A/N: I'm sorry to leave you guys at Robin and go back to Jake's hectic life for now, but this chapter is split in half. Thanks for those wonderful reviews that keep me going. So far this fic has been fun to make and from your reviews and hits it has to be a score! But here is your chapter! Enjoy!

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Chapter 14 The True Sides of the Crazy Ones

His gloved hand tightened its grip around the round Xenothium container as he ran down the dark hallway. Red X looked behind his shoulder and saw that Jessica was right behind him with a wicked smile on her face like always. Red X looked back to where he was running and sharply sprinted around a corner. The alarm was blaring into his ears, and a warning light flashed every so second to show him his way in the color of blood. He felt like it was an omen or something, but that thought was quickly pushed out of his head.

The two rounded another corner and found themselves in a long hallway with very high ceilings that looked like they were made for giants. Many large clear glass windows were to their left and were put together as a makeshift wall. It was obvious that this was a main hallway that a lot of business people walked down. An elevator was placed in the middle of this hallway, and Red X heard the ding of the bell on it as it reached their floor. The doors opened to reveal three police men ready with laser guns. That only meant that they had come themselves instead of calling the Teen Titans. Even though Red X was glad they hadn't called them, he still thought the police were stupid to try and take him down themselves.

The dark hallway was lit up suddenly by a flash of light from the outside as the weather turned from bad to worse as if foreshadowing the outcome of the fight that was sure to come between the police and thieves. Rain relentlessly splattered against the glass in big, fat drops. The strong winds could even be heard above the alarm going off inside.

Red X stopped in his tracks as he saw the police men aim at them. Jessica did what he did and glanced over to him with a sharp look in her eyes that questioned his move. X right away knew that these police men were young and inexperienced. They didn't know the full threat of Red X yet. He would only have to teach them a lesson and tie them up when he was done like always. He just didn't want them to call the Teen Titans.

"Follow my lead," Red X whispered to Jessica. He smiled slightly under his mask while taking out three red X's from what seemed to be nowhere. That cocky smile quickly faded as he saw Jessica shake her head slightly as she glared through her own black mask at the police men.

"I only listen to Slade," Jessica whispered back to him. The police men just stood there frozen with fright as they shouted some pathetic orders to the two thieves arguing over a simple matter.

"Don't do this, Jess," Red X hissed at her harshly. He kept his eyes pinned on the police.

"Slade told me to team up with you, Jake," Jessica said while suddenly relaxing. "He wants you and me to become the top villains for the Teen Titans."

"Damn him!" Red X whispered to himself. "He knows that I'm already pushing myself just being both Red X and Robin."

"Who's cares about your needs, Jakie," Jessica said with a simple shrug. "Right now Slade needs money for the next part of his plan, and you are just another pawn of his and so am I. But there is a difference between you and me. I actually like working for him. Pity you're not enjoying this as much as I am."

"I'm not killing those people," Red X said to her. "As long as they don't get in my way then I'm fine. You and not even Slade will make me kill these innocent people."

"Oh, you don't have to, X boy," Jessica said with her trademark evil smile crossing her lips. "I will."

Red X had no time to register what she had just said before an invisible force knocked him to his butt and he dropped the Xenothium container. He gave a wince as his head slammed onto the floor. But the teen was quickly to his feet and running after the crazy girl to somehow stop her.

"Jessica, no!" Red X yelled frantically at her. He was barely three feet from her when she suddenly turned toward him with her eyes glowing a brilliant, bright blue that could chill anyone's blood. She quickly stuck her palm out at him and pushed it toward him.

That invisible force suddenly hit the thief and made him go airborne for a few seconds. X cringed while flying in a big arch in the air as the force kept him from gaining balance and landing properly. The teen landed on his back, yards away from where Jessica was beating up the three police men ruthlessly. Red X rolled a few feet more with winces of pain and frustration.

Cries of torment could be heard in the long hallway as the girl kicked and punched the living day lights out of the men. Shots were randomly fired at her, but she always seemed to dodge them. She glanced back to see Red X slowly get to his two unsteady feet with some difficulty. Her move had only taken him down for a few seconds.

Jessica finally decided that her new comrade would have to see first hand her true power. She took off one of her gloves while letting the men recoup for a few seconds. She saw Red X watching her while trying to regain his senses a few yards away. She smiled while grabbing the throat of one of the men.

"Die!" she whispered harshly at the man with a sick and wicked smile on her lips as her eyes glowed a deep blue. The man could not even make a sound of anguish as the blood in him started to burst through his veins everywhere in his body and start internal bleeding. He finally was able to make one loud scream of defeat as he exploded from the inside. Hot, crimson colored blood splattered over the walls around the destroyed body. A spray of the blood hit Jessica and the two other poor men staring at her in horror.

