Too Much Red

By: Pakkrat

Chapter 5: Fearful Rage

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Robin did not get to sleep; he was busy thinking over his actions. 'What the hell is wrong with me?' he asked himself mentally, 'I seem to be so… angry.' Robin turns on his side sighing as he sees his clock, by now he would have been fast asleep. 'Not like me, I think at least it's not like me. The anger is so much…' Robin's eye twitches 'Stronger than ever before. Am I really losing it?' Robin seems to nearly cry but he holds it as was his nature. Holding it in and keeping it shut away. "I need help." He finally admits, "But who can I trust with this?

Bata-Boom was in a special room with a table, at the other end was Heretic sleeping in a chair. Heretic does not snore, heck does he really breath as he sleeps. He does seem to glow though like a black mist would slowly pour out of the pores in his skin and slowly float out around him before going back in. Bata-Boom says to himself mentally 'This freak puts Dracula to shame!' he cringes as something makes a "Skreee!" sound from above.

Bata-Boom looks to see the bat like creature flying down on them having three small toes on its two legs and a large eye, ONE large eye protruding from the body as if embedded to it. The eye blinks on Heretic who slowly awakes; he opens his eyes chillingly slow looking over to the creature as it flutters onto his wrist. Heretic's demonic apparitions, Bata-Boom hated every freaky one! This was nothing compared to… it… "Br…" he cringes from memory of that thing again.

Heretic looks at the creature for several moments allowing to telepathically telling him what he needed, "Good…" Heretic lets it fly off to his shoulder, the serpents share stares at this before hissing tongues together. Heretic chuckles to the two saying "Do not fret Alpha and Omega, this is an associate of mine from before I even met you two. I call it Evil Eye and I created it in my earliest years of Alchemy."

The two serpents hiss before winding off to the shadows and slowly hunting for food. Heretic stands with the Evil Eye flapping its wings as he would move too much like a parrot with a pirate. "Bata-Boom." He looks up, "Baby-Bird's emotional levels are rising so ready for the matters at hand." Bata-Boom snaps his fingers as if not caring about this "I knew they would, but it served its purpose. Robin has been left with personal questions and fears. Soon enough he'll probably try to find out what was altered. I will be able to give him a warm reception in his mind."

"Uh-huh, sure." Bata-Boom turns with earrings on, "Do these make my ears look big?"

Heretic closes his eyes with irritation, "I'm having a moment of evil delight, don't ruin it." Bata-Boom shrugs taking off from his humor, "How long until Chang can use the Eye of Osiris?"

Bata-Boom shrugs, "He doesn't know what kind of light to use, and he's trying moonlight but no progress."

Heretic turns on Bata-Boom nodding "Either way, tomorrow I have a plan to strike the children. Leave me for I must formulate a plan more sufficient."

Bata-Boom shrugs before hopping up and moving to the main hangar "Freak." He whispers under his breath. Heretic chuckles as he pets the Evil Eye, it's eye shows the image of Robin and Raven from the rooftops before.

The Batman was on a tip, he was given a hint to the whereabouts of one of his criminal madmen. This one was a troublesome one, Doctor Crane was once a psychiatrist but his years of diving into phobias made him question their reality. He saw fear as the ultimate idealism, fear as a power. The Salem Witch Hunts, The Inquisition, The Holocaust all were fueled by fear and allowed some to gain amazing power. In some ways, Heretic and Scarecrow were both legitimate villains seeking power over all else in society. The Batman took a deep breath before entering the facility, an abandoned chemicals research facility talk about danger on the job. Scarecrow mastered thousands of regents and chemicals to create fear and madness in men. Batman had a mask if he needed it, but until he was sure Scarecrow was here he didn't want to wear it. The building was large; having windows shattered at each end some still together but dirty and disgusting. The night air was disturbing, a flicker of heat lightning strikes with the immense heat waves. Batman entered this building though his senses warned him he would regret it.

Batman entered through a window via bat-hook and slowly skimmed the rafters before moving to the central bottom floor. He found a vat of chemicals not on or mixing Batman snarls grabbing his mask and putting it on, "It's him." He feels a pain in the back of his neck and he screams an obscenity as he pulls the dart out. He removes the mask knowing that it was useless now. A voice speaks out from the darkness of this facility "Well, well the "man without fear" comes to see his "doctor" today."

