The Fall of Robin

Chapter 1

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Robin sighed as he walked into the ops room, hoping to see some of his friends on the game station, he cursed under his breath as he saw it was just Starfire, talking to Speedy her boyfriend. He shook his head and turned around to leave. Not wanting to be caught by her, not wanting her to see him at all. He started to walk back through when Starfire called out to him, "Friend Robin!"

He flinched at the friend part, "Yes Starfire?" He asked.

"You can come in and talk with us, is Speedy not your friend as well?" Starfire asked, her emerald green eyes pleading with him.

He ran his hand through his hair sighing, "Sorry Starfire, I was…uh looking for Cyborg." With that said he turned and kept going. He hated to disappoint her, but he hated to see her with Speedy even more.

He walked through the door and continued down the hall, he was a mix of emotions. So lost in thought he was that he didn't see Raven until he bumped into a black shield. He looked down in surprise, "Robin, you have got to calm yourself. I can feel your emotions all over the tower."

Robin glared at her, "Raven." He warned her.

She was however undeterred, "Robin! You are at fault for Starfire and Speedy. You had her, you kissed her two years ago, you kissed her and then told her it wouldn't work out after. Then she and Speedy started dating. If you wanted to date her you should have. She loved you. You're the one that broke her heart by turning her down, after kissing her."

Robin frowned, "What's your point? I couldn't date her…can't date her."

"Why?" Raven asked him.

Robin just glared and started to walk around her, "I don't have to explain myself to you Raven. However, as team leader it would be inappropriate for me to date her, my subordinate."

"Why are you lying to me? We're friends, aren't we?" Raven asked him.

"Stay out of my head." Robin told her angrily. As he continued to walk away. That's when the alarm went off. Robin immediately went into leader mode, charging into the ops room and was shocked to see Batman on the ops screen.

"Robin." He said curtly.

Robin raised an eyebrow in shock, "Batman." He replied just as curtly, going into business mode, his hands clasping behind his back. "What can I do for you?"

That's when Beast Boy walked in, "DUUUUDE! IT'S BATMAN." He shouted excitedly.

Batman didn't respond to him but shook his head, "Robin, I'm coming into Jump City, this is just a courtesy call."

"Why are you coming? Who's heading this way?" Robin asked him, betraying no emotion.

"It doesn't concern you. I'll take care of it. You're lucky I'm even letting you know." Batman replied to him.

"It does concern me. This is my city, it isn't Gotham. You will tell me who is coming. I know you disapprove of me and my team, but this is bigger than that, this is the city at stake, the civilians." Robin fired back unflinching.

Batman glared at him, and Robin stood there glaring back. Robin had to stop himself from rolling his eyes as Beast Boy and Cyborg took steps back, staring at him wide eyed like his hair was on fire.

"The Joker is heading your way. You and your team will stay out of this. Leave him to me, he is out of your team's league." Batman told him fiercely.

"No! This is our city. We have protected it from Slade, from Trigon, from the brotherhood of evil. We are fully capable of defending it from him." Robin told Batman glaring at him.

Batman sighed, weighing this over. "Meet me at the location in 2 hours, come alone so we can discuss this face to face."

Robin nodded, and Batman was replaced by a shocked Speedy, who had been trying to get the connection back, not aware that Batman had hacked the connection and replaced him. "Sorry your call was interrupted Starfire." He then nodded at Speedy, "Speedy." Robin then left the room to get ready.

He was followed by Beast Boy and Cyborg, "What's up guys?"

"DUUUUDE that was so incredible! You just stared down the Batman, he's like the scariest man on the planet!" Beast Boy told him excitedly.

"He isn't that scary guys." Robin told them.

"Robin," Cyborg spoke up in a much more concerned tone, "Man do you really think we need to go after the Joker? I mean, he is one of the most feared villains in the world, and you want to go after him?"

Robin nodded, "Cy, we can handle him, I know we can. I used to go after him when I was 8 when I was his apprentice. I know we can handle this."

With that Robin entered his room, and Beast Boy broke off, Cyborg walked in with him as well though, "Dick, slow down think about this, use that genius brain I know you have. Why would the Joker leave Gotham and come to Jump?"

