Origins.
Brother Blood looked at his security monitors and frowned. The Titans had made it to Level Three. If something didn't slow them down soon they would be here before he was done with Robin. He couldn't allow that.
"Attendants listen up! Take care of our guests on Level Three now! I have some important business to take care of and I don't need distractions." Brother Blood ordered.
Turning he looked at his prisoner. Robin had renewed his efforts to get out. This would not do. Flipping a switch and turning a dial he electrocuted him again and intensified the lighting in the room.
"Ah stop it! That hurts." Robin wailed.
"It's supposed to hurt my young friend. Now I'm ready for the next phase in this interrogation. I'm going to enter your subconcess and see what you are hiding. Whatever it is I can't wait to find out." Brother Blood clapped his hands in anticipation.
"You won't be able to enter my mind. Annie will stop you." Robin whispered. He was getting worried three hours had passed. He was starting to feel his body shut down. He needed Dark Robin and soon.
The Titans were on their way. They had stopped to use the healing power of their crystals to fix themselves. "Man you are so lucky to have those crystals." Dark Robin commented as he watched Raven mend her broken ankle.
"Yes we are lucky that the forces of darkness don't have these. Look I know you don't feel a hundred percent let me heal you." Raven said. She waved her hand over him and bathed him in a soft black glow.
"Thanks that's much better. Okay team looks like we have to navigate through a maze to get to the next level. So lets get moving." Dark Robin ordered as he marched forward.
"Hold up. I'm in charge remember? I say we try to find an alternative route." Cyborg said grabbing him.
"Dudes I don't think we have a choice. Look!" Beast Boy said pointing behind them. An army of HIVE attendants were advancing on them each had an energy weapon in their hands.
"We have no choice. Into the maze now." Dark Robin commanded and took off running inside the maze. Quickly the team followed him.
Meanwhile Brother Blood had entered a different type of maze. He had entered the mental Gotham and had attacked Robin. Robin had fought valiantly but it was no good. He was being dragged behind Brother Blood by a chain.
"Ah here we are. I should have guessed you would have locked them away here." Brother Blood said as he strolled into Gotham's First Bank.
"What are we doing here? I keep my secrets locked up in Arkaham not the bank." Robin winced in pain.
"Only the secrets your aware of. Step away little girl your in my way." Brother Blood glared at Annie who had appeared to be guarding the vault.
"Go away and leave Master Robin alone. No one may have access to the memories that are in this vault. Not even Robin." Annie said angrily.
"Memories? What are you talking about Annie?" Robin asked surprised
"She's talking about your repressed memories that she's been guarding for the past eight years. Now move aside so I can indulge in these memories." Brother Blood snapped as he charged her.
Annie turned her hands into clay and flung it at him. He dodged it. She threw mind control cards at him and made vines wrap around him. Nothing stopped him. Getting mad she pumped Venom inside herself and attack him directly. Brother Blood used a judo move and sent her crashing into the wall.
"Annie! No! Get up and fight him." Robin shouted. Annie glanced at him as blood dripped down her face. "I'm sorry I failed you Master." She whispered before she fainted.
Brother Blood grabbed him and opened the vault. A golden void was behind the door. Stepping inside they both plunged into long forgotten memories.
"Huh what I'm free. Hey I recognize this place. I'm home at Wayne Manor. What's going on?" Robin asked
"I don't know my young friend but I will allow you some privacy. I won't fully envelope myself in your memories. I'll just feel, see, and hear." Brother Blood told him as he entered the scene.
Suddenly Robin heard noises coming from the next room. He rushed towards the door passing through it. After all this was a memory. He took a look around the room and gasped.
Back in the real world the Titans were running out of time. They had lost their pursers in the maze but also had come lost themselves. "Man where never going to get out." Beastboy complained.
"We have to get out. For Robin's sake and Dark Robins as well we must not give up. Look at him he's not holding out to well." Cyborg said.
It was true. Starfire was carrying dark Robin. He couldn't walk anymore the pain was too bad. He was complaining softly though. "I don't need help."
