as Wintergreen picked at his COMM devices in his ears to switch them on.
"He's run off again, sir."
A crackle of static, and then a grunt.
~I have someone already about to take him back, Will. Just be patient. ~
"Very good, Sir. Shall I set up the kettle this time?" Slade would be watching the big game on his screens of the entire event. He had to keep the merc's blood pressure down someway in case the Bat came out second to none…
~ As you wish, Wintergreen. Make it a pot of "Dragonwell" this time. I'm going to need to bring the heat if Grant fails me, for the BAT…. ~
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The next chapter will be dark. Basing it off of The Batman cartoon from 2004. Such raw grit in that show – Ron Perlman played Killer Croc and it was too much…sigh. Find out what happens to Terra, Batman, Dick and lastly? This is the chapter right before in rebel yell when Dick ends up implanted with the chip Slade uses in Puddles of mud. He is hurt, but Robin is a fast healer, and stubborn. Let's see if Grant gets a little unreal with his father's enemies.