Teen Titans
The Fall of Robin
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AUTHORS NOTE: I REREAD THIS CHAPTER AND CHAPTER 5 AND DECIDED THEY WERE FAR TOO RUSHED AND FAST PACE, I MADE SOME CHANGES TO THIS CHAPTER AND WILL BE REWRITING CHAPTER 5
Author's note, so I decided since there is no mention of Jason Todd, Tim Drake, or Damian Wayne in the Teen Titans, I could make some stuff up, play with some stuff. So as of right now, they have all worked for Bruce. Jason was attacked by the joker still and became the Red Hood, Tim Drake is the Red Robin and still helps Bruce sometimes, but is currently at college, so not typically around this fits with the recent DC comics. At the moment Damian Wayne is visiting his mother, so not around either at the moment. However, all three of them know Dick. While Dick and Bruce haven't been talking, he has made contact with the other Robins and mentored them on how to work with Bruce. They all see each other as brothers.
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After saving Dick, Bruce walked down to the Cave, he was tired, exhausted, but he felt he had a duty to do. The Justice League, a lot of them saw Dick as a friend. He knew them all and they all cared for them, as well as his other sons. He sighed, no one was going to be very happy about it.
He heard something behind him, "Jason, what are you doing here?"
Jason sighed, "How the fuck did you know it was me, you never even turned around."
"I heard you, you need to work on your stealth. You were the only one it could be. Alfred is up with…" Bruce started but Jason interrupted him.
"With Dick, right? I heard on the Police scanners, that he was taken by the joker, they know about it. I came as soon as I heard. What happened?" Jason asked him.
"The Joker went to Jump City, I followed him, but let Dick know as a professional curtesy. He convinced me to let him help. But the Joker, he wanted Dick and Dick alone. He sent a message, Dick put it together before I did. He went, and he fought but one of his teammates followed. The Joker shot an RPG at her, blew her out of the sky. He ran and caught her, saved her life probably, but it was the opening the Joker needed. He shot another RPG at Dick, it didn't hit him but blew up close to him, knocking him out. I arrived at the scene just in time to see that. Joker went one way with Dick, one of his henchmen went another with Starfire. I save Starfire and Joker got away with Dick. Brought him here and beat him like he did you." Bruce explained to his second Robin. "He is still alive, for now, if only barely."
Jason cursed, "Fuck…Bruce I'm sorry. I know how much Dick means to you. Why didn't you contact me? I could have helped Bruce. I could have gotten there sooner than you."
"You don't work with me anymore, you made that clear." Bruce told him.
"I would have for Dick! He's helped me so much, to get through this anger and rage that I had." Jason told him.
"So, what, I should have sent you to the source of that anger? The Joker? You can't kill him Jason." Bruce shot back at him.
"He should be dead. You still won't kill him? After what he did to me? After what he did to Dick?" Jason asked him.
"We don't kill. It's why the cops allow us to do this without hunting us down, they don't get in our way because we don't kill. We have an understanding right now. Killing the Joker could end that." Bruce told him.
"I'm sure Gordon would be okay with the Joker dying. He's a menace to this world that needs to go." Jason told him.
Bruce sighed, "Jason, please can we not have this conversation right now. Its been a rough night."
"What are you doing down here and not up with Dick?" Jason asked him.
"One of his teammates is with him right now, Alfred is up there as well. I came down to notify you, Tim, and Damian, as well as Dick's friends in the league. They care for him and deserve to know he's hurt." Bruce told him.
Jason nodded, "Can I go up and see him?"
Bruce nodded, "Sure. Just get Alfred to introduce you so as to not startle Starfire."
Jason nodded and headed up the stairs as Bruce sent a message to the members of the league, as well as a Tim and Damian.
Jason found Alfred sitting alone in the kitchen. It was one of the very few times he had ever seen Alfred sitting and not doing anything. "Alfred, are you okay?"
