Robin sat in his room, deep in thought about his father. His father was in the living room, talking with the other Titans. Robin heard bits and pieces of their conversation.

"Why does he hate you so much?" Terra asked.

"You see, when Robin was just a small boy, probably about eight or nine, I was out of work, and had no money or food. His mother had been killed in a car wreck when a drunk driver hit her car head on about a month earlier. Robin was very close to his mother and when she was killed, he was terribly sad. He locked himself in his room for weeks, and only came out to go to school. I decided that I could no longer take care of him as I used to be able to. My friend, John Ritter, said that he would take care of him for exactly eight years.. So John took him to his home, in Jump City. He stayed with John for eight years. In exactly eight years, I went to get him, from John's home in Jump City. When I went to the address he gave me, I found myself at a bank. Suddenly, the alarms went off, and I saw a man, with a mask over his face, run out of the building. Then, behind him, I saw a boy, with the same mask, and same outfit, run out of the bank with some bags of money. Then, the boy looked at me and lifted his mask from his face. The boy who looked at me was my own son. A criminal. I had heard of the man named Slade, but I had no idea John was him. Robin put his mask back on and started to laugh. He threw a few smoke bombs my way, but when the smoke cleared, he was gone."

Starfire gasped. Raven looked. Cyborg just closed his eyes and shook his head. Beast Boy and Terra were thinking about what they had just heard.

"So…are you going to tell them everything about my past…reveal all my secrets?" Robin said. He had just come down the hall.

They all looked at Robin in disbelief.

"You gave me to Slade, you have no idea what he did to me there," Robin said. "He put a microchip in my brain to control my body, just as he did to Terra. He trained me to be a criminal. Then, one day, he made me steal a higher frequency remote control to me, so that he could control me from far away. But when I stole it, and brought it back, he tried to test it out. He sent me far away to see how far it would work. I went miles and miles away. He had to pump up the frequency to get it to work. He pumped it up so high, that it short circuited, and so did the chip, because it was connected to the remote. That's how I escaped." Robin explained.

"So that's why the first time I saw you, you were dressed in Slade's uniform." Cyborg said.

"Yeah," Robin said.

"Robin…I had no idea," Starfire said sadly.

"I think it's best if you leave," Robin said to his dad.

"You're probably right son…" Robin's dad said.

He mumbled a few words under his breath and vanished in a loud boom.

"How did he do that dude?" Beast Boy said.

"My dad…he…is a sorcerer," Robin explained.

"Robin…I'm so sorry…I know how it feels to have a bad father…my father was the meanest person…even worse than Slade," Terra said.

"No…nobody is worse than Slade…nobody." He said.