"Jonathan Crane! This time I have a prescription for you!" Batman flings a batarang which explodes in a burst of light but Scarecrow is not where he wanted "Life in a psychiatric ward!"

Scarecrow laughs, his voice a scrupulous scientific notation of self-importance "Batman, I see you more deserving of psychiatric help. You are the crazy man here; I merely influence the world to accept its fears."

"You murder!" Batman reels back flinging another disk still not able to find the Scarecrow "You lie and deceive!"

"I never lie Batman! All is true when speaking of man's fears!" Scarecrow jumps down behind Batman and Batman turns seeing the reaper of death, a blackened cowl with a skeleton form his scythe ready for the strike. Hallucinations are caused by the serum so it was expected from Batman to see something fake so he blocks the scythe and kicks off Scarecrow who now turned to his true form. With less adrenaline in Batman's veins he sees the brown pants and red shirt of a farmer, the straw hat on the head of hay hairs. The mask a leather sack with stitches Scarecrow was fearful looking as his form would be altered in the perceptions of those who see him under the influence of his drugs. Scarecrow makes a retreat into the shadows laughing as Batman sweats and falls to his knees, "Feeling under the weather Batman? Afraid that you may be catching a cold?" he chuckles to the shadows as Batman shakes his head in his hand.

Batman stands up looking at the rafters hearing movement, Scarecrow runs past a window and Batman shoots his hook to come up to that level. He sees Scarecrow in front of him stopping on his heel, before trying a punch Batman simply passes and kicks him in the ribs. "It's over Crane! We're done here!"

Crane falls on his knees; he holds his ribs speaking in a small voice "Batman… help me…"

Batman steps back seeing Robin before him, frightened and hurt Robin looks up screaming "You let it happen! You let them in my city! You always did this, brought me pain and misery! I hate you!"

Batman shakes his head giving an emotionless stare "Nice try Scarecrow but I'm not that easy."

Robin sighs turning to Scarecrow "Oh well can't blame a man for trying." Scarecrow flings a coin to Batman "Still he's not exactly safe is he?"

Scarecrow makes a dash as Batman is stunned by the image on the coin, a serpent's head, "Scarecrow!" he flings a batarang that wraps his feet skidding him on the ground. Batman jumps on Scarecrow and grips him by the scruff "This is his symbol, Heretic! Start talking Crane!"

Crane smiles "Oh, I just happened to come…" he is tossed over the side of the rafters and grabbed by his heels over the vat of chemicals "What the! Batman put me down!"

Batman smiles "Are you so sure about that?" he lets go of Scarecrow as he screams towards the vat. Batman fires a grappling-hook to grab Scarecrow and hold him inches from the chemicals that now dissolve his hat. "Start talking this is your last chance!"

Scarecrow snarls "That was my favorite hat!" Batman scolds him so he regrettably starts singing. "Heretic and I were… associates in Arkham. I enjoyed meeting an intellectual who understood the need of power over others. He said I was a monster ahead of my times." Batman seems more agitated, "Anyhow, he recently found an associate of yours Batman, and needed my help to deal with him after he had escaped. He needed a formula to my fear serums, so I gave him one."

"Who was it?" Batman seemed fearful he's using that formula on Robin.

"A man you knew, a Mr. Anthony." Batman is stunned "He committed suicide; of course all my victims do eh Batman?" Scarecrow laughs to himself as no matter how much Batman wants to put this monster away for murder he never could be accused. The victims take their own lives, but what would you expect from the sight of all your nightmares in one spot at one time? Batman is disgusted. Anthony was a psychiatrist Batman saw for Robin… a good man that kept their secrets from even Heretic he was sure so did he deserve to die? Batman ties the hook and leaves Scarecrow to sweat it out while cops came; he was going to go home as he needed to think badly.

Robin smiles pleadingly at Raven who has her eye cracked through her door. "…No." she closes the door and Robin asks "Please! Can't you help me out with this just once?"

