"Mmm. We'll see you later than." The two parties said their farewells to each other. After Jacque left Donny went to his office, while the other two men stuck around, seeing that they're his bodyguards.

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Dinner wasn't going to happen until later, leaving Dominick to contemplate the day's events. First was that giant robot fight from earlier today; he might stop by tonight to salvage what he can before the gov' cleans the place up. Than there was that Aria chick... Aside from leaving on a bad note, she wasn't too bad. He might hit her up again later (As Dark Matter) and arrange for a date. But what lingered on his mind the longest was that man in the sewer who managed to take that Titan. Dominick wondered if he should get involved with that; he already called the contractor of the warehouse to use the place, so if they call back by tomorrow he'd send his crew to prep the place. And of course that would also mean running into what-his-face and the titan chick, which will likely end with a shootout or something. Dominick was actually interested in trying to make an alliance with that guy. It's not often you run into a villain capable of incapacitating a Titan, so he'd make a good ally. And if he wasn't willing to join forces with him, well, Dominick rather not leave him as a possible enemy. The fact that he took one of the members of the Teen Titan would give Dark Matter leverage against him, as he'd know his location and he could report this to the Titan's, who are probably eager to get one of their own back. Of course, Dominick would have to play his cards right. Not everything will fall into place, and there are more wild cards at play than he realizes. He'd have to make his plan flexible, but at the same time, ensure that his goal is achieved. For now, Dominick would sleep on it. Than he'd wake up, go eat some Korean BBQ, and go out for tonight. Set up the stage for his grand plan. "My work is never done..."

"Stop it... You never did it on purpose... It was the darkness..." She said to him, frowning slightly. She felt bad that he felt like that and wished she could have helped before this all happened.

"I'm sorry I couldn't help you.." She looked down in a whisper.

Lucius Cypher said
"Mmm. We'll see you later than." The two parties said their farewells to each other. After Jacque left Donny went to his office, while the other two men stuck around, seeing that they're his bodyguards.

Francis went though another portal to appear in Donny's office sitting in his chair now looking up at him form the doorway,He quickly wrote something down on his notepad making it go though a portal letting it float into his hand.The note went as followed,"I need to see your boss immediately my powers can be of use to him" The young man looked at him more like staring at him creepily.

"I'm sure you did all you could or were able to do..." Michael says. "So..am I just some sort of vessel..?" He asks, placing a hand over his heart.

'What do you mean by the work vessel?" she asked, tilting her head slightly. She still wasn't in tune with all the English language yet, even though it was her best earth language. She stood up, walking over to his fridge and opening it to see that there was still some stuff in there, most an expired gallon of milk and some old food they had ate the day before he had.... Gone dark.

(-snip-)

Serenity watched Jack carefully. It was obvious she was getting nowhere with him. Her strength was slowly coming back, her brain was no longer fuzzy as it was before. She sighed gratefully. Serenity knew she had to get out of here, even though she was sure her friends were planning a rescue mission right now. She turned invisible and started floating, not touching anything. To escape she needed to be careful. Her eyes danced for the vial of blood and when she saw it she wasted no time. Instantly as she grabbed it, she threw it hard on the ground, grateful that it wasnt in the vial anymore.However, she knew the whole place would blow up. Without thinking, she grabbed the man's hand and flew as fast as she could go toward the door, desperately hoping she wouldn't need to use her shield, because she knew it would be more painful than she could imagine. If push comes to shove though and the house did blow up on her and she used her force field, hopefully the titans would be alerted of the explosion. Serenity always seemed stronger next to friends, her powers were after all meant to heal and protect people, not fight.

"What I'm trying to say is that...am I just some carrier of darkness? Am I just some pawn..?" Michael asks, sounding defeated over it. He remains standing in the living room, keeping an eye on Aria.

"I honestly don't know. We never got to the bottom of it. it seemed like you were fine for a while, then I was attacked but someone, you got angry, and then you got rid of them and never seemed the same. A few days later...You were someone else... Someone evil. I think he lives inside of you, feeding on the darkness, feeding you the darkness. And now, he wants me dead and I'm not sure why... I can bet it's because you remembered my name... My voice, out of anything in your life."

