Hello everybody, here is another chapter of my fanfic. I went ahead and combined the two ep into one chapter for you viewing pleasure.

This chapter marks the end of the Arc. The next few chapters will not be apart of any Arc consider them like fillers, big important fillers that have important information. I notice that this TV series never had a Christmas, valentines, beach, or hot springs special so i am going to make some. the first one is going to be Valentine's Day. Now these specials will not be random things happening around the Tower. So stay tune.

There will not be a chapter next week, the reason is because I am planing my trip back to the US during my free time this week so I won't be able to write. To make it up to you guys this past week I work on three chapters two for this story and one of another story of mine, which I plan on posting soon. anyway on to the story.

Disclaimer: Ch 1

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Conversations from emotions
Conversations from the Alpha


Ch. 13 The Apprentice

It was five in the morning. The group was snoring the night away, and would've continued to do so had it not been for the-

"Good morning, Teen Titans. I do hope I haven't woken you," Slade spoke to the team from the monitor in the living room.

"*Yaaawn* What are you, an insomniac? Who calls at five in the morning-" BB was about to ask before Raven elbowed him in the side.

"What do you want?" Robin demanded.

"Well, that's precisely what you've been trying to find out, isn't it? And in spite of all your efforts, you're still in the dark about my intentions," Slade stated. "Disappointing, Robin. I expected a little more from you."

"Like I care what you-"

"But since you've been unable to discover my plan, I suppose I'll just have to reveal it myself," Slade said interrupting Robin's sentence, the camera panning away from him, Zero and a Sladebot stood next to a large object covered in a tarp. "I'm sure you're all familiar with the concept of a chronoton detonator," he stated as the tarp was pulled away, a large egg-like piece of machinery covered in black plating with a few red lights set into its surface. The upper portion of it telescoped towards the ceiling, the inside revealed to show more lights.

"No!" Cy cried as Star gasped.

"Uh-oh," Raven gaped.

"No way!" Beast Boy cried. "Um, what's a detonator?"

"A Chronoton Detonator eradicates all chronotons within a localized area, utterly destroying the temporal component of the space-time continuum, in other words it stops time." Blitz said as he entered the room he leveled a glare at Slade, who if the others were watching would've seen he was glaring right back. Before the green changeling could say anything Blitz bellow, "WHO THE HELL DO YOU THINK YOU ARE WAKING US UP AT," he looks at the clock as he made his way to the console, "FIVE O'CLOCK IN THE FREAKING MORNING." The other Titans began backing away making a mental note: Do Not Wake Blitz Up Early.

"Well I-" Slade began

"I DON'T GIVE A DAMN IF YOUR GOD'S LEFT ASS CHEEK, WHEN I FIND YOU I AM GOING TO KICK YOU ASS TO NEXT TUESDAY AND THEN KICK IT ALL THE BACK."

Slade and Zero were wide eye when Blitz closed the feed.

"THE HELL IS YOUR PROBLEM YOU JUST-" Robin began yelling at Blitz who cut him off with a finger. Blitz began to rewinding the last call and pausing when it showed the time-stopping weapon in question, a hazy letter-like image appearing when isolated. "Instead of wasting our time talking around circles. Why don't we go straight there and stop him." Blitz said typing away at the computer. "He gave us the location. It's here in the contours of the reflection."

"Ooh. Squiggly lines. Real informative," Beast Boy muttered. With a glare, Blitz tapped a few more keys, refining the image before inverting it.

PIER 41

"Heheh... Uh... Yeah..."

"Lets go," Robin said storming out, BB and Cy moving to block his path, Blitz wrapping him with his grappling hooks. "Hey uh, maybe you should stay here and coordinate the search," BB said nervously.

"What?" Robin growled.

"Man, when it comes to Slade, you've got issues," Cy stated twirling a finger around his temple in a classic "this guy has a screw loose" gesture. "Might be better for the team if you sit this one out."

"No. There's too much at stake for me to-"

"Robin..." Star said nervously. "We have not forgotten the last time you faced-"

"I made a mistake, Starfire. It won't happen again. I can handle it, I promise," he stated trying to free himself, sending a scowl at the electro-kinetic, the raven-hair teen giving him a flat look in return.

After a few moments Robin relax, and the Blitz released him. "All right team lets go," Robin ordered, the Titans making their way out the room.

"How... did you know all that?" Robin said as everyone made it their way to the garage.

"Did some research on the materials that he stole and put myself in his shoes so to speak," Blitz said with a smirk. "And before you ask I have a really good eye that is how I was able to spot the location." he half-lied, remembering the spot where he found out the truth about his father.


Arriving at the scene, Cy let his cannons to the talking for him by blowing the door off its railing, the group rushing inside with their own weapons in hand, only for the warehouse to be-

"Empty?" Starfire cried.

"Oh man!" Cy groaned.

"I don't believe this!" Robin growled.

