Chapter 4 out and another snow storm on the way. I might have a second chapter by the end of the end of next week.

So there are some flashbacks in this chapter. It's set up a little different from when I do my other flashbacks. I usually do what year it's set up in when it's just the setting, but when it's someone's own memory I did it a little differently. You'll see when you read it.

Chapter 4: Together

Yellowstone National Park

September 6, 14:16 MDT

The Bio-ship landed in the middle of the woods. The back opened up and Artemis, M'gann, and Zatanna walked out in there civilian clothing. Behind them Tim, Cassie, Bart, Jamie, La'gaan, Virgil, Gar, and Victor all walked out also in there civilian clothing. After them Raven slowly walked out in a light blue tang top, short tan shorts, and brown hiking boots.

"Let's go," M'gann said. The team followed her with groans of protest.

"Why are we doing this again?" Beast Boy complained.

"After what happened in Littleville, you all need the training," Artemis said.

"But I wasn't even there," Static said.

"Neither was I," La'gaan said.

"This isn't just about Littleville," Artemis said. "This has to do with trusting each other. Things are in motion and if you can't work together as a team, then there is no team."

"I'm not part of the team. Why am I here?" Victor said, glaring with his one human eye.

"Whether you like it or not you are a part of it," Zatanna said. "As long as you live in the same building you need to all learn to get along and work together."

Victor gave the magical user his best glare but it didn't seem to faze her a bit. She continued to smile as she led the group through the trees.

"Whoa," Jamie said as he looked up at a large volcano looking mountain.

"Welcome to the first place I went on a mission with the team," Zatanna laughed.

"This is where you fought Red Volcano, isn't it?" Tim asked.

"That's right," Zee said.

"And now it has become a great place to do team building exercises," Artemis said.

"Let's do this," Cassie said flying into the air.

"Down," Artemis said pointing to the ground. With a confused look Wonder Girl flew back down.

"No weapons, no suits, and no powers," M'gann explained. The group made a collected groan except for Robin, Raven, and Victor. "Come on guys it will be fun. Now follow me to your first challenge."

Robin looked over to Raven who was busy staring up at the trees.

"How are you liking Earth so far?" the teen asked.

"It is interesting. The trees are much taller than the place I am from," she said looking back down at Robin.

"Really? All Nightwing told us is that you're from another dimension. Any particular reason why you came here?"

Raven gave the teen a glare.

"Nightwing told me some of you would try and pry into my business but I didn't think it would be you," she said.

"No, wait, that's not what I meant," Tim tried to explain. Raven didn't let him finish as she walked away.

"Robin hurry up," Wonder Girl shouted and with a sigh of defeat, Tim caught up with the rest of the group.

The sun was beginning to set as M'gann, Artemis, and Zatanna sat on their foldable chairs enjoying the quiet sounds of the woods; the volcano that they created while fighting the Reds behind them. They looked up as the silence was broken of the team crashing through the trees covered in sweat and panting. Jamie fell to the ground along with Bart and Gar.

"I am so feeling the mode right now," Bart complained earning a nod from Jamie.

Artemis pulled out a stop watch.

"Not bad. I thought it would take you another hour to finish the run. Maybe we should tack on another mile or two?" She asked M'gann.

"No!" The team shouted.

"I think six miles is enough for now," Zatanna said and grabbed a bunch of water bottles from a cooler next to her. She threw them at the teens and they all guzzled down their drinks.

"Maybe it's time to move onto the next part of the training," M'gann laughed.

"Fine," Artemis said with a sigh. She grabbed her small cross bow from the side of her jeans and aimed it up in the trees. With a click it released into the air and landed almost at the top of one of the large Pine trees.

The teens straightened up in curiosity.

"Get the arrow," Artemis said to them.

"On it," Gar said and changed into a small monkey and began to climb.

"Beast Boy stop," M'gann said. The changeling turned around and jumped off the tree.

"What did we tell you," Artemis said. Beast boy turned back into his human/monkey hybrid and looked to the ground.

