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Chapter 6

Robin quickly figured the odds. Two titans down, but with one added ally. Could four people take on 500 robots and a murderer? They had to get away, they had to buy some kind of time, they had to do something.

Terra looked at her former leader's frantic face. Without a word she turned to the massing army and raised her arms.

"ARRRRRAGUH!" Reaching down into the earth, her greatest ally and enemy, she raised a wall of solid bedrock.

Robin, Cyborg, and Starfire looked at their friend with surprise and extreme relief. With the brief respite Robin once again took charge.

"Cyborg, can you bring up the schematics and find a way out of this place?"

"Did that before we came, man. Slade has completely remodeled this place. If I know Slade there won't me another way out. We're stuck." Cyborg replied while still holding the shivering Raven. His face became even more defeated as he looked down at the blue robed bundle in his arms.

Taking a few steps forward, Robin turned to face his team. His calm had returned and his mind had become steadily more rationalized.

"Alright Titans, I know this doesn't look good but we've been in worse situations. Starfire, I need you to protect Beastboy and Raven. Cyborg, You and Terra take out the robots while I take Slade."

"No, Slade is mine." Terra's voice rose above the beatings the stone wall was taking from laser blasts. Her eyes were cast down but her body shook from determination and anger.

Carefully examining her, Robin's mask thinned before he slowly nodded.

"Get ready Titans, all of us." He said before getting in a defensive stance. Though he didn't look at Terra her head shot up at his words.

Gently Starfire and Cyborg placed Beastboy and Raven in a corner where Starfire could protect them easily. Robin stealthily placed the remote in his belt, as the team quickly prepared for the fight at hand.

With a large groan the stone barrier cracked and finally gave in to the inevitable. Terra grabbed the crumbling structure with her powers and threw the wall's remnants into the encroaching army.

Robin and Cyborg burst out the smoke with Terra flying over head on a boulder. In a wave of blue beams and flying projectiles the first line of robots fell without hesitation.

Ignoring the rumble of explosions beneath her Terra searched for the man responsible. With a small shout she fell from her rocky perch at the mercy of a gloved fist.

"Now, now dear, someone so close to the earth shouldn't be so high up, you might hurt yourself." Slade taunted as he leered over the fallen earth child.

"For someone so close to hell shouldn't you be further down." She replied as stone hands reached from the ground and pulled him away from her.

"Auuugh!" The earth bender shouted as she lifted herself away on a stone platform and battered the masked madman with a barrage of stones.

With a quick flick Slade pulled out a Bo staff and broke his bonds. Jumping back he twirled the pole to block the on coming attack. Reaching in his belt, Slade pulled out two silver disks and threw them at the flying rock.

Terra was soon lost in a plume of dust from her broken point. Before she could reach the ground Slade flew into the petite body with a flurry of punches and kicks. The earth child flew out of the smoke and bounced off the ground to meet a cold steel wall.

Struggling to lift her body, Terra's eyes locked with her former master.

"Now my dear apprentice, why must we fight? You know you can't win, I taught you, and I gave you the control you still lack." The sickly smooth voice echoed above the surrounding fighting in eerie calmness.

"I don't need you to give me control, I have it. I gained my control by killing you!" Terra screamed in defiance as she managed to stand completely upright.

"Now my dear, if you 'killed' me, how do I still stand? If I am 'dead' how did I almost destroy your little friends, if they are still your friends?" He sneered at Terra's hung head.

"I may have betrayed them but… but they still trusted me. They forgave me, d-d-despite everything I did they forgave me. I r-re-remember Cyborg and Raven trying to get me out of that prison. I r-remember what Beastboy and Starfire said when the left the flower." Terra looked up and stared up unflinching at that glaring eye. Her voice strengthened as she marched boldly at the masked man.

"I remember the promise Robin made to get me out." Her eyes flared yellow. "I read the plague they left behind for me. I saw the fresh petals beneath my feet." The brown gloves on her hands began to glow a faint yellow.

Slade's eye bore into the rebellious girl. "Foolish girl, they never forgave you. Everything they did, everything they said was to ease their own guilty conscious. You are just another nightmare they want behind them."

"You're wrong, you're wrong." Terra screamed with her eyes clenched to block the leaking tears.

"I'm never wrong apprentice, you know that." Slade answered, his voice was confident, in control. "Join me again apprentice, take up my seal and I won't ever let you be hurt again. They Titans can't forgive you, but I can, join me Terra and I shall give you a home."

That voice, that calm collected voice. The same voice that offered her hope when all was lost. The same voice that pulled her out of her endless searching. It was so tempting, so familiar, so welcoming.

"Behind you Robin!" Cyborg bellowed and shattered Terra's reflections. Looking up sharply she took in her surroundings as if for the first time.

Robin pulled out a bird-a-rang and flung it at the approaching danger. His suit was torn and his body glistened with sweat. Exhaustion and determination mixed defiantly in his face.

Cyborg had ceased blasting and was simply pounding the first enemy that met his metal fist. Slight scratches etched the outline of his titanium shell and sparks jumped from key points on his body.

Starfire shot furiously without regard to where she was aiming. It didn't matter no matter where the bolts flew they always met their mark. Behind her laid the two fallen Titans. One lost in an empty dream land. The other trapped in her demented mind.

They were a family, no matter what happened they would rather die then let harm come to each other. They relied on each other just as much as they relied on themselves and … and she had once been a part of that. She had a family, a home, a life, and it wasn't given to her by the man in front of her.

"Well apprentice? Shall we take care of these annoyances?" The silky voice persisted but this time Terra was sure of what her choice would be.

"Slade," she looked up with a smirk on her mocking face, "EAT DIRT!" Her hair flew as a clot of dirt flew threw the holes in her former master's mask into his mouth. His eye widened and he began coughing.

"Robin!" Terra yelled to get her leader's attention. "It's time to get out of here, follow my lead!"

The boy wonder nodded and gave her a thumbs up. The others nodded as they heard her call.

Her body became engulfed in a yellow aura and the ground by Starfire opening up to reveal a large, gapping, tunnel.

With a cocky smile Robin knocked out one last sladebot and yelled, "Titans let's get out of here."

Starfire and Cyborg quickly scooped up the fallen Titans while Terra threw up another stone wall to cover their escape. Without looking back the Titans fled into the tunnel as Terra closed the escape route behind them.

A/N: Sorry about the long wait guys, finals are finally over and with them school. Now to all my reviewers!

Thanks go out to Terra106, loveatfirstterra, and Totalrockr12, the reviews were great.