Terra blinked her eyes and slowly set up. She was in a beacon of light surrounded by darkness. She slowly stood up, her legs didn't want to but she willed them to. No this place wasn't nearly as mystical as it first looked. She was in a square room; she couldn't tell dimensions from were she stood. A light was inset into the ceiling in the center. The light only illuminated a small part in the center. The rest of the room was shadows, and the corners darkness. Terra walked towards the closest wall looking for any sign of how she got in.

"Good your awake."

Terra spun around, Slade was standing in the light.

"How did you…"

"How I do what I do is none of your concern child." He threw something at her, she instinctively dodged it, and the bundle landed on the ground.

"Maybe I should say catch next time." His tone suggested mirth but his stance did not.

Terra picked up the bundle there were two one piece jump suits.

"The one that most resembles what you wear now is for you."

"I don't want it." She dropped them back to the floor.

"Oh you will because you and your new roommate will not be leaving this room until you put them on."

"Roommate?"

"Oh he will be joining you shortly. If you want any privacy while changing I suggest you hurry."

"Wait what…" at that Slade diapered in a plume of fire.

"…do you mean by roommate, for that matter how do you do that?" Terra finished her question to the air. The suit that Slade had given her earlier; time must have passed but it seamed like less than a week to her. The suit was torn in several places burnt in some and was just dirty all over. She took the other, new, suit and unfolded it. It was the same design but it had a cowl and a mask similar to Slade's. She sighed then picked up her new suit and walked to the corner. Privacy my ass, he probably was recording everything; still this area was dark right? Striping out of the old suit she donned the new one. It was skin tight like the last one, but this one was much more comfortable and seamed to flow over her skin. Bulk around her forearms indicated some sort of device was hidden there but she could not figure out how to work it.

"Slade." She called out, he probably just left the room to watch from some screen, pervert.

"I did it let me out of here." No response. She went back to searching the room for any sign of a door but a gurgling and rumbling told her there were more pressing matters. She hadn't eaten anything that fateful day after they took the city, the day the titans had beaten her the day she had turned on Slade, the day she thought was the end. She knew that that day and many more had passed but her stomach new she hadn't eaten or drunken anything in the last 24 hours. Nor had she used the bathroom. The human body can lasts weeks without food, days without water, but she knew that at this rate she couldn't hold it in more that an hour. She decided to wait rather than find a nice corner. She sat down and started to think out loud.

"Common Terra you can do it, just don't think about water."

"Did you find anything Star?" Cyborg asked the red headed princes as he dug threw the pile of scrapes that had been robots, looking for any clue to Robin's location.

"No, I could not see anything from above."

"Don't worry well find him." Cyborg flipped on his com. "Beastboy, anything down bellow?"

"Nada, I'm going to widen my search."

"Ok, got it."

A black shadow appeared on the ground before them and Raven rose up to her normal height.

"I'm at a loss, Cyborg, Starfire, any ideas?"

"I don't think there's any evidence here anymore. I think we should go back to the tower and regroup."

"I will not give up."

"I'm not talking about giving up, I won't either, but we need to find a lead and the invitations as good as any right now."

"Cyborgs right, we aren't going to get any where like this, Slade must have teleported or something." Raven said.

"Very well." Starfire sat down amide the ruble.

"I'll alert BB, Star are you coming?"

"Yes in a minute."

Cyborg looked like he was going to protest but Raven ushered him from the ruined building.

"Robin where ever you are, please don't die." Starfire chocked back a tear before finally getting up and flying after the others.

Terra glanced up as Slade repapered in a plume of fire. It was to dark to see who but Slade had at least one other person with him.

"Good you haven't fallen asleep." Slade's associate dropped something on the floor, no someone. "Terra meet your new roommate and partner, he should wake up soon. Remember no food or any contact from me until he gets dressed."

"Wait," but Slade was gone in another flash of fire, how did he do that. Terra walked over to were the figure was and dragged the unconscious youth into the light. He was roughly her height but she had no idea who he was. Dressed in black he had a large red X on his mask. The sit was burnt in several places and further damaged by fire and smoke. Terra decided to keep her new roommate's identity a secret and instead bundled the other uniform she had been given into a makeshift pillow and placed it beneath his head. Terra set back against the wall and waited, she had no idea how long he would sleep. Please wake up soon, she thought, she really had to go.

Robin was surrounded by darkness, just floating in it. Hazy shapes that he should have remembered seemed distant to him. Slade's mocking voice cut through the pain that he found himself in. Robin struck out at a figure, it had to be Slade, but as it fell to the ground Robin could see that it was Starfire. Robin stopped and just hung there in this pseudo space trying to grasp what was going on. Was he dead? No he had had delusions like this before, he was just unconscious, he hoped. What had happened, right Slade. He had fought Slade, but why. Because he had been tricked, the awful truth slowly dawned on him. His friends had been right the whole thing had been an elaborate set up and he had fallen for it. While the pain was disappearing Robin felt a whole lot worse.

This had been his fault no one else's, just him. Slade had won yet again. Robin wanted to hang in this dark place and brood on his failings but light slowly brightened and he moaned.