Thanks to everyone all so much. Yes I'm still posting this to Ao3 before here...

ON WITH THE STORY!

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Raven could not believe the amount of intel the Batman had obtained regarding the horrors his own ward had committed. She skimmed through the file before her multiple times thinking it a lie. But no matter how many times she read it, the number of people that Robin had killed and the atrocities he had participated in remained the same. It wasn't a trick and Raven knew Batman wouldn't just send them a faulty drive or mix up Robins information with another. He was too good for that. With the information aside, all that remained was the constant nagging question of why Robin had betrayed them in the first place? They all wanted to know what it was that made him turn his back to them. Why throw away his life as a hero? But this... to find out he had killed, no murdered, so many people. What had changed in him and drove him to these extremes?

Hatred, anger, sorrow, depression, trauma. All of these events that he was in left their mark. Raven bowed her head and closed her eyes as she remembered her own emotions, telling herself to keep them in check. And she knew that if she didn't, she too may of done such acts of horror. Even the best of us fall. But it seemed when Robin picked himself up, he didn't bother rectify the reasoning for why he fell in the first place. It was as if he just didn't care anymore. She also knew that Slade himself had a hand in Robin's ultimate downfall. This was of course what the man had wanted the first time around. A student he could mold, to train.

She knew she would have to share this information, she knew she couldn't wait. The Batman would want them all to see this, this is why he gave them the file. So they could overlook it themselves. It was a warning. They could either keep getting themselves involved and face off against their former leader and help bring him to Justice, or they could turn back now and keep the Robin they once knew in their hearts.

"Are we still following Batman?" her tone was grave, even for her.

"Yea..."

Starfire noticed her friends change in mood. "What is wrong friend Raven?"

Raven looked away and closed her eyes as she shared the file to the others. "The Batman wanted us to see this before we met him again, it's a warning, it's what we are going up against. Who we are facing. This is not our Robin. This is Slade's apprentice."

It was only a few seconds of silence but it was enough to set the mood for the entire ship. No one expected however, for the alien princess to speak up first.

"Robin has truly betrayed us then?" Starfire's sorrow was evident as she read the report. Her eyes looking on at what he had done. "I see..."

"Dude..." Beast Boy sighed. "We can't let him get away with this. We can't- We need to stop him! He was our leader, isn't it our responsibility to take him down?"

Cyborg let out a sigh. While Beast Boy seemed adamant on bringing Robin to justice he knew that this new information had hurt him. It hurt them all. Robin had now killed people, he participated in a massacre in Yemen, he murdered numerous people in Berlin's church and now he was involved with a military take over of one of Lex Luthor's buildings. This was insane, none of this made sense. In fact nothing made any sense ever since Robin left.

"Fucking Slade." Cyborg mumbled it but he knew the rest of them heard.

Raven looked to her co-leader. "What do we do now?"

"We keep going. We shut this down."

Raven could only nod her response. "If any of you don't want to go any further then-"

"Stop."

Raven looked to Starfire. "You don't have to Starfire, if you don't want to."

"Stop, please just stop. It just... it hurts."

"Star?' Beast Boy looked at her with concern.

"Robin may truly be gone from us. But I'm not going anywhere. I will not abandon my friends. We will face this together will we not?"

When the alien princess looked up at her teammates they all saw a bit of the old Starfire in her demeanor. There was no joy or happiness, but there was hint of determination in her watery eyes. The team reassured her that they would all be in this together to the very end.

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"So front door?"

"Yes." Ksenia stopped the bike and waited for Asif to get off first before she followed. She looked back and saw a few trucks pull up as well. "Just act natural, we're a military force, we're here for back up or have you forgotten that much?"

"Sure" Asif pointed to the police force as they were seemingly having a few problems as they took cover from enemy gunfire. "But not their back up, won't they find it a tad bit suspicious?"

"The metropolis police force depends on two things. Superman and the military. Not at all like the GPD, those ones are a bit more difficult to deal with. Besides, right now I don't think they will turn away any kind of help. It will be easy, just follow my lead."

He could do nothing he knew other then go along with it and that is exactly what he did. Ksenia approached the Police Chief and gave him a spiel about being dispatched from the local military base, which wasn't really a lie and technically the US military did have a base of operations not to far from the city. He watched as she weaved her lies and looked on as the Police Chief surprisingly took the bait. Hook, line and sinker. He briefly wondered how she ended up working for Slade, what was her back story? But he supposed that didn't matter in the end. He would however be steering her in the direction of Robin and his idea of a unit to combat the ben Elohim, once of course all of this mess was taken care of.

She began to walk back towards the trucks to tell the men to get themselves ready, when she passed him she gave him a smile. "Easy."

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"Jillian, she's in danger." The two were still separated by the flames the were enveloping the entire lobby alongside a large amount of soldiers with a variety of weapons. In hindsight, Robin was now glad Slade had insisted they both wore communicators.

"How?"

