I'm Sorry

by Allen Blaster

The pairings have now been formed. Love is abounding among our heroes. Everything seems normal. But what happens when an enemy comes back to earth to recapture it's prize and exact it's revenge on all our group of heroes? And what happens when it extends to all of the Titans? Well one thing's for sure. This means war. Chapter Seven: Titanic Battle Part One

10. I'm Back Part One

Okay, this will be part one of the end of part one in this story. There will be lots in these next two chapters to wrap up and set new pieces into place for part two of this story. Being the end of part one I'm not only including replies to those who reviewed since last update but also a list of thank you's to the various author's I've been in contact with either about this story or from talking to them about their stories.

Wjso: Yep they're finally together. About time too.

Wilsonk42: I think that was Raven who handled her. And yeah she's going to be freezing there for awhile. I do have plans for her later in this story though so sorry it's not forever like what most people would want.

Bluedog197: Thanks for the suggestion. I'll try it out and see what it sounds like to me. And thanks for the support.

Thanks to the following authors who have helped make my time on enjoyable:

Artemis Raven Courtney

DarkPearl808

SoulSurfer2112

gracieTpie

Ssj Maggie

cecos

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All these people here are wonderful and I appreciate being able to have talked to them. Also I'm going to go through my chapters and do some slight edits so I can fix mistakes I missed before in my typing. Here's to Chapter 9!

Disclaimer: A season six story is what I'm writing next since I don't own the real Teen Titans.

-T- Chapter Nine: I'm Back Part 1

Gar's POV

Me and Raven were still looking at each other in shock at how bad the predicament was. We couldn't even believe about what happened to Starfire. I mean seriously we never thought that Robin would be dumb enough to break up with Starfire in the first place with how much he had loved her over the years. Much less, ban his teammates from even having relationships with the other Titans and normal people. Finally our shock was being replaced with anger. We were both so angry with Robin at that moment that if he had appeared through the door then he would have been lucky he was already in the infirmary. He might have had a slight chance to live for all I knew. But somehow, we managed to gain control over our anger and just looked at each other.

"Gar, what are we going to do?" she asked a little timid.

"For now we're not going to rush into this problem. We're going to head to the kitchen first. We haven't had a good meal in days and we aren't going to think very well on empty stomachs."

She looked like she wanted to protest but then our stomachs both growled really loudly in agreement at about the same time. At first we were both silent. And then I found myself rolling around on the ground laughing my butt off.

"Holy crap Rae, I never knew you had that thing in you!" I barely got out as tears fell down my face from how much it was hurting to laugh yet was so worth it. As I looked up though I could see she was blushing a very bright red almost resembling a Christmas Ornament. She was reaching back to pull up the hood on her cape when I jumped up stopping my laughter instantly and grabbed both of her hands.

"It's okay Rae. I'm the only one in here who heard you. You don't need to be embarrassed about anything and you don't need to hide your beautiful face from me."

She started blushing even more when I called her beautiful and looked like she was about to protest when I silenced her with a kiss. I felt her instantly melt against me and held it for a few seconds longer before pulling back. I looked into her eyes and seeing that she was now okay I smiled and grabbed her hand. "Come on Rae, let's go eat something before we see Starfire and figure out what's been going on with Robin."

She smiled at me as she kept a grip on my hand as well. We both walked out feeling better then we had minutes before when we read the note. Hand in hand we were walking down the hallway smiling at each other not seeing or hearing the figure behind us that had been trying to listen to us at the door.

In a whisper the shadowy figure spoke to himself. "Dang it Cyborg, why did you have to make everything so soundproof in this tower. I couldn't even tell what they were talking about in there."

