A/N: There is nothing on the TV. Singing in a tone deaf voice Laaaaaaaa… Won't you join me in my song of miserable woe? Wait, am I writing this…? Due to the words on this page, I can logically conclude, that yes, I am writing these words, anyway there is absolutely nothing on the TV, so I guess it's time to write the next chapter of my story.
I was really truly going to get started on this sooner, but today I have a cold, so I really can't do too much of anything else. I've been trying to learn HTML so I can make a decent guild on Neopets. I haven't gotten very far… Yes, I know that is no excuse for not working on this story.
Wait! I do have a decent excuse for not working on this story! Our Microsoft Word © hasn't been working quite right for the past week or so, so yeah…If you can think of ways that I could improve my writing, please tell me…
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That evening after a supper of 'Mc Happy' burgers, lemon-lime soda, water, greasy fries and onion rings After supper Starfire and Robin searched for and found some much-needed toothbrushes in the medicine cabinet.
After their teeth were clean of plaque, it was 8:00pm. If they had been at Titans Tower, they wouldn't even be considering going to sleep, they would probably not even be home. However they were not at Titans Tower, they were somewhere underground being held as prisoners by the evil Slade.
Seeing as there wasn't much else to do Robin and Starfire once again sat at the table and held a conversation.
"I've been thinking about it, and, for some reason you can't control your powers, I mean you almost, fried me... Uh yeah, umm I really think-" Starfire interrupted:
"I could try again if you wish me to, but I do not wish to be fighting my self again." Starfire offered, reluctantly, a hint of fear in her tone of voice.
"Starfire, I'm not asking you to. We do have to get out of here, but I don't think we can do it by force," Robin opened his mouth, as if to say more, but abruptly walked over to the shower. He entered and found a handle it wasn't labeled. He tuned it to the right.
"Augh!!!" Robin screamed. The water was freezing cold. He turned it a bit to the right. It was warming up. 'Good at least Slade was uh, merciful enough to give us warm water.' He thought, a bit relived.
Starfire had been waiting silently from her chair at the table, puzzled. Then Robin opened the shower door just enough to get his arm out, as not to get water all over the floor.
He motioned for Starfire to join him. Reluctantly Starfire got up and walked over to the shower curtain. She opened it to see Robin, still with all his clothes on, minus his cape, which Slade had took along with all of Robin's other gadgets. (A/N: Good! Well, not about the cape, but about the clothes.) He was sopping wet, the last bit of hair gel had been rinsed out of his hair.
"Come on Star, get in, the water is warm." He encouraged her. Reluctantly she entered, closing the shower curtain behind her, as so not to let the floor get wet.
"Robin, why are we in the shower? It is wet, small and slightly ehh uncomfortably here."
"For one, this is more fun, for two we both stink, for three, I think Slade has microphones and cameras all over this room, I just hope he and Blackfire had the decency to not put cameras and microphones in here. If I'm right, he can't hear us."
"But Robin, why could you not turn the water on and we talk outside? We would not get wet and-" Robin interrupted her.
"He might be able to read our lips, people can do that you know. There are ways to know what people are talking about, without being able to hear them. Now we are going to make up a plan, so just be quiet." Robin explained, he was now thinking of other ways he could have talked to Starfire without being heard, but it was too late for that now, they were both soaking wet, and he was determined to not let Slade know what they were talking about.
"Very well, we will talk, but I am beginning to think we will never escape this dreadful place." Starfire said, sitting down on the floor of the shower.
"We will get out, we have to Star, we have to figure out why Slade is being so, nice to us. What he's planning next." Robin said, as he was talked his mind was racing, trying to come up with some reasonable theory.
"Yes, but why do you think my sister became his apprentice? I knew she liked stealing, and breaking the laws, but why does she now work for Slade? One who would take over the city if he could?" Starfire asked, waiting for Robin's answer:
"Remember when Blackfire took over Tameran? When you banished her, she probably figured she would take over earth for revenge, then she reasoned the best way to do so would be to join up with Slade. She knew he was our enemy." Robin explained his thoughts, affirming Starfire's fears.
"I knew you were going to be saying that. I feared it was so as you have said. I understand you do not know this for certain, but I did not wish to believe it. Can we now get out of this water? My skin is beginning to get like the clams."
"I'm sorry Star, but I really am just fantasizing, but right now, we can't know for sure." He Explained, truly sypathetic for his friend.
"What are we to be doing next? I am eager to leave this place." Starfire inquired, wanting to change to subject.
"Well, I guess we should theroly search this room, ever bit of concrete, every inch must be inspected." Robin stated, then with a mischievous grin on his face he picked up the bar of soap and began rubbing it against his shirt leaving a trail of soap scum ground into the fibers of his costume.
"I figure while we're here we might as well get cleaned up, here catch!" Robin exclaimed, throwing the soap bar to Starfire. She caught it and began rubbing it against her hair.
Forgetting that she was in a shower in a room somewhere underground in Slade's hideout Starfire let out a giggle. For the first time since that 'date' so long ago, Robin and Starfire smiled and burst into laughter.
Meanwhile…
Raven had been right, it was going to be a long evening, long night, long next morning. Look at the clock. Nope, still it had only been one hour since she had given in to Cyborg and Beast Boy's 'crazy theory' about how they thought Robin and Starfire hadn't really eloped and it was already beginning to sound as if the idea wasn't so crazy after all.
The boys had gone through all of Starfire's things and not even found the tinniest clue. Cyborg had been on the computers for the last half an hour had been double-checking with the bank to make sure all the statements were correct.
Beast Boy was up in his room preparing a multimedia presentation to present all his ideas about what had happened. That left Raven some time to think. 'This is actually kind of nice. I've had a reasonable amount of quiet today. Thing is, the more Cyborg and Beast Boy tell me, the more I have to allow myself to believe them.' No sooner than she had organized these thoughts, Cyborg ran up to her, panting.
"Rae, good you're here. I've been looking all over for you! I called around all the movie theaters in the city, and one of them said they had had a little disturbance a few nights ago while showing Spider-Man2. Something about a wall being blown up and holes burnt in the carpet."
"What?!" Raven exclaimed, a bit alarmed, realizing Cyborg might be getting at something here.
"It's what the manager said, no person wittnessed the battle itself, all the people cleared out, but the securaty cameras caught some of it on tape! They said we could go cheak it out." Cyborg said, shrugging.
"It might be just nothing, but I guess we could go see what there is to see. Go get Beast Boy, oh yeah, go get the T-car ready." She comanded, using her new power of Titan Leader.
"All right!" Cyborg exclaimed, glad Raven was finally starting to belive him. He was a bit worried too, if Robin and Starfire had fought bad guys in this movie thearter, where were they now? Who had they been fighting, was it really them anyway? Only time could tell, but was there time for Robin and Starfire?
A/N: Okay, I've wrapped up this chapter, and the story is working up to a climax. I hope you've enoiyed this chap. I'm thinking about a sequal, but I really don't have a plot. If people really want me to write a sequal, then maybe I will…
Even though you know that Robin and Starfire are safe, for the moment, who's to say what'll happen to them in the next chapter? It's so secret, even I don't know, but I will. Check out my guild on neopets, I've been working on it. All I need is some music. My username is:
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