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"Golden... stop please!" She said seeing that her tornadoe attack didn't really work. "Look. I understand we didn't have a good past together, but let me explain! Do not hurt these people because of me." She said as she closed her eyes and let the lightning that was on his control dissapear. She knew this ex-titan and how he worked with his power. "You... dont need to be here... if you want to fight me, fine. But dont fight me here where you can hurt them. I know how your powers work." She said as she got a little closer to him. "...." staring at him

Golden Thunder looked her over his eyes cold and dead looking, "They murdered Mary...Right in front of me Armelia ...and when I needed help finding them...you wouldn't help me...none of the Titans would!!! Those murderers deserved to die...no one can talk to me about Justice...Their mutilated corpses were true Justice!!!" Golden Thunder had tears of anger and pain in his eyes, "You were supposed to be my friends...I was a Titan to!!!" He looked over the group, "But that didn't matter to a single one of you..." Golden Thunder let his arms cross, "All I have left is my hate Armelia...And I can't let it go!" Golden Thunder's eyes lit up yellow with energy, "This time...I'll let you and your team go...but...the next time we see each other it will be as true enemies..." And with that Golden Thunder took of after Serenity, "If I'm going to face this team...It will be the whole team as one."

As Jacque arrived at the location that Bane sent him and parked the hairs on the back of his neck stood up as the weather further into the city began to change drastically. For a sliver of a second, Jacque considered going home, however his loyalty to Bane dictated that he see his mission through to the end. Jacque's internal dilemma was settled rather quickly when surprisingly enough the weather seemed to calm down just as quickly as it had started, "That was weird. Why do I get the feeling that those damned Titans have something to do with this?" he said as he tucked the package under his arm and slipped into the store. From the moment that Jacque entered the small, unassuming store in Asian Town, the picture that Bane had suddenly made sense, however in making sense it had raised several more questions in Jacque mind as he realized that the location that he'd been sent to was a jewelry store of all things. "Ok, ramping up the weirdness." Jacque muttered as he made a bee-line towards the cashier's register, his substantial size and the curious, but clearly determined gleam in his eye keeping any of the customers from heading towards the register themselves. Upon reaching the register, Jacque pulled out his phone and brought up the picture on his screen, "Pardon me, but would you happen to have this item on hand?" he inquired before setting his phone down onto the counter, anticipating the response that he would receive.

Francis could see Jauque form far away and with his eyes scanning his body movement."I wonder" He thought moving form one isle to the next making sure he did not look suspicious.He held his copy of Alice In Wonderland close to his body wondering what this person would do next.

Dark Matter shifted his eyes back and forth. Who ever attacked him wasn't coming out. Where they waiting on him? Did they flee? He couldn't say for certain. He didn't want to go back to consuming the rest of the rockets if his attacker was still around. "The rockets!" Not one for subtly. He needed to get rid of these things anyways... Why not use them? It required a bit of tinkering, but eventually he primed some of the rockets. Before he left, he gave his attacker one more shoutout. "Don't try to hide from me. I just set my rockets to explode. All fifty of them. They're going to cause quite a mess here on the docks. People could die. If you don't want that to happen, come out here right now. I want to talk to you."

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Meanwhile back at Asian Town, Ever-Yang Jewelery was busy as usual. The boss was out on lunch, leaving it to some of the employees to man the shop. Honestly, they did the job well enough, but it was the Boss's own charisma and reputation that attracted the customers, not necessarily the jewels. Right now there was two people running the shop, three if you count the jewel smith working in the back. Business was going well as usual when a large mysterious man showed up. Granted, not strange for the workers, though the customers spoke in hushed Hmong about his appearance and his package. Mostly old women. Upon seeing the image of the flower, the worker at the register shouted for someone in the back. A young boy, no more than thirteen, came out and asked what was going on. The worker at the register spoke in plain English. "Show this man where Blueberry is. And get me a... Strawberry Cheesecake with jelly. Here." The worker handed the boy ten dollars as he led Jacque through the market. Eventually they found a little bubble-tea shop called Blueberry. The boy began to order a Strawberry Cheesecake drink, but before he did that he pointed over towards a wooden door next to a Thai restaurant. "Um... You'll have to ask someone over there for help." The boy paid and got his drink before running off back to the shop.

