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"Our cooperation?" Cyborg crossed his arms and Beast Boy beside him mumbled, "You certainly have a strange way of asking for it." The Titan leader stared up at the screen. "Unless you got any advice on who Robin is going to hit next, then we-" The woman on the screen simply looked down on them all. "Unfortunately, I don't have that kind of information. But you are all the most likely to bump into him in the near future. Call it a gut feeling if you will. Therefore, I want you to deliver a message for me."

Cyborg nearly rolled his eyes. "Oh yeah. What kind of message?" The woman smiled. "He knows what I want. Tell him to come to the land of ash and ruin." Starfire looked at Raven, perplexed. Beast Boy shrugged and muttered a "Whaaat?"

"Who says I'm delivering some weird ass message for you!?"

"You will, because eventually he will come for all of you." The team looked at one another. Would Robin really try to kill them as well, just as he did to the other League members? At this moment, Cyborg wouldn't put it past his old friend. "Give him the message. He will understand." Cyborg glared at the woman. "Who the hell do you think you are demanding we give him some sort of message? We probably ain't even gonna see that traitor again!" The woman smiled. "Oh, I'm positive you will." And then, just as suddenly as she appeared, she was gone. Their screen was once again blank.

"Who was that?" Beast Boy stared up at the screen with confusion in his eyes. "My Friends, do you think that anything the scary woman had said could be true?" Cyborg shook his head. "I dunno Star."

Starfire clasped her hands and glanced at her friends. "If he truly comes for us, then we must fight to whatever end." Raven placed a hand on her shoulder. "If he does show up on our front door, we'll show him what we are capable of. But for now, I think we should all go back to bed and get some rest. Who knows what tomorrow may bring?"

"Do we tell the Bat?" Garfield looked at them with a bit of concern. "We really should tell Batman." Cyborg waved it off though. "Maybe in the morning." The changeling sighed, "Ok, whatever you say, dude."

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"Rounding them up?" Geist sat across from Aurora, their location disclosed as always. However, Aurora was always known for her taste in finery and elegance. Her office offered nothing less. "Bringing them to the desert seems like a solid plan. Maybe then Geist can stop bickering about the damn cold." Aurora smiled at the jest while Sven crossed his legs and looked away from the demon. "You try being connected to the dead for so long. It gets a bit chilly, ja."

Athrilius ignored his remark and moved away from the corner wall he was leaning on. "You think he's going to target them? They are his former friends. Wouldn't it be difficult? You humans cherish your emotions to much, when half of the time they get in the way."

Geist stared at his friend, and Aurora chuckled. "I suppose the only true human in this room right now is Sven." He crossed his arms. "Considering I've been around since the Fifteenth century, I would think I'm far from a normal human." She smiled, and the demon shook his head. "It's almost time. The stage is coming together. And soon all the players will be ready to partake. Their roles are now set, but let us see how well they play their parts." Her companions agreed. "How is our Sariel?" Sven leaned back in his chair. "Getting accustomed to things, but settling in well enough."

"Endora loves her." Aurora saw the admiration the child had for the young woman. She had hoped one day they would become like sisters. But the woman knew something was amiss. Sariel was forced back into playing her part in the act. She didn't want to be here. She probably never did. And for a moment Aurora may have wondered what Sariel may've been up to, but then pushed the thought aside. The child was gifted, yet quite mysterious. She was graced with her abilities by the ben Elohim. Their branding on the nanoprobes that had settled into her bloodstream had told her enough. But there was no record of the child, not even within their records. It was an unsolvable mystery. She often wondered if Sariel came from the future, sent back in time by perhaps herself, sent to aid them. But the girl couldn't time hop for long, her time spent anywhere was brief, and she couldn't travel too far back or forward. She could only see glimpses into the future. It was a bit all too frustrating, but perhaps with time and with some training, Sariel could be quite something. She nodded at the demon's observation. "I know. She loves her as one would love a sister."

"The other question is, do you think the kids will give him the message?" Athrilius had crossed his arms as he looked down on her. "I mean, they could just say fuck it and never tell him a damn word." Aurora looked up to him then at Geist, who shrugged his shoulders. "Well, I suppose that is a risk we will have to take, isn't it? Besides, what do they have to lose? The Titans want answers more than anything right now. I'm willing to bet they will relay the message out of mere curiosity, perhaps try to rebuild a bridge, if even for a moment. And if they get Batman involved, he won't allow them to take action right away, he will do what he believes will keep them safe. Therefore, I believe they will seek him out without getting any League member involved. As you said, Athrilius, humans cherish their emotions too much. It's difficult to leave the past behind, to not have any answers as to why something had happened. Being left with nothing is painful. They will relay the message."

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The next day he got word that Slade had given him the go ahead to tackle the Titans. Now he needed to plan, and he needed around the clock surveillance on his old team, just as he did with the League members. Although he knew the Titans like the back of his hand, he knew he still needed to be prepared. For all he knew, in the time he had been gone, perhaps Raven had learned a new trick or two. Maybe Cyborg had upgraded to a better cannon? But he knew that their fighting techniques were essentially remain the same. From what he gathered, they really hadn't been able to train much at all during his initial disappearance. According to the file, multiple convicts had escaped prison and had kept the Titans busy so they couldn't get any leads on his whereabouts. Robin scoffed when he read that in the reports he was given on the current status of the Titans. That stunk of Slade, his master probably wanted to keep them busy while he was busy taking care of an unruly apprentice. If he found this out back then he would have been upset, but now, now he couldn't come to care. The mastermind did as he wanted, and now, looking at what was done, Robin couldn't blame him. "So you got permission?" Robin heard him coming. Asif would be as quiet as ever, trying to sneak up on his friend. However, he never got a fright out of Robin. "Yea. I did." The cafeteria was quiet after dinner. There were only a few people that used the place late at night to grab a snack or two and a place to sit and relax. So it was relatively cozy for being an open area.

