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We all exchanged glances.

Strange as it seemed, while I was living with the Teen Titans, no evil villain had done anything... evil. My theory was that it was an evil people holiday that us good people weren't let in on, and I told the Titans said theory, but Robin just stared when I brought it up. Honestly, he can be so closed minded sometimes. Anyway.

We all ran to the main room, and on the screen was Slade.

"Slade!" Robin hissed, about to slam his fists on the nearest surface, like he always does, when suddenly, the thought occurred to me that it was a really good time to trip him.

Like, a REALLY good time.

So I stuck my foot out, throwing Robin off balance. He flailed his arms, and kept himself falling, turning quickly to give me one of his most serious glares.

I beamed. I actually got him off balance! Yay me!

"Bella!" Robin muttered with annoyance, when I continued to return his glare with a grin.

"Yes?" I asked innocently.

Robin narrowed his eyes at me before he turned to the screen, attempting to ignore the whole situation. "What do you want Slade?" He hissed.

"Maybe he just wants to say hi. Maybe there's something he really needs to let off his chest. Or maybe he's baking a cake and he wants to borrow sugar. Or maybe-" but Beast Boy interrupted my suggestions. "Uh, Bella, now would be a really good time to… well, to keep your mouth shut."

I pondered over whether or not that was possible.

Luckily, Slade was trying (as it appeared to me) to have an "evil moment" so he didn't comment on any of this, ignoring the the whole situation like Robin was.

"Hello Robin." Slade said, in that cool voice of his. I glanced up at the screen. "Shiny…" I said, mesmerized by Slade's gleaming mask. That kept me preoccupied, and more importantly, quiet, as I pondered whether or not he waxed his mask. But where could he buy the wax? He can't just walk into a store... can he?

"What are you planning, Slade?" Robin demanded, like he always does.

Like Slade would honestly tell him.

"Well Robin, if you're so curious, you'll have to find out yourself." Slade said cooly.

"And where exactly is 'here'?" Beast Boy asked.

"You'll have to find that out yourself as well." And the screen went all black.

"That was fun!" I said cheerfully. "We should chat with him more often. I think he gets lonely." I inclined my head subtly toward the screen Slade had been on.

Robin glared at me.

"Yanno, you do that a lot." I said, still cheerfully, which didn't seem to help much.

"We have to find Slade and figure out what he's planning. We have to stop him." Robin said, and with that he assigned each Teen Titan member areas to search. When he was done, he looked at me.

He didn't know what to do. He didn't want me to come along, but he didn't trust me here at the T-Tower all by myself.

"Bella," he said slowly, hesitating, "You're coming with me." He finished, pained expression on his face.

All the Teen Titans exited, Robin last. His grave mistake… If he had gone a moment sooner, or a moment later, the whole situation could have been avoided, but as fate would have it, he stepped out at that precise moment as the sun came out from behind the clouds, and the beams glinted alluringly off his utility belt.

My eyes widened and I became instantly obsessed with his "favorite fashion statement" as Jinx had once called it. I followed him out, intent on touching his shiny belt. As we walked, I quickly seized a red colored X from Robin's belt.

"Give me that! It's not a toy!" Robin said, snatching it back and putting it in its spot.

After a few moments passed, I took it again. "What is it?"

Robin attempted to make me give it back by threatening me with glare, which was not successful, since I wasn't looking at him, too busy giggling down at the object in my hand.

"It's called a Birdarang." He said, deciding just to grab it, which was successful.

I blinked. "Who actually names something like this?"

"I do." Robin answered, sounding annoyed as he returned it to it's proper spot.

"Okay...but why did you name it Birdarang?"

Robin glared at me.

I lunged for a metal pole, which was cool and expandable, but Robin grabbed my wrist before I could. "And that is?" I asked.

"My retractable Bo staff. Now stop it!"

Again, I waited for a few moments to pass, then I grabbed a circular disk. I threw it like a Frisbee and clapped my hands together when it exploded.

"Sweet! What was that one?" I asked, bouncing a little with excitement.

Robin glared yet again. "That's a freeze disk," he grated. "And you're not allowed to use them!"

I pouted "Meanie…"

Robin just looked at me.

Suddenly, the ground began crack and split under his feet. Robin flipped quickly into the air, but the ground he landed on wasn't secure, and gave away beneath him.