The shadowy figure stepped into a light as the couple rounded the corner. The figure was wearing what looked like a traffic light uniform, steel toed boots, a utility belt, spiked gelled hair,and a black mask over his eyes. What couldn't be seen were his glazed over eyes making him look like he was sleepwalking. "Don't they look a little too comfortable with each other." A baritone voice said inside his head. A look passed over his eyes as they returned to normal for a second as Robin tried to fight the mind control. "No this isn't right. I-" He didn't say anything else as his mind submitted to the mind control once again. "Why yes, I believe it looks like someone is breaking the new rule you helped me put in place." Robin said.

"I suggest you go fix this error of theirs before it harms your team. We wouldn't want that to happen now, would we Robin." The baritone voice said. "If they're in a relationship with each other I will make sure that they never want to live in this tower again." Robin said before he slowly went after the couple thinking that they would be heading towards their rooms having lost sight of them long ago while talking to his new master.

-T- Raven's POV The main ops room/kitchen

We came through the sliding doors into the main ops room to find it was now close to six in the evening. The sun sinking towards the horizon in the distance. Gar had immediately went to the fridge and grabbed some ingredients for the meal he was cooking for us. I couldn't see what it was but I sighed in relief when I saw he hadn't grabbed any tofu. Twenty minutes later we were sitting at the table eating a vegetarian lasagna which tasted surprisingly good while we sipped some tea that I'd made.

"Since when can you cook this well?" I asked him being a little curious.

He smiled back at me before replying. "Well you know how I've been complaining to Cy for years about how he never makes me anything for dinner. That's always left me with a choice between tofu or cereal each day. After years of having tofu over and over again I almost can't stand the sight of it in the fridge anymore. So I took an online cooking class for vegetarians so I could cook for myself and hopefully you someday."

I smiled at him when he said this and reached across the table to grab his hand. "It tastes great Gar. And I hope this isn't the only thing you've learned to make." We were both looking into each other's eyes getting lost in each other when we heard the doors sliding open. We instantly put our hands on our laps and looked down to our food again continuing to eat acting like nothing had happened at all.

"Since when can you cook grass stain!" We looked up and saw none other than Cyborg standing there with a big grin on his face. We both let out a sigh relieved that it had been Cy and not the Boy Blunder himself.

"Dude, you totally gave us a heart attack. We thought Robin had been walking in." At the mention of his name Cyborg lost his grin as it turned into a scowl. Speaking of that I saw him looking into both your rooms before I walked in here. It looked like he was trying to find the two of you just now."

Our mood went from happy to shocked in less than a second. "Do you think he knows?" I asked a little scared of the answer. He shrugged his huge shoulders in reply. "I'm not sure guys. I mean he's just been acting so off lately it's hard to know for sure about anything concerning him now."

I was just about to say something else when suddenly the doors slid open once again.

It had taken me almost fifteen minutes to remember the code for Beast Boy's room. Stupid Cyborg had changed the override codes for the tower and hadn't shared them with me yet. Finally having success I looked in and swore when I saw no one in there. I proceeded to Raven's room and spent ten minutes getting the right code in only to walk in and again not seeing them. Really pissed off at the waste of time I walked into the main ops room feeling the vein throb in my forehead when I saw them chatting with Cyborg at the table as if nothing was wrong.

"Beast Boy, Raven, I need to talk to you guys in my office now!" A very angry and frustrated Robin said before turning around to walk out the sliding doors. He stopped though when heard our response. "No."

He instantly turned around looking even angrier than before. "What did you just say to me!" he shouted at us. Gar instantly spoke up. "Whoa dude, just calm down and take a chill pill. Me and Rae have been in here eating dinner for the past half hour." Robin looked like he was going to explode at the changeling when Cyborg instantly stepped in front of us.

"Yo Rob. What the hell do you think you're doing. You know that these two haven't even had a decent meal in days and now that they're finally eating again you want to pull them away from it over something that can probably wait till later? Do you really want them to starve that badly?" he said in a calm tone.

He looked at both of us with what could only be described as pure anger cleaning the look off his face and turning around. "Fine, you have thirty minutes to finish eating. And if you're not in my office by then I'll have no choice but to kick you both off the team."

