Author's Note: Chap. 5 is up! Yeah! But I still need reviews…
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Insanity 101: Yes, I am dizzied by that fact too. And now let us all blame my impatience… Artemis Fowl does rock! And too bad, I haven't seen the Artemis Fowl Files yet, but the fourth book is coming out in my place! Woohoo! This summer vacation just gets better and better! First, I just watched Deception for the first time (X showing next week! Can't wait!) and I was just to the Simple Plan/ Avril Lavigne concert yesterday (it totally rocked! I screamed my lungs out!), and now this! Yeah! And good that someone also shares my view about the BB/ Robin thing (not what you're thinking, you pervs!). I haven't watched Haunted yet, but BB's remark made me laugh, and I also don't know how bad Robin really was in The Beast Within, although I read about it. And thanks for really liking my story… I really appreciate it. Read on please! Btw, Breaking the Habit was really good.
Disclaimer: I do not own the Teen Titans… yet.
"After tonight, Robin, the city will be ours. There are no more limits to our power. Soon you'll have everything your wicked heart desires.
"After this final evening of restrictions, all your wishes will be fulfilled. When all obstacles are taken care of, we'll be in charge. Following this, before dawn comes tomorrow, all command is ours.
"Robin, after the obliteration of the Titans, we are unstoppable."
Robin looked at Slade, who had been his mentor for the past twelve months. The first months under Slade had been hard and painful, but he soon got used to it. He even used all the punishments to his own advantage. There was nothing more his body can't handle. Yes, he learned a lot the past year. And tonight, he'll be able to put everything he was taught to good use.
More specifically, to execute his 'former friends.'
The plan was simple, yet foolproof.
Robin would sneak into Titans Tower, first of course making sure that all of the Titans were fast asleep. It is expected that the security codes and passwords were changed since he was abducted, but he knew for a fact, being an ex-Titan, that they made all of the codes in a certain pattern, and deciphering it would only take a couple of minutes. Once inside, he would attach a demolition bomb to all of the Tower's weak points, which he also knew. Then, he would quietly slip out, and once he is out of the perimeter, Slade would activate the bombs. In mere seconds, since all the bombs are carefully placed in every possible weak point, the Tower would fall, crushing every unexpecting Titan body beneath it. There would be no way they can survive. The Teen Titans would be history.
If the plan had been up to Slade, he would have rather had Robin kill all of the Titans one by one, in their sleep. But even though he had been willing to eradicate his past team mates, he wanted to do it the most humane and impersonal way possible.
Was there still hope for him after all?
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Raven tossed and turned in her king-sized bed. Something told her she had to stay awake. Something was about to happen.
"Oh well," she thought, "Guess it won't hurt to stay up one more night." It was true. For the past weeks, she hardly got any sleep in the many attempts to locate Robin. It was ironic, really. When Robin disappeared, it seems the whole team took after him, obsessing about his whereabouts, consumed in finding him, like he had once done with Slade.
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Raven slipped out of her bed, taking one of her books, Judas' Folly, and made her way to the main room.
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Robin had already affixed bombs to eight of the ten weak points. After adjusting another one to a section of the corridor, he chuckled softly to himself.
"This would be the last time anyone would walk in this place."
As he noiselessly went past the main room, he saw a reading lamp was turned on. Someone was awake. No! This might ruin everything! But if he completes this last job silently, the plan might still work. At the end of the floor, he fastened the final one; he looked at it, proud of his devious work.
"Mission completed. Activate demolition sequence." He whispered, mentioning the key words to Slade. The bombs would go off in four minutes, giving him ample time to get out… quickly.
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Raven felt a sudden dryness in her throat. "I need some herbal tea," she murmured, and went out to the hall where a surprise awaited her.
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Robin saw someone go out of the main room, with a cloak wavering behind them.
"Raven." He said, in a state of shock.
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"Robin?" Raven gasped as she saw the person in front of her. For five seconds they both stood still. Raven eyed him from head to toe. Yes, it was still him. Same spiky black hair. Same masked eyes. But something was wrong…
"No… it can't be…" She said, tears coming to her eyes. As he stepped into the light, she saw the armored costume he wore. It was the same uniform he wore when he worked for Slade. But that can't be, unless…
He nodded his head, suddenly understanding. "Yes."
He threw smoke pellets at the ground, and vanished into the misty shield.
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Robin ran out of the Tower as hastily as he can. It wasn't because it was about to give way, for he had a lot of time to spare: 3.36 seconds. But when he saw his old friend, the feeling came back. The guilt and disgrace he felt when he held those purple diamonds in his hands, thinking of the crime he had committed. The anger and pain he felt during those long nights of training with Slade. He didn't want to be reminded of them. After this, he'll be contented as ruler of the city. They weren't worth the glory.
But those amethyst eyes overflowing with tears… she was about to cry. He was causing her pain; his treachery was the source of her sorrow.
Upon reaching a safe distance from the Tower, his legs gave way and he fell on the ground. He felt weak and unstable from the encounter with her… It triggered memories, refreshed reminiscences that have been forgotten in the span of one year.
"What have I done?" He shouted as he pounded the floor with his fists.
'Traitor, traitor, traitor…' The word repeated itself in his mind.
"No! Slade… I didn't mean to… he made me do it! It's his entire fault!" He defended.
Who was he to feel such things? He, who, moments ago, felt no regret in wiping his best friends, who he once fought for with his life, off from the face of the planet?
'Traitor, traitor…'
He tried to get up, but found himself standing on shaking knees, and he leaned on a nearby alley wall to hold himself up.
"Raven… I'm so sorry…"
Who was he, a traitor, to understand how she felt when she found out he turned his back on them once more, when she swore to never give up on him again?
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Raven collapsed, dropping to her knees, hands splayed on the floor to hold herself up. For a minute she bowed her head to the padded floor, breathing in the smell of vinyl and hiding behind her short dark hair. Her tears splattered on the floor, collecting in small puddles as questions screamed in her mind.
"It can't be… he couldn't… he wouldn't… he promised… it's not possible… he couldn't have betrayed us again… again, for Slade… he can't…"
She raised her bowed head and her sharp vision caught the swift blinking of a red light in the corner of the corridor.
Abandoning her tears, she levitated towards the light and recognized the familiar beep of… a bomb! She looked at the time left: 2.43 minutes! She knew there was no more time to disable it, therefore she only had one choice; wake up the others and desert the Tower.
"Guys!" She shouted into her communicator, at the same time pounding on their doors. "Guys, listen to me carefully! Gather as many of your stuff as you are able to and get out of the Tower as fast as you can! No, in thirty seconds! No questions! Just trust me!"
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Robin watched from a distance as Titans Tower collapsed, large chunks of the structure falling to the open water below. It was certainly the end of the Teen Titans.
As he turned his back, on his home, on his friends, on everything he believed in, a solitary tear left his eye as he left his life… forever.
Author's Note: Chapter 5 in the bag! Yeah! And just so you know, we still have a long way to go… maybe 7 or 8 more chapters… I'm not sure. But this will not go beyond 20 chapters, I assure you!
Judas' Folly: I think I saw a book title like this, I'm not sure, it just popped in my head.
Anyway, that's about it so look out for the next installment of 'A TraitorUnmasked!' Review on your way out!
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