Alfred sniffled, and moved a handkerchief up to wipe his eyes, before looking over, "Ah Master Jason, its nice to see you. What brings you to the manor?"
"Alfred…I heard, I heard about Dick. I saw you just now, are…are you okay?" Jason asked unsure. He had never seen Alfred like this.
"Ah, yes. Whenever any of my boys get hurt I take it rather hard I suppose. Not to worry though, I'm fine." Alfred told him.
Jason wouldn't let him end there, "So…when I…"
Alfred nodded, "When you died I was inconsolable, yes. Dick may have lived here longer, but you are both my boys. At least Master Dick is alive. You…you weren't. You died Master Jason, one of my children. I prayed for your salvation, and wept. Not very proper of me, but you were like a child to me. Just like Master Dick."
"I'm sorry I made you go through that, how is Dick doing?" He asked.
"Broken. Master Dick is broken. I don't know if he will ever be the same." Alfred told him.
"Will you take me to see him? Bruce told me to have you introduce me to his teammate that was in the room." Jason told him.
"Yes, I will take you there. His friends are very protective of him." Alfred told him as a warning. The two then traversed up the stairs and towards Dick's room. Alfred walked in followed by Jason Todd.
"Miss Starfire, may I present Jason Todd, an old friend of Master Dick's." Alfred told her. However he was shocked when Starfire almost immediately held up her unbroken arm with a green star bolt ready to fire at him. She looked at them both very fiercely.
"Jason, do you often see old friends armed with a pistol strapped to your ankle? You will not hurt Robin." Starfire told him with great ferocity.
Alfred frowned as Jason held his hands up, "Starfire, right? I was Dick's replacement, I used to be Robin myself. Now I'm the Red Hood. I use firearms now. I keep them on me at all times. Here you can have it. He slowly bent down and took the small Walther PPK from his ankle holster, and slid it across the floor to her. "Dick is like an older brother to me. I wouldn't hurt him. I promise. I came to see him. I'm part of the family."
Starfire nodded, lowering her star bolt. "I'm sorry, I just…need to protect him…like he protected me."
Jason smiled at her, "I won't stop you from that. I'm not a threat though."
"I can vouch for him." Alfred finally spoke up.
Starfire nodded. She sat back down by Dick's bed, fiddling with the edge of the sheet, her anxiety showing. Jason sighed as he looked down at his older brother figure. "Fuck, he got it good, didn't he? Alfred, was I this bad?"
Alfred swallowed, "Not quite. It seems that…monster has gotten better at keeping his victims alive while dealing pain. Do not be mistaken, he should be dead. One of his teammates has mystic healing abilities."
Jason nodded, "Right. Alfred why won't Bruce just end the Joker? Or if he doesn't have the stones let me do it. I'll do it gladly."
"No, please you mustn't. Robin…he wouldn't want that! He wouldn't want you to kill anyone. He is very against it. When I first joined his team, he taught me that heroes on this planet do not kill. That we did not kill. Please, it goes against everything that is Robin." Starfire told him.
Jason sighed, "You're probably right…still though, that monster has caused us all so much pain."
Starfire nodded, "He does not care, he wouldn't want him dead." That being said she turned around and went back to moping about Robin.
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It took a couple more hours but eventually Tim Drake arrived, followed by Damian. They all had similar reunions with Bruce, sorrowful. No one knew what to say, no one knew what to do. After seeing Dick, each of them had gone their separate ways, to their respective rooms. Each with the same thought in mind.
Bruce on the other hand had taken to his office room in the manor. Sitting on a couch he poured himself a glass of scotch. Alfred who had followed him into the office sat in the chair next to the couch. Bruce poured him a glass as well, offering it to the man who had raised him. Alfred took it and took a sip, and sighed.
Bruce took a sip himself and sighed. "I let me son be beat to near death again. I'm one of the best fighters in the world, one of the best detectives, but I couldn't save him."