The breath was caught in Red X's throat as fear took over his body for a few seconds. So that was why she didn't want anyone to touch her skin. That was what she did to people when her bare skin touched another's. The girl could do that same thing she did to that man to him. This whole thing was for show for him. Things just got more interesting.

Red X shook off his fear as he replaced it with some anger so he would get motivated to attack her. He started to sprint toward her while barring his teeth. She loomed over the other two men pinned up against the window of the hallway to try to avoid her. Her full attention was on them and not the thief coming up on her.

A battle yell echoed around the hallway as Red X struck Jessica on the side of her head with his foot. He sent the girl to the floor. She cried out with a small yell of surprise and pain. Her long, blonde hair spiraled around her head and covered up the look of pure anger on the girl's face.

"Don't attack me ever again!" Jessica yelled loudly while quickly getting to her feet and pushing both of her palms at Red X as her hair started to glow blue and hover around her head. A lot of her power was going into this move. She didn't know that she was not only moving Red X, but she was controlling everyone except herself in the hallway.

All three people were slammed against one of the big windows, and a huge crack traveled up to the top of it from where there was an impact. One man was killed instantly and slummed over dead in the small hold on his body. The other man cried out as some of his ribs were very close to being crushed. Red X had the same problem, but he only winced while squeezing his eyes shut to block the pain out of his mind.

"I'm in control now!" Jessica shouted to him while pushing one more time with her powers.

SMASH!

The glass shattered and sent thousands of pieces of razor sharp edged debris everywhere. The pieces cut and sliced through Red X's suit and lodged into his back as he fell into darkness. A look of pure panic flashed onto his face as he kept falling. The building was around 20 stories high, and they were on the 18th floor. He would be dead if he didn't do something.

The teen first didn't know what to do. The pain in his body and dreadful screaming of the other man falling with him blocked his mind so that he couldn't think straight. You would think that everything would seem to go in slow motion, but for Red X it was going light speed. There was only darkness all around and confusion sweeping over his mind. But the thief finally pulled himself together and gritted his teeth through the discomfort.

Red X pulled out his rip cord from his belt and threw it at one of the windowsills. He was sharply jerked to a sudden stop that forced a cry of pain from the boy. He dangled there for a few seconds to catch his breath and gain his senses once again. The hard rain soaked his suit and made him shiver in the cold of the night.

He closed his eyes while wincing again. His gloved hands clenched the cord suspending him above the ground a long ways away from him. If you looked real hard you could see the two deformed bodies of the police men lying dead on the cement beneath them. A pool of red washed with rain water was flowing under them. Red X tried to get the vision of them out of his mind as he kept hanging onto his cord.

"Remember your reason," Jake whispered softly to himself. He could barely hear himself over the howling wind and pounding rain. Oh how he wanted to be home right now with Valentine. He felt so weak and defeated that his mind and body could almost not take it anymore. He wanted to cry it all out right then and there, but that would be stupid and foolish on his part. He had to tough it out. He had to keep going.

Suddenly he started to glow a faint blue. Red X gave a sharp yell of surprise as he started to float into the air and slowly fly upwards. His body stopped in midair when he was at the smashed window where Jessica was. She stood in the hallway with one hand stretched out in his direction to keep him there. The boy had no idea where she had suddenly gotten this tremendous power, but he now knew that she had complete control for this moment on.

"How do you like me now, Jakie?" Jessica asked him with a smile. She pulled back her arm a little and Red X flew a little closer to her with a grim look on his face under his mask. It was time to play the game by her rules, or he could end up losing bad. He would have to give her what she wanted.

"Okay, I get it Jess. You're in control," he said to her. "Just don't do what you did to that guy to me." He thanked the Lord for giving him such an acting gift. He made it sound like he was scared out of his wits of her and that he was pretty much giving up his life. He smiled slyly under his mask when she bought the lame lie and nodded her head to him. Not the brightest light bulb, now are you? He thought wickedly.

- Beast Boy -

He paced the dark basement with a look of deep worry planted on his face. The green teen was waiting for Red X to get back from his outing. The two had planned on meeting in the basement because it was the only place in the Tower that had no cameras whatsoever for some reason. Jake had told the changeling to maybe bring a first aid kit because sometimes when Red X stole something he could get hurt. Beast Boy didn't know how much he would have to use it that night.

Beast Boy's ears perked up as the door at the top of the metal steps opened up and Red X stumbled in. The changeling gave a small scream of alarm as he saw the other teen stop halfway down the stairs and breathing hard. Beast Boy turned on all the lights from where he was downstairs and sprinted up the steps to help out his new friend.

"Dude!" Beast Boy said while helping Red X down the stairs slowly. They walked over to a wooden table, and Red X sat down and pulled off his mask with a wince. Beast Boy fumbled with the first aid as he set it on the table next to Jake.

