Here is the newest installment of The Spawn of Slade! We hope you like it! As usual here are the author shout-outs!

The Wild Ambition: S'ok, I just gotta defend Bats. He's so cheesy yet oddly cool at the same time...

Hekatie: Yes well, I couldn't have Project Apprentice just always talkin' to himself, lol, and by the way, 2-NY-1489 isn't just a random grouping of numbers and letters. It's my birthday and the state I live in. Just a little side note...


The Spawn of Slade
Chapter 6
Separation

The Titans were shocked. Robin had never discussed his experiences while being forced to be Slade's apprentice. They just assumed he did not want to speak of it, so they let their questions remain unanswered. Beast Boy was the first to speak.

"What do we do now?"

"We find where this guy is hiding and we attack fast and with everything we've got," Robin replied taking Cyborg's place in front of the computer turning it back on. The rest of the Titans took this as their cue to leave Robin and get prepared. Starfire stayed behind.

"Worry not," Starfire reassured, "we will find this monster and we will destroy him."

"I hope so Star," Robin replied not taking his gaze away from the computer screen, "because he won't rest until I'm dead." Shivering slightly at the remark Robin had just made, Starfire left the room to prepare for the battle.

TTT

Meanwhile, Project Apprentice was making his own preparations for the Titans arrival. He began by setting up easily defeatable traps. Confused by what his master was doing 2-NY-1489 timidly asked, "What are you doing master?"

"What does it look like I am doing, setting up traps for our visitors," snapped Project Apprentice, "isn't it time you stopped questioning me?

"Yes my Lord, of course, but these traps are hardly going to slow down the Titans, quite frankly they appear to be the same traps as in an Indiana Jones movie," the little robot replied not sure why he knew what an Indiana Jones movie was.

"I'm trying to see what I am up against here, it doesn't seem like too much, considering our last battle, however I would like to see all of what they have in their arsenal," Project Apprentice replied, amazed at his patience.

Finishing up the last of the traps, he made his way back into the room where Slade spent most of his time. The room where Slade conversed with his former Apprentices and where Terra got a good beating after disobeying Slade.

"This is the place, where our final battle will ensue," Project Apprentice stated turning on the surveillance systems that overlooked the places where he placed all of the traps.

"Why here my Lord?" 2-NY-1489 asked.

"Because," Project Apprentice replied, "I want Robin to feel at home."

TTT

"I've found him," Robin thought to himself under the glow of the computer screen, "in the same place Slade created him."

Running into the room, each Titan appeared ready and waited for the command to head out.

"Ready Titans?" Robin asked. They all replied with a somber nod of the head. And with yelling his trademark line, "TITANS GO!" They all headed out.

"So where is he?" Beast Boy asked after no one had spoken for a few minutes.

"In the same place where he was created," Robin replied simply.

As the made their way down into the sewers, Robin abruptly motioned them all to stop moving. "There are traps everywhere," he stated. Searching with his bionic eye, Cyborg easily pointed them all out and thus the Titans were able to avoid them all.

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Looking on from his vantage point Project Apprentice swore under his breath, "Shit, well that was very anticlimactic." Annoyed, he sighed and leapt out of the chair he was in and walked over to the center of the room. "I suppose then, I will have to see what they all can do in our battle…or not," as he said this he realized the one trap that they missed. "And it is the most important trap of all," smiling maliciously he walked back over to the surveillance monitors and watched in glee as the Titan's foolishly fell into his trap.

TTT

"Looks like we avoided them all gang," Cyborg said after he had not detected another trap for quite some time and he turned of his sensors. They continued to walk in silence until the came upon what appeared to be fun house mirrors.

"Pathetic, he is just trying to confuse us with these fun house mirrors," Raven stated unimpressed at Project Apprentices attempts. "However, I sense magic at work here, dark magic," Raven thought to herself.

"That may be so, but let's not let this trick of his work, stay close together," Robin replied.

Following his command, the rest of the Titans drew closer together. They walked very cautiously, slamming into a few mirrors before Robin noticed something was wrong. He turned around and saw that he was alone. Gasping, he called out for his teammates.

"STARFIRE, RAVEN, BEAST BOY, CYBORG?" Realizing that his efforts were in vain, he took out his com-link and called for any of the Titans. No answer. "He succeeded," Robin thought to himself, "he separated us." Looking ahead he saw what they had been looking for. Just past the exit, Robin saw Project Apprentice standing in the middle of a large inner room in the sewer system. The same room in which, he had fought Slade himself many times before.

Laughing manically, Project Apprentice called out to Robin, "Why, hello Robin nice of you to join me, I was just about to make drinks care to join me?"

"What are my choices?" Robin retorted hoping to draw out the banter portion of the battle so he had time enough to survey his surroundings.

"YOUR BLOOD!" Project Apprentice bellowed as he made the first move.


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