A/N: Wow… that took forever. I got it out by a Thursday. :-/… I had prom… and I have graduation, and I'm moving to Florida in like three weeks. Lol it's a busy little month or so. But this chapter is dedicated to CLOVER09… because I think she deserves it. A LOT. Anyway… there will be one more chapter, but there's a little present that'll be included with the chapter. I think you'll enjoy it. At least I think Clover09 will be happy with it. And as long as I'm pleasing someone, I'm fine. Lol.
Ok so this chapter is long, and weird, lots of Ro&SF moments. It's… weird lol, or well interesting. Idk. There were so many breaks in-between writing this, it is weird. Which means I hope you like it, it has its moments. Terra once again, not shown in a pretty light. Next chapter will be out...hopefully by this weekend. Let's pray. I think it will be if not this weekend definitely by Tuesday. Ok, so R&R and I hope you enjoy :).
Raven and Beast boy had some how ended up stairs. Raven watched as the robots walked around, doing casual things. It had been quite empty downstairs, and easier to move around. Not that Beast boy turning into small animals and Raven's black holes didn't help.
"Do you see him?" Raven whispered. Beast boy, who was about six of seven feet ahead, shook his small mouse head.
"Nope. I wonder where the fool is." He whispered half to himself.
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"Ow." Robin whispered harshly as he stopped to examine his hand that had hit something in the vent line. Starfire turned her head and looked at the boy. She shook her head.
"You baby." She mumbled as she continued to crawl along the vent.
Luckily, the vent system, designed after an old model, was fairly large. Robin figured it was a good way to receive information and keep track of her intelligent robots. No doubt you could hear from one room to another.
Robin looked to see Starfire ahead of him by five or six feet. Her red dress had been a cause of a slow crawl through the large vents. Other then the suggestion of taking the dress off, where he was promptly slapped for, and cutting the dress, which he was also denied, Robin couldn't do or say much and every once and a while would land his hand on the dress, making Starfire stare at him, shake her head, and crawl on.
Starfire looked ahead and noticed that it would a good few feet until the next vent opening. She wasn't quite sure what they were over, or under at this point, but she really wanted to get out. She was a bit claustrophobic, not horribly bad where she was seconds from hyperventilating and blowing their cover, but just enough to where she wanted to get out and take a sharp breath of air from a big room. A really, really big room.
She turned her head to see Robin with his mask on and his serious frown. She frowned a bit and looked ahead.
"Thanks for coming to get me." She said, a little tired, a little pained.
"Of course." He said, she could practically feel his teethy smile and excelled ego. Typical male.
"Are the others here?" She pondered more to herself, but that didn't stop him from answering.
"They were on their way, I'm not sure if they're in here or not." Robin said, shrugging. Starfire shook her head. And continued looking forward.
She wasn't angry at Robin. More like, confused, in her own right. The boy had thrown her through a hundred loops. And every time they got close, they seemed to also become so distant. She remembered when she first came here. His loving touch, his soft words, it didn't matter that he was so closed off and unemotional. He was there for her.
When had it changed?
Starfire frowned a bit. When being there wasn't the only thing, she began to desire. As her naive ness died down and her sense of English customs improved so did her knowledge and passion for love. Maybe she wasn't in love with Robin, but damn her if she wasn't close enough too it. She knew, probably as well as he did, if he opened up to her, let her in behind his closed walls, they would be able to have a future together.
Lucky her, she had to fall for the emotionally closed off, distrusting, tall walled leader. She shook her head. Part of her wished he were like Roy, where there was a strand of trust and openness. And the other part was screaming at her for even thinking it. She liked Robin, no matter how emotionally disabled he was.
Maybe one day, he wouldn't be so disabled.
She looked back at him and smiled a bit before coming across the next vent.
Screw it. She loved him.
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Raven and Beast boy sat against the door to a room they had entered; on the other side were twenty, thirty robots. Seems they got word about intruders.
Since the two didn't want to take chances, they were waiting for the robots to dispatch. Or well… just, you know, leave.
