Chapter 7

The Green Fireball was named after a bartender special that the original owner had claimed he invented back when the place catered to low ranking mobsters and hoods in the Fifties. He mixed the combination of liquors unlabeled as he mixed them into the green colored concoction. Then with much flair and delight to the rowdy patrons the owner would then light the drink on fire causing it to flair up for a second to much cheers and wolf calls. The whole thing had been great fun at the time.

Over the years thou even the flair and fun that the Green Fireball represented dwindled as it chosen customers, criminals and lowlifes mostly, started to roam more to some of the newer establishments. The current owner was a few days from lighting the place his grandfather had opened on fire just to get the insurance money.

But then one night a strange group came into the bar after robbing a major bank in the area ready to celebrate. At first he thought about not letting them in and it wasn't because the entire group couldn't be a day over seventeen at the oldest. He still lived by his Grand Dad's favorite saying. "Money can add years on a potential drinker's age."

No he was about to send them away because he could honestly say he had never seen anyone dressed more weirdly. He had herd of super villains before but most of the career criminals he knew dismissed them as some kind of twisted joke. Something that wouldn't last and was rather silly.

One of his regulars, a big bruiser that broke bones for both fun and profit, thought so as well making some kind of rude remark to the group of teenagers. A kid half his size throw him not only out of the bar but through the second story window of a warehouse across the street without even a grunt of effort. Then the party was on for the young supers.

The owner would miss his big brawler of a regular who lived through the ordeal but never walked right again, or spoke without stuttering for that matter. The man was crazy but he was a good tipper. Even thou most of his money had literal blood on it.

But that was when he learned a few things about teenage super villains . One they usually pulled jobs more for the fun of it or to prove they could. Meaning that they were very generous when out celebrating. Two being teenagers they usually didn't know how much one paid for mix drinks at a bar allowing him to raise the price to an unbelievable amount without any of them batting an eye. And third and most important there was a line of bars across the country, maybe even the world if rumors were true, that served just their demographic and they were strangely loyal customers when they found a place they liked.

So not even a month later the Green Fireball went over a transformation of sorts. A new coat of pant, a few TV's showing mainly extreme sports and robot battles, and some video games added which the new clientele dubbed most as "retro" but still seemed to like. And Chicago had it's first teen super villain bar.

The money was racking in so much the owner was actually able to pay the child support for the waitress he knocked up a few years ago. Of course he wasn't going to pay it but it was nice to have that option anyway.

Even with all it's success today was still the Green Fireball's closing day as it became something besides Chicago's first teen super villain bar. It becomes ironic.

The dark night lit up like a flare as the font of the bar was blown apart in a blast of green energy. The shock wave setting off car alarms for blocks in all directions as Danny Phantom took out his frustration on a group of third rate super villains that would have ran from the Titans and straight up fainted at the sight of a Justice Leaguer or a Avenger. While they thought they could have taken his group he chocked up to high tech armor causing some kind of brain damage.

The group now littered the street in front of the Green Fireball their bodies bruised and their gear broken.

Danny stepped through the smoke green eyes glowing as he zeroed in on the one he mentally dubbed Moron One. The teen in the red and black armor had told him his villain name and Danny had quickly forgotten it. This group of five all wore verations of the same red and black armor that Wade stated was bought from Hench Co and not built themselves. For some reason this seemed to insult Team Possible's tech guy.

Moron One's eyes went wider darting from left to right and making Danny realize the rest of his team had followed him out. Looking back he saw Ron, Kim, and Yori stroll out with a smile on Kim's face. The fight had been quick but fun to the adrenaline addicted cheerleader. He suspected if Yori had taken off her ninja hood she would have a similar smile. Over the last week he had learned the usually soft spoken Japanese girl loved a good fight almost as much as the cheerleader did. Ron just looked worried but that too Danny learned was par for the course for the teen. Danny had found a weird sort of respect for Ron. The guy was quit possibly scared of everything under the sun. But he still pushed through cause his girlfriend would need him. That took a loyalty that he had only ever seen in Sam and Tucker.