She walked to the window, looking out of it, this was hard for her, to hold her emotions back. She wanted to hug him, she wanted to act how they used to act, but she knew she couldn't. She looked at the sofa, the first place she had kissed him, on accident, and they both liked it.

smarty0114 said
John looked at the others, and noticed Armelia scanning the T.V.. "You're not gonna find anything on there. Not if it's who I think it is. Speaking of which. Whoever took Serenity works for an assassin organization known as the Shadow Complex. For those of you who don't know, I used to work for the Agency, a rival assassination organization that specialized in using meta humans as killers. The Shadow Complex makes meta humans their targets," John said, scanning the room to make sure everyone was listening. "The only thing anyone really knows about the Shadow Complex is that their powerful. Really powerful. They have seemingly unlimited resources and the Agency linked thousands of meta human disappearances to them. If monsters were real, the Shadow Complex would be the monster under little meta human children's beds. Personally, our best shot at rescuing Serenity is to locate her and the agent and go in as hard as we can, all at once," he said. During his speech he had paced back and forth and was now six inches from where he had started talking.

Superboy looked at Armelia with obvious irritation, but decided to dismiss the matter before things got worse. He looked even more so after John finished.

"You're telling me, that you want us to assault the base of operations for a group of assassins that specialize in killing people like you guys, as well as they'll peg me a mile off and load up with Kryptonite bullets?" He asked with feigned exasperation. He cracked his knuckles, which sounded as though tree branches were snapping away, and he smiled a slightly malicious grin.

"It's not the dumbest thing I've ever done. Where do we start? It's been a long time, and I need something to break."

Jason raised his voice a bit, clearing his throat, "They wouldn't have taken her directly to the Complex yet...they have to wait for a specialized holding cell made specifically for that capture...Trust me they will study her first." Jason reached into his pocket and pulled out three crushed communicators, "These assassins...are the best of what I've seen...but they aren't that tough..." He threw the communicators on the table, "These belonged to the Assassins they sent after me..." Jason's eyes sparked yellow as a dark grin crossed his lips.

MisuChan said
"I honestly don't know. We never got to the bottom of it. it seemed like you were fine for a while, then I was attacked but someone, you got angry, and then you got rid of them and never seemed the same. A few days later...You were someone else... Someone evil. I think he lives inside of you, feeding on the darkness, feeding you the darkness. And now, he wants me dead and I'm not sure why... I can bet it's because you remembered my name... My voice, out of anything in your life." She walked to the window, looking out of it, this was hard for her, to hold her emotions back. She wanted to hug him, she wanted to act how they used to act, but she knew she couldn't. She looked at the sofa, the first place she had kissed him, on accident, and they both liked it.

"Well, one thing is certain...if you're the only thing I can remember...then you must be pretty close to me...but that also means it would be better if I stayed away...I don't want to suddenly turn and hurt you or anyone else..if that happened, I could never forgive myself. It's either that, or I need to learn how to keep the darkness in check..I'm not sure that will work, though..."

Michael's head drooped. As of now, he wasn't sure what would happen, but, he felt like Aria was the only person he could trust right now. "If only I had my memories...things would be so much easier..." He thinks.

Dominick left the house as they had a lot of time before dinner. He wanted to stop by those old ruins and pick up the robot remains, of which there wasn't much of. Taking the form of Dark Matter, Dominick salvaged what he could, which was enough for what he needed. This... Conversion Engine was what interested him the most. However it, as well as the entire being, would take a lot of material to construct. More material than he had right now. He'll have to figure out a way to gather the mass he'd need another time. This place was giving him the creeps.

As Dark Matter was traversing the city he saw the Titan's Tower out in the bay. Taking a position on the top of a building on the other side of the coast, Dark Matter produced a sniper's scope and look at them. It seemed like they were all outside with Superboy, talking about something. If Dark Matter had to venture a guess, they were trying to figure out how to save their missing friend. If they even knew where she was at. Dark Matter than began to weigh his options.

While he didn't like the Teen Titan's, if he gave them hints to finding their kidnapped ally than maybe he could get into their good graces, make them see his way a bit more. Or at least stay out of his business. But the problem than would be that not everyone would agree with Dark Matter, and if Aria was proof of anything, not all heroes cared for matters of "Right and Wrong" aside from what fits their perception of it. It was certainly relying on a lot more moving parts than Dark Matter was willing to work with.