Slade stood behind a pillar for coverage. He was still silently taking down the men, which was keeping the entire unit on a constant alert. There was a couple of soldiers approaching him and he let them pass before he snuck up on one and silent broke his neck and before his friend could turn around to see what had happened he to lay dead alongside his comrade. The mercenary looked down on the soldiers. Another two dead. And honestly he was getting a bit bored. They needed to end this and soon. Other then himself growing a disinterest in the hunt, it was getting hot in here. Which had him worried for his apprentice's health. If they didn't make an exit soon Robin could pass out from dehydration not to mention the damage that the smoke in his lungs could do. Plus the news the boy had just given him was quite alarming.

"Robin?"

"She has a part of the Legacy."

The mastermind went back into hiding after he was able to pinpoint Robins location. "Explain."

"I ran into someone, she was tortured by them. She was dying and it was in her last breaths she told me that Jillian was the last keeper of the Legacy. Slade, this woman, whoever she was... She knew about Jillian's cabin in France. She knew her by name, she knew her location. Everything. We need to-"

"And we will, but we have focus on what is in front of us right now."

"I know."

This did worry Slade. He knew that Jillain's past had her in a position of being one of the five leaders of the society and that she had a certain kind of relationship with the founding members families. In fact it was one of the reasons he began to befriend her. More information on the ever elusive wealthy founding families. And while he knew they held their secrets, them forming a pack with another secret society after the war and to hold a piece of wealth beyond their comprehension known as the Legacy... It was all a bit beyond what he expected if he were being honest. Slade frowned. He never did find out to much about her, the only thing he did find however was a friend. One that selected him to become one of the five after she retired.

The woman Robin encountered must of been one from one of the founding families. Perhaps someone within the family that still held onto its secrets. He had to admit it didn't always sit well with him that they withheld so much from the leaders. But he supposed it was all out in the open now.

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Batman knew he was leading the Titans into a bit of a sticky situation. But as Alfred suggested, they were old enough and had proven themselves time and time again to be able to take on more responsibilities. And admittingly, he to had seen enough through their reports that had proven to him that while they were still children, that they were ready. If they could save the world from a Demon lord and a league of supervillains then they were ready to face their former leader. He knew that like him, they had questions to. And while he wanted to keep this entire fiasco to himself, he knew he couldn't. Robins team deserved better then that. The Batman frowned. Yes, they deserved much better then that. They deserved a good leader, and they had one, they had the best as far as he was concerned. Even though himself and Robin had a few qualms regarding his residency in Jump City and leading a team of his own besides that, Batman always found himself being very proud of his ward whenever he read up on reports regarding Jump City.

And he saw now, how Robin had touched each of the Titans lives in such a positive way.

A frowned etched itself onto his features. They deserved much better then this. They had trusted him with their lives and now it seemingly all meant nothing to Richard. He conceded that in the end of it all, that it wasn't very fair. To any of the players on this field. Even Robin himself.

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It grew silent. Eerily silent. The fire stopped crackling. The soldiers seemed stuck in time and the world fell into a hushed apprehensive terror. Both Robin and Slade looked out from their hiding positions to find that the area had been affected by the same effect that they had both witnessed when the child appeared. Robin looked to Slade's position to find the man had headed towards his location. It seemed whatever had affected the area also meant that no one saw them, making it incredibly simple for the master to join his apprentice.

It would seem that after setting the atmosphere the child then hovered above the ground before them.

Slade looked at the girl, "I thought you were needed elsewhere."

Robin frowned. The child smiled and look towards the former hero. "I wanted to tell you. Specifically you. They are here. They have come to find you. What will you do?" She looked deep into his eyes. "What will you say once they arrive to find that their friend is no more? How would they respond regarding your betrayal?"

Robin swore he heard Slade scoff, but he kept his attention on the girl. "I'd tell them the same thing I told Batman, that I'm not going anywhere." The boy smirked. "I'd laugh if they would try to bring me in for some kind of justice. I know the truth now. It doesn't matter what they think."

The child looked into his eyes to find that his words indeed rang true. "Hold onto that then, they're coming."

"Why bother to tell us?" Slade kept his intimidating posture around the girl. If the Titans were indeed here and if they were indeed the pawns of the ben Elohim then that would mean something was about to go down. The hero's were here to take out the bad guys, expelling the ben Elohim completely from the list of players. Heros could always get away with lengthy damages to entire city blocks. For the most part that is. So them being here meant that they were trying to perhaps hide something.

In truth it was all designed that way. The hero could get away with anything. And while many look on at the hero's through clouded eyes, believing that they can do no wrong. There are other civilians living in most of these cities that do hold a certain disdain for the hero's. And while many agreed they had their uses for the everyday citizen, many more spoke out on how much damage the hero's have truly caused. Which told him that whatever was going on, they wanted Robin to come head to head with his old team.

Creating a little chaos and perhaps a distraction.

"Why not?" the girls eyes found Slade's singular one. The man did nothing but smile back at the girl. In all honesty he really didn't want to have himself and Robin separated again by her ability to form entire dimensional pockets outside of reality, simply to have a chat.

Robin however narrowed his eyes at the girl. Why did he think she wasn't quite human. Every time he encountered her something was off. What she said, back in that room, that she was conjured on a battlefield... What did that even mean?

Then as suddenly as she came, the girl was gone. And everything returned to normal. It must've been odd for the soldiers. Suddenly their targets were standing in the middle of the lobby.

"Oh shit."

Slade could only agree.

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-Fangy