The icepack wasn't helping as much as Yin wanted it to. He lay back on the Titan's couch holding the icepack to his head. The bleeding had stopped but the pain of being thrown into a brick wall was still ever present in his head. Yin shut his eyes as another wave of pain washed over him. For some reason when he closed his eyes, he saw Starfire. She was standing there with her usual light smile on her face, her hands behind her back. She looked so innocent and beautiful. Yin felt the tears coming down his face, as his eyes remained close. He wasn't sure if he was crying because he was in pain or because he missed Starfire, and in reality, it was probably a little of both. As the tears rolled down his cheeks he was thankful that no one was looking at him. His macho behavior had almost caused him to bleed to death on the motorcycle ride over here, and now it was back again, wanting him to stop crying for the girl he loved.
Yin opened his eyes and with his free hand he wiped the tears away. With the sunglasses on his face, and the tears wiped away, you couldn't tell he had been crying at all. Yin stood up and walked over to the Titan's computer. He tried again to call the other Titan's communicators, and again, he failed. Slade had really thought this through. There was some sort of radio interference that prevented any communication with the Titans communicators. Yin swore under his breath as he made his way into the kitchen to refill the ice in his icepack. As he poured a few new cubes into the plastic bag he hoped that Robin was having better luck than he was.
Robin stood in Raven's room looking around for the one object that might save both her and Star. He found it on a table next to Raven's bed. Robin walked over to where the object lay and picked it up. He held in his hand and small 'beauty mirror'. Of course it wasn't a beauty mirror at all, but a door into Raven's mind. He remembered Beast Boy and Cyborg talk about it and envied them. Who wouldn't want to take a stroll through someone's mind? Especially if that someone is Raven. But it seemed that now he would get his chance. He needed to find out where Raven was and rescue her. He hopped that she could give him some clue as to where she was. Robin held up the strange looking mirror and wasn't sure what he was supposed to do. He looked into it and saw his reflection staring back. Then Robin felt the mirror shacking. He let go and the mirror hovered in air. Needless to say, Robin was more than a little scared. A vortex began to suck Robin into the mirror, and in the next second he was standing on a floating rock in what looked like outer space.
Robin stood there for a second, trying to piece together what had just happened. He looked around at his surroundings and realized that he was standing on a lone rock in the middle of nowhere. He recalled what his friends had told him and assumed he was in the right place. Robin walked around on the lowly rock and was relived when the other rocks floating near by formed a path. He walked down the path and remembered what his friends said: "The first Raven we saw was 'Happy'". Robin really didn't know what to expect. BB said that she was dressed in pink and, like her name implied, was happy. That was all Robin had to go on, so he continued walking down the eerie path until he found Raven.
'Well, a Raven,' Robin thought to himself. Robin slowly walked up to a Raven wearing all pink. She had her back to him until he was a few feet away.
"Um... hi," Robin said, trying to think of what to say.
The pink clad Raven spun around startled by the voice. She looked at Robin and the expression on her face was pure joy. Her bright smile brought a warm feeling to Robin, and her large wavy eyes looked like they were going to shed tears of joy. Happy put her hands over her heart and then outstretched them as she ran to hug Robin. She threw her arms around him letting her tears of joy fall down her face. Robin, a little startled (but in no way complaining) about the show of emotion, put his arms around her too. The two stood there embracing one another, each the happiest they had ever been. After almost a minuet of hugging, Robin realized that Happy wasn't going to let go anytime soon. He pried her off of him (which was no easy task) and looked into her large bright eyes. Happy stared back at him with what looked like a deep admiration for Robin. She stood waiting for him to speak with a pleasant smile on her face.
"Raven, I need your help." Robin said, still staring into her eyes.
"Anything." Happy quickly responded."I need to know where Slade took you." Raven smiled a little bigger."Knowledge can help you with that. Come on, I've already summoned the others." Raven pulled Robin's arm leading him down the path and past an archway. When they went through the archway they were suddenly in a different area. It was a little like the last place, only larger and there was an occasional tree here and there. Robin looked ahead and saw 8 other Ravens looking at him. They were dressed in different colored robes. Robin could tell who a few were from what BB and Cy had told him. Robin and Happy joined the others and they formed a circle. Robin stood next to Happy and another Raven who was dressed in red. Robin turned his head to look at her and saw she had four red eyes. He had a pretty good hunch that she was Anger. She turned her head toward Robin letting all her eyes stare at him.
"Don't worry about her," a Raven dressed in yellow said, "Raven isn't mad at you." Robin turned his head toward the Raven dressed in yellow. She introduced herself as Knowledge. "Now Robin, what brings you here?"
"I need to know where Slade took you," Robin said, looking around at all the Ravens.
"I hate Slade..." Anger said, in a voice that could scare the devil.
"Oh, big surprise there," A Raven dressed in orange said sarcastically.
Knowledge ignored the two and took up her 'I'm thinking' pose. She placed her index finger to her chin and looked up in deep thought. After a few seconds of thinking she told Robin about everything she saw while Plasmus carried her. Robin listened carefully and when Knowledge was done he knew exactly where Slade was hiding. Robin got a smile on his face.
"I know exactly where Slade took you," he said looking a round at the Ravens, "I promise I'll come rescue you."
"Hurray!" Happy exclaimed, throwing her arms around Robin. Robin smiled and hugged her back. They let go of each other and Robin asked where the exit was. All of the Ravens pointed to a large glowing archway. Robin said his goodbyes and started walking to the exit. Before he walked through he heard a voice from behind him.
"Robin," Robin turned around and saw Anger looking at him. She had taken a few steps away from the other Ravens. She looked at Robin with all four of her red eyes. Even after every thing BB and Cy had said about her, Robin wasn't afraid. "Give Slade hell." She said in her usual sinister voice. Robin nodded and each of them exchanged a sinister smile. Robin turned back around and walked through the door.
Robin reappeared in Raven's room standing next to the mirror, which now lay on the floor. He replaced the mirror back on the table and walked out of the room. He went to the kitchen and found Yin lay on the couch, still with the icepack on his head. When he saw Robin come in, Yin snapped to attention.
"So..." he said, waiting for Robin to tell him what happened. Robin walked over to the computer and typed something in. a map popped up on the screen with a blinking read dot in the center.
"Slades there," Robin said, pointing to the dot. Yin looked at it.
"An old abandoned warehouse building..." Yin said, in a sarcastic tone, "How original." Robin ignored his comment.
"So, are you going to be ok?" Robin asked gesturing toward the icepack. Yin threw the icepack on the couch and nodded.
"Yeah, I'm ready to go when you are." Yin said, cracking his knuckles. Robin nodded and the two of them walked to the garage.
Raven opened her eyes and looked around the room again. She was inside of a force field that prevented her from using her powers. To her right was Starfire who had long since given up trying to break out of her force field prison and was just sitting on the ground, wrapping her arms around her knees. Raven guessed she had been caught at a bad time because she was only wearing part of her usual outfit. The skirt and top were the only things she had on. Raven knew that behind her was Slade waiting patiently to initiate the next step of his plan. Raven let out a big sigh.
'Robin, please hurry.'