Teen Titans – Severing Old Bonds – Sibling Rivalries –
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Chapter 4: Je suis Desolee! (And What a Shame it is…)
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Pardon my little throw in there, learning off of Memrise and boy…what a test I had! Anyway, on with??
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Paris, Portugal, Venice and Madrid.
Where.
Where was that pack of rats??
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She could stomp her feet, but it wasn't her job to scowl at the competition.
~ If I could do what we did to dad –
"You can't." Sneered the one in charge, his sword clanking on his hip as he walked the cockiest walk to where his national treasure right now was being kept. (Noted; Rose is linked with him telepathically and Joey will soon discover this reason as well. Also, Grant is loco…so?)
After all, he'd won daddy's love or would once his pops had their approval ratings to go up…
The masked quack let the doors slide back. There, in a seat of metallic chrome, was the villain's currently captive, co – captain.
"Rosie! You didn't tell me you ordered a hit? What's the rush, mama?"
"You, will not touch me or Jericho." She snapped at the coward in blue and orange red. As she was, her attire was gold and black. She'd tried to run and Grant didn't like being outdone by the younger cannon fodder on their team. So, he set the record straight by keeping her by him. Taking control of her powers and outside connections.
In fact…
No one had told him why he'd needed to be sedated by his team. (Last chapter of previous arc.)
Why Wintergreen refused to tell the little turd about Rose and DS making it big.
Or why he was rarely allowed on those missions even once he'd been properly kept…well? Sane!
Well, not anymore!
"You are going to get over your jealous streak….cause didn't you catch me a circus full of animals to do our dirty work for us!"
"I didn't want to be a part of anything!" Rose rebutted. " You dragged me from my bed DEMANDING I link with my REAL brother and take revenge on our father and the Titans!"
"Then, tell me Rose…" The eldest Wilson turned to his captive and quirked a dirty blonde brown at her.
"Why didn't he come back to save you this time?"
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~ Rose is in danger. ~
Jericho blinked awake, Raven at his arm. Her eyes were just as wide, and as Elijah had said…
They'd be seeing a lot more of that very soon.
"You…Rose?"
Raven looked at Joey as he shook his head, trying to sign his confusion to the empath. ~ My sister is not in her own control. Just as I thought, and our father…made them both angry. I can't let Rose take the fall for this…~
"This fellow is uncouth for a…what was he? Some hunter or –
"A Mercenary gone Crime Lord in our town." Cy told the kid with a contemptuous snarl. "Slade's had alter egos in every city. He can move without bein' spotted by the JLA and has diplomatic immunity like they just hand it to em without even tryin..."
"Metropolis, Vancouver, Berlin." Raven counted off.
"He has helped to eliminate the enemies of some most foul organizations in the known quadrant. I had even realized this was possible due to his "meta" person powers and valued or gifted super human abilities. He acquired them during a war as a solider, we learned of this in our last battle..." Starfire forgot that her fists were clenched, yet Jenny saw.
"He was our nemesis for a long time. Took a lot of lives…even hurt Titans like this new guy is doing to us." BB frowned; he was still thinking about Terra. About what Slade would never apologize for doing to her in a million more years.
"He was, clever and strong. Two things that made him hard to take on all, alone…" Dick gripped the wall and wanted to say that he already had. But that was far from the reality, while Eli could read his mind if he wanted to.
Still, a bit creepy…
"Yet, Robin." Starfire cooed and put a gentle hand to her boy friend's cheek, the whole group watching. Jenny had put on her goggles to see the couple in a sharper focus. "You are never, alone." Starfire reminded; a replay of the time of the reagent. The time Slade had absolutely gotten what he'd come for.
A reaction. A test, and Dick had not told the heroes the whole truth from that night. That last mission, he'd been so close. That Slade had some time before Trigon put him to work. Who else in only THAT room, could have pulled out a taser and stayed alive when the monitor had gone bonkers?
He'd not told that to his team, then maybe someday.
Raven eyed Robin, as did Eli. Both on one another's motives, Raven was wise enough to see that Snow was no regular esper.
He could see everything if not more than she could.
"Slade was a monster, nothing to debate there. Oh, right then; Mate? We ready to set off?"
Jenny turned a crank as her arm got ready to still. The deed done, she hopped down and out of the ship's main controls. "Only one way to find out!" She grinned and pointed at Cy. "You've gotta test this contraption out, see if I did a bang up job with the ship's external repairs as well as internal."
"Okay..." Cy moved along the walk until he was up on the lift, ready to see to the Titans' mode of transportation. "You sure know your way around a high tech piece of equipment…how long? C'mon! Did you…whoa! She gave the T – jet a major upgrade!" Jenny beamed proudly as Cy was too busy fan – boying it all over the place. "If you ever get to come to Cali, you and I are gonna do the math. I can't believe it. A'right!"
"Cyborg's happy, so…can we go now?" Raven turned to Argent and Robin who seemed to both be relived as well. "Yeah, Titans? We set off with the new coordinates in just a few minutes. Argent, I can't thank you enough." He turned to the gothic Aussie heroine. "No problem, mate! I'm here if you need any support on your next mission."
"The" Friend Argent will not be the joining us?" Starfire asked the pair.
"Argent's needed in case anymore Titans go missing, Starfire." Dick explained. "She's on the front lines for now, but we still have some... ones…who are volunteering for going on this mission."
"I'm only coming to put a dent in this, mysterious puppeteer." Eli shrugged.
"And I am bound to be by his side for a very long time!" Jenny chimed in. "Eli here is useless on his bloody own -
"Oy! Did I say that calling me that wasn't –
"But Elijah or Mr. Snow is so… booring!" She moaned out loud.
"I THINK, THAT YOU AREN'T OLD ENOUGH TO PILOT A JET!"
~ I think I learned at age fourteen…~ Joey raised a hand and telepathically spoke. ~ Mostly due to my overshadowing others with CONTACT. ~
"Good for you then." Sardonically replied Eli. "We can all have such a good time knowing that…yet Jenny here is a live – wire – kamikaze daredevil!!"
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Man was cowardly before his time…
Gunshots blew up in his face, but none hit their target -whizzing through Kevlar and a complex most indestructible as he.
They took from me…
Grenade. Should do the trick, so he chucked it, the rounds done from here.
"HYAAA!!!"
"Shinobi…my ass!!" He swung, into flesh as the blades snared the muscle's live catch.
"Tell me where he's taken her!!" The rest was brutal. Hit after hit, until the assassin failed wildly.
" Daijōbu! ! Joō wa koko ni inai, ika sete kure! Genbatsu ni shoshimasu…"
Slade didn't care, the man had run across the wrong parent today. He SHOULD be…
"Who Hired you to take me out?" The scruff of the assassin's outfit was starting to slip. Then again…
"Crazy… mononoke! Fine! She is… pant*….in Japan, away from our real targets."
"Good, so…." Slade dangled his catch over the ledge of a great fall down. Stories, and he wanted to know what else this feeble-minded employee was hiding.
"Tell your sensei that you should live, and that if I get the wrong answers…"
The assassin was let go, choking as he waited out his sentence.
"Then I'll be the one to end you both."
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Actual targets…. real.
Slade sped off as he contacted Wintergreen and Addie. The call and his message, short and sweet.
"I think I've found their new base, and we won't be alone on this mission. Heading back to the safe house now."
He had to shower off the blood right away.
His flight would be leaving soon since Slade Wilson, was officially headed for Tokyo.