Chapter 6 – Quartz

"You guys have been a while!" Cyborg explained.

"You really are sir point-out-the-obvious-a lot aren't you!" he huffed and walked off. I took Starfire to my room and sat down on the bed.

"Robin I had no idea…"

I put an arm round her. "No-one did."

"'Did horrible things'" she quoted, "You explained that you took his name because the description was identical to you. What horrible things have you done?"

"I can't say."

"Please Robin I am your friend. I have a right to know."

"I…" I was about to tell her, when my phone received a text.

I pressed show, then wished I hadn't. The text was from Quartz. It said; it's time you paid for what you did. Oh damn.

"Err, Star? I need you, and the Titans, to meet me in the living room in ten minuets, I have something planned. A nice little trip out to the mall." She jumped up at the word "mall" and ran to get the others.

"Guys, we're off out!" I told them in the living room.

We shopped for ages, and bought loads of things, when I noticed a familiar blue skirt. "Titans -" I began but Cyborg cut through me;

"Are we going into battle at last!"

"No. You're going home."

"But -"

"NOW!" they all seemed startled by my explosion, but went home all the same.

I looked at the girl in front of me. God, she'd changed a lot. Like she'd frozen inside.

She had a blue ripped skirt, and the remains of what was obviously a long-sleeved flowing top, but now only fragments of the sleeves remained. She had a gray top on and black hair down to her waist.

I readied myself for combat, when I was suddenly frozen. I could see her walking toward me, but I couldn't move at all. "I'll unfreeze you now." God that voice made me shiver! Well I would if I wasn't frozen! She waved a hand, and I could move again. I fell to the floor whimpering. Being frozen takes quite a bit of your strength away.

She smiled evilly. "Aww. Not going to cry now are we Dick. I hear that's what you're calling yourself now."

I stayed silent and not moving.

"Well, I'm going to do to you what you did to me."

I was confused, but he pain that went through me next made me scream. She was taking my life away…

"Quartz. Stop!" I begged. She wasn't having none of it, in fact, she was enjoying herself. Bitch. I hate her. I really do. Can't she understand that what I did was an accident?

Suddenly, something blue came past me, and knocked Quartz flat; Cyborg's sonic cannon. I love that thing. Next, came Starfire's starbots, then a whack from a green dinosaur, then being tied up by black physic energy.

"Robin, you knew she was coming, why didn't you just let us stay and help?"

"Because you can't defeat her."

"Why?"

"Because she's dead on the inside."…