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I had been patrolling and had stopped to take a break on some random rooftop, I was already pissed at Bruce for being the ass he is, and now I was even more pissed cause I had passed out and woke up with my head pounding and vision blurry. “Jason…Jason…Jason!” A voice called out to me, it was Tim, at least he found me and not some mugger.

My vision finally cleared and I realized we were in the Titans tower, Bruce and Damian who were only inches away from me looked just as confused as I was, I thought we were in Gotham and even if I was in jump it would be only me and Tim.

“Why are we in the Titans tower? And most of all how long was I out?” I asked, but before anyone could answer someone rudely shot a green energy blast, wait green energy blast, probably Kori then, she probably thought we were intruders and attacked not knowing it was us. But everyone else looked shocked to see her, so I turned around, eyes widening under my helmet.

There stood a younger Starfire, angry and ready to attack incase they did. “How did you get in.” She demanded.

Okay now everyone was even more confused, why was Starfire so young.

Just as she was about to attack again Tim quickly cut in. “Wait, we don’t mean any harm, we don’t know how we ended up here, we just woke up here.” Tim explained. “We thought our older brother may have taken us with him since he is the leader and-”

“Robin does not have the siblings.” She practically growled it out, the green blaze glowing brighter now.

Jason guessed they were in the past considering he just called their brother Robin, and Starfire was so young. “Wait Starfire, we didn’t mean to break in, we’ll leave just now.” As me and the others started to move, a net flew and caught us all. “That won’t be necessary.” Great, it was Cyborg, at least he was the most mature. “Do you work for Slade.” He questioned. “As if we would ever work with that mercenary.” Damian spat out. “You’re lying, where is friend Robin.” Starfire threateningly raised her hand. “We don’t know.” Bruce spoke emerging from the shadows, of course he was in the shadows to avoid being captured. Starfire and Cyborg stood shocked, Raven and BB walking in only to be shocked as well.

“You mentioned Slade, what does Slade have to do with Robin.” Bruce practically demanded it rather than questioned it.

All the teenagers looked down. “Slade had said we had only 12 hours to disarm a bomb that would blow the whole city up, Robin made us go and disarm the bomb while he…he went after Slade, the bomb had crumbled on itself for no reason and we had won…then we tried to get ahold of Robin through his communicator but…but he didn’t respond…” Raven explained. “We think Slade might have him.”

“What the hell do you mean he has him.” of course I had been shocked, cause I know very well the Golden boy didn’t have a good relationship with Deathstroke.

“That’s not the point, we need to find him and get him back, Robins cut off all connection to Raven so we can’t find him.” Cyborg spoke solemnly, Bruce just sighed in response. “When Robin doesn’t want to be found, he won’t be, if he wants to be found he will be.” He spoke crossing his arms. “He could be in danger.” I responded back to Bruce’s statement. “For all we know Deathstroke could be torturing him and we’re standing here doing nothing.” I hissed out. Bruce refused to acknowledge my words as he kept analyzing their surroundings, probably looking for a computer to get some information. “I’ll need to pull some info from the Teen Titans computer.” He just said it emotionlessly, I knew he was worried, I knew he was worried that Dick could possible die with their presence in the past, but they needed to help find him, they couldn’t not just do it. Cyborg reluctantly lead them to where it was, Bruce immediately getting work, the first thing that popped up was of a thief named Red X, I reminded myself to look into that later, Bruce was looking for places Robin might have frequently visited and for warehouses under the name of Wilson or Wintergreen or any of Deathstrokes allies, that’s when the alarm blared on the computer, a signal was beeping, the location was Jump Cities, Wayne Enterprises…why would someone steal from WE of all places, that place has like the highest security.

The Teen Titans had no time to acknowledge that fact as they rushed to move, immediately moving out towards the building. “Go follow them, make sure no one gets hurt.” Bruce ordered as he moved back towards the computer.

“Well Timbit, Demon spawn, guess we’re doing extra patrol today.” I scowled under my helmet as the three of us moved out.

Little did they know, they were in for a very very bad surprise.

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Dick awoke from his light slumber, the familiar domino mask still on his face, for a second he thought he was back in his room in Titans tower and then everything came crashing back...right, he wasn't a hero or vigilante anymore he was Slade's apprentice, god how he hopes that someone will save him. The door hissed open. "Get ready, it's time for your first mission." Slade stood their staring him down before Robin complied and went to get ready, the suit felt so foreign on his body as he put it on, the black and orange with a sharp curved S on his chest right over his heart. He walked down the hallway and to the room Slade called his 'training room' where he underwent all sorts of torture, Slade was waiting right there in the center watching his friends blood rates.

He missed his team, he missed how he joked with them, but if he didn't stay with Slade they would die, he'd rather betray them to keep them safe than disobey Slade's orders and get them killed.

"You're here...good." Slade spoke turning around towards his apprentice. "Your mission today is to steal the thermal blaster from Wayne Tech, you will kill anyone who gets in your way, this is a relatively easy mission, right Robin?" He finished with a cunning tone." Yes" "Yes what?" Dick paused feeling the bile crawl up his throat. "Yes Master..."

As I ran across the rooftops, the shadows covering me in the dead of night

I thought back to that night before I left Gotham, the night me and Bruce had fought like lions at each others throats, I felt the tears stinging, threatening to even dare fall, I swallowed focusing on my mission as I neared the WE based in Jump, landing on the roof to take a breather before sliding down to the part of the building that jutted out acting as a balcony before making my way to the glass doors making quick work to get them opened.