"Vic, what are you getting at?" Robin asked him. The two were best friends, and Dick had started talking more to him, and with him after the Tokyo incident two years prior. The two had gone as far as first name basis, and Robin trusted his judgement as much as anyone.

"Man, he's coming for you! You are his target, and your idea is to go after him? We should be putting you in protective custody, locking down the tower, not going after him." Cyborg told him.

Robin nodded, "If this was anyone else, you would be right, however with him, if I don't go after him, he will start killing everyone he can. He would try to contaminate the water supply with laughing gas, killing everyone. He has caused infected glass to rain down on Gotham, blown up schools, he will do anything to get what he wants. I know he is coming after me Vic, that's why I have to go after him, I have to stop him before he does something horrendous to draw me out. In fact, the only reason that I am letting the team help is because he might want you guys to help and if you don't he could go crazy. He hasn't sent anything saying I have to stop him alone, so you guys are probably part of his game."

Cyborg thought for a moment, "So we're just going to play his game? Seriously? Be his pawns?"

Robin sighed, "If we don't play his game he just starts killing people, he'll kill until we get involved. I know its putting you guys in danger and I don't want to Vic I don't, but this is what we signed up for, we put ourselves at risk for the safety of the civilians."

Cyborg nodded, "Alright, you got me there. What do you want me to do?"

"Start a continuous scan of the city's crime logs looking for this face." Robin said showing him a picture of a dead joker victim, the grotesque smile still plastered on her face. "Then another scan trying to catch his face using facial recognition on city traffic cams."

Cyborg nodded and was about to say something else when Robin's communicator started flashing and ringing. He picked it up, flipping it open, "Robin here." He saw Speedy's face and was already upset. He knew exactly what he was going to say.

"Rob, man you have to send Starfire here." Speedy told him frantically.

"Why would I do that?" Robin asked.

"Don't fuck with me here asshole. You know damn well she told me about the Joker. You're just going to let her stay in this fight?" Speedy asked him, furious.

"Watch yourself Speedy. I am still the leader of the Titans, she is a Titan, as are you. Seeing as this pertains to Titan's operations watch your tone." Robin responded.

"Fuck yourself Dick. You've been a prick to her and me ever since we started dating. Now your going to hold her in this because you want to say screw you to me?" Speedy responded angrily.

"Speedy, I have not interfered or attempted to mess with your relationship even once. I don't have to like it though." Robin told him. "If Starfire wants to join you in Steel City than so be it, its her choice, but if you know her as well as I do, you know she won't just run from a fight."

"Why do you think I need you to send her. You're her leader, send her here to be safe." Speedy told him.

"Her words verbatim would be, 'You can't keep me out of a fight you yourself is going into." Robin responded, having had this conversation with her before.

"You smug punk! It's the Joker! You know damn well he is coming after you guys, and any villain knows that the easiest way to get to you is to go after her! She is a target and you don't give a shit. I thought you fucking loved her, yet you are going to let her be a target like this. You don't love her at all you piece of shit."

"SPEEDY! That's enough! Robin might let you get away with saying that because of your old friendship with him, but I sure as HELL won't. Calm down and take all that shit back." Cyborg commanded.

Speedy looked over to him and glared, "Stay out of this Cyborg. This is between me and shithead here."

Cyborg looked over to Robin and his eyes widened, Robin was shaking in rage, his fists clenched. "Speedy, I've done my very best to distance myself from her so that she wouldn't be a target. You're the man she loves. You are in a relationship with her known to the public. Its much safer, no one could possibly want to go after someone like you." Robin told the archer. "Why do you think I didn't date her when I had the chance? I was protecting her, because I have people that want me hurt, unlike a weakling like you."

Speedy was outraged, "Go fuck yourself, she wouldn't have stayed with a jerk like you long anyways. I'm coming to Jump, since you don't give a shit about her safety, I'll come protect her." With that Speedy hung up, cancelling the connection.

Robin couldn't handle the anger anymore, he swiped his arm on the desk smashing everything into the wall then to the floor. He yelled in frustration slamming his hand into the wall.

"Easy man, it's okay, he's a jerk. That was all totally uncalled for. We all know how much protecting Star means to you, how much you've given to protect her. We all know how hard it is for you to see her with him. For him to say that wasn't right." Victor told his best friend, putting his hand on his shoulder to try to calm him down.

