Chapter 11: Meetings and a New Plan

Barbara had her old Batgirl suit on as she crept out of her window of Titans Tower. When she reached the outside, she stole one of Robin's motorcycles and sped off into the city. She had hacked into the Titans Computer and found where Slade's last location was. She punched the coordinates in Robin's motorcycle and it immediately took her in front of a warehouse downtown near a deserted dock. She went inside and was soon attacked and pinned to the ground. She kicked up but it seemed like what was holding her down doubled. She got punched in the stomach and was dragged along to wherever the things that were taking her.

"Droids, leave her be. I would like to see who our guest is." said an eerily calm voice. He saw a glimpse of red hair.

"My, have I gotten hold of dear Starfire? Wow, without your little Robin you have become quite vulnerable and worthless. But nevertheless, still pretty as you are now." said the voice. Barbara looked up.

"As much as I wish it were Starfire in my position, it's not. I've come here to ask for a favor. One in you might like to look into. And she's not THAT pretty. More like butt ugly." Barbara said.

"And who are you?"

"I'm Batgirl. Or I was. I go by Barbara Gordon now."

"Ah yes, Batgirl. I heard a couple of stories about you some time before."

"Well Slade, this Bat is retired now. And the only reason I am here is to ask for your help. Right now, Starfire and Robin are together, and I don't like them together. So right now, as you probably know, Starfire is helping out the Titans East preparing for battle with some mysterious villain and Robin won't stop thinking about her. So I called Speedy and he said he would help me break up Robin and Starfire by like, making Starfire fall in love with him while I do the same to Robin."

"And as much I would like to ruin Robin's life, what do I have to do? I have my own plan of becoming happy and it involves me finishing the Teen Titans."

"But wouldn't it be better to make them suffer?"

"What do you mean?"

"What I mean," Barbara Gordon paused before continuing, "is that we could make them suffer by splitting up the teams. They would not have a reason to use their powers and it'd be the perfect time to strike. Get your own town or even the world. Something like that."

"And when can I strike?"

"When I give the signal. But first, let's try to lead them on to the idea of you getting destroyed and then we hurt Starfire."

"You really have a grudge on Starfire don't you Miss Gordon?"

"She took Robin away, and he's supposed to be mine. So are you in or not?"

"Yeah I'm in."

"Good. Now this is my plan and I'm calling the shots here. Try and stop me, I fight better than anyone you know and I know how to kill."

"Miss Gordon, you do not realize that right now, I'm tired of the Teen Titans. And if I have to let some else take charge just to destroy them, then I will. But just to let you know, I have no mercy for anyone and if this plan fails, well let's just say that I DON'T like to lose."
"Whatever. Now help me learn how to block my mind. That Raven girl can easily go into my mind."

So as Barbara and Slade discussed and trained for the next step in their plan, the sun was rising and everyone in Titans Tower was going to be awake soon.

A few hours later..

"Alright, so your uniform is all messed up, your make-up makes it look like you've been in a real battle and everything is in place Miss Gordon?" Slade asked before letting Barbara go.

"Yes. Oh and to make everything seem more convincing, do you have a mask? Or one that you can let me use?" She said as she checked herself once more.

"Way ahead of you. Now I've gotten fake blood on it but once it's been scanned it'll mess up anything that involves technology and/or Cyborg's arm." Slade handed her an extra mask he had, which was dripping in fake blood.

"Great thanks. So I'll keep in touch and you have fun with your little vacation now Slade."

"Keep in contact Miss Gordon." From there, Slade disappeared into the shadows and Barbara went outside to go to Titans Tower.

Later that morning..

"Good morning team," Robin replied as he came through the doors.

"Yup," Raven replied.

"Wassup dawg," Cyborg answered.
"Ehh," Beast Boy said. He was still half asleep. The four Titans ate their breakfast and went to do whatever they wanted to. Beast Boy and Cyborg were playing their games, arguing who was better, Raven sat down and read a book, and Robin worked on the computer. Everything seemed normal until the main room doors opened. There stood Barbara, so-called 'injured' and 'hurt', looking as if she would collapse any minute, with a mask in her hand. Robin and Raven immediately ran over to her and lifted her to the couch. She looked like she was in critical condition (A/n: and that's the wonders of make-up lol). Beast Boy and Cyborg just stared and Raven went to get a wash cloth.

Robin knelt down to her and asked, "Babs, what happened? Who did this to you? When?" Barbara hesitated before talking. She wanted to make them buy the act even more. When she finally decided to talk, she made her voice just barely above a whisper.

"I…I ki-killed him. F-fo-or y-you-ou."

Everything went dead silent. It was only minutes later when Robin spoke up.

"What did you say."

