Ridiculously Romantic

"How dare he threaten her!" Robin snarled in the darkness of his room. "How could he! This is between me and him, how dare he!" He muttered evilly.

Robin was pounding on his desk, throwing bird-a-rangs and freeze disks against the wall. "Who is Slade?!" Throwing himself down in frustration, he held his head, trying to remember what his face looked like.

Reaching up on the table flat for Slade's mask with his hand, Robin felt a crumbled piece of paper. "What's this?" He asked. Taking in the sight of the paper, he remembered that Devion had dropped off the piece of parchment.

It was the puzzle about Robin's dream. One dream. Two words, one name. Two + three letters = five. What does it equal? Robin pondered this. What did Slade mean by that? How could have he had known about Robin's dream?

Robin stood back up and reached for his folder of latest events. Going through the newspaper headings, he found what he was looking for. Half of the brown rusty paper was ripped and crumbled, but Robin didn't care. He kept on reading.

'HEADLINE NEWS

Descrow kills Wife

Slaten Descrow, age 34, murdered his wife Molly Descrow, age 33, on December 15th, 1994. Acts of rage and suspicion caused Descrow to do such a horrible homicidal crime. Suspicion was that Molly had committed adulterated acts with Gotham City's millionaire playboy, Bruce Wayne.

Wayne, CEO of Wayne Enterprises denied any sexual and emotional contact with the beautiful Molly. She was simply a worker for Wayne and nothing more. True, they were good friends, but had no feelings for each other in romance.

Descrow's son, Robin, age 6, will be placed in the hands of Wayne, due to the fact that Molly had had a judge declare it was legal for Wayne to adopt Robin if something were to happen. And something happened indeed.

Slaten Descrow will be charged with homicidal acts and illegal creations of technology. His hearing for a sentence to death will be January 18th, 1995. Until then, he will be locked away in prison, and won't be seeing the light.
-(Writer and reporter) Josh Hinduts.'

Scanning across the paper, he noticed that at the bottom, it said that the writing continued on the next page. Problem was, there was no next page. Where could someone go to find past clips in the headline?

"The library." Robin whispered. "Later though, I need to finish writing down my dream." He picked up the pencil that lay forgotten for sometime and started writing.

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The Teen Titan Tower was almost completely clean, except for the furniture. The couches and chairs needed to be picked up and pillows needed to be put back where they came from.

Beast boy, Raven and Cyborg had all left early to the movies and explained to the early riser that they would be back around six. Starfire had asked why they were going to stay out so long; they had told her that they had things to do after words. Being gullible one she was, she smiled and let them pass with out suspicion.

"Why would Slade dig through out our home, and never take one thing? Perhaps he was looking for something." Starfire mumbled to herself, putting pillows back on the couch.

"If he did not wish to take something, why would he ruin our home? We never went and ruined his home!" She growled. After the tower was clean and the last pillow was thrown on the couch, she threw herself on the couch as well in sadness.

"He has to ruin everything." She whimpered. 'Robin.' She sighed in her mind. Her eyes glistened and threatened to shower with tears. She closed them and held them back. "I wonder what it is he is doing to entertain himself so."

Getting up and walking to Robin's room, she stopped dead when she saw something move from behind in the reflection of the mirror. She didn't dare turn around, but glanced behind her slowly.

"Robin." She whispered.

No response.

"Robin, is that you?" Starfire turned around, and gasped in horror. Ten or fifteen ninja's were surrounding her and the exit. "I do not know why it is you are here, but you have no welcome in doing so!" She snarled, raising off the ground and gathering green starbolts.

Two to three ninja's ran after her, but she easily dodged them, throwing her energy bolts at them, causing them to roll to the ground. Suddenly, five ninjas attacked and forced her to the ground.

She managed a squeal and hit the floor, ninjas piling on her.

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"Jeez Starfire, keep it down in there." Robin muttered, oblivious to the fact that his best friend was getting beat up on. Another squeal came and Robin was getting impatient.

He slammed his door open and stepped out. "Starfire, whatever it is your doing, cut it out!" He yelled. His jaw dropped instantly when he took in the sight.

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Starfire's eyes turned a dangerous green underneath all the ninja's and she let out an earth-shaking scream. All the ninja's that were piled on her, went flying off as a large green firebolt bubbled up and threw them off of her.

Starfire was panting hard on the ground and Robin came running towards her. "Starfire, are you," Another swarm of ninjas came attacking, but Robin threw his bird-a-rangs at them. "Okay?"

Starfire couldn't speak, she was in too much shock. Robin helped her up and took over. He was backing up and throwing everything at the baddies trying to get to them.

Out of nowhere, more ninjas were bursting into the tower and were filling up the tower's living room. Robin and Starfire were out numbered two to like fifty and were backing up slowly.

When they reached the wall, they noticed the ninjas making a space in the middle of their surrounding circle. A woman dressed in her usual alien suit, consisting of a blackish purplish short skirt and shirt and metallic coverings, made her way through the ninjas.

She was also wearing a deep purple trench coat with a silver 'S' badge on it and thigh high laced up high heels instead of her usual boots. Her hair, instead of down, was up in a high ponytail with little curls hanging everywhere.

"She looks like a, um, Slut." Starfire searched for a better word, but only that came up. "Am I correct." She whispered to Robin.

Robin nodded as the woman in front of them started laughing. "Starfire, little sister! How good it is to see you." She walked over to her and touched her face. She turned to Robin and gave him a seductive grin.

