A Different Identity
A Teen Titans Fanfiction
By: Nightingale0708
To anyone it concerns, I'm sorry I forgot to put in the disclaimer the last few chapters saying that I don't own anything but the plot. I'll put it right now though.
Disclaimer: I don't own anything but the plot of this story. It has the name fanfiction for a reason.
The words echoed around in Robin's head. 'It's Slade.' Robin couldn't take it. His worst enemy was planning something bad for the city, no doubt. It was then that Robin vowed to stop Slade. No matter what it took.
"What did he do?" His voice had lowered to a dangerously low pitch, vibrating in his sheer rage. Cyborg typed a few keys on the keyboard and a confused look came on his face.
"Actually, nothing yet." Cyborg's answer severely confused Robin. Why would the crime alert go off if Slade wasn't up to no good?
"Well, why did the crime alert go off if nothing was going on, bro? That makes no sense." BB asked, voicing Robin's thoughts. Cyborg looked at them, his mouth set in a grim line.
"Because he hacked our firewalls. He was able to establish a video conference. From him to us." Cyborg's words continued to surprise Robin. This just showed that Slade's hacking skills were indeed superior to Robin's. Robin had put up extensive firewalls that he had slaved over for 2 days. And yet, Slade probably only took 5 minutes to break those firewalls. But back to the task at hand. Should we put him through? We did need to figure out what he's planning, but how will we get Slade to spill the beans? Maybe we can trick him into revealing more information than he should. Robin concluded that that was their only option. He looked at Cyborg.
"Patch him through." he said. Cyborg complied. Static filled the screen, then it was Slade. Only Slade's masked face and upper chest were visible. Behind him it looked like a warehouse, with support columns and boxes. If only that had helped, for there were hundreds of warehouses in Jump City. He could be hiding out in any one of those. Soon, Slade's smooth voice filled the room.
"Good morning, Teen Titans. I do hope I didn't wake you." he said, his very voice irritating Robin to no end. His jab seemed to be directed at Beast Boy, who was yawning onto his hand.
"What are you, an insomnia? Who calls at 5 in the morning-ow!" BB's statement was cut off by a sharp elbow from Raven. Robin decided to fill the void.
"What do you want?" Robin filled as much anger in his voice as he could.
"Well that's precisely what you've been trying to find out, isn't it?" Slade teased. "And despite all your effort, you're still in the dark about my intentions. Disappointing, Robin. I expected a little more from you." Robin turned away to hide the burning anger coming to his face. His enemy was lecturing him on his technique! There was no way that would ever happen again. Especially from Slade, of all people!
"Like I care what you-" Robin had begun saying, only for Slade's voice to cut across his cleanly.
"But since you've been unable to discover my plan, I suppose I'll just have to reveal i myself." Slade lifted his left hand and the camera moved. It now showed a few of Slade's minions surrounding an object covered in a brown tarp. Robin's confusion must've showed on his face because Slade decided to elaborate.
"I'm sure you're all familiar with the concept of a chronoton detonator." Slade's minion's uncovered the tarp, revealing a device that expanded upward and glowed red. This had an immediate effect on the Titans.
"No!" Cyborg exclaimed. Starfire gasped. Raven said, "Uh, oh." Beast Boy's outburst was the loudest, with him yelling at the top of his lungs. "No way!" He then turned to Starfire, scratching his head.
"Um, what's a crouton detonator?"
"It eradicates all chronotons in a localized area, utterly destroying the temporal component of the space-time continuum." Starfire explained. That seemed like a perfectly good explanation to Robin, but to Beast Boy, it must've been confusing.
"Hmm?!" he said, confusion evident in his voice. Raven, becoming annoyed with Beast Boy's stupidity, decided to dumb it down for him.
"It stops time. Permanently." she said. Beast Boy responded by yelling nonsense at the top of his lungs and then falling to the floor in a heap.
"If he triggers that thing downtown, it'll freeze-brain the whole city." Cyborg had done the calculations in his head. Robin's anger boiled over for the second time today.
"Tell me where!" he yelled, his fury evident in his voice. Slade responded, teasing them even more.
"You're a clever boy, Robin. I'm sure you and your little friends can figure it out. However, since I control the detonation, time is not on your side." The screen then fizzled out to static. Robin slammed his fist against the keyboard. Starfire was at his side attempting to comfort him, to no avail.
"Fan out! Find it! Shut it down!" He yelled, swiping his hand through the air. He turned, ready to walk out the front door to aid in the search, when Cyborg and Beast Boy formed a wall in front of him. He glared up at Cyborg, raising his eyebrow. Unfortunately, Beast Buy decided to speak first.
"Hey! Uhh...maybe you should stay here and coordinate the search." he said, his nervousness evident. Robin moved his gaze from Cyborg to Beast Boy, who squirmed under his gaze uncomfortably.
"What?" Robin asked, his voice again dangerously low. Cyborg decided to speak next.
"Man, when it comes to Slade, you got issues." he said, shaking his finger at him."It might be better for the team if you sit this one out." Robin thought about it. He knew it was true. He did have major issues with Slade, but that only motivated him harder to get to him before he could level the city. No, he would not stay behind just to watch the Titans fail in their search.
"NO! There's too much at stake for me to-" he started, pushing past his teammates. However, he was stopped when Starfire spoke up.
"Robin..."she started, making Robin freeze in his tracks. He turned to her, his raised eyebrow looking for an explanation.
"We have not forgotten the last time you faced-" Oh, she was playing the Red X card. Of course they still remembered that. How could they forget?! He had compromised his team's trust just to get to Slade. And of course they didn't gain any intel because Slade saw right through him. No, Robin was done listening to his past failures. He had been trained with that technique by Batman. After all, the Caped Crusader would have a lot of experience with failures.