Before we could reply or even complain about how unfair that was he walked out the door and left us behind shocked. I finally turned to Cyborg with tears in my eyes. "I think he knows about me and Gar Cy. That's the only possible thing that could make him this angry with us."

He looked at both of us sadly before he also shook his head sadly. "You guys should eat, I'm going to go grab Starfire. She told me she wanted to see you guys after you had recovered. Plus she knows more about what's going on with Robin than you guys since she was the one who saw his personality change firsthand."

With that Cyborg walked out the sliding doors leaving me and Gar alone in silence. We tried to eat the rest of our meal in silence but found we had lost our appetites after seeing how changed our leader was. So we grabbed our dishes and brought them over to the sink and cleaned them off side by side. Finally we walked over to the couch and sat down before we both looked at the clock. Fifteen minutes before we had to go see Robin and most likely get kicked off the team. I started to silently cry at the thought of having to leave my first real home in this world. Everywhere I'd been in my short life I hadn't ever felt accepted somewhere, much less loved. No one had ever been so kind and loving to me in my life as my teammates had been. Even when they learned that I was half-demon they hadn't cared and had stayed by my side through it all.

I was trying not to grab his attention but he always seemed to understand when I needed help. He silently pulled me into a hug as he comforted me. He gently rubbed the small of my back with one hand while the other wiped the tears from my cheeks.

'Don't worry about it Rae. If Robin tried to kick us out of the tower he'd have to go through Chrome Dome and Starfire first. And even if he did I would never leave you. I love you too much for that too happen.' I looked at him a little shocked at what he'd just told me in my mind.

'I'm scared though Gar. This is the only place I've been where it felt like home. Like I was accepted and loved.' I replied to him. He just smiled at me and said out loud this time. "Rae, wherever you're at, that is where my home will be whether it's here in the tower or somewhere in the world out there. And no matter what the circumstances may be I will always make sure that you're loved Rae." Bends closer "And that is a promise Raven."

For the moment at least I let his words replace my fear with happiness and love. I leaned towards him and gave him a chaste kiss on the lips as a silent thank you. We hadn't heard the sliding doors open nor had we felt the heartbreak entering the room but we did hear the high pitched squeal and turned around just in time to see Starfire running towards us and enveloping us in a hug that was far weaker than her usual excited hugs. We were both looking at her in concern now surprised that we had heard that squeal and didn't even have a bruise to show for it on our rib cages.

"Star, why aren't you floating anymore and why are we still able to talk and breathe right now even though you're hugging us?" I asked a little curious. She let us both go before looking at us with sadness emanating off her face and out her eyes.

"Raven do you remember when I told you how my emotions are what controls my powers how I have to express certain ones in order to be able to use them?" I nodded silently at her letting her continue. "Right now, the only thing I am feeling right now is the sadness, hurt and confusion to Robin. Because of this I can't summon any of the right emotions to use any of my powers." she finished sadly.

We both looked at her for a few seconds trying to digest this. "What could Robin have done that made you like this Star."

She looked up at all of us with tears in her eyes at having to bring that memory up. The memory of her love taking her heart and soul and shattering them into pieces right in front of her without a second thought. Me and Gar both noticed this at the same time and he spoke up first. "It's okay Star, we don't have to know what happened if you don't want to talk about it."

The tears disappeared to be replaced with determination. "No, you have to know what's happened to with Robin. Maybe if you heard my side of the story you could figure out what's wrong with him and return him to the normalness for me."

"Okay then Star. Just start talking when you're ready." I said to her as me and Gar leaned into each other in case we needed someone to comfort the other while Starfire talked.

Yesterday Starfire's POV

Me and Robin had been cuddling on the couch watching some random movie on the TV. I had the feeling of being safe in his arms that no one else could ever offer me. If things went where I had been for that night I would have pretended to fall asleep in his embrace. And he would've carried me to my room and gently placed me on my bed. He would then pull the blankets up over my body before gently kissing my forehead as he whispered "Good night Star, I love you." into my ears. And I would smile as he walked out the room whispering under my breath "I love you too." Before I would have fallen asleep happy once more.

