The story continues in what presumes is the next morning.

Dick Grayson is sitting in his apartment at his desk when Deathstroke the Terminator crashes through the window.

As Terminator attempts to capture Dick it is Dick’s natural inclination to trick his opponent into thinking he is doing one thing when he is actually wanting the bad guy to do something else.  Dick tricks the Terminator into knocking him near the open window which gives him the easiest out as he lands in the garbage dumpster below.

Hobbling Dick Grayson makes his way into the midst of a race going on, one could presume this is the New York City Marathon, and Deathstroke loses his quarry.  It is at this point where we run across a woman with medium brown hair with a huge flower in her hair and her chauffeur, a young blond man with mutton chops who are observing the events.

After Dick loses the Terminator in the crowd, he signals for the other Titans, no one answers.

Dick Grayson is alone.

He enters detective mode determined to discover what happened to the other Titans.

Heading first to Donna Troy and Koriand’r's apartment he discovers the apartment a smoldering mess and a package that says “To My Darling Kory… With all (my) love,. Dick”, of course Dick did not send any gifts and the gift was a trap overloading Starfire’s natural energy absorption abilities and knocking her unconscious.

At Wonder Girl’s studio, Dick discovers turned over stools and trays of chemicals and deduces that Donna mixed some chemicals together that created an ether that overcame her.

In Hell’s Kitchen, Cyborg sat right down in a chair rigged to give an electrical charge that would overload his systems.

Dick heads to Titans Tower where he sees columns of rock trailing through the building leading to Raven’s room.  There Dick Grayson is confronted by the strange woman and her assistant who have been watching the detective do his work.

It is here that the woman reveals that her name is Adeline Wilson and her assistant is Joseph.

In addition she offers this revelation…Raven was not defeated by Deathstroke, but instead by Terra.

And the other shoe has dropped.  Terra, the sweet little girl who was captured by terrorists, taken in by The Titans, groomed to be a new member, who was flirting with Changeling and had saved them all numerous times had betrayed them.

In a flashback scene we see Raven in meditation and Adeline praises Terra’s skills

“She’s a clever little girl.  A natural actor.  I am certain her face didn’t betray her emotions even as she brought her powers to bear.”

Terra had always wanted to kill Raven, for being the one Titan  who could reveal her, but instead knocked Raven unconscious to fulfill the contract.

Dick didn’t believe the woman and in this exchange Terra’s purpose is revealed to the reader who had held out any hope that Terra was a pawn.

Dick Grayson:  “Terra couldn’t be a traitor.”

Adeline Wilson:  “Quite so, she would have had to BE one of you to turn traitor.  From the very beginning she belonged BODY and SOUL to the Terminator.”

Desperate to prove the woman wrong he calls Steve Dayton’s house looking for Changeling, who is nowhere to be found.  Once again in flashback we see Garfield Logan licking envelopes to send signed photos to his fans.  The glue was drugged.  Child’s play again for an assassin who is well prepared.

After this is confirmed, Adeline lets the Terminator’s name slip.. His name is Slade, Slade Wilson, her ex-husband.

Meanwhile the Terminator has arrived in the Rockies with a very special package as he delivers the unconscious Titans to the H.I.V.E.

In the next chapter we get the origin of Deathstroke the Terminator.  Grant Wilson met Adeline Kane when they were both serving in the Armed Forces.  Adeline was a Captain charged with the training of special operations forces and Major Wilson was one of the finest combat soldiers ever to go through the training.  They fell in love, married, and had two children.   Slade also had a best friend in an older gentleman from the British service named Wintergreen.

In a twist on a tale from those folks over at Marvel, Slade volunteered for an experimental drug for testing truth serums, but instead the drug allowed him to expand the use of his brain to enhance his physical reactions.  When Wintergreen was captured in Vietnam, Slade was compelled to help out and he did.

Slade had retired from the service and became a big game hunter.  The couple hosted parties which in retrospect was how Slade got his.. clients for his new profession.  A profession that Adeline became aware of when four armed assassins crashed into their home.  Adeline managed to kill two, but the others got the drop on her with tear gas and she fell unconscious only knowing her new infant had been kidnapped.

That infant was the man standing in front of Dick Grayson now, whose silence had grown deafening.

Dick confronts Joseph about it and Adeline informs Richard that Joseph is mute due to his vocal cords being cut in a hostage exchange scenario.  After this situation, the naive veil that Adeline had worn faded away and a mother’s cold rage took over.  She shot Slade, but didn’t kill him, she only took his eye, which explains his half mask and his eye patch.

At this point we get a change to Dick Grayson that will begin a slow trend of growing up of the sidekicks.

Dick Grayson, formerly Robin and now Nightwing begins his career to save his friends along with a new ally, right after accepting their old new ally was plotting to betray them all the time.

Just a quick note here, you’ll notice that Dick Grayson now is wearing a more Batman pallette costume with the dark blue and the yellow, gone are the red and green.  The bikini bottoms have been traded for the disco collar and the mask has gone from a domino to a more “bat” like one.

Joseph Wilson does have powers as Jericho.  He is able to lock his eyes with another combatant, turn into an astral form, and then possess that person, taking over their motor functions.  Together the two heroes head off to the H.I.V.E. hideout to free the Titans and confront the Terminator and Terra.

Next Up:  The Conclusion of the Judas Contract