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Chapter 19 by D!$N3Y D!$N3Y

Does it stop now?

Nope!

Robin had collided with at least three of the walls, and on the higher platforms, before Raven released him to fall onto the floor. He groaned, so much pain radiating within his body from contusions in many different areas on his skin to a few fractured ribs. But even so... He struggled to stand up, which had the real Jeremy smile warmly. 'That's it, Robin. Never give in. Loss helps you be stronger...' he thought. He believed he shouldn't let up now. His real enemies wouldn't do that, or at least not often.

"How commendable," Brain mocked. "Even in the face of certain doom, you resolve to 'save the day'. Every bit as futile as rescuing your team from our grasp." Starfire's hand's were inside orbs of her starbolts and Raven had channeled her dark powers around hers, preparing to strike again.

"Star... Raven..." Robin finally got to his feet, but had to hold his stomach with one eye closed under his mask. One side of it looked mostly closed, as well. "You gotta stop. Stop listening to Jeremy. And stop the Brotherhood."

"Foolish Robin," Starfire boasted. "The Brotherhood are nothing now. Only the master Jeremy reigns here." Madame Rouge did not care for that comment, and informed,

"Foolish creature! Ve are far from nuting." She then stretched her arm around Starfire's neck, coiling it to make her suffer. And she couldn't break free, for some reason. Robin didn't pick it up because he was worried for her well-being.

"NO! Stop!" But his plea went on deaf ears with her, it seemed.

"Now you have quite the ultimatum," Brain told him. "Either submit yourself to defeat, or submit your friend to her end." Robin hurled a birdarang, enraged, but they were well-protected, for Jeremy used zapped it away with Overload's power from his eyes. His face scrunched even more, his good eye twitching as he couldn't grit his teeth together any further. He sank to his knees, frowning to the floor.

"I... I surrender..." he mumbled.

"Pardon?" Rouge replied. "Vould you please speak up? Ve can't hear you." Robin lifted his head quickly and repeated to the six,

"I said I surrender. Just let her go." Jeremy's eyes were no longer glowing as he lowered himself to the floor and retracted Fang's extra features. After Rouge released her grip on the Tamaranean, then one by one, the Brotherhood turned into... Jeremy's duplicates! Robin was fairly surprised about it, but it made sense to him about 3 seconds later: the Brotherhood didn't come back; Jeremy set it all up, and he fell for it all.

"I thought you would..." He snapped his fingers, signaling his controlled babes to land on either side of him. "You definitely are Batman's protégé: putting others' lives before your own. Even if that meant you'd lose something, like a battle or one of your limbs." Robin was just weakened by the jumping, running, and especially being tossed around the room like a rag doll. "Star and Raven will take you to your room to get you fixed up." But once they got hold of him, he struggled against them.

"You WON'T win! I'll never let you win! Get off me! You'll be sorry...!" he howled in hatred as he was dragged out of sight. Jeremy turned around as his copies carried the remaining weaklings to be treated.

"Yeah... 'Tis better to have loved and lost than to never have loved at all..." he sighed; his idols will no doubt hate him for this.

So, I ask again, who's in control?

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