Speaking of his two best friends Danny turned to see Sam standing next too him in her black armor shock sticks held at the ready. Tucker had stayed behind helping Wade with a project that was vital to their next idea about finding where the Teen Titans were being held. "Feel better?" she asked indicating the destruction around them. Her voice no longer sounding robotic as she hadn't bothered turning on the voice modifier in her helmet. The only reason she had used the thing in the first place was to keep Valerie, the Red Huntress, from discovering who they were. That plan had failed spectacularly.

Danny could feel Val's eyes on the back of his head and he had to fight the urge to turn and make sure the red armored ghost hunter didn't have a blaster pointed at his back. The fact that he was Danny Fentan as well as Phantom hadn't gone over well with her. But she had stuck with them knowing that their mission was far more important than her hurt feelings.

With a sigh he answered the goth girl. She was right he usually tried to keep the collateral damage down to a minimal most times. Unless that collateral belong to Vlad Master's of course then he didn't try to aim his ecto blast too accurately. But this had been a stressful week and he wasn't seeing a end to the stress anytime soon. "Yeah I think trying to find this guy is getting on my nerves."

Turning to face Moron One again he let the glow in his eyes intensify as he focused on his ice center lowering the temperature around him. Not enough to freeze anything but enough where whoever was close would feel a biting cold when he approached. Over the last week he had learned his cold spooked people. He asked Sam about it and she said it was the same cold regular people felt around a ghost. It had the feeling of death creeping up your spine.

It of course had never bothered the goth girl one bit.

Danny saw Moron One's eyes widen as he lifted him one handed. For some reason most people forgot how physically strong his ghost from was. "Where is Mammoth?" he snarled into the fishbowl like helmet that the wannabe wore.

To Danny's surprise the boy's eyes hardened. "I'll never tell you hero. Do your worse." The halfa was sure if the boy's helmet wasn't in place he would have tried to spit on him. Fine the guy didn't want to talk he could deal with that.

"Ninja Girl," Danny called out drawing Yori attention with the nickname that had in the past week became her code name. "Can you open this tin can for me," he said with a wicked grin as he shoved the armored teen towards the Kunoichi. Danny could make out her smile under her mask as she pulled the sword free from the sheath on her back.

The sword blade was a flash of reflected light she as she struck causing a frightened "EP," to escape Moron One's mouth. Then with a click the blade was back in it's sheath. Moron One blinked a few times registering that he wasn't missing any body parts. Matter of fact it didn't even see like the Ninja had even hit him. He started to open mouth to mock these heroes and their terrible bluffs when the gauntlet on his right hand fell to the ground in several small pieces. The rest of his armor followed a second later leaving him naked except for his Superman boxers standing in the street.

That haunting cold creep up his spine as the ghostly Danny Phantom came up behind him to whisper in his ear. "She also does circumcisions." The super villain's eyes shot back to the ninja as he notices she had drawn the katana just enough where he could see the edge of the blade reflect off the light from the street lamp.

Five minutes later he had told the group of super heroes everything he knew from the first bank heist him and his friends had been planning, to the fact that he had wet his bed until he was ten years old if he didn't have his stuffed panda with him. Unfortunately all he knew of their quarry was that he had came in, had a beer, and then the weird guy that was the teleporter for the H.I.V.E. Five had showed up and they had left.

Just like what happened at the last four of these teen super villain bars that they had chased the mutant power house to in the last week. With a growl of frustration that the rest of his team shared he wrapped the armored villain wannabes in a layer of ice that would hold them until the police arrived.

Kim held her arm up speaking to the split screen image of Wade and Tucker on her Kimcomunicator. "He got away again didn't he?" Tucker asked at the look of announce on the cheer leading heroine's face.

"Kyd Wykkyd again," she said shaking her head. They had thought when the tracker Wade had placed on Mammoth started turning itself back on when he left where ever he was that was shielding it from Wade's tech they had thought they had found a easy way to get a lead on the Titans. The H.I.V.E Five had been part of the Brotherhood's attack on the Titans after all. This was quickly proving to not be a lead so easily followed. The super strong teen frequented many of these teen super villain bars but his telporting friend usually showed up to wisk him away to parts unknown before they got there. It quickly had gotten very annoying.

