A/N: I think you'll enjoy this chapter a lot. R/SF like no tomorrow. Haha. Now… I'm not good with fight scenes, I'm an extreme girlie girl…so if the fight is… let's say… bad, just smile and nod, ok. And for the fight scene… well technically I gave Starfire a new power and Terra… once again bad light. So just, smile a nod. This chapter is a little more A/U then the first two chapters. Especially the "betrayal" scene, that's from my own head. So don't expect it to be ANYTHING like the comic book or TV show. Ok, R&R and ENJOY!!!
Some notes: I really don't like Terra… there's just… something that bothers me about her. I'm sure it's because I'm a R/BB fan…and because… well… I kinda knew from the first time she appeared she wasn't gonna be a good character. And thanks to ALL those who reviewed. You guys are the GREATEST! ;)
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The titans looked at the blonde bombshell. She was smirking, with her hands on her hips, and her hair blowing slightly in the wind.
"What are you doing here?" Raven asked, stepping up, her eyes burning a deep crimson.
"You know… travel a little here, get some advance weaponry there, and now, back at home." Terra had a smug smile, as she lazily shrugged her shoulders.
"We destroyed you." Starfire said, standing behind Robin.
"No, you thought you destroyed me. I'm a girl of many talents." Terra smiled and leaned back on her heels. "You know, it was bigger last year, the park was gigantic. Not so large anymore."
"What do you want?" Beast boy asked, still behind Raven, Robin, and Starfire, but his tone suggested patience and silent anger.
"What do I want? What do I want?" Terra almost sang to herself. "You killed my mentor, my master… I suppose I would want revenge." Terra mused, placing her hand on her chin. "But there has to be more… I never did things… tiny. I like… big and loud."
"Will you cut it out with the mind games?" Robin asked, standing straight up. "We're not here to play."
"I'm not either." Terra's face scrunched up, as she gently slammed her foot on the ground. However, she quickly regained her "Zen" attitude and leaned on her heels again. "I'm just here to warn you. I will get my revenge… you destroyed a great man."
Terra smiled, as a piece of land lifted from the ground, she began to float.
"And also to tell you that I'm not going away till I win and you're all dead. And for the record, I only play to win." She laughed suddenly, floating to the sky.
"Titans G—" Robin started but was interrupted by Raven. "What?"
"It's no use… right now. She already caught us by surprise, she's expecting you're impulsiveness to take over. We'll deal with later."
Robin was about to open his mouth when he felt a hand upon his shoulder. He turned to see Starfire with a half smile.
"Come on, let's go home… see if we can come up with anything." Robin didn't argue and allowed Starfire to drag him by the arm.
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Speedy and Cyborg were ahead of the group, talking about who Terra and Slade were.
Raven and Beast boy were somewhat behind them. Beast boy talking about… something, and Raven nodding.
Robin and Starfire were behind the other four. Starfire was still holding on to the boy wonder's arm.
"Star?" Robin asked, looking down at the girl.
"Uh huh?" She mumbled.
"Remember that day… when we defeated Slade?"
"Yeah?" She looked at him curiously.
"What… where did you get the power to… do it?"
Starfire looked at him. "I…I…"
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"Patience is a virtue; I thought I taught you that already." Slade stood in front of the Titans, his arms crossed, a look of glee in his eyes. "When will you learn Robin?"
"I'll never learn anything from you!" Robin shouted, he was a little younger, maybe a few inches shorter. He had his bo-staff out; he was seething anger.
"Oh, but you already have." Slade jumped up and went into a battle with Robin.
As the Titans began to advance on the two they were surrounded by Slade's minions.
"Oh come on!" Cyborg grumbled as he began blasting them.
"You know… I liked it better when Slade was in hiatus!" Beast boy yelled as he transformed into a lion and began clawing at the butch robots.
Starfire was shooting star bolts, green energy from her eyes, and kicking, but her mind was focused on Robin and from the corner of her eye, she saw him be flung to the other side of the warehouse.
"Robin." She whispered; her attention distracted. She didn't even see the sift kick from the robotic minion.
"Starfire!" Robin shouted, as he saw the girl fall. Right before Starfire hit the ground a black realm bubble surrounded her and floated her to the ground. Robin looked to Raven, who signaled to him that Starfire would be ok.
Robin suddenly turned to the man in front of him. Anger cascading off the younger boy. With a surprise, impulsive attack Robin was going at Slade full-force.
Raven was looking over Starfire behind some large beams that sat on the ground.
"Thank god, she's ok." Raven let out a held breath.
"RAVEN!" She shot up, and turned in the direction of her name. She was met with Beast boy and Cyborg facing off with a very pissed off, soaking wet, Terra.
"How dare you attempt to drown me?!" Terra shouted, suddenly swarming the boys with rocks and cement flooring.
Raven jumped from the beams and stood about three feet from the boys, putting up a black barricade.
"Azarath, Metrion, Xinthos!" The bubble grew bigger, and began shooting its own power source at Terra.
"Not this time Raven!" Terra spat. She used a giant rock to protect herself, and then broke it into a million different pieces all aimed at the three.
