The Apprentice II

Break-in

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A large open space within a building. A set of doors, marked with a large W, is blown inward off the hinges, and Robin steps in as the smoke swirls around his ankles. He advances across the floor; behind him and tilt up to show that the room is empty save for a device suspended within a force field at the center. he approaches it. He reaches out to seize the item, but the next words freeze him in his tracks.

The blaster is on his left wrist, not his right. This error will be repeated several times throughout the rest of this act and the start of the next.

"You're not walking outta here, Robin!" Cyborg pulls out a sonic-canon.

He turns; the other Titans are at the wrecked door.

"Not without a fight." Robin yells and charges. "Titans! Go!"

They bolt across the floor, Beastboy becoming a tiger as he moves, then to Robin once more. The five silhouettes hurtle toward one another. Robin dodges both Cyborg's punch and Beastboy's lunge; the later returns to human form as the new felon vaults overhead. He sails neatly between Starfire and Raven, tears away a ceiling panel, and is away through it before either can react. Just inside the hole and a bit as the four stare flabbergasted up after him.

A long overhead of the building's front entrance, then tilt up to the roof. A large lighted sign identifies this as the headquarters of Wayne Enterprises. A panel pops open, and Robin springs out and races across, his silhouette tiny in the glare from the huge white letters.

"Not so fast, Robin. You have yet to achieve your objective." Slade said true his comm link.

"The device was too heavily guarded. I'll have to steal it another-" Robin steps backwards.

"No! Go back. Unless you want me to destroy them, go back and fight." Slade commands him as Robin steps forward.

"Robin!" Cyborg yelled his name.

He and the others are at one end of the roof. Robin turns to face them.

"Look, I don't know what's going on-" Cyborg looked Robin into his new-mask. "-but we don't want to fight. We just want to talk."

Robin lets his feet do the conversing, in the form of a high flying kick that drives Cyborg back past the other three.

"Guess there's nothing to talk about." Beastboy looks back to Robin and ready's his hands for any incoming attack.

He cracks his knuckles and turns into an enormous gorilla, bringing both fists down on the rooftop. Robin leaps back to evade the hit and a couple of grabs before perching at the center of the A in WAYNE. A huge green hand shoots up after him, he leaps to the A's peak, then down again as Beastboy climbs up after him. In midair, he pulls out another of Slade's flying weapons, the curved blades extending from the central orb. A line whistles down from Robin's direction, and winds itself around one thick wrist. Robin drops down and threads the line through the A's center. It is pulled taut, yanking Beast Boy halfway through to make him stick fast.

Robin on the roof, Starfire's feet planted in front.

"Please-" Starfire floats into the air as he rushes past her, leaps very high, and comes down with a kick and a flurry of other strikes aimed at Raven. She shields herself from the offensive. Cyborg's puts out his sonic-cannon and tilt up to his face behind it. Even though the weapon is fully charged up, his face betrays his extreme uneasiness and reluctance at the prospect of using it in this situation. His perspective of the two duelists; a low groan is heard as he steadies his aim.

"Don't make me..." Cyborg points it directly at his former leader.

Giving up the attempt to get a clear shot, he disarms and runs in to do things the old-fashioned way. The punch he throws misses Robin but connects against Raven's shield. High above the roof, Beastboy is still struggling to extricate himself from the sign's A. He finally succeeds by changing into a snake and slithering down; once he is back on the roof, he assumes the form of a bighorn sheep and charges. Those curved horns slam into Robin's back and send him rolling away to stop just short of the edge.