Marry Who?

Disclaimer: I do not own the Teen Titans. Yeah, I don't.

Chapter 5: The First Test

If only days were like leaves falling from a tree, they indeed fell fast. One day after the other. Chace's stay at the tower will soon end. Those past days seemed pretty great though.

They flowed smoothly, without any suspicion present in the eyes of the titans. Well that was what she knew. Little did she know that one certain titan was discovering her little secret.

-/-

Robin had his eyes on Raven for some time. He surely did notice changes from her ever since she caught them roaming around her room. He tried to shrug the thought at first but it kept bugging him more and more. He knew to himself, he had to know what was happening to his best friend.

"Robin, is there something the wrong?" He turned his head and saw his girlfriend with a worried expression on her face. He gave her a reassuring smile to remove her doubts.

"I'm fine, Star. Just thinking of something." She seemed to accept his reason and dropped the subject.

Night time came and he has made his decision. He would personally talk to Raven. He walked up to her room's door but his hand stopped in the mid-air before he could even knock.

He sure was hearing a voice, speaking to itself. He thought that it might've come from Raven but he was wrong. He pressed his ear on the door to hear the voice clearly.

"Raven's surely gonna be dead meat if that happens." It said and obviously sounded that it didn't belong to the gothic teen member of the titans. Robin immediately typed the override code to Raven's door and barged in uninvited. He didn't care if Raven was going to murder him because he entered her safe haven.

The door slid open and there he saw a cloaked girl he never knew who. The girl jerked up from the round dark purple bed and she gasped. Robin took out his Bo staff and stood in a combat stance, ready to engage his attack.

"Who are you?! Where's Raven?! Where are you keeping her?!" His voice boomed and the girl was lost of words. Apparently, he had misunderstood what she meant. He made his way towards her and trapped her between the room's walls. It was too late for Chace to defend herself.

"Answer me!" He wasn't really a hot-headed person at normal days but when he heard what she said, various thoughts came rushing through his mind. To make things worse, he thought that someone was going to kill Raven for real and he and his team had no idea about it.

"I can explain!" Those were the words that came spilling out of her mouth. Chace inwardly cursed under her breath. How could she be this reckless?! How could she let Robin catch her without her disguise?!

"If I were you, you better start now." He replied in a dangerous tone. Her lips parted open and was about to start speaking when a lightning struck and blinded them both. Chace slowly opened her eyes and Robin was nowhere to be found. Gone in an instant.

"So he was one of the contestants huh? Well good luck to him." Soon, a frown crept upon that face of hers when realization hit her hard.

"Great, now I have to make a clone that looks exactly like him."

-/-

Darkness. That was the first thing that registered through his eyes. He couldn't see anything but an abyss of pitch black surroundings. He tried reaching his hands out but he couldn't get a hold of anything.

'Where am I? Was that girl responsible for this?!' He wondered as he felt his body floating for some unknown reason.

"Robin…" He heard a very familiar voice calling out his name. It was soft and faint.

"Robin…" His ears caught the sound again. He recognizes this voice. The answer was already at the tip of his tongue. He then felt his body being shaken.

"Robin!" His eyes shot open. His sight was in a blur, adjusting with the light. A figure was in front of him, arms crossed. He regained his normal view and saw Raven sitting across him, looking irritated as ever.

"Raven?" He asked and her brow rose.

"It's your turn, Robin." She replied and he was bewildered.

"Turn in what exactly?" He looked around and saw that they were in his room. His masked eyes darted over the bed and there a chess board lies. He got the answer to his own question. It was his turn to make a move in their game.

Raven being in his room was a regular thing to him. She would come in when he offered her a great game of either chess or monopoly. They both seem to enjoy playing with each other, alone and no distractions.

"That's what you get from sleeping in the middle of our game." She dead-panned. He slept? So that means the whole faker thingy a while ago was nothing but a dream? He rubbed his eyes.

"Sorry about that. I didn't mean to sleep." He apologized as he moved his knight, only to be captured by Raven's bishop. He widened his eyes.

"What?! But I thought that was the safest move to make!" A small curve formed on her lips.

"Guess that you're still half-asleep." She mocked. He smirked as his eyes landed on a good move.

"Not for long!" He was about to move his queen to have her cornered by it, his other knight and her own pawns when the alarm sounded off. He grimaced while she on the other hand smiled triumphantly.

"Looks like we're gonna have a rematch after this." She left his room and ran away.

"I almost got her." He complained for the last time as he fled out of his room and went to the main room.

"Cyborg, report." He ordered immediately as soon as he reached the room.

"It's Slade." The titans boarded their vehicles and rode their way downtown.