"Incoming," Blitz stated pulling out his staff and motioning to the ceiling, a few dozen Sladebots appearing out of the shadows on the rafters. "Titans! Go!" Blitz shouted taking the lead. However, Robin suddenly began moving so fast he was nearly everywhere at once, beating down the Sladebots leaving Cy to say- "Hey! I was gonna do that!" –Elsewhere, Star was about to fire her starbolts, only for Robin to wipe out the lot again. The things dog-pilled BB and forced him to the ground, only for the greenette to turn into a bull and buck them away, the changeling snorting like... a bull, ready to fight only for Robin to once more level the Sladebots. Raven was about to use her magic, having performed five sixths of her incantation before Robin once more began beating the Sladebots.

Robin began beating one of the remaining thing's metal skulls in with his staff.

'Man it might be better if we send him back' Blitz thought and Light was in agreement, as Robin continued beating the thing's skull in.

"Okay. We know the chronoton detonator was here. Now we just have to figure out where it went," Cy said looking around.

"No problem. We should split up and-"

"-waste hours of searching only to come up empty-handed?" Raven asked scathingly.

"Well, when you say it like that," BB said nervously.

"Raven is right. We must find some way to track the device," Star said, Robin's brow cocking quizzically as the sound of footsteps reached his ears. In the distance, a man walking between two warehouses was minding his business before-

"Freeze!" he said taking off, the terrified man racing away before a birdarang embedded itself into the concrete in front of him, stopping his advance before he was thrown against the wall, Robin holding up the S insignia from one of the Sladebots. "Tell me everything you know about this!" he demanded, the man stuttering and mumbling inarticulately as the much-smaller-than-himself person held him off the ground. "Answer me! NOW!"

"I-I've never seen it before! I don't know anything! Honest!" the man cried before Raven's power yanked him across into the opposite wall.

"You said you could handle it," Raven stated holding up Robin.

"You promised," Star said worriedly as the mage released him when he calmed down.

"We're wasting time," Robin growled striding off.

"You know, just 'cause we're trying to catch Slade doesn't mean you have to act like him!" BB called out, Robin stopping mid-stride and whirling around at the changeling.

"Don't you ever compare me to him," Robin growled, Blitz suddenly standing in front of him with arms crossed. "ALL of us know you want to stop Slade and save the city, well guess what so do we. And the only way we can do that is if we work as a team. Remember we are one team. "

"I AM working with everyone as a team!" Robin growled with narrowed eyes.

"Really Robin?" Blitz asked crossing his arms again. Holding out a fist he began counting off, "What about those Sladebots in the warehouse earlier the ones you took out all by yourself, how about the one you kept using it's face like it was a punching bag, or how about that dock worker that you pretty much scared shitless." The two heroes continued to glared at each other, until Starfire sneeze violently, sending a starbolt out from her nose and nearly vaporizing the team.

"Gesundheit," Raven stated as she readjusted her hood.

"Forgive me. I am allergic to metallic chromium. There must be a source near-" she said in a tone like she had hay fever, the girl getting ready to sneeze again. The Titans bailing out, anyone who was watching would've seen a massive green mushroom cloud. When the smoke cleared, Robin and Blitz rappelled down a wall they'd somehow used to climb out of the blast, Beast Boy poked out from behind a trashcan, and Raven pulling out of a wall-mounted portal.

"Interesting," Cy said looking at a graph readout on his arm.

"Not really," Star said as he sniffled and groaned a bit. "On my world, chromium allergies are quite common."

"No. The key component of a chronoton detonator is a metallic chromium core, which means-" he said closing his panel.

"Starfire can track it!" BB said with a wide grin, the Tamaranean girl tilting her head to the side and sniffling slightly. They continued forward using their Tamaranean friend as a blood hound.

Understandably Blitz and Raven kept to the back, Cyborg, Beast Boy, and Robin acting as their meat shields.

A minute later, the team was drudging their way through the sewers, thankfully with only water as Star took point, her "sneezebolts" intensifying every so often. Robin was leading the way, Robin was about to apologize for earlier, when Raven to point to a speedboat at the end of the tunnel, loaded with the Chronoton Detonator in the back. The group was about to take chase, but Cinderblock suddenly smashed through the wall and separated him from the others. After being ordered to get the detonator as he fought Cinderblock, the group flew down the tunnel after the speedboat.

"I will not be having attitude from a boat!" Cy growled out as the thing began firing a salvo of lasers at them, they cyborg blasting wildly as Star maneuvered around the salvo, finding that it was more difficult to maneuver around them carrying Cy's 400 lb bulk. Blasting the laser turrets off, while Cy and Star fought the two commandos, BB and Raven having been knocked back a bit by laser fire.

Blitz was about to jump on to the boat when suddenly he was shot by a blaster, crash landing on the ground. He gets up to see Zero tossing a smoking blaster, "Blitz" Raven yells out.

"GO," Blitz yells back readying his staff, "I'll handle this you guys get that detonator." Blitz shoots forwards his lightening enhanced staff hitting Zero's fire staff.