I had been a few feet behind him, and was safe. As he was falling, I saw his hand reach for his utility belt, but he didn't take anything. I winced, realizing he probably didn't have what he needed because I had taken more things to look at. I examined the objects I had one by one, and the third one shot off a string which latched itself onto the other side of the newly formed valley.

"Cool…" I said, jumping down. I grabbed Robin by the arm, but I couldn't use his gadgets as awesomely as he could, not having his martial art experience, so we fell a few feet from the ground, instead of landing with our feet seamlessly meeting the floor, like Robin would have done if he were using it.

I stood up, slightly dizzy from impact, but not hurt. "Hey, birdies!" I said, as classic cartoon birds circled my head. "Robin, are they your cousins?"

Robin stared.

In response I smiled. "Let's do that again!" I swayed on my feet.

But Robin didn't want to hear it. "Bella, give me back my stuff!"

I sighed. "Fine…" Robin watched, wide eyed, as I returned the objects I snagged from his belt, stacking them them all into a small mountain of a pile.

"How did I not notice that…?" He murmured to himself.

"Cuz I'm cool like that?" I suggested.

Robin glared. "Idiot."

I'm starting to think he could use some anger management...

Robin turned away from me to study our surroundings. "What happened here...? This must be some sort of booby-trap... Come on. We have to find a way out." He said, leading the way.

I followed obediently.

About ten minutes later we came to tunnel in the ground, big enough for a person to walk through.

"That's not suspicious!"

Robin just looked at me. "You go first."

"Kay!" I said cheerfully.

It took us to the opening of dark, underground room.

I'd been here before.

I turned to relay this information to Robin. "I've been here before!" I started to say, but Robin shushed me.

Then, out of the shadows, a tall, shiny man stepped out.

"Slade!" Robin hissed.

"Dude, you gotta stop doing that." I said.

Slade looked at me. "And who is this?" he asked in that cool voice of his.

"Bella…" Robin answered in grating tone.

"Your apprentice?" Slade asked, still looking at me.

Robin stared. "N-" he stopped, glancing at me. "Yes." He muttered, unwilling to take the time and energy to explain my presence properly.

I stared, my 'what the crud' face on. "I'm-" but Robin interrupted. "Silence apprentice."

"What an interesting turn of events. I myself have an apprentice. Apprentice, come!"

And with that a tall girl with black hair done in a pony tail appaeared, dressed a lot like Robin was when he had been Slade's apprentice. The girl looked at me.

"S'up Kuro?" I said happily.

"I'm Slade's apprentice. You're Robin's?" She asked.

"Well, not really… just while Slade can hear." I told her, smiling, while Slade was 100 percent in earshot.

Robin slapped his forehead.

"You two know each other?" Slade asked.

"Duh!" was my only answer.

"Look at this!" Kuro ginned at me, holding her arm up, showing off a cool new gun. She pressed the trigger, sending a laser off.

I, who know her well, screamed, "DUCK!" as Kuro and I dropped to the floor.

It hit the wall and bounced, racketing off and hitting the other wall, and then hit the side of Slade's mask, bouncing off it, not hurting him, but leaving the man with a slightly rattled look.

As it refracted, the laser flew over Robin's pointy hair, lighting the tip on fire.

Quickly, I licked my thumb and pointer finger, pressing them over the small flame, putting it out.

"I've always wanted to do that!" I proclaimed happily.

Robin's hair continued to smoke slightly.

I giggled.

Finally the laser died out after bouncing off the wall a few more times.

Robin glared at Kuro, and then at Slade. "That's your apprentice?"

Kuro glared back. "Hey!"

"Well I didn't really want her... but it's harder finding an apprentice then you'd think, so I had to make due…" Slade whispered to Robin, like a school boy playing telephone.

"Your hair is dumb. I was practically doing you a favor…" Kuro muttered to Robin.

Robin, however, was focused on Slade. He wasn't acting right.

Robin looked at me. "Bella, what did you do?"

"I told you I'd been here before…" I reminded him offhandedly.

"What did you do?" Robin repeated.

"Well I made this really cool concoction of random stuff in the kitchen... and I wanted someone to test it… for some reason, a lot of the things I mix up makes people act really loopy. So I spiked Slade's drink to see what would happen." I replied slowly.

Robin glanced back at Slade. "If that's all it does to him, I guess it's not so bad..."

"...And I wanted to make sure I ran a good experiment, so I spiked your glass, too! Yanno, the more trials I run, the more information I can get. ...Ha... ha..." I gave a meek grin, watching Robin for a reaction.

"WHAT?!"