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"You've got to be kidding me," Robin murmured in anger. High school? Out of all the place Mad Mod could have-
No. He had to focus. He had to find his friends. They could be in danger.
He pressed his back up against the wooden doors, listening to the steady murmuring of voices. It suddenly occurred to him that this could be a trap. He took out three discs and placed them between his fingers. He clutched a bird-a-rang in his other hand. With one last deep breath he burst through the doors of the cafeteria, in fighting position.
What he saw took him aback.
Almost three hundred faces stared back at him, and what was stranger was that they were all familiar. Titans and villains were sitting around tables…together! Robin couldn't believe it. They all appeared to look the same except those who had masks now had bare faces, some teens hair styles were different and they all wore similar uniforms. (Like the girl who said 'otaku' to Beast Boy in Trouble in Tokyo.)
Another thing Robin noticed was that everyone sat in one of the four corners of the room and it looked to be separated by social class. The tables closest to his right were filled with ominous pale faces, no doubt the Goths. In the far right were tables of nerdy looking kids laughing and being extremely noisy. Directly across the room to the back left were tables even louder than the nerds. He could tell off the bat that this kids were jocks from the look of their toned bodies, and the way they carried themselves. Finally the tables close to him on his left was no doubt the "in crowd." If Robin had been himself back in high school he would have probably been at those tables. However he had no time to think about that.
Almost immediately the students burst out laughing at him. The Goths just glared at him mockingly at his strange uniform. Even the nerds were laughing at him. His face turned bright red and he placed his gadgets back in his belt. He looked sideways at the "in" tables in embarrassment, and his eyes widened.
He saw Starfire watching him with a sorrowful expression, clearly not finding his entrance funny. She didn't seem to fit in at all. He then realized someone's arm was draped around her. He followed the appendage to its owner.
Speedy, he seethed, turning a new kind of red.
The students laughter hadn't quieted, and Robin was momentarily distracted by an oh too familiar voice, louder than the others.
"Hey, ya'll," Cyborg hollered, "Check out the threads on this freak!"
A vein pulsed dangerously in Robin's head as the students screamed with laughter. Suddenly a painful screeching sound came from the speakers above, causing everyone in the room, including the Boy Wonder, to cover their ears.
"Attention students," rang out a British voice that was irritatingly familiar. Robin gritted his teeth in fury. Mad Mod!
"Attention students," he said again, the teens quickly ceased their laughter. "I would advise you to shut your filthy mouths before I give every single one of you a detention. That is all." The students returned to normal, ignoring Robin and talking amongst themselves once more while eating their lunches.
Robin really couldn't believe it. What was wrong with everybody? What was wrong with Starfire? Where were the others?
He decided to make his way over to her table to talk with her.
There were about eight kids at the table, talking about who knows what. Starfire was in the center but she wasn't partaking in the conversation. She glanced up at Robin her eyes searching his masked ones, confused.
Speedy, Aqualad, Bumblebee, Kid Flash, Terra, and even Blackfire were around her, talking and laughing. Speedy's arm pulled her body closer to his.
"Hey," he said angrily, but no one heard. He tried again, louder this time. "Hey!"
They turned to glare at him, their eyebrows cocked. Starfire's expression remained the same as before.
"What do you want, freak?" Speedy said narrowing his unmasked eyes.
Robin ignored him, his eyes focused on Starfire. "Starfire, I'm glad I found you. I don't know what Mad Mod is up to, trapping us in here, but we have to stop him!" His fist pounded his hand in determination.
Crickets.
Bumblebee broke out laughing. "Hey Kori, do you know this loser?" The table broke out laughing and Robin felt his heat up.
Star didn't answer at first. "I do not believe so…perhaps we have seen each other on the street, yes?" she glanced up inquiringly at him.
He was taken aback. "What? Starfire what's the matter with you? It's me, Robin. You don't remember me?" He reached across the table to take her hand but Speedy smacked it away.
"Back off bird boy, she's with me," the fiery redhead snapped, pressing her even closer to him.
Starfire turned to look at him. "But Roy, I have told you I wish not to be your-"
"Hey bird boy, if you're dressed like that, I wouldn't want to remember you either." Aqualad interrupted, and the whole table, aside from Starfire, cackled like hyenas.
An angry sound echoed within the Boy Wonder's throat.
"Forget it," he muttered angrily, leaving the table. The sound of a chair being pushed out stopped him in his tracks. He turned around to see Starfire standing up, clearly unsure of herself. Her eyes were searching and confused and her friends were staring at her in surprise.
Robin looked at her desperate for a moment, but then it was lost. The searching gaze from her eyes faded, and she sat back down.
He sighed, looking for the other Titans. He guessed they had to nearby as well. He sighed in relief this time when he noticed a bunch of grim looking pale faces barely talking directly across from the "in" tables. The Goths. He recognized Raven, sitting beside Jinx, Argent, and Kyd Wykyyd. They weren't talking, and as soon as Robin placed a foot in their direction they all turned to give him murderous glares so he continued elsewhere.
The jocks were next. He could at least relate to them. He was about halfway to their table when he recognized Cyborg laughing with Pantha and Mammoth.
Cyborg…wasn't a cyborg! He was exactly like pictures they were looking at just this morning!
Robin knew better this time then to say Cyborg's Titan name. "Stone," he said in a firm voice that automatically caught the burly young man's attention.
"The name's Victor Stone, and who are you supposed to be, the traffic guard?" he asked, his friends erupting in obnoxious, booming, laughter.
Robin tried not to fume, remembering that since Star hadn't remembered him, Cyborg probably wouldn't either. "Victor, I know you probably don't remember me, but what you see around you isn't real. It's all Mad Mod! He's trapped us again! And I need your help to-"
He stopped. They weren't even listening to him anymore! They had started eating, and they could eat!
"Get lost," he heard Mammoth snap, and that's exactly what he did.
The geek table was his last hope. Beast Boy could be spotted easily…matter of fact he could be spotted just about anywhere with his skin. He was in a heated debate with Billy Numerous and Gizmo about some sort of comic book character.
Robin cleared his throat loudly until they noticed him.
"Wow, check out this scuz-muncher's costume!" Gizmo leered, his voice annoyingly high.
"He looks like he was hired by my uncle as a cross-dresser," Billy yelped his hick accent ringing out loud and clear.
"Your uncle hires cross-dressers?" Beast Boy asked, laughing.
"Garfield," Robin commanded sternly, remembering what Elasta-girl had called him after they assisted the Doom Patrol in battle.
"Wow, how does he know your name, Gar," Billy tried to whisper.
BB shrugged. "Um, who are you anyway…and why are dressed like a cross-dresser?" The whole table burst out laughing and Robin was getting quite sick of being the laughing stalk.
He was just about to lose it when he heard Mod's voice over the speaker again.
"Would a certain Boy Wonder please report to the principal's office?"
Everybody in the lunchroom turned to Robin and "ooooed," assuming he was in major trouble. Robin sulked out of the cafeteria, but his gloved hand remained near his utility belt. He was not going down without a fight.
It'll get better I promise! Hang in there people!