Raven gives a small nod before chasing the boat, giving on last glance at the two siblings. 'Be careful' Raven found herself thinking before turning back to the task at hand.


"Why are you doing this Zero?" Blitz yelled at his twin swinging his staff high, Zero drops down to dodge only to meet with Blitz's knee to her face cracking her mask, "People could get hurt even killed is that what you want." Zero starts stabbing with her fire tip staff. Blitz blocks with his staff spinning it around making Zero's staff hit the wall leaving a scorch mark. Zero lets go of her staff and drops kicks Blitz in the chest sending to the ground, grabbing her staff Zero slams it down on Blitz who blocks it his own.

"So what," Zero spat back, "Why do you care, those people have been treating you like dirt since day one. Why do you risk yourself for them."

"Because it is the right thing to do," Blitz uses his feet and pushes Zero off of him, he jumps back up on his feet meeting Zero.

"It doesn't matter soon it will all be over." Zero launches at her brother continuing the battle.


Elsewhere, Robin was in the middle of fighting Slade and was about to snatch the controller out of the spotlight it had been placed under, only for Slade to hit him broadside with a flying kick.

"Come now, Robin. You'll have to do better than that. I haven't even broken a sweat," Slade stated condescendingly, then rushing and leaping at Robin before performing a backflip and leaping into a roundhouse kick that sent Robin reeling. Exchanging more blows only for them to be blocked, Slade then planted another steel boot across Robin's chest. Snarling in rage, the ex-sidekick tried to clear his head, the two sparring once more before he caught Robin's fist. "Good technique," he said before bending his arm at the elbow, the sound of bones grinding against one another as Robin yelled out in pain, the villain throwing Robin across the floor to slam into a wall. "Good, but not perfect," he then said as Robin woozily got to his feet, the teen screaming in pure fury before charging at Slade once more.


"Alright. The panel's off. BB, take it off with your suction cups," Cyborg stated after having unscrewed the four screws holding the thin metal plate in place. "And remember, no sudden movements. This thing goes off and next thing we know we're 10,000 years in the future," he whispered to the others. It didn't matter the distance, since if any of Star's sneezebolts went off, the Chronoton Detonator might go off anyway. Nodding in recognition, Octopus-BB placed a few of his tentacle's suction cups on the panel before lightly freeing it, then gently placing it on the floor before carefully returning to normal.


"Nanoscopic probes," Slade explained to Robin several minutes later, readouts showing Cyborg, Beast Boy, Raven, and Starfire's vital signs, as well as live images of S-marked probes clinging to their body's cells. "The chronoton detonator was merely the bait for a much larger trap. You see with the push of a button-" he said as a push-button device extended from a brace on the inside of his wrist. "-my probes will destroy your friends from the inside out."

"You can't control them. No matter what you threaten, they'll never obey you," Robin growled while Slade paced around him, "and besides "you didn't get Blitzkrieg."

"This isn't about your friends, Robin. It's about you. It's always been about you," Slade said cryptically, "Well you and Blitz."

"What?"

"Sending trouble your way, leaving cryptic clues for you to unravel, I was testing you. For some time now, I have been searching for an apprentice. Someone to follow in my footsteps, Zero is one of those possibilities, your friend Blitzkrieg is another. I learned long ago that one must be prepared for anything, so I decided to train more than one apprentice just in case something was to happen one of the others." he said with his arms crossed behind his back as he leaned toward Robin. "And Robin, I've chosen you. Congratulations."

"No way would I ever work for-" was as far as Robin could go before Slade held up the trigger, shutting the teen up as his thumb just barely grazed the button.

"If you join me, if you swear to serve me, if you never speak to your friends again, I will allow them to live," he stated. "But... if you disobey even the smallest request, I will annihilate them, Robin, and I'll make you watch," he threatened. "So, do we have a deal?"


Back to Blitz and Zero, their fight had gotten intense. By now Zero's mask had been destroyed by a successive hit from Blitz's fist. Blitz was fairing a bit better his coat had been abandoned when Zero caught it on fire, his staff laid in pieces at the bottom of sewer.

You….can't…win….surrender," Blitz said thought panted breath.

"I could…tell you…..the same thing," Zero said, she was not as tired as Blitz but she was pretty sore to make some big mistakes, 'He's getting good, he is right I can't win against him. his lightening powers are messing with my nervous system. Damn it dad hurry up.' Zero thought.

"Zero time go we have succeeded," Slade said thought Zero's ear piece.

"Yes master," Zero let out a sigh of relief, "Well time for me to go," in one hand she gave a wave and in the other she grabs a smoke bomb.

"Oh no-" Blitz said but it was too late Zero had already use the bomb and got away.


[Later that evening]

Robin was being shown to his quarters by Zero who was wearing a face mask similar to Blitz's, "That look suits you," she said as she began to trace the S with a finger only to be shrugged off roughly by Robin, "Oh feisty just the way I like them," Zero said seductively as she grabs Robins chin. He moves to remove her hand only for him to meet the floor.