"No weapons, suits or powers," he said in disappointment. He sighed and turned back around. He tried to hug the tree but couldn't even reach around it. With no branches he tried to shimmy up but even as a half monkey he wasn't able to get a good grip and he slid back down. Cassie, La'gaan, Virgil, Bart, and Jamie laughed loudly. Tim walked over and helped Beast Boy up.

"This is impossible without something to help us," Jamie said. "Do you have climbing gear?" he asked the older girls.

"Nope, no gear," Zatanna said. She looked at her watch and then turned to behind her.

"Nrut siht etis otni a pmac dnuorg htiw stnet dna a erif," she said and before them a fire pit with logs to sit on appeared before them with a bunch of tents.

"What's this?" La'gaan asked.

"Well training isn't over until you get the arrow," Artemis said. "The three of us booked a hotel on the outskirts of the woods. We're going to spend the night there and you guys can all stay here until you are able to get it."

"What," Jamie cried.

"There is no way I'm stay here in the woods. I'm leaving," Victor said and began to walk towards the Bio-Ship.

"No you're not," Artemis said and grabbed his shoulder from behind. The Cyborg turned around quickly. His arm had turned into a cannon and he shot at Artemis just narrowly missing her as she dodged out of the way. The blue light blasted the dormant volcano creating a small crater in the process. He looked down at his arm. The cannon shrunk away and his hand reformed. When he looked back up he was met with silence but saw that everyone had positioned themselves for a fight.

"I…I'm sorry," he said quickly. "I didn't mean that. I still can't control it sometimes." He bowed his head in shame and kneeled to the ground.

M'gann walked over to him and kneeled in front of him.

"Victor, while this team was created to do stealth missions for the league, it also has another function," she said softly. Victor looked up at the Martian. "It has also become a place where those that are gifted and want to keep the world safe can learn to control their abilities and find others like them." Victor looked up at the group and saw that they have relaxed in posture and even got a few smiling faces from Bart and Tim.

Victor nodded and slowly stood up.

"That was so cool," Beast Boy said and bounced up to the cyborg. "You were all like pew, pew and Artemis was all like ahhhh."

"I was not," Artemis said and placed her hands on her hips.

"As we were saying," Zatanna said as she pulled out cell phone and threw it to Tim. "We are just a few miles away with the Bio-Ship. Just call if you need us. Get to know each other and maybe you can come up with a solution to getting that arrow."

Artemis reached into a small back pack and pulled out hotdogs, tofu dogs, and marshmallows.

"And we'll know if you used your powers," Artemis said and handed the bags to Wonder Girl. The three older members left in the Bio-Ship leaving the team to their own devises.

No one notice the cracks spreading down from the crater in the mountain left by Victor's weapon.

After the sun had set and the team ate there dinner, they sat around the fire in thought.

"Maybe we can tie a rock around some vines and try to loop it around the arrow?" Jamie suggested looking up at the tree from his spot.

"There aren't any vines long enough," Tim said holding a marshmallow up to the flames.

"Well maybe we should do the other thing Zatanna said to do," Static said. "You know…get to know each other."

"Sounds great, you start," Jamie said. Virgil looked at the group hesitantly as they waited for him to start.

"Well it's nothing big. I lived with my dad and sister in Dakota city after my mom passed away. She was a medic and was killed by a stray bullet when she was in the field rescuing a gang member. My sister just moved out and I was waiting for the train to see her when I was abducted by the reach. I was experimented on and now I'm being trained as Static with Black Lightning," Virgil said holding his hand up and letting sparks fly.

"Not very deep," Victor said.

"Want to share yours?" Virgil said with a glare. Victor sighed and threw a stick in the fire causing it to crackle.

~LAST YEAR~

Victor walked into the Titans Tower main doors wearing a Ford Titans football jersey. He was completely human from his head all the way down to his toes. The security guard at the front desk tipped his hat.

"Morning champ. How's practice for the big game going," the man asked.

"Not too bad," Victor said with a smile. "Think we're going to take them this year."