"Master Dick made a decision to face that monster alone, this isn't your fault." Alfred told him.
"I got him involved and couldn't save him." Bruce told him.
Alfred downed the rest of his glass and poured himself another glass, "He decided to come into the life, he knew what he was getting himself into. He has excelled in this life, look at his team, his network of Titans. He built it from scratch, without our help. He went to fight that monster without our help as well. He made mistakes and he is paying for them."
Bruce sighed, "Just because you say that to simplify matters, doesn't actually simplify them. Dick is my son, he means as much to me as all the others. I adopted him to help him, to save him from the darkness all those years ago. He saved me however, and now because of what I made him, he might be going into that darkness. We both know Dick well enough to know he won't take this well, everything he's worked for, destroyed."
Alfred nodded, "We will be here to save him like he saved us. I remember when he first came to the manor. He was so defiant, yet brought an energy to the manor we hadn't had in so long."
Bruce chuckled lightly, "He drove you crazy, bouncing off the walls, swinging from the chandelier, sliding on the banisters, walking on the banisters. Jumping from the second floor down here. Jumping from the third floor to the second floor. He scared you with his antics. He was such a good acrobat, but you always got scared."
"I wasn't alone, you just covered your worry for him with worry for 'your priceless art, and artifacts'." Alfred told him laughing.
The two continued to reminisce about the boy that once came to stay with them, and brightened their life.
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The next day Dr. Thompkins announced that they were going to try to wake Dick up. All the Titans, and the Bat family gathered around in Dick's room. They all waited with baited breath as Dr. Thompkins held up a syringe, it was meant to wake someone up. They Pushed it into his IV line in his wrist and waited a few seconds for it to get into his bloodstream. Dick gritted his teeth, "AAGGHHH" He let out a strained scream. Something was wrong. His body started convulsing. Cyborg cursed as he and Bruce moved to hold Dick. He grabbed Dick's feet and held them down, while Bruce grabbed his feet. Trying to hold him down to make sure that he wouldn't hurt himself.
"What's going on!" Bruce demanded.
"He…He's reacting badly to the drug I gave him. Something in his system must be counteracting poorly with the drug. I don't know what's in his system, it has to be some kind of upper, we gave him an upper as well. His heartrate is skyrocketing, we need to cut it down now." Leslie told them all. She checked his charts and shook her head. She pulled out another syringe and inserted it into the IV she was about to press the syringe when Dick flatlined. The beeping of his heart monitor went completely flat, flaring a warning to them all. Cyborg was the first to start, moving from Dick's feet he started chest compressions as Bruce went for the A.E.D. He connected it to Dick's chest as Cyborg moved and attached the breathing machine to the tube that had previously been intubated into the young man's throat.
"CLEAR!" Bruce sent a shock into Dick as his chest arched into the air.
No change, Dick's heart was still stopped.
Damian clutched Starfire's hand, he had talked to her quite a bit, getting to know her. "Dick…"
Starfire's eyes were wide with fear as a tear ran down her cheek, "Robin…no…"
Beast Boy was clutching Raven's hand behind everyone else, "Rae…please save him, you have to save him."
"Beast Boy…I'm so sorry. I…I can't do anything to help him right now." Raven told him. She felt so helpless over here standing on the side. Unable to do anything to help her friend. The man who had charged straight into Hell to save her, was dying, and there was nothing she could do to stop him.
"CLEAR!" Bruce screamed again, sending a shock into his surrogate son…still there was no effects.
Jason swore as he ran his hands through his hair, feeling so helpless, a myriad of emotions going through him. He was going to lose his older brother. Dick had helped him through so much. Had even offered him a spot in the Titans, made him an honorary member, only because he himself didn't want to work with a team yet. The man that had extended an olive branch after everything, helped him see reason that Bruce was unable to. Dick had accepted him with open arms for who he had become, and helped him be better. The other emotion running through him was the thought, was this what it was like for him? Bruce, and Alfred they went through this? Did they care about him this much?"