"You have much to learn," Zero says from atop of Robin's back, moving closer to his ear she whispers, "maybe when you reach my level I could…teach you a few things," Zeros says keeping her seductive voice as she releases Robin. The continued down the hallways, "Blitz will find a way to free my friends and they will defeat you," Robins said glaring at the back of Zero's head.

Zero ignores this as they stop in front of a door, "Here you go," She says waving him inside. Before she leaves she says to Robin, "I wouldn't trust Blitz too much, there is much he hasn't told you about himself." Before Robin could push further Zero disappears.


The previous evening, the Teen Titans had disarmed the Chronoton Detonator successfully, only for a beam-weapon of some sort to rise out of the ship's prow, strafing all the four of them and knocking them overboard. Checking his systems, Cy confirmed that whatever the beam was supposed to do, didn't do it. They quickly ran into Blitz, who was a little worse for wear but other than that he was okay. The five of them went to find Robin. However... things quickly began to take a turn for the worse when the group was then unable to contact Robin, the area where he fought Cinderblock leaving no real clue as to who the winner was. All through the night as they made their way back to the tower, Starfire continued to try and contact Robin, only for all attempts to fail. Whenever anyone tried to call, Robin would not answer, and his tracking device would be cut off whenever they tried to track it.


It was later that evening, Robin still not found, that an alarm went off in the tech district. The team immediately rushed to a highly-elevated research facility where an experimental new weapon had been stolen. The team chased the thief after he had escaped the security detail, running him to a dead end overlooking the city. However, when the cloud cover overhead cleared…

"That's not Slade, that's..."

"Robin," Star gaped, finishing Beast Boy's sentence.

"Whoa!" Cy gaped.

"Robin, why are you-" Star was about to ask, Robin throwing a metal flyer that exploded in her face and sent her flying back.

"Yo! What's your deal!" Cy demanded.

"Not a word, Robin. They're not your friends anymore," Slade said into Robin's ears through a pair of radio receivers. Wanting to get away, Robin then raised the blaster before firing it at the walkway between them, the resulting explosion bringing the walkway between them down, escaping into the smoke and out of his friend's reach.

'I am sorry guys, I hope you can forgive me,' the Boy Wonder said to himself as he vanished into the night. Were he allowed some form of excess material, he could've tried to leave a message, but even if he had that luxury, to even attempt without careful planning would put the team in danger of being... annihilated.


"Excellent, Robin. I'm impressed. You're already proving to be the perfect apprentice," Slade said walking towards Robin as he stood beneath a spotlight.

"This deal can't last forever," Robin growled out.

"It can. And it will," Slade said with narrowed eyes, screens lighting up and filling with static before images of the decoy detonator appeared. "The Titans still have no idea that my chronoton detonator was more than a decoy for something even more menacing. Now that my probes are inside their bodies, they could remain undetected for years. Decades even," he said, "Unless of course, you disobey me, and I decide to destroy your former friends. With the push of a button," he said bringing up the trigger into view.

"Sooner or later, you'll let your guard down. I will get that controller, and the instant they're out of danger, you will pay," Robin growled.

"That sounds like a threat, young man," Slade said walking up to Robin and taking the blaster from his hand. "Quite a good threat actually. Betrayal, destruction, revenge. We really do think alike," he commented, his rage building before Robin throws himself at Slade, only for the man to grab his wrist and bend his arms back sharply. "I monitored your vital signs during the mission. Elevated heart rate, adrenaline, endorphins," he said as Robin continued to strain against his hold. "You won't admit it, but at some level, you enjoyed stealing for me. It was a thrill, wasn't it?" he said releasing him. "You're going to keep stealing, Robin," he said as he stood at his work table and removed the blaster muzzle. "You're going to keep getting that thrill, and sooner or later," he said putting the weapon back together in a new form. "You will see things my way," he said placing the blaster on Robin's arm. "Who knows? I might even become like a father to you."

"I already have a father," Robin growled, the fluttering and tittering of bats above causing Slade to look up and think back to years ago. Back when he used to do jobs in Gotham when he was nothing more than a hired hit-man, his family still intact. Of course that was then and this was now. He wasn't looking for family. Only for one to follow his legacy to be his…immortality.


Meanwhile back at the Tower, the group was trying to make sense about what had just happened. Like some anime-obsessed Otaku, Beast Boy suggested that there were only two logical explanations; The first was that Robin had been replaced by an evil robot double, or that he was a victim of "zombie mind control". Cyborg's scanners however confirmed Robin's biometrics and discredited the robot theory. Raven's powers on the other hand discredited his second theory after saying if something had been controlling his mind, she would've sensed it. The group had mostly confirmed that the person they fought on the roof was Robin before-

"Lies!" Starfire cried. "That was not Robin! Your scanners are wrong! Robin is our friend, and nothing could ever make him betray us. Nothing..." she said sullenly.

"But something did," Raven stated.

"You can make anybody do anything for you," Blitz stated in between Raven and Cyborg, his chin resting on his hands, "As long as you have the proper leverage.