The boy wonder nodded, "Right, thanks Vic. I need to go now though, I can't be late for Batman. Robin turned and left towards the elevator, going to the garage.

He hopped onto his R-Cycle and revved the engine, racing out of the garage at a high speed, heading towards his destination. When he arrived on the roof of the Wayne Enterprises building, he waited for a moment, spinning as he heard a slight sound, he blocked the neck chop that was descending towards him, he grabbed the arm and twisted attempting to shoulder throw his attacker.

The man grabbed his elbow, fingers poking into a spot and Dick's arm went numb, he was stunned, the man kicked the back of his legs, and he dropped to his knees. He spun back trying to sweep the assaulter's legs, the man jumped over them and Robin flipped backwards a couple times, creating distance and his staff came out immediately, he twirled it, and raised his left arm in front. The man was still hidden in the shadows, but Dick was pretty sure it was his father.

"Well done, fighting off a surprise attacker. Your throw was on the weaker side, you could have wrist locked me, and kicked the back of my legs, putting me at your mercy. I'm a bigger and stronger opponent, you should have gone for a weakening lock. You were cocky about being more skilled than whatever attacker came at you. Don't do that again, it gets you into trouble. Still after your mistake I suppose you did a sufficient job countering and getting distance preparing yourself. Overall good job." Batman told his protégé.

Robin scoffed, "Only you would attack me to say hello."

"I needed to make sure you've been keeping to your training." Batman informed him.

"I'm hope your pleased." Robin responded.

"You've kept up your training well." Batman told him. "Now why should I let you help me with the Joker?"

"First, its my city, second Joker came to my city to put me and my team in his game, you know how he'll react if we don't play. So, I'm going to play, and we are better off doing this together than doing it alone. So, let's work together again." Robin told him grinning as he held out his hand towards his mentor.

Batman took his hand, "Very well, I'm in charge of the operation then."

Robin nodded, "If that's the case you need to come to the tower, meet my team, since we will be working together. You can stay at the tower and use all of our facilities if you would like."

Batman nodded, "Thank you. Why don't you send your bike back remotely and ride with me in the bat plane."

Robin nodded grinning and pressed a button on his belt sending his bike home, he then waited as the plane descended and jumped into the passenger seat as he rode to the Tower with his father.

"How's Alfred doing?" Robin asked his surrogate father.

"He's doing well, gives me plenty of his sass. He misses you Dick, wants you to come home." Bruce told him.

"Bruce…I'm sorry, that isn't home anymore, this is my home." Dick told him.

"Dick, even so you can visit." Bruce told him softly.

"Is this coming from you, the guy that fired me? Or from Alfred?" Dick asked confrontationally.

"Dick…just come back and visit, would you?" Bruce asked him.

"We'll see." Dick told him.

When they arrived, Robin activated his communicator and told his team to meet him in the operations room. He and Batman walked in and most of the group was stunned, "Guys this is Batman, my mentor and teacher. Batman this is my primary team, Starfire," he pointed her out and then moved to Beast Boy, "That's Beast Boy, Raven and my second in command for this team as well as the entire Titans network, Cyborg." He said pointing each one out.

Cyborg was the first to move, stepping forward and shaking Batman's hand, "Welcome to Titans Tower."

Batman nodded, "I take it you were in charge of setting up this Tower, and all its security and technology, it's quite impressive, especially noting how young you are. I'm impressed."

Cyborg nodded, "Thanks, if we have time at some point maybe you can take a look at our T-ship and my T-car and the system and give me some pointers."

Batman nodded, and was shocked as Beast Boy was broken from his reverie, "Dude! Your Batman! Its so nice to meet you sir!"

Batman simply raised an eyebrow, "Beast Boy, once part of the Doom Patrol, you have no need to call me sir, you are quite the hero yourself."

Beast Boy's eyes widened into hearts as he stared at Batman, "T-Thanks!"

Batman nodded and turned towards Raven, "May I have a word with you in private Raven?"

Raven nodded and followed him out of the room, "Raven, I want to apologize for what happened when we first met."

"What about it?" Raven asked him.