The minute the thermal blaster was out of the case the alarms blared, guards rushing in as I threw down a couple of smoke bombs and making my way to the balcony , snapping the thermal blaster into place around my wrist, sliding to a stop at the edge of the balcony, I turned around face to face with my team.

"That's not Slade that's." BB paused before Starfire ended his sentence for him. "Robin..."

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Damian was shocked to put in shorter words, their older brother, a criminal, working with a damned mercenary, this had to be some king of fake, a clone, his baba would never stoop as low to work with Deathstroke. It was an insult to Grayson himself, I could tell that my hooligan brothers thought so as well. "How dare they, they're mocking Grayson by pretending to be him. " He seethed at the sight of the copycat. "I think that is him..." Tim clenched his fists into balls as he stared at their older brother, fighting against his own team on the roof of Wayne enterprises. "No ones knows their weaknesses as well as him." Tim concluded.

The fight was getting out of hand as the titans were losing humiliatingly against a man with no powers, they had no choice but to intervene, Jason preventing Dick from sending a kick into BB's side, who just spun out of his hold and immediately back into a fighting stance, Damian landed right next to Jason and Tim on the top of the A on the sign.

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"Who in the world are these guys, why is one of them wearing the bat symbol on his chest, as far as I knew Bruce didn't have any new allies, did he replace me?" I thought glaring at the three new figured making eye contact with the youngest one, wearing the robin colors but duller and built more for stealth than hope, and then I saw it the Robin insignia on his chest, Bruce replaced me with some kid and didn't even tell me, I felt a wave of anger hit my body.

blinded by rage I attacked, I wasn't holding back anymore, now taking on seven opponents who were still somehow losing despite three of them clearly being trained by Bruce, before making my escape after incapacitating all of them, oh the things adrenaline can do for you.

When I got back I gave the Thermal Blaster to Slade who inspected it carefully. "Good work apprentice, you are dismissed to your room now." When I reached my room, I slid my back against the door, I felt sick, I had been so blinded by rage that I hadn't even thought to why Bruce had replaced me with someone else, maybe this was temporary and was just waiting for me to come back, I scoured through multiple thoughts, clinging onto hope, hope that the new robin was just a temporary stand in, wait...if they were here did that mean Bruce was here? A sense of dread but also happiness filled me, maybe I could be saved.

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To say Dick was worried was an understatement, he was in a full on panic mode, pacing around Bruce's office after being kicked out cause he was getting too stressed, arms moving frantically. "Oh god, we should've found them by now, what if they're being tortured? And worse! What if they're dead!? OH MY GOD!" Alfred ever the mediator cut in through Dick's haze. "Master Dick I assure you that nothing bad has happened to them, Master Bruce, Jason, Tim and Damian will come home fine."

Duke and Cass came out of Bruce's office, the old grandfather clock that lead to the Batcave closing behind them, Dick looked at them with hope but Duke just looked down and Cass just shook her head, Dick just sighed and went down there himself to continue searching.

"There had to be something, anything that can give me a clue to where they are." Dick thought to himself before startling at the voice of Barbara Gordon. "Jeez Babs you scared me." Dick went back to work. "Anyways, have you tried checking the cameras at their last known locations?" Babs asked. "Why hadn't I thought of that!?" I immediately rushed into checking the cameras, took me a bit but I pulled up the feed that showed Bruce and Damian and waited as I watched. "Babs look, they were hit with something and then fell through some kind of portal." I paused. "Do you think you could pull up a different angle Babs?"

She got right to work, accessing a different point of view getting a clearer look at who shot them with a portal, they then did the same with Jason, and Tim.

"We got to find this guy in order to find them." Dick spoke, Babs agreed before sending a picture to Duke and Cass's phone with the picture labeled 'guy who took Bats and Robins.'

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“What do we do B? Dick’s working with Slade and we don’t even know why, nor do the titans.” Tim looked towards me in hopes I had an answer, all I could do was shift silently, I didn’t have any words to say still reeling from the shock of seeing my eldest son in Black and Orange.

“Why would Grayson join Deathstroke of all people he would never go willingly! Father you know this!” Damian snapped. “We have to save him!” Damian’s outburst brought forth agreements from Jason and Tim. “We have to find out why first.” I spoke snapping back into reality. “Starting with when and where Slade appeared for the first time, Tim check surveillance, Jason you check the reports and Damian you come with me and help me check any notes Dick may have left on Deathstroke.” I spoke sternly despite my children seeing right through my facade, they knew I was worried for my eldest son.

-Jason-

Nothing, after 5 hours not even a single bit of information that could help us find out why dickhead was working Deathstroke, the reports were mainly about his robots and him causing trouble for the titans, and at this point I was tempted to just throw the computer out the window and Jason for the first time in a while prayed to any god out there to help him find some information.

I am so gonna kill Dickhead after this is overcome

-Tim-

Surveillance was pretty boring, Slade was spotted a few times through out the camera but ended up being a dead end considering the clips were so old, and there was no sight of Slade around the city on the live feed, I forced myself to stay awake for the sake of Dick…god that sounded wrong to say in m-Focus Tim!

Tim was going into a coma first thing after all this was done

-Damian-

Me and Father looked through the mountain piles of notes Grayson had left, most of which were about Deathstroke. So far there was nothing useful besides the fact that Slade had taunted Grayson for the past few months he had shown up in.

“Why did Grayson never tell us about this…” I asked my father. “I don’t know Damian, I wish I knew.” My Father spoke looking through the notes.

I’ve decided thatGrayson and I will be having a talk once this was over.