"Excuse me?" Beast Boy asked as Blitz yanked BB out of the way grabbing his hat, "Think about what is so important to him that Slade could use to bend Robin to his will." Beast Boy raised his hand only to be cut off by Blitz, "Beast Boy don't answer."

"Why," Beast Boy whined.

"Because your ideas are childish," Blitz said showing the comic that BB had use to explain his theory, "now unless you have something plausible I'll listen, but if you don't then shut up." Beast Boy slumped in his chair defeat. "Now think about it, there are only a few things that can make Robin behaved like this: One his identity, I don't think that one is it because if he did find that out he would have Batman knocking on our doorstep. So I am thinking that it is number two: us." Blitz said counting off the reason on his hands. The other listening intently, this is most Blitz has ever talked. And it makes since.

"Think about it, to Robin, his friends are the most important thing in his life right now. If Slade had found a way to compromise us somehow, then the idea that Robin is doing this of his own free will doesn't become that hard to believe. After all, if Robin went rouge, he wouldn't be wearing that S on his uniform now would he? That just proves Slade has something over his head. Or ours."

The next moment an alarm went off, the room glowing red as another silent alarm reached them.

"We'll have to look into your theory later," Cy stated. "It's him."


At the Jump City branch of Wayne Enterprises, a large door was blown off its hinges, leading into a black room with large green circuit-like designs on the walls. Stepping forward to a containment field, Robin approached a black cylindrical object, spikes on each end, prongs on one, and red lights on the other. Whatever it was must either go with the Thermal Blaster stolen earlier, or have something to do with it.

"You're not walking out of here Robin," Cy growled as Robin reached for the device. "Not without a fight," he said as the others came up to him, Blitzkrieg and Raven at his back while Star and BB stood by his sides. "Titans! Go!" Cyborg shouted as they rushed forward, BB transforming into a tiger and Cy rushing him, the spiky-haired teen simply dashing past the group and leaping at the ceiling, grabbed a pipe, kicked a ceiling grate in, then disappeared before anyone could react.

A minute later, Robin ran across the roof of the Wayne Enterprises building. He would've tried to get the device another time, hopefully when he didn't have to fight his friends, but-

"Not so fast, Robin. You have yet to achieve your objective."

"The device was too heavily guarded. I'll have to steal it another-"

"No!" he shouted causing Robin to stop. "Go back. Unless you want me to destroy them, go back and fight."

"Robin!" Cy called out, cutting their conversations short. "Look, I don't know what's going on, but we don't want to fight. We just want to talk."

Robin's response however was to let his feet do the talking, via high flying kick that knocked Cy back.

"Guess there's nothing to talk about," BB said cracking his knuckles and turning into a massive gorilla. Robin avoided the changeling's fists when they were brought down by leaping atop the WAYNE's A, then threw another Slade-themed device that wrapped around one of his thick wrists. Next moment the Boy Wonder dropped down through the A's center, pulling taut and yanking Beast Boy halfway through with his upper body stuck.

"Robin, please-" was as far as Starfire got before the Boy Wonder rushed past her, leaping high and coming down with a flurry of kicks aimed at Raven, the mage creating shields to defend herself while Cy charged his cannon. However, the unease on his face betrayed his resolve to do what was right. The next moment, Blitz suddenly got behind Robin and grabbing him around his neck with arms his legs wrap around Robins waist, the smaller teen held in place as Raven realized what Blitz was doing and stepped back.

"Cy! NOW!" Blitz shouted as Robin continued to struggle. "NOW DAMN IT NOW- GOD DAMMIT!" he cried as the boy wonder hit him with the back of his head before throwing him over his shoulders. At the same time in the big A, BB had changed into a python and extrapolated himself, then turned into a bighorn goat and sent the Boy Wonder rolling across the roof before he stopped short of his back.

"Dude! Are you okay?" BB asked rushing over to him, his answer coming in the form of Robin savagely kicking him into Cyborg, the two going down as Robin sat up.

"Fight to win, Robin. Use the thermal blaster. If Blitzkrieg decides to get serious you won't stand a chance, it will be the only way you can win against the collective."

'The only way I can win? Then why didn't he have Blitzkrieg be his apprentice first?' Robin asked himself.

"Azarath Metrion Zinthos!" Raven called out as a bubble of energy lifted him up, binding him from his knees to his neck, though his right arm remained free. Instead of using the blaster however, he threw a disk in her face, a blinding flash breaking her hold on him.

"Dammit! My eyes!" Raven cursed as she fell to the ground, Blitz catching her and holding her hand as he set her to her feet.

"You okay," he asks Raven giving a nod. "Alright traffic light, no mister nice guy," he said, the traffic light comment causing Robin to scowl visibly.

"Come on man, don't make me do this!" Cy said as Robin attacked him, easily blocking the teen's un-superpowered punches. "I don't want to do this!" he said grabbing his arm and getting ready to fire, only for a foot sweep to dump him on his back, the blast going off right before Robin leapt atop the sign's A. As the others got up, Robin ran to the big E, coming face to face with a supremely furious Starfire, starbolt prepped on her outstretched hand.