"This… is boring." Beast stated.
Raven looked at him and then shook her head. Of all the possible people, she could have been paired up with. However, her thoughts were namely on two things, how to get out of here and Robin. If anything happened to Robin, Starfire would be screwed. Because if she was saved and there was no Robin, it all would have been in vain. And if she wasn't saved because there was no Robin,… everything would be in vain.
Raven shook her head again. 'You can't have one without the other.' She thought sullenly.
"I wonder where Starfire and/or Robin is." Beast boy asked allowed.
"Two unidentified humanoids in the central wing. Take them down!" The two heard from outside the door.
Raven and Beast boy looked at each other. Raven grabbed his hand and they both floated through a black hole.
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His breath was caught in his throat, his hand laid next to her body as their hearts pounded against their chests. Her hair was entangled in his other hand, as her arms were loose around his lower abdomen. His lips were seconds from hers. Their breath in perfect rhythm. Her body fitted against his. If he only had the nerve. If she just tilt her head. If…
"Get off of me, please." Robin looked at Starfire and blushed a wild red. He crawled off and away from her as she sat up dusting her dress, as her olive skin seemed to feign a glow of red.
There was a bat. Not just any old bat. A big, creepy, sharp toothed, bat. And Starfire screamed. Robin freaked. And they ended up entangled together.
It was a sweet sentiment.
"Sorry… you screamed, and I wanted to make sure you were ok, and I didn't mean too, and I'm sorry." Robin rambled on. He was so close to her.
"It's… fine." Starfire said, looking at him a bit. She was so close to him.
"Good." He said, clearing his throat. How many chances did a person get?
"We're over the control room." Starfire whispered as she looked down the vent.
"What do you see?" Robin whispered coming closer.
"Nothing." Starfire said, trying to see more into the room. Robin came closer, trying to also look down. There was a noise. "What was that?"
"I don't know." Robin said looking around, going more towards Starfire. There was another sound. "Where the hell is that coming from?"
"I'm not sure." Starfire said. She looked around. There was the noise again. It was squeaky and rusty. Starfire looked around and then downward. She looked at herself and Robin. Squeak. "Wait a min—"
The vent gave way as the two spiraled together on to the floor, much in the same position as before.
"Ow." Robin said, adjust him so that he was over Starfire, just not on top of her.
"…You know… this isn't fun." Starfire said, coughing a bit. Robin stood up, dusted himself off and then helped Starfire up.
"You think." He replied, looking around.
Starfire glared at him.
Oh, how she just loved him.
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"Dude… duuuude!" Cyborg whispered into his communicator. Speedy was looking past the wall and then turned back to Cyborg.
"There are like… a million freakin' robots!" Speedy whispered. Cyborg looked at him and back at his communicator.
"DUDE!" He whispered loudly.
"I don't think they're going to respond!" Speedy whispered back. Cyborg looked at him.
"I have to keep trying. I mean… we're sort-of surrounded." Cyborg said trying a new channel on the communicator.
"Well… yes… but… I mean…" Speedy looked around the wall and then back at Cyborg. "Keep trying."
"Duuuude…"
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Beast boy's ears perked up as he looked at his belt. His communicator was blinking wildly.
"I knew I should have took it off vibrate." He whispered and then turned it on. "What up?"
"Where the hell have you been?" Cyborg practically shouted into the communicator. "Speedy and me are surround by a few too many robots. Like... really few too many."
"So?" Beast boy said, shrugging. "We have our own problems."
He looked up to see Raven meditating with white eyes and an intense glare.
"And what would they be?" Cyborg asked, un-amused.
"We have to go save Robin and Star. We think they are being surrounded and attacked by ro—" Beast boy paused and then smiled sheepishly. "Oh."
"…I swear to—"
"Where are you?" Beast Boy asked, ready to run.
"North west of the entrance. Be stealthy. These things are a killer." Beast boy nodded and shut the communicator off.
"Ok babe, let's go." He gently knocked into Raven and began running towards Cyborg's and Speedy's position. Raven eyes went from white to normal to intense black.
