Author's Notes: All right, everyone, thank you so much for all the great reviews! Here is the last segment of the flashbacks. But please stick with me, this isn't the end! There's one more chapter coming…
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Cyborg found Robin in Starfire's room, tearing through her beloved scrapbook that she had been working on since her arrival on Earth. He was ripping out every photo of Terra that he could find, and scratching out her name everywhere it was written.
Starfire hovered near him, a blubbering, sobbing mess, parts of her hair and clothing literally soaked with the inexhaustible flood of tears. She saw Cyborg as he appeared in the doorway, and immediately flew towards him, clinging to his familiar presence.
"Cyborg! You must make him stop! He will not listen to me, and I do not understand why he is doing these horrible things!"
Cyborg rested a metal arm around her shoulders, trying to comfort the hysterical girl as best he could. "It's okay, Star, just let me talk to him…"
Starfire shook her head furiously and began choking and crying louder. "No, no, no! Everything is not okay, he is doing terrible things, but he says it is all Terra's fault! He has gone into her room and destroyed it all, there is nothing left! He has broken all the things in our home that remind him of her, and I have tried to make him stop but he will not listen, and he has…Raven and Beast Boy…Raven and Beast Boy…" Her sentence trailed off into a wracking fit of sobs.
"What?" Cyborg was alarmed now. "What about BB and Rae? What did he do?!?"
Starfire tried to calm herself enough to tell him, but only succeeded in acquiring the hiccups, which made her cry even harder. Unable to bring herself to say it, she merely pointed to the room where Robin had nearly killed Terra.
Suddenly feeling detached, Cyborg dashed down the hallway to the open doorway.
Beast Boy and Raven lay on the floor of the room. The carpeting around them was stained, soaked with their blood. Their features were nearly indiscernible, beaten into swollen, unrecognizable lumps of torn flesh. Pieces of Robin's broken staff were strewn among their limbs.
Cyborg took a step backward, desperately fighting the urge to vomit. "My god, Robin…what have you done?"
Robin stopped ripping through Starfire's scrapbook, suddenly aware of Cyborg's voice. He threw the book down on the floor and moved into the hallway, ignoring the sobbing Starfire who was standing just outside the doorway.
"You!" Robin shouted, pointing a finger at Cyborg. "What did you do with her?"
Cyborg looked at the Titan leader, his single human eye wide with horror. "…Robin…"
"Where did you hide her?" Robin yelled.
"You've lost it, man…" Cyborg backed away from the furious, advancing teen.
"Tell me where she is!!"
Tears were flowing slowly down the human side of Cyborg's face now. "I can't do that, Robin. I'm not going to let you hurt anyone else."
Robin was shaking with fury. "You're protecting her now, too? All of this is her fault! Everything! If she had never showed up, Raven wouldn't have given the information to Slade, and she'd still be alive!"
Cyborg's face turned in confusion. "Raven? Raven was…but, why would she do that?"
"It's Terra's fault. Terra's fault. She needs to be punished."
"What's wrong with you?" Cyborg screamed, suddenly feeling a surge of fury and anguish overpower his initial shock. "Look at what you did to Beast Boy and Raven! Look at them, Robin! You killed them! You killed your own friends! And you're blaming someone else for it! You're mad! You're no better than Slade! You're just like him!"
Robin shrieked like something inhuman, making a dive at the larger teen. "DON'T…YOU…EVER…COMPARE ME…TO HIM!" He began tearing at the metal plating on Cyborg's head. "IF YOU DON'T TELL ME WHERE SHE IS, I'LL RIP IT OUT OF YOU!!"
Cyborg fell back, his features suddenly going blank as Robin yanked out his primary memory chip, taking several bundles of wiring with it.
Starfire had been sitting in the hallway, wailing as she watched the scene unfold before her. But as Robin attacked Cyborg, a strange atmosphere seemed to descend around the alien girl. She stood and had stopped sobbing, though the tears continued to flow as fast as ever down her amber-skinned face. They were alight now, each droplet catching and reflecting the bright green glow that had suddenly erupted behind Starfire's eyes.
Robin held the chip in his hand, standing still for a moment, breathing hard with anger and malicious triumph. He turned his head as movement caught his eye, only to see Starfire advancing on him slowly, her body hovering a few inches off the floor. Her face was twisted into an expression of fury that he had never thought her capable of showing.
She could still feel the tormented tears as they poured from her lighted eyes, but she ignored them now. Her fists were hot with the spheres of energy that were now held there, and her burning gaze was fixed on the boy who stood in the center of the hallway.
Robin frowned at her approach, gesturing for her to move out of the way. "Don't bother me, Star. I have to find Terra."
Starfire halted in front of him, unmoving. For a long moment, she said nothing, and when she finally did speak, there was such a note of finality in her voice that Robin found himself unable to move, unable to tear himself away from the spot to which he became suddenly riveted.
"I could never hurt Robin," she began slowly. "He is my friend, and a good leader to all of us. But he would not do the horrible things that you are doing. You have destroyed my home…you have killed my friends…"
Robin stood in silence, his gaze fixed on the alien girl before him.
"I would not hurt Robin," Starfire repeated, raising a hand to point at him. "But you are not Robin anymore."
She released the sphere of energy that she held in her palm, watching it spear through the air to hit Robin full in the chest, sending him flying backward into the shadowed room where Beast Boy and Raven had been killed. His body slammed into the far wall with the force of the blow, and he fell to the ground, gasping for breath.
Before he could get back to his feet, Starfire had already released two more bolts of bright green energy, one smashing through the wall to his left, the other tearing through the wall behind him. Again she fired her starbolts, one after another, after another. They ripped through the walls again and again, until they could no longer hold up, and began to collapse. The ceiling started to crumble with them, the giant chunks of debris pummeling down onto Robin's body, crushing him, burying him.
Starfire suddenly halted her onslaught as the room began to cave in on itself. Reaching a glowing hand out, she punched through the control panel to the side of the door, ripping out the panel and much of the wiring inside, leaving a gaping hole with charred edges. The doorway slid shut, closing off the scene of destruction and the horrible crashing sound as the room continued to collapse.
Cyborg sat on the floor of the hallway, slumped against the hard wall. With his major memory chip removed, and more key cables disconnected from the metal plating in his head, most of the knowledge of who he was had disappeared. He no longer retained the capability to speak properly, because he couldn't remember how. And the other disconnections to his memory banks left him in a constant, unalterable state of confusion and incomprehension.
It was with a damaged mind that he turned his distracted gaze to look out the window that he had fallen next to. He stared up through the shattered glass, unable to truly understand what he was seeing as he watched a figure fading away into the sky, leaving a glimmering green trail of tears in the air behind her.