A/N:: OMG it's been like six months or MORE since I updated this! I am so sorry once again. But a update is a update. Please don't hurl bricks at me!? *cowers in a corner* I have to go over some notes again. I know exactly where I want to go with this, but I had some notes with some extra stuff.

Sorry for all the little mistakes... I've reread this thing a few times now and it's been sitting on my hard drive for about a month now... I guess you can say it's filler. The whole Geist/temple/thing... is coming up to a conclusion... and I swear something cool will happen. Just a little patience is needed.

Anywho where it is. Enjoy and drop me a review I want to know what you all are thinking!

EDIT: 01/09/2022 - Fixing any typos and bringing this over from FFnet to Ao3,

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Freedom, it was a sweet thing freedom. No ropes to bind her, no annoying red headed lady to bicker at her side. It was good, if only she could get out of this damn place it would be all the better. It was bloody hot in there, sure the whole area was hot as hell... but the broken old temple seemed to be more "stuffy" as she would put it. Or maybe it was from all that work she did to actually free herself. Either or, she could use a drink. "A nice cold imported beer" was what her mind told her. That was the good stuff. Sariel could almost taste the beverage on her lips just from thinking of it.

A cold beer… and a soft bed. Now that was the stuff of the heavens. "Back to reality, booze later." she mentally scolded herself.

The young lady had freed herself from her bonds and was now on the verge of getting away, as far away from this hell hole that she could. She couldn't get distracted now, not when she was so close to obtaining that freedom. At this point she didn't even know what the hell was going on. How Ms. Warchild, the red headed bitch, found out about her on goings? Was her friend in danger? She had no clue. Gus was just a kid, well a much younger kid then her. They had been working side by side for a long time now. Kid was a god damn good hacker, and had the best feed on any intel you could ever want. He had some pretty amazing talent going for him. Sariel knew if anything Gus would cover his tracks well, so nothing could ever be traced back to him. Even if Sariel got found out. That was the deal. She got in, he collect the information she found. Simple really. But… no matter how good he was, there was always that chance. She would have to rendezvous with him later, in the meantime she hoped he was ok.

Momentarily she knew she needed to lay low… that's when it hit her. "Robin?" A few curse words popped into mind when she thought of the boy wonder. Where the fuck was he? When she went to trade in the camels for vehicles she had sent one of her men with him to call the Titans. "I wonder if he ever got through…?" She then briefly wondered if he was alive and well… with all the commotion going on, she pondered on what the hell happened to him? She had to find out once she got back into town… if she had time. If the ben Elohim were still around… damn she was going to have to find him. She couldn't let him go after them. It sounded like something he would do. He wouldn't be able to handle it. Hero or no, these guys were out of the boy wonders league.

Making a sharp turn Sariel saw a figure running in her direction, there wasn't a lot of light in the area, so without asking any questions she grabbed the figure and thrust him against the wall, her fist ready to beat the mans head into the wall behind him if necessary.

"Sariel?"

"Robin?"

"Yes.."

"What the fuck are you doing here?" Her eyes searched heros face. It was him, no doubt about it.

She let go of the hero.

"I came to get you! Sariel… what the hell is going on?"

Robin dusted himself off. He really shouldn't of been running, maybe he was a little over zealous, but he really just wanted to get in and out. At least his target was found unharmed.

"I'll explain later, but right now we need to get out of here."

Robin curtly nodded. "Agreed."

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"Where are you hiding little soldier?" Geist hovered his way through the ruins looking for his prey... "Come out and play. Hide and seek is such a boring game."

Asif, on the other hand was far more than willing to play this little game of hide and seek. Especially hiding. He wasn't that good at taking on his enemy with hand to hand combat. He was an intelligence officer with a damn good aim with pretty much any kind of gun. Although he did favor the sniper rifle. Hiding out for days to shoot down the enemy. That was something from his days in the military... Although no matter how silent of a sniper he was, he still had a knack for finding trouble, and trouble he did find the day he found Sariel, or rather she found him. She and a small unit were sent to take control of a cargo ship which at the time, he was stationed on. They were smuggling weapons out of the united states... stolen weapons. To feed the arms war in the middle east. She and her unit killed nearly everyone on board.

