Konnichiwa! I'm finally back after being stuck on holiday, but hey, having you ticket declined and a month in Jamaica… isn't that bad… Trust me… you don't wanna know what happened. Anywayz, Standard disclaimer... I own Larissa...

Boys Have Two Brains Part 2…

Light seemed to filter through the micro-holes of his mask and into his eyes after a lifetime of darkness it seemed. Pain throbbed in his head and neck as he swung them around to get a better view of his surroundings. Bleak, slightly warm… faint talking could be heard. To his dismay, he found himself chained up to a solid stone wall, hanging by rough steel coils. He looked immediately to his right to see his siblings and Starfire, to his left were his other team mates; all moaning, groaning and confused. Suddenly, a flash of green billowed in his face as he looked directly ahead of himself.

"Looks like the leader is awake. Great!" A 'chibber' voice sang. Robin moaned some more as he gained the strength to speak.

"What do you want with us?"

"Oh, I don't need all of you… I will just pick my choices and which of you will advance in this massive plan. You have already been selected, as has your elder brother and younger sister. Ah, the mighty trio… reunited… Mr. J will be so proud!" He shrieked as he danced around in his green leotard covered with shiny black question marks.

"The Joker may be insane, but at least he wasn't retarded… like you, Riddler." Riddler immediately stopped dancing and slapped her on the cheek.

"Little. Larissa. If only I could kill you now." Robin X smirked with his younger sister.

"You'd have to be in Two Face's league to do that," Robin X defended. A fog of silence hung heavily over then. Only breathing could be heard. Chains soon rattled as soon as The Riddler left. The Titans looked towards each other, to the pair of siblings, then to their leader. Beast boy was the first to break the tension.

"Okay Dudes and Dudettes; we've been chained up by some gay, retarded guy who seemingly wants to kill Larissa, but can't for some unknown reason, everyone knows who the Joker is, the sadist that he is, but one thing still bothers me… why did you bring up Two Face and who the hell is he?" Everyone's eyes went to Larissa, who gnawed her lips trying to keep her crystal tears from falling. Robin started to get impatient.

"Come on! We're waiting…" Robin growled.

"Back off! Don't even tell me you don't remember the story."

"What story?" Robin asked bewildered. His brother shrugged and tried to swing over to Larissa's head.

"YO, what are you doing?" Cyborg asked, thinking that Robin X was trying to kick his sister in the head. He remained silent and continued to work.

"Star, do you think you could power up a star bolt to hit Larissa's wrist where the skull bracelet is?"

"I can only manage a small one though." She chimed back.

"It will do just great. Now Larissa, I need you to stay really still and really calm. Is that okay sweetheart?" Larissa glared at him.

"What did I say about babying me? You already have a girl to baby, don't take it out on me!" The point had been taken. She glanced over to Starfire who was currently generating a small bolt. "Hit me." CHING

Dust billowed around the trio as they coughed softly. "Nice hit." Larissa whispered as she jumped down from chains and hit the stone floor. Robin glared at her cautiously, studying her every move, like she was the enemy. "When you stop staring like I'm gonna kill you, I'll let you down." His eyes widen, but his gaze didn't falter. "Fine…" With a few zaps everyone had been realised from their chains except for the Boy Wonder. Everyone looked expectant of him, but his gaze still didn't falter.

"Azarath, Metrion, Zinthos…" Robin dropped to the floor violently, still perplexed on how Larissa realised herself with a star bolt. Sighing, Larissa almost reluctantly told Robin how to escape.

"There is a tunnel east from here that should lead you right up towards the surface next to Arkham Asylum. Robin, you should know your way back from there. Be careful, Riddler may have left a few gifts for you, don't be fooled. Robin X, you'll go with them as you have dealt with Riddler before."

"Hell no! I'm not leaving you here by yourself."

"You have to. The riddles have intensified with dire consequences. I need you to get everyone out before he calls in the higher party."