Tim on the other hand had his fists clenched as he went through different ways that he could help, for something that he could do, this was Dick after all. He had helped him come to terms with many things. He had helped him just recently, told him to go to college Bruce be damned. Tim was a genius and had gotten into every University that was worth going to. Had been accepted into every Ivy league school even. Bruce had been against him going to school though. Said he didn't need it. Tim had argued that he wanted the degree. After a falling out, he had told Dick and the older Robin had told him to follow his heart. He told him about his leaving Gotham. It encouraged him and convinced him to leave and follow his dreams. When Tim had met his current girlfriend, he was scared to let her in, he was scared of the commitment. Dick had helped him with that as well. He was one of the few people in this world that could keep up with him as a detective. Dick wasn't as good of a detective, he had said so himself, but he was one of the best in the world and Tim could always bounce theories off Dick. He was a warrior like Damian, a detective like himself, a badass like Jason, and a leader better and more effective than even Bruce. Bruce had told him once that Dick was a better leader than even Superman. Bruce had also hailed Dick for his tactical awareness, his strategic mind. Tim sighed, he was considered a genius, yet Dick was always 10 moves ahead. Tim cursed, Dick was the best of the Robins, he was the best of them, why did he have to fall?
"CLEAR!" Bruce screamed out again as he sent more voltage into Dick. Dick's chest popped into the air again as finally his heart started back up. Bruce sighed in relief as Dick was revived.
Cyborg growled, "What was that?"
"There must have been a drug in his system that didn't show up on the standard tox screen, I'm sorry it slipped by." Leslie told him.
"It's okay Leslie, I appreciate everything you've done for us." Bruce spoke up next, holding no ill will towards his friend.
Cyborg sighed as he looked up at the ceiling, he looked back down at the monitor and cursed, "Guys…his vitals they're too weak. They shouldn't be this weak; if they stay this way, its only a matter of time before he gives out."
Dr. Thompkins looked at the monitor and nodded, "You're right Cyborg." She took out a flashlight and opened Dick's eye, she flashed it in his eye and sighed in utter sorrow. She flashed it in his other eye and bit her lip as she dropped the flashlight. "He's…he's unresponsive. I'm sorry Bruce, but there isn't much else I can do for him. I can put him on life support for now, but I don't think he will be back. I will put him on support, I can monitor his vitals still and we can hope, but his body, and most likely his mind are just losing the battle."
Bruce cursed, he was out of the room before she had finished. Everyone looked out after him saddened. It seemed Bruce had given up on Dick.
Jason was the first to speak up, "That fucker, never gives Dick enough credit, just giving up on him like this, it isn't right. I'm going to beat some fucking sense into him." He followed Bruce out of the room. Following him down the hall he was shocked when Bruce went to the Batcave, he got to the computer and made a call from it. Jason cursed, Batman was calling Talia Al Ghul.
"Talia, we need to meet, I know you're in the city, I'm coming to see you." Bruce told her before hanging up and turning to Jason, "Jason, what do you want?"
"I thought you had given up on Dick, wrote him off, in a way I was right, but this is even worse, you're going to ask her to put him in the pit?" Jason asked, disgusted.
"I'm going to do whatever it takes to save my son." Bruce told him.
"Are you fucking kidding me?! You know what it did to me! It won't even be Dick anymore! Bruce! Slow down, go be with Dick, you know this is wrong!" Jason told him.
"It isn't your call Jason." Bruce told him.
"Dick wouldn't want this!" Jason told him as he got up in Bruce's face.
Bruce shoved him away, "Get out of my face."
"Bruce, your hurting, don't do this." Jason pleaded with him.
"I have to Jason." With that Bruce suited up and got in the Batmobile, he peeled out of the cave in a rush.
