At some point the giant grazed the creature and the ice manipulator hit his mark. Rat Boy seemingly had the creature surrounded when he hit the ground, but the creature bit through one of the rodents. The Titans were on the way to scoring their first win, but where did the Amazon disappear to? The newest member of the team, Nightlife, saw somebody loading Argo into a van but somebody came up behind him and knocked him unconscious. When he came to, the Titans were standing over him with Wildcat. The proper authorities were called in to deal with the creature. The boys were separated and the giant wasn't towering over everyone now. EMS crews were also on the scene with one worker by the Titans and Nightlife.

"Hey kid, you ain't supposed to sleep on the job. You see anything before they gave you the KO?" Wildcat asked as the boy gathered his thoughts. 

Ted got up groggily, rubbing his head he tried to recall the events from before he went out cold. Suddenly it all came running back to Nightlife as his face filled with shock "Argonaut! They took Argo!" Ted said, quickly getting to his feet but almost falling down thanks to a head rush. "We- we gotta go find her! Some people in a van took her!" Ted said trying to get all the facts out so they could stop standing around and start looking for Argonaut.

"Unless you got something better than 'guys in a van' we're gonna have to wait for Bats on this one. You guys load up and we'll meet back at HQ..." Wildcat instructed.

The EMS worker aiding the Titans stayed away from everyone else asking for medical attention and talked into an ear piece after the Titans all walked away.

[b]3:24 AM, several hours later...[/b]

Half of the team is already asleep, but a few of them remain on the ready side of things. Grant is also awake, helping Daniel and the younger Ted on their fist fighting skills. An older model phone rang. It happened to be bright red and by a statue on an important looking table. Grant kinda jogged over to it.

"You think that's his Bat-phone?" asked Daniel pausing for a minute in one of the boxing rings when their mentor ran off.

"Beats me, who knows what half the stuff in the place does. It's like being in Willy Wonka's chocolate factory except the delicious candy is actually just a bunch of training equipment and non-lethal weaponry." Nightlife said as he rolled his shoulder back in an attempt to stretch it out.

Wildcat ran back over to the group. A look of concern was all over his face. All the wrinkles made it that much easier to tell when the older model hero was having a hard time. One of the kids, that was supposed to be HIS responsibility, had been taken. And now, he knows who kidnapped the Amazon powerhouse. 

"It was Bats." Grant said to the point, "The Court of Owls has Argonaut. Batman says the rest of you are on lockdown. This is no longer a situation for the 'Titans of Gotham', and I reckon a senior superhero isn't who Batman wants on the front line..." he stated kinda putting his head down. 

"From what I read on the files, the Court takes younger individuals and turns them into their agents. Talons I think they were called. If THAT'S what they've got in mind for Ves... Grant... she can rip tanks apart with her bare hands." Daniel tried to understand where Batman was coming from. 

"I was fighting nazi-supermen before 'metahumans' started wearing underwear on the inside. And Argo was MY responsibility. I should have been there." Wildcat said, really having a hard time with what was going on. 

[b]Three nights later...[/b]

"You are ALL to stay in this HQ. You got that?" Grant said in civilians clothes to the group, "I gotta make a food run. Until Batman can get a lead on the Court, y'all are presumably targets. 

Ted Grant wasn't gone for more than fifteen minutes and the sky became... gray. With several dozen pairs of red eyes glowing in the night through the wind and decades old buildings and skyscrapers of Gotham. [b][url=http://orig05.deviantart.net/eecc/f/2014/059/5/9/myths_and_monsters___owlman_by_deviantk14-d78dqvv.png]These things were obviously the final form of the creature from several nights ago...[/url][/b]

But chief among them, leaping and half gliding in between further distances... was what appeared to be Argonaut. The Court's newest Talon.

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Screams could be heard throughout the city.

~KL~/rocketrobie2