Only, that hadn't happened that night. I had been ready to act like I had fallen asleep in his arms when I felt him tense up. Then suddenly as if I had the plague he pushed me off him onto the hard ground below and not on the section of couch in front of us. I had been too shocked then to realize that he had hurt me then. "Boyfriend Robin, what's goi-" I had gasped when I saw his face narrow at me and a vein started to bulge in his forehead.

"Don't ever call me that again Starfire." I looked at him confused and slightly hurt at the use of my full name being used in such a harsh tone. "But what are you talking about boyfriend Rob-"

"I SAID DON'T CALL ME THAT YOU BITCH!" he yelled in my face. I started feeling the tears fall down my face and I couldn't stop them because that had hurt me deeply. He just narrowed his eyes at me before a resounding slap was heard in the room. It hadn't hurt me at all but it had left me standing there shocked. Robin had just slapped me in the face.

"WE'RE HEROES STAR! HEROES SHOULD NEVER EVER CRY OVER ANYTHING! AND HEROES SHOULD NEVER GET INVOLVED IN EACH OTHER'S LIVES BECAUSE IT MAKES US TO FREAKING EMOTIONAL!" he shouted in my face.

I was hurt. I was heartbroken. But above all that I felt anger when I realized several things. He had just broken up with me, called me the earth term for a very bad girl, and slapped me for crying. I answered him the same way he had answered me just now, only I did it harder. I slapped him in the face with enough force to send him flying into the window and watched as it cracked where he had hit it.

"I WILL NOT BE TOLD WHAT A HERO DOES OR DOESN'T NEED TO DO! I WON'T ACCEPT BEING CALLED WHAT I'M NOT AND I CERTAINLY WON'T ACCEPT YOU THINKING YOU CAN JUST HURT ME AND GET AWAY WITH IT YOU KLORBAG!" I had turned around at this point and was just about to leave the room when I heard a disk coming through the air towards me. I instantly jumped to the right and saw ice encase the area I had just been standing in. I turned around to see a very enraged Robin with a Bo Staff in his hands almost flying right at me. He tried to get a swing in but I flew up towards the ceiling to avoid it and to get away from his anger. Then I felt his grappling gun hook around my waist and kept me from getting farther away. I was about to change course when he slammed me into the ground leaving a small crater where I hit it.

I had been enraged at this point and I turned around trying to pull up my arms to fire my starbolts at him when I found myself encased in ice. Then Bo Staff in hand ran forward and swung so hard that he broke through the ice and hit me really hard in the gut. Free of the ice I had doubled over in pain. He followed that with a roundhouse kick to my head that had almost knocked me out. He kept on using either his boots or his staff beating me up until I had bruises all over my body. I looked up at him tears falling from my eyes from how much he was hurting me. All I saw was his emotionless face as he prepared to hit me over the head with his Bo Staff and I closed my eyes and waited for him to use his anger on me. Suddenly a blue beam of light him in the back and sent him flying into the opposite wall of the room. I looked up towards the doorway to see a very enraged Cyborg appear. I started sobbing on the ground as he carefully picked me up and carried me out of the room.

Before he left he turned to look at Robin as he got up off the floor. He just sent a glare his way and without saying anything at all he walked out of the room carrying me. That night Cyborg had stayed in my room and kept watch over me to make sure Robin didn't try to break in and hurt me again. He had applied bandages to all the areas I had been hurt except for the one area that hurt the most. My heart. I hadn't felt this bad on the inside since I had been a slave of the Citadel and forced to do so many dreadful things with the ugly creatures. Instead of going to sleep with a smile on my face as I had planned that night I had cried myself to sleep with Cyborg watching me with a worried face. That night I fell into a land filled with nightmares of Robin being the one to slowly torture me instead of the Citadel. He being the one who put the blades into my flesh as punishment for being born, to beat me every time I disobeyed my masters, who threatened to kill me if I didn't do exactly as he said to him. I woke up in the morning hoping it had all been a dream but I still saw Cyborg standing where he been all night still watching me with that worried look in his eyes. I haven't felt happy ever since.

