Woho! First chapter is up and this is going to be a long fun story! I've actually already got the whole first half of it written but you'll have to wait for those. Just for a little side note this will not be a Slade apprentice story even if for a bit it seems it may go in that direction. Slade just helps me set the stage for a bigger picture. :) Oh and I also make some stuff that happened to Tim happen to Richard but it's no big deal if you know nothing of either of them and it comes up later in the story. In any case hope u enjoy the story.

"Where is Robin?"

The Titans searched around themselves before gazing back at Starfire. Her voice had been barely audible over the roaring of the rain which was pouring down so heavily that they could not see much further than five feet in front of their face. They began crying out, hoping for a response, from their lost leader. No one answered. Raven's hand tightened around her communicator as she stiffly flipped it open.

"Robin, come in. It's Raven."

Beast Boy flexed his hands.

"Robin, where are you?"

After several minutes passed, Raven closed her communicator, her eyebrows forming a V, and looked up at the team.

"Where did each of you see him last?" Cyborg took a step forward.

"The last I saw, he was fighting off those Slade bots like the rest of us."

"Touché" Beast Boy spoke.

"Same as me" Starfire murmured.

"We need to split up and look for him. He must have been dragged away during the fight to a different area." Cyborg asserted which made Beast Boy relax and raise an eyebrow.

"Yeah or he followed an escaping one to go find Slade like an obsessive psychopath!" Raven's eyes chilled Beast Boy as she looked at him. He shrank back to warm his limbs before turning into a whimpering puppy.

"You're not helping the situation every moment wasted means Robin could be slipping into greater danger."

The soggy puppy shivered slightly before turning into a green coon hound and sniffing the area. Leaving the ground, the girls scanned the pines for any evidence of Robin. Red lasers cut through the fog to shine the way for Cyborg as he trudged through the underbrush. The dog sniffed urgently at the ground, sending a stream of water ups its nose, before shifted into a wolf, and leaping into the woods behind the Cyborg.

The water roared all around them. It reverberated off the walls, the ceiling, the floor. Yet, the boy did not stir. Water dripped softly off his face and landed in the small pool around him. It had no sound. His head faced the front of the cave away from the figure next to him.

Slade grinned beneath his mask, his breath falling onto the moist air like tiny droplets. Bending down, he unlatched a box he had placed in front of himself. He removed the boy's gloves on his left hand and began to wipe the forearm with iodine before throwing the cotton ball to the side and picking up a shot. He probed the boys arm, gently searching for the vein, before he stuck the needle into his skin and released the drug.

After he removed the needle he wiped it, being sure not to add too much pressure to the wound, with a cloth. Having completed the injections, Slade set the needles back inside the box and latched it on the front.

He slowly rose from his spot on the floor to gaze down at Robin. His adrenaline from the task at hand had worn down and as he assessed the boy's skills tonight, he was disappointed.

Robin hardly put up a fight.

He had easily crept, with the skills his robots did not possess, behind the boy and knocked him out. This meant the boy did not pay attention to his surroundings at all or just had a really bad day. He hoped it was the lather because then the boy had a lot more to learn then philosophy. It surprised him that he had left the nest so early that his mentor had let him go.

But, that suited him just fine.

Robin's true age, he did not know, but he was young. Young enough to rethink the way he handled the world. Slade was willing to give him that time. He would let his toxins do their magic until all he needed to do was whistle and his bird would come to him. Gathering his things he did one last task to make sure the titans suspected nothing and left.

Beast Boy's tail wagged excitedly as he bent his back legs down and tilted his head up to let out a loud howl.

"What'd you find BB?" Cyborg yelled over the rain.

The dog began following the scent of Robin through the trees. Cyborg trudged along after him while the other titans followed him. About one half of a mile later, they arrived at a wide mouth of a cave. Starfire lite up her hands and floated inside. Slade bots, their metal gears gleaming in the green light, littered the inside.

Cyborg shined his searchlight around the room and landed on a figure sitting against the right wall of the cave. He looked asleep, like he had taken a walk and sat down for a rest but his condition told them otherwise.

His upper arm had a large horizontal cut that had bleed profusely and had just recently begun to dry up, leaving a red sticky trail down his arm.

His clothes lay slightly tattered, lip bleeding and a welt had formed on the side of his face. Cyborg gently nudged his leader before assessing that he was not about to awaken and bent down to pick him up.

"Here" Raven said.

"I can move faster than you. We don't know how long he was bleeding."

"As long as you can handle him." Cyborg replied .

He carefully allowed Raven to take Robin from him so she could fly back to the tower.

"Do you think friend Robin will be okay?"

"I'm sure he'll be fine. It didn't look too serious."

"Man, If we would've helped he'd-a-creamed them no problem!" Beast Boy cried.

"I was so caught up I hadn't noticed he left the group."

"Nor I."

"Well, no use beating ourselves up over it. Let's go help Raven."

Starfire and Beast Boy nodded their heads and began walking towards the tower.

Short start but the chap length will increase, hope u stay reading^^