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Batman dropped down into a room, slipping through the window, he saw Talia, Damian's mother. "Bruce, welcome." She called out to him.
"Talia, I don't have time to chat, I need you to take Dick to the Lazarus Pit. He's nonresponsive, going to die. It's only a matter of time. If we get him into the Pit before he dies, he might have less side effects." Batman told her.
"Bruce…I won't…I can't do that to Dick. It would turn him into a monster. Until he could find enough control to push down the desire, he will thirst for death. He will kill, be insane, no amount of bloodshed will satiate him. My father saved Jason because he felt he owed you. It was a mistake, he killed people, still kills people if he feels they deserve it. It changed him. Jason, he was from the street its kill or be killed, and taking a life was never going to haunt him. Dick on the other hand, he takes no killing to mean exactly that. NO KILLING. You ingrained that in him, if he kills because of this he will never forget it, it will haunt him till the day he dies again. He will go insane, it isn't what he would want. I'm sorry Bruce." She put her hand on his shoulder, but he shrugged it off.
"Don't you dare act like you know what Dick would want. How could you not do this for me?" He asked her angrily.
Talia glared at him, "Because I know better than you what the Pit will do to him. I'm sorry but I won't take him."
"Better he is alive than dead. Talia, he is my son! Please save him!" Bruce pleaded with her.
"Bruce you're not thinking right now, Dick wouldn't want this! Not at all."
"I don't care what he wants Talia! I cannot lose him." Bruce told her.
She sighed as she embraced him, "Bruce, I'm sorry…I'm so sorry, Dick, he deserved better than this. However, bringing him back, knowing the state he will be in, it just isn't right."
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Back at the manor the Titans were shell shocked, they refused to believe that their leader was leaving them. They weren't sure what to do, but Cyborg gathered them anyways with the doctor. "Alright Doc, from what you said, it seems like he is just giving up, what if we could change his mind?"
Starfire and Beast Boy looked a little dumbfounded, not sure what their friend meant, Dr. Thompkins on the other hand raised an eyebrow, "Cyborg, I don't know what you think you can do, he's unresponsive, his mind has given up, and his body is following, you can't just talk to him like any old conversation."
Cyborg looked to Raven, "Raven has a mind link with Robin, she has been in his conscious before, if she could go back into his conscience and talk to Robin, she could convince him to fight, to not give up, would that possibly work?"
Leslie thought for a moment, "If you could actually do that, and convinced him to fight, to come back, it could work, I think. I've read many cases where willpower is a large influence on if the patient lives or not. There is a chance, I suppose that if you could up his willpower, and get him to fight for it, he could live and come back from this."
Cyborg smiled, "Alright Raven, what do you need?"
"Well, I can't go, I'm still too weak from earlier, plus we should send someone into his mind that means more to him, has a better connection with him." Raven told them.
Starfire spoke up first, "I'll go."
Raven sighed, "Starfire…you and Robin, you haven't been close for a very long time. I think the best idea would be to send Cyborg."
Starfire glared at her for a moment, ready to fight Raven on this topic, but Cyborg spoke up, "I'm his best friend, I might have the best luck motivating him at this point."
Starfire wanted to say something but found she couldn't, what was there to say after all. Cyborg and Raven were right, she and Robin weren't close anymore, no matter how much she loved him, Cyborg was the best choice for this mission.
"Alright, I need a few minutes to prepare, Beast Boy, will you come with me for now? Cyborg, prepare yourself." Raven told them while walking out of the room, Beast Boy in tow.
She got out of the room and grabbed Beast Boy's hand, pulling him to the side, "Raven, what's going on?"
"Beast Boy, I don't know if I can do this? In fact, I can't…not without you." Raven told him sadly.
"What? What can I do? I don't know anything about this, I'm the weakest member of the team, how could you possibly need me?" Beast Boy asked, worriedly.
