A/N: I KNOW I KNOW! It's been how long? Like 11 months and no update. No the story is not dead... I do want to keep working on it, but work is crazy... life has been a nuthouse and oh yea I actually started working on my own webcomic... So that's taken up a lot of my time away from other projects like this one. But awhile ago, like randomly I got some faves and follows on this thing again and I was like OMG people still want to read it. So here, here is another chapter. I PROMISE I will try and update again, probably not until 2018 tho'...so a few weeks away.

Thanks all!

EDIT: Updated it a bit, fixing types and whatnot as I transfer all these chapters over to Ao3.

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Heavy footfalls made their way from one room to another. The floor giving away it's age with small loud creaks. It could easily notify anyone near that there was someone in the room. But Slade couldn't come to care.

He had found the room where he thought perhaps Jillian's granddaughter was once held hostage... but found that it was vacant. It would seem that either his apprentice had acquired his target, or the damsel in distress could truly handle herself.

Overall things seemed to be going... odd.

In all honesty Slade was not expecting all of this. Perhaps a little resistance from Robin, but this whole warzone with this "secret society"... well it was a little more then what he had planned. A war zone sure, training Robin in the middle of a warzone was the perfect idea. Him making friends with Sariel? It was unexpected, but not entirely unwelcome. This group of misfits they were currently fighting against? All together a waste of time. He had never heard of these "ben Elohim". Slade scoffed at the name. "The Sons of God." Where they some military with no nation? Or where they truly some sort of Secret Society. Which would explain why Slade had never heard of them before. And coming from a Society of Villains himself... well he knew all about secrets. But this group seemed to go to the extreme.

He had to admit they were something new and altogether interesting, and very intriguing. But still an intrusion. However it mattered little, he was at Robins side, and Robin unknowingly was at his, as it should be. In time it would become permanent.

The knowledge that he should meet back up with his apprentice soon is what tugged him away from the scattered remains of the chair and ropes that once bound Jillian's granddaughter. Therefore, quietly he made his way back to the center of the cumbling temple in hopes to meet up with Robin and Sariel.

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"There is a lot... Twenty or more. Fully armed. You sure you want to go out there?" Sariel smiled at the young hero.

"I can dodge some bullets, I come from Gotham remember?" he flashed a smirk back at the young woman.

"Yes I know... We do this, just don't get hurt ok, I can only cover you for so long. The idea is to get to Asif and get us as far away from Geist as fast as we can, ok?"

"Yea." Robin nodded. "One more thing though, there is a Russian man in here as well. Some sort of old military ver." Sariel gave him a odd look. "Russian you say? Maybe he just wanted to help... Yemen and Russia has some strong ties right now so it's not to surprising I suppose. You want to wait for him?"

Robin shook his head. "He seems like the type that can handle himself." Little did Robin know how right he was. "The main priority right now is helping Asif and getting out of this mess alive."

"I concur, let's do this!"

"No shots to the head, no killing." Robins look was stern.

Sariel sighed. "But they would gladly kill you, ya know?"

"I know. Count of three ok?"

The young woman could of rolled her eyes. "Yea" she muttered. "We'll play it your way, for now." She would give into the hero's ideas and stick to his plan of no murder and mayhem... unless it was truly needed. Then she'd do as she pleased. But for now she would play hero with the Boy Wonder.

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Shot in the knee, they didn't see it coming. Slade was looking down into the court yard when the chaos broke loose. Another and another where shot in non fatal areas as Robin knocked out the guards with expect precision. "Still following your old rules eh boy?" the criminal thought to himself. He chuckled a bit. Jillains granddaughter he had to admit was magnificent with a gun, she weaved herself into that deadly dance with no issues. She was probably doing pop shots on Robins behalf.

With a smirk Slade left the balcony to make his way downstairs.

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He had to admit, Robin was pretty impressed with Sariels aime. She was deadly that was for sure. And it just made him want to show off his own skills a little more. Almost like a competition. Then he remembered where he was and Robin shook the thoughts away, if this was back in Jump City, she wouldn't be shooting at peoples legs as he rendered them unconscious. No, they'd be training together against robots and working out in the gym. Not that he would every introduce the Titans to Sariel... She was more of one of those people that you kept far far away from all your other friends. And family. Bruce would definitely not approve of her.

But still as he weaved his way through the men and plunged his fist into their heads as he leapt from one to the other, he couldn't help but wonder what the Titans would of think of him and his new acquaintance in this situation. They would probably want to put her behind bars and that kind of made him feel sad in a way. They wouldn't understand her, nor her fight. Not that he agreed with it. But by now he thinks he has just a little more then a grasp on her thought process.

Sariel did not follow the rules. She bent them to her will. And possibly it didn't always go her way. But she still stood against them.

"There is more coming!" She bellowed.

Robin looked to the side, she was correct. How many were there? Before he knew it there was another small unit that had come around the corner. Robin briefly wondered where they had been before now. Did they just get called in as back up?

"We gotta get outta here! Robin! Watch out!"

One of the soldiers, leg shot and bleeding, stood up and ignored his pain and charged at the Boy Wonder. Robin ducked his attack however, and then grabbed his arm, placing it behind him and then kneed the man in the stomach, leaving him on the ground groaning in pain.

"We don't have much time we-"

BOOOOOOM!

"What the-" was all he thought before he saw the silhouette of a man in the opening of the blasted door frame. And from the rubble and smoke that filtered the area inside the temple, Geist walked in with Asif slung over his shoulder.

"Having all this fun without me?" the man in white smirked at the two before he promptly dropped Asif's unconscious body to his feet. "Your friend did not fare well against the likes of me. Useless little soldier. Why do you employ him Sariel?"

"What have you done to him?" She was mad, Robin could feel it flowing off of her, and absently thought that perhaps this is what his team mates felt when he was angry. "Nothing" Geist said with a smirk and a shrug. "He lives... for now." The man yawned, "He was... quite a boring opponent. But you Sariel, you and your little friend, now that will be some entertainment yes?"

Robin scowled. He wanted to fight them. This was not going to go down well. Robin hated to admit it, but he was sure hoping Sergai would show up eventually.

The man in white walked forward a little bit and gestured to the outside world through the door he had created. "You have given me all the weapons I need." He smirked at them before placing a hand on his hip, his stance was carefree, his eyes overlooking the men that lay before him. He frowned at them, these ones all seemed to be still alive. Robin looked over to Sariel, her face told him enough. She knew what was coming next and from her expression he knew he was not going to like it.

"Being a medium gives me so many opportunities. Speaking with the dead, controlling the dead even. Do tell little Sariel, do you remember your unit? Your men? How you took care of them, how you made sure that everyone made it out alive each and every little thrilling adventure you took. They were your responsibility and you failed them."

Robin narrowed his eyes at the man before them. Sariel stood silently, although he could still feel the rage coming from her. "They are pretty mad you right now. Did you want to see them again? To hear their cries of agony, to hear their words of spite? Their bodies may be rotting away outside but their souls are very much still here. Let's all have a chat shall we?"

The room suddenly got very dark, it almost reminded him of Ravens shadows that could cover entire areas if she saw fit. Robin readied himself. For he knew the only way out of this place was to fight this man, win over him and they would be able to escape. They could still win this he assured himself. They had to.

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I'm gonna try and update again, without so many months in between a update.

Thanks again guys, please please leave a review, I want to know what your thoughts are.

-Fangy