Chapter Nine
Slade was mad. He couldn't contact Light Storm. "It's your turn Robin. Go, and take the remaining Titans down."
"Yes Master." Robin said mechanically.
"That's my boy." Slade smirked.
Light Storm was standing out side the door of Slade's layer. Her anger quickly turned into fear. She could see him standing there, waiting for her to walk through and attack him. Slade would then pull out the button that was threating her family and friends lives. Her shield flickered and disappeared into her fingers, all that energy inside her was waiting to burst out, but fear kept it in. She lowered herself to the ground and attempted to open the door.
In the shadows, and hidden places, the remaining Titans watched her. Everyone was in an attack position, ready to jump her at a seconds notice.
Leaning over Bumble Bee whispered to Raven, "Should we attack her now?"
"No, we need to see what's going on." Raven whispered back. "Ok, I'm going to go over a ways to find out how Cyborg is doing." With that she turned into her shadow self and disappeared into the ground. She went about a mile away and took out her communicator. "Cyborg come in. Cyborg." She announced into the hand held device. For a moment all she got was a bunch of white and black strips and the sound of static.
"What's up Raven?" Cyborg asked, almost shouting.
"How goes the mission?" she asked, small and to the point.
"Turns out she was right Raven. Slade did have them wired, but we disabled everything. All is good here. We're on our way back, and we're bringing Light Storm's parents, and the rest are going to friend's houses. That way they'll be safe and out of danger. We're getting ready to leave right now. So if that's it-" he stopped waiting for her to ask or give him another order.
"No, just get her as soon as possible. I'm not sure what's going on, but I know something's about to happen." She told him, looking around.
Cyborg nodded and the screen went black. She took the communicator and stuck it back into her cape, and after that she returned back to the other Titans.
"So how goes it?" Aqualad asked her.
"It's good, there on there way back. What's happened?" she whispered.
"Well, she just went in. Nothing else has happened." he replied.
Inside the building
Light Storm walked in carefully, she looked around every corner, and every darkened place to make sure that Slade wouldn't sneak up and attack her. What she found instead was Robin, standing in the middle of the floor with a single bright light flooding his body. Light Storm quickly, but cautiously approached him.
"Robin?" she whispered, "Robin are you ok? How did you--" she was cut off by Slade's appearance to the left of him. He placed his right hand on Robin's shoulder.
"He didn't." Slade simply stated. "He's no longer a threat to me, he's been reprogrammed to obey Me." he squinted his eye in his evil way.
"What do you mean reprogrammed?" Light Storm asked both afraid and confused.
"That's for me to know, and you to never find out." Slade paused. "Robin attack Arya."
"Yes master." Robin replied.
With that he lunged forward and attempted to disable his opponent. Light Storm jumped back and avoided some of his attacks. She didn't know much about defending herself, let alone Robin's great martial art abilities. Needless to say, she was losing. After awhile of trying to fight him off, Robin had hit her in the stomach furiously, she fell back a few feet and moaned in pain. She clenched her stomach with her hands, trying to soothe it. Tears running down her face, she looked up at Robin with pain, sympathy and regret.
"Robin--" Arya said in a low voice. "--I'm so sorry for doing this to you." she slowly said to him. Robin didn't respond, he didn't even change his facial expressions, but deep within him he heard her, and he was trying to fight Slade's hold on him, but it wasn't working.
Slade walked over to Arya, squatting by her side, "You see Arya, now that I have Robin under my control, and you are no longer needed." He got up and walked backwards to his original spot.
"What . . . are you going to do to me?" she asked, trying to get up from the floor, but she was hurting, she wasn't in the best position to fight anyone anymore.
Slade smiled with pleasure as he told Robin to finish her off.
Light Storms eyes widened and she dropped to the floor again, "No!" she tried to scream.