"Its not working! We'll never get out!" Cyborg shouted from behind a wall of smoke.

"If only Raven wasn't unconscious she could teleport us out." Robin replied.

They were trapped in a chamber used by Slade. Slade had just managed to escape before bombs went off everywhere. The teen titans were low on oxygen and running out of time before the whole thing collapsed on them.

"Robin!" Beastboy yelled, "I think something's wrong!" Robin ran to where Beastboy was. Beastboy was at Raven's side. Her head was a bloody mess from being hit in the head with a piece of the ceiling that fell on her. "Her head wont stop bleeding!" Beastboy said, on the verge of tears.

"Let me see her." Robin said. Beastboy lifted Raven up to him. Then Beastboy ran to help Cyborg, but he didn't get two feet before he ran back and kissed Raven on the forehead.

Robin couldn't get over how weird a couple Raven and Beastboy were. But opposites attract, right? Besides, he had no time to think about their relationship when he was so busy with his relationship with Starfire. "God, Raven. You sure get yourself into trouble." Robin said with a halfhearted laugh. He stoked back Raven's hair to look at the damage. One big bulge told him she was only hit once, but badly. He held his hand over the gushing wound, frantically trying to stop the bleeding, but it wouldn't. Robin knew, Raven was beyond help from them. She needed a real doctor, if she wanted to live. Robin, always prepared, did have some bandage tape with him, which he used to wrap up Raven's head the best he could. The he put Raven down. A tear rolled down his cheek. Who knew he would break down before Beastboy? But Robin knew he might loose his friend. He might loose his whole team. His own life. Starfire, he had to tell her. "Star?" he called through the ash and smoke.

"Robin?" Starfire called back. She ran to him.

Robin swept her off her feet and kissed her like he would never kiss her again. "Star, I love you, and if we don't make it-"

"No, Robin." Starfire cried, "We will! We will!"

"Shh." he put his finger over her lips, "But if we don't I just want you to know that, you know," he pointed up, "If we see each other again, I will always love you!"

Starfire was now sobbing on Robin's shoulder. "I love you!" she said. Robin pushed her away, a little.

"Now go see what you can do." he brushed his own tear off his cheek, "I have to see what I can do about Raven." he kissed Starfire one last time. If he had known what was about to come, he would have stayed with her.

Robin knelt beside Raven, not knowing what to do. Suddenly, rocks began to tumble down from above. The building was collapsing. Robin picked up Raven to keep her from being hit. Somewhere behind him he heard Starfire.

"Robin!" He could scarcely hear her over the rumbling. Then, to his extreme terror, Starfire screamed in pain.

"Starfire!!" Robin yelled, trying with all his strength to run and save her.

Ravens eyes shot open. Before Robin knew she was awake, he and Raven were on the beach across from the tower. He was still screaming for Starfire when he realized Raven had teleported them out.

Robin looked to the west where he knew what he would see. Just beyond the city, the abandoned building where Slade's recent lair was smoke rising. Then a final bright red explosion that brought the building down before the shock wave from the huge explosion even hit the two on the beach.

"No!" Robin cried, "Raven take us back, take us back!" he shook her until he realized she would not respond. She needed a hospital while he needed to see the remains of the building. The question f the matter was whether to bring Raven to the rubbish of the building and save time, or to take her to the hospital now that she still had a chance to live, but also put a chance of death on his friends who could possibly have survived the explosion. He decided it was better to guarantee Raven would be okay, than to take a chance and possibly loose all. Robin calmed down and brought Raven to Jump City General, where she laid in intensive care. Once he was sure she was safe, though, he went to the remains of the building. Firefighters were already there putting out the fire.

Robin ignored them trying to stop him from going in. the said it was on fire, that there were dangerous gasses in the air, that the building could collapse further. He just walked passed them. Everything seemed to get quiet except for Robins heartbeat. Halfway through the heap of mangled metal and brick, he saw cyborgs fain blue glow. He ran to it, to find he was just imagining it and nothing was there. Save for a petite little hand sticking out from a mound of ceiling.

"Starfire!" he gasped and ran over to the hand. He pulled her out. She was black and blue with bruises. "Star?" he whispered. Her eyes were open but the didn't see anything. Robin held her face towards him, then let go. It hung loosely from he neck. Her eyes still saw nothing. She was dead. Robin wanted to leave right then, but knew he couldn't until he knew the others were gone too. Until he could tell Raven he found Beastboy.

Most of the smoke and fire was gone, so Robin could see better. There was a little fire going off to the side though. Robin thought he would put it out so it wouldn't spread. He stomped on it with his foot until it was out, but something, still smoking caught his eye. Beastboy's glove. Robin picked it up and ash fell off of it revealing that it was in perfect condition. A tear rolled down Robin's cheek. Beastboy ash fell out of the glove when Robin tipped it over. He felt bad standing in his friends ashes. He kept the glove. But in stepping over the remains of Beastboy he found Cyborg. One arm was gone, but he still was intact. He could be repaired and brought back, maybe. Robin had seen what he needed to see. He wanted to take Starfire, but he felt it wasn't right to carry her dead body with him. After all, bodies are just shells for your soul. When you die, your soul leaves and your body is not you anymore.

Still, it was silent. Do aliens have souls? Robin wondered. He knew that even if regular Tameranians didn't have souls, Starfire had one. She had found it here on Earth. Robin had given it to her. He had given her a part of his soul, and she had given him her love. Robin walked out with Cyborgs body in his arms and Beastboy's glove in his pocket. Starfire's love in his heart. The firefighters watched him leave, until he was too far away to be seen.

Robin brought the articles he had back to the tower. He fell asleep crying on the couch. In one night, he had lost his love, a friend, a team. He didn't want to ever wake up.

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