"I know Mammoth was our best lead but we're ready for Plan B," Wade cut in. "We should all meet at your house to plan the break in."

"Sounds like a plan," Kim said as a pair of slender arms wrapped around he shoulders and she felt Yori breath on her neck as the Kunoichi spoke silently into the red head's ear. "I bet Tucker-san is already at your house." Kim took a second to register the statement because the girl's voice in her ear and her closeness sent a shiver down her spine. Not a unpleasant one either a part of her mind she had been very hard not to listen too over the last week said. The ninja had been doing stuff like that to her a lot lately and she still didn't seem to know how to respond to it.

"Will I figured as the only tech genius that will leave his house I should be here to greet you all when you returned." Tucker said smugly.

"And the fact that Kim's dad let it slip that they were cooking steak has nothing to do with it." Sam said from close by smirking at her friend on the screen. "I bet he already has a plate in his hands."

Wade hit a few buttons off screen and a third screen popped up showing Tucker at a different angle holding his treasured PDA in one hand and in the other angled so it was off screen from the PDA he held a plate stacked full with a missive stake. Kim also noticed that in deed the tech geek was in her kitchen. "I think he is already on his second helping," Wade said with a grin.

Tucker looked sheepish on the Kimcomunicator screen. "Yeah will I'll see you guys when you get here then," he said quickly as he turned his PDA off. Kim almost jumped when Yori gave the cutest girly giggle at Tucker's antics. She had gotten so use to the girl hanging on her like she was now that she had forgot she was there for a second. The only person she was that comfortable with was Ron.

"We better get there before he eats all the food," Danny said some of his old smile coming back to him. It had been hard to find that smile since Patch had dumped this responsibility on him and Sam was glad to see it even for a brief moment.

"My dad usually makes enough meat to feed a army when we have steak." Kim said as the team gathered around Danny as he got the Infa Map ready.

"Only one army?" Sam said as the portal opened. "Yep you meat eaters are going to go hungry if we leave Tuker alone there to long."

/

One as usual crazy trip through the Ghost Zone later and Danny and his team found themselves sitting at the Possibles' table fed, full, and ready to plan their next action. The halfa couldn't help but marvel at Kim's family.

At first he had been shocked and scared when they found out Kim had told her parents about what was going on. When she insisted they meet her parents he had half expected to show up and be surrounded by the Guys in White, or worse his parents with their dissection table. Instead he found a friendly hello from her dad, a few words of support from her mother, and a endless barrage of questions from her twin little brothers.

With the Possibles Danny had found something he was scared to seek in his own family. Acceptance in not only what he chose to do with his powers but in what the powers made him. And the food differently beat the Nasty Burger he thought happily as he finished off his second steak.

Catching Sam's grimace at his rare steak out of the corner of his eye he fought down the grin he had to hide as he surveyed his team. His mind briefly wondering when he started thinking of this motley crew as a team, let alone "his team."

Sam and Tucker set on his left and right sides respectively having their usual meat vs veggies argument. Sam had removed her armor only wearing the inner suite that added a extra layer of protection as it was made of some weird kevlar mesh. Danny had a awkward moment to be glad that he had decided to change from his ghost form and it's tight outfit as he noticed that the inner suite was form fitting.

Shaking off the mixture of wonder and guilt that always came to him when he found himself thinking of one of his best friends this way he looked to the other members of his team. Ron, Yori, and Kim set together. Kim seemed to be the center of the other two with Yori on her right and Ron on her left. Ron was close which made sense since he was the cheerleader's boyfriend and sidekick but Yori had moved closer to the redhead as well. Tucker who noticed everything the attractive Japanese ninja girl and the cheer-leading heroine did had predicted that Yori would probably be sitting on Kim's lap sometime in the next week. At the rate things were going Danny was going to owe Tuk the twenty dollars he had bet his friend on that outcome.

Yori leaned in and whispered something Kim's ear he couldn't hear that made her laugh. The laugh turned into a intake of breath as Kim turned her head to face the kunoichi and realized that their lips were almost touching. Danny wondered if Ron was clued in on what him and Tucker suspected was happening. The guy sometimes seemed not too observant and the halfa had a second to wonder if he would get a clue if Yori closed that distance between her and Kim's lips.