"Did you just call me babe?"
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Starfire stood close to Robin as they walked around the empty halls of the evil mansion.
The control room had turned out to be, bad. Neither knew how to use the technology, nor the systems. So, instead of screwing up the machine and causing a scene the two decided to try to find their friends.
"Hey!" Starfire whispered, angrily as Robin stepped on her dress. Robin turned around and glared at her.
"Maybe if you weren't following so close I would step on the stupid thing!" He whispered harshly back.
Time to themselves, in a dangerous situation, had proven to be most unpleasant.
Starfire stared at him. She was about to open her mouth when Robin looked at her, down to her legs, and with a quick swift, the dress was no longer to the floor but rather torn near the knees.
"Robin!" She whispered, upset, angry, ready to kill.
"Deal with it!" He said, and went back to walking quietly down the corridors.
Starfire look down at her dress and frowned a bit, beginning to follow her leader. That was until a glove hand wrapped around her arm.
"Robin!" It was impulsive, but it worked. It always worked.
Robin turned around and looked to see his best friend no longer standing, but rather being dragged away.
"Star!" He quickly threw himself grabbing on to her other arm. The gloved hand revealed himself as one of Terra's robotic lackeys. "Let go of her."
The robotic man gave a crooked smile and stared at Robin as if he was about to win a war.
"No."
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Raven had formed a huge bubble over Cyborg, Beast boy, Speedy, and herself. And at this point…
It wasn't doing much.
"Why is it always some kind of psychotic master mind out for revenge? Why can't it ever be the nice little old ladies who just want emancipation for the stereotypical roles of society!" Beast boy shouted, as he stood underneath the bubble, not able to do much.
"Now, where's the fun in that?" Cyborg said as his sonic blaster went through the bubble barely affecting the robot.
"I hate you!" Speedy shouted as he shot his arrows.
"Oh yes, they really care if you hate them!" Raven said, trying heavily to keep her bubble from bursting.
Beast boy's communicator went off. He picked it up and slightly glared at a disheveled Robin.
"What?"
"I need a little help here." Robin said. Beast boy looked at him and then turned the communicator around to show Robin the mess they were up against. He turned it back around and glared at Robin.
"Guess what… we do too."
"Oh… well… um…" Robin looked from the communicator to something off to the side.
Suddenly a black hole formed next to Beast boy. He looked up to see Raven looking at him, short of breath and looking very tired.
"Go…" Beast boy gave a small smile.
"Don't beat them without me." He smirked. And for the first time, in months, Raven smiled, a bit, and then went back to staring at the demonic robots.
Beast didn't hesitate. He was through the hole and soon standing in front of Robin.
"Let's kick some Robot butt!" Robin looked at him, holding Starfire and looking like he had just had a vicious battle. Beast looked behind him to see a destroyed robot in a pile. "Whoa."
Starfire stood up straight and looked past Beast boy.
"Hold your breath boys… it's going to be a bumpy ride." Starfire said, standing in a fighting pose. Beast boy looked at her weirdly and then over his shoulder.
Just in time to see fifteen or so robots advancing towards the three.
"Oh my god."
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"I'm glad it's coming well." Terra smiled as she talked on the phone. A robot entered the room and stood straight for the young heiress. "I have to be off… just some business to attend too." She nodded to the robot as she hung up the phone.
"We have captured the intruders m'lady." The robot bowed. Terra had a wicked smile on her face. She pushed back a few strands of hair from her face and stood up in her black jeans and a pink tank top that had the word Evil written with red glitter on it. She straightened her black hat and smiled at the robot.
"Well… lead me too them."
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"I'm not joking Terra, where is she?" Robin screamed as he stood behind tall bars.
"Calm down Robin, Jesus. She's safe and sound in her own little room." Terra shook her head and smiled as she paced in front of the prisons. She smirked a little at Beast boy and Raven. And then waved a bit to Speedy and Cyborg. However, her focused stayed on Robin.
"If you touch one hair on her head I swear Terra, I'll kill you." Robin said, not as loud and deathly calm.