"I won't leave you!" He grabbed her by the shoulders and shook her violently. "I can't leave you." Larissa smiled sympathetically.

"Starfire, look after him. Make sure that he doesn't come back for me. Raven; make sure that Robin doesn't pressure him with too many questions that he feels the need to come back for me. Beast boy… don't make wise cracks to make your leader mad and Cyborg…" Cyborg looked at her quietly, "… Don't be fooled by the holograms." She broke away from him and zapped the rusty iron bars… "Go…" Beast boy looked at her and everyone else before turning right outside the prison; he was eventually followed by everyone else but Robin lagged behind.

"Why are you doing this Larissa?"

"You have to go."

"Not until you tell me, why are you doing this?"

"Go!"

"I won't."

"GO!" she screamed as she blasted him towards the rest of the group. Feeling weak, she collapsed onto the cold stone with a blue aura throbbing around her body. A sinister shadow enveloped her figure in darkness…

In the Tunnel…

Mud. Dirt. Grit. Not really the sort of terrain you want to be walking in for hours, let alone running. Crimson liquid still dripped steadily from his wound, groaning slightly, he dropped to the floor, alerting everyone around him. He pressed his palm to his side and pushed it hard, making more of the fluid squirt out. Gulping, he turned his eyes to Starfire who was by his side, wrapping an arm around him to life him off the ground. He looked straight through her as if she wasn't there. Raven felt his mind racing in hers… Something wasn't right. Abruptly, he sucked in a breath and coughed.

"Dude. Are you alright?" Beast boy asked, not really wanting to know the answer. Robin X gave him a grim look whispering that he would be fine. Shrugging, he continued to follow Robin and Cyborg, leaving the girls to tend to him.

"What's wrong with you?" Raven asked from under her hood. He remained silent. Raven glanced at Starfire, knowing that she had some clue to what was wrong with him. "I'll only ask one more time, what is wrong with you?" Reluctantly, he lifted his hand away for her eyes to see. Starfire cringed and looked away while Raven healed his wound. With renewed strength, he clambered up to his feet, thanked Raven and pulled them with him catch up with the rest.

Meanwhile…

"…And can you believe that he has the nerve to take my place! Can you! What does she even see in him? I mean she's only known him for a day and he's all over her and she's all over him! What is up with those two? And why does Larissa always seem to have it in for me? I bet he did something to her mind or bribed her somehow and she's not telling. There's something between them that makes them sing from the same hymn book! Do you know what it is! Do you!"

Beast boy and Cyborg looked from their leader, to each other… then back to their leader. "Maybe it's just the bond between brother and sister." Cyborg dared to answer. Robin squinted his masked-eyes and sighed.

"Then why don't I have that type of bond with her?"

"—Maybe when you left her alone with a person she dislikes severed the bond," a voice from the background broke in. The masculine trio glance backwards to see Robin X with Raven and Starfire.

"I never left her!"

"Oh ya. That's the reason you don't know who I am and have a team of your own."

"Hey! I was offered the position and I took it. She was happy for me."

"The position wasn't offered! You had a fight with the old Bat and you took the position without a thought of what it could do to your relationships with people! Larissa was left alone, thinking that you had abandoned her, leaving her to deal with all the villains that were after you in that moment of time! When I came along, villains had found a way top communicate with her through her mind. It took me a year. You hear me! A year! To earn her trust, telling her constantly that I wasn't just another Robin. You betrayed her trust!" Robin stood there gob smacked with the rest of the titans. "And that's why I'll do whatever it takes to protect her! The thing that hurts me is that she still admires you after all the things you have put her through. And the thing that hurts her the most… Is that you never treated her like a sister of flesh and blood… and never will…"

Robin X had hit a nerve…

With an almost demonic outburst, Robin shoved his brother to the other wall of the tunnel harshly. Placing a bid-a-rang under his throat, Robin growled, "Don't you ever say that about me and my sister again! Where the fuck were you for the first nine to ten years of her life! You think you can take my life away from me, well think again!" Robin pressed the blade harder into his throat. Starfire gasped and intervened instantly.