Raven cracks the door open giving a glare "Robin entering the mind to find something wrong with it is dangerous. I go in there and who knows what will happen?"

Robin shrugs "I really need your help Raven if I don't do something I may hurt someone."

Raven looks at him blankly before sighing "Okay I'll help you. You have to lay off of Red X more though."

Robin nods, "Sure thing Raven I can do that. Now what do we do?"

Raven opens her door and lets him in. He smirks as this was the first he ever was in her room. "Sit." She says to him and he turns seeing her sitting on the ground legs crossed. He does so and she puts out her hands "Give me your hands." He blushes asking "What?"

She frowns "I need to hold your hands to guide you through this. We'll be viewing your mind together, and hopefully we can find what it is they were trying to use against you."

Robin nods doing what she asked. Soon enough their breathing is precisely tuned together and their movements are the same. Raven and Robin then slowly are calmed until they both tense, their bodies rigid they each phase into the mind of Robin where it starts off in an office. It had a nice chair on one spot angled towards a red sofa. The cabinets in the corner along with a nice desk it was obvious this was a nicely kept office. Robin goes directly to the desk checking for papers and such, where as Raven looked on the couch. Raven felt compelled to lie on the couch, she did and Robin disappeared and the entire world slowed down to a mere beat. A man shows up in the chair, (Dr. Anthony voiced by Anthony Hopkins "Hannibal Lector in Silence of the Lambs and Hannibal)

"Dick, what is it like?" Anthony asks to Raven a thing slowly forms behind the doctor, an immense beast shaped like a man but huge and muscular it seems to growl lowly in huffed breaths "Dick, when you are angry, so much that you do not see anything but the anger. Are you alone, or is there something else there?" the beast stomps its feet at Raven, leaving the growls at each step. "Dick, do you see yourself when you're angry or… a monster?" the beast roars about to strike Raven but she jumps up, the beast and doctor are gone and Robin looks at her concerned "You okay Raven?"

Raven gasps deep breaths, and fearfully nods to him. Robin grabs a paper asking her to come over. They read the paper and what it said.

Robin shakes his head "What does this mean?"

Raven narrows her eyes; she had a pretty good idea. "Robin, sometimes when you get angry just what do you see? Is it you yelling at us, or something else?"

Robin blinks dumbfounded and as he was going to answer the door to the office was smacked on hard, a scream is heard as more violent sounds are smashing into the door. "What is that?"

Raven turns slightly worried. "Robin you have to go leave this to me." Robin is confused "You came here to find out what is wrong, now go do it." She opens a window and ushers him out. The door is buckling slightly as Robin smiles back "Thank you Raven. You sure you have this?"

Raven nods pushing him out. He uses a grappling hook and disappears. Raven turns giving a concerned look as the door comes in crashing and snapping like a twig with the immense beast before now stomping in on two feet, whipping its arms out with a roar Raven twitches "I hope I'm right."

Cyborg is ushered into Raven's room by Beast Boy, "I found them like this!" Beast Boy freaks out "Is it some kind of evil gerbil army of the undead making us hold hands so they can…" Cyborg grabs his lips "No Beast Boy I HIGHLY think that's not the case."

Beast Boy is let go smiling, he thought it was kind of far fetched anyway. Starfire is looking on concerned "I am quite fearful of this predicament. Will Robin be okay as well as Friend Raven?"

Red X narrows his eyes as he sees the two, "I think it's some kind of magic, like maybe thought transference?"

Cyborg nods, "I could see it. I don't know if maybe it's more to it than that."

Red X nods then seems to slink his eyes "What do you mean more to it?"

Cyborg shrugs "Hey I don't know this magic stuff…" Cyborg narrows his eyes "How on earth did you get in here B.B.?"

Beast Boy began to sweat, "Uh, well I always pop in here to see on Raven…" he sees the stares and backs up "Er, well, you see…" he is on the wall so he screams "I planned to put toothpaste in Raven's shoes! Waah!" he morphs to a fly to escape. Cyborg frowns about to say something but the alarm goes off "Aw man! Trouble! Let's go!" He grabs Red X "You to! We may need the extra help!"