"Don't be so dramatic. I'm not going to kill her… yet. I mean, there's still a lot to do. I want revenge Robin, not just her head on a platter."
"…He deserved it. You know he did Terra, you know he did." Robin said, calmly.
"He did not." Terra said glaring at the boy wonder. "What would you know? You don't even know how to be close. The only person who'll give you everything she has is about to be put on the death sentence." Terra turned around and stalked away.
"I really hate her." Robin whispered as he paced around the cell.
"Join the club." Raven stated meditating. Robin simply looked at her.
"God I just wish I knew what was going on with her." Robin said leaning against the bars. "Can you sense her?"
"She's fine… for now."
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Starfire sat on the window seat, un-amused. She played with the fray edges of her dress. She really did like the dress, for an evil psycho, Terra had beautiful things. Ruined, of course, by the swift hand of a male, but beautiful none-the-less.
She sighed as she looked out into the bushy forest. The bright green trees, the brilliant blue sky. So blue it sparkled like crystals as the sunrays took over. Starfire laid her head gently upon her knees.
It had been a long two weeks. Robin's birthday was…today.
Starfire shook her head, how the hell did two days pass already.
Oh. Right.
Being trapped in a mansion and fighting off a psychotic heiress and her league of robots. Duh.
Starfire placed her hand on the window. This could possible be her last day on Earth, or anywhere for that matter. Damn her if she has fun.
"So, Princess Koriand'r, how's your stay at Le Hotel de Terre?" Terra smiled as she walked in and smiled.
"Seriously… go to hell." Starfire said and turned back to the window. Terra just smirked.
"Very un-lady like, you know." Terra smiled. "Now I think you should be changing. There's an outfit in the dresser. You have a big party to attend. Terra swept out of the room locking the door.
Starfire sneered a bit but then looked back out the window. However, her curiosity was peaked. She got up and opened the tall armoire. She looked at the beautiful purple outfit.
"She really does have good taste."
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Robin struggled against the robots as they held the titans above in a balcony. Terra was down a bit and smile, waving to them.
"Enjoy the show up there! You guys have the best seats in the house."
"Shut up!" Beast boy yelled down to her, she smiled, shrugged, and went back to looking at the empty field.
Robin, Raven, BB, Cyborg, and Roy sat on the balcony, the door locked and they were thirty feet in the air. Who really want to try and escape?
"What the hell is she doing?" Raven said, looking over the railing.
"Ladies and gentlemen!" A robotic voice sounded over the open field. "A battle to the death!"
"What?" The five titans said all together, confused, scarred.
"Starfire has a chance to… save herself, if you will." Terra smirked evilly. As Starfire walked into the field her hair in a ponytail, the purple tank top clinging to her body as the fluttery skirt danced in the wind, and her purple sneakers with the ankle white socks. She looked just as confused as the rest of the titans. "Starfire is to go against a new proto type. If she wins… your free… to certain limits of course. And well, if you don't win… well fight to the death." Terra and her lackeys laughed.
Starfire looked at Terra, mouth ajar, eyes glassed over. She turned her head sharply to see a tall, regal, looking man in a pair of track pants and a white wife beater. He had messy blonde hair, sharp blue eyes, and an intense smile. He was gorgeous. And other then the fact he was designed to kill Starfire there was that underlining attraction.
"Whoa." Beast boy said, looking at the robotic man. "He looks so… real."
"Let the battle… begin!"
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"Ow!" Starfire screamed as she fell to the ground, again. Her hair was coming undone as her clothes were covered in filth and dirt. There were little tears here and there, and scratched on her shoulders, one or two on her face. A burn mark right on her arm where she had just been hit.
Robin was livid. He was contemplating jumping from a thirty-foot balcony. The other titans were forbidden from using their powers or Starfire would be killed insistently. Robin shook his head as Starfire went down. Maybe, maybe, she had gotten in two to three good hits.
"This is so much fun!" Terra giggled. Robin had had enough. He watched as Starfire struggled against the advance robot. She was becoming tired and her body looked torn and broken.
