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Her breathing came in hard gasps from her lungs, but she still ran on. She turned her head around to try to glimpse her pursuer. There he came, his eyes glowing with pure hatred. She gasped, and ran with newfound energy in her terror.

Elsewhere, the Titans were in a bigger problem. Slade had released Overload, and he had made himself even more powerful by tapping in to the main power lines in Jump City. The Titans were thrust into darkness as their source of light, their only hope for defeating this monster, burned out. Raven and Beastboy found each other and fumbled around, calling out for their teammates. Starfire illuminated the night and her other three teammates appeared. "Where is Robin?" she asked.

Meanwhile, Robin had wandered in the direction of what sounded like someone running. "Slade." he said aloud. He heard a sound. He whirled around to see a blue light coming over the top of the hill. Cyborg! he thought. He and the team will help me catch Slade. "Cyborg it's me!" he called. He reached the top of the hill, and soon realized his unfortunate mistake.

The young girl reached the top of the hill, panting and gasping for breath. If only I could have some light, she thought. Then this chase would be over. She looked up. Light! It was over the hill! Victory was hers. Her life would be free from her living nightmare.

When she reached the top of the hill, she realized the light was not the kind of light she had hoped for. This light could not only damage her pursuer, but it was damaging another as well. In the arms of this living light, a boy was loosing his own fight. The living light was electric, and it was electrocuting the boy. She rushed forward. She could help, she was sure she could. She ran toward the monster, and faded into the night.

The monster saw her, even as she faded away before him. She reached up and yanked of the chip that made his its face, wrenching it free of its electric body.

She did it, she had destroyed the monster! But with it, she had destroyed her only chance of helping herself get away from him. But as she looked back into the night, he was gone. She was safe. At least for now, she thought.

She then turned her attention to the boy, who had fallen and was lying motionless on the ground a few yards in front of her. She jogged over to him and rolled him over onto his back. She paused. She recognized this person. She didn't remember where from, but she definitely had seen him before. The colorful costume, that mysterious mask…

It didn't matter who he was now, he needed help. She was too distracted to realize that yet another person was also coming over the hill.

Starfire flew along the ground, still searching for Robin. As she neared the top of a small hill, she spotted two figures below. One was standing beside another on the ground.

"Robin!" she cried. Automatically assuming this girl was his attacker, she flew into action.

"Leave Robin alone!" she screamed, and fired at the figure with her star bolts. But as soon as she stopped to see what had happened to the person, she was gone. She had disappeared before her very eyes.

Starfire picked up Robin's limp body and flew back to the rest of her friends. "I have successfully found Robin," she sighed, looking at him.

"We better take him back to the tower. It'll be better for him, and for the rest of us." Raven said matter of factly. "Where did you find him anyway?"

"At the bottom of that hill lying on the ground. Will he be, alright?"

"Probably, but we better get back to the tower. We're not taking any chances." Raven said, glancing at Robin.

The group headed in the direction of the tower. They were almost there, when they heard a blood-curdling scream.

A shiver ran down Beastboy's spine. "That, was the scariest thing, I have ever heard." he whispered.

It's him! But it can't be him! I have to get away from this nightmare before it's too late…so she ran. She ran in the direction of what seemed to be a group of people walking. Perfect! He won't attack me now… But he was catching up, and fast. He eyes looked even more terrible than ever, and there was no smile on his face this time. He was furious, and it just made him run faster. "Aaaahhhhhhhhhh!!!!"

"There it is again!" Beastboy said, shuddering. "But where on earth is it coming from?"

"Please make that unpleasant sound go away," Starfire said. She cringed at every cry.

With Robin unconscious, Cyborg took control of the situation. "Star, take Robin to the tower and stay there with him, but be ready in case we call for your help." Starfire nodded and set out toward her destination.

"B.B., Raven, let's go see where that noise is coming from."

But the three did not even need to go to the problem, because the problem came to them. A girl with jet-black hair came racing toward them, looking behind her. As she looked in front of her again, she almost skidded right into the three Titans, but quickly faded into the night.
"Dude? Where'd she go?" All three looked around, but saw or heard nothing. The girl had simply vanished.