"I…I ki-" and Barbara 'fainted' onto the ground. Slade's mask rolled out of her hand and Robin took a hold of it. Cyborg picked up Barbara and Raven and Beast Boy led him to the medical wing of their tower. Robin stared at the mask. Anger, confusion, suspicion, tinge on happiness, and a little bit of jealousy welled up in him. (A/n: not a good combo /) He was in doubt and denial until he saw the 'blood' all over his palm. (A/n: I know eww, I'm sorrie but please go along with it.) He went to the lab and put it into the scanner. Soon sparks flew everywhere and the scanner started to fry up. Robin took the mask out cautiously and put it into a replacement scanner. Its actions did the same as the other one.

"Shit!" Robin yelled as he took the mask out. Robin was stressed-out. He always thought that he would be the one who would kill Slade. Not anyone else. He decided to put the mask in a glass container and investigate it later. He locked it up and went to go check on Barbara.

Titans East…

The Titans East decided to go and get pizza for lunch after their training. They got ready and they all decided to walk and get the crisp fall air just before winter began. Bee and Starfire linked arms behind the two guys that were shoving each other. Mas y Menos sped ahead to order the pizza.

"Look how stupid those two look girl," Bee whispered to Starfire. Then the two girls burst out laughing when they both somehow ended up in the mud puddle next to the road. The two boys had a look of embarrassment on their faces. Aqualad got water from a water hydrant and rinsed himself off. Speedy saw and jumped to his feet.

"HEY WHAT ABOUT ME!" he yelled. Aqualad looked and then grinned mischievously. He blasted the water at Speedy and Speedy flew a few feet back. The girls high-fived Aqualad and started laughing again. All of a sudden Speedy was next to Starfire and put his arm around her.

"Hey Starfire," he said. She tried to get out of his arm but she didn't want to seem rude so she just stiffened her shoulder.

"Hello friend Speedy, how are you?" she replied.

"I'm good. I'm good." He kept his arm around her the whole walk to the pizza place and several people were whistling at the two. Speedy just winked at all of them and pulled Starfire even closer. People thought that THEY were going out instead of knowing that Robin and Starfire were the ones going out. The four of them met up with Mas y Menos at a booth and once they sat, everyone's communicator went off. Speedy and Bee took out theirs and held it up to their faces. All of a sudden holograms popped up and Aqualad immediately took his out. On Bee's communicator popped out Cyborg, on Speedy's it was Raven, and on Aqualad's it was Beast Boy. Starrfire looked onto Speedy, since his arm was still tightly around her shoulders and Mas y Menos looked with Aqualad. They were all giving updates on what just happened.

Cyborg and Bee..

"Hey Sparky, what's up? Nice new feature on the communicator."

"Thanks but, damn Bee, things are really weird here."

"Why, what's wrong?"

"Well, everything's all quiet down here and then all of a sudden, this guy Slade, gets killed by Barbara."

"What!"

"Yeah I know."

Beast Boy, Aqualad, and Mas y Menos..

"So dude, then Barbara comes in all injured and tells us she just killed Slade, that bad guy, and Robin has the mask right now."

"Que?" Mas y Menos asked in unison.

"That's way weird. Do you guys know what happened?" Aqualad asked.

"Not entirely."

Raven, Starfire, and Speedy..

"Friend Raven, is everything alright?"

"I don't know Star. Robin is in that Slade mode and Barbara's getting treated right now. I think Robin is in the room with Barbara though." Starfire became quiet.

Then Raven spoke,
"But to tell you the truth, there's something wrong with this. I can't go into her head. Or at least, I can't go to the incident and her thoughts. And the cuts and bruises are fake I think. I just left them on there so Robin won't be as stressed out as he already is."

"Thank you Raven," Starfire said.

"Yeah. And also, she comes in with Slade's mask and says she killed him. Now doesn't that sound a little odd to you?"

"Well, I suppose so." Starfire said quietly. Raven shifted a little and Starfire and Speedy could see Robin in the background. He was sitting in a chair next to Barbara's bed and was holding her hand. He looked toward Raven when she started talking again. Starfire made no attention to it once she and Robin made eye contact. Starfire was suddenly sad and Speedy was just nodding. He saw Robin and Starfire make eye contact and took note of this. He thought it was the perfect time to pull her even closer than she already was. Raven lifted an eyebrow in suspicion. Raven sensed Starfire's sadness and said,

"Star, everything is going to be alright. You'll be home soon okay?" Starfire placed her eyes on Raven with worried eyes that also held hurt. She nodded and whispered something to Speedy. Speedy nodded and then looked to Raven.

"Hey Raven, we're going to go back to the tower. But we'll call as soon as we get there alright?"

"Sure. Bye. Be safe." Speedy put his communicator back into his pocket and he and Stafire stood up. They told everyone that they were headed back home and Bee told him that they would catch up later. They left the place and started walking.

Hospital Wing of Titans Tower..

Robin heard Raven take out her communicator once she left the room. He pulled a chair next and started talking.

