"I did as you have ordered" Koriandr said. The Brain wheeled himself towards the faithful girl and said, "You have done well indeed." Kori'andr was frustrated and asked, "You promised to revive my memory, Master. I have done your every command yet you haven't kept your part of the deal." The Brain went towards her and calmly replied, "You have yet to do before I revive your memory…..but..I will give you a hint."
The girls' eyebrows went up immediately at the word hint. "A hint?" she repeated confused, "What kind of hint?" The Brain whispered in her ear, "Though group of teenagers you fought against, were the people who abandoned you." She repeated, "The people who abandoned me…..the Teen Titans." Her eyes glowed with intense fury.
The conversation was interrupted by a video call from Madame Rouge.
Brain: "How is the mission going?"
Madame Rouge: "It is going according to plan..ah..I see Kori'andr is here as well.."
The Brain looked at Kori'andr in the eye and gave her the look to leave the room. As his disciple, she left the room, but stayed hidden to hear the conversation.
Madame Rouge: "How long must we play this game?"
Brain: "We need to continue until we have to use our wild card. We need to find out their every weakpoint and figure out what bait we can use."
Madame Rouge: "We already know Robin's weakness…..we have 4 more to go."
Brain: "Good work Madame Rouge."
Kori'andr was listening but couldn't find out anything. Robin's weakness….what could it be?
The Brain came out of the room, shocked that she was there. "What are you doing here interrupting?" he demanded. Kori'andr desperate asked, "What is this Robin's weakness?" Chuckling, he asked, "Why must you know that? Do you wish to destroy him." Kori'andr glared and said, "Did you have to ask?"
AT TITANS TOWER
"She will no longer hurt you, whoever she is," Robin said to who he thought was Starfire. "But, why did she try to hurt me at all?" asked Madame Rouge.
"Perhaps there was no real evil intent," Raven said. The others looked at her funny. Beastboy commented, "Can't she speak english?" Cyborg shrugged. Raven stared back at them. "As I fought against her, I felt no negative energy. She was just doing what her master ordered her to do…" Raven said. Robin concluded, "So..who is the puppetmaster?" Raven shrugged. Meanwhile, Madame Rouge was starting to get tense. What if they find out I am not the real Starfire…? It might be time to use our wild card..soon…
Suddenly, the proximity alarm went off. The lights went off and as soon the lights were back on, "Starfire" was missing. Robin searched the entire tower, but couldn't find her. "Cyborg, search east, Beastboy, west, Raven, south," he yelled. He couldn't afford to lose Starfire again.
AT THE BRAIN'S LAYER
Madame Rouge ran into the layer panting. "Their suspicions put me into a difficult spot, Leader," she said, "soon enough, trust will not be able to be maintained."
The Brain replied, "When you play a game, you save your best cards for last. Perhaps, now is the time to use it."
AT TITANS TOWER
The 4 superheroes returned back on the roof. Although, Raven haven't noticed it before, she felt a close prescence. "Beastboy, can you sniff out anything?" Raven asked. Beastboy transformed into a puppy and scurried across the perimeter with his nose until he found something.
Beastboy transformed back into his human form and picked up pieces of hair with his own hands. "Hey Cyborg, maybe you might want to check this out," BB said. Cyborg said, "Isn't this part of Starfire's hair?" "Perhaps one of the daggers from the apprehender cut some of it in a midst of a fight," Robin said, "Raven can you try touching it?" Raven placed her pale hands on the strands of hair and tried to make a psychotic contact with its DNA signature.
Raven opened her eyes, bloodshot, and stuttered, "This….isn't…wasn't..Starfire." Cyborg added, "That isn't the only thing…it's Madame Rouge's DNA." Robin grunted as he slammed his fists into the closest thing next to him. "We've been fooled AGAIN?" asked Robin. BB said, "yea…that's really sad."
"If Madame Rouge was Starfire…then who was the apprehender?" asked Robin. Raven sat in her meditation position and closed her eyes. She travelled on the sky and searched for answers. She entered the Brain's layer and saw the apprehender. She saw her with Madame Rouge discussing military tactics. Who is she? Where did she learn such martial arts?i
Her meditation was interrupted by Robin's impatience. "So what's going on? Where is the real Starfire?" asked Robin. Raven looked at him and whispered, "I couldn't see the real Starfire anywhere…I think the one we fought with not too long ago was Starfire.
"WHAT?" exclaimed everyone else. "What makes you think that? Starfire would never attack us," Robin yelled. Raven sighed. "It's just a guess…a feeling..I'm not actually sure.." Robin sighed, "Don't joke like that again." Raven then said to herself, I'm sure the apprehender did look a little like her though.