Antiseptic

The limp form of Robin lay in Cyborg's bulky arms, his limbs dangling to the sides of his body. The Plasmatic shield had dropped upon the Computer's statement of Robin's win, so the half-man, half-robot walked hurriedly over to the Team, careful not to bump Robin into anything or further irritate the stubborn burn on his arm. "How could you?" Raven hissed, as Starfire was still too shocked to say anything at all. "Yeah, Cye?! I mean, he's just a kid..." Beast Boy added, to which Cyborg snickered. "And so are you." The changeling flushed. "I'm older than him!" The Tamaranean woman decided to come out of her stupor at that particular moment. "It is best to heal Friend Robin, instead of wasting the time of healing on your bickering. We will talk about this later. May I?" Starfire held her arms out for Cyborg to transfer the small boy into her cradle, and Robin was now securely held to her chest, arms laid gracefully on his stomach. 

"The burn on his arm is not that bad, according to Tamaranean Records." The Team started to quickly pace back to the Infirmary. Beast Boy gaped at her. "Not that bad?! There's a hole in his arm, woman!" Cyborg snickered, but Raven just glared at him. "You're the one that did this to him, Cyborg. What were you thinking?" Cyborg stopped his soft laughter, his humorous face replaced with a guilty look. "Uh, he said he could take it..." It was Beast Boy's turn to glower at him now. "So you burned a hole into his arm?! And he hit his head on the floor pretty badly, what if you gave the poor guy a concusion!" They arrived at the Infirmary now, and Robin was placed very delicately on the Hospital Bed. Raven went to his left side, eyes glowing a deathly white as her grey hands were placed on top of the wound. 

"Azarath, Metrion, Zinthos..." She hissed, and the Team watched as the wound started to close up. Worry fluttered through each of them, and Raven sighed in frustration. "There's too many emotions to handle. You'll all have to wait outside while I heal him." Starfire's eyes widened. "But---" Suddenly, two strong arms gripped her and BB, and they were outside the Infirmary Room. Black energy surrounded the door as the wood closed them out, and now, they all just had to play the waiting game. 

__AN HOUR LATER__

A gasp sounded out from the empty room as Robin awoke, a rough yet satisfying pain of healing in his left arm. "What?" He hissed, sitting up by only using his good arm. The other Titans, however, heard the movement and rushed inside of the room. They had been sitting outside the whole time, after Raven had done all she could. Of course, the wound was healed, the skin repaired and the burn gone. It was just all of the whiplash, now. Anyways, Robin took a sharp intake of breath as a pounding headache was driven into his skull. There's one concussion, he thought, before turning his sight to the slightly blurry figures of his Team. 

"Robin! You have awoken." Starfire smiled, walking to his bedside. Robin was confused. Had he passed out? Suddenly, the memories all came flashing back to him. 


The fist was swung at him, crackling with electricity.

 Robin gasped and twisted just enough so that his face would be spared, and took the punch, yelling out in agony at the sensation of shocks searing his flesh and burning it open. 


He winced; Sure, it had hurt... Maybe a lot. Robin looked back at his Team, and then to Starfire. "I passed out?" His voice was raw and hoarse, maybe from his Mental yelling. Cyborg grinned sheepishly, drawing himself along with Raven and Beast Boy to Robin's side. "Uh, yeah... Look, dude, I'm sorry. I shouldn't have loaded a fistful of electricity for you, and..." Robin stopped him with a seemingly uncharacteristic cackle. "Are you kidding?! That punch was perfect, just beautiful! It would've put mine to a query, since I don't... Have..." His crooked grin faded slowly, the realization hitting him. He was, indeed, the only regular human of the group. "You don't have what, Robin?" Asked Raven, even though she had probably read his mind and already knew practically everything about his life... Whoa, creepy, he mentally shivered. 

The Boy Wonder swallowed, making an attempt to stand up. "Totally not feeling the aster today..." He whispered, pushing himself off of the Hospital bed, when Cyborg's large hand gently pushed him back down. Beast Boy cocked an eyebrow at his leader. "'The Aster?' Robin, are you alright?" BB was confused. His normally serious leader had just... What even?  Robin only grinned at him, gripping his wrist onto Cyborg's and strongly redirecting the hand away from his chest, sliding off of the bed now and nimbly balancing on the balls of his feet. "I'm feeling fine. I mean, my asterous self can survive one little moment without being asterous today, can't it? Now..." He swept to the entrance, but not yet leaving the room. The Boy Wonder brought up his left wrist to find... Nothing on it. His alarms rung. 

"Did KF steal my wrist-computer while I was out?!" He scowled to himself, and his face averted back to normal when he saw his Team's perplexed looks. "What's so confusing? Do I have a beard or something?" Starfire cracked a smile at the joke, and Robin beamed. "No, like, seriously. You guys feeling the aster, yet?" Raven shook her head in response, and came out of her confusion. "Robin, you're acting so differently... I mean, you never even had a wrist-computer." It was the Boy Wonder's turn to look confused. "What! But I always have it with me." 

Raven sighed. "Robin, I don't think that... You're thinking clearly." Robin's face turned upside down and he let his wrist go limp. "What then?" The Demon-Child froze for a moment, before breathing deeply and continuing. 

"I think you're going back to how you were before the Teen Titans." 

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