"Robin stop!" she cried as she pried him away from Robin X. "Violence won't solve anything. Besides, Larissa wouldn't want you to fight!"

"Ya man, chill. We've probably got ages until we reach the end of this tunnel." Robin looked warily of his counterpart. Raven noticed.

"Don't make me send you into another dimension, Robin. You may be my leader, but each member of this team has to make their own judgement. I know what he said hurt, but you have to let it go. When Larissa comes back home we can sort it out. Right now, co-operate with each other and no one will get hurt," she clarified in her monotone voice. Both Robin's complied, while the Boy Wonder led in front, with Cyborg by his side. Beast boy and Starfire followed their leader but not before looking on the Teen Wonder. Raven stayed behind with him for a minute, then started walking with him.

"Why did you do that?" Robin X looked at her and shrugged.

"I've been wanting to say something like that for a long time now. So has Larissa…" he trailed off.

"But you held back."

"I had to." He snapped making Raven stop in her tracks. "There are some places that only Larissa should clarify with him. I respect her wishes, but I resent the fact that Batman wants me to be just another Robin. I can't be him though… we're too different."

"I don't think you are. Your similarities are uncanny… I think that you should really settle your differences, if you have any, before something extreme happens."

With the other Robin…

"I'm sorry Cyborg… I just don't like him. Even of he is my so-called brother."

"I'm sure you both said some things that you didn't mean--,"

"No, we meant every word, especially him. He's trying to steal my life Cy. What if he steals the one thing that's keeping me sane!"

"And that would be…?"

"You guys… You, Raven, Beast boy and Starfire. Being part of the Teen Titans and leading them is my life."

"So, with what you have just said… where does your sister fir into all of this?" Robin sighed deeply.

"When she turned eleven she was meant to join us in Jump City. I called Bruce but he said that she had been taken by a villain and was asking the Justice League to get her back. After that, I didn't bother to call anymore. He said that she had been missing for more than three months. I guess that I…"

"…Gave up on her." Cyborg filled in for him. Robin solemnly nodded his head. "Maybe that's why he was being so hard on you… because you gave up on her and the reason that she admired you so much was that… you never gave up."

Robin stopped walking and leant up against the cobweb covered wall for support. Cyborg smiled and walked on ahead with Beast boy, Raven and Robin X. Starfire walked up to Robin and pulled him into a friendly hug. "Fear not Robin. Even though I barely know your sister, she has something in her that I often see in you." Robin looked up to her cheery face and smiled.

"What would that be? What do you see in me?" Starfire grinned and cocked her head cutely to her right-hand side.

"Why Robin, see your courage and your passion. Your determination to do what you think is right, no matter what the cost. We all know that Larissa and Robin X have risked something. But you have to have faith in them, the way you have faith in us."

Starfire's words and warmth soothed his soul instantly. He carefully snuggled up against her before he let her go, whispering a soft thank you while taking her hand within his. Both of them jogged up towards the others. Their jaws dropped when they saw that their friends were no where in sight.

Scanning their surroundings, they treated each shadow as a threat, even if it was their own. Star lit up another star bolt as they continued to venture further down into the tunnel. To their relief they saw Beast boy sitting at the bottom of a rickety ladder, looking rather annoyed. He waved his arms violently in the air and threw a rant.

"Where the hell have you guys been! I've been waiting on my butt in the freezing cold for you two! Hurry up, I really want to go back home and lie in my bed! Did I mention that it was freezing and that I need food!" Robin and Starfire giggled at his antics and climbed up the ladder after him.

Robin was the last one to poke his head through the hole. "Nothing like good ol'--," His sentence had been cut short when she realised that he was in the centre of a battle between the Titans and zombies made up of question marks.

