Hello again readers! I, the editor, would like to thank you for your reviews, but now for the responses from the author:

The Spanish Flyer: Um...Mugglebuddy didn't write this story, I did, and I just posted it under her name because I didn't have an account at the time. But now I do. (QuietlyInsane is my penname check it out!) And yes I know that Raven can go into their minds and help them out and thats what I intend to do. But thanks! bows glad you like it.

SWChica2005: Thanks! I'm glad you think so; I was considering doing a Buffy Fanfic myself an Inu-Yasha and Buffy the Vampire Slayer Crossover. The plot would be something like, Willow tries to do a locator spell trying to find some demon thing but she messes up somehow and summons Inu-Yasha by accident. Then mayhem ensues. Just kicking that idea around...then again I don't know if you know Inu-Yasha...it's a good idea trust me, lol

The Wild Ambition: Oh I see, you seem to know a lot about video games.


Chapter 9
Finale Part 1

Robin jumped down from his perch, careful not the touch the electrified sewer water. He slowly made his way over to the pile of rubble. He wanted to make sure that this monster was down for the count. He watched the debris for a full 5 minutes before he averted his attention to the security cameras that displayed the plight of his teammates.

"What the hell is that," Robin said aloud at what the monitors showed him. An enormous spider with blue demon markings like tiger strips was attacking Raven and Cyborg. The spider seemed to be trying to keep two large masses of webbing out of their reach. Robin pressed a few random blinking buttons on the enormous keyboard that lay before him, producing a closer image of the masses of webbing. His eyes grew wide at what he saw. "Starfire! Beast Boy! I have to get down there and help them," Robin exclaimed and began running towards the door.

"Where do you think you're going," a strangely slow and calm voice asked behind Robin.

Robin whipped around, only to meet Project Apprentice's fist directly into the side of his head. Robin flew to one side and fell with a loud thump on the ground. Completely dazed and his vision blurred, Robin lifted his head to see his attacker.

Project Apprentice was alive, but not unharmed. He stood over Robin, swaying back and forth, and his neck was snapped in half leaving his head to hang to one side. He was slumped over, his fists clenched. He grabbed his head and snapped his neck back into place.

Before Robin could get up, Project Apprentice swung forth with his heavy boot, connecting with Robin's ribs and pushing his body closer and closer to the pool of sewage. He laughed with glee as he heard Robin's bones snap.

"Did you think it would be that simple? One blow and you think you killed me," he yelled as he grabbed Robin by the back of the neck and bringing within inches of his face.

"Did you think that you could just waltz into my life, take my place and think that I wouldn't want revenge? Because of you I was competently abandoned! Cast aside as a failed experiment because he found you more appealing! Less work he said, he couldn't be bothered with training me once I was brought to life he said!"

Robin simply winced in pain as Project Apprentice's words grew louder and his speech more frantic.

"Do you know how it feels to be cast aside for someone better? No wait I take that back, someone far more inferior! What the hell was I supposed to do? Just lay there as you and Slade worked out you little master apprentice relationship? He even had two more apprentices before he even considered crawling back to me!"

"Do you think I wanted to be his apprentice!" Robin yelled cutting off Project Apprentice in mid speech. "Do you think I had a choice?"

A bit taken aback by this new information, Project Apprentice hesitated before he responded, "What?"

"Slade forced me to become his apprentice. But I have a question for you! Why do you want to be his apprentice so badly?"

"I don't," Project Apprentice replied furious that Robin would even that was his desire.

"Then why do you want to kill me? It's Slade that you should be after!"

"That's what I intend to do after I dispose of you and those damn Elementals! You all are responsible for me being cast aside and forgotten and you all will pay with your blood!" Project Apprentice bellowed as he threw Robin halfway across the room.

"Why didn't he just kill me right then and there?" Robin thought in amazement as he tried to stand himself up.

"This is what I was made for Robin!" Project Apprentice yelled on the brink of madness, "I was created to kill! To maim, destroy, murder! End life! All at Slade's command! But I refuse to be his apprentice!"

