Chapter 48 'Rage'

Just like every battle the titans fled to the scene of the crime. However, this time their group was much larger than the usual five. Seeing how there was a massive titan gathering in the main room of titan's tower it was only expected for all titans on the premises to go rushing to the location at the sound of the alarm.

It was a shock to all of them when the only villain they found tormenting the citizens was doctor light. Robin didn't remember much from the games, he was still trying to keep most of those thoughts from taking over his mind. But he did recall that doctor light had not been part of them, maybe this wasn't the set up he'd been expecting.

It was light enough outside for Robin to be able to see the villain, although the darkness inside of the pizza place indicated that he had obviously stolen their power.

"It's over doctor light," Robin snapped feeling pretty confident about his team being able to back him up in this fight.

Once he had stepped on the control device it had released Kid Flash and the rest of the brain washed titans from Slade's hypnotism. Which was a relief for the rest of them, getting all of those titans to sit still while they were attempting to remove their control devices would have been a very difficult task to accomplish.

The leader noticed Cyborg and Beast Boy looking around the scene both of them obviously wishing that Raven would appear and prove that she was currently still doing okay. However, there was no sign of the dark girl, and Robin's mind was going a mile a minute trying to put the pieces together quickly.

"Oh, I don't think it is Robin, you see I have more up my sleeve than you think…"

With a flick of his wrist the villain blast a beam of light at the group of heroes managing to blast the pink haired sorceress and tossing her back a few feet.

Kid Flash let out a yell and quickly made his way to check up on her as Cyborg raised his sonic cannon at the villain.

"One more move and I'll do it," Cyborg stated narrowing his eyes at doctor light.

Then, before any of the other titans had time to react something knocked Cyborg upside the head causing him to stumble back a few feet.

"What the…" the mechanical man mumbled as he looked up to see Gizmo fly over top of him cackling all the while.

"Should have been faster tin can!" The boy yelled.

Robin watched as the villains began emerging all around them. He knew deep inside that Slade hadn't given up, or even if he was gone these villains were so brainwashed by him to do his bidding to stop and consider what could happen.

"Robin lookout!" Starfire yelled pulling him back into reality as Red X's fist nearly collided with his face. Lucky for him he heard Starfire's voice in time and was able to duck quickly. He swiftly kicked out his foot and managed to trip the black suited villain before balling his fists and looking around frantically. "SLADE!" He yelled. "Show yourself!"

Starfire looked fearful for her boyfriend. "Robin…you have destroyed Slade…do you not remember?" She asked softly.

A low chuckle rumbled around them. It caused the villains to smirk and the heroes to reveal expressions of pure shock. "I've always said what a smart boy you are Robin. Too smart to even stay under my mind control, but none the less my villains will surely see to it that you don't interfere with my plans," Slade's voice shook all around them.

"Show yourself Slade…you coward!" Robin yelled practically steaming now.

"Oh but I cannot, you see I have been hard at work perfecting my newest secret weapon," he stated slyly.

"I don't care what you do! We're going to take you down no matter what the cost is!" Robin exclaimed.

"Uh…I hope he doesn't expect us all to agree with him," Beast Boy whispered to his mechanical friend.

Cyborg merely rolled his eyes at the green teen's humor. However, part of him somewhat did agree with the changeling.

"Oh, I think you'll change your mind in a few seconds," Slade's voice responded.

Robin's eyes narrowed as he opened his mouth to question why. But before he got the chance a black force field began drifting around the pizza place, bit by bit it began breaking the walls down. At first Robin was confused as to how Slade had access to do something like this, something so dark, something so…familiar. In an instant the boy wonder's mask widened and a gasp emerged from his throat.

"Slade!" Robin yelled again, his tone furious. "What did you do to her?"

There was no response from the masked villain. Beast Boy on the other hand made sure to be the first to run to the front of the line.

"He has Raven?" The shape shifter asked.

Robin could see the complete expression of fear in his friend's eyes as he looked for an answer from the team leader.

"I don't know Beast Boy I-."

Suddenly as if appearing out of something from a horror movie a dark form slowly phased through the floor, directly in the center of the chaos.

"Raven!" Beast Boy yelled once he could make out the cloaked figure's identity.

Robin glanced nervously at the changeling whose eyes seemed to glimmer with excitement at the sight of the violet haired girl unharmed. However, something didn't feel right to the boy wonder. Cautiously he put his arm out stopping the changeling from getting any closer to her.

The silence that followed Beast Boy's yell was eerie. Neither Titan nor villain knew what to make of the situation, or so it seemed. Robin scanned the crowed quickly trying to depict to expressions on the villain's faces. Most of them were of no help when it came to quick thinking that was until his masked eyes landed on Kyd Wykkyd who was revealing a small smirk.

He knew. Instantly it clicked in Robin's mind, Kyd Wykkyd could have easily transported into the tower and taken Raven from the med bay, he was easily the most qualified with his powers. But just what exactly had Slade done to the empath once she was brought to him?

"Um…Raven?" Beast Boy tired again breaking the masked teen's concentration.

Then, before Robin had time to develop his thought any further four red slits snapped up to look at him and the rest of his team. Whatever Slade had done, he was currently feeding off Raven's demonic side and there was no telling what he could do with that much power.

Then a thought hit him like a ton of bricks, Slade's previous message to him about how he would always install a prime target for each of his titan minions. Robin's mask doubled in size as he looked beside him to see the shape shifter staring at her in shock.

"Beast Boy…you need to get out of here, now," Robin stated in a low tone.

"Dude, I-."

"Trust me, I won't hurt her, now go!" Robin snapped.

The green teen didn't wait for any further instruction he quickly turned his back and bolted from the scene, transforming into his cheetah form on his way out. The titan leader smirked to himself as he turned to look back at the dark girl. Only, when he turned back to her she was no longer standing there staring at them she was levitating, eyes narrowed ready to attack.

But it didn't make sense to the boy wonder, Beast Boy was high tailing it out of there, so who else would she go after? It only took a second for Raven to react and shoot a stream of black magic into her target, smashing them into the nearest wall. And when the smoke cleared Robin could feel his body begin to shake with rage. Because there, lying limply on the ground was the Tameranian princess.


Cliffhangers are my best friends! I'm so so sooo sorry you guys for leaving you all for two weeks, as I've said before I have not given up on you, I will continue updating but until school is over it probably would be near as regularly. I don't have much time to update in between work and studying, so I write when I can. On the brightside, there's only about a month and a half of school left, and once that's over I will have all the free time for you guys!

Anyway! Hope you all enjoyed this one, anyone see this coming? I'm sure a lot of you saw parts of this happening, so kudos to those who did! Who else feels bad for Robin right now, poor boy wonder trying to be the hero and his plans keep getting shot down.

Alright, reviews keep me motivated! Thanks to all of you who have been giving me feedback, you all rock!

Xoxo-Megz