If you have already read this chapter please reread... I have fixed many things so yea! ThAnKs!

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(( Chapter 7 ))

Scared To Serve

((Titan Tower... sometime after they realize Starfire is missing... even later into the evening...))

"I'm tracing Starfire's locater..."

"I wonder where she went?" asked BeastBoy.

"Or where she was taken to..." Mumbled Robin.

"Well according to this-"Cyborg pointed to his arm computer "-She's at Pier 22..."

"Pier 22?! But we were just there! Don't tell me we have to go all the way back!" moaned BeastBoy.

Robin eyed him angrily. "We have to... we have to find Starfire."

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Raven hovered above the ground and made her way, above she saw a large white sign that read "Pier 22" in blue letters. She took out her communicator and spoke into it,

"All clear."

Right after her signal the rest of the Titans joined her and they began searching the area. Cyborg went down toward the docks and Raven and BeastBoy took to the sky, Robin found his way to an old warehouse...

He forced open the door and peered around the room before spotting Starfire's communicator lying on the floor in the center of the room...

"STARFIRE!"

He ran toward it and picked it up... looking around the room he could see large dents in the walls, one wall he noticed had been hit so hard that it was now just a pile of bricks lying on the ground.

Robin grasped Starfire's communicator tightly in his hand...

"Starfire what happened to you?"

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((Rejoining Slade and Starfire))

"Let us begin training..."

The computer monitors that once showed the insides of the Titans (apprentice... nano-skopic-probes (s/p?!)...do you understand now??) lit up and a keyboard stood in front of them just all on it's own out of the ground.

"Training?" repeated Starfire confused.

"Of course Starfire, how else do you recommend controlling your little anger problem?" Said Slade. "You must learn to fight with, not against."

He moved toward the keyboard and went at the keyboard, just typing away. Then suddenly the first screen light up and small circles appeared. Each had a gray stick coming out of the middle from where painful red beams shot out of.

"What are... EEEP!" Starfire screamed as the small laser circles began to come out of the screen.

Slade smiled.

"Start training..."

And the circles began to come after Starfire one by one... and one by one they continued to come out of the screen. Just as Starfire had gotten one knocked to the ground and in flames another would come after her.

"I do not know what you are doing Slade... but it can not destroy me!" Starfire's hand sent star bolt after star bolt toward the machines, sending five or so crashing to the ground at Slade's feet.

"Well done Starfire... Well done..."

Smiling awkwardly, Starfire felt a sharp pain in her back as she went crashing to the floor. (A machine shot a red beam at her from behind...) Looking up she was surrounded by dozens of the small machines... all aiming their shooter at her.

Starfire gasped and all the machines let loose a red beam... "AHHHHHHHHH!" Starfire screamed in pain and her body fell back against the cement.

"You can do better Starfire, fight back! You can not win if you do not fight!"

Anger burned in Starfire's eyes... She stood up and eyed each machine carefully. Her star bolts began to burn red and her eyes took the shape of fire.

"Leave me alone!" She screamed and her star bolts were let loose from her hands and each one hit a machine and sent it down to the ground on fire... it wasn't long before Starfire was standing in a circle of fire with Slade watching her from the outside.

She looked at her hands with shock, the red glow still surrounding them and the fire still in her eyes.

Slade's eyes peered over the fire and smiled.

"Good job Starfire..."

He turned back to the computer and typed as more machines shot through.

"Now do it again... and this time... don't let them hit you."

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(( One Week Later ))

Robin sat in his room staring at a picture of him and Starfire. (Starfire was smiling VERY happily and she was making a peace sign with her hand, Robin had his arm over her shoulder.)

A knock on his door made him jump as he set the picture back on his dresser. His door opened and Cyborg stood in the doorway.

"You ok man?"

"Yea, I'm fine... why?"

"Well it's just you haven't really come out of your room all week... and the last time Raven did that she came out all giggly and had a new outfit..." Cyborg eyed Robin's outfit for a second.

Robin sighed. "I'm fine Cyborg... really."

Cyborg watched Robin eye the picture of Starfire for a minute then spoke,

"Makes you wonder huh?"

Robin jumped. "What?"

"About Starfire... she just kind of vanished..."

At first Robin didn't answer, there was nothing but silence in his room.

"Look Robin, I know you miss her... we all do..."

Robin peered up at Cyborg.

"I just want to know what happened to her..."

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(( Back with Slade and Starfire... -still one week later- ))

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Starfire felt all the tense from her body leave as she threw all her energy into her star bolts. Her hands felt numb and her body was tired from fighting but in a strange way she felt so... happy.

Her red star bolts went soaring threw the air and hit twelve of Slade's robots. (The ones from Aftershock and Betrayal...) Each robot fell to the floor in pieces.

"Excellent Starfire, excellent..."

Heavily breathing Starfire saw Slade come walking to her side out of the smoke.

"You have become stronger with your powers and can now almost fully train them... another week or so and you shall have total control..."

Starfire shook and looked down at a robot under a pile of bricks. (Guess who she is thinking of? ...giggles)

"Perhaps I am done with this training of yours... I wish to return to Tamaran..." Starfire started to fly toward the exit but Slade's cold voice held her back.

"Not so fast young lady..." Starfire turned around and glared at Slade. "You have yet to remember that we made a deal? You are still in debt..."

Starfire's eyes became filled with worry; her mind was scared at what Slade would want her to do.

"What do you want me to do?" Asked Starfire, choking on her words.

Slade smiled and walked over to the computer that had helped Starfire in her training the past week.

"Such technology is very hard to come by... And very pricy to operate."

"I will not steal money for your pleasing!" yelled Starfire.

Starfire could hear Slade laugh under his mask.

"Oh you will steal for me Starfire... you will do what ever I ask..."

"Why would I ever-"

"Because..." Slade spun around and eyed Starfire from head to toe. "You are my new apprentice..."

Starfire felt her whole body become numb as she fought for control over her voice.

"W-what?"

"I have spent my time training you... preparing you for the worst... and now... you owe me."

Several thoughts raced through Starfire's mind... was this really happening? After so many years of fighting evil she would end up joining the side? A tear ran down Starfire's right eye. Images of Robin being found under the brick pile by the other titans flooded her heart. She had already done bad... Her thoughts were interrupted by Slade's voice.

"It won't make much of a difference will it? You have already destroyed one of the Titans..."

"NOO!"

Starfire's eyes and hands filled in with green and she threw her fists toward Slade, she managed to push him back a few feet but he immediately grabbed her and threw her against the wall.

"You are my apprentice... you will do as I say..."

Falling to the ground Starfire felt so weak, like she had absolutely no control over what she did.

"...I... am at your command..."

"Excellent... now, for your first assignment... I believe you are familiar with synothium?"

Starfire gasped and thought back to when Red X had returned and was after synothium... Another image of Robin entered her mind. A tear slipped from her eye as she found herself missing him.

"If I steal... the Titans will come after me..."

"Is that a problem? ...It is not as though you were going back to them... not after what you did to Robin... But he attacked you Starfire... he felt anger toward you...just as you did toward him... and now he is gone..."

A green glow lit the room as Starfire balled her hands into fists.

"I will acquire your synothium tonight..."

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Ok, well... I hope everyone remembers what synothium is?? (Again, I don't know if I spelled that right.) If you don't... go watch an eppie of "X"......

And one more thing... I know I know... I said I wasn't going to have Starfire become Slade's apprentice but well... don't you think it works well in the story?!?! LoL, I DO! LoL... kEeP rEaDiNg!!

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