Bounty Hunter - Teen Titans (No. 5)

Fighting Friends Part 2

3rd POV:

In Jump City the sun is setting as the Titans continue to look for their lost friend, but with no luck. "Robin? Robin! Please, Robin, where are you?" Starfire continues to ask through the communicator, but he never answers.

"Starfire, enough. You've been calling for forty-five minutes." Raven replies over the communicator.

"Perhaps if I just try one more-" Starfire tries reasoning with her friends, but even they know it won't do any good.

"Come on, Star. If he's gonna pick up, he'd have done it by now. 'Sides, you're kinda giving me a headache." Beast Boy complains over the comms.

BOUNTY HUNTER

Bounty Hunter's POV:

I keep the communicator on as I listen into their little conversations as they try finding Robin who is now in the hands of that toxic waste of space named Slade. "They just keep trying to find him don't they?" I hear Slade ask as he walks over to me.

"They won't stop, but you know that. You want them to fight to see if Robin can really become your apprentice." I sneer as I look up at him and put the communicator down on the table. "Why am I still here? The contract is over, but you won't let me leave, and I also found out from my boss that you're asking for another one." I cross my arms over my chest looking up at Slade wondering what he will say next.

"I am in need of your services till I am sure Robin is fully on my side." Slade answers but I know that could take too long.

"You realise that he won't ever stop caring about his friends." I snap at him, and I walk off out of the room when my phone goes off in my inside coat pocket, I pick it out to see my boss' number on the screen and answer the call. "What'd you want Bossman?" I ask him with an attitude I know he isn't going to like.

"Don't give me attitude young lady; I've seen the request that Slade has put in and I've accepted." He replies with his stern voice to match my sarcastic answer, and I know I have no room to argue.

"Understood sir," I reply not with the attitude this time and he hangs up, and I look down at the phone. "Jerk," I mutter and put the phone back in my pocket and look up to see Robin in the doorway of the next room.

"Who was that?" He asks, I know he wants to find out who I work for to stop them and I can't let that happen, not yet.

"My boss, Mr Jerk and where's your Master?" I ask him looking him in the mask covered eyes seeing the hit of a glare my way.

"Behind you," Slade answers for him, and I turn around. "So what does Mr Snow say to the request I asked for?" He asks, and I shrug in reply.

"He accepts the request for me to stay here," I reply, and I walk over to Robin and look him in the eye. "I am here until Robin is completely okay being your apprentice or he's free from under your manipulation."

BOUNTY HUNTER

3rd POV:

Night has fallen over the Jump City at the Titans Tower; Raven stands over the console in the operations centre with the computer map of the city, three spots flashing, C, B and S positions on the other Titans, "No sign of him here, either. His locator is still offline. I've been monitoring all the frequencies, but he hasn't checked in." Raven reports unknown to them that their conversation hacked.

"Oh, we are bad friends! We should never have left Robin to do battle alone." Starfire replies.

"Yeah, especially since Slade's big doodah was a dud. And Bounty Hunter is involved." Beast Boy comments and jumps away again, as the computer pulls up the schematics of the fake detonator.