By Krabby Patties
Rated T
Action/Adventure/Romance
A Robin and Starfire fic
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Disclaimer: I don't own Teen Titans because 'I'm at a place called Vertigo.'
Dedication: To the makers of the movie 'Sleepy Hollow' staring Johnny Depp because it rocked so much!
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Reviews:
StarXRobin4eva12: LOL! You're funny! Thanks. I thought I was horrible at make-out scences but you make me think otherwise…
blah: Yeah he was OOC but that's just cuz he loves camping. Hey I love eating bananas. We all love to do something. Jay Kay. Smile smile. I knew people wouldn't get the poem.
Samanthe2121: LOL! You're welcome! Yeah I'm so proud of myself about the poem!
princesslali2148: ROFL! Thanks but I can't take all the credit. I used a rhyming dictionary… Oh no! I just gave myself away! I'll forever be known as the person who ruined poems! WAAA! Jay kay!
starfire: Thank you. You're awesome!
Angry Reader: Hey no problem. I'm just a loser anyway. Well thanks. I will ask if I need help! Thanks!
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A/N: Okay, okay. I'm seriously extremely sorry for the delay. What has it been? Like five weeks since I've posted a chapter? The Saturday I went to camp I promised you I would post a chapter and I couldn't because I was too busy packing. Then the next Saturday I was supposed to come home from camp but when my dad came to pick me up he said we were heading straight for Nashville. So I was all around Tennessee, in Quincy, Illinois, and in Centralia, Missouri for three weeks. I didn't get home until last Saturday at 10 PM. But I have been working on this storie all while I was away by writing everything down in my notebook.
You deserve five chapters for the wait but all I have is this one and the next one. Sorry. I suck, I know. I'm a darned loser.
You know, I seriously had no plot for this storie at all. What ever came into my head I typed down. But now I have a plot. And it's an extremely good one at that. I've figured out what I'm going to do with the two sequels and how they're going to connect into a trilogy. Oh, I'm so happy!
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Chapter 13: The End of the Rainbow
A cute little chipmunk ran up a tree with another close behind. The first chipmunk carried an extra large acorn in its cheek. She ran through a bushel of leaves and turned her head back to see if the other chipmunk was still following. And sure enough, he still was. She took a deep breath and started running again. All she needed was to get to her nest and her family could protect her from the other chipmunk.
The other chipmunk stopped for a moment on a particularly rough branch. After a short rest, he put it in first gear. He raced his way up the tree, circling it in a corkscrew motion. He quickly gained a close distance on the female. She turned and realized he was less then a foot away and the distance was closing quickly. Not realizing it, she turned into a dead end, a large branch with only two ways off, the way you came or down. She skidded to a halt when she saw that there was a long drop down. Looking around, she saw that there were no branches in jumping distance. The male made a chirping noise that probably meant something like, "Ha! You loser! It's dead end! And the only way off is down!" The female quickly turned around and saw that he was slowly creeping up on her. He kept slowly pacing forward and without warning he pounced on the female. They had a little tumble fight and started chirping mean things to each other. The male stuck his paw into the female's mouth and she bit him. Even through the pain he kept his paw in, trying to get that acorn.
They stopped when they heard a whistling noise. With paw still in the female's mouth, the male turned to see what it was. Both of their eyes widened as a red Birdarang was spinning dangerously fast and was heading straight towards them. The Birdarang cleanly sliced through the two chipmunks bodies with a loud chirping yell from them. They fell at an alarming rate toward the ground and landed in a clear area matted in pine needles and dry leaves.
"Robin! What did you do that!" a loud, high-pitched scream said. Starfire kneeled down by the bloody chipmunks, staring down with tear filled eyes.
Robin slowly strutted over and put a hand on Starfire's shoulder. "I'm sorry."
"Why did you do it!" Starfire screamed looking up at Robin.
"You can't possibly—"
"WHY!"
"I don't know. I guess I was bored," Robin said saddened by his actions that had made the girl he loved so sad and angry.
"BORED! So you go and SLAUGHTER innocent creatures because you were BORED!" Starfire's eyes glazed over green, something Robin had done many times in battle, but not to him. She stood up. "First you killed those baby duckies with one of your stupid BOMBS! Then you threw your…silver stick ("Bo staff.") right through that mother deer while she was watching her baby!"
"I'm sorry, Starf—"
"He will die out there won't he, Robin?"
Robin shrugged. "Well, he might no—"
"HE WILL DIE! Just like all the other animals you have murdered today!" She opened her mouth to say something more but nothing came out. She stared to cry. Robin moved to bring her into an embrace and Starfire accepted it. They stood there, Starfire in Robin's arms, for a long time, all while Starfire cried into Robin's shoulder.