Things got a little less weird (Or at least more understandable) once Jacque went through the wooden doors. Nothing really unusual, it looked like what you'd expect the back hallways of an asian market to look like; brightly lit but most uncluttered, with a few milk crates or empty boxes left to the side. Occasionally there would be someone walking by pulling or pushing a trolley full of boxes who'd tried not to take up the entire hallway. There were a lot of hallways and such, but Jacque wouldn't need to go far before two tubby asian men arrived. Not what you'd expect "Bouncers" to look like; they were about five feet five inches, one only a little bit taller than the other, with big bellies. Calloused hands suggested they had their fair share of hard work, and their bad english suggested that they were immigrants. They looked more like Hard-working fathers than intimating bouncers, but they got the job done. "Uncle (Bane) send for you, right? Yes, follow us." The two men than took Jacque though another hallway which eventually lead to a sort of ware-house like area. There was trucks and cars backing in with people from the young to the old grabbing boxes of vegetables and produce onto trolleys, wheeling them back to their shops. There was some children shouting and playing, but they made sure not to get in the way of the workers. Eventually the two men led Jacque to another person; he was more slimmer and conventionally handsome than the two pudgy men, but he was still a bit greasy and dirty from moving boxes of frozen fish. "Ah, you must be the nephew. What are you looking for?"

"Okay okay!" She yelled. She didn't want to endanger any lives so she stood up from the two story roof and jumped down, hands in the air. Her hands weren't in the air to show no harm though, they were there to create a barrier around herself, if he attacked her.

"Just put the rockets down, no one needs to get hurt." She said in a slight demand, looking at him in a serious manner. She took a step forward, trying to sense the other rockets with her mind, but it didn't work since they weren't living.

Jacque willingly went along with everything that was happening thus far, though in the back of his mind he still couldn't shake the feeling that things were strange, and that he was also starting to delve deeper into the criminal underworld. Jacque pulled the package from under his arm and held it out to the man before him, "I was told to deliver this by my "uncle" and return to pick it up tomorrow.". Jacque's tone was reserved, his posture straight as he subconsciously tried to make a decent impression on the man before him, lest his actions reflect poorly on Bane. Jacque's eyes narrowed slightly as they occasionally darted to the children that ran past him as they played amongst the warehouse, the knowledge that their parents likely couldn't afford a sitter but would take their child with them rather than give them up like his had done stung him in a way that he hadn't felt since he himself was a child. Jacque pushed aside his emotions and stared once more at the man standing in front of him, "Would I be correct in assuming that you're the man I need to see?".

Francis moved from the isle to isle finally getting close enough looking up at cashier form where he was form,Walking over to said cashier writing down something in a notepad quickly putting away his red leather bound book.He wrote something on a piece of paper handing it sliding it to her,What was written on the paper was the sentence "I want to see your boss".He waited for her respond but would think it would take some conversing to see their boss.

Back at the shop, the workers were taking a short break as there was no customers. Mostly they just stood around waiting for the next one to show up when some boy came in. He didn't say anything but wrote a note for the worker at the register, which confused everyone involved. The oldest of the workers, a large bearded man who's physique would make him look more the part of a bouncer than the two fat men that escorted Jacque, took the note and read it's short message. "She's not here. Is there something you wanted?" The worker looked at the boy. "He's a strange one." The man thought.