Not wanting to be caught watching what looked like it might be a privet moment Danny looked away quickly. A small yelp of pain from his side told him Tucker hadn't been quick enough from looking away and Sam had let his shin know her feeling on his voyeurism.

Turning his head his eyes met Valerie's and she held his gaze in challenge for a moment. Danny turned away from the angry staring contest to look at the Red Huntress' hands to make sure her suite hadn't formed any ghost blasters there. He knew her issues was something he was going to have to try to mend at some point but he really didn't have the energy to spare right now. His sleep had been filled with nightmares of the severed heads of the Teen Titans being staked out in his front yard so he was running on fumes at this point.

Luckily Wade's face appearing on a screen that popped out of the ceiling stopped him from having to address the issue right now. "Everyone stuffed and ready for business?" the computer prodigy said as he took a long sip of his ever present coke cup. Danny looked up with the rest. Looking up at the screen seemed to settle a great wight on the half ghost shoulders. Relaxation time was over now back to work he thought.

"So Wade man lay it on us," Ron said excited. Danny had to admit the plan was exciting, and also had the potential to be dangerous.

"Will the computer disk should give us access to the Tower and all it's files according to the one that helped me design the viruses. The only problem is it has to be delivered manually."

"Wait," Tucker said a mischievous grin crossing his lips. "The great Wade had to get help writing a program? Who helps you out with computer programing?"

The look Wade shot Danny's friend didn't have the hint of teasing the two tech geeks had developed over the last week. Instead a look of wonder crossed the younger guy's face. "Oracle," He answered with one word that meant nothing to everyone that wasn't Tucker. Tucker looked like Wade had just named god all mighty himself.

"I thought he was a myth," Tucker breathed out.

"Can someone please translate the techno geek bable for those of us that don't speak it fluently," Sam said voicing what the others were thinking. "Who, or what, is Oracle?"

Surprising it was Yori that answered. "Oracle is considered the greatest hacker in the world. It is said there is nothing that crosses into cyberspace that Oracle can't see. The little my clan has been able to piece together is he seems to help out several of the superhero communities with info. It's even rumored Oracle might be a super computer made by Batman or Reed Richards for just such a purpose."

"And you got to meet him," Tucker sounded jealous.

"I got to met her avatar actually," Wade said look still smug. "But that was still cool as well."

"Okay I'm hearing he and shes here," Kim Possible spoke from her seat her own mind racing on the fact there was a computer issue Wage needed help with. "So is Oracle a guy or a girl?"

"That the debate," Wade said. "No ones has ever seen what she looks like so there is a debate in the hacking community about which she is. Everyone seems to have their own theories..

Sam turned an eye to Tucker. "So why don't you think Oracle is a girl?"

"Because if she was then she would be the perfect woman and I would have to drop everything I'm doing to find out who she is." Tucker said with a grin and a dreamy look that made Danny wonder if his friend was joking.

Knowing he had to keep the conversation focused, especially with Tucker if a possibly girl hacker was involved, Danny spoke up. "If all you talked to was her avatar and her voice was disguised who do we know it was her?" Danny had a brief moment to marvel at the fact he was having to be the voice of reason and calm. This leading a team thing was going to make his normal hair go white as will as his ghost hair. He promised himself that once they saved the Titans he was going on a week long benge from anything resembling responsibility. It was going to be fast food, video games, and jokes that will have Sam ashamed of him and Tucker and nothing else.

"Don't worry I'm not about to take the bad guys lightly and let them sneak a proxy Oracle into our plans. But there is no one else she could have been. She walk right through my systems like they were nothing. Had files on the Titans that even Patch didn't have, most with enough marked out that I suspect she actually knows a secret identity or two. But the most telling sign is she found me."

Valerie was the one who spoke up. "Okay why is that the most telling part?" Danny couldn't tell if the teen ghost hunter was giving Wade the evil eye or that that had just been what her face had stayed as since she found out who he was.