"Stop! Don't move," she ordered, the spiky-haired teen doing so.

"I thought I told you to use the blaster. Attack! NOW!" Slade ordered, raising his weapon at Starfire with the muzzle glowing red. As the two faced off one another, Star's expression icy while Robin's remained expressionless, both of them were bathed in the light of their own blaster's glare. Conflicting between friendship and duty, Star's eyes saddened.

"Robin, you are my best friend. I cannot live in a world where we must fight. If you are truly evil-" she said, her voice trembling as her arm dropped. "Then go ahead. Do what you must."

"Starfire, no, I-" Robin said lowering his blaster, a shrill shriek of feedback from his radio transceivers causing him to cringe visibly.

"ROBIN! I gave you an order. If you won't attack, my probes will," Slade said from his end of the line, pressing the button. A few seconds later, the team began to groan in agony, unable to move as their bodies erupted in pain, glowing orange with red spots with a white haze around them, the group slowly falling to their knees. Star was barely able to maintain afloat, and would've fallen had Robin not caught her.

"Starfire!" he cried out as the others began to collapse beneath him. "Stop! Please! Stop!" he pleaded, cursing that the others would not be able to hear him.

"Attack them Robin. It's the only way to save them," Slade said into his ear before-

"WHAT HAVE YOU DONE!" Blitz yelled he struck Robin in the face, gut, and side in succession sending him to the bottom of the sign, blood dripping out of his mouth as he forced his body to fight, dropping down and setting Star against the sign before rushing at the slightly-disoriented teen. "STOP THIS NOW!" he growled as he knocked Robin off his feet before using a double axe handle on his stomach . "DO IT OR-" was what he said before he got blasted back by the Thermal Blaster.

"Huh?" Starfire asked as she woke up, remembering that her body had erupted in the worst pain she'd ever felt before the smell of burning clothing stung her nose. Looking around, the to find Blitz was laid out on his back, his hood of his jacket was blown off just short of his shoulders, most of his combat shirt was burned off and was still smoking. "BLITZKRIEG!" she cried as she tried to wake him, the others slowly getting up on their own.

"Okay. Weirdness. What just-" was as far as he got before a fresh thermal blast cut across them, Robin landing in the middle of them and flinging the changeling into the mage's face, low kicking Cyborg away as the mage and changeling were sent flying. Star attempted to fire at him, but froze up when Robin aimed his blaster at her. Instead however, he struck at the big Y, Raven forming a shield so the downed Blitz wouldn't get hit while BB scampered away in monkey form. The next moment he skittered across Robin's arms and legs, a few moments he did so before Robin grabbed his tail and chucked him to the side. The next moment however the now jacket less Blitz just came out of nowhere and almost decked him, the two fighting in an intense sparring match of kicks and punches.

"Hm. So even after taking a thermal blast point-blank he's still able to fight. Intriguing it seems that the chemical X that I gave him is working like a charm." Slade said unconsciously into Robin's ear who didn't catch the last bit as him and Blitz fought, the two then grabbing one another's wrists as they met in a stalemate.

"Going to shoot somebody in the back, that's low man." Blitz said as the two continued to fight, Blitz grasp his right arm, then a kick to the sternum that sent him flying back. "Missing something," Blitz said tossing up the Thermal Blaster. In response however, he whips out a handful of discs and throws them at the group, the group ducking out of the way of the projectiles, the explosions behind them detonating at the bases of the big A and Y.

"Titans! Move!" Cy called out when the two giant letters began toppling over, Raven about to squashed until Blitz shot his grappling hooks and pulled her in to his arms and out of the way, Cy having the big A fall around him, while Star and BB flew out of the way. Looking back up, Robin had disappeared.

"He's gone," Raven stated, she noticed that she was in Blitz's arms, and while not outright pushing him away, she did step out of his arms, the teen blushing slightly.

"Everybody okay?" Cy asked before turning to Blitz how was still smoking.

"I'm fine, my combat shirt took most of the damage although I am a little pissed this is the second jacket in two days," he chuckled.

"Uh, I know where Robin picked up that heat ray, but where did he learn that little glowy hurty trick?" Beast Boy asked as his eyes briefly turned orange with red spots.

"I do not think it was Robin," Star stated. "Perhaps Brother Blitz was right. Slade seems to have something over our heads."


Elsewhere in Slade's lair, he watched Robin fight off the Teen Titans, his lone eye narrowing a bit as he watch Robin and Blitz fight. 'Well my son it seems that you are growing more powerful, maybe I should have brought you here as well. To think you haven't even be properly trained yet.' Slade thought with a slight smile.

"Thrilling. My apprentice is progressing even faster than I had hoped. All he needed was a little motivation," he said before a hand suddenly grabbed his wrist.

"Motivate THIS!" Robin said before throwing a punch, only for Slade to easily catch it without flinching and wrenching it to the side, flinging Robin towards a set of overhead gears before coming down into a crouch across the floor.