They arrived at the scene, another one of Slade's hideout. "Titans, go!" Robin commanded and each did their respective tasks. Beast Boy had morphed into his favorite, a T-rex and took out some of Slade's bots.

Starfire shot her star bolts over the machines that tried to sneak their way at Beast Boy's back. Cyborg lends them a hand and blasted the rest with his cannon.

"Azarath Metrion Zinthos!" Raven chanted, black magic covered a big pipe and threw it flying over to Slade. The said villain dodged it only to find himself being attacked by the leader with his Bo staff. They threw blow after blow at each other skillfully and did their best to evade each other's attacks.

Slade found his open spot and gave Robin a powerful roundhouse kick to his stomach that sent him backwards and knocked his sense for some time. Raven came up to Slade and engaged a hand to hand combat with him. After all, she didn't waste her time doing physical and defensive training just to throw them all away. But her cloak didn't gave her that much of an advantage. Slade grabbed it and pulled her. He had placed and locked her in a big orb wherein she could budge off with the use of her powers.

The orb started to shrink in size, slowly eating up the space around her. She tried knocking it with her fists but they didn't help. On the other side of the battle field, the other three titans were having a hard time dealing with the new bots that had come. These robots were much better than the first batch.

Beast Boy and Cyborg were too busy with the bots not even noticing that Slade had crept up upon Starfire and swiftly injected a liquid formula on her neck. She started to feel dizzy in a couple of seconds.

Slade made his move and tackled her, one arm locked on her neck, his other hand holding a sharp knife that was pointed to the alien princess. Robin snapped out of his unconsciousness and saw what was happening to his team.

But then his eyes got fixed on Slade, who seemed to be smirking under that mask of him. The dozed-off Starfire was with him. Robin didn't hesitate and took a step forward to save his girlfriend when Raven's cries of distress called his attention.

"Robin!" She shouted as she tried to fight the shrinking orb but her efforts were nothing but futile ones. She knew she couldn't call out to either Cyborg or Beast Boy for they were too much occupied as well. The last person her eyes saw who was available was Robin.

The constricted space made her lose her needed oxygen and lead her to sleep. Now he didn't know what exactly he should do. He was torn between saving his girlfriend and his best friend.

"What now, Robin? Which one of these two lovely ladies should live? Who would you choose?" Slade asked him with a hidden wicked grin under his full-faced mask.

'Think! Think!' Robin continuously reminded himself. He couldn't just save one of them and let the other die. He wanted to save them both. But for him to do that, he had no choice but think of a possible way.

"This is just the beginning of your nightmare, my dear apprentice."

His eyes searched and searched. He didn't want to waste too much time. Then there it was! The answer to his problem!

"I don't think so, Slade." He took out two smoke pellets from his belt and two ammunition discs with different substances in it. As soon as the smoke pellets hit the ground, smoke covered the scene.

"Thanks, Rob!" Cyborg quickly commented as he and Beast Boy used the smoke to their advantage, taking out all the distracted robots along their way. Robin threw the first disc on Slade's direction but instead sending it through the air; he had slid it over the floor. The disc unleashed a freezing gas which froze Slade's and Starfire's feet.

In that way, Slade would be a bit preoccupied with scraping off the ice.

The other disc went to Raven's coordinates, which exploded and blasted the lock off. He was confident that Raven could at least breathe; after all, they were still having a rematch after this. He got a hold of his Bo staff and charged over to Slade.

He didn't see Robin coming so defending himself came a bit late. Robin took Starfire in his arms and immediately placed her in a safe side. Slade, still shocked, held his ground and readied himself to attack. Robin swiftly threw an explosive disc on the roof of the building.

Debris fell over to Slade, burying him deep. Robin came to Starfire, who was slowly regaining her consciousness. Once he was sure that she was fine, Robin ran over to Raven. He carried her out of the orb and checked if she was breathing normally.

The other two male titans had finished their jobs and went over to them. All eyes were on Raven who was still not opening her eyes. She inhaled deeply and soon her eyes fluttered open. She sat up, still catching her breath.

The other three cheered and squealed in delight. Robin released a sigh of relief and smiled. Once again, the titans had prevailed and evil was stopped. Raven tapped his shoulder and whispered,

"Wake up." Robin's masked eyes widened as a searing pain crept on his head. He screamed in agony but no one had heard it. His vision became hazy as darkness once more had eaten him.

He jerked up from the bed, breathing heavily. He blinked his eyes a couple of times. He looked around and discovered that he wasn't in his room. His eyes soon met two shocked figures in front of him. Both were males who were wearing dark colored cloaks.

"Congratulations. You passed the first test." The first figure said with a small smile on his face. What he said to him dawned upon him. With bewilderment plastered on his face, he dared to ask.

"Test? What test?"