"Robin, you are looking more handsome than ever." She leaned in and kissed his nose. Starfire's eyes stared down at her feet. She remembered when Blackfire had kissed Robin, and Robin had said that he had never intended to kiss her back.

"Cut the shit Blackfire, what do you want." Robin snarled, feeling the guilt in his heart because of Star.

"Why Robin, what everyone wants." She paused and glanced around. "You."

Robin snorted. "Well you can't have me. Why are you here with Slade's idiotic robot ninjas?"

Blackfire sighed dramatically. "Because," She turned back to them and glared evilly, "He wants Starfire!" She screeched wickedly and grabbed Star before any of them knew what was going on.

Starfire felt herself being pulled in front of Blackfire and resisted. She held a small firebolt in her hand and threw in Blackfire's face. "Not this time sister!" She yelled. "I am no longer weak as you portray me to be!" She ran back to Robin's side and readied two more bolts of green energy.

Blackfire screamed in agony and motioned for the ninjas to attack. At once, the ninjas swarmed in on the two. "Where are the other titans!" Robin growled as he and Starfire fought their way for safety.

"Our friends," She threw a starbolt. "Went to the movies and ran some errands!"

Robin snarled. "Why is it that they are always gone when something bad always go down." Starfire sighed. He was being a jerk right now.

"They needed to escape from this emotion tense tower." She struggled to say, as she kicked a ninja robot about to punch her.

"Oh how delightful!" He said sarcastically, casting another freeze disk at the ninjas. Starfire rolled her eyes; she was getting really fed up with his actions right now.

Ten ninjas jumped towards them and managed to punch Robin in the face hard enough to throw him to the ground. "Robin!" Starfire screamed. Another robotic ninja started kicking him in the ribs.

"Stop it right this minute!" Starfire yelled, punching, kicking, and throwing her firebolts, anything to get them away from him. Two ninja's dressed in gray, instead of their usual black, held Starfire back.

She tried getting away, but they were much stronger than Robin and her put together. The five ninjas kicking Robin, stopped and held his limp body up, making him stare at Starfire's struggling body.

Wicked laughing echoed the tower as Slade came into view. He held something behind his back and walked towards the two-trapped teens. Robin snarled.

"Slade!"

"Good evening Robin. How good it is to see you." He chuckled. Blackfire was grinning from head to toe in the background. She held on to her left eye from the explosion that Starfire had given her.

"What do you want!?" He yelled.

"What I always wanted." He grinned. "You."

"You say that, and I always give you the same answer. NO."

"Dear Robin, I may want you, but it is you I do not want now." Slade snickered. "I told you, you will come to me willingly. And the only way is to," He paused and showed the object he had in his hands.

It was an injector needle filled with bright orange goo swirled in with green liquid. He shot out a little bit and the goo went flying to the ground. It burned a small whole in the carpet. Robin snapped his head back up at Slade from the ground.

He shoved the needle in Starfire's neck and listened as she screamed. "Take what is most valuable to you." He ejected the needle and threw it to the side. Robin struggled with all his might to get free and help Star, but there were too many ninjas holding him back.

He watched as Starfire's body went limp in the gray ninja's arms and faint. "Starfire!" He called. Her eyes were closed but she seemed to be breathing regularly.

"What did you do to her?!" Robin growled. He stomped on the robot's foot and ran towards Slade. He was almost there when a gray ninja held him back. "Tsk, Tsk, Tsk." Slade shook his finger. "You should know better than that Robin." Robin was seething.

Slade took Starfire from the ninja's arms and held her in his own. "It is a rare bug's poison from her planet. It stops her powers for a short period of time, but this time around, I used more than the orange goo. I put in my own creation."

"And what would that be!"

"It's called AL." Slade's eye grew wide with excitement as he saw Robin's confused face. "It's mixed with amnesia liquid."

"Amnesia?" Robin said unbelievingly. "You stole her memories away from her!" Slade had gone too far!

"Yes, and only I know the ingredient to get her back from her painful state. And I believe you know what to do if you want her to go back to how she was." Slade put Starfire's unconscious body over his shoulder and grabbed a little ball from his pocket.

"I'll see you later." He said in his usual sexy tone. He was about to throw the ball, when Cyborg, Raven and Beast boy came running into the room.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa!!" Cyborg said, instantly turning out his sonic cannon. "What's going on here?"

Raven flew up and said her magical words, causing her black swirl to fly towards the ninjas holding Robin. With out an okay response from Slade, the robotic ninjas zapped out of there.

"I'll be waiting Robin. Remember, patience is a virtue." With that, he threw his ball down, causing smoke to swallow the living room. Beast boy, who was a ram, tried ramming Slade, but instead rammed the wall.

He was thrown back by the force and shook his head. "Ow!" The teens ran to their friend.

"Robin are you okay!?" Cyborg asked. "Where's Starfire? Did Slade kidnap her again, do you think She'll be okay?" Raven silenced him with her powers.

"Enough." She said. Raven turned towards Robin. "Are you okay?"

Robin looked pale. "He took her."

"Dude, your face is pale!" Beast boy said. "Are you going to be alright?"

"He jammed a needle filled with poison in her neck, and took her."

"We'll get her back Robin, don't worry!" Cyborg said. "We will start looking right now if we have to."

Robin turned towards his room and glared. "Not now, I have things to do." He grabbed his coat and ran into his room.

"Oh lord! He isn't going to cry in his room now is he?" Beast boy said outraged. Raven gave him an ice-shattering glare.

Robin ran out of his room with a large green folder and out the Titan Tower door. "What was that about?" Raven asked. Cyborg and Beast boy could only shake their head out of cluelessness.

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