"I made a mistake, Starfire! It won't happen again. I can handle it, I promise." He cut across her sentence just as cleanly as Slade cut across his. He turned away, already walking towards the door. He was stopped by a noise coming from the computer.
He turned back around, ready to face Slade once again, but was met with a different sight. Raven was at the keyboard, typing a few things in.
"Then would you at least like to know where to look?" she said slyly. Of course! Robin scolded himself for forgetting the most important part of a stakeout: the location! A picture of Slade's robots pulling down the brown tarp off the chronoton detonator came up. The Titans surrounded Raven, looking over her shoulders at the picture.
"Slade gave us more information than he realized." Raven said. She zoomed in on the top of the detonator. There was a reflection there! Beast Boy didn't seem impressed.
"Ooh! Squiggly lines! Way informative!" he said sarcastically. Raven ignored him and enhanced the clip. It looked like it said something but it was backwards. She clicked a few more keys and the picture flipped over so it now said:
Pier 41
"Pier 41!" Starfire said triumphantly.
"The docks!" Robin said darkly. He couldn't wait to finish off Slade once and for all. Raven crossed her arms and glared at Beast Boy, who blushed and chuckled nervously while scratching the back of his head.
They made their way down to the docks. There was a sign that confirmed their destination: Pier 41. They decided on a warehouse. Cyborg fired up his sonic cannon and blasted a hole in the wall to allow them entry. Smoke filled the room. Robin launched himself in a somersault through the smoke and the Titans followed, locked and loaded. When the smoke cleared, though, there was nothing there. The warehouse was empty.
"Empty?" Starfire said in disbelief.
"Oh, man!" Cyborg said.
"I don't believe this!" Robin side, disbelief and anger evident in his voice. He couldn't believe Slade got away again! Again! Suddenly, about 15 of Slade's robots surrounded them. There were about 12 in front of them. Three on their left side. Then even more robots came out, about 4 of them blocking the entrance. Beast Boy looked around them.
"Great. Now what do we do?" Beast Boy said. Well, there was only one logically correct answer to that question.
"We fight." Robin answered, pulling out his collapsible bo-staff with him right hand. The robots started closing in. When they got close enough, Robin issued a command.
"Titans, GO!" he yelled. Each of them went to confront their own robots.
Robin attacked the first robot, throwing it into a second robot behind him. He then went to kick another robot, knocking it aside. A robot charged at him. Robin jumped over it and kicked it in the back, sending it to the floor. While still in the air, he kicked yet another robot and threw his bo-staff at another, slicing across its face. When another went to grab him, he punched it in its face. Another stupid robot charged at him. 'Man, these things really don't learn from their mistakes, do they?' he thought as he jumped over it to kick it in the back. It was sent crashing to the floor. He looked up. His bo-staff was flying back at him. He caught it and he threw it at the robot that was just about to pounce on him from above. It crashed to the floor.
Another 2 robots backed up apprehensively. Cyborg was charging at them, ready to ground them into fertilizer. Then out of nowhere, Robin landed in front of him, kicking the robot on the left and jumping on top of the one to the right.
"Hey! I was gonna do that." Cyborg complained.
Starfire was meanwhile being confronted by 3 of Slade's robots. She raised her hand, making it glow green as she prepared to decimate the robots. Robin again flew out of nowhere, though, kicking aside the first robot. The second robot he somersault flipped into. Then he flipped off the second robot, using his momentum to kick the third and final robot. He landed in a crouch, taking a quick break. But he wouldn't rest. Robin wouldn't rest until Slade was behind bars. He took off again, leaving Starfire staring after him in awe.
Meanwhile, Beast Boy was being surrounded by 4 robots. He yelped when they all pounced on him. He then transformed into a bull. He snorted and moved his hoof back and forth, ready to charge. Robin jumped in front of him just in the nick of time. Using both of his legs, he kicked the two robots in front of him. He then completely dismantled the third robot, a piece flying over to the awed Beast Boy and the last robot. Robin then jumped over BB, using his back as a springboard, and kicked the last robot in the chest. Beast Boy looked after the Boy Wonder, eyes wide with awe
In another part of the warehouse, Raven was about to cast her spell. "Azerath Metroin Zin-*gasp*" She was cut off, however, by Robin, who had jumped in front of her just as she was about to cast her spell. He punched the robot on the left and elbowed the robot on the right in the stomach, bringing it over his shoulder, smashing it to the floor. Robin looked around and took down another robot who was trying to charge him. They had stopped going after the other Titans since Robin was now the main threat. He kicked one robot into a pillar and another into a pile of boxes while Raven looked on, surprised.
Robin jumped up into a support beam, ready to pounce on some of the last few robots. And pounce on them he did. He jumped on the farthest robot, bringing it to the floor. The other two went after him but he brushed them aside, taking off one's head. The Titans, meanwhile, watched the carnage from the wall. They watched in both horror and awe as Robin took down every single robot in the warehouse. On the last robot, he jumped on top of it, hitting it again and again with his bo-staff. The Titans decided to draw the line here.
"Uh...Robin? I think you got it." Cyborg said, trying to bring some rationality into their leader.
No response.
"Yes, please. You may stop now..." Starfire tried, but Robin was still beating the defeated robot. Starfire reached out and stopped his hand. He leveled his fierce glare at her, almost as if she was another enemy.
"We are victorious." Starfire said, leaving out the part where the rest of the Titans didn't do anything, leaving out the part where Robin had gone on a fury-enhanced rampage. Robin stood up, breathing heavily.
"Slade's got his finger on the button and we got nothing! Does that sound like a victory to you?" Robin yelled, his voice having a dark edge to it. None of the Titans said it, but Robin sounded a lot like Slade in that one moment.