"Because while the Brain is a brilliant robotics and bio-engineer and General Immortus has a thousand years in military strategy, even counting the H.I.V.E. Five's Gizmo they still don't have anyone whose computer skills rival mine. And trust me Oracle got me beat."

Danny nodded. He knew from Tucker that Wade was in at least the top ten best hackers in the world. Admitting Oracle was better than him most have been hard on Team Possible's tech guy. If he said this was Oracle Danny was inclined to believe him.

"So thanks to mysterious all seeing Oracle guy or girl we have the tech ready," Sam said

"And Yori and Kim have mapped out a pretty good plan." Tucker finsihed looking at the two girls keeping his gaze just enough non-lecherous that he didn't get kicked in the shin by a very painful pair of boots being worn by his goth friend again.

"So tomorrow we brake into Titans Tower." Valerie said.

There was a hush over the table when Valerie spoke their plan out loud. Danny's mind went through the reasons and arguments he had over the past week when Yori had suggested the move. They needed not only more info than they currently had but a slew of other resources that they just did not have, but the Titans did. It was all locked up in their unused T shaped fortress in jump city. So to save the team it was suppose to hide they were going to break in, use a virus made by Wade and Oracle to have the computer think they were new Titan members, and hopefully not get each other killed breaking into what was probably a heavily armored superhero base.

He never thought he would miss the days when his biggest threat was the Box Ghost.

A few moments later Danny found himself still sitting at the Possible's table thinking these same thoughts. When everyone had gotten up to take their dishes to the sink and clean them Sam had grabbed his and told him to take a breath for a moment. "You look like your trying to go full ghost," she said with a grin being able to read his stress easily.

He had started to argue but not only knew she was right but also their was no way he could win a battle of wills with the goth girl. She had made that very clear over the years they had known each other. So here he set his head in his hands as he not only worried over if he was going to get any of his team, no his friends even if he had only known a few of them for a week, killed. Then he worried on what would happened to the Titans if he didn't try.

A pair of slender and skilled hands touched both of his shoulders and begain to rub the soreness he hadn't even realized was there. He leaned back a small moan of pleasure looking up at the girl behind him and gave a start. He had expected to see a pair of violet colored eyes but instead found a pair of green ones. After a breath pause when both seemed to realize how close they were Kim spoke up. "Sorry I've seen enough in cheerleading and martial arts to see when someone is letting all the stress go to their neck muscles. That unhealthy."

Whatever Danny's response was going to be was cut off as the older teen found a cluster of tightened nerves at the base of his neck and starting working them with expert hands. A sight of contentment escaped the halfa's lips as he closed his eyes and surrendered more into her touch. "If you ever decided to quite the superhero thing you can make a fortune as a masseuse," Danny said after a few moments.

"I think I enjoy kicking bad guy butt to much," she said with a giggle. Danny felt his whole body freeze as he felt Kim's breath close to his lips as she spoke. Opening his eyes he noticed that she had leaned over closer to him to reach a part of his upper arms, and that it would only take a slight twist of his head and a strain for their lips to close the distance.

She seemed to notice to as he herd her breath intake and both of them froze for a moment. Their was a flash of heat and the feeling of something electric in the air as they both held their breaths.

"Hey Fenton you ready to go some of us have a life to get back to before we storm the castle tomorrow." The voice was Valerie's and it wasn't spoken very loud but it cut through the mood in the air between the two teen heroes like a knife. Both Danny and Kim were able to move away from each other causally even though each felt like they were jumping away from the other.

The Red Huntress had been the first to exit the kitchen after Kim but by the time Danny and Kim and got to their feet and weren't making eye contact with each other the others had joined them in the dining room. Goodbyes were said and Danny tried not to make eye contact with Kim as he felt the Valerie stare holes in the back of his and the cheerleader's head.

One ghost portal opened and then goodbyes to her boyfriend and a ninja girl that looked like she might have wanted a kiss like Ron had and Kim found herself at her dinner table thinking on what just happened and what was going on with her.

/

The bed was as big as the large candle lit room. Not just centered in the middle of the room but filling it from wall to wall. The covers she found her naked body on was a blue that matched the sky of a perfect summer day and felt like velvet. The pillows where white and soft as the clouds they imitated.