The other option is to find that man from before and warn him about the Titan's raid. The question still begged if the Titan's even knew where to look for him; although the warehouse district was hardly the most subtle place to hide out (It gets a lot of use), the Titan's wouldn't know that she's there immediately. At least Dark Matter doesn't think so, and even than it'll only be a matter of time. If he could convince the man of this, Dark Matter could broker a deal between the two. But than he have to trust the other man not to betray him as soon as Dark Matter fulfilled his end of the bargain. And with these mercenary types, it's hard to really keep their loyalty. They go to whoever pays highest, they would say, but than the heroes buys them out and now what do you have? Mercs hardly ever keep to their contracts and would turn tail and run as soon as danger rears it's head, even if their job is to stand their ground. It's this sort of mentality that made it hard for Dark Matter to try to find that man now to work something out with him.

But Dark Matter didn't want to sit on his butt trying to figure out both the Titan's before the opportunity escapes him. Times like these, it was best to go with his heart. Dark Matter absorbed the scope and ran off.

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Donny looked up from the table as Francis just teleported in. "Ah, you. That weird kid from the jewelry store." Donny took out some checking books and went to work tallying today's profits and costs from that incident from before. "I'll tell you the same thing that the ones from the store did. We'll call you if we need you. You're not going to get anything else just because you keep asking. Now please leave, or we will never consider hiring your services."

After awhile of just sitting in his closet and zoned out insanely, he opened up the closet door and stepped out. Sanity seeped back into him and the isanity rushed away into the shadows when the window's light touched him. He yawned and walked downstairs, where everyone was talking. "What's going on?" he asked, then stretched and yawned.

Lucius Cypher said
.Donny looked up from the table as Francis just teleported in. "Ah, you. That weird kid from the jewelry store." Donny took out some checking books and went to work tallying today's profits and costs from that incident from before. "I'll tell you the same thing that the ones from the store did. We'll call you if we need you. You're not going to get anything else just because you keep asking. Now please leave, or we will never consider hiring your services."

Francis just nodded his head standing up form Donny's chair and opened a portal in the wall walking though it,Walking though and into Wunderland he sat down under a tree leaving a note on Donny's desk of his phone number and where to find him.Francis closed his eyes now humming something under his breath it was a song that he heard form his childhood.

ShadowVentus said
"Well, one thing is certain...if you're the only thing I can remember...then you must be pretty close to me...but that also means it would be better if I stayed away...I don't want to suddenly turn and hurt you or anyone else..if that happened, I could never forgive myself. It's either that, or I need to learn how to keep the darkness in check..I'm not sure that will work, though..." Michael's head drooped. As of now, he wasn't sure what would happen, but, he felt like Aria was the only person he could trust right now. "" He thinks.

When he mentioned she must have been important, she blushed a bit, clearing her throat. She looked at him and shook her head. "NO! I mean... I can try to help.. Last time I didn't see it coming, now I know it's coming and i can prepare to try and help." she said to him, she put a gentle hand onto his shoulder and gave a reassuring smiling. "We can do this... What about the titans, can they help? I don't know them but you used to mention them before."

Michael slightly jumped whenever Aria had heavily disagreed with his first idea, but then he simply shakes his head as he answers her question. "I'm not sure..from the sounds of it, these guys sound like they'll reprimand for all the things I don't remember doing...I guess there's only one way to find out, though." He says. When he finishes speaking, Michael pulls on his hood, completely concealing his face.

"Yeah well, if they are true heros, they will try to help you instead of just look down on you for something you cant control." she said. She walked to the bedroom they used to share at one time and looked through the closet, looking for a necklace she had left there. Once she found it, she put it in her pocket and nodded. "When should we go?"

"Heh..true enough. We should probably go now before we're tailed by any unwanted company.." Michael states as he opens the door for her. "After you." He says as he holds it open for Aria.

She nodded and looked at him, walking through the door and then heading down the stairs. "It's all the way across town to get to the T tower. Be prepared to run into more than a few enemies." Aria stated, heading down the street now.