Quite Quick out this chapter...well try like 2 days...i felt i owed it to you all as i hadnt written many in ages...this one is actually shorter than the last one, but i much prefer this one as its a bit more thrilling...well as thrilling as I can make it lol.

Thank you for the reviews and ill let you read now...oh and sorry for the major cliffy at the end of the last one, kind of one at the end of this one aswell tee hee.

Disclaimer: I do not own, neither will i ever ( ;( ) own the Teen Titans...DAMN YOU CRUEL WORLD!

"I've become so numb
I can feel you there
I've become so tired
So much more aware
I'm becoming less
All i want to do
Is be more like me
And be less like you..."

Linkin Park - "Numb"

Chapter 5: Dance Puppet

"What do I want you ask? Why isn't it simple Robin? Haven't you caught on after all this time we've spent together?" Slade said. Robin looked at his masked foe confused, not understanding what on earth he could be talking about. "Why all I've ever wanted my dear boy was you…" He paused, leaving his sentence hanging before speaking once more. "To destroy those people who you call your friends and fellow team-mates. Including this lovely lady I hold here." He tightened his grip on Raven, who had began to cry silent tears as the metal glove trapping her body crushed her ribs even more. "Why don't cry my dear Raven," Slade said seeing the tears rolling down her cheek and landing on his glove, "for you will be last on Robin's list. I feel I owe it too him and yourself at least to let you be killed by your husband last."

"I don't know what makes you think that I'm going to do this Slade!" Robin snarled at the man.

"Why on the contrary my dear boy, you haven't been broad minded enough to see the full picture yet. I'm not giving you a choice on whether you do this or not." He paused again, loving every moment that he left that hatred and confused expression painted on the boy wonder's face. "You see Robin," he said, putting the boy out of his misery, "if you don't kill your team-mates, I'll kill them anyway, make you watch them suffer and then let my drones beat every single person in this place you call your home, Jump City, until they bleed to death and the blood from their bodies paints the town red as you might say."

Robin growled that oh so familiar growl he did when frustrated, angered or anticipating an attack. "Now, I doubt you'd want all of those millions of innocent lives resting on your conscience." With surprise Robin leaped at the madman, aiming to rip his head from his body. Slade chucked a broken Raven to the ground, where she lay with blood seeping through her top, and swung the animal Robin against a tree, forcing his arm behind his back, pulling it upwards so that it felt like it was breaking, but only narrowly not actually breaking. "Did you really think that you'd get me Robin? After all this time have you not learnt that I am your superior and will always win. Isn't it evident that no matter how hard you try and no matter how well you think you've brought me down, I always come back…always." He said, hissing the final 'always'.

"Robin…" she coughed as the blood and pain shot through her body as she spoke. "Don't listen to him… cough we'll find a way…" she said before passing out as the pain shocked her body too much.

"What's it to be Robin? Your friends and wife, or your friends, wife and a couple of million people? The choice is all down to you my dear boy."

He couldn't believe he was about to say what he was but he knew he had only one option. That was to beat Slade, "I'll do it." He said. Slade released his grip on Robin. The only way he could accomplish the victory, was to keep his enemy as close as he could. He needed to betray his friends in able to save them. It was his only choice.

"Cyborg, they look to be in much pain! We must do something." Star cried, that same passion for her friends' safety had never died in the 5 years she had been apart from them.

"I know Star but we can't reach…" he stopped mid sentence when Robin appeared real again and saw Cyborg and Starfire standing in the hallway. "Where's Raven!" Robin asked distressed.

"She's there man." Cyborg said pointing to the place where Raven lay.

Robin ran to her, attempting to pick her up but like Cyborg's finger, his arms went straight through her. "She's still there!"

"Still where exactly? I mean where did you guys go?" Cyborg asked confused.

"I don't know, but I do know that Slade was there."

Starfire gasped. "He's made his first appearance. We must alert the others." She said.

"No." Robin said bluntly. "No one knows about this until we know what's going on, and how we're gonna get Raven back."

"Robin, I know you were leader of us as the titans, but this is my team and I say what and when we do things." Starfire said, some of that old anger flaring up again.

"I know Star but this is my wife we're talking about and I say what happens when she's involved and in danger."

Distracted by their petty argument, neither Robin nor Starfire noticed Raven's lifeless figure being lifted off the ground and being carried away until Cyborg pointed it out. Robin and Starfire whipped around, only to see the once not there-there Raven disappear.

"Wakey wakey." Slade said pushing the half passed out Raven with his cold steel boot. His patience always getting the best of him, he kicked her hard in the ribs making her gasp and cry out in pain. "Hey there sleepy head." Slade mocked.

"Get away from me." Raven had to force out her words as the pain intensified. She tried to edge away but it was no use, she was in too much pain and too weak. Slade took a step forward and bent down in front of her, clasping her chin with his metal glove. "No need to get testy Raven my dear. If your dear husband manages to fulfil his deal, then your stay here may be as pleasant as it could be. If he deceives me, then I may just make your life a living hell."

"Sorry, not scared by cough that Slade." She had to stop speaking for a moment as she began to cough violently, blood speckles spluttering from her mouth slightly, none of which made Slade any nicer or sympathetic towards the young woman. "You and my father already did that once in my life time." She said after final managing to stop coughing.

Slade gave a heartless chuckle and brought her face closer to his as he poured out his words which were like venom to her ears as his harsh voice said, "Oh but Raven, there's so much more that can be taken away this time. And your father was nothing to what I could do you."

Seeing the mortified look hidden behind her violet eyes, Slade chuckled and snapped her head to the side, not breaking it but sending that burning sensation through it, as he stood up and walked over to the computer which was on the opposite side of the room. "What are you planning?" Raven said.

"If I told you that, then my whole plan would be ruined." Sensing the look of confusion that was now creeping onto Raven's face, he turned his head so that he was looking over his shoulder and said, "Don't think I don't know the little telepathic connection you and our young Boy wonder have going on." He watched with cruel delight as he eyes widened.

"But how? Only me and Robin know…" She began but was cut off.

"There are many things about you, Robin and all the rest of your little friends that I know about when they think that they are the only ones to know those dark little secrets they hold. Now Raven, I feel its time you and me had a little, heart to heart, about your Boy Wonder…" Raven looked up horrified as she sensed the grim smirk, which was forming behind the mask, knowing full well that this little 'heart to heart' Slade intended on having, would not end well. Too late for her to escape though as the heavy, dull thud of Slade's boots hitting the floor as he walked over to her, reached her ears, leaving her only to sit there and hope that it was over soon.

ooooo, what will Slade and Raven talk about humanahumanahumana

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