"Robin," Slade said as he got up from the chair and flexed a handful of fingers. "That was vicious, dishonorable, and ruthless. Excellent work. You're becoming more like me every second," he said walking past the teen before stopping. "Where is the Thermal Blaster?" he then asked. He of course knew the answer, but while Robin knew the satisfaction of victory, to be beaten by the seemingly-goth wearing lightning user would teach him the sting of defeat. Something you could only learn with experience.

"Blitzkrieg caught me off guard and took it," Robin answered, feeling pissed. He had been trained by Batman, and all of a sudden the some guy comes in and just kick his ass like it was nothing. Just who trained the guy?

"It seems that you friend hasn't told you anything," Slade stated, then whirled around at his opponent with a sudden string of blows.

"What are you talking about what do you know about Blitzkrieg," Robin grunted.

"Child I know a lot about you friend Blitz,"

"Tell me then," Robin demanded secretly he wanted to know more about the electro-kinetic, besides his powers, and personal habits. Something told Robin that Blitz was hiding something, something big.

Slade chuckled evilly, "Patience Robin, I will tell you everything, in due time, all in due time."


"You were right about earlier, Blitz," Cy said after running every sort of scan possible on Beast Boy's body, who at the moment was wearing a numerous amount of monitoring equipment. "The enhanced sensors are picking up radio interference on the nanoscopic scale," he said typing on the computer, showing Slade's probes in detail as they remain attached to BB's cells.

"Woah."

"I see," Blitz said. Looking over his shoulder, BB visibly cringed at the sight.

"Those things are inside me? EWWW!"

"They're inside all of us. Billions of 'em!" Cy cried out, "except Blitz."

"That would make since he wasn't there when we were infected," Raven said.

"With such technology at his command, Slade can destroy us whenever he wants," Star gasped.

"Unless Robin does whatever he says," Raven said to her sentiment.

"Heh. And you guys thought my zombie idea was crazy," BB said with crossed arms.

"Not only is it crazy but stupid too," Blitz said knocking the helmet down over BB's face to shut him up.

"So... What do we do now?" Raven asked, despite the gravity of the situation smirking as the blinded Beast Boy fell over the side of the couch.

"Well we could waste hours combing the city," Blitzkrieg said moving to the computer and typing a few commands pulling up a map with a blinking red dot, "Or we could us this tracer that I 'borrowed' from Robin's room and planted on him," he said. "Now come on guys. Let's get our fearless leader and bring him home," he said with a smile that promised Slade a lot of pain later on, the team smiling more or less for the fact that now they could get Robin back.


Elsewhere, Robin and Slade had continued to fight, their battle changing levels in the terrain as they fought both high and low, fists, feet, and staff attacks exchanged Zero watching it all with an bored expression behind her new mask. While Slade had the advantage in terms of skill and strength, Robin had his smaller build and determination on his side, managing to drop Slade from the ceiling and then crack his mask. Removing the S insignia from his chest, the battle became a defensive one for Robin as Slade came at Robin harder than before.

"I have much to teach you. You have learned the thrill of victory and the sting of defeat. Now, you need to learn gratitude," he finished as he turned to the monitors with the nanoscopic probes, almost as if in mocking. Robin then yelled out in fury looking for another go, Slade simply grabbing his arm and bent it back past his shoulder cruelly before dumping him on his back. "I made you apprentice. All my knowledge, all my power, all for you," he said fisting Robin's hair. "But the only thing you care about, is your worthless, little, friends!" he growled as he pulled back, letting Robin go as he took a couple steps away. "If the Titans are so distracting, maybe I should just get rid of them," he said as casually as if he were looking at a wristwatch, bringing up the button and getting ready to activate the probes again. Robin steeled himself for the next round, but seeing the distance between them and realizing the difference in skill between them, his resolve and defiance dissolved.

"Don't. I'll do whatever you say," he sighed in defeat. 'I am sorry guys'.

"Good boy," Slade said. "Oh, and from now on, I'd like you to call me Master."

The next moment however, a….penny suddenly blasted the side of his metal mask, sending him rolling to the side with a dulled point of metal directly jabbing his temple right. Looking up, the one-eyed man growled as the Teen Titans had suddenly stormed his lair. Looking back to Robin, he then noticed something he hadn't before. A red and yellow tracking device placed just beneath his shoulder blade. How he had missed that, he didn't know.

"Hey jack ass!" Blitz said throwing up more change. "A penny for you thoughts."

"Rrrrr... Robin! Attack!" Slade ordered as he tried to ignore the part of his mask poking his temple. More of an annoyance than anything else, he knew he'd have to replace his mask, since trying to bang the ding back out would leave it susceptible to further damage in the future.

"Guys! Get out of here! You don't know what those beams did to-" Robin said spotting the probe-dispenser-like device off to the side.

"Dude..."

"We know..."

"And we don't care," Beast Boy, Raven, and Cyborg all stated.