Ron's nude form was on her left side her boyfriend and best friend's hand interlocked her's as he found that spot where her neck met her shoulder and kissed and sucked on it in a way that he had learned made her squeal with delight. Without warning his lips would leave her neck and dart down to her left breast to tease with teeth, tongue, or lips the hardening bud there.

Then her another hand gripped her right one, This one strong and gentile as well. Kim turned to see a mope of black hair connected to a naked Danny Fenton. He held her right hand in his and started to lay kisses up her arm starting at her wrist. Every time he would kiss her his hair and eyes would change colors. They would go from the black hair and icy blue of Danny's human form to the snow white and glowing green of his Phantom form. It wasn't with a ring of power and flash of light but more like someone was photo-shopping a picture every other frame. His eyes blazed with a ghostly power when he reached the top of her shoulder and when back to his human colors when cupped her right breast and bent down to suckle it.

Ron mirrored him on her other side and she arched her back in pleasure.

Then the two moved a little farther apart from each other. Not far enough away that they had to stop touching her but enough to were she could look down the center of her body. There between her knees someone moved.

It was Yori, nude except for the red head band she wore, and slowly crawling her way up Kim's body. Where she passed she left a trail of kisses and light bits. As she reached the valley between between her legs that lead to Kim's most private of parts she paused and locked eyes with the teen hero.

All four of them seemed to be holding their breaths.

Then with a predatory grin that would have fit more on a wild tiger than on the polite ninja girl Yori brought her head down to Kim's womanhood and the sensations tore a moan of pleasure from the redhead's lips.

Then her butt hit her bedroom floor.

Kim Possible was on her feet in a moment rolling to her feet in a counter throw move she had been taught when she was nine. But there was no danger in her bed room. Only the feel of her sweaty night shirt clinging to her mixed with the adrenaline and other sensations that the dream had provoked low in her body.

The dream, her mind raced. What the hell was that about?

Sitting back down on her bed she put her head into her hands as she tried to sort through her feelings. She had to fight for control of herself for a second as the dream had left certain areas sensitive which were reminding her that she had wore only the over sized pajama shirt to bed.

Kim was no prude even though her and Ron hadn't gotten paced much more than some very heavy making out. The choice to hold back had been her idea and Ron had said he could wait for her for eons if she wanted. The perks of having a boyfriend that not only loved her but respected her. She knew she would never have to worry about him being pushy about that sort of think like a lot of her fellow cheer squad members did with their boyfriends. But this was in no way the first time he had been in a dream like this she was having. Hell she had one or two before they had ever even started dating, when he was just her best friend and sidekick.

No, what was bothering her was the co-stars of this particular sub-conscious show.

Danny she had already admitted to herself she was attracted to. He was brave, strong, and cute in either form. That wasn't the problem their were a ton of guys she found attractive. The world was full of hunky guys she had found, but none of them held a candle up to her Ron.

Ron had other qualities that over shadowed any physical looks other guys might have. How many other guys would jump into mortal danger for girl who wasn't even his girlfriend when they started? That was a very short list.

A list Danny Fenton was on as well. He had been putting his life on the line to save a team of heroes just because it was the right thing to do, and a touch of guilt that villains he usually took care of was responsible. Add to that the fact that the spark in the kitchen today wasn't the first time something like that had happened between the two.

Kim groaned in frustration. Then she turned her mind to address the last person in her dream. The one that was really throwing her for a loop.

Yori.

The usually reserved ninja girl had been sending her signals since she arrived. The really confusing part was she wasn't just sending them to Kim. She had been flirting just as openly with Ron as well, but of course her boyfriend completely missed the signals as he had always done with the koduchi.

The thing with Yori and her flirting is Kim couldn't call her on it. It wasn't like she was just flirting with Ron or her, alienating one from the other like many "boyfriend snatchers" Kim had seen. No the flirting always seemed to include both of them. Like she wasn't trying to get one or the other but both of them interested in her.

And she had been pretty subtle about it at first. Just a light touch here or a comment there. Add to that the fact they had been roughing up super villains looking for clues all week which caused her and the ninja to fight very close at times and Kim had found herself very use to having Yori's hands on her.