Red X follows to the door and looks at the two; he shakes his head saying "Don't intrude on her, respect her space." And runs off still worried… slightly.

Robin is in Gotham, his old Gotham. This was where he was raised and even weaned on crime. Robin sees the cemetery and drops down on the summit. He sees the burial plot of his mother and father, and finds himself in the office, not truly there but slightly there to be witness to him sitting for an exam while Anthony talks to him. "Dick, what happened with your parents?"

Dick does not answer, he was in a blue vest and brown pants "They died didn't they? Dick, did you ever wish you had been stronger, more capable of saving them? A monster, a beastly figure would seem more capable of that act than a child right?"

Dick fidgets with a button; he was still quite young "I guess."

"Dick, is that why you see "it"? When you need the strength, the reason to say "it" was there, not me, "it was strong enough, not me?"

Robin wakes up; he shakes his head, "What is wrong with me?"

Raven's shield is broken; the blackened field shatters on the rooftop as rain pours down madly. She glares at the beast, it strides with thundering stomps strafing slowly around her like a shark. The circling was testing, and toying with prey you knew was already yours. Raven screams her chant and fires a beam of blackened energy but that only pushes on the beastly apparition before it roars and stomps down bearing against the beam. It grew stronger with each attempt, more enraged by her fight. Raven sees it storm on her, and she winces herself in mental preparation, 'Robin… please hurry.'

Robin reaches Wayne Manor, and sees the large gates opened wide, and the doors shut but not locked. He touches the doors, and feels a chill, he is in the office again, and Anthony speaks again.

"Robin?" Robin is in his suit, Batman was at the window sill. "What happened?"

Robin is a teenager; he sits with his hands shaking "I don't know…"

Anthony sighs, "Robin please what happened?"

"I… I lost it. I lost it!" he grabs his head, tears fall to the ground. "He killed them, Heretic killed them all right there and I lost it. I started punching… and punching… and then I stopped and the blood… the man's face was so…"

Anthony nods, "Robin this aggression, it is linked to you in a way not like most. When you lose yourself to the rage, the hate, and in time perhaps jealousy you will blame the "Monster" inside of you. Robin, it's not the monster it's you."

Robin swipes his hand away "I don't know! I don't know anything anymore!"

Robin runs out of the room, Batman sighs asking "What can I do? If I didn't sedate him he would have killed that man."

Anthony jumps up screaming "Damn it Bruce it's your entire fault!" Bruce or Batman takes a distasteful look at Anthony "Don't look at me like that! You warped him! You put him in league to these monsters and made him see a monster! The only reason he believes it is a monster is because of the monsters he faces! This is not the way a child should live, with a man who fights crime all the time left to his dark corner of the mind to see again and again the smile of The Joker, or the face of The Two-Face!"

Batman turns out the window, and narrows his eyes "What should I do Anthony? I want him to be better. I want my son to be safe."

Anthony looks away, "No matter what years of therapy would only encourage his pain." Anthony grabs a newspaper and nods, "I think I know what he needs. He needs others like him."

Batman gives a glare, "I thought you said that the monsters were making him into a monster."

"He isn't a monster Bruce, he's a teenager." He shows Batman a clipping with "Hooded teenage girl stops robbery" "A team, people like him away from the monsters where he can in time come to terms with the anger, and control it. With friends, people that will understand him Bruce I think, he can actually tame that rage with their help."

Batman narrows his eyes, "No…" Anthony narrows his eyes "I can't let him just go… can I?"

"Bruce, if you don't he'll be gone worse than this. Trust me, please."

Batman looks at him and smiles, "You really think he can stop this "Monster" of his if he has her help?"

