Ah! that Slade! Robin thought to himself. He's gone to far this time!
Robin began to sprint down the hallways looking for the Apprentice master. If Slade had enough of a mind to hurt a woman, no, a girl by the sound of her scream, then he had to be contained. His metal lined boots made loud clangs on the rusty floor as the boy wonder searched the building. He had always thought that Slade should have stolen his boots with more stealth in mind. His shoes alerted every apprentice for at least fifty yards that he was headed their way. He knew Slade would be on his guard as well. Shaking the thought from his head, Robin narrowly dodged a flying disk sent in his direction. On normal circumstances he would have yelled angrily at the novice apprentice for not looking were he was throwing but he was to busy now. He merely smacked the guilty looking kid upside his head and kept running.
He jumped of a balcony and took out his hook shot aiming it for the ceiling. He pressed a button which set it off. As it latched on to one of the banisters above, he did a front flip in the air landing on a table, the hook shot's chain breaking his fall. he released the instrument and kept running. Someone would get it down for him later. He sidestepped a group of kids and beam vaulted over a loose cart as he skidded down the hallway. As he turned a corner Slade's office finally came into view. He heard the scream again as he jumped in the air and side-kicked Slade's door to the ground.
A flash or purple, a glimpse of red hair and fear-filled green eyes was all he saw before Slade pulled someone into another room.
His breath caught in his throat. That girl… she had almost looked exactly like…. Hers eyes were so… and her hair…. Starfire?
His eyes grew wide. no…
He threw himself at the door and began screaming out Slade's name.
"Slade! Slade you bastard! OPEN THIS DOOR!"
Slade's shadow shown through the door as he walked up to it.
"No Robin. Your not ready yet. Besides, she's a crucial part of our little plan."
"What plan! You come out here and tell me Slade! Come tell me that to my face! What the hell is going on! You know what? I don't care! Give…me…Starfire!" Robin yelled banging on the door with all his strength.
"No." was his only answer followed by another scream.
He slowly backed away. If that was Starfire, her scream had sure changed a lot. He shook his head. It didn't matter who it was. A defenseless girl in Slade's grasp was as good as dead if he didn't help her. But he couldn't do anything about it now. He knew Slade would have already called security and he didn't want to be around when they got here. He began to walk away when he heard a gun shot. He cringed but wasn't worried when he realized it hadn't come from Slade's office. He still needed to check it out.
Great! he thought. Another problem! And I don't even know if that's my Star in there! Wait…. my Star? Uh! It doesn't matter! Might as well figure out who got into the guns room….
!#$&()+)(&$#!
Robin sighed as he locked the door to his room. He hated dealing with stuff like this. Some kid had gotten into the armory and had started playing with a loaded gun. On the bright side no one got hurt. The kid was just a little startled because the bullet had barley missed his head.
He sighed as he put his room keys in his pocket and set down today's newspaper on his desk. He had picked it up on his way to his room. He wouldn't really read it until later but if he had he would have noticed the headline which read: "Another Titan goes missing!"
Suddenly Robin remembered the guy laying on his bed. He was most likely still dead asleep after the beating but he decided to check on him anyway. He turned around and looked at his bed. The guy was sitting up on the bed reading one of the newspapers. It read: "Red X takes down Titans!" He heard the kid chuckle to himself. Robin decided to be straight forward with this guy. If he had been strong enough to wake up in only two hours then he wouldn't be trusted.
"What's your name?" Robin asked distrustfully.
The kid didn't even move when he said. "My name is Jason. But most people know me as Red X.."