Gotham was was dreary at the best of times and downright depressing at the worsts. As the Titans entered the city none of them could see Robin's attachment to the dark alleys and broken lights.
"Where shall we start our search?" asked Starfire to the group.
"Wayne Tower is the highest building around, we may as well start there,' Raven monotoned, however she seemed slightly shifty. The group flew/were flown to the roof from which the city was splayed across the skyline on all sides. Raven turned to the silent incomers who had seemly appeared out of the night: one tall with dark padded kevlar and the other-
"Robin!" yelled Starfire in delight, rushing forward and hugging the boy in the cape tightly, only to be kicked agresively off.
"Back off alien girl, Grayson may allow your frivolous contact, but I certainly will not." the boy spoke haughtily with none of their Robin's compassion. Batman stepped forward imposingly.
"Where is Robin?" he growled out.
"If by Robin, you mean our friend and leader and not shortie here, we don't know, that's why we're here!" remarked Cyborg, peeved by the reaction of the boy and the now saddened Starfire.
"He left yesterday to meet you, we have had no contact since," supplied Raven.
"Yeah man, we're here to get closer to finding him, not-who are you, again?" Beast Boy asked, turning to face the smaller Robin.
"I, I will have you know changeling, am Damian Al Ghul, heir to the-"
"You know what, I don't care," interrupted Beast Boy.
Batman put one fist to his forehead in annoyance at the waste of time the meeting was turning into and spoke.
"Robin, we need to go back to the cave and search for leads. We will notify you when we have found him."
"Woah there, we are not just leaving you to look for him on your own," Cyborg stated.
"Indeed, we are his friends," Starfire continued.
"We are coming with you," Beastboy stated.
"You have no choice," Raven monotoned, "we're coming to find our leader."
"Fine, but my city, my rules, understood?" the Bat ordered lowly.
After receiving nods of confirmation, "To the cave."
Robin was a bird of the air, and no matter how much he would never admit it, being chained to the wall of some dungeon, completely alone was was starting to wear him. However he would rather be alone a billion times more than have the entrance of the man of his nightmares. Slade stepped through the entrance with his usually perfectly deadly grace. Robin straightened and gave the once-mercenary his best bat-glare. However, the one visible eye seemed if anything, amused.
"Robin, when I received word from the shadows of your capture I thought you would have been gone before I arrived, always failing, no wonder your own mentor replaced you."
"Slade,"Robin growled.
"Well, I see you haven't forgotten my name. But really, the league has you, what would the Bat say?" Robin only narrowed his eyes in response.
"Will you continue your reprimand and leave or tell me why you're actually gracing your presence upon me," Robin snarled.
"Now, now, that's not the way you should speak, apprentice, after all I am doing you a favor. Originally if Batman refused to bring the brat over to his grandfather they would just killed you, you should really be thanking me."
"When will you learn, it will never work, someway, somehow you will lose, again." Robin challenged with a slight smirk.
The masked man only stepped forward, "We shall see, we shall see," he whispered. "We shall see."
Okay, here's the next chapter, thank you Fireshifer for the idea of bringing Slade in. All suggestions are welcome. One things I was trying to poke fun at is how Robin always goes "Slade" whenever they meet. It's kind of redundant, but it's kind of tradition. :)