"I am sorry, Robin," Starfire finally said, as she looked up at him with puffy eyes tear-stained cheeks.
"It's okay," Robin said as he wiped her tears away, "Sometimes we all get really mad…even if you usually don't…" Robin smiled, as did Starfire. "I'm sorry I killed all those animals. Like I said, I really was bored and I guess I had to do something. Forgive me?"
Starfire smiled wider. "Only if you buy me a pet dolphin."
Robin smiled and took her hand as they walked back to their campsite. "I'll buy you the world."
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"I have some important news. I know why Robin choked Beast Boy. He's on drugs."
Raven and Cyborg's half-open eyes shot up. "WHAT!"
Batman pulled a remote out of no where and pressed a button on it. The TV/window/computer turned on and there was a black screen showing the red atoms that make up Xynothium that happened to make an X-shape.
Cyborg spoke first. "Xynothuim. But what does—"
Batman pressed another button and another screen showed an article from a science website. A few lines were highlighted yellow. When the Caped Crusader pressed yet another button it panned to the first highlight area and zoomed in.
" 'XYNOTHUIM ORE is mined from deep underground caves under the Red Sea. It is very rare and expensive. Only about 10,000 liters have ever been mined due to toxic fumes…' " Cyborg read out loud.
Another button was pressed and the screen zoomed out. It panned down to the next highlighted are and zoomed in.
" 'It is powerful red liquid that can be of many uses. Most commonly, it is used as a fuel for many powerful projects…' "
The last highlighted are was shown.
" 'In 1987, Francis Whitzskinshinninniningheimerfurblehowdydoodahpoopy—' " Cyborg stopped and started laughing. "Man! What kind of name is that!" He fell out of his seat laughing. So Raven continued for him.
" ' Francis…W. studied Xynothium for years and discovered how to store Xynothuim properly. The United States is currently using his plans to store large amounts of Xynothuim across the country in small amounts incase of the need during war. Before Xynothium became illegal to have unless on government terms, people had taken it as a drug. Xynothium can be a depressant, stress reliever, and even an energy booster. Xynothium was put into pills and sold in neighborhood pharmacies but at an extremely high price. The pills were addictive and many families went bankrupt for the need of it. Side affects included, when angry it would make people overreact and destroy things, sore throats, and obsessions with people or things. There have been many cases of death. Once it became illegal, the pills were no longer sold. …' "
"So, that's what Robin is doing? He's taking pills to relieve stress and stuff?" asked Cyborg, who had stopped laughing and was sitting back on the couch.
"Well, he's drinking the liquid directly. He's not taking pills," Batman answered, pressing a button that turned the TV off.
"Can't that do some damage?" Raven asked interested. She had completely forgotten the green little kitten sleeping in her lap. "I noticed Robin had gotten sore throats quite often and his voice became scratchy and hoarse but I always thought it was just normal teenage boy puberty and hormones going on."
Batman actually seemed to smile. "Yes. Direct skin contact from Xynothium can do some damage. His throat his probably blistered up real bad. Judging from the seriousness of the attack on Beast Boy, I would say that he has been on it for about three to four months. The longest reported survival while taking Xynothium is currently six and half months. Robin needs to see medical attention." Batman stood up and collected the files and papers he had been using. He turned to the teens. "I have a team of specialists currently working on an antidote to Robin's addiction. Hopefully it will be ready by the six and a half months are up. You're dismissed Titans." He walked out of the hallway and probably headed to his temporary room.
Cyborg and Raven who was carrying Beast Boy, followed closely behind. Once Batman was out of earshot, Cyborg said to Raven, "He acts like he's the boss of my team!"
Raven just rolled her eyes and literally threw Beast Boy into his room. Once he hit the floor, the changeling switched into human mode with an angry glare on. Cyborg doubled over laughing and Raven put on a smirk. As Cyborg walked away in hysterics to his room, Raven closed the door to Beast Boy's room just as he was about to say something. Beast Boy quickly opened the door again with an even angrier scowl. He walked right up to Raven so their bodies were touching. He looked down on Raven.
"Just because we almost kissed doesn't mean I can't be pissed at you," Beast Boy said as hate flashed through his forest green eyes.
Raven, now also pissed because he just barged up and got all her in face, spoke through gritted teeth,
"We did not almost kiss."
"Yes we did and you know it."
"Well what does…" Raven spoke in a high pitched mocking voice, " 'Maybe I can change that,' mean?"
"It doesn't mean a fawk to…" Beast Boy also spoke in a mocking voice and also flailed his arms around in an added affect, " 'Because of him I can't love anymore!' "
Raven backed up, throwing daggers at Beast Boy with her eyes. She just breathed in deeply trying to control her rage.