"We are your friends, Robin. We are not leaving without you," Star said, tensing for the battle as Slade got up.

"Yeah, so come on let's kick his ass and go home," Blitz said rolling his head and popping it.

"How very touching. Really," Slade said bringing his thumb up to the button. "However, Robin doesn't need any friends," he said bringing his thumb down, the devices within flaring violently as the four teens fell one by one. "This is the price for your disobedience, Robin. Now do as I command. Attack!" Slade demanded.

*Whistle* Blitz waved his hand, "did you forget something." he said flicking his hand and reading a shock card, "the Ace of Spades," with another flick sends to Slade

BLAM

"Aargh!" Slade cried as the device on his left hand was blown apart, the only thing to soften the blow and keep his hand intact being his nano-mesh armored jumpsuit. It was at that moment that the Titan's pain receded until it disappeared altogether, the device's hold on them cancelled along with the trigger. Before he could respond however, Robin suddenly decked him in his moment of shock, sending him back as he rubbed his sore knuckles, pretty sure he'd left another dent in Slade's mask.

"Titans! Go!" Robin shouted as he stood with his friends. Back in good health, they all charged, Beast Boy rushing in first as a Pachycephalosaurus and rammed him in the gut with a devastating headbutt, powerful enough to break bone, but didn't since he was holding back all it did was cause him to cough up blood into his mask. The next moment Cyborg and Starfire blasted him full throttle and sent him rolling backward. As he did so, Raven cast a spell that bound his feet and slung him hard onto a platform.

The next moment Blitz was kick by Zero who growled and threw herself at Blitz.

Robin whirled around in opposite directions before kicking Slade on the sides of his head, causing his mask to crack and shatter entirely from the previous damage given, the only part staying on being the upper left half that hid the portion of his face, while the rest fell away. However, he kept his face, and identity, out of sight and light as he rushed to a piece of machinery in a dark corner.

"Another day, Titans," he growled as he slotted his fingers into the bores of the gear behind for a better grip, turning it causing the lights to turn red. "Be careful of the one you call friend Robin," he said so that only Robin could hear as he ran off, the place slowly falling apart Zero following.


The escape from Slade's base was nothing fancy like in the movies. The underground chamber simply collapsed into itself, the group running like hell –after Cy had grabbed the probing device- before getting to a cleared area, Raven teleporting everyone back to the Tower at the first chance. Upon arriving back at the Tower, Cy rigged up a probe-removal device, tubes and cables connected to nearly every square inch of the Titans, mask included. Given that he'd fought the hardest while being probed, Blitz who was not infected just stood off to the side while Starfire, Raven, Cyborg, where cleared. At the moment, Beast Boy was getting cleaned up.

"Am I done yet?" he asked in a muffled and annoyed tone.

"That's it y'all. The Teen Titans are officially probe-free," Cy announced, BB jumping out of his chair with assorted hardware still connected to his body as he began to dance.

"Go Beast Boy! You're probe-less! No probes now! Go Beast Boy! Go Beast Boy! Get fun-kay! Uh! Yeah! Uh, uh, that's right," he said as he began moonwalking back.

"Um... I know this isn't really my style, but we just kicked Slade's butt. Shouldn't we... celebrate or something?" Raven asked, Robin and Cyborg staring incredulously at her.

"Yeah!" BB whooped, leaning forward from Cy's back and staring him upside-down in the face.

"All-you-can-eat..."

"Free-form..."

"Breakfast explosion!" Cy finished as breakfast food began flying out behind them.

"Sorry I asked," Raven stated before she was suddenly hauled towards the kitchen, leaving Robin and Starfire at the couch and a chuckling Blitz.

"Everything okay?" Robin asked Star, as she could not raise her eyes to him.

"I am... sorry."

"You're sorry? For what?"

"When things were bad, there was a moment when I truly believed you were... like Slade. I doubted you. And for that, I am sorry."

"... I doubted myself, Star. Focused, serious, determined... As much as I hate to admit it, he and I are kind of alike. But there's one big difference between me and Slade," the Boy Wonder said with a smile. "He doesn't have any friends."

Back at the kitchen, Raven was irked as Cy and BB continued flinging food every which way.

"Who wants tofu waffles?" BB asked bringing a pair of the aforementioned waffles up, one arm a claw and the other a tentacle.

Back at the couch Starfire had just left to join the others, Blitz soon followed only to be stop by Robin.

"Hey Blitz,"

"What up Rob,"

"Are hiding anything from us anything that could jeopardize the team or the cities safety," Robin said quietly and seriously.

"No Robin I am not, hiding anything like that," Blitz lied making his way to the others.

'Maybe it just Slade and Zero trying to sow doubt into my mind, but I can shake this feeling that he is hiding something important. I need to find out if it is dangerous to the rest of us. But for now I'll just relax and enjoy the peace while it is here.' Robin thought to himself as he too made his way towards the others at the kitchen.


there you guys go. Dont forget to R&R.

I also plan on combining Season 2 and 3 to save time and what not.

Well see you guys later.