Anthony shrugs "Bet you a ride in that batmobile of yours!" the two chuckle before the vision ends. Robin seems ashamed; he falls to his knees so ashamed "I made it up… a monster…"

Raven screams, the monster smashes its fists into the ground creating an up heaving tremor that struck her and flung her across the rooftop bouncing off several times like a skipping stone over water. The beast roars, and storms after her again. Raven has stopped skidding and looks at where it was, a trail of dust but no monster, no beast? She thought it left, it didn't but instead comes slamming on top of her. Raven looks up at it, the monster pins her arms with its knees, and she is unable to channel her hands. It grabs her face slowly by the chin with the right hand which was three long fingers that were stretched out fleshy appendages with sharp razors on the end tip. The thumb like finger wraps her left cheek, while the two others curve under her chin and over her right cheek. It grips her jaw and forces her face up as it bends in on her. It breaths with gasping groans, the fangs are sharp and tightly twined together in the gums. She could not see all of it, the blind rage that manifested in this beast was too sickening to try and understand or write. It growls lowly, breathing on her then to toss her head down. Raven moans from the initial slam as her mind is fogging up now. The beast slams her head again, she looses all visual controls as it does this a third time. Raven feels the beast let her face go and slowly stand over her, making a movement of its foot it stands besides her heaving its shoulders up and down with each gasping breath. Raven realized, it was dying, it was discovered and now it only had so long to do what it needed to live. "No… it was… a trick…" Raven gags on her own voice, "You… wanted… him here."

The monster, it roars out to the air that was its plan. If it kills the original, it could fully take over. Personalities are believed to be this way, the dominant one sooner or later kills off its weaker ones. This personality, Rage, was believed to be the strongest. It feels it was the dominant one. If it took Robin it would make him a killer, a murderer. Robin was not going to let this happen though as he jumps into the fray. He lands and narrows his eyes, "Rage!" Rage does not turn immediately, it first grabs Raven's body and tosses her over its shoulder. Robin sees Raven and feels anger and hate, Rage grew larger, more muscular by that hatred so it grinned.

Robin runs screaming, his Bo staff ready he makes a strike horizontal but Rage growls with the strike to its side. Nothing of pain or even a flinch occurs. Rage lets Robin strike several repetitive strikes all over its frame before snarling and grabbing Robin's staff to toss him to the side like a heap of garbage. Robin rolls along the roof as Rage stomps slowly at him. Robin stands to grab his energy disks and tosses several into the beast. They spark on its' flesh but quickly it simply moans a little then flicks them off. Robin watches it continue the march, he feels anxious so he grabs his birdarangs and tosses them into the beast. They explode; Robin sees the mist trailing at him with thumps of the beast. Not even phased! "What… what can I do?"

Cyborg fires his cannon, the elderly chap chuckles; Mad Mod was on a tread that took him away like in a shooting gallery "Sorry chap, better luck next shot! Eh-hah!" he pushes a button on his cane making armored Knights in robotic gears and machinery attack Cyborg. Cyborg growls out "You tin men don't know who you're…" he flings them off "Messing with!"

Dr. Light grins firing a blast of his lights with his new suit, the more mechanical one with larger hands into Starfire "I'm so glad that… the evil one is not with them." He nearly falls to a fetal position in thought of Raven. Red X drops down and places an X on his back, "Watch what you say!" he leaps off as the X jolts Dr. Light till he is unconscious, "When she's not here, I'll fill in for her."

Mad Mod snarls "You little whippersnapper!" he is squeezed by green tentacles as Cyborg bonks him on the head giving Mad Mod a spiraling eye look as if Beast Boy was brainwashed. "Okay, mission accomplished!" Cyborg scans the villains for the Shaker devices and smiles as none were there. "Let's send these two geezers to the old folks home!" the two villain snarl at Cyborg when cuffed.

Red X waves goodbye saying "I have other plans! See you later!" he runs off grabbing the R-Cycle, he stole the keys and drove it down. He wanted to get home and wait for Raven to wake up from that creepy dream state.

Robin is flung down by his head to the ground, several times this continues. Robin feels the roof give way and Rage loses grip so Robin falls into the structure. Robin thumps into some machinery inside, he quickly runs out of the light hiding in the shadows. Rage jumps down up heaving and cracking the factory grounds. Robin turns back slowly; Rage scours the area looking for Robin. Robin glares and then he feels something, Raven is next to him. He speaks to her telepathically, 'I know what it is. It's a thing I made because of my childhood pains. All those monsters I faced, they made me see myself as a monster.' Robin looks to see it was gone, somewhere at the other end he heard the beast thumping its feet 'How do we kill it?'