Back with Jacque, the young man nodded his head and he took the package. "Yes. We will call your uncle when it's ready, thank you. Oh, and here, for your troubles." The young man took out twenty dollars and gave it to Jacque. The man also motioned for the other two men to leave them, though they didn't go far. They just went back to work moving the boxes. It seemed like their business was finished when the man had one more thing to give Jacque. He gave him a crate with jars of pickled bamboo. "Could you bring that back to the Ever-Yang Jewelery store? Be careful not to shake it up."

And just outside the Asian Town Market, a few cars just drove in front of the doors, blocking all the entrances. Onlookers observed from a distance, with curiosity and a bit of anger as they were getting in the way of their shopping.

Francis wrote something else on another piece of paper handing it to the the older man,What it said was as followed "I need to speak to your boss for a job"The young man looked straight into the eyes of the man with a blank look on his face,His eyes glimmering in the light of the store waiting for him to speak.

Jack got the advantage with all the commotion. A majority of the titans were to far back to catch up. There was only one he needed to worry about. Sam was the only one keeping up and the kid couldn't even think straight. Jack quickly ran out of range causing the whip to miss. Jack was running somewhere, a route he had planned in case he grabbed one. Jack pulled out a deplorable energy barrier and tossed it in front of Sam. The barrier activated in front of him and would have caused his cheetah to haunt fast or run into the barrier which wouldn't end well. Jack cut into an alleyway and triggered a wire which made smoke fill the narrow area. He pulled out a detonator with two switches. He pressed the first one and a sewer lid blew open. His visor set to thermal making see the small explosion with ease and thus marking an exit. He dropped into the sewer still holding Serenity and continued to run. He ran past a couple breach charges and pressed activated the second switch on his detonator. The breach charges exploded causing the walls and roof behind him to collapse making it impossible to follow unless they punched through the mass of concrete. Jack increased his running speed to get distance in the sewer. It was like a maze and so it would be hard to track him. He stopped for a second and injected a sedative into Serentiy. It wasn't enough to keep her passed out, but if she woke up, she would still feel drugged. That would make it hard for her to fight back. "That was one hell of a run." Jack said as he continued to move through the sewer. "All I got to do is get to the surface undetected and call for evac. Then that's an easy 45 million." Jack had gotten away....for now.

Sam snapped his fingers and his cheetah desummoned, and he was flying upwards on his shadow bird. He madeit stop in the air. "That's right, run you little coward." he muttered with a mishechevious grin on his face. he desummoned the darkness and his sanity returned. He flew back to the other Titans and saw that a new person had come, obviously an enemy. He summoned the darkness again. The insanity creeped back in. He hopped off his bird and summoned his sword, using the darkness as his cover, he ran forwards and summoned a ram behind the new person, so that the ram could distract the guy while he attempted to hit him in the head with the butt of his sword.

Serenity's eyes fluttered open and she quickly found a man carrying her. A soft scream escaped her voice, something about the man wasn't right. With her super strength, she pushed him into a wall and floated above the water. Her mind was pounding though and she couldn't concentrate, something wasn't right. She suddenly was aware of the nasty stench in the air, causing her to fall into the sewer water. Nasty! She thought to herself. Her eyes found the man who had held her, but it seemed like their was five of him. Huh? She shook her head, it felt like the man had drugged her but she had to focus. However, it was no use, her force fields needed all of her concentration. She tried turning invisible to escape, unfortunately she kept flashing back visible. One second you couldn't see her, the next you could. She knew there was no way she could fight this man so she started running, not knowing where she was going. Her brain was fuzzy and she couldn't seem to see straight. How am I going to get out of this? She thought. Yet, she still kept her slow pace run, even though she knew in the back of her head the man would definitely catch up to her. Serenity had to try.

Alexia turned around and joined the rest of the remaining titans around the enemy. She kept her whip on her hand.

Jacque was a tad bit surprised as he was offered twenty dollars but he didn't hesitate to pocket the money that he'd received. The young villain's face scrunched slightly when he was asked to deliver the box however he grabbed the box without a word and nodded, figuring that yet again it would look good on him, and by extension, Bane. "I'll be careful. See you tomorrow." Jacque said as he exited the warehouse, shifting the box slightly to get a better grip on it. As he exited the warehouse, the box dug into his skin a bit, causing him more annoyance than pain, a situation he promptly remedied by turning his skin into metal where it came into contact with the box.