"When you first asked for help against your father from the justice league, we denied you. Please understand apologies aren't something I do often. We were wrong however, we were informed by Zatanna that you were a demon's spawn. It raised…suspicion from us. However, we should have seen what was in front of us, a little girl scared of what her father was, and what he would do." Batman told her sincerely.

Raven glared at him, "So what changed?"

"You managed to gain Robin's trust, therefore you have mine. He doesn't trust easily, you having his trust means a lot, to me anyways." Batman told her, turning and walking away, to the room Robin had showed him to earlier. He didn't make it there before he heard something thump into the wall down the hall and around the corner. He snuck that way and peered around the corner curious as to what was going on in his son's tower.

Not much surprised him these days, he was shocked by what he saw, Roy Harper, his friend Oliver's apprentice, holding his bow to Robin's throat lifting him up onto the wall. Batman raised an eye, thinking about intervening, but decided to let his pupil handle it himself. He'd be pretty disappointed if his protégé couldn't beat Oliver's. What were they fighting about anyways? He wondered, the two had been good friends at one point.

"Speedy put me down. NOW." Robin told him, demanding the red headed archer release him.

"Fuck you Dick, you had this ass kicking coming with how you've treated Starfire and myself." Speedy told him harshly.

Robin's eyes narrowed at him, "I have left the two of you in peace, I've done nothing wrong to either of you. I don't even talk to you, and I've always treated Starfire with nothing but respect since the day I met her."

Speedy lowered Robin slightly, "Yeah you completely abandoned me as a friend asshole. We used to be best friends, and rivals, that's why I joined the Titans in the first place. After Starfire and I started dating, you just started ignoring me. You've done the same to her, talking to her only when necessary, it hurt her so bad when you broke things off with her, then she lost her best friend when we started dating."

Batman sighed as he watched Robin's fist clench in anger, this wouldn't be good for Speedy, Robin grabbed the bow on both ends pushing it away from his body. He pushed up on it, lifting his body and placed his feet on the bow with his hands still on both sides, he yanked his shoulders back while pushing his feet out, the bow snapped in half as Robin landed, the shock was evident on Speedy's face, Robin threw both halves of the bow to the side and pummeled Speedy's face with a right hook. Adding a spin kick he thrusted Speedy into the opposite wall, then charged into him, elbowing him in the face, he then grabbed him by his leather jacket and lifted him up smashing another fist into his face.

"Fuck you Speedy. You know I love her. You knew back then that I loved her, you my best friend knew that, and yet you betrayed me! You went after her anyways. So you started dating her, and it broke my heart as much as I broke hers and I know I broke her heart I regret it, but I can't be with her, it makes her too big of a target. Knowing that you went after her, I didn't interfere because her happiness is so vital to me. Even if I can't be the one to make her happy, I just want her to be somewhat happy. Yet I can't just watch the two of you together, so I distanced myself from the two of you. I don't want to interfere with you two, and me being with her will pull her love from you to me and you damn well know it." Robin told him.

This last sentence only served to piss Speedy off, the archer fired a punch back at his leader, causing his head to snap to the left. Robin gritted his teeth and turned throwing Speedy to the side, following up with a jump spinning kick to his face. Speedy stumbled down the hall, and Batman continued to watch. This wasn't good, Robin had lost control and Batman couldn't blame him.

The Boy Wonder followed Speedy down the hallway and dodged as the archer threw a punch, he grabbed the arm and pulled him forward off balance before spinning in and launching an elbow to his side where he felt a rib crack. Speedy bent over holding his side, but Robin wasn't done, he jumped into the air spinning and dropped an axe kick on Speedy's back, dropping him hard to the ground.

This is when Starfire walked around the corner, she saw Robin pick up Speedy and slam another punch into his face, "You piece of shit, you take her and shove it in my face. Then come into my tower…" Robin was unable to continue as Starfire shot into him in a flying tackle, taking him and throwing him into the wall.

"ROBIN! How dare you attack boyfriend Speedy! You are just being the jealous! You had your chance…" She stopped midsentence to tell him, "NO! don't you dare get up, I will put you right back on the ground. You had your chance, but you left me. Don't be mad at Speedy because you messed up." Starfire told him furiously.

