Scars: Chapter 12

Breaking Point

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Robin clutched his head angrily, breathing raspy and heavy, and fell to his knees screaming. Tears running down his face through his mask. Teeth grit to an undeterminable amount of pressure. His head felt like it was going to burst. His stomach felt like it was going to throw up. He couldn't contain himself any longer. The sudden rush of such intense visions was too much on his already damaged mind. The visions that haunted him everyday, but now, he had just witnessed them as if he were there again. Feeling the same things again. The same pain.

"NOOOOOOO!" Robin screamed as he lost the ability to stand any longer. Sounds of pain and anguish came from him, along with grunts and screams. It was too much for him to handle. His eyes still clenched shut.

"Robin!" Starfire yelled running over to him, but still unsure of what to do next. She watched him writhe and scream. And was not an easy thing for her to watch. Seeing her leader and lover broken like that. As the never-ending battle plagued his mind.

Slade watched from the sidelines, quite amused. He silently smiled under his mask, arms crossed. Slade enjoyed seeing Robin in this state. The side of him he never showed. Vulnerability. Submission. Defeat.

Slade was obsessed to see Robin like this. In these stages, he had Robin. He had taken over Robin's mind and he was susceptible to anything. Slade loved to be the dominant one. He needed things under his control at all times. And when Robin was in this position, it pleased him. He needed to have things at his every command. Because he was kind of a control freak himself.

He watched, bemused, as he saw Robin squirm and yell, and enjoyed it with a sick passion. A sick desire, a sick meaning, a sick control. A sick dominance.

"Now do you remember where you got those scars Robin! How do you feel now!" Slade yelled at the shaking boy. Still clutching his head and gritting his teeth angrily, letting out animalistic sounds of pain.

"The pain won't go away Robin! Not now, not ever! The pain will never stop. Your mind will never stop! You're under my control! You have no other choice!" Slade yelled again at Robin. Who was yet still writhing and squirming on the floor. Through the blaring pain of Robin's mind, he could still hear Slade's words. They were like salt in his wounds.

"AHHHHHHH!" Robin screamed again. In the same position as before.

"Robin..." She said softly, watching him suffer. Starfire realized she couldn't do anything to stop the images, or help Robin. But she figured she had to go from the sourceShe turned her head to look at Slade. Who was now chuckling evily while watching the Boy Wonder struggle to come to mends with his mind.

"YOU!" Starfire screamed angrily, pointing her finger at Slade. Her eyes turning a deadly bright green. As well as her hands. Her expression resembling the most hatred look of anger and rage all directed at Slade.

Slade stopped chuckling and turned his gaze to look at the Tameranian. Almost looking disappointed to the take his stare away from Robin.

Starfire growled and then viciously flew into him, tackling him to the nearest concrete wall. She grabbed him from the front of his uniform and held him up against the wall, her eyes still glowing angrily. One of both of her clenched fists emitting neon green power. She held the fist that wasn't keeping Slade on the wall to put it near his face threateningly.

Slade was almost amused my her rage. He let her say what she wanted, eager to find out what she intended to try to do. She put her face up to his.

"WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO HIM!" Star screamed fiercely at Slade's face. Slade didn't blink. He expected it. Slade almost seemed bored with the alien. He'd rather watch his apprentice wither.

"I'm not doing anything to the boy. Blame his mind. Though the nightmarish day dreams and visions may have something to do with his stay with me..." Slade said calmly. Hiding his smirk.

Starfire growled in frustration and held him higher. She had to help Robin! Putting more force on her hold. But of course she wasn't hurting Slade. He didn't feel a thing.

"YOU SICK, DEMENTED BASTARD!" She yelled at his face, anger and fierce rage consuming all of her features. Slade quirked a brow. He didn't know the alien was capable of speaking such vulgar language. But he should've expected it. She did have feelings for his Boy Wonder...

"I'm not doing anything to him. This is all in his head now. Think about it princess, all the stress he's built up in his mind with all the hell he's been through in his life, a mind can only take so much...and I think dear Robin is at his final breaking point." Slade explained to the still enraged alien.

"Can't you stop it, you psychopath! You're the cause of most of it!" Starfire said, trying to sound angry, but she was desperate. Slade a how much more of this could Robin handle? He was only one person. And only one human mind. How much could he take until the breaking point? And he was still so young...

"I can't do anything even if I wanted to. His fractured psyche has made sure of that. There is only so much you can do..." Slade stated. And the horrible truth was, he was right. And Starfire knew it.

She lessened her hold on the villain. As much as she wanted to smash her fist through his mask and through his head, she knew it would have to wait. Even if Slade couldn't do anything, he was still the major source. And it could be the key to helping Robin.

Slade knew what she was thinking and smiled at the thought. 'There is no way of getting through to Robin now.' he thought evily.

Starfire fought internally and growled at her own conclusion. With a snarl, she let Slade go and he landed on his feet. She turned her back to him and walked to Robin, who had calmed down the least bit. He was still holding his head, along with panting, grunting, and growling. His eyes yet still shut, completely temporarily unaware of his surroundings.

And then, the stress became to much for his mind and he, once again, unwillingly surrendered his consciousness to the darkness. Blacking out curled up on the floor.

Star sat down next to him, embracing him to try to save him, to try to help him, save him from himself. Tears started spilling from her eyes to see Robin like this and all the pain he was going through. And knowing she couldn't do anything to stop it. She started weeping for him.

Such a strong exterior to be broken down internally and mentally. On Robin's part. Starfire took Robin's hand in her own and prayed for him. The poor boy. The poor, poor boy.

Slade watched the scene unfold before him. Once again, oddly amused by it. But he did not like the fact that Star was all over his Robin. He almost regretted breaking up the scene before him.

He snapped his fingers and a bunch of the Slade lackey androids came out of no where. With two of them having these weird ray things strapped to their backs...

They slowly walked toward the couple and grabbed Star away. Star struggled to fight and free herself, but the rays on the androids' back did have a purpose. They temporarily made he powers useless. Rendering her a regular girl. And as much as she tried, she couldn't free herself from the enhanced strength of the robots.

"GET THE HELL OFF ME! ROBIN!"

She yelled out in frustration. She wanted to be with her Robin! And now she couldn't even fight back and save herself! Let alone Robin.

"ROBIN!" she screamed as she was hauled away by the henchmen. But some stayed behind to take the unconscious form of the Boy Wonder to a concrete wall, where he will be chained up against once more...

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Hello readers! I am pleased to have presented you with another chapter! this took some thinking. It's not everyday where I type someone having a mental breakdown. Though, everyone has a breaking point. So I hope you all enjoyed this and I have read all your awesome reviews and I have one thing to say...You all rock! thanks so much! I am really glad everyone likes this story! I am overwhelmed! thnx alot! So, please keep those reviews coming, thats wats making me update! So please review, hope u enjoyed, and thanks for reading! Good Night!