Golden Thunder turned to the new attack, a ram made of dark energy came running towards him, "There is another..." Golden Thunder twisted his body at super speeds making a cyclone around him to block the sword strike, "Foolish Titan...For the time being I'm helping your team...But striking me might change my mind..." The lightning in his body suddenly started sparking all over him wildly, "Do you want The kidnapped one back or not?" He lifted his hand and a Zues bolt appeared the same kind he had destroyed Cinderblock with earlier, "You Titans are all the same...Blind."

The worker at Ever-Yang was thoroughly confused, but was going to try to control the situation the best he can. He didn't want this guy to still be here when his boss came back, so he'd have to make up something. "Uh... Leave a name and phone number. If our boss doesn't come back today, I'll be sure to pass the note along." As far as he knew, there wasn't any job openings. Granted he was a volunteer because the boss was out for lunch, which made it all the more awkward that this weird kid was coming in asking for jobs on little slips of paper. He wasn't even asian, which made the worker at the register uneasy. The little boy in the back saw what was happening, gripping on a chisel expecting the worse.

And the worse was yet to come. Suddenly there was screaming, mostly in Hmong. It was too chaotic to really get a sense of what was going on, but the word "Robbery" and gunshots were a good indicator of what was going on. Security guards ran past, though most stayed behind to try to control the chaos and at least ever everyone leaving in an orderly fashion. In the Farmer Market area, there was a small gang of armed girls shooting into the air. "Where's Katherine!? Bring that Bitch out or now!" The guards were quick to act, but they only a few even had guns; the rest only had Tasers at best.

The worker at the store heard the gunshots and suddenly stopped being so polite. He told the other two to escape and turned to the kid. "Get out, now!" He ran to the back of the store, putting on a kevlard vest with the Asian Town logo on it, and brought out his shotgun. Slamming a fresh magazine into the gun he waited for the boy to leave so he could close up shop.

Jacque grimaced as he heard the gunfire and screams ring through the streets, "Oh great, its going to be one of those missions." he muttered. In all honesty, Jacque wanted nothing to do with what was going on, however there was still a sliver of decency in him that demanded he put a stop to the chaos, still, there was the matter of delivering the box Jacque looked down at the crate in his hands, then crossed over to the Ever-Yang and opened the door with his foot before awkwardly placing the box down and running back out the door towards the source of the gun fire. "This is just to avoid having those damned Titans called...yeah, thats all." He said to convince himself that his actions were more towards his benefit. As Jacque started to draw nearer to the source of the gun fire, he turned his entire body into metal save for small enough portions of his joints to allow for articulation. The weight slowed him down a bit, however the defensive and offensive capabilities that a full coating brought for a situation like this would make the need for agility nil.

Alexia almost whipped her who but she held herself back when he said about helping them. She landed and her wings melted quickly. Her eyes were locked on Golden Thunder in case he attacked.

Michael, hearing explosions go off, advances toward the building, interested in what is happening. "I wonder if I can find a new ally to aid me in destroying the Titans..." The being thinks as he moves around the corner and sees Dark Matter and some other girl that he can't quite remember the name of. He chuckles. "Her name doesn't matter..like the others, she'll be history.."

Armelia turned to Golden Thunder as she flew to him, very close. "Stop!" She said holding his hand now, stopping the thunder that he was doing. And then her eyes turned white as the skies were now cleared and sunny. "Will you stop? We will not attack you! Yes, help us save the girl, but stop with the lightnings and shit.!" Armelia knew how angry Golden could get, and she wanted to calm.him down. Yes the titans werent there for him but she knew how good Golden was, and it was her fault that he was like this, but it wasnt the right thing to do back then.