The rest of their accent was unmarred by the appearance of any more Slade bots, and a few minutes latter the two of them crossed the threshold into another room. It was much smaller than the last but still had the same look, black with thin white lines crisscrossing it in a grid. As the two walked in the door behind them slid shut and lasers begin to come online. They formed a tangled web across the room, each one moved in an almost random pattern.
"I guess we aren't supposed to touch them."
"Probably." Robin sat down; the area by the door was the only place the lasers didn't touch. "I wonder," he continued, "what would happen if something hit them." Terra started to protest but Robin had already pulled one of his throwing discs and flipped one into a tangle of lasers.
"Don't It'll probably bring more robots…" Terra stopped and let out a short gasp as she watched the disc strike the first laser in its path. The laser cleanly cut the disc in two. Of course a single deadly laser wasn't enough, when the disc touched the first laser it must have set off an alarm because as the pieces fell to the floor they were intersected again and again by other lasers. Each one in the local area left its pattern to slice at the disc. More small pieces than Terra could count fell to the ground.
Robin gulped.
"No chance that he'd make this easy."
"What do we do?"
"Well see that red lever on the other side."
"Yeah."
"My guess is that controls the lasers." Robin stood back up. "One of us will have to go over there and pull that switch."
"Robin that's insane."
"Maybe not just give me a few minutes to think, see if you can find a pattern."
"Ok." This was bad, was Slade really trying to kill them? After all the time that they had been held captive? No he couldn't mean to kill them, there must be a sure fire way across the room. Terra didn't see it but she silently hoped Robin would find away.
Robin poked his staff into the lasers, this was the second time he had done so and the effect was the same. The lasers all moved to intercept this unknown aggressor and Robin lost another inch or two from his staff.
"Hm."
"What?"
"I think I can get through." Robin stood up and handed Terra his staff. I need you to continually poke right there."
"There." Terra pointed to the place.
"Yeah. As long as the lasers are busy I think that I can get through."
"That going to be dangerous."
"I know." Robin stretched a little preparing himself for the task.
"Robin."
"Yes."
"Before you go, I have to tell you something."
"Its ok, whatever it is, it can wait until we both get across."
"But…"
"Now Terra." She jabbed out with the staff and begin to juke it back and forth tripping as many lasers as she could as many times as she could. Robin took off, sprinting into the tangled web of death. Diving over the first set and rolling beneath the second. As you went deeper into the room the lasers remained stationary. Robin passed the section of moving lasers but Terra kept doing as she had been told for fear that the others might move if she stopped, even if she was running out of staff. Robin slid past yet another set of lasers and jumped over the last line.
"Ta-da. Easier than I thought."
"Just shut them down."
"Ok." Robin pulled the switch and sure enough the lasers cut off. "Hurry up."
"Coming." Terra allowed herself a smile as she set off across the floor. Robin had been amazing.
"TERRA."
"What." Robin just pointed behind her. She glanced back and noted with horror that the lasers were coming back online, slowly but they would over take her before she reached the end.
"Run!" Not having to be told again Terra picked up her pace to a sprint. To late the activation passed her with only a few feet left. She found herself trapped, surrounded by deadly lasers only a few feet away from the end.
"You'll have to jump, I know you can do it Terra."
Yeah no big deal you've done stuff like this before. Raising her hands above her she envisioned what this was going to look like then she jumped.
Having only a foot or so she could not get much of a running start but it was enough. Jumping above the first set Terra landed on her hands, she immediately felt pain but ignored it. Pushing off her hands she flipped through the air passing through a narrow opening on her side and then hitting the ground on the other side, hard. Letting out a grunt of pain Terra simply lay there, until Robin helped her up.
"Are you ok?"
"No, my side."
"It's alright, you made it." Robin helped her sit up and probed her side. His touch felt good but caused far more pain that it should have.
"I think you might have broken a rib earlier."
"Lovely."
"Here take my hand." Terra did so and Robin helped her up. She could walk with out his help but Robin insisted, so she just hung onto his shoulder and he acted like a crutch.