Robin groaned as he started to stand, but her hands began to glow green, Robin glared at her, "Starfire! Stand down. That's an order." Robin told her in his leader voice, and she faltered as he stood all the way and walked away, Starfire turned to Speedy and pulled him up hugging him, "Speedy, I'm so sorry, are you okay?"

That was the last Robin heard before he turned the corner and ran into Batman, "Batman…can I get you anything?"

Batman shook his head, "No Robin, I'm fine, I saw that fight though. Well done, you kicked his ass. He "deserved it Dick."

Robin nodded, "Yeah well Starfire kicked my ass pretty good."

"You did the right thing Dick. Cutting things off with her to protect her." Bruce told him.

"I don't want to talk about it Bruce. I'm just going to go to bed." Dick told him.

"Wait, why didn't you tell her Speedy attacked you, why didn't you tell her the truth." Bruce asked him.

"Because I love Starfire more than you understand. I want her to be happy, and he is her only shot right now. I don't want to hurt their relationship by telling her it was Speedy that started it. I can't be with her because of our profession, it would paint a target on her back." Robin told him.

"So, if you love her so much why don't you quit? Live civilian life?" Bruce asked.

"She would never settle down for that kind of life, she is a warrior Bruce. As for me, I have responsibilities, the Titans network, I lead them, they need me. I have a responsibility because of your teachings and my abilities. I love what I do, leading my friends, fighting crime, saving people. Maybe later in life when I have to stop, her and I can be together." Robin told him.

"Dick, I'm proud to hear you say that, but that point…it will be too late for you and her. The life we lead is a lonely one. She will have moved on by that point. Just…don't hold your hopes up." Bruce told him as he disappeared into his room and Robin walked into his own, slamming his door in his earlier frustrations.

Later that night Dick was doing research, looking at different deaths in the area, different crimes. He spotted a clue, he grinned, he had something. He kept looking through the data, connecting the dots until he came to a final conclusion and it wasn't good. He had taken each crime with any kind of card left at the scene. Each scene had a seemingly odd series of letters, when he pieced them together and rearranged the letters into every possible combination he was left with a sentence that truly terrified him to his core. It read, 'Robin, my game is with you. Come alone to the Warehouse at the end of pier 13'.

Robin sighed not what he wanted to see, he had to face the Joker alone, that was his rule. His team wouldn't agree to this, not at all. He would have to go alone, no matter what. He packed his utility belt, then picked up and extra one and latched it around his waist as well. He had a feeling he would need it.

Starfire was unable to sleep, she had left her room, leaving Speedy alone, she needed to talk to Robin, getting into a fight with Speedy was odd, especially him starting a fight. As strong and skilled of a warrior as he was, he preferred not to fight, but to come to a diplomatic solution. He always used to say, "The best victory is when the opponent surrenders of its own accord before there are any actual hostilities... It is best to win without fighting." She figured Speedy wasn't telling the whole truth about Robin attacking him, she needed to talk to Robin to decide what had happen for herself.

She was heading towards his room when she saw him leave it, decked out in his mission gear, two extra belts. He intended on going out alone tonight. She sighed, he never seemed to learn that they were his friends…well his team, she couldn't say that they were really friends anymore. They hadn't been for a long time, and she had attacked him today, she had hurt him, she knew she had. She had seen the pained expression when she had hit him, he hid it well but not from her. She had felt his rib crack slightly where her shoulder had hit him. He was slow to get up even though she had threatened him, he would have gotten up faster usually.

She sighed, thinking of that she had threatened him as well, she couldn't believe she had done that to him. But she was hurt, he had attacked her boyfriend and was hitting him seemingly because they were together, at least that's what she had heard. He had even broken Speedy's bow, but again that wasn't like Robin.

She looked down, grabbing her left arm with her right, ashamed of having attacked her leader and once friend she was about to say something to Robin in apology when he turned and walked out to the elevator, she raised an eyebrow and took flight, going to the roof, she would follow him and make sure he didn't do anything too stupid. She knew he was smart though, she knew she would have to keep to the clouds and try her best to follow him like that.

Robin hopped on his R-Cycle and revved it as he raced out of the Garage of Titan's Tower. He had a villain to stop. If he could do this he could make Bruce proud, save his team, and prove that bastard Speedy wrong, that he could protect his team just fine. A lot was riding on this for Robin, what he didn't know, was that Starfire had left with him and was tailing him.

