I just want to say thanks to dlsky, Alexnandru Van Gordon and rrabecy for all the reviews and feedback. Especially dlsky, thanks for the tips and advice. The story just wouldn't have been the same without the advice and the review to keep me writing. Thank you all so much again. I now present to you...the conclusion of The Offspring, Chapter Nine: Robin vs. Slash.
The voice was everywhere; he could not locate the source, but knew exactly from whom it came from. He was standing just outside the light, so that he was hidden. Robin finally located the source and stared right at Slash. Slash finally emerged from the shadows, grinning under his mask.
"Robin, so nice of you to join us." He said, motioning to Starfire's limp, still body.
"You ass…what did you do to her!" Robin screamed.
"Pathetic little girl, she had no strength. She was too easy to get rid of, provided no threat what so ever." Slash said with no hint of emotion, just said what he had to and stood there, like a robot.
"What? What are you talking about?" Robin asked. "What do you mean she provided no real threat?"
Slash chuckled. "Robin, why don't you find out yourself?"
The other Titan's were everywhere trying to find him. Raven had taken the piers, Beast Boy downtown and Cyborg the industrial area, however they could not locate Robin. Everywhere they looked turned up to be a dead end, and there were no leads.
"Gah! This is taking forever!" A very upset and tired Beast Boy yelled.
"I know it is, but we can't give up, not yet." Cyborg said full of wisdom. "If Robin were doing this, he wouldn't give up and neither can we."
Just as he had finished saying this, Raven flew down from the sky.
"Any luck?" Cyborg asked.
Raven just shook her head. They had looked everywhere, but they just couldn't find their leader.
Robin proceeded to approach to body of Starfire. She was white as a sheet as her auburn hair fall peacefully around her head. She had an expression of pain on her face, like the ones people get after they had been tortured and hurt severely.
Robin put a hand on her, and immediately felt that she was very, very cold. He didn't want to do anymore, but he had to, he had to see if she was ok. She just had to be.
He felt, her neck and searched for a pulse. Behind him, Slash was getting ready for the reaction. Smiling widely under his mask.
"No…." Robin whispered almost inaudibly. "No, there is no way!" Robin was starting to cry now. There were tears flowing from his face all over the floor and all over Starfire's body. "How could you? How could you do this to her? You killed her!" Just then, Robin remembered something. The dream he had had just before he woke up to search for Starfire. It was exactly like this.
"What did you do to her? Speak!" Robin yelled, enraged.
"Pathetic little girl, had no strength, she was a weakling, like you Robin." Slash said emerging from the shadows into the light that reflected off his armor.
"You didn't know her, you psychotic bastard. You never knew the power she had, instead you did this to her. What's wrong with her?"
"Robin, do you always as such stupid questions? Check her pulse, and see for yourself."
Robin did as he was told, and was starting to shake as he touched the young, beautiful alien's neck.
Robin fell back and started to cry, there was no pulse. Starfire was dead. His love, his life, gone in a split second.
He remembered and started to weep even more, even though there were no more tears to cry.
Robin got up and turned to Slash, this time not with a sad face on, but one with utmost disgust and anger. "You are going to die." Robin said very calmly, as he approached Slash and punched him in the face.
The other Titan's had no more luck in trying to find Robin, they had looked everywhere and had no idea where he was.
"Guys, lets go back to the industrial area. I don't know what it is, but there is something that is telling me that he is there, we just need to look real good." Cyborg said, his intuition was acting up again.
The others agreed and they started on their way.
"You are going to die!" Robin said again, as he kept punching Slash in the face. He wouldn't stop, never, there was no way. Slash killed Starfire, his one true love, his only reason in the world to keep on living, to keep on fighting, and she was gone. Robin wanted Slash to suffer the same fate as his father and intended to make it happen.
Robin would not stop his relentless attacks, until he was forced to stop because he had burned out all of his energy.
With the final punch, Slash fell to the ground and just lay there for a few minutes. Robin began his walk back to Starfire to gather her up, so he could bring her back to the tower when a voice was heard from behind him.