"That's great I'll make sure to keep my eye on the game. Your dad said to just let you in," the guard said and buzzed the doors open. Victor walked down the hall and waved to some of the scientist passing by. He came to room 116 and knocked on the door. An older man in a lab coat let him in. Victor watched from behind a glass window as his father stood in front of an open metal circle that sat in the middle of the room. In the middle mounted by poles and wires was a small metal control panel covered in buttons; the father box. Electricity coursed through it making it light up.

A woman next to Victor's father looked at some readings on a tablet she was holding and shook her head. His father frowned and turned off the electricity.

"Why won't this thing work," his father said. The scientist that let Victor into the room knocked on the glass. Doctor Stone turned around and saw his son behind the glass waving for him to come in. Victor opened the door that separated him and the large room and walked up to his father.

"You said you had something important to talk about and you're late. I was excepting you an hour ago," his father said as the woman handed him the tablet.

"Sorry, practice ran late," Victor explained.

"I thought you were done with football. You need to buckle down and to start looking at colleges."

"I'm doing that too dad. In fact that's what I wanted to talk to you about. I have scouts coming to the next game. Once they see me play I'll have any school I want," Victor said proudly. His father, not so much.

"No son of mine will be going to a football school," Doctor Stone said. A knock on the glass brought the two out of their argument.

"Doctor Stone you have a phone call," the scientist on the other side of the glass called out holding a phone. Doctor Stone began to walk out with his assistant.

"Dad wait. I just wanted to give you the tickets to the next game. I wanted you to see me play," Victor said. His father turned to him.

"I told you I don't want to be a part of anything that has to do with that tedious sport. Your mother would be disappointed in you," his father said. He walked out of the room leaving Victor to look at him in shock. He watched as his father grab the phone from the other scientist.

Anger welled up in Victor. His father said something into the phone and then laughed. Laughed after just saying how his mother who had died would be disappointed in all her son's hard work with something that he loved.

Victor kicked the base of the metal circle that held the father box. He turned to walk out but stopped at the sound of beeping. He turned his head over his shoulder and saw in shock that the small box was admitting a strange blue light. He suddenly felt fuzzy, like he was disappearing.

"Victor get out of there," Victor heard his father shout. The teen ran to the door and made a grab for the knob only to realize that his hand was gone. Not only was it gone but it was like his body was disintegrating into tiny bits and flying towards the light of the father box. It didn't hurt, in fact he couldn't feel anything. He looked down and saw his legs were begin to disappear as well. When he looked back to the window he saw his father trying to get to the door but was being held back by his assistance. And then he knew nothing.

~PRESENT~

"The next thing I knew I was waking up in the hospital with all of…this," he said holding his hands up.

"And your father just decided to put a laser cannon in the palm of your hand?" Cassie asked.

"No pun intended," Gar laughed.

"He didn't do it on purpose. Apparently the only thing that would integrate with me was the father box itself. He attached it to what was left of my chest and it just took over my body, creating everything; cannons and all."

"Does the league know that you're part Apocalyptic tech?" Tim asked.

"You think my father would hide something like that from the Justice League. He's idolized them for years," the teen said. "What about you and your secrets boy wonder. What are you hiding behind those glasses?"

Tim touched his sun glasses and frowned.

"Oh spoilers," Bart said and leaned back. "Can't have the world know who the dynamic duo is right."

Victor gave the speedster a glare.

"Well then what's your story?" he asked.

"Well that my friend, I can go on about for hours," Bart said. As Kid Flash began to weave his tale about time travel and saving the world; which was totally crash, Tim remembered how he became the third Robin.

~A YEAR AND A HALF AGO~

Tim sat at his laptop. He groaned and rubbed his eyes as the night droned on. He turned to the large cage next to him that housed his pet rat. The rat looked up at the teen as it chewed on some celery.

"Don't give me that look Alvin," Tim said to the rat. "You try writing a 10 page paper on Robin the boy wonder."

The rat squeaked.