"Yes you do. Now be silent or I shall leave you here." Starfire told him.
"Guys I just noticed something. This maze is exactly like the one in my mind. I know the way out. Follow me." Raven shouted as she ran off down a side corridor with everyone following her.
Back in Robin's mind he watched as an eight-year-old Dick Grayson attacked poor Alfred. He was throwing things and tearing up irreplaceable items.
"Master Dick please behave yourself." Alfred said with as much calm as he could manage.
"Make me you cue ball." Dick said throwing a Ming vase at him. Robin gasped outloud. His eyes were glowing red as if he was Dark Robin.
Alfred got the vase and grabbed Dick in a vice grip. Dick struggled to get loose but couldn't. After all Alfred had been in Her Majesties Royal Service. "Calm down young sir. This behavior isn't most becoming."
"Let me go right now you old man!" Dick shouted. Then he said words that can't be said in polite company. "When was I ever this bad?" Robin moaned.
"Quite the little troublemaker weren't you. Eight years old and already causing disasters. How precious." Brother Blood commented.
"Shut the hell up." Robin muttered. He watched his past self suddenly black out. He heard Alfred mutter "Not again." And place him on the sofa. Bruce entered the room five minutes later.
"Where have you been Master Bruce?" Alfred asked concerned.
"At Dick school talking to his teachers. He's a smart kid and is very euthastic but there are problems. He has two distinctive personalities. One loves causing trouble, which he can't remember doing later. He's fainted twice and he can't relate to his fellow classmates. I know its only been a month since his parents death but even I wasn't this bad. What's wrong with him old friend?" Bruce asked exhausted.
"I don't know but if I were you I schedule an appointment with Leslie. Let her look at the boy. Maybe she can figure it out."
The scene changed suddenly to Leslie's office. Dick was playing with one of her therapy toys. "Hi Dick I'm Leslie. I want you to relax while I perform an experiment okay?" Leslie asked the young boy.
"Okay Leslie. I really don't know why I'm here. Bruce just said that you could help me." Dick told her. Smiling at him she placed him under hypnotize.
"Dick can you here me?" Leslie asked gently.
"Dick resting right now. I'm in control. I don't have a name yet so why don't you call me Yang." A cruel sounding voice came out of Dick's mouth said.
"Yang why are you causing problems for Dick? Does it have to do with your parents death?"
"Yes and no. I was born out of that tragedy. But I also still exists because I want to become more than what's expected from Dick. I want to be the evil that took our parents away. That's my revenge. Excuse me." Yang said.
"Hello Leslie hi my name is Annie. I'm the glue that holds Dick and Yang together. Please do something before I lose control over them both." Annie told Leslie. Dick suddenly jerked awake unaware of what happened.
"Is that all Leslie?" He asked.
"Yes send Bruce in will you." She told the boy. What she had heard had clearly shaken her. Sitting at her desk she waited for Bruce. When he entered she gestured for him to sit down.
"Dick is a bright boy who can grow up to be a great person. But right now he is displaying all the classical symptoms of Dissociate Identity Disorder. I like to start him on meds and therapy right away." Leslie told her old friend.
"No I want him to have a normal life. Isn't there another way Leslie any other way please?" Bruce begged.
Sighing loudly she looked at him. She knew what he was thinking. Not another kid like me please. Going against her better judgment she said, " There is a non traditional route. Train him to focus his energy into something productive. He's an acrobat so encourage that as well as teach him how to find. He likes science so make him do science projects. If he gets enough positive attention he should be fine in theory. I still want to see him once in a while to check on him alright?" She asked. Bruce nodded and shook her hand. The scene dissolved away leaving Brother Blood and Robin alone.
"I don't believe it. Dark Robin had been developing when I was eight. I had already been diagnosed with DID and talked to Leslie. Why did he lie to me about this? Why don't I remember any of this?" Robin cried.
"We shall so find out. There are more memories to go. Besides only a half hour has pass so we have plenty of time." Brother Blood said and the two of them disappeared into another memory.