"Is that the best you have got Robin? I was expecting something a little more, especially since I killed your girlfriend."
Robin stopped and turned around. "I was only getting started!" Robin lunged towards Slash at full speed; nothing was going to stop him now.
The Titan's were searching frantically in the industrial area. They had stopped for a bit because it seemed as if they were going around in circles. Just one pass after an other would bring them back to the exact same place they were before.
"This isn't getting us anywhere." Raven said, with a little annoyance in her voice.
"They are here, we just need to look harder." Cyborg said, looking into one of the abandoned warehouses windows.
"Yo, dudes. I think you might want to check this out." Beast Boy said over the communicator.
Robin was charging at Slash full speed and was almost at him when Slash stuck his foot right out at head level of Robin and connected full force with the running boy.
Robin reeled backwards in pain and fell to the ground.
"Robin, it is useless, you know you cannot beat me." Slash said, standing over the fallen teen.
"You don't know what I can do!" Robin said as he gave Slash an uppercut to his chin.
"You are going to wish you hadn't done that!" Slash said, acting more and more like his father.
He charged Robin, but was much to fast for Robin to see and came up behind the Boy Wonder and got him in a hold.
"Now Robin, if you just hold still, this would be much easier." Slash said calmly, trying to break Robin's neck.
"Yeah? Well I like to make things difficult!" Robin screamed as he gave Slash a low blow.
Slash was now on the ground. He looked up to see Robin who had a very aggravated face and kicked Slash right in the face.
Slash fell over once again, and seemed to be unconscious. He wasn't moving and nothing could be heard from him.
Robin turning from Slash once again, proceeded to Starfire's body. He wanted to get out of here as fast as possible and get Starfire out of here too.
Robin was just at Starfire's body when he heard footsteps, fast footsteps. He turned around and before he could react, Slash was now on top of Robin and repeatedly hitting him in the face.
"BB! What's up?" Cyborg yelled from a distance.
"I think I may have found something." He said pointing to one warehouse in particular who had its light on.
"Well that isn't suspicious." Raven said sarcastically.
"Let's go then!" Cyborg called. And they were off to investigate.
Slash kept on hitting Robin, he kept on hitting him until his arm was tired and could lift it no more.
He got up off of the teen and looked at his face, It was brutally beaten and there was blood everywhere.
"Never, turn your back on me." Slash said. And proceeded to walk away.
As he did so, he did not see the stirring in the center of the room, it was Starfire and she was awake! She got up and saw Robin on the floor and saw his face, then turned her face to see Slash walking away. She was furious and charged.
"AHHHHH!"
"What the…? Omph!"
Starfire had flew straight into Slash and tackled him. She got up from his body and immediately began throwing punches at his face and threw some starbolts.
"So, looks like you got up. It seems as if I didn't give you enough of that fake death serum. Next time, I won't make that same mistake!"
"There will not be a next time!" Starfire said as she charged up and threw a massive starbolt at the figure that lay beneath her.
It connected with Slash. He screamed in agony, and was hurt very badly from the blast.
Slash was out for the count. He would not harm anyone anymore.
Starfire had gone over to see Robin, to make sure he was okay.
"Robin? Robin, please awaken. It is I, Starfire. Oh, please awaken."
There was a rustle in her arms just below her. "Star…fire?" Robin said and fell out of consciousness once again.
Just then there were running foot steps in the hallway just outside of the warehouse. Starfire readied starbolts, but as she did so, her friends had entered the room.
"Friends!" Starfire yelled leaping at them all.
"Star, you're ok!" Beast Boy yelled.
"Yes, I am, but I fear that Robin is in need of some medical attention." Stafire said, pointing to the teen's body.
"So, what happened in here?" Raven asked.
"I shall tell you later. Right now, we need to get Slash." Starfire said.
"Where is he?" Cyborg asked.
"He is over….there?" Stafire said pointing to where Slash's body did lay, it was gone.
The Titan's rushed over to see where he might have gone, when they heard something, it was a voice.
"Another time Titan's, another time."