EVERYONE KEEPS ASKING ME HOW ROBIN'S BLIND, well 1, I wanted something different in my story, 2, if you've seen 'the quest' then you would know that Robin doesn't need his 'sight' to fight as he proved true with the snake guardian! So if you have a problem with my choice of Robin's eyes, deal with it.

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And now, the story…

Chapter 19. The only way.

Recap:

"NO MOM" Robin yelled. The woman opened her eyes one last time and smiled faintly at her son. "Richard, please, let me see your face, all of your face one last time" The woman asked faintly. Robin nodded and kneeled down to his mother's level. His hands traveled to the edge of his mask, with a slight pull, it came off. The team gasped.

"You're half blind?" Raven asked Robin, he nodded and allowed his mothers hand to trace the shape of his face. After a few more seconds her petite hand fell limply to her side.

Starfire bent down and pressed a finger to the side of the woman's neck. She felt no pulse, Starfire's emerald eyes lowered and tears began to well. Cyborg ran his scanners over her body and shook his head.

"I'm sorry Robin" He said. Robin collapsed by his mother's body, he buried his head in her breast to try and find some sign of her heart.

She can't be dead he thought to himself desperately. He was so close to having her back, and then he lost her, again. Tears again welled in his eyes, he would check her again later; he wasn't willing to admit she was gone. After re-adorning his mask, he scooped her body up bridal style and turned to face the group.

"Okay team, lets get my mom to a safe place so that she can re-gain consciousness" He said, confidence in his voice. The other's shook their heads but agreed to take the body to a safe place. "Then, we get rid of Slade. Once and for all" he added, his masked eyes narrowing.

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The team of five hurriedly rushed through the hallway and out the front door. Cyborg lead them to the concealed T-car, the Titans jumped in and sped away, the car ride was silent except for an occasional sniffle from Robin. Starfire kept shooting him worried glances; he had his mother's body laid across the three titans in the back seat, Mrs. Grayson's head in his lap. He was currently playing with her hair. Finally someone had to break the stillness. It was Raven.

"Robin…look, I know you loved your mom and you don't want to accept that she's dead, but you need to let it go" Raven said curtly, she was getting fed up with the corpse's feet on her lap. Robin turned to face her, she could sense the anger rising, his covered eyes burned life fire through her.

"FORGET, RAVEN WHAT THE HELL?" he yelled "I knew you could be cold, but that, that's just…" he mumbled a string of words no one knew he knew. Raven looked away. True she could be cold, but what he had just said about her, that hurt, she reached behind her and drew her hood over her face to cast a shadow over her eyes. She wouldn't let anyone see it, but she was starting to cry. She knew she deserved that comment though, she couldn't hold it against him, he had just lost someone.

"Let us just get the body to a safe place" Starfire said quietly. Everyone else except for Raven nodded. They continued to drive to wherever they were going. After driving for twenty minutes they found a small hotel that had a dimly glowing vacant sign raised high on a pole. Cyborg turned the car into its half empty parking lot. All of the occupants filled out, Robin still held the body of his mother tightly clenched to his chest. Beast Boy walked to the front desk of the hotel and came out with a key in his hand, the keychain was a white tab with a peeling red "8" on it. The changeling led the group to the room. He unlocked the door and stepped in.

Robin gently placed his mother's deceased frame on the flower-printed bed. The group then sat down to discuss their next move.

"What should we do?" Cyborg asked, "He'll find us at the tower no doubt"

"Robin, what do you advise?" Starfire asked turning her concerned eyes to her boyfriend. His eyes narrowed and he brought an opened hand to a closed fist.(like what you do when you threaten to beat someone's ass to a pulp!)

"We go after Slade" he said venomously. The group looked around at one another and nodded, they knew if they didn't join him, Robin would go alone and most probably get killed. "Good" Robin added as he stood up. The others stood too and proceeded to go find Slade. Half an hour later, they reached the 'Rehab' building.

Starfire and Robin sat back in their now joined bedrooms. The two sat on Robin's bed, their feet dangling over the edge. Echoing footsteps were sounding through the hallways, they were unmistakable. Slade. Both Robin and Starfire's eyes shot up and looked at each other, they then wandered to the door. There was Slade, a vile of a clear substance in his hand, a needle in the other.

"It's good to see that you two have settled in" Slade mocked, his fingers fiddled with the code pad on the side of the door. The bars disappeared and his large frame entered the doorway. "It's time to take your medicine" Slade said as he filled the needle with the clear liquid and started to move it over to Robin's neck. Robin caught Slade's hand and started to wrestle him.

"TITANS GO" Robin yelled; Raven, Cyborg and Beast Boy burst from the closet.