Raven shook her head, 'We can't kill it, it's not real. Robin, you need to come to terms that monster is not real. You have to face it or you will never be able to get over it.'

Raven flips a switch, the lights all come on and the beast turns towards them. Raven narrows her eyes "Robin, it is not real."

Robin looks at her then the creature as it makes a way towards him. "You are not real!" the monster is not changing of acting oddly. Robin feels worried but Raven grabs his hand, he feels courage, and nods to her before snapping "I created you! I can destroy you!"

The monster stomps its foot and feels its leg sort of hobble, falling in on itself. The monster growls, and stands again, Robin screams "I may be angry, and filled at times with rage! That does not mean you are me! You are not what I am; I am not a monster anymore! I never was! They may have been monsters, all those criminals, and psychopaths! But now I'm me!" Robin swings up his arm in a fist as the beast made a final mad dash, it's mass of muscle began to deflate "I'm Robin!" the beast lunges forward and Robin screams in a thrust of his fist out towards it "I'm Dick Grayson!" the beast strikes its' fist to Robin's and the monster shatters, a large scream is heard as it becomes dust. Robin heaves, and feels faint. Robin smiles though, his rage, his anger, was finally once again his.

The two leave the factory and Robin looks at it, "Raven!" he chuckles "Do you know where this is?"

Raven looks at the sign, "Tolbert Fishing Refinery?" she thinks back… "This was where you and I met!"

Batman and Robin slowly made their way into the facility, five low lives had made a jewelry heist. Batman and Robin took the four out with bird/batarangs. The fifth one made a run for it and got to the car. He was driving off when the two came out and heard "Azerath Metrion Zinthos!" the car is engulfed by black energy and soon enough raised into the air. Robin blinks putting away his birdarangs as the criminal is dropped out of the open windows and to Batman's feet. Batman smiles wrapping the criminal in wire, "So the stories are true about you?"

A hooded girl floats down giving a stare with her eyes, "Maybe, why do you want to know?"

Batman smiles "Robin," he turns at Robin "Introduce yourself."

Robin nods, slightly embarrassed as this girl was quite… well hypnotizing in her stare, "My name's Robin, pleased to meet you." He offers his hand but she does not receive it. She stares at him and nods "My name is Raven."

Batman smiles "Two birds and both start with an R talk about a coincidence." The two teenage crime fighters look at Batman who chuckles "Robin, I think you and Raven should team up."

The two give confused looks "What?"

Batman shrugs "I think it's time you move out on your own. Try to find your place in life." Batman grabs Raven and Robin's shoulders "A team of young superheroes, that's what a city not too far from here needs, it is called Jump City." Batman shrugs "Would it not be better to have a team to rely on Robin and a chance to show the world how much you can be. In time you could become a loner like me but the memories of working with a group will last a lifetime if not more."

Robin looks at Raven, she shrugs "I could use help… in time who knows." She had a secret, a secret need for others to help her with a prophecy. Robin smiles saying "Okay Batman, I guess this is the first step in our own team." Robin strikes a pose, "The beginning of the Teen Titans!"

Raven narrows her eyes with a sweat, "Can I please reconsider?"

Batman chuckles jumping into his batmobile, he pushes a button and tosses it to Robin, the R-Cycle appears "Consider it a graduation gift Robin, take care of yourself."

Robin smiles "Thank you Batman, I will."

The flashback ends, Robin smiles, "He knew I'd actually do this. End all the anger, the rage. It is almost like he also knew that you'd be the one to help me Raven."

Raven shrugs, she did not do that much. "I just helped a little." Robin grabs her hands "You helped a lot! All the years of trauma, from being a kid and seeing all those things in my life. I think only a person like you could understand that pain with me." He smiles on her blush, "Hey why are you blushing?"

Raven shrugs trying to hide the embarrassment "Listen, you did this yourself. You conquered the Rage you created from that trauma. This does not mean you are cured, just now you are free to control it more."

Robin chuckles, letting her hands go he crosses his arms "I'm glad it is over."

Raven shakes her head, the two are slowly waking "It's not over, just resolved for now."