"Hey Babs, don't know if you can hear me but, I hope you're doing alright big sis. When you wake up, we'll get this figured out." Robin took her hand and continued, "I'm sorry for yelling at you Babs, it's just been hard lately. And-" he stopped and looked towards Raven once he heard her talking. He saw Starfire. Under Speedy's arm. He made eye contact with her (well behind the mask) and he saw the look on her face. She was hurt. But he didn't know why because all he could think about now was how Speedy pulled her closer to him. He saw them leave with Starfire leaning close to Speedy. Raven shut the communicator off and turned around. She looked at Robin and left. Robin looked down and let go of Barbara's hand. He looked at her for a second and then left to go to the kitchen.

Once Robin left and shut the door, Barbara opened her eyes and grinned.

'This is turning out to go so perfectly. Never knew Robin's stupid-ness would be helpful. I mean, if he wasn't so caught up in Starfire and me killing Slade, then he would've realized that I'm not really injured and that these cuts are just those Halloween things. But, now, Robin will fall for me soon since he's so confused and all.' She grinned and then decided to go to the kitchen. She had a feeling that she would make Starfire jealous.

Once they were outside the restaurant Starfire started to cry onto Speedy's shoulder.

"Speedy, what is going on? My friends are now becoming confused and tired and Robin is becoming isolated again and now I am worried if he still loves me. He did not smile or wave or seem to care about my presence on the communicator. He has probably loved Barbara more now and now I am just so hurt and worried." She sobbed. Speedy just started to brush her hair as they kept walking. He kept trying to tell her it was okay and that she shouldn't worry about it. They finally reached Titans East Tower and went inside. He sat her down on the couch and grabbed a tissue for her. Soon Bee, Aqualad, and Mas y Menos came in. Aqualad and Bee immediately went to Starfire while Mas y Menos went to go get her things that they thought would cheer her up (teddy bears, candy, etc.). She smiled through her tears at them and gave them a hug. She then turned to the nearest person and cried into their shoulder. It was Aqualad. He let her stay like that until she cried herself to sleep. He put her down on a pillow and put a blanket on her and went where everyone else was.

"Okay, so she cried herself to sleep. Now can someone please explain to me what happened?" Aqualad asked as he took a seat in the kitchen.

"Something about Robin and everyone else over there," Speedy replied.

"Okay, as leader as this team, I wanna bring up something that has been on my mind the past few days." Bee stated.

"What Cyborg?" Speedy said. He and Aqualad high-fived and laughed. She both punched them in the arm.

"NO! Something about Starfire."

"Si si, qué?" Mas y Menos said.

"What do you guys think of her being on our team? Like, permanently?" Mas y Menos started jumping up and down saying 'hooray' in Spanish. Speedy and Aqualad thought it'd be alright.

"But how can she be on our team when she's already on another one?" Aqualad asked.

"Well, right now, she's heartbroken and having problems with Robin. Plus, we could just ask her, not like, FORCE her…just suggest the idea to her ya know?"

"Yeah I'm cool with it Bee." Speedy said as he took a sip out of his soda.

"Alright, so it's like everyone's alright with it?" Everyone nodded and Bee smiled. "Well, I don't think we need to train anymore. We've been through enough today. We can just go wherever you guys want to go."

"I don't care." Speedy said.

"How about.." Aqualad started.

"A picnic? We never got that pizza for lunch so we can leave in an hour and still catch lunch." Bee finished.

"Cool, I'll go call in for pizza and then we could bring it to the park." Aqualad said as he went towards the phone.

"Alright, then it's settled. We go to the park and eat pizza there. Speedy go tell Starfire this. Maybe it'll cheer her up."

"Okay."

"Starfire, wake up, Starfire?" Speedy said as he gently shook her. She groaned and opened her eyes.

"What is going on Speedy?" she asked groggily while sitting up.

"You've been asleep for about an hour and in an hour we're going to go to the park. Wanna come? It'll be fun. Refresh your mind and we'll eat pizza. Come on, besides, if you want to talk to me or like, Raven or someone over there, you can. I won't stop you."

"Fine, fine Speedy. You make everything sound convincing." Starfire laid back down and put her arm over her eyes. Speedy chuckled.

"Alright Star, thanks."

So everyone left to go to the park an hour later and Bee and Starfire found a place under a tree to eat the pizza Mas y Menos picked up. Aqualad and Speedy brought the drinks and they all agreed that they were going to have a nice, relaxing, fun afternoon at the park. Little did they know that their little afternoon break was going to be the opposite of what they had in mind.

DOOODE HELLUH LOOOOOOOOOONG CHAPTER! hahaha anyways it's really late and i gotta wake up earliee tomorrow so if anything doesn't make sense..tell me alright? SOOOOOO how are you? haha sorrie..

YOU GUYS! I'M SOO SORRIE THAT I UPDATED LIKE REALLY SUPER LATE! I DIDN'T MEAN TO! it was one: writer's block and two:stoopid computer.. I'M SOOO SORRIEE! i love you guys&hope that you guys can forgive me:)

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