Raven strengthened the bubbled, losing her own amount of power.
"How can we help?' Cyborg asked, touching Raven's shoulder gently.
"Direct all your anger, hatred, happiness, any feeling, at me… I'll be able to use the extra energy." Cyborg and Beast Boy looked at the girl and began directing their energy for her, well they both held on to one of her shoulders and thought thoughts that they assumed would help.
Starfire sat up, her head hurting her. She looked from behind the beams to see Terra and her friends. She tried to bring up some type star bolt but she still wasn't rejuvenated.
She turned to see Robin battling the crazed man. Slade was fighting just as hard as Robin, but every few seconds Robin would suddenly up his fight, gaining a few seconds advantage. Starfire noticed that Robin's entire attention was not directed towards Slade, but rather some of it was on her.
Starfire watched as Robin threw punches, kicks, anything, and Slade blocked it, or when he did get it was up just as fast. Her attention turned from the boy wonder to her three friends.
It was no longer Terra against the titans; it was Terra vs. Raven, head on.
The two mystical girls were seething with hatred and anger at each other. Raven was being ruthless, and Terra was on the brink of madness. As Robin had been preoccupied with Starfire, for those few seconds, Terra was preoccupied with Slade. Starfire was about to surprise attack, hopefully buying some time for her friends. Until a screamed interrupted her mind-set.
She turned to see Robin on the ground, Slade standing over him, one foot on his chest. Starfire's eyes began to turn a brilliant green. She turned to the two men.
Beast Boy and Cyborg began to look at the Slade and Robin battle, but Raven and Terra were still head on, nothing seemed to take them from their own skeletons in the closet.
Robin was breathing haggardly, as Slade's face illuminated victory and glee.
"I told you, boy. I would win. I only play to win. Now, my prize. A new apprentice." Slade was ready to pick Robin up by the collar, his victorious glint shinning brighter.
"Over my dead body." Both men turned to see the Tamarian princess standing about five feet from them. Her eyes were a magnificent emerald green, her hands were enveloped in a green energy, her voice was calm and challenging. She smirked evilly and then allowed a stream of limber energy waves to attack Slade.
He was hit directly in the chest and fell backwards. Robin made a note to ask Starfire what she was doing. It wasn't her usual star bolt; it was a stream of green energy that seemed to still be coming from her body. It was wrapping itself around Slade, burning his body.
Starfire stopped the stream and suddenly began throwing star bolts at the man who was lying, almost dead, about three yards from herself and Robin. Robin at some point had managed to crawl behind Starfire. Starfire couldn't seem to stop the vicious attack, which was burning against her body.
"I hate you!" She screamed.
Finally, with an angst scream Slade laid life-less on the ground. Starfire still couldn't bring herself to stop attacking the face-less man.
Terra spun around, having heard her mentor's scream. "No!" Suddenly she was hit with a wave of black energy that sent her flying towards the masked man. She slid into his burned body, where she lied, cradled against him. Seemingly dead.
Starfire was about to blast both of them, when she felt a warm hand on her shoulder. She turned to see Robin with a look of understanding and passion.
"It's ok." He said softly. Starfire turned to see the bloody man and the fragile girl. However, her eyes lingered on the burned man, the perfect stillness that he was radiating. Starfire turned back to Robin and looked at him with guilt. And then she cried, harder then she probably ever had or ever would. Robin took her in his arms and allowed her to cry into his shoulder.
"Their dead?" Cyborg asked coming behind the two. Robin looked past Starfire at the two lying bodies.
"Yeah." Robin said softly.
"We should get them home." Robin turned to see Raven lying lifelessly in Beast Boy's arms, had her chest not been moving, slowly, up and down Robin would assume she was dead.
"Come on." Robin said, gently picking Starfire up so that she was cradled in his arms and against his body, crying heavily. Beast boy watched Robin leave and then looked at Terra. He shook his head and tightened his grip on Raven, following Robin. Cyborg didn't even want to look at the two, and simply turned and followed the other four. As he walked out, he received a chill. He shook it off, shutting the warehouse door.
Slade and Terra laid dead on the ground. That is, until Terra's ice blue eyes opened suddenly.
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"I… guess… I just couldn't bare the thought of you as his apprentice." Starfire smiled and look down at Robin's hand, as she played with his fingers. "I couldn't bare to lose you again."
Robin smiled and took her hand in his. Starfire smiled. She leaned a bit closer to him.
"Starfire… I—"
"STAR!" The two looked ahead to see Speedy waving over to Starfire. "Want to walk with me and Cyborg? I want to hear about all the cool adventures you guys have encountered."
Starfire smiled somewhat, and began walking towards the boy. She stopped and looked at Robin who was holding her hand tighter.
"I'll talk to you later." She gave him a dazzling smile. "I have to be a good hostess."
Robin let go of her hand, and watched as she walked over to Speedy who began asking a million questions and then put his arm around her shoulder.
Robin growled slightly, and then looked to see Raven watching him, a look of pity, evident in her eyes.
"It's nothing." Robin said. This caused Beast boy to look back at him as well.
