A/N: you guys are lucky none of you got to taste my cookies (eyes burnt plate of cookies and hastily pushes it under bed) but VF snake was pretty close to it anyway.

Beast boy: dude, I think I found a cook who is worse than Starfire

CI: all right, thats it1 im going to make you eat meat now

Cyborg: holla!

Beast boy: noo! you cant make me you cant make m- (chokes as CI and Cy push piece of meat into his mouth.

CI: (grins at Cyborg) now that that is taken care of, on with the story!

Disclaimer: I have been ignored in previous chapters..(sigh) but i keep repeating myself: i dont own em! ... unless DC gives them to me as a present or something...

Chapter 31:

He opened his blood red eyes slowly and gasped to see that he was surrounded by darkness.

What the hell? he thought and tried moving his arms but failed...it seemed as if he had lost his ability to move his muscles and could only glance nervously around the new place.

Suddenly, he saw a figure floating towards him. That figure seemed to be emitting some kind of white light which covered the whole form. He could only stare at the figure as it neared him and gasped when he saw who the figure was.

A beautiful woman with glowing white skin and big Hazel eyes smiled at him, her shoulder length brown hair swimming around her face.

Its been so long...no, wait...it couldnt be

Emily?

She stopped in front of him and caressed his face with her smooth hand, a sad smile on her face.

'Hello James'

So It was

He blinked in surprise. Emily was supposed to be dead! how was she suddenly infront of him? it has to be a hallucination, it just has to be!

But it wasent.

'Daddy!' three voices piped up and his eyes nearly popped out of thier sockets at what he saw.

Just behind the glowing figure of Emily, floated thier three children with the same white glow around them.

'Wha?' he said in disbeleif and looked at his wife/hallucination for an explaination.

But before she could open her mouth, Black tendrils materialized from beneath him and grabbed his legs, pulling him down with force.

'James!' Emily yelled and quickly outstretched her delicate arm towards him in attempt to save him.

James gave a small gasp of suprise from the sudden pull on his body and tried to reach for her outstretched palm but found that he still could not move his limbs.

'Grab my hand!' Emily yelled, fear swimming in her eyes 'please James!'

Cmon James, you can do it he ushered himself and reached for her arm with great determination.

But the tendils were more determined and began to pull him faster into thier dark abode.

'Cmon daddy, you can do it!' his children choroused, filling him with more energy.

'Im trying' he said through clenched teeth, his eyes sparking with power and he gave a short yell and unged forward, finally clasping his wife's palm in his own.

The black tendrils immediatly relinqueshed his hold on his legs and disappeared, sinking into the black abyss.

His children cheered as Emily pulled him next to her and gave him a hug with strength only Starfire could handle.

'I am so proud of you' she said while thier children cheered in the backgorund.

James smiled his first true smile in ages 'I thought I was a goner'

Emily's expression softened and the white light around her and the children started to brighten, suprising him.

'You have another chance at life James' she whispered as the white light started to engulf him, making him gasp in suprise 'spend it happily...for me'

And no sooner had the words left her mouth, everything blacked out and James opened his red blood eyes to find himself face-to-face with a small goldfish.

Where am i? he thought and felt the ground beneath him. It felt sandy and wet

His blood eyes widened in realization as he found himself lying on the bottom of the seafloor and started wondering how the heck he had gotten in here the first place.

Slade he thought, his eyes glowing with renewed energy and he used his powers to catapult himself out of the ocean and onto the destroyed pier where Slade had double-crossed him. His eyes searched for Slade in pure anger but found someone else.

'You' said a voice and before he could register to who, or what that voice belonged to, he was punched in the jaw, making him stumble.

'oof' he quickly steadied himself and scanned for his attacker but it didnt take long, after all, how could he not notice a small green skinned kid with a clenched fist.

Did I say green skinned? I meant pointy eared.

Which was just as bad.

'Look kid, I dont want any trouble' said James while holding his hands up 'see? no weapons'

The frown on his younge face deepened 'Why should i beleive you when you are the reason that Robin disappeared in the first place!' he yelled at him.

Please dont let it be a titan.

Too late dude, he is a titan.

'Look Beast boy, im sorry all right?' he said in a pleading voice, hoping that the changeling would believe him.

'Yeah right' he muttered before morphing into a rhino and charging at him.

But this time, James was ready. He blocked the titan's charge with his mind sheild 'im telling the truth!' he yelled before blocking another attack.

The changeling took no notice of his voice and morphed into a beast (from the beast from withen) and slashed at him with his claws.

James kept blocking his powerful attacks but at the same time kept talking to him as well, hoping that he might soothe the teen's anger.

'Look, I know you hate me but you have got to trust me! im truely sorry and if there was a way to change all this, I would! you have to trust me, IM YOUR ONLY HOPE!'

He yelled the last part out as soon as the changeling broke through his sheild and slashed him across the chest, making him back up towards the edge.

Beast boy stopped his attack and stared at him with his beasty eyes (i always wanted to out that in) as if trying to see if he was telling the truth or not.

Finally, he morphed back into his human form and gave him a glare which made the poor Doctor sweat.

James looked into his green eyes with his red ones, trying to make him beleive him 'I can help save Robin, just give me a chance'

Beast boy eyed him suspisciously for a few seconds then finally nodded 'I beleive you' he said.

James smiled with releif...atleast someone beleived him he thought and noticed Beast boy taking out his communicator 'what are you doing?'

'Contacting the others' he answered 'teling them I found help'

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He felt groggy--no, scratch that he felt extremely sick.

The last thing he remembered was Slade injecting soemthing in his arm and then he had blacked out.

Please let it be a dream.

He opened his eyes but couldnt see anything due to the blindfold over them. He tried to move his arms and legs but found them strapped down.

Sometimes reality really sucks.

'Awake I see' came a cool, silky voice.

Ok...most of the time then.

'mmmph' was the only sound that came from him because of the gag in his mouth as he felt Slade touch his face.

'Oh please dont bother struggling Robin, even you cant break these restraints' he said and removed the blindfold from his face.

Bright light obscured his vision and he had to blink a few times to see properly. Too bad, the only thing he could see was Slade.

Panic rised inside him and he started to struggle against the straps holding him down, despite his body's protests.

'If you dont want to be injected by another sirenge, then i suggest you calm down' Slade's voice was cold and hard but it did less to stop Robin, he didnt seem to care about any sirenges, he just wanted to get away from Slade.

The backhand acroos the face, however, said otherwise.

He winced as he felt the left side of his face Burning from the unexpected gesture and he stopped his struggles.

'Good boy' said Slade and tok out another sirenge 'but you need rest before the big trip' and before Robin could start to struggle in protest, Slade injected the needle in his neck.

The effect was almost imediate. His vision started clouding and his eyelids dropped as his mind wandered off to a restless sleep.

TtTt

Slade closed the door behind him and looked at Wintergreen, who was standing guard by the door 'alert me if he wakes up' he ordered.

Wintergreen nodded and Slade headed towards another room, where his computer and other peices of technology were hidden.

He had a few phone calls to make.

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CI: im sorry for the late update (dodges randomly thrown object) hey i said im sorry! but my cousins had come over and I had to babysit them...again

BB: mmph! (still choking on the peice of meat)

CI: (grins evilly) behold! my evil power!

gotta go,

laterz!

CrazyInsomaniac ;)