As she flew she got more and more worried, Robin was heading towards the pier, he had a destination. Clearly, he was going to a meeting place, but with who? Surely, he wouldn't be meeting the Joker alone.

Robin reached the pier 13 and parked his bike, hopping off he activated the security system and shot a grappling gun up above him, pulling himself up onto the roof of one of the buildings he ran along the roofs, shooting his grapple gun again, launching him up onto the roof of the highest building, he touched his mask in a specific spot activating his mask's heat vision. He scanned the area and cursed under his breath, he could see a group of men in the warehouse, he would have to take them out. He jumped onto the roof, and he tossed a birdarang into the roof embedding it, he tied a rope to it and started running, he jumped off the building and waited. The rope pulled taught and he swung back towards the building. Robin crashed through the window and let go of the rope flying down towards the men. He tossed birdarangs at several of the men and landed sprinting at another one. He zigzagged forward, spinning his staff as he did. He jumped and spun the staff like a helicopter above his head. He stopped and brought it down over his head striking the man opposite him. He landed and was sprinting again before the man hit the ground unconscious. Robin was on the next man immediately, he spun away from the man's overhead bat swing, then swung his staff like a bat into the man's stomach, hitting his diaphragm and knocking him out cold. Robin spun and flipped over the next man as his ears caught something, someone was priming a rocket launcher. He started backflipping away from the sound, trying to get away from what he knew was going to be a big explosion, he glimpsed up trying to get a look at who had the dangerous weapon. He saw the Joker and cursed, of course the maniac would have a rocket launcher. He saw where it was aimed and stopped flipping, looking up into the air where the Joker had the launcher aimed.

"STARFIRE LOOK OUT!" He screamed in pure terror as the Joker launched the rocket at her. Starfire looked up and her eyes widened. She dodged to her left, but the rocket hit the wall to the right of her, blowing up, the concussive force sent her flying at a high speed into the wall next to her. She cried out as her left arm snapped on impact. She fell through the air towards the ground and Robin took off after her. He slid and caught her just before she hit, he then cursed as he saw another rocket make impact next to them. It blasted him and Starfire into a wall. As he hit the wall he grunted in pain as his head hit the wall and he lost consciousness lost into blackness.

The Joker laughed as he walked towards the two Titans lying on the ground. He picked up Robin and laughed again as he walked towards Starfire as she tried to get up, he stopped short as a bomb dropped in the middle of the two. The Joker jumped back away from Starfire as one of his men grabbed her. "Time to pack up and head home boys! Shows over, Batsy is here!"

With that the Joker took off with Robin and his henchman took off with Starfire out of the other door. Batman cursed, his instincts told him to go after Robin, his adoptive son, however he knew the Joker. If he got Robin back then Starfire would be killed immediately, Robin would never forgive him. No, he had to save Starfire and hope that he could save Robin in time. The Batman turned and took off after Starfire cursing under his breath.

When he reached the man, he threw a bolo at his feet and it wrapped around the man tripping him. He dropped Starfire and fell to the ground. Batman grabbed him and lifted him up, "WHERE IS HE GOING!"

The man glared back at him and Batman threw him into the wall walking up to him trying to scare the man. After minutes of interrogation he was nowhere, and he knocked the man out, before calling for the batplane and taking the man to the Titan's Tower. When he got close he hit the Titans alarm and woke all the rest of them up. The Titans met Batman in the Ops room and Cyborg took charge.

"What happened to Starfire Batman, and where is Robin?" Cyborg asked, "And who the hell is that?"

"Robin decoded the message, shortly before even I did. It told him to go to the warehouse at the end of pier 13. He was told to go alone so he did. You don't mess with the Joker by disobeying his rules. Starfire unwittingly followed and as you can see it went wrong. I only barely managed to save Starfire, but the Joker got away from me with Robin. I need an interrogation room, so I can get some answers out of him." Batman told them

"What are you going to do to him?" Speedy asked.

"Whatever I have to in order to get the information." Batman told him.

"I won't let you torture him." Speedy told him, "Robin knew what he was getting himself into, if he won't tell you, you'll just have to find Robin another way."

"Leave." Batman told him.

"The fuck did you just say to me? You don't get to order me around Batman." Speedy told him angrily.