Some were set free. Most were killed. When she found him he thought he was going to die that day. But she had other plans.

It was him... he wasn't the officer in command. But she must of had intel on them all, she knew that he knew things... info that she could use... Intel he had collected for his current employer, and he knew most definitely it was also intel she could use. She came for him that night.

The choice was simple. Defect or die.

At first it bothered him, but as he got to know his new boss... he began to have a little bit of faith in the world once again. Sariel and her own boss did things their way. And although at times cruel, in the end it help more than it harmed.

Thoughts aside Asif quietly moved from behind the broken jeep, quickly rolled, and flattened himself against the wall of the temple itself.

"I see you"

The solider turned his head only to see his enemy seemingly emerge from nothing. He cursed himself that moment. Asif knew Geist was something on a different level, he also knew this was beyond his capabilities, but to give his boss some time, he would stand his ground.

"Nowhere left to run hrmmm?"

Upholstering his gun he quickly took a shot. Only to miss. The unworldly character stepped ever closer to him, and Asif kept firing shots, swearing he hit him, that he should be dead on the floor by now with a puddle of blood under him. But no... he was not. Geist at some point decided to plant his feet on the found, and was now walking slowly towards him.

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A kick to the head sent one to the floor. The other two quickly raised their weapons and readied their guns to fire. Slade didn't even flinch. He pulled a combat knife from his belt and quickly tackled one of the men, having the man aim his gun at his partner and fired at his legs. He then bent the man over and punged his combat knife right into his leg, specifically the area between bone and the kneecap. He took the man's gun from him and hitched it to his belt. The other he kicked across the room and then proceed to knock the first one out, with a good well placed kick to the head. The other had already passed out from the pain.

And just like that the fight was over.

Slipping back into his guise and state of mind as Sergei, Slade went back to the upper floor in hopes of catching his apprentice in action. He might as well let the boy take charge for a little while. Perhaps he already found Jillain's little granddaughter and was already heading out of the building into... well it warzone out there. There was no safety even beyond these walls.

Slade smirked at the thought. All of this, this entire world, it would change Robin for the rest of his life. And he would thank Slade for it in the future.

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"We need to go and help Asif."

"Wait, he's alive?" Sariel said with a glint of happiness in her eyes as she looked around for an soldiers "You brought along that kid?" she smirked.

"More like he found me... he knew where you were."

The two were making there way down into the courtyard of the temple, it's halls had become derelict, all but for the soldiers that now loitered the once sacred place. The two took cover as they spotted a rather large group of armed men. Sariel huffed, "There is another problem." Sariel looked to the young hero. "And that would be...?"

"Some guy named Geist. I left Asif out there... Damn it all I shouldn't of done that."

Sariel gave a chuckle, but he noticed how the color drained from her cheeks. She looked a little pale at the mention of the man in white "Shit... Asif... he's one damn good shot... but against Geist. We need to take care of these guys. Now! We need to help out the kid, and get Geist and us as far from each other as we can."

"What the hell is he?"

"Geist?" Sariel raised a brow at the young man to her right. "He's no superhero... no Superman or Batman. But he's surreal. One would call him a medium. He communicates with the dead. They also say he's very old, meddled with some crazy ass occult like stuff, made him stop ageing. Some weird ass shit like that."

Robin sighed. "Another group of weird crazy super villains..."

"Not really... The ben Elohim has been around... for a long time. More like a secret society."

"Super villain group."

Sariel leered at ther boy wonder and then cocked her head towards the armed men beyond the safety of their current hiding spot.

"Lots of them... any ideas?"

"I dunno, but I like to think we can take these guys on."

"Charge in?" She smirked at the boy wonder. "Even without all your gizmos?"

He returned it. "Don't think I have any talent do you?"

"Less talk, more action."

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Good god I am so sorry once again for like taking 6 months... I'm trying to keep this story going. It's hard, I SOOOO want to finish this story and I will... even if it takes me forever!

Thanks again all!

-Fangy