Chapter 4: There Is Nothing To Fear...

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Robin

When I finally came to, I was sitting in a chair, of some kind, with my hands bound behind the chair. I tried to to loosen the knot that my hands were stuck in, but it was a very tight knot, I had no chance of getting loose. And I wasn't scared at all. "I'm not scared of you Slade! We've fought before! You never win! Never!" I screamed out into the room, which was completely dark, except for the one light bulb hanging above me. "Oh, on the contrary, Robin, I always win, mentally." a voice said. "Slade!" I yelled. "Come out you coward!" I wobbled the chair back and forth, trying to topple it over. I heard footsteps coming towards me. "I'm not a coward Robin. You are the coward, Robin." I saw Slade come out of the shadows and he stopped in front of me. "Robin, you look so much older than from when I last saw you." he said. "Are you actually real this time?" I asked. "Maybe I am. Not that you'll live long enough to make sure of it." he said. "I promise you Robin, you will soon be a hollow shell, a shadow of your former self, mindless, whatever you want to call it."

"And why do you say that, you pyschopath?" I asked. "Your friends, are all in grave danger." Slade said, ignoring my question. "How do I save them?" I asked. "Oh, you can't save them, Robin." he said. "Not tonight. Tonight is about fear. All about your fear." He raised his hand, and I saw a remote in it. "I'm not afraid of you. Or anything else." I said, ignoring the remote. "We'll see." he said. He clicked a button on the remote and five screens on the wall that I didn't notice in the darkness lit up. On one screen, there was a video playing, of Beast Boy trapped within some kind of tube. On the second screen, a video played of Cyborg, getting his parts stripped from his robotic body. On the next screen, a video played of Raven, being overwhelmed by demons, similar to ones she created on that summer night, so long ago. And the final one, really shocked me and made me angry. It was a video of Starfire, being stung by her own starbolts, which were generated by some kind of machine. I began to wobble my chair in agitation. "What did you do to Starfire?!" I screamed to Slade, my voice full of agitation. "You need more medicine." Slade said. "Doctor Crane, are you ready?" I heard footsteps, and saw a man walk out of the shadows, stopping to stand beside Slade.

He was wearing a gray pinstripe suit and had a black briefcase in his hand. He had black hair as well. "Hello Robin, I am Doctor Crane. How are you?" the man asked. I looked up at the man. "Wait, did you say Crane?" I asked. "I've heard your name before, but from where?" Crane cleared his throat. "Okay, Mr. Slade here has told me that you are very sick and you just need a dose of your medicine." he said, ignoring my question. I was very angry and I looked up at Doctor Crane. "I'm not sick! Just let me go, so I can go find my friends!" I said. Doctor Crane sighed. He got on his knee and placed his briefcase on the ground. He looked up at me. "Would you like to see my mask?" he asked. I cocked my head. "I use it in my experiments back in Gotham." he said, as he put the combination to the briefcase. "It may not be terrifying to a tough teenager like you, but your friends? They couldn't stand it!" He said all of this as he brought out a burlap sack that had been made into a mask. "Let me out!" I screamed. Crane put on the mask and stepped forward, spraying some kind of gas from his right suit coat sleeve. "They screamed and they cried-" he spoke in a sort of demonic voice, and it ended up so demonic, that eventually, I couldn't even understand him anymore. And eventually, my eyes rolled up into the back of my head and I passed out.

Beast Boy

I let out a gasp as I woke up. The last thing I remembered, was being shot by a dart of some kind. I let out a breath of fresh air and began to get up. That's when I noticed something was seriously wrong. I was no longer in that hanger type room thing. I was standing in the hallway of what seemed to be a school. I looked around me, to see that the windows were pitch black, as if it were dark outside the school. But it was still bright within the halls. "Beast Boy! Over here!" a voice called. I turned to my right, to see a girl's face peeking out at me from around a corner. She had blue eyes and long, blonde hair. I immediately recognized the girl as Terra. Or, at least the girl who went to school that looked like her. Either way, I wasn't going to allow her to get away this time. She disappeared around the corner. "Terra!" I shouted, as I ran. "Wait!" I keeped running and eventually turned the corner that Terra had disappeared behind. Immediately as I turned the corner, I was struck in the head with something. I fell on my butt and rubbed my head. "Ow!" I said, as I looked up at an old lady, holding a ruler. She had an angry look on her face and she put a finger to her lips.

"Shhh, young man!" the old lady hissed in a quiet tone. "You are in a library!" An angry look started to spread on my face. I am not, I am in a- Before I could finish my thought, I looked around the room, to notice that I was indeed, in a library. "What?! How'd I-" As I started to speak, the librarian slapped me in the head with the ruler again. "God damn it!" I hissed in a quiet tone. "No cursing!" the librarian hissed, as she swatted me twice as hard with the ruler. "Ow..." I whispered, as I rubbed my head. "Hey, Beast Boy!" I heard Terra's voice. I looked to the door of the library, to see Terra peeking in. "Come get me!" she called, as she ran off again. "Why don't you hit her? She's making noise!" I protested to the librarian. The old lady gave me a disgusted look, as she hit me again with her ruler. "I gotta go." I said, as I ran from the room. "No talking!" the librarian hissed from behind me, as I felt the ruler hit me in the back of the head. "Ow!" I said, as I ran down the hall. I tried to follow Terra's path, but I just couldn't find it. "Damn it, where did she go?" I asked myself. Just then, I heard a metallic scrape against the lockers behind me. I turned around to see a man in a gray pinstripe suit, wearing a burlap mask and was running a hunting knife against the lockers. He was slowly walking towards me.