"I know, I know it's my fault I picked him for my criminal justice class, but everyone else is going with Batman and I wanted to be different. Besides…he saved my life remember," Tim said to his pet.

Looking back at the screen, he had newspaper articles up of Robin from a few months ago (Which was Jason Todd) all the way back to the first case Robin was ever seen with Batman; the Flying Grayson case. It was a gruesome case with the entire family dying except for Rick Grayson who was paralyzed for life and his nephew Richard Grayson who was taken under the care of Bruce Wayne.

"He looks about 10 then," Tim said looking at the picture of Robin. "Which means the one running around with Batman now must be a new one…unless of course Robin doesn't age…which is silly right?" he said looking back at the cage.

Alvin just gave him a stare and continued to chew.

"Now that I think about it, Robin hasn't been seen in a couple of months. It looks like Batman's been working by himself and from how he's been fighting lately he's been in a real bad mood," he said and pulled up another news article that showed a petty car thief pretty beat up; something that Batman didn't really do unless you were one of the big villains like Joker or the Penguin.

Tim went back to the Flying Grayson case and pulled up a video of the family of 6 flying through the air. He watched the youngest one do a quadruple summersault and then caught the bar with ease. Tim stopped the video, rewound it and then played it again.

"No way," he exclaimed.

Quickly opening up another window on his computer he looked up the news video of when Robin saved him five years ago. He found it and clicked on it, fast forwarding it to the point of it showing Robin saving him.

The camera moved from the news anchor and panned up to the apartment building consumed by flames. Out of one of the top windows the glass was kicked out and Robin stuck his head out. He disappeared and when he reappeared he had a little child in his hands; Tim himself.

The firefighters below them moved the giant blowup under the window and Robin dropped the 9 year old to them. Once he saw that Tim was safe he pulled out a grappling gun and shot it to the next apartment. He let himself fall doing a quadruple summersault until the grappling wire pulled taught and he flew through the air.

Tim squinted as he rewound the video and re-watched Robin's fall.

"Is that your mother," Tim heard behind him. He turned quickly and found his father standing in the doorway. Tim turned back to the computer and the news video had paused on the firefighter handing Tim over to a young woman with long black hair. She pulled Tim in tight with tears drenching her cheeks. Tim hadn't realized the news caught this.

"Yeah. I guess it is," Tim said.

"This must have been what…4, 5 years ago?"

"It was right before the cancer started so it must have been 4," Tim said. "I didn't know she was on this. I just needed some close up's of Robin for school," Tim lied.

"Your homework gets stranger as the years go on," his father laughed. "I just came in to let you know dinner is ready."

Tim closed his laptop and followed his father out of the room.

The next day Tim walked up to the gate that led up to the Wayne mansion. He gulped and pulled his backpack tighter onto his back. He rang the buzzer.

"May I help you," a British voice said over the intercom.

"Ah yeah hi…my name is Tim Drake and I'm looking for Richard Grayson."

"I'm afraid Master Grayson does not live here anymore," the voice said after a second of hesitation.

"Oh okay," Tim said and turned to leave. He stopped and sighed.

"Stop wussing out Tim. You can do this," he said to himself. He turned back around and pressed the buzzer again.

"Yes," he heard the man say again.

"Is Mr. Wayne home?"

"He is not receiving any guests at the moment."

"He's going to want to talk to me. I know about…his nightly activities...with bats."

When he was met with silence he slapped his head.

"His nightly activities with bats? Really Tim?" he said.

The gates opened and Tim jumped back in surprise. He walked up the driveway with hesitation. When he came to the door it swung open. He thought he was going to be met with the British man on the loud speaker but was instead met with Mr. Wayne himself; a very angry Mr. Wayne.

"Who are you?" The man demanded to know pulling Tim in sharply. He slammed the door shut and Tim shuttered.

"I…I…I'm Tim Drake," the teen stuttered. When he was met with a glare he figured that was the go ahead to continue. "I found evidence on who the original Robin was and I knew that that meant that you were probably Batman."

"What do you want," Bruce said. "I won't be blackmailed."

