Second Chances

DarkWarlord

I do not own teen titans, that would be cool though...

I'm sorry for the long wait and thanks to art chic for the kind review

I hope everyone enjoyed chapter 1

Chapter 2 Trouble in the Tower

When we last left Titan's Tower, Starfire had just asked Robin to join the rest of the team for some breakfast. Robin had just fought his training drone, AKA the Slade-bot , he won but was badly bruised and sweaty , he had opted to take a shower before joining the others.

Robin walked into the boy's changing room and stripped out of his training outfit and his red boxers (yes with the yellow R, at least no one else ever mistakes Robin's stuff for theirs...), dropping them in the hamper as he walked by on his way to the shower. He hurt all over, the bruise on his arm was starting to look like a band that went along the arm, he didn't want to tell Star because she would worry, the way she looked at him with those depthless emeralds eyes. I could drown in such a stare...

But now was not the time to think of something like that. He shook his head as he took off his mask before entering the shower, he placed it on the of the sink. He turned on the water, he wanted it hot, hot water always seemed to take the stress and pain right out of him, he stood there just letting the water wash over him, taking the tension right out of his muscles. Robin grabbed the soap and washed himself, shampooed and then conditioned his hair. After washing himself he just stood there, he looked at the wall, he had been showering for twenty minutes. 'time to go upstairs and eat something.' as if on cue, his stomach let out a low growl.

Robin stepped out of the shower and dried himself. Then he got the feeling he was being watched. He wrapped the white towel around his waist and reached for his mask, which wasn't there, or on the floor, or anywhere. He looked around the locker room, an uneasy feeling washing over him, and he felt a shiver run up his spine. Slowly Robin walked over to the communicator box, he pressed the sound only button.

Upstairs the others were just finishing breakfast, Raven and Starfire had begun clean up when Robin's voice came through the wall speaker, "hey guys, any body there?" Cyborg was closest, so he pressed the talk button, "Hey dude, kickin the bot's butt- what-? Whys there no vid? This thing broken?! I don't wanna have to fix this again-!" he was interrupted by Robin, sounding a little on edge, "Cy, it's not broken I just have it on sound only. Is anybody down here, I mean other than me?" Cyborg quickly looked around, "No man. Everybody is right here Is everything alright?" Cyborg asked starting to get a little nervous "No, I think some one else is down here, and they stole my mask."

Starfire took off like a bullet, instead of using the elevator, she just flew down the stairs, top speed . Five seconds and eight flights of stairs later she came to the door of the training room she opened the door and saw nothing but a clean and orderly training area. 'something is not right here...' she thought to herself and opened the door to boy's changing area, FORBIDDIN GROUND as Beast Boy had told her and Raven the fist time they came down here "like we would want to see any of you naked." Raven had responded. Starfire smiled at the memory.

Starfire took a deep breath and stepped into the changing area, it was clean, but smelled of sweat, not like the girls room she noticed, which smelled of pleasant things, she noticed a line of lockers, each one clearly marked, one for ROBIN, CYBORG, and BEAST BOY. Suddenly Starfire felt a shiver run up her spine, and got the feeling that she was being watched. "Robin...?" she asked out loud, turning around and seeing no one she felt almost completely helpless, she was walking backwards and she bumped into something, "AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!" Starfire screamed and nearly blasted the "Attacker" with a star bolt. Robin threw up his hands and yelled "Star! Don't shoot!" she lowered her arm and grabbed onto Robin, she was really scarred, and she couldn't tell why. When the door burst open Cyborg and the others were jumped into the room, "Star! What happened...?" he trailed off when he saw Star clinging to Robin, who was only wearing a towel and sunglasses, the others raised their eyebrows too. "why did you scream?" Starfire blushed profusely and looked down, "she thought I was the intruder." Robin said.

The others nodded, Cyborg looked around, his robotic eye scanning the area, beast boy turned into a blood hound started looking around, and Raven held her nose, she obviously did not like the smell of the locker room. "Rob, I'm not picking up anything here." beast boy walked up to them and told him he hadn't found anything either. "dude are you sure you didn't just misplace your mask? And were did you find those sunglasses?" beast boy threw his hands in the air.

