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A/N Sorry for the excruciatingly long delay, but I just could not seem to bring myself to write out the fight scene. Other than that I have no excuses…so…um enjoy.

Disclaimer: If only I owned Slade and Robin…they can keep Terra, but alas I own none.

Chapter 4 –Titan's Return

Robin didn't know where he was going but anywhere was better then with Slade. After some time he stopped and leaned against the wall of the corridor as he caught his breath. He closed his eyes and rested his head against the wall. The cool stone felt so good to his aching head. The wound that Terra had given him still throbbed with a vengeance. Stress and anxiety were in no way cures for head trauma. Robin slowly slid down the wall until he was sitting on the floor of the hallway.

As he sat there, Robin's mind couldn't help but wonder about Terra. After all she had done, she too, had ended up betrayed. Slade really was a bastard, but could he really blame Terra for any of this? Slade was after all, a master of manipulation. He knew how to take your thoughts, your desires and twist them into some perverted truth of his own design. That always seemed to serve the villain's aims more than anything.

So in that sense, Terra was a victim.

Robin put a hand to his head, feeling his wound. Yeah she was a victim but that didn't make her totally innocent either. She had had her second chance and wasted it.

If she would rather be with Slade as a servant that with the Titans, then so be it. He wasn't going to help her out of this. It was her mess, her choice and she would have to pay the price of having Slade as a master… but he wasn't. He was going to get out of here and find his friends.

He had lost contact with them before his run-in with Terra but he wasn't worried. He knew they could take care of themselves. They would regroup and he would find them just as soon as he could get out of here. But here, he was almost sure was somewhere underground. The carved stone of the corridor reinforced his assumption. There were also no windows except the ones in Slade's throne room.

Robin looked back down the hall from where he had come. If he hadn't run into someone or something by now, did that mean that Slade wanted him to keep going? Was this some kind of test? He really hoped not. He was done with playing Slade's little game of cat and mouse. And he was tired. All of a sudden really tired. Robin's eyes started to droop and he jerked himself awake.

No, no time for that now, he had to keep going but… this was stupid. He had no idea where he was heading. These hallways could go on forever for all he knew. Sighing Robin got back to his feet only to have his knees buckle under his weight. He wasn't that tired! Had Slade given him something?

Robin tried again to get up but his legs could no longer support him. And that's when he heard it.

Footsteps.

Several pairs of footsteps.

Sladebots.

Robin, again desperate to escape started to crawl his way down the hall, get to one of those rooms and hid, but it was no use. A minute later, Robin felt hard metal hands grip his shoulders and pulled him upright.

"No, let me go!" He struggled but a strange numbness, had settled itself in his muscles. There was no escape.

A short and uncomfortable trip later and Robin found himself again in the throne room. No Terra this time…only Slade.

"Robin. Did you enjoy your self guided tour?" Robin hung limply in the sladebots arms and glared back at the villain.

"Your wasting you efforts Slade. I'm never going to be your apprentice." His voice sounded weak even to his own ears.

Slade chuckled.

"My boy, you say that as if you have a choice in the matter."

Robin's head fell forward slightly as he tried to remain awake, "I do…have…choice…"

Slade moved closer. "Tired, Robin?"

"What did..you..give…me?" His lips felt dry and numb as he asked the question.

"Just an immobilizing toxin. It's almost completely undetectable. Although it sometimes gives it's users a headache. But because of Terra's…care of you I didn't think you would notice. Running away was really not a good idea. It sped up the process."

"My friends…will…stop you." Robin couldn't hold his head up anymore. He was just too tired.

"They're gone Robin and they're not coming back. Rest well, Apprentice. You have a lot of training to catch up on."

Slade turned back to his monitors as the sladebots took Robin away, this time to his real room, the one that was being prepared when he was in the first, the one that he would not escape from.

***

Above in the city, Terra was scouting out sector three, where the disturbance had originated. Masses of fog obscured parts of the city as she moved silently thorough the streets.

Her gaze was watchful as she passed countless sladebots stationed on every corner and then the bank where she recalled having had stopped Mumbo from getting away all on her own.

When she came to the end of the street where the Titans would always go for pizza a sudden memory of her and the Titans laughing together shadowed her thoughts. But she was brought back to the present when she noticed the street was littered with broken pieces of robots.

Someone must have stayed behind; someone that wasn't going to be around much longer, she promised.

She turned to take in more of the street from her high perch on top of a floating rock, when a blast of green energy shattered the rock and Terra fell the few feet to the ground, landing hard.

When she moved to get up she saw very familiar silhouettes in the fog. " No! I destroyed you!"

She couldn't help herself crawling back in fear before Slade's teaching came back to her and she attacked.

Her eyes glowed yellow as she sent a blast of dirt and rubble at their shapes. A second later she was disappointed to see that she had hit nothing but and old car. Nervously she backed away but she couldn't see anyone through the wall of low clouds that were surrounding her.

Running footsteps, to her left.

No, to the right.

Was that an animal panting behind her? She couldn't tell, she couldn't see them.

She was hit hard from behind, when head over feet and landed on her stomach. She saw it was Cyborg but as she straightened up to return the favor, she was hit from the side. The sudden flash of green in the gloom dazing her just a little as she was suddenly airborne again. She fell yet again and skidded to a stop, luckily her armor had mostly protected her.

Shadows were moving in from her right, feeling very apprehensive she lifted herself away. Only to yet again have the earth literally crumble under her feet, this time by a Cyborg's sonic cannon.

Her landing this time was much more graceful, she settled down into a crouch.

Where were her master's robots? Where was her master? Why wasn't he giving her any advice?

This time she saw the attack coming, green lasers. She raised a wall to protect herself but even as she blocked this frontal attack, Cyborg hit her again.

She struggled to her feet. She wasn't going to let these misfits beat her.

She saw Cyborg coming at her again and used her raw power to push him away until the raven came up from below her, gripping here tightly in its talons.

"What have you done with Robin?" Raven's voice echoed in the darkness.

Terra didn't answer but used a large piece of concrete to push herself out of the bird's grasp. She needed to get out of here, they had too much of an advantage. She tried to fly away but yet again, she was shot down.

She heard vicious snarling coming from right in front of her, the shape was four legged and hairy.

"Beastboy, stop. Aren't you even going to talk to me?" The snarling if possible got even more ferocious.

"He has nothing to say to a traitor like you," Cybrog gruffly answered.

"What have you done with our Robin?"

"Tell us and we might reconsider kicking your butt, although that won't stop us from taking you in."

Should she tell them? No, no she wouldn't that might strengthen their resolve to fight.

"Robin's gone. Slade's taken care of him." All the Titans attacked as one but this time instead of making a wall to deflect their attacks she made a dome. Then as soon as it was done she blasted her way through the earth at her feet, forging a tunnel to escape. So even if they tried to follow her, they would be surrounding by her own weapon of choice, the earth itself.

A/N If you haven't noticed yet this is not a story for Terra lovers and its only downhill from here. Please R&R, let me know what you guys think, and if I should continue or not.

Laterness, BITD