"First my back," Jake breathed faintly. "Had a run in with a window."

"Holy crap, dude!" Beast Boy said with wide eyes as he saw the teen's suit. It was covered with blood where the sharp glass pieces had lodged themselves in. The changeling took out a pair of tweezers and pulled out one of the pieces. Jake gave a cry of pain but did not stop Beast Boy as he continued. As he went on, the two talked.

"So tell me in detail what happened," Beast Boy said while pulling out another shard of glass.

"Slade commanded some crazy and insane girl with a heck of a lot of power to team up with me and keep an eye on me," Jake said with a sigh then winced as another glass piece was taken out of his back. "She is too power hungry, and boy does she want to kill me. But it was Slade's orders for her not to. It seems like Slade is the only one she will listen to. So I can't do anything to change her mind. All I can do is suck up to her till we start our plan which we might need revise with her around."

"Well, that's just…peachy," Beast Boy said sarcastically. He started to dress the small wounds on Jake's back in silence. He glanced up to Jake a few times and saw that the teen's blue eyes narrowed as if angry. The changeling wondered what was going through his head at this moment. The green teen kind of smiled at how much Jake looked like Robin right now. It was almost impossible to tell them apart at times.

"Why are you smiling?" Jake suddenly asked him with confusion in his voice. "Things just got more tricky, and you're smiling for some stupid reason. I don't know about you, but I'm worried about our lives."

"You just remind me of Robin so much," Beast Boy mumbled with a shrug.

Jake gave a long sigh and said quietly, "I'm not even trying to be clone boy right now and I'm doing my job. Slade sure did pick a good one." He gave a disgusted look when he said the mad man's name. His hatred for him was getting more and more intense by the second.

"We better get to sleep," Beast Boy finally said. "How 'bout we meet here after dinner tomorrow."

"Okay," Jake said with a small nod. Beast Boy started to leave but stopped when Jake called his name. He looked over to the teen with a curious look in his deep, green eyes. "Thanks, BB, for all this," Jake finally said with a faint smile on his face. "I just want to tell you that I'm with this plan all the way now. We're getting Robin and Val back." Beast Boy could only put on a big grin that went from ear to ear because he was so happy.

- Robin -

It was night when Robin's plane landed in Lima, Peru. He hadn't slept very much for the past two days, but his mind and body just seemed to keep going. The teen got off the plane with his one backpack. His eyes wide with wonder. Going from Venice to Lima was like going to a whole new world. Everyone spoke Spanish and every sign or billboard was in the same Latin based language that Robin seemed to pick up right away.

Sense when did I know Spanish? He thought to himself while asking where the plane to Pulcallpa was in Spanish to one man. He just shrugged his shoulders and headed to the other side of the airport where his plane would be taking off.

Robin felt like he was half there as he walked through crowds of people. He couldn't help but wonder what his other life was like or if he really did want it back. He was trying to think logically. If he just stayed with Slade he would be well taken care for, but there was the whole assassin thing that he didn't like for some strange reason. But if he went with James's plan he could wind up killed or with a life he didn't even know about. Right now he didn't know what the think. He would have to make up his mind soon, though, because he couldn't go on like this for forever.

The kick to the head came from absolutely nowhere. One second Robin was briskly walking to his gate, and then the next, a foot collided with the back of his head and sent the boy head first to the tiled floor of the airport. Robin landed on his hands and knees in a daze as his head spun out of control.

"What was that for?" Robin yelled angrily to whoever did that to him. He turned around to his back and his anger turned into surprise when he saw the Slade look a like robot standing over him. He had to have a double take on the thing. It kind of looked like Slade, but it was defiantly not his Master. Then had Slade told this robot to attack him?

Things came at Robin fast, and he decided that Slade had figured out that James had tried to give Robin his memory back and wasn't taking any chances with him. It was at this time that Robin saw a side of his Master that he didn't know. Did he really want to be his apprentice? The answer to that question was quickly turning into a no.

"Oh crap!" Robin said quickly while rolling out of the way of a strong punch the robot had aimed at his head. The boy was on his feet in a flash. He didn't waste time fighting the robot. He sprinted down the hall to his gate. He jumped over suitcases and zigzagged in and out of crowds while saying he was sorry in Spanish and sometimes Italian because his mind was wrapped up in other things more important than knowing what language he was speaking in.

Robin glanced behind him to see the robot following close behind him still. The teen looked for anything that would be able to hide him. Why was Slade so desperate to catch him? Why was he so special? He didn't think he was the best fighter when he was going against Slade. Most of the time he was just a confused mess. Why?

