Starfire kneeled in horror next to Robin, whose head was resting on the stomach of a large fluffy green dog lying on the floor. Raven's hands were glowing black over his body.

"Raven?" Starfire said, terrified of the answer.

Raven shook her head, retracting her hands and letting the glow fade away. "I can only heal surface wounds - not broken bones, and nothing as bad as this."

Starfire looked at the collapsed figure. Cyborg seemed to be scanning him, but then pulled his arm back and began computing the analysis.

Robin's costume was shredded, his cape incinerated. Most of the material was burned off of his chest, his legs. His boots were all but singed off, and his utility belt was charred. His black hair was mussed and practically obscured his face.

Starfire leaned forward on her knees, and felt her knee roll onto something hard. She started and reached onto the ground for the object. It was some sort of hard material, with two holes in the center, that were a faint red color. A tiny network of red wires criss-crossed the back of it.

Her tiny eyebrows furrowed in confusion and she turned it over. She gasped as she recognized Robin's black and white mask.

"Whoa, is that what I think it is?" Cyborg said, his mouth wide open.

"Dude!" Beast Boy said as he morphed back into a human, Robin's head still on his stomach. He leapt up and grabbed the mask from Starfire's grip.

Robin's head crashed to the ground. He moaned in pain.

"BB!" Cyborg yelled.

"Sorry Robin!" Beast Boy grovelled, leaning over him worriedly with the mask in his hands.

Robin's eye cracked open. He noticed the mask above him, and the other eye opened and both widened. He pulled one arm up to feel his temple, and winced when he realized he was not wearing his mask. His eyes flashed shut.

"Robin?" Starfire said softly.

He turned his head towards her but kept his eyes tightly shut.

"Hey Robin, it's okay - we had to see you without your mask sometime, might as well be now." Beast Boy said, shrugging his shoulders.

"Actually - I was planning never to let anyone see me without it." Robin retorted, his eyes still pressed shut.

"Well I don't care whether or not you want us to see your ugly mug, but if we don't get you back to the tower and my equipment - it won't matter anyway."

"Thanks for that piece of cheer, Cyborg," Beast Boy grumbled.

"Come on!" Starfire said, sliding her arms under Robin's limp form descisively. "We must do the 'getting going' quickly to save Robin!"

She flew out of the warehouse as fast as she could, closely followed by Raven, and a large green pteradactyl gripping Cyborg by the shoulders. They flew towards the tower, with Starfire casting periodic worried glances towards Robin, who seemed to have lost consciousness again.


Robin lay on the metal table in Cyborg's room, over which Starfire had placed a thick blanket for some padding. He wore a pair of Beast Boy's pajama bottoms, as the Titans had been unable to find any in his room, realizing that he actually slept in his costume and mask.

Various probes were attatched to his head and chest, monitering all his vital signs.

Or what was left of them.

Cyborg had picked up several broken ribs and two leg fractures from the fall on his scanners, though Raven had managed to heal all the surface wounds and burns.

Robin had still not regained consciousness, and in the bright light of Cyborg's room as opposed to the blanketing darkness of the warehouse, the Titans could see that his skin was unusually pale, and that his normally covered black eyebrows were drawn together in a pained frown.

Starfire laid a finger on his cheek. It was horribly warm to her touch and she pulled it back in fright.

"Cyborg? Robin has the fever, and the sweating forehead. I am worried."

"We all are, Star." Cyborg replied gently. "But until he wakes up, there is nothing we can do."

Starfire clasped her hands together against her chest and looked at the inert boy on the table. She brushed his hair back off his forehead.

"I feel so useless." She moaned.

"I know the feeling." Cyborg grumbled, looking at the screen that reported Robin's vitals. His heart rate was slow.

"Star, I'm starving. You wanna come down with me to get something to eat? It's been almost a day that you've been sitting here."

"No thank you, Cyborg. I wish to stay here with Robin."

"Alright. I'll be back soon."

She turned back to Robin's face, gnawing her bottom lip. She was so worried.


"Do you think he'll be okay?" Beast Boy asked, tapping the ends of his fingers together.

"I don't know, BB," Cyborg said, taking a monstrous bite out of his bacon sandwich. "I can't say. He's pretty beat up."

"I don't understand," Beast Boy said, slumping onto the sofa. "I never really imagined any of the Titans getting hurt!"

"Don't you see?" Raven said quietly from under her hood, her gravelly voice catching the boys' attention. "We are all proper Titans. Cyborg, you are superhuman because of your robot half. Beast Boy, you are superhuman beacuse of your shapeshifting abilities. Starfire is superhuman because she is not really human, she is a powerful alien. And I am likewise powerful, superhuman."

She pulled back her hood and looked severely at the two boys, who were captivated by her words.

"But Robin - he was never superhuman. He is only human. All he fights with is his courage. But courage cannot do everything. It was only a matter of time before he got hurt, and we were not able to rescue him."

Beast Boy's eyes glittered with realization, and Cyborg set down his sandwich, his hunger completely forgotten.

"We all," he said, rubbing the back of his neck. "We all thought, assumed, somewhere inside us that Robin was like us. We never really thought about it."

"That Robin is only human." Beast Boy finished, dejectedly.


Starfire lay on Robin's chest. She had fallen asleep when Cyborg had not returned, listening to his heart beat, to reassure herself he was still alive.

Suddenly a persistant warning beep woke her. Her head jerked up and she shrieked loudly. She calmed down slightly when she realized there was no immediate danger, and a little blush crept over her cheeks when she realized where she had been lying. Her eyes shot to the screen before her, to determine the source of the beeping.

It was only a few seconds later that she realized that it was not a warning beep, but a signalling of Robin's increased heart rate.

"He is waking up!" She whispered excitedly. His head moved slightly to the side and an eager grin brightened her face. She unconsciously placed a hand flat on his chest.

Suddenly the door flung open and the other three Titans burst in, their fists raised as if ready for battle.

"Star! You okay?" Cyborg demanded.

"We heard you scream!" Beast Boy added.

"Robin awakens!" She informed them excitedly as they dropped their fighting stances and rushed over, followed more sedately by Raven.

"Really!" Beast Boy asked, morphing into a puppy and jumping around excitedly on the floor.

Cyborg turned to the screen. "Looks like it!"

Robin moaned, and the four teens clustered around him, Beast Boy changing back human, their faces excited and eager to see their friend be alright.

Robin gasped a breath and sat up suddenly, his eyes opening wide.

All four Titans gasped in shock at what they saw.