(( Chapter 5 ))

Robin Can't Help

Robin tapped on Starfire's door ever so lightly.

"Hey Starfire are you ok? You just kind of took off after breakfast and I was just wondering if you were still hungry?"

Starfire pushed her face into her pillow.

"Since BeastBoy and Cyborg kind of had a ... 'fight' we decided to go out for pizza..."

Starfire's pillow became crushed under her strength, she wished Robin would just leave her be.

"I was just coming to check and see if you wanted to come."

Silence. A few minutes later she heard the sound of Robin's footsteps walking down the hall and away from her room.

"I do not understand... I have done something wrong to deserve this punishment?"

Interrupting Starfire's thoughts, a loud buzzer sounded and red lights began to flash in every room of the tower.

Down the hall she could hear Robin yell "Trouble, Pier 22! Titans move out!"

Gripping her pillow hard against her chest she took a deep breath and ran out the door.

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Landing on the ground Starfire peered around and saw no one. Above her head a large white sign with blue letters read "Pier 22".

"Perhaps... there was another chase?"

Thought Starfire looking over her shoulder she felt a cold wind blow past her, causing her hair to follow it and wave in the wind.

"Is some one there?" She called out, but there was no reply.

A shadowy figure ran past. Starting up her fire bolts Starfire chased it to an abandoned old warehouse near the docks. She hesitated a moment then slid open the door, it obeyed her command with a loud 'creeeek'.

"Hello? Is some one there?" The nervous tamaranian made her way into the center of the warehouse. Dust was swept away and smoke gathered at her feet as she walked.

She suddenly felt a huge jab in her back as she was thrown off her feet and into the wall in front of her. Old bricks from the wall fell with her to the floor; she gazed up in front of her and saw... And saw... Robin!

"Rob-"

She didn't get to finish her sentence; Robin grabbed her around the neck and threw her across the room. This time Starfire caught herself in midair and stood there hovering about the ground in front of Robin. Her eyes were wide with shock... her best friend... was angry... at her?

"Robin what are you-?"

Robin pulled out his bo-staff and twirled it around his fingers and ran at her, jumping of the right wall and smashing his staff in her stomach causing her to fall to the ground. Gasping for breath she felt a tear fall from her left eye. Her hands tingled and urged her to fight, to let go of all her anger but her heart refused to.

"Robin please...why are you attacking me?"

Again he came at her, anger burned in his eyes, anger that Starfire could not figure out. Her stomach curled in pain and her body ached from his staff. Starting up her fire bolts once again, a green glow lit the room. She stood up and flew into the center of the room, her hands balled into fists to try and hold back the desire to fight.

"Robin I do not wish to hurt you!" She cried confusion rattling her mind. This could not be the Robin she knew... Why would he attack her? Why would he want to hurt her? ...He had hurt her one time before but Slade was behind that... both times.

"Slade is behind your badness! What is he doing to-"

Charging at her he caressed her face with his fist and landed behind her on his feet, untouched. She held her face in her hands as Robin came from behind and got her in the back with his bo-staff.

With her eyes glowing green from her Tamaranian blood she took Aim at Robin's staff... within one blow the staff was cracked in half and was lying on the ground... Focusing her attention on the staff she didn't see Robin make his way up the wall, throw three bombshells toward her and flip back to the ground to land on his feet. Each bomb went off on its own time, the first caused blindness with its smoke, the second tore her outfit under her neck and her skirt on the rims, the third made her loose her balance and fall hard to the cement ground causing it to break.

"..mmmmmmm...R-Robin?" she whispered trying to make out the blurry spiky-haired form she saw in front of her.

"I d-do not understand... did I do s-something wrong?" She tried to stand up but her legs felt numb from the crash with the cement.

Robin's form became clear; his eyes were narrow as he gazed at Starfire.

She shook. She knew he was strong and once he was in battle he did what ever it took to win... exactly how he was with Slade... Anger suddenly found it's way into Starfire's heart and all the bad memories poured in... Robin as Slade's apprentice... Him grabbing her arm so tightly because she had not stopped Slade...

"Robin I told you I did not wish to fight you..." Her hands became enclosed in a reddened star bolt. "But I will if I must!" And she used all her energy into that one star bolt, she flew to her side and threw it as hard as she could, just enough to knock Robin off his feet and fly back into the wall and break through it to the other side.

Heavily breathing Starfire's eyes and hands lost the reddened glow and as the smoke disappeared she gasped as a weak Robin lay under a large pile of bricks with his eyes closed.

"ROBIN!" Starfire screamed and began to rush toward him but was held back by her right hand. Turning around Starfire once again looked into his eyes...

"Slade! Release me!" She tugged at her arm but Slade would not give in, she peered back over at Robin; he lye motionless under the brick pile. "ROBIN!!"

"Look at what you have done Starfire... now what will the other titans think?"

Starfire's eyes closed and tears began to trickle out, she was too scared to notice Slade release his grip on her arm.

"He attacked me... I had to..."

"You had to destroy him?"

"I did not mean to hurt-"

"Oh but you did young Starfire... inside you knew exactly what you were doing... I saw you. You clenched your fists together and you knew exactly what you were doing as you threw those powerful star bolts toward him..."

"NO! You speak lies!"

She pushed Slade with all her strength away from her and flew as fast as she could out of the warehouse and out into the sky... into outer space... away from Earth, away from the Titans... and away from Robin.

(( Back At Tamaran ))

(Rejoining Galfore and Starfire from the beginning)

"I can not return to Earth... not after what I have done to my friend..."

"Princess I-"

Galfore stopped and turned toward the door. Outside they could hear loud yelling and sirens going off.

"Intruders!" Galfore gasped. "Come, we must..."

"Hello again Starfire."

Turning to the deck (the one Robin had climbed up on Betrothed... aw... it reminded me of Romeo and Juliet.... But anyway back to the story...) was Slade. The wind blew the curtains on the door and made his image blury.

"You have no right to come here!" yelled Starfire.

Slade squinted his eyes. "Don't I?"

Running toward Galfore he punched him in the stomach and threw him into the wall. Starfire came at him with her star bolts but he just grabbed her around the wrists and threw her back a couple of feet.

"Do not worry, 'princess', I have something special in store for you." And he pulled four small round silver balls from his belt and threw them at the floor. They each exploded and released heavy smoke that blinded Starfire from everything in the room and made her fall to the ground unconscious... the last thing she saw was Slade peering down at her.

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I apologize for the short chapter... but this is how it works when I get to write the story! Haha... anyway I hope you are following the story so far... if it is confusing n crap just lemme know, no worries kk?!

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