"Sure, it's nothing at all." Beast boy gave Robin a half smile then looked at Raven, and then went back to looking forward.
Robin growled again.
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Robin and Beast boy were in the "office" system room, running searches for Terra. So far, they hadn't come up with much. There were no criminal activities that involved her profile.
"It's like she disappeared, and then came back." Robin said, trying another search.
Beast boy was leaning back in the chair, looking at a picture of Terra from two years ago; it was on their database of criminals
"Beast boy?" Robin asked for the third time. Beast boy looked up and gave a half smile.
"Sorry." He mumbled. Robin looked at him.
They had both changed into "regular" clothes. It was close to three in three in the morning. The girls were sleeping; Cyborg and Speedy were looking through random articles in the living room. So far, they hadn't discovered anything.
"Why don't you go sleep?" Robin said, as he closed another search page, with no results.
"No, no, I'm ok." Beast boy smiled and went back to typing.
"She… looked different." Robin said as he looked over a search result.
"Yeah, more evil." Beast boy said. Robin looked at him.
"I thought we killed her."
"You should have let Starfire finish them off. That last shot would have done it." Beast boy said, skimming one of the pages.
"I didn't think they needed that last shot." Robin shrugged.
"They ALWAYS need that last shot." Beast boy mused. "You know what… I am tired. And if the psychotic chick decides to attack tomorrow, we can't have the girls doing all the work. Night."
"Night." Robin watched as the green boy walked out of the system room. Robin shook his head and went back to searching.
He began to search some more, but nothing was coming up, he was getting desperate.
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An hour or so had passed, and he had come across an article that looked like it could help them. He looked at the clock it was around four in the morning. He growled a bit, he was somewhat tired but this was way too important.
"Shouldn't you be asleep?" Robin turned to see Starfire in the doorway. She was wearing a pair of baby blue pajamas. Her red hair was in a ponytail, she smiled softly.
"Shouldn't I be asking YOU that?" Robin smiled as he leaned back in his chair. He'd take a break, just for a few minutes.
"I heard a noise." Starfire shrugged and sat on the chair Beast boy had occupied earlier.
"What was it?" Robin asked, getting in protector mode.
"Don't worry; it was Cyborg falling off the couch. He and Speedy fell asleep." Starfire laughed a bit. Robin smiled.
"It was late." Robin stretched up a bit. Starfire shrugged a bit.
"More like rather early." Robin chuckled a bit. He looked and smiled as he saw Starfire staring at him.
"What?" He asked, smirking.
"Nothing." Starfire stood up and kneeled in front of him, her elbows standing on his thighs. She looked up at him. "Why are you always wearing those things?"
Robin gently touched his glasses. "I don't know."
Starfire smiled and slowly began taking them off.
"Star…"
"Shh…" She took them off and tossed them to the floor. "You have amazing eyes." She gently took his face in her hands, as she stood up and looked him deep in the eyes.
"You do too." He smiled, as she faintly blushed. He smiled and wrapped his arms around her waist bringing her down on his lap. She giggled a bit.
He looked at her, her beautiful eyes, cute little nose, and soft lush lips. He leaned in and kissed her passionately. Starfire didn't object.
They pulled apart; Starfire was as red as a rose in bloom. Robin smiled and kissed her lightly on the lips.
"I love you." He whispered softly.
"I love you too." Starfire kissed his forehead. "Robin?"
"Yes…" He smiled.
"Wake up."
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Robin opened his eyes to see Starfire looking at him, her hand on his shoulder, a worried expression on her face.
"Star?" He mumbled groggily.
"Did you sleep in here all night? Jeez, you're as bad as Cyborg and Roy, they fell asleep on news paper, I swear Beast boy is the smartest of you four." She shook her head.
Robin looked her over she was in a pair of pink plaid pajamas and a pink long-sleeves pajama shirt. He then looked at the clock; it was already ten in the morning.
"Is everything ok?" He asked, sitting up. His neck and back were a mess; he couldn't believe he fell asleep on the computer.
"Yes, everything's fine." Starfire smiled slightly. She looked over at the screen.
"We couldn't find anything last night. I guess today is going to be dedicated to finding information about Terra." Robin mumbled, leaning back.
"What about this?" Robin looked at the screen, to the article Starfire was pointing too,
"What about it?" Robin asked, confused.
"Quote: It's being rumored that French millionaire Tyler Blanquette has sold his advance software to a new heiress from America. Not a word on who the new heiress is, however the price for the software fell into the millions. No one knows what a young heiress would want such an advance computer software, that not only enhances the artificial intelligence of man-made robots, but also helps them maintain a human posture and fighting technique. Blanquette was to sell the technology to the French government to be further advance, but he was reported to have said "She made me an offer, I couldn't refuse." Blanquette is neither sorry nor cares about the technology, he was actually happy to have it rid from his hands. : End quote. Seems Terra-ish to me." Starfire said.
Robin skimmed the article and smiled. He began to print the newspaper, "This is exactly the lead we needed!" He jumped up and kissed Starfire on the lips quickly. "You're a genius!" He grabbed the paper and rushed out.
"You're welcome?" Starfire stated, confused.