"What? No, I don't want any money."

"Then what do you want?"

"I don't know…to help you I guess."

"What makes you think that I need any help?"

Tim pulled out the printed article on Batman beating up the car thief and handed it to the man. Bruce began to read it as Alfred came up behind him reading the article over Bruce's shoulder.

"Something happened to Robin right," Tim asked. Bruce's eyes widen and looked back at the teen. "You never use to be this aggressive before. At least you used to be until you partnered up with Robin four years ago. Now that he's gone you went back to your old intimidating ways. I want to help so you don't have to be like that anymore."

"Quite the little detective wouldn't you say Master Bruce," the butler said. Bruce gave Alfred a glare and then turned back to Tim.

"You can't help. You need to leave and I'll be watching you. If you tell anyone-"

"I won't," Tim said quickly. He walked out just happy to be alive, but he wasn't going to leave it at that.

Over the next few weeks Tim put his gymnastic skills to work and followed Batman in the shadows in nothing but jeans and a red hoodie. He stalked him from a safe distance but Batman knew he was there, catching Tim from the corner of his eye.

This continued until one night Batman was fighting three thugs at once. He didn't notice one coming up behind him with a gun. The man was about to pull the trigger when Tim jumped from the roof above and knocked him out. Batman turned around and saw the young teen standing over the thug. Tim looked up at Batman and gave him a sheepish smile. It was the beginning of their partnership.

~PRESENT~

"Care to share?" Cassie whispered into Tim's ear.

"What?" he asked.

"You were spacing out. Your missing Bart's greatly exaggerated story," she laughed. They looked over at Bart who was on his feet looming over Jamie and making weird faces.

"That didn't happen," Beast Boy said. "Nightwing punched you in the gut and you fell."

"You tell it your way and I tell it my way," he said and sat back down.

"I shall go next," La'gaan said sitting up straight.

Before he could tell his story the earth shook from underneath them.

"What was that?" Cassie asked. The group stood up and looked around.

"An Earthquake," Jamie suggested.

'Negative. The earth's plates did not shift,' the scarab informed Jamie.

The volcano behind the team shifted and the crater that was made by Victor cracked and spread down into the ground.

"Oh you're going to get in trouble," Beast Boy laughed at Victor.

"It's not such a bad thing right. I mean no one lives here," Cassie said.

"There is something down there," Raven said behind Jamie spooking the teen.

"What do you mean?" Virgil asked.

"I can see them," she said and her eyes glowed white. "They are not living but they were awaken by the blast on the mountain. They are restless and angry."

"Oh great," Bart said.

"I know Artemis and the others didn't want us to use our powers but…" Jamie said and changed into Blue Beetle. "I think this is an exception.

"I agree," Beast Boy said and turned into a bear. Tim took out the cell phone but frowned at the site of no service written across the screen. The ground rumbled again and rock exploded from beneath the mountain. Everyone got ready for what was to come. A red hand pushed its way through the ground. Gripping the grass it pulled itself up revealing a red robotic head and body covered in burns and wires.

"Red Torpedo," Tim said.

"How is that possible?" Beast Boy said. "Sis said he was destroyed. She saw it."

"Yeah well Red Volcano survived why not his siblings," Cassie said.

After Red Torpedo lifted himself from the ground his sister Red Inferno rose from the earth.

"This is when we kick there butt right?" Blue Beetle said creating a cannon on his hand.

"No wait," Tim said. "They helped the team and Red Tornado destroy Red Volcano. They're on our side."

Red Inferno lifted her hand and fire erupted from it. Everyone scattered from the flames.

"They don't seem to be on our side to me," Virgil said.

"I don't understand," Tim said. Bart ran and swung around the two Red siblings. He saw the wires coming out of their backs; short circuiting and burning. Red Torpedo turned to the speedster and tried to dose him with water. Bart ran out of the way and over to where the group stood.

"There wirings are all messed up. They probably don't even knowing what they are doing," he said. The two robots began to stalk forward to meet the team; both set to fight. Blue Beetle shot them with a plasma cannon but missed when they moved out of the way.

