"Hey, where's Starfire?"
Robin entered the Rec. room with a puzzled expression on his face.
Beastboy shifted from his position on the couch to look at Robin. "What am I, her keeper?"
Cyborg yelled from the kitchen. "I haven't seen her either!"
He walked in with a huge roast beef and turkey sandwich, the meat practically oozing of the sandwich.
"AHHHHHH! What is THAT???" BeastBoy's shriek rang throughout the Tower.
Cyborg looked down. "What, this?" He said, pointing innocently to his sandwich.
Then he grinned evilly. "Want some?"
Beastboy ran away screaming, Cyborg chasing after him.
"Well" Robin sighed to himself, "they won't be any help"
Continuing his search, he covered the whole tower. Raven was no help, as she'd shut the door in his face when he asked her, and there were no clues in Star's room, either.
The only pace left to check was the roof. Suprisingly, she was there.
"Wow" Robin thought, "She looks amazing toda- wait a minute, is that Star?"
Robin could sense something different about her, just from a glace.
He walked over and put a hand on her shoulder. It was cold as ice.
He jumped back and "Star's" head turned around. ALL the way around.
"Holy Shi-OOF!"
The fake Starfire android smashed Robin in the stomach, cutting off his sentence.
He was sent hurtling through midair, just managing to snag the android's ankle with a well-placed Batarang hook-line shot.
The robot was pulled, flailing about, off the edge and into space, bumping against the tower as it fell.
Right before Robin hit the ground the android dug its retractable claws into the side of the tower, stopping them both.
Robin scurried up the wire and grabbing the android's faceplate, pushed off the wall.
As he swung back, he positioned the android's faceplate in front of him, and on the return swing, he, along with a couple G-force's help, smashed the metal head through the bullet-proof glass of the Rec. room window.
Robin rolled, and was immediately on his feet again.
As the rest of the team walked in to investigate the noise, they gaped at Robin. His cape was ripped off, there were cuts all over, and blood was collecting on the floor where he stood.
BeastBoy, Raven, and Cy looked at the robot.
The android had not fared so well.
The whole head was bashed in, and electricity coursed though it, streaming out of numerous broken wires.
Raven, using her powers to protect herself, started examining the robot while Cy and BeastBoy drilled Robin.
"Dude! What was that!"
"Are you alright?"
"Why does that robot look like Star?"
"And why is there glass all over you?"
Robin told them the whole story, and they were about to question him again when-
"GUYS."
Raven called their attention to the dilapidated android.
"Shut up and look at this."
The boys walked over and looked at what Raven was gesturing toward.
In the head, the remains of a small TV, like He used.
"It's Slade. He's back."
"No, wait."
Robin, desperate for some proof that this wasn't their archenemy's work, ripped off the fake orange skin. On the shoulder, there was Slade's symbol.
Robin started punching the wall. "Why couldn't he have taken me!"
BeastBoy interrupted, "Ummmm... Robin?" He asked meekly.
What? Robin's glare could've stopped an elephant in its tracks.
Still, BeastBoy persisted.
"That's not Slade's symbol."
Robin looked again at the symbol. There was the yellow circle, and in the middle there was a small letter, but it wasn't an S, it was a T.