Slade watched the news with disgust. He had thought that Robin's absence would cripple Starfire and her powers. Though it did work for a while, it no longer did and he knew that he had to launch the next phase of his plan.

Starfire smiled cheerily as she did the dishes. She was happy to see that Beast Boy was slowly recovering from his injuries. As she put the dishes away, she heard the doorbell ring. Flying over to it, she opened the door and almost collapsed in shock.

Standing before her leaning heavily on two walking sticks was someone she had never seen before. In fact, she did not even know that people could get this fat. Why, the person before her must have weighed close to or more than four hundred pounds!

"Hello?" she asked blinking at him several times.

"Starfire!" the stranger cried out. He was about four feet tall, wore a huge pair of jeans and a large white shirt and had his hair slicked back.

"Robin?" she asked in shock and disbelief. Hastily, she ushered him into the house and closed the door. Then, she ran up to him and gave him a big hug. "Robin!" she cried. "You are back! What happened to you?" she asked as she looked him over.

"Ummm… Let's just say Slade force-fed me with pure, concentrated animal fat." Said Robin with a sigh.

"How did you escape?" she asked, horrified.

"I didn't." Robin replied. "Some mystery person broke me out and left me on the street. I saw the newspaper with your face on it, so that's why I came here."

"Oh, Robin!" cried Starfire as she hugged him again and burst into tears. He looked like a baby chimpanzee with the body fat of a hippopotamus.

"Star, I only have one thing to say." He said looking into her eyes. "I love you and I've missed you so much."

"I love you too." She said sweetly, purposely avoiding the topic about his weight.

She then spent the next hour filling him in on everything that had happened so far. When Beast Boy woke up and yelled for her from upstairs, she merely picked him up and carried him up the stairs, bridal style.

"Hey St-" Beast Boy stopped short when he saw the humongous person in her arms.

"Hello Beast Boy. It's me."

"Robin?" asked Beast Boy in shock and horror. "What happened to you? Why are you so fat?"

"Beast Boy!" Said Starfire in a chiding tone.

"Sorry Star." Beast Boy apologized but could not help but laugh. Robin felt deeply hurt, but he tried not to show it.

"How are you feeling?" he asked, as he tried not to sound hurt.

"It hurts a lot." Beast Boy admitted. "But the painkillers have helped. What did Slade do to you? Did you gather any info?"

"Actually, I did." Said Robin as he sat down. Thanks to his weight, it hurt him to stand for too long. "Slade tormented me by first telling me that Starfire was alive, then telling me that she was dead. He showed me snippets of the news that made me doubt if Starfire was alive, like the one when you were made to move out of the tower. Because of that I knew that Cyborg and you had made it, but I still didn't know what happened to Starfire. Then he kept showing me articles about how you got injured and Cyborg got his butt kicked by his Sladebots. He made me feel so terrible for not being there to help and so worried about Starfire. He kept telling me that you and Cyborg would hate me for not being there for you guys. Based on this, I think that Slade is trying to break us up. He knows that I won't turn on Star, so he's first going to try to break our current team in half."

"Then how does Raven fit into this picture?" asked Beast Boy curiously. "She is the most powerful one of us all."

"That's what I kept thinking about." Robin replied rubbing his forehead. "If Slade wanted to break us in half, what exactly did he plan to do with Raven? I was thinking that Slade would probably force Raven to pick one side."

"But even if she picks one side, would not Raven still be one of Slade's enemies?" asked Starfire. "Even if he breaks us up we will all still be against him, yes?"

"I didn't think about that." Admitted Robin. He hated to admit it, but he was stumped. Slade was trying to break them up but their common hatred for him would unite them instead. So exactly what was Slade planning?

"Let us do the pact that we will stay together no matter what happens." Suggested Starfire softly.

"We'll stay together, I promise." Robin looked up with a smile.

"Yeah. I swear too." Grinned Beast Boy weakly from his bed.

"This is amazing!" Cried Starfire. Beast Boy had not seen her smile this brightly in months.

"Ummm… Star? Can you bring me down to the gym? I need to start working out." Said Robin.

"Sure!" she exclaimed before picking him up as though he were weightless.

Robin worked out for weeks. Thanks to his constant efforts in the gym, Cyborg was now up and running. Yet despite eating healthily and exercising like a madman, Robin did not lose any weight. He could not believe his eyes. Every day after running doggedly for eight hours, he would step onto the scale only to see that he had lost about two pounds. When he rehydrated himself, he quickly regained those two pounds. Robin was not burning any fat and he was becoming very worried.

"What's happening to me?" he asked desperately as Cyborg did some scans.

"I think I know what's the problem." Announced Cyborg triumphantly. "Slade let you go on purpose."

"What?" exclaimed Robin. "He had me! Why would he do that?"

"Before someone broke ya out, did Slade do anything to ya?" asked Cyborg as he reviewed the scans.

"He did give me an injection." Robin admitted.

"Exactly. Every molecule of fat in your body is currently encapsulated in a substance that your body cannot break down. That means that your fats cannot be hydrolyzed, meaning no matter how hard ya work out, you will not lose any of that fat because your body cannot break it down." Cyborg replied, feeling like a genius for figuring this out.

"Do you have an antidote?" asked Robin hopefully.

"Sorry, man." Cyborg said sadly. "It's gonna take a lot of research for me to come up with one. It could take months or even years." Robin was grateful that he now wore his mask, because he felt as though he was about to cry.

"All of you have superpowers." He said bitterly. "All I have is super fats." It took everything Cyborg had not to laugh at his friend.