Slade's eyes widened and then settled back to their normal size. "Titans, you never cease to shock me" He said. As quick as a blink he had struck Cyborg and sent him into a wall. Raven used her powers to pick up the bed and drop it over their current enemy. After two seconds there was an awful ripping sound, Slade's body jumped through a tare in the bed he had obviously created.

Beast Boy swung at Slade in his gorilla form, he landed a few blows before he was punched in the solar plexus. He collapsed the floor gasping for his lost air. A sonic cannon fired at Slade, but missed and hit Raven. She fell to the floor for a moment but soon regained her poster. Her eyes glowed white as various objects swirled around the room, a few hitting the man. Slade's Bo staff hit her in the back of the head; she fell to the floor again, this time unconscious.

Slade was standing in the center of the now three teens able to operate, his staff tucked under his arm, his feet getting ready to move. Robin leapt at the man and gave him a dead accurate punch to the head; Slade merely rolled his neck in a circle before attacking Robin. Robin and Slade were moving so fast that both Starfire and Cyborg were afraid to launch an attack in fear of hitting their fellow teammate.

Robin and Slade were exchanging lightning fast punches and kicks, both were starting to slow down, their breath becoming shallower. Slade did a spinning back kick and sent Robin flying into the electric bars which had charged up again.

Starfire and Cyborg's eyes widened with shock as they watched their leader fly to his death. Robin, being very smart curled into a ball and surrounded his body with his cape. When he made contact with the bars a large spark of blue light erupted from that direction, out rolled a black ball, which soon revealed to be Robin.

"Amazing Robin" Slade said "But not good enough" the older man Spun around and grabbed Starfire, his iron hands around her neck, the metal protector she was wearing cracked and eventually crumbled away.

"STARFIRE" Robin yelled, his cry was eventually followed by a shocked Cyborg's whisper. Starfire squirmed around in his grip to face him. Her eyes glowed green, as did her hands, the Tameranian princess shot the man with her eyebeams and starbolts at the same time. The grip on her neck was released. Starfire flew over to Robin and Cyborg; the three glanced at each other and charged the man, Starfire from the side, Cyborg from the back and Robin from the front. All three were soon swept to the ground by Slade's staff once again.

"Damn it, I keep forgetting about that thing" Cyborg complained as he started to shoot his cannon continuously. The staff was soon shoved into it, not letting it function any longer. Cyborg growled in frustration, he was now useless (A/N he wouldn't really be but…well you'll get why I need him to be, that is…if you're smart) the metal man glanced over to Beast Boy, it looked like he hadn't just gotten the wind knocked out of him, but it looked like he had re-broken his rib's, the green boy was coughing up blood, his eyes wide and scared. Raven wasn't in any better condition, she was still knocked out; that left Robin and Starfire.

"Starfire…" Robin said as he dodged a deadly combination thrown out by Slade. "We…need…to…get…them…out…of…here" he said brokenly. Starfire nodded and scooped up Beast Boy and Raven. Cyborg followed them out on foot. Robin had not followed them, they stopped to see where he was, a moment later he came sprinting down the hallway, faster than anyone had ever seen him run. "GO, RUN" he yelled. Just as he said that there was a large explosion. The titans quickly retreated back to the hotel that they were 'staying' at.

Raven finally stirred and opened her eyes. She rubbed the back of her head. "Ouch" was all she had to say. She was surrounded by her black energy and quickly healed herself. She then turned to Beast Boy and placed her hands on his rib cage, he winced in pain. Three minutes later he sat up, healed.

"That hurt" was all he stated. No side comment, no joke.

"What are we going to do?" Cyborg asked, "He's too strong we can't beat him" he said looking down. "I hate to say it, but he got us bad"

"Cyborg's right" Raven said, "we could get ourselves killed" she added.

"I don't care how strong he is, no body's getting killed" Robin spat.

"Robin?" Starfire asked concerned. Robin's masked eyes softened.

"I'm alright Star" he said and brushed a hand to her cheek. "Does anyone have any idea how we can beat him?" he asked his group, his face pleading with them. No one spoke up. "Damn it, if only we were stronger" he growled. Starfire cast her eyes down.

"Robin, I believe I may be able to help with that" she said her eyes still cast down.

"What, how?" Robin asked, everyone else looked at her genuinely curious. She looked around the room and looked everyone in the eye. She sighed and reached into her long purple boot and retrieved a small white package

"I saved some…just incase" she said, a tear rolled down her cheek. The other Titans gasped. Robin tilted Starfire's chin up and made her look at him. He then looked at all of the other titans.

"Starfire's right…It's the only way…"

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