Now she only really noticed when the other girl's hand lingered longer than what was kosher between friends or she found her making too strong of eye contact. Giving her what a cheesy romance novel she would never admit to have read called "bedroom eyes."

She mashed her teeth in frustration. Why was she dwelling on this? She would never cheat on Ron. He had been there for her through so much even before they realized their love wasn't just of a friend kind. She was happy with him.

Getting back into bed and pulling her covers over her head she hoped her uncontrolled libido was the only complication her and the team had to deal with. The Titans' lives were at stake they couldn't afford any more trouble than they already had.

/

The sound of weapons clashing was herd through out the giant gray chamber that the more physical members of the Brotherhood used as a gym/slash combat arena. A bo staff clashed with a katana with great speed, precision, and skill performed by the two foes. Each showed a mastery of the weapons in their hands they masters many time their ages would never reach.

The fighter wielding the staff was completely silent as he attacked not even grunt in pain when the other fighter kicked him in the stomach, the only blow he had been able to land. The swordsman on the other hand was pleading for his life.

"Please stop this I am not your enemy," the young warrior known as Bushido was cut off as his sword arm became a flurry of motion as he parried a series of strikes from his foe. The skill and ferocity of the attack forced him to give ground. He wished for the hundredth time that the bastards in the Brotherhood had given him the magic blade that had been passed down in his family for generations. The sword not only let his ancestors help guide his blade but could also be used to free others from demonic possession. Which could be one of the reasons he was being forced to face this foe.

The thought had only distracted him for just a second, but it caused a hesitation that cost the young warrior. He missed judged a parry, a mistake most fighters wouldn't even been able to notice, to his foe it was the opening he needed as he spun his staff into the back of Bushido's hand breaking several of the smaller bones there causing his grip to loosen on his weapon. Another blur of motion and the staff smacked the sword out of his hand and the follow up blow to his knee buckled his legs under him sending the teen dressed like a samurai to his back.

To his personal honor he didn't cry out as he saw the end of the staff shoot towards his throat in a killing blow.

"ENOUGH!"

The command had the effect of stopping Bushido's foe in mid attack with such suddenness he felt the wind from the weapon stopping rush against his neck. Bushido looked up into the masked eyes of Robin the Boy Wonder and realized the leader of the Teen Titans almost killed him with eyes as void of emotion as the darkest depths of the sea.

Eyes that glowed slightly green behind his mask.

Bushido herd the voice that saved his life speak again from off in the distance but didn't turn. Robin may have stopped his attack but whatever the villains had done to the hero made it a very bad idea to take his eyes off him while Batman's former sidekick was still armed. "So what do you think?"

A metallic voice responded, one Bushido realized belong to the leader of the Brotherhood, the Brain. "So if you hadn't stopped him would he have killed the boy. Robin and his former teacher are famous for their dislike of ending life."

"We still can have him do that if you like," the second voice responded causing a shiver of fear to run down his spine. "It may be fighting with Robin's skill but the little bird is not in the driver seat right now."

"And you can do this with all of them?"

"The ones whose skills are fighting and their powers are connected to their bodies yes. The magic users such as the pink haired Jinx maybe not. Magic is just too much forward brain thinking for the little lobotomized beasties I'm using to tap into. We probably want to test this on the alien under a more controlled environment before letting her out into the field as well, but the others are fair game. The goth with the bird name maybe cause she is part demon so her powers are probably a case of genetics on some level."

"No matter. Dr. Chang wants to do brain chemistry test on two of those anyway so they will not be wasted material." The teen hero still on the ground thought the Brain sounded rather nonchalant discussing letting a mad man murder Teen Titans.

"I do believe letting you join our little cadre was a good idea Plasmus."

"Told you satisfaction was guaranteed on all my services." Vlad Plasmus said with a laugh.

Author's notes. Way shorter chapter than I was planing on posting but I'm still having writer's block beat me over the head. I would love feed back. Particularly concerning Kim's dream as I haven't written anything like that in long time. I

For those of you that read my other main fic Ladybug in a Half Shell, I am getting back on that one as well. Like I said I'm just having to fight a lot with writer's block right now.