"What is he talking about? I didn't even say anything to him just now," Robin thought in a fit of confusion, wincing as he stood up, holding his side.

"I will never bow down to him! I will never be at his command, but he had no right to do that to me! What am I?" Project Apprentice seemed to have gone completely insane as his mind jumped from topic to topic.

"Your right, he had no right to do that to you. But you're doing exactly what he wants. And for what you are? You will have to figure that out on your own," Robin replied trying to talk some sense into Project Apprentice's mind.

"What do you mean, I'm doing exactly what he wants," he yelled back at Robin throwing out his hands in a sign of desperation.

"Slade is probably watching us right now, pleased with himself because his creation is doing exactly what he wants, his dirty work," Robin retorted.

"I do what I want not what he commands! His experiment failed! I didn't comply with his orders so he sought out other options! But he had no right to abandon me! If he had only made me his partner we could have been a team!" Project Apprentice bellowed trying to justify his actions.

"This is exactly what Slade wants; he wants you to kill me, because he couldn't! He's still using you, no matter what you say! If you truly want to defy Slade then don't kill me," Robin explained, hoping to change Project Apprentices mind on whether or not to kill him.

Project Apprentice chuckled at first then laughed manically at Robin's feeble plea for his life, "You think you're so smart, using mind trickery to change my mind and not kill you. Very nice try though. I will still have your head on a pike!"

And with that Project Apprentice began a new assault on his foe.

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Beast Boy lay helplessly in the dark for what seemed like an eternity. A single tear rolled down his furry cheek.

"Where is everyone? Why aren't they here…" He thought feebly as the darkness seemed to close in around him. "Did they really abandon me?"

Beast Boy's paralyzed form had not moved since Project Apprentice left him.

"I didn't even touch him…"Beast Boy thought in despair. "And with a single blow he paralyzed me; I wasn't even worth his time…"

He had just about given up all hope.

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Hot tears poured down her orange skin and Robin's now lifeless body lay limp in her arms.

"No, Robin, please don't die…"She said feebly to his remains.

She gently placed his body back down onto the cold concrete floor and wept.

She was giving up hope.

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The enormous demon spider spew webbing at Raven and Cyborg but they easily dodged the attack.

"All its power is in its illusions," Raven stated when she saw the confused look on Cyborg's face.

"Then this should be easy," Cyborg said as he blasted the spider with his sonic cannon, blowing off one of its legs.

The demon spider howled in agony and lunged at Cyborg completely forgetting about Raven. This gave Raven time to rush over to where Starfire and Beast Boy still remained trapped.

Cyborg blasted the spider again sending it flying across the cavern with an enormous hole in it mid section.

"Alright!" Cyborg exclaimed in joy as he saw the seemingly fatal wound that he had inflicted.

"No! You have to destroy its head in order to kill it," Raven stated, and then went back to her chant in order to free Starfire and Raven.

"Oh," Cyborg replied, quickly blasting it in the head before it had a chance to get up, easily killing it. "It was pretty big and nasty; I thought it would put up more of a fight," he looked over hopefully in Starfire and Beast Boy's direction but was shocked to see that they were still trapped in their minds.

"Like I said, its power is in its illusions," Raven replied annoyed that she was interrupted from her chanting.

"I thought you said that if we killed it, then it would free them! They're gonna die if we don't do something! The webbing is getting tighter," Cyborg said in fluster and ran over to where Raven was floating.

"I know what I said, but I was wrong, I must enter their minds and help them defeat their own fears," Raven stated resuming her chant and entered Beast Boy's mind.

"Come on guys wake up! You can do this! Conquer your fears," Cyborg said, but realized that his efforts were futile.

The only one that could save them now was Raven.


Well there it is folks! One more chapter and an epilogue to go! I (Mugglebuddy that is) am working on the sequel to Search for the Elementals; in fact I already have the prologue done! Stay tuned for the conclusion of Spawn of Slade, and as always….REVIEW!