"Good Robin. I'm very pleased." Slade praised.

Robin stood silently frozen to the floor unmoving.

"Get some rest. You'll need your strength for what I have planed for tomorrow." Slade left Robin and walked into the elevator.

As the elevator doors closed he saw in the corner of his eye, Robin heading off to bed.

When Slade reached the third floor, Wintergreen was waiting for him.

"How did it go?"

"That witch girl tried to invade Robin's mind, but I told Robin not to tell her anything and push her out." Slade responded.

"So I'm guessing this means that the mind control worked?" Wintergreen stood behind Slade as he sat down.

"Yes. Were leaving for Gotham in a couple days. Can you do me a favor?" Slade looked at Wintergreen.

"Depends on what it is." Wintergreen responded.

"Can you stay here and take care of this place while I'm gone? We may be awhile." Slade asked carefully.

"Well when you put it that way, I suppose." Wintergreen smiled.

"Good. Tomorrow I'll train Robin a little more so he'll be ready. But Before we take down Batman we need to cause a little mayhem to lure the Titans to Gotham." Slade typed on his computer.

"That doesn't sound like a good idea. Why lure the Titans? That puts the odds against you." Wintergreen asked, knowing Slade probably had some impossible plan.

"I need Robin to take them down in Gotham, so I can capture them. And then tip someone about my whereabouts, to lure Batman to me."

"And you can't take the Titans down in Jump City because?"

"I want the Titans to be there when I take down Batman. And besides, if Robin shows his face in Jump city, it will lure Batman here. I don't want that."

"How are you going to take down the Titans in Gotham without Batman interfering?"

"Remember Deadshot? I payed him to cause something big in DownTown Gotham Batman will be to busy." Slade explained.

"I see. Well for your sake, I hope this crazy plan works." Wintergreen shook his head at the complicated plan.

"Don't worry if anything fails-"

"Let me guess, you have a backup plan?" Wintergreen interrupted

"Precisely."

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Raven and Beastboy arrived back at the Tower a little while later, Raven had to recover a little bit before she could open a portal.

"Did you talk to Robin? What happened?" Cyborg asked as they walked through the portal.

Raven told him the same story she told Beastboy. Cyborg sighed in disappointment.

"I'm sorry. He just kept pushing me out." Raven said quietly

"No need to apologize, I understand. But what I don't understand is, why was Robin's mind fuzzy and why would he try to push you out?" Cyborg asked confused.

"I don't know. Something isn't right. Slade may have more up his sleeve than we think." Raven answered.

"Maybe Someone was invading Rob's mind and he though you were them and tried to push you out." Kid Flash yawned not the least bit affected by the dire circumstances

"No, I know Robin could feel it was me." Raven shot down the idea.

"You don't seem to worried about Robin either." Beastboy suspiciously eyed Kid Flash.

"Because I know he'll be fine, whatever it is. I know Rob. He'll pull through." Kid Flash told them.

"How can you be so sure?" Cyborg asked.

"Well, you see when Rob was still with Batman, we were best friends. And I knew him better than Anyone else. But when he left, we kinda lost contact. Until I left my mentor and Joined the Teen Titans. But before that I knew every thing about him, I knew how strong he was, and having the partner to Batman as a best friend was pretty cool. He always looked on the bright side of things, said he was fine when he wasn't, I even knew his secret identity." Kid Flash mused in his memories.

"Seems like you too were pretty close." Raven commented.

"Wait a minute...You know Robin's secret identity, and we DON'T?!" Beastboy yelled in his face.

"Yeah, so?"

"Well spill man!" Beastboy prodded.

"Can't do that. Promised Rob. And besides if you know who Rob is, you'll figure out who Batman is. And Then Batman will have my head!" Kid Flash raised his arms in exclamation.

"Aw man." Beastboy grumbled.

"So what now?" Kid Flash asked openly.

"Maybe we should all get some sleep, and try again tomorrow." Cyborg answered eager to go back to sleep.

"Sounds like a plan!." Kid Flash yawned.

So with that Cyborg, Beastboy and Kid Flash left for bed. But Starfire and Raven lingered.

"You Ok Starfire? You haven't said a word this whole time." Raven looked carefully at Starfire.

"I am the O and the K." Starfire faked a smile.

"No your not. I'm have empathy remember?" Raven look at her seriously.

"For the most part, I am fine. But I worry about Robin." Starfire answered honestly.

"Remember what Kid Flash said? He'll be fine."

"Thank you Raven, your words are very reassuring!" Raven couldn't tell if she was being honest or not, she was being so convincing.

"No problem. Now let's get some rest. You have bags forming under your eyes." Raven looked closely at her undereyes.

"Oh!" Starfire felt her eyes. "Perhaps some rest would be best then."

And with that the girls left for some rest.

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Robin woke up with a start. His head felt funny. What happened? All he remembered was trying to resist something. But what was it? All he felt like doing was taking down Batman. Batman! Always Batman. He was the cause of his problems. And Robin was going to bring him down. And his new prodigy.

Robin's mind couldn't focus on anything else. There was a part of him that wanted to break free from this, but it wasn't strong enough.

"Good, your awake." Slade walked in the room.

"Tomorrow we leave for Gotham. When we get there your going to stir something up, to lure the Titans to Gotham. And why not hit Batman were its hurts? Your going to steal from Wayne Enterprises latest technology." Slade watched as Robin got up and stood straight in front of Slade.

Stop! What are you doing?! His mind screamed at him. But his body thought for him.

"Your attention is impressing, but we have work to do."

Slade motioned for him to follow.

"Try to use your acrobatics when you fight." Slade said once they got to the middle of the sparing Platform.

Robin nodded as Slade threw the first punch. Robin jumped up to dodge, flipping over in the air, aimed a kick straight to Slade's face.

Slade barley dodged. "Better."

"When you face the Titans, you'll be on your own." Slade threw several quick punches. "But I'll be telling you what to say through an ear piece."

Robin dodged and barely missed the last one.

Robin flipped backwards to make some distance between them.

Slade reached into his utility belt. "Batman likes to throw smokes bombs." Slade threw one down.

Smoke filled the air, and Robin could no longer see Slade, but he could hear him. Robin fighting instincts had never left him. He carefully listened. At the last second, Robin moved to the right, just in time to dodge Slade's attack.

The smoke cleared. "Very good. I'm Impressed at your progress."

"I'll be back later." And with that he was off.

Suddenly Robin fell to the floor. What was happening to him? This wasn't him, he wasn't doing this. His mind was being controlled, but how?

Robin was sinking deeper and deeper, it felt like there would be no return.