Present Raven's POV

"And that's what happened that night." Starfire finished with tears in her eyes once again at having to bring up that painful memory. Me and Gar were sitting there shocked holding on to each other. Cyborg had been understating it when he said Robin and Star had an argument. After a minute we heard him speak up.

"After she had woken up and started crying again, I walked out of her room to give her some privacy when I saw Robin down the hallway. He told me he still had some unfinished business with her and ordered me to give him the codes to her door. When I refused he looked at me all angrily and that was when he told me the new rule he had put in place and what the punishment for breaking it was. He told me he still needed to give Starfire her punishment for trying to get involved with him but I had been so pissed at him then that I almost shot him into another wall with my sonic cannon. Instead I told him to his face that he was never going to get her codes again and walked away from the seething leader. My walk took me to the outside of the tower where I was going to blow off some steam on the obstacle course. But instead of that I found you two at the edge of what look liked a battlezone." he finished.

Finally I saw Gar stand up with anger written all over his face. "So let me get this straight! He not only dumped Star like yesterday's trash but he also attacked her! AND STILL WANTS TOO!" he yelled with a hint of a dangerous tone in his voice.

"That pretty much sums up what Star and I said." I said also getting up with anger in my eyes. We were about to walk out to deal with "Boy Blunder" when Cy said, "Wait." We turned around. "Robin was a complete jerk and attacked Starfire and has been trying to finish what he was going to do to her for the past two days. What doesn't make sense is that before that he always showed love and friendship to Star here. Now do you really think the real Robin would just suddenly pull something like this without any warning?"

We looked at him confused. He sighed at us then continued on. "What reason would he have to not only turn his back on us but also attack the only person he has loved since the day he met her."

Gar was still staring at him confused but I gasped when I finally realized what he was trying to explain. "He would never have a complete turnaround in personality like that." I said.

Cy flashed a smile when he saw he had gotten through to me. And through my link I could tell that Gar realized what I meant as well. "So what you're saying is that either that person waiting for us isn't Robin…" Gar said.

"Or the real Robin is being controlled by somebody else." Cyborg finished.

We were pondering on his words when suddenly at that point the doors opened and a very angry Robin walked in on the scene. He looked at all of us and his eyes narrowed on Starfire for a second before he looked back at me and Gar. "I told you to meet me in thirty! You're already ten minutes late! If you aren't up and moving by the time I'm out this door both of you will be severely punished!" he shouted at us with his face red with anger.

I looked at Gar. He looked at me. We both looked to Robin. "No." we said to him once again. "Whatever you need to obviously talk to us about you can tell us right here."

His face looked like it was about to explode when we said these words but somehow he managed to calm down and said in a cold voice. "I'm not asking you again either come to my office, or else.." he said glaring at us with cold hatred in his eyes.

Again I looked at Gar and he looked at me. "No. We're staying right here." we said at the same time with me looping my arm around him as he did the same to me.

That gesture alone seemed to break his calm facade as his face turned red once again. "I am the leader here. You will do as I tell you now you will come with me or I will make you!"

Me and Gar just calmly looked at him. Gar was the one that spoke. "I'm sorry whoever you are, but I know our leader would never attack Starfire and hurt her the way you did nor would he get this mad at me and certainly not at Raven. You aren't our leader and you certainly aren't going to impose some rule to keep me from the girl I love."

Whoever had been controlling Robin at that point seemed to blow up then as he charged at us Bo Staff in hand ready to strike us. He seemed to be almost flying through the air towards us. Inches away from contact I calmly opened a portal and did some things to him before I closed it back up.