"What's the probability that I can jump from the balcony and not break or kill myself?" He whispered to Raven.
"You're a bird, not a cat." Raven said, staring at him. "You'll get yourself, and possible Starfire, killed."
"She's getting killed now!" Robin whispered hastily to Raven who glared at Robin. They saw a wave of green light hit the robot, but it did little to no damage to him.
They heard Starfire swearing and then jumping out of the way of a blue blast.
"Screw it." Robin whispered and before another thing could be muttered, he flew off the balcony.
"What is he doing?" Cyborg screwed, and for a moment, the battle stopped, and everyone turned to see and diving robin, flying from the balcony.
"…flying…" Beast boy muttered.
Robin did a few flips and landed on his knee, right foot, and right hand. He scrunched up his face and then looked at Terra.
"New game." Terra looked at him, waving her hand for him to continue. "I fight Mr. Blue eyes, and you let Starfire go."
"No!" Starfire shouted from her position on the ground.
Terras looked at Robin and then at Starfire, and then back at Robin. "Hmm… killing my enemy's boyfriend. Has it's own ring of revenge around it." Terra smiled. "If you win Starfire goes free… and you become my person slave. And if you lose, well, good bye in advance."
"Robin! No!" Starfire screamed as two Robots dragged her to the sidelines. Kicking a screaming.
Robin turned to see the tall man, smiling evilly. He was about a foot taller then Robin, and had more defined muscles. Robin smirked as his brain worked quickly.
He did a low kick and then swung his bird rope around the blonde's legs.
"You're messing with the wrong girl." Robin sneered as he did a flying kick to the robot's head.
"You're messing with the wrong man." It happened in a second, there was no time to think, to breathe, to even speak.
Robin was on the ground in a heap as the robot slid his legs from the rope. Robin glared at the robot as he slowly made his way up.
However, he was back on the ground in a few seconds. There was a burn mark on his leg. He was having issues standing up.
"Robin!" Starfire shouted, but was still being held back.
"I'm fine!" He shouted back and rolled over, getting up quickly, allowing a rush of pain to take over his body. He looked at the robot who smirked.
"It's very endearing, seeing you fight for something such as her." The robot smirked. Robin, clenched his teeth and jumped up flipping over the Robot and hitting his back. "Is that all you got? A little push?"
Robin smirked as he tried keeping his weight on his left leg. "I have a few more surprises up my sleeves. He turned to see Raven and Beast boy battling it out with the robots holding Starfire. And then to Cyborg and Speedy who were in their own private battle.
Robin's face lit up as the robot began to move spontaneously. "What the hell?"
"It's a little trick I learned from the first psychopath." Robin smiled as he held up a red-X.
"What did you do to me?" The Robot began stuttering.
"Rearranging your system." Robin smirked. Starfire flew over to him. The robot flickering on and off having ridged spasms.
"Where did you…?" Starfire began. Robin looked at her.
"I don't when I landed something fell out of my back utility pocket. I don't how it got there I thought I got rid of all of them. It's almost as if someone…"
"Placed it in there for you." Raven said, coming over, helping the boy wonder up. The robots were backing down as Terra grew furious.
"You put it in for me?" Robin asked, leaning more towards Raven, since both him and Starfire were both weak.
"Yeah, I found one a few days ago. Think of it as a surprise present."
"Thank you." Robin said gratefully.
"Why? WHY THE HELL CAN'T YOU LET ME WIN?" Terra screamed. They turned to her. Starfire looked at her angrily.
"Because you're the bad guy!" Starfire shouted back. Terra shook her head and screamed. She then pulled out a futuristic looking gun.
"I deserve to win!" Terra shot the gun, Starfire was pushed out of the way as Robin was hit.
"Robin!"
"No!"
Starfire rushed over to Robin. He smiled at her as the titans went for Terra.
"I won." He smiled a bit.
"Yeah. We're calling an ambulance. Don't worry." Starfire said, hugging the boy wonder.
"Star." Robin began closing his eyes.
"Yes?"
"I love you."