Beast Boy crept up to her speaking in a mock babyish voice, "Ooo! 'Miss I-can't-feel-emotion-which-makes-me-really-dark' isn't getting pissy now, is she?" Beast Boy pinched Raven's cheek.
Raven harshly hit his hand off her cheek. "Get off me."
Beast Boy mirrored Raven's eyes, which showed pure loathing.
"I can too feel emotion," Raven said softly.
"What was that, Ravie-do?" Beast Boy cupped his hand around his ear and leaned in.
Raven pushed her face right into Beast Boy's. She could feel his breath tickling her nose. "I can feel emotion and don't you dare call me Ravie-do again or I will rip your male parts off." She backed away from him, waiting for his response. Raven couldn't believe that just earlier today they were pouring their souls out to each other and now they were about to kill each other.
Beast Boy started jumping up and down, waving his arms around. "Ravie-do! Ravie-do! RAVIE-DO! RAVIE—"
Raven took Beast Boy's collar using her dark magic and slammed him into the wall behind him. "What the bloody hell did I not just tell you?" She said as she walked toward him.
A wide smirk spread across the changeling's face. "I dunno. I wasn't listening, Ravie-do."
Raven thrust him into the wall again, much harder then the first time.
"Ravie—"
Once again she thrust him into the wall the hardest she could without killing him. Blood dribbled from the corner of his mouth. She slammed him into the wall once more when she saw his mouth open, but with less force.
"Why don't ever you learn, Beast Boy?" Raven asked seriously, setting Beast Boy on his feet.
He wiped the blood away with a gloved hand. "Because I'm being taught by a nazary like you." He grinned maliciously. He had looked up that word in one of Raven's books. It had an extremely bad meaning. He never even thought he could find use for that word. And he never even dreamed of calling Raven it.
"You snooping bastard!" Raven's uncharacteristic high-pitched scream rang through out the whole Tower. Soon Batman and Cyborg came running down separate hallways.
"What the hell is going on here?" Batman inquired as the changeling and the Goth stood glaring at each other.
"Ask him," "Ask her," both muttered in unison as one disappeared into his close by room and the other disappeared in a shadow the shape of a raven.
Cyborg raised a finger before Batman could say anything. "I say we go straight to bed and forget this ever happened."
"Good idea."
They disappeared down their own hallways. It was at least three in the morning by now.
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Robin was not sleeping well. He kept thinking about all the reasons why Trigon was going to give them all this power. Was Trigon that desperate? Why did he need to get out of the Underworld? Was this all some trick that Robin and Starfire had fallen under? Robin's mind fluttered through all kinds of topics. He was worried about everything. He moved away from Starfire not wanting to disturb her by talking to himself.
Robin regretted bringing Starfire into this mess. He knew they would be going through a ton of danger and deaths. To gain you have to make sacrifices. Human or spiritual, same difference. They would be making a lot of sacrifices through their journey to world domination. They would need to murder the important people in the world, presidents, prime ministers, dictators.
Robin turned to his other side. He loved Starfire but he loved power too. What if saving one meant sacrificing the other? Just like in chess. To save the king you might need to sacrifice the queen which everyone knows is one of the, if not the best, pieces. But that's just a game. Starfire and power are real life.
Right now he hated his old team. They hated him too. ((A/N: Remember, these are Robin's thoughts so he thinks they hate him but they probably really don't.))They probably thought that he seduced Starfire into coming with him, knowing Starfire would never steal. Robin laughed loudly at this. He thought he saw Starfire stir, but it was so slight she was probably still asleep. Robin wanted nothing more then to make all the people that hurt him suffer, the Titans, the murderer of his parents, Blackfire, Slade, all of those other villains, and all the other people whose names escaped him right now. Yep. If there were anything worse then death he would perform it upon each and every one of them.
There is something worse then death.
Robin shot up. Who the hell was that?
"Hello?" Robin said quietly. He spoke a little louder with more confidence, "You coward! Show yourself!" Robin stood up with his fists ready to attack.
I'm inside your mind, you twit!
Raven? Robin knew it didn't sound like Raven but she was the only one who has ever contacted him through his mind. And it was a feminine voice. Robin sat back down on the mat next to the still sleeping Starfire.
Who?
No one. Who are you?
My name's Jizania. But it doesn't matter because I'm not even supposed to be talking to you.
Then why are you talking to me?
I can help you. Well, before I said anything, I was…kinda listening to your thoughts…
What the-? Who are you!
No, listen. I can seriously help you. Like I said, I know of something worse then death.
Well…what!
Jeez! Don't get all angry with me! I'm the one who is risking my life to talk to you!
