Starfire: Robin? Robin! Please, Robin, where are you?
Raven: Starfire, enough. You've been calling for forty-five minutes.
Starfire: Perhaps if I just try one more-
Beast Boy: Come on, Star. If he's gonna pick up, he'd have done it by now. 'Sides, you're kinda giving me a headache.
y/n: Robin's a tough cookie Star, he'll be okay.
Starfire: But why does he not respond? Where could he be?
The screen pans down on Cyborg in the sewer.
Cyborg: Robin and Cinderblock definitely went a few rounds, but I can't tell who won, or where they went.
Cut to a computer map of Jump City. Three spots are flashing on it; one shows a C, one a B, one an S: the positions of the others from Raven and y/n's perspective.
Raven: No sign of him here, either.
She and y/n are at the console in the operations center of Titans Tower. Night has fallen.
y/n: His locator is still offline. We've been monitoring all the frequencies, but he hasn't checked in.
Starfire: Oh, we are bad friends! We should never have left Robin to do battle alone.
Beast Boy, as a monkey, jumps onto a roof and takes human form.
Beast Boy: Yeah, especially since Slade's big doodad was a dud.
He jumps away again.
Raven: The Chronoton Detonator wasn't a dud. It was a decoy to lure us away from Robin, and we fell for it.
Cyborg groans loudly and slams a fist against the wall of the sewer tunnel.
Cyborg: I shoulda known that thing was a fake!
y/n: Look, there's no point fretting over past mistakes. Right now web need to finding our guy.
Cyborg lets out a sigh before nodding to himself in agreement.
Starfire: But why? Why did Slade wish to separate us from Robin?
Beast Boy: And if the detonator was a decoy...
Raven: ...What was Slade's real plan?
An urgent alarm starts up as the view dissolves to Cyborg, now running through the sewer.
Cyborg: Titans! Trouble!
An overhead view of a tall, circular building with an observation deck set a story or two below its roof; a walkway leads away from this. Robin drops into view, free-falling toward the structure. Inside, the top floor is seen to be a darkened laboratory. A panel falls from the ceiling, and Robin's silhouette drops in after it. He will be seen in this fashion until further notice. Something is hurled across the room toward a glass storage vessel that holds a piece of equipment. Close-up of it, sticking in the framework; it is a small sphere with two short arms sticking out from opposite sites. Each arm ends in a curved blade, so that the entire device looks like a backwards letter S. Slade's insignia is embossed on the sphere, this is one of his toys, given for Robin's use. One by one, lights wink on around the center logo to form a ring; after they are all illuminated, the thing explodes in a brilliant flash. Cut to the overhead exterior view again as the blast spreads outward from those upper stories. When it clears, we see Robin's form near the camera, holding the item that was in the vessel.
Voice: He's stolen the Thermal Blaster!
On the end of this, cut to an adjoining tunnel. The speaker is one of several prison guards who run in with weapons at the ready.