The two let go of each others hands, Robin smiles as he falls back exhausted "Wow… that was intense!"

Raven pants, "Yeah… you are one… mental case."

Robin laughs at her attitude; she chimes in with a slight laugh as well. Red X was at the door way, listening. He shook his head, his intervention was unnecessary. He was more relieved, nothing bad happened. Red X made his way to the med lab to see if the others would come back soon. The sun now came up, the day was beginning. He wonders, what will be of the days to come, now that is seems Robin was no longer so lost in his past?

The others come back, Robin is smiling to their surprise and Raven has gone to bed. Cyborg walks over and pokes Robin along with Starfire. Robin grabs them and in a Starfire tone says "Friends! Welcome back! Sit and talk with me!"

The two pull away as Beast Boy grabs a cross, garlic, and holy water "It's a vampire! Watch out!"

The two glare at Beast Boy who lamely tosses away his weapons. Cyborg smiles asking "What's up Robin? You seem a little less stressed out."

Robin smiles, he looks at his reflection in the TV which was off, "You could say I had Too Much Rage, and now I'm ready to calm down."

Raven sleeps and dreams of herself at the bar, now Robin sits with her. "You feel better Robin?"

Robin smiles at her and says "Yes Raven, thank you." He takes a drink and stands up leaving. Raven smiles as the bartender stops at her, Red X gets her a drink she drinks her drink, she had a good dream, she did a good thing for a friend. Someone sits down next to her; she narrows her eyes at the man wearing black fabric, white hairs, and a mask with serpents on the design. He speaks in a sophisticated importance "I am impressed with your work Raven. Baby-bird would have been lost without you."

Raven narrows her eyes, "Who are you?" the serpents hiss on his waist, "What do you want?"

Heretic, he chuckles saying "I can not tell you who I am… not yet at least. What I want?" Heretic looks on her with his red eyes "I want…" he shrugs "You'll see that in time my dear, all in time." He grabs her shoulder "Again, I say good job in helping Baby-bird, it helps my plans greatly."

Raven narrows her eyes as he leaves, she still had a good dream, and she still did something good for her friend.

Note: This is a short chapter actually, I am surprised. This is the depth of the trauma you see in Robin through the show with his dark past and outbursts. A kid fighting monsters, it only makes sense at times he would see himself as a monster. Rage was that monster, the beast he saw himself as from the years of lost innocence. This chapter inspires me to do a dark horror story called "The Rage" which, yes Rage is given form by a freak accident. Check it out when I get some work on it. Though I will be working on the horror and gore so you may not want to read! Hope people like this twist in the story of Robin.I didn't tell the looks and facial expressions of Rage so you could imagine it yourself, what did you see? So do you want to hurt Robin still or offer a shoulder to cry on? It was my wonder after he acted so angrily do you still feel so hard towards him?

Darkofthenight: Update every weekend, Sundays! I plan this… but don't uh hold me to it. I will try though.

Tigerlilly1234: This is the twisted story of Robin, his pain. That is why he acts the way he does in my eyes the years of pain has to affect him some how. So now he may become nicer, a Raven/Robin thing will blossom, but how will Red X feel on this?

Lostinside: Yes the child dying was meant to touch, so I am glad it did. Red X did cry originally but I thought, his loner attitude may still keep him away from others at times.

Raven x BB: No B.B. does not hook up with Starfire, or DEFINITELY not Cyborg, he likes Jinx. Might be him and Terra though she is in rock. We'll see.

Shekron Kaizar: You probably liked this chapter for the darkest twist I could find. The Rage is a terrifying beast in a way, we all have it, and all suffer from it. Rage is our rage, there for it is possible to see it in us. Also, great work on the Teen Titans VS Fanfiction, truly a terrifying story.

AzngrlQT: Torture devices, what kinds? What is with all the torture stuff? Creepy… and yet oddly arousing… oops, did I write that! Glad you liked the story so far.

Desert-tiger: So do you want to slap Robin, or offer him a shoulder to cry on? That was the objective here. I honestly wish to know that one.

Cheeseshirt: Chickens are messy, cows might eat a lot but chickens flock you in numbers… like Zelda. Fear them… and glad you liked so far.