"Unless you want me to tell Oliver exactly what you did to Robin earlier, attacking him for no reason except you're a selfish brat, you'll stand down. I'll do whatever I deem necessary. Cyborg, you're the leader of the Titans now, what do you have to say about it. It's your tower." Batman said evenly.

"Raven will you do the honors?" Cyborg asked observing the tense situation, "Speedy stand down or get out of my Tower. Batman, Raven can look inside his mind and find out where the Joker is taking him." Cyborg informed Batman. "Beast Boy, help me take Starfire to the infirmary, I need to see all the damage done to her."

Batman nodded and followed Raven as they went to a room to try to find Robin's location. Cyborg was followed by Speedy, "Speedy what do you want?" Cyborg asked.

"To check on my girlfriend." Speedy replied angrily.

"Funny you weren't too worried about her when you were yelling at Batman. Get your priorities straight dude." Beast Boy told him.

"What the hell is that supposed to mean green boy." Speedy demanded.

"Exactly what he said man, you haven't even checked on her yet. Why are you even dating her, so Robin can't?" Cyborg asked him.

"What the hell Cyborg!" Speedy demanded angrily.

"We aren't stupid Speedy, neither is Robin, we all know you cheat on Starfire and the only reason you're with her is her body." Beast Boy told him.

"I have no idea what you're talking about!" Speedy yelled.

"Don't even try to lie to us, we aren't stupid. Starfire just doesn't see it. I'm not going to tell her because she won't believe us, and get mad at us. We've tried. On her planet people would never do something like cheat on each other, or lie to each other about love." Cyborg told him. "Yet you're still possessive of her for some reason, which is why you're here."

"I do love her Cyborg. That's why I'm here, I care for her." Speedy told him.

"Speedy just stop lying to yourself man, if you loved her and truly cared for her you wouldn't be cheating on her." Cyborg responded. Him and Beast Boy then turned into the med bay, so Cyborg could do a check on her.

An hour later Starfire was awake, and Cyborg was about to try to set her arm, so she could start the healing, that's when Batman came over the comm. system in the tower, "Cyborg, time to go, we have the Joker's location. We need to leave immediately; the Joker has Robin there by now and the longer it takes us to get there the more…irreversible the damage will be."

Cyborg nodded as he and Beast Boy got up and started heading for the T-ship, Starfire following. Speedy spoke up, "Starfire where are you going?"

"To save Robin, he is our comrade." Starfire responded.

"No, you aren't, the Joker already had almost had you once, your arm is even broken!" Speedy proclaimed.

"I am a warrior; my arm is of no consequence nor is my fear when my comrade is in jeopardy." Starfire told him.

"So, you still love him." Speedy asked angrily trying to use her emotions against her. What he didn't see was Cyborg's fist coming at his face.

"Man, I have had enough of your shit. Leave her alone, stop playing with her emotions." Cyborg said as he knocked Speedy flat out. Starfire looked a little concerned, but she had other pressing matters. Robin was in need of saving."

When they arrived in the hanger Batman raised an eyebrow, "Where is Speedy?"

"Don't worry about it, official Titan's mission I sent him on." Cyborg stated evenly.

"Cyborg knocked him the FUCK out!" Beast Boy told him honestly as Cyborg cringed at Beast Boy saying that, Batman however gave him a nod and they continued into their separate pods.

They all took off as Batman had Alfred pull up the schematics of the building Robin was in. He had Alfred activate the Wayne Tech satellite, sending him live time heat vision images of the building and what was happening. He watched as the Joker beat the shit out of Robin, his adoptive son. His fists clenched tightly as he sped his plane up, the T-ship keeping pace but barely.

When they arrived Batman took charge, "Starfire, you and I are heading after Robin and the Joker. Cyborg you and the rest of your team spread out and run interference I don't want any surprises in rescuing Robin." Batman and Starfire then rushed into the building, Batman knew Robin didn't have much time left.

WELL THAT WAS A LONG CHAPTER, HOPE YOU ALL LIKED IT. I hope it left lots of questions and you guys want the answers. Please read and review as I like to get feedback on my stories, what did yall think of this chapter. What do yall want to see in the future. My final question, Was Robin too passive to Speedy or did it make sense?