"My mask was right here" he pointed to the sink and ignored the other question, Cyborg scanned it, "well it was there," he pointed to the screen on his arm which clearly showed that there was a dry spot on the handle in the shape of Robin's mask, Raven had walked over in order to get a better look at the screen.

Starfire stayed were she was, looking at Robin, at his well toned muscles and damp hair, she began to blush when her eyes wandered to the towel, but she slipped and was caught from behind. "Thank you frien-!" Starfire looked up, and to her horror she saw that it was none other than Slade holding who had caught her fall, she just looked up at him, unable to do anything. She was in shock, because his skull had been crushed. "eep." was about all Starfire could say.

But lucky for Starfire, Raven could feel emotions, and she felt two things, fear and hate. Raven quickly turned around and saw Slade holding Starfire, who was in shock from the terminator being in the tower and holding her, "Get away from her you!" the others looked over to see what Raven was yelling about. Beast Boy looked over and his jaw dropped, Cyborg couldn't believe his sensors. "Slade," Robin snarled.

"Why Robin, if I didn't know any better I would think that you weren't happy to see me." a pained look came over Starfire's face as Slade twisted her arm behind her back. "let her go, or I'll-" "or you'll what my dear boy? Stare at me menacingly? You can't fight the way you are, but I'll make a deal with you, I'll let the girl go, and you Robin will become my apprentice." Beast Boy groaned, "Are you still trying that, geez, will you get a different hobby?!" after this statement Beast Boy noticed something, a small thing true, but something everyone else over looked, Slade looked like he had been through a blender. And his head was crushed in, "Dude, that's not Slade...it's the Slade Bot!"

The others looked over at him, "but how?" Robin asked, "it was broken, I smashed it's head in." Cyborg looked over at him, angry that the boy wonder had mistreated his training equipment so. "Bird brain! Do you have any idea how long that to-" Cyborg was interrupted by an annoying sounding Slade, "what are you talking about, I'm not just some machine, I am Slade, the termin-" just then the Slade-bot jerked and through Starfire at the lockers, she crashed into Robin's Locker, making a large dent. 'Lethal combat mode engaged. Warning, all safeties removed, you have been warned.' a synthesized voice that sounded like Slade announced. Robin's heart fell, "this will be worse than fighting the real Slade," Cyborg looked over at him with a questioning eyebrow, "Dude, what do ya mean, 'worse'? it doesn't get worse than Slade!" Raven looked over at Robin and instantly understood, "Usually when we fight Slade he isn't trying to kill us, Beast Boy." Raven said in her usual monotone. Realization dawned on Beast Boy's face, and he gulped.

The Slade-bot looked over at the titans, what was left of it's eye glowing a reddish orange, then it charged, right for Cyborg, "Rob, get out and get a weapon, hurry!" Cyborg said as he caught the bot's fist and was then kicked in the midsection, 'good thing I can't feel pain, cause that would have hurt...' Cyborg thought to himself.

Robin leaped into the training room, his belt was in his room and it would take too long to go and fetch it, so he grabbed a staff and ran back towards the locker room. Starfire was still unconscious against the locker, Beast Boy's head was about to be crushed by the bot's foot when the bot was lifted by an invisible force and thrown against the locker labeled BEAST BOY which flew open scattering some of Beast Boy's belongings, the bot got up and saw the unconscious form of Starfire, decided she was not a threat and went after Raven, who had tossed him across the room, he leaped into the air and was about to perform a flying kick to her face when a sonic blast from Cyborg shot him out of the air, "Well done Titans," the bot got up and dusted himself off, "But not good enough!" it charged Cyborg, "he's too fast!" Cyborg said as he took hit after hit, next thing he knew he was on his back, looking up at the bot's crushed helmet, the bot raised it's fists but a giant green bear attacked him from behind. Beast Boy and the bot were wrestling, and the bot punched the bear in the side of the head, hard. Beast Boy lay sprawled out on the floor a trickle of blood seeping out of his mouth and nose.