Just then, Starfire walked into the room, looking very happy. She had left the room to answer the door and she was now smiling from ear to ear. A familiar blonde girl entered the room causing both Cyborg and Robin to gasp.

"Terra." Said Robin coldly after he had gotten over the initial shock. Like Raven, he was quite slow to trust those who had betrayed it once.

"Robin!" she said cheerfully, pretending not to notice that he now looked like a brown bear before hibernation. "Cyborg! It's really good to see you guys again!"

"How did you get here?" he demanded.

"I flew here on a rock." She said scratching her head.

"No, I mean how did you get your memories back." Robin snapped.

"Oh, that. Well, one day our old history teacher got sick, so she went on leave and a new teacher came to our school. Since she wanted to know us better, she made us do a project about our histories and ourselves. For the first time I went home and I tried to find my baby pictures and stuff but there were none. So my friend suggested that I go to this fortuneteller, who could not only see the future but the past as well. At first I didn't want to, but I knew nothing about myself and I had a project to do, so I went. This fortuneteller fellow told me that the people I'm currently living with are not my real parents and that I'm actually a princess who can move the earth. That was all he could tell me, but after he mentioned the princess and the earth thing, everything suddenly came back to me."

"Who exactly is this fortunetelling guy?" asked Robin curiously.

"Oh, he's just some guy who owns this dark looking shop near my school."

"So you can control your powers?" asked Robin.

"Yeah!" she grinned happily. "I can remember everything now."

"Why did ya come here?" demanded Cyborg.

"Cuz! I now remember that you guys are part of my past. Besides, I wanted to see Beast Boy."

"He's upstairs." Said Robin shortly. "Star, take Terra upstairs to see Beast Boy."

After the two girls pranced out, Cyborg immediately got to work researching Terra's story. They did a check on her school and found that the history teacher who taught Terra had been diagnosed with stage three breast cancer and that she had recently been replaced. While Cyborg went out to check about the fortuneteller, Robin returned to the gym. Simply because he could not lose his fat did not mean that he should not exercise.

Meanwhile, Cyborg went to Terra's school and began looking for a fortuneteller's shop. He very quickly found it, since it was exactly as Terra had described it. He had left the house with his holographic ring, so he stepped inside as a normal human.

"Welcome to Gregory's fortune telling shop!" Said a gothic looking girl in Raven's monotone. "Have a seat." She continued before motioning to a chair. Cyborg sat down and waited for the fortuneteller to arrive. When he did, Cyborg was stunned to see that he was not dressed in the way he thought that a fortuneteller would dress. He was dressed in a plain white tee and a pair of blue jeans.

"Umm... Is it true that you can also tell people about their pasts?" Cyborg asked curiously.

"Yes." The fortuneteller said coolly.

"Well, tell me something about my past!" Exclaimed Cyborg excitedly.

"You had an accident that almost killed you." Replied the fortuneteller after he had placed his hands on his crystal ball. "So your father replaced your body parts with metallic ones, Cyborg." Cyborg took a deep breath. This was just too weird. Did the guy know that he was wearing his holographic ring? "After your father created you, several mad businessmen threatened to hurt you if he didn't use the technology he created to save you to create robotic armies for them. So your father was forced to go into hiding and take on a new identity to avoid helping them."

Cyborg took another deep breath. Although his accident was no secret, what happened to his father after he had created him was. He had told no one - not even the other titans - about his father's fate. Since they never asked about what happened to his father, Cyborg never volunteered any information.

"But no matter how many secret identities your father took on, those men always tracked him down by following you with magnets and metal detectors." Cyborg began to feel dizzy. Being constantly trailed by evil men was a childhood event that he did his best to suppress. "Because you wanted to protect your father from those men, you ran away as soon as you turned sixteen and you haven't contacted him since. Then you found the titans and they became your family." The fortuneteller finished with a pleased smile on his face. "Now, would you like to hear your fortune?" He asked.

"No!" Cried Cyborg as he hastily jumped up. Throwing down some money on the table, he dashed out of the fortuneteller's shop as fast as he could and sprinted all the way home, tears streaming down his one human eye.

Robin dismounted the exercise bike and wiped the beads of sweat from his forehead. His whole body ached and he longed to lie down to rest. He looked down at his body with disdain. He could not even see toes. Now he knew what it was like to be a pregnant woman. Standing in front of the wall-sized mirror in the gym, Robin critically evaluated himself. Gone were his finely carved abs and his six-pack. Gone were those muscular arms and legs. Gone were his fine physique and chiseled jawline. He looked like a fat, pudgy baby. With a sigh, Robin turned to leave the gym when Cyborg came dashing in.

"Robin!" He cried. "Terra was telling the truth! This guy really can tell you stuff about your past!"

"Is that so?" Asked Robin thoughtfully.

"So now that Terra's telling the truth, what are we gonna do?" Demanded Cyborg. Before Robin could respond, Starfire poked her head into the gym.

"Terra will leave now!" She announced sadly, before staring innocently at the two.

"We're coming!" called Robin as he waddled to the door.

"Bye guys! It was nice to see you again!" said Terra cheerfully as she prepared to leave.

"Oh, goodbye friend!" cried Starfire reaching out for a hug. Terra quickly backed away.

"The last time you hugged me, you rearranged my organs." She said nervously, before looking at Robin with pleading eyes.

"Star, you can always hug Terra some other time." He said firmly. Disappointed, Starfire contented herself with a wave as Terra flew off on the same rock that she had come on. "Titans, get inside." Robin ordered. "We need to have a serious talk."