Robin groaned. Well, it might be smart if you'd just—
Sorry. I gotta go. I'll contact you later, the voice said quickly. Well, bye.
Wait!
There was no answer. Robin slammed a fist down on the mat. Boy, that would help his already troubled mind.
"Robin, are you okay?" Starfire had woken up and was looking at Robin with concerned eyes.
Robin decided that he wouldn't tell Starfire about the voice that had contacted him. "Yeah, I'm okay. Seriously," Robin added when he saw Starfire's look showing that she didn't believe him. "Just—why don't you go back to sleep?" Robin said gently.
Starfire pointed to the sky behind Robin and sure enough the sun was rising. Robin groaned and threw his head on the mat. He had gotten not even an hour of sleep.
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((A/N: If you remember Batman saying that Slade was still alive well I'm following that point here. Except that well Slade is currently 'out of order.' Most of these Slade scenes that I will be putting randomly through the rest of the storie will be based on scenes from 'The Andy Milonakis Show' on MTV because I don't have an imagination. These are mostly humorous and have no point.))
Slade stood on the curb in downtown Jump City. He waved out his hand when a cab went by. The cab driver drove up in front of him and Slade got in. Slade pointed to an old man that was limping slowly down the sidewalk.
"Follow that man!" Slade yelled to the cab driver.
The car moved slowly along the side of the road.
"Slow down! You're going to lose him!" Slade still pointed to the old man.
"I can't go any slower!" the drive yelled back.
"Follow him! He's a wanted man! Don't lose him!"
The cab floated slowly down the street. The cab driver was hoping that he would be paid an extra high tip for this.
"STOP! You're going too fast! We're gonna lose him!" The old man still had no idea that a cab was driving slowly next to him.
The driver slammed down on the brakes and spun around to Slade. "Will you please stop yelling!"
"Sorry," Slade said pouting under his mask. He suddenly pointed out to the old man again. "Go faster! You're going to lose him!"
The cab driver sped up a little and just barely missed the old man.
"SLOWER! You're going way too fast!"
The driver spun around, his face red in anger. "GET OUT!"
Slade opened the door of the cab and stepped out. "Jeez." He took out a yo-yo from one of his belt pockets started playing with it. The last time the yo-yo came back up Slade took it and let it down sloppily because something caught his eye. It was rainbow.
Slade ran across a busy street cutting short a bunch of honking cars, all while his green yo-yo dragged behind him. He was only staring up at the colorful ribbon that hung across the sky. He ran down the sidewalk with his unseen grin growing wider and wider. He randomly ran around a bus stop sign and kept running down the sidewalk.
He turned a corner and finally found the end of the rainbow. And there was another old guy wearing a hat sitting in a folding beach chair. Slade stared at him.
"What the hell are you looking at?" the old man said.
"Are you at the end of every rainbow?" Slade asked.
"Yes," the man said.
"Wow. Rainbows suck," Slade said disappointed.
"No shit."
"Where's the pot of gold?"
The old guy slowly opened his hand. "I've got some hard candy and Bengay."
Slade jumped up and down. "Yay! Bengay! Yay! I love Bengay!" He grabbed the tube of Bengay and rubbed the white cream in it all over his chest. "This is awesome! It hurts so good! It hurts so good!"
"You stupid bitch."
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Robin and Starfire were fully dressed and had just eaten some breakfast at McRonald's. They were now at the campsite playing a card game called Slap Jack. Robin was winning, sitting there with three-quarters of the deck in his hand, seeing as he had a better eye from all his training. Robin had told Starfire that tonight they would do some real camping because they didn't have to bring the goblet to Trigon until tomorrow. So they decided to play some card games.
Starfire slowly placed down her last card, which sadly wasn't a Jack.
"You win," Starfire said sadly.
"Don't feel bad," Robin said smiling. "We'll play Spoons. You always win at that."
"No you do."
"Oh… Well how 'bout Spit?"
"You."
"B.S.?"
"You."
"Poker? Texas Hold 'Em? James Bond? Golf? Pepsi? Speed? Black Jack? War? Uno? Go Fish?"
"You win all of those," Starfire said looking away.
"Oh… How about Palace?" Robin said smiling widely. The Titans, including Robin and Starfire, had always had Palace tournaments and Starfire had won first place every single one. There seemed to be some Tamaranean game like it.
"Oh yes! Please!" Starfire said gleefully.
"Okay!" Robin dealed out the deck.
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A/N: Hey. Did you like the Slade part? Yeah I know it rocked.
I do not own any of those card games in the storie. They are just a bunch that I play, not own!
This chapter was long 9 pages on Microsoft Word.
Later days! Until next chapter,
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