Silence reigned for a few minutes as the others digested what had just happened. Cyborg broke it. "Where the hell did you send him Raven?" he asked hesitantly.

I looked at him and calmly replied to his question. "I didn't send him to hell although that was tempting considering what he'd done the past couple days. I sent him to the infirmary and before he could recover I strapped him into one of the gurneys and activated the knock out gas in that room. Oh and for good measure in case he tried to hold his breathe I also grabbed a syringe with some sedative in it and used it on him. The gas should have cleared by now so we can head down there now to see what's wrong with him." I said in my monotone voice.

Still a little shocked Cy, Gar, and Starfire got up and followed me out of the room to the infirmary. Sure enough as I had said they found Robin strapped to one of the beds clearly unconscious with a needle sticking out of one of his butt cheeks. Cyborg hesitantly walked up pulled out the needle and plugged him into different machines before taking some blood and attaching an IV to his arm that put even more sedative into his system.

Holding up the blood. "I'm going to check this first and if nothing comes up I'll have to run an X-ray on his his body to see how this person...thing…whatever it is is controlling him." he said to us.

I nodded to him before grabbing a hold of Gar's hand. "You'll need to work quickly. We don't know how long we have till he wakes up. All we know is that this is the real Robin since he's not a robot and that it's almost impossible to make a clone so the only logical answer is that he's being controlled by something. The only thing I can tell you is that whatever it is it isn't magic otherwise I'd be able to detect it."

He nodded at us and said "okay." As me and Gar turned around to leave I saw Starfire walk up to the gurney. She looked down at Robin and then she took a hold of his hand and started crying softly. I turned to Gar and saw he had seen the same thing. We quickly walked out of the infirmary and walked down the hallway to the Main Ops Room and sat down on the couch.

'Do you think Robin will be okay Rae?'

'I don't know Gar. Now that he's restrained we have a chance of figuring out what's wrong with him and fixing it. But we still don't know who could have done this or how they could have done it. We're on square one here and unless something happens we won't know who did it and why.'

He sighed when I said this and looked up to look at the window. I saw him gazing out into the distance thinking he was watching the setting sun. Suddenly he tensed up next to me and I looked up at him to ask what was going on when I saw a frightened look in his eyes as he pulled out his T-Communicator.

"Cyborg come in, this is Beast Boy over."

A second passed and suddenly Cyborg's face appeared. "What's the problem now grass stain. The blood pulled up nothing and I'm running an X-Ray on him as we speak."

"Are the tower's defense systems still active or not!" Gar shouted into the Communicator. When he said that I started looking out the window to see what was freaking him out.

Cyborg appeared lost in thought for a few seconds when asked that question when suddenly his human eye bulged to dinner plate proportions. "The defenses aren't even registered on the Tower's mainframe anymore. What's going on Beast Boy!" he shouted almost in a panic when a beeping noise behind him grabbed his attention and he was forced to calm down to look at what the screen was pulling up.

I didn't hear what they said next because I finally saw the thing or things outside the window that had caused Beast Boy to start freaking out. Outside about a mile out several dozen small ships were approaching. And crowded together on the decks was the biggest number of armed robots I had yet seen. They were crowded onto all the decks while some were operating what looked like turrets on the ship.

On the lead ship was our number one enemy. Someone we hadn't seen for years since Trigon. The one person who had almost made Robin his apprentice and turned Terra back then to evil. The man with a baritone voice and armor coating his whole body along with a mask that covered his entire face showing only his one good eye.

On the ship "I'm back Titans. And this time I'm not leaving until I have my apprentice with me."

Author's Notes:

So this is part 1 of the end. Yep that man is Slade. How the heck though is he managing to control Robin though? Is it him he's coming for or someone else? Will this all end in the next chapter or will the author have to make another chapter? "Till next time" my wonderful readers.