Chapter 2

Robin's POV

I just talked to Beast Boy on the phone. I hung up. I had to. I couldn't talk to Starfire. I love her, but she would have got me to tell her where and what I was doing. I felt horrible for lying to Starfire.

I'm not really at Gotham. I'm underground in some cave to find Batman. Somebody had captured him. I mean, I couldn't just leave him down here in this dark, hollow cave. He took care of me when nobody else did after my parents died.

I walked through the cave. Sam, the mysterious man who told me to come here, said this cave was miles long and it may take me a week to get to where I need to get to in order to save Batman. I had to go on foot so I didn't attract attention to myself.

I had been traveling for about four or five days. I had to get there. I just had to. I was getting close. I smelled a foul smell. It was the smell of blood. I had reached my destination. I did a jump kick onto this weird looking guy. He pushed me off and I fell to the ground, right in front of a man chained to a wall.

"Batman?" I questioned. No answer.

"You are too late, Robin. I already did the deed. I killed him." Said the man with the crazy hair. I looked up at Batman. There were whip marks and dried blood around the wounds.

"Who are you?" I asked the strange man.

"Me? Oh! You know me as Sam. Remember me? I told you to come here."

"Why did you tell me to come here?" I asked.

"So you could see your precious Batman. I wanted you to see what I could do; possibly to you in the near future." Sam said. "Unless," he continued, "you work for me."

"Never." I said coldly.

"Oh, but you don't have a choice. Or I could just make you watch me kill Starfire and then I could finish you off. Or I could easily put Starfire under mind control and make her kill you for me. I don't really want to get my hands dirty again."

"You- I hate you."

"I wouldn't say that. Now, will you work for me?" Sam asked. He pushed his dark brown hair out of his face.

"No." I said.

"Are you sure about that?" I remembered what he had said.

"When do I start?"