Asif poured himself a coffee and gestured if Robin wanted another cup, which he declined. "This is going to be interesting," he had said before he took a sip. Robin merely shrugged. "Not as interesting as you think."

"Maybe not for you. When do we start?"

Robin look at his friend as he leaned back in his chair. "Probably within a couple of days. As far as I know, they are back in Jump and on standby. We just have to make sure that while we are there, Batman is not. Apparently, he's been checking in on my old team." Robin frowned at the thought. Bruce never visited often when he was team lead, but after everything, he checks up on the Titans more so than he ever checked up on him. The emotion that it brought up was a bit frustrating, if anything. "I suppose the last thing we want is Batman around town. Our last encounter was enough." Robin thought back to the church and the bodies that littered the ground. How his hands ached from the actions he had committed. How he lost so much that day. And at the end of it all, Bruce had come for him too late. "Yeah." he agreed. "It was enough for a lifetime."

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Meeting after meeting, if Slade didn't have his heightened endurance and strength, he would of probably melted onto the floor by now. He needed a break, but his work demanded his attention. If they were to destroy this elusive society, then dismantling them was key. The Legacy they would take for themselves, the tables would shift, leaving the ben Elohim with nothing and with himself and the rest of the society holding all the cards. It was a power play. One that had to be played just right. Failure wasn't exactly an option right now.

"Government bodies aren't exactly easy to manipulate." Slade knew this well enough when he had dealt with the government after what they had done to him all these years ago. "Perhaps just eliminating them would be a simpler task?" Slade eyed the screen, which displayed the chief demon in his usual green attire. Slade was sure that the man was sitting in on this call in his personal library with perhaps a fire in the background. "These government bodies are so imbedded into the structure of the government itself that eliminating them would just do more damage, and not the kind of damage we would want to inflict. In short, it would become a mess."

"Perhaps." was Ra's agreement.

Luthor looked to Deathstroke. "Perhaps we can re-tailor them, make them look as if they are something else?" The other members seemed to agree with Luthor, but Slade wasn't convinced. "It's a bit risky. It may take more time to carefully complete the task, perhaps more time than what is required." Luthor sighed, knowing there was no pleasing Deathstroke. The man had to look at everything, every plan, from a variety of different angles. "One way or another, in the end, those government bodies are clearly made to hide the weapons manufacturers and arms trafficking and who knows what else. Several countries have this embedded into their systems already, but of course, the United States has it the worst. Perhaps we should see if there are any connections between our contacts and theirs?"

Luthor would admit it was a good idea. Arms dealers dealt with everyone, from the governments to the mercenary armies, to even pirates. Everyone got their guns from the same source. If they could find any leads, if they knew anyone that also dealt with this mess, then they would have a bigger opening. "I'll get a team to look into it. How's the Legacy research coming along?"

"Quite well." Slade knew it was something that would please the rest of the members. Slade would share what he knew, but some would call him selfish when he had kept some of it to himself. Robin's friend, being able to control the flow of time, was one such secret he kept. "I have a team working on it around the clock. They find more and more data each day."

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"We're doing what? Going where?" Tank looked a bit astonished by what had come out of his leader's mouth. Robin just sighed and shook his head at his response. "I'm serious. We're going to Jump City and we're taking out the Titans. And before you all ask, yes, I am perfectly fine with this decision. However, as per the plan, we are not going to kill them." Tank rolled his eyes, "And before you think it's because of my past, it is not. Dismantling the League is still, in all intents and purposes, the final goal."

"But the Titans aren't exactly members of the League." Robin nodded in Kate's direction. "No their not, they are the future of the League, however. Banishing the Titans, so that they have to live with their mistakes, their failures. It would be worse than death and that, I can promise you, would be a devastating blow on the hero community. If the Titan teams disperse, then we can properly hunt some of them down afterwards and make an example of them. However, the core team will be left to be a shining example of failure. We force them to give up the capes, you see, force them to live a life of exile. The League will have no future, and if they try to set up another team of sidekicks, then we will dismantle that as well. In doing this, we give them no hope for the future and in the long run, the League will dwindle out."

Asif stood at Robin's side as he normally had done each time and surveyed the room. Discord, Tank and Ksenia were all a little shocked. What they would hear next from Robin would disturb them just a little more. "I need you all for backup."

"Back up?" Ksenia eyed Robin wearily. He only nodded in return. "I'm going to take on the Titans alone." Kate's face distorted just a little. "Why?" he looked at her and told her that it was "just a little personal." She understood and didn't push the subject more. "I will take on the Titans. I need all of you to make sure no one else gets involved. No Heroes, no other Titans, no League members. Just me and them." Tank let out a breath he didn't know he was holding. "Alright, if that's what you want, man." Robin smiled at his team. "It is. Now we have two days to prepare. Train as much as you can, keep your senses high. You're all going to need them. While I may be the one to challenge them, we don't know what is going to happen. They can be a little unpredictable. One way or another, I'm the one that has to send the message. So I have to defeat them. Remember, I trained them and I was just as hard on them as I was with you. Getting them trapped with me will be difficult. But I know that you can be better than they ever could," he smirked at his team. "So, simple, right?" His team looked at him as if he had lost his mind, and perhaps he had. But what they didn't know was that Robin knew every in and out of his old and current team. He wouldn't train them if he didn't know how to take them out. Every advantage they had, Robin knew, as he had known every strength and every weakness. He took a deep breath then. The plan was going to go forward, and finally he would come full circle.

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