"In order to do this, and make it work, Cyborg will have to go into Robin's conscious, I'll have to go with him as my spirit self to guide him. The problem is, this could go either way, I've done research into this kind of thing before, and if Cyborg and I mess up, Robin will die. We don't have any other choice, we have to do this for our comrade, our friend, but if he starts to fade while we are in there, you have to pull me out. I can pull Cyborg out. You have to be my anchor, I need you to be strong Beast Boy." Raven told the changeling.
"What! NO! you can't depend on me to save you and Cy! Rae, I told you, I'm weak, I…I can't do this!" Beast Boy told her.
"Beast Boy, please! We need you, I need you." Raven pleaded with him, "I need you to pull me back, don't let me die if Robin starts to fade, don't let me go with him, you just have to hold onto me. Grab onto my soul, and don't let me go."
"Raven! What are you talking about!?" Beast Boy exclaimed, not sure what she meant still.
"Beast Boy! There isn't time! We need to do this now, I just need you to hold on. You're stronger than you think." Raven told him.
"No! I can't be held responsible for you, Cyborg, and Robin. I'm just a screw up, why do you trust me like this?" Beast Boy exclaimed.
"Because I know you! I know how strong you are! Because I care so deeply for you, that you are the only one that could pull me back." Raven told him, finishing much quieter than she had started. She blushed, she had never admitted that to anyone, not even herself.
Beast Boy stared at her wide eyed, jaw hanging open, unable to believe what he had heard, and before he could say anything Raven spoke up again, "Beast Boy, you told me how much this team means to you, how much Robin means to you. Now we need you to help save this team. Please, help me save our place in this world." She held out her hand for Beast Boy to take.
Beast Boy nodded, he smiled at her, "I won't let our place in this world be taken. We need to risk it all to save him. Just like he would for us." Beast Boy took Raven's outstretched hand, "I won't let you go Rae."
Raven pulled him into a hug, and then released him just as quickly, walking back into the room, with her hood pulled up, blocking the sight of her blush. Beast Boy followed her in, a shy grin on his face.
"Alright Raven, what do we need to do?" Cyborg asked.
"This is going to be very tricky, I'm going to act as a bridge for Cyborg, he will go into Robin's mind and try to bring Robin back. I will be your guide, using my soul self. You will be alone however. Beast Boy is our anchor, he will pull us out at any sign of trouble. Cyborg, if Robin starts to go…whatever you do, don't go with him. Beast Boy, if Cyborg and I both start to go, do not come with us." Raven instructed them. "The mind is a very tricky place."
Starfire decided to speak up, "Raven, what will I do?"
Tim and Damian nodded, "Yeah, what about us?"
"The three of you aren't as close to Robin, as Beast Boy, Cyborg, and I are." Raven looked directly at Starfire, "I'm sorry, you're going to have to sit this one out Starfire."
Starfire glared at her, "Fine." Her fist clenched around the chair she had been sitting in, crumbling the top of it. Both Damian and Tim saw this, wide eyed, and moved away from her slowly, trying to escape any possible wrath from the Tamaranean woman. Starfire's eyes teared up as she struggled between rage and absolute sadness. He used to be her best friend, now she couldn't do anything for him, he was going to die, and she was absolutely useless.
Raven nodded, "Alright, lets do this, Cyborg, give me your hand, Beast Boy grab my shoulder, don't let me go."
She touched Robin's forehead, "Azarath Metrion Zinthos."
Cyborg and Raven were encompassed in Raven's black raven soul self. The caw of the raven was heard, as her and Cyborg went limp. Beast Boy shivered as he felt himself being pulled towards Robin, but he held fast, holding onto Raven as she slumped against him, he felt his mind being pulled with hers, he held her tight.
Cyborg opened his eyes to find himself in what appeared to be a dark cave, everything was fuzzy, there was a dense fog everywhere. He looked over his left shoulder and saw a shadow Raven above him. "Raven?" He asked, confused that she wouldn't be in here with him as herself.