Running over towards Cyborg, who looked to be in the easiest battle position, he asked him.

"What the hell is going on!" Cyborg grunted as he blasted the creature with his sonic cannon.

"Raven, Robin X and I stumbled over a riddle. Something about trick or treat even though it is nowhere near Halloween. So Raven would have to make a sarcastic comment and now we're in this mess."

"Found out any weaknesses?"

"Does look like we've found out any bloody weaknesses!"

"Their subservient to blustery weather, in other words, extreme wind." Raven popped in from nowhere.

"That solves everything, all we need to do it get BB to pass gas." Robin and Raven glared at him while sweat dropped from his brow. Beast boy looked at them clueless…

A flurry of neon flashed through each disembodied creature, but had little effect. Right by her side was none other that Robin X, who trying hard not to let either of them get hurt, but still had power over some of Riddler's minions. Too engrossed in their epic battle against the demons, Starfire and Robin X failed to see the sinister shadow that approached them from behind. Sensing a strange being, Starfire turned around and screamed instantly at what she just saw. Petrified by fear, Robin X shoved her out of the way before the monster had a chance to capture her.

Starfire, unable to move, lay perfectly still in his arms. Robin X had no other choice but to run for their lives. Serving from one fiend to another, he made it into a clearing where he lay her down in a blanket of fresh grass. Fascinated by her beauty, he tossed her silky auburn locks around in his hands and pressed his lips to her forehead.

"I won't let anything happen to you that doesn't happen to me Star." Speechless, Starfire tried relentlessly to tell him that someone was behind him. DONK It was too late. He lay unconscious across her figure, like a dead weight on a scale. She screamed hard until it abruptly stopped.

A yell of her name could be heard in the midst of the raging battle…

Underground…

"We have the Teen Wonder Mr. J. And that red haired girl he was fighting with."

"Excellent… Begin with phase two… Mwhaha!" Hysterical laughter could be heard from every corner of the room and over a dark figures body…

Sorry that it's kinda short, but it's kinda one of those filler chapters… nothing really happens except for finding out the reason why Tim hates Robin. Really wanted to add in a fight scene but it wouldn't really fit. Anywayz, Thanxz so much for the reviews, even though I have neglected this story!

solodancer: I know it's kinda confusing, but trust me, this should clarify some things. Thanxz!

Rose: It took me five months just to get this up. Year ten sucks! I wish I didn't have to do so much course work, that way I could concentrate more on my fics before Teen Titans finish. I swear I will get round to reviewing Collage Life, I've loved the first few chapter so I'm not gonna stop now. Thanxz!

GenericX: That's okay. But when are you gonna update your fic? Thanxz!

Ldy-Florry: Thanxz, I really like your story, I hope that you update it soon!

anwen: Or should I call you Valda? May babies do tend to find each other. Hooray for May babies! And I'm writing about this in November. I know how you feel. Sucks being not in time with everyone else. Oh well. You keep writing missy. I love your story too much! Thanxz!

crazier than you: That is freaky. Another May baby! Thanxz!

lil' LIK Star: Another May Baby, sorry about the long wait!

Starfan1: I really enjoy your reviews, makes me smile. Another May Baby, yay! Thanxz!

Stollhofen125: Koolio! Thanxz for your review!

Blonde Shadowcat: The plot thickens even more. You know what, When I review your story's I'm going to be anonymous and see what happens! Thanxz!

Crystal Renee: See, this is where we need to think. Is Starfire truly doubting Robin or is it just a play on narrative? Nope, Larissa and Tim are defiantly NOT a couple. Just brother and sister. Larissa is a very complex character that I made up. She'll be fully explained later. Thanxz!

Starfire-Universe: I agree, I think that there's not enough racial diversity in cartoons, but it is improving. Have you seen A.T.O.M? Thanxz!

And five months later I finally update… I really need to start going on another updating spree if I can. Please don't be mad, but please… Drop and review…

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