Chapter 11
At 4 AM the alarm blared loudly in the hall outside the Titan’s rooms, Kara, Kori, Garfield, and Rachel moved through the flashing red light and down the stairs toward the command floor,
“4 drills, in 1 week, this is getting kind of excessive” Garfield Logan, aka Beast Boy complained as he zipped up his black and gray Titans uniform, they continued to the command center and found Batgirl and Robin already in their costumes,
“Tonight we requested that the Metropolis P.D start filtering reports to us, so this isn’t a drill, we have 2 major threats ” Dick said.
It had been 2 months since most of them had moved into the Titan Tower, a week later training had begun, Dick and Barbara had instructed the team on a wide variety of subjects, Barbara taught psychology, hostage negotiation, and reading body language as well as firearm use and defense, while Dick taught map reading, enhanced interrogations techniques, and environmental awareness, they had alternated teaching hand to hand combat and basic vehicle use, along with random threat alertness drill, all of this was on top all the normal classes children their ages would be expected to do.
Kara Zor-El, aka Supergirl had joined them a couple weeks earlier, after another month of continuing her search for other Kryptonians, loneliness had set in worse then she had ever noticed, so she decided to earth to join the Titans, where she had joined them in training.
“We’ll be splitting into 2 teams, to cover both threats” Barbara said, “Alpha squad will be Robin, Starfire, and Beast Boy” Dick Grayson had kept the hero name Robin, while Koriand’r had chosen Starfire,
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“Alpha squad, we’ll be heading to uptown Metropolis, we’re responding to reported sightings of the serial arsonist known as Firefly, real name Garfield Lynn, Several buildings were lit on fire around the same times as the reports, and although the fire department have those under control they aren’t equipped to deal with a direct attack from him, so priority number 1 is to protect them so they can do their job, Priority number 2 is to take down Firefly” Dick paused, and used a remote to turn on the large screen behind him, Garfield Lynn's mugshot appeared on it, he was a large man with a burn scarred face, most of his hair was burnt off except for a small ponytail of silver hair, his amber eyes shined with the flash of the camera that had been used to take the photo, Barbara replaced Dick at the front of the room.
“Dubbed the man of a thousand lights, Garfield Lynn began his criminal career as a member of the Fearsome Fireflies, in fact his gang involvement was basically the first time we got proof the man existed, his time with the Fireflies was short lived, he was kicked out when he lit the gang hideout on fire, 2 years later he would return and burn the hideout to the ground with the entire gang in it, excluding the leader, who he burned from the inside out” Barbara switched the photo on the screen to 1 that showed the armor worn by Firefly, “Lynns is a dangerous pyromaniac, his obsession with fire stems from his belief that it will cleanse the world of the unworthy, he uses a stolen military jetpack and flamethrower, along with thermal grenades that explode like molotov cocktails, so be careful,”
“Alpha, move out” Dick led his squad out of the briefing room.
Barbara changed the photo on the screen, the new 1 was the mugshot of a man with dark hair and defiant brown eyes, his mouth was turned down in a scowl, and he had a small 2 inch scar running up his left cheek,
“Deadshot, aka Floyd Lawton, a mercenary who’s made a name for himself for 2 main reasons, the first of which is that he has no recorded misses, the second, he created the kryptonite bullet, nobody knows how he synthesized kryptonite, nor how many of them exist. Lawton was raised by an assassin duo, who posed as missionaries, until they both died in a supposed accident, where his father ended up with a bullet in his head, and his mother jumped from the top of a clocktower, Floyd was 12, and on the same night his parents died, his 15 year old sister, Fiona Lawton went missing, and was never seen again” Barbara said, “We need to be careful about how we approach, Lawton once held Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman in a standoff for 2 hours, that only ended when Flash arrived.”
“Tonight he was spotted near the docking district, carrying what appeared to be an instrument case, 1 of the problems with this, is that Floyd Lawton is supposed to be serving his tens of life sentences in Blackgate Prison, in Gotham, we’re waiting on news from Blackgate, but they haven't released anything about a prison escape, in other words, we just don’t know, so we’re gonna take this slowly and cautiously, Bravo, let’s go.”