"Cyborg, good, we can still communicate, I don't have my body, and won't be able to talk to Robin, only you. I have to stay as your bridge back out of his mind." Raven told him.
"What's with the darkness and the fog?" Cyborg asked her, the flashlight on his shoulder popping out and turning on, not showing him much.
"His mind is foggy, the darkness is probably emulating the Bat Cave, somewhere he used to retreat to. The fog is probably all the pain medication, and other drugs." Raven told him. "You need to find him, convince him to fight. It's up to you."
Cyborg nodded, "No pressure huh?" With that he walked forward, his sensors working for some reason he couldn't explain, "Why do my sensors and everything work?"
"The human mind is a complex thing, if I had to guess though, I'd have to say that since Robin knows that your tech works, so, when in his mind, the tech will work." Raven told him.
Cyborg nodded and continued through the haze that the drugs had caused for Robin, it took him a while, but finally he saw his leader, Robin was lying on the ground in a puddle of blood, broken. Cyborg cursed and sprinted to his best friend, sliding down on his knees and picking him up.
"Robin! Man, what's happening?" Cyborg asked worried.
"Cyborg?" Robin asked back softly, not sure why he was seeing him. He knew he was on deaths door, he was just waiting for its embrace, instead he found his second in command.
"Robin, you're going to be fine don't worry. Your body, your hurt, but you just gotta hang on, we can fix you up." Cyborg told him.
"What are you doing here?" Robin asked him.
"I came to get you man. You gotta fight though, it's up to you. We need you man." Cyborg told him.
"What's the use? She's dead, I failed her, all the pain I went through to protect her, it was meaningless." Robin told him.
"What are you talking about? Who?" Cyborg asked, his jaw dropping as he saw Robin's mask wet, and tears spill out.
"Starfire, he tortured her and killed her. I failed her Cy, what good is living if I couldn't save her. I failed, I have no reason to fight the pain." Robin told him.
"Starfire is fine, well she has a broken arm, and she's worried about you, but she's fine Rob, I promise, I patched her up myself." Cyborg told him.
"What?!" Robin asked, his voice suddenly hopeful.
"You saved her life, protected her from the Joker. After you passed out, Batman got to the warehouse, he chose to rescue Star from one of the Joker's thugs. He got away with you though." Cyborg told him.
Robin looked at him hopefully but then shook his head, "No, I heard her screaming, he tortured her, then he killed her, I heard the whole thing."
Cyborg shook his head, "C'mon man, you know I wouldn't lie to you about this. I know how much you love her, I know how much pain you went through with her being with Speedy. I get it, but right now we all need you, including her. You gotta come back. You gotta fight through the pain, you can't give up!"
Robin sighed, "She's fine? That's good, Victor, I'm so tired. I just want release from this agony." Robin's eyes were getting harder and harder for him to keep open. "The light, it's so warm."
Cyborg shook him, "Don't you do it Dick, don't you go towards the light. I can't lose you man!"
Raven suddenly spoke up, "Cyborg, if he starts to go, you have to let him, don't go with him! We can't lose you too."
Cyborg shook his head, he wasn't just going to let his best friend die, not when he could help it.
Robin took another deep sigh of relief, "Vic, its my parents. I see them, they're reaching out to me." He smiled gently, relief from the pain starting to come. "I'm sorry." Dick started to lift through the air, as a golden light appeared above them.
"NO!" Cyborg roared, as he grabbed Dick and held on, trying to stop Dick from being pulled up. "Dick, we need you. Come on man!"
"Vic, its my parents. The pain, its stopping. I'll be fine, just please, let me go." Dick pleaded with him.
Cyborg growled as he started to lift in the air while holding onto Dick. "So, what? You just gonna give up because it's tough! That ain't the leader I want anyways. You lose one fight, and you run away!"
