(Oh, I forgot last time… Larry! – He isn't in my stories, but he is still there in some way. Like this: Terra comes back in one of the stories, but she hasn't betrayed the titans. Confused? Well, you will understand after the last story. – JoBO)

(Oh, Rose…not to confused more, but…well, let us just say, that the "Chart of Robins" isn't complete, but that you don't have to think about it in this story. - JoBO)


Deception

Who were these people? Where did they come from? How had they got their powers? And maybe the most important question of them all: Where was he?

He was standing in the middle of the room next to the desk. The walls were covered with articles about them. He had read them all, but still he didn't understand it. He had play along with their game. Hoping to get some answers, but all it have giving him was more questions.

Where was he?

He cast a glance over at one of the articles. It had a big picture of him in the middle. He was fighting a giant, and the others were seen in the background. It seemed like he was a hero here, but still just a member of a team.

He realized something. If the machine worked, then this wasn't his world. What was it the doctor had told him? There were not just one version of the world, but there were many. Then that guy hadn't just been anybody, as he first had believed. He had been him!

That would explain the resemblance between them. That would explain why they thought he was a member of this team. Since he really was a member of this team or a least his counterpart was!

He smiled over his discovery. No one could fool him. He was just too quick for them. He cast another glance over at the picture, and felt the pain in his heart. It would be nice to have someone to share the triumphs with. He had Jake, but he was just so weak. He had abandoned that idea years ago, but still he was his brother – his twin brother.

He felt something wet in the corner of his eye. Angrily he wiped it away.

He didn't need a brother! No, he needed power! No one should suppress him again. He wanted to show them, that he was as good as Ba… NO!

He felt down on his knees.

He didn't need them. They just wanted to hold him back. He was too smart for them, so they wanted to hold him back. They had given him promises, which he never had seen. He had done the dirty work, while they just had wiped their hands. He was the one with the blood on his hands.

The door opened and Raven came in.

"Robin, are you okay?"

He looked up and smiled.

He needed her. She was everything that he desired - Control, resolution, beauty and power. More power, that he ever had dreamt off. A plan began to form inside his head.

o-

Jake ended the series and jumped down from the trapeze. Robin walked over to him and gave him a bottle of water.

"I still can come over, that you can stand on your legs."

Jake smiled as he unscrewed the top of the bottle and took a swallow.

"Sorry, that I fooled you, but Airmid said it was the best way."

"Maybe it was."

The both laughed over it for a while, but then Robin became serious.

"Jake, I know you have told me, that your brother doesn't know, that you can use your legs, but you have never told me why."

Immediately Jake dropped the water bottle. Robin picked it up from the floor.

"Sorry, I wasn't trying to…"

"It's okay."

He walked over to the open window and looked out on the ocean.

"Me and Dick have always been different. Maybe we are as different inside, as we are identical on the outside, but still we have always been brothers. We have always been there for each other, but now…"

He ran a hand through his hair.

"The accident, which confined me to the wheelchair, wasn't an accident."

"What?"

He walked over to Robin and took the water bottle again.

"Dick was getting careless. He was testing the limits, and in the end he stepped too far, so I had to take the fall for him."

"You hate him?"

Jake looked him straight into the eyes.

"No!"

"But what then? Why do you want to torment him that much, if you don't hate him?"

Jake broke the eye contact.

"He is my brother. I should have stopped him, but I was too weak. I'm always too weak! That is why I need you!"

o-

"Whoa, New high score!"

The screen flashed in red and blue and showed the message "Robin - 5,000,000". Robin's name was smashed away by Cyborg's, and the score change to 7,000,000.

"Wow, you beat it…"

Beast Boy dropped down in the sofa next to Cyborg. He eyes was as big as teacups.

"…. You have tried for so long and now you FINALLY BEAT IT!"

He jumped up from the sofa and was just about to turn back into a monkey, when they heard a cry from the hallway.

"STOP HIM!"

A black figure ran into the living room, but stopped as he saw Cyborg and Beast Boy, which gave Starfire and Raven time to come into the room. The black figure then took something from his pocket and used it to open some kind of a black hole in the air.

"Yo!"

The black figure stepped into the hole and vanished. Raven floated over to the hole.

"Maybe we should…"

Before she could finish came DarkRobin running out of the shadows. He dived into the hole and vanished.

"Titans! Go!"