"Shit." I said in a low voice. I turned around and began to run in the opposite direction. It wasn't long until I heard footsteps gaining on me. I knew I had to do something and fast. So, the next hallway that I came up on I turned to the left into the hallway and flattened my back in the shadows, against the lockers. The man ran around the corner and past me, not even turning his head in my direction as he ran past me. Once I knew he was gone, I let out a sigh of relief. "Now to find Terra." I said. But before I could start walking, my communicator started buzzing. I clipped it off of my belt and answered it. "Beast Boy here." I whispered. "You know my secret!" a demonic and distorted voice hissed from the speaker. I dropped it out of fear and as I did that, the locker behind me opened and I was pulled in. I heard a cackling sound echo in my ears, as I fell through darkness. I tried to hold my ears, but it didn't make a difference, as I could still hear it just as clearly. I felt like I'd keep falling forever, but eventually, I found myself sitting at a desk in a classroom. I looked around me, to see other teenagers taking a test in silence. To my dismay, Terra was not among them. I looked up, to see a man sitting at a desk. I got up and walked up to the desk. "Excuse me Mister, but who are you?" I asked.

He didn't answer. "Do you know what's going on here?" I asked. The man looked up at me. It was now that I noticed his gray pinstripe suit. He also had black hair. "Oh, Garfield! Go back and take your algebra test!" he said. "But, I asked you a question!" I protested, ignoring his use of my real name. "Mhmm. And I told you to go take your test." he said. "Now go back to your seat." I walked back to my seat and picked up my test. "Here's what I think about your test!" I exclaimed, as I ripped the test in half. No one even flinched. Within a split-second, I appeared back outside in the hall. I let out a sigh of relief. That's when I heard a scream. "Ahhh! Help!" I heard Terra scream. "Terra!" I shouted, as I ran down the hall and around the corner. But, I was too late. I was just in time to see Terra get her throat slit. The man in the pinstripe suit and burlap sack mask let go of Terra as I listened to her blood gargles. The man looked up at me and pointed at me with his knife, and stroked his thumb across his neck. I wasn't dumb. I knew what that meant. You're next. I turned around and ran. It wasn't worth running, because it didn't even take a few seconds for him to catch me, and drive that knife in my neck.

...

When I woke up, I was in a wooden chair, with my hands bound behind the chair. I tried to shake loose, but the knot was too tight, and I couldn't get out. "What the hell?" I screamed, as I tried to morph into an animal, but whatever the rope was made of, it made my transformation practically impossible. I surveyed my surroundings. I was in a dark room, with the exception of the single light bulb hanging above me."When are you going to get it?" a female voice asked. I looked towards the voice, to see Terra coming out of the shadows. "Terra..." I groaned, as I blinked. Once my eyes were open again, it wasn't Terra walking towards me, it was Slade. Slade stopped in front of me. "When will you get it, kid? That girl doesn't care for you!" he said, in his usual deep, menacing voice. "Liar!" I said. "Terra loves me! She told me herself!" Well, Beast Boy. Way to go. That's an obvious lie. Slade just stared at me for a few seconds. Then, he kicked me in the chin with his steel-toed boot. I let out a groan, as I spit blood from my mouth. "You won't get anything from me." I groaned, as I looked back up at Slade. "I swear to God." Slade walked over to me and grabbed my chin, and forced me to look into his eyes, wherever they were. "Swear to me." he said, in a low voice.

"Now that you've come out of your little hallucination, I need to tell you something." Slade said, as he backed up. "I may have gone easy on you and your pathetic friends in the past. But now, I promise, that you will never feel more threatened." he said. He then raised his finger and gestured at something behind me. "Doctor Crane? Mr. Garfield needs another dose of his medicine." Slade said. A man wearing a gray pinstripe suit and a burlap sack mask walked up to me. He raised his right arm and from his sleeve, somekind of gas was sprayed in my face, going in my mouth, up my nose and in my ears. I coughed uncontrollably, trying to clear my lungs of the gas, but it was no use. Whatever the gas was, it was not going away anytime soon. "Do you have anything to say?" Slade asked, while I could still make out voices. Someone, I suspected it was this elusive "Doctor Crane", cleared their throat. As I was beginning to loose my grip on reality, I could make out one sentence. "Remember, there is nothing to fear..." As I lost consciousness, three words echoed within my mind. "...But fear itself."

Robin

I let out a scream as I woke up, still bound in the chair. I tried to wiggle loose, but there was still no point in doing so. "You can't get free." I heard Slade's voice. I looked up to see him walking out of the shadows. "Just give up, I've won this time." I shook my head. "You never win. No one can best me. Or the Teen Titans, either." Slade just laughed a shallow laugh. "Yes, you do keep insisting that." Slade said, as he walked around the chair and back in front of me. "Robin, before I put you and your friends, I need to let you know something." Slade said, as he walked up to me. "Before I kill you off, I have one final surprise for you. And. You. Won't. See. It. Coming." Slade then kicked me in my chin as hard as he could, sending me toppling in my chair onto the floor. I felt blood running from my lips and my nose, as I began to loose consciousness. Just as I was about to black out, I felt someone grab my spiky hair, lift me back up in the chair, and spray me in the face with more of the gas. Then, as it is usually a given, I lost consciousness.

A/N: I do hope that all of you enjoyed this fourth chapter of "season 6". What do you think of Beast Boy's hallucination? What do you think Slade's final surprise for Robin is? I implore that you favorite and follow this story. Also, drop a review or PM me if you want to submit your opinion. As always, and again, I do hope you enjoyed this chapter. So, I'm going to go. Have a good day and bye.