Author's Note: All right I'm back this goes out to my good friend Rider Paladin (I think I got that right) seeing how much he loves this story. Hope you like this next one buddy.

Crisis Overdrive

Chapter 4

Secrets and Shadows

Later that evening Courtney was found sitting on the rooftop of Titans Tower thinking to herself, she'd been out there a while until finally Robin approached her.

"Hey, you all right?" he asked sitting down next to her. She smiled and acknowledged him and looked down.

"I'm just worried about the guys." She said somberly. He put his hand on her shoulder to comfort her.

"I know, we're doing everything we can to find them." he said.

"I know…" she said.

"You think there all right?" she asked.

"I know that they are, their superheroes, and I think you did a great job handling things in their absence. They'd be real proud of you." he said assumingly.

"Yeah…I just wish I'd gone with them." she said.

"If you did we wouldn't have known what happened to them or that there was a hole in space." He said.

"I suppose your right. But that doesn't make me feel any better." She said pulling her legs up to her chest.

"Well hang in there, you know I'm real proud of the way you handled yourself." He said.

"You are?" she asked pushing a lock of hair back.

"Yeah I mean you've shown a lot of maturity as a superhero." He told her. Stargirl smiled at the Boy Wonder.

"Thanks Tim." She said.

"No problem, we'll bring them all home." He said. In the next second she put her arms around him in a deep compassionate hug catching him off guard. He smiled and returned the gesture as she pulled him in as close as possible making him blush.

"Uh heh heh. Court, you can let go of me now." He told her. She didn't seem to hear him and held him in her arms. When she let go his face was as bright as his uniform.

"Sorry." She giggled.

"That's all right." his voice cracked and tugged on his collar a bit letting some steam out.

"Thanks for the pep talk Tim." She said getting up and headed back inside as he watched and mouthed the words. 'Oh boy'.

The Teen Wonder studied her a bit more as she went in the door.

"Speaking of maturity." He said surveying the back.

"Wow." He added.

Meanwhile in the far reaches of space the Justice Society was finally returning home in an emerald space fighter construct made from Kyle's power ring. And was showing signs that he was getting tired.

"How much farther do we have to go?" he asked.

"About 7 or 8 more parsecs." Atom Smasher said.

"When we get back to Earth, I'm going to need to recharge my power ring. Whoa!" he staggered forward. The team shouted in alarm as the construct started to dissipate.

"Guy!" Jakeem yelled.

"I'm on it." he said and added his own energy solidifying the ship. The younger Lantern groaned resting his hands on his knees.

"Why don't take a break for a while? I got this one." He said to Kyle.

"Thanks, I appreciate It." he said sitting down next to Jakeem.

"What's up?" Jakeem asked.

"After a long period of time, our rings begin to run out of power and need to recharge them systematically otherwise we're not much use on the battlefield." Guy explained to the group.

"Since Kyle's been at it a few hours, I'm guessing his is running out of juice. Fortunately I recharged mine before we left." He added.

"See if you can make contact with anyone." Atom Smasher said.

"Allow me." Alan said creating an old fashioned telephone from his ring. Guy scoffed, as it appeared infront of him.

"How quaint." He said before picking up the receiver.

"This is Guy Gardner calling Planet Oa do you copy over?" he said. After a few seconds of static he got a response.

"This is Oa go ahead." Someone said on the other end.

"I'm with the Justice Society, we are returning from the gap in the universe."

"Did you find anything?" he asked.

"Unfortunately yeah. Something blew up our ship when we got too close to it. I'm not sure exactly what it was. But there seemed to be another planet from the other side of the gap." He said.

"Sir would you repeat that last part?" he asked.

"Just get me the Guardians this is an emergency meeting." he said.

Back in Metropolis Superboy slammed his fist into a desk breaking it down the center in a fit of rage.

"Aaaargh! I thought you said he'd be here?!" he yelled.

"I said nothing of the sort Prime remember that we've been out of this for a long time." Alexander told him sitting behind Lex's desk.

"Then where is he?!" he growled.

Over at Titans Tower in San Francisco, the team had the night off with part of the team watching a movie. Courtney sat on the couch between Beast Boy and Raven while Cyborg sat in a recliner and Speedy II, sat in a red beanbag chair. The new Speedy was a young girl by the name of Mia Dearden with long blond hair tied back and wore a red hoodie and jeans in the room behind them Conner and Bart played basketball in the gym.

"Come on man, you think you can take this from me?" Conner said dribbling the ball.

Conner wore a black shirt with a red S-shield and jeans and was the second Superboy. While Bart was the new Kid Flash, wearing an updated version of West's old uniform with shin guards and a red and white variation of the Flash symbol.

"You seeing this? Cause I'm about to rob you blind!" he said taking the ball from him and sped over to the basket and shot it and got it in.

"Ohhhh! What an upset!" Bart yelled holding out his hands.

"I thought we said no powers?" Conner pointed at him.

"You did, but I didn't." he said before speeding off with ball.

"Hey get back here!" Conner yelled chasing after him.

"Gotta catch me first dude!" he said zigzagging across the court and made another lay up. Conner jumped and broke the rim making a slam dunk before crashing to the floor on his butt. The team jumped and looked back seeing shards of glass litter the floor.

"Aww dude come on! That's the second time this week!" moaned Bart.

"And you wonder why we say no powers." Robin said leaning against the glass door.

"Well maybe Raven can fix it again for us." Said Bart.

"Forget it, I did that for you guys earlier this week. Why do we even have a gym back there?" she asked Cy.

"I'll get the broom." Said Robin.

"Is it always like this?" Courtney asked.

"Pretty much." Mia shrugged.

"Did those morons break another backboard?" Wonder Girl asked coming into the room.

"Yep." Replied Raven. Cassie rolled her eyes before turning to face them.

"You guys." She said to Bart and Conner. The guys then pointed at each other.

"He started it!" they said.

"How do you put up with these guys?" Courtney asked.

"The same way I been putting up with Beast Boy all these years." Said Raven.

"Hey! I'm not that annoying!" he yelled.

"Ya wanna bet?" she replied dryly.

"I think what Raven's trying to say is you get use to them. I know they act like goofs but deep down their great guys." Robin told her.

"Thank you." he said.

"Beast Boy's another matter." He joked earning a dirty look from the changeling.

"Hey at least I'm more mature than Impulse here!" he said.

"It's Kid Flash!" Bart yelled.

"That's saying a lot." Raven replied sarcastically.

"Guys come on knock it off." Wonder Girl said.

"Never a dull moment around here." Cyborg said. The alarm sounded a second later.

"See what I mean?" he said before getting up. Robin rushed over to the computer.

"Incoming transmission, its the Justice Society. They made it back!" he said.

"All right!" Vic said the rest of the team cheered as Stargirl hugged Robin to his chagrin.

Back on Oa the Society had just arrived at the citadel and approached the Guardians of the Universe on their findings.

"What did you find out?" Ganthet asked.

"We think something might have escaped the gap. There was a world beyond it." Guy said as he approached the table.

"You are to kneel before meeting us, show some respect!" Elkarr said.

"With all due respect sir, there's no time for that." he replied to the Guardian earning his ire.

"Master Ganthet I have to know. Are there other universes out there?" he asked.

Author's Note: All right what'd you think of that? I know it wasnt much but at least you get to meet more of the Titans. Let me know what you think in a review

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