A/N: Well this is my first fanfic. Yay! Umm. I'd like to thank my friends, family, the human race for existing, lab rats for me to test material on, and you for actually taking the time to read this.

Disclaimer: I don't own any characters, plots, etc. that may appear in this fanfic. If you experience nausea, heartburn, indigestion, etc., while reading my fic, the best thing you can do is take some peptol bismol. Otherwise, I am not to be sued for any injury on your part. You have been warned...

Chapter 1: Remembering

This room is just...so dark. I hear things sometimes. Sometimes...I hear her cheerful voice, even though she's not there. Other times I hear him. He haunts me even though he may be in the other part of the building. He's figured out a way to get inside my head. Why? Why am I thinking this way? Why did I let this happen?

I need to find him. The others will be ok. I know it! I am not him! He...We are so different...He has to be here...

"Slade!"

"Hello Robin. You seem to have found me. What a surprise"

"I...I am going to kill you Slade. Aargh!"

"Oh really now? Do you even know why you're here? Sending trouble your way, leaving cryptic clues for you to unravel... I was testing you. For some time now I have been searching for... an apprentice. Someone to follow in my footsteps. And Robin... I've chosen you. Congratulations."

" No! I will never..."

"Watch it Robin. Do you really believe I thought you would come willingly?"

"What Slade? Nothing you do will make me follow you! I am not..."

"It looks like your little friends have found my "chronoton detonator"

"It was a fake? Then why..."

"My cannon Robin. It was armed with probes that will find its way into the bloodstream. They don't feel it, and won't even know it is there"

"You will not hurt my friends. I won't let you!"

"If you join me, if you swear to serve me. If you never speak to your friends again, I will allow them to live. But, if you disobey, even the smallest request, I will annihilate them Robin, and I'll make you watch! So, do we have a deal?"

I'm so hungry but I am not going to give him the satisfaction of me relying on him.This training. It's wearing me out. I just need to just need to sleep. But everytime I close my eyes I see them. Dying. Because of me. Slades taunting me everytime. And sometimes I don't wake up. I try so hard but I'm trapped. Trapped in a neverending cycle of pain, defeat. But I'm so tired. One of his servents should be coming of with sleep pills. I may be able to sleep dreamless. Hopefully, blackness is what I'll see ever again.