La'gaan puffed up and ran after Red Torpedo. He was almost upon him when Red Inferno spotted him and shot fire from her hands. It hit the Atlantian square in the chest and he went flying backwards.

"La'gaan," Cassie cried out and flew over to the teen who was now covered in burns and struggling to get up. She had just landed in front of him when she was attacked by Red Inferno and was thrown into the trees behind her. The rest of the group went after the two robots when Tim grabbed Victor to stop.

"What," Victor demanded looking back at the boy wonder. The younger teen pointed up to the tree where the arrow sat.

"Were you taught maneuver 7?" he asked.

"Maneuver what?" Victor asked. Tim groaned. He grabbed Victor's hands and brought them low and together.

"Just throw me," he ordered as he put his foot in Victor's hands. The older teen looked at Tim skeptically but threw his hands upwards tossing Tim into the air.

Tim angled himself towards the arrow and just managed to grip the end of the feathers. He pulled it out of the ground and then suddenly found himself free falling. He really didn't think things through.

He was going to hit the ground…hard. He braced for impact but found himself stopping in midair. Tim looked down and saw Raven holding her hands up at him. She pulled her hand down and Tim landed gracefully. His feet touched the ground and he gave her a nod.

Beat Boy came up behind Tim and transformed into a horse bobbing his head to his back until Tim got the hint. Tim jumped onto the green horses back and rode into battle.

Virgil held his hands out to both of the robots and with his static powers the two red siblings smacked into each other as Virgil clapped his hands shut. He went to do it again but the two enemy's understood what he was doing and with some quick maneuvering both robots managed to miss each other when they were thrown together.

Red Inferno threw fireballs at the electrical charged teen and Virgil just managed to dodge. Jamie stood back trying to find his opening. Tim rode up next to him with Bart stopping beside them.

"KF I need you to keep Red Inferno busy. Blue I need you to get Red Torpedo still. I need to get up behind him," Tim said.

"Got it Rob," Bart said and gave the two a salute before running off. He started to run around the female robot in circles and she tried to catch him with fire. Blue Beetle flew forward and shot Red Torpedo with his giant staples. Red Torpedo just raised its arms knocking the staples to the ground.

He then raised his hand towards Blue Beetle and was about to fire its own weapons when it suddenly found that it couldn't move. A black shadow wrapped itself around the robot and prevented it from moving its arms up. Jamie looked behind him and saw that Raven had caught the robot with black shadows.

He didn't waste time and flew up to the robot and gripped it from the side.

"Now Robin," he shouted as the robot began to break free. Beast Boy galloped behind the red sibling and Tim took the opportunity to stab him in the back of the neck. The robot froze and then leaned forward before falling on the ground all together.

"What did you do?" Blue Beetle asked.

"I disconnected the brain from the body by breaking the circuit with the arrow. It's paralyzed for now," Tim said.

"Duck," they heard Bart shout and they all dodged a round of fire. Bart was on the ground with a burn on his leg. With speed that the group didn't know Red Inferno had, the robot was upon Raven.

Raven turned around quickly but was smacked in the face by the metal hand causing her to spin backwards and hit her head on the ground. Blue Beetle was next as Red Inferno slammed her palm into his chest and fired. Blue beetle went flying into the air cutting down a bunch of large trees in the process.

Red Inferno turned around as she heard Beast Boy neigh behind her. He was up on hind legs and about to kick the robot in the face but was to slow. She knocked him backwards causing the horse to go flying at an unsuspecting Victor. Beast Boy turned back into his human/monkey self, right before hitting the cyborg in the chest and in turn they both went into the mountain.

The female robot turned back towards Tim and Virgil; the only two left.

"Get behind me," Virgil shouted at Tim pushing him back. "You have any more plans 'cause I would love to hear one right about now."

"I'm thinking," Tim said in a small panic.

