Bounty Hunter - Teen Titans (No. 5)

Trigger Part 1

Robin's POV:

I run fast as I chase after Slade in the rocky desert landscape under the night sky full of stars as I pursue this low life across the terrain. Slade leaps across a deep chasm, then to a rock formation that completely blocks my view of him as I run faster getting close behind him. Slade tries losing me again as he bounds over another crevice and drops over the edge before dashing a high, flat peninsula studded with several high top formations and gives a long, high jump. I land in a crouch right behind him then give a running jump over to the formations again falling in a roll then crouch looking around in caution when Slade steps out from behind one of the rocks. "Dangerous behaviour, Robin. You must be very eager to see me. I'm flattered." Slade taunts me as always trying to get under my skin which he already has.

"I'm not here to see you. I'm here to stop you." I tell him as he steps closer and we circle each other measuring each other's movements waiting for the right moment.

"Hmm. But how can you stop me, when you don't even know what I'm planning?" He teases me some more.

"Like this." I snap rushing in with a savage kick, but Slade dodges easily, I follow up with a punch, but again he dodges out the way making me hit a chunk of rock. The two of us spar, I soon have to go into the defence then I try a charging punch, Slade catches my fist hauling me against a tower, but I rebound quickly in the air trying to punch him, but again I hit the rock. One strike after another and misses its mark each time, but I keep hitting the rocks sending clouds of dust everywhere. I see Slade's eye glow orange briefly during my attacks, he lands a powerful kick making me stagger back severely but I get back up fighting back, I continue punching, but they get blocked by Slade, and he gives out another hit.

I get up again, but instead of going for a close hit I through my birdarang in both hands letting them fly, Slade stands his ground with his arms crossed in front of his chest but then in a flash they somehow miss him seeing the birdarangs in the rock. The formation begins to crumble with a cloud of dust covering the area, I move out into the open, surveying the area, my eyes pop seeing the dust clears to my right, and I slide off that way. "Excellent, Robin," Slade says passing the crumbled formations behind him. "We appear to be evenly matched and equally ruthless. Not surprising. You and I are so very much alike." The dust clears but I don't see him anywhere as I look around.

"I'm nothing like you!" I yell out, snapping around throwing an uppercut which connects with his metal-covered jaw sending him crashing to the ground giving me some satisfaction as he crumbles to the ground from my hit. I walk over to him taking his shirt into my hands and pull him up close to my face. "You're a criminal, a psychopath! All you care about is destruction!"

"And all you care about, you destroy," Slade tells me gesturing to the side where I turn my head to see the shattered debris left from our fight, the base of one of them looked like the shape of Cyborg's head and others broken rocks of all of my friends littered across the area.

"No!" I shout in horror at what I see, and then I turn to look at Slade. "Who are you?" After asking him, I reach towards the mask flinging it away into the night and look in shock as I look at myself. My duplicate chuckles manically which I hated to see as I remind me of Slade.

BOUNTY HUNTER

I wake with a sharp gasp bolting up to see I'm in my room, sitting at my desk, having fallen asleep there last night, I can feel the sweat sliding down my face as I catch my breath when I hear the metal clink indication my door sliding open. I turn my head slightly to see Cyborg in the doorway looking at me with a worrisome look. "It's him. It's Slade." He informs me, this was it.