"Bastard!" Cyborg jumped into the air, fist raised and prepared to assault the bot, but the bot was prepared for such an attack, he did a back flip, narrowly avoiding the attack, but rolled back and did a roundhouse kick to Cyborg's head sending him crashing to the floor of the locker room. The bot turned around just in time to see a locker ripped from the wall and fly right at him, he dodged the locker just to fall into Raven's trap, the air conditioner unit fell from the bathroom ceiling right on the bot. There was a sickening thud and a many sparks. Raven fell to her knees breathing heavily. She looked over at Cyborg, he was slowly getting up, Beast Boy wasn't moving. Robin jumped into the room looking around, "Raven where is it?" she pointed to the shower room, Robin cautiously walked into the shower area. The sound of water came from the broken shower, Robin noticed that it was Beast Boy's locker that had caused the damage, he could tell that the water was hot from the steam rising from the broken shower. But when Robin looked at the conditioning unit his blood ran cold. The bot was not under the air conditioner.

His heart raced, he took a deep breath and slowly stood, he gripped his staff tightly, he looked around and saw no bot only a thick cloud of steam. He turned around to walk out only to find himself face to face with the silhouette of the bot, which backhanded him. "Robin, Robin, Robin, tut, tut, "he said shaking his finger, Robin jumped to his feat and attacked the bot, he now wished he hadn't have Cyborg install the voice system, it was getting on his nerves, which meant it was working. The fight was more desperate than before, his team mates were either unconscious or too weak to help him, the bot had what advantage there was very little room, and the pain from the training was starting to come back. 'Think Robin, think! What can I do?!' he searched the room desperately, straining to see through the thick cloud of steam. His eyes traveled to the broken shower, it was running out of water, which meant the auto repair was kicking in. then his gaze fell to another water pipe leading to a different shower. He smiled, the bot was badly damaged, parts of his electrical systems were showing and more than a few sparks were flying, other signs of damage were shone on his mechanical body. "everyone get out!" Robin yelled, calmly but making sure everyone got the message. Cyborg picked up Beast Boy's limp body and Raven stumbled out of the room. The bot looked at Robin and then at the pipe, it crossed it's arms. "Now Robin, you wouldn't be thinking of electrocuting me would you?" Robin smiled and jumped for the pipe, staff raised.

Robin brought the staff down from above his head, 'it's a shame to die like this, but I don't care, as long as they live, as long as she lives...' but Robin didn't die, he didn't even reach his goal. The bot grabbed Robin's leg and flung him hard against the opposite wall, head first "tut, tut, tut..." the bot shook his head, well what was left of it anyways, the steam was starting to disappear. "Robin, you realize that you would die as well don't you?" the bot leaned over Robin and stomped repeatedly on his bruise, a sickening crunch was heard and Robin screamed in pain, "now maybe you won't struggle so much." the bot took the glasses off of Robin's face and crushed them in his hand, the next thing he did was pick Robin up by the hair, Robin's right arm hung limply at his side. Robin in a last ditch effort of defiance said, "those were two hundred dollar sunglasses, asshole." "I merely wanted to look you in the eyes before I killed you." he brought his fist back, "the last thing you'll ever see is your heart in my hand." he shut his eyes, he was suddenly very tired, from the exertion, and the pain. Robin waited for the pain of the bot's fist in his chest. 'Ironic,' he thought 'that the thing that kill's me is not a criminal mastermind but a cheap copy...' but the blow never came, Robin didn't know what was happening, he tried to open his eyes and move his arm. Bad Idea. The pain shot through his arm. He didn't know what was happening, blinded by the pain in his arm. he felt himself dropped to the cold metal floor, then he was being dragged away, there was an explosion, he felt someone holding him, then blackness overtook him.

Robin awoke several hours latter to the sound of humming, the back of his head hurt, he slowly opened one eye and saw her. 'Starfire' he thought, he looked around and realized that he was laying down on the couch, his head resting on Starfire's lap, she was humming a strange tune, it was pleasant but foreign. He had never heard it before but it relaxed him. He tried to get up, but the pain in his arm prevented it, he winced in pain, he laid his head back down. This prompted Starfire to stop humming and look down at him, she stared down at his face, into his eyes, his eyes were a warm, chestnut brown, she stared into them, smiling.

Robin didn't know what to do, first off, she had seen him without his mask, Robin almost panicked, but the hand stroking the side of his face calmed him almost instantly. So instead of resisting he merely looked back into her endless eyes until he fell back asleep, to

Starfire's humming.

Man o man, this is the revised version of the original chapter Two. If you read it before, and read it just now, please tell me if you liked it better.

Next chapter the plot thickens....

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