"Esu eht dnuorg ot dloh der onrefni," the voice of Zatanna echoed through the trees. The ground beneath the oncoming robot rumbled and shot upwards grabbing a hold of her from all sides. Her head turned to the side where Zatanna flew down on a gold circle; behind her the Bio-ship.

"We're saved," Virgil said in relief.

The bottom hatch of the Bio-ship opened and Artemis now in her Tigress uniform jumped down followed by Miss Martian floating behind her.

"Are you guys alright?" Tigress asked the two standing boys.

"We're fine. I'm not sure about the rest though," Tim said. M'gann walked over to Red Inferno but ducked as the robot opened her mouth and blew fire.

"How did you stop Red Torpedo?" Zatanna asked.

"Robin took the arrow that you left in the tree and jammed it into his neck," Virgil explained. Tigress went to grab a bow from her back and remembered that she no longer carried them there. She grabbed one of arrows from her side and jammed it into the female robot and it died down just like her brother.

The group gathered there fallen comrades.

"I hurt all over," Cassie said gripping her head.

"Speak for yourself," Beast Boy said as M'gann wrapped his arm.

"What are you complaining about? You landed on me," Victor said.

"Found him," they all heard Zatanna call out. She came out of the bushes with Blue Beetle trailing behind her. "He was stuck in a tree."

"You don't have to announce it," he said in embarrassment.

"How did you know we were in trouble," La'gaan asked as Artemis poured some cool water onto his skin.

"Giant explosions coming from the middle of Yellow Stone Park, not something you hear every night," Tigress said. While the group laughed Tim walked over to Raven who was quietly nursing her bruised cheek.

"You alright?" Tim asked.

"I am unharmed. You don't have to worry," Raven said.

"Look before you go telling me to mind my own business again I just wanted to say thanks."

Raven looked at him in confusion.

"Blue might not be here if you hadn't held Red Torpedo down. I also would be lying on the ground with a broken neck if you hadn't cushioned my fall from the tree."

"I was just doing what I could. We are a team now aren't we," she said with a slight smile.

"Speaking of a team," M'gann said from behind them. They turned around with the rest of the team. "How did you get the arrow from the tree?"

"Really?" Virgil said. "We just took out two robots and almost died and you want to know how we got the arrow down."

"Yes."

"I had Victor throw me at it," Tim said.

"Then our little retreat worked," Tigress said.

"The whole point was to get you guys to work together," Zatanna explained to the blank looks they were receiving from the younger teens.

M'gann laughed "And I think you guys are on your way to becoming a great team."

Titans Tower

September 6, 23:00 EST

Nightwing sat in the underground layer of the tower. He stood in front of a holo screen with pictures of different hero's.

"A hero playing a false hero…" he said to himself quietly; his fingers resting against his chin in thought. He reached out and slid a picture of Blue Devil to the side and brought up a bigger picture of a young girl dressed in a red one suit with gold stars. Her black hair waved down her backside and she held her hips above a gold lasso on her side. She was also accessorize with black knee high boots, gold arm bands and belt, and a small gold tiara.

"Walking down memory lane," Nightwing heard Mal say behind him and Nightwing swiftly pushed the picture of the girl aside. He turned to meet the tall teen dressed in jeans and a tight blue top.

"Aren't you supposed to be out on the training exercises with the rest of the team?" Nightwing asked. Mal arched an eyebrow.

"College started for Karan and me. We don't have time to go on a field trip with the kids. Besides. We've been on the team long enough that we don't need it."

"You have, but not Guardian," Nightwing said.

"I'm doing just fine as Guardian. In fact I think I'm working the suit better than the guy before me did. I mean it wasn't even the real Guardian right? Just a clone."

Mal turned around and Nightwing looked at him in surprise. He turned back to the screen and pulled up three files with the pictures of the superheroes. One of Superboy and then of Jim and Roy Harper; both in their Guardian and Red Arrow uniform respectively.

"A false hero," Nightwing said and turned off the screen.

There will be more flashbacks like for La'gaan and Cassie but I just didn't have enough room in this chapter. You'll just have to wait and see

Review kindly xD