Cyborg shot his hand down into the ground holding Dick where he was. Raven was screaming in his head, "LET HIM GO! DON'T GO WITH HIM!"
Cyborg shook his head, "THIS AINT YOU DICK! AND I'M NOT LETTING YOU RUN AWAY LIKE A LITTLE PANSY!" The forces above were too strong, they were pulling Cyborg further up with Robin, "What about Alfred? Bruce? Starfire? Me? Raven? BB? Jason? Tim? And Damian? Your Titan's network, you just going to abandon them like some weak little pansy? You don't even deserve to call yourself a Titan if you give up like this!"
Robin's body froze, he looked into Cyborg's human eye, as he struggled to hold Robin, "DON'T YOU DARE ABANDON YOUR COMRADES, WE ALL NEED YOU!"
Robin paused for a moment, as Cyborg continued to struggle to hold him, he thought about it. He still had so much he had to do. His Titans Network was still young, had room to grow. He had so many heroes to reach out to. There were people that needed him, that needed his help. He wanted to be with his parents, he missed them so much, he wanted the pain to go away. He wanted to let go, for the pain to go away.
Robin looked up at his parents, "Mom, Dad…I'm sorry, your Robin can't come home yet. I…I still have work to do. I'm a Titan" He let another tear fall from his eyes, before whipping out a birdarang, and cut the shadowy hands grabbing him. Cyborg dropped to the ground, as Robin fell, Cyborg caught him.
Cyborg gently set him back on the ground, "Dick, what was that? You were really just going to give up?"
"Vic, I'm sorry. I had a moment of weakness." Dick told him.
"Are you sure your moment is over? We need you Dick, I'm not ready to take over the Titans Network. I don't ever want to run it. I need to make sure you're fine before I leave." Cyborg said, he could feel Raven and Beast Boy pulling at him, he needed to go, he had spent too much time here already. He couldn't leave until he knew that Robin wasn't going to have another moment. Robin had to come back.
"I won't give up Vic. I...I'll fight to live." Robin cracked a rough grin, "I'm never living this down am I?"
The half man half robot let out a deep sigh, chuckling at the end, "No way man. I'm gonna be reminding you that I had to come into your head and save you for as long as we know each other."
"Cyborg, come on, we have to go. Robin's vitals have turned around, you did it." Raven told the tin man.
Cyborg nodded, "Dick, your pulling through it sounds like. Your vitals are back up. I gotta go." Cyborg started to stand, but Dick grabbed his arm.
"Vic, you didn't lie did you? She's alive right? Everyone is okay?"
Cyborg grinned, "She's fine, hasn't left your side since we got you to Wayne Manor. I have a lot to tell you when you wake up. She gets you first though, she wants to talk."
Dick nodded, "Thanks Vic."
Cyborg nodded, and let himself be pulled out of Dick's mind.
Cyborg took a deep breath as he woke up still in his place next to Raven. It took him a moment to get his bearings.
Raven grunted, lifting a hand to her head, her legs gave out. Beast Boy caught her, "Raven!" He exclaimed.
I'm okay Beast Boy, I'm okay. I just used too much energy. I'm sorry, I'm useless now. Will you help me stand?" Raven told them.
Beast Boy nodded lifting her up back onto her feet. Cyborg ran a quick scan on her and nodded she was fine. Beast boy smiled and let her take some of her own weight.
Raven cursed as the green man shifted her weight back to her own legs, they didn't work. She willed them to hold her up, but they wouldn't obey, she couldn't get her powers to work either, she was just too drained. "Beast Boy, it's no use, can you just set me down in a chair?"
Beast Boy nodded, and set her down in the nearest chair.
"Raven," Starfire spoke up, "It worked right? Robin will live correct?"
Raven nodded, "He should. His will to live is back, his vitals are climbing."
Cyborg nodded, "His vitals rising, he's stable, he should pull through, I think he'll wake up here in the next couple hours if I had to guess.
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