Suddenly Robin saw his gate and saw a few people going into the plane that would take him to Pulcallpa. His face lit up as he saw this. The robot wouldn't be able to go on the plane without a passport or ticket. He was home free! He pulled off his backpack while still running to the desk. He pulled out his passport and ticket with a smile on his face.

"I guess I made it!" he said to the lady at the desk. She just shrugged her shoulders as she ripped off some of his ticket and didn't even care about looking at his passport. Not the best kind of security when you were in a third world country, but Robin didn't care too much at this moment. "Hey, thanks!" Robin said to the lady quickly before running to the door just as he saw the robot appear from the crowd behind him.

Robin gave a deep sigh while walking down the small hallway that lead to the plane. He took out his communicator as he took his seat next to a window. He stared out the glass and watched the city lights of Lima and the lights of the runways blink and light up the black sky. He then looked at the communicator in his hand as his mind made up what to do. Maybe if he just called Slade things could be settled peacefully. He finally dialed up Slade's number with another sigh.

"Buongiorno, Robin," Slade said to the teen as his picture flickered onto the communicator's screen.

Robin frowned deeply at how Slade was acting towards him. "Was it you who told that freaky robot to attack me?" he demanded with his voice sharp.

"Calm yourself, Robin," Slade said while putting a hand up. "Pazienza. I'll explain things to you in due time. You don't always have to have answers right away."

"No," Robin snapped back quickly as his eyes narrowed. "I'm not a very patient person, Slade. I want to know what is going on. I thought that you were my Master, but I'm now starting to have second thoughts. James said you whipped my whole memory, and I want to know why. Why, Slade?"

"Don't use that tone with me, Robin," Slade ordered his apprentice with some harshness in his voice for once. "It was all for a good reason. But that man was stupid to try to give you back your memory. But from the looks of everything, it seems like you haven't gained it back…yet."

"Yet!" Robin yelled in surprise. "So it's true that I did have another life that I know nothing about! But you're saying that I might get it back?"

"Yes," Slade said with a steady nod. "But once that happens you will run. So I'm bringing you back to Dragon Academy before that happens. That is why my robot is after you."

Something similar to a growl escaped Robin's mouth as he glared at the picture of Slade in his communicator's screen. The selfish beast! This whole thing was because Slade wanted him for his apprentice. He was going through so much confusion and misfortune just because of Slade's needs and wants. He was now disgusted with him.

"Well, I'm going to Pulcallpa, Slade," Robin said to the man with the anger rising up in him. "I ditched your stupid robot. I'm going to get my memory back, and I'm leaving you. I don't want to be your stupid apprentice. Get it?"

Slade's one eye narrowed at the teen as a flash of anger and frustration flew up in him. Even without his memory of his stupid friends he still didn't want to be his apprentice. But Robin was still in his hands. After a few years he would see things his way. That reminder made Slade smile slyly under his mask. He was winning this war. He didn't need to be angry with him.

"My dear boy," Slade said with that creepy calmness in his voice, "You don't have a choice over the matter."

As if on cue, Robin noticed that the robot had boarded the plane he was on. His jaw dropped slightly as his eyes widened in fear of being defeated by this mad man. "Curse the security of this airport!" Robin whispered to himself as the robot spotted him and started to walk down the aisle toward him. "Crap!" Robin muttered as he looked back to his communicator. "How did he get a ticket?" he asked Slade.

"This has been planned out for a very long time, Robin," Slade said. "My plan is etched into my mind down to the very last detail of a plane ticket to a small, pathetic Peru town called Pulcallpa. I have at least five other backup plans if anything went wrong. Getting a seating ticket next to yours was just one of them. Enjoy your flight, my apprentice. I will look forward to seeing you back in Italy. Arrivederci." And then the screen went black.

"No, Slade!" Robin yelled back to him. He looked up and saw the robot. It sat down next to him, and Robin was about to punch it in the face to make a quick escape, but Slade had also predicted this from the protesting teen. The barrel of a pistol was shoved into Robin's stomach, and this stopped the boy right away. It felt like his stomach was tied into a knot as he was forced to sit back in his seat.

Robin's face was only a look of worry as the plane started to move. He barely listened to the safety instructions of the flight attendant. The robot kept the pistol rested at his side. What was he going to do? He had finally seen the true side of Slade, and he hated it. He didn't want to turn into that kind of man. He now wanted his memory and freedom back.

But just wasting a whole plane trip away by worrying over the matter of his future was pointless. The teen's mind quickly went into deep thinking. He was smart and quick. He would have a plan by the time they landed in Pulcallpa. Slade hadn't won just yet.

A/N: that is all for now, folks! I'll be working hard on this fic for my six day Thanksgiving vacation that is coming up soon. So you might see another update soon. But I might be working on other fics and doing other things, so don't think that I'm defiantly going to update. But please give a review! Thanks!