Darkness was all she could see, pain was all she could feel. The cold damp dungeon stone under her legs stung her skin wherever it touched. Starfire held her knees up to her chest and shivered from the loneliness that spread through her veins like poision. She knew that she couldn't last long without the sun, without her friends, or mainly without Robin.

Starfire looked at her surroundings once again and frowned with fearful doubt tugging at the corners of her lips. She had already attempted to escape by starbolting every wall, door, or window she could find, but was too weak to budge a stone.

Starfire winced at the memory of Slade and how he launched the filthy shot into her left arm saying wickedly into her ear, "Now we can't have our little princess getting away now can we?" She had felt his sour breath upon her neck and cringed with the jagged pain in her arm. The shot had weakened Starfire's powers and knocked her out for hours and had woken up only minutes ago. Starfire didn't even know what time it was let alone what day, the window in her cell only showed her rain.

She looked softly at the bruise on her left arm, touching it gently as though to heal it, but nothing happened. Now bored, Starfire tilted her head up toward the ceiling and fell asleep; pretending Robin was there beside her.

"Will you please stay friend Robin? At least till a fall asleep…"

AT TITANS TOWER

"I can't believe I let this happen! If only I could hold Slade down in a fight she would be here and safe and…"

"Robin chill, tonight we're gonna get her back, don't worry about it!" said Cyborg, obviously worried about two of his teammates.

"But dude, didn't you hear him? Robin has to make a really hard choice! Wonder if the other choice is a sweet mopehead…" pondered Beast Boy out loud while getting an annoyed glare from Raven.

"Why the hell would Slade give Robin one of those dinky things when he has the R-Cycle?"

"……gas mileage?" guessed the clueless Beast Boy. Raven rolled her eyes and slapped him upside the head with her dark powers. "Idiot." She garbled.

"Whatever it is, we have to have a plan, to no matter what, catch Slade and put him where he belongs. No matter what gets in our way, that mad man has to be put in jail once and for all, we have to stop him this time; it may be our last chance!" and with that, Robin turned on his friends and walked towards the training room.

"You know where to find me if he calls." Muttered Robin before the doors swooshed shut behind him. The titans all looked at each other doubtfully, knowing who 'He' was.

Instead of going to the training room like he said, Robin took an extra turn down the corridors and up to Starfire's room. He smiled at just the sight of her room, remembering how he always checked on her every night before he slept.

The night before, however, was quite unpleasant when no one was there to soothe or kiss goodnight. But then again, Robin did not sleep last night. Instead, he typed furiously on his computer for hours, trying to find what Slade was up to, but no luck prevailed.

But now he stood in front of her deathly silent room, wondering if she was ok at that every moment. Robin silently punched in the code to her door and as soon as the entrance swooshed opened, her scent spilled into his senses and preserved themselves in his head for his dreams. He closed his eyes and lost himself, hoping that when he opened his eyes, Starfire, his Star, would be on the bed and safe, as if nothing happened. But then Robin came back to reality and slowly unbolted his eyelids to find a cold and empty bed.

He stepped into the room and looked around. The walls were, of course, painted pink with matching pink curtains and a fluffy pink carpet to line the room. Stuffed animals were littered all over her bed sheets and pictures stood on her bedside table. Robin smiled as he picked up a picture of the team at the carnival before Starfire's sister arrived. They were all in front of a game stand with colorful balloons and darts in the background. Cyborg and Beast Boy were both flexing their "muscles", Raven was pictured rolling her eyes at them sarcastically, and Robin and Starfire were both holding their stomachs with laughter. Robin dusted off the picture before putting it back to where he found it.

The next picture was one of Robin's favorites because it was of only him and his Star. The picture was taken on a sunny day in the park when they were out on a picnic. Robin was smiling with a half eaten hotdog in his hand, complete with ketchup on the side of his mouth. Beast boy had tried to get him to eat a tofudog, but Robin easily refused. Starfire was smiling joyfully beside him with a bottle of mustard in her hand, complete with mustard on her lips and fingertips. Robin truly loved this picture of pure happiness and thought to himself, she will be back here by tomorrow, and we will be in more happy pictures just like this. Many more pictures like this one in the future will be made.

He missed his girl so much; he wanted to hold her for hour's right then. He wanted to run his fingers through her silky red hair and whisper into her ear that everything would be ok.

Robin looked around the room and then down at the picture still in his shaking hands. The thought of Slade with pure anger and frustration as he put the picture back on the table.

"This mad man will pay. I will stop this madness tonight. I will finally catch him and put him in jail. I will give him what he deserves…no matter what the cost."

And with that, a dark and cold hearted Robin stomped out of the room and stormed off toward the training room.

"No matter what the cost."